Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 15, Number 9, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 March 1873 — Page 3

AQMJVULTURAL. I'. , purr for tltr MpiiiiK nrk. Prepat for Mm busy work if spring, It is close at liaml. Ami the busy seaw,u will last some months. Are you readv for it? Have yon wood ummgh hauled, Mit uiul piled up? Have you a plenty of flour to lout till harvest? Im v,,ur bssIMMO, und cspeciidly your horse collars, fit for Mm druft of your faithful horses ? 1 seed wheat, corn, oats, hurley eU. cleaned and all realy? Are

your plows in repair for the campaign ? H.ive von lmule arrangements lor tne pasturage of your stock the coming siunmr? Are your fences in good repair? Is everything in good order alxmt your house, so you will not he detained when ,mv times eome? Is the pump, or windln, or hueket at your well in good or,l, r? Has your eellar heen cleanetl of all tilth and garbage, Mm effects of frozen vegetables? Ahout the harn, have your pigs, calves, colts and lambs heen trimmed, and marked, and branded? Are your corn cribs, which have Wen h ft uncovered all winter, now prepared for the spring t aius ? Have your reaper and mower, which have stood the snows ami winds of winter, been removed to shelter to protect them from rain and sunshine? How is your corn planter? When you are ready to plant rather late in the season, will you find some casting lost, broken, or worn out, and then have to wait till you send to Chicago for repairs? Have you nuule arrangements with your neighlors to join forces iu harvest, to save buying another reiqier, and save exorbitant prices for harvest hands ? Have you ulready arranged for a few fruit trees, to till up the vacancies iu your orchard? All these things, and hundreds of others, should be attended to thi month. And good husbaudmen would not neglect them. 1 i ausbin Illing Large Tree. When in New York city, last DeOMtt Iht, we noticed that operations were going on at a great rate in the way of transplanting trees of extra size to some of the parks. On this subject the rn I'ural says : The transplanting of large trees of from ten to eighteen inches in diameter of stern is practiced as n regular branch of business in our larger cities. One - - - - - . - i .. MM of teams engaged during the winter season in this work. The trees are carefully dug around, learing a trench encircling the hall of earth attached to the tree, which, when frozen solid, is undermined and placed upon strong wagons, built esjH-ciallv for this purpose, and transjx.rted wherever necessary, the whole mass often weighing several tons, Mm pries being sometimes as high as 8100 for a single tree. In this connection we may note the removal of an immense beech tree as mentioned by a foreigh journal : It is nearly fifty feet high, the diameter of the branches fifty-eight feet, and the circumference of tin" stem at abtut a Cool from the ground seven feet eight inches. The mass of soil and undisturbed roots measured sixteen by fourteen feet, the roots extending six feet beyond, and the whole weighing consider- ; amy over twenty tons. liiere wie a platform of strong timbers ami rollers, jooxMrowa, planks and ptilly-blocks brought into requisition. ii . . .... Karly l.anili. not mention the subject of carW, do nig for i ar v lambs because farmers are f., not nware of their duties, but as a reminder. It s well known that for market an early lamb is worth more than a late cue. and it follows that extra care should Km taken of the first. It is not economy to att-mpt to watch the flock m Mm Hehl, and assist the lambs as they ppoar, hut provision should be made for their protection before the period. Bww that are took to suckle should be separated fr m the Hock ami put where they will not Im subject to exjsisuii s even if the hunbs should come on a stormy night. Sheep have again liecome valuable, both for the wool and meat they furnish, and th. se should be incentives to watehfulMM if humanity docs not lead lo it. hen lambs become chilled take them "t once to the house, and after lieing in a arm room for half an hour put them nnderthe stove w here it is quite hot, and PH them milk from the mothers until they become able to walk, and then take hem hack to the sheep. If the mother is not inclined to own her offspring, shut fhe two up in a small pou or box togethr for n day or two, and hold the ewe a times for the lamb o draw his rations. ()f, s Farmer : To ( lean Brass. Rub the surface of the metal with rotten-stone nnd sweet oil, then rub off with piece of Canton flannel and polish with oft leather. A solution of oxalic acid rubbed over tarnished brass with a cotbin rag soon removes the tarnish, ren-d-ring the metal bricht. The acid mimt e washed off with water, and the brass

ruhhe.1 with whitening in MMtWf und soft leather. When the acids are employed for removing the muh from brass, the met itl must he thoroughly washed afterwards, or it will turnihh in u few UiiuuteH after being exposed to the uir. A mixture of mnriatie acid and uluiu diasolvedin water imparts aeolor to golden ItruHH art ich thut ure steeped in it for a few seconds.

