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The Van Buren press., 1879-01-21

SBCURR A HOME.
Lands /! Lands /.
-!
LITTLE ROCK SIT, Smith
RAILWAY
= - r
rs now Offering for sale, In tracts to suit
l. purchasers, the whole Of their magnificent
Land Grant.
As there Ia every prospect OF large imm!-
grafton to Arkansas, 1t Il reasonable to sup
psse that these
CHOICE LANDS
will be In active demand.
Persons desiring to secure them should lose
no time In doing so. Unexceptionally favor
able terms to settlers.
BEAUTIFUL CITIES
Dot the entire length Of the Road, among
which are Little Rock, Conway,
Lewisburg, Atkins, Russellville.
Clarksyille, Ozark, Mulber.
ry, Van Buren, and
Fort Smith.
The company owns aud offers for sale
In Pulaski county, about $4,000 acres.
In Faulkner county, about $500 acres.
In Conway county, abont 100000 acres.
In Perry county, about 1l3,00O acres.
In Pope county, about l06,7O0 acres,
In Yell county, about 81 600 acres.
In johnson county, aboat l3l 800 acres.
In Madison county, about ii 800 acres.
In Franklin sounty, about l35 900 acres.
In Logan county, about llS,700 acres.
In Crawford county, about 132.6O0 acres.
In Washington county, about 5000 acres.
In Sebastian county, about 40, 3OO acres.
| In Saline county, about 4.5OO acres.
In Van Buren, county about 2,6OO acres,
For full Information, apply to
w. D. SLACK.
Land Commissioner,
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
>
The undersigned Agent for the fine grant
of Lands made to the Little Rock and Fort
| Smith Railway, now offers for sale any and
all the Railroad Lands lyingi In
CRAWFORD COUNTY.
These Lands embrace some very fine tracsl
including
River Bottom, Prairie and Upland
and an easy opportunity is here offered ol
securing homes Ina
Mild, Healthy Climate,
and new country which is rapidly develop
ing and offers many advantages.
| To those who have improvements on Rail-
road Lands, / would say no time should be
lost In coming forward and entering into
contract for the same. My instructions are to
sell any aud all lands and any delay In max
ing application may entail loss upon you,
am prepared to give full Information In
regard to any lands In Crawford County.
b. j. BROWN. Agent,
| VAN BUREN, ARK.
dee l,Tsyl
The Van Buren press., 1879-01-21

As there ia every prospect OF large inm.-
grafton to Arkansas, 1t ls reasonable to sup
pese that these
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Special Notices In the Local Columns
1Olcts. per line for first and
5 cts. per line, for subse-
Quent insertions.
Methodist Episcopal Church
Conference.

The Little Rock Annual Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church convenes in Var
Buren. at Mount Olive Church, Feb. Goth
1879. The Rev. Bishop Andrews will pre-
side. All friends are most respectfully invi-
ted to attend.
Al. PHILLIPS, Preacher in charge.
The Van Buren press., 1879-01-21
|. R. Of. S. Railway.

On and after the 2lst of October, trains
will run on this road, leaving and arriving at
Van Buren,. as follows:
Express and mail trains arrive at Van Bu-
rem ut AZ p. m, and leave for Little Rock
at 6 40 a. IN. Arrive at Argenta at 3:l5 p,
am, and leave at AS a. m.
Freight trains arrive at 1905 p. M, ana
leave here, going to Argenta, at 9 :40 a. m.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

PET NAMES. The New York World states
that a beautiful girl in Iowa named Jemina
recently committed suicide because she could
not find no diminutive for her name ending in
"ie." "a few hours afterwards came a let
ter from class mate beginning Dear MINI
mic, but it was too late, and she was born to
the grave by eight companions, named res.
pectively Abbe, Bessie, Carrie, Dollie, Elite,
Florie, George and Hattie" We are incn-
ri to dscredt the above intelligence, for our
observation leads us to believe that it Is i'm.
possible to give a girl any name that she
could not dt to AN lie - Termination. ~ aiti
more dmericda
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08
MISCELLANY.

