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Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Artificial Leather.

In a recent English patent we have
the following new process of producing
artificial leather:
The base or body of the composition
constituting the new manufacture is
cotton or cotton waste according to
the quantity of textile leather to be pro-
duced), or any other textile material
which a be carded and used as cotton,
also wool or any kind of animal hair
which can be felted into sheets of wad-
ding or carded felt uniform. The sheets
are placed on a table of polished metal
plates, having a false bottom, and heat
ed by steam; the sheets of wadding or
felt are impregnated with animal glue
or size, made of a concentrated decoc-
ton of rabbit, hare, cat or dog skins
deprived of hair, waste of skins or green
leather, CUTS and membranes OF all
kinds of animals, which have FIRST been
! well eleansed and then cut into narrow
strips. When the decoction is we'll
clarified, and of sufficient substance,
| and made hot, the coloring matter
which is to be given to the leather is
added, with a slight addition of glycer-
inc, which varies according to the sup
| pleness and elasticity required. The
sheets of wadding or felt, after being
well saturated with the decoction, roll
ers are passed over the surface in order
to make the sheets of an uniform thick
ness, which are left until the watery
part is well evaporated. This improved
textile leather can be used in place OF
natural leather, and may be employed
in particular for covering tables, chairs,
sofas, travelling bags, lining hats, cas-
kets, carriages. harness, and military
equipments, slippers, book binding, and
many other uses to which it may be ap-
plicable,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
The Coming Theater.

The artistic sc~ene-painter may now
pack up his pots and brushes and learn
another trade. Theatrical managers
have no longer need of him. Science,
the magic lantern, photography, and
oxyhydrogen lights have extinguished
them. By these appliances some of
the London theaters are producing
their scenery. A blank curtain at one
end of the theater, a man sliding a bit
of 8, picture in a groove at the other,
and temples, prisons, landscapes,
dungeons, cities, or dark glens for muir
der, beautiful brook banks for love-
making chase each other across the
stage like the phantasies of 9. dream.
Worse even than this, the parties on
the stage who have no part but that of
simply putting in an appearance-the
armies, the ghosts, the street loungers,
the walking but no talking gentlemen
may in time all be supplanted
shadows. Alittle skillful ventrlloquism
thrown in, and even these could be
made to perform small parts effective
ly. A simple stage, six or seven good
stock actors, one good ventrilo quist, a
first-class hand-organ for the orchestra,
a spectroscope, and we have the princi-
pal adjuncts of the coming theater.-
Graphic.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Relief for the Asthmatic.

A smoke from the leaves of bella
donna possesses much more power in
cutting short an attack of asthma than
that from stramonium. A long pipe is
the best means of smoking them, the
patient being instructed to draw the
smoke deep into the chest. If when
the attack is at it's height he has not the
power of doing this, the leaves may be
placed in a sauce containing lighted
charcoal or wood-ashcs, which should
be placed on q chair in front Of the pa
tient, this chair, as well as his own, be-
ing covered with a large sheet, SO as to
conine the fumes, before leaves are put
On the hot charcoal. From two and a
half to five grains of the leaves are suf-
ticient when smoked, and from 5 to 20
grains when burned. If the smoke is
drawn deeply into the chest, the relief
is immediate, expectoratioB Of phlegm
taking place. 1t is in the spasmodic
form of asthma, where there is little or
no expectoration, that the greatest re-
lief is obtained; for, when the tubes
are loaded with mucus, the smoke can
not get access to their muscular tissue.
The relief is most marked when the
remedy is used soon after the paroxysm
has commenced, before the spasm pre-
vents access of air to the smaller tubes
and air-cells. Tobacco-smokers do
not receive the same amount Of relief
as others. Temporary headache of a
throbbing character may be produced
if the leaves are used too freely.-Mel-
bourne Medical Record.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Stabbed by Her Lover.

