Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 25, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 July 1872 — Page 3

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. wife Mm Faille. CawabHlir. So opinion oould be more incorrect han tbe loo generally received one that J horse draws by virtue of, or in proortion io, his own weight and wie. If Sit were the case, the largest and heaviest animal could always draw the most ; and his weight on the scale would be the best test of his capabilities. But facts in abundance prove it otherwise. Draught does not depend altogether uiwin weight and siie. It is in a great mea-ure the result of a vital power. Although weight can render some assistance, the power of draught is chiefly mng to the muscular action and nervous (eroy, which, again, are intimately -on nected with and greatly dependent on, the temperament of the animal. The jennet, mule, aas and blood-horse have much more energetic temperament than the carter, and consequently pos9fg.4es more muscular power than the latter, in proportion to their weight and size. Their leverage, however, is not nearly so well suited for draught, and in that respect, when compared with the ordinary cart-horse, they la bor under a decided disadvantage. PrrMieil PutirM. A correspondent of the Country Gentleman write: The time has arrived when more attention has to be paid to permanent pastures and mowings. Whenever a blue grass or other thoroughly established thickset greensward is broken up from its tint natural set, it will never become so good again under any management in vogue in the United States. In Kentucky, the home of the blue grass, the plow forever destroys the rich and fattening verdure ; and though those who have desolated a blue grass region may make statements to the contrary, afterwards no one can exhibit the same living, healthy, matted turf that existed before the plow destroyed the natural sward. It is so with all good permanent grass land, the varieties growing consisting of the best native and other perpetual grasses.

tiaeee la CM Gapes is a trouble very different from croup. To relieve a chicken attacked with gapes take a small quill feather, strip it, except a half inch at the extremity, dip the feather end in spirits of turpentine, and pass the feather so prepared down through the small openings of the wind-pipe of the chicken, at the base of the tongue, give it one or two turns, which will generally bring un or destroy the worms. The turpen tine at once kills the worms, and its application causes coughing, during which those that are drawn out by the feather are expelled. CkMP Trellis. A man without money gives the following account, in the Fruit Recorder, of his mode of constructing a cheap grape trellis, in the absence of wire or lath. He dates from Salem, N. C, and lives six miles from a reed country. He hired farmers to deliver cut reeds 16 feet long for $4 per 1,000. lie set ports 8 feet ai art, and nailed the reeds against them, slipping the small end of one reed into the large end of the next. At each vine planted midway between the posts he inserted a reed upright into the ground, and wired it to the horizontal reeds. Ileef-Ret la 8k p. I have used tbe following remedy with great success. I never knew it to fail it judiciously applied : Prepared alumine, 1 ounce; pulverised sulphate copperas, 1 ounce; pulverised sulphate zinc, 2 ounces ; oil tar, 3 ounces; pul-1 verized alumine, 2 drachms ; mix. The remedy should be applied every third or fourth day in bad cases. When the sbeep are treated, every lame sheep should be taken from among the sound ones and put in separate held. The unsound sheep should have several applications after they are sound and well, when the horn It separated from the fleshy sole it must be shaven down to the live or sound flesh with a sharp knife. No permanent cure can be per formed without this. Every flock-master should have a copy of Randall's Practical Shepherd to become thoroughly acquainted with the pathology of the feet. 0. W. &, Brownsville, Fayette Co., Uraaaai Bread. " Keep it before tbe people," and on the table, till dyspeptics are no more. One quart of new milk, half a cup of new yeast, and halt a cup of molasses, or one pint of bread sponge, with milk and molasses. Stir in Graham meal until stiff; let rise, and bake throe-quarters of an hour: never mold as for fine flour bread. When the meal is coarse, as is best for pudding, stirring in a cup of shorts, or fine flour, will make it less harsh. Rural New Yorker. Pte Beetle Resteer. I have iound an effectual remedy at least it has completely driven the striped and dun-colored beetles from all of my potatoes, and off of my farm. Dissolve one pound of sulphate of copper (blue stone) in five gallons of water, and sprinkle vines or other vegetables in the morning. Repeat the operation after everv rsin if troubled again. it. E.B., Cleveland, Ten. Testate Catnap. To a peck of tomatoes, boiled soft, and strained through a sieve that will allow a little of the pulp to past through, add four tablespoons of salt, four of ground pepper, four of ground mustard, two of ground allspice, two of ground cloves, one of Cayenne pepper and one quart of strong vinegar ; boil gently several hours ; cool and bottle.

