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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
Snakes as PetN.

Ofall ungrateful, ill.conditioned, dis
agreeable reptiles, the black-snake
takes the lead, and, with the exception
of the common water-snake, is the most
pugnacious Of all serpents l ever
handled; it would bite fercely when
caught, and, further, it wonld bite in
captivity whenever the temptation of
fered. We could not tame it to any ex-
tent until, by beating 1t smartly ana
repeatedly, we at length succeeded In
getting 1t TO q state OF %sullen, reluctant
decency. Its bite caused ONE blood to
flow, but otherwise amounted to noth=
ing. The water. snake was as snappish
and unappreciative of kindness as the
black-snake, would bite when first cap
tured, and also afterwards during cap
tivity, though in this latter state not al
ways, but as the caprice seized IL. The
copper head we had only In two instan-
ces. One waa brought to us half dead,
and died the same evening. The other
we captured alive by placing the foot
(well-bOoted) on the reptiles neck, and
inserting the snake by degrees into a
box. 1t was always an unciYil, uu-
tamable animal. utterly indifferent to
the comforts and alluremet~ of civil
lied life. We contented selves with
letting him alone, and i&Jkng at him
through the wire-gause a front OF his
box. A large rattlesnake was sent us
from the Blue Mountains. but it had
been so long in captivity before reach
ing us that all the spirit was out of 1t.
1t had large fangs, but never showed
any disposition to use them, and though
we took 1t from Its box a dozen times a
day and handled it sometimes not over.
~delioately. still it never resented any of
these liberties. Twenty-Five years
have since passed away, yet when |
now think of our temerity In this in
stance, it Is never without a shudder.
What | did then with impunity and
without thought, | would not now re.
peat for a million OF money.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
The Leap.

A daughter of the first Earl of Cow
RE was courted by a young gentlemen
much her inferior in rank and fortune.
Her family though they gave no en-
couragement to the match, permitted
him to visit them at their q ttle of
Ruthven in Perthshirc. and on such
occasions the chamber assigned him
was in a tower, near another tower in
which the young lady slept. On one
of his visits, the young lady, before the
doors were shut, got Into her lovers
apartment, but some of the family hav-
ing discovered it, told her mother, who,
having cut off all possibility of retreat,
fastened to surprise them the young
lady, however, hearing the well-known
steps of her mother hobbling up stairs,
ran to the leads. and took a desperate
leap of nine feet four inches over a
chasm of sixty feet from the ground,
alighted on the battlements ofthe other
tower, whence descending into her own
chamber, she crept into bed. Her
mother having in vain sought her in
her lovers chamber, came into her
room, where, finding her seemingly
asleep, she apologized for her unjust
suspicion. The young lady eloped TIE
following night, and was married.
The chasm between the towers is still
shown under the %appellatlon of the
"Maiden's Leap"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
His Christmas.

A young man OF frank countenance
and confidential air halted q policeman
on Griswold street, and asked the officer
If he knew Of a worthy widow woman
In Detroit, adding:
"You see, I'm a lone man, and hay
ing plenty of money In my pocket / feel
like making the coming christmas a
joyful II to some poor widow and her
innocent orphans"
The officer gave him the address of
three different worthy widows, aud the
man went his way. la about an hour
some loud talk In a saloon on the street
attracted the officers attention, and the
lone man with a big heart came out OF
the place with his coat torn down the
back.
"Hellol | thought you were anxious
to send a barrel of flour TO some poor
widow" said the officer.
"What | want is to send half a bar
rel of flour 10 some poor widow"
slowly replied the man, "and now Pm
going right of 10 do it,"
He went across the Woodward avenue
and tried to buy a dog Of boy for five
cents, and then made several men drink
with him. He then took a notion 10 go
to the postofllce, but on the way met
the officer, who asked him II the -four
had been sent.
"Whaz fOur?" demanded the ine-
briate.
"Why, that fifty pounds you were
going to send some worthy widow"
"Wasn't joing to shend fifty pounds
only twenty-five pounds" replied
the man, and he at once started for a
grocery. On the way he fell down and
rolled of the walk, and being unable
to rise word was sent TO the officer, who
came to take him down. Lifting him
up, he asked:
"Did you send that flour to that wOr-
thy widOwP"
Bursting into tears the man leaned
over Oh the blue coat and sobbed out:
"Poor wurzy widder-fojot all bout
FER. Tell her to pull frcw some way
till Fo'th July an I'll buy Ter hull
buncher hr~e-crackersl"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
The Pig.

