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Year: 1870

instances OF GREAT HUMAN STRENGTH.
The hamais or porters of Lake Van, in
Asia Minor, are the strongest men known
They come to Smyrna to 10 the porter
age, and have hereditary clai.c to the
business. There is man in Calh0an
County, Miss. who is supposed to be the
strongest man in the State, if not in the
entire South. He is tbirty-fve years of
age, and weighs two hundred and thirty
five pounds. He has been known to car
ry three bars of railroad iron, when it
takes from three to five ordinary men to
carry one. He can take cask contain
ing forty gallons of whiskey or water
(the former is preferred we presume) and
raise it from the ground and drink out Of
the bung-hole with as much ease as others
could out of a common pitcher; and hO
has frequently taken barrel of -four un.
der each arm and balancing sack of salt
on his head, carried them for several hun
dred yards with apparently but little eff
fort. He offers to bet that he can lif
thirteen hundred pounds.
Year: 1870

VIRTUE OF BoRAx.-It may not be
generally known how very valuable borax
is in various purposes of household use.
We find it the very best cockroach exter-
minator yet discovered. One-half ponnd,
costing but fifty cents, has completely
cleared large house formerly swarming
with them, so that the appearance of one
in month is quite novelty. The va
rious exterminating powders puffed and
advertised have been found not fully ef-
tectlve, tending rather to make the roach
es crazy than to kill them There is
something peculiar, either in the smell or
touch of borax, which is certain death to
them. They will flee in terror from it,
and never appear again where it has once
been placed. 1t is also a great advantage
that borax is perfectly harmless to human
beings, hence no danger from poisoning.
1t is also valuable for laundry purposes.
The washerwomen of Holland and Bel
gium, SO proverbially clean, and who get
up their linen SO beautifully white, use
refined borax as washing powder, instead
of soda, in the proportion of large hand
full of borax powder to ten gallons of wa
ter. They save soap nearly one-half. All
the large washing establishments adopt
the same mode. For laces, cambrics, &c.
an extra quantity of the powder is used !;
and for crinolines (requiring to be made
stiff a stronger solution is necessary
Borax being neutral salt, does not in
the slightest degree injure the texture of
linen. Its effect is to soften the hardest
water, and therefore it should be kept on
the toilet table. AS way of cleansing
the hair. 1t leaves the scalp in a most
cleanly condition, and the hair is Just
sufficiently stifened to retain its place.
This stiffness, however, can be readily re-
moved, if Objectionable, by washing with
water. Borax is also an excellent den
tri6c dissolved in water, it is one of the
best tooth washes. In hot countries it is
used in combination with tartaric acid and
bicarbonate of soda, as cooling bever.
age.
Year: 1870

THE PEA FOR FoDDER.-" The pea, like
the bean, has been grown almost exclu-
sively for its seed, but probably it may, in
many cases, be more profitable to gather
it as fodder plant before the seed arrives
at maturity, as stock eat the grain plant
most greedily. An analsis of the whole
plant shows how valuable the dried her.
bage must be, specially for growing ami
mails, owing to it is high percentage of
nitrogcnized or transforming substances
it is rich in sugar and the supporters of
respiration"
Year: 1870

BY GEO. COOPER.
Gone beyond the darksome river;
Only left us by the way;
Gone beyond the night forever;
Only gone to endless day
Gone to meet the angel faces,
Where our lovely treasures are;
Gone awhile from our embraces
Gone within the gates ajar


There's a sister, there's brother


Where our lovely treasures are;


There's father, there's mother,


Gone within the gates ajar.
One by one, they go before us;
They are fading like the dew
But we know they re watching DER us,
They the good, the fair, the true!
They are waiting for u.s. only
Where no pain can never mar;
Little ones who left us lonely,
Watch is through the gates ajar.
Gone where every eye is fearless,
Only gone from earthly care
y, the waiting, sad and cheerless,
Till we meet our loved one therci
Sweet the rest from all our rowing,
Land of light and hope afar!
Lo our Fathers hand so loving
Sets the pcarly gate ajar
Year: 1870

NhSLN'E UhEbN OVKN IN DKINH.
Gather green corn, as much as one
wants to pickle, husk and take off the silk
nicley and put it in a boiler of boiling wa
ter, cook till thoroughly done, take it out
and let cool While letting it cool make
strong brine that will swim an egg
then cut the corn off the cob, carefully put
it in well glazed stone jar to prevent it
from soaking through, then pour your
brine over the corn till covered, and cover,
and you have corn that will keep for
years.
Year: 1870

