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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-03-07

A TYRoLEAN COUNTING CUsToM-The
Tyrolese observe a singular custom in making
proposals of marriage. The first time young
man pays visit as an avowed lover he brings
with him bottle of wine which hcp ours out
in glass, and presents to the object of his
desires. If she accepts it the whole affair is
settled. Very often the girl has not made up
her mind, and then she will take refuge in eX-
cuses so as not to drink the wine, and yet
not refuse him point blank, for that is consid-
cred gross insult, proving that she had been
tritling with the affections of her lover. She
will, for instance, maintain that the winelooks
sour, or that wine dsagrees with her, or that
she is afraid Of getting tpsy, or that the prizes {
has forbidden her 10 take any. In fact she
makes use of any subterfuge that presents it.
self at that moment. The purport of these
excuses is that she has not yet come to de-
cision, and that the wine offering is prema-
ture. Shy lovers find this custom asingnlarly
| happy institution.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-03-07
miscellaneous.
For Tile -Bgis ond MtelAge"rr.
RAZUKA:

A LEGEND OF ROCK RIDGE LAKE.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
The Care of Horses.

A correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes: l have had the care of
horses for the past twenty-One years,
and never had one sick all that time,
though / have had two die of old age,
one at twenty-eight. There is no great
secret in keeping a horse sound and
we'll; and since the advent of the horse
tanner and lecturer it is plainly to be
seen that the number of stihed, spawned,
ringboned and diseased horses is con-
stantly growing less, but there is still
room for great improvement. Some
farmers make a great mistake in feed
ing too much grain, keeping in close
warm stables, blanketing, etc. A horse
so pampered is apt to get sick, and
when brought out is easily heated and
catches cold; or else is apt to be above
his business with heels higher than his
head, which is neither pleasant nor
profitable, as a man can keep his team
feeling we'll without feeding up all the
coarse grain common farmer can
raise. The requirements of nature are
very simple and very easily supplied,
and consist chiefly in proper feed, air
and exercise, and regularity and mod
Grafton in feeding and handling, the
two chief causes of trouble being bad
management in the stable and hard
driving and carelessness on the road.
A horse should have stable entirely
above ground, well lighted and well
ventilated. 1t is next in Importance
that he be fed at certain regular hours;
also that he be not fed too much at
once, as he should clean out the man
ger every time, especially if not used,
and be ready to grab at the next mess; it
will do no harm if the bunk is empty two
or three hours. Horses fed in this way
will really eat more and do better tn an
if the manger is constantly crammed
with that which has been mussed over;
besides, the horse is not kept stuffed all
the time and his wind is better. Again,
it makes a great difference what a
horse is fed. Hay and oats alone will
soon ruin some horses. and hay should
not be fed steadily to any horse. A
safe system of feeding in winter is as
follows: Hay in the morning, and good
bright cornstalks twice day, with a
few ears of corn morning and night, if
not working, otherwise corn three times
day, the cornstalks being just loosen
ing enough to counteract the effects of
the hay and keep the animal healthy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
The Buddhist Priesthood.

The ranks of the Buddhist priesthood
in China are generally recruited by
children, purchased either from their
parents or from kidnapers. 1t is only
in time of great distress that the poorer
Chinese will sell even their daughters,
still less the valued son on whom may
possibly devolve the paramount duty Of
conducting the ancestral worship; kid
naping, however, is by no means an
uncommon crime, albeit the punish
ment on detection is speedy and igno-
minious death. Occasionally parents
dedicate a child to Buddha, perhaps in
fultillment of vow, and the victim is
there and then formally made over to
the church by deeds signed, sealed and
delivered. From this step there is no
withdrawal. The child's head is COM
pletely shaved; he is made to live on a
vegetable diet and to forego the use of
wine. He is taught to chant the Budd-
hist liturgies, without understanding a
word of them, and after a required no.
vitiate, proves his constancy to the
faith by standing Unmoved while sew
eral pastilles burn down into his scalp,
leaving the ineradical scars which tes-
tify to the fact that he has put away
forever the things of this world and has
been regularly ordained as a priest.
He has now "left his home" in good
earnest, and all that remains to him in
this world is a life of celibacy and dull
routine. Criminals fleeing from JUS
tice not unfrequently seek refuge in
religious life, submitting to the
branding of their heads and the subse-
quent discomforts of cloister existence
rather than fall into the merciless
meshes of Chinese law. Sometimes,
too. unsuccessful mandarins throw
themselves into monastery and take
the VOWS, driven to such a step by
dread of the imperial frown. 1t is said
that the foolish officer, who, during the
war of 1912, laid at the foot of the
throne his discovery of the secret of
foreign steamers, and forthwith pro-
duced vessel with two huge paddle
wheels to be turned by coolies inside,
is even now languishing in one of the
numerous monasteries on the cele-
brated Lo-fou hill, in the province of
Kuang-tung, whittier he retired after
the failure of his scheme, covered with
ignOminy and shame.-1he OornhitL
MaQuzine
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
What Game of One Hive of Bees.

