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J. J. TOOK, EDITOR & PBOPgIKTOB.
TJio Chicago Academy of Design.
In the settlement and earlier history of
any country the first business is to erect
builings of the rudes*. kind, clear the fields,
prepare roads and provide for the actual
necessities of life. Then follow better dwell
ings, school houses, and churches. The
schools at first merely furnish instruction in
the rudiments, but these primary soon grow
into grammar, jto be followed by higher
schools, academies, colleges and professional
schools of the highest grade. At first, the
attention of the people is directed exclusively
to the preparation of homes and the means
of subsistence and the acquisition of wealth.
After these objects have been in a degree
attained, the cultivation of the arts and
sciences, metaphysical studies rise in impor
tance in the public estimation, and more at
tention is given to them. These aesthetic
and higher intellectual studies are placed at
the end of most courses of education, and are
reach later than the others both by individu
als and communities.
Chicago, one of the very youngest of the
great cities of modern times, yet far from the
end of her first half century, situated in the
mi4st of anew and still comparatively unset
tltd country, has hitherto been almost entirely
engagsd in material pursuits, in establishing
the network of railroads which are to support
her commerce and make her the greatest rail
road centre on the globe, and in making those
great internal improvements which make her
the wonder of the world and have contributed
so much toward her unparalleled growth and
prosperity. But in the last few years she
has given a little attention to the higher
sesthelic and philosophical studies, and one
of the first fruits ,of this turning aside
from her intense materialism is the noble
building represented on this page, and the
society to which it belongs. »
The Chicago Academy of Design was born
in the winter of 1800, when a few lovers of
art met in Reynolds Block and formed an
organization of which Seldon J. Woodman
was President ; Charles Peck, Vice Presi
dent; and Walter Shirlaw, Sec’y. The
names of this little band should be preserved
and handed down to posterity, as having en
gaged in a nobler work than those do who
fight for glory on the gory battle field.
In a short time they opened free schools
for drawing from life and antique models.
Their first meetings were held in the gallery
of Jevne and ‘Almini. In May, 1807, the
members of the society held a festival and
gave their first semi-annual exhibition. They
had a large addition to their members in the
autumn, including many prominent artists
outside of the city.
The first exhibition wa9 comparatively a
failtuie, but the one given a year later proved
a grand success, and its receipts were over
81,700, They also received some liberal
donations. J. Y. Scammon gave them 8500
for the purpose of enabling them to obtain
from Europe suitable casts for models.
Soon after, they opened a drawing school,
and employed Conrad Diehl as an instruc
tor, and under his skillful management the
nurnbtjr of pupils soon increased to thirty-five,
who were allowed to study at any time for
ten dollars a month. The third annual ex>
hibition was given on the 18th of December,
1868, when the entire Opera House was
opened and one of the finest collections of
paintings ever gathered together in the West,
was exhibited. During the winter of 1808-9
measures were taken to secure an act of
incorporation, which was approved March
l Oth, 1809.
Leonard W. Volk, Henry C. Ford, Charles
Knickerbocker, Sanford E. Loring, Alvah
- BradUh, John C. Cochrane, W. Coggsweli,
Conrad Diehl, James F. Gookins, Louis
Kurz, Rufus E. Moore, Theodore Pine, P.
Fishe Reed, Walter Shirlaw, George P. A.
Heally and Charles Peck were the original
corporators. The second section of this
charter is “ The objects of the Chicago Acad
emy of Design are the founding and main
tenance of Schools of Art, for the culiiva
tion of the Arts of Drawing, Painting, Sculp
ture, Architecture, Engraving, and Design,
and for the formation of a Gallery of objects
of Art.”
The act of corporation was so drawn as
to forever exempt the personal property of
the society from taxation.
During the year 1870, a beautiful struc
ture with a CleaVeland brown stone front
was erected as the home of the vigorous
young Academy which is destined to do so
much for the cultivation of art in Chicago,
and which will make its influence felt through
out the entire Interior.
This building is located on Adams street,
between State and Dearborn. It is five sto*
ries in height, has a front of eighty feet, and
seventy-five feet deep. The lower story is
used lor stores; a broad stairway in the
centre of the front leads up to the Leoture
Room of the Academy, 33x60 feet, in the
rear of the second story. Here also is a
retiring room for ladies, 33x17 feet. In the
front part of this story are fonr elegant stu
dios fronting on Adams street. The arrange
ment of the third story is very much the
same as that of the second, the front part
being occupied by studios and the Gallery
being in the rear. The fourth and fifth
stories are occupied exclusively by artists’
studios.
These rooms*were opened to tho public on
the occasion of their last exhibition, Novem
-22d, 1870. They are only about one block
distant from the Post Office, in a central and
easdy accessible location, and we advise any
of our readers who may visit Chicago and
can possibly make a leisure hcnr, to spend it in
visiting these rooms and examining the many
beautiful works of art gathered here. And
we doubt not there are many of the busy
citizens of our active city, who are almost or
quite ignorant cf this beautiful abode ot the
goddess of Minerva and who know not what
a world of beauty is treasured here.
The Gallery is open every day until six
o’clock and three evenings in the week until
ten, and the admission fee is only twenty
five cents. How many of our young people
would be benefited if they could be persuaded
to spend more of their evenings here where
they would be acquiring a love for the beau
tiful and having their taste educated and re
fined and less at the theatres and minstrels
where, at she best they are only being amused
and excited.
