THE A/lONTROSE DEMOCRAT.
E. B. HAWLEY, Proprititar.
guoinros fads.
CHARLES N. STODDANID,
Owlet 11‘ Boots and Shoes. Bats and lAtipo loatlonrand
rodblga, Main Street, lit door below Boyd** MOM
- Wort matte to order, and repairing doze manly.
Masaroae, Jan. 1, 18:0.
LITTLER & IBLAILESLEE,
/Atone and Counsellan at Law. Odiee the Mit
isi ore occupied by 151. B. & O. P. Little, se Kids
_street. Montrose, Pa. (AMIN.
LITTLIL GLO. T. LITTLIL L L. lILLZI3II4i.
2. WelErnin. C. C. Fannie. W. R. WoCam
FAUBOT Sic CO.
j/ylata In Drill°Ode, Clothing, Wive and ■leap
iN•Bhoea. Mao, agents for the great Amarlesa
Tos sad Cadres Company. (Montrose, Pa.,810.1.311,
LEWIS KNOLL,
en.tvisa AND NAIR DRESSING
PoplD that new Posted!lee building, wheys he wilt
hiattosad ready to attend all who may went anything
*-11wilits tree. Montrose, P. Oct. rt. U.
P. REYNOLDS,
ArCTlONEEß—Sellsflev Gond., end Merehanlze—afts
etteeds at V endue. AL olden left mrt my boas* will
receive peumpt smut ion. (Oct 1, 1669-4
0. M. IIAWLEY,
DEALER In DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCWtT.
Hardwase, Este, Caps, Roots.Sboca, Ready Made Ckel6.
tat, Palate, Ma, etc., New Milford, Pa. [Sept- 11,
DR. S. W. DAXTON,
191YSICIAN & SURGEON, traders Ids vendee@ t.
the eitLtens of Greet Bend and vicinity. OfSeoul btu
reeidence. op poetic Barnum [louse, frt. Send
Sept. let, i&M.—tr
LAW OFFICE.
CSABIBISRLIN S liit-COLLI'M, Attorn.” arid Cow
pollen at. L. Oftec in tn. Brick Mork emu
Mack. [Montroaa Aug. 4.1461.
Coamazaw. . .1. B. McCown!.
A. & D. R. LATHROP.
DEALERS in Dry Goods, Groceries,
meter: and clannware, table and pocket ninthly.
on•. dye stuff, m.t•, b..ot. and nboon, 0•40
leather. Perforna-ry dr. Brick Mork. adj.latut the
Sank, Montrone. An;ln.t 11. MEM.—lt
A. taiiiguer
A. O. WARREN,
ATTORICES A . LAW bounty, tack Pay. lbasitam,
sad !teem cn Claims attended to. °Mee Sr
ow below Boyd'a Store; Moot/wee LAO. 1.
W. W. WATSON,
ATTORNEY lIT LA W, lanntrnee, F. Office Irltb L.
I. Pita, ttoutro., Aug. ,1,
M. C. SUTTON,
Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent,
ant fit[ Friendsvale.
C. S. GILBERT, ,
.01.1.a.cticoxi.eor.
Great EMMA. Pa.
XT. 191.
sligl Ggif
41111 EL V,
Q. MB. ..9.l3.4oltlcozacriesr.
/Lag. 1. 1149. Add.esa, Broaklre, PS
JOHN GROIS,
PIatIONATII.I3 TAI: 3R, Itolltie..e. A. gimp 0141.
ekandlaea Store. A*. order. 1111 rd 1a firet-113.1111108 , .
t toting 4olac on short notice. and warranted is In.
W. W. SMITH,
C tHINET AND CHAIR MANUFACTIMEDS.-1/••
la Mats strmt, Moutrox, Pa. jaog. 1. 161111.
U. BUUTUTT,
HILS-LIM to Staple aud Fame) Dry Good►, CrawlMO.
Hardware, /Ma, Stoves. Drd Ey. 011o.aad Patata.
a.R►and Shuts. Dm! & tap.. For►, Buffalo Rabe,
Oreerriee.Proeleluna, c New Milford. Pa.
DR. L. P. REIMS,
Qu srcrinatently lorAord •t ?I-tendert Ile for He ;nu
pose. of practicing medicine and earP,ery In 111 Its
nratnanes. Lie may be found et tbe Jackson IloaSs.
Ofille• Ironer from a■. m., to S p.
triettdavllle, Pa., Aug. L. IWO
STROUD & ItUOWN,
vat AND LIP& EI 47, :LAN(' IR AC EMIL AC
bantam. attended to prompt D. on fate tenant. 014im
Inn door north of Montrone llotel," grad old* db.
rtiOlic Avenue. Montrose, Fs. [An. I, AGA.
Idata.ena• F--rnot - o. - - Ctu.surs 4 MUM,
WYL D. LILI4IIi,
►TTORNET AT LAW. Montrose. Pa. Other amps.
the Twill.ll lioaee, near the Court llosas.
