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Year: 1874

Death is usually preceded by a
growth of phenomena that has received
the name of the death agony. In most
cases of disease the beginning of this
concluding period is marked by a sud
den improvement of the functions. 1t
IS the last CLEAN springing from the
dying flame but soon the eyes be-
come fixed and insensible to the action
of light the nose grows pointed and
cold the mouth, wide open, seems to
call for the air that fails il the cavi-
ty within is parched, and the lips, as If
withered, cling to the curves Of the
teeth. The last movements Of respi-
ration are spasmodic, and q wheezing,
and sometimes q marked gurgling
sound may be heard at some distance,
caused by obstruction of the bronchial
tubes with quantity OF mucus. The
breath is cold, the temperature of the
skin lowered. If the heart is examined
we note the weakening of its sounds
and pulsations. The hands, placed in
its neighbOrhoOd, feel no throb. Such
is the physiognOmy of a person in
the last moments of death IN the greater
number of cases that is, when death
follows upon period Of illness Of some
duration. The death struggle is sell
dom painful, and almost always the
patient feels nothing Of it. He is plum
ged into comatose stupor, so that he
is no longer conscious of his situation
or his sufferings, an1 he passes insensi-
bly, from life to death, in manner
that renders it sometimes difficult TO
fix the exact instant at which a dying
person expires. This is true, at least,
in chronic maladies, and especially in
those that consume the human body
slowly and silently.


Yet when the hour of death comes
for ardent organizat great ar
lists, for instance-and they usually die
young-there is quick and sublime
new burst of life in the creative genius.
There is no better example of this
than the angelic end of Beethoven,
who, before he breathed out his soul,
that tuneful monad, regained his lost
speech and hearing, and spent-them in
repeating for the last time some of
those sweet harmonies which he called
his Prayers to God.


Some diseases, moreover, are most
peculiarly marked by the gentieness
of the dying agony. or all the ills
that cheat us while killing by pin
pricks, consumption is that which wears
longer for us the illusive look of health
and best conceals the misery, and the
horror of dying. Nothing can be com
pared with that hallucinatiou of the
senses and that livingness of hope which
mark the last days of the cOnsumptive.
He takes the burning of his destroying
fever for a healthful symptom, he forms
his plans and smiles calmly and cheer
fully on his friends, and suddenly some
morrow of a quiet night, he falls into
a sleep and never wakes.-PopulGr
ScieToe MonthLh.
Year: 1874

Old members Of the house begin to
predict q short session. The ground
for this prediction in the fact that there
is no surplus in the treasury to be leg
isIated away. At best, fOur-ffths Of ali
the bills introduced look TO the expen-
diture of publie money, directly or IN
directly; but as there is no money to
spend beyond what is absolutely neces-
sary to meet the requirements Of the
regular appropriation bills, It follows
that all this mass Of Legislative pro
positions viii have TO 90 over until next
session without definite action. The
folly of spending time upon measures
which cannot be passed, however meri-
torious they may be, for rant Of money
TO pay the demands they make upon
the treasury, begins to be apparent.
Beside the empty treasury, there - an
other circumstance that viii help 70
shorten the session. All the members
Of the house will have to 60 before
their constituents for reelection next
fall, and all are therefore interested in
making as economical q showing as pos
sibIe Of the results Of the sessions


Il
Year: 1874

The pencil marks yea SEQ arounii this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
serption Is out or unpaid. and that
you are requested TO pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure Ia extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to s strict cash
rule. We hope you VIII comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of g1ch a
course and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
Year: 1874

There was singular explosion in
an ice cream mandatory in Reading,
Penn, one day last week, which the
Times thus describes: A large cop
per boiler was used to boil the cream
before it is frozen. The vessel has
two bottoms, the lower compartment
Of which is the receptical for the
steam to heat the contents. The en-
tire arrangement is mounted on an
iron frame. One Of the employees,
Mr.. Henry Myers, was stirring the
cream, rs usual, while the steam was
heating up the boiler. During the
stirring the entire quantity of cream
suddenly and with the velocity of the
wind, shot up into the air, the steam
rushed out and up with kissing
noise, the boiler tipped over, and the
entire premises, the sides of the
rear buildings, and the roofs of the
same, were covered with the snowy
fluid Mr.. Myers and fellow work
man named Joseph Ferrell were
severely scalded. Mr.. Clewell and
family were in the store. The acci-
dent caused great excitement. being
the result of carlessness in allowing
too heavy a steam pressure. The bot
tom was of heavy sheet copper, and is
almost torn out"
Year: 1874

