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Year: 1870

NHE ELLIPTIC SEWING MACHINES ARE
L manufactured and warranted by the Wheeler
Wilson Sewing Machine Company The lato
and important improvements enable us to guar
antee to every purchaser that the Elliptic Ma
chine will do more work, better work, and
greater variety of work than any other Sewing
Machine now in use. The economy of the Ell
liptic Machine in family is almost incredible /;
with one, good operator can do the work of
twelve hands BY it the making of garments is
reduced from a question of hours to one of min
'utes as the following table will show;


Ut not to be understood that the following table the
In Iln
Year: 1870

Gives strength to the aged and debilitated it
is especially designed for young men who have
wasted their vigor from eXcesses of every kind,
and all persons whose systems have become weak
by imprudencc are completely restored by its
use Price ONE DOLLAR
Year: 1870

How many men, from badly cured diseases,
from the effects of self-abuse and eXccsses have
brought about the state OF weakness in those or
gans that has reduced the general system SO
much as to induce almost every other disease
Year: 1870

A great deal is said about the mityailleurs or mitrdilleuseS which the French people propose to employ ln the war. This apparatus IS a sort ot coffee-mill gun. We had several of the kind in the rebellion. A number of large rifle barrels are either grouped around centre or arranged side by side upon horizontal plain. These barrels are loaded at the breech by a mechanical arrangement which sup plies the cartridges. The loadidg and firing are done by turning a crank.- Such is the general character of the mitraiIleur. As our military readers will preceive, it is similar to the Cat ling gun and one or two others whose names we do not remember. When Col. Charles H. Van Wyck led to the war the regiment from Sullivan county and Green county, he had with him one of these machines. Gen. 5. F. Butler was also very much tlckled with them, he used to keep one or two at his headquarters at Bermuda Hun dreds to fire towards the enemy as a sort of professional diversion. As an offensive weapon these machines are of no practical value; but experts arc of opinion that they might be very use full for the defence of fortified place against strong party, where they could be fired at close range upon mass of men. It will, however, be as tonishing if they prove to be Of any ac count in ordinary battles.
Year: 1870

How TO BE NoBoDY.-Young man it is easy to be nobody. Go to the drinking saloon to spend your leisure. You need not drink much now-just a little beer, or some other drink. In the meantime play checkers, dominoes or something else to consume time; then you will be sure not to read any useful book; or if you do read let it be the "dime novels" of the day. Thus go on keeping your stomach full, head empty and yourself playing timekilling games and in few years you will be nobody, unless you should turn out to be drnnkard or professional gambler, either of which is worse than to be nobody.
Year: 1870

COLO IN MAN OR HORsEs.- will give you the simplest and best remedy for collie in man or horses, I ever tried. For a horse, give a tea cup full of flour (wheat flour) in a black bottle, filled with water, dissolve the flonr by shaking the bottle, and drench the horse. It will generally cure in five to ten minutes. For man, give a tablespoonful of fious in glass (tum- bler) of cold water. My word for it he will never take any other remedy.
Year: 1870

Sir, allow me now to recapitulate
and place in compact and distinct
form the aggregate of tho obligations,
the bonds which were given us bo-
nus, as bare gratuity, to the reluc-
tant and unpatriotic capitalists of the
country in order to win their support
when oureneed was the sorest. Allow
me to array together the items of an
appalling account now in the hands OF
the tax-gatherer fol collection, every
farthing OF which is mere fabrication
upon paper and as completely devoid
of merit as forged check presented
for payment. Ny former statements
and calculations establish the follow
ing table, Us showing the amount OF
the peoples obligation which the bond
holders obtained in the creation of the
national debt each year for nothing
for absolutely nothing:
Year: 1870

A WoaD FOR LOCAL NEwspA.
PERs:-We take the following from
the New York Tribune. 1t is true.
and we commend it to every one
who has an interest in the place
where he resides; .-....... .
. Nothing is more common than
to hear people talk Of what they
pay for advertising, &C.. as 50
much given In charity. Newspa-
pers by enhancing the value of
the property in the neighborhoo6
and giving localities in which they
are published, a reputation abroad
benefit all such. particularly if
they are merchants or real estate
owners, thrice the amount yearly
of the meagre sum they pay for
their support. Besides, every pub.
lie spirited citizen has lauds ble
pride of having paper of which
he is not ashamed, even though
he should pick it up in New York
or Washington. A good.looking,
thriving sheet helps property, gives
a character to locality, and is in
many respects a desirable public
convenience. If from any cause
the matte, in the local or editorial
column should not be to Your
standard, do not cast it aside and
pronounce it good for nothing, un-
til satisfied that there has been no
more labor bestowed upon it than
is paid for. If you want a good
readable sheet, it mnst be support.
ed, not in spirit of charity, either,
but because you feel necessity to
support 1t. The local press is the
power that moves the people"
Year: 1870

