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Year: 1874

DR.. Letheby, after devotiug many
| years to an investigation into the prop
critics of the water introduced into Eng
lish cities, and to q study of the sani-
| tary reports on the subject. comes TO
| the conclusion that moderately hard


water is safer and more he9lthfuI than
soft water. Hard water Is not only
clearer. colder, more free from air, and
| consequently more agreeable to the eye
and to the taste than soft water, but is
less liable to absorb organic substances.
to sustain the life of zymotic organism,
or to exert solvent properties upon salts
of iron or upon leaden conducting
pipes. The lime salts exert bene fetal
influence upon the animal economy and
even protect the system from dangerous
outward influences. DR.. Wilson, OF
Edinburgh, has also collected much val
liable material on the subject, and comes
to the same conclusion as DR.. Letheby.
He takes the ground that the human
body requires for its nourishment and
support q supply of certain mineral
salts, among which carbonate and phos-
phate of lime play On important part In
building up the compaotness of the
bones and in other functions. We usu.
ally observe phosphate of lime IL our
animal and vegetable food, but not
from the water we drink. Carbonate of


lime, however, is not contained In ade-
quate quantity in our solid food, but
generally obtains In spring and well
water.


It has been incontsstibly shown that
in mountainous districts, where tho wa
ter is more or less hard, the inhabitants
exhibit the best physical development.
On the other hand, it is believed that
in large C ties the mortality is inversely
as the hardness of water supplied to
the inhabitants. A water which CON
ta1ns about six grains of carbonate of
lime to the gallon Is suitable for use in
all household purposes. AS drink and
for cooking food, such q water offers the
necessary carbonate of lime for the sup
port of life in the simplest, most nat
ural and most easily digested form, and
is at the same time more agreeable,
fresh and sparkling. 1t is evident that
our preconceived popular notions on the
subject of hard water need revising,
and that it may be better to use such
water than to have recourse to rain or
ice water.
Year: 1874

Victor Hugo is said by some mali
ciOus person to have addressed a letter
to the peace congress sitting at Geneva,
from which the following is an extract :
Every congress IS a reunion, every re-
union IS a union, every union is q pro
gress. Congress, progressive great
things which rhyme, and rhyme is rea-
son. You want peace and liberty. So
do I. Peace and liberty Grandiose
and luminous-pleonasm. Peace is
liberty liberty is peace. To desire one
is to desire the other. The one is the
other; the other is the one. Who does
not wish for it ? Peace and liberty are
the twin sisters from whose embrace the
communion of youth will spring-the
United States of Europe-the COM
muniop of men. You have selected
Geneva as the lying-in hospital of your
grand conceptions. You were right.
Voltaire took refuge IN the bosom of
Geneva-that flea of genius, whose
bites aroused sleeping people. Geneva
is less great for having given birth to
Rousseau. Health and prosperity.
Year: 1874




COLUMBUS, Feb. 1G.-In the House this
morning bills were introduced amending
the justice code so there shall be no stay
on any judgment rendered for labor per-
formed; by employee; to amend the act
exempting specific articles from execution,
so as to exempt one half personal earnings
Of the debtor and one.half Of the earnings
Of his minor child or children.


In the Senate this afternoon a bill was
introduced to provide that when person
is indicted for crime and the defense
pleads insanity, o special Jury shall de-
termine the question of sanity before an
advance Of trial before the Court. II
they pronounce the person sane, he shall
at once be put upon trial but il he is In.
sane then he shall be committed to the
Lunatlc Asylum and put upon trial when
pronounced cured,
Year: 1874

THERE is an interesting question now
pending between the Fsirmont Nyinian
and the EGraiton Sentinel as to whether
those three foolish ladies Of Fairmont
who advertised for correspondence are
really ladies, or in other words, whether
they are OF the femme persuasion at all.
We incline to agree with the Hretnian
that the advertiser Is most likely a certain
young man. Parties, whether male or
female, who pay any attention to such
advertisements, arc in danger Of being
wounded to their serious hurt.
Year: 1874

