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Year: 1874

Dr. Hall enumerates several practices of the careless public, which are some times as dangerous as they are foolish i:

 Walking along the streets with the point of an umbrella sticking out be- yond, under the arm or over the shoul- der. By suddenly stopping to speak to friend, or other cause, a person walk ing in the rear had his brain penetrated through the eye, in one of our streets, and died in few days.

 To carry long pencil in vest or out side coat pocket. Not long since 8 clerk in New York fell, and his long cedar pencil so pierced an important artery that it had to be cut down from the top of the shoulder to prevent his bleeding to death, with three months illness.

 To take exercise, or walk for the health, when every step is drag, and instinct urges repose.

 To guzzle down glass of cold water, on getting up in the morning, without any feeling of thirst, under the impress sion of the health giving nature of it's washing-out qualities.

 To sit down at the table and force" yourself to eat, when there is not only no appetite, but decided aversion to food.

 To take a glass of soda, or toddy, or sangaree, or mint drops on summer day, under the belief that it is safer and better than glass of water.

 To persuade yourself that you are destroying one unpleasant odor by in- troducing stronger one; that is, try ing to sweeten your unwashed garments and person by enveloping yourself in the fumes of musk, eau de cologne, or rose water the best perfume being a clean skin and well-washed clothing.
Year: 1874

A correspondent from Brockport, N. r., writes: "The Philistines are upon us in the shape of carpet pest, and have invaded nearly every house in town and if they persist in their rav- ages, every woolen article will suffer as much as every corn stalk did by the voracious grasshopper of the West. They divide our carpets and dresses in strips, doing their work in profound si- lence. It is said they come from the hide of the buffalo, whether he be dead or alive, and they resemble the wool of that animal. Every expedient to get rid of them has failed thus far. They regard tobacco as 8 luxury, and fatten on it. We wish some scientific men would come to the rescue with rem edy."
Year: 1874

About 8 hundred miles southeast of Sendai Bay, on the east coast of Japan and directly in the strong sweep Of the Kuro Slwo or Japan current, the soundings of the Pacific Surveying party indicated abyssal depths, while little further northward, on the greater circle route from Yokohama to Puget's Sound, the sinker carried the wire to the astounding depth of 4,643 fathoms withoutre reaching bottom. Commissioner Belknap concludes that his experiment. "confirmed the existence of very deep trough under the Japan stream similar to that cut by the Gulf Stream on our own coast" The discovery that these enormous "rivers in the ocean

 carve their channels through the solid basin of the great oceans is very sug- gestive to the physicist. It IS known that they do not extend to the bottom, the deep sea thermometer ever assur" ing us that the warm Strata cease long before the floor of the ocean is reached. It would seem, therefore, to follow, from the facts brought to light, that these two hot gulf streams act upon the underlying cushions of cold water and by mechanical impact cause the abrasion or erasion of the bottom over which they run. It is by no means 1ncon- ceivable that the restless on flowing surface currents, by impart1ng thelr own motion to the subjacent water, make their impression on the oceanic hoor itself, much as the constant running ot the railroad train imbeds the rails Tn the sleepers of the track and the sleep CTS in the road bed. This, at least, seems to be the meaning of the striking phenomenon discovered by the explor' CTS in the Western Pacific.

 The Challenger's thermometric sur- veys of the Atlantic are so numerous and exact that they afford data for con structing'a better map of the Atlantlc sea bed than we had of North American typography at the beginning of this cen tury. The contours of the North At lantic present an irregular belt, shaped like the letter m. reversed, exceeding twenty-five hundred fathoms in depth, from very near the coast of the United States and the Bahamas toward the African coast between the Canarles and Cape Verde Islands. North of this lies a submarine bank, rising to within less than two thousand fathoms of the sur face, and stretching from Greenland to the Azores. It has always been sup posed that over this section poured a cold stream of Arctic water on it's way southward, slowly warming as 1t hears the Equator. But the Challen- gers soundings prove the startling tact- that (beneath the water immediately affected by the suns rays, believed not to extend more than eighty fathoms) all the water in the North Atlantic, as far north as the fortieth degree of lati- tude, is actually warmer than at the same depths under the Equator itself l Such discovery was never suspected, and only the unerring and jnexorable register of the deep-sea thermometer could have suggested such an apparent anomaly.
Year: 1874

The following items we find in the S f.
Weekly Chronicle:


SOWING ALFALFA. There are different
theories in regard to the best time to SOW
alfalfa seed. From our observations for the
Last two years we are decidedly in favor Of
row'ng in the Fall, as it will get the lenefii
ii all the rains that co me, and the roots will
rtrike deep into ;le ground the first year,
-.'nturing good crop. This viii also cause
the hay crop 10 be ready earlier, probably by
the middle of April. and three Fall crops Of
hay Gin easily he taken off the ground the
first year..


