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Year: 1878

The Army Reorganization Bill.


Washington, Dec. 15.-Opposition to
the new army bill is daily gaining in
strength as the details of the measure
become more generally known, and the
opinion now prevails in Washington
that the joint committee will fail to get
their bill through both branches of con-
gress, II, indeed, 1t passes either house.
1t will be fought in congress from at
least two diametrically opposite stand.
points, both by those who think 1t aims
at doing too much, and by those who
believe 1t proposes too little in the line
of reduction. Many democratic men,
bers of the house already denounce it
In private conversation us u plan to
saddle upon the country in perpetuity
what they characterize as an overgrown
standing army. This class of members
say they will not be satisfied with any
thing less than reduction of the total
force to $1,000 men, and sweeping re-
duction in the pay Of all except the
@O"NA aaCo VI OluCGl5.


They also earnestly condemn those
features of the bill which aggrandize
the functions Of power of the general
OF the army at the expense of the pres
ent direct au hority of the secretary of
war, as being calculated to subordinate
civil to military power. On the other
hand, a large number Of conservative
representatives and senators are firmly
of the opinion that the radical changes
in the military system of our country,
both as regards the staff and line or
ganizations which are proposed by this
bill, are of more than doubtful expedi-
ency, and that at all events they should
not be undertaken without much full
er consideration than can possib y be
given to them during the present short
session OF congress.


The bill is compromise measure,
which probably does not completely sat
isfy more than one or two members of
the joint committee. Surprise is ex-
pressed in army circles that the COM
mittee's report in 30 many particulars
betrays ignorance of the practical du-
ties of the military service. Thus. for
instance, it is recommended that the
Inspector generals and adjutant gen.
erals departments be consolidated,
although the duties of the officers in the
former require them to be continually
travelling from one part of the country
to another. whereas an adjutant must
almost always remain in one place. 1t
is discovered also that the bill If enact
ed, would bear with extreme hardship
upon a very large proportion of the
officers on the retired list, especially
thoSe who entered the army at the sac
riiice of their business interests at the
outbreak of the rebellion as volunteers.
Such officers when retired under this
bill will receive annual pay thereafter
only at the rate of two per cent. of
the present pay for each year of service,
and all officers already ON the retired
list will have to submit to "a great re-
duction In their present pay unless by
reason Of wounds they have been total
ly disabled. These officers and their
numerous influential friends throughout
the country will undoubtedly prove to
be very powerful element of the COM
bined opposition which the new Matched
and unfiedged creation Of the Burnside
ocm nittee has yet to encounter, and
which from present appearances it is
not likely to overcome.
Year: 1878

GARDENING FoR MAY-Sow shirt
buttons early in the morning.


Sow bird seed this month. The
birds will come up by June.


Cats do best in the night in a
light soil, well dug and raked.


Sardine cans, broken bottles, old
shoes and tinware should be set out
in the back yard.


If you are landlord and in any
doubt as to what product to raise
raise the Ient.. If you are not a
landlord try and raise the wind
E'.r.
Year: 1878

PRoF. RILEY, chief of the grass
hopper commission, still expresses
as the opinion Of the commission
that the West need not fear this
year serious ravages from the grass
hoppers. This opinion has been
formed after personal examination
last fall, and from reports Of numer-
Gus correspondents during the win
ter and spring.
Year: 1878

THE shipments of freight over
the Northern Pacific at present are
enormous, and the coaches are
crowded daily with passengers.
Give us the extension and we will
show you how to run a railroad
Brainerd Tribune.
Year: 1878

THE earnings of the Northwest
ern road for April exceed those of
the corresponding month last year
by $25o,00o. The increase for the
ST. Paul road during the same time
was upwards of $27o,0oo. Fretty
good evidence of better times.
Year: 1878

A large bed of superioi white clay, with
blush tit, and believed II be suitable for
the manufacture of all kinds of earthen ware,
has been discovered on the ST Paul & Duluth
railroad, and in the vicinity Of Kettle river
The deposit is from five to eight feet below
the surface, and nearly iE the center of a
grassy slough Tue bed was first found by
persons making soundings.-Poaeer Press.
Year: 1878

