The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, April 05, 1882, Image 4
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fabm, gabdex a>*d household.
Do Beto Injure Grapes ?
_ Afc the late annual meeting of the
Northeastern Beekeepers's association
the charge that bees in jure grapes was
discussed with some feeling. Two bills
have been introduced in the California
legislature to forbid the keeping of
bees because of the damage they are
said to do to the ripening grapes. The
northeastern beekeepers were unanimous
in the opinion that honey bees
never puncture the skin of the grape,
thcnch thev freauent the vines to suck
the juices of grapes already injured by
birds or other "insects. This it was
claimed has been demonstrated by careful
tests. Black ants are the chief mischief-makers.
Frnit Trees.
Dr. N. P. Allen, of Kentucky, says :
As a matter of experiment I selected
one half of an acre of ground adjoining
my orchard and planted the apple and
peach seed where the tree was to grew
permanently the following year. I
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graitea iaeapp:eana ouaaea me pe&cu,
and gave them good cultivation for
four years. The young trees grew very
thrifty, more so than in my orchard,
and seemed to be healthier, none dying
^ until the fifth or sixth year. But I find
now, after they have been standing
eleven years, that there is but little
difference in the peaches, as they are
very much broken and decayed, but the
apples have lived better and are more
thrifty than in my orchard. There is
one great advantage of planting the
seed where it is to grow, and that is the
tap root serves as an ancnor against
storm3 and high winds.
Garget In Cows.
Among the causes, says the Frairie
L- Farmer, are congestion of the udder,
bruises from lying down on the udder
on a hard floor, Deglect in milking, etc.
Continued friction with the palm of the
hand often proves of service-in reducing
hardness and swelling of the udder.
Such condition of the udder is generally
of a ch^uic nature, slow of reduction
and often not reduceable by any
means. Beside friction, a small por
tion oi tue ioiiowiDg liniment may t>e
applied morning and evening, but only
%o the hardened parts. The ndder
should be carefully washed before each
milking, if the milk is used. Take half
an ounce of iodine, two ounces of
glycerine, two ounces of mercurial ointment
and two ounces of olive oil; mix.
The bottle shonld be kept corked in a
cool place, and the contents well shaken
- before use. It would be beneficial in
the beginning of the disease to give the
cow a laxative dcse of medicine, snch
as a pound and a half of epsom salts,
dissolved in a quart of hot water, to
which solution add a pint of molasses
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there be much difficulty in drawing the
milk from the affected quarter, the careful
use of a milking tube is to be recommended.
Canker VTonus.
This is how I got rid of them on four
hundred apples trees (says a correspontdent
of the Germantown Telegraph). I
took one barrel and a half of tar, warmed
it in a pail with half rain water, and ap
pnea it, liuoac 4 o ciock in me aiternoon,
with a large paint brush. I made
a ring aroand the body of the tree,
about half way up to the limbs, and repeated
it every day for for thirty-one
days, having commenced on the 3d of
April. The habits of these destructive
worms are peculiar. The miller that
lays the egg for the worm commences
coming out of the ground as soon as it
"begins to thaw in the spring, and im
mediately crawls up tfco tree and lays
its eggs in and on the buds, -which hatch
as soon as the tree begins to leave, when
its work begins. These millers are
hardly ever seen in the daytime, and
they never climb the trees except at
night. From a half-hour to an hour
r?? . after sundown they appear to pop o-at
of the ground and" start for the tree.
The female has no wings and gets stuck
in the tar, and that is the end of it. I
had a man who tarred the four hundred
trees in about two hours; some of the
trees had been only four years set out
The tar was applied to the bark. No
Iaarm resu-ueci irom it 10 xne trees, dus
the worms were exterminated. This
was done some six rears ago. My trees
had been stripped fcr five years of fruit
and leaves, but not a canker worm has
been seen since.
Clipping Horses.
There has been much talk, pro and
con, upon the subject of clipping
horses; that is, the shearing of tie
hair close to the skin by means of an
implement made fcr the purpose. The
farmer has no business with hc-rses that
have been clipped. They must be
blanketed in the stable, and doubly
blanketed out of doors when standiL?>.
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i>o man owning norses snorna ever |
allow them to be clipped, except that
class who use them for light work, and
who can, of course, afford to take the
best of care of them in and out of the
stable. Coach horses or any horse or
horses left standing in the cold, should
never be clipped. In this connection
a word upon stable management may
be in place.
There is economy in a blanket for
every horse doing work, in the stable
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aiiu uub, wucii pumumg ao icau JLiie j
cost is but little, and this cost will be |
saved in one winter in the saving of j
feed, to say nothing of the comfort to I
the poor dumb brutes, the most faithful j
as they are the most useful of cnr four- |
footed servants. Do not, therefore. [
IP listen to interested parties. Those of j
our patrons who keep horses in villages 1
and other suburban localities, should
have blankets, one set for the stable j
and one set for the street?and use j
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aleek glossy coats, if faithful work is
laid out in grooming (remembering a
stabled horse cannot clean himself),and
in any event in a general improvement
in condition.?Prairie Farmer.
Soil AnaJyti*.
Professor E. W. Hilgard, writing
jpr . on the objects and interruptions of
soil analysis in the Journal of Science,
accepts as correct the principle that,
nfrlipr fhinrs h^incr A/inal 7?T?d native
ness is or should be sensibly propo tioned
to the amount of available plant
food within reach of the roots during
the period of the plant's development,
provided that such supply doss not
exceed the maxmium of that which the
plant can utilize when the surplus sup]
ply remains inert. To find the ezaclf
value of the soil from analysis it if;
necessary therefore not so much to dis
cover the actual amounts of the con*;
stitnents in the soil as to find the ;
amounts which are accessible to and ;
5^ assimilated by the plants. The problem (
becomes then to find a solvent that shall
as nearly as possible represent the
action of the plant itself.
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sis starts from the observation of the 1
productive qualities of the soil as indi-!
cated by the native growth. Next, he ,
endeavors to ascertain the peculiarities ;
of the soil that form this sort of growth \
as distinguished from other growths on i
other soils. Mechanical conditions, it
appears, must always b9 taken into account.
As a rule, a soil exhibiting a
high percentage of plant-food is fertile,
but a soil having a "low percentage is
not, on the other hand, necessarily
poor, a loose sou, dj enlarging ine |
sphere of expansion of the roots, may
enable them to reach as large quanti- !
ties of food more widely scattered as !
they can find in a higlly charged but;
more compact and less penetrable soil.
The evidence from toe anaJysis so
far instituted is unquestionable* in regard
to the present productiveness of a
soil being measurably dependent on the
presence of a certain minimum quantity
cf lime. After the presence of lime
the proportion of phosphoric acid cj paars
to the most important factor in
ifia productiveness of sc ils. A certain
I percentage of pcta3his required, but it
- is present in most soils Piofessor
Hilgard infers, as & rule, that potash
Sr.. manures are not ars .>n?r the first to be
f| sought for after the soils have become
Q exhausted. Ircn in the shape of ferric
hydrate finely diffused appears to be an
important ingredient, valuable on account
of its physical and partly on
account of its chemical qualities. It
has a highly absorptive power for gases,
and soils'in which it occurs resist
drought better than others; and the
universal preference given by farmers
to red lands shows the results of
experience in this respect. Th6 efficacy
of the hydrate depends upon the state
of fine division ; and when merely incrus
ting the sand grair? it exerts little
or no influence, although analysis may i
show a higher precentage. On tho
other hand, ferruginous soils are
first liable to damage from imperfect
drainage, overflows and the tike.
