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Year: 1877

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Year: 1877

An entire quart of whiskey was con- sumed by Loulsiana darkey before he fully recovered from bite of tarantula It was then discovered that he had been stung by..a wasp. The men who contrib uteds the whiskey were too mad to speak above a wnispef.
Year: 1877

This is the season for entrapping the
canker worm moth. II viii! be remem-
bered that apples last year were uncom-
monty worfnv ana an unusually large
crop OF the pests NAV be expected this
season. The female in the form OF a
moth or miller crawls up the trunk of the
tree from the ground as soon as The
snow and ice are melted away from un-
der the tree. As she cannot lfly, she is
obliged to crawl. If belt OF tar or print
ers' ink is put around the tree, the NOM
ent she puts her foot in she is caught.
and has no power to extricate herself.
In the absence OF tar or ink, thick West
India molasses might answer-though
it would need replacing after a rain.
Bottles of sweetened water hung in the
tree after the moth has gone up to Law
her eggs, have been found to answer a
purpose. The neck of the bottle should
be left open.-Tke moth scents the MKT
ure, enters the bottle and is drowned.
As many as fifty have been found in Que
bottle.


The borers must also be looked after.
A close examination will reveal their
hiding places, when they NAV be punch
ed to death with a wire, or may be dis
troyed by the use of hot " ater If by any
contrivance it can be got on to them.
1t is said that hot water will not injure
trees, but it would be sure death to the
borers.-Ex.
Year: 1877

Upon thig topic the Western Rural has
the following good advice:


ut IS essential to success in all kinds
OF business that a record shall be kept of
expenditures aud receipts The mer-
chant or mechanic who fails to keep an
accurate account of his business transac-
tions will, in nine cases out of ten, find
that he is losing money; aHi in few
years finds himself bankrupt 1t is only
a question OF time. IL is true that far
mer makes fewer exchanges of property
than merchant, but still there is an
outgO constantly, a. well as receipts for
products sold. These should be noted
down daily, for in this way only eau any
accurate knowledge be had whether the
farm is paving or not, or at the end of
the year, whether this crop or tina: has
paid any profit, or whether or not the
whole farm is a satisfactory investment.
Generally, farmers work hard enough,
and are economical enough iii their ex-
penditures, but, stili. many of them do
not get satisfactory returns for their la
Dor. There are so many small items OF
expense little thing here and another
there-that in the aggregate make up no
inconsiderate sum. Now, if a system of
accounts is kept, it is not difficult TO find
out where the leakages are. and to stop
them. 1t induces little more thinking
and figuring, but that is something that
paws in farming as we'll as in merchan-
tile and mechanical pursuits. Brain is
quite as essential as Drawn in the man.
agement of farm work"
Year: 1877

In conversation with a gentleman, re-
Gently, who takes great interest in agri-
cultural affairs, he expressed the opin
ION that chickens do better il taken from
the hen soon after Matching and brought
up by them selves, than if allowed to re e
main with her. He said he had proved
by actual experiment, and a brood al
ready hatched out are isolated from the
mother and get along just a well, ap-
parently, as though they had her care.
He says one great advantage gained bv
this method is the important one that
lice from the old fowls cannot be COM
municated to the Young ones; another
i that the hen, instead OF spending the
season, or large part of 1t, with her
brood, Leing deprived Of it naturally
commences LAYING in q short time. He
saws lie fixes an artificial covering for
the chickens to huddle together under,
by mailing a piece OF sheep skin, wool
side out, to piece of board and placing
it in the coop elevated a few inches He
saws they 90 under this and appear as
we'll satisfied as II lowered BY the hen
II this method is practicable its discov-
cry Is step TO advance, but it is not in
accordance wish our former notions in
relation to the subject. We have sup
posed tha: the lowering OF the chickens
BY the hen was important in developing
thrift and strength in the young birds
quite as much so as the quality and
quantity of their food. This we have
supposed TO be true especially during
the earlier period oftheir existence. We
know that it has been demonstrated that
eggs may be hatched by artiiicia means,
as by an incubator for instance, or by
burying them in a pile of horse manure,
in which case the chicks would never
know the care OF mother, but we did
not know that when brought into life by
the natuI al method. "bringing them up
by hand was the better way.-Thuse
interested in the hen and chicken bus
incss can easily prove or disprove the
practicability of eur friends new dis
covery People.
Year: 1877

