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- Destructve to Bees. —The
t odded milk weed almost invari
•iy causes the death of every bee
alighting upon it. The bee either ad
here? to the plant or else bears away a
small scale sticking to his feet, and
cripples itself fatally in attempting to
remove the annoyance.
r To Make Blacking for Morocco
Shoes.—Pound some sealing wax, and
put in a bottle with half a pint of al
cohol ; shake it frequently, and when
it is dissolved, you may rub it on mo
rocco shoes when they are scaled or de
fac:d, and. they will look almost like
new; dry it on in the sun.
Blackberry Jelly. —Put the fruit
into a jar, tie paper over it, and stew in a
saucepan of boiling water, or by putting
the jar into the oven; strain off the
liquor, and to every pint of juice, add a
pound off loaf sugar ; put all into a
preserving-pan, simmer and skim it.
When it will jelly upon a plate, it is fit
to be put into jars for use.
Liberty’s Leanings. —The expansion
and contraction of metals by alternate
heat and cold are neatly illustrated by
the unsettled demeanor of Crawford’s
statue of Liberty on the iron dome of the
capitol at Washington. In the forepart
of the day, when the sun is upon the east
ern surface of the do me, expanding it,
the colossal figure inclines four and a
half inches towards the west, and in the
afternoon, with the heat from the west,
the inclination is as much to the east.
Arctic Flowering Plants. —Dr. J.
D. Hooker states, in a recent number
of Nature, that four flowering plants
were collected by Dr. Bessels, of Hall’s
artie expedition, from the east side of
Smith’s Sound, in latitude 82 deg. N.
They were Dr aha Afpina (a member of
the mustard family), Cerastium AD
pinum (a kind of chickweed), laraxi
cyn dens leonis (the common dande
lion), and f'oci flexuosci (a grass).
Flowering plants have never before been
found in a region so near the north
pole.
Combustion op Oils.— lf cotton which
lias been soaked in boiled linseed oil be
raised to a temperature of 170 deg.
Fahr., it will commence to generate
heat, and in the course of an hour will
rise to 350 deg. Fahr., shortly after
which it will burst into flame. Raw
linseed-oil requires boiling about five
hours, rape-oil ten hours, olive oil six
hours, seal-oil two hours, and castor-oil
slight charring for two days, to cause
spontaneous combustion. A knowledge
of tliepe facts suffices to explain the ori
gin of many mysterious fires. #
Pictorial Glass.— Long-continued
sunlight is known to have a certain
changing chemical effect upon the hues
of colored glass. To utilize this, pic
torial ly and indellibly, any required
figures are marked upon the surface
with common paint, and the glass is
left exposed to the sun for two years.
Where the paint does not extend the
glass gradually bleaches, as it were,
but the surface under the pigment re
tains its original color, in which appear,
of course, when the paint is removed,
the designs or letterings formerly
painted upon it.
The Hog.— Plutarch says: “The
eyes of the hog are so formed and dis
posed of in the head, that it is always
looking upon the lowest objects, and
can in no manner contemplate things
elevated and lofty. It cannot look up
ward unless thrown back with its feet
upward. Although the animal is ad
dicted to the most discordant squeal
ing and grunting, yet as soon as it is
laid on its back it is immediately silent,
so great is its astonishment" at the
heavens, to the sight of which it is un
accustomed, and which causes such fear
that it is unable to cry.”
Cerulean Ceremony.— The matter
from which indigo comes is supplied by
the blossoms of the oiiginal plant in
India; and when these shoots have
reached exactly the proper growth they
must be gathered in the night; as an
other day’s sunlight would deprive
them of their peculiar virtue. After
being cut, accordingly, at midnight by
large forces of field laborers, they are
placed in stone troughs of water, which
are next day exposed to the sun. Thus
exposed the infused liquid ferments,
turning first blue and nearly black, and
then blue again. After evaporating fo*.
two or three days, it is heated in metal
lic vats by steam, and this final evapor
ation results in a precipitate of the pure
indigo of commerce.
A New Needle.— A lady of San Fran
cisco has invented anew needle, the im
provement consisting in making a nee
dle of any size without an eye for the
thread, but with, instead, a hole bored
longitudinally into the head or larger
end thereof to the depth of a quarter of
an inch or thereabouts, which hole is
arranged with a screw-thread. The
needle, it is claimed, will carry any
kind of thread, and can be used for ev
ery purpose. It is thought that it will
be valuable, also, as a surgical needle,
as it will require but one thread, the ad
vantage of whioh will be that a smaller
hole will be made in passing the needle
through any substance than would have
to be made by the partially doubled
thread of the ordinary eyed needle.