Household mm*.
'(.o keep your knives and forks from
rusting, make a flannel bag, and stitcb
from top to bottom, an inch and a hal^
apart, a dozen times, making a recepta.
cle for each. Roll and keep in a drj
placa.
To keep seeds from th9 depredations
of mice, mix some pieces of camphor
with them. Cimphor placed in trnnks
or drawers will prevent mice from doing
them iDjury.
To make hard water Eoffc fill the washboi'er
or tank with hard water, then put
half a teacnpfnl of wood ashes into a
woolen bag; cover this with cotton
cloth to prevent ashes sifting out; let
this lie in the water until that is warm
enough to use.
To give a delicious flavor to lamb
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wmcn is 10 ue eaten uuiu rjuu xu mc i
water in which it is boiled whole cloves
and long stick cinnamon. To one leg
of lamb allow one small handful of
cloves, two or three sticks cinnamon.
If the lamb is to be roasted, boil the
cloves and cinnamon in water, and baste
the lamb with it.
RiTipe*.
Blacs T'eaxs ?A sort of meek turtle
sonp is made from black or brown
beana> which is nutritious and palatable.
These beans are known among
farmers as crowders, aLd are of a very
nn-mmn-n ThA ftfein nf the bean
is very tough, and wiil never cook
tender, "although it frequently bursts
open, letting the mealy vegetable out
into the water. These beans ought to
be taken when dry, and soaked over
night, then boiled in plenty of water
from four to six hours: Same cooks
pour off the water in which they first
boil 'ip in, adding fresh to cook them
in. After this thorough cooking they
oughi; to be well mashed and strained
through a colander, seasoned to taste
with salt, pepper, butter and just a
dash of vinegar, v hile slices of lemon
are ttrown in after it is dttshed into the
tareen. Nice pickled green tomatoes
will answer in place of lemon. Serve
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*ni toughness of the skin those beans
are really only fit for soup or porridge,
yet for this tmrpose they excel all other
varieties in richness and nutriment, and
they deserve to become more widely
known and appreciated than they are.
Fruit Pudding?To make a plain
fmit puddiui?, take one Cup of suga.r,
one-half cup butter and two eggs, and
beat together, then add a cap of sour
milk ana one teaspoonfnl of soda, three
cnps of flour and one cup of chopped
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raisins j bu;ca w ls&lw. a uu u a iuuju
and steam two hours.
Baelez Socp.?0 ie pound of shin of
beef, fom ouuoes ji pearl barley, one
potato, salt and pej-ptr to taste, one
quart and 3 half of water. Put the
ingredients into a saucepan,, and simmer
gently for four hour3. Strain,
retnrn the barley and serve. An onion
added is an improvement.
Apple Jelly.?The best apple jelly
we ever made, writes a lady, and, if I
may be allowed to sat so, the best I
ever tasted, consisted of nure apple
juice and pounded loaf sugar only,
cleared without the aid of a jelly bag;
an article of so-called domestic utility
of which we have a wholesome horror.
The only straining medium we employed
was a piece of new strong, coarsa muslin,
from which all the dressing was
discharged by its having been passed
two or three times through boiling
water. It can scarcely be necessary to
say that the fresher the fruit the better
the ielly; also that the fruit should be
gathered when fully ripe, unbruised,
and perfectly dry. Pippins .are the
apples generally preferred for making
jelly ; but any variety of culinary apple,
provided the flesh is juicy and tender,
with an agreeable acidity, will do. Before
cutting up tLe apples have a strong
brown earthenware pan or jar, large
enough to hold the whole of the apples
when cut up. At the bottom of this
pan put two or three tablespoonfuls of
cold spring water, peel and core the
apples, cut them into thin slices and
throw them into the jar as they are
done. When full place a saucer or
earthenware lid over and tie it down
tight over the jar with a piece of calico
and string; place the jar in a hot oven
mtil the fruit has melted to a pulp;
lake out the jar, and pour the fruit into
a now, clean hair-sieve, or into a bag ol
muslin, as atoresaia ; leave ic uniu me
whole of the Juice has run through into
the vessel placed to receive it; when
this is done put three-quarters of a
pound of crushed loaf sugar to every
pound of jaice, or one pound of sugai
if the jelly is preferred very sweet;
pour into an enameled preserving pan
and simmer until the juice, when
poured into a cold plate, sets in a fe*?
minutes; stir everv now and then, but
do not have the fire fierce enough tc
burn the sugar to the pan; a hot hearth
or a stove is always, of course, preferred
to an open fire for any delicate culinaiy
Ar>Amiior?_
Bicycle Ridin? in England.
An American correspondent writes as
follows from Coventry, England:
Ve.-ilv this is th6 land of the "cycle."
Before breakfast, standing at the hotel
window with a local rider, he called ofi
to me the names and profession of th
varions riders coming from the snbnrbs
as follows: "That elderly clergyman is
Mr. Singer; lie is riding a tifty-inch
'chalenge.' Nest to him the cashier oi
the bank. These two on bicycles, uniformed,
are letter carriers; that machine
turning the corner belongs to the
police department." And so fi went, a
steady stream of bicycles, tricycles, and
occasionally a double tricycle. Purchasing
the morning paper from an old
man over sixty years of age cn a tricycle,
we adjourned to discuss luscious
chops, fresh laid eggs, and i;he latest
breakfast novelty, date coffee, in tne
dining-room I observed several bicyclists
in uniform, and on being introduced
found they were from Birming
ham, nineteen miles distant, and had
ridden over for breakfast. They are
booked ahead for dinner at Stratfordon-Avon,
twenty-two miles from there,
and were to sup at Birmingham, giving
a day's run at about sixty-seven miles.
At the table also sat Medinger, of Paris,
the coming man from France, who has
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tween these two and the Englishman,
Hillier, rests the world's championship
for lSSA. As we eat the children go to
school, many on bicycles and several
girls on three-wheelers; and now the
huckster delivers vegetables for the ion
from out a push-cart, the wheels being
cast-off bicycle driving-wheels. A
wheelbarrow goes by, the wheel from
the. wreck cf a nickel-plated bicycle,
Tn ororc <3irp/?KfYn npraTythnlators and I
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baby-wagons are met, with spider-like
wheels and rubbei tires superseding all
others. Going to the theater on one
evening, I observed an old apple-woman
selling her wares by the light of a hublamp.
It is safe to say 2,500 persons
find employment all the year round at
the business here, and give support tc
at least 5,0C0 more. Passing by one of
the tall spires one Sunday morning, I
counted eiijht tricycles and over thirtj
bicycles, on which a portion of the worslrpers
had como to their devotions.?
Ti-rf, Fiell rmd Farm.
MncrcnVoc ror*r? o ra onnTlf a
large factory for tlio production of glass
tiles for roofs. Wisconsin has an abundance
of silicate used in glass-making,
ai d it is said that these tiles can be
produced for "half the c^st of shingles,"
that they last forever, and ia all re*
t pects ma^e a model roof.
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RELIGIOUS REiDLNG.
The Name cf the Good samaruan.
Oberlin, the well-known philanthropist
of Steinthal, vhiie jet a candidate
for the ministry, was traveling on
(his occasion from Strasbourg. It was
(a the winter time. The ground was
deeply covered with snow, and the roads
frere almost impassable. He had reached
{he middle of his journey and was among
the mountains, but by that time was so
szhaustcd that he could stand up no
longer.
He was rapidly freezing to death.