Farmer" writes as follows: 81
wish to know what is the matter
with my fruit trees, and what the
remedy is? They bloomed out very
full. and o short time afterward the
full grown leaves around the bloom
began to die, and now they look
scorched as with hot iron. The
little twigs on which the fruit
grows is dead, and q great many of
the smaller boughs. The trees on
which there was no blume are not
affected, and small portion of
those which lowered have escaped.
Pear trees are worse affected than
apples, though it appears that many
of my apple trees will die. Perhaps
some Of your subscribers can give
the cause and also the remedy"


REPLY TO "FAEMER.' The trees
are affected with the twig blight,
which attacks the young shoots of
the current seasons growth on the
apple, pear, and ounce, causing
them to wither and become brown
at early or midsummer. The cause
is unknown. The remedy is vigor
GUS and thorough pruning away of
the parts affected. It is usually
not very serious in it's effects, al
though it seems annually to be
growing more destructive.
Year: 1874

Bishop Foster, in addressing the
graduating class of the Wesleyan Fe-
male college in Cincinnati on Tuesday
evening, said: Learn your obliga-
tions to the past; be careful of the
present, and prepare yourself for the
great future that is before you. The
reign of brain has come. Though you
may not be found on the battlefield
or at the ballot-box, you can build
up the future by building up the men.
You live in a particularly exciting
time, when you have placed in oppo-
sition to you one of the greatest vices,
and you women will conquer if all Of
those OF your sex who are real wo-
men will combine. Beware OF cox
combs and libertines. They are fools,
whether they know it or not. BY
your conduct toward them, send them
from your presence. Reserve your
hearts and love for men. Be not what
is known as fashionable woman.
There is nothing so foolish as such
a woman, and none but fools admire
her."
Year: 1874

"a subscribers wife" writes from
Locust Grove, as follows: Seeing that
there has been in the Inter Ocean in
quiry how to can corn, | will give the
recipe used by me last year, with the
assurance that corn keeps rs certainly
by this method of canning as toma-
toes, and was pronounced the best
canned corn ever eaten, by those who
partook OF it. Cut the corn from the
cob, adding one ounce of tartaric acid
to each six quarts of corn measured
after cutting, boil i'll plenty of water
two or three hours, can and seal up.
l used glass cans. VIXEN the corn is
used, drain off the water, rinse and
drain again, and in heating up add
small teaspoon of soda and little su-
gar to each quart of corn. Try this
once and you will be satisfied.
Year: 1874

The following is leading editorial
in the Middletown Constitution. The
writer evinces a profound knowledge
of his subject, which could have only
been acquired by many years of obser-
vation. and which elicits our wonder
ful admiration:


1.-The jug is a most singular utensil.
A pail, tumbler or decanter may be
rinsed. and you may satisfy yourself
by optical proof that it is clean; but
the jug has little hole in the top,
and the interior is all darkness. No
eye penetrates it-no hand moves over
the surface. You can clean it only by
putting in water, shaking it, and pour
ing it out. If the water comes out
clean, you judge you have succeeded
in cleaning the jug, and vice versa.
Hence, the jug is like the human
heart. No mortal eye can look into
its recesses, and you can only Judge of
its purity by what comes out OF it.
Year: 1874

A Picture of Grant before Richmond.


