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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-09
Witches at tho LeyyeB,

Now. my son Roderick-my young
est son, who is twenty -one next month
was last year at the hcrrin' fishery
at Frazerberg. One night lie went
ashore, and met strange woman and
man walking. They did stop, and did
ask who he was, and where he did
come from. "From Loch Inver," says
he. "And so do we," says they (Which
was singular, rs he did never set eyes
on them bcfore) "Come with us, and
we will give you Il drink" of beer or
OF rum, or of whisky, or of gin, do
not rightly mind which 1T was what
efer. You must know sir, that each
boat, at the herrin' fishery time, takes
a woman on board to cook meat and
wash for them; there will be many
women go to sea in this mariner.
Well, they ask my son at the tavern,
"Did you have any good luck with the
herrin' to day?" ''No, very bad"
"Did you yesterday" p" "No worse
again. ""Ah but" says she, "you will
have tomorrow" Well sure enough
he did fill his boat next day with very
many Grams of herrin', and did get Gl5
for his share that one day. 1t was a
wonderful thing. But he did tell nc
that that gold did do him no good; he
had no idea how it did get spent what
effer. That day he did 20 looking
about after the man and woman all
over, but he did never see them again
l did not here Of his ever again seeing
them, Frederick do hope you will
never again have anything to do with
these witches" emo, father, will
never again, so long rs do live" lie
is away to Frazerberg this year again.
L did hear of another witch in the
Lewes, Is year agonc. She lived at
Stornoway, and did sell winds to sail
ors. One Of our Loch Invcr boats did
not get away that autumn for weeks.
The wind was almost dead against
them. Well, .hey did 60 to her, and
wat they paid her. did not hear, but
Size gave them black string tied with
three knots, and said, "Ye'll be getting
AVA to morrow. Now, if the wind is
not strong enough, loose one knot; II
even then it is not enough, loose tho
second; but on your life on your life
dinna loose the third ~ Well, they
got Off sure enough next morning with
fair breeze; and then the skipper
loosed one knot. On the boat sprang
and the wind rose. Soon he looscd tho
second, and they tore over the waves
and were very soon over the Minch
near Loch Invcr. They got to the en-.
trance fthe harbor near the store hous,
-ye ken 1t? on the highland tho
Skipper says, "We're a RIGHT now; If
the dell himself withstands me, | will
| loose the third !" IIc did loose it, and
though so near home, the boat was only
got ashore In little bits She was al.
though broken up! The men were al
saved
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-09
Tho Most Wonderful OF Calculating Boys.

When Bidder was ten years old he
answered in two minutes the following
question: What Is the interest Of E4 ,444
for 4, ,444 days at ~ per cent. per an
mum. Tho answer is E2 ,434 16s SID.
A fewmonths later, when hewasyet elev-
ell years old, he was asked, how long
would a cistern one mile cube be filling
IL receiving from river 120 gallons
per minute, without intermission9 In
two minutes he gave the correct an
swer, 1900 years 2S5 days II hours
and 4G minutes. a year later he divid-
ell correctly in less than minute
4GS ,592, ,4l3,5G3 by 9,07G. | have tried
how long this takes me with pen and
paper; and, after getting an incorrect
rcsul. In one and quarter minute,
went through the sum again, with cor
rect result, Isl ,629,s3S and 1915 over,)
In about the same time. At twelve
years Of age he answered in less than a
minute the question, if distance of
"a inches is passed oyer in a second of
time, how many inches will be passed
over IN 365 days, 5 hours, 4S inmates,
% seconds? Much more surprising,
however, was his success, when 13
years old, IN dealing with the question,
what Is the cube root Of S97 ,339 .273, ,S74, =
OO2, 1882 lie obtained the answer in
two aud a half minutes, viz, 0G4. .b37.
L DO not believe one arithmetician in n
thousand would get out this answer
correctly, at first trial, in less than q
I
have not tried the experiment, feeling,
indeed, perfectly satisfied that I should
not get the answer correctly in half a
dozen trials. No date Is given to the
following case: "The question was put
Dy Sir william Herschel, at Slough,
near Windsor. to Master Bidder, and an
swered in one minute: Light travels
from the sun to the earth in eight min
utes, and the sun being 9S.00O,OO0 Of
miles oil, [of course, this is quite wrong,
but sixty years ago 1t was near enough
tothc accepted value, J., lightlwould take
SIX years and four. months travelling at
the same rate from the nearest fixed
star, how far is that from the earth,
reckoning 800 days and six hours to
each year, and % days to each month ?n
The correct answer was quickly given
to this pleasing question, viz, 40, $685.
$40 0,000, 900 miles. On one occasion we
learn the proposer of question was not
satisfied with Bidders answer. The
boy said the answer was correct, and
requested the proposer to work his
sum over again. During the operation,
Bidder said he felt certain he was right.
for he had worked tho question in
another way, and before the proposer
found that he was wrong and Bidder
right the boy told the company that he
had calculated the question by u third
method.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-09
TOO Trusting.