I'rarh I'roaiH-rla. Horticultural doctors disagree in their ; ,liugnois of the eoiidition of Mm Müh buds. In the same number of the V uti rn I!nraf, that for March 1, one authority pronounces them ull dead, while another avers that fully half the buila on the Kiirly Crawford are alive and well, while Hale's Early and other varieties are scarcely injured at all. Home allowances must, however, be made for j difference of locality. One observation I was made at Chester, HI., and the other 1 at South Haven, Mich. To Make Perfumery. Take a wide-mouthed bottle that will hold half a pint or ho, and put into it two ounces of glycerine. Then fill the bottle nearly half full of the leaves of the flowers you desire, pushing the leaves down into the liquid, and adding from time to time n few more leaves. Cork the bottle tightly, and let it set in the sun five or six days ; then pour the oil out into another lottle for use. As you cannot pour it all out, it will Ik-necessary to remove the leaves from the lottle and squeeze them. Always keep your bottle well corked. Our Hair. During the cold season the hair is cut too short; the ears are exposed. The cold winds not only produce buzzing and roaring in them, but often injure the fckt aring. While the weather is cold the ears should be covered. The natural protection and the best one is the hair. Hut the common nakedness of the back is still more mischievous. Leaving that vital part exposed to the extreme changes of our climate produces innumerable weak eyes and irritable throats. To Fry Potatoea. Place some slices of salt pork ujsm ; the bottom of a frying-pan, and after paring your pototOM and slicing them quite thin, place them over the meat and , cover tightly ; fry them nlxmt a half hour, stirring them over frequently after j they begin to brown. THE A t TEST !; ST Oil Y. The log seems to grow more intelligent every day. The latest story is told by the EUeuville (N. T.) Pre: "A few days siuce, while Mr. U. C. Enderly, of Nupaiioeh, was engaged in j transacting some business in this village, i his horse was left tietl under John Edmond's shed. Remaining with the horse was Mr. Enderlv's well-known coach ! dog, which, during his master's absence, i laid iu the sleigh. After time the I bono lecaine untied, and sturted from the shed. Tin dog immetliately com- j menced pawing the blanket and role which covered the lines on the front of tbe HleiL'h but before he could remove t,Hm (h(1 lorKO ml ot aH far as the Centre street iron bridge, when the lines fell to the ground. On seeing this the dog jumped it.fi er them, caught them in his mouth, reined the horse to a standstill, and held the lines until aid came, when he resigned them with a friendly wag of his tail to a stranger, whom he would not have allowed under any other circumstances to have approached his master's property." TMEPMACM CMO FMl.CUE. It h; not very pleasant to hear, thus early in the season, that the pOMS crop is rnin.il in Tlliooix Tmliaixt mwl l nliigan, but it seems there is no reason to...;. j doubt it. A writer in the Chicago 1 Tf Hnim whose itcccnracyis vouched for j by that journal, says: "The present j osjM'ct is that we are to have another season, as to peaches, like that of 185fi. I have just come fmm the peach region, and know whereof I speak. Even apple trees have leen injured in some places in Michigan, among young orchards, and a light crop of berries nlso may lie anticipated. " The news from the States further east is uot very much more encouraging, and, unless something of an unusually favorable nature should occur, housekeepers will lie likely to find peaches too expensive a luxury to be indulged in this year. Snobs. The word does not exist in France, because they have not the thing. The snob is the child of aristocratic societies; perched on the step of the long ladder, he respects the man on the round abeve him, nnd despises the man tin the step below, without inquiring what they are worth, solely on account of their position; in his innermost heart he finds it natural to kiss the boots of the first, and to kick the second. IMm? EnyUsh IJU ratim .

