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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08
Catching Porpoises.
Youths Comnanion.l

A seine nearly mile long is paid out
from the steamer to inclose the fish and
cut them off from the open sea. At the
wings and bag of the net small surf
boats are stationed, whose crews strive
to brighten the porpoises when they
attempt combined charge upon the
net.
AS the huge creatures, often weighing
1000 pounds each, can easily break a
seine if they set out for it, the only
safeguard is to distract them and divert
their attention. Slowly and steadily
the seine is drawn in toward the beach,
and when near enough, a smaller seine
is brought into play inside the larger
one
With this q few porposes at time
are cut off from the main school, and
hauled by main force on the shore,
where they are dispatched with lances
or knives. 1t is no boys play hauling
this small seine through the surf.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08
Boston Transcript

The one wheel, or "bicycle" railroad,
rs it is called, says Industrial America,
appears likely to have an actual trial
before long. The nominal inventor
claims that he can easily attain 100 or
more miles per hour without difficulty,
as he WILDE free from many of the re-
sistances which are encountered on the
standard roads. Perhaps the greatest
unforeseen difficulty which will be met
is that of wind pressure. In perfectly
calm weather the resistance will amount
to nifty pounds per square foot at that
speed. 1t is perfectly safe to say that
with high wind the resistance alone
might easily require $500 horse power,
in addition to that needed for hauling
the train,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08
little WHILE.
MAY Myrtle h Frank Iestte,s.l

MAY Myrtle In Frank Lesite'sj
A little while, and all our pain forgotten,
Wen rest with folded hands In peaceful
sleep:
A little while, and wounds by foes begotten
WIN no more ache, and eyes ne longer
weep.
A little while, and all our vain ambition
VIII still and silent be, and ne more press
Its weight, to mar our souls fruition;
Twill make the grave. mound neither more
nor less.
A little while, and earth will shield and hide
as,
Yet we shall feel no weight upon the
breast;
All storms forgot, that evil could betide us,
Past, like dream, and we shall be ct
raat
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08
Electricity for killing Criminals.

DR., Curran writes to The Lancet con-
corning the advantages of using cleo
tricity in killing criminals. ut is a
pity, D." he says, 'the thing is not tried,
if only by way of experiment, on some
of our lower congeners, whence it might
be transported in time to the higher re-
gions of Newgate and the provinces. +"
This man writes with considerable
nerve. The apparatus" he continues,
"of this fluid or force could be packed
away in an ordinary travelling trunk. +"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08

Chicago Tribune.l

Our contemporary, The Current, an
nounces that a florist is ''about to
start dahlia paper" Why The Cur,
rent thus wins universal respect for its
self denial is because it fails to add
that the paper, to succeed, must be also
a daisy, always out OF thyme, and liza
BILE, even then, to fail if its proprietor
hash anemone in excess of probable
REGENTS
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08

The favorite cosmetic of the Japanese,
according toa report by F. Sakaye, con-
sists chiefly of carbonate OF lead and
rice powder starch, which compound
has been used by women-apparently
without poisonous effects-since early
in the eighth century.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08
Hest and Thirst.


Go as long as you can these hot days
without drinking anything. Half an
hour after the first glass of water or
soda you want another, and so it goes,
while you keep getting hotter and hot
ter, an the longer you postpone the first
glass the cooler you will be-
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08
The Gospel to the Nubians.

After some thousands of copies of the
gospel by Mark in the Nubian language
have been sent into the Soudan it is
discovered that the print is given in
Roman characters, of the letters OF
which and their import Egyptians,
Arabs, and Nubians are profoundly ig-
norant.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08
The Quinine Tree.

Homeopathists claim new proof of
the correctness of their theories in the
discovery that the famous tree from the
bark of which quinine is obtained fur
nishes no quinine unless it is grown in
a malarial region.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08

Some persons think that Queen Vic
toria would lose her crown if she should
marry again. This is mistake. There
is no law of the British realm prevent
ing the sovereign from marrying as
often as ne or she pleaseS
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08

Carlyle: A man able and willing to
work, yet unable to find employment,
and thence lacking subsistence, is the
saddest sight under the sun.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-05-08

Jud Lsfsgan: Those who envy
others, geneIa''v have q secret respect
for them or the 'gs1 pros
perlty.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08
DInners DetaiI.

