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Year: 1879




There is right way and wrong
way, hard way and an easy way, an
awkward way and a sklllinl way, to
catch and handle sheep. A great
many men will catch the sheep by the
wool ON the back with both hands, and
lift the animal clear from the ground
by the wool only. Barbarousl Let
some great giant grasp you by tho
hair OF your head and hit you from
the ground by your hair onl " Would
you not struggle and squlrm worse
than the mute sheep does when lifted
by the woolY And would there not
be complaint OF a sore head Tor
week or twof II you DO not believe 1t
try the experiment We have slaught-
cred q great many sheep in years past,
and when removing the pelts OF such
sheep as had been handed by inc
wool, we never JAILED TO observe that
beneath the skin wherever the animal
had been caught by the wool, blood
had settled. In many instances, the
skin had been separated from the body
so that imitation was apparent we
have known proprletors oil sheep 10 be
so strict in regard to handling them,
that be would order helper IRON the
premises If he were to catch sheep
by the wool on any part OF the body.
Some owners OF sheep direct their
Year: 1879




correspon dence Of the Syracuse Standard.


The canon of Niagara is far more


mysterious than the Falls themselves.


Within the era OF civilization in Amer


lea no one was able to successfully


pierce tho fierce and terrible undercur-


rent to the bottom until, recently, the


Government itself thought it necessa.


ry in behalf Cf science to undertake


the task All the great schemes i'm.


aglned to be strictly scientific were


put in operation by bunglers to obtain


the depth Of water beneath the Fails,


Bars of railroad iron, pals of stones,
and all unreasonable bulky and awk-


ward instruments were attached to
long lines, and cast off the railway


bridge and elsewhere, but positively
refused to sink, The very bulk of the
instrument was sufficient, no matter
what their weight, TO give the power
ful undercurrent way to buoy them
up upon the surface or near it. Tho
United States Corps of Engineers,
however, with a small lead of only
twelve pounds weight attached to a
slender rope or sounding cord, easily
obtained the depth from the Falls TO
the lower bridge. As your correspond.
ent assisted in the hydrographical OPP
erations, the facts may be given as
they presented themselves. One day
we launched in a small boat not far
below the Falls, and entered on most
exciting and perilous exploration OF
the canon. The old guide, long in
charge of the miniature ferry situated
here, accompanied the party. With
great difficulty we approached within
a short distance of the American Falls,
which darted great jets of water on us,
and far out into the stream. The roar
was so terrible that no voice OF human
sound, however near we were to one
another could be heard The leads.
man cast the line, which passed rapid
ly down and told off eighty-three feet.
This was quite near the shore. Pass
ing out OF the friendly eddy which had
assisted us so near the Falls, we shot
rapidly down stream. The next cast
of the lead told off one hundred feet,
to one hundred and ninety
two feet at the inclined railway. The
average depth of tho Swift Drift,
where the river suddenly becomes mar.
row, with velocity too great to be
was one hundred and fifty
three feet. Just under the lower bridge
the WHIRLPOOL ranidsseivn,apd.Se.Et9
rise like ocean waves to the height of
twenty feet. At this point your cor
at the time of the survey,
the depth at two hundred
and ten feet, which was accepted as
approximately correct.
Year: 1879

The dearly beloved wife Of a French
man recently deserted him for another
man. Did he follow her and falling on
his knees, b-seech her for their chill
dren's sake to return? Did he take
down the old double-barrel, shoot his
wife and her lover aud then knock
himself on the head with the stocky
Did ho set himself up for misanthrope
or a woman-hater, or institute suit
against somebody for ever so many ci-
piers danages' Not much. He mere
iy caused it to be published that he
had drawn $50. in lottery, and his
wife was back next morning before
brea kfast.
Year: 1879

a gentleman once said to his pastor,
"HOw can l best train up my boy in the
way he should gO?" by going that
way yourself" wisely replied the minis
ter. This reminds us of story told by
DR.. Thompson. He had climbed nearly
to the top of a steep mountain, lifting
his feet carefully over the projecting
rocks, when family from below he heard
a silvery voice call out, Take the safe
path, father; I'm coming after you" His
heart stood still as he realized the dan
ger of his precious boy. If fathers only
remembered that the boys are indeed
coming after them, how differently they
would walk. If they smoke or drink
they must expect it in the boys. If they
get angry they will see the same thing
i'll their children. God gives lives into
your keeping, to be returned at last, fit
ted for an endless future. Knowing well
our fearful responsibility, we yet care
lessly set poor examples for our dear
ones to copy, and not only endanger our
own souls but theirs.
Year: 1879

