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Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-25
pe.th Of am Eninent Pre.byt.riea DIVING.

SpRIssFIELD, ILL.,, July 25.-The Rev.
John F. Brooks, a well known Presbyterian
divine, died last evening aged 81. Mr..
the American Home Missionary Society.
In 1S4O he located in this city, and toek
rcharge of an academy. This position be
held for Q few years and then opened
school for young women, which he con-
Quoted until very recently. He was one Of
the founders of the Illinois college. at Jack.
sonville, and has been one of the trustees
from the first
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-25

Theirs is nothing q royal as truth.
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Nationality in Boards.

An obscrvant friend who had ex-
smined a collection of faces represent
ing large number of the public men in
the United States, made the following
general conclus ons in regard to national
types in the cutting Of the beard, which
contain more than grain of truth.
"rhe simple mustache, with the rest OF
the face clean shavcn, is the prevailing
American type" he said. THE old-time
Yankee chin wliskar, Ike that of the
traditional Uncle Sam, is no longer the
national cut. In the same way the old
French type of the imperial, OF heavy
mus!ache and long goatee, has given way
in | rance TO the present type Of close
cut full beard, trimmed to double points
on the chin. The German and Russian
national types arc heavy full boards,
palted at the middle of the chin. The
English type is a small, short-cropped
mn,tache, with small square side
growths. The general south European
type of Spain or Italy is either an ell
tirely clear -shaven face or else very
small mustache and goatee crowded
close about the mouth. --Boston Aduer-
tiser
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The Antiquity Of Dolls.

Dolls have amused the girls for age:
and seem to have been well known in the
days of the Pharaohs; for, in the tombs
OF ancient Egypt, figures of painted
wood, OF icrra-cotta, of ivory and OF
rags have been found whose limbs were
made movable for the delight of chill
dren. 1t is quite probable that Pha:
raoll's daughter threw aside a mimic child
for the real baby which she discovered
in the famous bullrush basket. In the
tombs of Etruria-by the way, where
was Etruria?--simi ar toys have b eu
discovered; they were spread in the East,
and in China, as well as in India, nova
bic figures were made 10 act from time
immemorial by hand and on strings. or
as shadows bch:nl curtain. The
ancient Greeks were experts in the man
ufacturc of puppets, including wax dolls,
and several of their poets aliude to offer
ings of dolls to Artemis and Aphrodite
made by maidens before their marriage
Philadelphia Times.
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A Famous Turtle Hunter.

A Middletown On. W letter to thS
New York Eun describes the operations
of Philip Aber, famous turtle hunter
of that region. The correspondent says:
In the spring as soon as the marshes,
ponds, and streams are free of ice and
frost, Abcr sallies out after the game,
equipped with long pole with q hook
on one end and a strong canvas bag.
His experience tells him where to look
for the variety of chelo,ia he wants,
whether hiding under the stones or banks
of the creeks or sunk in the deep marsh
ooze. His pole now comes into play in
poking and prodding about. The turtle
is instantly recognized by the touch, and
the hook secures the game and lodges it
in the canvas bag. The old man makes
a queer figure as he haunts the swamps
and pools and creeks, and his skill and
dexterity in detecting and bagging the
game are something wonderful.
Aber's field OF operations extends
throughout II large portion of northern
New Jersey and southern New York, and
as near as can be asCertained he catches
and sends to market about one hundred
barrels of turtles, averaging six inches
in length, each season. The shipments
include occasional specimens of the rarer
and larger variety, the snapplng-turtle,
twelve to fifteen inches in length. He
has regular custo ners for all he can
catch in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ington and New York. The turtles,
when prepared by an expert in cooking
them, make an excellent dish that passes
for dainty terrapin stew among those
epicures whose leanness of purse will not
warrant their banqueting on the real
diamond back terrapin from the brack-
isl waters Of the seashore, at cost of
$50 to $50 per dozen.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
FARM AND GARDEN.
Silage for Fattcning.


