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Year: 1875

Every person should know how to
treat q flesh wound. Every one IS
liable to be placed in circumstances
away from any surgical and vetrinary
aid, where he may save his own life,
or friend or beast, simply by the
exercise of little common sense. In
the first place, close the lips of the
wound with the hands and hold them
firmly together to check the flow of
blood until several stitches can be
taken and bandage applied. Then
bathe the wound for long time in
cool water. "Should it be painful" q
correspondent says stake painful
of burning Goals and sprinkle upon
them common brown sugar, and hold
the wound in the smoke. In minute
or two the pain will be allayed, and the
recovery proceeds rapidly. In my case
a rusty nail had made bad wound in
my foot. The pains and nervous irrita.
tion we're severe. This was all removed
by holding it in the smoke fifteen min
utea, and was able to resume my
read ng with comfort. We have often
recommended it to others with like re-
suit. Last week one of my men had a
finger.nail torn out by pair OF ice
toDgs. II became very painful, as
was to be expected. Held in sugar
smoke twenty minutes, pain ceased and
promised speedy recovery"
Year: 1875

ing various rates Of duty on number OF ar
tices which are now on tho free list. In re-
gard to the latter, Secretary Brstow makes no
recommendation, but merely enumerates
large number Of articles which arc now I'M
ported free, to an aggregate amount OF some
forty million dollars per annum, and from
which the committee may select, with this de-
tailed information now before then, such as
can most properly, in their opinion DO made
to contribute TO the customs revenue. Tho
secretary also transmitted to the committee
statistics and estimates prepared by the COM
missioner Of internal revenue in regard to in
creased revenue that could bo secured by
adding to the tax on whisky. 1t is generally
believed that il any increase is made, it will
be to the extent OF ten cents per gallon.
Year: 1875

Farmers, grade up your stock. If you
can not have thoroughbreds, you can now
easily have half bloods by using through
bred male, and in few years three
quarters. Always keep grading up, and
soon all will have good stock
Year: 1875

A philosopher writes "The girl is
generally educated on novels, and her
first disappointment comes in on the
quiet indifference of the husband after
the honeymoon. You love me no lon
ger, said bride of few months to her
better half in his gown and slippers.
why do you say that, Puss?' he asked
quietly, removing a cigar from his lips.
You do not caress me nor call me pet
names you NO longer seek so anXiously
for my company was the fearful answer,
My dear, continued the aggravating
wretch, did you ever notice a man run
ming after car? How he does run
over stones, through mud, regardless of
everything till he reaches the car and he
seizes hold and swings on. Then he
quietly seats himself and reads his paper. ,
'And what does that mean2' An illus
tration, my dear. The car is as import
ant to the man after he gets in as when
he is chasing it, but the manifestation is
no longer called for. 1 would have shot
any one who put himself in my way when
in pursuit of you, as 1 would now shoot
any one who would come between us,
but as a proof of my love you insist upon
my running after the car. Learn to
smoke, my dear, and be a philosopher.
The two combined clear the brain, quiet
the nerves, open the pores, and improve
the digestion.
Year: 1875

The Austrian steamship Jennie, which
recently arrived at the port of New York
from Mantanzas, narrowly escaped being
swamped by several immense water
spouts, while off Cape Hatteras. The
officers of the vessel say these water
spouts were the largest they had ever
seen. The largest covered an area of half
a mile and were at least 1000 feet in
hight. "They reached far up into the
air." said an old salt, "and were there
met by an inverted cone, Just like the
others, which seemed to come down from
the heavens to meet them" They were
described as tall columns, apparently of
mist or spray, but in reality dense bodies
of water, reaching from the sea to the
clouds, and moving along with great
rapidity before the wind. Sometimes
they were straight, and at other times
inclined, but always whirling around with
great rapidity. The crew broke several
by firing guns into them, the concussion
Of the air causing them to burst, when
they tumbled back into the sea with a
fearful splash. The water was fairly white
with foam.
Year: 1875

on the sill, ami the sash drawn closely
upon it. If the slip has been well fitted,
there will be no draft in consequence Of
the displacement of the sash at its lower
part, but the top of the lower sash will
overlap the bottom of the upper one,
and between the bars perpendicular cur
rents of air, not felt, will enter and leave
the room.


