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Year: 1872

A GooD ONE ON GOVERNOR SEWARD.
Hon. James Brooks, in his latest Chi
ma letter, says:


They tell a good story in Pekin of
Governor Seward when here-doubtless
lie, but too good story to be lost
for all that. The expectations of the
Ex-Governor were doubtless great when
he entered the great Capital of this En-
pire. with which he had made great
treaty, and he therefore indulged In these
great expectations of a great Welcome
As he entered the gates Of Pekin, great
funeral procession was coming out with
music, catafalque, &C., all as imposing
as grand procession of some great dead
man could be we'll made. The Cover
nor was entering with the marine band
of the Colorado, mounted on donkies, as
the grand procession was going out.
The great living and the great dead thus
met. The Governor. naturally enough,
concluded this was in honor of his grand
eatree, and he rose, and rose, in his open
sedan chair. and bowed and bowed, and
then ordered halt, and got out and
bowed, and bowed, and bowed again to





the catafalque and the dead. The Chin
ese think all foreigners are rather mad,
and hence did not marvel over it as
much as they might but when Cover
nor Seward found out what he had done
the story is that he was more mad thar
pleased.
Year: 1872

FATALIsM ILLUsTRATED--A minister
living somewhere on the frontier of Mis-
souri,, was in the habit of saying to his
family and church, -''Friends, you need
not take any unusual care about your
lives; the moment of your death was
''writ" before the foundation of the
world, and you cannot alter it" His
wife observed when he left on Saturday
to meet one of his frontier missionary
engagements, that he dressed the flint
of his rifle with unusual care, put in dry
powder, fresh tow, and took every pains
to make sure that the gun would 60 in
case he came upon an Indian. 1t struck
her one day as she saw him with his rife
on his shoulder as his conduct contra
dicted his teachings, and she said to
him,-"My dear, why do you take this
rife with you? If it was writ before
the foundation of the world that you
were to be killed this trip by an Indian,
that rife won't prevent it, and if you are
not to be killed, of course that rife is
unnecessary; so why do you take it with
you at all p ''Yes," he replied, .'to be
sure, my dear-now-r -really-but-ther
you see my dear-to be sure-but
then-suppose I should meet with al
Indian while | am gone, and his time
had come, and l hadn't my rife witt
me, what would he do? Yes, my dear
we must all contribute all we can to
ward the fulfillment of the DEGREES o
Providence .
Year: 1872

CH1LpREN's ARMs.-A distinguished
Paris physician says; Il believe that,
during the twenty years have praetieed
nv profession, twenty thousand children
have been carried to the cemeteries who
were sacrificed to the absurd custom of
exposing their arms. Put the bulb of a
thermometer into a baby's mouth and
the mercury rises to ninety degrees
Now carry the same to its little hand;
if the arm be bare and the evening cool
the mercury will sink to fifty degrees.
Of course all the blood that flows through
these arms must fall from ten to forty
degrees below the temperature of the
heart. Need l say, when these currents
of the blow flow back to the chest, the
child's vitality must be more or less
compromised And need | add that
we ought not to be surprised at its fre-
quent affections of the tongue, throat or
stomach | have seen more than one
child, with habitual cough or hoarseness,
entirely relieved by simply keeping the
hands and arms warm
Year: 1872

AN ELopEMBNT.-It is not generally
the young lady who takes the lead in an
elopement But when she does, the run
away is pretty sure to prove a success.
Franklin, Tenn, had romantic couple
whose course of true love did not run
very smoothly. So they planned a run
away scheme, intending to cross the
state line and be married, and then re-
turn and beg the indignant fathers
mercy; the whole thing to be done be-
tween sunset and sunrise Everything
went all right until they reached the de-
pot, when suggestion having been made
that the irate father might overtake
them, the bridegroom became nervous
and wanted to go home. But his lady
reassured him: Il don't see how he can !;
| really don't" quoth she. HE lives
three miles from here, and if he comes
he will have to walk. He can't make
the distance on foot before the arrival
and departure of the train. | fore-saw
the danger of such a denouement last
night, and made my arrangements ac-
cordingly. | went to the stables, hid
all the brides, locked the doors and
threw the keys away. When 1 left
home this morning mother and father
were asleep. l quietly turned the key
upon them and threw the key away too" B"
That couple were married, and the man
had better walk pretty straight with
such partner.
Year: 1872

PANIC IN A STATION HoUsE--TwO
strangers, well wrapped up, sauntered in
to New York station house the other
day, and while warming themselves at
the stove casually remarked that they
had the smallpox and would like to be
sent to the hospital. In three seconds
they stood alone in their glory. The
captain looked back through the hole he
had made in the window as he passed
through and told them to "get out. .


