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Year: 1872

There appears to be complete rcvolu-
ton going on among the Shakers and a
split among their eighteen rich societies
is imminent. The marriage question has
last assumed such Importance among
the younger branches of the community.
particularly at Mount Morris. n Y, that
it is not improbable general division will
shortly take place between those who ia
vor and those who are opposed TO matri-
mony.
Year: 1872

Well, now, here IS religions sect
sprung up in London, which, if it con-
tinues and increases, will certainly make
some noise in the world. The real name
OF 1t has not yet been reported to US, but
the ungodly style it The Howlng Re-
pentants The main business of the
votaries is to howl At stated periods
during the day they elevate their voices,
and twice during the night they get out
of bed and howl Divine service thew
conduct in the open air probably for
fear of bringing down the roof. We
mourn to say that the police are hard
upon these devotees. and do often conduct
them to the station houses, where if thew
go on with the exercises, they are pro-
badly gagged.-Er.
Year: 1872

This practice is by some hutter-makers
looked upon as Injurious, and it is n point
upon which diverse opinions are held. One
says, II never allow Il particle OF water to
touch my butter 1t is claimed that by
this practice the butter has richer flavor,
that washing takes away. If butter could
he entirely freed from casein, which even
washing will not do perfectly, it would keep
an almost Indefinite time with good care
But we are told that unwashed butter con
tains about five or six per cent of casein,
while that which is we'll washed will retain
only about one per cent. of it.


We believe that it is better to wash the
casein than to work it ont, even If working
would do it as well, fDr the reason that the
less you work the butter the better it is
II there were some process whereby the
butter could he extracted from the milk
immed iatcly after it is taken from the cow,
and the animal heat is gone, without injury
to the butter, the keeping qualities OF the
butter would be greatly improved. Is it
hoping too much that science viii one day
do it?


\ large portion of the milk us it comes
from the COW Is water. and why should
pure water injure butter? We can readily
see that il the water contains mineral sub
stances, on il impure, If would produce in
jury no one cialInS but that washing Is
necessary where butter is intended for
long keeping; and if, as is, claimed the aro-
ma is washed away, there is no doubt but
that this aroma is from casein that remains
in all unwashed butter, for even washing
will not extract all of it.


One thing is exploded that has long been
hobby, and that is, you must pound about
so long to get good butter. If the temper
ature is right, and the previous care has
been right, five or ten minutes will bring
rs good or better butter than hours of
pounding. This we have demonstrated to
our satisfaction. and we are prepared to
expect that other changes in butter making
will come in due time. The more quickly
butter is made, and the air is shut from it,
the better, if only the next hour after the
milk is drawn from the COW. Fredonia,
n. V, Censor.
Year: 1872

A SHARP IIrT. An exchange says: "A
theatrical company was playing at Buffalo
the other evening, the hero and heroine Of
the drama being, the former very wealthy
and the latter very poor, but beautiful
and sentimental. She fancied it would
not be well for them in such unequal
circumstances to be united in the bonds
OF wedlock, but was willing to marry him
if their worldly conditions could be made
somewhat equal, and the quickest way
she thought would be for him to rid him
self Of his wealth. He fell into the view
also, and in his glowing passion for con-
nubial bliss, he bounds on the stage,
exclaiming, what shall do to get rid OF
my money! A little fellow up in the
gallery answered in shrill voice, Bet
it on Grants election = The theatre rung
with roars of laughter and applause, and
it was some minutes before the play
could proceed for the tumult the little
fellows apt answer had occasioned."
Year: 1872

The consumption of animal ivory is
something enormous. Sheffield alone
would demand the killing of 10000 ele-
plants annually, were there no other
sources of supply. One great source of
late years is found in the tusks of man.
moths, an extinct species of elephant,
which lived in northern Siberia some two


hundred thousand or more years ago,
when that country enjoyed a temperature
like that of the tropics at the present day
Year: 1872