CVBMMMT items. BmOMNUM, Ala., has ors'iicd a lied of lithographic stone, pronounced by Philadelphia OSfMrtfl tjuul to the best Uavurian. A con I'an'Y has been organized at San Francisco, with a capital stock of $100,000, for the publication of a newspaper called the Win lh ah i h tiazttU . Oregon is estimated to contain ab mt Iii, INK), 000 acres of land, of which the Government has surveyed up to June 30, 1872, only 10,140,281 acres, or a little over one-sixth of the entire area. It is incorrectly stated that Bayard Taylor intends to reside permanently in Germany. He will return home in about a year and a half, according to his present plan, and will live iu New York. Mark Twain says that eighteen or nineu'en years ago the population of the Sandwich Islands was 400,000. Then the jieople were happy and alarmingly prosjM-rous. Civilization reached them, and in two years the natives numbered only 100,000. He thinks a few more seminaries would finish them completely. Hexiiv Ward Beecher describes fashionable religion as a beautiful suit of broadcloth and a magnificent suit of silk, locked arm iu arm, and walking to (I race Church and sitting and listening to resplendent music, surrounded by respectable people that send cards through their coachmen's hands to each other. Three million of dollars were invested in 1860 in this country in the manufacture of silk. Now 16,000 operatives are employed in the business, earning 88,000,000 per annum. The growth of mulberry trees for this purpose is still limited in America, and the machinery

is so inferior that the raw silk must be sent to Eumpe to Im reeled. The maddest woman iu the United States of America is the one that lives at Jackson, Me., and recently lent her fifty dollar inuiT to a female acquaintance, who sported it at a small-pox funeral ; who sent it home with a neat little note, stating this fact, mid that as she " had sprinkled it with benzine, the owner need not fear catching the disease." Carlotta Patti was born in Italy. The oldest Patti girl, Amelia, who married Strnkoseh, was born there, while Carlotta and Adelina was liorn in New Orleans. Their parents were poor, the father being a fruit-peddler, suspected of organ-grinding antecedents. Carlotta's l'imeuess is owing to a hip disease in early life, which left one leg sev- i era! inches shorter than the other. The annual report of the Philadelphia j Health Officer has just been made. There were 20,072 births and 20,544 J deaths in the city last year. The num- j ber of marriages was 6,49(, and from 1880 to 1K72 inclusive there were 211.$) ' births, 7f',12i marriages, and 2U0.94H deaths. Last year's figures will not be ns satisfactory to the local social economist as they might, but 1H72 was an exceptionally unhealthy one. The Southerners are t'sgimering a great cotton poo, the admission to which is jSÖ, to test the skill of conietitors in making estimates of the crop of 1872. The pel-son coming nearest the number of bales in the crop, as determined by the Finnnciul Ckmtieie of Sept. 1. 1S7:, is to have all the money in the m Mil. Each eometitor is to inclose his estimate, with his $", in a letter to . W. Trotter, Secretary of the Augusta, tia., Exchange. An ingenious machine has leen invented for spreading mortar on walls. It consists of a trough three and a half feet long, furnished with two trowels, one alxive the other, and the mortar is spread by the moving of the trough up the wall between two upright scantling. I., ..f ...,11 . . I 1... - - . J . liie inventor claims tliat tne machine I effects great saving of laltor, time MM j expense. Mr. J. W. Golledoe, of the Waco i (Texas) sltfMMMl , if not a fighting editor, is certainly a sensible one. This is I the way he disposes of a challenge to a I hostile meeting: "Thank M 0 person. MsM shall be namoI l-.--f.foi a challenge lo mortal combat. i value our citizenxliip too highly to go in diI red conflict with the U- of the land, and j hence do not "accept the challenge." If the I offended individual denire to rid the world of our presence, however, let him crack his whip. "J. V. Oolledoe, " Editor of the Waco ..Itvmor." The magnitude of the Illinois railroad system can be understood when it is considered that now only rem counties, Jasper, Crawford, Calhoun, Hardin, Pope, Massac and Franklin, out of the 102 counties in the State, are not tonchd by railroads. Even in the seven counties mentioned, railroads are already projected, bo that it will le but a short time until every county in the State will be reached by rail, aggregating a total of between 7,000 to 8,000 miles of road !

