The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, February 19, 1881, Image 4
Neyada' First Nugget.
Novada's irst nugget was mined
with a butcher's knife. John Orr start
0 1 across the plains in 189. The roads
were bad, the weather was worse, and
he was obliged to remain through the
winter at Salt Lake. In April he re
stumed his journey. He had a partner
named Nick Kelly, after whom Kelly's
Itavino Is named, and in the party was
William Prouse, now living in Nurb
City, about forty miles southeast of
Salk Lake. Prouse had worked in
mines before gold. was discovered in
Coloma, and was i good prospector.
One day the train stopped on the edge
of what is now known as Gold Canyon,
near the Carson Rivet', to let the ant
mals feed on some bunch grass found
growing among some sage brush.
Prouse at noontide took a milk pan,
and going down to the gulch, began
V ashing dirt. In a few minutes get
ing dirt to the value of a few cents.
O r then named the place Gold Can
y ob. The train soon after resumed
tr avel, going to the head of the Car
son Valley. There they met a party of
seven, who had left the train at the
sink of the Humboldt, Intending to go
In advance to California and select good
locations for the remainder of the par
ty. They ha ' been unable to cross the
country, and had been caught in the
snow In the mountains four or nve
days, unable to find the divide to
Hangtown. A stay in Carson of three
weeks followed, when Orr, Kelly and
several others returned to Gold Can
yon, and resumed prospecting. Kelly
and Orr went up the canyon until a
little fork was reached, when work was
begun. "'he party had few tools, and
Orr had nothing but a knife. While
Kelly was working lie noticed a very
narrow place at the fork, where the
water barely covered a slab of slate
rook. Idly he examined it, and notte
ing a small crevice drove the knife
into it breaking out a piece. lie
water washing away the underlying
dirt he discovered a gold nugget where
the rock had covered It. It was quick
ly removed, and found to weigh $8.25.
This was on the first of June, 1850.
Tio Hlome or Mark Twatin.
A late writer to' the Burlington
lawkeye, thus writes about the home
of Mark Twain. "The pleasaintet view
I had of the city of Ilartford,was from
the cosy fireside ill that wonderfuil
home of Mr. Clemens, who was lily
host during my stay in that
City. I ai not a nan addicted
to cold weather. I am not sufiliently
'liritish' to wander through December
and January in a short check coat and
no ulbter. I am given to iuch wrap
pilg up wIl eni I do go out in the snow,
and to very little going outin the sniow
at all. I begin to shiver with the first
frost, and keep it ip until the follow
Ing April. And so when I can sit
down before a bright wood lire, and
burn up cigars while somebody enter
taius mle, I love the icy winter.
"I think I have never been il a hoie
more beautifully homelike tihan this
palace of the king of humorists. The
surroundings of the house are beauti
Kast Indian porticos, and Greek pat
teras In mosaic ini tihe rcd brick watlls
attract and charmi the attention and
good taste of tile passer-by, for the
house, inside and out, is die p~erfctiol01
) of exquisite taste anid harmouy. But.
with all its architectual beauty and
originality, the elegance of Its interior
finish and( decorations, tihe greatest
ii' Ii ~ charmi about tlie house is the utmios
phiere of 'iihmelikenless' that pervades
it. Charmingly as lhe can entertain
thousands of people at a time from the
platform, Mr. Clemens is event a more
~1I1 perfeot entertainer in his home. 'The
brightness and best sides of his iiature
shine out at, his fireside. Thie humor
and drollery that sparkle in his coni
versation is as utterly uinall'euted and
natural as sunlight. Indeed, I don't
believe lhe knows' or thiniks that most
'Ii,' 01 his talk before the spalrkling fire,
up in the pleasant retrireent of his
thoughtroo hs tcdy his vokeAthble
has aulhers buti ahis bndy it beno
blev drolle ade humor. lie 1 soan -or
sth atgl hi ernestnessi~ chsuiou
fully asw liuch asihs brihte ashesbab,
brighteed whod-emphered ih avoice
lla leto of a rwnderfu thes,
toucied wrth Clmenchofl tihart lok
inthe ging, humrest, eye th see iht
most aeta ig a hersoaly ; rbe
leven ther does ao litte abanemore
meiurhight, goodprd symia l
had wit ghay, tat brow s hier father'h,
harity cr.iClityen toe fall the har wofl
age rigningso humit, and liey ook 3t
ioste completely.ltersoalelyp Mre
ledens fac pehas a wlitleraboveboy
mediumkan height ove good cmticar
,hyiq browhn hanr, (100el8." ch
Placet gory tuat, crs ovmeys hogh
whitee forherd:yo direhp to kei eye,
heacktn orialiptyn togapo welr
-apd wite cookn, stn alog ande
heavyr enough wel bevaman fhandi
coe ver4y Chniney adre loakd to5,e
iithe mayenlsg ber tee tamp crck
Agte isii girl hsen awodeu birds
lhlook, and hoong wavs t od atthr
wvntere tha~mng loveant don'tthe
mrkin she asptkled wth toey would
motxtue lov boiy meloer fr, n
thn? co lol.GJsLretdi
AGRIOULTURE.