To Make Water Cold in the Sum
mer.—The following is a simple mode
of rendering water almost as cold as ice:
Let the jar, pitcher, or vessel used for
water be surrounded with one or more
folds of coarse cotton kept constantly
wet. r J he evaporation of the water will
carry oil the heat from the inside and
reduce it to freezing point. In India
aud other tropical regions where ice can
not be procured, this is common. Let
every mechanic or laborer have at his
place of employment two pitchers thus
provided with lius and covers, the one
io contain water for drinking, the other
for evaporation, and he can always have
a supply of cold water in warm weather.
Any person can test this bv dipping a
finger in water, and holding it in "the
air of a warm day; after doing this
three or four times, he will find his
finger uncomfortably cold.
Relieved of His Money.
An ex-editor of a Jersey City paper
tells how as he approached the Grand
Central depot, to take the 10:30 express,
he notioed two very pretty and elegantly
dressed young ladies, who came up and
treaded him as an old acquaintance, and
he, thinking it was a case of mistaken
identity, thought he would carry the
thing through and have some fun.
They informed him they had procured
a section in the drawing room car and
invited him to take a seat therein. He
did so, and enjoyed a very pleasant
ride ot two hours. On the arrival of
the train at Poughkeepsie both the
ladies put their arms around his neck
and kissed him good-bye. He stepped
to the dining-room and ate some lunch
and returned to the train, when, to his
dismay and alarm, ho found he,was
minus his pocket-book containing two
ten cent stamps and a five-cent piece.
MARAT.
I lie Mnn YVlio Brought About the French
Ke volution.
And now imagine France given over
to the garrulous convention, in which
there was not a man who clearly knew
what lie wanted save this one, Marat.
Forty-eight years old at this date, Ma
rat was less than five feet high, and had
a head enormously disproportionate to
the size of his body. The upper part
of his face was handsome, but the lower
part, beginning with the nose, was that
of a wild beast. The nose was flat and
large, with nostrils that quivered ; the
mouth huge, and filled with black, jag
ged teeth ; the chin square, and gener
ally ill-shaved, covered with a stubble
of several days’ growth. Naturally un
clean in his person, Marat cultivated
slovenliness for the purpose of inspir
ing greater confidence to the dregs of
the populace. He seldom wore a hat,
but covered his head with a twisted
handkerchief, red, yellow, and greasy.
His linen was worse than dingy, his
shoes stringless, his stockings torn and
down at heel, and his brown coat cov
ered with stains, ink splashes, and flakes
of dried mud. In constant terror of his
life, he never ventured out alone, but
was always attended by a tattered mob
of ruffians who called themselves his
body-guard, and plied cudgels about
them to clear a passage through the
street crowds. Women when they saw
him trembled and turned their heads
aside, children ran away from him ; at
the convention house his entrance was
the signal for a general silence, and
often for a dispersion of half the num
bers present. Marat, who was eaten up
with bilious vanity, gloried in the uni
versal repulsion which he excited, and
he had a grim, vicious way of smiling
when, fixing his eye on any member
whom he disliked, he saw the man turn
pale and crouch. Such was the man
who by means of all the scum of Paris
kept the convention in terror.
His first care was to get the guillo
tine “ set up as a permanency.” “Sol
diers wear swords in peace and war,’ he
wrote, November, 1792, ‘and our re
public should have the guillotine con
| stantly at her side to frighten traitors.”
At first he had asked for 100,000 heads ;
he now went immediately into statistics
and declared that no tranquility could
be hoped for unless 270,000 heads w r ere
i cut off. The foremost head to be sac
rificed was of course the king’s, and
whilst Louis XVl’s trial was impending,
here are some of the things that Marat
wrote in order that the prisoner might
have fair play :
“ I call upon the people to note the
names of the false patriots, if any, who
may vote for the tyrant’s acquittal, or
for any lesser penalty than that of in
stant death. It is an insult to the
feelings of the nation that the descend
ant of a hundred vampires should have
any trial at all. He should be brought
manacled before the convention and
there should be but one question put,
‘ When and where shall this man and
his accursed brood be killed ? ’ And
the answer should be a unanimous shout
for his immediate execution.”
