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Year: 1876

Among the applications for patents,
many are ridicnlons in the extreme.
One man applied for patent for meth
cd of rendering spirits visible. He said
that the only reason why spirits DO not
make themselves visible to those they
love is that the currents and disturbances
of the air annoy and bother them. In
order To overcome this objection. he pro
posed to apply snction pump to a room,
snck the air all out. and thus form
perfect vacuum. The spirits then be-
ing troubled no longer, would become
visible. As those who are 10 see the
spirits, after they do become Visible,
cannot live in a room in which there j.
no air, and as the pressure OF the at
mosphere would crush in any substance
which is transparent enough to admit
light and be seen through, even snppos
ing that the theory il true, how is il
possible 10 get sight Of the spirits?


Another asked for a patent for the
generation of steam by boring a hole





down TO the center of the earth where
everything il in a rcd hot or molten
condition. Among the advantages
claimed for this unique method is that
there will be no danger of an explosion,
and no expense for fuel or engineers. A
professor once gave the following ques-
tion TO his class, each one Of thu scholars
TO think il over and give him an answer
on the following day: "Snppose n hole
were bored through the centre of the
earth down TO China, and a cannon ball
was dropped into the hole, where would
the ball finally come TO resi?" Next
day he asked the first boy If he had
thought about the question, snd the
boy replied: Il can't say that have
given much thought to the main ques-
tion. but | have given a good deal TO a
subsidiary one. How are yon going TO
get that hole through TO China?" So in
regard to this invention. 1t is not the
expense or trouble after you have the
steam, but how is the hole to he dug 80
deep?-[ Washington Republican.
Year: 1876

The Virginia City Nevada Enter
prise says: "It is curious fact that
the one constant wish of an old "forty-
miner or any man who has lived much
in the wilds. once he becomes seriously
i'll, is TO be taken ont inIo the open air.
1t being mentioned an evening OF two
since that sick Pioneer was constant
ly hegRinR 10 be carried 10 the noun
taina and left under tree wrapped in
his blankets several first settlers pres
ent gave their experience. and all agreed
that it was the most natural feeling in
the world. The moment they were ia
ken i'll they hogan 10 think of the wilds
where they rambled in the days of their
youth and strength. Several instances
of the beneficial effects of a removal to
the open air were given. One gentle
man said that year or two since he
was taken seriously i'll. and at once be-
gan to pine for the mountains. He said
he could not get we'll unless he laid on
the ground nfder a pine, high up in the
Sierras. He physician sent him to San
Francisco, TO San Jose, TO Santa Bar
bara, and to all manner of places to
which he did not want to go, and where
he was lodged in honses and tenderlv
cared for as a sick man. He gained no
strength, and finally took the matter in
his own hand- and went mp into the
mountain and camped ont by the side oi
a big rock at the head of American riv-
er. In two weeks he was running, gun
in hand, all over the mountains. An
other man who had long been i'll in this
city had himself carried TO Lake Takoe
Arrived there, he sought out big pine
tree on the shore of the lake, and under
this he lay from morning till night
every day for over a week, doing moth
ing hut listening to the wind sigh
through the leaves overhead, and each
day fat accumulated on his ribs One
of the old miners of the davs of forty
nine is almost we'll when you tell him
that you will take him into the noun
tains where he may camp by a spring
and sleep on the ground in his blankets
every night"
Year: 1876

The Hindoo girls are graceful and ex-
quisitely formed. From their earliest
childhood they are accustomed TO carry
burdens on their heads. The water for
family use is always brought by the
girls in earthen jars, carefully poised in
this way. The exercise is said to
strengthen the mucles of the back, while
the chest is thrown forward. No crook
ed backs in Hindostan. DIR. Henry Sprv,
one of the company's medical officers
says that "this exercise of carrying
small vessels of water on the head might
he advantageously introduced into our
boarding-schools and private families,
and that it might entirely superaede the
present machinery of dumb bells, back
boards, skipping ropes, etc. The young
lady ought to be taught to carry the jar,
as these little Hindoo women do, with
ont ever touching it with her hand"
The same practice of carrying water
leads to precisely the same results in
the souih of Spain and in the south of
Italy as in India. A Neapolitan female
peasant will carry on her head q vessel
full of water to the very brim over a
rough road and not spill drop of it,
and the acquisition of this art or knack
gives her the same erect and elastic gait
and the same expanded chest and we'll
formed back and shoulders.
Year: 1876

