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The examiner., 1881-12-03
A Cornish Viilaue.

On the summit of the west bank 1t touches the village of Saltash, which is
 built down the hill side to the waters
 edge, and which is like most other fishing villages in Cornwall l-clean, solidly put together, unornamental, and whitish-gray in color. The de- fciency of color is dispiriting to the artist who has come from the contem- plation of the more opulent architec- ture of the Continent. The cottages,
 one and two stories high, of concrete,
 brick and stone, with diamond-pained
 windows, have been designed 70 shelter
 without any other idea than utility.
 Their white or yellow walls seem to be
 vertical strata of the indigenous rock
 of their foundations. The sashes and
 the doors are painted black, and the
 streets are made of gray macadam.
 What little color there is gains bril-;
 liancy from contrast with these quiet sur-
 roundings. The verdure is the green
 est, and the fuchsias blaze in relief.
 Up on the hill, with somewhat disor-
 derly little graveyard inclosing it, is a
 serious-looking, square-towered church,
 like many others in Cornwall, of gray
 sandstone, we'll worn by the weather of centuries, which has smoothed all the edges. The church is nearly seven hundred years oId-the tower older and where time has made 8 gap or a seam, the restoration" as been eff fected in the most economical way. The concrete used to fill in has included the fragments of the ruined part, and bits of gargoyles and other carved work are found imbedded in the plaster. Look from the houses to the people-there is an infallible correspondence. The men are brown and strong, little sad, with large frames, but no spare flesh and the women, who are grand at the oar, are scarcely their interiors in physical proportions They are frank and inde- pendent in manner. gathering their living from the sea. There is little vice among them-the smart dresses and chubby faces of their children are certain indications of domestic virtue but that some of them fall to the beset- ting sin of the English may be inferred from what we heard one of them say of a neighbor: "He wass as dhrunk as forty maintops' s'l-sheet blocks. "--HG,per's M0qazine.
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In the pulpit of the Episcopal church at Shrewsbury. N. J., there is Bible which was printed in 1717, and present. ed to the church in 1752. It is in good order, and is regularly used by the rec tor in the church services. A quaint memento of Revolutionary days sur mounts the steeple. It is an iron crown of George III. It is marked by bullet holes shot through it by the patriot soldiers as tokens of disrespect to his majesty. The church is nearly 1S0 years old.
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it, looks out into the face of neighbor, as he had thought, but of 8 tall and bearded stranger, who craved nights shelter. Old Bruno had raised his head from his paws on the entrance. Then with noisy bark aprang toward him. The old man tried to hush the dog, but the stranger spoke:
 ''Old Bruno remembers me. Have you forgotten your wilful boy?"
 Before he had finished the question, Hannah's arms were around his neck, and his fathers hand was grasping his in that joyful meeting. He did not dream how their hearts had been going out to meet him, yet he felt the solemn thrill in his fathers tone, as, turning to his wife, he said:
 ''See, Hannah, 'in wrath He has re- membered mercy For our Thanks giving Day the Lord has sent us a Thanksgiving guest"
The examiner., 1881-12-03
Price and Currency Fix
 pansion.

The study of the finance question and the careful investigation of economic problems, resulting from the dis cussion of these subjects during the last four or five years, have estab- lished the fact that general prices are governed by the quantity rather than by the quality of the current medium of exchange. This the Greenback press has always contended, claiming that contraction of the currency alone precipitated the panic of 1873. which resulted in such widespread ruin and industrial stagnation. But the fund holders and their organs, interested in low prices, that fixed incomes might be more valuable, denied it, and for proof pointed to the "plethora of mCney in the banks" during the dark est days of the panic. The Public, of New York, has made a careful inves- tigation and gives to it's readers the result, demonstrating conclusi7ely that there is an almost exact cor. respondenee between the currency in- fation and the imitation of prices since the "bed-rock" period of 1878. The wholesale prices Of forty representative articles are given, all New York prices. The Public says: ''These articles repre- sent three-fourths of all the articles that enter into domestic consumption and foreign export, and comparisons of more than four hundred articles has. shown that the average derived from so large list scarcely differs appreciably from the average based upon the arti- cles here named"
 Passing over the detailed manner in which the Public arrived at it's results, we give the result. It says:
 "For convenience, the computations have been made in quantities per cap ita. We then assume that the minor unquoted articles in each class, which are in number thousands, but in value less than one-quarter of the aggregate, have changed in aggregate cost in the same ratio as the more important and quoted articles of that class, and thus arrive at the following table of average prices per capita:
The examiner., 1881-12-03
Harvest.

