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Ocean Current* in the Pacific*
It had Ions; been an accepted theory
that a branch of the Gulf stream or
warm ourrent, which sets over from
Japan toward Alaska, was flowing
northward through Behring straits in
to the Arctic ocean. W. H. Dali, act
ing assistant of United States coast
survey, in a recent report published
by Congress, finds that there is no such
warm current setting in that direction.
The “Kuro-si-wo” according to this
authority, is not marked:in its approach
t-j the American coast by sharply de
fined walls Of water temperature such
as characterize the Gulf stream of the
Atlantic. It is not at all like a river
flowing in its bed. There is a general
drift which is reversible and intermit
tent when opposed by storms, and
which shades off from a temperatue of
65 degrees. That part of the Kuro-si
wo having a temperature of 55 degrees
approaches the northwest coast in the
vicinity of Vancouver island. There
is a deflected arm of this current known
as the Alaska current, which has a tem
perature varying from 50 to 55 degrees.
The shoal waters of the Behring straits
on the eastern side appear to be warm
er than on the western side. But
Capt. Dali says there is no proof that
there is a warm current flowing up
through the straits. The whole .Pacific
coast, however, from Unmakin Alaska
to Vancouver is bathed by a sea with a
summer temperature varying from 48
degrees to 55 degrees. The winter
along a coast of this temperature never
can be severe. There is a great preci
pitation of moisture, but only a moder
ate degree of cold until the interior of
the country is reached. South-eastern
Alaska has been described Dy recent ex
plorers as having more than a toler
able climate. Fora considerable part
•f the year it is pleasant and altogether
agreeable, it is essentially that of
Vancouver. The exhalations of moist
air are drifted inland. Vegetation is
rank, and a great deal of the land can
be made very productive. It is not to
be supposed that the influence of the
Kuro-si-wo is lost after passing Van
couver in a southerly direction. It no
doubt has some influence all along the
Oregon coast, and greatly aids in the
precipitation of moisture in Washing
ton territory and northern Oregon. In
California we get only fogs as a divid
end, but they greatly aid vegetation.
Capt. Dali does not make his demon
s'ration or a non-flowing warm current
in Behring straits very clear, and the
fact that the water is warmer on one
side than the other would still leave
some ground for the old hypothesis.
Paris Astronomical Museum.
Considerable progress has been made
with the new museum now forming at
the Paris Observatory. Among other
objects are Mercator’s globes, dating
from the middle ot the sixteenth cen
tury. That figuring the earth Is the
first on which meridians of longitude
and parallels of latitude were laid
down. The great equatorial'lakes of
Africa, it is reported, are all to be
found upon it. The glass cases contain
the first portable meridian circle con
ducted on Admiral Mouchez’s plan;
the pendulums of invariable dimen
sions employed by Captains Fraissinet
and Duperre in their voyages around
the world, for the determination of
the absolute value of the intensity of
the cenpetal force and of gravity at dif
ferent points of the earth’s surface
and the apparatus used by II. Cornu
of the Institute, with a view to deter
mine the velocity of light from obser
vatlons made between the Observatory
and the Tower of Montlhery. Another
glass ease, adds the Journal des Debate,
contains the standard metre of the First
Kepublic; the toisc used in 173S in
Peru for measuring a degree at the
equator; the toise used in Lapland some
short time afterward for measuring
the polar degree, and the platinum
kilogramme made by the Republican
Commission of Weights and Measures.
Freshel’s len, the first ever graduated,
is also deposited in the new museum,
and the object-glass of tfie great as
tronomer Cassini, which he used in
successively determining the existence
of Jnpiter’s satellites, Saturn’s double
ring, the abnormal flatness of Jupiter’s
poles, and the vast velocity of his rota
tion, as well as that of Mars. In an
other of the cases are to be seen the
doubly refracting prisms with the help
of which Arago measured the diameter
of the great planets, Xeptuneexcepted.
Ninety Miles in Ninety Minutes.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works, in
Philadelphia, Pa., have just turned out a re
markable specimen of work intended for a
remarkable purpose. It is a passenger en
gine constructed for the Reading road, to
be run over the Bound Brook route, be
tween that city and New York, in which
service it is expected to eclipse anything of
the kind going. It has been built chiefly
for speed, and if the expectations of the
contracting parties are carried out, the time
between that city and New York over the
above route will be lessened about half an
hour. The distance from Philadelphia to
New York is ninety miles, and the fast
trains over both the Pennsylvania and
Bound Brook roads haye been making it in
about two hours. The Reading people are
aiming to make the distance in one hour
and a half, and with this object in view
they some time ago contracted with the
Baldwin company to build them an engine
that would perform the work, or, in other
words, accomplish ninety miles in ninety
consecutive minutes. The new engine has
the largest pair of driving wheels, perhaps,
of any engine in this country, the wheels
being 6} feet in diameter. The ordinary
driving wheel of passenger engines has a
diameter of from 5 to 51 feet. The new en
gine is different in other respects also, hav
ing bnt one pair of driving wheels instead
of two additional smaller ones as is the
usual custom. It is also much heavier than
the regular passenger engine; its weight is
about 84,000 pounds, while the ordinary
engine weighs from 70,000 to 75,000
poands. It is expected to make the entire
distance to New York without stopping to
take water. That this may be done it is
supplied with a tank of about twice the
capacity of engines in general. It will hold
4,000 gallons of water. The capacity of
the ordinary passenger engine is from 2,000
to 2,500 gallous. The new engine, which
was taken out of the works a few days ago
and is now at Reading, will be put to use
on the Bound Brook Route within a week
or ten days. Should the attempt to thus
lessen the time between Philadelphia and
New York prove successful other engines
will be built and put regularly on the road.
Panics and Sun Spots.—A curious bear
ing of science upon commerce is sug
gested in reference to commercial pan
ics. It is said that these have during
the last half century shown a tendency
to occur periodically, the interval
which seperates them being about ten
years. The period corresponds closely
to the greatest sun spot period of 11
years—a fact to which attention has
recently been called.
