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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
A Dog Chooses His Own Church.

A resident of st. Thomas is the pos
SCISSOR Of a dog which has some remark
able instincts. On Sunday his peculiar
tiles and sectarian sentiments come out.
Unlike the crow, he can count. He
knows when Sunday comes. He is not
the same dog as on other days. He in
dulges in no pastimes, encourages no
company, and says, in actions louder
than words: "Six days shalt thou play
and do all thy sport" The family are
Presbyterians, but the dog is a Metho-
dist. On Sunday he attends the family
to the Presbyterian house of worship.
and then wneds his solitary and UNI
broken way 10 his own church. He has
n particular place upstairs, when he can
manage to elude the vigilance OF the
ushers and obtain ingress, and he pays
dogmatical attention to the word OF doc
trine while at service. - Toronto Conn
adG) Mail.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
Agriculture in Russia,

The report comes from st. Petersburg
that native cereals are so scarce in Russia
that large quantities OF American corn
and Chilihn wheat are selling at the
capital. Although eminently agricul-
tural, only 27l, 600, 900 acres-a small
area comparatively are under cultiva-
ton. In the central belt of the empire
the soil, mostly black mold, is ex-
tremely fertile, seldom requiring ma
nure. The system of tillage is mainly
the three-ield system, as it Is called, in
which one-third of the land is allowed
to lie fallow. In the south and south.
east the lallow system peculiar TO that
country is practicei. IL consists of
raising three or four consecutive crops
from the same land. and then permitting
it to stand idle for five or six years.
After that time the soil begins 10 grow
feather grass, regarded as a sign of re.
turaing fertility. Husbandry has
undergone great general changes since
the emancipation of the serfs, to whom
u considerable portion of the land has
been transferred IN freehold. The
landowners, having lost their former
right to the labor of their serfs, find it
advantageous to decrease their titled
land, or lease parts of it TO the peasants,
often in return for half the crop. Agri.
culture suffers materially from want Of
proper means of commune ton, caus.
ing the grain to be very low in the
locality where it is raised. The chief
cereals are wheat, grown rs far north as
latitude sixty-two deg, rye barley and
oats. Buckwheat and millet are pro-
duced in the south, and from these and
rye comes the staple food of the inhab-
itants. Hemp and fax are also widely
raised, and naxseed is used for food by
the lower orders during the continually
recurring fasts, embracing more than
six months out of the twelve. During
the last forty years potatoes have been
extensively grown, the government hay
ing done much to encourage and aug,
ment their growth after the famine Of
1889. An area of 1876, OO0, 600 acres is
covered with woods, but timber is so
literally used by the Russians in build.
ing houses, heating, lighting, making carts
and household utensils and in other
ways, that the supply is steadily dinin-
ishing. In the north of the czar's
dominions from ninety to n~inety-fve
per cent. of the territory is covered with
forests, which are very scarce in the
south. Wood, the principal article OF
interior commerce, is hoated down the
rivers from the treeful to the t~reeless
districts. The wheat product of Russia
is generally so large that it annually
exports large quantities. Of the wheat
exported into Britain in 1875 eighteen
per cent. of it came from Russia and
forty-fiye per cent. from the United
States.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
Indian Summer.

The tranquil river gldo;h TO the sea,
Thro' purple haze the golden sunbeams fall
The white sails glimmer by us silently
The hush OF dreamland lieth over all
Our spirits live like flowers in tho light,
Nor feel nor fear the sting of earthly pain,
Nor dread the shadows OF the coming night.
In peaceful rest We lie, all toll 10 vain.
Vain are the hopes and ioars and doubts Of
youth,
Wedream our lives away, and ask not whyi
Vain oil our lofty RH nations allei TRUTH
To-day We spend in ease, tomorrow die.
Why should We work when natures heart N
stilli
Why should We trive when nature bids us
resti
We let her influence sweet our being I'LL,
flushed as a child upon tie mothers breast
Mary B. Ferry in Good Company.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
HUMOROUS.