Sweet, sweet, sweet, Is the winds song, Astir in the rippled wheat All day long. It hath the brooks wild gayety, The sorrowful cry of tho sea.
 Oh, hush and hear
 Sweet, sweet and clear.
 Above the locust's whirr
 And hum of bee Rises that soft, pathetic harmony. In the meadow grass The innocent white daises blow, The dandelion plume doth pass Vaguely to and fro
 The unquiet spirit of flower, That hath too brief an hour. Now doth little cloud all white, Or golden bright, Drift down the warm blue sky And now ou the horizon line Where dusty woodlands lie, A sunny mist doth shine, Like to veil before holy shrine, Concealing, halfrevealing, things Divine. Sweet, sweet, sweet,
 Is the winds song,
 Astir in the rippled wheat
 All day long.
 That exquisite music calls
 The reaper everywhere Life and death must share,
 The golden harvest falls. So doth all end Honored philosophy.
 Science and art,
 The bloom of the heart Master, Consoler, Friend, Make Thou the harvest of our days To fall within Thy ways.
 Ellen M. HutchinsOn.
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s123 or s149 57 s155 91 s167 8

. .
 "To purchase the same quantities of all the articles embraced in the com parison, therefore, would have cost 21.54 per cent. more about November l, 1879, than on the same date in 1878; # would have cost 4.2 per cent. more in 1880 than in 1879, and would have cost 7.65 per cent. more November 1, 1881, than on the same date. last year. The advance in general average of prices since the lowest point, about November
 1, 1878, has therefore been 36.4 per cent.''
 The largest advance has been in food or farm products, which is no less than forty-seven per cent.
 During all this period there has been 8 progressive increase in the currency volume, which the Chicago Times refers to as the cause of the progressive ad- vance in the price of commodities. It quotes from the report of Comptroller Knox, showing that the active ci-cula- tion, or the whole amount of currency, metallic and paper, outside of the national treasury and the banks, was: January 1, 1879. s613. .230 TIT November l, 1873. 698, ,617, 2lS November l, 1880. 80................. 609, ,505, 11s November l, 1881, estimated. 922, COG, 900
 This shows an increase of fifty per cent. The Times thinks it is fair to suppose that ss5, 900, ,O00 of the increase has been hoarded, in which case s' there will be found an almost eza core. spondence between the price-infiation and the currency-infation." This settles one fundamental principle of the Ma tional party, to wit, that "the value of money is regulated by its volume" and as the constitution of the United States not only gives to Congress the power, but makes it it's duty to so regulate the value money as to make prices steady and uniform, thereby insuring justice and equity to both debtor and creditor. 1t should assume and exercise the authority. Almost the entire currency imitation has been of the metallic, ol exportable kind, over which the govern ment has no control, It is in private hands and will be exported whenever it will purchase more in foreign lands than in this. Of the SI.4OO, ,O0O, 900 of money said to be in the United States, the government has control of but $346, COG, ,000, or less than twentv. five per cent. of its volume. The national banks and the fluctuations of commerce may contract it at s1O0, ,O00,- OOO month, and both the government and the industries of the country are helpless to avert crash as law now stands. The country and it's business interests are at the mercy of system and monopoly, which, like vultures. feast and fatten on dead carcasses. and thrive best in the paths of desolation and ruin.- Chicago Erpress.
The examiner., 1881-12-03
Washinaton's Family Coach.

Benjamin Richardson, an eccentric New York gentleman owns the carriage in which Washington made his tour of the Southern States in 1791.
 This is the only one of Washington 8 carriages in existence and it is unques- tionably the most wonderfully con- structed piece of road machinery of the kind extant. ''The Ark" as it's face tious custodians at the Centennial were
The examiner., 1881-12-03
Not Worth if,

A backwoodsman promised to send the minister fifty pounds of maple sugar for marrying him. Time passed CD, and no maple sugar arrived to sweeten the minister's household. Some months later he saw the newly married husband in the town, and ventured to remind him My friend, you did not send the maple sugar you promised" With a saddened countenance he looked up and replied: "To tell you the truth governor, she ain't worth it
The examiner., 1881-12-03
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Newly Set Trees.

