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, 1877-05-11

THE best scarecrow is a suspended
looking-glass. Take two small, cheap
mirrors, fasten them back to back, at
tach cord to one angle, and hang them
to an elastic pole. When the glass
swings in the wind the suns rays are
reflected all over the field, even if it be
a large one, and even the Oldest and
bravest of crows will depart precipi-
lately should one Of its lightning flashes
fall on him. The second plan, although
a terror to crows, is especially we'll suit
ed to fields subjected to the inroads of
small birds, and even chickens. 1t in
wolves an artificial hawk made from a
big potato and long goose and turkey
feathers. The maker can exercise his
initiative skill in sticking the feathers
into the potato SO that they resemble
the spread wings and tail of the hawk.
It is astonishing what a ferocious-looking
bird of prey can be constructed from
the above simple materials. 1t only re-
mains to hang the object from tall,
bent pole, and the wind will do the rest.
The bird will make swoops and dashes
in the most headlong and threatening
manner. Even the most inquisitive
of venerable hens have been known to
hurry rapidly from its dangerous vicin-
ity, while to small birds it carried un-
mixed dismay. .-ScientJfc- AMERICAN.
, 1877-05-11

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doun, causing . siopTage oi milk
through the duct and 70 spelling the
teai for further use. Not unfrequently
this foreign substance, acting a. an irri-
tant, induces violent Inflammation, and
the result Is q Svelled bag, garget, or
some disease Of the udder, which causes
trouble.
What is the cause OF the peculiar
"sheepy" odor and taste often found in
mutton?
An impression is very prevalent, even
among experienced sheep raisers, that
the taste and odor mentioned are due to
the contact of the wool with the meat,
but high authority states that the true
cause is to be found in delay in disem-
boweling the carcass. The intestines
should be removed at the earliest posi-
BILE moment after life is extinct, and be-
fore the removal of the pelt.
When should lambs be weaned
Generally at shearing season, when
they are four or five months old. Sepa-
rate them from the ewes, and place
them in company with few barren or
'turned-off ewes, to guide and gentle
them, in field sufficiently distant from
the mother ewes to prevent them from
hearing each other bleating. The lambs
should have fresh, tender pasturage for
the first few weeks, and the ewes dry
and short food, to reduce the flow of
milk. As soon as assured Of the safety
of their bags from garget, the ewes
ought to be placed in good pastures, to
prepare them for winter.
, 1877-05-11

SEVERAL Sundays ago a collection
was about to be taken up in the church,
and, in the absence of one of the col
lectors, frisky young man volunteered
his services, and handled his hat with
great industry and success. When he
got near the door he was about to go
out with his hat full of money on his
head, when the minister said solemnly:
"Young man, if you leave here with
that money you'll be id" The young
man, however, left in hurry, and as
he shut the door behind him, a worthy
old bachelor, with a voice in F sharp,
who had put a dollar in the hat, piped
up to the minister: "Well, if he amt
gone with it, RI be id"
, 1877-05-11

The CANKER WoRM.-A communica.
ton to the American Farmers Club on
this subject explained that there are
several species of the canker worm,
which is sometimes also called the span
worm; all of these are very destructive
to the foliage Of the trees they breed
upon. If undisturbed, they mature in
about month, when they are IN inch
in length. They have an ingenious way
of letting themselves down by a spun
thread to the earth, into which they
crawl and remain during the winter
season. With fine weather the matured
insect makes its appearance as q moth.
The female, which is wingless (the male
has wings), crawls up the trunk of the
tree and lays its eggs among the
branches. These appear to be glued
over with q substance that is water
proof. Its mission over, the moth dies,
and in due time the eggs left behind
hatch, and the worm begins the destruc-
.tion Of the foliage. The remedy for this
pest is to watch the trees and tear out
the nests as soon as they make their ap-
pearance.. Bunches of hay or straw sat
urated with coal tar or other tar or oil,
and tied closely about the trunk of the
tree, were recommended as prevent
ives. These hands should be examined
often during the season of maturing,
that the insects can be taken from them
and destroyed.
, 1877-05-11