The London Omnibus COMPANY use six
thousand horses. 70 economize in feed is
an important matter, and has led to several
tests, the result of which is recorded AZ
follows


To each Of three thousand of their horses
they gave 4 daily allowance of ground oats
sixteen pounds, ground hay seven and one
han pounds, and cut straw one and one
eighth pounds hay and straw being
cut into pieces about half an inch long, and
well mixed up with oats in a little water,
and SO making 26 pounds of food for each
horse. And to each of the other 1000 horses
lheY gave a daily allowance of whole or
hnbrulsed oats 10 pounds, and uncut or
whole hay and straw, l3 pounds, without
any water in our old-fashicned way max
ing - pounds of this food for each horse,
And what was the result? Why it was soon
discovered that the horse which was fed on
twentysix pounds of ground oats remained
in good condition, and could perform as
much work and do j1st as WELL too, as the
horse did which consumed thirty-two
pounds of food as aforesaid, thus showing
a saving of six pounds of food per day in
favor of bruised oats and cut hay straw,
which, if valued at five cents per day,
amounted to a saving of the neat little sum
of $500 per day. Turf, Field and Farm.


late writer lays down this as an axiom
in drainage: 1t is not judicious to spend
money in draining land that needs draining,
so long as we can use the money to good
advantage in the better cultivation of other
good land that does not need draining.
Year: 1872

ruin man whom the Administration
did not love was SO well concocted as
to be sure of success.


1t was unfortunate for the Admins
trati0n In this adventure, first, that
Judge Wright being the authorized
agent of individual Indians, the gov
ernmcnt was not in such relation to
the latter as to be entitled to prosecute
in their behalf; second, that the In
dians had never complained or asked
the Intervention Of the Government !;
third, that the Government, although
1t appointed special agent for the
purpose, and spent a large sum OF
money in the pursuit, failed to find
any proof whatever of its allegations |;
and fourth, that Judge Wright was
prepared, in every case, with evidence
to show their falsity. In fact, the
prosecution was, in every sense of the
word, malicious. 1t was as mean, vim
dictive, and reckless as those by whom
it was originated and carried on. and
the sturdy old Judge is not little
proud that he has made so signal an
escape from those who were bent on
his destruction.
Year: 1872

The lower House of Congress have
had committee of investigation to
inquire into the question as to whether
National banks have been locking up
currency, with view to producing a
money panic. The committee have re-
Ported andit seems they have found
sufficient grounds to recommend that
Congress pass bill prohibiting the
national banks from locking up cur
rency and providing as a penalty for
its violation, a fine ofsl0O00 aud inn
prisonment for five years.
Year: 1872

The House committee on territories
have unanimously agreed to report a
bill favorable to the admission of Col.
arado as State into the Union, The
bill is to authorize Colorado to frame a
State constitution upon which TO ask
admission, and acknowledging her
right to such admission, when she ap-
plies. TIE population of the Terrific
~ in round numbers, is now about one
hundred thousand. The unanimity OF
Of the report probably insures the pas
sage Of the bill at an early day.
Year: 1872

That Mr.. Colfax did entertain
favorably connection with the 7St-
bune, as its editor, there can be no
doubt, and that its present owners
were anxious to have him take the
position there can be no question:
What then prevented the consumation
of the desired arrangement? VIM.
Orton, who is the reputed owner Of a
controlling amount of stock in the
Tribune, is also one of the most noted
telegraph men of the country he went
over to Washington from New York,
evidently with the intention of COM
pleting the arragement with Colfax,
and SO confident was the country, that
it would be done, it was telegraphed
everywhere that it was already effect
ed. Orton is most bitterly opposed
to the "postal telegraph" system, and
it seems to us upon this question arose
the difficulty. We very naturally sur
mise that Orton is determined 10 make
the Tribune an engine of war on pos
tai telegraphy, and found when he
broached this subject to Colfax, that
he would not 60 in on such terms. The
new powers that be, controlling the


Tribune, better be careful what they


do, in cndeavoring to set the Tribune


again on its feet for that paper can


not endure many more mistakes.
Year: 1872

This session of Congress is polite of
projects to make water communities
ton across the United States east and
west. The great west is demanding
move Of this kind, while on the 9TH
or hand relief is sought by having the
general government control the rates
freight on the railroads.