Again must we call the attention
of breeders to the profit in ducks,
when properly cared for, and when
there are facilities at hand for breed
ing them properly. Many a farmer
has realized far more from breeding
ducks than he would obtain from his
chickens, for they are very hardy,
and lay remarkably we'll during some
parts of the season. As soon as
they commence to lay, the eggs
should be carefully gathered and put
away; as soon as a hen (not duek)
wants to ait, set her with ducks eggs,
and let her hatch and care for the
brood till they are able to take care
of themselves. A hen will care for
a brood of ducklings far better. or
dinarily, than will an old duck. If
the ducks think they have laid
enough eggs, and show unmistakabie
signs of wanting to sit, put them into
convenient coop, put one of your
most vigorous young brakes with
them. and they will soon be willing
TO shell out eggs again. which should
be set under hens as fast as CONVEX
lent, so as to bring as many out at a
time as possible, thereby lessening
the cost of attending TO them. A
shallow tub, kept we'll filed with
water, will afford plenty of bathing
room for The ducklings until'they are
two or three months old, aud per-
haps longer.-Poultry World.
Year: 1878

Macaulay's prophecy is worth recall
ing about these times "As long as you
have boundless extent of fertile unoc-
cupied land your l-boring population
will be far more at ease than the labor
ing population of the Old World; but
the time will come when New England
will be thickly settled, wages will be
low and fnctuate, and sometimes many
will be out of work. Then your institu-
tions will be brought to test. Hard
times makes the laborer discontented
aud turbulent, and incline him to listen
with eagerness to agitators, who tell
him that it is a monstrous iniquity for
one to have a million while another can
not get full meal When a legislature
is to be chosen, on one side will be a
statesman preaching patience, respect
for vested rights, strict observance of
public faith. On the other a dema-
gogue, Tanting about the tyranny of
capitalists and usurers, asking why any
body should be permitted to live in lux
ury while thousands of honest people.
are in want of neeessaries. Who will
be likely to be preferred by this discon-
tented element, and what sort of lsgls
lature will yoH be likely TO expect9
fear in some such season of adversity
spoliatIon will increase distress.
Year: 1878

The best sheep for a farmer to


keep are those that yield the heavi.
est feeces and the greatest number


Of pounds of meat. The scrub sheep
| will yield from three to six pounds


of wool per head, while Merinoes


will range between ten and twenty
pounds. and thoroughbred Cotswold>


more. Why is it that the farmers
DO not raise the sheep which win
give these heavy feeces? Then as
TO the meat. the fine sheep produces
an enormous amount of flesh, and
does not eat more than a scrub. Bul
besides these facts, the fine sheep do
not only yield large 1eeces per head.
but the wool is of superior quality.


The same is true of the sheep in
comparison with scrubs.


Southdowns, for instance, are the
finest mutton in the world, always
commanding an extra price-a flesh
which princes desire-while the
deeecs is medium. The Shropshire
stand next in quality. and are next to
Cotswolds in fleeces. The profits of
these breeds are very great in times
of ordinary prosperity. and under all
it is best for the far
mer to breed them, because they
pay better-the grand result which
is the supreme object of the farmer
the highest possible remuneration
for his capita! and labor.


And all concerning sheep is true
Of fine breeds of cattle. horses. hogs
and poultry. In the face or these
indisputable facts, the mass of the
people should not handle scrub |
stock, and entertain an ignorant OPP
position to fine b-eeds.-Li0e Stock |
Record.
Year: 1878

yours and take if to England and have
it played there in the face of a version
Of your own already copyrighted anf
sold +? If it ever was done it was pretty
hard, wasn't it 1 think it was, and J
sympathize with you, and l hope you
like my sympathizing with you.


With many thanks for your generous
offers-they are generous, since you
have so conclusively proved that L have
no rights anyaohere-I remain, yours re
pectfully,


FRANCIS HOpGsoN BURNETT.
Year: 1878

Out in Iowa the young ladies aid
the yellow fever sufferers by selling
kisses at ten cents apiece. We
opine that there has been enough
wasted around here to have brought
in a revenue of $50. 6.381.2 .28. or in that
immediate neighborhood. The worst
of it is the waste continues.
Year: 1878

In church women think thai they
receive because they observe. and
that they are meditating when they
are only holding their tongues.