►au. 1. 13[9.—tf
DU. W. W. snrrn,
DINTIAT. Room* ovre Floyd & Corwin', Hard
wan Store. 0111 re bourn from', a. mt. to 4 p.m.
Nostromr, Aug. 1, 110:9.—tf
ABEL TERRELL,
D CAL= In Drnea, Patent Medici/M., etteantelda
LbgaamL, Paints, UW,Uye nado. Varnishes, Win In
Masa. Groom-len, Glary Ware, Wall and Wiodow
Stese-care, Lumps. Kerosene, Palarbinery Ulla.
Tynaaaa. Gana, Aenaloottion. Enke*. apectaebts
Drusbea, Fancy Goods, Jewelry. Peen re.
being lone of the most numerous, • atenalve. and
valuable eollection• of Goode in Setoonebson• Co.—
istabliabed in IMS. [Montrone, Pa.
D. W. SE.%ItLE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW. office aver the Prot? of A.
Lathrop, to the. Brick Block. Montrose, Pa. [gall,
DU. W. 4 111CIIARDS011,
raTinciaN a lititGEON, tenders hi• professional
services to the citizens of IS onto:me and vicinity.—
Office at his residence, on the corner east of Sam •
Ursa. Foundry. [Aug. 1. 1601.
DR. E. L. GARDNER.,
IPSTNICIAN .ad SURGEON. !denim/49. Pa. Grail ,
..rectal attent ton to Atoosoos of the Ilart sad
Lataga.aad all Sum dleraers. Office over W. W.
Dasa.s Board* at Scarlet, Dotal. [Actg. I. IBM
BURNS Arc NICHOLS,
ARS in Drags, Medicines. Chemicals. D
.Sn., Painta, Oils, Varnish. Liquors. Spices. Vase
sr. set. Patent bledlcinre. Performer, and Tadiat•S
tkier. Preseri.pcion. .rein tly compounded--
Panlie Avenue, above satiric's Ilutel. Illontrows.
•. 6. Roane, AIMS Manna.
Alig. 1, lane.
DR.. E. L. HANDIZICIS,
IrIITRICIAN & SURGEON. respectfully readers I
professional services to the eitizeo of Trissodsoftle
and vicinity. EHrOffiee incise owes of Dr. Loin
Iloords at J. Hosford's. Aus.l.llo.
PROF. NIORUES,
ThaiWU Barber. retort.. Ma thanks for Ow blodpets
17:7T1 that has enabl.llll him to get the bebestrest—bai t
haetit time to tell the whole story. bat wows
aid awe for votirseres fat the Old Bland. Bo kali
laathiag idlowed In the shop. (Aril 12. WM
EVITXT BROTHERS,
SCRANTON. PA.
Wholesale & Retail Deaests
HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL,
NAILS, SPIKES, SHOVELS,
BUILDER'S HARDWARE,
110 Z 1111,COUN MENNE e BAJLipzisa
RAILBOAD MLNIIIO ADPALILL •
cAillAos SEEING& AXLES.. SKEWS AND'
00188. B OLTS, Errs and WABBW.
PLAITED BANDS. MALLBADIJII
IRONS. EVES. SPOKES.
IIFELLotre. SEAT SPINDLES. BOWS 1, .
AEEKI",--VICES; STOCKS sad -IMEHOSWHEIHM'
HAMMERS. SLEDGES. FMCS. Heat"-
CMCIGMILLSAWS, BMW% PACKING
MC
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IPAIEDAWEIS SCALES.
festuton. March SC /NM 17
Mean liteese si Wass When He's
Demi.
Oh 1 don't strike • man when be's.down,
No, duet strike amen when he's down:
But tend biro a band,
Andpelp him to stand.
Oh, ;in him • thence.
Be kindly your glance,
Qb, don't cut him oft' with • frown ;
For which of as know,
In the race here below,
How soon a hard blow
Kay lay us as low—
Oh, don't strike a man when he's down.
Oh, don't mike a man when he's down,
No, don't strike a man when he's down ;
Dpn't stop to deride,
Tosdoldor to chide,
But Imp to his side,
His Ceiling heart guide—
Oh, don't let a sinking man drown ;
For who here can tell
How soon the rode swell
Of the tide may destroy
AU his wealth and his Joy,
And be ends himself sinking right down
Oh, do'nt strike a man when he's down,
No, don't strikers mum when he down.
Par better be kind,
Anttry bard to And
Some chord that will hind
Him yet to his kind,
Raise hopes that have been so cast down.
A smile in your eye
Will match his deep sigh,
The grasp of your hand
Hie heart will expand,
And lift up a man when he's down.
Oh, don't strike • man when he's dawn,
No, don't 'Unite • man when be's down ;
No matter U.
Don't tarry nor halt.
Nor send him Mrift,
But glee him • lift.
Ris blearing your efforts will mown ;
The not of " our set,"
Nor" resixtetable," yet
We must not forget
We are all in debt.
