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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Household Notes.


To freshen salt fish soak them in
sour milk.
A red hot iron passed over old putty
will soften it SO it can DO easily re-
moved.
The more even temperature in the
cellar the better what is stored there
will keep.
A piece OF sponge fastened tn stick
10 IL good thing with which TO clean
lamp chimDeys.
Great improvement will be found in
tea and coffee II kept in glass fruit
jars instead OF tin boxes.
Beets should be boiled one hour in
summer; one hour and n half. or even
two hours, il large, ia winter
The Department OF Agriculture sta
tistician says the total acreage in pota-
toes last year was 9, 10000 and the
average yield seventy six bushels.
The theory that when trees are
grated on whole roots they will be
harder than when grated on the
young stock is claimed to be errone-
Gus and delusion.
Kerosene applications 10 the skin OF
animals, are remedicd for lice and skin
ailments, are too severe. One gill OF
kerosene added to a quart OF cotton
seed oil Is better.
The money expended on roads, il
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Masculine and Female Apparel.

It is a popular thing nowadays to
criticise women's dress. We have,
however, no sympathy with the i'm
plication that women are worse than
men in this respect. Men wear all
they can without interfering with their
locemotion, but man is such an awk-
ward creature he cannot find any place
on his body TO hang a great many
tineries. He could not get around in
Wall street with eight or ten flounces,
and big-handled parasol, and a noun
tain OF black hair. Men wear less than
women. not because they are moral,
but because they cannot stand it. AS
it is, many Of our young men are
padded 10 superlative degree. and
have corns and bunions on every sepa-
rate toe from wearing shoes too tight,
with collars SO high that l wonder why
SO much good linen is wasted. Ladies'
Home journal.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Neglect and Carelsssness Result in Loss
TO The Farmer.
Land Is Human in the Respect That 1t Needs
Rest-A Mistake About Fermenting Seeds.
Farm Notes, Choice Recipes and Other
Interesting Preside Reading.
Neglect preed. Loss.

The average farmer loces more in
the course OF a year from neglect than
he has any idea OF, writes M. + Bank
ard. One OF the first losses Is in not
having good fence on all land In
tended for pasture. Very often a few
hours work in the spring rcpairin
the fence around your pasture would
save many dollars worth OF grain and
good deal of veXation getting stock
out of corn or wheat field early in the
morning after Il heavy dew.
Cattle will very often eat enough
green grain TO render them almost
worthless, il IL does not kill them.
Hogs are not inclined to do themselves
any particular harm. but look out for
the grain. They like to sample the
whole field. A drove OF twenty or
thirty will destroy enough In one
night to keep the fence in repair on
the farm a whole year.
A poor fence around truck lot is
tho means OF the years supply of
sugar corn, and anything that was
planted in it, being destroyed by hogs
or cattle. A few days repairing fences
VIII odNO a iOob dOol W. ohSO
and loss.
Farmers are always condemning our
public roads which generally deserve
it, but take look at their own private
road which they use day after day and
see il that cannot be improved consid-
erably. You will not find one-out OF
five but what can be. Some are not
safe to travel. But that same farmer
who condemns public roads. will
travel day after day over this road
until no breaks something, or perhaps.
cripples horse. which will cost him
many dollars to replace. Had this
same farmer spent one day with his
farm hand and team, he could have
made good road without spending
any cash.
Careless feeding and handling brood
mares very often will cause the death
OF both colt and mare. Careless feed
ing breeding animals of all kinds will
cause loss in some way.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
He Took NO Risks.