The community of Williamson was
shocked on Thursday when the partic-
ulars of a dastardly outrage, perpe-
trated the night before, became known
to the townspeople. On that night,
betweens the hours of 5 and 9 O'Clock.
a handsome and respectable Young
lady, daughter of E. J. Pinson. Trial
Justice of that place, was stabbed in
eleven or twelve different places by one
Lawrence Smith, who resides near
Golden Grove station, ON the Green
vile and Columbia Railroad. ! Smith
has been visiting the young lady for the
past i've or six months, and it is sup
posed that in his failure to gain her
affections. he concluded to take her
life. He induced her to ACCOMPANY
him a short distance from her fathers
house and then stabbed her With q knife
until her condition IS a. verycriticaf
one The perpetrator of this, aoutrage
Is about six feet n or two inces in
height, spare made, dark hair, with
mustache and goatee, has a down
look, with a ford complexion. He has
fed the plaee.-Golann6sa Is. CO. Union.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Search for Wealth in Arctic Wilds.

Amidst the frozen wastes of the Arc
tic regions there are, no doubt, stores
enough of mineral wealth to raise half
the human ice from poverty to riches.
If we could only get at them! In the
days of Good Queen Bess, the celebrated
navigator. Frobisher, made several ex-
petitions into those inhospitable climes
/ n search of gold, And now we hear of
the return of an American expedition,
sent u by Philadelphia merchants, in
search of mica-an humber mineral, it
is true, but perhaps as profitable. The
Americans had proceeded to what is
known to whalemen as Nialtic Valley,
and there they had laid a tramway,
built shanties, and conducted mining
operations for about six weeks. The
Eskimo lent them q helping hand, but
only for a short time, as they had to
set out on their summers deer-hunting.
The miners worked in quarries about
1900 feet above the level of the sea.
1t was impossible to carrythe tramway
to that height, and the mica was trans
ported the greater part of the distance
on the backs of the workmen. Some of
the blocks were remarkably large and
clear, and about fifteen tons of mica
were brought away. The, mineral was
estimated to be worth from So to S12 a
pound. The charms of wealth may
thus lure us on nearer and nearer the
coveted North Pole. And, after all, we
must have material gain for an object,
as well as the increase of scientific
knowledge and the qualification of a
pardonable ambition.-GasseL's Maga-
zane .hssaw
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
A Prussian Railway Regiment.

The Pail Mall Gazette says: The
military railway from Berlin to Zossen
is used as a school of instruction for the
''railway regiment" which forms part
of the Prussian army, and by which it
was constructed. This line is % miles
long, and upon the same level as the
Berlin and Dresden Railway, with which
it has a junction, and terminates in the
Forest of Zossen, close to the Polygon
of Artillery. There are three stations
on the line, which, though mainly used
for military purposes, is open for Or
binary traffic when nothing stands in
the way. The management of the line
is intrusted to the Colonel of the regi-
ment, another field officer, and two
Lieutenants, who are, as a matter of
course, responsible to the Commander
in-Chief of the Army. The working of
the line is effected by a staff formed out
of the eight companies which compose
the ''railway regiment" and the staff is
relieved every six months. There are AZ
men employed upon the permanent way,
under the control OF five inspectors, the
latter of whom are non-commissioned
officers. At each station there is a sta
tion-master and assistant station-mas-
ter, who are also non-commissioned
officers. with more privates under their
control. The Geographic service is I'M
der the management of an officer, as
sisted by an inspector, who holds the
rank of Sergeant. During the first
year of working this line six non-com-
missioned officers passed their examina-
ton as engine-driVers, and six soldiers
were taken into the service as stokers.
There were eight non-commissioned
officers appointed guards, and 16 pio-
neers as brakesmen. The engine
drivers and stokers are under the con-
troll of the head engineer, and the other
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08

Since torpidity of the liver is the chief
cause of its disorder, it isaevident that what
the bilious require is an Alternative stimulant
which viii arouse it te activity, an effect that
rious symptoms Indicative of it's derange-
ment. Hostctter's Stomach Bitters invarfa-
bly, achieve the primary result mentioned,
besides removing the eonstipation, fiatu-
lence, heartburn. yellowness ofthe skin and
under the right shoulder, nausea, vertigo
and sick headache, to which bilious invafids
are peculiarly subject. AS a remedy for
chronic indigestion, mental dependency and
nervousness the Bitters are equally etfica-
cious, and as a ~renovant, Of lost yigor, q
source of relief from the infirmitiesto which
the gentlcr sex is peculiarly subject, they
may be thoroughly relied
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
The Education of the Hand.

