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Year: 1878

SOME newspaper writer intimHtes, in re-
ferring to the appointment OF the Marquis
of Lorne as Governor Gene al OF the Domin-
ion of the Canadas, that it must be great
comfort to the Marquis to be so situated so
that he can eat at the first table.
Year: 1878

THE Cleveland Herald says: at is with
newspapers as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that
brag the most about their business and
character generally are losing the one and
never had much of the other A journal
" that respects itself and its readers has no
81 need of perpctunlly blowing its own trum-
pet" The Post-ASDERsoN can paste this
In its hat
Year: 1878

Mr. CHARLES NJ. NYB will act as the cor
respondent of THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
Mt Washington Grove during the approach
ing camp meeting. The doings of each day
will appear the following morning Those
desiring THE REPUBLICAN at the camp
grounds can have it by leaving their orders
ut the counting-room. 1t will be furnished
for sale on the grounds daily.
Year: 1878

ing about their own rights and end by in
iringing upon the rights of Others. When
they begin u strike they stand upon the
ragged edge of riot. A remedy for all this
is to be found in pescen,l arbitration. 1t
has been tried over and over again with
success in this country and in Great Britain.
Perhaps some reiormer will one day per-
suade Congress to pass law upon this sub
jecti but it is more probable that the propo-
sition will come from some other quarter.
Reformers nowadays don't reform any
thing; they make matters worse.
Year: 1878

IT is fact that the majority of the more
intelligent Greenback leaders have been
great real estate spectators in times past,
and are now "land-poor.' 1t is also fact
that their opponents are of the class who
have spcculated in stock securities during
and since the war and are now bond
" rich" This classification of the leaders for
and against the ideas broached by the
Grconbackers or Nationals, or whatever
they may be called, does not extend to
their followers, among whom may he found
people Of every class in life and Of all kinds
of business and political antecedents 1t
will be interesting to note the changes that
will occur in the pcrsonnd of this motley
crew as business improves in the country
and commercial prosperity is asserted with
level equality.
Year: 1878

"A Now York Sun reporter had a
talk last week with Mr.. Edison about
the instrument st which he is working
by means of which he expects to ena-
bic deaf people to hear ordinary con-
versation, the words of actors in q
theater, etc. Il wanted said he, some
simple, convenient thing that deaf peo-
pie could use in theater, church or
anywhere. had an idea that 1 could
if could get just the right means for
catching the vibrations of air that pro-
duce sound, could carry them into a
little box or chest, that might rest in a
mans lap as he sat. From that chest
tnbes might run concealed in his
clothing to his ears. The point was to
find out just how to catch the sound
vibrations. You sec, sound is pro-
duced like light, by vibrations. Well,
what do you do when you want to get
light from distant object, or if your
eyesig hit is bad, to see clearly some
thing near? Why, you make just such
aids to the eye as will catch and carry
to the eye the vibrations of light.
When you have done this you see
clearly. Well. now it struck me that
you'd got to treat the ear in the same
way, when anyhody's deaf or wants to
hear something away Off. But the
telescope isn't good for much unless
the object-glass which catches and
focuses the light is just at the proper
angle. What we want for the ear,
then, on the same principle, is an in
strument, the line of whose angle is
exactly right. Then you are going to
get your sound vibrations, because
they will be caught aud focused. The
fact is, I'd got to get an ear telescope.
Then we made that one,' pointing to
the big funnel, sbut it wasn't right.
'Twouldn't work. Then we made the
other one.'


sYou see that barn over there i?


pointing to barn mile or SO distant.
well, held this tube to my ear, and


heard man talking over there per-
fectly, just as the telescope catches


the rays of light from a star and brings


them to focus, so by pointing this
tube directly at the spot that the sound
Year: 1878

Any person desiring information to the
standing and responsibility of the members OF
the firm will, on request, be furnished with
satisfactory reference in his vicinity or Con-
gressional district.
Year: 1878

Professor Blot used to say it Is a fact
bevond question that the intellectual
and moral faculties of man are influenced
in a large degree in their operations by
these physical conditions which are
dependent upon our food. Physiology
proves that it is the contraction of
muscles that produces wrinkles and a
person whose food is properly prepared
appears younger and more beautiful than
one that follows no scientific principles
in his eating. Good food, properly pre-
pared, viii keep his muscles in order
and elastic. Any one, male or female,
young or old, starting with good
stomach, can keep healthy and in COED
flesh with proper food it is only neces-
sary TO select the kind required by the
constitution, and prepare it judiciously.
It Is not what we eat that makes us fat,
but what we digest. Bad food may
bring temporary bloatedness, but nst
the plumpness of good health. He
agreed with the opinions expressed by
Thomas Jefferson, as well as by a cele>
brated New York clergyman, that good
things have been ms4e by the Creator
Tor good people.


