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Bcuotcu to politics, ttcraturc, agriculture, Science, iHoruliti), ani (general intelligence;
VOL. 30.
STROUUSBURG, MONROE COUxNTY, PA. JUNE 27, 1872.
NO. 9.
published by Theodore Schoch.
trr(S -To il1lir a ye:rin advance and if not
b"'""nR Fn ll,c 7c-,r l" uoiinrsanu nily
,,nl be charpeJ.
pti'f Jiooi)tiunel until all arrearages are paid,
Hf!t '. the option ol the Eilitor.
jC7AJveriiements of one square ofteight line) or
an or inrrc ui-t-i nni- i jf. nnv.ii niiuil ioildl
intrtimi
30 cenu. Longer ones tn proportion.
JOB PRINTING,
or ALL KINDS,
Iieeutrd in the hiahest style of the Art, and on the
ino.t reasonable terms.
Valuable Property
FOR SALE.
The subscrilers offer for sale,
their residence in Stroudsburg.
The Ifit has a front of 145 ft.
jgyyton .nam Street, with a depth of
-Sii fort.
The building consist of a convenient dwell
ing house, store house, barn and other out
building
There is an abundance of choice apples,
jinn, plums, grapes and small fruits, with
excellent water.
Mr 16, '72. A. M. & R. STOKES.
I
ACiiiWix.x.i nor. si:.
i orposm: the iepot,
East Stroudsburg, Pa.
B. J. VAN COTP, Proprietor.
The run contains the choiest Liquors and
tlieTACl.K i supplied with the best the market
iffurik Charges moderate. may 3 lS72-tf.
DR. J.LANTZ,
Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist,
Still Im his nflii-e on Main Stret-t, in the second
:ry f Ir. S. Walton's brirW lniiUlmg, neaily opw
iif'thts trondburg lfotie, and tie fl.ttlers himself
lut by riglurru ye.us constant prstctire and the nuit
irnvi dnd r.iiriiil altentu-n to all mailers pertaining
l hi prnfeion, that he is fully ahle to perform ail
Mrt"ns in the dental lute 111 the most careful, t.tcte
lil Ani skillf'il manner.
Snt-rul a'teiition given to avtnq the N.itura! Terth ;
t. tie lnsrrtton of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
CIJ. Siivr or Cintiiiu jus Gums, and ptrrlect fits In
ill rAr inntrrd.
Mot persons know the great folly and il.injer of en
trunii ttielr vork to tlie jnexperienceil. r to those
liTiitg at a instance. April 13, 11? I. ly
DIt. V. O. IIOFIM1AX, M. IK
Would respectfully announce to the
public that he has removed his office from
Oakland to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa.
Trusting that many years of consecutive
practice of Medicine and Surgery will be a
affieicnt guarantee for the public confidence.
Februa rv L, 1 870. tf.
Gto. "W. Jackson.
Amzi LeBar.
Drs. JACKSON & LcBAK
pnvsicnxs, si'bgeoss i AtiiimiEits,
Strovttshurg ami foist StromLltnrg, Pa.
DR. GEO. W. JACKSON,
Stroudsburg,
It the old office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson
KwMenre in WyckolTs Building.
DR. A. LeBAR,
East Stroudsburg,
5t next door to Smith's Store. .Residence
n Mm K. IMIer'n.
feb. 8 72-tf
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Announces lint unvinjr just returned from
Deoitl Coilegp, he is fully prepared to make
irnficul teeth in the most beautiful and lile-
liie manner, and to fill decayed teeth
crdm to tlir mod it proved mcthoil.
Teeth exfractr-d without p.iin, when
nc-
de-
Tfd, hy the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
hich it entirely h-innles. Repairing of
1 1 kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Chtrjes reasonable.
Ofice in J. ii. Keller' new Brick build
er Miiri S'reet, .Stroudsburg, Fa.
uf 31-tf
Ti.MLS II. WALTO.,
Allorncj- at 1axy9
f 'fnre in the btiildin fonnerlv occupied
nrson, and opjosite the Stroule
l'ank. Main street, trouilsbur, J'a.
jn IT.-tf
KELLER SVILLE HOTEL.
