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Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
Tarring Fence Posts.

A correspondent of the Country Gen.
Hem0n writes as follows: 81 have tried
tarring fence posts and have seen it
tried by others great many times and
my experience is that near the surface
of the ground (the difficult place to keep
sound) the preservative effects OF the
tar are completely neutralized in from
one to two years by the action of the
soil-wet and dry. l saw some oak
posts treated with a covering of hot
coal tar, set in July, 1869, which COM
pletely rotted off and the fence had to
be rebuilt in 1877. The location of this
fence, however, was such that it was
subject to frequent changes OF wet and
dry.
"It occurred to me, some years ago,
that after applying coal tar it would be
a good plan to burn it off, thus produc-
ING charred surface, which will resist
decay under all circumstances. [ set
some white cedar posts in this manner
in 1875 and they are as sound to-day
near the surface of the ground as when
set and since then | have followed the
practice up quite generally. l cover
the posts thoroughly with hot tar, be-
inc careful to cover some inches above
the surface of the ground, then pile up
the tarred ends together six or eight III
pile and set fire to them, turning
them over, if necessary, while burning,
until the entire surface is charred. 1t is
better to apply the hot tar, as it enters
all the cracks and chinkS and also the
pores of the wood, and some of it re-
mains there under the charred surface.
1T will not do to treat green posts
in this manner, as the confined moisture
soon rots the posts from the inside, but
| can see no reason why dry post so
treated will not last great many years.
= In the experiments which have
been made with coal tar applied to
woodwork exposed to earth and moist
ure, it has been found important to heat
both wood and tar to cause it to enter
the pores and this is doubtless effected
very efficiently by the charring de-
sCribedd i'll the preceding report OF eN-
periments. Simply applied to the sur,
face of wood exposed above the ground
coal tar has been found to do more
harm than good. Where we have used it
for wood at the surface of the ground,
properly driven into the pores, it has
made it last, in some instances, twenty
wears, when without this protection it
you'd not have survived FIVE years.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

partment of agriculture to another with
out good cause are unsuccessful.
Doing business on borrowed capital
is another frequent cause Of failure
among farmers. As a rule, farmers
pay much more for the use Of money
than persons living in large cities do,
although the security they give is better.
Now that four per cent. Government
bonds are at premium, many farmers
pay ten per cent. for the use of money
This is more than they can afford to pay.
If the seasons are favorable and the
crops excellent they may be gamers by
obtaining money at ten per cent. inter
est. But if the seasons are bad and the
crops poor they can not realize ten per
cent. profit from the money they have
hired. The consequence is that they
run behind in paying their interest and
when the principal falls due they are at
the mercy of their creditorS.-Chtcag0
Times
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
Are Your Closets Ventilatedl

THERE is nothing so handy in house
as an abundance of large, roomy clos
cts; but because they are handy and ex-
tremely useful they are aptto be abused.
There are many things, which, as mat
ter of course, are always put into a
closet, of which the articles of outward
wearing apparel make a large part.
There are also things which ought not
to 90 into closet, i. e., closet adjoin-
ing, orclosely connected with, a living or
sleeping room. OF such are all Soiled
under-garmentS the wash clothes, which
should be put into a large bag for the
purpose, or a roomy basket, and then
placed in the wash-room or some other
well-aired room at some distance from
the family. Having thus excluded one
of the fertile sources of bad OdorS in
closets, the next point is to see that the
closets are properly ventilated. Itmat-
ters not how clean the clothing in the
closet may be, if there is no ventilation
that clothing will not be what it should
be. Any garments after being worn for
a while will absorb more or less of the
exhalations which arise from the body,
and thus contain an amount Of foreign
it may be hurtful matter-which free
circulation of pure air can soon remove;
but if this is excluded, as in many close
closets, the eflluvia increases, and the
clothes, closets, and adjoining rooms in
time possess an odor that any acute
sense of smell will readily detect. Every
closet in daily use in which the night
clothes are hung by day and the day
clothing by night, should have an airing
as well as the bed. If the closet can be
Ian lge enough to admit of windOw-and
it y in some casos-an ample provision
for sunlight and circulation of pure air
is provided in the window, which should
be left open for short time each day.
In the case of small closets a ventilator
could be put over the door or even in it.
In,many cases such precautions forpu
cldthing are not practicable, and the
neEt best thing is, to see that the door
of the closet is left open for half hour
orso each day, at that time when the
windows are thrown up and the large
room is purified with fresh air from out
of doors. In this way: first, by keep
ing out clothes intended for the wash;
and second, daily changing the air, the
closets may be comparatively pure
american AQ7TcultuTiSt.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
Human Work and Human Waste.

