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Year: 1878

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HsWYoEk.
Year: 1878

EVOLUTION OF SOUND By wnFoRD. svO. pp $685.


The present treatise is intended as an intro
duetion 10 larger work devoted TO the problem OF hui
man fe here and hereafter which subject the author
claims to have elucidaed the most rigid principles Of
scentihc investigation. In his opinion the theories Of
Darwin and his followers, which have 30 suddenly
sprung into popular favor and have taken such general
possession of all casscs Of scientific thinkers, far as
they are adverse the interests religion repOse upon
nm uncertain and insecure foundation His line Of
thought ia relation the existence Of man beyond the
present life assumes that all things in Nature which
really exist or can form the basis OF mental conception
are substantial entities whether they are principles or
forces OF Nature the Of corporeal bodies In
cuding the life and mental powers OF every senent
organism. Hence he argues that as science has de-
eided that no substance in the Universe can be
annihilated, IL follows that the Immortality OF
the soul may be placed upon a scientific basis II the
human Hie and mind can be shown to be substantial
entities He opens the process I'm this treatise with


discussion Of the wave-theory Of Sound, out OF which
has been developed the undulatory theory Of Light or
the more recently constructed theory of Heat mode
of notion After an examination of the arguments OF
Professor Tyndall, and other eminent expounders OF
the wave-heory the writer concludes that 1t has no
foundation in natural phenomena and as consequence
the doctrine OF evolution has scientific claim on the
belief Of mankind Whether the revolutionary opinions
OF the author will command the attention Of Fcien
fife men, or even Of curious readers interested In the
results Of physical research. may be open to question
but there can be doubt Of the sincerity and earnest
ness of his own convictions.
Year: 1878

A scotchman who had gone
back to his country after long
absence, declared, after going to
the kirk, that the whole kingdom
was on the road to perdition.
"The people," he said, used to
be reserved and solomon on tho
but now they look as
happy on that day as on any
other"
Year: 1878




Lord Lonsdale has named one
OF his race horses Tommy up a
Pear Tree" and the aristocracy
OF England is splitting its sides
over his inimitable wit, If a
costermonger had named his mule
Tommy up a Pear Tree" every
body would have said, and rightly
that the costermonger was a fool.
But humor by lord is one thing,
and that by a costermonger an.
other.
Year: 1878

"How can l leave thee ?" he
was singing in a very tender
tone. He wasn't very popular
with her parents, and it was verg-
ing on twelve o'clock, when the
old man came in and showed him
how he could leave her.
Year: 1878

The town Of Liverpool extends
annually three millions and a half
of dollars in maintaining and
extending its docks. This is more
than the entire river and harbor
appropriation Of the United
States.
Year: 1878

Believing that it would be great
ly to the interest of this parish to
establish a Real Estate Agency in
the town of Abbeville. / have
assumed the position, and inform
all those who have lands, planta.
tons or town lots for sale, or
those who desire to purchase the
same, to call at my store where l
shall always be ready to give full
particulars. and make agreements.
Having now communications with
different parties in the United
States who are desirous to locate
in this country there are chances
to effect sales or purchases at early
date and on satisfactory terms.


Respectfully,


A. D. MARTIN.
Year: 1878

quart of oysters, (when buying them ssk
tor little extra liquor, put over the
fire, rub up a piece of butter size of q
small egg, with two even teaspoonfuls
-four, stir this in the oysters till dis
solved, pepper and salt to taste, and on
no account let it boil but just one inetant
the oysters must not be hard. This is
enough to serve with cod of eight pounds
for twelve persons, as first course before
meat


UNIVERSAL CEMENT-Curdle skim
milk with rennet or vinegar, press cut
the whey, and dry the curd at a gentle
heat as rapidly as possible. When quite
dry, reduce 10 a very fine powder. Then
take of powdered curd, ten drachms;
powdered quicklime, one drachm DOW.
dered camphor, grains mix; keep in
tightly corked vials. To join earthen ware,
etc, the powder is made into paste,
with a little warm water, and apply
Immediately.