Another thing in food--it ought always
to be prepared according to the age of
the person for whom it is intended, and
for the sex, as well as according to the
climate and season. In winter more
fatty matter is necessary TO be eaten than
at any other time OF the year. In spring,
green's, which purify the blood and
remove the bile occasioned by eating
fatty substances in the winter. In
winter we need more bile in the spring
we must get rid of it if we would be
healthy. When warm or hot weather
GENES. we must supply the wasted sys-
TEN by eating meat. Meat is better in
summer than anything else.-[ Southern
Farmer.
Year: 1878

There is a great diversity of opinion
as to what kind of food and the amount
to be given as best adapted to the wants
of working animals. J. Stanton Gould,
in investigating this subject, visited the
horse-rAilroad stables of New York and
Brooklyn, and found that they had all
settled down, each company for itself, as
The result of careful and repeated ex-
peliments, upon one uniform rule Tor
horse-railroad horses, and that was
twelve pounds Of hay and ten pounds of
Indian meal per day. In that way a
railroad horse was kept up to his highest
condition, and they were enabled te do
their work more satisfactorily than
under any other system that had been
tried. Oats had repeatedly been used as
an article of food, and their cost was
carefully compared with that OF Indian
meal. 1t was found at the time that
during hot weather the feeding of this
amount of meal would be Injurious but
tee result OF their experience was, that
Indian meal, on the whole, for a railroad
or omnibus horse, was the true thing.
But they have one very curious practice
which ought to be stated in connection
with this, as possibly bearing upon the
subject They invariably water all their
horses at l o'clock at night. They have
an idea that watering their horses at night
sdds greatly to their power of digzsting
food, aud prevents injurious conse-
quences
Year: 1878

Many OF the best farmers in the north
ern states sell their timothy hay in cities
and villages and feed clover to their own
stock, because it is found by experience
to be more nutritious and to produce the
best manure made on the farm Clover
cut early IS rich IN nitrogen and albumi-
noids, being nearly equal to wheat and s
little better than corn. Boussingault
makes the nitrogen 2.40: while the aY.
erage OF timothy is 150. If clover OF
timothy be allowed to ripen seed, the
nitrogen in hay Qeaf and stem, is greatly
reduced. This is why corn blades on
ripe grain are poor fodder.


Taking nitrogen as representative OF
nutriment in the best clover and timothy
hay, clover will stand twenty-four tc
timothy only fifteen. Hence it follow.
that two parts clover will represent
forty>eight in fesh-forIning material
while three parts of timothy viii repre-
sent forty-tive of the same natritive SUP
stances. The same remarSs spply to inc
solid and liquid excretihs OF horses
cattle and sheep that mg &c fed on clo-
yer or timothy hay.


Glover is equally rch in PhosphateS,
and requires a soil stong in the mineral
food of plants to produce a large crop


Salts of lime, potash and magnesia do
the needful for clover and timothy
The last named needs ammonia or nitric
acid as manure more than the iormer.
Wood ashes rarely fail to greatly
improve meadow and pasture which
contain both clover and such grasses
as timothy, redtop, orchard and rye
grass. a mixture of clover snd grass
makes the best hay. Meadow foxtail
deserves far greater attention than It
receives il this country. There are sew
eraI species OF fescuea and cat grass, hardy,
perennial and nutritious, whose value Is
little known. Hay production Is too
little studied by all farmers


