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Year: 1874

The best part Of the Summers holiday was
that it gave US all-girls, boys, and old folks
an interregnum OF decent and cheerful ideas
We had no chance to brood over the last MUIR
der case or the famine in Persia while we were
rushing into the surf squidding for blue fish,
squattlng in the marshes waiting for snipe, or
taking headers with our especial Annie Laurie.
The weather and the tide, and the colors of
the meadows or the ashen mist creeping up
the mountain slde-these we recognized as the
welghty matters of life all talk Of sensations
10 town, special dispatches, libel suits or hang
ings, came to US atar off and paltry-the veri-
table cracking of thorns under pot.


Now we have come back to it ALL We seize
the damp paper as soon as we are up, to know
how stocks stand or what is the last outrage in
Carolina, or to pick out the kernel OF the
6lthiest bit of gossip. For us grown-up peo-
! pie the matter IS hopeless, perhaps We are
in the current, and the current is not clean
one. But can nothing be done for the child
REM Boys of ten chatter in the cars over the
plymouth naStlness, and sneer when ministers
are spoken of girls of the same age are pre-
pairing for the Winter campaign of children 8
balls, dancing and Irritation. 1t is not the
fault OF these little folks that their taste is
debased they simply eat the food set before
them. fortnight ago their heads were full
OF picnic on the beach, or romp in the hay
held. 1t Is useless to try to keep unclean sub
jects out OF their reach so long as the daily
Journals are laid before them the only remedy
is to give them some occupation for mind and


body outside of school work, which will crowd
all others out of the way. IT boy has q
hobby-base ball, boating, the gathering of
coins, stamps, autographs, or bugs-it matters


net what SO that it is clean-he is safe from


pruricnt curiosity about the indecent subjects


which agitate the breasts of his elders. Agirl
is more easily sheltered; give her her mother


companionship and confidence, and she will


naturally grow into womanhood innocent and


unconscious as Cordelia's SELF But how many


fathers have time to devise hobbies or safe.
guards of any sort for their boys at school, and
how many mothers keep their daughters o.
sixteen close beside their knee2 French wo
men, maligned as they are, never fail in this


The home has the sanctity and innocence OF 9
, convent, and the unmarried girl is secure in it
! But we, in our advanced civilization, have al
$ tered all that.-N. T. Tribune
Year: 1874

Galusha A. Grow, once leader Of the House
of Representatives through part of the stormy
antSIavery fight, and speaker of the House
in the momentOus Congress of 1861 g. has
been Texan for now several years. He has
been spending several weeks among his old
Pennsylvania friends, but returns within a
week to his duties as President of the Houston
and great Northern Railroad the International
and thu Bragora Tap Roads, making alto
gethcr lines OF over 500 miles through the
heart of Texas. Mr.. Grow is the only Speaker
of late years who has been compelled by the
tumultuOus applause of the galleries to threaten
to clear them during the delivery Of his own
inaugural address. 1t was on the memorable
4th of July, 1861, and the ringing sentences
which evoked the uncomfortable applause
were these: 6 No flag alien to the sources of
the Mississippi River will ever float perma.
nently over its mouths till its waters are Grim
soned with human gore and not one foot of
American soil can ever be wrenched from the
jurisdiction of the Constitution OF the United
States until it is babtized in fire and blood. A
Government that cannot command the loyalty
OF its own citizens is unworthy the respect OF
the world, and a Government that will not
protect its loyal citizens deserves the contempt
of the world" The force of the stirring
words was all the greater with an audience
remembering the speaker as the man who had
knocked down Kett of South Carolina in a
melee on the floor Of the House.
Year: 1874

How To HAVE GOOD CIDER-Prof. Horsford,
of Harvard University, has published receipt
for improving and preserving cider, by means
OF which the progress of the vinous and acetic
lamentations may be arrested at pleasure, and
the cider preserved in just such state as may
be desired. 1t is this:


Put the new cider into clean casks or barrels,
and allow it to ferment from one to thee weeks,
according as the weather is cool or warm.
When it has attained to lively fermentation,
add to each gallon three fourths of pound of
white sugar, and let the whole ferment again
until it possesses nearly the brisk, pleasant
taste which it is desirable should be permanent.
Pour out a quart of the cider aud mix with it
one quarter of an ounce of sulphite of lime for
every gallon the cask contains. Stir it until it
is intimately mixed, and pour the emulsion
into the liquid Agtate the contents of the
cask thoroughly for few moments, then let
il rest that the cider may settle Fermentation
will be arrested at once, and will not be re-
Sumed. Ii may be bottled in the course Of
few weeks, or il may be allowed to remain in
the cask and used on draught. If bottled IL
will become sparkling cider of unsurpassing
excellence" -
Professor Horsford was the first to use the
sulphlte OF lime for this purpose. It is in no
respect deeteriOus, as the sulphate into which
suIphite is changed, is entirely insoluble, and
remains at the bottom of the vessel. Remem-
Der, It is the sulphite Of lime not sulphdte,
must be used.
The quality Of the cider will remain unchan-
ged for years.
Year: 1874

A woman living in the canton Of Zurich,
Switzerl1nd, recently resorted to a curious
mode of revenge. Her cat, of which she was
Exceedingly fond, had for some reason or other
been killed by an official She accordingly
procured several mouse.traps and caught some
fifty mice, which she Immediately inclosed iu
box and sent TO the offending person. He
suspected nothing, opened the package, and
was Mortified to see n swarm of mice spring out
nf the box and run all over the place At the
bottom Of the box he found a note containing
the following words :" You have killed nv
cat. | have therefore the honor to send you
my mice
Year: 1874

NOTICE Z


~ |. JONH R. CAMERON, JR.. Of the town Of
SmyrnR. Kent county ard State of Delaware, do
hereby give notice that intend make application
TO tie Court Of General Sessions of the Peace and
Jail Delivery Of the State Of Delaware, and for
Kent county aforesaid at its next session which will
eYumeuce and be held al Dover, 10 Kent county, on
Monday, the twenty sixth day Of October, in the
year Of Lord thousand eight hundred and
seventy -four, for license to keep inn TAVERN
and to sell intoxicating liquors in less quantities than
one quart 10 be drunk the premises at all in the
house now Occnpisd by me as tenant, and known as
the 4" Farmers Hotel" The location OF said house,
wherein propose to keep an iun or tavern, is in
School District No. IT. in Kent county in the State
OF Delaware-said School District No. II being
united with School District No. 3 in Kent county
sforesaid, for establishing and supporting free
school for their common benefit and forming together
United School Districts Nos. 3 and n in Kent
county afOresaid-and in the town of Smyrna, in
Keat county Aforesaid, and on the north side of
Commerce Street near Main Street in the said town
Of Smyrna. The time when the said apple alton
will be made by me will be on Monday, the twenty
sixth day October in the year Of Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and seventy -four. being the first
day Of the next term of the said Court Of General
Sessions Of he Peace and Jail Delivery Of tho Stat
or Deiawafe, IN and for Kent coantys The names
Of the freehoIders recommending my said aPPlica-


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Year: 1874

Two or three weeks ago an accident
did not occur near Scranton, Penn. the
newspapers missed sensational horror
ana dozen men instead of being hurled
into eternity without time to breathe a
prayer, walked quietly home to their
dinners, quite unconscious that Death
had had them by the throats. The facts
are briefly these:


In the largest anthracite coal mine in
the state, the care of the engine bv which
the cars for passengers are lowered and
hoistcd Is placed in the hand. of a
Scotch lrishman, an ordinary fellow
enough. The cable, necessarily of great
weight and thickness, passes through
the roof OF slightly built shed under
which he stands. One morning. as the
man stood smoking his pipe, his hand
upon the lever, his mind very probably
busy with his dinner, and assuredlv not
wrought up to any heroic rapture of re-
solve, the ascending car (loaded with
coaD ut one end of the cable, broke, and
ieii crashing into the dark shaft, TO be
shattered INTO thousand fragments.
lie knew that in the next minute the
cable. released from the strain. would
hy back and fall with crushing weight
on the rickety beams and boards of The
roof. Death was absolutely certain if
he did not escape from me shed. But if
nc TOOK his hand from the lever, the
descending car, full of men. must fall
one or two hundred feet. He had but
one instant TO face his death and theirs,
and to choose between them. There
was boy i'll the back of the shed: the
man nououed to him with his head to
90 out. Then he tightencd his hold ON
the lever. The loo>cncd cable siruck
and caught somewhere below against
the side OF the shaft. Surely God meant
1t should SO strike. II was tue DELAY Of
but breath of time; but it was enough.
The car grated with a lar against The
ground Tar below Its occupaut. stcpucl
iei,uely ou., while the man who had
saved them above, threw himself from
under the shed, just as il. root, beams,
pulley, and all, crashed down on thc
spot where lie had been standing.