A produce merchant Of Montreal gives
the Canadian Farmer what IL considered
the best method Of packing butter,
which may furnish useful hints to but
ter makers elsewhere. lie says:


offer the following directions TO my
friends. which, If fully complied with
will enable them to realize the highest
market quotations for their butter, in
stead Of the lowest, as isinost generally
the case, which is not generally the
fault of the consiRnee. There IL moth
ing 80 unstable as badly packed butter;
but on the contrary, il packed nicely, it
sells readily, and generally for from two
to five cents per pound more than the
same quality packed solid in frkins.
Use none but the best new barrels, and
he sure they are not burnt or dirty in.
side. The end you intend FOR the head
you should turn down, and take out the
bottom head, and cut a piece Of ins
white muslin, the gize Of the head ofthe
barrel (Which will be the head when
open) Commence IN pack your finest
and smallest rolls first. being cure TO
pack each roll on its smallest end. Be
careful to select rolls that will pack
snug. 20 there will be no space for the
rolls To shake about Continue packing
in this way until the barrel il almost
full, then shake the barrel we'll ito settle
the rullsl, and then FIJI it "A snng Az pos
rible. In packing the last one Of the
layers. pack all the rolls on their ends
bnt if there il no room, it will not mat
ter IL they are packed on their sides, IL
they will pack snug and make a full
barrel. The object Is to have the rolls
close and tight 30 they will not shake
and break. Each roll should he wrap
ped in a piece Of white muslin or cheese
Gaping; he sure and have il large
enough to cover the roll entirely. The
muslin should be soaked IN strong brine
before using it. and put on the roll wet.
II is impossible 20 send rolls to market
in good order without wrapping them
in muslin, and no matter what the mus
lin will coat, il will more than repay the
outlay in the incr ased price the rolls
thus packed will bring. Before heading
up the barrel, pour on tWo quarts Of
strong pickle. Cover the last layer with
piece Of muslin in the same manneras
you did the head. Nail up the barrel.
Be sure to drive three nails in each
hoop. Then turn the barrel two or
three times, 30 as to let the brine you
have poured in work between the rolls


Mark the top in plain letters, "roll but
ter" also the gross weight together
with the tare Of the barrel, address Of
the party to whom yon send il and the
initials OF the shipper. Rolls should


he made in the oblung shape, and OF
weigh over three or four pouuds.
Year: 1876

There is no place in the United States
in which veracity is so strictly cultivated
as Danbury, Connecticut. 1t would be
impossible to hire any Of its citizens to
tell anything but the truth, and, there
lore, the Danburian can be relied on tells
the following story ofa narrc W escape he
had from a terrible death. lie was
crossing long railroad bridge on foot
when he WAS surprised 20 see a locomo-
tive coming around 4 curve and tearing
toward him at terrific speed. The
bridge was too narrow TO allow OF escape
at either side. and be did not dare 10
jump into the yawning abyss below. in
fash he took in the situation and
formed his plan of action. He started
on a swift run toward the on-coming To-
comotive, and when within few feet oi
il he concentrated all his nerve and mus.
Gle and leaped straight up in the air
The fearful monster shot under him,
and he came down on the bridge, saved
from death but seriously shaken up by
the descent.
Year: 1876

JUsT ALiKE.-Many Of our readers
may not be aware Of the fact that the
nineteenth chapter Of Second Kings and
the thirty seventh chapter Of Isaiah are
exactly alike, except that one il divided
into thiriy-Eeven verses while the other
contains thirty -eight-ianguage in each
being the same, although worded = little
differently in some verses. Get your
Bibles and compare the two chapters.
Year: 1876

Every cellar should be rejuvenated in
the Spring. There are many ways OF
doing it, but the most popular il TO take
of your coat. look around the apart
ment, declare the family is not safe an
other day with the cellar in such con
dition. and then 90 down TO the grocery
and try and think Of something else
TDanbury News.
Year: 1876

