The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-12-20


warrior and statesman. Let Black
Friday and Tammany run the show
business over there together. HIT.
The most remarkable evidence o,
the mechanical science and skill of the
Chinese is to be found in their sus-
pended bridges, the invention OF which
Is assigned to the Han dynasty, which
fourished one thousand six hundred
years ago. According to the concur
rent testimony of all their rhetorical
and geographical writer's, ,ShaDg. .Leane
the cOmmander-in-chief of the army
under Kaou.t .tsoo, the first of the Hans,
according to Thornton's History OF
China undertook and completed the
formation of roads through the noun
famous province of Shen- Sc. to the
west OF the capital. Hitherto its lofty
hills and deep valleys had rendered
communication difficult and circuitous.
With body of one hundred thousand
laborers he cut passages over the
mountains, throwing the removed soil
into the valleys, and where this wa
not sufficient to raise the road to tho
required height, he constructed bridg-
es, which rested on pillars and abut
ments. In other places he conceived
and accomplished the daring project
of suspending q bridge from one
mountain to another across u chasin.
These bridges, which are called by the
Chinese writer's. very appropriately,
flying Bridges aud represented to e
numerous at the present day, are some
times SO high that they cannot he
travelled without alarm. One still ex-
listing in Shen-se stretches four hun.
dred feet from mountain to mountain,
over q chasm of five hundred fee..
Most of these flying bridges are SO
wide that four horsemen eau ride on
them abreast, and balustrades are
placed on each side to protect travel
ers. 1t is by no means improbable Gas
NJ. Panther suggests) that, as the mis-
sionaries in China made known the
ago. that the Chinese had suspension
bridges, and that many of them were
of iron, the hint may have been taken
from thence for similar constructions
by European engineers.
THINGS WORTH FREDERICKSBURG
Decayine vegetable matter abou, the
houses, around the walls and in the
cellar are prolific causes of diseases in
the farm house.
Ill treatment of cows, getting them
excited and then feeding the milk to
children. ia a practice likely to be at
tended with fatal results.
Bad ventilation, attended with i'm
pure air, causes catarrhal and skin
diseases of our ANIMALS. especially
when obliged to breathe the impurl-
ties of decaying manure. Better ven-
tilation of sleeping-rooms is urged,
and more outdoor exercise for the far
mere wife.
1t is estimated that fifty head of
poultry will make more than enough
manure for an acre of land-seven
hundred weight of guano being the
nsual quantity applied per acre, and
poultry manure being even richer in
ammonia and fertilizing salts. Ne
other stock will give an equal return
in this way, and these figures demand
careful attention from tho large far
mer.
Every farmer not only wahts shelter
for his hay. corn and other grain; for
his cattle, horses, mules, sheep and
swine-but he wants shelter for his
plows, harrows, cultivators, reapers
and mowers. wagons, carts, sc. He's
the farmer good shelter for all these2
If not, now is the time and now is the
hour to provide this shelter. Lose mo
time in doing 1t. The snow and the
cold rains are coming. Make COM
Portable everything you have.
The best way to market corn is an
important question to the farmer. 1t
will pay but very few persons, espec-
tally those living some distance from
the market, to gather, shell and haul
corn by the load 10 some railroad or
steamboat landing. II will be found
far more profitable to send the corn to
market on four feet, in the shape of
pork or beef. Whenever it is possible
TO feed corn to good stock on the farm
that there is always a demand for. it
will pay best. OfcOursea man should
use Judgment iu feeding, as in any
thing else-for hardly anything will
pay when poorly done.
Mr.. Redfield, who had unusual op-
portunities to know the condition of
affairs in South Carolina, says. in a
letter to the Cincinnati Commercial: :
Right here let me say that sympathy
for the South Carolina Republican
leaders is pretty much w,sted. They
were rascals and plundcrers from top
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