GRAFTING VINE.-A correspondent
outs his selons trom lastyear's gro wth,
in February,leaving them long, enough
to include three or four bu is, and
keeps them In a dormant state until
the vines to be grafted are well started
to grow-say one or two Inches long.
Then remove the earth from the vines
down to or near .the first roots; then
rub off all tne old, loose bark, and saw
off from one to three Inches above the
first roots. With a saw make one, two
or three straight cuts down Into the
stump. If the stuip is small only make
one cut in it, and if the vines are large
they will adinit of two scions, one each
side o tie stump. With a sharp knife
trim the saw cuts out the proper shape
for a wedge graft. Trim the scion to
fitacourately, leaving a small shoulder
on each side of the scion ; than insert in
the stimp, being sure to push it down
to the shoulder, and also make a con
nection with the bark of the sclon and
the old stock, Cut the selon down to
two buds. -When finished, fill up with
fine dirt level with the top of the
ground, leaving one bud of each scion
uncovered. Drive a stake as near as
possible without disturbing the grafts.
The stake should be as high as it Is de
sirable to grow the vine, and before
the grafts have grown large enbtugh to
bend over on the ground, tie them to
the stake, keeping tuhe sprcuts ptlled
off during the first and second years.
When tihe gratts are one year old-say
in January or February-prune out, to
one or two gralts. This process, with
such other necessary treathient as any
fruit grower will observe from time to
time, will ensure a crop of fruit the
second season after graiting. lie digs
up all the stiumps that fall to grow
grafts, as it is useless to try to graft
them oveI'.
How CALIFouTNiA Fi-.1 Is AIS
PLOwED.-The fields are plowed 'with
what they call gang plows, which are
simply four, six or eight plow shares
fastened to a stout framne of wood, In
time lighter soil eight horses t'raw a
seven gang plow, and one such team is
counted oi to put in 640 acres of wheat
In the sowlng eipon. vir from eight to
tei a tres per dlay. Capt. Grey, near
MIereer, has put, in this season 4,000
acres with ilve euch teams-his owl)
land, his own teams. A seed sower is
fastened in front of tle plow. The
plow has no hanudles. and the plowman
Is, in iact, only the iriver: lie gtides
tihe team ; the JIlows do their *own
work. It is etmay work, and a smart
boy, If his legs are equal to the walk,
I- ! good a1 lowinani lis anybody-for
the tunn turns the corners, and the
plow Is not handled at all. On the
heavier sol the process is sore
whatt different. An eight horse team
moves a four' gang plow, and gets over
abouit six acres per day. The seed Is
then sown by a mIachinle which scatters
it forly feet, amid sOws from seventy
live to one hunidred acres Iinia day, and
the ground is then harrowed and
cross-iairrowed.
CURiNG lA.its.-The season is now
with us when our good farmers eure
ham an'.d other parts of the hog for use
at aI future date. A writer who has
had soile experienee says. "It is well
known that time Westphalia hams are
held in higher repute than others.
This superiority is owing not to alny
tihing particular in the fliesh of the pork
but to the manumer of curing. These
hanis are smoked in upper stories of
buIldings, and the smoke, which is
made from time chips of oak or nimaple,is
comnveyed by meanms of tubes from time
cellar to the room containmng the hamns.
Ily thus having it lomig space to paiss
th rough the vapor which the smmoke
genier ally~ hohlis is deposited, and( the
hams ar'e perfectly dry anid cool during
the procesr. Th'le great defect in smack
ing, is placing time ineat too niear the
ii ,- amid the smoi(kehmouse is oft3n too
tmiht; the consequienmce is thmat themenit
is kept damp, omnly dryinig or rather
hamrdening oni thle surlmace.'' 11 aniy of
farmers have a smnokehmouse that, couild
be arr'anged so ias to give an cool, dry
smoke to thmeir meat., the atbove sugges
thon appecars to bin cne thmat would beinig
witmh it good resul's.