The latest comparative trial of silagc
in the fattening of cattle by the Royal
Agricultural Society is recorded by Dr.
Noeleker in the new number OF the So
cietv's JournA. From the same meadow
hav and sflage were made, the grass for
hay weighing Is tons : hundredweight,
and that for silage few pounds under
ID tons q hundredweight Twelve bull
locks were divided into two equal lots,
one to be fed on hay aad the other on
silage, with the addition of pounds Of
cotton cake and pounds of maize meal
for each bullock per day in both lots
and water at will. After eighty-tour
days feeding, all the hay having been
consumed, the total increase IN live
weight of the six bullocks fed on hay
was $50 pounds, or 1.96 pounds per
head per day, while that of the six fed
on silage was 999 pounds, or 1.9S pounds
per head per day.
As there was originally about 10 hum
dredwcisht more grass for the hay than
for the sllage, and enough of the latter
remained after the hay had been con-
sumed to feed the six bullocks for few
days, it appears that, with considerably
smaller consumption of grass, the ami
mails fed on silage made a slightly greater
gain in live weight. The silagc in this
case was sour, but Of very good quality.
DIR. Voecker also gives the results of an
experiment witnessed by him in which
silage intended to be sweet, but contain
ing nearly as much acid as that used in
the other experiment, was tried against
hay from the same meadow with equal
quantities of other foods. In this case
the gain in live weight was 1.6 pounds
per head per day among four bulIocks
fed on silage, against 1.3 pounds among
four fed on hay.
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Dehorning Cattle.

The subject of dehoraing vicious III Is
has received much attention lately Ill
agricultural papers, and correspondent
of the kurN Ntio lOrier gives some
valuable advice on the sub ject. II"
says: after about seven months trial
can add my testimony 10 the many who
have alrc .dy recommended the practice.
I think the danger to the animals
amounts to nothing. have dchorned
about eighty cows and ycarings.
have tried Haaff's saw. 1t is good, but
a small butchers spring back >aw, cost
ing from tify to seventy-fvc cents, is
good enough and the good wife will be
glad to have it to cut beef bones when
not in use on the horns.
"The bulls and COWS are not fastened in
the same way. If the horn IS cut in the
right place there will be very little bleed
ing. There will be no stab horn, but
there will be good looking muley that
will be harmless in the future. ! am
quite cure that no one will give up the
practice who once begins. DO not be
afraid of cutting too close. If yearlings
or young stock one must cut half an
inch into the skin. There is no loss of
appetite and but little loss of milk for a
couple of milkings. After that I am
satisfied there will be gain in milk and
butter, because the COWS cannot harass
each other, and everything that helps to
make quiet aud gentle herd increases
the yield of milk ard butter.
II allow no dogs abont my cows, and
they are never struck a blow in the
stable harder than little tap with the
bare hand to make them stand over. If
that is not enough turn my back to-
ward them, and with the hips give them
q shove over. used to think stable
could not be managed without more or
less kicks, milkstool whacks, club and
profanity. A year and half of 'iotal
abstinence and stable as quiet as a
parlor, have convinced me that, while
kindness will not cure ALL we have not
one-tenth part of the trouble we did
have, while we have more milk and but
ter. Let any one who doubt, cut off the
horns to begin with, and then reform
themselves and try the new plan awhile,
and I believe they will never allow horns
or blows in their barns again."
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Sentencing a Monkey.

A monkey exhibited at a museum
established at Tacubaya, Mexico, was
condemned to be shot under judicial
sentence. 1t seems that the animal bit a
man, who died from the results of the
bite. The family of the diseased brought
complaint before Judge, who was fool
ish enough to institute criminal pro-
ceedings against the monkey, and SEN
fenced him to be shot. Luckily the
manager of the museum brought infu-
ence to bear, and succeeded in obtaining
a change of the sentence to perpetual
Imprisonment. The monkey is now en-
during the punishment of his crime be-
hind the bars of an iron cage at the
museum. .-Aeri-o Too Republics.
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The Nature OF Diamonds.

