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Year: 1878

A Milwaukee man, who deposi.
ted one hundred dollars In . bank,
and vas told the interest would
b Ave per cent, came promptly
at the end Of ; year with Ave dol
lars in small currency to pay that
interest. When told that the five
dollars went the other way, he
looked up IN astonishment, and
went away wondering why . man
should pay him for being allowed
to take care Of his money whole
year.
Year: 1878

Our GLoBE.-If / were in danger of
becoming skepticaI, says II. Starr King, 1
believe that Il vivid apprehension OF the
revelations concerning our globe would
appal me into faith TO think of this ball
whirling and spinning about the sun, and
be an atheist TO feel that we are at the
mercy of the forces that lash it like a top
around the eciptic and of the raving flames
that hcavc and beat for vent; not more
than an eighth of its surface inhabitable by
man; seas roaring around him tropic heats
shifting his brain polar frosts threatening
his blood ; hurricanes lowering in the sky;
earthquakes sumbcrirg under our feet the
conditions Of l:fc dependent on tho most
delicate powers, over which the wscst man
is elplcss-to think Of these, and not to
have confidence in power superior to these
pitilcss forces not to have faith that the
land is sheltered by ccasclcss love from
the hunger of the elements


Go, learn that you are house less, without
the sense of God as overarching you by his
power, twisting the furious forces Of i'm
mcnsity into protecting tent for your spirit
home.-E:rchange.
Year: 1878

ga woman is mighty handy thing to
have about the holse. She doesn't cost any
more to keep than you'll give her, and she'll
take great interest in you If you 90
out at night shell be awake when you get
home, and then she'll tell you all about your
self, and more too. OF course she will
know where you have been and what kept
you out SO late, and will tell you ; yet right
after she gets through telling you that, she
will ask you where you have been and what
kept you out so late And after you tell hor
she won't believe you; you mustn't mind
that and if after going to bed she says she
hasn't closed her eyes the whole nj ght and
then keeps up the matinee two hours Ion
ger, and won't 60 to sleep when she gets a
chance, you mustn't mind that either its
her nature.
Year: 1878

TIE CHUFA.-Thc chufa is a species Of
nut grass but unlike the terrible garden
pest, it does not survive the winter. The
planting seed must be gathered, dried, and
housed. After you save what seed you
wish, just turn your hogs into the field and
they will do the harvesting.


As regards planting and cultivating, first,
lay off the rows three feet apart put in
barn-yard manure or some kind Of good
fertilizer, bed on, say two furrows, open the
bed as you would for cotton, say, two inches
deep, as they grow near the surface. Drop
one nut at intervals of about ~ inches
apart, then cover. Plant about the 18th
Of April. Should molcs destroy any they
can be drawn as slips and reset, they never
withcr for being reset reset half an acre
last year and | do not think one died
Keep clear Of grass and weeds, and plow
about twice. The yield is about 300
or 400 bushels per acre hogs prefer them
to any other food


There is no comparison between corn and
chufa; the hogs fattcn faster on chufa, and
we do not have the trouble and expense of
gathering them. They do better on light
soil.-R. B. Noodle, in Rural Messenger.
Year: 1878

The Albert Lea Standard says a
few days since farmer in the town of
Moscow. Freedom county, who was
owing $40 to man who had worked
for him took $40 bill and placing it
with six y more wrapped it up in pa
per and gave the package to his wife
telling her it contained the SO he was
owing and directing her to give it to
the man to whom it telony yed when he
called for It. Shortly afterwards the
man called for his money and the wo-
man handed him the package which he
'ook and disappeared. The next time
that farmer leaves any business for his
wife to transact he will explain more
fully.
Year: 1878

The New England Farmer answers
the above in,airy Of a subscriber, as
follows: Butter factories are deaign-
ed for making butter on a larger scale
than for single dairy. Cheese fac
tories are for making cheese on the
associated plan, that is, for large
number OF daries. Creamery is term
applied to factories which make both
butter and cheese from the same milk
In our newspaper market reports dairy
butter or cheese means such as is
made on the farm, or the prodnct Of
single daries. Factory butter or cheese
is that which il made at those factories
where several dairies are combined.
Creamery butter is that which is made
at those factories where both butter
and cheese is made Cresmcry butter
is often of extra quality, because 1t is
made every day, and from the frs:
cream cnly.


