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Fine Stationery, School Stationery,
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Having just received a fine assortment of Stamps
frma the east, I am now prepared to do Stamping
for
BRAIDING AND EMBROIDERING,
I aiso do PinlC•ng st Ihe shortest notice.
ins. MATTI E G. GRAY,
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GERHAN PHYSICIAY AND SURGEON
01live at I he WaFliiag+,,n Home. corner of Sete-nth
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HUNTINGDON, PA,
April 4, 1579.
DE. C. I-I. I3OYER.
SURGEON DENTIST,
OITA in the Franklin Howe,
Apr.4-y
HUNTINGDON, PA
MIMVITT,
SURVEYeR AND CONVEYAYCER,
CIII:RCII ST., bet. Third and Fourth,
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A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF SAMPLES OF GOODS
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MEASURES TAKEN AND PITS GUARANTED.
7.1 eady to Please ; Willin3 to Try ; Cc :e ani Learn ray Prices Before you l'ouy.
Don't Forget the Place Store Nearly Opposite the Fostoffice.
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llespectftilly informs the publie that lie has just opened a large stock of
in the room lately occupied by Geo. W. Johnston & Co., corner of 9th
and Washington streets, in West Huntingdon, consisting in part of
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NOTIONS, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS,
GROCERIES, QUEENS WARE, GLASSWARE, WOOD
AND WILLOWWARE CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS,
and every other article usually found in first-class country stores:
Country Produce taken in exchange for goods at highest market price.
By strict attention to busines and an effort to please, he confidently
expect a share of public patrona , e. [apr23-tf.
THE KESTGlltiliS la IRE LOWEST PRICES I.
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In the room lately occupied by Graffigs Miller, on the southwest corner of the Dia.
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS, LACES ,
HATS AND CAPS. BOOTS AN D SHOES, QUEENSWARE, Etc His stock
of GROCERIES onbrAcus everything in that line, and every article sold will be just
STRICTLY CASH', OR ITS EQUIVALENT U OODITiII PRODUCE.
lie will do his best to please you. Go and see him, examine his goods, hear his
prices, and you will b-, eonvinc, , d tha .; ROLLER'S is the place for bargains.
april23 2w.
BEAUTIFUL GLASSWARE,
STAMPING
By the pieee or in wits, t
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CASH 0&,7 - EXCHANGE STORE.
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setti, ie at F. 11. LA );E'S Sfo !Z E. Eatitiootue TEA 41:1TTi; - consisting of 4C. pieces uf White Stone
China, can be bought for $4, at F. 11. LANE'S low price store.
A large stock of choice Mackerel, consisting of Decp Sea, Extra Shore, New Fat, an.l all the best va-
F. 11. Lary; does not, buy or sell short weight packages of Fish. You do not want to buy salt at Fish
prices. CANNED COuDS, including California Choice Fruits, Evaporated and other Dried Fruits.
Green Fruits, Foreign aad Domestic. All kinds of choice TEAS, from 15 to 20 cents per quarter,
Good Sugar from 8 cents per pound to the best Maple .Sugar in bricks or granulated at 13 cents per
pound. SALT MEAT, FLOUR, NOTIONS, CONFECTIONS, WOOD and WILLOW-WARE, and
in .4tort, about e very thing to be loan , ' in a first-class Grocery and Provision Store, can be bought at
F. 11. LANE'S 'Josh and Exchange Store, near the Catholic church, on Washington street, Hunting
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Springfield Watches,
Hanipdeii, 'Pitches,
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GOLD AND SIL VER,
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SEASONABLE GOODS,
motif , Pent' street, Lai juA. opened a large assortment of
Choico and So:l==bl° Goals,
Which he is away down in price. His stock embracei
a icpresated. His terms are
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rie,ties and numbers known in the market. Also Large Roe and Lake
Barring, Cud Fish end shad in season.
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Gold & Plgtog Chills, Riggs, &c.
AGENT FOR TZE JUSTLY CELEBRATED
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n groat variety, has been :Idled to the elcgant stock
Palley Groceries at
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HUNTINGDON, PA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1880.
THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE--GARFIELD ARTHUR.
