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Year: 1877

The first nutrimeut young plant gets is
from the decay of the starchy matter around
the germ. This is always small, and in
shrunken, shriveled grain the plant puts
forth more feebly. No subsequent manuring
or fertility in the soil can entirely make up
for the lack of this food at the start, because
it is not possible for any other manure to be
in close contact with the germ and root.
Farmers are usually very particular in select
ing seed for corn but with other grains re-
quiring larger amount of seed per acre, less
care is taken. The result is that corn thus
selected rarely deteriorates, while other
grains almost always do. Our hot, dry sum-
mers are bad enough at the best for such
moisture loving grains as oats and barley but
the tendency to shrivel the grain is aggrava-
ted greatly by sowing imperfect seed as also
by too thick seeding. 1t is doubtful whether
thick seeding increases the crop; but if it did
it would still be good policy to sow small
piece thinly with perfect seed, free from foul
stuff as seed for the following year. Some
thing can easily and cheaply be done for the
main crop by running the seed carefully
through tanning mill, blowing over all the
light and imperfect seed and saving only the
heaviest. In this way barley weighing fifty to
ffty-two pounds per bushel can be winnowed
from any lot of fair weight, and the refuse is
worth nearly as much for feed as it were
heavier. have no doubt that any farmer
dong this by all grain-crops would secure
reputation as seed grower, which would
give his crop ready sale to neighboring
farmers at remunerative prices. Clean
and perfect seed is the great need of all farm
ers at present, and as increased attention is
given to improved banning. the demand
will keep pace WITH the importance of
good seed as the foundation of all success in
grain-growing.
Year: 1877

Try this. have tried this with success,
and l have found no hungry person who did
not praise the little pies. You can see for
yourself when you read the receipt, that they
can not come under the censure which intel
ligent people bestow upon ordinary pie.
They seem ridiculonsly simple, but if well
mixed and thoroughly baked they are delic-
ious. Take good juicy dried apple-sauce-
but first about the cooking of that sauce.
Either soak the dried apples over night. and
then cook them slowly in the same water the
next morning or let them heat up slowly on
the back of the stove, with plenty of water to
soak them out fully, and keep them from
burning while cooking, and add necessary
sugar while the fruit is still boiling. Let the
sauce be thoroughly soft, or well done. Then
stir into pint, or any quantity of it, enough
graham flour to make a rather stiff batter.
Dip a spoonful Of this into dry graham flour,
and, taking it into your foury hands, mold it
ing with these, and put into hot oven.
Bake them tboroughly-upon the clean oven
crate, if you prefer it to the tins. The pro-
cess of moulding the pies suggests the proper
stiffness of the dough, but do not get it too
stiff that would make the pies { or apple
cakes p too hard. Any other sauce can be
used the same way-fresh apples stewed,
stewed peaches, stewed prunes, huckleber-
ries,-anything that is simple and juicy. Let
the baking be done in hot oven, and thor
oughly done without turning. Let the child
rem have these to carry to school tor lunch.
The graham -four gives the proper nourish-
ment tor their bodies, and the apple makes IL
more paatable, and is in the most conVen-
lent shape Tor their use, unless they have raw
apples and graham crackers.
Year: 1877