WE think it barely possible that our
correspondent "Broad Church" Is . trlae
too profuse in his estimate OF our martry-
dom. he lays on his compliments more
like a plasterer than an artist. And yet
the sympathy that Is plainly awakened in
the mans bosom on our behalf touches us
not a little. When we ponder deeply on
his vicarious presentation Of our case, a
conviction Of olipjured innocence steals over
US, SO to speak, not unlike the emotions Of
that young woman, who never suspected
how injured and innocent she really had
been until abe listened to her lawyers ten
dollar speech to the jury.
Year: 1874

Premiums are received and Losses are paid in
cash only Policies are issued payable at the death
of the Insured also payable at the end of certain
number of Years Policies are also issued on the
Year: 1874


Gather them close to your loving heart


Cradle them on your breast;
They will soOn enough leave your broOdlh &


care
Soon enough mount youths topmost stair


Little ones in the nest
Fret not that the children's hearts are gay,
That the restless feet will run;
There may come a time in the by and by,
when you'll sit in your lonely room and sigh
For . sound Of childish fun-
when you'n long for the repetition sweet.


That sounded through each room,
OF mother. % mother the dear love calls
That will echo long in the silent halls,


And add to their stately gloom.
There may come time when yon'n long to hear
The eager bOyish tread.
The tuneless whistle, the clear shrill shout,
The busy bustling in and out


And the pattering overhead.
When the boys and girls are all grown up,


And scattered far and wide,
Or gone to that beautiful golden shore
Where sickness and death come never more,


You will miss them from your side.
Then gather them close to your loving heart
Cradle them on yoHr breast;
They will soon enough leave your brooding care
Soon enough mount youths topmost stair


Little ones in the nest.
Year: 1874

There is no exc use for any who have even
a small plot of ground, to be without this de-
lcious and salubrious fruit. 1t is an error to
suppose that the labor and care required for
success is great in proportion TO the value ofthe
product. Five dollars woulu have overpaid
the labor hestoWed upon b ads which have
Just yielded more than hundred quarts.
Nor is there anything of skill required beyond
the easy attainment of ordinary minds. A
little observation or instruction from books or
otherwise, a little experience, with little
care and reflection, will ensure remuneratve
success, and secure an abundance of this most
desirable fruit in its season. Its rewards ale
great. The strawberry is the first fruit of
summer. 1t comes when most needed. 1t is
medicine id food. 1t cleanses and iuvigor-
ates the blood. 1t hardels the muscles. 1t
gives strength and freedom from bilious and
febrie diseases. Every family should have it
in profusion.


Now is the time to prepare for the new bed
of strawberries, in order to secure at least
partial supply for next year. The question is



new bed? The proper answer is, when the
plants and the ground are ready for each
other. The sooner the bed is properly plant
ed, the sooner you get fruit. If you plant
your bed during this month or the first half
of September, you get, under varying condi-
tions, from quarter to half crop next year.
But if tie transplanting is not done till
spring, you get 20 fruit Of value the same
year. Thus years time and quarter or half
crop are lost, while the family are famshing
for want of the needed returns.


The new bed should therefore be started
this summer or early autumn. And the
method commended by my experience and
observation is this:


The plants should be Of the present years
growth. They are easily produced of suffi-
cient strength and root by the latter part of
summer or very early autumn. The earliest
runners put forth are not so strong as those
of later growth, and hence it is not best to
seek 10 obtain very early plants. For early
planting, if the planter has no bed to propa-
gate from, they should be procured from some
kind neighbor, or some friend or commercial
gardener within convenient distance, since in
warm weather the soft and succulent plants
are brought long distances only with great
care, and with difficulty and loss.


Meantime the planter must have regard to
the preparation of his ground. The most
convenient method is to plant some early crop
ON the ground intended for the beds. This
crop being removed, the ground is to be
thoroughly titled, and deeply, and plenty
of manure Well mingled in the surface; we'll
rotted manure, the farmers say. This is
most convenient, if one has it. But l have
never seen any but good results from crude
manure. Good super-phosphate of lime may
well serve in part for manure.