*>leep began to overcome iiim; all power
o resist it left him. He offered i
fiimself to God, and yielded to what he
felt to be the sleep of death.
j He knew not how long he slept, but
tnddenly became conscions of some one
rousing him and waking him up. Before
him stood a wa^on-driver. in his blue
blouse, and the wigon not far away. He
gave him a little wine and food, and the
spirit of life retuvned. He then helped
k-"? Trroofrtu on/7 Vir^nrrl-if-. Vnm to
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the next village. The rescued man was
profuse in his thanks, and offered money,
which his benefactor refused.
4'It is only a duty to help one another,"
3aid the wagoner, "ana is is ine next
thing to an insult to ofier a reward for
such a service."
"Then," replied Oberlin, "at least
tell me jour name, that I may have you
in thankfnl reraemberance before God."
"I see," said the wagoner, 'that you
are a minister of the gospel ; please tell
me the name of the good Samaritan?"
"That," replied Oberlin, "I cannot
do, for it was not put on record."
"Then," replied the wagoner, "until
you can tell me his name, permit me to
withoid mine."
Coyn he had driven out of sight and
Dberlin never saw him again.
It is not a principal cl jm of the
story of the go^d Samaritan that there
is no name given, no clew to any parson,
Qothing by which to locate the generdiis
hand that did the deed, except the
generous spirit which prompted it?
If yon feel prompted to an nnnoticed
ict of kindness, do not hold back be"Vva
! AQIT rrnir
1U VTUl *-?CJ u<uuvuxw\>u j v
self?what was the name of the good
3ainaritan ?
Relision* News and Notes.
There are in Kansas 299 Presbyterian
jhurches, with 12,044 members.
The Baptist churches of Massachusetts
raised for ail purooses last year
$624594,
Mr. F. Wise, of Ireland, has given
5100,000 toward the restoration of the
cathedral of Cork.
The iubilee fund of the English Con
gregatlonalists amounts to $500,000, all
i>f -which has been raised since October,
1881.
Michigan has 174 Presbyterian
thurches, wi:h 16,196 communicants;
jowa 355 churches, with 20,812 comiinnicants.
It is proposed to tmite the three HethDdist
bodies in Canada in one. A few
fears ago three united to form the Canada
Methodist Church.
The amount promised to the Engliah
Wesley an thanksgiving funcl now readies
more than ?300,000. Only ?10,000 remain
unpaid, and this is being graduilly
reduced.
The Methodist says it has reported
12,971 conversions in 18S2. It thinks
that as an evangelistic force Methodism
3hows no signs of weakening, bnt many
of its converts go to other churches.
It is stated that the Episcopal Clergymen's
Insurance League in the last
thirteen years has paid ?316,000 to the
widows and orphans of deceased clergymen,
and of tin's sum 815,552 were paid
during the year last passed.
"fj-An " Rnnth. of the Salvation Armv.
says it has now 265 stations and 385
paid officers. Its income amounts to
8285j000 per annum. Nine million
copies of its literature were distributed
last year, and $55,000 raised for the
purchase of Congress Hall, London.
The Kev. Divid Mossom is said to
have been the first native American who
was ordained in Ahe Church of England.
He was the clergyman who married Gen
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erai wasningcon, near dc.jreter a uiuiruu,
New-Kent County, at the "White House,
Virginia. The church was built in 1703,
at a cost of 146,000 pounds of tobacco.
Daniel Parke Curtis, whose widow became
the wife of Washington, was a
vestryman in St. Peter's.
A Day's Fishing in Florida.
I should here say, writes a corre
spondent of the Buffalo Courier, that we
were to fish especially for speckled
perch, which only bite from the 1st oi
{February until the last of March. For
this purpose I had a six-strand linen
line and such a hook as the Chautauqua
sportsman uses for bass. In other words
I had a bass-fishing outfit, minus a reeL
Live minnows would be the proper
bait, but these not being attainable we
had to substitute cut bait, taking a
piece of dead fish about the size and
Jength of the little finger, thrusting the
hook through its larger end and imparting
to it the movement of a live minnow
as nearly as possible by a gentle
Switching of the lime. This is the bait
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universally usea ana wuuiu. auuueeu. uuo
poorly where fish were not plentiful
find hungry. Allowing the canoe to
flrift gently into the edge of the rushes
pi water sedge?there are not real
rushes here?I made a cast, using a
?ork to regulate the depth of line, and
we both worked for fully twenty minutes
without any indication of a bit?>.
Finally, just as I was about to draw i:a
and move on, I had a strike, and my
cork went out of sight, tightening tha
lino before I had time to square myself
for work. Pulling taut, away went the
game, fairly making the line whiz as it
cut the water and nearly bending my
pole double as he surged down upon it.
I at once knew that it was not a perch,
as they never weigh more thau two
pounds, and although they bite very
prettily, give up at the first pull and
may be swung out of the water as easily
as our sunfish. In fact they are
of the same family and give about
the same sport only they aro larger.
Meantime my game was fairly making
the water boil, and threatened to break
my pole, which I finally had to shoot
through my hands into the water behind
me and haul in the line by hand, thereby
succeeding in Jacoing my game, which
proved to be a fonr-pound bine catfish.
By the time I had released my hook my
companion had brought in a half-pound
perch, and then the sport began. My
companion's hook had been in the water
abont five minntes when he felt a tremendous
surge which swung his end of the
boat out toward deep water and threatened
to break his line. From the commotion
in the water we concluded that
he must have hooked a small alligator,
as the game did not arc like a fish.
Before he had succeeded in bringing it
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io ine suriace, my uv<u j/vio
started overboard vith a rash, and I
barely succeeded in grasping it in time.
Then followed five minutes of as beautiful
play as I ever had with a fish and
which gave me my hands fall and resulted
in bringing on board a bili-nosed
gar weighing eight pounds. This fish
has a bill like a duck's but much longer,
which is provided with two rows of
teeth as sharp as needles. It is not
suitable fcr food, but it had furnished
its full quota of sport. After killing
my viciously disposed gar, I found my
companion still wrestling with his catch,
which however he had brought to the
surface and proved to be a soft-shell
turtle, or what he termed a "cocter,"
weighing about twenty-five pounds.
They are similar to the sea turtle and
are considered a great delicacy. * * *
At the close of our day's sport we had
one hundred and three perch that would
average more than a pound each in
weight, there being scarcely any variation
in riza pIpvpd catfish weich
ing from two to fire pounds ; one gar
weighing eight pounds; a mudfish
weighing six pounds, and a "cocter"
weighing twenty-five pounds, which was
by far the largest catch with hook and .
line that I ever saw t^o men show for
a day's sport.
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A IATNO^AH war?aii /?/vn-ma aci^nro " CQ?/3
a 1WOVV1 VV1UVJ MVA4VIV)
an old fishmonger, "wi'hont gxeat lib-i
of getting into hoi water/'
aBnanMnwaMMMKianMaH
fIcts for the curious.
The skeleton of woman is lighter in
proportion to her total weight than that
of man.
Evidence is brought to prove that the
antiquity of man cannot be less than
200,000 years.
The lowest crustaceans, some seasnails
and sea-spiders breathe through
the skin alone.
Whenever an eighth son is born into
a family in Belgium it is the custom for
the king to stand as godfather.
In forest beds near the delta of the
Mississippi are found cypress trunks
twenty-five feei; in diameter, and one
containing o, /uu annnai nng3.
A correspondent of the London Statist
shows that a pound of tea, sold in
China for less than four cents, costs the
consumer in London fifty cents.
