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Year: 1872

A slander which needs only to be
stated to be refuted A bachelor
says that if you hand a lady q news
paper with a scrap cut out of it, not
a line of it will be read, but every
bit of interest the paper possesses is
centred in finding out what the
missing scrap contained.
Year: 1872

The latest rat story is from Chi.
cago. In a house where the rats
had been very troublesome traps had
long set, but to no purpose. Finally
some of the family determined tc
watch the trap. It was cunningly
set. Soon q young rat appeared
and was stepping on the fatal spring
when an old rat rushed to the res.
cue, seized the indiscreet juvenile by
the tail, and dragged him off to his
hole.
Year: 1872

Cur THIS Our AND KEEP IT
Franklin Dyfe, a highly respectable
and intelligent farmer of Gelena,
Kent county, Maryland, gives the
following as a cure for the bite Of a
mad dog. As will be seen, he has
tested it with the most gratifying re-
suits


Elecampane is a plant we'll known
to most persons, and is to be found
in MANY OF our gardens. Immediate
lv after being bitten take one and a
half ounces OF the root Of the plant
the green root is perhaps preferable,
but the died will answer, and may
be found in our drug stores, and
was used by me-slice or bruise, put
into pint of fresh milk, boil down
to half q pint, strain and when
cold drink it, fasting at least six
hours afterward. The next morn
ing, fasting, repeat the dose, using
two ounces of root. On the third
morning, take another dose, prepar-
ed as the first, and this will be suf1i-
Gent. It is recommended that after
each dose nothing be eaten for al
least SIX hours.


I have a son who was bitten by 9
mad dog eighteen years ago, and
four other children in the neighbor'
hood were also bitten they tool
the above dose and are alive anc
we'll to this day. And I have known
q number of others who were bitter
and applied the same remedy.


tits supposed that the root con
tains a principal which, being taker
up by the blood in its circulation
counteracts or neutralizes the deadl,
effects of the virtue of hydrophobia


/ feel so much confidence in thi'
simple remedy that I am willing yor
should give my name in connection
with this statement.


The following anecdote is told il
Herr Hesekiel's Life of Bismarck
the second volume of which ha'
just appeared. at Leipsic Hearing
a guest in a tavern speak insultingl.,
of a member of the Royal family
Bismarck sprang to his feet, and ex
claimed, "Leave the room! If 70,
have not left it before this glass i
empty. I will break it over you
head!" OF course there was an up
roar. But Bismarck calmly emptiee
his glass, and smashed it on th'
offenders head with such q heart,
will that the glass was in shivers
and the head was left bowling. A
deep silence followed in the midst O
which the voice of Bismarck was
heard asking unconcernedly, "Wait
er, what does the broken glass cost ?
General applause drowned the an
swer.
Year: 1872

The GrcrIcyitts have been forced to
abandon their general charges of corrup-
ton against the Administration. The
proof submitted by General Grants
friends has been 50 convincing that even
the rank and file of the Democracy have
been persuaded that the administration
of General Grant has been both honest
and economical This admission has


thrown the opposition into confusion.
The reduction of the national debt to
the amount of S335, 100000 has been a
stubborn fact to overcome. They have
given up the task of disproving it, and
have changed the mode Of attack. Fail
ING to prove the Administration corrupt,
they attempt to rob the PRESIDENT Of the
credit which belongs to him in the man
agcment of affairs. - GeneraJ Grant
djdat pay the debt, the people paid it :"
hese IS a discovery. This may be a
good plank to carry Greeley on, but the
people will be apt to stand by the man
who permitted them TO do so much to-
wards lessening the burdens Of taxation.
IF the debt had been increased would
these Greeleyites blame the people or
General Grant? They would have de-
nounced the president from Maine to
California, and would have SECUTED the
idea of holding the people responsible;
Rut the debt has been decreased, and
these model ref0rmers suddenly discover
that General Grant had nothing to do
with it. that the credit belongs to the
people who rendered the money to ac-
compIish the magnificent result. We arc
content to leave the credit to thepeople.
General Grant belongs to the people;
they sustained him in the past and will
stand by him in the future. He has Ia
bored for the people, his work has been
their work. iEffdorsed by them, and NO
vember will show that, AZ the tit repre-
sentative of their interests, tLeF want
him for the next four years to per1h'iS
them to do as well by the nation as dur
inc the four years past. Praise the peo-
ple for doing well and you pay the high
est e compliment to president Grant, but
then what becomes of summers charge
Of Of personal intentions " and personal
government p Washington Chronicle.
Year: 1872

