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The Penn's Grove record., 1883-10-20

that 02 of these are found to terminate
then out of l43 there are forty-one
failures, 50 that we should infer that
about % per cent of the seeds in the
sample would not terminate when sowr.
A more correct result Is obtained by
conducting two, or even three, distinct
sets of experiments simultaneously,
and striking a mean between the seyera
results, which, by the way, should not
show much variation.
"The report states that in several
samples of seeds of Alopecurus pra-
tensis, the common and useful meadow
foxtail grass, avery small percentage
sometimes only one or two-of the
seeds were able to terminate. This is
attributed to the fact that the seeds
were gathered unripe, and in many
cases the sample consisted only of
empty glumes, so that it was like chat
without any grain possibly, however,
there are still some traders who adopt
the pernicious practice of working off
their old stock by mixing old seeds
with new ones, just as grocers mix their
old Barcelona nuts with the new sea-
sons arrivals, and If the old seeds have
lost their vitality the sample is of course
seriously deprecated. If the practice
of determining the terminating power
of seeds before sowin, were more gen
orally followed we should probably hear
less of the blowing up of land on
which sown seeds had failed to
strike.
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This should be every girls motto. 1t
is not healthful for any girl to have Sc
erets N her possession and the fewer
that lie in the hearts of women of any
age, or of men either, the better for
them. But the moment a boy OF girl
has a secret that mother must not know,
or a friend that mother must not hear
about, there is danger. A small amount
of secretiveness has led to a great
amount of trouble in many persons
lives. Man, however, can better afford
to be ~reticent than can a woman and
a girl who will frankly tell her mother
where she has been, whom she has met,
and W hat was said and done, may al
ways be sure she will have her mothers
sympathy, and receive the best advice
as to her companions The mother
knows from her long experience of hui
man nature what is the proper course
for her aaugnter and with whom she
should associate and it is only when
girls are known to conceal their doings
from their mothers that they become
targets for scandals shafts. Innocent
faults are quickly c0gdoned by kind
mo hers, who know that they were
prone to make mistakes when they were
young, and q girl will never do anything
very culpable if she is sure to have no
secrets from her mother
Many a woman now looks back upon
her past life, and sees if she had
been compelled to tell her mother of all
that occurred to her, she would have
escaped grevious sin and sorrow. 1t is
said that young girls talk too much
about themselves, but it is far better to
do that than to tell too little, and to
harbor secrets which may lead to de-
plorable consequences. 1t is the little
rift in the lutte which spoils the music /;
and ii is these little defects Of character
which leads TO some Of the greatest
evils of life.
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to lime juice as an anti.scorbutic but
simply that it soon becomes inert and
useless 10y fermentation.
M. pasteur is strongly inclined to
believe that the plague which has
caused SO many deaths in Egypt is pro-
duced by some species of microzyme.
As yet he bases his opinion upon theory,
because no one has discovered the sup
posed germ of the disease. The prob
ability is, however, that the theory
will be confirmed Def re very long.
Many very eminent men are and have
been devoting their attention for some
time to this subject of cholera origin,
and good results may be expected.
DR.. Starke makes use of thefollow-
ing test to ascertain whether his patients
have followed his directions when he
prescribes iodines. 1t might also be
made use of by a physician to learn
whether a patient has taken iodines
again t his wish. He let's the patient
spit on a piece of white paper, and then
| spreads some calomel over it, or he
sprinkles calomel on any sores that the
patient may have. The ealomel turns
bright yellowif there is any iodine in the
system. NJ Record.
1t is reported that firm in Paris
| has patented an invention for the in.
Simultaneous formation of steam, so that
it can be used at once in the cylinder
of the engine. A pump sends the re-
quired quantity of water between two
plate surfaces, which are heated, and
between which there is only capillary
space. The liquid spreading into a thin
layer e~vaporates instantly without going
into the so-salled spleroidal state, and
the steam acts in the cylinder a. fresh
formed steam. The speed of the pump
is regulated by the engine.
How digestion is affected by such
condiments as salt and vinegar has
been carefully studied by M. c. Has
son, and the results presented in a paper
read before the Academy of Sciences.
Paris. Taken in moderation these
condiments are useful. They promote
the formation of the gastric juice. But
if they are INDUCED to excess they
irritate the coats of the stomach and
render the food mole indigestible. The
proportion of salt should not ex'
coed FIVE to ten grains to 0.5 kilo
grammes of meat, and of acid n te
four per 1000.