A LATE number of the British Medi-
cal Journal relates a curious case. A
lady was litenening at the telephone toE
an expected message during storm. A
loud clap of thunder took place. and the
effect on the listening ear was complete
numhness and deafness, accompanied by
a sensation of giddiness and nausea and
ringing in the ears. The effect, except
the deafness, passed off in a few mo-
ments. The hearing was not restored
until after the lapse of couple of weeks.
The publication of this incident may be
of service, in view of the large and in
creasing use of the telephone, and physi-
clans who make the hearing apparatus
their speciality may find it well to turn
their attention TO the uses and effects OF
the instr ument.
Year: 1879

THE New York Tribune publishes
elaborate correspondence from Maine in
regard to the canvass in that State, and
sums it up 10y predicting the election of
the Republican candidate by from five to
six thousand majority. 1t bases its
prophesies on the fact that many of the
Republicans who last year voted with
the Greenbackers, are now returning to
the fold on account of the fusion of the
Democracy and Greenback party. While
they were willing to help on the green
back cause they are not disposed to be
made cats paw to rake out Democrat
ic chestnuts. There has been and is
now red-hOt campaign going on in
Maine, and all parties are using their
best efforts for success. One or the other
of the parties will hear something drop
when the election takes place, but the
Tribune is not of the opinion that the
Republicans will come out with shatter-
ell ScalDS
Year: 1879

In our endeavors to preserve health
it is of the utmost Importance that we
keep the secretory system in perfect
condition. The well-known remedy
Kidney-Wort, has specific action upon
the kidneys, liver and bowels. Use it
instead of dosing with vile bitters or
drastic pills. 1t is purely vegetable, and
is prompt but mild in action.
Year: 1879

DAVID YEAKLE, Democratic candi-
deate for Treasurer in Butler County,
has been declared off the ticket ON ac-
count of the discovery of a deficit of
$4,000 in his accounts during a former
connection with the office of County
Treasurer. He acknowledged the deficit,
and made it up by deciding over the
amount in property.
Year: 1879

not suspend or curtail a liberal con-
tribution to the public school.


The sentiment which inspires
this action is the best proof that
could hc offered Of the ultimate
prosperity Of the naturally rich
section in question, The sentiment
that yields n hearty support under
adverse circumstances to common
schools is sure to have intelligence
and enterprise and thrift for its
companions. Mud then in turh
the we'll supported, we'll pmtouiacd
common school is sure to pcrpctu-
ate those qualities


These arc important eonSidca-
tons tor the thousands IN the east
who will this spring choose their
future homes somewhere in the
west,
Year: 1879

4 Baltimore florist sends the
Boston Journal Of Chemistry the
following formula for liquid ma
nure for flowers. The materials
may be had at any blacksmith shop :
Put one bushel of the clippings
from horses hoofs into barrel, and
ill IL up with water. Let it stand
for a week, when it is ready for use.
Apply it with a watering pot. All
bedding plants can be watercd with
this liql lid every day il they are not
pot-bouud. Repetted plants should
be watered once a week until they
have plenty Of working roots TO
take up the manure. 1t will also
be found excellent for hard-woo
ed if used once or twice week.
Two or three weeks after the
plants have been watered with the
manure the foliage generally chang
es from a green TO a golden yellow,
moving from the stem down TO the
leaf, which, however, lasts only for
a few weeks when ii changes TO
dark glossy green. Plants under
this watering grow very strong;
the flowers are very large and
bright in color. Plants thus treat.
cd can be kept in very small pots
for long time without being tAdss-
planted. This is especially advan-
tageous TO the market gardner, who
can sell his plants in three or four
inch pots, while he would have to
shift them into five and six if he
used rich soil alone. Flowers wa
tered with this liquid manure will
bring twenty-five per cent. more
than otherwise besides being in
small pots, they are lighter, can be
packed closer and are easier to be
handled.
Year: 1879

If your coal fire is low, throw on
a tablespoonful of salt, and it will
help it very much.


