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National Republican., 1883-06-15

IN New York the fashionable ladies all pa
tronize the natatorium, the word which is
now used for swimming school, The young
ladies who are taking lessons array them
selves on certain appointed days in aesthetic
and classic costumes and admit few favored
friends Of the male sex as spectators.
National Republican., 1883-06-15

TENNESSEE has craze on the telephone
business. 1t is said that within short time
the contracts nov made will, either by direct
communication or by relays, enable the people
of all sections of that state to be in telephone
communication.
National Republican., 1883-06-15

Britain, titled men of noble birth are rather
scarce. A wealthy young woman of Mon
trcal not long since married Lord Cantyre,
a handsome, dashing fellow with side whisk
ers, and who aspcratcd the h. She now sues
for divorce on several grounds, one Of which
is, that Lord Cantyro is not lord.
National Republican., 1883-06-15

HAS it been definitely settled whether Mr..
Pulitzer gave $2OOOo,OOO for the New York
World in gold, or made the purchase with
confederate money, or committed highway
robbery on Mr.. Gould, and took forcible pos
session. We are dying to know.
National Republican., 1883-06-15
Canadian IndInna.

The Indian bureau has received from the
War department copies of communications
from Col, Ruger and Lieut. Col. Ilges respect
ing war parties of Canadian Cree Indians re-
ported to be fitting out under Big Bear, Little
Pine, and Luckyman, with the intention of
crossing the United States line and maxi ng
war on the Gros Ventres and Assiniboin es.
Lieut.. Col 1lges says that the situation is
serious, and suggests that measures should be
at once adopted to prevent bloodshed and loss
of nronerty.
National Republican., 1883-06-15
Contracts Awarded.

The secretary of the treasury has awarded
contracts for furnishing rations to revenue
steamers at the places named to tho follow
ing named persons: At Baltimore, to L. Bal
10y & Co.; at Newport, r. l., to j. A. Eddy /;
at New York, to Whitlock, Staver q Co.. at
Philadelphia, to Darrah ~ Elwell and at
Wilmington, N. c., to j. J.. Boatwright.
National Republican., 1883-06-15

THE medneSt man has been discovered at Al
bany, N. Y. Six Of the boys employed in a
factory in that city were requested by the
proprietor to act as pallbearers for his little
son, who had died. They lost half day at
tending the funeral, and the father and pro-
prietor docked their wages for the lost time.
National Republican., 1883-06-15
Electric Lights In Lighthouse Service.

The lighthouse board is arranging for a
series of experiments with electric lights at
the station on Staten Island and has already
given orders for lens and other electric appa-
ratus. 1t is proposed to adopt the electric
light in the lighthouse service if it should
prove superior to the present system.
National Republican., 1883-06-15
Appointments by the President.

The President has appointed l.. ID. Galligan,
of Pennsylvania, to be United States consul
at Novorossisk, Russia, and Archibald ID. Ed
wards, to be postmaster at Princeville, Ill.
He has also appointed George w. Adams and
James Il. Fitch to be trustees for the reform
school of the District of Columbia.
National Republican., 1883-06-15
Rushvhead Paid.

Secretary Teller yesterday paid to Chief
Bushyhead, of the Cherokee Indians, the
100000 appropriated by congress for lands
ceded to the United States by the Cherokee
nation The money will be distributed only
among the Cherokees and their descendants
in accordance with the decision of the Chero-
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National Republican., 1883-06-15

Forty persons in Philadelphia have or
ganizcd cremation society. If tho heat in
that city is as intense as it was in New York
last week no fire will be needed in carrying
out the objects of the association.
National Republican., 1883-06-15
CHIEF Moses Coming.

Information was received here yesterday
that Chief Moses, with an interpreter and
two chiefs, is on his way to Washington to
confer with Secretary Teller about matters
pertaining to his reservation in Washington
territory, half of which was recently thrown
oman To settlemeut,
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Bids for LlTe Saving stations.

Bids were opened at the Treasury depart
ment yesterday for the construction of four life
saving stations in tho fifth district, between
Cape Henlopen aud Caps Charles Henry
Lane, of Wilmington, Del. was the lowest
bidder at $l6,373.
National Republican., 1883-06-15
Postmnster Arrested.

Col Parker, chief of the inspection divi-
sion of the Postofice department, received
telegram yesterday announcing the arrest at
Ypsilanti, Mich, of Postmaster Clinton
Spencer for embezzling Sl,sO0 Of postoflice
money order funds
National Republican., 1883-06-15

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, burning with fer
vent patriotism, proposes to have a three
days celebration of the anniversary of our in
dependence, commencing on the fourth of
Iu1u
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Tho lisbon ErnositIon.

The department of State is informed by
Minister Francis that the opening of the
Royal Agricultural exposition of Lisbon has
been postponed to Sept, next.
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Silver Purchase.