How TO LIGHT A DARK RooM.-To
light dark room looking out on a mar
row yard or street, let the glass be
roughly ground on the outside, and set
flush with the outer wall. The light
from the entire visible sky, and from the
remotest parts of the opposite wall, will
be introduced into the apartment, re-
fected from the inumerable faces or
facets which the rough grinding has pro
duced. The whole window will appear
as if the sky were behind it, and from
every point of this luminous surface
light will radiate into the room.
Year: 1875

GRAHAM MUFFINs.-Three pints Of
flour, half a tea-cup of sugar, the same
of shortening, teaspoonful of saleratus,
two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, salt to
taste rub all together with the hands
moisten with cold water bake in muffin
rings half an hour in hot oven.


CoRN-CAKEs WITHOUT EGGs.-Three
cups of butter-milk, three of corn-meal,
one of wheat flour, one tablespoonful
salt, two of sugar, one level of soda dis
solve the last three ingredients in water,
stir all together if the meal swells too
much to spread nicely, add more water.


To REMOVE PAINT FROM CLOTHING
Equal parts of turpentine and spirits of
ammonia will take out the paint spots
from any kind of clothing, no matter
low old and dry and hard it may be.
Saturate the spot with the liquid, per-
haps two or three times, till the paint is
soft, then wash ont all with soap-suds.


OLD newspapers make excellent pad
ding between a carpet and the floor it
covers. They should be eight or ten
thicknesses deep, and more rather than
less. We have used them with the best
results for the past ten years. The same
papers can be used year after year all
need to make them good as new is an
occasional airing and dusting. It is said
the ink used in printing will effectively
prevent the rayages of moths.


KEEP your cellar clean-not clean it,
but keep it clean. A large proportion of
apples smell and taste of the filth and
mold of the cellar. A lot of half-rotten
cabbage-leaves, moldy, decaying boal DIS,
sly corners with a lot of scraps of accu-
mulating rottenness, old, unhealthy tubs,
hoops, slaves, and straw, dirt from or in
potato bins, and all similar trash are
poison to the butter, the apples, and the
vegetables, as well as the human beings
above stairs.


A SIMPLE METHOD OF VENTILATION
A piece of wood three inches high and
exactly as long as the breadth of the
window, is to be prepared. Let the sash
be now raised, the slip Of wood placed
Year: 1875

mand for the restoration of Catholic unity
in Spain, and the government has replied
that it is resolved to maintain liberty of wor-
ship.


In consequence of tho refusal of the local
authorities to repair an unsafe bridge. at
Clontarf, it will be necessary to hold the in
ternational rifle match at Curragh, Wicklow,
or some other place not in the vicinity of Dub
lin.


Tho government of Spain has issued decree
declaring the electoral period opened, and grant
ing to the press the privilege of discussing all
constitutional questions, saving the question OF
the monarchy, with the utmost freedom.
Year: 1875

As man and woman were riding ON a
Detroit street car, he whispered some
thing to her, and she began to speak out.
He nudged her and whispered again,
when she shouted:


81 will talk, SO there! I would as
soon the whole world would know that
you struck me with the stove-handle, and
then got down on your knees and asked
my forgivenessl p


The man dropped out of the car like a
shot, and the woman put her head out OF
the window and continued:


eff you aren't home on the minute,
III make you think you've been struck
by tornado"
Year: 1875

THE New York Tribune editorial
rooms are on the ninth floor, and when
q man comes round to the author of an
article he is told that the elevator is
broken. By the time he reaches the
sanctum he can be foored with a pen
holder.
Year: 1875

EX-SENATOR CARL SoHURz was TO have
sailed for Europe in the ill-starred steam
ship Schiller, the Captain being an old
friend of his. He was detained in New
York, however, to attend the dinner
given in his honor at Delmomco's, and
he left in the Pomerania, two days after
the sailing of tho Schiller. 1t is stated
that a passeng ave up his cabin in the
Pomerania to him and took another in
the Schiller.
Year: 1875

The discussion as to whether horses
and other animals reason OF not has been
revived in st. Louis, where it has been
decided by committee of experts that
horse owned by a gentleman in that city
is afflicted with "mental alteration"
The next the public Will hear there will
be an outbreak of "emotional insanity"
among dogs.
Year: 1875

Edward Kendall was a bachelor al
most forty years of age. He was never
4 handsome man; and now his once jet
ty locks of hair were beginning to be
touched with silver, and around the
grave, stern mouth were lines that might
have been traced by care or sorrow.
Yet he was noble-looking, tall and fine
.ly formed, with features indicative of
great force of character and eyes so keen
that they seemed almost to read ones
thoughts at the first glance.


