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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
=. Teeth or Americans,

There are, as is well known, says o
New York paper, mere and better dent
lists in this country than in any other,
for the reason, it is believed, hat there
is greater need of them and that they
have ample occasion for practice. OF
the correctness of the opinion there may
be considerable doubt. Americans have
unquestionably more p~erishable teeth
than the English; probably than the
French or theSpanish. But whether they
have worse teeth than the mass OF
Italians, Germans, Russians, or other
races, is by no means certain. The com
mon people, even many of those in toll
cradle circumstances, in other lands
neglect their teeth, rarely going or
thinking of going to a dentist. But here,
as a rule, almost everybody, especially
in towns or villages Of any size, takes
more or less care of his teeth, and de-
pends on art to make up for the ravages
o fnature. This is clearly shown by the
fact that not less than IL, 900 dentists, or
one to every 1000 inhabitants, find emf
ployment in the United States. A promi-
nent dentist has lately published an
article in which he declares that about
half a ton of pure gold-representing
some $500, 0OO-is annually used for fill
ing teeth in the republic, and that nearly
four times a $ much material of acheaper
sort, silver and the like, is used for the
same purpose. He estimates that only
three centuries would be needed 10 put
all the gold coin now in circulation in
the countryside coo, OOO-into grave
yards by filling the teeth OF different
generations, He also says that almost
5000, 600 artificial teeth are made or
mounted on various kinds of plates
every year, and that out Of an average
of eighty persons of all classes here
the estimate is based on carefully pre-
pared satisfactorily one person has
perfectly sound teeth.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
Novel NuntInIs,

Here's n hint to the ladies who have
charge of church socials and festivals,
and who, r~ightfully enough, want to
make them pay well. At a recent festi-
val in a Western city a wedding was
one Of the features of the occasion. The
ceremony was announced in advance.
The idea was so novel, that, as a result,
the church was crowded to overlooking
on the evening in question, and the
money began to pour into its open cof-
fers like water. ..|..'
The young folks discussed ice cream
and cake, and talked of the event about
to take place, while surrounded by their
friends stood the prospective bride and
groom awaiting eXpectantly the words
which would pronounce them man and
wife.
After an evening of rare pleasure and
enjoyment the time for the nuptials ar
rived, and in the presence OF the great
congregation the rite was admins
tered. r....
Then came the congratulations,
which, from such a multitude, were ex-
tended in almost ceaseless flow. The
season Of conversation was again re-
newed, and it was not until n late hour
that the assembly dispersed.
Several hundred dimes were coined at
the door, and the exchequer of the
church was materially increased by the
more than novel entertainment
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
PerilS by Bees.


1t is a disadvantage of civilization
that 1t shows US the dangers to which
life is exposed. Every year present is us
with a new peril, and the latest is
almost the least expected. French men
of science are now preaching a crusade
against the industrious race of bees.
Not only are they destructive to prop
erty, but they are actually dangerous to
human life. The project of the Paris
police has been applied to. NJ, Del
pech has drawn up a formidable brief,
and is precise in his statements and
clamorous in his demands. 1t seems
that bee keeping is lucrative in the
n eighborhood of Paris, and so also is
the distilling of spirits and the refining
of sugar. Moreover, where there are
sugar works the bees are active and
abundant. At Say, for instance, the
loss attributed to them is estimated at
$4,000 a year. M. Delpech gives facts
and figures. At another refinery the
number of bees killed daily amounts to
twenty-five gallons full. He himself
saw a large glass of syrup drank up in
two hours. AS to loss of life he is
equally circumstantial. He gives a full
list Of people who died of bee stings in
the course OF the year. Most of the
cases occurred in America, but many
are furnished by France, and some by
Germany. The death is very painful,
and in some instances extremely sudden.
At Chemnitz, in Hungary, a. peasant
stung while cutting the branch of a tree
died on the spot. At Chester, in Penr-
sylvania, a farmer, examining some
hives, was stung, fell at once into q
state of syncope, and died within a
quarter of an hour. In another case
twenty-five minutes elapsed between
the wound and its fatal consequence.
M. Delpech accordingly appeals to the
project for the protection of the police,
and what he asks is that the keeping OF
bees may be placed in the category OF
dangerous and unhealthy occupations.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
The Horses Frog.