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JAMES A. GARFIELD,
The man who stands before the country
to day zis the eandida'e of the Republican
party for the Presidency LAs a remarkable
history. A little more than thirty years
ago no Othe who saw him as a boy driving
'on tl►e canal tow path, or as a laborer at
his carpenter's bent h, would have supposed
that in the nett• 2.Nieration be would rise
to the supreme distiaction that has just
been awarded hint. And yet every one
who knew hint in those early days ur hard
struggling and -persistent eelf•dcuial felt
that he bad in hint those elements of a
sturdy manhood that would lead to sure
success in the grand purpose that possessed
him to push beyond the ordinary walks of
life.
He came of plain New England stock.
His father, ABRAHAM GARFIELD, a direct
descendant of the stalwart Puritans, moved
some sixty years ago from New York to the
township of Orange, Cuyahoga county,
Ohio, (fifteen miles from Cleveland), where
JAMES was born on the 19th of November,
1831. Two years later his father died,
leaving a family of four children. His
mother, a woman cf unusual strength of
character, managed by her exertions to
keep the family tegether until the boys
were old enough to earn their own lit ing.
But the land was iwor, and it was Nardi
work to get more than a scanty subsistence.
Young GARFIELD'S life was one of mo
notonous toil. lie worked hard upon the
farm in summer, and at the carpenter's.
bench in winter. The best of it was that
he liked to work. There was not a lazy
bone in his body.
He had an absorbing ambition to get an
education, and the only road open to this
end seemed that of manual labor. Ready
money was bard to get in those days. The
Ohio Canal ran not far limn where he
lived, and finding that the boatmen got
their pay in cash, and earned better wages
than he could make at farming or carpen
try, he hired out as a driver on the tow
path, and soon got up to the dignity of
holding the helm of a boat. Then be de
termined to ship as a sailor on the lakes,
but an attack of fever and ague interfered
with his plans. lie was ill three months,
and when lie recovered he decided to go to
a school called Geauga Academy, iu an
adjoining county. His mother gave hint
a few dollars, some c:Joking utensils, and a
stock of piovisiond. Ha hired a small
room, and cooked his own food, to make
his expenses as light as possible. He paid
his own way after that, never calling on
his mother tbr any more assistance. By
working at the carpenter's bench mornings
and evenings and vacation times, and teach
ing country schools during the winter, he
managed to attend the academy during the
sprint; and fill terms, and to save a little
money toward going to college. He had
excellent health, a robust frame, and a cap
ital memory, and the attempt to combine
mental and physical work,'w hi eh has broken
down many farmer boys ambitious to get
an education, did not hurt him.
When be was twenty-three years old he
entered the Junior Class at Williams Col
leg.. Ile had saved about lAlf enough
money to pay the expenses of the course.
How to get the rest of the sum needed was
a problem. A kind-hearted gentleman,
many years his senior, who has ever since
becu one of his closest friends, loaned him
the amount. So scrupulous was the young
man about the payment of the debt that
he got his life insured, and placed the
policy in his creditor's hands. "If I live,"
he said, "I shall pay you; and if I die,
you will suffer no loss." The debt was re
paid soon after he graduated. Ile went to
Williams College in the fall of 1554, and,
as be had anticipated, passed the exami
nation for the Junior Class. Two years
later he graduated. and bore off the meta
physical honor. His classmates remember
well his prodigious industry as a student,
his physical activity in the college games,
and his cordial, hearty, Eoeial ways.
Before he went to college, young GAR
FIELD had been connected with the West
ern sect of "The Disciples," founded by
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, and whose pe
oil:1r tenets were, "no creed to express be
liefs," hospitality, fraternity, and good-will.
To a struggling college of this sect at
Hiram, Portage County, Ohio, ARFIELD
was caled as f. n instructor, and after two
years be became President. It has often
been said that he was at one time a min
ister. This is not true. The story had a
foundation, however, in the fact that he
used to speak in the churches of the de
nomination. The Disciples at that time
had no regular paid ministry. They sup
ported traveling elders, but the congrega
tions bad no pastors, and were usually ad
dressed by some one among the members
who bad a natural talent for pulpit oratory.
