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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15
Advice Which Was Taken.

The story has been kept very quiet,
but thus much of it has leaked out. A
young gentleman. moving in good soci-
ETY., but whose bank account is by no
means plethoric, sought out one of our
wealthy citizens about a month ago and
told him he wanted TO speak to him on
a very important affair. CrGsus said
to his visitor: Il am busy just now,
and must request you to be brief.
What is it-business?t The Young gem
tleman. thoroughly embarrassed hv the
brusqueness of the other, could ONLY
stammer. Very important business. .
..Well, said Crgsus, ..let me give Won
this advice: Don't put it off till to-mor-
row, il you can do it today. That has
been the theory on which | have made
my success in life. The young gentle
man stammered his thanks, departed,
and that very day went before magfs-
trate with the daughter of Crmsus. and
married her then and there. When the
old gentleman found it out, he, for the
first time, began to doubt the universal
applicability of his theory. However.
it is understood that all has been for
given.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15

a eonvaleseent smallpox patient
looks in the mirror and exclaims: II
used to be thought a niee-looking fellow
but what am | good for now?" Il
don't know, replies the sympathetic
friend, unless you can be utilized as
a thimble.''
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15
Care OF the Eye-Sight,

A remarkable proof of the harmless
ness OF using glasses, even single
glass, is furnished by watchmakers,
who appear to enjoy an enviable i'm
munity from eye diseases. 1t is un-
common to see a matchmaker in an
ophthalmic hospital The habitual ex-
ercise of the eye upon fine work tends
to the development and preservation of
its powers. This is in analogy to the
truth now getting currency that brain
work is necessary to physical health.
This idea is developed in this remark
able passage from a book by Robert
Brudenell Cater on 'sEye-sight, Good
and Bad The man who would pre-
serve the full integrity of his functions
to ripe, old age must avoid excuses of
every description, and must endcavor
to employ the higher faculties of his
mind somewhat more energetically than
is now always customary. A time
comes to every one when the physical
powers begin to decay. and then, un-
less the brain has been kept active and
recipient by exercise, there is nothing
left to live, and the man perishes. We
say that he died of govt, or of overeat-
ing, or of heart disease, or of kidney
disease, or of the failure of the particu-
lar organ which was the first to ex-
hibit symptoms of the approaching end.
In reality he has died of stupidity, arti-
ficially produced by neglect of the tai
ents with which he was endowed
That which is true of the organism as
whole, is true also of its parts; and the
eyes, among others, are best treated bv
an amount of systematic use which pre-
serves the tone of their muscles and the
regularity of their blood supply. The
acutenesS of sight, moreover, is in a
great degree dependent upon the men
tai attention habitually paid to visual
impressions; and | have often observed
this acGteness to be below, the natural
average in agricultural laborers who, if
able in one sense to read, were not in
the habit of reading, and who were not
accustomed 10 look at small objects.
have even had reason to think that the
wives of such men were indebted to
their household needle work for the
maintenance of a higher standard of
vision than that of their husbands; and
| have no doubt that idleness of the
eyes, if | may use such an expression, is
in every way hurtful to them, and that
proper and varied employment is emf
nently conducive to their preservation
in beauty and efficiency.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15
What we Threw AWAY.

You probably think, if you look very
sharply at an old shoe when you throw
it away, you will know it again if it
ever comes back to You. But that
doesn't at all follow. One OF these
days you may button your dress with an
old pair of slippers you once owned,
comb your hair with boot, or grasp a
cast-oif gaiter while at your dinner.
This is not romance, for old shoes are
turned 10 account by manufacturers in
the following manner: They are cut
into very small pieces, and kept for a
couple of days in chloride of sulphur.
The effect of this is to make the leather
hard and brittle. Next the material is
Withdrawn with the action of the
chloride of sulphur, washed with water
and dried. When thoroughly dry it is
ground to powder, mixed with some
substance like glue or gum, that causes
it to adhese together. 1t is then press
ed into molds and shaped into buttons,
combs, nife-handlcs, etc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15
Buffers Defeat.

