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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12
Company"

What Il %ceremOnious affair we make
of entertaining company! Too many
of us lose all sense of being at home the
moment a stranger crosses our TIRES
hold; and he instantly feels himself to
be a mere visitor-nothing more-and
acts accordingly. The man who knows
how to 'drop in" of IN evening, draw
up his chair to your hearth as if it were
his own, and fall into the usual even
ing routine of the household as if he
were a member of it--how welcome he
always isl The man who comes to
stay under your roof for a season, and
who, without being intrusive or famil-
lar, makes you feel that he Is cat
home" with you, and is content In his
usual fashion of occupation--how de-
lightful a guest he is! And the houses
--ah, how few of them Into which
one can go for a day or u week and feel
sure that the family routine is in no
wise altered, the family comfort In no
wise lessened, but, on the contrary, in
creased by ones presence-what JOY 1t
Is to cross the thresholds What har-
bors of refuge they are to weary wan
derersl What sweet "reminiscences
they bring to the lonely and homeless
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

Eggs AS FOoD.-An ordinary hens
egg weighs from one and a half to two
ounces; a ducks egg, from two to
three ounces; the egg of the seagull and
the turkey, from three to four ounces,
and the egg of the goose from four to
six ounces. The solid matter and the
oil i'll a ducks egg exceed those in a
hens egg by about INT fourth. Accord
ing to DIR. Ed, Smith, in his treatise Oh
Foods" an egg weighing an ounce
and three-quarters, consists of l2O
grains of carbon, and lSA grains of nj
trOgen, OF 10 20 per cent. of carbon, and
2 per cent. of nitrogen.
A writer in the Scientific Farmer esti-
mates that the value OF one pound of
eggs, as food for sustaining the active
forces of the BODY, is TO the value of one
pound of lean beefas ] 1874 to $50. AS a
flesh producer one pound of eggs is about
equal to one pound of beef.
A hen may be calculated to consume
one bushel of corn yearly, and to lay II
dozen or Is pounds of eggs. This is
equivalent to saying that three and one
tenths pounds of corr will produce,
when fed TO a hen, n pound of eggs.
A pound of pork, on the contrary re-
quires about five and one-third pounds
of corn for its production. When eggs
are t~wenty-four cents per dozen, aud
pork ten cents per pound, we have a
bushel Of corn fed, producing $2.SS
worth of eggs and $l.O5 of pork.
Judging from these facts, eggs must
be economical in their production and
in their eating, ana especially fit for the
laboring man III replacing meat.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

Upon the action of the kidneys, bladder and
bowels depends the depurat!on of the blood.
1t is by promoting the activity Of these organs
that Hostetter's Stomach Bitters ensure pur-
the kidneys, impurities which beget rheuma-
tism, govt, and gravel are strained from the
blood, but when those mail but all important
organs grow inactive, these impurities Of
course remain, and inevitably produce the dis
eases mentioned. Hostetter's Bitters rouse
the kidneys 10 renewed activity, by which
means the blood is depurated. 1t likewise
purifies the blood when contaminated with
bile by promoting a gentle but e%ffectual action
of the bowels, and has the further effect Of
regulating the action Of the liver, thus counter
malarial fevers and urinary complaints are
also conquered by 1t.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12
Calls TO Prayer,

Muezzin, or, more properly "Mued-
din" is the Mohsmmedan official who
does the public praying at a certain
time and place. Attached to every
mosque is a tall tower or a high bal
cony, upon which the aforesaid official
stands and chants, in a sonorous voice,
these words: "Allah is most great. l
testify that there is no God but Allah.
| testify that Mohammed is the apostle
Of Allah. Come to prayer! Come to
security! Prayer is better than sleep"
The last sentence is added in the morn
ing only. In the evening and during
the night the phraseOlogy is somewhat
changed, but the substantial ideas are
the m 1t is said that the Muezzins
chosen are generally blind men, in
order that from their elevated perch
they may not see what is going on in
the exposed apartments of the dwellings
beneath them.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

