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Year: 1877

Among the rude and uncivillZed tribes of the Northwest coast, the idea of divinity was very diverse, and in some cases obscure. The Tinneh, a great people occupying a vast expanse of territory, reaching from the Arctic Ocean southward to the fifty-fifth parallel of latitude, worship the stman in the moon," who, as they suppose, formerly lived among them as poor and ragged boy. This boy once made so large pair. r.ofsnow-shoes that he att tracted the attention and ridicule of the entire community where he resided, and became the object of much heartless sport on the part of the villagers. But soon there came time of great scarcity ; the hunter traversed the forests in vain ; the earth bore no fruitage. Still, to their surprise, when every hope of suc- cess was exhausted, they were often led to freshly-killed game by some mysterious influence. Their benefactor soon proved to be none other than the poor boy with the great snow-shoes- the object of their ridicule. Though grateful to him at first, they soon forgot his benefactions when the time ofplenty returned, so much so as on one occasion to refuse him morsel of fat meat. The divine parsonage who had externally manifested himself to them in the guise of ragged boy, now offended, took his departure to his residence in the moon. Hover, in month, he returned, ap- bearing as full-grown man, forgave their. ingratitude, told them that his home was in the moon, and that he would always assist them in the chase. One punishment, however. they must suffer, namely that henceforward ani- mals should be lean the entire winter, and only fat in the summer.

 The Nootkas of Columbia have a tradi- tion of benefactor and teacher who appeared to them long ago. He came to them up the sound in canoe of copper. The paddle in his hand was copper; even his clothing was of the same metal. This mysterious, copper clad old man sejourned for a while among them, taught them the use of the metal which made him so conspicuous told them that he came from the sky, and that some time in the future, when their land should be destroyed, they would all die, but, after death, rise and live with him above. Enraged at this pro- phecy of their destruction, they arose and killed him. and, in possessing them selves of the canoe, fell heir to the bene- fits which arise from the knowledge of copper. They, however, repented of their crime when they realized, at too late an hour, that the copper-man was the incarnation of their deity, The Great Spirit, The Man aboue. .F .. -.

 In both of these legends we observe the tendency, alluded to moment ago, of first personifying the introduction of civilizing influences, and then of deify- ing that personification. In the boy with the great snow shoes, suddenly elevated to the position of divine patron of the chase, we see clearly some inven- tive genius, who,. ridiculed at first by his fellows, at last is acknowledged a sbenefactor on account of his discovery of improved appliances for hunting. The copper-man is nothing more than the introducer of copper among the Neotkas.-Appleton' 8 Journal.
Year: 1877

SARATOGA FRIED POTATOES. - Peel good sized potatoes and slice them as evenly as possible, (you can buy a slicing machine 1fyou wish, drop them into ice-water, have kettle of very hot lard, as for cakes, put few at time into towel and shake and dry the moisture out of them, and then drop into the boiling lard. Sur them occa- sionally, and when of light brown take them out with skinner, and they will be crisp and not greasy. Sprinkle salt over them while hot.
Year: 1877

As an evidence that. iron will not oxydize iH pure water, take piece of clear ice, melt it and heat to boiling; after boiling short time, to free it of air, pour it into smalAvial containing some pieces of bright iron wire. The vial must be quite full and tightly stop ped. Place smaller piece of wire in an open vessel and partly cover it with water. Set both vessels aside for few days, when it will be found that the wire in the former is still bright. while that in the latter is rusted. This ex- pertinent shows that it is the oxygen of the air, and not that chemically com bined to form water, which act upon iron; moreover, experiment has shown that neither dry oxygen nor carbonic acid will attack iron. To produce the action of common oxydation upon iron the oxygen must be combined with nj trogen, as it exists in the atmosphere, and in all potable water.
Year: 1877

