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Year: 1873

| hot tempered Danbury woman who


nnds considerable trouble in persuading


her husband to furnish kindIngs, aud


then Is Obliged to do it herself, read in a


religious paper, Monday, of how a wife


induced wicked husband to become one


OF the most atfectionate and hopeful Of


men by being invariably calm and loving


with him. The story made deem i'm.


preston upon her, and when she started


fire that noon, she put pair Of rub


bers among the wood Then she tied


handkerchief across her nose, and went
on with her work. When the husband
reached the gate, he paused, fetched a
sniff that made a hole in the atmosphere,
and then went around to the back of the
house and fetched another sniff that had
an equally damaging effect on the atmos
phere. He stared into the next yard and
up at his own house, aud felt in his pock-
cts, and was about to go around to the
front again, when his wife thrust her head
out Of the window and said WHY don't
you come in the house, you old fool ?
Come in and get your dinner, and let me
read an article to you from the Christian
Secretary, you o!d rip. Come in and
see how nice it is to get dinner with moth
ing to burn but rubbers, you whited
sepulchre Come in here, | tell you, be
fore | lose my temper, and say what
oughtn't to! At this invitation he went
in, going upon the stoop and to the door
very slowly, but, on opening the door,
disappeared inside with marvellous sud
denness. The neighbors say he was cut
ting wood all the afternoon, and thinking
of the religious press DanJury Ncps.
Year: 1873

She comes down to the depot in an ex
press wagon, three hours before train
time. She insists on sitting on her trunk
out on the platform, to keep it from be-
ing stolen. She picks up her reticule,
fan, parasol, lunch basket, small pot with
house plant in it, shawl, paper bag of
candy, bOquet (she never travels without
one), small ;umbler and next veil, and
chases hysterically after every switch en-
CINE that goes by, under the impression
that it is her train. Her voice trembles
as she presents herself at the restaurant
and tries to buy ticket, and she knocks
with the handle of her parasol at the door
| of an old dsued tool house in vain hopes
that the baggageman will come out and
check her trunk. She asks everybody in
the depot aud on the platform when her
train will start, and where it will stand
and, looking straight at the great clock,
says: "What time is it now p She sees,
with terror, the baggage man shy her
trunk into a car where two men are smok-
ing, instead of locking it up by itself in
a large, strong, brown car with bad or.
| der, shops" chalked on the side, which
she has long ago determined to be the
baggage car, as the only safe one in sight
Although the frst at the depot; she sits
to the end of her journey, in an agony of
apprehension that she has got on the
wrong train, and will be landed at some
strange station, put in close carriage.
drugged and murdered, and to every last
male passenger who walks down the aisle
she stands up and presents her ticket,
which she invariably carries in her hand
She finally recognizes her waiting friends
on the platform, leaves the car in burst
of gratitude, aud the train is ten miles
away before she remembers that her re-
ticule, fan, parasol, lunch basket, YER
bena, shawl, candy, veil and bouquet are
on the car seat where she left them, or
in the depot at PEORIA for the life of her
she can't tell which
Year: 1873

"hlie Amelia Grinnell, young girl,
was working last week in shingle mill
In Oshkosh, Wis, under shaft whick
was going at the rate of two hundred
revolutions per minute, her hair. which
was very long, caught in the knuckle-
joint, aud In an instant it was torn eptirz-


y from her head, taking with it all the
flesh and muscles on her head. From
line," says the local paper "drawp
around from each eyebrow, her skull wa,
left white and bare, without a trace Of
blood or flesh. The strangest part of the
accident is that she felt little or no pain.
declaring that when it was being torn off
all that she realized was tickling seusu-
ton in her head. She coolly walked out
OF the room and waited patiently for
buggy to take her home. Her only re-
gret was the fright it would give her
mother The scalp, with its beautiful
long locks of hair, was curled and
entwlned around the shaft at the joint,
and when the mill was stopped it was
taken down, but no one had sufficient
presence of mind to place it upon her
head. 1t is. nearly perfect and the doc
tors have determined to tan it with the
hair on, SO that if the girl recovers il
may be used as wig. The case is one
OF the most remarkable on record
Year: 1873

