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Year: 1871




The New York Nea0s says the recent re-
port that the Emperor Napoleon is negotiat-
ing for an estate on Long Island may not
be true, but it is very probable that his ex-
Majesty has been investing his surplus gains
from time to time in American securities
and American real estate. In doing sO
adds the Nelrs, be would only be following
the example of almost numberless royal
personages and people of quality in the Old
World. Ex-Queen Christina, of Spain,
mother of Isabella, it is known has several
millions invested here, and some Of her
money is in large mandatory near Phila-
delphia She is said to. be treating for a
valuable piece Of property on this island,
which the owner holds at S4,0000O0. The
statement was made years ago that Prince
Albert and his wife owned blocks
of houses in New York, the deeds
staEding inthe names of confidential agents.
The same has been asserted of the Orleans
family and the Imperial house of Russia.
The inducements to royalty to salt down
their money in America are net only the
larger rate of interest derived from invest
ments here, but the certain security from
the storms which blow over the monarchi-
calcountries of Europe, carrying confiscation
In their sweep. In these troublouS times
but few of the Royal families feel that their
coronets are safely ON their heads. The
first rude disaster TO their dynasty or their
country may drive them forth stripped not
only Of crown, but home and property
How comforting the assurance to them
must be that beyond the ocean there is re-
treat for which they will have to be behOl-
den TO no man.
Year: 1871

Judge Blodgett, District Court Judge of
the United States, will leave Chicago for
Washington on Monday to advise with the
Judicial Department of the government as
to the restoration of the records of the Fed
eral Courts of this district.
Year: 1871

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21.-Incendiaries
fired the block bounded by Third, Fourth,
Market and Stevenson streets last night at
five different points. All attempts were
frustrated. The locality is thickly covered
with frame buildings and the evident object
was to burn the city. The police are work
ing LID the case
Year: 1871

At the late New England Fair, at
Lowell, Mass, the poultry cages were
all arranged under a mammoth tent.
The plan was very satisfactory to all
concerned. Canvas affords complete
ventilation through the interstices be-
tween the threads, and at the same time
there are no perceptible currents, as
when air is obtained through windows,
and there is always plenty of light. At
exhibitions in halls the air is apt to be
too close for the health of the birds and
the comfort of the people who attend.
There can be no objection that we can
think of to canvas, when the weather is
not cold enough to make fires a neces-
sity. A tent can be we'll warmed, eve n
in winter, but not without considerable
trouble. A very large hall is needed
when the show is extensive, and there
is frequently difficulty in hiring a suit
able one. Large pavillions are kept to
let, in various parts of the country, and
they are so light as to be easily trans
ported to any place where they are
wanted. We commend the plan to the
consideration of poultry societies.
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1871

The manure pile may be augmented
from many sources outside the stables
or barn yard. Much waste matter is
lying around in every village or hamlet
in the country that might be gathered
up at very little expense. We do not
know a country town of hundred or
two inhabitants in which some poor fell
low would not be glad of a job to gather
up ashes, leather scraps, tanners ottal,
tan-bark, sawdust, chip-dirt, straw and
refuse generally; all of which would
make valuable additions to the compost
heap. Old boots and shoes should be
reduced to charcoal by covering them
with a pile of chips and burning them
slowly, keeping the ashes heaped over
them. They are then easily reduced to
powder. Old wooden rags and waste
from shoddy factory are very valuable
as manure. Bones, above all things,
should not be overlooked; nor oyster
shells, which. when burnt, make val
liable lime. Thousands of tons of such
matter go to waste every year, not be-
cause it is not worth the cost of gather
ing, but because farmers do not appre-
ciate how valuable this waste matter is.
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1871

