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Year: 1872

1t is no longer question whether steam
blowing is practicable or profitable. That
las been abundantly shown by the con-
slant use for several years in England Of
these implements, and the proof that the
heaviest lands may be plowed at cost
thereof, ip some cases, not over one dol
lar per acre. The question is with US ;
Can we apply this system of ploughing to
our peculiar circumstances We need it.
By no other means can our heavy soil be
properly prepared. 1t has been shown
that clay soils which have been cultivated
in the best manner by horse power, when
cultivated by steam to a depth Of three
feet, gave Immediately double the usual
crops. Such cultivation is manifestly i'm
possible without the aid Of steam. With
this power the heaviest soils can be loos-
ened and mellowed, and made to admit
air and heat-made, in fact, to breathe
and live-as deeply as we may desire.
The very impossiblity of doing this in our
present circumstances has given rise to a
prejudice against it, and deep cultivation
has come to be bugbear with many. But
if we were once able to penetrate and
loosen the soil mot invert it) to a depth
of thirty inches, we should never hear
the least objection to the practice. The
result Of course, as the conditions are
equal, will be the same here as in England,
and this is sufficiently profitable to lead us
to make an attempt to secure it. Co
operation is the method in which it may
be done. Congress has removed all import
duty on foreign made steam blowing ap.
paratus and engines, so that the objection
of the enhanced cost is removed. Mani


festly private enterprise, at least among
ordinary farmers, is insufficient tc under,
take this task single-handed, but con.
jointly it may be done. The first attempt
should be made in such States as Illinois
or California, where level ground, heavy
dry soil, farms of considerable size, and
sufficient capital and public spirit, are al


to be met with. Joint stock steam plow'
ing companies in England have made
profit of fifteen per cent. in addition t.
laying aside fund for renewal of plant


and have done the work at half the cost
and four times as well as with horse power.
Theu why should not the attempt sue
ceed here? There is every thing to gain
and not much to lose by making it.
Year: 1872

Too Much WHISKY FOR THE SNAKE
They tell "hard" snake stories in Ken
lucky. This is the latest: A man in But
Ter County got very drunk on quart of
whisky, and lay in the woods all night.
The next morning large dead rattlesnake
was found about three feet from him,
which had evidently bitten the drunken
man three several times during the night,
as shown by the impression of the teeth
in the flesh. The bites did no further
injury than to cause slight swelling and
Inflammation, which soon passed away,
but the mean whisky in the mans system
was too much for the snake, and he is
supposed to have died Immediately after
infloting the wound.
Year: 1872

WHAT IS WATER.-What is water
suppose some men are ready to make
the Dogberry like reply, "water, sir, is
water" That certainly reaches the point
by a very short cut, but to the thinking,
inquiring man it is not satisfactory. Let
us answer the question from the stand
point of the chemist. Water is rust, the
red powder that falls from iron which has
long been subjected to the action of mois
ture, is rust of iron. 1t is the oxyde of a
metal and so is water Water Is the rust
of hydrogenium, a true metal. This
wonderful element no human eyes have
ever looked upon and probably never will
as in its free state it exists only in the
form of an invisible gas. Quite recently,
science mas demonstrated experimentally,
what has long been suspected, that hy-
drogen gas is metal, a1d capable of as
suming solid form in alloys. Oxygen,
by uniting with this gaseous metal, rusts,
oxydzes or burns it, and water Is the rust
or ashes. This strange metal, hydrogen
ium, and its oxide, play an important
part in all the operations of nature. 1t
is not alone confined to the little ball OF
earth upon which we live, but it exists in
the stellar world above US, and in those
misty points of light, the nebuls, which
have so long puzzled and perplexed the
astronomer and men versed in the physi.
cal sciences. The recent discoveries by
means of the spectroscope have proved
that this element enters largely into the
uniformed chaotic masses Of matters, NOV
ing in space, of which the worlds are
made. 1t is ready, when the formative
act is fully accomplished, for taking its
place in combination with oxygen, as
water, to aid in sustenation of animal and
vegetable life upon spheres so far distant
that our imagination even cannot reach
them.-Erchange.
Year: 1872

