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Year: 1875

Does not deceive invalids into false hopes by purg
ing and creating fictitious appetite, but assists
nature in clearing and purifying the whole system
leading the patient gradually to perfect health.
Year: 1875

GREAT DAMAGE DONE, AND STILL NO


ABATEMENT.


GALVESTON, Sept. 1.-THE storm
which is still raging with great fury is
the most violent that has prevailed here
for many years. The. Ocean House is
entirely surrounded with water, and the
outhouses are gone. The City Hospital
is filed with water.


Thirty workmen on the breakwater be-
ing built by the Government were cut
off and lost. The Sante Fe railroad
bridge across the bar has been swept
away, and the Houston railroad bridge
is under water twenty feet. This end of
it has been washed away.


The water at Virginia Point has
backed up for three miles on the main
land, and still rising. The gale is in
creasing and the barometer is falling.
The bay is SO full of water that il the
wind changes to the north the whole
island is lost, and no lives can be saved.
The shipping in the harbor was having a
fearful time of it. She ship channel
dredging fleet is safe.
Year: 1875

The Chicago Times has the acquaintance
of q young man who is so truly good that
he will not bet on game ofbase ball unless
he is informed in advance what the two
captains have agreed the result shall be.
Thus do good men prosper in this wicked
word. '''E


Some editor, who, no doubt, will next
tell us how to gild refined gold and paint
the lily, has discovered that honey i'm
proves the taste Of the cantaloupe. Moth
ing can improve the favor Of really good
melon of this sort, and one that is not really
good by nature ought always to be given to
the pigs.


Ex-senator Reuben Fenton, of New York,
has written 8 letter to the Ohio Republican
State committee, in answer to an invitation
to take the stump in that State, declining Oh
account of a bronchial affection. He says
were his voice in good condition i, would
be agreeable for him to speak In the State
on the question of finance. He adds: "It is
clear that the Democratic party of your
State has declared policy of imitation and
reputation which is at war with all honest
finance, and which no citizen who regards
the public welfare need hesitate to con-
denim. If had the power should feel it
my duty to aid you in resisting their false
doctrine"


Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, is the latest
letter-writer on the currency. He says he
has lived through the times of United
State Bank, Of system of State pet banks,
of sub-treasury system and time of no
system whatever; but he AYERS ''that the
present fictitious and Fictitious affiliation of
greenback banks with the political power of
government, in the reign of any party
whatever, is the worst have ever known.
Take away from it the attribute of being
legal tender, for debts, and instantly green
back would be no better than 'graybacks.'
Having that attribute, it attacks real value,
regular business, and panders only to specu-
lation and peculation.
Year: 1875

sustain the life Of sinking men in the criti-
cal periods of exhausting fevers. Various
well-auested instances of this character
certainly afford ground for the familiar and
popular impression that there is support in
wine and spirtuous drink. DR.. Anstie's
conclusion from such evidence, and from a
very large hospital experience, was that
beyond all possibility Of doubt pure alco-
hol, with the addition of only small
quantity Of water. will prolong life greatly
beyond the period at which it would cease
if no nourishment was given: that during
the progress Of acute diseases it very COM
monty supports not only life, but also the
bulk Of the body, during many days Of
abstinence from common foods; and that
although the physician and Psychologist


fail to explain chemically how it is that the
result is brought about, it may nevertheless
be safely affirmed that the influence exerted
overthe body by alcohol is, essentially, of
a food-character.