11iomnss, if' well fed, feel bright
amid lively in winter, and time young
atre, for this very reasonu, more enailly
trin ed t hian whlen the wveathier and
rmuninmg att pasmture miakes thenm duill!
Whenu'mever horsesaire used sols to warm
themi iup ait all, blaniket thmem as soon as
they standt still,if only icr I wo or thiree
miiintes, those two or threec im iini es
arme somietimes enoutgh to give a chill,
wleh 1mmay emmd in pnleumniah,ori other
seriomms trotubles. Groonimig saves feed,
anid also promiotes hiealh in i horses,
and shouli never be nelected. It
will priobably pay even to groom boar
ding iors5es, antd it wilil certaiinly paty
thme ownmers to sti timlate tlihat their horis
es shottld be gr'oomed daily. Islankets
except mere ''dusters,'' are worse ihamn
tusees in stble; thmey matke thme horse
tenidemr, amid imore likey to take cold
wh'len brought in hot.. Litter vemry free
13' If y'ou havey the inntter'mi, straw, heaves
swaip hay, c'e.
A A<,rth Carol(d~iandstry. --liuring
13c miet yearis tihe comieet' ii o1 tmed icnl1
amid othetr plnts hats b'eL'Ore a larmge
and proil table indulism ry ina Nomth Car o
l ina. TJhie trade ceniters tat Statesvil le,
where ani entrprlsinig fli imi.vc 's
tabl Iished cii of t1Ihe bIargts: hot amical
depots in time woarld. Their st sek ('od.
pirises I ,700t varieties of iroots, herbs,
barks, seeds, flow~ers, andit mosses, amd
tall sorts of lanlits 101r herbainriuimis,
some of themt peculi atr to the hlora of
tihe St-mte, andm ethers hound imore abuni
datiny there tai elsewhere. The
quati itiles now on hiand vary from 60
to 35,000 pount ds of' each kinmd. Tihey
1.ay thme 'olletors either in cash or
goods, andh last year they <(iIsposed itn
tis wa'uy of $4.,00,0 wothi oh imerchan..
dise. TIheir w.irehom-es hiave 2u70,000
squatire feet of floing, which wiil give
an~ iea of' their caipacity for vmmtmrge oh
thie producets they arine col lee ting I roni
all q uarters. Thirmn hinpiment, tast y'ear
iaimonnjtted t, 1,800,000 ptoundts. TVhe
collectors ate largely Cherokees.
Xalmiwe reports a vei'y cur'ious tle-.
pihmonio txper'imient umtade ini.3ui wicr
land con the occasion of the federal
fete of sIngers- A telephone had beent
placeed in the Zurieh Festhalle, und two
conductors connected with time Blale
telegraphic olce, where a ltarge andi
enee0 hiadt congi'cgtated, TIhe disttance
from Ba~lo to Zuri'h as iabout e'ighmty
kilomuetres. Thme Bale aumdience eitjov
edI'tme singing about ais wvell as if they
had1( been placied ini the upper cir' ale 01
an ordinary opera hotuse. At thin enid
of the perormamice they prioved their
satishaetion by clapping hiitnds, w hilehi
the telegrap~hic w ires tr'ansintmted wiuh
poefc ildehity to the Zurlch perfor
mers.
In1 tur'ning into ice, wvater e'xpandi~s orn
swells, thait us, any givenm quatty of
water miakes a larger amount of Ice,
andi the Iee Is therefore lighter than
time water', and this Is time -reason why
it fioats ini wate.
DOMESTIC.
Ilow TO UTILIZE BITS OF MrAT.-Mr.
Deltnonico, talking about entrees, hays
that Americans ought. to copy the
French method of utilizing small bits
of raw meats and fowls,and of re-cook
ing all kinds of cold Joints and pieces
of cooked meat whioh remain day by
day from every dinner in almost every
family. - The success 'of such dishes
de)ends mainly upon the sauce,which
is best made from broth. The follow
lig is his reolpt for a favorit sauce,
"Take an ounce of ham or bacon, out
it up in small pieces, and fry it in hot
fat. Add an onion or carrot, out up,
thicken with flour, then add a pint or
quart of broth, according to quantityr
desired; season with pepper and salt,
or any spice or herb that is relished
(better, though, without the splce,)
and let simmer for an hour, skin care
fully and strain. A wineglass of any
wine may be added if liked." Cold
roast or brolled beef or mutton may be
out into small squares, fried brown in
butter, and then gently stowo in the
sauce above described.