The Constitution of the Academy provides
that a subscriber of $500.00 shall receive a
diploma making him an Honorary Academi
cian of the Chicago Academy of Design, in
perpetuity, and entitling his family to a season
tickets to exhibitions annually, access to the
Gallery, and invitations to all the receptions
held by the Acadenjy ; also to nominate a
student annually, who shall bo admitted to
the schools of the Academy free of charge.
A subscriber of SIOO.OO shall be presented
with a diploma, constituting him a Fellow
Member of the Chicago Academy of De
sign, for life, and entitling him and his family
to admission to all exhibitions and receptions
free of charge. An Annual Ticket ($10.00)
entitles the holder and his family to admis
eion to the Galleries and invitations to all
receptions held by the Academy.
As the Schoc Is of the Academy are now
organized, Conrad Diehl is Professor of the
Life and Antique, and John H. Drury Pro
fessor of Drawing and Painting. Each of
those classes is divided into two branches
which work on alternate days, though any
student has the privilege of working every
day.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: ATLANTA, GA„ THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1871.
The tuition fee is only 85.00 per month in
the rudimentary classes, and 86.00 for color
ing. The Antique School is abundantly sup
plied with oasts selected by Mr. Volk, in
Rome.
The present officers of the Academy are,
Leonard W. Volk, President; Herfry C.
Ford, Vice President; P. Fische Reed, Cor
responding Secretary; Charles Knickerbocker
Recording Secretary; Belden F. Culver, Treas
urer; Theodore Pir.e, Conrad Diehl, John
Phillips, Charles Peck, Alvah Bradish, Wils
liam Coggsweli, John H. Drury, and Rufus
E. Moore, Council.
There are at present 102 members, di
vided as follows: Five Honorary Academi
cians; thirty eight Academicians ; thirty-three
Associates; twenty-six Fellow Members.
Importance of Yentiliation.
Ventiliation, or the means of supplying
fresh air to every inhabited room, is as nec
essary as the supply of food. After the air
already in the room is consumed or ‘vitiated
it must be removed, and as much brought
in every minute as is used or spoiled. There
mu9t, then, be two constant currents, one out
ward, carrying off the foul air, ar.d the other
inward, bringing in pure air. The outward'
current may pass upward through the chimney
or through the crevices in the upper part of
the ceiling, or through a passage-way provided
for the purpose. The inward current more
commonly comes through the unintentional
crevices, which the skill of the architect and
mechanic seldom eritigel ysjirevents, and which
admit air sufficient to save the occupants
from death, but not enough to save them
from some sickness, or faintness, or certainly
soms depression of life. As those crevices
are inadequate to supply the air that is
needed to sustain the fullness of life, every
room that is inhabited should be provided
-vith means of ventiliation sufficient to admit
and to carry away at least seven feet of air
a minute for each occupant. For this pur
pose, a school room with forty
-should hav.e a ventilator a foot square, through
which the air should move upward at the
rate of two hundred and eighty feet a t min
ute, and as much fresh air should be received.
In ordinary circumstances, no more air can
be received into a room than is carried out.
Nor can a room be emptied of air; none
will go out unless a9 much comes in. A
ventilator will not, then, carry away the foul
air unless there be some place for the ad
mission of other air to takes its place.—Ed
calional Bulletin.
The German Language.
Every child in school should learn to speak
and read the German language. The people
of this country, the intelligent portiou par
ticularly, are awakening to the importance of
a knowledge of. the German. In the New
England States it is made a regular study
in many of the schools and colleges. Men
who can speak German as well as English,
are in demand everywhere. On the farm, at
the counter, the desk, in the shop, at the bar,
in the pulpit, in the medical profession, in
the school room, they have the preference.
Clerks who can converse in both languages
are always in demand, and command higher
wages than those who can speak only one.
To supyly this increasing demaud, we must
have more German taught in our schools.—
But, independent of the bread and butter
consideration, the German language should
be studied on account of its intrinsic value,
and particularly its literature.— Educational
Bulletin.
Sneering- at Newspapers.
The power of the newspaper is beginning
to be admitted by the majority of intelligent
people. But we doubt very mifch whether,
even among this class of minds, there is any
thing like a proper realization of the ex
tent to which the newspaper press i9 to
day influencing human opinion, changing cus
toms, controlling politics, encouraging or re
tarding progress, aiding or injuring thechurch,
blessing or cursing families, saving or destroy
ing men. Yet there are found those who, at
times, are not ashamed to display their ig
norance or euvy by decrying the press and
sneerning at newspapers. There are politi
cians whom some ill wind has carried into
the Legislature, or perhaps to Congress, who
will occasionally vent their spite against the
newspapers, by a sneer, although in point of
real influence the average political editor out
weighs him a thousand times. Ministers of
the Gospel have, at times, been so indiscreet
as to intimate their low estimate of the re
ligious press, forgetting that an editor of a
religious paper, having a circulation of 15,000,
addresses more people every week than the
most popular of them will speak to in a
whole life time. And once in a while Mr.
Moneybags or Mr. Landholder, swelling with
his self-importance, expresses the opinion that
newspapers are not of much account. Yet,
the man who sits on the tripod of the country
newspaper is a greater power than all the
rich men in the country.
But if any of the parties to which we may
have referred have an ax to be ground—any
project to be advocated, how differently do
they act! Then the newspaper is the most
important instrument of the day, and the edi
tor is just the finest fellow in the whole com
munity. Smiles, bowings, and kind words are
showered upon the occupant of the editorial
chair. But, if he has been long in the service,
he is not easily hood-winked ; he will quickly
read the whole man and discern his object.