Your plants and ground are now ready for
each other, and your bed is well started with
promise of early product, when the former
are well planted in the latter, and liberal
dressing of hard wood ashes, if you have
them, cast upon the surface. WIG.
Aug. II, 1874.
Year: 1874

From tho New York Commercial Advertiser.
1t is various and instructive to note the


sentiments OF the southern press towards


Mr.. Sumner. As rule, no harsh language


Is used, and the feeling is one OF "forgive-


ness" They used TO hate Mr.Sumuer most
cordially, but in his conduct for the past


two or three y ears they and much 10 COM


mend. TSsy do not mourn his loss very
deeply but they aequiesc9 In 1t, and spead
we'll Of the dead. Twenty years ago there
was peril for Charles Summer on every acre
of Southern soil. This year hs would have
been kindly welcomed almost everywhere
in that part OF the Union ana all because
he had ''unloaded" himself OF son part OF
the "resentments," Ms the South would call
them, he had SO long psrsstentiy cherish
ed. A very little "softening'' Oh the war
question gses great way with the South,
as the cam paign of 1872 demonstrated. The


era of good feeling is still extant. when men
OF all parts OF the land speak we'll OF the
dead Who haze served their country in the
field or forum.
Year: 1874

TIE EVIL OF TIE PERIOD. The New York
Sun has lcugthy article on this subject, and
remarks that "iu seeking the causes and ageu-
cies of the universal stagnatlou Of commerce,
stoppagc of industry, and popular distress, we
come upon one Of which little note is taken
and no comment made--the lavish living OF
all classes of our population, who, by actual
possession of means or an assisting credit, mort
gage the future for the extrayagauces OF the
present. From the silken canoples OF the
cradle to the silver and satin of the burial
caskct, we dive deep into reckless expenditure.
In the later and still increasing competition
for ornamentation, our dwelling places are e2,
arrerated bird cages, with all the huting and
irippery of every conceivable order of archltSc-
ture which the wit of man can devise: we
build structures for our daily life after the
models of the tower of Babel or the temple OF
Juggeruaut, so fantastic in outline and execu-
ton that the cost of the sculpture alone IN use,
less adornment is larger than that of the solid
needs of domestic comforts and couvlence.
Year: 1874

grain to the ocean. If large sum is
needed 10 open the river permanently,
they will favor the drawing of the ap-
preparation usually made for large
number of up river points, and the con-
solidation Of The whole sum, and using
it for this work.


Second-LegislatiO to prevent rail-
roads west of the Mississippi river from
discriminating in their rates of freight
against points on the river, and in favor
Of all railroad points byond this, making
it impossible for farmers to avail them
selves of cheap water transportation.


Third-Legislation to prevent similar
discrimination by roads running east
sad west against north and south roads,
thus preventing farmers, when the Mis-
sissippi river is frozen, from sending
their grain southwark on the railroads
till the open river is reached.


FOurth-LegislatiJn on rates for trans
portati0n OF live stock on railroads from
west To east. This is the only article
they will ask to have rates fixed upon,
and the reason for asking this is that il
is the only important article of their
products that must come by rail to the
east, and the only legislation involving
money to be asked for is the opening of
the mouth OF the Mississippi by with
drawing expenditures from less import
ant works
Year: 1874

COLLEGE PRESIDENTS ON Boat.
ING. The New England College
Presidents have been holding con-
ference at Hanover, N. H. Among
tho subjects discussed was that of
boating and the University regatta.
College Faculties, as rule, have
been strongly opposed to boating on
the ground that it distracted the at
tention of young men from their stud
les. Probably their view was more
Just than that of the boating men who
objected to the studies because it dis
tracted their attention from rowing.
Still IL is undeniable that the influence
in favor Of physical culture which the
University regatta exercises is mat.
ter not to be lightly undoYalned.
The assembled Presidents have had
the good sense to perceive this and
the courage to acknowledge it. The
conference took the ground that while
boating had its evils, the good more
than overbalauced the bad, and that
it would be a grave mistake to oppose
tho regatta because a few young men
might make II the occasion Of dissipa.
ton, aud a fow more might neglect
their studies in order to take part in
tho race. AS tho President Of Am
herst College took part in the confer
ence, the Amherst students may per.
haps repent of their yirtuous decision
not TO row at Saratoga. and may join
in tho next years contest for the hon
ors that now belong TO Columbia,
Year: 1874

Ip small village, not a thousand
miles from Sonoma, Cal, a certain di-
vine whose church is strongly OPP
posed to secret societies announced q
few weeks ago that he would deliver
a discourse against FreemaE onry. The
appointment was for Saturday night
and large audience came out to hear
HIM. Just as the speaker began to
warm up with his subject, lot OF
boys went up to the door aud opening
It showed in an old billy goat and lock-
cd tho door on the outside. Now
this old goat was notorious fellow.
The boys about town had teased and
"fooledp with him so much that he
was always "on the fight ~


