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Year: 1868

wherever there is o population there is q
market for Injuries as we'll as necessaries,
il the producer will sell his commodities
low enough. It is the producer that makes
the market, not the market that makes the
producer. As long as producers ask twice


or three times as much as commodity
ought to be sold for, demand viii be at a


minimum. The average return to the pro-
ducers Of strawberries in the North is only
twelve cents quart, and they grow rich at
that; for the demand is unlimited. Let
them combine and get up the price Of. thirty
cents, and the demand would cease; the
consumer would grow his own fruit or dis


pense with its use.It is the competition


among growers that makes fine fruit and


low prices, and these create the demand !;


and quick and certain sale at a low price


pays the grower better than slow,


uncertain sale at a high price. If this


principle were better understood and acted


upon generally, but little money would
leave our State to swell the fortunes of
northern producers; but the spirit of our
laws, unfortunately, is adverse to home
competition. If the laws encouraged it,
manufacturers and producers would quin-
tuple their aggregate profits by increase of
business, and the consumer be benefited in
proportion. If q regular supply of all or
any Of these berry fruits at q reasonable
price (which would be one-third of that
now asked} could be found in our markets
every morning, the demand for all that
could be grown, each in its season, would
be as certain as the demand FOR daily
bread; and we should see the neighborhood
chequered with fruit-felds instead of
wastes, and growers would make money
faster. than they can ever do at the present
extrayagant prices. sss,szzt W. j.. a
Year: 1868

The chief arguments for the habituality of
Jupiter are founded on his enormous magni-
tude and the magnifcence of the system
which circles around him. Il seems difficult
to imagine that so grand an orb has been crea-
ted for no special purpose, and it is equally
difficult to conceive what purpose Jupiter can
be said to fulfil unless he is the abode of liv-
ing creatures. He is, indeed, an object of
wonder and admiration to our astronomers;
but the mind must be singularly constituted
which can accept the view that Jupiter was
constructed for no other end. When every
object around us suffices to exhibit the om-
impotence of the Creator, we require no such
evidence as is afforded by globe exceeding
the earth 300 times and more in volume.
The light afforded to us by Jupiter is so in
significant, also, that VIC cannot suppose him
to have been created for no other purpose
than to supply it. His influence iu swaying
the planetary motions is important, and he
also appears to have noteworthy influence
on the suns atmosphere but neither in
fuence seems necessary to the well being of
the inhabitants of the earth. Thus we ap-
pear forced to concede that Jupiter has been
constructed to be the abode Of living crea-
lures.


The enormous volume Of Jupiter is in part



inhabitants of Jupiter is concerned-by the
small density of the planet, insomuch that the
attraction Of gravity at his surface is not so
much greater than terrestrial gravity as might
be supposed. Yet it exceeds the latter more
than two-fold; so that the weight of an in
habitant of our earth would be increased in
about the same proportion if he were removed
to Jupiter as it would be diminished if he
were removed to Mars. The lightest men on
earth would find themselves as unwieldy as
our Lam berts and Bantings if they were
placed on Jupiter's surface. We are com-
PEELED to recognize in this circumstance Pc
culiarity which would render Jupiter unfit
for beings constituted exactly like the inhab-
itants of earth; but notifications not much
more marked than those which distinguish
the various species of the same genera on
earth, would be sufficient to enable terres-
trial races to endure, without discomfort or
inconvenience, the powerful gravitation ex-
pcrienced by the inhabitants of Jupiter.


The day of Jupiter is less than ours in the
proportion of about two to five, while his year
contains nearly twelve of ours. His axis is
so nearly perpendicular to his orbit that there
are no appreciable seasons on his surface.
Year: 1868