EHoa0 to Rejuuendte an Old Rose Bush. Never give up a decaying rose bush till you have tried watering it two or three times a week with soot tea. Make the concoction with boiling water, from soot taken from the chimney or stove in which wood is burned. When cold, water the bush with it. When it is used up, pour boiling hot water on the soot a second time. Rose bushes treated in this way will often send out thrifty shoots, leaves will become large and thick, the blossoms will greatly inn prove in size and be more richly tinted than before.-.D 4. Jacques.
Year: 1877

Indian Snaelting.-The American h. dian method of smelling precious metals was one of the most remarkable devices of savage ingenuity. Logan tells us that, having first hollowed out flat stone in the form of a basin they filled it with charcoal, and upon this laid the nuggets of metal. A number of Indians next seated themselves in 8 circle around the basin, each one hav- ing in his hand a long reed pierced through It's entire length and armed at one end with clay tube or pipe. Everything being ready, fire was ap piled to the charcoal, and the whole mass instantly blown into a powerful heat through the reeds, the clay ex- tremities of which were inserted in the basin while the Indians blew through them upon the charcoal with all their might, and with protracted expiration. No ordinary lump of either gold or cop per could long maintain its sOlidity in such crucible. With this process the Indians could easily produce any vari- ety of ornament from those metals, using them either alone or in alloy. This method was known to have been in use among the Indians who lived upon the gold-producing lands of North Carolina, and the same process must have been known to the Cherokees. These chronicles and traditions go to confirm what Lawson says, that the In

 dians, from time immemorial, were ac- quainted with valuable mines of gold and silver ln upper Carolina.
Year: 1877

WHITE-RosE BLANKETS can be washed well by first making a good warm suds with common brown soap, and after rubbing and working the blankets we'll in the suds, rinse well in quite hot water. Rub no soap on the blankets. Ii left to soak some hours in the warm suds, then add more hot water when ready to wash or rub them, they will wash better and easier for it.
Year: 1877

SILK HANDKERCHIEFs Gro WAsB.- Wash them in cold rain water with a little curd soap, then rinse in rain water (cold), slightly colored with stone blue, wiring well, and stretch them out on a mattress, tacking them out tightly.
Year: 1877

PREPARING SMALL FIsH.-Any kind of small fish may be prepared in the following manner: After being we'll washed and wiped it is put in pan with little butter, and sprinkled over with pepper, salt and crumbs of bread scraped from a crusty loaf, with an onion chopped small and fried in the oven twenty minutes to half an hour.
Year: 1877

The Rural Nea1 Yorker gives an ac- count of an experiment to ascertain the importance of the pollen on young fruit trees that blossom for the first time, or in the first year of blooming. A young cherry tree bore blossoms but no fruit. When it blossomed the second year, pol len was applied from an old cherry tree to the stigmas of certain marked flow CTS. These alone formed and ripened fruit. This experiment suggests a shorter mode of obtaining fruit from young trees of new sorts.
Year: 1877

RAsPBERRIEs and blackberries should be cut down to within foot of the ground at planting. They will, of course, not then bear the next season after planting; but this is benefit. No fruit tree should be allowed to bear the same season. In planting these, have a care of deep planting Even two inches lower than the roots is often fatal. Plant on a dry day; barely cover the roots; but beat or press the soil very hard and firm.
Year: 1877

GINGER SNAPs.-One pint of molasses, one cup of sugar, one cup of butter or lard, one tablespoonful of ginger and cloves each. one tablespoonful of cayenne pepper; flour enough to roll out very thin. Bake on flat tins.
Year: 1877

A GooDLY PARsoN complained to an elderly lady of his congregation that her daughter appeared to be wholly taken up with tritles and worldly finery, instead of fixing her mind on things above.

