Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 July 1872 — Page 3

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rla PI. c stock on the farm is more inclined to roa than the few week' old pigs, who find out the smallest crevice in a fence, and break into the neld, li out yards, gardens, in squad bent on mischief, and giving infinite trouble, und o' ten t inies cau-in g considerable damage. LUV farmers deem it the beat course to let them roam, thinking thereby - ; lething is gained in the way of food. lid perhaps hardiness. If we were bleeding pig; for rares, und wanted nard muscle and tough nerve, this practice would be commendable. But f sleek, plump, contented porkers are ifie object, then closer confinement is , ietter. I'ntil a pig is nearly or quite three . nth, old. be ia better off if restricted to a comfortable pen and yard. We say comfortable inclosurc, because that condition ia certainly quite essential to his health and thrift. It should be dry, sheltered, und not too confined. We venture to say that a litter of pigs thus confined will, when three months old, weigh one-unrter more- than if let run meantime. And in both cases they hall have consumed the same food. Besides, they will have more quiet dispositions. At this period, or when weaned, we would turn them in a clover lot, supply .li-' outer toou in aounaance, and, it convenient, let them clean the stubbles and orchard after harvest. They should go into the pen for final fattening, if that ia to be their fate when they are yet j ig-. American Rural Home. Sowing flraas Alane. A writer in the Rural New Yorker gay-: Now, I do not believe in any of this old-time nonsense of sowing grass äeed or clover with oats, rye or wheat, just because somebody has aaid it was the best way. If a man wants a field seeded with timothy, sow that and noth ing else ; and the Bame with any other kind of grass, or even clover, for any of them will grow far better alone than when crowded, shaded, or the soil about the roots robbed of its moisture by some coarse rank-growing grain. Of course on rich moist soils a man may seed down with grain and thereby save one season; but it is poor policy to follow this system on old, nearly worn-out soils, even if out fathers and grandfathers "always done so." Then, again, it is folly to mix clover and timothy together in the fame field, tor they are never both in proper condition tor cutting ut the same time, and a little musty, over-ripe clover, mixed in with the huy, adds nothing to its value. By keeping both separate, each can be cut when in the best condition for hay. and this rule will hold good with all kinds of forage plants. tapartuas r Teailnc the Kir hneaa of Milk. In Dingler s Polytechnisch Journal, a description is given of a very simple up paratus for determining the richness of milk, as measured by its transparency. Two polished plates of glass arejadjusted by means of a screw, to stand at different distances from each other. The milk is placed between them ; and the distance of the plates from each other, when tne flame of a stearine candle it rendered invisible, is the measure alike ot the transparency and richness of the milk. Acrtealiaral Ilea. 1'r. George Sprague, the prominent breeder of live stock at Des Moines, Iowa, says that for every animal that has been injured by over-feeding, 10.000 have been injured in their growth and for breeding purposes by being scantily nourished and insufficiently housed. A correspondent of the Pomologist has round that potash placed in rat-roles and mole-runs will clear the premises of these pests in short order. I.n caring for your fowls, provide them with a vessei of lime water for an occasional drink. It U prepared by pouring hot water over quicklime, and after the lime is settled and the water covering it bus become clear, pour it off. It will keep fit for use for a considerable time. To prevent crows pulling corn l Take, w eacn pecit 01 corn wet with warm water, one tablespoon ful of gas tar ; stir until it is well blackened ; then roll in plaster to dry. i have tried it for years, and never knew it to be disturbed by anything, it is also a good way to prpare corn to sow near a barn where 'owls are apt to scratch it out. They will not eat more than one kernel. 5 A.D., in Rural New Yorker. Home alle Recipe. Adulterated Coffee. A sure test by which to know genuine coffee is to throw a teaapoonful of ground coffee into a tumbler of cold water ; if it is the real article it will float, as the adulteration! will sink at once. IV (Jure Ringworms. Take the best tula cigars; smoke one a sufficient length ot time to accumulate one-fourth or one-half inch of ashes upon the end 01 the cigar. Now wet the whole sur tace of the sot e with the saliva of the mouth ; then rub the ashes from the MM of the cigar thoroughly into and HI over the sore. Do this three times a and inside of a week all will be smooth und well.: A'.t in the Rural W Yorker. Rookies. One cup of white sugar, rolled fine, mixed with a half cup of butter ; a half cup of sour cream, mixed ith a teaspoonful of saleratus. Add W0 eggs, thoroughly beaten. Season uh caraway seeds or nutmeg. Roll Wi sprinkle sugar on. Roil lightly once, cut them in a circular shape and hke in a quick oven. i Orange Cake. Yolks of five "Kgs, whites of three, two cups of sugar, ne-half cup of water, grated rind and juice of one oratnre. one cun of flmir one teaapoonful of cream tartar, one-

half teaspoonful of salt. Hike in four cakes, and put between the cakes and over the top the frosting. Take white of one egg, one cup of sugar, and onehalf the juice and rind of one orange to make frosiing. Steam Pudding. Two cups of flour, one cup of nidk, one half cup of butter, one half cup of sugar, one-half cup of molasses, one cup of raisin, one teaspoonful of soda. Steam two hours and serve with a sauce.

