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Year: 1877

"Cut my hair" said the customer, as
he seated himself in BARRIERS chair,
sand be sure you let itrun down the back
of my neck" referring Of course to the
peculiar style of the cut.


The barber was Western artist, having
lately arrived in Oil City from st. Louis.


After clipping away for some time he
concluded that perhaps the hair wasn't
running down the customers back as fast
as that individual might desire it-though
for the life of him he couldn't see why he
should want it to run down at all--and
when a quantity had accumulated inside
his shirt collar, the accommodating barber
showed it down and out Of sight with the
handle of the brush.


This performance was repeated two or
three times, and the customer began to
realize what was going on. Hencefor-
ward he took lively interest in the pro-
ceedings. He said


"What in the name of the bird with
the broad and sweeping wing are you
doing2'


at didn't seem to run down." said the
barber, apologetically, "and so | rammed
it down with the brush


The customer acted like a man who
had just made the discovery that a rat
had built her nest between his shoulder
blades, so he yelled


"Cram your crammed head to cramna-
tion" and then, turning double sum-
mersault out of his chair, he kicked at the
reflection of the barber in the looking
glass. The barber escaped.-Oa C!ty
Derrick.
Year: 1877

The Journal Of AsrSeultgys gives the
following as the causes and cure for the
more terrible diseases Of sheep;


l. Rot--CAused 10y feeding 90 vet pas
tures. The aniuial may die Almos, i'm.
mediately, or euniiRue declining from
three 10 six months. Dullness, loss Of
condition, and pAleness Of the mucous
membranes ale symptoms Of the disease,
followed by lUss Of wool and yellow ot
blotched appearance Of the skin. Put the
sheep on dry pasture, and give abundance
of clean salt To effect a cure. The dis.
ease Is not infectious, but il is better, IL
possible, TO separate the sick from the
we'll.


.. Scab--A cutaneous disease which
frequently affects entire Aocks - some
what similar 10 the mango in dogs or
hogs-caused by small insect. The
sheep will give evidence Of the presence
of scab by rubbing against. posts, trees,
stones, etc, and unless relieved soon die.
As soon as the disease is discovered in
the flock, shear closely, and dip each an
imal in a strong solution of tobacco-con-
tinue the dipping from time to time,
until cured-change pasture.


3. Sore Mouth-caused by eating nox-
ious weeds; lips become sore and swell
to unusual thickness. Dress lips and
mouth with coat of tar. If allowed to 60
too long, sometimes becomes very fatal.


4. Hoof Ail-Probably the most diff
cult of all diseases to master. 1t attacks
the feshy part of the foot in the cleft,
and generally makes its appearance in
one Of its fore feet, extending from that
to the others. A purulent discharge re.
suits from the Inflammation, which being
left upon the pasture is apt to spread the
disease among the flock. After cleaning
the affected parts thoroughly, washing
we'll with CASTLE soap, trim the
hoof and remove the liberated flesh with
the knife. If the disease has not gone
too far, apply solution of blue vitriol,
by pouring it from bottle into the cleft
but if the foot is tenanted by maggots
and filled with matter, strong caustic
should be used, such as nitric or sulphuric
acid.


s. Grub in the Hlad--All sheep have
more or less Of these larve with which to
contend; it is only where they become
very numerous and attack the brain that
they are dangerous. A good prevention
consists in occasional applications of tar
to the nose during the summer season I;
when the sheep is seen to show great un-
easiness, then the grub is evidently giving
pain; it is customary to blow snuff or red
pepper into the nostril, which causes
violent fits of sneezing or coughing, by
which the animal is frequently relieved.