APPLE ME1IUNOU Pix.-Stow and
--weeten juicy apples when you have
pared and slicett them;' mash smooth
and season with nutmeg or stew some
lemon peel with them and remove
when cold; 1111 your pans aid bake till
done; spread over the apples a thick
meringue, made by whipping to a stiff
troth the whites of three eggs for each
pie, sweetening With) a tablespoonful
of powdered sugar for each egg; flavor
this with rose or vanilla; beat until it
will stand alone and cover the ie
three-quarters of an inch thick. Set
back in the oven until the meringue is
well set. Should it color too iarkly
sift powdereil sugar over it when cooj;
eat cold. Peaches are even more de
liclous when used in thesame ianner.
Usa or WOOLEN CLOT iNo.-Profes
sor Jaeger of Stuttgart reconinmends
the mie of woolen clothing both in mi
iner and winter, and hab invented a
sort of normal dress by which he
claims the accumulatioi of fat and
water in the system can be prevented.
This normal clothiig ha two e:sential
prorerties:. 1. It cousibts exclusiviy
Of wool, avoidiing all materials woven
from plant libre (cotton or linen). 2.
It makes a strong point of keeping
warn the middle line of the front of
the body. but tihe piincipal pecnl
arity of this clothing is the exclusive
use of shecp's wool, eveni avoiding
pocket and ottier linings of cotton.
Faxcn .PicKI.F.-One hunfie I gremn
cueuimbers, I pecx green toniatoes, I
head cabbage, 1 dozen green peppers,
k;f peck onions. Uhop all very fine;
aud a pint of salt, and let it stand in a
woc.den bowl until morning. Then
drain oil the juice and put into a por
celain kettle; cover with good vinegar,
and add 2 pounds brown sugar, j
pound mustard seed, 2 ounces celery
seed, cloves, mace, abispice, Cinn11am11on,
a tablespconful each; salt to taste.
Boil until tender, but not longer; put
in air-tight jars.
To M1ARE PAINT FOR ON CEN'r A
PoUND.-To one gallon of soft hot wa
ter add four pounds of' sulpliateo'zine
(crude). Let it dissolve perfectly,an(i
a eLdiment will settle at the bottom,
Turn the clear solution into another
vessel. To one gallon of pailt (lead
aInd oil) mix one gallon of' the coi
pouind. Stir It into the paint slowly
for ten or fifteen minutes, anid the
compound and Paint will perfectly
coibine. If too thick, thin with tur
p~entinie. tlhis recip~e has beens sold to
painters as high as $100 for the privi
lege to use the same in their business.
Br.AcIn~o.-Aniy one may make his
own oil paste blacking by the follow.
lug trust worthy recip~e: Molasses, 1
p~ounid; Ivory black, one-haull ounds;
sweet oil, t wo ounces. R .ib together
in a imortar till all tihe ingredient~ form
a perfectly sumoothm imixture ; then add
the juice of one lemnon,or about a wine
glass 01f strong vinegar, .and thorough
13y lucorpjorate with j usrt enough wvater
added slowly to gin aii requJired conl
sistenzcy.
A Poe'N ndlt a quarmter ofI oatmeal
will supply ast mnucn nitrogen and al
most as mitineh fat to the body as one
ipounid of uncookecd inenat of' ordinary
qfuality. A man gets three times as
much nourIshment at thte same cost in
oatneal as lhe does In meats. Oao
p)ounid and a half of' Indin meal is
equal 10 one pound of' uncooked mecat
in nitrogen, and1( surpasses it in fat.
D~r~'.P dr'inkers escape gout, not be
cause they deserve it, but beause the
nervous powvers of the stomach arec en
feeobled by. ovem -stimiulation ; they have
confsequeni fly no aipetite, they eat but
little, an d Jail to accumulate 'that ex
cess of' effete and lil-assimilated niitro
genous matuter in the circulation,
which in those who eat more largely,
as wellI as dlrink freely, is one. of the
prinoipal cauIses of the nmalady.
i4w'Ern BEA D FjiTTr EnS .--Cut some
pireviouisly par-boi led sweetbreads into
slices half an inch thick. Seat'er over
these slices a little lemon inice, chop
pedl parsley,. pepper', salt antd inutmeic.