After some parley a policeman was
found who had had the smallpox and
whose face looked as if he had sat
down on it in a cane bottomed chair.
He took the terrible strangers in charge
and marched them off to the hospital.
Year: 1872

A young British officer in India, who
was shockingly mutilated and disfgured
in battle, after reflection requested a
comrade to write to his betrothed in
England, and release her from the bri-
dal engagement. Her reply was worthy
of true woman: Tell him if there is
enough of his body left to contain his
soul, shall hold him to his engage
ment."
Year: 1872

times Campbell would make herself so
handy in household matters, and especi-
ally IN sewing and mending the fellow
lodger's clothes, that she gained the af-
fection of all around her. When Mrs.
Early was i'll on one occasion Campbell
was so obliging in her conduct to the
sick woman that some of the neighbors,
who only knew her as Johnnie" were
kind enough to circulate very unkind
stories, which caused the husband to Is
sue his instruction for ..Johnnie" to
leave This had almost come to pass
when the secret of 'sJohnnie's'' sex oozed
out. Campbell's explanation of her ex-
traordinary procedure, is, that in conse-
quence of bad usage when she was about
Is years of age, she left her parents to
shift for herself. Some time afterwards
her brother when he was dying, sent for
her, and requested her to take his clothes





and wear them, as that would probably
enable ler the better to make her way
in the world. She complied, and as the
garments wore out she renewed them,
and became so accustomed to the garb
that habit became a second nature
There is some talk of the workmen in
Renfrew getting up a subscription for
Marie, as they all acknowledge that
while she deceived them as to her sex a
more kindly and obliging worker never
was engaged in the yard. They will re-
gret to hear of her unfortunate appre-
hension. NORTH British Mail.
Year: 1872

win support the Liberal ticket, and in an
lswer to the facts stated above, they point to
the closing speech which he made at the
Cincinnati Convention, in which the fol-
lowing language was used sWe have now
accomplished our work. Our duty viii be
to proclaim TO all the land The principles
we have embodied in our PLATFORM and 20
forward and solicit, with all the entreaties
which our minds and hearts are capable Of
making, the support Of the people of the
United States for the candidate we have
nominated" One thing, however, may be
regarded as permanently settled, and that
is that Mr.. Schurz viii not support Grant
Year: 1872

In the absence on. business yesterday o.
Coroner Everett, Justice Cassety was called
upon to hold an inquest over the remains
Of eolored infant about SIT weeks old,
daughter of Samuel and Eliza Jones who
live at No. 110 North Spruce street. From
The evidence taken, it was satisfactory to
the minds of the jury that the child had
been sufocated accidentally by its mother
the night previous while asleep.
Year: 1872

SAN FRANCISCO, June THE first re
ceipts of new barley are selling at S1.40
per GENITAL. Wheat harvesting is progress
ing throughout the State. The yield will
average large and the quality unexception-
able. The average will be the largest ever
gathered on the Pacific coast.
Year: 1872

In a boat race yesterday on the Schuyl-
Kill over a FIVE mile course, VIM. Schaf
came out ahead in 1927, the fastest time
ever made in this country.


The severe storm of Thursday nigh;
prevailed throughout the northwest.


Bismarck is going to the Isle of Wight
for the benefit of his health.
Year: 1872

THE WHEATEN LoAF.-Good wheat bread
sand butter is the staff of civilized life. Take
away wheat bread and butter from our fam
lies for Il few generations, and who is pre-
pared to say that civilization would not glide
easily TO state of barbarism There is
sound philosophy in this suggestion, because
ther@, IL no other kind of human food that is
so admirably adapted to the development
Of the human frame, including noble brain,
as good wheat bread. Civilization has
seemed to exist coeyal with the wheaton
loaf.


