Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 15, Number 15, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 May 1873 — Page 7

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Au exchange says that ou every farm there should le a shop muni, with a wrk beuch ami sot of tools, auitable for reairing iMMHi aud im-nding all kind of farni iniplenieuts. Having then, haru to use them, and permit Vt, ,r hoya to use them. If they do destroy a little luuilier, or spoil a tool, yoo are in'iaring the boy for the business of life. And many joba can be repauml t home in less time than it would take to go to a inechauic, and frequently much better, ami money will be saved. With a few bolts of different length, .,M. harrows. coni-ilauter. icaiwr. r wagon, caa frequently be repaired. With a mall roll of harness lather, and copper rivets, the names or halter can be mended. With a soldering iron and a little solder a tin pail or milk pan can bt repaired, or a can of fruit be sealed. With a Aw and plane, at leisure time in winter, uice ornameutal chicken eoMM can be made, which will not look so much like nuisance about your premises. With tools, your stable doors can le repaired and fastened with a good wooden latch, and thereby relieve that rail that leans against your door. The same implemeuts will le useful in r pairing that gate that is leaning over, hanging by one hinge. Tools are also convenient in making a suitable frame for that nice rose bush your wife ha ln-eu nursing with so much care, in your front yard. If the farmer had a few t n ill he could make a new roller for his sled, and thereby hare no eicuse for neglecting t d haul up his summer wood. Farmers should never go to a mechanic to buy a doubletree, neck-yoke, or ox y..kc, ax lutndle, hoe handle, rake or any of the simple wooden implements on the farm. But in order to be thus independent, he must have tools, and learn their use. A lench and set of t ..ls always pay for themselves in one j Vear. Sheep Kallni; their Woal. Instances of sheep eating their wool MC quite common, especially during the latter part of winter and the early part spring. Some have thought the cause re ulted from the the presence of small parasites as minute as the red spider f some flowering plants which produce an irritation, and to allay this, the sheep acquires own skin, and the habit of biting its therebv eating its own wool It is generally lielieved, however, that the habit is anaUgous to that of liens eating their own feathers, and of the abnormal appetite of cows for old ! ... -s. traolMI rags, etc.; andicaned 1 y an exhaustion of the phosphate in tin mCL Old pastures and fields, tlt.it however. have been long croped, are deficient in

theso elements, and there is a want of Pueu- nect on your want ot .ueanty. t. by the aninuds. As a preventive, nJ JUWM to believe that no one Six a hmU quantity of bone meal with j T a Pliu '. or tumk .Ton agreec rn meal, ami give them an occasional ! because there are others more

bed. Sulphur also lias leen found to U a preventive of the habit, aud many 1 own keep their stock constantly supplied with it. It u doubt as-ists in '-.vin!. a healthy tone t-- the syUm. Ilm er Dor. Y Ii I. Ti.ere is hardly a family which does Ml throw away enough table wraps to bed at least half a dozen hens ; aud many that keep a nuisance in the shape of a dog. that does no good, but costs MM than a dozen good heus, com-; plain that they cannot afford to keep hens. One dog in the neighborhood is ,

trenerally a greate. trouble to the neigh- j metropolis of the modern empire of the b -rs than flock of hens would lie ; for czars, is the youngest among the great if heus are well fed at home they will cities of Enroe. So late as the beginrarely go away. But whoever saw a niug of the last century, the ground on dog that was not a pest, running across which the city now stands was ouly a the newly made garden aud sticking his vast morass, occupied by a few fisheriioe into everything ? Kill off the curs men's huts. Peter the Great, whose

and give the food to the hens, ami yon will find pleasure as well as profit iu so doing. We wish there was a tax of j100 (u everv dc in the conntrv. Those that are of value as watch dogs should ; 1h retained, while the host of snarling dirty curs should give place to some MM MM and less tronbh some pet. Ootmttjf .Standard. A OomI Kimirr. I n i i . ...1 - I farmers informs us. says the rn(h ,lian, that when a boy, as soon as , " iciiruri uooa-aeepuifi at scuirh, his father employed him to keep the . farm accounts the cost of labor, amount of work expended on each field. time of performing operations, plowing, "owing, cultivating and harvesting, amount of crops, prices at which sales were made, etc. He aooa became much

interested in farm operations ami tbor- wmpm,,or mt,e " destjtnte of oughly acquainted with all the details of I the fP' j booor-" work, in a more complete manner than j A Battle Creek, Mich., letter says he ever could have lieen in any other there is great excitement there over the way, and was early placed on the track course of Mrs. Brinkerhoff, the wellof farming regularly and systematically, j known woman's rights woman, who has Let other farmers follow this example ! left her husband and gone to live with with their sons and we should have less another man named Squires.

of uidoiu. hi-hkip bti-.b;iiidi, and mure of order and success.