For family dinner it is never best to attempt
too much For sensible people the most sat
isfactory dinner consists first of good soup,
then fish garnished with suitable additions,
followed by roast and vegetables with en-
trees, a salad, cheese, and dessert This
we'll cooked and neatly served, is pleasing to
the most fastidious guest, and il within the
means of any housekeeper. 1t is the cxqu-
site quality of dinner that pleases, and not
the multiplicity Of dishes Menu cards are
not needed unless the dinner is very formal.
They may be neatly written, or engraved es-
pecially for the occasion.
The dinner being prepared, the next thing
in order is to seat the guests. When the ser
want announces dinner, the host offers his arm
to the most distinguished lady present while
the hostess follows last with the most honor.
ed gentleman. The host places the lady
whom he escorted on his right; the other
guests are conducted to the seats assigned
them, the lady always sitting at the right of
her escort. Guests as soon ~ seated remove
their gloves, place the napkin in the lap, and
begin eating Soup is always taken and tast-
ed even If not liked after soup, 1t is proper
to 'efuse or partake of whatever is offered.
When finger glasses are presented, remove
the dolly to the left and place the glass on it;
the napkins, and not the dolly, are used for
wiping the fingers.
If wine is not approved Of it may simply
| be declined, without giving any reason for so
doing, as private table is not the place for
/ discussion.
| A wue-glass should be held by the stem.
| Bread is never cut, but broken off by the fin
! gers into morsels. Food should never be
mixed on the plate. Fab must be eaten with
a silver knife and fork. Macaroni is cut and
chess crumbled on the plate, and eaten with
fork. Raw oysters are eaten with fork
soup from the side of the spoon. Oranges
are peeled without breaking the inner skin,
! being held on fork. Pears are pared while
held by the stem. Food not eaten with a
fork should be eaten with spoon. Bread
eaten with meat is not buttered. Asparagus
il cut and eaten with a fork The bones
should be removed from fish before eating.
Pudding may be eaten with a fork or spoon.
Ices and jellies require spoon.
When the dinner is ended, the hostess sig
mails the ladies to leave the table by a slight
low. The gentlemen may accompany them
or adjourn to another room to smoke. Il
coffee is not served at dinner, it is brought tC
the drawing half an hour later, snd
served by the hostess from the urn. Half al
hour after coffee any guest is at liberty Il
depart. After attending dinner, it is Gus
tomary to call at the house of the hostes
within a week.
The proper dress for attendance at a Dime
is the full.dress toilet of the season. - Coo
housekeeping.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08

REFORM SCHOOLS should be established in
every county in the United States, where
boys who have started on the road to destruo-
ton can be redeemed lad is brought
there contaminated by cheap literature, from
the corners Of whose mouth tobacco oozed,
whose breath was mingled with oaths, whose
thoughts we're wicked and whose whole life
bad been disobedient. He is first taught the
maxim Of John Wesley "Oleanliuess is
next to godliness," and his new clean clothes
inspire self respect and gratitude Thence
forth he passes certain hours in labor, certain
hours in study and certain hours in recrea-
ton. The farm, with its vineyard and gar
den, gives scope for every capacity, and fills
every taste. In workshops mechanical pur-
suits may be taught, so that in emerging from
the school the reformed boy may at once en-
ter upon labors that reward him and make
him useful.
No boy is thoroughly and irreclaimsbly
wicked, and II is cheaper to educate than to
hang IL is better to reform bad boy than
to punish a wicked and hardened man. In a
reform farm school, in the stiffness Of the
surroundings, with no examples OF vice and
no inclination to do wrong, youth has time
for full reflection. Moreover, he has placed
before his eyes the evidences OF thrift from
labor, the examples Of temperance and duty,
and from day to day sees nothing but what 1t
would be his interest to pattern after and his
profit to learn. He must be deeply stepped
in crime or idleness, or he must love vice and
wickedness as a sweet morse IL he in time
does not love its counterpart, virtue, indus
try and obedience. Soon a new aud better
principle will possess his heart, and he be-
comes a new being, governed by new prin-
ciple. That is love. He forgets the past
with its degradation and its low associates,
and he is a new being, with new aims, de.
sres and purposes. With such institutions,
our hearts would not bleed at the recital OF
crimes and vices, our souls would not be
overpowered by daily details too shocking fol
contemplation. Farm 7dks by Ben: Per
| len POore in CultiUdtOr.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08
Agricultural,
E,.,Isee for sheep.

