davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

Nothing that we eat is more valuable
than salt, nor could anything except
bread, be more missed. Animals, in
fact, will travel distances and brave
great dangers to obtainit. On the coast
of Sierra Leone, brothers will sell their
sisters, husbands their wives, and
parents their children, for salt. In the
districts of Accra, on the gold coast of
Africa, a handful of salt is the most
valuable thing upon the earth after
gold, and will purchase a slave or two.
Salt with the Bambaras is such a lux
ury, that to say of a man, che flavors
his food with SALT" is to imply that he
is rich. No stronger mark of affection
can be shown in Muscovy than the
sending of salt from the tables of the
rich to their poorer friends.
Splitting salt was held to be an I'M
lucky omen by the Romans, and the
superstition has descended to ourselves.
Leonardo de Vinci awaited himself of
this tradition in his famous picture of
the LORDS Supper" to indicate Judas
Iscariot by the salt-cellar knocked over
accidently by his arm.
Salt was used in sacrifice by the
Greeks and Romans, and also by the
Jews, and is still made use of in
baptism by the Roman Catholic clergy.
1t was an emblem of purity, and of the
s~anctifying influence on others ola holy
life; hence onr Lord tells his diciples,
eye are the salt of the EARTH"
The salt being split after it was placed
on the head of the victim was consider
ed a bad omen, being supposed to sig
Nifty that the sacrifice was not accepted;
and hence the superstition.
When we say of a shiftless fellow,
that he does not "earn his salt, " we UNI
consciously allude to an ancient GUS
tom among tht Romans. Among them
a man was said'to be in possession of a
"salary" who had his "salarium," his
allowance of salt-money, or of salt,
whercwith to SAVIOR the food by which
he lived. Thus salary comes ION salt,
and in this view of the word, how
many there are who do not "earn their
salt. ''-Household.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
There IL Danger Ahead.

When those usually active little organs, the
kidneys, are neglectful Of their duties ard
grow sluggish. Fatty degeneration, Bright's
disease, diabetes. aud other dangerous mala-
dies, are the result Of neglect TO remedy this
inactivity by medicinal means. When the all
important functions OF the kidneys are i'm
perfectly discharged, those organs need slim
ulating, and the best possible agent for that
purpose since it performs its Office without
exciting them-is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
which, in combination with its tonic and
cathartic properties. possesses valuable quail
ties as a diuretic. Both kidney, and bladder
are strengthened by it, and the vigor which it
imparts to them, and the gentle but eff rctual
impulse which it gives TO their operations, 10
the best possible guaranty against their be-
coming diseased. Tue Bitters are invaluable
In other respects AZ well as the above, since
they remedy general debility, uterine troub-
les, chills and fever, dyspepsia. constipation,
govt, rheumatism, and other ailments.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
Wonder upon Wonder.

Gioen dudy-A strange, mysterious and
most extraordinary Book. 9 titled THE BOOK
OF WONDERS" Containing, with numerous
curious pictorial illustrations, the mysteries Of
the Heavens and Earth. Natural and Super
Natural Oddities, Whimsical, Strange Curiosi-
s%titions, Absurdities, Fabulous, Enchantment,
&c. In order that all may see this curious
book, The publishers have resolved to give it
away to all that desire TO zee it. Address by
postal card, +. GLEASON q Co., 1888 Washington
Street, Boston, Mass.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
DIR. j. ii. Schenck,

OF Philadelphia. has actually compounded a
OF purely vegetable ingredients,
which is proved By experience to have all the
good effects Of Calomel, and none OF it's mis-
chieyous qualities. This invaluable medicine
is comprised In SCHENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS,
which are found to be a never-failing remedy
for all Diseases Of the Liver, and every other
disorder for which Calomel Is usually pre-
scribed by Allopathic physicians.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

Cement for Petroleum Lamps. "A
cement particularly adapted for attach,
ing the brass works to petroleum lamps
is made by boiling three parts resin
with one part of caustic soda and five
of water. The composition is then
mixed with half its weight of plaster of
Paris. 1t sets firmly in half to three
quarters of an hour. 1t is said to be
of great adhesive power, not permeable
to petroleum, a low conductor of heat,
and but specifically attacked by hot
water. Zinc white, white lead, or pre-
cipitated chalk may be substituted for
plaster, but hardens more slowly.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
Japanese Proverbs.
Better avoid blame than speak praise.
49,. LII.