The name of Edgar Allen Poe is of worlds
wide fame; yet how many moths around tha
literary lamp think his genius was inspired
by wine, and flee to it until habit is formed
that ends in dragging them down to destruc-
ton, just rs his own exquisite organization
was blunted by contact with the fell destroyer,
his rare attainments nipped in the bud by the
bitter frosts of desertion, aud his star elouded
at its zenith by the fumes of the punch. bowl.
Many of these moths are daily met with ia
New York, who are sad example to ths
young men of the day. The habit has fast
cned upon them; aud they will dispose oc
their songs and sketches for less than half
their value for the ready cash, that they NAV
feed their unnatural and dangerous appetite
for intoxicating liquors. Not. long ago .,
man who claims to wear the mantle of tho
fallen Poe, was seen lying dead drunk on the
corner of Broadway and Chambers strcct.--
The name of the unfortunate man is familiar
as a household word. He is n regular con-
tributor to a widely circulated literary paper
published in New York, and. the author of
popular song, which has been welded to mu-
sic and scattered broadcast over the continent.
A younger man of equal fame aud greater
genius, who is always the friend of strong
drink, has sacrificed important and honorable
positions as a writer for our leading journal'
on tue merry dltdi VI uPPStINS' liz NtitSS"S
and forcibIy in prose and verse, and his great
gifts are appreciated by our discriminating
editors and publishers but he is n chained
slave of habit, and writes, not for fame, hut
for gin not for money for his own purse, bui
for money for the hopper of the "giu-mill." +"
Among the most popular contributors to our
monthly magazines and weekly papers is u
man of middle life, who has earned consider
able sums of money, enough in the aggregate
to constitute competence for any reasonable
person, yet he is always poor-and why p
Because he spends his earnings for rum. 4
prominent man connected with one of the
most influential daily papers of New York,
has often been seen in the street of that city
with his clothes soiled aud torn, hiseyes black
ened from blows of the fist, his system convul-
sed with delirium tremens yet that man, is
a scholer, and one of the most attractive wri-
ters in the country. There is lesson hero
for the youth of the land. If they would
avoid such fate, let them shuu the steps 20
it. The entrance to this road is pleasant and
inviting, but much easier to leave than when
it grows rugged, and the soul is chained to
the demon of appetite.
Year: 1868

We do not wonder that great men have
been born mechanics; for those who have
been brought up exclusively in drawing rooms,
intelligence is game, recreation; for those
who have held the sword or helm, who have
driven the plough or worked with the chisel,
intelligence becomes a passion, force,
beauty, worship, and love divine. 1t is
from the stall, the shop, the work room, that
the most powerful minds have issued. Maliere
from the upholsters, Burns from the farmers,
Shakespeare from the hosier's shop, Rosseau
from the wheelwright's. Long engaged in
struggle with physical nature they all took
refuge in the free domain of thought. Even
an inferior mind would soon become tempered
to strength in these mechanical apprentice
ships; and if ever the spirit of reform, which
has seized on tho world, should extend to the
act creating citizens, We doubt not that good
sense will gain victory over custom, and
that one of the most important parts of every
education will be henceforth the due ad-
mixture of the dcvelopcmcnt of the mind and
its action on nature,
Year: 1868

In Second street, next door to Southwark
Hall, is drug store. Its proprietor had an
employee, a lad twelve years of age, who
washed bottles, swept out the store and ran
errands, as occasion called for. He was a
bright little fellow, who lived with his mother
in line of buildings contiguous to the hall,
known as Placid place. The mother is q
woman named Crosby. She seems to have
visited the boy with oft-repeated and severe
Aagellations. On Tuesday night, 24th ult.,
while for moment he was alone in the store,
yet smarting from the lash, he went to a
shelf in the store upon which was an array
of poison, and bearing above this inscription
a skull and cross bones. The child knew the
emblems upon the bottles indicated poison.
Thrusting into one of them his pocket knife
he withdrew modicum of white powder,
his home. lie ate his frugal supper and re-
his powder and swallowed it. The result
ened almost to distraction, sent for DR.. Thos.
S. Reed, whose residence is nearly opposite
to the Hall. The gentleman was in an in
slant at the bedside. He pronounced the
child to be poisoned. The little fellow re-
tanned consciousness sufficiently long to tell
what he had done, and then died. All the
indications show that the jar or bottle from
which the child took tho poison contained
strychnia. He had scarcely swallowed it be-
fore its effects upon the circulation were made
manifest. DIR. Reed could administer no an
tidotc with any effect. Collapse followed
Half an hour after the drug was swallowed
the child was corpsc.-NOrh american.
Year: 1868

