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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
Household Hints,

Fish may be scaled much easier 10y
first dipping them in scalding water
for a minute.
Fresh meat, beginning to sour, wi"
sweeten if placed out of doors in the
cool air overnight.
Milk which has changed may be
sweetened or rendered fit for use again
by stirring in little soda.
Tie piece of cloth on the end of a
stick, wet it with vinegar, and clean
the mica of stove doors, even while the
stove is hot
Five minutes soaking in water and
ammonia will clean the dirtiest frying
pan SO that it will only need rinsing
and wiping to he ready for use.
If the inside of your tea pot or coffee
pot is black from long use, fill it with
hard water, throw in a piece of hard
soap, set on the stove and let it boil
from half an hour to IN hour. 1t will
clean it as bright as Il new dollar and
cost no work.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
Foreign News.

LONDON, April 4.-The National Theatre at
Berlin has been burned out. No lives were
lost.
Michael Davitt from his prison, has
written vigorous letter To the Young Ireland
society OF Glasgow, in which he SAYS the
dynamite policy can only have the effect of
eXasperating the English democracy. He
declares that it would be far better 10 work
and wait for another twenty years than TO
play into the hands of Irelands enemies by
giving rein to dispair and revenge.
LONDON, April 5.-There is great excite
ment IN London over the discovery of a
secret dynamite factory in Birmingham and
the arrest of the proprietor, who is said to
be an Irish American. Other arrests have
also been made in London of men supposed
TO be in the league in the manufacture of
explosives for the work of destruction in
England.
mine has been discovered in Moscow
connecting with the Kremlin, where the
coronation of the Car is to take place.
The prefect of police in Copenhagen has
SANS4SN bA4O oONlailSL NOuBIGSS III SGSSlOn
there to disband and the foreign members
TO leave the city.
The chief of police in ST. Petersburg and
others have been decorated by the Gar for
their attentions to the Jeanette survivors.
LONDON, April 6.-The four men arrested
IN London on suspicion of being concerned
III plots 10 blow up government buildings.
were arraigned in Bow-Street Court yester
day, and remanded. Their examination re-
Vealed some important matters. 10 pounds
Of nitro-glycerine has been found in White
heads factory, in Birmingham.
AT Ottawa, Canada, while Serot. Hughes
and police officer Codd were in the hallway
of the eastern departmental building, at
Ottawa, Ont, bottle containing some ex-
plosive was thrown from above and burst
with tremendous force. The men saw the
bottle coming and succeeded in getting into
shelter.
The German government is determined in
its objections TO American pork.
Famine is imminent in Hungary.
LONDON, April Sit the bill to amend the
law in regard to explosives, which Sir Will
liam darcourt will introduce in the House of
Commons to-day, should not prove retro
spective, many members will support an
amendment to the bill making it RETROSPECT
tive in its provisions.
At banquet by the Corporation of Civil
Engineers, at Kensiugton, Saturday evening,
Minister Lowell made speech, in the course
of which he said that no American believes
that assassination is war, or that dynamite
is the raw material of policy.
Arrangements for the trial of the alleged
Phoenix Park murderers have been made.
Joe Brady will be tried first.
One hundred and forty-fve houses have
been destroyed by fire at Vallorbes, Switzer-
land.
The Brussels police have discovered proofs
of plot against the Gar.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
Potato Experiments.