When thrust into the large compa.
ny that composed the audience OF the
reverend speaker he was not ut all
abashed, but began looking round for
a fooman worthy of his horns. Soon
he discovered the speaker gesticula-
ting in the farther end of the room,
and with a few preliminary mods to
assure himself that his neck was in
good working order, he made for. him
on tho double.quick 1t was as II the
ghost of tho traditional Masonic goat
was after him. Dodging around the
pulpit he managed to elude billys
well-aimed butts.


Down among the audience they
came, the pursued and the pursuer
Women and children mounted the
benches, and such scene of confusion
and such an uproar is not often seen
in a solemn assembly. In the mean
time the boys were firing a volley OF
stones at the end of the building. BY
a strategic movement the goat was
caught and tied TO a bench, and the
congregation quieted down. The
speaker resumed his subject. lr


Billy stood quietly for awhile, but
when one Of the boys who knew his
tricks made n motion at him, he began
TO plunge and to rear TO get at him,
creating about as much confusion as
before. When the door was opened
all were glad to get out except Billy,
who felt that he had not had half q
show.
Year: 1874

TAXATION IN CUBA.--Captain
General Concha appears to have been
too fast with his method for raising
the wind in Chica, His proposed
five per cent. tax on capital had only
reached the point Of promulgation,
but already the wealthy planters and
merchants Of tho island were begin
ming to squirm under the anticipated
lien on their belongings, and Concha
was doubtless congratulatng himself
on the prospective addition to his
treasury, when, suddenly, the Sorrano
Government at Madrid dispatches an
order to Havana disappearing Of the
intended impost, aud directing that
its collection bo not enforced. Mean
while, il Is reported that the Caban
income tax Is TO be doubled, in place
Of tho obnoxious tariff This looks
TO US like exchanging ono species OF
robbery for another--sinoe any tax to
sustain tho heartlcss war against the
native Cabans Is nothing moro nor
less than robbery land il is a ques1
ton whether Coneaa viii got as much
money out oil tho uow tax as be would
have obtained from tue other.
Year: 1874

A CORRESPONDENT Of The N. e.
Homestead mentions tho experience
of q commercial traveller who has
used bis present wagon nearly seven
years, running iton an average over
Z, 7,0O0,miles per eunum, and the axlea
Of which ara even now but slightly
worn. Lie considers this result owing
solely to care in oiling. aWipe the
axle perfectly dry and use little
pure castor oil. Never uso enough
10 have il work out at The end Of the
hub. Oil often enough 10 prevent
tho axle getting dry Use thin
washer against The shoulder Of the
axle and another against tho nut 70
keep tho wheel pressed back close.
The axle is made taporing, oonse-
quently there will be less play iftho
wheel is kept back close % the
shoulder And tho less play, iha lase
wear on tho axle
Year: 1874

A woman in New London Conn,
saw her husband carrying a ladY's
satchel, and she tore the ladysdrcss of
her before discovering that itfwas her
mother who had dropped down on tho
evening train to surprise her. Every
husband in the land who is out eve.
nings should read this little item TO
bis wife, and hold up the dangers Of
her becoming suspicious without tho
best oil cause.
Year: 1874

NEWARK, Sep7.


On Saturday, Newark had the good fortune to
have two games of base ball, the first taking
place .in sthe morning when the Greasy Nine
and the Young America coutended for the cham
pionship of the town by the Junior Mines. The
game from the first was in favor of the former
and finished with score of II to %, which was
a bad beat. The Young America can do better,
having beat the Greasy Nine, last year. Let
them try again.


The second and mostimportant game came of
in the afternoon between the Newark Nine and
Brandywine club of Bancrofts Banks. This game
was very well contested with some very heavy bat
ting on both aides and at times some good play
ing The Newark Nine came off victorious by
score of 35 to IS.


A large number of people witnessed in the lat
ter game, many coming with the visiting club.
Some of them undertook to wrestle with old
John Barleycorn, but he was too many for them,
and in the end they went under, one of the par
ty getting rest in Newark's much noted lookup
until Sunday morning. Our very worthy police
officer lost tooth by the handy manner in
which this party used his fists.