CURE FOR RoUP IN CHIcKESs.-
A gentlemen who had several
valuable fowls afflicted with roup
asked a well known chicken fan
cier of this city for q remedy
He was informed that the most
efectual cure was to cut off the
heads of the fowls as soon as the
disease made it's appearance. Un.
willing to lose valuable fowls with
out making an effort to save them,
he commenced to treat them after
a method of his own. He placed
his diseased fowls in a perfectly
dry room, bathed their heads with
kerosene oil and rubbed their
bills inside with a mixture of alum
and grease. lie fed them only
on Indian meal and boiled pota-
toes, we'll peppered with cayenne,
no hard food whatever being allow
ed them. With this treatment they
commenced to improve, and in
from week to ten days had en-
tirely recovered. The disease has
seldom failed to succumb to this
treatment. On an average, only
about one chicken in six died.


Germantown Telegraph.
Year: 1870

CUTTING AND TRAINING IONA
TuEs.-A Massachusetts CORES.
pondent Of the Country Gentle
man states that the rast season he
tried seven ways of cnltivating
and training the tomato, and likes
training to single stake tie best,
as they ripened ten days earlier
and yielded better than the others.
The plant as it grows is tied to tile
stake. When the first cluster of
blossom buds appear, the lateral
shoots which appear in tie axil of
each leaf below it, are carefully
plucked out, leaving but a single
stem, surmounted by a cluster of
flowers, and q bud which will
serve to continue the stem. This
bud will develop three leaves and
cluster Of flowers, and all the
axilary shoots upon it are re-
moved, and the stem is kept care
fully tied up, and 80 on. The vine
is kept to a single stem without
branches, and bearing only leaves
and clusters of fruit. The vines,
with the exception of two, grew
to the top of the stakes, the first
cluster growing within three inch
es of the ground, and the first ripe
tomatoes the 25th of July.
Year: 1870

ONE.of the most sing ular sights
growing out of the war is q con.
tinous line of peach trees around
Petersburg, and extending toward
Richmond. They are growing
from the breast works thrown MP
by the Confederate army, and are
the only legacy left by the poor
fellows who were on the advance
line. Having eaten the fruit while
on picket duty. they cast the stones
aside, and now they appear in one
continuous line of beautiful trees,
which yielded an abundant crop
the last year.
Year: 1870

DIVINE PRovrDENcE.- A little
error Of the eye, a misguidance of
the hand. a slip of the foot, a
starting of a horse, a sudden mist,
a great shower, or a word unde-
signedly cast forth in an army, has
turned the tide OF victory from
one side to another, and thereby
disposed of empires and whole
nations. No prince ever returns
safe out of battle, but he may we'll
remember how many blows and
bullets have gone by, that might
have gone though him and what
little, odd, unforeseen chances of
death he has seen turued aside,
whicb seemed in full, ready, and
direct career to have been posting
to him. All of which passages
if We do not acknowledge to have
been guided to their respective
ends and eff cts by the conduct of
a superior and Divine hand, we
do, by the same assertion, cashier
all Providence, strip the Almighty
OF HIS nob!est prerogative, and
make God not the governor, but
the mere spectator Of the world.


[Dr. Smith.
Year: 1870

SAVE THE MANURE 1t is always
a wonder TO an Eastern man how
people anywhere can waste feIti.
lizing material. However rich the
soil, common sense teaches that
each crop carried off makes it less
80, unless something is returned in
payment for the abstraction. No
matter how large the pile of mon-
ey, the decrease of a penny a day
will at length take the whole. So
no matter how rich soil, contin-
ued cropping will make it poor
unless the average is kept up by
something returned In lieu of that
taken.


