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The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-22
. Mark Canoe, oanades

A bark canoe is only one mans load
he turns it upside down, and walks
with it ON his head. A man toiling
across a portage in this attitude Is a
somewhat grotesque sight, suggesting a
monstTous new kind of snail. The
canoe will go over shadows where any
thing else would stick, and as for hdr-
diness, an expert canoeman will almost
turn it around with . twist of the
paddle. Repairs are frequent but sim
pie, consisting mainly in the free appli-
cation to damaged places OF a reslnous
gum kept in store for that purpose.
Speed is a secondary consideration
you cannot go fast padding up, and you
cannot help going fast coming down.
We came down a reach in half an hour
that we had taken half a day to work
up. Often towing and polling have to
be resorted to to make way against a
heavy current. Padding, though a
more wasteful application Of muscular
work than rowing, is less fatigulng
when the pace is not forced, and after
a little practice becomes a very delecta-
BILE exercise. The traveller embarked on
a canoe voyage has to carry most things
with him. Along the river there are
only scattered farm houses, and the
only certain and comfortable way of Sc
curing shelter for the night is to camp
out. The tents and other necessaries
form the cargo of the canoes
1t is astonishing how much stuff can
be slowed away in a canoe that looks
quite small-another merit of the saw
age birch-bark vessel as compared with
European boats. Every night we
choose u camping ground, pitch our
tents, and make our camp fire; this last
is of great Importance, not only for
warmth and brightness, but for driving
away insects, the only drawback in a
life otherwise perfect. When people
play at camping out in England they
make a fire a foot or two across over
which they hang a kettle on three
sticks.
In Canada, you make a 6re of logs
five or six feet long, OF maybe whole
roots of pine cedar, which will burn all
night. The trouble of chopping the
wood up small would be greater than
that of burning it as it is, and its cost
is nothing. In many places, indeed,
the best fuel Is drift-wood which could
in no way be made otherwise useful.
Even Ill summer nights the fire is a
welcome companion, and after a days
work at padding hot tea is the best of
drinks whatever the temperature may
be-not that other drink would be easy
to get if one wanted it, but no such
want is felt.
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ayes, cab, " said Uncle Zach, "Tse
watched 1t forty years an its a. 1 SEE
De fust OF May an CuIsstmzs day Of de
same year alters comes on de same weeS
dav."
Further conversation proved Uncle
Zach q most inoredulous person.
CHANGING to mention DR.. Csrver's feat
of breaking glass balls with a rifle, be
said :
"I heard bout dat shootin' and
knowed right off it wasn't squar; dat
was a Yankee trick, boss, sho's your
born."
"What was the trtck2"
"Dar wuz loadstone put into de glass
balls, an likewise onto de bullets; so
when de bullet hy outen de gun. II au'
de ball iesd dra we'd tergeder, which il
course, brokes de ~glsss-dats de trick"
Later, Uncle Zach observed a rope
running along the side of the car.
BOSS, what's dat line fur2'
''Io apply the air-brake in case of ac-
cident." Then we had further to ex-
plain how the force OF the brake was
obtained. to which Uncle Zach re
sponded:
look a here boss, you sholy don't
'spect me to b'Ieeve dat fool1shness2
Why, de biggest harricane whatever
blowed couldn't stop dis train, runnin'
forty mile a hour. An you think 1
gwine to b'leeve a litEIe pipe full of
wind under de kyars a do it? No.
sah-ree r.
There are a great many Uncle Zachs
who judge everything sim ply y APP
pearaaces. The air-brake does not
seem to be a very powerful thing, but
power and efficiency are not necessarily
equivalent to igness and pretense.
Phillip Beers. Esq, who resides at
the United States Hotel, New York city,
and 8 engaged in raising subscriptions
for the New York World Bartholdi
pedestal fund, wa once upbraided by
a distinguished relative who was a ply
stefan, for commencing in such enthus-
iastic terms. a remedy that cured him
Of BriRhI's disease eight years ago. He
said Sir, has the medical profession
with all its power and experience of
thousands of years, anything that can
cure this terrible disorder2" No, no,
that is true, there is no mistake about
it but. that Warmers safe cure is
really a wonderfully effective prepare
ton. That remedy is an ''air-brake"
that every man can apply and this fact
explains why it has saved so many hun
dreds of thousands of lives. Copy
righted. Used By permission Of Ameri-
can Rural Home.
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At the suggestion of DR.. Thresh, says
the Chemical NeWs, a novel process
has been devised for treating the sew
age, of Buxton, England. The precipi-
tant brought into play is simply a MN
eral water derived from the lower coal
formations about two miles above Bux-
ton. 1t contains IL grains OF iron per
gallon in q state OF ferrous carbonate
held in solution by carbonic acid. On
exposure to the air the carbonic acid
escapes and the iron, taking up more
oxygen, subsidies in the state of ferrie
hydroxide in combination with a son
siderable part of the organic impurities
suspended and dissolved. The results
according to analysis are very satisfac-
tory. The sewage before treatment
contains free ammonia IL. IA parts per
million and slbuminoid ammonia LEO
parts. The figures, after the treatment,
are reduced to 400 parts of free ammo
mia per million, and 0.30 parts of alou-
minoid ammonia per million. The sew
age is decidedly weak then, and may
III of with lmpunity into the streams.
Additional proof is thus afforded of the
efficiency of mineral salts in precipitat-
ing organic impurities. Similar appli-
cations of mineral charged waters may
be made elsewhere.
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There are ew countries IN the
world-except, perhaps, Eastern Aus
tralia-where coal is so extensively de-
veloped a IN BoTneo. Thick seams crop
out in innumerable places on the coast
and on the banks OF the rivers. At
some OF the streams of North Borneo
he has seen water worn and rounded
fragments of coal forming the entire
shingle bed of the channel. In come
places, again there are outcrops with
seams of good coal twenty. six feet
thick. The coal formation is the one
prevailing rock of the coast. 1t forms
the principal outcrop about Sarawak.
AT Labuan, also, no other rock eau be
seen. Lining the banks of the Bruni
river he saw only picturesque hills of
very old carboniferous shale. All the
grand scenery of the entrance to the
port of Gaya is made up of escarpment
of coal rocks, and at Kirdat it is the
same. In Eastern Australia and in
Tasmania beds of coal of very different
age lie close together, ana the same is
the case in Borneo.
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The dental processes familiar to US
are not SO new as may be supposed. In
the museum OF Corneto, on the coast OF
Italy. are two curious specimens OF arti-
fetal teeth foand in Etruscan tombs,
probably dating four hundred or tive
hundred year before our era. The
teeth were evidently taken from the
mouth OF some animal, and had been
carefully cut and fastened to neighbor-
ing natural teeth of two young girls by
means of small gold rings. The dem
lists art was also applied to treating
natural teeth In various ways. but the
TEA has hitherto escaped notice on ae-
At OF the rarity of Etruscan sksie-
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Rheumatism