Albert Langel, writing in the Revue
des Mondes, says: General Grant il
cold and silent; he had ordered tent
to be given me at his head quarters.
but during my brief stay / never saw
him except at dinner, which was short
as it was frugal. Hardly a word was
spoken. l remember that one day one
OF the staff spoke of an attack to be
made at the mouth of river, and
said that the bar at low tide had six
teen feet of water on it. Grant raised
his head; =" eighteen feet, and every
body held his tongue. When | was
ready to depart l gave notice the day
before, as the rule was. That day
after dinner, the General, who usual,
retired at once to his tent, did me tn


honor to ask me to take a short wal.
with him. 1t was almost evening j.
the month of January Y ou brough,
me letter from Sumner" said he.
don't concern myself with politics,
bit they say in the newspapers that l
belong to the Democratic party. You
may say to Sumner that [ am, before
everything, the servant of the Unio.
and the government; that for his
friends, and especially for him, / have
no feeling but esteem. He does his
work in the Senate; am doing mine
as we'll as can, here, and | hope we
shall soon be in Richmond"
Year: 1874




There is, I am well aware, a cheap
kind of happiness of which any Of
us may make ourselves the posses
sors at any time, and with little
trouble. It is generally possible to
imagine worse condition than the
one we are in. Think, for instance,
if you have lost money in the
Northern Pacific, or are disappoint-
ed in love, or your plantation has
been washed away-that youmight
be the chairman of May anniver-
sary meeting, or member of the
hanging committee of the Academy,
or an autograph collector. or the
editor of magazine.-s'The Old
Cabinet Scribner' for July.
Year: 1874

There was q street fight in Pitts.
burgh lately 50 complicated that
Justice Meredith couldn't definitely
find out about it. An old colored
man and an Irishman got into a
squabble because the latter called
the former q bottle nosed nigger.
At the same time and place a ped
dler struck q woman because she
said his teaspoons were pewter. In
their incipiency the fight had no
connection, but in the course Of
battle things lost individuality, and
each combatant fought every body
else. This 30 involved the evidence
that the justice warned them to
fight understandingly in the future
and let them 60.
Year: 1874

A telegram from Berlin says that the
Federal council has accepted the princi-
pal OF the imperial bank, and agreed TO
the conditions submitted by the govern
ment for the cession Of the bank Of Prus-
sia to the empire.
Year: 1874

SEASONED WooD MosT PROFITABLE.
Boys, economy may be practiSed i'll
thousand ways, and one way is in the
fuel. Wood that has been summed
few days after cutting anl splitting t,
and then housed four months or more,
is worth, for the family purposes OF
warming, cooking and washing, almost
twice as much as when green. But
few f rmers realize the value Of dry
wood, especially during the Winter sea-
son, and hence but little wood is stored
during the Summer. BE sure TO fur
nish plenty Of oven-wood. This should
be piled in a part of the woodhouse by
itself. 1t will promote kindly feeling
in the family, will save much time
otherwise lost in kindlinS fires with
green wood. Then let us prepare
good supply Of dry wood for Winter,
full six months before wanted for use,
remembering always, that the best
place for drying wood is an open shed
where the air blows through, without
the wet reaching it.
Year: 1874

When a man miIks COW, he should
not attempt to smoke cigar at the
same time. A young man ont in the
country tried it, and got along well
enough until he lowered his head and
touched the cows faux With the lighted
end of bis weed. The next instant him
self and cigar were dreadfuly put
out. The cow introduced about two
tons weight into one of her hind legs,
and then passed it under the mixers
left Jaw.
Year: 1874

A Sodus topper the other night got at
the yeast jug and took swig. Putting
it down he called out to his wife
Say Jane, / wish you wouldn't mix
that chicken feed over the cider jug,
It's 'nuf to make a hog sick" The
yeast made him hop soon after.
Year: 1874

have it accompanied BY as many practical
miners as could be employed to advantage
in making Il thorough examination Of 49,


THE NiSE.AL pEfosIt<


throughout this entire region. Should the
result Of this examination disclose a min
eral wealth sufficient to justify further de-
relopment, the title of the Indians to this
region-Yhieh is not occupied by them as
their home, lut as 9 sort Of private back
room, convenient hiding place, where,
hitherto, after the commission of some
crime they could quietly withdraw and
await the return of quieter times-should
De secured by p,opor treaty and eompen-
sation, if that is to be the policy Of the
government, and in this way ,he gayefn-
ment would be taking the shortest and
quickest, as we'll as the most humane road
TO what will surely be otherwise accom-
plishcd. For the fear of Indians alone is
30. going to prove sufficient to deter men
seeking gold from eDserrg and occupying
a corptry in which they have reasoE to
believe the precious metal lies stored. If
the government does not open the way,