"Charles. dear" said a fond wife
who was assisting her husband for a
short journey, "wh at is this flask OF
whisky forp'
That" said her hush and. sudden y
looking from his valise. 20, that's to
be used exclusively in the case OF
snake bites"
but. my DEAR" demonstrated the
little woman, there are no snakes in
the cars"
20, yes there are, at times. You
see, when they stop TO wood up. or
take water at some way station out n
the wholesome gloomy swamp or
bayou-the snakes board the train
aud crawl around the passengers legs.
It's mighty annoying. and dangerous.
too. And then. too. I've seen men on
cars with their boots full OF snakes
real serpents mona OF your circus
poster reptiles, but the genuine arti-
Gle. Yes. / shouldn't consider my
life worth ten cents II were to leave
that bottle OF whisky behind"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21

properly applied, win save wear and
depreciation OF wagons. Many good
horses are annually killed or foundered
by bad roads. A road can not De made
too good for travel.
Carbolized sulphur is sure death to
the lice that infests the nests. 1t is
prepared as follows: Flowers OF sui
phur, five pounds; fluid extract OF com
mercial carbolic acid. one drachm;
thoroughly mix and it is ready Tor
use. We know this to be good.
The hog can be made to attain q
very large size. A Vermont farmer
killed Il COW. 8 years old, that dressed
877 pounds, but hog. oriy years
old, owned by another Vermont farmer.
dressed 663 pounds. Large hogs. how
ever, are only desirable for producing
lard. The best pork comes from hogs
that weigh about $50 pounds dressed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
The Politician.

] pray that in one year more Imay
find some way Of escaping from this
unblest custom house. for it is a very
grievous thraldom. do detest all Of
fices-all, at least, that are held ON
a political tenure and / want nothing
to do with politicians. Their hearts
wither away and die out OF their
bodies. Their consciences are turned
to India rubber, or to some substance
as blAck as that and which will stretch
as much. Ono thing. II no more, i
have gained by my custom house en-
perience--to know politician. 1t is.
u knowledge which no previous.
thought or power OF sympathy could
have taught me; because the animal,
or the machine, rather. is not in ma
ture. Hawthorne.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
fcation.

"Ah, you are here to throw an OBJ
struction in the way of justice, are
you? | have heard on several occa-
sions that you are man who has very
little respect for the decision OF u
court. And you have come around here
TO bully me, and that too in the face
of the strongest evidence that was ever
brought before a court of justice. Mr..
Sheriff issue bench warrant OF arrest
for this man on the grounds OF
contempt OF court, and then
proceed with the hanging. This court
blind as it is to every thing but justice
and the true form Of law. is getting
tired Of being brOwbeaten."
OPiE Z. READ.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
when the Sun Goes Down.

Though the morning may be dreary
And the day be long aud weary,
Though the clouds may darlSly lower
And the tempest fercely frown,
We shall quite forget the shadows
That have fingered in the meadows
IL there be golden hour
When the sun goes down
What though fate our hope opposes,
" hat though thorns shut out the roses,
And the cross is borne In sorrow
That we carry TO the crown.
BY und by wo'll cease TO wander
And well rest forever youder
If there d.twus "a bright tomorrow
When LIES sun goes down.
Boston Traveller
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
AMERICAN ENERGY.
Not in Contended Fields OF Leisure
Is Fame Maintained.


Is Fame Maintained.
"Men and measures come and go,
rise and fall so rapidly in America"
Mr.. Stanley explained to Emin Pasba
and Captain Casatl. says New York
World correspondent, "tha: you never
know whether the millionaire and the
bootblack may not have changed
places with one another since we have
been in Africa. The popularity oil
American life is that no one can affori
to halt and say: I've done enough.
II you stop you're done and done for
In America no man can afford to rest
on his laurels. III he attempts it he is
trampled under by new men and for
gotten in no time. Now in England, "
he continued, addressing himself more
directly 10 the young Englishmen, lin
England it is different. A man may
accomplish some great thing and the
fame of it upholds him for years, il not
till death. But in America ne has got
to keep on doing: keep on working,
moving, pushing, striving. hurrying
along in the swim, or he sinks despite
his little buoy OF fame, and he is for
gotten till his death brings him to pub
lie notice again, when the newspapers
take his remains in hand for an hour
or day and pursue the spirit that
has gone with IA parting volley OF obit-
uaries'
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Land Needs Rest.