Dip thern i nto hatueri andi fry in not
lard. IDrain, arrange them on a nap
kin i a laue!r anid serve with parsley
garnish ing,
Jr is found t hat 2)082 eublec fee't of
fresh ir per becau. imust be supp~lliedl
every hour, so to dilute the products
of re-spi ration from the heul thyvI human
body as to keel) the air always purme and
fresh to a (degree of whiolesoimeniess,
In mines,to keep ump the pihy3sicel healthii
of the laborers, it hais been determined
that 0000 feet are roqluhdtte per hour.
As the cold prod ucca in ges in org
mmnic substancees closely resembin g
thmose caused by heat, an 11lungarian
cemist, proposes to cook f'resh hi ci by
expOsmng it, to a temnperathure of 38 deg.
below zero. it Is then placed in lher'
imetleally sealed cans, and is thius prie
servedl in perfect condition for a long
time.
FI.AX-SiaxuI TEA.-Put two table
sp)oonfulms whiole iilax sced inI a pint of
boiling water, let, it boll fifieerinimin
utes; cut upi one lemon and p)ut in a
pitcher with two tablespoonitals 01
sugar; strain the tea boiing' le~t
through a wire strinid into the p)itchi
er' anti stir together. Good for' eug
anid sore throat.
COhN BaxIAD.-Onxe qjuart flouri, o)ne
quart Indian meal, one quart sour
iniilk, one teacup umolasses, one tea
spooni salt. Utl'sohve two teaspoons
salerastus in the milk ; mmix together
iall the ingredients well and bake one
hour in a good oven.
GO.ooicAL exliorations have shown
the probability that Russia contais
beds of' phosphate of himen of' sulileint
extent to supply13 Europe f'or an hide
finite period.
SoUND travels at the rate of 11412 feet
per second In the air,4000 in the water,
11.000 in cast iron, 17.000 in attei, amid
lb,000 in glass.
'VKOROUS.
IF humanity continues as gullible as
it has shown itself In the last few
years we shall advocate a new kind of
school primer in order that people gay
learn in their childhood wiiat you can t
beat Into some of them with a trip
hammer, even when they are old
enough to go to Congress.
Une lesson we should advocate hav
ing flxed up something after this style:
"What is three-card monte?"
"It is a bad, bad game."
"Who plays three-card monte?"
"One man who looks like a farmer.
One man who looks like a new school
philosopher."
"Can two play this game?"
"Yes my child. Even four can play
at this game."
- "What does the fourth man do?"
"le -gets left, my child. He gets
badly left. 1Ue loses all his money.
le pulls his hair and uses wicked
words."
"Then the fourth man is an ass for
playing."
So0kOoLMAsTMn: "Noah had three
sons-how, 11am and Japhet: now
answer me, who was the father of these
gentLemen?" (Boys silent.) "You
cannot tell? Well, now, let's try
again. You know Mr. Sparkes, who
lives over tiic way ?"
iloys: "Will Spurkes?"
Maswr: "Yes, surely. Well, then,
Mr. bparkes lias got three buys-Tom
my, Join and Bill. Now whio is the
lather ot those boys? You know them
very well." -
Boye: "Mr. Sparkes."
Master: "Very good-very good,
boys, iudvei ; taa Is qUte right. Now
theii, Noa land three buns-hncm,uam
and Japhet Who0-"
j>ys (an a iaurry): "Mr. Sparkes."
A nBAiRiTLss man on West Hill, the
faLhier of anamily, a taxpayer and a
member of the church, who ougli to
know better, did a mean thing last
bunday night. Ills daughter and the
partloular young uAan came home from
chu-ch, and of course "lie" just drop
ped In for one moment, and when the
young people entered the parlor the
gais was turned up, and there, oil the
back of the-big rocking chair they read
a staring plajard, "Two in one, you
can't." And the young man said he
always did hate mathnatics.
THEY were in the front parlor,
whince all but them had gone to bed,
and she had her head sweetly nestled
on his shirt-front, wih.thn top button
of his vest just tilling her oar, when
suddenly she started up and snuffied
the air as a warhorse snuft' the battle
from afar off. Then her delicate nose
was held close to his mustache and she
demanded of him where he got that
perlume from. le grew red in the
face ani stammered when he explain
ed that the barber pult the perlume oti
his nustactiLe. HIls way of telling it
roused all her suspicions, and now the
engage-i.ent is broken. But it was the
baruer.
