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Year: 1875

How TO Run RAlLwAY TRAM at
THE RATE OF Mile MIsUrs.--A
Danbury man is confident that in tipe
passenger trains will be run al the rate
of a mile q minute. He is evolving
plan for taking on passengers without
stopping the train, and thus save this
time in running. He thinks q rack
formed of a scoop made of netting, with
back to il, and horizontal bar ten
inches below will do it. This is TO be
attached to the car and worked ona
powerful hinge. He was in MerrilLs
grocery with rough model of his ma
chine last evening, explaining its work
ing TO an interested auditory. His idea
is to have the passengers TO stand ia y
line on the station platform, with their
backs to the approaching train, and
near enough TO where IL will pass u
bring them in range Of the scoop. On
the approach Of The rack the horizontal
bar strikes the expectant passengers in
the hollow back of the knees which
causes him to lop backwards, when he
il caught in the scoop and whirled into
the car, and the next back rack takes
the next forward passenger, and SO on
until all are taken up. "a. .r,esh


"How are you going to land them
people who stop at way ststionsi' asked
a disagreeable person who was sitting
on a soap box. tnuolg


"I.aud emf cried the inventor in q
tone OF unqualified disgust. "who said
anything about landing emf A railroad
takes them to the place where they are
going, and that's all il agrees 10 do. I
'sposc you'd expect railroad co,npsny
to hunt you mp hotel, an carry your
trunk up to the room, an cook your.
supper, an tuck you 10 bed, m wind mp
your watch, wouldn't ye'" aud the speak
err glared at the interuptor with such
intensity as 10 cause him 10 shrink up
fully one half. '


"a hogs hog wherever you're a
mind to put him, exclaimed the invent
or, as he picked mp his model aud
straightway left the store.-D,nbusy
News.
Year: 1875

A big gun weighing over fifty tons,
which had been lying on the beach
at Fortress Monroe for several years,
has been ordered to the Centennial
Grounds by the National Government,
preparatory to having it placed in the
Centennial Exposition.
Year: 1875

HoARsENEss. s.--WhOever viii try alum
and honey-a small portion of each
will never suffer from hoarseness.


SMELL OF PAINT.-To get rid of the
smell of oil paint, plunge handful of
hay into pail full of water, and let it
stand in the room newly painted.


Ham ToAsr.-Chop some lean ham
fine, put IL in a pan, with little pepper,
lump of butter, and two eggs beaten f;
when we'll warmed spread on hot but
tered toast, and serve.


CASTOR On FOR CoRNs.-The South
ern Medical Record says that castor oil
applied to the corn, after pairing closely,
each night before going to bed, softens
the corn, and it becomes as the other
Aesb.


For a sovereign remedy against
bleeding take linen, or other rags, and
burn them to charcoal. Pat the char
coal IN the wound and no more bleeding
will come For bleeding at the cavity
of an extracted tooth, pack the alveolus
fully and firmly with cotton mOistened
with alum-wateF.


Too Much CAMPHoR.- Scientific
American cautions people against the
too frequent use of camphor as medi-
cine. 1t says the nature of camphor is
that of 6 nervous stimulant, similar to
opium or alcohol, and when taken in
large doses causes irritation of the nerv-
Ous system, and produces commissions,
often fatal in their effects.


AS a moth preventive, mix half pint
of alcohol, the same quantity of spirits
of tprpentine and two ounces Of cam
phor. Keep in a stone bottle and shake
before using. The clothes or furs are
to be wrapped in linen, and crumbled-
up-pieces of blotting-paper dipped in
the liquid are TO be placed in the box
with them, so that it smells strongly.
This requires renewing once a year.


To MAKE HAIR CURI.-The method
employee d by professional workers in
curled hair is as follows Wet the hair
to be curled, wrap it smoothly around a
cylindrical stick or tube of proper size,
tie it in place, and then put it in water
and boil it two or three hours, remove
it from the boiler, wrap it carefully in
newspapers, and bake it in a moderate
oven for an hour. Thus treated, it will
stay in curl permanently.
Year: 1875

