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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-14
General News.

Stormy and long passages are reported by
arriving steamers.
f43.0OO sterling have been subscribed to
the Jewish relief fund established by the
lord mavor of London.
Mrs. Ole Bull is now hard at work upon
her memorial volume concerning her hus-
band.
The population of Rome has increased BY
-, sos souls since 1871, the total figures being
now 800, ,o92. and were then 244.4s4.
A tumor weighing ll2 pounds was moved
from woman in Philadelphia, last week.
After the operation her weight was but 75
pounds. but il was thought she would live.
4 Vicksburg man failed the othe- day, and
found on examination that he conld pay his
debts at 100 cents on the dollar, and have
s., 900 left.
The blight has seriously affected the coffee
crop in the island of Ceylon. The yield for
the present year is worth only E2 500 900
against an estimated value of $4,000, 900.
A lady in vergennes, Vt, has kept daily
journal for the past "a years. 1t fills IA vol
umes and. being most carefully written, has
great historical value.
The faculty Of Cornell university have in
definitely suspended five of the leaders in the
recent kidnapping affair. and required them
to lneve Ithaca Immediately. Forty others
Mr.. Oscar Wilde is s4astonished at the rid
icule, the mockery with which the American
press treats lofty and serious matters" But,
as an exchange remarks, what can he expect
of mere newspaper, when even the Atlantic
Ocean disappoints him?
Three red-bead ducks were shot recently
in the st. Lawrence River below Ogdensburg.
The red-beads migrate from the Potomac to
Labrador in the spring and return in the fall.
stopping in the ST. Lawrence both ways, but
it is said to be very unusual thing for them
to remain through the winter.
An old soldier named Edward Kennan died
a week or two ago in Pittsburg, and five
days after his death long delayed pension,
dating from March ls, 1863, was granted TO
him. He left no heirs. and this accumulation
of nineteen years will remain in the United
States Treasury.
The law giving 10 the women Of Massa-
chusetts the right to vote for members of
school committees took effect in 1879. In
that year in Boston $50 women registered and
934 voted; in 1880. 772 registered and $50
voted; in 1881, 74s registered and $40 voted.
In word, the women of Boston appreciate
their privilege 90 highly that both the regis
| tration and the percentage of registered wo.
men voting have declined every year since
they obtained IT,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-14
Diet of the Japanese.

Of thirty-six thousand cows slaughtered In
japan last year, more than one-haf were
consumed by foreigners on shore or ship.
Few natives, except officers in the capital,
sailors and soldiers. eat beef Mutton and
pork beyond the treaty ports, are hardly yet
known. About two hundred varieties of fish
are eaten. one-half of the people eating fish
every day. The food Of the masses is 'nine-
ty per cent vegetable" The list Of food
plants in use, not including sea-plants, was
prepared for this pamphlet. with their
analyses, by Prof Edward Kinch of the
Toxic University. A large number of these
! substances are unknown, or at least unused,
f. in the United States. OF rice, which occu-
pies in its culture one-half of the cultivated
, land, there are two hundred and fifty varieties
| Of seed in the country. Millet is extensively
used, but bread raised from "sponge" Of
yeast is hardly yet known in the popular diet,
the old Latin-Portuguese word pan being,
| however, in use. The soy-bean, which in
| chemical composition closely approaches an
| imal fibre, is extensively cultivated. Proba-
| bly, no country excels Japan in the variety Of
legnminous plants raised for food. OF tubers
and ronts the sweet potato IS the most popu-
| lar, though. strange to say, as. much
tabooed by the aristocratic classes, as onions
are supposed TO be among US. Sixteen million
bushels Of these" "Satsuma potatoes" were pro-
duced last year while the sJava" or "Dntch,"
our common white potato, is left to foreign
ers. the native palate not liking it. Lily
bulbs-sixteen varieties-serve as food.
boiled and served with ''drawn butter" The
lotus root is eagerly eaten, without oblivion
of country or decay of patriotism. Poppy
seeds powdered a. condimenr, infusi0ns of
salted cherry blossoms for drink, h0rse-
chestnuts and acorns are among the articles
i NJ dit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-14
Weekly Kennebec Journal.

