NIL DESPEIiANDTJM.
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VOL. VII.
1UDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, TA., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1877.
NO. 8.
HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
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A Mite Song:.
Only ft drop in the bucket,
But every drop will tell (
The bucket would soon be empty,
. Without the drops In the well.
Only ft poor little peuny,
' It wan nil I had to give t
But (is pennies make the dollar),
It may help some cause to live.
A few little bits of ribbon
And some toys j thoy were not new,
But tlioy made the sick child happy,
Which has made me happy, too.
Only some outgrown garments j
They vera all I hod to spare (
But they'll help to clothe the needy
And the poor are everywhere.
A word, now and then, of comfort,
That cost me nothing to say
But the poor old man died happy,
And it helped him on the way.
Ood loveth tho cheerful giver,
Though the gift be poor and small ;
What doth Ho think of His children
When they never give at all?
GOLDEN LOCKS.
Tilt? Htury of u Swltcli.
"What do I know about such mat
ters ?" said Squire Postlethwaite, rump
ling up his Saxon brown Lair into a crest
on the very top pf his Lend.
The squire was standing in the middle
of the sunny sitting-room a room aglow
witli wreaths of autumn leaves and blos
soming geraniums; with a wood lire on
the hearth, which exhaled a aint piny
perfumo from the resinous logs which
were crackling there, ond the biggest
tortoise-shell cut in New Jersey asleep in
front of the blaze. And the squire's
wifo was balancing herself on tiptoe to
sew a button ou his shirt bosom a
malicious button which had flown off
without the slightest previous notice, a
very Mophistopheles in mother-of-pearl.
Tho squiro was tall and big and easily
wheedled; the squire's better half was
round an.l petite and possessed of a good
deal of feminine diplomacy; and, as a
matter of course, Mrs. Postlethwaite
conquered.
" Oh, my dear, it's the simplest thhig
in the world," said she.
" But it's so perfectly absurd I" per
sisted the squire. " The idea of my gr
iug into oue of those Broadway places
and asking for a switch 1"
" It's done every dav. mv dear." said
Mrs. Pobtlethwaite, deftly breaking the
thread. " And really my hair is getting
so thin, what with crimping and fr.'zzing;
and everybody else wears a false braid,
or a bunch of curls, or something, uud I
am positively singular without one.
And I wouldn't mind waiting until I go
up to town in January, if it wasn't for
Fanny Leslie's charade party. Every
body will be there, and of'course vou
want mo to look as well as any one else,
don't you, dear ?"
The squire could not gainsay tint
leading proposition. He had married 8
pretty young country girl for love, and
during nil the five years of their wedded
life the torch had burned clear upon the
altar of his heart.
" Of course I do," said he, heartily.
"Then you'll bring mo the switch,
won't you V" coaxed Mrs. Postlethwaite.
" If it must be, I suppose it must be,"
assented the squire, with a grimace.
And when he drove off to the depot, he
carried iu a pocket case, next to his
heart, a lock of his wife's flaxen hair
not as a keepsake, but as a sample.
" Thirty-six inches long, at least,"
Mrs. Postlethwaite called after him.
" And crimped a little at the top, if it's
not charged extra for."
Squire Postlethwaite didn't go to the
city every day. As a general thing, his
peach farm in New Jersey occupied the
most of his time and attention; but when
he did mingle with the gay metropolitan
world, ho resolved to enjoy himself to
the utmost. So he engaged a room at
the most expensive and aristocratic hotel
he could And, visited the Academy of
Design, where he didn't understand the
pictures at all, and went in the evenings
to the theater, where he cried over the
trogedy, and laughed his vest buttons off
at trfe brisk little comedy that served as
an afterpiece, and was a little abashed at
the ballet. And it is most probable that
he would have forgotten his wife's com
mission entirely if, in the process of
seai'ching his pocket case for a note
which he was to present for payment at
a city bank the next day, he hadn't
chanced to come across the'tress of shin
ing gold.
" Hallo '." said the squire, smiting his
knee with one hand, here's Polly's
hair 1 And I must go and buy the switch
to-morrow, or (liero'll bo the deuce and
alltopoy."
He went thr.t afternoon to dine with
old Mr. Ponsonby at Delmonico's for
the squire had all a child's delight in
gilding and fresco and lights. Old Mr.
Ponsonby rather discouraged the switch
business when, over their modest bottle
of claretk tho squire broached his pro
posed errand of the following morning.
"I wouldn't," said old Mr. Ponsonby,
shaking his head.
vtoiuunt? ecnoeu the squire.
"Why not ?"
"It's running a great risk," said Mr.
Ponsonby, oracularly. "I'm told that
yellow fever and smallpox, and all that
sort of thing, are disseminated to an
alarming extent through the medium of
false hair."
" Squire Postlethwaite opened wide his
eyes and mouth.
