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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-07-18
THE STANDARD.
God Bless the Little Children,

God bless the little children;
We meet them everywhere;
We hear their voices around our heart,
Their footsteps on our stairs;
Their kindly hearts are yelling DER,
With mirthfulness and glee;
God bless the little children,
Wherever they may be.
We meet them near the Gypsy tent,
With visage swart and dun,
And eyes that sparkle as they glance
With roguery and fun;
We find them fishing in the brook
For minnows, with pin;
Or creeping through the hazel brush,
The linnet's nest 10 win.
We meet them in the lordly hall,
Their stately fathers pride;
We meet them in the poor mans cot,
He hath no wealth beside.
Along the city's crowded street
They hurl the hoop OF ball;
We find them meath the pauper's roof,
The saddest sight of all.
For there they win no fathers love,
No mothers tender care
Their only friend the God above.
Who hears the orphans prayer,
But dressed in silk, or draped in rags,
In childish grief or glee,
GOO bless the little children,
Wherever they may be.
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GRFATIY AFFLICTED.

eSsrS j. 6. BoSoorth d Co., Denper: Gentlemen
take pleasure in recommending SANFoED's RADICAL
CURE FOR CATARRE to all who afflicted with this
disease. greatly afflicted with it for long time,
and cured it with two bottles ofthe above CURE About
ayear afterwards was taken again with Catarrh quite
severely, and Immediately sent for another bottle,
which fixed me all right giving relief from the first
dose. am confident that this remedy VIII do all that
is claimed for it, and Wishing you success
in its introduction, an, very truly yours.
n. w. SMITH, of Smith 4; Doll.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-07-18

A countryman seated himself at table
in Fulton Market, the other morning,
and took up the bill of fare The first
thing that struck his eye was boiled
salmon" After studying it few sec
onds, as if it were problem, which he
had some difficulty in solving. he glanced
up at the waiter and said: "Waal,
reckin for start off I'll take a leetle
boiled solomon"
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TRIED EVERYTHING.

Messrs. IL o. Bos1corth tE Co., De1rer, Co.. Gentlemen,
-Ihave used SaNFoED's RADICAL CURE FOR CATAERI7
and it has given perfect satisfaction. have tried
almost everything and it is the only thing that has
given rcliCt therefore take pleasure in recon-
mending to all afflicted with Catarrh of any kind,
and offer this my testimony to its benefits.
Very tru J. W. s. DECKER
Denver. Oct. T. 1875,
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REV. II. WIGGIN SAYS:

"Onc of the best remedies for Caarrh nay the best
remedy have found i'll lifetime of suffering, is SAN
FoRD's RADICAL UIE. 1t is not unpleasant to take
through the nostrs. ald there with each bottle
small glass tube for in inhalation 1t clears the
head and throat thoroughly that taken each MORN
ing rising there unpleasant sccretons and
disagree able hawking during the entire day. but
precedented clcarnCS voice and respiratory organs
-Rer. y. II. WIggiA, ia Dorchester Ness. Beacon.
Each package contains Tr. Sanford's Improved In
hang Tube, full directions for in all cases.
Price CO. FCrsu'e by all Wholesale and Retail Drug.
gists and Dealers throughout the United States and
Canada. WEEKS & POTTER, General Agents and
Wholesale Druggists, Boston, Mass.
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Spring Valley farmers are much wor-
ried for fear the frost has spoiled the hay
crop. If they had not happened to think
of this they would have worried for fear
the hens would lay geese eggs. A farmer
with nothing to worry about turns purple
and dies in three days,
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VIOLIN, ORGAN, PIANO or THOROUGH
BASE, 80 cents per lesson.
HARMONY, COUNTER POINT, CANON,
FUGUE or MUSICAL FORM, 81 per lesson.
Special attention given to Form and the
analysis of classical music.
Address Jackson, Ohio; or 1876 West Fourth
Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, care of +. w. Helmick.
lSap3m
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"Well, don't care Satan was sharp
and knew what he was about" said
lady whose husband was holding the first
woman responsible for all the trouble in
the world. HE knew right well that
if he offered the apple to Adam first he
would eat it all up himself and not give
Eve taste, and so to be sure of getting
both into a scrape he gave Eye the first
chance at it,"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-09-26

