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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-07-27


WASHINGTON, d. O., JULY 2, 1885.
The copartnership between Henry A Clarke and
John t. Given having been dissolved, shall con-
tinue the Wood and Coal business at tho old stand
of CLARKE h GIVEN, cor 18th and sts N. W.,
where shall be prepared to fill all orders with
which may be favored.
Thanking the public for the liberal patronage
extended the late firm for many years past, 1 ask
for a continuance of the same.
Due notice will be given my friends and the
public generally of the location and opening OF
my new business ofiice.
The Office heretofore occupied by Clarke 4
Given, No. 424 10th st. N. w, will be closed on
and after this date. HENRY A. CLARKE,
jy3 Cor 18th and sts. N. w.
fs-PRoF. oRTENsTEIN, THE POPULAR
Guitar Teacher, &C., will teach during July, Au-
ing, and Harmony at summer rates. Inquire at
456 O st. N. W. or 17I2 Pa av. N. W. je29-lm
se-H. A. sELIGsoN,
1924 Penn. Av. N W.,
Sells Virginia Claret (Norton's Seedling) at
80 CENTS A GALLON.
California and Ohio Wines. jel5-tf
tg-H. o. CANDEE, vITAPATH PHYSICIAN
1 employ the best health resources of nature,
scientifically applied through VITAL Nervaura,
Electricity, Vegetable Remedies, Food, Water, Air,
IIeat, Light, Ozone, Electric Vapor Baths, &c.
discard all Min rails, Opiates, Mercury, Quinine,
Alcoholic Stinulants. / prepare all my own
vegetable remedies Consultation free. Call or
send for testimonials Of wonderful cures.
treat all diseases, acute or chronic. Office and
reception parlors, 022 st., bet. 9th and 10th sts.
Washington, ID. O.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-07-27

nj ORWOOD INSTITUTE - 1919 AND 1914
IN Fourteenth street, Fourteenth Street
Circle. Select boarding school for young ladies'
Session 1886 opens Sept. 80, 1885, Early ap-
plication necessary, number Of boarders will be
limited. my14-6mo
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LOST AND FOUND,
BOARDING.
EDUCATIONAL.

NEW GERMAN METHOD FOR THE
IN piano, by which pupils can accomplish In
few months time what is ordinarily done In years
with the old methods, Is founded upon thorough
bass principles, and particularly adapted to new
beginners. Parents, teachers, and scholars will
welcome the instructions contained in this
method; course of lessons win easily convince
them that 1t is what they desire. For terms and
other information call at the studio, or address
CHAs. W. THOMPSON, 911 NJ st. H. W. je29-d
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02

A little borax put in the water in
which scarlet napkins and red bordered
towels are to be washed will prevent
them fading.
TO take stains out OF mahogany, use
spirits of salts, six parts; salt of lemon,
one part. Mix them and drop a little
on the stains until they disappear.
Hot salt and water is the best thing
with which to clean mating. Give it II
thick coating af varnish when dry.
This will preserve it and improve its
looks.
Dough crumpets are Boston fav-
orites, and easily made. A pound Of
ordinary bread dough, white or brown,
needs half-cupful of white sugar, three
ounces of butter, and three eggs, to be
beaten hard into it. Bake III muffin
rings well buttered.
Don't peel your potatoes and throw
away the best part of them, but prepare
them nicely with their coats on" steam
them until done. remove their skins
with knife and fork; place in tureen
or platter; spread butter on them quite
freely; sprinkle with salt and pepper
set in the oven to melt the butter; then
pour over them liberal quantity of
sweat cream; serve Immediately.
To make green pea soup, put two
quarts green peas with four quarts water,
boil two hours, keeping steam waste sup
piled by fresh boiling water; strain them
from liquor, return that to pot, rub peas
through sieve, chop an onion fine, add
small sprig mint, let boil ten minutes.
stir a tablespoonful flour into two of
butter, add pepper aud salt to taste, stir
smoothly into boiling soup.
To corn beef or pork, take one gallon
of water, one and half pounds of salt,
a half pound of sugar and half ounce
of saltpeter. Boil these together until
the scum ceases to rise. Skim as the
sediment rises to the surface; then take
it off and set it away to cool. When
cold pour it over the meat. The meat
will be sufficiently corned to use in eight
or ten days. 1t may be kept for weeks.
One of the most simple and eifectual
means for cleaning vessels in which
odorous liquids have been kept is to
wash them with a mixture of powdered
black mustard and warm water. Before
using this all visible remains of the for
mer contents should be removed by
scalding, securing, or by agitating shot
or pebbles with water in the vessels.
Another method is to rinse them with q
solHtion of permanganate of potassium,
accompanied or followed by diluted sui
phuric acid. In many cases a solution
of chlorinated lime or chlorinated soda
will answer the same purpose.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02

