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Year: 1875

Now, in the animal kingdom, what
are fortunate circumstances In the
first place, let me tell you what unfor-
tunate circumstances are. "A hay-mow
full of meadow hay is one unfortunate
circumstance. You may tell me that
YOU cannot breed in-and-in. Well,
you cannot breed out-and-out on
meadow hay! You may have the
hest cattle in the world, if you give
them meadow hay to eat, and nothing
to warm them up, they will fail. An
other unfortunate circumstance is the
entire absence of root-crops on a farm.
lfyou are going to breed carefully and
well, and breed in-and-in, as you should
to breed successfully and arrive at a
given object, you want few root-crops
to keep the health of your animals
where it should be. You cannot feed
animals upon hay and meal, year in
and year out, without roots, or without
grass, without having them suffer.
They must suffer, they do suffer, and
they will suffer. Every man in this
room who has had experience with
cattle knows that by twelve months
heavy feeding with dry hay and corn
meal, you can destroy the health of
the best yoke of oxen in New Hamp-
shire. Every man knows that it is
done continually. And so shrewd
farmer, who would take good care of
his cattle, and turn them to advantage,
never thinks of keeping hard-worked
yoke of cattle up to the point at which
he wants to keep them, over twelve
months, without a proper supply of
roots, if he expects to make anything
out of them.


You want, also, comfortable stalls
for your cattle. If they are well bred
and well fed, they want comfort in ad
dition. If you will fed them judi
ciously, with good feed and a little
change of feed occasionally to keep up
their health, you need never fear If
Year: 1875

the dcath-rate Of that city has increased to an
alarming extent, owing to deficient drainage
and impure drinking water, which have the
effect ef making the whole city very breed
ing place of malaria with the concomitant
typhoid fever. The Herald gives the follow
comparative table of death-rates in thirteen
of the large cities OF the world, from the
sixth report of the Massachusetts, board Of
health far 1874.
Year: 1875

The crop of Arkansas is good one,
but the figures are increased more by
the fact Of last years poor yield than
by the excess of this years crop.
These figures point to small advance
upon last years aggregate, if Novem-
Der and December should be favorable
to the opening and packing of the top
crop.
Year: 1875

An earnest desire to justify your generous CONT
dence, and strong regard for the honor and acel-
fare of our State inspire me NTH the firm reso1ue to
spare no effort and to consider other consequences
IN me endeacor to faity discharge the duties that
ao'tt De incumbent on ne if your choice shall prove
70 oe the cho'ce of the people also. pledge you and
thousands for achom you act, IN that event an honest
purpose and Jired determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care.


Gen. Connor's Acceptance.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nicatiOns that are not used
Year: 1875

FALL RIVER Mass, August &.-About
5000 operatives probably, will be idle
for the next thirty days, although the
rumor prevails that work will be resumed
in week. There is Il great deal of dis
satisfaction, and many are willing to 90
to work, including good part of the
spinners who heretofore acted almost as a
unit. How long the mills
will remain closed 1t is impossible to say.
The manufacturers do not know them
selves, but one thing that will influence
them very much is that they think 1t Is
hard that the operatives opposed to the
strike and willing to work a. IA reduction
should be locked out. Many storekcep-
ers have given notice that if the help can
afford to take n vacation of thirty days,
they can afford to pay cash for their
goods, and no credit will be given until
they go to work. Every mill has stopped,
with the exception Of the Stafford, which
will soon stop.
Year: 1875

