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Year: 1872

An exchange says: At least one half
of the labor of cutting seed potatoes
may be saved by using COM
mon tin apple-quarterer, which any
timer will make for thirty cents. Set
the quartcrer permanently on n thick
piece Of plank six inches square, SO that
the edges of the cutter will be upper
most, In cutting into quarters only,
place the eye end of the potato on the
center of the quarterer and push the
potato down so us to cut through the
stem of the potato; this will give each
piece an equal share OF eyes. If smaller
pieces are desirad cut rs nearly through
as possible and have the quarters hold
together, and then draw up the potato
and cut across the quarter on one side
of the wings Of the quarterer into eight,
twelve, sixteen, or more pieces as want
ed the pieces towards the stem end be-
ing cut the largest.


NJ. BERNADoTTE, of Sweden, grandson
of Napoloen's Marshal of that lame
has gone to Pau. At home NJ. BeIna
! dotte is known as King Of Sweden
Year: 1872

The Massachusetts Legislature is considering
what two statues of the eminent sons Of the Bay
State shall be placed as her representatives, in
the National Capitol. And how about Delaware
Year: 1872




You, sir, have kindly alluded to my se:
vices to this company during the dark hours
of the great civil war, and the darker hours
co. the company that followed is close,
when tho flames had done their work.


To those of you who stood by me i'll
those hours of darkness and (to the faint
heaIted) despair, / owe much, everything
There were some good men that could not
see how we could ever expect to rebuild
the road and make it prosperous. ..-..


If the good God gave me strength to
plan and direct, during the dark days al
Iuded to, He gave you willing hands and
noble hearts to aid and to execute without
which no man could have been successful
No one has been better sustained by his as
sistants than 1 have been, and it is moss
gratifying to me to know that / leave here
as faithful and efficient a corps of opera
tives as any Rail; Dad company in our land
can claim to have in its service.
Year: 1872

!

 EDITOR ESouRER:-The above question is of vast importance to the farmers of Litchfeld County. I keep . dairy and am often told that cows will impoyerish my farm. Now how shall we know the truth of this assertion, unless We investigate the subject, and get all the light We can upon it. I have been informed by good au- thority (from man in Goshen, east street, ] and one that has kept g large dairy many years, that only about two-t thirds the cows or cattle can be kept in that street, that were twenty years ago. I think he esti- mates the number to be 1O0head less than formerly. Now if this is so, why is it? Can any one inform us. Several years ago was visiting in Berkshire county, Mass, In the family of Dea. Sylvester Jones, of Sandisheld. He was one of the most can- did and patient men I ever saw, he was about % years old and said he was born and brought up on that old homestead, but could not stay on it many years longer for the farm was running out. asked him the cause of it. He replied that he could not tell, only that it was so. The meadows, he said, did not cut one-hali the grass they used to, and were running into hard-hacks; pastures, the same. ] asked what stock had been on the farm for the most part he said cows mostly, one horse, one yoke oxen, and few sheep; formerly large dairy, diminishing with the capacity of the farm. The Deacon does not live there now. but has nice and productive farm in another place. have hsen on many farms in Goshen, and seem to be running down, hard-hack and white bush growing in punches and in some cases all over the field, I have seen the same in other places to some extent. take Goshen as criterion for the dairy business. It has long been considered the greatest dairy town in this part of the State Goshen cheese has become bye word ill all the land. can remember seeing large loads Of cheese from that town passing along in single file toward the New Haven market, and we are quite sure ha&many, and most of the older far. mera in that town became rich in the dai- " business, but have their farms become rich as i'll other places where different stock has been kept? Now write this for information, hoping to hearfrom those that have had a lifetime of experience in the business, as l am keeping q dairy, and would wish to increase it az the capacity of my fara increases, but my 5eef tat. tentRg neighbors tell mo that my farm will go the other way, if keep only COWS. have long had the impression that COWS, alone, impoverish farm q dare not say i a word about horsesJ. this IS so, VII those that have had experience reply, anG tell us why it is SO? Litchfeld County if the best dairy county in the State, and ] think will compare favorably with Her. kimer County, \. Y. The milk business is fast becoming the great business of this county. Can we safely keep it up and keep our farms growing better, as we should. do not sell milk. I think it worth more to manufacture at home. We like butter, cream, and pork in our house at all times.