The courage of a SOW with young in
her nest is something wonderful. No
wild animal that walks on the sol
can drive her from them. She will die
in defence of her pigs, and the wolf
doesn't live that can get the better of a
razor black SOW. She will always eat
young pigs, provided they are not her
own. Her own she never eats. The
pigs of any other SOW she considers
Legitimate food, and she will eat them
up to the time that they are three weeks
old; and any other SOW in turn will
eat her pigs. So there is not much
friendship in y yard during breeding
time. The s0ws regard each other
with an evil eye. D%istrust, doubt, UNI
certainty reign everywhere, until the
pigs are quick and active. Then the
friendly family relations are resumed.
1t is strange, but l have never seen a
boar eat young pigs, and | have had
all kinds-from the blooded wind
splitters" to the pure Berkshires-and
l never had a pig eaten by M of them.
Have not pigs intelligence? Attend.
One morning | walked up to the outside
of my vast hog pen. A SOW that had
always been rather wild came up to the
inside of the fence opposite to me. l
looked carefully at her, and walked
along the outside. She followed on the
inside, and, walking with me, began a
peculiar grunting. 1t struck my eat
as a grumbling grunt. l stopped and
looked carefully at her. / could see
nothing wrong with her, yet she stood
near me talking to me in appealing
gruuts. Jumping owe the fence |
walked across the yard to where had
some breeding pens. The SOW follow
ed close. constantly grunting, until,
getting impatient Of her sudden affec-
ton, | drove her away. She stood off
some twenty feet, and suddenly began
to build a nest, scraping up the dirt
with her feet, and pushing it into a pile
with her nose. Then she stopped and
looked at me. Understanding Madam
now, l walked to the gate. She fol-
lowed. opened the gate and out she
walked and went at once TO the creek,
built her house, and In two weeks she
was home again with seven pigs. /
know of no other animal that would
have been able to thus reason and tell
her wants to man,
AS to cleanliness: Pigs will be un-
clean when they are compelled to; but
give them a pen with a stream of water
running through 1t, and they will keep
clean. When they drink they will
even 60 to the upper fence and drink
the perfectly pure water as it enters
the pen.
l say that the pig is the cleanest, the
most intelligent, and the most courage
GUS of animals. But should these
proofs be deemed insufficient, / can
! give more.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
HUMOROUS.

IF L DoS'T, ] WoS'I. "-Ephias
Jones was a little old man, his face as
wrinkled as a walnut, and his voice as
pipy as a tin whistle. He was brought
In for disturbing the peace on the
street lie was so cranky that he
elbowed and kicked pedestrians and
refused TO move on for street car
or carriages. Bijah had hard work
to put him In a cell. and twice as hard
TO get him out. He had TO bring him
In his arms, aud the old man kicked
and scratched like a boy of ten.
"They can't nobody shove me
%aroundV' squeaked the little old mar
as he was dropped before the desk.
Has anybody abused your" mildly
inquired the court.
"NO, because they dasn't do il. I'm
a little old man, but ! won't take a
word of sass from any man in the
State"
Do o want to 90 homer"
IF want to go | shall go. Ii ]
don't | won't"
Have a family ?"
81 won't tell you"
His Honor saw that he had an origi-
nal character to deal with, so he said
to Bijah:
"Take this nice old man in the corri-
dor, aud read him Article VII, and let
him out by the private door,"
Uncle Ephias was carried away, kick
ing and clawlng. No man outside of
two has any idea what occurred in the
corridor, IL is known that Bijah
brought down four of his best spankers
the other day, and he has often been
heard to express the opinion that GER
tain old men deserve a certain line of
treatment when they got to carrying
Oh as this one did. The news5oys who
were packed In next 10 the wall affirm
that they heard old familiar sounds,
well laid on, but 1t is a mystery that
will never be unraveled. When the old
"a was let out he jumped clear into
the gutter with a yell, and a close OBJ
server could have detected splinters
from a pine shinglc hanging to his coat
tails.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05

In addition to its tonic and cathartic prop
critics, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters exercises a
beneficial influence upon the kidneys and
bladder, when they are inactive, by stimula-
ting them to renewed e%xertion, thus reopen
ing. az it were, a slui0e for the escape OF i'm
purities whose regular channel OF exit ID the
organs OF urination. Among these are certain
abnormal and ipfammatory elements, pro-
d1ctive Of irteparRble injury TO the sy-tem II
not entirely expelled. The kidneys aud blad-
der themselves are also benefited by this
stimulus, as their inactivity is usually a pre-
liminary 10 their disease and disorgaD eaton.
They also experience, in common with other
portions OF the system, the otent invigora-
tive effects Of the Bitters, which furthermore
corrects dsordered conditions OF the stomach,
bowels and liver.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
She wouldn't Melt.