Owing to the sudden changes of our climate.
says the Ne,o Century for Women, It is of
the greatest Importance for Americans to pro-
tect the entirsure face of their body and limbs
for nine months out of the year How we
dress during the remaining three is Of less
Importance than how we work and eat
but unless the skin is well and closely cover
cd during the fall, winter and spring, we
cannot be free from the influence of sud-
den changes This can be done by thick
or light underclothing, in silk, flannel, or
woven wear but in some form it is neces-
sary. This important precuation ought.
particularly to be remembered in dressing
little children. Their clothes ought to meet.
in such way as to leave no chance of bare
skin, for sacques and overshoes are mock
cries if the knees are uncovered As for
short stockings, they are simply traps for
disease. They may be safe in July, but,
the chilly nights of autumn ought to warn
all mothers to put them away. After the
skin is covered the clothing may be light
or heavy, as the weather. needs but as Il
simple matter of comfort complete suit of
warm underwear and long stockings do more
for women and children in way Of protec-
ton from coughs and colds than all the
furs, fannels and wraps they can possibly
put on.
Year: 1876

All intelligent travellers who have visited
Brazil speak in the most glowing terms of
the country. Professor Agassiz regarded
1t as the most productive ard interesting
country on the globe, and the one in which
it is the easiest to obtain livelihood Some
who have sailed up the Amazon declare
that vessel can be loaded with Brazil nuts
at an expense Of only a few cents per bushel.
These constitute a valuable article of COM
merce, while the oil extracted from them
is very desirable. All the tropical fruits
are produced in Brazil almost without cul-
tivation. Fhe sod in many parts of the,
country viii produce twenty Successive
crops of cotton, tobacco or sugar cane With
out the application of manure. No coun-
try in the world approaches the land of
Dom Pedro in the variety Of its forest pro-
ductlons. Professor AgasSiz states that he
saw one hundred and seventeen different
kinds of valuable woods that were cut from
piece of land not half mile square They
represented almost every variety of color,
and many Of them were capable of receiv-
ing high polish One tree furnishes wax
that is used for candles another pith
IidU 10 uSeo ioF FOOu duu sun anOJncr
yields juice which is used IN the place of
intoxicating liquor. There is single variety
of palm from which the natives obtain food,
drink, clothing, bedding, eordage, fishing
tackle, medicine, and the material they
manufacture into dwellings,, weapons, har-
poons ard musical Instruments. Doubtless
the day is not far distant when the valuable
woods of Brazil will be used for various
useful and ornamental purposes.
Year: 1876

Job Hayes, of East Marlborough, Ches-
ter county, several years ago adopted the
following novel method of clearing his barn
of rats : He filled his cart with corn fod-
der and placed basket of corn on top with
a light covering of fodder ON top of this
Hauling the cart in the barn, he placed
boards so that the rats could run up into
the cart, The next morning he hauled the
cart out into the field and dumped Its load
when rats issued from the fodder in great
numbers and fifty or more killed
Year: 1876

Ir is said that if a man is walking for
health and enjoyment, four miles an hour
is the best gait. This may be true as re-
CARDS health, but for enjoyment we re-
member one night when it took us four
hours to walk mile. 1t happened how
over, that the old folks had gone to camp
meeting, and she had the night key, and,
as far as health was concerned, we didn't
really care if it took all night.-Noragich
Bulletin,
Year: 1876

A DEBTOR severely questioned as to the
reason Of his not paying just debt, re-
piled, Solomon was very wise man,
and Sampson very strong one, but
neither of them could pay bis debts with
out money"
Year: 1876

During the week of fprayer daily meet ings were held at the Center, and also at West Goshen, and those at the Center are still continued.

 A West Goshen correspondent of the Herald mentions report that flag staff is to be reared in a snow bank on East Street next month. where one stood 100 years ago. She refers to the first of the centennial celebrations which will take place here. It has been proposed that the pole referred to, go up at the proper time, July 4th, but there is to be a cele bration, on the east side of the street few rods farther north. on the first day of Feb. next, at 12 o'clock, to commemo- rate the event when 2l Goshen men start ed of for the war in the cold regions of the North and the flag staff is on the ground ready to be raised in a snow drift.

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Year: 1876

There was in a town a Justice of the Peace which feared not God, neither re- garded man.