We doubt II there is, or can be, a specific
remedy for rheumatism; but thousands who
have suffered its pains have been greatly ben
Gifted by Hoods Sarsaparilla. II you have
failed to find relief, try this great remedy.
II was afflicted with rheumatism twenty
years. Previous to 1888 1 found no relief, but
grew worse, and at one time was almost help
less. Hoods S~arsaparilla did me more good
than all the other medicine / ever had"
H. T. BALLOON, Shirley Village, Mass.
81 had rheumatism three years, and got no
relief till 1 took Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t has
done great things for me. l recommend 1t to
Others" LEWIS BURBANK, Biddeford. Me.
Hoods Sarsaparilla Is characterized by
three pecullarities list, the combination OF
remedial agents I'd, the proportion; Sd, the
process OF securing the active medicinal
qualities. The result is d medicine OF unusual
yrength, effecting cures hitherto unknown.
Bend for book containing additional evidence.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla tones up my system,
purifies my blood, SharpenS ny appetite, ana
seems to make me over" j. L. THOMPSON,
Register Of Deeds, Lowell, Mass.
floods Sarsaparilla beats all others, and
is worth its weight gold" |. HARRINGTON
1870 Bank Street, New York City.
Hoods ~Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for s.. Made
only by @. /. HOOD s. CO., Lowell, Mass.
~ ~ @-I-
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BEsr Tms TO Now GRASSES Since
farmers still continue to SOW together
clover and timothy as the general hay
crop, there has to be a small sacrlhee
of the one or the other III cutting The
best time to cut clover, so as to get the
most nutrition with the least proportion
of mere crude ind1gestible matter, is as
soon as it Is in full bloom. But the best
time to secure the same end from timo-
thy is when the seed is in the milk
state when the root has drawn from
the soil the elements necessary to the
perfection of the seed and these are held
in the sap of the plant, which renders
the whole plant more digestlble h
when the seed has been more nearly
perfected, There is at least a weeks
difference in the time of the two grasses
being IN the best condition and II is
best to allow some clover to waste than
to cut timothy too o Glover and
orchard grass or green grass or rye
grass come more together in time for
cutting or orchard grass and green
grass. and rye grass and clover come
together. Glover among timothy is
valuable after moving in shading and
sheItering the roots of timothy from the
hot sunshine, before the roots throw up
another stock or blades for the fall
growth, which seldom shoot out in
head, though last year We noticed some
few heads in the second crop of timothy.
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FARM NOTES.