Sacred Birds’
Extraordinary honors were paid the
goose in ancient times; and it is still
held in gieat veneration by some of the
Eastern nations. The figure that oc
curs so frequently on Buddlst monu
ments is the Brahmanese goose. The
ancient Britons, according to Caesar,
held it impious to eat the flesh of goose,
The ibis was another bird held in the
greatest sanctity by the old Egyptians,
There are still numerous pits contain
ing ibis mummies in that country. The
largest of them, a little to the westward
of the pyramid of Aboutir, is about
twenty feet deep. The floor of this pit,
for probably a depth of many feet, is
covered with heaps on heaps, and lay,
ers on layers, of coarse earthen jars,
the lids cemented down, containing
each the body of an ibis, preserved
with bitumen and enclosed In numer
ous folds of narrow cloth bandages
Some of the mummies are found In
state of great preservation—black and
charred, and incapable of being taken
whole out of the bandages, but all the
bones, the heads, and all the feathers
entire. Whether these animals were
thus embalmed and brought to this
place of burial whenever found dead,
or whether collected here only as ob
jects of worship, is a question of which
ne ancient authority assists in the solu
tion. The Mohammedans have a great
veneration and esteem for the stork,
It is almost as sacred with them as the
ibis was with the Egyptians; and they
would look upon a person as profane
who should kill, or even harm one.
So precious were these birds held in
Thessaly, which country they are said
to have cleared of serpents, that the
slayer of a stork was punished with
death. They were thought much of at
Rome; for when a person, from a freak
of luxury, ordered it to be placed on
liis dinner table, he drew upon himself
the direful obloquy of the whole city,
The robin is considered in several
countries a saered bird; to kill one is
little less than sacrilege, and its eggs
are free from the hands of the bird-
master. It is asserted that the respect
shown to it by man is joined in by the
animals of the wood. The weasel and
the wild cat, it is said, will never mo-
leBt it when killed. One cause for the
veneration in which it is held may be
the superstition which represents it as
the medium through which mankind
are wared of approachingdeath. Before
the decease of a person, a robin is be
lieved, in many instances, to tap thrice
at the window of the room in which
the sick person is lying. Grimm says
that the peculiar veneration with
which this bird is treated has been
shown by the whole German race from
remote times; and he refers to the
Bird’s color and its name as evidence
that it was sacred to Thor, the god of
lightning. The swallow, too, in Ger
many is everywhere deemed a sacred
bird. Like the stork, it preserves th«
house on which It builds its nest from
lire and lightning. The Spanish peas
ants have a tradition that it was a swal
low that tried to pluck the thorns out
of the crown of Christ as he hung upon
the cross; hence they have a great rev
erence for this bird, and will never de
stroy it. In parts of France the wren
is a sacred bird. To kill it or rob its
nest is deemed an atrocity which will
bring down the lightning on the culp.
rit’s dwelling. Such an act was also
regarded with horror in Scotland.
The whydah bird and the water-
wagtail are held sacred by the natives
of several parts of Africa. Among the
Mandan Indians the dove is held so
sacred that neither man, woman, nor
child will injnre it; indeed, the Man-
dan Indians declare that even their
dogs, ferocious as they are, instinctive
ly respect that bird.
Sam and Bill, our newsboys, sat in
the alley on a cake of ice, waiting to be
taken into the office, and talked:
Says Sam—It’s slightly warm to-day
Says Bill—I know it. How’s the
’mometer stand?”
Sam—It don’t stand at all; it’s wilted
right down flat out, like a poor paper
collar at a picnic.
Bill—Well, how do you tell how hot
t is?
Sam—Y'ou see I tell by my shirt. In
the mornin’, when I put my clos on,
It’s down all around; then after I sail
around and sell a dozen papers it’s got
up to the waist-band of my trousers,
and I knows It’s warmer than it was;
then along about ’leven o'clock, after
I’ve blacked a forty acre pair of boots
for a steamin’ Granger it’s up to my
shoulder-blades, and I kuowit’sgettin’
still hotter, and then about the time
the first edition comes out it’s got up
and around my neck, and I know it’s
mighty hot, and purty near time for a
thaw. I’ve got a patent on that ar
rangement, and I’ll sell you the right
for the whole of Hamilton county for
a mere straw—with a lemonade at the
other end of it.
Bill—Why don’t you see Edison and
git him to put a measurin’ gauge on to
it?”
Sam—Go slow, will you ? He was
here to see me the other day, with a
concern that he said was ahead of any
thing he had got up. He called it a
shirtograb, and said it would bust up
my ’mometer business, because it was
going to keep shirts to their proper
level in hot weather. We are goin’ to
settle the matter nex’ week, and I was
just stuffin’ you for the lemonade when
I asked you to buy me out. ’Taint for
sale till Eddy writes me a letter, love.
There’s the last edition—git.
Underground Curiosities.
At the city of Medina, in Italy, and
about four miles around it, wherever
the earth is dug, when the workmen
arrive at a distance of sixty three feet,
they come to a bed of chalk which they
bore with an auger, five feet deep.
They then draw from the pit before
the auger is removed, and upon its ex
traction the water bursts up through
the aperture with great violence, and
quickly fills the newly made well,
which continues full and is affected
neither by rains or drought. But what
s the most remarkable in this opera
tion is the layers of earth as we de
scend. At the depth of fourteen feet
are found the ruins of an ancient city,
paved streets, houses, fl jors and differ
ent pieces of mason work. Under this
is found a soft cozy earth, made up of
vegetables, and at twenty-six feet,
large trees entire, such as walnut trees,
with walnuts still sticking to the stem,
and the leaves and branches In a per
fect state of preservation. At twenty-
eight feet deep a soft chalk is found,
mixed with a vast quantity of shells,
and the bed is eleven feet thick. Under
this, vegetables are found again.
