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Year: 1875

Soils FOR FRUIT.-The Gardeners
Monthly gives the following rules for
selecting the best soiis for fruit: A light
dryish soil for the peach, a strong loamy


soil for the pear; nearly the same for
the plum; q heavy loan for rthe apple, #
on limestone all the better; and for the
cherry soil similar to that OF the peach.
Year: 1875

TEE PUBLIC School EXPENDITURES
We regret to see that the Board of Pub
lie Education refuse 10 concsr with the
City Council in its efforts to reduce ex-
penditures. The School Board can re-
duce its outlay Just rs easily as the Coun-
cll can curtail its expenses. There are
many ways in which this can be done.
1t is not for us to point these out. This
is duty belonging to the gentlemen
elected to the Board. Since this feeling
has evinced itself, if the Council have
not the power to refuse 10 the Board its
demands. we hope such power will be
sought from the Legislature, at its next
session. But that it has the power to
curb the Boards extravaganza We have
no doubt and that it should do so. in
such time rs the present ought not to
be questioned.


Reductions are being made in al de-
partments of labor. and there is no good
reason why it should not be done in the
Board Of Public Education. We have
always been an advocate for perfecting
the schools, and making them 80 excel
lent that the best class Of society will de-
sire TO send their children to them. But
it is not necessary TO be extravagant to
do this. We do not know whether there
are too many teachers or too few wheth-
er their salaries are too high or too low.
This is no more a question for them than
it is for other employees to answer. 1t
is question for the Board to determine.
II rs also question whether that body
cannot do without renting room. By
varying their nights Of meeting the
Council chamber might accommodate
them now as it did years ago; and it
wCnld be well for the committee now
seeking a room. to ascertain whether
3is cham Der could not be had, and thus
makes beginning TO reduce expenses.
Year: 1875

A hopeful interest is again awakened
in the case of the long lost Charley
Rose. A boy, answering the descrip-
ton, who said he was stolen away
from Philadelphia while at play with
his brother, and that his name was
Ross, but that he had been forced to
give another name, has been found in
charge OF some men on a train for
Montreal, and taken of at St. Albans,
Vermont,
Year: 1875

France has applied for more space
ia the Fine Art Department OF the
Exposition alone than will fill the en-.
tire space of Memorial Hall and the
new extension which doubles the ca.
pacity of the original building.
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winter
and are furnishing the bes.
paying and most easily worked
agency in the world. Our
agents have always been the
most successful, and we nave
lately added new and exceed


ingly taking induce ments, re


quiring only intelligence and
application for any one, young
or old, of either sex, to make
really first-class paying bus1
Year: 1875

Taken in full doses on retiring for the night, it
will be found to exert the most powerful influence
Oh the organs of circulation and perspration. Per
spiration flows from every part of the body glow
of heat extends from head to foot, every muscle and
fore is relaxed and in state of the most gratfy-
ing repose, while pain, soreness of the bones and
muscles disappear, and the poor sufferer in state
Of mind at once composed and happy, sinks into a
refreshing sleep, lasting until morning from which
he awakens a new man. mild dose before break.
ia. and another before going out for the day, will
prevent his taking more cold.
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winner
and are furnishing the bes
AID most easily worked
in the world. our
agents have always been the
most successful, and we nave
lately added new and exceed
ing v taking induce ments, re
quiring only intelligence and
application for any one,young
or old, of ei,her sex, to make
really first-class ptying busl
Year: 1875

The following is from the Southern
Californian:


On Friday last we had the pleasure
of meeting Captain Ii. Hutton, who
has been the guide OF the Wheeler ex-
petition in the mountains Of Kern
and Inyo. He egivesa glowing account
of the country travetsed 10y the party,
and promised to give us a full descrip-
tion of the country. 1t would he hart
to find in any of the mountain districts
of the State more picturesque or varied
scenery than on the route of the eXpe-
dition during the past Summer. The
trout fishing on the north fork of Kern
river and its tributaries, excited the
wonder of the Oldest mountaineer. a
thousand speckled trout, weighing
from two to seven pounds, were caught
by two of the party within three hours
The feast was enjoyed by large party
whose appetites We're edged with long
tramps in the eXhilerating air of the
highest mountains on the coast. That
portion OF the expedition engaged in
this section of country, is disbanded
for the Winter, Lieut.. Bergland will
however, start on the first Of January
from Los Angeles. and complete the
work in that vicinity.
Year: 1875