GARFIELD'S purpose was to be a lawyer,
and he bad not swerved from it at the time
he used to talk of religion and a future life
to the little congregations in the Disciples'
meeting-houses in Northern Ohio. He
studied law diligently all the while, and
was an ardent reader of general literature.
During his connection with the college
he was married to Miss LUCRETIA RU
DOLPII, the daurhter of a farmer. The
match was one of love, and brought to the
young man a mate of siagular sweetness
!and congeniality of disposition, whose in
fluence, example, and companionship - have
done much to shape his after success.
Iu 1859 his career as College President
became merged in that of civic officer, and
be was chosen State Senator, representing
the two counties of Portage and Summit.
Then came the stirrini , events of the war.
Senator GARFIELD had aiready been singled
out as a leader, and he entered the conflict
with all the enthusiasm of an ardent Re
publican, a lorer of the Union, and a hater
of slavery. Ills military career was full
of brave deeds and arduous set vice for his
country. He went into the war 23 Colonel
of' the Forty second Ohio Volunteers. lle
first smelled powder in Kentucky, where,
after a toilsome march, he routed the rebels
under HUMPHREY MARSHIALL. Then the
Colonel became a Brigadier General, and
took part in the battle of Pittsburgh Land
,ing and the siege of Corinth as Chief of
, Stall' of the Army of the Cumberland. In
the terrible battle of Chickamauga be had
a horse shot under him, and his orderly
was killed. Soon afterward, "for gallant and
meritorious services," he was promoted to
a Major Generalship.
Before the battle of Chickamauga, he
had been elected a Representative to the
Thirty-eighth Congress. Ile took his scat
in !December. 1863, and wvs as.igned
to the Committee on Military Affairs. Be
' stood by his party, and his party stood by
him, re electing, him suecesively to the
Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty
second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty
fifth, and Forty-sixth Congress. During
these several terms he ham served as the
Chairman of the Committee on Military
of the Committee on Banking and
Currency, and of the AppropriationsCom
mitt( e. This last chairmanship be held
until 1575, when the Democrats came into
power. Two years later, when JAMES G.
BLAINE went to the Sonata, General GAR
FIELD became by ce:mmon consent the Re•
.publican leader in the House—a position
which he has maintained ever since. In
January last he was elected to the Senate,
to fill the seat of ALLEN G. THURMAN,
who retires on the 4th of March next. He
received the unanimous vote of the Re
publican caucus for this position—an honor
never conferred before on any man by
any party in the State of Ohio.
In person General GARFIELD is six feet
high, broad shouldered, and strongly built.
He has an unusually large head that seems
to be three•fuurths forehead, light brown
hair and beard, now touched with gray,
large light blue eyes, a prominent nose, and
full cheeks. lie drlsses plainly, is fond of
broad brimmed blouch hats and stout boots,
eats heartily, cares nothing for luxurious
living, is a great reader of good books on
all subjects, is thoroughly temperate in all
respects save in that of brain work, and is
devoted to his wife and children. Among
men he is genial, approachable, companion
able, and a remarkably entertaining talker.
llis mind is a vast store house of facts,
reminiscences and anecdotes.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
The Republican candidate for the Vice-
Yresideney is a year older than the leader
of his ticket. He was born in Franklin
County, Vermont, on the sth of October,
1830, and is the oldest of a family of two
sons and five daughters. His father was
the Rev. Dr. WILLIAM ARTHUR, a Bap•
tist clergyman, who emig rated to this
country from the County Antrim, Ireland,
in his eighteenth year, and died in 1875,
in Newtonville, near Albany, after a lung
and successful ministry.
Younn. ' ARTHUR was educated at Union
College, Schenectady, where he excelled
in all his studies. After his graduation
he taught a country school in Vermont for
two years, and at the expiration of that
time came to New York, with $5OO in his
pocket. and entered the office of Ex-Judge
E. D. CULVER as a student. After being
admitted to the bar he formed a partner
ship with his intimate friend and room
mate HENRY D. GARDINER, with the in
tention of practicing in the West, and fbr
three months they roamed about in the
Western States in search of an eligible site,
but in the end returned to New York, where
they hung out their joint shingle, and en•
tered upon a successful career almost from
the start., General .ARTHUR soon afl - er•
ward married the daughter of Lieutenant
HERNDON, H. S. N., who was lost at sea.
