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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
Peculiar Matrimonial Relations.

Adolphus Andrew Hoagland, OF
Shadeville, Va, is seventy years old
and has had three wives. The first was
a widow when he married her, aud had
q little daughter When this wife died
her daughter wa a widowed mother,
and Hoagland within a few years mar
ried her. There was some feeling, he
says, against his making his step.
daughter his wife, but they were a
happy couple, and the prejudice died
out. Ten years ago the second wife
died. Her daughter was then fifteen.
Five years elapsed, and then Hoagland
again married his step-daughter, who
was also his step-granddaughtcr. She
is still living. and her husbands age,
aside from the fact that she had no
daughter when she became his wife,
preoIudes the idea of his peculiar system
being carried any further. He has
children of his own by each of the three
wives, and the complications of their
relationships are almost endless. Hoag.
land declares hat his matrimonial ex-
perience, covering about fifty years, has
been exceptionally happy. The last two
wives inherited the good qualities OF
their mothers, and all were SO much
alike that they have seemed to him tho
same woman, with her youth occasion
allv renewed,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
Care In srsnsrInr sheen.

American wool growers or shepherds
have yet much to learn in regard to the
management of their aOcks. For ex-
amrl5, the sheep in Siiesia are never
exposed to much rain. Shelter and
shade are provided for them. Nor are
they exposed TO dust, for that is known
to be Injurious 10 the fleece. The, great
est possible care is taken in the breeding.
Men of experience are employed TO go
from farm to farm TO examine the sheep
and select the best rams that can be
found. The rams are closely examined
rs to their heece.bearing properties. and
all but the very best are sold off. The
whole economy of the sheep farm is
as perfect as intelligence and industry
a make it.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
Boy I%nTeniors.

Some of the most important inven
lions have been the work Of mere boys.
The invention of the valve motion TO
the steam engine was made by a mere
boy. Watts left the engine in a very
incomplete condition, from the fact that
he had no way 10 opel, or close the
valves, except by means 81 levers oper-
ated by the hand. lie set up a large
engine at one of the mines, and a boy
was hired 10 work these valve levers;
although this was not hard work, yet 1t
required his constant attention. As he
was working those levers, he saw that
parts of the engine moved in the right
direction, and at the exact time that he
had TO open or close the valves. He
procured a strong cord and made one
end fast TO the proper parto of the engine,
and the other end TO the valve lever;
the boy had the satisfaction Of seeing
the engine move of with perfect regu-
larity Of motion. A short time after
the foreman came around and saw the
boy playing m arbles at the door. Look
ing AT the engine he loon SAW the in
genuity Of the boy, and also the advan-
tages of so great an invention. Mr..
Watts then carried out the boys inven-
tive genius in a practical form, and
made the steam engine a perfect auto
matte working machine.
The power-loom is the invention of a
farmer boy who had never seen or heard
Of such a thing. He whitfield one out
with his iack-knife, and after he had
got it all done, he, with great enthu-
siasm, showed it to his father, who at
once kicked it in pieces, saying he would
have no boy about him hat would
spend his time on such foolish things.
The boy was delighted at the idea of
learning a trade, and he soon found that
his new master was kind and took a
lively interest in him. He had made a
loom Of what was left of one his father
had broken up, which he showed to his
master. The blacksmith saw he had
no common boy az an apprentice, and
that the invention was a very valuable
one. He Immediately had a loom con-
structed under the supervision OF the
boy; it worked 10 their perfect satisfac-
ton, and the blacksmith furnished the
means to manufacture the looms, the
boy to receive one-half the profits. In
about a year the blacksmith wrote TO
the boys father that he should bring
with him a wealthy gentleman who was
the inventor of the celebrated power
loom. You may be able to Judge Of the
establishment at the old home when bis
son was presented to him as the in
ventor, who told him that his loom
was the same as the model that he had
kicked to pieces but a year before
Western Trade.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
A Cat, Rat and Clam in Battle.