FALSE WEIGHTs.-Th English papers
tell of fifty-five tradesmen who were
convicted in one week of having false
weights and measures. They were all
in that part of London in which the
larger portion of the population is COM
posed of poor people. 1t seems as though
it were not enough to sell the poor adul-
terated articles, and to charge large
price for them, but they must be further
outraged by being swindled out Of their
Just weight of the wretched materials
they buy We cannot call to mind a
prosecution in this country against a
tradesman using false weights and mea-
sures. Can it be that such things are
unknown here Selling short weight to
the poor is one Of the most heartless and
objectionable of petty meannesses, and
it should be severely punished whenever
discovered. There is a law that weights
and measures shall be periodically ex
amined by duly appointed officers at
regular intervals. Is it done, and if done
is the rarity of prosecution for offences
against the low to be attributed to the
honesty of our tradesmen, or to some
more reprehensible cause :? It cannot be
that such an approach to the millennium
has been made that cheating in weight
is unknown here. We trust we shall
soon hear that some steps have been
taken to look into this affair. If should
not be permitted to rob the poor with
impunity, and if the guilty felt that they
might at any minute receive a visit from
the proper officials and have the weights
in use by them examined, they would
he very apt to refrain from cheating in
view of the fine and Imprisonment that
are provided to reward such transac-
tions.
Year: 1872

ARTIFIcIAL IcE MAKING A rapid anr
economical method for the artificial pro
duction Of ice has been brought TO the
attention Of the Paris Accademy Of sci
ence. The process consists in the eYap-
Grafton of ether in a current of air.
which passes on through layer Of coke
or pumice stone, constantly saturated
with sulphuric acid. The yapoTs are
condensed by the action of the machine
itself, and the ether is afterward regained
by distillation. The cost of running is
chiefly for coal in the distilling process,
and it is stated that one pound Of coal Is
sufficient TO produce from twenty-five to
thirty pounds of ice.
Year: 1872

In the quiet hush of the tender night,
When nv eyes I'LL up with tears,
Comes my darling to me, all golden


bright
With The sunshine of three sweet


years. . ...-.
And he smiles as he climbs to his seat


on my knee,


To whisper his Childish mirth;
Then clasps my Mccullough you may


not see,


For my darling is not of earth.
aOnly within the twilight gloom,
When the hours are long and sweet,
7 hear all about in the lonely room
The patter of little feet
'Patter of feet that come and go
With q sweet yet restless will,
Just as they did a month ago,
Ere they grew for ever still.
And my heart, at those spirit-sounds


that seem


So near yet SO far away,
Glides into the faith of sweet love


dream,
That follow me night and day.
And this love dream, tender and ever


sweet,


Still whispers soft and low.
''Keep thou in thy heart these tiny feet,
And follow the way they CO."
Then my sorrow sinks down as leafet


will


When the winds are into their rest;
And bow with clasped hands. and still
The footsteps are in my breast.
Year: 1872

Placing tho little hats all in a row,
Ready for church ON the morrow, you know
Washing wee faces and little black fists,
Getting them ready and tit to be kissed;
Putting them into clean garments and white /;
That is what mothers are doing tonight
Spying out holes in the little worn hose,
Laying by shoes that are wore through tho


toes,


Looking DER garments SO faded and thin
Who but a mother knows where to bcgine
Changing button to make it look right
That is what mothers are doing to- night.
Calling the little ones all round her chair,
Hearing them lisp forth their soft evening


prayer,


Telling them stories Of Jesus Of old,
Who loves to gather the lambs to His fold;
Watching, they listen with childish delight
That is what mothers are doing to- might.
Creeping so softly to take last peep,
After the little ones are all asleep;
Anxious to know if the children are warm,
Tucking the blankets round each little form {;
Kissing each Ii tie face, rosy and bright
That is what mothers are doing to night
Knceling down gently beside the white bed,
Lowly and meekly she bows down her head,
Praying as only a mother can pray,
"God guide and keep them from going astray."
Year: 1872

THINNING FRUIT.-There is very
general tendency of fruit trees in Califor-
to set more fruit than they can bring
to good size and full maturity. 1t is
the large peach, plum or pear of the
same variety upon the same tree, that is
better than the half-grown one. In order
to remedy the evil, incident to this pro-
pensity to over-bear, recourse must be
had to thinning. And the only way the
cultivator can effect his object properly is
by hand picking the small and imperfect
fruit, leaving only the best to be carried
forward to maturity.


