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Year: 1876

Lucy Hooper, in Paris letter to the
New York World, says: A great and
growing difficulty, Of which all the
artists in Paris at present complain. is
that of finding good models, especially
for the undraped female form. To
find a woman sufficiently beautiful and
sufficiently shameless who at the same
time has not entered upon career of
vicious luxury, is a by no means easy
task. And by law parent cannot
force a daughter, if unwilling, to adopt
the profession of model. Hence
arose thrilling scene (which would
make fine subject for a picture, by
the way) and which took place in the
atelier of a celebrated Partisan painter
the other day. An old Italian woman,
who had sometimes sat to him, came
to him one day and Informed him that
she had very beautiful daughter who
would be willing to pose to him as 4
model for an unfinished NEUROLOGICAL
picture which he had laid aside, as it
so happened, precisely for lack Of a fe-
male model. He engaged her at once
on the representations of the mother,
and the next day she came. An alter
cation at once arose between the girl
and the old woman, which, being car
ried on in their native tongue, the art
list could not understand. 1t ended by
the old hag seizing the girl and tearing
off her garments by main force, re.
gardless of the painters remOnstran-
ces, who had no idea that the proposal
of the mother was against the daugh.
ter's will. The poor girl rushed
shrieking to the window; her cries at
tracted the notice of the police, and
the unnatural parent was arrested and
condemned to seven months imDrison-
ment. As to the girl, who was not
yet Is years of age, she has been
placed at convent school and will
probably become good and respecta-
BILE member of society. Not that the
profession of a model necessarily ex.
cludes such a future, as it is a well.
known fact that several of the most
beautiful models of Paris are women
of the severest virtue. But, as be-
fore remarked, fine female models arc
extremely rare. Recently a distin.
guished American traveller remarked
to an artist while in Florence that SO
exquisite a beauty as that of Titian's
s'Venus' was not to be found in mod
ern days. t'Excuse me- replied the
artist, eve see women of as perfect
loveliness as that picture every day of
our lives, but among those that we can
never hope to have sit to us; they be-


long to the upper classes OF American
society.
Year: 1876

The San Antonio (Texas) Herald
says A few days ago, a prisoner with
a face on him that excited much re-
mark, on account of the meanness of
his expression, was brought into the
district court to be sentenced to
Huntsville for stealing some clothes
off line. AS he was known to be
very slippery character, one Of our
handsomest and most vigilent deputy
sheriffs took seat by his side. After
awhile the prisoner leaned over and
whispered to the officer: s'Won't you
do me one little Kindness The off.
Ger promised to do so, with one of the
sweetest smiles we have ever seen in
a courthouse. The prisoner whis.
pered: t'Then sit a little further off;
I'd rather pay a hundred dollars than
to have people take me for a deputy
sheriff. -
Year: 1876

us he pointed to two particular ears of
corn in his field:


''See," said the farmer. ''that ear of
corn which is we'll laden bends down.
and behold that ear which has little on
it stands up straight


The lawyer, feeling that lie was
nonplussed by the farmer: mounted
his horse in silence and drove on.
Year: 1876

| observed one mode Of Chinese capital
punishment known as the Gage" The
''cage" used was between two and three
feet square, and over six feet high. Near
the bottom was close floor of plank palings.
The four sides were open work of plank
pallngs. The planks composing the cover
were made to fit around mans neck. and
under his feet number of bricks one above
the other, just enough to enable him to
tiptoe. When this position, from WEAKNESS.
became uncomfortable, his only relief was to
hang by his neck. The design is to make
man suffer as much as possible, but not
to kill him too quickly. Usually after a
criminal has been standing thus for day
or SO, one Of the bricks is removed, and
then another, until he hangs by his neck
altogether. 1t is said that a strong man
ordinarily will endure the torture several
days before life becomes extinct.


On the present occasion death was has
tend more quickly. The man was put iu
the cage Sunday afternoon, I believe about
one o'clock | heard Of it on Monday morn
ing, and went over to Annoy about two
o'clock in the afternoon to see him He had
been dead some time The guard said that
he died just before daylight that he was
conscious Of having committed great crimes,
and had fastened his own death by kicking
the bricks from under his feet. But the
people said (privatcly) that the guard wish
ed to get rid of their charge that they might
prepare to keep New Years day (the Chi
eese New Year was near at hand and
therefore had taken the bricks from under
his feet during the night. This probably
was the Christian ut Work.
Year: 1876

What blessing it is to be simple to
have the body satisfied with simple food
and the mind satisfied with simple truth


After all said and done, if there wasn't
anything but lambs in this world, life and
mutton would be great drug.


