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Year: 1877

No star In the heavens is invested with
the interest that now surrounds Mars,
since 1t has proudly displayed 10 admiring
astronomers the two moons which il may
be supposed TO regard with paternal pride
and pleasure. They are, however, inslg-
nilicant little moons, the smallest heaven
ly bodies thus far known, and they whirl
through space with a velocity that makes
one dizzy TO think Of. A whole year of the
inner one is accomplished in seven hours
and thirty eight minutes and lis whole cir
cumrerence may betraveled in a few hours.
A moon ten miles IN diameter is something
never dreamed of in astronomical proba-
blities, and IL is a marvellous tribute to
telescope power that it can detect any
thug so minute more than thirty million
miles away.


Mars Is now a superb object seen through
the telescope; we had on Tuesday evening
view of the ruddy planet through the fine
instrument of the Roger Williams observ-
atory that is something TO remember for
lifetime.


A fiery ball of glowing red seemed sud
denly to spring into existence as the planet
entered The field of vision. In size it APP
preached that of the full moon when high
up in the heavens, while such was tue
brightness and ferceness OF its rays that
we involuntarily sought to shade our eyes
from the glare. At first we saw nothing
but a brilliant hame-colored disc, its cir
cumference aglow with prsmalic hues
caused by chromatic ALTERATION, without
tIace Of zones of snow or the strange
marking that pIactised eyes discover on
the Marian globe. AS we observed more
carefully, the ice bound circle came as
plainly into view as the well-known fea-
lures Of the man in the moon on our own
luminary, and we enjoyed peep at the
Marian poles, the southern polar cap be-
ing much larger than the northern, for ii is
summer in their northern hemisphere, and
the ice zone around the pole has partially
disappeared under the influence of the
suns heat. A still more careful scrutiny
revealed the presence of dusky spots on
the beaming disc. These indicate the land,
W hich is of a reddish hue, when the plan
cts atmosphere is clear, while the lighter
portions Of greenish hue mark the con-
| tour of the seas and oceans.


Thus with our own eyes we saw land,
water and ice on the surface of our Marian
neighbor, and had view of its ruddy disc
which, after a few weeks have passed, will
| not be equalled in size and brilliancy until
1892. Though Jupiter, with lis sparkl ling
and brilliant moons, is a grander telescope
| object, and Saturn with its wondrous ring
system and numerous moons, exceeds in
beauty every sight in the celestial picture
gallery, yet we obtain better view, and
on a larger scale, of Mars than of any 9TH
er object in the heavens except the moon.
1t is probably the only planet whose real
surface is ever visible, for Venus, tho most
splendid OF all the planets to the naked
eye, is, on account Of its great lustre, un-
satisfactory for telescope observation, while
Jupiter and Saturn are surrounded by
cloud envelopes OF Immense extent that
hide the solid portions from the eye
Providence Journal.
Year: 1877

MILKMENIN NNAPLES.-Neapoliia milk
men are funny fellows. They do not have
a milk. wagon and horse, or even pail and
dipper. They have only little three-legged
stools tied to themselves $50 that when they
want TO sit down they are all ready, and
they drive their goats before them 10 the
different houses, and milk them at the door
in a bowl provided by each customer. No
chance of watered milk there, you see.
That Is not the queerest part of it, though.
Italian houses are very Might've, six and
seven stories oflen, with differ ent family
on each floor. Even the "palazzos" opal
aces) of the rich are divided in this way.
To the first floor mot the ground floor
there are sometimes from eighty to one
hundred marble steps leading up. On this
floor perhaps a duke may live; on the next
above, some one lower in rank, till il would
not be impossible that the noble dukes
laundress might live in the seventh story
of his palazzo. These uppermost families
usually take goats milk, because the goat
can go upstairs, even to the very top floor,
aud be MIXED in full view of the custom
eri Part of little Paolo's pleasure was in
patling the goat that came up to his grand
mothers door, rubbing its little nose, and
giving it roasted chest nuts to eat. After it
was milked, the goat would turn and skip
down stairs so briskly that the milkman
could not begin to keep up with it,-H.
Nicholas.
Year: 1877