"Ihey cut off the hair of hospital
cases, and sell it to pay expenses, you
see," added Mr. Ponsonby, lowering' his
voice.
" No I" interrogated the squire.
"Fact," nodded the old gentleman.
"And, besides, they import a deal of it
from foreigu countries, where the peo
ple are in no wise noted for cleanliness
or health, l'
" Never heard of such a thing in my
life," asseverated Squire Postlethwaite.
"And the only way to be quite sure
about what you're buying is to see it cut
from the human head yourself," asserted
Mr. Ponsonby, peeling a banana.
"But I don't see how that can'be
done," hesitated the Jersey peach
farmer,
"I don't either," said Mr. Ponsonby,
" and that's the reason I advise you to
drop the whole thing."
Squire Postlethwaite shook ln's head
mildly. It was all very well for Mr.
Ponsonby to be thus lavish with his
counsel, but Mr. Ponsonby didn't know
how it was himself. He wasn't a mnrried
man. His wife hadn't charged him
with a particular commission, and wasn't
expectantly waiting for him at home.
"Let Mrs. Postlethwaite be satisfied
with her own hair," urged Mr. Ponson
by, nibbling at au olive.
"Women ore never satisfied," said
the squire, gloomily.
" Then let her learn tho lesson of con
tentment." " Women never learn," said the
squire.
But he recalled his friend's good ad
vice the next day, when he walked into
M. Einile Dupignac's " Centennial Hair
Emporium."
M. Dupignac rubbed his hands as he
hurried behind the plate glass counter,
and begged blandly to know " iu what
he could have the happiness to serve
monsieur."
" I want a switch," said Squire rohtlc
thwaite, a little uneasy under tho bright
eyed regards of M. Dupignac's ton
"pales ladies," who were dressed rather
more splendidly than his Polly, even in
her church-going attire, and wore glitter
ing jewelry, which our honest squiro be
lieved to be real and of great price "and
it must be of this color," holding up the
sample, "and oue yard long."
M. Dnpiguac critically surveyed the
lock, with his head lirst ou one side and
then on the other.
" It is of a color truly ravishing. " said
he. " But nevertheless I flutter myself
that I can match it."
And he briskly opened a drawer full of
long switches, neatly packed m narrow
pasteboard boxes, and odorous of cam
phor, and whisked out a mass of pale
rippling gold, which he held up to the
sunlight wit II Polly s lock laid against it.
" Nature itself 1" cried M. .Dupiguac,
theatrical'.
"No, you don't !" said tho squire, sct-
tmg liia teeth together like a Mcel trap,
" Comment f demanded M. Dupig
uac. "Put up that thing," suid Squire
Postlethwaite, "and shut tho drawer."
"Monsieur would wish it u shade
lighter ?" queried tho Frenchman. " Or
perhaps darker? Vraimcnt, it is a
mere matter of taste."
"Monsieur don't want any of that
sheared off trash," said the squire, la
conically.
M. Dupiguac drew himself up with
Napoleonic dignity. "Monsieur will
perhaps allow me to assure him." said
he, " that there is no better stock than.
mine upon this con-ti-nent.
"I'm not quite so green as to swallow
everything I hear, if I do come from the
country." said the squire composed v.
. " Shut up that drnwer, I tiny. None of
your second-hand scarlet fever and
Binallpnx for me. None of your dead
people' clippings out of the hospitals."
"But, monsieur" gesticulated the
Frenchman. m
"I tell you," roared Squire Postle
thwaite, waxing noisy as ho became more
in earnest, " I won't buy a single soli
tary spear of hair unless I know where
it comes from. I'll see it cut myself, or
I'll let it severely alone."
M. Dupignac's momentary exprepsion
of dismay and perplexity gave way to an
instantaneous illumination of all the
facial muscles.
"By all means, by all nfeans, if mon
sieur wishes it," cried he, fitting tho
live fingers of one hand against the five
fingers of the other. " Monsieur shall
be satisfied. I court publicity. I
Laure 1" to one of the extravagantly
dressed shop girls "where, then, is
that poor girl who was here this morn
ing, wishing to sell her hair ?" the girl
with les eheveux d'or, the head of .real
gold that takes its burnish in the sun
shine ? Does Bhe still wait. Laure ?"
Mademoiselle Laure was not quite cer
tain as to that, but she had the young
person's address. The young person
should be immediately sent for.
"Let her be summoned at once," said
M. Dupiguac, with a wave of the hand,
as if he was a monarch, issuing a royal
mandate. "And" with a secondary
sweep of his arm toward a velvet uphol
stered chair "if monsieur will honor
us by waiting but a few seconds, his
undeserved doubts shall all be set at
rest."
"Seeing is believing," said Squire Pos
tlethwaite, cavalierly. And he sat down,
softly whistliug "Bonnie Dundee," and
staring steadfastly out of the window.
