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Year: 1878

There is growing feeling in every
healthy community against the journals
which make it their special object to
minister to perverted taste by seeking
out and serving up in a seductive form
disgusting scandals and licentious revela-
tions. There is good reason to believe
that the clean newspaper is more highly
priced to-day than it was four or five
years ago. 1t is also safe to predict that
as people in all ranks of life, VINO protect
their own at least from contamination,
become more conscious of the pernicious
influence of certain class of journals,
called enterprising because they are am
bilious to serve up dirty scandals, they
will be careful to see that the journals
they permit to be read in the family cir
Gle are of the class that never forget the
proprieties of life. Already men and
women of refinement and healthy morals
have had their attention called to the
pernicious influence of bad literature,
and have made commendable efforts to
counteract the same by causing sound
literature to be published and sold at
popular prices. These efforts are work
ing a silent but sure revolution. The
best authors are more generally read to-
day than at any previous time. The
sickly sentimental story paper and wild
ranger and pirate story book are slowly
yielding the field to worthier claimants.
To the praise of the decent newspaper,
it may be said that where it has a place
in the family and has been read for years
by young and old, it has developed sucn
a healthy tone and such discriminating
taste that the literature of the slums has
no admirers: Fortunately, the number
of such families is increasing in the land


and as they increase, the journal that
devotes itself to sickening revelations ol
immortality will be compelled to find its
supporters solely among those classes
that practice vice or crime or are ambi-
tious to learn to follow such ways.
Year: 1878

Four miners who were working in
The shaft of Nevada mine, heard
he hoisting car break from its fasten-
Ings far above their heads. They
knew that there would be just foot of
space between the falling car and the
wall, but they were not 50 sure of their
,wn thickness, and there was but little
lime for calculation. They made them
selves as fiat as possible and escaped
injury, although the shirt of one was
torn off
Year: 1878

scratched as though she had been thrown
into bramble bush, and one of Miss
Burt's eyes was swollen and nearly shut.
That episode relieved the committee of
embarrassment, for neither of the two
young women was any longer pretty,
and the prize was awarded to another.
Year: 1878

A WATERBURY, woman who weighed
something over three hundred pounds
got some anti-fat and took double doses
of it, until the first thing she knew her
skin was 30 loose that her nose hung off
the end of her chin and her eyes were at
each corner of her mouth.
Year: 1878

& & During the past three or four days there
/ has been O. marked Improvement in the retail
trade of this city, as is evidenced by the large
attendance Of customers at the stores on
Canal and other principal business streets
The continuance Of the quarantine RESTRICTIONS
at many of the points along the river and III
the interior has prevented thus far any great
revival In the wholesale trade. but our mer-
chants are confidently looking forward to an
early i'm provement and lively times ahead.
Year: 1878

The Board Of Trustees this day resolved that
after paying the annual dividend of TEN PEB
CENT on Capital Stock Of Company, that g
dividend of TWENTY PER CENT In cash be
paid on Monday, June 10, to those parties On.
titled to receive the same.
Year: 1878

He alled for the senior and Junior


wal deus. who bad neglected to guard


the door, ana found them absent.


Alter searching some time he found


where they were hid, and demanded


OF Adam what be was doing there in


stead of filling his official position.
Adam replied that he was waiting for


Eve to call The craft from refreshment


to labor again. and that the craft was
! not property clothed. which they were


making provision for. Turning to-


Eve be asked her what she had to
offer in excuse for her unofficial and
unmasonic conduct She replied that
fellow passing himself as a grand
lecturer had been giving her instruc-
tlons. and she thought it no harm to-
learn them. The Grand Master then
asked her what had become Of his
gavel. She said she didn't know, un.
less that fellow took it away.