"Will the boy who threw that pepper
on the stove please come up here and get
the present of a nice book" said Sunday
school superintendent in Iowa; but the
boy never moved. He was a far-seeing
boy.
Year: 1877

"A Russian army chaplain addressing
his regiment before its departure for the
seat of war, said that towards would be
punished in hell "by standing In brandy
up their necks without being able to enjoy
a drop of the liquor"
Year: 1877

of Pure Cod Liver Oil and Lime. The advantage of
this compound the plain Oil is that the nauseat-


Ing taste of the Oil is entirely removed and the whole
rendered entirely palatable. The offensive taste of
the Oil has long acted at a prominent objection to


is use; but In this form the trouble is entirely OBJ
Waited host of certificates might be given here to
testify to the excellence and success of "Wil6or's
Cod Licer Oil and Lime" But the fact that 1t Is
regularly prescribed by the medical faculty suf
fcient. For sale by A. B. WILBOR, Chemist
Boston, and by. all druggists. jy4eod1wsn
Year: 1877

All seasons are thine, Oh! Death
Thou takest as well the youth in viesr
and health as the old who are worn with
age and infirmity. Little CHARLIE, son
of W. A. and Mollie Brevard died June
22nd, 1877, aged 10 years, and l month
Tis hard to give up one who is bone of
our bone and flesh of our flesh, especially
after years have endeared them TO us by
association-we miss their going out and
coming in-we miss their accustomed
seat Mt the table, and around the hearth
stone-we miss tn very noise they make
we miss the thousand ana one questions
whi only child can ask-we miss
their accustomed voices and the pattering
of their feet as they ran to and fro.
But what a consolation should 1t be, that
since they are taken it was at an age
which knew no sorrow, when the heart
had no hopes beyond the Immediate
present, the soul no aspirations. Little
Charlie died at that fortunate age, bor-
dering as it were between infancy and
boy hood when the soul knew no guile. the
heart no disappointments, the mind no
subtleties, no doubts, no fears In regard
to the great future.


"Of such are the Kingdom of heaven,
let them come unto me-" Little Charlie
was called by him who giveth, and who
taketh away. Therefore no power could
hinder that call. Then be comforted and
weep not, ye that mourn, for he has gone
where the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary be at rest.


He is laid gently beneath the sod
He has gone to heaven and to God


Then weep not for him whose troubles


are oer,


Be reconciIed, nor let your hearts be sore
Year: 1877

Strange AZ 1t may appear wo are
obliged to thoroughly commend the
following from the Chicago Times, q
paper with which We can seldom
agree:


"It was agreed in the House COM
mittee Of Ways and Means, yester-
day, to report in favor OF an adjourn
mcnt of the special session of Con-
gress ON the 22d. The determination
to postpone the navy department in


vestigation until the regular session,
and pass the appropriation necessary
for the pay Of the officers and men,
disposes Of that matter easily and
sensibly. An equally wise and hon
est course would have been to adopt
the same rule on the army bill, vote
the money necessary to pay the gov
ernment's debt to the soldiers, and
adjourn all questions about the in
crease or diminution Of the force un-
til 3 time when they may be consid-
cred at leisure, without injustice to
anybody. When this bill IS returned
from the Senate with amendments, an


appropriation for the payment of ar


rears should be passed at once, leav.


ing ont all other matters. In thai
way the session might be ended this
week.
Year: 1877

Il plain that there is going TO be
severe struggle among tho banks
and fnsnciers of the country and q
large part OF the commercial men to
bring to bear great pressure upon
Congress and the President against
the full demonstration Of silver. 1t
seems certainly clear to us that the
double standard will be inaugurated !;
that the reconciliation of silver in some
form cannot be prevented and ought
not to be.