We find the lowest order of intelligence
standing on potato. Only one step above
this class, another order is found on a hoe
cake. One degree abovs this we meet with
the class that has risen in the scale of being
as high as It is possible for mortals to rise on
pancake Head and shoulders above all
of these classes we find the higher order of
intelligences, with large and well-developed
brains and noble characters, standing securely
on their wheaton loaf. No other food can
excel the wheaton loaf, because it furnishes
more and better material for the human
brain than any other food.
Year: 1872

cause to be removed any plank or timber
thercfrom, or cut down or injure any tree
planted or growing as shade tree in any
public highway, such person or persons shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and on
conviction thereof shall he fined in any sum
not less than twenty nor more than five hun
dred dollars, in the discretion of the Court,
which fine when collected shall be placed in
the road fund of the district in which such
misdemeanor was committed.


Sec. 23. The Road Supervisors of the
several districts shall be allowed, in compen-
saton for the services required of them un-
der this Act, five dollars per day for each
day that they are regularly employed in the
discharge of their duties as ouch officer;
provided such per diem shall not exceed in
any one year the sum Of two hundred dol
lars, and the same shall be allowed and paid
out of the County General Fund Of the
county.


Sec. 20. In case Of an action before a
Justice of the Peace for the assessing of
damages, as provided in this Act, and said
damages are assessed by the jury at greater
sum than that awarded by the Board Of
Supervisors, the costs of such action shall be
certified to the Board of Supervisors by the
Justice before whom the action was had +,
and the Board, at their first regular meeting
thereafter, shall order warrant drawn on
the proper road fund for the amount of such
costs


Sec 80. All Acts and parts of Acts con-
Aicting with the provisions of this Act, SO
far as relates to the county Of Placer, are
hereby repealed.


Sec. 81. This Act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
Year: 1872

ALFALrA.-A correspondent, "B., de-
fires information in regard to alfalfa, the kind
of seed, when to be sown, etc. We know
of but one true kind of alfalfa, the blue
Towering. There is a species of mountain
clover in California, sometimes met with in
the lower valleys, that bears yellow bios
som; the plant somewhat resembles the Chill
clover or alfalfa in growth, but is entirely
inferior as forage plant, green or dry. We
have never known any Of the seed being in
the market. Always get good, plump seed,
and if possible not more than three years old.
Sow in the Fall if the ground has been fully
moistened by rain; but very late Fall SOW
ing is not desirable in places where Winter
frosts are severe. In such localities it is
better to wait till early Spring, and SOW
when the ground can be put in proper con-
dition; there should be finely pulverized
surface, well rolled, the seed sown and COW
cred by drawing brush or tree top over it.
If sown in the Spring, some deem it better
to SOW along with it a light seeding of wheat
or barley, with view of protecting the
young alfalfa from the effects of drying winds
and the heat of the sun. Others maintain
that wheat or barley sown with the alfalfa
is injurious, absorbing or taking up from the
soil the very moisture so necessary to the
alfalfa in its early growth. Every descrip-
ton of alluvium or rich bottom lands, re-
claimed tule, or any description of good
wheat lands, if the surface csn be made fine
and soft, and the soil is deep, are suitable
for alfalfa. .-Rurdl Press.
Year: 1872

! believe that much of the milk gets
tainted with noxious or bad odors
before it reaches the pail. Some per
sons, and hired help, especially, have q
habit of wetting their fingers with the
milk once in a while, and then wetting
the cows teats, as they say, to make
them milk easier. Now this wetting
process causes much foul stuff to drop
from the hands or teats in the pail
while milking. This is all wrong.
Cows can be MIXED as easy with dry
hands as wet ones have been in the
habit of milking COWS and although
have met with hard mixers that re-
ouire their teats to be softened in order
to draw the milk, | have generally
found it easier and pleasanter to milk
with dry hands. If the teats are dirty,
the udder should be washed with tepid
water and allowed to dry before milk
ing and if the teats are very hard and
tough to draw, the COW had better be
turned into beef, or kept to raise calves
from.-PracticaL Farmer.
Year: 1872

