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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
Dead Stars.

Like the sand of the sea, the stars of heaven,
saws Sir John Lubbock, in his opening address,
at the recent meeting of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, have ever been
used as effective symbols of number, and the
improvements in our methods of observation
have added fresh force 10 our original impress
sions We now know that onr earth is but a
fraction of one ont of at least 0O00 600 worlds.
But this is nst all. In addition TO the luminous
heavenly bodies, not Doubt that there
are countless others, invisible to US from their
greater distance, smaller size, or feebler light
indeed, we know that there many dark
bodies, which emit no light, or compare
lively little. Thus. in the case of Procyon the
existence of an invisible body is proved by the
movement of the visible star. Again, may re-
fer to the curious phenomena presented by
Algol a bright star in the head of Medusa. This
star shines without change for two days and
thirteen hours; them in three hours and half,
dwindles from 4 star of the second to one of the
fourth magnitude; and then. in another three
and a half hours, reassumes its original bril-
liancy These changes seem certainly to indi-
cate The presence of an Opaque body which inter
cepts, at regular intervals, part of the light
emitted by Algol.
Tins the floor of heaven is not only 'thick
inlaid with patines of bright gold,n but studded
also with extinct stars-onee probably as bril-
liant as our own sun, bnt now dead and cold, as
Helmhotz tells that our sun itself will be,
some seventeen millions of years hence.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
TOO AWFULLY UTTER.
a Dcadwood Wan. Interview with n Brook.
Iyn Girl.

.'Well," said DeadwoOd man who had lust
been introduced to a Brookly girl and who had
been asked by her if they had many of those
lovely frontiersmen ont his way-''well, num-
we hey right smart of 'em in our neck o. the
woods"
"And do they wear fringed legs and hunt
those dear, sweet buffaloi" asked the girl
"The stage drivers wear fringe and sich, and
when bufaler shines out, some one is poorly
apt to hook on"
"How supreme And those gorgeous Indians
iu their picturesque wigwams of wampum, with
their blending combinations of war paint-do
you often see them ~
.'0h! once in awhile we get hack at a buck,
but mostly they are the reservations re-
piled the DeadwoOd man, staring. "The does
comes in, occasionally, but We don't track with
them"
'.The sweet things, And you have such sun
sets, out in your mountain Businesses, and such
loves of highwaymeni Do YOU ever see those
delightful hIghwaymen 7"
Not often, mum. They get in the brush !;
and, as for sunsets we get 'em pretty reg'lar, in
fair weather."
"Isn't it Just too awfully or exclaimed the
girl clasping her hands, and rolling her eyes.
"ies, num-" stammered the Dcadwood man I;
''sOme times its pretty dern, too; leastwise it
was the day that Cobbler Duffy came into town
ON the landslide"
IAN avalanchef Do you mean an avalanche I.
Oh! Can there be anything more crystally utter
than an avalanchef
1T was pooty toOty utter" hazarded the
Deadwood man, dropping into his companions
style of expression. "Ihe eobbler had a-a-he
had a cTystally shaft up the side of the butte,
and one day he was-was toOing around up
there, and things slipped ont from under him."
'sOh, how RADIANT How iridescentr
"les, mum, and he began to radiate towards
town at the rate of coo miles and three fur
longs a minute. We seen him a-a-uttering
down the side of the mountains ripping up trees
and rocks, and tooing along. and his irdescent
wife Tapped ont of her setback and began to
raise 4 row."
''Poor Lily" moaned the girl; "did she stop
the glorious avalanchef'
mo, mum, not quite. Duffy fetched up
against his setback all standing, and began to
howl like a blizzard, cause he thought he'd lost
his mine. But when they tapped the landslide
on one end, there was the mine underneath, Just
as he had left it. So he could work it right nm
der his winder. That was poorly considerable
too, ell :" and the Deadwood man never winked.
GLOW sublime, How crystalline,r
but was going to say, we never had sun
set since
$50 star-like," murmured the girl
'.Yes mostly star-like. You See the land
slide stands there 10 this day, on end, and they
don't dare to turn it over, for fear of filling in
the town, 50 we don't get any sun, after IL in
the morning."
"A perennial twilight! So fearfuly, terribly,
awfnlly utter
YES" murmured the DeadwoOd man. .sit's
Just about utter You get EN-"
And she sat and gazed upon him, wrapped in
admi. alton, while he fell into a reverie and
wondered at Brooklyn hospitality, in not pro-
vitin. .'sand boxes" for strangers.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