Snow shoes are dependence here
that we would rarely think of resorting to :;
but in this country no man expects to
travel off the beaten roads without them
They are in fact indispensable in the
woods or in the fields. Now and then
snow will be crusted over and you may
walk upon the surface; but this is only
occasional, and at other times you must
depend upon the snOw-shOes to keep
from sinking through the snow-not to
the bottom, but till you can't get any
further down. In sugar making time,
which is before the snow is gone, there
Is no other way of getting round but on
snow shoes. This, however, is the case
in Vermont and our Northern States In
addition to the regular, sober uses of
snow shoes, they use them for fun, and
the young people get up parties to walk by
moonlight over the snowy fields, and 9TH
erwise make sport with them. They
have in this city a snOw-shoe club-the
StadacOna-that cultivates the use of
them as fine art, gets up matches,
races, and that sort of thing. Last Sat
urday there was race given by this
club at which there were several prizes
distributed-to say nothing of "A large
amount of fun. The races came off on
Esplanade, under the patronage of the
Mayo and the military band was on
hand to make the affair still more impos-
ing. A great concourse of spectators
was on hand, and vast amount of fun
resulted. A race upon snow shoes, which
are very much like IA pair of basket-cov-
ers, one foot wide by three long, cannot
be a very graceful affair, and may easily
afford the spectators more fun than the
performer; for there is every danger of
tripping and falling headforemost into
the SLOW, with a poor chance of getting
up till some one else has won the race
Ouebec Cor. 1sttabula Sentinel
Year: 1875

AMERICAN WoMEN-It is a melancholy
fact that American women have degen-
Grated in point of health and physique
until they have become literally a race
of invalids. How sad it is to look
around us and compare the frail and eff
Terminate looking lady of to-day with the
hale, hearty and buXom ladies of days
gone by. To all such the late discovery
of DIR. WALKER, of California, which is
known as VINEGAR BrrTERs, is a price
less boon indeed. For this class of dis
ease it is certain and safe, and any lady


old or young, can take it with entire
confidence IN the result, and thus avoid
what to thousands is stumbling block
never overcome, viz: consultation with
a family physician. 'Tis true there may
be cases of years standing that will
necessitate more powerful treatment, but
in nine cases out of ten this remedy will
reach the disease, and after little time
effect cure. The number of ladies
cured by it are numbered by thousands


and are scattered through every State in
the Union. 26
Year: 1875

No animal can thrive satisfactorily
while its surroundings do not tend to
promote comfort. When fattening
swine are uneasy, ever squealing and
racing about they will not fatten.
When a mich COW is not provided with
comfortable quarters she cannot be ex-
pected to yield full flow of milk Con
corning this subject, 5. Flaville said, in
a recent address:


In everything consult, as far as possible,
the comfort of the COW. Let all the arrange
ments that appertain to her keeping, such as
food, drink, shelter, treatment and general
management, be such as shall tend to her
comfort and quiet; then, and not till then,
can we reasonably look for the best results.


The question of feeding dairy cows has
become one of vast Importance. Breed
is important, but feed much more so.
Persons about engaging in dairying look
over the reports of dairy association or
read the report of some dairy in the ag-
ricultural papers, in which they see so
many cows kept and from them so much
money made, and they seem to forget all
Quired number of COWS, and when
the end of the year comes
they are obliged to divide the
profits by two, for the reason that they
have not well considered the business in
all its detail Many men seem to think
that anything is good enough for a COW.
The warm side of rail fence good
enough shelter, and a chance to feed at
the straw-stack, with an occasional dress
ing of marsh hay and a chance to run IN
the standing corn-stalks, good enough
care and feed for the COW. They seem
to feel that grain fed to cows is almost
thrown away. The horses and hogs must
have all the grain, leaving the COWS to
take care of themselves. These are mis-
taken notions, for it's costs only little
more to keep COW well than poorly.
Indeed, it costs only little more to keep
a COW upon grain than upon hay. Ex-
ample: 1t will take one acre of good
grass to furnish winter fodder for a COW
The same acre, if planted to corn and
properly cultivated, will not only furnish
winter fodder, but will furnish grain
enough, if fed with the stalks in winter
and the pasturage in summer, to give a
good flow of milk during the entire milk
ing season, while the hay would have done
but little more than sustain the animal
life. The difference Of cost, then, in the
two methods of feeding is the difference
| of expense in raising an acre of grass and
an acre of cOrn.-N Y. Herald.
Year: 1875

We have a very pretty letter from a
lady in the Green Mountain State asking
us TO inform her what her chances would
be in Virginia City to get a situation as a
teacher, or, if possible, what encourage
ment an accomplished housekeeper
would probably receive in this city; one
who would come bringing the highest
recommendations as scholar and a
lady. As we are frequently in receipt
of such letters, we have concluded to
answer this one through the Enterprise:


Miss B.-Your note is under reply.
We need not waste space in extolling the
good taste of your letter. The fact of
your writing to the Enterprise is sufficient
evidence of most sound discretion.
Teachers here command from S 100 to $500
per month in gold coin. Board COSTS
about $35 per month, and lodging from
$15 to $75, according to the caprice of
the lodger. Female domestics command
from $35 to $40 per month, with board
included, of course. Whether you could
obtain situation as teacher we cannot
say. Itwould depend on many things.
In the first place our present teachers
are probably the best teachers in the
world. If you were to come you would
have to wait for a vacancy; and then if
you are not fine-looking you could not
pass the examination of our Superin-
tendent, who is single man; and if you
are very beautiful, the apprehension
would be that you would get married be-
fore you learned the names of your
pupils. We do not think private
school would succeed, except behind it
was the capital to build fine structures
and furnish them with the apparatus of
the modern school-room. About getting
employment in private families there is
but one difficulty The confidence of
our families has been SO often abused
that they are demoralized, and have set
tied down to believe there is nothing re-
liable but a Chinamau, and he cannot be
depended on about the time of the Chi
nese New Year. The difficulty lies in
the fact that there are more of those
brutes here called men than there are OF
those angels called women, and the men
have way of coaxing which, general
ly, in about four weeks, transforms an
Eastern girl-who came here with the
best of intentions to work faithfully, lay
up great deal of money, and go back
and support her mother-into IA wife,
with her time divided between presiding
over her own home and hunting around
town for a Chinaman to do her house
work. If this last suggestion is of any
interest to you, you may depend upon
the miners living here, and may know in
advance that any one of them has more
reverence for and appreciation of 8
worthy woman than a thousand of the
youths of Vermont, who, being brought
up among so many women, never realize
that they are really angels in Disguise
Virginia CITY (Nec) Enterprise.
Year: 1875

ALTHOUGH Mr.. Donaldson, the aero
naut, did not succeed in reaching Europe
last year by the aid of the eastcrly cur
rent his limited success has induced MIR.
Barnum to make further engagement
with him for the summer months of 1870.
A few days ago an agreement was en-
tered into by which Mr.. Donaldson
agrees to devote his entire service to the
furtherance of aeronautIc travelling dur
ing the next eight months, for which he
is to receive the sum of 100000, Mr.. Bar
mum further agreeing to pay all expenses
attending the experiment. During the
last summer Donaldson made a large
number of successful ascensiOns, during
which hundreds of careful observations
we're made, none of the results of which
have as yet been made public. 1t is con
sidered proved: first, that it is possible
to land u balloon successfully at any
point named and to reascend without
material loss of ascending power; and,
second, that a fixed law governs the air
currents, a knowledge of which will en-
able the voyageur to leave any spot and
return to the same at pleasure. During
the past winter Mr.. Donaldson has been
engaged in arranging compaCtly the re
suits of his work during his many years
experience, and possesses therein II more
complete aerial chart than was ever be





have been made for carrying on sue
cessful summer campaign during the
coming months, to absolutely de-
termine the existence of an east
erly current. If these experiments
continue to develop Mr.. Donald
sons theory, there is little doubt that by
October of this year he and IA selected
company will have IA try at the Atlantic.
He is now at work upon six balloons of
various sizes, capable of carrying from
one to twelve people. These ascen-
sions will constantly be made in all
weather and at every available point.
The largest balloon will hold 10000
cubic feet of gas, being about the size of
the Graphic No. 3" These balloons
will be supplied with every convenience
for comfort and safety, many of the ap-
pliances being the result of experiments
made during the winter at the Hippo
drome. A number of perfected instru-
mcnts are in process of manufacture, to
Year: 1875

AsTHMA.-This disease causes great diff
Guilty of breathing and tightness across the
chest, and sometimes attended with a great
deal of suffocation. The paroxysm generally
comes on at night, while lying down; some
times it is attended with great violence. AL
lens Lung Balsam will always give immedi-
ate relief, and in many cases, if rersevered in,
it will cure the disease altogether.