The shoes worn by ladies az present
are far more sensible than those lately
in fashion. The design now is to give
symmetrical shape and ease 10 the foot,
rather than to cramp it into unnatural
smallness. For this purpose the best
shoemakers now use French lasts made
precisely the shape of the foot, out
lining the taper of the foot on TOP, and
giving ample width of sole. Shoes
made in this way do not cramp the toes,
or bind the instep, or force out the
tender joints to form buniOns, as the
narrow shoes of the past few years
have done. Another sensible feature
of the present style is the low, broad
heel, which gives the foot a natural,
easy and healthful position, very diff
ferent from that suffered when the
high, narrow French heels were in
vogue.
Year: 1875

head, they all arose and began to carry
out the orders of their commander.
The image was in time entirely broken
to pieces, and turned into currency
with which to buy bread for the per-
ishiDoy army
Year: 1875

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph Cthus) mean that your sub
scriPtior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We wonld take great pleasure in extend.
ing credit 20 our friends and patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we arc forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit yoar favor.


q We enter 10 new names on our
books without the money IN adva' ce
Year: 1875

WE published last week short article
on the economy of heat in the human
BODY, subject which is worthy Of
special attention in cold weather. This
subject, in its application to animals, Is
taken I'D by a correspondent Of the Nelo
England Farmer, who justly crlticiSeS a
remark by a correspondent Of the C,UH-
try Gentleman, that rain does strong,
healthy sheep good" The farmer makes
out a clear case against the latter as fol
lows:


These long-wooled sheep Shear a
fleece which weighs all The WAY from SiX
TO sixteen pounds Now We have in No
Vember and December very cold rains,
succeeded by very low temperature.
The lightest clad Of these sheep will
have upon them at this season a fleece
which will weigh three pounds; now let
US imagine this fleece first saturated with
water and then frozen. Now bear in
mind that it takes 40 degrees of heat to
dissolve the ice thus formed on the wool,
and after 1t is thus converted into water
ii takes $50 degrees of heat TO convert
that water into vapOT, or mother words 10
dry it. Them again, consider that the
only source of heat is the food eaten by
the animal and burnt in its system
Then, again, consider this taking place
not only during the winter months, hut
in March and April, when the fleece is
double the weight II is IN the fall Now
remember this is exact science; the
amount of heat required for the purpose
described is always the same, though the
sources whence it is derived may differ
In the months of May, June, July, August
and September the sun aids in drying
the wool, but remember in these months
the fleece Is light. It is when the fleece
is the heaviest that nearly all the heat
for drying the fleece is absorbed from
the body; and remember the tempera-
ture of that body is to be kept up TO 9S
deg. 1t Is an exact science. and il re-
quires an exact amount of food to fur
niSh this heat; and il the food Is not
furnished the animal must fall back upon
its own resources, the fat accumulated
in its cells; or, if none is so stored, its
muscles must be Sacrinced or the animal
must die. ~. J. OJSercer.
Year: 1875

\ GENTLEwOMAN in London. after bury
ing six husbands, found gentleman
hardy enough 10 make her a wife once
more. For several months their happi-
ness was mutual, a circumstance which
seemed to pay no great compliment TO
her former partners, who, as she said,
had disguSted her by their Sottishness
and infdelity. In the view Of knowing
the real character of his amOTOuS mate
the gentleman began frequently TO absent
himself, 10 return at late hours, and when
he did return 10 appear as if intoxicated
NJ first reproaches, but afterward men
aces, were the consequences of this con
duct The gentleman persisted and
seemed every day TO become addicted to
his bottle. One evening when she imag.
ined him dead drunk she unsewed a
leaden weight from one of the sleeves of
her gown and having melted it she ap.
preached her husband. who pretended
still TO be sound asleep, in order to put
II into his ear through pipe; convinced
of her wickedneSs the gentleman started
up and seized her, when, having procured
assistance, he secured her till the morn
ing and conducted her before a magis-
trate, who sent her to prison The bod
les Of her six husbands We're dug up and
rs marks OF violence were diScernible
upon each of them the proof Of her guilt
appeared SO strong upon her trial that
she was condemned and executed To
this circumstance are We indebted for
that useful regulation bywhich no corpse
can be Inferred without a legal inspec-
On.-L0NdON Papsr.
Year: 1875