In memorial to Congress relative to
the coming census of the United States,
the superintendent Of the census of
1860, Mr.. Kennedy, gives the following
statistics as an illustration of the stu
pendous results from a single hive of
bees, transported to the Pacific coast
less than thirty years ago. From the
single county of San Diego, California,
in 1876, there were shipped the aston
ishing figure of 1,250,000 pounds. In
1877 there were in that county $4,000
colonies of bees, and in one day, Sept.
6, 1873, there were shipped from that
port 78 barrels, ], ,053 cases and 18 tons;
and that from and including July II to
Nov. 10, 1873, less than four months,
that one county exported over 1000
barrels, 14,544 cases, and nearly 20
tons. He who would strike out (from
the census report the item of honey,
could not have known, so great has the
interest in this product become, that
many people in California have from
500 to 1000 hives, and that over 100
people in one county have each more
than 100 colonies of bees. According
to the London Ne1OS of Jan. IS, there
arrived in November, at Liverpool, 80
tons of honey, the product of the bees
of one individual; and that Mr..
Hodge, in the first week of January
last, landed 100 tons at a London
wharf, the product of California. The
annual product of honey has grown to
35, 900, 600 pounds.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
Spring Fashion Hints.


Old age is generally much worn
everywhere.
Uneasy lie the heads wearing crowns
in Europe, especially in Germany and
Russia. .I. ID .i.
Purses should be worn full on the
body. .ldT' "n.t|r.
Suits of China material are rather
hardware for this changeable climate.
Pies, this spring, are cut quartering
and diamond-pointed.
The principal style in gentlemen's s
spring hats is to pay for them in ad-
vance.
Handouts are much worn by tourists
to Sing Sing.
Impecunious acquaintances and poor
relatives may be cut very short.
Slippers are less common since the
ice has melted from the pavements.
Furs are often useful to hide un-
healthy skins. .L.I..
Mahogany and rosewood suits ap-
propriate for people who persist in
dyeing may be had at the undertakers.
Clocks are becoming to stockings,
but more useful in steeples.
The fashionable color for boiled
lobster this season is red.
Large rents are now common in ex-
pensive suites of rooms.
Eyerybody's trousers are wearing
out.-M Y. Graphic.
FIRE-PROoF-A blaze,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