Alexander ordered pieces of flesh to
be thrown into the inaccessible valley of
Znlmeah, that the vultures might bring
up the precious stones which attached
themselv*"
Insects ^rooortionatelv stronger
than anima.t- A cockchafer can draw a
load fourteen times greater thin their
body, a bee twenty times, and an ant
thirty times.
In Peru, as soon as death occurs,
ashes are strewn on the floor of the
room and the door fastened. Nextmorning
the ashes are carefully examined
for footprints, and the soul of the
dead is said to have passed into the
body of whatever animal the imagination
traces in the marks on the ashes.
When a Kaffir is on a marauding erpedition
he gives utterance to these
cries and hisses in which cattle drivers
indulge when thej drive a herd before
them, thinking in this manner to persuade
the gods of the country he is attacking
that he is bringing cattle to
their worshipers, instead of coining to
take their herds from them.
Herr Karl Gehinia, of Berne, after a
series of experiments extending over
several years, Has succeeded in producing
artificial mother-of-pearl ubdistinguishable
in overy respect from tlie natural
article. It can be molded in any
shape, produced ia any color, is impervious
to heat and cold, and its price
will be much less than that of ordinary
mother-of-pearl.
Some curious personal statistics show
that the oldest earl in the "Dnited Kingdom,
tbe Earl of Mountcashel, aged
eighty-nine, who is the oldest peer in
existence, is an Irishman; the oldest
marquis, the Marquis.of Donegal, aged
eighty-four, is an Irishman ; the oldest
iudee, Barcn Fitzgerald, close on
seventy-five, is an Irishman ; and the
oldest bishop, the Bishop of Kelmore,
aged eighty-one, is an Irishman ; thus
showing that in the Green Isle, if the
land league will give a man fair play,
it is possible to attain to a ripe old age.
Horrible Arabian Eites.
The hall had evidently been decked
and garnished ; the lamps burnea
brightly in the cupola amid the golden
balls and ostrich eggs; the sheik was
clothed in a rich silk rcbe of office and
an awe-inspiring green turban, and a
/>or?a Yrro a
LWYT W1 vuuu vuwim nuo
waiting to receive the expected visitors.
In ten minutes six or seven hundred
Arabs filled every inch of available
space. The Sheik Hams da took his
seat in the conter surrounded by the
musicians, ar;d an old blind Aiseaouia,
guided by a little girl, came in gently
from a side-door and sat down beside
him. The Aissiaouias themselves occupied
the whole of the space covered
hv the onook. The aisles contained
the Moslem spectators of the first r-e-j
ligious rites ever witnessed by Chris-,
tian eyes in the holy city of Kairwan.,
Among the Aijsiaouias I noticed gray-j
bearded and decrepit old men, many!
sedate-looking shopkeepers whom I had
previously seen in the bazaars, half a,
score of the l ey's soldiers, and a dozen
children undor twelve years of age.
The sheik struck a note on a drnm ;
the musicians began to play a peculiar
and monotonous tune, gradually increasing
in intensity. After a pause
several of the Aissiaouias rose, and
swaying baokward and forward shoulder
to shoulder, shrieked a chorus to the'
sound of the drums. The music quick?
? 5 ? t i x-l . 3 rm.
enea ana bo aia. ine arums, meu unw
of the most wjid-looking of the singers
began to throw off his clothes, and
passed down the line to urge the others
out with renewed energy. Then
the Tunisian soldiers (he wore
the bey'i. brass badge on hi3 red cap)
seized a sword and began to lacerate Ins
stomach. Tim blood flowed freely, and
he intimated all the time the cries and
movements of the camel. We soon had
a wolf, a bear, a hyena, a jackal, a
oii/3 o lion Ono man Vna1 t
ICU Utii. vy J UUV4. M VMW ?
down before the sheik, and holding
two long prongs to his sides, insisted
on their being driven into his flesh
with blows of a mallet; this was done.
A mere lad did the same thing. A burly
Arab passed an iron skewer through
the upper part of his nose, and transfixed
the skin of his face below his
eyes. He rushed apparently toward us.
Two or three powerful men knocked
him down, and held him till the sheik
laid his hands on him and whispered
some mysterious formula in his ear.
Another man in quick succession swallowed
more than twenty large iron
nails; there being no mistake whatever
as to his really doing so. A laige bottle
was broken up and eagerly devoured.
The frenzy then became general.
While one Aissiaouia plunged a
knife through his cheek, another transfixed
his shoulder blades with a prong
and a third pierced his hand. A brazier
of cinders was speedily emptied.
Twenty different tortures were going on
in twenty different parts of the hall.
Three large bu3hes of the thorny Indian
fig or prickly pear were eaten np in
almost as many minutes ; and, at last,
before we had time to prevent it, a
living sheep was thrown into the midst
of the maddened Aissiaouias ; it was in
a trice torn into shreds by eager hands
and still more eager months, and ris
still quivering and bleeding flesh
gnawed to the bone with apparent
relish.?Blackwood's.
The Power or Poetry.
Eulalie McGirlygrit sat silently by
the drawing-room window of her
father's palatial residence watching the
snow-laden clouds as they piled slowly
np in the western horizon, burying in
AT?l>noAm +I10 nrA^on.hm'Wfirl
Ll 11 Oil UJiU kJKJOKJJJJ. VlkW
sun that erstwhile gleamed brightly
forth tipon the bleak surface of the
storm-beaten earth.
"Heigho," sighed the girl, wearily,
" Rupert will not come to-day. Perhaps
he does not love me. Sometimes
in the long, still, stem- winding watches
of the night I awake snddenly with the
thought that he is not true to me, that
some haughty beauty over on the west
side has won his heart, leaving me only
the digestive organs. But it cannot,
must not be. Without the beacon
light of his love my life would be a
starless blank?a mere chaos. No, I
will not doubt him. I will not rack
my sonl with the thought that he could
be untrue to me"?ana witn tnese
words the girl stepped into the conservatory,
plucked a blush' rose, and,
placing it in her nut-brown hair, walked
slowly to her boudoir.
Seating herself on a damask covered
fautenil, she touched a bell that stood
on a table near by, and scarcely had its
silvery tinkle ceased to be heard, when
Nannette McGnire, her femme de chambre,
pushed aside the damask curtains
mat ait', irum vie v? tui aiw v o auu. entered
tl e room.
" Give me my volume of Tennyson's
poems, Nannette," said Enlalie. The
book was handed to her?an elegantly
bound work. Eising slowly, Enlalie
placed the book nnder one corner of the
fantenil, and saying to herself, "Well,
I guess I have fixed that pesky shortlegged
sofa now," lay quietly down,
and was soon wrapped in the sweet
slumber of innocent maidenhood.
Such is the power of poetry.?Chicago
Tribune.
Abont ?1,0(i0,000 are spent annually
(rtnf flntiTora in "Vnrlr.
Ul tuu AAV IT V*W *** V II
/
UJtTJ^.SEES Jt jJKAMjS.
How the Following are Said to Have Orig.
iuated.
"Yellow oack.'?Among sailors a
common personification of the yellow
fever. Although used as a proper name,
it is probable that:the original meaning
of the application' was nothing more
than yellow flag, % flag being termed a
jack by seamen, aad yellow being the
color of that custom^y displayed from
lazarettoes, or navaT^i^sipitals, and
from vessels in quarantine.^
"Yankee."?A term in America for
New Englanders, applied, by foreigners
to all natives of the United States. The
mosc leasioie origin is, mat ine xnaians
when t peaking of the English settlers
called them "Yenghees," corrapted tu
"Yankee."