A correspondent in the Cultirdtor
and Country Gentleman gives the re-
suit of some experiments in growing
potatoes: Some years ago l selec, ed
some healthy potatoes that had no
sign of running out, and made Selec-
tion of the largest and smallest firm
tubers in each lot. planted the same
number of hills of each kind side by
side; gave the same treatment in every
particular, and in the fall weighed
the product. There was one pound
difference in favor of the large cut
potatoes. | then selected the largest
from the largest and the smallest from
the smallest, and planted the next sea-
son the same number of hills side by
side, with the same treatment. In the
fall the weight of product was one and
one-half pounds in favor of small
tuberS. l continued the experiment
for five years, selecting the largest
from the largest and the smallest from
the smallest. Sometimes one yielded
the best, sometimes the other; but the
variation never reached two pounds.
At the end of the five years expert
ment there was one-half pound in favor
of the small tubers. The experiment
comprised ten hills of each.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

A. Thin Cow

II cow is fed too much meal she
will be poor and thin, and the skin may
be irritated and congested. Too much
food has a similar effect, or is worse
than too little, as it produces indiges-
tion, which disorders the blood and
causes feverish condition of the sys-
tenn. AS it is only the food that is
digested BEAUTIFULLY that makes flesh,
fat and milk, these will not be made
if larger quantity be given than can
be digested. A cow that is suffer
ing from indigestion may be treated as
follows: Give pint of linseed-oil, and
repeat it the second day after; then
feed some bran slop or some cut feed
with bran and little meal in it, but
in moderate quantity, until her appear
ance improves.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
MedlNln HOES

1t is never the Oldest and largest
hogs that are the most desirable for
either the packer or the consumer
There is always double risk in curing
the hams and shoulders from very
large hogs over those taken from hogs
of common, medium size; then if the
hams of very large hogs come out well
cured, there is hardly one consumer in
a thousand but what would rather
have hams out of hogs weighing about
$50 pounds, even at strong advance
in price, than to have the mammoth
sized hams. There is no doubt but
what any farmer can make more clear
money as rule, out of pigs that come
in the month of March or April, than
can be made out of pigs that come in
any other part of the year. The early
spring pigs will be ready to Craze on
clover about as soon in the season as it
will be ready for grazing, and they
will want little else but this kind of
feed until new corn will be ready to
feed in September. They should in all
cases be fattened on corn and made
ready for market by Christmas, or about
nine months of age. If the right
breeds are kept, hogs of this age can
be made to weigh 275 to 800 pounds,
making in all respects as good pork as
could be required for consumers use in
any market; or by feeding moderate
amount of corn and oatmeal through
August and September, they can be
sold in October, and will then make
first-rate bacon hogs, and it is never a
possible thing to produce good pork any
cheaper or as cheap as it can be done
in this way, as the general weather
conditions through all the life of such
hogs is in the highest degree favorable
for the growth and thrift of these ami
mals.-DT0CerS' Journal.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
The Cashier Ahead,

A new bank which had been estab-
lished in a town in Indiana had
engaged the services of watchman
who came well recommended, but who
did not seem over-experienced. The
president therefore sent for him to post
him up bit, and began:
james, this is your first job of this
kind, isn't it?'
eyes, sir?"
"Your first duty must be to exercise
vigilance"
ayes, sir"
"Be careful how strangers approach
you"
81 will, sir"
'No stranger must be permitted to
enter the bank at night unOer any pre-,
text whatever"
"No, sir"
"And our cashier-he is a good man,
honest, reliable and thoroughly trust
worthy, but it will be your duty rc
keep an eye on him."
"But it will be hard to watch two
men and the bank at the same time,
SIR
"Two men-how? ?"
"Why, sir, it was only yesterday that
the cashier called mo in for talk,
and he said you were the squarest man
in Indiana, but that it would be jdst
as well to keep both eyes on you, and
let the directors know if you hung
around after hours Wall Street
NezCS
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

and gasses is waste Of labor, and only
makes his manure heap a deceptp
which his crops will surely find oNt>
While it is important that every farm
er should always have at hand sufficient
absorbents to prevent the loss of the
liquids, but few farmers work to the
best advantage when they haul into
the barn yard us many loads of muck,
loan or sand as they have e manure
The large additional cost Of removing
twice or three times such large quanti-
ties of materials but little better, if as
good, as the soil upon which it is spread,
never comes back in the increase of
crops.-PloughmdR.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
Composing Manure.

