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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
KEEPING CUT-FLowERS FRESH

Cut-hOwers soon droop and fade. Here
are some of the ways in which they may
be preserved: Add to the water few
drops of camphor or ammonia, a little
salt, lump of charcoal immersing the
stems in hot water when bouquet is first
made, and then as they commence to wilt
repeating it, first cutting off the ends.
In making bouquets, be careful not to
crowd too many flowers into one vase.
They will last longer, to say nothing
about their improved appearance, if they
stand loosely. Never use cold water.
Let it be lukewarm, and soft, if possible.
SpriIkling flowers in vases at night, will
help to keep them fresh, and better still
lay them out on the grass where they
will receive the dew, being careful to
take them in early in the morning, in
summer, before the hot rays of the sun
have wilted them,
Flat bouquets, made in plates or glass
platters, can be built up with founda-
ton of sand. Flowers will last much
longer if their stems are thrust into wet
sand than they will in water. The sand
can be covered with moss, and flowers
can be arranged in any fanciful shape
that suits and they will not be likely to
become disarranged, for the sand holds
them in place firmly. Instead of moss,
leaves can be used to cover the surface
and make a groundwork for the design,
or bits of geranium branches, which oft.
en- put out roots in the damp sand, and
most of them grow right along as if moth.
ing had happened to them. Very pretty
designs may be made of tin, about ar
inch in depth, in diamond crosses, and
letters, and then filled with sand and
flowers. In working button-hole bou.
quets, or arranging flowers such as roses
camelias, etc., for the hair, cut the stem,
off at right angles and Immediately ap
ply hot wax to the end of the stalk
then wrap in tin foil. The prettles
button-hole bouquets are the most sim
pie; geranium leaf or two as back
ground with either a tube-rose, rose
bud, or two or three pansies, or some
small flower, a sprig of mignonnette is al
ways pretty addition.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
gaaies' Column.
Uses OF ALUM.

A bit Of alum kept near a wash basin
or towel-rack and frequently rubbed over
the face while yet damp, will do much
toward removing tan and preventing I'M
slightly plmples. have never found
anything better for cankerous sores on
the lips and tongue. If mixed with vim
egar and water, salt and pepper, it will
cure ordinary sore throat; grated aud
stirred in molasses it is splendid for
Group. have known cases of toothache,
when all the common pungent remedies
failed, to be instantly quieted by insert
ing in the cavity of the tooth bit of
moist cotton sprinkled with equal guam
titles of pulverized alum and salt.
Really good bread can be made from
homegrown wheat if one tablespoonful
of alum and two tablespoonful of but
ter are added to each ordinary sized
baking, and it is excellent in cheap mo-
lasses cookies to give the desired crisp
ness when little butter is used. A really
good cement can be made by melting a
bit of alum and used Immediately, but
one must be quick or the value will be
lost. A gentleman has just told me how
he so thoroughly deadened the nerve Of
decaying tooth that it has not ached
for years, by frequently using alum that
had been dropped on hot surface and
left until it stopped boiling" A piece
the size of kernel of corn was not all
used for one tooth. 1t is good for hard
ening cucumbers after being taken from
salt brine, and l have read (from Farm.
er's Wife, l think that if previous to
using lampwicks they are soaked in
strong alum water they will give a
brighter light, 1t is good to add to the
water used in washing bedsteads, the in
testers thereof disliking it most thor.
oughly. Lovely crystalized bouquets
can be made by dIssolving one pound Of
alum in one gallon of water, and miners
ing grasses, when the alum will form in
shining crystals on every branch. was
purchasing lately bit of blue cambria
for trimming, and on asking the clerk il
it would wash we'll, he said he would
warrant it to wash, and then added
smiling, "but it will fade-all blue will
every one buys it for trimming, as they
can get nothing better; and the colol
can be made much more durable by dip
ping it in strong alum water previous t.
washing. which is fact | know tn,
truth Of, and it is query in my min(
why manufacturers do not give it the al
um bath before offering it for sale, anc
thus save the purchasers the trouble o
SO doing.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

