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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21
THE NEWSPAPER.

A man eats up pound of sugar
and the pleasure he had enjoyed is
endedS but the information he gets
from newspaper is treasured up il
the mind, to be used whenever oc
casion or inclination cells for it for
the newspaper is not the wisdom of
one man or two men it is the wis
domof the sge-of past ages too. A
family without newspaper is all
ways behind the times 10 general
information; besides, they never
think much o fad much to think
about. And then there are the Ii
tie ones growing up 10 ignorance
without taste for reading. Besides
all these evils, there is the wife who
when her work is done, has to sit
down With her hands in her lap, and
has nothing to relieve her mind from
the tolls and cares of the domestic
circle.
The newspaper is the cheapest
luxury In existence From no other
source eau so much pleasure aud
profit be obtained at so little cost.
Think of it the history of the
worlds life for week intelligence
from every event worth putting into
print; accounts Of peace; the huc
tuations of the market; the Incl
dents of commerce casualties By
fire and food robberies, and mur
ders, and defalcations, and elope-
ments, and suicides, and hangings
deaths and births and marriages
scraps of wit and humor, tales and
! poems, speeches and essays, recipes
for making pudding and antidotes
for diptheria; hints upon love and
matrimony conandrums and mora
precepts---and all for three cents q
week.
/, The newspaper is the greatest o
reformers. 1t revolutionizes the
household. 1t does more to educate
the family than all the schoomasters
that ever swayed the rod. 1t car
ries life and light with it wherever
it goes. 1t stimulates the husband
to sturdier efforts, sends the house
wife singing to her work, and leads
the children by fowery paths up the
heights of knowledge. 1t is a friend
that does not deceive, a COMPLIANT
that does not betray. mother that
does not whisper evil counsel.
1t is the best mental tonic. II
arouses the slumbering energies OF
the soul, and makes the currents Of
life flow more freely aud healthy -
Deprived Of its more genial inhu
ences, society would go to rust, the
wheels of progress would be arrest
ed, and the world relapse into the
darkness of the med@v i times.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21
THE BLACKBOARD.

EDS JOURNAL - AS a more prsc,
ticable aud efficient means of edu.
eating the youthful mind, than the
old method, the black board has new
err been fully appreciated
The old method OF orally explain,
ing the difficult features of recitation,
has The following grave disadvan
tages
The mind of child, being uncul,
Ftivated, can not grasp the abstract
ideas of subject, consequently
some plan must he found to make
the subject concrete.
Much valuable time is lost in CON
tiIually repeating the numerous ex
plantations necessary besides weary
ing the mind, aud all know that the
desideratum OF a teacher is the
economical use of time and attention
These are few only of the many
disad vautages of the old method OF
teaching, but while no other way
could be found this was best.
But the times are improving and
also the necessity of thorough and
rapid education as apparent. For
merly nine years were consumed in
the study of Latin, now four are suf
iclent to graduate one.
What has caused this great
change 1t may be attributed to
many causes, but among them the
black board will be found pre- emf
nent.
Heralded by its usefulness and
recommended only BY its many sd
vantages, the blackboard rises to
claim its position of an educator.
Ii cancels all the objections raised
to the old method | said before
that an uneducated person is hardly
able to grasp an abstract subject,
but as soon as it is put in concrete
form, Immediately understands it
The blackboard serves to put it in
this concrete form.
My experience shows that this is
the only successful waJ of teaching
grammar, geography and mathemat~
les, and many features of other sub
iects may thus be represented
If teachers would fully examine
the merits of the black board many
of them would be introduced, and if
once introduced the teachers would
not part with them.
All the blackboard asks is fair
trial. W. F. @.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

The Merino sheep Of Australia
turn off heavy feeces. The Queen
Islander (Brisbaue) states that full
mouthsd rams fleece from the well
known Wapganelia flock weighed
224 pounds, at eleven months and
three weeks growth 1913 hogget
rams gave feeces averaging II
pounds. A bale of wool con aiming
100 lambs Aeeces, pressed at Kin
ross, turned the scale at AS pounds.
The Merinos were introduced into
New South Wales some eighty years
ago by Mr.. McAuthur, one Of the
first gentlemen settlers, whose family
have long held deserved prominence
il the country His beautiful seat,
Camden, is within an hour Of sgd
pey. The Australian Meriuos are de
rived from the RambouilIet flock.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