Better avoid blame than speak praise.
A beaten soldier fears a reed.
Great men are spoken Of for seventy
five days.
The lower part of the candlestick is
black. CThe nearer the church the
farther from God.)
There are people who have read Con-
fucius and still have not read him.
The skill of a poor man is not much
believed in.
When there are too many boatmen
the boat climbs mountains.
Until polished the precious stone is
not brilliant.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

APPLE OR PRUNE PUDDING Crust to
be made same as cream tartar biscuit, to
be cooked by steam in a tin boiler; roll
the crust to the required size and half
an inch thick; use first a layer of crust,
then sliced apple and so on, having the
top layer a crust, leaving room for the
pudding to swell. If prunes are used,
swell them first by soaking them in
warm water. Cook the pudding an
hour and a half or two hours, according
to the size. You "a use this recipe
for any kind of fruit, always swelling
the dried fruit.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

Prof. Heinte, in a recently-published
paper on the reducing action of bone
black at a low temperature, says that he
was formerly of opinion that animal
charcoal, if carefully lixivated and re-
Gently ignited, could not precipitate
platinic chloride; but in the course of
his researches, when he had occasion to
act upon platinic double salts with ami
NAL charcoal, he found that reduction
actually took place. The explanation
he gives is that the hydrogen cannot be
driven away from the charcoal even at
the most intense heat.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

MARROW PATTIEs.-Roll out some
puff-paste very thin, and line some
patty pans; stamp out some covers with
a paste cutter, insert a piece Of bread
or some rice into the centre, put on the
covers, and bake in the oven. Scoop
out the marrow from a bone which has
been previously broken, cut it into
pieces about half an inch in length,
and parboil it for one minute in sailed
water; drain, season with pepper and
salt, and a little lemon juice, and, if
liked, a very little shalot. Remove the
bread or rice from the p%atties, insert
the marrow, put on the cover, and serve
very hot.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
Russian Grain.

1t is now reported that the Russian
grain harvest is nearly a failure, and
that France will also suffer from n short
yield. AS America must this season
supply a large amount of Europe with
breadstuiIs 1t is no wonder that business
Is so rapidly reviving.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
L

ShRINKAuH or CoRN.-We have more
than once alluded to the fact that We
think farmers who sell grain do not pro-
perly appreciate the loss by shrinkage
while standing In the crib. In answer
to the question of "How much does
corn lessen In weight by keeping dry,
when compared with its weight at
time Of thuskingY" the superinten-
dent Of the Experimental Farm says:
''In the fall of 1870 Thomas M. Harvey
put 400 pounds OF sound corn (ears) In
u lathed box TO test It's shrlnkage. IL
was weighed and boxed November Is,
quite ripe and dry. This was late for
husking, you will notice. November
p one box was shelled out and made o
bushels 27H quarts by measure or 332
pounds 6 ounces, and averaged 65l
ounces TO the bushel; cobs weighed 70
pounds 81 ounces, making the total
loss 2 pounds IL ounces. The next
box was shelled March 30, following,
and made 8 bushels and nine ounces, or
298 pounds eight ounces, averaging 90
pounds So ounces per bushel; the cobs
weighed 81 pounds and 10 ounces,
making a loss Of 46 pounds IA ounces,
or ~ per cent. on the grain, and a loss
of liz per cent. Of corn and cobs. This
result would have been quite different
II the boxes had been filled with early
husked, large cobbed corn. l have had
larger ears that lost 80 per cent. from
the time they were first husked till
dried:" To this Mr.. ShOrtlidge, of
Bellefonte, adds his own experience:
1875, November Is, put in crib 90
bushels, ears, weight, 1876 pounds;
10th, do, weight, 1880; 18th, do,
weight, l,97O-3525 pounds per bushel
when crlbbed. August 8, 1876, it
weighed out of crib, 31H bushels or
1910 pounds for each draft put in crib.
Each bushel of ears now weighed 344
pounds, making a loss in bulk 1876 per
cent, and in weight 22.6 per cent. He
says this was a shorter and plumper
grain than other Chester county varie-
ties of corn, and would probably lose
less than our l~arge-cobbed varieties. In
the above experiment the corn was not
shelled."
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

