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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
HOME AND FARM.

Boards are cheaper than hay and grain for keeping stock warm.-West- l e1w Rural.
 If horses are troubled with SCOUTS 8 l few raw eggs given them with their oth- CT feed will be found quite beneticial.- Albany Journal.
 All drains by the roadsides should be kept well open during the winter that the surplus water may readily pass away. Chicago Journal.
 Coffee Custard: One pint strong cof- fee, one pint milk, boiled together, six eggs beaten with cup and half of sugar Bake in moderately hot oven, but do not boil.-C Chicago Union.
 For harness backing, says the Scienttfc American, use boneblack, four ounces; linseed oil, two ounces; sul- phuric acid, half an ounce; treacle, two ounces; gum arabic, one ounce; vinegar, one pint.
 The common catnip is one of the most valuable plants for bees. The flowers are rich in honey, and for sev- eral months, commencing with June of each year, yield it freely at all hours and during all kinds of weather.- Troy Tunes.
 Brown Bread: Three large cupfuls of rye meal, two of Indian meal, one half cupful molasses, one pint sour milk, one pint cold water, one teaspoonful soda and one of salt; put it in pail, cover tight Steam four hours, then brown in the oven.-TOle0o Blade.
 Get a good close look at the hogs at least once, and, if possible, at least twice day. Spot and separate the first to show symptoms of weakness, loss of ap- petite, constipation or looseness of the bowels, or any other sign of disease, and keep separate until all danger is passed.-I0rontO Globe.
 Breakfast Cakes: One cup of Indian meal, one teaspoonful of salt, and one tablespoonful of sugar. Scald the meal, then add two tablespoonfuls of milk or water, ono egg and one tablespoonful of flour Stir it well. Butter your grid dle. Put on large spoonfuls of the bat ter and fry light brown.-The House. hOld
 To keep apples, says an old fruit merchant: ''Let barrel of winter ap- ples freeze solid. Don't touch it, but let it stand just where it is and thaw out thoroughly, but gradually. Cover the apples so that they will be kept quite dark Thus treated your barrel of ap- ples will remain frozen solidfo months, and the fruit, after thawing out grad ually, will be plump, solid and sweet.- ". r. Post.
 Leaves have no inconsiderable val- ue as fertilizer, and should not be burned, but composted or used as bed- ding. Their chief value lies, however, in their mechanical action when worked into stiff, tenacious clay soils. They render them porous, so that water can pass more readily through them, and when decayed tighten the soil and make it warmer and more easily worked.-N Y. Examiner.
 The Art Amateur gives directions for making linen work smooth and even when it is finished. ''Dampen it all over at the back with sponge, and then stretch it tightly and evenly, face down. ward, on a board, or pin it out on 8 nailed carpet with clean cloth under heath it. When the work, as well as the linen, is quite dry, it may be taken up, and if the edges show the pin-marks they can be smoothed with the fingers. When linen work is washed it must be treated in the same way"
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
Possibilities of Photography.

With lens made of rock-salt it might be possible to photograph in the dark! Abney has succeeded in preparing plates which are sensitive to the rays laying beyond the red end of the spectrum-the dark heat rays-and with such plates used with a rock-salt lens there should be possibility of photographing bodies which possess a high temperature, al- ihough the temperature may be far below that needed to render them self-luminous It is even possible that such a plan may some day be so perfected as to give us information about the ''dark suns, that are believed to crowd the firmament-or rather heavenly bodies which were once seen, but have now cooled down so as to
 einvisible. Photographic NeeOS
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
A DUTCH INDUSTRY.