THE temperance movement Is
nanifesting itself aggressively al
over the country. Scarcely a leg
isIature, of those now OF. recently in
session, but has had The subject be-
fore it, with a result usually in &C
cordance with the demands of the
temperance advocates Kansas mas
adopted the Maine law and improv
ed upon it Under its provisions II
is not lawful to use vino even for
communion purposes. The legisla>
tors of Wisconsin could not agree to
Danish liquor altogether, but have
made drinking Instead solitary
vice by Furnishing treating by fine
Of five dollars for each and every of
Tense. Hereafter the tipplers Of
Wisconsin must get drunk, if at all
at their Own expense. Nebraska
has also enacted so anti~treating law
similar in its provisions to the Wis
cousin bill. The Texas legislature
has passed to It's last stages, and APP
parently mean to adopt prohibit
tory law for that great lawless com
monwealth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

KARL FLUCK was the cashier OF a
bank in Pesth Hungary, and appar-
emily in comfortable circumstances
In 1876 he was welded to a lovely
lady belonging to wealthy family
of the same city. The wedding
revelry was over, the guests had de-
parted, and the newly married couple
were themselves about to retire,
when visitor called and insisted
upon an immediate interview with
the bridegroom. Flnck went out to
see him, and, soon returning, told
his bride that he must leave her for
a short time to attend to some press
ing business at the bank but he
promised to be back speedily. He
has never seen her since. His un
timely visitor was a police official,
who came to take him to prison. 1t
had besn discovered that he was
guilty Of embezzliog some $50, 1000.
He was sentenced to five years inn
prisonmeut. His bride, after wait-
ing four years, renowned the Roman
Catholic faith, and has now just OBJ
tanned divorce Flucks ruin was
caused by his love for birds and his
gaining In lotteries He was found
to own two houses, one Of which was
full of birds from foundation to attic,
while the floors we're strewn with
lottery tickets. The lottery playing
was indaiged in mainly to obtain
funds for gratifying the insane bird
fancying.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

Atlanta Post-Appeal: "Col @ B.
Howard, of Gainesville, has got sew
eraI trenches out at the fair grounds
filed with thousands of paper bags
that contains earth, in whice he has
planted cotton seed for the Cotton
Exposition. The paper bags holds
about one quart. The trenches con-
tanning the bags are about three feet
wide and one deep A layer Of cot
ton seed is placed in the bottom Of
the trenches to the depth of two
inches TO generate heat and draw
moisture, and then the paper bags
are packed in closely together, where
they will remain until the new cotton
plauts get to he eight or ten inches
high. Then the paper bags, each
containing a plant will be taken and
transplanted 10 field near by. II is
Col. Towards intention to get the
largest yield on specified amount
of land that is possible to get by the
most approved methods Of cotton cul
ture, with the aid of the best fertili"
zers and constant care. The results
of his experiments will be anxiously
watched by the public.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21
MANUFAoEvRING IN cHATrA
NOOGA.

70 show the citizens of Marietta
what manufacturing will do for a
place, we copy the following from
the Chattanooga Commercial to
show what manufacturing enterpris,
es have done there. That. city in
creased in population from 5000 in
1870 to about 5000 in 1880, and
is known every where as solid COM
munity But run your eye over
the list, citizens, and then go to
work and build, and build at least
one cotton factory, iron one foundry,
and one hub aud axe helve factory
The chief boast and glory of Chat
tanooga, and the main stay Of all its
interests, are its great manufaclur-
ing enterprises the capital invested
in which has increased from $780,
900 in 1870 to over three millions
in 1881 aud the employees of which
number two or three thousand -
Some of our more important indus
tries Include an immense pudding
and rolling mill for the manufacture
of steel, and iron rails, a blast fur
mace, one of the largest foundries in
the world, fire brick and vitrifed
clay pipe work, car works, two pipe
foundries, two merchant and bar
iron rolling mills, nail mill, crucible
steel works, several foundries and
machine shops, saw works; very
large wooden pump, pipe aud furni
ture factory pillow works several
saw mills, including some of very
large capacity bedstead factory ;
two cotton mills several sash, door
and blind factories and planning mills;
soap, broom and candy factories
fertilizer mandatory. The Chat
tanooga iron company built their
blast furnace frcm materials entirely
supplied in Chattanooga"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

Some residents of Union City, In
diana, have formed what the call the
National Marriage Dowry Ass ocia-
ton the object of which is declared
to be to encourage lawful wedlock.
to promote econ omy, to endow homes
andao make married life the end and
the aim of the rich and the poor
alike 1t promises to pay a dowry
10 three classes, 81, 900, $4,000 and
SO 900 respectively.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21
The GREATEST Blessing

A simple, pure, harmless remedy.
that cures every time, and prevents
diseases by keeping the blood pure,
stomach regular kidneys and liver
active is the greatest blessing ever
conferred upon man. Hop Bitters is
thai remedy, and It's proprietors are
being bIessei by thousands who have
been saved and cured by it. Will
you try it f-Eagle.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

