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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
A Curious Case of Sleep-walking.

On the above subject a retired naval
officer contributes the following:
One bright moonlight night | was on
deck, as was frequently my wont, chat
ting with the lieutenant of the middle
watch. 1t was nearly calm, the ship
making little way through the water,
and the moons light nearly as bright
as day. We were together, leaning
over the capstan, chatting away, when
W suddenly exclaimed "LOok!
Il, at the sentry, and pointing to
the quarterback marine, who was pac-
ing slowly backward and forward on
the lee side of the deck.
"Well," replied, after watching him
somewhat attentiyely as he passed once
or>twice on his regular beat, "what of
himP"
"Why, don'ty you see he is fastasleep?
Take. a good look at him when he next
passes"
did so, and found W was right.
The man, although pacing and turning
regularly at the usual distance, was
fast asleep with his eyes closed
When next the man passed, W
stepped quickly and noiselessly to his
side, and pacing with him, gently dis
engaged the bunch of keys which were
his special charge-being the keys of
the spirit-room, shell-rooms, store
rooms, etc.-from the fingers of the
left hand, to which they were sus-
pended by Il small chain; he then re-
moved the bayonet from the other hand,
and laid it and the keys on the capstan
head. After letting him take another
turn or two W suddenly called
"Sentry!"
"Sir?" replied the man, instantly
stopping and facing round MS he came
to the "attentioR."
"Why, you were fast asleep, sentry.''
ono, sir"
"But ! say you were"
mo, sir, | assure you'd was not"
"You were not, Ell Well, where are
tlt hNgh8
The man instantly brought up his
hand to show them, as he supposed {;
but to his confusion the hand was
empty.
"Where is your bayonet?" continued
W.
The poor fellow brought forward his
other hand, but that was empty also.
But the puzzled look Of establishment
hcput on was more than we could stand A:
both burst out laughing, and when the
keys and bayonet were pointed out to
him, lying on the Capstan, the poor fell
low was perfectly d~umbfounded. W
was too merry over the joke, however,
to punish the man, and he escaped with
II warning not to fall asleep again.
WHEN Your LIVER rs OUT or ORDER, use DR..
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
A state senator unawAres.

n uinItputaDic-lDOhlhS iHulNlVuhi
walked into a Naturalization yes
terday where half a dozen men>SPre
waiting to be shaved, and asked:
"When's my nextY"
He was filthy and half drunk, and the
probabilities being against his having
hfteen cents, the barber told him he
had no " next" at that shop, and re-
quested him to pull the door hard as he
passed out.
My appearance may be against me, y
said the stranger, " but / am neither
Henry Clay Dean nor Blue-Jeans Will
liams. ] am a citizen of this State -
"We can't shave you to-day, and /
don't feel justified In OBTAINING you.
Call around about two o'clock next
week. Ta-ta."
You don't know who / am" ex-
claimed the man.. "I'm an honored
citizen Of this Commonwealth. My
head hHrts. When at home | shave
every day and twice on Sun -
Don't forgot to pull the door after
you"
"I'ye half a mind to pull your misGra-
BILE carcass after Inc, "yelled the strange
man, in a towering rage, " and maui a
little sense into you. The next thing
you know you'll be refusing to shave
the new Pope of Rome. Pm a member
of the Pennsylvania Senate. demand
my rights as an American citizen. /
want 10 be shaved and have my mus
tache waxed -"
Will the Senator give us a restY"
asked the customer on the back chair.
81 move that the Sergeant-at-Arms
be instructed to put him out" said an
other.
This is an insult to the whole peO-
pie Of the great State of Pennsylvania"
screamed the man as he danced around
in his awful rage. al represent one of
the finest agricultural districts in the
State. l have an intelligent and patri-
otto constituency. / was in favor of
the Bland Bill. 1t was I-who offered
the resolution recommending our Rep
~sentativas in Congress assembled to
pass "A law .
At this point the towel was jerked
from the neck of the customer in the
back chair, who jumped to his feet and
shouted:
Mr.. President! !"
The strange man advanced "A step aud
continued:
81 demand my right to be heard on
the floor of this house. Bland is an in
innate friend of mine. / knewhis wife
before he married her. / knew her
folks. Years ago | gave him some ideas
on the RECOMMENDATION of silver, which
notice he has incorporated in his
popular bill. That's all right. l loaned
him five dollars once to pay a board
The barber reached out, and seized
the man by the coat collar, faced him
toward the door and bounced him into
the street.
The Senator picked himself up, and
with his coat-tails still trembling from
the shock, ambled down the street,
muttering bitterly:
When at home | move in the best
society. Have travelled in all climes
from Mauch Chunk to Terre Haute.
Have been shaved and shampooed by
the barber of Seville, and now to be
treated like this in Oil City! | shall
resume my seat at once, and the body
of which | am a member shall never ad-
journ until my honor shall have been
indicated.
A policeman stopped and scowled at
him from the opposite side ofthe street.
when he Strengthened up and proceeded
on his way with the dignity of a Judge
of the Supreme Court.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

