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Year: 1870

As the cold weather approaches, the
absolute cruelty Of putting frosted
metal into the mouths Of horses is so
frequently brought to mind, that any
suggestions as to a better course ale al
this season time as well as merciful.


No one who has had to do with
horses when the mercury is consider
able below the freezing point but has
witnessed their sometimes almost
frantic efforts to escape the pain that
comes Of putting on the bridl e.
Misunderstanding il many times, the
coarse and brutal hOstler adds blows
to the other brutality, and forces the
animal TO take between its jaws a
piece of iron that freezes its tongue
and sections of its mouth the moment
it touches them, causing not only
present pain, but often liberation,
and almost always sores.


The remedy is a leatheTn bit, in
stead of an iron one. If bit OF this
sort is not easily procured, a common
iron one can be covered, which will
be at least a partial remedy.


To do this, cover the bits with
straps of common bridle-leather, and
as much of the check-piece as will be
likely to touch the flesh, winding
them around the iron while wet, and
then carefully sewing the edges so as
to make the surface as smooth as pos
sible.


A real mOuth-piece can be made by
any haTness-maker at "a small cost,
and would be altogether preferable to
the covered one, as it can be taken
from the head-stall and check rein,
and be replaced by the iron when the
cold weather is past, and be kept in
readiness for ranUther winter. Hearth
ard Home.
Year: 1870

After fourteen years Of untiring Ia
Dor and great pTivatiOn, a German
cabinetmaker of Troy, named Joseph
Bergman, has produced a cOmbina-
tiOn of machinery which battles the
descriptive Efforts Of the local" of
the Troy Times, who desparingly
calls upon Us 10 Imagine a beautiful
miniature structure SET upon a huge
mass OF rocks, with road beds wind
ing up the sides Of the rocks, and
streams Of running water cOursing
down PERCEPTIONS bluffs. In this
house a miller sits reading a news
paper, while his face is made to dis
play all the sensations of pleasure,
surprise and pain. Then there is a
mill showing a man working at a hop
per, woman spinning, men unload
ing canalhOats, man rowing in a
lake horses moving back and forth
under loads of flour, a sawmill work
ing, a fountain playing, and a man
hanging up bird cage, al working
in harmony. The most curious fact
connected with this wonderful piece
OF mechanism Is that it was COM
meuced an finished through the in
huenoe of a dream.n
Year: 1870

y clever writer ays Providence
meant woman to make the world
beautiful as much rs flowers and but
tertiies, and there is no sin in tasteful
dress, but Cnly in devOting to it too
much money or too much time" This
Is a most sensible view, and is the
true ground Of mediumship between
the one extreme Of straight and rigid
simplicity and the devotion Of the
hest energies of a lifetime to vanity
and frivOlity. But, after all. what j.
this rage for dress but an effort after
rhe beautiful? The reason why the
beautiful is not always the result IS
because 50 many women are ignorant
or merely initiative. They have no
sense of fitness the short wear what
belongs to the tall, and brunettes sac
rifice their natural beauty to look like
blondes. That which is inapprOpri-
ate is never beautiful, no matter how
fashionable but who does not know
some woman whose taste and train
ing are so perfect that fashion becomes
to her means OF grace instead of a
despOt; so that even the worst OF
fashions seems to them but a chain Of
roses.
Year: 1870

/ handsome child, about two years old
lies stretched upon the damp floor,
sleeping the tranquil sleep Of inno-
eence, its breast exposed to the dews
of heaven and its little arm resting on
the green sward a new blanket, the
gift of her Majesty the Queen, covers
the lower part Of its bOuy, while a
large kangaroo hound lies with its
sagaciOus-lOOking head resting upon
the infants shoulder. What a con-
trast is this. Behind US the wild cor
roboree dance is still going OF, fast
and furious, while in front Of Us Is a
picture that I4andseer would love 70
paint. From this we wander home
through the bush, having spent a very
pleasant night with some Of the re-
manning abOrigines Of New South
Wales
Year: 1870

A Lamp-wick, equally good with
those We buy, may be made out OF
canton flannel. Take a strip three
times as wide as you wish the wick to
be, and as long as you like. Fold il
with the fleecy side in, so that it will
have three thicknesses, and baste OF
overcast it up the side. Almost every
hOusekeeper has bits Of canton flannel
which would be used for nothing else,
and it saves quite little item OF ex-
pense, to say nothing Of the con-
Yenience Of being able to make a new
lamp-wiek whenever it is needed
Erchanqe.
Year: 1870

