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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Mosquitoes are accused by professor
AT. A. King of originating and dis
seminating malarial disease.
BY a comparison of analyses OF SOILS
from different vineyards, the last re-
port of the Scottish horticultural asso
citation shows that the soils on which
the grape-crops fail are deficient in
lime and potash.
Professor Delgado Of Lisbon has
come TO the conclusion that the ances-
tors of the modern Portuguese were
canibals. He has found tho remains
of 40 persons whose bona We're
blackencd by fire split lengthNlse to
secure the marrow and bearing other
indubitable marks of having served as
food for man.
The deepest sounding ever made was
in the Pacific ocean in 1874, near the
entrance to Behring's sea. The depth
was 1865 fathoms, and The cast was
made from the United States ship
Tusc 4rora The shallowest water In
the middle of the Atlantic, 73l faith
oms. showed the existence of subma-
rine mountains 1856 feet high.
Herr Weller, experimenting at Tub
ingen, has discovered that the growth
of plants is more rapid under dimin-
ished atmospheric pressure-all other
external conditions being the same
than at normal pressure. On the
other hand, increasing the pressure
lessons the rate of growth, the mini
mum beiug reached at two or two and
one-half atmospheres.
Deaf-mutes have been taught to
speak and to understand speech by
noticing the movements Of the lips.
1t is stated that NJ. Wanerke has pro-
duced photographs showing the form
assumed by the lips for each sound,
and that these pictures have enabled
inexperienced persons to recognize the
different articulations. Such photo
graphs ought to be of great value in
giving instruction to deaf-mutes.
DR.. Bremen in a German journal
advocates exercise in the high, fine air
OF the mountains as the best protection
against the diseases contracted in city
life. The characteristics of the noun
tain climate are the low temperature
and air pressure, the low relative hu-
midity, the high per cent. of ozone
the strong light and isolation, the
freedom from dust and bacteria. Al
these act well on the bodily health.
The lungs work with greater strength.
the heart beats faster, the blood circu-
lates more quickly, appetite is increas-
ed, perspiration becomes freer, the
muscles become more energetic, and
the whole body gains in strength and
endurance.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27

"Oh, dearl'
Down through the long grass and
crimson clOver-bobs, under scrubby
haws and tall persimmon trees, went
Hitty Mayis, deep-caped sunbonnet
shading her violet eyes and tangled
yellow curls.
She was after the COWS, standing
knee-deep in the tall aftermath, where
they had been turned for pasturage
after the meadow hay was cut.
och, dear" sighed Hitty again, I'm
so tired, and here's the COWS to drive
home, milking to do, sponge to set for
the baking tomorrow, and goodness
knows what else, and-Oh!"
She started back, with a little scream
for seated on the fence, under the
shadow of crimson-leafed sassafras-
tree, sat Hiram Honeydew, coolly
watching her.
Hitty's cheeks turned from pink to
scarlet as she met the admiring glances
of his frank, brown eyes, and her
heart beat fas er than common.
But Hitty was a sensible girl, so
she said, Good evening, Mr.. Honey
dew!'' quite coolly, and began driving
home the COWS.
But Hiram sprang down from his
perch on the rail fence and followed
her.
"Let me help you, Miss Hittyp' he
begged. IL amt used to loafn'
around, doin' nothin', like I've been
fur some days now; and it'll be treat
to drive home the COWS, even"
So they walked together through the
velvety aftermath, dotted with scarlet
butterfy-weed, and crimson-petaled
"nigger-heads," the lowing COWS filing
slowly home, lazily chewing their cuds,
and switching their tails at the flies.
Hiram let down the bars, and turn
ed the COWS into the yard, while Hitty
brought out the milk-pails from under
bunch of burdock-leaves, where she
had left them.
And somehow, in spite of the milk
ing and setting the sponge, and doing
up the chores, Hitty's heart beat more
lightly than it had for many day.
And instead of one week Hiram
Honeydew stayed two, but still Martha
Jane had not been invited to change
her name.
"She's mighty good housekeeper,"
thought Hiram, meditatively. eff
little Hitty could only cook an house
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27
Stock Speculation in Japan.

