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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-07-25

The ways of some Senator's are.certain-
ly hard ones. Stanley Matthews has to
get over good many rough places, and
Senator Burnside has recently come in
for series of mistortunes. He was seri-
ously i'll, he had a window fall on him,
and then on the way to a Washington
hotel his trunk was broken open and
robbed of considerable wearing apparel
Senator Thurman thinks Ohio will 90
Democratic, and says the Democrats are
sure OF twelve, and will probably carry
fourteen, of the Congressional districts.
Senator Voorhees, is equally confident
with regard to Indiana, and expresses
great confidence in his re election to the
Senate. 1t will be remembered that he
was appointed to fill the vacancy caused
by the death Of Morton.
Some genuine cases of cholera are re-
ported to have appeared, last week, at
the Brooklyn navy yard. The health Of
ticers say that they resulted from the
stirring up Of the noXious deposit at the
rivers bottom.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-07-25

Noyes, the life insurance fraud is TO 60
to prison but Edison has not Yet decided
what to do with the noise OF the New
York elevated railway.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1878-07-25

Mr.. Bennett will spend not less than
Sl2o,Om on the Jeanette Arctic eXpedi-
ton But what will he do with the
North Pole if he finds it
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10
AN APRIL SONG.



Sweet April when you try. with your sunshine
and your sky.
Your wind breathing low and your birds that
sing together. 80
Your misty blue thai fills the hollows OF the hills.
You can make day OF most enchanting
weather =.
But on this lovely morning you have for your
adjoining
Thu presence OF my only love my darling, my
deal
SO you have no need tn try, with your sunshine
and your sky,
To make this day the day OF all the year
Yet, April, do your best with soft wind from the
west
With sunlight on the s,ringing grass, and
tender blue above
Let your singing birds sing loudly, and your
flowers look up proudly
So may f, on serve the lady Of my love.
o month Of changeful mirn-your days may be
serene
Or Your sobbing east wind may be bringing
rainy weather
Each IL a welcome day, for 1t takes me nearer
May,
When my only love and shall be together
-Scribner for April.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10
Strange Music.

We see it stated that in the slx'ee~
and seventeenth centuries there We.
few public festivals. triunphal plMJ III
sions, or perambulating shows NV,
trained animals did not occupy pnIi
lnent position. A Spanish chrOnn
gives an account Of processoI
Brussels in 1549, organized for me n
tertainment of King Phillip H.
bands were stationed in large cav
the centre sat hugo bear playlH,
an organ, not consisting OF rev
pipe, but Of score of cats enclosHs
separate boxes, where they cou.u
move; the tail of each one was ~
out through aperture and tied los i
corresponding to one OF the KEY
instrument, so that when tne
struck the keys the cats tal.s "elss .i
ed, and the poor creatures Low a
the most dismal manner. 1ueie
tenors and basses, and they we1e
ed TO NEW in concert. foou.;
monkeys danced to strange mus.S
the chronicler goes on to say
though King Philip was the Ind md
emn and demure Of men, ne oIui
refrain from laughing upon pen r.
this strange sight" Several otnu ~
of cat organs were Afterwards =
ed, and in one of these sharp -
needles were substituted for tne
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

pearing figure Of Juan, our Mexican
vaquero
missed him ! by said the doc
tor. But did you hear him? Did
you see his lurid face as he rose up at
the name Of blood? Did you see his
guilty conscience in his face. Eli? Why
don't you speak? What are you staring
at?'
"Was it the murdered mans ghost,
doctor ?" we all painted in one quick
breath.
"Ghost be-. No. But in that
Mexican vaquero-that cursed Juan
Ramirez II saw and shot at his muir
derer r''-Bret Hdre
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-10

1T is a sad moment for bachelor
when he finds that his hair is so thin
that he is unable to hold pen back of
his ear.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18
The Sagacity OF Ants.