Save the manure, all of it, and
what is not needed now will be in
reserve for some future necessity.
Year: 1870

Our special written correspondence from Europe
u dated to sth OF January The writer's elaborate
the history OF events in the Old World to that
day in the following order Of narration import
ance.
Year: 1870

Challenge Of MIR. Douglas e0she Yaehtno. Of


Great Britnin and Ireland.


Tho ocean race between the Cambria and Daunt-
isas having been satisfactorily arranged aud being
anxious that the SaDpho should have some part In
the International contest, I.nereby challenge any
schooner yacht In Great Britain or Ireland TO sail
against The sappho from Cape Clear to Sandy Hook.


should prefer TO start the 4th OF July, tho day
on which Mr.. Ashbury and Mr.. Bennett to sail;
but 1 am prepared to sail on any day during the
month OF July the acceptor or my challenge may
choose


propose that the race should be for cup OF the
value OF fifty TO ESQ guneas.


The above challenge shall leave open for accept
anco for the period OF one month from the date OF
It's insertion


am also willing to sail any schooner yacht in
Great Britain or Ireland from the Nab Light TO Cher
b0urg Breakwater and back, any day during the
nrsS week In June, for cup OF the value OF 1ity
guineas.


am willing that this contest should be decided
either BY one or three races the same course
nave limited the Time for TINS to the first wea6
In June In view OF the probable acceptance CT my
challenge TO cross the Atlantic IN winch event
should not wish to have any engagement for two or
three weeks prior 10 Gne day OF startng In view or
NO enc taking up my challenge lor the ocean race
shall extend the time through the months or June
and July. Thirty days notice, however, must be
given TO enable the yachts 10 prepare.
WILLIAM DOUGLAS
Year: 1870

We quote from Mrs, Haskell's
"Household Encyclopedia


Some cooks will throw out the water
in which meats have been boiled, with
out letting it cool to take off the fat.


Bits of meats are thrown out which
would make hashed meat or hash.


The flour is sifted in wasteful man
ner, and the bread pan left with the
dough sticking to it.


Pie crust is laid by to sour, instead Of
making few tarts for tea.


Cold pudlings are considered good for
nothing, when oitentimes they can he
s!e ,med for the next day.


Vegetables are thrown away that
would for do breakfast nicely.
Year: 1870

BY WILLIAM WINTER.
Who cares for nothing alone Is free:


Sit down, good fellow, and drink with me.
With careless heart and = merry eye.


He will laugh at the world as the world goes by
He laughs at power, and wealth, and fame;
He laughs at virtue, he laughs at shame;


He laughs at hope, and he laughs At fear:


At nemorys dead leaves, crisp and sere;


He laughs at the future-cold and dim:


Nor earth nor heaven is dear to him.


Oh! that Is the comra1s At for me!


He cares for nothing-his heart 10 free!


Free as the soul of the fragrant wine.
Sit down, good fellow, my heart Is thine.
For heed not custom, creed nor law:


l care not for nothing that ever saw.


In every city my cups quan.


And over my liquor riot and laugh.
laugh like cruel and turbulent wave:
laugh in the church. and laugh at the grave;
laugh at Joy. and we'll know
That merrily, merrily laugh at woe.
terribly laugh, with an oath and O sneer
When think Of the hour that death Is near;
For know that death is a ghost divine.
Who shall drink my blood as drink this wine
And he cares for nothing, a king is he!
Come on, old fellow. and drink with me.
With you will drink to the solemn past,
Though the cup that drain should be my last.
I will drink to the phantoms of Love and Truth
To ruined manhood and wasted youth.
will drink to the woman who wrought my


woe,


In the diamond morning OF long ago!
To a heavenly face in sweet repose;
To a lillys snow and the blood of the roseI
To the splendor caught from the Orient skies.
That thrilled in the dark of her hazel eyes;
Her large eyes wild with the fire Of the South;
And the dewy wine of her warm red mouth!
To the phantoms that wait in my lonely tomb!
will drink to my sou, in its terrible mood,
Dimly and soemnly understood.
And, last of all, to the Monarch Of Sin,
Who has conquered that place and reigns


within.
My song is passing-it dies away
cannot tell, Is 1t night or day?
My heart is burnt and blackened with pain,
And horrible darkness crushes my brain;
cannot see you-the end Is nigh
But we'll laugh together before die!
Through awful chasms plunge and fall.
Your hand, good fellow II die-that's all!
Year: 1870

DEieu ITult Is not taken care oi IL
season and becomes wormy.