IMPRESSIVE FAcTs.-Prof. Grant, in rec' Mt
lecture delivered in Edinburgh, said
"A railway train travelling night and day
at the rate of fifty miles an hour would reach
the moon in six months. the sun in two hun
bred years, and Alpha Centauri, the nearest
of the fixed stars, in fortyt.o millions of
years. ball from gun, travelling at the
rate of nine hundred miles an honr, would
reach Alpha Centaur in 2,700.O00 years !;
while light, travelling as it did, at the rate of
1876, 900 miles in second, would not reach it
in less than three years. Light from some of
the teescopic stars would take 5760 years to
reach the earth and from some of these
clusters the distance is so great that light
would take half million of years to pass to
the earth, SO that We see objects not as they
really are, but as they were half million
years ago. These stars might have become
extinct thousands of years ago, and yet their
light might present itself to us. As to the
magnitude Of the stars, he noticed that it was
computed that Alpha Lyra was one hundred
billions of miles distant from the earth, and
its magnitude and splender were as twenty to
nne when compared with our sun. Similar
Investigations brought out the fact that our
sun was neither vastly greater nor vastly less
than the great majority Of the stars"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

To SToP BLEEDING AT THE NosE.-The
best remedy for bleeding at the nose, as given
by DR.. Gleason in one of his lectures, is the
vigorous motion of the jaws, as if in the act
Of mastication. In the case of child, a wad
of paper should be placed in its mouth, and
the child instructed TO chew it hard. 1t is the
motion of the jaws that stops the flow of
blood. This remedy is 50 simple that many
will feel inclined to laugh at it, but it has
never been known to fail in single instance,
or even in severe casos
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

faster than thunder. The speed of lightning
is SO great that it would go 4S0 times round
the earth in minute, whereas the sound Of
thunder would go scarcely thirteen miles in
the same space of time. Thunder will take
second to travel $50 yards, hence popular
method of approximating the distance of
hunder cloud is as follows: As soon as you
see the lightning flash put your hand upon
your pulse and count how many times it beats
before you hear the thunder If it beats six
pulsatiops the storm is one mile off. if twelve
pulsaiions ii is two miles off, and so on. In
the case of elderly people five pulsations
would measure nearly the same period of
time as six in the case of young persons.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

There are great many men in this world
who imagine that they are born with genius.
aud lie down on the sofa and wait for an ill.,
spiration until some other fellow, WHO
thought himself Ounce, rises by hard labor
TO competency, buys the Sofa aad Leads he
waiting genius out by the ear. This is not a
Joke /; it is q fact.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

"Do you love me stilP" Mrs. Brown ask
ed, as her husband was attempting to write
an important letter. "Do you love me still Pr
" Yes, do said Brown and it was the
emphasis that broke her heart.-Ke0kuk Con.
stitutioa.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

The Post-ofice Department has ruled that
husband has no control over the correspond
eDce of his wife. But this decision will not
prevent man from carrying his wife's letter
around in his inside coat pockes three weeks
before mailing it.-Norristowa Herald.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

The New York Herald may have meant
something when 1t said ." No blame should
attach to medical students who provide them
selves with bodies for dissection. They will
more than replace them when they begin to
practice"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

meant to have told you of that hole, ="
said gentleman to his friend who walking
in bis garden, stumbled into pit of W ter
No NATTER said the friend, have found
.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

Some people maintain that high hat does
not become all men, but it seems to us that a
" stovepipe" ought to SCOT everybody. Yon-
kers G0zette.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

We are advised to put our hands to the
pillow and not look back. OF course. we can
now understand why women never plow e
Enrique.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

Avail yourself of all your knowledge with
out making display of it. That machinery
works best that is hidden from view. Knowl-
edge is power all over the world.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

Gods presence with man in house,
though 1t be but a cottage, makes that house
both castle and palace.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

Gods laws were never designed to be like
cobwebs which catch the little flies, but suf-
fer the large ones 10 break through.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

There is a statue of Apollo in every rough
stone by the roadside, if you have the genius
and skill to bring il out.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

Make but few explanations the character
that caunot otherwise defend itself is NOT
worth indicating.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

~ can make money faster At work for Us than at
81 anything else Capital not required; we will
"a start You Sl2 per day Al Lom made by tho in
dustri0ns- Men, waaIen, btys ana girls Fantet
everywhere ,rk Tor us Now Is thc line. Cost,
enft aud tsrals free. Address True X Co, Augusta
Maine. Feb 27.-ly.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

A Lansing woman singed her husband with
fiatiron, and now he calls her 1.-THE sweet
ginger Of Michigan"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

Length of days is wisdom's right-hand
blessing, typical of eternal life but 1t is in
her left hand that are riches and honor.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

1t is said that the mail in Colorado arrive
on time when the carriers are chased by In
dians.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08
Oct. soth ct.
CAT.AEg R IL.