The HEssIAN Fly. - Prof. Leidy,
being requested to give some facts con-
corning the Hessian fly, stated: He had
examined. a crop of wheat near Easton,
and found the fly was destroying about
One-half of II, many PROSTATE heals
being infested with them, they having
passed into the second stage. He saw
in the newspapers that the fly was in
some way connected with the seventeen
year locusts. If one notices, the locust
never touches the grain. From what
he has seen of the habits of the fly, it
would not be difficult to destroy them
and get rid of them /; if the stubble was
burnt it would destroy all their eggs,
30 that few or none would be left to
hatch next year. The fly weakens the
stalk by taking out the sap, 80 it falls
while heading up. The locust lives in
the ground, and when seen it is ready
to deposit its'eggs in the tree. 1t never
eats after we see it; it a only suck
liquids; after they come out they creep
up trees and there again deposit eggs;
they only destroy the ends of the
branches of trees by taking the sap from
them.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
Mothers. Mothers. Mo,bers

Don't fail TO procure MRS. WINSL0W'S
SOOTHING SYRUP for all diseases OF teeth
ing in children. 1t relieves the child from
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels,
and by giving relief and health to the child,
gives rest 10 the mother.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

WELL TAUGHT.-A man has been
questioning his son, who has just re-
turned from an expensive school, and
says the boy answer four questions out
of five correctly In every branch of his
studies. To four questions out of five
the boy says, 81 don't know" and this
answer is always a true one. When he
hazards any other, he is apt to be wrong.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
Rhenmnfism 0nickIH Cnred.

Dursng's Rheumatic Remedy" the great
Internal Medicine, will positively cure any case
Of rheumatism on the face Of the earth. Price
81 a bottle, six bottles, S.. Sold by all Drug
gists. Send for circular to Helphenstine &
Bentley, Druggists. Washington. D.. O.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

He HAD been telling her about his
troubles, and how everything seemed
against him-rheumatism, the wicked
world, &c.-when she, like the Chicago
girl she was, broke out: "You must
be very fond of dieting upon frogs, Mr..
Paike." "FrOgs?" inquired he, "why
frOgs?" ooh, because" replied the
heartless Miss, you are such a croaker!"
IL cured him.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

TINTED FRoTH.-Beat to a stiff froth
the whites of three or four eggs, add
the syrup of damsons or any highly
cOlored jelly or preserves; serve it with
custard, whips, floating island, t%rifles,
or any other cold dessert.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

BIRDS NEST PUDDING Put into
three pints of boiling milk six crackers,
pounded fine, and one cup r%aisins;
when cool, add four eggs, well beaten,
a little sugar, and four good-sized
apples, pared and cored. To be baked
and eaten with warn sauce.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

GAS TAR ON TREEs.-In some of the
books published by horticulturists gas
tar is recommended to apply to the
trunks of trees to prevent mice and
rabbits from girdling them; but the ex-
perience of many persons goes to show
that this tar is injurious to fruit trees,
and 1t should never be thus used. Com
mon Tar is considered safe.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

Loss OF PHosPHATE.-A. B. Prescott,
In the Popular Science Monthly, writes:
''When phosphates fail at the root Of
the plant, grain fails at the mill; and
when from waste at the mill ph~osphates
fail in the bread, the bones and teeth
fail in growing bodies. The IMPROVE
dence that leaves excretory p%hosphates
TO be washed away to the salt sea, far
ther from the reach of life than if they
were in the primitive rocks, is an i'm
providence that prepares an inheritance
of poverty for after generations. And
the ruthlessness that permits the pur-
veyors of food to sift phOsphates from
the food of man does its part to enfeeble
the present generation" No n
doubts the truth of all this, and yet
farmers will continue to let the water
run through and out Of their gardens
and pig-pens, and the millers will take
the phosphate out of flour in the form
of bran, because their customers de-
mand white flour, and it cannot be sup.
piled In any other way. All know and
admit that both are wrong, but still
keep on in the old way, and will con-
tinue to do so,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