On Times chariot wheels


We are passing away;
We are nearer our home


At the close Of each day.
We are nearer the brink


OF the cold, silent stream
That all must soon pass,
HOwe'er dark it may seem.
We are passing away


From this earthly life;
From its cares, and its sorrows,
Its tolls, and its strife.
Each and each day,


How swiftly they glide;
Each bearing us nearer
The dark rivers side.
'Tis only a step,


And we stand on the shore,
Awaiting the bOatman
To ferry us DER
To the other side,


Where we hope TO gain
A sweet release


From all earthly pain.
We are almost there


Each swift gliding day
Tells Us, but too truly,
We are passing away.
Year: 1870

Demonstration Against the Inva.


sion OF the Papal Domain.


CINCINNATI, December lS.-A large
demonstration ACQUIRED at Covington
to-day to protest against the invasion OF
the Papai Domain by King Victor
Emanuel. Fully 5000 persons were in
the procession with eight bands OF
music. An organization was effected
at the Cathedral, after which a protest
was adopted charging the invasion as
an iniquitous and criminal attack upon
civil society and a nefarious rob
berry. The temporal possession OF
the Holy See was held for the good of
Catholics everywhere and the Sovereign
Pontiff could neither altenerate nor sur
render them; that the spoliation Of the
Holy See was an outrageous act Of injus-
tice toreligion and the Catholic Church.
The protest sets forth specifically the
injurious effects likely to follow the
spolation, concluding with the state
ment that would reduce the Catholic
Church, the nursing mother OF saints
and freemen to the condition Of abject
slavery.


In conclusion, it assures the Pope
that their loyalty to the Holy See ls
Catholic and indefectable.
Year: 1870

THAT law OF Ohio under which wife
and children, in Barnesville, recently
recovered three hundred dollars from a
saloon keeper, as damages for selling
whisky to the husband and father might
be incorporated into the statute law o'
West Virginia, without the least de
triment to any moral, social or material
interest.
Year: 1870

To GUARD AGAINST SUNsTRoKE.-One
who knows says it behooves every one to
take unusual precautions against sunstroke,
and, first of all, avoid the u.s. of stimulating
liquors. 1t is :. mistake to suppose that a
drink row and then tlIrough tic day will
help the system to bear up against the ener
waiting influence OF the heat 4 large portion
of the cases Of sunstroke occur amonge
those of irregular habits. Avoid also the
excessive use of iced drinks when overhead
ed. The temporary refreshment they afford
nevertheless shocks the system and renders
one particularly susceptible to sunstrokc.
1t is prolific source also of diarrhea,
cholera morbus and the like. If necessarily
exposed to the direct rays of the sun. wear
wet handkerchief or wet sponge in the
crown of the hat. Laborers arc especially
recommended to take this very simple
prccaution, which has saved thousand from
sudden death Bear in mind that sunstroke,
when not fatal, leavs the brain in ii very SEN
sltive state and years after renders the victive
more liable to a recurrence. "A stitch in
time saved nine
Year: 1870

Is the price of Health as well as of Liberty. Be
on your guard against poisonous hair dyes.
CrIstadOro's Excelsior Hair Dye


Is the only one that has stood the test of chemi.
cal analysis. AT the store OF the proprietor, 6
Astor House, New York, may be seen the ccrti-
ficate of that able analytical chemist
Year: 1870

THOSE who remember the sugar
panic, which the spectators worked
up on the announcement Of the insur-
rection of Cuba, will be glad to know
that the supply this season is fully up
to that of last year. While part of
the Cubaus have been marching and
counter marching, left fanking into
IineSand retreating in good order at
the behests of the New York Junta,
a great majority, it would happily ap-
pear, have been gru5bing away on
their sugar plantations in the old and
sensible way. How much the sugar
ring is accustomed to pay the Junta
or the Havana correspondents for
their vigor and zeal in depicting hos
tilities, would be very interesting
thing to know. The periodical spasms
in our Cuban news now appear to
have been merely the outward mani
festations of the bull interest in
sugars. Finally comes the official re-
ports, and the sugar in Cuba proves
as plentiful and excellent as ever.
Year: 1870