THE threatened change of text
books in the public schools is exciting
the masses of our State. The general
opinion is against the change, and if
injunctions are necessary, is to be
hoped that every Court in the State
will put its bar on change that will
be such drain OH the people of the
State. All school books are now of a
high standard and it does not make SO
much difference which publishers
productions are used, and when the
public witness the bitter fight among
book agents 1t suggests, at least, pos
sibility of there being large profit in
the proposed change, and a shadow of
corruption OH the part of the Board.
We believe in making education cheap
and hence oppose all changes of text
books that add to the expenses of par
ents, unless there be some great gain to
education.
Year: 1875

THERE is a growing disgust on the
part of our citizens with the manage
ment of city affairs, and q desire is
expressed either to have the city char
ter entirely repealed and return to
county control or have the city man
aged by board Of three. We do not
know that either of these propositions
will be carried out, but unless the
present municipal strife ceases we be-
lieve the taxpayers will gladly well
come the legislation that will wipe out
the present expensive city govern
ment.
Year: 1875

WE regret to record in our local col
umns fracas at the Third Ward
polls, IN which one candidate for
Council, by his own story, had his
shoulder broken, being first struck by
q Councilman and then tripped up
and thrown heavily to the ground. If
his story is true, and it has not been
denied, the whole fight is SIM
ply disgraceful. If this is to be the rule
it will be necessary hereafter to insure
in an accident company against the
perils of running for office, and when
a candidate goes to the polls he will
require to take fearful farewell of his
family, make his will, commend his
soul to Heaven, and then go forth to
meet his foes in and out of office.
Year: 1875

SOME of our extremely radical con-
temporaries are denouncing the ap-
pointment of Captain WADDELL, late
of the Confederate navy, to the COM
mand of the P. M. S. S. City of San
Francisco. This seems in bad taste as
the warts over and the country is
about uniting in a fraternal celebra-
tion of its greatness. Let the past he
forgotten and let the brave men who
fought for their respective political
ideas meet and cement the Union in
to a stronger mass.
Year: 1875

DIR. Washington L. Atlee, president OF the
Medical Society of the state of Pennsylvania,
in his recent annual address before that body,
lined out in a forcible manner the marked
contrast between the practice of physie now
and the practice Of physic fifty years ago,
presenting in concise terms very gratifying
exhibit of the progress made in the interval.
Apart from the many important anatomical
and physiological discoveries of modern phys
ic, the improvement in mechanical appli-
ances during the last half century has been
such as to practically bring about revolu-
tion in the treatment of disease. The clini-
cal thermometer, the several forms of specu-
lum. the many notifications of electric ma
chimes, the ipnumerable appliances of gum
elastic and hard rubber, and countless other
improvements more or less valuable were
wholly unknown, as DR.. Atlee quantity ex-
presses it, "among the armamentarium of
our worthy ancestors" and modern physic
has consequently on its very foundation a
vast advantage over physic of the olden time.
The late Monsieur Guibord is certainly the
most thoroughly buried man since the Pom
peiian days. The liquid cement with which
the grave was filled was mixed with scraps of
tin and sheet iron in order to prevent drill
ing. There was no ceremony, but just as
the last shovelful of earth was thrown in a
young man forced his way through the ranks
ofthe police, uncovered fhis head, and with
deep emotion said: "He was my MASTER
am printer. He taught me my trade and /
will make the sign Of the cross for him-for
Joseph Guibord."
Year: 1875

1t is at this season of the year that so
many boys forget that the ice can break and
let them into the cold, cold water 10 be
drowned. We suppose that no amount of
warning will prevent careless persons from
going upon the thin ice and being drowned.
The public expect men to die OF delirium
tremens and such necessary vices as come
from intemperance, but the annual loss of a
dozen bright boys by yenturing upon thin ice
seems unnecessary.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty OF good faith