 And there was woman in that town :: and she came unto him saying, Avenge me of my adversary. -e

 And he would not for while but af- forwards he said within himself, Though I fear not God nor regard man

 Yet because this woman troubleth me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.

 And all the folks said Hear what the unjust Justice of the Peace saith,
Year: 1876

CRoss AND S1cKLY CHILDREN can be made healthy and strong by regulating their stomachs and bowels with Castoria

 It is more effective than Castor Oil and is as pleasant to take as honey. For Wind Collie, Sour Stomach, Worms and Costive- ness, there is nothing in existence equal to Castoria.
Year: 1876

The use of carpetings may be traced to a very remote period, although as late as the time of Queen Mary, rushes and oth- CT coarse materials were used on the floors of her apartments. For many years Flu rope received all her carpets from the East. and in many places whole families might be found in the occupation of car pet weaving. We are now producing in this country carpets of the same excel fence as those of foreign make. The Read Carpet Co.,, of Bridgeport, are said to make the best Ingrain Carpets that are sold in this Country. Messrs. HALL X REA1Aare the agents of these goods, and also keep the largest assortment of Velvet and Brussells carpets in the state. Hail < Read also enjoy deserved reputation for selling all classes of Dry Goods at the lowest market rates. They retail all do- mestic goods at the wholesale price lists and it is said that all kinds of housekeep. ing goods can be purchased there as low as in New York. We would advise our readers when in Bridgeport to visit Hall < Read. 224w
Year: 1876

We take pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of the first four numbers of Zell's Popular Encyclopedia. The whole work will be published in weekly numbers, costing 50 cents each, and will be com pleted in one year and twelve weeks. It will contain about 150,O articles. with nearly 3000 illustrations, IS fine maps. and 26OO closely printed pages, making two volumes when complete. Subscribers who do not wish to take the work so rap idly can subscribe for a number to be furnished fortnightlY, obtaining the com plete work in two and half years.

 Every family ought to have an encyclo- pedia and we know of none as good which can be had on easier terms than the one under consideration. A specimen copy with a map will be sent to any address on the receipt of 20 cts.

 The publishers of this work are Baker. Davis X Go. IT South Sixth street, Phil, the general agent for the Eastern States being Horace King. of Thompsonville, Conn.

 One of the most serious grievances the public suffers from the concentration of power in great corporations is felt in the unreasonable price we are still compelled to pay for coal. In all other industries there has been great reduction of prices within the past few years, but coal is higher than before the crash of '73. The occasion of this IS to be found in the fact that six months steady work in the Penn: sylvania collieriss with the hands still em- ployed there will produce all the coal needed for our years supply. Instead of reducing the force one half, and keeping that half at work all the year on reasona- ble wages, the owners give enormous wages to miner while at work, on the ex. pectation that he will lie idle half the time. By this arrangement, though coal is kept at high prices, the owner makes no cores pondingly large profit and the miner lays up hardly enough during his season of work to carry him through his sea son of idleness. It is state of things that could exist nowhere else than in the monopoly ridden State of Penhsylvania, and the high price of coal that results is one of the most serious endorsements of business in these hard times. It is an ''ill wind" however, that may blow us soms good. after all, for the dearer the high price of coal makes manufacturing in the cities. the sooner will the cheap water power of the country be brought in- Co use.
Year: 1876

The barrister-who knew the man be
had to deal with. and how he was to be
softened by considerate attention. and his
vanity tickled by treating him as an
equal-commenced by offering him q
chair, and asking anxiously after his
health.


Ducroe gave him the most minute de-
tails concerning it. He had been to a
dentist about back tooth, that had given
him the most excruciating agony. Dem
tist looked at it--pronounced it sound
refused to draw it-and ended by stop
ping it,


"Cost me a pound, sir-cost me a
pound"


His syesight. also, was causing him
some uneasiness.


