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Year: 1877

Ii Is matter OF surprise that our an
cestors should have been satisfied with
the old d-fashioned well and pump for SC
many years when other modes are SO easy
Of application. \ running stream in the
kitchen OF near the door is a convenience
which can only be appreciated by those
who have tried it. In many eases where
the formation Of the surface will permit
II this may be obtained by well and
Syphon OF half inch lead pipe. This plan
mas been m operation on the farm we oc-
cupN Tor thirty years, and has never failed
To furnish constant supply OF pure water
ior house purposes. 1t is available when
ever the surface Of the water in the well
is above the desired point of outlet.
v here stream Of running water passes
near the buildings it may be utilized and
made to drive the patent telegraph
pump (Which, by the way, is not entitled
10 the protection of patent), and a con-
stant half inch stream from the we'll made
certain.


Where neither OF these plans are pos
Slble the next best is probably the we'll
known hydraulic ram, which secures the
same result, but in more expensive and
less reliable way. The principle OF the
hydraulic ram is SO we'll described by the
Germantown Telegraph that we quote
ihc following in answer to correspondents
who have asked tOr information


~. You must know in the first place
whether about one-eghth of your spring,
in Il steady flow. will be sufficient for
lour purpose: for that, or perhaps a little
more, lS the proportion a ram will supply


:. The fall which YOU give the ram,
say from tive To eight feet, or as much
more as is attainable, multiplied 10y five,
viii give You the height to which the
water can be elevated: that is to say. if
the fall is only five feet the elevation will
oe twenty five feet if eight feet the ele-
Natlon Will be forty feet, and so on.


3. AS to the permancncy of a ram.
there Is nothing to wear oltt about it cN-
cept the little valves, and they should be
renewed every year on two, or whenever
needed, having always an extra pair on
Band ready to take their places.


/. our inquirer says he has been told
'Iat a ram viii sometimes stop without
apparent cause. This. we fancy, they
seldom do without the cause being very
plain a little gravel washed between the
valves. If it should stop from any other
cause not apparant start it again, and by
that means the cause may be found out.


>. The expense. We cannot fix this.
Il Will depend upon the size Of the ram.
the SIZE and length Of the pipe, and other
appliances, depending upon what may he
desired III the way Of tiNings about the
Aousc, etc. But whatever may be the
expense To which Il person may choose to
- IN moderate way, to secure con
Stant supply of good spring water at his
house, etc, he viii find it to be SO great a
comfort and convenience as never to think
ot that, as well as to wonder that thcy
should all have SO long been deprived of
the blessing
Year: 1877

The CultiVator is responsible for the
following description of Il curiosity in the
grating line, which shows what may be
done by a careful pomologist I've can
graft the apricot on the plum, and the
peach on the apricot and the almond on
the peach, thus producing Il tree with
plum roots and almond leaves The wood
OF the stem will consist of four distinct
varieties, though formed from one con-
tinuous layer. Below the almond wood
and bark we shall have perfect peach wood
and bark, then perfect apricot wood and
bark, and 1T the bottom perfect plum
wood and bark. In this curious instance
We see the intimate correspondence be
tween the bark and the leaf. for if We
should remove the almond branches, we
might cause the several sorts of wood to
develop buds and leaty twigs each of its
own kind. Each section of the compound
stem has its seat of life in the cambium
layer, and the cambium Of each repro
duces cells OF its own species out Of a
common nutrient fluid
Year: 1877

When that cultivated and intellectual
middle aged person, Miss Mary Ann
MaXon, of Cambridge, Mass, had the
collar of her offensive little poodle inscrib-
ed ''Fm Mary Ann MaXon's dog whose
dog are you ?" she thought it was a rath-
cr clever joke on the casual citizen who
might encounter the pup and investigate
his reason of being. She was of that
mind for several days. But one morning
the poodle, bowling rs though he was
carrying all the parts of Sirius in the
chorus OF the morning stars, and sudden
ly, as if fired out of gun, shot into the
MaXon presence, with his tail tucked
very close and Il business card tied on to
his collar. Divining that some one had
set this poodle up in the carrier dove
business, Miss MaXon seized the missivc
and read: ''Turpentine is what ails me ;
what ails you !" New York Tribune.
Year: 1877