Finding that Eve was no longer
trustworthy and that she had caused
Adam to neglect bis duty and had let
IN one whom he had expelled, the
Grand Master turned them out and
set Tyler to guard the door with a
ilamlrg sword. Adam repented his
folly, went to work like man and
good mason. in order to get rein
stated again. Not so with Eve; she
got angry about it and went to rails.
ing Cain. Adam, on account of his
Information, was permitted to establish
lodges and work in the lower degrees;
while Eve was allowed to join him
in works Of charity outside, she was
never again admitted To assist in the
regular work Of the craft. Hence the
'eason why woman can not become
IN inside Mason.
Year: 1878

One of our spring visitors, a mar
TIN, took up his roost last evening on
a picture frame in our counting-rOom.
His family might have been anxious
about him, but If his old woman finds
out With what good judgment be Sc
iected bis company, she will not scold
him for staying out all night Vichs-
burg Herald.
Year: 1878

Mother Theresa, the oldest Carmelite nun in America, died at the convent in Baltimore. Her name in the world was Mary H. Sewall 7; she was the daughter of Revolutionary officer who is said to have been member of Washington's staff. Mother Theresa, when a child, was pet of General Washington, and often sat in his lap. When nineteen years old she took the veil and the VOWS of the order at the only Carmelite con- vent in this country at that time, which was in Charles County, Md. The cause that led to her taking VOWS, as told by herself, was singular. She was engaged to be married, and the time for the we'd attend the funeral of an intimate friend, young lady of remarkable beauty, whose death had been a severe affiiction to her. The cemetery was at a distance tained the body of her friend was borne, as was then the custom, upon the should CTS of pall-bearers. By an accident upon the way the coffin slipped from the grasp of the bearers and the body of the dead girl, clad in it's white robes, was thrown out upon the roadside. Miss Sewall, who was near witness of the accident, was so terrified that she i'm mediately resolved upon a life of religious seclusion. Her engagement of marriage was broken, and she at once entered the convent.
Year: 1878

There are 100000 bushels of barley year. As the successful cultivation of barley is only possible with good farm ing the reason of this large importa- tion must lie with our poor farming. It is both a spring aud winter grain, but in this country it is generally sown in the spring. In selecting seed choose that which is of a pale, lively yellow, intermixed with bright, whitish cast, and free from blackness at the tail; if the rind be little shrivelled it indicates thin skin, which is desirable It is necessary to change the seed from time to time for that grown in different soil, as this grain becomes coarser every year. The principal varieties are the two and six rowed; in Europe the latter is pre- ferred for it's productiveness and hardi- ness. In this country the two-rowed is generally cultivated on account of it's superior fullness and freedom from smut Of tho et1+,-vuriotior the Hudson's Bay is very productive and ripens early the Chevalier and Providence are both luxu- riant growers. The soil for barley should be rich loam, between light sand and heavy clay, and we'll drained. Sow in the spring as soon as the ground is dry. on 8 grass or clover lay turned over the preceding fall it may also follow a we'll manured and cleanly herd crop. If sown on sod blow in lightly, and afterward harrow or roll. See that the soil be well pulverized, and SOW from one and half to two and a half bushels per acre. Barley should never follow or precede the other white grains. A lengthy de- parture from this rule will cause serious detriment to soil and crops On indifer, ent soils light dressing of compost may be applied, or in moderate quantity after the plants have commenced growing in the spring. If the ground is dry and not compact rolling will be of service when the plants are four or five inches high. It gives support to the roots destroys insects, multiplies seed stalks and increases their vigor. When too luxuriant barley may be fed off, but no too closely. Cookie, wild mustard ano other weeds should be pulled before the, are in blossom. Barley is inferior in nu triment to wheat and rye, but superio to oats. There is no better feed fo horses when ground it is excellent foo, for COWS, producing rich milk. Whel barley is mixed with boiled potatoes an

 fed to pigs it produces more pork, an

 of a better flavor, than any other food It is also excellent for poultry,
Year: 1878

8 second churning in milk, for the pur- pose of securing 8 richer flavor. The strips allow the milk to penet1ate every part of the butter, giving it a uniform texture and flavor. The motion during the second churning is different from the first. An upright paddle supplants the lateral wheel. There is no whirlpool, but the butter is mauled and dashed from the top to the bottom of the churn. The workman catches the Jumps as they are raised from below, and splits them on the blades of the wheel, so as to com pletely impregnate them with the flavor of the milk.

