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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21
Soap for Hog Cholera.

Cor. Prairie Farmer.
have kept hogs for over 40 years,
with never a sick one, though the so,
called hog-cholera has often been prev
alent all around me......I attribute this
exemption to the regular supply of
soap,suds which | have always given
them. Every washing.day, except in
extremely cold weather, all the suds is
emptied into the swill- barrel, and the
hogs drink it greedily. do not think
the suds any better for the contact
with dirty clothes, but where only a
few hogs are kept, the weekly suds
seems about the amount needed. Those
who make the suds specially for the
purpose, should mix about three pints
or two quarts of good soft soap with q
barrel of water, stir to foam and give
it to the pigs one to three times g
week, and they will be all right.
O. M. G.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21
Simple Remedy for Cabbage Worms

Farmers Home Journal.
Brof Riley announces the discovery
of remedy for the cabbage worm
which is easily applied and, he says,
has proved entirely satisfactory with
Mr.. Erwin, of New York, who first
discovered it. 1t is simple ice>cold
water applied at mid>day directly to
the worms by pouring or sprinkling on
them. The insects curl up and roll off
dead, and the cabbages are revived by
the cooling application. Of course. it
is best used in the heat Of the day. In
case ice water is not at hand he says
very cold spring water will do pretty
well. When we think of the effect on
our own persons plunge into an ice
bath has in July day we will not
wonder that the tender little larva Of
the Pieris rape should dump hims elf
into direst eternity when cruelty treat
ed to cupful Of this "cold pizen."
Cabbage growers should cut this out
and try it next summer.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21

NeaPs State Gazette: A school
teacher ought to resent it with club
when a lummux calls him "Profes-
sor." He is no professor; and be-
sides that word has become so ridicu-
lousy general that it's generally
ridiculous. A man with a trained
hog or a corn salve, or squeaky fid-
die is rated with philosophers and
scientists. Don't insult your COM
mon school teachers any more.
West Tennessee Wing: Commenc-
ing with last Wednesday President
Cleveland will draw salary of $137
day for four years. Few men out
side of newspaper offices are paid such
salary as the President receives.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21

Is the name of hourishing village in
Coffee county, Georgia, on the line of
the Brunswick and Albany railroad.
Mr.. D. E. Gaskin, a well known
citizen of that village, writes under
date of December 22d:
Soon after my marriage, about four
years ago, my wife was stricken with
some trouble peculiar to her sex, which
broke down her general health. In
this condition she was soon after at
tackled with Infammatory Rheuma>
tism of such a severe type that it made
her cripple. She was reduced in
flesh to sixty.fve pounds, and came
very near losing her life. She was att
tended by three good physicians who
treated her with some benefit. but the
swelling in her joints never left her.
Last summer the Rheumatism returned
in still more severe and painful form
which seemed to defy the skill of all
the doctors. She would almost 90
frantic with pain, and would lie and
scream all day. A friend of mine,
who is an engineer on the Brunswick
q Albany railroad, suggested that |
should use Swift's Specific Is. S. S.,
which did. After she had taken one
small bottle she was up and able to
walk over the house, and after taking
the six small bottles she is now able to
do any kind of house work; the Swell>
ing has gone, all the pain has left her,
and she is in better health than she
ever was. The treatment before using
the 5wift's Specific cost me between
$3.50 to $500, and the SIX bottles Of
5. S. s. cost me six dollars.
1t is certainly the most wonderful
medicine and the best blood purifier in
the world. The proprietors should let
the world know about it.
NoTE-The S. S. S. Company wish
to caution purchasers in regard to the
numerous limitations of their goods,
Some carry the lie on their face, pur>
porting to be vegetable remedies |;
when, in fact, they are really strong
solutions of poisonous minerals-as
Mercury, Potash, etc. Be careful to
get the genuine.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer
3, Atlanta, Ga.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21
A Mean Old General Routed.

Old General Debility" has been
put to fight in. Arkansas, with happy
results. From ,Brinkley, from Webb
City, and from Walnut Ridge, Messrs.
P. R. Anderson, E. M, Taylor and F.
S. Pinchbeck respectively, write that
they were all afflicted with general de-
bility, and received solid ben6t from
Browns Iron Bitters. This is pleasant
TO know, not only for Arkansas people.
but for all sections Of the country
where General Debility has counted
victims by the thousand. For sale
everywhere.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21
Bleaching Evaporated Fruit.

