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Year: 1874

Not long since VIC noticed some of the
manual resulting from the customary re-
preston of the left hand, and advocated,
on physical grounds, it's culture equally
with that of the right hand. 1t seems that
there are not less cogent mental reasons
for developing the two sides of the body
impartially.


1t is coming to be well known that men,
tai development is the result of properly di-
rected physical training; that the brain
grows i'll size and power by the varied ex-
ercise of the senses and the will is in used me-
chanical employments quite as rapidly by
purely intellectual efforts in study or other
wise. 1t is equally known that most men
are one-sided in heads as in their bodies.
two halves of the brain are rarely developed
symmetrcally, as may be readily seen in the
Comforts or head measures accumulated
by hat-makers in supplying individual GUS
toners. To some extent, the difference in
the contour OF the two sides of the head
is due to unequal pressure on the nurses S
arm, or to the habit of lying chiefly on one
side while sleeping, thus causing perma-
nent displacement Of the walls of the skull;
but the main reason appears to be our one
sided habit in education.


DIR. Brown Sequard observes that the
study of the facts relating to the brain has
led him to believe that ''each half of the
brain-paradoxical as it may SCENTS a
whole BRAIN" each lode being normally
competent to perform all the functions of
completeness. ees.as''ss iesfss4s'se, as
most of us are singled Drained as we are
single handed, and for the same reason.
We fail to do what is really necessary to
give us two working brains. ''There is no
question" concludes this skillftl observer,
"that it is our habit of making use of only
one side of the body that consigns to one
half Of the brain the right side, the faculty OF
expressing ideas by speech. If we develop
both sides of our. body equally, not only
would there be benefit that we would
write or work with the left hand as well as
with the right, but we should have two
brains, instead of one, and would not be de-
prived of the power of speech through dis
ease of one side of the brain.
Year: 1874

From the Courier-Journal, June Cd.


The Sunday liquor law seems to go very
hard with the newspaper men of Rochester.
Deprived OF all means of allaying their
raging thirst, they simply lie fiat on their
backs oil day and howl.


An exchange says "Pomeroy's Democrat
once more advocates the reputation of the
national dept" We were under the i'm
preston either that Pomeroy's Democrat
was dead or that it ought to be, we have
forgotten which.


People shouldn't insist upon Secretary
Richardson's resignation. 1t were better
perhaps that he should embarrass the oper-
ations of the United States Treasury than
that he should be turned loose to wreck the
finances of some peanut-stand.


A schooner with cargo of %, 900 bushels
of corn recently sailed from Chicago for
Cork, Ireland. You would naturally sup
pose that she had to make a long and
tedious land journey through Canada, but
this she avoided by taking to the canals of
that country.


The Madrid editors are abusing Caleb
Gushing for dining with Figueras and
CASTELAR,, and they intimate that he IS not
acquainted with the usages of diplomacy.
1t must be very trying to Caleb to wade
through column or more of Spanish de-
nunciation every day at least it would be
to most men who go abroad as American
Ministers.


One Of the poets of Northwestern
paper says:


What becomes Of the editors?


That's what I'd like to know:


They do heap of good on earth


And to heaven ought to 60.


Some of them certainly ought to; but
somehow or other too many of them seem
to regard the other place as better suited to
their business.


owe have our opinion of the man, " says
the Rochester Chronicle, I" who will take
Democracy when he can as easily take the
smallpox. " There are men who probably
would take tho smallpox in preference if
they had any assurance that some fool
wouldn't then advise them to go another
step h-wards by taking the Rochester
Chronicle.
Year: 1874

A correspondent Of the British Medical


Times mentions a curious and barbarous
remedy for headache and other cerebral af-


fections in vogue among the natives OF the
South Sea Islands They lay open the
scalp with cross or T incision, and then
scrape the skull with u piece of glass until .
hole is ris,.io ssbo,t tl.e tho eiso af "a crown
piece. This hole is made deep enough to
reach the dura mater, though sometimes an
unskillful operator win continue the scrap
ing until the pia mater is touched, when, OF
course. death results. In the best of hands
about one-half Of the patients die from the
effects of the operation. This custom,
from superstition and fashion, has been so
prevalent that there are few of the male
adults without hoe in his craniuTn, or as
the Australians express it +" without shin
GLE" Sometimes rude attempt is made to
cover up the membranes of the brain by
placing piece of cocoanut shell under the
scalp. This bone-scraping remedy is also
employed in cases of rheumatism. The cutl-
Gle is inclsed and the center of the ulna or
thibia laid bare, and the surface ofthe bone
scraped with piece of glass until large
portion of the internal lamina is removed.
Year: 1874