"Brag."?Of Celtic origin. It appear*
in the third edition of Pngh's Diction-: .
ary and in Spurreil's; it is also given b\> ;
the Rev. D. Silvan-Evans in his Eng- (
lish Welsh Dictionary zi a rendering of !
"brag." In the same work is fonnd ;
bragiwe, as an equivalent for bragado-; ;
cio" and "braegar." The Social "Welsh1, ;
form of the verb is brago, with thti .
vowel very short;, meaning "to boast." "Better
Late Than Never."?This ex- .
pression originated in 1557 (in the reign J
of Philip and Mary) with Damas Tussen ,
who pnt it into his "Five Hundred ,
Points of the Good Husbandry," but 1
came among the household saying when
put by John Bunyan, the half-inspired 1
tinker, in his immortal "Pilgrim's Pro- :
erress."
"Stonewall Jackson."?-It is related
that at the first battle of Bull Kun,
July 21, 1861, at a moment when the
day was apparently lost to the Confederates,
Jackaon's brigade made so firm
a stand that some one cried ont, "Here
is Jackson, standing like a stone wall."1
And thereafter "Stonewall Jackson" became
his soubriquet
" Twilight has Drawn, etc."?These
lilies occur in a poem called "Evening,
composed by McDonald Clark, abont 25
years ago. The Jines as originally
written are as follows:
Twilight has dr^v.n her mantle round,
And pinned it with a silver star.
"Westward the Course of Empire
Holds Its Way."?These famous wordb
were written by Bishop Berkley. It is
usually misquoted, "Westward the star
of empire takes its way."
"Ten-Penny."?The word penny,,
which used to mark the sign of nails, is
finrinnspd tn Via q ^nrm-ntinn of nonnds:
thus, a four-penny nail was such that.
1,000 of them weighed four pounds, a
ten-penny nail such that 1,000 weighed
ten pounds.
''What He Said was Here Gibber-;
ish."?In the eighth cent iry there wa.i
a famous professor of occult chemistry
whose name was Geber. He held thalj
all metals, except gold, were liable to!
disease, and that this in them was cured
by gold, which^also was a panacea for
the maladies of the human family. Hel
wrote 500 treatises on this subject, so
learned and unintelligible that they
were ridiculed as Geberish, whence it
is concluded came gibberish in our own
vocabulary. ;
"Tuft Hunters."?Formerly, and in
most of the European colleges, and to
this d:iy in the universities of Oxford,'
Cambridge and Dublin, each student
who was a nobleman's son wore a
distinguishing tuft or tassel on the
square cap which collegians wear whila
at college. Hence persons who fawned
upon these scions of aristocracy obtained
the very intelligible title of
"tuft hunters."
"Mild your p's and q's."?This expression
comes from the printing office,
where the similarity in form of the!
" lower case," or small, "p" and "q" iii
a font of Roman letter is always per-,
plexing to the typographical novice,
especially in "distributing," or "throw-!
ing into case," a mixed heap of typei
technically known as "pi." Tt is erroneously
supposed by some that the
expression came from the tcore chalkedi
down in pnblic houses of P's and C^'s,:
( meaning pints'and quarts ) not paid
for by the bibulous customers.
"Consistency, Thou art a Jewel."?Ifi
has been recently and authoritatively
ascertained that the original poem from
which this quotation i3 supposed to
have been taken, and which has long
been a question of dispute among literary
people, was presented to the
dowager countess of Drumlawring, in
whose family it is said to have been
for an unknown period. It was
afterward published in Murtagh's collection
of "Ancient English and Scotch
Ballads," Edinboro, 1754.
" Nihilist."?One who believes in
nihilism, which, according to Webster,
holds the doctrine that nothing can be
known; that it is skepticism carried to
the denial of all knowledge and all
reality. Ifc is probably applied to the
Russian communistic agitatora becausf
they advocated the principle of doing
away with all government; and the
inference is that if this were carried
out Russia, as a nation, would cease to
ezist.
"Usufruct."?This term is one used
in civil law, and is a compound of
two Latin words, usus, use, fructus,
fruit, and means the right of using and
reaping of fruits or tilings belonging to
others, without destroying or wasting
the subject over which snch right extends.
This is the sense in which the'
word " usufruct" was used by Samuel
J. Tilden in his letter of acceptance as
the presidential no*cinee of the Democratic
p xrty in 1876.
"Paiting Your Foot in it."?This expression,
like many other slang-phrases
of the present day, has a legitimate origin,
and was suggested by the custom
m Hindostan, that when the title .td
1 L L rntm 4*YT-TA
&I1 q. in iuab uu imirjf 10 uis^ui&U) u n^
holes are dug in the ground, and used
to incase a limb of each lawyer engaged
fco settle the controversy, and the ond
who first lost his client's case.
"Topsy-turvy."?When things are in
disorder they are often said to be "topsy
turvy." This expression is derived front
?ie way in which turf used for fuel iJ
placed to dry, the turf being placed
downward; and the expression then
means top-side, turf-way.
"Cockney."?The term was originally
applied to a resident of London. In
1517 Henry VIII. made an order in reference
to the feast of the king of the
cockneys, held on Christmas day. The
term "cockney-school"' wis also applied
to a coterie of writers consisting of Hazli.tt,
Keats, Hunt, Shelley, and soma
others. In popular slang the word'
"cockney" is used to designate a dandy1
of the lower classes of society. i
"As Mad as a Hatter."?In the old
time, when felt hats were made by hand
it was the custom to beat up the felt
?r-t-intra nvta Ticl/3 in osuVh hand.!
YYltJU fcTTV OUiVAO] VUv MVAV4 ?? ? J
Dipping the mass of wool and hair, from
which his fabric was to be formed, fre-'
quently into hot water, the hatter was
then wont to fly at it as if in a passion,
a ad give it a violent beating, till it was
matted together into the felt, which, in
time, after numerous combings, dressy
ings and shearings, became the stylish
beaver worn by the men of 50 years ago.
The hatter seemed to be very angry at
this object of his labor, and "mad as a
hatter" needed no explanation of those
days.
Fruit Raising in Europe,
Thrnncrhrmf. mnsi of Central EtirODe
frait trees are planted by the farmers
and cottagers with judicious care and
discrimination in their fields and
gardens. In an ordinary season they
gather abundance of luscious frnit?not
only enongh to suppl? their domestic
wants, bnt also to send large quantities
to market; from which they realize an
acceptable increase to their income.
This ia all done without losing a square
yard of ground that could be profitably
devoted to any other food crop. The
trees are planted along roadsides, on
the margins of the field?, in the hedgerows,
and in other odd places and
corners, where they occupy ground thai
Dannot be conveniently or profitably
cultivated.
Decided steps ougiit to be tat en to cure i
Cold or Cough at oncei. We should recommenc
Dr. Bull's Ccugh Syrtip. This valuable mcdi
cine is indorsed by the physicians, and you car
n,t^7 cm its doiag the every time.
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. THE HOME DOCTOR.
An invalid should never be allowed
to touch hot rolls or hot bread in any
shape.
Vegetables are the life and soul of
healthy living, and should not be neglected
at any meal.
Merely warm the back by a fire, and
never continue keeping the back exposed
to the heat after it has become
comfortably warm. To do otherwise is
debilitating.
The following is recommended as a
firmD070
u LLi c XUi LCUI ucauavuv*
the juice of a lemon into a small cap of
strong coffee. This will usually afford
immediate relief ia neuralgic headache,
and ordinarily increases neuralgic pain,
and ought not to be used by persons
affected with it.
