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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Cows ought to be MIXED with
great regularity for best results,
A well ventilated bedroom will
prevent morning headaches and lassi-
tude.
Oxen can be trained to mind a
quiet and determined voice without
this shouting. NJ b. Homestead.
BE careful how you doctor sick
fowls. More poultry is lost by inJu-
dicious dosing of various nostrums,
than by lack of attention when SEEK
Cincinnati Times.
Prof. Cook, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College, says that most OF the
failure to destroy potato bugs by Paris
green comes from waiting until eggs
have been laid on the vines before APP
plying it. Make the first application
just as the plants come up.
Ginger Crisps: Two cups of mo-
iasses, one cup OF sugar. one cup OF
butter, one egg, two tablespoonsiuis OF
ginger, one tablespoonful Of soda, and
use just rs little water, boiling, as will
dissolve the soda. Do not mix hard.
Roll thin and bake in quick oven,
Boston Globe.
The best varieties of lettuce for
summer use are the yellow butter and
the white summer cabbage. In deep,
well enriched soil they stand the heat
we'll and remain for long time in a
condition for use These varieties form
large heads, and on this account are
Objectionable to some persons. \.
Herald.
"A gardener who has an early
piece of ground remarks that green
peas for the early market are safer
crop for moderate but sure profits than
any other. The homegrown peas
have the preference over those shipped
from the South They can only be
grown protitably where cheap labor
can be had in picking them.
Grow s-nest: Fill deep pudding
tin or dish with apples cut in thin
slices; sugar and cinnamon, or lemon,
to sweeten and flavor to taste. and a
little water; cover with thick crust;
bake until apples are tender; serve
hot with hard sauce, or with cream
and sugar; be sure to cut air holes in
the crust to let the steam escape
Boston Budget
"A noted medical authority recon-
mends the following in case of diph-
liberia: Pour from twenty to forty
drops of mixture of equal parts OF
turpentine and carbolic acid into ket-
tie of water, kept simmering over a
slow fire, so that the air OF the sick
room will be constantly impregnated
with the odor of these two substances.
Chicago Times.
Fig Cake Filling: Three fourths
pound of figs, and one cup of raisins.
Chop these very fine, then add one cup
of brown sugar, lump of butter the
size Of an egg, four tablespoonful Of
currant jelly and one cup of water
Boil till done. Bottle it. This will
, keep some time, and is as nice to use
In loaf cake as for filling in layer cake
THE Household.
: "A mixture which is said to be {
: cure for undue perspiration of thu
r hands is made of a quarter of az
Y ounce of powdered alum. the white O
one egg, and enough bran to make {
T thick paste. After washing the hands
: apply this; let it remain on the hand
4 two or three minutes, and then wip,
o off with dry, soft towel. Luke
r warm water is better than hot or colt
If the skin is tender or incnpn" tt
8 chap.-N Y. Times.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09
ROLLED AWAY.
A Negro Who Apparently Is Not DESTROYS
of Becoming WISE

Ot nccohntuB WISE
There were half dozen of us wan
dering over the battlefield of Cold
Harbor, and while sitting down on an
old breastwork a colored man, about
sixty years old, came up. Pretty soon
some one asked him:
"Say, boy, do you know who is Presi-
dent of the United StatesP"
"Speck l doan', sab. Pze had so
much trubble wild my ole woman dat
rze dun forgot"
"Who is Governor of this Statep"
dunno. sab. De ole woman has
bin awful troublesome.
"You remember the war, don't you?'
IL members sunthin' bout soldiers
an shootin', but | amt VERY cl'ar
about it. De ole woman has bin jist
awful"
"Do you know what year this lisp"
"No, sab, but | know dat persin-
mons will be good purity soon. De ole
woman has sot me way back.
"You must have heard of Generals
Grant and Lee?'
"lf has Ize done forgot. Tell you
what de ole woman has burdened me
right down."
"What's the matter with the OLD
woman?"
"Rheumaticks, sab. Kept ME right
back all de time"
THAT too bad"
"Yes, sab, but she died last week an
de burden has been rolled off. Tze 60.
a chance now, an de fust thing 10
gwine to Farm am wheder de Widder
Coles will let me be hitched to her
black gal Susie for second wife. Yes,
sah-good-day, sab. "-Detrott Free
| Press
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09
Thad Stevens as a Surgeon.