To DESTROY BED-BUGs.-One ounce
of corrosive sublimate to one pint Of
alcohol; with the feather end OF a goose
quill apply the remedy to all the crevices
and wood work; the black dots will in
dicate where the bugs hotel is. The
bottle should be labeled poison. and
placed where it will not be used by mis-.
take, or what remains thrown away. Ne
second edition of bugs will issue after the
use of this infallible remedy. ANY
druggist can mix it. A pint viii be
enough for four beds.
Year: 1878




A prominent farmer OF New York
State writes:


Since the advent of the cabbage worm
almost everyone has been at a loss to
know what to do to raise a few cabbages.
Some have tried one thing and some tried
another, and mostly to no purpose. Last
year | set about three hundred and
thirty fine plants ard picked off the
worms by hand as they came, for about
two weeks, which took about two hours
each day. This seeming to be too much
work, and as have well of soft water
near by, | took five-pail kettle, set it
near the well and put into it a pint of
soft soap and the same of salt and then
hlled 1t up with water. let this stand
till the water was warmed by the sun,
and then, after stirring it up well, took
my water pot and applied it at the rate
of about gallon to forty heads, putting
1t in the center. | did this every day,
and the result was l had the incest and
hardest cabbage that were ever raised.
l had no trouble to get ten cents per
head, although cabbage was very cheap
here. Some make practice of buying
their plants, but would not give one
cent per hundred unless knew what |
was getting. 1 use Comstock & Co.'s
Premium Flat Dutch. They are the
best late cabbsges can find.
Year: 1878

Heat IS lite-Cold IS Death.


There is no greater fallacy than the


opinion held by many, particularly the


young and strong and vigorous, that


winter--especially g sharp, frosty one,


with plenty OF snow-is the most healthy


season of the year. Very few persons


seem to realize the fact that cold is the


condition of death, and that in both


warm and cold climates, it Is our uncon-


scious effort to maintain our bodily heat


at temperature of 9S deg. that wears


us out. To this temperature, called


blood heat, every cubic inch of oxygen
/ that serves to vitaIzs our blood must


be raised by our own bodily heat, or life
ceases Since in cold weather the main


tenance OF a sufficiently elevated bodily
I temperature becomes very often a diff.


Guilty too great for our strength, the
advent of a severe winter is really more
/ to be dreaded than that OF pestilence.


The saying, 6 Heat is life-cold Is


DEATH" has a striking illustration and


confirmation in the reports now regu-


larly submitted by DR.. Russell to the
/ Glasgow sanitary committee. The death


rate rises and falls with the regularity o:


the thermometer. So many degrees less


heat, so many more deaths, and vice


versa. In a recent fortnightly report


DR.. Russell says: The death rate in


the first week OF the fortnight was
twenty-one, and in the second week
twenty-five. The mean temperature in
the former week was 4O8 deg. Fahren-
heit, and in the latter 395 deg" He
attributes the low rate of the first week
to the high mean temperature of the
preceding fortnight, which was 27.3 deg,
and adds: "This is a good illustration
of law which we frequently observe in
these reports of temperatures and death
rates-thst week of low temperature
produces rise IN mortality the week
following"


In our climate it would probably be
difficult to find a more frequent cause
of serious ailments than taking cold.
Whatever weak place we have, whatever
constitutional disorder we be subject to,
cold will surely discover. We take cold /.
because our vitality is too low to ward
off the effects of the reduced tempera-
ture around us. As matter of the first
then, 10 resist cold and the .
varions arrangements of the system con-
it is necessary by proper 4
nutrition to maintain our natural ami .
NAL heat; second, to retain this heat /
by sufficient quantity of clothing
third, to regulate with care the temper /
sture of the air we breathe. Contrary to /
the opinion current among lovers of cold /
weather, fire in bedroom in the winter
is cheaper and better than doctors bill; /
for, owing to our inactive condition dur /
ing sleep, the circulation of the vitalizing
blood is both slow and imperfect, and
hence the danger of taking cold by
cold air il greatly increased.