TIE REACTION after taking powerful stimu-
lants, permanently injuries the human system.
Schenck's Seaweed Tonic is mild in its action
yet powerful in effect, and will rapidly
strengthen and build up the eneryated organs.
IL does not produce any artificial excitement
followed by a state Of lethargy. It's benefits
are permanent For dyspepsia and debility it
is invaluable.
For sale by all druggists.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

Mr.. Robert Mills, of Slinford, Hor-
sham, has r%epatented the ancient con
trivance OF an over-shot- wheel working
a bucket pump to produce perpetual
motion. He states that a 27-foot minute
will yield as much power as a 81 horse
wheel supplied with $50 gallons of
water per power engine, that 5-horse
power is sufficient to raise the quantity
of water ventured. He proposes to use
a tank capable of holding 500 gallons
above the wheel and a tank of equal size
beneath,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

A TRAMP was pulled off the trucks of
a passenger car the other day, and, after
smIlingly submitting to the accustomed
kick, turned to the conductor and said (:
"Old man, you can belt away at me
with that mules head that you carry
on the end o. yer leg till you kick me
so full O. holes that my hide wont hold
sage-brush, but you can't knock the
glory out o. me, or keep me from
shOutin' over the thought that Pm jist
3l5 miles ahead o. this grindin' mono
poly. / froze to this train at Reno.
Whoop!"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

In A restaurant. A gentleman and a
scrub are seated at the same table. The
scrub is just finishing his dinner, the
gentleman just beginning his. The
scrub lights a cigar and blows Il cloud
of smoke over his coffee. The gentleman
rises, and says in his poIitest tone:
excuse me sir, will it annoy you If
eat while you are smokingI"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
A Turnkey Made Happy.

Mark Hamilton, Turnkey at Fifth District
Police Station, Philadelphia, says Having
suffered with Rheumatism for i've years, ind
ing no relief from remedies or physicians, dis
gusted with medicine, and despairing Of being
cured, i tried On. HERNDoY's GYPsEY's GIFT,
and was entirely cured by a single bottle, aud
feel as well as ever l did in my life" Sold by
all Philadelphia druggists.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
RheumatIsm OuIckly Cured.

'Duraug's Rheumatic Remedy" tho great
Internal Medicine, will positively cure any case
Of rheumatism on the face OF the earth. Price
81 a bottle, six bottles $5. Sold by all Drug.
gists. Send for circular to Helpenstlne *
Bentley, Druggists, Washington, d. @.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

GINA, now, which one OF
all the young men of my acquaintances
would you marry If you were meP''
asked a miss of nineteen. Ma did not
say, but ten years elapsed when n day
the same miss inquired of her maternal (:
"MOther, earnestly now, do you be-
lieve there is anybody that will have
me?" The younger people are, the more
sanguine.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
Reliable Dry Goods House.

II you want Silks, Black Goods, Dress Goods
or Dry Goods Of any kind. below market prices,
and nave the advantage Of all the great trade
sales, and Of losses made by importers, send
your orders or write for samples TO u. L.
Devices, 725 Chestnut street, Philadelphia
One price 10 all, and that the lowest
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

Born WEARIED QUIT have brought
you this bill until | am sick and tired
of it," said a collector to a debtor, upon
whom he had called at least forty times.
"You are, eh?" coolly replied the
debtor. eyes am" was the response.
"Well, then you had better not present
it again. There will be two of us
pleased if you do not, for to tell you the
truth, | am sick and tired of seeing that
Identical bill myself"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
Mothers. Mothers, Mothers.