The Treasury department yesterday pur-
chased 100000 ounces Of silver for delivery at
the Philadelphia San Francisco, and New
Orleans mints
National Republican., 1883-06-15
Judge LiIIey Dead,

Judge William Lilley died of rheumatism
of the heart yesterday morning at his resi-
dence in this city.
National Republican., 1883-06-15

If Kentucky does not look to her laurels,
Pennsylvania will get ahead of her on the
murder business.
National Republican., 1883-06-15

ONE newspaper in America, and only one,
urges the hanging of young Mutt for killing
Dukes. 1t is the Philadelphia Press,
National Republican., 1883-06-15

NEITHER Italy nor California can furnish
on domaud moro perfect day than we en-
joyed yesterday in Washington.
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22

The Germantown Tclegrdph says:
We notice frequently outlandish re-
commentators, agriculturally and
horticulturally, which must lead to
failure and Encouragement. We have
now before us one of these for stimu-
Iating the growth of trees by boring
holes in the ground and pouring in
liquid manure about the roots. How
the roots are generally to be got at in
his way we cannot see What better
ran be desired than applying the same
liquid uniformly over the ground and
let it soak in? If the surface is very
hard it should be loosened, or, what we
contend is still better, top dress the
surface as far as the branches extend
with good manure, and the substance
will soon find its way uniformly to the
roots with the assistance of rains.
Our own Judgment and practice have
always been to treat the soil in which
the trees, fruit and ornamental, grow,
as far as can be done, the same as soil
that is cultivated for vegetables or gen.
eral farm crops, and we have always
been satisfied with the result. AS
some evidence of the effect of such
application we will mention this in
stance: Some years ago hemlock
spruce had a rusty appearance and at
last fell much behind the others in
depth Of color. 1t was about twelve
feet in hight and must have been set
out at spot where the soil was not
afiluent as that where others were
planted. At any rate, two wheelbar-
row loads of good manure, spread out
as far as the extremity of the branches,
restored it perfectly the first year, and
it was among one of our handsomest
trees,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22
FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
Thunps In a Horse.

Ihumps Is excessive action Of the
heart, commonly called palpitation of
that organ. 1t may be due to nervous
disorder, functional disease Of the
heart, indigestion, pressure Of the col
lar, overwork, and pulmonary disease.
1t is most often due to disease of the
heart itself, and while it may not be
durable, yet itmay be much relieved by
proper treatment. If the disorder
comes on suddenly and has intermis-
Bions it is functional in its character
and tonics are to be used. Give a
tablespoonful daily of Peruvian bark
powdered, with one dram Of carbon
ate Of iron and feed the very best Of
food. If it is constantly occurring
and changing from bad to worse at in
tervals and there is swelling of the
limbs, the disorder is nervous or struc-
tural, and sedatives must be given, as
Is grains of digitalis daily, and all ex-
citing causes must be avoided. -Neao
York Times.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22

Pure, wholesome milk kept in a
clean cellar or milk house, where the
temperature is not over seventy de-
grees, will keep sweet for thirty-siX
hours, and will not become thick under
forty-eight hours. Otherwise some
thing is wrong with the cows. A COW
exposed to the hot sun in pasture, or
having impure water to drink, cannot
be in healthy condition, and the first
appearance of trouble will be the pre-
mature souring of the milk. If the
pans are not perfectly well washed
and the smallest particles of sour milk
left about them, the milk will not
keep sweet more than twelve hours or
so. Again, the first indication of
tuberculosis of the lungs in the COW is
rapid thickening and souring of the
milk. If milk kept as above stated is
not sweet in day and a half, and is
thick before two days, something is
wrong in one or other of the ways
mentioned.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22
The Longevity of Stones.

DR.. Julian of Columbia college,
comes to the following conclusions in
regard to the life of stones, defining
life as the period during which the
stone presented decent appearance:
Coarse brownstone, best used out of
the sun, from to Is years; Illuminated
fine brownstone, from rs to so years;
compact fine brownstone, from one to
two centuries; Nova Scotia stone will
probably last from 50 to 100 years;
Ohio sandstone, the best of the sand
stones, 100 years; Caen stone, from IS
to 40 years; coarse dolomite marble, 40
years; fine marble, 60 years; pure cal
careous marble, from so to 100 years;
granite, from rs to 200 years, accord
ing to variety; bluestone is as yet I'M
tried, but will prove good building
material. Some of the causes that
produce decay in stones are, first. solu-
lions are hydrations of the stones and
heat of the sun.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22

