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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
Farm Notes.

A good butter COW ought not to eal
less than from six to eight quarts of meal
per day, but not clear corn meal. Bran
is not worth much to make butter, but
mixed with corn meal gives health and
thrift.
An English farmer very successful du-
ring ten years in fattening cattle and
sheep, supplied a ration made as fellows
Eight bushels corn soaked in ten pals Of
water two days, then simmer for an
hour or so, afterWard mix with fourteen
pounds Of coarse, cheap sugar, and COM
mingle with cut straw, hay or other fod-
der.
French gardeners preserve peaches in
fresh condition for a considerable time
after they are ripe, by simply packing
the fruit, gathered while ripe before be-
ing quite soft, in bran in rough boxes
and by placing them in cellar, store
room, or other. similar place. By this
means it is reported that peaches are
preserved in a perfectly fresh and well
Favored condition for many weeks.
The process of curing sowed corn nee
essarily occupies some time, since when
first cut it contains eighty per cent. of
soWed corn, is to bind it and set it up in
stocks, as all corn is cut and set up. If
the bundles are of good size and we'll
bound, and the stocks are well put to-
gether, being securely bound at the top,
the fodder will cure nicely and keep un-
til fed out in the winter.
White grubs at the roots of cabbages
may be destroyed as follows: Loosen the
earth close to the root with hoe, even
so much as to disturb the plant little.
Make solution Of one part of soft soap
to twelve of soft water, and pour about
the. root in close contact with the plant.
One-fourth of pint of this solution to a
plant two or three times during the sea-
son is sufficient. Weaker suds poured
on the top would destroy the green
worm.
An exchange says: we condemn the
practice of heaping up the earth about
the stems of fruit trees, as generally rec
ommended. Some say this mound will
steady newly planted trees and will also
tend to keep away mice. The only eff
fects of the mound, to our thinking, are
to soften the bark underneath, rendering
it more sensitive to the alterations of
freezing and in early spring, and to in
duce sprouts from the parts so covered.
One hog, kept to the age of one year,
if furnished with suitable material, will
convert cartload per month into a fer
tilizer which will produce a good crop Of
corn. Twelve loads a year, multiplied
by the number of hogs usually kept by
our farmers, would make sufficient ferti-
izing substance to grow the corn used by
them; or, in other words, the hog would
pay in manure its keeping. In this way
We can afford to make pork at very low
prices, but in no other way can it be
done without loss.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
A Nation Of Shin Owners.

The Norwegian nation Is the smallest
of all European nations, but its COM
mercial feet is the third largest in the
world. The Norwegian flag is, of all
foreign flags, that which is most fire.
quently seen in the harbor of New York,
and through the sound which connects
the Baltic with the North Sea, and forms
the highway from London to st. Peters
burg, often from three to four hundred
Norwegian craft of every description
pass during one single day. In Norway,
although not every man is asailor, every
person is, nevertheless, more or less di-
rectly connected with the shipping inte-
rest.
To build ships or to sail them, to own
ships or to have part in them, is point
in eVerybody's life all along those thou
sands of lords which fringe the coasts of
Norway, and to the inland farmer the
most common manner of placing his
savings is to go down to the sea and buy
a part in a ship. Many Norwegian
vessel, carrying timber to England and
coal back to Denmark, or dried fish to
Naples and oranges back to st. Peters
burg, represents the fortune of a whole
village or parish, in which even the ser
want girls may havea share, and to many
a Well-to-do Norwegian farmer the only
source from which he draws, and can
draw, ready money is his ship part.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
Nicht Workers.

Bats live their active lives in the night !,
when sunlight comes they fly away to
their holes, there to sleep until twilight
comes again, when they resume the oc-
cupation of insect killing. The female
bat has rather hard time of it, as she
is the nest and the food of her young
until they are themselves able to fly.
Often have seen a female bat, with her
young elinging to her breast, flying about
in search of food, and the little ones were
not so small either. How else could they
get along2 The old ones make no nest;
If they wanted to ever so much they
could not, and the chances are that,
from their wandering habits, they spend
the day in one place and the next in
another two or three miles distant, Just
as they happen to be when day over
takes them, and if they left their young
behind them, their exact locality might
be forgotten. When the young ones arc
able to shift for themselves the mothers
life is easier, and until winter comes to
kill their insect food, she lives luxuri-
ously. Then when all nature is prepared
to put on the livery of winter, bats.
instead of leaving the scenes where
they have passed the summer, repair TO
their haunts in the caves and walls and.
hanging by their hind feet in little
groups Of five or six together, pass the
dreary season in one upbgo3Syp sleep
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