Don't fail to procure MRS. WINSLOW'S
SOOTHING SYRUP for all diseases o; teeth
ing in children. II relieves the child frcm
pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels,
and by giving relief and health 10 the child.
gives rest TO tho mother.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

The R0mie Fi6re.-A m~icrOscopical
examination of the fibre>of the ramie
plant has been made, with great
thoroughness, by NJ. Ozanam, to test its
value in textile manufacturers, and the
result is alike interesting and valuable.
Under a magnitying power of eighty
diameters, he finds that the fibre is, so
to speak, OF any length, as it has been
traced for nearly ten inches on the field
Of the microscope, without any break
being found in il, whether it be consti-
tuted of a continuous ~cellula, or
whether the different c~ellulas which
succeed each other have lost their
points of separation by reason of a more
intimate fusion, one with the other.
Hence the substance possesses great
strength.
Taking the ramie fibre as a unit in
comparison with fax, hemp, cotton and
silk, NJ. Ozanam found the ramie longer
and more uniform than all the others,
except that of silk-stronger, Offering
greater resistance to traction and to
tCrsion, and more elastic than hemp or
flax, and even than cotton, which is
more flexible in twisting. In these
various respects, ramie is interior only
to silk, to say nothing of the additional
advantage of its well known sparkling
whiteness and brilliant lustre, as com
pared with the others.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

SPlLKTNs came home from a dinner
late the other night, looking rather di-
lapidated. "Why," remarked Mrs. s.,
as she let him in. "Why, Leander, |
declare. do look at these rents in your
coat; and your pants are ripped, TOO"
"Yes'm," said Leander, banging his
hat deiantly down on the floor. And
trying to look austere. "Didn'er tell
yer wuzzer goin nOnner regular tear"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

"I SAY, Jim," says one friend to an
other on meeting, 81 hear our friend
has been In the oil speculation heavily;
has he made anything? ?" EYES," says.
Jim, che has made an assignment"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

SOME one who was going to a fancy
ball once asked Compton's opinion as to
a appropriate dress. Said he, demons
are overdone, or | should like to go
with horns and a p%itchfork; but think
it would be an excellent idea to go as a
rattlesnake. What do you thinkP''
"Well," replied Compton, 81 think
that you might manage the noise, but |
doubt the fascination"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

CARE OF H TEETH.-l. Be careful
not to hold any fluid or solid substances
in the mouth, either too hot or too cold.
Neither bite nor mash any hard sub
stances, as nuts, etc, with the teeth.
2. Have the teeth inspected every four
or six months by a careful dentist.
3. Prevent any accumulation of tartar
on the teeth.
4. After every meal, thoroughly
cleanse the mouth with clear water.
3. Keep the stomach in a good condi-
ton by the diet, for the secretions of
the mouth are generally in sympathy
with the stomach.
6. Every night and morning clean
the teeth with a brush, passing it thor
oughly over the tops and on the backs
of all.
7. Whenever the tooth aches, apply
to a dentist for a permanent cure.
8. Never have a tooth extracted with
out consulting a dentist, for it is better
to preserve them by filling, if possible.
o. Parents should early carry their
children to a dentist, who will advise
them how to have their teeth grow even,
regular and beautiful.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

CUTTINGs.-It is now high time to
strike cuttings. The most of the soft
wooded plants, that will strike at all,
may be placed in saucers of thoroughly
wet sand. Place them in the full sun.
light, and when roots have formed half
All inch long, transplant them.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

To MAKE GREEN FRET Ike Of flour
OF sulphur thirteen parts, of nitrate of
baryta seventy-seven, of oxy-muriate
OF potassa five, of metallic arsenic two,
OF charcoal three. The nitrate of baryta
should be well dried and powdered.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

