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Year: 1875

Unbelievers will regard it as curious and


unfortunate coincidence, that the grasshop-
pers of the Missouri bottom-lands selected


Fast-day as the best time for grand hegira
to other States. Devout Christians, on the
other hand, will place the prayers and the
departure of the plague in the relation of
cause and effect Those who attempt to


hold the balance between the extremists of
both kinds must be prepared to contend
fearful perplexities. The believers say that
here at last is clear answer to a precise
petition; the people prayed earnestly that
the grasshoppers might take unto them
selves wings and fly away, and 10, the
grasshoppers flew. But the scoffers have a
ready answer. They assert that the growth
of the grasshoppers' wings was perfectly
natural process; and that Governor Hardin
was aware of these facts when he issued
his famous prayer proclamation. We are
prepared for long and tiresome discussion
in controversy through the columns of the
newspapers, and for final abandonment of
the whole subject as possessing only a
small degree of speculative interest. The
issue will show, no doubt, that any prayer
gauge trial, however extended and defined,
will utterly fail to convince anybody either
that prayer is heard or is not. It win al
ways be easy for either side to say that the
conditions of the trial were not observed,
or that the results were not correctly deter
mined. The present case in Missouri az
fords equal satisfaction and comfort to
skeptic and Christians, inasmuch as the
main desire Of both sides is accomplished
BY the hegira of the pests. Chicago 1rs-
bune.
Year: 1875

pfum EdTlS CU&IlYdTL
Women love but once-shun that once.
Woman's hate is in proportion to their
womanly love.
Most women retain their virtue, but many
like to risk it.
Not all women lie, but no woman ever
tells the whole truth.
Hatred is at the bottom of love, as death
is at the bottom of life.


One always thinks he is in love when
going up stairs coming down he is not SO
sure of it.


You cannot impede woman in her love;
you cannot recall the arrow shot into
space.


A woman is fortress which can al
ways be taken-by him who knows how to
make the assault.


Mans vanity is irritated by defeat and
consoled with rupture. Woman's vanity
acts in an inverse sense.


Ask not woman's heart she has but one,
and may give it. Of all fatal presents a
womsn's heart is the most deadly.


Do not love a romantic woman. She
will make an ideal of you which you can
not realize, and which it win grieve you to
destroy.
Year: 1875

Countless accidents, as every one
knows, arise from the use of matches.
To obtain light without employing
them, and so without the danger of set
ting things on fire, an ingenious con-
trivance is now used by the watchmen
of Paris in all magazines where explo-
sive or inhammable materials are kept.
any one may easily make trial OF 1t.
Take an oblong phial of the whitest and
clearest glass, and put into it piece of
phosphorus about the size Of pea.
Pour some olive oil, heated to the boil
ing point, upon the phosphorus; fill the
phial about one-third full, and then
cork it tightly. To use this novel light
remove the cork, allow the air to enter
the phial, and then recork it. The
empty space in the phial will become
luminous, and the light obtained will
be equal to that of lamp. When the
light grows dim, its power can be in
creased by taking out the cork, and al
lowing a fresh supply of air to enter the
phial. In winter it IS sometimes neces-
sary to heat the phial between the hands
in order to increase the fuidlty OF the
oil. The apparatus, thus prepared may
be used for six months.
Year: 1875

CRACKED WHEAT PUDDING.-Take l
quart of unskimmed milk, add to it l
gill of cracked wheat, uncooked, and l
gill of sugar and small piece of stick
cinnamon. Place it in an oven of medi-
um heat. When about half done, stir in
the crust already formed, and leave it
to form another, which will be suffici-
emily brown. Try when it is done by
tasting grain of the wheat, which
must be very soft. This, when cold,
makes a delicious creamy pudding. A
handful of raisins is an improvement.
Year: 1875

Many persons are in the habit ot
freshening mackerel or other salf fish,
and never dream that there is right
and wrong way to do it. Any per.
son who has seen the process of evap.
Grafton going on at the salt works,
knows that the salt falls to the bot.
tom. Just so it is in the pan where
your mackerel or whitefsh lies soak.
ing; and, as it lies with the skin
down, the salt will fall to the skin
and there remain, when if placed
with the flesh side down, the salt falls
to the bottom of the pan, and the fish
comes out freshened as it should be-
In the other case it is nearly as salt
as when put in.
Year: 1875