 Bethlehem, Ct. L. F. SCOTT.
Year: 1872

It is getting to be an open question whether Columbus travelled the most be- fore he died or since. He was first buried at the convent of St. Francis; then his body was remhved to the monastery of Las Cuevas; in 1886 it was removed across the Atlantic to San Domingo; in 1793 it was removed to the Havana Cathedral. and now the news comes that the body is again to be removed and used to start q new cemetery ill Havana. ~ la1 a1
Year: 1872

A few weeks ago ore hundred men in California took special train and thirty gray hounds and started on grand rab- bit hunt. The rainy season set in, and weeks hunting resulted in the death or one rabbit and the return of the party.
Year: 1872

The gradual heightening of the range
of the thermometer and the occasional re-


port of case of sunstroke, remind US un-


pleasantly that the plague of our hot sum-


mers and close cities is upon us, and sug-


gests that we take the proper precautions
for its prevention and understand some


thing of its proper treatment. A knowl-


edge of its rational treatment should be


possessed by all, for the disease is often so


rapidly fatal that the patient not unfre-


quently dies before medical aid can be had.


The following extract from an able article


by DR.. III. G.. Wood, in LippincoH for July


contains much valuable information on


the subject and should be carefully read by


all those who are exposed to intense heat /:


"There should in such cases be no wait


ing for the doctor. The remedy is SO simple


and the death so imminent that the good


Samaritan passing should save his brother.


The good Samaritan must, however, have


a cool head to be useful. Not every man


that falls unconscious on a summers day


has sunStroke. There is, fortunately, one
criterion so easy of application that any
one may use it. Go at once to the fallen


man, open his shirt bosom and lay your
hand upon his chest; if the skin be cool
you may rest assured, that whatever else
may be the trouble, it is not sunstrOke. If
on the contrary, the skin be burning hot,
the case is certainly sunstrOke and no time
should be lost. The patient must be carried
to the nearest pump or hydrant, stripped
to his waist, and bucketful after bucketful
Of cold water dashed over him until con-
sciousness begins to return or the intense
l. : l,.oc ,,.,faa Il Oh


''There is an old and homely saying that
an ounce of preventive is worth pound
of cure, q saying which though thread
bare with its centuries of daily use, still
holds together as firmly as when first
knit If the abstraction of heat is the true
cause for suntroke, it is also the true pre-
ventive. Do not let the heat accumulate
in the body, When duty forces one into
exposure to heat there are various meas
ures that ought to be adopted. The cloth
ing should be light and whitish in color
and fit loosely. Flannel is probably, on
the whole the best material. A rOomy,
wide brimmed porous hat should be used,
and in the crown of it may be placed a wet
towel or large handkerchief Water
should be freeley used, externally and inter-
naly. Very close to the surface of the
wrist rises large artery, the radial, and
the old custom of allowing cold water to
run over the wrist, no doubt owes its value
to the fact that so much blood is brought
almost in contact with the cooling water.
Sweating is natures great refrigerative
and to keep up this, large quanti-
ties of water should be drunk, not too cold,
but without stint-quarts if the thirst crave
it. Keep sweating and you are probably
not in Immediate danger; but when on a
July or August day,a mans head begins to
throb and the surface grows dry and hot,
whilst Unwonted lassitude and restlessness
come on, as he values his life let him leave
his work, however imperative, and take at
once a cold bath.
Year: 1872

In every portion of our city we notice new


buildings going up, either for dwellings or


stores. In East Knoxville we notice several:


in North Knoxville two or three; in Mechan-


icSville, we could see one from Broad street.


