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Year: 1874

We are often asked for 4 prescrip-
ton for preternaturally wakeful per.
sons. The high pressure" principle
on which many of our business men


work their brains and abuse their
bodies, an irritable condition of the
nerves, and q morbid state of mind


very antagonistic to quiet and re-


freshing sleep. Such persons will
often 60 to bed weary and exhausted
but cannot sleep, or sleep dreami- :
ly and fitfully; or lie awake for hours
unable to sleep at all We have
tried many eXpedients to induce sleep
with more or less success, and have
read many receipts which proved
better in theory than in practice
The very best method we have yet
discovered is that of counting.
Breathe deeply and slowly without
any straining effort)and, with very
expiration, count one, two, three etc. ,
up to a hundred Some persons will
be asleep before they can count fifty
in this manner. Others will count
ten, twenty or thirty, and then forget
themselves and cease counting. In
such cases always commence again
at once. Very few persons can
count a hundred and find themselves
awake: but should this happen repeat
the dose until cured.-Fr0m Science
of Health.
Year: 1874

The editor of the New Albany


Ledger Standard is responsible for
the following:


eve were riding in & railroad car;
directly opposite sat a young lady
She was deliberately dressed and
neatly attired. We will not say that
she was homely, for beauty is a con
yentional term, and there may be
some Nations which we have not Wis
tied where she would be considered
handsome, but she was happily up to
the American standard; but the beau
ty, however, is not german to the
question, but her nose is, and what
we may say Of that cannot be con-
sidered malapropos in this cOunec-
ton. Her nose was of the yegeta-
bic kingdom and belonged to the turn
up species, in fact, the end of it look
ed as if it had started on a voyage
of discovery to the moon. Suddenly
her nose seemed 20 vibrate. There
were internal rumblings Of the Bald
Mountain kind, vet there were evil
dent sighs Of a sub-nasal upheayal.
She quietly put her hand in her pock-
ct and drew out a clean, white hand
kerchief. This she half unfolded and
laid upon her lap; then from her
satchel beside her, a small package
of thin straw-cOlored paper was TAX
en-, cut about six inches square; it
had evidently been prepared for this
or similar purpose. She selected
one piece, and the remainder was re-
stored to the satchel for future use.
This piece of paper was placed upon
the half unfolded handkerchief, and,
with her hand beneath the handker-
chief, she brought the paper in con-
tact with her nose, seized it and blew
the blast, which would have done
credit to Roderick Dhu. In short,
to use the language Of our cotempor-
ary, she exploded her nasal rheum IN
the paper; the paper was then dain-
tily lifted from the handkerchief and
dropped out of the car window. The
handkerchief was refolded and re-
turned to her pocket as unsoiled as
the moment it came from the laund-
ress. Could anything be more clean
", economical or convenient? With
plentiful supply of paper, one hand
kerchief would last month, to say
nothing of the saving in baggage"
Year: 1874

\ watch is a most delicate machine,
and a very little thing is enough to
damage its system, and make it go
too fast or too slow, or to arrest the
motions Of its wheels; and it is just
that very little thing that you don't
take any notice of. Show Us your
watch. and we'll tell you what are
the habits of its owner.


\ person Of irregular habits will
spoil the best watch in the world,
Careless or inexact people will always
have watches that go fast or slow
or that 90 both fast or slow by turns.
If you can't be steady and regular
in your habits, you need not expect
TO have a watch that you can rely on


All the best watchmakers in the
world will be unable to give your
watch that regularity which is lack
ing in yourself, and which you can
not, therefore preserve in your watch,
and which you destroy as fast az
your watch is regulated For o
watch should be wound up every
day at the same hour, and as soon as
possible in the morning. And the
best occasion for doing this is when
the minute hand marks seven or eight
minutes after the hour-hand has mark
ed the hour.


The operation Of winding q watch
should never be performed carelessly
or roughly; but on the contrary, with
great precaution especially at the
moment when you give the final turn
to the key. Then you should gently
moderate the movement, so as not to
wind the watch up too tight. You
should always take good care to fit
the keyhole before commencing.