along. They invite guests with the pro-
viso that they wear calico dresses, hick-
DRY shirts, and help in the cooking.
When they are at home they live on
Fifth avenue, and keep dozen servants.
The lady who acted the part of Deborah
is Mrs. Charles l.. the wife of the
tallest young man. She is great at pri-
vate theatricals, and full of fun. Oh,
Dibbon, Dibbon, how she is laughing at
you now. You know they know lots of
people at the Stickup, and the story will
be up there by tomorrow. wouldn't
be you for fifty dollars"
Tony Dibbon would certainly have
taken fifty dollars for himself just then,
if any one had made him an offer. He
went back to Stickup's with Mr..
Jenkins, but he only stayed long enough
to pay his bill, get his portmanteau, and
take the outgoing stage. He did not in
tend to wait until the story reached
Stickup's. He spent the rest of his va
cation at his grandmother's, by Swan
Greek, and was impolite enough to say
''bother" to his cousin Sally, when she
innocently asked him whether flowers or
feathers were most worn in the last New
York hats, and whether the street dresses
were going to be long or short.
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He is Evidently Struck.

A reporter, admitted to an interview
with Mary Anderson, writes of her in
these bedazzled terms: "Tall as
Grecian goddess, with limbs marvellous
ly long and as marvelously proportioned,
a small head poised upon a slender neck,
dark gray eyes Irish eyes, dark
brown hair, complexion as clear as ala.
baster, and small, ripe, red mouth,
Mary Anderson has such delicate fea-
lures that she appears even more lovely
at close inspection than upon the stage.
Her face is almost aristocratic in its clean
cut profile and slightly curling lip; but
her hands and, feet are republican in
size: size; He Her i figure, not yet fully deyel-
ness; her frank, hearty, of:hand manner
at once captivates the interviewer, and,
although on the stage Mary Anderson is
every inch a tragedy queen, in private
life she is best described as representa-
tive American girl, full of life and
her bright? eyes dancing with fun, and
her rich voice, which brings tears to un-
accustomed eyes in Meg Merriles, ready
to ripple from conversation into laugh
ter at the slightest provocation." At
last accounts the reporter was expected
" SURVIVE q! sss a.is ~ St8<sE gag II, -
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crevice about the stopper. In an hour
or two the stopper will be loose.
WooLENs and furs, which were put
away in newspapers in the spring, should
be examined now, aired and beaten, and
put up again in fresh papers.
IT is necessary to watch carpets closely
in summer, especially if the early part
of the season be rainy. Damp rooms, as
we'll as dark ones, favor the ravages of
moths.
A DUTCH paper states that the favor
of coffee may be greatly improved and
its delicate aroma increased by adding a
little bicarb0nate of soda to the water
with which it is made.
PERSONS may outgrow disease and
become healthy by proper attention to
the laws of their physical constitutions.
By moderate and daily exercise men
may become strong in limb and muscle.
THIS is said to be a good recipe for
staining wood: For black walnut stain,
simply use sulphatum varnish. thinned
with spirits of turpentine, and apply
with brush. 1t can be made light or
dark as desired.
Our readers need not suffer from hav-
ing their hands affected by water or soap
suds if the hands are dipped in vinegar
water or lemonsjuice Immediately after.
The acid destroys the corrosive effect of
the alkali, and makes the hands soft and
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Remarkable Birth.

The most remarkable birth ever known
in the history of couchements occurred
near Shanesville. Mrs. McC ormick gave
birth to five healthy children, four of
whom were boys and one girl. The
medical works give but few instances of
such wonderful births, and when they
do occur the children have scarcely been
known to live. In this case the mother
and children are, in the common language
on such occasions, I" doing well. ~ The
community dewn there Is excited, and
the famous father is the hero of all the
country around about, and his fame will
will spread on the wings Of the news
paper from one end Of the country to
the other: 4 His home is already anu OBJ
Jet OF pilgrimage for al the old women
Of the region. Two births each Of four
children have occurred within the last
fifteen years near this region, but this
.outdoes all the recorded occurrences 81
the United States. - Aiio LEsfEiso Ob1ellryvsrr.
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EnyirOned with Danger,