Watering is not often necessary for newly set treer We have known them to be injured surface watering when mulching W d have saved them. Ii you have mellow soil and mulch your trees several inches thick you will sell dom need to water them. The only way in which water can be advantage ously applied is to f,move the soil from the roots to the extent of the hole dug for planting, then pour in water until the roots are thoroughly soaked, re- place the earth and mulch.
The examiner., 1881-12-03
Cultivate Young Orchards.

Professor Beal, of the Michigan Ag- ricult lral College, says: elf you have money to fool away, seed down your young orchard to clover and timothy, or SOW crop of wheat or oats. If you want the trees to thrive, cultivate we'll till they are seven or ten years old. Spread ashes, manure, or salt broadcast. Stop cultivating in August, weeds or no weeds; this allows the trees to ripen for winter. The question whether to cultivate old orchards or not must be answered by observing the trees. If the clover of the leaves is good and they grow we'll and bear fine fruit they are doing well enough even if in grass. But if the leaves are pale, the annual growth less than 8 foot on twelve trees, and the fruit small and poor, something is the matter, and th3y are suffering for want of cultivation, or manure, or both. To judge of the con- dition of an apple tree is like judging of the condition of sheep in 8 pasture. Look at the sheep, and if they are plump and fat they are all right"
The examiner., 1881-12-03

More ascents of Mount Blanc have been made during the past season than in any previous year. Between July and October sixty-four tourists, of whom nineteen were French, seventeen English, and six Americans, gained the summit. Three were ladies, native respectively of England, France. and Switzerland.
The examiner., 1881-12-03

According to the estimates of the ag- ricultural department at Washington. four per cent. of the acreage of Texas can produce enough cotton to supply the whole world.
The examiner., 1881-12-03

The value of the British pound sterling, gold, in the United States money is $4.86.73.
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| of the condition of sheep in @ pasture. Look at the sheep, and if they are plump and fat they are all right"
 FIeclxs. OF "WhIte- Caps" in Cream.
 Flecls are generally supposed to be pieces of dried cream, and possibly sometimes they may be, but usually they are not, for occasionally they exist in milk before any cream rises, and sometimes are mingled with butter made by processes of cold-setting in which the cream remains soft, no part of it being dried at all. They seldom appear, however, in butter made by cold-set- ting they are mostly found in butter made in dairies where the milk is set without any other cooling than that of the air in the room where the milk stands. For the most part they are developed in milk after it comes from the COW. By quickly cooling milk to 8 low degree, change is so much arrested hat they cannot develop. They can only form within certain limits of tenn perature, and when they do, are likely to appear as plentifully in the milk as in the cream, and often more so, which evidence adverse to their being origi- mated from dried cream. In milk which is i'll @ perfectly normal condition they never appear. They always occur in milk which is more or less faulty. They are very apt to accompany an infiamed state of the udder, and seldom or never appear without it. When milk is all right, the surface of the cream may be exposed to currents of dry air until it becomes quite dry and hard, without showing any indication of ''white caps'' a5 they are sometimes called. The dried cream, when mixed with the rest and we'll stirred up, soon becomes soft, and churns the same as the rest. But when milk, which is @ little feverish, or in some other way faulty, is thus exposed to the air without being first we'll cooled, fecks will be pretty sure to show them selves in numbers proportioned to the exposure Whenever fecks afe liable to be developed, there can, with the aid of microscope, be seen in the milk small specks of solid matter with frag- mentary shapes which form the nucleus of the fecks. When such milk is set in glass vessel and kept without much cooling these specks can be seen to en- large by the coagulation and adhesion of the milk in contact with them. Sooner or later they swell from gas form ing within them, and, becoming lighter than the milk, rise toward the surface and more or less of them become imbedded in the soft cream. When they form in the milk they are almost wholly com posed of eurd, but when formed in the cream they are very rich in cream, hay. ing as much, and perhaps more, cream in their composition, as curd.
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of eplendor in the night. The rain ceae cd. Only the withered leaves stir red andssrustled fitfully around the feet cf one whose steps were turned toward long forsaken home. Trial and toll had made of the self-willed boy 8 reso- lute man. Out amid the buffeting and cold indifference of the world, the memory of the smarting resentment under whose passion he had fled soon faded, leaving only the tenderest recol- lections of loving ministries and cares. The breath of his fathers prayers had folded round him in many an hour of temptation. The touch of his mothers hand upon his boyish head held him from many vice, and with the years a longing had grown with him to tread once more the old familiar paths, and
 look in the dear remembered faces.
 There had been doubts as to his recep- tion, and fears that the gray heads
 mig Int be laid under the grasses, but at last, lure by autumnal memories of dropping nuts in the brown woods, and hearth fires glowing bright, he had turned his way eastward, from over the far prairies. Nearer he came, and nearer. The lights of the village shine around him. The sound of the surf is in his ears. Once more he travels the old familiar road his hand is on the gate, his feet on the worn doorstep. There is a knock at the door, and Ansel Place, shading his dim hand as he open
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-21
Answers.