The family of James Harrington, o.
Stapleton. Staten Island, while seated al
The s%upper-table Tuesday evening, had
their attention attracted by a squealing
sound issuing from the kitchen cltset,
On making an investigation Mr.. Her.
rington discovered a rat securely held
by one Of its legs, which was caught in
the shell of large clam lying upon the
closet floor.
BY the time the eat was found the rat
had managed to make its way out OF the
closet, dragging the clam with it. The
cat at once attacked the rat, when the
latter, Notwithstanding its crippled con-
dition, showed fight, and finally sue
ceedod in fastening its teeth into the
cats ear. The cat, wild with rage,
rushed out into the yard, carrying both
The rat and clam with her. There the
rat, still held a prisoner by the clam,
was killed by the cat.
Mr.. Harrington said that it was about
the most comical scene he had ever
witnessed.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
succeprruI Poultry RnIslns.

In raising poultry or stock, it should
be the aim of every one to keep it healthy
and improve it. You a do it very
easily by adopting some systematic
rules. These may be summed up in
brief as follows:
l.. Construct your house good and
warm, so as to avoid damp floors, and
afford a food of sunlight. Sunshine is
better than medicine.
Q. Provide a busting and scratching
place, where you can bury wheat and
corn, and thus induce the fowls to axe
needful exercise.
3. Provide yourself with some good,
healthy chickens, none TO be over three
o. four years old, giving n cock to
every twelve hens.
4. Give plenty of fresh air at all times
of the year, especially in summer.
s. Give plenty of fresh water daily,
and never allow Lhefowls to 60 thirsty.
0. Feed them Systematically two or
three times a day. and scatter the food
10 they can't eat too fast or without
proper exercise. Do not feed more than
they will eat up clean, or they will get
tired of that kind of feed.
Z. Give them a variety both of dry
and cooked food; a mixture of cooked
meal and vegetables is an excellent
thing for their morning meal.
8. Give soft feed in the morning, and
the Whole grain at night, except a little
wheat or cracked corn placed in the
scratching place during the day.
8. Above all things keep the hen house
clean and well ventilated.
10. Do not crowd too many in one
house. If you do, look out for disease.
IL. Use carbolic powder in busting
bins occasionally to destroy lice.
10. Wash your roosts and bottom Of
laying nests with whitewash once a
week in summer and once a month in
winter.
10. Let the old and young have as
large a range as poSsible-the larger the
better.
IA. Don't breed too many kinds of
fowls at the same time, unless you are
going into the business. Three or four
will keep your hands full.
Is. Introduce new blood into your
stock every year or so, by either buying
a cockerel or sittings of eggs from some
reliable breeder.
10. In buying birds or eggs, 60 TO
some reliable breeder who has his repu-
tation at stake. You may have to pay
a little more for birds, but you can de-
pend on what you get. Culls are not
cheap at any price.
II. Save the best birds for next years
breeding, and send the Others to market.
In shipping fancy poultry to market
send ii dressed.
10. And, above all things, read the
poultry department of some good, re-
liable paper. You will gather more from
it than you a from any poultry book.
BY paying attention TO the above, you
cannot fail to succeed and make poultry
keeping as profitable as thousands have
done all over the United States
Rural Nebraska.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
HouaahoId Htuf.-

LEMON HONEYCOMB.- Sweeten the
juice OF a lemon to taste, and put 1t into
the dish it is to be served in. Mix
white Of an egg, beaten with a pint 81
irch cream and a little sugar. Whisk
it, and rs the froth rises put it on the
lemon juice. Do it the day before 1t L.
to be used,
STUfFING FOR VEAL.-Chop halt a
pound of suet, put it into a basin with
three-quarters of a pound of bread
crumbs, a t%easpoonful OF salt, a quarter
of pepper, a little thyme, three whole
eggs, mix well. A pound of bread
crumbs and one more egg may be used;
it will make it out irmer.
APPLE PANOAKEs.-To an ordinary
batter made with a quart OF milk and
four eggs, add six or eight apples, peeled
and chopped fine. The batter should
be made thicker than usual, as the juice
OF the apples in cooking thinsit. Make
these cakes Of large size and bake them
on a hot griddle. Serve them hot, 'ay-
ing one Of them on top of the other,
with mixed powdered sugar and cinna-
mon spread between.
RoLLs,-Two quarts of -four, one-half
cup of sugar, a piece of butter or beef
drippiugs the size of an egg. Scald one
pint of sweet milk, and let it cool; then
make a hole in the middle OF the -four
and pour in the milk ard a half-cup Of
yeast, and a teaspoon of salt. Set to rise
in a warm place through the night until
very light. Knead it and let it rise
again. When well risen cut the rolls
half an inch thick, shape round, spread
on each round a little melted butter,
and double over SO that the roll is a
halfcircle; then let it rise very light,
and bake. Place the rolls in contact in
the b~aking-pan, so that they NAV keep
in shane.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
The Swan.