Madisonian The little child of
Porter Eyatt, oolored, which was
advertised as being lost,in the Maids
sonian, several weeks ago, has been
found Her body was literally eaten
up by hogs end bazzards. Her head
was well preserved, showing that
some one had ebducted the child,
and after ksepiog it for some time,
fearing that heir viiiiany would be
apprehena, took her to some seclad-
ed spot near a cbasm, and there left
the innocent to perish alone, it being
only two years old and consequently
700 young 20 give alarm or make its
way home. This is the only solution
that we can make 20 this mysterious
case The aathorities should rigidly
inves' gate the matter, and it foul
play has been prscticed, the villain
should be pulished.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

The LONG FAST. Miss Hattie
DueIl, of Iowa City, who mnst now
be known as a greater American
faster than even DIR. Tanner, died
on the 18th inst, having lived with
out food as reported for forty sever
days. Inssmuch as she deliberately
set out TO commit suicide by absti'
nence, she was not deferred fron
exhibiting the extremelimit Of wo'
MACS endurance
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21
CALUMNY AND IT'S CONSCIOUSNESS.

CALUMNY AND IT'S CONSCIOUSNESS.
Who can arrest calumni0us
tongue, or who can stop the conse
quences of calumnious misrepresen
tation You may refute it, you
may trace it to its source and expose
its authors, you may sift every atom,
explain, annihilsie it, aud yet, like
Greek fire, it remains unquencbed
and upquenchable or, like weeds,
which, when extirpated in one place,
sprout vigorously forth in another
spot. Halt truths are often more
calumnious than whole faisehoods. -
Not a word may be uttered, bat q
half suppressed innuendo, dropped
lip, an arched brow, q shrugged
shoulder, a significant look, an in ;
credulous expression of countenance,
nay, even an emphatic silence, may
do the fieudish work and when the
light and triding thing which has
done the mischief has hnttered off
the venom is left behind to work and
rapke and tester, to inhame hearts,
to fever human experience, and to
poison human society, at the foun
tain spring Of life
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

A New Jersey pre- cher, who was
annoyed by the ladies Of bis congre
cation turning about 10 their seats,
paused 10 his DISCOURSE to say Las
dies, if you will give M your atten-
ton for a few momentS, ! will keep
a lookout on the door, and if any
thing worse than man enters, |
will warn you in time for you to
make your escape.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

Mr.. Fender, one of the oldest citi
Gems of Clinch county, has had his
coffin ready for years, has the place
in the graveyard selected in which
he wants to be buried and has the
paIings ready to enclose it. 1t is
his desire to put his friends to as
little trouble as possible in burying
him
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

A Negro in cutting down tree in
Sumter county struck a peg an inch
and half in diameter. His curios-
ity aroused, he took another chip to
secure it whole. At the end of the
peg he found bottle ilIaA With
strange looking inky Substance.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

A Troy girl who has been deaf
since childhood regained her hear
ing through the mediumship of a
handsome young doctor who tackled
her case. He sat down beside her
and began telling her how good
looking she was.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

''Sir have been requested BY
Mics Toots to ask you how you dared
to assert that she had told lie ~
why, sir, you can SAY to Miss
Toots that she is misiuformed. |
never accused Der Of speaking .un
truths. | merely said that if Miss
Tools had been living ghen An~nias
was a young man Sapphira woSld
have died a maid
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

For iogrowing nails, heat mutton
tallow very hot and drop little on
the affected part. The pain is
slight when applied and the cure is
instantaneous.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

A young city fellow bought a
farm last winter He had fine
orchard of about two hundred apple
trees, and few weeks ago he tapped
every one of them for cider
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

A poor widow was asked how she
became so much attached to a Gel
tain neighbor, and she replied that
she was bound to him by several
cords of wood which he had sen; her
during hard winter.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21
Fsvors of any kind are doubled
when they are speedily conferred.
Tramp's Motto" "a little earning
is dangerous thing"

The worlds work is done by
thinking, and education is not the
imparting of knowledge, but the
teaching TO think.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

IF you want any kind of Job Printing
done. such as Letter Heads, Note Heads,
Bill Heads, Cards, Circulars. Handbills.
Pamphlets, Tax. Receipts. &c, we will
guarantee to do the work as cheap as ATTAIN
"a. Bring your work to the Journal Off ce.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

Miss Mary Bradshaw, young la
dy in Webster county, was found in
az old we'll with her head beat into
a Jelly.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

A lazy boy was complaining that
his bed was too short, when bis faith
err sternly replied. That is because
you are always too long in it, SIR
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

When a friend corrects fault 10
you. he does you the greatest act OF
friendship.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21

A man may suffer without SHINING,
he cannot sin without suffering.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-04-21
JIle g}}Arletta aluaraal.

