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Year: 1877

1t has been discovered by French
chemist that the flesh of animals which
are killed in the latter part of the night
will keep much longer without sailing
than it will when they are killed in the
daytime. This proves that the flesh is
better fitted for keeping when the life
and blood are taken from the animal at
the time the temperature is the lowest
and respiration is the least active.
Hence the reason that the flesh from
animals that have been highly heated or
hard driven will scarcely keep at all.


1t is no new discovery that the meat
of m animal killed after rest will keep
better than that killed Immediately after
exercise. As animals rest in the night,
the meat will, of course, be better in the
morning.


The reason why the above facts are 80
is this Exercise draws the blood to the
eStremities and distributes it through all
the veins. After rest it gradually re-
turns to the vitals and circulates more
sluggishly. Of course, if an animal is
then killed, the arteries and large veins
being cut, the blood is at once emptied.
But, if killed while the blood is at the
surface, distributed through the small
veins, it will not be discharged. As
blood corrupts sooner than flesh, the
meat spoils.
Year: 1877

A new fifty-dollar gold coin is shortly to
be struck from die now being prepared
by the officers of the Philadelphia mint.
1t is popularity supposed that this will
be the first coin of that value struck in
the United States, but such is not the
case. In 1851 fifty-dollar gold coins
were issued at the assay Office in San
Francisco. 1t is said that millions of
dollars of this denomination were coined
and went into use, but that they gradu-
ally disappeared, for the reason that they
were intrinsically worth more than fifty
dollars in gold by reason of the silver
they contained in excess of the standard.
They came to be used for mechanical
purposes, or they were sent to the mint
Ne reeoinsgs.
Year: 1877

Now that astronomers have almost by
unanimous consent accepted the doctrine
of the development of our system, which
involves the belief that the whole mass
of each member of the system was for
merly gaseous with intensity of heat,
they can no longer doubt that the moon
once he'd seas and an atmosphere of con-
siderable density. The moon has, in
fact, passed through the same changes
as our own earth, though not necessarily
in the same exact way. She was once
vigorous, as was our earth, though not
at the same time nor for SO long time.
She was once glowing with intensity of
heat, though this stage, also, must have
continued for much shorter time than
the corresponding stage of our earth's
history. Must we not conclude that after
passing through that stage the moon was
for time habitable world as our earth
is now? The great masses of vapor and
of cloud which had girt our moons
whole globe, even MS in the youth OF our
earth her seas enwrapted her in cloud
form, must. at length have taken their
place as seas upon her surface. The at
mosphere which had supported those
waters must at first have been dense by
comparison with the present lunar at
mosphere, perhaps even by comparison
with the present atmosphere of our
earth. Then the glowing surface of the
moon gradually cooled, until at length
the moon must have been Il fit abode for
life. But whether, when thus swept
and garnished into fitness for habitation,
the moon actually became an inhabited
world, is a question which will be vari-
ously answered according to our views
respecting the economy of nature in this
Year: 1877

Probably the most economical, pleasant
and profitable employment for leisure is
reading; it is q safe investment. upon
which we may assuredly calculate our
profits upon the principle of compound
interest. And, when we reach that
stage at which the eyes shall have grown
too dim for the open page before us, we
can still revel in the delights of memory,
when the treasures we have accumulated
in the hours of our youth shall gladden.
the otherwise tedious days of illness or
81 age.
Year: 1877

Your chicken has what is called "scur.
vy-leg," disease somewhat analogous to
itch in other animals. 1t is likely to
prove contagious, and will often spread
through an entire flock unless checked at
its first appearance. Remove the affected
fowls or fowl from the others and put in
dry pen; then wash the legs with q
weak solution Of sugar of lead, say piece
as large as good sized pea in teacup
Of water. Then anoint the legs with m
ointment made Of clean lard, and a little
creosote or -four Of sulphur. Keep the
fowls out Of wet grass, and housed during
rains, and cure will soon be effected.
Year: 1877

GrAnulAther'S ret.
This is the room where she slept,


Only year ago
Quiet and carefully swept,


Blinds and curtains like snow,
There, by the bed in the dusty gloom,
She would knee with her tiny clasped hand,


and pray
Here Is the little white rose Of room,
With the fragrance fled away.
Nelly, grandfather's pet,