SO help a man up when beg down.
D. A. LAuisar
Oh, don't strike a man when hes down,
No, dual strike • man when be. down ;
The morrow's away
Prom you today,
To-MOITOW It may
He thrown in your way,
So don% steno • an *ten he &eat ;
Let toadies pass by 1 ,
With sneers to hie eye ;
Let bigness be othete'd,
But the. Gemedien be (1-41,
T weal dente a man when be'. Arm-.
—An erring Indiana hen was recently
found in the back part of a hardware
store, where the misguided fowl had
struggled fur three weeks, trying to batch
out half a dozen white porcelain door
knobs. She:was much reduced.
—There will be much rejoicing among
husbands. All the Paris fashions have
been suspended.
—A witness in the box, questioned by
a lawyer es to the general n•pntntion of
another witness, was asked whether the
individual was not a notorious liar.—
" Why," said he, " not exactly that ; but
he is what I call an intermittent liar."
—A gentleman who has unfortunately
broken his word, is noxious to procure
some cement, that trill repair it. The same
composition with which people mend
their manner will possibly answer.
—There is a new song called " Father
will settle the bill" Miss Jones consid
ers it a fine composition, knit her papa
can't see it, and Miss Jones says it is be
cause he's so awful deaf.
—A wonkl-be wit asked his uncle if
the tolling of a bell did not remind him
of hisapproaching end, No, sir," he re
plied, " but the rope pats me in mind of
yours.
" I ain't a going to Ike long, mother,"
said a wo-begone youngster one day to his
maternal parent. " Why not, pray ?"
" Because my pantaloons is all toned out
behind," was the answer.
—An honest lady in the country, when
told of her husband's death, exclaimed—
" Well, I do declare, our troubles never
come alone! It ain't a week since I lost
my brit hen, and now Mr. Hooper is gone
too, poor man !"
--Old Mrs. Pipkins was reading the for
eign news by a late arrival. " Cotton is
declining," exclaimed the old lads. "Well
I thought as much—the last thread I used
was remarkably feeble."
—A wealthy Boston gentleman sent a
quantity of money to General Spinner,
with instructions to place it on interest
until the accumulated amount would pay
the national debt. As he only sent ten
cents, it may be some days before the
debt is paid.
—A man who had purchased a pair of
new shoes, finding the road to he's:Aber
a rough one, concluded to put, the shoes
under his arm, and walk butiii barefoot.
After a while he stubbed hie big toe, tak
ing the nail off clean as o whistle.. "How lucky," he exclaimed, " what's tremend
ous lick that would hase,heen for the
sham"
—.A piing Who, who had violated hie
obligations il/P a member of the Lodge of
Good Tempbm‘ at Oasego.ty apring
at the meeting with a bottle of wkey,
adding insult to injury by expelling bye
brother from the roonfiwith s ebb. He
had too touch muscle.
—Two certificates of death in the ffedi
Finutciaeo coroner'. office read; "Ded
front rupture of the bed," and " Snfterca
ted by eating poison,'
—A bridge at Denver, Cal, sports this
ingice : 41 No vehicle di Wit ktediiirie
ems aniastitilialki*Orto Mosetbtebridge:
is oppeaitsdirections at The ume time,"
gm's forum
EIRE VITIEO
.fai)NTROSE, PA., WEDNINDAY DEC. 21, 1870.
Wier Winona.
THE GREAT BEOW LIRE.
At the late meeting of the Chicago
Academe of Sciences, the Bev. Mr. Mil
ner, of Canada, presented the following
paper on the Great Snow Line:
The daily advance of the sun is 18
miles. Should a man start from the
Tropic of Cancer at the winter solstice,
and walk 18 mites a day northward for
six months, his shadow would remain
nearly the same each day . at noon. Where
there are no obstructions, the advance
and retreat of the seasons will be pretty
uniformly 18 miles a day. But as there
tire so many obstructions producing cli
mactic changes in the same latitude, this
is only a rude approximation to the gen
eral result. In some eases the march will
not average over 9 or 10 miles a day; in
others it will be as high as 25. Mountain
ranges greatly modify the rate of the ad
vance and retreat of the seasons. We
will, however, not further. Aotice these,.
as they are only local and exceptional.
The great snow line is the most potent
of all the causes that disturb the regnlari- t
ty in the march of the seasons. Even in ;
the high north the early snows are about I
on the same level as in more southern
latitudes, but before the first of December
all the lakes are frozen, and much of the
Aarctic seas. also, so that no vapor can
reach those latitudes unless wafted from!
fur to the south ; but all the vapor thus
brought from the south in mid-winter is
condensed, and falls before it reaches 50
degrees north. The deepest snow line
will be in 47 and 48 degrees, gradually
diminishing south or north.
In the winter of 1856 I resided in 54
deg. 30 min. north, or about 300 miles
north of Red River, which is in 50 deg.
