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Year: 1876

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An India correspondent of the Lon
don Times writes as follows An event
of some Importance recently occurred in
connection with the temple of Jugger-
naut. Throughout the whole of the en-
pire there is no shrine so sacred as
Pooree, and no spot where a devout
Hindoo would rather die than beneath
this great fame. The temple, which cost
half million sterling of the money of
our times, is literally black with age.
The storms Of nearly seven centuries,
which are often so violent in the Bay of
Bengal, have produced little impression
upon it, and until few weeks ago it
seemed as likely 80 remain as many CEN
turies more. Many of the large tenn
pies in the province are now in ruins,
but they have not fallen through the
wear and tear of time. A silent but
effectual power has been the cause of
this destruction


The seeds of the peepul and banyan
trees have got into the foundations
These have taken root; the sapling has
forced its way through the assures of
the stones, and in process of years the
whole fabric has been loosened and even
tually brought down, and it seems pro-
bable that the temple of Juggernaut will
share the same fate At the late festi-
walls, as soon as the idols had been taken
from their thrones for their annual ex-
cursion, several large stones from the in
ner roof fell on the platform Had they
fallen a few minutes earlier the idols
would have been shattered to atoms, and
in all probability there would have been
a great loss of life. The resident mag
istrate applied to the governor for an
engineer to inspect the damage. This
was found to be very difficult task, as
the temple is so dark. There are no
apertures for the light; FIVE orsix lights
are kept burning in the daytime, and
even with these nothing is visible but
the idols. 1t is but very rarely that
temples are repaired, and the sound of
the chisel and the hammer on the top of
this great temple will do more to weaken
the faith of the Hindoo in Juggernaut
than anything that has occurred in the
present generation. There will be no
lack of money for any estimate, as the
priests are very wealthy, and the annual
income of the temple is said to amount
to 96S,000. The question which is agi-
tating all priests is what is to be done
with the idols while the repairs are be-
ing made? The officers of the temple
are most anxious to have the idols re-
stored to their thrones. They propose
that an inner ceiling of wood shall be
made to protect the idols and the wor-
shippers; but there would be so much
danger should there be another fall of
stones that the raiah will not consent.
Year: 1876

To dress a sheepskin with the wool,
scrane the flesh from the skin, and wash
IN soap and water; then spread the skin,
rooI downward, and sprinkle thickly
over the flesh side a mixture of equal
,,arts of alum and salt. finely powdered.
Fold the skin and roll up tightly, and
iet Il lie a week. Then open it, and rub
n with a piece of chalk and piece of
nnmicestOne alternately, until it is soft
and dry, pulling and stretching it mean
wbile TO make it pliable.


Sweet oil will cure poison of almost
apy nature, both on man and beast. The
nafient must take a spoonful of it inter
polIv and bathe the wound for a cure.
To cnre a horse it takes eight times as
mnch as for a man. Snake bites may
also be cured by it. II will cure bloat
in cattle, caused by fresh clover 1t
will cure the stings of bees, spiders or
other insects, and persons who have
been poisoned by q low, running vine
called ivy, may find in it an effectual
remedy.


The following is said to be an excel
lent remedy to keep hens from hatch
ing: Make four coops, each large
enough to hold half-dozen fowls. All
the hens that remain on their nests
sbould be allowed to sit till the next
night, as they often lay an egg the sec
ond day of sitting. At evening of the
second day, put them all into coop No.
The next lot OF sitters go into coop
No. 2, and the next into No. 3, and the
next into No. 4; and on the fourth day,
near evening, let out the hens in No. l,
as they will be "broken;" and on the
next day No. hens can be let out; and
80 on to No. 4.


A careful observer asserts that many
of the diseases incident to poultry are
due to neglect in providing them with
uure water This is especially the case
in instances of chicken cholera. The
omission to furnish fowls with suitable
drinking water is one of the worst fea-
lures Of cruelty to animals, besides
being very Improbable TO the person
guilty of it.


