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Year: 1877

The New Jersey Medical society is a
very old one. At the late 1l1th annual
meeting, paper was read by DR.. Marsh
upon autumnal catarrh, or hay fever, as
it is popularity called. The doctor has
long been the victim of this disease, and
is, therefore, able to speak from expert
ence. After having subjected himself to
various exp erimental tests, he advances
the theory that hay fever is caused by the
pollen of certain plants anu grasses.
One plant the doctor especially men-
tiOns, which is.-One Of the most common
weeds, growing in older and longer cul-
tivated soil than that of this cOuntry-it
is the rag-wecd. Every exposure to its
pollen invariably brought on an attack,
and this pollen he found very widely dis
tributed in the air both OF town and
country.


There are other weeds growing indis-
criminately in fence corners and on road
sides fully as favorable to the production
Of this curious disease. In order to avoid
it, the patient must. during their flower
ing season, dwell i'm some place where
they do not abound, or are not allowed
to grOw-as some mountain top, or some
spot where the climate is not favorable
TO their growth.


Ii DR.. Marsh is correct in his theory,
then, perhaps, it is the scarcity of these
weeds in this new country, added to che
climatic influence upon the patient, that
makes this country so celebrated for its
curative. properties in the disease of hay
fever.


Again, if DIR. Marsh is correct, it vii
be necessary tor the authorities in thi:
county to see to it that no weeds are al
lowed to grow by the roadside, and io
farmers to see to it that their fence cor
ners are not made garden for the growth
of weeds.
Year: 1877

There are many men in this city out OF
employment, or receiving scant wages.
Most OF these men received, in years
past, good wages. Not one of them,
perhaps, but could hsvo saved up some
thing Tor u time when they would be less
fortunately situated. During those better
yesr' they might have procured COM
iortsb.e home OF their own and had 1t
FULLY paid for, by investing small sum
esch week in the stock OF some one of
our well conducted building associations;
" many OF them might have become
P'oPre:ors in business by investing
small sum of their earnings each week il
The stock OF sn iron mill or other manu-
iAciuring establishment, or in the line OF
|Aei' trade Whatever tina. might ba.


Il Is now evident that there Is not
Work enough for al in the city. Some
must seek employment elsewhere. It is
noI worth while seeking it in
o1heF cities, for other cities have as
many unemployed laborer5-in proper
lion to popu.atiOn-ss Wheeling. There
Are some IN this city vino came from the
eouctry, and who could return to the
country again and make living on q
'Arm. To such there are openings in
plenty. a small house and feG acres
Of ground can be rented cnesplv, and
An Industrious man, with economical
Aaoits, thus situated, can live. An occs-
'onsl days work from neighbor can
oHen be had TO aid him in his struggle.
A. worst his situation will be
Erestly improved over his present
position in the city without work and
Without the prospect of any.


lie great trouble is, there are few who
Will take this advice, while mum berless
oilers will be planning to get to the
sly IRON the country. Boys and girls
"0rn and raised in the country have al


Insane desire to live in towns. They
Year: 1877

dwell on the bright side OF city lite so
much that their own life in the country
seems always dull and prosy, and city
life always charming and bright. They
magnify the drs wbscks on one side and
exsggerate the pleasures on the other
They drone over the dullness of coun-
try lite and decline to see the dark side
OF city lite At all. In this way
they encourage dislike for what ls
in thei- possession, and cultivate au
insstiste longing tor what their
fancy makes existence in the city


A boy hesitstes 10 round out his lite on
the farm. 1t is in some way beneath
him, and he goes to the city to realize
his ambitious schemes, and becomes
clerk in dry goods store, or lsborer
in some manufsctory, or driver OF u
street car, or u brakeman on n railroad.
He COMES from home where ne was,
in n certain sense, master OF his own
movements, and enters business where
he works harder, where he lives less con-
fort, bly,, and where he lis always IN sub
ordinate position. He comes from the farm
where his living is assured, and enters
field where position, ever so humble, is
difficult to secure and hard to retain;
where he takes great chances OF being
thrown out Of employment under most
embarrassing and distressing circum-
stances. He comos from locality where
there are no beggsrs, no poverty-strlcken
people, no men presuming to dictate rs
to when he shall labor, end where and
how, and enters calhngs in which he
ceases to be master of his own action.