| Every body knows that cookery book recipes
| are rarely exact. They say what they do not
mean, aud do not say what they do; and in the
| majority of cases, leave no small amount to be
| interpolated understood by the wisdom Of the
| user. To them is to be ascribed such standards
of measure as the teacupfnl, and the teaspoontnl
| or tablespoonful; and occasionally the exasper-
| ating pennywOrth or handful. So long as the
cookery originators keep these standards to them
| selves-even if they must. in their mutitudinous
| publications, infict them the unfortunate
| housewife-we shall not complain, because we
are used to it but is il not about time that some
| ones voice was lifted up in condemnation of the
| tablespoon and teaspoon being measures IN ply
| sicians' prescriptions. Will some NJ. ID. give us
| his idea of teaspoonfulf "a drachm," he will
| probably inform: Then why not write drachm
| Oh the prescription Because every one has tea
| spoons, and few have drachm measures, perhaps.
| See how absurd this is. We took occasion re-
| Gently to ask large silverware dealer how many
| sizes of teaspoons were made. He could not an
| swer definitely, but he supposed more than
| dozen. He showed us four teaspoons, of which
one was fully twice the size of the other. One
| held drachm and half, the other two thirds
| of drachm. These variations were in teaspoons
known as teaspoons to the trade. When we con-
| slider that every thing smaller than tablespoon,
| from a moderate sized dessert to the smallest
| coffee or berry spoon, is known to the average
housewife teaspoon, the chances of still fur
Their variation are greatly increased. Again, the
sizes of the spoons follow closely the prevailing
=
years ago, it went to the other extreme. Conse-
quently, a recipe in an old book which talks
about teaspoOnful is certainly unreliable now.
A manslanghter case came before a cOroners
jury in England recently on this very point
The prescription gave directions to give a child
teaspoonful of drug of which small quanti-
ty would not ordinarily be deadly. A big tea
spoonful, probably half as mach again rs cOntem-
plated by the prescriber, administered, and
the child died. The jury took these facts into
consideration, and found a verdict accordingly,
which absolved the person who followed the di-
rections of the prescription from blame.
1t lisa very easy thing to abolish this arbitrary
standard, since a simple and excellent substi-
tute is found in apothecaries marking the sides of
their phials in drachms, etc, they now do
their glass measures. This might easily be done
by projections the glass, made during the
shaping of the bottle. Then the patient can
have the exact amount given to him in a tea
spoon of any kind, shape, size, or pattern.-Sci-
entfc american.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
Retter Than a Title.

A Detreiter who was on visit to a bright ut
tie town in Missouri, last fall was invited TO at
tend select party, and he was hesltatihS
whether to 90. when one of the committee on m
vitations urged him'
why, of course yOn must come. Let's See'
Shall introduce you as General -
"Oh, no-fm no General"
HHOw'u Judge - dOF
"But I'm no Judge" 49,
aUm. Well, we can get over that, by calling
Won the Hon. Mr.. -, Of Michigan"
"But I've no business with the prefix"
Haven't you written popular poemP
'Neyer."
'But you are the author of bOok'"
1No,"
"Um. Let's sec Would you object TO Pro
fessor before your name Y
1sWell, / have right to it.'
fLet's see. Then you are only plain Mr. y
That's all. And at home I'm grocer
"Y-e-s-plaiD -. Keep n grocery-y-e-s.
Have you ever failed =
''Yes; went down during the panic"
"Good enough-just the idea! Come right
along to the party. I'm to introduce yOu as a
Detroit merchant who has failed, and is keeping
shy for a compromise of ten cents on the dollar.
We've struck it solid, and III warrant You a
good time! Sharp eight-good day."-Deiroit
Free Press.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
Preserving Tender Bulbs and Tubers.