Prof. Leidy, in recent article, states
that, in order to ascertain whether a
house he had Just entered was Gas he
suspected) seriously infested with red
ants, he placed piece of sweet cake in
every room. At noon every piece was
found covered with ants. A cup of tur
pentine oil being provided, each piece
was picked up with forceps, and the
ants tapped into the oil. The cake was
replaced, and in the evening was again
found covered with ants. The same
process was gone through the following
two days, morning, noon and night.
The third day the number of ants had
greatly diminished, and on the fourth
there were none. He at first supposed
the ants had all been destroyed, but in
the attic he observed few feasting on
some dead house-fies, which led him to
suspect that the remaining ants had be-
come suspicious of the sweet cake. He
accordingly distributed through the
house pieces of bacon, which were after
wards found swarming with ants This
was repeated with the same result for
several days, when, in like manner with
the cake, the ants ceased to visit the
bacon. Pieces of cheese were next tried
with the same result, but with an uz-
doubted thinning in the number of ants.
When the cheese proved no longer at
tractive, dead grasshoppers were sup
piled from the garden. These again
proved too much for the ants, but after
few days. trial neither grasshoppers
nor any thing else attracted them; nor
has the house been infested with them
since.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18
HOTSPUR ONA FOP.

My hege, ] did deny no prisoners;
But remember, when the fight was done,
When WAS dry with rage aud extreme toll,
And nothing stronger than rain-water
Within forty miles, came there a certain lord,
TRINITY dressed, nobby, in fact, with a cuta-
way coat,
Flashy neck tie, and pants louder than the
Band wagon of a circus, including the band
He was fresh as a bridegroom
To speak truly, he was "A tI-ifle too fresh.
His chin, which advised him TO wipe off,
Was newly rcaped, and showed ike
Stubhle- land at harVest-time.
He was scented like ice -cream
At a church -fair-with vanilla, musk,
Rose-waucr, cologne, hair-oiI, etcetera,
And can not pretend what else.
TwiNt his finger and his thumb he held
A pOuncet box (see Webster's Unabridged)
Which, ever and anon, he gave his nose,
And still he smiled and talked, and, as
The soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He called them untaught knaves ,unmanneTly,
To bring a sloVenly unhandsome corpse
Between the wind and his nobility.
With many holiday and snobbish terms,
Such as 4" Aw, wealyr " Did you evan"
He addressed me among the rest
Demanded my prisoners in her Majesty's
Behalf. then, all smarting with
NV wounds, being CALLED 60 be SO pestered
With "A seven mine popiniay,
out of my grief and my Impotence,
lifted him one abaft the wheel house,
And YOU might have heard his little
Coat-tails crack as he passed
over into the next county.
This bald, unjointed chat Of his, my lord,
Disturbed my Dutch, and beseech you
Let not his mysterious disappearance
Come between my love and your high majesty.
on CItV Derrick.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

while you are sleeping. A few fat
heifers not required for the dairy are al
ways tempting bait for the local butch
err. and the swine that can be raised and
fsttened with well managed dairy, is
that much clear gain.
These additional aids to the revenues
of the farm might be pointed out to q
still, greater extent, but the drift of our
subject can be readily comprehelded.
We want more s'strings to the bow
and then if one breaks or gets weak, we
are not st the mercy of the enemy.
With decrease in the number of cows,
the same amount of milk can be secured,
The drafts made upon the revenue from
the dairy, for grain, can be avoided,
the -four bill can be abolished, the fer
tllitv of the soil can be increased, the
sale, of young stock can be added to the
credits of tie farm, ''cow debts" made
a thing of the past, and st the end of the
year. the farm will be found to have
Welded the old revenues of flush times
and high prices. If we can produce
thing we are not compelled to buy it and
pay for it. This is an axiom that
should become motto with all farmers,
whatever their specially has been. 1t
is often said that there Is no evil without
good resulting, and il the hard times
and low prices COMPEL men to farm bet
ter, economics more and manage better,
they may be ''biessin9s in disguise. y
Practical Farmer
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18
Ants in a Passion.