Work means waste, equally to hui
man body and u locomotive engine.
&" More work, more waste,' is a motto
alike true OF the mechanics apparatus
and Of the mechanic himself. Not an
action, we repeat, is performed by US
which is not accompanied by an eXpen-
diture of force derived from and accom-
panied by proportional waste OF sub
stance. The movements of muscles,
the beating OF the heart, the winking Of
an eyeld, the thinking Of a thought,
entail wear and tear upon the muscles
that work and the brain cells that think.
Every action necesstates bodily waste
and corresponding physical repair.
Waste, however, cannot Of necessity be
a single and final process in a living
body-unless, indeed, we were born
with full complement of matter and
were permitted in the order of nature
to live on the principal with which we
had been provided, instead of wisely
using that principal as ameans of gain
ing a livelihood through the interest it
acquired. That we are not so constl-
tuted is an evident fact, hence our
bodies demand pretty constant repair
as a companion action to that OF work,
labor and duty. This process of repair
consists in the reception of matter from
the outer world, in the transformation
of that matter into ourselves, and in its
utilization in the work and repair of the
frame. Such matter we shortly name
food, and the processes whereby it is
converted into our own bodily substance
we term digestion. Chambers Jour-
RGI.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

THE team attached to the family carriage
of rich Galveston family ran away a few
Iars ago. The lady and her daughter were
in the carriage and the street was full of
veh cles. She asked the coachman if he
could stop the team. He said he could not,
hut h, thought he could steer it. "Then,"
she said, leaning back with great composure,
'run Us into some fashionable turnout.
want TO be thrown into good company"
Fortunately the team was halted Just as it
was about to demoish a swil-cart. -GdlgeSO,t
Mans
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
Tho portS nOlipp lately arrpSted a

The Paris police lately arrested an
English woman named Bird, most &C
complished shoplifter, who has been in
the habit of paying an annual visit to
Paris, arriving with several trunks emp
tyg and returning after some months
with the trunks full. Every morning
she left her hotel in the Rue de Richelieu
in carriage on foraging excursion, in
the course of which she slipped what
pleased her into an umbrella.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
GAINESVILLE Times.]
Eauar MisHad.

Many of our readers may be benefited by
the following reliable statement from Messrs.
A. Heiman g. Son, the weil-known Druggists
of this city, who write: We have sold thou
sands of bottles Of that valued medicine
Hamburg Drops-and every bottle that we
have sold has always cured. 1t never missed.
We recommend it as the best medicine we ever
sold, and could furnish statements of cures
sufficient to fill the largest paper printed.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
A FEW .acts not so generally known as the

A FEW acts not 50 generally known as they
shoUld be: A watch fitted with second
hand need no- necessarily be a secondhand
watch. Doctors generally agree about bleed
in their at,tnJs. steam is a servant that
sometimes blows up its master, An Ungram-
nat cal Jud is apt to pass an incorrect
+ ulence. Any iool can make a woman talk,
but its hard to make one listen. A thorn in
tie bush is worth two in the hand-Judy.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
The Most Desirable Stove to Buy.