HoRsKrEN, when they speak of check
ing up, mean the head drawn up by
tight rein fastened SO that the horse
must work with the head in acoDstrain-
ed position. The practice is barbarous.
All want of checks is to keep the head
in a natural position. Any straining
beyond is hurtful to farm horses. Tight
checking is absolutely cruel. We need
a Bergh to look after horses all over the
country. For my own horses l dispise
checking up in the sense that horsemen
use it. Any restraint that prevents the
free use of the head within such limits
as ease of action requires is to be con-
demned. -E2mirG Gazette.
, 1877-05-11

CLEANING CARPRTs-The subject of
carpets and disease, says a writer in an
exchange, is one I am often troubled
about. They are so continually quite
overlooked in cleaning rooms where
contagious diseases have been, and are
doubtless the means Of carrying disease
10 others. I use damp cornmeal and
salt. To sweep q carpet thoroughly
with broom, take pint Of meal and q
half pint Of salt and moisten them
together with Just water enough to keep
the meal from flying about, not wet
enough to stick to the carpet, sprinkle
pretty thickly on one side Of the room,
and sweep straight across; add little
more meal as the dust begins to hy-this
cleans the carpet nicely, too. But for
daily sweeping use carpet sweeper.
this efectually gathers up the dust,
shreds and particles Of lint which usual
ly fly furiously and must settle down
on to every particle Of furniture in the
room, and then be removed with the
dusting cloth. I have found the carpet
sweeper grand helper all around,
saving dust, labor and weary backs.
Even in the sick-room it can be used
slowly, and thus guard against the noise
which sweepers make. The cost Of it
viii certainly be made up to the woman
who has many rooms to sweep. think
u will sweep a room sufficiently four
times out Of five; the fifth time 1 use the
eornmeal and salt and good broom.
, 1877-05-11

WEhave taken wood. potatoes. corn,
eggs, butter, onions, cabbages, chick
ems, stone, lumber, labor, sand, calico,
sauerkraut, secondhand clothing, coon
skins, and bug juice on subscriptions,
in our time, and now a man writes to us
to know if we would send the paper six
monthsfor large owl. There are few
things an editor would refuse on sub
scriptions, and if we come across any
fellow who is out OF an owl aud is in
need of one well do it."-TO Osborne Far
mer.
, 1877-05-11

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iashionabls.
The Prinocsss is the iavoriis drS.. ioE
little girls.
Several kinds Of tea are served Al =
kettledrum.
Plush gauze Is one Of the new bon.
net trimmings.
For summer wear long white lace nit
tens are shown.
Bonnets with pointed crowns are
things Of the past.
Tan and brown are the favorite COM
binations in the new wraps.
Gold and steel are combined in bon
nets and coiffure ornaments.
All shades Of yellow are freely used
in trimming spring bonnets.
Gray and tan in pale shades are the
glove colors of the moment.
The new shades of green are sea foam,
crystal, cascade and bronze.
Among the millinery novelties are
straw works and straw lsces.
Ruches of lace and crepe isse are
used for face trimming of bonnets.
A pretty visiting toilet is en- regle for
kettledrums or luncheon parties.
Silk Algerine gauzes in Oriental
stripes are shown for evening dresses.
Dolmans and scarf mantles are worn,
but SO are half long French sacks.
Undressed kid gloves have almost
superseded dressed kid for street wear.
The new bonnets are small, but are
made TO look large with the trimmings.
Birds and birds wings have flown
away from the spring millinery open
ings.
, 1877-05-11

WHEN you seeayoung fellow standing
on a corner with far-away look in his
eyes and bit of yarn on each of the last
two fingers of his hand, you may be toll
erably sure that he has just begun keep
ing house, and that he is muttsring to
himself, "Chopping bowl, eggs, clothes
line-that's the thumb and first two fin
gers. Now, what did she want on the
other two fingers p
, 1877-05-11