For sale by all Druggists.
Year: 1875

Amid all the sorrows, trials and conflicts
of the present life, we need sympathy and
aid, beyond the power OF humanity to be-
stow. When the Saviour had informed His
disciples Of His prospective removal from
them, sorrow filled their hearts. lie knew
their deep grief, lie sympathized with His
sorrowing ones. How sweety did those
words fall upon their ears from His sacred
lips" Let not your hearts be troubled" So
in all our sorrows we may by faith hear the
same gentle and comforting voice.


See that suffering believer on the bed OF
langushing Remedies fail Ileart-stricken
friends can only render unayaling sympathy
But the name Of Jesus is supremely dear,
indicating these precious assurances Fear
not, for am with thecl ho not dismayed
for ! am thy God viii strengthen thee
yea, will help thee, yea, will uphold thee
by the right hand Of my righteousness"


See that mourner weeping for the memory
Of the dear departed Sweet as the heavenly
melody upon the bleeding heart fall the
balmy words of the Son OF God 81 an
the Resurrection and the Life" The gloom
of the grave is dispelled, and the glories OF
immortality break in upon the soul in full
and heavenly radiance.


Toilng aborer In Christian WORK what
can impart the needed energy and strength
TO labor successfully in your field OF toll but
the name Of Jesus No motive in the uni
verse Is so potent as His inspiring name and
constraining love.
Year: 1875

The Civil Service Reform was a hum.


bug, and no one will regret its death as
formally announced by the President.
1t was fraud in It's conception, adop-
tion and application. 1t originated in
the pretence of n party to reconstruct
and purify the civil service by abandon
ing the Old system OF appointments as
rewards for political work, and putting
selections on the sole ground of capacity
ana honesty. number of respectable
gentlemen were commissioned to make
rules for the reform and see them car
rled out. There We're simple minded
persons who thought that all these pre-
paratlons meant honest business. But
all except the hopelessly credulous were
soon undeceived; for it was seen that
the friends of congressman and others
i'll power still succeeded in bearing off
the honors, and instead of improving,
the character of the public service grew
rapidly worse. The Commissioners, ob-
serving how shamefally their rules were
broken, gave up the Job in despair and
resigned; and since then the Civil Ser
vice Reform has ceased to delude any
body. In his last message the President
admonlshed Congress that unless they
did something to bolster up the reform
he would abandon it. Congress inten-
tlonally let it alone, and now the Presi-
dent keeps his word in an announcement
to the Cabinet and to the country. Here
after the deceptive system OF competi-
tive examinations-good for but little i'll
England, where it is strenuorsly ap-
piled, and totally worthless here-will
have no footing in any of the Federal
Offices. Appointments will be made in
the old-fashioned way, without any af-
fectation Of seeking the best out OF all
possible candidates; but some care, we
trust, will still be taken to obtain clerks
who are not natural fools, as an act Of
the last Congress requires that no such
official shall be appointed unles "exam-
ined and found qualified by Board OF
three examiners, to consist of the chief
of the bureau or office into which such
clerk is to be appointed, and two other
clerks to be selected by the head of the
department" At some future time, per-
haps, an honest Congress may frame an
honest Civil Service law, and an honest
Administration may lend u hand to en-
| force it; but until that time it is amock-
cry to have such an enactment on record,
and the country is well rid of it.-N Y.
| Journal of Commerce.
Year: 1875

There is paper called the Christian at
Work, which Is making desperate effort to
secure n robust and manly ministry. We
have heretofore alluded to and commented
upon its effort to reform ministerial eating,
and now it comes ont in favor Of ministers
who can make long marches and do heavy
fighting. It says: ave want no more doll
bahies in the pulpit, p1iding themselves On
their Ey-white fingers, and pale cheeks, and
dying glances through the rim Of gold specta-
cles, bat we want stalwart men. We know
In the ministry Of the Presby terian Church a
clergyman who carries his cat With him when
he goes of to spend his summer vacation.
He cannot bear to leave the poor creature be-
hind His overfond congregation have strokk-
ed al the vigor ont Of him, and now he in
turn strokes cat. There is nothing more re-
voting to us than religious namby- -pamby-
lsm-" There is world Of good sense in the
sentiments Of the Ch7istian at Fork, and when
those sentiments are put into actual practice
and good. everyday common sense takes
possession Of the pulpit, as it has Of other
professions, We may look to Sec its usefulness
greatly enhnnced
Year: 1875