4 Celebrated Diamond-Cutting Establish
 men at Amsterdam.
 Our guide showed us with great pride the great engine in the lower part of the building, winch was used to set in mo- ton the large amount of machinery in the upper part of the premises. We were much pleased with the great clean Illness everywhere apparent. Taking us up flight after flight of iron steps, we were introduced to roomful after room ful of artisans busily engaged at their avocation; men, women and boys, seat ed at long tables or benches, with ma chimes in front of them rapidly revolv- ing by means of bands connected with the great engine above mentioned. Very civil and polite we found them, ever willing to pause in the processes they were engaged with to explain any part of it about which we inquired. We were informed that when stone was found particularly unfavorable the work man was obliged to have recourse to the hazadous operation of splitting. In this case the stone was fixed in its posi- ton by kind of cement. The line of cleavage having been ascertained, a smart blow was given to the splitting knife, and the result was as it happened. When the section must cross the crystalline structure of the gem, recourse is had to saving. The diamond is ce- mented to block of wood firmly fixed to the table A line is drawn where the division is desired. This is filled with diamond dust and olive oil. The saw is a piece of the brass or iron wire attached to the ends of cane and whalebone, the teeth being particles of diamond, which, when the saw commences, become inn bedded in the. metal. If the stone is large the process takes eight or ten months. We watched the process of polishing with considerable interest. In this operation we noticed that the dia- monds were embedded in kind of metal which appeared to us a mixture of lead, hardened by some other metal, possibly antimony. something similar to, though softer than, printers type. When we had watched the men, women and girls at their respective employments as long as we thought necessary, our guide took us into little private room, where were carefully preserved models of all the largest and most celebrated diamonds known to exist, from the Koh-i-noor downward. These models give an exact representation of the style of cutting of each gem.-C0r N J. Times.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
CHINESE REMEDIES.
Some of the Dainty Drugs Prescribed by
 Celestial Physicians.

Some of the Dainty Drugs Prescribed by
 Celestial Physicians.
 The materia medica of the Chinese profession is something stupendous. The Pan-Tso, their standard work, is in thirty-eightvolumes. It presents Il, 1896 formule, into the makeup of which over 1900 substances enter. While there is almost no end to Chinese drugs, there are some. substances which are favorites in the practice. Among these are claws and bones of the tiger and other wild animals, the cuttle-fsh, dragons teeth, fossils, the hide, horn and bones of the elephant and rhi- noceros, the scorpion, snake skins, soot, and so on.
 A favorite remedy is known as '.the tincture of five poisons," made by steep- ing scorpions, snakes and other venom ous creatures in samshu. This is given for fever, rheumatism and catarrh. In some parts of China it is considered the very highest degree of philanthropy for the rich to place this tincture at their doors, to be used without cost by the poor. Gunpowder, termed the fine drug" is used as vermifuge. A sensible remedy, which is of comparatively re- cent introduction among more enlight- ened people, is the gizzard of the com- mon fowl, prescribed for dyspepsia But the great cure-all with the Chinese is ginseng root. The resemblance which the roots often bear to the human form, either as the result of natural growth or skillful trimming, is given as the reason for the Chinese faith in the universal efficacy of this drug. Large and choice specimens of the root are carefully pre- served in embroidered coverings and in- closed in cases of varying sizes, the whole being locked in brass-bound chests An extraordinarily fine specl- men is worth five hundred dollars. The hunting of these roots is pursued with all the ardor of gold-seeking.
 The Chinese have little use for sur- gery. They resort to cupping and leeching and lancing on small scale, and that is about as. far as they go. Morbid growths are removed with what is known as ''the five tigers specific" composition of sulphate of iron, alum, nitrate of potash, metallic mercury and verditer. In only one respect is their surgery heroic. They will shove a needle into the body anywhere about as far as it will go.-Dr. c. ". Woods, c. s. N., ID St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30

leaving in 1775, when they tarred and feathered one Thomas Ditson in Boston, marching to the tune, as the best known way of heaping contempt on the Yankees. This was changed at Lexington, when the Brit ish commander was asked how he liked the tune, and answered: 'How they did make us dance to itr' Doodle, Mr. Moore said, always meant a trifier, and is thus referred to in the Lancashire hornpipe, written in 1922.
 He closed his paper by relating the incident at the surrender of Corn wallis when the British, not wishing to surrender to the despised colonials, turned to the French contingent and prepared to ground their arms. See ing this Lafayette ordered the French bands to play "Yankee Doodle" and to this tune the arms were laid down and the Revolution ended.-M F. Times.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30

As to the silver wedding and golden wedding, most of us know about those anniversaries; but here now is some thing new in the same pleasing line-a bit about crown-diamond wedding. The crown-diamOnd anniversary is the sixty fifth, and such an anniversary was ob- served short time ago at Maebuell, in the island of Alsen. Having completed their sixty-fifth year of wedlock, Claus Jacobsen and his venerable spouse were solemnly blessed by the parson of their parish, and went for the fifth time in their long welded life through the form of mutual troth-plighting before the altar at which they had for the first time been united before the battle of Water loo was fought. The united age of the couple is IFS years.-ToledO Blade
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
A Great Scientific Discovery.