A little ginger put into sausage
meat improves the flavor.


In icing cakes, dip the kGife fire.
quently into cold water.


In boiling meat for soup, use cold
water 10 extract the juices. II the
meat is wanted for itself alone,
plunge in boiling water at once.


You can get bottle or barrel of
oil off any carpet or woolen stuff by
applying buckwheat plentifully and
faithfully. Never put water TO such
a grease spot, or liquid of any kind.


Broil steak without sailing. Salt
draws the juices in cooking; it is
desirable 10 keep these in if possi-
bic. Cook over hot fire, turning
frequently, soaring on both sides.
Place on platter; salt and pepper
TO taste.


Beef having q tendency to be
tough can be made very palatable
by stewing gently for two hours,
with pepper and salt, taking ont
about a pint of the liquor when half
done, and letting the rest boil into
the meat. Brown the meat in the
pot. After taking up, make gra-
w of the pint of liquor saved.


a small piece of charcoal in the
pot with boiling cabbage removes
the smell.


Clean oil cloth with milk and wa
ter; a brush or soap will ruin them.


Tumblers that have had milk in
them should never be put in hot
water.


A spoonful of stewed tomatoes in
the gravy Of either roasted or fried
meat is an improvement.


The skin ola boiled egg is the
most eflicaciOus remedy that can be
applied TO boil.


Peel it carefully, wet and apply il
TO the part affected. 1t will draw
Off the matter and relieve the sore
ness i'm few hours.
Year: 1879

The reason poultry killed at home
though young, is not as tender as
that bought at the market, is that
the former is generally not killed
until wanted, and, when eaten, still
rigid in death, while that bought at
the poulterer's has been killed at
least hours-more often days. Poul-
try ought to be killed several days
before being eaten, dressed at once,
and with a few bits OF charcoal in it.
hung ia a cool place. If poultry arc
kept from food and drink at least
twelve hours before killing, the crop
and intestines will be emptied and
any superfuity of secretions ex-
hausied. The flesh will be juicy and
the fat firm. Ii left three days
without food or drink, though in
good condition previously, the flesh
will be dry and tasteless and the fat
soft: the gas from the crop and in
testines viii faint the flesh, even
though retained but short lime
Fancieris Journal.
Year: 1879

English women are the wisest and
most sensible of their sex i'm the
matter of dress. They have distinc-
tive costumes for different
occasions, and for out-of-door adopt
the plainest and most durable arti-
cles. They have secured something
like indestructibiliiy in the hats
they wear for travelling. They are
made of serge, without any wire or
net lining, the shape being given by
running an elastic around the crown
and thick piping cords in the stirr-
ing of the brim. A hat made in
this fashion can not be made to
lock any worse by any fury of the
wind or weather than it does when
new.-ETchdnge.
Year: 1879

a good soil rarely fails, even in a
poor season, of returning a paying
income for the labor expended upon
it in the cultivation of any crop
adapted TO it. The idea that the
number of acres in crops indicates
the farmers income must be aban-
dOned, and the number of bushels
per acre must be looked for instead.
There is certainly less profit in plow-
ing fifty acres, TO raise one thousand
bushels of grain, than in blowing but
twenty-five to grow the same amount
and trusting TO good seasons for fair
crops will not be thought of by the
improved farmer. A rich well culti-
waited soil will usually make fair re-
turns in what we call bad or unfa-
vorable seasons. What the farmer
on poor soil would call a good
season seldom comes.
Year: 1879

1t is indubitable that the girls
idea of marriage has of late years
greatly changed, and the change has
been produced in part by what she
sees, and in part by what she reads.
We entertain no doubt that the fe-
male novelists who have followed in
the wake of the late George Laur-
ence have materially modified the
ideal of suitable lover as entertained
by many of their sex. "Onida,"
Miss Broughton, Miss Annie Thorn
as, and others have accustomed them
to ferocious lovers. Everybody
knows the sort of hero, half-A jax,
half.Paris, of their monotonous
pages. Grown-up people may smile
at such absurdities, but girls are very
impressionable, and when once they
have adopted such an ideal, it is not
easy to expel it from their minds.