PRIVATE ENTERPRISE,


backed up by the courage of the Western
frontiersman, will. believe by the form
er method the result could be accomplished
without drop of bioodshed by the latter
it would surely be accomplished in the end,
but at a cost pf many lives, both to the red
man and his persistent and more hardy op-
poneut, the pioneer. The sixty days
within which reriod the expedition is or
dcred by the powers that be to return to
Fort Lincoln expire on the last day
of August. Between this time ami that
date we must conclude cur work here, and
retrace our march of bout three hundred
miles through an unexplored country, as |
believe it is the intention Of Custer to re-
turn by new route. Upon inquiry Of the
General when the expedition would reach
Fort Lincoln he replied that he had ordered
dinner at tolt Lincoln at clock the 81
of August, and he expected to lie there by
that hour. So mote it be.
Year: 1874

way Of detecting at least 4 juvenile pre-
varicator. The discoverer of this boy Is
q member of the medical profession In
Greene, Chenango County, and his name
is DR.. Williams.


The other evening several mischievous
boys broke into the schoolhouse in that
place, built fire in the same, and were
preparing for hilarious time when they
discovered that the Board of Education
were after them. Although the school
house was surrounded before they got
wind of the danger, they managed to slip
ont OF the building unobserved. Some Of
them had been recognized in the build
ing, however, and were brought up before
the physician mentioned for examination.
The first boy put upon the stand "knew
nothing about the affair."" and asserted
his innocence with all the manifestations
of veracity in his coun+enance. The
doctor was not satisfied: He took hold
Of the boys wrist and felt his pulse The
pulsations were unuaturally fast. Look
ing into the boys unwavering eye and
imperturbable face, he said: "Young
man, you are lying! You have not
uttered one word of truth about this
matter! Your pulse is now running as
high as 140, and no person enjoying good
health, and telling the truth, would have
as rapid pulsations as that" The problem
of centuries was solved; the boy acknowl-
edged that he had broken into the school
house. Although the heart sent no tell
tale blood to the face, it throbbed its con-
fession in the tiny pulse; and science had
again triumphed where human ingenuity
had been at fault.-Utioa IN. ~ Herald.
Year: 1874

TWICE our domestic in the kitchen
took up the ashes from the cook stove in
a wooden vessel, contrary to explicit di-
rections, and set them in the back apart
ment, where the wooden pail was soon
on fire. Had the fire not been seen in
time to extinguish the flames the entire
dwelling would have been burned to
ashes. We recently called at neighbor's
dwelling, but not gaining admittance at
the front door we went. around to the
back door that opens in the wood.house.
To our surprise there stood a half pail Of
ashes and the pail on fire. We have a
clerical friend who had recently COM
pleted, furnished and moved into an ele.
CANT suburban villa. The ashes were
deposited in barrels standing few feet
from the rear Of the house, near the board
fence. One night the family were aroused
from their midni ght slumbers by the de.
vouring flames, which had started at the
barrels of ashes, burned the fence and
thus reached the house. Everything was
burned to the ground. Ashes should not
be stored. Our ashes are now taken up
in an iron pail-never in a wooden vessel
and as soon as the pail is filled the con-
tents are carried Immediately and spread
around fruit trees. This is done at all
seasons of the year. Even in the winter
ashes are not storcd.-N. 7. Herald.
Year: 1874

barn. yard in the country one day recently,
where he had not the slightest acquaint-
ance with the cattle, and an old bull not
only followed him until. he left the lot,
but took the gate off the hinges and raced
with him to the house in the most familiar
way possible. Smithson says he has no
doubt that the old fellow would have
called for something if he had waited q
little while, but he didn't want to keep
the folks waiting for dinner, so he hung
one tail of his coat and piece of his
pants on the bulls horns and went into
the house.
Year: 1874

MuLr1TUD1NoUs are the ways on record
for detecting a thief, but there is one
species Of sinner that often def1es detec-
tion. A light finger may beicrippled, but
g light tongue is hard to stop. The blush
of conscious guilt does not always follow
a fib, and of all selfpossessed men the
professional prevaricator is the calmest.
The tact of successful concealment is
often characteristic of the youngest
falsifier, and his precocious depravity is
often blank stud = to the keenest moralist
or pbysiognomist. 1t has been left to the
genius Of tho physicisn to discover sure
Year: 1874