"ISN'T it awful cold ?" queried
Smith as he met Jones on the car the
other day.
"Terriblo-terrible."
"Any of your water pipes freeze
upI?"
"Worse than that."
"low ?"
"Had three barrelsof potatoes frozen
as hard as stones. I'll los every one
of them."
"Oh, no, you won't. Just head 'o
uip and send 'ema to some charitable
institutIon, and no one will know but
what they troze while en route. it's a
golden opportuniity you should not
neglect.'"
A CERTMIN young man brought his
afihmieed down from the country to
see' the sights. One (lay while they
were passing a con fectioner's tiae swain
noticed in the wvindow a placardl bear
ing the announcement, "bee-eream
one dollar, per gai.'' "Well,'' said the
young mani as he walked into the sa
loon, "that's a pretty steelp price rto
charge for one gal, b~ut Maria, I'll soe
you through, no niatter what it costs.
Here's a dollar w~aiter ; ic-creami or
the gal."
''WHAT luck did you have fishing,
Breckin ridge ?" ask~ed a Gaivestoun,
Texas, gentleman of'a well-knowna im
pecunious character who owes every
body, "SplendId I While I was ouit
on the wharf, twenty meni with bills
called at my house to coilect money."
Gus (to Frank,'who is challing him
about his thin legs)-"My dear tellow
we e'r all be cart horses. Useful
ness isn't everythIng, you kno~w, and
there must be a lew thoroughbreds
here and there, if only for the sa'<e of
ornament!''
A FoND. mother said to lher little son :
"TVomnmy, my dear, I am going to give
you a little companion 800on ; which
wouldl you prIefer, a little boy or a lit
tie girl ?" "WVell, mother," replied
Thomumy, "if it is all the same to you, I
would rathier have a little donkey."
"Lrr-rLs baby Is v'ery li1, Charlie; I
am nairaid hie will clie.'" "'Well, if lie
does d ie,mammia,h e won't go to the bad
place.''' "Wh y, Charlie, how can you
know that?"' "Oh~, I know lie can't.
mamma ; lie's got no teeth to gnash.''
A vascoc:0Us boy of six years, list
ening wearily to a long windled tale,
related by a prosy relatIve, took adl
vantage of a short ,pause to say, slyly :
"I wish that story had been brought
Outt ini neimbers !"
J A C (oged four years takIng a walk)
'"What beconies of people when they
dIe?'' Mamma. "Taioy turn into dust,
dlear." Jack : "Wh~ at a lot of people
there must be on this road, then.''
"My darling,"hle instant-ly whispers
vaily at tempting to seize her hiandi,
"dle you know that I love you madly ?"
"Ohm, yes," she says, "any tool could
tell that.''
Ginti (yawnmng over lessons) "J'mn
so tired ; I should like to go to sleep."
B~oy : "'I'll tell you what to (10 then:
Glet up early to-mnorrowv andi have a
good s1leep before breakfaust."
Ml uMMA : "An D11iavidl was able to
kill that great big mn Goliath because
('d hlpedLu him1."' llarry (aged six):
"Well, I don't call that faIr, mamma,
that's two to One."
A LrrTLE girl, agedh five years, going
to bed one night, and kneeling dlowni
to say her prayer?., said: "Oh, mam
mia,may 1 only say amen to-night ? I'm
so tired."
Lrrrt boys out skating forget that
frozen p0onds and rivers must have air
hol~es. Many famIlies have lost a pair
of skates and a little t:oy througni
Ig Lora nc an'] a hole in the ice.
Torrxic: "I wonder why dolls are
aiways girls, 'Tom ?" To~m: "Because
bnys hate being mnadeabnies of."
That Frosen Pipe.
When a plumber plumbs a now house
he makes provision for the freezing of
the water pipe at some point under the
house. It is always at some point
which can be got at by opening a trap
door and crawling less than half a mile
through the darkness. You begin the
winter with the feeling that you will
neither borrow nor lend a pall of
water, but will stand ready at all times
to sympathize with a neighbor who
gets up In the .morning to find his
pipes as dry as a bone. Just at this
feeling begins to put fat on your ribs
you go home to dinner to be met by
the cook with the remark:
"I guess the Wrater has all run o t
of the river, for I can't got a drop to
cook with."
You turn the faucets this way and
that. There is hope that she doesn't
know how to draw water, although she
Las been in the house for three years.