kEEP SHEEP->heep raising i aunu-
ally Increasing all over the country.
Farmer. are beginning to fiud there i
nothing more profitable. in a general
sense than a good flock OF sheep. They
require a very small outlay, when once
d flock i. started. and vet the product Of
wool, meat aud manure, i, of consider
able importance. To avoid the princi-
pal objections 10 sheep raised by many
farmers, the dogs. corral should be
constructed near the barn or in a more
convenient point on the farm, where the
flock should be herded nightly during
the year, and thus be protected against
the most worthless AID disgusting of
animals-the sheep dog-which seldom
make their attacks during the day; and
W hen they do they can be readily shot.
-GermIRtotra Telegraph,
Year: 1877

The CULTURE OF RosEs-The follow
ing are given as the main requisites for
success in the cultivation of roses in
pots: Select the best fitted sort OF plants
raised aud kept in pots, and not from
the open ground; keep in room not
too dry, at temperature about seven
ty degrees in the daytime and fifty de-
grees or more at night, using liquid
manure if the soil is poor, avoiding over
watering or soaking with standing wa
ter, showering once or twice week land
turning the ball OF earth out sometimes
10 see If there are angle worms, or wa
tering with lime water to Iepel them.
Remove plant lice with tobacco water
Cut back q sLoot that has blossomed, to
a good bud.-Avoid cold draughts
which cause dildew. Fork up the soil
and keep it mellow.
Year: 1877

When person has been kept from
eating hours beyond his usual time. in
stead OF eating fast and heartily, he
should take his food with deliberatien
and only half as much as if he had eaten
at the regular time. Sudden and severe
illness has often resulted from the want
of this prcaudon, and sometimes death
has followed.
Year: 1877

to say that to the best of my be-
lief, D. L. Moody is not only an
honest, earnest evangelist, working
with wonderful power for what he
believes to be the highest welfare of
mankind, but that he is also man
Of broad sympathies, eminently
practical, and gifted with unusual
common sense. l wish to say fur
ther, that / do not think any un-
prejudiced person could meet Mr..
Moody, as l have, in his own home,
and amongst his early companions,
without feeling not only respect,
but regard for him as strong, un-
selfish, good man. And l wish to
add that, SO far as l can learn, and
from appearances judge, he is for
tunate in having a good wife emf


nently fitted to aid and strengthen
him in every good work.
Year: 1877

Even if we are not smart we know
what to do when troubled with cough
or cold No doctor bills for US. We
take 25c note, 90 to the nearest drug
store and buy a bottle of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup. One dose relieves us and
one bottle cures US entirely.
Year: 1877

NA~A AuCutAOms
London spsctatOr.l


A bill has been introduced into
the legislature of New York by the
charitable aid societies under which
all justices of the peace shall be
bound to commit all vagrants for a
term not less than three months, or
exceeding six months, to a work
house prison, instead of a county
jail, where they are left in idleness;
and there set them to good hard
work, usually, we imagine from
some clauses in the act, work in
the field. They are to be paid
wages and to be taught, but they
are to be compelled to work hard
and to pay the cost Of their own
keep; and if after release they do
not use their knowledge, the dura-
ton Of their sentences is to be
doubled.


The idea is that a proportion of
the ''vagrants" will in this manner
be accustomed to severe work for
wages, will be drilled, as it were,
into the ordinary discipline of life;
aud that another section, finding
this mode of imprisonment intol-
erably irksome, will quit the State
in which it is enforced forever.
Both ideas are probably accurate,
more especially if the work taught
is labor on the land, for which in
the United States there is always
room, and if the act passes the
nuisance win probably be speedily
abated.