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she has been, as hef friends express it
music mad" There is nothing aboi t
music she does not understand, and
seems to be capable of doing the work
OF half a dozen women. Miss Steiner
is slight and graceful in appearance,
with brown hair and which, to use a
mans phrase, ''means business" She
does mean business nay, more than
that, she e success. OF the word
fail she knows nothing. She is of Ger
man extraction and unites with her
musical temperament a deal of that
hard-grained common, and which will
bring her to the accomplishment of all
her undertakings. Now that there is
such an interest taken in palmistry, one
involuntarily notices the hands of every
stranger he NESTS. Miss Steiner's are
emphatically a pair of musical hands,
long, slender, and firm, with well. knit
fingers-fngers capable of bringing
forth sweetest music or of arousing
great volumes of passion with their
touch. This young woman is decidedly
an outgrowth of the present decade.
She has a work to do and does it with
out ever stoppingt to think whether she is
stepping outside the prescribed limits of
the clinging ivy. She is a keen, bright
business woma !, and has, by her indus
try and ablIty, added very materially
to the fortune inherited from her fam
ily.-Fdmily Leader.
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Feeding TurnIps.

Feeding turnips to milking COWS is
objected to on account Of the ill flavor
communicated to the milk, and which
SOILS it for any good use. But it is not
necessary that this III favor should be
given to the milk. 1t is caused by the
very volatile odor of the roots, which is
absorbed by the stomach, and then by
the blood, and lastly by the milk. A
large part of it is carried off by the per
spiration through the skin and a large
part through the kidneys. The reason
of the rapidity OF this effect of feeding
turnips is the large proportion of water
which they contain, and that water is
very quickly absorbed by the blood and
dispersed through the system, and as
quickly got rid of through the skin and
kidneys. 1t is precisely the same with
onions, garlic and other strong favored
weeds, and also impure water. But
this very rapid Transportation of the
water gives a clew to a ready means of
avoiding the Objectionable effect re-
ferred to. If turnips are fed Immediately
after milking, night and morning, the
odor passes off and does not affect the
next morning, unless it is done immed-
lately before milking, unless it is done
immediately before it, as water is alb
sorbed from the stomach into the blood
with great rapidity, and the odor would
begin to reach the milk in a few min
utes. The door of garlic may be pre-
vented-it is said-in somewhat the
same manner, but we have not person
ally tried the effect for want of the gar
lie. Butt it is so reported by a dairyman
who says be was troubled with the
smell of garlic or wild onion in his
milk. To obviate this he put the cows
in the stable at about 8 o'clock each at
ternoon, and fed IN hay and gave them
grain as usual. The result was all he
anticipated ; a result of three hours al
lowed this scent to pass of in the other
secretions, though previously it very
strongly favored both milk and butter.
The same course, he suggests, would
probably be an advantage when the
milk tastes of other foul weeds in the
past ure, and he is probably right.
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"
allow of its ~overfiowing into the plate
containing the seeds. The whole ar
rangement should then be set in a
moderately warm place, and thus the
seeds will be subjected to all the condi-
tions favorable to termination. namely,
air, moisture, darkness and warmth.
The air will circulate freely beneath
the edges of the inverted pan the at
mosphere inside the pan will be quite
saturated with moisture, for evapora.
ton will continually go on from the
surface Of the inclosed water; light win
excluded by the inverted pan, and the
temperature of a egularly used kitchen
will very well suffice to induce germina-
ton.
ga little fresh water should be poured
in now and then to replace that which
evaporates, the cover pan being momen-
tarily removed for this pmpo g. Even
in one and the same sample some OF the
seeds will always terminate before
others, but when the Young shoots of
the first terminate have attained a
length of from half an inch to one inch,
it may be fairly concluded that all the
seeds capable of terminating have done
so, and then it is only necessary to
count the number of seeds which have
not terminated, and to estimate the
PERCENTAGE of failures. An exact num-
boz OF seeds need not necessarily be
taken, and, indeed, it is perhaps fairer
to take a spoonful haphazard out of the
sample, count these, and place them all
in the terminating apparatus. Suppose
las seeds have thus been taken, and
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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
NEW YoRK.-The American Acade-
my Of Medicine held its session. The
election of officers resulted as follows :
President, Benjamin Lee. NJ. D., of
Philadelphia Vice P~recidents, Fran K
L. Guion, M. D., Medical Director
of United States Navy ; Nathan Allen,
M. D., of Lowell, Mass; George f. Shra
dy, M. D., of New York ; and Edward
]. Birmingham, of New York Score
tary and Treasurer, Richard ]. Dungli-
son, NJ. d., of Philadelphia, aud Assist
ant Secretary, Charles MeIntire, NJ. d.,
of Easton. Pa. Various papers on medi-
cal topics were read. A report of the
Committee on the Laws of Medical
Practice in the United States and Cana
da was read at the meeting.
AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK AT SAN
FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal-An earth
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LoNDoN.-The steamer City of Brus-
sells, a small vessel of 272 tons burden,
bound from Belgian ports for London,
collided off Gravesend with the steamer
Ludgate Hill, from London for New
York. The fore compartment of the
City of Brussels is. full of water and
she will be beached ear Rosherville.
The plates on the port bow of the Lud-
gate Hnl were broken and her fore
castle was started. She will return to
London.
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So many women have drifted into all
sorts Of trades and professions during
the past few years. and been successful
in them too, that it has come to be an
established fact that women are capa'
BILE Of doing anything they make up
their mind to do-that is those who have
any minds to make up. Among the
latest a~spirants for favor in a new field
is Miss Emma Steiner, of Baltimore, or
rather formerly Of Baltimore, of New
York now, She is under contract with
Rice as musical director Of one of his
operacompanies. She managesthe stage,
directs the music and leads the orches-
ira Quite enough for n woman to
do, isn't it? From her childhood up
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Brigadier General Charles III. Crane,
Surgeon General United States Army,
died suddenly at his residence in this
city, of hemorrhage of the throat. He
had been confined to his house for sew
eral weeks. but was not regarded a in
any immediate danger. General Crane
was appointed Assistant Surgeon, Feb
ruary IA, 1S4S promoted to be Major
and Surgeon, May 81, 1861 promoted
to be Colonel and Assistant Surgeon
General, July IS, 1866, and prom ted
to be Brigadier General, and Surgeon
General July -, 1882.
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Corn FRITTERs.-Mix into a pint OF
grated green corn one teacHpful of
milk, one teacupful of -four, a piece of
butter half the size of an egg, a little
salt, asprinkle of pepper, and the beaten
yelks of two eggs. Beat the whole
thoroughly, then add the e ll-beaten
whites of the eggs. Drop it by table,
spoonfuls into hot butter or d~rippings,
and fry ON both sides. Serve hot on a
warm platter.
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The Cholera.

b. G. Jennings, +. r. A. S., writes
to the Pail Mall Gazelte, ''to call atten-
ton to the attack of cholera on southern
and western Europe now due. Such
visitations come with more regularity
than most people imagine. 1t is re
markable that every attacked on Egypt
is followed by an extension to England.
Such cholera is not of the true Asiatic
/ type /; it makes its appearance first in
the Hadjiz, on the tropic of Cancer, in
the neighborhood of Mecca, sometimes
the year before, sometimes the same
year in which it appears in Egypt. In
| 1881 it broke out in Mecca, the same
year appeared in Egypt, and traveledin
a northwest direction to England. In
1887, six years after, it appeared in
England again, having started from
Hadjiz in 1885. In 184S, eleven years
after, it broke out at Mecca, appeared
in Egypt, and reached England the
same year. In 1854, six years after, it
was in England again, having broken
out at Mecca two years before, and
spread to Egypt.
In 1865, eleven years after, it broke
| out at Mecca, spread to Egypt, and
reached England the same year. In
1871, six years after, it broke out near
Mecca, but extended az far as the north
of France only. In 1882, eleven years
after, another attack on Europe fell
due. 1t will be observed that these
outbreaks occur every six or eleven
years alternately a great outbreak
happening every II years, as1831, 1S4S,
1865, and 1888. In every instance in
which Egypt has been attacked, south
ern and western Europe have suffered.