If there is any secret in connection with keep
ing tender bulbs and tubers in dormant and
sound condition through winter, it is in properly
driving them off at the start. Ii taken up in wet
weather covered with mud, and this is not re-
moved before packing away, they are pretty
certain to decay. Giadioias, Taberoses. CdRRds,
CaladiHpls, Tegridids, and other tropical tubers
and bulbs usually planted out in summer and
kept in dry state during the winter, are very
sensitive to cold and moisture, and there is very
little danger of keeping them too dry and warm.
If kept in green honse, there is little danger of
loss if spread out upon shelf or put in bags and
hung up in some convenient, dry place, but
when placed in cellar they are likely to become
moldy and rotten, unless considerable care is
given to thoroughly drying them before packing
away. There is probably no better way of pres
CRYING in cellars than to dry thoroughly and
then put them into coarse cloth bags and hang
up where they can be frequently examined du-
ring cold weather. If at any time the bulbs
show signs of moldiness they can be readily Ia
ken into the kitchen or elsewhere and dried off.
If person has an upper room warm enough to
prevent freezing it will be better place to keep
such things than a cellar. Dahlias usually re-
main sound if packed in kiln-dried sand in tight
boxes and placed in a warm cellar. The boxes
should be raised some distance from the bottom
of the cellar, instead of being placed directly
upon it. Dry, pulverized charcoal is also an
celleut material in which TO keep delicate tubers
through winter-RHral Ner Yorker.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

THE straw of all grains should he carefully
husbanded and utilized. Properly fed. it can be
made TO go long way toward bringing stock
through the winter in good condition. But it
must not be fed alone. Grain, oil meal, or cot
ton seed meal must 20 along with it TO supply
lacking elements. In feeding cows. the follow
ing plan may be followed: Give all the straw
they will eat. with six quarts of wheat bran per
day TO each cow; OF mix corn meal and bran.
one part of the former or two of the latter, and
feed four quarts per day. Dampen it with bran
or meal water to which little salt has been
added or mix bran, corn meal and oil meal.
Probably as good proportions any would be
one part of meal, one of corn meal, and four of
bran, and feed four quarts of this mixture per
tlay 10 each COW.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
Selett goetrp.
THE DEAR DEAD WOMAN UP STAIRS.
ny OWEN MEREDITH.

ny OWEN AEzKDrIH
Midnight past, Not sound Of aught
Through the silent hours but the wind at his prayer
sat by the dying fire, and thought
Of the dear dead woman mp stairs
Nobody with me- my watch to keep
But the friend Of my bosom the man love:
And grief had sent him fast asleep
In the chamber up above.
Nobody else in the country Mace
All round that knew Of my loss beside
But the good young priest with the Raphael,faee
Who Confessed her when she died.
On her cold dead bosom my portrait lies.
Which next to her heart she used to wear
Haunting it DER with her tender eyes
When my own face was not there.
And said: The thing Is preciou. to me:
They will bury her soon in the church yard clay:
IL hes on her heart, and lost must be,
1 do not take 1t away.
As stretched my hand, i held my breath;
turned as drew the curtain apart;
dared not look at the face of death;
knew where to find her heart
thought. at first As nv touch fell there
had warned that heart 10 life with love;
For the thing touched was warm, swear,
And could feel il move.
Twas the hand of a man that was moving slow
Der the heart Of the dead-from the other side;
And AZ once the sweat broke over nv brow:
Opposite me, by the taper's light
The friend of my bosom the man loved
Stood over the corpse and all white
And neither of rs moved
What do you here. my friendi" The man
Looked first at me, and then at the dead
There is 4 portrait here. " he began;
There is 1t Ia mine, +" said.
Said the friend Of my bosom Yours no doubt
The portrait was. till a month ago.
Whsn this suffering angel took that out
And placed mine there, know"
This woman she loved ne we'll said ].
"A month ago" said my friend to me:
And in your throat, {" Groaned "you le!"
He answered.: "a Let US see"
We found the portrait there in its place.
We opened it by the tapers shine:
The gems were all unchanged; the face
was-nether his mine.
One nail drives out another, at least,
The face of the portrait there, cried,
rs our friends, the Raphael faced young priest,
Who confessed her when she died"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
Mrs. Partinetou and Ike.