The interest of the proposal for
Englishmen does not consist, how
ever, in its success, so much as in
the fact that so severe a law should
be necessary in a State where labor
on the land is in such demand,
and in the rural townships, where
men are not thrown into distress,
as they are in cities, by the sudden
failure of the means of obtaining
work, in places where population is
not too thick, and where we have
been accustomed to think that COM
petence is within reach of every
mans hand. Such a revelation
seems to indicate that the legisla-
tors of the future may have to con-
tend with tendencies as difficult to
defeat as economic forces, which
prescribe that whenever a commu-
nifty becomes at once large and
prosperous there should be devel-
oped in it class which, though not
absolutely criminal, will not submit
to the preliminary requirement of
civilization, steady industry; and
which, under certain circumstances,
will require as steady and severe
restraint as the criminal class itself.


There is work on the land to be
had for the asking, but there is also
a proportion Of men who will not
do it, except under the strong COM
pulsion Of hunger. Whether they
will do it when the habit has been
once impressed upon them by exter-
nal force remains to be seen. The
American idea apparently is that
they will, but that is not the result
of experience in this country, where,
after the most determined attempts
to repress "tramping" by capital
sentences, by hard labor and by en-
forced production, we have fallen
back, we fear, finally upon the en-
ployment of rural police to mitigate
the evil. Tramping III its danger
Gus form scarcely survives a good
rural police, but the Americans are
unwilling to establish one, and are
right before they do so to try their
very curious experiment OF sending
adult but idle men and women to
severely governed industrial schools.
Year: 1877

Woman was not made to live
alone any more than man. All the
actions of woman, whether of use
ful industry or of ornament, are
subject to the approval and pleas
ure of the sterner sex to which
their own are subordinate and on


which they are founded. To de-
scend to the humblest form of this
feeling; every one knows that when
a woman has arrayed herself in a
pretty dress and new ribbons, or
any flnery, put on for the first time,
although the admiration of her fe-
male friends may give degree of


pleasure, it is as nothing compared


to the light that comes into the eve
of one whose smallest compliment
is more valued than that of thous-
and women; and this feeling mod
flied by the circumstances of in
dividuals, runs through the whole
sex and is part of the nature of
their being, implanted in the heart
by the Divine Artificer to produce
the most delicious fruits that grow
in the garden of human life.


Women by themselves require
little to be comfortable; they can
live without ostentation, hustle or
form; neither in beauty of raiment
nor in delicacy of food can they
find happiness, so long as they have
it to themselves alone. They re-
quire to please the other sex be-
fore they can please themselves
A knot of old maids may, to be
sure, be bitterly merry over their
tea and gossip, and outwardly de-
spise all men with profound dis
dain; but there is something very
unnatural in that enjoyment, nor
does anybody suppose that the re-
spectacle spinster's heart bounds
with such sweet human delight
at the compliment Of her female
friends on her neat room, her pet
spaniel and strong tea, as the heart
of the good wife when her husband
tells her how nicely she has cooked
his supper and how sweet and
pretty she looks in that new dress.
1t matters not whether her husband
be the master of a million, or
salaried clerk; whether his days
be spent in the sports of the field,
the drudgery of profession or the
labor of farm; the pleasure of
wife and the object of all her work
is to have a table comfortably
spread on his return, and to see
that he enjoys the delicacies or the
necessaries which she has provided
for him; whether the provisions
be merely plain fare and snow
white tablecloth, or the rich soup,
the supurb joint and the exquisite
dessert, both women in their differ
ent positions look not to, think not
of, what they are preparing, only
as far as it will go towards pleas
ing the lord and master of their
homes and hearts.
Year: 1877

