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Year: 1875

A SUICIDE IN CHARACTER. AT Vii.
liers-sur-Oise the other day an English
actress, known as Nine. Reene-at one
time popular in London-commt
suicide in the role of Ophelia. She
was sixty-hve years Of age, and had
lived in the above-named little village
for the past ten years. She was very
sad, but always very kind and good to
everybody. Nobody thought of rid.
iculinl ler odd appearance and ways,
for it was well known that she had
carried dead love in her heart for
nearly half a century. She had left
London years before because her af.
fianced married another woman. The
last part she had played on the London
stage with him was Ophela to his
Hamlet, and what news had come to
her of him no one knew; but she was
found floating under the surface of the
river, her gray head decked out with
flowers.
Year: 1875

Employment Is essentlalto happiness,
and so generally is this recognized that
there are times when even the LATEST
man feels inclined to thank his creator
for having provided him with a nous
tache 10 twirl.
Year: 1875

BEES FOR New ZEALAND Two
nests of English bumble-bees have been
sent TO New Zealand by Mr.. Frank
Buckland for the Canterbury Accim-
atization Society. These insects are
specially desired in New Zealand for
the purpose of fcrtilizing the common
clover; the proboscis of the common
bee is not sufficiently long to reach
down to the pollen of the clover flow
er, while the bumble-bee is enabled to
do so. In this way the insect is ex-
pected to do great service to the agri-
culturist by largely extending the
growth of the clover. The bees were
packed in their own nests in two box
es, and will be under the charge of a
member of the New Zealand Council,
who is provided with every necessary
for their welfare during the voyage.
They are expected to arrive about the
middle of Janury--midsummer at
the antipodes.
Year: 1875

FTUM LIIt STIU5 HUI IatalIIcT rtUIVTtVT


The trite but Apostle edaSe that "honeety Is
the best policy" finds fresh illustration in tho
review of the financial situation. Independently
of ethics. the surest road to national prosperity
is the golden one. The more tile currency is
watored, the harder it will be to use it as me.
dum of exchange. The very apprehension OF
further diution is tightening the purses OF
money lenders already The rich have nothing
to foar from imitation They always protect
themselves. 1t is the poor and medium classes
on whom tho consequences of distrust would fall
most heavily. They are the mon who should
turn deaf ear 10 every suggestion OF imitation,
as in conflict alike with their interests and their
sense of honor.
Year: 1875

The METHODIST COMPANION. This il the title
of a neat little religious weekly the publication
OF which has inst been begun in this city by
ton to tho promotion OF holiness as the very
spirit of Christianity, but it dissents from the
second blessing theory of Sa utilization
Year: 1875

Whether produced by indigestion, improper food
change of water or diet too free indulgence in ice
water, exposure to sudden changes OF temperature,
are Immediately relieved by it. One ounce added
to gallon OF
Year: 1875

Flatulency, sluggish Digestion, want of Tone and
Activity in the stomach and Bowels, Oppression
after Eating, are sure to be relieved by single
dose taken after each meal. great want exists
for q
Year: 1875

A weman, known as Mrs. Capt. Oh
sen, attempted suicide last eve in a
room in the Branch House by taking
a quantity of poison. She was attend
ed by a physician and the effects of
the poison was counteracted.
Year: 1875

Dross Makers recommend it as being the best
Corset to fit dress over, because it is cut in
such manner that the front and back seams fit
like seams to dress.


And it is superior to any other Corse now in
use because its peculiar style of cutting gives
sufficient funess at the bosom, without folding
at the top; gradually and closely fitting to, and
dnary Corsets, and in fact is the only Corset cut
in this form.