It is only now beginning to dawn up
on the public that the mind is but one
aprt of the man; that the eye, the ear,
the taste, the hand, also need edu-
eating, in order to fulfill their mission
in the best manner Especially do we
mean to recognize the claims OF the
hand to specific training. When we
consider the large proportion OF LIES
necessaries and comforts which are
wholly dependent upon the skill and
dizziness of this physical member;
when we recollect how important a part
it plays in the civilization and happi-
ness of mankind, and how constantly
it is called into service of some kind by
most of us, it seems strange that it
should be left so largely to chance or
to the mere habit of practice tor its ed
ucation. It is true that machinery has
superseded much manual labor, but it
has not, therefore, provided for the
folding of the hands in idleness. On
the contrary, it has taken upon itself
the heavier and more automatic part
of the work, leaving that which requires
more adroitness and dexterity, and thus
making the education of the hand
ofcu LuoLO AOSCoooAy oh"A cS.oto'
boy and girl on leaving school have &C
CURED much valuable information,
much facility of thought, and much
mental force. But how is it with the
hand, that wonderful instrument, whose
possibilities have never yet been
fathomed? Is it swift in motion; firm,
yet pliable; quick to adapt itself to
new requirements? Has habit made
manual employment easy and pleasant
Is there a taste for any of the different
varieties of hand-work, a desire to excel
in them, a sincere respect for them?
Commonly the reverse is the case. Too
often the youth is thoroughly ~indisposed
to gain his livelihood by any description
of manual industry, and the girl, as dis
inclined to a part in her mothers
household affairs. This is partly be-
cause they have learned to look down
upon such labor as something beneath
them, and partly because they are con-
scious of an inferiority of power to exc
cute it well.-Phtladelphsa Ledger.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
History Of a Picture.

Two of the most celebrated artists the
world has ever known dwelt in the same
city. One delighted in delineating beauty in
all its graces of tint, form and motion. His
portraits were instinct with the charm O.
physical yigor. The graceful, half-voluptu-
GUS outline of form and feature harmoniZed
with delicately blended tints. On his can
vas, the homeliest faces had an almost ire
sistible charm. The other u pleasure
only in depicting weird and gloomy subjects.
Above all, did he excel in painting the por-
traits of the dying. The agonizing death
throe, the CHASTITY face and form, were all de-
picted with marvellous fidelity. There ex-
istea between these artists the most intense
dislike. At length this dislike eliminated.
The beauty.loving artist had been engaged
in painting the portrait of a beautiful
woman. Connoisscurs pronounced it the
most wonderful piece of art that had ever
been produced. His brother artist was jeal-
Gus of his fame and sought revenge. By
bribing the keeper of the studio he gained
access TO the picture each night. At first he
was content to only deaden the brilliancy of
from cheek and lip and paint a shadow on
either cheek. Later, his strokes grew holder
and freer, and one morning the artist aWoke
to find the entire outline OF the portrait
changed. He could scarcely recognize in the
emaciated form and haggard countenance
the glowing conception he had embodied.
The pallid face and expressionless eyes he
had attributed to a lack of genuineness in
his materials; but when the outlines were
changed he suspected the cause and indig-
nantly dismissed the keeper. What the re-
vengeful artist marred by a few rapid strokes
of his skillful brush was only restored by
years of patient industry. Reader, need we
name the artists-Health, who paints the
flowers and GRASSY carpet" no less than the
human form divine-Disease, the dreaded
artist who revels among the ruins both of
nature and humanity, and Carelessness, the
keeper to whom Health often intrusts his
portraits. And is it not the beauty of
woman, the most admired of all the works
which adorn the studio of Health, that Dis
ease oftenest seeks to mar? The slightest
stroke of his brush upon the delicate organi-
cation leaves an imprint that requires much
skill and patience to efface. Restoration
must be prompt. Carelessness must be dis
missed. Let suffering women heed the
warning ere Disease has married their chief
Observation-Disclosures reparation. DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription has been used
by thousands of these sufferers, and they are
unanimous in their praise of its excellence.
If YOU would be transformed from the pallid,
nervous invalid into a happy, vigorous
woman. try it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08