SNAIL vs.. LARGE FARMs.-Our own
notlon is that small farms, vel cuitl-
waited. are almost invariably the most
profitable aud hence, We firmly be-
iieve what has 50 often been asserted
that If many q armer would sell nan or
two-tuirds Of tie acres he Low occupies,
and poorly tills and manages, and &c
vote mis- entire time and energies 70 the
care and cultivation Of the remainder,
he would derive lar proht ron
his labor and investment, Wlth mueh
less vexsuon of spirit. The Tact is, as
somebody truly asserts, we nave 700
many farmers who are land poor -
who have 20 much land they canDot
make a living. ParadOxlcal as THIS may
appear, it applies truthtutly to many q
naturally fertile and productive locality.
When such farmers have learned that
it is not economy to own land
than they can till in the most profitable
manner. 50 that it will pay for the mon
ey expended IN keeping 1T Tree from
taxes. weeds, and other encumorances,
they will have solved the problem OF
ease in practical rural life. The hap
piest and thriftiest farmers we nave
ever known lived on farms OF from ten
to one hundred acres, every foot OF
which was made to count. Gu the otn-
er hand, the farmer who has so many
broad acres that he cannot walk over
them daily-where reds o. fence corners
are never cultivated or otherwise utll-
ized-lives q life of anxiety and worry.
Instead Of working like slaves aud living
IN a misery manner, in order to run a
big farm" or purchase "all the land
that Joins them" it would be wise for
hosts Of farmers TO sell Of some Of their
broad acres. concentrate sheir efforts
upon limited areas. and look o to
the comfort and happiness OF their
households, and the proper education
OF their children. Even if large farms
were the most profitable (Which we
deny) small ones are to be preferred for
many and cogent reasons, not the least
of which are the comfort, peace aud
general welfare of the wners and their
families.
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/ had q severe attack of catarrh oyer
a year ago, and became so deaf l could
not hear common conversation. l sui
fered terribly from roaring in my head.
1 procured q bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm, and in three weeks could hear as
well as ] ever could. and o | can
cheerfully say to all VITO are afflicted
with the worst of diseases, catarrh and
deafness, take one bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm and be cured. 1t is worth 81. 900
per bottle to any man, woman oil child
suffering from eatarrh. "A. e. Newman,
Graylng, Campbell Co., Michigan.
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If a sheet of gold leaf is held up
against the light 1t appears to be a WV
id green color this means that the
light liz transmitted through the leaf.
When it is considered that this leaf Is a
piece o. solid metal, a bettor idea of the
extreme tenulty OF thickness of the leaf
a be comprhended than by any COM
parison by figures nothing made by
the hand of a equals it in thinness.
The extreme thinness is produced by
patient ~hammering. the hammers weigh
ing from seven to twenty pounds, the
lighter hammers being first used. When
the true method of this beating is I'M
derstood, the wonder expressed some
times that gold leaf beating should not
be relegated to machinery ceases the
art belongs to the highest department
of human skill and judgment. Appren.
tees have served a term, and have been
compelled TO abandon the business, be-
cause they could never acquire the re.
quisite skill and judgment combined
necessary to become successful work
men.
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The suggestion having been made
that the ignition Of petroleum tanks
may sometimes be caused by sparks
from the raip of thunder clouds, some
interesting results obtained with an old
piece of apparatus have been called to
mind. In these experiments an cleo.
trometer showed that the drops of oc-
casional showers are almost always
more or less charged with electricity,
and that it is only totally absent during
foggy, moist days. and long storms.
The strongest charges were obtained
during thunder storms !; but the air
even has given indications occasionally
of an electrical charge without any fall
of rain.
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Farthing of 1897.