1t is not a good plan to carry the
key about you, unless it is kept in a
case; and never carry it loose in your
pocket. ..as it is liable to get dust in
it. which you viii introduce into the
watch from time to time, in winding
it up, to its great detriment.


Never, under any circumstances
except those Of extreme necessity,
open the inetrior compartment-that
which contains the machinery Of the
watch


In winding up the watch the hand
that holds it should remain perfectly
steady and without motion.


The hands may be advanced or set
back when necessary, without any
harm being done to the watch,
contrary to the polular no.
ton on the subject.
Year: 1874

I Once in q while there is a day in
: Danbury when a man is out of work,
and he stays at home. After break
fast is eaten and the dishes are re-
moved, he pulls out the family draw
er and dumps the contents on the ta-
bic, to look for a paper of suddenly
acquired Importance. Having got
u chair which has lost leg, and for
that reason has peen set aside where
no body will be apt to get into trou-
BILE with 1.-THE drops into it, and it
Immediately comes apart, and depos-
its him under the table. Hejumps to his
feet at once, and kicks the chair


the hallway to the imminent danger of
his wife, and the woman who lives
in the other part of the house, both of
whom under the impression that one
of the children had fallen from the
mantle-piece, and broken its back,
have started to the rescue. He i'm
mediately asks his wife what kind
of an idoit she is to leave a broken
chair where any one can sit down on
it and jeopardize life and limb, and
sarcastcally inquiries if she wanted to
kill him. or merely cripple him for
life, and scouts with scorn indescriba-
bic the intimation that the chair was
placed where no sane party would
ever think of looking for Cne After
that he gets q new chair which he is
confident will throw him and hurt
him, and says so, and pores over the
paper again.


Pretty soon he is attended by one
of the children who is making hcrcu-
lanean efforts to scale one of the Ia
bic legs with view of getting on top
to see what is going on As the lit
tie round head, with the swelling
cheeks, and bulging eyes, and tum-
bled hair, and dirty mouth, appears
above the top, and beams up at him;
he nervously cries, Hey, you, now
come out of that. and start after YOUR
mother she wants yOu."-But the
child knows that its mother doesn't
want him, and so does he, and being
at loss to explain why, he falls to
work at the papers again In little
while one very chubby arm is thrown
on top of the table, and the eyes
have reached the level, and are TAX
ing the wonders of the display
There is another move up, then a
sudden weakness in the legs, that are
tightly hugged to the tables legs,
then desperate hopeless clutch at
the papers for safety, and the little
head disappears with lightning veloc-
ity and then an ominOus bump, and
then a scream, and the miserable
man is on his feet again, holding the
suffering child wrong side up and
screaming for help.-The moment it
got in its mothers arms, and the cam
phor is in reach, the man, who stays at
home because ne has nothing else to
do puts on his coat and hat, and
beats hasty retreat, leaving the
wife to claim the DISTRACTED breast
of the child, and to set the table to
rights. When he has another day to
himself, be dumps out the drawer
again, and goes over a similar per-
formance -DdRbuTy Nelcs.
Year: 1874

something which was to make a for
tune, but never doing it, although he
said that the time had positively come
for the great business coup so often
talked Of This it, appeared, would
take him to California. and, happy
thought. why should he not take a
lot Of choice millinery, DC, out there
with him and dispose of it at a splen-
did profit. The conliding women as
sented, and he went his way with
goods 10 the amount Of $4,000
When he returned he reported that
the goods were lost through the gross
carelessness Of the express eompa-
nies, whom, somehow, he could not
make responsible. Even then so
completely had he "gammoned" his
victims that they did not suspect.


Then be disappeared for time al
together, and they could not imagine
what in the world had become Of
him. At length lady called one
day on Mrs. T., and made inquiries
about her husband, and yery pretty
information each had to impart to the
other. She, too, lady of excellent
family and position in New York,
had been entirely deluded by this
scoundrel She had married him,
and he had got possession Of a coz
siderable part Of her money. Nor il
this all. The man is now understood
to be after a third venture of the sort,
and how many victims there may
have been before these two, who shall
say? In manner and appearance he
is described as most attractive, and
he treated the ladies whom he mar
ried with every kindness, 80 far as
behavior in manner went.
Year: 1874

Hl Mis-. y. NJ. u. IlAkI.
A child, beside statute, said TO me,
With pretty wisdom very sadly just,
THAT man is Mr.. LincoH, mamma. He
Was made of marble; we are made of dust"
One flash of passionate sorrOw trembled through
The dust OF which l had been dimly made
One fierce, quick wish to be of marble too
Not something meaner, that must fall and


fade.