T. seabury Of Cheshire county, N H.,
advocates in the Homestead the use OF ensi'
i.os for feeding sheep. The late Geo. Camp
III n, Westminster West, he says very truly,
nr,obably did more to improve the Merino
hreed than any other man Of his day. His
sons are continuing bis work. and have very
valuable sheep now. They feed their sheep
largely on ensilage, and think there is moth
inc like II. Their breeding ewes came out
last sprinR better than ever before, and we're
fed on ensilsge have fed ensilage for four
Years. starting with one sio and increasing to
Ave have fed it mostly to cattle, but am
feeding a small flock Of sheep this winter on
ensilaee, and they like it very much. am
very positive that no one need to hesitate
moment in feeding it to sheep. l can furnish
abundant testimony from good practical men
that it is as good for sheep AZ for cattle. Iput
in A silo on the largest farm in town, Of which
have charge, where we have flock Of 500
sheep, and have just got ready to open the
sio, and can give more personal experience
later. A neighbor is feeding flock of sheep
epsilage once day, and fodder once a day,
and likes II much. We feed the corn stover
from GO acres OF corn to sheep and cart out
the butts for manure but there are no butts
left from the ensilage, and the manure is a
good deal better"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08
EeetIlnK AnlnlRla.

An Addison county correspondent of the
Mirror and Farmer, advocates the old.fash-
toned style of wintering cattle, excepting fire.
quent feeding with hay. He believes that
feeding much grain is Improbable, and that
feeding hay twice a day is better than feeding
oftener. Hay is generally at least one.third
cheaper in Addison county than here, and
for this reason we have more need to use
grain as a substitute for hay. The Addison
county farmer says:
"When began business l had access to
reports of the department of agriculture
and subscribed for and read the best agricul-
tural papers, studied and practiced some of
the methods there advocated, and began a
series Of observations among my neghbors
and acquaintance. In the beginning my
stock we're fed at six o'clock in the morning
after breakfast aud milking they got another
little bite at 10 A. NJ. they were watered and
il the weather was fine given feed in the
yard at p. NJ. another light feed at four
stabbed and fed again at eight every even
ing took my lantern and fed again for the
night, working upon the principle OF little
and often. After a year OF two of this |
came to the conclusion that my stock looked
no better than other peoples and would not
be continually insulting the Almighty and
bothering the stock by prowling around with
a lantern at both ends of the day, so l began
to drop out a feed or two and find my stock
winter just as we'll. was soon after in con-
versation with an aged relative whose stock
was eight or ten head of cattle and a span of
horses on a sixty-acre farm. had visited
him from boyhood and always found his cat
tie fat and slick and his horses in good trim
and frisky. He never raised any grain tC
speak of little patch of corn and a few
potatoes we're the extent of his tillage.
never Jaw pound of first class hay in biz
bArn-late cut stuff. He only fed twice
day and his cattle were out only short time
in the warmest part of the day. After liz
on the farm aud fifteen years of stool
feeding for myself, which is very diHeren
from feeding for somebody else have com
to these conclusions
First, that feeding often and feeding mucl
grain is neither necessary nor profitable, bt
cause my observations are that the men tina
have made money at it don't belong to tha
class.
Second, that grass is the natural food 70
our herbverous domestic animals and this
growth and flesh can be produced upon 1t a
a bigger profit than in any other way
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08
Practice and Theory Dl.ioined.