Swans generally pair for life, their
whole behavior offering a beautiful ex-
ample of conjugal fidelity. The two
birds show the greatest affection for
each other, always swimming in conf
pany and caressing one another with
their bills and necks in the most inter-
esting manner; and should either be
attacked, the other will show fight in
the most vigorous manner, though, Of
course, the male is the most powerful
and courageous. Both birds help to
prepare the nest, the male chiefly gather
ing the materials, while the female seems
to take the chief part in the actual con-
slruction. Aswan's nest is an enormous
affair, being built up of a large mass of
coarse water plants as q foundation,
which is lined with finer grasses. In
this six to nine eggs are generally laid,
which are, Of course, very thick in the
shell and generally of a dirty white
color, sometimes dirty pale green. The
time of incubation has been differently
9taUeuS DuI VIC DelleVe DeCpSlelu W NC
right in fixing it ct thirty-fve days,
though some have said lorty-two. The
young, when Matched, are very thickly
covered with down, and are generally
taken to the water by the mother when
only a day or two old. There they are
watched over by both parents with the
greatest care until grown enough to pro-
vide for themselves. A brief descrip-
ton of the principal varieties OF swans
will be suficient.-NuStrGted Book on
POnltTu.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
Farm, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Washing Butter.

Professor Arnold says that butter
gathered in the churn always contains
more or less buttermilk, which would
soon spoil the butter if not removed.
There are two ways Of removing it-one
is by kneading in water or brine, and
the other by kneading it without water.
One is called washing, the other work
ing. The former removes it much more
rapidly than the latter. The flavor Of
the butter which has been washed is
different from that which has not been
washed. The difference between washed
and unwashed butter is analogous to
the difference between classified sugar
and ~unclarified. The former consists OF
pure %saccharine matter; the latter Of
sugar and some albuminous and flavor
ing matters, which are contained in the
juice OF the cane mingled with it, which
give afavorin addition 10 that of sugar.
Brown sugar, though less sweet, has
more flavor than clarified sugar. When
unwashed, there is always q little but
termilk and sugar adhering to the but
ter that gives it a peculiar flavor, in ad-
dition to pure butter, hwchi many peo-
pie like when it is new. Washing re-
moves all this foreign matter, and leaves
only the taste of the butter, pure
and simple. The assertion is often
made, and many people believe, that
water washes out TIE flavor of the
butter; but it only cleanses the butter of
the buttermilk, sugar and milk acid
which may adhere to it, just as clarity
ing sugar removes from it the foreign
matter which modifes its true flavor.
The flavor of butter consists of fatty
matter which do not combine with
water, therefore cannot be washed by it.
The effect of washing upon the keeping
quality ofbutter depends upon the purity
of the water with which the washing is
done. 1.-THE water contains no foreign
matter that will affect the butter it will
keep better for washing the buttermilk
out than by kneading it out.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
Putin. II Or.
In winter time | nrst began
To cou.s nm A,rEo H.