Congress voted a g old medal to his widow
in recognition of te conspicuous bravery
he displayed on that occasion. Mrs. AR
THUR died only a short time ego, leaving
two children.
General ARTHUR obtained considerable
legal celebrity in his first great case, the
famous LEMMON suit, brought to recover
possession of eight slaves who had been de
clared free by Judge PAINE, of the Sn
perior Court of this city. It was in 1.852
that JONATHAN LEMMON, of Virginia,
came to New York with his slaves, intend
ing to ship them to Texas, when they were
discovered and freed. The Judge decided
that they could not be held by the owner
under the Fugitive Slave Law. A howl
of rage went up from the South, and the
Virginia Legislature authorized the At•
torney-General of that State to assist in
taking the appeal. WILLIAM M. EVARTS
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and CHESTER A. ARTHUR were employed
to represent the people, and they won their
case. which then went to the Supreme
Court of the United States. CHARLES
O'CoNott here espoused the cause of the
slave holders, but he too was beaten by
Messrs. EVARTS and ARTHUR, and a long
step was taken toward the emapcipation of
the black race.
Another great service was rendered by
General ARTHUR in the same cause in
1856. LIZZIE JENNINGS, a respectable
colored woman, was put off a Fourth Ave
nue car with violence, after she had paid
her fare. General RTHUR sued on her
behalf, and secured a verdict of $5OO
damages. The next day the company is
sued an order to permit colored persons to
ride on their cars, and the other car com
panies quickly followed their example.—
Before that the Sixth Avenue Company
ran a few special cars for colored persons,
and the other lines refused to let thun ride
at all.
General ARTHUR was a delegate to the
Convention at Saratoga that founded the
Republican party. Previous to the war
he was Judge-Advocate of the Second Bri•
gade of the State Militia, and Governor
MORGAN appointed him Engineer-in Chief
of his staff. In 1861 be was made In
spector-General, and soon afterward be
came Quartermaster General. In each of
these offices he rendered great service to
the government during the war. At the
end of Governor MORGAN'S term be re
sumed the practice of the law, forming a
partnership with Mr. RANsom and then
Mr. PHELPS, the District Attorney of New
York, was added to the firm. He now
stands at the head of the firm of ARTHUR,
PHELPS, KNEVALS & RANSOM. He al
ways took a leading part in State and city
politics. He was appointed Collector of
the Port of New York by President GRANT
November 21, 1872, to succeed THOMAS
MURPHY, holding the office until July 20,
1878, when he was succeeded by Collector
MERRITT. Since then he has devoted
his time to his law business, and to State
and national politics. He is a member of
the Union League Club, where he has
many warm and devoted ftiends, and in
person is tall, athletic, and handsome.
Jim Garfield's at the Front.
["General Garfield proceeded to the front."—
General Roeeerano' official report of the Battle of
Chickamauga.]
Once more the grand old fight is on, the fight we've
often fought,
And as we've done these twenty years, we'll bring
our foes to naught.
We won with Lincoln, Grant and Hayes, and in
this battle's brunt
We'll conquer to the rallying cry—Jim Garfield's
. at the front.
Cuones—Jim Garfield's at the front !
Jim Garfield s at the front!
'Twould be a sin to fail to win
With Garfield at the front.
He early learned to paddle well his own f rlorn
canoe ;
Upon Ohio's "grand canal" he held the helm
true,
And now the people shout to him : "Lo ! 'as for
you we wait—
We want to see Jim Garfield guide our glorious
6hip of State."
Cnonus—Jim Garfield's at the front!
Jim Garfield's at the front !
'Twonid be a sin to tail to win
With GArfield at the front.
He was a carpenter of yore, and to this day he
seems
To love to nail (old Bourbon lies) and hammer
(rebel schemes);
We'll wager, and the bet we know will go with
out a taker,
This carpenter, come ides of March, will be a cab
inet maker
CEIORES-Jim Garfield's at the front!
Jim Garfield's at the front!
'Twoald be a sin to fail to win
With Garfield at the front.