The word crest" has great mean
ing in this busy. pushing. restless
age. says L. =. Smith in the Ameri-
can Cultivator. 1t does not mean mac
tion; but rather a change with the Gle
ment of worry, anxiety and strain
eliminated. When applied TO the land
it is not robbed entirely of this new
meaning. The land needs rest; il
needs time to recuperate. and get back
the elements and strength which years
OF successive cultivation have taken
from IL. But the kind OF rest which
the busy man most needs is change of
occupation, and so with our soils,
they need n change of plant growth.
To grow one kind of crop, on the same
soil year after year is such heavy
strain on it that it will shortly be &.
come barren and unproductive.
II some crop had been sown and not
harvested, but turned under. the land
would be better for it. Or, again. I
the land had been plowed in the spring
and narrowed and cultivated to kee p
down the weeds and then prepared for
winter wheat, this crop would have
had good chance to grow. The land
would have been enriched by the ac-
ton OF the sun and moisture. which
would give it the desired change. Sum-
mer following. as this process is called.
should be practiced oftener and then
better crops would be obtained, and
our soils would not continue to deteri-
crate. Give the land rest OCCASION
ally, but do not be misled by the idea
that simply change of plants will
bring about the desired result
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Charcoal for Feeding.

Grain-ied and especially corn-fed
hogs relish little charcoal mixed with
their rations. 1t corrects the acidity
which corn causes, and will often bring
a cloyed animal back to its feed. Char
coal is also good for fowls. In winter.
when snow is on the ground. 1t fills the
gizzard aud helps TO grind the food.
Slightly charring corn before feeding
makes it better for producing eggs,
partial ration Of whole wheat which
gives material foT both the albumen
and the shell OF the eggs.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
He Knew the Correct Thing.

In tho senate restaurant: Excuse
me, but as an old friend, want TO re-
mind you that it isn't considered real
first-class etiquette to eat pie with
your knife"
ii know IL just as we'll as you do,
and | never do 1t when I'm in society;
but when Pm eating by myself It's dif-
ferent' never could get any salts
faction shoveling the stuff into my.
mouth with a spoon"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
A Glance at Nature.

The blades Of corn stalk TO and fro
AS the green bull rushes by,
And the grasses shoot as they see II go,
And the sweet potatoes eye.
Then the corn declares IL would like to ear
" hat the cabbage head to say:
But the slippery elm bark SO clear
That they raise 1t celery.
Tho wheat is shocked and her feelings hurt,
For IL goes against the graft
When a strawberry runner tries TO hirt
With a dandy sugar cane.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Fermenting the weed Seeds.

The idea that fermentation always
or even generally kills weed seeds is u
common error. Some kinds may be
thus killed, but it is not much of a
weed that is so easily gotten rid OF.
Some kinds OF weed seeds grow better
after being gently heated in manure
heaps. The fear OF drawing out weed
seeds is often given as the reason for
not applying manure as made, but it
is a mistaken one
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
rhres.quarters Of Century on the stage.

II is very rare, that an actress cele-
brates her seventy-liith year OF con-
secutive service on the stage of the
same theater. This event. perhaps
unique in dramatic annals, has just
occurred at Stuttgart where Frau
Louise Schmidt OF the ROYAL Court
theater. has now completed her three
quarters of q century OF uninterrupted
engagements with that house. She
made her debut in 1914, being then 9
years old.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Worth Trying.

Softleigh (wallsing in the Boston
public garden) Look at that sign,
"NoDogs Allowed in this Gardcni"
Friend -.Well. what OF ftp
Softleigh-Tm going TO have ono Oh
those on my place next year. Tho.
dogs have scratched up everything wo
have planted this season; and how nice
everything looks here!
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21

One John Peters. a sober and in
dustrious man, failed to come homo
one night This occurrence was so
unusual that his wife. becoming alarm
ed, aroused the neighborhood; and
men. women and children turned out
in search. The next day John Peters
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21

6ENIIEMEN VI THE JURY.
The jury without leaving the box
rendered verdict OF guilty.
Gentlemen" said the Judge ''to ex-
pedite matters and thereby save ex-
pense TO the county, will sentence
these men now. The law may be in fav-
or OF delay, but justice is not. The law
might permit the sheriff to take these
men to Jail and feed them at the coun-
tvs expense. until some distant day of
execution should arrive. but justice, the
one bright flower in our great judici-
airy garden OF weeds, looks up and says,
No. Mr. Sheriff, those men must be
hanged forthwith so take them out
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
HE WAS SOr In HIS WAYS
Aud When He Said Hang They Must
Hang.