To keep Polly in good health the diet
question must be most carefully studied.
The subjoined bill of fare is the only
suitable one to keep them in good
health, and enable them to enjoy happy
old age.
Parrots in their wild state live upon
ripe fruit, and tame ones also enjoy it.
Sour or unripe fruit is very injurious to
them. Seeds they also live upon when
in their native land, and so destructive
are they to the crops, that boys mounted
on ponies are occupied in driving off the
gray parrots, which, we understand, fly
in tlocks of 10, 900 at time; and from
our own observation of what one bird
can do in the way of destruction (as an
apple is soon entirely picked to pieces
and thrown piecemeal away, the seeds
only being eaten), we can easily calcu-
late what 10, 900 birds can do in short
space of time. A whole orchard must
become ruined in less than two hours if
the birds are allowed to remain in it.
A tin of hemp seed or crushed Indian
corn should be their daily diet. Alter
nate it by giving cold boiled rice, with
separate allowance Of well soaked
bread, with the water fairly squeezed
out; bread is soaked thoroughly when
boiling water is poured upon it. Never
feed your bird with hot food their beaks
are very sensitive BY no means give your
parrot any animal food, not even bone
to bite, as some people say, for amuse-
ment. Animal food renders the bird
savage, i'll and unhappy. 1t causes the
bird to pluck out its feathers. What
forl Why, to chew the quill to procure
a taste of the animal food when the mas
ter or mistress is not inclined to give it
any. The bird is taught to become a
cannibal. and he becomes veritable
lover of flesh, which he is not particular
in selling hold Of, whether it be upon
the thumb or finger bone. The practice
of giving the birds bones to bite is not
at all a good one. 1t teaches them to
destroy their perches, or tear anything
they can lay hold Of. The parrot re
quires no more amusement than to be
taken notice of, spoken to, sang to,
whistled to, and caressed by those whom
he has q preference for; no one else
should be allowed to touch him. A tea
spoonful of water once day he will en-
Joy, but no trough of water must be put
in his cage. Never give your parrot the
least particle OF butter, fat, milk, OF
greasy food of any description.
When you see your parrot continually
pluming itself, you may be sure it is in
good health. Parrots seem to possess q
little of our vanity, for they love admir-
alton, while i'll health renders them, as
it renders us, careless of it. Keep youl
bird our of draught. Cover it over al
night time, then repeat several times any
sentence you wish it to say. Very often
they learn it after two or three nights
practice. Its attention is not attracted
by anything, save the sound of youl
voice, when it is covered over Detroit
Free Press
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
SELECT SETTINGS.

