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Year: 1873

Just at this season of the year we are usually very quiet. unless there are some city people among ns toeuliven the scenes and make us glad-by at least leaving their money-Bnt they do not seem to favor us this summer and we are allowed to enjoy the pure air and beautiful scene " and the every day stiffness all By our selves. Summer is beautiful time, but the people do not seem to think it is the time to be sociable and so if there IS any thing to write you, Mir. Editor. am not supposed to know it.. In winter We are ivelier.

 Rev. ". I. Jennings has occupied our pulpit as candidate for two Sab baths. The people seem to be pleased with his style, &c. The farmers are mostly through hay ing and report the crop about the same as last year.

 MT. Miles Scoville has been remodel ing and fitting up the old Catlin Place. Has put up new barn, painted the house, drained the grounds, and has made very marked change in the ap- pearance of the place. He makes no half way work of anything he undertakes.

 The Sabbath School Association of the. village held their regular monthly meeting at the Hall, Thursday evening. Gideon's Band were in town and added much to the interest of the occasion by singing some of the ''old, old songs." A.
Year: 1873

Among recent brutal events in this city is the flight of husband, the father of two children, leaving his wife in such des- titute circumstances that a sale of house. hold furniture had to be made to get the requisite funds to take her to her home and friends in Massachusetts. Norqcich Courier.
Year: 1873

WSCS WI

 Colds s'Mills,'' for good reasons are standing idle; the first IS, that there is no water to turn the wheel; the second is that the large quantity of corn and oats in store is every day increasing in value and had better lie where 1t is than to be ground, even if there was water to grind it. The third reason is that the miller (Peter Fritz) has found that he can make money faster in the hay fields in Litch- field at two dollars day and board than he can in lying at the spigot in Cornwall.

 The first casting at the new foundry in West Cornwall took place on the 9th of August. The dam across the river which was so badly torn in pieces by the ice is just now put in good repair.

 A few days since Wilber Scoville was set upon by savage dog with which he was trifing, and severely bitten both in the hands and lower limbs. It was only by prying his mouth open with board that his hold was broken. It did not seem to occur to him that the sharp edge of an ax driven into his head would have been much quicker and easier.

 Almost the entire community sustain the judgments of the Court in the fine and imprisonment of Fritz, for assault on his wife and contempt of Court; and all attempts at releasing him by Habeas Corpus, or by calling the County Com missioners, has ceased, so that the majesty of the law is triumphant, the safety of the community and the best good of the prisoner secured, and it is believed that it will be long time before another at tempt will be made to run rough-shod over the decision of Court in Cornwall. 1 -Dibble Hill is highly excited. Sever lal arrests have been made for burglary. Look out for exciting news from that To- ca1ity in few days. ss.
Year: 1873

A negro in Kansas City named Pete
Mayberry-called Hannibal Cesar for
his son, Henry Clay, went
to the woods one day last week to look
after some rabbit traps they had set.
While at work the fierce barking of
their dog caused Henry Clay to cast his
eyes heavenward, and he Immediately
sung out "possum, dar." Closer in
spection showed pair of glittering
eyes glaring down from the tree, which
was prima-facie evidence of the. exist.
ence Of the negro's delight. Henry
Clay at once stationed himself at the
foot, axe in hand, ready to finish the
enemy, while Hannibal Caesar retired
short distance and took careful
aim with an old blunderbuss.
Presently down came the hammer,
and shortly after the gun went
of: So, likewise, did Hannibal
Caesar, who for few minutes gave as
fine specimens of ground and lofty
tumbling as could be expected with q
shoulder out of joint. Meanwhile the
varluint came down from the tree with
q yell, and proved to be wildcat, land
ing with a lunge plump on the top of
Henry Clay's devoted head In less
than q minute the place where the
wool ought to grow was as bare as the
cliffs of Dover, and Henry Clay, with
his heart full of agony and his mouth
full of fur, struck right and left with
his legs and arms like hurricane.
The mongrel dog now joined in, and
the battle became general all along the
line. Mistaking Henry Clay's revolv-
ing pedal extremities as the primal
cause of all the yells and commotion,
he grabbed at heel that waved over
the scene of conflict like the black flag
in a sea fight, and proceeded to


