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Year: 1879

These are said to be the tests of tur-
key; Turn back the wings q little and
watch the effect on tho skin. II it tears,
the fowl is young; if ii only stretches,
as thought tough, the bird has age on its
side. Again, press the lower end of the
breast bone gently. If it is yielding, the
turkey may be deemed young and tender
The skin is also an indicator, and, il
white and thin makes the fowl mucl
more desirable than if thick and yellow
Chickens may be judged exactly in The
same way.
Year: 1879

There is no greater mistake young man
can commit than thai of being Indifferent
to the interests of hls employer. Try to
make your services useful, so that your
boss can not do without you, and you will
never want place, and can always make
good wages. Be faithful in small things
as well as in great things; be faithful in all
things; be attentive to your duties; shlrk
no employment. that is not dishonorabiess
feel that your employer is entitled to every
minute Of the time you have agreed TO give
him tor stipulated remuneration. The
wage. may be small-too small; but If you;
have contracted to work kr a dollar q
week when your work is worth ten, stick;
to your bargain like a man till yoas tetip
OF service has expired. 1t may seem hard.


but it will instill the great principle Of BE-


ing true to your word, and in time you Will
be an employer yourself.
Year: 1879

One would suppose there was room


enough in the sea; but its stupid in
habitants do sometimes get knock for


not going out of the way. -a-H..i =


A collision between a steamship and a
gigantic fish, which took place the other
day in the vicinity of the Tong Tong
Islands. is reported by the Times of India.


The Messageries Maritimes steamer Aha-
dyr, on its voyage to Shanghai, was sud-
denly brought to stop by violent
shock. The cause of the collision was
found to be an enormous ray, or flat
fish, estimated by those on board to
weigh from eight thousand to ten thou
sand pounds The monster was lying
asleep on the top of the. water when its
repose was rudely disturbed by dig
in the ribs from the stem of the steamer.
After the first alarm had subsidized, efforts
were made to haul the creature on
board but owing to its unwieldiness,
all attempts in this direction proved
fruitless, and the fish, doubtless ever
more shaken" than the passengers on
the boat, was reluctantly allowed tC
move off and seek such remedies for the
injury it had sustained as are tor be pro


cured in the mysterious deep. ,
Year: 1879

THE feature of a recent legislative
session in Dakota was the effort of D. D..
w. Fitch, member of the Lower House,
from the Black Hills district, to evade
duty as legislator. Upon several pre-
vious occasions he had absented himself
from his seat, and been brought back by
the Sergeant-at-arms. He repeated his
attempt to remain away, and under a
call of the House the Sergeant-at-arms,
and, finally, three clerks and a messen-
ger were sent after him. The posse ran
him out of saloon, chased him over
into Nebraska, chased him back to Da-
kota, and finally ran him into his room
at his hotel, where he yet remained, and
refused to come out. After waiting
four hours the House adjourned, on a
report of the Sergeant-at-arms that he
could not secure the runaway member.
As there was no measure pending upon
which the Black Hills member desired
to avoid voting, the inference is that he
wished to get rid of Legislative work
that he might have more time to devote
to the card-room.
Year: 1879

A sUBTERRANEAN forest of oaks has
been discovered in Germany in valley
watered by the river Fulda. DIR.
Maesta, a Government geologist, who
made the discovery during an official
exploration, pronounces the trees to be
of enormous size, and to date back in
their origin to a remote period. They
are entirely buried beneath the surface
of the valley, but several hundred OF
the outermost trunks that border on the
banks OF the Fulda have been laid bare
by the gradually encroaching current OF
the stream. The wood has acquired a
deep black color, and has become
exceedingly hard. tits believed that ii
will make excellent material for sculp,
ture. One trunk that was found in the
bed of the river has been removed to
Berlin to be placed in the national
geological musem. Whether these trees
are of species now in existence or OF
one that is extinct has not been
determined.
Year: 1879