and doubtless more were beyond our view; on


Broad street, between Asylum and Reservoir


streets, two beautiful residences are being erect


ed on Crooked street, fine brick dwelling is
going up; on Reservoir street. another nice
frame building is rising from the ground on
Gay street the large and beautiful building of
Mr. Staub; and so on most every street in the
city, where there is room for Improvement, new
buildings are going up. This speaks well for the
future prosperity of our city, and we trust the
good work will continue Capital could be well
invested by building small houses, such as me-
chanics can afford to rent at from SO to SIS per
month, and money so invested would bring a
larger interest than by building more expensive
structures. We do not wish to be understood as
opposed to fine buildings; by no means Let
them go up by the hundreds. But buildings of
the above mentioned quality are greatly in de-
mand, while they can be built with but little
capital, and viii pay good interest on the money
invested
Year: 1872

dolly, our mother asleep by this tree,
They covered the place with grass
For fear of the cold, and lest She should hear
The footsteps of people that pass.
Home must go when it gets quite dark,
But, Dolly, III leave you here;
If mother should waken, and see you, she'll


know


We too havc been wandering near.
Year: 1872

Prof. Agassiz comes to the conclu-
sion that the continent of North Amer
lea was once covered with Ice for a
mile in thickness, thereby agreeing
with Prof. Hitchcock, and other emf
nent geological writers concerning the
glacial period. In proof of this con-
clusion, he says that the slopes of the
Allegheny range of mountains are
glacier-w worn to the very top, except a
few points which are above the level
of the icy mass Mount Washington,
for instance, is over six thousand feet
high, and the rough, unpolished sur
face of its summit, covered with loose
fragments, just below the level of
which glacier marks come to an end,
tells that it lifted its head alone above
the desolate waste of ice and snow.


Iu this region, then, the thickness
of the ice cannot have been much less
than six thousand feet, and this is in
keeping with the same kind of evil
dence in other parts of the country ;
for when the mountains are much
below six thousand feet, the ice seems
to have passed directly over them,
while the few peaks rising to that
height are untouched. The glacier,
he argues, was Gods great plough,
and when the ice vanished from the
face of the land, it left it prepared for
the hand of the husbandman.


The surface of the rocks were
ground to powder, the elements oi
the soil were mingled in fair proper
tions, granite was carried into lime
regions, lime was mingled with the
more arid and unproduetive granite
districts, and soil was prepared fit for
the agricultural uses OF man. There
are evidences all over the popular re-
gion to show that at one period the
heat OF the tropics extended all over
the globe. The ice period is s1ppos-
ed to be long subsequent to this, and
next to the last before the advent o.
mon
Year: 1872

An interesting foreign book is the
Memoir of Robert Chambers the
noted Scottish publisher and editor.
1t is partly autobiographical, and
partly the narrative of his brother
William, who tells the story of their
boyish fights with fortune in a simple
and sincere way which more famous
biographers woulddo well to study. OF
his painful and bitter youth, Robert
Chambers himself could not bear to
speak; he shared with Dickens that
nervous disinclination to recall q
wretchedness which made him old
before his time. William, less sensi-
tive if not more generous, describes
with no hesitation the bare lodging
in which, shaking with cold, and not
too well nourished by their oatmeal,
the two boys read and studied in all
love and gravity; how Robert began
his self-supporting life as bookseller
at sixteen, with a few old volumes,
wofully dilapidated and put aside as
useless by his people at home how
William established himself in busi.
ness with a capital Of five shillings
and how gradually grew up the great
firm which is known of all men.
Year: 1872

The United States is the country,
por-ercsllenee, for newspapers and
their number is legion, almost every
village having its local press. In the
west they start q newspaper when
thew build the first church and first
school-house. and plant their first
cornfield. This national trait was
fully illustrated as far back as the
Mexican war, when newspapers we're
established wherever our army pen
etrated, for there were plenty Of men
in the ranks who could handle the
rifle and the composing. stick with
equal dexterity. "Does there hap
pen to be q printer here p asked
poor dear old General Scott, on one
occasion, when he wished to have .
proclamation "set up" A printer !
Fancy his simplicity more than two


hundred sturdy typos stepped two
paces to the front at the summons.-
] Boston Globe.
Year: 1872

The Trenton True american gives
the following concerning the late rob-
berry of the Trenton Bank vault:


Mr.. Lewis Lille, now of Newark,
is the manufacturer of the heavy iron
work which guarded the entrance to
the vault, and also the bank safe, and
Mr.. Stryker, President Of the bank,
telegraphed to him to come on snd
examine the place and give an opin.
ion how the mischief was wrought.
We were introduced to Mr.. Lille and
shown through the vault, and had the
construction of the outer and inner
door, and the bank also explained.
The outer door OF the vault weighs
one thousand pounds, and must have
taken at least five men to have laid
it down by the side of the vault
where it was found. The burglars
first proceeded to screw on the floor
what is known as step, or iron to
hold brace, which is an upright bar
of wood. The brace was left by the
side of the door, and was viewed
yesterday by many. The burglars
had marked the door, near the lock,
intending to break it. The lock is a
combination one of more than ordi-
nary power, but finding that wedg-
ing would answer their purpose
better, they wedged powerfully from
the back of the door, and succeeded
in breaking the hinges and carrying
away the dogs which held the door
to the jams on the inside. 1t must,
Mr.. Lille thinks, have taken two
hours to break away that door, which
is two inches in thickness, and so
heavy that it is seen at once there
must have been perfect gang in the
robbery. The inside doors of the
vault are simply fire proof doors,
fastened by an ordinary lock, which
they wrenched off without much
trouble.


Mr.. Lille examined the powder that
was left behind, and which was in
tended to be used, and he describes
it as of the very finest quality of glaz-
ed powder, 80 fine that the thickness
of good thick piece of writing pa
per, whice would rest anywhere on
the jams of the safe, and permit the
door to be shut and locked, would
afford ample space for the injection
of a sufficient quantity of powder of
the quality the burglars left to blow
open the safe.


This may not be known to bankers
generally, but if they will apply this
test to their vault doors and to their
safes, they will be able to satisfy them
selves whether their securities are
available to burglars. 1t is, we are
informed, a mechanical impossibility,
the way safes and vault doors are
generally made, to fit them SO as to pre-
vent the Injection of powder, without,
as great many are doing, applying
India rubber packing, which will pre-
vent it unless there is application OF
force. ...
Year: 1872

A Washington correspondent of :
Southern paper says of Governor
Davis, of Texas, in connection with
the Vice Presidency:


"The recent visit OF Governor Da.
Wis to this city brought to fresh re
membrance some incidents of his life
which has never appeared in print
A staunch Union man, bad the gov.
ernment in the early part of 1861
rendered him the least encouragement
and aid. he would have saved Texa:
to the Union. She, however, was
forced out, and he entered the ser
vice Of the Union in command of Tex
as volunteers. His wife and children
and property were left to the mercy
of his rebel neighbors. His wife made
several desperate attempts to get
within the Union lines, but as otter
was she captured and taken back tC
Brownsville, where the Colonel haG
resided. In 1862, the Colonel made
an attempt to reach them and bring
them away, but was captured anG
sentenced to be hung. but just as the
rope was being adjusted around hi.
neck a messenger from the Mexican
authorities arrived and demanded his
release, threatening to retaliate should
he be hung. The consequence was
that the rebels reluctantly released
him, and he in company with his wife
and little children, set out amid dan
gers by land and perils IL an oper
boat on the sea, in an almost naked
and starved condition, for our lines
and after few days found themselve.
on board of one of our gunboats. A
brOther-in-law of Governor Davis
was a class mate of President Grant
and there exists between the Cover
nor and the President the most friend
ly and intimate relations. He ha:
been most successful IN administering
government of Texas in the interests
of Republicanism. He rendered the
country valuable and distinguished
services during the war by command
ing a brigade of Texas volunteers
These distinguished services, together
with other facts that might be men
toned, combine to make his claim to
the high position of Vice President
most promising.
Year: 1872

You know that gunpowder is ver
t dangerous in gun, or near fir,
{ but perhaps you don't know that
Is equally dangerous all through tn
, process of making. A powder mil
, is fearful place to visit, and stran
, gers are very seldom allowed to g
into one. They are built far fron
any town, in the woods, and eacl
branch OF the work is done in 3 sepa
rate building. These houses are quit,


distance from each other, so that i
one blows up, it won't blow up th'


rest. Then the lower parts of tn,


building are made very strong, while


the roots are very lightly set on, 81


that if it explodes only the roof viii
suffer. But in spite of every care


sometimes whole settlement of the


powder mills will 60 off almost in ar


instant, and every vestige OF the toil
of years, will be swep: away in few
seconds.