If a healthy child (and a delicate one
proportionately) is regularly put to bed
A /-, %.% ivi rt Wnl I.TTAn fllof
auuuu uaiA) ill a i^uicuj ttvaa
or even cold room, after a supper of
plain food, it will natnrally awake at
daybreak, good-natured, with a keen appetite
for a wholesome breakfast. Nutritions,
plain food, at regular hours,
with no candy or stimulants, and free
bathing, help the system to ward off
many prevalent children's ailments, and
co bear with much less danger the few
that must necessarily come to the majority
of little ones.
A small cup of warm milk containing
a teaspoonful of lime-water may be given
frequently in cases of ''bowel complaint."?Dr.
Footers Bealth Monthly.
An Ex-Consul's Story.
Yo (he Editor of the Brooklyn Eag'.e:
A late United States Consul at one of the
English, inland ports, who is now a private
resident of New York, relates the following
interesting story. He objects, for private
reason^ to having his name published, but
authorizes the writer to substantiate "his
statement, and, if necessary, to refer to
him, in his private capacity, any person
seeking such reference. Deferring to his
wishes, I hereby present his statement in
almost the exact language in which he
gave it to me, C. M. Farmeb,
1690 Third avenue, New York.
" On my last voyage home from England,
some three years ago, in one of the Cunard
steamers, I noticed one morning, after a few
nut r\f nnrt a vrmntr iriari linKhlinc
about on the upper deck, supported by
crutches and seeming to move with extreme
difficulty and no little pain. He was well
dressed and of exceedingly handsome countenance,
but bis limbs were somewhat
emaciated and his face very sallow and bore
the traces of long suffering. As he seemed
to have no attendant or companion, he at
once attracted my sympathies, and I went
up to him as he leaned against the iaffrail
looking out on the foaming track which
the steamer was making.
"1 Excuse me, my young friend,' I said,
touching him gently on the shoulder, 1 you
appear to be an invalid and hardly able or
strong enough to trust yourself unattended
on an ocean voyage; but if you require any
assistance I am a robust and healthy man
and shall be glad to help you.'
"'You are verv kind,' he replied, in a
1- - -_ it? i."t r - ,:.i
weaK voice, out x reuuirt: iiu picscuL aiu
beyond my crutches, which enable me to
pass from my stateroom up here to get the
benefit of the sunshine and the sea breeze.'
'"You have baen a great sufferer, no
doubt,' I said, ' and I judge that you have
been afiiicted with that most troublesome
disease?rheumatism, whose prevalence and
intensity seem to be on an alarming increase
both in England and America.'
You are right,' he answered; 'I have
been its victim for more than a year, and
after failing to find relief from medical skill
have lately tried the Springs of Carlsbad
and Vichy. But they have done me no
good, and I am now on my return home
to Missouri to die, I suppose. I shall be
COnieiK II me IS spareu 10 me lu reatu my
mother's presence. She is a widow and I
am her only child.
~ " There was a pathos in this speech
which affected me profoundly and awakened
in me a deeper s/mpathy than I had
felt before. I had no words to answer him,
and 9tood silently beside him watching the
snowy wake of the ship. AVhile thus standy-r>
v is\ 4 fl tPTl-*
Aug UtVUgUU) XWTVAVWVA kv ? ?
ear-old boy?of a neighbor of mine residing
near my consulate residence, whothad
been cured of a stubborn case of rheumatism
by the use of St. Jacobs Oil, and I
remembered that the steward of the ship
had told me the day before that he had
cured himself of a very severe attack of the
gout in New York just before his last voyage
by the use of the same remedy. I at
once left my young friend and went below
to find tho steward. I not only found him
off duty, but discovered that he had a bottle
of the Oil in his locker, which he had
carried across the ocean in case of another
attack. He readilv parted with it on my
representation, and hurrying up again, J
???? liA f/\ ollftur mo
CWU liiC JVUU^ AJJCtu w ?**vn
to take him to his berth and apply the
remedy. After doing so I covered him up
snugly in bed and requested him not to get
up until I should see him again. That
Evening I returned to his stateroom and
jfound him sleeping peacefully and breathing
gently. I roused him and inquired
Ihow he felt. 'Like a new man,' he answerled
with a grateful smile. ' I feel no pain
land am able to stretch my limbs without
difficulty. 1 think I'll get up.' 'No, don't
get up to-night,' I said,' but let me rub you
again with the Oil, and in the morning you
will be able to go above.' ' All right,' he
said, laughing. 'I then applied the Oil
again, rubbing his knees, ankles and arms
thoroughly, until he said he felt as if he had
a mustard poultice all oyer his body. I
then left him. The next morning when I
went upon deck for a breezy promenade,
according to my custom,! found ray patient
waiting for me with a smiling lace, and
without his crutches, although he limped in
his movements, but without pain. I don't
think I ever felt so happy in my life. To
make a long story short, I attended him
closely during the rest of the voyage?some
four days?applying the Oil every night,
flnd fftiorilircr him against tOO much eX
posure to the fresh and damp breezes, aDd
on landing at Mew York he was able, with'
oat assistance, to mount the hotel omnibtis,
and go to the Astor House. I called on
him two days later, and found him actually
engaged in packing hi3 trunk, preparatory
to starting West for his home, that evening.
With a bright and grateful smile he welcomed
me, and pointing to a little box carefully
done up in thick brown paper, which
stood upon the table, he said: ' My good
friend, can you guess what that is?' 'A
present for your sweetheart,' I answered.
'No' he laughed?'that ia a^isasa-bottlps
01 ov.'jacoDs "017,-wnicn 1 nave just pur- j
TTii/^nnt /^rncrtriat nrrofi?!
uiaocu uum up?,
the way, and I am taking them home to
show my good mother what has saved her
son's life and restored him to her in health.
And with it I would like to carry you along
also, to show her the face of him, without
whom, I should probably never have tried
it. If you should ever visit the little village
of Sedalia, in Missouri, Charlie Townsend
and his mother will welcome you to their
little home, with hearts full of gratitude,
and they will show you a bottle of St.
Jacobs Oil enshrined in a silver and gold
casket, which we shall keep as a parlor
ornament as well as memento of our meeting
on the Cunard steamer.'
"' We parted, after an hour's pleasant
chat with mutual good-will and esteem,
and a few weeks afterwards I received a
letter from him telling me he was in perfect
health and containing many graceful
expressions of his affectionate regards."?
lirooKJyn Ji.?gie.
It has been decided in a Canadiaf
court that a pew owner may sleep dar
ing service and breathe heavily, even
obstreperously, and damages cannot btf
recovered. At St. Thomas a suit agains!
a man who persisted in sleeping, wittt
?tn o/wnwinoriimanftn Tpllfrth Tin Onfl flVfiJ
|l?i I i ?IV**w *>W M
confesses, has been determined in tho
drowsing attendant's favor. He was
asked to stay at home; but he refused,
on the ground that duty called him to
the sanctuary. Audible respiration
through the nostrils in sleep is an involuntary
and net a malicious act, so
the decision is interpreted, and while
good taste would suggest the avoiding
of such an occurrence by attending to
the service, the law cannot interfere to
? "? ? i il. - J
protect tnose aoouc uw ueuiumsnamvc
sleeper. It may be necessary to construct
a church in that community, the
pew renting to be limited to those who
will keep awake, or at least will repose
unobtrusively.?Boston Advertiser.