,The undersijrned having jnirchas'd the
tvc known and pojular Hotel l'ror
V. would rcsji'ctfullv iiilorni the traveling
Mbhr that he has rcfurni.hcd ami fittinl up
inuri in u,e hest htvle. A liaii'lsonie
ir. ith choice Linuors and S
Ilite
'"eodants and nioU-rate charges
C''ars,
CIIAKLK.S 31 ANAL,
10 1ST1. tf.J J'roprietor.
Fonnd out why jicople ?o to McCarty's to
f't thetr furniture, be-ause he buys it at the
,re ''""inn of v Co. and Wlls it at
avance if only tiretif-tirt and tico-
w 7T r, ,,t. ( )r in t her word.-
Hocking
r tiat llf. mVli
of
Jce !t Co. (throusrh
jn runn.rs . H-m't have) for $4,50 he soils
.. J ,yt ,,', (0 fj,,,. some oool Fat-
, li:k k co.
roudshurg. Aug. IS, 1870. tf.
r PLASTER !
rr, f,roun,j Nova Scotia PLASTER,
t!H,,k,V Mins HEMLOCK BOARDS,
IkV.:,NG' KinntfLES, LATH, l'A
,JM.n.J I'OSTS. cheap.
nJUliand FEED constantly on hand.
r 1 1 exchange Lumber and Plaster for
"Jin or tny tlif h'gl.eet market price.
C,A(;KSMITI SHOP jt opened by
Vm'-' '", exPL'r'Pncd workman.
1 uUic trade solicited.
, .. N- WVCKOFF.
-Mi!!, IN,., April 20, 1671.
JHV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil-fcl-o,1?'?1',
N. Y.) Recipe for CON.
and ASTHMA carefully com-
funded
at
hollinshead's dhug stoke.
Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Cr-L 1Q7.J W. HOLLINSHEAD.
FARMING IN CALIFORNIA.
FORTY THOUSAND ACRE FIELD GANG
TLOAVS AND HEADERS RENTERS AND
LAND OWNERS THE BEETSUGAR CUL
TURE.
Between Stockton and 3Ierced lie about
six hundred square miles of wheat. The
railroad train runs through what appears
iu ue an interminaDle wheat, field, with
smaii nouses and barns at great ntstances
apart, and no fences, except those by
which the company has guarded its trains
against the cattle, which are turned into
the fields after harvest to clean the crain
and consume the stubble. Wheat, wheat,
wheat, and nothing but wheat is what
you see on your journey, as far as the eye
can reacn over the plain in every direc
tion. Fields of two, three and four thou
sand acres make but small farms ; here is
a man who "has in" 20,000 acres ; here
oue with 40,000 acres, and another with
some still more preposterous amount all
iu wheat. Of course, the crop is in and
and up, and from six inches to a foot
bight ; it is not so fine a fight as it will
be two months hence, when the whole
plain will be an ocean of waving tassels.
Vet, as you look out and see mile after
mile, without a division fence, 50 or 60
miles apparently in one field, it makes its
impressiou. The Valley of the San Joa
quin differs from an Illinois prairie in
that it has two magnificent mountain
ranges for its boundaries, the Si
vada on the east, and the Coast
Range
on the west. Ihe mouth of the Valley
is to the north, as that of the treat Val
ley of Virginia ; the San Joaquin river
joins the Sacramento and flows into the
sea, and this has been, until this year, the
chief avenue for freight transport from
the country through which it runs. Now
the railroad is in operation as far as Mer
ced ; it will reach Visali in 3Iay, and
JJakerfield in July, and Los Angeles or
San Bernardino perhaps in October; and
the great rich valley, which has so long
lain asleep, given up to horses and cattle,
is wakiDg up.
A MARVELOUS CROr AT HAND.
It is a singular piece of good fortune
to the farmers and land owners that they
get a remarkably fine scasou and and the
railroad in the same year. They have
known how to avail themselves of their
good luck, fur they have put in enormous
crops. One of the best informed men in
Stockton assured me that the San Joa
quin Valley will send to tide water this
year 1S0,0U0 tuns of wheat. 31 r. Tried
lander, the ureal grain buyer of this State,
is reported to me to have estimated the
probable export of the whole State this
year at uu.UiM funs. 1 his means that
700 ships of 1U00 tuns each will be need
ed to carry California s crop to its far
away markets; aud it means that 18,000
cars, each carrying 10 tons of grain, will
be needed to move the surplus wheat of
the San Joaquin Valley to Sau Francis
co ; or CG0 trains of 50 cars each ; or
single train more than 100 miles long.