ITO be forever fair and still and cold"
family thought, with faint tears in my sight
''To stand thus face to face with Time, and hold
Between us that uncrumblng charm OF white
"To see the creatures formed of sllghter stuff
Wavcr in little dcad-leaf whirls away,
Yet know that could wait and have enough
OF frost and dew, enough of dark and day.
"- would be marble? Wherefore: Just


TO miss


The tremors of glad pain that dust must


know


The grief that settles after some dead kiss
The lrown that was a smile not long ago:
"DO 1 forget the stones lsng loneliness?-
The dumb impatience all wan watching brings.
The looking with blind eyes, in vague distress,
For Christ's slow Coming and the End of


ThiHgs2


"No boy of mine with your young yellow hair
Better the dust you scatter with your feet
Than marble, which can see not you are fair
Than marble, which can feel not you are sweet.
"Ay, Of than marble which must meet the years
Without my light relief of murmurous breath
Without the bitter sweetness OF my tears
Without the love which dust must have for


DenIh.' "
Year: 1874

OUR ATTENTION was called the other
day to a piece of beef at the meat market
of Mr.. McCue which in the way OF solid
fat was little ahead of anything we have
ever before seen. 1t was cut from the fore
shoulder of five year old steer, short
horn, raised at Aticca, N. Y, on farm
formerly owned by Hascal Purdy Of this
city, and was sent him as present. The
fat on this piece Of meat was solid and
fully six inches thick.
Year: 1874

PROFITABLE BUSINESS FOR WOMEN.
One of the most profitable, rs well
rs interesting kinds of business for n
woman, is the care of bees. In a re-
cent agricultural report it is stated
that one lady bought four hives for
$40, and in five years she was offered
III 800 for her stock, and refused it as
not enough. In addition to this in five
years she sold twenty-five hives and
43O pounds of honey 1t is also stated
that in five years one man, from six
colonies of bees to start with, cleared
5000 pounds of honey and fifty-four
colonies. When properly instructed,
almost any woman in the city, as
easily as in the country, can manage
bees, and make more profit than in
any other method demanding SO little
time and labor. But in the modes
ordinarily practiced few can make
any great profit in this employment.
1t is hoped a time is at hand when
every woman will be trained to scme
cn,p- oyront by which slc can secure
to herself an Independent home and
means to support "A family, in case she
does not marry or is left widow with
herself and family to support. t.-AMERI-
CAN WoMAN's HOME.
Year: 1874

Calcraft, the veteran hangman Of Eng
land, is i'll, and at recent execution his
place was filled by mysterious stranger.
A London paper says:


But he has acted as the hangmar.in-
chiefs assistant before-admittedly ON
the occasion of Spencer's execution
and the way in which he performed his
work on Monday showed that he is no
prentice hand. The name bv which he
chose to be known on Monday is An
derson, and it was whispered that he is
the Welsh farmer of Independent means
who has taken to hanging from a pure
artistic love of the work. There is
however, nothing in his appearance to
suggest the farmer - especially the
Welsh farmer. He is a gentlemanly-
looking man, and forms o strong con-
trast in personal appearance and style
of dress TO Calcralt He is much younger
than Calcrait, apparently not being
more than fifty years Of age. Unlike
Calcraft, also, he wears no beard, his
face, which gives the idea of a shrewd,
determined, but somewhat inscrutable
character, being closely shaved. He
appears to be a little of a dandy in
dress, as he wore black velvet coat,
and waistcoat lined with red silk.
Year: 1874

did with such judgment and such fancy,
as made his little domain the envy of the
great, and the admiration of the skillful;
place to be visited by travellers, and
copied by designers Whether to plant
"a walk in undulating curves, and to
place a bench at every turn where
there is an object to catch the view