In addition to the DOLLAR CORSET will
be found large assortment of other makes at
the following prices-Sl.25, Sl.50, Sl.75, $3.50,
So 80 and S.
Year: 1875

Too many farmers do not watch the points of vital interest refer red to so forcibly by the Citizen in the following:

 It would add to the profit and comfort of farming if the rroprie- tor would, as far as practicable, do the chores himself. The feed ing of the stock, though very i'm portant duty, IS left to those who feel no interest in it, and the con sequence is, waste, neglect and irregularity-poor stock and emp ty gamers. Repairs, of gates and bars and doors put of for q few days, result in total destruction, followed by costly renewal. There are many things about the farm and household which demand the careful supervision of the owner. Among these the most important are feeding, salting, housing and counting the stock. The lazy proprietor who intrusts these duties to hirelings rarely prospers, and takes no pains to ascertain the causes of what he calls bad luck. Luck plays no part in the affairs of men. Good luck is the result of good judg- ment and industry-the absence of these is designated by the name of bad luck.
Year: 1875

Prof. Tice, the man who fore tells storms and changes of weath- CT, and so far pretty correctly, predicts cold weather in Novem- Der, and we would suggest to our farmers the propriety of putting in their wheat early for the next crop, so it may get we'll rooted be- fore cold weather sets in. Besides, we will say to the farmers to be sure to prepare the ground well before sowing. We want to see another large crop of wheat the next season, and if our farmers will use proper diligence, and profit by past experience, we will have good crop.-Fort Smith Independent.
Year: 1875

We have German farmer in this neighborhood, who sets us all a good example. He com menced life as a hired man. He has now one of the best farms in the town and is adding acre to acre. Whatever he does he does we'll. He never seems to be in a a hurry. But he commences to plow in the Spring before some of us begin to think about getting the blows ready, and he has ten or twenty acres of barley sown be-

 fore some of us have plowed q furrow. He is always ahead; ev- erything is in its place; every thing in good repair and ready for use at moments notice. His land is getting cleaner every year and I was going to say richer, but 1 am not so sure on this lat ter point. 1 have sometimes thought that he was running his land rather hard. But there is certainly no diminution in the crops. His farm would sell for 50 per cent. more than he paid for it, while the other farms have not increased. in value. The secret of success, in his case, is first in the man himself-in his industry, sobriety, and good judgment. And in the next place l think it is due principally to the fact that he blows early, and blows late and blows well, and blows often; and he uses the harrow and the roller until his soil is mellow and in good order for the seed. Then he cultivates his corn and pota toes and beans, the moment he can see the rows, and he suffers not weed to grow and go to seed. I ought to add that he has five energetic sons to help him, and while he hires little or no la bor, there is q large amount of work done on the farm. In fact say what you will, there is, never has been, and never will be, good farming without the expenditure of considerable labor. "I have always employed a good many men," said John Johnson, and all really successful farmers, l think, would be obliged to say the same thing J. Harriss, in American Agriculturist.
Year: 1875

The question is often asked, when is the best time to plant fruit trees? Weanswer, thatrpons all soils suitable for m orchard, the fall is the best time. The fall is a season of comparative leisure with the farmer, and am pie time is afforded him to pre- pare the ground thoroughly, and to dig the holes of large size, and to prepare the work in the most perfect manner. In the spring a thousand jobs are pressing upon the farmer, all de- handing his immediate attention, and the orchard is usually defer red to the last, when every other crop would suffer less by the delay.

 If tree is planted in the fall the earth becomes firmly settled around the roots before spring; and if the weather should prove, as 1t frequently does, warm in February and March, young roots will be formed, often three inches long; and If the planting is delay ed until spring, after these nots have pnt out they are broken off and lost in the act of removal from the nursery, and consequent- ly so much of the vital energy of the tree is lost in the effort of nature to repair the injury.

 If planting is delayed until spring, it is almost always put off until late period after the buds have considerably swelled and many of the fibrousro roots have put out; these then become dried and many of them arc lost, and from the dry weather that frequently follows, cause the death of thous- ands of trees.

 In fall planting, if the soil is dry and porous, as it should be, the ground at the root may be left level; but If the subsoil is of a wet, retentive character, the earth should be raised two or three inches around the trunk of the tree, to the full diameter of the hole, in order to turn the excess of water from the roots.

