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This Summers Eclipse.

/ A pamp.et is just Issued from the
United States Nautical Almanac Office at
Washington, in which Professor New
comb gives particulars for this country
for the total solar eclipse to take place
July 30. Maps are furnished for the
line of totality, which extends over the
western end of Montana, across the Vel
lowstone National Park, through. Wyom-
ing territory, over Denver, Col, down
through northern and eastern Texas,
entering the Gulf of Mexico between
New Orleans and Galveston. 1t will
then pass over most of Cuba and the
southern portion of Santo Domingo,
vanishing from earth shortly afterwards.
The breadth of the totality shadow in
this country will be about one hundred
and sixteen miles. The partial eclipse
will extend all over the United States,
Mexico and British America. Instruc-
tiens are given by which unskilled OBJ
possessed of sPy-glass and q
watch, may make observations on this
eclipse along the line OF totality, that are
likely to be of use if sent to Washington.
1t is mentioned incidentally that the
present astronomical tables are so uncer-
tain that there is a difference of four
miles in the path of the shadow as given
by the British and Ameri-
can nautical almanacs. The pamphlet
includes diagram of the place OF inn
portant stars which may be seen near
the sun during the moments of eclipse,
and suggests that sharp lookout should
be then kept for intra>Mercurial planets.
People who have the faculty for rapid
sketching are advised how to make
drawings of the corona. All the sugges-
tions of the pamphlet are simple, and
may be carried out without trouble by
those who are favorably situated to the
localitv
The Hickman courier., 1878-07-26
ESTABLISHED 1859.

tation. The bird and her young ones
make daily journey of forty miles.
ship recently arrived at Liverpool
with the extraordinary freight of three
living whales, brought from the coast of
Labrador, and intended for public equa-
RUINS. They were each about fourteen
feet long, eight feet girth, and weighing
hall ton. On the voyage they were
placed in wooden boxes, repOsing upon
bed of seaweed, and being flushed
with water from bucket every few
minutes
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A NEW WORK FOR CHEMISTRY.
American Grasses Being Tested ~itF interesting
Resglts

American Grasses Being 7 Tested aith interesting
Resslts.
Prof. Colyer, the chemist employed
by the government 0r the department OF
agriculture, is engaged with his as
sistants in making some analysis that
promise to be of considerable Importance
to the agricultural interests OF the
country. The department has received,
from various parts of the United States,
specimens of grasses which, having been
ground to powder, are submitted to
chemical tests to determine their relative
nutritive value for the purposes of feed
ing stock. The grasses now under
examination comprise twelve of the
rative varieties OF Kansas. None of the
analyses are yeE scoh-l~.o. r.. She
experiment of analyzing agricultural
products being new in the United States,
the results of the ones now in progress
are awaited with interest.
One of the first tests applied to these
grasses is that of incineratien, or burn
ing, their organic substance being con-
sumed. The nutritive value of the
grasses is in some inverse proportion
to the inorganic or non-nutritive matter
which remains after the fire. One of
the western grasses already tested in this
manner has been found TO contain less
than eleven per cent. of the alkaline or
non nutritive substance. Subsequent
tests are made for the purpose of deter
mining the varying proportions of starch
sugar, albumen, etc, contained In the
grasses.
According to Investigations made by
Prof. Colyer, there grow within the limits
of the United States not less than l 200
varieties OF grasses, the New England
States alone furnishing about 200 varie-
ties. Prof. Colyer mentions, ss curious
fact (showing the limited attention which
has hitherto been given to agricultural
chemistry in the United States), that all
most no analyses of even the common
, cereals-corn, wheat and rye-have been
made by American chemists, our know
ledge of the results of snch analyses COM
ing mainly from England and Germany.
He also thinks that the meadow lands OF
New England, which have become bar
rem from being kept constantly sown
with one kind of grass, could be made
abundantly productive again by being
treated to some other of the multitude
nous varieties which, after investigation,
/ would probably be found adapted to the
present condition of the soil. Atpresent,
he asserts, the chemical assistance at his
disposal is wholly inadequate to under
| take investigations of this kind.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Content
Beyond the hiIIs that shut me in.