sive tour of European travel, he was
made Doctor of Laws by Brown Uni
versity in 1880, and settled as lawyer
in Cooperstown, N. Y. His politics
were then Democratic. and his talent
brought him speedily into notice as a
rising politician. His remarkable ca
reer as public officer was begun in
1880, when he was appointed Adjutant-
General of New York State. His sub
sequent honors must be rapidly reca-
pitulated as follows: 1888, Secretary of
State, er-o6icto Superintendent of Com
mon Schools, Canal Commissioner, and
member of the Governors Council; 1842,
member of the New York Assembly;
1863, United States Senator, to FIJI
the unexpired term of Silas Wright,
elected Governor; 184S, Free Soil candi-
date for Governor on the famous "Buf-
falo PLATFORM" Van Buren, standing on
the same as candidate for the Presi-
dency; 1858, Assistant United States
Treasurer at New York; same year, of
fered the post of Secretary of State by
President Pierce, but declined; 1850,
Postmaster of New York; January to
March, 1861, Secretary of the Treas
ury under Buchanan, succeeding
Floyd and Cobb May 16, 1861,
Major-General of Volunteers, COM
manding with distinction thereafter in
Baltimore, Fortress Monroe and the
Peninsula, the Seventh Army Corps in
1862, and the Department
of the East, with headquarters at New
York, during the two critical years that
followed; after the war President of the
Pacific Railroad, Naval Officer at New
York, and Minister to France 1863;
and 1872, Governor of New York, being
defeated for reelection two years after
by Samuel j. Tilden. Since that serv-
ice he has mainly given his time to the
of Trinity Church, New
Y ork, of which his son, Rev. DIR. Nor
gan Dix, is rector. Notwithstanding
many public employments, he found
time to compose and publish number
of works, several of which have per-
Value Cleveland Leader,
ADTH %
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

Oat straw may be used in place Of the
cornstalks, or together; and then oats
may be fed in place of the corn. IL a
horse is not being used he should not
stand in the stable two days in success
sion, but on mild days should be let out
in the yard for exercise few hours, or
be hitched up and driven. a
When the horse comes to be worked
in the spring, the feed should be
changed entirely; but in changing feed
always do it gradually, and no harm
will ensue. When working, the feed
should consist of cut hay, wetted and
mixed with meal made of corn and oats
in equal parts ground together; and IL
is astonishing how little feed of this
kind will keep q horse good at hard
labor; 1t gaunts him, as he should be;
he is not stuffed with hay; his wind, or
breathing power, is better, and he does
not need to drink SO much water. AS
to watering, have said nothing, as tho
rules for that are so simple and so gem
orally understood that any man who
will founder horse ought to be fined
and imprisoned for cruelty to animals.
In regard to the rearing and raising of
horses, | will say but little, being not
an expert, though l must have some
useful knowledge, and will simply add:
In the management of q horse, bring
into play all your skill and ingenuity,
taking advantage of your knowledge of
the nature and disposition of the par
ticular one with which you are dealing,
which knowledge you will obtain by OBJ
servation (no two requiring the same
treatment), and thus avoid the neces-
sity of ruling by brute force.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
0bituaryi John A. Dix.

General John Adams Dix, the hero
of two wars, jurist, statesman, orator
and author, died yesterday at his home
in New York City, in his eighty-frst
year, after an illness of about month,
caused originally by the strain of over
work at his advanced age. Several
days ago, when hopefully recovering,
though still in somewhat critical
condition, he sustained a blow upon
the neck from his arm twisting under
him while rising from his bed, which,
although slight, was sufficient to break
his collar bone, and the nervous shock
resulting from this proved fatal. On
Friday he began to sink rapidly, and
Saturday morning passed into a state
of unconsciousness from which he did
not recover except for an hour the
same afternoon, during which he was
unable 20 speak above a whisper. His
last coherent words were: 81 believe
in God, and have entire faith in Christ,
my Redeemer. l am at enmity with
no man." Thus closed the intelligent
life of one of the finest and purest-
minded statesmen of the age, whose
services to his State and country have
been multiform and greatly useful, and
whose statue will forever have place
among the foremost in the Nations
Walhalla.
General Dix was a native of Bosca-
wen, New Hampshire, born July "a,
1898. He was of patriotic and martial
blood, his father being Lieut.. Col.
Timothy Dix, of the Continental Army.
Young Dix received liberal education
for the time, in the best New Hamp-
shire schools and in a French college at
Montreal. Entering the army during
the last war with Great Britain, he was
made an ensign in 1912 and adiutant
the next year; was aide-de-camp TO
General Brown in 1919, and resigned
when a captain of artillery ten years
after. Marrying and taking an extern
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