The person hardly exists in real
life; the nearest approach to it being
any or every unprincipled man who
is prepared to make "fierce love" to
any fool he meets. Obviously this
is not a condition of things favorable
to marriage; for while it makes girls
more prompt, indeed eager to fiirt,
it indisposes them to appreciate at
tentions of more delicate but more
practical kind. So much for the
change produced in the ideals of
women by what they see. While
silly novels tell them that lover, to
be worth anything, must rail against
heaven and bite the grass with his
teeth, the whole arrangements of
society keep daily telling them that
husband is no good at all unless he
has a great deal of money.


During the last twenty years the
practice of luxurious self-indulgence
has crept on apace. Splendor and
spending are still the order of the
day, and households vie with each
other in the race of ostentation. Ex-
travagance, not economy, is the
standard of domestic happiness at
present in fashion. 1t is not a girls
ideal, when she marries, that she
should stay at home; but, on the
contrary, that she should leave it
perpetually. In word, if you get
at the heart of great many girls,
you discover that their ideal Of life
is that it should be one continual
"spree."
Year: 1879

h0 WEEK in your own town,
Xhh and no capital risked. You
UOO can give the business trial


without expense. The best
opportunity ever offered for those will
ing to work. You should try nothing
else until you see for yourself what you
can do at the business we offer. Ne room
to explain here. You can devote all
your time or only your spare time to the
business, and make great pay for every
hour that you work. Women make As
much as men. Send for special private
terms and particulars, which we mail
free. s. Outfit free. Don't complain Of
hard times while you have such a
chance. Address III. HALLETT Il CO.,
Portland, Maine. 4Sl-y
Year: 1879

If the newspapers Of this country coult
have the disposition OF Bishop Haven We
think they would at least depose him
from the high office which he holds in
his church, on account Of the absurd man
ner in which he carries on when he
touches politics, which, by the way, is
quite often. He not only goes in for Grant
for third term, but he goes in for making
him an anointed ruler. For instance, in
his Fourth Of July speech he said:


THE church officials must anoint The
ruler or the people will not allow him tc
rule. lie must receive the sacrament be
fore he can be crowned. The preacher
not the Judge, makes him ruler, They
are servants OF the church, and thus only
can they reign. How different our inaug
urUon, where only the head OF the court
administers the oath, and never clergy
lnauis called TO consecrate the chief"


TIE next move Of Haven will probably
be III tie direction Of the dogma Of infalli
bility, which teaches that all civil powe
should be subordinate to ecclesiastical au
phority.
Year: 1879

SOME cf our Jewish brethren seem dis.
posed to agttate the question Of Sunday
observance instead Of Saturday in their
general convention at New York. The
time has not come for such movement to
meet with general favor among them, but
iii one OF the things that will assume
great Importance hereafter. This is an
age Of radical change and innovation, and
the complete uniiication Of the Jews and
'ieutiles is altogether probable at some
distant day.
Year: 1879

Hon JoHX H. ATKINSON, Of Hancock
County, was in town yesterday. He says
that crops up that way, with the excep-
ton Of potatoes, are turning out tOlerably
we'll. The potatoes up there do not look
as well as the crop down this way. A
small insect in the shape Of a plant louse
is doing good deal Of harm.
Year: 1879

The Secretary Treasuary decided that
the act exempting quinine from duty
which took effect July lst, did not effect
the importation made before that date.
NATIONAL BANK DIVIDENDS FOR CREDITORS.


The Comptroller OF the Currency has
declared dividend OF 10 per cent in
favor Of the creditors Of the First National
Bank Of franklin, Indiana, making in all
dividend Of Us per cent; also dividend
OF 10 per cent in favor Of the creditors Of
the First National Bank OF Winchester,
Illinois, making in all dividend of 90
per cent.
Year: 1879

Rule for ventilating Bedrooms.


