Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1879 — Page 4

COUNTKY SLEIGHING. XKW MOX<i TO AX OU> TUX*. January, when in the dairy * The cream Mid clabber freeze. When anow-drifta cover the fences over, We farmer* take our ease. At nlpht we rig the team, And bring the cutter out: Then fill it. fill it. fill it. fill it, And heap the turn about. The wiodewa glisten, the old folks listen To hear the sleigh-bells pass; The fields grow whiter, the stars are brighter, The road as smooth as glass. Our muffled faces burn. The clear north wind blows cold. The girls all nestle, nestle, nestle, Each in her lover's bold. Through bridge and gateway Jwe*re • shooting straightway. The tollman wn too slow I He'll listen after our song and laughter, As over the hill we go. The girls cry: “Fie 1 for shame 1 ■ Their cheeks and lipa are red, And so with kisses, kisses, kisses, They take the toll instead. Still follow, follow! across the hollow— The tavei n fro ts the road. Whoa, now! nil steady I the host Is ready— He knows the country mode! The irons are in the fire, The hiss ng flip is gott Bo pour and sip it, sip it sip it, And sip it while 'tis hot. 1 her bells are ringing, the ostlers bringing The cutters up anew: The beasts are neighing: too Jong we're staying; The night is half vj»y through. Wrap close the buffalo robes; We're all aboard once more; Now tingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, Away from the tavern door. Ho follow, follow, by hill and hollow, And swiftly homeward glide. What midnight splendor! how warm and tender The maiden by your side* The sleighs drop far apart; Her words are soft and low: Now. if yon love her, love her, love hoi, ’Tis safe to fall her so. —Edmund Chrence Stedman.

WHAT BECAME OF “SAM.”

It was generally supposed that Sam was what is called “deficient.” As to his own family, they were sure of it; at all events, they treated him as if he were so. Not that they were unkind to him; on the contrary they were all very fond of “poor old Sam,” but it seemed to be taken for granted that whatever he said was not worth notic ing, and almost everything he did was to be made fun of more or less. He was, in fact, the family butt, though shafts were, as a rule, tipped with good nature so as not to hurt his feelings. Hardly ever did he attempt to say or do anything in serious earnest, since almost everytliiug he did or said was treated as a sort of joke. There was one exception to this. Mothers always know best how to deal with the weak in the flock, and Sam’s mother never laughed at him, and never despaired of him. “What is to become of Sam?” his father would say;‘‘he’ll never earn his own living,” and his mother would quietly answer: “Wait a bit, my dear, there is more in him, perhaps, than we think, but it wants to be drawn out, and I doubt if we are acting wisely in laughing at him as we do.” She said “we,” poor soul, but that was only her discreet way of putting it. Now, Sam had a sister, Mary, of whom he was especially fond. Perhaps it was because she was the sister nearest to him in age, but it was more likely because she placed a little more confidence in him than the others did; it Wasn t much, but it was more than he got from any of the rest. He would do anything for Mary, and when a certain Mr. St. Leger in the neighborhood took a fancy to her it was amusing to see how Sam resented the engagement. This Mr. St. Leger had lately come into the neighborhood—no one knew where from; but he had plenty of money and very agreeable manners, and was a general favorite with the Frere family. Sam, however, never liked him from the first, and when at length he became Mary Frere’s accepted suitor, Sam’s aversion to him became intense. The day was fixed fur the wedding, and the Sunday had arrived when, in deference to Mary’s particular wish, though very much against Mr. St. Leger’s inclination, the bans were to be published in church. The Freres were in their place—a great square pew in front of the pulpit. The names were read out in due course. Mary was recovering from the electric shock of hearing them; the villagers were interchanging glances, some even cautiously rising a little to peep into the square pew, when a voice was heard all over the church, saying, in a most emphatic way, “ I forbid the banns.” Surprise was on every face, but it quickly gave way to the ludicrous as Sam was seen standing up in the middle of the pew, looking the clergyman steadily in the face, as much as to say, “ There now; get over that if you can 1" ” The clergyman was so amused that he had to rush on with the service to prevent any unseemly display, while Sam’s kindred in the square pew were in every attitude of painfully-restrained amusement. And there he stood, unabashed and defiant, until his father plucked him by the arm and made him sit down. But none of them for one moment thought it was anything more than a very unaccountable freak of “ poor old Sam’s.”