Men may be more liberal and just than
women, but they rarely take woman for
wife unless they believe her tie be chaste
as ice and pure as snow. If women were
as careful in choosing their husbands, we
think there would be fewer marriagen, or
else wonderful reformation would be
begun
Year: 1870

Two yards of EARTH and marble bus:
Reared aloft from the common dust,
And hero's sabre covered with rust,
And the sunsets splendor streaming around,
And thousand glores under the ground.
Two yards Of earth and the potter's field,
With the merciful angels alone to shield
a murdercr's grave, a convict fled
Into the future to meet the dead;
And the rank wild grasses scattered around
And crimes and curses under the ground.
Two yards of earth, and heavens air
Tanning the lilies white and fair;
And modest volets gathered around,
And spotless virtue under the ground.
Two yards of earth and woman's name,
Whose life was woe and whose death was shame
And the cold rain beating naked mound,
And thousand miseries under the ground.
Two yards of earth o who shall say
Whether of these is the better clay
God give us grace in our hapless round
That leads to this kingdom under the ground


Edgar L. PartoR.
Year: 1870

EF An advertisement of "a small
sewing machine" for one dollar was an
swered by young man in the rural dis
tricts. who received in return for his dol
lar shoemakers awl worth about fifteen
cents
Year: 1870

One ofthe most valuable Improvements,
not only from sanitary but also military
point of view, is the introduction of the
new war, sausage and war bread by Prus-
sia. The Commissary Department of all
German armies now distributes liberal
extra supply of condensed food to the
soldiers in the field in the shape OF war
sausage and war bread. Inasmueh as the
Prussian Government had found it ex-
tremely difficult during the war of 1866 to
produce always and at the right moment
fresh beef and bread, which besides, would
not keep if distributed in several days
rations, and as the rapid and independent
movements of the armies, upon which
Prussian strategists so much depeud, was
thereby frequently delayed, war sausage
was introduced, which is made OF fresh
beef chopped up fine and slightly smoked;
this is mixed up with fine chopped fresh
suet, various spices and salt, and finally
with pea -four or ground peas, and filed
into castings of uniform size and thick
ness.


If no other food is to be had, the soldier
cuts off piece of his war sausage, strips
off the casing, breaks the substance into
his tin pot, and, with a cupful of water
mixed with it, he soon has cooked for
himself an excellent and most nourishing
stew. Besides this highly valuable war
sausage he carries several small loaves of
war bread, which is baked in a manner
similar to that of our American crackers


1t is composed of two parts wheat and one
part rye -four, and is very hard but it
djssoIves easily in water, wine, or beer


Fhis war bread is also of uniform weight
leach loaf about one pound) AID size, like
the war sausage, and the two together
containing all the animal and vegetable
substances necessary to sustain life for al
most anylength of time, and, being most
nourishing besides, are quite as valuable
an improvement as some of the new-fash-
Ioned guns, cannons, cartridges, and pro-
jectiles, &c.; for, much as depends on the
latter, the soldier who handles them de-
pends on his stomach; and man who has
a goodsized piece of such war sausage
inside him for breakfast; and a found OF
war bread slowed away on the top of it,
certainly can fight better and longer than
the poor fellow, who has had nothing to
eat but sour apples for twenty four hours,
like it happened to the French at Woerth,
where not only privates but officers were
seen begging from door to door for piece
of bread. OF course, the German soldier
gets fresh beef, bread, and vegetables
wherever they can be readily procured,
but whenever rapid movements are to be
executed he is taught to depend almost as
much on his war bread and war sausage as
his needle-gun. And so it seems after all
that the much ridiculed German sausage
and pretzel, or substances akin to them,
are to become of as much historical motor
lety, and as important an implement in
modern warfare as the terrible needle gun.
Year: 1870

A TALK WITH CATTLE MEN"-The
Bulletin correspondent at the late State
Fair after interviewing the representatives
of the "horse interest,"" took a turn among
the cattle men, and reports the following
conversation with one of them:


While the races were progressing we
went off to get preliminary look at the
cattle, There are not more than % head
of seattle, all told. Of really noticeable
horned stock. These include two or three
lots of Durhams; and are among the best
in the State. One or two lots of Deyons,
one.or two thoroughbred Ayershire cows
aud bulls, both very old, but good There
was pot one Alderney on the ground,
although to our certain knowledge more
than so head of thoroughb ed Alderneys
are owned in California | shall have
son ething further to say about cattle in
another letter. Falling in with an intel
ligeut breeder, who shows some of the best
stock ever brought to the fair, the talk ran
about as follows:


!. Corres-Then the horse men have
matters pretty much their own way out
here?