to make the water run where it will be
heard, and to stagnate where it will be
seen; to leave intervals where the eye
will be pleased, and TO thicken the plan
tation where there is something TO be
hidden, demands any great powers Of
mind, l will not inquire; perhaps sui
len and surly specuator may think such
performances rather the sport than the
bnsin9ss OF the human reason But it
must be at least confessed, that to en-
bellish the form of nature is an inno-
cent amusement; and some praise must
be allowed by the most supercilious OBJ
server, to him who does best what such
multitudes are contending to do well.
Year: 1874

From Iurf, fleld anu narln.I


What we call the thoroughbred horse
was created in England by the importa-
ton of mares and stations from Arabia
and Barbary, and by the judicious com
mingling of the foreign with the native
blood. Through contests of the turf and
the right kind of crossing, the horse was
gradually improved, or elevated to a
high standard of excellence, and these
improved horses we're then recognized as
the progenitors of an aristocratic race.
Equine heraldry had been made a
science, and the birth and pedigree Of
each horse of high breeding had been
preserved in the "Stud Book" Usage
had decreed that an animal which can
show an uncontaminated pedigree for
five generations shall be classed as a
thoroughbred; that is, no drop of cold
or coarse blood must appear in the
veins, the origin of which cannot be
found behind five successive periods of
reproductions. Five removes from a
common parentage refine the blood and
make it aristocratic.
Year: 1874

An Eagle Tries to Carry OF n Gtrb.
From the jacksonville (Ala.l Republican,


On Saturday the Sd inst, girl named
Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Albert
Moore, living in the northeast corner OF
Cleburne county, was returning home
from neighbors house, whittier she
had been sent on an errand, when she
felt something heavy strike upon her
shoulder and the next instant she was
borne to the ground. She says that her
first impression was that she had been
seized by panther or some other wild
beast, but soon felt the talons, of what
proved to be an eagle, clutching her
sides and arms, lacerating the flesh in a
fearful manner; and, with its beak peck
ing her on the head, she was dragged
some distance on the ground. Pretty
soon the eagle, having secured his prize,
with claws and bill firmly fixed, raised
her from the ground and sailed along at
from three to four feet above the earth
for some distance. Occasionally she
was droped on the ground, but the
eagle would as often raise her
again, making new and serious
wounds with his talons in her body
and his beak in her head, till at last
be reached the hight of ten feet, and at
tempted to light on the limb of red oak
tree on the roadside, when his hold again
gave way and the girl fell to the earth
seriously stunned and hurt. She was
unconscious for time, then clambered
over the fence near by into her father s
orchard and began making the best of
her way to the house, near which she
was met by her mother, who had been
attracted by her screams, and was
hasteuing to her relief. The most
remarkable part of the matter is that the
girl did not see the eagle at all. A shawl
which had been securely fastened about
her head, so as to project over her face,
bid her rude antagonist from her view.
The track along which she was dragged,
however, was plainly visible in the road


The girl Elizabeth is fourteen years of
age, and weighs between eighty and
ninety pounds. Her father is very
reliable and worthy man. He is SON
in-law of Mr.. Hatfield, in the same sec
ton OF the country, and lives about five
miles from Tecumseth Iron Works
The girl was not seriously hurt and is
doing we'll. The eagle has been twice
seen since by the hunters, who are max
ing, every effort to kill or capture him.
Year: 1874

An English technical periodical points
out an easy way. of testing whether
water is good and fit for general use. 1t
says, GOOD water should be free from
color, unpleasant odor and taste, and
should quickly afford a lather with o
small portion OF soap. II half a pint
of the water be placed in perfectly
clean, colorless, glass.stoppered bottle,
few grains OF the best white lump
sugar added, and the bottle freely ex-
posed to the daylight in the window of a
warm room, the liquid should not be-
come turbid, even after exposure for a
week or ten days. If the water becomes
turbid it is open to the grave suspicion
of sewerage contamination, but if it
remain clear it is almost certainly safe.
We owe to Heisch this simple, valuable,
but hitherto strangely neglected test.
Year: 1874

Not long since gentleman who car
ries the keys of one Of the bank vaults
in Nashua was returning home late at
night when he was aceosted by two sus-
picious looking individuals The bank
er's dog, a large Newfoundland. whose
presence is unaceounted for, immediate
ly took a position between the ruhans
and his master. which position he MAIN
tanned until home was reached The
gentleman has owned the dog for years.
and what Is singular never before knew
him to wander away from the house at
night or meet him on the way home
Year: 1874

itncut III Nlc >kAdVnS.