SAWAuS OASs


Among the interesting things that were
shown to the architects in Philadelphia, dur
ing their convention, was the patented pro-
cess of Messrs. Struthers & Sons, for saving
graDite. Hitherto it has been found imprac-
ticable to cut granite with saw, since the
ordinary sand process would cut only an inch
and halt or two inches per day. The inven-
tor OF the Messrs. Struthers' process hit
upon the idea of using chilled iron, finely di-
vided, instead Of sand. A Jet of steam is di-
rected upon stream OF melted iron, and
blowes it into spray, just as in the common
atomzer jet of air pulverzes, so to speak,
the stream of liquid upon which it is turned.
The iron, divided into fine globules of, say, a
fortieth or fifteth of an inch in diameter, falls
into cold water, and is chilled into excessive
hardness. 1t is used under a saw of soft iron,
and with stream of water, as sand is used
in saving marble. Most persons would have
supposed that the scratching OF angular grains
oil sand would be more fficient than the roll
ling friction OF glooules of iron, but it would
seem that the sand is speedily crushed into
dust, while the tough iron. simply wearing
into smaller and smaller globules, crushes its
way through the felspathic and other crystals
OF the granite (which with US is usually
syenite, by the way and not granted. The
rolling of the globules is curiously shown by
fine channelings or flutings which score the
under side of the saw from end to end. By
this device granite can be sawn at the rate OF
three or four inches per hour, and at small
expense; the waste OF the iron being about
three pounds for every square loot Of kerf, or
two square feet of sawn surface. For small
blocks where saw can be used that is short
enough and therefore stiff enough to bear a
heavy pressure without buckling, it is found
possible to cut at the rate of twelve or four
teen inches per hour. The surface obtained
by saving is vastly better prepared for polish
it is smoother, but because by hammering
the surface of the stone is stunned" as it is
termed; that is, the crystals are so bruised
and shattered below the surface, that it is
necessary before the polishing can begin, to
grind away an eighth of an inch or more, which
is unnecessary with sawn surface.-Ameri.
can architect and Building Neacs.
Year: 1877

never use paints or dyes, except for green
leaves, and have made handsome wreaths and
bouquets without single feather except the
For yellow, the feathers from the breast of the
meadow lark. For scarlet. pee! off the red
from the blackbird's wing and press it out fiat
until it dries and you will have fine double
flower, which only needs wire stem. Prairie
chicken and Guinea fowl feathers make nice
mottled flowers. Pea fowl feathers answer
nicely for green, and some of the feathers on
his body make beautiful velvety flowers.


Use two sizes of wire; the coarser for stems
and the finer to wind the stem of each petal of
such flowers as roses, before they are formed
into flowers. Get the natural flowers you wish
to initiate and pick them to pieces for patterns
Wind the stems with green tissue paper and
form into wreatbs or bouquets to suit your
taste,
Year: 1877

Place the cleaned and washed goods over
night in cold bath of one and one-fourth
pounds of sulphate Of iron for five pounds of
half-wool goods; drain them off well from
this and work quarter of an hour in a fresh
bath with two ounces of chromate of potash,
and rinse well in running water. Then boil
for some time until the bath is spent, in a
kettle in which half pound of sumac and
two pounds of logwood have been boiled in a
bag, removing the bag if the room is needed,
and rinse well on removal from this. A
brownish (over-dyed) shade may be impaired
by passing the goods through weak sumac
and sulphate of iron.
Year: 1877

Pretty table mats may not only be looked
upon as an ornament but a necessary adjunct
to the table. We have set. tasty, unique, in
expensive, and within the reach of most farm
er's wives; as they have been SO much admired
will describe them, SO that others may profit
by our invention:


First cut out stiff pasteboard, the required
size and shape for your mats told boxes will
do); theD, having selected some stalks of broom
corn, as near of a size as possible, aud the red
and the white, if you can, so as to alternate
the colors; sew them on the pasteboard, closely
together, with strong patent thread down the
middle and round the edge; then trim off the
ends, and after glueIng some fancy colored
paper on the under side, bind round with scar
1T braid, or what is preferable, worsted bind
ing.


Some use mating, lining with muslin, stitch
ing round the edge with the machine, and
binding the edge with a colored braid. They
are neither as pretty nor as durable as those
made from broom corn.
Year: 1877

Old sponges that have been employed for some
time. and have become full of grease and dirt,
may be again used in Ilace of new ones. To
clean, solution of permanganate of potash in
water is prepared of such strength that it ap.
pears of a wine color, and in this the unservice-
able sponge is immersed and allowed to remain
in the liquid for some time. When taken out
and squeezed it is next put into a diluted muri-
attic acid of ordinary commercial quality, being
immersed and kept saturated therein for some
time as before. The most appropriate strength
of this acid solution is about ten parts water to
ore part acid. The sponge is taken out after
sufficient treatment, squeezed we'll to free it
from the acid aud then washed we'll in good
spring water. When taken out it will be found
to be quite clean, to have again assumed its
light color, and to be free from all foreign mat
far
Year: 1877