The more man or woman knows the
less they gossip about their neighbors. Cul-
ture kills CAB.


The road to ruin is always kept in good
order, and those who travel it pay the ex-
penses


Ifmen of brains were always men of
honor, this world would be comparatively
safe


1t is tough to be poor, but to be ashamed
Of it is putting salt on score.


We are all of us poor just as we want
more, and rich as we want less.


The more intellect a man has got the
more simple he can afford to be-


Everybody laughs at monkey, but no
body respects him.


The bottom round of the ladder is safer
than the top one.
Year: 1876

The San francisco Gail is responsible
for this


The other day, when the wind whistled
sad toned jigs around the battery, little
old man entered saloon in that vicinity
and asked the bar-keeper if he could leave
some tracts there.


"a whole carload, if you want to, was
the prompt reply, and the little old man
placed a package on beer-table, and softly
said:


"There's no nobler cause than the cause
of the heathen. We should all contribute
a small share of our worldly wealth to
shed the Gospel light across the seas.


\ pair of boxing gloves were softly re-
posing on table, and the little old man
felt Of them and went on:


at makes me sad to see such sinful
things lying around when the cost Of one
glove might save dozen souls in Africa


Three or four of the boys had dropped
in, and the saloon-keeper winked at them
and replied:


DO you want to earn five dollars for
the heathen p


"Verily, do"


''Put on the gloves with me and knock
me down, and I'll ante up cash enough to
convert whole regiment of African sin
ners"


"The cause is noble, the inducement
great, unused the little old man, as he toy
ed with the gloves


The boys encouraged him to 90 in, dcsir-
ing to see him knocked wrong end up, and
he finally got out of his overcoat with the
explanation


''It can't be sin to box for the cause of
the heathcn."


The saloonist meant to lift him over one
Of the tables at the first blow, but the blow
was warded off very handsomely, and the
little old man sighed


"Ah-um The heather walk in
wickedness, and they have souls to be
saved !"


'Look out now p cried the saloonist, as
he got in a left handler.


"Verily l will, and [ will give thee one
in return-for the heathen.'


He struck staggering blow, and the
saloonist didn't feel quite SO enthusiastic as
on the start. He took the defensive, and
he soon had all the work he could do


"That's another for the ignorant minds
on the far off shore p sighed the little old
man, as he knocked the saloonist against
the wall


There wasn't any "science" about him,
but he struck to kill, and his arms were
flying around like the spokes of wagon
wheel


''Don t crowd felar," called out the
as he was being driven back, and
he got mad and put in his hardest licks
lie meant to smash the little old man S nose
as fiat as a window glass, but he could not
do it. He got in two or three fair hits,
and was beginning to regain his courage,
when the aged stranger sorrowfully re-
marked:


"My friend, the heather call, and | can
not tarry much longer Take this one and
it may broaden your views on the heathen
question. Receive this one in the spirit
and may you be sure the five dol
lars shall be a beacon light as far as it will
go"


He delivered two sledge- hammer blows
Year: 1876

right and left, and the saloonist got the last
on the ear as he lodged the first. He went
over in beautiful style, and as he slowly re-
gained his feet he felt in his vest pocket
for the wager.


"If you'll come around here tonight and
do that again III double the money p he
grow!ed as he paid the wager.