The dweller or temporary sojourner in
a malarious region of country is environed
with danger. Besides inhaling at every
breath an atmosphere saturated with an in
fictitious poison, he also drinks water which
is in most instances likewise impregnated
with the fever and ague breeding anidsneata.
If bilious subject, deficient in stamina, or
irregular in habit of body or digestion, his
peril is much increased, as these abnormal
conditions are extremely favorable to the
contraction of malarial disease. But this
danger may be safely encountered with the
assistance of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
which completely nuliies the atmospheric
virus, and neutralizes the constituents of
miasma-tainted water. This benign antidote
to disease eradicates and prevents fevers of
an intermittent and bilious remittent type,
besides efecting thorough and permanent
reform of those enfeebled or irregular con-
ditions of the system which invite not only
malaria, but other diseases equally to be
dreaded
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Two Noted Grave Robbers,

Our readers will remember the account
given in these columns of the robbing of the
grave Of the Hon. Scott Harrison, in Ohio,
secting room Of the Ohio Medical College.
Public Indignation justly brands any man
as q scoundrel who will rob the grave of the
dead. But there are two noted grave rob-
bers in the country, so far from being the
subjects of the peoples wrath, are univers.
ally lauded for their virtues. The reason is
plain. While the former class steal the
dead bodies of our loved ones to submit
them to the dissecting knife, these only rob
the graves to restore the living victims to
our hearts and homes. Their Names DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and
Pleasant Purgative Pellets-are household
words the world over. The Golden Medical
Discovery cures consumption in its early
stages, and all bronchial, throat, and lung
affections; Pleasant Purgative Pellets are
the most valuable laxative and cathartic,
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THE ELEPHANT.
A Little Bit Of Natural history for
Worry Young Readers.
E.on, Aho Rrnaa

A Little Bit Of Natural History for
Worry Young Readers.
From the Detroit Free Press.
"What is this?"
"This is an elephant! He is the
largest animal on legs. He is not as long
as whale, but he can eat twice as much
hay:n .,
GAS much as eight or ten loads of hay,
and he is all meat. When you come to
unload him you don't find any cord-wood
hidden away"
"What large ears he has!"
Yes; this is the only animal now liv.
ing having feet as big as the average 1t.
Louis foot, and ears larger those seen on
the streets of Milwaukee. As long as
the elephant lives these two cities
will have to brag in whispers and be
careful how they put up money on
wagers."
care elephants fond of music?"
"They are very fond of some kinds.
They like to hear horse fiddle or a
brass band, but they don't go much on
the sad strains of a guitar or the melting
notes of hand.organ."
care they an obedient animal2"
"About some things. When a bale of
hay or q bushel of oats is placed before
them, and they are commanded to eat,
they obey with the greatest cheerful
ness"
els an elephant bigger than Roscoe
Conkling?"
can elephant has larger body than
Mr.. Conkling.
"What is their principal food?"
Gan elephant loves grass, hay, beans,
corn, peanuts, gingerbread, small boys,
mud, trees, camels and other vegetables"
"What is the price of an elephant?"
"Dan Rice used to buy 'em for about
$4,000 apiece in the spring, and sell 'em
for twenty-five dollars in the fall. By
dividing the first sum by the last and
subtracting Dan Rice from the result
you will get a fair average"
is an elephant very brave?"
emo, not very. If you catch one nos
ing around the yard don't be afraid to
tackle him.
"Why are elephants SO large and
bulky?"
"In order to take the conceit out of
grasshoppers. Until the elephant began
to march in circus professions this insect
imagined he was the biggest thing on
fodder in the world"
"What is the need of an elephants
being so Target"
"No one knows. Any one can see at
a glance that it would improve his looks
if he had more tail and less ears"
Is there any danger of hurting an
elephant by hitting him with shiny
club?'"
mot much, but no good boy who
rushing in and clubbing poor elephant.
That's all, bub, and next week we'll
make bowling among other animals"
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Simple Lessons in Sciene.