There will be ships needed to market the
grain crop; and there will be men need
ed to harvest it ; aud as the harvest here
lasts three months, and as harvesters will
this year get at least $2 a day and food,
many a thrifty man will no doubt earn a
small farm by his labors in the wheat
fields. It will surprise you perhaps, as is
did rue, to hear that much of this great
wheat field, of which I have spoken, docs
not bear, even iu such a good year as this
is, more than from 10 to 12 bushels per
acre. A large part of the plain between
Stockton and 31 creed is light and sandy.
Some of it looks like a mere collection of
of white sand ; and the wind when it
blows strongly, as it often does, blows a
man's farm about a great deal. There is
a goodly quantity of heavier soil a sandy
loam, the best of which yields in a good
year from 20 to 30, and even 40 bushels
per acre ; and at the western side of the
San Joaquin there it yet heavier land,
adobe, which will bear, when it is not too
wet, Mill heavier crops. A great deal of
this land is owned in large tracts of from
20,000 to 40,000, and from that 100,000
acres. The holders of these tracts do not
usually farm them, but lease or rent them;
and this is a vast business in itself, as you
may understand. But I mut first re
mind you that if it were not for the pecu
liar climate of this State, wheat raising
on such a scale would be impossible.
They sow the wheat here from the 1st of
December to the 1st of March, and they
have the other three months to harvest it
in, with a certainty that no rain will dis
turb them during their long harvest.
HOW THE CALIFORNIA FIELDS ARE PLOW
ED. The fields are piowed with what are
called gang-plows, which are simply four,
six or eight plowshares fastened to a stout
frame of wooJ. On the lighter soils eight
horses draw a seven gang plow, and oue
such team is counted ou to put in G10
acres of wheat in the sowing season ; or
from 8 to 10 acres per day. Capt. Gray,
near Merced, has put io this season 4000
acres with five such teams his own land
and his own teams. A seed sower is fas
tened iu front of the plow. It scatters the
seeds the plows cover it and the work is
done. The plow has no handles, aud the
plow-man U, in fact, only a driver ; he
guides the team ; the plows do their own
work. It is easy work, and a smart boy, if
bis legs are equal to the walk, is as good a
plowman as anybody for the team turns
the corners, the and plow is not handled at
all. It is a striking sight to see, as I
saw, 10. eight horse teams followiog each
other, over a vast plain, cutting 'lands"
a mile long, and when all had passed me
leaving a track, 40 feet wide, of plowed
ground. On the heavier soil, the process
is somewnai ainerent. An eight-horse
ieam moves a iour gang plow, and gets
over aoout six acres per day. The seed
is then sown by a machine which scat-
icio ii, itei, anu sows io to luu acres
in a day, and the ground is then harrow
ed and cross harrowed. When the far
" 1 -TT II . .
mer, in mis alley, has done his winter
sowing, he turns his teams and men into
other ground, which he is to summer fal
low. ihis he cau do from the first of
March to the middle of 3Iay ; and by it
he secures a remunerative crop for the
following year, even if the season is dry.
tl:. j? ' . . .. . '
auis discovery is oi inestimable import
ance to the farmers on the drier part of
these great plains. Experience has de
monstrated conclusively that if they plow
their land in the spring, let it lie until
the winter rains couoe on, then sow their
wheat and harrow it in, they are sure of
a crop ; and the summer will have killed
every weed, beside.
A VOLUNTEER CROP.
