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Year: 1875

II two persons are to occupy bedroom
during night, let them step upon the
weighing scales as they retire, and again
in the morning, and they will find their
actual weight is at least a pound less in
the morning. Frequently the loss will be
more, and the average loss through the
year will be all Of that. That is, during
the night there is the loss Of pound Of
matter, which has gone off from the bod
les, partly from the lungs and partly
through the pores of the skin. The es-
capped matter is carbolic acid and refuse
animal matter, or poisonous exhalations.
This is diffused through the air in part aud
in part absorbed by the bedclothes. If a
single ounce of wool or cotton be burned
in room il will SO completely saturate the
air with smoke that one can hardly breathe,
though there eau only be one ounce Of
foreign matter in the air. If an ounce Of
cotton be burned every half hour during
the night the air win be kept continually
saturated with smoke unless there be an
open door or window for its escape. Now
the sixteen ounces of smoke thus formed
is far less poisonous than the sixteen
ounces Of exhalations from the lungs and
bodies of the two persons who have lost
a pound in weight during the eight hours
of sleeping for while the dry smoke is
mainly taken into the lungs the damp
odors from the body are absorbed, both
into the lungs and into the pores of the
whole body. Need more be said to show
the importance Of Iilavins bedrooms well
ventilated and of thoroughly airing the
sheets, blankets, coverlids and mattresses
in the morning before packing them up in
the form Of neatly made bed?
Year: 1875

There have just been discovered in a
house in Great Peter street, London, a
sidebOard, bookcase, and an iron chest,
which were made by Peter the Great when
he was living as a workman in England,
and which are said to have remained there
and as he left them in 1893. They have
now become, from having been considered
rather as lumber, the property of Russian
pobleman-Grcgoire TschertkotF--who in
tends presenting them to the Emperor Of
Russia, in order that they may be placed
among other relics Of Peter the Great, at
Moscow.
Year: 1875

WecOntrast the peaceful life we lead now
a'days, along side Of the present Demo-
cratic organ in this city, with the turbu-
lent defensive warfare we waged with its
predecessors. Our present neighbOF has no
desire to extirpate us from the soil, and
We in return are equally content that he
shall sit under his own vine and 6g tree
with none to molest or make him afraid.
Herein consists the inestimablO value to
all Of us Of country redeemed, regens-
rated and disenthralled.
Year: 1875

Those who have been affected to believe
that the affection of the dog was for per-
sons and that of the cat for places have to
consider the fact that the PawDseS, who
recently left their reservation in Nebrask"
for one in the Indian Territory, were un-
able to induce their dogs to accompany
them. It was very reluctantly CnaE Cne
would follow bat q short distance ana
then return to tho old camp. People nom
the reservation report that hundreds o.
bowling, yelping ours are running aroaeo
the old camping grounds, hunting fOr
something to eat.
Year: 1875

tlnued or disturbed on account of the
change in the Spanish Government. The
| present minister here who has been con-
Quoting the investigation Is not likely 70
be removed, as he Is an intimate personal
friend Of Montpensier and other prominent
| persons IN the new government. There
has been a disagreement between the Span
lsh Government and our own as te the de-
tails OF the PROPOSED adjustment. Spain
proposed to this country the same
terms Of settlement that were
agreed upon between Spain and
6reat Britain. The latter country has been
paid f1Ve hundred dollars for the family Of
every white person that was massacred at
the ViFginius capture and three hundred for
the family Of every colored person mssss-
cred. This payment has been made to
Great Britain, Notwithstanding the repre-
sentatlons that the drafts were protested,
Our Government in response to the propo-
sition' has sts1ssed that the terms could not
e9s accepted on account Of the distinction
IN color That no terms could be accepted
which would make any discririi nation as
to race. The more recent deyelOpements
in the Negotiations indicate the probability
that an adjustment will be made upon the
basis Of paying a certain amount per capita
to the families of American victims Of the
Nirginius massacre.


RumOrs or CsbIues aaslehstlOns.


Runors have been unusually thick
throughout the day to the effect that seve-
raj members of the Cabinet had resigned
because they do not agree with the Presi-
dent in regard TO the use Of troops at New
Orleans. At late hour this evening these
reports were pronounced grcundiess ty one
Of the members of The Cabinet named. The
runners were based upon what is now fully
understood, namely, that four members,
Fish, BristOW, Jewell and Robson do not
approve the conduct of DeTrobriand. The
differences, however between there GENTLE
men and the President are not as yet of a
nature to neceSsitate the resignation Of any
Of them.