Force is that which sets body in mo-
on, az, for instance, the police force,
which makes body moveon.
There would be no heaviness in the
world if it were not for gravity. Corol-
larry: Never forget to have your Fun.
A liquid violently resist all attempts
to force it into close confinement,
spreading itself out so as to make its
surface level; and many liquids COM
municate these little peculiarities of
theirs to those who imbibe them.
When anything is weighed in water it
suffers loss of weight. This is espec-
tally true in the case of salt.
A pound avoirdupois is exactly equal
to 1000 grains. Take a pound of sand
and count.
When bodies become heated, move
ments little backwards and forwards
take place, as you must have seen for
yourself in the case of street fight.
Heat causes copper rod to be extend
ed, and it has the same effect on police
mans staff.
1t is erroneous to suppose that the
barometer is used as a yard measure in
ascertaining the height of mountain, or
that the Branch Press has anything to do
with the car of Juggernaut.
Most physicians teach that noise is
the result of single blow given to the
ear; music, of series of blows. In our
experience, however, we have observed
that noise was the result in both cases;
in the latter more unmusical, even, than
in the former. Experimental fiat IN cor
pore viH. Box a small boys ears, first
singly, and afterwards repeatedly, and
you will. soon see, or rather hear.
Attraction and affinity are synony-
nous in chemistry, but in life we often
find that the greater the affinity the less
the attraction.
Some precious stones are called cats
eyes; diamonds, surely, might be called
cats claws, since they scratch everybody.
Electricians neatly divide all bodies
into conductors and non-conductors, but
in the world there are bodies who,
although they never mounted the mon
keyboard of an omnibus, nevertheless
are cads.-Lo,sdon Fun.
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Ceramic Bouncing Girls.

The queerest great sight, however, was
the heavy girls who perform the work of
turning the lathe in the moulding of
cups. Fair, rosy checked maidens, of
about 200 pounds. Their whole duty is
to stand on kind of spring-board
treadle, and by the movement OF their
knees, in connection with their weight,
rising up and down, throughout the
whole day, they turn the lathe for the
workmen who mould the cups Why
this cannot be done by machinery I can
not see, but in all these factories the girls
may be found. The work is assuredly
very hard.-East Liverpool, o., Letter.
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The Boy Who Wanted to Drink.

Moreover, I saw the boy who wanted
drinks restless, questioning, uneasy,
thirsty boy. He let the window fall on
his fingers before the train had gone a
mile. He stood out on the platform
until he was incrusted two inches deep
with ashes and dust and cinders. He
went to the water cooler and got drink !;
then he came back and told his mother
he was hot, and went back and got an
other drink. He drank about four times
per mile, seldom oftener, unless he was
seized with q sudden uncomfortable
spasm Of thirst. If he wasdrinking, and
somebody else came after drink, the
boy would suddenly sieze the cup he had
just set down and refill it, and drink as
though he had wrapped his stomach in
the desert of Sahara, glazing snspiciously
over the top of the cup at the waiting
passenger AS he drank. When he was in
his seat. he watched the aisle narrowly,
and If he saw any passenger get up and
move toward the water-cooler, he would
jump up and race for it. If he got there
first, he would drink and snore over the
cup until the thirsty traveller forgot
what he went down there after. People
began to wonder how much the boy was
gagged for, and if he wasn't rather
straining his capacity. The remotest
hint or suggestion was enough to send
him to the cooler. When the train ran
over a creek, the water made him think
of his thirst. When it ratified over a
long stretch of dry prairie, the absence
of water drove him mad. was afraid
the supply of water would give out be-
fore the boy was filled up, and he was
rather small boy, too. His interior cir
conference, think, must have inclosed
an area double in extent to that inclosed
by the exterior belt. Near Waseca we
ran nearly mile without the boy max
ing stop at the tank. I grew very
nervous now, for was fearful that dur
ing such an unheard of abstinence from
water his pumps would run dry, rust
out, and he might blow up. So I leaned
over the edge Of the seat and said care
lessly:
"By George, but I am thirsty. 1
wonder if there is any water on this
carp
You want to understand ME now, as
recording very plainly, and without any
mental reservation, the fact that that
boys mother, sitting beside him, was no
fool. Her eyes snapped when she heard
my careless and innocent remark, she
took in every syllable of it, and she
turned On me in a fash with II wish
you would mind your own business and
leave my boy alone!'
A low, hooking murmur of applause
went through the car, little of it for
the indignant mother, some of it for the
charity boy, but most of it for me. She
suppressed yours truly very successfully,
but it was too late. Long before she
finished that brief sentence her boy was
down at the water-cooler holding his
eyes tight shut to keep the water from
running out of them, while he flooded
his system as though he had taken coz
tract to keep up perennial Baptist re-
vival inside of himself.
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American Locomotives in Australia.
A locomotive capable of drawing 100