There is proposition introduced
for the building Of a ship canal around
Niagra Falls at cost ofsay $l2, 900, 900
and to be free from tolls.


Another proposition which Presi-
dent Grant recommended to be con-
sidered is the James river canal con.
Meeting the Ohio river with the sea-
board; and still another is to get wa.
ter communication by way of the Ten.
nessee river through to the Atlantic.


These are oil stupendous projects
especially the latter, and go to show
strongly that there is an urgent de
mand for free highways of wate
across the country to make cheaper thu
moving of the produce TO the eastern
market.


The great West is power in thi
hand and rapidly becoming more so
its voice is very potential and mus
be heard. We look forward In th
near future for relief by some mean
furnished to prevent extortion b.
capital in the matter of the Transports
lion of the products Of the west.
Year: 1872

OvEaGRowN .HoGs.-There is noi


one single advantage to be claimed in


favor of big hogs. There never was


monster hog which did not make the
man who raised him pay for every
pound he weighed. They do not fur
nish an ounce OF meat gratis. but
charge full price for every atom Of
their carcass. When slaughtered, il
takes long time to get one cool to the
marrow in the bone and then when
the hams are put In salt, it is trouble
some TO iinish them to the centre. Four
hundred live weight is as large as
hogs should be In order to make
good bacon. Beyond this size there
Is loss somewhere. Either the feed
er. butcher or consumer is cheated.
and as a general thing every one who
has anything 10 do with the big hog
will find, il he observes closely, thai
they are not soprositable AS the smooth
nice hog OF only $50 pounds weight.
A small head, with little upright ears.
and legs and ears delicate to perfection
are marks which indicate the greatest
amount of food consumed: and it will
always draw more readily the atten-
tion Of every butcher.
Year: 1872

Since the Legislature Of his own
State has placed its seal of condem-
nation very pointedly upon Charles
Summers resolution to expunge from
the record, the names of the battles of
the rebellion, it now remains to be
seen what he will do in the premises.
II is hoped that he may not trans-
fer his wrath towards the President,
to the Legislature of his own State,
because he might be placed in the
still further uncomfortable position in
such an event of being asked to re-
siQn.
Year: 1872

Josh Billings says: When we cum
to think that there amt on tho face of
the earth even one bat too much, and
that there haint been. since the daze OF
Adam.a single surplus mnskeeter's egg
laid by acksident. VIC kan form sum
kind ov an idee how little we know,
and what poor job we should make
ofitrunning the machinery Of kreashun
Nan is phool emmy how. and the best
of the joke is, lie don't seem tew know
it. Bats have .destiily to ill. and
will bet four dollars they fill it better
than we do ours.
Year: 1872

The Credit Mobilier investigation
is waking up some of the members
of Congress to such a pitch that they
exhibit tall specimens of ground and
lofty tumbling, in the way of ex-
planation. Let this matter be probed
to the bottom, is our motto.


If any member Of Congress can
fairly be shown to have been in
fluenced In his legislative action, by
reason of having been holder of
stock in the Pacific road, justice and
indemnity for the future, demands the
fullest expose of such member.


If any man lobbying through any
thing in connection with the road,
had any dealings with any member
of Congress, in regard to stock, il
should be siftcd to the bottom and the
people of the whole country know it.
giving the member full opportunity
to defend himself from imputation o.
wrong doing.


Nothing of this kind should b
spared from the deepest probing il
search of the truth, and when tn,
truth is asccrtained, it should have tn
freest circulation.