Let the boys and girls, the young men
and young women, remain in the country,
patiently and thankfully. Let them dis
abuse their minds of the false rotions
they have formed of city life and look at
facts.


A yourg nan employed on farm has
TO work hard he would have TO work
harder 10 nearly any occupation in the
city. He nas to work in the hot sun, snd
in the rain aud snow, it may be. In the
city he would work in the dirty, smoky
atmosphere of some mandatory, or
would DO exposed to just as inclement
weather rs on the farm A farm hand
getting slS per month and MS board is
making more money than ne would IN
the city a. $40 per month. And yet,
while tsrm hsnds are scarce, lsboreTs IN
the city are ever abundant, and c!anor-
ing for work in every department oI
| business


People have perversely looked in one
direction tor employment. They must
adopt different rule, and look in all
directions. They have expected 20 find
employment where laborers are most
abundant; they should look for 1t
who're laborers are scarcest.
Year: 1877




Wheat Is beginning to come forward
quite briskly, and as soon IS the roads
are in full working order will come 70
this port in considerable volume. Re
ports from large areas Of country lndl-
cate that the wheat crop Of this year is
perhaps the largest ever harvested in this
country and OF the best quality. The
lands that last year produced from seven
to ten bushels, this year IN many sections
produced from twelve 20 twenty bushels.
All the present indications are that even
this large crop will bring high prices,
Wheat is firm now AT from twenty to
twenty-five per cent. higher rates than
it was last year. Should these good
prices continue, a. now seems probable,
there will be handsome current OF
money flowing toward the farmers.
When the 'srmers get money n their
pockets, business IN town will begin to
imprOve
Year: 1877

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struggle was given up. aud the
Carnival stepped down and out.


But this is evidently a bad
year for carnivals.


As foreshadcwed in my letter
Of two weeks ago, the effect OF
the expiration Of the last impor-
tant patent on sewing machines,
has begun to make itselffelt. The
Weed Sewing-machine Company
has come, squarely and promptly
down with the reduction in price
which | predicted. To add to-
the prestige which this popular
measure will give them. the com.
pany ARE bringing ont at the
same time new machine, which
will be in many respects superior
to those which reaped the high
est honors at the Centennial, and
which is absolutely comical in its
simplicity.


Nothing now remains for the
other companies but to fall into
line behind the Weed, as they
have had occasion TO do a good
many times before.


The Aquarium has just receiv-
ed another white whale, the fourth
and the largest which it has
brought to the city within a year.
As the others have all died alter
a longer or shorter captivity, ex-
traordinary efforts will be made
10 preserve the life Of this costly



Other amusements are droop.
ing at the sudden approach OF the
summer season, which has held u
hot hand over New York all the
week. RADIx.
Year: 1877

An old Pute Indian departed
for the happy hunting. ground, by
way of old age and general debili-
ty, from the camp on the hill
back Of the city hall last night.
II is not the custom with the


Piutes to bury their dead, and in
this instance they merely carried
the corpse a few rods from the
camp and deposited it on the
ground. City Marshal Brennan,
learning this morning that the
corpse was lying on the hill side,
commanded Capt. Sam to have it
properly buried. Sam is an intelli-
gent native and made no objections


to complying with the marshal's
orders; but five other Indians
standing by whom he asked to as
sist in the burial, positively refus-
ed to have anything to do with
it. Upon this the officer threat
ened that unless they proceeded
to bury the Indian forthwith, he
would arrest them and have them


fined 100000 each. This
threat had the desired effect Oh
the Indians, and the funeral com.
menced. They wrapped the corpse
in a robe of rabbit skins and tied
it up with ropes, making bundle
in the shape Of tall. This they
dragged over the hill 10 an old
shaft, into which they dumped it
without ceremony. In reply to a
question as to the cause of the In
dian's death, dusky maiden who
was an interested spectator at the
funeral, replied: "Heap too dam
ld."-Austin (NeU) Rereille.
Year: 1877