After the summer fallowing is done,
the teams have a rest. The horses and
mules are turned out to grass for some
weeks, and about the 4th of July the har-
vest, oegins. ii is men the rainless sea
son ; and the farmer gets his teams, his
headers, his grain wagons, his thresher
and his sacks and men into the field, and
ou the light soil cuts, threshes, and puts
into sacks the grain at the rate often of
150 acres per day. Three "headers,"
which cutoff only the heads of the wheat
stalks. leaving the straw standing, and
nine wagons to take the heads from the
headers to the thresher, require to work
them 23 men and 83 horses. With this
force they get in 150 acres per day. The
grain put into sacks is left on the fields
until time and teams can be got to haul
it to the railroad ; or often until it is sold
It does not sweat nor mould, and there is
no fear of rain. As soon as the crop is
harvested, the teams are bitched to a
brush six horses to a twenty-foot brush,
which goes over the field at the rate of 40
acres a day. The brush scatters the irran
which has been dropped in the fields ; and
sometimes a little more seed is added
When it has been brushed it is plowed
two or three inches deep to cover the
seed : and from this comes, without fur
ther care, what is called a "volunteer"
crop, which is olten better than first, and
as certaiuly counted on. Now the
horses and men have another interval of
rest until the rains begin and plowing re
commences. Thus, as one farmer pointed
out to nie, they have work for their teams
almost ihe whole year, and have no horses
eating their heads off in idleness. In the
heavier Roils, the volunteer crop is put io
with the harrow instead of the brush ;
and this is followed by a "chisel cultiva
tor," having from seven to thirteen teeth,
four inches deep. If these leave the
ground rough,
it is again narrowed.
DIFFERENCE IN SOIL.
"It would astonish you to see how small
a crop pays the farmer on this sandy soil,"
said an intelligent man with whom I rode
over his fields. He told me that from
700 acres, last year, he got but a bushel
and a half per acre, beside the feed of his
teams while they were harvesting. They
often feed the horses with wheat from the
header-wagons, which is a wasteful act, I
should say. But, after all, from the small
crop he made 8500. At five bushels per
acre, ii wheat brought 52.50 a bushel, the
farmer on the sandy plains makes 53 50
per acre, clear of every expense. This
result, which seemed to me incredible, I
saw demonstrated by figures of the cost
of the crop, which were satisfactory to a
whole room full of farmers. But if you
will remember that it is no uncommon
thing for a farmer to put in three or four
thousand acres, you will see what money
they make, even with a small crop, if the
price happens to be good, as it often is
in a bad year. Two and a half cents is,
of course, a high price, and a cent and a
quarter is a more usual price in good
years. But at that rate a crop of 10 bush
els per acre pays so well ou the sandy
plains that farmers down here count con
fidently on making large fortunes this
year. 1 was lortuuate enough to nn a
myself, one afternoon, among a, dozen far
mers, some having sandy soil, and some
the heavier loam ; and after discussing
the comparative cost of cultivation, which
is nearly double on the heavy land, and
the product, which is as 10 bushels to
from 20 to 25, I listened to an earnest
argument concerning the relative merits
of sand and clay. I must say that the
sand had the best of it, very much to my
surprise, for it is not only sand, but it
has, I am told, an impenetrable hard pan,
from a foot to throe feet below the sur
face. In spite of this, which would seem
to make it worthless, it was admitted that
the sand did not show as much sign of
exhaustion as the clay, aud that, takiug
six or eght years together, it was as pro
Stable as clay. A very intelligent mau,
who ownes and worked 2000 acres of clay
and loam, said, at the close of the discus
sion, "l he sand has many merits , u can
be worked very cheaply, and it can bears
drouth Kurprissingly well ; but, after all,
it is good only for wheat ; it must always
be farmed on a large scale, nu circum
stances may make it unprofitable some
day ; whereas, on the clay we Can raise
anything we like, and are not deficndent
on Wheat aloue. He added, "the clay
and loam farms will have to be cut up,
and will be before many years. It will
pay better on that land to take 1G0 acres
and work it in various crops, thoroughly,
theu to exhaust 2000 or 3000 acres by
skimming over the surface."
LANDS FOR SMALL FA MILES.
I told you that much of the land is
rented. It is usual for the land owner to
furnish seed, feed for the teams, all the
tools and machinery needed for putting
in and harvesting the crops, and the land
and necessary buildings, and he gets half
the crop put in bags on the field. The
renter, as the tenant is called, furnishes
only the teams and men, and the supplies
for the men. The arrangement is not
inequitable ; and it gives, as you will see,
an importaut advantage to a man without
capital. An eight-horse team is worth
about $G00 ; with five such teams, and
five men who receive in the winter 30
per month and rations 4000 acres can
be put into wheat.