A cold is the beginning of everything
that is bad. If anyone conscious ofhaving
caught one feels cold chills creeping up
the back, let him apply mustard plaster
10 the bottom of the spine and lower part
IF the back at once; and by 20 doing he
may avert dangerous illness before it is
100 late aud medical advice can be pro
cured. 10 should never be forgotten that
heat is life--cold is death"
Year: 1878

How to Use reruiizefs


The Scientific American, excellen
authority, says ON this subject;


In general, the use of a single fertilizer
will be found profitable as farm prac-
tice only in connection with manure or
on land in strong heart, and the poor
farmer will never succeed in enhancing
the cropping capacity of his farm to an
increased profitable position through the
use of one fertilizer alone. Much of the
discredit which artificial fertilizers have
won has risen from non-ap appreciation
OF the fact that they cannot supersede
dung, but must be used in connection
with other plant food. A superphosphate
or a nitrogeuous, or potassic manure
can always find place on farm, but csn
never take the place of manure in farm
practice, and the sooner this false hope is
destroyed, the better il will be for all con-
cerned. A mixture of chemicals or other
elements containing the food that plants
require does, however, offer promise OF
practical results, on the farm, and can
be offere1 in competition with dung, SO
far as the result in crops Is concerned.
This, then, is the promise of the com
plete fertilizer; if the farmer has dung
sufficient for five acres only and wishes
TO cultivate ten or twenty or more, in
addition to what his dung supply will
allow, then he must rely on the complete
farFflf1or L. a 70
what his dung viii cover. The exPe-
rience of ages has shown the reliability
of dung; all the best modern expert
ments we have show the efficacy of
mixture of chemicals in taking the place
of dung, provided they supplement the
soil supply 50 as to furnish to the
crops the elements shown by analysis
to exist in dung. We cannot fairly
compare supsrphosuhate in its results
with dung a single element with
complete fertilizer. The recognition of
this fact by farmers will make q revolu-
tio1 in farming, and will disperse much
of the fog which interested parties have
thrown about the question of fertilizers.
In final word, all the best experiences
and experiments, as we interpret their /
meaning, point certainly to the facts we
here claim, that the single fertilizer
element must find its profitable use in I
connection with other manures, wkile the
complete fertilizers alone can be expected (
t) furnish material in form for farm
practice, and is the only form of artificial |
fertilization as yet discoverd which offers I
a means OF extending an arabic land be-
yond the ability of the dung heaps to
supply.
Year: 1878

There is tendency at this season to
feed too nuch grain and get the horses
too fat. This is done at the expense of
muscle, because aa animal kept con-
stantly at work will not get "hog fat"
the food going to furnish tissue and
muscle is used up and destroyed. Not so
with an animal kept in a stall and given
no exercise, except, perhaps, that OBJ
tained while being led to water. Tn
amount of grain fed should be reduced
and plentiful supply of hay Kept in
the racks at all times. When possible.
the horses should be given the free run
OF the yard every day. If only given
their liberty occasionally, they are liable
to rua and jump to excess. MANY
valuable animals have been lost bv
rupture or fall obtained through giving
exercise to exuberant animal spirits.
Year: 1878

Ludlow-street Jail, where he remained up
to the time of his death. He had been
promised immunity from further i'm
prisonment if he would disclose the
rascalities of the ring" and he did
partially tell the truth, and his evidence
was used in numerous cases. From
many of the other members of the ''ring"
the city recovered large amounts, but
Tweed had disposed of his property III
such way that nothing remained to seize.
Year: 1878

Many persons have difficulty in rais-
ing sweet potato plants. An experienced
farmer says: GAS / have had uniform
success IN raising fine plants it may not
De out of place to give my method of lay-
ing Up the tubers: Dig out the old mold
oiyour pit about two feet deep and fill
up with fresh ho-se manure. Cover the
manure about three inches deep with the
mold that was thrown out, and on this
lay the tubers, covering them also with
Gloid about two inches deep. Don't use
glass; the plants don't come ouita 40
soon, but are much harder. The bod
should be sprinkled every morning with
warm water and covered at night with
carpet or mating. Care should be taken
not to let cold rains fall on the plants
Year: 1878

Men are supposed to know, or to be
able to find out, whether or not they are
on the Lords side. The question implies
as much. There are various tests which
we crn apply that will settle the question
for us very soon.