TAXING COLD.
The secret of avoiding the unpleasant
consequences thought to spring wholly
from the action Of cold upon the body
has very little dependence upon expos
ure. but great deal upon an impure
and weak condition of all the vital pro-
cesses. In other words, with an aver
age or superior constitution. and an in-
telligent observance of all the laws of
health, men and women could not take
cold if they wanted to; they might be
exposed to the cold to degree equal to
the beast IN the field. and with like i'm
punity. But in the case of persons with
feeble constitutions. and who disregard
knowingly or otherwise-and most fire.
quently otherwise-the conditions of
healthy existence. no degree of care will
prevent the taking of cold, as it is term,
ed. They may live in house regulated
with all the precision of a hothouse--
they may cover themselves with the most
highly protective clothing the market
provides, and yet they will take cold.
The consumptive person does not live,
nor ever will live. even if keptin TEN,
perature absolutely uniform, and clothed
in a wholly faultless manner. in whom
the well-known signs of one cold after
another will not be apparent. But, on
the other hand, there are those who. like
the late Sir Henry Holland, of good con-
stitutions and living in accordance with
the laws of health. may travel as he did
from the tropics to the arctics again and
again. clad only in an ordinary dress
coat, and yet scarcely know what it is
to have a cold, or sickness of any kind.
The truth is. that in order to avoid tax
ing cold from ordinary exposure, the vi
tai processes of the body must be made
strong enough to rise above the untow-
ard influence of external conditions. If
the body is not thus superior, if it is so
weak that it can only act harmoniously
under the most favorable conditions, a
continued state of health is not among
the possibilities. No more will weak
body maintain itself without harm amid
great external disturbance than will the
weak machinery of a steam vessel main
tain itself without injury amid a severe
storm. The avoidance of elemental dis.
turbanees is not possible in the one case
any more than in the other. yet it is pre-
cisely what persons by the ten Thousand
are to-day seeking to accomplish in th'
preservation of their health. The studl
is not how to make their blood purer
their bodies stronger, but how to dodg'
the ugly weather.


The conclusion from all this is, tina
neglecting the conditions upon which
strength of constitution and purity 0
blood depend, and then striving to ayoic
in sedulously careful manner the evi
influences of cold upon the body, is lik
neglecting the substance for the SHADOW
of health or. more properly, it is lik
one who starves his body, and then trie
to keep quiet in order that his strengtl
shall not be exhausted. Let food b
taken and the exhaustion from exercis
will not ensue let all the conditions o
health be observed, and then the natu
raj changes of the weather will fall harm
lessly on the healthy functions of tn
BODY.
Year: 1874

The sea was breaking its reefs of coral


With it's unceasing roar,
While darker than the hue of pine or laurel


Beyond it lay the shore
The tropic shore. And there, one happy
hour,


In the brief twilight calm,
Just in the shadow of fragrant bower,


We planted our first palm
My love and l. And as we sat beside it,


We said it might SO be
The time would come, unless we were de.
MED it,


When we would have our tree.
We told it then loving little story,


As though it might take heed;
Then turned away to read the sunset glory,


Which was, in part, our creed,
Alas the years have flown. Each has de-
parted


More swiftly than the last
Alone. beneath our palm, all heavy hearted,


grieve about the past.
Its branches wave. But she, my love so
tender.i


For whom my heart makes moan,
Is far away from me. If l could send her


Translation of the tone.
With which our palm tree is forever signing


Perhaps it would allay
The pain of which her heart is almost dying


To be so far away.
TRACY ROBINSON, in Rarpers Mdga-
zine for AprA