Breeder.-Yes, and most of them hate the
sight of every head of thoroughbred cattle
on the ground They talk about them
contemptuously, ond would run their horses
over them if it were not that horse flesh is
up AID cattle are down. Do you see that
long line of hauling sulkey's turned up
there on the other side of the track? That
tells. the story


Corres.-Then we want improved breeds
of horses as well as cattle


Breeder.-Yes, but | tell you that these
here men are doing little or nothing to en-
rich the State. 1t is fancy business.
They breed mostly for speed they devel-
op nothing but lean, lank lot of racers,
which the mass of the people don't need.
Bottom and speed up to a certain standard
are we'll enough. Most of these horses
are bred for sporting purposes, and the
more of this business done, the poorer the
State will become


Corres.-There is sound force in those
observations But don't you push your
views little too far +?


Breedcr-No. That crowd of yelling,
betting horse men will never develope the
resources of the State. They draw crowds
though. There are some thousands over
there looking at the horses. There have
been about twenty men, all told, around
here looking at these cattle today tell
you, we will have to furnish Dread and
meat for these horse men yet, or they will
all starve
Year: 1870

A GENTLEMAN AND WIFE WISH LARGE FRONT
IN Room, with abundant closets, Broadway. with
good Board, until Sept l. when Bedroom connecting will
be ured for additional person be moderate
for summer and winter Address G box 1861 New York
Post Office
Year: 1870

MORMON COMMENT ON THE CONGRESSIONAL
ANTI-PoLYGAMY BILL.-The Salt Lake city
News, speaking Of the passage of the Cullom
bill by the House, says: "The striking out of
the fifth section rids IL Of several Of its most
repulsive features They were too strong for
Congress to swallow. Many thought the House
would never pass this bill in any form, and that
its clear invasion of the constitution would kill
il. We cannot say what the Senate will do with
II, but this We can say-f il passes and then
should receive the signature of the President
and become law, il will not meet the wishes or
answer the expectations of its author. Person
ally. we care not what action be taken. Perse-
cution drove us from township to township, and
soon to a Territory. IL has made ms strong,
thrifty and fearless. The most valuable ex-
perience we possess to-day we gain through
persecution, and we do not dread its effects If
men wish to push Mormonisn ahead let them
persecute 1t. Pass the Cullom bill, and il this
fails raise armies and attempt to fight, drive
and exterminate, and then watch the results.
Ii the bill should pass the Senate and be signed
merits and probable effect"
Year: 1870

ANNEXATION OF SAN DoNINGo.-The friend,
OF the San Domingo treaty In the Senate ar
not sanguine of getting the treaty ratified by
the requisite twO-thirds vote, but believe tha
there is a majority in favor thereof in both tn,
House and Senate. 1t is therefore proposed
in the event of Its rejection by the Senate, t.
bring in joint resolution providing for the an
nexation of San Domingo, the terms of which
will be similar to the resolution annexing Texa,
during the administration of President Tyler.
Year: 1870

NEARLY EVERY MEMBER of Congress is in
receipt Of numerous letters from the Nationa
Banks in their districts urging them to Oppose
the Funding bill when it shall come before The
House.
Year: 1870

The APPEAL OF the letter-carriers throughout
the country for an increase of salary has been
decided on adversely by the House Committee
on Post Offices, who believe that the House is
not disposed to increase any salaries.
Year: 1870

The House PUBLIC LANDS Committee have
decided adversely on bill giving subsidy of
land to the trans-continental railroad, thus in
dicating adverse action to the land grant policy
in future.
Year: 1870

UNIVERSAL SUIcIDK.-Statistics show that
the ratio Of annual increase In suicide all over
the world IL from to 5 Der cent, while the
ratio Of increase of population Is about 1.64 per
cent. year. This suggests the possibility Of the
and resulting consequently in the self-extinc-
ton Of the human race. The St. Louis Repub-
lican, gravely reviewing the statistics, looks
mournfully forward to the time when there
will be left but one human being on the planet,
and he, with Q rope around his solitary weasand,
shall jump from barn rafter, and leave the un-
fortunate planet without IN inhabitant.
Year: 1870

