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Year: 1876

SHEET AND PILLOW CASE MASQUERADE.
! To give zcst to any social evening gather
ing, nothing requires SO little labor or ex-
/ pense for the amount of sport it makes as
a sheet and pillow case masquerade.
| Let as many ladies as can take part In it,
/ for the more there are, the more confusing
I TO those who are trying to find them out.
| The whole can be put on over your ordin-
! airy evening dress, so when the masquerade
is over, you have only TO throw ii aside,
and you are ready tor the rest of the even
/ ing.


| To arrange your costume, take a sheet
and run the ends together, measure of
! enough of the width 10 make a skirt lust
| long enough to clear the floor, and run
shirr for tape To draw II up around your
waist. The extra width lett over may hang
down cn the outside, making a sort of
1 double skirt.


For the polonaise, or whatever you choose
I 10 call il, take another sheet folded length
wise through the middle, pin over large
| box plaits in the center to tit it to your neck
and waist. Pin it up close at the throat to
conceal your tie, pin up the front corners
for large double, drooping sleeves. the in
side thickness pin again close to the wrist,
to cover your sleeves.


| For the mask, take a half square of old
cotton cloth and cut eye-holes, penciing
on eyebrows dd ltbitum, finish the two
short sides with rufiiing made nf strips OF
old bleached cotton, with the lower edge
notched; gather the long side little in the
middle to make il lay well on the top OF
your head. To conceal your hair, take
pillow sham and pin it into the shape OF Il
log cabin sunbonnet, military cap, a tur-
ban; skilltul fingers will make many vari-
| t.tia nf hauIIraSs pillnIy oil
be vsriously treated, by starching them a
| little. Draw on gloves, that no one may
guess you by your hand or rings, and your
costume is complete.


Let from dozen to fifty ladies thus at
tired, come in together to party and their
most intimate friends will fail to recognize
! them. The voice is changed by speaking
Year: 1876

SHARP PRACTICE.-A wealthy man died
suddenly without leaving any will. The
widow, desirous of securing the whole Of
the property. concealed her husbands
death, aud persuaded poor shoemaker to
take his place. Accordingly he was close
ly muffied III bed, as if very sick, and
lawyer was called in to write the will The
shoemaker, in a feeble voice. bequeathed
half OF the property to the widow. What
shall be done with the remainder asked
the lawyer. The remainder" replied he,
Il give and bequeath to the poor little
shoemaker across the street, who has beer,
a good neighbor and q deserving man."
Year: 1876

AfERCILEss FAIR LADY.
Oh, the 1naddening mouth md the clinging arms


That will nor let go!
and who would think that her sweet, soft body


Could weight Inc so?
But step or two from the foot Of the hill


Yet already tired
And never to do the Thing that my heart


From the first desired.
II cannot carry her up to the clouds


And the Seat Of Gold,
She will never be mine while the sun doth shine,


To have and 10 hold.
All, # = ! might carry her I'll the way
But her close, warm kisses have taken the breath


That i'll could spare
And we'll I know, as staggering go,


Tint cannot climbs:
Some stronger lover shall rush up with her


In soMv other time.
Though 80 many Of US she hath bewitched,


Yet under the sun,
OF oil her lovers that took her up,


There is hardly one
That hath carried her clear to the hills high tip,


In the Scat OF Gold
Hath breathless swoonrd DER the beauty Of her,


TO hive and to hold
For only shining moment. maybe,


Ere the starved lips ceased 80 !.
From seeking blndly for her sweet face


And its untouched feast
And their frequent bones mark the upward path


In u zigZay line;
An! in which OF the spaces that intervene


Shall whiten mine:
But never, never will let her 60


While have breath!
shall only feel how sweet she Is.


In the midst OF dcathl
And oh, may the just gods blind my eyes,
That may not SET
The love. that wins and abides with her
And tAAt is not nc!
-{I0uuru G&uudUA,
Year: 1876

in the market, and we invite farmers Ill
want of Drill to call and satisfy them
selves OH this point.


CORRUGATED RUBBER ROLLERS
which form forced feed, unequaled by
any in use, and which has now stood the
test of Yeas.


The corrugation of these rollers has been
an Improvement over the first built, and
by means of slide and regulators the
flow of seed is constant ard regular.


There can be no choking, for the reason
that it is Il positive force feed, and all the
"white caps" strawS, or any foreign sub
stance that shoIld chance TO be IN the
wheat, is fed through without stOppagc.