: An OLD SoLDHR.-It will be hard to
nnd a man who has had life Of more
vlcissitudes than that of William A. ].
Mcclure, who lives at the Soldiers
Home in Dayton, Ohio. He was born
IN New Jersey, and from his fifteenth to
ms thirtieth year was in the merchant
service, visiting almost every port in the
world. In 1904 he turned trapper on
tne Ohio river, and finally enlisted in
Ine American army, being captured at
nulls surrender and taken to Dart
moor prison, but was freed in time to
nsght at Lundy's Lane under General
scott. He served afterward as a scout
lor General jackson in Florida, and also
served in the Seminole war and in the
american merchant marine. While q
salior he was wrecked in the Mediterra-
mean sea, and was held as a slave by the
AAos until purchased and released by
sne american consul. He was also one
oi the nine survivors of the Albion on
1ne coast of Ireland. He has been mar
Iled four times and is this father of
twenty-five children. There are said to
~ papers ct Washington which show
mat he is one hundred and seven years
Iio' aud that his story of service in the
american army is true.
, 1877-05-11

Mr.. Martineau tells us that Mr.. Car
y le has always been troubled about his
hSSefary style, and that he has never
Seen @n pleased with the manner of any
salng that he has written. This is the
g1est compliment that has ever been
p"1d to Mr.. Carlyle's critical faculty.
, 1877-05-11

Your hand, Mr.. Hayes, and please
remember, sir, that we carried torch
for you three separate times last fall, at
great personal sacrifice. Without be-
ing presumptuous, sir, custom house
would be a sufficient reward for this
trihing service.-Erchange.
, 1877-05-11


TIE PRIEST AND PHYsIorAn.-A
French journal says that q famous
French surgeon, lately deceased, who
was brusque and unpublished, found, on
entering his house one day, an old
priest who had been long waiting his
return. ''What do you want of meq.
"I want you to look at this, meekIy
replied the priest, taking off an old
woolen cravat, which revealed upon the
nape of his neck hideous tumor.
you'll have to die with that, " coolly
remarked the surgeon. 81 thank you.
DOCTOR" simply replied the priest, re-
placing his cravat, "aDd am much
obliged to yon for warning me, for I
can prepare myself, as well as my poor
psrishioners, who love me very much"
The surgeon, Who was never assonished
at great things, looked upon this priest,
who received his death sentence un-
moved, with amazement, and said:
Come tomorrow, at eight o'clock to
the Hotel Dieu, and ask for me-" The
priest was prompt. The surgeon pro-
cured for him special room, and in q
month the man went out cured. When
leaving he took out of sack thilty
francs in small change. "It is all /
have to offer you, doctor, he said; 81
came here on foot from Rouen in order
to save this" The doctor looked at the
money, smiled, and, drawing handful
of gold from his pocket, put it in the
bag along with the thirty francs, saying:
"It's for your poor" and the priest
went away. Some years later the sur
geon feeling death to be near, bethought
him Of the priest, and wrote to him.
He came at once, and the surgeon re-
ceived at his hands the last consolation
of religion.
, 1877-05-11

WORTH KNowNa.-We are assured
that one pound of green copperas, dis
solved in one quart of water and poured
down q water-closet, viii effectually
concentrate and destroy the foulest
smells. On board ships and steam
boats, about hotels and other public
places, there isnothing so nice to purify
the air. Simple green copperas, dis
SOW, ii in anything under the bed, will
render hospital, or other place for the
sick, free from unpleasant smells. In
fish-markets, slaughter houses, sinks
and wherever there are offensive gases,
dissolve copperas and springle it about,
and in few days the smell will pass
away. If cat, rat or mouse dies about
the hoSse and sends forth an offensive
gas, place some dissolved copperas in
an open vessel near tine place where the
nuisance is, and it will purify the at
mosphere.
, 1877-05-11

The GREAT WALL OF CHINA. Kali
gan commands one of the passes through
the great wall of China. 1t is there
built of large stones cemented together
with mortar. 1t tapers toward the top,
being twenty-one feet high and twenty
eight feet wide>at the foundation. at
the most important points, less than q
mile apart, square towers are erected,
built Of bricks. It winds over the crest
of the mountains, crossing the valleys
at right angles, and blocking them with
Notifications. The Chinese estimate its
length to be about $500 miles; but in
parts more remote from Picking the wall
is of more inferior construction. There
it is nothing but a dilapidated mud
rampant, as Colonel Prejevalsky saw it
on the borders of ALASKAN and Kansu.
1t is said to have been built upward of
two centuries before Christ, to protect
the empire against the inroads of the
neighboring normads; but the periodi-
cal irruptions of the barbarians were
never checked by this artificial barrier.
-BldcI1cood's Magazine.
, 1877-05-11