Crops of 171. The report of the Department of Agriculture for the year 1871, not yet published, gives the following general summary of the quantities, number of acre, and aggregate value of principal crops of the United State in that year: N uiu bar of Nuuilr i.r rroaurta. Hathrla. Imliau coro... . Whal Ki,"2,4iaj Ko UjpVJaW Oaia auaiM Acr-. . Valu. S47aITS,Stj tWMII.aXU IJ.U'.-I' l8,i.iOii ill .AI 1.777 TI.VIO..TI .1 4.0 1. 1 37 IV. 'I vi l.nW.MI s,iV l ir: lasts Barlcr liuikwlirat I I'utatoca). Total Tl.. er-, II . ' lla. ton J2.7ai I .'. I, Too .I,MJ07Ip W, 2-23 9x..lj . Ia.l.l 3üo7M 2ii) ui ÄEW.vai I9.o0.na 3AI.7l7.ii3.', 3.IU0.0UO ... 'otloii. Lalr. ine average yield, and cost value, and price per bushel, ton or po,.nd, of farm products for the year is estimated as fellows : Indian corn, hu 91.1 42 fll . tu. IIJ UU u.r Mt. bn 14 3 7. . sa, 1 1.1 12. Barlt-y bu 22.6 (Hi. IS 2V Buckwheat, bu .) sjjj 16; Potato, bu. M.t &. V Toharco, Iba. -,Uu. .s 'Xu Uaj. tou Lit 15 N 5 1S.50 The total average cash value per ucre of yield in the several States ia given us follows : mt - i . . . - - Maine Mew iJampetilre Vermont Maaaachnavita... 4ll.lT ... M.ta ... 20.14 ... 31ft-. ... 31 22 Taxa....-...... Arkanaaa T oue-ee Writ Virginia. Kentucky... Ohio. Mil hua.li. liil.au .... . Illluoia. Wiaronsle Miuueaota Iowa. Mweoun Kauaa Nebraska. JtUM ... I7.V7 ... lo - ', .. Ii.37 . 13 e .. I6.M .. 1V.47 .. 1 4. IS .. 12.S4 IS.OJ .. ll.M .. I0.2S .. 13.2 .. 1X10 .. V .. 19.73 m 19.41 .. 3 47 .. 30.0 Kin .! Ialaini . Conurclicut. 37.S3 New Tor 2136 New Jersey KJft IVouaylrania... 21.4 lMaaare. 44 Mai i laud 17 Virfinte North Carolina... South Carolina.... tieorfia, Florida. Alabama iliaeiaaippi Loomiana... H.n -.1 In.iu t Ml i 9.(1 I 13 If I Orefoo..... ll.-l California. 14.07 I M IS IN er ad a.. 6te . Ttrritorie,.... How to Ut Rid or Superfluous Flesh. Not long ago a gentleman of threescore, who had hardly ever been sick in his lite, thought he was too fleshy and began to Ran tarn ize. He succeeded famously, and boasted to his friends that he bad got rid of ten pounds in a few weeks. A little later he was attacked with a painful and dangerous malady, from which he has been suffering more than a year. If a man can sleep soundly, ha-, a good appetite, with no unpleasant reminders after meals, the bodily habits being regular evei v day. be bad better leave himself alone, whether be is as big as u hogshead or as thin and dry as a fence rail. Several cases of Bright's disease have been re ported by medical men of reputation as a direct result of practicing Bantam's plan for getting lean. The very best and safe-t way to get rid of fat is to work it off. This may be aided by eating food which contains a large amount of nitrogen and a small amount of carbon. Nitrogen food is that which gives strength, power to work, as lean meats : carbonaceous foods are tlio e whi h make fat. such us cheese, potatoes, rice, corn, peas, beans, tapioca, arrowroot, corn-starch, milk, sugar, syrup, and all oily and fat food. Raw fruit and berries largely eaten are great aids to reducing weight. But, after all, the great reliance should be on exercieand work in the open air. Barclay, the great English pedestrian, who pei formed greater feats than Weston, lost ten pounds in two or three davs' walkinc. and was never the worse for it The Use or Earthquake. The usefulness of earthquakes was a favorite subject with the late Sir John Herschel. Were it not for the changes in the earth's crust which are constantly being effected by the action of subterranean forces, of which the earthquake is the most active manifestation, there can be no doubt that the action of the sea beating upon the land, together with the denuding power of rain, would inevitably cover the entire earth with one vast ocean. "Had the primeval world been constructed as it now exists," says Sir John Ilerschel, " time enough has elapsed, and force enough directed to that end has been in activity, to have long ago destroyed every vestige of land.'' Mr. Proctor shows most clearly the beneficent manner in which the restorative action of the earth's subterranean forces is arranged. Of course every upheaval of the surface must be either accompanied or followed