The attack sets IN with pains In the limbs and hack
lassitude and of tighness the forehead
repeated sneezing watery aud iHfamed eyes and In
discharge from the sometimes there is in
fammation of the throat aud tousis aud eruption
of bsters ahous tho lips. few ninches Of
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08

Nothing has 50 many ties binding it to eartl
az railroad.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

RELNDE ERE DIVISION
on and after NoU. fIth, 1878.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-01-08
THE SUN FOR 1879.

p ron, 1850. NEW fCR
Nav. 70 -.in
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-04
Hindu Contamination Of Food.

A popularity common to both Ram
anuja sectS is the strict privacy with
which they eat and even prepare their
meals. No Indians like to be looked at
while eating. They are firm believers
in the evil influence of the human eye
(dT'Shti doSbG.) The preparation of
food is, with high-caste natives, an af-
fair of equal secrecy. The mere
glance of a man of inferior caste makes
the greatest delicacies uneatable, and,
if such glance happens to fall on the
family supplies during the cooking Op-
erations, when the ceremonial purity
of the water used is a matter of almost
life or death to every member of the
household, the whole repast has to be
thrown away as if poisoned. The fam
lily is for that day dinnerless. Food
thus contaminated would, if eaten,
communicate faint to the souls as
well as the bodies Cf the eaters-a taint
which could only be removed by long
and painful expiation. In travelling
over every part of India, and diligent-
ly striving to note the habits of the ma
lives in every circumstance of their
daily life, never once saw a single
Hindu, except of the lowest caste,
either preparing or eating cooked food
of any kind. The Ramanujas carry
these ideas to an extravagant extreme.
They carefully lock the doors of their
kitchens and protect their culinary and
prandial operations from the gaze of
even high-caste Brahmins of tribes and
sects different from their Own.-1he
Contemporary ReUie1O.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-04
fashionable Tard1! ess-HOW 1t Op-
Grated in Nevada.

1t is now considered the height of
fashionable fiummery in this city to be
among the last arrivals at social party
given at Il private residence. Last
evening there was party of that de-
scription on North 8 street-whlch
didn't come off. A lady who desired to
give 6 little entertainment made the
usual preparations and invited num-
Der of guests. She illuminated the
parlorS and left the blinds open that
the glare of the gas might light the
weary traveller on the street. This was
her grand mistake. About nine O'Clock
q couple came up to the house, and the
young lady, looking in the window and
seeing the parlors empty, insisted on
returning home, as she would not for
all the world do such a vulgar thing as
to enter a house where there was not
big room full of people to look at her.
The two accordingly returned home.
In a few minutes another couple re-
connOitered the situation from across
the street and retired. One after an
other the guests came up, viewed the
empty parlors and melted back into
the darkness. There was no party, and
the lady who prepared the entertain
ment didn't know what to make Of
such shabby treatment. This idea Of
trying to be the last one at an evening
party is growing to be so common on
the Comstock that the time will come
when an invitation to a Friday even
ing's entertainment will mean, "COme
as early as possible on Saturday morn
ing."- Virginia (NeU.) Chronicle.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-04

They raise two broods in a season. The
Chickadee, when compelled from ne
cessity to take up his abode in a cavity
not made by himself, selects one with
an entrance not much larger than his
body. so that he is not so liable to be-
come the prey of the Mottled-owl, as
are the Golden-winged WoOdpeckers
and Blue-birds.
There are no species of birds that
suffer so much from the depredations
of the Owl as the Golden-winged Wood
peckers. The deadliest foe to the Chick
adee is the Great American Shrike, or
Butcher bird. Seated upon some prom
inent object, the Shrike watches the
movement of the little troop as they
are busily engaged seeking their food,
in a variety of positions, unconscious
of the sure death that awaits one of
their number. While listening 70 the
squeaking notes of the Brown Creeper
which usually attends them, or the
Shrill. clarion voice of the DOWny
Wcndpecker, you hear noise like
falling stone through the branches of a
tree; it is the Shrike-he has struck his
victim, and if he does not devour it
upon the spot, it is hung on the crotch
Of branch to serve as a meal at some
future time.-RuTGl NeU Yorker.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-04
EARN AND HOUSEHOLD.