3. An easy way to test kerosene oil
is as follows: Take a small tin cup,
say pint one, place the bulb of ther-
mometer in it, and then pour little
warm water into the cup, after which
place little of the oil on the surface
of the water, note the heat that is In
Dictated by the thermometer; if nearly
10 degrees of heat according to the
Fahrenheit scale, pass flame over the
cup and about one inch from
the oil. If the gas, thrown off from
the oil by reason of the warm water,
ignites when the water is below ITO
degrees, the oil is dangerous; if not,
the oil is safe. Ii on the first trial,
the gas does not ignite, add rot water
to that already in the cup, until sUifi-
Gent gas is thrown off to ignite. By
carefully noting the temperature at
which the oil took fire. you will know
how much heat the oil will bear before
it will explode. The law of Wiscon-
sin requires kerosene oil to endure a
test of 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
4. The rotunle of the sun is 2d5,-
600 times that of tbs earth--i. e., it
would take ,245,0 earths to make
u globe the size of the sun.
It's mass is GA times that of
all the rest of the solar system. Its
WEIGHT may be expressed in tons thus,
1.o10, 278, O70, 900, 900, GOO, 900, 000,0 00.-
.Steele's IA Weeks in astronomy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-21
the Teachers First Day in School.

Well does each teacher remember
his first day in school, and how forci-
bly, he felt the responsibility that was
soon to devolve upon him, as he con-
sidered that he was about to mould
the plastic minds before him either
for life of honor or of shame.
If the teacher has taken a school in
neighborhood where he is unac-
quainted, all the better; but he should
spend few days in the district and
get acquainted with his patrons and
pupils, before his school opens. He
should go to the school-hOuse, place
everything in order and familiarize
himself with it's details before the
first day of school; and then when the
pupils arrive, they will find every
thing looking neat and in order, and
at the same time the teacher will have
given his first lesson in these two es-
sentials.
The first days work will usually de-
eide the teachers future success in
his school. Then with what skill
should he marshall all his forces on
that occasion. Nothing should be
done hastily, but on the contrary, he
should be self possessed; be SO famil-
lar with his school before he enters 1t
that he will have a definite plan of
work mapped ont ready for the first
day. This information may easily be
gained during his preliminary visiting.
he should be early at the school-house
on the first morning, and welcome his
pupils with smile. If any grow rest
less before school time, ask them in a
pleasant manner to do some little
thing for him, and then show, either
by word or look, that he is pleased
with the manner in which the request
was complied with. From this time
on it will remain with him whether
his pupils shall feel that he is their
! friend or enemy.
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"Let another's shipwreck be 70