1t has been customary of late to use
sulphur fumes for bleaching fruit in
the new and popular fruit evaporators.
We find the following treatment of the
subject in the New York Tribune
Professor E. W. Hilgard, of the
University of Californie, has investiga.
ted the effects of sulphur fumes upon
fruit previous to evaporating, but
sometimes applied afterward, and gives
in an official bulletin notable conclu.
sions against the process. Of two
specimens Of apricots, one dried in the
safe, d-fashioned way, the other
subjected to the modern bleaching
treatment, he found that the sulphric
acid naturally contained Gas sulphates)
in the ash of all fruits was nearly quad
rupled by the artificial addition, so as
to from almost quatrer Of one per
cent of the weight of the air-dried fruit:
aside from the chemical analysis,
the taste could easily observe the differ
ence in favor OF the unsulphured fruit.
The latter had plainly and decidedly
the natural flavor of the apricot, which
was at once impressed on the palate
when taken in the mouth, without
chewing. The sulphured fruit lacked
the odor, and the first impression pro.
duced on the palate was that of an
acid, followed by the natural flavor
only after some time, or on chewing.
No one tasting in the dark could have
mistaken one for the other, or failed
to prefer the unsulphured fruit, which,
nevertheless, has darker tint, and
would by most persons not have been
chosen, by the eye, for its looks.
Apart from the lighter tint secured
for the dried fruit by sulphuring, it is
claimed that fruit so treated will remain
free from insect pests even if afterward
dried in the sun. If this is so it must
be because the outside is rendered dis
tasteful to them, as it is to the human
palate, by the excess of acid and lack
of flavor. Of course, sulphuring after
drying would kill all eggs that might
have been laid during the process but
in that condition the fruit absorbs so
much of the sulphurous acid (Which
afterward becomes sulphuric) as to be
absolutely Objectionable on the score
of health, besides being deprived Of
nearly all its flavor"
For these sufficient reasons sulphur
ing is Objectionable in proportion to its
extent, and the less of it the better, to
the point of absolute safety by non-use.
Also, consumers should know that the
most inferior fruit may be made by
this process to look white as the best
that light brownish color indicates
the absence of artificial bleaching, and
the possession of the full natural flavor;
and that "fruit dried in close driers is
exempt from insect eggs without use Of
sulphur"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21
Willacoochee

Is the name of fourishing village in
Coffee county, Georgia, on the line of
the Brunswick and Albany railroad.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21
Bucklen's ArniCa SalVe.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup>
tons, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price % cents per box. For sale by
j. B. Ritchey. may10-1y
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21
BRYAN Tyson.

CallOw youth before looking-glass,
stroking chin: ISIS, l thing l must
get me a razor" Sister: "Do, Bob;
a beard-raiser.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21
Hog Cholera.
farmers Home Journal.
Capt. R. r. McGregor, Upton
county, sends the following hog
cholera preventive:

Apply alittle on the back and be-
hind the ears of all your hogs every
two or three weeks. Give a table
spoonful Of the soap at the same
time, The hogs will eat the soap
greedily.
Capt. McGregor says he has treated
his hogs in this manner for twenty
years, and never had sick hog when
his neighbors all around him would
lose their hogs.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21

In home they have pillow shams;
in some boarding houses they only
have sham pillows.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-09

Indian schools are about to be es-
tablishcd N Nevada.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-09
Not Much Consolation.

'Well there's this consolation TO
your folks In the west" remarked an
eastern man, ''that if the grasshoppers
eat up your crops your chickens will
get fat on the grasshoppers. You can
live on chickens"
Live on chickens!" retorted the
passenger from the west, Give on
chickens! You don't know them To-
cuts, guess. Guess you never seed
'em when they come down out of the
sky like a cloud, an just famishing.
Chickens get fat on locustsi Now
that's good. Why man, it's right the
other way-right the other way. The
locusts get fat on the chickens. In
four minutes after the 'hoppers strike
your place there's nothin' lett O. your
chickens but the bones and a stray
feather Or two. Back in "a an old
Brahma rooster of nina swallowed
the fist hopper that lit near him,
but that's the only one he ever got,
cause the other 'hoppers buried him
six inches deep and eat him up so
quick that the one he'd just swallow
ed hoped out Of his crop as lively as
a cricket. Stranger, if ye'd go out
west and talk about chickens geGtin'
fat on locusts they'd laugh at We an
call ye a tenderfoot."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-09
The Dupe OF Sharpers,

Samuel Brown, aged IS years, a
rich farmer living near Bustleton,
about ten miles from this plsce, says a
Bordentown, y. j., telegram 10 the
New York Times, was fi8eced oHt of
81, 900 yesterday by two sharpers, who
are supposed to hail from Philadel>
phia. The old gentleman was visited
at his home by sharper mol, who
desired to hire piece Of land on
which to erect advertising signs.
While on the way to examine the
place they were joined by sharper No.
2, who engaged them IN conversation
anu made himself very agreeable.
The conversation finally drifted to
money matters. and sharper No. 2,
offered to bet 1920 that there was not
man thereabouts who could show
81, 900 in cash. Sharper No. 1 and
the farmer held q consultation ana
decided to accept the bet. The latter
FASTENED to Burlington and drew $3.50
from the bank there, and borrowed
$3.50 from friend to make up the de-
sired amount. He then returned to
Rustleton, and rejoined his newly
found friends. While Brown was
counting the money to prove that he
had 81, 900 sharper No. 2 grabbed the
whole pile, and, together with sharper
No. 1, Jumped into buggy and drove
off at full speed. Farmer Brown was
dazed at this unexpected action of his
agreeable acquaintances, but finally
informed his son of his loss. The lat
ter made every effort TO catch the
thieves. but did not succeed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-09
Almost Willing to Sacrifice Himself.
Atlanta Constitution.