ADVICE OF AN OLD LADY. "Now,
John, listen to me, for am older than
you, or couldn't be your mother New
er do you marry a young woman, John,
before you have contrived to happen at
the house where she lives at least four or


five times before breakfast. You should
know how late she lies in bed in the
morning. You should take notes wheth-
er her complexion is the same in the
morning as it is in the evening, or wheth-
er the wash and towel have robbed her OF
her evening bloom. You should take
care to surprise her, 50 that you can see
her IN her morning dress, and observe
how her hair looks when she is not eX-
pecting you. If possible, You should be
where YOU can hear the morning CONVEX
sation between her and her mother. II
she is ill-natured and snappish to hel
mother so she will be to You, depend up
on it. But if you find her up and dress
ed neatly in the morning, with the same
countenance, the same smiles, the same
neatly-combed hair the same ready and
pleasant answers to her mother which
characterized her department in the even
ing, and particularly if she is lending a
hand to get the breakfast ready in good


season, she is prize, John. and the soon
er you secure her to yourself the better
Year: 1877

SUCCOTASH. For succotash, lima beans
are best. The agricultural stand second
on the list, but any good variety Of bush
beans which come earlier than these
makes an article that is by no means in
ferior. Shell the green beans and boil
them slowly in plenty of water for one or
two hours, being careful to keep them
covered with water while boiling Cut
well-grown corn and place it in a pan to
steam over the beans add little water
to the corn, and stir it occasionally
Steam from twenty to thirty minutes !;
then add the corn to the beans, and sim
mer for half an hour. Stir often, and
watch carefully that it does not burn
Season to suit the taste.
Year: 1877

When man jumps out of bed in the
dark at midnight, to fling boot at an
Electoral Commission Of cats in the back
yard, and places his foot on an eight
cornered piece of coal, his wife wants to
stick her finger tightly in her ears if she


would escape hearing several pages of
prOfane history in hess than two minutes.
Year: 1877

Judcious advertising is not merely one
| of the results Of an improving business,


but, as is now almost universally con
cedcd, it is one of the most potent of those
agencies that promote an Improvement in


trade. If these premises arc correct-and
we think they ale-the late spring and


early summer transactions give the pub
lie much reason to feel encouraged and
hopeful. Business men are advertising


more and more effectively, for they are
relying largely upon the good, steady CO.
operation of the leading newspapers, and


less upon those ttful and undesirable
methods which in the experimental sea-
son Of greatest depression took advertising
out of those channels where it does the


most good, The public feels rather dis
gusted than attracted by the sight of glar-
ING signs upon rocks and fences, and con
ccrning the circular nuisance We have al


ready expressed an explicit opinion Alta
recent meeting of the stove manufacturers
Of the country at Detroit, the president


of the convention gave the members the
following good advice "If we would
make the best possible use of our money,


we should patroniZe ably conducted and


responsible newspapers. The newspaper
is immeasurably the best medium open


to our trade; the most liberal and expert
advertisers testify to its value, and in the
employment of its columns we would find


Il means of escape from Wasteful, undign-
fled and ineffective methods to which SO
many resort in their eagcrness to secure
attention and patronage" These words


do not apply to the stove dealers alone,
but to all classes of persons who are trans
acting legitimate business. Even the


farmers who think themselves outside Of
regular advertisers, would find it to their


advantage to use more printers INK,


which is Il very effective oil for the wheels


Of commerce. Boston Post.


The ''sea serpent" which has caused


50 much excitement in SWampscott and


Nahant during the past week, was cap
tured Saturday afternoon by Captain


Scaly of the schooner "Lady Of the Lake"
of Beverly, The capture was an exciting


one, the boat being towed many miles by


the monster before it was killed. 1t was
then towed ashore and landed in the cove
in front of the Lincoln House and viewed


by about 20OO people. Instead of the


sea serpent, the creature proved to be a


very large horse mackerel, weighing be
tween 1900 and 1900 pounds.
Year: 1877

Our friends in Northern Dakota will
doubtless be surprised, and perhaps an
gered, when they read the statements
contained in short item published else
where in this paper; but they must re-
member that we cannot do otherwise
than accept the statements of the editor
of the Bismarck TR1BUE, as representing
the sentiment of their section of the
country, and we have about concluded
that to eight the devil with fire" is the
only thing proper tor us to do in this
matter.-Dak0ta Herald