A NEW YORK paper says many Of the
samples Of coffee from New York and
Brooklyn groceries, sent recently for
analysis, are found to contain chicory
pure and simple, or chicory and cereals.
The most disquieting discovery thus
far made is that blue clay can be so
ground, nodded, and roasted as to pre-
sent a perfect semblance of the coffee
bean. Fancy beginning the day by
swallowing d,coction of blue clay.
Year: 1879

burdensome array of figures, let there
be a simple method of-c omparison and
the scholar who, taking his native
country as a fixed basis, can measure
its greatness by contrast with the extent,
the population, the wealth, the manu-
features of other countries, has really
learned much of what geography ought
to teachs
Year: 1879

THERE is a dominant feeling in Italy
in favor OF continuing the national task
of colonizing the southern province of
South America, rather than of turning
the tide of emigration into Africa,
which, in spite of the current praise
lavished on it, is, they say, I" inhabited by
a population quite unlike themselves" !"
Yet there are certain portions of Italy
where an African might pass for white
man as to color.
Year: 1879

How remarkable it is that whenever
an enthusiast in religion gets new light,
and adopts what he considers advanced
views" he almost invariably begins to
tamperswith marriage! In this tamper-
ing he always betrays the charlatan, and
sufficiently warns all who are tempted to
follow him to beware of him. There is
no better test of new system or scheme
of life than its relation to Christian
marriage. If it tampers with that it is
always bad. and can by no possibility
be good. The Shakers form commun-
ity built on the rotton foundation.
They destroy the family, root and branch.
They have no place for love, and enter
into a determinated and organized fight
with the God OF Nature, wnv, Dy si.s
strongest passions and impulses He
uds ever imPIanvo>. Aa-~--~ ----l


has commanded them to establish fami-
lies and homes. Shakerism is good for
nothing for it is not good universally
for it ought not to be adopted universal
ly. But universal adoption would be
the suicide of race, and race has no
more right to commit suicide than man.
Besides the damning of one the most
powerful streams in human nature only
sets the water back to cover the banks
it was intended to nourish and to drain.
It is too late to talk about the superior
sanctity of the celibate. We have no
faith in it whatever. The VOW of chas-
tity simply emphasizes in the mind the
passion it is intended, for spiritual rea-
sons, to suppress. and fixes the attention
upon it. The Shaker, in denying love
to himself and all the hallowed infuen-
ces that grow out of family and home
gains nothing in holiness. if he does not
lose irretrievably. He is the victim of
shocking mistake, and he disgraces
himself and his own father and mother
by his gross views of an institution be-
fore whose purity and benefcence he and
his whole system stand condemned.


Of course we do not need to allude to
the Mormon. His views of marriage
revealed, of course-are simply beastly.
But these new schemes of life, religion
and philosophy are constantly springing
up. It is very difficult for any system
of socialism to establish itself without
tampering with marriage. and one of the
best arguments against all sorts of CON-
munities and phalansteries and what
nots of that sort, is that the family. as
a unit, is unmanageable within them.
They can take in and organize miscel-
laneous mass of individuals. and provide
some sort of dirty substitute for mar
riage, but the family bothers them. 1t
is government within government,
that they cannot get along with. So the
the marriage test is good one in all
cases of the kind.-Scribner.
Year: 1879

Unto the margin Of the flowing river


The Eastern shepherd leads his timld sheep;
He calls them on, but they stand still and shiver;
To them the stream seems wide and swift and deep.
He calls them on, but they in fear standing;
He calls them on. but on they dare not go;
They heed not now the voice of his commanding,
They only heed the rivers fearful flow.
Then from the side of one protecting mother


lamb the shepherd takes unto his breast;
And then he gently bends and takes another,


And in his the two lambs lie at rest.
They lie at rest. and, as he close enfolds them,
He bears them safely DER the river wide
The little lambs know well the that holds them.
They nestle warmly and are satisfied.
Then the fond mothers with maternal longing


Look on beyond that rivers fearful flow;
They can but follow. and, behind them throngHg.
Their heecy comrades are in haste to go.
Drawn by love stronger than any shrinking,


Their lambs they follow DER the flowing tide
They heed not now the swimming or the sinking.
They brave the stream and reach the further side.
And while their tender shepherd kindly feeds them
They think no longer upon what hath been;
He gives them back their lambs and then he leads


them


By the still waters, through the pastures green.
So shall IL be with you, weeping mother.