No HoME.-Many of those unfortunates
who, during the late cheated term" in
New York, were struck down in the
streets, were found to have no home. In
these cases, probably snnstroke was far
from being the true cause of death. "No
home" conveys such pitiful idea of des-
titution and misery that we do not wonder
that human beings forced to wander
through the streets, subject to rigors of
weather almost intolerable to those who
enjoy all the comforts of home, should
droop and fail and die, being weakened
and exhausted by all the various Ills and
deprivations incident to the misfortune of
having no home.
Year: 1872

At about twenty miles from Bcr.
lin is situated the village OF Sperca
berg, noted for the deepest Well THAT
has ever been sunk. Owing TO the
presence OF gypsum in the locality,
which is at moderate distance from
the capital,it occurred 10 the govern
ment authorities in charge Of the
mines, to obtain supply OF rock
salt. With this end in view, the
sinking OF shaft or well, sixteen
feet in diameter, was commenced
some five years ago, and at depth
of two hundred and eighty feet the
salt was reached The boring was
continued to a further depth OF nine
hundred and sixty feet, the diameter
OF this bore bsing reduced to about
thirteen inches. The operations
were subsequently prosecuted by the
aid OF steam until depth Of tour
thousand one hundred and ninety.
tonr feet was attained. At this point
the boring was discontinued, the ba-
rex or bit being still IN the salt de.
post, which thus exhibits the enor-
nous thickness OF three thousand
nine hundred and seven feet


The boring would have been con
tinued in order TO discover what dis,
criptiou of deposit lay under the salt
but for the mechanical difficulties
connected with the further prosecu-
ton OF the operations. During the
progress OF this interesting work, re-
peatcd aud ca efui obse, vationS were
made of the temperature at various
depths. The results confirm very
closely those which have been
already arrived at under similar cir
cumstances.
Year: 1872

A correspondent writing from
Texas, says stock of all kinds is do
ing woll, and that good sheep can be
bought tor $3.50 per head. Unless
these are miserably poor sheep,
money could be made driving them
North.
Year: 1872

Some social economists would 90 SO
far as to abrogate the ownership Of
children by their own parents, and as
man is the only real wealth of any
country, by adopting all its offspring,
do away with the neglect, starvation
and ignorance that too frequently either
destroy an item Of population or allow
it to grow up in ignorance, to crime,
and make it burden rather than q
blessing.


This is of course an extreme opinion,
but that the government, either Nation
al or State, should interfere with the
infancy Of its citizens where parental
neglect may render it necessary, ap
pears to be gaining ground in public
favor, especially in the education Of ou
youth. Senator Beardsley has q bill
which has already passed the Senate
making it compulsory for all children
between eight and fourteen, to be sen
Year: 1872

a young man paying special atten-
tion to young lady, met with the fol-
lowing incident during one Of his Wis
it's


Being invited into the parlor to await
the lady's appearance, he entertained
himself as best he might for some time,
and was becoming very weary, when a
little girl about FIVE years old slipped in
and began to converse with him.


Il can always tell when you are COM
ing to our house," she said: .'Why,
when you are going to be here, sister
begins to sing and get good; sac gives
me cake and pie and everything want
apd she sings so sweet when you are
here, and when I speak to her she smiles
50 pleasantly. l wish you would stay
here all the while, then I would have a
good time. But when you go off sister
is not good. She gets mad, and if l
ask her anything she slaps and bangs
me abont.'


This was poser for the young man.
"Fools and children tell the TRUTH he
muttered, and taking his hat he left and
returned no more.


MoRAL.-Parents wishing their i'll ma
tured daughters married, should keep
their small children out of the parlor
when strangers are there.
Year: 1872

A recent case in Wisconsin shows how
it is going to work when the women
vote. A woma n went to the polls at
Ripon and wanted to vote, and because
man told her she had better run homo
and nurse her baby, she knocked out a
set of teeth for him and pulled his hair,
and kicked him over fence, and acted
unruly.
Year: 1872

Whom did Adam marry, and when
did he marry her? One Eve.


What was her bridal dress d? Barely
nothing


Not even ribbon? No; she had no
need of one: she was rib-bon'e herself.