Buffers Louisiana Election Pro-


gramme.


The leading Democratic members Of the
House have had several informal cOnsulta-
tiOns in regard to q plan fof neh election,
and, while many are opposed to the move
rllent on Constitutional grounds, they yet
say that it IS plan in the interest of peace
and quiet. While they may not see fit to
vote for it, at the same time they do not
think it best 10 be placed in an attitude of
opposing what both sides are asking for,
and which both say will restore peace.
Year: 1875

AN Idaho gentleman stripped himself,
hung his apparel on the saw-buck, and re-
tired on pile Of cOrd-wOOd. His mistake
was discovered by hls wife, who overheard
him quarrelling with an imaginary old
woman about there not being cover enough
on the bed.
Year: 1875

they have within them the spirit and soul OF music win


this message carry gadness and peace And in the
ages 10 come with how many songs Of praise and
gratitude shall this good old mans name DO
linked II was an old law OF the Greeks that music
should be taught 70 their soldiers 30 make their ma
ture calm and gentle prevent them from becoming
cruel, barbarons and hardened from their occupation
OF blood There wise principle at the bottom OF
this Music does soften and purify the spirit OF man.
In the preaching Of Moody and Sankey how this power
OF music has been exemplihed In the songs Of Mr..
Sankey Here was q crude uncutured man, within
whose breast something Of real music, who
could by his simple, touching songs more deeply
stir the multitude, and effectively lift up the hearts OF
the people resolves for purer and better yes than
the eloquence Of all preachers Mr. Wood is establi4h
ing institution from whose portals there shall con-
santly 60 sweet messengers Of song softenng and
hnng the rugged earnest Of people, lifting
up with hope and gladness many heart bowed down,
and purifying and ennobling the purposes Of life. We
hardly conceive Of man having erected more
noble or enduring monument to his memory, or
calling into existence q moro glorious anthem Of
Year: 1875

From The Philadelphia Chronicle-democraticl


The light for the speAkershp OF the House Of Repre-
sentatves and warmer. with the chances
still strongly in favor OF fellow townsman, Hon
Sam Randall The republicans, fully aware OF bis con
summate parliamentary knowledge, Of his frmness,
coolness and immense powers OF physical endurance
would gladly see some plant individual called to
the Speakers chair; but in this We feel convinced,
they will be disappointed He has his opponents At
great disadvantage just now, and unless there be
combination OF the other candidates against him, must
win the dav
Year: 1875

DRINKING WATER.-Dr. Hall 10 op.
posed to the immoderate drinking Of
water. He says: The longer one puts
off drinking water in the morning, es-
pecially in the Summer, the less he will
require during the day; If much is drank
during the forenoon the thirst often in
creases, and very unpleasant fullness
is observed in addition to . metallic
taste in the mouth. The less o man
drinks the better for him, beyond .
moderate amount. The moro water .
man drinks the more strength he hns
to expend in getting rid of it, for all
the fluid taken into the system must 10
carried out, and as there is but little
nourishment in water, tea, coffee, beer,
and the like, more strength is expend.
ed carving them out of the system than
they impart to it. The more he drinks
the more he must perspire. either by
the lungs or through the skin; the more
he perspires the more carbon is taken
from the system; but this carbon is ne
cessary for nutrition, hence the less ..
man is nourished the less strength he-
has.


Drinking waterlargely diminishes the
strength in two ways, and yet many are
under the impression that the more wa
ter swallowed the more thoroughly Is
the system washed ont" Thus, the
less we drink at meals the better for u.s..
If the amount were limited to a single
cup of hot tea or hot milk and water At
each meal, an immeasurable good would
result to us all. Many persons have
fallen into the habit of drinking seve-
raj glasses of cold water, or several cups
Of hot tea or coffee at meals. All such
will be greatly benefited by breaking it
up ut once. It may be very well to
drink little at each meal, and, per-
haps, it will be found that in all cases
it is much better to take . single cup
of hot tea at each meal than . glass OF
cold water, however pure.
Year: 1875

g. The other day at vicksbufg o.
small colored boy fen into the river and
was rescued in a half.drowned condi-
ton. He could have easily been pulled
out by n negro floating by in a skih,
and when some one swore at the darkey
for his lethargy. he replied, "Dis yere is
my last paper collar, and the boy was
kicking water like an alligator"
Year: 1875

When the learned doctors assembled at
Concord, n. H., at the meeting Of the state
board of agriculture, were discussing some
Of those profound question relating to breed.
ing, which puzzle so many of us, Mr.. Adams,
the secretary of the board, proposed that
the speakers should "bush the road" so
that if they got in too deep water, they
would be able to follow their track back to
hard land again.