 The oleomargarine comes out of the second churning as pliable as any dairy butter. It is placed in a Philadelphia butter worker, turned by hand, and soft ened and kneaded until the salt is dis tributed and the buttermilk pressed out. After it is we'll worked, the butter is ready for packing.
Year: 1878

Hardly person owning even a small plot of ground but tries to have few fruit trees, and few who have them in bearing, after years of hopeful patience. are so we'll satisfied with all the varieties that they would not gladly change some of them if they thought they were able to do so. Grating is the easy way ont ot thelr at1ilctlon, and almost any one with little faith in himself can success fully accomplish it after few minutes practical instruction. The cause of most failures ill getting grafts to grow is not ln the setting, but ill the time of cutting and the subsequent care of the scions. The selection of these should never be later than February, to insure certainty of growth. My way of preserving them is to cut them on day when the ground IS thawed, at least on the surface, and after tying them in punches with the butts even, and labelling them as I would fruit trees, stick the cut ends into the soft earth on the north side of some building or wall, where they will be al- ways in the shade. fprepared thus and properly set, ninety-fve per cent. of ap- ples should grow. Pears are rather more uncertain-stone fruit much more so. T find the greatest difficulty in getting cherry gratis to succeed on small stocks, owing te the tendency of the wood to spring apart on stocks of from one and half inches to three inches there is little difficulty. These small stems of cherry, peach and plum are better bud ded. Budding is more simple and ex- peditious method yet than grating, but requires later season. Grafting-wax. or salve for covering the wounds, is made mostly of rosir, beeswax and tallow, Ill the proportion of three, two and one parts in the order named. Linseed-oil, sub- stituted for the tallow, in rather small CT proportion, IS an improvement, as the object IS to get pl1able substance, with as little grease as possible. I have set many hundred gratis for myself and neighbors, and my only failures, in about 1 the proportion above named was when the scions had been badly preserved. Some which have been asked to set were just about in the proper condition for kindling-wood. March, April or May will, either or all of them, do for the op- eration but as warm days are needed to properly spread the wax, and warm days are rather rare in March, leave it later. These rambling hints are not offered fol the benefit of those skilled in grating (either farmers or nnrserymen, who dc not need them, and are rather chary il communicating, but to encourage novi ces not to be afraid to try their hand, as there is little mystery in the art, more depending on cutting the scions in due season, and properly preserving them.
Year: 1878

Senator Sargent has reported bill from the United States Naval Committee to reorganize the Life-Saving and Coast Guard Service. This service, from all accounts, very much needs recognizing. On the New Jersey coast the service IS said to be in adeplorable condition. The lifeboats in use are after the model of Noah's Ark, unwieldy and unsafe. To launch one of them requires two yoke of oxen, and before they can be secured the vessel in distress may go to pieces and all on board perish. The Captains of the various stations from Sandy Hook to Barnegat have made known to the Gov ernment time and again the unsafe and cumbersome condition of the boats, but have failed to make any impression on service. MT. Sargent's bill proposes to transfer the esuperintendence of the Coast Guard Service to the navy. It requires the President to assign navy officers for the performance of duties as follows :: One not below the rank of Commander nor above that of Captain to be Super intendent of the service under the imme- diate direction of the Secretary of the Navy one for each district to serve as Inspector thereof Othese officers to be selected from the grades below command ers), and one of the pay corps of the navy to act as disbursing officer of the service. All officers thus assigned to receive for such service the same pay and emolu- ments as on shore duty, and no other, except actual travelling expenses. Only seafaring men are to be employed in the service. The bill ought speedily to become law.
Year: 1878

BREAKFAST MUFFINs.-Twoe eggs, well beaten with cupful of sugar and a lump of butter the size of an egg; to this add one pint of milk, with tea spoonful of soda, one quart of flour and two tablespoonfuls of cream tartar bake in muffin rings or iR gem-pans in quick oven. This is dainty substitute for bread at breakfast or tea.
Year: 1878