With her wise little face
seem to hear her yet
Singing about tho place,
But the crowds roll on and the streets are


drear


And the world seems hard with bitter doom,
And Nelly Is singing elsewhere--an here
Is the little white rose Of room.
Why, II sho stood just there,
As Aie used to do,
With her long light yellow hair
And her eyes of blue
II she Stood say. at the edge of the bed,
And ran to my.side with living touch,
Though know she is quiet and buried and


dead,


l should not wonder much.
For she was so young, you know
Only seven years old.
And she loved me. and loved me 30.
Though was gray and old;
And her face was So wise and so sweet to see,
And it still looked living VIXEN she lay dead,
And she used TO plead for mother and me
BY the side of that very bed
l wonder. now il she


Knows am standing here,
Feeling, wherever she be.
We hold the place so dear!
1t cannot be that she sleeps too sound.
Still in her little night gown drest.
Not to hear my footsteps sound
In the room where she used to rest.
have felt hard fortunes stings,
And battled in doubt and strife.
And never thought much of things
Beyond this human life
But cannot think that my darling died
Like great strong men, with their PRAYERS


untrue
Nay. rather she sits at Gods own side,
And sings as she used to do.
Year: 1877

Beautiful, yes but the blush will fade


The light grow dim which the blue eyes woar;
The gloss will vanish from curl and braid,


And tho sunbeam die In the waving hair,
Turn from the mirror and strive to win


Treasures Of lovliness still to last;
Gather earth's glory and bloom within,


That the soul may bo bright when youth
Year: 1877

A gentleman is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle-men whose aims are generous; whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with equally manly sympathy for the great and small? We all know 8 hundred whose coats are well made, and score who have excellent manners, but of gentlemen, how many9 Let us take little scrap of paper, and each make his list,
Year: 1877

FooD FROM THE ATMOsPHERE.-Can we not get abundance of ammonia and carbon from the atmosphere? In answer to this question 8 celebrated English farmer writes thus: GA careful st,1dv of the more recent works on modern farming by Liebig, taken in conjunction with his former admirable productions. has still further confirmed my belief in ms so-called murial theory. In seeking additional facts to justify my convic- tions select the following: A success 1ul farming friend of mine never man. ures for his turnips, but depends en- tirely upon cultivation, and never saw him fail in growing good crop of white turnlps. These are fed off by sheep, eating no oil cake nor corn barley sown with seeds succeeded the turnips, and are followed by wheat-thus completing the four years rotation. In the second course, or rotation, beans or peas take the place of clover, so that it is only grown once in eight years. He blows the ground at least five times before sowing the turnips, and no doubt herein lies the secret of bis success. We have Cat any rate, have,) been apt to con- demn so many plowings, but Liebig's recent scientific explanation of fallow, (which every agriculturist should study) has completely removed my ob- 1ections and convinced me of the advan- separation of the granules of the soil, and it has confirmed me unalterably in the conviction that if the inorganic or uncomfortable food of broad leaved or bulbous plants exists in the soil in an available condition and in sufficient quantities, all the combustible sub stances can be furnished from the at- mosphere. Could I doubt this when wading through dense vegetation of bulbs and leaveg as high as my knees, in soil Ion which no organic manure had been applied to the crop? What an abundant sRpply of carbon and nitro gen must this fallow crop have accumu- lated for the succeeding crop. Then comes the question, 'Is it not cheaper to obtain this supply of nitrogen and carbon by three extra plowings rather than by the purchase and application of carbonaceous and nitrogeneous manures?'" While differences of eli mate, cost of labor, value of land and national prejudices are against this practice here, we give the above place in order to introduce the moral that in the summer cultivation of our cornfields the destruction of weeds is not the only gain; finely drained soil is powerful absorbing agent for all valuable gases in the atmosphere or brought to it by rain or dew. Such soil acts like sponge in absorbing moisture from the air, and at the same time being good non-conductor, pre- vents its escape from the soil. Frequent cultivation has then a threefold effect 1t prevents the growing of weeds, en- ables the soil to absorb any fertilizing gas existing in the atmospheres and at the same time not only facilitates the absorption of moisture, but also pre- vents its loss by evaporation from the surface.
Year: 1877

CARDING THE CATTLE.-A good idea. that of the Green Mountain Freeman, is to utilize the worn out corn brooms in the cattle stables.