A growing industry Farming.
To get along well-Dig it deep.
Which Of the reptiles is a mathems.
tician2 The adder.
A dangerous character-A man who
stakes life" cheerfnlly.
A tramp called his shoas corpora
lions" because they had no soles.
'C,me and seam me, l needle little
OF your aid" remarked a piece OF cloth
TO the maiden fair.
A Norristown youth, who was trying
10 master a bicycle, when asked his age,
said he had seen fifteen summers and
about one hundred and fifteen falls.
"The difference" said the cook. ''be-
tween a child Of royal birth and a young
lamb, is that the first is tended in
splendor and the other is splendid N
tender"
There is no accounting for taste. A
summons in a breach-of-promise suit
against the bridegroom was sent in
among the bridal presents at an Iowa
wedding.
An Ohio girl sued a nan for breach
Of promise, and proved him such a
scoundrel that the jury decided that she
ought to pay him something for not
marrying her.
A man never realizes, remarks a com
mercial traveller, how plentiful mustard
is, and how scarce are bread and meat,
until he tackles a railway refreshment
saloon sandwich.
"You are an idiot !" angrily exclaim-
ed a domineering wife. $50 my friends
said when 1 married you," replied the
husband. And she became more infu-
rated than ever.
Elderly gentleman 10 a freshman on a
train-'You don't have any ticket ?"
mo. L travel on my good looks. "
''Then," after looking him over, "proH-
ably you amt going very far"
by Georgel" observed a Danbury
young man, who was married last
month, 'it I'd thought about kindling
coal fires I'd never got married in the
fall. I'd waited till next spring and had
a six months honeymoon"
Epigram found written on the back
of a bank note:
"a wee short while ye hae been mine,
Nae longer can l keep We;
/ hope you'll soon be back again,
An bring snither like yer
A Baltimore paper says, at is very
bad for gentlemen in society to talk of
money matters" We suspect the Bal
timore editor met his tailor in society,
and was asked by the etiquette smash
or when it would be convenient for him
to pay for his last suit Of clothes.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21

How | got rid of red mites in my
poultry-house: Iobtained u little fur
mace that is used in summer on a cook
stove to save fuel, built a coal fire in
the furnace, then carried it to my fowl.
house, put some bricks on the floor and
closed the house tightly, and placed two
pounds of birthstone in the furnace and
left in short order, closing the door after
me. Soon the smoke came from every
crack in the house, and in one hour |
had no red chicken mites, but a good
clean house in which to keep my fowls.
-P0nllry Yard
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
Omen Air for ~ConsumntIyes.

Dr. j. Henry Bennett, IN a commune
cation to th5 British Medical journal, on
the influence of the mountain air in the
treatment of pulmonary consumption,
asserts that the temperature which ex-
erts the most favorable influence in the
treatment of phthisis is a day tempera-
ture ranging from fifty'five degrees to
sixty-fve degrees or seventy degrees
Fahrenheit, and anight temperature be-
tween forty. five degrees and fifty de-
grees; in other words, that the climate
and temperature which are the most
conducive to the physiological well-be-
ing of the Caucasian race are also the
most favorable to the treatment of
phthisis. He draws attention to the
fact that phthisis is rare among the peo'
pie inhabiting the high plains of Central
and South America, although common
in the neighboring seacoast towns. DR..
Comes, with whom DR.. Bennett has
laJely been in correspondence, states
that during a residence of four years in
Quito, where he was one Of the profess
sors at the medical school, physician to
the hospital, and engaged in active pri-
vate practice, he only saw two or three
cases OF spontaneous phthisis among the
natives, and in all the cases of imported
phthisis from the seacoast that he met
with The progress Of the disease soon APP
peared to be arrested. He also states
that in a large room, without fire, and
with doors and windows open day and
night, he found The temperature to oscil-
late all the year round between fifty
seven degrees and sixty-fve degrees
Fahrenheit.
DIR. Bennett relates the case OF a young
married lady, aged twenty-six, whom
he attended for two winters at Mentone.
She was a native of Guayaquil, but edu-
Gated and married in France, where she
became aconsumptive; and finding that
her recovery mt Mentone was only a par
tial one, she returned 10 her native coun-
try. She has now been two years in
Quito, and has become quite well and
robust. But then, at Mentone, she lived
shut up, while at Quito she has lived in
the open mir constantly. He therefore
thinks that the immunity, or compare
tive immunity, from ph.hisis enjoyed
by the inhabitants of the elevated noun.
tain plains, of tropical and sub-tropical
America, from Mexico to the Argentine
Republic, cannot be owing to mere ele-
vation-to barometric conditions--inas-
much as phthisis reigns at all elevations,
even above 5000 feet, on the mountains
of Switzerland. 1t cannot, either, be
attributed to mere dry cold, as the NOR
tally from phthisis is greater in Nor.
way, Sweden and Northern Russia than
in London or Paris. 1t must, then, be
owing to theideal physiological climate,
which enables the entire population to
live, as it were, out doors, in the open
air, night and day. W by should not
the Andes, with a delightfully."- mild. dry
and equable climate, which is ~unequaled
in any part of the world, become the
health resort of the futureP
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21

Next year New York will possess q
new opera house rivaling that OF Paris.
The site has been obtained, money
enough subscribed and paid in. and the
plans decided upon. Nothing but work
is now needed, and a large number Of
laborers, mechanics and artists will be
at once employed. The Metropolitan
opera house will occupy plot Of ground
just west Of the Grand Central depot,
bounded by Vanderbilt and Lexington
avenues and by Forty-third and Forty
fourth streets--a very eligible and cen
trail site. The architecture will be of
the early 1telian renaissance style. 1t
Is designed to seat 1900 persons, all Of
whom will be able to see and hear well,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
TIMELY TOPICS.