Talking recently with relative OF
Thaddeus Stevens. l learned of an act
in his youth which resembled the sto-
ical heroism that was taught to the
youths of ancient Greece. He was born
with a club-foot. which was not only
malformed, but was twisted on one
side. His brother, who afterward sat
on the bench in Vermont. was similarly
disiigured in both of his feet. Thad-
deus was lame and sick!y up to his six
teenth or seventeenth year His twisted
foot was always great eyesore to him,
and one day, while his family was liv-
ing at Peacham, Caledonia County,
where he was born, his mother heard
him groaning and talking to himself
just outside the door of the house
Going outside, she found that he had
taken his cluh-foot in his lap. and with
his penknife had deliberately severed
the short tendons and was forcing the
foot straight, where he bound it with
splints on the side, tieing them on with
his handkerchief, which he had torn
into shreds, saying meanwhile to him.
self: IN fix you if | have to cut You
clear off," When his foot healed the
limb had been somewhat Strengthened.
but the ciub-foot remained as deforr
ity up to his death.-N T. Tribune.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09
METEORS ANALYZED.
The Various Substances Which They Bring
to the Earth.


The meteors coming to our earth
without, excepting as to their superb
cial vitrifcation, undergoing any
change, we are able, by subjectng them
to analysis, to derive from them some
precise facts respecting the constitu-
ton of the bodies in space. The first
fact, which comes out from hundreds
Of analyses, is, that they have not
brought single substance that is for
eign to our globe. About twenty-five
elements, all known to the chemistry
of this earth, have been recognized as
present in them. Among these, iron,
silicon, magnesium, nickel, sulphur,
phosphorus and carbon are the most
important. While they are all clad ex-
ternally in . common livery, meteor
ties, when examined in their fractured
parts, along with traits of similarity,
present considerable differences. They
have been classified, according to their
types, into four groups, according to
the proportion of iron they contained.
Those of the first group are composed
almost wholly of iron, which is known
as meteoric iron. 1t is always alleged
with nickel and a few other metals, and
contains carbon free or in combination,
as in steel, with frequently sulphuret
and phosphuret of iron in scattering
globules and grains 1t is always rec
ognizable by a single popularity in its
structure. If we mosten a polished
surface of it with an acid,
we shall Immediately observe
the appearance of numerous
straight lines, as fine and as true in
their parallelism as if made with an
cngraver's tool, and crossing one an
other in q network of regular geomet-
rical figures. These designs, called the
figures of Widmanstaetten after the
first observer of them, result from the
fact that the metal is not of homogene.
Gus constitution. 1t is composed OF
two alloys of iron and nickel, in crys.
talline condition, one of which, not
being affected by the acid, stands Out
in relief from the other, which is at
tackled by it. The meteorities of this
group are called holOsiderites, or al
iron, in distinction from the others
which contain also stony matters
They are vastly more rare than those
of the other groups. The stony sub
stances of the other groups consist
chiefly of silica in combination will
magnesia and peroxide of il on, as peri
dote or pyroxene. If these silcates art
in small proportion and thinly scattered
through the iron, they are syssiderites
if it is the iron that is in relatively small
proportion and appearing only in iso
lated grains, they are sporddoStderttes
In other meteorites, comparatively few
in number, no metallic iron can b.
perceived, and they are called osider
ties The most interesting specimen
among them are remarked by thel
dull black color, and general appear
ance like that of peat or Ignite. Be
side stony matters, they contain carbon
in combination with hydrogen and oxy
gen--a chemical quality which has LEI
to their being examined for remains O
organic beings. But no trace Of an,
thing of the kind has been discovered
ft-M- n. Dau6ree, IN Popular Scienc
| MO3lLhLn
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09