The exact mode of formation Of dia-
monds is one Of natures secrets, for
though scientists have been able to un-
derstand the chemical nature of the dla-
mond by analysis, the reverse process, its
manufacture by synthesis, has thus far
been far beyond their skill. We know
what diamondis is, but how nature makes
it the careful dame has not yet per.
mitted us to learn. The diamond IS OF
the simplest chemical composition, being
pure carbon. Charcoal is pure carbon
also, but the secret process by which
nature rearranges the atoms OF the black,
lusterless charcoal into the form OF the
flashing diamond, the most perfect speci-
men of matter, is one that even long hope
on the part of chemists, stimulated by
the honor of great gains, has not been
able to discover. Nor is it certainly
known from what department nature
takes the diamond-making material. 1t
is generally supposed that it is furnished
by vegetable charcoal, which undergoes
a peculiar process of decomposition and
crystalliIation, but it has also been con-
iectured that the carbonic acid, shut up
from remote periods in the calcareoua
rocks, may have so'idifed in this perfect
form. Sir David Brewster, from study
of the polarization of light IN the minute
cavities of the diamond, has concluded
that the substance was once in a soft
state, and, by the action of an expand
ing gas or fluid within, its very small
cavities, which retract the light to such
remarkable degree, are formed. He re-
CARDS it as certain that the original soft
ness O the diamond was not caused by
either solvents or heat, and therefore
concludes that the amond, like amber,
is a vegetable substance slowly crys-
talliZed into its present form.--fntr-
DtIGH
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cures nausea, weakness Of stomach, indi-
gestion, bloatlng and eructations Of gas.
As q soothing and strengthening
ncryine," Favorite Prescription IS un,,
cquallcd and is invaluable in allaying and
subduing nervous excitability, irritability,
exhaustion, prostration, hysterla, spasms
and other distressing, nervous symptoms
commonly attendant upon functionni anu
organic disease of the womb. 1t INDUCES
refreshing sleep and relieves mental an3-
iety and dependency. ,.,
Br. Pierce,s FaVOrite Prescriptto
is q legitimate medicine, carefully
compounded by an experienced and skillful
physician, and adapted to wonan's delicate
Organization. 1t is purely vegetable in its
composition and perfectly harmless IN its
HFayorite Prescription" Is posi-.
tive cure for the most complicated and
obstinate cases of lcucorrhea, or whites"
excessive flowing at monthly periods, pain
full menstruation. unnatural suppressions,
prolapsus or falling of the womb, weak
back, "female weakness" anteversion, re-
trovcrsiou. bearing-down sensations, chron-
ic congestion, inflammation and liberation
Of the womb, Inflammation, pain and ten
derncss in ovartes, accompanied with I" in
tcrnal heat"
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I3 PHYSICIANS
| FAILED.

The treatment of many thousands of cases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the lnyaltds
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y,
has afforded vast experience in nicely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of womans peculiar mnladics.
DIR. Pierce's FavOrfte Prescription
Is the outgrowth, or result, Of this great
and valuable experience. Thousands OF
testimonials, received from patients and
from physicians who have tested it in the
more aggravated and obstinate cases which
had bafilcd their SKILL prove 1t to be tho
most wonderful remedy ever devised for
the relief and cure of suffering women. 1t
is not recommended as " cure-all," but
as a most perfect Specific for woman's
peculiar ailments.
As a powerful, Invigorating tonic,
It imparts strength to the whole system,
and to the uterus, or womb and its ap-
pendagcs, in particular. For ovcrworked,
tworn-out," rundown" debilitated teach
ers, miliners, drcssmakers, seamstresses,
"shop-girls." housekeepers, nursing moth
ers, and feeble women generally, DR..
Picrcc's Favorite Prescription is the great
est earthly boon. being unequalled as an
cppetizing cordial and restorative tonic. 1t
y7rmofes digestion anti assimilation Of food,
Address. yyQRLEsS DISPl
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Potato PattieS.

A nice way to make little potato pat.
ties is to CRATE three quarters of pound
of mealy potatoes to fine flour, moisten
with little milk and add two ounces OF
butter beaten to a cream. Boil half q
piut of milk and stir it boiling into the
potatoes, continuing TO stirit over the fire
to a smooth paste. Take it of and mix
in two well beaten eggs. Let the
whole cool; beat it up with the yolks OF
four eggs; whip the whites to snow
and stir it gently into the batter. But,
ter small patty pans and sift grated
bread over to line them as with a crnst.
Fill these with the batter and bake to a
deep yellow color, just before they are
to Ec served. Send Immediately to table
with fish or fowl.
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THE oUTGROWTH OF A VAST EXPERIENCE.