The state university of Minnesota has a
side-show agricultural college, with an exper-
mental farm of which writer in the Elmirs
Husbsndman says;
The superintendent of the experiment
farm, l understand, is a finely educated man
and a gentleman, and understands the theory
OF farming; but while he was theorizing the
bugs and barn grass got away with his 400
varieties of potatoes which he had so careful
ly labeled and staked of the sheep were
nearly dead with the foot-rot; the barn. grass
got higher than the beans, and had to be
moved, making it difficult for him to deter
mine whether to issue bulletin on the sue
cessful growth of crop of barn-grass. or on
the sprouting of the beans and let their after
growth pass into oblivion. The proceeds
from the immense crops of wheat, oats, hay,
etc, have apparently gone into the sinking
fund, for no account of them is given TO the
public"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08

Many farmers have either killed or sold
their heavy hogs by this time, and their
place is now supplied by younger members
of the porker family. 1t is important that
these pigs be cared for during the cold
weather in such a way that they will not
suffer from the severity of the cold, nor be
stunted in growth for the want of proper
nourishment The little pigs should always
have good warm place to sleep, and plenty
Of good feed, so that they will grow rapidly
from the start until ready for market. Pork
is low now and it must be made cheap, and
to do this it will not do to let there be a
standstill in growth. At no time does it
pay to feed out grain, unless there is sufi
oient amount of growth made to pay for it,
and this cannot be realized with an animal at
q standstill. All feed to an animal which
does not grow in proportion is lost, and in
these hard times farmers cannot afford to
waste any grain whatever, but to yield a
profit it must be seen that each animal gives
increased weight in proportion to the amount
of grain expended upon it. From this the
Importance is seen OF making every young
animal grow from the start, and most es-
pecially is this warning needed in the manage
ment Of the pigs in winter time. -StOckHlaR.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08
THE HOUSEHOLD.
winter Reading.

Farmers and their families have now par
tial exemption from eKacting tasks that in
the buster seasons Of the year press for per
formance They have now time for study,
and better opportunities for obtaining use
full knowledge that will make them of greater
account in general affairs, besides increasing
profits of their labor. Books are cheap-pR-
pers still cheaper. Every farm house should be
fairly well supplied with both, now, because
time permits their use more fully than in
spring and sumher when the fields lay heavy
claim on the thought and the energies that
must be absorbed in agriculture to insure it's
rewards. But reading is more than wasted
If it be Of trashy stuff that debases thought
and contaminates the soul Get only that
which is pure, and do not th nix it must be
dull il pure. Journals whose columns reek
in I'll h are dangerous and too Common, I'M
fortunately. They gather slime and deal in
scandals because so many readers d, light in
the baeful stuff. Stop reading them and
they will soon become clean or cease publ.
cation. - HUSbdHdmdR.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08

FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint you have a
printed guarantee every bottle OF Shioh's Ntaz-
er. 1t never fails to Sold by Geo. L. Greene.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08

For rheumatism, LumbAgo, Neuralgia, Cramp and
Collie there is no remedy superior to the genuine Dr.
Tlpmass Fclpctric
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08

CATARRH CURED, health and sweet breath srcur-
ed. by Shiloh's CatArrh Remedy. Price soc. Nasal
Injector free. Sold by Geo. L. Greene.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08