Marietta, Ga, Thursday, april 81, 1881
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-02-18
Something About Babies.

According to Yorkshire notion, a new
born infant should be laid first in the
arms Of maiden before any one touches
it; and in some places the infants right
hand is left unwashed in order that he
may gather riches. Ii is, too, considered
very important by many that an infant
should 60 up in the world before it goes
down. Thus, in Cleveland, says Mr..
Henderson, if a child should be born in
the top story of house, for want OF a
flight of stairs one Of the gossips will
take it in her arms and mount table,
chair, or chest of drawers before she
carries it downstairs
In the north Of England, when an in
FAINT for the first time goes ont Of the
house, it is presented with an egg, some
salt aud little loaf Of bread, and ocea-
sionally a small piece of money-these
gifts being supposed to insure that the
child shall never stand in need Of the
common necessaries Of life. in the
East Riding Of Yorkshire few matches
are added to light the child to heaven.
| 1t was, too, in former times customary,
and the practice is not yet obsolete, 10
| provide large cheese and cake, and cut
them at the birth Of the child These
were called sthe gToaning cake and
cheese, and were distributed among all
the neighbors.
In Yorkshire this cake is termed the
''pepper cake, and in some localities
the ''sickening cake. 1t is the source
of species Of diyination, for being cut
into small pieces by the medical man, it
is divided among the unmarried Of the
female sex, under the name Of "dream-
ing bread" Each one takes piece,
places it in the foot 81 the left stocking,
and throws it over tile left shoulder.
This being done, they must retire to bed
backward, without tutoring a word, and
those who arc lucky enough to fall
asleep before midnight are favored with
d sight Of their future husband iii then
| draanls
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-02-18
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

GREASE SPoTs on PAPER. Grease
spots may be removed from paper by
applying little powdered pipe clay, on
which place sheet Of paper, then use
hot iron. Remove the adhering powder
with piece 81 ndia-rubber.
SeoRoHED LINEN. Peel aud slice two
onions, extract the juice by pounding
and squeezing; cnt up half m ounce of
fine white soap md add to the juice
two ounces Of fuller's earth and half
pint of vinegar boil all together when
cool spread over the scorched linen and
let it dry on it then wash and boil out
the linen and the spots will disappear
unless burned 20 badly rs to brealS the
threads.
WHEN To Cur TIMBER July and
August are the best months for cutting
TIMBER that ii may be the most durable
The growth Of the year is then well-nigl
over, and if the trees are allowed to lie
until the green foliage dries upon them,
the greater portion Of the snip is thereby
withdrawn from the wood, and the seus-
oning is rapid and perfect. Cut IN mid
summer, insects ARE much less liable to
attack the wood, which is an important
point with some kinds Of TIMBER like
hickory.
DAMP WALLS. An exchange says !:
" Moisture may be kept from d brick
wall by dissolYing three-quarters OF d
pound Of mottled soap in one gallon Of
boiling water and spreading the hot So
ntion steadily with large flat brush
over the surface of the brick work, TAX
n lnf1 ID
to be allowed to dry for twenty-foul
hours, when solution formed Of ~
quarter Of pound Of alum dissolved in
two gallons Of water is 70 be applied in
similar manner over the coating Of
soAp. The soap and alum mutually de-
compose each other and form an insolu-
ble yarnish which rain is unable to pen
etrate The operation should be per-
formed in dry, settled weather"
RESTORING FADED FLOWERS The
majority Of flowers begin to wither after
being kept in water for twenty-four
hours. A few may be revived by giving
them fresh water with a pinch Of salt
peter in it; and even quite withered
flowers can be restored by placing them
in cup Of boiling water deep enough TO
/ GDNGI hb iIiSb OllN-Nlllh vi VIC Sbtlihs
When the water has cooled the flowers
should be bright and erect again. They
may now be inserted in fresh cold water,
ufter having shortened their stems by
about an inch. Thin-petaled, white
and light-hued flowers, however, do not
revive so completely under this trent
ment as deep-hued, thick-petaled bios
4 SONS.
! UNIEFLAMMABIE WooD. Prof. Ked-
zie, of the Agricultural College Of Mich
igan, an expert chemist, says that 4
paint or wash made Of skim milk, thor
oughly skinned, and water brine, will
render wood uninfiammable, and he
proved it by experiment. He says this
/ paint or whitewdsh is durable, very
I cheap impervious to water, of agree
able color, and, as it will prevent wood
from taking fire, he urges its tise, par
ticularly ON roofs, ort-buildings, barns,
/ etc. This can easily be tried, and, ii
found to answer, the knowledge will be
l very useful There is many building,
rs well as wooden fixtures near boilers
and fire-places, where the mixture could
be well applied.