chew and tussle and pull with zeal
that in a short time promised to swal
low Henry Clay bodily. Hannibal
Cesar, in tho meantime, having got
through with his circus perform ance
seeing he had barked up the wrone
tree, started off with the rapidity of {
railroad train and the noise of steam


boat whistle. This started the wild
cat, and he left the scene kissing, spit


ting and careering over the ground llk,
q runaway Babcock Fire Extinguisher


When Hannibal Caesar returned h,


found Henry Clay seated on a los


'nending his scalp and splitting fur ou


of his mouth, with some shreds of clotl


hanging on him, looking as if they hal


Just come out of threshing machine


lie toted him home with the advice


Il tell you, chile, dey's de sassiest var


mint dere is to get q hold ON. In
diana2O0tis Sentinel.
Year: 1873

IT is now said that drawings for the
construction of two fifty ton guns have
been sent to the British war Office, and
that the authorities of the royal gun
factories are ready to construct another
OF seventy tons to the Frazer plan,
which will throw projectile weighing
l. 400 pounds. BY uf ing this the most
improved system of constructing guns
ny coil upon coil Of wrought iron, there
Is no practical limit to the sizeaof gun
or its projectile, which could be made


arge enough to annihilate anything
afloat.
Year: 1873

The valuable paintings in the Governors
room in the City Hall. New York, have
been seized by the sheriff for debt, and are
offered for sale on the fifteenth instant. A
large number of revolutionary and other
relics are included in the seizure. The
paintings alone are worth $4,000, and the
seizure is made on a claim against the city
OF a justice of the peace, which has teen
disallowed by Controller Green. Sheriff
Brennan is winning very unkind mention
from the New York dalhes for this more
than vandalism
Year: 1873

How the Apaches Pop the Question.


Even those copper-eolored cut
throats, the Apache Indians, have a
touch of delicacy and romance in
them. From q lecture delivered in
San Francisco by Col. John c. Car
many, we take the following account
of their conrtlng customs: Every
young girl is at liberty to refuse a
suitor for her hand. The father,
mother and brother are prohibited
from interfering in her choice. Her
person is at her own disposal by
offering so many horses. Horses
are a standard of value among Ind
ians. As the squaW does all the
work, horses. are accepted as an
equivalent for her labor. When a
young warrior becomes enamored,
he fastens his horse near the wigWam
of the squaw whose hand he seeks,
where he is left four days. If she
fails to feed and water the horse dur
ing that time, the master is rejected;
but if she accepts his offer she
grooms and kindly cares for the
horse, and then ties him to the wig
wan of her lover, as much as to say,
81 am willing to be your slave and
do your work" At the marriage
the sages and sachems meet togeth-
er, and the bride is not unfrequently
loaded with forty to fifty pounds of
silver and copper trinkets.
Year: 1873

Don't Box the Children's Ears.