we were to go to many a black.
smith and ask him if he did not think
nature had made a mistake in putting
the clumsy frog into the horses foot, he
would hardly be ready to say yes,
and very likely would put on n sur.
priSed look, and perhaps explain that in
some countries horses did vU,y well
without shoes, and so the frog was left
to care for itself. But while not ready
to take ground with you in any criticism
OF the plan upon which the foot is con-
structed, you have but to look in the
corner of the shop where two horses
stand newly shod; lift up their feet an
observe for yourself, hat if the smith
has not said it, the knife has said the
frog is a bad thing, and must be cut
away. The horses do not stand on the
ground, but nearly half an inch higher,
on the iron Of their shoes, and which
takes the weight of the horse on the
outer shell Of the hoof. The practice is
as sensible as it would be for a man who
had to travel on all fours taking the
weight on the nails of his fingers and
toes rather than on the cushion which
lies behind them. IT is always the soft
part-the india rubber part of the feet
of animals that have such-which re
ceives the weight, and not the shelly,
hard part. We know what an elo.
plants foot is; 1t is all rubber like.
The horse has the same encased in q
shell, which gives Linn accuracy and
steadiness OF movement. Now, this
casing protects the frog. 1t grow
slowly, the frog grows rapidly. The
healthy foot of the colt shows a center,
ifnot projecting, at least level with the
line of the hoof. He does not take his
weight wholly on the rim OF his feet.
Old horses would have feet more like
them If blacksmiths would allow they
knew a little less than nature, and
really knew enough to read her inten-
tions.
The object in shoeing the animal,
aside from the occasional one of chang
ing its gait, is simply to prevent the
wear and shattering of the outer shell,
and to enable it 10 take q firmer hold Of
the ground, escaping the slipping of the
unshod horn. 1t is an unfortunate in
cident of our system Of shoeing that the
horse is raised from the ground Us a boy
u when he mounts stills.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
Pillows.

When Jacob became a fugitive from
the anger of his brother Esau, he took
stones and laid them for a pillow. In
some nations a sort of cricket, OF wood,
is regularly used for the same purpose.
The proper object OF the pillow is, not
to raise the head above the level of the
body, but to fiji out the difference be-
tween the level Of the shoulders and
that of the head when the body is on its
side. And this is the natural position,
for it is seldom safe to sleep on the back.
Hence, the pillow should be con-
structed simply to furnish the needed
support for the head, with the body on
the side. 1t should not be too large,
and yet be large enough. 1t should en-
able the head 10 Ietain its natural posi-
ton, neither bent down toward the pill
low, nor raised upward out of line with
the recumbent body.
This position is more important than
some think. For all the blood of the
head must pass down through the large
veins of the neck, ard il these veins are
much bent, they impede the return OF
the blood. 1t is, of cour,e, specially
Objectionable TO sleep on the back, with
the head on a thick pillow, since there
is no proper space for one, and the neck
is more bent and the flow of blood
checked.
Further, pillows of feathers should
never be used, for the head sinks into
them and becomes unduly heated. The
old rule, keep the head cool and the
feet warm" is always a good one, but
tits particularly necessary at night, ma
ture herself pointing in this direction,
since, by a wonderful contrivance, she
arrests the activity of the brain and rem
ders sleep possible by greatly diminish
ing the flow of blood to the brain.
Whatever heats the brain sends blood
to it. q
There is nothing equal to the hair pill
low, the year round. For common use,
in the country, the soft inner leaves of
corn-husks make good pillows
Youths Companion.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
BaHarl TnYlOr's Rules.

These are the rules l have always ac'
copied: First, labor. Nothing can be
had for nothing; whatever n man
achieves he must pay for; and no favor
for fortune can absolgo him from duty.
Secondly, patience and f%orbearance,
which are simply dependent on the slow
justice of time. Thirdly, and most i'm.
portant, faith. Unlrss n man believe
in something far higher than himself,
something infinitely grander and lu.ct
than he can ever become-unless he has
an instinct of m order beyond his
dreams, of beauty and goodness and
justice, besides which his own ideas arc
dark, he will fail in every loftier form
of ambition, and ought TO Tail.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
ODDS AND ENDS.
4 nice f%pure-sIOO.O coo.