The sands Of the Desert glowed hot and rel,
The sun of the Desert beat down,
Till it bistered the top of the Carmelites head
just the round shaven spot on the crown.
An Arab swept by, bare chested and brown.
MY tent door stands open, he said.
The monk found wine skin under his gown
The Arab brought dates and bread.
Kind Allah, we thank theer' the Arab cried,
When our simple repast was spread.
fell to at once, but the monk replied.
Nay. Sheick, thank the Lord nstead!"
Then the two argued loud and the two argued long
AS to how their grace should be said;
But before they had got at the right or the wrong
had finished both dates and bread.
When they turned to me, could not declare
On point so exceedingly fine,
But rode away ON the Arabs mare
With my friend the Carmelite's wine.
Just where my thanks are due cannot decide.
But honors easy. think:
So Allah / thank for the mare ride
The Lord for the wine drink.


GJohn Paul in June Galaxy.
Year: 1874

"That sneak Butler" is an expression
by the Troy Press. We must insist that
this sort of thing be stopped. Mr.. Butler
is the soul of franl1Eess and force; there is
nothing of the sneak in him. We have not
the slightest doubt that rather than go
through house like a sneak he would
murder the entire family and burn the
establishment And then he would show,
beyond question, that he had been doing
merely his legal and moral duty.-Rochestes
IN. ~ Democrat.
Year: 1874

Now we know all about it. An enor-
mously learned climatologist tells us the
world in Galignani, how our incipient
summer got nipped in the bud, thusly ::
''The chilliness is due to the fact that the
earth passes behind ring of asteroids,
which absorb portion of the suns warmth
due to us while it remains above the horizon.
The temperature will not resume its ascen-
siona1 movement until the annual rotation
shall have carried our sphere from the
shadow of the multitude Of small planets
which is always projected on the same point
of our orb"
Year: 1874

Every inyenrion that can be produced,
and every suggestion that science can make,
has been applied in the manufacture Of the
new Atlantic cable. The core Of the new
strand is composed OF thick copper wire
encircled by eleven fine wires of the same
substance, covered with four coatings of
gutta pcrcha. The coatings gutta percha
are applied while it is warm and in dough-
like condition. Additional strength and
protection are given to the central core by
sheathing of MANILA hemp. The whole
core is wrapped by ten iron wires, each of
which is hemp coated, and the hemp coating
is saturated with preparation of tar.


These having been put together, the whole
is wrapped in Italian hemp for double Sc
curity. The gutta percha is a preventive
against the ravages of the mollusks, their
attacks on this substance being futile. If
successfully laid the new cable will in all
probability afford uninterrupted communi-
cation, whatever may befall the other lines.
Year: 1874

In relation to the cooling of milk, the fol-
lowing are the views given before the Ameri-
can Dairymen's Convention, by Mr.. Arnold,
who said that the circumstances in cooling
milk for butter and cheese are different. The
odor in milk is condensable in liquid form.
BY driving off the vapor with heat, it can be
condensed again into volatile oil, with a
slight color. At co. it becomes solid. Ii We
take milk from the COW and cool 1t to $50, we
leave the oil in the milk to do its mischief.


1t is necessary, therefore, to allow the milk to.


be above sixty for some time to allow the odor


to escape.


He had known cases where milk was cooled


in twelve hours time, so that it would keep


sixty hours. Again, cream will rise more


rapidly when the milk is kept warm. Ifyou


cool the milk down 10 $50 there are some por-


tions of the cream that do not rise. Another
advantage is that fats expand more by heat
than does water. Hence they will be kept
down when cool by the friction of the thick
portions of the milk. If a system could be
invented to raise the temperature Of the


milk to 1909 and then cool, the odor would
nearly all escape and the cream nearly all
rise.