DO divorces run in families? Is
the passion for putting assunder what
God hath joined a matter of blood
an epidemic which is catching? 1t
would seem so from recent occur
renee in the New York Marine
Court. A divorce suit was brought
in that court, and every witness ex-
amined had been divorced. There
were five altogether and all related
to each other. The record does not
show what caused these divorces, but
it certainly indicates that the dis.
ease had a very successful run.
Year: 1875

This is said to be the way a
stranger in San Antonio, Texas, was
informed how he could find the Meth
odist place of worship: "A&er you
pass the seventh bar-room on this
side of the street, strike across and
take up soledad street, and you will
find it one hundred yards beyond the
last beer saloon on the same street.
nearly opposite q ten.piu alley"
Year: 1875

"A test was recently made of the
buoyant power of a leaf of the water
lily known as the Nctorio Regia, in
the Botanic Garden at Ghent. Bricks
were heaped over its entire area, and
before it was submerged in the water
weight of 761 pounds was float,
Year: 1875

From the Warwick Nv. ~ Advertiser, July l.


In the fall of 1851 sylvanus Quack-
enbush, a thriving farmer residing
near Warwick, went to New York
with drove of cattle, which he dis
posed of: He then returned to north
ern New Jersey to purchase some
sheep. At Patterson he was met by
George w. Sanford, to whom he paid
two hundred dollars, which was the
last seen of him. His friends after
ward traced him to New York, where
he had disposed of the sheep purchas-
ed in Jersey, and ascertained that he
lunched at the Girard House, now
the Cosmopolitan Hotel, at Hudson
and Chambers streets. From that
time until about five years ago moth
ing was heard of him, and by most
people it was believed that he had
been murdered for his money, as it
was certain that he had between three
and five thousand dollars with him
at the time.


About FIVE years ago his wife re-
ceived a letter from some one in the
West, stating that he was there sick.
AS Mrs. Quackenbush had been left
p9nriless after the settlement Of his
estate, and once before parties had
swindled her Cor her friends) Of some
two hundred dollars, by representing
that he had died at some distant place
and left considerable property, no at
tention was paid to the letter. On
Thursday evening last Mr.. Quacken-
bush put in an appearance on the
Warwick Valley Railroad train,
bound to the scenes of his younger
days, and got off at Sugar Loaf, where
his relatives live, and near which
place his wife had taken up her resi-
dence. He says that he remembers
dining at the Girard House, but the
next he knew he found himself in St.
Louis in the middle of winter fully
three months later. From that time
he says he was pursued by men, some
times by one and at other times by
another, who wished to seize him.
He had evidently been confined in a
lunatic asylum a portion of the time
since he had been away, and at other
times he has been in Jail, but his
stories are wandering and difficult to
trace. From what he says he has
travelled through most of the Western
and Southern States, working when
his health would permit at other
times being under confinement. He
is pronounced insane by physicians
who have seen him, and the supposi-
ton is that he was drugged, from the
effects Of which''he was made crazy, and
since that time he has been a wander
er on the face of the world, with lucid
intervals. His case is one of the most
pitiable that has been brought to light
in this locality for many years, and
the position in which his poor wife
and family are placed is one to excite
the sympathy of our community.
Year: 1875

she was nearly dead but as soon as
she could speak, this was what she
said:


"The moon came down to me, and
I went to get it; and then she pulled
me down and drowned me, and dir
tied me, the nasty, wicked MOON"


Moral-All the strong-minded lit
tie girls tbat want the moon, beware.
You cannot reach her, and if she does
come down you'll have to wade
through muddy water to get her.
Your feet and white garments will be
soiled. and you must touch evil weeds,
and perhaps you will be less lucky
than our little girl ; for no one may
come to your rescue, and you may
be quite drowned, not only partially
80, by that wicked, treacherous moon,
for which you pine and speechify.-
! Me,v York Ledger.
Year: 1875

