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Year: 1870

Soon persons of every description be-
gun to pass me, all of whom seemed to-
look upon me as something to be dreaded.


now arranged my luggage according
to the effect | wished it to produce. and
seeing large farm house in the distance
at once directed my steps thereto. On
approaching l was first met by the dogs,
which seemed to forbid my entrance, and
next there came message by boy who
said father does not want you to pick
peaches for him, he has enough now"
The boy looked rather suspiciously upou
me and gave look at the dogs which
sprang out at me, but the boy made
'cedk effort to keep them off, and sue
ceeded In beating retreat tho way had
come.


My next effort was to go up to a second
peach farm, but as | apprehended, the
farmer came out and ordered me 10 90
away, at that moment springing forward
and grasping me, exclaiming "you are
the villain who struck me last night" I
now begun to feel frightened, lest he
should get the best of me, but deeming it
requisite to use my hickory 1 applied it
still more vigorously than had the night
previous. I finally extricated myself and
got away. 1t was now that felt the in
convenience of the catastrophe of last
night, feeling rery much like using the
contents of my pocket pistol.


had now almost despaired of success,
but on approaching third farmer sue
ceeded in obtaining job, and at once set
to work. My employment, however,
proved to be of short duration, as my en-
ployer, the day after my arrivrl, gave me
my discharge and ough money to pay
my way back. so l proceeded to the depot,
there obtained my ticket, and returned to
the city of B. where I have now situa-
ton, and have since come to the conclu-
sion that 'peach picking" in Delaware,
does not pay its votares.
Year: 1870

SENSIBLE SuGGEsTIoN.-Why do we
write the long, complicated, easily -misun-
derstood hand that we do? Why should
shorthand writer's be specially educated,
when every man of US ought to be taught
to write as fast as we can speak? The
fingers are as nimble as the tongue; how,
then, arc they prevented from delivering
thought at the same pace? Chiefly, an
swer, on account of the lengthy characters
of our present script. The fault is in tho
number of strokes that are requisite to
form single letter. No one letter should
have more than single stroke. and no
stroke should involve backward motion
of the hand, Try and invent for your
self an alphabet upon this system; one
dash, of any shape, for each letter, and
the hand always moving from left to right
you will find no difficulty in the task. and
when you have mastered your method,
you will have the best of shorthands for
yourself. Whether everybody could use
it is another matter. No doubt, though,
some univcrsally-acquired system could be
invented, and it ought to be. for our un-
wieldly, hard-to be-learnt writing is not
fit for this rapid age.
Year: 1870

COOKING FooD FOR DOMESTIC ANIMALS
I feel that / cannot better serve the in
terests of stock-keepers than by calling
their attention to the Importance of this
subject. All doubt of the economy OF
cooking by steaming the food fed in winter
to all the domestic animals, is removed by
the many careful experiments that have
been made under great variety of cir
cumstances, by the most reliable men in
the country. The improvement and reduc-
ton of the cost of steam generators has.
of late, been very great. The danger
from their use has greatly retarded the
more general introduction of arrangements
for steaming food for stock.


We have them now that are very eco
nomical and safe, operate we'll, and are SO
simple that any farm hand can run them.
Farmers who propose to introduce steam
cooking apparatus for use the coming win
ter, would do we'll to have all the work
executed before the weather becomes cold,
and as arrange all the apparatus SO as to
guard against frost.-Rurul New Yorker
Year: 1870

There's jolly Saxon proverb


That is pretty much like this:
That man is half in heaven


When he has woman's kiss.
But there's danger in delaying,


And the sweetness may forsake it
So tell you, bashful lover,


lfyou want kiss, why take it.
Never let another fellow


Steal a march on you in this
Never let laughing maiden


See you spelling for kiss.
There's a,royal way of kissing,


And the jolly ones who make it
Have motto that is winning;


Ifyou want kiss, why take it.
Any fool may face cannon


Anybody wear a crown
But man must win woman,


If he'd have her for his own.
Would you have the golden apple,
You must find the tree and shake it:
If thing is worth the having,


And you want a kiss, why take it.
Who would burn upon desert,


With forest smiling by2
Who would give his sunny summer
For bleak and wintry sky?
Oh tell you there is magic,