Stock to be profitable should be-
gin the winter in good condition, and
be kept so. Under this system they
will grow, and growth is gain, and gain
is prOfit.-IoaCG State Register.
The WeSteru Rural says: "Of the
number Of large farmers that we have
personally knOwn-that is, those who
cultivated extraordinary large farms
we have not known a single successful
one. In the majority of instances the
waste arising from neglect has been
quite sufficient to ruin anybody, and
this neglect is inseparable from IN
usually large farming operations" :"
Prof. BruckmulIer, of Vienna, ar
rives at the conclusion that Indian corn
may do fairly well for horses from
which slow, continuous work IS de-
manded, but that it is not to be depend
ed on where anything like aquick paceis
required. This decision is based upon
the reports of various veterinarians OF
the German Empire, as well as those
of tramway companies who use large
numbers of horses for slow, continuous
wo-k.
"A Baked Plum Pudding.-Take
one pound of flour. One-half pound Of
currants, one-haf pound raisins, one
half pound suet, one egg, one-half pint
of milk, little candied peel; chop the
suet finely; mix it with the flour, cur
rants, stoned raisins and sliced peel;
add the well-beaten egg, and add milk
enough to make the pudding of the
consistency of very thick batter. Put
it into a buttered dish, and bake in
good oven from one and a quarter to
one and half hours; turn it out; sUrew
sifted sugar over. and serve.
There seems to be an idea that
cracks in barns should be Winked at,
and not spoken of too often. Some
barns are nearly all cracks, especially
on the outside between the boards.
Now these cracks are a very important
and very necessary part of all barns.
There must be cracks, and they won't
be stopped up, but they can be backed
up and this is the way to do it: Mix
together "Secatndatng GrteT1" in pro-
portion to suit your circumstances,
good seed, good soil, good filth, good
after care, and thus produce crops
which shall be the "crackn crops of
the country. When harvested, haul to
the barn, and every farmer will not
only stop up the barn cracks, but many
little cracks in other folks premises,
such as the storekeeper's, the black
smiths the tailor's, the shoemaker's,
etc.-RurGL Nes0 Yorker.
rs JournaL~H ~ribes
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-04
HOXE, FARM AND GARDEN.

~ mere is nothing more certain than
de and taxes.
-..esolve to farm better this year
than you did last.
For lice upon plants, syringe with
a solution of soap and whale oil.
To prevent rats eating harness, mix
little local oil'' in the lubricator with
which you oil your harness.
1t is said that the cut-worm never
damages crops on land where sheep
have been pastured the year before
planting.
DO not throw away drawn tea
leaves, but put them in the flower pots.
They not only act as a good mulch, but
possess fertiliZinT qualities also.
Hard times must be overcome by
farmers by hard work, hard study, hard
thinking, and the hardest kind OF
economy.-Io5Ca State Register.
Cooked meat chopped up and
mixed with other feed is not only rel
ished by fowls, but gives back the
strength lost during the moulting pro-
cess.
Vegetable Soup.-Peel and slice
two potatoes and two turnips; chop
fine a small piece of cabbage; use a
large spoonful of butter; put it all into
three pints of cold water, boil slowly
two hours.
Corn Bread.-Take one quart of
corn meal, two teacupfuls Of butter
milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda, two
eggs, a little salt, and sweet milk and
water enough to make a stiff batter.
Bake as usual.
Avoid exposure of the animals to
cold when they are warm. If horse
is brought in, warm and wet with
sweat, rub him dry before putting on a
blanket. He will then keep warm;
damp blanket and take cold.
Western breeders and raisers are
ciphering out a rise in the price of
hogs. One of the most observant says:
''The farmers all over the country are
putting their brood sows, pigs and all
they can get into market this winter,
seemingly in the belief that there will
be no hogs needed next year. The re-
suit will be a short crop and high
prices u
The american AgTicuZtaTiSt says:
''In parts of Pennsylvania we have seen
cellar so connected with a well as to
considerably lower its temperature.
The arrangement might be used to ad-
vantage elsewhere. A cellar is dug
about three feet from the well, as deep
as may be convenient, and an opening
made between them through brick
arch, the mouth of which is covered
with coarse wire netting. A slab Of
stone is placed near the opening, upon
g set to cool"
For the white part,
seven eggs, two
cup of butter,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-04