1t IL true that silver, once again
made . legal tender, must bc so made
finally, that it will be equal in value
with gold. The comparative value
Of silver with gold now, however,
cannot DO fairly determined while
silver is demonetized. Ifthc remone-
tizstion Of silver does not bring its
standard Of value by the side Of gold,
Of course, there will practically be
no double standard, as the cheaper
metal will drive out tho other.
Year: 1877

IT is very Significantly limited that the
agitation of the question of increasing the
army is intended to prepare the way for
the election of Grant to the Presidency in
1880, and that an imposing military Or
ganization is contemplated as part of the
electioneering machinery. As matters now
stand, such seems to be the complexion
which affairs are assuming.
Year: 1877

A rARNER being poorly provided with
materials Of sustsnancs for his men, fed
them with pork cooked with ths rind
upon IL. A young man of the company.
not liking the outer portion OF the food,
WAS observed by the host To bs carefully
removing the outside covering. where
upon tho latter said: Young man,
we eat the rind and all here" To
which the youth replied =" All right
old man I'm cutting 1t oil for YOU"
Year: 1877

Gods hand has been leading us down to the vale,

 Through the deep, dark ravine where the liver

 is cold

 Where the FIRST waves of grief and it's mists

 never fail

 To obscure much of brightness and sorrow un-

 fold;

 And we cling to the clay with..a vlce-like grasp.

 While we list for the voice that forever has fled, Till we drop the cold hand that we held in our

 clasp.

 And in agony say that our loved one is dead. An, sad ! sad indeed, is the moment of sorrow,

 When death stands revealed to our wondering gaze;

 When the skill is all bafe ed, no hope for the nor Through it all do we stand in a wondering maze. Oh. death the grim monster,-Oh, could it avail How many would empty their coffers to save, While we try in our blindness to peer through

 the yeil

 Yet the mortal is ours, and before us the grave The edict is spoken Gods promise is made,

 That those that we love unto dust must be given;

 The rich and the poor in the valley are laid, But provision is made for the ransomed in Heaven,

 Then what though the beautiful building of clay,

 That stood in its grandeur and strength so se cure, A landmark for others along life,s highway Should be found but structure that could not endure.

 The one that we love does not fall, does not die, Is not placed in the casket, or laid ill the grave A new robe has been given, a mansion on high I rh 1hoh hot hpdf Fnhpem and to save; ;-

 And the one that once dwelt in that grand human shrine,

 Has been freed from all pain, from all earth | stains and dross

 And the friend so beloved, IS still yours, is still | mine.

 Though We grieve for the presence, we mourn | for the loss.

 The grim boatman will row through the icy cold | spray. ] He will watch and will wait for there till we come;

 And not until then will the mist clear away,

 Not till we reach the far shore and our home. | Oh. then twill be then that the shadows will 1 fee, When we stand in our garments immortal and l pure; When the Great King in his beauty we see,

 And we taste of the joys that forever endure. | MARY s. 8. MoELwAIN.

 M1DDLEF1ELD. Mass, March 18th, ls77.
Year: 1877

In the great valley between the
north and south mountains in Penn
sylvania commonly called the East
Ridge, q we'll was dug some years since
in Franklin, and another 10 Cumber-
land county, thirty or forty miles from
the former, which led to discovery af-
fordipg a subject for interesting spec
ulation. After proceeding in each in
stance to a depth of about thirty six
feet, the bottom of these wells gave
way (but fortunately when the work :
men had retired) aud a torrent Of wat.
er rushed up. A lead was sunk with
fiftv fathoms of line without finding
the least obstruction. They remain at
this time untouched and Of unknown
depth. The presumption is, there is
a subterranean lake in th.t quarter,
and how far it extends under the base
of the vast primitive mountains, situ-
ated between the Susquehanna and
Pittsburg, will never be ascertained,
unless by some terrible convulsion Of
nature they should be percipitated in
the tremendous abyss.
Year: 1877

A farmer in Blue Earth county
tried an experiment this year that Is
worth mentioning. In seeding his
farm this spring he sowed one field Of
equal parts of wheat and oats mixed
The result was a very heave growth oi
both grains, the oats tending to shade
the ground, and insuring a much heav.
ier yield than if each had been sown
separately. The object was to expert.
ment as to what effect the grasshop-
pess would have on such crop. They
gave a decided preference to the wheat,
in few spots thinning it out entirely,
leaving only the oats standing, and ap'
parently unhurt.
Year: 1877