PEOPLE who are over wise must expect
to pay for their whims as the Iowa man
did. He went back on his own true love
because she ate onions, and the jury gave
her 5000 damages. How much better
for him if he had offset hss by eating
Limburgeg ohoese.
Year: 1874

HE Bitter BIrTEN.-A man in the
dress OF workman was lately walking
In the streets of Berlin with packet in
his hand, sealed with five seals, and in
scribed with an address, and a note that
it contained one hundred thalers in
treasury notes. As the bearer appeared
to be at loss, he was accosted by pas
senger, who asked him what he was
looking for. The simple countryman
placed the packet in the inquirer's
hands and requested that he would read
the address. The reply was made as
with an agreeable surprise. Why
this letter is for me; I have been expect
ing it for long while p' The messens
ger upon this demanded ten thalers fol-
the carriage of the packet, which was
readily paid, with liberal addition. to
the porter. The new possessof of the
packet hastened to an abscure corner to
examine his prize, but, on breaking the
seals, found nothing but a few sheets OF
blank paper. on which was written
Done"
Year: 1874

Coop SQUARE TALK. = The Battle
Mountain, New, Measure for Measure
gives the following:


A friend, who picked itup on the road
hands us portion of letter addressed
by citizen of this county to his son.
in the States. tits so good and so well
pirected to the case of a great many
c:.iner young men, that we publish it
omitting the authors name.


"You say that you could have the
entree of the best society in Madison
if you had means to keep up a respect
able appearance. No doubt, if you bad
plenty of money you could be endured;
for any fool can travel on his money;
but he is none the less fool, for all
that. A young man who has no incum-
brance, good health, and proper spirit,
would always make himself prescntable
to any society that it would be proper
IOr MIN 10 ulluSie Ill. DuI suppose
your entail capacity is such that you
would enjoy moving in the best society,
though your mother took in washing,
though your falher worked 16 hours OF
every "a; though your grandfather work
ed out by the day in heat and cold and
storm. do not doubt that you would
consider it all right. if you got the mon
ey. Well. differ with you; my motto
is. those who do not work shall not en-
joy the fruits of other peoples labor.


take pleasure in sending money to
my old father, and consider it my duty
to do so; would send him the last dollar
l had, if he needed it; or if it would
contribute to his happiness; but you are
young, and able to work; and you must
do It or starve.


Most Truly,


Your Father
Year: 1874

There is to be great gathering of archbsh-
OBS and bishops at the Vatican They have
been called to Rome, nominally to consider the
present position of the Church, but it is thought
outside that the real object of the meeting is to
discuss the question of the successor of Plus
TX. The ultramontanes are afraid that new
Pope may come to terms with the King of
Italy, and they are, therefore, taking every
precauton to secure the election of an uncom-
promising candidate.
Year: 1874

Mr.. WOODS cards of invitation to his
Democratic friends, bearing the motto, Gus
tice is slow but sure," should give that
model reformer mingled feelings of relief and
"Sure justice' cannot be a
pleasant fact to such political shyster as
Mr.. Wood. but he can find relief in the
declaration that justice is sure, and doubtless
hopes that it will prove so slow as never to
overtake him.
Year: 1874

The Washington Republican is looking for
a leader for the House. Finding no Republi-
can on the floor equal to the task, it calls
upon Speaker Blaine to come down to the
floor, as did Henry Clay, and lead the House
like Thad. Stevens.
Year: 1874

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address ofthe writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
bat as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return reserve COM
nunications that are not used.
Year: 1874

THE suppostious Nena Sahib says he
made his confession under the influence of
the pernicious herb known as bhang. This
drug is said to combine the effects of rum
and opium. and only needs to be known in
this country to come at once into general use.
Its magnifying powers are something wonder
full, and under its influence straw lying in
the road is magnified to the size of huge
roller. Undoubtedly the proverbial camel
had his seven stomachs dstended with bhang
when that last straw was put upon his back.