And you cannot, cannot break it;
For the sweetest part of loving ..-
Is to want kiss and-take it.
Year: 1870

WEALTH.-The great cause of the poy-
erty of the present day is, the failure of
the people to appreciate small things
they say that if they cannot save large
sums, they will not save anything. They
do not realize how daily addition, be it
ever so small, will soon make large pile
If the young men and young women Of to-
day will begin now, to save little from
their earnings, and plant in the soil of
some good savings-bank, and weekly or
monthly add their mite, they will wear a
happy smile of competence and indepen-
dence when they reach middle life. Not
only the pile itself will increase, but the
desire and ability to increase it will also
grow. Let the clerk and tradesman, la
borer and artizan, make now and at once
a beginning Store up some of your
youthful force and vigor for future contin-
gencies. Let parents teach their children
to begin carly to save. Begin at the
fountain head to control the stream of ex-
travagance, and then they will be easy.
10 choose between spending and saving is
to choose between poverty and riches. Let
our youth 60 on 10 the habits of extrava-
gance for fifty years to come as they have
for fifty years past, and we shall be ma
tion of beggars with monied aristocracy.
Let generation such as save in small
things be reared and we shall be free from
want. Do not be ambitious for extraya-
giant fortunes, but seek that which is the
duty of every man to obtain-indepen-
dence and comfortable home. Wealth
and enough is within the reach of all. 1t
is obtainable by one process, and by one
only-saving.
Year: 1870

An old lady of Connecticut, who lost
her purse short time since at New Ha-
ven, declared on its being restored to hsr,
that she would not attempt to interfere
with the reward that was stored up in
heaven for the finder, by offering him
money. A considerate person that.
Year: 1870

\ physician near this city has a fine


Newfoundland. Calling the other day
with the dog, in a locality entirely new
to him, q mile or more from his house,
the doctor was questioned Us to the
pups sagacity. : He proposed to leave
his stick in the room inwhich all three,
his questioner, the dog and Himself,
had been, and after taking the animal
home, to send him back to the house
for it. After the doctor had left with
the dog to try the experiment, the own
er Of the house tO which he was sent
hack, treacherously closed all the win
dows and doors, to make the thing im-
possible if he could. After reaching his
home The doctor turned about, and mo-
tioning the dog, told bim to go back
for the forgotten stick. He started,
and reached the house IN remarkably
good time. The door and window
question, proved puzzle at first, but
after circulating round the house and
grounds few minutes he. chose win
dow of the room where he had ben,
entertained for his forlorn hope. Short
ly after ne had carried 1t, and a pane
or two of French window-giass aud n
sash with it, and had seized, the stick
from the corner where his master had
left it. He made no delay for any tri-
vial opening of doors. The print of
entrance was good enough for him;
though tie stick in his mouth left some
thing of wider swafh in the window
after his exit Boston I,,acs.
Year: 1870

ID. From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.


Certainly the most singular escape
from accident the WISCONSIN has ever
been called upon to record, too, place
81 the Union depot yard, near Green
wich street. A train of fiat-cars loaded
with snow taken from the yard was
moving out ut the rate of five miles per
hour. A German, upon whose hands
time hung heavily, and who had no
doubt been drinking, came down
Greenbush street, smoking cigar. He
saw the train, and the idea struck him
that he would take ride. Selecting
the fifth car from the end, he made a
jump and landed-flat ON the rail fair
ly across 1t, between the fourth and
fifth cars. The wheels struck his head
aud pushed it of against the snow, but
turning the man so that his head came
on the track. The wheels of the next
ear struck the head, throwing that off
and turning the feet on again, and so
on until every set of wheels under the
cars had spun the body around, throw
Ing first the head and then the feet of
the unfortunate man upon the track
and into danger.