The truth is, that no class of men expend so
much unrequitted toil in behalf of educa
tional and humane institutions, to promote
public enterprises, and to advance the ppcu
niary interests of individuals, as do the con
ductors of the public press. The man who
sneers at newspapers as of small account,
must be pr.e to whom, for some Inscrutible
reason, less than the usual amount of common
sense has been given; or one who, his de
mands having become altogether unbearable,
ha3 been snubbed in the editorial sanctum;
or one who has come into collision with
some newspaper, and been badly worsted;
or one who is only capable of envy because
of the power wielded by others; or one who
stands in daily dread of having his own bitter
ness and meanness exposed.— Presb. Banner.
Profits of Poultry Raising.
An instance of success in this industry was
recently brought to our notice in which a poor
man secured a good start in two years with less
than one hundred dollars to begin with. The
case was that of an indu.-trious German, who
took up some fgovernment land within a few
miles if Marysville, built a little cabin, pur
chased a few chickens and turkeys for a start,
which were enabled to'pick up their own living
among the bushes, while the industrious pro
prietor hired out to his neighbors when he
could get a job, and cut wood on his claim
when no work was to be had. In the mean
time, his chickens and turkeys grew and
increased so at the end of eighteen months
(covering the second spring and summer of
his occupation), he bad sold poultry and eggs
to the amount $1,500 over and above what
his fowls had cost for their keep. This was
in addition to what he had otherwise earned
by his labor, which was considerably in excess
of what it had cost him to live. All this
was tbe result of a little industry and econo
my. Moreover, his moderate capital of
SIOO had increased to five or six times its
original amount.
Our friend is now in possession of sufficient
capital to improve and cultivate his land, and
to enter advantageously upon a diversified,
or any other system of farming. There is
room in the State for hundreds of others to
do the same thing.— Pacific Rural Press.
Tie Fabulous Upas Tree.
When Marco Paulo, Mungo Park, and the
great early navigators returned home from
strange countries which they had. visited, they
came back with most marvellous stories of
things that they had seen. The inquiring and
ignorant popular mind was glad enough to ac--
eept without hesitation the mythical narratives
of these old worthies, and the more dread
ful stories the more eagerly they were seized
upon and transferred to the literature of the
times. Legends and traditions became so
inextricably mixed up with fact that it was
impossible to discriminate between the true
and the false. Among these myths of centu
rie? was one which held out longer than the
others, and which, indeed, may still be said
to have its believers. This is the famous
death-distributing Upas tree, of Java, under
whose spreading branches the lively imagina
tion has often pictured the bones and skeletons
of,countless victims who have fallen beneath
it* deadly influence. A writer who has vis
ited a similar tree ia Boruss gives some ac
count of the Upas as he found it. Instead
of seeing it surounded by an arid plain, the
approach that led to it was grassy and green
with verdure, and bright with flowers. The
trunk of the tree was girded rouud with
'creeping vines and many colored parasites,
that wound their way from the ground to the
topmost branches. This writer states that
the people of the island bury their dead near
these trees, a fact which doubtless accounts
for the wonderful stories of the early travel
lers. Asa work of nature, the Upas tree is
deserving of recognition. Its girth of trunk
is immense, and its branches are lofty and
spreading. But here its wonders cease, and
as a phenomenon it must be consigned to
that cabinet of exploded superstitions which
already contains the kraaken, the maelstrom,
and the mfermaids with their golden harps.
Trimming Apple Trees.
A New Hampshire correspondent enters
‘the following protest against the robbing of
apple trees of what nature has provided for
them in either limbs or roots, under the fal.
lacious idea that this is the way to secure
their health and productiveness, and says:
“ If, for any reason, it becomes necessary to
remove limbs, the best way I have ever
found, especially if the limb is pretty large,
is to girdle it by taking off a belt of bark,
slime, and all, say two inches wide all around
the limb, down as low as I want to cut off
in the latter part of August. 1 let the limb
remain on the tree until the next season,
when the wood becomes hard and dry like a
bone; then I saw it off, just above the ring,,
of new wood that I will have formed all
aroundjhe limb at the bottom or lower edge
of the girdling, and then spread on grating
wax. In this way I have taken oft’ some
quitt large limbs from both apple and pear
trees, with perfect success ; and I have now
several limbs that were overlooked when
small, which I girdled last fall in this way,
and which will be taken off the coming sea
son. For small limbs that interfere with
others, or that for any reason, must necessa
rily be cut off, I prefer the month of August
or March in which to do the work, being care
ful always to cement over the woods,
Packing Down Batter.
Butter dairies in this section almost exclu
sively are devoted to the sale of fresh print
butter, taken to market once or twice a week
in pound lumps nicely enveloped in white
muslin cloths. We doubt whether any part
of the country is capable of instructing our
dairymen in its manufacture, but in respect
to packing butter for future use, there may
be something to learn, and we therefore copy
the following from the Western Rural, which
also obtained it from a Rochester paper. It
is said to be a process of Sophia O. Johnson,
who makes pets of her cows, and is prover
bially successful in her dairy operations.
There are some new points in it, especially
the mixing the saltpetre with the cream, in
stead of with the butter. This secures its
more equal distribution through the mass.
The article says:
A dairy room at this season should be kept
at a temperature of sixty degrees, else the
milk will stand too long before the cream can
rise. Few small dairies can procure such a
temperature; but if the milk is allowed to
stand twelve hours, and then is placed upon
a wire toaster and heated until the cream
crinkles, then stand another twelve or twenty
hours, the cream will rise ‘thick as a leather
apron,’ and far more yellow than that which
is not scalded. If you doubt this, my friend,
try the experiment with three or four pans,
and see for yourself, how great is the differ
ence. I commenced the scalding process this
week, and this morning skimmed the pans,
and the cream was twice as thick as the oth
ers, and far more yellow. I hold that a sav
ing of ten percent.,at the lowest computation,
is made by treating milk in this manner.