All our customers agree in saying that the
CHARTER OAK is without doubt the best
Cook Stove they ever used or sold, and be-
rove its large high oven, ample warming
closet, and an excellent Reservoir, make it
the most desirable stove that houSekeeper
can buy.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

The CHARTER OAK COOK STOVE now in
my kitchen has been used ten years. II
bakes perfectly with less fuel than any stove
thai know of; is perfectly clean, no dust OF
ashes escape into the room, and | cheerfully
recommend it to any housekeeper wanting q
first t-rate stove.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

You can live on Malt, sleep on Hops, resist
ague and malaria with Ca)sava, and enrich
tie blood with Iron. In short, you can find
new life in MALT BITTERs, made of unfer-
mented Malt, Hops, Calisaya and Iron, as
every drugg st will tell YOU.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
L1nckson LMinn.l Repnbllc.l

UNCLE SAMUEL HALL says that St. Jacobs
Oil has limbered up his limbs and he is now
ready for that foot race on the Fourth. We
are ready, too Uncle. You did the fair thing
when YOU notified US in advance that you had
used "St. Jacobs.n We can prepare accord
ingly
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
Best Stove We Ever Used.

After many years. trial, we are satisfied
that the CHARTER OAK is the best Stove we
ever used, and cheerfully testify that it is
the best adapted to the wants of the general
public of any stove in the market.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
EaptS and Figures,

Every one of the more than 400, 900 CHAR
TER OAK STOVES now in the hands Of as
many housekeepers have proved eminently
practicable, easily kept in order, doing all
kinds Of cooking quickly, cleanly and with
great economy of fuel and labor.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

u WANT something to take up my mind,
you know sad Mrs. Jones. is Il cambric
uecae too b.g, ara" was the unfeeling re-
ply. The brute !-Bost0a transcript.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04
Frazer Axle Grease.

Best in the world. Made only by the Frazer
Lubricator Co., at Chicago, New York and st.
Louis. Sold everywhere.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

WHAT interest does distance charge for
Lending his enchantment to the view, and
is there any difference in the several Statess
-I'Uck.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

Some of the German educational
leaders are making efforts to abolish
the old style of type in use in Germany,
as well as the characters used for writ
ing.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

The gorgeousness of numerous red noses
gives emphasis to the well-known remark that
: AL that gltters is not gold. ."-Ihitade'phia
Chronicle Herald.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

WHEN a Young man returns from a sum-
mer tour without his trunk you may know
rnat he has had trouble with some of the ras-
ealiy hotel keepers on the road.-N o. Pea
ytsue
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

A HORSE laugh may be "Hay. hay."-Rom.
Seatlnd NeIgI Neigh.-NeU HatM Register.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

PAYsoN's INDELIBLE INK is the best for
marking linen Sample will be sent postpaid
for SOC. by f. II. StOddard, Northampton, Mass.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

If afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Wafer, Druggists sellit. 25c.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

REppIYG's RUSSIA SALvE is unrivalled Its
speedy healing qualities. Price Pc.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

G A. SALA thinks that "a genuine New
Yorker with plenty Of money would drink
pearls dissolved in nectar or rubies boiled in
lmbrosia if Mr. DelmOnico kept those arti-
cles on hand.n
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

TAKE Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

OF course you always get the best butter
milk IRON gOats.-CMcinlat Commercial.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

WTHoFTs Fever and Ague Tonic, the
old reliable remedy now sells at one dollar.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

AGENTS SOMETHING Coz, YOnge Co..
WANTED. IN - W. ~. Louis, MO
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

RcENTc Coin money with DIR. Chase's New
EuENlS Receipt Book. Ours the only one gem
u,ne Bymail 81 Address Chase Pub ng Co., Toledo D.
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

HnFAA MONTH! AGENTS WANTED
LIS Best Selling Articles n the World World NiIS sa%
Sharp County record., 1880-11-04

HsEMc Rev0HVcrs. Illus. catalogue I. ge
NtsIa 81 Great Western Gun Works, PittshlIgh Pa,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-09