Turning to the structure of the group,
one of the first things that strikes US is
the looseness of their skin, which instead
of being stretched on the body as tightly
as drum parchment, as it is in grass
eaters-.for instance, the OK or hippopota-
mus-is quite "baggy," having between
it and the flesh OF the beast layer of the
loosest possible fbers. It is for this
reason that the skin of any but very
fat dog can be pinched up SO readily,
while of Herbivore it may be said, in
the words of eulogy uttered by Mr..
Squeers of his son. Wackford, Here's
frmness, here's solidness! why you can
hardly get up enough Of him between
your fingers and thumb to pinch him
anywhere" In consequence of this the
operation of skinning lion or bear is
a comparatively easy one. After the
first cut the beast may be pulled out of
its skin, almost without further use of
the knife; while with the antelope or an
OK the skin has to be cut ava, carefully
and laboriously fram the underlying
flesh. The use of this loose skin will be
very evident to any one who will take
the trouble to watch the great cats play
ing together at the Geological Gardens.
They are continually scratching one
another; but the loose skin is dragged
round by the claws, which, in conse.
quence, can get no hold, and do no harm !;
with tight ski1, on the other hand, the
slightest scratch of such claw as a
tigers, would cause 8 serious wound.
The looseness of the skin is very evident
in the puma and jaguar, in which it
hangs in fold along the middle of the
belly, like great dewlap. Cassell's
Natural History.
Year: 1878

are proper starting points in the investi


CATION. An East Tennessee farmer says
| that it costs him only $500 to burn SOC


bushels Of lime, an average Of u cents 8
bushel.


He applies from $50 to $50 bushels OF


unslacked lime to the acre, and spreads


it as soon as the heaps become air-slaked.


He finds it profitable on both clay and


sandy lands. This is burning lime for


less than half the cost in New Jersey,


Pennsylvania and New York. MARI is


more used in New Jersey than in any
other state. Potash mari is preferred.
The German chloride of potassium is re-
garded as the cheapest source Of this
alkali, except where one has mari that
contains it near by. Lining helps soils
to produce clover and wheat.


Mixing clay and sandy land to im'
prove the texture and constituents of
both is practice quite as old as any
written history and lining and marling
are the FIRST steps In advance of that
primitive art. PAIRING turf and chsrring
it to obtain turf ashes and roasted clay
come next in order. There are many
ways in which fire will increase the solu.
bility of minerals used as plant food,
besides burning limestone, bones, clays
and rotten granite. A little heat pro-
notes fermentation and the revolution of
much carbonic acid gas, which is a power
full solvent. Water thrown on quick
lime generates at once a remarkable
amount of heat.


We have known this heat used to kill
the life in the seed OF weeds that may
exist in dungheap. The lime is slaked
under the heap of manure. Lime is not
to be regarded as substitute for manure,
but as an aid to increase fruitfulness. A
little stable manure goes farther on land
marled or lined than on land not to be 80
treated. Glover, peas, and other reno.
waiting plants do better on calcareous soils
than on those where lime is deficient.
1t often happens that one must improve
titled ground or abandon his farm, or
work for very small compensation.
Year: 1878

A correspondent Of the Napoleon


Northwest writes on this subject


Wheat harvest Is again approach


ing, and the many fields that have


been injured and crippled in wet


places by the incCSsant and hssvy


rains will give an excellent CppOr-
tunity to prove the truth OF or falsity


of the much mOOtcd question Of wheat


producing chess (Or cheat when il
an Injured condition from any cause.