“ The cream is kept in a stone jar, and one
tablespoonful of saltpetre is added when the
cream is first put in ; this is stirred in every
morning, so that it becomes well mixed with
the cream, and prevents all tendency to bit
terness or mould. When ready for the churn,
another tablespoonful is mixed with between
eight and nine quarts of the cream. This I
consider a better practice than powdering it
with salt and sugar, and mixing with the
butter while working it. When ready for
churcning, the churn is thoroughly scalded;
the cream having been first tested with a
‘cream thermometer’—an invaluable aid to
every butter maker, for it shows the exact
point of temperature needed to produce the
butter. It is easily cleansed, and is a desid
eratum for every dairy.
“ I would never recommend the washing
of gutter that is to be packed down ; if it is
eaten directly, there is not much injury done
it; but the sugar of milk, upon which de
pends the sweetness of butter, is soluble in
water, and will surely be washed out. Pieces
of ice put into the churn, if the butter is soft,
will tend to harden it and aid the extraction
of the buttermilk, without taking its sweet
ness away. If butter is intended to keep until
the later winter months, it should have sugar
as well a9 salt mixed into it. To every pound
an even tablespoonful of sugar and the same
of salt should be added, taking great care not
to heap the spoon, but smoothing it off with
the finger. Now work it thoroughly in with
the crank of the churn reversed.
“ When cows are taken from fresh grass
feed, the cream loses its yellow tinge, and
some kind of colored matter is required. I
have always-used carrots grated into a little
new milk, and scalded, then strained through
a thick cloth ; but pure annatto is much used
now, and is far more convenient. If butter
is well made, the cream free from all extra
neous flavors, well worked, and not too
heavily salted, it may still be spoiled by not
being properly packed. The custom of making
it into two-pound ‘ rolls,’ stamped on each
side with a design of flowers or fruit, and
wrapping it neatly in thin white cotton cloths,
is growing in favor every season. Consumers
will pay a much higher price for butter ‘rolls’
which look pretty.’” —Practical Farmer.
To Mend Broken China. —Make a thin
solution of gumarabic in water, and stir in
plaster of Paris until the mixture becomes a
viscuous paste. Apply with a brush to the
fractured edges, and stick them together. In
three days the article cannot be broken
again in the same place. The white coler of
the cement makes it doubly valuable.
Indicted. —The Grand Jury has indicted
the proprietors of all daily papers in Cincin
nati, Ohio, save the Post, for advertising a
grand gift concert by the Milwaukee Musical
Sooiety.
One’s Friends.
Money can buy many things, good and
evil. All the wealth of the world could not
buy you a friend, nor pay you for the loss of
one. “I have wanted only one thing to
.make me happy,” Hazlitt writes; “but,
wanting that, have wanted everything.”—
And again : “ My heart, shut up the in prison
house of this Tude clay, has never found, nor
will it ever find, h heart to speak to.”
We are the weakest of spendthrifts if we
let one friend drop off through inattention,
or let one push away another, or if we hold
aloof from one for petty jealously or heedless
slight or roughness. Would you.throwaway
a diamond because it pricked you?—one
good friend is not to be weighed against the
jewels of all the earth. If there is coolness
or unkindness between us, let us come face
to face and have it out. Quick, before love
grows cold ! “ Life is too short to quarrel
in,” or to carry black thoughts of friends.
If I was wrong, lam sorry : if you, then 1
am sorrier yet,.for should 1 not grieve for
my friend’s misfortune? and the mending
of your fault does not lie with me. But the
forgiving it does, and that is the happier of
fice. Give me your hand and call it even.—
There ! it is gone; and I thank a kind Heaven
l keep my friendpstill! A friend is too pre
cious a thing to oe lightly held, but it must
be a little heart that cannot find room for
more than one or two. The kindness I feel
for you warms me toward all the rest, makes
me long to do something to make you all
happy. It is easy to lose a friend, but anew
one will not com* for calling, nor make yp
for the old one when he comes.— From, Our
Monthly Gossip, in the April number of
Lippincott’s Magazine.
Beautifni Allegory.
Mr. Crittenden, of Kentuck j was at one
time defending a man who had been indicted
soy a capital offence. After an elaborate and
powerful defense, ho closed his effort with
the following striking and beautiful allegory :
“When God in his eternal council con
ceived the thought of man’s creation, he call
ed to him the three ministers who constantly
wait upon the thorne—Justice, Truth, and
Mercy—and thus addressed them: “Shall
we make man?” Then said Justice, ‘Oh,
God, make him npt, for he will trample upon
the laws.’ Truth made answei also, ‘O.
God, make him not, for he will polute Thy
sanctuaries.’ But Mercy, dropping upon her
knees, and looking up through her tears, ex
claimed, ‘ O, God, make him ; I will watch
over him with my care through all the dark
paths which he may have to tread.’ Then,
God made man, and said to him, ‘O, man,
thou art the child of Mercy ; go and deal
with thy brother.’ ” #
The jury, when he had finished, was drown
ed in tears, and against evidence, and what
must have been their own convictions, brought
in a verdict of not guilty.
The Dignity of Stupidity.
It is a very respectable thing to be stupid.