It becomes known that Malesherbes
is to defend the king, andjhereat Marat
breaks out in this style :
“ The man who can find excuses for a
criminal makes himself an accomplice
of all the crimes committed ; but when
the criminal is a king, and the man
who defends is a citizen, the latter be
trays his cause and becomes a greater
villain than the rascal who hires his
advocacy. Let the people remember
that the citizen Malesherbes makes
himself th champion of Louis Capet:
thetefore ho approves his acts, there
fore he would have perpetrated them if
he had had the chance, therefore he is
an enemy to the republic, to his coun
try, to his brother citizens ; therefore,
if Capet Jdies, Malesherbes deserves to
die with him.”
Malesherbes did die on the scaffold
he and all his family—but the certainty
that he would have to meet his fate did
not weaken his eloquence in defending
his king. Louis XVI. dead, Marat ut
tered a shriek of exultation, and con
gratulated his countrymen on having
now outpassed “the hypocritical, ser
vile English, who had but one point of
superiority over us—that of having
mustered courage enough one day to
brain Charles Stuart. Our courage
shall last longer than theirs—Capet’s
head is but the first among a heca
tomb !” And, as if drunk with the
blood he caused to flow, Marat plunged
into an orgie of denunciations, com
mending to the comm ttee of pubb'c
safety every man or woman whom his
suguinary guards reported to him as
disaffected :
“There is a scamp who lodges Rue
Babille, near the Halles, over a carpet
makers, on the second flcor. He was a
receiver of taxes under the tyrant, and
has fattened on extortions. I give his
address, in order that the people may
go and exterminate him.”—lßth March,
1793.
“There is a ci-devant noble lodging
No. 15, Rue St. Denis, under the name
of Dubois. I heard of him to-day, and
hope to learn that justice has been done
him before the week is over.”—lßth
March, 1792.
“ A milliner, who is said to bo pretty,
and who is-the more dangerous in con
sequence, utters seditious sentiments in
the Rue des Bombards. Bhe ridicules
the republic, and loudly exuresses her
sympathies for the Capets. Her tongue
must be cut out of her head, or her
head be knocked off her shoulders.
Her name is Louise Boulnoy, and she
has either a husband or a paramour
who ought to be arrested with her.”
Column upon column are filled with
short denunciations of this sort against
insignificant private persons ; but when
calling for the death of any prominent
man, Marat used to assail him in long
articles, going into all the particulars
of his biography. There is no need to
recall who were the men against whom
he leveled his most spiteful bolts, for
every one, without exception, who could
be suspected of the crime of “Moder
antism,” was hel I up by him to public
execration. He did not live to see the
death of most of the men whom he had
impeached -and notably that of the Gi
rondius—for on the 13th of July, 1793,
Charlotte Corday put an end to his un
hallowed career. One month before his
death soma members of the convention,
exasperated by his virulent calumnies,
had prosecuted him, but his trial was a
burlesque of justice. Armed roughs
filled the court, the terrified judges pro
nounced a hasty acquittal, and the pris
oner was escorted back in triumph to
his lodgings. Bv these same roughs,
and by all the rogues and criminals in
Paris, his constant readers and admir
ers, his death was mourned as a public
calamity, and all who had been his en
emies were soon offered up as a holo
caust to his memory.
—Au enterprising superintendent of
one of our city Sunday schools was en
gaged in catechising the scholars, vaiy
iug the usual method by beginning at
the end of the catechism. After asking
what were the prerequisities for the
holy communion and confirmation, and
receiving very satisfactory replies, he
asked : “ And now, boys, tell me what
must precede baptism?” Whereupon a
lively urchin shouted out, “ A baby,
sir.” Fact; followed by sensation and
laughter.
Sowing 'Blue'Grass Seed.
Mr. Fassett, an extensive farmer, in
the Prairie Farmer, gives some useful
directions upon this subject. He says :
The opinions of farmers differ in re
gard to the time that blue grass should
be sown. Some advise sowing it in the
sprina r ; others recommend to sow it in the
month of August. My own experience
is, that the best time to sow any and all
kinds of grass-seed is from the middle
of February to the middle of March in
this latitude; further south it would
probably be better to sow some earlier ;
further north, some later. The seed
should be sown before it is done freez
ing. The spring freezing and thawing
of the ground covers the seed to the
proper depth to germinate—which is
the only way I know of to get it all
covered so that it will grow. The spring
rains bring the plants to such maturity,
they get such a strong hold of the
ground before the dry, hot weather of
summer comes on, that they are able to
stand it; that is where grass seed is
sown without any other crop, which, I
think, is the only way to insure a good
stand.
