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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
Earthquake Theories.

A Cambridge gentleman, who was q
member of the old Association of Ameri-
can Biologists and Naturalists, has
shown US fund of interesting data in
regard to earthquakes, in which, after
after numerous citations of the immense
distances over which certain famous
earthquakes have been felt, he gives an
explanation by Gay-Lussac Of the man
ner in which particles of solid mass OF
matter are shaken, which will be appre-
ciated by every school boy who has seen
the experiment with row OF ivory balls,
the first of which was struck by the
teacher, with the result of knocking
away the ball at the other end, while
the, intervening balls merely. transmit
ted the shock without being moved
themselves. So the shock pro-
duced4y the head of a pin upon one
of the ends of long beam makes all its
fibers vbrate and transmits itself dis
tinctly to the other end to an attentive
ear. According to the law of the trans-
mission of movement in elastic bodies,
one section of earth not being able to
transmit its movements to adjoining SEC
tions, tends 10 detach itself from tho
shaken mass in the same manner as in
the row of elastic balls.
Hence the shocks originating August
% in Greece and Italy Travelled under
the sea at the rate of 100 miles an hour,
and reached the eastern shores of the
United States on the night of Septem-
Der 1. Though pcrceptible in Eoston
they did no damage upon these stern
and rock-bound coasts. But in the Vi
cinity of Charleston and Somerville,
S. c., the upper strata of the earth being
of a softer and more yielding nature,
and affording less resistance to the fo-
ward movements of the earth waves, the
earth crust was violently shaken and
pushed out of place. Adcertiser.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
Remedy for Poultry Pests.

Job Gardner says in the New England
Farmer: Articles frequently appear in
poultry and agricultural journals relative
to the destruction of poultry pests. Nari-
Gus remedies are recommended for their
extirpation, remedies which usually re-
quire not little time. labor and expense
in their application. The idea generally
advanced is, that by waging constant
warfare the hen-lice may be kept in
abeyance. The following simple, mex
pensive remedy has proved effeftual in
my case: Seven or eight years ago, being
much troubled in raising poultry on ac-
count of lice. l commenced the free use
of powdered sulphur, putting it in all
the laying boxes. For seven years not a
louse has made its appearance in my hen
merry. All now do as preventive is
10 put annually in each laying box about
a teaspoonful of the powdered sulphur.
This is usually done in the spring.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
The Pis-Geedins that Pays.

Thomas D. Baird writes in the New
York Tribune: Every farmer who makes
the feeding of animals an important part
of his business ought to know that their
unremitting growth is the only right way
of treating them. This is the course
which the most successful poak-raisers
pursue in feeding their hogs regularly
and fully through winter and summer
till they are sufficiently fat in autumn.
To fatten hogs to the best advantage the
pig should be fed and managed with re-
gard to rapid and continued growth. I
know of no better way than to sow rye
in the fall for early spring pasture.
More than month can be gained in this
way, for rye comes on early, while clover
is slow to start AMI sholld not be turned
on until in blossom. After this it would
be we'll to turn them in clover field
where there is plenty of pure fresh water; ;
and give additional feed Of sweet milk,
wheat bran and corn meal. Pigs man
aged in this way have their bone and
muscular frame we'll built up, their ap-
petites strong, their health vigorous,
their digestive powers active, and their
ability to assimilate all they can digest
as strong as it can be. Now the pig is
in good condition for forcing in the fat
tening process.
Many intelligent per: ons suppose that
poor animals may in a short time he
changed into fat ones by stutling them
with rich food. I have seen farmers who
supposed the more food they could get
their hogs to eat in day or week the
faster they would gain, become discour-
aged because the gain was not in proper
tion to food consumed and in their dis
appointment came to the conclusion that
fsttening hogs did not pay, when the
true reason was they were overfed and
the excess of food was wasted. A farmer
may withhold the proper quantity of
food from his hogs and even half starve
them for months and then "lut them with
food and >$us hope rapidly to put them
in fat condition. But careful observa-
tions prove that the profits of raising and
fattening hogs are realized only when
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
The Bill Was Corrected.