Listen TO the water-mill
All the live-long day
How the clicking of the wheel
Wears the hours away:
Languidly the autumn wind
Stlrs the greenwood leaves;
From the field the reapers sing.
Binding up the sheayes.
And memory DER my mind
AS sspell is cast:
The mill will never grind
With the water that is past.
Take the lesson to yourself,
Loving hearts and true;
Golden years are fieeting by,
Youth is passing, too;
Strive to make the most Of life.
Lose no happy day
Time will never bring you back
Chances swept away,
Leave no tender word unsaid.
Love while love shall last
The mill will never grind
With the water that is past.
Work while yet the daylight shines,
Man of thought and will,
Never does the streamlet glide
Useless by the mill
Wait not ill to-morrow's sun
Beams upon your way,
All that you can can call your own
Lies in this-to- day.
Power, intellect and health
May not always last
The mill can not grind
With the water that is past.
Year: 1877

There are at least one hundred
thousand musicians and music
lovers in the South, who have
never seen copy of the SOUTH
ERN MUSICAL JOURNAL, or do not
even know that such a magazine
is in existence. Each and all of
this vast musical army are here
with invited to enclose US TWEEN
ty five cents and receive the
Journal ON trial for three months,
or if they prefer send us u three
cent stamp for specimen copy.
Address the publishers,


LUDDEN & BATES, Savannah, Ga,
Year: 1877

Here another warning: A man
down town refused to stay home
after an early supper and help his
vile whitewash the backyard
fence, and his black hair turned
white in less than a minute. His
wife's painful awkwardness with
the whitewash brush caused the
sudden change.
Year: 1877

The first thing young man
does on seeing a friend with a
new hat on is to take it of and
serenely try it or his own head
When a young lady sees an &C
quaintance with her new bonnet
on, she just lifts her nose and
serenely wonders "where the thing
got that fright"
Year: 1877

";The meeting appointing Committee
of Safety, a full report Of which will be
found in another column, and the subse.
qucnt enrolment of large protective
force, had salutary effect yesterday,
and a repetition OF the riotous conduct in.
dulged in by the hoodlum element on
Monday evening was sufficiently guarded
against. Gangs ofyoung ruffians carried
on sort of guerilla warfare for few
hours during the evening, several Chi
nese wnsh-houses beng destroyed. The
police were vigilant and in increased
force, and managed to keep the gangs
separate, and in many instances to dis
pei them before material damage was
done. What was witnessed last night
is Conffrmatory OF tile conclusion that
idle and unruly lads are at the bottom
OF the mischief and that workingmun,
employed or unemployed, have nothing
to do with the depredations.


The EXecutsve Section of the Work.
ingnen's party met last ovening--James
f, darcy in the chair, and Eric Westne,
Secretary pro TEN. Speeches were made
insisting an the preservation of law and
order, and the members say that they
are as anxious as any class of men can be
to maintain the peace of the community,
and will labor for this end 4 resolution
was passed to the effect that as II sensa'
tional newspaper saw fit to publish such
n strange account of the Workingmen's
meeting held at the New City Hall, and
a still more remarkable editorial on the
same subject, the members of the party
be requested to ignore that paper in the
future. In answer to questions put to
him by reporter, Mr.. Darcy stated
that the organization with which he is
connected is not anticocly in its nature
although the members individually have
strong views on the Chinese question.
The members have families, and many
own property, and have everything to
loose in the event of disturbance"


The above is taken from the Daiiy
call OF July 25th, from which it will be
seen that the real American Workingmen
of that place are trying to secure a re.
dress of their grievances in an honest,
manly way, and are not at all responsible
tor the troubles that have taken place
there. A vigilant police organization
with the c,mmittee Of snfety havoc the
hoodlums in check so they are powerless
to do harm.


Jas. F. Darcy, the leader of the
workingmen there, is former resident
of this county, and a Fin law Of Henry
Oliver of Centrevile.
Year: 1877

COMMON copper rivets, such as are
used in fastening betting together, ii put
through rOosters bills, and securely
headed down, will prevent them from
growing too early in the morning.
Year: 1877

HEN houses should all be provided
with sofas. Farmers daughters can then
entertain their beaux there and prevent
chicken stealing. Such an arrangement
will be found to work more satisfactorily
without the expense OF light, thus saw
ing oil and carpets.
Year: 1877

Much of our space is to-day de-
voted to publishing the List Of
Premiums of the Iowa County Agri
cultural Society. The List is a lib
eral and attractive one. Every
reader shonld peruse it, and make
up his mind to contribute something
to make the fair a success.
Year: 1877

VIZ are pleased to be able to offer
the following in relation to wool buy
ing at Darlington and Mineral Point
The writer's statements can be re-
lied upon and accepted as trust
lie says:
Year: 1877

I


think those of my young friends who
have been in the garden on fine Autumn
morning, pust have noticed the beautiful
web Of the garden spider, like fairy
wheel which the early frost has studded
all over with diamonds, making far more
attractiye-looking trap than that Of her
homely, cousin, the house spider.