One-half bushel, or seven pounds of
blue grass seed is considered to be the
right quantity to sow to the acre to
make a good stand. I think it much
better to sow timothy and red-top with
blue grass. Blue grass makes but a
slender growth for the first two or
three years after it is sown. The Ken
tuckians say that blue grass pastures
continue to improve thirty or forty
years. Timothy does its best right
along the first few years, and then be
gins to fail. Red-top has more of the
nature of blue grass, but makes a
stronger growth much sooner, and will
make about as much pasture, but will
wither soon in cold weather. Like blue
grass, it spreads from the root, making
a perfect sward. The blue grass will
eventually run it out as well as the
timothy, and take entire possession as it
arrives at maturity.
I would recommend to sow four
quarts of timothy, six pounds of red
top and four pounds of blue grass seed
to the acre.
As to seeding soon after timber is
deadened, I can not speak from expe
rience, but can see no reason why the
three grasses would not do well.
I know it to be a first-rate way to
make pasture on new prairie lands that
have not had the wild nature killed out
of them by cultivation sufficient to grow
timothy and clover successfully. I do
not know whether blue or any other
grass seed will grow well that is two or
three years old. I would prefer to sow
fresh seed.
As doctors will always disagree in cer
tain cases, a Kentucky correspondent
of the Ohio Farmer sends the following
criticism upon the above article by Mr.
Fassett :
I must beg leave to differ with Mr.
Fassett as to the time for sowing blue
grass seed. He prefers from the middle
of February to the middle of March.
That will do in some cases, but the best
time is early fall, with wheat or rye.
This brings the timothy up before win
ter, and the blue*grass comes up in the
spring with sufficient root to withstand
the heat and drought of the following
summer.
The quantity of seed (seven pounds
to the acre) that he sows is not suffi
cient to make pasture for several years,
though if it could be well separated
before sowing it would do; but beat
and thresh it as you may, it sticks to
gether and distributes badly in sowing
The quantity should be two bushels to
the acre, carefully sown. It is better to
cross-sow after the wind changes.
Keep stock off after you glean the
field, until the following June or July,
at which time you will have a beautiful
pasture.
If you wish to sow in timber, use the
same quantity of seed, and “ root” it in
with hogs. Sow a small piece at first,
mixing in some oats, rve or corn, to
make the hogs hunt after the grain ;
then sow another piece in the same way
until you have finished the whole field.
Age does not destroy the vitality of
the seed, nor of any other grass seed, if
kept from heating. I have sown blue
grass that was six years old, and had
been kept in a bag in a dry cellar It
is almost impossible to heat it. No one
should sow seed of any kind that has
been kept in bulk during the summer
months, as it goes through too much
sweating if kept in a heap or granary.
If spread on a door where it can get the
air all the time there is no danger.
The Feeding of Poultry.
Mr. Edward Thomas Brown, Newcas
tle, England, has published au inter
esting pamphlet on this subject, Irom
which the following extract is made :
The keeping and feeding of poultry
is generally looked upon by farmees
and those who have plenty of chances
of keeping them, as an expensive hob
by, only to be indulged in by those who
can afford to ride it; but the fact that
in 1871 we imported from France alone
522,132,720 eggs, (being 17 in the year
for every man, woman and child in the
country), and several thousand tons of
poultry, together amounting to three
million pounds sterling, proves that the
French make the keeping of poultry
pay. In France an euormous trade is
done in these products, they being a
staple article of food, and it is estimated
at £10,000,000 per year. In fact, in
Paris alone, the trade is reckoned at
£1,400,000 per year, and it is said, upon
an average, every Parisian eats 100
eggs annually.
The idea that poultry “ don’t pay ”
is, undoubtedly, a mistaken one ; but,
nevertheless, it is generally held. Most
assuredly they will not pay, if the fowls
are allowed to look after themselves,
never taken any care of, and put into
an old tumble-down house, that cannot
be used for any other purpose, with
food, the cheapest rubbish that can be
found, thrown down upon the ground
in any sort of place. Bat if a little
care is taken, if they are properly tended,
fed with a modern quantity of good,
food, provided with plenty of fresh wa
ter, and kept in an ordinarily comforta
ble place, they will pay, and well. Last
spring we were told by one o our cus
tomers, who has only one of our small
town yards, that during the previous
year (1872) his eggs only cost him one
half penny each all the year round, and
this result can be obtained by all who
take ordinary care of their birds.