One Of the important questions
which every farmer has to decide is the
best method of composing manure.
Farmers do not agree on this subject
while some hold that it is best to apply
manure in its green state and compost
it with the soil, others believe it best
to compost it in the yard by mixing
with it an equal quantity of muck or
loan. Advocates of the last method
calm that the manure is thus decom-
posed and brought into plant food that
is Immediately available. The advo-
Gates of composing directly with the
soil claim that it saves large amount
of labor of hauling III material to COM
post with, the pitching of it all over,
ahd the carting out and spreading
twice the quantity; and they also claim
that during the process of decomposi-
tion in compost heap, under ordinary
conditions, portion of the fertiIizing
elements is lost; while if applied direct
ly to the soil, the process of decompo-
sition improves the condition of the
soil and prepares its plant growth much
better than if applied after decomposi-
tion has taken place.
While it is rrNbably best for most
crops to apply the manure in the green
state there are some crops that need
forcing with manure already well de-
composed. For example, strawberries
that have been set one year sometimes
require fertilizer that will act at
once. Grass land, ifmanured between
the first and second crop, should have
well decomposed manure.
The farmer, in composing his
manure, should never forget that all Ct
the muck, loan or sand which he
mixed with his manure above that
which is necessary to absorb the liquids
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

I state Auditor Allen has informed the at
torney- general that he would no longer pay
the salaries of the judges of the Corporation
Courts of Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk,
Lynchburg, DC. The cities will have to pay
these officials.
Ihe Norfolk Nrginidn estimates that there
is coal enough in the mines recently opened
in Pocahontas county, West Virginia. to
supply the demands of the North for 200
years TO come.
The fre at Westminster. Md, destroyed
eighteen houses, caused the death of two
men and twenty-five horses, and loss of
SI3,0O. The loss ON the Lutheran church
and the Rectors library amounts TO $1,000
The total insurance is estimated at $4,000
The Pennsylvania House of Representa-
tives yesterday passed bill abolishing the
contract system in prisons and reformatory
institutions.
Susquehanna shad are appearing in the
Baltimore and Philadelphia markets.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has over.
ruled the order of the lower court and re.
fused a mandamus requiring the city of New
Orleans tolevy a tax of $650,0O0 to pay the
interest on the consolidated bonds.
A police census of Richmond, Va, which
has Just been completed, shows the popula-
tion TO be 706S4. The United States census
of 1880 gave the population as 63,GO0.
Nashville, Tennessee, is scourged with
small pox. Thirteen new cases were reported
on Saturday, and fifty patients are in the
pest-house. One school containing Geo
pupils has been closed for two weeks.
G. c. Fulton, proprietor of the Daily
american, of Baltimore, Nd, has conveyed
his property i'll trust, TO Felix Angus, the
manager of that paper
The Baltimore subtreasury has sixty five
tons of silver i'll the vaults and l,970, 900 one
cent pieces. The public demand for The
latter has declined greatly since the tive-cent'
car fare took effect.
Ex-President Hayes positively refuses to
allow his name to go before the Republican
convention of Ohio as a candidate for Gov
ernor.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

The weeds found on farms come
largely from the grass seeds, with
which weed seeds are mixed. The mi
croscope not only reveals to the eyethe
worthless seeds of the grasses, but by
careful use it detects the weed seeds
Bad seeds are source of great injury
to the farmers, and the subject should
not be neglected.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