a Judge Who Had Mad, Up His Mind and
Woulin't Be Browbsaten Two Men SEN
fenced to Death, and the Murdered Man
Fined for Contempt
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01

ly mile along the shors, with mum.
Der of lanes extending up the steer
slope of the hill behind. The residences
of the wealthy inhabitants are large,
handsome buildings, and the style OF
living among their occupants is luxur
ious.
There are several churches and con-
vents, and in tho center of tire town is
an open square, planted with exotic
trees. The houses of the poorer classes
are mere huts, seldom exceeding one
story in height, but well kept as re.
CARDS the exterior, which is made pict
uresque by the semi-tropical vegeta.
tion around.
Sleighs drawn by oxen are the COM
mon vehicles of the place, wheeled car
riages being unknown, while travelling
is performed in sedan chairs or ham
mocls. Funchal is somewhat somno-
lent town. Until late hour in the
morning scarcely any one is to be seen
in the streets or on the beach, and not
before the sun is high in the sky are the
shady places of the town filed with
gatherings of invalids, who compara
their woes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
STARTLING FIGURES.
Curious Calculation Concerning the Van
dcrbilt Estate.

Curious Calculation Concerning the Van
dcrbilt Estate.
T. H. Swords, banker of London,
sat in the Continental corridor recently
reading newspaper. Suddenly he
pointed to a paragraph in the latter and
said:
Listen to this statement: The Van.
derbilt estate is now calculated
to be worth at least $780,
600, ,OOO.'" Mr.. Swords folded his
paper and, leaning back in the chair,
continued: "Of course / do not know
whether that statement is true; but
saw it published in the Standard several
weeks ago.
''The sum seemed so enormous that
spent quite while in calculating the
physical proportions of that number of
silver dollars. Here is little slip in
my wallet here that may give you some
idea. If Adam, when he first looked
around in the Garden of Eden, say g.
900 years ago, had been met by Satan
and had been employed by him at reg
ular salary of $4,000 per annum and
his board and clothes; and if Adam had
carefully laid his silver dollars away in
barrels each year, and had lived until
the present time, he would now have
$500, 000,00 Again, if man born in the
Christian era, 1890 years ago, had lived
and been steadily employed at salary
of $4,000 per month, $443 per day, and
his living expenses besides, and had
saved every dollar of it, he would not
to-day have had three hundred millions.
''If it were necessary to transport this
number of silver dollars it would re-
quire 536 freight-cars, each of u capacity
of twenty tons. If these cars were put
into one train it would be more than
four miles long. If it were possible for
800, 900, 900 silver dollars to be laid on
the ground in a straight line, with edges
touching each other the whole distance,
the line would reach farther than from
London across the Atlantic Ocean and
over the North American Continent to
San Francisco. A side walk of three
hundred million silver dollars could be
laid six feet wide and more than fifteen
miles long. If three hundred million
dollars were laid one on top of the other
they would make column 475 miles
high. If taken down and arranged in
the form of a cube each side of the lat
ter would be thirty-fve feet long and
wide, and it would weigh more than 10,-
600 tons. If such weight were drop
| ped from the roof of the new city hall
the concussion would be great enough
to destroy that part of the city."-Phil-
| adelphia Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