Experiments have shown that mel.
low, loamy soil is capable OF absorbing
in twelve hours, when exposed to a
moist atmosphere, an amount of water
equal to two per cent. of its weight. If
any argument were needed to keep the
soil mellow, here is a most powerful
one to convince us. For this property
possessed by mellow soil is one that
in dry season is able to give it the
power of maturing IL crop, Hhen a
hardened surface would he unable to do
so. A surface that is impenetrable to
the atmosphere, of course, could not
absorb any of the moisture with which
the atmosphere is charged. But, when
rendered free from Jumps by repeated
plowngs and borrowings, each change
of temperature causes a circulation
of air throughout the mass Of soil,
which is free then to absorb all the
moisture coming in contact with it
until it is saturated. So, then, the more
the soil is mellowed 10y cultivation, the
less it is inuriously affected by drought,
and the better it is enabled to mature a
fair crop in spite of tie absence Of rain.
-NasM Qni HoHf
Year: 1871

There is a great want of simple and
portable power for driving the bellows
of large organs in our churches and
music halls. Water, steam, caloric en-
gines, heavy weights, and lastly, elec.
trlcity, have been tried, and may sue
ceed on occasions, but practically the
exposure, danger from fire, and un.
wieldy character of the attachment, un-
less it is the electrical, stands in the
way OF universal application. The one
man power is usually the last resort of
musicians, and the man who blows the
bellows is often more important char
| acter than the musician himself.


Our advice has been frequently asked
in this matter, and in casting about for
answer, we have bethought ourselves of
ammoniacal gas as motive power wor-
thy of careful experimental trial. 1t
is now a good many years since this use
of ammonia was proposed, and ammo
niacal engines were applied to street
cars and to pumps, and still they have
not met with general acceptance, and
few persons have even heard of them.
The trial trip of the omnibus in Paris,
propelled by liquified ammonia, con-
fined in cylinders under the seat, was
reported as perfectly successful, and a
similar result has been arrived at on
street cars in New Orleans.


Our knowledge of the force exerted
by liquid ammonia at given tempera-
lures is now well fixed, and the cost of
liquetaction, the proper means to EN-
ploy, and all practical questions ought
to have been thoroughly worked out
long before this. AS ammonia attacks
copper and brass, the packing and
mounting OF the engines would have to
be made of iron. The saponifcation of
the ammonia with the lubricating oil is
said to be no detriment. but rather to
diminish friction. The plan of the
company in Paris was to have a large
central factory for COMPRISING ammonia
gas into iron cylinders, in the same way
as water is charged with carbonic acid,
and to deliver these receivers to Gus
toners in all parts Of the city. The
cylinder containing the liquid ammonia
would be provided with couplings and
screws ready for the stationary piston,
and the company's agents would place
it in position and remove the exhausted
receiver, just rs the soda fountain is
kept in running order by large dealers.
1t would only require the opening of
stop cock to set the piston in motion,
and it would run as long as the expan-
sive force of the gas was sutti
cient to propel it. Such an arrange
ment as this ought to be feasible, and
theoretically there would appear to be
no difficulty in the way of its universal
adoption. 1t would not only be appli-
cable to organs, but to pumps, sewing
machines, and y wide range of other
work
Year: 1871

RoUGH ON THE LAwYER.-An eminent
judge used to say that, in his opinion,
the very best thing ever said by wit
ness to counsel was the reply given to
Missing, the barrister, at the time leader
of his circuit. He was defending a
prisoner charged with stealing donkey.
The prosecutor had left the animal tied
up to gate, and when he returned it
was gone. Missing was very severe in
his examination of the witness. "Do
you mean to say, witness, the donkey
was stolen from that gate p "I mean
TO say, sir," giving the judge and then
the jury n sly look, " the ass was
Missing"
Year: 1871