The following experiment that he made to
| test this point was given: Three pans OF
milk were used. One was placed upon the
snow, the other kept in the milkroom, and
the third heated. The last pan showed a
complete rise of the cream and escape of the
| animal odor The other two showed the


presence of animal odor and a retarding in
the rise of the cream. The pan placed upon
the snow showed very little cream and a
| strong animal odor. Other odors in the milk
| it was claimed may be driven of by heating.
Year: 1874

Let me suggest 20 your readers few ways
of varying the dessert at dinner-changes
from the inevitable pie. They may not be
new, vet / never see them at any table be-
sides our own. ls


Make dough as for biscuit, roll thin and
spread with currents, cherries, or any kild
OF berries. Roll it up like jelly cake and
steam it till done. To be eaten with sweet
ened cream.


Another is To one pint of sour milk add
one teaspoonful of soda, -four to make bat
ter. and handful of dried cherries or cur
rents. Pour into basin and steam until
done. To be eaten with sweetened cream.


Instead Of sweetened cream for the above
pudding, sauce made of half pint of wine,
half cup of sugar, one tablespoonful OF
butter boiled and thickened with little flcue
might be used. Cider is a very good subst'
tute for the wine. Or instead OF the sauce
a syrup of-sugar and water boiled Is sood
with either of the puddings.
| The following l know TO DC new 70 your
| readers, for it is my own invention. lowarus
spring, when apple butter becomes drug IN
| the domestic market 1t can be used IN TINS


wise: To one pint of apple butter add pint
| Of sweet milk, q cup OF sugar, more or less


according to the sweetness OF the apple but
I ter.l and two tablespoonfus Of flour. Bake
is tins lined with pastry. and with strips oil
pastry across the top. Please try it.-Cer.


Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1874

No deduction will be made for absence the first or
last week of the term, for absence during the
term in any excepting that of protracted sick
ness. tit .


Students will furnish their quilts, sheets, pill
low-cases towels and toilet soap. All articles need
ing to be washed should be plainly marked with the
Year: 1874

HoAxRD.-The so:called remarkable trial pub
lshed in the GAZETTE of Monday turns ont to
have been hoax perpearated upon the New York
World. 1t is merely the REVIVAL, however, OF an
old story "done up in new dress, of trial
said to have takea PLACE many years ago an the
same judicial district, in which it was said that
ghost appeared to man while at work. ina field,
and left the imprint of a hand on a "fence rail,
winch was brought into court, and it was also
said that hand of the ghost Was distinctly seen
iu the. court room during The 'trid. 1t seems,
from an article. from The Philadelphia Sunday
Transcript, in another column, that the hoax
had been swallowed by some OF The spiritual
religious folks of that city
Year: 1874

The excitement of the fall cam


paign is beginning somewhat early.


We fear our political friends will


exhaust their subject matter before


the issues are fairly before the peo-


pie. Bread has to be earned and


provision made for future susie


nance of individuals and families


and while all are willing and anxious


to sustain and maintain the integ-


rity of the Republican party, our
friends naturally think there is
plenty of time to spare for more
direct purposes than entering upon


the excitement of a political CAM
paign when bread is wanting in
thousands of families whose all has
been entirely or partially destroyed
by the foundations from the Missis-
sippi river. We do not wish to
censure oursparty leaders in a cap
tioas spirit, but we do desire to call
their attention to one very essential
fact, and that is, to let our working
men alone and not be calling them
from their labors any oftener than
is necessary, to listen to speeches
from this or that aspirant for Office
when there is now or soon will be,
q general cry for bread throughout
the overdowed parishes of the State.
Those who are suffering for bread.
and those wt!o see a dark and dreary
prospect ahead, are not apt to care
::;<ii;;:cn :;i;icn for political issues, one way
or the other, when their first and
chief care lies in providing food for
themselves and little ones. Self
preservation being the first law OF
nature and being well understood,
in the present instance, there should
be little excitement in this and
kindred communities until pros
poets brighten for the future. On
election day full duty vii be done
by all who believe in the faith and
future OF the Republican party, but
it is gross injustice to require men
to intend political meetings when
their services are wanted in the
production of bread.-Sugar Plan
ter.
Year: 1874