Ta Drive ear Rate nee Melee. correspondent of the Pomologist

has found that potash placed in ratholes and mole-runs will clear the prem-

of these pesta in snort time. Asrlculteral Iieaw. " Evbry cow should fatten one pig," is an old rule and a good one ; that is. the daily product of a good cow should be in buttermilk and whey enough to feed the pig, alter the cream and obeese are extracted. Tut cash value of farms in New York has doubled during the last ten years, while the value of the implements has increased from twenty-five to forty-five millions of dollars in value. Via km ago we had Spltzenhurgh and Baldwin apples for fifty cent per hushel, peaches by the wagon-load, and plums without end. People were not educated then in the great art of horticulture. Now we have abundance of science and nto fruit; a great amount of knowledge, and no apples ; long cat alogues with hard names, but no plums. A change in the piogramnie is loudly culled tor, and scientific horticulturist should inform us how to overcome disease, insects, and climate influences. Tub State Entomologist of Missouri says that the washing of fruit trees with soap, or the application of any alkaline solution, is an infallible protection against borers ; and this is confirmed by the experience of some of the most extensive fruit growers in that section . Personal. Tom Thumb's book of travels will soon be out, and doubtless be a well-thumbed volume. A. T. Stewart possesses the finest private art gallery in America. (Its. Bleu, is building railroads in Kentucky. Simon Cambbon is seventy-four years old. Tub managing editor of th Washington Chronicle is a woman Mrs. Bar nard. The Rev. Mr. Besson, of North Chelae i, Mass., sued his congregation for preaching twelve sermons, laying his claim at J 150, and recovered it. The old story is revived that White law Keid will marry Kate Field, and next Christmas is fixed as the time. Herb Strauss has been obliged, through the importunities of autograph hunters, to work almost as hard with his pen as with his baton since his arrival in Boston. The most successful miner in Australia is Edith Parsons, formerly of New York. Mr. Lorillabp, of New York, pays only t-,000 a month for his Newport cottage. Mark Twain's "Roughing It" has reaohed a sale of seventy-three thousand copies. It is announced that Prince Arthur is about to contribute to one of tbe magazines a series of articles on certain customs in the army. Queen Victoria is again in bad health. Louis Napoleon is reported to have received $40.0 h) interest on United States bonds in May. Two daughters of Elbridge Gerry, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, are still living in New Haven. The Emperor of Austria is to spend his summer vacation with the Kaiser Wilhelm at Berlin. Washington Depaüw, the Demecratic nominee for the Lieutenant-Governor-shin of Indiana, is said to be the wealthiest resident in tnai .Mate. Mobb than twenty American and English publishers have sent letters to Dr. Livingstone offering to bring out the record of his last explorations. One publisher had his letter lithographed and sent copies to Gondokoro, Khar tourn, Ztnzibar, Magdala, Sierra Leone, Cape Town, Gambier, Aden, Simauli. and every other port which it was thought might be reached by the great explorer in his long seclusion. Anna Dickinson is preparing a new lecture, which knowing ones pronounce " startling." The Atlanta Sun is very popular among its exchanges. They cut out Mr. Stephens's editorials for paper weights. Mas. Catherine Marsh, of Baltimore, who murdered her four children, and was adjudged insane, is now confined in an insane asylum, and though only twenty-nine, her hair has turned completely white. It was the patent magnesium flash which Joe Jefferson persisted in using for effect in Rip Van Winkle, that injured his eyesight J. H. Cabmanv, publisher of the Overland Monthly, has just closed negotiations with Joaquin Miller for his great South American poem, for which tbe sum of $2,000 in gold coin is paid. It will appear in serial form, commencing with the September number of the Overland. A phtsician ef Montpelier, in France, has lately been making experiments with fowls to see what effect wine, brandy, and absinthe would have on them. They took to the liquors as . . . . . ' . . r.. . naturally as oould be, and soon grew very fond of them. Two months devoted to absinthe killed the strongest cock or hen ; those who more wisely used brandy died at the end of four months and a half; but those who loved the ruby wine lengthened out their days mm to die only at tbe comparatively mellow old age of ten months. It was found that under the developing power of strong drink the cocks crests increased to three or four times their original size, and became fiery red. as the noses of old topers come in time to bloom and blossom like the

rose.