NeUs Facts about Iceland Spar.-Pro-
fessor A. X. Eaton, of Brooklyn, wide
ly known as the inventor of an i'm
proved spectrOscope, describes in the
american Chemist a curious fact about
Iceland spar. Hitherto the statement
has been currently made and accepted
that the axis of the crystal is the only
direction along which there is no dis
play of the curious property of the spar
double r%efractiOn. Wishing to obtain
the widest possible divergence of the
two rays from the spar, Professor
Eaton cut it in planes perpendicular to
the axis of the crystal; and to his great
surprise, instead of getting the utmost
separation of the rays, he found no
double refractiOn perceptible. Finally
he cut a crystal in the form of a sphere
and, by experiments upon it, ascer-
tanned that the two images of the ray
are superposed on each other, so as to
make no double refractiOu, not only
when the ray passes through the axis,
but also when it passes through in a
plane direction perpendicular to the
axis. From Professor Eaton's diagram
it appears that the greatest divergence
to be attained by passing the ray
through at an angle of 45 deg. to the
axis of the crystal. The fact is de-
cidedly important in the use of the pol
arlSCOpe.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

Joseph Addison says Of a woman's
headgear 81 would desire the fair sex
to consider how impossible it is for
them to add anything that car be orna-
mental to what is already the MASTER
piece of nature. The head has the
most beautiful appearance, as well as
the highest station in the human figure.
Nature has laid out all her art in beau
tifying the face; she has touched it
with ycrmillion, planted it in Il double
row Of ivory, made it the seat of smiles
and bushes, lighted it up and enlivened
il with the brightness of the eyes hung
ii on each side with curious organs of
sense, given it airs and graces that
cannot be described, and surrounded
it with such n flowing shade of hair as
sets all its beauties in the most agreea-
BILE light. In short, she seems to have
designed the head as the cupola to the
most glorious of her works, and when
we load IL with such Il pile of supernu-
merary ornaments, we destroy the
symmetry of the human figure, and
foolishiy contrive to call off the eve
from great and real beauties to childish
gew-gaws, ribbons and bone lace"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

BAKED CELERY a la TeSSiRoiSe: Re-
move the green stalks, pare and wash
well six large heads of celery; parboil,
drain, and then cook in a sautoir with
salt, pepper, nutmeg, bardeS of fat pork
and a little white broth; when done,
drain on a cloth, strain and tree the
gravy of its fat, thicken with a table.
spoonful of flour kneaded in butter, stir
and boil ten minutes; add three egg
yolks and a handful OF grated Swiss
cheese, and mingle well; range the
celery in a buttered baking-dish, mask
with the sauce, besprinkle with bread
crumbs and grated cheese, bake in a
brisk oven for ten minutes, and serve
in the baking-dish.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

CALICO DRESSES. A woman who
knows how to do up calico nicely will
appreciate the clean, neat dress, how"
ever cheap. If a calico dress is washed
carelessly, starched stiffly, summed a
day or two, aud half ironed, it is not Il
very comedy sight. But If quickly dried
in the shade, very thinly and evenly
starched and irOned on the wrong side,
so that it will not shine, it will look
like a new dress for a long time. Many
pretty blue prints and cambrics fade
when washed in the usual way. If they
are washed the first time in strong salt
and water, or water to which a little
beef's gall is added, the colors will be
set so that they will always be as hand
some as at first, and can be washed ever
after like other colOred goods.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

A gerry general reduction of wages
is in progress among the miners and
blast furnacemen of Scotland. In a
number of instances the men are
already working on the reduction, and
in a week or two the notices will take
effect at other works. AS a rule, the
reduction amounts to Cd. per day,
which brings down the wages to a very
low level. In one district it is said that
the wages. even for six days work, will
not exceed $3.50, gold per week, when
the otftakes are deducted from the
gross earnings Engineering.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12
IsCIENTIFIG.