1--WE do not believe that o sheep.grow
er need stand in much dread of the nu-
merous other ailments to which sheep are
subject, and with ordinary care and atten-
ton he need suffer no very material loss
even from those enumerated. We would
rather trust to getting through with little
loss from disease, and give our special at
tention to the cur dogs of the neighbor-
hood, whose fondness for mutton is much
more cause for anxiety than the raw
ages of all the diseases put to-
gether. You should have some kinds OF
sheds to protect your flock in wet wealth
er. Sheep can suffer any amount of cold
if kept dry"
Year: 1877

THOSE who indulge the fancy that the
Government should own and run all the
railroads of the country and engage In
public works, for the purpose OF giving
employment to all the labor offered for
sale in the market, as the means OF re-
heving the wants of the poor, assume that
the Government is not only great busi-
ness firm, but is also omDipotent and ON
nlacient. No government is competent to
the task which they propose, and none
can do it half as we'll as 1t will be done
in.y private enterprise, under the regula-
tions Of law. What the Government does
1t should do efficiently; but the great
mass of human interests must be LETT to
individual management.-Iad<pendsnt
Year: 1877

Mr.. VANDERBILTs order, directing the
division of 100000 among the employees
of the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroads. handsome recognition
of their fidelity during the recent strikes.
Even the men who still believe in tie pol
icy of striking and rioting will probably
admit that it is better to share in this
money and the kindly compliments that
go with it, than to be in Jail awaiting
trial.
Year: 1877

PHYSICIANS of high standing unhesitating-
ly give their Endorsement to the use of the
Graefenberg- Marshalls Catholicon for all fe-
male complaints. The weak and debilitated
find wonderful relief from constant use of
this valuable remedy. Sold by all druggists
Sl5O per bottle,
Year: 1877

woman Of respectable appearance is soliciting do
nations toward the support OF the Home for tho Aeod
OF the Church OF the Holy Communion. She is not
authorized to collect subscriptions or donations for the
above named institution.
Year: 1877

People who believe that our Mexican map
is "inspired" by the administration, and
that every meridian and parallel of latitude
marked On it are really lines of policy, will
be pleased to see it in our columns again
this morning. 1t is not surprising that our
map has attracted great deal of at
tention. HERALD maps never fail to do
so, but this particular HERALD map is
one about which the air is filled with
surmises, conjectures, guesses and all
the different processes by which people
try to materialize facts ont of ghostly un-
certainties. Although this is immensely
amusing we must be permitted to state that
behind it there is mysterious something
about which we cannot give any informa-
tion, no matter how much it may be de-
sired. The HERALD never reveals it's sources
of information. They are as numerous as
they are reliable, and we satisfy the public
demand for news very fully when we give
the news without describing how we get it.


With regard to our Mexican map we
are perfectly willing that our readers
should believe that it was ''inspired" from
high places. Inspiration is always good
word to use. 1t is euphonious and elastic,
and fits the affairs of county rs neatly as
it does those of continent when occasion
requires. BY the way, 1t is proper 70 re-
Year: 1877

One of tho important observations in


medicine, which within the reach of ply
sicians for ages, has only become of practi-
cal value within short time, is that of the
relation Of disease in q community to its
milk supply Ever since it has been ac-
knowledged that the presence Of typhus or
typhoid fever was evidence of faulty
hycienic conditions, physicians, enei-
neers and builders have exhausted their
ingenuity in the endeavor to hunt
down the poison and destroy it at its source.


They have overhauled the drainage, regu-
lated the relations of the closets with the
sewers, secured perfect ventilation and q
supply of pure water, and yet the disease
has ragged with undated fury. Why !?
Simply because while they were defending
the supposed approaches against an in
sidious enemy that enemy was con-
stantly let into the house by an
unsuspected passage. The innocent
milkman was leaving it at tho door
every morning regularly, hidden from
ordinary observation in the milk that
was to make palatable the coffee of the
adults and to be fed without change to the
children. This is part of the history of
London. Proper vigilance gave the people
pure water; but the cows drank from con-
taminated sources, were afflicted with
fever, and the milk taken from
them gave the fever to those who
used it as certainly as any ordinary
poison added to it would have produced the
acknowledged symptoms of that poison.
This was the case with cows in country
dairies, watered from polluted streams,
with all the opportunities that air, exercise
and good food gave tor their systems to re-
sist the pollution. How must it be- then,
with COWS kept in such horrible places as
the distillery stables that are their common
habitations near this city? In these stables
the COWS rot away with putrid diseases
while standing in their stalls, and orc
Year: 1877