by a depression elsewhere. "On a comparison of the various effects, it has been found that the forces of upheaval act (on the whole) more powerfully under continents, and especially under the shore-lines of continents, while the forces of depression act most powerfully (on the whole) under the bed of the ocean. It seems as if nature had provided against the inroads of the ocean by seating the earth's upheaving forces just where they are most wanted." An Ai.ui.vo. There was the other day born to a South Carolina colored man and woman who have raised up a large family of dark children, a boy and girl, whose skin and complexion are ierfectly white. The hair is also of a white color, and somewhat curled, the eye of reddish brown, and the pupils of a pinkish color. The features are decidedly African. Pees i ncv t Tillman, of the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute, says the weather predictions which are daily published in our newspapers have been verified to about 75 per cent. ; that is, three-fourths of all the predictions which they have made have been found to be true.

Imprisonment for Lire How Long it Averages In Three tf the State. In our own State I'lison. says the Boston (Hob, there mH !" convicts between the years 12 and lr who had been -,ent there under Life imprisonment sentence. Of thee, werr pardoned, and several otlie:s escaped by legal jugglery. During u decade. 5if prisoners were sentenced to endure impr.sonment for life in the Ohio IVniten tiary. and 24 of them were pardoned. In Witconsin. for the like term, 3li life convict wer received in the prisons, and If purdoned therefrom. The aver

age term served by life men' in the three State was little more than six years, which is altogether too slight a punishment for a man who has commilted murder and in some cases two or three. It is quite time that in regard to the i reai men t 01 aus-ina we lay aside ul sentiment, and put them upon th plane with other criminals in the sieht 1 a . a . . oi nie law. it tneir crime entitles them m .l,.i. 1 . t .1 l a iv ue-aiu, ana lIie iuw-muKers nave so decided it, let there be no uurxal from the decisions of those who stand in our courts and represent the laws. If the law says that a murderer shall never go ai large again, and neis afterward found mingling with she people, then the law loses in repute. It is by a laxity in the enforcement of penalties and a prostitution of executive prerogative to political ends that bus made the metropolitan courts of New York a synonym for judicial corruption Under our governmental system, with its ever changing administrative ser yants, tne lite imprisonment sentence is liable to great abuses. The reason for it imposition, which to one man in office may seem perfectly just, may be so placed before his follower that tie instantly reverses the decision of the courts and seta a dangercuB man at liberty. This has been done repeatedly, and mere walks the streets of Boston to day a man who has killed several men, has been convicted and sentenced to long terms twice in our own State, and each time his release has been brought about tnrougn political influence. It is suffi cient comment upon the whole proceed ing to know that since his last release he has been constantly getting his liv ing in an employment which the law of tnis Mate condemns. A Perilous Hour. 'j . . wtuicu evidence proves that, in chronic diseases, the greater number of deaths occur just before dawn. This eminently true of brain diseases, and of all those related cases where death re suits from an exhaustion of the vital power, tnrougn overwork, xcessive excitement, or nervous prostration. It is at f o'clock in the morning that the lite torce is at its lowest ebb, and sue cumbs most readilv to the assault of epilepsy, or paralysis, or of the lethargy that comes in those vividlv beautiful picture dreams, for which medical sei ence has as yet found no name, and of which it has taken no sufficient cognisance. Nine-tenths of those who die in this way expire in their sleep. In many such cases, if a friend were at hand to awaken the sleeper when the attack comes on, or, if he were to be awakened by some accidental noise, he might, by the use of a few simple