Cheek goes a long way with some people,
but, when the question is one of permanent
success, give us that luxurious! efflorescence
of social conversation—dignified stupidity !
Yes, there can be m/doubt of it, solemn stu
pidity is eminently respectable. There is a so
lidity about it which commands respect be
cause it is so ponderous. We have seen scores
of preachers, lawyers, statesmen, judges and
doctors, who managed to [work themselves
into positions of honor and profit solely by
means of their impenetrable stupidity. We
are not speaking of the [stupidity of a fool—
we mean the stupidity of educated, respecta
ble men. Tne subject is very suggestive,
and is a dangerous one to handle. But it is
useless to discuss it. The respectability of
dignified stupidity is firmly and permanently
established.— Era.
Dr. Franklin’s Toast.
Dr. Franklin once dined with the English
and French ambassadors, when the following
toasts were drunk :
The British ambassador said : “ England—
the sun whose bright beams enlighten and
fertilize the remotest corners of the earth.”
The French ambassador, glowing with na
tional pride, but too polite to dispute the
previous toaui, drank: “ France—the moon
whose mild, steady and cheering rays are the
delight of all nations, consoling them in dark
ness, and making their dreariness beautiful.”
Dr. Franklin then arose, and, with his
usual dignified simplicity, said: “ George
Washington— the Joshua who commanded
the sun and moon to stand still, and they
obeyed him.”
The Union and American Enlarged.
Our business having increased to an ex
tent incompatible with the size of our paper,
and still being determined to-give our read
ers the latest news, local, foreign and general,
we have increased the size of the Union and
American to enable us to do so. The size of
a paper is not an infallible index to its qual
ity ; but we shall be pleased always to re
tain the good opinion so felicitously con
veyed through our business department, by
continued endeavors to make the Union and
American such a paper as that no reader will
absolutely need another, and one that will
meet the wants of the business community at
home and abroad, in'.having the largest, the
best,'and the most substantial class of readers.
'When we are Alone.
Sickness takes us aside and sets alone with
God. We are taken Ihto His private chamber
and there He converses with us face to face.
The world is afar off, our relish for it is gone,
and we are alone with God. Many are the
words of grace and truth which He then
speaks to us. All our former props are
struck away, and now we must lean on God
alone. The things of earth are felt to be vanity,
man’s help is useless. Man’s sympathy de
serfs us ; we are cast wholly upon God, that
we may learn that His praise and His sym
pathy are enough. “I£ it were not for pain,”
says one, “I should spend less time with
God. If 1 had not been kept awake with
pain, I should have lost one of the sweetest
experiences I ever had in my life. The dis
order of my body is the very help I want
from God ; if it does its work before it lays
me in the dust, it will raise me up in Heaven.’
The Germantown Telegraph takes the
ground that not only have the people no
right to turn their cattle into the highways
for pasture, but even the Legislature has no
power to permit them to do so. It holds
very property, as we think, that the only
right that insures to the public in the high
ways is that of passage and trifle. There is
no right conveyed to use the roads as public
pasture grounds, as everything beside the ac
tual roadway and its appurtenances are as
much as tbe private property of the owner
as they were before it was opened. A court
in the interior of New York has made a de
cision in accordance with this principle.—
Whenever the annoyance of cattle pasturing
in the road becomes too great to be endured,
which is always the case when permitted at
all, the proper remedy is to take them up and
treat them as strays or trespassers.— Farm*
ers ’ Home Journal.
“Mulching” is scattering, straw leaves, or
any rubbsh or 'scrapings over the surface of
the ground, and so thickly that the soil under
the mulching is always moist, and never dries
or cakes. If nearly all kinds of fruit trees
were mulched just after a wet spell, wheu the
ground is saturated with water, the ground
would probably remain in good condition all
through a long drought.
Beciper-
Curb for Toothachb. —Dr. Blake stated
before the London Medical Society that he
was able to cure the most desperate case of
toothache, unless the disease was connected
with rheumatism, by the application of the
following remedy : Alum, reduced to an im
palpable powder, two drachms ; nitrous spts.
of ether, seven drachms. Mix and apply to
the tooth.
Alum in Starch. —Dissolve a piece of alum
the size of a cherry, and add it to a pint of
starch. It preserves the colors of muslins,
ginghams and calicos, keeping them bright
for a long time.
To Stop Bleeding. —Reduce the grains of
gunpowder to a dust; place this upon lint
and apply it to the wound with a bandage, or
by .holding it with the hand. This is a good
styptic.
Good iNk.—Half an ounce of extract of
logwood, 10 grains of bi chromate potash,
dissolved in one quart of hot water. It can
be used immediately, but improves by keep
ing the bottle open for three or four weeks.
To cure itching and lumps on a horse, take
3 ounces saltpetre and feed the diseased ani
mal and the trouble passes away. Give one
tablespoon even full once every other day.
Ginger Snaps. —To one quart of molasses
take one teacup of butter, or lard ; one table
spoonful of ginger; one do. of soda. Raise
the molasses and butter to a boil, add the
soda when boiling, and pour quickly into the
flour, stirring steadily ; let stand until cool;
work in sufficient flour to roll; roll thin and
bake quickly.
Spots on Mahogany. —Stain3 and spots
may be taken out of mahogany with a little
aquafortis or oxalic acid and water, rubbing
the part by means of cork, till the color is
restored, observing afterwards to wash the
wood well with water, and to dry and polish
as usual.
To Cook Birds for Convalescents. —Lay
them upon the gridiron ; broil until they have
a light brown color ; then put them in a stew
pan ; pour over hot water enough to cover
them. Let them stew until tender. Season
with a little fresh butter, pepper and salt.