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

IT is said that Postmaster General Jewell
is receiving numerous letters congra'ulating
him upon the policy he has pursued while in
charge of the postal department and urging
him to continue.
Year: 1875

SHAKING A CARPRT.-Shaking a carpet is e feature of house cleaning which thor oughly enlists the attention of the man of the house. It is done after dinner TT c reason the woman selects this time is be cause he is dressed, and has to go back to business again without chance to change his clothes. He carries the carpet out doors. It is not rolled up; it is in . wad shape, and he gathers itup in his arms and starts for the door, with enc end of the carpet dragging between his feet. He scorns to stop and roll it up. He has got kis arms full. It presses into his bo- som and leaves rifts of sand and grit on his shirt front !; it bulges into his face hot and dusty-and fills his mouth and nose and eyes then the long end gets under one foot as he is going down the back stoop. and the other foot mounts up the breadth, and he stumbles but catches himself, and prevents falling to the ground on his face, by deliberately, yet blindly, jumping of the stoop. He finally gets the carpet on the line. It is very warm. There is a breeze from the west. He steps on the west side of the carpet, and hits it lick with stick. In- stantly the wind turns sharp around to the east. and he is engulfed in dust. He darts around to the east side and hits it another lick. The wind veers around to the west simultaneously, and he is plung- cd into a sneezing fit which seriously threatens to dislocate his neck. Then he pauses. and looks around uneasily. He sees that a carpet has the same effect on the wind as a sieve full of coal ashes, and he doesn't understand it. He gets a clothes pole. and stands around ct the north end, and hits the carpet 6 terrible rap. The wind promptly sails around to the south, and catches him full in the face with pint of dust before the pole has fairly left the carpet. He doesn't stop to reason now. He would be Q jack ass if he did. He grasps the pole with all his might. and madly smashes it against the carpet, and dances around the line, and coughs, and sneezes, and swears. After that it is pulled down, and the hired girl, with the strength of an OK. takes hold of an end with him, and they pro- ceed to to shake it. His hands are in blisters across the palms, and his fingers, aching with the grasp on the pole, can seeem to find no hold on the wool and warp. At every other shake they glide oH, starting the nails, and causing his arms to jingle clear to the elbows. And every time he picks up that carpet he does it with renewed energy and a weaker backbone. The most we can hope for man in this position is that he is not O deacon of church, and the hired girl Q member of it.-Danbury Nes0s.
Year: 1875

However obscure the causes may be which con- tribute to render nervous debility disease so prevalent, affecting it does, nearly onehalf of our adult population, it is melancholy fact that day by day, and year by year, VIC witness a most frightful increase of nervous affections from the slightest neuralgia to the more grave and extreme forms of
Year: 1875

It is of the highest importance, then, that in- dividuals should be sbie to judge for themselves by their own feelings,Ah and to what extent they are attacked by this insidiOus enemy to i'll health, comfort, and even life itself if left to run its course unchecked, by the early and prompt ap- plicatiOn Of curative remedies.
Year: 1875

The mother hen, if cooped, can not
scratch tor insects, minute Larvae, etc.,
that form the appropriate food for young
chickens. Therefore, for the first two or
three days they should be fed with yolks
of hard boiled egge, chopped fine and
mixed with an equal quantity of good
sweet bread crumbs. This will pay, as
it is well to give the chicks a good start
in lite, at the commencement. Then, for
about fortnight, feed with two-thirds
of the best corn meal, add to this boiled
potato or a handful of tender grass, chop
the whole together. Calves lights,
If the spot where the chickens run af-
ford insects, then gradually leave Off the
meat, feeding with meal, cracked corn
and wheat. But if in city yard or other
place where the forage is scarce, then
continue the wheat all through. The old
fashioned way OF feeding nothing but
corn-dough answers very well in place
where there are great quantities of in
sects. At first, feed six or eight times a
day, and less often as they grow older.
Feed enough at time to have little
left, and when this is gone, feed again
very soon. Give whole corn as soon as
they are old enough to swallow it. and
as great a variety Of other things as pos
sible; bran, wheat screenings, oatmeal,
etc., ali they will eat. There should not
be the slightest parsimony in feeding
chickens. You can not make them grow
too fast or make them too fat while gain
ing their growth. With adult fowls the
case is different in respect to fattening.
Growing chickens mustbe supplied with
pounded shells, bone dust, or lime in
some form, il strong frames are desired.
Live Stock Journal.
Year: 1875

