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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1880)
FIRM, GARfEN AND HOUSEHOLD on Tr«llla*a. As an experiment I trained one to¬ mato vine this year on a trellis and do not think I shall ever plant another vine, without some kind of a trellis, un¬ less it is to experiment. The, fruits on trellised vines attain a large size, are uicy and do not waste of the ground. While the fruit of the vines that were left to run on the ground trellis were rotting, those trained to a were sound and growing rapidly. The trellis I use is the same as tne one described and en¬ graved in the Rural last spring. It takes but little work to make one. Any farmer can make all he wants in the bam some day when it.rains. The fruit will ripen more evenly and ten days earlier—which is quite an advantage. the Moreover the arrangement gives and it is garden easier a more tasty keep the appearance trellised ground mucj to free from weeds.— C. T., in Rural New Yorker. Kill Tout Sheep WhHeYonn*. There are few animals they kept in on the farm which, when are prime, pay as well as sheep, and are very few, if any others, upon which old age has such a damaging lived effect. sheep are much shorter than other of our domestic animals, it is strange that many farmers attempt keep them too long. At ten years age the horse is just in his prime, the cow is as good as ever, with prospect of remaining so several onger. But the sheep is very old when t reaches ten, the natural limit of term of its life. After reaching age sheep slight are very likely to be by the exposure harm. which They younger animals no more liable to be attacked by disease, and if they live they will be likely to duce less wool ana smaller lambs they have done previously. We do think it pays, except, perhaps, in instances, to keep sheep after they six years old. Put Clover on four lend. An Ohio paper s&ys that by hundreds of farms that were worthless have been rescued from idation and ruin. It is an truism that as long as “clover catch ” the farm can soon be restored paying fertility, and by a good is profitable; even getting for after more productive some years o! treatment the land will bear succeed farming—that is, two or three Arops a good coat of clover laying down to clover again. new land should be subdued by the of large olover. Nothing so rots out stumps and kills weeds sprouts, and prepares the land for plow and good paving crops. new lands should always have it on the first grain crop down. It a vast amount of labor, for in a years it so tames the ground and it of enemies to the plow that it like Old ground, and is good for crops. One great error is often into, and that is following the old dition that a bushel of clover seed enough do for eight clover acres. land That may have to but whoever partially aims when was new, at up his land in a speedy and way should sow a bushel on tour so that, bis land may be shaded. KNIDCI. Whipped Cream.— Sweeten half pint which of cream with some loaf has been well rubbed on the side of a lemon, and then pounded. it into a perfectly clean bowl and to it the beaten up white of an cold lwptV"Sm place y toa“iffto,tbii 8 or over ice. KTcamte™ C -nn?tjfrm, U, ^?welvf aad C a ’ Th^vmiwi 1 i i , beforehand .w!!Lfn them to iee’d diin ^ of must ll-d cucumbers with r vincerMr and Coolen tbrht l Root ^ a piaoe.-Jet/;t*A Cookery Book. Veal Hash. Take a teacup of mg water in a saucepan, stir in an teaspoon flour wet in a tablespoon water, and let it boil five minutes; one-half teaspoon black pepper, as salt, and two teaspoons butter, and let keep hot, but not boil. Chop the nne and mix with it half as much bread crumbs. Put it m a pan and Uie gravy over it, then let it mmUteS * erve t ,ls on toast Asparagus Soup. —Select about dozen of good asparagus stalks; these thoroughly them; in enough water cover a quarter of an boiled with the asparagus is an provement; when tender take the aspar¬ agus out of the water, saving the water and removing the onion; cut the asp £ - agus into small pieces, of course only tne tender part, and put them in a mor¬ tar, adding a little of the water; must be pounded until perfectly smooth; now take some sifted flour, a dessertspoonful, a bit ot butter as big as an egg. and a very little pulverized sugar; mix well, ana then put on the fire until it melts, stirring all the time: add this to the pounded asparagus and the rest of the water; when it has bailed a few min¬ utes mix the yolk of one egg with a tumblerful of cream, and add this; ii properly made it wants no straining; use salt and pepper to taste and a very little nutmeg; one stalk of asparagus may be left, which may be cut in thin slices and added last. An Adventure at Lacbine Rapids. Canadian tourists, or those familiar with the river St. Lawrence, need not to be told of the picturesque danger of the leadline rapi ds. Many traditions and some authentic stories are preserved of luckless persons “shooting” who have been the engulfed there, and the of rapids even by skillful pilots is always an anx¬ ious and delicate piece of work. added Another the sad record example calamities was recently this to ot at celebrated locality. In this case, as in others, the presence and exertions of a famous pilot—named Daillebout in the present instance-*-failed to avert the catastrophe. Ten lumbermen,under Dail lebout’s command, started early in the morning make from descent Caughnawaga Lachine village to the of the rapids. Another raft under Baptiste, also a well from knpwn pilot, set place; out at and the same those time who tne