"Mary Jane Marsh, didn't say. to
last week that the next time you came
here under the charge Of drunkenness
should send you up for sixty days9"
asked his Honor of five-snd-forty,f fe-
male,
81 think you said 30, Judge, but
think I had too much faith In you to
believe you'd do any such thing" she
replied.
swell. you trusted too much. You
are regularly booked" 4
'And I'm regularly sorry. Your
Honor, because l can never believe In
you again. It's. a sad day when a man
loses the confidence OF the public In his
words E
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-10-09
Taino Hornets.

There Is no accounting for tastes
Mrs. Lincoln, Of Boston keeps two big
pet lions, and now we hear Of a West
ern farmer who has domestlcated lot
of creatures that belong quite as appro-
prtatoly out Of door. In letter he
says:-"In the middle Of my parlor l
have curious republic Of Industrious
hornets; their nest hangs to the CELL
Ing by the same twig on which 1t was
so admirably built and contrlved In the
woods. Its removal did not displease
them, for they find in my house plen.
ty Of food, and l have left little hole
in one Of tho panes of glass that an
swers all purposes. BY this kind usage
they have become quite harmless. They
live on the flies, which are very trouble
some to us through the summer. They
are constantly busy catching them
even OH the eycl'ds Of my children. BY
their assistance am but little troubled
with flies. All my family are 80 ac-
customed to their strong buzzlng that
no one takes any notice of them, and
though they are fierce and vindictive.
yet kindness has made them useful and
harmless.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09
Indoor and Outdoor Exercise.

4 ~
Few ladies, says the Boston Transcript,
have any idea of the number of steps
they take and the number of miles they
walk daily in going about their houses.
Ghe pedometer reveals some extraordi-
nary facts. A lady, an acknowledged
invalid, who thought she saved every
unnecessary step, found that she had,
between breakfast and tea, walked
nearly two miles without going outside
the door. The pedometer would proba-
bly, show that nervous ladies who can't
sit STILL" and are constantly dumping
up" to get this or that, walk at least
five miles day in their daily travels
about the house. What it would do in
the case of the young ladies who dance
by the hour, yet are too delicate to walk,
can be imagined. OF course, exercise is
good thing, but exercise in the open
air is the kind that is beneficial to
health. If our ladies would manage to
avoid a part of their unnecessary" trot-
ting around" the houses-the result, in
the great part, of nervous habit-and
put the same number of steps in outdoor
exercise every, day, the result would
be greatly to the advantage of their
health. And then there are the stairs.
If lady was asked to hoist her own
weight through twelve to fifteen feet o'
space, the ordinary height of a "story,'
she would esteem it a cruel hardship
but she will do precisely that a hall
dozen times day to get her Other
gloves" her fan, or to see that her hail
is as it should be- Let any lady take
pains TO count the number of times sh'
climbs fight of stairs in the course O.
a day, and she will be surprised to fine
how much of her strength is consumed
in lifting herself. - a.s ...5
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ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOUSE.