In about fifteen minutes there was a
little bustle of arrival in the next room.
M. Dupignac lif;ed a Nottingham lace
curtain which shielded the glazed upper
half of the door of communication, and
placing his linger on his lip with a truly
French gesture, pointed toa lovely blue
eye young girl, dressed in faded and
t-hnbby garments, but with magnificent
pale yellow hair floating like a glory
uowu over ner suouiuers.
"By Jove!" ejaculated the squire, 1
"that's a splendid head of hair !" I
M. Dupignno shrugged his shoulders.
"She offered to sell it to us this morn
ing," said ho; -'but we had not then an
opportunity to dispose of it. It is to
succor her needy mother, poor lamb!
They are poor but respectable."
"You know them, then ?" questioned
the squire.
"I know them well. "Ah," added M.
Dupiguac, sentimentally, "how one has
pity for the poor !"
"I'll buy it," promptly interrupted
Squire Postlethwaite. "There's no
danger of any scarlet fever or smallpox
there. She's as fresh as a rose and as
clear as a pink. What will it cost ?"
"Look at the thickuets ! Look at the
length of that chcvclure!" cried this eo
s'atio Frenchman. "It is cheap posi
tively dirt cheap at fifty dollars. But
t i pecuro monsieur's custom"
"I'll take it," said the squire, with
alacrity.
M. Dupignac motioned to Mademoi
selle Laure. Mademoiselle Lome tapped
a tiny silver call-bell, and a white-aproned
man in the next room, who looked
like a barber in disguise, went ruthlessly
to work shearing away the long yellow
locks. As oue by one he dropped them
into a flat willow basket at his side, the
girl put her pocket handerchief to her
eyes and visibly sobbed,
" Poor girl I poor child I" said Squire
FostletUwuite, feeling an uncomfortable
sensation of tightness in the region of
his heart. It's a pliamc but then, if
she's compelled to part with it, I may as
well buy as any one else. Hero, yon,
monsieur, jut-t give her this ten-dollar
bill over ai d aboo the bargain. I can't
endure to see a pre tty girl cry never
could." Which, if the render pauses to
reflect, waae Mrs. PoRtlellnvoite's switch
come very dear.
HowevVr, the squiro trudged off with
the yellow treasure neatly packed in oue
of the long pasteboard boxes. For he
sat and waited for it to be woven into a
stem, sooner than be in any wise de
ceived by any article that was not the
genuine one.
"At all even Is," chuckled the squire
to himself, " I've outgeneraled the New
Yorkers this time. I'vo proved to 'em
that. I'm not to be put off with the trim
mings of their hospitals, nor any of their
trashy imported stuff, brimful of ship
fever and infection. To be sure, it lias
cost a good deal, but I don't believe
Polly will grudge the prico when she
hears all about it. "
This was Squire Postlethwaite's last
day iu the great metropolis, and toward
afternoon lie completed his various
errands to his entire satisfaction, and
started off down Cortlondt street on a
brisk walk to take the four o'clock train,
which would land him within a few miles
of his beloved peach farm, when, all of a
sudden, emerging from a narrow side
street, whom should he meet but the
golden haired damsel who had cried so
ineltingly nt having her tresses cut awav
fl,.,l -.lit' . . .- -..
m-iA-iMwiio murjiiii m uie vemenniai
Hair Emporium ! And at the same mo
ment, with a little bob of a courtesy, tho
golden haired damsel proved to him that
the recognition was mutual.
"It is!" cried tho squire, dropping
two or three bundles iu his bewilder
ment. " No, it jsn't ! Yes, it is I '
For tho fnco and eyes and pretty little
childish dimples ou cheek and chin were
the same, but, lo and behold ! a luxuri
ant Lraid of aureate hair was roiled
around ond around tho head under the
natty little felt hut with its bluebird's
wing.
"I'm much obliged for the ten dollars.
sir, said the girl. " Gentlemen isn't
genernlly so liberal."
"B-biit your hair?" stuttered our
squire, scarcely able to credit the evi
dence of his own senses.
" Oh, dear, sir, it wasn't my hair at
all," said the girl. " It's just a lot that
M. Dupignac keeps on hand, mounted
on invisible netting, and it ain't clipped
off at all, only loosened from tho net by
a hook on tho end of the scissors. Some
of the customers likes it cut direct from
the head gentlefolks has all sorts of
whims and M. Dupiguac keeps me for
a blonde, and Mary Anno Perkins for u
brunette. We rolls up our own hair
boy fashion, and it don't show unless
you get very closo. I wouldn't have
told on him, neither," with a little toss
of tho head, "if it hadn't been for his
wanting to crib all the extra ten dollars
for himself."