F. E. Coleuse, writing from Natal to
Nature, says: ." noticed this morning
that along the bottom of the front wall
of my house. ION the veranda, there lay
a quantity of reddish brown powder;
there was enough to fill coffee-cup.
On booking closer saw that it was made
up of small aAd larger fragments which
glistened. and on inspecting some in my
hand they turned out to be the heads,
legs, trunks ETC., of countless ants. A
number of the animals were still on the
wall above, and my attention
being now arrested | watched them, and
saw that they were contributing to the
carnage beneath. This species of ant is
a small, comparatively harmless one,
the chief sin Of which is that it makes
its way to every species of food and
swarms on it. As is usual with ants,
the general body of insects is accom-
panied by larger individuals, which are
provided with heads and jaws quite dis
proportienatet to their bodies, and with
these jaws they do all the cutting up.
Among the ants on the wall there was a
large sprinkling.sf these ''soldier ants, !"
and the whole community seemed to be
bent on destroying them. The proper
lion OF heavy jawed to ordinary ants was
about one to ten. I'saw a group of lit
tie ones fastening on to a big one, which
made desperate efforts to release itself
At first the big one bit several little ones
in two and the parts dropped down
from the wall bu, after while the lit
tie ones severed all the legs of the big
one, and finally got on his back
and cut him in two. The group then
dropped down to swell the mass below.
Similar scenes were enacted elsewhere
on the wall. The commencement of one
combat was as follows: A big ant walk
ed along till it met another big one and
the two shook antenne. Just then a
little one seized hold of hind leg of one
of these big ones. Neither took any no.
tice, but continued rapid conversation.
Suddenly other small ones came up,
when the big one whose leg was grab
bed turned furiously on the little one
and seized him by the middle. This
could not be done until the big one had
doubled himselfup; as soon as he had
hold Of his small antagonist, he lifted
him in the air and shipped him in two.
Meanwhile air the big ones legs had
been seized by little ones, and the party
seemed to turn over and over, little bits
tumbling down, now leg, now half an
ant, till the big one was vanguished.
The ant is most assuredly subject TO
passions. The way in which the big
ant turned on the little one was singu-
larry indicative of rage. The determin-
ed manner in which be. laid hold of the
little one was quite human. If had
had magnifying glass, the scene would
have been really exciting"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18
Gossip About the Dead Queen.

The superstitious recall that, as Mer-
cedes entered the Church of the Atocha
on her marriage-day the bearer of her
train stumbled, bad omen; also, that
at the bull-fght next day veteran
torero, many years ago great favorite
at Madrid, opened the amusement by
turning to the Royal box and exclaim-
ing to the Queen, May your Majesty
live 100 yearsi" Next moment he was
tossed by the bull. The Queen died at
davbreak in the arms of her husband
and in the presence of her parents, the
Infanta Christine, and the Ministers.
Cardinal Mareno administered the last
rites to the dying woman, who preserv-
ed her clearness and serenity of mind.
"Does your Majesty regret leaving this
life?" he asked. Yes" she replied,
s'I do, but it is for Alfonso and my par
ents' sakes." Alfonso telegraphed to
his mother the death of his wife in these
terms: my beloved Mercedes is in
Heaven. Pray for herr" an inconsist-
ent but earnest dispatch. At the time
of the wedding, five months before, the
ex-Queen Isabella prayed, on dit, at the
Church of st. Pierre de ChaillOt that
evil might follow the Montpensier fami-
ly. The Pope sent King Alfonso an
autograph letter of coincidence, and
Queen Victoria telegraphed him as fol-
lows: GO Dear Brother, my heart bleeds
for you. What an awful misfortune it
has pleased God to send you'll May He
give you strength to bear this terrible
loss" The Queens remains rest tenn
pOrarily beside those of the Bourbon
Princes in the vaults of the Escurial. On
the day of the funeral, throughout all
Madrid, almost all the shops were par
TALLY closed. The people generally
wore mourning, and business was en-
tirely suspended. More than $4,000 per-
sons visited the chapel where the re-
mains lay.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18
CoMPAHIoNs ON THE RoAD.