No sooner was the service over than he was assailed on all sides for an explanation. Two only were serious about it—his father and Mary. “ What is the meaning of this, sir? ” said his father, sternly; “ what could have possessed you to make yourself so ridiculous? ” “ He has got a wife already,” said Sam, doggedly. “ Who has? ” was the general exclamation. “ St. Lager.” “ Who told vouso?” “ Tom Tyler! ” Tom Tyler was the village letter-car-rier. There was a shout of laughter at this piece of information. “ When did Tom Tyler tell you this?” “ Yesterday. He brought me a letter for Mrs. St. Leger.” Another about of laughter greeted this; but Mary looked very grave, while the father said that, of course, the letter was for St. Leger’s mother, of whom he had more than once spoken. So Sam was sharply rebuked for listening to Tom Tyler’s idle tales, and told to hold Ins tongue. “You’ll have St. Leger try his horsewhip across your shoulders if yon don’t mind,” cried his eldest brother, and they all laughed again; but Sam was very unlike himself, and did not join in the laugh, but maintained a grave composure they had never noticed in him before. Nor was it a laughing matter somewhere else. The news of that morning s interruption flew apace, with various additions and amendments. Thus unproved upon, it reached the ears of Mr. St. Leger, who lived but a few miles off, and it created a profound sensation, so much so that, instead of spending the "afternoon with the Freres, as expected, he took himself off and was never seen by them again. It was discovered that Tom Tyler’s version had been correct after good riddance for Mary Frere; but a heart trifled with and wronged can never quite recover itself. For a time Sam was almost reverently treated at home. They felt the force ■ of his simple explanation why he Jiad chosen such a singular way of -uttering his suspicions, that it was "because they would only have laughed at him if he had told them,” and were a little ashamed of themselves. But the old habit revived after a while, as old habits, hoth family and personal, so easily Go, and barn's brains were held as cheap

as ever, except by Mary, who was drawn to him more than ever, and by his mother, who never ceased to ponder in her Heart, as only mothers do, the meaning of that display of firm intelligence and almost fierce affection. “11l tell you what it means,” said her brother to Mrs. Frere one day when she was talking to him about it—he was a lawyer in London, old John Quicksett, of Gray’s Inn, who could see a thing as shrewdly as most people—“it means this, that Sam has got a heart and a head, but his head is more out of the way than usual, and can only be got at through his heart, like an old-fashioned bedroom that can only be reached by going through another. Look here, sister, I like amazingly that story of the banns—it’s grand. Not that there was anything clever in what he did, just the reverse; it might have been a moststupid mistake; but this is what takes my fancy so, the firmness of purpose, a far higher quality of mind than mere cleverness, that could make the poor fellow face everything he did for the sake of the sister he loved. There must be something in one who could run the gantlet like that, when his heart was once fairly unlocked, and I think I have the key.” “I always thought so,” cried Mrs. Frere, greatly delighted. “Well, let me try. I’ll run away with Sam, and make a lawyer of him. What do you say ? ” The grinning was epidemic round the table after it was known that Sam was to be a lawyer. His brothers and sisters could hardly look at first without smiling; it did seem so droll, so absolutely contrary to every notion tlioy entprtained of him. Had he sat before them in full naval costume as Admiral of the Channel fleet, it would hardly have struck them as being more unlooked for and preposterous. Uncle John’s presence saved Sam from collective bantering, though the old lawyer was too wise to make any fuss about the matter; but when Sam was elone with his brothers and sisters he hsd a hard time of it, though all was, as usual, in perfect good humor.

At first Sam had, of course, to go through the usual drudgery of a lawyer’s office, in which, if it be possible for every one to shine, he certainly did not. His blunders were awful, and provoked the wrath or ridicule, as the case might be, of his fellow-clerks, who were all well seasoned and somewhat ancient men. But his uncle never found fault with him. The most he said when some frantic bungle was brought to his notice was, “Sam, do this over again; you know you can do it a great deal better than that.” And, sure enough, it was done better the second time. In short, his uncle began with, and, in spite of every discouragement, persevered in, the plan of trusting him. And by degrees he found the more he trusted him the better he did,, and the more he treated him as if there were something in him the more he got out of him. Had Sam nothing in him to begin with the plan could not have answered; but this was just what his uncle believed, namely, that there was something in him, but it had been systematically laughed down and sat upon from superficial considerations, and that it could be brought out by a total ch ange of external influence and treatment. And now his powers began to show themselves and to expand, just as a shrub that had been stunted and blackened from want ™ room and uncongenial f oil begins to throw out vigorous shoots when transplanted to ground that suits it and where it has space to grow. “Sam,” said Mr. Quicksett, one day, “we shall all of us be away the whole afternoon, and must leave you in charge of the office. If that fellow Choker should come, mind, you’re not to let him see anything.”