The impression is very general that
when consumption once attacks the hui
man frame a cure is impossible, and this
is not to be wondered at considering the
raYages of this terrible disease. It seems
that this is not the case. A short time
ago a series of examinations was made
at the Edinburgh Hospital, which de-
veloped the fact that the lungs of not
less than one-third of those who died
when over forty years of age were in a
condition that could be accounted for in
no other way than by the suppositi0n
that at some period in their lives con-
sumption had existed, and had after
wards been checked or cured. Portions
of the lungs had been destroyed, hut the
cavities formed had been healed by con-
traction and adhesion of their walls, or
the disintegrated substance had been
shut in by the formation of fibrous tissue.
Similar conclusions have been reached
in Paris, which seems to show that in
cipient consumption is more curable
and more often cured than is generally
supposed.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

probability the room was dry when
the wonderful people who designed
and built it were alive. The stalac-
tites and stalagmites have formed
since. measured one of the largest
of the former. It was FIVE feet six
and one-haif inches frombase to apex.
Allowing that it heightened at the
rate of one inch every fifty years,
which a geological friend tells me is
rapid growth, it would have been
1926 years reaching its present
length. Conjecture alone can fix the
date of the last occupancy of the
cave. It must have been years be-
fore the stalactites began to form.
examined the mouth of the cave,
and discovered traces oe stairway
which once led to the surface of the
ground. Indeed l found broken
fragments of rock which, FIVE or six
thousand years ago, were undoubted-
" parts Of broad staircase. There
were also traces of a stairway which
once wound around the sides of the
well, affording easy entrance to the
lower cavern The upper cave must
have been the cellar of a residence
built above ground. and used for
domestic purposes or as place of
retreat in times of danger.
Mr.. Grooms Intends to open al,
the tombs and the great mausoleum
arrange convenient means of en-
trance to the cave, and throw it open
TO the general public, charging
small price of admission to reimburse
him. Several parties have visited it
since the discovery of the lower cav
ern, and all are impressed with the
wonderful character of the discover
les. Mr.. GrOOms is anxious to have
a scientist examine the cave, and at
bis request a description of the dis
coveries, together with the engraved |
book, have been fJwarded 10 the
Institute.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
Learn About the Pulse.

Every intelligent person should know
how to ascertain the state of the pulse
in health then, by comparing it with
what it is when he is ailing, he may
have some idea of the urgency of his
case. Parents should know the healthy
pulse of each child-as now and then a
person is born with peculiarly slow or
fast pulse, and the very case in hand
may be of that popularity. An infants
pulse is 40; child of z, about 80 and,
from 20 to 60 years, it is 20 beats a
minute, declining to so at four-scOre.
A healthful grown persons pulse beats
20 times minute; there may be good
health down to so; but, if the pulse
always exceeds 20, there is a disease ;
the machine is working itself out, there
is q fever or Inflammation somewhere,
and the body is feeding on itself; as in
consumption, when the pulse is quick,
that is, over 20, gradually increasing,
with decreased chances of cure, until it
reaches ITO or 120, when death comes
before many days. When the pulse is
over 20 for months, and there is a slight
cough, the lungs are affected.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

EARLY DENTISTRY practice of
dentistry can hardly be included in the
modern arts, for as early as 500 B. G..
gold was used for filling teeth, and gold
wire was used to hold artificial teeth in
position, and does not seem, then, to
have been new art. A fragment of
the tenth of the Roman tables, 450 B. c.,
has reference to the burial of any gold
with the dead except that bound around
the teeth. Herodotus declares that the
Egyptians had a knowledge of the dis
eases of the teeth and their treatment
1000 B. C. In Martial, Casseilus is men
toned as either filling or extracting
teeth; but he specified that he would
not polish false teeth with tooth powder.
Lucian mentions an old maid that had
but four teeth, and they were fastened
in with gold. These facts CO aperiOd
of six hundred years.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