A negro and his family living on
the Decatur division OF the Louisville
& Nashville railroad recently at
tempted one OF the most sensational
swindles Of the day. There are ten
children in the family, and the hus~
band aad wife find it hard work to
feed so many mouths. At family
council it was decided that one OF tie
children should sit down on the rail
road track and be run over by a pas.
senger train. The parents would then
sue the company for damages, with
which the remainder Of the young
sters could be fed, clothed, and edu~
Gated. One of the boys was SO much
struck with the project that he vol
unteered TO sacrifice himself for the
good of the others. Shortly before
the train was due he took his seat On
on the track and waited. The train
came laundering along. The little
darkey held the fort. He was true
grit until the engine got within ten
feet of him, when he gave an uGearth-
II yell, and with bound into midair
made tracks. The authorities invests
gated the matter, and the above facts
all came out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-09
PATHS Bad Brother.
Albany Journal.

4 certain wine shop in Third
avenue, near Fourteenth street, is
frequented almost exclusively by
Italian singers and musicians. I
dropped in there the other evening
for glass of chianti, and while sip
ping it saw shabby dressed man
enter. After glance round the place
he cropped into chair with the fa-
niliar air of one accustomed to this
resort. "That chap" said I to my
companion, looks ike Don Bazillo ia
The Barber Of Seville.'". "He ought
to-" was the reply; ''for that was the
part he used to sing. Don't you know
him? He is Adelina PATHS brothern
''Patti's brotherl Does she recognize
him when she cones to New Yorkg''
Certainly she does; though I am
told that sometimes, when he goes to
the Windsor TO call On her, the ser
wants tell him that snehs out when she
is in" "What does he do now2o
"WeII, he can't be said to sing. ex-
cept when he is asked to drink.
Then ne sings out quickly enough. i
think it just possible that his illus
tr0ius sister gives small allowance to
him, for he manages to live without
harder work than that IN which you
see hina engaged at this moment
holding down cane-bottom chair.
I've seen a great deal in print about
PATHS castle in Wales, but never any
thing OF the abode of her American
brother. To tell the truth, don't
know where it probably in some
obscure street on the east side He
used to be a fairly good singer, but in
no way fit to be estimated along with
his sisters, Adelina and Carlotta."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-09
A LOVERS GALE.

''Just look and listen, girls! What
a wind storm for the last of May
Perhapswe had better not go, and Mrs.
Runkel turned away from the window
and paused in the process Of drawing
on her gloves.
'Oh, mother" demonstrated Belle.
You don't mean to say that you'd
be willing to miss seeing the process
sion for fear of having your hair
blown about a bit! She isn't at all
patriotic, is she, Miss Myers"
Little Miss Myers" looked up and
her lips moved, but no words came.
However, nobody noticed the dress
makers unusually pale face and evi-
dent agitation, and ''Good-by, Miss
Myers" the three called out gaily five
minutes later as they started off for
the Haines Building, on Broadway,
where a window had been reserved
for them.
'Good-by," responded Miss Myers,
and tried to smile as she spoke; but
when the door closed and she was
alone she bent over the machine with
very grave face and a mind that was
not SO much absorbed in her work as
in the associations and recollections
this solemn holiday never failed TO
awaken.
Panoramawise then passed before
her mental vision the old hone
stead in the south, the honored father
taking up arms to defend his all, the
sanity mother committing her child
to God's keeping, when, home and
husband both snatched from her by
wars cruel red hands. she sank be-
meath the blow. Then came the image
of the handsome, happy hearted
young Northerner, Henry Dean, who
twenty years ago had been visiting at
the next plantation aud whom the
firing on Sumter had called away
from the girl he had loved the day
after be had spoken, and she, when
the sparks Of rebellion had fared up
into the fierce blaze of civil war, and
her father had enrolled himself among
the forces sent ID resist those other
forces with her lover in the ranks
then she smothered every lingering
hope OF a possible union, and set her
self to the task of forgetting. But.she
never could forget and soon gave up
the endeayor, and as the years passed
5y and no word came to tell her he
had escaped the fate so bravely met by
SO maay thousands of his country
men, Agnes loved to think of HIM as
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-09
ret to learn the blessedness of obedis