AGRICULTURE.
Butter Hay akd Pasture.—Anyone
passing through agricultural districts,
say in June when the herbage has
about or nearly reached its full growth
must notice how land is only half or a
quarter utilized, by allowing the un
checked growth of all sorts of weeds.
A large proportion of this land is pas
tured, and the way the poor cattle have
to seek out the little grass from among
the overwhelming weeds is a source of
actual sadness. These pasture fields,
too, are allowed to go on producing
noxious weeds for a series of years
without an effort being made to get rid
of them by the surest mode known to
the observing farmer—;frequent cultiva
tion. Then, again, we see the same
proportion of weeds in many fields from
which the cattle hay is to be cut and
this is done year after year just as
though cows and other cattle would
eat the weeds any more rapidly dry
than green. It is as apparent as the
sun at noonday that to whatever extent
weeds are allowed to grow'just to that
extent is the land wasted. Now that
this can be avoided in most cases scarce
ly admits of doubt. And what is true
of the pasture fields, Ls the same where
the herbage Is left to become hay. The
good clean field i3 the exception. Not
only the ox-eye daisy, but sorrel and
plantation, and asters of various kinds,
which cattle care no more for when
dry than when green, constitute the
bulk of what is to be hay; and it is tol
erably good stuff which has but one-
fourth of extraneous matter. We have
before suggested that our agricultural
societies, which give so many and such
high premiums for fast trotting horses
might at least share a little for the en
couragement of the food which the
noble animal is to aat. Premiums for
well-grown hay, clean hay, hay from
improved grasses, and well-managed
hay-fields, would surely be objects
worthy of the attention of even a “State
agricultural society,” and we think it
will become so if the press will unite
in commending the subject to general
attention. Surely there is no greater
eyesore than a field, looking as if it
might produce thirty bushels of wheat,
seventy-five of corn, or from two to
three tons of first-class hay to an acre,
allowed to be covered with masses ol
noxious weeds, which can and should
be destroyed. A merchant from the
city who may pass through a rural sec
tion, and see these myriad of ox-eyed
daisy flowers, will almost invariably
ask why they are there, and if they
cannot be exterminated and good hay
and grain raised instead.
Shout-horns for the Dairy.—Be
fore the uncertainties of tradition were
supplanted by the facts of history, the
Durham cow was known and highly
prized in some parts of England fer her
dairy qualities. In the earlier history
of this breed they were known as the
Teeswater, the.Holderness, the York
shires or Durham, depending upon the
location where bred and kept. But,
about a century ago, Mr. Turner, of
Hurworth, bred the famous bull Hub-
back, and from him and his descendants,
Foljumbe, Bolingbroke, Favorite, and
Comet, were established the various
families of the improve Short-horn
breed of cattle. Robert and Charles
Collng, taking the lead and making se
lections from the Teeswaters, York
shires and Durhams, established the
Duchess family of Short-horns which
has been sure to improve every other
known breed ol cattle with which they
have been crossed. The Coliings have
been followed by Bates, Booth, Spoil-
cers Ducie, and others of England, by
Morris, Thorn, Sheldon, Alexander,
Groom, Wadsworth, Kelley, Harrison,
Butts, Samuel Campbell, and a host of
others, until the Short-horn is well-
known and duly appreciated in every
civilized country of the world. Al
though some ol the breeders named,
and many others, have bred for fancy,
rather than for the dairy, yet the dairy
qualities are inherent In the breed, in
an eminent degree, and only require
proper management to develop it in its
original strength with absolute cer
tainty. I might give records of milk,
of butter and cheese, of Short-horns,
and their grades, but it will perhaps be
sufficient for me to say that the largest
yield of milk on record was by Duchess
1st, the motner of the Duchess family
of Short-horns. The largest yield'of
cheese per cow on record was produced
by a herd of grade Short-horns, owned
by A. L. Fish, Esq., of Herkimer
county, New York. The great value
of the Short-horn over-other breeds for
:he dairy, is in her ability to digest and
assimilate the food she consumes more
perfectly than any other breed, thereby
enabling her on a given amount of food,
to produce the most milk, the most but
ter, the most cheese, and the most beef
for the food consumed, of any breed of
cattle we have.
From experiments recently made by
Mr. J. II. Burns, it appears that the
application of yeast to insects produces
in them a fatal fungus, and diluted
yeast is therefore recommended as de
structive to the potato beetle. It would
at least be an easy thing to tiy.
Corculio of the plum stings the fruit
while it is quite small. The trees
should be jarred in early morning, be
ginning when they are just passing out
of flower, and the sluggish beetles
caught on a sheet opened beneath the
tree for the purpose. Afterward those
caught on the sheet should be burned.
There is contained in the corn cobs
raised in the United States from 115 to
120 million pounds of carbonate of pot
ash, which is the third most valuable
article required in agriculture.
Imitation Power oi Dogs.
Some dogs possess an imitating power—
which in men is called originality, inven
tion, discovery—they make experiments.
We had a pointer that exhibited this faculty
in a curious manner. She was weakly when
young, and for that reason, together with
other circumstances, was never properly
trained—a fact that may perhaps have pre
vented her “mind” from congealing into
the stolidity of routine. She became an
outdoor pet, and followed at heel every
where. • One day some ponds were netted,
and of the fish taken a few chanced to be
placed in a great stone trough from which
cattle drank in the yard. Sometime after
wards the trough being foul, the fish—they
were loach, tench, perch, and one small
jack were removed to a shallow tub, being
scarcely a foot deep, though broad, they
were, of course, distinctly visible, and at
once became an object of the most interest
to the pointer. She would not leave it,
but stood watching every motion of the fish,
with her head now on on^ side, now on the
other. There she must have remained
some hours; and was found at last in the
act of removing them one by one, and lay
ing them softly, quite unhurt, on the grass.