Supper is now ready in the smoking
car" shouted the brakeman, and young
man from Hartford, who was on his way
to San Francisco, got up and went for
ward to see what the brakeman meant
He went into the smoking car, and found
a party of Bavarian emigrants cooking
two kinds of cheese and three denomi-
nations of sausages - the stove. He
came out very pal d gave the brake
man a half a stand on the plat
form and burn hes under his nose.
''Was it very :" an old gentleman
asked him VIII he returned to the
coach. "Sir," I I'D the young man of
Hartford. you'll never smell anything
like it until you have be- dead about
six months"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

A good wife is the greatest of earthly
blessings. A wife never makes a great
er mistake than when she endeavors to
coerce her husband with other weapons
than those of love and affection. Those
weapons are a sure pull if he has any
thing human left in him. Forbear mu-
tual upbraidings. 1t is the mother who
moulds the character and destiny of her
child as to the exteriors, therefore let
calmness, peace, affection, and frmness
rule her conduct towards her children.
Children are great imitators; whether
they have scolding or peaceful mothers,
they are generally sure to learn from the
examples set before them, and thus
the consequent Joy or sorrow is transfer
red to other families therefore let moth
ers take heed to their conduct. It is not
possible to exercise too much judgment
and prudence before entering on mar
ried life. Be sure the affections on both
sides are so perfectly blended, that the
two form as it were one mind.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
CHANCE.

AwuId uuHpoken. = hand unpre2ods
Alook unseen. Ok . inought ungue1edi
Ard soula that were kindrsd nay I've apart
Never 70 mset Or know the truth,
EsTur % know how hsErt beat with heart
In the dim psi days Of q WuEted youth.
she shan not know how his pulses Ieapi
h-nen over hi1 temples her tres1es swept
As uhe leaned 70 give him the jasmine Wreafh
Ebe fslt his breath. and her face flushed red
With Tie paslonate love that ehoked her breath
And HAddeas hsr lifs E0E her youth & dead
A Afadsd woman who waits for death.
Ard murmurs name beneath her breafhs
A cynical man who sooGs and geeB
Atwunan and love in the open day,
And ~ nighttime kiss with bitter tesu
A fadsd fi1gneut o. jamina pray.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

BoRAx FOR CoLDs.-A writer in the
Medical Record cites a number of cases
in which borax is proved a most efectu-
al remedy in certain forms Of colds He
states that in sudden hoarseness, or loss
of voice in public speakers or singers,
from colds, relief for an hour or so, as
by magic, may be often obtained by
slowly dissolving, partially swallowing, a
lump of borax the size OF a garden pea,
or about three or four grains, held in the
mouth ten minutes before speaking or
singing. This produces a profuse secre-
ton of saliva, or watering" of the
mouth and throat-probably restoring
the voice or tone to the dry vocal cords.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
fLTARRHAL AEEEnTIaHs.

sreh e Sore, Weak, Inhamed. Red. and Waferv
F7as: Liberation and InhamIiafion Of he Fs-s
R|rFing Noises IN the Head Sore ThroHfs ElonQa-
Ion Of the UTula and SWelled TonslIs. Nerrrua
Feadacle, eurelgaas Dizziness, Clouded Memory
soss OF Nervous Eofce. Depression OF Spirits- are
AT carefully and scientifically treated with this
remedy according 70 directions which accnmnany
each bottle, OF VII be mailed 70 any address "a
r1seIpt Of stamp.
Esch package contains Dr. sanford,s Improved
z1haiing Tube, With full directions Tor uss in al
claes. Price tlo9 Sold by all Wholesale and Re.
az ufugElglE throughout the United Stafef and
1lnsdas- WEEKS b POTTER, General ARenfs
nj Wholesale DrUggists. Boston, Mas.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
PATENT ATTORNEYS,

No. 604 F Street, Washington, D. @
Nearly Opposite Patent ONCE
Arrears Of Pay, Bounty & Pensions.
We have a Bureau in charge Of experienced
lawyers and clerks, for prosecution fan Sold
ier's Claims, Pay, Bounty and Pensions. As we
charge no fee unless successful. stamps for re-
turn postage shculd be sent Us.
5. g. A. P. LACEY.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