Agtvudz's Glacial Discoveries. From tbe New York World A very interesting letter of Professor Agsasiz to Professor Benjamin Pierce, Superintendent of tbe United State Coast Survey, gives a succinct account of his observations of tbe geologioal phenomena of the southern portion of the South American Continent. The chief of the Hassler expe tition has turned his previous exiwrence in the Alps to g'Hd account. It could hardly be expected that in u ' flying visit " Agastiz could have md measurements and descended into the detuils of glacier motion and magnitude, as did Forbes and himsel? in their studies of the Alpine glaciers. But though the Professor had not been able to make any observations bearing UKn the rite of motion or the exact size and extent of the South American glacieis, he has succeeded in adding many new facts to our previous knewledge. Agas.-iz followed the east line around from Montevideo, on the Atlantic, to Glacier Bay, on the Pacific coast. He has carefully examined the ground previously gone over by Darwin and other celebrated travelers. He has found traces everywhere in the "erratic " pebbles and boulders found on islands as well as tbe mainland, in the ruches moutonnees, in the poli-hed hillsides and the moraines as well as the glaciers even now existing that ice action has been a very promineet factor in the molding and fashioning of the surface of this portion of the world. Indeed, Professor Agassiz is prepared to go further. He claims that, as fire and water are now universally acknowledged as great agents in the creation of the world as we know it, so at no distant period will ice be added to the number. Very much of the denudation usually attributed to meteorologi cal agents and to submarine iceberg planing, the Professor confidently

claims for ice spread over the surface of the land. We are inclined to accept this view. We think too much has been said about Plutonic and Neptunian action, and too little attention has been paid to the other great agents which have aided them in their task. Agassiz is well aware that this view will not pass unchallenged, and he therefore proceeds to make it as secure as possible. He draws a distinction between glaciers, however ancient and however large, and a coating of ice which he is positive covered the greater portion of the earth's surface the equatorial limits are not yet settled during what is vagely known a the "glacial epoch." He rejects with some heat the view held in many quarters tnat the phenomena of the drift pe riod, upon which the supporters of the glacial period more especially rely, can be explained by a supposed enlargement of the ordinary glaciers'. Agassiz shows that while the glaciers of the South American continent, both ancient and modern, have acted and still act in all directions, the action of the ice in tbe glacial epoch tended from the south northward. This is one of the most important discoveries made during the expedition, and in describing the observations on which this inference rest the Professor corrects some of Darwin's statements, though he eulogizes that traveler as having been almost alone in carefully observing the phenomena. The Professor calls the attention of Professor Pierce to the complete fulfillment of his prophhey as to the finding of "drift," and adds his belief that when the southern portions of Africa and Australia areexamined asclear indict! ions of an extensive glacial epoch will be found there as have beem for merly discovered in Europe, and are now known to exist in South America as the result of Agassiz's laboie. In this connection, he says, he finds no reason to believe that Adhemar's notion of the complimentary character of glacial phenomena that is, that while one hemisphere was enjoying a temper ate climate, the other was buried under a thick mantle of ice has any founda tion in fact. This ingenious mode of connecting astronomical and geological phenomena may be considered as a bnlliuit scientific vagary. There is one point on which Agassiz grows eloquent. He compares the Swiss glaciers w.th those of South America V . ... ..... . . m in tbe neighborhood oi tne a traits oi Magellan, and finds them and their effects very similar. The polished hills, the roches moutonnees, the moraines, and the rest of the scenery forcibly reminded him of his native country. The Professor does not give us much nformation on bis dredging operations, but he is constantly adding to his collections. He made a discovery of a salt lake more than one hundred feet above tbe level of the soa a clear proof of the upheaval of the coast in which he found some shells living, and otheis fossil of the same species as those on tne shore. He obtained specimens of both. Singular Friendship. A doe In a public park in Louisville, Ky., has a constant and inseparable companion in a little black dog, which manifests for it the most singular affec tion. When the doe moves about the dog goes with it ; when it lies down the don nestles closely by its siae ; anu con tinually licks, fondles, and plays with it as if it were one of its own species, krA at all timi this little black doc as sumes the guardianship of her deershin, and protects her against every approach. When the doe, now about one vear old. was carried to the park, the dog refused to be deterred from fol lowing, and tbere he stays. A " pobk" on the seasons thus sublimely relieves himself: " Peceaiber'i com, snd now the brf tea Hl tnonu th Mem tflnfl ; Now the boy with rsi(d trowm Shi Turing homtwsr.i dri tb coim ; Mia bwU ar old. and torn hit rlotnea U. And bl Dir "Uli bow blue nil now til