The very serious and long protracted
labor strike which has been maintained
in the iron mines of Staffordshire, Eng
land, has been terminated by read
.justment of the relations existing
between the workmen and the capital
lists. new and highly important
principle has been evolved by the crisis,
one which is likely to produce very
decided consequences on the bearing of
the industrial and social relations not
only in Britain, but in all the great pro-
ducing countries of the earth. The
ironmasters of England have conceded
the very fullest demand of the work
men in the matter of fixed daily wages.
They have done still more. They agree
to share their profits in future with the
men. In the first place, the masters
have promised to pay an immediate ad-
vance of ten per cent, onathe rate of
daily wages. In the second, they prom
Use to pay a further increase as iron goes
up in price proportionately to the ship
ping tax on the ore. The latter clause
is of the highest importance not only to
the Statfordshire miners but to the
trade of the world at large. 1t is one
of the most direct acknowledgements
which has been made in modern days
by the "moneyed classes that the
man of daily toll Is power on the
earth that the interests of capital and
labor are identical, and that the first is
honorable and fit for direct association
with the other.--N Y. Herald.


OAT CnAFF FOR FEED.--A year or two
ago we were, by accident, led to feed
some oat chaff to a few head of milking
cows, and were agreeably surprised to
find that they came up considerably in
their milk. The chaff was discontinued
for a day or two, when the cows fell Oft
to their former quantity; but on feed
ing the chatf again, the flow again in.
creased. Since then the value of oat
chatf as a milk producer has been salts
factorily proved by us. This would then
make it advisable when oats are
threshed the chatf should be saved for
feed. 1t may be fed in the place of cut
hay, with the usual wetting, sailing
and mixing of the regular allowance OF
meal. In years when hay is as scarce as
in the present, not only the chatf may
be fed, but the oat straw should be
| SdNti IL is uultt
as nutritious as timothy that has gone
to seed.


ANOTHER condensing arrangements
this case applicable to steam engines o.
to engines worked with mixture o
steam and air-has just been brough
forward by an English inventor. Ac
cording to this device, in place of
condenser and airpump being employed
AS usual, the exhaust steam is let int,
large condensing cylinder, in which


piston works, this piston having sligh
lead on the steam piston i'll the mail
cylinder. When the stroke of the con
denser piston is nearly complete, an in
lection valve on the side Of the cylinde
opens and admits water into the latter
this water, together with that resultin
from the condensation of the steam, an


also any air which may be present, be
ing expelled from the cylinder throug


suitable valves at the return stroke c
the piston.
Year: 1871

-. EXCELLENT ApvIcE.-Hold on to your
tongue when you are ready to swear. lie, or
speak harshly


Hold on to your hand when you are
{about to strike or steal.
\ Hold on to your temper when you are
hngry. excited, or imposed upon.
Hold on to your heart when evil asso-
ciatos seek your company.


Hold on to your good name, for il is
more precious than gold.


Hold on to the truth, for it will serve
you well.
Year: 1871

Patrick Henry left in his will the
following important passage: ~ have
now disposed Of all my property to my
family there is one thing more | wish ]
could give them, and that 10 the Christian
religion. II they had that, and l had not
given them shilling, they would be rich
,ad il they had not that, and had given
them all the wsrld. they would be poor
Year: 1871

Recent Chicago papers say the war be-
tween Christ Episcopal Church and Bish-
op Whitehouse has broken out with new
bitterness. The bishop has published a
long letter, in which he says that the war
dens distinctly agreed that they would
properly receive his Episcopal Visitation
on next Sunday, on which occasion Mr..
Cheney should not be present, but that a
minister in good standing whom the bish-
op could approve would present the candi-
date for confirmation.


The vestry now repudiate that agree
ment and say that no one but Mr.. Cheney
shall officiate on that occasion. The bish-
op announces that the congregation have
nothing whatever to say in regard to his
visitation, which is his duty, and which
they can't prevent, that it is not necessary
that the candidate be presented to him by
any one, and that he shall be present and
take such course as he wishes, of course,
holding no relation with Mr.. Cheney what
ever. He intimates that any attempt to
prevent him will be met by civil law. The
vestry, on the other hand, stand firmly,
and an exciting scene is expected.
Year: 1871

The New York Tribune in noticing a
new whim in London society," which is,
not to Introduce the guests at a dinner
party, but simply on printed menu give
the name and rank of each one present, so
that the "bore of an aequaintanceship"
need not be entailed upon the guests, says:


After all, the old country habit, where
each man greets the other, stranger or
friend, as "neighbor," recurs to us as not
only more rational, but more consonant
with gentle breeding than any of these
clumsy devices of London and New York
drawing rooms. In one case men stand
apart and grin and scowl at each other like
monkeys separated by their cages. In the
other they put out hand to test and do
homage to the humanity in each other.
The way is open for help if needed. When
shall we be able to put etiquette aside
enough TO remember that by the frank,
brotherly greeting we will lose nothing,
and the worst man may be summoned to
bis best self, called back to his lost man
hood? Wherever human blood flows is
the old faith that no6LeSSe o6lige.
Year: 1871

The hands covering and Notwithstanding the
pleted their work


A new bridge is to be constructed at Flat
creek. We learn that the timbers are already
prepared. The present bridge at that place IS
in a rather questionable condition and is not
considered perfectly safe
Year: 1871

MEsRSs. EDITORS: l am truly gratifed to see
the subject of thorough education taking sucGs 3
hold upon the minds of the people.
The trustees of the Institute seem awake to
this progressive state, in that they have donated
money for the improvement Of that well con-
Quoted seminary


Those who have the free schools in hand are
also awake and actively employed; and 1t is an
omen of success to see teachers of such ability
as some of those whose names have been pub
lished


One question l would like to ask: Are we to
have vocal music in these latter schools? ? This
certainly is of great importance, and so noblo
an art should be taught by an accomplished
master one whose heart and mind are IN The
work.


Music has tendency to modify our feelings,
thus, if we are sad it will frequently eniiVen
lis. or if anger has made discord the sweet har-
mony of music will restore our equilibrium.
And why may not some hours, at least, IN the
school-room be made bright spots on which the
eve of memory may rest with pleasure IN the
days to come.


/ can never forget season spent by me - o.
free school in q city far distant from knoxville
Our teacher (the PrincipaD was strict dIscl-
plinarian, and many cloud sometimes dark
ened the horizon; but when the hour arrived
for dear old Prof. A to make his appearance,
elongated yisages relaxed into smile as his lit
tie music-swayed form came into view To US
he was as the sunshine, and we loved him.
Harmony of feeling drew our hearts together.


And with how much greater zest could we
apply ourselves to study after this hour OF re-
Taxation. L-Ip4'
Year: 1871

This compound is never-faiing cure for this ter
rible disease How many diseases have their seat in
the blood-diseases which have been treated vainly
for the blood alone is purified in most
health and happiness will return. DIR. Fowlers
Compound acts especially upon the virus in the blood
causing in time the disappearance of the hideous
and restoring the skin to beautiful appearance.
the eye clear and sparkling and the whole human or
ganization becomes healthy.
Year: 1871

NEW YORK, April 20.


The spring business is pretty nearly
over with distant trade, and the market
Is generally inactive, except with faw
leading iObbing houses. The prices for
domestic staple goods are steady for the
most part, while light and unreasonable
styles Of fancy goods are being closed out
at reduced figures, which, however, al
ford no real guide to the market
Year: 1871

THE RIoToUs AGITATION RENEWED IN BEL
GIuM.-The cable kilograms from Brussels
which we publish to-dsy go to show that
the Belgian capital remains deeply agitated
in consequence of the public opposition to
recent government appointment. Parliament
was excited indoors, the people inaamed and
almost uncon srollable, yesterday. A member
of the Legislature who supported the nomina-
ton of N. de Decker to the control of the
Educational Board in very prominent man
ner was mobbed in his dwelling and great
damage done to the mansion. The aspect Of
riot was renewed and maintained in Brussels.
The tocsin of municipal alarm was sounded at
one moment during the day and the civic
guard mustered in great force The exist
ence of such condition of affairs even tenn
porarily must be cause of heavy pecunlary
loss to an industrial, productive and trading
nation like Belgium, where labor is subdivided
most infinitely and the profits of individuals
small. The exciting cause of all this trouble
has not, perhaps, been shown on the surface
with any degree of distinctness even yet.
Year: 1871