X remarkable discovery has recently 1cen communicated to the Academy of Natural Sciences. of Philadelphia, in re- gard to reproduction in Ameba, the well-known unicellular plant, found in the blood of animals. It has been the general belief that these low organisms propagate only by division; but Dr Leidy reports two independent observa- tions, where reputable microscopists ob- served dust-like particles to be eiected from the cells, in all probability the an- alogues or equivalents of spores in fungi. If confirmed, it will place plants, former ly thought to be exceptions, in line with other departments of the vegetable king dom that have two forms of reproduc- ton. Dr. Leidy, however, rarely puts faith in any observations that are not either we'll authenticated or are in line with other observations; and the fact that he believes these observations worthy of announcement is a strong point in favor of the reality of the phenomena N F. Independent
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
FULL DRESS FOR MEN.
Some New Points as to the Cut of the
 Evening Suit a la Mode.

Some New Points as to the Cut or the
 Evening Suit a la Mode.
 The last authoritative report. giving in minutest detail the proper manner of cutting dress suits, is as follows: The length of the coat for a man standing five feet eight inches is eighteen and a half inches to the waist and thirty-siX inches to the bottom of the skirt. The back is cut with moderately high shoulder seam, a narrow back scye, side seam moderately curved and a width at the tack of one ard three quarters inches. The gorge should be cut slightly longer and lower than for a double-breasted frock coat, and the lapels, which are light, should be made considerably peaked. They are spaced for five holes, and are made to turn just above the second hole from the bottom. The silk facing should extend only to the end of the collar. The lapels at the bottom are very slightly rounded and the skirts at the hips are tuCned very lit tie, and at the bottom they are rounded even less. The edges are bound with NCl hetllON AAiO niNS'S' "A V cut so as to be shapely, having but little fullness at the top, and are made just large enough at the bottom to inclose linked cuffs smoothly They are finished to initiate tolerably deep cuffs, and close with two holes and buttons. The fronts should just meet at the termination of the roll when pressed close to the body, and below that point are well cut away.
 The vest closes with four buttons so spaced that the opening corresponds with that of the coat. The length should be the same as that of the coat to the bottom of the strap. The collar is so curved that the opening resembles q shield in shape.
 The trousers conform fo the outline of the leg in more shapely manner than when made for business or day wear The side seams should be plain. They are well shaped over the calf and about the ankle, in order that upon the foot they may fall as smoothly as possible. The pockets should be placed in the waist seam.-D0StOn Herald.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
.eOeMAaIAE VESSELS.
The Nordenfelt Steam Craft and Goubet's
 Electric Boat.

Electric Boat.
 A successful submarine craft for use in naval warfare has been the study of inventors for generations. The well-known Swedish engineer, Norden- felt, has recently perfected boat or vessel of this description, the merits of which have been made the subject of elaborate discussion in engineer ing journals. It was recently tried in the harbor of Landskrona, under the supervision of Swedish officials, and in the. presence of representatives from the principal naval powers of Europe, and its performances agreed to con siderable extent, if not completely, with the claims made by its inventor in its behalf.
 Nordenfelt's craft is cigar shaped, like most of the experimental crafts of similar description. Its motive power is steam, produced on the surface, and stored in hot reservoirs for use when the boat is under water. The same power puts and keeps in motion the devices for lowering the boat to the depths where it is to be navigated Its balance is kept, and it is prevented by simple mechanical appliances from sink ing deeper or rising nearer to the sur face than the proper level where its movements will be most effective No provision is made for renewing the air or purifying it where the crew are ln- closed, but four men have occupied it while below the surface for several hours and gave no indications of exhaustion or even weakness when they emerged. The boat is made of half-inch steel plate, with a strong iron frame, and a low glass cupola on top from which it is conned and its operations directed. It is quite vessel, being sixty-four feet long and twelve feet beam. The ex- periments made were very successful, and it approached unseen near enough to many vessels in the harbor to have launched against them torpedo with fatal effect.
 A French inventor named Goubet has recently made some experiments with submarine boat operated by an electric motor. He had previously contrived a similar craft of which three hundred were ordered by the Russian Govern ment. He regards his present boat as far superior to the one that he first pro- duced.-C Chicago JournGl.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
POPOCATEPETL,
The Ancient Volcano Transported Into tho
 Halls of Litigation.