Chicken, birds and squirrels, stewed in a
double kettle, are very delicate for invalids.
If permitted, stuff the fowls and birds with
minced oysters.
How' to Cook Beets. —Beets should be
carefully washed, but not cut before boiling,
as cutting them allows the juice to escape,
leaving them white and hard. In summer
boil them an hour in salted water, and in win
ter boil them four hours. After boilirtg,
scrape off their skins, and cut off the threads
hanging from them.
How ro Broil without Burning. —ln broil
ing a beefsteak, whenever the coals blaze up
from the drippings, a pinch of fine salt thrown
upon them will instantly extinguish the flames.
By carefully attending to this matter, you
may have your broiled steak or chicken crisp,
but not scorched, and juicy, yet well done.—
Journal of Chemistry.
To Take Bruises out of Furniture. —Wet
the part with warm water ; double a piece of
brown paper five or 9ix times, soak it in the
warm water, and lay it on the place; apply
on part a warm, but not hot, flat-iron till
the moisture is evaporated. If the bruise be
not gone, repeat the process. After two or
three applications, the dent or bruise will be
raised to the surface. If the bruise be small,
merely soak it with warm water, and hold a
red hot iron near the surface, keeping the sur
face continually wet; the bruise will soon dis
appear.
To Polish Marble, etc. —Marble of any
kind, alabaster, any hard stone or glass may
be re polished by rubbing it with a linen
cloth dressed wi’h oxide of tin, (sold under
the name of putty powder.) For this pur
pose a couple or more folds of linen should be
fastened tight over a piece of wood, Jmat or
otherwise, according to the form of the stone.
To re-polish a mantel piece it should be first
perfectly cleaned. This is best done by
making a paste of lime, soda, and water, well
wetting the marble, and applying the paste.
Then let it remain a day or so, keeping it
moist during the interval. When this paste
has been removed, the polishing may begin.
The linen and putty powder must be kept
constantly wet. Glass, such as jewelers’
show counter cases, which becomes scratched,
may be polished in the same w’ay.
A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette gives us
the following receipt for making a good heal
ing salve, and which he says he has used for
23 yearSj with perfect success. Good for
sores and burns. In using it, it must be
spread on a cloth and laid on the part affect
ed : “ Take one pint sweet oil, half pound red
lead, two ounces Venice turpentine, one ounce
frankincense, three ounces beeswax ; put the
oil and red lead in an iron skillet, and boil
them until they turn brown; then add the
frankincense and beeswax ; stir it with a stick
all the time till the wax and frankincense is
melted, then add the Venice turpentine. Now
take it off the fire and stir till cold, when it
will be ready for use. Be sure to grind the
lead and.powder the frankincense and slice the
beeswax.”
Feeding Poultry. —Professor Gregory, of
Aberdeen, in a letter to a friend, observes:
“As I suppose you keep poultry, 1 may tell
you it has been ascertained that if you mix
with their food a sufficient quantity of egg
shells or chalk, which they eat greedily, they
will lay twice or thrice as many eggs as they
did before. A well fed fowl is disposed to
lay a large number of eggs, but cannot do so
without the material of the shells, however
nourishing in other respects the food may be;
indeed, a fowl fed on food and water, free
from carbonate of lime, or in the shape of
mortar, which they often eat on the walls,
would lay no eggs at all, with the best will
in the world.”
The pcssage from the New Testament,
“ It is easier for a camel,” etc., has perplexed
many good men who have read it litterally.
In Oriental cities there are in the large gates
small and very low apertures, called metor
phorieally ‘• needle eyes,” just as we talk of
windows on shipboard as “bulls eyes.” These
entrances are too narrow for a camel to pass
through in the ordinary manner, even if un
loaded.
When a loaded camel h6s to pass through
one of these entrances, it kneels down, its
load is removed, and then it shuffles through
on its knees. “Yesterday,” writes Lady
Duff Gordon from Cairo, “ I saw a camel
go through the eye of a needle, that is, the
low arched door of an inclosure. He mu9t
kneel, and bow his head to creep through ;
and thus the rich man must humble himself.”
An experienced poultry raiser tells how
young turkeys should be fed, and of what :
“Feed young turkeys with crackers soaked
in warm milk or water. Feed often, and
make crackers thus : 5 cups of flour, 1 table
spoonful of lard, 1 teaspoonful of cream tar
tar. Rub the lard and cream tartar through
the flour; add i teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in water, and add Witter enough to make a
very stiff dough. Roll, cut and puncture.
Bake in a slow oven, so that they will come
out white and dry. Young turkeys will not
need much else except water and greens.”
A gentleman of leisure, who devoted a
shining hour to watching “ the little busy
bee,” states that during 'that time she visited
no less than 582 clover heads.
Rats Helping a Blind Companion.—
While Alexander Gunn, cattle dealer, Brach
our, was passing Mill and Dale, his attention
was attracted to a large rat coming out of its
hole, which, after surveying the place, retreat
ed with great caution and silence. It return
ed soon afterward, leading by the ear another
which it left close up to the hole. A third
rat then joined this kind conductor, and the
two then searched about and picked up small
scraps of grain, these they carried to the sec
and rat, which appeared to be blind, and
which remained on the spot where they had
left it, nibbling such fare as was brought to it.
After this, one of the rats seized a small stick
about five inches in length, which he inserted
into the blind one’s mouth, and conducted it
to the water, and afterward led it back to its
hole.— Caithness Courier.