The highest mark of esteem a wo-
man can give to man is TO ask his
friendship. and the most signal proof
of her Indifference IS TO offer him
hers.
Year: 1878

A TxAcHkR in n Boston school was
delighted to see every child's hand 50
up in answer 20 tho question OF how
many had ever heard Of Mr. Emerson
but her soul sunk within her when she
discovered II WAS Billy Emerson. tho
minstrel. whose show-bills had placarded
the walls OF the Hub for several days.
Year: 1878

Tur man who has written anything
for the editor and didn't " scratch u OF
in hurry" will please call at this office
and hear Of something to his advantage.
--Oa City Derrick. lie il busy looking
after tho man who read personal
paragraph and did not have his aiten-
ton called to 10.
Year: 1878

The Vatican authorities on marriage
advised the Catholics throughout Italy to
get married first in church. and then, to
avoid trouble, to go through with the legal
regulations at the Mayoralty. y
Year: 1878

Mr.. Edison, after experimenting for
two years upon it, has just produced
another notable invention. 1t is based
upon the principle of the phonograph,
and called the embossing and translat-
ing system of telegraphy. The instru-
ment consists of revolving disk, upon
which is clamped down sheet of paper.
The surface of the disk is marked by a
spiral groove, beginning at the center
and gradually expanding, like screw
thread. The disk is made to revolve by
an electric motor, and while revolving a
magnet moves over the surface, follow
ing the groove. A metallic arm, hold
ing the disk in place, is caused to move
so that the point works in connec-
tion with the magnet directly over the
spiral, much the same as the point in
Edison's phonograph moves over the
surface OF tin-foil on the revolving
cylinder. The sheet of paper thereby
becomes matriX, and is stereotype
as it were, of the characters transmitted
This indented matrix may become the
medium of transmitting the com
munication as many times and to a:
many different places as may be desired
By connecting the revolving disk with &
battery, the disk will be made to re
volve, and automatically transmit. The
great advantage of this instrument il
that message may be sent at one time
in the ordinary telegraphing way, to a!
many places as may be desired. Mr.
Edison is elated over his new invention
and expects that it will soon be put int
! operation everywhere.
Year: 1878

Ice water is getting ready to slay its
thousands. Catnip tea is the only safe
remedy for thirst.


An Indiana druggist has drawn fifty
thousand dollars in a lottery. AS soon
as he gets it we will let you know of
that, too.


Why not have law in this State that
every person killed while playing ball
should be turned over to medical col
lege as cadaver?


Why speak of that affair as the Wash
ington scandal? Why try to con-
vey the idea that anything can scan-
daliZe Washington society?


The Washington clerk who lets 60 Of
| his situation to secure better one can
be met on the street next day looking as
if he had bitten into a brickbat.


Bessie Turner has been eclipsed by a
Kansas woman, who claims to have been
conveyed four miles and married to a
man she hates, while in her sleep.


The presence of an alligator in the
vicinity of a bathing place not only
tends to decorum, but assures the public
that bathers won't remain in the water
too long.


Strathroy, Ont, has dog valued at
one hundred thousand dollars. The
family of the man owning this canine is
valued at fifteen cents. The man him.
self isn't worth buying at any figure.


Edison is going to reap all the glory
of the next decade if some of you chaps
don't get up and stir yourselves. Why
don't you bring out machine to brace
up wilted collars?


Those eight buffalo women who are to
travel over England on feot probably
haven't thought of the danger of meet
ing a COW in the middle of the road.
Let them be warned in time.


Oswego's old woman has reached the
age of one hundred and two without
having made bed-quilt with ten thou
send pieces in it. Can woman who
has so neglected her plain duty squeeze
into heaven?


Albany is mad because the appropria-
tion for her new post-office building was
cut down to fifty thousand dollars. She
can't see how any one can gobble any
part of that small sum and have enough
left to keep up appearances.
Joseph Bradford, of Michigan, is a
true phllanthropist. he will rub his
body with honey and sleep in front of
the biggest hotel in Saratoga this sum-
mer, so as to call all the mosquitoes to
him and give the guests rest.