The packet men carrying the mail met at
that place from Red River and York
Factory in 57 deg. I asked the Indiana
from the south, "flow deep is the show
in Red River ?" They measured on their
persons about four feet. I asked those
from the north the same question, ahcL
they measured on their legs about 14
inches.
This great snow lino will be found in
the northwestern parts of New Bruns
wick and Maine, near Quebec, and from
thence along the north shore of Lake
Superior, northern Minnesota and Red
River, and so westward ; but from that
point 'diverging gradually north ward with
the isothermal line. the maximum of
this deep snow line is about seven feet.
It will vary with the seasons and the
region, being greatest where there are
the greatest snow-falls, and less in propor
tion.
The sun coming up from the south en
counters this snow line in March and
April. The advancing seasons begin to
reel it 203111 an deg. myna, unu Irma vras
to 45 deg. The seasons fluctuate, drug
and hang, now cold, now warm. The
seasons will open 50 days sooner in
Cincinnati than in Montreal ; but for
this great snow line there would be only
27 days difference. But when it has sur
mounted this barrier it makes long strides
northward, because there is little snow
there, and bemuse the days are so long in
May and later that the nights do not al
low the vapor time to cool, and the Arctic
regions being lit up and comparatively
warm, that is no more a cold-producing
region. As nearly as I could ascertain,
when once past this snow line the season
advances about 35 miles a day all the wuy
to the pole. I gathered this rapid rate of
advance from learning the time the geese
and ducks arrive at the different regions
of the north.
There is, hen, the return of the seasons
in the fall which makes no stay. but makes
lic
a regular ranee of about le miles a
day. In the fall of 1854; living, a Nor
way House in the Hudson Bay territory,
in the latter part of October, the over
land expedition in search of Sir John
Franklin arrived at that place. They
left the Arctic regions about the 24th
of August, the snow line being already
down to the level of the ecean. Their
winter supplies were far away ; some of
I them had families at home, and there
were comfortable winter quarters there
for all. Said the leaders of the expedi
tion, Stewart and Anderson, to their men,
"If you will take us home this fall, you
shad . have your whole year's wages."
With this stimulant to urge them on
from early dawn to nightfall the light
hark canoes were made to plow rapidly
throught the waters. The current was
against them, and there were portages to
prise, and their course was zigzag through
lakes and np and down the rivers. The
geese and ducks had already passed over
to the south, and there was no ice on the
waters when they started. For a few days
they had fine weather, and caught up'
with the geese and ducks. Then came a
storm of snow and sleet, driving the
ducks and geese south as before, and so
the race continued until the latter part of
October, when the expedition arrived at
Norway House. In a day or two there
was another storm which froze us in for
the winter, but the part of the expedition
that passed on to Red River had the open
lake (Winnepeg) before them, and could
easily keep in advance of the cold. Their
course from the Arctic regions was so 1
roundabout and zigzag that they could
notanake more than eighteen miles a day
due south. -
I lived in Kansas seven years, and, con
trasting the seasons there with my native
place in 44 deg. 30 min., noticed that
the spring opened about six weeks sooner,
but that the warm weather in the till was
not prolonged. more than four weeks
longer. Op the return of the cold in the
fall there is clothing to obstruct its ad
vance, as there as with the warm weath
er in the spring. The great snow line
retards the Seasons for Some degrees south
of it for about two weeks.
This middle region, from 88 deg. to 80
deg., is the region of sudden changes and
fluctuations. It is in this region there is
but little win
e/veal:nage in a state of
nature. North of this great snow line,
where the anowcare comparatively light,
and. 'ahem the winter, coming on sadden -
jy, treeackup at the gears while green,
And winter, there is more
or lanpaaturage (or mush animals as mu
endure cold, and can paw or dig under
the snow. As there are no thaws itt the
winter, there is no emit on the snow.
The horse paws but the buffalo knocks
the snow aside with his enormous bend.
LlEherds of hones are raised on the
tehawan, in north latitude 55 deg,
and are newt fed in the winter. Large
herds of buffalo also winter on the &Ault
chawan an 4 the upper branches of the
Mackenzie river. Between this region of
light snowsand unvarying cold in winter
and 38 deg. there is a broad belt of, say,
12 degrees of latitude where the grass is
so scorched and bleached by alternate
freezing and thawing as to unfit for re
liable winter pasture. We only find win
ter pasturing again when we get so far
south as to go beyond severe freezing.
The Josh 1310 Jugs Paper.
The Cat awl the liCanameoe.
-.--.
The cat is called a domestik animile,
but I never hay yet:bin able tew tell
wherefore.
You kant trust one enny more than
you kan a case of the goat. There iz
only one mortal' that you kan trust a
cat with, and cu l l ont even, and that iz
a bar of hard so .
They are as meek az amiss, but as full
of deviltry as Judas Iscaratt.
They will harvest a dozen ov young
chickens for you, and then steal into the
sitting room, as softly as an undertaker,
and lay themselfs down on the rug, at
pure feet, full ov injured innocence and
chicken, and dream of their childhood
days.