The average age OF sheep is ten
years; up to that age they will breed
and thrive. There are instance. now.
ever, Of their living to a more advanc
ed age. and, in isolated cases, as long
as twenty years. Cows have an aver
age Of fifteen years, although, as with
sheep and other domestic animals. they
often exceed their allotted time. Rings
on their horns indicate their age after
they arrive at the age of three years.
A. four years old ring is formed at
the root Of the horn, and every sue
ceeding year another is added: thus
by allowing three years and addn.
thereto the number Of rings, it is easy
to arrive At the animals age Hogs
have been known to live for thirty
years. though their average age is
much less The average of the horse
is twenty years, Lut as beasts Of bur
den they seldom attain that age.
When kindly treated. however, AID
well provided for, they will exceed
twenty, and instances are ca record
where they have lived to the age of
ftty. The longevity Of the elephant
is greater than that of all other au;-
mails. Their average age has never
been computed. but many have been
known to live to very advanced age.
There is white elephant now living
in the Imperial Aiensgerie in Russia
tha! is said to be over l5A years old.
Year: 1878

A good man to go on new farm at Mel
rose Mimi. will pas any good man we'll,
besides giving him the entire product.
There is house and barn on the place.
None bat good hard working man need
apply. Address.


Farmer No. II Newhall block


Milwaukee Wis.
Year: 1878

| Times are hard. Everyone says go.
| They said so last year, they said so
FIVE years ago, in fact, we never


knew the time when the public failed


to vote unanimously that the times


were hard. Ifyou ask your merchants
they will tell you they sell Jew goods
on credit. If you 60 in the country
yon will see cribs. full Of corn and
fields With cotton. You there see
industry unsurpassed by any country
in the world. Yon find the most
improved machinery for ginning cot~
ton, and it is common to hear the
steam engine whistle III the country
as in town. You sec young men
whose fathers and mothers went to
meeting horseback, now dash up to
meeting house with red buggy With
his sweethart by his side, with tied
back dress and kid gloves. The most
casual observer will tell you that the
stock of the country was never in q
better condition, and that there are
finer horses, bigger and tatter mules,
and more Berkshire hogs in the coun.
try than were ever known before. In
the country you see residences built
upon the most modern conveniences.
We know of houses erected in the
country that are superior to many
and equal to the best in town. Farm.
ers are making money gradually,
slowly but surely, and we are sure
that this reaction, all things consider.
ed, Las grown in wealth and is to day


better off than ever. The little towns
may suffer, but the country is getting


wealthier daily.-Griffin (Ga.) News.
Year: 1878

The Red River Indians have a curious
legend respecting the origin of mosqui-
toes. They say that once upon time
there was a famine, and the Indians
could get no game. Hundreds had died
from hunger, and desolation filed their
country. All kinds of offerings were
made to the GI eat Spirit without avail,
until one day two hunters came upon q
white wolverine, a very rare animal.
Upon shooting the white wolverine, an
old woman sprang out of the skin, and
saying that she was Manito, prom
ised to go and live with the Indians,
promising them plenty of game as long as
they treated her we'll and gave her the
first choice of all the game that was
brought in. The two Indians assented
to this, and took the old woman home
with them, which event was Immediately
succeeded by an abundance of game.
When the sharpness of the famine had
passed in the prosperity which the old
woman had brought the tribes, the In
dians became dainty in their appetites,
and complained of the manner in which
the old woman took to herself the choice
bits; and this feeling became SO intense
that notwithstanding her warning that If
they violated their promise terrible
calamity would come upon the Indians,
they one day killed her as she was seiz-
lng her share of reindeer which the
hunter had brought in.