Apples will not freeze IL covered
with linen cloth, nor a pie or custard
burn il in the oven with dish of water.
breathing" says writer on health
hints, ''is the fundamental law of exisr-
ence. Hence, if the air inhaled be pure
or impure it is quite worth while to
know. Pure air meeting the blood in
the lungs is natures great plan of life"
An exchange insists that sweet APP
pies are best for baking. They do not
break up it says, as most sour apples do,
but the skin cracks just enough to re-
lease the rich, delicious juice, sweet as
honey, but with distinctive excellence
peculiar to itself.
In sitting powders into various de-
grees of fneness, sieves of hair and
wire cloth should be used; but for the
finest, procure piece of boiling cloth.
You can sew it over a hoop made of
wood, or over q ring of brass or iron
wire in such manner as to fully answer
your rcquirments.
An egg contains great amount of
nutriment and is pleasant to take in tho
following way: Beat the white and yelk
separately, then add part of the white
to the yelli and beat n few moments be-
fore adding spoonful of white sugar.
Fill up the glass with cream and stir in
the remainder of the white.
To remove Indelible Inl1.-First
moisten the stain with tincture of
iodine, and after a few minutes remove
the iodine stain with a solution of hypo-
sulphite of soda. Finally wash in clean
water. Repeat If necessary. The in
gradients can be obtained from any
| druggist, and are inexpensive.
The creases or wrinkles in velvet
can be taken out, and if not too much
worn it may be made to look like new.
By slightly dampening the under side
of the velvet and pressing this side
| against the face of moderately warm
flatiron the steam penetrating the fab
ric will raise the nap of the goods and
restore tho smooth fresh surface.
Iron or steel may be prevented from
rusting in several ways. Cast iron is
best preserved by rubbing it with black
lead. Polished work may be vanished
with wax dissolved in benzine; or warm
your iron or steel till you can not bear
the heat of it without burning your
hands, then rub it with q cake of clean
white wax. Warm 1T again and rub 1T
over with soft cloth. To remove spots
of rust use benzine, and polish off with
fine emery. Emery and oil is also use
full, applied with piece of soft leather
"A good spice plaster that can be
kept on the skin without blistering it
for twelve hours, and that acts as a
water-compress besides: Four table,
spoonfuls of flax-seed meal, two table
spoonfuls of mustard, one of Cayenne
pepper. Mix to a paste with boil
ing water. Spread on thick muslin.
Fold bit of Swiss muslin, fine cheese
cloth or an old cambria handkerchief
over it, and secure the edges on the un-
der side with long stitches of thread.
This keeps not only the counter-irri-
tating heat, but warm moisture, upon
the spot.-Public Ledger.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
THEY TRAVEL IN hAMMocKs.
Every Thing Slow Mt Madeira - Evon
Slcighs Arc Drawn by Oxen.

Slcighs Arc Drawn by Oxen.
Madeira, with its equable climate, Its
once famous wines and its picturesque
scenery, attract thousands of visitors
who hasten thither to escape the angry
English winters.
Madeira consists OF mass of volcanic
rock whose highest peak reaches an ele-
walton of upwards of six thousand feet.
From tho central mass steep ridges eX.
tend to tho coast, where they form per-
pendicular precipices of from one thou
sand to two thousand feet high. These
cliffs are interrupted by few small
bays, whore a richly cultivated valley
approaches the water between abrupt
precipices, or surrounded by an amphi-
thoatcr CT rugged hills.
Tho aspect of Funchal, the principal
town cf the island, when approached by
the sea between the two isolated fol IS
of st. Ioao QIoo Rocl) and Ilheo is
beautiful, the town stretching for near.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01

termed "sand leaves by the growers
are best, but stems may be used and
are much cheaper The shelf over the
smudge-pan should be full of holes, or
made of lath, in order that the fumes
may rise. A large dry-goods box will
answer the same purpose if it is not de-
sirable to be at the expense of a special
ly-made box, but it should be quite
tight, in order to retain the smoke.
Many plants will not bear very
strong fumigating, an example being
the heliotropes and cinerarias; but if
these be sprinkled before fumigating, it
will decrease the danger of their being
injured by the smudge. After trial
one will readily learn about what guam
tity each plant will stand.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-03-01
AN INDIAN MA1L-cARRIER.

United States would disappear in night,
and even the ties on the railroads are in
many cases of metal. The ordinary In
dian telegraph post is made of three
galvanized iron tubes which fit into ono
another and which are sunzen into tho
ground. The post extends above tho
soil about half as high as do our posts,
and the wire Is fastened to it with insu-
lators. In some parts of the country
the wires are hung upon iron rails, tho
same as those upon which the cars move.