 ''We have seen people, it says, Escard cattle when we thought neither carder nor animal much enjoyed it; the animal would cringe and shrink away from the card, and the carder would tear around and scold, because it did not keep still. evidently not thinking this was the only way the animal had of telling him he hurt. You never see man rubbing his back against the door-casing unless it itches, nor do cows care to be carded unless they have the same occasion. and then not hard enough to make it pain instead of pleasure, We have sfound an old broom cut off up near the sstying'' to be an excellent article for grooming cows, especially about the roots of the tail, where card will not work; while not harsh enough to be painful, it will scratch nicely and reach where the card will not. About as much solid comfort as usually falls to the lot of mortals in this wicked world, may be taken by the man who loves animals in seeing them stretch themselves under his brush, or follow him about and poke their noses under his arm, or hold down their heads to be scratched just as natural as folks. Try the old broom, boys, and see how it works.
Year: 1877

A Coop STAND OF GRAss.-To secure good stand of grass, it can be done by sowing more seed than usual, and quite early in the spring-and alone-no oat crop to half smother it. If you sow timothy and clover, let the timothy be two parts and the clover one part-from 8 half-bushel to three pecks of seed to the acre. A correspondent who has tried this method of seeding to grass says: elf the land is good and put in good order, and the seed sown early and covered lightly, there can hardly be failure. l do not remember a single one. Sometimes the grain will be very heavy, and if oats are sown thick, mis- chief will result. But this must be avoided: we must not subject our seed- ing to the smothering effect of heavy crops of grain. It is sure to be hurtfui. 1f not fatal. There is less danger from exposure without the grain; only let the soil (the topsoil at least) be good and the seed be put out early, so as to insure start. The ground, after this, will soon be shaded and occupied if suf- hcient seed is sown. And the young seeding will stand the heat as well as the young grain, being by itself thick and close, and better calculated for pro- tection."
Year: 1877

ABOUT GoATs.-They require no care except during the first month of their existence. Kids should be kept in an enclosure and convenient to shelter until they are able to get out of the way of sOWs and other animals. They in- crease fast and are as susceptible of im- provement as any other animals. It is better to raise goat for every sheen than to lose all by dogs.

 The best age to kill goats is when they are about year old and done growing. At that age the tender grass and herbage goes to make up meat which cannot be excelled for thickness and sweetness.

 The common, short-legged white goat is the best for butchering. The Angoras or Cashmeres have no advantage of them in any way, and are not so hardy.

 There is many a small farmer who could keep small flock of goats with out absolutely any expense at all. and always have at his command good. fresh meat, if he only knew how easily 1t may be done.-Fdrmer's Home Jour- nal.
Year: 1877

MoCK CHICKEN L1vER.-Take a liver and boil several hours until quite soft, with teaspoonful of sugar and spice, if desired; then cut up and stew with a chicken, or slice and dip in batter, and
Year: 1877

To Polish Watch Wheels Without In- turing Ihem.-Take a flat furnishing

 file, warm it over a spirit lamp, and coat it lightly with beeswax. When cold, wipe off as much of the beeswax as can be readily removed; and with your file thus prepared, polish the wheel, which should rest on piece of cork. The finish will be of the finest kind, there will be no clogging, and the edges of the teeth, etc., will remain perfectly square.
Year: 1877

EGG-sHELLs form one of the best clari- fiers for cider and wine. One pint of pulverized egg-shells will clarify one barrel of cider or wine in from twenty four to forty-eight hours, according to the clearness of the weather,
Year: 1877

To SOFTEN metal castings, bury them in sawdust in an iron box. Make it air tight with clay, and subject it to 8 red heat for several hours. Let the whole cool before taking out the castin gs.
Year: 1877

"YoU MUST cultivate decision of char acter and learn to say mo-" said a father to his knowledge-thirsty son. Soon afterward, when the father told the boy to chop wood, the boy said ''no!' with an emphasis that showed a remembrance of the lesson.
Year: 1877