In this way the "skips," which are so
frequent in fields of drilled wheat, are en-
tirely avoided, and there will be found Il
regularity in the grain over the field and
that, tco, without the necessity of being
constantly watched to see if the feeding Is
all right.


TIE GUANO ATTACHMENT,
patented by j. B. Crowell, which is con-
ceded by practical farmers to be the best
vet introduced to their notice.


The great difficulty encountered in SOW
ing some kinds of guano is, that the agita-
tion of the mass in the hoppers renders it
sticky, and it will not, in consequence,
feed downward.


BY the use of CrGwell's Guano Attach
ment this is overcome, and us experience
has proven,


ALL KINDS OF FERTILIZERS
in use can be Sown, without even mixing
with any substance to render it less sticky.
Its simplicity is one of its great point.


THE GRASS SEED SOWER
is attached to the rear of the hopper, and
has zinc bottom, which is perforated for
the grass seed to pass through. \ light
wooden slide, with indcntations cut
trausversely, agitateS the seed which
should be clean tC SOW with regularity.


The grass seeder can also be attached,
forward of the hopper, or if it is specially
ordered can be left off entirely, in when
latter case there is Il deduction of five dol
lars from the price list.


TIE SURVEYOR
measures correctly the number of acre
sown, or parts of an acre down to sixteen
this. In making the turns at the end of
the field, the holster puts the working
parts out of gear, and in consequence the
surveyor does not move in the least, and
can, therefore be relied upon to measure
correctly.


ZIGZAG ARRANGEMENT.


The Zigzag arrangement, has recently
been adopted, will be put on only where
specially ordered, for which five dollars
will be charged i'll addition to the regu-
lar price.


The change can be made from a zigzag
to a straight line and vice versa, in mo-
ment, without even hoisting the shovels,
without removing bolt. 1t is simple i'll
its construction, and will not easily set
out of repair.


The entire machine is so well balanced
that the horses necks do not become gall
ed. This is accomplished Oy the manner
in which the hopper is set upon the frame.


TuE ADVANTAGES OF
Year: 1876

Wv En- DItOabN-hoi ~ w h-'N
are so generally known by our farmers
as to the yield and saving of grain-that 1t
is hardly necessary to mention this point.


By a recent invention, an Attachment
can be made III L cost of about five dollars,
which will enable the driver to hoist the
shovels without stopping or getting Off,-
thus doing away with the extra hand usu-
oil usal m hrillinO
Year: 1876

Tie best possible thing for man to
do when he feels too weak to carry any
thing through is to 60 to bed and sleep
for week if he can. This is the only
recuperation of brain power, the only
actual recuperation of brain force: be-
cause, during sleep, the brain is in .
state of rest, in a condition to receive
and appropriate particles Of nutriment
from the blood, which take the place Of
those which have been consumed or In;
previous labor, since the very act Of
thinking consumes. or burns up solid


particles, as every turn of the wheel or
screw of the splendid steamer is the re-.


suit of consumption by fire Of the fuel


in the furnace. The supply of consum-


ed brain substance can only be had from
the nutritive particles in the blood, which


were obtained from the food eaten pre-.
viously; and the brain is so Constituted
that it can best receive and appropriate
to itself these nutritive particles during
state of rest, of quiet, and stiffness OF
sleep. Mere stimulants supply nothing
in themselves; they goa0the brain, and


force it to greater consumption of its
substance, until that substance has been
so exhausted that there is not power


enough left to receive supply, just a.
men are so hear death by thirst and stare


vation that there is not power. enough
left to swallow anything, and all is over.
Year: 1876

EE The New York Journal of Com
merce, though ranked with the "hard
money! papers. takes strong common
sense view of the resumption business
There is gold mine of practical wisdom
in its answer to a correspondent who en-
quires what is in the way Of resumption
We cannot refrain from italicising sen
tence which shows a juster estimate o.
the speedy resumptionists than they
could make of themselves:


"There may be question whether il
is wise to resume specie payment at any
given time; and if so, how it can be eff
fecteo with the least given friction. BuI
there is no question that it can be done
beyond a peradventure whenever the
people are ready for it. The reason tha
we waste no more time in discussing
plans and methods is, that after we had
done this for five or six years following
the war, we found the mass of the peo
pie so directly opposed to any practica
BILE plan, that we preferred to wait fol
the disposition before we consume any
more time in pointing out the method
The great bulk of those most clamorous
for specie payment would howl Dorst
than a field dog in the moonlight IT ans
effective scheme Was set at aoork to this
end They want it, as we all want vir-
tue, in the abstract; but they will moi
contribute their share of the self-denial
necessary to the common object. They
want it as ease,loving people want an
armv for defense when danger threatens
but they will not volunteer, and they viii
not submit to the conscription.
Year: 1876

When the French were in Mexico the
stage rebberies in the vicinity of Mon
terey became almost as frequent as they
are getting to be between here and King
bury. With the practical common sense
for which the French are distinguished
when they 60 about killing people, the
French General at Monterey devised a
plan that worked like charm. He pick
ed out half a dozen of his smallest Zou.
laves and dressed them up as females, and
put them in the stage. Each unprotect-
ed female had short breech loading
carbine concealed under his pettipants,
and they covered their demure faces by
wells. OF course the robbers surround
ed the stage, and the ladies with an ex.
cess of feminine modesty, climbed out
of the stage and fell in line with the rest
of the passengers, when of sudden an
epidemic broke out among those Mexi-
caD patriots, for each lady, on an aver
age, destroyed about three of them, and
tie rest lost all taste for female society
and went away disguised.


The ladies returned to town in high
glee, but for a long time the Mexican
bandits entertained such lofty yenera.
ton for the gentler sex, that an old bon.
net and shawl displayed conspicuously
in a stage secured it immunity from in
terruption.-San Antonio { Te1as) Her.
aid.
Year: 1876

The quiet, amiable and blind gentle
man who is now stopping at Claridge's s
Hotel and who would have been King of
England had not bis cousin Victoria
been born, has certainly had his misfor-
tunes in life, but his lot is not very un-
happy one. He has lost his sight and
his kingdom but he has saved his per.
sonal property, and ne has been blessed
with large and affectionate family OF
children The King Of Hanover is just
as old as his cousin Queen Victoria and
although he is not SO, rich, he is rich
enough. To say nothing Of other re-
sources, he has at this moment twelve
and half tons of silver and gold plate
stored away in Coutt's Bank. He is
moreover an English Prince, and he is
Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale
Earl of Armagh, and Knight of the
Garter. He and his family have arrived
in England. apparently with the inten
ton OF making it their permanent home


They probably have given up all hope O.
ever repossessing Hanover.-Londo'
Letter to ~ Y World.
Year: 1876

E Commenting on our remarks
about the great auction sale Of prints, in
New York, the Pomeroy Telegraph
says:


"And all this is happening notwith-
standing the Resumption Law, which
Democrats tell us is 'parslyzing all
trade is still in force! How does the
editor of the SPIRIT account for this
thing? Is there not some mistake about
the business depression under which the
country has been suffering being caused
by the Resumption Act? On the con-
trarg, does not the editor of the SPIRIT
know that it was the result of the burst
ing OF the imitation bubbles perhaps
necessary outgrowth of the war-and
that when the thing once began, that there
was no possibility of arresting the down
ward tendency of prices until the bot
tom was reached? II the editor of the
SPIRIT has one-fourth of the 'gumption'
we credit him with possessing, he knows
this to be so! How nonsensical then is
sill the talk we hear about the hard times
being caused by Republican legislation ?
Shortly after the close of the war, S S
Cox, of New York, remarked that it only
needed that some slight disturbance in
business should occur-the failure of the
wheat crop, for instance-to cause q
| financial crisis which would overthrow
the republican party. Mr.. Cox knew full
well that no possible precaution could be
taken likely 20 avert the bursting of the
then existing imitation bubble-,hat soon
er or later it must come; but he calcula
ted largely on the ignorance of the mass
es and the power of Democratic dema
gogues in trying to mislead the epeople il
the matter. The SPIRIT has been guilt,
of propagating vast deal of error ir
this regard; but latterly we are glad tc
see it manifesting more candid ant
considerate spirit"


/. The Telegraph asks several questions
some of which we could answer NOR
satisfactorily if we had clearer idea O
what it means by the "bursting of tn
imitation bubble" The Telegraph think
it is "nonsensical' to talk about 18th
hard times being caused by Republican
legislation"


| Did it never occur to the Telegrap
that the imitation itself was the work Q
Republican legislation And if b
"bursting the bubble" it means contrat
ton of the currency, was not that, toe
the result Of Republican Legislation P
Greenbacks and National Bank notes
and demand notes, and compound inter
lest notes and all the other contrivanee
Year: 1876