Atlantic Wrecks for Thirty SeUen Years.
We have before us a record showing
the number of lives lost in crossing the
Atlantic during the last thirty-seven
years. In this period fifty-siX fine
steamers have been wrecked, and in
twenty nine Instances more or less lives
were lost. Nine vessels were never
heard from after leaving port. These
are the President in 1871, the City OF
Glasgow ir 1854, the Pacific in 1856, the
Tempest 1857, the United Kingdom in
1868, the City OF Boston in 1870. the
Scanderia in 1872, the Ismailia in 1873,
and the Colombo in 1877. The number
of lives which were thus blotted out
aggregates 1897. OF the remaining
vessels, four were burned, five sunk by
collision, two by cOlliding with ice
bergs, two foundered at sea, and
thirty-four were wrecked on various
coasts. This is u suggestive showing,
for it at once calls into contrast the
relative peril incurred by dependence
upon human judgement and human
handiwork. OF the entire total of
steamers lost, In but two cases can the
disaster be attributable to a breakdown
of the machinery; namely, the Anchor
line steamer Hibernia, which ioundered
through her propeller being lost;
and the other the lsmalia, of the same
line, which was onces spoken under sail,
her machinery being disabled, and was
never heard of atterward. Neither has
any boiler explosion occurred on an
Atlantic steamer during the period
mentioned. SO far as the record before
us is authority, the inference therefore
is that the greatest loss of life is due not
TO lack of safe vessels, but to failure in
judgement or the incompetence of those
who handle them.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

A PLAN for improving the aroma of
butter, In use in many parts of Switzer-
land noted for good milk and zine butter,
is as follows; The milk, as soon as 1t
Is drawn and while yet warm, is filtered
through a sprig of washed fir tips, the
stem of which is inserted loosely and
upright in the hole Of the funnel. The
milk deposits hairs, skins, clots or gela-
tlnous sliminess on the leaves. 1t has
impaired to tia most agreeable odor and
does not really turn sour. A fresh spri *
should be used each time.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

AsPARAGUs.-Wash and scrape very
clean the white part of the stalks of
asparagus and throw them into cold
water; tie into bundles; cut the root
ends ever and tie the bundles in a piece
of muslin, to preserve the tops; fill n
wide saucepan with water, aud when it
boils put in the asparagus, with a spoon
full of salt, and boil for twenty minutes
Longer if the asparagus be old; toast
some thin slices of bread nicely on both
sides, butter, cut into squares and place
upon a platter; take up the asparagus
and lay upon the toast. Sci We with
melted butter in a tureen.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

MANY horses have a habit of kicking
posts, and when fed showing a little
temper in this way. Three links of a
common chain strapped on the leg
above the pastern is a sure preventive,
and does moi interfere with their rest.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

DIR. q. w. BESSON's CELERY q CHANO
Headache, Nervous Headache, Dyspeptic Headache,
Neuralgia, Neryousnrss aud sleeplessness, and will
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

To KILL BUGS AND WoRMs.-Have
some dry oak ashes or clay dust tainted
with kerosene on hand to circumvent
the bean bug the moment any signs of
his appearance are visible. Dust IL on
the young plants when the dew is on
A tablespoonful of oil will faint suffi-
GENTLY a half bushel of either sub
s~tanceand render both more thoroughly
repellant, and a half bushel will go a
great way. Apply the same remedy to
egg plants in the seed bed the moment
any signs of the flea beetle appear or it
will only be a matter of a few days be-
fore the utter destruction of the plants.
The same remedy for the green worn
on the cabbage, and for the harlequin
bug on cabbage or turnips. Sprigs of
cedar laid about the hills of squash,
melons, etc., expel enemies to those
vegetables, especially the squash and
pumpkin bugs. A tablespoonful of the
remedy about any choice plants, likely
to be deprecated upon by cut-worms,
will repay the trouble.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

WHEN Your LIVER rs or OF ORDER, use DR..
Jayne's Sentative rms, and you viii bring ba K
this organ 10 a healthy condition, and get rid Of
many distressing symptoms.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
THE boss team--A yoke of oxen.