My road points toward Bosting,'' softly
replied the old man, ''and cannot tarry.
Let US part friendly, for l only boxed thee
for the heathen's sake. l gave to thee,
thou hast given to the heathen, and now,
farewell p
Year: 1876

There are now confined in the Schuyl-
kill county prison twenty members of the
Mollie Maguires. OF these twelve are
charged with murder, and the others with
conspiracy to murder, and being accessories
after the fact to murders
Year: 1876

A fair will be held during Christmas s
week, In the basement of the Church of the
Sacred Heart (German). For years past 1t
has been the custom for the Catholics to
hold fair during this week (Christmas)
and they have always been we'll attended
Something attractive at them has induced
hundreds to patronize them, and on thi.
occasion we predict for them a grand sue
cess. More will be said in future about the
management of this fair.
Year: 1876

TIE CHANGERS AND TRAMPs. The Pom
ona Grange of New Castle County, at its
last stated meeting in this city on the first
of November appointed William Dean to
prepare law to lay before the Legislature,
to suppress the "tramp" nuisance.
Year: 1876

them as new swarm yet there is great
danger Of the queen carrying with her TO the
new hive some germ of the disease. If the
stocklis not badly diseased, and all remain till
all the young bees arc hatched; then prob
ably tho swarm will have young queen.
Put the bees in a new hive, on the old stand,
and remove the foul comb and honey awav'
never to be used in the apiary again under
any consideration. After few days remove
all the comb in the hive, and as soon as DOS.
sible change the queen for one you know is
healthy. If the season is not too far ad.
vanced, or the bees too few, we may reason.
ably hope for a good healthy stock to winter.
Yet we need TO watch closely, for some germ
OF the disease may have been carried with
the bees into. the new hive, which will de.
velop the following season, and we shall have
to repeat the process again.


IL is my sincere hope that none of you
may ever be under the necessity Of expert.
menting with this disease. MidiLeL1,rv
Register.
Year: 1876

Water; Considered as a Solid. No.3


According to wel.known natural law.
the application Of cold, which is but another
expression of the abstraction of heat con.
tracts solid and fluid bodies, more particu.
larly solid bodies classed as metallic. The
metallic pendulum of clock is a little
shorter in winter than in summer hence its
vibrations are more rapid and the time-piece
runs faster. Cold contracts mercury not
only down to the freezing point of water,
(32o F.) but to the point at which the
mercury itself congeals, about 40 o be.
low zero. The human body is amenable
to the same law of heat aud cold. The cold
oil winter acting upon the fluids, the muscu.
lar tissue and adiposo matter, contracts the
whole into narrow space, and we feel com.
Portable in the same apparel, particularly
for the feet in which there is little elasticity.
that during summer was nearly intoIerable.


These examples are introduced to show
that the law of expansion by heat and con.
traction by cold is general law but when
applied to water it has an exception worthy
ofOur admiration and study. At the temper.
ature oil ~ 9 water is at its greatest den.
slty. AT this temperature heat expands It
to the boiling point, 2l2 Q at this temper
ature cold expands it to the freezing point,
" and still further until the degree of
cold has reached its maximum. Thus these
opposite agents produce similar effect upon
water but when applied to other bodies
their effects are as opposite as the agents
themselves.


In his excellent work containing much
sound reasoning and good sense, Geo. Combo
says Constitution of Man, page 20) that the
laws OF nature admit of no exception. 1t
seems that the fact that water expands by
cold must have escaped his notice when he
wrote his valuable treatiss, or he would
have admitted that here is al exception in
human enactments But il is an exception
wise and beneicient as it is eternal and un.
ohangeable; and upon i. millions of organ.
lied beings depend for their existence.


1t is interesting to contemplate the effect
that would follow if this exception to the
general law Of heat and cold were suspended
and water should, like other fluids, contract
at the point Of cOngelation. At the ap.
proach of winter the cold Of tho broad re.
g'ons gradually creeps over the temperate
zone and as fast as the surface water Of
the lakes and streams should fall to nearly
S2 its specific gravity would bo greater
than the specific gravity of the subjaoent
water it would then fall to the bottom and
be succeeded by other surface water until
the whole lake or stream would reach the
temperature of 32e and be converted into
ice. In the northern parts Of the GONE and
In its more southern localities where the
depth OF the frozen mass would be consid.
erable, and in mountainous districts, these
large bodies of ice would not liquify in one
season. and hence would be perpetual every
fish would die and vast territory would be.
Year: 1876

the common web worm, or tent caterpillar


of our orchards, but spins no tent. and Is Of


moro migratory habit Fortunately. thew


have also habit of gathering in groups or


masses upon the trunks or larger branches


of the trees, during the night, whence in the


morning, before the sun warns them, thew


may be brushed into pan or pail, and de-.
stroyed. In this way an orchard NAV be
entirely protected, even when they are thick
in the adjoining forests. But they must be
looked after promptly, as they raid in such
heavy columns that one or two days of un.
checked ravages will enable them to take
every leaf from an apple tree Of considerable
size.