The popular phrase $50 Vest has
been put in practice to much greater
extent during the last few years than
Mr.. Greeley ever imagined it would be.
Foreign immigration has fallen off, but
domestic migration has increased. Peo-
pie from the New England States are
going West to Ohio, Michigan and Indi-
ana; people in these latter States are
going West to Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, and even from these States peo-
pie are going still further West to Col
orado and the Rocky Mountains. The
move is certainly Westward. 1t is
thought that since the crash of 1873,
over 100000 Americans have gone
West. Even those located for the last
dozen years in Iowa, Minnesota, Ne
braska and Wisconsin are selling out
and moving still further West. This
movement cannot but be beneficial to
the country at large. 1t distributes the
population evenly, relieves the over
crowded East, and fills up the bound
less West. Westward hor' is the
cry, and will doubtless continue so for
many years. Free Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

NEVADA newspapers announce that
vast numbers of grasshopper eggs are
incubating in Sierra Valley. A spade
full of soil is represented to have con-
tanned hundreds of thousands of eggs
deposited in clusters. The farmers
have not turned furrow this spring,
knowing that with these pests in the
soil their work would be fruitlcss of re-
suit. Grain crops will only foster the
scourge, while to let the ground remain
idle may starve the insects into emigrat-
ing. Fears are expressed that they
may sweep down upon the fertile val
leys of California, but whether they can
cross mountains of such altitude as the
Sierras is doubtful. 1t is proposed to
dig trenches before they are able to fly
and, driving them IN, to cover them up.
This plan worked successfully in Utah
two years ago.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
THE ALOHEMIST.

Radiantly on the village fence
Shineth the bill of the circus;
Dolefully counting his scanty pence,
Iess than n quarter by nineteen cents,
The small boy drank in the pictured fence,
And said; must take in the circus"
Speeding away with liqhtsome feet
Hurning down the alley,
Into the back lots. over the street,
Skulking and lounging, slow and feet,
Boys and yet boys in conolave meet,
What do they seek in the alley2
What does he want with the great tin PAM
Hiding il under the wood-shedO
No one knows how many blocks he ran,
Scudding as only the bad boys can,
Az though he were under some awful ban,
Some daring crime of blood-shed.
What could he do with the great tin Pan,
Now he had gone and got itl
Will he unfold his deep-laid plan2
Never; his secret YOU may not scan;
He never lies to the old junk man,
And tells him pom honor, he bought it.
Something is wrong with the kitchen pump;
What has got into the sucker?
Jerk till the arms ache thump, thump, thump
Eight feet of pipe in single lump
Gone to the junk-shop hardly stump
Left to amuse the sucker.
High sits the boy on the circus day
"These be thy pans and thy kettles;
This is my art" they heard him say,
This is the secret for which Il en- pray,
This is the art of the alohemist. yea,
The transmutation of metals"
IT r Aldrich
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
Ghosts.

Not Col. Ingersoll's "aristocracy OF the
air" but real human ghosts Ghosts that were
once healthy men and women, but are now
simply the "ghosts OF what they once were.n
As We meet them, aud inquire the cause Of
all this change, they repeat the old, old
story, "a cold" neglected cough" sea
tlrrh," "oyerwork," or "dyspepsia, ," silver
complaint" and " constipation" with unsuc-
cess nj physicians and remedies. In offering
his Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant
Purgative Pellets for the cure Of the above
affections, DIR. Pierce does not recommend
them as "sure cure" i've all stages. For If the
lungs be half wasted away, or there be a can
cerous complication, no physician or medi-
cine can cure. The Discovery is, however, an
uneQualed pectors and blood-purifier. 1t
speedily cures the most aggravated cough, or
cold and in its early or middle stages, con-
sumption. By correcting all Irregularities Of
the stomach and liver, it readily cures
blotches, pimples scrofulous ulcers,
"buuches," or tumors. Hundreds testify
that it has restored their hea tn, after eminent
physicians had failed. For constipation, use
the Pellets. AS local remedy for catarrh,
use DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

-Tennyson is paid by the magazines
at the rate of a guinea a line for poetry.
Having been a spring poet ourselves
previous to contracting the smallpox,
which eradicated the disease, we have
some little sympathy for spring poets,
poor fellows, and merely insert this
item to encourage them not to think of
the rolling river or the cup of cold
pizen yet awhile, but to wait until the
fever has reached its height. If they
do not then receive guinea line, the
sooner life is extinct the better.-N. Y
Commercial advertiser.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
CALIFORNIA;.