Alt there is abottt a cat, that is domes
tik, that I kno ov, is that yn kant loose
One.
You kart loose a eat—they: are as
bard to loose as a- bat reputation.
You may send one out tor the State,
dun up in a meal bag , and marked "C.
0. D., ' and the nest 'nothing you will
find him, or her, (according tew ces,) in
the same old spot, alongsideov the kitch
en story teddy to'be stepped on.
Cats hay got two good ears for melody,
and often make the night atmosphearme
lodions with their opera musk
But the most wonderful thing about a
cat that has been diskovered yet is their
fear ov death.
Yu.kant induce ono by entry ordinary
means to accept or death—they
aktooally ekorn tew die.
Yu may kill one as much as yon bar a
mind to, and they will begin life anew
in a few minutes, with a more flattering
prospektua.
Dogs I love, they carry their cridcn
tials in their faces, and knot hide them,
but the bulk of a cat's reputation lays
buried in their strumuk, as unknown tew
themselfs as tew enny boddy else.
Thare is only one thing about a cat
taat I qua -.1.-••• a. t h ey ~„„
y e "
cheap---tt lit tle money, well iaveEell, wi
go a grate ways in cuts.
Cats are plenty in this world just now
I counted 18 from my boardinghouse
window one moonlite nite last summer,
and it wasn't a fustrate nite for cats
neither.
The kangaroo is an overgrown monkey.
They are fello-citizens ov Aftllca, and
spend most ov their leszure momenta on
foot. They have four legs, but their fore
legs ain't ov much use to them; they do
malt ov their aktual bizuess with their
hind legs. They travel a good deal az a
frog dnz—on the jump.
Kangaroos are very nsluab/e in their
place, and Afrika is the place for them.
I have thought if the whole of Afrika
had been planted with kangaroos, and
none ov it with other .people, it would
have been full as good •a crop to know
what to do with.
Kangaroos list von., ronts, gras and
herbs; and kan ouipmto anything in the
wilderness. In the face they resemble
the deer, but in the length of their tails
they resemble a whole herd of deer.
A kangaroo's tail iz, a living kuriosity.
In its general habits it looks and akts
like a rat's tail, but in size you must
multiply it by six thousand and up
wards. •
What on arth a kangaroo wants so
much tail for haz bothered the philoso
phers fur ages, and I understand that
lately, at one ov their seientillek meet
ings, they hay gis it up.
The philosophers git beat oftener than
anybody I know ov, but they seldom giy
a thing up; but the kangaroo's tail waz
too mutch for them.
But a kangeroo's tail don't bother me
any more than a kite's duz; a bob-tailed
kangaroo on the jump would act just like
a bob-tail kite duz in the air. Whenever
I cum acrost anythieg in natur than I
kno at once that it iz all right, fur natur
never made envy blunders in the animals;
if she has failed enny where, it is in man.
Natur gave man reason, and showed
him how to use it, but man love to open
the throttle-valve and let reason hum.
This accounts for his running oph from
the track so often and gitting bust up.
I never kon a kangaroo to boat up.
Mirk Tondo's Advice to Litile;Ghte.
Good little girls ought not to make
mouths at their teachers for every trilling
offence. This retaliation should only be
resorted to under peculiarly aggravated
circumstances.
If you have nothing' but a rag doll
stuffed with saw dust, while one of your
more fortunate little playmates has a
costly china one, you should treat her
with a show of kindness nevertheless.
And you ought not to attempt to make
a forcible swap with her unless your
conscience vapid justify pm in it and
you know yod are Olefo dolt.
You ought never. to take your little
brother's chewing gum" away from him
by main force ; it is better to rope him in
with the promise of the first two dollars
and a half you find Resting down the
riv e r on a grindstone. In the artless
simplicity natural to his time of I* b e
will regard it as a perfectly fair transac
tion. In all ages of the world this emi
nentty plausible fiction has lured the ob
tuse infant to financial rain and. disas
ter..
If any time you find it news/try - to
correct your brother, do not correct him
with mud—rietror on any semiunt throw
mud at him, because it will soil his cloth
e& It is better to scald him a little; for
then you attain desirable results—you
secure his immediate attention to the
lessons you are inculcating, and at the
same time your hot water will hare a
tendency to remote impurities from his
person—and possibly the skin also, in
Vote.
If your mother tells you to do a thing,
it is wrong to reply that you wont. It
is better and more becoming to intimate
that you will do as she bids you, and
then afterwards act 9nietly in the mat
ter according to the dictates of your bet
ter judgment.
You should ever bear in mind that it
is to your kind parents that you are in
debted for your food and nice bed, and
for your beautiful clothes, and for the
privilege of staying home from school
when you let on you are sick. Therefore
you ought to respect their little prejudic
es and humor their little whims, and put
up with their foibles until they get to
crowding you too much.