 "You are certainly mistaken, sir," said she. ''I know that the girl appears to an observer to be taken up with worldly things, but you cannot judge correctly of the direction her mind really takes, as she is a little crosseyed.
Year: 1877

AFTER ALL, man is weak creature. And so it is that young man, loving truly and tenderly-aye, loving with that deep and passionate love which makes earth more than paradise,-will sometimes weakly hesitate whether to buy her work box with looking glass in the lid for Christmas, or invest the money in a suit of winter f1annels for himself
Year: 1877

An anecdote is told of Rubini. great
singer, whose compass Of voice was
such that he could take the high B fat
and hold it for long time:


At Milan the people Aocked in crowds
to hear this wonderful effect, and never
failed to encore it. One night. raising
his eye, to heaven, extending his arms,
initiating his chest, and opening bis
mouth, he endeavored as usual to give
forth the wonderful note. But B fat
would not come


Greatly disconnected, the tenor brought
all the force of his splendid lungs into
play and gave it forth with immense Wig
or. But he could feel that he bad in
some way injured himself He went
through the performance, however, as
brilliantly as ever When it was over
he sent for surgeon, who very soon
discovered that he had broken his col
ar-bone-it had been unable to resi-,
the tension Of his lungs


"Can man go on singing with bro.
ken clavicle p he inquired


Certainly" replied the doctor sand
if you take care not to lift any weight
you will experience no disagreeabte ef.
fects." And he did 90 on singing.
Year: 1877




A little more than hundred years
ago, the inn of an English village was
uoted for possessing "a character in
the person of sod Boots His work
was to clean bpots, hut it was not that
which gave him his reputation 1t was
his singular face His nose, extending
an inch and quarter bevond his lips.
curved downwards until it almost me,
his chin. which ran ou, straight When
guests gave him piece o. money. he re
ceived il on his chin, land held Ii fast there
with his nose till he put it in his tnpney
box He coald rub the tip of his nose
with his chin. and used to say that il ht
let his beard grow, it would bury his
nose
Year: 1877

THousHTs ON Travel Women trav-
el to see what is talked about, men to
talk about what has been seen. With
the growing rapidiy and the desperate
uniformity of modern means of trans
portation, the taste for travel is less ar
impulse Of curiosity than an itch to be
moving We no longer travel, we shift
places. For three women out of four
the attraction of travel is chance tc
dine at table dhots and sleep in {
strange bedroom
Year: 1877

Editor Morning Star:


have copied the above extracts from Mr.
Dennett's book, with the hope of inducing some
of our people to quit this over.crowded city
and seek comfortable homes at farming, moce
of life to which many of them were brought up


It is not to be expected that men without
money will do so but there is a large GLASS
of our people-married meu-who have little
means. and who have no prospect before them
in the city beyond working at very hard labor
(when they can get it) for others. Their five
or six hundred, dollars would not be half sufi.
oieDt to start any business in the city, bat it
would be ample to settle the family on q snug
farm.


/ don't say that five or ak hundred dollars
would be enough to start one family, going
alone, but it would be all that each family
would require IL twenty-five or fifty families
would go together in q colony.


Five thousand acres would give fifty families
one hundred acres each; this quantity of land
or the half of it, could be had at very low
figure, with five or six years time to pay 1t In


A gentleman has formed the nucleus of Q
colony in New Orleans; if some more families
would join it Immediately land could be pur-
chased and settled on in time to raise an early
| crop in 78.


Mr.-s successful effort to make comfort
able home for his family, in spite of terrible
obstacles, ought to be an incentive to our peo-
pie to emanoipate themselves from the white
slavery of the city, and to go into the country,
where plenty and prosperity await them.
Mr.. - is a ship carpenter. How many of
the ship carpenters of Algiers will follow this
brave mans example3 Will they be content
to wear out their lives enriching Othersf Will
they leave their children legacy of toll, with
it's satellites poverty aud misery, by remaining
in the city. or will they do like Mr., strike
into the country, where their industry will
secure homes for themselves and their children
The best land for colonies is in the AttskaPAs
parishes Mary, Iberia, Vermillion, st.
Martin and Lafayette-which are within easy
reach of New Orleans by MorGan's Railroad
and severable navigable streams'


Much has been said and written about in
ducing immigrants to settle in our State But
must he candid and say that reasonable i"-
duceraent has never been offered them.
OF course land has been offered for sale at
stiff prices, and planters have endesvored to
get white laborers to replace negroes. Very
Year: 1877

Col Geo E. War:ng, inthe May nun Der of the Atlantic Monthly, gives his views on this subject in an article enti- tied Life and Work of the Eastern Far mer."

