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Year: 1879

The difficulty, whatever it amounts to,
of conceiving how such being as man
can be descended from an ape, the ape
from fish, and the fish from protozoon,
is paralelled by the life of every human
being The child, before it learns to
speak, appears to have no higher mental
nature than that of an intelligent dog;
for some time after birth it appears to
have no mental nature at ell, and i'm
mediately after conception it has no
higher organic nature than that of
protozoon. The development of the in
dividual is in the highest degree myste.
rious, but the mystery is only repeated,
and the difficulty is not increased, if it
is true, as the doctrine of evolution
teaches, that the development of the in
dividual, from the structureless germ up
to the mature man, has had it's parallel
in the development Of the race. The
relation of mans spiritual to his an
imal nature is no doubt one of the
greatest of all mysteries, but the relation
Of life to matter, though a lower kind of
mystery, is equally mysterious. No
physical science can elucidate the relation
of the spirit to the brain, but the fact
that mans brain has no superiority to
that Of the highest apes from which his
spiritual superiority could possibly be
guessed, so far from giving support to a
materialistic view OF our spiritual ma.
ture, rather tends to cut away the
ground from under any materialistic ar
gument. The question, what point in
the development, either of the individual
or of the race, is that where the spiritual
nature comes in cannot be answered,
but il, is not an important one to answer.


1t is, however, in accordance with all


the anologies Of creation, if the same
creative power which at the beginning
created matter and afterward gave it
life, finally, when the action Of that life
had developed the bodily frame and the
instructive mental powers of man, COM
pleted the work by breathing into man
a breath of higher and spiritual life
Year: 1879

The Indian department announces
thar 700 horses have been run off bv
white men from Red Cloud Agency, and
the military authorities cannot interfere
on account Of the posse comitatus law of
last year, although the stolen horses were
driven past Camps Sheridan and Robin
SOD.
Year: 1879

SOUTHERN ICE.-Few Northerners have a
Just notion of the extent to which artificial
ice IS being manufactured in the South.
The success of the process employed has
been so marked that from Florida to Texas
the machines are being put in operation at
frequent intervals. The actual cost of man.
ufacturing ice on the St. Johns river is
to be but seventy cents ton, including the
storage and delivery. AS Northern ice
used to retail at from ten to fifteen dollars
ton there, it is plain that handsome
profit remains for the manufacturer after
putting his price so low as to drive all natu-
raj competition from the market. One of
the arctic machines, in which ammonia
is used to do the freezing, turns out ten tons
of ice daily, in the form of blocks, about
two and half feet long and ten inches in
thickness. The congelation is perfect, and
many are said to prefer ice thus made to
that formed in the laboratory of nature
PHiLa Record
Year: 1879

A Boston newspaper which has friendly
feeling toward General Butler relates the
following story:


GA distinguished New Yorker, it is said,
sat down one morning at a Boston hotel to
breakfast General Butler was breakfasting
at table near by. The waiter leaned down
and whispered, almost tragically, to the New
Yorker, General Butler took ham and
eggs and coffee what do l care about
General Buffers breakfast? p demanded the
man from Manhattan. well, sir, said the
waiter, when General Butler stays here a
great many of our guests want to know
what he eats, so they can order something
else for safety"
Year: 1879

Ex-Reprcsentatiyc Cain, of South Caro-
lima, addressed a meeting of colored men
in Washington in favor of the negro exodus.
lie declared that he favored the emigration
of colored men to India, Africa. or any
other place in order to improve the condi-
ton Of the race. lie declared that the
movement was not the work of politicians,
but spontaneous uprising of an oppressed
people, who are doing as God directed Mo-
ses to do with the Israelitcs. Under the
rule of Wade Hampton in South Carolina,
he said the laws are imperative as regards
the colored race, and now to-day one hun
dred thousand people in that state are
anxious to 60 out anywhere for peace. In
closing, he advised that all the aid possible
should be given to this movement, as it was
"God's way.n
Year: 1879