Slights.—* When a stranger treats me with
a want of respect,’ said a philosophic poor
man, ‘ I comfort myself with the reflection
that it is not me that he slights, but my old
shabby coat and hat, which, to say the truth,
have no particular claim to admiration. So,
if my hat and boots choose to fret about it,
let them, but it is nothing to me. '
Trades. —Statistics say, teach your boy a
trade if you would keep him out of State
Prison. Os seventeen thousand criminals in
the penitentiaries of different States in 1868,
there were 97 per cent, who had never learn
td a trade. Boys, give your parents no rest
entil they allow you to learn a trade, for
u you do not need it to live by now, the time
ifay come when you will.
Coal oil is said to be a never-failing remedy
for driving away bedbugs. Rub the bedslats
with it. The following receipt is also claimed
to be a perfect exterminator : “ Take of sal
ammonia 2 ounces, of spirits of turpentine
one ounce, of corrosive sublimate 2 ounces,
camphor solution 2 ounces, pulverized corro
sive sublimate and sal ammonia. Shake well
and apply with afeather. This will kill every
time, and will eradicate them entirely.”
What May be Saved. —When a penny
bank was established in Putney, and the de
posits were added up at the end of the year,
a brewer who was on the committee, re
marked : “ Well, this represents thirty thous
and pints of beer not drunk.”
In a valued exchange we find a mode of
keeping rats and mice out of oats. We give
it: “ Sprinkle each layer of sheaves slightly
with air-slacked lime, and rats and mice will
not trouble the oats. Lime desert is very
offensive, from its caustic nature, to the eyes
and olfactory nerves of these vermin.”
“It is not the drunken husband, father,
son, or brother, that feel all the keen torments
of the drunkard’s home. No! it is the wife,
the mother, the sister and daughter. The
intemperate man drinks the cup, but the dregs
at the bottom are left for the woman. — Rev.
Hosea Ballou.
Good Counsel. —Jerrold said to an ardent
young gentleman who burned with a desire
to see himself in print: “Be advised by me,
young man ; don’t take down the shutters be
fore there is something in the window.”
The Deepest Hole in the World.— When
we quit work on the artesian well near the Insane
Asyluip, it was admitted that the hole was the
deepest in the world. The St. Louis hole is now
beaten by one in the vicinity of Potsdam, which
is drilled to a depth of more than 3,200 feet.
Commenced with the intention of boring an
artesian well, it now serves a much more interest
ing purpose. At a depth of three hundred feet a
mighty stratum of salt rock was discovered, which
has not yet been pierced entirely at the immense
depth of five thousand five hundred feet. Other
holes, distant several hundred feet, have been
bored, in order to ascertain the circumstance of
the salt bed, and everywhere salt has been struck
at a depth of about three hundred feet. — Missouri
Republican.
Comparative Profits of Cotton and Cane
Culture. —A correspondent writes us from Piue
Grove, Jefferson county, the results of an experi
ment in the cultivation of cotton and sugar eane,
giving the cost and relative profits of each crop.
He planted six and a half acres of cotton and esti
mated the cost of working, picking, and hauling
and ginning at $4 —the yield being 666 pounds of
clean cotton, which, at 15 cents a pound, amounts
to |99, showing a profit of $52.90. Os cane he
planted one and a half acres, and estimates the
cost of the seed, manure, planting, working, cut
ting, hauling, grinding and boiling at s9o—the
yield being 12 barrels of sugar, averaging 200
pounds each, 5 barrels of syrup, 136 gallons, and
4 barrels of molasses, 130 gallons, which, at 18
cents a pound for the sugar, and 75 cents a gallon
for the syrup and molasses, amounts to 8631.50,
showing a profit of at least $541.50. These figures
appear rather incredulous, but our correspondent
assures us they are correct. Here we have an acre
and a half of cane yielding a net profit of $488.60,
more than six and a half acres in cotton ! Our
correspondent, we think, estimates his sugar and
syrup too high; but, putting them at the minimum
price, we still have a large amount over the pro
fits of the cotton. — Floridian
A Savannah Invention.— Mr. Daniel M. Den
nison, of this city, has received letters patent for
an improvement for stalls for horses. The inven
tion is unique, simple and useful, and is likely to
come generally into use. It consists in two or
more, or a series of stalls, having sides or
slats and posts connected with an end post at the
head, in which racks and a feeding trough are
placed, the sides being arranged oblique to each
other, and each alternate stall reversed, so that the
sides between stalls are connected at each end to
one head-post, and thereby constitute self-sustain
ing stalls, which may be placed on the ground or
floor without other support —the sides and ends
being detachably connected together, so that they
may be readily set up or taken down. The stalls
afford ready access to the animals for feeding,
without the attendant being required to go inside.
They may be made very cheaply, and do not ob
struct the air. —Savannah News.
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Western and Atlantic Railroad Cos.
E. W. COLE,, Superintendent , Atlanta
Night Passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 10:15 p.m
Arrive at Chattanooga 5:40 a.m
Day Passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 8:15 a.m
Arrive at Chattanooga 4:25 p.m
Accommodation Train—Outward.
Leave Atlanta 3:00 p.m
Arrive at Cartersville 7:11 p.m
Night Patsenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga 9:00 p.m
Arrive at Atlanta 5:17 a.m
Day Passenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga 5:50 a.m
Arrive at Atlanta 2:00 p.m
Accommodation Train — lnward.
Leave Cartersville 5:00 a.m
Arrive at Atlanta 9:00 a.m
Georgia Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent. Augusta.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta 8:00 a.m.
