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The daily gazette., 1878-05-02

Among the pr, serts to the fair Of st.
AIMS Catholic Church in New York
now In progress, is Q 900 tea service
from MIS-. Thos. Loid.
The daily gazette., 1878-05-02
DIED.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

EOR SALE-Good mortgage of ~, 900.
Il j. L. HEALD,
Real Estate and Mortgage Exchange.
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-07-19
farmers' Column.
"Speed the PIOsU."
Drying Flowers In Sand.

The LADIES' Floral Cabinet recommends
the preservation of flowers is sand, and
gives the following plan of carrying out
the advice: Take deep dishes or those of
sufficient depth to allow flowers to be COW
cred an inch deep with sand. Get the COM
mon white sand, such rs is used for scour-
ing purposes, cover the bottom of the dish
with layer about half an inch deep, and
then lay on the flowers with the stem down
ward, holding them firmly in place while
you sprinkle more sand over them, until
all the places between the petals are filled
and the flowers out of sight. A broad dish
will accommodate quite large number.
Allow sufficient sand between set the
dish in dry, warm place, where they will
dry gradually, and at the end of week
pour off the sand and examine them. If
there is any moisture in the sand it must
be dried out before using again, or fresh
sand may be poured over them. Some
flowers will require weeks to dry, while
Others will become sufficiently dry in a
week or ten days BY this simple process
flowers, ferns, etc, are preserved IN the
proper shape, as well as in their natural
color, which is far better than to press them
in books. White flowers will not answer
we'll for this purpose, nor any succulent
plants, such as hyacnth or cactus. Such
flowers as dahlias, pansies, carnations,
pinks, sweet-william and gladiolus may be
preserved for years.
Flowers nearly always begin to fade and
droop after being kept for twenty hours
in water; few may be revived by substi
tuting fresh, but all may by restored by
use of hot water. For this purpose, place
the flowers in scalding water, deep enough
to cover about one third of the length of
the stems. BY the time this is cold the
flowers will have become erect and fresh
Then cut off the sunken ends of the stems
and put them into cold water.
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VARIETIES.

go out, young man, she's not here"
said Kentucky preacher last Sunday in
the midst of his sermon, to Il youth hest
tating in the doorway.
Pay hand, if he is a poor hand, all
you promise; and if he is good one, pay
him little more; it will encourage him to
do still better
Edison says his Photographs will cost
about 800 apiece. This will enable poor
families to keep phonograph, but they
will have to dispense with couple of dogs.
"A well-to-do farmer in Ulster county,
N. Y, who wanted wife, took woman
on trial week to ascertain her housekeep-
ing qualities. She suited and he married
her.
The editor of Virginia paper was
asked by stranger "if it were possible
that little town kept up four newspapers"
And the reply was: "No; it takes four
newspapers to keep up the town."
II wonder where those clouds are GO
ing" sighed Flora, pensiyely, as she point
ed with delicate fingers to the heavy masses
that floated in the air. II think they are
going to thunder" said her brother
Wishing to pay his friend compliment,
gentleman remarked: 81 hear you have
very industrious wife," "Yes," replied
the friend with melancholy smile, "she's
never idle; she's always finding something
for me to do"
1t must be gratifying to parents to
know that their boys have so perfectly &C.
CURED Latin that they are enabled to use
it in ordinary discourse. Two of them
were one day engaged in pummeling each
other, when third cried out $500 et tn en-
Romeo !'-ReynOldSuiUe Eye.
The deepest artesian we'll in the world
is the one now being bored at Pesth, Hun
gary. 1t is not yet completed, but has al
ready reached depth of nearly four thous-
and feet. 1t supplies hot water of 1853 de-
grees Fab. at u pressure of forty pounds
to the square inch. An interesting feature
of its construction is the use of automatic
machinery for boring, the water power be-
ing supplied by the we'll ITSELF
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Ammonia.