1t is the backbone of manure and
growing fertility. Corn plants are worth
more tor hay than for grain st this time,
because their fersge benefits are gener-
ally neglected Some farmers who can
grow only two tons OF timothy hay on
an acre raise ten tons of corn fodder
equal to timothy pound for pound. In
rich Permeable soil corn is a grass
feeder snd rapid grower, sending its
roots far into the subsoil. In this respect
it resembles clover, lucerne and COW
peas. The peculiarities of all the plants
cultivated should receive attention tha,
all may be turned to the best account.
Year: 1878

Norman Lockyer says, in Good Wsrds;


..Tbe earth l. rot true globe because OF


+. former plastic condition before the


s,mation and cooling OF the surface.


wben the globe was soft, It was more OF


!, Welding, and then the rotation OF


he earth. TO which | have referred,


,srded to drive of, as it we've, the mat


Il in the equatorial regions so that the


distance through the center of the earth


5.tween the two surfaces as far as pos
sble removed from the poles of rotation,


r those parts of the earth which the


imaginary axis comes through, is rather


reater than the distance between the
two points where the axis comes to the
sprface. The reason of that fact, and
that it must have been SO, has been
established by several expert
ments. Tuat the earth was once hotter
than it is now is therefore proved, both
by the irregularities OF its surface and
by its shape as q whole. We must not
imagine, however, that there has been
but one change. The minor Irregular
ties are all gradually changing by inner
and the action OF air and water,
and it may be that even the largest ones
sre young compared with the age of the
planets surface. Nor does the change
end here; the equatorial protuberancs
itself may but after all mark point in
8 great cycle of change, which has com
PEELED the earth TO rotate now about one
axis and ROW about another. Mathema-
ticians consider it highly probsble that
the axis of the earth may have been in
ancient times very differently situated tc
what it is at present, and, indeed, that il
might have gradually shifted shrougf
ten, twenty, thirty, forty or more degrees
without at any time any perceptible sud
den disturbance Of either land or water


Thus it appears that nature prevents
cstastrophes by the very hugeness of the
scale on which she works.
Year: 1878

An orchsrdist who makes his trees bear
a moderate crop every year of larger and
finer fruit than when crowded, gives the
following directions for doing the work:
A light ladder is used to give ready ac-
cess to any part of the tree. The branch
is held in the left hand, while with sheep>
shears in the right, every bunch of apples
is cut of, leaving part of the stem Of
each fruit. This is done SIS soon as the
blossoms have fallen, and before the
young fruit has attained any size. When
this branch is entirely cleaned, the next
branch is skipped, and the third cleared
of the fruit ike the first, aud 50 on until
every alternate branch is divested of its
fruit. This work IS not done on the
small limbs here and there over the tree,
but on main branches, and equally on
both sides Of the tree. OF medium sized
trees, an active man will go over Is or
90 10 dav.
Year: 1878




10 not work too much nor too fast.
Work slowly until all the salt is thor
ouehIy and evenly absorbed. Otherwise
the butter will not be-of uniform color.
Working it too fast will destroy the
grain. and the butter becomes salvy and
Iard-like in its texture. Let it stand or
put it away in the tray for twenty-four
hours. Then work it enough to remove
all the buttermilk or surplus brine, so
that the butter may become dry or ike q
pie e of cheese. Mould into rolls, and set
these away for twenty four hours, or
until they become hard and firm. The
cloth should now be put on, 80 as to
cover one end, while the other is lett
open for the stamp. The cloth sheuld be
cut in pieces of exact size and dipped in
brine, and the butter rolled when the
cloth is dripping wet. Butter should
never come in contact with the bare
hand. When in bulk it can be easily
handled with ladle and fat paddle.
Year: 1878

Detained over Sunday in the little
hamlet of Wbitueyville, near New
Haven. Conn it was my good fortune
not only 10 listen TO q sermon Of more
than average ability, but 20 witness an
incident so rare in its character, and
rejecting so creditably oh the pastor
as to merit public mention. Il being
fashionable to have church debts, OF
course the little Whitneyville church
must have theirs, and it was the duty OF
the good minister at the close Of the
sermon TO attend to the pressing charac-


ter of this Obligation. he said The


times are hard, and we are poor. How,


then, can we pay the debt Now, my
dear people, / can see hut one way to do


it. and that Is through the stTictest econ
omy. But you viii say, where can we
economical The items OF fuel and
lights we have already reduced to a min
imum, and the choir and sexton give Us
their services gratis Well then, NY
friends there re mains the salary of your
minister, and that must be cut down
When times were good you voluntarily
/ raised my salary from 5000 to $500
Now retrenchment is demanded, and
you must cut off the extra 5000, and
sppropriating this saving TO the psy
ment Of the debt, you viii in two OF
I three years, again be free"


