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The New York herald., 1878-02-24

Spierine. MICHAEL A. FOLEY, OF New York, to MARIE
LOUISE BARNEY, OF kcyport, N. J.
GRINwooD-LEvsox.--In Brooklyn, Thursday, Feb
Yuary "a 1875 =; the residence Of the BRIDES mother
don, England, aud J0sEPHSR G. LAWSON OF Brooklyn.
No cards.
HASgISs-ASpERsox rhursuay evening Feb
ruary IL at the residence oi the BRIDES parents by
the Rev. E. T. Krans. rMxsEsA AsrorSErrR, younses,
daughter Of John Anderson. - GEoRE ID. HANKIxs.
LANE-CoKELEr. Thursday, February a. at the
residence oil the brdo's mother. by tho Rev. H. NJ.
Eddy, JosgrH N. LANE, Jr, TO EMMA CoKKLEr, all Of
Jersey City. No cards.
LENANE-McARpLE.-Februar 20. 1878, by Rev
Father OFarrel pastor of 81 Peter's Church. THoMAa
LEsASE~to MARY ANN, daughter OF Henry McArdle,
botn OF this city.
Decentralization Thursday, February 2l. 1879
at the residence OF the BRIDES parents, by the Rev
York, TO MARY ELEANOR. daughter OF Addison G.
Rice, Esq. OF Buffalo, N. Y.
RANR-WLcox BY Rev. A. Strube, H. A. RAxI OF
Greenvie. JERSEY City, 10 MARY E. WILcox, OF sum-
mervllIe, N j., February II.
SCHwARTz-roxrKiSs.-OnT Thursday. February 81,
1878, az the residence OF the BRIDES parents the
Rev j. M. King, JOHN ]. SCHWARTZ to MARY +.
ToMPKINs, both OF this city.
SCorT-PaoBsE February 10, at the BRIDES resi-.
deucc, by the Rev. Dr.. Ecoleston, AaaIR NJ, eldest
rAcE b. PRoBsr, ofNew York.
sITEs-ELDKRDGE.-On Thursday February 81, Al
the Church OF tho Holy Communion, by the Rev.
Francib K. Lawrence, D. D.. wILA0N W. G SIrRs, ol
Jersey City, late OF Philadelphia, TO JEANNE Mont.
GoxERy, daughter the late Edmund NJ. Eidredge OF
New YORK.
THoMPsoS-WHYTE-OnT Thursday, February 21. by
the Rev, O. +. Deems. D. D., Mr.. CHARLES W. THoMP-
to Miss JENNIE WHYrE, all Of New York No cards.
wkraHr-LKE TUESDAY, February 10, by the Rev.
MrAH J. WRIGHT to Miss MARGARET LES, both of this
city.
The New York herald., 1878-02-24

who was q Lutheran OF the old school. replied,
'.hadame, in rnat case Il would depend entirely on
how you have been brought up"
The Buddhists Of Southeast Asia have somewhat
arithmetical idea OF the fusura They imagine that
regular debit and credit account s kept and that
mate results depend on the footing up To give q
cool drink weary traveller counts one and 10 stop
a woman from scolding counts one also. The orig.
inator Of this system had very poor idea OF propor
tion, and was either happily married In blissu
ignorance of the difficulty OF accomplishing certain
jeas. On the last day the total will be made up. and
the fate OF the soul decided by simple addition
lis curious fact that the you really know
the moro you know you don't know. When man
thinks is very careful about insisting that be is
right but when man only thinks that he thinks he
settles the profoundest problems OF the universe bv
the stroke OF q pen. No one Is 30 sure that he 10
right and everybody else wrong the man who mis-
takes his prsjudices for his braink
II you had money enough and 10 spare and could do
just what you wanted do, could you make choice
We have thought the matter over very carefully. and
have concluded that II We could do exactly what we
wanted to do we would doA-nothing. And IN this
decision We represent the larger part OF mankind
Another question OF importance has arisen among
the Presbvterisns OF Canada and one which may end
10 q sehism. A clergyman compelled to cross
wide river the way 70 his church Instead OF
riding gwen Sunday, ~ was his custom, he put
pair Of skstsa He has been arraigned for break.
ing the Sabbath. Tho trouble was that under severe
he confessed TO u certain degree Of
pleasure In skating II 1t had been painful to him
then the Sabbath would have remained intact for It
is perfectly lawful to do dsagresable things on that
days but 10 actually had the audacity TO enjoy II, and
TOOK Of his skates and hid them in the bushes with
something that approached sigh, and that was
naughty last degree. There ministers
IN this vicinity who though they cannot cut figure
on the ice can q terrible figure tho pulpit aud
yet nothing is said.
The New York herald., 1878-02-24