THE editor of the SPIRIT must 60 to
its own party for true representatives oI
King Canute-to those who believe that
a piece of paper may be legislatsd into
thing Of value, and made to pass as
money, without any promise or prospec,
of its redemption in gold, merely by put
ting the government stamp on it, as is
done with gold and silver: The Repub-
licans who believe such folly are very
scarce. Indeed, we know of 70 Repub-
licans who expect to make the purchas'
ing power of the greenback dollar equal
that OF the gold dollar in any other way
than by providing for it's speedy redemp
tion in gold. This is the only way in
which it can be done.-Pomeroy Tels.
graph.


The Telegraph fails of precision in
its propositions. If greenbacks are
"without any promise Of redemption in
gold, why do the Telegraph and its kind
sneer at them as 'dishonored promi
ses2" And if the Telegraph doesl no,
"believe that piece Of paper may be
legislated into thing of value, and made
to pass as money" why doesn't it ligh1
its cigars with ten dollar bills ?
Year: 1876

A piece Of wood cut from tree is a
good electrical conductor Let 1t be
heated and dried, it becomes an insula.
tor. Let it he baked to charcoal, it be-
comes q conductor again. Burn it to
ashes, and it becomes an insulator once
more.
Year: 1876

WHAT the Steubenville Gazette means
by this question we cannot conjecture:


did it ever strike you. Mr.. SPIRIT
that it was very singular that all the dis
honest men were in Congress at the time
of the salary. grab while the Legisla.
lures of the various States we're compos
ed of men eminent for integrity?'"


It certainly never struck US as being
every singular" or as being at all, sim
ply because it was not q fact Woods
field Spirit.


And that's exactly what we argue, ye,
Congress passed the "salary grab" law
ana almost Immediately thereafter when
a general howl was made in the news
papers about it. the various State Legis
latures rushed into cheap notoriety by
passing resolutions condemning the ac
of Congress and demanding the repea
of the law. (which of these men wa;
rather justified !" the Publican or the
Pharisee ?-Steubenville Gazette
} We are very much ashamed of oul
stupidity, but we can't yet see what the
Gazette's shot was aimed at. T
Year: 1876

The MANAGEMENT OF THE FINGER
NAILs.-The correct management Of the
nails is to trim them TO an oval shape 10
correspond to the contour of the fingers !;
but care should be taken never to let them
grow so long as to be conspicuous, nor too
short, as they would cause the tips Of the
fingers to become enlarged and fattened,
and give the hand very ugly appearance,
as is seen in the fingers of those who aro
accustomed TO nibble at the nails and keep
them almost below the flesh. The skin
which grows in semi.circle on the top of
the nail requires much attention, for il is
often drawn on with its growth, dragging
the skin below the nail 30 tightly that 1t
divides into what are termed agnails. These
can be prevented by separating the skin
strument. Many persons cut this pellicle,
but this should never be done, as 1t causes
it to grow very thick and uneven, and some-
times damages the growth of the nail. II 10
also wrong to prick under the nail with
sharp-pointed instruments, like the point Of
the scissors or penknife, for this Injuries
their appearance. The nails shauld be kept
perfectly clean, and scrubbed with brush
not so stiff as to hurt the skin, and the SEMI
circular flesh can be pressed back with the
towel without touching the quick. If this
method is daily pursued it will keep them
in perfect order. If the nails are badly
formed or ill-shaped, the ridges should be
scraped and rubbed with lemon and we'll
dried afterward; yet if the nails are of .
very thin substance it would injure rather
than improve them TO do this.
Year: 1876

The maple leaves are whlrled away,


The depths OF the great pines are stirred I;
Night settles on the sullen day,


AS In Its nest the mountain bird.
My wandering feet so up and down,
And back and forth, from town to town,
Through the lone woods, and by the sea,
To find the bird that fed from me
followed, and follow yet
l have forgotten to forget
My heart goes back, but go on,


Through summer heat and winter snow
Poor heart we are no longer one,


We are divided by our woe
Go TO the nest / built, and CALL
She may be hiding, after all,-
The empty nest, If that remains,
And leave me IN the long, long rains;
Ny sleeves with tears arc always wet
have forgotten to forget.
Men know my story, but not me-.
For such fidelity, they say,
Exists not such man as he


Exists not in the world to-day!
II his light bird has flown the nest,
She is no worse than all the rest;
Constant they are not-nnly good
To bill and coo, and hatch the brood;
He has but one thing to regret
lie has forgotten to forget
AL day see the ravens fly;


| hear the sea-blrds scream all night
The moon goes up and down the sky,
And the sun comes in ghostly light
Leaves whirl, white ilakes about me blow
In,
only my hair Goodbye, my heart,
The time has come for us to part
BE still you will be happy yet
For death remembers to forget!