Forty-eight years ago Mr. Joel Suth-
erland, a member of congress from
Pennsylvania, introduced in the house
OF representatives a resolution request
ing the secretary of the treasury to re-
port to the house the propriety of estab-
fishing a system of telegraph for the
United States. The secretary address,
ed circular-letter of inquiry to many
scientific and practical gentlemen in
different sections of the country invit-
ing their attention to the resolution of
congress. The results of this inquiry
brought forth many useful and practi-
cal suggestions, and urged the necessity
of system of telegraph for public and
private purposes. The idea of using
electricity as means of communica-
tion between parties many miles apart
seemed ridiculous even to many learned
statesmen at that time, and it was
then characterized as a twin brother
to mesmerism and millerism. In the
house when an appropriation of $780,
900 was asked to enable Prof. Morse
to continue his experiment with the
magnetic telegraph, it was moved to
divide the amount between Prof.
Morse and Mr.. Fish, to enable the lat
ter, who was an expert in mesmerism,
to carry on his experiments in the
mesmeric art. When it came to the
attention of the Hon. Thomas II. Ben
ton, in the United States senate, he
said: | rejoice at the invention of the
magnetic telegraph and look forward
to the time when it will be of great
value to the business interests and
commerce of the country, and do not
doubt that the time will come when
electricity will be extensively applied
in the arts and commerce of the world.
Washington Republican.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22

Instead of dying out, the Jewish
body shows increasing vitality. They
cannot be stamped out or swallowed
up. They pass from country to coun-
try to become practically masters
wherever they 60. They get the land
in Germany and Hungary, and grow
rich in Russia; they are the great
bankers in London and Paris, and the
centres of European commerce. In ten
recent years the Rothschilds furnished
S100,000,000 loans to England, Aus
tria, Prussia, France, Russia and Bra
I'll. They increased faster than
Christians, and Of every 100000 per-
sons only 80 Jews die to l43 Christ
ians,--Central Presbyterian.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22
The Ape and the Looking Glass.

A crowd Of spectators were
amused recently by the gambols of a
large ape that was lording it over a
number of small monkeys confined
in a great iron cage in the Jardin
DIES Plantes, Paris. Fruit and many
other things were thrown into the
cage, and the ape was always the
first to seize them. Some one sudden
ly threw in a small hand looking glass,
with strong wooden frame. The
ape brandished this about like a
hammer, but suddenly, perceiving the
reflection of himself in the glass, he
stopped, and for a moment looked
puzzled. Then he darted his head
behind the glass to find the other ape.
Astonished at finding nothing, he
apparently thought he had not been
quick enough. He then preceded to
raise and draw the glass nearer to him
with great caution, and then, with a
swifter dart, looked behind. Again
finding nothing he repeated the
attempt once more He next passed
from establishment to anger, and
began to beat with the frame violent
ly on the floor OF the cage. Soon the
glass was shattered and pieces fell out.
Continuing to beat, he was suddenly
surprised to see his image in the piece
of glass still remaining in the frame.
Then, as it seemed, he determined to
make one trial more. More circum-
specify than ever the whole first part
of the process was gone through with
more violently than ever the final
dart was made His fury over this
last failure knew no bounds. He
crunched the frame and glass together
with his teeth, beat them on the floor,
and crunched them again, till nothing
but splinters was left.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22
The Origin of Crowns.

The crown was originallya religious
rather than a civil ornament. The
first mention we have of such an or
nament is to be found in the story of
the Amalekites bringing Saul's rown
to David. The first Roman who wore a
crown was Tarquin, B. c. GIG. ORR
ginallyit was only fllet tied around
the head; afterward it was formed of
caves and flowers, and also of stuffs
adorned with jewels. Later emperors
varied the style according to fancy.
The royal crown was first worn in
England by Alfred, in S72; it is said
to have two little bells attached.
William the Conqueror wore his crown
as a cap, adorned with points. Richard
III introduced the crosses; Henry VII
introduced the arches.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22
Forced Labor In Egypt,

The conditions of forced labor do
not seem to differ much in the differ
ent parts of the country. Nowhere
do the laborers receive any pay or food
or shelter, while their treatment by
their task-masters would seem to be
simply brutal. Mr.. Stuart describes
the system as he saw it in operation in
the province of Keneh, in Upper
Egypt. A cut of about eighteen feet
in depth had to he made through a
conglomerate of sand and gravel; this
was thanked right and left by high en-
banklnents constructed of the material
taken from the trench, and along the
bottom and on the slopes "men
swarmed thickly, like bees ON IL honey
comb, for distance of about mile in
length" The entire strength of the
impressable labor in the province,
amounting to about 10000 men, was
concentrated on this work.
The men toiled from sunrise to sun
set, with the thermometer at 50 de-
grees in the shade, having only brief
, interval at midday for a meal of bread
soaked in unliltered Nile water. This,
with similar meal before beginning
and after leaving off, constituted the
days dietary. The laborers provided
their own baskets for carrying the ex-
cavated soil, and their own tools, when
they used any, but most employed
their fingers. Overseers walked about
among them armed with sticks, with
which they struck the men while they
were carrying loads upon their heads,
often without any apparent reason. At
night they slept upon the ground al
most without clothing, and quite with
out shelter, though the air was often
very cold. Mr.. Stuart has often seen
negro slaves at work in the cotton
plantations of Cuba, and the convicts
at Portland, and both were to be en-
We'd, in his opinion, by the side of
these fellahs. Globe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22
Not Quite Satisfied.