Il nice ngufe-SlOOiUUO.
Mark Twain has made $1,000 from
bis books.
At the end Of 1879 France had Ii, 100
miles of railroad.
Chicago boasts of six millionaires
belonging TO one club.
A few years ago cheese went west;
now 100, OOO, 900 pounds a year move east
from Chicago.
According to the calculations of Pc
terman the population of the whole
world is I.42I, OS0, 900.
Says a French critic: 81 like a girl be-
fore she gets %womanish, and a woman
before she gets girlish."
Enormous natural caverns, one 900
feet long, have lately been found near
Wells. Somerset, England.
This years yield OF tea in India is esti-
mated at 70, 200, 900 pounds, nearly
double that of 1873. Ten years ago 1t
was under $4,000. 900.
The present style OF coat has a great
deal of shortening in the tail, which is a
god-send to men who have occasion to
get over picket fences in a hurry.
Arkansas society is agitated over the
question of whether or not the groom at
a wedding should wear his revolver
belt inside or outside of his dress coat.
A Bible and a newspaper in every
house, n good school in every district,
ali studied and appreciated as they
merit, are the principal support of vir.
tue, morality and civil liberty.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Harness Sores on Horsos.

There are few things which cause
more delay and trouble in farm work
during these hot months of summer,
than the gals and sores that come upon
the shoulders aud backs OF work horses.
A vast amount of hard work must be
done, and the animals are strong and
well enough to do it, provided there
were not these painful sores that prevent
their applying themselves to the labor.
A horse with shoulder or back gals, OF
both, suffers pain when it is put into the
harness. The direct cause of these sores
Is the friction 10 which the parts are
subjected, combined with the excessive
heat and great flow of sweat. Inham-
nation and chatting of the skin are pro-
duced much more readily in hot than
cold weather, because the conditions of
greater friction are then present. The
preventive is in reducing the friction to
the least possible amount. In the first
place, the harness must fit closely and
smoothly to the form of the horse, that
the weight of the load may be uniformly
distributed over the surface beneath the
harness. Secondly, the horse should be
In a healthy state, that the muscles and
skin may be of their normal toughness,
and the sweating not unnaturally pro.
fuse. This involves the proper care and
feeding Of the horse. A poorly kept
animal, or one not in good health, will
become sore more readily than one in
good health. When the sores are al
ready formed, a speedy cure is the thing
needed. Sponge carefully the afflicted
parts, to remove all accumulations from
sweat. Then battle with a lotion of
alum and %tannin, with little laudanum
added. All pressure upon the sore
should be removed by a proper adjust
ment of the harness. and, if necessary,
keep the horse from work until cured
american AgricalartSt.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16

Japanese fans have been in such de-
mand in England lately that last year
5000, 600 were exported from Hiogo
and Yokohama, whereas in former years
the trade never exceeded 10000. The
cheapest and most beautiful, by the way,
are made ut Toxic. In the process Of
manufacture one set of workmen pre-
pare the plain bamboo stick and another
ornament the ribs and handle, while
the artist chooses the colors and the de-
corations for the back of the fan and
gives the design to the engraver to exc
cute. The paper used is exclusively
Japanese, foreign paper having proved
useless.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
Took His Word for IL.

A consulnptive-looking man, lame
and feeble, and carrying q pint bottle
full of something, halted a pedestrian
on Bates street yesterday and said:
Il found this bottle on the corner
back there, and l wish you'd tell me
what's in it,"
The other took it, removed the cork
and snuffed in a full breath. The next
instant he staggered against a wall,
clawing the air and choking and gasp
ing, and 1t was n full minute before he
blurted out:
why, you Internal idiot, that's
hartshorn."
We'll, I'm perfectly willing to take
your word for it without extra insults"
observed the invalid in an injured
voice, and ho took his bottle and
walked off like a man who had been
abused without the least excuse. Free
Press.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
When 70 Hnrvest HnY.

There can hardly be two opinions as
TO the nutrition of hay which has been
harvested at different stages Of its
growth or maturity. Clover ought to
be cut when the blossoms are partially
turning, and cured with rs little delay
ms possible. 1t is pretty much the same
with timothy. If 1t is allowed to stand
too long 1t becomes dry and hard, and
loses a portioa Of itSnutriment and fra
GRANGE, and we doubt If 1t pays better
though 1t is general ly believed that it
does. Any Judge Of hay can tell whether
II has been cut early or late, and will
not pay by ten to fifteen cents per hun
dred as much as for the early cut,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
sOme summer Selections summarized.