A day or two ago, when aservant-girl
opened the side-door of a house In re
sponse to a tramp's knock, her face
looked so kind and benevolent that the
hungry man had no doubt that a good
dinner awaited him. He had, however,
laid out a certain programme, and he
therefor began:
"My dear woman, | haven't had
anything TO eat for two days, and !
wanted to ask if you would spare me
one of these icicles which has fallen
from the eaves?"
"Well, l Dunno" she slowly replied,
as she looked out. 81 suppose we
might spare you one, if you are really
suffering, but of course you won't take
the largest and bestP"
He stepped down and selected AN ici-
Gle about two feet long, and in a hesi-
tating manner inquired:
"If you would only sprinkle a little
pepper on this l would be forever CRATE
full"
"It's rather bold in you to ask 1t, but
l suppose | can sprinkle on a little-a
very little" she replied, and she got
the pepper and busted his Luncheon"
very sparingly.
He started to move away, but SEEM
ing to recollect something he turned
ana said:
"You seem so benevolent I'll ask you
to sprinkle on a little salt as well. /
like my iclcles seasoned up pretty
high"
"You are a bold man, sir, and it's
plain that you have the appetite of a
glutton, butlll give you a bit of salt
and then you must be gone" she re-
piled.
When the icicle had been duly sailed
the man expressed his thanks, but
didn't move away. His game wasn't
working to suit him. Some folks
wouldn't have stood there and seen
him bite Oh the end OF a big icicle. but
this girl did. Aud further, when he
hesitated to 60, she Indignantly called
out:
81 know what you want. You now
want me to warm the lciole In the oven
for you and then put on some mustard,
but I'll never, never do it"
Tho man moved slowly out of the
gate, and as he threw his icicle at Q
passing dog he gave utterance to his
disgust In language punctuated entire.
~ with slung-sbots..
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
SCIENTIFIC.

Herr HellmdnR has Just finished a
thorough examination OF the fine dust,
usually red, which falls on vessels
many miles at sea, when passing along
the coast OF Africa, about the latitude
OF the Cape Verde Islands. The follow
Ing are some Of the facts brought out:
Most Of the dustfalls occur 10 the zone
Of the Atlantic between o deg. and l6
deg. north. South of6 deg. north they
are extremely rare; and the farthest
south hitherto was in 2 deg. Sc north,
20 deg. west. The two farthest west
were both In SO deg. 8 west, both about
500 miles from Cape Verde. Dustfslls
often occur simultaneously at very DIFF.
ferent points Of the Dunkle Meer," or
Dark Sea las E~hrenberg calls iD; In
one case they were $50 miles apart.
They often last for several days. Sur
faces OF very different size, up 10 l0O,-
QUO square miles, nay receive dustfalls.
There is a yearly period In the frequen-
cy OF the falls. Ii seems that neal the
African coast most occur In winter I;
farther west, In the early spring. The
direction Of the wind during dustfalls
was from the east, and most frequent
north-northeast TO northeast. The
dustfalls observed are very irregularly
distributed. or sixty-three, taken at
random, there were eigh. falls of sand
and three of sand or dust. Sometimes
sand and dust falls simultaneously. The
dustfalls with great extent east and
west are denser the nearer the African
coast. In forty out OF slxty-five in
stances the color oil the dust was red.
Sometimes there is no celebration, The
dry mist of the Dark Sea is In casual
connection with the dustfalls. Herr
Hellman concludes from the facts that
the dust material comes principally
from Africa and from the western Sa-
hara. The possibility of occasional
mixture of particles from South Amer
lea is not excluded. TIE distribution
of the d~ustfalls, both In space and ia
time obey follow the movements OF
the trade winds) supports this hypothe-
sis, as also does the fact that the falling
material is coarser in the east than In
the west.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05