 Trees should not be removed from the nursery until sufficient frost has occurred to entirely sus- pend vegetation and the leaves have mostly fallen.
Year: 1875

A good looking farm will sell quicker and at a better price than a bad looking farm. Ornamental trees, vines, shrubs and fences may not yield any money to the owner while he has them in his possession, but they will bring many times their cost when the farm comes into market. In the early days of Chicago, a gentle man planted many thousand ever greens and other ornamental trees on large tract of land near the city, which he intended for his future home. He never realized his desire of living on it, and the place was sold. It was put on the market at the same time an adjoining place was which was

 mimproved, and brought over twice as much money.
Year: 1875



 There are many curious facts about vegetable life. We can, for example, graft the apricot on the plum, and the peach on the apricot, and the almond on the peach, and thus we may produce a tree with plum roots and almond leaves. The wood, however, of the stem, will consist of four dis tinct varieties, though formed from one continuous layer. Be- low the almond wood and bark we shall have perfect peach wood and bark, then perfect apricot wood and bark, and the bottom plum wood and bark. In this curious instance we see the inti- mate correspondence between the bark and the leaf, for if we should remove the almond branches we might cause the several sorts of wood to develop buds and leafy twies, each of its own kind. Each section of the compound stem has its seat of fife in the cambium layer, and the cambium of each reproduces cells of it's own species out of common nutrient fluid Index Baptist.
Year: 1875



 Bear in mind that if one crop does not "hit" some other will. Bear in mind that it is not true that nothing but cotton will bring money"

 Bear in mind that pork, beef, mutton and poultry will bring money at some price, and that that is all that can be said for old King Cotton. If you have plenty of wheat, corn and grsss you can raise money out of some of them. But don't forget that broom corn, sorghum, potatoes, goobers, onions, castor beans, apples and peaches grow luxuriantly in this country.

 But, better than raising any of these is sheep husbandry and combined with these other indus tries will certainly bring de- sireable results. If the farmers of Pope should become forgetful and neglect to save any cotton seed this year, and bestow all their labor on other crops, very few would lose a dollar thereby.

 At all events let us prepare now for a diversity of crops next year. T..
Year: 1875

Camden Beacon: The baby market opened up brlsk this week with an increase of forty five lbs. over the receipts of the first week in October of last year. Market firm and bouyant with an upward tendency.
Year: 1875

Fall Rye for winter or spring pasture, is a great saving of other feed, giving wholesome change to all kinds of stock. Who is providing for winter and early spring by sowing it now?
Year: 1875

The great double track narrow-gauge
route that they have been surveying
through Brooke county lately, and that is
known rs the Peoples Freight Railway
is intended to BE- cheap transportation
highway between New York and Chicago,
and It's primary object is not to compete
for passenger traffic, It's capital stock is
put at seventy millions, thiFty.6vs mil
Ions Of which are TO be raised in New
York, and the balance along the route.
1t is designed to carry freight cheaper
than it has ever been carried in this
country, and this is to be done by means
Of low grades and running slow trains,
and also having great many OF them
on the road at one time, The parties
who are moving in the project claim that
they can do business ut handsome profit
at the minimum prices charged by the
trunk lines at the most favorable periods
Of the year. They claim that tho cereal
products Of the West can be land have
been) carried TO the Atlantic Seaboard
at 7 mills per mile per ton, and
that general freight East and West
can be transported at that rate. They
point to the fact that in the report OF the
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati 4 81, Louis Rail
road Company for 1874, the average cost
per mile OF all the traffic 10 given at 0.0r4
cents, fraction over 0 mills upon an
average haul Of 1870 miles, or ~ per cent
Of the length Of the road, 1893 miles. 1t
must be apparent that the cost Of through
freight-a great deal Of which needs no
handling, switching or transferring be-
tween the termini by the company--could
not have exceeded seven.tenths that, or 7
mills per ton per mile,


In the reports Of the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern Railroad Company
for 1872, II Is stated that on an average
haul Of 2OS miles on line $40 miles long,
the cost for freight traffic was 0D09 cents;
for 1879, with an average haul Of 2OS6
miles, the average cost was 0.O4G cents,
and for 1874, with an average haul Of
1914 miles, the average cost on all the
traffic of the road Was O.7G7 cents, or n
mills per ton per mile upon an average
haul lcss than 40 per cent Of the length Of
the road. The through traffic Of these
lines therefore cost not exceeding 0 mills
per ton per mile.
Year: 1875