The japanese government forbids
stock speculating, and the authorities
recently determined to arrest at the
same moment all offenders OH the stock
exchanges at Osaka, Yokohama and
Kobe, as well as on the rice exchanges
at Toxic and some other important
centers. The police received their Or
ders only on the morning of the day
fixed, and in strong force, all wearing
some sort of disguise, proceeded to the
vicinity of the exchanges and mingled
with the crowd SO as to escape obser
vation. At little after IL o'clock all
was in readiness, a sign was given, and
before the amazed spectators could
make out what was going on the ex-
changes were in possession of the po-
lice, the doors locked and the prisoners
secured. All the books, papers, ETC.,
were then taken possession of, and the
police's whole "haul" removed to the
central police station. Over 700 de-
linquents were sent to prison, their
offense being "speculating in margins
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27
The influence of Forests,

The influence of forests upon eli
mate and fertility is as yet but poorly
understood by even the more profes
sional class Of farmers. It is a prob
lem that can be solved only by obser.
vations extending over considerable
periods of time. But the influence is
plainly observable and it's explanation
simple. Strip the hills of their pro
tecting forests, and the thin covering
of sod which overlays their rocky slopes
will soon be washed down into the
valleys and into the beds of streams
and rivers. Periodical freshets will
result which will eventually carry
away she best soil from even the val.
leys. One authority declares that il
the destruction of the hill forests bt
continued in Ohio, half the area OF
that state will be sterile in less than
fifty years.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27
The Strongest Electric Light.

The strongest single light that burns
in the United States is suspended in
front of the Philadelphia Record build
ing, ninety-live feet above the Chest
nut street sidewalk. It's power is
equal to 10000 candles. At night the
entire block between Ninth and Tenth
streets, is made solight that under the
powerful rays of the lamp person
standing anywhere within these limits
can read editorial print with ease.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27
A FruitlpSs Search.

One day there visited BIddha wo
man who had lost her only child.
Wild with grief she begged the proph-
ct to give back the little one to life.
He looked at her tenderly for long
while, and then said, go, my daugh-
ter, bring me a mustard seed from a
house in which death had never enter
ed, and | will grant thy wish" Tho
woman at once began her search. She
went from house to house, saying
Grant me, kind people, mustard
seed for the prophet to bring back my
child to me-" And when they hac
granted her request she asked, "Are
you all here around the hearth--father
mother, children = none missing"
But the people shook their hea IS with
sighs and looks of sadness; and far anC
wide as she wandered there always
was ayacant chair by the hearth. Then
gradually, as she passed on, the wave;
of her grief subsidcd before tho sight
of sorrow everywhere; and her heart
ccasing to be occupied with its OWL
selfish grief, flowed out in strong
yearnings of sympathy with the world
wide suffering. Tears of anguish were
changed to tears of pity, passion melt
ed into compassion; she forgot her own
sorrow in looking upon that of others
and in losing herself for others good
she really found herself.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27
Harvesting Throughout the World.

Harvesting Throughout the World.
That the harvest of the world, or
the reaping of the cereal crops on the
earth, takes place in different periods,
on account of the different ATTITUDES
and consequent different seasons, is a
well known fact; that these periods
embrace altogether more than three
fourths of the year might not be
known. In Australia, New Zealand,
the greater part of Chill, and some dis
tricts of Argentine Republic, the har-
vest takes place in January; in the
month of February it commences in
East India, and progressing toward the
north, terminates in March-Mexico
Egypt, Persia and Syria harvest in
April; the north Asia Minor, China,
Japan, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, and
Texas in May. The following coun-
tries reap their harvests in June: Cali
fornia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece
and the nth of France. In the other
parts of France, in Austro-Hunga-
ry, the south Of Russia, and the great
er part of theUnited States the crop is
gathered in July. In the month of
August the following countries har-
vest: Belgium, Germany, England, the
Netherlands, and Denmark; in Sep
tember, Scotland, Sweden, Norway
Canada, the north of Russia, the latter
continuing until in October.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27
The Slkein We Wind.