A simple device is within the reach
of every one having an ordinary win
dow in his room, by which fresh outer
air can be admitted ina small quantity
with such an upward current as will
prevent its being felt as an injurious
draft by the inmates. 1t is particu-
larly adapted to sleeping rooms when
the weather is too cold to admit Of an
open window. Thus, start both top
and bottom sashes. of the window half
an inch, which is not quite enough to
clear the rebatee or stop beads at top
or bottom, but which leaves an open
ing OF an inch between the meeting
rails, through which current enters,
but diverted upward by the glass as 1t
should be, SO as rot to fall directly to
the floor. as its GOODNESS might other
wise induce it to do. 1t thus becomes
well mixed with the air Of the room
without being felt as draft.
Year: 1879

New York, Sept. 27.-The Times
says, satirically, it is idle to oppose
Grants nomination as the next repub-
lican standard bearer, solely on the
ground that he has deserved well OF
the people, and is an honest and trust
worthy man. Powerful as this argu-
ment is, it is not absolutely conclusive.
That Grant saved the union, that his
honesty and patriotism are unquestion-
ed, and that he can be trusted to pre-
serve the government which be saved
may not be universally accepted as
forming constitutional disqualified
tion for the presidency.


Intelligent opposition to his nomina-
tion should be based upon the damning
fact that he has mind of his own, and
cannot be made to recognize the prece-
dence that policy should have over
principle. -i
Year: 1879

A PORTLAND correspondent of the Bos-
ton Traveller says the first intimation he
had that any counting-out was to be resort
ed to was given him by the chairman of the
Democratic State committee who on being
rallied upon TIE result the morning after
election, said ''you must remember that zee
have the returning board" An explanation
from Mr.. Dana is in order. The cores
pondent also says the next intimation came
from a prominent Democratic politician
''who was a candidate lastyear for council
lor from this district. About four weeks ago
when the Democratic leaders met here in
consultation, that gentleman disclosed the
plot to his friends, with the remark that he
was glad that he was not on the council
this year as they were going to count out
the Republicans SO as to give Democratic
majority in both brar ches of the legislature.
l have referred to these facts to show, in
case it comes to naugl.t, the authority OF the
Democrats themselves that such conspi
racy was contemplated"
Year: 1879

Boston ADVERTISER: The reputed orig
inator of the scheme for counting out the
Maine Legislaturel and the man whose in
fluence at the State House gives to the plot
almost all the Importance which it has, is
the State printer who obtained the job last
winter because he was Democrat, although
his bid was the highest submitted.
Year: 1879

New YORK Tribune: The people of
Maine know their own affairs best, and
there seems to be a clear expectation in that
State that this preposterous and infamous
fraud viii be attempted. To outsiders it
seems scarcely credible. But, if the Demo-
cratic party deliberately adds to its many
burdens the weight of crime like this, at
the very outset of the Presidential cam
paign, it must expect to be crushed to the
earth by the condemnation of the people.
Year: 1879

SPRINGFIELD Republican: 1t would be
a curious satire on Democratic principles,
if the Governor and Council of the State
of Maine should seek to override the popular
will by seating senators who did not "appear
to be elecIed''
Year: 1879

KEEP cool There is more of blusSer
than anything else in the wild talk of the
conspirators. When the aid of the Governor
and Council is given to the nefarious scheme
it will be time enough to assert the majesty
of fhp lar
Year: 1879

Elmira Gazette; On a certain American
railroad a young man put his head out of the
car window to kiss his girl good-by, when the
train went ahead so rapidly that he kissed an
aged African female at the next station. This
is supposed to be the fastest time ever made on
q railway train.
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable not necessarily for publica-
ton but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
mun1oatlons tnat are not used.
Year: 1879

with the world. They can take care of them
selves without levying tribute on every man,
woman and child in ths country. We can
not complain of Manitoba for following our
example. On the contrary, if we were right,
she ought to be commended for accepting
our gospel. If the contemplated discrimina-
ton against our exporting wheat to Ger
many, France and other countries is carried
out, Minnesota will have additional reason
for rising up and calling the protective tariff
anything but blessed.


The question of free trade is kept in the
back ground in our politics at present, but it
is live issue. Political parties indulge in
a tariff or anti-tarif plank and there the
matter drops, neither side attempting to give
the resolutions practical effect. It is beyond
all question that very large majority of the
people are in favor of absolute free trade OF
such modified tariff only as is absolutely
essential to proper revenue. It is time
that we set an example, not only to our
Dominion neighbors, but to the world at
large. It is time that We refused to tax the
posr man in order to protect the wealthy
and build up arrogant monopolies. 1t will
not be long before free trade will be the
leading shibboleth of the Democratic party.
1t is the paramount question of interest to
day, if the people only understood ths
gigantic robbery which is perpetrated under
the disguise of the tariff.