mo. He will be no party to the little
harmless deceits by which polite people
render life pleasant to each other. de
calls spade a spade, Jones bore,
and Smith fool. He has an uncrring
eye for the detection of human weak
ness, and loves to lay it bare. To ap-
preciate and commend virtue strikes
him as namby-pamby; to put his finger
in the hole which can be found in ev-
cry coat strikes him as more worthy OF
a man of intellect
Does Immature payP The boy or girl
who has the reputation OF having "a
temper" and whose behests the whole
house flies to serve for fear of a scene;
the angry man who, when he enters
his office, sees every one cover and
shrink, and is sure that his orders will
be promptly obeyed through dread OF
the lash from his bitter tongue; the
poor timid creature who is butfeted
through life by DULLES, and groans at
his own incapacity to rebel; these per-
sons may have doubts on the point
But when old Scrooge came face to face
with his own conscience he had to adj
NIT that he would have been far hap
pier man if he had been just little
better natured. Temper involves fric-
ton, which is terribly wearing. Moth
ing is so exhaustive as fit OF passion;
and chronic Immature, venting itself in
continuous snarl and unkindness, is
almost equally destructive to the car
diac machinery. Quarrelers lead mis-
cradle lives. They are constantly
choked with their own bile. Cantanker-
Gus men know no peace Of mind, As
he who has been for years sufferer
from acute pain misses an old compah-
ion when his disease is cured, so a
quarrelsome man is lost when he has
nobody to quarrel with; he positively
breads the idea of happiness. His
doom is discomfort, and as age in
creases with him, like Timon, he comes
to disdain himself.
The misanthrope glories in hating
every body. Perhaps he does not make
sufficient allowance for the fact that
every body is likely to return the com.
pliment. And man being, in spite Of
himself, a gregarious animal, it can
not be pleasant to 60 through life with.
out one friend--to 60 home to find 9
wife and children decked in hypocriti-
cal smiles, which scarcely vail thei1
hope that the tyrant will go out; to GO
to an Office where every brow clouds
over as he enters; to meet in the street
people who are forcedly polite and in
wardly contemptuous; to realize tha
if he failed or died no one would bt
sorry. The cynic must at times fee
terribly lonely. He knows that he hal
helped nobody, and that he can expec
nobody to help him; that he has lost NJ
opportunity of back-biting, and tina
his own back has been lashed in turn
that he has made enemies, not only o
those whom he has directly assaulted
but of that great unknown mass o
people whose blood boils at injustice tt
the weak and the helpless. All thi
and more, as he sits alone, his con
science must tell him; and then, per
haps, it may occur to him that Tia
charms of cynicsm have possibly BEEF
overrated, and that it might have BEEF
better for him, in material and in
moral point of view, if in earlier day
he had laid more stress upon his sou
to crush out ill nature.-San Fra1eisc
Chronicle. xSleSl
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09
UTILIZING REFUSE.
Why and How 1t Should BE Converted
Into Fertilizers.