There is a sighing in the pipes, as if
they had met with some great sorrow
down In their depths, but no water
appears.
Under these clroumstances, it takes
only ten minutes -to come to the con
olusion that the pipe Is frozen some
where. Ton minutes more spent In
deep reflection will convince you that
the guilty point Is under the addition,
where the pipe leaves the ground to
enter the kitchen.
All you need do is to get a candle, a
hammer, a nail, a pine stick and a hot
flat-iron. After you have crawled
un'der and bumped your head on the
brick columns 'and raked your back on
the joist and barked ,your knees on the
old Iron hoops which always take up
lodging under a house, you put the flat
iron to the cold water pipe. It is no
use to try to iron the wrinkles out of a
water-pipe. The most you can do Is
to heat the ipe, and rno man was eyer
known to persist in that idea over ten
minutes before adopting the other.
Take your hammer and drive the nail
Into the pipe. By driving next to the
floor and close to the ground you can
tell if the pipe is frozen between. The
nail-holes are easily plugged up with
pine. When you have come as near as
may be to the frozen spot, hold
the flat-iron ou the pipe and settle
down for ten minutes of meditation.
You won't have traveled down memo
ry's lane over half a mile before some
thing will happen. L'he pipe will
burst exactly on a line with your eyes,
and you will have cause to wonder all
the rest of your life how a gallon of
water could have collected at that one
point for your benefit.
Some men can close a burst in a lead
pipe by the use of a hammer. You can't,
and so you must crawl out for rage,
crawl In to wind them over tne spot,
yell for string, whoop for thelwater to
be shut off and crawl out with icicles
hangi ng to your ears aud raging de
sire in your heart to shed blood. And
yet, when you come to shake your fist
under the plumber's iose and offer to
lick him for two eonts, he kindly re
plies.
"Burst in the pipe, eli? 'Well I'l
have a man there the liret thing next
week.
A Oreat Enterprise.
The Hop Bitters Manufacturing
Company is one of Rochester's great
est business enterprises. Their Hop
Bitters have reached a sale beyond all
precedenlt, having from their intrinsic
value found their way iuto almost'
every household in the land.-GUraphic.
.vmaerous colloetions of rain from
various parts of England, examinied by
Professor R. A. Smith, sho0w that from
rain collected at sea common salt and
sulphates after a time crystallize out,
the latter being in larger proportion~ to
the formier than in sea water. Passing
inland, the sulphates gradlually in
crease, probably by the oxydation in
the air of the sulphuretted hydrogen
escaping from decaying organic mat
ter, in the cities and manufactories or
their vieinlty.thie increase is still more
marked, owving to the combustion oR
coal coontaining sulphur. If the sul
phuric acid increases more rapidly
thani tihe ammonia the rain becomes
acid.
V EolEINE does not de4ceiye Invalids
into false hopes by purging andl creat
ing a fictitious appetite, but assists
nature in1 cleaping and purifying the
whole system, leatding the patient
gradually to perfect health.
In San Salvador more than 600 shiooks
of earthquaki' were felt durling the last
ten days of 1879. They were the sever*
est D~ecember al8:h, in tile vicinit.y of
L :ake i lopailgo, where cone shock broke
the telegrapn wire, mtade tihe ground a
network of cracks, opeed new springs,
increased ihe rivulets to ten ties their
usual voiumue,muddied the waters ot tihe
lake and roiled hundreds of thousands
of tonts of rocks dowrmi the steep hills.
As a seq ual to these dJisturbanlces, a
volcano arose con the 21st and~ 22,1, and
now remiains as a voicainic liland of' five
acres in extent.
En giis skaters are now.trying a new
skating surface, called "crysial ice."
It is solhi at all atmospheric teumpera
tures. It consists chiedly of a mixture
of carbonate andl sulphate of soda,
which forms a crystainme mass ovei
wiceh skates glide with as little trIo
tion as uponi ordinary ice, When the
surface becomes wvorn and rough, It ls
reaully smootheqd by a sp~ecial steam
lng apparatus. A floor of this mater
iat will last many years at .lighmt ex
Trhose whio use Carboline, as now
improved andl perfected, the great
petioleum hair renewer', are always
distingulshed by the beautiful soft
texture of tile hair produced by the
use of Chat most exquisite of all toilet
p'reparations.