—Grace Greenwood says that if the
same test of virtue were to be applied
to the members of congress that is pro
posed to be applied to the female em
ployes in the government offices, there
would not be a quorum left in either
house. O, Grace !
—A Missouri man who swapped wives
with another Missourian got a cow, a
calf, thirty good steel traps, and four
children “to boot.”
MORBID IMPULSE.
The Great Doctor who Does not Believe
in “ Emotional ” Murder.
Dr. William A. Hammond has deliv
ered a lecture before the New York
medical society on a topic of present
interest—the morbid impulses which
lead to crime, and which are, in certain
cases, now urged as a palliation for it.
His conclusions are adverse to the crim
inal :
1. A person aware of the existence of
an impulse to commit crime, and which
he f< ars he may not be able to resist,
is bound to do everything in his power
to render the accomplishment of his
propensity impossible. It is his duty
to immediately place himself under re
straint. If he does not, he is morally
and legally in no better position than a
ruffian who feels an impulse to acquire
other people’s property, and accord
ingly murders the man most conven
ient for his purpose.
2. The individual who is clearly
shown to have yielded to a previously
unfelt impulse to commit crime, and
who accordingly perpetrates an other
wise motiveless offense, or one which in
his normal condition would evidently
not have been committed, is too dan
gerous to society to be allowed to go at
large. He ought to be placed under
permanent restraint. I say permanent,
because experience shows that this form
of mental aberration is exceedingly apt
to recur. Several of the cases I have
cited are illustrations of crime com
mitted after the discharge from confine
ment, and there are hundreds of simi
lar instances on record.
3. Those morbidly constituted indi
viduals who commit crimes because it
is pleasant for them to do so, such as
Helen Isgado, Domollard Pomeroy, and
others whose cases I have cited, should
be treated exactly like other offenders
against the laws. The apparent absence
of motive is apparent only. The fact
that the criminal experiences pleasure
from the committal of the act is as
strong motive as any other that can be al
leged, and is entitled to no more exten
uatiDg force than the pleasure of re
venge, acquisitiveness, or other pas
sions. “ Lord, how I do love thieving !”
said a London vagabond ; “if I had all
the riches of the world I would still be
a thief.”
4. The fact that a murder has been
committed in order that the perpetra
tor might secure his own execution is
not a palliating circumstance. Those
who contend that it is—and I am sorry
to find Dr. Maudsley among them—
I seem to be actuated by the erroneous
| idea that suicide is necessarily the act
of an insane person. The desire to be
! executed may be evidence of a morbid
mind, but not necessarily of an insane
one, and if we are going to excuse
every crime 1 committed by jaundiced
and hypochondrieal and* notoriety
loving people, we might as well close
our courts at once.
5. A morbid impulse to crime expe
rienced by an insane person—and by an
insane person I mean one who exhibits
other evidences of insanity besides the
morbid impulse, and who would be
j considered by competent judges to be
insane, even if no such impulse existed
—demands continued sequestration.
Ice-Water.
One of the most fruitful causes of
dyspepsia,—our national disease, —is,
unquestionably, traceable to the excess
ive drinking of ice-water. We us 3 far
more ice in this country than is used in
all the world beside. While we are in
; dined to boast of this as a luxury, we
forget that, like many other luxuries, it
does a deal of harm. The temperature
of the stomach at wHich digestion takes
place, is from ninety-eight tc one hun
dred degrees (Fahrenheit). Conse
quently, the effect of swallowing ice
water, which must for a while reduce
the temperature from thirty to forty de
grees at least, cannot fail to be hurtful,
and if habitually indulged in, to insure
the disorder so widely prevalent and so
distressing in character. In cities and
large towns we are perpetually drink
ing ice-water in winter as well as sum
mer. We drink it before our meals,
with our meals, after our meals, on go
i ing to bed and on getting up. In fact,
there is no hour wdien we are awake
that we do not drink it. If you ring
the bell at an American hotel, the ser
vant who answers it brings you a
pitcher of ice-water, supposing that you
want that anyhow, and that vo i must
swallow a certain quantity before you
are prepared to make your other wishes
known. If you go to breakfast on a
bitter cold morning, the first thing the
waiter places before you is a goblet of
j ice-water ; and the chief energy he dis
plays is in keeping the goblet full to
j the rim. Although he may not get you
anything you order, you can depend on
him for a bounteous supply of the freez
ing liquid.