A very useful article. Wequote the fol-
lowing from competent authority: Put a
teaspoonful Of n ammonia in quart of warm
soapsuds, dip cloth into it and 90 over
your soiled pantaloons, and see how rapid
ly the dirt will disappear; no scrubbing
will be necessary. To pint of hot soap
suds add teaspooniul of the spirits, dip
in your fork or spoon (or whatever you
wish to clean), rub with soft brush, and
then finish with chamois skin. For wash
ing windows and mirrors it has no equal.
1t will remove grease spots from every fab
ric without injuring the garment. Put
on the ammonia nearly clear; lay on blot
ting paper, and set Il hot iron on it for a
moment. Also n few drops in water will
cleanse and Written laces and muslin beau
tifully. A few drops in bowl of water, If
the skin be oily, will remove all uncleanl-
ness and disagreeable odors. Added to a
hot bath, it entirely absorbs all noxious
smell, and nothing is better to remove dan
druff from the hair. For cleaning nail and
hair brushes il is equally good. For heart
burn and dyspepsia, the aromatic spirits OF
ammonia is especially prepared; ten drops
taken in a wine. glass OF water will give re-
lief For house plants, five or six drops to
every pint ofwater, once week, will make
them flourish. 1t is also good to clean
plant jars. SO be sure and keep bottle
of it in the house, and have glass stopper,
as it eats away cork.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-07-19
More About Ants.

Sir John Lubbock has been previously
assailing the reputation of the insect to
which the sluggard was recommend
ed to repair as illustrating untiring indus
try.
According to the researches, il we "go TO
the ant" it must be to the right kind, 9th
erwise the admonition will have no moral
value. He finds that there are about seven
hundred species of ants possessing strongly
contrasted moral characteristics. Some
are distinguished by bravery, some by cow
ardice ; some are industrious, some are
strikingly idle. Indeed, to such an extent
is idleness carried in one of the species that
they are entirely dependent on their slaves.
They are too lazy to feed or clean themsel
yes, and Sir John found that to keep them
alive it was necessary to put lew slaves
for an hour or two every day into the case
in which they were confined, in order that
their domestic arrangements might be duly
attended to.
1t is a mistake, too, to suppose that
ants will take care of distressed friend
He tried covering an ant with mold where
many were passing and repassing not one
took any notice of him, but all 'passed
over to the other side" Intoxicated ants
were summarily thrown into the water to
cool off, but tipsy strangers were ignomini
ously turned out of doors. Thus it app
pears that the ant has his bad side after
ALL
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June is the month of loves joy, and Au-
gust that of its agony. In June two hearts
knit together and become one. In August
two bodies separate. She goes to the
country to see her mothers aunt, and he
stays at home, working the treadmill of
duty. This comes hard on all men, but
its weight is the heaviest on the grocery
clerk. His heart is not in his work How
can it be Where the treasure is there
will he the heart also, and the treasure is
far away. He can not smile at the custo-
mers. He can not counterfeit successfully
that expression of all absorbing interest
which makes clerkship thing of beau
ty. Certainly his is most critical task
The variety and diversity of the articles in
which he deals require that he should keep
his wits about him. In this particular he
is in almost as much danger as the drug
clerk, while the opportunities for slipping
are hundred fold. A Danbury man who
went into drug store to have prescrip-
tion prepared, seeing nobody but clerk
present, said:
"Young man, are you keeping company
with girl"
Eyes, sir" answered the clerk with a
blush.
"Do you think the world of herr"
81 do" said the clerk firmly, although
blushing considerably.
as she in towing
mo, sir, she is away on visit"
"That will do" said the man, decisively.
"You can't fool around any prescription
for me-" And he went away.
But it is the grocery clerk who has to
struggle from early morn till late at night
with flood of annoyances. When he dips
into the sugar barrel he thinks of her lips,
and sighs. In cutting the cheese he is re-
minded of the strength of his devotion to
her, and when he looks into the butter
tirkin his thoughts stray to her hair
When he would go away by himself and
give expression to his emotions he is oblig-
ed to help lift barrel of corned beef, or
roll sack of salt, or open cask of lard.
1t is only when he is dealing out mackerel
that he feels as if he had companion in
his sorrow, sympathizer in grief There
is that softened, subdued light in the eye
of salt mackerel which touches respon-
sive chord in the heart of suffering and
awakens it to plaintive melody. How ten
derby he lifts it from the kit, how lovingly
he fingers in wrapping it up. Poor fellow!
He may put up washing starch for baking
powder, draw molasses in the kerosene can,
and even attempt TO palm off various
things for tea. He may do this. 1t is
more than likely that he will. But the ex-
preston of mackerel's eye will not change.
The soft, subdued light of sympathy still
remains.
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How Nitro. Glycerine Is Made.