DR.. Anstie again and again dwells on
the notable fact that all cases Of disease
where alcohol is used successfully as a
medicinal support, as in the case Of exhaus-
tive fevers, its presence as an alcoholic
emanation, whether in the breath or in
other secretions, is absent altogether, as if
in those cases the whole force Of the agent
was absorbed in its benefcent operation.
He also insists that in such instances its
exciting and Intoxicating powers appear
to be in abeyance, and that the recovery
from acute disease where this medicine has
been successfully employed is invariably
more rapid and complete than it is in al
together similar cases which have been
treated without alcohol. He also recurs
continually to the well-known fact that in
many forms of disease alcohol calms pain,
removes delirium, and induces natural
sleep, exactly as concentrated nourishment
Of the nature of strong meat broth does
under the same circumstances. In
short, by his experience and inves-
LEGATIONS, DR.. Ans.ie seems to have
been led as uncompromisingly to the con-
vition that alcohol, in a certain sense, is a
food, as DR.. Richardson has been led by his
researches to the conclusion that it is not a
food, either on the ground of constructive
service or warming power. The inference
is plain: The nutritious capabili,y Of alco-
hol, when used in appropriate circum-
stances and in reasonable quantity, is yet a
matter of controversy, and questiyn that
has to be further investigated and weighed
by compten, and scientific authorities, be-
fore any absolute Judgment regarding it
can be pronounced that is worthy of gen.
eral acceptance. As far as philosophical
argument goes, DR.. Richardson is the most
formidable; but the fac. is overlooked by
him. that wine has bean generated in the
generous labratory of nature, to subserve
some wise and benifcent purpose. The
generic Sroducis OF the distillation Of the
grape and grain are peculiarly fitting, ac-
coriing to Ans,ie's experiments, to enable
man to keep the nerve strain of our mod
ern civilization ever increasing.
Year: 1875

TEE Philadelphia sp ea king Of
the official corruption which has recently
visited Trenton, New Jersey, says: except
ing slight defalcation Of the State Treas
urer some thifty-6ve years ago, this is the
only serious case Of official corruption that
New jersey has ever had. 1t further says
that when Jersey officials become dishonest
where shall W look for honesty in oficess
ave may now expecta defalcation even in
Delaware, the home of the Bayard'A the
Clayton's, the Reads and Rodney's." We
hope sincerely that tht TGssSs may b COM
PEELED, by the absence of such conduct
upon the part Of any Of our officials, to
look in another direction for official dis
honesty. We hope the escutcheon Of the
State may remain forever untsrnished of
any such blot. II the remarks of the


Times is sly comparison Of the size of our
State with New Jersey, We have reason to
give thanks for our inferiority in size, if
that is what spares us the modification Of
official corruption. We have many evils
that need correction, but we have none of
this character to bleed our treasury, and
this brings to us the consolation that it is a
blessing to be small commonwealth, when
we think how Pennsylvania and many Of
the larger States have had to suffer at the
hands of official thieves.
Year: 1875

70 BRANDY IN PEAHEs THIS YEAR.
Although our energetic, local option
friends are fond OF the fruit, and agree
ny common consent that the sacChar
me matter IN the peach is the most de.
ligh,tni and desirable part of it they
will no doubt rejoice in knowledge
OF The TACT, that an almsst total alb.
sence OF 1t in the crop OF peaches this
year render it very difficult it not i'm.
possible to extract brandy from them.
we obtained our information from
some OF our farmers who have made
the attempt and failed, and who as
sign as the cause, the one which we
here give - .Salts5ury Adcfrtssr.
Year: 1875

The missioner Of Internal Rev
snue expects during the present week TO
have in his possession sufficient data to
enable him to open accounts with all dis
tillers, rectifiers, and Others conneete d
with the operations of the whisky ring,
and to tell, almost the exact extent Of
the fraudulent transactions. Transcripts
of these accounts will be furnished 10
proper officers to be used as evidence in
the cases soon to be brought to trial.
Year: 1875

Apainful accident occurred the other
day on the occasion of an execution at
Sinope. The culprit was a brigand,
about twenty-six years of age, who had
robbed and Murdered his victim. He
was a native of the country, and has
been upwards of three years in prison
His father, who had been in the habit
of visiting him occasionally, had only
arrived in town the very day of the re-
ceipt of the firman ordering the execu-
tion. He had no notion of what was
to take place, but on the morning of
tae execution heard, like the rest of the
world at Sinope, that man had been
decapitated in the mote outside the
gate. He flew to the spot, and the
spectators who were gazing on tile
headlcss corpse, were horrified to see
the old man ding himself upon it in all
the agony of despair, kissing it, and all
the while uttering the most heartrend-
ing shrieks. He was with difficulty
removed from the spot, but tho body
laid there for four days exposed to
view, and was then carried away and
buried.
Year: 1875

DIR. Ewald, of Berlin, haslbeen very
successful with the process some time
since devised by him for washing out
the human stomach. For this purpose
a small piece of ordinary India-rub-