Immoderate drinking of any kind is
almost entirely due to habit. This is
particularly true of ice-water, which, by
spontaneous reaction, has the effect of
exciting, rather than allaying thirst.
The more we take of it, the moro w r e
want. The man who begins with a pint
a day, will, before a great while, crave
half a gallon, and imagine that he can
not do with less.
Meanwhile, his food will have no
chance to digest, and temporary indi
gestion will, in due time, become
chronic. His deranged stomach will
affect his head, and the indulgence of a
foolish habit finally resul in unhealthy
action of the brain, and possibly dis- ;
turbance of his mental and moral fac- ,
ulties.
The objection is not to water in any
reasonable quantities, but to the ice j
that is put into it. Water that is al
lowed to run for a while through pipes,
or drawn from a well, is as cool, even in
summer, as is consistent with perfect
health. After drinking it for a time the
palate will not ask for ice. It is advi
sable to vary water with cold tea, coffee,
milk or lemonade, since the interchange
of these has a tendency to diminish the
amount of liquid wanted ; and health
generally is better preserved by little
than by large drinking of any kind.—
Scribners.
Are You Going North ?
If you are, you want a copy of “ The
Northwest Illustrated.” It will not C3st
you anything. Send to W. H. Sten
nett, General Passenger Agent Chicago
and Northwestern railway, Chicago, for
a copy. It shows you the great North
west, and teaches you how to get there,
and what to do when you are there.
—A singular natural curiosity is ;
found at Sadawga Pond, in Whitting
ham, Yt., consisting of one hun ired !
and fifty acres of land floating on the ,
surface of the water, covered with cran
betries, and even sustaining trees fif- ,
teen feet high. When the water is j
raised or lowered at the dam of the
pond, the island rises and falls w r ith it,
and fish are caught by boring a hole in !
the crust and fishing down through the j
ice in winter. A similar island once \
existed # in a small lake near Bangor,
Me.; and there are many such in south- |
era Florida.
Hay Seed.
w Every town in Walworth county,
Wis., has a grange.
Fifteen thonsand granges have been
organized in the United States.
The headquarters of Ohio grangers
has been established in Xenia.
A grange paper is soon to be started
in McPherson county, Kansas.
Neosho county, Kansas, grangers
plead their own cases in courts.
Clermont county, Ohio, grangers have
been holding social festivals lately.
Kausas grangers are beginning to
protest against horse racing at county
fairs.
The grangers’ warehouse company of
Lake City, Minn., with a capital of
$50,000, was organized recently.
A plowing bee at the farm of a lady
granger near Yuba city, Cal., brought
out seventeen gang-plows, and sixty
acres of land were turned over.
The national grange at Washington,
recently made arrangements for for
warding one hundred barrels of flour
and ten thousand pounds of bacon to
the suffering members of the order in
Louisiana and Arkansas.
The grangers of Calhoun, Kalama
zoo, and Parry counties, Michigan,
have organized an association called
the Battle Creek union council for the
purchasing of their commodities. A
similar association has headquarters at
Marshall.
The grangers of the first congres
sional district, Kentucky, will meet at
Paducah on the fourth Thursday in
July next. All farmers, whether they
are grangeis or not, will be invited to
attend. A barbacue and picnic will be
held at the fair grounds.
The state grange of Nebraska is put
ting in machinery, at Plattsmouth, for
the manufacture of plows, cultivators,
headers, harvesters and other agricul
tural implements. The building is a
two-story brick, 40 by 140 feet. Thirty
heads of families are employed to com
mence with. Steam and blast powder
of the necessary quantity will be furn
ished.
The Naples Aquarium.
In the smaller tanks the delicate “pe
lagic ” forms, those perfectly transpar
ent glass-like animals which swim on
the surface of the sea, are daily renewed
when weather permits ; and at present
there are some really lovely things of
this kind to be seen here which could
nowhere else be exhibited, since the
Naples aquarium is the only one which
can draw supplies from a 'warm sea.
The Cestum Veneris is one of the most
striking of these transparent organisms,
being a band of perfectly glass-like
consistency nearly a yard in length, un
dulating like a snake, and slowly mov
ing through the water by means of two
rows of large vibrating fringes, which
glisten with all the colors of the rain
bow. Some of these are brought in
nearly every day by the fishermen, and
hundreds of the long chains of trans
parent Salpae, not to speak of Beroes,
as big as lemons. Glass shrimps, in
habiting the transparent little tubs
known as Poliolnm, and sometimes a
Leptocephahis, a true vertebrate fish,
of which one at first sees only the black
eyes, all the rest of its body being ab
solutely as clear and invisible as a piece
of glass, a really ideal ghost of a fish,
j E. Ray Lankesler .