Vn r\afont rea ulred to CStcU fnetini&J
. -"V f"?
tiern. A cold and inattention to it, and yoi!
have it?the rheumatism. We cure ofcii
with St. Jacobs Oil.?Chicago Inter-Ocean.
There are 250,000 Hebrews in tha
United States,
' % "
TIIE SECBET REYEALED.
How Hazarl Won the Racr.
The great race is over; the champions have \
returned from the arena; one by one the lights 3
have gone out in Madison Square Garden; the *
sporting fraternity now sum up their gains or ^
losses, as the case may be, and the only question
now to be decided is, how the race was
won. This we propose to show. We are going
to prick the bubble; we are going to conduct
our readers behind the scenes and prove to
them how Hazael, now the world's champ ion
pedestrian, became such.
tra nrnpco-7 tn rln an IaI: na flnjf. faVe
a retrospective glance over the field and cham- \
piona. Out of the ten champions who entered i
the lists, four retired weary and disguated; the ]
remaining six, although handicapped with ail- :
ments, remained to peg the sawdust to the bit- i
ter end, and perform wonders in pedeetrianism 3
by eclipc-ing any and all previous scores. At
precisely half-past 9 on the morning of ^
March 3, Rowell retired from the track after '
ecoring 415% miles. Those who were posted *
attributed his collapse to several causes?some
claiming that he was overtrained; others that
he overexerted himself in an earlier stage of '
the contest. Be this as it may, the reason is ;
now plain to us, and we propose to give it, as a 1
warning to coming pedestrians and to sporting
men wnc wi'l m luture stane xneir money on
races of this class. F.owell removed, Hazael
was placed in the beat possible position.
Who is Hazael, the winner? Georgo Hazael
was born in London March 22, 1845. He is
five feet six and a half Inche3 in height, and
weighs 122 pounds." He is the recognized champion
runner of England, from sis to fifty miles,
and has the following best on records made in
six-day races: Four hours, 33 miles 1,650
yards; 5 hours, 40 miles 1,100 yards; 6 hours,
47 miles 1,210 yards; 7 hours, 54 miles 935
yards, all made April 21, 1879; and 8 hours, G4
miles 880 yards; 9 hours, 68 miles 880 yards; 10
hours, 75 miles 440 yards, all made May 9,
188L His beat performances arei-tondon, November
4 to 9, 1878, six-day go-as-you-please,
won at 403% miles, beating 23 others. Same
place, April 21 to 26, 1879, second race for eixday
championship of England; finished second
to Blower Brown with 492 miles. In the fifth
contest for the Astley Belt at Madison Square
Garden September 22 to 28, 1879, he finished '
third with 500 miles. Agricultural Hall, Feb- J
ruary 15 to 21, 1880, long distance champion
ship belt of England, ha finished second io '
Blower Brown, with 480 miles. He now caps
the pinnacle with six hundred and a half miles,
and comes off winner of nineteen thousand {
dollars, a fortune in itself, the result of a week's j
work; and why ? The writer of this, who is an <
"old-timer" (to make us9 of a pedestrian expression),
and has assisted at several walking
matches, waited on Mr. George IJazael, the
in Ti?a /**Vvin
the close of the race. ^ Ho was one of the favored
few who were permitted to enter, and he
saw that which gave him a t!pointer" as to how
the loDg-fongut and heroically-contested race
was won. He imparted his ideas to Mr. Harry
Vaughan, a gentleman who came from London,
England, five weeks ago, purposely to act as
trainer for Mr. HazaeL That gentleman spoke
freely, and bade the scribe meet him at Joe
Bowler's Cam's Head Hotel, Gieenpoint, L. 1.,
on tho following day, and eeo Mr. Hazacl in
reference to the matter. In accordance therewith
Mr. Hazael was met on the following day,
March 5. Mr. Hazael was found to be in excellent
con<3>Hor -ad had just partaken of a
tplendid dinner, and was preparing for h:3 af
ternoon siesta. After some introductory remarks,
the writer observed: "'George, when 1
entered your cabin at the CI039 of the race last
night, my olfactories were i leasantly assailed
and my vision greeted?the former by smeilin:
St. Jacobs Oil, the lattor by seeing it.
"I came to ask if the world's champion racer
had found the world's champion romedy the
proper thing for his valuable limbs ?"
"So," said Mr. Hazael, laughing, "you sa^
my stock of St. Jacobs Or, did you? It is a
wonderful medicine, sir, wonderful I I do not
know what pedestrians would do without it;
it is their best friend. A rub of St. Jacobs Oil
after leaving the track makes a new man of
one, and fits him again for the contest." Mr.
Henry Vaughan, who was standing by, broke in
at tliia juncture as loitows: "iwaa never so
surprised at anything in my life as I was to seethe
effect of St Jacobs Oil on George. It did
George a power of good, and but for its rise hemight
have had a different *
excL'imed Joo Bowler, jost entering with a bottle
of Piper Heidsieck, "you can safely say that
SL Jacobs Oil won the race for* the champion,
made a fortune for Mr. Hazael, and prepared
him to win the greatest race on record." The
secret was out; and Mr. Goorgo Hazael, a Britoii
of whom all England may be justly proud, and
of whom America is justly proud also, has
shown not only phenomenal endarance to sue!)
an extent that it awakens our woncler_ and sur
prise, DUt ne una tuuivu mat juc niodom
with pluck and energy; that he not only
knows how to "go," but that he knows what it
best for him while going. Mr. Ilazael has won
for himself fairly, honestly, and above board,
the title of Champion Walker of the World.
George is a perfect gentleman, and in his pleasant
manner awards tha championship to Sf.
Jacobs Oil, the great German Kemedv, over all
other remedies.
Mr. Bowler is wiiliog to back Mr. Hazael in
any sum from $1,000 to $5,000 against any man
in the world, for 100 miles running, and give
the opponent five miles out of the 100. We
will back St. Jacobs Oil against alt medicinct
at rates as liberal
Boiling Broth in the Andes.
In Byam's "Wanderings in Bhili and
Pern," we find the following remarkable
illnstration of one of the well-known
laws of heat: Feeling very cold, we determined
to have some soup to warm
as, and as we had plenty of meat and
onions, we cnt them up, put them into
a saucepan with salt and Cayenne pepper,
and set them on to boil. I only
relate this for the information of those
who have not been to great heights,
those who wish to go there, and also of
those who, perchance, may believe that
boiling must be the same thing all over
the world. After our soup had bubbled
away in the most orthodox style for
more than two hours, we naturally concluded
that our 'bouillon' was ready
and the meat perfectly done, especially
as tha last had been cut into rather
Vvnf +/% /vn* a mo f. cnvTvrrflA
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we found the water almost colorless,
and the meat almost as raw as when it
was first put into the pot. One of the
miners told us that it was no use trying
to boil anything, as nothing could be
cooked by water on the top of that
| mountain ; for, although the water bubbled
away very fast, the heat was not
! great enough to boil a potato.
At great altitudes the water begins to
I boil long before it.arrives at the heat of
I 212 degrees of Fahrenheit, and as water
j cannot get hotter than boiling-point,
o-fCTif Tw t.Vio fnmr>rpK?rion of the steam.
~J ~ X- #
nothing can be cooked unless some safe
means of confining the steam be
adopted. I saw directly how matters
lay, and, sticking the lid tight on the
pan, made it fast with heavy lumps of
silver that were lying about, attaching
them to the handle, and putting others
on the top of alL In a very short time
the steam got up, and, though it made
the lid jump a little, I managed to get
3 broth, to the great surprise of the
! miners, who could not conceive what I
: was about.
A Gay Funeral Procession.