THE Republican Territorial convention of New Mexico will be held in Santa Fe on the lst of June next. The delegates from Grant county were instructed to vote for Steven B. Elkins. In the event of Mr. Elkins not being a candidate to vote for some reliable Republican from southern New Mexico.
Year: 1875

E. M. PEARCE shipped by Quinlan's train to Yuma, a box of beautiful speci- mems of ore from his various mines in the Young America District. The box goes to Detroit and will be a wonder to those who view this evidence of our mineral wealth It is likely that the specimens will eventu- ally reach the Centennial.
Year: 1875

can be stopped except through change Of tho
plan OF incentive Of action. Not that expect
people to stop competing as an element OF
righteous progress, but that the end for which
they compete shsll embrace general good. ia
which the particular good will necessarily bo
included.


As ne are now situated, Ne cannot with safety
throw stones at one another, because We are
~ all in tho samo boat" and some distance ye:
from the land Of promise. We may strive to
patch up the old system here aud there, but the
old thing looka worse for the patches


OGDEN WH1TLocH-
Year: 1875

This afternoon the Quicksteps will play
the last game of the season. The game is
benefit one and, as the Cuicksteps were so
unfortunate as to have q small number
Of spectators at the last benefit, owing to
The inclement weather, their numerous
friends will doubtless tarn out we'll. Their
opponents-the well-klown Shibe club. of
Philadelphis-sre such fine team a to
render it unnecessary to speculate lpon the
probable excellence Of the game.
Year: 1875

Messrs. Huddle 4 Leitzinger, coal firm
Of fhiladslphia, of the highest standing
and deserving of liberal patronage. have
kindly donated large supply OF coal to
st. Peters Orphan Asylum in this city.
which is very suitable gift, and one that
comes in very cpporunely during the cold
weather,
Year: 1875

as- A lady living near Troy has piece Of Of
soap supposed to be hundred years old. Ism I
it astonishing how long some people can keep
soap in the house and never feel the slightest
temptation to use it
Year: 1875

OUR NATION HISTORIC GRowTH.-One of the
most hopeful things to be said of these United
States is that we are what we are not chiefly
by any forecast of our own, still less by any
intention to form great English speaking ma
ton on this side of the water, but because his
torical causes which could not be toreseen
shaped and moulded us into tOlerably hemo-
geneous and compact people. This is the only
nation of civilized men of which it can be said
that we passed through all the stages of our
life, from birth onward, through revolution to
natural progress, so that what some call histor-
ical incidents stand out, in our case more es-
pecally, to a man who sees God in the world,
as His guidance and purpose to make some
thing good out of us: which purpose we can
thwart, but one is filed with hope by believing
that it is real.-T d. Woolsey, IN Harper's Mag
dzine for October.
Year: 1875

BEAUTIFUL SAYING OF DYING MAN.-The
late Professor Caldwell, of Dickinson College,
short time before his death addressed his wife
as follows "You will not, am sure, lie down
upon your bed and weep when am gone; you
will not mourn for me, when God has been SO
good to me. And when you visit the spot
where lie, do not choose sad and mournful
time; do not go in the shade of the evening, or
in the dark night. These are no times to visit
the grave of Christian; but go in the morn
ing in the bright sunshine, and. when the birds
are singing.-M r Observer.
Year: 1875

HAPPY ARIrHMETIc.-Sidney Smith cut the
for himself: When you rise in the morning
form the resolution to make the day happy
one to fellow-creature. 1t is easily done; q
leftoff garment to man who needs it; kind
word to the sorrowful an encouraging ex-
preston to the starving-trifes in themselves
as light as air-will do at least for the
twenty-four hours. If you are young depend
upon it it will tell on you when you are old; and
if you are old, rest assured it will send you
gently and happy down the stream of time to
eternity. By the most simple arlth metlcal
sum look at the result. II you send one per-
son away happily through the day, that is
three hundred and sixty.five in the course OF
a year. And suppose you live forty years only
after you commence that course of medicine,
yeu haye made -1A,90a persons happy-at all
wants for time.
Year: 1875