THERE WAS SOMETHING of a sensation
amongst the audience at the National Theater
last night, in consequence of the appearance in
private box of party OF six cOlored people
and one white person Report had it that SEN
ator Revels and George L. Downing were in
the party, and considerable curiosity, mixed
with expressions of ill-feeling, was shown
in various parts Of the house. No open mani
festations OF dsapproval were made during
the performance, but as the audience emerged
a good many expressed themselves with some
warmth in regard to the innovation.
Year: 1870

The REPAIRS ON WESLEY CHAPEL on. E.
Church) are completed, and the audience room
viii be opened tomorrow evening for the first
Time on the OccasiOn of the exhibition to be
given by the sabbath School. The room is well
worth visit, the arrangements for the comfort
OF the audience being very complete. The
light for evening services comes from q dome in
the center of the ceiling, and produces a most
agreeable effect. The walls and ceilings have
been newly and tastefully frescoed the seats
recovered with green rep; and new carpets
new paint, and many other Improvements 60 to
make this one of the most pleasant audience
room in this city. The rededicatiOn services
are 10 be held next Sabbath.
Year: 1870

FIRE.-AbOut O'Clock this morning an alarm
OF fire was turned in for the burning of stable
at the corner of n street south and x street west
belonging to John TOOmbs, who lost his wagon
cart and dray. The loss is about 500, insured;
supposed incendiarism.
Year: 1870

AN ACT to lay a flag footway across Seventh


street west, at the intersection Of q street


north.


Be IL enacted By the Board of Aldermen dnd Board
Of Common Council Of the City of Wdshingtoa, That
the Mayor be, and he is hereby, authorized and
requested, to cause a flag footway to be laid
across Seventh street west, between the south
west and northeast corners of street north and
said Seventh street west; and sum sufficient 10
pay the expense thereof is hereby appropriated
out OF the Third and Fourth Wards in equal
proportions. The work to be done in such man
ner and under such superintendence as is pro-
yided by existing law.


Approved, December Il, 1862
Year: 1870

An ACT authorizing the laying of a diagonal


way at the intersection Of T street north and


Seventh street west


BE IL enacted By the Board ef Aldermen and Board
of Common Council Of the Cityof Washington, That
the Mayor be, and he is hereby, authorized 20
have diagonal way tagged at the intersection
OF street north and Seventh street west from
the northwest to the southeast corner of said
space, and that the same shall be paid for in
equal proportions out of the Third and Fourth
Ward funds. GApproyed. Decenher II 1s<Q
Year: 1870




What il 1t that makes those men
who associate habitualiy with women
superior to others? What makes
that woman who is accustomed and
at ease In tine society of men superior
to her sex In general? Solely because
they are In the habit of free, graceful,
continued conversation with the other
sex. Women In this way lose their
frivolity, their faculties awaken; their
delicasies and peculiarities unfold oil
their beauty and captivation in the
spirit Of intellectual rivalry. And
the men lose their pedantic, declam-
atory or sullen manner. The coin Of
the understanding and the heart Is
changed continually. The asperities
are rubbed of, their better materials,
polished and frightened, and their
richness, like the gold, Is wrought
into finer workmanship by the finger
of woman than It ever could by those
OF men. The iron and steel Of their
characters are hidden, like the char
acter aud arm0r of giant, by studs
aud knots OF good and precious stone
when they are not wanted In actual
warfare.
Year: 1870

Jim Fisk, of New York, who has
had q great deal Of personal inter
course with President Grant, and
who knows the man about as thor
oughly as anybody else, recently gave
reporter for the New York San, the
following description OF the present
occupa mt Of the White House:


"Grant Ii not only q greedy little
wretch, but he's fool. He doesn't
know anything. He hasn't brains
enough to comprehend the position
In which such thing places him be-
fore the country. All he can see In
the matter Is that he saved q thous-
and dollars by it. He Is too destitute
Of sensibility to comprehend what
you say about the subscriptions be-
Ing sacred offering upon the altar
Of friendship.' He IL Incapable OF
true friendship, and never felt any Of
the sentiment which true friendship
inspires. To sum him up In one sem
tence, he IL the nations hog"
Year: 1870