Go bathe your head my boy. We copy
your remarks elsewhere but doubt if any
body in Northern Dakota will suffer
much mental anguish because of your
course.
Year: 1877

From the Denver (COl.) Ilme5J


A gentleman from Monotony tells rather
| interesting story about pair of swapping


turtles. He is an old plalnsman, and few


days ago took his shotgun and went over to
Eagle Tail for the purpose of getting few


ducks. Arrived at the creek he found no


ducks, but saw two of those great fresh-water


turtles, met with more frequently in Eastern


ponds than in Colorado, and apparently


weighing about forty pounds each. They are


very shy bird, their head popping into the
good shot the hunter succeeded in binding


both of them. and bothering them so that
they were easily caught and dragged out


Snsppers are very active, and unlike a sea
turtle, being provided with long and strong
legs, can turn themselves after being placed
upon their backs. Their captor had no way
of securing them, and would get only q few
steps away in the search for piece of wood
out of which to make stakes, when his cap
tives would be going at turtle 2.4O gait
tow ard the creek The contest between in
stinct and reason was kept up more than an
hour and half, much to the disadvantage
of reason, at the end of which time ranch
man living near by came along and assisted
the hunter in taking the turtles to his home.
Here they were put in sheep pen having q
fence about three feet high, and the men went
to the house. Quarter of an hour afterwards
the hunter wet to the pen for his gun and
found that the turtles were gone. As there
were no holes in the fence, and as they had
not dug out, the conclusion was irresistible
that they had climbed over. Their trail was
found, and about half mile away they were
caught making bee line for the creek.
Firing off his gun, the ranchman again came
to his assistance, and the turtles were again
put in the pen, and tied to stake They
were worth watching, however, and few
minutes afterward it was found that they
had gnawed off the rope, and again started
for the creek. They were only few rods
away this time, however, and were then tied
so short that they could not reach the cord,
and ultimately arrived at their captor's kitchen
at Monot0ny.
Year: 1877

PiNcnuAcE in "a letter to a friend in
indianapolis Ia explanation of his re-
cent action. says; Knowing that the
presen, pretended Packard government
Is a monsirous iniqHity, and its success
would entail still further debauchery
and demoralization upon the race,
resolved to destroy it If possible.
have not abandoned the national Re
publican party but if to denounee the
thieves in Louisiana, who are fast de
s'roying the manhood and integrity of
my people, renders me ineligible To
membership in II, shall have TO seek
shelter elsewhere and continue my
struggle for Justice and equality for the
rac.e"
Year: 1877

GEORGIA and Texas are sble to take
clry Ut themselves Their bonds are
above par ia the markets Of the world
and this happy condition is attributable
Co au eafly overthrow OF carpet bag rule
The men that now hold untold millions
OF comparatively worthless Southern Sc
rIriJies doubtless wish that every re
constructed State had been allowed 10
revert To the Democracy
Year: 1877

needles that were on the ground in the


hen house; but they did not stop her from


pecking that hand he was taking hold Of


her legs with. Then he put his straw hat
on her head, so that she had to knock her


head on the inside of it, and then they


both took hold of her legs and pulled her
off. This is very funny story. They
could not get out They let her go back
again. The button on the door Of the
hen-house turns itself around, and they


had to stay shut up in there almost two
hours. They hollered just as loud as
they could, and then they cried, and then
they pounded, and then they kicked the
door, and then they did all these same
things ever again. When Hiram put the
COW IN the barn, he heard them pounding,
and heard Snip barking. Snip was lying
down outside, and sometimes he got up
and barked. One day, the Jimmyjohns
went off in boat, and it was bad weather,
and they almost got drowned. This Al
most makes me cry-for then we could
never, never see our little Jimmies any


morel Obi what should we do without
our dear little Jimmies !-Ab6y Norton
Diaz, in Ct. Nicholas for June.
Year: 1877

WAsHISGToH, February H. There
WAS no unusual excitement concerning
the counting of the electoral vote and
but few members of Congress were seen
At the hotels, though many other per-
sons were engaged in discussing the
political situation. Prominent Demo-
Gratis repeat the assurance thst-they did
not intend necessarily TO postpone action
in the Florida case and that the question
as TO whether the vote shall be count
Ell will be taken up tomorrow.
The Democrats depended on the
counting OF this vote for their candidates,
but the G.cision OF the Commission being
otherwise, some Of them express the hope
that what they lost in Florida may BE-
retrieved by rejecting the vote Of Louis.
lana. The Republicans arc in better
spirits than the Democrats in view OF
the final result.