When Adam and Eve were in the
garden business, what time did they
commence picking apples In the
Fall.


Why did not Cain make good sugar?
Because he was not Able.


Spirits as we'll as sugar comes from
cane; what evil resulted from this
Gains spirit. Able was slowed.


What reason have we to suppose
that Cain also got slewed? He went
Immediately to the land of Nod.


Who was the wisest man? Knowcr


What did he know? He knew en-
ough to go in out of the rain.
Year: 1872




A Disabling DIsease.-No disease which
does not conine a man to his bed so com.
Dletely units him for business as dyspepsia.
When the stomach is foul, the brain is always
muddy and confused, and as the cares and
apIieties of life sufficient burden for the Or
gan of thought to bear, without being tormented
by the mseries born of indigestion, it is highly
desirable for the brain's sake as well as for the
sake of every other portion of the system that the
disordered stomach should be restored with the ut
most dispatch to healthy, vigorous condition.
This object can always be eaccomplishedb by course
of Hostetters Stomach Bitters, the purest and
best of vegetable specifics which evacuates the
morbid humors through the bowels, rouses and
tones the torpid stomach and regulates the liver,
imparts frmness to the nerves. and clears the
sensorum of it's mental cobwebs. Persons subject
to attacks of Indigestion bilious headache, irregu-
larity of the bowels, sickness at the stomach, or
"the blues" should take the Bitters once or twice
a day throughout the present season.


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Year: 1872

We have conversed with planters from
all parts of the parish on the subject of the
cotton prospects, and the result of our in
quiries is that the crop will be gathered by
the last of October.


Trade of New Orleans to this statement,
and they can predicate their estimate Of
the amount of cotton bales that will be
grown in the United States from this and
similar statements that come from the en-
tire cotton region.


To the planter who has received advances
from merchant we say ship enough to pay
him and then hold the remainder for future
prices
Year: 1872

A dwelling-house in Carrollton was
burned last night, but at midnight no in
formation had been received at police head
quarters, as the telegraph operator in Car
rollton, Mr. B. Rici, was at the fire, as his
own house was in danger of burning.
Year: 1872

Holders of tickets for the grand prom
enade concert in the large hall of the Ex-
position building tonight are quite elated
at the prospect of finding break in the
anonotony of daily routine. The hall is now
Gully prepared for public gatherings, and as
Ghe room has never yet been open to pub
Sic performance it is but natural to suppose
Gle place will be well filed this evening.
Columbia No. 5, fire company, will give its
annual ball there next Saturday night.
Year: 1872

"A police order has been issued, instruct
ing the officers to Keep the banquette in
front of the Academy of Music clear of
loafers and starers, who annoy those who
wish to enter or leave the building.
Year: 1872

The paragraph in Sundays REPUBLICAN
relative to an assertion that money had
been paid to keep a name out of the papers,
had no reference to Captain McCann's de-
partment. He keeps his affairs well in
hand, and little transpires without his
knowledge, for he is one of the best police
captains who ever held that position in this
city. His clerks and all about his office
must and do keep in the right path; if they
fail, they must find another locality. 1t is
a notable fact that Captain McCann keeps
his rooms entirely clear Of straw bail and
such hangers-on.
Year: 1872

The Orthodox Friends continued their Yearly
Meeting on Saturday in Gramercy Park Westinghouse
At the morning session reports received from the
Committees on the Educational Fund and the Union
Springs Boarding School. The Peace Committee also
nresented long report setting forth the efforts made
by the circulation OF tracts and Of The Messenger Q Fedc
l the minds of the public with peaceful sentiments
In the afternoon the Sunday school work and the New
York ColOred Mission were discussed by Roscoe Mott
Mary Jane Weaver and others. The public meeting
Yesterday largely attended, and was addressed Dy
Leading members of the Society.
Year: 1872