When the work is done, the teams cau
be hired out, or they can be turned into
pastures without cost. I was not surpris
ed to hear that many men have become
rich as renters. Two or three good crops
enable a renter to buy a large tract of his
own. I do not know what is the net pro
fit of the land owners under this system,
but was told that one, who has 40,000
acres, refused to rent land for SI a year
per acre. At this rate, many of the large
land-owners, who rent their land for wheat
crops, must make nearly 100 per cent
per annum on their original investments;
for you must understand that these plains
lay for years in the market as Congress
land, and could get no buyers ; and it was
only during the war that men began to
think them valuable. Theu thousands
of acres were bought for greenbacks, when
gold the currency of this State was at
from 150 to 200 ; that is to say, these
lands cost from GO to 75 cents per acre.
I do not doubt that the whole of the great
counties ofl-resno, lulare and Keru
would have been gobbled up by the land
monopolists at the same rate, had not the
Government given a land grant io these
counties to the Southern Pacific Railroad
and withdraw the whole of the public
lands from sale at the same time. From
this it results that the "even sections
are now open only to pre-emption or home
stead settlement, in tracts of from 80
to
160 acres, and thus more thau 2,000,000
acres of the most fertile soil in the worl
were saved ior small iarmers, who arc
ii i
now coming in in advance of the railroad
and taking up these Congress and Kail
road lands, must of which are of better
quality and capable of more various pro
ductiou thau the Merced plains.
FRONTIER ECONOMY.
The buildings put up for renters are, as
you may guess, as slight and poor as can be
There is a shanty for cooking and sleeping
the larm laborer here furnishes his own
bedding and docs his own washing : aud
his equipment is usually two thirts aud a
pair of blaukcts. There is a well, and
barn roomy enough to hold the hay and
barley and the teams. The renter either
has a house of his own elsewhere, or,
he is poor, his family live in the ehauty ;
there is no vegetable garden, there are no
trees, there is absolutely nothing to make
ife endurable or pleasaut; and the only
care of owner and tenant is to get as much
m
out ot the land each year as they can, at
the least expeusc. It is not a pleasant
system of agricultural, nor oue which can
be permaueut. But it develops in the
farmers who prartice it a great deal of
enterprise, aud very shrewd business
habits. They make money by economy
in cultivation ; and they are very quick
in seizing new labor saving devices. II
I may junge from those I met. I should
say these wheat farmers arc an unusually
intelligent set of men, with great courage.
"Last year I fed my teams but once a
day, the whole season, and worked them
hard, too," said one to me. "How could
you be so inhuman ?" I exclaimed. "By
Jove," he answered, "I was not inhuman;
I was poor; I had very little to eat my
self." A nurserymau wished to have a
piece of 20 acres plowed ten inches deep,
but was told it could not be done with
the gang-plows. "Why uot try a single
plow 7", I ventured to suggest. "No,
Sir," a farmer replied ; "I don't sale a
single plow ; you can't get any man to
put a hand to his plow here." One far
mer told me, in reply to some questions,
that he had lost 515,000 in the last two
years. He expected to make at least
$10,000 clear of all expenses this year.
He had paid for seed aud leed, shipped
from Sau Francisco, to put in his crop
this winter, 7,500.
BEET FARMING.
Another farmer shrewdly remarked to
me that when the wheat crop is large en
ough to suyply the State, uod a little
over, then wheat was pretty sure io be
very low in price lower than when the
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crop was very great ; 'uecausc, saiu lie,
a heavy crop draws ships hero to carry
it off; with a light crop, the small sur
plus weighs ou the maiket, because no
ships come to take it away." I reproach
ed some of them for not planting trees.
and the answer was, "We don't go a cent
on anything but wheat iu this county ;
we all want to get rich in two years.
But the men I spoke with saw the evil of
this farmiug, and are prepared to welcome
better things. J he sod in Merced coun
ty is well fitted for mcny crops. Fruit
grows .well wherever it has been tried,
and the sugar beet culture has begun on
a large pcalenear Sacramento, where 1200
acres are now sown iu beets and a very
complete factory is ready for operation.
It has cost 5200,000, aud the company
are satisfied that they will get tlm year
ten barrels of sugar to the acre. They
employ 350 men in the fields, mostly
Chinese, and between 70 and 80 in the
works; and they have exteusive sheds
for storing the beets; have planted wil
lows along the fence lines and irregular
ditches for wind-breaks, and have pre
pared sheds for fattening 500 head of cat
tle with the bagasse or refuse, which last
year they found to be very much relish
ed by animals. They mix ten pounds of
cut hay with as much bagasse as the beast
will eat. The beets are sown in Feb
ruary, and the sugar making will begin in
July. The beet sugar works near San
Francisco have been, it is said enormous
ly profitable for the past two seasons. On
the 3Ierced county plains but little at
tempt has yet been made at irrigation,
but some plans have been formed, and
experience has shown that if the land is
flooded and thoroughly soaked before it
is plowed in December it will bear a pro
fitable crop, no matter how dry the sea
son. Tribune.