Whose lamb the Lord has taken from your sight:
'Tis He hath done it. He and not another;


Your lamb lies in His arms clasped close and tight.
Across the stream your little one is taken


That you may fear no more the quick. dark flow;
But that, which steadfast heart and faith unshaken
You may be ready after 1t to go.
This is the tender Shepherds loving pleasure.


To bless at once the little lamb and you;
He knows that when with Him is your best treasure
There fixed forever will your heart be too.
Year: 1879




TREATING MEADOWS AFTER MOVING.
As meadows are short, yet with a
pretty even. and good set, and as the
time for applying mannre cannot we'll
be spared. and good quality of manure
line and rotten-is not always on
hand. the next best thing. and one of
decided advantage, is to sow plaster.
Apply as soon as the crop is off. 1tis
cheap. indeed the cheapest of all fertil-
izers, yielding much for the outlay where
the land is adapted to it; and it is soon
applied. Give double the quantity or
more than is given to elover-from two
hundred to three hundred pounds per
acre. Grass requires this. The sulphate
is specially beneficial on clay land. APP
plying the same quantity to grass as to
clover (and the grains are included
among the grasses) has failed to show
satisfactory result. except where the
quality of the plaster was superior, when
less quantity has the effect Of greater
amount of an inferior article All de-
pends upon the proportion of the salt
(sulphate of lime) in the stone. A good
dose evenly applied and covering all.
will. with anything like favorable wealth
err the remainder of the season. forward
and thicken the already good set. with
the prospect of securing another cutting
if the crop is removed sufficiently early,
as it should be- Country Gentlemen.
Year: 1879

Nobody can tell who has not watched
it what an effect physical deformity
has upon the mind and character of a
growing child, especially one which de-
tracts in so marked manner from its
personal appearance. 1t exposes the
child to the taunts and cruel appellations
of its comrades, which in sensitive chill
dren often drive them into solitude, and
make them shy and suspicious of stran-
gers, in whom, on the other hand, they
excite suspicion. The turn in the eye
gives either wandering, doubling air to
the face, or. if the gaze is fixed, too
intense expression, which is disturbing
and perplexing, if not downright painful.
to the beholder.


| have known young boys of eight and
ten years of age beg their parents to let
them undergo the pain Of an operation to
rid themselves of deformity which sub
jects them so often to the unfeellng re-
marks of their elders. usually friends of
the family. as we'll as the uneuphonious
but expressive titles bestowed upon them
by their own contemporaries. of google
eye and cock-eye. Nor does this end
with childhood The deformity is dis
advantage to him through life. It pur.
sues him in his business and in his pro.
fession. Cheated of feature by dissem.
bling nature. he is often thought to be
assembling himself when nothing is
further from his thoughts. How often
do we hear people say of another, whom
we know to be perfectly upright and
trustworthy, that they do not like him
because he never looks them squarely in
the face. And it IS little curious that
precisely here it is that the lesser degrees
of the trouble produce the most effect
That peculiar expression which people
complain SO much of is generally due to
a. deviation in the axes of the eye a
slight conveyance which is never very
conspicuous. and at times only to be de-
tected by trained eye. but which. new
ertheless. produces in all a very disa


greeable impression. although not marked
enough to betray its cause.-Dr. Edacarc
G.. Loaing. IN Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1879

A certain lawyer was compelled to
apologize to the court. With stately
dignity he rose in his place aud said
Your Honor is right and am wrong.
as your Honor generally is There
was dazef look in the Judges eye.
and be hardly knew whether to feel
happy or fine the lawyer for contempt Of
court.
Year: 1879

duced two or three crops of fruit it should
De cut out and younger one be allowed
to. take its place. All the pruning they
require is to cut out old wood, shorten
the younger shoots, and remove any suckers
and roots that are likely to make two
crowded head they should be so pruued
and trained as to give them plenty of air
and light. Raspberries onlyrequire the re-
moval of the shoots that bore fruit last sea.
son, and the shortening back of last year s
growth one-half to one.third its length, &c.
cording to the strength of the shoots
Blackberries require the same treatment.