With so many conflicting opinions and
such varying experiences in the application
of manure to our soils, we are reminded Of
Mr.. Adams advice to "bush the road"
when discussing this subject, that we may be
sure of having track back to firm land.
Some cultivators seldom use stable manure
until it is pretty thoroughly decomposed,
while others cart it out fresh and apply it
Immediately to the soil. We never should
object to liberal quantities of it in either
form on our own. fields, but depends some
what upon the kind of crops cultivated
whether manure should be fine and old or
coarse and fresh.


One thing is certain, manure does not
furnish food for plants until it is partially
decomposed. Raw, fresh manure is not
really plant food, but in warm weather,
decomposition goes on very rapidly. Horse
manure, left in a stable twenty-iour hours
in warm summer weather, will frequently
throw off ammonia in very perceptible guam
titles, Just before rain, the effect may be
noticed almost Immediately.


Well rotted manure is manure which has
been worked over in pile exposed to the
atmosphere aud having moisture enough in
it to prevent wasting until fermentation
ceases. Well rotted manure may be used
in the hill or drill for starting seeds, while,
if it were unfermented, the seeds would be
likely to be spoiled by the heat which would
be given of during the process OF decOm-
position. Manure will rot faster in a pile,
if rightly managed, than if plowed under
the soil, but unless the handling is perfect,
it would be more liable to waste than if
applied to the soil.


Drawing manure in winter is a good
practice, as it can be drawn much cheaper
than during the hurrying months of spring
We should recommend the practice OF
spreading directly from the cart, evenly
over the surface, in winter, Instead of piling
it in heaps which must be moved again.


The pitch of the land should, however, be
considered before deciding to spread in win.
ter. If very steep and near the lower part
Of our farm, we should hesitate befor,
spreading ON the surface in winter, but, il
tOlerably level, we should expect to save more
in labor than we should lose by the wasting
Of the manure.-NeW England Farmer.
Year: 1875


ny of mothers and daughters that live in
dairy regions. There is nothing in the whole
routine Of farm life half as pleasant and
healthful as well regulated dairy. But
again, does it pay to take the milk to the
factory. We never have seen in all reports
any figuring better than many private dai-
ries can show indeed, we know Of several
farmers who have pledged their milk to the
factory for series Of years that now wish
themselves out of IL. All experience shows
that the most successful farmers are those
that keep their business under their own
control, and do their. own work. 1t wont
do to farm with the long lever. 1t is less
expense to take care Of the milk Of ten or
twenty COWS on the farm with the right kind
Of arrangement than to carry 1t two or three
miles to the factory. Then again, il won't
do to carry off from the farm. To the Ver-
mont farmer the manure question is of para
mount importance. Too many farms have
been impoverished. The sour milk from
dairy of twenty COWS fed TO hogs with the
right kind Of arrangement will produce 200
loads of good manure. The idea that milk
or whey can be brought back from the fac
tory in condition to be fed successfully to
hogs or calves is a mistake; they might pos
sibly be kept alive upon it; but the whole
secret in the rearing Of calves or fatteRing of
hogs lies in the manner Of feeding. What
farmer is prepared to say that henceforth
and forever the making of butter and cheese
shall be excluded from the farm-that our
tables are to be supplied with an article that
is colored with anuatto 2 And the latest
recommendation is that the milk be FIRST set
and skinned, and then that fat or tallow be
put into the cheese to supply the place Of
the cream. After thirty years experience
we have yet to learn that in the manufacture
of butter and cheese any coloring during the
summer months is necessary. In the spring,
while the cows are fed on hay butter may
be improved by the use Of carrots for color
ing, but the best way is to feed the cows
well and then the butter and cheese will be
all right L. w. b.