Take it in matters of everyday life,
in business, in buying, selling, winning
the prizes of life, there is side which
is "the Lords side" Do you ask,
What is it? 1t is the side of honesty
and integrity and truth; the side that
| gives q man an equivalent for his
money; that has but one price for the
article at the same time; that puts sixty
minutes into an hours work, and
sixteen ounces into the pound, and thirty
six inches into the yard, and four
pecks into the bushel, and 100 cents in,o
a dollar; that doesn't put sand in sugar,
nor pease in coffee; the side that is per~
pendicular against all the tricks and
sharp practices, the lies of utterance and
the lies of silence; business which lays
its course like vessel along the meri-
dian of right, in the teeth of all winds,
and holds to it, blow they high or blow
they low; that is the side which God is
on. " the Lords side"


Perhaps you have throught that the
Lord has no slde, eXce9I IN matters
purely religious; that the whole realm
of business and our worldly affairs gen
erallv lie quite outside his cognizance;
that God comes into our families at the
hour of prayer, meets us in our closets.
goes with us to church, aud then virtu
ally retires from US. A greater mistake
could not possibly be made. God is
as much interested in your business as
in YOUR worship, and he looks it
through with as keen an eye. You are
making character a great deal fas ter in
vour shop, and Office, and store, than you
do in church, because men usually put a
great deal more energy and lie into
their business than they do into their
worship. All those powers whose exer
else goes to make character, to determine
and decide destiny are put by most men
to a far higher tension in the places of
business than in the place of worship.


There is more soul-saving and SOUL
losing done on those streets and in those
places where men congregate 10 do bust
ness. than in all our churches. That is
nv belief.


The Lords side in cur business affairs
is very definite and clear-cut side
+ Rev S. Graves.
Year: 1878

At the time that the father of the
present Marquis of Butte came into pos
session OF the town of Cardiff, it was a
little unimportant village at the edge of
large tract of desolate moorland, which
bad never been utilized in any wav.
Finally he resolved to supply the town
with docks, and is said to have risked his
last penny in the enterprise, but it was
successful, and Cardiff is now a busy and
thriving seaport. A great income is de-
rived from these docks, which is all ap.
piled to further expansion of CONNER.
cial facilities. The present Lord Bute is
also the owner of large fields of the
smokeless coal, that is so extensively
used by navies.
Year: 1878

ercised the right Of securing their fu-
ture prosperity out of our ample
means. We heard no more of their
former history than that the persecu-
ton of those whose wishes their mar.
risge had opposed, had driven them
to hide their poverty and misfortune
in the wilderness. We have heard
of them since.


"The young man, as We discovered
on questioning him, remembered
nothing of his sensations while IN
conscious, except vague, dreamlike,
and yet intense sorrow for his young
wife. He had no knowledge what
ever OF the voice that had addressed
US, and appeared to believe that he
had labored under temporary sus-
pension Of animation arising from
starvation. We did not combat his
belief, for we believed that be was
actually dead, and that be only re-
turned to life through his great love.
Who will deny that love is stronger
than death, and that it goes with US
even beyond the grave 7"
Year: 1878

King Kuss bad received from Sa-
kra, the chief of the gods, jewel,
which was octagonal in shape, and
he used to wear it suspended by o
string, which had been miraculously
passed through the centre, notwith-
standing the eight bendings or angles,
frcm one end to the other The Jew
ell had descended to King Wedehs,
but the string by which it was sus-
pended had become decayed and rot
ten, and no man knew how to pass a
string through the centre by reason
of the eight beIdings of the jewel
Now, King Wedehe wished to wear
the jewel, and 50 be sent it to the
villagers of the eastern village, where
the pandit dwelt, and bade them take
out the old decayed string from the
interior part Of the hole, and replace
it with a new string throughout, that
the jewel might be hung. as before,
from the Kings neck. But these vii
layers were not able either to take
out the old string or TO put the new
string in its stead So Mahaushsda,
knowing their trouble, sent for them,
and telling them not TO concern them
selves with the matter, ordered them
to bring him little honey. He then
smeared some drops Of honey in the
holes st the two ends Of the jewel,
and having twisted a new string OF
woollen thread, be dipped the end
thereof in honey and pushed it short
distance into the hole Of the jewel,
aud placed it in an ant hole from
which the ants were coming out.
But the ants issuing forth from the
ant hole, by reason Of the smell of
the honey, ate up the old thread
which had rotted in the jewel, and
taking in their mouths the end of the
woollen thread which had been dip
ped in the honey, dragged it under
meath and brought it out at the other
side. When the pandit found that
the string bad been passed through
the jewel, be gave it to the villagers
and babe them present it to the King.
The people OF the village sent it to
the King, and when be heard the de-
vice by means of which the string
had been put through the jewel be
was greatly pleased--The Fortnight
In Rerieac
Year: 1878