Beyond the hills that shut me in,
heard ths sound of laeor,
Worlds woe and pain and sorrow, too,
Seemed struggling with its neighbor,
For Love seemed dead, and Peace had fed
FsI off to fields Elysian,
And might was right, and strength was law
Such was the earthly vision.
MY soul was stirred, prayed. " Let me
DO some great work so purely:
To right life's wrongs that l may know
That have loved Ghee surely"
My lips sent forth this eager cry,
The W hile my heart bsat faster,
6 For some great deed to prove my love,
Send me. send me, Ny Master"
But svery path was htdged with thorns,
Ny hands we're torn and bleeding;
Each gate was barrel, aud hope, lll-stsTred.
Was from my heart Teceiing.
Night came on, within the valleys rim
The source Of pain and sorrow
Grow faint with idly folded hands
l waited for the morrow.
Then through the silence came a voice,
Saying Z" II God thou fenrest,
A rise aud do, thy whole ifs through,
The duty that lies nearest
The friendly word, the kindly deed,
fhosgh small the act In seeming,
Shall prove At last un,o thy soul
FarIS5s -ssr than thy dreaming.
I" The cup OF water to the faint,
The rect unto the weSry,
Tue light thou giYest another's life
Shall make thine oWn less dreary,
ANA DOundleSS realms OF fdlth ana Love
Will wait tor thy possessing
Not creeds but Deeds if thou wouldst win
Unto thyseli a blessing.
And 30 / wait with peaceful heart,
Content to do His pleasure
Not caring though the world may mock
At smsl lness of the measure
OF thoughts or deeds, or dlily life,
He knows the true endeavor
To do His will. and seek His face.
And He will fail me never.
-lsarsh Fl. Gibbs
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Consumption Due to insufficient
NOuriShment.

The alarming ease of mortality
from consumption fm aroused the atten>
tion of many earnest thinkers outside
the medical fraternity. Statistics show
that this disease carries off more victims
in year than most fatal epidemic; and
various plans are proposed by which the
power of the terrible scourge may be in
measure decreased. Especially in New
England, where the climate is severe
and the people energetic and enterpris-
ing; "where it is considered effeminate
to dress heavily, to have sleeping-room
warmed, or to favor ones self in the
matter OF work." there consumption
rules and reigns. An editorial in the
July number OF Scribner, commenting
on this subject, charges mnch of the i'll
health of New England To the "thin diet'
system of Graham, from which the people
have not yet entirely recovered. Stu
dents starved themselves, took long
tramps while fasting, and died by hun
dreds. The writer considers sawdust rs
wholesome and nutritious diet as buck
wheat cakes and molasses. Good bread
and butter, milk, fruit, nutritious beei
or mutton and nice puddings, these he
considers the necessaries of life, INSULT,
cient nourishment being one of the CHIEF
causes OF lung diseases. To increase the
vitality to a dominant pitch renders the
tubercles already deposited in the lungs
harmless. eve have seen consumption
cured again and again" he says, "by tn,
simple process of building up the forces
of vitality through passive exercise il
the open air, and the supply of an abun
dance of nutritious food and we have n,
doubt it can be prevented in most in
stances by the same MEANS"
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universe is not be forever and forever :
march of discord; cacophonous, naiS1
and grating. 1t is like come OF tncso
sublime passages in the symphonies q q
Beethoven which seem for time y
crash and contend; but by and bJ tney
begin to mellow and finally issue ID :
magnificent harmonious choral. 30 ins
whole world, that groans and travails =
pain, and has from the beginning
is coming to point where y
will be concordant, and lift up its voies
in harmonious songs, and glorify Goe
end rejoice in the unity of all things u.
His Son. Christian Union.
Behold the Fear Of the Lord, That IS Visions
Some fancy wisdom consists in arnass-
ing wealth, Others in gaining name
among men, others in self-indulgeno'
but the scripture informs US that it cor
sists in pleasing God. For he who fesEs
to offend God, will be sure to please HIN.
Those who fear God, receive He T. = y :
believe His gospel, trust in His Son.
worship at His throne, observe His ordis
nances, copy His example, seek His Holy
Spirit, withdraw from His enemies, Unite
with His friends, resist satan and strive
against sin. This is true wisdem. For
thus they avoid all penal evils, and
secure all real good. The Omnipotent
is their friend. the wealth of the universe
is their portion, and the mansions of
glory their home. If man who
escapes the greatest dangers, secures the
greatest good, enjoys the greatest pleas
ure and obtains the greatest honor is
wise, then every real Christian is wise :;
for such is the happiness of every one
that truly fears God. o fear the Lerd,
We His saints, for there is ne want unto
them that fear Him Rev. James
Smith.
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Loves Solution Of Lie s Mystery