Tie ground should be plowcd deep, on
account of the roots running downward. and
should lie well pulverized and dragged
/. Glover seed must not he narrowed in deep,
and 10 avoid This harrow with short teeth
is better. If the ground is put in proper
condition before sowing tie weeds will not
botber the clover, as it ou'grows them.
Most firmers heretofore have not been sow
ing eiougl seed to the acre. The finer the
stalks of alfalfa are the better hay it makes
and this result may only he attained ! y SOW
ing it very thick. Seed is not so much Of
an object as formerly, and thirty pounds is
not too much to sow on an acre. Good al
luval eoil or bottom lands are the best, but
it will grow wherever wheat will If irrigated
We do not approve ef the plan of pasiuring
stock on a field of alfalfa intended for hay
ill after Ilc first crop is cut. Besides when
it is growing in the Spring it is dangerous to
allow cattle to eat too .Guch Of it.. Every
farmer in the State should have patch Of
clover, both for green fee and for hay.
Year: 1874

A MYSTERIOUS MURDER The town of
Bradford, Mass was thrown into a great
excitement Monday evening by the news
that q murder had been committed upon
one Of the most populous highways. the
circumstances of which are not discover
ed At about five o'clock Monday even
ing two men Were driving down street at
u moderate pace. when their horse SHE'D
quickly TO one side Of the road, nearly
overturning the vehicle They refined up
as quickly as possible, and discovering
the body of a man in the road, got out,
and to their horror found the body OF a
middle-aged man covered with blood,
wounds about the head and neck, and
breathing his last


While thus viewing the dying man the
window of a neighboring house was ele-
vated and woman called to them, who,
to all appearances, had scarcely recovered
from her fright, and said that the mur-
derer was "a red headed man. and hat
Just run down the street.


The men jumped into their carriage
and drove as fast as possible in the direc
ton Indicated and within a very shor
distance found a man who answered tho
meagre description, washing off lone
knife They told him that he must con
slider himself under arrest. He made ne
resistance, but got into the carriage a
| their solicitation, and was driven to Ha
verhill, and was placed in charge of thu
City Marshal


The man bore unmistakable evidence 0
guilt, aud stubbornly refused to give an,
information concerning himself or tn
murder He even refused to tell his name


After lodging the prisoner in the Sta
ton House, the two men returned wit
officers and found the body where it ha
first been discovered and carried it to Ha
verhill, where an inquest was held.


The suddenness of the affair and tn
parties to it being strangers to those VIII
made the discovery, nothing more wa
learned
Year: 1874

Hon. George Geddes in the Tribune says
Only few cases will Justify the expense of
cooking food TO make beef; the great body
of Northern farmers will not feed far into
the winter, and only few OF them will
have a sufficient number of animals to
Justify the extra cost Of labor involved in
cutting, grinding, and cooking food, and
most Of them will feed uncut forage, and
ground grain, and, ordinarily, four quarts
per day Of Indian meal, with good forage,
in full supply, will be as much meal as a
twelve or thirtecn-hundred-pound steer
will require to derive the most benefit
from all the food given More meal will
very often cause the animal to fat faster,
but not enongh faster to justify the extra
cost. True, he will eat less hay and other
forage. the more grain he is fed, but gen
orally the relative cost Of the various ar
ticles fed will be such that most profit viii
be derived from about four quarts of In
dian meal per day, and all the hay-stalk'
and straw the animal will eat.
Year: 1874