He taught the young ideas to shoot, and then the
plucky tutor
In war's grim school was taught to be another
sort of shooter ;
He braved, to aid the union's cause, full many a
battle's brunt,
And those who sought his whereabouts found Gar
field at the front.
CETORUS-Jim Garfiuld's at the front !
Jim Garfield's at the front !
'Twould be a sin to fail to win
With Garfield at the front.
When Uncle .93 in, November next, shall count the
ballots o'er,
One shout shall shake the continent, loud as the
ocean's roar :
"Once more the host Republican have borne the
battle's brunt,
Once more they've triumphed gloriously—with
Garfield at the front."
CHORUS-With Garfield at the front!
With Garfield at the front !
We're sure to gain this grand campaign
With Garfield at the front !
—Albany Journal.
GENERAL WOODFORD, of New York,
puts an effectual squelcher on the report
that he had expressed hostility to the nom
ination of General Arthur, and a doubt as
to the election of Garfield. He says he
believed the nomination of Arthur the
best that could have been made, and there
fore presented his name to the convention.
His opinion is that the ticket will grow
stronger as the canvass progresses, and
that it will be elected. He was heart and
soul for Grant, but like all of Grant's
friends, accepts the situation and will do
all he can to elect the ticket.
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The Value of Sunlight.
Whether your home be large or small,
give it light. There is no house SO likely to
be unhealthy as a dark and gloomy house.
In a dark and gloomyhouse you can never
see the dirt that pollutes it. Dirt accum
ulates on dirt, and the mind soon learns to
apologize for this condition because gloom
coneeals it. Flowers will not healthily
bloom in a dark house ; and flowers are, as
a rule, good indices. We put the flowers
in our windows that they may see the light.
Are not our children worth many flowers?
They are the choicest of flowers. Then
again, light is necessary in order that the
animal spirit may be kept refreshed and
invigorated. No one is truly happy who
in waking hours is in a glbotuy house Ur
room. The gloom of the prison has ever
been considered as a part of the pun; dt
went of the pri- , on. It is so. The mind
is saddened in a home that. is not flushed
with light, and when the mind is sTidened
the whole physical powers soon suffer ; the
heart be.:tsliuguidly,the blood flows slow
the breathing is impor feet, toe . oxidati.,ll
of the blood is reduced, and i he conditions
are laid for the development t.f many weari
sonic and unnecessary constitutional fdil
ures and sufferings Once again, light,
sunlight I mean, is of i k•elfuseful.to health
in a direct mannt..r Sunlight favors nu
trition ; sunlight ftvois nervous function ;
sunlight sustains, chemically or ph; sically,
the healthy state of the blood. Children
and other persons living in darkened places
become blanched or pale ; they have none
of the ruddy, healthy bloom of those who
live in light. Lately, by an architectural
perversity which is simply astounding, it
has become a fashion to build houses like
those which were built for our ancestors
about two centuries ago, and which were
called Queen Anne houses or mansions
Small windows, binall panes; overhanging
window-brows, sharp, long roofs enclosing
attics with small windows—these are the
residences to which I refer—dull red, dark
and gloomy. I ant told that their excel
lency lies in their artistic beauty, to which
many advantages that we sanitarians wish
for must necessarily be sacrificed. I would
be the last to oppose either the cultivation
of art in design or art in application, and
I do not for one moment believe that such
opposition is necessary. But these beetle
browed mansions are not so beautiful as
health, and never can be. lam bound to
protest against them on many sanitary
grounds, and not on so much as on their
interference with the work of the sun.—
They produce shade, and those who live in
them live in shade.
How Position Affects Sleep.
According to an English physician, Dr.
Granville, the position affects sleep. A
constrained posture generally prevents re
pose, while a comfortable one woos sleep.