He was q farmer in good circum-
stances, living in plain, unpretending
style, with an old lady aged enough to
be his mother, his sole companion and
housekeeper. He was not a favorite
with his neighbprs on account Of his re-
ticence and reserve, for there is no class
of people more social and fond of neigh
borly freedom than the farmers of New
England. But they respected him, new
-ertheless, for his high moral principles
and sound common sense, and as man
of property he received Difference where
he would not otherwise.


Mr.. Kendall was often appointed to
Office, both of Town and State, and no
one discharged such duties more faith
fully than he. At the time of which we
write he was occupying position Pc
culiarly distasteful to him, that of ex-
amining committee and acting school
visitor for the Town. My readers will
understand why this was so embarrass-
iEg position when I tell them that in
truth Mr.. Kendall's reticence sprung al
most wholly from bashfulness, and when
it is taken into account that the majority
= of the candidates for examination were
ladies young, old and middle-aged-
perhaps they will gladly -sympathize
with instead of blaming him.


In his younger days Mr.. Kendall had
thought Of marriage, as something that
might come to him in the future, but he
was so painfully bashful that he had
never summoned courage to take the
necessary steps toward such consum-
nation, and the older he grew the more
distant seemed the prospect of matri-
mony. The unmarried ladies of that
vicinity had long ago given him up as
one upon whom all their arts and fasci-
nations would be lost; and the dream
Year: 1875

The Weekly Sun has now attained circulation of over seventy thou sand copies. Its readers are found in every State and Territory, and it's quality is well known to the public. We shall not only endeavor to keep it fully up to the old standard, but to improve and add to its variety and power.

 The Weekly Sun will continue to be q thorough newspaper. All the news of the day will be found in it, condensed when unimportant, at full length when of moment, and always we trust, treated in a clear, interesting and instructive manner.

 It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world. It will be full of enter taining and appropriate reading of every sort, but will print nothing to offend the most scrupulous and deli cate taste. It will always contain the most interesting stories and TO- mances of the day carefully selected and legibly printed.

 The Agricultural Department is a prominent feature in the Weekly Sun, and its articles will always be fresh and useful to the farmer.

 The number of men dependent on politics is increasing, and the Weekly Sun is their paper especial ly. It belongs to no party, and obeys no dietation, contending fer principle, and for the election of the best men. It exposes the cor cuption that disgraces the country and threatens the overthrow of re- publican institutions. It has no fear of knaves and seeks no favors from their supporters.

 The markets of every kind and the fashions are regularly reported ! in its columns

 The Daily Sun.-A large four. page newspaper of twenty-eight col umns. Daily circulation over l2o' GOO. All the news for two cents Subscription, postage prepaid 5' cents month, or $6.50 Il year. Tt clubs of ten or over discount O. twenty per cent.

 Address THE SUN,

 New York City.
Year: 1875

Especially assorted for Scrap Book Illustrations and Drawing Class Copies.

 A large collection of pictures of different sizes and on almost every conceivable subject have been put up in an attractive envelope and are now offered at price intended to make them popular in ever sense.

 Envelope No. l, containing 30 beautiful engravings, is now ready, and will be sent postage paid, to any address for ONE DOLLAR. A lib- eral discount to agents and teachers.
Year: 1875

Each part will contain 26 quarto pages, including the elegant frontis- piece, on heavy plate paper. A su- perb title page, richly illuminated in gold, will be given with the first part, and the printing of the entire work will be worthy representa- ton of "The Aldine Press" which is A guarantee of something beautiful and valuable.
Year: 1875

FIRST. Valuable PATENTED improvements in the AARON Piano. which SIMPLIFY it's constructions and which the most MUST IMPROVE the TONE and DURABILITY of the Instrument.