An argument for the hypothesis Of
mans derivation from the lower ami
mails has been found in the structure
OF the eye. DR.. Hermann has discover
ed that the crystalline lens is so on
structed as TO form distinct images of
objects that are as much as 30 degrees
ont OF the line of the optic axis. That
6, so far as the crystalline lens is con-
cerned, we ought TO be able to see side
objects plainly wheneverthey are with
in the field Of view, no matter in what
direction we are looking. This power
IS called periscOpism. Prof. Joseph
LeCOnte, of California, has pointed out
that the human eye is not wholly
p%eriscOpic, while the eyes of many
lower animals-amOng them the rumi-
nants-pOssess this quality fully. The
cause of the deficiency in the human
eye, which makes it impossible for us
to see clearly the outline of anything
at which we are not looking directly,
is that the retinal images are only
distinct when given by objects directly
in the focal axis. In other words, the
human retina is not periOscOpic.
Therefore, argues Prof. LeCOnte, the
periscopism of the crystalline lens is
almost useless TO man; to other animals
it is extremely useful, as they have
also a periscopic retina. This peculiari-
ty of the lens comes to mankind by in
heritance J it is a mark of descent from
the lower animals. 1t is not wholly
lost in nan because its presence is not
hurtful. On the other hand, if our
eyes had continued wholly peri scopic,
we should never have beeen able to
concentrate our vision, as we now do,
upon single objects.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12
HUMOROUS.

MEAT BEFORE GRACE.-A clergyman,
In the course of his visitation 10 r re.
mote part Of his parish, entered a hut,
the only inmate Of which at the time
was a boy, whose appearance resembled
one who had been a native Of a less
polished country than Scotia; his hair
bespoke the want Of both scissors and
comb, and his costume appeared 10 be a
century elder than its wearer. The
reverend gentleman, being a little
fatlgued with climbing the hill, sat
down upon n stool, and entered into
conversation with the boy. Minister /:
"Where is your father an mother, my
boyf" Boy: "They're no in; what do
ye want wi them, mum" Minister
"Since they are not in, I'll speer you
sOme question ms. Can you read ony?"
Boy: "Aye a /; car you, mun!"
Minister: "Can We pray, onyY" Boy:
SAY IA |; a you, mum" Minister:
Can you say a grace when you TAX
your meat" Boy: LAY can /; can We
do that, nun 2" Minister: Ay, | do.
But let me hear you say a grace" Boy:
"Gie mt meat, then, for | meier say
grace but when | hae meat to taxi"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12
Never Failing Worm Nyrun.

" j. kunkols Worm Syrup never tails 10 de.
stroy Pin, seat and Stomach Worms. DIR. Kun.
kel IS the only successful Physician who removes
alive, and no fee TIL head passes. Common
SENSE teaches II Tape Worms can be Removed
all other Worms can be readily destroyed. send
i0r circular 10 Dr. kunkel, 2b9 North Ninth Sc.
bottle OF kunkel's Worm Syrup. Price al per
DOttle' III never falls. Used by childIen or
z own persons with perfect safety.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

Decay Of Timber.-Wet and dry rots
are the two forms of decay which at
tack timber that is exposed to the
action of the weather, and the cause of
both may be said to be heat with moist
ure. Confined air and evaporation
cause dry rot, and imperfect evapOra-
ton wet rot to a greater or less degree.
Investigation shows that as a pre-
ventive against these rots the timber
should be well seasoned, and if used
where liable to be under the influence
of sun and rain should be well painted,
or, if not painted, should be Impregna-
ted with linseed or oil of tar. The best
preventive, however, is found 10 be
that of allowing a free circulation of
air around the timbers, and the walls
to be allowed to dry thoroughly before
the introduction of the timbers; should
the timbers have taken either of these
rOts very little can be done to preserve
them. In case the rot is perceived to
be at the end of beams Only-where, in
fact it generally commemorative best
method of preserving the rest of the
timber is to effectually cut away the
decayed portion and scarf with sound
if, however, this should not be practi-
cable, the wood may be scraped and
cleaned of all fungus or extraneOus
matter and then impregnated with any
of the usual Oils.-CiRcindH Trade
List.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12
Rboumntism O1IcElv Cured.

Durang'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. IS. Sold by all Drug
gists. Send for circular to Helphenstine d
Bentley. Druggists, Washington. D. @.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12
Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.