Great CONSERVATION Immediately struck
the witnesses of the deed, and the In
dians, to escape the predicted calamity,
bodily struck their tents and moved to q
great distance. Time past on without
any catastrophe occurring, and game
becoming even more plentiful, the In
began TO laugh at their being deceived
by the old woman. Finally, hunting
party on long chase of a reindeer,
which had led them back TO the place
where the old woman had been killed,
came upon her skeleton, and one of them
in derision, kicked the skull with his
foot In an instant a small, spiral,
vapor-like body arose from the eyes and
ears of the body, which proved to be IN
sects, that attacked the hunters with
great fury, and drove them to the river
for protection. The skull continued to
pour out its little stream, and the AIR
became full of avengers of the old
woman's death. The hunters, on returns
ing to camp, found the Indians suffer-
ing terribly from the plague, and ever
since that time the Indians have been
punished by the mosquitoes for their
wickedness to their preseryer, the ha'
ito.
Year: 1878

Deep down beside the tangled sedge
The meadow lark sings all the day,
And bursts at times from out the hedge
The mimic chatter Of the jay;
And here and there a wandering note,


A cricket's chirp, comes sweet and clear
Where dreamy mists Of summer float
At noon upon the grassy mere.
Afar away below the hill


see the noisy mill-wbeel go,
The smooth broad lake above the mill,
The fash of foam that roars below;
And on the even slopes that rise


SO gently toward the mountains brow,
The cattle watch with sleepy eyes


The lazy ploughboy at the plough.
My soul is sleeping, and its dreams


All sad and sweet that dreaming thrills
For there are other wales and streams,
And other flocks on other hills
The hills whereon l climbed TO pull


The golden rods and weeds of May,
When all the world was beautiful,


Aud all my life summer day.


C. X. Brooks in Hdrper'S Magazine.
Year: 1878

A convict at Auburn, N. Y, escaped
hard work during his confinement of
two and half years by feigning paral-
ysis. He was so successful in the fraud
that he was lifted about by attendants,
and on his release had to be carried to
the depot in a chair and placed in the
cars. An hour afterward he visited the
prison officials and astounded them by
his speedy and full recovery.
Year: 1878

Lockjaw is one of the most terrible
diseases to which mortals are exposed.
A California exchange asserts that no
one need be in danger of such an attack
from wounds caused by rusty iron. The
worst cases of infamed wounds may be
cured by smoking the injured part with
burning wool or woolen cloth. Any
thing that produces safety from such a
fatal disease is worth recording.
Year: 1878

The peaceful condition of affairs
on the Rio Grande was the subject
of consideration and congratulation.
Reports to the Navy Department
from our squadron in Asiatic waters
report the health of the officers and
men good.
Year: 1878

IL Ia proposed by the Catholics Of
Chattanooga next Sunday to have q
service for the dead, beginning with
the office for the dead in the Church,
and then the absolutions on the grave
OF Father Ryan, and Immediately
after Father John will go to the ceme-
terry to perform the sacred rites over
every Catholic grave.
Year: 1878

HERE ARE TWO political offices in the


army that it is time were abolished, viz :.
the once OF "GeneraP and "Lieut. Gen
eral." We have no longer need for such
expensive titles; and economy and the
heavy tax upon all industry plainly prove
that Congress is liable to very serious
censure for not dispensing with such ex-
pensive fossils. Let both of them be set
tied down to the level of the regular army.
Year: 1878

we do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations. The anne and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily FOR publication
put as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

The Boston correspondent of the Spring.
field Republican thinks "It is possible that
the Democratic House may seat Boynton yet,
ii he carefully keeps his speeches out of
their hands,-for no man would willingly put
himself under the necessity of hearing Boyn-
ton speak for an hour"
Year: 1878

MORE negroes have gone and got them
selves killed just to spite the whites. The
scene this time is Virginia,-no white man
hurt but five black men bite the dust. The
chivalry haven't had so much fun for long
time.
Year: 1878

-Yorick invites contributions Of all kinds.
Anything, from eggs to apples, finds place
at this table. The steward of course does
not part with the right to reject the added
egg or unripe fruit. He must look out for
the boarders as we'll as the providers. But,
it may be properly stated here, he does not
entertain that prejudice against green apples
that some feel and more affect-they make a
plquant sauce and are peculiarly grateful to
those who retain their boyish tastes. Espe'
cially good are they in the time before the
marketing Of the fall fruit. As Yorick ha'
not marketed his fall fruit, green apples are
still in demand here
Year: 1878

There comes in life frequent hour
When the full voice of Fate
Calls with dread, mysterious power
On those who should be great;
And warns them that mighty DOVER
Somewhere for them doth wait.
For somewhere, in the long. long train
That marches down through Time,
Working out human natures gain,
Its glory or its crime,
For each a station doth remain,
With power to do or to refrain,
A humble or sublime.