My experience in butter making is
that butter that is not washed will
keep better and longer than that
which is. l think milk should have
deep setting and plenty of. air and
light One great cause Of SO much
poor butter comes. not from want of
pains in caring for it, but because Of
the milk not being skinned in proper
time. We use q barrel churn, are
particular to have our cream at sixty
two degrees, and never churn longer
than half an hour. At the end of that
time the buttermilk is drawn off aud
we have never failed of having butter
in nice shape. It requires but little
working on taking it out, of the churn.
On the second working we take cloth
that has been wrung as dry as possible
In cold water, and wipe each portion as
it is put in jar. This absorbs all the
butter milk and any lurking atom cf
moisture in this way is prevented from
becoming cause Of rancidity. Wash
ing butter gives it much lighter col.
or than it would have without washing.
Water gives it a more salvy appear.
ance. Butter must not have too much
working, and it requires less to extort
butter milk than water. We think
an ounce of salt to two pounds Of but
ter ensures better article than moro
salt. It is a mistaken idea that salt
will preserve butter. About four per
centum of butter IS sugar. We all
know what effect water has on sugar :,
it certainly does not add to its sweet
ness. If butter is washed, it must
wash this sweetness out Now if the
butter has lost its sweetness, where.
with shall it be sweetened? It is
henceforth good for nothing but to be
cast out into the class of washed butter.
-TMrs. Samuel Judd.
Year: 1877

When soil is to rich in vegetable
matter, or potash, such as newly
cleared woodland, or fresh prairie soil
it causes an excessive growth Of straw
and but little grain. The plan t.
adopt in such case is to plow just be-
fore the seed is sown, and either shall
low or very deep. II the ploughiug il
very deep, much of the rich soil is put
where the plants do not reach it, o.
the sub-soil ls mixed with the rich
soil and dilutes it. We have trieG
this plan with potatoes with good ef.
ct.-.TAmerican Agriculturalist.
Year: 1877

MILKINa BIZ MAcH1NsRY.-Hard
labor is gradually being superseded by
machinery in nearly every branch Of
industry. It is curious to mark the
unlikely uses to which machinery may
be applied. An ingenious inventor in
the United States has recently patent
ed useful device in the shape of .
COW milking machine, which, it is said,
will do all that can be done in milking
by hand, faster and better, and will be
Of special service where COWS have sore
teats or are hard mixers. The appar.
atns consists essentially of glass globe,
large enough to hold an average yield
of milk, which is connected by means
of a flexible tube with an air pipe.
Rising from the top Of the globe are
small pipes with metal tips. The
mods Of operation consists in suspend
ing the globe underneath the animal
to be MIXED, and inserting the tips of
the small tutes into the teats. A par
tial vacuum is then effected inside the
globe by means of the air pump; and
the milk thus drawn forth. The ad
vantages claimed by the invention are
that it prevents any loss of milk
through spilling, renders milk or
straining pals unnecessary and pre-
vents entrance of dirt. Finally, it can
be easily manipulated by anybody.-l
Reading Eagle.
Year: 1877

The crop just harvested is, in GUAM.
city and quality, the best that Mime.
sota has ever produced. All Of the
northwestern States have good wheat
crops but it is not the case in any 9th.
portion Of the country, and We do no.
think that the amount of wheat, in the
United States, sex expectation this
year will be as large as ususl. The
foreign demand will, most probably be
greater than usual. This condition Of
the market will be highly favorable to
Minnesota aud other States that have
large surplus. Specializing interests
may, for time, free down the price
OF wheat but cannot keep it down and
remunerative prices are sure to be rea.
lized for tho largest part Of the present
crop.
Year: 1877