preparations, prolong his life for many years ; for the shock which is fatal to the man wrapped in deep sleep, when the system is passive and relaxed, would be victoriously repelled were it armed with all its waking energies. Men who do brain work, and who are on the shady side of forty, should be on their guard against this insidious enemy. They should beware of 5 o'clock in the morning, for it is a perilous hour. Do you find yourself unable to sleep, when you retire for the night, exhausted with your day's work? Io you in vain turn from one side to the other? Does your brain persist in working when you would fain have it rest ? Ik) old saws and scraps of rhyme repeat themselves in your memory with wearisome iteration, defying your utmost to silence them? Then, beware ! You will be sure to sleep at last. It is only a question of time ; for, sooner or later, nature will assert her rights. English Newspaper. There are many penalties attached to greatness, and it is doubtfui whether it may not be preferable to occupy an obscure position, and to die unlamented by the public, rather than to be consigned to earth with a pompous ceremonial, or to run the risk of having one's deeds recorded by an incompetent biographer. In Italy, however, it is ossible for a great man to anticipate in the Crospect of his decease a still more terrile indignity that his body may be detained above ground for ever, to gratify the curiosity of the public. This is to be the sad destiny of Mazzini, whose mortal remains, instead of being consigned peacefully to the earth, are to be preserved by Professor Gorini for the benefit of futyre generations of sightseers. This is a cruel fate, and one well fitted to quench the generous aspirations of Italian patriots and statesmen. To live and die tor Italy may be to live and die nobly ; but to have one's body " pet rified," possibly to fall into the hands of some Italian Barnum, is indeed an unhappy lot. A married lady in Kock Island, Illinois, had been in the habit, for several years, of placing needles in her mouth. Now and then she swallowed one, and it was sure to appear in some strange locality a few months after passing down her throat. During the last five years seven needles have been extracted from her body in different places two from the region of the stomach and short ribs, one from the leg near the knee, and recently one was taken from the left temple. The lady has always en.joyed good health, and has never suffered any inconvenience from her metallic diet.

The Horrors of Castor 011. With all our vaunted discoveries b.ive never been able to pro-lu.

we an agreeable article ot castor oil or a specific for sickness. Breathea there a man with soul s-j dead that he des not recollect the castor-oiling Wbioh his poor machine used to undergo at stated periods of youth. To castor oil a child o" two or seven years of ago requirti three or four strong women, a ipoon, u magnum bottle of the fluid, a lump ot sugar, a towel, a jumping-jack and a aeraphic temper. The first motion i"to endeav r to ring in the medicine on the unsuspecting babe thinly disguised in milk. This maneuver failing, you parley with the enemy and attempt to corrupt its infantile integrity with bribery of its pa's gold watch, imperial revenues of small change, and Hesperides of small oranges. After having tempted it thrice to put the spoon of Tantalus to its lips, it refuses point blank to touch the nasty thing. Thereupon your surcharged indignation find vent in corporal chastisement of the rebellious infant. It howls. Peace being restored, you bring up reinforcements, and strategy and diplomacy having failed, determine to accept nothing but unconditional sui render, and prepare to march at once upon the enemy's works. A grand combined attack is made. The left wing firmly holds tha child's hands. the right wing pinches its nose so as to compel it to open its mouth, into which the center pours a deadly fire from the spoon. Meanwhile the reserve holds a lump of sugar, commisserately saying, "poor 'itti tootsy pootsy, was it nassy medicy, eh?" and keeps th towel ready. The baby yells and chokes, the young mother, afraid of killing it, lets go of its nose, the infant catchiag bresth, discharges