A guest about to leave Washington
hotel the other day found an item
charged on his bill of $21 for six quarts
of champagne. He had been at the hotel
for six days and had drank pint OF
champagne each day at dinner. This
was the manner in which he proceeded
to have the error corrected: After having
packed his trunk, keeping out suIil lent
number of articles to fill to the bursting
point a small handbag, he packed the
bag, and with that in one hand and a
pair of heavy hunting boots in thc other,
went down to the Office and asked for
the bill clerk. When that functionary
appeared the following conversation
cnsued:
Guest Blank, Will you do me
the favor top put those boots in thar bag"
Clerk-'NNhy, what do you meana
Why don't you put 'em in yourself"
Gnest-"ro tell you the truth, ] can't
get 'em in"
"Then how do you expect rue
to get EN- in?"
Guest-"Well, don't know; but you
got six quarts of champagne into SIX
Dint bottles, % thought you might DO
able to get those boots into that bag"
The clerk went behind the returns
and corrected the BILL ChicagO tribune.
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Artificial Teeth 2.4OO Years Old.

DR.. Marter, of Rome, has discovered
in many of the skulls in the different
Roman and Etruscan tombs, as we'll as in
those deposited in the various museums,
interesting specimens of ancient dentis-
try and artificial teeth. These latter are
in most cases carved out of the teeth of
some large animal. In many instances
these teeth are fastened to the natural
ones by bands of gold. No cases of
stopped teeth have been discovered, al
though many cases of decay present
themselves where stopping would have
been advantageous. The skulls examined
date as far back as the sixth century B.
c., and prove that the art of dentistry
and the pains of toothache are by no
means modern institutions.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
Green Corn ReciDes,

CORN PUDDING. two dozen ears
of green corn, three pints of milk, two
crackers, three eggs, two teacups of
sugar, little salt, bake two or three
hours; eat with butter and pepper. Very
nice.
Corn AND BEANs.-Green corn cut
from the cob and added to the pot of
beans and pork is great improvement.
CORN OYSTERS. Rs.-Onc-half pint of sweet
milk, lump of saleratus size of pea,
three heaping tablespoonfuls of -four,
siffted after being measured, one tea
spoonful Of salt, two well-beaten eggs,
five good-sizcd ears OF corn.
Corn SoUp.-One quart of milk, one
pint of grated green corn, the same
quantity of water, two tab!espoonfuls of
butter, heaping tablespoonful of -four,
a slice of onion, pepper and salt to taste.
Cook the corn in the water for half an
hour. Let the milk and onion come to
boil. Mix the butter and -four together
and add a few tablespoonfuls of the
milk. When perfectly smooth stir into
the remainder of the milk and cook
eight minutes. Take out the onion, ado
the corn, season to taste and serve.
GuMBo.-Three fine gray squirrels.
skinned and cleaned; joint as you would
chickens for fricassee; half pound fat
salt pork, one onion if liked) sliced !;
twelve ears green corn cut from the cob;
six large tomatoes, pared and sliced; {;
three tablespoonfuls of butter, rolled in
flour; parsley and enough water to cover
the squirrels. Put on squirrels, pork
(cut up smalD, onion and parsley in the
water, and bring to a boil. When this
has lasted ten minutes put in corn, and
stew until squirrels are tender. Then
add the tomatoes, cut up thin, and twen-
ty minutes later stir in the butter and
flour. Simmer ten minutes, and serve in
large, deep dish.
An OME1ETTE.-Take well-flled ears
of sweet corn, and, with linen cloth,
remove all the silk between the rows of
kernels. Cut the kernels down the cen
ter, being careful not to loosen them
from the cob and then take out the pulp
by press nc downward with knife. To
three tablespoonfuls of the green corn
pulp add the well-beaten yolks of three
eggs and little salt. Beat the whites
Of the eggs to a stiff froth and mix with
the corn and the yolks and pour into
hot irving pan with little butter: cover
Immediately, and set it where it will
cook but not burn. When set. fold over
the omelctte and serve on q hot dish i'm
mediately.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
WISE WORDS.