TIE intellect can never solve the prob
lem o pain; only love can do it. We
know that "All things work together
or good to them that love God" is the
utterance, not of a clear comprehension
of a consistent theory of the universe,
but of love that by faith knows the
divine love. The household interprets
life as the father interprets God.
For we do precisely the came thing in
little which God is doing IN the great.
In the family we deliberately put our
children to pain as a means of impress
ing on their minds ideas that it is indis-
pensable for them to know, as means
of bringing them to patience and cour-
age, of curing in them morbid tenden-
cies to which they are addicted. We
subject our children to small bu real
pains; we are sorry that they cry; ye
we look with comparative composure
upon the suffering of the child, because
we see the end, and know that the
trouble will be transient, and that final
Iy it will work out Z" a far more exceed
ing and eternal weight of glory"
While, then, we, looking at the bottom
of the cloud in our short lives, see
simply thst sorrow is checking our tenn
porary joy here, God, looking at it from
the eternal horizon, sees that it is u
produce eternal joy in Heaven. Wha
to us is misery is to God preparation
What to us seems to be the extinguish
ment of hope is to Him the foundation
of an everlasting experience of happiness
Therefore except as the parent symPa
thizss with child in an unnecessar,
fright, and waits for 1t to come out OF II
God cannot feel about the reign Ct miser
in this world as we do; for He sees tina
it is marching on TO great triumph
All the forces of the universe will ye
come into harmony The march OF tn
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Fishing for Monkeys.

A writer in Land and Water tells how
be caught monkeys with fishing line
Walking carelessly through their
haunts Istrewed some grain upon place,
on which dug with my knife few round
holes about four inches deep. Coming
back to the spot in half an hour drop
ped grain into each hole and left moose
round one of them, concealed with earth.
The other end of the line was in bush.
was there in short time, and mons
keys were busy picking the grain. An
old fellow would look into hole and chat
ter; others came and looked snd all chat
tered. By>and-by plucky little fellow
popped in his paw, and utagain- Next
time he got the corn, then others dipped
in till they finished that hole. In due
course they got to the moose. with some
chatter and the same results till the line
was pulled.
A sudden scream, a general hustle
while the captive was hauled home and
envcloped in horse-rug. By this tim
~-AO SACOP Adh uP IL NhC eACNo3 IC@Ce----~--
and shaking the boughs most ferociously
following me as I went away, with tn
lost one kicking till he was tired. / be
lieved this moose plan is frequently prac
ticed.
once caught monkey on the Trim
luck Hill Fort that fell down the face G
the scarp, knocking his head against PR
jections till he was brought up with
thud on q slab. He was nearly sensele'
when I picked him up. No bones wei
broken. In few minutes ! let him {
to his relations, who had never cease'
letting him know wh,re they were. i
crawled q lietly up the scArP rock, sr
seemed u be receiv.d with anger. PJ
sibiy th-y only W shed 60 know what hi
been said to him by the fellow without
tail.
Hon Ritfers-Takirr vour Girl to
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"A man who, having lost heavily in
business, had become morose and ill.,
natured, one day said to his wife: 1--WE
must sell off some of our carrieges; which
shall it be f'' My DEAR" responded the
wife, "you may do as you please 50 LONG
as you only get rid of the 'sulky' and
retain the ssociable.'"
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1HE BLUE AND The GREY.