As the fates would have it, Choker did come. Perhaps Mr. Quicksett knew he was coming. Possibly Mr. Choker, who was a sharp and not very scrupulous professional opponent of his, bad made himself aware of the unprotected state of the office in Gray’s Inn, and he brought with him a man that looked every inch a prize-fighter. “ Is Mr. Quicksett in—no? Well it’s of no consequence. I merely called to see aa a matter of form one or two documents in Smith vs. Jones.” “Then I must trouble you to call again when Mr. Quicksett is in.” “ Quite right, young man,” said Choker, approvingly; “ that’s the right thing to say in ordinary cases; but you see this is not an ordinary case. We’ve got an order of the court to inspect these documents.” “Where is it?” said Sam, bluntly. “ You’ve got it with you, haven’t you ? ” said Choker, carelessly turning to his companion. The young athlete fumbled in his pockets, and declared, with great apparent vexation, that he must have forgotten to bring it. “ I don’t believe you’ve got it to bring,” said Sam. “ We’ll have 1.0 nonsense, sir,” said Choker, in a passion; “at your peril refuse to show us what we want to see,” and the two men advanced on Sam in a threatening way. But, little as he was, he never budged an inch. “ I tell you what it is,” he said, with all the coolness imaginable, “if you don’t leave the office this minute, I’ll send for a constable.” There was no need to attempt that difficult operation. They were only trying it on, and, with an affectation of injured innocence, Mr. Choker and his satellite withdrew. On another occasion, after Sam had been some months in the office, his uncle came out of his room one day and hade him go down at once to Judges’ chambers and look after some case that was to come on there. “Itis a thing that requires you to have your wits about you to do that, for you come face to with a shrewd Judge, who cannot tolerate a fool.” The old clerks in Mr. Quicksett’s office appeared paralyzed with astonishment at such an order; and one of them ventured, when partially recovered, to suggest a mistake on Mr. Quicksett’s part. “ It’s rather a difficult case, sir, if you remember,” he urged.

“ All right, Mustay,” was the cheery reply ; “ I know what I am about. The best way to learn to swim is to be pitched neck and heels into deep water.” The suspense was great among the ancients while Sam was away : but he came back in due time, and reported that the case had come on before the Judge, and that his Lordship had made an order in their client’s favor. “ Did he ask you any questions?” inquired Mustay. “Oh, yes! and I answered them,” said Sam; but he did not mention, for he did not know it, nor will it be mentioned in the memoir of the learned Judge when it comes out, that, accustomed as he was to ready answers, it had actually crossed his mind for a moment that the funny little lawyer’s clerk would make a capital witness—he was so ready, and said neither more nor less than was wanted. Whether a good witness would always make a good lawyer we need not decide; but it is certain that, in course pf time, Sam made a very good one indeed. He was one of those not uncommon cases where supposed “ deficiency” is superficial only, and where a far more grave deficiency is to be found in those who, by constantly laughing at it, run the risk of making it a life-long imbecility. Sam’s relatives never laughed at him again after the first visit he paid them, though they often laughed with him, for hia drojlery inexhaustible.

He never married, but his sister Mary kept house for him, and was perhaps a great deal happier than she ‘would have been anywhere else.— Cassette Magazine.

LAND OF THE DAKOTAS.