We put them back into the water, and
waited to see the result. She took a good
look and then plunged her nose right under
the surface and half-way up the neck, com
pletely submerging the head in that position
groped about on the bottom till a fish came
in contact with her moHth, and was in
stantly snatched out. The head must have
been under water each time nearly a min
ute, feeling for the fish. One by one she
drew them out and placed them on the
ground, until only the jack remained. He
puzzled her, darting away swift as an ar
row, and seeming to anticipate the enemy.
But after a time he toe was captured.
When the fish were returned to the tub,
the pointer again commenced her fishing.
Scarcely anything could be imagined ap
parently more opposite to the hereditary
intelligence of a pointer than this; and cer
tainly no one attempted to teach her,
neither did she do it for food. It was an
original motive of her own. To what can
it be compared but mind proceeding by ex
periment! ,
BOMESTIC.
r
Bread fob sauor for gam*.—Two
cups of milk, one cup of dried bread
crumbs, oue quarter ol an onion; two
tablespoonfuls, of butter, salt and pep
per. Dry the bread In a warm oven,
and then roU into rather ooarse crumbs.
Now sift them and the fine crumbs
which come through the sieve, and
whieh make one-third of a cupful. Put
on to boil with the milk and onion,
boil ten minutes, then add one table
spoonful of butter and seasoning. Skim
out the onion. Fry the coarse crumbs
a light crisp brown In one teaspoonful
of butter, which must be very hot be
fore the ernmbs are added. Stir over
a hot fire for two minutes, being care
ful not to burn. Cover the breasts of
the roast birds and serve with it.
Chocolate Cake. — Two cups , of
granulated sugar; one cup of butter;
whites of eight eggs beaten to a froth;
one cup of sweet milk, three full cups
of sifted flour, and three teaspoonfuls
of baking powder. Beat the sugar
and butter to a cream, add the milk,
then the flour (baking powder in it),
and the whites. When well mixed,
divide and into one-half grate a cake
of sweet chocolate. Bake in layers and
put together with custard as foil ows:
Bring one pint of milk to the boiling
point, stir in first two teaspoonful of
corn-starch dissolved In a little milk,
and the two beaten eggs and a teacup
of sugar. Flavor with vanilla. This
is a very excellent cake.
WIT AND HUMOR.
“Did you make the train ?” asked the
anxious questioner.
“No,” said smarty, “it was made in
the car shops.”
“I mean did you catch the train ?”
with a slightly embarrassed manner.
‘‘Of course not; it’s not infectious,”
was the cute reply.
“Well, you confluramigated fool, did
you arrive at the depot In time ?”
“No, you verdant idiot. 1 arrived in
a barouche.”
“Oh, you antique simpleton, did you
board the cars?”
“Why, you antediluvian muddle-
brain,” howled the smart man once
more, “you know I don’t keep a board-
house,”
In the early stages of his ministry
the celebrated Dr. Strong of Hartford,
preached some time in a neighboring
village. One day a committee called
upon him to settle with him for his
services, and, after stammering awhile
signified to him that his further ser
vices were not desired, “What does
this mean, gentlemen?” asked the doc
tor. “Why,” replied the spokesman,
with some hesitation, “the people have
got the impression that you are inclined
to universal salvation.” “Gentlemen,”
answered the doctor, “I never have
preached that doctrine; but, if I ever
should, I promise to make the people
of this town an exception.”
Ambrosia.—Spread in a glass dish a
layer of grated cocoanut and sugar
then a layer of peeled oranges, sliced
thin, and so on, alternately, until the
bowl is full. The top layer is of the
cocoanut and sugar. Let it be -made
several hours before serving up. Th:
precise portions are difficult to give, as
the amount of sugar required must vary
according to the flavor and sweetness
of the oranges. A generous allowance,
of sugar, however, ought to be made—
say one pound and a quarter to one
dozen fine and juicy oranges and* the
meat of one fair-sized cocoanut.
—a uotrGH, Gold, Catarrh, or Sore
Throat requires immediate attention,
as neglect oftentimes results in some
incurable Lung Disease. “Bream’s
Bronchial Troches” will almost invari
ably give relief. Imitations are offered
for sale, many of which are injurious
The genuine “Brown’s Bronchial Tro
ches” are sold only in boxes.
AnY »ne may make his own oil paste
blacViugby the following trustworthy
receipt: Molasses 1 S>., ivory black
1)4 B>s., sweet oil 2 oz. Rub together
in a mortar till all the ingredients form
a perfectly smooth mixture; thon add
the juice of one lemon, or about a
wineglass of strong vinegar, and thor
oughly incorporate with just enough
water added slowly to gain a required
consistency.
Turnips'on the Griddle.—We have
seen for some time a statement going
the rounds of newspapers, that a tur
nip used in rubbing the griddle, while
cooking griddle cakes, would give the
desired smoothness and do away with
the unpleasant smoke. We doubted 11,
but a trial soon convinced me that the
statement was correct. We found, how
ever, that at times, it was necessary,
when beginning, to put a very little
grease on the turnip, but this made no
appreciable smoke.
To remove fruit stains from table
linen : If uncolored, moisten with di
lute sulphuric acid and then rub with
a strong aqueous solution of sulphite
or hyposulphite of soda; or soak for a
short time in a strong solution of
bleaching powder (calcium hypochlo-
Ite), press out exoess of liquid and im
merse in dilute sulphuric acid (1 to 10
of water); rinse in cold water, dip in
hyposulphite of soda solution, and
afterwards wash eut thoroughly in hot
water. If colored, use plenty of soap-
SUdaandammbmia wat-qr
Everything conducive to the bet
ter condition of the baby is sure to at
tract attention; and hence it is that
Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup is becoming
more andmore appreciated, as its wond
erful influence in subduing the diseases
of babyhood becomes recognized.
Price 25 cents.