To KEEP WELLS PURE.-A corre-
spondent of the Inter- Ocean, writing
from Battle Creek, Mich, says that he
purified his we'll of water, which was
subject to SO many worms, bugs and
other insects as to render it almost unfit
for drinking, by placing in the we'll a
couple of good-sized trout. They have
kept perfectly healthy, and have eaten
up every live thing in the water. In
winter season crumbs of bread or crack.
ers are thrown In. The water is per-
fectly pure and sweet. Yes, but what
becomes of the fish excrement?
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

Think twice before you believe every
evil story you hear, and think twenty
times before you repeat it, especially if
it is about a woman. Say to yourself
"This may not be true, or it may be ex-
aggerated," unless you have proof of the
veracity of your informant. Persons
sometimes tell falsehoods they often
make mistakes, and they sometime S
shear wrong"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

Young orchards will be benefited by
a good washing of the trunks and. limbs
as far as practicable with whale-oil saor
Zone pound to four gallons of water
applied with an oil cloth or stiff brush.
If whale-oil soap is not attainable, soap
lees will answer the purpose nearly as
we'll. The washing will rid the trees
of all insects and their eggs deposited
in the crevices of the bark, as we'll as
keep the bark of the trees in healthier
condition.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
Last year Easter Sunday came on the

Last year Easter Sunday came on the
18th of April, but this year it came on
the 29th of March. Easter is the day
on which the Christian church commem-
crates our Savior's resurrection. Easter
is word of Saxon origin, and imports
a goddess of the East. This goddess was
Astarte, in honor of whom sacrifices
were annually offered.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

Corn CULTURAL western Massa-
cnusetts farmer writes to the Homestead
that, from what he has gathered from
experience and observation in regard to
the corn crop he has come to the follow
ing conclusions: That ordinary corn
should be planted in hills from 3 IL to
feet apart each way that if the stalks
come up close together they are less liza
BILE to send up suckers and can be more
easily hoed; that early planted corn
growing when the weather is cooler bears
larger ears in proportion to the stalk
than that which is planted later; that
it is generally better to put the manure
where the roots will find it than to trust
to damp weather to carry the manure to
the roots that corn MANFRED in the hill
with stable manure should not have the
hills nearer than four feet, or more than
four stalks in hill,-if planted nearer
you get stalks at the expense of the ears
that about 25c. worth of good stable ma
nure at SIS per cord can generally be
relied on to produce one bushel of corn.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

portant ingredients Of our common COM
mercial fertilizers, because of both their
scarcity in the soil and their high cost.
IL. The chief use of commercial fer
tilizers. guano, phosphates, bone, potash
salts and special fertilizers prepared by
formula for different crops, is to supply
nitrogen. phosphoric acid and potash.
IL. These materials are expensive, but
the right ones in the right places are
nevertheless very profitable. Some of
the materials used in the experiments we
have to report have in some cases given
net profit of nearly one hundred dollars
per acre. But the same fertilizers in
other trials have brought little or no re-
turn.
Is. tits not good economy to pay high
prices for materials which our soils them
selves may furnish, but it is good econo-
my to supply the lacking ones in the
cheapest way. Farmers cannot afford to
use commercial fertilizers at random. No
more can they afford to have their crops
fail when small outlay for the proper
fertilizer would bring bountiful harvest,
And it is time that they understood
these facts, the reasons and how to make
use If them.
IA. The only way to find what our
soils want is to study them by careful
observation and experiments. Success
in farming as in other business requires
the use of brains.
We are fortunate in having men in
Vermont who are able and willing to
study these problems nationally and with
good measure of success. The succeed
ing articles will give some of the results
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

Nothing is easier than fault-6nding.
No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no
character, are required to set up in the
grumbling business. But those who are
moved by genuine desire to do good
have little time for murmuring or COM
plaint.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
No More White Butter.