THE foregoing is better suited, we i'm
agiue, for the wealthy farmer than for those
in moderate circumstances, who only oc-
easionally have "hired help around, and
who work as hard as said help when they do
have it. We believe tho argument in favor
of the factory system that it relieves the
average farmers wife of heavy burden is a
valid one. "E. w. b." however, expresses
views which we can heartily endorse in re-
spect to the value and profit of keeping hogs
for the manure Which is the best, the in-
dividual or the cooperative plan, is an open
question to dairymeu, and We have no doubt
those who make the best quality and supply
the best market can do considerably better
than to patronize factory.
Year: 1875

Any reader of our Eastern agricultural
papers sees frequent Rllusions made to plioS-
pilates and supeyphosphateS. The former
word merely means decomposed bones or
the carbonate OF lime. SaperphoSphdte is n
scientific preparation of this material for
fertiizing, and is two parts BONE one part
sulphuric acid, and three parts water.-E1.


Nowadays chemistry is taught in all our
academies and many OF our public schools !;
yet il is perhaps asking to much too require
that editors Of agricultural papers should
know any thing about science more closely
interviewer with successful agriculture than
any other. Certainly we would not advise an
agricultural editor who, at county fair,
had to enquire which were the Shorthorns
and which the Jerseys, to make chemistry
his first study.


The FIRST sentence in the above extract is
probably correct. 1t is something to have
the exordium Of a scientific lecture in accord
with facts. But the two succeeding SEN
not a single approximation to the truth.
Phosphate does not mean decomposed bones ;
it does not mean carbonate of lime. Super
phosphate is not scientific preparation oil
carbonate Of lime il is not two parts or any
part bone; it contains no sulphuric acid
and no water.


Perhaps it may be as well not to stop
here, but to say briefly just what phosphates
and superphosphates Of lime are. They are
both Of them compounds OF an acid called
phosphoric acid, with lime. Phosphoric
acid is itself a compound Of phosphorus with
the oxygen Of common air. Phosphoric acid
is produced when phosphorus is burned; in
pure form it appears as n white powder,
which, dissolved in water, has very sour
taste. Phosphorio acid combines with other
bases besides lime, and these compounds are
all called phosphates a fact evidently un-
known to the writer of the above extract
With lime it makes three distinct compounds
or phosphates, as follows


Three parts lime one part phOsphOric acid


2.-Tuo paI'I hn', one & part PhosPhSre sS s9'd'


The first of those phosphates or three
lime phosphate, is the phosphate which i;
found in bones and in the phosphate min
erals used for making fertilizers such as
the South Carolina phosphate and the phos
phatic rock called aPatite. 1t is insolublC
in water, and consequently useless as .
fertilizer until il is in some way changed sc
that water can dissolve it, since plant
always take their food in fluid form.


The second compound of phosphOric acid
and lime, or two-lime phosphate, is some
what rare substance, and is also nearly in
soluble in water.


In order to make the phosphate Of lime in
bones and mineral phosphates useful as I
fertilizer, il must be made soluable in water
and this is done by changing it into th'
Year: 1875

1t will be remembered by the readers Of
the FARMER that made a statement last
February about my raising corn fodder
which fed 10 FIVE COWS, from the time that
feed began to fail, in summer, las they re-
quire it, until the first of January.


Twill make an addition to that, viz: |
have fed out my oats, with the exception of
thirty bushels which l trod of with my
horses, by throwing bed of oats on the
barn floor, and then driving the horses over
them ten or fifteen minutes, so as to obtain
4 few OF the ripest for seed, aud some to
feed out, or to put with corn meal,) which
grew on less than two acres Of ground, and
have kept the same cows until the middle Of
April, and if had not thrAshed any of l
think they would have kept them until the
first of May, thus winteriug the FIVE cows on
what grew on three acres Of land. l be-
lieve that it would have bOen much better,
in long run, to have fed my corn fodder
and oats together, instead of separate al
though never had COWS do better, in the
amount Of milk given aud the amount of but
ter made, than mine did while feeding corn
fodder, and my COWS have done we'll since on
the oats. But they should be well shaken
apart, so as not to leave handfuls of them
together, Tor in bundle,) for then they will
be so greedy that they will not chew or mas
ticate them thoroughly, and the grain will
not be thoroughly digestcd.