There is nothing which so be-
trays the want Of proper feeling and
manners as unbecoming conduct in
church during divine service. It is
presumed that every one who goes
to a church on Sunday, or any other
time where public worship is held
in the city, does SO for the purpose
of worshipping God-of paying that
adoration to the Great Ruler Of oil
things, which is the one object Of
religion. If by our actions we show
that this presumption is a wrong
one and that we have other motives
in view when we visit the sacred
temple. we not only defy the Author
of our being, but distract the atten-
ton of others and make refecting
people wish that we would either
reform our conduct or stay at home
A prominent feature of this ill-con-
duct is the habit Of turning the
back, virtually, if not literally, upon
the pulpit, and staring in the faces
of persons occupying pews in the
rear. What is gained by SO disa-
greeable q practice is not known;
that it is contrary to religion is NOR
ally certain. Many parties, per.
haps, who follow the habit do SC
heedlessly, but there are others who
are undoubtedly aware IF what they
are doing, and imagine that it adds
to their importance. That this is q
grave error we need not tell think
ing people.-Clarion.
Year: 1874

A correspondent Of the Cincinnati COM
merciaI writes as follows, concerning the
cooperation enterprise ia which the Carpet
Weavers of that city have recently en-
barked


The carpet weavers, numbering in all
some five thousand, who are now ON a
strike for the equalization Of their wages.
have formed themselves into cooperative
association for the manufacture of carpets.
The capital of the concern " is to be one
million of dollars, subscribed In two hun
dred thousand shares Of i've dollars each,
to be paid in installments Of twenty five
cents. This capital is 10 be applied to the
manufacture Of carpets on the cooperative
principle, the profits To be distributed
equally among the stockholders, who are
to work in the establishment, II they are 30
minded, at certain fixed prices. About two
thousand shares have already been sub
scribed but it will probably be some time
before the concern is in regular operation.
Nothing definite can therefore be stated at
this stage If the proceedings a. to its prob
able scope but it is fair to presume that
if the company Is managed in q careful and
economical manner, the enterprise may
prove to be not SO chimerical az it appears
at the first glance.


There can be no doubt that the condition
Of the average weaver in Philsdelphia needs
decided improvement, and that the pre-
sent strike Of the carpet-weavers is wholly
justi6able. TIE following statement Of one
of the weavers, a temperate and reliable
man, shows clearly the average condition
Of the workingmen in our factories. He
says: am q superfne weaver, rating
at about second-clAss in capacity for work
| can make by hard and steady work about
twelve dollars per week, by working from
ten to twelve hours per day but for ter
hours per day, or sixty hours per week, my
Year: 1874

Resoired, That the exercise by the Presi-
dent of the veto in regard to the financial bill
lately passed by congress, meets with the un-
qualified condemnation of this grange


ReSotDed, That we reiterate the resolution
passed by this grange in November last, 10
WIT That Congress should pass a law author
Izlng bonds hearing low rate Of interest. and
interconvertible, at the will Of the holder. IN
to currency which shall be legal tender for
all debts public and private.
Year: 1874

They have new hired girl over at Key
ser's farm just outside of Newcastle, and on
Tuesday, before starting to spend the day
with friend, Mrs. Keyser instructed the
girl to whitewash the kitchen in her absence.
Upon returning, Mrs. Keyser found the JOB
completed in avery satisfactory manner. On
Wednesdays Mrs. Keyser always churns, and
last Wednesday when she was ready she went
out, and finding that Mr.. Keyser had already
put the milk into the churn, began to turn the
handle. This was at eight o'clock in the
morning, and she turned until ten without
any signs of butter appearing. Then she called
in the hired man and he turned until dinner
time, when he knocked off with some very
offensive language addressed to the butter
which had not yet come After dinner the
hired girl took hold of the crank and turned
energetically until two o'clock, when she let
20, with the remark that conveyed the impress
sion that she believed the churn to be haun-
ted. Then Mr.. Keyser came out and said he
wanted to know what was the matter with the
churn anyhow 1t was good enough churn
if people only knew how to use it. Mr.. Key
ser then worked the crank until halfpast
three, when, as the butter had not yet come,
he surrendered it again to the hired man. be-
cause he had an engagement in the village.
The man ground the machine to an accom-
paniment of frightful imprecations. Then the
Keyser children each took turn for half an
hour, then Mrs. Keyser tried her hand and
when she was exhausted the hired girl, who
said her prayers while she turned. But the
butter didn't come. When Keyser came
home and found the churn still in action he
blasted his eyes and did some other innocent
swearing, and then he seized the handle and
said he'd make the butter come if he knocked
up an earthquake in doing it. Mr.. Keyser
affected about 200 revolutions of the crank
minute, enough to have made any ordinary
butter come from the ends of the earth and
when the perspiration began to stream from
him and still the butter didn't come, he utter
ed one wild yell of rage and disappointment
and kicked the churn over the fence. When
Mrs. Keyser went to pick it up she put her
nose down close to the butter-milk and took
sniff. Then she understood how it was The
girl had mixed the wbitewash in the churn
and left it there A good, honest servant who
knows how to churn can find situation at
Keyser's. There is vacancy.
Year: 1874