What The gre4 r.
storative. HoststtsT's
Stomach Bita~rs. viii
do. must be gaEhsrsd
from what 10 has
done. IL has eGsCted
radical cures in thou-
sands OF cases Of dys
pepsiA. bilious dis
riders, intermittent
4 ,or. nervous afec-
ito o, general de-
bility constipation.
sick h &u&ch@s ufea1-
tai desp ndency. and
the pe liar COM
plants a q dfsabili-
ties to . hich the
feeble are so subject.
For sale by all
Druggists sud Deal
ers gene allv.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
: unfailing ana inIak

ls unfailing ana inIaL
liable in curing Epil-
epuc Fits, Spasms,
Commissions, St. Nitus
Dance, Alcoholism,
Opium Eating, Ner-
Vous debility ,Scrofula
and all Nervous and
Blood diseases. To
Clergymen. Lawyers,
Literary men, Mer-
chants. Bankers, La
dies and all whose Sc
dentary employment
causes Nervous Pros
tration. irregularities
Of the blood, stomach,
bowels or kindeys. or
who require a nerve
tonic, appetiser or
Siimulant, Samaritan
Nervine is lnvalCable.
Thousands proclaim lt
the most wonderful In
ne sinking system. For
'R. s. A. RICHMOND
Rpnh. No.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
The Frazer Axle Grease.

Is the best in the market. 1t is the most
economical and cheapest, one box lasting as
long as two of any other. One greasIng will
last two weeks. It received first premium at
the Centennial and Paris Expositions, also
medals at various State Fairs. Buy no other.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

Que-rious that the Chinese men should have
such long hair. Ladies, if you would have
your hair as long as the Chinese and as beautl-
full as a Houri's, use Carboline. the deodorized
petroleum hair renewer and dresser.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

Founder and for twenty-five years, editor O!
Moores RnyaL Nezv- Yorker, is the Agricultural
Editor of the TRIBUNE and FARMER, and con-
ducts the best and liveliest Agricultural Depart
ment TO be found in any weekly newspaper IN IN
this country. Special writer's on Small Fruits
Market Gardening, Horticultural Matters, Agrl;
cultural Machinery with list Of Agricultural
Answers 10 Correspondents. &c, &c, Half dozen
6DIe nSiId stories every week, House
hold Department, whole page eVery
week Original letters from lady readers on al
household topics. Regular Correspondents
Aunt ACidIe, Aunt Eva, "MaybeIAe2
and dozen others. Fancy WOrky m asm'
ions, How to- Entertain Company
Care Of Children, Doctors Advice and Cookl,na
Recipes, worth double subscription price, Youtne
Department, Stories. Puzzles. and Home AmuSo
ments Nose SkInner'S Humorous LetteIA
Detective sketches, and Answers
Correspondents No Sensational trash. ADDRESS
IL X. CURTIS & CO.. Pubs, PHILADELPHIA, "a
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Ynn will do wan if afflicted uith anr chronic

One OF the best farmers in Maine is Miss
Martin OF 81 nth Auburn. She carries on
farm successfully and pays much attention
to fine stock raising.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

Mrs. j. Berry, of Portland. Me-, writes: Your
Henry's Carbolic Salve is doing great deal of good
Some of my friends have been greatly benefited by its
use think it is the best sAve have ever used" Be-
ware of counterfets.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
nRncIlu-Pnhia.v

Conn OF your habits of crooked walking by
using Lyons Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

The cheapest and prettiest collars and cuffs
are the Chrolithion. Try them and see for
,-c,rsalf
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

Bakers Pain Panacea cures pain in Man and Beast
For use externally and internally.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

Denton's Balsam Cures Colds. Coughs. Rheumatism,
!-idney troubles. eto. Oan be used externally as
plaster.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

DR.. Rogers Vegetable Worm Syrup instantly destroys
Worms and removes the Secretions which cause them
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
nIotl,er swans Wsrm syrup.

Infallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic;
feverishness, restlessness, worms, constipa-
tion. 25c.
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"ISouull on RRfs.Sy

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, bedbugs,
ants, ,skunks, ,chipmunks, ,gophers. l5c. D'g'sts.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19
Doing n Great Deal of Good.