Some Summer Selections Summarized
summer time will come again
With its softly blowing zrphyrs,
Lowing kline are in the AelGsi
Some are COWS and some are heifers
-TtHHyioH, irheR very young.
Liacs now have shed their iragmneei
snowballs, too, hs round as bullets,
Cackling fowlsAre in the ~barnyardi
Some are hens and some are pullets,
-YatSeob SirautL
Summer winds wait DER the meadow,
Azure skies and perfumes greet usi
Come the songs Of winged ~birdlingsi
Some are flies and some are 'skeeters.
-Bodon TimsG
Fall will come with peaches lusciousi
songsters sweet on all the twigs,
Through the fields the swine are roaming;
Some are hogs and some are pigs.
America.
Icy winter will appear,
With its feecy flakes and mittens,
Felines arc there in the house;
Some are cats and some are kittens.
Rome Sentinel
Seasons all have their attractions,
Seasons fruits oil have their juices,
All the seasons have their poetsi
Some are geese, and some are gooses.
Wal Luz.
Winter with its bracing weather,
Autumn makes all creatures glad;
Spring time brings lis would-be poets,
Summer good and summer bad.
-Boston Journal Of Commerce,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
Kit Csrson's wife,

History affords few instances of de-
votion that prove the existence of love
in a higher degree than that given by
Kit Carson's Indian wife to her brave
and manly lover. While mining in the
West he married an Indian girl, with
whom he lived very happily. When he
was taken i'll, a long way from home,
word was sent to his wife, who
mounted a fleet mustang pony and
Travelled hundreds of miles to reach him.
Night and day she continued her
journey, resting only for n few hours on
the open prairie, flying on her wonder
full little steed rs soon as she could
gather up her forces anew. She forded
rivers, she scaled rocky passes, she
waded through morasses, and finally
arrived just alive, to find her husband
better. But the exposure and exertion
killed her. She was seized with pneu-
monia and died within a brief space in
her husbands arms. The shock killed
Kit Carson, the rugged miner; he broke
a blood vessel, and both are buried in
one grave.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16

A crematory has been erected two
miles north Of Nashville, Tenn. The
building is about fourteen by sixteen
feet square and has n door and chimney
for ventilation. A furnace about nine
feet long, six feet wide and six feel
high.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16

Providence seems to watch over the
slooping man. Mr.. Darrah, while walk
ing in his sleep, stepped from a fourth.
story window Of n Harrisburg (Pa.)
hotel. lie only hurt his wrist,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16

SPRING BEAN SUCCOTASH.-Take two
quarts of beans, string, cut fine; boil
two hours with water enough to cover
without boiling dry cut the corn from
six ears and boil with beans twenty
minutes; season with butter, pepper
and salt; just before dishing up add a
tablespoonful of flour, moistened, also
half a cup of sweet milk, and let it boil
ten minutes. Those who have cream
can use it instead Of milk.
APPLE FRUIT CAKE.-Soak two cups
dried apples V e night; in the morning
drain and chop fine in chopping bowl;
add one cup molqsses and let it boil slow
~ OF back of stove three or four hours,
until the molasses has thickened; let it
cool; add one and one half cups OF brown
sugar, nj cup butter, half cup sour
milk, one tablespoonful each of cloves,
allspice and cinnamon, n teaspoonful
soda, three eggs, three and one-half cups
of -four; bake in two square tins or one
large five quar- basin; if baked in the
latter bake slowly two and a half hours.
This will keep six months.
HoMNY CRooUETTEs To a cupful
Of cold, boiled hominy (small grained),
add a tablespoonful of melted butter
end stir hard, moistened by degrees
with a cup'ul of rich milk, beating it to
y soft paste. Put in a teaspoonful of
sugar, and lastly a well beaten egg.
Roll into oval balls and dip into beaten
egg, then in cracker crumbs, and fry in
hot lard. Flour your hands before roll
ing them.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
Hens as Grub Deslroyers.