Ndpl0il SuiiuWdS ahu Lfo OiOl1CfS
who were near the spot at the time,
saw the affair, and say that the mans
body, by the action of the wheels, kept
going about like a top. They got to
the spot as soon as they could, expect
ing to find the man cut to pieces. Lift
ing him up, We may judge of their sur
prise to find that he was only severely
bruised. Carrying him to saloon, the
German soon came to himself, and only
complained of feeling sore and bruised.
How he escaped death Is certainly a
miracle, and cannot be explained. All
the time, and until he was taken to the
saloon and recovered, the man clung
to his cigar. When fully recovered
and questioned as to his feelings while
in so dangerous place, the man said
he realized it fully, and expected the
next pair of wheels that reached him
would cut off his head or his legs, but
after little while he got accustomed
to it and believed there was no danger.
He said he thought he was under the
train about three-quarters of an hour,
and would scarcely believe that the
whole thing occupied but few seconds.
However, short as was the time, he
does not care to be placed in the same
situation again. ....-,
Year: 1870

The physical treatment of children is
important, but simple, if one wishes to
make 1t 80. The main points are bath
ing, regularity of eating and sleeping
hours, simplicity of food, and ouf-of-
door exercise.


The habit of daily bathing should not
be suspended when child is few
months old. 1t is very little trouble,
and done handily ia kes very little
time. Ny experience has been that It
Is not best to batile & child I'm entirely
cold water. When he Is put for the
first time in q bath-tub, the water
should be of sueh-a temperature that
he may not perceive the transition of
the air to the water. There are, Ordi-
Iiarily, but two causes for this, either
that the child was not introduced to
the bath-tub early enough in his exis-
tence, or that the temperature of the
water was such as to shock him. When
your baby is thoroughly accustomed to
the tub, you can gradually reduce the
temperature of the water until, after q
few months, you can wash him in all
most cold water. &c., =


A child shoulde eat regularly and SIM
ply, but should have some variety of
food. have found that q child soon
tires of one article ifconfined to it.


Bread and milk, bread and butter,
different forms of toasted bread, boiled
hominy, India mush, cracker panada,
simple preparations of corn starch, rice
boiled in milk, ard roasted potatoes,
makes q sufficient variety. Give your
child plenty of exercise in the open air.
If you live in the city, all I can say is,
do the best you can but If you live in
the country, with space about You and
gates we'll secured, put your, child out
of doors and let him wander about at
his will. In summer, leave him out all
day If he enjoys it !; in winter, wrap
/ him up, and send him out in moderate
aud pleasant weather.


Let him get as dirty as he pleases.-.
His face will be kept pretty clean if he
spends enough time in the open air to
prevent his taking bad colds, and il
you do not allow him t. eat between
meals. ~ ftss et1sE


1t is somewhat trying to see your lit
tie boy or girl reveling in the midst Of
pile of dirt, especially when you re-
member that Mrs. C., whose children
always look as if they had just issued
from bandbox retirement, may possibly
call and gaze with virtuOusly reprov-
ing eyes but never mind that. You
are living for your child; you know
what is best for its health and happi-
ness, and do not allow yourself to, be
moved from the course which you
know to be right, by the false fear of
false pride.-Hcrald Of Health.
Year: 1870

Never make your appearance in the
morning without having first i,atiied,
If only with sponge and quart of wa
ter, brushed and arranged your hair,
dressed yourself neatly and completely.


Keep your clothing; especially your
underclothing, in perfect order. Never
take the place of proper bands.


Examine every garment when it
comes from the wash, and, if necessa-
ry, mend it with neatness and preeis-
ion. DO not sew up the holes in your
stockings, as We have seen some care
less, untidy girls do, but take in q
broed margin around the hole, be it
small or large, with fine darning-
needle and darning- cotton, and cover
the fracture with an interlaced stitch,
so close as to be as strong as the body
of the stocking, and fine enough to be
ornamental. ts - fs


Stockings mended in this way need
darning but very few times in the
course of their existence. q X


Never carry coarse embroidered or
laced handkeichiefs. Fine plain ones
are much more lady-like. 7 -


( Avoid open worked stockings and
very fancy slippers. Fine plain white
hose, and black kid slippers, with only
a strap or rosette i'm front, are more be-
coming. affas ~ Iii4S.fte ~


Train yourself to useful occupation.
Remember it is wicked To waste time,
and nothing gives such an impression
of vanity and absolute Stiffness as q
habit of idling and never having any
thing to do.