Good little girls always show marked
deference for the aged. You ought never
to "sass" old people unless they "sass"
you first.
troettill Hints.
WHITENING FLANNEL.—It i 8 said that
flannel, which has become yellow by age,
may be restored to its original whiteness
by the use of a solution of one and a
half pounds of white" Marseilles soap in
fifty pounds of soft river water, to which
is added two-thirds of an ounce of spirit
of salammonic, and the whole thorough
ly mixed. The flannel is to be emersed
in this solution and well stirred around,
and afterwards washed off in pure water.
The same result may also, it is said, be
obtained still more quickly by emersing
the flannel for an hour in a dilute solu
tion of acid sulphate of soda, and then
stirring in dilute hydrochloric acid, in the
proportion of one part of acid to fifty of
water. The vessel is then to be covered
over and allowed to remain for a quarter
of an hoar, when the articles are to be
removed and thoroughly washed.
—The. Meat preserving business at
Melbourne, Australia, it is said, is very
successful, several factories being in opera
tion, and the demand for canned meats
having rapidly increased both in England
and Australia. During the last six
months of 1889, the Melbourn Meat
Preserving Company put up 160,752
sheep and 680 bead of cattle, the former
costing 8291,585 end the latter 818,490.
The wages amounted to 8421,065 and the
profits are estimated at 8.55,000. At first
the meat arrived in England in a condi
tion unfit for food, but two years' ex
perience has instructed the manufacturers
so that the business has become profita
ble. This branch, it is reported, has
kept up the pnce of sneep cnat toe
contemplated abandonment of the stock
raising farms has been paevented. Sheep
in Australia are selling at $1,74 per head,
and one company at Melbourne has in
creased its consumption to 600 sheep a
week.
AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.-Dr.
Rhichardson recently delivered the con
cluding lecture of his course on Experi
mental Medicine for the session of 1869--
70. It was remarkable for a very curious
experiment, which appears to, show
that there is D direct and almost
immediate passage of substances in the
gaseous form through all the tissues of
the body, and especially through the coats
of veins. Dr. Richardson introduced a
line tube through the nostril of a rabbit
into the cranial cavity. Air, or carbonic
acid gas, pumped through this tube,
instantly made its apperance in the
right cavities of the heart. The car
bonic acid darkened the blood and stop
ped the systolic action. Atmospheric
air rendered the blood on the right side
arterial and restored the systole. At some
future time Dr. Richardson promises to
announce the results to which he may be
led by following out this line of inquiry..
—Lancet.
To KEEP A BOQUET A Morrn.—When
you wish to preserve a boquet sprinkle it
with fresh water, then put it into a vessel
containing soap-suds; take the boquet
out of the suds every morning and lay it
sideways into the clean water. Keep it
there a minute or two, then take it out
and sprinkle the flowers lightly with
water; replace it in the soap-suds and it
will bloom as fresh as when first gathered;
the soap-suds needs changing every three
or four days. By observing these rules
a boquet may be kept bright aud beauti
ful for at least a month.— Ex.
A Remarkable Discovery.
By many it has been held as a theory
that the Yuma desert was once an mean
bed. At intervals pools of salt water
have stood for a while in the midst of
the surrounding waste of sand, disappear
ing only to rise again in the some or
other localities. A short time since one
of these saline lakes disappeared, and a
party of Indians repnrted the discovery
of a "big ship" left by the receding wa
ters. A party of Americans at once pro
ceeded to the spot and found imbedded
in the sands the wreck of a largo vessel.
Nearly one-third of the forward part of
ship or bark is plainly visible. The
stump of the bow-spot remains, and
portions of the timbers of teak are perfect.
The wreck is located forty miles north of
the San Bernardine and Fort Yuma mad,
and thirty miles west of Los Palmos, a
well known watering place on the desert.
The road across tbedesert has been travel
ed for more than one hundred years.
Tao history of the ill-fated vessel can of
course never be known, but the discovery
of its decaying timbers, in the midst of
what has long been a desert, will furnish
mans with food for discussion, and msy
perhaps furnish important aid in the
elucidation of questions of- science.
_
—An Engliatt wnter raye American
early potato will loon die out, for as each
neat variety is claimed to ripen ten days
brfore any other, the time between plant
ing and di ggi ng will soon be used up.
—ltypo. shwa live with tbose who are
lame, you will learn, yourself to limp.
Applying tor a School.,
A gentleman from Bwampville was tell
ing how many different occupations he
bud attempted. Among others he had
tried school teaching.
" How long did you teach ?" asked a
bystander.
" \Val, I didn't- teach long ; that is I on
ly went to teach."
" Did you hire out ?"
Wal, I didn't hire out; I only trent to
hire out."
" Why did you give it up?"