CHICKEN croquettes - Delmonico:
Two sweetbreads, boiled; one teacupful
Of fsboiled chicken ,hashed; one boiled
onion, one teacupful boiled bread and
milk, quarter pound butter, salt and
pepper. Chop chicken and sweetbreads
very fine, mix in well the other in
gradients, shape into rolls, then dip
in the yolk of an egg, then in cracker
dust; drop into boiling lard and fry
brown.
THE superiority of Scotch oatmeal is
said to be partly owing to the grain
shade of green upon it. Oat straw is
far less nourishing for cattle when the
crop is allowed to stand till it is dead
| ripe. Early-cut oats are heavier per
bushel, fairer, and they usually sell for
more money. s-tl
Cop ALMIGHTY first planted a gar
der, and indeed is the purest of all
human pleasures. 1t is the greatest
refreshment to the spirits of man, with
out which buildings and palaces are but
gross handiworks, and men shall ever
see that when ages grow to civility and
elegance, men come to build stately
sooner than to garden finely, as if gar
dening were the greater perfection. :
A GOOD remedy for lice on cattle is
water in which potatoes were boiled.
For every one of your cattle take two
quarts of water and eight middle-sized
potatoes cut in half. If you have ten
cattle, you must take eighty potatoes
and twenty quarts of water. When
the potatoes are soft take them out.
Get large sponge and wash the cattle
freely, choosing warm day. Comb
them with currycomb, and you will
be astonished to see the effects of the
potato water.
PEAS pudding: Tie a pint of split
peas in a cloth, leaving room to swell
but not more; put them in stew-pan
of cold water, where let them boil hall
an hour until tender, but not at all
watery; then turn them out of the
cloth, rub them through a hair-sieve
into basin, after which add quarter
of pound Of butter, season with 8
little white pepper and salt, and mix al
well together with the yolks of three
and one whole egg; lightly -four pud
ding cloth, which lay in small round
bottomed basin; pour in the mixture
tie up the cloth, and put the pudding
to boil for an hour in saucepan O
boiling water When done, turn i
from the cloth upon dish, and serv'
with any joint of boiled pork.
AN English horticulturist on visi
, of inspection into the French method
: of gardening, tells us that nearly ever.
head of asparagus is grown to the regu
; lation size, and that is circumferenc
1of -and-one-half to five inches. Th
French growers also take care of tn
vegetable after it is cut; do not, as wit
us, leave it exposed to the sun, the win,
< and the rain. 1t is, on the contrary
y packed in loose grass, and put in clos
n wicker baskets, and kept in them at tn
d market till it is sold, so that its fresh
/. ness, its flavor and its crispness are a.
k preserved intact till it appears on tn
d table. This is very different to its trea
IS ment in our Detroit market, where it
o cut and put in bunches, and the
n bounced about as if lit were intende
for cattle feed instead one of th
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

Depends in great measure upon our regard
for or neglect of the laws of health If we
violate them we cannot expect to ''make old
bones" But that the spau of existence al
lotted to naturally delicate constitution,
or one which has been shaken by disease,
may be materially heightened, is a fact OF
which we have daily proof. The vivifying
and restorative influence of hostetter's
Stomach Bitters upon failing physique af-
fords striking illustration of the power OF
judicioas medication to strengthen the hold
ON life. Restored digestion, complete as
similation, renewed appetite, sound repose,
these are among the benefits conferred upon
the debilitated by that supreme renovant
With circu alton enriched, frame invigo
rated, and nervous system tranquilized
the irvalid, after course of the Bitters
feels that his life-tenure is no longer tine
precarious thing that it was-that he MAY
yet enjoy "green old age"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09
The LARGEST Of Their Kind.

l. The largest ocean in the world is
the Pacific. 2. The largest sea, the
Mediterranean. 4. River, the Amazon.
4. Gulf, Mexico. 5. Cape, Horn. s.
Lake, Superior. z. Bay, Bengal. s.
Island, Australia. 9. City, London.
10. Public building, st. Peters, Rome.
IL. Hotel, Palace, San Francisco. II,
Steamer, Great Eastern. 13. Desert,
Sahara. IA. Theater, Grand Opera
House, Paris. Is. State, Texas. 16.
Territory, Dakota. II. Park, the Pha-
nix Park, Dublin. Is. Highest noun,
tain, Mount Everest, Hindostan, Asia.
19. Sound, Long Island. 20. Largest
railroad, Union and Central Pacific.
81. Canal, Grand Canal, China. %
Bridge, that over the Tay at Dundee
Scotland. %. Largest railroad depot
St. Pancras, London. "a. Largest room
in the world under single roof, mill
tary one, St. Petersburg. rs. Strongesr
fort, Gibraltar. z6. Longest ship, tht
Romsdal, lately in this port. 27. Sail
ing ship of greatest tonnage, the Three
| Brothers.
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The Boy with the Bandbox
Detroit Free Press.l