Published every Wednesday morning,is the larges
loio paper i'll the state containing news, political
ic,es agricultural and scientific matter, tales poetry
,nccdotes household matter, markets, &C., &c.
Terms, ~ per danan iJs ddrance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-14

Where il is not convenient to employ a
hot bed. and limited amount of cabbage
and tomato plants are wanted for small
garden, they can be started in the house in
a warm room which has one or more win
dows facing the south or east. The best
time to sow the seeds is in March, after
which, if .iudiciously handled, they will be
ready to set out in May. Prepare boxes
of any convenient size and about three
inches deep. fill in two inches of fine, rich
soil; this will give an inch space at the
top, SO that the plants may be coverd with
a board on a cold night, or light of glass
in the day, until they are an inch high,
Two hundred may be started in a box 6
IS inches. in which they can remain until
the third leaf has formed. when they can be
transplanted to other boxes. After they
are rooted they should be exposed to
lower temperature and hardened out of
doors. The plants will then grow stocky
and strong, and Withstand the shock of
transplanting much better.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-14

Eaailp Krnnehrl 3ournaI.

Sir Henry Parkes. the Australian states
man. has been commissioned by the gov
ernments of Queensland, South Australia
New Zealand and Tasmania. to come TO
the United States and endeavor to secure
reduction in the duties upon wool grown
in these colonies. That reduction of anv
Importance of the duties on wool would
work serious injury to this interest in the
United States, cannot be doubted. This is
about the only agricultural commodity of
which there is any large deficiency in the
amount produced at home, as compared
with the amount necessary for home con-
sumption. thus making it about the only
product which is really protected from
foreign competition by the tariff. In view
of this, the idea that Congress or our
wool growers will consent to any reduc-
ton in the tariff rates on wool is pre-
posterous, and the propositions of Sir
Henry will undoubtedly meet with chill
ly reception at Washington
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-14

@e'ane r's'"e sal Lasstude, Pain 'gTe9 TAXING.
in the Back Dmness of Vision, Premature Old A &c,
and many other Diseases that lead to Insanity or
Consumption and a premature Grave.
ss-Full particulars in pamphlet, which de
sire to send free by mail to every A4-The Spe
cic Medicine is sold by all druggists at 81 per pack
age or six packages for -. or will be sent free by
mail on receipt Of the money. by addressing the
GRAY MEDICINE Co., No. 106 Main Street. Buffalo
NY Sept6i6wiy
sold by all Druggists.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-14
Dailv Ken1ebec Journal.

Issued every morning, except Sundays. Itcontains
ne latest by telegraph and mail, gives reports
81 Markets. and has carefully prepared political and
local articles, and a generous amount OF farming
nome and miscellaneous reading with full compiIa-
Ton OF state news
Terms, q per anHum in advance, ~ If payment
no, made within the year. Single copies cents TO
10 mad at the periodical stores of j. +. Pierce Au.
gusta; c. l.. >paulding, Halowell; W. e. Palmer.
Gardiner; J. Carter, wa.erville, and at this office
Advertisements inserted on reasonable terms. Rates
nav be had ON application at this Office.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-14
Railroads a11n STEAMBOATS,.
Maine Central Railroad.
Change Of Time.

ON and after SUNDAY, DEC. 4th, 1851.
trains will leave Augusta
For Portland and Boston ut 300 A. M. and 10 10A.
NJ. io.55 Z. NJ
For Portland and Lewiston, 500 A. NJ, 10 10 NJ,
2.i5 and 1925 Z. NJ.
FOR Rockland, go A. NJ. and 10. 10 A. NJ.
For FarmingtOn, 10. 10 A. NJ.
Fer Bath, 600 A M, TO- 10 A. NJ. and 2.i5 Z. N.
For Watsrvie 2.25, y.55 A. NJ, ana 3.:sS + NJ
500 7. NJ. on Saturdays
For skowhegan, Belfast, Dexter and Bangor. 3.3s
Z. NJ, and zz5 A. NJ.
Night Pullman Trains each way every night, Sun
IaYn included
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14

Marsh hay and straw differ from the
best hay in being deficient in heterogeneous
matters, starch, sugar, and fat, and in
having more indigestible, woody fibre.
1t sufficient quantity of wheat bran,
ground oats, and corn or cotton-seed-
meal is added to these coarse folders,
this addition increases the amount of
heterogeneous matter, and starch, sugar,
and fat, (Which are all carbohydrates,
that is, are formed of carbon and hydro
gem and renders them quite equal to the
best of hay. 1t is by mixing such con-
centrated foods as these with hay that
we are able to enlarge the product of
milk, butter, flesh or fat of our animals,
and little larger admixture will make
even coarse, marsh hay or straw equally
productive. The knowledge of the ex-
act compositions of feeding substances
and the precise methods of mingling
them to gain the best results constitutes
the science and scientific practice of feed
ing. And this knowledge is one of the
most important farmer can possess.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14
Rather Enthusiastic.