IT you and I, to-day
Should stop and lay
Our lfework down, and let our hands fall
where they will
Fall down to lie quite still
And if some other hand should come and
stoop to find
The threads we carried. so that it coald wind
Beginning where we stopped; if it should
come to keep
Our ilewark going, seek
To carry out the good design,
Distinctivrly made yours or mine,
What would i, find?
Some work we must be doing true or false;
Some threads we wind; some purpose so
exalts
Itself that we look up TO it, or down,
As 10 q crown
To bow before, and we weave threads
or dilerent length and thickness-,some mere
shreds-
And wind them round
Till all the skein of life is bound,
Sometimes forgetting all the time
To ask
The value OF the threads, or choo
Strong stuff 10 use.
No hand but winds some thread;
1t cannot stand quite still til il is dead
But what it spins and winds little skein.
God made each hand for worG-not toil-stain
i required, but every hand
Spins, though but ropes of sand.
II love should come,
STOPPING above when we are done,
To find bright III cads
That we have hell, that it may spin them
longer-fnd but shrcds
That break when touchod-how cold,
Sad, shiveing, portionless, the hand will hold
The br,ken shrcds, and know
Fresh cause for more.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27
HIRAM'S VISIT,

"Going to git married, be you,
Hiram?'
Hiram Honeydew colored at the alb
rupt question, but he answered, truth
fully:
81 don't see what else l kin do,
Aunt Peggy. Sister Susan is bent on
a-marryin' the school-teacher an
a-goin' off to the Black Hills or som'eres
away out of all creation. An here's
all the fall work a-comin' on-that
medder hay to stack, an corn to cut,
pumkins to gether an all them wind
falls an Siberian crabs to make up in
cider fur the apple-butter, an no help
to be got fur love or money. An it
stands to reason / can't tend the farm
and cook the vittles, too. So l thought
soon as thrashin' was over-yOu've
promised to stay till then, Aunt Peggy
an then l thought I'd go round
som'eres nigh about Clover Creek
where some of our kinfoIks live, an
stay week or SO, an git a-a-some-
body that can housekeep an the like
do the milllin' an churnin', tend to
putin up fruit, maxim apple-butter,
take keer of the chickens an ducks,
an do the cookin' an cleanin' Sister
Susan was powerful good housekeep-
er, an she couldn't be beat a-cookin',
either, If | could find a good sort of a
woman that I'D cook ekal to Susan, l
wouldn't mind a-marryin' her"
"Humph!. So you expect to git a
wife an good one, too, in week or
two, hey? You're a gump, Hiram
Honeydew, an nothin' else. Besides,
you'd ought to git a wife you could
keer fur, as well as good housekeep-
er. Housekeepin' an cookin' amt
everything, tell you. There's sech a
thing as affeckshin between man and
wife"
But Hiram secuted at this idea.
zone woman is the same as another
to me-" he returned, loftily. 81 want
a housekeeper, an that's why I'm
a-goin' to marry at all"
oval then, Hiram, if you're bound
an determined to go an hunt up a
wife that way,mebbe l kin help you a
little. l knowed the folks about
Glover Creek like a book when yer
Uncle Eli was alive, an we lived on
the old Honeydew farm. An thar
was Mahala Nutter. She married Job
Perky, an they bought a farm on
Clover Hill, t'other side the creek.
There want nobody could beat Mahala
a housekeepin' them days, an most
likely her darter, Marthy Jane. hes
tuck after her. They are sort O kin
folks O yourn, too. Mahaly was yer
Uncle Ellis own cousin. An eff you
like, I'll write 'em few lines, an tell
EN- you're a-comin, an sort O. perpare
'em, fur nobody likes to hev comp'ny
unexpected"
And so it was settled, much to
Hiram's relief, and he whetted his
scythe and went out to NOW feed of
green clover for his horses with a
lighter heart than he had had for a
week.
For he had made up his mind chat if
Martha Jane Perky was as good
housekeeper as Aunt Peggy said, he
would bring her home with him as
Mrs. Honeydew in weeks time, if
she was willing.
And no doubt she would be, for
Hiram was quite good-looking man,
with pleasant brown eyes, curly brown
hair, and thick, brown moustache.
Moreover he was "welI-to-do," and
almost any of the girls in his own
peighborhood would have jumped at
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27
NEWSPAPER LAWS.


loneliness
)ncc I knew a little girl,
Very plain;
You might try her hair to curb
All in vain;
On her cheek no tint of rose
Pulcd and blushed, or sought repose;
She was plain.
But the thoughts that through her brain
Came and went,
rs recoiBpense for pain,
Angels sent;
So full many beauteous thing,
In her young soul blossoming,
Gave content.
Every thought was full Of grace,
Pure and true;
And in time the homely face
LoveIier grew
With heavenly radiance bright
From the souls reflected light
Shining through.
So tell you, little child,
Plain or poor,
ii your thoughts are undehled,
You are sure
or the loveliness OF worth;
And this beauty not of earth
VIII endure.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27

the chance of presiding over his broad
acres and picturesque cottage farm
house, half buried in sugar-maples and
tall Lollard poplar-trees.
But to Hiram, as to most others,
distance lent enchantment to the view,
and he was "bound and determined, rs
Aunt Peggy had said, to seek his fate
in some of the wide old farm-houses
dotting the fertile borders of Glover
Creek.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27