! If you are in your fathers house take
some department of household labor
upon yourself, and a part of the sew
ing, and make it your business to at
tend to it. Do not let call from this
idle girl, or visit from that, or an in
vitation from the ether, interfere with
the performance of your duty. y


Let your pleasure come i'm as recre-
ation-not as the business of your life.


If you can, cultivate SOME art, by
which you can gain an independent
livelihood. DO it whether there is ne
cessity for it or not. Do it quietly if
you will, but do it. There is nc. telling
when or under what circumstances you
may need it.-DOneres.


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Year: 1870

About ten years since, / was laid up
with AN excrutiating headache, which
seemed to encircle the ear of that side
of the head alone affected. The idea
that the headache had something to do
with the ear as q center occurred to me,
although in the ear itself there was no
pain. had little almond oil, and
also spirits dropped into the ear, but
without any good effect; when the
thought suggested itself that little of
the anesthetic ether (not the nitric)
might do good by deadening the nerv-
Gus pain. / had some drops of rectified
sulpliurie ether, therefore, put into my
ear; and i'm the course of half All hour
my headache was entirely gone.


/ have since found, both from my
own occasional experience and that OF
Others, that ether SO applied is, in near
ly all cases, an etfectual cure of these
very painful headaches, faceaches, jaw
aches and toothaches, which are COM
monty known rs neuralgia and rlleI-
matte. 7


Ii in very severe case, two or three
days may elapse during which the pain
may l,e apt to recur, especially from
new and even slight exposure to
draughts; but repeated applications OF
half a Gozen drops or less Of ether at a
time seem certain to sulslue the most
violent attack, sometimes III u very
few minutes. \ drop or two OF almond
or olive oil afterwards put into the ear,
have thought, tended to protect from
a new attack. As the ether sometimes
gives pain in the ear for moment
while being applied, single drop
should, first of all, be carefully put in,
and then more, as the case will allow (;
but have never suffered the least lad
effect, either in my hearing or other
wise, from the use of ether in this way ,
nor have ] heard any from Others who
have tried it at my recommendation
Erchqaqe.
Year: 1870

Many the writer these lines and invalid physician while visiting the
Island St. croy their experienced witnessed surprising and
beneficial the naIds


sve seeking health inquiry and investigation
Of its medicinal virtues Ee delighted and surprised and after his recovery
which occurred determined possible the manufacture
and sell it in the United States.


The result Of his bor glorious for himself and suffering humanity
celebrated
TAToN BITTERs being real merit founded upon principles


relying wholly the vegetable wo for its medicinal effects worked rapid evou
Gon in the history medicine became household word all civilized
world The sahais TlseoZ tanan Of health and the demand
the PLANTATION BTERS exceeded the abilities the supply
Notwithstanding large importation St. z Rum made expressly for the
pounding these @ the quantity inadequate therefore became
that extensive scale abroad should made and
dispatched St. Thomas for that purpose He fortunate securing and
leasing several plantations Of the largest and most productive estates the
island Houses stills and erected N BY which utterly aston
ishea the natives The experienced and natives theland
cured and the ppors the PLANTATION BTTERs in position
supply their laboratory with all the perfectly St. cz Rum needed in anue-


the GREAT DYsPEPT-c
the natives crushing the otherwise preparing for the stills presses


As andoe Fever and Intermittent and Maaous and
other kindred diseases the the PLANTATION BTTERS the
history the world Over five million bottles disposed annually They
adapted old and male and female agreeable always
ryo5ucs immediate beneficial result
Year: 1870

Judge Magruder, in the Circuit Court of
Calvert county, Maryland, has just de.
hvered an important decision in the case of
the State vs.. Charles Watkins. The case
involved the right to registration of a
colored man convicted of felony before
the adoption of the fifteenth amendment.
The Judge decided that all so convicted
were entitled to vote, notwithstanding the
provision of the State constitution which
provides that no person above the age OF
twenty-one years, convicted Of larceny or
other infamous crime, unless pardoned by
the Governor, shall ever thereafter be en-
titled to vote at any election in that State.
The opinion was based on the fact that as
disfranchisement was no part of the punish
ment Of colored persons who had no right
to vote previous to the adoption of the tif-
teenth amendment, to impose that penalty
now would be to give an er post tacto opera
ton to provision Of the State constitution
OF the United States. This is a formal
recognition of the validity OF the constitu-
tiOnal amendment by the Democrats OF that
State.
Year: 1870