An old farmer gives 1t As bis can
did opinion after many years observa-
ton and experience, that the arrival
Of . circus will do more towards en-
forcing the Fourth Commandment
han a dozen Sunday-schools.
Year: 1875

BUTLER's SAoRIFIoE. The feature
Of the last meeting Of the Woman's
Suffrage Association, remarks the
New York Herald, was a letter from
Gen. Butler, in which he avowed
his belief that his advocacy Of wo-
mans suffrage cost him five hundred
votes Like good boy, the General
is not disheartened by this untoward
result, and he is still for the cause.
The Herald presumes the good wo-
men Of the Suffrage Association join
with him in his lament.
Year: 1875

LEMoS SinUr.--Prcss your hand OH
each lemon and roll it back and forth
briskly on the table to make 1t squeeze
more easily; then press tho juice into
bowl or tumblcr--ncvGr into tin; strain
out all the seeds, as they give bad taste.
Remove nil the pulp from the pecls, and
boil i'll watcr-n pint for dozen pul lps-
to extract the acid. 4 few minutes boil
ing is enough; then strnin the watcr with
the juice Of tho lemons, put pound of
white sugar to n pint of tho juice, boil ten
minutes, bottle it, and your lemon sirup
is ready. Put n tablespoonful Of this
sirup in aglass Of water and you will have
n cooling, hcalthful drink. When people
need an ncid, if they would let vinegar
alone and use lemons they would feel just
as well satisfied and receive no injury
UCrdid Of Ucalth.
Year: 1875

lDnEtNspOTt iiiitbt rtDs o.I


WE have read with pleasure the let
ter of Colonel Thomas a. Scott TO the
New York Tribune, In reply to n very
unfair attack of u correspondent of
that paper upon the Texas and Pacific
railway bill The opposition to the
bill is inspired chiefly by Jay Gould,
the owner of the Union Pacific, andC.
p. Huntington, large stakeholder in
the Central Pacific. These men con-
troll immense means, and there Is no
doubt they have bought up the inflll-
ence of u number of newspapers to
fight the Texas and Pacific, which is
their great rival. The Texas and Pa
cific bill is without doubt the fairest
railroad bill ever brought before con-
gress, and is in the interest of an en-
terprise that promises to benefit por-
tion of the union which the policy of
the federal government has impOver-
ished and desolated.


The passage of the Texas and Pacific
bill would be nm act of conspicuous JUS
tice to the south, while it would be of
immense benefit to the whole country.
The south has been crushed and devas-
tated to crafty the malevolence or
ambition of Grant is this great enter
prise, which promises her a measure of
recuperation, now to be stricken down
in the interest of two railroad mag
mates? Let the press of the south aud
west watch the course of members of
congress on this bill that it may be
known who are bought up by the
Could Huntington combination, and
who are acting in the fullest extent.
Year: 1875

| duty Of the committee to settle such bills
The Speaker had nothing to do with them.
Did not know Armstrong. Custom com
though the law that gear did not require it.
The House settled the amount Of contingent
expenses and the Speaker must sign the
vouchers or be turned out of office. He is
not the accounting officer of the House.
ContiDg gent expenses are those for anything
fund. though necessary article Generally
examined the book Of the committee with
the charm an. Mr.. Matthews. Don't know
where Mr.. Matthews is. The appropriation
bill may require the Speakers signature
anu may not. Personally have examined
the Auditors accounts as member OF the
committee Of 1879. Experts had to be re-
lied on seven or eight clerks were employed;
one man could not examine the accounts of
Auditor and Treasurer for three years. Don't
know the handwriting on the back OF the
voucher. though it appears familiar. The
law fixes the number of clerks of the House.
Do not think one Legislature can bind az
other sr the matter.