Mr. Henry Martyr Spofford, the new
claimant of q seat in the Senate from
Louisiana, is said to be ffty-four years
old, but he must be somewhat older, since
he graduated at Amherst in 1910. He is
native of Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard,
and is brother of the librarian of Con
gress. He has lived in Louisiana for
about thirty years, practicing law most of
the time except when he was judge of q
State court, and was formerly partner of
Judge Campbell, who left the bench OF
the United States Supreme Court to go
with his State into rebellion. Mr.. Spot
ford was also q rebel, and we can not help
thinking that some defect in his moral
nature is suggested by the fact that be,
born and educated in Massachusetts,, was
at the opening of the rebellion an intimate
personal friend and close political ally of
Pierre Soule and Judah p. Benjamin. He
is said to be man of much ability and
excellent literary culture, and he declares
that he is willing to support the admins
tration SO far as he understands its policy.
That is all very well SO far as it goes, but
if we were to choose between two men,
one of whom upheld the institution of
slavery because he was born O STAKEHOLDER
and reared under the influences of that
system, and the other, after living to ma
turity in Massachusetts, became an ardent
pro-slavery man and secessionist from in
terest or conviction, we should choose the
former as much more likely to deserve
respect and confidence Mr.. Spofford
may or may not be better man than
Kellogg or Packard; the fact that he has
been in Louisiana longer is not prina fdcie
evidence of it Worcester Spy.
Year: 1877

infantry, for by the consentof the associa-
ton it was exhibited at the Centennial
Exposition st Philadelphia, and there at
tracted much favorable comment The
centre object is one of those immense


monitors which were brought into use
during the celebrated expedition for the
opening of the Mississippi. They were
used against Island No. 10 and against
Vicksbdrg, but they attained their utmost
celebrity as used in the reduction of Forts
st Philip and jackson, below New Or
leans. On one of these monitors is perch
ed sailor boy or f'powder monkey, who
looks constantly to the front TO discover,
If possible, the object at which sailor,


who is upon the right, is directing his
index finger. This sailor, in proper uni
form, is in the act of rolling toward the
mortar shell filed for its calibre. On
the left of the mortar is a second officer,


who has just taken from his eye the glass
with which he has been viewing the posi-
ton and intention of the enemy. His fig
ure is, although standing, in complete
repose, and his features will represent the
assured confidence with which the officers
of the American navy are accustomed to
look upon the enemy, or to observe the
various changes of an engagement. The
contrast between the cool confidence of
this figure and the laborious exertion of
the sailor and the excited demeanor of
the boy is very striking, and will be
considered, it is believed, one of the
most interesting features of the
group. This group is to be sta
toned on the lett of the Lincoln
statue so that the southern side Of the
monument will represent Mr. Lincoln
with the infantry on his right and the
navy on his left in the act of crushing the
rebellion, while in his hands he holds the
proclamation of emancipation. Each of
these groups weighs about four tons, and
they are TO be placed in position as soon
as the requisite machinery can be ar
ranged. When upon the pedestal there
will be some proper ceremony of dediea-
ton, which will Of course be reported.


The funds and subscriptions of the asso-
citation are exhausted by the expense of
these groups, which cost, delivered,
$13, 700 each. A bill is now pending in
the General Assembly which provides an
appropriation of S27, 900 for the expense
of the two other groups-cavalry and ar
tillery-which are requisite to complete
the original design. The legislative cor
respondent of the Times has clearly in
formed the public of the inception and
progress of this bill, and it only remains
to say now that it is hoped that it may be
passed, in order that the completion. of
the monument should be no longer de-
layed 1t requires at least three years to
mold these groups in clay, make the plas-
ter casts, and complete the bronze works,
and as it is now pretty certain that no ses-
sion of the General Assembly will be held
next winter, ii is apparent that if the bill
making the appropriation is not passed
this winter, the order from the association
to Mr.. Meade to begin work will neces-
sarily be delayed until the spring of 1879,
and that the completion of the monument
will be delayed until 1882.
Year: 1877

We are informed that about four days
ago child was attacked, on Crosse Tete,
by large eagle. 1t was the evident in
tention of the eagle to seize and carry the
child off, but its efforts were thwarted
finally by persons who heard the screams
of the child and its mother, and came to
the rescue with pistols, shotguns and
clubs. Upon hearing the screams Of the
child its mother ran out of her house into
the yard, and when she discovered the
eagle endeavoring to carry off her child,
she commenced desperate attack upon
the intruder to save the child. During
the fight between the eagle and the
mother the child erawled under the
house and finally the mother was forced
TO retire, as the eagle fought with unusual
desperation. Several persons were at
tracted to the spot by the screams of both
mother and child, and after firing several
shots at the eagle he was finally killed.
The eagle was very large, but we did not
learn from our informant his exact size. =
Baton Rouge Advocate.