Mr.. z. I. Barnum announces that if
balloon does not cross the Atlantic this
Fall he will spend $4,000 if necessary
in having that experiment tried as early
as possible next year, provided one or
more aeronauts can be found in America
or Europe who will heartily make the at
tempt. He evidently does not intend to
make the experiment with a cheap bal
loon, for he says: GAS at present ad
vised, shall have the silk manufactured
in China, put together and prepared un-
der the direction of scientific men in
London, an experimental ascension made
from the Sydenham Crystal Palace
grounds, then bring the balloon to Ameri-
ca, and make the transatlantic tripe from
New York. | trust the public will be-
lieve that if | put my hand to the plow [
shall not look back"
Year: 1873

You have probably noticed, says the
Danbury Ne,os, what thoughtful wo
man your wife is. She never forgets
any thing, and when she goes down cellar
after an article she is sure to bring up
something beside that she may need
She calls that making her head save her
heels" Once in a while she may neglect
something, but that is because she has
so much on her mind she can't think Of
everything at once, and if some people
had as much to do and keep track of as
size has, there would be nothing done at
all. After she says this, it is time you
either left or busted yourself with some
thing else. We never knew man who
continued the conversation to appear
satisfied afterwards. She exhibits this
thoughtfulness in many ways, but more
particularly some night when you have
just got to bed, and neglected to leave
match near the lamp. Then she starts
up with the exclamation II declare,
forgot to set emptings to night, and there
isn't only bread enough for break, fast. j"
SO you get up, and skim around for a
match, aud after securing light accom-,
pany her to the kitchen, where you hold
the light while she goes through with the
operations required in setting empty
iugs." And after you have stood around
in your bare legs for ten minutes, hold
ing the lamp in one hand and frequently
slapping yourself with the other, you go
back to bed oppressed by the conscious
ness that in some way you are response
bic for the whole trouble.
Year: 1873

The most apalling case of deafness,
outside of an asylum, was that of an old
lady who lives just across the street from
a navy yard. The other day they fred
salute of twenty one guns. The old lady
was observed to start and listen as the
last gun was fred, aud then she exclaimed
Come in ~
Year: 1873

A Pennsylvania newspaper makes men
ton of new swindle praetleed by men
who travel through the country IN wa
eons, stopping at farm houses aud vii
iaees and offering generously to exchange
new feathers for old They represent
that they want old feathers to work up
into railway aud steamboat cushions =
Then they take away the old feathers
promising soon to come back with the
new ones but the poor featherless peo
ple wait in vain for their return. This Q
pretty sort of plucking indeed /!
Year: 1873

A CoAMoTIOE.-%he report which gave pnbll-
city TO on Tuesday TO the eject that the bank rob-
bers were sorry Tor having gone 10 the expense Of
securing counsel on account OF the hopelessneAs
OF the case, has caused some little oommotiOn in
certain quarters and brought q denial even from
the robbers themselves. But, as we before said
the report was stated on excellent authority
against which the denial of such men as the bank
robbers can avail but little. The article contained
no reflection on tie counsel for the defence who
no doubt did all in their power for the prisoners,
but simply referred 70 the hopeless character oi
their case, which everybody who attended the
trial, or read the prOceedings could not help but
admit.


The men who attached their names 10 the afi.
daVits presented by their counsel to- the Court.
(expectlng 10 prove an GIibD, making solemn oath
that they were not in Wilmington on the day OF
The attempted robbery Of the bank, would scarcely
hesitate TO sign the paragraph In EueTy EVeming,
whether the report In the GAZETTE had been true
or fal.e.
Year: 1873

1HE RELIANcK.-This company is soon to com
msnce the erection of a stable in the yard attached
to their house, and when completed contemplate
purchasing a pair of horses. The situation OF
the company renders the procuring OF horses ne
cessary, as 1t will not only obviate the difficulty
of resortng to physical strength TO pull the engine
but enable them to make better time with their
carriage up the hills. They are deserving of all
they get, and our citizens should contribUts what
they can TO enable them TO accomplish their pur-
nnae
Year: 1873