Ii there is one phase of the result of
the election last Tuesday, that is more
gratifying to the country at large than
another. it is the defeat of Butler. The
death Of Butler politically, is the death
OF Buterism, and al that term implies.
No election in any one state ever at
tracted such universal attention at
home or abroad as the contest lust
closed in Massachusetts How nobly
her stalwart sons and yeomen fought
to win back her fair name and fame is
illustrated by the fact, that $4,000
more votes were east last Tuesday than
ever before.
Butler has always Jared sulnptously
on nototiety and perhaps the fact that he
has made "rewksbury" war cry and
Disguised the sensible men of both par
ties throughout the country with his
pernicious methods and tactics, is con-
ISOLATION enough for him in his hour of
defeat. Only demagogues, and those of
the meanest stripe at that, would seek
TO be elevated to high place by pitting
the ignorant and poor laboring class
against the educated and wei to do
class. Yet this was Buffers method
"blue blood and aristocracy," as he
termed it. he was willing to sacrifice
party, creed, principle, men and every
thing else at his command for mis- own
agrandizement. Massachusetts has
been in shame for year to think such
n man as Butler should capture her,
and he misinterpeted the meaning of
her institutions when he thought he
could perpetuate his lease of power by
corrupt practices, His defeat was as
much source of satisfaction to DEM
ocrats as well as Republicans, as he is
thus removed far from his ambition
the Democratic nomination for Presi-
dent, 1t is an encouraging sign of the
times when such men rs Butler are
branded by Independent and thought
full voters, and men are made subser-
Went to the people rather than people
subservient to men.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15

Connecticut is generally regarded by
politicians as one of the doubtful
States" And yet on Tuesday last she
elected Legislature which on joint bal
lot will contain a Republican majority
of sixty-fve. The State Senate now
stands sixteen Republicans and eight
Democrats. One-half of the present
Senators eleven Republicans and one
Democracy will vote for United States
Senator to succeed Mr.. Plat in 1885, al
most certainly assuring the election Of
Republican.
1t is entirely safe to predict that Con-
necticats electoral vote in 1884 will, as
always heretofore. 10 cast for Repub-
lican President. Like Ohio, that State
is occasionally doubtful in off years,
but is always reliably Republican when
a President is TO be elected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15

An incident froin Blaekyille: Come
away from that straw stack, chile, :
.'Fust thing yer know yer'Il lab de hay
fever.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15

1t was a coiored preacher who said
to his flock: 1--WE has collection to
make dis mo'ning. and TO de sake of
yo' reputation, which ever of YOU stole
Mr.. Jones turkeys don't put anything
on de plate One who was there saws.
Every blessed niggah in de church
came down with de rock. II
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15

"Old Tecumseh'' can also add to his
laurels as brave and able general, the
fact that he is sensible man. In an
interview, the other day. he said "Ac-
cept a presidential nomination? No,
sir; not much. Don't you suppose
know what it means if they nominate
me? The politicians don't care any
thing about me, and if they should NOM
mate me it would only be. because they
could not win with any one else. I've
got too old to be made cats paw of by
politicians. have a good office, been
for years at the head of my profession,
have ample provision for the end of my
days, and don't think I'd sell myself
out for that bubble"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15

The sudden death OF the 517-pound
woman, who was married scarcely a
month ago, must be a heavy loss to her
doting husband.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15

LANCASTER, WE.
All operations performed with care and skill.
Aching teeth treated filed and made useful as
sound ones. ARTIFICIAL TEETH inserted in
tine most approved style. None but the best
Material used. Teeth extracted without pain by
the aid of nitrous oxid gas All work guaranteed.
j. W ODGERS. Permanent Dentist. Lancaster
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15
The Falling Leaf.

Leaf, thon hast had thy day.
Poor little frembler, huttering to the ground
No longer on thy parent branch to stay.
Broken the slender cord that held thee bound.
Gently thy form press
brushing the tear-drops from thy cold dead
face;
Within my heart ! own tenderness
For all The countless myriads OF thy race.
For thou art like me-
We all fade as leaf, so saith the word divine
Teach me from thee TO know my destiny
Ny mission TO fnlnl as thou hast thine
Ny spring-time too has gone,
MY summer days, ween, have well-nigh fed :
The birdlings that sheltered too have flown
Dark autumn clouds are gathering overhead.
cling alike to thee
By life's frail cord unto the tree Of Time
A passing breath-I fall--Eternity--
My place shall be realed-and so shall thine.
--hdrg f. Pl0ss =
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15
The Right Sart Of Edueatiou.

If labor is to be rightly honored, if
skilled labor is still to be possible, if
educated insight into the possibilities
of industry is to be maintained, the
public schools must be industrial, side
by side, with intellectual education.
The intellectual may come first or
second, it matters little which, but it
must have its proper complement. The
young men brought up on farms aud
educated in practical industries have
again and again outstripped those who
had only the book-trained brain; and
the work of the kindergartens in teach
ing children. especially young children,
the use of the hand. has been recog-
nized as one of the great factors in
education. Depending as we do upon
the pubic schools for nearly everything
that shapes the lives of our youth, too
much attention can not - xiven to
their education in the practical
ways. Boston Herald.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08

LIZ you want any kind of Job Printing
done, such as Letter Heads, Note Heads,
Bill Heads, Cards, Circulars. Handbills,
Pamphlets, Tax Receipts, &c, we will
guarantee to do the work as cheap as Allan
as. Bring your work to the Journal Office,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08
A Dogs Clever Work Every Morning.