Don't fail to procure MRS. WINsLoW'S
SOOTHING SYRUP for all Diseases OF teeth
ing In children. It relieves the child from
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels,
and by giving relief and health to the child,
gives rest TO the mother.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

Observation-Disclosures terms, and all neces-
sary information furnished by Worth Osgood,
Cate Principal Examiner U. &. Patent Ofice)
Atty and Solicitor of American and Foreign
Patents, Washington, d. @. Correspondence
inyiLed.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

CHOLERA INFANTUM.-I may not be
generally known that this disease, so
fatal to many of the children in crowded
localities during the summer months,
a be treated successfully by injections
of pure warm water, which serves to
cleanse the lower intestines, where the
arrangement appears to commence.
Authentic evidence in relation to more
than thirty cases, treated in Concord,
N. H., by n physician, without the
loss Of q single patient, is at hand, and
shows that a very simple and safe
remedy can be used to great advantage,
especially if resorted to in season.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

In mining speculations Kansas now
takes the lead. A farmer who several
years ago purchased for 500 some pro
perty near the newly discovered lead
mines has just sold a part Of 1t for Sl4,'
U0O,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

BAKED INDIAN FUDDING.-Take three
cups of corn meal, and make a thin
mush of it-scald in milk enough to fill
a two-quart basin. When cool enough
not to cook them, add two well beaten
eggs; sweeten to taste; also a piece of
butter, size of a walnut. Bake mod
%erately two hours; stir three or four
times when commencing to bake.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

To DESTROY MOTHS IN FURNITURE
The naphtha bath process is eflectual.
A sofa, chair or lounge may be i'm
mersed in the large watts used for the
purpose, and all insect life will be alb
solutely destroyed. No egg ever matches
after passing through the naphtha
bath; all oil, dirt or grease disappears,
and not the slightest damage is done to
the most costly article. SpOnging with
naphtha will not answer. 1t is the
immersion for two hours or more In
the specially prepared watts which is
e%ffectual.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

EARLY CUT HAY.-Haying will COM
hence toward the las t of the month.
Chemical analysis and common expert
ence has proven that grass cut when in
blossom is better for milch cows than
when cut later. For horses and work
ing cattle it is better when more nearly
ripe, but not woody. As a rule, farmers
dry hay too much. Cured grass is far
better every way cheaper to make, and
better feed. Grass cut in the morning
and shaken up once or twice Oh a good
hay day is cured enough, as a rule, to
be carted to the barn in the afternoon.
With a good moving machine TO do the
work quickly, time may also be saved
by not cutting until the dew is oil. Or
the same result will be obtained by late
cutting in the afternoon, the grass lying
flat prevents the dew from getting to
the ground, and only the top is mois-
tened"
So says the Scientific Farmer, and 1t is
a good authority /; but we are satisfied
that inasmuch as food fed to mich
COWS differs from that fed to beef only
in the fact that it is stopped in the for
mer previous to the formation of fat
if early cut hay is good for n class of
animals it is good for another. We are
certain that feeding steers thrive
better, and readily eat early cut
than late cut hay. After the plant
passes a certain stage its energies go to
the formation of seed, and a certain
chemical change takes place. The true
time to cut is when this change first
commences. Our experience is in favor
of cutting just before the crop is IN full
blossom, or as soon as the earliest heads
show, by changing color, that they
have passed the stage alluded 10.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

AN OLD BACHELOR seeing the words
"families supplied" over the door of a
shop, stepped in and said he would take
a wife and two children.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12
YOUTHS COLUMN.