Squiro Postlethwaite drew a long
breath. Ho bean to be painfully con
scious that ho had not "outgeneraled"
the city people so completely as he had
imagined, alter all. Should he go back,
he asked himself, to M. Dupignac's Cen
tenuial Hair Emporium, and punch the
head of that distinguished foreigner ? or
should he report the whole matter at po
lice headquarters ? or perhaps best and
most, sensible course of all should lie
take the originally proposed four o'clock
train, go back to the Jersey peach farm,
and keep his own counsel forever and a
dav?
Squire Postlethwaite decided in favor
of the latter proposition. Ho went
home with his golden switch in its box,
gave it to Folly with a kiss, and never
loidiier oi nis ouvcnuire.
And to this day she doesn't kuow how
much it cost. " Where ignorance is
blies, 'tis folly to be wise."
A Romantic 3Iarriage.
A marriage occurred in London re
cently which possessed some romantic
features. A few months ago a paragraph
in the papers described a melancholy ac
cident which befell n young man whilo
out shooting. A stray shot entered one
of his eyes and extinguished it. This
gentleman was highly educated and con
nected, though without fortune, and he
was only twenty-three years of age. He
was brought to his lodging house in
London, whew he lay sul'tering. But a
wealthy and handsome young widow, on
whose estates he happened to be shoot
ing when the accident occurred, came
ond took up her abode in the same
house in order to nurse him. Her care
was extended through several weeks,
but, alas, the other eye sympathized
with that which had been put out, and
it, too, was extinguished, leaving the
youth and scholar hopelessly and totally
blind. But the pretty widow was equal
to the occasion. She proposed to him
marriage. The result was a splendid
company alighting at the door of a fash
ionable church in our neighborhood; a
beautiful dame of thirty, attended by
her two little children, leading a blind
youth of twenty-three to the altar, there
to endow him with all her extensive
worldly goods; and the two are now en
joying their honeymoon on the line estate
where the gentleman may meditate on
the ancient sayings which declare mis
fortune and fortune to be near neigh
bors. M. D. Conway in Cincinnati
Commercial.
Liked his Quarters.
Not long ago a seventy-year-old farmer
applied to the trustees of Bayview asy
lum, iu Baltimore, for a permit to visit
that institution for the purpose of choos
ing a wife. He was a German, speaking
English very imperfectly, and his novel
request created some merriment. He
appeared perfectly sincere, however,
and said that seven years ago he obtain
ed permission to visit the asylum for a
wife, was assisted by the superintendent
to make a selection, "popped the ques
tion," was married at once, and lived
happily with his wife until her death,
three years ago. Now, having revered
her memory a suitable time, he wanted
to try the Bayview lottery again. He
was furnished with a permit, and went
on his way rejoicing. A few hours later
he returned to his home in company
with his new wife, both apparently con
tent and happy.
'A NOVEL IDEA.
The f'ommerrlnl Vnlaa of Ilcnlth and
What May ba Dana to Necare It.
Very few people can afford to be siok.
Tho rich man may not mind the cxpeuso,
the man in moderate circumstances can
neither afford the time nor the expense,
and the poor man has no right to lie sick,
for his sickness must be prevented or
cured at the expense of society. The
very rich and the very poor patronize
the doctor at the slightest symptoms of
illness ; the one can pay the bills, the
other goes to the free dispensary. The
man in moderate circumstances avoids
the doctor as long as possible, and per
mits harmless attacks of illness to grow
to formidable disease, and often calls in
help when it is too late. In every thou
sand men and women there is always a
certain number who rt sick. 'J his pro
portion varies iu different places and
seasons, but it is a known factor in the
health of cities. It may, for conveni
ence, bo reckoned at, say, twenty-five in
the thousand. Tlu's sick rate being
known, it is easy to reckon tho com
mercial value of health, and this being
ascertained, it is possible to decide the
actual money cost of maintaining health.
Suppose, says the New York Tiuwo,
one thousand meu and women in one
neighborhood paid, each, ten cents a week
to a fund. In a year they would have
a fund of $5,200. Suppose they paid
$4,000 to a good physician for his ser
vices, on demand, for a year. A good
medical man could easily undertake to
maintain the thousand people in good
health, as far as nature would permit,
and would still have left $1,200 to pay
for collecting the lnoney. The" doctor
would hardly be exacted to collect the
money, and a collector, to call each week
or mouth in advauce, would be needed.
This would only amount to 5.20 a year
for each one, and wonld entitle each one
to medical attendance for the year with
out extra charge. By such au arrange
ment the patients would be sure of help
in need ; they would call the doctor at
the very first approach of illness, and
much sickness would thus be avoided.
Everything depends on the first attack
in a disease ; the first hour is worth
more than the second week, and the doc
tor who is called promptly is generally
the most successful. If the doctor felt
secure in a good income ; if he hud his
patients in hand at U times', he could
do himself more justice, and save his
patients much trouble, delay and pain.