There is a fortune in store for the
genius who can invent a way of carry
ing home mackerel so twill resemble
a parcel containing twenty-six yards of
silk for his dear wife.


Thought is not as rapid as philoso-
pliers have asserted. A man who is sit
ting behind a runaway horse may
bounce along full mile before he has
thought of half of his mean deeds.


The Indians, when holding the sun
dance, will endure any amount of pain,
but let an Omaha hotel keeper lift him
down stairs in the gentlest manner and
he flies to Jury to assess damages.
Year: 1878

Deal gently with her, Father Time;


Write not too bold
Thy name upon her brow Of snow,
But let her years be told
So senselessly wu scarce may know
That she Is growing old.
Deal gently with her, Father Time;
The red, the rare,
The roey apples Of Der cheek


We fain would have thee spare;
Or zeal them gently and so meek


We still may think them there.
Deal gently with her, Father Time;
Forget thy skill
In turning brown hair unto white;
OF II thou'lt have thy will,
We pray thee leave us yet some slight,
Fond trace Of auburn still.
Deal gently with her, Father Time;
o do not steal
The diamonds spark ling in her eyes,
Nor yet her merry peal
OF joyous mirth or glad surprise
Their loss we most should feel.
Deal gently with her, Father Time,
Through all her years;
Touch lightly with thy marks Of age,
And when her spirit nears
The confines of her pilgrimage,


Wen bless thee through our tears.
Year: 1878

A YOUNG woman with pretty face
and modest ways took a room in a
Springfield hotel. The other guests
pitied her because she seemed timid and
unprotected. Before the week was out
three men had called to see her. One
was the husband from whom she had
eloped. A second was the man with
whom she had eloped. A third was a
man with whom she had promised to
elope, but had Tilted. The simultaneous
meeting of these four persons was so in.
harmonious that all were turned out Of
the house,
Year: 1878

lftfBlnld NENcN.J hiittrpIlsc-l


A few days since young man had an
arm torn off in some machinery in the
Marysville (Cal. foundry. The Appeal
says since the arm was buried the boy
complained to his mother of pain in his
lost arm, and said that its cramped po-
sition in the box in which it was buried
added to his pains and aches. The
mother, who has labored night and day
for the relief of her son since the acci-
dent, informed Peter, an elder son, of
what Ed. complained, and advised him
to go to the cemetery, dig up the box in
which the limb was buried, straighten
the limb and rebury it. Peter performed
this duty, and the next morning, after
the physician had dressed the shoulder
and departed, the mutilated boy said to
his mother:


"This is the first morning the doctor
has dressed me without great pain, and
l feel quite easy"


The mother had not informed the
afflicted boy of what had transpired at
the cemetery, and the question is. how
did communication pass from the dis
membered limb to the senses of the
injured youth? The facts are as stated.
Who will answer?


ANOTHER CASE.


EDITOR Enterprise: A gentleman
called my attention to an item in your
paper regarding a lad whose arm had
been amputated, and what he suffered,
and the removing of the same and its
results. Fifteen years ago lost leg,
and it was closely packed in a casket,
causing me constant, terrible pain. A
good wife, unknown to me, sent faith
full servant to arrange the amputated
limb comfortably in a new and larger
casket. The moment the leg was
handled 1 knew it, and the comfort be-
gan then and has never ceased, and l
could tell the position precisely in
which the missing member was placed.
1 am glad to know that my experience
is verified; but just how to account for
this let the wise men tell. This is the
first time any allusion was ever made to
this matter by myself, and l only allude
to it now to add my testimony to that OF
the little lad, that missing members, in
some mysterious way, convey to us the
sense Of feeling. 1 am we'll known to
many in your community, and the
peculiar circumstances attending my
loss, if you desire, you can publish.


Yours truly, j. o. ELDRIDGE,


Of Hill. Newhall & Co
Year: 1878

A correspondent of the Country Gentle
man says: | think farmers are not suffi.
GENTLY aware of the value Of carrots for
feeding, or else they would be generally
grown. find them very valuable to feed
laying hens in winter--in fact far superior
to any other vegetable for this purpose.
The carrots should be chopped fine. or
crushed with a mallet, or axe, or in some
other way, and fed every morning. Onions
should be added about twice week. IL
this is done the hens will feel graiified.
and show their gratitud, by an increase of
eggs. Many dairymen use carrots to color
winter butter. The best way to color but
ter. The best way to color butter with
carrots is to feed them to the cows. am
confident that horses will thrive better Ii
fed carrots once per day than If hay Cor
straw and grain are used.