This narration sf actual fact seems
/ indeed, stranger than fiction, and car


ries with it lis own beautiful lesson
/ All honor 10 this worthy, self sacrificing


man of God Cor. \. r Herald.
Year: 1878

A sanitary measure of more than or
binary Importance, not only to the
southern seaboard states but to the
country at large, has recently been
passed il. the form of bill to be known
as the " National Quarantine act of
1878" the object of which shall be, by
means of an efficient, uniform, national
system of quarantine, to prevent the in
PRODUCTION of contagious or Infectious
Year: 1878

Put two teaspoonfuls DooLEY's YEAST
POWDER in a quart of -four; rub into this
two tablespoons OF lard, with little sait,
and add enough sweet milk to make sun
dough. Knead well for five or six minutes
roll thin, cut into biscuits and bake dell
Year: 1878

Girls talk all alike about marriage, as
though it was jubilee, q gladsome
thing, q rose without q thorr, and so it
is, If all is right, if they go about it as
rational beings, instead of merry making
children. 1t is q serious thing to marry.
It is q life business. Therefore never do
it in haste; never run away to get mar
ried never marry tor wealth or stand
ing, or ine person or manners, but for
both, Tor the qualities of mind aud heart
which make an honorable man. Take
time, think long and well before you
accept any proposal consult your pa
rents, then some judicious friend, then
your own judgment. Learn all that is
possible for you to learn Of your proposed
husband When all doubts have been
removed, and not till then, accept him.
Year: 1878

Various are the surprises which blos~
som out of that novel instrument, the
telephone. In France they have applied
it tor marine purposes. The French war
steamer Desaix had to tow out from
Toulon the old ship Argonaute. A con-
ducting wire was rolled round one of the
towing cables, with an end on board each
vessel. The electric current was formed
by the action OF the sea on the copper.
sheathings of the ships. A telephone
was introduced in the circuit on each,
and communication established between
them. During the whole time OF The
navigation conversation could be carried
on easily between the two officers of the
two vessels as if they had teen seated in
the same cabin. The next step was to
apply the telephone to the work of the
diver One OF the glasses of the helmet
is replaced by a copper plate, in
which is inserted telephone, so that
the man has only a slight movement Of
the head to make in order to receive
communications or report obserya>
tions. The advantages of snch an ar
rangement are obvious. Frequently
at sea the necessity arises of examin-
ing the keel or bottom OF ship. The
diver descends, and is able to give an
account of all he sees and does and
receive instructions without having to be
brought to the surface to give explana-
tions, as has hitherto been The case, By
the use of the telephone man at the
bottom OF the sea eau remain in constant
verbal communication with those at the
surface. But the most singular appica-
tion of the telephone comes from New
South Wales, where Mr.. Severn, an en-.
thusisstic experimenter, claims that he
has made the deaf to hearwith it After
describing verySimple telephone which
he constructed out of tin pot, the
closed end of which he opened and tied
over it piece of parchment, passing
fine string through the center and max
ing knot inside. Mr.. Severn says:
" Make loop in the string some four feet
long, put this loop over the forehead OF
the listener (the dsaf NAM, cause him to
place the pYlus Of his hands fat and
hard against the ears, let the loop pass
over the hands, aud now this listener
will hear the smallest whisper, let him
be deaf or not. This fact may appear
extraordinary; it is, nevertheless, true
that a deaf man may be thusmade to hear
the voice, music, EN-. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1878

THERE is a young negro man in
Pulaski county, KY. who can give a
correct answer to any mathematical
problem put TO him He is perfect
curiosity in this way, and gives bis
answers Neutrality-suspicious. thought sp'
patiently. He has no education Upen
being questioned, be will tell the name
Of the day in any week, month or year,
whether in the past or future, and bsr
been tested on twenty years in the
future Tell him tho number OF the
day OF the month and the year in which
you were born, and he will tell you the
name OF the day Instantly, even If he
never raw or heard of you before. His
name Is Butler Denham.
Year: 1878