as having the right to be placed on the same
footing in every respect as all the other he.
publican Senators. They ask that a select
committee shall be appointed, with power to
make the fullest investigation into Southern
affairs, and they claim that if this is done they
will be vindicated from the charges brought
against them and those with whom they affili-
ate. The labors of Hercules would most GER
tainly sink into insigni6cance by the side of
such an attempt as this. But the Republican
majority in the Senate is very much depen'
dent upon the fidelity of the carpet-baggers,
and realizing this fact, the caucus was con-
strained to promise to take the matter into
consideration"
Year: 1874

LuD1cRousS SCENE IN PULPIT.-A South
German paper relates the following: "ln a
Bavarian town of the most pronounced Cath
olic orthodoxy, the priest preached Lately
against Old Catholics, and related such horrl-
bic things about them that his pious hearers
were literally horror.sticken at Old Catholic
impieties. Atlast the preacher cried out, The
Old Catholics are 80 vile that they will all be
cast into the pit, and if what say is not true,
may the devil take me now on the spot !
His excitement was terrible, and he so struck
the cushion that the book fell fromit. Not far
from the pulpit sat an American, who had
negro servant with him, to whom he beckoned
to take the book up to the priest who, per-
haps had never seen one of those sons OF Ham
in his life. The negro at once obeyed, and
as he mounted the lowest of the pulpit steps
the clergyman repeated his wish, that the
devil might come and take him if what he
had said against the Old Catholics was not
true.


"Although thenegro went softly, the preach
er heard bis footsteps, and, turning round,
saw black object solemnly, steadily, and
surely approaching him. He looked at him
WlCl terTOr, auu UelIeFiuS Inoe no "o"u ~
the next instant collared by his Satanic MAJ
esty, he cried out, with trembling voice, 1T is,
after all, possible that there may good people
among the Old Catholics Turning then
round to see if the object had disappeared, he
saw it still steadily approaching. The per.
spiration burst out upon his brow, and full OF
despair be called out, There are many good
people among the Old Catholics? Thinking
that this would suffice, he turned round, but
what was his horror to find the object was
close at hand. Imagining himself in the
very spof Beelzebub, turning partly to the
negro and partly to the congregation, ne
cried out, May the devil come and take me
if all the Old Catholics are not better than we
arep The terrified priest tainted from the
fright, and it was only after some time that
he recovered"
Year: 1874

AN ENGAGING MANNER.-Politeness is to
man what beauty is to woman. 1t creates
an instantaneous impression in his behalf,
while, the opposite quality exercises as quick
pre- judice against him. The politician who
has this advantage, easily distances all the
rival candidates, for every voter he speaks
with become instantly his friends. The very
tones in which be asks for pinch of snuff are
often more potent than the logic of a Webster
or Clay. Polished manners have often
made scoundrels successful, while the best OF
men, by their hardness and coldness, have
done themselves incalculable injury-the shell
being 50 rough that the world could not be-
lieve there was precious kernel within it.
Had Raleigh never flung down his cloak in
the mud for the proud Elizabeth to walk on,
his career in life would scarcely have been


worth recording. Scores of men have been
successful in life by pleasing manners alone.
A trait Of character we'll worth cultivating,
lads. Never forget the value Of true civility.