The Future Wheat-Fields of America. [Fargo (Dakota) Letter to Chicago Tribune.] Recent tourists, and especially the able special correspondents whom you sent here some weeks since, have written so much of this country, which only a few years since was regarded by a large majority of the American people as an uninhabitable waste, that I should despair of adding anything to the mass of valuable information already furnished were it not that it is not only a big but a truly wonderful country, and new discoveries and developments are constantly being made. He who comes here to-morrow will find something that escaped his predecessor of to-day. In fact, new countries, like new babies, are always developing something wonderful, and, as the last baby to put in an appearance in a household is sure to eclipse its predecessors on account of its beatfty and brightness, so Dakota, the youngest of Uncle Sam’s children, is decidedly the most promising of the lot. Everything here is on a scale never before thought of by the most imaginative dreamer. The prairies are larger and richer than any other. A gentleman to whom I appealed to-day for information as to the extent of the valley of the Red river of the North lying in this Territory remarked that he was unable to furnish correct data as to the area covered, but he was certain that tho whole of New Buglaml would be a mere speck compared to it and that he could show me single farms here that contained more acres than the State of Rhode Island. This, it must be confessed, was rather an extravagant estimate, but, as my informant had onlv been here a few weeks, I felt inclined to be charitable toward him, especially as he came from Chicago, where the people are educated to expect and realize extravagant results. As regards the farms, however, it may surprise some of your Eastern readers when I say that the Grandine farms, forty miles below here on Red river, contain 56,000 acres, and the proprietors have an elevator on the river at the. farms and one here; they also have a steamer and a number of barges for the purpose of bringing then' wheat to the railroad. Other farms, including those of Messrs. Cass, Cheney, and Dalrymple, -are also wonders in point of size. A snug little plantation of 10,00 C acres is also being put into cultivation about ninety miles west of here on the line of the Northern Pacific. This small patch is owned by Messrs. Adams and Russell, of New York, and managed by the latter gentleman, who says he hopes to increase its size soon, as he is negotiating for a number of additional tracts, and it is to be hoped that he will secure them, as it would be a pity to have the gentlemen hampered for room.

The counties are laid out on a scale to correspond with the farms. This (Cass) county is forty-two miles square, contains forty-nine townships, and 1,128,960 acres of land, more than fivesixths of which is unsurpassed for growing every species of crops adapted to this climate. Th§ country is traversed through its whole length by the Red river, and also contains numerous small streams that furnish abundant water for stock purposes. Wells of fine water are found everywhere by sinking from twenty to thirty-five feet, and small lakes of unsurpassed beauty, whose waters are clear as crystal, dot the prairies at frequent intervals. These miniature lakes will be of incalculable value to the settlers, as they guarantee a never-failing supply of water, which, owing to its interior origin, is of unsurpassed purity. Many of them also swarm with fish of the finest description. Notwithstanding the lateness of the season, there is a perfect rush for lands from buyers who have been attracted here. I learn from General Manager Sargent, who, by the way, has brought the road from obseurity.to popular notice, that the Northern Pacific Railroad’s land sales in October were 98,000 acres, and for September 62,000. Thus far the current month they have been unusually large. These sales, however, only include a part of the lands taken up, as there are millions of acres in that part of Dakota traversed by the Northern Pacific that are subject to entry under homestead and timber acts. These are being rapidly taken up for settlement by an industrious and intelligent class of emigrants from the older States, a very large percentage of whom are experienced farmers, and have the capital to enable them to render the farms available. Mechanics are also flocking here in large numbers, and so far they have found an open field for their services at remunerative prices. I am credibly informed that during the past summer and current fall the demand for both skilled and unskilled labor has exceeded the supply. This demand will be ‘largely increased next spring, as the heavy influx of immigration will cause unusual activity in building and other improvements. There will also be increased openings for commercial enterprises. The wheat lands of this district embrace an area of 300 miles north and south by 270 east and west, one-half of which are in Dakota, and the remainder in the Canadian Province of Manitoba, all of which is and will for years find its most direct outlet to market over the Northern Pacific railroad.

There is a prevalent idea in the States that the severity of Dakota’s climate renders it objectionable. This, lam satisfied, is a mistake. I never saw more delightful weather than the present winter, and the oldest settlers here say they suffer far less from cold here than in New England and some of the Central States, where the temperature, although much higher, is changeable, -and air more penetrating, while here it is dry, pure, and highly beneficial to persons suffering from lung diseases.

Too Heavy for Him.

This comes from Waterford, Loudon county, Va.: A colored meeting was lately held, in this place, at which the attendance was large and the converts numerous. The stove-pipe happening to fall, the minister asked one of the bredderin to put it in position again. Brother Johnson essayed to do it, but, being rather slow, the old minister said, “Pick it up, brudder, pick it up; de Lord won’t let it burn you.” " Brother Johnson, with faith in the assurance, seized the hot pipe, and, of course, had his hands blistered. He dropped it with the inappropriate remark, “De dibbil he won’t!” It was just a little heavy for him.— Harper’s Magazine for February.