A SPECULATION IN BoNRs.-A Newbury
port Mass man was badly sold recently.
He had great project on hand for boiling
down bones to make superphosphate.
All the neighboring boys were engaged to
collect material. The man thought, how.
ever, that he would first try the bones as a
fertilizer without burning. So, having lot
Of grapevines, the first lot of bones were
planted around the roots of one vine. The
boys saw the proceeding, so at night they
went and dug them all up again. Bright
and early the next morning they presented
themselves with supposed new lot. The
process was repeated till fourteen grape
vines had thus served and fourteen times
had those identical bones been sold.-
Boston JGautol
Year: 1879

VOTING BY ELECTRIoITY.-Whena q vote is
TO be taken in the French Chamber, each
member touches one of two buttons on his
desk Zone for yea and the other for nay),
and the ball falls in its proper compartment,
in public place by the side of the speaker.
Thus the vote is taken rapidly and publicly.
As fast as the votes are cast, the whole
number is recorded in sight of all, so that
the process of taking the $50 votes is not
only rapid, but every member sees how it is
going on. In addition the machine writes
down every name with the vote-the yeas
in blue and the nays in red.
Year: 1879

Missouri is preparing to adopt the bell
punch for bar.rooms. The advocates of the
bell punch system of taxing liquor sellers
claim that it will be more equitable than the
present arbitrary state tax of $50 a year,
and that it will cause the number of low
whisky shops to decrease, and the consump.
ton of beer to increase.
Year: 1879

Ex-Governor Seymour, recently over
hauled by an interviewer, freely says that
the subject of military interference at elec
tions will be the real issue upon which the
next Presidential campaign will be fought.
There is deep feeling on this subject in
the North as we'll as the South.
Year: 1879

A market man was mercilessly swindled
in the town of B. His misfortune gave
him very unfavorable opinion of the resi-
dents, and he expressed his opinion OF them
by saying that if the Angel Gabriel stopped
at B. there would be no resurrection.
Why % asked q listener. "Because the
people would swindle him out of his horn
before he had time to blow single toot.'
Year: 1879

The Southern cities are cleaning up and
preparing to see which one can fight the
Yellow Fever most successfully.


A sanitary council for the Mississippi
valley has Just been formed at Memphis for
mutual protection. New Orleans has an
auxiliary sanitary association which propos-
es to raise by subscription 100000 for its
purposes, and will report any outbreak Of
Of the fever there by telegraph.
Year: 1879

| s. Il. Bulletin.


The whaling bark Helen Mar, from
the Arctic Ocean, reached this harbor
last evening, bringing the crew OF the
bark Mercury. The latter vessel aas
abandoned in the ice on the 9th Of
last October, in latitude IL deg. 10
min. north, longitude l72 deg wegt-
ljust north of Herald shoals. The two
ships were together. On the 10Th Of
October there was ice as far as they
could see to the westward


They then stood to the northeast.
On the Goth they worked to the south
war;. among young ice. There was
occasional pieces Of clear water AID
some heavy ice. At dark there was
considerable ice around, and they laid
under easy sail until daylight. At
daylight on the morning Of tho 2lst
they kept away and stood L. S E..
The weather was not very thick they
could see seven or eight miles Soon
after noon they came to young ice,
and the wind hauled al cad. Tie
ships were swung off. 50 as 70 work
through the ice. Capt Hickmott, of
the Mercury, says he worked until
midnight, and then the ice thickened
and the ice stopped the ship. At 10
O'Clock the next morning both ships
dropped anchor During the day of
the 22d no water was TO be seen
from the masthead At night it
breezed u; some, and they hove up
their aachors. The Mercury miled
about two ships lengths, and the Hell
en- Mar did not stir from her position
On the morning of tue 23i the ice
about the ships would bear q ton
weight Matters looked dissnal. and
they prepared for winter. The ships
were in haiIing distance of each other
the Helen Mar being to the south