'The "fifteen" puzzle has been
brought to the attention of so learnedl
a body as the Rloyal .Society, Edin
hurgh. At the meeting on June 7th,
Professor Tiait sont in a note on the
theory of the puzzle, and gave a rule
for dleteriing whether a particular ar
rangemnent was solvable or not.
Thiirty-iouir years of constantly in
creasing use hiave establishied a reputa
tion for Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup sec
ond to no similar preparationi. it re
lieves instantly and oures all Coughs,
eolds, etc.
No Hospital Needed
No palatial hospital needed for Hop
Bitters patients, nor large-salaried
talented puffers to tell what Hop Bit
ters will do or cure, as they tell their
own story by their certain and abso.
lute cures at hone.-A'eto York Ide
pendend.
it has just been shown that tlhe
sottnds the woodpecker producds by
striking its bill against trees constitute
a performance taking the place of song
In other birds, and have no connection
with its quest for food. It carefully
selects the spot on partially decayed
trunks fromn whinh the most sonorous
sound may be produced, and frequents
the saine places day after day. This is
probably the only case atmong the
feathered tribes ini which vocal is re
placed by 9istrumental music.
Card collectors please buy seven bars
Dobbins' Ei'ctric Soap ot any grocer
and write Cragin & Co., Philadelphia,
Pa., for seven cards gratis, six colors
and gold. Siakespere's "S wen Ages
of Man.'' Ordinary price 25 c.nts.
The German African Society has at
preseant six different expeditions travel
ing through Central Airica. The
money for these expeditions is obtain
ed from the German governinent or
through private subscriptions. Dr.
Nachtigatt is the pres-dent of the so
ole:y.
Yout Muast Try 11.
Do not despair even if you have suffered
for years from weak kid:oys and torpid
bowels. Tile celebrated Kidney-Wort has
cured hundreds of cases of froma five to titirty
years standing. It its nature's great rewoey.
-Press.
VEGETINE!
OREAT RELIEF,
Sic HIeIInacle.
i. It. STEV ENS, stAD8, Miss,, April 24, 1978.
Dear sir.-I certify hat ny wife has fro.
cluently used your vegetine tor Sick Headache
and oxperliced great, Relief from its use
L. A. DOR It.
WITH 0001) SUCCESS.
Dropsy and Kidney Complaint.
DEs loiNrs, loWa, sept. 10, 1878.
11. it. STEVENS Boston,
Dear Sir-1 think very highly of your Vege
tino having used it For )ropsy and Kidney
Complaint, with good sue esi. I have also re.
commended it tj others who have been greatly
benelitted by it uc.
D). E. EGGLINT1ON
No. 809 Wutinutt st.
Vegetine.
Female Weakness.
II. it. ST EVENS: ltILADIE.1H IA, July 21. 1377.
)ear Sir-I have been alIhicted with Female
Weakness and Womb Disase for inany years.
Last March my hua-b.tnd got ine a bottle o0 your
Vegtine, anti beforo I had linished tawing it I
found teller; ihe second antl thi d bottles gave
mne s',ll lurther relief, anil I h artily recom.
anend I to ail females suffering from Femule
Wveaknes..
Itebpect.fully yours,
Mis. ELIZAiETH 11. JOHNSON,
2.46 North seventh Street.
I am per.sonally acquainted with the above
)oelens and sold thcn a number of bo. ties of
*egetine.
J. 0. E BERH ARID. M. D.
Vegetine has never fail;ed to effect a cure,
giving tone and strength to the syztem debil
tated uy disca-.e.
'Vegotinae,
1RKP11AISED BY
. R. TrEVEINIS, BosToN, Mass.
Vegel ine ies tiold by All l~ruugtstu.
B
~ITTERS
Sleep, Appetite, Strengtha
lItturn when Hiostett,er's at,omtch nlitters Is
systematically uasedl by a bilious dyspeptic suir.
forer. Moreover, since the brain symp athim~s
closely itlh ilhe atomach and l's assoeiato or.
gans, tho liver aund the bowels, as their de
rangement is rectifiell by ilhe action orf tho lilt
ters, mnnal despondtency prodiuced by that,
derangeanrnt, (d5 sappears.
For sale by nil Drugg(ists and Dealers
generalhly.
Ladies ""anIr~r .,a lit nio.s
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w!! sre the Ith .ation all these
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them a wi ve but tol uffer
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One Paekagemakessixqmartsof Nedlemo.
Tour Druqg M L n r t o ai or0
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10.
wama, asennsonac.,tieters,
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