To Soften Putty.—Slack three
pounds of stone quickline in’water, then
add one pound of pearlash, and make
the whole about the consistency of
plant. Apply it to both sides of the
glass, and let it remain for twelve
hours, when the putty will be so soft
ened that the glass may be easily taken
out of the frame.
Boston Brown Bread.—Two cup
fuls Indian meal (even); one eupful
rye meal; one cupful flour; one (small)
quart sweet milk; pinch of salt; one
half cupfuljmolasses; two teaspoonfuls
cream tartar; one teaspoonful (even)
of soda dissolved in water; steam four
hours, and water must boil constantly
all the time; put in oven and heat for
breakfast.
Maine News.
Hop Biiters, which are advertised In
our columns, are a sure cure for the
ague, biliousness and kidney com
plaints. Those who use them say they
cannot be too highly recommended.
Those afflicted should give them a fair
trial, and will become thereby enthu
siastic in the praise of their curative
qualities.—Portland Argus.
Virginia Biscfit.—Une quart flour,
one-half teaspoonful salt, one quarter
pound butter, mix the flour and
butter with the hand, together,
and moisten with water; roll It out
very thin three times, and beat with
the rolling-pin each time; roll as thin
as a sheet of paper; cut with a sauoer
and bake in sheets. These are particu
larly nice for lunch.
To prepare Japanese cement, mix
the best powdered rice with a little
cold water; then gradually add boiling
water till a proper consistence is at
tained, being careful in the meantime
to keep it well stirred; lastly, it must
be boiled for one minute in a clean
saucepan. The paste is beautifully
white, almost transparent, and well
adapted for fancy paper work, or other
things requiring a strong and colorless
cement.
The soft and silky appearance given
to the hair by the U3e of Carboline, the
natural hair restorer and dressing, as
now improved and perfected, is the
subject of general lemark by all who
have witnessed its effects upon the
human head. Sold by all dealers is
drugs.
Wasps’ nests are frequently ignited
by some chemical action, supposed to
be that of the wax upon the paper like
substances ot which the nests are
formed. “Spontaneous combustion”
of this nature is believed to be the
cause of many mysterious fires in hay
stacks and farmers’ buildings.
The time has passed for the ‘Elixirs,
Cordials’ etc. for the Baby, and Dr.
Bull’s Baby Syrup is now the establish
ed and reliable remedy. Price 8t
cents.
A German technical journal says
that salts of tin will remove iron stains
from linen much more effeotually than
oxalic acid will do it.
When 3I!na and Body are out of Sorts, wilft
cold ex>remittee, a yellowness in the skin, cca
tiveness, -ml headacce, and an indlsooslllen to
Btlr about, be sure you are in tor a Bilious at
tack. springing irom a more or less Disordered
Liver. Dr. Jayne’s Sanative PHIS win —
the Liver to a healthy condition, and
emove all biliary distress.
“Sir,” roared a man out in Nebraska
striding up to a neighbor, “Sir, you
are a liar.”
“I am,” exclaimed the astonished
neighbor. “How do you know I am ?”
“Because I know it; because I have
found it out.”
How long have you been living
here?”
“Six weeks.”
“Oh, well, probably you do know
then.”
A boy has been discovered in Tennes
see, the formation of whose backbone
is peculiar. He has a hinge in it, as it
were, which enables him to plane his
head and feet on the fioor at the same
time without experiencing any incon
venience. This is certainly an improve
ment in the way of boys. This country
wants thousands of boys with hinge3
in their backs—and the boy who
compelled to piok potatoes and weed
the garden will agree with us.
“I’m a-restin,” said a tramp, yester
day, to a person who interrogated him
“This is my vacation. The goods
which I manufacture are now out of
season.” And he took off the rim of
his hat from which his hair projected
like a Prince-of-Wales plume. In the
inside was pasted a piece of paper hear
ing the date “May 8, 1900—1 P. M.’
“That,” he said, cheerfully, “is the
next eclipse of the snn. Shall sell the
rest of my smoked glass then.” And
with an enterprising air, he resumed
his vacation.
Slirewanes* and Ability.
Hop Bitters, so freely advertised in
all the papers, secular and religious,
are having a large sale, aud are sup
planting all ocher medicines. There
is no denying the virtues of the Hop
plant, and the proprietors of these Bit
ters have shown great shrewdness and
ability in compounding a Bitters whose
virtues are so palpable to everv one’s
observation.—Examiner and Chrontcls.
Although Backle was prefioient in
thirteen languages, he never exhaust
ed more than one when his rear collar
button flew off at an evening party,
causing his oollar to bob up againstthe
back of his head, while he was danc
ing with a pretty young lady. If a
man is ever justifiable in ripping
through nineteen languages iu one
inning, It is on just such an occasion.
“One hundred thousand women are
said to be working in the fields of the
West.” And a hundred thousand able
bodied men are hanging around street
oornerslnthe East, complaining that
there no nice, easy jobs tor them. Wha
easier job do they want than “hanging
around street corners?” Do you want
them to go West and leave their wives
and parents at home with one less
mouth to provide for ?
The Iowa Central railroad has posted
in its passenger coaches the following
notice: “Every tobacco-chewing gen
tleman will have the gallantry to keep
the ladies’ coach clean, by riding in
the forward car while chewing.”
Nervousness, and all derangements
of the neryou3 system, are usually con
nected with a diseased condition of the
blood. Debility is a frequent accom
paniment. The first thing to be done
is to improve the condition of the blood.
This is accomplished by taking Vege-
tine. It is a nerve-medieinc, and pos
sesses a controlling power over the
nervous system.
A hen’s brain Isn’t very large, but it
Is large enough to comprehend the fact
that she never was the mother of an
Easter egg, and that If she was it would
not hatch painted chickens.
The only men wno ever hang to a
New Year’s diary are the chaps who
lend money to their friends. They
must have some sort of a book lo write
down names and amounts in.
