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Year: 1879

We have some excellent business
men In our town-men who thrive
by attending to their own business
and letting other peoples business
alone. This is the sort of business
men we like; but we have another
class, we are sorry, to say, whom
we can not properly call business
men, but who still manage to keep
busy in one direction. They are
regular "busy-bodles," and keep
things moving in their department,
which is to attend to their neigh
bors concerns exclusively. This
occupation gives them no time to
look after home affairs Man
chester Guardian.
Year: 1879

A writer in the New York Sun,
who declares himself a civil engin-
eer, has originated the Iovel theory
that to food the great Sahara des.
ert, as has been suggested, would
cause the world to be destroyed by
another deluge. The depth and
size of the desert below the level of
the ocean is stated as 500 to $50
feet; the area in square miles is
over 100000; and this civil engin-
eer has figured it out tEat the SHIFT
ing of such an immense body OF wa
ter as would be required to fill the
basin would destroy the terrestrial
balance; in other words, cause the
world to tilt over. With this
change of the earth's inclination to
it's orbit would follow a rush of wa
ters from the north to the south
pole, which would destroy all ami
NAL life,
Year: 1879

If any one of you prize winners
were a.son of mine as might have
been the case, l am glad to think,
on former occasions), and good
fairy were to offer to equip him ac-
cording to my wishes for the battle
of,private life, should say: 81 do
not care to trouble you for any
more cleverness; put in as much in
dustry as you can instead: and oh;
If you please, broad, deep chest
and a stomach of whose existence
he shall never know anything. i
shall te we'll content with the pros
poets of a fellow so endowed
Huxley.
Year: 1879

When the present Pope was Car
dinal he conceived the idea of pub
fishing a Catholic journal that
should be an organ in his church,
and that could be read by all the
people of Europe and America in
their mother language. Since his
elevation to the Pontifcate he has
exerted himself to start this ne~spa
per, and now announces that its
first number will be issued next
month. 1t will be printed in seven
different languages; it will discuss
the political and economical ques
tions of the day, and officially repro
sent the opinions of the Holy See.
The compositors are to be the deaf
and dumb pupils in the asylums OF
Rome. Alimonde will be the gener-
al superintendent, and the Pope is
anxious that a Cardinal should be at
the head of the editorial department.
The novel paper will start with
$4,000 subscribers.
Year: 1879

Writing with d pencil on postal
cards is attended with danger. A
son recently wrote 10 his mother In
Chicago in this way, and during lbs
transit through the postofice some
rogue got possession of IL, erased
all the writing except the signature
and filed IL up with the request
that the sum OF $40 should be sent
10 j. Rogers, who had loaned him
that amount. The mother. upon
receiving the card, Immediately
sent a money order FOR the amount
20 the address mentioned and
wrote 10 her son what she had done.
He Immediately telegraphed TO stop
the order, and luckily tue dispatch
arrived In time to save tie money.
The rogue called at the Office for
the money, bat was told that the
order had been stopped, and hastily
decamped.- Boston Journal.
Year: 1879

A baby crept 70 his fathers knee


And was lifted up and lHlled to rest
Till his Blue ewes closed, 81 tired was be;
And his little head 'eli peacefully
AT ease on the ready shoulder there.
While the baby hand so soft aud fair


Lay Ike shield on his fathers breast
OF old twas said when. men drew. near


To fierce temptation Of deadly strife,
And lost their way ia a maze OF fear,
Or periled their souls for worldly gear,
By an unknown way an angel baud
Would lead them out of the dangerous lana
lnto the ligh. Of a nobler life.
The story is true for the world ,o-dsy;


We see no white-robed angel mild
But ont Of the dark aud pcriious way,
Where men and women forget 20 pray,
They are led by gentle shielding hand,


The hand Of a little he lpiess child.
Year: 1879

The following sharp, but not unmerited, bit
of sarcasm is from the editorial columns of the
New York Times:


1.-TWO clerical gentlemen who are, of course,
experts in the matter of religion, have just
assured the public that Mr. Chastine Cox and
Mr.. Bennett, who were recently found guilty
of murder, are truly religious men. This is
only what was to have been expected. The
average murderer always becomes deeply re-
ligious soon after he is sentenced, and from
hundreds of dying declarations made on the
scafTold, it is plain that the gallows is really
the royal road to heaven. Instead of scoffing
at the sincerity of departing murderers and
the acuteness of attendant clergymen, let us
accept the fact that murder is a means of
grace, and reyerently trace the connection be-
tween killing and piety.