The Wilmington Del.) Daily Repu6lican
lately contained the following item of popular
interest; Dr. ]. F. speck, who is connected
with the Wilmington EUery Evening, speaks
rather enthusiastically of st. Jacobs Oil. DIR.
speck states that he uses the Oil in his family
as household remedy, sort of universal
panacea for all aches and pains, and has al
ways found it to act most happily. His atten-
ton was called to it by the many testimonials
In Its favor, and he one day used it upon him
self for sore throat. Two applications were
Sufficient to effect cure. He also used it on
his little girl for sore throat with gratifying
success. The same child had scarlet fever this
winter which left the tendons of one leg much
contracted. The little prattler couldn't walk
without assistance and suffered much incon-
venience and pain. Several applications of
st. Jacobs Oil restored her limb to its normal
condition and she has not experienced any
trouble since. DR.. Speck states that he has
also seen the Oil act charmingiy in toothache.
He thinks st. Jacobs Oil is sterling remedy,
and does not hesitate to recommend it for
rheumatism, etc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14
FARM AND FIRESIDE,

Egg Bread.-One pint milk, two
eggs, butter size of an egg, one-half cup
sugar, three teaspoons OF ''sea foam,n
nour enough to make batter; bake.
Ihls makes one loaf.
Veal Scollops.-Cut veal from the
leg or other lean part into pieces Size of
oysters. Have seasoning of pepper,
salt, little mace, mixed; rub some over
eacn piece; dip in egg, then in cracker
crumbs, fry as oysters.
-Spiced Fish.-Cold fresh fish may
be used in this way. Remove all bones,
bits OF skin; lay in deep dish, barely cover
with hot vinegar, in which few cloves
and all-spice have been boiled Ready
Tor use as soon as cold.
Lamp shades are fashionable and
use1ul, First get the shape, which should
De cut and re-cut in paper until it fits the
glass, Then you may trace comic de-
signs on silk musin, or you may paint on
SATIN, with fringe for border, oryou may
arrange ferns or dried flowers on silk
with thin gum arabic. This latter work
is pretty and novel.
Scrambled gs.-Have a spider hot
and buttered; break the eggs into a dish,
being careful not to break the yelks;
slip them into the spider, add very lit
tie salt, with butter the size of nutmeg
for half a dozen eggs, or three table
spoonfuls of rich cream. When the
eggs begin to whiten, stir carefully from
the b)ttom, until cooked to suit.
"A pudding, which we call "Kate's
Brown Bette" is for simple and easily
made dish eminently successful. Put
alternate layers of grated bread crumbs
or chopped apples in pudding dish,
season each layer with sugar, cinnamon,
little lump of butter. For dish hold
ing quart and half you need two tea
cupfuls OF hot water. Bake an hour and
a half. Rave the top brown; serve with
plenty of ,weet cream.
Professor A. J. Cook gave results of
experiments showing the value of car
bolic acid IS a remedy against insects;
he also inferred that the electric light
promises much in this direction. The
corn worm (Heliothis armigera) was de-
scribed, and its great and exceptional
raid in the Northern States referred to
during the past year. The remedies rec
commended were fail blowing, trapping
by use of sweet liquids, and attracting
and burning with bright lights.
Pigs are often lost for want of proper
attention. A SOW that farrows in lot
with a drove of other hogs is almost sure
to lose her offspring before day old,
especially if the weather is cold and many
gather to bed in one place. When SOW
saves only one or two pigs it is often
better to take them away, as it does not
pay to suffer her to nurse so small litter.
The mother should be fed literally on
Stops and grain when her pigs are young,
as it is all-important that their growth
should be pushed forward.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14
Salt Crust On Butter.