THE BOARD OF HEALTH A special session Of
the Board of Health, will be held tonight, to
consider several subjects Of importance Among
exclusion of all other methods OF cleaning cess
pools, will come up for action
Year: 1873

fire in the house in which we
were talking. said to me in the
middle OF sentence concerning
something else: "Im thinking.
sir. the COW is in the potatoes"
Though he purposely laid no
stress on these words, and said it
in a quiet and unconcerned tone
OF voice, the dog, who appeared
to be asleep, Immediately jumped
up, leaped through an oren win
dow, and scramb ed up the turf
roof of the house, from which he
could see the potato field. He
then, not seeing the cow there,
ran and looked into the barn
where she was, and finding that
all was right. cam. back to the
house. After II short time, the
shepherd said the same words
again. and the dog repeated his
lookout; but on the false alarm
being the third time given, the
dog got up, wagged his tail and
looked at his master in the face
with so cOmical all expression of
interrogation, we could not help
laughing at him; OH which, with
q slight grOwl, he lald himself
down in his own warm corner,
with an offended air, as if deter
mined not be made fool of again.
Year: 1873

How it strikes the Danbury NeaOs man
is appended: "You are generally look
ing at something very intently when it
happens-perhaps you are smiling to
yourself; then your left foot shoots out
to one side with a suddenness that Gre
ates sickness in the family. Ice com
menses to form on your spine and per-
spiration on your brow, and your scalp
lifts enough to permit streak of cold
air to pass under The other leg goes
out at this iuncture, your head snaps
violently to the front, and there is a
faint impression on your mind that the
world is about to come to an end, with
nobody in charge. Miles of sidewalk
spin out from you like lightning; three
story buildings jump over your head in
quick succession; people disappear sud-
denly and with appalling mystery; then
your eyes close, your consciousness
wanes, and your soul goes out with one
expiring culver, and-and you arrive.
The hard reality of the scene is then
forced upon you with unpleasant abrupt
ness. Everything is in it's place but
your spine. You get up and move off
with sickly attempt at smile, feeling
at the time that the back of your head
is laughing from ear to ear, and finding
that the hardest thing is, not the side
walk, but to keep from rubbing yourself
Year: 1873

Parson Dunham had been for many
years settled over the parish of Wilmot,
and by course of events which had
happened, as such things are prone to
happen in this imperfect society of
ours, he had become unpopular with
many of his people, and they, to show
their feeling, and to extend hint which
they hoped the old minister would take.
on certain March meeting, when the
legal voters of the town assembled to
elect officers, elected him to the office of
hog-reeve. Mr.. Dunham was present,
and when the fact of his election had
been announced, he arose and addressed
the Moderator thus


Sir, was chosen many years ago as
pastor of this flock. To change is hui
man. That my people have changed is
not wonderful; / am only thankful that
they realize the change and as they
evidently made this change in mn office
to correspond MereaOith, I accept it
cheerfully, and will endeavor to serve
according to the best Of my Abilities
Lod9er.
Year: 1873

Coal is carbon carbon combines
with oxygen to form carbonic acid;
there is carbonic acid in the air and it
is an interesting question how much
coal in combination actually exists in
the atmosphere about us. Sayants as
sert that the total is not less than eight
hundred and fifty thousand millions OF
tons. But this is only fraction of that
which formerly existed in the air when
the world was young. The coal mines
of the world are estimated as containing
five million millionso of tons, all of which
was primarily taken from the air by the
rank vegetation of primeval times.


OF course in those remote regions the
atmosphere containing say seven times
its present percentage of carbonic acid
was untitled for the animal life now
fourishing on the globe. But as the
carbon was withdrawn the oxygen was
proportionally increased andrespiration
became gradually possible to animals of
higher and more complex organization
and requiring more rapid oxygenation
of the blood. Hence as the atmosphere.
changed by the growth of the coal form
ing vegetation, the organic creatures
progressed from the earliest reptiles
that crawled in the hot and wide. reach
ing everglades to the being that, crown
ing the strange, long series, was made
in the image of his Creator by whom
"into his nostrils was breathed the
breath of life"
Year: 1873