This wonderful explosive was discovered
in 1S47, by an Italian named Soboro, but
its practical application was made by AL
fred Noble, Swedish engineer. The
process by which it is made is thus de-
scribed Every one knows what glycerine
is-a clear syrupy liquid, sweet to the
taste and somewhat greasy to the touch.
Its scope of employment ranges from the
surgeons dispensary to the lady's boudoir.
Chemists term it traitomc alcohol, and it
may be derived from fat or tallow by ac-
ton of lime and sulphuric acid. Its prop
critics are many and various, but as they
have no bearing upon the present subject
we shall abstain from noticing them. fla
quantity of nitric acid be added to twice
its weight of sulphuric acid, glycerine be
poured into this, and stirred carefully, the
whole being surrounded by freezing mix
ture, we obtain that wonderful substance
known as nitro-g lycerine, which has more
than ten times the explosive force Of gun
powder 1t forms on the surface as an oil
of pale yellow color, is perfectly inodor-
Gus, and has sweet aromatic taste. 1t is
poisonous whether taken internally or alb
sorbed through the skin, and small doses of
it produce distressing headaches. 1t does
not explode when brought in contact with
fire, and remains unchanged even when
raised to temperature of boiling water ;
but at about forty degrees Fahrenheit it
becomes converted into an icy mass, which
merely requires friction to develop all its
explosive qualities.
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0ur National Bird.

THE CHANGE A WESTERN ORATOR DEEMS
IMPERATIvELY NECESSARY.
Hon. George w. Peck, in his Fourth of
July Grafton Mt In Crosse, Wis, said
at may have been noticed that thus far
have made no allusion to the American ea-
gle, the national trademark, patent applied
for, but it is not that do not appreciate
the position that species of poultry occu-
pies on these occasions. The poet, allud-
ing to the eagle, says:
"Bird Of the broad and fleeing wing,
Thy home is high in heaven
"This is too true. He is a high old bird,
and the committee that selected the eagle
as national emblem should have been ar
rested for disorderly conduct. 0, great
bird You live on mice. You soar aloft
on pinions airy, until you see a poor little
mouse with one leg broke, and then you
swoop down like ward constable and run
him in. You are a nice old bird for a
trade mark, for IL nation of heroes, you old
coward. You sit on rock and watch
peasant woman hanging out clothes, and
when she goes in the house to turn the
clothes-wringer, you great bird, emblem of
freedom, you representative ofthe land of
the free and the home of the brave, YOU
swoop down on the plantation and crush
your talons in the quivering flesh of her
little baby, take him to your home high in
heaven, and pick his innocent little eyes
out. You bald-headed old reprobate, you
would turn your tail and run at the attack
of bantam rooster. o eagle, you look
we'll on dress parade, but you are a unani-
nous coward and you eat snakes. You are
fraud and you were counted in by vote
of TOT.
"The bird that should have been selected
as the emblem of our country, the bird of
patience, lorbearance, perseverance, and
the bird of terror when aroused, is the
mule. There is no bird that combines
more virtues to the square foot than the
mule. With the mule emblazoned on our
banners, VIC should be terror to the foe.
We are nation of accomplishing hard
workers. We mean to do the fair thing by
everybody. We plod along, doing as we
would be done by. So does the mule
We, as Il nation, are slow to anger. so is
the mule. AS nation, we occasionally
stick our ears forward and fan flies off of
our forehead So does the mule.
1--WE allow parties to get on and ride as
long as they behave themselves. So does
the mule. But when any nation sticks
spurs into our TANKS and tickles our heels
with a straw, we come down stiff-legged
in front, our ears look to the beautiful be-
You'd, our voice is cut loose and is still for
war, and our subsequent end plays the
snare drum on anything that gets in reach
of us, and strikes terror to the hearts of all
tyrants. So does the mule. When the
country gets older, and Congress has time
to get i'll its work. the eagle will be super
seeded as the national trade mark, and in
its place will rise the mule in all his glory,
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How to Learn TO Swim.