Dr HeNamer, in the New Y ork Tribune.
gives instructions how TO start early pota-
toes that are in..order inst now. 1t is about
time. He says BY starting the sets pre-
Yious to planting them out, marketable po-
tatoeS can be grown from two to three
weeks earlier than is possible in common
field culture 70 accomplish this take
wooden boxes OF any size. about three
inches deep, cover the bottom about one
inch with fine sandy soil, and lay the sets
on the same close together, 50 that they
touch each other without crowding. Sets
of single eyes are preferable for forcing,
and rs the seed is Of comparatively little
value only good strong eyes should be used
with aS much ofthe substance Of the pota-
to attached to them as possible The boxes
are then filled up with soil and left in Il
moderately warm place for few days.
Gradually the temperature should be in
creased, but great care has TO be taken TO
prevent the Young plants from being fore
ed too rapidly Whenever the shoots APP
l,car pale and spinding the temperature
has been placed too high. Sprouts which
have once been enfecbled. by over forcing
VIII rarely recover entirely and cannot
produce good hills of potatoes. The place
for forcing should have as much light As
possible and the soil in the boxes has TO be
mostened with water Of the same temper
ature as the room, whenever it becomes
dry, without keeping ii wet all the time


In about three weeks the sprouts are large
enough for transplanting TO the field.
Year: 1874

TuRNIp FLAVOR IN BUTTER. The Irish
method of arresting or destroying this
flavor in the milk Of turnip fed cows, is
said to be very efficient, and certainly
worth trying. Before setting the fresh
milk, sour milk is mingled with it, hasten
ing the process of souring and preventing
the flavor which is said to be caused by
the milk souring slowly In many Irish
dairies, the whole milk is churned, as the
butter thus made is considered superior in
color and flavor to that made from churn-
ing cream. A mixture composed of three
and one-half pounds of bean meal, crushed
oats and bran, mixed with water, is given
daily, in many of the best dairies, to each
COW this increases the yield of milk and
| butter.
Year: 1874

We heard the thrll~h's five long notes of woe
Or loy-who learn the song may say,
We only listened when the sun was low:
Bun that was Yesterday.
We found some violets underneath the hedge.
We gather'd blue bells in the wild wood way
We pulfdthe king cups from the ruStling sedge
But that was Yesterday.
We watched the rivers further ripple leap
TO catch the suns last kiss, and grey
Soft mistS of evening up the valley creep:
But that was yesterday.
We sang together for the love and might
of God and spring, and then she lay
pom my breast, weary with delight


But that was yesterday.
Alone | wait and watch the sun go down.
Counting dumb hours that must stay.
Ere that supreme One comes with eros and


crown.


Bringing back Yesterday
Year: 1874

NEW AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT. Eng
lish patents have been granted for inn
proVements in agricultural apparatus for
thinning turaips, or other roots or plants
In these the frame is supported on a pair
OF wheels fixed on an axle, and there is
loose on the axle beyel wheel which is
in gear with a bevel wheel on the front end
of a longitudinal shaft having fixed on its
back end a wheel center on which the hoes
OF other thinning parts are fixed A tran
verse bar is fixed on the underside OF the
frame and carries a pair Of pairing coulters
OF small shares for pairing OF slicing the
sides of the drill. The rake is fixed on one
side, so that the horse may walk along the
turrow on one side of the drill that is be
ing thinned, and the handles are also SET
on the same side, so that an agrlculturis
may follow in the same ftrrow. A ligh
wheel is fixed adjustably to one of The
handle bars TO regulate the depth At which
the thinners work
Year: 1874

Ifthou desirest the love of God and man.


be humble; for the proud heart, as it loyes
none but itself, so it is beloved OF none put
itself. The voice of humility is Gods me
toric. Humility entorces where neither
virtue nor strength can prevail nor reason,
Year: 1874

Nora soon learned the ways and man
ners of a lady She seemed to he instict-
lively delicate and ladylike. She was
pretty, too, when the hungry look Went
out of her eyes


| Miss buckingham, though on the look
out, never discovered q vice in her. What
e-er may have been her original faults,
she seemed to have shed them with her
rags, and the great gratitude felt for her
benelactress overwhelmed every thing.
She seemed TO live but to do something
for Miss Buckingham.


That lady began to feel that virtue is
its own reward Not all the pleasure she
had found in taking the very cream of
life had given her so much happiness as
this one poor child.


Almost without knowing it, she went
out less, and her life gradually shaped
itself into something like a loving moth
er's life.