A young doctor puts out his sign and
waits weary years for a decently good in
come. His patients often 'have the ut
most difficulty iu paying his bills. And,
with all this, by proper association, they
could get good medical attendance from
a man jealous and eager to keep them
well for only a few dolltirs a year in ad
vance, and the. doctor would be saved
the worrying enre and heart-sickening
defermentof hope that ttr-his fisnal ex
perience iu early medical life. The only
wonder is that some active and hones't
man does not undertake.to collect ten or
fifteen cents a week from a thousand or
more people and provide them with a
first-class physician. An able medical
man could readily undertake the cure of
fifteen hundred patients, if he was pro
vided with a generous and fixed iucome.
The collector, picking np fifteen cents a
week, in weekly or monthly payments,
would easily pay a physician 88,000 or
$9,000 a year for his whole time, could
guarantee to his patients the best atten
tion on demand, and still' have a little
something for himself. This idea is
neither jjew nor visionary. It is already
in active operation in several English
cities, under what is known as the Provi
dent Dispensary system. It can be
mado to pay, and might be of infinite
value, both to the patients and to the
medical profession.
Keep Out of Silver Mines.
A gentleman in a distant State writes
to tho secretary of State, New Y'ork, as
follows : "I have five shares, valued at
$100 per share, issued to me free of
charge, of ' The Silver Mountain Mining
Company's' stock, on condition that
each shareholder pays an assessment of
$1 per share to defray the expenses of
mining until it is put on a paying basis.
Please inform mo imivKvlmt-plv wliMhoi
you ratify said companyas being bona fide
or a fraud. They have your name
signed to certificate of incorporation."
In reply, Secretary Bigelow says : ' A
certificate of the incorporation of ' The
Silver Mountain Mining Company " was
filed in this office on the twentieth day
of January last, and on the twenty
second ol the same month a certified
copy of their certificate, signed with my
noiue, and not 'John S. Bigelow," as
printed in the circular of tho company,
was issued from this office. The objects
of tlu company, as stated in their certifi
cate, are : Mining and manufacturing
the productions of mines and doing a
general mining business, carrying on
s ime port of its business' out of the
State of New York, namely, in Wyoming
Territory." The capital stock of the
company purports to be $10,000,000. It
is managed by five trustees, whose names
are respectively Henry L. Tyler, George
J. Chubb, 11. P. Vail, A. Simpson and
E. C. Bruen. Their place of business
is stated to be at 1,193 Broadway, New
York.
"I have received several dozen in
quiries from the Western and Southern
States more or less resembling yours, in
regard to the character of this company.
The writers have geuerally been request
ed to act as agents. To all such in
quiries, I am obliged to say that I know
nothing of its responsibility; but that it
would never occur to me to place any
faith in a corporation which should put
forth such an appeal to the publio as is
made in the little pamphlet it is circu
lating, entitled : A few facts concerning
t'ie immense profits from working mines
on the California plan. Enormous returns
from small investments I How colossal
fortunes have been made from small in
vesments. Better chances are offered
now than ever before.'
"I do not remember to have ever
heard before of either of the officers of
the company, or of any of the persons
to whom the public is referred for fur
ther information about the company and
the richness of its mine.' I have trans
mitted your letter to the mayor of New
York city, with the request that he insti
tute such an investigation as the circum
stances may seem to require,"
FARM, UARDEX AND HOUSEHOLD.
tlonieatle Recipca.
Ginoeb Snaps. One pint of molasses
and one cupful of lard boiled together;
when cold add one tablespoonful of gin
ger, one of soda, flour to roll; roll thin
and bake.
Chocolate Jumbles. One cupful of
butter, two cupfuls sugar, three cupfuls
flour, four eggs, two cupfuls of grated
chocolate, one teaspoonful soda, one tea
spoonful cream tartar; a little salt; roll
thin.
Peauii Cakb. One cupful sugar, tw
tablespoonfuls of butter, one cupful of
flour, one-half cupful of corn starch, the
whites of three eggs, quarter teaspoon
ful soda, half teaspoonful cream tartar,
half cupful sweet milk; flavor with va
nilla.
Jelly. Take one package gelatine;
pour over it a pint of cold water; let it
stand an hour; then add a full pound of
pulverized sugar, the peel of one lemon
and the juice of three, cold, three pints
of boiling water ; set it away to cool ; a
little cinnamon or a few cloves may some
times be added.
Buckwheat Cakes. For a family of
six or eight, two piuts buckwheat, half a
pint of graham flour, half a pint Indian
meal; sift very thoroughly into this mix
ture two small teaspoonftils soda. When
the griddle is hissing hot add buttermilk
enough to niako a thick batter, having
first added a half enp of molasses. We
use a quart and half a pint of butter
milk. Boke the cakes very thick and
very brown.