The Quick, complete cure, annoying Kidney,
Bladder. Urinary Diseases. 81. Druggists
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BEST Cough BaIsam in the WOrId.0 Try IL,
Price Zoe. F. w. KINsMAN Co.. Augusta. Maine.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-04-19

,xnHty. Regular price, LOO year. Established
II wears Special features. original articles
How to- make more Money III one
month than you ever did before. HOW -
Make the Farm Pay, How Farm
ers arc SyyludIcd, by bogus Commission
r,.,to,t, Lorsa nd cf0og aurtiOug etc.
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A COppvspoNDFNT

From the far away State of Colorado, writes: eia
indian at this agency remarked when he tasted NeM
Life the Great Cough Remedy, for the ntst Vlne @
Ugh! bv medciner After il had CURED him OF Sstnna
he said 7Urhi heap much big madieinel' This Il the
general verdict Its action in throat and lung troubles
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Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-13
"FOGG's FERRY"
the Her in the Steamboat
Scene.

sslt Lake Herald. rs I'D
1t was In an interior town, where
the festive cowboy "fourished even
a. . green bay tree" and has an oooa-
sionsl picnic when It strikes bis
erratio fancy, that Miss Maddern held
forth Is Chip In "Fogg's Ferry" The
play progressed without especial In.
terest not down ON the programme
a. being In the regular order Of events
until the steamboat scene In the third
act, when Chip Ii discovered ut an old
mill on the banks of a river. She had
overheard the Villains plot to blow
up the steamer on which her bsns-
factor Is bearing the papers to . place
of safety. by placing a torpedo In the
channel direct y In the way OF the
coming vessel. Chip Is armed with q
pistol, and, nerving herself, aims at
the Internal machine, hoping by a WELL
dire ed shot to explode 1t. The
whistle of the approaching steamer
betoken Its rapid coming, and soon
the sound of escaping steam and the
splash of the revolving wheels break
on the listening ear. Nearer and
nearer the ominous sounds ring out
on the night, and soon the bow Of the
boat greets the expectant audience.
Chip nerves heraelf for the telling
shot, but alas, on this particular ocoa-
sion the cartridge falls to explode. A
moment more and all would be lost
for there, plain to be seen, bobbing up
ON the turbld waters, was the torpedo.
Miss Madden, though . little sur.
praised ct the mls6re Of her weapon,
was cooling II for another shot, when
Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-13
Economic Potato.Raising.

NoOAAOAAAO
The attempt is oftun made to raise
potatoes in places where they cannot
be produced for the market with any
considerable profit. Snoh Is the case
In most parts Of the south, and In por'
lions of the northern states where q
severe drought Is likely to prevail
during several months. A ~protraoted
drought during the growing season
will greatly reduce the yield and In.
lure the quality of the tubers. In
some parts of the country potatoes for
immediate use An be raised before the
occurrence Of very hot and dry
weather, and In some localities they
may be raised after the that nut
an end to the drought occur. The
crop raised at the latter period will
be likely to be Immature and neither
those that are raised very early
or very late can be relied on
to keep In good condition over
the winter, II tubsru are Of oonsid.
cradle aixe when the drought com.
menoes they will be very likely to
sprout and produce . second crop Of
vines and tubers will be destroyed,
while those that grow from them will
be as small In size ~ they are large In
number. 1t ID more difficult to pre-.
serve potatoes during warm weather
than during that which is quite cold,
The heat causes them to shr.vel and
generally to sprout. If placed where
tits dry they will lose much of the
water they contain and will become
tough In texture aud insipid to the
taste. If placed In q moist position
they will be likely to o In some
parts Of the south r fair supply Of
potatoes can be secured by raising
two crops a year, but the two crops
will not amount to as much al a single
one rsised In a favorable location In
the north. For the supply of the
market potatoes are only profitable In
northern ATTITUDES.
The most northern states and terri
tories are best for the production Of
potatoes. The yield Is generally large
and the quality Of the tubers excel
lent. With better facilities for stor
age and transportation 1t IL likely that
most Of the potatoes for the supply of