The William Penn stables, on Hilbert
street, below Ninth. are overrun with
rats, and in order to put curve on the
ever hungry rodents, several dogs are
kept about the stab es. OF these canine
membe OF the establ shment the
favorite among the men and boys en-
ployea there is a little tan and white
Scotch terrier called Kate. be onging
to Mr. Thomas Cannon. United STATES
mail contractor, who keeps his horses
and wagons at the stables. Kate is six
years old, and every week puts an end
TO several times her weight in rats, per-
forming the work with vim and gusto
which proves that she considers it a
happy combination of business and
pleasure. On the second floor OF the
stables in a feed box, emptied for the
purpose, Kate keeps and watches with
motherly care over an interesting
family OF five young puppies Every
morning about seven o clock milk
man stops at the stable entrance. and
Kate. VINO is on the lockout Tor his
coming, scampers up stairs, rcappear-
ing with little tin can, which she
places at his feet, and, on its being
filed, carefully carries it bacE to her
ilourshing family and gives the young
sters their breakfast. -Pbaadetphta Rec
ord
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08
Chr s}}arietta Suurnal.
Marietta. Ga, Thursday, Feb 8 1888.
GRANDMOTHER s SERMON

The supper Is O. err tho hearth is swept
And In the wood fires glow
The children cluster to hear tale
or that time 80 long ago,
When grandma hair was golden brown,
And the warm blood came and went
Ger the face that could scarce have beeR
sweeter then
Than now in its rich content
The face is wrinkled and careworn now
And the golden hair is gray;
But the light that shone in the young girls
Never has gone away.
And her needles catch the firelieht
AS in and out they go,
With the clicking music that grandma loves,
Shaping the stocking toe.
And the waiting children love It. too
For they know the stocking song
Brings many a tale to grandma's mind
Which they shall have ere long.
BUTT brings no story of olden-tme
To grandma's heart ton ght-
Only refrain, quaint and short,
Is sung by the needles bright.
d" Life is a stocking" grandma says,
And yours Is Just begun;
But am knitting the toe OF mine,
And my work is almost done.
" With merry hearts we begin to knit,
And the ribbing is almost play;
Some are gay colored and some are whita,
And some are ashen gray.
But most are made OF many hues,
With many stitch set wrong;
And many row to be sadly ripped
Ere the whole is fair and strong
There are long, plain spaces, without
break,
That in life are hard to bear;
And many weary tear is dropped
AS we fashion the heel with care.
But the saddest, happiest time is that
We count, and yet would shun,
When our Heavenly Father breaks tho
thread,
And says that our work Is DONE"
The children come 10 say goodnight
With tears in their bright young eyes,
While in grandma lap with broken thread
The finished stocking lies.
--S1l0fo01 Sim
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08
Why a Boston Man Can't abide
New York.

A Boston man declares that he never
can stay in New York mere than a day
or two They eat their peas with a
spoon Instead Of fork, which is as bad
as eating them with a knife; when you
call for "brown bread" they bring you
graham bread, and when they are finally
made to understand, they take a loaf
from the front window, where it has
stood as an advertisement at least six
months; Will the vile compounds known
as ''baked beans" bring the tears to his
eyes. Then they don't wear gloves; say
half, caff, laff, instead of habit, cahff,
lahff, tom for turn, foist for first, -choich
for church, and commit various enormi-
ties which he hasn't time to remember
So on the second day, h generally taxes
the first train home.-Detr0H Free Press.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08
A Doctors Substitute.

He was young man with wild, dis
ordered look He rushed into the office
of prominent city physician yesterday,
placed a small cup on the desk, took off
his coat and barred his right arm and
whispered "Stck mel"
"Do you want to be bled?"
al do! Open u vein and let me catch
the blood in this cup!"
"Too full in the head!'
"Alas! too full in the heart! My
af1ianced will not believe me when | tell
her that love her better than my life.
| will write my love will write it in
my own blood! Proceed!"
g Is that all you want?"
GAN! Is not that sufficient"
Young man, you are dodo! Put
on your coat | keep red ink here
for the very purpose you desire, and |
will sell you a whole gill for a quarter!"
And the young man was not stuck
Detroit Free Press.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08