II is one Of the principles Of good
farming that as much should be restored
TO the soil as is taken from it, The re-
turn cannot be made IN kind, of course ;
it would not do to restore the identical
crop of corn To the field from which il
had been gathered for this would leave
the farmer no profit for his labor. But
the return should be made in some cheap
matter that possesses all the elements
which the corn crop has drawn from the
soil. To crop field year after year, and
look for good yields from it, without
giving il the elements which the exhaust
i've process demands is ike consuming
not only the interest on sum Of mon
ey, but part of the principal as well
every year-Or. to use g hOmelier figure,
II is like expecting a hen to lay an egg
every dav when she Is not fed, or a COW
10 give milk that Is not fed Ii is not
more certain that hen or a COW viii die
that Is net fed than 1t Is that a soil
cropped year after year, without being
fed, will perish. The vast areas of
WORKOUT land in Virginia and some
other Eastern ~ ties, and the bald,
naked hill sides to be seen too
frequently in Missouri, bear wit
ness TO this truth. \ farmer
ought to regard his farm as his spermanent
fixed capital, whose annual interest
alone he may use, and whose inherent
poweIs he should maintain unimpaired,
and, If practicable. increase. year after
year by careful tillage. The cheap
matter 10 be used in maintaining these
productive powers Is manure and fertil-
iZeTs- Manure is the best Of all matter
that the farmer can use IN Tep.enlShing
the soil, and no portion of the limited
quantity of it TO be had on a farm should
be wasted but the supply Of II is com
psratively small. and for this reason re-
course must be had 10 other materials
Guano IS out of the question in the West,
where II would cost more Than corn sells
for; there are no beds OF phosphate such
as are 10 be found in South Carolina, 10
mari deposits Ike those that the New
jersey farmers have the benefit Of, and
no such heaps Of OfIal as the great CON
suming cities Of the East Weld. But
there is one article that IS at the COM
mand of the Missouri farmer, and this he
ought TO be necessarily using. We
Year: 1875

THE Paris correspondent of the New
York Times saws that not long ago the
CAPTAIN of one of our great ocean steam
ships found, just after passing Sandy
Hook, that he had young bind giT!
among his passengers Her whole APP
pearance showed him that there was
some mystery in the case, and he asked
her how she came 10 be there, in the
stcerage. alone. The young lady told
him her story. She was Miss Kane,
from New England, who had unfortu-
natcly lost her eyesight. She had heard
of the wonderful cures performed
through the agency OF Our Lady OF
Lourdes," and for many long, weary,
half-hupefuI halt-despairing months she
has been trying 10 raise the means for
taking the trip. At length she could
not bear TO wait any longer, and. unbe-
known 10 her parents, she had slipped
away To New York, where she had ar
rived with siXty-nine dollars. She had
taken the cheapest steerage fare, and felt
assured that God would help her on to the
Grotto of Lourdcs, and that she should,
by virtue of prayer and the intervention
Of Nolrc- Dame de Louders, be once
more restored TO sight The sailors
heart was touched by this simple story,
and had he been on shore he
would probably have given his purse
10 the girl on the spot. Her faith was
sublime. Her religious feryoT LETT no
shadow of suspicion respecting the pu-
rity of her motives or the truthfulness of
her intentions. The weather-beat
sailor brushed his fingers several times
across his eyes as he repeated the story
in his own rudcly eloquent way, and
every one was interested. There was a
French surgeon on board Who served in
the Federal army during the war, and he
and his wife went at once 10 look after
the girl. BY paying the supplement they
got her comfortable room in the second
cabin, and on landing brought her on
with them 10 Paris When leaving the
city the surgeon went to the Embassy to
solicit sympathy for Miss Kane. He
happened 10 fall upon some kindly
hearts who were there at the moment,
and they freely took the case in hand.
One went To see some members of the
Paris clergy; another opened subSCrip-
lion, putting himself down at the head
for handsome sum. This was Only
week ago. Miss Kane will 90 to Lourdes
and remain there as long as she pleases,
and then she will 20 comfortably home
with An American family. But mean
time the gentlemen interested in her have
sent her TO the best oCuliSt IN Paris, who
does not exclude all hope
Year: 1875