Judge—See here, prisoner, if you do
any more lying you won’t get off with
three years. Prisoner—But, jedge,
how many years d’ye s’pose ye’d gim
me if I told the trooth ?
It is a time-honored custom in Quincy
Fla., to salute a newly-married couple
by firing a cannon. This is to remind
those present that the battle of life has
fairly begun.
As one pound of Dobins’ Electric
Soap, (made by Cragin & Co., Philadel
phia,) will do the work of five pounds
of any other, it is really the cheapest,
though it costs a little more per pound,
Try ft.
Draw a circle fifteen feet in diame
ter, place a mule in the center, and
walk around him without getting out
of the circle.
“I wish I was dead,” is an expres
sion not unfrequently used by the
Dyspeptic and sufferer from Liver dis.
ease; the depressed spirits unfitting the
mind for anything and almost driving
him to despair. Be of good cheer,
there is life and health len for yon yet.
Take Simmons’ Liver Regulator. It
regulates the liver, dispels despondency
and restores health. Look weU that
you get the genuine, prepared hy J.
H. Zcilin & Co., enclosed In a white-
wrapper, with a red Z on the front.
“I can recommend your medicine.
All the health I enjoy, and even my
life, I may say, is in consequence of
the Simmons’ Liver Regulator. I
would not take $1,000,000 for my in
terest iu the medicine. “W. H. Wil
son, Lecturer State Grange, and Presi
dent Florida Co-operative Stock Co.,
P. of H.. IVelborn, Florida.”
Mr. Maskelyne, the noted conjurer of
the Egyptian Hall, London’ has inven
ted an apparatus to check the fares
taken by the London omnibuses. Bear
ing in mind that a separate fare is
charged for each section of the distance,
to accomplish this was no easy matter.
Naturally, It is rather a complicated
affair; it is automatic and works by
clock-work, each person receiving a
ticket marked for his particular dis
tance and the fare. A self-regBter is
made by the movement of persons en
tering and leaving, by their weight on
the steps acting as a lever.
Some females have just been arrested
In Kentucky for the manufacture of
illicit whisky. This is the first record
ed instance of a woman keeping still.
A clock was on view at the Paris
exhibition which fired off a pistol
hourly. The exhibitor, on being ques
tioned as to the object, explained,
phlegmatically, that it was to “kill
time.”
nomen aa La wye a
Though Old Mr. Fogg has long ques
tioned woman’s fitness to practice law,
and her opinions concerning legal mat
ters, no one has ever questioned her
opinion concerning Dr. Pierce’s Favor
ite Prescription ls a positive care for
those "dragging-down” sensations,
and the many diseases and weaknesses
ecnliar to their sex. The Favorite
'rescription is sold by all druggists
under a positive guarantee.
Pittsburgh, Pa., March 14th, 1879.
Dr. B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.:
Dear Sir.—I was treated by four dif
ferent physicians without avail for dis
ease of the liver and uterus. Some
time ago I commenced the use ot your
Favorite Prescription and Discovery,
being at the time, confined part of the
time to my bed. At first my Improve
ment was slow, hut I now find myself
well after the use of four tiottles of
each of the medicines. With many,
many thanks, I am, very respectfully,
Hast E. Grach.
Bud-variationis fully recognized now,
and new varieties are produced as well
as from seed. Botanists, however,
eontinue to record examples, the latest
of which is by Fritz Miller, who, wri
ting from Brazil, says that a banana,
which for years produced reddish|truit,
one season sent up a stem which bore
yellow fruit; and he asked whether all
the varieties of bananas may not have
originated in this way ? This is the
general belief, as they do not perfect
seeds. All the varieties ot sweet pota
toes in America are produced by bud-
variation—the plant not flowering un
der culture.
Some time age, it will be remembered
Mr. Gladstone and others, basing their
opinions on certain passages in Homer
and in various etner ancient and more
modern authors,concluded that the ab
sence of accurate color terms indicate a
want of color perception. But such
careful observers as Cohn, Virchow
and Almquist have found that the color
senses in uncivilized nations is well de
veloped, even though they may have no
words to express the different shades.
Swedish meteorologists have furnished
material for unlimited speculation by
preparing a catalogue oi the auroras
seen during the space of more than
three centuries—that is, from 1536 to
1877. The record shows that in the
period from 1722 to 1799 auroras were
observed on 4,245 nights.
The extensive studies of Dr. Decalsne
have proven to him conclusively that
immoderate smoking of tobacco pro
duces in certain subjects—especially in
woman and children—an irregular ac
tion of the heart, which quickly disap
pears when the cause is removed.
DrlVayne proposes the introduction
of an automatic switch in a telephone
circuit, so that anyone in connection
with a telephone exchange may com
municate with any other person simi
larly connected, without the interven
tion of an assistant at the central
office.
The habit ol fish To return to the same
place in a river to spawn is well known.
It Is asserted tnat en going up they
keep the left hand of the bank, aud
that on their return they take the op
posite side. It is thought that fisher
men might take advantage of this
fact.
The digestibility of bread depends In
great meaanrft upon its being porous
If It is compact and heavy, the diges
tive juices are unable to act upon it,
and it remains iu the alimentary oanal
undigested, giving rise to those disa
greeable sensations called indiges
tion.
What subtle power in nature has made
tho snowflake so different from the
raindrop, yet substantially the same ?
Science easily solves that question. It
is magnetism, that almost unknown
agent, so wonderful in its operation,
and whose mysteries are daily being
revealed to us.
The Italian minister of argriculture
and commerce has decided to presentto
parliament a project for executing a
great geological map of the kingdom.
The expense is calculated at 6,000,000
francs.
When a pen has become so corroded
as to be useless, it can be made good as
new by holding it in the flame of a gas-
jet foiv half a minute; then drop it in
cold water, take out, Jwipe clean,
and it will be ready for use again.