Mothers Cdller.-Mns. Allen was
making a call on her friend Mrs. Swift
one afternoon, aud both ladies were
engaged in pleasant conversation when
Miss Alice, a young lady of eleven,
came sauutering into the paTlOr. Mrs.
Swift had just made "A remark, when
her little girl broke IN with the query:
"WhO was IL SAID 80, mOthefI'
Her mother was mortified, but replied
as quietly as possible, hoping by that
mea to avoid further interruption
But Alice was ~perseveIing, and deter
mined TO know all the particulars, SO she
proceeded TO ask further questions.
The conversation thus broken up was
difficult To esume Both ladies were
much annoyed, and her mother tried to
invent some inclined plane on which to
slide of her troublesome child, but
without success. She knew Miss Alice
too welltO risk a serious outbreak, or a
persistent siege of teazing to stay. So
she did not positively require her TO go
Ia the nursery.
Presently she arose aud walked to the
window. The next remark
Miss Allison is riding out, mother,
in her little ph9t0n, and she has little
Harry French with her. | wish she
would ask me-
Then she walked about the two par
lOrs, keeping both ladies in a nervous
worry by her ill-timed observations.
Once il was:
Mother, that new girl has not dust
cd tie music stand at ALL
And shortly after she remarked:
There is a scratch quite across the
top of it; mother. | believe Jane did
that.n
Mrs. Allen saw that her visit could
not longer be enjoyed, so she SOC
arose to take her leave. Alice was on
hand to receive her share of the leave
takings and invitations, and then went
humming about among her music
books.
The visitor did not leave with any
pleasant impression of her Friends little
girl. If you are allowed to come III the
parlOr to see your mothers company,
take your seat quietly, and speak only
when addressed. Reply promptly and
pleasantly, and in an Intelligent, easy
manner, not simply saying, Yes
ma'am,n and mo ma'am," TO whatever
in asked, as some children do, making
il very hard to converse with them.
No matter how sharp your curiosity to
know just what the subject is on which
they are speaking, never be so impolite
as to interrupt them by your questions.
Gather what you please by their con
versatiOn, but do not show your curl
osity by your words. Good breeding
is always beautiful in a child, and If
you are so Unfortunate as not to have
had much instruction IN the subject,
nick no information wherever you can,
W Tia Inost untiring diligence Eariy
Der.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

"THERE's the mile dancing with the
MILESTONE" said a gentleman, point
ing to very tall man dancing with a
very short lady.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

How TO USE LARD.-Lard for pastry
may be used as hard as it can be cut
with a knife, and will make far better
paste than if left stand to warm. IL
needs only to be cut through the flour
NOT rubbed.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

A SCOTCH LADY newly come to Lon
don, and rather too familiar with her
own country's mode of expression, in
quired at a linen-draper's shop for a
tablecloth of adambroad pattern, mean
ing a chequered pattern. The COckney
shopman, amazed at such a question,
and from a lady, answered: "Why,
ma'am, we have patterns pretty broad,
but-a-a-none quite so broad as that"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

THERE are people to whom their
neighbours things appear to be greater
than their own. This is observed more
particularly when they are borrowing
a chew of tobacco.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

SIx.YEAR-oLD-"Mamma, what are
twins made fOrP" Precoclous older
brother, quickly-"So that cannibals
may eat philopenas."
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

A MINISTER who had twice married
the same couple-divOrce ensuing be-
tween the two marriages remarked
that he didn't wish to add a repairing
department to his business.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

"SBE'LL be a Madonna one of these
days." said another of the Malaprop
family of a young lady who was pre-
pairing to make her debut in opera.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

A GRAVE ERROR Burying a man
alive.
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EVERY man that wears a hat also
wears a crown. "I'll make his cap
co-equal with the CROWN" Ia Shakes
speare, in LIST Henry ", act. ", scene /.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

The RISE IN RADIsHEs.-He is vege-
table dealer in Danbury. A lank per-
sonage spying his exhibits of radishes
asked
"HOw much for them a bunch?"
"Twenty cents"
"Twenty cents!" replied the citizen
in establishment. "Twenty cents for a
little bunch like that. Why, they amt
worth ten cents"
1t was now the vender's turn to be
amazed.
"What yer talkin' 'bout?" he de-
manded, with asperity. "0fferin' ten
cents for a bunch of radishes! Guess
you amt heard o. the wal in Europe,
hev yerl" was the sarcastic inquiry.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

MAX ADELER thinks the lombard
must be a var poet.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-12

Seek not so much to know thy enc
niles as friends for where one man has
fallen by foes, a hundred have been
ruined by acquaintance.
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HABITS WILL CLING--"Habits will
cling to a person." remarked the old
man.
Eyes," continued his companion 4;
"you remember that Plunkett boy, who
would never play anything but pull
away when we were children in school
together? ?"
"Certainly, l remember him WE'LL"
replied the first party. "What has
eyer become of him?"
"0h, he grew up so become a dent
ist," calmly replied the other; she's in
the 'pull-away' business yet"
And the first old man nodded as he
repeated the words:
Eyes, habits will cling to a person."