"MlraroloD Escape" Tare Cases Far Out of the Com ate Order. One of the most amazing instances of escape from sudden and apparently inevitable death occurred a few eights ago on the Hudson River railroad. A man named James Carter, of Hutrhaoiiville, was walking up the road about a mile south of the New Hamburg Station. On his back he carried a trunk. Suddenly a train hove in sight, thundering down the track on which Carter was walking. To see the red glare and to hear the crushing advance of tbe engine was the work of a moment; in the next Carter had leaped for ssfety upon the other track. But it was stumbling from Scylla upon Cbarybdis. The startled man oould not hear for tbe roar of the ft eight train, a new enemy thai was close upon him. Ab he jumped upon the up track, tbe Pacific exprts came hurling along at his back, running forty miles an hour. The engineer saw Carter, shut off steam and whistled ' down brakes." But it was too late. Theepeed of the locomotive was hardly slackened when it struck the poor fellow, and he and bis trunk were flung twenty feet into tbe air Probably it was a thousand to one at the time of collision that Carter would never draw another breath. Yet he is alive and well to-day. The case proved to be one of those astonish

ing exceptions to ordinary experience that we instinctively call miraculous. Carter's clothes caught in what i called the " draw bar," his person not striking any part of the locomotive at all. Thus, when discovered, he was lying across the iron bars of the "cow-catcher" with his head down and his feet up tbe head being within two or three inches of the rails. The train daahed furiously on, Carter continuing to hang in his perilous position until it reached New Hamburg. He was insensible, but soon revived with simple remedies, and . ... . i i i . was tounu to be absolutely unnun. There was not even a scratch or abrasion of the skin. We believe a lady is alive who has gone through something of this kind. This was at Cold Spring Station, some years ago. She was crossing the track in a wagon, and was in like manner struck by a locomotive. The horse was instantly killed, and the wagon smashed to atoms. But the lady, strange to say, after being thrown into the air, was caught by the flag-staff through her hoop-skirt something as one plays the game of " graces "and carried on unhurt. She was rescued as soon aa the train could be stopped, and sustained no injury. When the ship Dunbar was wrecked some years ago off Sydney Heads, she foundered near a sheer precipice, almost absolutely smooth on its surface, and rising 800 feet from tbe sea. On that smooth wall, far above the reach of any common waves, is a single tiny crevice, or shelf, a few feet in length. It was a thousand to one when the Dunbar went down that no one on board would be saved. But the very fury of the tempest that destroyed his ship was one a a. If poor mariner a salvation. ne was tossed up into this crevice by a monstrous wave as neatly as a billiard ball is shot into a pocket. There he lay insensible, but he was found in time to save him, and was hoisted to the top of the precipice above. The chance of his going into the crevice when the Dunbar broke up was rather less than that of throwing a pea into a nail-hole in a wall twenty feet off. A Sew Theory. Prof. Gunning, of New York, has recently put forth an interesting theory in regard to the drainage of the lakes on the northern borders of the United States, which he believes was originally through the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico. The Niagara river, according so bis statement, has an existence oi not more than 200,000 years. Before that period a barrier more than thirty feet high across the Niagara plateau threw the waters of Lake Erie back upon Michigan, and farther west to tbe Mississippi. Western geologists have found an old river channel from the lakes to the Illinois river, and a great barrier once stretched across the plateau. The old river bed in Illinois and the broken bridge across the Niagara plateau account for the comparatively recent creation of the falls. Such ia the theory of Prof. Gunning. It is in some respects plausible enough, but we ex pect to see a grand descent of the geol ogists upon it, and a thorough refuta tion of premises and deductions, u ntu I.V I - " ' men It IS goou as any ovuer. Precocious. Louisville rejoioes in the possession of a precocious four-year oldster, who, being placed in a closet by his father the other day for disobedience of paternal authority, instead of crying, put his wits to work to get out. Calling to his father to come in and see what he had found, tbe unsuspecting paterfamilias walked in, while the four-year-old slipped out and quickly turned tbe key, leaving him to sweat it out. Presently the youngster called to his pa to know if it was hot in there; nor did he let his prisoner out until nrmative. he replied in the afWomen Journalists. At the Jubilee, in 1869, there werebut three ladies attending as reporters from the daily papers one of them Miss Kate Field. This year fourteen of the imminent papers, East and West, tent dies to write the Jubilee up (or down, as they chose) as regular correspond ents. Beside these there were boats of transient visitors who furnished to fa vorite papers their opinions on Air. Gilmore's grand enterprise. Women, in spite of their feaiful state of subjection, are finding their way pretty rapidly into the broad field of useful ness offered by journalism.

Ferelrn Gossip.