The story of that Ingenious and able
woman in Maine, who lost her way one
night while driving through rain-storm,
and who, instead Of giving up and freez-
ing to death with her baby, unhitched
the horse, overturned the sleigh, crept
underneath, and slept comfortably in the
buffalo robes till help came, finds an an
tithetical anecdote concerning woman
in Texas who displayed equal executive
ability in a much hotter emergency.
This Texas woman lives about mile
from the little town of Waco, and a long
distance from neighbors She discovered
her house on fire one day. The woman
did not sit down and shriek as the girl
of the period might have done. She
at once summoned her forces, consisting
of one negro man, three ladies and four
little children. Bring water" she said,
and ssturate every blanket on the
place; and here, Lewis, take your AK and
come with me" A hole was speedily
cut through the roof, and while the Others
brought blankets and water, this woman
and her assistants on the outside spread
them over the flames, the fire was put
out, and the house saved.
Year: 1870

Thomas Meehan, the intelligent OBJ.
server, and editor of the Gardener S
Monthly, writes as follows TO the Phila-
delphia Press:


1t is surprising that the barbarous old
practice Of billing up corn should still
find advocates and followers. After
years of effort on the part of the intelli
gent portion Of the agricultural and hor-
ticultural press, it is now pretty we'll
understood that it will not do to continu
ally plow and injurc the surface roots OF
fruit trees in the orchard. But We have
heard intelligent men say that though
they would disturb an orchard os little as
possible in this way, yet corn was quite
another matter. But the laws which
govern the nutrition of plants are pretty
much the same all through. Roots love
darkness, and yet wish to be as near rs
possible to the surface and whether it
10 the root Of .he apple ..ee o, .h> -ee% Of
q cornstalk, makes no difference in the
working of this law. If We plow deep
and cut of the surface roots, the deeper
ones are unable to reap any benefit from
the atmosphere; aud those covered by
the soil plowed over them are in just the
same position. This is the science OF
those who have tried the matter by care
ful and intelligent experiments. So far
as We know, every such test has resulted
10 favor Of fat culture and against hill
ing up.


1t is very fashionable to rail at "mere
theorists !" yet We believe that many Of
our absurdest practices have resulted
in the most commonplace theories, and
that this is one Of them. Some one
probably noted the little rootlets coming
out Of the joints above the soil, and
thought they wanted earth to cover them
Hilliog was started on the theory that il
was helping nature or it may have origi
mated with some lazy fellow who thought
he would not hoe or harrow early, bu
wait little longer, and then one good
plowing would do the whole job.
| However, no matter how it originated
it is d mistakenly bad practice, and shoult
be left to 60 the way of many absur(
things.
Year: 1870

II is the fate Of all good ideas to be
pushed to extremes. Ever since the day
when the ass broke into that Grecian
vineyard and taught by his browsing that
some good follows summer pruning,
thousands of leaves have been stripped
of, aud millions of vines injured by d too
free use of the pruning knife. We have
labored as sincerely as any, to show how
much is lost in this way and have
pointed out that pruning as generally
practiced, tends to weaken vitality aud
pave the way for future diseases.


But we observe that some Of our pu.
pills are going to another extreme.
"Prune not at all" is getting to be popu.
lar but too common cry little pruning
unlike a little learning, is not at all a
dangerous thing.


Darwin has shown that there is
amongst individual plants a struggle for
lite always going on. The stronger
crowds out the weaker one but so long
as It lives. the weaker has some effect on
the stronger one.


The same law is true of branches ns Of
distinct plants each struggles for light.
The vigorous shoot shades the weaker /;
but that in turn somewhat interferes with
the strong one, and prevents it from util
iziug the light to the best advantage.


Thus it will be seen, that to- have the
best results, VIC must regulate this strug.
gle in nature. A dozen branches we'll
developed and having the ability to dis.
play all their leafy charms to the admir-
ing sunlight, will DO worth much more to
the plant than double the number closely
interfering with one another.


A good gardener must have foresight.
He should be able to see in INA agination
the tree year ahead Of its real growth,
and prune in advance Of the necessity
of the tree. This will prevent much of
the Temporary injury which undoubtedly
flows from severe pruning all at once, and
which If annually continued is great evil.
Gardeners Monthly.