Into Fertilizers.
Corn cobs rot very slowly. and but
few farmers have the patience to wait
until they are dec"mposed. They are
very rich in potash, over twenty-five
per cent. of that substance existing in
them The cobs that accumulate an
nually on those farms where corn is
made special crop make quite large
amount of potash but not in an avail
able form. AMI the farmer can not
utilize them as he should 1t is sue.
gested that they be burned to ashes,
which is very sure way of deriving
the potash from them, but every one
thousand pounds of cobs contain two
pounds of nitrogen, and it, also, is an
item worth saving. The question is
whether the heat derived from the
cobs is sufficient to pay for burning
them and allowing of the loss of the
nitrogen. Overhaancing this is the
fact that by reducing them to ashes
they are rendered soluble and avail
able. There is another form of utliz-
ing the cobs, however, which is to
grind the grain and cob together. AL
though the nutrtive matter in cobs
may be but small proportion, yet the
two pounds of nitrogen. some carbon
and portion of the phos hates and
lime will be appropriated as food, the
refuse being voded as manure. The
use of the grain and cob ground to-
gether, therefore, gives a greater pro-
portion of potash to the manur1, and
the practice should therefore be en-
couraged.
But there are other kinds of refuse
as wells as cobs which should be con-
vertcd into available fertilizers, such as
straw. cornstalks, scrapings and other
undesirable m tterial 1t may be stated
in the beginning that it will be nece.-
| sary to reader all such substa ces fine
| before they can be properly used,
either for direct application upon the
land or as absorbents To burn them
is to lose much that may be valuable,
and to attempt to d, compose them by
| placing them in the manure heap be-
fore subjecting them to some kind of
process for reducing them is to Lose
| llile. III UTuCT lOt W tutili ApcHSc
in reducing such material to fine
condition, it should be passed through
a cutter and fed with ground grain,
and those portions which are unfit for
the purpose of feeding may be laid
aside and made fine for bedding pur-
poses. 1t may be stated here that any
kind of material that has been made
fine and then saturated with LIQUID
manure, or urine, viii not only absorb
such, and become saturated. but will
also quickly become decomposed and
be ready for the plants without the
necessity of heating it in the manure
heap. ifonce an accumulation OF such
material is commenced, all the refuse
liquids or other waste materials of the
farm may be added 70 it.-FarD., F!eld
] s,sd StocIman
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09
A BLIND GENIUS.
The Remarkable Intelligence Of Sight
.ess Store Keeper.

The Remarkable Intelligence Of a Sight
ess StOre-Keeper.
A few hundred yards north of Rupp's
mill in East Earl, Lancaster County, lives
John Wenger, who has been totally blind
for more than quarter of . century.
He is now nearly fifty years old, and
though sightless since he was boy, ne
is endowed with the most remarkable
human instinct, far beyond the average
seeing ones, and to one who is not
aware of the facts it seems incredib .
that sightless person could do what
he actually does. Not satisfied with
doing nothing, as many another would
in his unfortunate condition, his hands
and mind are as busy as if sight were
as grand a blessing to him as to those
who see. He has quite large country
store where he dispenses the usual
goods. that are sold by country .ner-
chants; there he is perfectly at home
and every thing is as familiar and con-
venient to him as if seen, yet he
never saw his stock of goods. He has
the most acute sense of touch and can
as readily tell money by touch as others
can by sight. He will 60 TO almost any
place in the eastern end Of the country
by himself, the roads seem to lead him
wherever he wants TO 90. But the
most remarkable of 3ll is that besides
taking care of his store he is agent for
agricultural implements, among them
a well-known binder, with which he is
as familiar AS the inventor himself. He
is able to put it together and can tell
at once when any thing is wrong by
hearing the machine at work. -Neu
Holland pa Clarion
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09