Children's ears should never be


boxed. We have seen that the pas


sage of the ear is closed BY a thin


membrane especially adapted to be
influenced by every impulse Of the


air, and with nothing but the air to


support it internally. What, then,


can be more likely to injure this


membrane than a sudden and forei-


bic compression of the air in front


ofit2 If any one designed to break


or Overstreteh the membrane, he


could scarcely devise a more effee-


tive means than to bring the hand


suddenly and forcibly down upon


the passage of the ear, thus driving


the air violently before it, with no


possibility for its escape but by the
membrane giving way, especially if,
from any previous disease, it has
been weakened. Many children are
made deaf by boxes on the ear in
this way. Nor is this the only way;
if there is one thing which does the
nerve Of hearing more harm than al
most any other, it is a sudden jar or
shock. Children and grown persons
may be entirely deafened by falls or
heavy blows upon the head. And
boxing the ears produces q similar
effect, though more slowly and in
less degree. It tends to dull the
sensibility Of the nerve, even if it
does not hurt the membrane. I
knew a pitiful case, once, of 8 poor
youth who died from a terrible dis
ease of the ear. He had had a dis
ehare from it since he was child.
Of course his hearing had been dull;
and what had happened was that has
father had often b0red his ears for
inatteationi Mostly, that boxing on
the ear, diseased as it was, had
much to do with his dying. And
this brings me to the second point.
Children should never be blamed for
being InattentiYe, until it has been
found out whether they are not q
little deaf This is easily done by
placing them at a few yards distance,
and trying whether they can under
stand what is said to them in a rath-
er low tone of voice. Each ear
should be tried, while the other is
stopped by the finger. do not say
that children are never guilty of in
attention, especially as to that which
they do not particularly wish tOshear;
but / do say that children are often
blamed and punished for inatten-
ton when they really do not hear.
And there is nothing at once more
cruel and more hurtful to the char
acter of children than to be found
fault with for what is really their
Three things should
be remembered here: l. That slight
ofdeafness, often lasting on
ly for a time, are very common
children, especially during or
after colds. 2. That a slight deaf
ness, which does not prevent 3 per
son from hearing when he is expect
ing to be spoken to, viii make him
very dull to what he is not expect
ing; and 8. That there is a kind Of
deafness in which q person can hear
pretty well while listening, but is re-
ally very hard of hearing when not
listening.-DT. Hinton, in Popular
Science Monthly for June.
Year: 1873

Dear Sir; thought would let you know how
am getting along. am as well and feel as well
as 1 ever did, and am cured of all but shortness
Of breath. 1 am entirely shut of pain. have
very good appetite, and can stand work about as
well as ever. / now weigh 100 pounds; when 1
commenced to doctor with You my weight was
about 40 pounds. l feel very thankful to you for
what you have done for me, and hope yOn may
live to help many more afflicted people. Had It
not been for you and my husband | should have
quit dOctoring as felt discouraged as others had
told me could not be cured, but now feel very
thankful that did not give up as l now consider
myself cured with the exception of that shortness
oil breath, and hope thatwill get better too felt
a. though twas my duty TO write you and for the
benefit of other afflicted persons. Yours,


Mr.. A. and Mrs. j. HENsEL.


You have our sincere thanks for the good YOU
have done. Mr.. 4. and Mrs j. HENsFI.
Year: 1873

Prince went to California, and !
do not know what became of him.


Old Domain proved himself a
trump, and gave in gracefully.


He is dead now. and Earl and
Laura lived at the old place, as hap
py a couple as ever saw.


As for EarPs warning, you may
believe what you like about. it. /
have no explanation to offer.
Year: 1873

The human hand has often been ta-
ken to illustrate Divine wisdom-and very
well. But have you ever examined your
horses hoofY Ii is hardly less curious in
its way. Its parts are somewhat more
complicated, yet their design is simple
and obvious. The hoof is not, as it ap-
pears to the careless eye, mere lump of
insensible bone fastened to the leg by "a
joint. 1t is made up of a series of thin
layers or leaves, of horn, about five hun
dred in number, and nicely fitted to each
other, and forming lining to the foot
itself Then there are as many more lay
ers, belonging to what is called the "coffin
bone," and fitted into this. These are
elastic. Take quire of paper and insert
the leaves one by one into those of another
auire, and you will get some idea of the
arrangement of the several layers. Now
the weight of the horse rests on as many
elastic springs as there are layers in his
four feet--about 1900; and all this Is con
trived, not only for the convenience of his
own body, but for whatever burdens may
be laid on him.-ErchGnge.
Year: 1873

THE goods on exhibition in the Ameri.
can department continue to command as
much, if not more, attention than those of
any other country in the Exposition.
They have the merit of their being all


novelties, and the only articles of their
kind to be found in the Exposition. There
are no fancy goods, and not much of the
ornamental, but they partake rather of the
necessary and the useful. The apprecia-
ton of visitors is shown by the fact that,
comparatively small as the display is,
there are more articles marked sold" than
in the departments of any other country,
1t is, in fact, the only department in the
main building where visitors closely ex-
anime everything, for the reason that they


are mostly articles never before seen in


Europe,a have been brought here for the
reason that they are new. The halls of
the American division are poorly deco
rated, the display of flags being small, and
most of them of very inferior quality,
while every other country is brilliant
with silk flags, arranged in the most
artistic manner. The exhibitors com
plain also that they receive no attention
from our Minister or the Commissioners
most of whom have long since left
Year: 1873