important part OF their curriculum. and when fresh
man declines being tied hand aud foot and having his
head shaved all In SPORT the sophomores take their
position ut the requisite distance ana If they
perforat9 him twice out OF three President McCosh
not born In Scotland, however, Tor nothing The
number OF students will be smaller, but will be
greater in very short time.
The Groenlsndcrs have very summary way OF dis
posing oil dead Their theory evidently Is that
when man has died he ought to remain dead, and
not prowI around at night They carry the body out
by the window rather than the door, and then slam
the window down as an inuma,iou that goodby means
goodby An old woman stands behind the moving
procession, waving a nrsbrand ard pronouncina the
magic work 'Ifkier,ukpok," which, being inter
preted, means "lhere is nothing moro to be bad
here" In America we pay So TO y medium TO bring
back SPIRIT but in Greenland they would moro will.
ingly pay s. to keep him away.
Poor Mrs Pitman. after being crsmatcd resulted in
jus four pounds and two ounces Of pearl gray ashes.
These will be put Jar aud used = msntsi orna-
mcu,. Death q no longer "gravs' subject, and our
cemeteries eau be sold out for farming purposes The
professor Of ashes Is not however, overwhelmed with
applications Tor his iuruacc which, shows that tho pop
ular mind has not yet reached tho burning point
The ordinary incdens OF lie sometimes take q
theological turn. When lady was half way up The
Rigi she asked the conductor what would happen II
one OF tho cogs OF the track should givo WY. Ho
replied that there was brske at the forward end oi
the car. sac imagined that the brake itself might
give way, aud asked wnat would be the con.
sequence then. The conductor her there
would be no danger evon IN that extremity for there
was another brake at the ond OF the "Bu,,
she persisted, ''suppose that should give way too,
where would W. 90 In that ease" The conductor.
The New York herald., 1878-02-24

twenty five seventy five are eighty or
over
Iished book on ''rhe Modern Conflict Between the
Church anu Italy, and having iailed 10
vision 10 his present SUPERIOR the Archbishop oil Flo
renee IN whose diocese ne resides, u occiesasc
nus prohibited Its publication sale within the
IL has been published there, how ever. and
copies sent 10 Rome were bougat up witnin lev
hours alter their appearance. Speaking N II OF the
rslructon demanded oil him he says:--"I would AL
low myself 10 DC ocaten 10 powder ton times Ia
before consceung ~ a retraction." Strong
words, indicative Of Stubborn or u stroug IN nd.
In his late lecture In Chicago Bishop SpaudiuG, Of
PEORIA referring to the Reformation, said:-'ln Ger
many II never succeeded. In Belgum but poorly.
Two.thrds OF them are stiI cstnohes: II succeeded
but poorly III Austria In Poland, In Prussia; In Bo-
LENA II was likewise driven out. In Switzerland it
succeeded Ia the ueginnn2 and but little Holland
England, IN point OF doctrine and III point OF religious
practices, separated herself than any other
on. They hed 10 all our doctrlnes They held tho
seven Sacramento They held 10 the PRIESTHOOD.
They adhered to Catholic discipline and Catholic
teaching II was only little oy little that the Church
of England separated herself from tho Cathonc
Church - And the Bishop think that tho Catholic
Cnurcn Is the most poweriu Church IN England to-
day.
Rome, sailed from this port last week. He has been
quite successful IN his mission here TO appeal
generosity OF American Catholics to sustain that In
stituti0n.
NIscELLANgoua
The Lutheran Synod o ONO, having noticed with
regret tne lack of discrimination in coElerrIng COL
ege degrees upon Minister'S, VINO often, Instead oi
labor ng Tor, Iaboring much against the ad.
vance VI right know ledge OF Christian doctrine
and whose influence tho SYNOD says. leads 10 terrible
error, proposes 10 make this for college Ia
culties of It's own Church. They viii hereafter non-
nate one o their own brethren as eminenty tit tor
tue honor iustruct ono OF their sennares 10 confer
the degree, and appoint committee 10 nnouncc
their action 10 tho iortaDats brother, whose ortho
dvxy they unhesltstingly indorsa
lns sermons preached Wy Nr. Aspwortn In the
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-07
How Plants Grow.