II gum
Il, and colored
W. and little yellow
ocher n rive a dark brQwp color. The
cans may be ornamented by pasting on
them little medallion figures or pict-
ures. They are handsOmer than the
ordinary flower pots, require less wa
tering, and keep the plants free from
all insects, owing to the presence of
iron rust in the can. One of the pretti-
est arrangements for plants we have
seen, was a window with two narrow
shelves placed one above the other, on
which were these homemade flower
pots, containing heliotropes, geraniums,
pinks, begonias, fuchsias and other
plants, all as thrifty as if grown in a
greenhouse. They should be showered
once fortnight with Iukewarm water,
using a whisk broom for the purpose,
and watered sparingly every second
day. On very cold nights newspapers
may be placed between the window and
the plants to protect them from frost"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-04
Vegetine
SAFE AND SURE;

Mr.. d. R. Stevens: ..,,o-.,5 g. 49,.
In Is77 your Vegetine vas reeomme9oea 70 me;
--s,,,--,,te5 10 frv IT, Atthe time i was suffering
fo-o oenersI debility and nervous prOstration ,su
11erin5uced BY overWOrk and irregular habits Its
5H~o1TeTful strengthening and curative properties
seeToed 10 affect my debilitated system from the
STsf dose: and under its persistent use l rapidly
lowered gaining more than usual health and
good feeling. Since then have not hesitated to
Five Vegetine my most unqualified endorsement,
ss being safe, sure and powerful agent in pro-
noting health and restoring the wasted system to
new life and energy. Negetine is the only medi-
cine use, and as long as live nev,r expect TO
find better. Yours truly. W. II. CLARK
100 Monterey slIeet. ALleghany. Penn.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-04

To school he went; into q better
house, all their own, the family moved,
easier circumstances, better health, less
WEAKNESS, and ample means for doing
good, came to the Ramseys.
But the best point in my story is that
a fine asylum and school for hunch-
backs, free to the poor, is one of the
noble enterprises to which Alec has
been chief contributor.
Those defOrmed lads in the carriage
yonder are from the Ramsey Asylum
for Hunchbacks.
That was Alec's carriage, and that
''crooked gentleman on the back seatn
was Alec himself. Every fair after
noon he is out in this way, taking load
of 81 his boys" as he calls them, and
thus, as often as once q fortnight, he
gives every inmate of the asylum a turn
in the aark.-L L. BenrdH, in St.
Nicholas Jor e6ruary.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-04-04
Our Young Readers.
DREAM, MY BABY

mOTHER's baby, rock and rest,
Little binds are fast asleep.
Close beneath her mother breast.
Safe the bird her brood VIII keep
Oh. my nestllng. mother sings,
Close within the motbcr-arms,
Fold thy little, unAedged wings,
safe from any rude alarms.
Sweet my baby, on ny breast
Dream or happy dreams, and rest
Rest. oh! rest
All ny baby, from the nest
Little birds viii some day iy
To the cast and TO the west
Wild their pretty wInEs TO trv.
But, hy they fast. my bird. OF far,
Never can they ind tie spot
Under sun OF any star
- Where the mOther-l0Te Is not.
Sweet, my baby, on M breast
Dream your happy dreams and rest
best, oh. rest
Oh. my baby, Dcther praTs.
As she clasps you closer still,
All sweet things for coming days,
And not any earthly Ill.
Always, child, remember this:
Mothers heart Is warm and true,
And she tells you. with kiss,
There u be always room for you.
Sweet, my baby, on my breast
Dream YOUR happy dreams. and rest
Rest, OH rest.
-E5en z. Eesford. IN ". z. LHdepeHdsHt.