Detroit Free Press
Yesterday forenoon as the country
people who had brought in produce to
sell on the market were about ready to
start for home a boy appeared at the
lower end of the Gel trail Market with
a blue nandbox under his arm. Among
the vehicles was a one-horse wagon be-
longing to an old woman who had just
sold four bags of onions, and was ready
to drive home. The boy approached
her in an honest, straightforward man
ner and remarked:
Well, auntie, here is that bonnet at
last"
ga ?" she inquired.
Why, yes; the one you ordered at
the store a week ago. You'll look SO
purity in it that the old man won't know
you. It's all paid for all right, and now
i'll set it down right here by your feet.
Tra-la, auntie."
That old woman knew the boy was
making a mistake in leaving bonnet
with her, but after the first words of
surprise she made no sign. She rea-
soned that it wasn't. her business to
correct mistakes, and as soon as the
boy had retired, she picked up the
lines and drove up Randolph-street,
every moment expecting to hear the
mistaken boy calling after her, and
every moment hurrying the old nag as
fast as he could go. After reaching the
/ corner of Gratiot-avenue and Brush
street, she felt that the boy could not
/ overtake her, and it was only natural
that she should have lively curiosity
to see what sort of bonnet it was. Ii
plain black, it would suit her. to dot.
| If gorgeous, it would do for her daugh.
ter. The horse was reined up to the
curb and the driver carefully united the
). string fastening the box and lifted The
cover. A "yaller" cat of monstrous
4 size, feeling that he had been abused
and insulted, and his eyes glaring with
hate and contempt, came out Of the boz
| like bullet.
People who happened to be in tha
neighborhood were treated to curious
spectacle. With one wild, unearthl,
yell an old woman was seen to pitcl
backwards over the seat and then sal
for the ground by the shortest route
While she was clawing around with he
head in a snow-bank, the cat, seeing he
cut of the way, made a spring from tn
seat to the horses back, and began
series of performances never known 0
dreamed of by that old equine, and tn
way that horse gathered his legs unde
him aud scattered the old wagon fo
half block was wicked to see. TIL
! woman, dug out of the snow by cor
siderate bystander, stood on the wal
g and endeavored to explain. A man i
the crowd picked up a wagon-wheel an
endeavored to remark that the Who'll
outfit wasn't worth scraping together
0 and some one in the crowd solemnl
r observed:
I If honesty amt the best policy, the
q / don't want a centp
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GLEAYINes FROM THE MUSE.
vrsp OF TIE WINTERS xraur.

"wind Of the winter nighti whence contest
thoui-
And vhitner, obi whittier, art wandering nov7
sad sal Is thy voice on the desoiste moor.
And mourniul, OIL mournful, thy howl at my
doori
nsay where hist thou been on thy ciord-lifted
carr
say, what hast thou seen or thy roamings ATARI
What suroS impels thee, thou boisterous bisst,
Thus TO mourn and complain, as thou journeyeat
pastl"
"Ihsye been where the snow on the chill noun
Would bave frozen the blood on the ruddiest
cheek;
And for many dismal and desolats day,
No beam OF my sunshine has bn yhtened my way.
"I have come from the deep where the storm In its
wrath
Spreads havoc AM death on iu pitiless path
Where the billows arose, as the hghtnings new
Andtsi.,ed tseir arms In the dun-colored sky;
"And saw frail esei all torn BY the wave
Drawn down, with her crew, 70 fsthomle''
grave;
And heard the loud creak Of her keel a. passed
And the Zap Of her sail, and the creak Of heI
mas.l
"Butit smote on my ear, like the tocsin Of death,
As she struggled and stove with the waters iol
IT'S her requiem 1 tune "a howl through the sky
And ropenE Of the fury that caused her to de-"
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: Mr.. jefferson Davis has outlived
all of his sons, and when he dies the
family name will become extinct.
His eldest son, Jefferson Davis, Jr.,
who died near Memphis the other day,
had scarcely passed his twenty-frst
birthday and though he did not inherit
the intellectual ability of his father, he
was a young man of considerable prom
Use. Early in the summer, and before
the fever broke out, young Jefferson
Davis went North with his sister and
her husband The latter returned for
some purpose, and was stricken down
with the fever. When his wife heard of
it she insisted upon going to him, and
young JEFF accompanied his sister. Be-
fore the husband was convalescent his
wife was attacked Young Davis
nursed his sister through her illness,
and in few days she became the
nurse and he the patient. Four day
later he died. DALI - -
In 1864, while Mr.. Davis was Presi-
dent of the Confederacy, he returned to
his residence one day from short visit
to the capitol, and found, lying in one of
the halls, the dead body Of his second
ooni WHUm uo Hdu ltII UuI al HOuI VI
two before, the picture of health. The
child was but five years Of age, and dur
ing the absence of his family fell from
rear balcony to a paved yard beneath
and crushed his skull. He lived but a
short while. This boy, Joseph, was the
most intelligent of the family, and a
special favorite with all the great mel
who in those days frequented his father,
house. He was bright boy, and the
city of Richmond mourned his death
Willie, the youngest son of Jefferson
Davis, was born in Richmond during the
war, and died when but three or four year
of age. There are now left but two chill
dren, both girls. The oldest, Maggie
was married about two years ago, and i
was while caring for her that young JET
met the terrible destroyer. Miss Winnie
the other daughter, is still at school.
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How Logs are Got Out of the Mount
''-' aims.
lTruckee (NeyadaJ Republican