Another thing the public should no
Jump at a judgement in regard to an,
member until the case in fully heard.
Year: 1872

The broad sword loses its glitter


AS 1t hangs in the ancient hall:
Rusted and blunt grown the lleen-edged blade
That once so gallant champion made,


AS it cleaned from the castle wall.
The Jewel loses its lustre


As it lies in its velvet nest;
I'll dull and dim is the good red gold
That showed such a royal light of old


As it flashed from beauty's breast
The blue eye loses its power


AS age comes creeping on;
The fair form droops from its stately grace
The roses fly from the care-worn face.


The charm from the trembling tone
The color fades from the canvas.


The magic from ringing rhyme;
Now. is the joy in this world of ours.
RlcheS. or hopes. or flowers.


But dies at the touch of Time:
Ay, love. in its pure serenity


Can the ptiless spell defy;
For tears cannot drown, nor absence dim.
And death itself may not conquer him,


And true love never can die
Year: 1872

Smut is not disease, properly speaking,
but it is the cause of an injury which may
be regarded as disease. 1t is minute fun
gus, living in and upon the grain, and is
propagated by spores, which answers the
purpose of seeds. These spores are so
very small that they may adhere to the seed
grain unnoticed, and from these the smut
will be developed more abundantly as the
season is favorable or otherwise to it's
growth. The usual preventative is soaking
the seed wheat, just before sowing, in
strong solution Of vitrio (sulphate of
copper drying the grain by the use of
quick-lime. American Agriculturist.
Year: 1872

The Franklin Patriot is credited with
the statement that farmer saved large
amount OF clover seed by putting wire
bottom IN the trough in which he fed his
l"ck-the wire being two or three inches
above the close bottom of the trough.
The stock in pulling the clover-hay from
lhe rack scattered the seed almost pure
through the wire into the receptacle
below
Year: 1872

Little Willie was recently presented a toy
trumpet TO which he became greatly attached.
One night when he was about to be put to his
''little bed" and was ready to say his prayers,
he handed the trumpet 10 his grandmother, say
ing: 'IIIerc, grandma, you blow while pray
Year: 1872

As the unprincipled farmer puts the
finest OF his wheat upon the top of his
bags, and swears that this is fair sample
of the whole, so many pretty face has
made a market for bad wife and when
the cares and perplexitIes of domestic life
come on, husband finds to his sorrow that
he has bought u bag of smutty wheat, or
in other words, a budget of laziness,
pride and self-will.
Year: 1872

How TO PLUCK POULTRY. That farmer
whose poultry is not troubled with the
gapes, that has not been visited with the
chicken cholera, knows what it is to pre-
pare forty or fifty fowls for the market,
since the practice of scalding has been We
toed by the buyers. | have known persons
on market day to 60 out and kill a dozen or
fifteen at time and bring them into a 1oom
where there would be half dozen women
and boys pulling a few feathers at time
between the thumb and foretinger to pre-
vent tearing them. Now, for the benefit of
such | give our plan: Hang the fowl by
the feet by a small cord then, with small
knife give one cut across the upper jaw,
opposite the corners of the mouth; after
the blood has stopped running a stream,
place the point of the knife in the groove in
the upper part Of the mouth, run the blade
up into the back part of the head, which
will cause a quivering and twitching Of
the muscles; now is your time, Cor every
feather yields as if by magic, and there is
no danger Of tearing the most tender chick
before he attempts to flap, you can have
him as bare as the day he came out of the
egg. The wise ones may discuss the rea-
sons-I only know the effects. Corre
spondent New York Tribune.
Year: 1872

The Sacramento Union describes the fac


tory and processes of the Beet Sugar Com


pany who are ROW operating in the vicinity


OF that town:


The factory is a frame bnilding, two sto-
reS high, and about l20 feet long by 40
wide, erected at cost of about $50, GOO.
At one end of the building a tower If sixty
feet high is built, at The top of witch &
large tanl; is placed, and into this the wa
ter necessary to be used in the various


operations performed is pumped. The


process pursued in the extraction of the


sugar from the beetS is claimed to be far


different and mnch better than that pursu-
Ell Ivy other manufactures. The roots arc


first cleaned by being placed inside of a


huge cylinder which revolves in tank of


water. The cylinder is composed OF Stats
placed a short distance apart so as to ad-
NIT OF the free ingresS and cgreSS of the


water. The beets then pass into an eleva-


tor, are raised to the next story above, and


pass through a machine which cuts them


into small pieces. They next 90 into what
are called ''dlfusion batteries"-fourteen


large, wrought iron, bark-l like tanks, each
capable of containing ton and quarter


of the cut roots. These fourteen ''diilused


batteries being filled with bects, water


brought by pipe from tank at the top of


the tower, is let in at the top of the first


battery. The water thus let on eX-
erts pressure of some sixty pounds to
the square inch, and forces the Juice of the
beetS to the bottom of the tank where il
escapes into pipe and passes into another
tank or battery ut the top; through that
into the third battery, and so on until all
| the saccharine juice contained in the roots
in all the fourteen tanks is extracted and
drawn out from the last battery. The Juice


thus extracted is conducted into a large


tank, in which it is boiled with lime and
carbonic acid, to solidify the impure matter
which is contained in the liquid. 1t is then
pressed through many thicknesses Of linen
cloth, to separate the Juice from the solid
particles. The liquid is next filtered through
bone charcoal, and then boiled and filtered
again when it is ready for the final boiling.
1t is placed in a huge metal vessel and boil
ed until it is reduced to a thick syrup. This
syrup is allowed to stand until the grains


of sugar form, when it is passed through
the centrifugal cylinder" a metal tub
| about three feet wide by one and one half
feet deep, with Il tub of fine wire cloth


and smaller than the metal cylinder inside
it, Into this wire tub the syrup is pour
| ed, and the whole made to revolve at a
! velocity of about 100 times per minute.
| The centrifugal force thus created is so
great as to force every particle of syrup
| through the wire cloth and leave the grains
| ofSugar in the inner tub, dry and ready for


market. The factory has been establish ed


about three years, and can work up about


seventy-tive tons of beets per day. Each
| ton will make about 200 pounds of sugar
Year: 1872

There is something more than even
Irish humour in the story Of the settle
ment Of lawsuit which comes from
Cionmel. At the Tipperary Assizos,
which are being held ia that town,
young farmer had brought au action
against lady Of his own age for The pos.
session of part Of a farm When The
young woman was under cross eNamina.
lion, the plaintiff WAS ordered 20 con-
front her with reference to a part OF her
evidence. As the litigauts stood together
happy thought struck the Judge Why
should not this good-looking couple be
happy together? lie whispered the idea
TO the jury, who at once accepted IT, lie
then suggested il to the couple themscl-
yes. If they married they would both
take the farm; If they went on quarel-
ing abou. IL they would hilter Il away.
The young lady being asked whether she
was willing thus 10 end the strife, intima-
ted that she was. The barrister then ask
cd the young man, win you marry this
young woman Most undoubtedly was
his unhcsitating response. The counsel
suggested that the wedding should tako
place at once; but that point was left to
be settled hereafter. The suit ended IA
the entry Of a verdict for the plaintiff, on
condition Of his promise to marry the de-
fendant within two months; the verdict
not to be executed til the marage core-
mony is performed. We regret to add
that this most pleasant ending ofa law
suit was a little chequeled The counsel
chafied the young lady till she left the
court in tears. We may at least hope
that the tears were not altogether tears Of
vexation; and that, just as the lawsuit
has ended in courtship, the tears will
soon turn to smiles May we also eX.
press hope that 50 good an example will
not be lost on lIugants.--Load0H Daiy
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