Practical medical examination OF the
eyes OF school children is a habit which
Is becoming established in this country
and abroad. An extraordinary number
Of children are found to have eye
troubles. These examinations are
heartily recommended. for in countless
cases the beginning OF disease may thus
be perceived and eradicated.
Sergeant Childers, who was known
to fame as "the best drilled man in the
world" was shot accidentally while
hunting near Koshkonong, Wis, a few
days ago He was buried with military
honors at j anesville, Wis. CDilders
was the man whom Jim Fisk sent TO
Europe to drill against any man in the
world, backing him with a $4,000 chal'
leDge.
A lady residing at Fort Townsend,
Washington Territory, has completed
three months of subsisting upon cows
milk alone. Her extraordinary fast was
undertaken voluntarily, for the purpose
Of checking a tendency TO obesity. It's
successful consummation is a matter OF
local comment. The milk was taken
a pint at a time, every two hours.
Swimming is advocated in San Fran
cisco as cur for the opium habit. A
physician gives the history of a ] lady
who, from taking morphine TO alleviate
the pains OF a long contracted disease,
had become a confirmed opium eater,
and was suffering all the distressing
symptoms of this terrible habit. The
doctor ordered her to cross the bay
every day and take a swim in the Ala
media baths, which she did, and in a few
months was completely cured.
Europe is still interested in the Italian
governments latest method of raising
money. For the future a person will
pay $4,000 on being created an italian
prince, and $1,000 on being made a
duke. The charge for a ~marquisate is
$4,000; for the title of "conte," SO, 600;
of baron or viscount, $4,000. Any other
noble title will cost $1,000. Should the
person ennobled desire that the title
shall not descend to any successor, a
discount of two, ifths on the regular
tariff will be allowed. For a grant of
arms, etc., $40 will pe charged.
From the inquiries conducted by
Prof. Hermann COIN, of Breslau, since
1865, it appears that shortsightedness is
rarely OF never born with those subject
to it, and is almost always the result OF
strains sustained by the eye during
study in early youth. Myopia, as it is
called, is seldom found among pupils of
village schools, and its frequency in.
creases in proportion to the demand
made upon the eye in higher schools
and in colleges. A better construction
Of school desks, and an improved ty-
Biography of textbooks, and a sufficient
lighting of class-rooms are the remedies
nrOnnapd IN ahata tho maladu
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-07
CHAPTER @.

A supplement to an act entitled 'sAn act to
provide for the summary investigation OF
county and municipal expenditures, APP
proved February eighteenth, one Thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine.
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the
first section of an act entitled An act to pro-
vide for the summary investigation of county
and municipal expenditures" approved Feb
ruary eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred
aud seventy mine, be and the same Is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
/. Be it enacted by tho Senate and General
Assembly Of the State of New Jersey, That if
twenty-five freeholders in any incorporated vii
lage, borough, town or city, or in any township
or county in this state, shall present to any JUS
tice Of the supreme court an affidavit sworn to
and subscribed by themselves, and setting forth
that they are freeholders and have paid taxes
on real estate within one year, and that they
have cause to believe that the moneys of such
incorporated village, borough, town or city,
or Of such township or county, are being OF
have been unlawfully or coruptly expended,
it shall be the duty Of such justice upon ten
days notice to the disbursing officer and the
legislative body Of such village, borough,
town, city, township or county, to make
summary investigation into the affairs of such
corporation, and at his discretion he may ap-
point experts to prosecute such investigation
and may cause the results thereof to be
published in such manner as he may deem
proper; it shall be the duty Of the officers and
the legislative body of any such corporation tc
obey any orders OF such Justice for facilitating
such Investigation, and any refusal or failure to
obey such orders may be punished by such
justice as for contempt; the costs incurred
under this act shall be taxed by said justice and
paid upon his order by the disbursing officer of
the corporation, whose expenditure may have
been investigated.
2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect Immediately.
Approved March Is, 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-07
CHAPTER xoy.