POTATO CRoQUETs.-Boil and mash potatoes when hot, and add piece of buter the size of an egg, a teaspoonful of white powdered sugar, salt, and two well-beaten eggs; mix well together, and then make it into small cone or pear-shaped pieces; let them stand til quite cold; then dip them into raw egg and bread crumbs, plenty of the latter, and fry in boiling lard.
Year: 1877

THE Lancet says that the throat symp- toms are the most trust worthy for the purpose of diagnosis in the initial stage of scarlet fever. The soft part of the palate is extensively reddened, and not merely the tonsils, as is the case in the first instance in ordinary sore throat. When this condition is met with, ac- companied by a very hot skin and very quick pulse, accompanied or pre- ceded by sickness, with thickly furred tongue, red borders and prominent paplllae, case of scarlet fever may be prepared for.
Year: 1877

DON'T DO THAT.-Never use soap to wash hair brushes. Take piece of soda, dissolve it in warm water, stand the brush in it, making sure that the water only covers the 5ristles. It will almost instantly become white and clean. Place it in the air to dry, with the bristles downward, and it will be as firm as a new brush,
Year: 1877

CHEAP FUEL.-One bushel of small coal or sawdust, or both mixed together, two bushels of sand, one bushel and a half of clay. Let them be mixed together with common water, like or dinary mortar; the more they are stirred and mixed together the better; then make them into balls, or with a small mould make them in the shape of bricks, pile them in dry plate, and when they are hard and sufficiently dry they may be used. A fire cannot be lighted with them, but when the fire is quite lighted, put them on behind, with coal or two on in front, and they will be found to keep up a stronger fire than any fuel of the common kind.
Year: 1877

MUTTON SoUP.-Take the fore- quarter of mutton, cut out the bone from the shoulder, and put it down to boil in two quarts of water; as soon as it boils skim it well; set it where it will keep simmering for an hour; then add the. meat, also more boiling water; skim again as soon as any scum rises; grate one good-sized carrot, chop three onions, three yellow turnips, and some celery quite small, and add to the soup; boil slowly five hours; soak cupful of rice or barley, according to taste, in some tepid water, and add with the meat; season with the grated rind of a lemon, little chopped parsley, salt and pepper, and sprinkle of nutmeg.
Year: 1877

4 NAN innocently spoiled a sermon
and praying by exelaiming. while the
tears rolled down his cheeks, Lord
Thou knowest have been an awful
sinner-the chief among ten thousand
and one altogether lovely"
Year: 1877

be if all the way was like this.
Roads Of this kind save money.
The labor that is put on our
highway is, in nine cases out of
ten, thrown away. 1t takes head.
work to make good, and where
this is left out the roads will be
worthless. A general course of
turnDiking is what we want.
With the roads rounded up, high.
est in the middle, with a good
ditch on each side to carry Off the
water and with 2luices where
needed and well made, there
would be change for the better
such as has never been seen vet.
We need just sach roads, and il
will add value to our farms and
property for as to take hold Of
such Improvements and work for
them. .......
Year: 1877

Our roads are altogether too
poor. 1t is 4 fact that it costs
those who raise the crops three
times what it ought to market
UKeir surplus. We draw small
loads, losing days and weeks Of
valuable time. We wear out our
wagons and teams banging over
rocks and roots or through the
deep ruts and gullies. Sidelings
innumerably test to the utter


most the strength of our wheels,
while in many places the stumps
and CRIBS are almost a barrier TO
travel. Such roads cost US mon
ey. Now and then a piece OF
good road demonstrates what
could be done and shows the
worth Of a highway that is kept
up as il would be, and when we
in our travel reach such places
how pleasant it is. The team
feels the difference too, and reliet
marks all their movements