LIES miiestones. marking year on year,
Pass ever swiitef a we near
The FINAL goal. the silent end
To which our fated foots steps tend
a year once seemed century.
Nov like a day il hiirries by
And doubts and fears our hearts Cypress,
And All the way Is WEAKNESS.
All me- how glad and gay We were,
lonth's sap In all our veins astir,
When long ago with spirits high,
= happy careless company.
We started forth, when every thing
Wore the green glory of the spring,
And al the fair wide world was ours,
To gather As We would its flowers
Then life almost eternal seemed,
Ana death dream so vaguely dreamed,
isat IN the distance scarce IL threw
cloud-shade on the mountains blue,
That rose before Us soft and fair,
Clothed IN ideal hues of air.
TO which we meant in after time,
strong In our manhood's strength, to climb.
How all has changed Years have gone by,
And OF that Joyous company
With whom our youth first journeyed on,
Who-who are lefty Alas, not onef
Love earliest loitered on the way,
Then turned his face and slipped away;
And after him with footsteps light
The tickle Graces took their flight,
Aud all the careless JOYS that lent
Their revelry and merriment.
Grew siIenter, and, ere We knew,
Had smiled their last and sad "adieu."
Hope faltering then with doubtful mind
Began to turn and look behind,
And we, halt questioning. were fain
To 70 low with her back again.
But fate still urged ms on our way
Aud would not let us pause or stay.
Then 20 our side with plaintive eye,
In place of Hope came Memory,
And murmured of the pastand told
Dear stories of the days of old.
Until its very dross seemed gold,
And Friendship took the place of Love,
And strove in vain TO us to prove
That Love was light and insincere
Not worth a mans regretful tear.
All all in Vain-grant twas a cheat,
Yet no voice ever was SO sweet
No presence like TO Loves who threw
Enchantment over alive knew;
And still we listen with sigh.
And back, with fond tears IN the eye,
We gaze to catch a glimpse again
OF that dear place-but all in vain.
Preach not. stern Phiiosophvi
Nought we can have, and nought we see,
viii ever be so pure, 50 glad,
SO beautiful, as what we had.
Our steps are sad-our steps are slow
Nothing Is like the long ago,
Gone Is the keen, intense delight
The perfume faint and exquisite
The glory and the efiiuence
That haloed the enraptured sense,
When Faith and Love were at our side,
And common Life was deified.
our shadows that we used to throw
Behind as, now before us grow;
For once we walked towards the sun,
But now, LIES full meridian done,
They change, and in their chill we move,
Further away from Faith and Love.
A chill is i'm the air-nomore
Our thoughts with Joyous impulse soar,
But creep along the level way,
Waiting the closing of the day.
The future holds no wondrOus prize
This side Deaths awful mysteries;
Beyond, what waits for us who knows2
New Life, or infinite repose?
" ". Story, IN BlacksoOod.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

Good tools are half the battle in farm
ing, some one has said, and it is indeed
true. 1t is a great deal easier to work
with good tools than with poor ones. /
have tried both and am decidedly in
favor of the former. Good tools are
far cheaper in the end than poor ones.
1t is true poor ones usually cost less to
begin with, but the purchaser can not
do as much work with them as with
good ones, and then, again, there are
many more repairs te be made, so that
at last they afe the more expensive. For
instance, farmer wants set of cart
wheels; his neighbor has two sets which
he must sell, therefore he offers them
cheap; one set is nearly as good as new,
while the other has been run many
years, and are, of course, weak in some
places. He don't know which to buy,
but finally concludes to take the old
ones, as they are few dollars cheaper,
and he thinks they will do his business
as well as the Others So he takes them
home and goes to work with them; they
do very well for few days, but finally
he gets on too heavy load, drives over
a little stone, and--whoa! his wheels
are broken down. Now, he is in bad
fix; his team must lie still day or two,
his work must be neglected; perhaps it
is planting time; or be has a lot of hay
out; and he must 60 off right in rush
of work and get another set of wheels
or have these repaired up, costing all
told double what it would to have taken
the best at first. So it is with wagons,
plows, moving machines, horse-rakes,
and, indeed, all other tools which a
farmer uses. 1t Is my opinion, and that
of many other farmers, that ''the best is
the cheapest" Therefore, when you
want any tools, first find where you can
''get the BEST" and then buy them.
The care of tools is very important
matter The thrifty farmer will pro-
vide shelter for his tools as well as for
his animals. A shiftless farmer can al
ways be told by the way in which he
leaves his tools when not in use. 1t is
not an uncommon sight to see tools left
where last used, until wanted again. i
can now point to a moving machine,
nearly new, which is out doors partly
covered with snow, where 1t has been
since last hay season also rakes, plows,
wagons, and, in fact, nearly all kinds Of
farming implements. Now, this is most
certainly very bad economy, to say
nothing about the bad looks of the farm
yard cluttered up in this manner. If
the destruction to farm implements,
through exposure to the weather, could
be computed in dollars and cents, we
should certainly be astonished at the
large sum it would amount to in five
years. All farming tools should be well
painted or oiled. Flows should be thor
oughly cleaned every time they are used,
and when you have done with them for
the season, a coat of oil should be ap-
piled, both to preserve the wood work,
and to protect them from rust.-NeaO
EglQlG11d Farmer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