An exceedingly curious illustration Of
the precision with which the New York
post-office is conducted, says the New
York Tribune, was had a few days ago in
the department in which misdirected
letters are deeiphered. A letter from
Ireland came directed to my Mother,
New York, America" Of course it was
an impossibility to tell to whom the
letter belonged, and preparations were
made to send it to the dead-letter office.
The same day, however, woman called
at the general delivery window and
asked for letter from her son. The
gentleman who has charge of the de-
Cphering bureau was imme ediately struck
with the coincidence, and sent for the
letter alluded to above.s He asked the
woman where her son lived, and when
she gave the name of the town it was
found to be the same as the postmark
on the letter. Other inquiries justified
the official in delivering the letter to the
woman, but he insisted that she should
open it there, and on examination it was
discovered that i was from her son, and
that she was the person for whom it was
intended. Of course if she had asked
for letter addressed to her name the
answer would have been that there was
no such letter. Among other curious
letters received few days ago was one
addressed to 81. II. johnson, wagon and
plough maker; all kinds Of work prompt
" attended to; America" The writer
had evidently been instructed to address
in reply according to the printed letter
head on which the communication had
been written, and had literally followed
instructions except in giving the name
of the town and state.
A public place where the Iaborer, me-
Chanic and tradesman may meet his
friends and neighbors, is want which
the gin shop supplies, and so long as it
has nearly a monopoly of this form of
society its position will be unassailable.
The classes who frequent these places,
do not, as classes, go there to drink, but
drink because they are there, having
gone there for society. The temperance
problem is how to abolish the gin shop,
and that practically means how to sup
ply a social substitute. The English
coffee house system is the best substitute
yet invented. In the present form the
movement seeks to establish cocoa
houses" and pamphlet just out men
tons that in Liverpool twenty-nine
houses, capable of seating at once an ag-
gregate of $500 men, have been opened,
and are financially successful. Their
success, the fact that they pay, means
that they meet the social want, and at
tract men from the gin shops. The as
sociation having the enterprise in charge
declared the first year adividend of ten
per cent, and carried a considerable sum
besides over into the new year as a sur
plus for contingencies.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
PATENTS

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in old ones. Caveats ald all patent business
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INVENTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN REJECT
FD may still, in most cases, be patented by US.
Being opposite the q. S Patent ONCE, and en-
gagged in PATENT BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY,
we can secure patents in less time than those
who are remote from Washington and who must
depend upOr the mails in all transactions with
the Patent Office.
When Inventors send model or sketch we make
search in the Patent Office and advise as to its
patenSability FREE OF CHARGE. Correspondence
confidential, prices low, and NO CHARGE UN-
LESS PATENT Is OBTAINED.
We refer to Hon. Postmaster General D. NJ.
Key, Rev F. D. Power, to officials in the o. s
Patent Office and especially to our clients in
every State of the Union and in Canada. For
special references. terms, advice. &C.. Address
G.. A. SHOWS CO.,
OPPOSITE PATENT OFFICE, WAsHNsroN, D. C..
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

The British ship Wallacetown, which
recently arrived from Sidney, brought n
hawk which flew on board the vessel
when about seventeen hundred miles off
the coast of Patagonia. When italighted
on the vessel it was so fatigued that it
made no effort to escape when the sailors
approached. In its talons was spar
row,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
TTHIiiE .sCIENTIFIC RECORD.
INVENTORS,

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Our book, "Haw 10 procure Patents" about the
Patent Laws, Patents. Caveats, Trade Marks,
their costs &C.. sent free on request.
Address: r. s. & A. p. LACEY,
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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
ArrORDEO BY
EFoRB'S RADICAL CURE,
10 YEARS A SUFFERER.
..nn Ilon.Theo. ?. Booerf. Rrlsfo,. 3