The Times says Dr. Walpole has lost
his beautiful chestnut mare. She died sud
denly in harness, it is supposed from hots or
pin worms. If the Doctor had used Sheri
dan’s Cavalry Condition Powders, he would,
no doubt, have had his mare to-day—they are
death on worms.
Chafped hands are very common with
! those who have their hands much in water. A
few drops of Johnson's Anodyne Liniment
( rubbed over the hands two or three times a
| da', will keep them soft and white Fisher
men, sailors, and others will do well to re
member this.
—A Michigan girl whipped a dry
goods clerk who dared to challenge her
to a wrestle. He ought so have known
better.
Go to Riverside Water Cure, Hamilton, 111.
The Grand Revolution in Medical Treat
ment, which was commenced in 1860, is still in pro
gress. Nothing can stop it, for it is founded on the
principle, now universally acknowledged, that
physical vigor is the most formidable antagonist of
all human ailments, and experience has shown that
Plantation Bitters is a peerless invigorant, as
Yell as the best possible safeguard against epidemio
tis eases.
Ye Old Mexican Mustang Liniment has pro
duced more cures of rheumatism, neuralgia,
sprains, scalds, burns, salt rheum, sore nipples,
swelling, lameness, chapped hands, poisonous bites,
stings, bruises, etc., on men, women and children ;
and sprains, strains, galls, stiff - joints, inflamma
tion, etc., in beasts, than all other liniments put to
gether. It will do what is promised or ye money
refunded.
Re-animating the Hair. —When the hair ceases
to draw from the scalp the natural lubricant which
is its sustenance, its vitality is, as it were, suspend
ed, and if not promptly attended to, baldness will
be the certain result. The one sure method of
avoiding such an unpleasant catastrophe is to us#
Lyon’s Kathairon, which, when w r ell rubbed into
the scalp, will speedily re-animate the hafr and pre
vent it from falling out.
The Secret oe Captivation. —Features of Gre
cian mould, a well-turned neck and beautifully
rounded arms, are no doubt very nice things to
have, and ladies who possess these charms have re?
son to be thankful to Mother Nature ; yet, after all
the most captivating of all womanly charms is a
pure, fresh and brilliant complexion. This superla
tive fascination any lady may secure by using
Hagan’s Magnolia Balm.
OHIhDItBM OFTICS LOOK PALE AMD
SICK
from nt other cause than having worms In the
stomach.
BRjWN’S VKRMIFUGK CY M FITS
will des roy worms without injury to the child, be
ing perfectly WH I I'E and free from all coloring
or other injurious ingredients usually used in worm
prepaiation •.
CURTIS <£ BROWN, Proprietors,
No. 215 Fulton street, New York.
Bold by druggists ami chemists, and dealers In
at-mcincs, at twenty-livp mus a |>
11l I It TV YKAICS* KX PKIiIKIVTK OF AM
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Mrs. Winslow's toothing rup is the prescrip
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In the United states, and ha; been used for thirty
years with never failing safety and success by mil
lions of mothers and children, front the feeble in
fant of one week old to the adult It corrects acid
ity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulate*
the bowels, and gives rest, health and comfort to
mother and child. We believe it to be the best and
surest remedy in the vvor and in all cases of dysen
tery and diarrhoea in children, whether It arises
from tie lung or front any oilier cause. Full di
rections for using will accompany each bottle.
None genumi unless the fac-simile of CURTIS dt
Pi- KK 1 NS is on the outside wrapper.
Bold by all medicine dealers.
HOUSEHOLD; Why win You suat i
To all persous suffering
from rheumatism, neuralgia
A^n
cramps in the limbs or 6tom
FAMILY ach. bilious colic, pain In thn
LINIMENT back, bowels or side, we would
say the Household Pauaee#
HOUSEHOLD anrt lr ' amll y Liniment is of aU
others the remedy you want
1 t for internal and external us#
AND -It has cured the above com
FAMILY .plaints hi thou.-ands of case#
There Is no mistake about IV
IiINIMENT. Jiv- It. Sold by all druggists
Our readers should be careful to no
tice that Procter A Gamble’s stamp is upon
the bars of their Extra Olive Soap, as all good
articles are imitated, and this soap being so
popular, other manufacturers have copied
their stamp.