An act to provide for the substitution Of bonds
and mortgages upon school district property
for certain unmatured bonds Of school
districts
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
the trustees of any school district in this state
the trustees of which have heretofore, pursuant
to any law of this state, made executed and
delivered school district bonds conditioned for
the payment of any specified rate Of interest,
and further conditioned for the payment of all
taxes which may be levied, assessed or imposed
on the money mentioned in and intended to y
secured by said bonds, may, with the consent OF
the holder or holders of said bonds, substitute
therefor the bonds and mortgages of the school
district
q And be it enacted, That the bonds and mort.
cages provided for by the first section of this
act shall be made, executed and delivered by
holders of the bends heretofore issued as afore
said, that they shall be in the same amounts,
payable at the same times, and shall bear thSs
same rate of interest as to bonds for which
they are substituted
g. And be it enacted, That the said mort
cages shall cover and be a lien upon such real
estate of the school district as the trustees
thereof and the holders of said bonds may
agree upon; provided, however, that the bonds
and mortgages to be issued by any school dis
trict in this state, under the provisions of this
act, shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum
Of ten thousand dollars.
f. And be it enacted, That this act take
effect Immediately.
Approved March 15 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-07
CHApTER fUT

A supplement to an act entitled 6 An act for the
formation of borough governments ap-
proved April fifth, one thousand eight hun
q dred and seventy eight
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
section four of said act be and the same is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
4. And be it enacted, That on the first Tues
day Of October next, after the filing of the Ger
tifcate of the result Of the election aforesaid in
the office OF the clerk Of the county, and on the
second Tuesday of March annually thereafter
the legal voters of said borough shall assemble
at some convenient place in said borough. at
the hour Of two O'Clock in the afternoon. and
those so assembled may, by viva voce vote.
proceed to elect judge and two inspectors, to
conduct an election for mayor and six coun-
cilmen, being residents and legal voters in said
borough, who shall constitute the council Of
said borough; at the first election two council
men shall be elected for one year, two for two
years and two for three years, and two council
men shall be elected annually thereafter to
serve for three years; the mayor shall hold his
Office for one year.
2. And be it enacted, That it shall and NAV
be lawful for the council Of every borough or
ganized and formed under the act to which this
is a supplement-, to order, and cause to be as
sessed and raised by tax every year. such sum
or sums of money, not exceeding fifteen hun
dred dollars in any one year. as they shall deem
expedient for the current expenses of such bor-
ough, which sum SO designated being certified
to by the mayor and clerk, shall be assessed
and collected the same as provided for and di-
rected in the act to which this is q supple
ment.
8. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts OF
acts inconsistent with this act be and the same
are hereby repealed.
4. And be i enacted, That this act shall take
effect Immediately
Approved March Is, 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-07
CHAPTER oxv.

A supplement- to An act respecting the or
phans' court and relating to the powers and
duties OF the ordinary, and the orphans court
and aurrogates [Rersionl, approved March
twenty-seventh, one Thousand eight hundred
and seventy -four
]. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State Of New Jersey, That
any executor, administrator, guardian or trus-
tee, whose duty it may be to loan the money
intrusted to him, may invest the same on bo'
secured by first mortgage upon real estatesesti-
mated to be worth at the least twice the amount
loaned, at rate of interest not less than five
per centum, nor greater than six per centum
per annum.
O. And be it enacted, That whenever any tes-
tator shall have made In his lifetime any invest
ment Of money on bond secured by mortgage
OF in the bonds or stock shares Of any corpora
ton, and the same bonds, mortgages or stock
shares shall come, or shall have come, into the
hands of the executor or trustee OF such testa-
tor to be administered, and such executor
or trustee may in the exercise Of good
faith and reasonable discretion have
continued such investment or may hereafter
continue the same, he shall not be accountable
for any loss by reason of such continuance;
provided, that nothing in this act contained
shall apply to cases where the deed of trust, OF
the last viii and testament of any testator, OF
the court having jurisdiction Of the matter
specially directs IN what manner the trust fund
shall be invested
g. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect Immediately.
Approved March II, 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-07
CHAPTER xcy11I.

An act for the relief of soldiers, sailors and
their widows Of this state in the war of one
thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Whereas, the legislature of the state of New
Jersey did order to be paid to the soldiers
and sailors who served in the war of one
thousand eight hundred and twelve, and the
widows of any such soldiers and sailors, the
sum of one hundred dollars, in equal semi
annual payments during their lifetime, from
and after the twelfth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four;
and whereas, the congress of the United
States did pass an act giving said soldiers
and sailors and the widows Of any such sol
diers and sailors pension from and after
the ninth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy eight; and whereas,
there are few soldiers and sailors and
widows of such soldiers and sailors of the
war of one thousand eight hundred and
twelve, who, through not knowing of the pas
sage Of the said act of March twelfth, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy four,
have not received any pension Of the state OF
New Jersey; therefore,
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the
sum of one hundred dollars be paid to all SOL
diers and sailors and the widows Of any such
soldiers and sailors of the war of one thous-
and and twelve for each year, to commence
from the twelfth day of March, one Thousand
eight hundred and seyenty-tour, to the ninth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy eight; provided, that nothing in this
act shall allow any soldier, sailor or THEN
widow to receive any benefit therefrom who
have received pension already under the act Of
March twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy -four. or any supplement thereto.
2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts
of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same
are hereby repealed, and that this act shall be
deemed a public act and take effect immedi-
atelY.
APPROVED MNrch Is, 1881.