Der tubing, such as is used for gas
lamps, and about six feet long, Is en-
ployed; one end is rounded with scis-
sors, and, II necessary, two holes are
cut short distance from the end.
This tube Is found to possess quite
sufficient rigidity to be passed with
out difficulty into the stomach. To
the outer end funel is fitted, into
which can be poured either water or a
solution OF soda. ETC., according TO
circumstances. If the contents of the
stomach are TO be removed, the outer
end OF the tube must be sunk to the
level OF the pubes, or even lower; then
forcible contraction Of the abdominal
walls. BY this means the tube Is
nlled to its highest point with the
huid contents Of the stomach, and be-
comes q siphon, the.liquid continuing
to How until there Is no more, or until
the tube is stopped up. This last sci.
dom occurs if the tube be of a moder-
caliber. Should it, however, happen,
or should the abdominal pressure be
lnsuffieiedt to fill the tube in the first
instance, Or the patient be insensible,
or any similar difficulty arise, 1t can,
In general, be readily overcome by
fitting common clyster syringe to the
end of the tube, one stroke of the piston
of which usually remedies the diff
GUILTY.
Year: 1875

FINE AND CoAnsE HAY.-Producers
are sometimes puzzled to know why
city buyers generally ask for coarse,
well-matured hay in preference to the
more tender and in reality more nutri.
tious kinds. The Laoe Stock Journal
thus enlightens them; City men feed
hay for different purpose than the
farmer. The farmer feed it for its nu-
triment and as principal food, while
the city man regards grain the cheap
est food and only gives sufficient hay
to make bulk in the stomach and for
the purpose Of health, Coarse, we'll
matured timothy serves the purpose
better than the early-cut and fine
grasses. They do not desire such hay
as will tempt horses to eat too much of
it, Straw would answer this purpose If
cut and mixed with the grain about as
we'll
Year: 1875

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals put forth the following rules for
the treatment of balky horses


l. Pat the horse upon the neck examine
the harness carefully, first on one side then
on the other, speaking encouragingly while
doing so then jump into the wagon and give
the word 60; generally he will obey.


2. A teamster in Maine says he can start
the worst balky horse by taking him out oi
the shafts and making him go round in a cir.
Gle until he is giddy. If the first dance of
this sort does not cure him, n second will.


B. To cure balky horse, simply place
your hand over his nose, and shut off his
wind until he wants to 20.


4. The brain of horse seems to entertain
but one idea at a time therefore, whipping
enly confirms his stubborn resolve. If you
can, by any means, give him new subject
to think Of, you will generally have no troub.
lie in starting him. A simple remedy is to
take couple of turns of stout twine around
the fore leg, just below the knee, tight
enough for the horse to feel, and tie in Q
bow-knot At the first check he will proba
bly, go dancing off, and, after going shor
distance you can get out and remove thu
string to prevent injury to the tendon, il
your further drive.


.. Take the tail of the horse between thu
hind legs, and tie it by cord to the sadd liz
girth.


q. Tie string around the horses ear
close to his head
Year: 1875

The change in the natural predisposition
Of the Brahma attribute to the system Of
feeding which l have adopted which is all
in the direction of keeping the egg machine
running, and giving no opportunity for the
fowls to get lazy and lay on fat. Indian
corn, which is the great staple in common
use, have almost entirely discarded as too
heating, and rely principally upon stale
wheaton bread, which can be purchased very
cheap, and table scraps, mixed with little
provender, and fed hot in the morning, with
whole grain of some kind-wheat, buck.
wheat or barley-at night; nothing at mid.
day in summer or winter. In the summer l
cut grass very fine, and mix with the morn.
ing meal, alternating with mashed boiled po-
tatoes, and in the winter add little stimu.
lant, like ginger or cayenne, occasionally
This system of feeding, with plenty of fresh
water warm in winter), has given me all
the fresh eggs have needed for family Of
eight persons, without the nuisance of a lot
of brOody fOwls.-H. Woodward, in Fan.
cierS' Journal.
Year: 1875

have noticed considerable said of late
about horn ail." You will remember that
much used to be said of this when we were
boys. You know that father used to send
for an old quack of cow.doctor to visit
sick COW, who would always pronounce the
ailment, no matter what it was, the horn
all" | well recolect the remedy: take q
gimlet, bore q hole into the horn on the un-
der side, then make a compound of salt, pep
per, and vinegar, and take a syringe and
squirt it into the horn, and the cow would
jump and act as if she was crazy; and then
the cow-doctor would straighten up, and say,
" There, | told you she had the horn all"
| know as skilltul physician as there is in
Worcester County, who says, there is just
as much sense in taking gimlet and boring
into mans skull and squirting that COM
pound into his head, as into cows horn"