What happy star shore OIL her birth?
What grassy corner of the earth
Grew daisies for her baby feet
To dance between, Hince they repeat,
On all the f1owerlese ways they pass,
The breezy motion of the grass?
What brook bewitehed her to it's brink,
And drew her fresh lips down to drink
Its music, while it slipped unseen
Its happy cadences between?-
So sweet and glad the voice that slips
From ambush of her maiden lips.
What winds upon the hills gave room
To her, and buffeted to bloom
Her rounded cheeks, and made her hair
A flying sunshine in the air?-
For still, like sun-gleams on a rose,
Her hayward color comes and goes.
What graybeard tree upon the down
Caught, as she sped, her floating gown,
And whispered through his ancient girth
The long dumb sorrow OF the earth!-
For the sweet pity in her eyes
Almost their gladness overlies.
--Scribne7'S Monthly
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
cape it yet. But / can not tell. I will

cape 1t yet. But L a not Tell. L Will
send a nurse here for Margaret, and if
you both will follow my directions
closely, I think / a prevent a very Sc
rious attack, if you should take it. Of
course it is possible you may not have
it at all. But if you should, there is
nothing so terrible. I should dread tY-
| phoid or scarlet fever much more. But
you have not told me if you have been
/ vaccinated?"
"Yes, we have all been vaccinated,
children and ALL" said Mrs. Camp.
"But / don't understand where Mar
garet could have been exposed to the
disease. She has been out very little
this winter, and I ann sure nowhere
where she could have been exposed to
the smallpox
"It is a puzzle to me also. I hadn't
heard of a case in the town. But the
c~ontagion can be carried in the air, in
secondhand clothes. or in many other
ways"
In second hand clothes! Somehow
the words struck Mrs. Camp unpleasant
ly. Surely those blankets-but no, what
nonsense was she thinking? If it was
nonsense, her husbands mind was full
of it, too, for as she looked up his eyes
met hers, and he spoke his thoughts.
"Those blankets we bought the 9th
er day at Bruce'sin
awe" bought. How grateful his wife
was for the tenderness of heart that
shrank from according to her, in such
a time as this, the blame she really de-
served.
The Doctors quick ears caught the
words. "Blankets-at BrlceisP That's
the way the infection came. I should
have thought any sane man would have
been wiser. Why, the fellow would
buy the shirt off a man who had
died of fever, if he thought
he could make any thing on it. Here,
I'll leave some medicine for Margaret,
then l must see to this. That rascal
will have an epidemic of smallpox in
town if he isn't stopped. As it is, no.
body knows how Tar the mischief has
gone" And the old physician hurried
away.
None of Mrs. Camps children took
the terrible disease. The precautions
taken for their safety was quite success
full, and she and her husband escaped
with but light attacks.
Neither did the disease spread
throughout the town to any extent. Old
DR.. Gleason looked out for that, and,
thanks to his energetic efforts, Braces
cheap store became a thing of the past.
Margaret recovered, at last, though
her illness was longer and more severe
than varioloid generally causes. &
Not many months ago Mrs. Camp
took up her parlor carpet for the spring
cleaning, and found in it, in the posi-
ton whereon her two carefully priced
easy-chairs had sat, a vast quantity of
tiny holes. Her h~ousewifely knowledge
told her what had caused them. Moths!
and the easy-chairs were swarming
with them! They were given to the
flames. And | think if Mrs. Camp had
not been 50 thoroughly cured before of
her bargaining propensity, this last
stroke of fate would have done the
work. &
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
THE PBILOSOPHIC LIFE.
BIZ SIR HENRY o t

By SIR HENRY wOTTON.
How happy is he born and taught
That serveth not another's will;
wheee armor is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skiIl
Whose passions not his masters are,
Whose soul is still prepaid for death;
United unto the world, by care
OF public fame, or private breath.
Who envies none that chance doth rise,
Nor vice hath ever understood;
How deepest wounds are given by praise,
Nor rules of state but rules OF good.
Who hath his life from rumors freed,
Whose conscience is his strong retreat,
Whose state a neither fiattererB feed,
Nor ruin make oppressors great.
Who God doth late and early pray,
More of his a than gifts to lend;
And entertains the harmless day
With a religious book or friend.
This man iS freed from servile bands
OF hope to rise, or fears to fall;
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
And having nothing, yet hath all.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Safe and Sure.