A little examination will show you that
the two webs are made in a very different
way; for whilst the house spider throws
her threads loosely and irregularly together,
the garden spider arranges hers in lines
and circles at carefully measured distsn-
ces, just as if she held in her wonderful
hands tiny pair Of invisible compasses.


dare say some of you boys, who are
just beginning to learn Euclid, aud have
found out how difficult it is to draw cir.
eles, would be glad if our little friend
could impart to you her power of making
them SO perfectly; for she has earned for
herself the name of the Geometrical spider.


If you watch her at work, you will see
that she begins by pressing her spinnerets
against the branch of some shrub till she
draws out long silky line, which the
wind soon watts TO another branch, where
it is fastened by the gum at the end Of il;
then, like the house spider, she walks over
IL again and again, each time adding a
thread, till it becomes strong cord; then
she throws out another and another, till
the framework of her web is complete. The
shape Of this framework she leaves to the
fancy of the wind, which sometimes blows
the threads so as to form triangle, but
more generally an irregular four-sided
figure.


In the middle of the outside cords the
little whcelright begins her work, by plac-
ing there drop of the gummy fluid from
her spinnerets, which she draws out into
a straight thread, at the end of which she
lets herself down till she reaches lower
branch, where she fastens it. This done,
she runs back again up the little ladder,
and spins till the outside cord is reached
again. Walking along the edge for some
little distance, she drops some gum, and
continues her course, spinning her threads
all the time. As she goes on, she every
now and then gives the line a little push
with her hind legs, to prevent its getting
entangled with the cords of the frame,
work. When she gets opposite the place
where she began to spin, she gives the
long struggling thread hard jerk, which
pulls it tight across the first line.


Running to the point where the two
lines cross one another, the little creature
sends on to the outer lines Of the web the
spokes Of her delicate wheel In less time
than it takes you to read about it, she has
made all these spokes, carefully pulling
each to see if it is firm; and now begins
the work of making those beautiful circles
which you often see. A little drop of gum
fastens the circle to each of the lines, and
the spider also takes care to leave some
among the threads of the web, to catch
the feet of the flies and other insects who
enter her trap. When all is finished to
her satisfaction, the busy worker bites out
the piece in the centre Of the web, where
all the lines have met; and seating herself
there, she rests from her work and watches
for herprey.
Year: 1877

1t is astonishing how many people are
unpunctual Thousands have failed in life
from this cause alone. 1t is not only a
serious vice in itself, but the fruitful pa
rent Of numerous other vices; SO that he
who becomes its victim is soon involved in
tolls from which it is almost impossible to
escape. 1t makes the merchant wasteful
of time, saps the business reputation Of the
lawyer, and Injuries the prospects Of me-
chanics who might otherwise rise to for
tune; in word, there is not a profession
nor a station in life which is not liable to
the canker of this destructive habit.


Many of NapOleon's great victories were
won by infosing into his subordinates the
necessity of punctuality to the minute. 1t
was his plan to man@uvrc over large spaces
Of country, to render the enemy uncertain
where he was about to strike, and then
suddenly concentrate his forces and fall
with irresistible force upon some weak
point Of the extended lines of the foe.
Execution Of this system demanded that
each division of the army should arrive at
a specified spot, punctually, for if any part
failed to come up, the battle was lost. II
was by initiating this plan that the allies
finally succeeded in overthrowing the EN-
peror The whole Waterloo campaign
turned upon these tactics. At Mt. ST.
Jean, Blucher was punctual, while Grouchy
was not, and the result was, Napoleon fell
and Wellington triumphed.