The growth of plants is not on a regu-
lar scale; but rhythmical, and going on
through the season in 4 regular success
sion of waves. The varying intensities
of these -growths, as governed by
nutrition, make the different forms of
structure, at various stages of life, and
have, perhaps, more influence than is
suspected on the evolution of form.
Psychologists are watching these phe-
nomena of plant-life very carefully, and
recently a German botanist, +. &.
Stellar, has made valuable cOntribu-
ton to this department of knowledge in
a paper on the growth of monOcOtyle-
dOns. He finds that in the linear-leaved
mOnocotyledons-say Indian corn, as
an instance-the leaves grow very slow
ly at first, then rapidly, and again slow
ly, and that the stem-grOwth partakes
of the same characteristics. In some
other respects his experiments are not
in accord with others made in this
country. He says that growth and light
are relative. That in these plants the
minimum of growth is just before sunrise.
The growth is the greatest in the fore
noon and gradually decreases to sun
rise. In our country some careful eX-
periments by the Rev. l.. j. Templin, OF
Kansas, are on record in regard to the
Indian corn, who found that the growth
was greater during night than during the
day. Plants in dark cellars grow in the
darkness. 1t is nOt+hat plants will not
grow in the night or in the dark, but
that such growth does not store up any
thing for the future, but lives on what
has been made by light in the past.
Steblar, however, has not forgotten this
matter of etiolated growth in dark Gel
lars, but says that the growth is paral-
lei with that made by the same plant in
the light-that is, that it grows least
when it is sunrise in the open air, most
during the forenoon, and then gradual
" less till morning, just as it would do
if it were in the full light. This he at
tributes to the power of transmission;
that is to say, habit, contracted under
some circumstances, will continue long
after the causes which led to that habit
cease to exist. This has been indicated
to be true in some experiments of Maui
den with hybrid lettuces and recorded
in these columns. 1t is in accordance
with much that we know is true; but yet
it is not demonstrated to the satisfaction
of every one. If such experiments as
this of Steblar's with plants grown in
the dark would always have the same
results, no better service could be rem
dered to science than to have them re-
peated. 1t is one of the most useful
lines of observation that have recently
been started.-The Independent.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-07
The Father OF His COuntry-HumOr-
Ously Considered.

There was great excitement in the
Washington Mansion JAG years ago to-
day (Feb. 22.) Old man Washington
had gone down to the corner grocery to
get his morning eye-opener," and
while he was eXpatiating to a crowd of
grocery-loungers on the coming crops,
and wondering whether the hard Win
ter had injured the fruit-trees, and
blowing about the deer-hunting he had
INDUCED in during the winter, the door
opened and somebody beckoned to him.
Sliding from his seat on the counter, he
left the store and was confronted by one
of his negro servants, who, with mys-
FERROUS look, approached him and said
in a breath that made the. old mans
hair stand on end, "Dar's new boy
up to de house" Visions of red fan
mel, and catnip tea, and nurses, and
soothing strip, and the midnight
promenades, and cradles, and doctors,
and sich flOated through Pa Washing
toms mind, and he hardly knew what
to do. He re-entered the grocery and
braced up with three fingers of old rye,
and then set 'em up for the whole house,
at the same time receiving the congrat-
ulations of the "boys," to whom he had
divulged the news. He took another
g bracen and started for home, the
darby leading the way-and the
Judge. Reaching home, he was met
on the doorstep by chorus of female
neighbors, who shouted, "Ain't YOU
glad?" And lie said he was, and he
wanted to see the man who said he
wasn't-whoop He was led to the
bedside of his wife, and there lay, like a
boiled lobster, the>>baby-George, des
tined to be the Father of his Country at
a time when his country was extremely
in need of parents. 1t has never trans
pired who was the Mother of the Coun-
try. But this is depression. The boy
1ouriShed, and waXed fat and kicked,
he was ''kicker," as all the subsequent
acts of his life prove. The boy was a
genius in his way, and invented the
Ratchet when he was quite young. He
grew up, and was sent to school; and ii
is related of him that he could hug more
girls and lick more boys than any other
boy in Westmoreland County, Va. This
is scrap of private history. On his
attaining manhood, he was placed in
command of the Virginia militia; but ii
is not stated that he ever took part in
the Pittsburg riots, or drilled the City
Grays. Naturally he rotated from the
Virginia militia to the command of the
American army during the Revolution,
and at the conclusion of the war he was
made President, serving his constituents
faithfully, and never taking any thing
when there was any danger of being
caught at it. We have collated this
short sketch from memory, and, as
memory is g mighty unsartin," any
little facts will be kindly forgiven by
the readers of the Telegraph. Harris,
burO (Pa.) Tele0rGDh
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-07