milked until they die and while dying; and
the milk taken from them in the last mo-
ments of their ezistence-in the very agony
of DEATHS sold by ruthless wretches for
ordinary use in city homes. Virulent
poison is thus sold MS food, and the enor-
nous infant mortality of the warm
weather in this city is almost accounted
for by the consideration of the rapid de-
velopment under high temperature of dis
ease producing germs in this product of
horribly diseased animals. No punishment
and no public reprobation is an adequate
corrective to the crime against society, per-
petrated equally by the keepers of
these distilleries, the owners of the
cows, the dealers in the milk and the
health authorities, that. through indiffer-
ence or criminal connivance, permit
the sale of such an article in city commit
ted to their care. In its bold exposure of
this source of pestilence the press has done
and will fearlessly continue to do its part
in defending the people. Will the legal
authorities and the people themselves in
the jury box do theirs? We hope so. But
we shall have an opportunity to judge of
this in the forthcoming tyial of the indict-
ment against the keepers of the Blissville
utoh1oc
Year: 1877

Columbia's challenge to doubly victorious
Harvard for an eight-oared race next sum-
mer, time, place and distancc to be at the
latter's option, will doubtless be enrly ac-
cepted. With q year to get ready in, and
several well tried old oars in Columbias s
boat, it will be in no way odd if this
contest should go long way toward
taking place, in the public interest at
least, on q footing with that of Har-
wards struggle with Yale Nor would
this be more than Columbia deserves; for if
her short but brilliant record has been
marked by one Characteristic more than an
other it is that not of withdrawing from an
association where she was uniformly beaten,
but of going at every crew willing to row
English, American or anything else. and SO
earning reputation of which New York is
naturally proud.


Indeed SO valuable On experience was it
to Harvard in many ways when she recently
rowed Columbia four days before her race
with Yale, and SO thoroughly did it point
ont what might be expected of each man in
the severer struggle that, as a pure matter
of policy, Yale ought to negotiate a
similar match with Columbia for 1878,
to be rowed shortly before her Harvard
race. What would be far better yet, and
would put both Harvard and Yale where
they ought to be to insure their old place
as oarsmen in public esteem, would be to
open the door to both Cornell and
Columbia in their own race. Then
these four eights rowing abreast on
suitable track would make magnificent
contest, far surprising in interest any
other boat race of the year on either
side Of the Atlantic Such course would
settle conclusively who were the best stu
dent oarsmen of each year, thing which
the narrow and selfish policy of this year
has wholly precluded. This suggestion can
be entertained now with much less risk
than at almost any time before, for the work
of Harvard's eight the other day makes it
reasonably probable that, with even an APP
proach to hard work during the next twelve
months, Cornell would have formidable
task next SUMNER even had she Ostrom and
all his famous men. II Yale does not change
her stroke, as doubtless Harvard hopes she
will not, then there would be four distinct
styles of rowing seen in the exciting race
which We propose.
Year: 1877

mercy to expect from the machine politi-
clans, who will do all they can to hamper
and annoy him and who will never forgive
him, and his only course is to steer cour-
ageously ahead. Those who know him best
feel the surest that he means to do this. He
deserves and ought to be made to feel that
he has the confidence and support OF
all friends of this reform, in both parties
II he seems to any one to move
a struggle of extraordinary difficulty before
him. He is, in fact, breaking down vast
and thoroughly organized conspiracy
against the people Look wherever one
pleases. and he cannot help seeing how COM
pletely bound together are the politicians
in Office. In Wisconsin the State Conven-
ton could not even be called, except by
postmasters inIRennsylvania many county
committees of the ruling party are made
up, as our correspondents have shown,
entirely of postmasters and other federal
offce-holders In Maryland, in Tennessee,
in many other States it is just as bad. The
people no longer control their conventions !;
the Omce-uOlucrS mdhe Jue uOuiiuosAoho,
put forth platforms which pretend to speak
the opinion ofthe party and control the whole
machinery. so that the voters are allowed
no privilege except to obediently ratify at
the polls the will of their masters, the
ofice-holders. Under this system, per-
fected during eight or twelve years, the
republican party has continually lost
ground, and from q mere party standpoint
the Presidents policy is wise and necessary.
But it is still more necessary, to save us
from repetition of the shameful and dan
gerous excitements of the local canvass, to
make our politics decent, honorable and
safe for the country