As Chinese children are not permitted to enter the San Francisco public schools, those who have embraced Christianity are taught in the Union mission in the old Globe Hotel. The school has two sessions, one .conducted by an American woman, the other by Hung Mung Chung, a fine Chinese scholar, and said to be a lineal descendant of Confucius. Last year Hung Mung Chung was baptized and became a member of the Protestant Church for Chinese. Each session of the school is closed by singing and repeating the Lord’s prayer—in the morning in English, in the afternoon in Chinese.

FARM NOTES.

Hints tar the Snason[From the Burst New Yorker.] Care of Cellars.-—-If they are too cold, bank np the outside with something, or place a double thickness of newspapers, over the windows. This lets in some light and prevents the escape of heat. A double floor or fire in the room over the cellar, will help to keep out the frost. A kerosene stove in the cellar may be used in extreme cases. Ventilate on suitable days, and clean out decaying vegetables and fruits. Engage Help.—Look about early in the season, and get your pick of hands in the market. Make a written bargain in detail, no matter if you are well acquainted. This will prevent misunderstanding. . The man agrees to remain a certain number of months; to perform certain chores Sunday or holidays; to start about such an hour in the morning, and close at such an hour in the evening. If, in case of an emergency, he works longer, he may have certain privileges to compensate for it. In case he quits before his time is out, he only receives a certain stipulated sum. Calves and Sheep.—Lard and kerosene are good to keep lice from calves; sulphur mixed with salt is good to drive ticks from sheep. Calves, like all animals, should be kept growing from birth to maturity. Here is one place where the profit comes in. There is always a loss of time and feed and more, too, by allowing young animals to “ stand still ” for six months or more of the year. Sheep are well clothed and need shelter from snow and rain, and perhaps Irom the very strongest winds, but cold agrees with them. Feed them well; give them plenty of water, in small flocks; keep them dry, and they may stay out in the cold and thrive. A clos a, dark pen is a poor place for sheep. Wood, Tools, Ice.—Cut a supply at wood, posts, rails and logs for lumber, ready to be moved easily on the advent of sleighing. No thrifty farmer will leave these things to be done in the busier seasons. Get wagons and buggies repaired and painted, as well as tools and implements for summer use. Make stone-boats, cut handspikes and stakes, and get ready everything which can be got ready. Snow may be scraped from the ice to keep it clear and allow it to freeze thick. If you have never tried it, build a cheap ice-house, and enjoy a cheap luxury next summer. The cakes should be cut of even size, and set on edge close together. There should be perfect drainage at the bottom, but no access of air. Around all, place a layer of eighteen inches of sawdust.

Look Behind and Before.—Now is the time to make plans for the campaign of 1879. Take an inventory of the farm-ctock and everything on hand. If this has never been done before, the proprietor will doubtless be surprised to find how much he owns. Straighten up the books, and the little debts; and collect those due from neighbors. Small accounts should not run long. Trust not to memory. Arrange the books for the business of the year. Study over the plans considerably in detail, and do not wait till the ground is ready to plow before deciding what to do. Look over the past and study the good hints and the failures—whether all was done to the best advantage; whether there was too little or too much help. This should lead to better plans for the future. Nothing can bring JArger returns, for the time, than a few weeks spent in accordance with the above suggestions. Cows.—Treat them generously and kindly, but do not keep them fat, unless they are to be turned off for beef. A cow is a machine, a laboratory for converting raw materials into milk. If little be giv. n, little will be received. All animals should have exercise, especially those kept for breeding. Some of them are naturally lazy, but they will be the better for stirring about in the open air. It is cruel to keep animals tied up or shut up foridays at a time. They need light, too. Direct sunshine exerts a powerful influence for good on animals as well as on plants. Do not overlook a good supply of pure water two or three times a day; on good ventilation and proper clearing of stables. When the ground is frozen and covered with snow it may be well enough, on pleasant days, to scatter the fodder, and allow the stock plenty of room to pick it up, but, when it is muddy, no one but a sloven will fedder on the ground. Good racks should be made for the sake of convenience and economy.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