DR.. Page, in the British Medical Journal,
recommends chloral hydrate as the local
application in cases of toothache. A few
grains of the solid hydrate introduced into
the cavity Of the tooth upon the point of a
quill speedily dissoves; and in the course of
a few minutes, during which not unpleasant
sensation is experienced, the pain is either
deadened or more often effectually allayed.
A second or third application may be resorted
TO if necessary
Year: 1877

In jar or pitcher that will hold three quarts,
mix batter of cornmeal or middlings, and
water or milk. Keep it warm by the stove and
it will rise in few hours. in winter it may
require day or two, but the jar will get full
Use this for griddle cakes or mix with it -four
and made dough for bread. Leave the jar a
third full, SO as easily to raise more with it, If
the batter gets sour, neutralze the acid with a
little soda
Year: 1877

At this season of the year great many are
troubled with chilblains, and we think our
remedy is sure thing, here it is Stake fine
salt, pour on enough camphor to dissolve it,
.hen rub the parts afflicted with it, and few
applications will cure
Year: 1877

For a long time the police authorities
have been looking for man by the name
OF John Cook who went around the city
exposing his person; latterly he had been
in the habit of going down to No. l.,
school, and standing there daring school
hours doing the same thing. The au-
thorities Of the school made complaints
TO the Chief of Police, who had been
watching for him, for about two weeks,
and upon going down there yesterday
morning caught him in the act. The
man noticed the Chief sometime
before he got to him and started on run
but after an exciting chase the Chief
succeeded in capturing him at Fourth
and Pine streets. He was given hear
ing before the Mayor, last evening, and
was required to pay penalty of SO and
costs and give $1,000 for good behavior
He is a married man, having a wife, and
two small children, and this morning his
wife came into the police station, and
begged the Mayor to release him. But
the Mayor told her that ne was very sorry
but that her husband would have to 90
over; even If she succeeded in raising the
amount of bail he would make it higher
again as he was bound that such a man
should be locked up.
Year: 1877

The Society for the Promotion of Edu-
cation of the Colored People allows each
school six dollars per month towards
teachers salary, though they have not yet
received single cent from the taxes
collected in 1875. The County Treasurer
Mr.. Dorman, says the collectors have not
paid over to him any of this money, any
that it is all in their hands. He further
states that the collectors are behind in
their collections and payments. Such in
efficiency in the collectors deserve Sc
we're rebuke.


In Sussex the case is no better, but we
believe worse. Not a cent has rs yet
been paid over by the County Treasurer
and the presumption is that the collectors
in this county are Just as much in arrears
as they are in Kent. 1t is also stated that
the law has been set at naught and the
tax has not even beer levied for 1876! We
hope there is some mistake about this as
it seems incredible that the county
authorities should thus outrage the
law.


The schools in Sussex county are as
To11a
Year: 1877

The County Assessors having finished
the assessment Of votes and having had
their books hung up in convenient places
for some time past to enable all persons
who are voters TO examine them, and see
whether their names are down or not,
are sitting in the City Hall to-day for
the purpose of adding all names to
the list that are not already down and to
correct all errors in spelling. To-day
will be the only opportunity to have
names added until the meeting of the
Levy Court, in March next. 1t would be
well for every person TO see that they are
properly assessed.
Year: 1877

The colored schools in Kent and Sus-
sex are struggling on as best they can
under the mean, reckless and unlawful
treatment they receive from the party in
power in this State. In Kent county,
there are six schools in operation as fol
follows,
Year: 1877

PREPARATIONS are making at Cuero
COR the extension of Morgan's road pos
s.bly towards San Antonio. Morgan
may be advised of the purposes of the
International Railroad Company, and
therefore begins the extension of his
road towards the West. Austin should
be the present terminus of Morgan's
road, to be extended finally from this
city to Ell Paso and become part OF
Huntington's trunk line from the Pa
citic to the Gulf. Can't our city fathers
offer Morgan some satisfactory induce
ment to extend his road in this direc-
tion9 Do the aldermen of Austin ever
meet, and does this body OF lawgivers
ever discuss any question beyond the
absorption of taxes?
Year: 1877