KEEPING BUTrER.-At recent meeting
of the Dairymen's Association in Illinois,
President King remarked that he had been
dealer in butter for thirty years, and consider
ed that May, June and July produced the
best, if properly made and put down. Butter
containing lime or whey or milk will not keep.
1t should be made dry, come hard and be
properly cured. Most people salt too high.
1t should be saltcd to the palate and it will
keep, all in excess Of this is injurious. The
milk, cream, and all the surroundings of the
butter room should be kept pure, as foul odors
are certain to impart disagreeable flavor
Mr.. K. stated that he knew a man to plant
honey suckles and roses around the place
where his butter was made, for the purpose
of giving it an agreeable flavor. This was
pleasant conceit, whatever the influence on
the dairy-room may have been.
Year: 1868

CURE OF CoRNs.-We clip from an ex-
change remedy, which is said to be very eff
fectual in removing those troublesome and
painful excrescences. Should the remedy be
what is claimed for it, its discoverer deserves
the thanks ofthe entire community who suffer
with them


'One teaspoonful of tar, one of coarse brown
sugar, and one of salpetre. The whole to be
warmed together. Spread it on kid leather
the size of the corns, and in two days they
will be drawn out"
Year: 1868

NAIL IN THE FooT.-To relieve from the
terrible effects of runninga nail in the foot
of man or horse, take peach leaves, bruise
them, apply to the wound, confine with band
age, and the cure is as if by magic. Renew
the application twice day, if necessary but
one application usually does the work. 1
have cured both man and horse in a few hours,
when they were apparently on the point of
having the lock jaw. These recipes, remem-
bered and practiced, will save many valuable
lives
Year: 1868

-Housekeepers will do well to
preserve the following frst-rate recipe for
sausage To every twelve pounds of meat
take three table spoonsful of salt, not much
heaped, three table spoonsful of black pepper,
eight table spoonsful of sage, and tea spoon
full of red pepper Good sausage is splendid
with bpckwheat cakes in winter, and L got
this recipe from friend whose sausage is
always good as long as it lasts.
Year: 1868

CURE FOR IN-GRowING NAILg.-T is
stated that cauterization by hot tallow is
an Immediate cure for in-growing nail.
Put a small piece of tallow in spoon and
heat it until it becomes very hot. and dron
two or three drops between the eraDula.
tions. The effect is almost magical. Pain
aud tenderness are Eat once relieved and
in few days the granulations all GO. Tins
leaving the diseased parts dry aud desti-
tute OF all feeling, and the edge Of the
nail exposed SO as to admit Of beng pared
away without any inconvenience Tho
operation causes LITTLE or 10 pain, if the
tallow il properly heqteI.
Year: 1868

a could write down twenty cases, .
says a pious man, ''when l wished God
had done otherwise than he did; but
which now see, had | had my own will,
would have led to extensive mischief"
Year: 1868

Many horses are subject to swelled legs. In old horses it arises from con- gestion of the legs, which depend on the weakened action of the heart inci- dent to old age. There is not much to be done for causes of this description. Another class of cases occurs in horses of lymphatic temperament, and the ex- citing causes are high feed and want of exercise. The horses legs become swollen, hot and painful, and the horse goes lame on the affected limb. The proper treatment for such cases is low diet and laxative medicine. In severe cases I have sometimes sacrificed the affected leg, but this is only advisably in the early and acute stage of the attack. Half an ounce of nitrate of potash may be given once fortnight to horses that are subject to swelled legs, and where it recurs frequently, once week. The swollen leg some- times attains enormous dimensions, and the swelling may become permanent. I have seen horses leg swollen near ly as thick as mans body, and in one case (which I examined after death from malady,) found that the swell ing was produced by the effusion of lymph between the skin and subjacent tissues.--Rural World.
Year: 1868

We clip the following from the Model Farnaer.