the whole dose upon her, and ruins all the front breadths of her black silk, and follows up its advantage by so heart-broken a yell that the attacking party surrenders at discretion, and calls it poor, injured, mamsie's own tootsens, and it won't take any more nassy castor oil, if it don't want to." A treaty of peace is then ratified, whereby the infant is ceded immunity from carter oil, and an ample indemnity in lollipops, and then the young mother enters into a war with the infant's grandmother, who vigorously reprehends the weakness exhibited in dealing with children nowadays. People have tried all sorts ef exnedients. Take it in milk. In soda water. From a hot spoon. Every wav. But nolater Franl-lin has ever been able to over come and annihilate the nastiness of taking castor oil. It has a sluueish. cold, aperient look about it, like an illomened pool in a deadly swamp. It uncoils itself into the fatal spoon like a boiled rattlesnake. It tastes like mol ten graveyards, and one's g ,rge rises at it as if it were one of Mrs. WoodhuU's lectures. But the feeling, when it has ben achieved, is that one's inside is full of earth-worms and cork-screws. The Yard Measure. A standard yard-stick, which was kent at the Exchequer ia London, and had been obtained in 1120 from the length of Kine Henry's arm, by his express order, was examined in 1742 by a com missioner, who wrote: "A kitchen oker. filed at both ends, would make as good a standard. It has been broken and then repaired go clumsily that the joint is nearly as loose as a pair of tongs.' In 1(60, Mr. Baird prepared an accurate copy of this, for the use of the Government, and this copy of an arbitrary, clumsy, broken standard was egally adopted in 1824, when it was or dered that, if destroyed, it should be restored by a comparison with the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds at tne latitude ot ixindon. Ten years later it was destroyed by the great fire at the Parliament House 134). Repeated attempts were then made to find the length again by means of the pendulum, as previously arranged, but it was !ound utterly impracticable, so that the nritish (government was compelled to make use of such copies of this burned yard-stick as they supposed reliable. And we Americans were unwise enough not only to stick to the clumsy, inconvenient and inconsistent bnglish measures, but even to order fcrt m a London instrument-maker a copy ot this yard-stick tor the use ot our Coast Survey. Yet our yard standard is one-thou sandth of an inch longer than the British stan aid yard-stick. It is seen that this standard of length is entirely aibitrary ; but its worst feature is the unequal division and multidication, whicn do not correspond with the system followed in arithmetic all over the world namely, the decimal one. Where the French Indemnity Goes. r ranee is to pay ttermany for the pleas ure of being beaten in the late war, about 1,441,487,961 thalors equivalent to say $1,000,000,000. Out of this France receives 8),;'i66)666 thalers in payment for the railways of Alsace and Lorraine. The Imperial Government then gives lo those persons and corporations in these annexed provinces whose private property suffered by the war, 36,7lXX),00O thalers as indemnity for their losses, and spends 11,440,000 thalers in replenishing the railways with rolling-stock and other necessities. The families of soldiers belonging to the landwebr who perished in the service, have been liberally pensioned ; 4,XX),000 thalers was dirtributed among the leading German (ienerals, and at least 40,000,000 set apart as a reserve fund for the next war. After doing all this, and spending large sums for fortifications and other military purposes, a heavy balance remains, which is to be divided among the different States of the Empire in proportion to the number of men furnished by each.

Carlos and Ncieatlfle. A KTiriciAL leather is now made from the scraps and cuttings of loath el cutters. It is claimed that the leather thus made is equally as good for sob- or belting as the original. A French scientist argues that mankind are not fit to be trutftes .ith steam, and that moral and physical k geoeiacy will invitably result from the I- t 1 t a. a .