Many people jump at conclusions
and adopt superstiti0ns and traditions,


handed down by their ancestors,


through uncuitivated and uDpbilO-
sCphilc8l minds, and like the un-
fiedged bird in lis nest open their


mouths and swallow down anything


given them, .and say it is good. For


the advancement sf the human race


in q true education, We believe inves-


tigatiOn is the first step toward such


q happy result, and without such in.


vestigatiOns the progeny would for


ever remain in the darkness OF their


ancestors or their great, great grand


fathers. Thorough investigation for


many years has convinced cur mind


beyond a contingency that wheat


never produced chess regardless OF any


condition, and from careful dissec-
ton Of the roots year after year has


proven cOnclusively and positively


that the theory is ss false and OppO-
site to the truth Es east to west or
day to night. In every instance in
our Investigations where wheat and
chess had the appearance from a
casual ObservatiOnJ of growing from


the same root inspection has found
it not to be the case. Generally the


woody substance or hull OF the chess
seed is found at the root any time be-
fore harvest. We feel assured that
chess Is as separate a family from


wheat as oats, barley or rye. We
have taken measures to rid our farm
Of it and have, completely succeeded,
and for the benefit Of others we give
our method Firstly, we endeayOr
to SOW pure seed wheat, allow no
chess to get into the manure, by get.
ting ground or burning sll screenings
that contain chess, and when by ac-
cident su isolated stalk IL found grow
ing in the field il Is at once destroyed.
This method has cleared our farm Of
chess, and We vouch for the same rule
to be equally applicable to others
with equal care. One word in con-
sfstency. Some farmers who are in
the full belief OF wheat turning 10
chess, and that chess will not produce
chess, show the same anxiety
to SOW pure seed g others
who DO not believe in the
theory. We ask such, where is
the consistency Of throwing away
time in cleaning chess from seed
wheat il il does not produce ike, hut
on the contrary, will bring forth a
beautiful crop OF that much sought
for grass timothy. Now, brother
farmers, this question is fully within
your own reach to investigate and we
ask you to pin your faith on HobOdy's
sleeve in doubtful questions, but in-
for yourselves, where Oppor-
tunity offers, and many foolish super
stitions that are now rife among the
people will disappear like the morn
ing dews before the sun.
Year: 1878

Notwithstanding the apparent ab-
surdity Of the thing, there is no bait
more attractive To fools than the
promise Of q great deal for a very lit
tie, or even Of something for nothing,
and nowhere have more victims been
found than amongst country people,
who accept, without doubt, the prom.
ises Of the man who offers Z powder
which Will produce pound Of butter
from milk which contains only an
ounce Of Jhet article. The trick Is an
old one, and q very worthless one.
The powder consists chiefly OF alum
and similar salts these from q COM
binstiOn with the cheesy part OF the
milk, and change il so that it may be
gathered into Jumps resembling but
ter


Every sample OF milk contains Just
so much butter and no more, and the
proportion which these powder sell
Ier5 claim to attain Is always greatly
IN excess Of the amount contained in
the very best milk. The product has,
somewhat, the appearance c; butter,
but its flavor IS Dad, and it does not
keep. Those who allow themselves
to be deceived by such proposals are
very apt to lose both their money and
their milk YoUng Scientist.
Year: 1878

4 hanging garden OF sponge il one
Of the novelties in gardening. Take
a white sponge Of large size and SOW
il full OF rice, oats or wheat, Then
place Il for week or ten days in a
shallow dish, and as toe sponge will
absorb moisture, the seeds will be-
gin 10 sprOut before many days.
When this has fairly taken place the
sponge may be suspended by means
Of coTis from hook In the top Of the
window, where little sun will enter.
1t will thus become 8 living mass Of
green, requiring a little occasional
moisture.
Year: 1878

at il strange" said young man,
"thst = poorly educated girl stands
Just as good a chance Of marrying
well as q scholarly one" mot at al
strange" responded a lady, "becausa
the fact is that the young men are
not sufficiently we'll educated q
know the difference
Year: 1878

meeting of the democratic Inspectors of Election
was held in the afternoon at Tammany Hail. when
these gentlemen received final instructions as to their
duties. They were warned to guard against any at
tempts of Commissioners Davenport and his officials
to interfere with proper expression of democratic
strength ut the ballot box. Prominent leaders in
each Assembly district have been selected to look
out for any interference by republicans with citizens
who had been naturalzed in 1868. These gentlemen


are authorized TO take all necessary steps protect