agreement with the Czarewitch. Alex
ander's mother was a German Princess,
and he was educated under German
professors, and spent some Of his early
life in Berlin. He has been on intimate
terms with Emperor William, and this
friendship has doubtless influenced the
turn of European affairs in the last
twenty years. On the other hand, the
Czarewitch is said to hate the Germans
and to be partial to the French, and
also to he in sympathy with great
number of the Russians who look upon
the Germans as probable foes in the fu-
ture.
The Car is studious and domestic in
his tastes; he loves peace and tranquility,
and dislikes anything pertaining to War,
while his son is soldier by instinct.
The Car is a cultivated European; his
son resembles the old type of Muscovite
warriors.
1t is not surprising that the occupant
and heir of the Russian throne should
be at logger-heads, as it has been the
rule Tor centuries, and Alexander, in
giving the title of Czarewitoh to his SON
seems TO have also given him that herit
age of opposition TO the state which in
most cases, has been a characteristic o
his predecessors. ST Louis Republican
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-09
A Pen-Picture Of Queen Victoria at the
Opening Of Parliament.

HER MAJESTY acknowledges the grave
greeting of her heges by scarcely
more than glance of the eye. The
head bent slightly, perhaps, but am
not sure. She, too, walks slowly; there
is no vulgar hurry about any part of the
business. AS she rounds the corner of
the dais her face is turned full toward
our gallery. 1t is the business of cour-
tiers to say that the Queen looks al
ways well. For my part, thought she
had grown old since last / saw her, and
that the lines of the temples and about
the mouth were cut deeper than ever.
1t can never have been more than a
comely face, and there is nothing,
strictly speaking, in its contour, and
nothing in the figure, which can be
called beautiful or noble. What strikes
you, nevertheless, is the air of authori-
ty and the air of stern sincerity which
sits upon this royal brow and marks the
least gesture of the Queen. The sadness
of the face is profoundly touching; the
dignity with which the burden-the all
but intOlerable burden of her life-is
borne, appeals to your respect. She is
here, they say, to mark once more her
sympathy with the First Minister of the
Crown; and with the party which, un-
der his guidance, has been leading this
country so strange dance these three
years past. But politics are forgotten
in such a presence; and any criticism
one has to offer is put decently aside so
long as the woman and Queen is here.
When she had seated herself upon
the royal robes spread Overthe throne
which she might have worn one would
think-there is again a pause, almost
solemn, and there is time to observe
the gown which the Majesty of England
has on. The Majesty and Beauty of
England are face to face, for the
Princess sits nearly opposite, and as
the Princess is perhaps the st-dressed
woman in the room, so is the Queen al
most the worst. Her gown is Of velvet,
with broad, longitudinal streaks of
miniver or ermine running down the
skirt and horizontal trimmings to match
about the body. But YOU need not stop
to look at il; the Koh-i-noor glows in
her corsage, and a miniature crown of
diamonds shines above the stony head.
The Princess Beatrice, in blue velvet,
stands by her mothers side, with traces
of the wOmanly attractiveness which
belongs tOher sister Louise, now reign
ing over the hearts of our Canadian
friends. There was some maneuvering
with footstools and arrangement of
trains, and the Queens veil had to be
extricated from the netted work of the
throne. Then the Queen said, " Pray
be seated" and once more came ST.
lence.-LOnd0n Cor. N. Y. Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-09
Festive EnElIsh soldiers.

AMONG the many "dangers of the
streets" to which LOndoners are eX-
posed is that of being knocked about
and ill-used by drunken and disorderly
soldiers. A very bad case of this kind
came before the Magistrate at West
minister Police Court this week. A sol
der was charged with being drunk and
disorderly in the Buckingham Palace
road. At about one o'clock last We'd
nesday a police constable on duty saw
the prisoner, who was very drunk.
push OF the pavement two women, one
of whom had a child in her arms. For
this act alone he deserved to be taken
into custody, but the policeman merely
spoke TO him" and such were the
good effects of the few words of counsel
so feelingly uttered, that the prisoner
actually "went on quietly for thirty OF
forty yards" without committing any
further outrage. Here, however, the
"old Adam" reasserted itself; and see
ing gentleman approaching, the pris-
oner could not resist the temptation OF
knocking his hat off. He then, in a
military parlance, "retreated,n o., in
other words, ran away; but happening
TO see gentleman and lady going into
a house he could not refrain, even dur
ing his flight, from knocking the gem
tleman's hat over his eyes. He ran
away again; but the police, thinking
the time had arrived for interference,
pursued and captured him. On being
caught he excused his conduct by say
ing that he had "Only bOnneted the
swell for a lark.p The Magistrate
fined him forty shillings, or one months
imprisonment with hard labor; but il
''larlsn of this description continue
they win have to be repressed by a
stronger hand. Pail Mall Gazette.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-09

HERR WICKERsCHIMER, of the Zoo
nomical Museum of Berlin, has invented
a process for preserving plants and the
bodies of animals, which, it is said, is of
such value that the Prussian Govern
ment has procured the patent and given
it to the public.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-09
QUEsrToNISGs.