PLAIN RICE PUDDING.-Three pints
of milk, three unces of rice, six ounces
pulverized sugar, II ounce butter, a
dessert spoonful of vanilla essence, and
a light teaspoonful of salt; wash the
rice carefully in three waters, put in a
pan or dish, with the salt and half the
milk; put it back on the stove where it
will simmer slowly for two hours, stir
ring occasionally to prevent the rice
settling; in half an hour begin to add
the rest of the milk, slowly, so as not
to stop the simmering; just before TAX
ing it from the sto2e add the butter,
sugar and vanilla; serve in the pan in
which it Is cooked; 10 minutes in II
moderate oven will brown it nicely it
can be served either hot or cold. 1t is
sufficient for six persons, and costs 20
cents.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
MODERN Roam--The life of a tramp
GREEN apples strike below the belt.
The yalue ofTlme.

AS in a fire the loss greatly depends
upon the time required for efficient aid
to arrive, so the result of catarrh
greatly depends upon the speedy use of
efficient remedies. For over a quarter
OF a century, DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy has been the standard remedy.
The positive cures 1t has effected are
numbered by thousands. EacHSear has
witnessed an increased sale, Its repn-
tatlon is the result of superior merit. II
the disease has extended to the throat
or lungs, DR.. Plerce's Golden Medical
Discovery should be used with The Ca
tarrh Remedy, These two medicines
will speedily cure the most stubborn
case Of catarrh. See the Peoples Com
mon Sense Medical Adviser, a work of
over 300 pages. Price, 81 30. Address
the author, r. V. Pierce, NJ. D., Buff
falo, N "
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05

Speed of Sound In ordinary condit-
ions of the atmosphere, sound has been
found to travel at the rate of LIS feet
per second at a temperature of 81 de-
grees, bnt travels much faster in a more
rareied atmosphere, and upon high
mountains this is very evident. The
measure of the height of a rocket at the
moment of explosion can not, in conse-
quence, be made according to the ordi-
nary rule. "a
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05

How TO CHOOSE A PLow.-Plows
frequently annoy those who use them
in "A most mysterious manner. They
refuse to run evenly in the ground and
refuse to keep to the land as they ought
to do. On examining them nothing
seems TO be wrong. Every properly
shaped pillow ought to have a slight con-
cavity along the base of the land side,
of one-eighth or three-siXteenth OF an
inch so That the implement will "suck''
into the soil and run steadily. This
concavity may be shown by holding a
steel square 10 The bottom of the pillow.
If this part is convex, as it not unfre-
quently is, no matter how high a repu-
tation the maker of the pillow has, it
will not Stay III the ground, and Will
annoy the plowman till the evil is re-
medied. The Landslide of the base
shonld also be slightly concave, to the
same extent of one-eighth of an inch or
more, and never ought to be convex or
bulging, under any circumstances. If
these apparently trihing items are pro-
perly attended to at the time of select
ing Il pillow, much trouble may be avoid
ed which often seriously perplexes a
plowman, and causes him to lose much
time which may thus be saved.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05

PRINCE ALBERT's PUDDING.-Beat TO
a cream one-half pound fresh butter,
and mix with an equal weight of fine
white sugar. Add to these first the
yolks and then the whites of five eggs,
which have been thoroughly beaten
apart. throw in lightly One-half pound
fine flour and one-half pound stoned
r%aisins. Put these ingredients, well
mixed, into a buttered mold or Toured
cloth, and boil for three hours. Serve
with sweet sauce.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
AGRIUUITURE.