 While there is mucn to approve in that paper, there are some things that so diff fer from the opinions of some of our Central New York farmers, that it is worth while to call attention to part of them, lest this very popular writer should impress the readers of magazine literature with the opinion that farming as a busi- ness is the dreary and mnnotonous, and unintellectual affair everywhere, that he has found i. to be in New. England.

 As to the lavish nonsense of stump speakers just before election, which he mentions, about the ''bone and sinew of the country" we are in full acc0rd--- and we agree that ''the controlling mo- tive of a farmer in performing his work and carrying on his business in the hope of material gain "---and that, Fin his ca pacity as farmer, he is neither a phil anthropist nor a patriot, only man of business" Perhaps we carry this view of farming somewhat farther than even Col. w., for we look upon the whole matter as one so purely a business affair, that we believe the law of supply and demand" determines how many farmers there shall be, what they shall devote their farms to producing, and, ill short, that all their doings are as much governed by this law as are the doings of commer- cial men or manufacturers.

 Farmers are not restless at night, for fear the world of mankind will not be fed-but rather they are thinking how to get the highest price for the food they are trying to produce, and how to do their work at least cost, and so as to produce the largest returns; neither do they trouble themselves aboxt what is so aptly called by the Colonel, that thread bare subject of the vague discussion of agricultural writers How to keep the boys on the farm. The relative DO, silion' which the farmer lis to hold here- afler,' does not keep them awake nights. The average farmer takes but little thought as to the dignity or future eleva- tion of his calling. He is very busy in caring for his own affairs, as all men in all branches of business must be, if they achieve success. The wise farmer knows that only a few men in any industry sue ceed who do not work hard, and he does not expect to be one of the few favored ones that fortune so smiles upon as to cloihe them with riches and honor, ex- cept as the reward of that long-con- tinued labor which conquers all things.

 So far from the average farmer troub,

 Continued on foulth page.
Year: 1877

she wnsn't to be sneezed at She was not old. That meant that he wasn't quite SD young himself as he might be. She loved hin - had q decided pas sion for him = would go straight through fire and water for hlm--hAd so soon ayowed her devotion to him--and that was what no living woman had ever done for .Dr. Bray before. But she was inclined to dropsy. Ali, but he could cure Der of that, and it not, then he would have her snug little property to himself all the sooner.

 There was something in all this worth considering, and no wonder Dr. Bray did sit down calmly and consider. The more he thought of it, the more it look cd like good idea. Till finally he be- came quite reconciled to the plan, and took Mrs Widow Sorrell into his em- brace with hearty smack an emphatic Yes thrown in.

 He heard nothing from Sarah at all, until his wedding evening, when, just as the clergyman had concluded the ceremony, and the doctor had tasted the lips of his bushng bride, sOme one came up suddenly and thrust a note in his hand. It was superscfibed 'Bray." He opened it, and found that Sarah Flower returned her compliments to the bride. groom, with con- graduation for his prps- poets; also enclosing his prescription to herself, adding that she had no fears of the dropsy and the water on her chest" did not trouble her in he.least On her own part, she expressed the kindly wish that whateyer.ihe doctor did, he never would get drowned
Year: 1877

Nothing definite nor even satisfactory
was elected" the Associated Press report
says of the testimony taken on yesterday
in the Oregon investigation, tending in
any manner to establish the truth of the
charges against Grover" There seems TO
have been an impression prevailing among
members of the legislature that there
should be money in the senatorship some
where, aud some disposition was shown to
test each others virtue, but no sales were
actually made, so far as these witnesses
know. The result of the days work is
not surprising. for nobody has expected
any substantial result from the investiga-
ton. All there was in the matter was
abundantly explored last winter. aud the
present proceeding is the dreariest waste
of time imaginable. Chicago Times.
Year: 1877

At the Tammany hall celebration in New
York on the Fourth the following letter
from Charles Francis Adams was read.