For Leap year the lndlceS Tor January
and February would each be one less
than in the above table:
TABLE OF INDICEs FOR CENTURIES.
O-Index for 5, ., IS, q, 20, 30.
Index for l, 8, II.
2-Index FOR Q, 7, Is, II, 81, rs 20.
3-Index for 4, Is.
4-lndeX for 5, IL, 10, 20 "A, -.
6-ln lex for 4, II, H. o. 81.
6-index for 3, !, 0.
To find the index of the century for
any given year, find in the table the
number dropped from the year, and its
index will be the index required.
Example.
Required upon what day of the week
the declaration of Independence was
signed July !, 1776:
Drop II, and we have. 20
Add its four part. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ~
Add the day of the month. .
Add index of the month
Add index of the century. observation-disclosures
sum- D1O8
IA
and ) remaining, or Thursday, answer.
II. q. IA .l-,. ia T1Tc HoUie Gazette.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08

and ) remaining, or Thursday, answer.
n q. IA .l-y. ia ItJYc HoUie Gazette.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08
The Hungarians employed as labor

The Hungarians employed as labor
ers on the railroads near Elmjra, n. Y,
have a custom that they are 'hoHght to
have brought with them from the old
country. When thev wash, which, to
Judge by their appearance, is about
once per month, they I'LL their mouths
with wafer, spit that water into their
hands and rub it over their greasy faces.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08
An Arithmetical Curiosity.

To find the day of the week for any
date within the first thirty centuries of
the Christian era:
From the number indicating the year
drop all to the left of the tens. TO this
result add its fourth part (regardless OF
any remainder), the day of the month,
index OF the MONTH and index of the
century Divide the sum by Z, and the
remainder will be the day of the week.
counting Sunday /, Monday 2, Tuesday
3, Wednesday 4, Thursday 5, Friday +,
and Saturday O.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08
New Life

4 W. Wv Ia ~
is given by using Browns
IRON BITTERs. In the
Winter it strengthens and
warns the system; in the
Spring it enriches the blood
and conquers disease; in the
Summer it gives tone to the
nerves and digestive organs;
in the Fall it enables the
system to stand the shock
of sudden changes.
In no way can disease be
SO surely prevented as by
keeping the system in per-
feet condition. Browns
IRON BITTEKs ensures per-
feet health through the
changing seasons, it disarms
the danger from impure
water and miasmatic air,
and it prevents Consump-
ton, Kidney and Liver Dis
ease, &c.
Il. S. Berlin, Esq, of the
well-known firm Of H. S.
Berlin & Co., Attorneys, lie
Droit Building, Washing
ton, D. c., writes, Dec. 9Th,
1881:
Gentlemen I take pleas
ure in stating that l have used
Browns Iron Bitters for ma
laria and nervous troubles,
caused by overwork, with
excellent results.
Beware of limitations.
Ask for BRoWN's IRON BIT
TIERS, and insist on having
it. Don't be imposed on
with something recon-
mended as "InSt as good"
The genuine is made only
by the Brown Chemical Co.
Baltimore, Nd.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08
Schedule NJ. & N. Ga. Rail Road
IN EFFECT MAY l, 1852.
W. K. POWER, Gen1 Pas. Agt

...JoB PRINTING, plain and fancy, or in
colors, by experienced and skilled printers
at the JOURNAL Office. Will duplicate At
lanta prices, or anybody else's prices, and
guarantee satisfaction or no charge. This
s fair Give us a trial and see.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1883-02-08
LEGAL Blanks ON Hand.

Criminal Warrants, Land and Mort
gage Deeds, Justice Fiias and Summonses,
Waiver Notes, Summons of Garnishment
3arnishment Affidavit and Bond, Affidavit
Bond and Attachment, Writ Declaration of
Notes and Accounts and othei.. Legal Blanks
f sale at the journal Office.
Smyrna times., 1883-08-22

GREAT YEAR FOR OYSTER SPAWN
Oysters are coming again. They will
be on deck next month. And it is a
satisfaction to learn that oyster culture
Fl is going to be one of our greatest in
dustries. Over 100000 bushels of
oyster shells have been planted in the
Sound this season by the oyster grow
ers in the vicinity of Fair Haven alone.
One company threw overheard on their
grounds 100000 bushels. The oyster
raising industry in Long Island Sound
is evidently only in its infancy. The
New Haven Register gives an interest
ing account of the result of tests one
firm (Smith Brothers) made of their
beds ON Saturday. The beds were
newly shelled about a month ago. In
every case the dredges came up with
oyster shells thickly covered with the
spat" or spawn of the oyster which
had evidently attached itself to them
within a fortnight's time. 1t was a
phenomenal sight. Nothing has been
seen like it before. If the spat thrives
we'll there is enough of it over their
beds to make the owners of them
wealthy.
This dredging was really the first
fair test of the oyster set +" in the deep
water locality this season. Oysters
spawn chiefly during the latter part of
July and early in August. But all the
spawning oysters off the Sound shore
this Summer seem to be full of spawn
even now, though late in the season
This is regarded as particularly good
omen for the prospective "set." fol
with the new shells already we'll Gov.
cred with little oysters and more to
3 come most abundant harvest is pre-.
dicted.-HartfOrd Times.