-Scribner for October.
Year: 1876

Married her for her money, did he 2 Why
did he not kill her outright, aud take itY In
| deed that is wha. a man who makes a match
with such motives would really like to do.
He wants the hard dollars, not the soft wo-
man who owns them, and he hates her be-
cause he has had to take her also.


Poor little heiresses, with such delightful
fortunes-poor little widows, with q snug
sum settled on you by the husband who had
your comfort at heart, how much better that
you should be penniless women, sewing for
your living at ten cents a shirt. Then, some
strong, loving hand might gather you up to
tender heart, and you might be very sure it
was all for yourself-ail, every bit of IL.
Now, with so many fortune-hunters afloat,
what are you going to do?


Married for money, was she And that Is
why her face is so hard, and her eyes 10
cold. She knows it, one can see.


She remembers the kisses that were 70
much cold "courting," and did not come
from the heart at ALL The VOW that was q
lie, when, instead of saying take this wo-
man for better or for worse, he should have
said, II take this woman for her property"


She understood that long ago, no doubt.
God help her


Married for money-and yet she was -
sweet, as pretty then as many girl who is
married for pure love-a rosebud that might
have been plucked to wear over true heart.
What did the fortune-hunter care for that
man who woos woman with mercenary
motives, is rather apt to hate her the more
for being worthy of better fate. And in
any case, a man hates woman who revsr-
ses the proper state of things, and "endows"
him with her "worldly goods" 1t is contrary
to the prayer book and contrary TO nature.
Year: 1876

A venerable English divine, who had
been dining out the night before, went into
a BARRIERS shop enc morning to be shaved.
lie saw that the barber had been getting
more drink than was good for him, for it
made his hand shake very much. and natu-
rally indignant, he began to give him lit
tie moral advice by saying "Bad thing,
drink" "Yes," said the barber. at makes
the skin unco' tenderP
Year: 1876

Talk about the opium-eater or the
whisky y-drinker, how much more are
they to be pitied than the lady who Is
addicted to dipping snuff? We believe
there is more snuff used in Hopkinsville
than in anv other place of it's size in
Kentucky, and its use is steadily ON the
increase. HopkinsvilIe has a reputation
for beautiful women, but how long that
reputation will last It's hard 10 tell.
Some of the prettiest women We knew
ten or twelve years ago are now nothing
but faded flowers. Lips that once look
ed like ripe cherries, and for one kiss
from which a man would almost give
his right arm, now look more like dried
apples than anything else we can think
of The cheek once full and rosy il
now sunken and colorless. The chin,
which looks longer, now glories in a
bronze-colored stripe, which reaches
down to the throat.


We were going down the street the
other day and noticed lady coming mp.
When we got near enough to look into
the lady's face we knew that snuff had
done its work. Snuff is robbing women
of their beauty and deprivIng them OF
husbands. 1t is more harmful than
smoking, and more repulsive than chew
ing, and its use by ladies is almost as
much 10 be condeu ned "a the drinking
of whisky by men; and if the ladies
have grounds to talk about men drink
ing and smoking, they are assured that
snuff-dippIng in the eyes of men is
about as repulsive as the smell of a two
cent-and a-half cigar or sniff OF
rife" whisky to the olfactories of the
fair sex.


We indulge the hope that soon there
VIII be an anti-snuff society formed,
which will be twin sister of orr tenn
perance society. We have no idea how
many ladies in our CITY will take excep-
tion to this article. Ifall that use snuff
were to get after us we would call their
name legion, but we are upheld in OH
action by some of the most sensible
mothers in town, in entering protest
against habit the adoption of which
by girl ia almost as much TO be dread
ed by parent as is the first taste of Ii
quor By his boy.-[ [HopKinsviIle Ky
Democrat