In pregnancy" " Favorito Prescription
| Is a "mCthCr's cordial" relieving nausea,
| weakness Of stomach and other distressing
symptoms common to that condition. II
its Use is kept up in the latter months Of
CESSATION, it so prepares the system for de-
livery as to greatly Lessen, and many times
almost entirely do away with the sutferings
Of that trying ordeal.
"Favoritc Prescription,' when taken
in connection with the use Of DR.. Pierce'a
Golden Medical Discovery, and small Axo-
tive doses of DIR. Piercc's Purgative Pellets
little Liver Pills., cures Liver, Kidney and
Rladder diseases. Their combined use also
removes blood taints, and abohshes can
ccrous and scrofulous humors from the
system.
medicine for women sold, by drugg1sts-
under q positive guarantee, from the
manufacturers, that It will give satisfao-
tion in every case, or money will be re.
funded. This guarantee has been printed
on the bottle wrapper, and faithfully car
ricd out for many years. Large bottles
(i0O doseO $1.OO, or siI bottles for
eV Send ten cents in stamps for DR..
Picrce's largo, illustrated Treatise Geo
pages) on Diseases Of Women.
!. 663 Main Street. BUFFALO, n. 7.
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How 10 Get Rid Of Weeds.

Professor W. j. Bcale says in "Grasscs
of North America" There are two
things to be done. First, prevent
further seeding and the further introduc-
ton of seeds; second, destroy the seeds
and plants now in the soil.
Farmers cannot be too careful about
the soarce of grass seel. Weeds of
some of the worst types are thus dis
tributed. Where it is possible, it is bet
ter and safer to grow ones own seed, or
procure it of some thorough, careful
farmer near home. The older the country,
as a rule, the more likely it is to furnish
ox-cyc daisy, yaIrow, rib. grass and other
tenacious and troublesome weeds.
Foul seed is dear even as gift. 1t is
cheaper to pay triple price for clean seed
than to be perplexed with the trouble of
getting rid of the wce0s intro luced.
Some Of the seed should be spread out
on table in very thin layer TO aid
in the discovery of the weeds, which are
allowed otherwise to escape notice
Sievcs and fans may remove some kinds
entirely. Many sorts of seeds, especially
the small ones, will pass undigested and
unharmed through the digestive organs
of horses and cattle. An ordinary com
post heap does not kill all unless every
portion is carefully turned in and heated
In certain cases one or more hoed crops
may he raised ON the land thoroughly
summer fa!lowed. Pastures and mca.
dows should always be looked over care.
fully, and the weeds dug or p';iled be-
fore the seeds are ripe, or taken Off the
ground if the seeds arc ripe. Sheep
must be kept from pastures until sticks,
seed, hounds tongue, burdock and the
like have been removed.
The large weeds like yarrow and bitter
do K, parsaip and carrot, may be let
until the growing stalk has acquired
some strength. Then on some day when
the soil is soft, and before the seeds have
dropped, go over the field with spade
or stout spud, thrusting it down per
pendicularly within a couple Of inches of
the plant. Take the stalk with one hand
near the root, and with the other pIv it
loose. In this way no roots are left be-
low the surface TO sproHt and send up Il
new crop. Never cut off the tops of such
weeds leaving the roots in the ground.
By the following process the writer has
found no troub e in killing qlack grass,
whether the season hc wet or dry, the
soil sand or clay, drained or undrained
Plow it late in autumn. and as soon as a
team can be put on the ground in the
spring run overit with cultivator every
three or four days. Never allow leaf
to show itself, for then it begins to re
cuperlte. By the middle of June every
vestige has disappeared. Further south
than Central Mich gan, no doubt it woald
disappear early. TO harrow and rake up
the roots is waste of labor. If during
its growing season the green tops are kept
out of sight the plants will die. Thorough
work, eternal vigilan"e, is the only way
of keeping the upper hand of weeds.
Farm and Garden Notes.
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For n Gold tho Head,

Inhalation of fresh fumes Of flour of
sulphur is excellent for an incipient cold.
The powder should be sprink!ed upon a
hot metal surface, q little at time, the
person inhaling to stand as near af posi-
ble. The odor is not nearly rs disagree
able rs when the smoke is inhaled after
it has been some lin, diffuSed in the air.
Only short time IL required to expe-
rieDce re-lief. - Washington Star.
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Pudding Worth Eating.

