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Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
The Mississippi Mud Islands,

There Is nothing more curious on our coast than the mud islands at the mouth of the Mississippi. They were lifted from the bottom of the sea but how, is mystery. Some have risen or subsided in single day, and the gas, coming from them few feet be- low the surface, keeps up a continual turmoil of the water above, while from all of them the gases which raised them escape through small but appa- rently bottomless craters. In some of these springs the water that shoots up is several degrees colder than it is in the surrounding sea ; and the crater of one of them, on Osgood's Island, has 8 mineral flavor, and is sold in New Orleans drug stores as a specific for rheumatism. These islands never rise in channels of navigation, but always on their edges. Some have 8 little vegetation, but the greater num- Der are bare. On one of these, near the Southeast Pass, brick fort, con- structed by the Spaniards over a cen- tury ago, is slowly sinking into the sea. On Gordon's Island still grow A grove of fig trees a century old, and near them graveyard in which are headstones bearing Spanish names and dates inscribed one and two centuries ago. As the delta strips work sea. ward, they keep an equal distance in advance and thus rise where formerly was deep water, and often bring up fragments of wrecks lost more thrn one hundred years ago.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
The BOOtblack's Gift.

You have seen the pincbed- d-faced old woman who sits on the street corner with the little old hand organ which has been in use so long that it's notes cannot be heard ten steps away? She has been in Detroit for two or three years, seldom losing day off the street and her patience has won her many friends. Yesterday forenoon as she sat on the ground near the Soldiers Monument one of the bootblacks halted and saw her wiplng the tears from her eyes. She is stranger from over the sea, and the bright spring days must call up recollections of home and bet ter days. The boy felt this, perhaps, or he reasoned that her poverty was distressing, and he scarcely heard the music as he watched her face. Pretty soon he turned and hurried away, and going to the fower-market he laid out eight cents ln the purchase of a small but bright flower. When he returned he held out the fower-pot and said |:
 ''Mebbe that will make you feel bet ter."
 A glad smile swept over her face, and catching the boys hand in both of hers she almost drew him over the organ as she poured out her thanks in broken words.
 ''Let up on a feller-everybody looking p he exclaimed as hedrew away and he hurried into the crowd out of sight.
 Thousands passed the woman with the flower sitting on the organ, and no doubt wondered how she came to buy it. She seemed highly delighted over the present, and no one had ever seen her face wear such a pleasant look. When street boy will exhibit such feeling and sentiment, one should not say that the world is altogether cold and heartless.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
Pocket.

The present is the pocket age; the idea of pocket has entered into almost every phase of life; and we can hardly dive very deep into our pockets with out causing our souls to vince! We are moved by two-fold impulse-to discover pocket analogies in Nature and the world, and to reduce Nature and the world to pocket compass. In obedience to the former we talk of nights dark as a pocket, of pocketing affronts, of pocket conscience, 8 pocket sheriff, a pocket hero; call Mon acO 8 pocket kingdom, and in short, thousand changes ring on the theme, such as will recall themselves to any one, In the other direction, besides our old familiar pocket Bibles, pocket pistols, pocket dressing cases, and pocket overcoats, we are getting pocket bath tubs, pocket easels, pocket bed stead, pocket canoes, and pocket shell ter tents. At this stage we need no prophet to herald the man who shall live in we'll furnished pocket mansion, drive out in a pocket steam carriage, profess a pocket religion, yield up a pocket ghost. and be inferred in a pocket coffin. A forminable monster, truly, is this Pocket-a sort of Frank enstein which we have set agoing, but cannot control. In order to realize the fact that our pockets are, in reality, our own selves (and not our secondary selves either) we have only to imagine the reception an individual destitute of pockets, and of what goes in them, would meet with in a civilized commit nlty. He would be lost, summed, 8 pariah, an Outcast, unsuccored and unbelieved in.
 Men are suspicious of the most en- gazing stranger until they have at least figuratively, picked his pockets; and would look askance at their best friend where he to turn up some morning pOcketless. More surely than the ap- parel the pocket now claims the man. We know one another through our pockets; we love. and marry, and are divorced through our pockets; we fight or abstain from fighting, at the in stance of our pockets; in difference to our pockets we murder, Steal, and lie. When dead body is found, we look to indentify it, first in it's pockets, and only afterwards inits face; and suicide must indeed despise life who will empty his pockets before committing the rash act. A prisoners pockets are searched as a sign that he is henceforth deposed from his position as responsible being. The test of our power over a man IS our hold upon his pocket; and there are probably few slaves so abject as not to possess at least one small fob unrif1ed, It is remarkably anomaly in our code of justice that pocket picking IS not made capital offence, since it is the pickpocket who iDjures us in our most vital part. He is the bane of our gen. eration; he commits the unpardonable sin; his hand is against every man, and every mans hand is against him. His most appropriate and most terrible punishment would be to be cast adrift upon the world forever disqualified from wearing pocket; but such a sen- tence the sternest of judges would shudder to inaict, and the wretched criminal would plead for mercy and 8 halter.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
A SERMON FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