have had, in my dairy experience, a
number Of cows troubled with what the
quacks call horn all, !" and the best remedy
L ever tried was this "Take tobacco (which
L never used but for medicine) and simmer
it in hogs lard on stove, and take the
compound and rub it on the head about the
horns to the tail along the back. never
lost COW Of what is called the " horn ALL
So much for this old aiment that has of late
excited considerable interest among farmers
in this section, awakened, it seems, by the
late address Of Prof. Cressy, of the agricul-
tural college before the Massachusetts, cheese
factory association in Barre. | think this
old superstition is giving away before the
diffusion of knowledge among farmers. Let
all such old whims be driven out, whether
Of the farm yard or the famiy.-BostOn
Cultivat0r.
Year: 1875

However aghast some " fine ladies may
regard the idea of working in the garden,
consider it one of the most wholesome means
Of exercise within our reach. Wholesome
especially, because we have an object-and
an interesting one in taking this exercise
which is the growth Of flowers and plants.
Before commencing work in the garden, put
on pair of worn-out leather gloves, a broad
brimmed sun-hat, and pair Of good, stout
boots; ifnot stout, then wear pair of thin
gum oversboes. The dsmpness of the soil is
very liable to produce cold" Don't be
afraid that the labor will hurt you, even if
you should become very tired on the con-
trary, it will strengthen you, give you rosy
cheeks, and may add years to your life.
There is not a spring that do not spend
two weeks at least in the garden, and tell
you that to me there is nothing so agreeable,
| may say fascinating; and this feeling is
doubled when L see the fine flowers and
good vegetables growing and put upon the
table from my own handiwork. German.
to'0n Telegraph.
Year: 1875




need not tell you how we all depend up.
on the dumb creatures which wait upon us
during life, and at their death feed and
clothe us. From valley and hill, from
prairie and mountain they come flocking in,
the patient servants Of their imperious mas
ter. They offer themselves a living sacrifice
to the majesty Of civilized man, suffering as
he yields to poverty and hardship and bar
barism, aud rising with him as he rises into
his conditions Of luxury and ease aud eoono-
my and fitness Of purpose. The great com.
munity of cattle, who shall write its history
How ii has been controlled by the social
laws which make the world what it is,-how
it enables the great community of man to
dwell here on the face of the earth-how it
stands the pedestal upon which nobler fab.
ric rests--how its condition tells the tale of
races higher in the scale of being. That
strange and mysterious relation between man
and animal, everywhere recognized, every
where felt, that mutual dependence, each up
on the other-that intelligent appropriation
aud cultivation on the one hand, that uncon-
scious aud entire obedience and submission
of all the great vital forces on the other !;
who can tell it all? And superior as we
may be, powerful, controlling and independ-
ent, can any man contemplate the magnitude
Of the charge were the sovereignty OF this
great community Of cattle to be asserted and
mans dominion be suddenly broken2 From
the feeding Of armies and the sustaining of
the busy throug who fill the places of power
aud trust, down to the nourishing drop which
supports the feeble child in its first grasp
upon life, it is the domestic animal which
hears our long and constant human appeal,
and never hesitates in its devoted and self
sacrificing reply. In parks, in meadows,
before the cottage door, with an entire and
unresisting submission to circumstances,
there come to man from his dumb ally food
and raiment, aud an unceasing claim upon
his skill and his humanity. 1t Is the animal
kingdom which forms one of the liveliest
charms of q cultivated landscape in motion
or in repose. Aud man mover succeeds in
subduing the earth, and realizing its quiet
domestic beauty, until he has enlisted those
servants, without whose aid agriculture must
fail, and whose value is commensurate with
the progress made in the great business Of
applying all animate and inanimate nature
to the necessities and adornments of civil
lied life,
Year: 1875

A correspondent of the Country Gentle,
man gives this good recipe for curing and
keeping hams