Salt is taken up and held in butter by
means of the water the butter contains.
If there is albuminous or cheesy matter
in the butter that will also take up salt.
Butter fats have no affinity for salt, and
do not dissolve it or combine with it ex-
cept in mechanical way, Just as they
would do with sawdust if mingled with
them. The more water there is in butter,
the more salt it will dissolve and take in,
the water holding the salt in the butter
in the form of tiny drops of brine. When
there is much water in a sample of but
ter, and the little drops of brine are
pretty numerous, the contraction of the
butter by cooling crowds more or less of
them outside the butter, and as they
come to the surface the water in the
brine dries away and leaves the salt on
the outside of the butter in the form of
a crust.
The quantity of water in butter de-
ponds something upon the quality of
the milk from which it is derived, but
more upon the manner of churning and
working. When cream is churned
pretty warm the butter takes in more
'tNeSA eohN uicO AllOl Y luduICI ludu
when the churning is done at lower
temperature, and it takes in more when
gathered in lump in the churn than
when gathered in the granular form,
and the finer the granules the freer will
the butter be both from water and
cheesy matter. To avoid liability to
crusting with salt the churning should
be done at as low a temperature as it will
bear; and by reducing the temperature
when the butter begins to form to fifty
four or fifty-five degrees the butter will
form in fine granules and be in its purest
and best condition. Butter should al
ways be churned and gathered in this
way to get the best quality. If one is
using butter already made which is in
clined to crust with salt, either by con-
traction from chilling or by simply dry
ing out its water by standing exposed to
the air, as i: often will, he may avoid
the disagreeable crustatlon by keeping it
under the brine except when it is wanted
on the table.-ProfeSsor L. B. Armold,
in N. 7. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14
THE DAIRY.

The care of cow-stables in winter
should be closely watched and every
thing done in season. They should be
cleaned often; indeed, no filth should be
allowed to remain even for an hour
The exports of cheese from New
York since May has reached 108, $685.
440 pounds, showing a large increase
over the same time last year. OF butter
the exports have reached 1850, $50
pounds, showing a falling off Of about
100000 pounds. OF oIeomargerine
there was exported 1877, 915 pounds, an
increase of nearly 1000, 900 pounds,
Wisconsin cheese manufacturers
have an eye on the Southern trade and
will, next season, make an effort to ship
cheese to some of the leading cities of
the South, as well as to Mexico. 1t is
just a trife easier for the Northwest to
supply this demand than it is for the New
Workers, and a properly directed effort,
with good goods, will succeed. BY sup
plying this trade the Northwest will be
relieved of her surplus cheese in midsum-
mer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14
&c Do Likewfse.v

DrR.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y. :-"Five years
ago was dreadful sufferer from uterine trou-
bles. Having exhausted the skill of three ply
sicians, l was completely discouraged, and SO
weak could with difficulty cross the room
alone. began taking your Favorite Prescrip-
ton and using the local treatment recommend
ed in your Common Sense Medical Adviser
In three months was perfectly cured. Iwrote
letter to my family paper, briefly mentioning
how my health had been restored, and offering
to send the full particulars to any one writing
me for them and incIosieg a stamped enyelope for
reply have received over four hundred letters.
In reply, have described my case and the
treatment used, and earnestly advised them to
do likewise;' From great many have re-
ceived second letters of thanks stating that
they had commenced the treatment and were
much better already"
MRS. E. F. MORGAN, New Castle, Me.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14
Washed and Unwashed Butter.

The difference between washed and
unwashed butter is analogous to the diff
ference between clarified and unclarified
sugar. The former consists of pure
saccharine matter, which gives flavor
in addition to that of the sugar. Brown
sugar, though less sweet, has more fla
vor than clarified sugar. When I'M
washed there is always a little butter
milk and sugar adhering to the butter
that gives it peculiar flavor in addition
to that of pure butter, which 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. Those who prefer the taste of
the butter to that of the foreign ingredi-
ents mixed with it like the washed but
ter best The flavor of butter consists
of fatty matters which do not combine
with water at all, and therefore cannot
be washed away by it. The effect of
washing upon the keeping qualities of
butter depends upon the purity of the
water used. If the water contains no
foreign matter that will affect the butter
it keeps the better for having the butter
milk washed out instead of worked out.
Evidently the grain of the butter will be
more perfectly preserved if the butter
milk be removed by careful washing.
The grain is such an important factor in
the makeup of fine butter that it is nee
essary we should be very particular not
to injure it in any way if we would ex-
Gel in the art of butter-making, -AmerI-
can Dairy1nGn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14
Golden Rules for Making Butter.