THE MARKETS.
MEMPHIS.
Flour dull and nominal. Oats, 543§@55c.
Corn—Mixed and yellow, 74<75c. Lard,
®\2%c. Bacon—Shoulders, 7j^(7%c; clear
rib sides, 10>£c; clearVlee, lie. Sugar-cured
hams, 14c.
NASHVILLE.
Flour is quiet and unchanged at $6.@8.25.
Wheat is steady with a moderate demand at
$1.25(5)1.40. Coni is dull and a shade lower
at 92(5)05c. Oats, G7(®7oc. Lard, 12c. Bulk
meats—Shoulders,
clear sides, 1034 c. Bacon-Shouldera, B%c;
clear rib sides,
—Sugar-curod, all packed.
LOUISVILLE.
Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat-Bed,
$1.10; amber au l white, $1.15. Corn, 79(6)
82c. Oats, 62(6>65e. Bye. $1 15. Mess pork.
$lB. Bacon—Shoulders, 734 c ; clear rib sides!
1034 c; clear sides, 10%. Sugar-cured barns,
133' a 'c; plain, Bulk meats-Shoulders,
6%c; clear rib sides, 9%c; clear sides, 9%c.
Lard—Tierce, 12%@12%0. Whisky, 95c. '
NEW YOKK.
Flour—Superfine western and state, $4.80@
5.35 ; common to good, $5.75(®G.30; good to
choice, $6.35@6.60; white wheat extra, $6,60
(6)7.00; extra Ohio, $6.00(6)7.35; St. Louis,
$6.15(5)11.00. Rve flour stea iv. Wheat—lowa
and Minnesota sprint, $1.50(6)1.53; No 1
spring. $1.64. Rye—White western, $1.05(6)
1.10, Corn -Old western mixed. 81(6>84c ; yel
low, 88c. Oats—Mixed western, 67(6>690. Mess
pork—New, $lB, Middles —Shoyt clear,
@lo%c; long clear, Lard, 11 1-
16@1134C.
NEW ORLEANS.
Flour is dull, but there is some demand for
Cuba. Triple extra. $6.25(6)7; choice extra,
$7.25(6)8. Corn—Yellow mixed, 80c; yellow,
82c; white, 95c. Oats —Supply good and de
mand fair at 58(6>59c. Bran is dull, sl. Hay
is dull. Prime, $23. Mess pork is in fair de
mand and firmer at sl9. Dry salt meats are
scarce. Shoulders, 7(6>7%c. Bacon is dull and
offering at 7%c. 10k'(6) lie. Hams are dull.
Sugar-cured, Lard is scarce.
Tierce, 12@12%c.“ keg, Sugar is
in fair demand. Prime, 7c; yellow clarified,
10@12c. Molasses—No movement. Whisky
is dull. Louisiana, 99c; Cincinnati, $1.02.
Coffee—Ordinary to prime, 17%@21%c. Com
meal is dull at $4.50.
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Dropsy, Diabetes,
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Cincinnati, June 11,1873.
C. C. Olin & Cos.. Waukesha, Wis.: Having
used your water from the Mineral Rock Spring,
Waukesha. Wis., for the diabetes, 1 have found
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commenced using this water, my physicians re
ported to me the specific gravity of my urine was
34, and after using it for twenty days the specific
gravity of the urine was red <ed to 21. showing a
great improvement, and finding great re.ief in not
being compelled to urinate so frequently. I had
other waters, but give it as my opinion that the
Mineral Rock Spring is preierabte. And 1 do
earnestly lecommend it to all who are afflicted
with the disease commonly known as Diabetes.
Kespectfnlly yours, Ai.frkd Wilkov.
Dept. Coll. Int. Rev., No. 8 West Third street,Cin-
I cinnati, Ohio.
Hudson, V/is., May 7,1873.
Messrs. C. C. Om.v A Cos.:
Dear Sirs —In testimony of the great value of
Mineral Rock Spring Water, for those suffering
with disea e of the kidneys, I would at ate that I
had been suffering for months with diabetes, pass
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losing flesh and strength and finale, the use of my
lower limbs, which became almost devoid of feel
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anil strength. It has done for me treat medical
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other > afflicted with kidney affectiens is great a
| blessing as it has been to myself.
Yours truly, Mrs. Jamks Sanders.
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