10 winter time / nrst began
To court you, Annie, dear.
And breathed, as lovers only esa,
Soft nothings in that car.
| dreamed about you hall the night;
wooed you hall the day,
In sunny hopes, in visions bright,
The winter pass'd away.
Twas IN tho springtime, Annie, dear
You sworo to be my bridei
The latter days of March were here
The hour was eventide.
You begged a very briei delay
A month, or little morei
But, ere you named the happy day,
The spring. alas, was DER!
In summer time ! bnvely dared,
Dear Annie, TO suggest
That, If we thought Of getting paired,
That season was tho best.
What bliss 10 hail the merry morn
That made you all my ownl
But while / fingered, still iorlorn,
/ found the summer flown.
September brings the autumn here;
The leaves begin to fall,
Full soon upon the landscape drear
VII winter spread its pail.
In gloom / sit, with solemn phiz,
A moody single man
Whose only consolation Is
That you're a spinster, Annel
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
FOE THE PAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

alAlbh sNuANts
A great deal Of gray Is usod again for
~childTen's costumes, but it is invariably
Frightened by %garnitures Of peacock
blue, flame color OF scarlet.
Baby boys until they reach about
eighteen months wear close French
caps Of lucks, lace and needlework, the
same precisely as those worn by little
girls.
Beautiful mantle lambrequins are Of
satin to match curtains and furniture,
adorned with pictures of real artistic
merit, painted in oil or water co.ors.
Among the novelties Of the season are
quaint twilled silks, with Egyptian de-
signs, such as airs, lotus leaves, wad-
ing birds, and hieroglSphics brocaded
on their surface
Jerseys or Veronese surcoats are being
adopted by fashionable New York
ladies, but car never become popular on
account of their expense. They are
made by special measurement OF the
figure and woven 10 fit.
Directoire collars and dress putfs OF
black velvet richly embroidered in gold
arG very stylish and becoming. Some
times an edge of gold lace is added.
They are ialso made OF garnet, purple,
wine or dark myrtle green velvet, or
brocaded satin de Lyon, and edged with
4 frill of creamy Languedoc lace.
The Law of Marriages in France.
AS there arc many American grit
who mediate o. commit matrimony
with Frenchmen, it is well to have
the French law on marriages with
foreigners stated. The case stands
thus: II an American woman marries
a Frenchman in this country in accord
ance with American law, and he be I'M
der the age of twenty-five, but of mar
riageablC age according to our code, the
union may be declared invalid in
France, unless the bridegroom has OBJ
tanned the permission of his parents to
marry. AS It Would not enter the mind
of an Amer lean girl TO imagine that a
young man of four-and.twenty required
the sanction OF his parents ere he could
be legally married, n need hardly say
inquiry on this point is seldom made.
The marriage is celebrated and children
are born, The family may after a time
find it convenient to 60 to France, and
then the unhappy lady who has formed
a connection of this kind, discovers that
in the native land of her husband she
is neither maid, wife nor widow. She
may be cast off a5 any moment. In
deed, If the parents of her husband are
powerful and INSCRIPTIONS, she may,
on their representations, be expelled
from the country by the orders and
coercion of the police. Painful instances
of the working Of this law have been
recently brought 10 notice-instances
in which ladies of respectable birth and
gentle nurture suddenly found them
selves discarded, and thrust with little
ones on the cruel streets Of Paris, home
less and triendless. But for the kindly
succor of one or two charitable organic
atoms in the capital of France, it is
impossible to say what end they might
have come to. However, even after
charity has rescued them from their
miserable plight, their condition is and
must remain infinitely painful. No
amount of benevolence can restore the
discarded matron to her honorable sta
ton.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
Effects Of Fright on The Hair.

The Gazette deS HopjtdUg gave an ac-
count, lately, of n singular case OF com.
plete loss Of hair. A girl, age seventeen,
who had always enjoyed good health,
had, ono day, a narrow escape from
being crushed by a floor giving way
beneath her. She was very much
frightened, and he same night began TO
complain of headache and chills; the
next morning she felt restless, aud had
itching of the scalp; during tle few
following days she steadily improved,
with the exception of the itching. One
day, in combing her hair, she noticed
that IL came out in great quantities;
three days later she was perfectly bald.
Her general health was good, but her
head continued bald, and was still so
when seen two years later by the re-
porter,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
In ROVgI Life.