II seems that farmers do not fully ap-
preciate the importance of having good
light in their stables. Very few barns
built forty years ago have a single win
dow. Some recently erected have q
few, but in a majority of cases they are
too small, and not inserted where they
should be. There should be at least one
large window for every two stalls, placed
opposite each partition, and the bottom
Of the sashes should not be lower than
six feet from the stable floor, 80 that
when opened, or raised, the air may not
blow upon the animals.
Year: 1876

POISONING FROM ANmNE CoLoRs.-
The Scientific American notes the first
authenticated case of poisoning by ami
line dye, which it says came under its
immediate observation. The garments
were of light woolen material, and,
having been somewhat worn, were sent
to an extensive dyeing and securing es-
tablishment in New York city to be dyed
q dark blue. The owner after wearing
the clothes for few days in hot weather,
observed that the blue color stained his
under garments, and in the localities of
the stains he became sensible of a cuta-
neous eruption The latter soon ex-
tended on large area, which became
excessively inhamed; and pustular
state soon followed, resulting in excru-
ciating suffering and prostration. The
case was carefully examined by several
eminent physicians of New York city,
who pronounced it one of the most Sc
we're attacks of poisoning that they had
ever encountered, and unheasitatingly
ascribed it to the dyeing of the fabric
with aniline blue. Had the sufferer
been a child or an invalid, the opinion
was the disease was violent enough to
prove fatal. Perhaps the safest rule is
to watch all colored goods when worn,
and promptly to discard the clothes on
the first appearance of the dyes discol-
oring the garments or person wherever
it comes in contact
Year: 1876

The simplest and most effective way,
and, indeed, the most economical, to
preserve eggs without imparting to them
any foreign favor, or render them unfit
for Matching, the PLou9hmdn says, is to
use the patent stopper glass jar, with
vulcanized India rubber joints to make
it perfectly tight, like the jars for pre-
serving fruits. As soon as the eggs are
collected, put the jar into hot water, and
when thoroughly warm SO as to rarity
the air, put the eggs in the jar, the
pointed end upward, and pack them
with paper, or something, to prevent
them from breaking; then close the jar
before taking it out of the water. If the
work is skillfully done, and the jar is
tight, the eggs will keep for many
months, and be as fit for the breakfast
table as the day they were laid. It'll said
they will be fit for Matching also a year
after they are so packed, but never hay
ing tried them for that, we cannot affirm
1t from actual experiment. A corre-
spondent Of the Country Gentleman says:
" Ny plan is to take fresh eggs when
they are plenty and cheap, and coat
them with lard, or any other clean
grease. I prefer lard. 1 put a lump in
saucer, or anything convenient to melt
mot boil) then with small rag grease
each egg; it will take but very little
grease. I pack in box or in keg in
wheat bran or chaff, small end down.
Anything like chaf or cut straw will
answer. prefer bran. 1 have kept
eggs twelve months, as good as when
put away, and have no doubt they can
be kept any length Of time
Year: 1876

"MAN," says Victor Hugo, twas the
conundrum of the eighteenth century;
Woman is the conundrum of the nine
teenth century. We can't guess her; but
we will never give her up-no, never"


KEEP your promise to the letter; be
prompt and exact. and it will save you
much trouble and care through life, and
win for you the respect and trust of
your friends.


THE ghost that troubles the business
man nowadays, is the ghost of Bank
owe -IRhitehdH Times.
Year: 1876

How many take q wrong view of life,
and waste their energies and destroy
their nervous system in endeavoring to
accumulate wealth, without thinking of
the present happiness they are throwing
away. 1t is not wealth or high station
which makes man happy. Many of
the most wretched beings on earth have
both; but it is a radiant, sunny spirit,
which knows how to bear little trials
and enjoy little comforts, and thus ex-
tract happiness from every incident of
life.
Year: 1876




INTELLIGENCE OF TROUT. fl
fish possess intelligence is beyond
doubt, as the well known fact of carp
coming at a given signal to be fed
proves. The following anecdote of a
trout, given in the Field, Chicago
paper, is worth relating:


Its place of abode was under q stone
in q small pool, Immediately below a
wooden bridge, over which the path led
from the house in which we reside to
the garden. It was a pleasing amuse-
ment for the boys to feed the trout with
worms, which were readily procured in
the garden; and the trout was fed &C
cordingly, and soon learned to come out
from below the stone and seize the worm
thrown into the pool, whatever number
of spectators might be close at hand on
the bridge, and although some Of them
might be a little noisy. But it was
thought proper to try trick upon the
poor fish, and present him with q very
small, long radish instead of worm.
Out came the trout at once, the radish
in shape and color being quite like a
worm, and caught it ere it reached the
bottom, and quickly spat it out again,
and retreated to the shelter of the stone.
Once or twice afterwards the trick was
successfully repeated, but the trout
soon learned to distinguish a radish
from a worm, and ceased to come out
for one, although prompt enough in
coming for the other.
Year: 1876




A PLUcKY PAssRNeER.-D. M, Nc
Curdy, commercial traveller, hailing
from Kansas City, is credited by the
Denuer Netes, with an unusally piuckv
deed. The Iriver of six-horse stage
coach, in which he was an inside passen-
ger, got down from the box at a place
called Fall river, leaving the reins in the
hands of an invalid, and during his ab-
sence the team ran away, and the man
on the box was unable to hold the
reins. AS the coach was full of men
women and children, there was extreme
danger of serious loss of life. In the
emergency Mr.. McCurdy clambered ont
through one of the narrow windows
gaining the box and the lines, while the
now thoroughly terrified horses were
fairly flying over the fearful road
abounding with awful declivities and
iutting rocks. Selling the reins and
bending against them with ali the
strength of his arms, and forcing an al
most superhuman weight upon the
brake, he checked the maddened steeds
in their wild career, Just on the edge of
a precipice that would have been the
end CT all the crew in the coach had it
gone over.
Year: 1876




A PRINTKR's DREAM.-A printer sat
in his chair, his boots were patched and
his coat threadbare; while his face look
ed weary and worn with care. While
sadly thinking of business debt, old
Morpheus slowly round him crept, and
before he knew it he soundly slept; and
sleeping, he dreamed that he was dead,
from trouble and toll his spirit had fed,
and that not even a cow-bell tolled for
the peaceful rest of his cow-hide sole.
AS he wandered among the shades that
smoke and scorch in lower Hades, he
shortly observed an iron door, that
creakingly hung on the hinges ajar, but
the entrance was closed with O red hot
bar, and Satan himself stood peeping
out, and watching for travellers there
about, and thus to the passing printer
spoke: "Come in, my dear, it shall cost
you nothing, and never fear; this is the
place where / cook the ones who never
pay their subscription sums, for though
in their life they may escape, they will
find when they are dead it is too late; 1
will show the place where melt them
thin, with red hot chains and scraps of
tin. and also where comb their heads
with scraps of glass and melted lead,
and if of refreshment they only think.
there's boiling water for them to drink;
there is the red hot grindstone to grind
down the nose, and red hot rings to
wear on the toes, and ii they mention
they don't like the fire, I'll sew up their
mouths with red hot wire; and then,
dear sir, you should see them squirm,
while roll them over and cook to
turn" With these last words the prin-
ter awoke, and thought it all a practical
joke, but still at times, so real did it
seem, that he cannot believe it was all a
dream; and often be thinks with a
chuckle and grin, of the fate of those
who save their tin, and never pay the
printer.
Year: 1876