1t is worse than useless to attempt the
thinning process by shaking the limbs,
for the effect is to cause the largest and
heaviest fruit to fall rather than the small
and lightest, and it should be remembere
that three bushels of fine large fruit will
bring more money than four of inferior,
though from the same tree while the
handling and freight are as three to four
in favor of the best.-Rurdt Press.
Year: 1872

THE Truckee Republican says the num-
Der OF quails in the mountains is said to
be unprecedented. Large numbers OF
them in attempting to fly across the lake
fall into the water and are drowned. The
distance over the lake is greater than they
apprehend, and they are unable to make
the journey on the wing.
Year: 1872

JUDGE BOOKER, of the Fifth District
Court, has decided, in effect, in the case
of the people VS.. the Stockton and Visalia
Railroad Company that the company had
no legal existence and the verdict is for
the people.
Year: 1872

THE ramie plant continues to enlist
considerable interest in many parts OF
the South. 1t is now generally conceded
that it will be profitable crop, more
than sugar, cotton, ice or tobacco, when
ever n machine is invented which will he
to the ramie fibre what Whitney's saw
gin was originally to the cotton fibre.
Year: 1872

Would that this advice could reach
every girl in the land. The great curse
of woman is her dependence and help
lessness. And these are caused MAIN
ly by her having no trade or profession
by which she may earn O livelihood
aud be independent. And not only
girls need this advice, but their
mothers also. Mothers should impress
upon the minds of their daughters, as
we'll as upon the minds of their sons,
that it is their duty to be self-support-
ing members of the Commonwealth.
But this is far from being the prevalent
opinion to-day. The common idea is
that it is not woman's place to do any
kind of work except unremunerative
household drudgery. Girls are taught
that marriage is the end and aim of
their existence, and that it is the duty
of their husbands to support them.
This might be all very well-althnugh
it is founded upon an unSOund princi-
ple-if husbands did really support
their wives. But they do not, in the
great majority of cases. And the con-
sequence is that many, and many,
women with high aspirations and
noble longings-who, if they were un-
fettered from the thraldom of the
kitchen, would rise high in the ranks
of their profession or avocation--are
tied down to an unremunerative life of
toll and drudgery. We do not say
that women should not cook or do no
housework, but we do say that they
should be allowed the same latitude of
choice of the diversified labor of our
country that en.have. If a husband
really cherishes and loves his wife as
he should, would he not rather behold
her in her chosen profession or avoca-
ton receiving remunerative employ
ment than confined in the kitchen all
her days?
Year: 1872

What is more disagreeble than an
offensive breath? Perhaps filthiness of
person which would produce an un-
pleasant odor and unpleasant appear
ance to. the eye; but we are speaking
more OF persons of responsibility, who
move in good society. 1t is not very
uncomon for such people to have
breath so offensive as to make their
near presence extremely disagreeable.
There may be several causes for this,
but one of the more common is decayed
teeth and the want of care respecting
the cleanliness of the mouth; and
singular as it may seem, one may have
an offensive breath and not know it,
and it is subject on which friends are
very reluctant to speak, so that one may
have a bad breath for a year and all his
friends be aware of it, and lie not know
it. Let us recommend to all persons
to keep the mouth clean. After each
meal one should remove with a stick
or quill all loose particles of food from
between the teeth, and rinse the mouth
with cold water; and a soft brush at
night and in the morning, and q nice
little toilet soap on the brush, may be
used. Nine out of ten who annoy
their friends with bad breath might
obviate it entirely bv following these
directions i'm regard to the mouth
Science of Health,
Year: 1872