Unatiag Ilm...- Keel. A writer in the f 'attadiait Funm r say- : I had an exceiie nt opportunity of oh. rvjug the effect of greasing the feet i whilst working in a shop where hone wer shod for a large undertaking -- I tablisluneiit. The treatment of the horses by the hor.oe-sho r was tin burntas that of other horse shod at the samt ' shop, but tlie fet of the funeral horse were greased every time they went out, i to make them nice and black ; and, a the fruit of this practice, the hoof almost eeatl growing. The sole was not hard and glossy, aa after paring, hut dry nature, and in many case could crumbled by the fingers. I'Md for (hkkru.. Thomas Heath wood, a successful breeder of game fowls, given the following as the proper food for young chickens : One egg, with the shell, beaten into a quart of raw oatmeal, and wet up with new milk. Feed them from four to six times day, according to age. Lettuce, onion tops, fresh grass, chopped fine, should be given them at least once A BEA VTIFVL EXI'ERIMEXT. The following beautiful chemical experiment may be easily performed by a lady to the great astonishment of a circle at her tea tarty : Take two or three leaves of red cabbage, cut them into small bits, put them into a basin, and pour a pint of boiling water on them ; let it stand an hour j then pour it off into a decanter. It will be a fine bine color. Then take four wine glasses ; into one put six drops of strong vinegar ; into another six drops of solution of soda ; into the third a strong solution of alum, aud let the fourth remain empty. The glasses may 1 prepared some time before, and the few drops of colorless liquid that has been placed in them will not be noticed. Fill up the glasses from the decanter, and the liquid poured into the glass containing the acid will become a beautiful red ; the glass containing the soda will become a line green ; that poured into the empty one will remain unchanged. By adding a little vinegar to the green it will immediately change to red, and on adding a Utile solution of soda to the red it will assume a fine green, thus showing the action of acids and alkalies on veg ble bines. A siloliT R"AD. To make yourself thoroughly miserable, begin by fancying that no one cares for you, that you are not of use to anvbodv a sort of nonentitv in the household, where yonr place would not le missed, but could be very easily snjcharming, xancy tnai every one who looks upon yon makes a mental coni- ; pariso l which militates against yon in : favor of some one else. Imagine that ' every word said in jest is only meant to ' Arkw.hv ilmtiwir it. 1 nwkvu wvi 1 1 1 f ri 1 niaviTi. ivn a 4 - a ue 'a j - in? that every article of wearing ap-pan-1 yon don is criticized and ridiculed. Do all this, and your tendency to nior- ' hidness of feeling will so increase that in a very idiort time yon will leeome one of the most miserable of human be- ( "gr. mmmsMumo. St. Petersburg, the splendid modern natural inclinations drew him toward the sea, founded the city in 17ltl, by the erection of a fortress oh the site of tho present citadel. Seveu vears afterward the Count Oolovkin. to please his im perial master, built the first brick house: and the next year the Emperor, with his own hand, laid the foundation of a house of the same material. Froni these small Winnings rose the imnerial citv of St. t , , . . . I Yr. r.Ii:irff whilt la n.mr una of flia - . , j rf,,M 1.1 luiilllfcn The Fat Otntrihvtw ' Saturday Night has been compelled to apologize to the Ohio Senate for an alleged unintentional reflection on the members of that bixly. The editor wrote, "The Ohio State Senate is proven to lie wholly destitute of the "nse of UnmoT" rillainons

t.V WA V iF A t T1FYIKU A f MEATY. A allocking story come from Africa. A treaty having recently Im . ii concluded between the King of Bonny ami the King of npolto it was, in accordance j with the ancient custom, ratified by j sacrificing a slave in n very leculiar ; manner. From the crown of the head down over the trunk an iu.isiou, as if for halving, was made ; then several 1 stout ine'i seized hold of the victim, . while some others hacked the body iuto j two parts along the line indicated I through the incision. One half of the j Ixsly the representative of King Bonny, and the other half the ambassador of King p..bo flung into the sea, by which the contract was considered irrevocably sealed. King Bonny tried very earnestly to void this useless and cruel part of the ceremony, but the Africans were not to be dissuaded from abandoning a time-honored usage. The victim himself did not appear much disturbed by the fate in store for him. His consolation was that his butcher would be repaid with the same coin in the next world. THE " ME It I CA TED TOWEL." The Puteut Office has recently issued papers to a California lady, the invention consisting in rather a novel method of applying medicine externally, for the lieuefit of a certain class of patients, by means of a specially adapted towel. I This towel is used iu drying the person alter bathing, and, it is claimed, is I medicated with such substances and by j such a process that it will arrest cutane- ) ons diseases, paralysis, and local affce- : Hons, while it imparts at the same time i a healthful action and glow to the skin, i and frees it from bad humors. A towel preared in the manner specified in the pateut will, it is said, retain its medical I virtues effectively during two months' ! use, when the process of medication has to be repeated. OUM Spinning. After manifold trials, a composition of glass has been discovered which may be made at any time into curled or frizzled yarn. The frizzled threads surpass in fineness not only the finest cotton but even a single cocoon thread, and they appear at the time almost as soft and elastic as silk but. The woven glass flock wool has recently been used as a substitute for ordinary wool wrappings for patients suffering from gout, and its use for this piiroae has been, it is stated, successful. Chemists and apothecaries have found it useful for filtering. The smooth threads are now woven into textile fabrics, which are made into cushions, carjiets, table-cloths, shawls, neckties, cuffs, collars and garments. The amounts actually realized by the United States in civil suits liear a small proportion to the judgninuts recovered. Thus in 171 the judgments amounted to tCi,7T5,V44, while the sum actually going into the treasury was only sl.iliH",W. sin wing a difference of Äi,470, Jl.j. In lis 72 the balance was less favorable, as out of judgments fur jBI,m,lW only fTMtSlS were realized: leaving a balance of i,o07,9l. The expenses of the Department of Jnstie- for the fiscal year ending June Ml 1M72. were s,07o:):U, of which tn7,Mrj were paid to the i United States Marshals and for court expenses, including the pay uf jurors ; and witnesses. The salaries of the Inited States District Attorneys and their assistants amounted to i'il,!'.'. The President never draws his salary himself, but receives it through the First National Bank of Washington, to which he has given a power of attorney, , ami the money is always drawn from ; the Treasury by the cashier, and placed j to the credit of the President iu the bank. The warrants for the salaries of the President ami Vice-President are , made out iu the Treasury every monfh, the former, under the new law, receiv- ; ing $4,l).o3 per month, ami the latter, , $.So3.:i:j. Members of the Cabinet are ' paid from th rolls ot their resective departments, and receipt for the same as all other officers and workmen. The lresidont and Vice-President do not ' sign any iay-rolL The books of the New York steamship offices show 21,300 persons entered for a visit to Europe this summer. Allowing the very small average of 81,000 a head for traveling expenses, and we arrive at the interesting sum of 821.500,000 of gold and gold exchange carried out of the country in a summer. No wonder the balance is against us. We read that Mr. Clement Bates has rung the town bell in Plymouth, Mass., four times a day for forty-two years. This is probably the longest time any man was ever connected with a " ring " and still maintained n good character. A FRiNTEit remarks thnt he has never leen able to give a proof of the pudding till it was l.vked no in the form.