For year or two past Thomas Nc
Leddy has been waiting upon a girl whose
parents live on Tenth street. The girls
parents have endeavored to prevent the
match, and the lovers arranged to slip
quietly off TO a clergyman yesterday fore
noon and get married. Ten O'Clock was
the hour set, and Thomas was seen hang
ing around the corner of Michigan ave
nue. and Tenth street, having five-dOllar
bill for the preacher and rd-looking
fist for the man who should cross his
path. The girl made an excuse to 90 out
and do some shopping, but as she left the
house her mother became suspicious and
called in the father, who was hoeing cab
bages. They tracked the damsel down to
the avenue and saw her join Thomas
when they rushed after her. The lovers
ran over behind Woodbridge Grove, and
being overtaken there McLeddy stopped
and put Grape band under his father-in
laws eyes, while the girl pulled heI
mothers hair and used her sharp nails
1t was rather more than the old couple
could stand, and while they were promis
cuously scattered around on the grass
Thomas and his fair one boarded street
car and made their escape and were prob
ably legally and lawfully married before
high twelve. Several neighbors saw the
affair, but they were like the woman
whose husband was tackled by bear
Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1873

i want to give a simple remedy for a
telon. Burn copperas on shovel until
it is soft and can be made fine. Then mix
a small quantity of it with enough of the
yolk of an egg to make a plaster. Only
mix enough at once for one plaster, as II
soon becomes hard. Put a new one on
whenever it gets stiff, and the felon will
soon come to an end. So many people
suffer so long with felons, / think any
thing that will help shorten their career
ought to be known-OOr. Western Rural.
Year: 1873

Messrs. Fisher q Co. call the atten-
ton of the public to their new and complete
stock of Clocks just received from the manu-
factory. The largest and finest assortment
ever brought to this city.
Year: 1873

we have on sale and to lease, we feel confident
of success, and that is half the battle won.


Our motto is onward and upward with the
watchword, Know Thyself, the which we
study. So we fiatter ourselves that
Year: 1873

Gs- The tide of immigration is steadily set
ting in and the ifst thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
u new one of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two.
Year: 1873

There is nothing that adds more to the
attractiveness Of the home than brackets
in the corners of the room, which usually
become the receptacle of vases of flo wers,
natural or artificial, small plaster casts,
that cost but tritle and are pretty, and
numberless other little ornaments that
are always finding their way into the
house and are often broken and ruined
because there is no place to put them eX-
cept on the table. Brackets as sold at
the furniture stores are rather expensive,
but may be made at home, and any boy
with a sharp jack-knife may find world
of amusement in cutting up old cigar
boxes and making brackets which, var
nished, are as handsome as any that can
be purchased at the stores. To make
these one requires small key-hole saw,
a sharp jack-knife, and bits of two or
three sizes. Patterns of the various parts
should first be cut from stiff brown paper,
and trimmed till they fit each other ex-
actly. If the brackets are quite small,
they may be made of cigar boxes; if large,
a pine or black walnut beard may be
used. Pine can be stained and vanished,
and it is such an easy wood to work in
that we recommend it to beginners in the
bracketmaking art. Lay the pattern cut
from designs of your own ON the wood
and mark it round with a pencil. With
the knife, the saw, and the bit remove all
the wood to be taken away, and scrapc
the edges smooth with a piece of glass.
After the pieces are prepared they should
be fastened together with glue and head
less tacks, then stained and vanished. A
little practice will give one more insight
into the mysteries Of the art than long
written instructions.
Year: 1873

hog, "that's my business; don't meddle
with mems affairs. March! dress thyseli
in my clothes, and then come along"


What could the hedgehog's wife do:
She had to follow whether she would OF
no. When they were on the way together
the hedgehog said to his wife: "NOW lis,
ten to what | have-to say Seest thou, on
the long acre yOnder will be run our race
The hare runs in one furrow and I another,
and we begin to run from up there. Now
thou hast nothing else to do than to take
thy place here in the furrow, and when
the hare comes up on the other side thou
must call out to him, "I'm here alreadyp'
With this they had reached the field; the
hedgehog showed his wife her place and
wentup the furrow. When he got to the
upper end the hare was already there.