HWhat do yOu think will become of you ~
said Mrs. Darlington TO Ike, as they were going
from church. The question related to the young
gentleman's conduct in the church, where he
had tipped the cricket, peeped over the
gallery, attracted the attention of boy in the
pew below by dropping a pencil tied with a
string upon his head, and had drawn n hideous
picture of dog upon the snOw-white cover Of
the best hymn book. "Where do you expect to
go tor 1t was a question that the yOungster
had never before had put to him so closely, and
he said he didn't know, but he thought he'd like
To 60 up in balloon. I'm afraid you'l 20
down if you don't mend your ways rather than
60 up. You've been acting very badly in meet
ing" continued she, land l declare / conld
hardly keep from boxing your ears, in the midst
Of the lethargy. You didn't pay no interest, and
/ lost all the threads of the sermon, through
your tricks" Il didn't take your thread" said
Ike, who thought she alluded TO the string by
which the pencil was lowered upon the boy !;
"that fishing line 80, Isaac" cOntin-
ned she, earnestly, "what do you want TO act SO
like the probable son fort Why don't you try
TO be like David and Deuteronomy that we read
about, and act in a reprehensible manneri"
The appeal was touching, and Ike was silent
thinking of the sling that David killed Goliath
with, and wondered if he could make one.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
THE OLD FIREPLACE.


To sit in the old, old fireplace,
And while there sitting. gaze
CAS- we muse on the things departed)
Tn the ruddy, sparkling blaze!
What treasures held the ashes,
Where the corn popped forth 50 white;
Or the chestnuts burst their jackets,
With eracklings Of delight.
How the steaming, bubbling candy
Its waves Of sweetness rolled.
And gladdeneh eager watchers
With its skeins Of hand-spun gold.
Twas there the red-cheeked apples
Would get quite up tree,
For they danced and reelei and sputterc'l
Or sang mclo'iiously.
Then the lead In shovel melted,
Could furnish cheap made toys.
To draw forth youthful fanaies;
How dear the homely joys!
In the red and crumbling smbers,
Who could discern face,
Or trace ont bridges. castles,
In their ever-ehanging grace;
Or list tn stOries Of fairies.
That came from lively brain,
Till the little elves before rs
Seemed all alive again.
Talk of Your stoves and ranges!
The children know not now
To watch the firelight's changes
And the silhouette shadow show.
Oh, the JOYS Of times departed,
Were not the present joysl
Then the good and simple-hearted
Long time were girls and boys!
Now the crowd Of youthful faces
Wear mems and womens airs,
And the rosy. artless graees
Have vanished unawares-
Now the costly playthings furnish
Scarce thrill of the old delight
That shone on the md cheeks buTnish,
In the ruddy wood-trs' light.
BEST are the simple pleasures
For the child, and for the man
Whose age can prize the treasures
For which his childhood ran.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

JoSAH's BOWIE KSIFE.-Once was lecturing
on a whale out in Denver, when it was a Young
town, and a crowd of miners were taking in the
show. had told the story about Jonah, when
q rough diamond shouted:
"Sav, pard, what was Jonah adoin' with his
bowie, while he was prOspectin' around in that
thar whalei ~
This seemed most pertinent question, and
was stuck. 1t wOuld have been use to say
that the prophet didn't have a knife in his san
dial, for they wouldn't believe me. answered
that il was generally believed that he had tried
to get the drop on the whale with the bowie,
when he was swallowing, but that the animal
got the blade in his teeth, and the prophets pis-
tel got wet, and was out of order.
"Why didn't he kick the stuffin' out of him ~
suggested another, but that was voted down by
the house. AT the end of the show, l was invif-
ed to several camps, to give the boys "preach''
on varmints, in general-0d Sherman, in v. T..
Uorld,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
Old-Time Winters.

At meeting of the '0ld Residents of Western
Pennsylvania" at Pittsburg, last week, the Pres
ident of the organization read paper on old
time winters, from which it appears that the
severe cold that forged fetters for the waters of
our bays and rivers, as well as those of the
western end of Long Island Sound, extended
pretty generally over the country north of lati-
tude $50 The winter of i779-so was the hard
est ever known in the Ohio Valley. IL was
called the winter of the deep snow. "The
beautiful was from six to nine feet in depth, in
December, aud the drifts eighteen to twenty.
About Christmas, heavy rain fell, and a thick
crust formed on the snow, strong enough to bear
up horses and sleighs. The annals of the West
show that the winter was almost as severe in
Kentucky rs in Western Pennsylvania. Several
thousand families had rushed to Kentucky, the
year Previous marvellous reports of the fertility
of the soil inducing them to go thither. When
the severe winter set in, starvation stared the
emigrants in the face, and they had to sacrifice
all their live stock to sustain life. The hardest
winter within the recollection of the writer, was
that of 1s31-32 the year of the big food. In
December and January snow covered the ground
there to the depth of four feet. This melted, in
February, and swelied the rivers, the water be-
ing thrty-two feet in that city, forty-four at
Wheeling, and sixty-three feet at Cincinnati.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

STORY is told of a member of certain theo-
logical seminary, who was so sensitive as TO any
suspicion of plagiarism, that he never allowed
himself to make the slightest quotation, with
out giving his authority. On one occasion he
commenced grace at breakfast thus: ''Lord, we
thank Thee that We have awakened from the
sleep which writer in the Edinburgh Rerielr
has called the image of death,r
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
ANOTHER BABY DEAD.