We do not know the inan name. and
sAould scarcely need to publish it il we
dId. Fame or reward lar somehow
against the deed Itself. There is n whole,
some tonic Tor all of us in the certainty
which Is forced upon us now and then.
OF the unknown, uumeasured resources
OF courage and hcroi,m and untlinchiny
integrity 10 duty which we posses.
among what we choose to call the mass
OF the people. 1t i., after all. only when
man reaches the certainties OF the
middle age that he is not surprised every
new day by the knowledge of how
admirable crew has been put into the
world for its long voyage: how many Of
the women are gracious and finely
natured; how many men respond
promptly to the call of honesty or duty
or even selt-sacrilice because it is the
simple and natural thing for them to do
so.


Wewill congratulate ourselves, then.
not that his class can boast one such
brave fellow as this Scotch-Irish en-.
gineer. but that, like King Harry over
Percy's grave, we believe that it "has a
thousand >uch as he New York
Tribune
Year: 1874

PERsEvERANCE.-Le any who are di =
heartened at the obstacles which they
imagine lie in the way of their improve
ment. read the following, aud see what
patient persevering industry can accom-
plish:


81 learned grammar" said William
Cubbett, "whep | was private soldier
at sixpence dav The edge OF nv
berth or my guard bed, was my seat to
study in; my KNAPP sack was my book
case, and bit of board laying on my
lap my writing table. had no money
to purchase candles or oil; in winter
time it was rarely that | could get any
light but that OF the fire, and only my
turn even of that To buy apen or
sheet of paper, was compelled to forego
some portion of food, though in state
of starvation. | had not . moment of
time that could call my own: and had
to read and write amid talking, laugh
ing singing, whistling, and bawling of
at lease halt score of the most thought
less OF men; and that too. in tine honrs
of their freedom from all control.
And say, if under circumstances like
these. could encounter and overcome the
task, is there, can there be, in the whole
world. youth who can find All excuse
Tor the non-performanceT
Year: 1874

THE House Of Representatives was
engaged yesterday in the consideration
Of the Railroad question and in settle
ment Of the proper rate OF mileage to be
charged by officers of the government.
The indications are iu favor OF gener-
81 reform in these particulars, whereat
the people will greatly rejoice.
Year: 1874

The death of the Siamese Twins has
brought to light accounts of number of
mOnStrOsities, human and otherwise. all
possessing more or less interest, but | do
not think the case here detailed has been
mentioned. In the month of May, 1888, at
Mandalzent, near Bardawan, in Bengal, a
woman named NOoki, aged thirty-tive
years, gave birth to a child, the body of
which was naturally formed, but having
two heads, almost equally perfect, attached
to its upper part. These heads were unit
ed together by a firm adhesion between
their crowns, the upper head being in
verted. There was no indentatiOn at the
band of union, but smooth continued sur
face from one head to the other. The face
of the upper head was not directly over
that of the lower, but had ali Oblique posi-
ton, the center of it being Immediately
above the right eye. The midwife who at
tended at the birth of this defOrmed speci-
men of humanity, terrified at the strange
appearance of the double head, attempted
TO destroy it by throwing it into the fire,
from which, however. it was soon removed,
but not until one of its eyes and ears were
considerably burnt.


When the child was six months old,
both of the heads were covered with black
hair. in about the same quantity. At
this period the skulls seemed TO have been
completely ossified, except a small space
between the ossa fronts of the upper one.


No opulsation could be felt in the situation
of the temporal arteries of the superior or
inverted head, but the superficial veins
were very evident. The neck was almost
two inches long, and the upper part of it
terminated in a rounded soft tumOr. One
of the ewes had been considerably burntby
the fire. but the other was perfect, and
was free in its motion. The eyes did not
correspond in their motions with those of
the over head, but appeared to be open
when the child slept, and shut when it was
awake.