And they whom God hath breathed upon.
And gifted from their birth,


With lofty powers to labor on
The labor OF this earth


For them, amid the swelling crowd,
An office is assigned


With mighty influence endowed;
And unto them Fate calls loud,
In the first opening mind
Again, again, through shine or cloud,
Her words come as the wind.
Alas! how many, downward bowed,
Their birthright have resigned!
God! how much of great and good,
How much of fearful sin,
Were gained, or gAllaarIy withstood,
oil ynlo
Year: 1878

Another Of Marion Harland's excellens and
practical cook-books, is published by the Scrib-
ners OF New York, cortland: Loring, Short
and Harmon) and is entitled the Dinner Year
Book, giving for each day 10 the year suitable
and seasonable bill of fare. The index at the
end of the volume will also enable the house.
keeper to turn readily to any receipt in the
book without reference to the day of the year
for which it may be suggested. Marion Hn-
land combines the qualities of a charming
writer and helpful and entirely refined wo-
man, and her books upon housekeeping are of
the greatest value to those whose business and
pleasure il is to provide for the comfort of their
families
Year: 1878

"Many of our personal friends have been cured
by the PERUVIAN SYRUP but we have proof
more powerful than all these, and that is-OUR
OWN Personal EXPERIENCES No authority
can put this down-no argument can contradict 1t +;
and no good word shall be spared on our part un-
til a know ledge of this blessing shall he spread
broadcast among the people,"
Year: 1878


For the purpose of nominating candidates for
Governor


Lieutenant Governor,
Secretary of State,
State Controller,
State Treasurer,


Surveyor General
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Representative in Congress,
Justice of the Supreme Court,
Clerk of the Supreme Court.
Also for the selection of a State Central Committee and
for the transaction of such other business properly
come before the Convention.
Delegates to said Convention apportoned from
aoch county as follows
Year: 1878

The pipe of the quail 1n the stubble field the scent of the new mown hay :; and all day long the shout and the song of the reapers so far away. The rest less racket amid the grain, the noise of the reaping machine and ever again the howl of, pain comes over the meadows green. Oh, sweet is the field where the meadow lark fits and sings, as it scars and dives where the granger sits. and yells as he gifts his fingers among the knives. No longer we hear on the hill side sere the scythe-stone's clinkety- clink; but the reaping-machine cuts his leg off, ween, before ever the man can think. With foreboding and tears his good wife hears the man of the house say good-by; to return, in sooth, with 8 horse rake tooth sticking four inches out of his eye. When the threshers come in with halloo and din, how burdened with sorrow the hour, when they pause to scan what is left of the man chawed up in an eight-horse power. Oh 1.-the and listen! From over the hills what voice for the doctor begs? Iris the stoker who fell, and awful to tell the steam harrow ran over his legs. Thus all day long, with mirth and song, they laugh at the dread alarms; though the waving field shall it's harvest yield of fingers and legs and arms. Then pity the sorrow of poor old granger whose mangled limbs have borne him to the fence; who braved, with reckless courage, untold danger and run his farm with modern implements.
Year: 1878

It is good thing for the mine inter- ests in the vicinity of Pittston, Pa., that the fire in the Butler coal works is cut off so that it cannot extend to other veins. The new cut is constructed in the shape of horse shoe, and owing to the yield ing nature of the earth in some portions of the surface the task has been her. culean one from the beginning. It is a splendid feat of engineering, having set up formidable barrier against the progress of fire that could not fail to carry it's underground destruction throughout an important portion of the Wyoming coal field. AS it is, no less than one hundred and fifty acres have succumbed to the seething element, and it is estimated that nearly half million tons of coal have been consumed, much of which, were it not for the fire, could have been recovered by the system known in mining parlance as "robbing pillars, |" or taking out the coal left to support the roof during the first process of mining. This IS but mere bagatelle as com pared with the total loss involved in the work of isolating the flames.