A BUFFALO man died the other day
with $4,000 life insurance to smooth
his path to the grave. The company in
which he was insured felt very sick.
, 1877-05-11

THE Chicago baby show was not an
utter failure. 1t succeeded i'm making
700 mothers mad at all mankind.
, 1877-05-11

A backwoods shoemaker puts blue
glass windows in the box toes of his
clients boots to cure corns.
, 1877-05-11


A PECULIAR GENRRE4.-One Of the
late Gen. Changarnierls peculiarities
was horror of tobacco. He has been
seen at home, where he was otherwise
the kindliest of hosts, pursuing unfor-
tunate smokers even into remote cor
ners, harrassing them, reducing them,
partly by pleasant banter, and partly
by serious expostulation, to sullen sub
mission, and bringing them up in tri-
umph to tine drawing-room. In fact, in
this particular respect he seems to have
treated his guests as a stern but father
ly old colonel might treat parcel of
subaltefns. An old story is told of-him
in the time when he was himself a sub
altern. He and two comrades had been
dining together; and they had dined so
well that one Of the comrades, overcome
with wine and the heat of discussion
which ensued, lost his head and struck
Changarnier, who turned deadly pale
and felt that he must fight somebody.
But he was far too generous to fight his
intoxicated friend. He left the room
without saying o word, went into Q
neighboring coffee. house where the stu
dents of the place were wont to assem-
BILE, and administered couple Of cuffs
to the first unofending student he
came across, and when swords were
drawn, followed this outrage up with o
severe wound in the shoulder. He then
returned to his friend, who had no re-
collection of anything that had oc-
CURED, and said to him: "What bore
you arel You've obliged me to run a
poor devil through the shoulder who
never did snything to me-. It's perfect
ly ridiculous" And so the two en-
hraced, and no more was said.
, 1877-05-11

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arsIs. hlaek maa, IN ths aheeF tltiarneus
q d-sJair. uhils ths PItiless rain
p0ure.l doun upon then. We have
ausn the fFsnch pFisonsTa IN the camp
Il Mana. cold, bitterly cold. With the
un0U deep on the ground, many IN thin
clothing. and stockingleas feet, fed by
but one meal day, and that often given
in the early morning Of one day. and
and not till the evening Of the next.
Nay, worse, we have seen the prisoners
Of the army Of the Loire literally freez-
ing to death in the open railway
wagons in which they were for days re-
tanned in, that severe Winter, on their
road to Germany; and We have heard,
on unquestionable authority, of men be-
ing taken out Of those wagons when they
reached their journeys end frozen to
death. And yet we say these are but
the inevitable hardships of war
Black1Oood'S Magazine.
, 1877-05-11
Varieties.


4 dentists sign-Drawing, music and
dancing.
The authority Of a great name is like
a uumans hustle. Meddle with it if
you dare.
The man Who was moved to tears"
complains of the dampness Of the prem
-. and wishes to be moved back
again.
\ commercial exchange gives the
startling intelligence that dressed hogs
arr moving briskly to the seaboard
market"
When physician deserts his profess
sion for the pulpit, the inference is that
he can preach better than he can prac-
tice.
Lady visitor" Ny dear. do Won
know II your mamma is engaged"
Little girl Of the period" Engaged ?
Bless you, why she's married"
The times are 50 hard that an Irish
man says that he has parted with all of
his elegant wardrobe, except the arm
holes Of an old waistcoat.
Honesty is the best policy" as man
remarked last night when. after going
two blocks to steal wood he found that
the sticks were too long for his stove
Virginia Chronicle.
An 1RIsHAIAN's BULL,-A teetotaller
asked Pat the other day if he ever saw
a teetotaller drink. "OchP' replied
Paddy, with great earnestness, 1--WE
seen many man drink, but couldn't
tell whether. he was q. teetotaller or
not"
As the Brooklyn Argus tells the tale,
he purchased his sweetheart a pair Of
ten.buttoned gloves and handed them in
at the door himself. The servant girl
took them, and going to the foot of the
stairs bawled out, ''Please Miss, ere's a
young man ez has brought you pair of
leggings."
Second class in grammar, stand np,"
said the schoolmaster, "John is a bad
boy. Who does John correspond withP'
81 know" said little boy at the foot,
holding up his hand. "If yon mean
John Smithers, he corresponds with my
sister Susan; here's letter he Just gave
me to carry home to her."
The census takers of the young Mems
Christian Association of jersey City re-
port that there are ''thirty-Ave saloons
to each church in that city" Where
upon the Norristown Herald says:
"Why church should have so many
saloons we can't understand. Weshould
think ten would suffice for the largest
in the city"
1t was gentlemanly young man who
remarked, wonderingly, how q young
lady could make herself ridiculous by
yielding to the absurd vagaries Of fash
ion. Then the wind caught him by the
new style Of shirt collar on which his
hat rested, and he was obliged to clasp
both arms around telegraph pole in
order to keep from being waited over q
neighboring roof. Norsrich BulEetis.
, 1877-05-11