Have no friends you dare not bring
home.
Doing good is the only certainly happy
action of mans life.
Select worthy object in life, and bend
all your efforts in that direction.
The censure of those that are opposite
to us is the incest commentator that
can be given us.
Steadtastly set your face against need
less delays in doing any work for the
good of your fellow men.
A wise man stands firm in all ex-
trcmities, and bears the lot of his hu-
manity with divine temper.
Take up one by one the plain, practi.
cal duties that lie nearest to hand, and
perform them as fast as possible.
Wrong-doing is road that may open
fair, but it leads to trouble and danger.
Well-doing, however rough and thorny,
surely leads to pleasant places.
There is only now and then an oppor-
tunity of displaying great courage or
even great wisdom; but every hour in
the day offers chance to show our good
nature.
To be happy, the passion must be
cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melan-
choly. A propensity to hope and Joy is
real riches; one to fear and sorrow. real
poverty.
No way has been found for making
heroism easy, even for the scholar. La
Dor, iron labor, is for him. The world
was created as an audience for him; the
atoms of which it is made are opportu-
mites.
The mcanest and most illegitimate of
all human pursuits is the direct pursuit
of reputation. 1t is supremely selfish
and contemplate; and there is no man
who really deserves good reputation
who does not make its acquisition SUBJ
ordinate aim in all his actions.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
Look Out for the Crockery.

To season glass and chinaware to sud-
den changes of temperature, so that it
will remain sound after exposure to sud-
den heat and cold, is best done by plac-
ing the articles in cold water, which
must be gradually brought to the boiling
point and then allowed to cool very
slowly, taking several hours to do it..
The commoner the material the more
care in this respect is required. The
very best glass and chinaware is always
well seasoned or annealed before it is
sold. If the wares are properly seasoned
in this way they may be washed in boil
ing water without fear of fracture ex-
cept in frosty weather, when even with
the best annealed wares, care must be
taken not to place them suddenly in too
hot water.
All china that has any gliding upon
it may on no account be rubbed with q
cloth of any kind, but merely rinsed,
first in hot and afterward in cold water,
and then left to drain till dry. If the
gliding is very dirty and requires polish
ing it may now and then be rubbed with
q soft piece of wash leather and o little
dry whiting, but this operation must not
be repeated more than once year, other
wise the gold will most certainly be
rubbed off and the china spoiled.
When the plates, etc., are put away in
the china closet pieces of paper should
be placed between them to prevent
scratches on the glaze or painting, as
the bottom of all ware has little parti-
cles of sand adhering to it, picked up
from the oven wherein it was glazed.
The china closets should be in dry
situation, as a damp closet will soon
tarnish the gliding of the best crockery.
In common dinner service it is O
great evil to make the plates too hot, as
it invariably cracks the glaze on the sur
face, if not the plate itself. We all know
tbs result-it comes apart. "Nobody
broke it," ''it was cracked before" OF
'it was cracked long time ago."
The fact is, when the glaze is injured,
every time the ''things" are washed the
water gets to the interior, swells the
porous clay and makes the whole fable
rotten. In this condition they will also
absorb grease, and when exposed to fur
ther heat the grease makes the dishes
brown and discolored. If an old, i'll
used dish be made very hot indeed, fat
will be seen to exude from the minute
assures upon its surface The latter re-
marks apply more particularly to COM
mon wares.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
Coal Waste in Agriculture.

Mr. j. A. Price, of Scranton, Penn,
recommends the use of culm, or coal
waste, in agriculture, by reducing it to
dust and applying it to land to darken
the color of the soil, produce porosity
and stimulate plant life. His opinion
that benefits will be derived from this
application is confirmed by the expert
mentshe has made. A dark color of the
soil is usually associated with fertility,
and with reason, for it promotes the ab-
sorption of heat and thus makes the soil
warmer and prolongs the season of free
dom from frost at both ends. Mr..
Prices observations of the effect of
colors on soils side by side, and other.
wise precisely alike, showed that a Wig
orous existen. was maintained on q soil
darkencd by waste coal, greatly in excess
of that of the adjoining strip, which was
left in its original condition. So in the
quality of porosity, in soil treated as
the author 'Iecommends-a blue clay or
hard pan taken from an excavation and
fertilized with organic manures-it was
found that greater porosity as well Us
improved color was given, and the two
sections, treated and untreated, exhibited
all the peculiar features of two different
soils. The corn upon the culm-charged
section exhibited vigor OF growth of
tap and stay root, and of stalk and ear,
that was far ahead of that of the other
section. This same result has been
maintained through several paintings.
Similar effects were observed with lima
beans. Since coal contains nearly all
the substances requisite for the healthy
growth OF plants, it is reasonable to sup
pose that its application will have the
effect, as it is gradually decomposed by
chemical action, of positive manure.
The fertilizing results of this kind begin
to reveal themselves in the second year.
-Amelican CuNirator.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
Thirty Thousand Frozen Sheep.