The external ears were very imperfect,
being only loose folds of skin, one of them
mutilated by the burning. There did not
appear to be any passge leading into the
bone which contains the organ OF hearing.
The muscles of the face were evidently
possessed of powers of action, and the
whole had good deal of sensibility, any
violence to the skin producing distortion
expressive of crying, and thrusting the
finger into the mouth made it show strong
signs ofpain. When the nipple was placed
to the mouth, the lips ATTEMPTED to suck.


The natural or lower head had nothing
uncommon in its appearance: the eyes
were attentive to objects, and the mouth
sucked the breast vigorously. Its body was
emaciated.


The parents of the child were poor, and
carried it about the streets of Calcutta
showing it for money. TO keep it exposed
from the public gaze, it was constantly
locked up, which was considered as the
cause of its feebleness of body and emacia-
ton. When it was about two years old,
and in its ordinary state of health, the
mother went out to fetch some water, and
upon her return found it dead, having
been bitten by Cobra, one of the most
venomous of the numerous serpents OF
India.
Year: 1874

Delicate, weakly and old people often
awake very early in the morning, or even
in the middle of the night, and cannot
again fall asleep. 1t is very tedious for
them to count the hours, apparently pass
ing more slowly than usual. and to lie
awake wishing for the day. Frequently
this is because, being old and weak, they
have become chilly and exhausted and If
they got a little food or warmth, they
might have another good nap. 1t is very
easy overnight to put a sandwich or bis
cult and a little wine (all lightly covered
up) by their side where they can readily
get at it, if they are not too weak to help
themselves. IL they are too feeble some
body should get up to give it to them, so


that they may, if otherwise practicable,
have another sleep and be spared all that


restlessness and weariness. Its not mere
| ly duty TO grandsires and grandames,
but for the interest of all concerned, 70 re-


duee the rigor Of the days whereof it Is


said :-'' We shall not like them"


Who will try this plan and report the
/ beneficial results, thereby earning the
/ right to fairly expect similar indulgence


aud kind offices when his or her strength


begins to wapes-GsrsaHtoSr" Telegraph.
Year: 1874

If one could make use of the good quail
ties of poultry in gardens without suffer
ing from their bad ones, what capital
thing it would be. The amount of in
sectS they destroy is astonishing to those
who have not been initiated into the mys-
terry of the thing; but everybody knows
that they claim all the crops in pay there,
for, if they get chance; and thus we have
all our labor for our pains. We like to
have our peas come up early, but they
come up a little too soon when there Is d
flock of chickens about; and they are not
satisfied with the early worm, but want
the early green blade from the strawber.
ries also.


There are many times when chickens
can not only be introduced into the garden
without serious injury, but with great
good. 1t is best to have a good chicken
yard attached to all gardeus, where the
poultry can be confined when there is
damage to be done, and let out when they
can work to advantage. Besides this
simple arrangements can often be EN-.
plOyed whereby the seed beds. and often
the growing crops, can be preserved from
danger, and at the same time the chickens
be allowed to roam about doing good a.
they 90. BrushwOOd can be laid Ovel
seed beds and young crops just planted,
for little while. and found to be gOOC
protection. Chickens do not care to rum
pie their feathers against these crooked
sticks. Then, again, many have coarse
fish-nets, or other manufactured articles
which, suspended over the seed beds
make a cheap and efficient protection.


OF course all these suggestions are in
tended only for small gardens. They can
not be well employed on large scale
But it is only in small gardens that the
evils of chickens running around loose are
so seriously felt. In the Far West ducks
are looked on as excellent things for pO-
tatO fields and vineyards; and even in
gardens they are looked up to as the pre-
servers and defenders against insect enc
mics. Whether, what good they do in this
way pays for their keeping we do not
know; for as general thing, ducks are
hardly paying investment. They shovel
down the food alarmingly in most cases
while the ''luck" in raising young ducks,
or in getting an abundance of eggs, is not
equal to that from ordinary fowls. Where
there is water, or marshy ground, or 9th
er cOnveniences where a duck can getin g
measure his own living, it is of course diff.
ferent. We are speaking chiefly of duck;
as an everyday affair, and solely from an
insect-gatbering point of view.-Forney''
Press.
Year: 1874