THE Brownstown Banner devotes
a whole page In Dragging about lit
tie bridge that has just been COM
pleted in that vicinity. Brother
Beadle's bridge may do for a small
stream, but if he would like to see a
bridge as is a bridge, let him come
| down here and take a view Of the
eighth wonder of the world, which, in
a few days, will connect us with Lou
kisville.-Nea1 Albang Commercial.


will add US" to Louisville. would
| be more proper.
Year: 1870

Two thousand dollars worth Of
books have recently been doaated by
somebody to the Law Library Of the
State University. But SO many pa
pers have stolen the item that really
we cant tell in what part Of the State
the liberal donor resides-whether in
Fort Wayne or Wayne County.
Year: 1870

Old customs of thought and action are con-
stantly being called up, and their worth tested
in the light Of science and religion, in these
days of progress and reform and among them
none deserve more earnest attention than the
question of punishment in all its bearings.


How many persons have not heard the
furious ordinations of an angry parent chas-
tising a child for some misdemeanor Now,
| do not wish to soil this page with these ma
lignant expressions without a good reason
But that reason will appear presently


First, you hear the piercing scream Of a
child in mortal fear Of PAIN and then the
heartless (shall not say prophetic p words
Of that child's natural protector, I'll learn
you to steal :" an learn you to disobey
me, you brat 90 You are always doing so -


Does that parent ever imagine the fearful
reality Of the meaning of these words ? The
very thought should cover his face with shame
and confusion.


lie says, " will learn you to lie" Some
one asks, How will he teach that miserable
art, by Furnishing him for it ?"


Why this is easily done; whip him very
soundly for striking playmate, or for steal.
| ing piece of pie, and then when he is asked
| if he did this or that, he will fear the whip
ping more than he will fear to lie; so he will
le He may not be in the wrong, but he
will fear to make the necessary explanations
lest he should be found in fault SO he will
invent any ingenious falsehood to escape pun.
ishment. Of course the parent does his best
to find it out, and then charges him with it.
and gives him a sound thrashing, This will
teach him to tell more ingenious and circum.
stantial lies. Necessity, you know, is the
mother of invention.


Who doubts but that the foregoing mean
and debasing influences would lead directly
to stealing and the deepest iniquity2 If any
one thinks the case is oyerstated, let him lay
down the paper and give the subject few
calm, earnest thoughts.


The object of this article is not to find
fault, but to lead the erring to higher and
nober conception of duty to children.
Year: 1870

Very few people exercise themselves in the
use of mechanical tools as they should and
might do. Many tiler Of the soil has often
spent dollars worth Of time, at hurrying
season of the year, in going to aud returning
from some mechanics shop, to get small job
done, which he himself could have performed
in very satisfactory manner if he had train
ed himself with little practice, to handle
tools with facility. As a rule, no class Of
citizens accustom themselves to wait on them
selves Most persons seem to be satisfied
with single attainments. Many mechanic,
even, consumes hours in looking up me-
chanic of another profession to perform some
| little Job about the house which he could do
with his own hands during his leisure mo-
ments This is not the way to save money.
| When a person has several hours of leisure
every day, he should exercise his faculties to
wait on himself


Years ago our ancestors were accustomed
to expend large sums Of money to pay labor
ers for performing what their fat oxen and
horses could have done, instead Of standing
idly in the stable. And many persons do the
same thing now Every man or boy should
exercise himself in the dextrous use Of me-
loblrs
perpetually present themselves For instance,
if a door does not close easily and fasten
properly, take it off the hinges, dress off the
edges a triae with plane, and make every
part fit neatly. If a window pane gets broken,


instead of paying fifty cents, or one dollar to
an itinerant glazier to put in new pane,
while you look on, procure some Spanish
whiting and lnseed oil, make some putty, and
set the window-gass. A poor man, who must
grind out his dollars dime by dime, may often
save many dollars during the year by waiting
on himself in these little ways.


Furniture often needs a little repairing,
which any ingenious man may do with dimes
worth of glue and cents worth of trlmmer's
tacks. A little tin glue-pail may be hung in
tea-kettle, the glue prepared, and the broken
parts united, just as well as by mourning the
expense of transporting the furniture to the
mandatory, and paying an extortionate
price for a small job.