Bice Croquettes. Boil one-half
pound of best rice in one and one-half
piuts of milk and a tablespoonful of but
ter; put the milk on cold; when it comes
to a boil set it where it will only simmer
until soft; then add n quarter pouud of
white sugar ond the grated rind of a
lemon and the yolks of five eggs; stir
all the time until it thickens; do not let
it boil; spread it out on a dish, and when
quite cold form into small balls or
squares; dip them into beaten egg and
then into bread crumbs twice; lay them
oue by ono into a wire basket, which put
in a pun of boiling lard; let fry a light
brown; drain well and sift powdered
sugar over them.
(ravrl lor Poultry.
S. Bach, New York, having seen
broken glass recommended for poultry
that refuse to eat their feed and show
other signs of indisposition, iu one of
the agricultural papers, and, doubting
its efficacy, appealed to the American
farmers' club for information.
Professor Boyuton Implied that poultry
require gravel or something of that na
ture to assist in the grinding up of their
feed, and in the absence of the proper
material they will help themselves to
bits of glass or crockery. Any man
ought to know enough to supply at once
the required gravel when he sees his hens
driven to such expedients.
Dr. J. V. C. Smith referred to an ostrich
he once saw that amazed its keeper by
eating shingle nails ; perceiving the wont
of coarse gravel in the bird's range it
was at once provided, and tho morbid
appetite which hod attracted 6o much at
tention again became a natural one.
A member present said that he had
heard broken glass advocated for fowls
by a farmer, who reduced to an eatable
shape largo quantities of powdered gloss
and crockery for them, and insisted that
it saved them from dyspepsia and con
sequent loss of appetite and strength.
Notwithstanding this testimony, the
practice was denounced as a cruel aul
hurtful one, and a generous supply of
gravel advised instead. A free use of
crushed charcoal was also recommended
to prevent the disease known as enlarge
ment of the liver ; it keeps the organs in
a healthy state, and the fowls' fondness
fur it, as for the gravel, indicates that
they require it.
A. Corbett recommended corn or corn
meal as the cheapest and best food for
fattening fowls. Oat meal, bran and
middlings are best for the young, grow
ing stock. He -furthermore suggested
capsicum mixed with the food, and as
safestida iu the drinkinc vnbr (,r
cholera for fowls. When soft egg's ore
oi irequent occurrence, it was suggested
to supply old mortar, burned oyster
shells, pounded, or similar iugredieut.
Lime water is highly beneficial for the
same purpose.
.Wnnuuemriit of .Xitiiiirr.
N. E. P., Eldredville, Penn., writes :
I have some hog and chicken manure
and ashes. I wish to use these on my
corn crop. Would it be best to mix
them together ? Is it better to manure
in the hill, on top of the com, or below
it?
I have a horse that has soft bloodlike
swelliugs, the size of a hen's egg, on the
inside of each hind hock joint. These
swellings have been on about six months,
come o . while running in pasture. They
have never lamed him yet. I have done
very little for them, but I wish, if possi
ble to remove them.
lieply. The manure may be mixed
with an equal part of fine, dry loam, and
then the ashes may be mixed with these
without injury. But if the manure and
ashes are mixed without the earth the
former will be injured by the loss of am
monia which will be set free through de
composition caused by the ashes. Such
a mixture will not injure the com. It is
immaterial whether the manure is above
or below the seed; the roots will find it.
These swellings, known as blood
spavins, are generally incurable, being
constitutional or hereditary. They
scarcely ever cause lameness.
A Musical Critic.
Miss Emma Abbott relates with great
gusto how a Springfield (Mass.) critic
was taken in andUone for. Prior to the
concert in which the lady sang the pro
grammes had been distributed. A view
of the people decided her to make a total
change. The new programme was sub
stituted and carried through without the
least hint to the audience. The next
morning a musical criticism, written in
the most ponderous, elaborate style, ap
peared in the columns of the leading
newspaper, on songs announced in the
first programme, the musical knowledge
and ear of the critic having failed to de
tect the difference between the musio of
the original programme and tb.e miisio
actually rendered,
The British Grain Trade.