All pruning should be done with prun-
ing-knife or with pruning shears, bu. never
with hedge shears every branch or shoot
should be individually examined and pruned
according to its stregth, growth, or position.
The operation should never be intrusted to
any but an intelligent person, or at least un.
der the neutrality-suspicious. of such one.
Ignorant, stupid laborers will often do more
injury in an hour at such operations than
can be remcdicd in a year because they
can handle shovel or n hoe, it does not
follow that they arc gardeners, and we
therefore advise such of our readers as are
fond of their gardens to supervise such
work themselves, unless they can get the
services of a regularly bred gardener.


Besides pruning the head 0. top of tree


pruning the roots is sometimes practiced to
induce fruitfulness in trees that are either in
too rich soil or in soil that is very poor


When planted 10 too rich soil, fruit trees
are apt to make too strong growth aud
run too much tc wood. Pruning the tops
OIL heads of the trees in such cases does not
make them fruitful, but has a tendency to
aggravatc the trouble by causing the tree
to throw out large numbers of new shoots
in directions where they are not wanted.
To couuteract this trench about eighteen
inches or two feet wide and of correspond.
ing depth, accoriug to the age aud size of
the tree, should be dug out half way round
the tree, the roots should be carefully pruued
with sharp knife, and the trench filled
up with fresh soil, but of poor quality rotted
sods or the surface soil of au old meadow
soil being excellent for this purpose; this new
must be firmly trodden down as it is thrown
in. The next season the same operation
must be performed on the other half of The
circle. The distance of the trench from the
trunk OF tho tree must be governed by the
spread of the branches and the ago Of the.
tree generally the trench may be dug at
one-third or one.half the spread of the tree.
-in young trees nearer than in older ones.
If the soil is naturally poor and cannot be
readily enriched in any other way, this
operation will also be of great service, only
flling up the trench with rich soil, Or that
more suitable to the tree than that in
which it is planted. BY these means the,
growth of n tree may be readily controlled,
and far less pruning Of the top be required
The pruning knife and shears will never
produce iruilfulness unless the roots, which
promote the growth of the top, are also
under control.-Harper's Bazar.
Year: 1879

WATERMELoNs.-El Southern Cuhi-
Uator.-Your correspondent j. B. S. wants
the best plan for raising watcrmclons, and
when to plant. | don't know that | can
give him the best plan or best time to plant,
but will give me own plan, which has
proved quite successful. l prefer sandy
soil, that grew either sweet potatoes or cot
ton the year beiorc-the manure to be one
half cotton seed rnd one half horse ma
nurc, horse manure by itself l never sue
ceedcd with phosphate. l break the land
in February or March, in April lay it off
feet each way, dig out hole in each cross
with shovel, taking out about five
shovels full of earth from each, put into
the holcstwo shovelfuls of manure and
two Of earth, mix both well together with
pitch. fork, then raise the hill little above
the level of the earth. | then let it remain
until the first of May, when [ plant one
half of my ground-thc remainder to be
planted the middle of May. plant ten or
twelve seed in hill, about 1 or l.! ir chcs
deep. AS soon as they get up, hoe them;
and continue to do SO once week until
they arc laid by. plough with shovel
plough once in two weeks, beginning one
week after the first hoeing, until they begin
to bear. If your correspondent lives as low
down as [ think, | would advise him to
plant one month sooner The melons must
be thinnei to two in hill as soon as they
have two leaves beside the germ-lcaf


Anderson Co., S. G. Il. III.
Year: 1879

STILL WORKING OVER HE KJlNS.


The entire Broadway wall and about twenty
six feet the adjoining Grandstwa were still standing
1j o'clock this morning Several Of the engines were
drawn off that hour and the efforts OF the remain
ing ones were directed towards that portion Of
floor the fourth story which was still burning.
The flames in that part were already so
much subdued that there doubt in the
minds OF the officials present that the front wall would
stand. strong lire s burning in the southeast
Of the ruins bat 1t easily kept under CON
troll. Before . o'clock number Of the hremen
and nearly all the police officers on duty had
been relieved. Captain Brogan remained on the spot
and. together with President King, OF the Fire Depart
ment, were directing the efforts Of the fremen.
Year: 1879

ACTION OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH ON LODGING


HOUsES-DEAGHs FROM SCARLET FEVER.