"had to make out little bill the other
day at six months date at ten in the morn
ing, and had to light the gas, sir-had to
light the gas, just rs if it were ten at
piGhtw
Year: 1876

If there ever was an enjoyable occa-
sion on this sphere it was the German
picnic at Arroyo Seco Sunday. AT
nine o'clock the Schutzen section,
headed by their band, left the, Turner
Hall aud passed up Spring street
to Main, and'at the Pico House took
coaches for the scene of the days fes-
tivities. From the moment of depar-
ture until the arrival at the grounds
music, mirth and jollity ruled the
hour. There were in the party the
sturdy representatives. of the father
land, and the feminine representa-
tives of the home on the Rhine. The
youth were there too, and in this
characteristic of the German people
lies the real charm of their enjoy
ments. The venerable parent on oc-
casions such as this is as much child
in the participations in amusements
as the child that rolls in glee in the
grass at his feet. There were full five
hundred people on the grounds, and
not shadow of discord occurred.
There was dancing in the Pavilion,
promenading on the grounds, excel
lent lunches at the restaurant, and it
seemed as if the day itself was espe-
cially prepared for the benefit of the
picnicers. This entertainment was in
every respect pleasing Inauguration
of what we trust may be a prolonged
series of happy experiences to the
Schutzen section of the Turner'S. The
feature of the day was of course the
shooting match, in which great inter-
est was taken, For the first prize, the
gold medal and badge, there were the
following entries, and their score is as
fnllnWe.
Year: 1876

SLIGHT F1RE.-The alarm of fire
about o o'clock this morning, was
caused by the burning of a small frame
house on Riddles road, on the upper
side of the Brandywine. The fire was
extinguished by the Friendship en-
gine before much damage was done
The house was occupied by colored
nnonle
Year: 1876

From the \. Y. journal of Commerce.


Senator Sherman's bill appointing a
liquor trade commission can serve no
useful purposc-unless to those politi-
clans who wish to divert the public
mind from more practical subjects Of
investigation. This may be its object
under the circumstances attending its
appearance. A great many inquiries
into the corruption and bad manage
ment of national affairs have been set
on foot by new House of Represen-
tatives lately, and it would be pleas
ant thing for those affected by the
expected revelations to put the peo.
pies thoughts on another track. The
liquor trade commission may be one
of these devices. Before it is finally
disposed of, it will cause much discus.
sion in Congress and in the Press. and
what good will come of it if the bill is
adopted, which is very unlikely? In
that event we should have a national
commission going over identically the
same grOund which has been fully Oc-
cupied by other committees appointed
by States and by societies, equally
competent to get at the truth. There
would be no result obtained which the
public did not fully know before
| The friends of license law as against
| Prohibition would have no fear of an
advese report from this or any other
impartial body of men, who would
honestly inquire into and report upon
the moral fruits of the two Methods.
| These who have cause to dread the
consequences of an investigation are
the Prshibitionists, whose theories of
the surprising virtue of their system
have been completely upset by facts
in the States where they have been
tried. We oppose the appointment of
such a commission because it is un-
necessary, because it will he another
item of expense at time when econo-
ny is imperatively demanded, and
because it has, for an ultimate object,
the design of introducing new ques-
tion-that of the regulations of the
liquor traffic into national politics.


Notwithstanding the Insertion in the


dill, just as it was passing the Senate,
of words refer ring the purpose of the


inquiry TO objects legitimately within


The jurisdiction of Congress, the aim
of the movers is still-.just as much as


before the soothing profession was in
troduced, to usurp another of the
powers that rightfully belong TO the
States, and therefore is to be resisted.
whatever apparent goc may be claim
ed for it.
Year: 1876

CARDINAL MANNING in a recent SER
mon referred to English pauperism in
the following pointed language: En-
gland the richest of all countries, has
upon il stain and shame not 10 be
found in countries which Englishmen as
sumo to dcspise he meant pauperism, an
intense demoralized state of poverty.
Poverty in itself was an honorable state !;
but pauperism was something altogether
distinct from poverty. Pauperism was
that wrecked condition of men and of
families out of which there was no rising
by any effort Of their own. And what
did il come froml 1t would take too long
TO endeavor to say. One reason he would
state; the overwhelming prosperity of
the rich, the closeness of the hands and
the hearts, and the ignorance in which
the rich lived and died, of the state of
the poor who lived and died round
about their dwellings. The possession
of wealth and prosperity generated sell
ishness and an unconsciousness of the
suherings of Others, so that men were
wrapped up in their own daily indul-
gcnce, and were forgetful of those who
were in want"