TO Nora, life was like dream-a
dream of heaven, at that Always warm
always fed, always safe from roughness,
surrounded by things so beautiful she
scarcely dared to touch them; every want
attended to before it was felt 1t was toe
wonderful to seem true. In dreams she
would often return to the desolate shanty
where the wind blew through the cracks
and the old rcketty stove was no better
fed than her mother and herself She
would feel her fathers blows, and wake
TO find herself in her snug warm bed, il
her dainty room next to Miss Bucking
hams.


| Five years rolled away. Miss Bucking
ham grew to love this child of povert.
very much, and to be grieved that sh
showed none of the JOY Of youth. Fo
| Nora walked around as though in dream
She was always anxious to please, alway
cheerful, but never gay. The tragedy o


life had taken too deep hold on hel
She was too subdued. She never spok


loud She never slammed Il door. Sh
2 never laughed.


"Nora," said Miss Buckingham one day
| after studying her tace for some time i
: silence, ''Why are you not like other youn
!. girls p


!. Why, am | unlike them" aske
Year: 1874

One of the illusions is that the present
honr is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that every day is the
best day in the year. No man has learned
anything rightly until he knows that every
dav is doomsday. Emerson.
Year: 1874

Ii is not often that bones can be collect
ed on the farm in sufficient quantity for
field crops, but every man who has q
garden can make little excellent manure
by saving those within his reach. 1t is use
less to recommend converting them into
homemade superphosphate by using sui
phuric acid; the difficulty and trouble Of
procuring the acid away from cities and
the care and experience required to use 1t,
are sufficient objections There are, how
ever. TWO modes of reducing the bones,
which every gardener may easily adopt.
One is TO place them in thin layers in a fer
mentmg heap of manure, which, if they
are previously broken will soften them
enough TO cause crumbling after the lapse
of weeks, when the heap is worked over
Even common hot-bed will do. if the
bones are first broken into fragments The
other mode is to boil them as follows:
Mix them in a large kettle with wood
ashes and to make the ashes cauStic, add
about peck of fresh lime to each barrel
of bones SatTate and cover the ashes
we'll with water, and then apply heat, for
say tWenty-four hours, or during the dav
for two successive days. All the bones by
this time, except the very hardest parts,
will be 50 reduced as TO be easily pulver-
ized, being in a pasty condition, suitable
tor placing IN layers in making the com
post heap. Another days boiling viii re-
duce the remainder of the hard bones
Country Gentleman.
Year: 1874

\ CERTAIN CURE FOR EAE-ACIIE. W e
have recently seen several receipts pub
lishcd as beneficial in cases OF ear-ache !;
but one who has severe attack of that
malady will, we think, soon find the inetfi-
cheney of them all. There is however,
one remedy which the experience of tWcn-
tv wears has taught US is miailing. We
have seen it trcpeatedly tried in our family,
aud have frequently recommended it TO
others, always with the same satisfactory
result No ohouse should be without a bot
tie OF arnica 1t is indispensable in cases
OF cuts. burns and bruises, and in ear-ache
it /. a sovereign cure As soon as any
soreness is felt in the ear-which feeling
almost always precedes the cache let
three on four drops of the tincture of arnica
be poured in and then the oriticc filled with
little cotton to exclude the air; and in
4 short time the uncaSineSs is forgotten.
1t the arnca is not resorted to until there
is actual pain, the cure may not be so
speedy, but ii is Just as certain If one
application OF the arnica does not effect a
cure. If Will be necessary to repeat it, it
may be several times. 1t is II sure preycn-
tive ior gathering in the ear, which is the
usual cause of ear-ache. We have never
known any harm or serious Inconvenience
To attend this use of arnica; though if the
spirits with which it is made are very
strong it may be diluted with little wa
ter. as the Spirits-not the arnica-will
sometimes cause a temporary dizziness OF
the head, which is unpleasant. Arthur's
Magazine
Year: 1874

GETTING RID OF OwLs.-An
old farmer who was troubled by
owls that invaded his hennery got
rid of them in rather novel man
ner. One nigEt he ground a scy-
the blade very keen, split long
pole at the top, inserted the blade,
and hoisted the pole. The birds of
wisdom never lit on this but once.
One gallon of owltoes were picked
up next morning, and the farmer
has not lost q hen since.
Year: 1874

The Louisville Ledger has been
puzzled for a long time to know
why the women of Massachusetts
make more noise than their sisters
in other states. Archbishop Wha-
teley once pronounced a similar
conundrum why do white sheep
eat more than black ones ? and ans
swered it with the invitable reply ::
Because there are more of them
Year: 1874