Among the micro presents re-
ceived by the Emperor William on the
occasion of his last birthday was a sim
pie farthlng of the year 1897, that being
the year in which he was born. This
curious present had been sent by a
gamin living in n of the villages near
Brunswick, who also wrote a letter con-
graduating the Emperor in the best
language he could command on having
reached so great an age. The other
day, to his intense establishment, this
lucky youth received an acknowledge
ment from the Emperor in the shape OF
an autograph letter thanking him for
his present, and a 20 mark piece, bear
ing the date 1885.
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Grateful Thousands proclaim VENKeAs
BTrTKRs the most wonderful IL glgorant that evar
sustained the sinking system.
nIade from California roots and herbs, free
from Alcoholic Stimuiants. A PurgatlvS
and Tonic.
This Bitters cures mi ale Complaints,
1~nfiammatory and Chronic Rheumatism,
Gout, Bilious, Remittent and intermittent Fs
vers, Blood, Liver and Kidney Diseases.
Dyspepsia or Indig estion, Headache,
Pain in the Shoulders. Coughs, TightDess Of the
Chest, Dizziness, Sour Stomach, Fured Tongue,
Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Pneu-
monia, and Pain IN the regions OF the Kidneys.
are cured by the use of the Bitters.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Boiis,
Erysipeias, Scrofula, BiseolOrations, Humors and
diseases OF the skin Of whatever name or ns-
ture, are literally dug up and carried out OF the
system In O short time by the use of the Bittera.
Ii InyIgOrat = the Stomach, and sttn-
ulates the torpid Liver and Bowels, which rem
der it OF unequaled efficiency In cleansing the
blood OF all impurities, and imparttng new life
and vigOr to the whole system.
No Person can take the Bitters and remain
long unwell.
Pin, Tape and other Worms, are
destroyed and removed from the system.
Cleanse the VitiRted blood whenever
the blood pure, and the health Of the system
will follow.
In conclusion /: Give the Bitters a trial II
will speak for itself. One bottle will prove a bet
ter guarantee Of its merits than a lengthy ac~
yertisement.
H. III. Mcdonald Drug Co., Proprietors,
San Francisco, Cal, and 52S. So h S32 Washington 81.
Cor. Charlton St. New York.
sold by all Dealers and DruGgists.
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1t costs no more to keep good fowls
than it does to keep poor ones.

LIVER COMPLAINT is declared by many
old sufferers, after years of medical ex-
pertinent, to be incurable, and yet VIM
EdAR BITTERs has effected innumerable
permanent and perfect cures of chronic
cases. Invalids, do not suffer longer,
but purchase a bottle of the Bitters and
Judge for yourselves.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-22

The great red spot on Jupiter is dis
appearing in a curious way. An oval
white spot now covers all its central por-
ton, leaving only a narrow ring Of the
red substance visible around its edge.
The white spot is quite regular in form,
ana very nearly concentric with the red
spot, which it appears to be gradually
covering up Its whiteness is not very
intense, but about the same as that Of
the general surface of the planet near it
SO That as soon as II cover the red ring
still remaining, all traces of the remark.
able phenomenon which has been
watched with SO much interest for the
last eight years will be entirely lost
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-22

A RICHMOND man thinks of founding
a museum of George Washington relics.
If he could only collect all the houses
where Washington had his headquar
tiers, all the trees where he tied his
horse, all the coachmen who used to
drive his horses, and all the women he
kissed, he could make much more than
a museum. He would have q city.
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Why continue the use of irritating
powders, snuffs or liquids. Elys
Cream Balm, peasant Of application
ard a sure SURF for catarrh, and cold in
head, can be had for so cents. at drug
gists. 1t is easily applied with the in-
ger, is safe and pleasant and Is curing
the most obstinate cases. 1t gives relief
at once. We will mail it at 60 cents.
Ely Bros, Owego, n. Y.
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1t is not the acreage you SOW, but the

1t is not the acreage you SOW, but the
crop produced which tells.
sis TRAVELLING coed for the health ?"
asks an exchange. We suppose so.
Look how much better Eno feels than il
he had stayed IN New York as Mr.. Fish
did.
A valuable practical fact receives adj
ditional support from experiments ON
the influence of sunshine upon the VI
tally of the germs of microbes as con-
Quoted by Nj. Il. Duclaux. He cultiva.
ted Tyrothrir scdber in milk and Leibig's
extract and found that the light OF the
sun Is $50 times more destructive than
ITS heat, thus fully confirming Its hygi-
sQic properties,
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A MOVABLE LOOKING GLAss.-A NOV
able looking glass with paneled border
OF blue plush set with round gilded
nail heads, has segmental sides, also Of
silvered glass in shape like the fourth
part of an oval attached by hinges to
the central frame, and which a be
adjusted to any angle. thus bringing
INTO view side surfaces. 1t may be used
only for toilet, but to multiply refec'
tions with accompanying change OF ap'
pearance of ornamental articles.
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wHAr ander the sun Is wrong In the
theatrical world this Year, Lolita hasn't
an engagement of marriage on tap,
KITTY Forsythe hasn't come into a col
lossal fortune from a deceased uncle,
Mary Anderson hasn't snubbed q bloody
Britisher and 70 on, and 30 on. These
shortcomings demand that the calcium
light Of investigation be turned on i'm
mediately,
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Strict honesty is the crown Of ones
earthly days.