The Emperor and Empress of Ger.
many see each other as little as possible.
1t is somewhat curious how few mon
archs do get on with their wives and the
wives with the husbands, for they sell
dom adore each other. The Empress Of
Austria is seldom seen in society, and
when out riding or driving carries n fan
before her face, ever when returning the
greetings of her royal admirers. She
seldom attends the theater or opera,
but when the circus comes to town is
then seen in her box every night. She
knows only n passion, and that is her
love Of horses and equestrianship. She
has her own especial riding establish
ment, and here she reigns supreme. She
will drive a tandem team before her at
a relentless pace around the ring, having
fresh relays of horses every few min
utes. She hes n place fitted up in the
stable of her favorite charger where she
can sleep if she feels SO disposed, and
where she frequently dictates her letters
to her private secretary, while her ia
vOrite horse looks over from his stall
and is patted fondly by his imperial
mistress.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
%SpOrismeh's Mis APPS.

Joseph Gum, of Honey Bend, Ill, six
zen years of age, carried his gun by
;he barrels, struck the hammers against
log, and was killed.
Young Jeffcote, eighteen years of age,
} fTroy, Ala, had the breech pin OF his
gun lodged in his brain, because the
piece was overcharged.
B. Pabeston, a s~ixteen-year old boy, Of
Sullivan, Ind, while swinging his gun
carelessly during a cunning trip, caught
the hammer in his clothes and was
killed.
While Julius Mollier, q barber Of
Cambridge, N. Y, was drawing a gun
out Of a boat at Lake Lauderdale, the
irearm was discharged, blowing off
Mollier's arm.
The son OF John Donohue, of Atkin-
son, Ind, went shooting, threw himself
On the grass, caught the trigger of his
gun on the bottom Of his trousers, and
had his right hand blown off.
The parents otTheodore Boss, ofBudd's
Lake, N. j., not only lost their son, who
was killed while shooting, but as they
were driving rapidly to visit the dying
boy, their carriage was wrecked, and
the mother suffered a fractured arm and
the father serious internal injuries.
While fishing st Cos Cob, Eldridge
Platt, of Ansonia, Conn, caught a large
fish that Topped about in the bottom of
his boat until it struck the hammer Of
his loaded gun and discharged it. He
was terribly frightened. for his coat
sleeve went into ribbons, rs did also his
shirt sleeve, but the shot did not strike
hiq arm at alI
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14
A Strong Expression.

In a copy Of the United States Gazette,
published in ITO, we havean account Of
u flag presentation, which may edify
that large proportion of our population
who have latterly participated in little
affairs of that sort. On the day after
the battle Of Fort Moultrie, in l779, Mrs.
Elliott presented to Colonel Moultrie's
Second South Carolina regimenta ban
uer. Surrounded by the beauty and
fashion of the day, the colonel stepped
forth, and, receiving the flag from Mrs.
f., acknow lodged it in a very appropri-
ate and eloquent speech. In closing, he
turned suddenly to his men and said {:
my gallant companions, you see the
reward of courage and fortitudel You
have fought, and you have conquered (;
and the brave fellows who fell in the
carnage of yesterday are now in heaven,
riding in their chariots like the very
- "
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14

When a woman has worked for two
hours to sweep a room, and then, having
collected the dirt and lint and little
scraps o. paper into the dustpan, goes TO
the window, opens j. and throws the
dirt from the pan, just rs u lively little
gust Of wind comes along and sends 1t
back all over The room again, does she
get madP Well, rather. Boston Post
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14

The daughter of ex-P President Zachary
Taylor, now residing in Virginia, re-
Gently received $4,000 from the treas
urer Of the United States, that being the
balance of salary which General Taylor
would have received had he lived until
his term of Office expired. The pay
ment was made in accordance with tie
authority contained in The deficiency
appropriation bill which passed June
lB. 1880.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14

An eccentric but pious man has built
u house on posts forty feet high, at
Plympton, Oregon, in order that be may
live nearer heaven.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14

A justice at w esttield. Mass, when
ever a cider drunkard is brought before
him lets the prisoner OF on condition
that he will go home Immediately and
knock the heads out Of the cider bar
rels.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-14

Banana fiber is suggested by Mr..
Thomas j. Spear, of New Orleans, as a
promising material for paper making
purposes. 1t grows with great rapidly,
oequires no replanting after having been
,nce started on a piece of ground, needs
40 cultivation, enriches the soil, and is
mostly fiber. An acre planted in ba-
lana plants will, it is estimated, yield
eight or ten tons Of fiber.