QUINCY, June 90. l877.-AUGUsT
sCHNELL. Esq. Grand Sachem, Columbia
Order-Dedr SIR: [ have the honor to ac-
knowledge the reception of your letter in
vitting me to join your society in the cele-
bratlon of its exercises on the Fourth of
July. regret very sincerely that 1t will
not be in my power to attend on that Occa-
sion.


Whilst agreeing with you in many OF
the opinions expressed in your letter,
pray your pardon if | venture to present
| to your attention one subject which seems
| to me of the most vital Importance to the
future welfare, if not the very salvation OF
our institutions. The country must not be
subjected again to the risk of another elec,
tion. accomplished by fraud. if the evil can
| be removed by constitutional means. The
majority of the people have submittec once,
to their great honor-but it will not be safe
to risk such another experiment. Some
amendment of the provision of the consti.
tuition on the subject seems indispensable
during the present term of the presidency
trust you will not be slow to insist thai
your representatives and friends all oyer
the country shall see to it that ample time
and care be given In good season to the
preparation of such measure as may
prove acceptable to all honest people, wher
it becomes their duty to act upon it il
their turn Above all, let there be lefi
no chance for repetition Of fraud. The
corner stone of the arch must be dragged
out of the mud into which it has settled
and placed on an immovable rock. | dc
not permit myself to doubt that this is the
earnest desire of all the honest men oi
both parties But to youiwho have suffered
the most by the consequences it devolyes
to take especial care that they be not re-
peated. You have the means of remedy
largely in your hands. Ipray you to set
it in good season that they may be made
efectual to save us all from the possibility
of anarchy and strife There is no better
day to give out the word than on th'
Fourth of July. Very truly yours,


CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
Year: 1877

The commissioners appointed to select
site for new penitentiary in Southern
Illinois, have been in session at Springfield
for several days past, and will soon start
on tower in search of a suitable location.
At least we hope they will make start
pretty soon.
Year: 1877

whether produced by indigestion, improper food
change of water diet too free Indulgence of ice
water, exposure to sudden changes of temperature,
are Immediately relieved by it. One ounce added
TO a gallon of
Year: 1877

free from serious objections yet palatsbe, even in
vting 10 the sensitive palate, which will create
morbid appetite for itself and operate aseis-
tant to digestion, well perform the functions
Of a stimulant Such we confidently believe is TO
be found in
Year: 1877

This elegant preparation is prepared from the
TRUE Jamaica Ginger, combined with choice aro-
matics and genuine French brandy. and is vastly
superior TO every other Extract or Essence OF Gin
ger before the public-all of which are prepared
with alcohol by the old proc So.
Year: 1877

FlatuleEcy, Sluggish Digestion. want of Tone and
Activity in the Stomach and Bowels, Oppression
after eating to be relieved by single dose
taken after each meal. A great want eXists for q
Year: 1877




MONTREAL, July 9.-There is every
prospect of an exciting time Thursday,
when the orangemen haYe their annual
parade. Orangemen are to come down
from Canada west in large numbers;
nightly drill has been going on for weeks
past in different parts Of the city and fire
arms being put in order by the opposite
party. The indications are hostile meet
ing will occur ana blood be shed.


That those men who participate in the
procession, will carry deadly weapons
secretly is beyand question. The excite.
ment is intense and the authorities arc
moving quietly to see what action can be
taken to prevent bloodshed; all the city
bands of music have been engaged for the
procession. The city is full Of press repre-
sentatives from the United States.