Hell be mighty good ketch fur
You an no mistake. Marthy Jane"
commented Mrs. Perky, when Aunt
Peggy's letter had been duly received
and read. a mighty good ketch, an
you must do your best to ketch him.
Taint often i gal has sech n chance
throwed at her head, an if you've got
a mite o pluck about you, you won't
let them stuck-up Briggses git ahead
of you. Delilah Briggs would give
her ears to git ahead of you, I'll bet n
BUTTON"
To which bit of logic Martha Jane
assented, with a toss of her head, and
the assurance that DeGlah Briggs, nor
no one else, wasn't a-goin' to git ahead
Of her.
Consequently, when farmer Perky
! drove his gray team to the gate with
Hiram lIoneydew on the seat beside
him, the necessary preparations had al
ready been made-foors secured,
baking done, and a substantial country
dinner, with dessert of apple-dump
lngs and sweet-cream sauce, ready to
be served.
While Martha Jane, in 4 pink plaid
froc6, with tluted runles, stood waiting
to welcome the expected guest.
She's mortal humly," thought
Hiram, as he sat smoking, after din
ner, on the porch, and mentally review
ing Martha James narrow forehead
hard black eyes and high-colored
cheeks. But, then, l amt a-lookin'
out fur beauty, an if she S., me
other ways, reckln faint no great
matter how she looks. A girl with
them kind of eyes an a mahogany
colUred skin kin do the chores an
make butter, an sech, as good as if she
had blue eyes an goldy-lookin' hair.
like that girl they call Hitty. that
brought in the dumpln's an passed
round the dip fur 'em at dinner to-day.
She's the hired girl, l reckin. II any
rate | amt got time TO hunt round
much, an recllin Marthy Jane won
mind changin' her name to Honeydew
afOre long, an I've got to hurry up
/ amt got no time to waste a-oourtin
l reckin if nothin' happens we kin be
married in Il week, an git back home.
L don't like to stay here a-settin' round
doin' nothin', with all the fall work
a-gittin' behind at the farm"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27

keep rs good as her. don't
know"
He ended by building a castle in the
air, wherein Hitty Mavis, with her vio
let eyes, ,and"goldy" colored hair, was the
chief figure
y y
"Iitty Mavisr'
Martha James hard, black eyes look
cd harder than ever, and her sharp
features seemed sharper still rs she
bounced wrathfully into the kitchen
where Ilitty sat slicing bowl of
yellow Crawford peaches for supper.
You kin pack up your dlds and
go! You a-settin' up to ketch beau
as if Hiram Honeydew would look at
you"
"I-,Martha Jane, what on earth do
you mean?"
Iittys eyes expanded, and the pink
in her cheeks deepened to a glowing
scarlet.
You know well enough what |
meanp' sneered Martha. "IOu
needn't to look so inherent, like butter
wouldn't melt in your mouth, an you
a-strainin' every nerve to ketch Hiram
Honeydew--a-cajolin' him to help You
milk, an drive up the cows, an the
like. It's jest like your owdacious
doin's, an you kin pack up an leave =
right away, too"
"But | don't know where TO goH'
Hitty's heart beat like frightened
robins at the thought of being driven
friendless into the world, but Martha
Jane was implacable.
Its nothin' to me where YOU 60, so
you leave here" she shifted, as she
ilounced angrily away.
"Go with me. Hittyy' said a tender
voice; and Hiram Honeydew stepped
suddenly into the little kitchen. go
with me, Hitty, and be my wife"
IIitty's cheeks grew reddcr than
before, but she did not draw away
from his offered embrace.
Not gone yet?' cried shrill voice,
rs the door was jerked viciously open.
Didn't | tell you to pack up Oh,
Mr.. Honeydew, you here? Come and
have tea we're a-waitin' fur YOU"
Excuse mer' was the cold reply.
Il shall just have time to take my
wife-that is to be over TO the par
sonage. Will you come to the we'd
ding"
But, with a scornful sniff and toss
of her head, Martha Jane founced off
again.
AN so you didn't marry Mahala's
darter, after all" cried Aunt Peggy,
who was waiting to receive them.
"N-no!' stammered Hiram. uitty
kin learn to keep house, l reckin-'
Tearn?' cried Hitty. "Why, l did
all the housekeeping at Aunt Mahala's.
She is my aunt, though they wouldn't
let me call her so. Marthy Jane never
did a lick of work in her life"
And SO Hiram Honeydew got a wife
and housekeeper all in one. after all.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27