"Let another's shipwreck be your
seamark.' .
Common schools are the safeguard
of the Republic
Miss Mary West is lst assistant in
the Prescott school. B.
+. Fitzgerald teaches in Dist. No 3,
FL Paso, this summer. j.
Nellie Bancroft, of Prescott, teaches
in the Point Douglas school.
J. Buckley teaches the summer term
in the Buckley Dist, I'll paso. Il.
Mrs. Belle Redmon teaches the sum
mer school in Dist. /. Trenton.
Miss Hattie Goodell teaches the sum-
mer term in the Condit Dist. Rock
| Elm. B.
Miss Althie Ridgman. of Hartland,
will teach in the Hicks Dist, this
summer.
Miss Susie Gilmore is engaged to
teach the summer term in Dist. No. 3,
Trenton. c.
Mr.. o. Arnold is pursuing a six years
course at Carleton College, Northtield,
MINI. We predict for him a bright
future. A.
Miss Martha Bolkcom, of River Falls,
did a good work in Trenton last win
ter. Although this was her first term,
she made many improvements in the
school work. D.
Mr.. Chaplin, who taught in the Nero
district, last term, is now lecturing on
phrenology Mr.. G. is well versed in
the science, and it will repay anyone,
who can do so to go and hear hlm. II.
Miss Belle Frye's school, on Plum
Creek, closed short time ago. She COM
pleted the winter term that Mrs. Full
ton, of Lake City, Mimi, commenced,
but being taken sick, she had TO give
up the work. Miss Frye will teach in
the Cyrilius district this summer.
The Esdaile schools under the SUPER
vision of Mr.. 0. E. Rice. are doing nice
work in map-drawing. AS an encour-
agement toward good work, sample
of the best is placed in a large frame
together with the pupils name who
drew it. Semi-monthly, the papers
are re.arranged and better samples are
substituted. The Roll of Honor is
soon to occupy a place in the frame.
The schools closed on the 18th inst.
Both departments havedone commend
able work during the last year. Miss
Monro was the assistant teacher.
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CLIFTON CHIT CHAT.
Hams and hOrseradiSh.

Hams and horseradish.
Silas Snow lost valuable horse last
week.
Langan, the grave-stone man, was
in town last week.
Mary Bascom has been quite i'll,
but is now convalescent.
Z. J. Atwater is superintendent OF
the Glenwild Sabbath school.
Jim Ashbaugh has relaxed his grip
on T. E. Tubbs' fam, and will go
west.
A sugar party is on the tapis at the
Valley. An hilarious time is antici-
pated.
The Ladies' Missionary Society con-
vened at G. Wright's last Saturday
afternoon.
The warm winds will soon clear the
lake of ice and allow resumption of
navigation.
Wolves have destroyed several
sheep during the past winter for
Robt Ashbaugh,
Our farmers are busy seeding; their
wives are making garden, and the
children are enjoying the luxury of
"going barefoot"
All the new drills and seeders seem
to come from Haven's warehouse.
Ken. evidently has the ''bulge' on the
machinery business in this town.
The cruel winter and the laggard
spring have Invested Minnesota of
many of its charms, and the exodus
thither will be limited this spring.
D. Corcoran and D. D. Proctor have
formed partnership in the plas-
tering business; Corcoran to furnish
the experience and Dick. the capital.
Specimens of the work of the junior
of the firm may be seen at the school
house at JereusaIem Corners.
PEDAGOGICAL PELLETS.
Helen Atwater teaches in the Bailey
district, and Nellie Bancroft at the
Hollow.
G. G.. Williams will eschew peda-
gogues for the summer and espouse
agriculture.
School in Pierce Valley was deferred
one week on account of the illness of
the teacher.
Miss Aldrich, of Minnesota, COM
menced school at Pierce Valley last
Monday. 1t is her first term in Wis
consin.
Miss Alice Goodell, OF Ellsworth,
succeeds n. L. Collins at the Judd
district, and Mike viii absorb knowl-
edge at the Normal.
B. II. Corceran "holds the fort in
the Endorf district; o. Graves, Clara
McIlroy, in the Stirratt district, ard
Mary Fitzsimmons at No. 4.
Clara Hammond is on her third
week at Glass Valley; Belle Rolliu
will soIourn at Beldenville, and
Winnie Finly teaches her first term in
TIE Bliss Barrett district, while W. II.
Hickok and Will Caldwell will deyel.
op the youthful mind at Trimhelle.
We pause for a moment from our
bucolic 'lIsuits, to cool our blistCred
heels and fndlte this hasty eommuni.
cation for the JOURNAL. Our farmers
are all busy. and will be for the com.
| ing two weeks. The ground is in
good condition, the weather propitious
and everything betokens plenteous
harvest.