One of the strongest points mede by Judge
| CATION in the opinion he recently gave on the


question of abolishing the Polich Board was
| that relative to the character and duties Of
| the Police Commissioners as County Board
| This is strong both in Law and in the prao-
tical results of the proposed dissolution Of
the Board Its significance as law-point is


well illustrated by Judge CATos's holding
that the County Commissioners might na we'll


undertake to abolish the Board, and thereby


deprive the city of its use, as that the Com


mon Council should abolish it, and thereby
deprive the county of one Of its Institutions


Being a creature Of the Legislature, the Leg
is1ature could alone act for both county and
city. The practical effect Of the abolition OF
the Board would also be bad, unless the void
it leaves were supplied by the Legislature.
At present, the Board Of Police being
County Board, the city ordinance is valid
which gives the policemen the power of con-
stables throughout the entire county, and
the agents Of the Board may pursue crimi-
nails anywhere inside the county without In
curing the loss Of time and usual inedicien-
cy of getting the constahles at the case. Il
the Board of Police has no longer any exist
ence, there is no police power in the city
which extends beyond the municipal limits;
and thief or murderer fleeing from the
police need only Cross Fullerton avenue on
3he North Side, or Western avenue on the
West Side, or Thirty ninth street On the
South Side, to lawfully resist arrest at the
hands of Chicago policeman. The time
necessary to secure the assistance of con-
stable to make the arrest legal will frequent
ly enable the criminal to escape altogether.


Il the Board were abolished by an act Of
Legislature, this single practical objection to
its obliteration would probably be removed
by comforting the powers it has enjoyed upon
Soma other city authority.
Year: 1875

No ono can have failed to observe the enor-
mons increase Of smoke in the business part
of the city within the last two or three years.
The reason for it is the vastly greater num-
ber Of steam-engines now in use, and the
increased consumption Of soft eoal. There
is scarcely large businese-block in the city
which is not supplied with at least one steam
engine; every building with an elevator OF
heated with steam has one constantly at
work during the day, and often al night
long. The result is vast quantity of smoke,
which, following the direction Of the wind,
is blown into windows and doors, and against
the outside walls, blackening and soiling every
thing in its way. The nuisance is becoming
almost intolerable, and is seriously marzing the
beauty Of our city. Certain parties are now


engaged in perfecting contzivanees for the
consumption Of this smoke, md tharris mnat
Year: 1875

warrant for anticipating considerable SUCCESS


But, meanwhile, our own experience has


taught US that, at smau outlay, and by o
very simple means, large portion Of this
smoke may be avoided By carrying the
chimney Of THE TRIBUNE Building about SIX
teen feet higher than it was, We have saved
from half ton to one ton Of coal day, and
there is certainly 10 to 50 per cent less smoke
than formerly. The smoke comes largely
from partial and poor consumption Of the
coal, and this is owing to defect in the draft.
The best and cheapest.way Of overcoming
this is to increase the height Of the chimney,
which at the same time carries what smoke
there is higher than before. The general
adoption Of this plan would reieye Chicago
Of large part Of the present nuisance, until
smoke-consumption shall have become a reg
ular adjunct Of every steam engine.
Year: 1875

Vista quarry may give out; that the bed Of
liquid mud underlying the upper strata Of
firm clay, as stated by the Washing
ton Commission, is in reality bed of thin
but perfectly homogeneous clay, containing
very small proportion Of water; and, further
more, that the weight of the building will
force the water out of this clay, and that it
will then grow hard and compact; and that
several Of the largest six-story buildings
in the city have exactly the same stratum OF
clay under them, and have not settled On that
account If this be trne, and if Mr. FAR
WELL has correctly indicated the drift OF the
report Of the local architects, then there is no
good reason why the building should not SO
On to completion. A few days, however, Will
undoubtedly settle the matter, more espe-
cially as it is reported that the President VIII
order the completion Of the building II the
local Commission reports favorably.