The extent to which the trade in fro
zen meat from distant countries has
grown since the introduction, only a few
years back, of the system of freezing by
the compression and subsequent expan-
sion OF air, is indicated by the constant
arrival in this country of vast ship. loads
of carcasses from the autipodes. The
largest cargo of dead meat ever received
lately arrived in the Thames from the
Falkland Islands on board the steamship
Selembria. This consisted of 10000
frozen carcasscs of sheep. This ship
possesses four engines for preserving and
freezing the meat, and the holds are
lined with non-conducting packing of
timber and charcoaL-ChQmbers's Jour-
nal.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
PumDkin Seeds.

PuEpelly, in his work, "Across Ameri-
ca and Asia, "says the Chinese eat pump
kin seeds between the courses at dinner.
This may be an appetizer or digester.
These seeds are rich in nitrogen and
oil. They are certainly very nutritious,
and cattle and hogs are often eager to
eat them. Some feeders of swine have
been very successful in feeding pump
kins as large part of rations in fatten-
ing them. Experience seems to have
been contradictory on this matter; but
the explanation is simply this: The
seeds in small quantities are not delete
rious to animals in good health; but
when it happens in breaking or cutting
up the puml ,k.ns that the seeds get sepa-
rated from the body of the pumpkin,
and these &C umulated seeds are thrown
to the animals in mass. and an extra
quantity is eaten by few, it produces
bad effect.
1t is presumed that if hogs or young
cattle eat only the common proportion of
seeds-that is, if they eat a pumpkin
and the seeds that belong to it, no harm
will be DONE unless the pig or steer is in
an unhealthy condition. But as the seeds
are so liable to get separated from the
body of the pumpkin, it is safer to sepa-
rate them, and if fed, give them in very
small quantity. 1t is the seeds that act
deleteriously upon the kidney. :.
The pumpkin is profitable crop to
raise for feeding all the animals on the
farm. Two or three tons per acre may
be raised with very little labor in the corn
field, and the food value per ton is
greater than the best corn fodder. But
it is not advisable to feed the seeds to
milch cows-the danger is greater than
the advantage. Country Gentleman.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
Fall Apples.

Grandpa and Ruthie went walking one day
Out in the orchard together,
With hearts that had nothing to do but be
gay,
All in the sunShiny weather;
Out where the branches were laden with
fruit
As thick as with blossoms in spring;
Where the blue-bird kept merily tuning his
lutte,
And the robin did nothing but sing.
When Ruthie espied, on a tree standing
near.
Some apples with cheeks growing red;
'Oh, grandpa, just see!" ~"Why, yes, Ruth,
my dear,
Those are the fall apples" he said.
Then, of q sudden, gay little breeze
The orchard. came frolicking through,
And shook from that prettiest one of the
trees
A rosy-cheeked apple or two.
Fob, grandpa" Ruth cried, with queer lit
tie cough,
Edo yo1 call them fall apples because they
fall off,"
Youths Companion.
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HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
To Clean Glass and Silverware


Egg-shells crushed into small bits and
shaken we'll in decanters three parts
filled with cold water will not only clean
them thoroughly, but make the: glass
look like new. BY rubbing with q fan
mel dipped in the best whiting the brown
discoloration may be taken off cups in
which custards tave been baked. Again,
all of US are aware that emery powder
will remove ordinary stains from the
white ivory knife handles, and that the
lustre of morocco leather is restored by
vanishing with white of egg. Nothing,
it is said, is better to clean silver with
than alcohol or ammonia, finishing with
little whiting on a soft cloth. When
putting away the silver tea or coffee-pot
which is not in use every day, lay stick
across the top under the cover. This
will allow fresh air to get in and pre-
vent the mustiness of the contents famil-
lar to clearinghouse sufferers.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25
The Puma.