1t is bad enough for trapeze per-
former to be hurled to death in the usual
way taken by that class of show people,
before a crowded audience and in the
footlights' blaze of glory. But it must
be particularly mortifying to them TO
meet with an accident and die all alone,
and still in the pursuit of their thrilling
profession. This was the fate Of John
William Collier, an Englishman, who
had been several years in this country;
a trapeze master. He was the father of
two young girls, known as the 'Vaidis
Sisters" Their names are Laura and
Lizzie Collier, and they are respectively
fourteen and twelve years of age, and
very attractive performers. Their fa-
ther had trained them for their daring
profession, and their mother travelled
with them, and they were as we'll and
tenderly cared for as they could be, sub
Iected as they were to the nightly dan


gers of the flying trapeze. Their father
came on the stage with them and watch
ed them through their act with anxious
solicitudeI He was a quiet, lanassum-
ing man of about thirty-five years,
weighing one hundred and thirty
pounds, and his mild manners made him
favorite with audiences, although he
acted only as assistant. Very few knew
his name, or that he was the father of
those pretty little girls doing dangers,
or that their ever-anxious mother was
standing breathless in the wings watch
ing with the eye of love every move
ment of her children in their mid-air
flights. The father was suddenly taken
away. They had performed an engage
ment in theater, and were about NOV
ing to another city. Collier was taking
down his trapeze traps on Sunday, pre-
paratory to leaving. He was somewhere
in the roof of the theater, and jumped
a short distance upon a skylight of thick
glass. 1t gave way and he crashed
through. He lay after the fall doubled
up ike ball and never spoke. His
skull was crushed, his brain wasting,
aud every bone in his body appeared to
be broken; but his face was neither
bruised, scratched nor distorted. His
staring eyes gazed up at the skylight as
he lay dying. His wife and daughters
were sent for, and were quickly at his
side. Their distress was heartrending.
They folded HIM in their arms, kissed
his impassive face, pleaded with him to
speak one word to them, and vainly
tried to get one look of recognition out
of those wide eyes rapidly glazing in
death. Not one word or lookl John
William Collier was dead man in twen-
ty minutes from the time of his fall


Then the public first knew the "Vaidis
Sisters" by name. Death rent the fam
lily veil asunder, and Laurie and Lizzie
Collier mourned their father. But it
seems very bad for trapeze performer
to die that way. 1t is like great con-
queror of thrones being kicked to death
by o mule. But the Vaidis Sisters are
thoroughly trained now, and they will
be able to fight their way in the world
through the skill their father taught
them, until there is another accident in
the family, for it is a dreadful trade" !"
Year: 1876

ENcHAET1RNr OF D1sTANoE.-To live
with people is to discover their faults;
it is better then not to live with them.
To come together in the same village,
town or city, is the ruin Of some excel
lent friendships, which would have gone
on happily during life with q short rail
way journey for each visit. Woe be-
tide certain aequaintances whose aspect
is mutually pleasant seen from opposite
corners of the same street if they be-
come next door neighbors. No greater
mistake can be made than for persons
to suppose that, because they are friend
ly with one another at this or that dis
tance of removal, they will become in
creasingly friendly IN proportion as they
draw higher. Few Of us can support
with credit too intimate friendship.
Numbers of family quarrels have arisen
merely because the members came to-
gether too often; many friendship has
ended forever owing to the parties hav-
ing met every evening for week, in
stead Of interposing at least two blank
nights. A very nice chronology obtains
in the matter. Aunt Mary is charm
ing visitor at intervals of about three
years; if she came each Summer she
would be intolerable. You rather like
your brother Johns children if you
don't go there oftener than once in three
months. It is all very we'll to hear
talks about eternal friendships. Some
people can only be intimate and remain
friendly with some other people for half
an hour at time. Who has not OBJ
served the part played by time in visits
of some length to friends at distance?
How agreeable some persons are on the
second day, but they begin to change
before the next has fully run out. Some
are never quite 80 nice as on the even
ing Of the first day; although these
same persons generally make partial
amends by frightening up brilliantly
during the last few 5ours or minutes Of
your stay, and are wholly perfect at the
moment of your departure.
Year: 1876

THE cup Of "Madam Rumor" has
been filled with bliss to overfowing
of late. A statement has come to
the public ear that Rev. d. w. Couch,
the efficient pastor of the M. E.
Church of this city for four years,
had gone over to the Reform Episco-
pal denomination. Mr.. Couch, hav-
ing heard Of this, wrote to friends
here stating that it is not SO, but
that he still stands prepared to work
for the Methodist cause in his hum.
BILE way. The assertion is wholly
without foundation, and to ascertain
its origin would battle the most
shrewd detective skill of any one.
Year: 1876