While the purposes of conspirators
within the Republican party have for
years been fully understood III the
South, the veil is but now being drawn
80 as to permit light to fall upon
minds at the North. Frauds nrac-
ticed at the South in State elections
have succeeded so well that, embold-
ened, these conspirators propose to
govern presidential election upon the
same doctrine. At last the fair
minded citizen of each party is con-
sideriug the inevi table result of such
a wrong as that which has been perpe-
trated in louisiana if it be finally con-
summated by Congress. Suppose that
the Democrats, having appealed in vain
to the sense of honor of their oppo-
nents; having exhausted every peace
full method of redress without sue
cess; having receded, step by step,
under protest, as their opponents,
growing bolder in fraud, advanced,
should finally give way; should de-
clare that they valued :he peace and
prosperity of the country too highly to
endanger it longer by continuing
contest, IN which all the power was
on one side and all the right ON the
other. Would they not again take
:heir appeal to the baIlot-boxes? Four
years more, and the parties would
again gather up their strength for
great struggle, and the contest would
De far more bitter than the
last. The Republicans would be
beaten, as they were this year,
but by more decisive majOrities,
aud then it would be just as easy for
returning boards to change the votes of
States as now. What is there to pre-
vent three or four, or, If necessary,
half dozen States being turned at the
next election, to keep power in
the hands of the Republican party!
The same men who have carried
out this conspiracy would still be
st the head of the government, and
would probably have been preparing
FOR such an emergency during all the
next four years. Tue army of cffice-
holders would have increased by thou
sands; the army and navy would be
still more completely under Republican
control; and all the vas; powers of the
administration could be swayed for one
purpose.


Such is the course the country nav
anticipate after four years more OF Re-
publican rule, Shouldn't come. L cor
rupt despotism would have usurped
the place of republican government,
and the change would then be made
complete in name even as it is now ap-
pears in form. There is but one hope
for the country, and this comes
through the peaceful portals of a de
termined public opinion, an opinion
which would drive crime from the gov
ernment, as the good people of Austin
should command peace and order and
justice in this city. The nation must be
quieted now, even as Austin should
speedily be made the home of only
lsw-abidipg men; else returning
board f years hence may lead the
nation il : civil strife, Just as our
Year: 1877

A NARROW gauge railway from Aus
tin to the coast becomes probability.
Mr.. Hurley, of Galveston, has charter
for such a road from that city to points
in the interior, embracing Austin, for
which he has lately been offered one
hundred Thousand dollars in cash.
Deeming the franchise, in its eXecu-
ton, as more valuable than otherwise,
he has lately devoted much of his
time and energy to prospecting for the
prosecution OF this line of railway
from point on the lower Brazos to
the Colorado river. In furtherance of
plans of construction, he has been of
fered the old graded line of railway
from Columbia to Wharton, work, the
original cost of which was over
5000, 900. The grading is good and
most of the bridge structures are in
perfect keeping. Besides the graded
roadway and the other works, Mr..
Hurley has been offered liberal dona-
tions in lands from private parties in
Brazoria, Matagorda and Wharton
counties, which with little more en-
ergy can be easily swelled to an amount
equal to what he claims will Justify
the immediate construction of the
road, which, when put in operation to
the town of Wharton, and thence in
time up the Colorado valley to Austin,
would make one of the best paying
thoroughfares in the State. II this
road be put in operation as far as the
town of Wharton, there remains not
the least doubt that the people of the
Colorado valley will induce its con
struction even to this city. An old
citizen of Matagorda county, now in
this city, speaks as though the deep
est interest IS being felt in this enter
prise in the lower country, and he
thinks the amount of private land
subscription required can easily he
obtained. The people of Galveston
have 4 grand stake in this enterprise,
and if they will go to work now and
build the road to the Colorado in
Wharton county, it will become an en-
terprise in their favor which must
rapidly grow, and eventually convey
to the "I>land City" the riches of one
of the most productive regions of all
Texas,
Year: 1877