A passenger on board the steam.
ship Devonia, from New York, writes
that there were on the ship Is Cana
dian carriage horses shipped for Glas-
gov, and 40 head of horned cattle
consigned to the same port. The
weather was fair with slight head
winds until Friday, when at or about
noon the wind changed, and the De
vonia few before it, her freight Of
live stock doing well, and improving
with the rest after the fatigues Of
their long journey by rail. The wind
increased, and by Saturday evening
we were in gale. The horses stood
nine head on each side Of the vessel;
those on the port side were exposed
to the full fury Of the gale The sea
washed over them, and in short time
their wretchedly constructed stalls
were dashed to pieces -


The horses, thrown from their
sings, lay prone upon the deck, torn,
manned, wounded, and even blinded.
The noble animals lay and perished,
in despite Of the continued and ardu-
Gus toll Of the officers and crew Of the
vessel. Sometimes horse would
struggle to his feet, only to be flung
to the deck with renewed violence
and increased suffering. On the star
board side, being the lee side, the in
jury and consequent sufferings were
less. A few Of the stalls here held
together, and out of the Is head ship
ped, ) animals were saved, and that
without serious iDjury-indeed, a.
most intact. OF the 40 steers, one
died of natural causes, one had to be
slaughtered, and three were SO much
injured as to be a complete loss.


The horned cattle stood the gale
better than the horses. The arrange
ments made for them were better,
and they struggled far less against
their condition, therefore they got of
better The foreman in charge work
ed like beaver, and, aided by the
ships company, brought his charge
well through what was as bad a gale
as had swept the Atlantic for some
years. Another large ocean steamer
exposed to The same weather, lost on
her passage, "a head of horned cattle,
aud had two of her life boats carried
away
Year: 1878

A story is told of a deacon in Ten
nessee, who was in the habit Of rid
ing a bucking mule-that is, a mule
that can make q csmel's back of its
straight one, sad, by q spasmodic
movement of its four legs and hump,
discharge Its rider ike cannon-ball.
The other day they came to the edge
of the worst mud hole in the State,
and the mule gave unmistakable in
dications of bucking. The good dea-
con knew that be was about to be
thrown, and his mind skurried about
for a prayer. His table grace came
easiest


"Lord, for what xe are about to
receive make US humbly thankful" "
he exclaimed, and the mule had buck
ed and he was in
Year: 1878

Further accounts of the tornado in Wis
consin indicate that thirty lives were lost
and between fifty and one hundred people
injured. The track of the storm is every
where marked ty des lat on and ruin. 1t
was accompanied by thunder and lightning
Of the most terrifying nature. The belt Of
country travrrSed is low and wet, favor,
able condition for the development of
atmospheric electricity. y storm of like
intensity passed over nearly the same belt
of country about twenty-five years ago.
Year: 1878

Orders have been received in Liverpool
for the shipment Of American cotton for
consumption in the mills Of Bombay. The
native product is much below the capacity
of the mills. and our cotton will be admit
ted free of duty.
Year: 1878

America is doing more and more every
day toward the work of feeding the world.
The reports of our Consul at Havre show
steadily increasing demand for American
provisions in France, and two steamers,
which have been fitted up with refrigerat-
ing chambers, have taken to that country
in the last six months half a million pounds
of fresh meat.