A Southern negro won't eat a black
sheep under any circumstances.
A good sized dog requires more food
to keep him in order than q siX-year- cd
boy or girl.
1t is said that no two locomotive bells
sound alike, though they are cast from
the same metal in the same mold.
A set of buttons made from the finger
nails of a human being adorns the shirt
front and cuffs of a San Francisco man.
In France, as we'll as in Italy, Mary is
frequently added to n distinctively mas
culine name as q remembrance of the
Virgin. Thus Hugo was Victor Marie,
and the late pope was Giovanni Maria.
A silver dollar weighs very nearly an
ounce. Hence any letter not heavier
than dollar can 90 for single two
cent stamp. A five-cent piece added
will give the ounce. If you have not
the silver dollar, five nickles and small
copper cent will give an ounce.
The Indians of Mexico have a plan of
wetting their blankets to form them into
shields in warfare. They are hand
woven, and fuled until thick and water
proof. 1t is found that they even turn
aside bullets, either by causing them to
glance, or by swaying to the blow, and
thus defeating the penetrative force Of
the missile.
The story is circumstantiully told by
the London Times that certain baronet,
watching to catch the thief who nightly
stole eggs from his pantry, saw rats re.
moving them by an ingenious process.
One rat claspcd an egg with all his legs,
turned on his back, and was drawn oil
with his load by his companions who
held his tail between their teeth rs tug
rope.
When one ear is deaf it is almost
uniformally the left. An immense num-
Der of persons rely upon the right TO do
duty for the two. Persons who have
been deprived Of the hearing of the left
ear for a length of time can usually hear
sounds at distance better than those
whose hearing is divided between two
ears, because the single ear has been
trained to an unusual sharpness.
A singular library existed in 1885 at
Warrenstein, near Cassel. The books
composing it, or rather the substitutes
for them. were made of wood and every
one of them was a speciman of differ
cnt tree. The back was formed of its
| bark, and the sides were constructed OF
! polished pieces of the same stock. When
put together the whole formed a box,
and inside of it were stored the fruit,
seed and leaves, together with the moss
which grew on its trunk and the insects
which fed upon the tree. Every volume
correspondent in size.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
CLEANLINESS of Egyptians.

An observing foreigner can detect in
consistencies in every nation he visits,
for all nations indulge in that privilege.
Matthew Arnold says that an English
man is not in the least disturbed when
anomalies are pointed out in his coun-
try's constitution.
The higher and middle class of Egyp.
tian Moslems are scrupulously clean.
Their religion compels them TO wash
themselves frequently, and thereby pre-
serve their health. But the foreigner
will see in the streets of Ciaro a richly
dressed, yelled lady, whose person is as
clean as frequent and prolonged
hand little child with face besmeared
with dirt, and with clothes which look
as if they had been worn for months
without being washed.
The reason for this strange inconsist-
ency is that an unwashed and stability
dressed child is believed to be less liable
to the dreaded evil eye.
Another Inconsistency is that an
Egyptian will go again and again to the
bath in the same dirty shirt. He will
wash himself thoroughly, will be "sham-
pooed" from head to foot, and then put
on that dirty shirt, because his ideas of
cleanliness do not extend to his linen.
When the Egyptians have washed their
clothes, they pour clean water over them,
saying: "There is no God but God; and
Mahomet is His prophet"
Prayer is such an important duty for
a Mahommedan that it is called 1.-THE Key
of Paradise:" but he is taught that no
PRAYER will be accepted from a person
who is unclean. Therefore he washes
himself before praying, clips his nails,
and performs similar acts for purifying
his body. Not only his body, but the
ground and mat upon which he prays
must also be clean. Mahomet was care
full to provide his followers with one
preventive against disease. - Youths
Companion.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
WISE WORDS.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
1t is easier to retain health than to re-
gain it.
The first and worst of all frauds is to
cheat ones self.
Simplicity of character is the natural
result of profound thoughts.
The rays of happiness, like those of
light, are colorless when unbroken.
Count on the fidelity of the man who
his soul in his face.
Chcerfulness is an excellent wearing
quality. 1t has been called the bright
weather of the heart.
A contented mind -heart-sunshinc -
takes glory out CT gloom, and can turn
the most untoward events so that they
will prove faithful spring of unmeas-
ured JOY.
Witty sayings are as easily lost as the
pearls slipping off broken string; but
a word of kindness is seldom spoken in
vain. 1t is seed which, even when
dropped by chance, springs up into a
flower.
In vain they talk of happiness who
never subducd an impulse In obedience
to a principle. He who never sacrificed
present to future good, or a personal
to general one, can speak of happiness
only as the blind do of colors.
Do not examine too infinitely the &C
ton of your friends nor the motives
which actuated them. If they have
acted with want of delicacy, appear
not to understand it; or, what is more
simple, think that it was mistake on
their mart.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
HEALTH HINTS.