"You sayyou are from New York ?"
queried an old farmer in Massachu-
sets of New Yorker, who had halted
at the farmhouse to ask for a drink of
buttermilk.
Eyes"
"DO business here?"
Eyes; Pm in Wall street. l am
broker"
Broker ehp Do much breaking?"
"Well, I'll leave that to my custom
ers to decide. / do the best / can,
however"
"Well, you look as if you might be
respectable if you had chance" said
the old farmer; and turning the cor
ner of the house he called out to his
wife, in a voice plainly heard at the
gate:
Say, Marian, here's a Teller from
New York who wants a glass of but
termilk. He looks all right, and
guess he'll pay cash down, but it won't
do any harm to thin it down pretty
well with spring water. - Wal street
Ne1US.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22

Thick brown paper, laid under car
pets, saves the wear of the fabric and
prevents the inroads of moths, which
however, will seldom give trouble if
salt is sprinkled around the edge when
the carpet is laid.
China is best cleaned when very
dirty, with fnely-powdered fuller's
earth and warm water, afterward rims
ing it well in clean water. A little
soap may be added to the water instead
of fuller's earth. The same plan is
recommended for cleaning glass.
"Do you wish to know" said a man
Of science, walking into my kitchen
yesterday, "hoW. to,,knows that y6ir
fruit-can is certainly air-tight9"
was that moment contemplating a can
which had little nick on the upper
edge, and it was hard to judge whether
the,rubber would effectually keep the
air out, The man lighted a bit of
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22
Receipts.

DREADED EGGs.-Slice hard-boiled
eggs, dip each slice in raw egg, then in
bread crumbs, and fry.
PICKLED GREEN CoRN.-Select the
young, immature ears of corn, when
they are three or four inches long;
husk the corn and remove all the silk;
put the ears into glass jars, with bay
leaf, red pepper and three small
onions, to each quart jar; pour in cold
vinegar, enough to fill the jars, and
seal them air-tight.
GERMAN CAKE.-One pound of flour,
three-quarters of a pound of butter
six ounces of sugar, one egg, half a
cupful of rum. Bake in a pie-pan,
pressing the cake until it is about
one-quarter of an inch high. Before
baking sprinkle sugar and ground Gin
namon on top; after it is baked, cut it
into squares while it is yet warm.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-22
Whence Come the weeds,

A writer has this to say about the
source of weeds, thousands of which
oftentimes suddenly appear as if their
seeds had been sown during the pre-
ceding season: "a hundred years ago.
when an English farmer introduced an
iron plow, his workmen threw it aside
and said it brought in the weeds. And
1t was true. An old neighbor says
"they're NATAL to the sile." And
that is true. And / say manure them
in, too. And that is true. The fact
is the soil is so stocked with weeds
from the surface down to bed rock
that any better kind of cultivation
encourages the weeds to grow, and
with better crops we have still more
abundant weeds, in the precise ratio
that it is easier to grow weeds than
crops. And so weeds are natural to
the soil; for the soil is full of the
seeds, and the better blowing we do,
with the better plows we have, the
more the weeds grow; and the more
we cultivate the soil the more new, or
old, seeds we bring up, and the more
manure we use the stronger is the
growth. 1t is very discouraging. The
more a farmer works and the better he
does his work, the more he is pestered
with difficulties of all kinds. The
more crops, the more insects, and the
richer the soil, the more weeds. There
is no escape from the old curse, and
the brow must sweat or the bread will
not be earned, and June is the month
when the curse falls the heaviest. No
doubt at the time this curse Of endless
labor fell upon mankind the materials
the seed of weeds--began to fall and
stock the ground, and have accumulat-
ed ever since, and no one knows how
deep they lie in the ground, everlast-
ing and never-dying, but waiting their
turn to be brought up to the surface
and to terminate. Some years ago /
dug well eighty feet deep and the
soil was left in a heap near by for
future use in filling road. The next
year the heap was green with weeds
and when the road was made it was
soon covered with a mat of them,
principally shepherds purse, sorrel,
mustard, white clover, and the familiar
"pusley." Probably those weeds were
swept down with the soil when the
food which followed the glacial period
changed the surface of the ground and
deposited this mass of earth which we
call the drift. And there they lie
still living, an instance of how poor
and weak and short-lived a man is as
compared with an invisible pusley seed
in the soil and the persistence with
which it retains its life for ages.