Every boy and girl should learn to swim.
A writer in the american ADicultuaist Of
fers the following suggestions, by obedience
to which the art of swimming may be read
lily acquired:
When was boy learned to swim by
means of a swimming board This is the
safest method possible. If cork are used
they may slip from around the breast down
the surface, and putting the wearer in dan
ger of drowning.
Some country boys get two badders and
then tie them together with a short cord,
and use these as supports. They are the
most dangerous things possible for Il boy
to have.
The board is perfectly safe, and one may
learn to swim in very short time by using
one. 1t should be over four feet long, over
foot wide and two inches thick, white
pine or cedar.
To use it, u boy wades into the water up
to his shoulders, then taking hold of the
end of the board he pushes it before him
towards tho bank, and not into deep water
springs forward with his feet and throws
himself fiat upon the water.
This movement carries him along few
feet. He then draws up both his legs at
the same time, keeping the knees as far
apart as possible, and then striking out
with both feet, not straight backward, but
sideways, just as a frog does.
The stroke is made slowly and is repeat
ed again, drawing up the legs slowly and
steadily. The board keeps the head above
water. When the leg stroke has been learn.
ed, one hand is taken from the board and
the stroke learned, or the chin may be rest
ed on the board, while stroke is taken with
both hands.
This is very good plan, it compels the
swimmer to keep his hands under the water
which he should always do. By-and-by
the board may he pushed ahead, and the
young swimmer may swim after it, always
keeping it within reach. When number
of boys go to swim they should always have
two or three of these boards with them for
use in case ofany accident
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MI isceIla IN @ O III 8.
The Enchanted Pipe.
A LEGEND OF ANCIENT DAYS.

LEGEND OF ANCIENT DAYS.
One night, as Count Olife was riding
through the woods, he was astonished to
see great light among the trees, where
there was no house. Stopping his horse,
he saw the ground open in vacant space
between two great oak trees. Steps of
stone led down to two great iron doors,
through which strcamed the light that had
first attracted him. AS he looked, a
woman and a man, dressed in white, came
up the steps, holding baskets, which they
kept carefully covered. This woman and
man looked neither to the right nor left
Neither did they seem to lift their feet, but
came towards Count Oliffe with slow
gliding motion.
Count Oliffe was terribly frightened
A cold perspiration started out of him his
knees bent under him, and hardly knowing
what he did, lie called out in loud voice,
"Who are you and what are you doing
here 7"
Instantly the figures vanished, so did the
steps, the opening and the light. Count
Oliffe rode around and around the two
great oaks, but the ground showed no trace
of an opening. On the next day he came
again but saw nothing. He walked about
the oaks, but could see no place where
could be hidden steps or iron doors. The
birds, seeing him so busy, began to clipper
and twitter about him.
"What do you want, Count Oliffe ?" said
saucy blackbrd.
"Between these trees" answered Oliffe,
sis fight of steps leading down to iron
DOORS"
"No, that is impossible" said the black
bird. II have lived here ever since was
out of the egg, and have never seen any
steps or doors"
"Yes, it is quito impossible" echoed all
the birds. "rhe oldest bee or bird in the
forest has never heard of such thing"
Olilfe went home sad and disappointed.
He could think of nothing but what lie had
| seen, and he used to walk every day and
ride every night through the forest, hoping
to see the wonderful sight again.
One night, riding home unsuccessful as
usual he met an owl out as late as himself
"Hallo, comrader' cried the owl. 81
meet you every night. What are you hunt.
ing-mice or frogs 2"
"Stone steps and an iron door, "answered
Oliffe, laughing, "are my mice and frogs
And he told the owl what he had seen.
The owl listened, looked very wise.
"Yes, know" said he. "What you have
seen is the palace of Time. In it are all
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the treasures of the earth. The man and
woman who came out are Day and Night,
bringing gifts to men,"
sand how shall | see it again ?" asked
Count Oliffe. al am determined to find
and enter it."
The owl shook his head.
ITO find it, Count Oliffe, you need only
wait by the great oak trees till the ground
opens. Then you must wait till Day and
| Night come forth, and be careful to say
nothing. After that, go down the steps
boldly but at the iron doors there sits a
gaint with the keys. Beware that you lis
ten to nothing before Selling the keys"
off that is ALL that is easy enough" an.
swered Oliffe.
"Not so easy as you think, said the owl,
flying away.
Count Oiffe rode to the two oaks, and
diSmounted. There he waited many hours
till the ground opene |, and the man and
woman came forth as before. He watched
them in silence, and went boldly down the
steps, AT the foot of the steps sat fat jolly
giant, smoking n pipe, while the keys Of
the palace hung loosely in his girdle.
"Give me the keys of the palace" said
Oliffe.
"Yes, my son." said the giant, off you
will first smoke "A pipe with me. 1t has
been great many hundred years since any
one has smoked with me-"
"There is no harm in that" thought Oliffe,
who thought, besides, that he should like
to smoke out of such pipe as the giant
handed-a pipe with a bowl of amber and
the stem OF gold.
At first when he saw the doors of the
palace open, he did not walk in, yet he
seemed to enter. He saw splendid halls,
wonderful treasures, and said to himself
that he would not take them just yet, but
when he had finished smoking his pipe.
He smoked, and smoked down to the
very last bit of tobacco in the pipe. With
the last Whit the pipe fell from his mouth
and broke. The iron doors swung to with
bang. The light, the giant and the steps
vanished. Oliffe started to his feet. He
was standing alone in the forest, and the
day was just breaking. Something seemed
odd about himself, and looking down, he
saw that he had long gray beard, and that
his clothes looked worn. He went slow
ly back to his castle, but he knew nobody
there, and nobody knew him. He was an
old, old man. He had smoked the best
years of his life away in idle dreams, and
the cunning giant had cheated him out of
entering the palace of Time, after all
Poor Count Oliffe.
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Warm-Weather Poetry.