 SECOND. workmanship and quality of GAN BE MADE and Piano fully warranted for five

 THIRD These have greater VOLUME of TONE combined with scale length vibraion that be found other Piano.

 FOURTH Piano the world introduction the Musical Public; this testimonials

 FIFTH largest SAME QUALITY of materials, price workmanship plain Pianos for the high-priced ones

 SIXTH
Year: 1875

In addition to the sledges drawn by the
men, the expedition will be furnished with
five or six sledges to be drawn by dogs, of
which sixty are to be taken on board the
ships at the Danish settlement of Upper
navik, on the coast of Greenland, to be used
when sledging operations commence. Sir
Leopold McClintock states, as the resultof
his experience, that two dogs can drag as
much as one man. Several tons of the
choicest dog biscuit have been provided
for their use, although some doubts are en-
tertained whether they will be duly appre-
ciated, experience having proved that the
Greenland dogs prefer devouring each
other to any food which can be offered
them. Nothing" says Admiral Osborn,
"can be more exhilarating than dog
sledging in the Arctic regions on fine
day. The rattling pace Of the dogs, their
intelligence in choosing the road through
the broken ice the strict obedience paid
by the team to one powerful dog whom
they elect as leader; the arbitrary exercise
of authority by the master dog; the con-
slant use of the whip, and the running
conversation kept up by the driver with
the different dogs, who well know their
names, afford constant enjoyment" How
ever useful they may be, these Arctic
dogs seem to be deficient in that affection
ate disposition which endears their species
so much to man. Capt. Vesey Hamilton
stated, at recent meeting of the Royal
Geographical Society, that he believed the
Esquimaux dogs to be the most migrate
full creatures in creation. He had travelled
for several hundred miles by sledge, and
for six weeks it was his duty regularly to
feed the dogs; but after only weeks ab-
sence, on the conclusion of the journey,
they would not recognize him in the
slightest degree. Sir Leopold McClin-
tock, who is said to have originated this
| mode of Arctic travelling, states that it
would be mistake to attempt to house the
dogs, as they can live near the ships dur
| ing a whole winter, and if treated differ
emily would sicken and die,--BlacksoooGs
Magazine,
Year: 1875

Boys, don't you know it's the most nat
ural thing in the world to be wondering
what sort of a man you are going to be,
after awhiies Don't you often find your
self wondering if you will be as rlch as
Thompson, or as famous for great deeds
as men you read of? You feel very sure
at any rate that you are not going to Ge as
mean as many you know; that you won't
stagger along the street like Tom Jones
with a red nose and bloated face, owning
nothing but the worn-out and dirty cloth
ing he wears. Oh, no, you are sure you
won't be as low down as that Yet all the
criminals looking out OF those gloomy
cells and the drunkards and gamblers you
see have been bright merry boys once
with great plans for their future. am
not going to make a sermon here about 1t,
but in friendly way | do want to ask
YOU to remember when the boys who are
older than you propose that, just Tor the
fun of it, you take a friendly drink, that
whisky is the key that has opened the Jalls,
poor-houses and the penitentarics to more
tlldn InGtt-lOullllS vi all tliS u iiiliiiS'i'
within those walls. Remember, boys, 1t
blights homes, bringing trouble and sor-
row and poverty. Don't forget the first
drink leads to the second, third and on
down to common drunkenness with the
certainty that day follows night. If men
who ask you to drink are prominent and
influential men, don't try to get out OF 1t
by making excuses, but be manly boy,
look them square in the face and say dis
tinctlv: "Sir, | do not drink" Don't be
afraid the man will think less of you. In
his heart he will commend you and your
manly refusal will give you a higher
place in his regard Have the courage,
boys, to look men square in the face when
you refuse to take the first step toward
drunkenness-hd Farmer.
Year: 1875

CLOSE upon the shore of Lake Winnie
piseogee is town; and in that town
dwells man whom we will call Amber
Mr.. Amber keeps Il store; and, as he IS u
genial, accommodating man, he keeps for
sale everything which the good people Of
the country can reasonably expect him to
keep. Particularly has it been the prac-
tice of Mr.. Amber TO keep a barrel Of
whisky on tap in his cellar. One in the
fall and one in the spring will generally
carry him through. He is very careful to
whom he sells, and, so far as is known,
the authorities have never given him any
trouble.