the station. and before long the station
itself had to be moved nearer to Wady
Halfa. This continued for some time,
and of course the annoyance of having
to move the station every few days was
very great. At last, when it had been
moved over mile, with no reason as
signed for the shrinkage, an investiga-
ton was held. Engineers, brakemcn.
and track-walkers were examined, but
with no result. As last resort,
party took the morning train to Wady
Hafa to consult with the authorities
there and find out whether the track
was moving at that point. The train
was composed OF a passenger coach of
the English compartment style,
freight car, fiat car, with water tank,
and engine No. l. The engine was
built many years ago, and, as it had
done service in England, India and at
the Cape, it was good deal the worse
for wear; in fact, it was broken down
on one side. and only pulled odd num-
bers. 1t did not puff l-2-3-4-5-6, etc.,
like our engines, but groaned out Is
81, ETC., making fearful noise.
Two natives, with hand pump, did
duty as injectors, and were posted on
the top OF the water tank, where they
pumped for dear life.
Well, all went merrily for few
miles, and no important discoveries
were made in relation to the object
of the trip until large curve was
reached. The engine did not run very
straight. The engineer was not at the
helm, or else the extra eXertion on one
side caused the old machine to forget
to 90 around the curve. and the whole
train kept on straight ahead over the
desert, till the sand clogged the wheels
and brought it to standstill.
The investigation party were natur-
ally annoyed at this delay, little think
ing it would solve the vexed problem.
The engineer and fireman came back
and assured them that derailment W As
Q common occurrence, and that they
would soon be on their way again.
Then came the discovery. The crew
of the train did not attempt to get il
on the track again. They simply put
jackscrews under each portion and
raised it few inches from the desert
This done, all hands laid hold of the
track and drew il over to and under
the train, let the cars down, picked up
their jackscrews, blew the whistle, and
off they steamed. Having ascertainet
that this was customary proceeding
and reasoning that the operation in
creased the number of curves, the in
vestigators were not long in deciding
that they had found the cause of th'
shrinkage.- Boston Herald.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09
SOLVING A MYSTERY
A soudan Railway Track That Shrank
from Day to Day.

A soudan Railway Track That Shrank
from Day to Day.
Every newspaper reader no doubt
remembers the gallant though unsuc-
cessful attempt to save General Cor
don from death at the hands Of the
Mehdi, but few know of the hardships
borne and the obstacles overcome by
the British army in the Soudan. How
ever, l will not attempt to picture those
discomforts and difficulties here. !
will simply relate an incident Of the
expedition.
The advance up the Nile was made
in eight hundred whale-boats. Each
boat was in command of Canadian
voyageur and carried dozen soldiers,
with provisions for one hundred days.
Sailing, rowing, towing and carrying
or portaging boats from daylight to
dark, interspersed with picnic meals of
canned corned beef and hard tack,
would be no more than a novel expert
encc for a week or two, but, believe
me, it gets monotonOus in less than
eight months. Some of the portages
were short, fifty yards to mile; 9TH
ers long, from a mile to fifty miles.
Over the former the provisions were
packed" by the men, and over the
latter by camels, the boats being taken
through the cataracts by the Canadians
in the meantime.
One portage, from Wady Halfa to
Sarras, was so long that the British
Government decided to build rail-
road between the two points. Fifty
miles of track were ready to be laid;
engines, cars, water-tanks and stations,
in fact, complete railroad were sent
out The members of the engineer
corps had not enjoyed very large ex-
perience of railroad building, and were
not furnished with necessary appli-
ances for grading, etc. So natives,
men, women and children, mostly the
latter, were hired at a piastre Give
cents) day to carry sand in small
baskets and dump it on the grade.
When an obstructive rock doomed up
in front, they never thought of blow
ing it out, but went around it. Such a
thing as cutting through Il hill was un-
heard of, and the only way any large
heaps of sand were removed or levelled
was to bury piastre in the center OF
the heap. and let the natives know il
was there.
Well. after months Of hard labor the
track was all laid. but it did not reach
Sarras by any means. True. Sarras is
only fifty miles from Wady Halfa, and
fifty miles of track had been laid, bu,
in sending out the material numerous
curves had not been taken into con.
sideration. The only alternative was
to move the Sarras station down to the
end of the track. This was done. and
the last spike" was driven to Rule
Britannia" by the band of the forty.
second Highlanders.
Every thing worked right for week
or two. but then, for some unaccount.
able reason, the track began to shrink.
At first the end was about Il hundred
yards beyond the Sarras station, but
daily the track got shorter and shorter
until the end came Down in front o.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09

The Yreka Gal Onion, in its re-
port Of the recent murder of China
man, says: His life crawled out
through buIlet-hole in his breast"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-08-09

-Ex-President Zodivar. of Salvador.
who is now an exile. will live in San
Francisco.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1886-11-13

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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1886-11-13
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