same were on board the last raft saw all that happened It to the crew of the mischance, first one. Daillebout seems that, by his some raft swung out of the right fore channel his at o£n a critical moment. retrieve their Be¬ he and could error their control of the raft was gone. In a few moment they were driven with awful velocity into the vortex of foam¬ ing waters that the tourists’ steamers Those pass through when running the rapi ids. steamers, steered with matclil ess dexterity, steady and having their through engines to their course, get habit¬ ually nothing in safety. but human But with a raft, having her it is, of strength different, to shape course, course, far ul this case the frail structure was rolled over and over and hurled in every direc ion. She had to go through a mile of umbling, indeed seething halt waters—for cataract—before the most art a she r any fragments safety of her the could emerge nto tne smooth of river below. The spectators saw a moving and extra¬ ordinary sight. in the Logs sixty feet long were tossed air like so many twigs. Piece No by piece the raft broke asunder. power on earth could aid her wretched crew, and it seemed inevifc ble that they must perish to a man. But it was otherwise decreed. Despite this amazing ordeal, and despite most of thier number being frightfully bruised, eight of the eleven occupants of the raft only went through the rapids alive. Not that but they managed to cling to portions of their shattered bark so as to be rescued at last by their brother lum¬ bermen who had seen without being able to aid them in their peril. The re¬ maining wonder three is, raftsmen perished; and the according to the reports that have reached us, that there should have been any survivors at all from a catastrophe usually which fatal in former cases has been to every man con¬ cerned. **«■•*"•■* *■*•*•• Perhaps _ the most remarkable object ’toTOwhfaTche«ful8?ebnTntagiinit We have from time time noted to the an nouncements of newly-inveqted railway carriages and carriage wheels, chimney pots, flour barrels, cottage walls, roofing tiJes ’ and bricks and tiles for stamping, all made of paper. A material capable of ^ many u8e3 , so diversified in char acter is obviously destined to plav a very important part in our manufactur ing future. Articles of this kind which have just now perhaps the greatest in terest, and which are among the latest novelties in this way are paper blankets, Attention has ordinary frequently sheets been called to the value of of paper as a substitute for bedclothes, or. at least, as an addition to bedclothes. The idea seems to have suggested the fabri cation of blankets from this cheap ma terial. The fact that they are not as durable as the genuine article is in their favor, as, in the case ot the very poor, where the same bedding is used fnr years, a very cheap material that will last only a comparatively durable articles short time must be better than that are rarely or never washed. RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES, Philadelphia Baptist paid debts churches aggregating have a year The Boston Y. M. C. A. has 2,367 fifty-six of them Roman Between 300 and 400 Hindoo families Belasore, India, have recently abjured The 16,000 churches of the Methodist church owe in the aggregate an average of $4,000 to each The National Bible society, of Scot¬ as one of the three largest in world, its income having been $132 000 last year. It circulated 415,000 The vote of 141 to 229 on the question a colored bishop encourages the col¬ people to hope for the election of an officer at the next Methodist conference. Mr. Moody was at work four and a months in St. Louis, and the minis¬ estimate that 2,500 persons were of whom 700 had joined various churches up to May 1. The Bible society of France, during the sixteyi years of its existence, has distribute Arabic 350 00Cj|bopies New Testaments of the Scrip¬ have been furnished M. Soleillet, the trav¬ to be distributed during his Al¬ and African journey. Scraps of Science. It has been estimated that 100,000 miles of underground chambers exist in the limestone of Kentucky. Prof. Proctor states that he found the in scientific progress much more general in and appreciative in this than England! At Parimaribo, in Dutch Guiana, the annual rainfall is 229 inches, or nine¬ teen feet, and south of Bombay, in the Western Ghauts, at Mahabaleshwar, annual rainfall is 303 inches, equiva¬ lent to a layer of water twenty-five feet depth. Prof. Milne has found the Japanese to be very keen archaeologists. They have stone implements, ancient pottery, etc., country^ jhat the slch genera' t belief^among friks them being objects are of A rain of dust in the Passes-Alpes reddish during five days of last April gave a tains tinge height to the nearly snow on the moun to a of 10,000 feet, the snow higher up remaining white. The dust is supposed to have been of terrestrial, Somewhatsimilar thoGgh sbowersfellinFrance not volcanic, origin. in 1846 a d 1863 The plant most sensible to electricity is the vine. When lightning strikes in red-brown a vineyard the leaves afiected are turned or deep green, which circum stance shows, in the opinion of Prof. Colladon, that the electricity descends in a sheet or shower, and not a single point, number as is usually believed, the large of vines touched proving that the The lightning has covered a large confirmed area. by professor finds this theory an observation on a tree,which was lately J struck " Patriotism at a Discount. Soon after the tiring on Sumter a gentleman of New York, who passes his summers