Sargent, the original expressman, is
having a hard tussle with couple of
Massachusetts railroads. Prior to
1866 the corporations had allowed all
expressmen to carry goods over their
road at uniform rate, but in 1866 they
granted an exclusive privilege to others,
shutting him out, thus robbing him of
the "good will'' of his business. He
then attempted in various ways to re-
instate himself in his business. He
applied for season ticket, intending to
use it in carrying satchel express for
the banks, &C., and though another
gentleman, other than the firm alluded
to, was allowed so to do, he was refused.
Then he tried single tickets, with which
he claimed the right to take trunk of
ordinary weight. This wouldn't work.
Then he tried to have the successful
firm, who had obtaineds the monopoly
over the roads, carry for him just as
they did for the rest of the public, but
they refused unless he would pay them
full rates on each separate parcel,
which would have left him no profit
The defendants file a general denial,
and the case will go to the full bench
on questions of law. Sargentis follow
ing the matter up closely, and hopes to
win heavy damages.
Year: 1873

WHAT A GOVERNOR SAYs.-Governor
Grover of Oregon sends to an eastern
paper: "The feeling of Oregon in regard
to the Modoc assassination is that of
the deepest sorrow and of intense thirst
for swift retribution. The cold blooded
murder of eighteen of our citizens caus-
ed us to fear this. There is not hos
tile Modoc who is not guilty of murder
unprovoked. Those who survive the
pending battle should be delivered for
early trial and punishment. Short of
this will entail further massacres."
Year: 1873

Men of business, believe me, there is
now and then a profitable venture in do
ing nothing at all. In the power to
put business aside, and abiding now
and then in perfect quiet, things some
times solve themselves, when we give
them that advantage, which refuse to
come clear for all our trying. We all
know how, by simply talking some per-
plexity into the deepest silence short of
death--a good nights sleep-we can do
better sometimes than if we sat up and
wrought at q task all night. When
Matthew Murray, of Leeds, wanted to
see his way through some sore perplex-
ity Yin his inventions, and all other efforts
were of no use, he rested night and day
from all noise, and all effort except the
effort an active man has to keep himself
quiet and then the thing he wanted
would steal in and look at him, and light
on, and stay as birds used to light on
the old hermit, no more afraid of them
than of the trees under which they sat.
And mothers, you may care and toll in
cessantly for your little ones, never rest
ing moment in your devotion; and
then, because your never do be quiet,
but enter into you very closet with a
little frock to mend, you shall never be
quite able to take the whole sunlight
and some of your motherhood into your
heart. You will be so full of care about
the bread that cometh down from heav-
en-. No person in the world needs SC
much now and then to be still, and open
her soul only to the silence, as an earn,
est, energetic, whole-hearted mother.
This eternal activity is almost sure to
run at last into shadows. Robert Cott.
ger.
Year: 1873

1t may not be generally known bat the fact
Is none the less patent, that the genuine tea
plant is growing prOfusely all over the suburbs
of Jacksonville, Florida, and presents quite a
thriving appearance wherever 1t Is found. We
are informed, says the jacksonville Union, by
prominent mechanic OF this city, and an old
resident at that, that he uses no other tea in
his family. He plucks and dries what he re-
quires for his own use, and says It is equal to
any black tea offered for sale at the grocery
stores. If some shrewd,NeW Englander were
only here he would soon make regular busl-
ness of preparing tea crop, and he would
make money by the operation.


The leaves can be dried In the shade, and
will curl OF themselves naturally in the process
of drying. The crop would cost nothing but
the trouble of plucking, and wagon .ond
could be bicked in an hour without half trying
II some Of that kind of people who are always
grumbling about having nothing to do would
try the experiment OF preparing this tea fol
market, we think they would find 1t to be {
lucrative business, and one, too, that they
would pursue with aYidity as soon as they
found how readily they could dispose of all
they had manufactured.
Year: 1873

A project is on foot for meeting
of Western and Southern Congress
men at St.Louis on Monday, the 2lst
to consider questions of general and
special interest TO the Mississippi
valley. 1t is thought probable that
one hundred and fifty Congressman
will attend. a7 ia9g 7FT
Year: 1873

The long talked-of postal cards
will be issued on the 1st of May.
An opportunity will then be afford
ell to test their convenience and the
question of whether they are \ nui-
sance or q blessing practically de
termined.
Year: 1873