Not many men who see the miners of
the Savage lifted out at the top of the
shaft at change of shift have the cour-
age to descend into the lower regions of
that mine. Very few even of the old
residents of the Comstock would care to
descend into the steaming regions be-
low, and not one Eastern man in a
thousand could be induced to make the
trip after seeing the men popped out at
the top of the shaft, steaming as though
just lifted out of a caldron of boiling
water. Though they are shirtless--
naked rs at birth from the waist up
and wear only cotton overalls, they are
dripping Us if but a moment out of a
pond of water; yet this is from steam
and perspiratiOn. In all this great heat
men must work. The wonder is that
they are able to do any thing but gasp
and pant. 1t is place better fitted for
salamanders than for men. At the head
of the main incline it is as hot as in the
hottest vapor-bOths at Steamboat
Springs. One would think that men
much in such place would be quito Sc
cure against the rheumatism. On max
ing inquiries in this regard of an under
ground foreman, he said he never knew
any of the men working belowto havethe
rheumatism. Some of our sufferers from
this disease might try this cure-might
procure themselves to be lowered into
the depths of the mine, there to sit and
steam through one shift per day. But
for the immense quantities of ice-water
they drink, the men could not endure
the great heat in which they are placed
or the floods of perspiration pumped
from their pores. They swallow gallons
on gallons of it, and it never hurts them
in the least Virginia city (Nev.) En-
terprise.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-07

From close observation we have come
to the conclusion that there are com
paratively few men capable of culdvat
inc eighty acres of land until every acre
is made to do its best, and by far the
largest number would make more mon
ev if they were limited to half that
amount. No good farmer can afford to
buy fertilizers while he has unused barn
ward manure, or has failed to make
proper use of the poultry droppings, or
allow his barn-yard to overflow where
it is not needed. 1t is far more profit
able to gather sods or swamp earth,
and compost it with suitable manure,
than to buy bone dust or guano. 1t is
always profitable to mingle with all
manures Just as much muck, leaves
or sods, OF surface soil, as can be
added without stopping fermentation.
No lime or ashes should be added to the
heap, as they set at liberty the ammonia,
and it is wasted. Rather mix these with
muck or sods, by themselves, or scatter
directly upon the soil where needed,
After all these are looked after, and the
compost heap in every possible way,
from home supplies, it will pay usually
to buy in addition. But there is one
point often overlooked, or misunder-
stood, and that is, the value of the
manure heap does not consist in the
number of animals kept, but in the
amount and quality of the food. If we
have 10 tons OF hay and 200 bushels of
corn, it will be no more profitable to
L, q. l., q, L, H.,
the larger number will involve extra Ia
Dor. The maxim that all farmers will
do well to remember is, that Z" the rich
er the food the more valuable manure. -
Indiana Farmer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-07

Professor Atwater appreciates wood
ashes in the AgricultnrtSt as follows:
% A bushel of unleached ashes weighs,
on the average, about As lbs. A
50 struck" bushel of leached ashes will
average some 81 lbs, and a "heaped
bushel'' about II lbs. A dressing of 80
bushels of unleached ashes to the acre,
at 4S lbs. to the bushel, would give some
200 lbs. of potash, 76S lbs of lime, 120
lbs. magnesia, As lbs, of phOsphoric
acid, and Sc lbs. of sulphuric acid. y
manuring of 60 bushels of leached ashes,
at 90 lbs. to the bushels, would furnish
about "a lbs of potash, 900 lbs. of lime,
126 lbs of magnesia, 81 lbs. phosphOric
acid, and lbs. of sulphuric acid. Either
of these would cost but little more, and
in many places not nearly as much
as an ordinary dressing of guanO or SUI
perphosphate. The main value
of the guano or superphosphate would
be in the nitrogen and phosphOric acid
it contains and supplies directly to the
plant. The ashes would contain about
as much phosphorie acid and would sup
ply nitrogen indirectly, as explained
above. In addition to this, the ashes
would yield large quantity of potash,
of which the g1ano would contain little
and the phosphate probably none, con-
siderable magnesia, and a very large
amount of lime. The guauo and phos-
phate would probably be more rapid in
their action, but Their effect would soon
be gone, while that of the ashes would
last for years. Ashes are useful for any
crop, from roots to fruit On newly
seeded grass land they often work won
ders. They may be used as top dress
ing or put in the hill or plowed or har-
rowed under. They are excellent for
composts also.
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HNTs.FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