 "An excellent plan to keep off the cut worm is to drop about tablespoonful of course salt on the top of the hill soon after planting the corn. This is carried down by the rains, and acts as fertilizer, besides the cut worm is destroyed. Salt is peculiarly obnoxious to this class of in- sects, and perhaps all classes. Instead oi putting the salt on the hill, some farmers spread about eight bushels to the acre broadcast upon their corndelds after blow ing and before narrowing This is alsos very profitable application.-Farmers should bear these facts in mind when they plant corn"

 \ lady friend of ours in endeavoring to destroy these parasites, ruined her en, tire garden by putting salt around the vegetables which had been attacked
Year: 1868

Make use of warm days to clean and ventilate the cellars of both houses and barn, unless the barns are so cold that the warm, moist air makes them damper. Painting and repairing may be done in warm weather.

 A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer painted or washed building, four years ago, with water, lime and milk. It has done very we'll He mixed a little at a time, stirred frequently, applied it with a white-wash brush.

 The editor of the New England Farmer says he has always found pork as easy of digestion as beef or mutton, and he be- lieves that if hog is kept in cleanly quarters, and has clean and wholesome food, it will furnish just as healthful and palatable food as any other domestic animal.

 The Ohio Farmer says overgreasing wagons and carriages does them great in- jury, and says that lard should never be used, tallow being the best for wood axle tree, and castor oil for iron. But light coat should be put on. The same paper says no vegetable oil, except perhaps cas- tor oil, should be used on harness--neats foot oil being the best.

 The following recipe is worth $500 to sheep farmer, and we have never seen il in print: If there is any life in the lamb put it in at once up to the head in a blood warm bath, adding more warm water as it cools. Keep it in this fifteen or twenty minutes, or "until it makes the water fly with with its feet" Then wipe it dry and return it to its mother,

 Many horse owners aim to place the rack and managers of their stables as. high as the animals can reach and get their food. "It learns horse to hold up his head" they say, "and he looks better ir the stall" Mir. Bonner, of New York lets his valuable horses take their grain from simple box on the floor, and theil hay is thrown in front of them. He thinks that nature placed the horses food at his feet, and in this respect it is wis dom to do likewise.
Year: 1868

Eds Prairie Farmer ;--IIaving had twenty five years experience in bee-keep- ing, and, having been moro than ordinarily successful, think can safely offer word, of advice in regard to the manage ment of this very interesting class of n- socts.

 As appropriate to the season, 1 would say that bees that are wintered upon their stands in the open air, without other pro- lection from cold than ordinary board hives, often become greately reduced in numbers from chilling of the bees that happen to cluster among outer ranges of comb, detached from the main cluster dur ing the changes from moderate to very cold weather. Such swarms require great care to prevent their getting robbed dur ing the first few weeks of warm weather in spring, or until their number becomes considerably increased. In some cases the .oor should be so nearly closed as only to give passage about half an inch square. But, unless air be admitted from some . other source, never wholly close the door, as you value the breath of life in them.

 Should bees fail to protect themselves from robber bees after this above precau- ton, they should be moved away about a mile for few weeks.

 Should it become necessary to feed bees, care should be taken that robbcr bees shall not interfere. If box honey cannot be had for feeding, use sugar (dissolved.) Some attempt to feed "sale molasses," but it will not do Maple molasses will ans wer the purpose well for swarms that do not require to be fed great deal. It is not substantial bee food as honey or dissolved white sugar. It is sometimes necessary to feed swarm quite late in the spring, If swarm has but little in store, and large amount of brood to be fed, while the swarms can only obtain suff- cient food to supply their wants from day to day, and cold "spell' of several days duration occurs, starvation is the result, whereas pound of honey or sugar at a cost of twenty-five cents or less might have helped them out

 Equal parts of rye and oats ground to- gether is said to make the best flour (to be used unbolted) to feed bees in spring for substitute for bee-bread (pollen, J. This -four bee-bread is usually fed in shallow dishes set wherever it is most con venient for all the swarms, but the other feed should be placed on the top of the hive in suitable "feeders," and coyerrd by the cap so, as much as possible, to protect it from the robber bees, and also to secure degree of warmth from the rising heat of the swarm that enables the bees to feed in quite cold weather.