Drinking water, says hygienic writer,
may be tested in this simple way: "Fill
a pint bottle three quarters full of the
water. Dissolve in it one half teaspoon
full of the best white sugar Set it away
in warm place for forty-cight hours.
If the water becomes cloudy it is unfit to
drink"
1t is far safer to rest for a few minutes
or an hour if need be, than to take ar
dent spirits, tea, coffee, or any stimu-
liant to give you such an artificial
strengthen activity, rather that you
may be able to go on with your work,
soon to be successful by q reaction,
permanent loss of power if not sickness.
Seasickncss is an affection of the
brain. You may take twenty doses to
settle your stomach; it won't settle {;
but five minutes sleep will settle it. The
various nostrums provided for The nau.
sea are worthless. The best treatment is
simple food. free from grease, little
lemonade, and lying on deck flat on your
back. The only cure is time.
For hccough, moisten granuated sugar
with good vinegar. OF this give to an
infant from few grains to a teaspoon
full. The effect is almost instantaneous
and the dose seldom needs to be repeated
This, according to an exchange, has been
tried for all ages, from infants month
old to those on the down hill side of
life, and has never been known to fail
you are bitten by mad dog, says
bio Lewis, instantly press the bitten
part with your hand us hard as possible.
This will arrest circulation and absorp-
ton. Cry out tor Il red hot iron. Push
it into the puncture made by the tooth.
This, if thoroughly done. will be sure to
destroy the virus Ii hydrophobia be
developed, a hot vapor- bath is undoubt-
ediy the best remedy.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


Professor Caldwell, of Cornell Univer-
sity, N. Y, has made public the follow
ing as the economical value of the
several substances below, based upon
their several values as flesh formers and
fat-formers, those starred being the re,
suit of German analyses. The result OBJ
tanned from corn-fodder must be taken
as implying the whole stalk and beans,
since the edible parts, to stock, are we'll
known to be nearly or quite of the value
of the best hay. 1t will be noticed that
the Southern cow.pea has a higher the
oretical value than any of the other
plants named. The table is as follows:
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
How Gilt Edged Hut,er is Made.

Orestes Pierce, a widely know breeder
of Jerseys and writer of valuable arti-
Giles upon the breeding and management
of cattle, gives through the Breeders' Ga
sette description of the method followed
on his farm in making and marketing
butter. This description is worthy the
careful study of all who make butter,
and especially of those who, having it in
their power to provide the needed appi-
ances for making butter of very high if
not OF the very best quality, have no just
idea of what is needed. Mr.. Pierce
says:
Our barn is as warm, comfortable, and
clean as it can be made; the food, after
much experimenting, has become clover
hay, sound corn meal and wheat mid
dlings; the ration per day is twelve
pounds of hay, eight pounds of mid
dlings, and four pounds of corn meal :;
water, with the chill taken off, ad libi-
tum. This ration gives us the largest
yield of butter at smallest cost. We
use sawdust and ground plaster for
bedding, which keeps the cows and
tie-up clean and sweet and does not
soil the udders or stick to them.
Milking is done twice each day, the
twenty-four hours being divided as near
ly as possible into equal periods. Each
mixer is required to milk rapidly in
silence, 10 strip his COW dry, and to use
no violence or harshness. The milk is
strained into large cans, which at the
close of milking are taken to the
dairy; there the milk is again strained
into deep-setting cans and set in run
ming spring water at an average temper
ature of forty ight degrees it is skinned
in thirty six hours, and the cream placed
to ripen in a warm place; it is stirred
twice day and its condition judged by
eye and taste; when ripe it should be
slightly sour, thickened and not sticky
when lightly touched with the finger.
Ripe cream is churned in a barrel
churn (Stoddardl. The churn is first
scalded, then rinsed with cold water,
then the cream put in and temperature
taken. The temperature should be
sixty two degrees in summer and sixty
four degrees in winter; if it varies from
this the cream must be heated or cooled
until it is right.
We churn slowly at first, stopping
frequently to allow the gas to escape
then faster to forty revolutions pei
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
Muscle-Mak- Heat and fal
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Insects Injurious TO the Apple.