Leave Atlanta 7:10 a.m.
Arrive at Augusta 5:40 p.m.
Arrive at Atlanta 6.35 p.m.
Night Passenger and Mail Train.
Leave Augusta 8:20 p.m.
Leave Atlanta 10:00 p.m.
Arrive at Augusta .7:30 a.m.
Arrive at Atlanta 6:40 a.m.
Athens Branch train leaves Union Point daily,
Sunday excepted, at 1:15 p.m., arriving at Athens at
4:35 p.m. Leave Athens at 9:15 a.m., arriving at Union
Point 12:30 p:m. On Monday and Tuesday nights, a
train leaves Union Point at 2:20 a.m., arrives at Ath
ens, 5:15 a.m.; leaves Athens, 8 p.m., arriving a.
Union Point, 11 p.m.
, Washington Branch. —Train leaves Washington
at 10 A.M., arrives at Barnett, 11:30 A.M.; leaves
Barnett 2:15 P.M., arriving at Washington at 4:10
.P.M. On Monday and Tuesday nights, leaves Wash
ington at 10:20 P.M., arriving at Barnett, 12 at night.
Leaves Barnett, 1:50 A.W., arrives at Washington,
3:30 A.M.
Macon and Augusta Raii.road.—Train leaves
Camalt, 12:40 P.M., arriving at Milledgeville Junction
4:20 P.M.; leaves Junction at 6:15 A.M., arriving at
Camak, 9:25 A.M. Connects Augusta with S. Caro
lina, Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, and Augusta
with Savannah Railroad.
Atlanta and West-Point Railroad.
L P. GRANT, Superintendent , Atlanta.
Day Passenger Train—Outward.
Leave Atlanta 7:00 A.M.
Arrive at West Point 11:40 A.MI
Day Passenger Train—lnward.
Leave West Point 5:15 P.M.
Arrive at Atlanta 10:00 P.M
Night Freight and. Passenger — Oukeard.
Leave Atlanta 3:00 P.M.
Arrive at West Point 10:45 P.M.
Night Freight and Passenger — lnward.
Leave West Point 3:00 A.M.
Arrive at Atlanta 10:07 A.M.
Hacon and Western Railroad.
A. J. WHITE, President, Macon.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Atlanta 6:00 A.M.
Arrive At Macon 11:30 A.M.
Leave Macon 7:20 A.M.
Arrive at Atlanta 2.23 P.M.
Night Express Passenger Train — Daily.
Leave Atlanta 3:28 P.M.
Arrive at Macon 11:05 P.M.
Leave Macon. .5:05 P.M.
Arrive at Atlanta 10:15 P.M.
Air-Llue Railroad. .
A. S. BUFORD, President.
Leave Atlanta for Norcross every Wednesday and
Friday at 5 a.m., connecting at Norcross with stages
for Gainesville. Leave Norcross at 4 p.m. Passen
gers reach Gainesville the same day.
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.
J. W. THOMAS, Superintendent, Nashville.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Nashville ....9:30 A.M
Arrive at Chattanooga 4:10 P.M
Leave Cbattaßooga 3.45 A.M
Arrive at Nashvillo ...1:30 P.M
Night Passenger Train.
Leave Nashville -6:15 P.M.
Arrive at Chattanooga. 4:30 A.M.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 P.M.
Arrive at Nashville 5:00 A.M.
Night trains run daily; day trains run daily, Sun
davs excepted.
Both trains connect at .Chattanooga for Rome, At
lanta, and all principal Southern cities.
South Georgia and Florida Railroad,
H. S. HAINES, General Superintendent.
Express Passenger Train.
Leave Savannah every day at 4:00 P.M
Arrive at Jessup (Junetion M. & B. R. R.)
every day G:sf> P.M>
Arrive at hive Oat every day Rt 1:35 A.M.
Arrive at Jacksonville every day at 6:19 A.M.
Arrive at Tallahassee every day at 6.22 A.M.
Arrive at Quincy every day at 6:27 A.M.
Arrive at Bainbridge every day at. 6:15 A M.
Arrive at Albany every day at. 7:15 A.M.
Leave Albany everyday at 7:00 P.M.
Leave Bainbridge every day at 7;45 P.M.
Leave Quincy every day at 5:42 P.M.
Leave Tallahnssee every day at 7:42 P.M.
Leave Jacksonville every day at 7:17 P.M.
Leave Live Oak every day at .....12:45 A.M.
Leave Jessup every day at 7:20 A.M.
Arrive at Savannah every day at 10:20 A.M.
Macon Accommodation.
Leave Savannah (Sundays excepted) at.. .5:00 A.M
Leave Jessup (Sundays excepted) at 8:30 A.M
Arrive at Macon (Sundays excepted) at.....6:15 P.M
Leave Macon (Sundays excepted) at 9:15 A.M.
Leave Jersup (Sundays excepted) at 7:15 P.M.
Arrive at Savannah (Sundaysexcepted) at.!0:15 P.M
No change of cars between Savannah and Albany
Passengers for Bainbridge change cars at Thomas,
ville.
Passengers for Brunswick take 4 P.M. train from
Savannah.
Passengers from Brunswick connect at Jessup with
train for Savunnah, arriving at 10:20 A.M.
Passengers leaving Macon at 9:15 A.M., connect at
Jessup with train for Florida and Western Division.
A Passenger Car will be attached to Way Freight
Train leaving Savannah Tuesday and Thursday at 7
A M., and arriving Wednesday and Friday at 3:20
P.M.