Connecticut devotes 10000 acres to
the cultivation Of the oyster,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-09-27

keep as good as her. don't
know"
He ended by building castle in the
air, wherein Hitty Mavis. with her vio
let eyes, ,and"goldy" colored hair, was the
chief figure.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-12-21
no,ton MnrLn, Nn,...

From the Journals City Article, 18th
The butter trade has been light tho past week. and
is not likely to improve until after the close Of the
year. few fancy brands of fresh Western creamery
bring IS to 40c but 80 TO Soc pound is top price fol
nue. fall Northern creamery and most Of the fresh
Western. Most late-made Northern dairy ranges un.
der DC, and part Of the winter make dull at 20 tC
23c. Plenty Of good sweet butter il Offering at % Il
ing. What is considered choice butter in the country
II not worth here over 70 TO 21c. Johbers buy
good article for general at % to 30c but for
thing fancy may expect to pay 4Oc at least There il
thought not TO be more than half much butter In
cold storage here this year last, aud that seadei
tone Will follow the duh spell.
The cheese situation is stronger than that of butter
and holders are confident that prices will be no lower
but may gradually rss IN January. Sales continue al
u to l2'i cents pound for choice and fine factory
with some extras at l3c. The stock Is not large, and
there Is no disposition to force business.
II is difficult to get over $3.50 or IS for hes. domes
tic pea beans and choice mediums do not sell easily
over 81 G5 in large lots. II is thought that bottom ha,
been touched for the present.
Poultry indications are more favorable than they
have been since Thanksgiving. Choice Northern tur
Keys and chickens have been selling at Is to 20c Mos
turkeys now coming in are from the West, and range
about cents lower than Northern. Geese are worth
TO to Ice per pound as TO quality.
Very little has been done in the apple market since
last week. The demand for choice Baldwius is light
even at So per barrel by the carload No shipments OF
consequence are going to Liverpool Dried apples ar,
not selling to any extent, and prices a nomina
basis.
Fresh eggs from the South re selling at 81 to 32c
dozen IN large lots and strictly fresh Eastern also
command 81 to SIC. Most Northern eggs are hard L
sell at over SOC.
An occasional carload Of fancy hay commands 81
per ton, but most receipts sell at Sl4 to SIC. Ry,
straw, Sl4 to Sl4 80.
Strictly prime grades 1t hops are scarce aud held al
25c. and upward, but seconds selling at 10 to 22c
aud thirds at 10 to ~.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-12-21

SURVIVING A SEVERED THROAT. In 1877
Louis Q. Londenski was crossing the noun.
tains in Roumana when his party was at
tackled by robbers All had their throats cut,
but Londenski had only his windpipe sever
ed, his jugular vein being unframed. As he
showed signs Of life he was hanged. vet the
rope did not strangle him. as he still breathed
through the aperture. After a time he was
discovered and cut down. when he
was removed to Vienna, when Professor
Schroeder effected what il almost a cure.
From Vienna be Travelled about the world. ex.
hibitlDg himself at different medical colleges.
He is at present in Buffalo, N. Y. and DIR.
3, II. Warren, after a careful examination.
describes his wound as follows: IAN incison
was made across the throat from the inner
side Of both jugular veins, which extends to
the carotid artery, seyering the trachem, or
bronchial tubes Through the orifice can be
seen the vocal cords, larynx. and diverginR
tubes. Londenski, at his pleasure, can show
the action of the CLOTHS in respiration
something never before beheld by surgeons
in living subject The Tribune, in de-
soribing the case, states that he breathes
through tube three-eighths OF an inch in
diameter, which curves downward. He lives
mainly on liquid food being unable to digest
gross food. He smokes considerably, having
been advised to do so by Professor Schrae-
der, eXhaling the smoke through the hole in
his neck, which is just below the Adams ap.
pie, and in which is a tube that he closes
when he wants to speak. The CLOTHS, through
disuse. has almost closed up.