ward. The latter being a newer and
stronger ship it was decided to put
all the provisions on board Of her and
abandoned the Mercury. Ali that day
aud the next both crews were engaged
i'll securing provisions, wood, sails and
blubber, amounting TO whale and a
half The ice was all the time grow
ing more solid, it was getting cold,
aud every hour their chances Of escap
ing from their icy prison grew less.
On the Gath Capt. Hickmott bid fare
well to the Mercury. That night it
came on to blow a gale from the
northward, and they never saw her
again. AS the gale Increased the ice
began to crack and broke up around
them. This gave them hope. They
made sail and worked all night, some
hours not making more than half .
mile, then again they would SO three
or four miles. The ice was surging
and grinding about them. and every
moment they expected the vessel 10
be cut through, in which case they
must have all perished. the ice was
from six inches To foot in thickness,
and was in small cakes and joined
together. From that time TO their
passing through the straits. six days.
they were constantly working H,sir
way through The ice, aui hourly an
ticipating that the wind might fail
them. II it had ever fallen calm, tif-
teen minutes would have sufaeed 70
have frozen them in SO solid that they
would have been unable to move,
The last night they were in the Arctic
! Captain Hickmott says was the most
fearful one he ever experienced IL
that sea Ii was Intensely cold. and
their rudder became frozen So thai it
was impossible to guide the slip, and
Year: 1879

who will be on the Executive Committee but 1t will
include several OF the former members. Having Or
ganized. the committee will enter ut on an ac-
tive canvass of the State which will not end until
the close OF the polls on election day.
Year: 1879

rogated his opinion OF tho matter. He said ho
had knowledge of the drift OF politics for the past
two weeks. us he had been mined to his bed by y
severe accident He drove four miles this forenoon
TO VOTE 1t being his first appearance out doors since
ne received his injuries.


, "And voted the straight republican ticket, said
the ex-Goyernor 81 have sympathy with tho
greenbach idea. 1t is repulsive to me- recognize
the iact that there is widespread discomfort with
the present management OF the republican party. l
should be glad to see combination of men with an
issue that could sustain for the purpose OF
oVerthrowlng the men who control State poll
tcs put could not 60 far to indorse the here
sizes OF nat money and il the result
woulu bring about the purifcation much needed.
am a republican. stand by the letter of accept
ance and inaugural of President Hayes and sustain
his administration


THE GONERNORsHIP


Mdnight.-At this hour the vote begins to look
Closer and even Mr.. Baines confident calculations
or an election by the people may be upset. II the
percentage Indicated by the vote of 800 towns now
in keeps up the combination will be ahead This
will throw the contest into the Legislature which
has a republican majority.


STILL DOUBT.


At haf-past one O'Clock the election is still in
doubt. The republicans carry the lower house
of the Legislature by good majority and
have working majority on Joint ballot.
The Senate is undecided The republicans
of fourteen and it requires sixteen ma-
jority. Penobscot and York counties are very close,
and it may take the official count to decide. Mr.,
Blaine refuses to give his opinion of the result.
Year: 1879

To make pretty window transparency,
one novel and inexpensive, follow these
directions: Take small, round, thin
wooden plate and scrape the center with
a penknife so that on holding it up to
the light, it seems almost transparent.
Then dash halfaeross the inner part of
the plate coating of blue paints and ii
the center draw ship with sails out
spread, which must be colored brown.
When held up to the light, it has the
appearance of ship on the ocean seen
in the twilight, for the light shining
through the centre which has been
scraped, looks the glimmer in the sky
from departed sun, and brings into
relief the vessels from. A hole is bored
on the edge above and blue ribbon
inserted, by which the plate may be sus-
pended over window, or elewhere, as
may seem convenient. Sometimes these
little plates are used as menu cards,
having the names of the guests inscribed
on the upper portion. They are taken
away and suspended afterwards as
mementos of the occasion
Year: 1879