Some object to keeping oats, for the rsa-
son that the mice will work and eat them.
My opinion is that the mice must live, and
have something to eat, and If you cut your
hay early they eat the heads and blossoms
aud the teuderest part, but if cut late they
will live on the heads and seed, and if
should keep NOW of oats until spring, l do
not think the mice would consume half as
many as one set of thrashers would in thrash
ing them. That is, four horses to feed and
then to pay the thrashers, then furnish two
or three extra hands and pay them, and
lastly, though not least, to board the lot oi
men, would take moro oats than the mice
could eat


do not object to thrashing oats if one
has more than he can feed, but would it moi
be better to raise stock and feed them out
and make manure


Now, brother farmers, l wish for your
opinion in regard to feeding oats. l cut my
oats when one.half turned.


NATHAN WAY.


West Burke, April 20.
Year: 1875

Much has been said in agricultural pa
pers about the advantage Of mules. l have
raised some Of the best l ever saw, and
have had some means Of comparing them
with the horse. It is very true that the
mule win climb steep bill, il it is free from
mud, with bigger load according to his
weight than horse. 1t is true that he
will rough it through hard winter better
than horse, and it may be also that he is
less liable to disease than horse, but he is
slow and lacks spirit. In deep mud he is
almost worthless.


He seems to have but little power to draw
his feet out of sticky soil, and the exertion
tires him and he loses heart. In slough
where the spirit of the horse prompts him
to gallant struggle to regain the solid
ground, the mule gives up and lies content
edly down in the mud. Of conrse some
mules are worse than others in this respect,
but none are equal in mud to the most aver
age horse.


For very hard, heavy work, where there
is no mud, the mule will always be valua-
BILE, but as long as it remains true that time
is money we must prefer the horse to the mule.


The rage for mules commenced in the
United States about seventy-6ve years ago
and has been revived at different periods
since but the horse still continues to bear
sway, and falsify the oft repeated predic-
tions made many years ago that the mule
would eventually supersede the horse in the
general work of the farm. For heavy haul
ing aud rough usage on the hard streets Of
cities l have no doubt but that the mule is
the most economical. For this sort of work
there is demand for him and he may be
raised for the market with profit; but it is
simple folly for any one now, after seventy
Eve years Of experience with mules in the
United States, to talk about their taking the
place of horses-Cor. Iotoa Fine.Stock
Gazette.
Year: 1875

A dOughmestic dlfiiculty-heavy bread.
To make tall man short-try to borrow
five dollars of him.


When man can't find anything to do, he
has lived long enough


How immense appear to us the sins which
we have not committed.


II you are out in driving storm. don't
attempt to hold the rains.


Aman is successful when he makes life
give him what he wants


In what ship has the greatest number of
people been wreckedp Courtship.


Nevada ice-dealers are already preparing
TO double their prices next summer, upon
the ground that the crop will be almost en-
tirely eaten up by the grasshOppers.


Every man who mails package subject
to the new postage rates drops it into the
hole with wish that Senator Ilamlin had
to sit for two hours on n hot shovel.


In reply to young writer who wished to
know /" which magazine will give me the
highest position quickestP" cotemporay
advises a powder magazine, if you contrib
ute fiery article"


If George Washington himself had oAly
been cross-examined by Judge Fullerton be-
fore he died, we have no doubt it would
have turned out that he really lied about the
cherry tree after ALL


A subscriber to a Southwestern newspaper
died recently, leaving four years subscrip-
tion unpaid The editor appeared at the
grave and deposited in the coffin palm
leaf fan, u linen coat and thermometer.


"Cut this out it may save your life," is
the heading OF an advertisement in the Yer
mont Citizen. A New Hampshire man cut
it out, pasted it in hrs hat, and the same day
was killed by brick which fell irom the top
ofa building.


A man died at revival meeting, and n
Chicago reporter says " his lamp of life was
burned out, the golden bowl was broken the
silver lcord was loosed, and the spirit had
flown to its giver." He meant TO convey the
impression that the man was dead.


The Smith family are of heather origin,
although they seem to have multiplied like
the sand Of the sea, as was prophesied of the
Israelites, for in the 10th verse of the 18th
chapter Of LIST Samuel we read There was
no smith found throughout all the land ol
Israeli