The Manchester Ecamiaer gives de
scription OF a new mode of cleaning
wool, which excites considerable inter
est among English manufacturers. BY
the new process wool is cleaned without
the use of alkalies, thereby, as the
patentees claim, preserving the fiber
and maintaining the elasticity and soft
ness of the wool in its natural state"
The patentees claim that the invention
will allow of a saving ot per cent. in
fiber, and the wool will work better
with one-half the quantity of oil now
gen rally used, that more work can be
done on the carding and other ma
chinery, and the wool spun to much
greater length without any diminution
in elasticity or strength; that in dying
the colors greatly excel In depth and
brilliancy and that the cloth made
from the wool thus prepared is superior,
both in appearance and reality, than
under tie old system. The hrst pro
cess takes place in a large room sur
rounded with iron tanks. The first of
these is filled with water, and into this
the rough wool is fed by an attend
ant. 1t is then passed through iron
rollers anu SIuetItu HCdliy vi ~ "hN
sent into second vat, which contains
fusil oil. The refuse oil and water after
this process are passed into tank and
pumped into stills, where the oil is ex-
tracted and recovered for future use.
The third cistern in the initiatory pro
cess contains pure fusil oil, and from
No. the wool, by this time compare
lively pure, is passed over rollers INTO
it. The oil from No. 3 cistern is utilized
in the same way as that OF No. :, being
run into large vat, cleansed and used
again. No. and No. cisterns are
filled with water, and the wool having
been passed through these and their
accompanying rollers, the first part OF
the process is complete. Of course, on
the fiber being washed tits rather damp,
although perfectly bleached and heautl-
fully soft. 1t is then packed into large
baskets like "skips," and sent by a
hoist to an upper floor, where 1t is dried
and made ready for manufacture, by
being spread over an apparatus known
as Petrie's patent, which is fitted with
hot water pipes and with revolving fans.
Another apparatus, on somewhat
different principle, is in course OF con-
struction. Atpresent the wool is COM
pletely dried in little more than an
hour from its being sent from the
| hlaa cheers
Year: 1872

The most successful breeders of horses,
cattle, sheep or swine know from ex-
perience that although they may pos
sesses the best breeding animals, they
will not be successful in producing su-
perior stock if continuous growth OF
the young animals is not kept up. In
order to begin in time at this indis-
pensable preparation for success, the
brood mares, COWS, ewes, and sows are
most carefully and suitably fed while
with young, as soon "a the young ami
mails make their appearance, they are
taken the greatest care OF, the dams
being suitably fed while sucking, and
when the young ones are weaned, they
are not supposed to want for food or
dril k a single hour


By this means a continuous or rapid
growth is kept up, and the animals at
tain a large size and heavy weight at an
early age. When breeding animals are
not properly fed and comfortably shell
tered in winter, the bad effect of such
treatment is not confined to their own
want Of condition-it is shared by their
progeny, and can never be remedied.
When young stock are not fed well and
comfortably sheltered in winter, their
growth becomes stunted, and no subse-
quent amount of good treatment can
repair the damage. Young animals
may suffer for want of proper provender
in summer and autumn, as well as in
winter, and when this happens it stops
continuous growth, an | prevents ulti-
mate success in the object of the breeder.
- Working Farmer.
Year: 1872

Pulverize and put in jug or bottle
half a pound to a pound of gum
shellac, cover with good alcohol, and
cork tightly. Put the mixture in a
warm place. In about two days, if
shaken frequently, the gum will be dis.
solved and ready for use. If the liquid
appears as thick as thin molasses add
more alcohol. To one quart of the
varnish add one ounce of good lamp
black, and an ounce of gum camphor.
An occasional coat of this is also good
for rendering boots water proof.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the Central Union
Agric,lt,riSt writes in praise of the
golden willow for hedge. He says:
My plan for making fence of the
golden willow is to pillow the hedge row
in the fall previous to planting, then
procure your slips in good season, say
from the lst of March to the 18th OF
April, and Just as soon after the frost Is
out of the ground as possible have
your slips cut twelve or fourteen inches
long put them in the ground eight
inches deep, and six inches apart eul.
tivate them well, and at one year old
braid them down within eight inches OF
the ground at two years old braid
them down within twenty inches of the
ground, and so on in proportion, until
you have a fence four or five feet high,
which will take four or five years, and
then you have an everlasting fence.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the Rural Home
gives the following remedy for heaves
in horses:


Give once daily a teaspoonful of
aquafortis, prepared as follows: Mix it
with teaspoonful of sour or skinned
milk, and mix this with bran, and the
bran with the grain fed. The catarrhal
affection of the throat makes rapid
amendment under this treatment, and
the correspondent says he has known a
number of cases cured by it.
Year: 1872

The extension of steam culture in


Europe is somewhat surprising even TO
those who have given the subject some
attention. John Fowler, the father of
this system, after spending S350.000 in
experiments, had nothing to show for
his expenditure of brains, labor, and
capital, but lot Of old useless machinery.
But the principle for which he con
tended has since his death been fully
established. The superior cheapness
and efficiency of steam plowing was
established i'm 1858. The extent ia
which it is practiced in England may be
Year: 1872

There is but a breath oS air and
beat of the heart betwixt this world
and the next. And in the brief inter
val of painful and awful suspense, while
we feel that death is present with us,
and we are powerless and he all power
full and the last pulsation here is but
the prelude of endless life hereafter;
we feel in the midst of the stunning Ca
lamity about to befall us, the earth has
no compensating good to mitigate the
severity of our loss. But there is no
grief without some benefcent provision
to soften its intenseness. When the
good and lovely die, the memory of
their deeds, like the moonbeams on the
stormy sea, light our darkened hearts,
and lend TO the surrounding gloom a
beauty so sad, so sweet, that we would
not, If we could, dispel the darkness
that environs it.-Prentice.
Year: 1872

A great many Of the notifications
we experience in life have their root
in self-consciousness. We think so
much more about ourselves than
any one else thinks about us. How
our ears tingled when we made that
unluckly slip in grammar, but the
person who was talking with us, in-
tent on what he was to say presently,
did not observe either our mistake
or our embarrassment. Some one
fails to bow to your sensitive man IN
the street, and he spends half the
day in wondering why. He believes
that he has been cut and insultea,
while the truth is that his acquaiut-
ance, absorbed in some scheme OF
his own, never ever saw him. The
sharpest-barbed arrow Of scandal
derives its most venomous striu.
from undue seif-consciousness. We
are of so great Importance to our
selves that we fancy we are similarly
important to others, and we vince
at our own conception OF what peo-
pie are saying about us long after
interests more immediate and per-
sonal have banished us from their
minds altogether. In three years
after the death Of all but the very
greatest men the general public has
SO far forgotten them that if they
are recalled at all, you hear one say
to another: "Why, let us see, he
died few years ago, didn't hep" 1t
Il is safe rule to conclude that we are
no moro important to other people
! than thev are to us.
Year: 1872


Jest farmer, who had just
is frat term Of jury duty,
ed by Il neighbor how he
eplied that since his return


attention had been con-
eupied in trying to discov-
node by which he could
neighbor--a thing which


before occurred to him to
Year: 1872

Yesterday was day OF dissolution in all the
National Committee rooms The cosey parlors at
the Glenham, the Fifth Avenue and the Spnger
were rapidly undergoing all day the process OF
dismantling. The Portraits charts and banners
were inally carried away, and only . lone secre-
tary or two in each committee room was left to
receive the returns OF tonight. At the various
State headquarters some little hustle was raised
BY the advent OF people who wanted the straight
the place where they knew they wouldn't be i'm
posed upon. These seekers were served SO far as
possible, but most OF them were referred to their
District Committeeman.
Year: 1872

There was large turnout OF the tanners here
tonight. In many places the procession was
attacked, and fifteen persons were severely
wounded. There Is q deep feeling of Indignation
prevailing among all classes over the affair.
Year: 1872

The Democracy Of the State SHOULD bear
in mind that the State Convention wiz
meet in this city on Wednesday, the 2lst Of
August, sor the purpose of nominating a
candidate for Congress from the State at
large, and also an additional candidate for
Presidential elector.


1t viii probably be most convenient for q
large majority Of the counties TO appoint their
delegates on the first Monday in August.
This duty should not be forgotten