| yet 10 learn Lne oleSsednesS OF obedls
ence."
Some time ago a friend of the
writer's offered reward of $500 for
/ the discovery Of marriage register
Of the highest Importance in sui
which he had on hand. A wonder
full story was sent to him OF the dis
coyery of the desired entry in an old
register. A great snowstorm had
broken through the vestry window
and nearly spoiled the parish register.
1T had become necessary to overhaul
them to inspect damages, and the
missing entry had been thus mlrs-
culously discovered. Fortunately,
my friend was not very credulous
man, and he went to a great expense
with lawyers and experts to test the
value of the documents before paying
the $500. 1t was then discovered
that the registry was skillful forg-
cry on the part of the parson, who
found 1t necessary to fly the country.
The following case was related to
me by bishop Of the church of Eng
land:
There was man who had officiated
as a clergyman in a large town
for about fifteen years. At the lapse
OF that time it was accidently discov~
cred that he was an imposter. A new
bishop came, or rather the man went
into a new diocese; anyhow, the re-
quest came that he would produce his
letters Of orders. Letters of orders
are precious and remarkable docu-
ments; if once lost they cannot be
replaced. The pseudo clergyman re-
piled, expressing his great regret that
IN the course of removal the letters
had been hopelessIy mislaid, bat hop
ed that the length of time in which
he had served Ia the diocese wodld be
a sufficient voucher. The bishop
wrote back to say that he regretted the
loss of the letters OF orders, and that
1t would be quite sufficient if he gave
exact dates, which wolld enable him
to refer to the diocesan registry. The
imposture then became known. It
was a matter of great anxiety to set
tie what had best be done under such
circumstances. Of course a very large
number of marriages had been per.
formed during these fifteen years, not
one Of which was legal. The first
suggestion was that an act should b
passed making these marriages legal.
There were objections to this course.
It was considered that an immense
deal Of pain would be caused by the
publication of the invalidity of these
marriages and that peculiar hardship
would be done in the case of children
where one Or both parents had died
in the meantime. On a certain even>
ing there was a solemn discussion be-
twee.a the bishop of the diocese and
the Home Secretary, the result of
which was a communication to the
false clergyman that if he left England
Immediately, and forever, proceedings
would not be taken, but that other
wise he would be prosecuted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-09
Curious Facts.

4
Indian schools are about to be es-
tablishcd N Nevada.
Four million false teeth are manu-
factured in this country every year.
Cayenne pepper comes from British
Guinea, the capital of which is Cay~
enne.
Irwin, Pa, boasts of one armed
bicyclist, and Chicago claims one with
q cork leg.
Miss Ella 3. Kidd, of Keeae, KY,
has just completed crazy quilt which
cantains 100,O pieces and 94S, 5SS
stitches.
Horses can now be supplied with
artificial tails of the most beautiful
quality. The largest tail factory is at
Bridgeport, ct.
Ia Senegambia the incubation of
cattle against pleuro~ pneumonia and
small>poy has been practiced for CEN
turies.
Codfshing banks in Alaska exceed
those of the Atlantic.
Fifth avenue, New York, is the
richest street IN the world.
s Pluabago mine has been discov-
cred in Mercer County, Pa.
The highest point ever reached by
man was by balloon-27,0 900.
Nearly one~haIf of the people in the
United States are engaged in CONNER
cial pursuits.
II o cars or wagons or vehicles of
any kind are known in the capital Of
Madagascar.
Washington selected the sites for
the national capital and for the West
Point Military Academy.
Young married couples off on their
wedding tour have in times past de-
vised q good many able schemes to-
conceal from fellow travellers how
recent their happiness was, but none
that we ever heard of equaled in in
ventive genius the young pair from
.Somerville, who borrowed a 3,year
old boy from q neighbor to take along
with them to avoid suspicion.
In the United States some $50, 900
miles of railroad track are now laid,
and this rests on 800, 600, 900 ties, the
product OF 3 5000 600 acres, an area
larger than the state Of Connecticut
and Rhode Island. Thirty years ere
required to grow trees of suitable size,
and the average life of q tie is seven
years; therefore 16, 971, 420 acres of
gro wing forest are needed to supply
the annual demands of the roads that
now exist. This forest area is larger
than New Hampshire, Vermont and
Massachusetts,. And inasmuch as the
miles of railroad are growing every
year, this calculation shows in an inn
pressible way the demands which our
forests will be called upon to meet for
this one item alone.
Amt you afraid the
police will come here and bother you
if you sell beer on SundayP Bar
keeper-"The police don't bother nae
when they come on Sunday. They
know how busy I am waiting on pay
ing customers, so they go right to the
keg themselves, and draw off as much
as they want without bothering me at
ali. It is astonishing how much beer
a policeman will drink, off and ON,
during a hot Sunday"