No dairyman afford to make and sell white but
ter. People who buy butter want yellow, and are
to take. BY using Wells. Richardson Co.'S Perfected
Butter Color, every dairyman have the golden
color Of June the round 1t is sold by druggists
and merchants generally,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
A Good Housewife.

The good housewife. when she is giving her house
its spring renovating, should bear in mind that the
dear inmates Of her house more precious than
many houses, and that their systems need cleansing
by purifying the blood regulating the stomach and
bowels to prevent and cure the diseases arising from
spring malaria and miasma, and she must know that
there is nothing that will do 1t perfectly and surely
Hop Bitters the purest and best OF medicines See
other column
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
EUROPE and The P ASSION PLAY.
Good Farm for Sale.

The subscriber offers his farm, situated in Sheffield,
four miles from Glover Village and four miles from
Sheffield Village for sale at very reasonable rates. for
cash good mortgage notes. Said farm contains 100
acres of excellent land with plenty of wood and tim
ber good sugar orchard of 800 trees and buildings
in good repair-one barn built last summer.
Farm is well fenced and has cold spring water running
to the house and barn. School only one-half mile
distant HERMAN FROST.
Sheffield, VT, Jan. 5, 1880. ol3
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
Why Wear Plasters 2

They may relieve, but they can't cure that lame
back for the kidneys the trouble and you want
remedy to act directly their secretons to purify
and restore their healthy condition. KidneyWOrt has
that specific acon-and the same time it regulates
the bowels perfectly Don't wait to get SICK but get
q package to-day, and cure yourself.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
An exchange gives the following as a

cheap and true barometer. Put a small
quantity of plverized alum in long
half-ounce vial and fill it with spirits of
wine. When the atmosphere is clear
and dry the spirits will be as clear as
crystal, but on the approach of rain or
bad weather the alum will rise in the
center in the form of spiral cloud.
which is an infallible indication of rain
or bad weather.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
SWORN EVIDENCE,
The following Cure Is probably the moss
remarkable ever effected by any nnedI-
cal preparation for the treatment OF
Catarrh:

CaraFFns
GentIemen,-I hereby certify that have had Ca.
tarrh for ten years. and for the last six years have
deaf buzznS in the head Sains Parta e
pie, dizzy spells, weak and painful eyes, swollen
and liberated tonsils, hard and constant cough.
of consumption. My head ached all the time The
matter accumulated SO rapidly in my head and
at night would spring out of bed, it seemed to
me, at the point Justification. would then have
recourse to every means In my power to dislodge
able to sleep again. For period of six years nv
tonsils were liberated and SO much infiamed that
could with difficulty swallow. finally consulted an
but at his request postponed it. The constant in
hammation and liberation in my throat caused by
had so irritated and inamed my lungs that cough
ed tncessantly.-a deep. hard cough Meanwhile
SO that lost flesh, grew pale, and showed every
symptom of an early death by consumption When
matters had reached this stage, about six months
ago, began the use of SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE
FOR CATARRH. After using the first bottle began
to improve rapidly. The first dose seemed to clear
my head as 1 had not known it to be for years. 1t
seemed gradually to arrest the discharges. II
stopped nly cough In three days. By using it as a
gargeI soon reduced the Inflammation and swell
Ing Cfmy tonsils SO thatthey soon ceased to trouble
me-. The soreness across my chest disappeared,
the buzZng noises in my head ceased, my senses of
seeing and OF hearing were completely restored,
to the verge Of the grave disappeared by the use
of SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE FOR CATARRH
I have been thus explicit because, as druggist,
Ihave seen great deal of suffering from Catarrh
and hope to convince many that this is great
/ am familiar with the treatment Of Catarrh as
practised by the best physicians and have consult
ed the most eminent about my case. have used
peared during period of six years past, and have
while following their use, taken great care of my
general health but obtained no relief or encourage
S3sToN, FEB. Is 1875. GEO. F. DINsMoRE.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

Each package contains DR.. Sanford's Improved
Inhaling Tube, with full directions for use in all
cases. Price, 100. For sale by all Wholesale and
Retail Druggists throughout the United States.
WEEKS & POTTER, General Agents and Whole
sale Druggists. Boston, Mass,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
Liberation Notice.