The ancient volcano Popocatepetl has got into the courts. Not that it has been bodily transported into the halls of litigation, but it is the subject of novel suit at law. For many years General Ochoa has been the owner of. the volcano, the highest point of land in North America, together with all its appur- tenances. The crater contains a fine quality of sulphur, which the General has been extracting, giving employment to Indians who cared to stay down in the vaporous old crater. The property was at one time fairly profitable, but now it appears that the volcano was, some time ago, mortgagcd to Carlos Recamier, who brings suit of foreclosure The papers have been joking about the matter, some asking what Recamier in- tends to do with his volcano when he gets legal possession. He has been sol- emnly warned that the law forbids the carrying out of the country ancient monuments and objects of historic inter- est.-MeGicO Cor. Boston Herald
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
AN INTELLIGENT GOOSE.
A Gander Which Was Not as Stupid as the
 Rest of Its Family.

The Talker finds in recent book on ''The Intelligence of Animals a story which goes to show that the goose is not always such silly and stupid creature as some would have us believe. Years ago in. a little village of Germany. an aged blind woman might have been seen on her way to church every Sunday, led by gander which walked calmly in front of its mistress, holding her gown in his .beak. As soon as the old woman was seated in her pew, the gander retired to the churchyard to feed upon the grass, and when the service was ended he con- ducted his mistress to her home. One day the pastor called to pay his old par ishioner visit, but found she had gone out; on his expressing some surprise to her daughter that she would trust her mother to go out alone, she replied: "Oh, sir, we have nothing to fear; my mother is not alone, the gander is with her. "-Christta,s ct Work.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
NEATNESS.
A Trait Which Is Both Real and Appar-
 Rnt.

Trait Which Is Both Real and Appar.
 ent.
 It may refer to looks and to its reali- ties In the estimation of physiOio gist, that woman is not neat who al- lows her family to breathe the air of the sleeping-room over and over again, with closed doors and windows, or who cooks either her chickens or her shellfSh without removing the entrails! That man is not really neat who sleeps in the same clothing worn by day, or sleeps in a bed which is made as soon as it is vacated without airing" with all of the foul gases remaining that have es- capped from the body. That woman is not neat who serves her fowl after it has hung till it is mellow from age, having become putrid and tender. :" the process of decay having very far proceeded, though she may ''go into mysteries from seeing a fly in the cream!" That filth is most to be avoided which enters into the stomach. rather than that which simply offends the eye!- Golden Rule.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
END sTAGE-CROTP.
Worth s1,oOO.
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| had a severe a. tack of catarrh, and be- came so deaf I cOu.d not hear common con ycrsation. I suffered terribly from roaring in my head. l procured a bottle of EIy's Cream Balm. anI In three weeks could hear as well as I ever could. and now I can say to all who are afflicted with the worst. of dis eases, catarrh. take O?c bottle of .Ely's Cream Balm ard be cured. u is worth t1,000 to any man. woman or child suffering from catarrh. A. E. NEWMAN, Gray ling, Mich.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30

A minister, having taught his little girl the Lords Prayer, was surprised to hear her repeat it with the following variation: "Give us this day our daily bread, or biscuit and honey, if you please. '-BurE'S F'aUS (O,at.) AYrot0.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
A Progressive City.