Can we start?" said the hare.


eyes, indeed!" said the hedgehog.
"To it, then!" and with that each
placed himself in his furrow, and the
hare uttered one, two, three! and away
he went like a storm-Wind down the
field. But the hedgehog ran about three
steps, and then ducked down in the furroW
and sat still.


When the hare, on the full bound, came
to the lower end of the field, the hedge
hogs wife called out to him, "I'm here
already" The hare started, and won
dered not little; he thought no other
wise than that it was the hedgehog him
self that ran out to meet him, for, as
every one knows, the hedgehog's wife
looks just like her husband.


But the hare thought: There's some
thing wrong about all this! Another
race! At it again! And away he went
like storm-wind, so that his ears lay flat
on his head. But the hedgehog's wife
stayed quietly in her place. When the
hare came to the upper end the hedgehog
called out to him, "I'm here already"
But the hare, beside himself with rage,
cried Another race! At it againm


'I'm quite willing" answered the
hedgehog, 'just as often as thou llkest."


So the hare ran three and seventy times,
and the hedgehog held out to the very
end with him. Every time the hare came
either below or above, the hedgehog or
his wife said, "I'm here already"


But the four and seventieth time the
hare came no more to the end. In the
middle of the field he fell to the earth and
lay dead upon the spot.


So the hedgehog took the louis dor and
the bottle of brandy he had won, called
his wife out of the furrow, and both went
home together; and if they have not died
they are still living. So happened it that
on the Buxtehude heath the hedgehog ran
the hare to death, and since that time no
hare has ever dreamed of running race
with Buxtehude hedgehog.


But the moral of this story is, first, that
no one, however high and mighty he may
think himself, shall let it happen to him
to make merry over an humble man, even
if he be hedgehog; and secondly, that it
is advisable, when one marries, that he
take a wife out of his own condition, and
who looks just like himself. He therefore
that is hedgehog must look to it that his
wife is also hog; and so forth.
Year: 1873

This IS the way the story comes from
Southern papers: A Louisville widower,
whose wife had extorted from him on her
dying bed a solemn promise that he would
never marry again, grew weary of his
lonely life after while and took a second
wife. But his perfdy was terribly pun
ished. The groom had provided the bridal
cake and locked it up carefully in room
in his dwelling. After the ceremony he
sent for it, and the cake was found strewn
in minute fragments upon the floor, bolts
and bars not having prevailed to stay the
hand of his righteously indignant first
such matters in Louisville, but in New
York we should simply say that the rats
had got the cake and found it very good.
Hampers Weekly.
Year: 1873

SOME green tea recently examined by
DR.. Letheby, Of London, was found to
contain from forty to forty-three per cent:
of iron filings, and nineteen per cent. of
silica in the form of fine sand, which had
been cleverly mixed with and added to
the leaves before curling with a view to
increase their weight and bulk. After the
leaves were curled they had been thickly
covered with green pigment. When it
was infused in boiling water it produced
very turbid solution, offensive to the
smell and nauseous to the taste.
Year: 1873

AS Mr.. VIM. Stockdale was returning
from visiting the circus at Peterboro',
Canada, he and the young lady who ac-
companied him met, says the Bobcaygeon
Independent, with rather singular acci-
dent He was driving in one-horse bug
gy and going at good smart pace when,
from some unexplained cause, he did not
see four-year-old steer that was lying in
the road, and before he was aware Of it
drove over the animal. The steer rose up
suddenly sue with the buggy on his back back and and
steer went together harmoniously at full
trot, but the steer diverging destroyed the
equilibrium, and buggy, steer, young lady,
horse, and VIM. Stockdale retired into the
ditch Happily no bones were broken,
though some bruises were received, some
fright occasioned, and parasol injured
beyond all possibility of cure.
Year: 1873

Protection Against Moths.-Pheider
a German inspector of passenger cars,
states that single stem of hemp, with
the leaves and blossoms, mixed with the
stufing of car seat, will protect it from
moths for years, and that hemp for this
purpose should be gathered just when IN
blossom, dried rapidly in the shade, and
kept in covered wooden vessels In a dry
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