 Medina, N. Y. ISAAC IDE.
Year: 1868

The following account of an event more imagination can fully conceive, is given by Edwin Dunkin, of the Royal Observa- tory, England. It is only one of the several similar cases on record. In May last, star blazed forth in the northern crown, and was of the second magnitude. The astronomers gave it immediate scen- life observation, and recorded the result in technical terms, which need not be re- peated;

 There can be but little doubt that. from cause unknown to us, it must have been the subject of terrible catastrophe at period perhaps distant for it must be borne in mind that, owing to its i'm. mense distance, we may be only witness ing the calamity of the past age. From the sudden blazing forth of this star, and then its rapid fading away, Mir. Plugging and Dr. Miller have suggested that in consequence of great internal convulsion, probably large quantity of hydrogen and other gases were emitted from it.

 During a discussion of this star at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Socie- ty, on June Sth, the astronomer royal ex- pressed his firm belief that the wonderful object was actually in flames.

 If we were inclined to speculate on this unique astronomical phenomena, or the probable consequences arising from such a sudden outburst of fiery gas, what an ex- tensive subject for contemplation is open to us {! Astronomically we have known this minute star for years without suspi- cion; it has been classified with others of similar magnitude :; it has been one of many millions of such while now it will be remembered by all future generations as one of the most remarkable stars of the universe. Or, let our speculation be car ried a little further, and let us reasonbly suppose this small aud hitherto nearly invisible object to be an immense globe like our own sun, and surrounded probab ly with plants and satellites depending upon their center for light and heat what would be the effect of this sudden confla- grafton on them 7 It makes one almost shudder at the idea of a system of worlds being annihilated at once without warning. but such must doubtless be the fact. We however, in this quiet world of ours, can scarcely, perhaps, realize such eatas- trophe but were our sun, which is only star, analogous to those in the heavens around us, to be suddenly ignited in similar manner to this distant and un- known sun, all it's attendant planets and satellites, the earth included, would be destroyed.
Year: 1868

A negro in the Arkansas Con-
vention said the other day, "Give
us the chance of eighteen hundred
years like the white man, and we
will show you what we can do"


Upon which the Louisville Jour-
nal observes


"Bat the negroes have had the
chance not only for eighteen bum
dred years, but all the years since
Noall's flood. They have had that
chance in their own country where
God planted them. In Africa
they have been unmolested by
the white race, except so far as a
few Of their tribes upon the coast
have been able, after takiug prison.
ers from each other, to find mar
ket for them with white traders
instead of putting them to death.
Let that Wanting Arkansas negro
point to Africa for eXemplifcation
of what his race can do, not only
in eighteen hundred years, but in
a great many additional centuries"
Year: 1868

We learn by private telegram
from Athens, that a Rev MIR. Will
son, q recent Importation from
Goods country" who has charge
of the Presbyterian church at that
place, accommodated some thir-
ty of its members, ON Sunday
last, on account Of their disloydlty
during the rebellion. The men,
bers thus expelled constituted the
paying and respectable portion of
the Presbyterian church at Athens.
We opine that this move of the
Reverend gentleman will be a
back-action gun-shoot harder
behind than before-injuring no
body but himself. When his por-
ridge comes to him with nary eye
en- it, he will begin to think that
he acted a little too hastily. We
would advise our northern friends
hereafter that when they go to send
missionaries" to preach to the
"heathens" Of the South, that they
send men who have good hard
horse sense. Preachers who have
more vanity than brains never
make the thing pay out Uere-
land Banner.
Year: 1868




A VINEGAR ExPLoSIoN.-A1
Germania, Wisconsin, last week
an extraordinary explosion occur
red from tapping a barrel of vine
gar by inserting the fauset. Bring
ing a light in contact with the gai
emitting from the insertion, the
vinegar ignited and the barrel ex
ploded, the head of the same pas
sing through a door, the ignited
fluid flying in the face of a young
German, burning his face and head
SO severely that his eye sight ii
despaired of.
Year: 1868

A culinary genius has found
out that buckwheat cakes may be
baked without the usual accompa.
niament of a room filled with
smoke. The griddle only needs
to be wiped off with a cotton or
WOODEN rag after each batch il
baked. No grease is needed on
the griddle.
Year: 1868

A newly installed Justice of
the Peace in Kansas married his
first couple last week, on which
occasion ne closed the ceremony
with the following words: "What
ihave this night Joined together
let no man but God Almighty
put asunder."