In the second annual report of the
Massachusetts State Experiment station
appears a communication from Professor
). T. Maynard. in which are given the
results of observations in regard to plum
weevil or curculio. as affecting the apple
crop, compared also with the coding
moth and the apple maggot Follow
ing are in brief statements made:
at has been often noticed early in
summer, that apples nearly all fall from
the trees when quite small. This was
especially the case during the past
season, and a careful investigation was
made to ascertain the cause. A Seek
no-further apple tree, which blossomed
abundantly and got an unusually large
crop of fruit, was selected. When from
one-half to one inch in diameter, the
fruit began to drop in large numbers a
large number of these apples were ex-
amined, and out of 800 it was found
that all but three were punctured by the
plum curculio, and in every puncture was
found an egg or small larve. The worms
commonly found in the apple at this
time have generally been supposed to be
the Larvae of the codling moth, yet in
the number examined only four or five of
the larvae Of the latter were found.
1.-The remedies which have been most
successfully employed to prevent the in
jury of the plum crop by these larvae are
two; First, Earring the tree and catch
ing the insects and diseased fruit in q
sheet; second that of planting the trees
in poultry yards. The size of apple trees
prevents the first remedy being applied.
and in place of the second tits suggested
that swine be substituted for poultry in
apple orchards in sufficient numbers to
eat the punctured fruit as soon as it
drops.
"The apple crop Is also much injured
by the larvae of the coding moth, as
well as the apple maggot, as the latter
Injuries the fruit by making burrows IN
the flesh, many larvae of maggOts often
working in the same apple. The eggs
are laid bya small ily-some what resemb-
ling the common house-fly, but not more
than one-half Its size-through small
opening in the skin of the apple made by
its ovipositor. 1t shows especial liking
for the thin skinned, mild, sub acid or
sweet summer or autumn varieties, but
also attacks some winter varieties. Its
ravages within the past five years have
become so extensive in some localities
that prompt measures must be taken for
its determination or it may work the total
destruction of the apple crop.
The practice of pasturing swine in
the summer is being recommended and
adopted by many of our leading farmers
and stock breeders, and the orchardist
must combine to certain extent this
branch of business with his own if he
would be successful, for the destruction
of the fruit as it falls from the tree is the
only safe and sure remedy now known to
prevent injury by these three insects"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02

VICTIMS OF ALCOHOL who have dis
covered your terrible mistake, you have
only to let rum and tobacco alone and
resort promptly to the famous Temper
ance Restorative, VINEGAR BTTTERs, in
order to be cured, not only of your orig
inal ailments, but of those which the
poison you have been taking has caused.
1t will soon put you on your feet again.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
OycrshOt the Mark.

The Washington correspondent of the
Cleveland Leader tells story of the Rev.
DIR. Newman's determination to visit the
criminal court of Yeddo, when acting as
inspector of consuls under General
Grant. lie was told that he would not
be able to gain admittance, and a super
cilious smile of conscious power swept
across his Websterian face as he replied
he guessed he'd try.
He did try, and that all alone. lie
was stopped at the door of the court by
the guard, who told him he could not
enter. The doctor then pulled his card
from his pocket, and putting his white
plug hat little more firmly upon his
head, he stretched himself to his full
height, and with a heavy frown handed
it to the guard through his interpreter,
telling him to take it to the Judge. Ac-
cording to the story read as follows
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02
REV. DIR. j. P. NEWMAN, D. D.,
LII D., T. ID. ..
Chaplain to the United States Senate,
And
Pastor of President U. s. Grant,
Washington, ID. c., U. S. of America.

1t was full ten minutes before the
guard came back, and when he did so
upon his heels followed the judges and
the officers OF the whole court. They
gathered around Newman and salaamed
and salaamed until it seemed that their
backs were of India rubber and their
stomachs contained the machinery of a
Chinese doll. After five minutes of such
gyrations, through the court interpreter
they told Mr.. Newman that they appre-
ciated the great honor that he would
confer upon them, but there was no one
great enough in rank to receive him.
They could not dishonor the government
with mean reception of so great a
dignitary. With this Newman had to
be content. His card had done the bust
ness, but he had struck too high, and he
left Japan without accomplishing his
desire.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02

An active trade in seagulls has sprung
up along the coast of Long Island. The
birds are poisoned by putting arsenic on
bits of fish or pork, and shipped to New
York, to taxidermists and dealers in
fancy feathers. They bring from fifty
TO seventy-tive cents, according to size.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-02

Irregular eating at restaurants is be-
coming fruitful source of dyspepsia in
our cities, according to an eminent
writer on hygiene