r.ch thin hand resting on grave,
der lips apart in prayer,
mother knelt and left her tears
Upon the viOlets there;
ntsr many a IOad or vale and lawn,
Of hill and forest gloom,
The reaper Death had reveled in
his fearful harvest home,
The last unquiet summer shone
Upon tIuitless fray;
rom wonder forest charged the Blue,
Down yonder slope the Grey.
aThe hush Of death was on the scene,
And sunset oe'r the dead,
In that oppressive silentDess,
A pail of glory spread
know not. dare not question how
met the CHASTITY glare
Of each upiurned and stirlesS face
That skunk and withered thefe.
knew my noble boys had stood
Through all that whitening day
knew that Willie wore the Blue,
That Harry wOie the Grey.
Thought of wiIlie's clear blue eye,
HIS wavy hair of gold,
That clustered on a fearless brow
of purest saxon mold;
of Harry with his raven locks,
An eagle glance Of pride;
OF how they clasped eac others hand,
And left their mothers side;
How hand in hand they bore my prayers
And blessing on the way
Araoble heart beneath the Blue,
1ofh r meath the Greys
80 ~ dead with NJ hifa and folded han<ls,
Fast hu5hed our village homes,
I've seen laid calmly, tenderly,
Within their darkened Tosms:
But here saw with distorted limbs,
And many an eye aglare,
In the soft purple twilight Of
Iac thunder-smitten air;
Along the slope ard on the sward,
In CHASTITY ran ks they lay.
And there was blood upon the Blue,
And blood upon the Grey.
looked and saw-his blood and his
swift and vivid dream
vi blended years flashed Ger me then
Like come cold shadow came
a blindness of the eye and brain
4 ne same that seizes one
"nen men are smitten suddenly,
Mso oveTstare the sun
ana while blurred with the sudden stroke
~ mat swept my soul, Law;
Aney buried Willie in his Blue,
and Harry in his Grey.
The shadows fall upon their graves,
They fell upon my heart,
And through the twilight OF my soul,
Like dew. the tears will start;
The starlight comes 20 silently,
And fingers where they rest.
So hopes revealing starlight falls
And sinks within my breast.
Ihey will not ssk in yonder Heaven
Where smiles eternal day,
why Willie went to wear the Blue
why Harry wore the Grey"
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and wound.
And ainging out their legs like that wouIdn
Jaw pound
1 think. socl-aw-aw oeoruei n
bweak my jawi--
Society is, don't you kntsE mon'lwous hov
It is beastly warm, an dancing makes lellnh such
aguy,
withdvops Of perspiwarion hop-hop-hoppin' down
why. sisndin' here, feel rs limp as-Aw well, as
Niger.
just fancy me--aw l-whEzin' round I'D cut
pretty hggerI
The "festive thwong "--that's rwot you know
when the them- aw-thermom- awl
By GeorRel the thermo-mnmefer n markin' eighty
fGwf
Av-yaw, let's cut this sWeIterin' shop, an dwop
this beastly dress.
ri make my islIah pack my things an catch the
Ecotch expweas.
There's Lady Flo got her eye upon ms-wants
Av-.pwetty Flo. my spoon "eIose-iime 4" begin
the end Of Junei
I wezIiy wish they'd pasia Law to mako hop
Between the Grst oi--av--JuIy and-aw-toO hot
for wymei
IExit, very limp
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II
destroyed during the war.
Mrs Campbell, OF Minnesota, was
drowned while bathing in the surf at
Mayport, Fla, Wednesday. Sharks bit
off one of her arms before the body could
be recovered.
Daniel Wright, the largest land owner
in the lower Shenandoah valley, died at
his home IN Berkeley county, West
Va, last Monday. He owned fifteen
valuable farms.
Some portions of Middle and West
Tennessee have been visited with hog
cholera pretty extensively this summer,
and hog breeders begin to think that
pork will be very scarce in those sections
next fall
A gentleman at Orange City, Fla,
received some popcorn from Wisconsin
last February, which he planted on the
9Th of March; he gathered in the crop
and returned seed to Wisconsin by the
1st of June to be replauted there.
j. A. Conner, of Corinth, Miss, has
sued the Western Union telegraph COM
pany for $4,000 damages, because dis
patch summoniDg him to the bedside of
his sister in Bethel, Tenn, was not
delivered him until two days after it
reached the telegraph Office, or otherwise
he could have reached Bethel before she
died.
Little Rock Democrat: The people of
Hot Springs are really in deplorable
condition. With the unsettled state of
affairs in reference to titles to property,
there is a constant uneasiness pervading
all classes. Any permanent settlement
of the property rights of the citizens
would be hailed with delight. They are
severe in their criticism on the failure of
our members of congress to procure the
passage of some law affording relief.
The Charleston News and Courier says
of the return of the Azor, the ship that
carried over the Liberian emigrants
Her arrival here is anxieusly awaited by
two hundred fifty emigrants, one hun
dred and ninety seven of whom are |
adults, and despite the terrors of the |
experimental trip, these poor people, |
who have lived here for the last two
months, no one knows how, are ready |
and willing at the shortest notice to join
their comrades in the unknown promised |
land
Asheville IN. CO. Citizen: Our special
correspondent on the spot telegraphs us
that, for the past few days, Bald noun
tain has been in a high state of excite
ment and uproar. Two days ago some
parties visited the side which has split,
and discovered the opening to be wider,
to large and apparently unfathomsble
cave. 1t is now settled fact that the whole
mountain is hollow Parties are organ
izing for thorough exploration. Visitors
are docking daily to witness the extra
ordinary phenomenon.
The cotton planters of Brazos county,
Texas, have a novel way of destroying
the cotton worm. 1t is as follows: A
lantern, set inside of a pen made of COM
mon sheet of tin, and surrounded by
about a quart of water, upon the top of
which a spoonful of kerosene is poured,
is the remedy. The flies which produce
the worm are attracted at night by the /
light of the lanterns, and, striking
against them, fall into the pan of water
and oil, and are then destroyed. Any
kind of cheap lantern is used. The |
cotton fields are lighted up with thou
sands of these lamps nightly, and the
remedy has so far proved successful
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Hop Bitters-Taking your girl to a
hop" aud having some other fellow
dance with her continually.
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