Remedy for Freckles, Sunburn
Mosquito Bites.
and
Freckles indicate as excess of iron in
the blood, we are told, the sun actiog on
the particles in the skin as it docs on iu
dclible ink, bringing out the color. A
very simple way of removing them is
said to be as follows :
Take finely powdered nitre (saltpetre)
and apply it to the freckles by the fin
ger moistened with water and dipped in
the powder. AVhen perfectly done and
judiciously repeated, it will remove them
effectually and without trouble.
An old English prescription for the
skin, is to take half a pint of skim milk
so poor as to be blue slice into it as
much cucumber as it will cover, and let it
stand an hour; then bathe the face and
hands, washing them off with fair water
when the cucumber cxtract'is dry. The
latter is said to stimulate the growth of
hair where it is lacking, if well and fre
quently rubbed in. It would be worth
while to apply it to high foreheads and
bald crowns.
Hough Rkins, arising from exposure to
the winds in riding, rowing, or yachting,
trouble many ladies, who will be glad to
know that an application of cold cream
or glycerine at night, washed off with
fine carbolic soap in the morning, will
render them preseotable at the breakfast
table, without looking like women who
follow hounds, blowsy and burned. The
simplest way to obviate the bad effects
of too free sun and wind, which are act
on occasion to revcugc themselves for the
neglect shown them by the fair sex too
often, is to rub the face, throat and arms
well with cold cream or pure almond be
fore goiog out. With this precaution,
one may come home from a berry party
or a sail without a trace of, that ginger
bread effect too apt to follow "these pleas
ures. Cold cream made from almond oil,
with no laid or tallow about it, will ans
wer every end proposed "By the use of but
ter milk, which youifg ladies cau hardly
prefer as a cosmetic on accouut of ils
odor. ,
A verv delicate and effective prepara
tion for rough skins, eruptive "lisenscs.
cuts, or ulcer, is found in a mixture of
glycerine, half an ounce of rosemary, and
twenty drops of carbolic acid. In those
dreaded irritations of the fkin occurring
io summer, such as hives or prickly heat.
this wash gives soothing relief. The car
bolic acid at once neutralizes the poison.
of blood which causes the sore, purifies
and disinfects the wound or blotchand
heats it rapidly. A solution of this acid
in glycerine made much stronger, say'
fifty drops to an ounce of glycerine, forms
protection from mosquitoes if applied
at night. Though many reonle consider
the remedy equal to the disease, constant
use very soon reconciles one to the crco
sotic odor of the carbolic acid, especially
it the pure crystalized form is used which
is far less overpowering in its fragrance
than that commonly put up. Those who
iislike it too much to use it at uight will
find the stiur of the bites almost
miraculously cured and the blotches re
moved by touching I hem with the mix
ture in the morning. Hubics and chil
dren should be touched with it to re
ieve the pain they feel from insect bites.
and do not know how to express excent
by woirying. Two or three drops of
ottar of roses in the preparation disguises
the smell so as to render it tolerable to
human beings though uotso to-mosquitoes.
Harper & lazaar.
T
In Concmangh borough, Cambria coun
ty, about two weeks ago, a child was born
which bids lair to prove a greater curiosity
than the celebrated Siamese twins. The
infant wc speak of was born with a
duplicate part of itself attached to its
body above the naval, but while this
duplicate part is almost perfect in every
other particular, it is headless. The
lower limbs ure well formed, as also its
body aud arms, but there is only one
linger on oach hand. The body is turn
ed inward and only requires a head to
make a well formed child. This iufant
is etoTit, hearty, fine looking female, and
if it should live will prove a wonderful
curiosity.
A Chicago lady 72 years old is the
mother of a baby aed ten days.
SunstrokeCause, Prevention and Cure
The usual exciting cause of sunstraltd
is exposure to the direct rays of the sub1,
generally in connection with great ex
haustion of the'hodily powers. It some
times occurs without the direct agency
of the sun. Thp principal predisposing
cause is the use of alcoholic stimulants.