 Don't ever go hunting for pleasures, They cannot be found thus. I know; Nor yet fall digging for treasures, - Unless with the spade and the hoe. The bee has to work for the honey The drone has no right to the food; And he who has not earned his money Will get from his money no good. The ant builds her house by her labor; The squirrel looks out for his mast And he who depends on his neighbor Will never have friends, first or last. In short, 'tis no better than thieving. Though thief is hard name to call, Good things to be always receiving, And never to give back at all. And do not put off till tomorrow
 The thing that you ought to do now, But first set the share to your furrow, And then put your hand to the plough.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
POND'S EXTRACT.
 PONDS EXTRACT. The Peoples Remedy.
 The Universal Pain Extractor, Note: Ask for Ponds Extract.
 Take no other.

ssHear, for will speak of excellent
 things"
 PONDS EXTRACT-The great Vegetable thirty years, and for cleanliness and prompt curative virtues cannot be excened. CHILDREN. No family can af1ord to be without Ponds Extract. Accidents, Bruises, Commissions, Cuts, Sprains, are relieved almost instantly by external HPrns scaldS omR RsaGs GnS Corns, etc. Arrests Inflammation, reduces swellings, stops bleeding, removes diScolor- atton and heals rapidly.
 LADIES ind it their best friend. It assuages the pains to which they are peculiarly subJect-nota0ly fullneSS and pressure in the head, nausea, vertigo. &c. It promptly ameliorates and permanently heals all kinds HEMORRHOIDS or PILES find in this the oh.iy immediate relief and ultimate cure. No case. however chronic or obstinate can vARHC0sE s VEINS. VI It 1Is IS the only sure cure KIDNEY DISEASES. It has no equal for BLEEDING from any cause For this it is a specific. It has saved hundreds Of lives when all other remedies failed to arrest bleeding rom nose, stomach, lungs, TOOTHACHE, Earache, Neuralgia and kheUmAItsm are all alike relieved and often permanently cured.
 PHYSICIANS of all schools who are ac. Quatnted with Ponds Extract of Witch Hazel recommend it ill their practice. We have letters of commendatton from hundreds of Physicians, many Of whom order 1t for use in their own practice. In addition to the foregoing, they order it's use for SwellinSa of all kinds, Quinsy, Sore Throat, lM. famed TOnsils, simple and chronic DiarrhOea, CsAtarrh (for which 1t is spectfcG Ch1lb1a1ns, Frosted Feet, Sttn&S Of Insects, MusQuftOeS. Chapped Hands, Face, ana Indeed all manner of skin diseases.
 TOILET USE. Removes Soreness. ROughness and Slnart1mR; heals Cuts Erupt1Ons ana Ptmples. It revipes, i,s- vigordtes and refreshes, while wonderfully tm- proving the Com mpleXtOn.
 TO FARMERS - P0nd's Extract. No Stock Breeder, no Livery Man can anord to be without 1t. It is used by all the leading Livery Stables, Street Railroads and first Horsemen in New York City. It has no equal Stiffness, scratches. Swelings, Cuts, Lacera- rhOa, Chills, Colds, &c. It's range of action is wide, and the relief it affords Is so prompt that 1t Is invaluable in every Farm-yard as well as in every Farmhouse. Let 1t be tried once, and you will never be without it. CAUTION Ponds Extract has been im- ltated. The genuine article has the words Ponds Extract blown in eacn bottle It is sprepared by the only persons living who ever knew how to prepare it properly. Refuse all other preparations of Witch Hazel. This is the only article used by Phy siclans, and in the hospitals of this country and Europe. HISTOR and Uses of Ponds Extract, in pamphlet IorIn, sent free on application Lo PONDS EXTRACT COMPANY. 0s Maiden Lane, New York.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
DOMESTIC.