Frederick Douglass has resigned as Il
member of the Police Board. President
Grant requested bis resignation IN order
that he might comply with the law re-
suiring the appointment of one member
OF the Board from Georgetown.


The House Committee which investi.
gated the South Carolina elections, will
IN axe their report during the present
week. On all points not ye, definitely
acted upon, it is thought, hey will agree
that Hayes and Wheeler carried the
State by 700 or 800 majority.
Year: 1877

there had rever been single instance OF
recess being taken or proposed under
such circumstance.


Messrs. Jones, Sayler and Others also
participated IN the discussion.


Speaker Randall maintained that the
clause in the 9th section of the electoral
act, which says that while the two houses
shall be in joint session, 70 debate shall
be allowed, etc., had no pertinency to
the question. Portions Of the act which
had pertinency to the recess were: First,
a part of the 4th section, which provides
that if there be objection to the report of
the Commission each Senator and Repre-
sentative may speak 10 minutes, and that
after such debate shall have lasted two
hours 1t shall be the duty Of each house
to put the main question without further
debate. He thought that urder that
directory clause recess could not be taken
at any other time than now. II debate
had been entered on motion TO take q
recess would not be in order. The other
portion of the bill bearing on the subject
was that part of the fifth section which
reads, "And no recess sha / be taken un-
less the question shall have arisen in
reference TO the counting of such
votes or otherwise under this
act. In which case it shall
be competent for either house, act
ing separately in the manner herein
before provided, to direct recess ofsuch
house not beyond the next day, Sundays
excepted, at l0''o'clock in the forenoon"
1t was tact, continued the Chair, that
this was the first time when the question
has arisen. ana it having new arisen for
the first time the Chair thinks 1t Is COM
petent for the House TO take recess till
Monday at 10 A. NJ. if its judgment so
directs.


Mr.. Hale-Then. the Chair oyerrules
the point Of order2


The Speaker-The Chair overrules the
point OF order.


Mr.. Hale = respectfully appeal from
the decision.


Mr. Cox-I move to lay the appeal on
the table.


The motion was carried by a vote of
l56 to 76.


The question was then taken on the
motion ior recess till Monday st 10
o'clock, and il WAS carried by vote OF
lG3 TO l0S.


During the vote message WAS received
from the Senate stating that 1t had over
ruled the objection TO the decision of the
Commission, and was ready to meet the
House in joint convention.


The Speaker animated that ne would
have the Senate informed that the House
would like recess.
Year: 1877

SALT LAKE CRY, February l0-The
exception taken TO the rulings and sen
tence of J. ID. Lee, the Mountain Meadow
murderer, were overruled by the Su-
preme Court OF the Territory TO day. and
the Second District Court ordered TO fI
another day for his execution. l; IS
probable that IN appeal will be taken 10
the United States Supreme Court
Year: 1877

THE grain and provision dealers and
spectators on this side Of the water
would probably give good deal, just
now, to know precisely how the Eastern
imbroglio is going to turn out, The New
York correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger says the result of the prevailing
uncertainty is to arrest pretty much al
operations of a purely speculative char
acter. The bulls are circulating re-
ports about heavy contracts in certain
kinds of merchandise Tor which Con-
tinental war would undoubtedly create
q sharp demand, but, in the absence OF
tangible facts to support them, the pre-
sumption is that they are tor the most
part, if not altogether Inventions, for the
purpose of influencing the market in
tt cir favor.
Year: 1877

Editors of the Register:


1t is good rule to not use word of
which we do not know the mean
ing. A departure therefrom is apt to
make one appear ridiculous, which fact
WAS forcibly illustrated last Mardi Gras
day By the outrageous uses tc which the
Lstin word rea was put. There were
several banners that might be criticised
in this connection. but the most palpable
were "Long live King Rex" and "Rex
King" and now comes the Sunday Leader
aud bids US Make way .or King Rex"
This is certainly enough to make Rome
howl. Tomorrow, for the credit OF the
CITY, let have a right use of the word.