There has been some delay in regard
to the commencement of the present
attack but that is a reason for believ-
ing that the advance will BIZ rapid. In
the other great attacks the cholera has
advanced from Egypt to England in a
few months. On the 25th of March,
1865, the disease broke out at Mecca F;
on the I'd of June it appeared at Alex
anderia, killing $4,000 persons in Egypt
| in three months on the 18th of juno,
only nine days after, it reached France,
and on the 18th Of September it was in
England. 1t would appear, then, that
| the cholera which visits our shores is
not Indian, but Arabian diseases
| generally the same, specifically differ
ent.
There are, as | endeavored to show
| eleven years ago, when | stated that
the next great attack would be in 1888,
as a matter of fact, sever different
species, which descend from the atmos-
phere at seven different points, situated
equally distant from each other along
the tropic of Cancer, and move in a
northwest direction. The Indian and
Arabian streams intersect in England.
AS a matter of fact, the Indian, from
its much longer course, exhausts itself
in Russia and Germany. and in all pro-
liability we have never had an attack
of it, unless perhaps it be when the
north of England suffered in 1881.
As regards the assertion mi SO often
hears, that all cholera car be traced
to the Ganges, what is to be said about
which commenced last July in Mexico
and last January was carrying off by
a fearful ravages an immense number
Of victims2 Before the present year
closes 1 expect to hear that cholera
has broken out in every quarter of the
globe.''
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The Italians dry and ~pulverize the
pulp Of the tomato. The ripe tomatoes
are m~acerated, and, when reduced to a
thin pulp, it is strained to remove the
seeds, cores, etc.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-08

on the coal docks, and after inviting some
friends to accompany him, he shouted
goodbye" b. the crowd, and pulling the
throttle valve wide open, the engine went
dashing away around the abrupt curve
and across the shaking trcstle at the rate
of fifteen miles an hour. The locomo-
tive was run for several miles up the
track, after which Mr.. Allen ran the
machine back 10 Honcsdale, where he
was greeted with applause and the boom
ing Of cannon.
After the trial trip the engine was at
tachcd TO trains of coal cars, and handled
them very satisfactory. The railroad,
however, was soon found To be of too
slight construction to permit of further
use Of tho engine, and the straitencd
financial condition of the company at
that time made il impossible to purchase
iron rails, 50 the "Stourbridge Lion" was
put in shanty on the dock, where it re-
manned for years prey to rust and
decay. It's boiler was finally taken to
Carbondalc. where it was used for long
time in foundry. The rest of the ma
chine was sold for old iron, and hacked
to pieces by relic hunters. The other
two locomotives were never used, nor
were they even put together.
Horatio Allen, the pioneer engineer, il
still alive, hale and hearty, although he
is .cighty-four years old, and during a
recent visit TO this place he narrated the
incidents of the cvcntful trip with glcat
gusto. - Iionesiate Cor. PM lhic
Press.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-08
How Mr.. Exbeadle Saved HIS Own Life.

Many years ago, when Denver didn't
have any opera house, and the Rocky
Mountain country was terra incognita
of the world, there wandered out to the
region of Fort Benton n man named
Exbeadle, who made himself unpopular
among the Shoshones by killing some
of the most prominent men whenever
he could catch them away from home.
As result of this course OF proce-
dure, Mr. Exbeadle had large private
cemetery, and hostilities were declared
by the tribe.
Mr.. EXbeadle was Spectator, and
one day fortune threw in his way lot
of fireworks that didn't meet with u
ready sale and he purchased them, more
for his own amusement than anything
else. These he put to one side, and
didn't think of them again until one day
there was council of war i'm the Sho-
shone tribe, ut which it was resolved to
eNtinguish the light of Mr.. EXbeadle
and send him across the mysterious
river.
They notified him that the intention
was to make him climb the golden stair
in about fifteen minutes, western time.
IL looked pretty dubious for II moment,
and he didn't know exactly what to do,
not having time TO consult counsel.
Ii was dark night in autumn, and
Mr.. EXbeadle felt that the morrow would
be of very little interest to him.
Like an inspiration, however, came
the recollection of his fireworks. He
rose and said:
:" Gentlemen of the forest, you APP
parently have the bulge on me, and |
admit you are largely in the majority
but you donot know me. lam a medicine
man from Michigan, and can make it
mighty interesting for you if YOU carry
this thing too far. just say for your
own good, and more in sorrow than in
anger. If YOU take out my vitals and
feed them to the vulturcs | will lingcr
near you in the spirit, and will annoy
you pretty plenty. am aware that !
have planted some of your leading men
in the cold, cold ground, but that isn't
a marker to what will perform when
get out of the flesh, where won't be
delayed by the inclemency of the
weather.