A California Colony is being formed at
Buffalo, N Y, to settle tract of 1000 acres in
California. Those wishing to know all about
it and California Colonies, can learn by in
closing six cents in stamps, to California
Colony, IA w. Swan Street, Buffalo, N. Y, or
to Wendell Easton, % Montgomery Street,
San Francisco, California.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

National Life is the title OF a new Pamphlet
of 70 pages. 1t contains the biography OF all
the Presidents Of the United States, from Wash
ington to Hayes with their portraits (19 in all,
engraved expressly for this work; also l2 por-
traits Of Canadian notabilties National Life
will be sent to any address, by mail, on receipt
of SC stamp. II. r. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

The main cause OF nervousness is indiges-
tlon, and that is caused by weakness of the
stomach. No one can have sound nerves and
good health without using Hop Btters to
strengthen the stomach, purify the blood and
to keep the liver and kidneys active, to carry
off all the poisonous and waste matter Of the
system. See other column.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

SAFETY, efficiency and reliability are the
three cardinal virtues OF remedy, whether
in the hands of a physician or in those of the
people at large. For the cure Of all malarial
or miasmatic diseases, such as Chills and
Fever, or Intermittent Fever, Dumb Chills and
Chronic Enlargement of the Spleen, we have
such remedy in DR.. F. Wilhofps Anti-Pe-
riodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, the compo-
sition OF which has been published by its pro-
prietors, Wheelock, Finlay & Co, Of New Or
leans, and is approved by the medical pro-
fession. and for sale by all Druggists.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

THE women of Minnesota vote at
school elections. Those of ,Minneapo
lis also lately met in caucus, but nom
mated only men. When the ladies have
their pick, they can always find men to
suit them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

NOTWITHSTANDING the many competitors
in the field, the Gilbert Starches manufact-
best In the world. These staTches have stood
the test for years and are conceded to be the
purest in the market.
HuwW Janbann1a paat axvaak NavHs Tohanao
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02
THE MARKETS.

CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-02

EIRE-PRooF-A blaze,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-07

MANY DOLLAR formerly spent on
expensive Sulphur Baths is now saved
by substituting therefore GLENNs
SULPHUR SOAP, which is just as bene-
fetal but infinitely cheaper. Local
diseases of the skin. rheumatism and
and govt are all relieved by this stan
dard remedy. Complexional blemish-
es are eradicated by it, and it imparts
to the cuticle pearly whiteness and
and velvety softness which greatly
enhance the effect of female charms
It's soothing, antiphlogistic action con-
stitutes it a prime remedy for sores.
ulcers, cuts, sprains, scalds, bruises.
and in fact every abnormal condition
of the cuticle attended by infiamma-
ton, swelling or itching. Ladies
moving in our best society speak of its
identifying properties in enthusiastic
terms, and give it decided preference
to cosmetics which merely conceal but
do not, like GLENN's SULPHUR Soar.
efadlcates defects of complexion. The
use of ointments for eruptive COM
plants is to be deprecated because of
their having a tendency to clog the
pores and in some cases to aggravate
rather than remedy the disease. They
are, besides, seldom thorough enough
in their effects to prevent the recur-
renee of eruptions of an inyeterate
type, and have the disadvantage of
soIllng the linen of persons who use
them. GLENN's SULPHUR SOAP, on the
contrary, still further recommends
itself on account of It's cleanliness, It
is besides, an admirable disinfectant
of clothing which has been worn by
persons afflicted with diseases OF con-
tagious nature. AS a specific proven.
tive and promoter of general health it
presents advantages of the most un-
equivocal description.
Sold by Druggists. Price 25 cents
per cake. Box Is cakesl 75c., sent bv
mail, prepaid, on receipt of price. &
y. CRITTENToN. Prop'r Sixth Avenue
New York.
Hills HAIR AND W#sKER Dye.
Black or Brown, SOC.