Why is a church bell more affable
than a church organP
Because one will 60 when 1t is tolled,
and the other will be "blowed first.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
DOMHTIC

CUCUMBER PIcKLE.-The pickles OF
small cucumbers should be carefully
assorted as they come from the field,
and all large ones sailed by themselves
or thrown away. The large ones need
more salt: are harder 10 keep and 10
prepare for sale, and sell for much less.
A cucumber that begins TO grow yellow,
or Is too large TO count 100 TO the bushel,
should not be sailed at all. The medium
sized ones, counting about 800 to the
bushel, are the sizes mostly wanted.
As soon as assorted, they should be
placed In empty beef barrels or molasses
hogsheads and covered with brine; the
brine is made strong enough TO float a
potato, and the pickles are kept under
by a head fitting the barrel loosely, and
loaded with n or two stones of about
20 pounds weight each for a hogshead.
The brine soon becomes weak by alb
sorblng the fresh juice OF the pickles,
and will need TO be drawn of and
poured on again In order TO thoroughly
mix the stronger brine at the bottom of
the package with the portion at the top,
which Is weaker. This should be re-
peated two or three times at intervals of
two or three days, and If the brine is
on large pickles q few handfuls of salt
added each time. If carefully kept
under the brine and the surface of the
brine kept equally mixed with what is
below, there will be no trouble In keep
ing them.
They are taken out of the brine
several days before wanted for sale,
and placed in fresh, cold water, which
must be changed as often as convenient
say two or three times a day-and
after four or five days they will be fresh
enough TO receive the vinegar. The
strongest of white wine (~whiskey) vim
egar is used, and allspice and pepper
added to taste. There is no need of
s%calding either the pickles or vinegar;
If the latter Is strong enough they will
keep. Cider vinegar is of uncertain
strength, and is often too weak to keep
pickles after warm weather begins. If
the vinegar is not strong enough, scald-
ing will do no good. Pickles thus pre-
pared are known as English pickles,
and have a dull yellowish-brown color,
impaired by the brine. The bright
green color often seen in the pickles in
market is impaired by scalding them,
when taken out of the brine, in a copper
kettle; they absorb enough verdigris
from the kettle to give them the desired
color, and yet so little that copper
poisoning from eating pickles is a thing
unknown. Still it is one of the signs
of increasing knowledge of what is done
in preparing u food, and of care in
rejecting anything suspicious, that the
green pickle, so universally used a few
years since, is fast becoming unpopular,
and giving place to the English pickle,
prepared without copper. Peppers,
beans, c%auliflowers, unripe melons, and
m~artynias are prepared in the same
way as cucumbers.- Country Gentleman.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

"THE funeral was all that could be
expected" says an aged lady who looks
upon these event with an artistic eye.
''These display Of flowers was grand,
and the widow wept like a born angel"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

A Neio White Pdint.-Native barytes,
or barium sulphate, is mixed with pull
verified stone coal and tar, and exposed
to an intense heat, SO as to convert it
into barium sulphide. The latter being
soluble can be dissolved out, and to the
clear solution is added a corresponding
quantity of ziuc chloride in solution,
when zinc sulphide will be precipitated
while barium chloride remains in, solu-
ton. To the solution of barium chloride
is added white vitriol (zinc sulphate),
when a precipitate Of barium sulphate
will be formed and zinc chloride left in
solution, which latter can be filtered
and again employed to precipitate the
barium sulphide.
The two precipitates obtained as above
namely, zinc sulphide and barium sui
phate, are well washed, mixed, dried,
heated to a cherry red, then thrown in
to cold water, and finally ground in
water and dried. The white pigment
thus obtained covers well, and is well
suited to mix with oil, as a substitute
for lead, especially where sulphur COM
pounds exist or may be generated.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