They have q cheerful custom in
seme of the English hospitals. When
9. patient is given over, the officials
bring out big folding-screen with
which they isolate his bed from the rest
Of the ward The effect must be re-
markedly inspiring, both upon the pa
tient himself and upon the other oceG-
pants of the ward. Excha,ge.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

HoSoR TO AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS
His Majesty Oscar H., King orNorway and
Sweden, has sent TO the Mason & Haralin Or
gan Co. the Grand Swedish Gold Medal in
recognition OF the superiority Of their cabinet
organs. he medal is snfmouuted by crown
ct Art bus,n and on the other, around the
bust of the King, oscar H., Svec. Norv
Goth Wand. Rex This honor will be the
more valued BY the Company from the fact
that His Majesty Oscar III. is known to be a
musical eouaoisseur Of highest attainments-
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

THE GREAT fAMfIf MEpfcISE.-Dr. VII
hoft's tiPeriodic or Fever and Ague Ton
icl No case Of incurable Clills has yet pre-
sented itself, where this scientific and safe
medicine has been employed. No ease has
been found so obstinate as to resist its prompt
ana mssterly action. No man has been so re-
duced By f1alsTial influences, but with its use
has come up perfectly reconstructed. No
pills or purgatiye required with this medicine.
WHEELocK, FINLAY q Co., PrOprietors, New
Orleans.
FoR skIP ny All DRT-GGrsTs
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

George Green, well-to-do farmer,
living about ~ miles southwest of
Evansville, O., went with his little
daughter. 10 years of age, to pick cher
ries, shcrt distance from his house,
when a. Storm came up. Suddenly a
flash of lightning struck the tree, in
stantly killing his child, and. so serious
ly injuring him as to render his recoy-
cry extremely doubtful.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18
FoR SALE By ALL DRreesrs.

"A gentleman at Orange City, Fla,
received some pop-coarn seed from
Wisconsin last February, which he
planted on the 9Th of March; he gather
ed in the crop and returned seed to Wis
consin by the LIST of June to be replant
ed there.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18
Whntn satisfaction

It is to have elegant, light, wholesome rolls,
biscuits, mullins, waflies, or corn bread for
breakfast; no erumbling or soar faces then.
DOoLET's YEAST POWDER makes all these
things perfection itself.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

-Friar Giovanni is wonderful
singer at Rome, blessed with a voice
perfectly sweet and clear. and of vast
volume and immense range. When he
sings the church is crowded and the
audience pays no attention to the re-
ligious part of the services, so the &C.
clesiastical authorities do not let it be
announced when and where he is to
sing. They are in fear lest he should
quiz the cloister for the stage, and so
have made him an allowance of $40 q
month";
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

Green Tomato PreserUes--7 pounds
small green tomatoes, piercing each one
with fork; z pounds sugar, ounce
ginger-root, ounce mace, fourlemons;
make-tle sirup, allowing cup of water
to given amount of sugar; boil toma-
toes in the sirup till clear; skim them
ont, and lay on. dishes to cool before
putting them in Jars; boil sirup until
thick, and pour over them. -
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

The Bible has been printed in so
different languages forthe benefit of the
aborigines of this country, and OF Green
land, British America, -and kfsxico.E
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

BABIES are too highly priced TO permit them
TO suffer with Coiic, Flstulence, etc, when
DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup viii at once relieve
them. Price, IS cts.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

The late. Duchess of Argyll left
s250,oO0 to be distributed among. the
poor of London. -
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

Particulars regarding Electric Belts free.
Address Pulvermacher Galvanie Co., Cincin., %
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

EVERY family should keep Swiss Tonic an
never be without the great Ague Cure.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

Gaps in the style of that worn by
Charlotte Corday are fashionable.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

An Fine Mixed Cards, 10c. +; 25 Chrome, 10c.:
- 30 no two alike, 10c AHUSr Co. Fl Scott, Kan
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18

En Extra Mixed Cards, with Name, sent
OO pnstpald for 1Oc. Front er Card Co. Frankllnvt
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On Mixed Cards, SnowaaEe, Damask, &c, ne
al2 alike ntth name Inc Mnklef Co. Nassau Ny