"You ought to see the streets of Lon- don,'' said Softley. ''They are kept as clean as our sidewalks, and no dirt is allowed to stay there any time at all."
 "We haven't got that far along" re- piled his Nibs, ''but we are progressing"
 ''How are we progressing?"
 "We are not yet able to keep the streets clean, but we have reached the point of paying well for not having it done. ."-Drake'S IrauellerS' Maqazine.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30

-The search for the richest man in the world, now that Vanderbilt is gone, threatens to be as brisk as that which has ''the oldest Mason" in view The distinction is claimed for Mir Mackay, the California bonanza Chicago Jou77ldl
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30

The deaf man continues to seek the railroad track for his daily ''constitu- tional;" the swift and economical hired girl still persists in coal-oiling the kin dlings-and yet every newspaper in the country claims to have a larger circula- ton than ever before, - Chicago Ledgtr
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
YANKEE DOODLE.
pr. Moore Relates What He Knows Con-
 corning the Origin of the Song.


 corning the Origin of the Song.
 Yankee Doodle,'' was the theme of an interesting paper read by Mir. George H. Moore, IL. D., before the New York Historical Society recently. 1.-The sub ject," said MT. Moore, naturally di- vides itself into two parts: First, as to the origin of Yankee; and, second, con- cerning the time with which the word is indissolubly linked. Gordon, writing in 1775, says Yankee was the favorite word of one Jonathan Hastings, living in Cambridge in 1713, and used as a term of excellence. The students at Harvard thus became acquainted with it, and, linking it with Hastings, from whom they hired horses, it became by word and was scattered over the coun- try. There is little or no authority to rest this statement of the origin upon. The first registered Yankee was one William Marr, slave in the Carolinas, who, in an advertisement in small English paper in 1725 is thus called" MT Moore then passed over m rapid succession the various supposed Indian derivatives of the word, including that in Irving's History of New York, " and the hitherto accepted authority of the Moravian missionary in Pennsylvania that it was a corruption of Yengeese, the Indian phonetic spelling of English, and continued:
 The word is not Indian or Greek. but is pure Dutch, expressive of con tempt, and probably the most so in the vocabulary of the early New York Dutch. ''Yankinn meant in that dialect to grumble, snarl or yelp, and its deriva- tive noun Tanker meant a bowling cur. It was not in use save among the lower classes, for reasons which now shut out slang from use by educated people; but it was a well-known word. In the col isions between the New Englanders and the New York Dutch bad blood was aroused, and the New Englanders de- Spised the Dutch, while the latter abom- mated the former. Hence the use of the word to indicate the contempt which ex- isted. Every circumstance points to its birth in the collisions between the Dutch and the cOlonists. To this day the Yan- kecs are looked upon with distrust by the remnants of the real Dutchman out side New England.
 ''1le word was well known before the tune. continued MT. Moore, ''but the latter unquestionably came from En- gland, despite the assertions that it is well-known Netherland peasant song, or that Kossuth, when here, recognized it as Hungarian dance, or that it is known as the ancient sword dance of the Biscayans. The words and tune were undoubtedly first welded together by Dr. Richard Shuckberg, who was con- nected with the British army when the colonial troops from New England marched into a camp at Albany to join the Britiss regulars on the way to fight the French. The doctor knew of the tune as Fishers Jig, of which a verse ran.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30

REAssURING: Fenderson-It makes me mad to think what fool made of myself this evening" Wonder what they will think of me9 Fogg-My dear boy, don't fret yourself It's only your imagination. 1 couldn't see that you acted in any way unusual.-BoSton TrGnscript
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-30
Kali Iodid... Three drachms Tinct. Cinchona. Two drachms
 Syrup Simplex. Four drachms
One tablespoonful after each meal.

For children from one to seven years old half teaspoonful is sufficient dose, and for children from seven to twelve years old, from one to two tea spoonfuls. Putting it in other words, two to five for child under seven, and five grains for one under twelve years. This treatment is to be followed for one week even when the dog is not mad, as the virus of an angry dog produces hy- drophobia.
 When rabies is manifest, the treatment is to be continued for three weeks. In such a case the fluid can be injected with good effect in doses of from fifteen to thirty grains every two hours, N r Sun.