This certifes that have given my son, ELMORE
D. CURRIER r, his time during the remainder OF his
minority aud shall claim of his earnings pay
any of his debts. D. A. CURRIER.
Morgan, VT, March t. 1880.
Witness s-J. J. TwoMBLY, R. c. ELLIOTT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

- AA WEEK in your own town, and no capital
XNN risked. You can give the business trial
- ~ ~ without expense. The best opportunity
ever offered for those willing to work. You
should try nothing else until you for yourself what
you can do at the business we offer. No room to ex-
plain here. You can devote all your time only your
spare time to the business and make great pay for
every hour you work. Women make as much as men.
Send for special private and particulars which
we mail Free S. outfit Free Don't complain of hard
times while you have such a chance Address Fl.
HALLET d CO., Portland, Maine. OBJ
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
AMERICAN g. FOREIGN PATENTS.

GILMORE IL CO., Successors to CHlPMAN,
HOSMER d CO., solicitor Patents procured In al
countries. NO FEES IN ADVANCE. No charge
unless the patent granted. No tees for making pre-
liminary examinations. NoaddtiOnal eesfor obtain
ing and conducting rehearing. BY centdeelslon
of the Commissioners ALL rejecteda applications may
be revived Special attention gwen TO Interference
cases before the Patent Office Extensions before Con-
gress infringement Suits in different states, and all
litigation appertaining to Inventions or Patents
send stamp to Gilmore 81 Co. for pamphlet
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
LAND CASES, LAND WARRANTS
ANN cnDIH

Contested Land Cases prosecuted befOrethe U. 8.
General Land Office and Department of the Interior.
Private Land Claims, MINING and PRE-EAP-
TION Claims and HOMESTEAD Cases attended
to. Land Scrip 49, 3d. and $50 pieces for sale
This Scrip is assignable, and can be located in the
name of the purchaser upon any Government land
subject to private entry, Sl25 per acre. It's Of
equal value with Bounty Land Warrants. Send
stamp to Gilmore * Co. for pamphlet of In
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

SUFFOLK, S. Feb. %, 1875.
Then personally appeared the said George F.
Dinsmore, and made oath that the foregoing state.
ment by him subscribed is true. Before me,
SETH j. THOMAS. Justice of the Peace.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1879.

a a a a A MONTH guaranteed. $l2 day at
WI III home made by the Industrious Capital
0SSS not required; we will start you Men,
women boys and girls make money
faster work for than at anything else. The work
light and pleasant, and such anyone go right
at. Those who are wise who this notice will SEND
their addresses at once and for themselves
Costly outfit and terms free. Now is the time. Those
already at work are laying up large sums of money
Address TRUE CO, Augusta Name. OIL
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

Physicians use Kidrey-wort in regular practice and
pronounce its action perfect.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
Geo. P Rowell Co.'S
New Advertisements.
MARX TWAIN'S NEW BOOK,
4. Tramp Abroad.

$4,000 COPIES ALREADY ORDERED.
This great selling book of the season will be issued
soon after lst of March Agents are getting huge lists
and hundreds of others do it. For agency address
AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO. Hartford, CT.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
pEhSInMS.

AllOFFICERS, SOLDIERS, and SAILORS
wounded ,ruptured, or injured in the late war; hcwev-
slightly obtain pension by addressing GIL
MORE d CO.
Gases prosecuted by GILMORE d co. beforethe Su-
preme Court of the United States and CourtofClams
and the Southern Claims Commission.
Each department of our business is conducted in
separate bureau under charge of the experience
ed parties employed by the old firm Prompt attention
to all business entrusted to GILMORE co. is thus
secured. We desire to win success by deserv-
ng it. Address,
GILMORE & co. 1929 St. w ashlngton, Z. G.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29
KRREARS OF pay AND BOUNTY.