A great many persons call that con-
ceptiop which they have Father" !
have no objection to that. But, though
they do not believe in Christ, if they
should tell me what it was that they
called "Father," 1 should find that
every bit of it was what they got from
Christ under q new name. Men who
disagree in regard to the name OF the
being whom they worship are looking
at the same Savior, with the same
qualities, and under the same circum-
stances. And though there may be
jealousy among worshippers Of differ
en} faiths, there is no jealousy in heav-
en- between the Father, the Son and
the Holy Ghost. Whoever approaches
any conception or view of God with
childlike faith, with yearning love,
with real desire to know the truth
and to follow it, will be accepted. God
will not stand upon etiquette of q grace
which everything shall be done accord
ding to a prescribed method and in q
certain way. He has fatherly heart /;
and no father ever rebukes a 5hild be.
cause it says "mother" instead of "fa-
ther'' when it rushes into the house
after long absence from home. Mo-
ther is father, and father is mother, SO
that the child's love to either is love to
the other in ordinary circumstances.
And if it is so with US on earth, how
much more is it SO with God in the
heavenl.- land !-Beecher.
Year: 1872

Regarding this Oft-discussed question,
Professor Maudsley says: 1t has been
affirmed by some philosophers that
there is no essential difference between
the mind of woman and that of
man; and that if a girl were subjected
to the same education as a boy she
would resemble him in tastes, feelings,
pursuits and powers. To my mind it
would not be one whit more absurd to
affirm that the antlers of stag, the
human beard, and the cockscomb are
effects of education; or that by putting
a girl to The same education as a bow
she could be sexually transformed into
one. The physical and mental differ
ences between the sexes intimate
themselves very early in life, and de-
clare themselves most distinctly at
puberty. If the person is hermaphor-
dite, the mental character, like the
physical, participates equally in that
of both sexes. If either sex is mutt
lated, it approaches in character the
opposite sex. While woman preserves
her sex, she will necessarily be feebler
than man, and, having her special
bodily and mental characters, will
have, to q certain extent, her own
sphere of activity. When she has
pretty we'll divested herself of her sex,
She may then take his ground and do
his work; but she will have lost her
feminine attractions, and probably
also her chief feminine functions
.Scribner's.
Year: 1872

The Aleuts of Alaska are evidently


somewhat different stock from tn


indians of the mainland, and seem


resemble more the Japanese than any


the Asiatic people. They possess con-


siderable adaptability, and up to GER


tain point are readily taught. The old


Russian Company maintained several


schools in which Aleut children were


taught to read and write the Russian


language; and at the present time the


Alaska Commercial Company supports


schools on the fur sea islands. where,


during eight months in the year, the
Aleut children are given the rudiments
of q good English education. The
quality which most distinguishes the
civilized from the uncivilized man is
that of providence. Sufficient for the
day is the evil thereof" is emphatic
ally the motto of the savage; and it is
only as some considerable degree of
civilization has been secured, that the
desire of savings for the needs of thefu-
ture begins, to operate. Judged by
this standard, some of the Aleuts are
making great advances. A considerable
SUM of money has been saved by those
engaged in the fur seal fishery; and at
least one of them has quite large de-
posit to his credit in q San Francisco
savings bank. Some part of the ims
provement is also owing, no doubt to
the better accommodations which they
now have, for the habitation makes the
man, almost as much as the man makes
the habitation. Until very short time
ago those engaged in the seal fishery
lived as the Aeuts lived, in Underground
huts, or rather caves, which it was i'm
possible to keep clean or free from
smoke; but the American Company has
now provided for them comfortable
board houses above ground, in which
they are learning to live much more
like rational beings.-Aldskd Herald.
Year: 1872

Walls laid with mortar made of
loan and lime, in the outer courses of
walls, wash with every rain and COM
pei hou-ekeepers to wash their wiz
dOws for remedy the following is
Re commended :-lay'the outer courses
of brick in cement mortar made OF
clean sand. good lime, and ROsendale
cement. Where it has been the prac-
tice to use one bushel of good lime. let
half that quantity be employed with
half-bushel of cement For example,
let three bushels Of clean sand, not
loan, be mingled with half bushel of
good lime and half bushei of cement.
Such a proportion Of materials will
make mortar for laying bricks that
will endure for more than fifty years.
If such mortar is prepared as it should
be, only as fast as the masons use it,
the material between the bricks will
soon become about as hard as lime
stone; and drying stones will wash
out no more sand and lime than can
be diSlOdged from good bricks.
Year: 1872