tne mlnds OF oil our people tho wisdom OF fos-
tering such enterprises, and will convince
them that wise iberality in our city govern
ment Is now the best economy we can
practise. The HERALD has advocated the
construction of such roads by the city
for the use of the citizens and
has been at some pains to show the cost and
probable profits of the undertaking. We
have. nevertheless, been willing to aid the
work if placed in private hands, and have
never failed to give favorable consideration to
any practical scheme for rapid transit that
may have been presented by any indi-
vidual. We believe there are no diff
culties whatever in the way of the speedy
construction of viaduct roads. The en-
gineering work has already been pronounced
by competent authorities as entirely practical
ble and we have produced figures to prove that
the enterprise would be remunerative. If
built by the city the returns would no doubt
be sufficient to meet the interest of the construc
ton bonds from the first year of the operation
of the roads, and to furnish sufficient sink
ing fund for the payment of the principal as





in fact is the energy necessary to
press the scheme forward to success, and
the boldness to fight against the prejudices of
those who imagine that any progress is waste
full extravaganza.


The difficulty heretofore has been found
in the selfshness and corruption Of our State
Legislatures. No scheme for railroad in New
York could be passed at Albany unless the mem
bers could see their way to immediate or pros
pective profit in its passage Last Winter with
q three-fourth republican majority in Senate
and Assembly, every city railroad project was
defeated because the greedy members Of the
two houses became involved in fight as to
which should secure the greatest share of the
spoils. IF the same shameless set Of corrup-
tionists are returned next year we may again
give up all hope of any rapid transit that
will benefit the people of New York. It
is in view of this discouraging prospect
that the HERALD has advocated the election of q
Mayor with spirit, vigor and enterprise enough
to understand the wants of the city and to
boldly push forward all projects Of internal
improvements. We want no fossil in our city
government at this time, and no stop policy
in our work of progress. The cost Of
two great viaduct railways would be
repaid q hundred-fold in the comfort
they would afford to our citizens, and in the
advantages we should derive in the improved
health and morality Of the people. If the
suffering thousands who are likely to be left
to-day without the means of travel shall be
convinced of the wisdom of electing to Office
only men Of liberal and progressive views,
the horse disease will not have been without
its benefits.
Year: 1872




Children.


Cardinal Cullen, who is widely known as
the head Of the Ultramontane party in Ireland
and the ally of Minister Gladstone, has been
on pilgrimage to Rome. As the Cardinal
has rather an affection for the sacred city his
visit did not attract much attention, and he
would probably have returned to his faithful
flock without attracting any special notice if
the Gi0rnale d Roma had not made q surpris-
ing discovery According to this authority
Cardinal Cullen left Ireland with the object Of
requesting the Holy Father to interfere in
behalf of the Galway priests, who are supposed
to be prosecuted by the government This
action on the part Of the Cardinal, if true, will
place his character in q new light but we
fear his love for the Galway priests, who
allowed their patriotism to overcome their
discretion, would scarcely induce him to run
ishment. According to the Giornale di Roma
the Pope refused peremptorily to interfere,
saying s'that the Irish only obeyed the Holy
See when they could turn its instructions to
good account, and willingly disobeyed it
rather than sacrifice their passions" As the
Pope is well known to entertain strong preju-
dice against the Irish, especially those suspected
of disloyalty to England, this denunciation of
the popular priests is not at oil surprising. In
Rome English Catholicism is the respectable
thing; for the Howards, the Butes and the
Cliffords are millionnaires, while the Irish are
mere bog-trotting believers. That such
people should be refractory under the govern
ment which the Towards, Butes and Cliffords
support naturally appears grave and unpar-
donable offence in the eyes of His Holiness.
But it is little hard on the unfortunate Irish
that they are exposed to rebuffs all over the
world because they are supposed to be Papists
of the deepest dye, while at Rome they are
denounced as little better than heretics. The
ingratitude of republics is proverbial; but it
would appear that churchmen also can culti-
vats short memories, and abandon old and
faithful friends for new and prosperous allies.
It may be well doubted, however, if the
Pope has done wisely in acting SO as to
weaken the affection to the Holy See Of q
devoted Catholic nation for the sake Of pleas
ing Q few millionaire Catholics, and q gov
ernment that cares little for Rome, except to
make use of the Papal influence for the benefit
Of England
Year: 1872