All who have killed or witnessed the
killing of the puma-and l have ques-
toned scores Of hunters on this point
agree that it resigns itself in an unrc-
sisting, pathetic manner to death at the
hands of man. Claudio Gay, in his
Natural History of Chill" says: "Whcn
attacked by man its energy and daring
at once forsakc it, and it becomes a weak,
inoTensive animal, and trembling, and
uttering piteous means, and shedding
abundant tears, it seems to implore COM
passion from generous enemy" The
enemy is not often generous; but many
gauchos (South American cowboys) have
assured me, when speaking on this sub
ject, that although they kill the puma
readily to protect their domestic animals,
they consider it an evil thing to taku its
life in desert places, where it is mans
only friend among the wild animals.
When the hunter is accompanied by
dogs, then the puma, instead of dropping
and shedding tears, is reused to sub.
lime rage; its hair stands erect; its eyes
shine like balls of green fame; it spit:
and snarls like furious tomcat. The
hunters presence seems at such times tc
be ignored altogether, its whole atten
being given to the dogs and its rage di
rrcted against them. In Patagonia o
sheep-farming Scotchman, with whom ]
spent some days, showed me the skulls
Of five pumas which he shot in the vi.
cinity Of his ranch. One was of an ex'
ceptionally large individual, and I here
relate what he told me of his encounter
with this animal, as it shows just how
the puma almost invariably behaves
when attacked by man and dogs. He
was out on foot with his flock, when the
dogs discovered the animal concealed
among the bushes. He had left his gun
at home, and having no weapon, and
finding that the dogs dared not
attack it where it sat in de-
fant attitude, with it's back against
thorny bush, he looked about
and found large dry stick, and going
boldly up to it tried to stun it with a
violent blow on the head. But though
it never looked at him, its fiery eyes gaz-
ing steadily at the dogs all the time, be
could not hit, for with quick side move.
ment it avoided every blow. The small
heed the puma paid him, and the ap-
parent ease with which it avoided the
best-aimed blows, only served to rouse
his spirit, and at length striking with in
creased force his stick came TO the
ground and was broken to pieces. For
some moments he now stood within two
yards of the animal perfectly defence
less and not knowing what to do. Sud-
denly it sprang past him, actually brush
ing against his arm with its side. and be-
gan pursuing the dogs round and round
among the bushes. In the end my in
formant's partner appeared on the scene
with his rite, and the puma was shot.
In encounters of this kind the most
curious thing is that the puma stead
fastly refuses to recognize an enemy in
man, although it find, him acting in con-
cert with its hated canine foe, about
whose hostile intentions it has no such
delusion n-Lonqman's Magazine.
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they are regularly fed from day to day
with neither too scant nor too heavy ra-
tions. Some object to this mode; they
wish to finish the fattening in two or
three months, and think it is too expen-
sive to continue it for one or two years.
Heavy feed ng is not requisite to keeping
up the continued growing condition of
an animal.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25

A very good impression of any article
OF metal having a fiat, ornamental sur
face NAV be taken by wetling some note
paper with the tongue and smoking it
over a gas flame. The article is then
pressed upon the smoked part, when, if
the operation be carefully conducted, a
clear impression will appear. This can
be made permanent by drawing the
paper through milk and afterward dry
ing it..
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25

A farmer sent o dollar for lightning
potato bug killer which he saw adver-
tis.d in paper, and received by return
mail two blocks of wood, with directions
printed on them as follows: Take this
block, which is No. /, in the right hand;
place the bug on No. 2, and press them
together. Remove the bug and proceed
as before"
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25

Japan clover Is becoming very popular
in the Southern and Southwestern States,
where it first became widely known as
cultivablc plant about eight or ten years
ago, although it is indigenous in most
parts Of North America,
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25

We hear q great deal Of talk about the
consumption of fish. We wonder they
don't try codliyer oil.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-11-25

One cranberry marsh at Berlin, Wis,
gives employment to 900 pickers.