SILENT NFLUENCE.-Itis is the bubbling stream
which flows gently, the little rivuleC which
runs along day and night by the farm house
that is useful rather than the swollen flood or
winding cataract. Niagara excites our wonder,
and we stand amazed at the power snd great
ness of the Creator. But one Niagara is enough
for the world, while the same world requires
thousands and tens of thousands of silver foun-
tains and gently flowing rivulets, that water
every farm and meadow and every garden, and
that shall flow on every day and every night
with their gentle, quiet beauty. So with the
acts of our lives. 1t is not by great deeds, like
those of the martyrs, that good is to be done
1t is by the daily and quiet virtues of life-the
Christian temper, the meek forbearance, the
spirit of forgiveness in the husband, the wife,
the father, the mother, the brother and sister,
the friend, the neighbor, that it is to be done.
Year: 1875

A Harrisburg paper informs us that
when gentleman and lady are walking


upon the street the lady should walk in


side Of the gentleman" We shall not
discuss the praetieability or impractical.
hiiity Of this feat, but we may refer to


the theory as Illustrating the general dis
position OF men to harrass and Cypress
The aentler sex. If the friends of Miss


Anthony do not desire her to visit Har-


risburg upon an errand of war, they will


keep this intelligence from her.4Phila-
ldepMia Bultetia. s. e {
Year: 1875

lhere IS nothing moro singular in the


history of testamentary dispositions than
the fashion in which the owners of property
have seized the occasion to shave il ont,
with their relatives. There is n fiendish
ingenuity of cruelty in the conduct of a
man Who leaves n certain legacy in his will
10 lire the imagination of such and such a


relative, and then rcvokcs the beouest by n
codicil, giving the reasons for his so doing.
Attached to other bequests well known in
tho lore of anecdote, phrases have boop
used which must have considerably lcsscned
the satisfaction Of the legatee. An English.
man onco left the sum of IS. "to Mary
Davis, daughter of Peter Delaport, which is
sufficient to enable her to get drunk for tho
last time at my expense" A member of n
great industrial family, which has been re.
nowned for generations for its eccentricitics.
remarked in his will, "To my only son,
who never would follow my advice, and has
treated me fudely in very many instances
instead Of making him my executor and
residuary legatee las till this day he wasl,
] give him Gl00,000;" but then no ordinary
person would stop to consider the terms of
bequest which handed him over 100000.
II is on record that another gentleman once
directed his executors to purchase a copy
OF the picture representing viper biting
the hand Of the man who had saved it, and


to give that to a certain friend of his, in liue
Year: 1875

To scald milk-pans and milk.noils bos
ever been and still is the practice Of all
makers of good butter. Why is this?
Neither science or philosophy has led the
way to its adoption, but experience, the
best of teachers, has pointed the way. and
science and philosophy but confirm its
teachings. We have heard much of the
efficacy of lime-watcr in cleansing md
purifying milk vessels, but we are satisfied
that nothing will have the desired effect So
well as scalding them in hot water, and
why? Simply because nothing else will so
completely destroy the little spores of fer
mentation which propagate so rapidly in
the least uncleanliness-so little that if
cannot be discovered by the naked cvo-
and herein it is that science and philosophy
but follow and cOrroborate the fact. You
cannot completely cleanse a vessel unless
hot water is used, and the water must not
only be hot enough to bite the hand. but
absolutely spanking hot, up to the highest
point.


When the vessel is first cleansed and
then scalded it should be set away to dry.
not to be touched again until wanted for
use. Milk, like charcoal or plaster, is n
powerful absorbent, and what it absorbs it
holds until its rankness is increased bv
chemical atmospheric changes. In winter
this is not the case to so great an extent,
although even then there should be no
deviation from the practice. But in sum
mer it is indispensably necessary. How
important, then, it is to see that the person
handling tho milk is trustworthy. This is
not only necessary, but it is a necessity
upon which hang all the law and the
prophets on the subject of nice butter.
making.


But this is not all. Tho dirt being
removed, the air must also be pure. II
must contain no bad odor of decnvino
vegetables, the dunghill or pigpen, or the
urlnal streams from the stable. For these
Will most assuredly affect tho milk and
render it unfit for the manufacture of nice
butter.