M. Semnes objected to the llue o! IN.
1ulry as not germane to the issue.
Colonel Field stated it was contained in
the petition shat the Auditor had issued
various warrants 20 officers Of the House
and Senate unauthorized By law. The wit.
ness vas competent to show the proper
number Of pages and clerks he certified TO-
He could then show by documentary evi
Ienca how many the Auditor had paid.


Mr. Semnes stated the petition must con
tain an allegation of the fact the Attorney
General wished to prove and he objected to
the question as not warranted by the pet:-
ton.


Colonel Field said he would examine the
petition again and i. it did not he would
withdraw the question.


AS It as then three o'clock the court aG
!o..ned till to-day.
Year: 1875

There is profound philosophy IN
the remark Of the English nObleman
who asked his tenant what made q
certain spot "a the field grow so
much stronger and better grain than
the rest That" said the farmer.
is muck midden1-tbal is, q place
where manure had been piled. And
why asked the nobleman, don't
you make the whole field muck rid
den ?" The point of the story lies in
the fact that it has always been con-
sidered practically impossible to OBJ
tain enough manure TO secure the
best results on ali land. Farmers
have been compelled to use manure
sparingly in order to make it extend
over their fields as far as possible,
and even then they have failed in
part, and only manured one-third to
One-fourth of their titled land The
result has been that much of the la
Dor employed has been on poor crops,
when it might, by the use Of fertil-
izers have been on good.
Year: 1875

There were more expressions of dis
sent than assent, and its only effect
was TO show that imitation has no ad-
herents here. The merchants and
business men generally Of the city
have had too much worry with q
shifting currency, not to desire ar
dently to get back to something Ike
solid ground IL is not com
Portable thing to have your goods de-
preeiated . per cent. ia a day by the
fall IN gold, particularly when that
fall was the work Of lot Of sDecula-
tors ID Wall Street, whose action no
one could foretell or prevent. They
want a currency which is the same
TO-DAY as it was yesterday, and will
be the same to morrow, SO that they
can calculate with some degree Of
certainty. And l think they are
right. No greater calamity could be-
fall the country than the wild speeu-
latiOn that would certainly follow the
increase in the volume Of the curren-
cy that the inhationists of Ohio ana
Pennsylvania are demanding.


THE WEATHER
is splendid. an New York is now
delight. The health of the city is
good.


PIETRO.


A farmers crib is q gnawful place
for rats.
Year: 1875

A pair of stairs that ordinarily are
as solid as a rock will straddle in the
joints and ereak and crack together
with all the fervor Of thunder clap
when one is attempting to climb them
noiselessly late at night - Fulton
Times.
Year: 1875

The meeting last Thursday night
at Cooper. Institute, to endorse the
Democratic in nfiationists of the Ohio
and Pennsylvania was failure
The speeches were dull and heavy,
and they did not succeed in interest
ing the not large audience present
Year: 1875

To ALL, particularly invalids, spring is trying
season. Indications of sickness should at once be
attended to. Fatal diseases may be caused by al
lowing the bowels to become corstipated, and the
system to remain in disordered condition until
the disorder has time to develop itself. An ounce
of preventive is worth pound of cure, Is an old
and truthful saying. Therefore, we advise all who
troubled with the complaints now very prevalent
headache, indigestion, disordered liver, want of
appetite nausea, feverish skin, to take, without
delay, Schenck's Mandrake Pills. We know Of no
remedy so harmless and decisive IN its action. 1t at
once strikes at the reot of the disease and produces
healthy tone to the system. People never need
suffer from any disease arising from disordered
condition of the liver if they would take this excel
lent medicine when they feel the first indications
of the malady. Families leaving home for the
summer months should take three or four boxes of
these pills with them. They have an almost in
stsntaneous effect They will relieve the patient Of
headache in one or two hours, and will rapidly
cleanse the liver Of surrounding bile and will eec-
tually prevent bilious attack. They are sold by
all druggists.
Year: 1875

Has made the most Astonishing Cures ::
so quick, so rapid are the changes the
body undergoes under the influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that
Every Day an Increase in Flesh and Weight


HNt Is Seen and Felt.


The Great Blood Purifier.