A CITY PAVED WITH SILVER AND GOLD -
Our principal streets being macadamized with
refuse ore taken from the mines in early days,
and being coated with the rich ore that has
been year after year sifted down upon them
from the ore wagons, are now everywhere
more or less argentiferous. Iadeed, there is
not the slightest stretch of imagination in
saying that we never take step in the town
hut we are walking on silver-thst our streets
are literally paved with silver. While speak
ing of this fact day or two since, young
man bet his friend the price of the assaying
and "the cigars" that he would take lump Of
mud off the wheel of a bus, then standing be-
fore them, aud would get out of it precious
metals to the value of over SIS per ton. An
ounce or two of mud was taken from the
wheel of the vehicle and placed in the hands
of an assayer, who was not told where the
sample was obtained, and who no doubt sup
posed that he was dealing with decomposed
ore or vein matter from one of our mines. The
assay was made, and the assay er's certificate
showed that the sample contained, silver 81 81;
gold Sc 80; total SO SO. After thiswe may put
on airs, even though our streets are villain
ously muddy occasionally, for the very mud on
our boots contains both silver and gold-is not
the vulgar mud of the "cow county" towns
Virginia City (Neuada) Enterprise.
Year: 1875

The following is fr~m The Alta:

 Several of the orators who deliver ed addresses ill Mexico on the 18th of September last, at the celebration of the anniversary of National Inde- pendence, claimed for themselves and the nation an Aztec as opposed to 3 Spanish character. eulogizing their red ancestors, lamenting their sub lection and the destruction of their superior civilization, and referring with praise to their religious, as well as to their political institutions. The Mexican independence was consider ed not merely as the overthrow of despotic government and class privil- ege, but also as the triumph of the red over the white race. Pride of blood is natural to mankind, and is not without its benefits. Nobody should imagine because his skin is dark that therefore there IS no chance for him to excel in intellectual pur- suits But it is not wise to encourage the Mexican Indians, who make up A large majority of the population, in the idea that they should monopolize the political power, and undervalue the services of the white men who have most of the education and polit- ical experience of the country.
Year: 1875

The San Francisco Bulletin corros- nondent at the State fair at Sacrs- mento, thus discOurses on what he saw and learned

 AMONG THE SHEEP MEN.

 Wool growing is an important in dustry in California. If it Is not as profitable as can be desired, the trouble lies mainly with the farmers themselves The farmers know this. but the State has not yet passed through the transition era from the old Mexican stock to the more profit able breads The exhibits of blood ed stock at the annual agricultural fairs have done much toward deve!- oping the wool interest. They have shown what can be done where care and attention are bestowed upon the animals. When more attention l. paid to sheep by our wool-raisers We shall no longer find the California staple selling at less figures in the Eastern market because the wool Is dirty and the fleece short. The exhi- bition of sheep is leading depart ment in the State Fair. Several focks were yesterday on the ground and before the end of the week these will be considerably augmented. The critical examinations yesterday made by those farmers in turl show the general interest taken in this question of developing our wool interest. When an exhibitor pulleia d short spec linen of tue wool from the thorough bred sheep. an air of amazement seemed to characterize the farmer. A new light was dawning upon him. Why should not be grade up his stock and produce wool which is certain of a good market, instead of continuing to run along with his old Mexican stock?
Year: 1875

nUR MILL NOW BEING IN FULL V operation, we are prepared tO furnish the market with quality or Flour, which we guarantee far superior 10 any manu- tactured in the Territory, and fully equal To the very best imported from California We will keep constantly on hand at the Mill, and al our several agencies
Year: 1875

Yesterday afternoon srAK reporter had oc-
casion to drive along the northern hills and
along Browne street. Passing Klotter y Sons
brewery on that street, we came to rustic
looking place that extended from the banks OF
the canal TO the road on the north, and lay
about half way between the brewery and the
bridge opposite Camp Washington. On this.
place Is q pasture, and here passers-by may
daily see an old horse lazily nipping the grass.
In his company is q huge and fierce -looking
dog Of the Newfoundland species.