MILITARY TIrLEs-The Salem Register
says Since the close of the war the titles OF
Colonel" "Major," "Captaio," &c, have
been familiar terms to our people; but it must be
disgusting to old soldiers to hear man dubbed
Major or "Coonel' who never fired a gun,
and perhaps never saw regiment or brigade


in line of battle. Yet we find many of the pa
pers of Virginia applying these terms to
persons connected with railroads, the press, or
engaged in some occupation which brings them
before the public when the fact is that the
writer's fthese paragraphs know very we'll that
there is dot the first quality iu their favorltles
which would recommend them as an orderly
sergeant even Of the State militia. Men OF
brains would sccrn to wear an unmerited title,
and Que not conferred by proper authority.
1t would doubtless be very painful to one OF
these paper 'coonels'' if he was iuterrogated
as to the part his command took 10 the late
war; he would no doubt feel like surrenderiog
as he, perhaps, was always ready to do if at
any time he were brought face to face with
the enemy. The newspapers that have adopt
this as way of showing their friendship for
their special favorites would perhaps render
them greater service if they would only con-
6ue themselves to the truth, and use the polite
term MIR.
Year: 1874

A method of preserving grapes for a
long time, even from one Autumn until
the next Summer, has come into exten-
sive use. The grapes are kept ON the vine
as long as possible--in France, where this
device originated to the end of October
or beginning of November. Before the
first frosts appear they are cut, leaving
portion of the stem of about two or
three knots below the bunch and two
above it. The section of the upper end
is then to be covered with wax, to pre-
vent the evaporation of the liquids con-
tained in the pores of the wood; and af-
ter carefully removing all the unsound
grapes the lower end of the stem is in
serted in a small, elongated bottle filed
with water, having small quantity of
wood charcoal in the bottom. The space
between the stem and the tightly-fitting
cork through which it is inserted is to
be filled up with wax. The bottles thus
fitted are TO be placed on shelves in IA
dry room, and there arranged so as not
to fall over, this being best prevented
by inserting them in holes bored in a
frame, as close together as they car
stand conveniently.
Year: 1874

The German exodus to America con-
tinues to cause serious and angry alarm.
Bismarck will stop it if he can. The
other day one of the legal tribunals of
Berlin condemned by default that is, IN
their absence), CSC young men, natives
Of that city, to fine of fifty thalers
each for having withdrawn themselves
by emigration from the requirements
of the military conscription law. 1t
may be said, "They are safe in the New
World; what does it matter whether a
fine be recorded against them which
Prussia cannot collect" Apparently not
much, only if ever one of these defaul-
ters should set foot at any time upon
German soil he will have to pay the
penalty with costs, and take his chance
of being detained to serve out his mill
tary term. Moreover, should he succeed
to property, real or personal, by decent
or bequest, not one thaler of it can be
! ent 10 him out of Prussia.
Year: 1874

The remark Is q continual memorial OF my early
days. 1t keeps vivid In my mind and is enhanced
by my monotonous experiences in youth and man.
hood up to the present time. IL was dinned into
my years BY ontinual repetition when was an
infant in my mothers arms and even then I under.
stood the meaning OF the phrase, though not the
strange child What wild, big eyesn And after.
ward can remember the same enraptured ladies'
who thus commented on me privately. when my
mother was not about whispered or water on the
brain, and prophesied Tor me quick transit from
this world to the spirit land. And, really, have
been assured by the doctor who cared for me In
my infantfle days. now q hale old man,
that l was dif1cut subject to rear.
He grufny matters me now with "But you
weren't pulling child; simply queer un,; and
q queer UNI you are yet" And then he gets
angry for time, saying, "Why don't you get
out OF moping, and spirit-seeing Go into some
rough, burly business, and leave your books and
your star-gazing.n To the latter part OF his


speech say meekly, ~ cannot;" and then |
leave him, for though l love him l can
not bear the force OF his rongh-spoken
worldly wisdom. Thus, as have indicated, lhave
always been Spritualist. was born one. 1t is
not possible for me to prove to others that there
are spirits, for my intercourse with them has not
been held on earth, amid the banging OF banjo
heads or In gasplng struggle to relieve myself
from hempen bonds. I cannot bring ether to my
body's home and materialize IL, or, as am
yet bachelor, would do 80 and keep the
naturalization In the place OF wife born after
the manner Of real human beings. Yet am able