\ PARAGRAPH is going the rounds of the
scientific and agricultural press to the
effect that if grass-platS, garden beds and
SO on be sprinkled with clear Eme-water
in damp weather the earth-wOrms will
be destroyed and the vegetation bene-
ited. This may be true for all We know
to the contrary Indeed, an application
of lime-water may very probably be of
direct temporary advantage to the grass
or what-nOt over which it Is sprinkled; I;
but if it kills the worms it ought not 10
be used. These apparently insignificant
and certainly unattractivc creatures are
of the greatest benefit to the fields which
they inhabit. They are very humble,
but are efficient servants of the agricul-
turist; and, far from injuring his meadow
and his garden, they devote themselves
with the most praiSeTOrthy asSiduity 10
turning over the soil 10 q greater depth
and more thoroughly than can be done
with the best appliances known to
science. These animalS-fOr so they are
classified by the naturaliStS- cannot
claim to be much more than animated
tubes. They seem 10 live BY taking
earth and earthly substances in at one
end and passing them out at the other.
This simple process Of digestion Is
aided, however. by a mucous secre-
ton; and the worm has most praise
worthy habit, when he has filled himself
with earth, of ascending to the surface,
turning round and working himself back
again into the ground This operation
has the effect Of unloading him. and the
process, infinitely repeated by millions
of his fellows, cannot but have a highly
beneficial effect upon the quality Of land
II Is said by 50 careful an observer as
Mr. Darwin that these worms have been
known to cover field to the depth of
thirteen inches in the course Of eighty
years. \ slow process, 10 be sure, but so
are all the processes of nature. This,
however. is not all they do. They carry
their shafts and galleries to a depth of
several feet, and cross and intersect in
all directions, lOOsening the soil, opening
il TO the penetration of air and water,
and, in short, doing all that they can 10
help vegetation, without proving upon it
or injuring its roots in the slightest de-
gree. For all these services they are
doomed 10 be doSed to death with lime
water, If We are TO follow the suggestion
OF the paragraph referred to-ChyIstldH
Union
Year: 1875

JUsT CAUSE FOR BEING ALARMED When
= cough has been running for long time,
and You begin 20 feel q pam setting in apon
your Lungs, attended with tightness across
the chest, it Is high time that you should
awaken 10 the danger Of your disease, which
Is fast running into fatal Consumption. Now
before il Is too la;e Use Aliens Lung BalSam.
which viii cure the disease. aud all Will be
well with YOU.


For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
Year: 1875

This valuable sheep has been known
and bred for a long time in England,
where it has always maintained the
character of hardy animal yield


ing a medium quality of wool and fur
nishing mutton of superior flavor
Mr.. John Gilman, of England, took
them thoroughly in hand, and founded
flock which has been the source
whence all the best blood has been
since derived.


A good Southdown is described as
follows: The head small and hornless;
the face speckled or gray, and neither
too long nor too short. The lips thin.
and the space between the nose and
eyes narrow. The under jaw, or chap,
fine and thin; the ears tolerably wide,
and well covered with wool, and the
forehead also, and the whole space be-
tween the ears well protected by it, as
a defence against the fly; the eyes full
and bright; the legs neither too long
nor too short.


The Southdown, both for mutton
and fleece, is fully equal to any other
breed. They do not shear quite as
heavy fleece, nor market so heavy
carcass as some of the long-wool, but
both are worth more per pound in the
market. The buck can be proftably
introduced into any flock, which will
be improved. National Agriculturist.
Year: 1875

MAJ. WALL: The answers to my
queries about managing bees are
quite numerous. One advises me to
get patent hives, another to let them
alone on cloudy days, and still another
tells me " to 60 right to work and do
what / desire" To the first adviser l
will say that have frame hives already
which I consider as good as any patent
hive. To Mr.. Standifer will say that
my bees are as irasible on clear days
as cloudy ones and as to ''letting them
alone until | become experienced" ="
that sounds like the advice of the
Dutchman who told his son he "must
not go in de water till he learn how to
swim," and to Nom de Guerre | must
say he was about right when he said
he "did not know itall," but bee-keep.
ers must thank him for making one
discovery that is, that bees will not
thrive on broom-sedge. Nom de Guerre
evidently thinks l am very timorous
person and wholly unprovided with
vail, gloves, etc.; but such is not the
case, l have all such articles that are
necessary to a bee-keeper and can
manage my bees very well for the time
being, but when l work with them
they stay mad two or three days
and will attack not only everybody
they find within a hundred yards of
the hive, but attack every description
of animals from cat to a horse. In
fact, sometimes am left dogless for
number of days on account of these
little insects, and this is what bothers
me more than fear for myself. l have
not made a fortune on paper as Nom
de Guerre insinuates, but expect for
my bees to make more than enough
honey for home consumption.