Burham's new poultry book gives the
following: The French peasants have
a model mode Of feasting their fowls
and at the same time of destroying the
common gTubworm with which in some
districts their land is literally alive in
early spring, and Of which pests the
farmer thus there rids himself. When
the blowing is being done a large coop
or box is placed upon wheels and filled
with advanced chickens and fowls
forty, fifty or a hundred in each-and
this vehicle is taken to the newly
blowing field and follows the open
burrows. The fowls are let out Of the
FORMULATING coops as soon as the
grounds turned over fora given space,
and they are quickly busy in gobbling
up the myriads of grubworms thrown
TO the surface by the plow, gorging
themselves with these rare pickings, Of
which they seem inordinately fond.
The coop is moved on as the birds ad-
vance behind the plowmen, and the
fowls feed constantly all day long in
this way, devouring the grubs with in
tense gusto, and appearing never salts.
fled so long as there is a stray worm in
sight. Thus the French peasant clears
his grounds previous to planting very
effectually from these destructive and
pestiferous devourers of the rootlings of
tender plants. These grubs breed in
countless numbers in the fields of Nor
mandy and Nivernais. At sunset the
fowls invariably enter the trundeled
coops, and are thus returned to their
home quarters, or are kept confined till
next day for a continuance OF this duty,
which appears to be rare enjoyment to
them.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16

In the prisons Of the State of New
York there are 1000 convicts employed
Vt stove moldinV and hollow ware.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-04-14
To Country Bellies.

Walls and sunshades cannot prevent
the summer sun from embrowning your
~complexions;. but GLENN's SULPHUR
SOAR will speedily restore them II duly
applied according to directions. The
great charm OF this article is, that no
body would suspect the effect it pro-
duces to be artificial. Nothing can he
more natural than the soft velvet tex
ture 1t imparts to the skin, with the
tinge Of rose which 1t leaves on the
too pallid cheek. Beware Of counter
feits. See that &C. N. C~RIrTENDEN,
Proprietor" is printed on each packet,
without which none Is genuine. Sold
by druggists ut % cents; three cakes 60
cents. "HnL's INSTANTANEOUS HAIR
DYE" introduced about the same time
with Glenn's Sulphur Soap, is IN equal
ly valuablearticle, although fifty per cent
cheaper than the most valuable Dyes in
the market. These two specialties have
no rivals, either In this country or in
Europe. Depot, Z Sixth Avenue, New
York.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-04-14

FoRr FRED STEELE, April IL, 4

FoRr FRED STEELE, April IL, 80.
To the Editor Of the Leader:
In the LEADER Of the 10th instant,
an article appeared signed X, and In
said article Major Evans, Third caval-
ny, Is spoken OF rs having acted in q
very inhuman manner, by refusing to
have q coffin made for a child that died
about eight miles from this post. As
the facts in the case, and the statement
in your paper, differ materially, please
permit me to state what actuaely took
place.
A request was made by n citizen for
n coffin. The post commander being
notified, stated that he had no authority
to have the work done In government
shops. when the article was purchase
BILE at Rawlins, and the parents had the
ability to purchase the same; further
more. Major Evans instructed the quar-
termaster, two days previous TO the
instance named, TO furnish the post
surgeon Transportation, for the purpose
Of visiting the sick child previous to Its
death, in order that It might obtain
good medical attention.
Very respectfully. your obd,t serv't.,
JOHN j. O'3RIEH, u. 8. A.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-04-14
The End Of the World.

Speculations about the probable date
OF the worlds destruction are redicu.
lous. When n man dies that's the end
OF the world to him; and II the reader
Of this paragraph Is troubled with a bad
cough, cold or sore throat, or difficulty
OF breathing, hoarseness or any affec'
ton Of the bronchial tubes, the best
thing he can do Is 10 postpone the fatal
event indefinitely by a prompt resort to
HALE's HONEY OF HoRHoUND AMI
TAR, which will assuredly prevent the
complaint from terminating In con
sumption, and oon restore his respira.
tory system to a vigorous condition.
Sold by druggists everywhere at soc aud
81. Large size much the cheapest.
N. l. & E. r. Ford, Oneonta, N. Y,
writes: I'VE are selling HALE's Hon.
Ell OF HoRHoND AND TAR. and Pixies
TooTuAcuE DRoPs, and both give en-
tire satisfaction"