arez-rs TrEEs PoTTER: Gsatleneu. .-FcelInE
ft5rourhly convinced OF The e1lcacy OF sESFoED's 3
rlrTcIL CUE ToE CATAHEE. an induced 70 droo
1or z line 70 faT that although have been seer
tIcsi Ct al tne no6-rulns advertised Is radical
c1r1sin have never found anything that promises
TIct relief and Inmate cure as that Of EaNFoED1s
haqe been afflicted with this dreadful diseass
for more tnal ten year, and not until recently
Tf6f TIE letter OF hr. HEEEY TEI.Is. and can
frfffuly aGy that amer using i've or SIX boffles
an tncrouonlT convinced Of lis curative DroDer-
-. Hopi1E that ctherE similarlV efHictad afire
1Trslf VII be Induced 70 make the triaI ara 1eu-
tIsE1en, very truly, etc THO. ?. BOGFf{f
BIIaTo1.s 3 l. July q. lsT7.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13
THE BEST REMEDY
Diseases Of The Throat and Lungs,
Disease Of the puImo.

Diseases Of the pulmo.
nary organs are 80 prev
alent and fatal, that .
safe andreliable
for them is invaluable
to every community.
AYERS CHERRY Pic
ToRAL is such a remedy,
and no other so emf
nently merits the conf
dence Of the public. It
is a scientific eOmbina-
ton Of the medicinal
principles and curative
Virtues Of the finest
idrugs, chemically unit
ed, TO insure the gress-
est possible efficiency
and uniformity Of -
suits, which enables
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1880-02-13

king further investigations,
we assembled the well, we
ly discern works of the
lg tools used in excava-
ave. In the first two
and in the last FIVE, we
! many curious blocks of
ed like tables or benches,
med them to be of natural
4ater examination revealed
of chisel and pick, and
ITS were undoubtedly used
the entire cavern. The
yof the limestone chamber
natural causes. In all
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-30
Opening and Closing Of the Malls.

CLOSING.
Washington, D. G., and Northeastern mails
9. m, II %. and 6 and 16 p m.
Western mails 4 30 and l5 p. m.
Southern mails via Richmond, Va, III ~ ..
N, and 4 80 and 8 l5 p. m. :,
South and Southwestern mails, via Lyncn-
burg, Virginia, way and through mails W g.
m. and 9 % p. m.
Manassas Division 90 8. m.
Ale1andria to Round Hill Va, . w 3. m
OPENING,
Northern and Wet. mails, via Washing
,on. D, c., 80 q. H. Il and 90 p. NJ.
Southern mails, via Richmond, Va, 81 q. N
and 9 so q. m.
Southwestern mails via Lynchburg, Virgins:
(through maiIs) including way mails on Midland
Railroad 8 50 8. m.
Manassas Division 80 p. m. for lock box only.
Round Hill to Ale1andris, Va, ~ p m.
Office Hours-Ofice opens at 30 o, M, and
Sunday Hours-Ofics opens ct 8 Is a. No., and
closes at 9 30 8. m.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-30

The WEST VIRGINIA kEGULAToRs.-A DIG
patch from Parke,sburg, w. Va, says: The
Red Men, or Vigilsrts, are still keeping c artsin
neishborhoods in the adj cent counties lively.
a few L zhts cir c., 8 mar who hsd been g Tsi
carrier, having m ade himself obnoxious to the
Regulators, was taken out of a house in Richie
c ounty and severely whipped. Following this
comes al sd6i ionsl account from Calhoun. z
man named Davis, who lived or Spring creek,
Koene county, had done something. which gave
# ,nse TO the regulating gentry, aid few nights
s;nce the Regulators made raid on his mouse
for the purpose Of measuring out justice IN their
peculiar way. DAVIS has been apprlsed OF their
intention and was on The lookout fer them, ior
when the band came they were confronted oy
Davis and his wife Standing in the doorway,
who warned them of. Not needing this. the
band still approached Davis and bis Wifs tnen
opened fire on the nsrsuders, srd th II lesder
(-trouse) fell TO the earth corpse: Madden go
hy The cath Of their captain. and the gang fall
ing 10 bring the inmates out By sny other means,
thew set FIRE to the house. In the meantime 9
the dastsrdy crew surrounded the premises, ana
"A Davis and bis wife ran out from the building
the former wss easily caught. He was then
severely whipped, and had both his ears cut eh
close to his head"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-12-30

SMALL HAMS, Sugar cured Shoulders and
~ Breakfast Saron rtc ,ivei and f,r sale By
4 w. AVER., 228 kiag street.