The Mark Lane Exprctt, in its revic w
of the British grain trade for the week,
save:
The majority of country markets have
been scantily supplied with Englith
wheat. This shortness of supply w II
probably be noticeable for some time,
especially as the stronger tone and ad
vancing prices at Mark Lane will caupe
holders to become careless of selling. A
marked alteration has taken place in
local trade, and an active demand has
been experienced for wheat in all posi
tions at nu advance of a shilling to two
shillings per quorter. The lime has now
arrived when buyers cannot shut their
eyes to the fact that our requirements
between this ond the harvest will be
greater than con be met with available
supplies as loug as imports continue on
their present limited scale, while at the
some time no doubt can be entertained
that the steady consumption -which has
been going on has so reduced granary
stocks that higher prices for wheat, es
pecially red, will probably prevail in
our market for some time. The present
strength of trade is mainly attributable
to the healthy action of consumption
against supplies, unsupported as it is
either by speculative enterprise or po
litical uneasiuesH. Up to the present
the deficiencies of supply have been met
out of granaried stocks, but a poiut is
now reached in the depletion of such
stocks throughout the country which
compels holders to ask themselves
whether they are justified in parting
with wheat at present prices, there being
no immediate prospect before them of
increased supplies to meet steady re
quirements, lit such a situation we turn
iustinctively to America. The imports
into London from Atlantic ports for
weeks past have been insignificant, and
last week w7, while shipments thence
were meager. The conviction forces
itself upon us that America has not a
surplus to meet our requirements. Rus
sia may send us wheat as soon as navi
gation allows its transit from the inte
rior, but there are grounds for believing
that she is unable to supply more than
the usual quota. Neither can much be
expected from Australia and Chjji, where
crops are very deficient. California and
India may be relied ou for white wheat,
but the ease with which supplies already
come forward have been absorbed lead's
to the conclusion that every quarter that
may reach iis will be required. A note
worthy feature of the trade has been the
absence of speculation.
Result of an Experiment.
It is an old superstition that the retina
of the human eye, after death, bears a
picture of what it last looked upon. Prof.
Kuhue has reported to the Berlin Acade
my the result of experiments showing,
as hobelieves, that the superstition has
a slight basis of fact. He demonstrates
that the external layer of the retina is in
all animals purple. This color is, dur
ing life, being constantly destroyed by
light that enters the eye, and as often
restored by darkness, "but at death it
vanishes permanently. Prof. Kuhne
maae m this connection an experiment
that is thus described: "He fixed the
head of a living rabbit so thut one of the
eyeballs would be in front of an open
square in a window shutter. The head
was covered for five minutes by a black
cloth, and then exposed for three min
utes. Instant decapitation was then ef
fected, and the eyeballs were rapidly ex
tirpated under yellow light, and plunged
iu a five per cent, solution of alum. On
the following morning the milk white
and now toughened retina) were carefully
isolated, seporoted from the optic nerve,
and turned. They then exhibited, on a
beautiful rose-red ground, a nearly
square image. In brief, the hole in the
window shutter was photographed on the
rabbit's eyes."
Effects of Residence Abroad.
Once on the other side of
the
water a young
she would be
we epoke French
she had been
American lady said
much obliged if
with her, for reallv
" so lone; abroad "
(she had been away for nearly two years')
and had talked French so constantly that
it was with difficulty she now spoke Eng.
lish. We suggested the advisability of
practice iu the English tongue if she' in
tended ever to go home again. The
young American who so soon forgot her
own language is distanced by another
young American who, iu a shorter time,
forgot the very appearauce of her papa
and mamma. It was on an incoming
European steamer, when she said to a
young gentleman near her : " You know
Mr. and Mrs. by sight ?" (Mr. and
Mrs. are her father and mother, but
her dignity would not allow her to call
them so.) " Yes," ho answered. " Well,
they will be probably bo on the wharf
when we get in. It is a whole year since
I saw them. Will you kindly point them
out ? I would not like them to think I
didn't recognize them." "It's a wise
child," etc., but this is not a wise child
"by a large majority. " Ph iladelph ia
Press.
'ew Rules for Going to Sleep.
1. Fix the thoughts on some ono
thing. If you can't do that, fix them on
two things. Fix 'em ! You can easily
uuux inem aner you once get to sleep.
2. Don't go to sleep with your head
down against the foot board, or your feet
uangiiug on the floor. Jt disturbs the
electric fluids.
3. A writer recommends to suspend a
base drum over your bed, within your
reach, and pound on it with your 'fist.
It will induce sound sleep.
4 Rolling the eye balls is good, except
for blind people. Rolling out of bed
may be substituted in such cases.
5. The danger in falling asleep lies
principally in the distance you fall.
Those who are subject to such should
have a rope ladder convenient to climb
back on.
6. Dining late is a poor way of ano
dying. In order to fall asleep with dis
patch, don't eat anything the day pre
vious. The Bell Punch The Moffet Whis-
ky bill to collect tax on whisky by
means of an instrument something like
the car bell punch, passed the general
Assenly of Virginia. It will be put up
in every bar-room. The tax on lagr
beer per drink is half B cent, and on al
coholic liquors two and a half cents.
Items of Interest.
An exchange says that every vessel
that ever bore the name of George
Washington was eventually lost.
"To Greece we give our shining
Kln.ldO t CO ;,i tlia follnw at. thfi board in ff
WJUVJVO ) emu wuu .v.
house, plunging his knife into the butter
tusii.