A PAIR of redbreasts are reported as
having built their nest in the running gear
of gravel car constantly plying between
Duren and Capellen-Gilverath in Ger
many. a nest of young wagtails were
also bred during the past summer under
the plate of railroad switch. Twenty-Five
regular trains, besides extra trains, went
daily back and forth over them, yet the
shy little family did not seem to be in the
least disturbed.
Year: 1874

so pleasant a retreat for spending leisure
hour. The GRANGE ADVANCE first suggest
ed this desired improvement some time
since, and we are glad to see that our en-
terprising business men are taking hold oi
this matter in earnest.
Our enterprising Post Master, at the
suggestion OF some Of our business Een,


has arranged for night exchange mail
with Winona.
Year: 1874

The idea of public park on Barn
Bluff is being again agitated. There is
nothing that would add SO much to the
beauty Of the City as the Improvement of
this Bluff, and no other place could be made
Year: 1874

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DIFFERENT WAYS OF TALK1NF RELIC :
IoN-At the recent wedding ofthe eldest
daughter of the Right Hon. William E.
Gladstone, the premier of England
he addressed the assembled gaests in
the language appended. the substance
of which if learned by heart and repeat
ed by those who are charged with per-
forming such ceremonies. would be an
excellent thing:


"Cne might almost SUPPOSE it was
presumptuous to enterinto vow, which.
depend upon it, no human power can
dissolve or weaken, but it is not pre-
sumptuous if it be done in the right
spirit. If it be done in humble trust
and reliance upon the guidance of Him
who alone can direct our steps in the
greater transactions of life as in the
smaller, it is not presumptuous. Then
it is hopeful, it is blessed, it is happy.
As far as regards the family from which
our daughter is removed, the marriage
presents mixed character. 1t would
be idle to deny that we shall miss her
much. 1t would be idle to deny. bow
ever much the good opinion of her is
deserved, that we shall long look for her
familiar form and her vacant place in
our family circle; but it would be selfish
to dwell on ideas such as these. The
question is whether the union which
she has formed is one which we ought
to rejoice in as reasonable and as Chris
tian men. I must honestly own that
there is not one point 1 could wish 9th
erwise than it is. My dear friend Lord
Lyttleton said you know little in com
parison of the man with whom she has
united her lot, and it is true; but once or
twice you have seen him and heard him
in the church, and have had some op
portunity of judging what manner of
man lie is. To him we can with perfect
confidence commit the future fortunes
of our beloved child. There is not one
cloud upon the sky of their prospects.
so far as it is allowed us to forecast
them. Well, my dear friends and neigh
bols. again let me express the deep graf
itude we feel for the manifestations of
your kindness; they have such as we
feel now, and such as I trust We ever
shall continue to feel. There is one act
of kindness I will request you to per-
form still on their behalf. You have
to-day accompanied US to the temple of
the Most High to witness the solemn rite
which has been there performed; but let
each one of you, in the temple OF his
own heart and in the silence and secresy
of his own chamber, beseech the AL
mighty to continue to fulfill His good
ness upon the heads of the married pair.
Happy as they are, they cannot dispense
with His aid; they cannot dispense with
the aid and comfort Of your prayers
that aid and comfort which under all
circumstances and at all times every one
of us can freely, and at the same time
hnmbly render to one another.
Year: 1874

T The editor of the Ashland Press
is growing gray in trying to solve this
problem: "Why is it that certain
young fellow and girl can sit in the par
lor till after midnight, without making
noise enough for the old people to hear
them through the partitions, and can't
sit in the Lyceum meeting five minutes
without annoying the whole house with
their giegling and talk"
Year: 1874

COFFEE AS DIsINFCTANT.-The Hon.
eopattic World says that coffee, when
roasted, is one of the most powerful
means, not only of rendering animal
and vegetable effluvia innocuous, but OF
actually destroying them. A room in
which meat in an advanced state of de-
composition had been kept for some
time was instantly deprived of all smell
on an open coffee roaster being carried
through it,containing one pound ofnew-
ly roasted coffee. In another room the
efluvium occasioned by the clearing
out of cesspool, SO that sulphuretted
hydrogen and amonia could be clearly
detected, was entirely removed within
half minute on the employment of
three ounces of fresh coffee. The best
mode of using it as disinfectant is to
dry the raw bean, poundsit in a mortar,
and then roast it on moderately heat
ed iron plate, until it assumes dark
brown hue, when it is ready for use. 1t
must, however, be remembered that the
coffee, to be effectual, should be perfect
ly pure. Adulterated rubbish will only
make matters worse.