Potatoes grow in tho cellar; and the
sprouts are not removed until they be.
come worthless.


Pork spoils for want Of salt, and the
beef because the brine wants scalding.


Bones are burned that would make
good soap.


Thundcrgust.


Don't come down into the break fast
room Of u morning with u thunder cloud
over your pititul phiz. What are you
mad at? Has the servant forgotten to
furnish you with a towel, or TO lea, e
your shoes at the door? Have you n
note to pay in bank and not dime to
meet it? Have you the headache: Did
TIE baby wake you from a sound sleep?
Has the newsinan failed to leave the
morning paper; or has u bill been pre-
sented at your door bright and early,
which you know very we'll ought to
have been paid long ago to the patient
baker, the needy dressmaker, or the
begrimmed mechanic: Maybe you cut
your face while shaving, or stubbedyour
toe against the cat, or broke your watch
spring in winding it up. Maybe you arc
rutlled because YOU have suddenly
remembered tha: you failed to meet
IA business engagement yesterday; or
took a short turn on n friend, or cheated
somebody, and that it is about being
found ont, otherwise you would not
have cared the snap ofyour finger about
it, perhaps a. you entered the door and
scanned the breakfast table, you missed
some favoritc dish. But does one of all
these occurrences justify you in cIouding
the whole household, in hurting the
feelings of your children, in discour-
aging the servants, and outraging the
guests at your table? The man or
woman who comes to the family table
with u scowl is u brute in nature, and
only wants opportunity to bring out his
Httieness and his meanness. lr, when
you come to ths reakfast. room you are
sad from uiscournyment, from fatigue,
from illness, or from losses, you are excu-
sable, and you have our sympathy; but
but to meet the family with frown, and
cast gloom over the whole household, +,
simply because everything has not gone
exactly according to your sovereign
pleasure, you, Il poor pitiful worm Of an
hour; why, it is SO supremcly ridiculous
that anything else than contempt for IL
is simply Impossible.


He came into the break fast room one
morning, and in a moment it was seeu
that a cloud was on his brow. There
the table fairly groaned not with plateC
! silver bnt the solid material. The clot.
was white as the snow the family were
seated around in pleasant expectancy
everything was smoking hot, and no
an article but that even pampered ap
petite could revel on. But the man
favorite dish was not there. Closer h.
came to the table, and with the inquir,
Did YOU not know that | wanted


shaJ for break iast?n he raised his foo
and overturned the whole tubls Oh tn
floor.


at was at the fire Icing kept warn


for you,' replied his noble wife in he
quiet, ladyIike, and conquering way.


In an instant the naughty husban


comprehended the situation; the mex


he was on his knees exclaiming "Des


wife, you are nothing less than ang'


born" Not a great while after that h


died. His will was opened; his wife W.


executor: he left her all he had twomi
Year: 1870

One great cause Of the poverty of the
present day Is, the failure of the common
people to appreciate small things They
feel that if they cannot save large sums
they viii not save anything. They do not
realize how daily addition, be 1t ever 50
small viii soon make large pile IF the
young men and young women of to-day will
only begin aud begin row, TO save little
from their earnings, and plant il in the soil
Of some good savings bank, and weekly or
monthly add their mite. they viii wear a
happy smile of confidence and independence
when they reach middle life. Not only the
pile itself will increase, but the desire and
ability to increase it win also grow. Let
clerk and tradesmen, laborer aud artisan,
make now and at once a beginning. Store
up some Of your youthful force and vigor
for future coDtngence. Let parents teach
their children to begin early to save. Begin
at the fountain hea5 to control the stream
Of extravaganza, and then work viii be
easy. To choose between spending and
saving IS 10 choose between poverty aud
riches. Let your youth go on 10 habits of
extravagsnce, for fifty years to come, as
they have for fifty years past, and we shall
be a nation Of beggars with moneyed
aristocraey. Let generation Of such as
save 10 small sums be reared, and we shall
be free from want Do not be ambitious
for extravagant fortunes, but do seek that
which is the duty of every one to obtain-in-
dependence aud a comfortable home.
Wealth and enough Is within the reach Of
all Il is obtainable by one process, and by
oplv one-saviug
Year: 1870

SIdNs.-We don't 90 much on '',igns, +"
but the following are 50 clearly signs that
will not fail in time Of drouth that We give
them for the benefit Of cur readers