He says : Lying flat on the back, with the
limbs relaxed, would seem to secure the
greatest amount of rest for the muscular
system. This is the position assumed in
the most exhausting diseases, and it is gen
erally hailed as a token of revival when a
patient voluntarily turns on the side; but
there are several disadvantages in the su
pine posture which impair or embarrass
sleep. Thus, in weakly states of the heart
and blood vessels, and certain morbid con
ditions of the brain, the blood seems to
gravitate to the back of the head, and to
produce troublesome dreams. In persona
who habitually, in their gait or work,
stoop, there is probably some distress con
sequent on straightening the spine. Those
who have contracted chests, especially per
sons who have had pleurisy and retain ad
hesions of the lungs, do not sleep well on
the back. Nearly all who are inclined to
snore do so when in that position, because
the soft palate and uvala hang on the
tongue, and that organ falls back so as to
partially close the top of the windpipe.—
It is better, therefore, to lie en the side,
and in the absence of special diseases, ren
dering it desirable to lie on the weak side,
so as to leave the healthy lung free to ex
pand, it is well to choose the right side,
because when the body is thus placed, the
food gravitates more easily out of the stow -
ach into the intestines, and the weight of
the liver does not compress the upper por
tion of the intestines. A glance at any
plate of the visceral anatomy will show how
this must be. Many persons are deaf in
one ear, and prefer to lie on a particular
side ; but, if possible, the right side should
be chosen. Again, sleeping with the arms
thrown over the head is to deprecated ;
but this position is often assumed during
sleep, because circulation is then free in
the extremities and the head and neck,
and the muscles of the chest are drawn up
and fixed by the shoulders, and thus the
expansion of the thorax is easy. The chief
objections to this position are that it cre
ates a tendency to cramp and cold in the
arms, and sometimes seems to cause head
aches during sleep and dreams. These
small matters often make or mar comfort
in sleeping.
Mothers as Doctors.
Practical mothers learn much by their
experience with the little bodies entrusted
to their care. Some of the common sense
facts in the physical culture of these little
ones known to the more experienced
mothers may not come amiss to those who
have had but little care of children. The
foundation must be well laid
. to insure
healthy and happy children. The child
must be well slept, well aired, well fed and
well bathed. By a thorough understand•
ing and practice of these four simple
rules, much of the physical, mental and
moral suffering in life would be avoided
by parent as well as child. If a healthy
child (and a delicate one proportionately)
is regularly put to bed about dark, in a
cquiet, well-ventilated or even cold room,
after a supper of plain food, it will natur
ally awake at daybreak, good natured,
with a keen appetite for a wholesome
breakfast. Nutritious, plain food, at reg
ular hours, with no candy or stimulants,
and free bathing, help the system to ward
off many prevalent children's ailments, and
to bear with much less danger the few that
must necessarily come to the majority of
little ones. The child that is just given a
little confectionery, or any unsuitable food,
then rocked to sleep, should cause no sur
prise at waking peevish and feverish. It
is simply the result of imaginary affection
and want of knowledge on the part of the
one in charge. It will certainly pay in
the end to search diligently for the cause
when a little child is proverbially cross.
PROFANITY in Texas is against the law,
$lOO worth each time. They think of en
forcing the law for a month and paying
the National debt.—New• York Graphic.
Scientific Miscellany.
A large prehistoric map of Bavaria is
being published.
It has been estimated that 100,000 miles
of underground chambers exist in the lime
stone of Kentucky.
The result of the great Derby race in
England was cabled from London to New
York in twenty five seconds.
Prof. Proctor states that he found the
interest in scientific progress much mare
general and appreciative in this country
than in England.
England has a new pest, the tipula grub,
which ultimately developes into "daddy
longlegs." It is very destructive to veg
etation, and its ravages have become quite
serious.
A submarine volcanic eruption was
lately observed near Corsica. It lasted
an hour, producing much agitation of the
sea, while the air became charged with
sulphurous raper.
At Paritnaribo, in 'Dutch Guiana. the
annual rainfall is 229 inches, or 19 feet ;
and south t.f Bombay, in the Western
1;-liauts at Maliabaleshwar, the annual fall
:',02 inches. - equivalent to a layer of water
23 feet in depth.
Scienti,os have of hue had a growing
clrivietion chat the dovelopetnent of para
sites upon the phylkxera will prove the
i ll s,st effective plan of destroying that and
similar instet pests. A parasite of the
phylksert hai now appeared in Sicily,
and its effect will be watched with interest
A rain of dust in the Basses Alpes du
ring five days of last April gave a reddish
tinge to the snow on the mountains to a
height of nearly 10,000 .feet, the snow
higher up remaining white. The dust is
supposed to have been terrestrial, although
not volcanic origin. Somewhat similar
showers fell in France in 1846 and 1863.