During the year 1879, 10,281 horses,
529 asses, and 26 mules, giving 4,145,
700 pounds of meat, were sold for con
sumption in Paris; and on the 1st of
January last seventy-eight butchers’
shops for the sale of that,article of food
were in full operation.
Guard Against Disease.
If you find youraelf getting bilious, he|d
bea^f, mouth foul, eyes yellow, Kidneys dis
ordered, symptoms of piles tormenting you,
take at once a few dosas of Kidney-Wort.
Use it as an advance guard—don't wait to get
down sick.—Leader.
VEGETINE
Purifies the Blood, Renovates and
Invigorates the whole System.
ITS MEDICINAL PROPERTIES ABB
Alterative, Tonic, Solvent
and Diuretic.
Vegetine Is mads exclusively from the Juices
or carefully-selected Darts, roots and herbs, and
so strongly concentrated that It will effectually
eradicate rrom the system every taint of 0cr*>
mi a, Scrofulous Humor, Tumor** Cam-
eer. Cancerous Humor, £rjalpelaa,
diseases that arise from Impure blood. Sci
atic*, inflammatory and Chronic Rheu
matism, Neuralgia, Gout and Spinal
Complaints, can only be effectually cured
through the blood.
For Ulcers And Eruptive Diseases of tbs
Shin, Pustules, Pimples, Blotches,
Bolls, Tetter. Scaldbead and Ring
worm, VEGETINE has never failed to effect a
permanent cure.
For Pains in the Back, Kidney Complaints,
Dropsy, Female weakness. Leucorrhcea, arising
from internal ulceration, and uterine diseases
and General Debility, VEGETINE acts directly
upon the causes of these complaints. It invlgo-
Mtes and strengthens the whole system, acts
upon the secretive organs, allays inflammation
cures ulceration and regulates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costlveness,
. alpltatlon of the Heart, Headache, Piles, Nerv
ousness and General Prostration of the Nervous
System, no medicine has ever given such per
fect satisfaction as the VEGETINE. It puiifles
the blood, cleanses all of the organs, and pos
sesses a controlling power over the nervoua
system.
have Induced many physicians and apotheca
ries whom wo know, to prescribe and use It in
their own families.
In fact, Vegetine ls the best remedy yet dis
covered for the above diseases, and ls the only
reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet placed beiore
the public.
"V egetine
19 THE BEST
SPRING MEDICINE.
Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
A ter. Pa., re-opens January 7. Civil engineering
Chemistry, Classics and English. Degrees conferred
, ”\TTY. P -
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ICTORIAL
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Embracing full and authentic accounts of every
Empires, the middle ages, the crusades, the feudal
system, the reformation, the discovery and settle
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It contains 672 fine historical engravings, and is
the most complete History of the World ever pub
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A Valuable Gift Free.
A book on the Liver, its diseases and their
treatment sent free. Including treatises upon
Liver Complaints, Torpid Liver, Jaundice,
Biliousness, Headache, Constipation, Dyspep
sia. Malaria, etc. Address Dr. Sanford 162
Broadway, New York city, N. Y.
A GARB.—To all who are suffering from the er
rors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss of manhood, etc., I will send a Re
cipe that will cure you. Fan or Charge. This
great remedy was discovered by a missionary in South
Amerioa. Send a self-addressed envelope to the Her.
JOSEPH J. INMAN. Station D, New York Oity.
The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich.
Will send their celebrated Electro Voltaie
Belts to the afflicted upon 30 days’a trial.
>eedy cures guaranteed. They mean what
ley say. Write to them without delay.
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A YEAR and expenses to agents.
Outfit Free. Address
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tfOSTIFEift
IW . STOMACH _ dT
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bilouaness, and keeps the bowels in order, and i
endal and beneficent are its effects, that not only it
- hut
^d and regulated by its •
ud Dealers generally.
THE FARMERS’ FOWL,
PLYMOUTH ROCKS,
High class ai)d pure bred Eggs, $1.25 per 13, or $2.00
per 20. Chicks Sept. 1st. Descriptive Circulars and
price free. N.J. ISRAEL.
Beallsville, Monroe Co., Ohio,
A RT OF FLIRTING. Essay, 10 cents postpaid.
Address ELBERT ELLERY, 53 E. 9th st.,N.Y.
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ASSOCIATION.
Patent Bights sold at private Sale and by Publio
Auction. Patents obtained and Searches made on
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PHPV PAH RKCBIPE (with full
vUr x lAL/. directions to make
one equal to those soldTJr $2 to $5, for one-third
thomoney), and Receipes for 30 kinds of Ink, all
colors„ 30 cents, by return mail. Address
H. BLEDSOE, P. M., Alvarado, Texas.
QPERA CLASSES,
w Microscopes, Tbarometers, Eye Glasses,
Spectacles, Barometers, at Greatly Reduced Frxcu.
R. & J. BECK.
Manufacturing Opticians, Philadelphia. Send 3
stamp# for illustrated Catalogue of 144 pages, and
mention this paper.
ELGIN WATCHES I
I All styles. Gold, Silver and Nickel, $6
' to $150. Chains, etc.. sent C. O. D.
be examined. Write for Catalogue
CO., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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OPIUM
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For Tem
THU BEST MEW
Temperance Jewels, and Rev.
Hoffman.has every qualification to be a sti
Temp-ranee Song Book. Choice hymus and songs,
and music in excellent taste, are found throughout.
There are nearly a hundred songs. Specimen copies
mailed tor 35 cts. $3.90 per dozen.
(The
•nd larger book. Hall's Tcape-
Glee Booh. (40 cts.) retains its great pop
ularity. ).
Wblte Robes! The purest,
sweetest and best
White Bo be* ! of Sunday
School Song Books.
White Robes! Mailed White Bohesl
for 30 cents.
White Robes! $3.00 per dcz. White Kobea!
Temperance Light. \l r t seSXLEj
perfect -'electric” light far radiance aud beauty.