WARSING TO FARMRRs.-There Is a
set OF s~Windlers whose operations are
especially directed toward farmers. IL
is no reflection upon the intelligence
Of farmers that this Is so. These ras-
calls know that all kinds Of fish are not
10 be caught with n bait; hence they
operate upon clergymen, doctors, mer-
chants aud farmers, each In a different
manner 1t Is safe to predict that there
is a new set of traps ready this spring
TO catch farmers. OF late years the
~''agency" dodge has been played suc-
cessfully, and 1t has already been start
ed thus early In the season. These
swindlers are all after one pattern. A
glib tOngued chap, No. 1. wishes to es-
tablish an ''agency" for some criikum.
1t may be a stump-puller, a machine
for grinding the knives of moving ma
chimes, it may be a churn power, or a
spring bed. Whatever 1t Is, chap No.
/, somehow, or in some way, contrlves
10 get the signature of the farmer.
Here Is where the trouble begins. We
have cautioned and reiterated the eau
ton: Farmers be careful what you
sign" and this does not seem to be
enough; no matter how much care is
exercised, the smOOth-tong1ed chap, No.
/, Is usually too much for the farmer.
SO we say to farmers, don't act as agents
to anything, but if you will not heed
this, and the temptation as TO profit is
too great to resist, and you will disrc-
gard warnings, we beg of you, farmers,
don't sign anything. You may be
.rlr.I 20 aarraa 10 hnanfraa a N Qnnnf Unu
may be asked to give your address, so
that the sample machine, TO he sent
free, will come all right; you may be
asked for merely your p%Ost-offiee adj
dress. Take our advice-which is the
same as Punch's advice 10 young peO-
pie about to marry; Don't! d0n't!!
Don't, do nOt-pray, refrain from sign
ing your name to anything whatever.
Observe this, and you are safe. Sign
your name on any p%retense to anything
whatever, and you open the way for the
visit of chap No. 2. He is not smooth
tOngued or persuasive. He has come
to collect his bill. You have ordered
so and so. The goods are at the depot.
Here is the bill, and he wants the mon
ey, as he must take the next train.
DON'T say tnaV yOu never OrueTeu the
goods, Tor there is your signature
You can't deny it, but you signed it as
an agreement to act as agent, or
signed it as your address-No. 2 knows
nothing about it, but wants his money.
Here we say again, don't. Don't be
bullied into paying it, but let him do
his worst. Show him the door and let
him appeal to the courts if be dares.
The game has already begun, and hun
dreds OF farmers, to avoid trouble will
throw away thousands of dollars the
coming season. Don't be bullied into
paying a dollar on any such claim. At
the most, it can only 60 to a jury Of
yonr Eeighbors to deciIe, but not one
ease in a hundred will ever come TO
that.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05
A Boon TO Humanity

is anything that will ease pain, and q public
benefactor one who il able to relieve human
ailments. The most painful Of all bodily ills
lie surely piles, and such has been the absurd,
empirical bsrbarous treatment OF this terrible
disease for 5000 years that scientific men began
to despair, and distinguished modern surgeon
hv- pronounced 1t the ''opprobIium Of the
profession" Afflicted millions tortured with
pain and deceived by the false pretensions Of
pile nostrums. cried out in the language OF the
Bible. who is this that darkeneth counsel by
words without knowledge: canst thou draw out
a Leviathan with a hook" DR.. Silsbee is a
benefactor and Anakesis, the great infallible
pile remedy, the most benefcent discovery Of
the age; n simple. safe, prompt and permanent
cure for this terrible. painful and heretofore
Almost incurable disease. Half q million suf-
ferers pronounce it infallible; none use it
without benefit and doctors Of all medical
schools now prescr be It. 1t is the discovery
Of a scientific chemist and practicing physician
after 46 years experience, and pronounced 10
be the nearest to an infallible remedy known.
ApdkesiS. DIR. s.. Silsbee's External Pile Re-
medy Is sold by all 'first-class druggists. Price
81 90 per box. Samples mailed free TO all suf-
ferers on application to P. Neustaedter & Co.,
Box 1916 New York.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05

In painting outside work the use OF
turpentine is to be avoided, since it is
more susceptible of water than oil, and
hence not so well calculated to preserve
work exposed to the weather. Oil hav-
ing a tendency to discolor white, in
that color the use of half oil and hall
turpentine is frequently resorted to.
In dark colors this is not necessary
and boiled oil, with a little t%urpentinc.
is the best, or, indeed, boiled oil only.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05

Herr pon Krupp, of Essen, has attack
ed the electric light problem, and has
patented a lamp in which he claims that
the carbons are regulated automatical-
~ in a simpler manner than heretofor.
His improvement is not capable of be-
ing made intelligable without the use
Of a diagram. A brake arrangement
determines the distance between the
carbons, and a fan revolving in quick
silver for tue purpose OF regulating the
motion of the carbon-holder Is intended
to supersede the necessity for clock
work.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-05

A RELIGIOUS publication Is authority
for the announcement that Nebuchad-
nezzar's diary has been found in the
excavations at Babylon. One entry
says that while he was delirious with
fever he thought he had been out to
Craze like the beasts of the field. So
he intimates that the Bible story of his
being found out to grass was founded
on a delirious dream, Ell? This is
rather gauzy. The fact that the diary
contains entries for a whole year proves
it a miserable fraud anyhow. Nobody
we kept a diary that long.