Among the elegant novelties of the hour
now etr>red for sale on the Paris boule
vards are phosphorescent flowers, which
glow with a lambent light in the dark,
and rival their natural tints. They are
rendered luminious by coating the petals
with transparent size and then dusting
them with some phosphorescent substance,
such as sulphide of calcium.
The animal king of the world is Hart
mann, of Berlin, from whose great gardens
come most of the wild beasts exhibited in
this country. Ilis collectors are mainly
young zoological students or trained hun
ters; and they secure for him the animals
of all countries—which afterward appear
in numerous "greatest shows on earth."
An ostrich, which had long been on ex
hibition in Rome, died the other day,
when an examination of the cintents of
its stomach revealed four large stones,
eleven smaller ones, seven nails, a necktie
pin, an envelope, thirteen copper coins,
fourteen beads, a French franc, two small
keys, a piece of a handkerchief, a silver
medal of the Pope, and the cross of an
Italian order.
From carefully studied records of the
occurrence of certain diseases in the past,
an English physician infers that epidemics
sweep over the country in quite regular
periods, the cycles being of about the fol
lowing length : whooping cough, four
years; small pox, four to five years ;peas
les, seven years; scarlet fever, fifteen to
twenty years.
ion old millstone, live and a half feet in
diameter and seven inches thick, with a .
central hole eleven inches in diameter, was
left in an English orchard many years ago.
In 1812 a filbert tree sprouted from the
earth at the bottom of the hole, and grad
ually increased in size from year to year
until, in 1868, it was found that the tree
had completely filled the hole and actually
lifted the stone from the ground, wearing
it as a girdle about its trunk.
A foreign medical journal reports that
hypodermic injections of philocarpine in
certain diseases of the eye had not only
the effect of curing the diseases, but of re
storing the hair on the heads of the pa
tients. One man, quite bald. was suffer
ing from double cataract. Three injec
tions of the philocarpine were performed
in fourteqn dab,. The membrane over the
pupil of the eye disappeared, and the head
first became covered with a thick down
and then with an abundant crop of hair.
A singular phenomenon was latOy
served at Kattenan. Germany. Just before
sunrise an enormous number of luminous
bodies rose from the horizon and passed
in a horizontal course from east to west.
Some of them seemed of the size of a wal
nut, while others resembled the sparks
flying from a chimney. They moved
through space like a string of beads, and
emitted a remarkably brilliant light. The
belt containing them appeared about ten
feet in length and two or three feet in
width.
According to the generally accepted
theory, what we call light is impression
produced upon the retina by the wave-like
motion of particles of matter. The lengths
of these undulations have been measured,
and it is shown that 36,918 waves of red
light, or 64,631 waves of violet light, placed
end to end, are required to make a single
inch. From the velocity of light it has
been proved that more than 450 millions
of millions of these minute waves flow into
the eye and dash against the retina in each
second of time.
Blacksmith's Hammer Signals.
When the blacksmith gives the anvil
quick light blows it is a signal to the helper
to use the sledge, or to strike quicker.
The force of the blows given by the
blacksmith's hammer indicates the force
of blow it is required to give the
sledge.
The blacksmith's helper is supposed to
strike the work in the middle of the width
of the anvil, and when this requires to be
varied the blacksmith indicates where the
sledge blows are to fall by touching the
required spot with his hand hammer.
If the sledge is required to have a later
al motion while descending, the blacksmith
indicates the same to the helper by deliv
ering hand hammer blows in which the
band hammer moves in the direction re
quired for the sledge to move.
If the blacksmith delivers a heavy blow
upon the work and an intermediate
light blow upon the anvil, it denotes that
heavy sledge blows are required.
If there are two or more helpers the
blacksmith strikes a blow between each
helper's sledge hammer blow. the object
being to merely denote where the sledge
blows are to fall.
When the blacksmith desires the sledge
hammer blows to cease, he lets the hand
hammer head flu unpon the anvil and
continues the rebound upon the same until
it ceases.
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