A child was drowned near Sheffield,
England, lately, which of itself is not,
let us be thankful, so uncommon an oc-
currence as an incident connected with
it. At the inquest one of the witnesses
testified that he passed the child while
struggling in the water, but subsequently
meeting its father, was kind enough to
tell him of the circumstance. He even
went SO far out of his way as to suggest
that if the father, hastened he might be
in time to save it. This, however,
proved to be a mistake, as he arrived too
late. This person excused himself for
not stopping by saying that he had q
long way to go and did not want to get
his feet wet. The witness is described as
ga secondhand gentleman" which is
about as accurate as to say g sow's ear is
secondhand" silk purse.
Year: 1879

The Romans thought the killing of
father so dreadfully impossible a crime
that they had no name for it. In this
country it is apparently becoming 80
common that it hardly needs to be dis
tinguished from other kinds Of murder.
The case of Gum, in Massachusetts,, is
followed by that of Noller, near Cleve-
land. In both these cases the parricide
was prompted by avarice-an inordinate
desire to possess the property of the
father. A third instance happened also
in Ohio, near Delaware. Smith Harriet
is accused Of shooting his father by
reason of some family trouble. When
to these crimes are added that of Fitch,
in Michigan, who killed his little
daughter, and of the Illinois farmer,
the same week, who also shot his child,
the record of unnatural crimes is be-
coming grave enough for season.
Year: 1879

MoRMoNIsM seem to be unpopular in
Georgia, Judging from the fact that the
trial of the men indicted for the murder
of Joseph Standing, q Mormon elder,
in the northern part of that State, a
few weeks ago. have been acquitted not
only of murder, but on the charge Of
being concerned ins riot. Three elders
of the church came, ON from Utah to
help the prosecution, and they say they
are going to stay IN Georgia and con-
tinue the work of proselyting despite
the fate of their predecessor.
Year: 1879

IT is reported from Rhode Island that
the era of good times has begun. The
factories are all running, to fill large
orders, and every industry gives fair
promise. It is also added to these en-
couraging statements that the lesson of
Fall River has been laid to heart by the
operatives in Providence. SO there is
no evil without a compensating good.
Year: 1879

coop otherwise is not important, further
than it should afford protection from rain
and cold. Chickens know no difference be-
tween palace and hovel, SO long as the
one is as comfortable as the other. Two
wide boards placed together roof fashion,
with tight back and a latticed 'front.' make
as good crop as the royal Brahmas or the
democratic Dominiques desire. Such u
coop boy twelve years old, with me-
in an hour. 1t has the great advantage, be-
sides being cheap, Of easy transportation,
and it is very essential that the location of
the coop be frequently changed, so as to Sc
cure fresh earth and purer air to the Gag
ed bird.


Prevent the chicks from running out too
early in the morning and catching cold in
the wet grass. A board may be placed in
front of the slat-work at night This will
keep the chicks in and the cats and skunks
out.


Avoid all damp, wet and cold localities
for coops. Give the chicks the dryest and
sunniest spot on the farm. Dampness will
engender Group in chicks just as much as it
does in children. Indeed, bring up your
chicks very much after the same fashion
you do your children. Keep them dry,
clean, we'll ted and comfortable every way.
The wants and diseases Of all animals are
very analogous, and 1t is pity that we
have not sooner comprehended the COM
mon pathology that exists between the dis
eases of man and his domestic animals. The
dumb beasts suffer because they are dumb.
If they could speak and tell us what allied
them when they are sick, we should not
stuff them with the vile nostrums from
which they have suffered more than from
their diseases.
Year: 1879

InsolubLe Cement for Botttes.-Soften glue
in cold water and melt it in the water bath
to form very thick paste. TO this add
good glycerine in quantity equal to the dry
glue taken, and continue the heating to ex-
pei as much of the water as possible. This
may be cast on a marble slab to cool, and
melted tor use as required. This is not
soluble in alcoholic liquids.


Shi,ved Eggs-Break six eggs into ba-
sin; add to them one ounce OF fresh butter
and a little pepper and salt; melt one ounce
OF butter in small saucepan, then pour in
the eggs; keep stirring until they are set;
serve on toast. They are also very nice
served with fried bacon.