" Wal, I give it up for some reasons or
nnther. lon see, I traveled into a dees
, trict and inquired for the trustees. Some
! body said Mr. Snickles was the man I
, wanted to see. So 1 found Mr. Suickles
—named my object, introducing myself—
! and asked him what be thought &bout let
tin' me try my luck with the big boys
and unruly gals in the deestrict. lie
wonted to kwow if I real y ootutitkrod my
self capable;
and I told him I wouldn't
mind his askingin ,, me a few easy questions
in 'rithmetic and jography, or show my
hand-writing. lie said no, never mind,
he could tell a good teacher by his gait.
" Let me see you walk off a little ways,"
said he, "and I can tell jis's well's I'd
heard you examined," said he. He sot in
the door as be spoke, and I thought he
looked a little skittish ; hut I was consid%
ruble frustrated, and walked on as smart
as I knowed how. 'He said he'd tell me
when to stop, so I kep on till I thought
I'd gone far enough—then s'spected
?thing was to pay, and looked round.
We?, the door teas she', and, Sn;ckira
was gone.
"Did you go back."
"Wal, no—l didn't go back."
"Did you apply fur another school ?"
" Wal, no—l didn't apply fur another
school," said the gentleman from Swamp
title. "I rather Judged my appearance
was against me."—Nete York
Outoitted by a Negro.
An enterprising business man of Itart
ford runs two branches of trade, to wit:
A grocery and fish market. The gro
cery himself, the fish market by a deputy,
and ever night the latter makes returns
of the proceeds of the day's business to
the proprietor. A day or two since, the
grocer found in his fish market returns a
^ounterfiet five-dollar bill. lie didn't
like to lose it, and he didn't quite want
to to take the chances of trying to pass it.
So he called an old darkey who was bung
ing about the premises and said to him :
;.Sam, here's a live dollar bill that's a
little doubtful If you'll take it and pass
it, I'll give you a dollar of the change."
" Very welt': said Sam, and he took the
bill and went off. Later in the day he
returned, having accomplished the feat,
and handed over four dollars in good
moiler to
the grocer.
That night grocer, i n counting the cash
return from his fish market, was more
surprised than delighted to find the iden
tical five in the pile.
" Look here," said he sharply to his fish
maricet clerk, " here's a countertiet bill—
who'd ye take it of? didn't you know
'twas bad ?"
The Clerk took it and looked at it a
moment
" Oh—yes," said lie, I remember now ;
I took it of Sam, the darks. I thought
it was a little doubtful, and wasn't going
to take it, but he said he got it of you, so
I thought it was all right."
Further explanation was unnecessary.
Slurs on Women.
Ata recent dinner in New York, at
which no ladies were present, a man, in
responding to the toast, " Woman," dwelt
almost solely on the fruility of the sex,
claiming that the best among them were
little better than the worst, the chief dif
ference icing in their surroundings.
At the conclusion of the speech, a gen
tleman present rose to his feet and said:
"I trust the gentleman in the applica
tion of his remarks, refers to his own moth
er and sisters, not ours."—
The effect of this most just and timely
rebuke was overwhelming; and the ma
ligner of woman was convered with con
fusion and shame.
This incident serves an excellent pur
pose in prefacing a few words on the sub
pct.
Of all the evils prevalent among men,
we know of none more blighting in its
moral effect than the tendency to speak
slightly of the virtue of women. Nor is
there anything in which young men are
so thoroughly mistaken as in the low es
timate they form of the integrity of wo
man—not of their own mothers and sis
ters, thank God, but of others, who, they
forget, are somebody else's mother and sin
ter.
Plain words should be spoken on this
point, for the evils is a general one, deep
rooted. If young men are sometimes
thrown into the society of thoughtless or
even lewd women, they have no more
right to measure all other women, by
what they see of these than they would
have to estimate the character of honest
and respectable citizens by the develop.
ments of crime in our Police Courts.
Let young men remember that their
chief happiness in life depends upon their
faith in women. No worldly wisdom, no
misanthrope philosophy, no generaliza
tion van cover or weaken this fundamen
tal truth. It stands like the record of
God himself—for it is nothing less than
this—and should pot and everlasting seal
upon lips that ars wont to speak alighily
of women.
Causes s of Sudden Deaths.
Very few of the sudden deaths which
are said to arise from " disease of the
heart" do really arise from that cause. I
To ascertain the reel origin of sudden
deaths, experiments hare been tried in
Europe,. and reported to a scientific con
gress LießtArtt, Strasbourg. Sixty-six cases
of sudden-death were made the subject of
a thorough post-mortem examination ,- in
these cases only two were found who had
died from disease of the heart. Nine out
of the sixty-six had died frota spoplaxy,
while there were forty-aix cases of con
gestion of the lungs—that is the lungs
were so full of blood they could wet wort,
VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 51.
there: not being room enough for a suffi
cient quantity of air to enter . to support
life. The causes that produce congestion
of the lungs--cold feet, tight clothing,
costive bowels, sitting still chilled after
being warmed with labor or a rapid walk,
going too suddenly from a close heated
room into the cold air, especially after
speaking, and sudden depressing news op
erating on the blood. The causes of sud
den death being known an avoidance of
them may serve to lengthen many valua
ble lives, which would otherwise be lost
under the verdict of "heart complaint.'