For two years both have slept in the same
stable during the night, and when daybreak
approaches the two will walk forth In company
to the pasture, and the dog is SO attached TO his
fellow partner that he stays with him through
the whole day. II the horse walks around, the
dog will be sure to follow; II he lie down, the
dog Will do the same; in short, let the horse do
what he may, the dog follows In the same line,
never leaving him for q moment He js 30 at
tachcd to the horse that no .ooaxmg can separ-
ate them. He will allow no one, whether man
or beast, to trouble his hoofed friend, and no
kind OF weather will prevent him from attend
ing his dumb fellow creature.
Year: 1875

The udder of the COW is composed Of four
glands. Each gland consists of secreting
vesicles, ducts, reservoirs and connective
matter. The reservoirs are situated mostly
at the periphery and apex Of the gland, and
more particularly adjacent to the sides cover
ed by the skin of the animal. The secret.
ing surfaces principally occupy the center,
The vesicles in their arrangement form groups,
and each group has its duct, which connects
with the duct from other groups, aLd thus
the secretion is passed toward the main ducts,
which serve to store and transmit what they
may receive. These vesicles are lined with
what have been called secreting cells, which
are really but stage of development of the
butter globule itself These cells grow by a
species Of budding Of proliferation, and at
the some time species Of fatty degeneration
may take place to a certain extent until the
cell is cast off milk globule, and is free
from the animal structures free cell.


The milk glObule is consequently formed
from the animal nay more, was up to the
moment of separation portion of the animal,
subjected to whatsoever changes may have
been impressed upon it by its position, and
subject equally with the animal TO the condi.
tions Of the animal environment in so far as
the they are applicable. In the early
stages of lactation, and before parturition,
the process of the casting forth of these
milk cells is not so complete as at later
date. We find an excess of action, through
which the cells are prematurely cast off /;
indeed, even when they are in contact with
each other, These groups of cells, the lining
of the vesicles, and not yet fully transform
ed into the true globule, we call colostrum
corpuscles. Even in animals in advanced
lactation these colostrum corpuscles may ap-
pear in arrangements or diseases affecting
the COW, aud whose influence extends to the
udder. In the colostrum corpusces we have
presented a stage in the development Of the
globule, where the globules are in aggrega.
tion.---E. L. Sturteeant IN Neto York Her.
aid.
Year: 1875

In seeding ground to grass, have, for the
last ten years, practiced stocking in the
corn. My practice is to turn over a piece
of bound out grass, turning it about seven or
eight inches deep, as fiat as possible; then
manure with about forty loads Of barnyard
manure to the acre mix it thoroughly with
the soil with cultvator and harrow, and
when well pulverized, mark the rows three
feet and six inches apart each way, and
plant to corn, taking pains to sink the hills
so that when the corn is covered the hills
will be no higher than the rest Of the ground.
The first time hoeing, run the cultivatOr be-
tween the rows both ways and not hill up
around the corn at all. At the second time
of hoeing prefer to cultivate again both
ways aud hoe without hilling, or rather, stir
the dirt around the corn without hauling
any more around it than | take away. After
the corn is hoed, SOW the grass seed, by
commencing on one side aud SOW back and
forth until the piece is finished. l have two
hands follow me with rakes aud rake 10 the
seed as fast as sown,


This may look, to one that has never tried
it, like great undertaking, but two men
with rakes will rake the ground over as fast
as one can SOW the grass seed. 1t is better
to SOW the seed as soon as possible after tho
corn is hoed, while the ground is light, IT
possible before the rain falls on the ground
to make it hard. Ii | have large pieces |
SOW aud rake it about as fast as It Is hoed'
not waiting to finish hoeing the whole held
before sowing the seeding, have so"n the
seed before commencing to cultivate the
corn the second time, but do not think l
get the seed into the ground as evenly as in
the way have described.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Joseph Harris, of Rochester, N. Y,
stated in an address at the meeting Of the
Massachusetts, Board Of Agriculture last
fall, which we find reported in the Nelo
England Farmer, that he believes in having
fattening pigs grow larger all tho time.
Food consumed by hogs that only hold their
own is all wasted, except what is saved in
the manure. Much depends upon good
breeding. We should breed out all poor
points, and then breed in good, digestive
apparatus. lie would have pigs eat and di.
gest more food than they do now; the more
the better. He related an experiment in
running threshing machine. One horse
being disabled, he tried to make its mate do
the work. He found that it took all the
power Of one horse to keep the machine 90.
ing without threshlng particle of wheat.
When the other horse returned, he saw he
was really getting his wheat all threshed by
one horse, although two horses were at work,
A third horse being hitched in, the amount
of wheat threshed was just doubled. Fifty
per cent more power gave one hundred per
cent. increase. 1t was the same with pig
feediDg-give pig just enough to run the
machlne, anu the power Is all lost. Nhat
is added, after that, is all gain. So wo want
pigs that will eat, digest and assimilate a
large amount Of food The number Of
pounds of corn required for pound of pork
depends largely upon the breed of hogs fed.
Experiments have been tried. which show a
difference equal to the difference between
eighty five per cent. and iIty-seven per cent,
as the cost of supporting the present con-
dition.