Poison for Rats and Mice-Carbonate of
baryta has been found to be most efficient
poison tor rats and similar vermin. Indeed,
at special series of trials by the Zootech-
nical Institute, in connection with the Royal
Agricultural college, at Proskaw, this SUBJ
stance was found to be more eficacious than
any other. 1t occurs as heavy white pow
der, devoid of taste or smell. In the Pros
kaW experiments it was mixed With four
times its weight of barley meal. and pellets
of the paste We're introduced into the holes
of the rats, house mice, and field mice. n
small quantity proves fatal. It appears to
cause immediate and complete paralysis of
the hind eXtremities, SO that it may be as
sumed that mice eating it in their holes will
die within them, and SO not prove destruct-
i've in their turn to domesticated animals
that might otherwise devour the carcasses.
1t was found in practice that neither fowls
nor pigeons would touch the paste. either
in its soft state or when hardened by the
sun; so that its employment is probably
free from danger to the occupants of the
poultry yards. Some rabbits, on the other
hand. that got access to the paste ate hearth
~ of it and paid the penalty with their lives.
Next to the carbonate of baryta paste. the
ordinary phosphorus paste proved most de-
strnctive. and this, it was found by expert
ment. is more attractive to the mice in Il soft
form than when hardened into pills. But it
is considerably dearer than the baryta prep
aration, an important factor in the calcua-
tons Of The farmer who has to wage wa..
J against rodents Or an extensive scale.
Year: 1879

Take a teaspoonful of Paris green and a
gill of plaster to three gallons of water. My
neighbor, who cultivates eighty acres. uses
five tablespoonfulS of green and a gallon. of
plaster to barrel Of water. had seventy
one rows, and treated thirty of them with a
tablespoonful of poison in three gallons of
water on Saturday. This neighbor sent me
word on Sunday to use the plaster. | did
so on Monday. Tuesday had to go over
the first thirty rows again. Those where
the plaster was used were three days after
wards much greener and taller, and still
show better growth and color. This |
think much the cheapest and best manage
ment for large vines. For small ones |
take fruit cana punch holes in the bottom.
nail lath to the inside of the can for a


handle, and sprinkle the Paris green with
fifty, sixty or even seventy times its bulk of
Year: 1879

Many farmers think muscle work is the
main thing on the farm. How: mistaken
they are /! AS the brain controls the action
of the body, so should it control the work
on the farm. There is as much difference
between an intelligent brain and an igno-
rant one as there is between a productive
farm and one in weeds and brambles. Brain
and muscle are both indispensable, but nei-
ther should be exclusively relied upon.
The more the brain is developed, the more
productive will be its capacities, in the same
way that the better the farm is cultivated,
the more it will produce. Hence farmers
should feed, exercise, cultivate and use the
mind. 1t should be trained to think accu-
rately, act promptly, administer, wisely and
execute thoroughly. 1t can be exercised es
protitably on the farm as in amy OF the
learned professions. 1t can command as
much respect and influence in the noble
profession of agriculture as in any other
profession. The want of the times is an in
telligent, influential, self-reliant class of
farmers. Outnumbering all other classes
combined, they are the very tail in the kite
of our republic. Men in other pursuits lead
them when and where and how they choose.
Better cultivated brains and more firmness
and selt-reliance, which would be possessed
in consequence, would give to our agricul-
| tural classes that influence and power in
this free country that they are so justly en-
titled to wield.-Rurat World.
Year: 1879

1t is with light and cheerful heart that
the farmer may look forward to the results
of the harvest which is already upon us.
The prospects. as regards yield, are all we
could expect, there being but few sections
OF the country where any fears are express
ed of poor yield. Experts, it lstrue, whose
Judgment is entitled to respect, hold that


lied the early part of the season, has had an
effect on the crop which will be developed
at threshing time, if not sooner and that
the average yield will not equal that of last
year. Even should this representation
prove correct, however, we are assured of a
large demand in Western Europe. while but
few countries, save the United States and