by the waters of South bay, had occasion to drive from New York to Islip, and to pass through the princi¬ pal villages along the shore. Nearly everywhere the patriotism of the people was manifested by numerous flags that waved from poles or were flung from windows, and each village contained groups of men who were discussing the important events of the day. One vil¬ lage only was without bunting, and there was a sullen crowd at the princi¬ pal store, but whose loyal. breathings The were any¬ thing well inhabitants, gentleman was known to the and felt justified political in attitude. reproving He them told for their what he had seen on his way down, how the other villages were decked in flags, and asked why they did not do lixe their neighbors. The men looked one toward another for several moments, and finally the boldest ventured to speak. withering “Flags, eh?” said be, in a tone of clams dollar contempt. thousand “ Flags?—and a a V'—Harper's Magazine. A doe and a big blacksnake had a fight in the Kentucky river near Richmond, which would have resulted in the drowning of the dog, had not some one fired into his snakeship, which broke his coils around the dog’s body. Niagara Fails Dry for a Day. J Hamilton, The following Ontario, letter, written from' Right Rev. to the Chicago Fuller, relates Tribune, by remarkable the Dr. In a occurrence: the month of March last I delivered in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, a lecture entitled “Upper Canada As It Was Fiity Years Ago, and Ontario as It Now Is,” and, in the course of my lec¬ ture, I spoke ot the great difficulty of constructing the international bridge between Buffalo and the Canada side opposite to that city on account of the great current of water running at times down the Niagara river, wbrre the waters are driven bv Erie, strong westerly the winds down Lake whereas quantity of water running down the river is very much diminished when the winds drive up Lake Erie. I then re¬ marked: • “This fact caused an event,thirty-two of years ago this month, which prob¬ ably very few of you have ever heard. I refer to the time when the falls ot Niagara were dry for a whole day. Th^t day was the thirty-first of March, 1848. I did not witness it myself; by but I was late told of it the next day my brother-in-law, Thomas C. Street, Esq., member of parliament. Happening told to go out to his place the next day, he me that his miller (for he had a grist on the rapids above the falls) knocked o’clock at his bedroom door about five in the morning of that day, and told in him the to get up, as there was no water mill-race, and no water in the great river outside of the race. He said that he was startled at the intelligence, and hurried out as soon as he could dress himself, and then saw the river, on the edge of which he had been born hurried thirty four years before, dry. Alter a breakfast he and his youngest daughter (then unmarried) went down about three-quarters of a mile to the precipice itself, over which there was so little water running himself over, that, having pole, pro¬ vided with a strong they started from the Table rock and walked near the edge of the precipice about one-third of the way toward Goat island, on the American shore, and, having stuck this pole in a crevice of the rock, and Miss Street having tied her pocket handkerchief firmly on the top of the pole, they re¬ turned. He said that he then view 1,vei below 8 )a^ged rocks/stood'up^n tbat immense fiST SB* Passed over them m the little Mist (as I often had done). ? drove e from r ^? the lr !r? Canada d shore home, some one- and island. When h* he told me thl this he re P ro “ hcd himself very much for not miles distant, but he said that, ^hout though eight had each time concluded JESS®? not d T f to § do j’J^ could reach the won derful scene, the waters should have returned their old courses. Of course, wonderful everybody when was 1 speaking of the event was out there ne .xt day, and I have heard others who witnessed it speak of it since that time,’ th ® *f ,act r , ca ^he ^.? time of V the + . t ie occurrence evi dence of ^ r \ Street s themy was this. That the , winds had been blowing down Lake Erie, which is only about thirty leet deep, and rushing a great deal of water from it over the falls, and suddenly changed and blew this little water (comparatively portion speaking) up to the western of the lake; and that at this juncture the ice on Lake Erie, which had been broken up by these high winds, got jammed in the river between Buffalo and the Canada side, and formed a dam which kept back the waters of Lake Erie a whole day. The Philosophical society, of Glasgow io to hold an exhibition of gas appi aratus sn a large scale next autumn, an d it is intended also to make a display at the same time of the apparatus which will illustrate the progress made in electric in lighting, the manufacture in telephonic of communication, mineral and oils, in water hydraulic measurement engines, in heating regulation, in and venti¬ lation, etc. There can be^no doubt that this exhibition, taking up, as it means to do some of the most important prob¬ lems to which man’s attention is given at present, will prove of great service to those who have.to deal practically with sanitary appliances. The owner of a lawn mower who gets up at five o’c.ock in the mbrning to ex¬ ercise it, is on a pai with the neighbor who keeps thirteen hens, two roostets and six settin ’ hens .—Lock port Union. An exchange has an article on “Bread¬ stuff.” Well, it may be. Now give us an article on Meat’s toS.—Meriden Re¬ corder.