Has 32 of th® very best songs by 27 of the v< ry best
anthois, and sails for $10 per hundred. Mailed fer
12 cents.
(New High School S >ng Book, THE WELCOME
CHuRUS, is nearly through the pres®.
Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston,
J. E. DITSON, A CO .
1228 Chest not Street. Philadelphia.
EUBlIBBOIIMIUCflM
RETAIN THE HEAT LOWCE
DO NOT BURN THEl
K lRON BOTH WAYS.P j
^FOK SA-LE BY —
The Hardware tmde.
Sturiuyani’s Great Catarm Reiefly
Is th* safest, most agreeable and effectual remedy in
the world for the cure of CATARRH. No matte*
from what cease, or how long standing, by giving
STURDIVANT’S CATARRH REMEDY
a fair and Impartial trial, you will be eomvfneoi ef
this fact. This medicine is very pleasant andean
be taken by the most delicate stomach. Fer sale by
all Druggists, and by HOLLOWAY A CO., €02 Area
Street, Philadelphia.
20
Snlendid Chrome Visiting Cards, with name.
10cts. J. MlNKLER A Co., Nassau. N. Y.
GREAT
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WAWHES and CLOCKS.
..98 m
vi«e) .
*ine Nickle’Case Stem-Windii^ Clock 8 00
iue Gilt Bronze Case Stem-Winding Clock. 2 to
Sent by mail on receipt of price. Send for circular.
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No. 113 Liberty Street. New York City.
Dm.2f>a BEAT, Optician,
M N. TWELFTH Street,
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SAPONIFIER
lath* 0}d Reliable Concentrated Lye for FAMILY
iOAP MAKING. Directions accompany each can
for making Hard, Soft and Toilet Soap quickly.
It is lull weight and strength.
ASK FOR SAPONIFIER,
AND TAKE NO OT&ER.
FENH’A BALT HANUPG C®„ PHILAM’A
MAKE HENS LAY.
■are that Sheridan’s Condition Powders are abso>
lutely pure and immensely valuable."Nothing on
earth will make hens lay like Sheridan’s Condition
Powders. Dose, one teaspoon to on- pint of feed.
Bold everywhere, e
iy mall for eight letter
I. B. JOHNSON k CO., Banger, Me.
The ^Purest and Best Medicine erer Made.
“—■mid nation of Hops, Buchu, Man-
drakEeand Dandelion,witlialltneDestand
most enurative properties of all other Bitters,
oakes\thegreatest Blood Purifier, Liver
Resr U iX a tor. and Life and Health Restoring
Agent onWpBHHM earth.
No disease cXan possibly long exist where Hop
Bitters are us\ed^o varied and perfect are their
ope ratioi _
aad vigor to tha >gei tad hflna.
loyments cause irregular!’
urinary organs, or who re-
Toni* and mild Stimulant,
HopBittersareinval^uahle, without intox
icating.
No matter whatyourfe%elings or symptoms
are what the disease or ailw“ent i® use Hop Bit
ters. Don’t wait until you aRr* sick but if you
only feel bad or miserable ,n Qse them at once.
It may save yourlife.lt has* 3 a ved hundreds.
$500 win be paid for a cave they will not
cure or help. Do not suffer m 01 your friend*
suffer,but use and urge them^L ase Hop B
Remember, Hop Bitters is drugged
drunken nostrum, but tho Purest
Medicine ever made; the “UTVALHxT
and ■OPE’* and no person or family'
should be without them. ■*
D.LC.is an absolute an
forbrunkennefB, use of opium, tobacco andl
narootlca. All sold by druggists. 8e ‘
for Circular. Hop Utter* Mf*. Co.,
RochesterjNjYaiM^orontOji *
S. M. PETTENGILL & CO.,
Advertising Agents,
37 PARK ROW, New York, & 701 CHESTNUT St., Phila.
Estimates for one or more insertions of any advertisement,
in any uumber of papers, furnished on application!
THE "bureau N CREAMERY.
Surpasses all others In quantity and quality ot butter made. It secures matured and ripened cream .
which makes butter of the best texture, flavor, and of unequaled keeping quality. It excludes fllea. dust
and odors; Is constantly at the correct temperature (58° to 60*) j baa room for the cream and butter, and
saves tn lyo; fourths the labor. I tcan be used with either Ice or water, and both summer and winter.
.. FERGUSON CONCUSSION CHURN la the best. It combines scientific principles with
P addl e*iBrings the hotter In granular form, and secures the
largest yield. Befor buying any other Churn or Creamer; or any pans, or cans, send foi large illus
trated circular to -5 THE FERGUSON MF*G CO., Burlington, Vt# Reliable Agents Wanted.
Butter MAKER
TUavowtoMkd -GUUEd,,* Brttar tk, jrernaS. Care,
■re iwi sat tka (clean of Charek&r applies ta Batter-
(air, Aasret art IP later Batter rerta equal ta tie
Scat tea predict, tenure prod art • par cart. Improna
qaallty at laaat 80 par cret. Kedaeea laker ef ckrembw are.
hit rare* Batter lecreta, raneiil. tepraraa market
vmlae S t. S ceata-e poead. Gaaraataed fro. from all lajarlem
lafrodleeta. etna . mica Goldea Cater tka year rend. *
Kata’ worth wffl predate $8-00 la iaerraaa ef predict art
market rate. Caa pre make a tetter tenatreartl Beware
•( imltethre. Genuine Bold only In boxea with trade
mark Oi dairymaid, together with words “ GiLT-Eam*
wrrow.w Warn..* printed on each pnr.ktgn. Pnaderaaid
kj Groce la art C rectal Bteie-kupwi. Aek your dealer tor
our book “ unite to Butter-Makare,’* or read stamp to aa
forth Small ate, X B., at * cents; Large aiis SK *a»
$1.00. Great aaThm by buylmg the larger elre.
reddreaa, Ol