In mercantile Affairs punctuality is quite
as important as in military. Many are
the instances in which neglect to renew an
insurance policy, punctually, has led to
serious loss. Hundreds Of city merchants
and manufacturers and publishers are now
suffering in consequence of want of pune
tuality among their country customers in
paying up accounts. It is sound policy
which moves the banks TO insist, under
penalty ofprotest, upon the punetual pay.
ment Of notes; for, were they to do other
wise, commercial transactions would fall
into inextricable confusion. Many time
has the failure Of one man to meet obliga-
tions brought about the ruin of score of
Others, just as the toppling down of the
first in line Of bricks causes the fall Of
all the rest.
Year: 1877

Quite an original method Of taking a
fort is described in Blsck,ooods Maqdsine.
In 1896 large Russian Army besieaed
the Turkish fort of Azof, which was Sit
uated on plain, strongly fortified, and
had small but well disciplined garrison.
No common approaches could be made to
it, as the Turkish cannon swept the level
with iron hail. In this case the engineer


ing skill Of the Russians was bafIed, but
Gen. Patrick Gordon, the right.hand man
Of Peter the Great, and the only one for
whose death he ever shed tear, being
determined to take the place at any cost
proposed to bury it with earth by gradual
approaches. He had large army; the
soil of the plain was light and deep, and
he sat twelve thousand men TO work with
spades, throwing up high circumvalla-
ton OF earth wall before them in advance.
The men were kept ia gangs, working day
and night, the earth being thrown from
one to another like the steps Of a stair. the
top gang taking the lowest place every
half hour in succession. In Eve weeks
the hugh earth wall was carried forward
nearly one mile, until it rose to and above
the highest ramparts, and the earth began
70 roll over them. This caused the Turk.
ish Governor to hang out the white flaa
and give In. Had he not done SO Genera
Gordon would have buried the fortress.
Year: 1877

few women were seen. We met one
sitting astride on horseback, as all Eastern
women ride. We believe them to be wo-
men because of their costume and size
but we can see no part Of them, not even
hand or an eye. They are shrouded
from the head TO the knees in cotton or
silk sheet of dark blue or black--the chud-
der, it is called, which passes over the
head and is held with the hands around
and about the body. Over the chudder is
tied around the head a yard.long veil Of
white cotton or linen, in which before the
eyes piece Of open work about the size
Of finger, which is their only lookout
and ventilator. The veil passes under the
chudder at the chin. Every woman be.
fore going out of doors puts on pair of
trowsers, generally Of the same stuff and
color of the chudder, and thus her out
door seclusion and disguise are complete.
Her husband could not recognize her
In the street. In this costume Moham.
medan women grope their way about the
towns of Persia. Their trousers are tightly
bound about the ankles above their colored
stockings which are invariably Of home
manufacture; and slippers with no cover.
ing Tor the heel, complete the unsightly.
unwholesome apparel of those uncomforta-
BILE victims Of the Persian readings of the
koran.-ArnOlGs Through Persia Jy
Caravan"
Year: 1877

SMOKED WALLs.-A correspondent of
the New York Herald writes to know If
anything can be done TO keep the smoke
from an old kitchen wall from striking
through and turning the whitewash yellow.
That journal replies Put ten cents
worth of white vitriol--pulverized--in
two quarts Of cold water; wash the walls
with common whitewash brush dipped
in this solution. Let it dry over night
then apply the following whitewash Pat
IN pail the contents Of twenty-cent
package of white rock lime. Fill the pail
with hot water, cover and let steam, stir.
ring occasionally until dissolved. Add 70
this i've cents worth Of painters blue
This can be applied with an ordinary
whitewash brush. Il does not rub of
aud rivals in wilderness the finest kalsomin,
ing. Three rooms, 24x16, can be whitenec
with enc twenty-cent package.
Year: 1877

The race Of mankind would perish did
they cease to aid each other. From the
time that the mother binds the child's
head till the moment some assistant wipes
the death-damp from the brow Of the
dying, We cannot exist without mutual
help. All, therefore, that need aid have
right 70 ask it of their fellow -rnortals.
no one, who holds the power Of granting
1t, can refuse it without guilt. ?
Year: 1877

Such are the infrmities of human ma
ture that we instinetively attribute some
bad motive to those who show US our faults.
The frst impulse is 70 resent, and The
next to deny As passion cools we are
sometimes able to see that our censors have
done us kindness.
Year: 1877

n BOUGHT OUT THE INTEREST OF All TONG


and Wong Sing in the Beaver creek mining prop
erty formerly owned by Eckhart Judge on the lst
of last August. l will not e responsible tor any
debts contracted by the said All Tong and wong
Sing. hN Ian"