We want religion that softens
the step, and tunes the voice to
melody, and fills the eye with sun
shine, and checks the impatient
exclamation and harsh rebuke a
religion that is polite, deferential
to superiors, courteous to interiors
and considerate to friends; a reli-
gion that goes into the family, and
keeps the husband from being cross
when dinner is late, and keeps the
wife from fretting when the hus-
band tracks the newly washed floor
with his muddy boots, and makes
the husband mindful of the scraper
and the door mat keeps the moth
er patient when the baby is cross
and amuses the children as well as
instructs them; cares for the SER
wants besides paying them prompt
ly, projects the honeymoon into
the harvest noon, and makes the
happy home like the eastern fig
tree, bearing in its bosom at once
the beauty of the tender blossom
and the glory of the ripened fruit.
We want a religion that shall in
terpose between the ruts and the
gullies and rocks of the highway
of life and the sensitive souls that
are travelling over them.
Year: 1877


Over and over again,


No matter which way turn,
always find in the Book of Life
Some lessons have to learn.
must take my turn at the mill,
must grind out the golden grain.
must work at my task with resolute will
Over and over again.
We can not measure the need
OF even the finest flower,
Nor check the flow of the golden sands
That run through single hour.
But the morning dews must fall;
And the sun and summer rain
Must do their part and perform it all
Over and over again.
Over and over again ~
The brook Though the meadow flows
And over and over again
The ponderous mill-wheel goes.
Once doing will not suffice
Though doing be not in vain,
And blessing, failing us once or twice,
May come If we try again.
The path that has once been trod
Is never 80 rough to the feet:
And the lesson we once have learned
Is never so hard TO repeat.
Though sorrowful tears may fall,
And the heart TO its depth be driven
With storm and tempest, we need them all
To render us NEE. for heaven.
Year: 1877

TIMES GROWING BErTER.-Four
months ago there were $4,000 idle me
chanic. in New York city. The Presi-
dent of the Trades Assembly now re.
ports not more than 10000 men in the
city are out Of employment. and it is
stated not for three years past have the
working men. as a class, been in such
good condition. All this is interpreted
Is meaning the approach of better
times.
Year: 1877

Frola present indications the Turko- Rus sian war does not promise to be of very long duration. Russia is gaining ground and evidently preparing to make a grand crushing assault that will end thc war.
Year: 1877

and and follow it as the only infallible
guide; and we who are setting forth these
lacts to-day have learned nothing Srayer
from our experience of public affairs than
It's Importance secularly considered. We
are offering no Lenton sermon; the pulpits
Will furnish that; we are simply speaking
OF that divine institution which we find in
every land where it exists in its purity, the
surest promoter of human happiness, Of
social order, and of rational liberty.


The season is a mOnitress alike of Dossi-
bic failure and of boundlcss success. 1t
asserts, but it also pleads for human in
hrmlty. 1t symbolizes the struggle which
Is the sole condition of true and ultimate
repose. 1t is quite possible that it may be
ostentatlousiy, carelessly, or superstitiously
observed. But all outward forms of
religious observance are naked to the same
objection. TO those who recognize their
spiritual significance, only their true value
is revealed; but who shall estimate the
accidental help, the temporary succor the
awakening influences which they may
bring even to the careless participant or to
the mere Journalist? 1t would be easy TO
dlsmIsS their consideration with Sncer.
out contempt IS usually UnwiSc, and some
tunes 1t may be shameful. 4 land. the
President Of which, in the hour of its
emergency, invited its people to hum;ia
ton, fasting, and prayer, should not be
utterly ignorant OF the significance of Lent
". J. Tribune lttH inst.
Year: 1877

'-ATE An CHURCH.-Most commonly the
people who are late at church are late
everywhere else and in everything else. IF
tney make business engagement. they arc
always behind time; and they form the
large class who are invariably a few minutes
TOO late for the cars. They are the ncor,ic
who 20 to the bank to take up their notes
the day after they are due and when they
nave gone to protest; who forget when
quarter day arrives; and whose fire insur
ance policy is suffered to expire THROUGH
lack OF prompt attention.