There is certainly no crop that pays bet.
ter than this. One thousand bushels per
acre is by no means an uncommon yield.
Perhaps the labor and expense of weed
ing is the greatest objection to growing
them. To Obviate this difficulty, in
measure. | have sown them upon the same
ground for ten successive years. manuring
the land heavily each year with hen man
ure. BY this course, and by using fresh
seed, and sowing very early. the wedding
is not difficult. OF course land that is rich
enough to grow profitable crop. will
have many weeds at best, but get your
land once clean, use manure which is free
from foul seeds, start early, and the labor
will be very much reduced. Using green
manure has tendency to cause the roots
forked and misshappen, but that is of but
little consequence If they are to be fed out
on the farm. Thinning out" is not 90
important (but always desirable) when
they are to be fed, as the number of BUSH
els will be about the same when not
thinned, but the roots will be smaller.
Only seed of the previous year should be
sown. Sowing seed two years old will
lessen the crop one-half; besides they are
longer terminating, consequently the
weeds will get the start and cause much
additional labor. The Long Orange Is de-
cdedly the best variety to grow for stock.
Year: 1878

At q meeting Of the Shelby county
board Of education, resolution was
adopted declaring that trustees should
not pay more than $225 per day for
teachers for district schools during tho
coming school terms, and that the aver
age price Of teachers per day in any
township shall not exceed ~.
Year: 1878

One of the hottest regions of the
earth is along the Persian Gulf, where
little or no rain falls. At Bahrin the
arid shore has no fresh water, vet
comparatively numerous population
contrives to live there. thanks TO CO.
pious springs which hurst forth from
the bottom OF the sea. The fresh wa.
ter is got by diving. The diver. sit.
ting in his boat, winds a great goat
skin bag around his left arm, his hand
grasping its mouth; then he takes in
his right hand heavy stone, to which
is attached a strong line. and thus
equipped he plumges in and quickly
reaches the bottom. Instantly open
ing the hag over the strong jet of fresh
water, he springs up the ascending
current. at the same time closing the
bag, and is helped aboard. The stone
is then hauled up. and the diver after
taking breath. plunges in again. The
source "f these copious Submarine
springs is thought to be the green hill
ot Osman, some five or six hundred
miles distant.
Year: 1878

Most people. in cleaning lamp chin.
neys, Use either brush made of brist-
les twisted into wire, or a rag on the
point of pair of scissors. Both of these
are bad, for without great care the
wire or scissors will scratch the glass,
as diamond does, which, under the
expansive power of heat, soon breaks.
as all scratched glass will. If YOU
want neat little thing that costs
nothing and will save half your glass,
tie a piece of soft sponge the size of
your chimney to pine stick.
Year: 1878

OF the above twenty-five children under twelve
years OF age. notice that the mortality among the
colored people from yellow fever Is always very
small; In the list Of tho dead Of yellow fever NOS
single colorsd person appears. thm
Year: 1878

From communication, which


appears elsewhere, signed "3 TO A.
it will be seen that although we
did our level best to sootbc, soften
and console the defeated trio and
let them down as gently under the
circumstances, Ms We possibly


could, Gas il is net in our nature to
kick foe after he is DOWN, yet We
find them, SO soon as they recover
their breath, and while yet reellng
from exhaustion, and blinded with
rage and trickling gore. rushing
franlicalIy to the attack in the
broad field of newspaperdom.
We regret that onr space will not
admit reply in this issue ; IN fact
we are aware that one dose OF this
kind Of literature is as much rs our
readers can stand at time but
then it does us proud to think
how we'll hit 'em Just behind the
the bure idea, sends slrcaks OF
glory coursing through our ecstatic
soul, like unto Star Spangled Ban
ner twincd around doublc-bar.
relied rainbow. Oh, just you wait