My Early Rose Potatoes are ripe,
and if 1 leave them in the ground dur
ing the hot, dry weather of August,
they will be more OR less injured,
either from the high temperature of
the soil or, if rains occur, partial
second growth may injure the quality
of the tubers. Taking all the circum
stances into consideration, think it is
best to dig them and spread in the
coldest cellar l have, admitting all the
air possible without light. From sew
eral years experience with the Early
Rose, have found it one of the very
best potatoes for use in Spring as well
as Fall and Winter; but. like all the
very early sorts, more difficult to keep
through the latter part of Summer
than in Winter, although no loss need
occur, provided the tubers are carefully
harvested when ripe and stored i'm
dry, cool place -Mooro's Rural New
Yorker
Year: 1872

Sometimes Lightning produces COM
plete and instantaneous paralysis. The
suppression of movements in the vic
tim i'm these circumstances is so rapid
that those who have witnessed it
might have thought they suffered from
some illusion. Who would not think
he was dreaming if he saw an unfOr-
tunate creature, full of life and activ-
ity, petrified and motionless as rock
in less time than it requires to witness
the phenomenon? Jerome Cardan
relates that eight reapers, who were
eating their dinner under an oak-tIee.
were all struck by the same flash of
lightning, the explosion of which was
heard far away. When some people
passing by approached to see what had
happened, they found the reapers to
all appearance continuing their re-
past; one still held his glass in his
hand, and another was in the act of
putting piece of bread into his mouth,
q third had his hand in the dish.
Death had come upon them suddenly
while in these positions, when the
thunder-bolt fell. Azrael had seized
upcn them with 50 much violence that
he had impressed upon the entire sur
face of their bodies the mournful tint
of his black wings. One might have
taken them for statues sculptured out
of black marble. The catastrophe was
SO rapid that the faces of the victims
had not time to take an expression of
pain; life was suppressed so instan-
taneously that the muscles remained
unmoved. The eyes and the mouths
were open as in life aud had not the
| color of the skin been SO much changed
the illusion would have been complete.
1t has been remarked also that the
features of persons struck by lightning,
instead by being contracted, usually
assume calm, happy expression and
the conclusion has been drawn that
they enter without shock or pain into
the presence of the Infinite Being. 1t
has even been assumed that death by
lightning is the prelude to glory and
happiness.-APpteton's Journal.
Year: 1872

We do not mean by Boa long fur
tippet for the neck, which serves as a
comfort in cold weather, but mighty
living reptile, whose gentlest pressure
is death.


The IytliOn, a large serpent, is known
as the Indian Boa-thirty feet in
length. 1t acts the tigers part, lying
in wait in q hot, steamy swamp, or
beneath the underwood of a dark,
marshy forest. There it turks, half
floating in the water, half stretched on
the land, or partly twined around
some rugged tree, and partly extended
like withered branch, the color of the
creature serving to deceive the eye of
the beholder. Patiently it waits, until
q deer, a buffalo, or human being
passes that way, or comes to a stream
to drink; then, as rapid as an arrow,
it throws its body into folds or knots
around the bJdy of its victim, and
bears it to the ground. So great is its
strength, that the bones of an OK snap
in an instant. Having crushed its prey
in its folds, until a snapeless mass re-
mains, it then slowly untwines its
length, raises its head alOft, the tongue
rapidly moving to and fro, and Dre-
pares to swallow its prey. The work
proceeds slowly, and with many eff
forts its vast jaws spread out, and, as
the crushed mass proceeds into the
inside, the body of the boa expands to
four times its usual size. The creature
now sinks into state of stupOr, and in
this helpless condition it is easily killed.
The negroes, who have great love for
its flesh, now attack it, and carry it
home, cut it up in slices, and feed on
it for days.


The boa is native of the hotter pOr-
tiOns of South America, where it is the
terror of man and beast. The swift
ness of the deer is no protection; the
monkey is not safe among the branches
of the tree; nor the large fish in the
stream. 1t can climb, swim, dart
along the ground, and thus show itself
to be superior to all other living things.
Let us be thankful that the boa is un-
known in our land.-Our Young
Folks Illustrated Paper.