A number of people in Newark and vicinity
contemplate visiting Washington on the excur-
sion of Thursday next. The fact of the train
stopping at Newark will cause more to go than
would have otherwise gone. They will only lose
the one day; leaving Newark at 6.25 and coming
home about eleven O'Clock in the evening. Tick
cts are being sold by s. r. Choate, Newark COM
MERcIAL News Store.


Besides the nomination of Joel Thompson, Jr.
for Senator in White Clay Creek, our townsman
s. M. Curtis ia nominated for Representative in
Mill Creek Two better selections could not be
made. They add great strength to the ticket
Year: 1874

A lady at one of the Cape May hops lost val
liable coral cross, and it was found the next day
by one of the colored servants under the piano.
He was rewarded with ten dollars and got SO
drunk that he was discharged, and then wished
he had never seen the thing.


Upon ranch in Nevada. on the Carson river,
there is a herd of twenty-six camels, all but two
of which were bred and raised in Nevada. Some
years ago, nine or ten camels were imported in
to that State, but of these only two lived to be-
come acclimated, and from this pair have been
raised twenty-four camels.
Year: 1874

The marriage rite as arranged in the
Russian Greek church is attended will
many ceremonials. The bride and
bride groom kneel before the altar with
lighted tapers in their hands, and the
priest asks GA B, hast thou a good
and unrestrained will and firm intention
to take to wife this woman, Y Z?" The
bridegroom replies, "I have, most rev.
erend SIR" The priest again asks,
Hast thou not promised any
other woman?" the answer be-
ing, 81 have not promised another. u
These questions are also put to the
bride, and then the benediction is given.
Prayers are then offered after which
two crowns are brought, and the priest
takes one, and making the sign of the
cross with it over the head of the bride
groom, says, "The servant of God, A
B, is crowned for the handmade of God ,
Y q, in the name of the Father, of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost" It is
kissed by the bridegroom, and is then
placed on his head, or is held over him
during the ceremony. The same takes
place with the bride and the other crown.
These crowns have no relation to the
rank of the couple, but are used at the





prince. Selections from tie Scrip
lures are then read, and anthems sung.
Wine is then brought in the "common
cup" from which the bride and groom
both drink three times. Up to this point
in the ceremony the marriage might still
be broken of, should either os the par
ties change his or her mind at the last
moment but what follows makes the
marriage indissoluble. The priest cov-
ers his right hand with his vestment,
and on it the bride and bridegroom
place their right hands, and they are
led slowly around the al al three times.
This practice of circumambulating is a
very ancient rite, and is explained to
mean that the man and wife are to walk
together through life with ihe Divine
Providence along with them to guide
and protect, the mystical three
times being symbolical of the holy
trim ty. The ceremony is concluded by
the priest removing the crowns from
the heads of the bride and bridegroom,
and pronouncing blessing on them.
Year: 1874

Old father Brayne, OF Syracuse, was a
very popular camp-meeting leader. He
used to tell in meeting the followiT z
story While conducting a camp-mett-
ing in western New York, n messenger
arrived at the camp 10 inform him that
the wife of the chief deacon had died
that morning. Father Brayne dele ga
ted his powers TO another, and started
home to comfort the bereaved widower.
After twenty miles ride he reached the
farm house where the deacon lived
about four in the afternoon. On enter
ing he shook the widower by the hand
and sat down in silence. By-and-by no
began TO condole with the bereaved man,
and offered him all the consolation in
his power. "It's a very heavy grief
you hfve TO bear" said the minister,
"but you must bear up like man"
Yes" the deacon responded, tits
kind o. rough. Let's take a walk
around" Father Brayne. thinking that
the widower felt i'll and depressed, and
that the fresh air would do him good,
readily assented. The deacon led him
To his barns and stables aud showed
him over his farm. The parson APP
neared 10 take n great interest in every
thing. and rejoiced TO think that he was
helping TO divert the deacon's mind
from his terrible sorrow. After they
had gone round the whole farm the dea-
con said "Now, minister, We see
everything in fine order. What would
We advise me to do-bring my daughter
and her husband here TO manage the
place, or go buobing about among the
girls again for another wife =