The RttraJ Home says: inexperienced
farmer can tell very quickly by glancing
over his flock of sheep whether any are
dropping, and if they are he will have
them removed to separate yard where
they can have better nursing. Cattle
should be fed in such way that the
strong ones cannot drive the weak away
from their fodder and water. Stock
should always have plenty of clean, dry
bedding to lie upon at night. 1t is per
fectly cruel to allow live animal to sleep
at night upon hard, cold plank, or upon
wet, filthy straw. Dry straw, besides
being soft to lie upon, is poor conduc-
tor of heat, and consequently keeps with
in the animal his own heat.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Journal of the
Farm says, in regard to bots:


Just as son as you discover that your
horse is troubled with bots, commence to
work on his stomach and bowels; get a
live chicken, kill it, and drench the ami
NAL with the warm blood and entraiIs.
The bots will let go their hold on the in
testlnes, and commence to feed on the
more attractive food A few minutes
after drenching administer proper dose
of castor oil, which will work off the bots,
Year: 1873

The Spirit of the Times says: &c We
never have believed and never shall be-
ieve that chopped hay and cornmeal,
saturated with water, is proper for a
working horse as general diet. We
firmly believe that the food of a working
horse who cannot be pastured should be
good sound oats and sweet hay for at least
five days week. Look at the South,
where the common run of working horses
are fed on corn. What is found there :?
Why, the big-head, q terrible and almost
incurable complaint. We also think
that wet cornmeal is the very worst way
of feeding corn to horse that ever was
practiced. And the chopped wet hay is
not half so good as fine, bright timothy
from the NOW. We like to hear the
horse grinding up his good timothy hay
like grist mill, after he has finished his
oats. A nice mash once in while is
good, and very different thing from
almost constant soft Diet
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
says: take five pieces of inch boards,
each ten feet long, one-eighth inches
wide for the bottom strip, and each of
the others four inches wide. I then take
one piece four inches wide for one end
upright, and one piece eight inches wide
for the end piece where the hinges
ought to be. These strips are four feet
long, that being high enough for any
gate for ordinary purposes. Now lay
down your pieces, then place the eight
inch wide and ten feet long strip for the
bottom; nail it at each end to the up
right with wrought nails; now take
three of the four inch wide strips and
lay them on parallel with the bottom one,
dividing the spaces so as to leave four
inches between the lower two boards,
and six inches each space between the
upper ones; nail as before. Now turn
the gate over, and take the remaining
strip, lay it an angle from the bottom,
at the hinge end, to the top of the latch
end; cut it so that it will fit in and lay
close to the long strips; nail it on, and
hang gate with strong hinges.
Year: 1873

Every farmer knows, or thinks he
kaows, how to take care of potatoes for
winter use, but we will describe briefly
our methods. Dig the potatoes, if pos
sible, when the ground is dry; but if this
cannot or has not been done, they should
be allowed to dry on barn floor, the ad-
herring soil removed, and then the roots
may be carrid to the cellar. We provide
large boxes which will hold about twenty
bushels each (cast-off tree boxes), raise
them few inches from the cement floor
by cross-pieces of scantling, and then fill
them with the clean and dry potatoes.
A lid excludes them from the light. If
there happens to be few wide cracks In
the bottom of the box the ventilation
will be better; and if the tubers are clean
and the cellar cool there will be little of
the rot.


Beets, turnips, carrots, and parsnips
will not keep fresh in this way, as they
have not the impervious skin of the
potato. Our plan is to pack them in
barrels, or goods boxes procured from
the country stores. They will shrivel
and spoil if the moisture is not retained
in them by some substance to pack them
in or to fill interstices. Finely broken
and moderately damp moss is best for
this purpose; but in its absence, saw
dust answers quite well. At this season
of the year, there is a great deal of this
material in the ice-house, after the re-
moval of the ice, that is quite damp
enough for use. Put in layer or two of
the roots; then scatter enough of the
sawdust over them to fill the interstices,
then another layer, and SO on. In bar
rels, more roots may be put in at time,
the sawdust being shaken among them
by rocking the barrels. Packed in this
way, we have seen beets taken out one
full year after they were put in as fresh
as the day they were lifted from the soil;
while those which were placed uncovered
on the cellar bottom were spoiled in
month by drying up.