PERFORMED BEEF TONIC, the only
preparation of beef containing It's entire nutrt
u0llS properties. It contains blood-making, force
generating and DEMONSTRATING properties; invalua-
bic for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostratiOn,
and all forms of general debility, also, in all en-
feebled conditions, whether the result of exhaus-
ton, nervous prostratlon, oyer-work or acute dis
ease, particularly IL resulting from pulmonary
complaints. Caswell, Hazard h Co, proprletors,
New YORK. Sold by druGgistA
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ONION FLAvoRNe.-One way to pre-
pare onion favoring for q vegetable
soup is to take a large onion, remove
the outer skin, then stick cloves into
the onion and bake 1t until it Is nicely
Drowned. The peculiar favor thus
gained is relIshed by the epicure.
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CURES FOR SooURs.-It is not unfre-
quently the case that young calves will
be troubled with the scours, which will
cause them to TALL away in flesh quite
rapidly if they are not attended to in
season. A remedy said to be a never
falling one, is to give the calf a fresh
egg beaten up. Another remedy ia
mentioned by n farmers wife, who says
that three tablespoonfuls of ground
Java coffee gwen to a COW with feed
will cure the scours, and a less quanti-
ty given to a calf or pig will never fail
to produce the desired result. Both OF
them are simple remedies and generally
within the reach of most farmers. 1t
will be we'll to bear them in mind, to be
tried IL case occasion should require.
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If you deal with a vulgar mind, life
Is reduced to beggary.


When you visit or leave New YORK City, save
baggage expressage and s. carriage Hire, and stop
attne Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Cen
tral Depot
COO elegant rooms, ntted up at a cost of one
million dollars, 81 and upwards per
day. European Plan. Elevator. Restaurant
supplied with the best. Horse cars, stages and
elevatei railroad to all depots. Families can live
better for less money at the Grand Union Hote
than at anV other hrst-class hotel in the CITY,
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A New Orleans paper refers editorial
ly to the wonderful restoration to
health of Mr.. T. Posey, druggist, 225
Canal street, that city who some time
ago was Frustrated by an excruciating
attack of sciatica. After much suffering
his wife applied st. Jacobs OIL, which
cured him promptly aud entirely.
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CHOCOLATE IoIEG.-Wet one pound OF
white sugar with a little cold water, add
the whites of three eggs slightly beaten,
one-half cake grated chocolate; beat
well and cook in boiling water till thick
ened flavor with vanilla.
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COMING HOME ON A VIsTr.-Mrs.
Brown Gin country Post Oaice)-Any
letters for me this m~orning?"
Notwithstanding but a postal
card, Mrs. Browh, l see your daughter
expects to start for home next week.
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ORANGE IcE.-Squeeze the juice from
six large oranges and lemons, pour
about five giIls of boiling water e
the broken peel and pulp and let IT
stand until cool; then strain and add
the water TO the orange and lemon juice,
Sweeten to taste with loaf sugar and
fraaza-
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CHow-CHow.-Two gallons Of green
tomatoes, sliced without peeling, sprin-
kle salt %pleutyfuily over them, stand
over uight, drain dry as possible, and
add twelve good szed onions sliced,
two quarts of good vinegar, two pounds
of sugar two tablespoons each of ground
mustard and allspioe. one tablespoon of
cloves, one tablespoon of black pepper;
mix all thoroughly. cook until tender,
but not soft enough to fall to pieces.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-22

ARTISTIC circles in New York are re-
ported to be agog with excitement be-
cause one Of the most popular and tai
ented young artists Of that city, Charles
Y. Harris. a former Californian by the
way, has married a professional model,
MISS Mercy Joyce. And yet, II there
is any significance in terms, MIR. Harris
must now be blest with a model wife.