Those persons who have plenty of money
may prefer to call in a mechanic to do all lit
tie repairs at his own price. But poor men
should be wiser Mechanic and Builder.
Year: 1870

There is good fable told about kings
garden, in which, all at once, the trees and
flowers began to wither away the oak, be-
cause it could not yield any fair flowers the
rosebush, because it could bear no fruit the
vine, because it had to cling to the wall, and
could cast no cool shadow.


al am of no use in the world" said the oak


Z" ! might as well die said the rosebush


"What good can do2" murmured the vine


Then the king saw little heartsease, which
all the time, held up its little cheerful face
while all the rest were sad,


And the king said, What makes you SC
bright and blooming when all the rest are fad
ing2'


81 thought" said little heartsease, "yov
wanted me here, because you planted me
and so | thought would try and be the bes
little heartsease that could be-"


Little reader, are you like the oak, and the
rosebush and the vine, doing nothing because
you cannot do as much as others are doing
Or will you be like the heartsease, and Dc
your very best in the little corner Of the vine
yard in which Gods hand has put youG
Year: 1870

A STORY OF A NOsE.-The follow
ing remarkable anecdote is going the
rounds Of the western press:


There resides in St. Joseph a GER
tain deacon whose nasal organ is Of
unusually large dimensions and bold
curve. A few days ago said deacon
fell and pretty considerably damaged
the cutaneous connection Of the prom.
inent feature mentioned. Passing IN
to a drug store, he applied some
plaster to the wound. On the fol
lowing Sunday, while engagedsin the
laudible occupation of passing round
the hat for stamps, the plaster fell off
The balance Of the story is told il
the following words, taken from The
St. Joseph Gazette of the 28th ult
While an unfortunate sinner wa'
feeling for a donation, the deacor
made hasty dive for small white
object on the carpet in the aisle, which
be imagined vast the desired plaster
and speedily placed it on the end Of
his nasal organ. He had scarcel.
done so, however when, to his aston
ishment, several young ladies seated
in the pew before him crowded thei
hankerchiefS into their mouths to re
strain their laughter. He only dis
covered the reason of this unexpected
action on their part when he remove,
the plaster, when he found, upon ez
animation, to be the label from col
ton spool, from which stood prom
nently forth the magical words, war
ranted to hold out two hundred yards
The nose is not quite this length.'''
Year: 1870

the trial, heard the witnesses and saw
them, we find small preponderance
on the side of the verdict. They do
not regard the circumstances of the
killing as those Of an ordinary afray.
The prisoner had great provocation
to resistance, if not good reason to
fear that his life was in danger. Few
if any believe that he intended to kill
Harris, though all think he acted
with great rashness. He was an
improper person to be invested with
an Office which raised against him
the hands of all bad men on the bor-
der and thereby put him on the de-
fensive. But for that Office, he would
not have carried a pistol, would not
have been threatened, would not have
killed. He is an impulsive man, had
a false idea as to his legal rights and
authority, but was not malevolent
nor bad.


Whether to convict him OF man.
slaughter or to acquit him would
have been difficult question for any
man to decide under the circumstances,
without prejudice on the one hand or
sympathy on the other. There was
wide chance for doubt as to wheth-
er his rashness was criminal or not.
Under the law the prisoner was en-.
titled to the benefit of every reason
able doubt, and so he has gone forth,
a sobered, punished, humiliated and
tearfully instructed man. Let the
public so study the case as to apply
their hearts unto Wisdom, for her
ways are ways of righteousness and
all her paths are PEACE.-St. Al
bans Messenger.
Year: 1870

To form an independent character,
one must be thrown upon his own re-
sources. The oak, growing in the
open field, where it is continually
beaten upon by the tempest, becomes
its own protector. So the man who
is compelled to rely upon his own
strength, ability, and energy, forms an
independence Of character to which he
could not otherwise have attained
Strike out for yourselves, boys, if you
wish to succeed.
Year: 1870

A church organ has lately been sent
from New York to Yokohama, Japan,
for an Episcopal Mission. 1t will be
the first church organ heard in that
part OF the world. 1t is only a short
time since the first piano was sent to
Japan.
Year: 1870