cuanes which .ileum nil produced 111 civilization. amomu the most remarkable of discoveries in photography is that claimed by one Johnson, an Englishman, who is said io be a man of extraordinary mechanical genius. The invention is a panoramic camera, which, by ingenious mechanism, sweeps the whole 1 mdecane and t ikes it on a plane surface, embracing on one negative one third of the circle. The exactitude of its operations is as singular as the beauty of the results. The addition ot dissolved sulphate of quinine to gum arable It mM to prevent the formation of mold quite as effectually as cubolic acid, while it imparts no unpleasant odor. It could, perhaps, be advantageously used in ink, mucilage, paste, and glue. The first manufacturer of steel pens by machinery Mr. Joseph Gillott. of Great Britain. When he wasa young man, and a grmdor in .Sheffield, steel ens were curiosity, and being made y hand labor only, were sold for 3s. 6d. apiece. The factory established by Mr. Gilloit is now able, alone, to turn out 150, 00,000 pens a year. Mit. Hex rv Hennesev attacks Sir William Thompson's attempted demonstration of the earth's rigidity. He claims that Thompson's assumption of fluid incomprecsibility is no more philosophical than un endeavor to prove the impossibility of traveling at high rates ot speed, by demonstrating that the shockexperienced by perfectly rigid carriages would be too grvat for endurance. It would se em that :n heavy storms at sea iron ships are inferior to those built of wood. Of forty-two Atlantic steamers lost at sea between the years 1841 and 1872, tbiriy-eigbt were of iron, and four of wood. Uf the line of iron ships running into the St. Lawrence and Portland, nine were lost between 1857 and 1864; and five iron tailing vessels, all built in Great Britain, and sent to sea in 1865 and 1808, have never been heard from. A valuable and wonderful metal, appropriately called Sterling metal, is now being manufactured near Hartford. It is harder even than cast steel, is not affected by air or earth, and can be cast with perfect ease into any form. Preparations are beimr made to use it for works of sculpture, and specimens are to be sent to the principal bronze founders of Europe. Charcoal, applied to rose-bushes, has the effect of deepening the color cf the flowers. It has not the same effect upon all flowere, but is a useful fertilizer. It should be finely pulverized. The Erie (Pa.) Dispatch says : "The hulk of the Niagara, one of the vessels of Perry's fleet, lies near the shore at the northeast corner of Mwery Bay. It my be seen when the water is clear.' " Vesuvius is the title of a recent work which contains some interesting data concerning earthquakes. According to this authority, in the fourth century there were 21 ; in the fifth, 25 : in the sixth, 31 ; in the ven'b, ' : a the eighth, 11 in the ninth, U ; in the tenth, 17 ; in the eleventh, 51 ; in the twelfth, 68 ; in the thirteenth, 55; in the fourteenth, 5 ; in the fifteenth. 41: in the sixteenth, 110; in the seventeenth, ISO: in the eighteenth, 680 ; in the nineteenth, (J25. The paradoxical conclusion of Fairbairn and other English experimenters, that the brittleness of iron and steel is not increased by cold, is invalidated by the fact that the cast iron frame work of a steam engine in Paris, after a severe cold night, suddenly snapped in three different places, when the engineer started the train in the morning. Three new asteroids have lately been discovered, one by a German and two by American observers. There are now one hundred and twenty of them. Men of science calculate that ut least a thousand are floating ronnd ready to be caught as soon as we get telescopes of higher refracting power. By and by it will be no more to sight an asteroid than it is now to pick a blackberry. The New World's Grano RewedV. The Did World has played its part in vegetable medication. But the botany of the New World is. la vet, imperfectly explored. One new and most important revelation from that land of wondersCalifornia has astonished the scientific, and accomplished such euros of disea-es of the stomach and bowels, bilious complaints, malarious fevers, nervous affections, and all diseases proceeding from a vitiated condition of the blood, as have never before been witnessed. Before Walker's California Vivegar Ritters all the .alcoholic nvA mineral medicines are rapidly falling into disuse. T ,ey cannot resist the overpowering evid :cc brought forward every day, of the immense superiority of this medicine. Not a drop of any variety of disri! ltd or fermented liquor or mineral poison enters into its composition. It is a gentle aperient, a tonic, derived from entirely new vosrotab'e sources, an unrivaled stomachic, admirable in all pulmonary diseases; and, in fact, a near to universal remedy as botsuieal discovery and scientific skill can hope toattaia. Dr. Walker contidora it a cure for ell diess not organic, and really the great v-rioty of diseases in which it is successful seems to warrant the opinion. Every family needs such a remedy. It eaves patn, anxiety arid doctors' bills. We know what trouble it is 4o keep i Lo bowels of children in order, and any remedy that will strengthen and regulate their weak and variable digestion must be a domestic blessing. Com.