'It needs very little reflection to convince
us that the murderer obtains immediate peace
of mind by the act of murder No man can
be at peace within himself so long as he has
unsatisfied longings or cherishes active feel
ings of hatred. Now, the murderer hates his
victim and longs to kill him. These feelings
are incompatible with peace of mind. Day
after day the inehoate murderer thirsts for
blood, and suffers from the unholy passion of
hatred. Finally, the hour arrives when he
meets his victim and kills him. The deep
wants of his nature are then satisfied, and his
Year: 1879

Two of the crew of the schooner Bessie w.
Somes of Gloucester Mass, were recently
attacked on the Banks, while out in a dory
attending travis, by an immense fish, which
grasped the bow of their boat with its teeth,
several of which were left imbedded in the
wood when its hold was detached One of
the men was thrown overheard, but managed
TO scramble into the dory again. The fish
pursued them, biting several places in the
bottom of the dory. The teeth are about an
inch 10 an inch and half long, edged with
saw-like incisions, and do not resemble the
teeth of any fish with which the fishermen
are acquainted. torpedo fish was taken in
the trap at Magnolia, Mass, on Saturday. 1t
is nearly the size of hogshead, and it took
some three or four men to capture it, and they
were quite roughly used in doing so, receiy-
ing shocks similar TO an electric current
Portsmouth, ~. H., Times.
Year: 1879

The WALwoRTHs, MOTHER AND Son.
Frank Walworth, the youth who, in order to
protect his mothers life, slew his father is
here at the old Walworth home on Broadway
says a Saratoga correspondent, He has not
a single feature or trait of character that
would indicate that he is a parrcide. His
health is poor, but he is reading law. He is
tall fair and manly in his bearing but he
has an inexpressibly sad, preoccupied express
sion. lie is, of course, isolated from society.
On his exit from prison his former friends
cut him, and his proud spirit felt it keenly.
His mother has been very busy with her lit
erary work on art and science. She has been
very successful on her lecturing tour. She
has the respect and sympathy of the entire
community here, all of whom are acquainted
with the terrible trials she had TO endure at
the hands of an erratic husband, and her
struggles to care for her five children previ-
GUS to and since his awful death She is a
beautiful woman ON the brink of fifty but
despite her sorrows, she looks ten years
younger. II is presumed that the old home
stead will be sold, and she will, with this un-
happy son, sail for the Old World and join
her children now there, hoping to find an
chor in some spot where her surroundings
will not stir up unpleasant memories of the
past as they do here.
Year: 1879

Late adyices from northern Texas say that
cotton is maturing earlier than usual this year,
and owing to the lack of rain the yield will be
heavier as the acreage is about fifteen per
cent. greater. But planters fear the staple
will be shorter, from the fact that unusually
dry weather has forced the bolls open before
they reached full maturity.
Year: 1879

Yesterday the old schr Tibbetts, which has been
laid up for a long time, and was lately pl2ced In
the hands OF workmen at Miller Bros chip yard,
on the North Branch, to be put in shpshape for
the lumber trade, suddenly sprung leak and
began to sink stern first, until she settled down in
the water to her deck A pump will be put In
operation to ratse har.
Year: 1879

Put the eggs into large pail and pour
boiling hot water oyer them, then put a
cover over them and count sixty very slow
". Take them out, wipe dry with a thin
towel, and pack with little end down in
buckwheat-hulls, oats or bran. Put in a
place where neither frost nor damp can
touch them, and they will keep for months.
The boiling water shuts up the pores OF the
eggshells, and keeps them fresh, while it
does not cook them. Another way is to
rub each egg over with linseed oil, put on
with cloth. Lay them on q table to dry
and then pack away tightly. Lime-water
and salt will aso keep eggs, but they are
not so well kept as by these other methods,
as they absorb the salt, and the white loses
its freshness and will not beat to a froth or
give lightness to cake. Poultry World.
Year: 1879