The Board of Health yesterday was called
upon bv Il committee from the CAamYcr of Commerce
IN REGARD 20 the action of the Chamber on The
subject Of the analysis oi alleged aduitcraed in
the market. The Heath Commissioners sald they did
not want to discuss the matter with view 10 lis com
tnprcal aspect, merely far II might affect the
public health. The committee was also informed
Thar an answer TO the resolutions Of the Chamber
of Commerce touching This subject in preparation


The following comparative statement Of case Of
contagious disease reported for tic two weeks eudlas
.Iauu3ry |, 1879:
Year: 1879

At a meeting of the Provision Trade of the
Produce Exchange yesterday an amendment TO the
rules was made doc airing that all settlements OF
tracts pork lard should be based upon the prices
the end OF the third call each day by the
conducting the call. Another amendment made to
provide that all margins called before IL O'Clock must
be put up before o'clock the day and when
called after IL O'Clock must be made good before IL
M the next day and IN OF failure 10 respond the
person calling tho margin shall have the right to
the contract at his discretion. rule asO made
that the seller may require the buyer 10 make deposit


with the Exchange equal 10 per cent Of the amount Of
the transaction where goods sent out OF the CITY,
Year: 1879

Half-sheet Memphis Appeal! A
few questions of the day put to
our reporters: What is the news?
How many new cases? How many
deaths? Do you think it will be-
come an epidemic? Why do you
think so? Have you seen any
cases of yellow fever? Don't you
think we will have no epidemic?
Do you think all the case are re-
ported by the doctors? How many
cases are there in the city? Are
YOU going to stay here? Would it
be safe for me to stay out in the
country few miles from the city?
Is the fever milder than that of last
year? Do you think so and so will
die? Is there any real yellow fever
in the city? Why don't you go
away? Would it be dangerous for
me to stay here until tomorrow?
When will a steamboat arrive go
ING up the river? Will the trains
be running tomorrow? Will the
steamboat be crowded? Can l get
a half fare ticket? Can get free
mass from DR.. Porter? Where can
oct a medical certificate? Who will
give it to me? Put personal in
the paper saying have gone to
=. take your paper, and you
ought not to charge me anything
for a personal. Give a good long
personal, something funny. Send
me a paper occasionally. What's
the safest place you know of Who
is the best yellow fever doctor in
town2
Year: 1879

periods of exhaustion and of ner-


vous irritation, which, without its
aid, would rack them and almost


wreck them. In fact, quinine is
simply tremendous tonic. 1t has
no particular curative property
using cure In the sense commonly
given to it. In this respect it is
not like mercury. 1t works its
wonders by giving the system
great power of resistance. That
evil influence to which a patient
without it would at once succumb, ,he
is able to resist and to throw off by
sufficient doses of quinine. 1t is
thus that it operates in influenza.
Taken promtly when the symptoms
first begin 10 show themselves, it
very rarely fails to hold the patient
up against the attack. OF late the
apothecary's price for this invalu


able remedy has been two cents a
grain, not three, as a large dealer is
reported to have said yesterday;
but this price made the use of it so
expensive that it was limited to
those who were in comfortable cir
cumstances. The consequences of
the removal of the duty will prob
ably be that ere long its cost will be
reduced quite one half, to the great
benefit of the whole community.
Year: 1879

Apropos to the removal of all du-
ties on the Importation of quinire,
which ranks among the necessaries
of life in the malarial districts of
the South, the New York Times
says it is in the range of its efficacy
that the great advance has been
made in the use of q1inine, and that
advance has been within very late
years. 1t has come greatly into use
In neuralgia, and all nervous, hys-
terical and spasmodic diseases. 1t
is used to break up periodiclty In
diseases of all sorts. 1t is found to
be an invaluable prophylactic or
preventive in influenza or cold In
the head. 1t is used with great effect
in certain cases of hypochondria,
melancholia, and of late has even
come into favor as n wash for what
is called external use," although
for internal organs. In short, it
has become a necessity of life.
Some persons, even some physi
clans, seem to regard it in the light
of a highly concentrated, beneficial
food; and it is yet possible that we
may see it set upon the table like
salt, to be used by those who feel
the need of it. To women it has
become really the staff of life; at
their weakest times they lean upon
it, and it carries them kindly through