A writer in Good Health says that the
average weight, all the year round, Of that
portion of woman's clothing which is sup
sentenced to carry such a weight about in
this way for number of years, for some
great crime, the punishment would be de-
nounced as an inhuman one; yet thousands
Of women daily endure such a punishment
voluntarily, because it is the custom, and
because they do not know the bad effects
likely to follow it. The writer earnestly
counsels women not to adopt an attire SINH
lar to that worn by men, but to have their
clothing suspended from the shoulders, by
which dangerous pressure on abdominal
muscles would be avoided.
Year: 1870

The Shreveport Gazette has been informed
by planter that cotton worth fourteen
cents in the market would be left in the
field to be plowed in as a fertilizer for
another crop, as it was impossible to gather
Il this winter
Year: 1870

ItappeaFs from the report Of a careful
survey by a nautical man, published


in the-LOndOn Shipping Gazstts, that
the Suez Caual IN every respect is a
great success, and IS working hand
sOmely; but the most interesting fact
reported is that throughout the canal
a steady current moves from the Red
Sea intO the Mediterranean, varying
in its velocity from three knots an
an hour, near Suez, to q knot and a
half at the Mediterranean oufset.
This current proves that the level ol
the Red Sea Is higher than the Level
Year: 1870

The Boston Advertiser thus speaks
of the late Chinese Minister:


History furnishes no parallel to the
experience of Burlingame during the
last decade. and we shall have to turn
to the Arabian Nights to match it.
Writers on the possibilities open to
American ambition have often cited
the appearance of Franklin in his plain
suit, serene in his simplicity, at the
glittering court of Versailles. But
there was nothing in the history of
that shrewd, lucky Boston boy of the
last century to compare IN romance and
bizarre splendor with the cool, easy,
self-poised young man Of our own day,
who, losing his seat in Congress. By the
vote of our North End wards, present.
ly found himself the representative of
the oldest and greatest Of nations, ac>
credited to the courts of the world,
travelling in style of imperial mag
nifcence through Europe, receiving
the courtesy of kings and emperors,
coping with the widest of veteran di-
plomats, and speaking for the first time
for scores of centuries of silence the
voice of China. Perhaps there was
no man living whose death could have
in It's possible consequences a gravcr
influence on the destiny Of millions OF
men.
Year: 1870

INDIGNANT CoMANcHE. A CO.
manche Indian recently brouget his
squaw to pioneer artist to have her
picture taken. The artist got the
squaw in position. when the old Co
manche thought he would investigate
the mystery of making squaw's pic
lures. He accordingly raised the cloth
and looked into the camera, when he
was astonished to see his wife standing
on her head. AT this he grew indig-
nant, and even beat her for assuming
such an nndigniied attitude before the
ssldiers. but as she stoutly denied the
offence, he continued his experiments
aud at last came to the conclusion thai
a machine that would stand his squaw
on her head in half second, without
knowing anything about it, was exceed
ingly bad medicine.
Year: 1870

The Gypsies 10 the Hop Garden. at
Pesth, have q curious way Of looking
after the honesty of their money col
lector. The person intrusted with the
mission of taking the hat around
among the crowd has living fly put
in his left hand, while he holds the hat
with ais right. When he returns with
the funds, he must bring back the fly


alive, as sign that he has not taken
any money from the common property ;
but if the fly be wanting, or even dead,
he does not get his share of the money.
Year: 1870

The Pennsylvania Cemetery contains
seven graves side by side, In which re-
pose the remains Of man and his six
wives. When the first vile died the
third was three years old, and the fifth
an infant of twelve months, while the
last wife was not born until the year
following the death of the first.
Year: 1870

Lake Ontario was frosen over few
days since from the Canada to the
American shore, and as far east and
west as the eye could reach. This is
the tirst time that this great lake has
been ice bound for many years.