Are happy to express thanks for a most liberal
patronage which has given them the most salts
factory assurance that their Ready Pay System
is approved by the community. Under its work
ing we have had larger monthly receipts than
ever UNDER THE POOR OLD WAY We


now offer
Year: 1870

!. The Radicals have decided to force
through Congress the Conkling Natural
ization Bill, which was debated in the
Senate the 25th ult and set for vote
on Saturday next, when it comes over to
the House. The previous question is to
be moved on it, but the Democrats are
forewarned. In the discussion yesterday
the Radicals threatened civil war if q
Democrat is elected President. "Sir, l
say here" said Mr.. Senator Drake,
that whenever the time comes that this
nation shall see clearly that the voice of
its legal voters has been overthrown by
this vote in the city of New York, then
a large portion Of tile voters will rise as
one man. and declare that the man cleo
ted to the Presidency by that fraudulent
vote shall never take his seat as such,
and then will come the first real civil war
in this country"


Bah! Drake sees by the political
signs that the Radical party is doomed
and is whistling TO keep his courage up.
Such blatherskites never fight, they do
the gassing; the late war is proof Of
that.
Year: 1870

A full confession has at last been ex-i
torted from the guilty individual who
inflicted Grant upon the people. 1t is
Chas. A. Dana, aid he makes clean
breast as follows:


AS for General Grant personally, we
have neither spite, grudge, nor revenge.
He never reused US any personal favor,
for we nevd easked anything Of him, save
only the appointment of Horace Gree
ley as Minister to England; and as he
sent man there who ish't half as fit for
the place as Mr.. Greeley, we have hover
borne him any grudge on that account
But toward Geuefal Grant as President,
we cherish a very profound feeling Of
disappointment and dissatisfaction
There wcrefcw men in the country who
had taken more stock in him than we
had. During the war, when he was dig
ging canals at Vicksburg, and was on
the point of being relieved from his
command, Mr.. Dana did what he could
to have him retained at the head of the
army in the Mississippi Valley and the
effort was successful. But for his agen-
CIV Grant would then have been sent
back to Galena; and IN that event he
could neither have become Commanders
Chief Of the army nor President of
the United States.


Next, when he was candidate for the
Presidency, we did what we could to Sc
cure for him the nomination of the Re-
publican National Convention; and tliefi


we helped to get him the votes of q ma
jority of the American people. All this
we did siihply because we thought it best
for the country; and all we demanded
of Gen. Grant was an honest, sensible,
disinterested, and patriotic admlnistra-
ton of his Office. Does anybody think
that was too much to expect of him.
But instead of this, his administration
is bad, foolish, weak, cowardly, corrupt
anti American, contemplate at home,
and more contemplate abroad. 1t is
impossible to speak the truth and deny
that this is so. 1t IS impossible for aid
Independent journalist, anxious to dis.
charge his obligations to the people, to
conceal or palliate facts so fearful and
so notorious.


The President is incomplete, lazy, meg
lectful of his duties, unable to compre-
hend them, and careless about perform
ing them. He appoints fieR ID bffite
simply because they have made him pres
ents, or are his relations, or because
some foolish caprice proiEpts 1t. He
degrades the country in the eyes of all
the world, and stands trembling like a
coward for fear of corrupt and bank
rupt power like Spain. The man who
saved the natibn as soldier is coteting
us with shame as President.
Year: 1870

A great discovery is said to have re-
Gently been made by surgeon of the
British armHin China in the way Of an
effectual remedy for smallpox. The
mode of treatment is as follows: When
the preceding fever is at its height, and
just before the eruption appears, the
chest is rubbed with croton oil and tar
taric ointment. This causes the whole
of the eruption to appear on that part
of the body to the relief of the rest. 1t
also secures a full and completa Eruption;
and thus prevents the disease from at
tacking the internal organs. This is now
the established mode of treatment in the
English army in China, and is regarded
as perfect cure.
Year: 1870

Take all inch board the size you wish
your mat; dress it neat rule 1t each way;
drawing the lines inches apart, bore d
hole with I inch auger in each square |;
double piece of brbom twine, pass it
through the holes; Ole at u 1.-THE; have
the husks 6ainpened, take sufficient
quantity to Gil the hole very tight, pass
it through the loop Of twine, draw it
through until the double end of the husk
is Il inches long, draw the twine out,
and proceed in the same way until all
the holes are filled. Then take sharp
knife. and cut the double husks, spread
them apart, trim the uneven side, tramp
il down, and set it where it is to be used,
either side up.