Thot was a queer boy iu Wayland,
111., who went into the house, got into
bed and fell osleep after seeing his
mother fall into a well.
amused
by a young woman who leaned her head
lauguislungly on a fellow s snouiuer anu
ate candy throughout the service.
A woman iu Oshkosh ground nearly
half of a shirt through a clothes wringer
before discovering that her baby was in
the shirt. It was an awful strain on the
wringer.
Young lody (who is tired of his com
pany) "You ain't a bit nervous, ore
you, Mr. Post ? All my gentlemen ac
quaintances start when the clock strikes
twelve."
There was a report current on the
streets that a prominent citizen had
beaten his wife. Upon investigation it
was found that he had really beaten her
at a game of chess.
Chicago has seven hundred hackmen,
ond if you ever go there you will won
der how the whole seven hundred con
get hold of your carpet bag and holler
into your left ear ot once.
A Tennesseean took his first and lost
ride on a railroad train recently. He
stepped off when it was going forty miles
an hour, supposing that ' such was the
custom, and was fatally injured.
" I mako it a principle not to lend
money," said a good man to a friend;
" but in your case I sacrifice principle to
interest. " And when the latter found
he had charged twenty per cent, discount
he said he thought he did.
It was ou Irish pilot who, being asked
if he knew the rocks in tho harbor, re
plied, with confidence : "I do, yer hon
or, ivory wan av them. That's wan,"
he added, calmly, as the ship struck it,
filled and sunk.
In the police court of Nassau, New
Providence, the justice allows defendants
to go free uutil the time for their trial,
on their personal recognizance. Ho
says that he has never known one to fail
to return at the appointed time.
It must be exasperating to the enter
prising merchant who puts two or three
inches of advertising in the papers head
ed, "now is the time to top-dress your
lawns," to wake up the next morning
and find the lawns "top dressed" with
six inches of snow.
Says the London Hornet : The filthy
habit of painting the lips is again to be
observed at several of the metropolitan
theaters. There is no lauguage too
strong for its condemnation, no excuse
for its continuance. It is ugly, silly, un
healthy and offensive.
William Bright, of Knox county, Ten
nessee, heard a noise in his smoke
house. He armed himself with a gun
ond fired at the thief. The shriek of pain
that followed had a familiar sound. The
thief was his son, who was seriously if
not mortally wounded.
The property of the Farrell brothers,
near Covington, Ky., has been levied on
to satisfy the bail bond for $3,000, on
which they were sureties for the return
of Tom Allen to stand trial for engaging
in the prize fight with Joe Goss. Allen
deserted the young men who risked
their little fortune to save him from a
few weeks' confinement in jail, and fled to
Canada.
The fanatical Circassians drill their
horses in their villages by a curious and
brutal exercise. Ihey spur and whip
them repeatedly through a crowd of
shouting men armed with long sticks,
which are mercilessly used on the poor
brute until it stands the torture with
philosophy. The principle is to impress
the" animal with a notion that the iron
will of its master is beyond all its na
tural instincts of fright and the bodily
pain.
"It's all very well," remarked a red
nosed man iu a bad hat and an ulster of
the vintage of '73; " it's all very well to
say let business revive; but what we
want, sir, is confidence, public confi
dence, sir. Each of us must be willing
to bring out our hoarded dollars and put
them once more in circulation. Then
the skies will brighten; then by the
way, I changed my vest this morning
lend me fifty cents, will you ?"
The State of Delaware has just passed
a law making it a penal offense for any
railway engineer to abandon his engine
upon the track in case of a strike. The
law also forbids, under penalty of fine
and imprisonment, railway employees
from refusing to transport over their
own roads cars received from connecting
roads, and the coercion or bribery of
other employees to abandon the service
of the company.
William Delahanty, who rnurdered
his brother-in-law forty-four years ago
in Stonecarty, Ireland, has made a full
confession of his guilt. At the time of
the murder Delahanty was arrested, but
was discharged for lack of evidence.
His demeanor while making his confes
sion was that of a sincere penitent. He
sought no mercy at the hands of the au
thorities, and desired that the law should
oe lulhlled in his case to the letter.
The funeral of a Chinaman, who was
recently murdered in San Francisco,
seems to have been quite a unique affair.
The dead man held a keen-edged carver
in his hand, and a yellow flag, bearing
the word "vengeance," covered the
coffin. A mounted Chinaman rode at
each corner of the hearse, and Ah Qua
rode ahead to clear the road. He suc
ceeded in running over a white man, in
juring him severely, and getting himself
i nested.
In southern India children are mar
ried at eight years of age. Native fathers
consider it a disgrace to have single
girls in the family, and endeavor to get
them married in childhood, but when
married they da not always go to their
husband's homes. The marriages are
generally arranged by old women, who
go from family to family to find suitable
matohes. Widows are treated very badly
by the natives; they are made as misera
ble as possible. An American lady doc
tor has a large practice among the native
women.