Oh, for lodge in garden of cucumbers!
On, for an iceberg or or two at control!
Oh, for vale which at midday the sun eumbers!
Oh, for pleasure-trp up to the pole!
Oh, for little one-story thermometer,
With nothing but zeros all ranged in row
Oh, for big doublc-barreled hygrometer,
To measure this moisture that rolls from my
brow
Oh, that this cold world were twenty times
colder!
(That's irony, red hot, it seemeth to me3
oh, for a turn of its dreaded cold shoulder!
oh, what comfort an ague would be!
Oh, for grotto TO typify heaven,
Scooped in the rock under cataract vast
Oh, for winter OF discomfort even!
oh, for wet-blankets judciously cast!
Oh, for soda +fount spouting up boldly
From every hot lamp-post against the hot sky
oh, for a proud maiden to look at me coldly,
Freezing my soul with glance of her eye!
ROSSiter JOltnSon.
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More Ouickened Conscience.

A fair to medium Detroiter went home to
supper the other night to find that his wife
had entered the house only moment be-
fore him, and he naturally inquired where
she had been.
"Richard," she answered, in very sober
way, II have been to consult fortune tel
ler"
What |" he exclaimed, turning pale in
an instant and staggering back against the
wall
"Yes, have been to consult a fortune
teller" she went on, as the tears came to
her eyes.
"Bosh madam Fortune tellers are
humbugs- swindlers-liars p
Orchard, this fortune teller told me"
81 won't hear i'll want none of their
nonsense !" he interrupted.
"Richard, it concerns you"
81 don't care! l want my support
have no time for foolishness %
Orchard, she says that you are
Il tell you l won't hear any of her bal
derdash She lied about me, of course,
and I'll make her take it back or 90 to
prison!"
Orchard, won't you let me say that she
said you were gradually killing yourselfby
too close attention to business 2"
ibid she say that3"
"Why, of course she did"
"Lizzie, forgive my harsh words. see
that they tell the truth and the truth only.
After supper I'll get carriage and wen
ride out, and while we are down town
you'd better get that new bonnet you spoke
Of"
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Be liberal to your farms and they will be
liberal to you. A farm is very much in
one respect like looking lass-it reflects
the character Of the owner exactly. If he
is parsimonious his farm will show it. Ii
he is a man of taste, his buildings, fences,
and the general arrangement of the farm
will tell the tale. No effort on his part TO
disguise his real thoughts or sentiments
will avail anything so long as the opera
tions of his farm belle his words. The far
mer who invests freely in his farm is sure 10
he paid well for his risk and trouble. Lib
erality in providing utensils is the saving
of both time and labor. The more perfect
farmers TOOLS the more profitable are
they. So, also, it is with his working cat
tie and his stock. The most perfect in
their kinds are the most profitable. Liber-
atty in good barns and warm shelter is The
source of health, strength and comfort to
animals, causes them to thrive on less food
and secures from damage all sorts of crops.
Liberaity also in the provision of food for
domestic animals is the source of flesh,
muscle and manure. Liberality to the
earth, in seed, culture and compost, is the
source of its beauty.