'CONE and kiss me, dimple-cheek;
Toll me whut you think about.
WWll the angels come next weckf
yves, 60 YOU, dear, past douht'
"wm they tell me storie,I.,u
That 1 cannot answer you;
often when YOU sat and smiled
Ihave thought they talked with you.'
"Dont the angels tell you things2
rbeE e9i dont 'pi iss i t66 bir t6iSs. Ss' Wings,
Willie said, would grow ON me.
"when? Next yearl"
IL hope not"
owen. because love you So"
"Dont YOU love folks when they hyf'
"They BY beyond our sight."
Cant you call them back here5
"sweet my child, they stay
Always out Of sight"
Fd come back to you some day
"Ah. L fear you would forget.
Lot me clip your little wings.
"Why, mamma. your cheek ls wet
vanished things"
"what Is vanshedy don't know H
Something lost or gone away.
Where's the rosey You saw Il blow"
" Did IL vanish yesterday
"somethng vanished made you cry.
Was IL rlsesY
f" what I miss
One low grlvc hides" ..
"Ah, know. .|| ..
Thut is where the baby Is.
"If he wakes, will he bB 'fraidg
But one day my grandma said
Blby'd gone 90 stay with God.
God, you know, lives overhead.
eff he did. a must be nice
Living way up 'mung the stara.
I'd like to-"
"Oh sing, my bird,
Yet awhile behind the bars"
-EbcH h. RcEfOrd, Nv ChristidH UiiOr
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-09

Few people realize the fact that
America widens at the north until it
reaches out into the ocean so as to be
within thirty-six miles of Asia. In
severe winters Behring's Straits are
frozen over, and animals frequently
pass ON the ice from one country to
another.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-06

presentment against the Governor is
one that should carry 10 weight with
the appointing power. Tt is that his
excellency is friendly to the Mcrmons.
There should be a good deal more
truth in this accusation" than there
really lie, and it ought to be set down
ID the Governors credit, rather than
as an ofense. He is the governor for
the people of Utah Territory, and not
for any class OF those people, Nor
mons, Gentiles, Jews, Christians or
heathens. As there are eight or ten
Mormons hare to one of any ether
class governor should not be held
in very high esteem who declared
himself an enemy to the people be
was sent to govern.
As matter of fact it makes very
little difference who is governor Of this
territory. 1t is true, the governor has
an absolute veto in the legislature,
bat when We come to lock at it, that
power practically amounts TO little.
He can pass no laws nor repeal any
already enacted; and while he may
occasion some annoyance by the cap
tioUs exercise OF the veto power, very
small harm can come from il. Two
months hence, after the legislature
shall have adjourned, the governor
power will be at an end for two years,
and his influence in the community
thereafter amount to no more than
that of any other citizen OF equal ipt9l
ligence and respectability.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-06
False Impression.

1t is generally supposed by physi
clans and the people generally thai
Dyspepsia can not invariably be
cured, but we are pleased to say that
GREENS AUGUST FLOWER has never,
to our knowledge, failed to cure Dys,
pepsia and Liver Complaint in all its
forms, such as Sour Stomach, Cos
siveness, Sick Headache, Palpitatiou
of the Heart, Indigestion, bad taste
in the mouth, etc Out of the 1000
dozen bottles sold last year, not a
Jingle failure was reported, but thous-
ands of complimentary letters received
from Druggists of wonderful cures.
Chree doses will relieve any case.
fry it. Sample Bottles 10c. Regular
dize 75o. For sale by all Druggists.
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