Oae-Egg CGke.-1 cup of sugar, 1 OF
milk, egg, p cups of flour, tea
4 spoonfuls baking powder; flavor to
taste; bake half an hour.
To CzeaD Je1ceIry, Plated Ware and
/ Britannia.-Take strong aqua ammonia,
ounce; prepared chalk, ounce, mix
Keep well eorked. Shake well before
using.
Mountain Cake.-Whites of 4 eggs,
cups white sugar, Z cup butter, cup
sweet milk, teaspoon soda, 1 of cream
tartar,3 cups flour. This makes good
sized cake.
Fried Cates.-1 egg, Il cups sugar,
cup sour cream, l cup buttermilk, 1
even teaspoon soda, l even teaspoon
salt, nutmeg seasoning. Mix soft and
fry light brown in hot lard
MiE5 Todst.-Cut slices of bread very
thin; toast quickly to a light brown;
butter and pile them in a deep dish;
then cover them with rich boiling milk.
Let it stand few minutes and serve
A little salt may be added if necessary.
Cake from Raised D0ugh-1 pint of
light bread dough, cup butter, 2 cups
sugar, and eggs. Work with the hand
till well mixed, then add half nutmeg,
l pound raisins. Place in bake-tins in
warm place to rise before baking.
Dried apple Cake.-1 pint apples,
soaked over night in water; drain well,
chop fine, stew in one cup of molasses
until tender, then add ? cups of brown
sugar, ] cup of butter, eggs, cup of
milk, 2 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, Of
cloves, II cups of raisins, cups flour, l
teaspoonful of soda.
Coc0Gnat Cake-2 cups of sugar,
cup of butter, 1 cup of sweet milk, 81
Of flour, 8 teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der, eggs, leaving / of the whites
out for filling. Bake in jelly-cake pans.
The day before baking CRATE good
sized cocoanut or two small ones. Beat
up 4 whites of eggs to a stiff frOth; to
each egg add 10 teaspoonfuls of pow
dered sugar; spread on each layer,
sweeten your cocOanut and sprinkle it
on top of icing.
White Mountain Cake.-6 eggs, 2
cups sugar, cup butter, cups flour, l
cup sour milk, teaspOonful soda; mix
and bake like jelly-cakes, 4 in number.
Assoon as one is done ice it on top,
then put on another and ice it, continu-
ing in like manner until the fourth is
placed on top and iced. The beaten
whites of eggs, made thick with SUI
gar, will make enough icing. The juice |
of lemon in the icing whitens and !
hardenS it.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-07
The Key to the East.

Constantinople has for generations by
the great mass of the public been con
sidered the "Key the East" But it
seems to need no explanation that he
who holds the DardanelleS is the mas
ter of that city as well. And nature it.
self has made the Dardanelles as easily
defendable as the rock of Gibraltar: in
fact, more SO. For glance at the map
will suffice to show that the peninsula
of Gallipoli-as it is now commonly
called-is richly endowed by nature as
defender of the Black Sea. The COM
munication with the mainland is effect
ed by narrow neck, trife north of
where Gallipoli is situated, only mile
wide, while the southern part of the
peninsula expands sufficiently to pro-
vide shelter for an army, if necessary :;
and its physical geography is such as to
need but small expense to make it vir-
tually impregnable. No shoals or SKIER
ries, or reefs or sunken rocks, endanger
the navigation round this important
spot: and with the assistance of mod
ern fleet the owner of Gallipoli, once
firmly installed, may forever rule the
CdsL. NutiouoIy enough, EnSldnu,WnO
has always maintained that her inter-
ests in the East were of paramount
character, seems entirely to have over
looked this, and, dazzled by the magi-
cal word of Constantinople, to have for
gotten the importance of the approach
es. Russia, on the other hand, whose
admirable politics during the last year
will always stand in history as mas
terpiece, has not made this blunder;
but at once, and with wonderful rapid
ty, pushed forward in the direction Of
the Dardanelles. Political complica-
tons seem to have checked this mo, G.
ment just at present; but l take it n
the future we will hear more of CALI
poll than of Constantinople in the blue
books of European diplomacy ChicIgO
Times Letter.