When you see the sun rising before you
get out Of bed II is a sign that you d not DO
for farmer


When you see a man yawn and close has
eyes during the sermon, it IS a sign that lie
is getting sleepy


When you see man trying to convince
a lamp post that it is impolite to get in the
way of a gentleman, it is a sign that he has
Lren drinking something lemonade, per,
haps


u hen you see boy throwing stones on
the street and speaking impudently to old
people, it is a sign that his parents don II
care much for him.
When you see girl throwing kisses and
winkiug at the boys as they pass her window,
it is sign that she is too young to be oat
Of sight Of her maternal relative


When you see young gentlemen and Ia
dies whispering, giggling, and writing note.
iu church, it is a sign that the man Whc
teaches good manners omitted TO give them
a can when he came along last time.
Year: 1870

FELLOW FEELING AGAINST CRows.-
Aside from the special question of profit and
loss. We have warm side towards the crow.
He is 30 much ike ourselves He Is lazy
and that Is human He takes an advantage
Of those weaker than himself, and that Is
life ike. He is sly and hides for tomorrow
what be can't eat to-day, showing human
providence. He learns tricks much faster
than he does useful things, showing a true
boy nature. He thinks his own color the
best. and loves to hear his own voice, which
are eminent traits Of humanity.


He will never work when be can get an
other to work for him-a genuine human
trait He eats whatever he can get his
claws upon, and is less misehieyous with a
belly full than when hungry, and that Is
Ike man. He Is at war with all living
things except his own, and with them when
he has nothing else to do. No wonder men
despisa crows They are too much like men,
Take eff his wings and put him in breeches
and crows make fair average men. Give
men wings, and reduce their smartness a
liuls. and many Of them would be almost
good enough to be crows.
Year: 1870

and private rencontres-will
sinkinto merited insignifcance.
No people is more brave than
the people which can boast of
Nelson aud Collingwood, of
Hill and We llington, yet they
find nobler employment for
their courage than in wasting
it upon the field Of private re-
venge. And if we learn this
truth, we shall indeed gain
another morsel of delicious
sweetness from the grasp of
the strong.
Year: 1870

the country artisans and me-
chanics to run after city fash
ions. They cannot work cheap
ly when they have to suffer
from enforced idleness so often,
but keep their hands employed,
and their ability to compete
with city tradesmen will soon
be shown, while every dollar
they receive is expended at
home and thus retained in the
community to perform its be-
nevelent round of duty. If the
encouragement of home indus
tries should thus be practiced,
prosperity must be the natural
sequence, and reciprocal bless
ings flow in upon.all deserving
them. Nocommunity can thrive
where the producers are con-
stantly drained of every cent
they can earn to fill the Golfers
of foreign manufacturers and
capitalists. The money needs
to be kept at home, where it
may stimulate every benign in
fluence in the community and
he who is working for the best
interest of himself, his neigh
bors, his town and section, will
encourage every legitimate en-
terprise that brings population
and thrift, and retains capital
at home, no matter how humble
it may establish itself on the
start. It is better in their strug-
Cling infancy to pay a little
more for articles of home man.
ufacture, and by such means re-
tain the money in circulation
in the neighborhood that would
otherwise go abroad, than to
patronize foreign manufactur-
ers, who will not in return, pa
tronize the productions Of oul
labor and skill.
Year: 1870

The following advice is from
a Newburg paper: "Press on,
young man, though you be poor.
We know a youth who, with
only his two hands and a crow
bar, opened a jewelry store, and
now he is living in a fine stone
residence in Sing-Sing.
Year: 1870

A New York German left his
wife and took another mans,
who set him up in business with
$1,000 other husbands money.
Now he has forsaken her. and
married another woman, and
there is trouble impending.
Year: 1870

CONQUER YOUR TROUBLES.
A great many men, whatever
may be their experiencesin life,
are accustomed to complain of
the usuage they have received
in the world. They fill the ears
of those who have the misfor-
tune to be their friends, with
lamentations respecting their
own troubles. But there is no
man that is not born into a
world of trouble; and no man
has ever attained to anything
like the full stature of manhood,
who has not been ground, as it
were to powder, by the hard
ships which he has encountered
in life. This is a world in which
men are made, not by velvet,
but by stone and iron handling!
Therefore, do not grumble; but
conquer your troubles.