A question which is beginning to con-
front many of us is the restoration Of worn
out wheat lands. Glover has been general
ly recommended as the best fertilizer, yet


the difficulty often of getting good catch,


especially in a dry season and in weedy
land, has led many to try that surer crop
buckwheat. We have been interested in
the correspondence of gentleman in Illi-
nols, as published in the Country Gentleman,
on this point. In the course of his remarks
he says: IL settled in the spring of 1854 on
a piece of land that had on it about thirty
acres of land that called worn out. Tt had


been in corn fourteen years and the neigh
bors said it was useless to try corn any
more. Iplowed it up, sowed it to buck
wheat, plowed that in while in bloom,
sowed to rye, plowed the rye in the next
spring, and planted to corn, and better


crop no reasonable man could expect.


About three years ago / sowed one-third of
the wheat ground to buckwheat the last of
July or early in August, and plowed it in
the Goth of September and sowed to wheat.
The result was obtained thirty-three bush
els of wheat to the acre, and only fifteen
where no buckwheat was sowed. I think
buckwheat is better than rye to kill weeds ;
but, of course, if crop is intended to be


plowed in for corn, it must be sowed in the
fall, and then we must use rye; but for
wheat or stnbble, buckwheat is just what
Year: 1879

The profit of a poultry yard depends to a
great extent as to how it is managed. This
is true of any business. The idea should be
to make every fowl pay as large a profit as
possible. There is a great difference in
markets, aud one should be governed by
them; for instance, in one market there is
more demand for eggs than fowls. Then it
ter to that trade. AS q rule, think there
is more profit in eggs than fowls, unless
they are early spring broilers. With prop
er care and feed, one can increase the NUM-
ber of eggs to great extent. Hens cam


not lay or produces eggs unless their food
contains the elements OF which the egg is
composed. That is, a large share of album
inous or producing elements. In aldi-
ton to the quantity of albulnen required in
the organism of the fowl, the laying hen re-
zation, the white OF a hens egg being about
u per cent. of albumen. and this must be
furnished in her feed. BY making a cheml-
cal analysis Of the different grains, you will
find that wheat contains a larger amount Of
albumen than any other grain. Therefore
it is the grain to make the base for egg-pro-
ducing foood. The other important items
are when fowls do not have a large field to
range in to give them once day, If posi-
BILE, feed Of chopped meat and more or
less green food. Chickens are like the hn-
man family in one respect in that they like
a change in food. AS proof, take fowls
that have been fed on one kind of grain for
some time, and do not seem to have the ap-
petite that you would think they should
nave, give them little cooked food. such
as a cake made from coarse corn meal and
scraps cooked together, or some other grain
than that which you. have been feeding, and
you will see that they will jump for it and
eat it in style that will be satisfactory to
the most exacting. While wheat is one OF
Year: 1879

The ancient Hebrews were wont to rem
der special sacrifices and perform special
services of thanksgiving after receiving par
ticular token Of Divine favor in exemption
from disease or loss in battle, or in the be-
stowment of abundant harvest. 1t is not
difficult to imagine what they would have
done after such bountiful harvest as that
which has just been sent upon us. How
loud would have been their songs OF thanks
giving, how numerous their sacrifices how
immense. the assemblies of those partici-


pating in the thanksgiving festivals! But
the deyout Jews carried their thanksgiving
farther than this. It was their custom at
such times under Divine direction, to be-
stow of their goods to feed and clothe the
poor and to release their claims upon those
indebted to them in cases where they were
unable to pay. 1t was commanded that
1.-THE Levite"-.their preacher r.-sand the


stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow
Year: 1879

should come and eat and be satisfied; that
the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the
work of thine hand which thou doest."
How reasonable the comm and and how ap-
propriate the custom. The lesson we would
draw from it is that at such time as this
when bounteous harvests crown the labors
of the husbandmen it becomes them to man.
ifest their gratitude toward the giver of all
good by extra contributions to their minis
ters, by exercising greater charity toward
the poor, and making the widows heart re-
joice by seeing her larder we'll stocked with
provision and comforts for herself and little
ones. The last clause of the text quoted is
worthy of special attention. That ''the
Lord thy God may bless the" etc., imply
ing that without the manifestation of graft
tude it would be impossible for Him to be-
stow future blessing, or at least, that benev-
olence on their part was the surest means
of securing his favor and bounty y.-I,sdiana
Farmer.
Year: 1879