Another baby dead!
Pale Azriei-s white winged token
Rests in its curi-crowned brow
A mothers heart is broken.
All that is len US now.
Is waxen form, snow drifted,
Hands folded on ifs breast,
A soul to Heaven uplifted!
Place flowers white upon IT,
Where q heart thrilled In its beating
White flowers, fitting enblems
Of life 20 pure and feeting.
Another bbay deadi
Fond mother. cease your weeping.
For the Comforter hath said.
Beloved, your dead a-c slseping-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

CuRRAN was pleading before Fitzgibbon, the
Irish chancellor. with whom he was on terms of
anything bnt friendship. The chancellor had
with him on the bench, large Newfoundland
tention, while Curran was addressing a very
elaborate argument TO him. At a very material
point in the speech, the Judge turned away,
and seemed wholly engrosSed with his dog
Curran ceased to speak. Go on, go on, Mr..
Curran," said the chancellor" 'Oh beg a
Thousand pardons, my Lords" said the witty
barrister, Il really under the impression
that your Lordships were in cOnsultaton.r
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26
THE ASHES UPON THE HEARTH.

went to the old.time cottage,
Where dwelt in childhoods days,
looked through the dear old windows,
sought for some sweet reminder
To bear frum my place Of birth,
But. ali! there remained no token
But the ashes upon the hearth.
The chambers were bare and empty.
And the echoes seemed to say:
.'0hl where is the busy householdi
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

THERE is a gentleman in Bangor who is so alb
sent minded that, meeting his son on the street,
n day or two since, he extended his hand and in
quired GLOW do you dor When is your father
coming homef" This reminds us of an absent
minded man of Worcester, who on receiving n
letter from his son, glanced at the signature.
and proceeded to consult the directory to learn
the personality of his correspondent."-BOsto
Trdreller
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

The Fort Wayne CInd.) Ga,etie says: A gen.
tleman in the west end, when the smallpox
scare was first agitated in the city, purchased
some vaccine matter for the purpose of vacein-
atins his family. He mixed the matter with
some water on a piece of glass, and in doing 50
a portion of the mixture adhered to one of his
fngure nails. Soon after having occasion to
pick his nose, he unfortunately used the finger
which had come in contact with the matter, and
the consequence was it took splendidly in his
nasal organ. Coming in contact thus with the
membranes in the nose, it spread all through his
head, and, as a result, he has been confined to
his bed for two weeks. There will be no ques-
ton hereafter with this gentleman that if there
is any virtue in vaccination he never will have
the smallpox.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

TOMMY was n little rogue, whom his mother
had hard work to manage. Their house in the
country stood raised few feet from the ground,
and Tommy, to escape a well-deserved whip
ping, ran from his mother and crept under the
house. Presently the father came in, and hear
ing where the boy had taken refuge, crept under
to bring him ont. As he approached on his
hands and knees, Tommy asked, "Is she after
you toOs-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

THE coachman who drove Jenny Lind from
the steamboat to the Revere House, Boston, Tins
ridicules the insane admiration which his "Gel-
low citizens" were exhibiting Mounting the
steps of the hotel he cried-'Here's the hand
that lifted Jenny Lind ont of the coach. Gem
tlemen, you can any of you have the privilege
of kissing it for five dollars children. half
price"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

THEY have good joke on rising young law
yer of Troy. His eloquence had cleared n man
charged with passing counterfeit money; and
his services. He tried TO use some of the money
after the fellow left the town, and found that
every dollar of it WIS counterfeit.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-01-26

THERE are Irish Judges in France as well as
elsewhere. man was charged recently, before
one of the tribunals, with drunkenness and as
saulting the police. The Judge: care you mar
ried, prisoner mo, mon president ''Then,
so much the better for your wife and family. |
shall give Won three days' imprisonment"