THE Esquimaux dogs are good work
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

REMEDY FOR SMUT IN GRAIN.-Dis-
solve from one to two pounds of blue
vitriol in water to every ten bushels of
wheat, and pour II on the floor, where
IL can be stirred back and forth for
twenty four hours, until the grain is
swelled to one-third more than its
natural size, and colored throughout.
1t will require about M bucketlul OF
water to every 100 pounds. If not wet
enough the first time, add more water,
until it is wet enough to heat and sweat.
We think the above plan better than to
soak il in vessels, and it is certainly
easier to handle in every way. Where
the above instructions are carried out
properly, we will guarantee no smut to
be produced from the seed, although
we have no doubt there are various
causes for its appearance in small guam.
titles.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
AGRICULTURE.

REMEDY POR KICKING Consolidating
had ZONE experience with kicking
cows, aud having tried many methods
70 manage them, | found none so good
and simple as the one | will endeavor
20 describe: Put the COW In a stall, and
II the stalls are not partitioned make a
rail partition Zone rail may answer II
put at the right height on the left Of
the COW; let her stand close 10 this par
tition, with front feet as close TO the
manger as possible; then take a rail or
strong scantling and lay it diagonally
from the manger to the rail partition ;
CT a notch In the manger 10 drop this
rail In press 1t tight against the right
hind leg just above the udder, aud nail
where 1t crosses the partition an upright
piece TO prevent this rail from slipping
back. Once fixed In this way the rail
can be slipped in or out very quickly,
and If made right the COW a neither
step sideways, forward nor backward,
and, consequently, cannot lift her hind
legs up to Kick, and In most cases will,
In course of time, If gently treated, en-
tirely forget the Kicking, so that she
may be MIXED without the bar, and
when the mixer comes will put herself
In position TO be MIXED by stepping
close 10 the left side of her stall and
place the right hind leg Il little back,
and she will always stand the same
way.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06

Now IS the time to reform if you
have been wasteful heretofore. Waste
is palpable, easily seen and brings direct
loss with it.. Resolve to be neat in all
your operations. 1t is an easy mat
ter to leave hay enough on a field to
winter a dozen sheep, or materially
help to carry a COW through. A bushel
of grain on an acre makes but little
show, but it represents, in the case OF
wheat, enough to pay your subscription
to a good paper for a year, and it may
as well be saved as not. Much is actu-
ally lost by neglecting to "a grain
until it shells out, or hay until half the
nutriment is gone. No matter how
plenty hay or grain is, it always pays
to save what has been raised, and this
saving, effected by neat, careful far
mers, often represents the net profits
from a field, or even a whole farm.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
SCIENTIFIC.

OrigiR Of PetrOleum.-The true source
of petroleum Is not in the strata where
IL is found. but must be looked for much
lower down, as IL floats on water. This
element, on penetrating downward has
washed the petroleum out OF its reser-
voirs and caused IL to float on itself-'n
fact, in the sandstone where 1t is often
found, no carbonized animal remains
are found. Hence we must look much
lower down, even below the Silurlan,
as the mineral oil in the Caucasus Is
found In the Tertiary, and in Pennsyl-
vania In the DevOnian and Silurian.
As, however, In the rocks below the
Silurian there was very little organic
life, the formation of such a quantity of
petroleum could scarcely be traced to
such a limited source. Mendelijetf,
professorin st. Petersburg, Russia, pro-
poses a substitute for the organic
theory. He goes back to the nebular
hypothesis of Laplace and applying Dali
toms law of the original gaseous condi-
ton of the material of the earth and the
vapor density of the elements, he
arrives at the conclusion that the in
terror contains many metals, and that
chief among them is iron; finally, he
assumes the presence of carbureted
compounds of the metals, and comes 10
the following conclusions. Through
some of the assures in the crush of the
earth, Occasioned by the upheaval and
depression Of the surface, water perco.
lated to the carbureted metals, and
acted upon them at a high temperature
and elevated pressure, thus forming
metallic oxids and saturated hydro ear.
bOns; the latter rose in the form Of
vapOr to the upper strata, where they
condensed to liquids in porous sand
stone and other rocks having a ten
dency to absorb liquids. The internal
neat of theearth occasioned the reduction
of carbureted metal, and this gave rise
TO hydrocarbons. Other chemists than
Mendelijeff have shown experimentally
that something very like petroleum can
be produced artiticially by initiating In
the laboratory the process above de-
scribed.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
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OF
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