RuRp Of the national fish COM
meets to stock all the muddy
Inland waters OF tho United
n carp, which is a hardy fish,


remains in the place where
l. put last week 5O,no0 young


small lake in the District of
Year: 1878

Last week we published the opin- ion of the Attorney General in re- gard to the removal of the County Seat of our County. At the request of number of voters we republish the same thls week, and it will be found on the first page of to-days issue. This opinion of Attorney General Henderson says the act of 1875 is the only law now in force in regard to the removal of County Seats. In order that all may know just what the law of 1875 is we pub fish 1t also in to-day's paper, and VIC invite the careful attention of every voter to these two documents. These two documents are plain and une- quivocal and constitute the whole law upon the subject. It will be seen from these documents that there is nothing in the world to pre- vent the people from changing the seat of justice in this County if they so choose. It will be seen further that there is not word in the law which gives the property owners at Dover any claim upon the County for damages In case of removal. Gentlemen who have industriously circulated reports to this effect have been deluded, and if they are honest men they will no longer attempt to deceive and humbug the people in such style. Hereafter when you hear man assert that the County Seat cannot be legally removed until ten years shall have expired from the time it was voted back to Dover from Russellville in 1874, or that the County will become liable for damages to owners of private prop erty in case ofa removal from Dover, just put 1t down that that man IS either ignorant of the law or so dis honest as to try to willfully deceive the people. 2

 We call special attention to sec tions 3, ,, 6, g and 12 of the law.

 

 We will only add that section II was repealed by subsequent act of the Legislature, and it was placed within the County Judge alone to do what that section said should be done by the County Judge and the quorum of the county justices.
Year: 1878

We understand some or our good friends in the upper part of the County arc getting their backs up pretty high on account of the course we have seen proper to take in the County Seat matter. Now good friends it is nonsense for you to fret and fume such hot weather as this. Keep cool. Apply chunk of ice to the top of your head, get down from your high horse, hunt the shade and exercise Q little common sense. Subscribe freely for the DEMOCRAT, read it carefully and don't take upon yourselves the irksome task of edit ing it. We will attend to the edit orial department and will guarantee you lots of good wholesome reading. Learn that minorities, in republican forms of government must submit to majorities. Bring yourselves down to realization of facts as they are, and you will see that the logic of events is against you. Remember that THE PEOPLE RULE, and when ever the convenience and accommo- dalton of large maiorities require a change in the County Seat the peo- pie make such . change, notwith- standing it may somewhatly dis commode some mighty clever people. The good of the many IS paramount to the good of part. It is not that the DEMOCRAT respects and loves the good people of Dover and Liber- ty LESS, but the PEOPLE OF THE WHOLE COUNTY MORE. We know it to be to the advantage of the whole County to have the County Seat come to Rassellvillc, and knowing this we intend to advocate it.

 Only this and nothing more.
Year: 1878

Why is it that our County Clerk psrsistently neglsets to make publ,- cation of the redemption of lands sold for taxes? There is a plain pro- vision of law which is POSITIVE AND MANDATORY, requiring such publica- ton to be made. Unless this pro. vision of law is complied with how is an individual who may have pur- chased lands at delinquent tax sale to know whether the party having the right of redemption has deposit ed the money with the County Treas

 wer for its redemptions He can, of course, ride fifteen or twenty miles to the Treasurer's office and find ous ]; but the law contemplated a higher regard for the convenience and en- lightenment of all interested persons and wisely provided for the publica- tion of such matters. Why is it that the County Clerk refuses to obey said law? There is another thing the people would like to know, and that is this: why is it that the people of this County cannot be given all annual statement of the expenditures, appropriations and general financial condition of the County, by publication in the Coun- ty newspaper. Other Counties have these statements regularly and the law says plainly that ALL Counties SHALL HAVE THEM. As we under stand the law the County Clerk has no discretion about making publica- tion of such Financial showing, and only by gross neglect of duty can he avoid doing so. Each year since we have been publishing this paper we have had to make complaint about this matter. It would be we'll for the people of the County to think of this matter and find out wheth- CT they have any rights which the County Clerk is bound to respect, or