Or, ii they belong to the gcntler seq. tbov
are the kind who delay to put in the stifc6
that saves nine, who are always behind
hand with the breakfast or the dinner. who
are ever procrastinating and ever in a
furry OF haste and worry With such AS
these tardiness has become a habit. and
their iellow-worshippcrs at church suffer
from 1t, along with all others with whom
they have dealings or intercourse. But
there are numbers of these tardy folks Mt
church who are not so from the slavery Of
ha6lt, but from deliberate design. Tbcv
wish to be seen and admired; they desire
70 create sensation in a small way, or at
least they are desirOus that their apparel
snail not pass unnoticed; or they arc ultra
i'''Hi'lI"oIC; anu nave an idea that il is
modish to be late at church, as well as at a
party; or they are of happy. .go.lucky kind,
VINO take no note of time and are careless
whether they are early or late. The offence
OF all these incorrigible and indefcnsibIo
tardy folk is not only tresspass against
good breeding and good sense, but trans.
gression against the rest Of the congrega-
ton, whose devotons they distract, and
an insult to the Majesty on high, whose
worship they interrupt and disturb.-Clris.
tan TafcIl;1oncer
Year: 1877

EVERYDAY DEgEprIoN.-An ordinary


wonans happiness or misery is decided by


trHies. Her interests aye so few that her
mind dwells on littlo things, 10 the exclu.
SION OF more momcntuous matters. One
night young wife sat wondering why her
husband did not come home. She had
been III the kitchen two or three times
to see that supper was ready and being kept
not, Tor MIR. Jones was one Of those men
who neither like to wait for a meal nor cat
cold one. At last, full an hour after his
usual time, the husband made his appear


ance: He did not think it necessary to
tell her that he had suPpcd ''down town"
with friend, he was probably ashamed of
the Ittie eXtraVaganc2; therefore he pushed
rom him the cake she had prepared for
his especial enjoyment, observing that it
was not up to the usual mark. The Young
wife was previously disappointed, for her
afternoons happines had consisted in think
ing how agreeably hqg husband would be
surprised at this little delicacy. But this
was all destroyed now, and it was as much
as she could do to command her feelings.
Her husband saw and partially understood
her emotion. A single word would have
explained all, and he knew it; but he was
ashamed, at first, to say that he had been
!oIterlng on the way home; and afterwards
1t was too late. At last he became angry
at his wife for being hurt, as men strangely
VIII when they are themselves in fault. ii
was miserable evening for both.
Year: 1877

A waterproof oil company has adopted
as trademark the portly figure of VIM.
NJ Tweed, the convict statesman, standing
In drenching storm, with a shabby
umbrella over his head and huge diamond
on his shirt front
Year: 1877

Two young ladies of Baltimore were
made seriously i'll last week by eating cake
too highly favored with extracts of bitter
almonds. The extracts had been in the
house for six years, and had become very
strong by evaporation of the alcohol.
Year: 1877

at the same time that remarkable shin.
ments OF muskets and munitions of war arn
beng made from this country to Turkey,
Inc T news comes from Birmingham, in
England, whose principal industry is the
manufacture Of rifles, that never before st
Tune OF impending war was business So
dull. In the United States the facilities
Tor producing arms have been much inn.
proved and developed, and the arms are
made SO cleverly and cheap that serious
Diow has been given to this branch of
England's commerce.
Year: 1877

Upon each other we must lean.


Each help each otler Oh,
For, after ali, success is e'er


a triumph mutually won.
Here we're placed TO work for good
To 10 the best We can,
To illustrate by brotherhood


The usefulness of man.
Who stands alone and darcs despise
The assistance Of his race.
Who 'gainst all manly sympathy


And friendship turns his face
Who says. I'm independent. l


Can do my work alone,
Ny triumph alone can win.


1t shall be all my own"
Who thus must speak shall surely find
Some day how hard and cold
Within the heart will be the faith


Which he thus dares TO hold.
No mind. however grsa. its powers
To build up and TO plan,
Can work success without the aid,


The aid Of brother man.
He's but boaster who dares say:


Il build my OWL success,
And ask no aid from any one


To bring me happiness.
Upon each other we must lean,


To mutual faith hold fast,
And do our best. and We shall find


Our triumph won at last.