Even the wagon seems to sppre


ciate having good road to mo We
over in carrying its burden, and


and we think how much il would
Year: 1877




One Of the objections we hear


urged against a systematic plan


of enriching the soil and thus


bringing back our poorer acres TO


a standard Of fertility, is that il


takes more time than can be
spared; that many have TO work
hard all the time to simply make
enough produce to supply their
actual needs. There is extreme.
ly little logic in all such objec-
tons and they SAVIOR more of ig
norance of true economy than Of
any thing else, but let US allow
that there are some grounds for
them There are none of US who
will gainsay that much time goes
to waste Oh our farms that might
Ijustas easily as not be saved if we
but put ourselves to the task,
and these odd hours can be used
in preparing compost, taking care
of all manure and collecting about
the farm muck and leaves TO add
to the barnyard products, till a
number Of loads have been accu
mulated, and it will surprise us
how fast the pile will grow. The
time thus used though little by
little will work wonders indeed.
Then we can apply this to our
land every year making good
from one to three acres. Next
year we would have The benefit Of
these three acres Of rich land and
the next year six and so On. As
his land becomes richer a farm
er's capacity to keep up and en-.
rich his land will find ourselves
in a new era Of prosperity. Little
by little, few acres made good
at first, will soon show very valu
able results indeed to our coun.
try. It's work that should be
taken hold Of by all and carried
on as fast as a rigid economizirs
of time and means at hand will
allow. We can all do something
to make better or at least keep
good our lands, and it is our duty
to do so.
Year: 1877

The Legislature of Tennessee
has by a resolution suspended
payment Of interest on the State
Bonds. All right, gentlemen, go
ahead. When a tax at the rate OF
forty cents on the hundred dol
lars will only pay the corrupt ex-
penses Of the State Government,
there is certainly some pretty
heavy stealing going on some
where.
Year: 1877

He is a smart and a wise man
who gets everything out Of daily
experience which there is in it. If
you do not believe it, just observe
very few men profit by their
daily experience. The common
occurrence in the way of their
business are overlooked and tho
lessons which to an observing
aud thoughtful mind are oracles
of wisdom, are as little needed as
the breeze at midday, by the
mass. The business man must be-
learning all the time in order to
win the goal--make money.-Ds,
trob Tribune,
Year: 1877

DR. Smiler, says Max Adeler, had q


large tank placed on the top of his house


from which to supply his bathroom, and
so forth. with water. The water had to


be pumped up about fifty feet from the
cstern in the yard, and the doctor found
it to be pretty good sized job, which
would cause him constant expense. So
after thinking the matter over very care
fully, one day an idea struck him. He
Quilt room over the cistern and put
word "sanitarium' over the door Then
he concealed the pump machinery ben
cath the floor, and he rigged up kind of
complicated apparatus with handles and
hinges and crank, SO that man by
standing in the middle of the machine
and pulling the handle up and down
would operate that pump.


Then the doctor got out circulars and
published advertisements about "Smiler's S
Patent Health Lift" and he secured tes
timonials from thousand or so people
who agreed that the health lift was the
only hope for the physical salvution of
the human race. Pretty soon people be.
= az w oNt auoub lef anu k'Hillct "oulu
rush them out to the .Sanitarium' and
set them to jerking the handles. And
when customer had pumped up fifty
gallons or so, Smler would charge him
u quarter, and tell him that three months
of that kind Of thing would give him
like prizetghter


The thing became SO popular that he
had to enlarge his tank and put in a
smaller pump; and he not only got all
his pumping done for nothing, but the
people who did it paid him about ST. 500
a years for the privilege.


One day, y,thowever. Mr.. Mnginnis, who
had been practising at the health lift
every day for months, broke the board
upon which he was standing, and plung-
ed into the cistern, and just as he was
sinking for the third time Smler fished
him out with a crooked nail in the end of
a cloths prop.


A few days laer Maginnis came round
with lot Of other patients, and cross.
examined Smiler's servant girl, and
learned about tee truth, and then they
went home mad A consultation was held,
ut which they resolved to prosecute su j.
Ter for damages and Cor obtaining money
under false pretences. 1t is thought by
good judges that. by the time the court
get through with Smiler, it will be about
the unhealthiest lift for him he was ever
interested in.
Year: 1877

There seems to be very little rest in
this world The weather has only just
become cold enough Tor man to be able
to take girl to walk and pass an ice
cream saloon with sense of security.
when they begin to hold church festivals
atsthe rate Of six a week, and unless he
attends them all and buys worsted tidy
aud couple of bead lamp mats and TAX
es four chances in an indigestible pound
cake, he is generally regarded rs dan
gerons character with atendency towards
atheism