That disease iil supposed to be inevitable,
incurable ; hence many may not take the
pains they would to avoid sadden death,
if they knew it lay in their power.
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The Way To Blanket Horsey.
But few persons comparatively under
stand how to apply a_ lanket to a bone
to prevent him from contracting a eolltL
; We frequently see the blanket folded
double and across the rump and part .of
the animal's back, leaving those parts of
the body which need protection entirely
exposedto the cold.
Those parts of the body of a horse
which surround the lungs require the
benefit of a blanket in preference to its
flanks and rump. When we are exposed
to a current of cold air, to guard against
an injury from contracting cold, we shield
our shoulders, neck, chest and back. If
these parte be protected, the lower part of
the body will endure a degrets of cold fir
more intense, without any injury to the
body, than if the longs were not kept
with suitable covering. The same thing
holds good in the protection of horses.
The blanket should cover the neck, withers
and shoulders, and be brought around the
breast and buttoned or buckled together
as closely as a man buttons his overcoat
when about to face a storm. Let the
lungs of a horse be well protected with a
hdavy blanket, and he seldom contracts
cold, even if the hindmost
_parts of his
body are not convened. Many of our
hest teamsters protect the breast of their
horses by a piece of cloth, about two fest
square, hanging down from the lowerend
of the collar. This is an excellent prac
tice in cold weather, as the moat impor
tant parts of animals are constantly shel
tered from the cold wind, especially when
travelling toward a strong current. The
forward end should be made to fit a
closely around the breast of a horse as our
garments fit onr bodies. Most horses
take cold as readily as men, if not blank
eted while standing, after exercising suf
ficiently to produce prespiration. SO long
as the horse is kept in motion, there is
little danger of his suffering from cold;
but allow him to stand for a few minutes,
without a blanket to protect.hisshoulder*
and hinge, and he will take cold sooner
than man.
:,-o — "John Smith, come up with your
lesson. What does g-1-a-ss spell ?"
"Well I knew once, but darned if I
don't forget now."
"Pshaw! what's in your mother's: win
dow sashes r
"Them is so many things that blowed
if I can remember them all. Let me See
—there's the hoes blanket in one plate,
brother Jobs hat in another, and sister
Patience's bonnet in another, and dad's
old breeches in the hole that Zeb and I
made yesterday."
"Ttt - ke a run out. Jhonny ; you may go
and play for a while.
ALL &p . m. HERE.—It is related of the
Duke of Wellington that once when he re
mained to hike the sacrament at his par
' ish church, a very poor old man had gone'
up the opposite aisle and reaching the
communion table knelt down at the side
•of the Duke. Some one—a pew owner
probAly--rnme and toucheu the poor
man on the shouldier, and whispered to
him to move further away or rise and
wait until the Duke had ,received the
, bread and wine. But the eagle eve and
quick cur of the great. commander caught
the meaning of that touch and that whits
per. Ile clasped the old man's hand, to
prevent him from rising, and in a rever
ential undertone, but most distinctly
said :
" DO 114 more—we are all equal here.'
:W 5 An individual, possessing uutuig
takable evidence of African extraction,
was arniigned for larceny . . The judge
was dignified, but said, with severe pro
ellee ;
"Are 7ou guilty or not r
Via."
"Did you steal those clothes ?" he re
pentad.
'Golly, boss, clar never done it.'
" This man says you did."
" lie aint nothing' but white trash."
"And what are you?"
"Me ! Why don't you know me r
—ln Tamaqua, the Mountain City of
Pennsylvania. has resided for many Tears
an old colored individual, by occupation a
barber, who was one day complaining of
his sufferings from dyspepsia, and attrib
uted his ailment to the fad of his having
no teeth, by which he was unable to pro
perly masticato his food. " Well, Simon,l
said a bystander, " why don't you get a
set of false teeth ? They wouldn't cost
you much." " Pulse tee(!" exclaimed Si
mon. "0 no sah ; no you dont. Ise had
jest all the teef lao gwine to have in my
motif. Ise suffered more with de tooth
ache don I ever did wid do spepsy, and I
is glad enuff to get diet of my teeL You
don't git mo' teef in my mouf—no tab. "
TAUTIL AND FALssuoon.--Falsehood
flies swift as the wind, and Truth creeps
behind at a anail'e pace: But Falsehood
makes so many twisting", that Truth,
keeping steadily on; looking neither •b
the right nor to the left, overtakes herb*•
fore long.
—Among the Sunday school children
of a certain church,was a poor little fel.
low. Ho could not tell the number of
the house ; in which be bred,. and wai
charged when be next came to school to
bring it. The next time de aneated
was askedif he brought the nnother.
"No iiirl ) taid ho. "It Wu nailed on the
door so tight that I couldn't get it dr