LEPROS 1 . Of ull afflictions in the catalogue of human maladies, leprosy is the crowner. There arc two forms one is a redden iug, irritable condition of the skin in patches, a burning sensation, with a nearly desquamation of the cuticle re- ' seiubliug Hour, which is often seen with ML It seems to be aggravated by pork, i Dm other begins with a stxuigy festering at the root s of the nails and creeps j up the limb till it drops off at the joint.

A greenish pus ozes out, gangrening as it goes. Shocking forms of it are met with all over Palestine. It occasionally attacks the bones of the face, completely undermining the framework of the features. We saw a large man in Damascus, walking the streets, whose face was reduced to the size of a babe's in consequence of all the maxillary props being gone. The muscles had no leverage. Poor, maimed wretches, victims of that incurable malady, are met with in Svtiu minus fio-i ion liorwlu oat. i un y t, ' m en off by leprosy, still clinging to life and asking charity. One street is especially assigned them in Jerusalem. There are two institutions for their reception in Damascus, one for each sex. Through the day they wander about without restraint, but are required to 1h home at night. Even in that shock ing condition they intermarry among themselves. Thev have existed from im memorial time in that country. They were common in the days of our Savior. Still more extraordinary, in that loathsome state they live to an advanced old age. The same disease has been transferred to some of the West Indiaislands and Newfoundland, requiring special legislation to keep it from being propagated. Medical science has been stagj gered with leprosy. A bold, determ:ned, skillful physician ought to grap ple the problem. What an unexplored field for acquiring professional distinction ! IS EARTH MAX'S ONLY PLACE? ABIDING Those who admire the writings of Mr. Geo. D. Prentice will be pleased to read the followmg extract again : "Can it be that earth is man's oulv abiding place ? It cannot be that earth is man's I only abiding place It cannot !e that our life is a bubble cast up bv the I ocean of eternity to float a moment upon its waves and sink into nothingness. Else why is it that the high and glorious aspirations which leap like angels from ; the temple of our hearts are forever unsatisfied ? Why is it thvt the rainbow and clouds come over us with a beauty thattis not of earth, and then pass off to leave us to muse on their loveliness ? Why is it that the stars which ' hold their festival around the midnight thrones,' are set above the grasp of our limited faculties, forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory ? And finally, why is it that bright forms of human leauty are presented to our view and taken from ns, leaving the thi usand streams of our affection to flow back like Alpine torrents upon the heart ? We are borne to a higher destiny than ; of earth. There is a realm where the rainliow never fades, where the stars will spread out before us like the islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beautiful Wings which pass before us , like shadows will stay in our presence forever. " Bomb postage ounces, the reduction of newspaper to one cent for every two Ml fraction thereof, a great many pncrs which are placed in the : j'-.stoffices never reach their destination, and there has been some complaint in ; consequence. Persons wrap up two or ; three papers, frequently weighing four or six ounces, attach a cent stamp, and ! dejMisit the packages in the xmtofnee, and that is as far a they get. They might as will address them to the Shah of Persia ond drop them in the office without any stamp at all. They ; would 1h just ns likely to reach their i destination. Uncle San agrees to carry two ounces of printed mutter for a cent, and not four ounces. Ixttkestino to Coffee Drinkers. The chicory farm and works near Sacramento do uot seem to have lieen n very great success. Seventy acres wer planted, but the blackbug cut the area down t forty ; these yielded fifteen tons of roots per acre. Some of the roots were so long that the workmen were not able to dig them np. Five tons of the green root make one ton of the dried ami roasted. From twenty to fifty Chinamen are employed. The company intend to try 180 acres next year. George M. Pi-llm an has contracted with the Midland Railroad Company, of England, for the adoption of his palace sleeping cars on that road, longest and most and drnwing-room The Midland is the important railway in England. This is another triumph of American skill and enterprise, in which the country may feel the highest pride.