PREPARE FOR ANOTHER Ep1zooTY.
Dominion Of Canada seems determined to be
the fountainhead of animal distempers the
present season. Besides being the origin of
the prevailing horse malady, another disease
which threatens to become widespread, has
broken out among the swine in Hull, Ottawa.
Our farmers and Health Commissioners
should be on the alert, and endeavor to pre-
vent if possible, this new plague from
spreading among the swine in this city and
vicinity.
Year: 1872

The TRIAL OF CHIEF McWuILAMs and De-
tective Doyle for conspiracy to rob the Jersey
Bank is approaching a close. Yesterday was
taken up in the arguments Of counsel on either
side. The District Attorney will close his
reply to-day, when Judge Depue will charge
the jury. Yesterday evening the bondsmen Of
the Chief surrendered him TO the authorities.
Year: 1872

The Prussiam Parliament and Emperor


william.


Emperor William, of Germany, is one Of
the most fortunate and most popular of the
rulers of this age. On the whole it must be
admitted that he has well deserved success.
He represents principles which at the present
moment are in favor, and, in spite Of his mo-
narchical instincts he judiciously uses his great
power for the well-being of his people. In the
last session Of the Prussian Parliament the
Lower Chamber adopted bill providing for
local self-government in the rural districts
This session the bill came up for consideration
in the Upper Chamber, and the representatives
Of aristocracy refused to give it their approval
AS will happen at times under Parliamentary
government, matters came to standstill. The
Upper House would not yield. The majority
in the Lower House, or Chamber of Deputies
threatened to resign if the bill was not passed
into law. The Emperor was appealed to, and
he has declared in favor of the bill, insisting
that the lords should bring the "deadlock''
to ON end by passing the measure which the
Lower House had adopted. When so much
power is vested in one man it is agreeable to
see it used in the interests of the long down.
trodden people. Thanks to the example of
the United States, despotism is becoming less
and less possible in Europe. This action of
the Emperor, while it rebounds to his credit
must be regarded as gain to the popular
cause
Year: 1872

ton per cent increase of duty imposed on on.


ports in French bottoms. President Thiers


may see, perhaps. by this that his tariff and


navigation restrictions will not prove advan-


tageous to France. At least it appears to be


to the interest of that country to have the


largest and most free commercial intercourse


with the United States Our trade with France


Is very large and capable of great expansion,


and there is the hndest feeling in the United
States toward the French people and French


Republic. Mr.. Washburne presence in Wash
lngton may be opportune, as he is just from
Paris, and understands our commercial rela-
tlons with France, if President Theirs should
be disposed to place the commerce of the two
countries upon more liberal basis II is for
the benefit Of France as well as of the United
States to have, as far as possible. free and re-
ciprocal commercial intercourse.


spain-A Stormy Scene I'm tho Cortes.


Matters do not seem to be mending in Spain
as time advances. On Monday, while the
Army bill was under consideration in the
Lower Chamber of the Cortes the republicans
made vigorous onslaught on the government
Senior Garridos stated that the radical party
the party now in power-existed by the
sufferance of the republicans Prime Minister
zorriila sharply replied, when he was taken in
hand by Sefior Figueras. In the course of
speech characterized by great violence
Figueras declared that the Zorrilla Ministry
was the last Spanish Ministry which would be
formed under King Amadeus When such
language can be used by Deputy in his
place in Parliament it is convincing proof
that Spain has not seen the end of
her troubles, and that Amadeus, if he
is to win in the end, has much uphill work
before him. It is not to be denied that the
present administration is strong-the strongest
which Spain has had since the advent of the
Savoyard King. Zorrilla has at his back full
two-thirds majority of the Lower House, and
unless some radical change takes place in the
sentiments of the great mass of the deputies
it is difficult to see how he can be overthrown.
It is bad sign, however, that all the promi-
nent men of the revolution are now in the
shade. Serrano, Sagasta, Topete and the rest
are all for the present compelled to stand
aside. It might have been better for Zorrilla
and safer for the throne if these great names
had still been conspicuous as the friends and
supporters Of the stranger King Revolutions
seldom 60 backward but it would not be
wonderful if the claims Of Alphonso should
yet be recognized by the Spanish people and
Amadeus compelled to abandon his thorny
crown and his thankless task.