CAUSE OF SICKNESS IN HoUsEs.-At a meeting of the New York Public Health Association, paper was read by Col. Waring on "The Sanitary Condition of City and Suburban Houses" A suita- ply built city house, he said, suitably arranged and surrounded, was probably the safest of all human inhabitations, but such a domicile was probably the rarest of all works of human construc- tiOn. On the other hand, the generality of country houses had all the advan- tages which were not possessed by city dwelling houses, such as an abundance of sunlight, pure air, and good founda- tions. In city house which possessed good walls and good foundations, there was little to be feared from exhalations from the ground. A house located upon an improper site, as over swamp or pond, unless it's foundations were securely inclosed by closely cemented walls and paved with tight floor, would be subject to eXhalatiOns from the soil. These exhalations cause de- bilitating effects, such as headache, nausea, and intermittent fever. Persons becoming enfeebled by these means were far more susceptible to malarial diseases than robust, healthy persons. It was coming to be well recognized fact that diphtheria, typhoid and cerebro spinal meningitis were more or less caused by impurities in the air. In the country, there was less danger of dis eases being caused by foul air than by foulness of the water. The ground air might be excluded from our dwelling houses by carefully laying the founda- tion floors and the surrounding walls. Human ingenuity had thus far been unable to devise no means for thoroughly removing the refuse liquids of the house in an automatic manner, and the ele- gantly finished work of the plum Der was too frequently the outward mani- festation of q hidden danger. It was a common practice to attribute all sewer gas to the public sewer; but the vast amount of disease and death caused by sewer gas could not always be laid en- tirely to them, as the waste pipe of the house was often productive of equally deadly results. Lead soil pipes were very commonly used, and it had been proved that they were not serviceable owing to their extreme liability to cor rode. The speaker recommended the substitution of cast and wrought iron pipes for the leaden ones, and said that by the introduction of fresh air into the street sewers, by means of open man traps in the street, and by other patent appliances in dwelling houses, foul air might be prevented from accommodating in the sewers, and there would be no danger to be apprehended from allow ing the sewers to ventilate themselves through the houses.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
E. F. Kunker. Bitter Wine of ron

The greatest success and delight of the people. In fact, nothing of the kind has ever been afforded to the American people which has so quickly found its way into their favor and hearty approval as E. F. kUNKEL's BITTER WINE OF IRON. It does all it proposes and thus gives universal satisfaction. It is guar anteed to cure the worst case of dyspep- sia or indigestion, kidney or liver dis ease, weakness, nervousness, constipa- tion. Sole in $l bottles. Depot and of- flee, 259 North Ninth St., Philadelphia. Ask for Kunkel's and take no other. Sold by all druggists.
 DyspepsIal Dyspepsia! Dyspepsia
 E. F. KUNKEL's BITTER WINE OF
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
SILVERW ARE
 AS PREMIUMS. IMPORTANT NOTICE.
A $4 Set Of Extra Plated
 SILVER SPOONS