The general plan in the West, with the
potato bug, is to ight him with Paris greea,
a fgment made from arsenic, and In common
use by the painters This, we'll mixed with
Hour or plaster one pound to twenty-five,
and sitted thinly upon the vines when wet,
will kill the depredators. But if, as We
understand, the hens and chickens eat these
bugs. it may be that VIC shall find our poul.
try kicking the bucket about the same time
that the bug drops. The hellebore tIudian
poke) used 50 generally to kill currant
worms, is said also to be fatal TO the Colo.
RADIO gentleman, and if so would be better,
since they will be killed by dose too small
to hurt chicken. The best way to apply
this land it would bo a safe way with the
Paris green mixture) is to thoroughly stir
two tablespoonfuls Of the powdered root IN
pail OF water, and apply it upon the plants
with sprinking pot. 1t must be remem-
bered that the green is n deadly poison in
very small quantities, while the poke, though
poisonous, can be handled with perfect safety
SO far as life is concerned. But it will
make you sneeze your hat off, if you inhale
the dust, and this is an additional reason
why it is better to use it in water, rather
than in dry state.
Year: 1876




The Journal of the Royal Agricultural
society of England gives the results of in.
quiries put to seventy.Rve farmers as to the
relative profits Of raising horses, cattle and
sheep. The preponderance of testimony is
that raising horses except for farm use does
not pay and that farm horses can be raised
cheaper than purchased. That when grass
land is adapted to it, cattle raising is advis.
able feeding high SO as to turn them off for
beef at two years old or little more. That
sheep are the quickest turned of any stock =,
more easily managed and with far less
labor On dry farms, producing heavy root
crops they are the best stock.
Year: 1876

Frequent cultivation at this season is 10.
dispensabe to large crops. Keep the cult-
vator going, once week if possible, until
the corn and other crops are so large that
they are broken down in passing through.
Our own experience is that even after that
period the crops are more benefited than
injured by cultivation. The soil must be
kept mellow as well as free from weeds.
Year: 1876

The bee keepers of Addison county have
an association, and hold occasional meetings,
which are found to be of great interest and
profit to those engaged in the art. Deacon
Crane our valued correspondent, sends US a
very interesting paper by Mr.. Leonard, on
Foul Brood, and promises us paper read by
him on the individuality of Bees, which the
readers Of the FARMER will be glad to see in
nrint
Year: 1876

Do not kill the crows. They do good
service to the farmer in destroying insects
If they cannot be frightened away from the
corn it is better to feed them. II every far.
mer would scatter bushel of soaked corn
lthey prefer it soft in his field, they would not
pull the young corn. Mr.. Bliss of Brad.
ford found catching two or three in steel
trap and releasing them after an hour or
two an effectual radiance.
Year: 1876

straw color and black. They arc not quite
half an inch long and Of an oblone shape.
The eggs Of the beetle are Of a yellow color
ana oeloDg aud fastened to the leaf at one
end There are from twenty to thirty eggs
IN bunch upon the potato leaves that lie
before me. The great secret Of success in
saving your potato fields is to begin early
and hand pick your vines of the first brood
then use Paris green for the second and third
broods.


A Michigan correspondent of the Ger.
mantown Telegraph writes good article
upon the subject, which l send for publica.
tion' saying we would mix one part of
Paris green with twenty parts of -four in
stead of twelve as he recommends.


d. Il. BoYDEN.
Year: 1876

First, plant carly varieties, and as soon as


the old or first insects make their appearance


use diligence in destroying. But with all


this all cannot bc destroyed before they de.
posit many eggs. But as soon as the second


brood make their appearance, take Paris
green IA good and pure article,) one part to
ten or twelve parts of wheat or rye -four, Ia
common or cheap article will answer lust az
wel) mix these thoroughly and siit over
the vines through q thin gauze, while the
sind does not blow, and if done while the
vines are wet with dew or rain, it will be
better although not essential, and this brood
will all disappear within two days. But do
not rest at this, but watch for few days. as
some eggs may not have been hatched at
the time but afterwards. Ii then YOU find
more OF the small, slmy, ugly looking things.
grasp your can with gauze bottom and
about four or five spoonfuls of your mixture
aud give them another application. This in
nearly every instance will do the work. But
yet keep watch, aud by this attention and
In the judicious use Of the above mixture
you will not fail of 4 crop of potatoes, or if
you do, it will not be on account of the bugs