In closing private letter, Mr.. James
G. Moul of the Aylesbury Dairy Com
pany, Bayswater, London, Eng, writes:
81 send you copy of our rules for but
ter making" Though not new to the
old butter makers, they are worthy of
printing for the benefit of those who are
beginning the business, as well as those
who sometimes grow careless or forget
full
l. The cream should be removed from
the milk before the latter has become
sour. The reason for this is easily ex-
planned; as soon as the milk begins to
turn, curd is produced, and it is then i'm
possible to remove the cream without
taking off some of the curd also. Curd
means cheese, and if curd is made up
with cream into butter, the latter must
necessarily have cheesy flavor, and will
in very short time become ''strong"
and very inferior in quality.
2. AS soon as the butter makes its ap-
pearance, and while still in granular
state, the buttermilk should be run off.
Plenty of cold water should then be
thrown into the churn, and the butter
washed by turning the churn few times;
two or more lots of water should be used
until the butter is thoroughly cleansed.
Butter is frequently damaged by over
churning; it is quite an error to suppose
that after butter once forms, more can
be obtained by further churning; every
revolution after the granules are about
the size of Indian corn or small nuts, de-
teriorates the quality.
3. Butter should not be touched by
hand The water should be expelled by
means of butter worker.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14

Mrs. Mary Carl, of Dickersonville,
Niagara County, N. Y, aged thirty, the
wife of Willard Carl and daughter of
the Rev. Mr.. Douglas, was so far gone
with consumption that she was ordered
to California as the only way to save her
life. Tickets were bought, but she was
too i'll to undertake the Journey. About
SIX weeks ago she improved a little,
and was sent among relatives in Fitch
burg, Mass, for change of scene. There
she was subjected to the prayer cure by
Boston lady. She is now fully cured
and about to return home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14

,-Halloway, the defaulting teller of
the Bank of Poughkeepsie, N. Y was
the very opposite of the typical defaulter
the pious, prim, precise and proper
young man. On the contrary. he was a
very rollicking fellow, full of fun and
mischief, and making not the slightest
concealment of his dissipation. He con-
sorted openly with the young bloods of
the town; drank heavily and constantly,
and spent money-the banks money, as
1t now turns out-like water. But he
was so generally popular that he was
reelected Treasurer of the town. and
ME bank directors were so charmed
with him that it was only by one vote
that he escaped being promoted from
Teller to Cashier only few weeks ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14
An innocent-lookino Won,

AN innocent-looking young servant
girl kept her employers family in a
fright for six months, at Norwich, Conn.
by ringing the door bell and rapping on
the windows at unreasonable hours.
They were sure that ghost was about.
and it was only after watching for
twelve nights that detective solved the
myStery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14

"WHAT did you do with that letter that was
on the tables" asked Gus De Smith of the col
ored boy who cleans up his room. 81 tuck it
to the Post-ofice, sab, and put it in de hole"
"What did you do that for4 Did you not see
that there was no address on the envelope!"
g saw dar was no writin' on de 'velope, but
lowed yer did dat ar on purposs, SO l couldn't
tell who yer was a-writin' to. Use an edicated
negro, is. ''-Ieras Strings.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14

p. T. Barnum announces that he
will employ all curious specimens of the
human race, including giants, dwarfs,
fat people, and freaks of nature, for his
great show Parties interested should
write Immediately, enclosing photo
graphs, to Barnum, Bailey & Hutchin-
son, 40 Bond ST., New York.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14

"A quilting party of the style of one
hundred years ago was held at the resi-
dence of the Governor of Kentucky the
other evening, nearly all the members of
the Legislature being present. On the
tables were cold 'possum, popcorn, ap-
pie toddy and pumpkin pie.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14
WITH features heated and red,
With head that throbs and aches,
A woman stands in the kitchen
Turning buckwheat cakes.

Dr. PIERCE's ''Pellets," or sugar-coated
granules-the original Little Liver Pills."
beware of imitations) -cure sick and bilious
headache, cleanse the stomach and bowels, and
purify the blood. To get genuine, see DR..
Pierce's signature and portrait on Government
stamp. Is cents per vial, by druggists