New YEARS DAY IN the capital will
MT 60 down on a city full of drunk
enness, that exhausts itself beneath
the shadows Of night in debasing de-
bauchery. Good women will hardly
promote evils like these, and New
Year in the capital will lie celebrated
tomorrow by social pleasures begot-
ten Of native good will, of generous
hospitality and love for the homes We
have and for the city we would max G
attractive by the sobriety and decency
and gentlemanly bearing of its men
and stainless purity and intelligence
of its women.
Year: 1877

BANKERS and merchants of New
York. a mighty multitude of them,
have sent petition to Congress assert
ing two demands of the people-the
one, that peace and order must be
maintained at all events; the other,
that the presidential imbroglio must
be settled at once IN the interest of the
business of the country paraly zed by
the deviltry of the party leaders and
placehOlderS. 1t therefore happens
that Bayard, Thurman and leading
Democratic Senators have spent the
past few days with Tilden in New York
city devising plans for an immediate
and proper solution of difficulties IN.
cidcnt to the presidential election.
Year: 1877

The prosperity and progress of Tex
as is shown when it becomes necessary
to make constant additions to the num-
Der of steamers plying between Calves
ton and New York, and between the
coast cities of Texas.
Year: 1877

The Rothschiids still assert that
they do not want any more American
securities and these are coming home
in vast numbers, and the prospects are
that the prices will decline. There
fore the party leaders begin to show
signs of anxiety. Every old money
bags in New York and Boston is urg-
ing the lawgivers at Washington to
restore public confidence at once.
This is only possible when Tilden is
made president. He was coniessedly
elected, and If noa inauguratcd the
people OF America and still less those
Of Europe, c4n have littie confidence
IN the stability or integrity of our
government. y people can have little
regard for public honor when the
representative embodiment of that
public Is an usurper. Tildcn will be
president by virtue of the force of
public opinion, just as murder and
Ashung must be made impossible in
Austin through public declarations of
purpose 10y the people OF this State
capital.
Year: 1877

The boy should have known better at
his age than to let out family secrets,
but he felt grateful to the other boy for
the use of his stills, and he softly re
marked:


"Father wasn't home all last night,
and he hasn't come home yet"


"GOne offP" queried the ownerof the
stilts.


He's downtown somewhere, we eX-
pect, and ma says she amt going to run
after him if he don't come home for a
month"


"Did they have a fussP"


Kinder. You see we had to let the
coachman 90, cause it's hard times.
Yesterday afternoon ma wanted pa to
black up and drive her out in style. He
kicked at first, but when she got mad
he caved i'm and fixed himself up so you
couldn't tell him from regular darkey.
When he drove around ma called him
Peter, and ordered him to back up and
go ahead and haw and gee around, and
he got up on his ear and drove back to
the barn, Them duds came off'n him
like lightning, and he was so mad that
he didn't stay long enough to wash the
black off his ears"


And what did your mother sayP'
asked the other.


Nothing. She looked little sad
around the mouth, but she II fetch him
TO it if it takes all winter. He might
as well come home and begin to learn
how to burn cork. ."-Detro1 Free Press.
Year: 1877

THE MORMON PREsIDENCY.-The cir
cular issued by the Mormon Apostle"
is apparently intended to indicate a mere
ly temporary arrangement of the Presi-
dental succession. The choice of John
Taylor as the head of the church is not
made, as we understand it, in the sense
that he is to fill the place of Brigham
Young. The intention rather seems to
be to put the hierarchical government in
commission, and thus allow sufficient time
to elapse before Youngs successor is ap-
pointed. This is in accordance with the
usage adopted upon the death of Joseph
Smith, and it is the more reasonable since
John Taylor is in no respect fitted for the
leadership of the church. In the first
place he is an old man, and not particu-
larly strong He dates from the Nauvoo
time of Mormonism. He has never been
distinguished for nything but fanaticism,
though he has amassed more wealth than
any other of the apostles. He ranks third
in the list of the twelve, and represents
polygamy, having seven wives. Unless
fully controlled by his associate counsel
ors he is quite likely to get the church
into difficulties, for he believes in Nor
monism with all the fervor of weak
mind, and would not hesitate to invite
martyrdom. 1t remains to be seen how
the Mormon masses will receive the new
dispensation, but the strong probability
is that they will be perfectly acqu;escent