Last year when the epidemic was
raging in Memphis, among the Oincin-
natl physicians who rendered their
services and lives to Health Officer
Minar was young DIR. Collins, of this
city, an unusually bright and intel
lectual man, who was making preca
rious living at his practice, not
through lack Of ability, for of that he
had abundance, but from the lack OF
patients.


His services, together with those Of
five others, were accepted and on GER
tain evening they all went to the Ohio
& Mississippi railroad depot to take
the 9:3O train for the South. Young
Collins, in taking leave Of the Health
Officer, who had gone down to see the
little band off, said' doctor, | will
either make reputation in Memphis
or never como home again" He ar
rived in that city, and reporting to
the Howard Association for duty,
was given an assignment in part Of
the town where the disease was carry :
ing people off by the scores.


Among others that he attended was
the family of wealthy planter. He
was successful in bringing the children
through the sickness. .one of whom
was beautiful and intelligent young
lady.


Within a short time the Doctor
himself, worn down by unceasing la
bor, was smitten with the scourge, and
lay tossing feverishly in his small
room. The young lady, hearing Of the
circumstance, went to his house and
nursed him tenderly through his ill.
ness.


1t is almost needless to say that by
this time the youthful pair became
mutually attached, a proposal and
acceptance followed; to which consent
was unhesitatiugly given by the
parents. They wore afterward mar
ried, the father investing his new SON
| in-law with handsome interest il
his large plantation. DR.. Collins il
now one Of the rising young physi
clans of Memphis, and is the efficicn
Secretary of its Board Of Health.
Year: 1879

The schooner Martha, from Geor.
gia's Banks, brought, with a cargo of
fish to this port yesterday, the lar
pest whale thresher remembered by
old market men TO have ever been
seen in this city. 1t was caught in
pound net at Woods Hole, Mass, OH
Tuesday and was killed with lance.
The last one exhibited in Washington
market was fifteen years ago, and it
was SO small specimen OF it's kind
that some fish dealers believed that 1t
was species of shark. The fish that
arrived yesterday was exhibited by
G. A. Lewis. 1t was very nearly
fourteen feet long and monopolized
the entire iropt OF the stand. Persons
stopped to examine it, and all day
long throng was pressing around
it. .Half of The length OF the curious
fish was body, and the other half
tail. The tail iapered of gradually
and had been looped up by a rope
attached to a beam above. The
weight of the creature was 600
pounds. The naked skin oil the back
and sides was uniform blush drab
color from the snout to the tip OF the
tail. The tail was as much separate
part of the body as aa dogs tail is
of its body, which appearance made
it resemble o land or amphiGious an
imal more than fish. The eyes
were as large as cows, and could be
rolled in their sockets. The mouth
was comparatively small, and the
teeth short, sharp and of a uniform
length in both jaws. Sticking
straight up from the middle of the
back was a dark fin, eleven inches
long, of the same color as the body,
tough and compact, yet neither bony
nor hard. The medal, pectoral, and
caudal fins. They flared out horizon
tally and were set low. On the un.
derside the body. was of o mottled
salmon color. The fish yielded like
caoutchouc to the finger, but on re-
leasing the pressure the skin sprang
back TO Its original form. The body
from end to end seemed mass OF
cortilage. The long tail is used by
the animal like arawhide in attack.
ing its enemy, the whale. 1t forms q
sort of alliance with the sword fish
the latter thrusting its sword into the
whale from below, aud the thresher
attacking it from above. The thresh'
ers run in schools, and from ten tc
twenty will attack whale at once
Those who have witnessed a comba