Enfeebled, poorly fed, over-worked, and!
irritable persons are also somewhat liable
to it. As special precautions during the
hot weather, the entire body, including5
the head, should be bathed daily in cool
or cold water, great care should be taken
not to wear anything around the neck so?
as to impede the circulation in the least,
and the covering of the head should be
light and porous, so thajL the air cau cir
culate freely through it. Those who obey
the laws ot health need have no fear of
sunstroke. The treatment of sunstroke
should vary somewhatj according to the
condition of the patient. In all cases he
should be removed to a cool and shady
place, and the clothing stripped from hS
body. If the head is hot, cold water or
ice should be kept constantly applied to
the head aud neck, and hot water to" fns'
hands and feet. If the skin is cool and
moist, the entire surface of the body
should be vigorously aud continuously
rubbed until reaction takes place. If the
skiu is hot and dry, then the whole body
should be rubbed with cloths wet in the
coldest water that can be obtained, of
with pieces of ice, until recovery takes
place, as it almost invariably will under
this treatment. Bleeding in Euch cases,
as practiced by many, is almost certaifi
death.
Keep Straight Ahead.
Pay no attention to slanderers or gossip
mongers. Keep straight oh your course,
and let their backbiting die the death of
neglect. What is the use lying awake
nights, brooding- over the remark of soma
false friend, that ran through -your braid
like forked lightning? What's the use
of getting into a worry and fret over gos
sip that has been set afloat to your dts
advantage by some meddlesome buysbody,
who has more time than character ?
Ihese things cannot permanently injuro
you, unless, indeed, you Kike notice of
them, and in combating them give them
charade and standing.
If what is said aboct 701 s true, get
yourself right at once ; if it is false, let it
go for what it will fetch. If a bee stings
you, would you go to the hive and destroy
it? Would not a thousand come upon
you? It is wisdom to say little respect
ing the injuries you have received. We
are generally losers in the end if we stop to
refute all the backbitings and gossipings
we may hear by the way. They are an
noying, it is true, but not dangerous, so
long as we do not stop to expostulate and
scold. Our characters are formed arxi
sustained by ourselves, and by our own
actions and purposes, &Bd not by others.
Let us always bear1 in mind tj)af"crr.
lutnuiators may usually be trusted to time,
and the slow but steady justice of publid
opiuioa.
"A Double-Headed Snake.
srrange reptile hes been added to
the already known sinrMihr T.inldcrlpnl
existence of Australia. A double headed
snake has been discovered. Porfessor
Ilalf'ord thus describes it : "Each head
was perfect in its own anatomy muscles,
bones, poison glands, and faugs. Each
neck was perfect for about ten vertebra?,
.when they blended with one body and
an oi me snake, lhere
lets, two wind pipes, and
which the right was the
were two gul
two breasts, of
largest, as was
the right head. The distribution of the
blood vessels I have not yet Traced. There
were two intelligences belonging to one
progsessive apparatus, and the result was
very interesting to witness. The right
head wished to go one way jmd the left
the other; as the neck vertebno of each
departed from the other at a very acute
angle, the result was a simple onward
movement of the common body. When
a common danger threatened, then the
left head twisted itself round the right
one sokas to be in the same line, and then
progression was tolerably quiefc." Since
the above fuTatto was caught another of
the same tribe answering the same desorip-,
tiou has been captured.
THE CURRANT WORM,
Y e are informed by Dr. E. Worcester
of Waltham, that the currant worm, so
destructive to a favorite fruit? may be ful-
ly and almost immediately destroyed by
the use of carbolate of lime. The Doo
tor tried the powder iu many instances
during the past summer, and iound that
while it wsl full as effective as hellebro
it was less disagreeable, less costly, a.nd
perfectly safe. The method of using it
is to sprinkle it over the vines as soon as
the worm makes its appearance, bringing
it well in contact with the loaves.and
soon the insect is destroyed. It will need
but two or three applications and the
work is done. Iu this way for a few cents
large quantities of currant bushes may be
saved and tho fruit allowed to mature,
and no danger whatever incurred. Neith
er the foliage nor tho fruit is in any way
injured by the carbolate of limo. jt will
be well for our readers to remember this
when the fruit season returns. Huston
Journal of Chanishy.