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lie April
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-25
a solacs for the Aeaa.

In the decline of life, as the vigor Of the
system wanes, and infrmities attack it to
which in early life it was a stranger, the
use of safe medicinal stimulant is highly
advisable. Nothing, as experience shows,
is SO admirable adapted to the wants of old
people as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 1t
is real solace to the aged, and the best
safeguard they can possibly use against the
complaints to which they are peculiarly la
BILE. 1t invigorates the body and cheers
the mind, is pure, agreeable and effective.
Rheumatism, lumbago and govt are more
frequently developed in age than IN youth
or middle life Hostetter's Bitters are an
excellent remedy for those painful disor-
ders, and also fortiiy the system against
them. They never create undue excite
ment, are gentle in their action, ands are
infinitely purer than the unmedicated sti-
mulants of commerce.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-25

A VALUABLE MEDIcINE.-Buchu in
various forms has for many years been one
OF the chief articles in the Materio Medica
for the treatment of certain diseases,
among which are chiefly those affecting
the urinary, digestive, and circulatory or
gans. The difficulty that was long ex-
perenced in obtaining preparation of
this valuable drug that could always be
relied upon for uniformity in strength and
absolute purity led to the introduction of
Helmbolds Extract of Buchu, which for
the last quarter of a century has been ex-
tensively used both by physicians and in
house and family practice, and with very
gratifying success. This medicine, like
every other valuable thing, has been imi-
tated, and those who have use for it will
do well to see that the obtain the genuine
"Helmbold Buchu, the only pure and
reliable preparation.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-25
The Situation in this City.

There was considerable excitement last
night over the report that the train men
on the G. R. l, & p. road had struck, and
intended to seize car of ammunition which
was coming in from the west. The report
proved groundless-at least, no attempt
was made to interfere with the train,
though quite a crowd of railroad men
assembled at the depot. and there was
considerable grumbling.
The morning passenger train from
Chicago did not arrive this morning-and
it is stated on good authority that no more
trains, either freight or passenger,
will be run on this road until the excite
ment has quoted.
All trains except passenger, on the
Western Union road have been abandoned
until further orders, This is done as a
precautionary measure.
EVERYTHING is quiet on the Peoria, the
Coal Valley, and the Mercer county roads,
and the chances are there will be DC
strikes on these roads.
The situation on the ST. Louis road is
UNCHANGED, but none can tell how lona
this state of affairs will last.
Business in all the yards is stagnant.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-25

Judge Peasants having returned home,
Acting Coroner Hayden, in accordance
with the verdict. of the jury in the Maggie
Grifis abortion case in Coal Valley, this
forenoon-the 25-issued warrants for the
arrest of Samuel Powell and Mrs. Ann
Roberts, the girls mother. They we're
given to Constable Ankrum, who went out
in a carriage to make the arrests. They
will be brought in this evening, and will
probably remain in Jail until the next term
of court, unless released on a writ Of
habeas corpus.
DR.. Geo. NJ. Keller will appear before
Judge Peasants tomorrow forenoon on a
nuu;k af hsba4e .es11.Y1ase ond Mill robabI l.,