power to prevent the loss OF heat from the
body and very little superior to cotton In-
deed, nothing Ia in this respect preferable TO
wool, and OF this material all Undertaking.
meant for winter use should be made. In
summer mixture of wool and cotton called
merino may be worn, but even in very hot
weather silk is not desirable, for II il not such
a ready absorber Of the perspiration as is
wool, and hence allows the body to be kept
In state not very remote from that known
as parboiled. Wool, however, taking up as
It does the moisture from the body, exposes
it to the action Of the atmosphere, it is evap-
GRATED, aud the process being a cooling one,
keeps the skin from becoming overheated.
Rabbit skins, cushions of various kinds
and the 80 called protectors" worn over the
chest are horrible affairs, as they prevent the
escape OF the secretions from the skin and
hence facilitate the collection Of dirt as well
as impeding the proper exercise OF one OF the
most important functions Of the body. l
have frequently seen persons, men and wom-
en- divest themselves OF a half-dozen layers
of skins and pads before l could get at the
naked ohestto examine it with the stethescope.
The odor was disgusting, and the effect upon
the organs they were supposed to protect
certainly deleterious No undertaking
should ever be 30 thick az to prevent the free
passage OF the outaneous excretionH and the
atmospheric air. The skin requires ventila-
ton as we'll az do the lungs. Chamois-skin
undergarments, perforated or unperforat-
! ed" are denominations.
A notion exists that red is particularly
advantageous color to give to the understands
and drawers worn in very cold weather
! There Ia no foundation in fact for such an
| idea. 1t has been said that the dyestuH used
for the purpose of producing the color in
question is more irritating 10 the skin than
The other substances employed but even If
| this were true, and / am strongly inclined to
| question the correctness Of the statement, II
would be no reason for using red cOlored un-
dergarmt nts in preference to brown or white.
| II is not irritation of the skin that il wanted
when we put on Undertaking, but protec-
ton from cold and sudden vicissitudes OF
temperature When it is necessary to irritate
the skin il is better to make use of mus
tard plaster, or a blister, and not to divert
the clothing from its proper objects. I'm
dcrclothing should be made Of white materi
al Theoretically black would be preferable
for winter use, AZ it is a better non-conduc
tor of heat and better absorber of mois
ture than any other color, other things being
equal; but it would probably be d flicult tC
get people to clothe thems. Ives in this color
or to find the necessary articles in the shops
Whatever color may be worn, the garment
should be frequently washed, a. the exhala
tions from the skin cling with great tenacit!
to wooden materials They should never, af
ter having been taken of ut night, be put oil
again till they have been thoroughly aired il
the open air William 4. Hammond, W. d.
IN the CI0thier.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08

THE editor of the Orange County Farmer
saw in a farm. house, in a closet adjoining the
kitchen, about IS empty bottles, which had
at one time contained patent medicines of
various sorts, The medicines had all been
swallowed by the farmers wife, who told him
that she was constantly ailing 1t was sur
prise to the editor that the lady still lived"
The explanation of the surprising fact that
she still fingered is that she really took less
than she supposed. A chemical analysis
would doubtless have shown that the bottles
for which she paid dollar contained less
than ten cents worth of all kinds of drugs,
poison or not poison. But poor deluded
fools are annually paying millions of dollars
for these nostrums, and the most of it goes
to enrich knaVes
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08

A BLIND SPARRow.-Last spring, one of
the old birds in DR.. Primes collections
grey spArrow-became blind. Straightway,
a little dark brown and white bird, known
as q Japanese nun, and named Dick, became
the spsrrOws friend. The spsrrow's home
had a round hole as a doorway. Little Dick
would sit down on a perch opposite the hole
and ohirp. The blind bird would come out,
and guided by Dicks chirps, would leap to
the perch, and 30 on up to the seed cup and
water bottle. But the most curious part of
the performance was when the blind sparrow
would try to get back into the house. Dick
would place the sparrow exactly opposite the
hole by showing him along the perch. When
opposite, Dick would chirp, and the blind
bird would leap in, never failing. Golden
Days
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08

Hoods sarHaparilla Is made Of sarsaparila, dande-
lion, mandrake, cherry bark, IVA urs dock, aud 9TH
or valuable medicinal agents long and fayOraby known
for their power In Graduating disease and purifying
the blood. II will cure, when in the power Of medi-
cine ScrOfula Salt Rheum, Dyspepsia, Headache Bill
iousness, Constipation General Debility, Pains In the
Back Kidney Complaint, Catarrh, Female Weakness,
Cancerous Humors Humors OF the Face, RingwOrm,
Pimples, Ulcers Sores Tumors, scald Head, and ali
diseases arising from an impure state or low coudi-
ton Of the blood. Hoods sarsaparia ia made by O..
l. Hood Co. Of Lowell, Mass. Sold by all drug
glsts al 81 siI bottles for IS.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08
Testimonial.

WEST DuMMERsToE, W., March Is, 'sS.
got instant relief from using Thorn's
PILE OINTMENT. Been troubled with
Piles for over year. Have employed ply
siciaus and tried almost every known REM
edy without help. cheerfully reoom-
mend Thorns OINTMENT to every one
who is troubled with this complaint.
ALBERT W. STICKsEY.
BE sure and get the genuine prepar-
I'd 10y
LIB. THORN,
Pharmacist, ll9 Main-st.,
Brattleboro, VI.