One day Mr. Eliphalct Spooncr entered
the store with a slight protubcranccv visible
upon his left breast. Mr.. Spooner was
deacon and a most proper man. He called
the merchant aside and asked him if he
had any good whisky. Amber nodded in
the affirm native.


"Will you let me have pint"' and
the deacon pulled from his breast pocket
pint bottle.


Certainly" said the trader; and forth
with he departed for the cellar. When he
returned he brought the full bottle, care
fully wiped and corked.


What is to pay"


Fifty cents'


Mr. Spooner handed him over fifty
cent scrip, and then, in a hesitating way,
drew the cork. He placed the bottle to
his lips, and tasted, just a drop, to test the
quality of the liquor. He did this twice,
and the expression ON his face was one of
hesitation and doubt.
"Mr. Amber" he said, I'm getting
this for my wife. Is this the very best you
have?"


ooh! you want it for incidence"
Yes, certainly"
If that is the case" the sentence was
| finished with smile and reaching forth
for the bottle.
! Down into the cellar went the store
keeper again. There was no need that he
should empty the bottle and refill it, for
he had but one solitary barrel from which
| to draw; so he took turn around and
soon came back, wiping the bottle atresh.


a shall have to charge you eighty seven
cents for this, Mr.. Spooner."


Having paid the extra charge with the
utmost cheerfulness, Mr.. Spooner placed
the bottle again to his lips and tasted crit
ically.


"Aha!" he uttered, with bright smile
and grateful nod, this is something
| liken


And he went away entirely satisfied
And Mr.. Amber, also, Notwithstanding the
fraud he had perpetrated, appeared to be
satisfied, if one might judge by the quiet
smile that Illuminated his rubicund WIS.,
| age-Cleyeldnd Herald
Year: 1875

THE full extent of the terrible disaster
which has overwhelmed several of the
southern departments of France is only
now beginning to be fully realized. The
whole wide basin of the Garonne is sub


merged, and the smiling valley turned into
vast sheet of water. Towns and villages
have been swept away, while the destruc-


ton of human life has been something ap-
palling So suddenly and unexpectedly
did this deluge burst upon the doomed
districts that hundreds met their death at
their own firesides by the sudden inroad


of the destroying torrents. Some 10000
people have been made homeless by these
floods, which in their extent and the
amount of damage done are without cx-
ample in the history of France. Whole
villages have been swept away, or lie
buried beneath the water, the farm-houses
have disappeared, and the crops been
swept from the face of the country. Where
a few weeks ago all was smiling promise
of plenty is now sad waste of wide-ex-
tending waters. Nor do the floods prom
ise soon to subside. On the contrary the
waters appear to be rising, and snow and
rain fall in the desolated districts as if to
complete the scenes of horror that have
been there enacted Not even the terrible
devastations caused by the floods in 1885
can be compared in the suffering aud loss
they occasioncd with the plague of waters
that SO Unexpectedly has fallen upon
Frar &C in this present year. The materi'
al losses are immense. With praise
Year: 1875

HERE'S something, my dears, that the
editor of st. Nicholas said long ago TO a
crowd of Youngsters. AS | never heard of
it doing them any special harm, it occurs
to me that it will not hurt my little folks
to hear it:


Did you ever notice what an amiable,
pleasant feeling steals over you when you
are visiting and on your good behavior" ?"
how willing you are to overlook any
thing that interferes with your comfort?-
how anxious to please, and how ready to
take an interest in all that is going on?
At these times your face lights up, your
voice grows sweet and cheerful, your
very movements become graceful. "What
pleasant persons these friends arer' you
say to yourself; and they very naturally
consider you quite winning and delight
full. So far, so good. 1t is just as it
should be.


OF course, when you 60 home you take
all your pleasant ways with you. If these
friends, who have known you but little
while, and who care for you merely as
friends, have power to brighten and
sweeten you, certainly when you return to
your own relatives, who love you so much
more, you'll be brighter and sweeter than
ever.


Is it so? Perhaps it is. But if by any
chance it should not be-if, for instance,
you chose to let yourself be sour or IN
different at home, thinking any tone oi