To Remove Tan.—Lemon juice used freely upon the face at night,,and permitted to dry there, will be found, after a few applications, to remove tan from the features, though we consider it a matter of little importance. Some ladies are sensitive about the matter «of tan, but men should never be; it is becoming to them. To Destroy Vermin.—Croton bugs and red ants can be driven off by sprinkling the floor with pulverized borax, and leaving a place for them to get out; to kill them mix borax with sugar, so they will eat it. For ants or other vermin, wash the shelves with a strong solution of borax; then sprinkle the same with borax mixed with sugar. When whitewashing your room, add a table-spoonful of pulverized borax to each pailful of lime. Woolen Cloths.—When woolens are worn threadbare, as is often the case in the elbows, cuffs, sleeves, etc., of men’s coats, the coats must be soaked in cold water for half an hour; then take out of the water and put on a board, and the threadbare parts of the cloth rubbed with a half-worn hatter’s “card,” filled with flocks, or with a prickly thistle, until a sufficient nap is raised. When this is done, hang the coat up to dry, and, with a hard brush, lay the nap the right way. Condiments.—lt is not enough that food should contain alimentary principles in proper quantity; to render it really nutritious there must also be a supply of condiments. These may be compared to oil in a machine, which neither makes good the waste of material nor supplies motive power, yet causes it to work easier and better, rendering essential service in the process of nutrition, though they are not of themselves able to prevent waste of any part of the body. Beefsteak, Madrid Style.—Take a piece of rump steak about three-quarters of an inch thick. Trim it neatly and beat it with the cutlet-bat, sprinkle it with pepper, dip it in oil, and broil it over a clear fire. Turn it after it has been on the fire a minute or two, and keep turning it till done; eight or ten minutes will do it. Sprinkle it with salt, and serve with a small quantity of finely-minced parsley and a piece of butter mixed together, Bid place over or under the steak. Garnish with fried potatoes. Beef Tea.—Take one pound of lean beef, free of fat and separated from the bone, and reduce it to the finely-chopped state in which it is used for beef sausages; uniformly mix with its own weight in water, slowly heated to boiling, and the liquid, after boiling briskly for a minute or two, is to be strained through a towel from the coagulated albumen and the fibrine, now become hard and homy. Thus is obtained an equal weight of the most aromatic soup, of such strength as cannot be obtained even by boiling for hours from a piece of flesh. To Sugar or Crystallize For-

Corn.—Put into an iron kettle one table-spoonful of butter, three tablespoonfuls of water, and one teacupful of white sugar; boil until ready to candy, then throw in three quarts of com, nicely popped; stir briskly until the candy is evenly distributed over the com; set the kettle from the fire and stir until it is cooled a little and you have each grain separate and crystallized with the sugar; care should be taken not to have too hot a fire lest you scorch the corn when crystallizing. Nuts of any kind prepared this way are delicious. Importance of Airing Beds.—The desire of an energetic housekeeper to have her work completed at an early hour in the morning causes her to leave one of the most important items of neatness undone. The most effectual purifying of bed and bed-clothes cannot take place if no time is allowed for the free circulation of pure air to remove all human impurities which have collected during the hours of slumber. At least two or three hours should be allowed for the complete removal of atoms of insensible perspiration which are absorbed by the bed. Every day this airing should be done, and, occasionally, bedding constantly used should be carried into the open air, and, when practicable, left exposed to the sun and wind for half a day.

URBAN MORTALITY.

What People Die Of in New York. [From the New York Sun ] During the year hist closed there were 27,005 deaths in this city, a larger number tliu.ii ilie total of 1677 by 802 deaths. This made the annual death-rate of New York 25.28 in the 1,000 of population. The rate is very much higher than it ought to be. The death-rate of London in 1877 was 21.79. While the mortality from zymotic diseases—those against which sanitary precautions are most serviceable—was lees than in 1877, that from the diseases classed as constitutional, local and developmental was greater in about the same proportion. The zymotic diseases are such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, cholera infantum, dysentery, croup and measles. The constitutional diseases include cancer and consumption; the local, pneumonia, heart disease, convulsions, apoplexy, paralysis, and the like; and developmental, childbirth, teething, and old age. The deaths of the city for 1878, as compared with those of 1877, and classified according to the nosological divisions we have given above, and which have long been in use in this country and England, were as follows: Clausen of Diseases. ' 1878. 18<7. Total deaths from all causes27,o* 5 . 26,203 Total zymotic diseases 7.635 8,042 Total constitutional diseases 6,422 5,800 Total local diseaseslo,l97 9.720 Total developmental diseases 1.709 1,615