Thbbi are 805 periodicals in Italy. aeen will buy three eigafe bv burg. Japan thleke f giving unirersal tea party by throwing open hr an -rowing districts to the trade of all nations. ing Turin, Italy, over a century boasts eighty womn ol I, the ydunMt be m 102 years a nd the oldest 117 years of age. It l ast a has army of 1.178.81 men, which costs her suuallv lb 1.500,000 ; and Germany has 1,152 000 soldiers, costing her $90,375,000. A Paris latter writer estimates that, there are 4 000 secret gambling hells in the city, which clear profits of $2,400,000 monthly. Kbvpp's great iron works at Essen, Germany, cover nearly eight square miles, and one and a half are under cover. They furnish employment for 10,OUO men. Women are not sllowd io wear their hats or bonnets in the Lttodo theaters. They lis ve to leave their gut geou-t " three deckers" at home ornuretuem in their Ifen during the perform til Je to avoid being " honneted." Capt. BlJBToar, t'ie cm nent traveler, has recently started for Iceland, where he hope- t explore ouie portion of the 28(4)0 Lille of territory which are imkniwn to modern geographers. Cnpt. Barton's researches will extend to t ie condition and remains of I elan-lie literature, and his tour is intended to comprehend many of the point raised, but not solved by previout travelers. This is the penalty of disorder. Within the pt few yeara Paris has lost four hundred thousand of its resident inhabitant-. The number of vacant apartments exceeds forty thousand. Rents nave fallen in a proportion which ranges from one-eighth to one-fourth. The depreciation :n the value of land and house property is estimated at twenty per cent. Six splendid zebias, valued at $600 apiece, have just nrrived at the Jsrdin d' Acclimatatton. in Pari', as a present from the new Emieior of Abyssinia. It is a prevalent He th t the zebra is untamable, but M. Geoff rey Saint Hilaire, who has ahead v mado sundry experiments in contradiction of this opinion, has determined to preve its fallacy by taking a drive down the Champs Elysees some time during this month in a coach drawn by six Abyssinian zebras, Here is a new snd grand sensation that never occurred even to the inventive P. T. Barnum. The number of j eriodicals published in the Italian Kingdom on December SI, 1871, was 805. Of theee 94 were publish ?d in the province of Milan, 78 in that of Florence, 70 in that of T rin, 65 in that of Naples, and 53 in that of Rome. Nine piov.nces have but one journal each; two, tha division ot the A brutto Uiteriore. have none. Sixtyone of the 805 journals have a semi-official character, from tbe insertion of government advertisements. A Clandestine Marriage. Louisville society has had a genuine sensation the teeret mai nage ef a wellknown young gentleman to a beautiful and accomplished young lady, the Leagtr relates the facts ol this romance in real life as follows : For tome time past Mr. Russell Hancock, son of Gen. W. S. Hancock, and at present connected with the firm of S. T. Suit 4 Co, Main street, has been paying his addresses to Mis Lizzie, daughter or Nicholas Gwynn, Esq , a well-known Main street merchant. Mr. Gwynn objected to the attentions of Mr. Hancock, and preparations were made to send the young lady abroad for two yean. Two years i an eternity to young lovers, and they determined their happiness should not be destroyed. On the 90th of April last, the young e njite very quietly went to JefTersonville and wer -oamed by Rev. Dr. Hutchinson. A ter the ceremony the young lady returned immediately to her father's house. One of the parties in the secret imparted it m confidence to a friend, ami that friend did likewise. Mr. Hancock, finding that tho secret was known, and would in all probability reach the ears of bis father-in-law, wrote that gentleman a note giving the full particulars of the case. Before dispatching the note, however, he sent for his wife, and the young couple were registered at tbe Louisville Hotel last night. Mr. Gwynn has not yet replied to tLe note, but the probabilities are that he will give the young folks his blessing. The Caterpillars A Fable. -See, my eon," said a farmer one morning, " the catepi liars have begun to build a nest upon a branch of our favorite apple-tree " W " I'll put a top to thetrwoTk to-morrow," said the boy. A week went by. cfum-' i i " My son," said the farmer again, I notice that our friends the caterpillars have built aa extension to their honte." " I'll burn them dowa this very afternoon," was the boy's reply. Another week went by, and the farmer called his ton and snowed htm bow the caterpillars had not only inclosed the entire limb, but even began Work on snether bough. " There'll be no fruit on that branch this year, my son," said ihr- farmer calmly, " your industrious little friends have eaten every leaf." And observing that hi1 son's face was red with shame, the father thus continued : " I shall not regret the loss of the beautiful apples, my ton, if you will only henceforth bear in mind the lesson you have learned. Each day has its duties, and it is always a dangerous t thing to put off attending to even the smallest of them until the next."

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