Given away as Special Premium to the sub scribers of this paper. Silver Goods furnished under this Premium Proposition are from the well known and reliable Union Silver Plating Co.,, Philadelphia, Pa.
 Under very favorable proposition from the above we'll known house, all regular patrons Of this paper can secure useful and beautiful, as well as very valuable Premium, in the shape of 8 handsome set of Extra Plated Silver Spoons, warranted equal to the best article of the kind sold in this country for $4 D set. sOmely engraved with your mOnO- gram initial.
 All who are entitled to receive this elegant and useful Premium can do so on compliance with the following conditions :-Send your name and post-of1ice address together with your ex- press office, to the Union Silver Plating Com pany, 7O4 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. together With the following Premium Coupon, and inclose with your order 7b cents, to pay cost of engraving your initials, express charges boxing, and packing, and you will receive by return express Cor mail if you have no express
  free of any charge. All express and packing charges are covered by the 7o cents, and the Spoons will be delivered to you free. If you do not desire to have the spoons engraved, you are only required to send 60 cents, to pay ex- pressage and boxing. The coupon must in all cases be sent, to indicate that you are entitled to this premium, as this very liberal ofrer is not extended to any one who is not patren of this paper. The retail price of this set of spoons is $40O, as the following letter will show:
 OFFIcE OF THE UNION SILVER PLATING COL PHLAD'A, Pa ] We assure all subscribers that the goods con- tracted for are first-cass in every respect, and that the usual retail price for them is $400 per set Our lowest price to 1obbers Is $S6.0O per dozen sets, and we will in no case retail them at any price, or send them In single sets to any one who does not send the required ''Coupon," show ing that the sender is patron of this paper. UNION SILVER PLATING Co.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
VEGETINE HAS ENTIRELY CURED ME.

BOSTON, OCtOber, 1870. MIR. H. R. STEVENS:
 Dear Sir-My daughter, after having a severe attack of Whooping Cough, was left in a feeble state of health. Being advised by a friend, she tried the VEGETINE, and, after using few bot ties, was fully restored to health.
 have been great sufferer from Rheumatism. have taken several bottles of the VEGETINE for this complaint, and am happy to say it has entirely cured me. 1 have recommended the VEGETINE to others, with the same good re- suits. It is great cleanser and puritier of the blood; 1t is pleasant to take, and can cheer fully recommend it.
 JAMES MORSE, s64 Athens St.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

A HOG is no more inclined to put his forward feet in the trough than a horse is wont to put his feet into his manager. The great fault is in the construction of the hogs trough. Almost always the trough is so deep and the front side so high that the feed cannot be reached by either large hog or pig until the forefeet are planted in the middle of the trough. Small pigs are required to mount into the trough with every foot before they can reach the feed. These are the reasons why hog puts his forefeet into the trough. Let the front side of the trough be made so low that the animal can walk up to it and reach the feed without resting his throat on the edge of the trough and he will stand up to it as horse stands to his manager.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

SLICED ORANGEs.-There are many ways of preparing them for delicious desserts, besides the most common one of slicing with sugar. Even this way may be varied by sprinkling in between the layers grated or dessicated cocoanut. In any style of preparation it is of great importance to prepare it a few hours before it is wanted.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

BRUISES AND PAINs.-A correspondent of the Elkton Whg recommends, as a sure remedy for bruises and pains, the application of flannel which has been dipped in hot water and wrung out. Dry flannel should be bound over the wet to keep in the heat, and if the pain is severe the application should be re- neweds The remedy is simple, and a trial can do no harm.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

FROST BITTEN.-To cure the intolora- ble itching that always follows frost bitten toes, it is necessary to exclude the air from the affected part. If it is not accompanied with swelling, gum shellac dissolved in alcohol, applied so as to form complete coat, is the easiest remedy we know of. It dries soon, does not adhere to the stockings, and generally lasts until they are well.-If the flesh becomes swollen and painful, plasters of good sticking salve are of great service; but if highly inflamed, use any mild poultice that will exclude the air from the diseased part, and keep it moist, doing the rest.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

GIVE your personal attention to the feeding of your stock; it is of the ut. mostimportance that cattle should be fed regularly and uniformly as to quantity. No one can regulate these matters as we'll as the owner.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

PERFECT neatness in the household has much the same effect on the be- holders that smile on the face of the house. mistress has on her little circle.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

WH1TEwAsH YOUR SHoPs.-An ex- change offers the very sensible sugges- tion that little water applied to factory windows, and some of the same liquid mixed with lime and applied to walls and ceiling, will not cost much; while at the same time, during the murky winter days, it will render workshops lighter, conduce to the health and com fort of operatives, and perhaps save some gas bills,
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

Body Copal Varnish for Coachmakers' USe.-Fuse lbs. fine African gum copal, add 3 gallons clarified oil, boil slowly until quite stringy, mix with B gallons turpentine and strain. The boilingwill take or, 5 hours.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

TERRIBLY sarcastic father: "Now I must bid you good night, Mir. John, for I have an engagement. But say, why don't you stop and take breakfast with us some morning; you always go away an hour or two before it is ready"
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

"PA, WILL you answer me a ques tion?" ''Certainly, my boy" "Well, is the world round?" "Yes, of course, D "Well, then, if the world is round, how can it come to an end?'
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

GIVE me kiss dear girl. can't, she replied; don't mind lending you one; but must have it returned to- morrow.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18
AGRICULTURAL.