It will be seen from this table that local diseases carried off the largest number of persons, and this is apt to be the rule in our communities when no epidemic prevails. w The mortality stood about one-third in proportion to the whole, and this is very near the proportion which obtained throughout the whole State of Massachusetts in 1877. If the deaths from zymotic diseases fell off over 400 from the previous year, that gain was more than offset by the increase in the deaths from other groups of diseases, which was about 1,200. Though zymotic diseases as a whole were less fatal than in 1577, the deaths from scarlet fever, which toward the end of the year began to be alarmingly prevalent, and from diphtheria, which usually goes hand in hand with it, were in excess of that year. The portion of the city most infested by these terrible scourges was the Nineteenth ward, and the one least troubled by them was the F if teen th ward,which was happily almost entirely free from them. As throughout this whole region, and elsewhere in climates analogous to ours, the greatest enemy of human life in New York last year was consumption, which carried off 4,477 persons, against 4,044 in 1877. Thejiext most destructive disease was diarrhea, however, caused considerably less mortality than in 1877—2,964 against 3,557. Next in order came the diseases of the brain and nervous system, a class of maladies which the statistics of other communities show are increasing under the stress of modern life, though undoubtedly allowance must be made for the fact that doctors now include in that class affections which formerly were placed elsewhere. Of these diseases of all kinds 2,416 individuals died in New York last year. Pneumonia followed closely after with 2,271 deaths. The other most fatal diseases were, bronchitis, which destroyed 1,248 lives; Bright’s disease, 1,155; heart diseases, 1,098 —a gain of more than 206 on 1877; scarlet fever, 1,095, and diphtheria, 1,010. We may note the almost entire absence of small-pox from the city last year. There were only two deaths from it, the smallest number reported since 1824. This is something unparalleled in the history of that odious disease—that a city of above a million of inhabitants shoiild enjoy for a whole year a substantial immunity from a contagious malady which has been one of the worst with which humanity has had to contend. It affords proof of the efficiency of vaccination. Of the deaths from violence we are glad to record a falling-off from last year —1,004 against 1,026. There were also fewer suicides—l 37 against 148; and fewer deaths from drowning—lß2 against 194. It is, however, painful to observe that there was an increased and a large mortality from cancer—s7l against 495. Against this we can put the fact that of the 27,005 deaths the very considerable number of 1,600 were of persons over 70 years of age. If we deduct from the mortality that of children under 5 years, which was 12,354, and the deaths from violence, suicide, drowning, sunstroke, and alcoholism, which numbered 1,493, we find the percentage of these deaths at ripe years to be about one-eighth.

From the Catholic Director for 1879, which has just been issued, it appears that there are in Great Britain, at the present time, 21 Archbishops and Bishops of the Roman Catholic faith, 2,175 priests and 1,380 churches. These figures show an increase over those of the previous year of 39 jpriests and 38 churches. In Scotland, where the hierarchy has been recently re-estab-lished, there are 6 Bishops, 272 priests and 264 churches and stations. These United States will come back from Paris with 505 prizes. We had only some 900 exhibitors. The National Complaint, Dyspepsia is the national complaint Almost every other man or woman you meet has it, and the result is that the number of pseudo-reme-dies fur it is as numerous as Pharaoh's host Tney are for the most part worthless. There is, however, a searching eradicaht of this distressing and obdurate malady, one whose genuine merits long since rajsed it to a foremost place among the staple medicines of America. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters extirpates dyspepsia with greater certainty and promptitude than any known remedy, aud is a most genial invigorant, appetizer, ana aid to secretion. These are not empty assertions, as thousands of our countrymen and women who have experienced its effects are a wore, but are backed up by irrefragibie proofs repeatedly laid before the publie. The Bitters also promote a regular habit of body, and give a healthful stimulus to the urinary organs. Some of the new styles of Mason A Hamlin Cabinet Organs introduce a style of finish with embos-ed gold-bronze ornamentation, bv a new Bes; at once the most elegant and chaste yet employed on such instruments. Prices are very low for such workmanship.

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