 This destructive fire owes its origin to an outcast named Maggie Toole, who in in the spring of 1877, having no other place of shelter, made her home in an abandoned tunnel or "drill leading to the mine. Here she was visited during the evenings by number of fellows, who made the place sort of rendezvous, and eventually became known as the "Tunnel Gang" At last she suddenly disappeared, and it was found that the fire which she had to keep warm and do her cooking had extended to what is known as the "gob" or refuse, and from there to the woodwork and coal pillars used in keeping up the roof.

 The appearance of the surface of the burning mine presents wierd picture of desolation. Vegetation has withered and numerous " cave holes dot thehill- side, marking out the path of the fire. From these the smoke and sulphur issue in stihing volumes, giving some faint idea of a Vesuvian scene and showing how fie1cely the fire must be raging in the mine beneath at depth of fifty feet. Mine Inspector Jones, one of the most experienced men in this section, gave 1t as his opinion that one of the results which was likely to attend the fire, had it not been combated by some such plan as that of MT. Conrad, was that of pene- trating through the works of the Penn sylvania Coal Company "and conse- quently under the town of Pittston."
Year: 1878

A COMPLETE TRIUMPH AT THE
EXHIBITION! The
Weber Pianos received the highest award
at the Centennial Exposition. Beware Of
other manufacturers claiming Centennial
award, as it is false. The Weber Piano
has also the best references Of any piano
in the world. Send for catalogue con-
tanning account of factory prices, and the
judges report at the Centennial, &c.
Year: 1878

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 81, 1873.


Mr.. EDITOR Dear Strive have argument in
reference to Delaware law. One party contends that
any article belonging to individual which drifts
on the farm or premises of another cannot be taken
off by the former the latter is said to all prop
erty that drifts on his premises He says that there
O farmer in the State of Delaware who had crop of
corn that drifted another mans property and the
corn was refused the original owner Now if that is
the law of your State you will please answer this let
through the columns of your most valuable paper
BY so doing you will much Obge n subscriber


j. S. RICHARDSON, 7th and Oxford st.


In answer to the above, we will say that any prop
ery washed off by flood and storm from the premises
of one party the premises of another that the party
losing the property wherever found is entitled to it.
provided that he prore it to be his property but
if the person whose property it has been driven
and landed has performed any service or incurred
any expense in taking of or saving it which
necessary to be done or incurred he they would be
entitled to payment for such service or expense II
such articles as vessels boats cattle &C. there would
be very little difficulty in the right owner proving hi
right to property carried the premises of another
by the food but in such articles corn, hay lumber
&c. the act of proving might be very difficult thing
and the claim would not be valid without such proof
Year: 1878

THANKSGIVING DAY.-The proclamation ofthe Presi-
dent of the United States, setting apart Thursday,
November IS, as a day of national thanksgiving and
prayer should commend itself to all readers for the
business and felicity of its language well as the
appropriateness of such acknowledgment of Divine
mercy counseed. The restoration of industry and
the return of prosperity. so plainly indicated all
around us, the peace which has abided amongst
us, the safety in which our institutions have been
preserved all appropriately alluded to- and the
President, with happy optimism which reminds one
of Rufus Choates wel-known description of the New
England seasons, draws even a blessing out of the
pestence which has visited the South; and un.
doubtedly if the tone of the Southern press be any
guide, the bounteous hands with which the whole
country poured forth its substance for the relief OF
the sufferers have woven new sense of national
unity and brotherhood into the texture of the public
thought
Year: 1878

prayer meeting was in progress in the church in
Mount Vernon Ind, and political procession, mis-
taking the lighted ediiCe for the hall in which the
mass meeting was to be held. marched in with ban
ners flying, to the music Of a full band, and gave
three cheers for its candidate. The clergyman in
ved the politicians to remain for their souls sake
but they declined
Year: 1878

Arrests Of Communists are
every day announced in Paris.
The latest discovered was q Cap
tain of the insurgent army Of
1871, and he was wanted by the
police for several acts of fraud,
as we'll as for the part he took
in the insurrectiOn.