DON'T irrltate your Lungs with q stubborn
cough, when q remedy, safe and certain as DR..
Jaynes Expect0rant can be so easily procured
Sore Throat and Lungs are speedily helped by II,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

INDIANS are not at all contagious.
They are very difficult to catch.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

A coUNTRYMAN passing over the Pont
Neuf at Paris, and seeing, among a heap
of shops full of merchandise, that of a
banker in which there was nothing but
a man sitting at a table with pen and
ink, had the curiosity to go in and In
quire what 1t was he sold: "Asses'
heads" replied the banker: "They
must be in great request" said the
countryman, "since you have only your
own left"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

NEIL PILLS are prepared expressly TO cure Sick
Headache, Nervous Headache, Dyspeptic Headache,
cure any case. Price 5Oc., postage free. Sold by all
Druggists. Office, No. LOG N, Eutaw ST., Baltimore
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
ACHES AND PAINS.
Dr.. Railways Regulating Pills,

Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated, for the
cure OF all disorders OF the stomach. liver, bow
els. Kidneys, bladder. nervous diseases. head
ache. constipation, indigestion, dyspepsia. bill
l~Ousness. bill Gus fever, Inflammation OF the bow
els, piles, and ali deran ements OF the internal
viscera. " rranted 10 effect a positive cure.
Price rs cents per box.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

SoNGs OF BEULAH the new Sunday-School
Singing-book-price 35 cts. $50 per hundred.
LEE d WALKER, Ills Chestnut St, Philad'a.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

A Heightened man-0ne shouting
for the police.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

A HAPPY set of men-Soldiers in
transports.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
SCIENTIFIC.

Hoo 10 Prepare Photographs fOr Printing
BlOcks.-ln the PhO~tOgrdphiSches Archie
appear the details of a simple method
OF securing an outline photograph In
metal suitable for printing with type In
the ordinary printing press. Ii is ne
cessary 10 be somewhat Of a draughts-
man, no doubt, In order to be able to do
the work we'll and rapidly, although
nothing Is said on his head, but hardly
any one could, haphazard, undertake
the matter.
Only a we'll marked photograph with
bold lines, and In which minor details
are Of no account, Is suitable, and the
negative is I'm the first place put into a
camera or other apparatus to furnish a n
enlarged positive. Upon this enlarged
positive are traced, in Indian ink. the
holder lines which 1t is desired to re-
tain, a pen or brush being employed for
the purpose, according TO the nature Of
the work or the desire Of the draughts-
man. After all the details have been
in this way traced, with thoroughly
black pigment, the lines of a thickness
corresponding to the original object,
and of such a nature as TO be readily re-
produced autobiography, the print is
treated with chloride of lime or other
bleaching agent, and in this was the
whole of the image obliterated with the
exceptions Of the block lines made by
the draughtsman.
The picture Is now photographed,
and in this way a small negative secured,
or one, at any rate, of the dimensions OF
which the printing block is TO be. In
this case the negative will be perfectly
Opaque in the lights and transparent In
the shadows, and from it may be easily
produced, by any of the etching pro-
cesses, an engraving upon zinc capable
of being used in the printing press with
type.
Chloride of lime is specially mentioned
as the bleaching agent wherewith to
render invisible the details of the silver
image, after the draughtsman has done
his work. We should think that a solu-
tion of bichloride of mercury would be
much more effectual in making the
original Photographic image disappear.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

PATENTEEs AND INVENTORS should read ad-
vertisement Of Edison Bros. in another column.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

THE spread of educational school
board dinner.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

ROGERS wrote: "Mine be a cot be.
side the hill; a beehive's hum shall
soothe my ear" and on the day follow
ing he moved in. That evening his wife
got a glimpse of him as he shot across
the garden lot, slapping his hat upon
his head, and she passed into the house
r%emarking: 81 just expected he would
go fooling around them bees. The next
minute he'll be in here bowling for
flour and molasses to soothe his ear.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29

A BOARDING establisment-A carpen-
ter's shop.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-29
Salt.

A PROFESSIONAL cut-A snubbed
barber.