OFFICERS, SOLDIERS, and SAILORSof
the late war; their hers in many entitled
to money from the Government of which they have no
knowledge. Write full history of service, and state
amount of pay and bounty received. Enclose stamp
to GILMORE 81 CO., and afullreply ,afterexam-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

rEhTlLlZERS AND PLANT FOOD.
z. The chief use of fertilizers is to
supply plant food which crops need and
soils fail to furnish.
8. But the indirect action of fertilizers
in Improving the mechanical condition of
the soil and rendering Its stores of plant
food available is often very important.
Hence cheap materials like lime and plas-
ter are frequently more profitable than
manure or artificial fertilizers.
8. Plants vary greatly with respect to
their demands for food. their capabilities
of gathering the ingredients from soil
and air, and the effect of different fertil-
izers upon their growth. Hence the prop
er fertilizer in given case depends
upon the crop as we'll as upon the soil.
10. The only ingredients of plant-food
which we need to consider in commercial
fertilizers, are Potash, Lime, Magnesia,
PhosPhoric acid. Suiphuric acid, and
Nitrogen. Of this list, magnesia is gen.
orally abundant in even "worn-out" soils
Sulphuric acid and lime are more often
deficient, and hence one reason of the
good effect so often observed from the
application of lime and plaster. The re.
naming substances, the Rtosphoric acid
Nitrogen and Potash, are the most i'm
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-29

There Is no medical or protective appliance that
will prove so grateful and effective in Tickling
Coughs, Irritation and Soreness of the Chest and
Lungs. We believe them capable of preventing
serious diseases OF these organs.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-06
Not Much Fireworks.

In India The husbandman, being avcrsc
to toll "that asks tough sincws," prefers to
tickle the surface Of lis fields with stick
instead of plowing them. TO convince him
Of his error, an English plow was once i'm
ported by an enthusiastic official, and a
number Of tho cultivaiors of the ncighbor-
hood were invited to witness the great deeds
Of the new implement. Bullocks were So
lemnly attached to 1t and urged to proceed
They refused, of course, and SO MOI and
more were added, until at last the plow be.
gan to move but whether from the incxpe-
rience of the plowman or the conduct Of
the bullocks, or both combined, In such cr-
ratio fashion that the nozzle was one in
slant plunged deep into the ground and in
the next jcrkcd up violently, sending
showers Of earth into the air; and the OK :.
hibition was finally brought to q premature
conclusion by two Of the bullocks joining
in a single combat. The peasants Assem-
bled were very much impressed by the be-
hayior of the plow US plow, but confded
to their entertainer before leaving that they
did not think much Of it---as fireworks
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-06
Waterspouts OH the Sound.

Two fishermen of Grecnport, T.. l., de-
scribe an extraordinary phenomenon which
they Witnessed while on the Sound shore,
opposite that village, Oh recent afternoon.
Their attention was first attracted by what
seemed to be an unusual disturbance on the
surface of the water, directly under heavy
cloud coming from windward, the wind
blowing heavily from the northwest and a
heavy surf rolling. The tops of the waves
assumed the spiral ascending motion pccu-
liar to waterspouts, which increased until
the elevation was upward of fifty feet be-
fore the water took the cloud form. This
was soon followed by a second, about q
mile off shore, similar to the first, but con-
siderably larger, its height, Judging from
the angle Of elevation being nearly thou
sand feet The top of this also resolved
into fog or mist directly under the cloud
Then, at a distance of about four miles, a
third one was plainly discernible, which
seemed to meet the sky at the rear of the
cloud, and which must have covered an
area of several acres. All three OF these
spouts were moving with tho wind, and the
first or smallest one subsidized to the water
level only a few rods from the beach. In.
mrdiatcly there was sharp dash of rain,
followed by hail squall as the disturbing
cloud passed over, and when this subsidized,
so that view of the Sound could be OBJ
taincd the waterspouts had disappeared
So far as known, these were the only water
spOuls ever seen in the Sound.