Therefore all who wish we'll to the coun-
try ought not only to support the Presi-
dent in his reform policy, but ought to
urge him to the most positive and cour-
ageous assertion of it.
Year: 1877

Agentleman who for some years was prom
inently connected with the defence of Will
lam M. Tweed paints in other columns q
"Boss" which presents the great criminal
in far different light from that in which
the majority of his old followers have been
accustomed to see him. The popular i'm
preston of Tweed is that if he was great
robber he was generous with the money he
made in dealing with those who were
associated with him in crime; n genial,
princely host who gave magnificent
entertainments OF Greenwich; man
whose word was as good rs his
bond; q sincere friend where he professed
friendship; frank in his dealings with men;
bitter hater of cant and hypocrisy. The
gentleman referred to dispels all these illu-
sions From close intimacy and long
experience he assures US that Tweed is
cold, selfish, sordid, untruthful, pompous
and tyrannical. Even when he was at the
height of his power he had neither friend
nor following except those his money
made for him. Throughout his career he
uAWbyb uuu OA0 OOJ0Ct iA VACWs hhu eAuo wa
his own interest He loved money and
made it in every way he could. When he
helped, as he could not avoid helping.
others to make money, he always endeav-
ored to get it back in some way. The hotel
venture Of his son was inspired by motives
Of this character. 1t was to be the Tam
many headquarters. The extravaganza and
dissoluteness Of his henchmen were to be
turned to his benefit and the benefit Of his
family. This is o new and unenviable light
in which the dethroned Boss is placed, but
it is borne ont by the facts. Even now,
when he is supposed to be spending ex-
travagant sums on his counsel and in his de-
fence, he is as mean and close listed with
them as it is possible to be. He is incapa-
BILE of gratitude, and the stories about his
poverty are wholly without foundation. If
the portrait be true good dead Of sympathy
has been wasted on Tweed.
Year: 1877

Mn. THURLow WEED believes that the work
of reconciliation between the South and the
North is matter of waiting and rather slow
growth--an opinion in which the majority Of
people, North and South, will agree with him.
He is willing to give the policy of the admins
tration fair chance, and does not see his way
clear to approve what may be called the Blaine
policy, which means an indefinite postpOnement
of reconciliation between the sections. The
Woodstock demonstration is evidently great
disappointment to its authors. 1t means war,
and between peace and war all sensible people
can have only one choice.
Year: 1877

THE PORE CELEBRATED MASS YESTERDAY,
the HERALD special despatch from Rome in
forms 49, This, we take it, is very satisfactory
evidence that His Holiness did not die OH Satur-
day. What put forth on that day in the
shape of q "strong rnmor' from London
il, therefore, better characterized as a baseless
invention. Given a very old man, in whose
existence the greater part of the civilized world
is Interested, and you have fair sample of the
game that hard up rrimor-monger loves to
hunt. Hunting His Holiness to kingdom come
is not, however, q very successful pastime if We
may Judge by the number of times the hounds
have been in full cry only to find that they had
been following a herring when they thought
they were running the Pope ''to EARTH" Long
live Pope Plus!
Year: 1877

which Mr.. CooK indulged rs ikclyto affect
the growth and Standing Of America were
novel aid striking; but we doubt whether
they would all stand the test of scientific


scrutiny. We imagine that he was betrayed


by his personal experience us resident OF


the Eastern coast into the statement that ne
: get our greater abundance Of rain from the
east winds that blow from the Atlantic.


This will SCARCELY hold true as re-


CARDS tue Mississippi Valley, which is


watered mainly by the rains which are


brought from the Gulf Of Mexico by


the prevailing southwest winds, and from


the Pacii iilc by tla winds that find q passage


at the depression in the northern portion of


the Sierra Nevadas. But whether or not he


is correct concerning the connection which


he traces between the roll Of the earth and


the plentiful watering of the American Con-


tinent Except the arid waste Of the south


western portion of the northern part), it is


not the less certain that the arabic soil of
the New World exceeds that of the Old