A locomotive capable of drawing 100
loaded cars will leave Philadelphia for
Australia October 1. Heretofore Eng
lish manufacturers have had an exclusive
control of the locomotive trade in the
colonies of Great Britain, But at the
Centennial Exhibition one of the Aus
tralian commissioners was deeply i'm
pressed with the merits of American
locomotives, and through his agency
permission was obtained for a Philadel-
phia firm to send an engine to that
country, with the promise that it would
be allowed to run over the railroads on
it's own merits. The government, which
in that country has control OF the roads,
was astonished at the result of trial
trip, purchased the engine at once and
gave an order for another of the same
kind, and two heavy ones for freight
purposes. The three will all 90 to Aus
tralia October 1, and one of the freight
engines is believed to be the largest
engine ever built. It weighs, exclusive
of tender, 100000 pounds, and has drawn
100 empty cars, making train one mile
long, and is warranted to draw from 80
to 100 freig ht-cars when loaded.
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Family Matters.

FRESH meat, after beginning TO- sour,
will sweeten if placed out of doors in
the cool air over night. '~ .-1--
KERosENEw will soften boots or shoes
which have been hardened BY water, and
render them as pliable Is new.s
BOILED starch II much improved by
the addition of = little sperm, or = little
salt, Or both, or a little gum arabic dis
solved. y. 8 s.ts Y 'fs'f :, 81. . @ 4...s s
S1L1cATE of magnesia is recommended
as perfectly harmless substitute for
the often dasnsgeroualy adnl Y terated violet
Y sALTMill curdle new milk; hence in
preparing milk porridge, grsvies, etc,
the salt should not be added until the
dish is prepared. :. 80 $780,.
S. 70, removal glaes stopper, put drop
or two Of Eysdline OF Iwset oil 81 the
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What Stanley Did for Geography.

Stanley gave nine months to the ex-
ploration of the Lualaba, or rather to
the Livingstone, as he called it, and as
it must be called for all time. Before
he went out on his mission he knew
there were two rivers-the Congo and
the Lualaba. He knew that he Congo
ran into the Atlantic Ocean, but it's
source was lost in cataracts. The Por-
tuguese were content to scatter few
settlements about it's mouth, and trade
for guns and ivory along its banks. But
it was an unknown river beyond the
cataracts. We knew there was river
in the middle of Africa called the Lua-
laba; we knew it has swift current,
that it was river of large volume. But
beyond that we knew nothing. Some
had one theory, others had another.
Livingstone was convinced that it ran
into the Nile, was really the source of
the Nile; and who would question even
the theory of so great a master? What
Stanley did was to show that the Congo
and the Lualaba were one and the same !;
that the Congo, instead of losing itself
among the rapids, was to force itself
into the very heart of the continent;
that the Lualaba, instead of going north
and submitting to the usurping waters
Of the Nile, was to turn to the west and
force its way to the sea; that these two
rivers were to disappear from the map,
and be known as one river-the Living
stone; that this river was to he 1900
miles in length, that for nearly ten de-
grees of longitude it was to continuously
navigable; that its volume was 1900, 900
cubic feet a second; that the entire area
it drains is 100000 square miles-in
other words, that here was an immense
waterway 5000 miles into the center of
Africa, navigable with the exception of
two breaks, which engineering science
can easily surmount-a waterway into q
tropical empire, rich in woods and met
ais and gracious soil, in fruits and grains,
the sure home of q civilized empire in
the years to come. As Petermann, the
eminent German geographer, puts it,
Stanley's work was to unite the frag.
ments of African exploration-t6e
achievements of Livingstone, Burton,
Spoke, Du Chaillu, Baker, Cameron, OF
all the heroic men who had gone before
him-into one consecutive whole, lust
as Bismarck united the fragments of the
German people, lying about under va
rious princes and dukes, into one grand
and harmonious empire. Even as Bis
marck had created imperial Germany
so Stanley created geographical Africa
John RasseN Young, IN Hdrper's Mage
zine for October. .,e5 s.,fr =. = 49,