The economy of cooking food depends up
on circumstances; as, for instance, the abili.
ty of the hog to assimilate more or less food
than he can digest. Cooked food must be
given more frequently than uncooked food.
The value Of the manure made from bush.
el Of corn does not vary greatly, whether fed
to one animal or another Hog manure is
rich, because hogs have rich food to eat.
There is nothing in the manure except what
was in the food. He believes that he can
obtain phosphoric acid, nitrogen and potash
cheaper from animals than from commercial
fertilzers
Year: 1875

A friend gives the following mode for set
ting out fruit trees, which will perhaps come
in very we'll here, as the season is at hand for
planting orchards. Mark out the ground
the distance you desire to set your tree
take the tree you desire to set, and stand it
upon the ground, mark with your spade,
tracing each root remove the tree, and dig
away the dirt as traced while the tree was
standing when you have finished this, with
a sharp knife cut away three or four inches
Of each root, and turn the end SO cut down
into the hard ground, and force as far down
as you can get it-this will hold the tree in
place, and will require no stake the place
for the tap root should be dug out aud the
ground made loose around it do not set
deep, this is not its natural way of growing.
You will find your toes will live better,
and are more thrifty, aud your orchard will
be at least twelve months ahead Of one set
in the ordinary way. The reason is very
clear that when fastened in this way, the
blowing of the tree by the wind can never
break the feeders that are making out from
the roots.


The many farmers that l have talked
with upon the subject, all agree that in the
ordinary way of setting, that Of digging a
square hole, and filling with compost or
other manures that the tree will do we'll for
two years, after that it will commence
dying, and upon examination you will find
the roots have grown and filled up the square
hole you have dug, and being unable to pen'
citrate the hard ground, return to the rich
mould around the tree until solid mat oil
Year: 1875

AS general rule, says Ne'O England
Farmer correspondent live stock, when well
fed and cared for, will eat only what their
system needs, or what appetite Graves.
When cattle gnaw the boards and shingles
from the barn, the hair from each others
sides, and even the ground where soapsuds
have been emptied, when they eat old boots,
bones and woolen rags, in preference to
their food, there is something out of sorts
with them, and, as corrective, L have nev-
er seen anything equal to plenty of ashes,
salt and sulphur. My usual mixture is four
quarts of ashes, two quarts of salt, and one
half pound of sulphur. When the stock
have corn cobs frequently, l find they need
ashes less. l can stop the gnawing of wood
by feeding cobs, every time. Sulphur is
good for the blood as preventive of disease,
and also makes the hair look well. 1t is
also preventive of mango in swine, and
tends to keep their issues open. Sheep that
have sulphur frequently will not be troubled
with humors, and will never pull each others
wonl
Year: 1875

The Western railroad laws, if they ac-
complished nothing else, were supposed at
least to favor the agricultural interests, and
benefit the farmers. They were enacted by
legislatures under granger influence, and
gave definite shape and expression to the
general complaints Of extortionate rates Of
transportation. Recently, however, the Min
nesota State Grange has formally declared
that the existing state law for the regulation
of railroads is expensive and useless to the
people and vexatious to the roads, and its
repeal is accordingly demanded. In its
place, law is asked for which shall guar
antee cheap transportation for the products
of the farm, especially wheat 1t is little
curious that the very trainers Of this law,
and those who were most clamorous for its
passage, have come at length to see that it
is ill-devised and impracticable, and works
injustice all around, without benefting any
one. The grangers do not yet understand
just what it is they want, and the legislature
is therefore left to bungle away at it again,
without any new light or information to help
them. The law which the grangers now re-
pudiate was closely modelled after the Hi
nois Standardization Journal.