There are nine daily newspapers pub
blished in Georgia.
Chattanooga wishes to hold COM
mercial, manufacturing and agricultural
exhibition there next fall.
Memphis is exasperated for the reason
that discrimination is made against her
in river freights.
Vicksburg has subscribed 100000
and the county s75, 900 to the Memphis
and VicEsburg railroad.
Work has been resumed on the public
buildings in Raleigh, and the post-office
will be ready in two weeks.
The state engineers of Louisiana are
examining the levees of the Mississippi
the entire length of the state.
The artesian well at Charleston is such
a success that the city has more water
than it demands.
The San Antonio Herald says the
whole Texas frontier is being raided by
Mexicans as it was never before.
A three-year old negro child got lost
in The pine woods of North Carolina,
and was gone two days and nights
A Texas paper tells of a desperate en-
counter between two blacksnakes and a
coon. resulting in the death of the latter
A tu,t captured at Pensacola weigh
ed three hundred and fifty-ive pounds
and yielded seven hundred and two eggs.
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hurried across the space between the
building and the house, and stole softly
in at the basement door, in pursuance of
my plan to drop the basket and run.
In my rubber shoes my steps were
noiseless, and had scarcely passed the
threshold when Istood rooted to the floor
in terrihle amazement
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-02-08
VOLUME 4l---NUMBER 2Il5.

day, and they are ready for a strike or
for any amount of grumbling about
bloated presidents and directors.
''The freedom with which these men
spend money makes certain kinds of
business lively, to be sure; but they
are not, after all, as good citizens as the
thrifty German, for instance, who lives
within his means and saves up his
money to buy a hit of land when the
opportunity Offers, and who, when the
hard times strike him in any form, has
something to bridge over with +; and
not left destitute.
care these railroad laborers' children
any healthier and happier and better
for being dressed like the children of
wealthy and professional men? Their
embroidered silk stockings, kid slip
pers, white dresses and ribbon sashes
will not help them one step toward
being useful men and women, while it
gives them wrong ideas as to the i'm
portance of dress. But If the money
spent for this f1ummery could be saved
to,help defray the expenses of their ed
ucation, they would be assisted to the
advanced position in life for which they
are striving.
"All of this aping the ways of the
rich deceives no one, makes the life of
the laboIing man harder to be borne,
and is utterly ridiculous. l am labor
ing man myself. My sympathies are all
with that class, and | want to do some
thing to help them. have had a steady
job for fifteen years and have been mar
ried twelve. l live in my OlUn house /;
have six children. | have never kept
fast horse, or bird dog and sport
ing gun, or had 'nObby' suit every
season. My wife has never worn a silk
velvet cloak or Paisley shawl, and our
children have not been ruffled and fur
beloved until they looked like fashion
plates and as rule we have not lived
on mutton chops and sirloin steak. But
we have dressed plainly, neatly, COM
fortably, and well enough so as not to
be III any way noticeable at church,
where we have made point of going
every Sunday. Our living has been
plain, wholesome food, with good bread
and butter, and plenty of fruit.
ANY laboring man, by taking such
position and maintaining it, may build
up home for himself for his old age,
and at the same time, with his family,
he more thoroughly respected than
those men who live showily and spend
every cent as they go. But, l declare.
here's the Chestnut-street crossing; Pm
glad to have met you. G0Odby to
you" And my stanch, handsome, in
telligent mechanic went in one direc-
ton, my practical, sensible little woman
in another, and | sat down in the wait
ing room at the station to note down
their conversation for the benefit of
such readers of the Transcript as it may
cOncern.-MrS. Annie A. Preston, IN
Boston Transcript.