Mr.. Fl. r. STEVENS:
In 1872 your Vegetine was recommended to me, and
yielding 10 the persuasions of a friend [ consented TO
try 1t. AT the time l was suffering from general debil.
NY and nervous prostration. superinduced by over
work and irregular habits. Its wonderful strength
entng and curative properties seemed to affect ny de-
hllitated system from the first dose, and under its per-
slStent use l rapidly recovered. gaining more than
usual health and good feeling. Since then l have not
hesltated to give Vegetine my most unqualified in
dorsement as being a safe, sure and powerful agent in
promoting health and restoring the wasted system to
new life and energy. Negetine is the only medicine 1
use, ana as long as l live l never expect to find a bet
ter. Yours truly, w. II. CLARK.
40 Monterey street, Allegheny, Pa.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08

servants under that of the general man.
ager. They do not receive any special
pay, but the non-commissioned officers
and men who are absent from their
garrison beyond q stated time are
granted an extra allowance. In the
course of the year 1875 this railway
conveyed 41,074 soldiers from Berlin to
the POlygon at Zossen.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
VEGETINE.

VEeETINE thoroughly eradicates every kind of hui
NOR, and restores the entire system to a healthy con-
dition.
The following letter from Rev. G. W. Mansfield,
Formerly pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
hyde Park, and at present settled in Lowell. must
convince every one who reads his letter of the won
derful curative qualities of Vegetine as a thorough
cleanser and purifier of the blood.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
VEGETINE

Thousands will bear testimony Cand do it voluntari-
l) that NbeErINEis the best medical compound yet
placed before the public for renovating and purifying
the blood, Graduating all humors, impurities or pois-
onous secretions from the system, invigorating and
strengthening the system debiitated by disease: in
fact, it is. as many have called it, The Great Health
Restorer.o
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08
Rev. G. VI. MansfieId's Testimonial,
HYDE PARK. MASS. Feb. Is. 1876.

HYDE PARK, MASS, Feb. Is, 1876.
MIR. II. r. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-About ten years ago my health failed
through the depicting effects of dyspepsia; nearly q
year later l was attacked by typhoid fever in its worst
form; 1t settled in my hack, and took the form of a
large, deep'seated abscess, which was fifteen months
IN gathering. | had two surgical operations. by the
best skill in the State. but received no permanent
cure. / suffered great pain at times and was con >tant-
ly weakened by a profuse discharge. also lost small
pieces of bone at different times.
Matters ran on thus about seven years, TIL May, 1874,
and talk with you of the virtue or yegctine. / did so
tory: noting the ingredients, ETC., by which your rem
edy is produced.
By what l saw and heard I gained some confidence
In Negetine. ~
l Commenced taking it soon after but felt worse
Tomits effects: still I perseyered and soon felt it was
qfns5a ing me In ether respects- Yet disknotsse the
resuits l desired tiff I had taken it faithfully for a lit.
tie more than a year. when the difficulty in the back
was cured, and for nine months / have enjoyed the
l have in that time gained twenty-five pounds of
Aesh, being heavier thanever beforein my life. and l
N2sneyeramore able 90 perferm labor than nov.
in Ps y isrs see as PM mf g. SyF s sesssr 4 sss ss : sfrotq Ion s sTe mI
body. took Vegetine, faithfully and it removed It
have been cured. Of my main trouble sooner If | had
taken larger dossssaiser having Become accustomed
1fsfysurpstron ttsrpled win ssrofula or kidney
'Sissssss, sSdsf VIZ Nv WI Il p& pssss sy AXE K We Vege sdneni L
will. in my Judgment. cure them.
With great obligations I am,
9w 20 yAoq q w. VEN N ttRlyi
Pastor of Methodist L. Church.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-02-08

COLLINS VOLTAIC PLAsTERs are not a
guack nostrum, bat q remedial agent of
great value. Probably no investment of
% cents in medicine will be found to yield
such grateful relief from pain and suffering
as these plasters. Make q trial of them.