81 will now proceed to show you a
few little amateur efforts of mine as a
medicine man from away back"
Mr.. Exbeadle then let off new style
of sea serpent from slight elevation.
II was the biggest thing in the line of
pyrotechnics that was ever turned loose
west of the Missouri. Ii shot out into
the dark about nine feet like ear load
of delirium tremens and squirmcd
through the inky bosom of night like an
uneasy demon in his sleep. The gath
ering warriors of the tribe took one hor-
riiied look ut the kissing cmissary and
lit out. They left all their baggage that
didn't happen to be tied to them, and
there hasn't been a Shoshone Indian
seen there since.
Mr.. Exbeadle picked out the best
ponies belonging to the tribe, loaded up
the rest of the fireworks and went home.
He lived many years after and became
one of the most trusted Indian Peace
Commissioners known in western his
tory.-Nye's Boomerang.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-08
How q Man Walks.

One of the most remarkable things
about mans walk is the diagonal
movement which characterizes it, The
reader may imagine the hands and feet
to form the four corners of u parallclo-
gram, and the diagonal limbs are of
course the right arm and left leg and
the left arm and right leg. BY ''diago-
nal movement we therefore intend to
convey the fact that the diagonal limbs
during locomotion always swing in the
same direction. A soldier on parade
keeps his arms motionless by his side and
on no account must they be allowed TO
vibratc. This is not what he would nat
urally do if left TO himself.
Watch any one person out of the hun
dreds walking along the streets, and it
will be seen that he invariably swings
his arms rs he goes along, perhaps to
an extreme degree if he be rustic, and
less so if he be town bred. The arms
swing by the body like couple of
pendula, and with speed which en-
tirely depends upon the rate at which
he may be walking. The athlete,
anxious to complete the given number
of laps in mile or u couple of miles
and outstrip his competitors, swings
his arms to and fro with quickness
which corresponds with the motion of
his swift feet; the businessman also
swings his arms with a motion which,
If not so quick, exactly times with the
motion of his legs; and even the idle
man about town, lounging along some
fashionable quarter, unconsciously
gives slow motion to his arms which
corresponds to his tardy legs.
Now, if the motion be even careless
" observed, it will be found that the
right arm swings forward at the same
time rs the left leg, and when the right
leg is advancing it is the left arm
which accompanies it. This is the nat
ural gait, and to convince ones self
that it is so it is only requisite to get
friend to walk across the room in the
opposite fashion,. C., to swing the
right arm forward when stepping out
with the right leg, and then in the
same manner, when bringing forward
the left leg, to accompany it with the
left arm. Such u gait is both unnat-
ural and uncomfortable to the person
who tries it, and also ludicrous to the
observer who watches first attempt of
the kind. The diagonal movement Of
the limbs is therefore the natural meth
cd adopted by man when walking, and
it is the first and most apparent fact
that one ascertains in studying hui
man locomotion. Exchange.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-08-08
A Lively Time.

81 understand you were at social
hop at Mr.. Browns last night" said
one young man to another.
eyes, / was there" was the hest
tating reply.
odd you have a lively time"
"Well, | should SMILE"
"Who was present OH the occasion p
"Oh, there was the old man, and
the old woman, the daughter Mary,
she's my girl you know, the three
brothers, and u ncighbor or two"
"No more than that for a hop!"
"If you'd seen us, you would have
thought it was enough"
"Why, what did you do?'
81 didn't do much of anything. |
only went to see my girl, and the old
man, you know, didn't like it, and he
walked in, and before | knew any
thing nc hoped on to me. Then
Mary hoped on to him, and the old
lady hoped on to Mary, and the boys
hoped on to the others, and the
neighbors came in and | hoped on
to my opportunity and hoped out"
at wasn't so awful dang slow after
all, was it?"
"Was it? Well, look at my eyes,
and this arm in sling, and this cut
on my head, and these scwed up
places in my clothes, and then go up
and take a squint at Mary and the
old man, and the old woman, and the
boys, and the furniture. Slow. Slow.
Well, don't bill me for any more So
cial hops till the spring of 1897
Merchant-Tr