lTruckee lNeyadaJ hepubncan
A chute is laid from the rivers brink
up the steep mountain to the railroad,
aud, while we are telling it, the monster
logs are rushing. laundering, flying,
leaping down the declivity. They come
with the speed of thunderbolt, and
somewhat of its roar. A track of fire
and smoke follows them-hre struck by
their friction with the chute logs. They
descend the one thousand seven hundred
feet of the chute in fourteen seconds.
In doing SO they drop seven hundred
feet perpendicularly They strike the
deep water of the pond with report
that can be heard mile distant. Logs
fred from a cannon could scarcely have
greater velocity than they have at the
foot of the chute. Their average
velocity is over one hundred feet in a
second throughout the entire distance,
and at the instant they leap from the
mouth their speed must be fully two
hundred feet per second. A sugar-pine
log sometimes weighs ten tons. What
a missile! How the water is dashed
into the airl Like a grand plume OF
diamonds and rainbows, the feathery
spray is hurled to the height of hun.
dred feet. 1t forms the grandesl
fountain ever beheld. How the waters
of the pond foam and seethe and lash
againt the shorel One log having spent
its force by its mad plunge into the deer
waters, has fioated SO as to be at right
angles with the path of the descending
monsters. The mouth Of the chute is
perhaps, fifteen feet Above the surface
of water. "A huge log hurled from the
chute cleaves the air and alights on tn,
foatingelog. You know how bulle
bglances, but can you imagine saw-lo!
glsncing. The end strikes with heav.
shock, but glides quickly past for
short distance, then crash like tn
reverberation of artillery, the falling
log springs one hundred and fifty fee
vertically into the air, and with curv
! like rocket, falls into the pond seyent,
yards from the log it struck.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

SOME tests have been made at Ports
mouth, England, to ascertain the effect
of a-shot striking the afr chamber of a
Whitehead torpedo. The first shots
were fred from a rifle, but beyond
slightly indenting the torpedo, no dam
age was done. The Gatling gun was
then tried at range of one hundred to
two hundred yards, but it did little more
injury than the rife. 1t was then fred
at point-blank range, when a shot pene-
trated the chamber, letting the confined
air, which was at pressure of one thou
sand pounds per square inch, escape
harmlessly.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09

AN old gentleman in Key West took
his sons watch to show him how easily
he could be robbed, and then asked him
the time. The young man was distressed
to find his watch had been stolen.
"Never mind" said his father, I" took
it to show you how easily you could
lose it; here it is" But as he felt in his
pocket to return it, he was surprised to
find that some thief more adroit than
himself had taken it.
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Many of the more advanced physicians,
having found DIR. Pierces Family Medi.
cines prompt and sure, prescribe then
regularly in their practice.
TwINvILLE, Tenn, May %, 1877.
DIR. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y:
catarrh. finally called in DIR. Zachary, O.
this place. He furnished me with YOU
Nasal Douche, -Sa2e's Catarrh Remedy. ant
your Golden Medical discovery. Thes,
remedies speedily effected an entire cure
Yours truly, JOHN S. CHAMLESS.
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FoR upwards of thirty years Mrs. WIN
slows SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for
children with never-failing success. It cor
rects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
collie, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery
and diarrbea, whether arising from teething
or other causes. An old and well-tried
stMedy. 25 cts. bottle.
For coughs and throat diseases, use
" Browns Bronchial Troches," having
proved their efficiency by a test of many
years. 25 cents a b K.
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ONLY one American cabinet or parlor
organ maker has ever succeeded in bearin g
off the highest honors at any worlds ex-
position, where they came in competition
with the best European makers, and this is
the Mason & Hamli Organ Co., who have
taken first medal, or highest honors, at
every such exhibition for twelve years, end.
ing with the Paris exposition this year where
they were awarded the highest gold medal