The funeral cortege of the Chinese
1 empress, Tsz' An, must nave oeen a
; gorgeous panorama. After the cymbals,
; flutes and trumpets, the imperial cars
; with canopies of straw-colored gatin,
j and a hundred white ponies led by
i spearmen, followed by three sedan
. chairs used by the late empress, covI
ered with yellow eilk; carried by clus|
ters of men in scarlet robes, and fol!
lowed by mandarins and princes carry:
ing silk flags of all colors emblazoned
; with the five-clawed dragon, fans and
! umbrellas. After these came the cata:
falque, draped in yellow satin, the coffin
' under a silken canopy embroidered with
: the dragon in gold, gilt emblems re
i sembling balls of fire on the top oi tne
canopy, and its 128 bearers wearing
scarlet silk robes and hats with yellow
fringes. As the coffin passed, Coreans
in flowing white garments knelt by the
roadside, bnt any one canght looking at
the procession was pnniehed.
Locomotive engineers on Germa
j railways receive from $225 to $340 per J
I year; conductors, $160 to $180 per
year; brake men, from $150 to $165 par
i year. |
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flow Much Land for Eacb.
The recent census gives the total
ires of the United States (not reckoning
Alaska) at 3,025,600 square miles,
)f which 55,600 square miles are occupied
by water?lakes, rivers, bays, etc.
-leaving 2,970,000 square miles of land,
sr 1,900,000,800 acres. The total population
is 50,155,783. This land,
jvenly divided, would give to every
man, women and child 37J acres, and
in onion patch, three by nine rods, over.
[f we divide the population into lamilies
of six'persons, each family could be
allotted 227 acres. Allowing one-quarter
of the land to be mountain ridges,
sandy and stony tracts, and other "bad
lands," there wonld still be left the
regulation " quarter section" (160 acres)
for each family. But the census figures ,
aow being made up are for June, 1880.
3ince then over 1,000,000 people from
foreign lands "have come to stay," as
a in en can cinzans, ana we uatunu increase
has been considerable ; the total
increase from 1870 to 1880 was three
per cent, per annum. So we have now
(March I, 2882,) nearly 5i,000,000 inhabitants.
As the area of land does not
sxpand, there are now less than thirtysix
acres each, or not 152 acres per
family, and the average amount is rapidly
decreasing. No cause for alarm,
however. "With the best culture, one
itre will supply plenty of food for one
person, and at this rate we can allow
more than 4,000,000 acres for waste
land, and still have an acre each left
for the estimated entire population of
the globe, whicn is somewnat over
1,400,000,000. This is a great country I
Thanks for the iron sinews of the hunired
thousand miles of railroad lines,
and the nerves of the network of telegraph
wires, and the speaking tubes of
the postal department, we are, as a people,
brought into one closely united
family occupying Uncle Sam's great
form.?American Agricultural
A Rich Find.
Accidental rich finds of gold still
occur in California. Some men who
were recently walking along the road
an Fray's F'lat, in El Dorado county,
noticed a piece of quartz which had
hppn crnshed bv a wason runnine over
it. The specimen was fonnd to contain
lonsiderable gold, and the party making
further explorations, came upon a
" pocket*" from which they took in one
day what was estimated at Irom ?11,000 1
to $13,000 worth of gold.
THE 3IABXETS.
NEW TOES- " .
Beef Cattle?Primo. liv* weight S ? 10
Calves?Poor to Prime Ye&ls... G Q 9%
Sheen 5 *4? ^'4
Lambs.... 7
Hogs?live 7%
Dressed, city 8%@ ' 8J^
Flour?Ex. State, good to fancy 5 00 @ 8 00
"Western, good to choice 5 05 @ 8 50
Wheat?No. 2 Rod. new 1 333i@ 133^
No. 1 White, new 1 32 @ 1 32
Rye?State 85 @ 89
Barley?Two-rowed State 96 @ 9G
Corn?U n graded VT esternMixed 65V?@ 74}?
\r? 11^? ?71 VII,
oouureru 1 /*
Oats-White State 53 @ 56 Ya
Mixed Western 50 @ 52 Vi
flay?Prime Timothy 85 @ 95
Straw?No. 1, Kyo 70 @ 75
Hops?State, 1881, choice 24 @ 25
Pork?Mess, new, for export...17 25 @17 50
Lard?^City Steam 10 GO @10 60
Refined 1100 @110)
Petroleum?Crude 7%
Refined 7%@ 7%
Butter?State Creamery S5 @ 42
Dairy S3 @ 40
Western Ira. Creamery 32 @ 39
Factory. 12 @ 32
Cheese?State Factory 7 @ 12%
Skims 1 @ 6
Western 8 @ 12%
Eggs?State and Perm 19 @ 19%
Potatoes?Early Rose, State, bbl 3 25 @ 3 50
BUFFALO.
Steers?Extra 5 80 @ 6 25
Lambs?Western 6 50 @ 6 70
Sheep?Western 550 @590
!logs, Good to Choice Yorkers.. 6 65 @ 6 90
flour?C'yGround, No. 1 Spring G 75 @7 25
Wheat?No. 1. Hard Dulutu.... 1 47 Q 147
Jorn?No. 2 Mixed GS%@ 69
Jats?No. 2 Mix. West". 47 @ 47
Carlej?Two-rowed State 90 @ 90
BOSTOS.
3cof?Extra plate and family.. 13 00 @15 00
tiogs?Livo 7%@ 8
clogs?City Dressed.... 9%@ 9%
Pork?Extra Prime pel bbl.... 14 50 @15 00
Flour?Spring Wheat Patonjs,. 7 25 @ 8 50
OcriwHgged -aad-5ttU
0at3?Extra White 5j @ 57%
Rye?State..: 97 @100
Wool?Washed Comb & Delaine 41%? 46
Unwashed " " 30 @ 81
WATSBTOW.N- (itiSS.) CATTLE SIAJUEET.
Beef?Extra quality 6 75 @7 12%
Sheep?Live weight 5 @ 6%
oambs 6 @ 7
Hogs, Nc.-thern, d. w 8%@ S%
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn. Ex. Family, good 5 75 @ 5 75
Wheat?No. 2 lied 1 33%@ 1 33%
Uve?State 97 @ 97 "
Corn?State Yellow 69%
Jata?Mixed 53 @ 53'
Butter?Creamery Extra Pa.,.. 42 @ 43
Cheese?New York Full Cream. 13 @ 13
Petroleum?Crude G @ 7
Refined 7?-?<@ 73^
~ WEATHER?0R~H0T.
We admire tho philosophy cf tho unfortunate
nan, who, when everything had been swept
away, said, ' Well, there'll be weather and taxes
left, at any rate." Alas! weather is the " yellow
dog" of all subjects; everyone thinks it his
spccial right to try to better the weather, and
hurls his anathemas against "OM Probabilities,"
and all who endeavor to assist him in regulating
the weather. The following communication is
from Prof. Tice, of St. I.cub, Mo., the renowned
meteorologist and weather prophet of the West.
T* ^'"A'?< ? *Ka Knf
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cold, clammy sweat covered my entire body.
The attending physician could do nothing tb relieve
ma After suffering for three hours, I
QoT l^orl Ct T 1 fapfl On. with
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I saturated a piece of flannel, large enough to
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relief was almost instantaneous. In one hour I was
entirely free from pain, and would have
taken the train to Cll an appointment that night
in a neighboring town had my friends not dissuaded
me. As it was. I took the night train for my
home, in St Louis, and have not been troubled
since.
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