To apply the mixture | take an old fruit
can, take out the whole OF one end, tie over
it very tightly the thin gauze and make an
opening in the other end just large enough
to put the mixture in. BY fastening to this
can an old broom handle the mixture can be
shaken over the vines quite rapidly, easily and
safey-however, always walking on the
windward side so that you will avoid inhal.
ing any Of the dust.
Year: 1876

DANIEL DREW has been interviewed in
his retirement, and yielded, under gentle
pressure, the following: "Pve retired
permanently from business this time,
which ought to have done years ago
under different and happier circum-


stances. l never dreamed that the time
would come when l should have to go
into bankruptcy. There never was just
such case as mine ever heard on 'afOre.
No man was ever so rich as l was, worth
at one time eight or ten millions of money,
and then made to lose every dollar of it
in so short a time" Referring to the
late A. 7. Stewart, he said that even
that prompt business man had delayed
his charitable schemes too long, and now
thev would have to be carried out by
some one else, if at all. In allusion to
stewards wealth, he said he never esti-
mated him at over forty millions; but
Vanderbilt was surely worth hundred
millions of money if he owned dollar
Year: 1876

of the grating over which it stood, and
they began to talk very earnestly.
Things went on all right till, getting ex-
cited, the man on the grating said:


" / tell you, if ever specie payment is
resumed there will be the greatest fall, )"
and then he gave his chair hitch and it
settled back as though its hind legs had
sort of struck in, and it went back so far
that he shot out over the left hand side
and bit his cigar in halves and skinned
his elbow. When he gos up he had for
gotten the thread of his narrative, and
observing, too, the bland appearance of
the bystanders, he suddenly remembered
that he'd got to catch that car, and he
went and caught it.-DetroH Free Press.
Year: 1876

NORTH and South Carolina are natur-
ally interested in that clause of the pro-
posed Hawaiian treaty which admits the
rice of the Sandwich Islands free of duty,
as are also Georgia and Louisiana. To
these states the rice crop is of great i'm
portance, and the planters know that if
exposed to free competition they must
seek some other agricultural pursuit. 1t
is claimed that the remission of duty on
HaYaiian rice is merely for the benefit
of the Pacific coast, but, of course, New
England would come along and demand
that the East India article be admitted
free, in her favor. So, it will be seen
that the cry for protection" is not
confined entirely to the manufacturing
interests of the east.
Year: 1876

THE Boston philanthropists have been
indulging their sympathy for murderers
by getting up a petition to save Piper,
convicted of the murder of the little
girl, Mable Young, last summer, in the
tower of one the churches of that city
but Piper has just made a confession OF
that bloody deed, as we'll as of others in
which he was supposed to have had a
hand. The murder was very atrOcious
one, and Piper asserted for some time
that he was innocent, but subsequently
stated that the girl had been killed by
the trap-door of the belfry falling acci
dentally upon her. He now confessei
that he killed her, actuated by an in
sane desire for blood.
Year: 1876

TIE Paris fashion inventors are deter
mined to make woman's life a burden to
her One OF the journals of that city
says that no glove will be tolerated in
good society this season with less than
twenty buttons, while another declares
that in less than five years knee breeches
and six-inch skirts viii be the fashionable
street dress for ladies.
Year: 1876

A NEW cap has been adopted for the
'ofhcers of the navy, and those who have
seen the sample at the navy department
say it will make 4 great commotion in
the service on account of its extraOrdi-
nary shape 1t resembles the Scotch
bonnet of Glengary cap with cape and
eyelet holes behind, and differs from it
only in being of regulation blue cloth.
Year: 1876

WHAT STOPPED THE ARGUMENT
Two men, with spare time on their
hands, seeing some arm chairs IN front of
a furniture store on the sunny side OF
the street, thought they would sit down
n minute or two and smoke and talk UP
specie payment. So they sat down, and
the man who was on the negative side
,.arefully fixed his chair legs on two bars