between thrcshers and whales say
that tits an exciting spectacle. Th'
water flies in showers of foam in al
directions, as the threshers hurl them


selves at the whales like animated
cowhides. For hours they rain blow


on the head and sides of the huge an


imal. Between the piercing thrust


of the sword-fish and the fail lik


blows of the thresher, a whale rarel


escapes. From the carcass the victor


get their food for many day after


ward. Through the little slit in tn


side of the tlresher exhibited yestel


day oozed blood as red as that of


land animal. The gills were four !
number on both sides. The fish ist


be stuffed.-N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1879

To make Japanese cement, mix
the powdered rice with little cold
water, and then gradually add boiling
water until proper consistence is ac-
quired. being careful to keep it well
stirred all the time; lastly. it must be
boiled for one minute in clean sauce
pan. This glue is beautifully white
and almost transparent, for which
reason it is well adapted for fancy pa
per work, which requires strong and
colorless cement.
Year: 1879

The fraudulent President. the Sec
retary of the Treasury, the Chief Jus.
tice Of the United States, the General
and Lieutenant-G General Of the Army
and the Vice Admiral Of the Navy all
hail from Ohio. The Executive, the
purse, the sword and the head Of the
judiciary are thus united in a single
State. The real Ohio idea is to get
and to hold office.
Year: 1879

Mr.. A. +. Henry of this city will lee
ture in the colored M. Il. Church at
New Castle this evening instead of
Thursday evening as We inadvertently
stated yesterday, and the proceeds are
for the day school instead of the Sun


day School. The admission fee is Is
cents. Mr.. Henry is practical and
eloquent speaker, and should be
greeted with q crowded hsuse as we
have no doubt he will be. Our New
Castle readers should not forget that
the lecture is this Wednesday evening.
Year: 1879

happened during his periods Of health but
he was entirely ignorant Of what had passed
at other times, and seemed to believe that he
had only gone through long and tiresome
illness, which had confused him as to the lapse
of time.


Rachel felt an anxiety to know whether, in
the event of his meeting Magdalen again,
(for it was now proved that it had been he,
and not Murrell, who had been her lover,) it
would be safe to encourage renewal of the
bond between them, which, it was likely
enough, had only been broken through the
disordered condition of his mind at that time.
In her own restoration to happiness, and in
her sympathy for her friend, she was eager
that the latter should also come in for share
of Fortunes smiles and benefits, after suffer.
ing so long. But she was reluctant to take
any steps in the matter, if there still existed a
chance that Maurice's malady might return.
She confded her perplexity to her friend and
counselor, DIR. Snow, only suppressing Mag
dalen's name, and by him she was advised to
do nothing rash, but to wait for some time
and let matters take their course.


"We've had pretty strong proof, my dear
Mrs. Vivian, that Providence has its own
way Of bringing results about" said the good
doctor, "and that if it is right for an event to
come to pass, it needs no irterposition or effort
of ours. One thing you may do if you like,
and that is to break gently to your friend the
condition of her former lover, and gather,
from the way in which she receives your in
telligence, whether she would now be willing
or not to restore him to his old place in her
regard"


"That could easily do," replied Rachel; !;
"but first of all, ought to ind out whether
he remembers and cares for her still; and
that is just what do not know how to do"


"Mention her name casually before him"
said the doctor, "and see what effect it has
upon him and that, no doubt, will be guide
to you how to proceed"


All this time, Magdalen was still in the
country; but at last Rachel heard from Mrs.
Grey that she was expected back in week.
This made her anxious to set about the pros.
ecution of her scheme, which she had laid
with great skill and forethought, so as to
avoid all undue excitement of the patient,
and also to give him no reason to suspect her
motives; and at the first favorable opportu-
nifty she carried the plan into action. At her
casual mention of Magdalen's name, Maurice
betrayed evident signs of emotion and in q
hesitating yet eager manner, he soon after en-
treated her to tell him all that she knew of
this young lady, whom, he added, he had
himself once known extremely we'll.


fro BE CONTINUED.