SULPHUR FOR PoULTRY.-As preven- tive and cure of various ailments in fowls, and generally conducive to health. sulphur will be found highly valuable and very satisfactory in it's re- suits. As cure for vermin it has no superior. A little mixed with the foed occasionally, will, be destructive to parasites; or it is, perhaps, more etfica- cious in destroying yermin when ap- piled externally. To disinfoct hem nery and destroy all parasites, it is advisable, whenever occasion requires, to burn sulphur until the house is en- tirely fumigated with the smoke; the chicks, of course,, being first all re- moved and the windows and doors closed.> If it is desired to have the fowls roost in the house the night of the day it is fumigated with sulphur, it will, of course, be necessary to attend to this in the morning, and then give it a thor ough airing before the fowls are re- turned.
 Again, for general ailing of fowls and pigeons, nothing is more efficacious, nor will revive them sooner than the inhalation of the fumes of sulphur. Put the sick birds in closed room and burn small quantity of sulphur-as much as you can stand yourself. An almost immediate change for the better will be the result. l have had bird, so sick as not to be able to stand, imme- diately become completely reanimated by inhaling the sulphur, and it's eyes and whole frame suddenly possess new vigor. Continue the treatment once a day until the fowls are cured. A few minutes at a time is sufficient. I heartily recommend the thorough trial Of thn O hOUa cim n1a 6irnptinna
 WORMS IN HOGs.-I will give you my experience with the hog disease univer- sally called cholera. In the years of 1857 and 1863, lost two fine lots of hogs, and cholera was the disease, so thought by all, and they died in various ways. Some died vomiting, some bled at the nose until death ended their bleeding; some cramped until knots raised on their legs and bodies as large as small guinea eggs, and others wan dered off and laid down and died, seem- ingly without struggle. 1 made a careful examination of sixteen of them, taking those that died as above stated, and the examination resulted in the the same thing with all. Worms were the cause. About one foot from the mouth of the stomach Cor punch as it is commonly called) the worms had gathered and perforated the entrails for about ten inches; the worms were still hanging about, half through but all dead when examined, and 1 examined several as soon as dead.
 Now. shall we claim the disease de- scribed as cholera? If so, keep the hogs whilst growing free of worms, and the dreaded disease of cholera will cease. This can be done by giving plenty of strong soap suds, salt and ashes, cop peras, etc. but has not fine keeping, such as forcing growth, preparing breeders for snow at fairs, in-breeding, etc., injured to a great extent the con stitution of our hogs? They are cer- tainly not so hardy now as twenty years ago, with greater care given. Hogs that have died here this season all seem to have lung disease. But one examina- tion that heard of showed the lungs to be rOtten.-IndidnG FGTnaer.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

A GENTLEMAN seeing his wife in a very sullen mood asked her how she did. She answered him that she was not very sick nor yet very well. "Nay,'' quoth he; ''then may even turn thee out of doors, for l only promised to cherish thee in sickness or health."
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

IN GIVING geography lessons, a school master down east asked boy: "What State do you live in?" To which the boy drawled through his nose in reply i; "A state of sin and nisery."
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

FOR WHAT purpose was Eve made For Adams Express company.
Connecticut western news., 1877-05-18

TO REcooK cold fresh fish: Pick up m makes any cold fish, boiled, broiled or fried; brown some butter, add to it a pinch of grated nutmeg and a few whole pepper corns, little minced parsley, and one onion, with a table spoonful ofsalad oil; stir the fish in this sauce, and when dished squeeze the juice of lemon over it.
 'FATHER," said little Teddy. Chow can the sea run when it is all tide P''