The Madison Mutual Insurance
Company has worked up quite a
business on the strength Of its be-
ing a "home institution" but Of late
the impression is becoming general
that there must be sometipg cracked
either mismanagement or worse
and hereafter the company will find
il difficult to do much business, ia
this section at least. The last as
sessinent on the insured has cost the
company public confidence to an ex-
tent that will prove difficult to
withstand.
Year: 1876

VIII De made between the pineries
of the north and the prairies and
coal fields Of Illinois, through either
Grant or Iowa county, is a PROPOSE.
ton which few deny. That cost of
construction will be about the same
on one route as the other is generally
admitted, and that the connection
will be made on that line where most
aid and encouragement is extended
seems highly probable. This being
the state of the case, it is of vital i'm
portaDce to Mineral Point that the
connection be made on such line as
will be most valuable to her interests
that the M. p. z. r. be extended
from this city and from no other
point. So long as Mineral Point is
the terminus OF the main trunk of
the road she il wei situated; and if
it were probable that the present sit
uation Of railroad affairs in this To-
cality would continue indefnitely,we
could afford to remain quiet. But
there is not such probability. Peo-
pie to the north and south Of us are
clamorous for increased railroad ia
cilities, and great railroad interests
demand the connection so strongly
that in the near ~NtuIe it miU be &c
complished Now we are rot going
to advocate the voting of taxes, or
heavy subscriptions in Mineral Point
to aid the extension from this place,
for two very good reaspns: first, the
people can't afford it and second,
it is not likely to be asked. But we
do hope the people of Mineral Point
will not take position Of active hos
tility to an extension of the road
from this point. II IS believed that
the Company would prefer to extend
from here even though greater aid is
offered on some other line for the
reason that they have so much in
vested here that would be almost a
dead loss if this should become
merely a switch branch to the main
line.


Some may argue that an extension
will be fatal to us from any point,
but this we cannot admit. If the ex-
tension is made from here ria Dodge.
vile it will forever render impossi-
| BILE the construction Of any other
road within 20 miles Of US, and with
a good turnpike to Linden we should
not only retain all the trade we
now have from the west and north
west, but gain some that we now
have not, because We could then buy
for the Milwaukee market and com
pete with points on the Prairie du
Chen road, where now we are always
out bid 5 to 10 cents per bushel, and
whence goes much that ought to
to come here besides, being in di-
rect communication with the piner-
les, our dealers could sell lumber
nearly as cheap as dealers at the
river towns, and thus would secure
a good lumber trade that we have
not now.


Seeing things thus, and having the
future prosperity Of our city and
county at heart, we favor, and so far
as we are able will, when the proper
time arrives, work for an extension
of the railroad northward from Min
eral Point.


The Madison Mutual Insurance
Company has worked up quite q
business on the strength Of its be-
ing home institution" but Of late
the impression is becoming general
that there must be sometipg cracked
either mismaHagement or worse
and hereafter the company will find
it difficult to do much business, ia
Year: 1876

THE papers in the Beneficiary
contested seat case have been pre-
sented to the Assembly, and referred
to the proper committee. About
the time the Legislature adjourns
we expect to hear the result.
Year: 1876

If the Chronicle had been little
more prompt it would not have re-
mained for the TRIBUNE to sound
the people of Dodgeville on the sub
ject of County Celebration, and
Brother Hearn would have saved
himself from making the unjust in
sinuation as to our motive in men,
tioning the matter, for which we
are sure he is now duly sorry.
Year: 1876

DARLINGTON papers are 80 lucky
as to have a good local item to the
effect that woman wearing fine
clothes, duly pinned back, came to
that village lately and attempted to
beat one of the banks on draft
which had been changed from s9.10
to 5000. The forgery was dis
covered in time to prevent her get
ting the money, but she got away
before evidence sufficient to warrant
her arrest was procured.