THEIRS LESSON TO THE CHNEsE.-Presi-
dent Thiers Impressed" the members of the
Chinese Embassy by his words and action
during an audience which he accorded to
them on Thursday evening. The truth is, as
will be seen by our cable telegram, that the
President OF the French republic frightened
the Celestials by his fervent Christian denun-
citation Of the treatment which the Church
missionaries OF France have received in the
Central Flowery Kingdom. The disciples Of
Confucius were confounded by the vigorous
simplicity of the aged statesman. Their i'm
perialistic ideas were also "taken down" con-
siderably by the personal animation Of the
head Of the young republic which possesses
such valuable inter ests near TO their own ter
ritory in Asia. They have, no doubt, made
o note Of the event, and will thus be ena-
bled to speak Of the indestructbility Of the
outside democracy, when they get to Pekin.
Theirs does not believe in the button order,
Mandarin system Of government.
Year: 1871

forced, be q perfect safeguard against
fraud and corruption. If 1t had been
necessary to publish the accounts of Irgersoll,
Garvey and Keyser before payment the
wholesale plunder Of the city treasury to
which we have had to submit could never
have been undertaken. The forgeries COM
mitted upon Keyser and others would have
been at once detected. II the publication of
the names of the employees ia Tweed's depart
ment had been required every three months
before one Of them could draw his money the
people would not have been called upon
to pay sinecure salaries varying from
one hundred to four hundred dollars q
month to rascally gang OF shoulder
hitters, repeaters and thieves. Publicity
is the one thing needful in every department
and throughout every branch Of the city gov
ernment and with this insured thcre will bo
but little danger of any future Wholesale rob-
berry Of the people. The one objection to
which this proposition is subjected-the
expense Of publications. scarcely worthy of
consideration when the great advantage to be
secured by its adoption is properly under
stood. An honestly framed charter will pro-
vide carefully against any future squandcr-
ing of the public money upon obscure
sheets, printed for the sole purpose of robbing
the city, or upon political organs kept alive
at the expense Of the taxpayers, and the cost
of publishing the department accounts aud
lists of employees in Legitimate newspaper
will be saved hundred-fold in the economy
the publicity will insure. Let us secure this
details of the law win be comparatively imma-
terial, provided they give US simple form of
government, with concentrated powcr, direct
responsibility and an annual appeal to the
ballot box.
Year: 1871

The Popc's Position In Rome-bibrnltnr


Rock Of Ages.


We are assured by cable telegram from
Rome that Cardinal of the Church has just
asserted positively that the Holy Father will
not leave the Eternal City unless he is COM
PEELED to do so by force and violence. As
this contingency will not arise, it would appear
as if the Pope is certain to remain in the
Vatican to the moment of his death. On the
o:her hand, we have report from Madrid
which states that England is disposed to
restore Gibraltar to Spain after the conclusion
of favorable negotiations on both Sides
Placing our two dispatches in juxtaposition,
the contents of one may serve to explain the
intelligence which is conveyed in the other.
The Holy. Father will not be forced from Rome
Perhaps he could be coaxed to go voluntarily,
and to make his future residence in Gibraltar.
Here he would realize in his own person
the infallibility of the promise OF the
tn es Petrus, and stand forth on
rock as the visible representation of
the Church which is built on the Rock of
Ages. King Amadeus of Spain could aid in
the crowning work, his father, the King of
Italy, be reconciled to the hierarchy by the
performance of penance, and Charity and
Hope radiate from the Mediterranean all over
the world. Gibraltar-the Rock.
Year: 1871

FROM ALEXANDRIA, Egypt we have q
special HERALD telegram report Of the drown
Ing Of sevcDty-fve pilgrims in consequence Of
q steamship collision in the harbor. The
men were, in most instances, weighed down
by the weight Of their gold. They should
have read about the money changers in the
Temple before they set out on their pilgrimage.