World, notwithstanding the expansc Of the
latter is double that Of the former. This
gives t1e NeW NorlO the capacity u SuS-
taining rs many OR more people, for such
capacity IS regulated not by mere expanse,
but BY the extent of productive soil This
fact is certainly strong support of the pre-
dictions of growth of population, and
11r. Coon might have found an-
other III tho extent of our mineral
depositsi .'hcll, so far as known, are equal to
those of I'LL tho rest of the world: The
known coal deposits Of America exceed those
Of the three Continents of Europe, Asia, and !
Alrica; MD Ill the remainder of the globe I
has not yet discovered gold, silver, copper,
aud iron that equal the ascertained supply Of
our portion. In the light of these circum-
stances it is not easy to e1aggerate in look
ing out into the future of America.
Year: 1877

We confess to an. inability to understand
the apathy with which the CITY Counc;I
treats the subject Of building the City-HaIl


That time is the most appropriate for an
undertaking Of this Kind when the greatest
amount Of work can be obtained for the
money expended, and when in thus serving
the public interest great service would
attend the expenditure itself. Never was
labor or material to be had at such reasonable
prices. 1t will not do to Ey there is no
money The money was borrowed By the
CITY and expended for other purposes;
large pozhon-say S175, ,0oo-has since then
been collected again from taxation If the
city has borrowed this money again.
then it should replace it, and now,
when it can be expended so economically
and to such great advantage. we should
Year: 1877

exposing the fallacies Of Agrarianism. The


enemy must be met on his~own ground, and


beaten with his own weapons, if the victory
is to be complete and final This is about
what Mr.. JOSEPH Cook, for instance, at
tcmpts to do; and he answers well to Dr..
FL1Sr's description Of the sort Of men
required in Europe to repel scientific attacks.
There can be no doubt but that his method
is the correct one. Tho tremendous power
one man may WELD by means Of it has al-
ready been shown in Boston, where Mr..
Cook has done much in one winter to dispel
the doubts that scientific skeptics have
raised in dozen years. dis work is now
extending through the country. If his sue
cess shall result in tho training up of n body
OF men competent to discuss scientific ques-
tions in q scientific way, much bad logic md
ill-temper will DO removed from the theo-
logical controversies of tho day.
Year: 1877

Sub-Treasurer FRANK GILBERT was ordered
up yesterday and thoroughly drilled in the
tactics of managing such Government funds
as shall find their way to Chicago. He will
assume the responsibilities Of the Office to-
Year: 1877

begin and have the foundations of the new
building erected this season. 1t is bad
management and bad policy to be postpon-
ing this work, that outstanding indebtedness,
for which taxes are pledged and which is
not pressing, may be paid. The City Conn-
ell cannot afford to let this matter suffer
any further delay.
Year: 1877

Intelligence from the Adjutant-General's
Office at Springfield is to the effect that Gov.
cuILoM will shortly promu|gate a general
order thanling the militia in a general way
for their services during the riot
Year: 1877

Now that a number of mills are in active operation in the Glo, District, crushing and concentrating our rich ores, the question of Il salt supply is one of much interest and importance to our mill owners. IL is Inconvenient and expensive to import sal; either from ;he east or south, and unless some large deposit of this much needed ar iicle can be found within a reasonable proximity tO these mines 1t will prove an unfortunate feature among the many bright prospects of that district. We have reason to hope, however, that our mill owners will find happy issue out of this dilema, for we have reliable in formation that extensive salt springs exist on the Indian reservation a few miles east of Salt River and about thir- ly-five miles from the Globe mines. AL so that a considerable deposit of salt has beea found near the San Carlos agency, which is also about thirty five miles from the mines. If this be true 1t will prove @ valuable and oppOrtune discovery. The distance being short and transportation easy, the production and delivery of the article would ncith- er be difficult nor expensive.

 

 It is true the deposits are Ou the Indian reservation, but the Indians could and should be utilized in the pre- paration and transportation nf the salt, they could afford 10 deliver salt cheap CT than any one else, and vel profit by the trade, hence the miner and Indian would be mutually benefited by this la bor.

 We understand Agent Hart has sug- gesied that should a company desire tp sal works on the reservation, it is probable that the Indian Office would grant permission provided the company would furnish the sail requir- ed al the agency, which would be but d trfling consideration. We certainly consider this field where a little keeI enterprise will issue a large and easy profit, thus ad ling al important fta- ture 10 our home wealth and industries.