There are rice puddings and rice pud-
dings. The old-fashioned one, if made
ir the right way is not to be "sncehed
at" The following one is vouched for
by Mrs. Rorer, principal OF the Phlla-
dclphia cooking school. Add two heap
ing tablcspoonfuls of washed rice, same
quantity of sugar, quarter Of grated
nutmeg, and half cup Of raisins to q
quart Of new milk; place it in moder-
ate oven and cook slowly for about two
hours, stirring every fifteen minutes for
the first hour and half. The last half
hour the oven should be sufficiently hot
to form thin, papery crust of deep
brown shade on the top. The pudding
when done should be creamy, not solid.
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A Chinese Belief.

The cclestials firmly believe that il
three boys are born in a triplet they
must be at once behcaded, according to
Chinese law, as a prophecy evists that
one o. n .rip'ct Of boys will be the future
destroyer and invader of the empire.
Girls don't count, much to the relief of
the wife of a certain mandarin, who
has lately given birth to three baby
daughters. Hong Hong Guzcttr.
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NObleman and Plpbeian.

Lord Horne has made himself hero
in British society by landing salmon
weighing forty-fve pounds. If a poor
man had caught it and been found out
he would have got tn, ee months in Jail!
Giles from tn. stream a salmon takes,
On vested rights he's an encroacher,
What makes a lord hero, makes
Of Giles: the plebian, poacher.
- =-BoStOa Courier,
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Itching Piles.

Swnptoms-M Moisture; intense itching and
stinging; worse by scratching. II allowed to
continue tumors form, which often bleed and
ulceratc, becom NJ very sore. SwAYEE'S o Mt
MEST stops the itching and bleeding, heals ul-
ceration, and in many cases removes the tu-
mors. Equally etficacioGs in curing all skin
Diseases. D.t. MAYNE& son, Philadelphia
Sent by mail for 20 cts Also sold by druggists.
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Consumption Surely Cured

To the Editor:-Please inform your readers
that ! have positive remedy for the above
named disease. BY its timely use thousands OF
hopeless cases have been permanently cured.
shall be glad to send two bottles Of my remedy
FREE to any of your readers who have con-
sumption if they will send me their Express
and p D. address. Respectfully,
T. A. SLOCCM. NC. ISL Pearl St, n. Y.
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Prudent people promptly procure positively
permanent relief from Catarrh by using Tay-
dress, City Hall Pharmacy, 964 Broadway, New
York
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Food for InyalidS.

A very delicate breakfast for an invalid
is the following: Take some rice that
has been boiled the day b fore, and Set
away in a fat dish until morning. Cut
in slices; brush each slice over with
melted butter; slightly grease the broll-
or, and toast each slice G "a slow fire to
a delicate brown. Butter the slices and
serve with poached egg on top.
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another kidney disease another from nervous
this they all present alike themselves and their
womb disorder physician ignorant Of the cause OF suffering
patient probably by OF the delay
ike Dr. Pierces Favorte Prescription directed the wor
nsttung comfort instead of prolong
Mrs. E. F. MORGAN Of No. II Lexington St.
3 PHYSICIANS Mia sssE fio Fs utsSe ysq roB
Failed 1s tss s of He and RhS 20
n...--A weak could with difficulty the room
alone BEGAN taking Dr. Picrces Favorte Prescription and
usinr the local treatment recommended in his Common Sense
Medical Adviser commenced to improve at once In three
months was pefccty and have had trouble SINCE
wrote my family paper briefly mentioning how my
any writing for them and enclosing Snpsds-
In have DESCRIBED my case and the treatment used
many have received second letters Of thanks stating that 9sg
81 20 reuuired for the Medical Adviser applied the
local fully and plainly laid down therein and were
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If afflicted with sore eyes usc Dr.. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water Druggists sella .5c. per bottle.
ROYAL GLUE mendS anything Broken Chi
na. Glass, Wood. Free Walls at Drugs & Gro.