ON PRESENTING A WATCH. Accept Ute little New Year gift Which thess few Yens corer, Prom him, who, though your husband, tili Remain your ardent lover. And though no more we alt up night. While good old folk are sleeping ; Our courtship now la not disturbed 11)- naughty children peeping. I-t racb unto the other be Forgiving and forbearing ; And, like the hands upon hi watch, Time' dailjr burden sharing. May we prove constant to our vows, And send harsh words a-hunger ; proportionate aa we grow old. Oh ! may our love grow younger.

FOREWN GOSSIP. On exhibition in England are Mrs. O'Neill, her son and daughter, the united weight of the trio being 1,181 pounds. The white marble statue of Queen Victoria, weighing seven tons, has arrived at Windsor Castle, and is to be placed in the vestibule of the State Der : ' Tm partment The Queen is represented sitting on a chair with a dog lying by her side. As President of the French Republic, M. Thiers entertains only a sentiment of profound satisfaction at the death of the late Emperor, but as a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece he wears a badge of mourning for the demise of a departed associate. The Pope has complained to the Italian Government that M. Kenan's ' ' Life of Jesus" is being published in a Roman newspaper, and has asked the Government to confiscate the paper. The Government has, however, refused to interfere in the matter. Rochfort's name was upon the list of prisoners to be sent to Caledonia by the vessel L'Orne, that sailed last month, ' but was removed at the latest moment. Some testimony in his favor had been given by President Thiers, and upon it his friends base hopes for his pardon. A bingclah railway accident occurred recently in Italy. The boiler of the en1 gine burst, tearing the locomotive to m . w iiis a.1 pieces, sending tne lorwaru nau wiui the four wheels along the line, and reversing and overturning the tender and wagons to the last one. The fireman was shot up into the air with such force that, coming in contact with the telegraph wires, thev snapped like threads, I and the man, describing a simi -circle, , fell dead. The Bank of England covers five acres of ground, and employs 900 clerks. There are no windows on the street. Light is admitted through open courts ; no mob could take the bank, therefore, without cannon to batter the immense walls. The clock in the center of the bonk has fifty dials attached to it. Large cisterns are sunk in the court, and engines in perfect order are always in readiness in case of fire. This bank I was incorporated in 1694. Capital, 390, 000,000. TnE Poison-mongers who advertise compounds of Fluni Fire and pungent alkalies as " balsamic medicines," " safe and harmless tonics," and " genial invigo rants," are worthy of being classed with the old Barnegat wreckers who kindled deceptive beacons, in order to decoy mariners to inevitable death. But n time came when the lures of the coast bandits failed, and a time hat come when the venders of Bittered Alcohol fail to impress the reading public with a belief in their fictions. It is due to that conscientious and able physician, Dr. Joseph Walker, of California, to say that he has largely contributed to this desirable end, by providing the world with a Tonic Corrective and Anti-Febrile Vegetable preparation, which accomplishes all that is mendaciously promised on behalf of the alcoholic nostrums. His California Vine jar Bitters, prepared from botanic productions, now for the first time emploved in the pharmacy of civilization, is the leading tonic in every State and Territory of the Union. Tne fact that tics wonderful tdixir contains no alcohol, no mineral, no dangerous element, is one of the causes of its immense popularity ; another is that as a stomachic invigorant, blood-purifier, alterative, nnti-spasinodic and anti-bilious medicine, it is as far ahead of every other preparation as Temperance is ahead of Drunkenness. Com. A sixot'LAR explanation is given of an apparent case of spontaneous combustion in New Hampshire The fire, which was discovered in an nnocenpied room, was traced to a stereoscopic glass lying upon the table exposed to the sun. There are probably a hundred or more S eron- in this and neighboring towns, who aily suffer from the distreiwing effects of kidney trebles, who do not know that Johnnon' Anodyne Liniment is almost a certain cure. In revere esse, great relief may be obtained, if not a perfect cure. Com. Throat Affections and Hoarseness. All suffering from Irritation of the Throat and Jloarnenem will be agreeably surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded fef the use of "Brmm' Bronrhial IVmAMLw--DMsV Ax English cotton-dyer and printed claims to have made the discovery tha apple juice has the valuable projierty of perfectly fixing the colors of printer cotton fabrics.