To show that it will pay to keep bees
in this country, 1 will give history of
one of my hives from the middle of
March to the Doth of April On the
18th of March / had a very strong
Italian stock which l dirS1od- rs equally
= possible. All
Year: 1875

stocked with young bees. The queen.
less half failed to raise a queen and
have devoted their whole time to gath
cring honey and they have gathered
45 pounds Of honey, besides having
made their hive half full of comb.
This is not guess work but have as
certained the fact by actual weight.


Nom de Guerre wishes to know if
Italians will pay; I answer emphatical-
ly that they do pay. hope every
bee-keeper will give their experience
and state the kind of hive they prefer.
| think it would add a greater impetus
to bee-keeping in the South. Every
farmer should raise enough honey for
home consumption instead of buying
so much molasses And now as | have
occupied more than my share of space
in our column and having no Nom dc
plane to write under | will simply
have to subscribe myself


w. S. TATE.


Pike County.
Year: 1875

= Could we not kill two birds with one
stone--raise our own meatand improve
our land, if we were to raise sheep ON
our farms more than we do?


| know that mutton is not favorite
article of food with our people, but |
believe that if they would eat more Of
it and less of fat bacon, they would be
stronger, healthier, and less liable to
inhammatory disease.


| can understand how people living
in a cold climate prefer very fat meat,
because it is necessary to supply the
carbon to maintain internal heat. We
know the Laplanders drink train oil,
and the Russians will eat tallow candles
with relish, but | cannot understand
people living in our warm climate
making fat bacon their principal ami
NAL food. Mutton is the cheapest,
most nutritious, and consequently the
most wholesome food we can eat. |
think it is Liebig who says, in his
"Animal Chemistry" that the prize
fighters in England, when in training
for their barbarous encounters, use
mutton almost exclusively, never al
lowing the use of pork or bacon. 1t
is not necessary to present.at any length
the other consideration, namely, the
value of sheep as renovators of worn
lands. That is not denied, | suppose,
by any intelligent farmer.


Taking into account the small cost
of keeping sheep, and the value of
the wool and of the manure, the meat
is evidently the cheapest animal food
that we can raise. .....


We cannot expect to see mutton in
troduced at once as substitute for
pork, but we may hope to see it used
instead of q portion of the pork which
we eat. What | want is to mix NUT
ton with our hog and hominy-to find
a fine, fat, juicy leg Of Southdown or
Cotswold mutton on farmers table
now and then instead of the inevitable
fat bacon swimming in its own grease.
Then, theeconomy being conceded, the
sanitary advantage comes in. If we
were to eat more mutton and less pork,
we should be less liable to inhamma-
tory diseases and less liable to dyspep-
a.-Norval in Southern Home.
Year: 1875

J. B. Root, an experienced trucker
and seed grower in Illinois, gives the
following suggestion in one Of series
of articles in the Fruit Recorder:


1t is difficult to say what crops L
would recommend to beginner, or
how much of them, for know not
what may be the soil, or market, or
circumstances. | can only recommend
some Of the leading vegetables, condi-
tioning each with several :" ifs" so that
the reader may not only know some
of the inducements TO cultivate them,
but also some of the difficulties he will
encounter.


OF early sown crops, if one has a
warm soil, radishes make one Of the
most profitable as demanding little ex-
pense except the punching, which is
necessary only when you are sure of
your crop aud sale for it. Itusually
finds large sale at a good price if very
early, and is often raised as a stolen
crop. Another advantage is, the
quick returns secured, the crop being
raised and marketed in from 40 to go
days.


Onions, year in and year out, prob
ably yield the most profit of any gar
den crop, but should never be under
taken in large amounts at first, nor
even upon small scale if the ground
be poor or weedy. New ground one
or two years clean titled is especially
favorable, along with this, if the grow
Year: 1875

At a meeting of the Massachusetts
Cheese Factory Association, Addison
H. Holland, Barre farmer, read an
essay on fodder corn. With seventeen
cows he experimental to see what its
value was in producing milk during
the month of July he turns his cows
out into a good pasture after having
fed them with fodder corn, and they
showed a large falling off in milk.
He then through August, soiled them
in the stable, feeding fodder corn, and
there was a gain in the production of
milk. In September they were again
turned into the moving, full feed, and
they fell off. Mr.. Holland cures his
corn by spreading it upon the stone
walls, and regards it az valuable feed
for milch cows when well cured. He
thinks fodder corn the best crop there
is to bridge over dry time with fed
sixty or seventy pounds per COW when
they were kept in short pasture.