But though you feel like holding
your breath to look at it, it is really
a very interesting process to see. 1t
is made, perhaps you know, of char
coal, saltpeter and birthstone. Each
of these articles is prepared in a
house by itself but the house where
they are mixed Is the first terrible
one. In this building is an immense
milestone, rolling round and round in
an iron bed, and urder the stone are
put the three fearful ingredients of
gunpowder. There they are thor
oughly mixed and ground together.
This is very dangerous operation,
because If the stone comes in contact
with its iron bed, it is very apt to
strike fire, and the merest suspicion
of a spark would set off the whole.
The materials are spread three or
four inches thick in the bed; the
wheel. which goes by water power, is
started, and every man leaves the
place. The door is shut and the ma
chinery left to do its terrible work
alone. When it has run long enough,
the mill is stopped and the men
come back This operation leaves the
powder in hard Jumps or cakes.


The next house is where the cakes
are broken into grains, and, of course,
is quite as dangerous as the last one.
But the men can't go away from
this they are obliged to attend to it
every moment, and you may be sure
no laugh or joke is ever heard within
its wells. Every one who goes in
has to take OFF his boots and put on
rubbers, because one grain of the
dangerous powder, crushed by the
boot, would explode the whole in an
instant.


The floor of this house is covered
with leather, and is made perfectly
black by the dust Of the guDwowder.
1t contains a set of sieves, each one
smaller than the LAST, through which
the powder is siited and an immense
ground and laboring mill, where it is
ground up, while men shovel it in
with wooden shovels. The machin-
cry makes great deal of noise,
but the men are silent, as in the other
houses. The reckless crashing of the
machinery even seems to give greater
horror, and one is very glad to get
out Of that house.


The slowing house is the next on
the list, and there the gunpowder is
heated on wooden trays. 1t IS very
hot, and no workmen stay there.
From there it goes to the backing
house, and it is put up in barrels,
kegs. and canisters.
Year: 1872

Nothing, perhaps, will come bac


more vividly to those who have jus


lost their friend than the way il


which, while living in an atmospher


OF thought and feeling that SCENE,


quite unlike our ordinary life, he ia


able TO enter into and sympathiz


with the feelings of everyday


'.MaZzini," said a lady 10 me once


''can understand feelings that


thought no one but a woman coul(


realize.' Nor was this confined


merely to his own class, and those il


socially equal intercourse with him


During one of bis most severe ill


nesses he was stay irg in his favorits


lodging in the Fulham- road, and was


waited ON by the woman who KEEP,
the lodgings. She, like all who wait.
ed on him, had become warmly at
tached to him, but her awkward
cooking was ill-fitted 10 his sick
taste. Unwilling to PAIN her by let
ting her know this, he used to hide
away the dinner that she might not
see that it had not been eaten. Hun
dreds such stories as this might, /
doubt not, be told, and yet as the
interviews which / have had with
him in that book crowded little room
in the Fulham-road came back to me.
| like to think rather of the way in
which he drew one out of oneself,
and make one feel that each subject
that one had been wont to associate
with low intrigues or hard dogma
had higher and nobler side.
sadly remember that often the effect
seemed to me too great to live in that
pure sir Of perfect selfishness and
heroism which was so strangely out
of keeping with the lower life around
US. we'll remember taking q friend
of mine, an unromantic Scotch law
yer, to Mazzini. Never had heard
Mazzini so eloquent as ON that day /;
the intense iervor of conviction with
which be met one or two objections
which my friend put forward so
touched the latter, that when we left
the room he turned to me with flushed
cheeks and eager voice, and begged
me TO bring him again soon. He
often loved to speak OF those whom
he had worked with in his different
struggles. and remember his dwell
ing with special delight on the servi.
ces and sacrifices of Signor Petroni
(the same, suppose, who is now one
Of the chief writers on the Romo del
Popolo), and winding up with. That
is a man whose life must be written
some day" In spite of the fierceness
Of his attacks in writing when they
we're needed, l never heard him
speak bitterly in private conversation
Of any one but the Napoleons (the
ex- Emperor and Prince Jerome),
and even of them contemptuously
rather than bitterly.-1he Spectator.