The best sugar-cured hams are prepared
by using to 100 lbs. Of ham, lbs. of rock
salt lbs. Of white sugar, and OF. of salt
Petre. Pack the meat in barrel. Put the
salt, sugar and saltpetre in water sufficient
to make brine that will cover the meat ;
heat and skim this liquid, and when cold,
pour it over the meat put a cover and
large stone on the top to prevent any part
FROM rising out Of the brine. They will be
thoroughly cured in about six weeks, but to
remain longer time will do them no injury,
as they will not become so salt in this prep
aration as to require iTeshening. When
Year: 1875

A good many persons are still debating
this question and honestly seeking light
1t is an important question for a man that
must abide the answer for the next whole
year. 1t is a serious question for man
whose family depend on the result for sup.
port. Fortunately all men will not give it
the same answer. Generally the crop that
pays the best is the one desired, but some-
times this. proves poor expedient. Tobac.
co has had famous run in some Of the bet
ter portions Of New England, and some have
temporarily been gamers by it. But it is a
fancy article, with fictitious price, and a
dull market is particularly trying to those
who depend upon it. There will be less
raised, this year, in New England than
usual, for Ephraim never loved the service
Of this idol, and but for his large invest.
ments IN tobacco sheds and fertilizers would
gladly throw down the altar. Most people
prefer useful crop. Considering the labor,
a good crop Of hay pays reasonably. Early
potatoes and late turnips on the same land
are iavorite crops either by succession or
intermingling. Early sweet corn, tomatoes,
lima-beaus, spinach, lettuce, Strawberries
and onions usually do well for those who
know how to handle them. In fact any
Useful, necessary crop is safe, il the climate
and soil admit of it. Corn and wheat can
be raised to advantage in Few England, not
withstanding the granaries of the illimitable
West. Some think New England is the
genuine seed for both these cereals. We
know grain dealer who proposes, this year,
to make a second trial Of western corn.
Spring wheat should be sown as early as
possible on land that was well manured and
cultivated, last year, and is good crop to
stock with grass. Whatever the crop, give
it careful cultivation. and keep an account
Of it, 50 that in the future you can easier
tell what crops to raise.-Spirnqfeld Rep.
ublican.
Year: 1875

In some sections-and it would be dc.
cided advance in thoughtfulRess and kindness
in all sections-farmers give each of their
boys, and girls, too, strip of land to raise
whatever they choose upon it, and dispose
of the product for their own benefit. 1t is a
favor that they all appreciate, and it is
pleasant and serviceable employment for
them in their leisure hours. They will vie
with each other in their skill at raising their
little crops, and the proceeds applied to their
own use, are frequently of some value and
the whole arrangement, while it instructs
them in the cultivation of the soil, early
implants in the children the idea OF thrift
aud economy. Sometimes, where good
many animals are raised, a pig, a lamb, a
calf, up to even a colt, according to the age
Of the children, is given to each to rear and


keep or sell. Farmers, think Of this; it
will more than repay you in the happiness
and confidence it will impart to your sons
and ghters.-Germanto'0n Telegraph.
Year: 1875

taken out Of the brine, they should be smok-
ed lightly the smoke from maple chips or
corn cobs gives the best flavor. .f.5 M


Hams cured in this way may be kept for
summer use by wrapping each ham closely
in paper or tie up each in a paper bag,
and pack them in box or barrel, with dry
wood ashes, putting thick layer on the bot
tom, also covering them generously with the
ashes Cared for in this manner, hams will
not become mouldy or rancid, and the flies
cannot get at them.


Those who relish sliced boiled ham in sum-
mer, or count ham sandwiches a luxury for
lunch in August---try it,
Year: 1875

The Germantown Telegraph has this good
advice;


Our remedy for noxious weeds is thorough
cultivation. If piece Of ground is full of
briers, milk-weed, couch-grass, sodom-apples,
Canada thistles, sorrel, toad flax, or other
miserable stuff that so often tries the mettle
of our good farmers let them put the ground
in corn for couple Of years or SO, keeping
the cultivation going continually, and espe-
cially going in the earliest parts of the sea-
son, and the toughest character among these
weeds will fail to stand the ordeal. If the
hand-hoe can be spared to 60 in among the
the hills of corn occasionally, where the teeth
Of the harrow cannot reach, or to cut of
here and there one which the harrow may
miss, bad case may be cured in a single
season. But If this cannot be done, couple
Of successive years with sharp-toothed cul-
tivator among corn crop will generally do
the business for tho worst case that ever
was.