CHAUCER.
Year: 1877

WHEN it is remembered that BRAD
LEY owed bis appointment to place on
the Supreme Bench by announcing In
siysnce what his decision would be on
the Legal Tender Act, we need not be
surprised at his partizsn action on the
Commits sion
Year: 1877

1t is often urged that the injudicious
course of the friends of temperance
does not 10 away with any of its evils,
that the prohibitory liquor law and
other means used by the friends of the
cause actually increases the use of alco-
holic drinks, and there is more used,
and there is more drunkenness than
there was fifty years since. No greater
fallacy exists than this. Fifty years
ago every family kept it, and used it as
a beverage, and whole communities
were addicted to intemperance, instead
of few cases here and there that now
exist, making very small proportion
of any community that are the victims
of intemperance.


At meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture at Peacham, the past Win
ter, Mr.. Henry Blake, of Hardwick,
read paper upon "Fifty years of farm
life in Vermont, and its lessons" in
which he gave some facts touching upon
this question. He stated that one whole
town in that vicinity had at one time
become community of bankrupt
drunkards, and finally organized Il tenn
perance society among themselves, be-
fore the movement had become general
in the state.


lie also stated that many of the farms
in Caledonia county were paid for in
whisky, and that at ono time thirty dis
tilleries were running in the vicinity of
Peacham, blackening the air with their
smoke, spreading a blacker blight upon
the inhabitants about their location, and
impoverishing the soil by the demands
made upon it to stock them with grain
to manufacture their blight-dealing pro-
duct. The sins of our forefathers in
this way are still visited upon the third
and fourth generation. Among the
most potent causes of the present thrift
and prosperity of the farmers of Peach
am and vicinity, was the revolution in
the sentiments of their communities ON
this temperance question, and the doing
away with the manufacture of whisky
in that part of the state, not one of the
thirty distilleries now remaining TO ma
nufacture their blight dealing product,
or impoverish the soil to stock them.


A moments reflection and comparison
of the facts existing fifty years ago
with those that are evident 10 every one
to-day, will convince any candid-minded
person that temperance has made giant
strides in that time, and that very little
alcoholic liquor is now drank in compari-
son with what was drank then. T. n.
Year: 1877

To regain or recover health, persons
should be relieved from all anxiety con-
cerning diseases. The mind has much
influence over the body. For person
to think he has a disease may produce
that disease. This we see effected when
the mind is intensely concentrated upon
the disease of another. Ii is found in the
hospitals, and physicians who make a
speciality of certain diseases are liable to
die of them themselves, and the mental
power is so great that sometimes people
die of a disease which they only have in
imagination. We have known person
to die from imagining that he had cam
Ger in the stomach when he had no can
Ger or any other mortal disease. Read
ing medical book containing descrip-
tions of certain diseases has often pro-
duced the symptoms, even among young
medical students, while they at last got
the disease unless ii was stopped by COM
mon sense treatment. Therefore, well
persons, to remain well, should he cheer
ful aud happy, and sick persons should
have their attention drawn as much as
possible from themselves, and directed
upon subjects cheerful TO contemplate.
Notwithstanding the mind is product
of the impressions upon the senses with
which the body is provided, and, there
fore, greatly under the influence of the
bodily conditions, ii has in its turn some
influence over the body and its sanitary
COM ton, and this to greater extent
than is generally recognized.
Year: 1877

''Mary, YOU are very naughty this
morning." said kind old lady to a lit
tie girl whom she had take under her
care, "but you must learn your lesson.
| will leave you for a short time, and
when come back hope to find you a
good girl" Mary was left in tears and
in very i'll humor, but on the old
lady's return the tears had given place
to smiles, and Mary, running up to her
aunt, exclaimed in great glee, ''Dear
aunt, love me! for Mary will never be
naughty again; Mary has burned that
nasty book which made her so naughty
this morning"