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TUE i.os hos tint: hMTAMTMMXT. The immunity of London from great tires has long been a marvel to us Americans, who are accustomed to big oontlogratioiiH which, apparently, no human agency could stay. The densely settled population, tlu square miles of narrow, crooked atrerta and closelywedged houses aud shanties, the character und habits of the denizens of these overflowing, poverty-stricken quarters, the paralleled opportunities, in short, for lire to get u gid turt, und, getting u good start, to have its own will and way indefinitely, make it a wonderful fuct that Loudon lias not suffered a great conflagration since that which took place in the reign of Charles II., and is commemorated by the monument which stands on the iot where it began, just by Loudon Bridge. The Londoners do not hesitate to attribute their safety, in the main, to the composition and management of their fire-brigade ; and a recent report shows wherein the chief officer of that body thinks the efficiency of his subordinates lies. He says that the brigade's strength consists in its "skilled officers and well-trained and disciplined men, with a full knowledge of the machinery and appliances with which they have to work," the result leing"a steudiuess and utter absence of even the smallest appearance of excitement." Trial is sometimes made of the fire-brigade by purposely causing an alarm of tire to be raised. The whole telegraphic and steam enginery is set to work ; and the brigade, by company after company, comes dashing on to the ground, to find that their chief has been simply testing their good discipline. London, it is confessed on all hands, has an admirable tire department. What with its force of four hundred skilled firemen, of whom alxiut one hundred are on duty by day and two hundred by night, its three floating and twenty-five land steam-engines, its one hundred and thirty-five fire-escapes, its fifty-four stations, and its eighty-four miles of telegraphic wire, the fires have hitherto been admirably confined to narrow limits. Though, when it is considered that this force has to operate over an area of no less than one hundred and twenty square miles, it would seem hardly adequate, but experience proves the number, when drilled and picked and well paid as the brigade in fact is, to be nearly sufficient. But after all is said, it is recognized by the Londoners that a good system of fire-corps is not all that is needed, and that it is possible for a great fire to create immense ravages, especially at the East Eud ; and an agitation has recently begun to clear out and widen that part of the town. It is curious to learn that London supports it3 brigade for sixty-eight thousand pounds a year, while the tire department of Paris costs threefold that amount. Of the sixty-eight thousand pounds the nation contributes ten thousand pounds, and the rest is raised by a jierceutage on tire insurances and a tax of a half, penny in the pound upon the London rate-pnyers. SINGULA 11 AMiTMMMTtCAL FACT. Any miuibcr of figures you may wish to multiply by 6 will give the same result if divided by two a much quicker oerfttion but you must remember to annex a cipher to the answer when there is no remainder, and when there is a remainder, whatever it may be, annex 5 to the answer. Multiply 4H by 5, and the mswer will be 2,320 ; divide the same number by 2, and yon will have 232, and as there is no remainder, you will odd a cipher. Now, take 359 multiply by 5, the answer is 1,705 ; on dividing this by 2 there is 170 and a remainder ; you

therefore place a 5 at the end of the line, and the result is again 1,705. A jackal who had pursued a deer all day with unflagging industry was altout to seize him, when an earthquake, which was doing a little civil engineering in that part of the country, ojiened small chasm between him and his prey. " Xow here," said he, " is a distinct interference with the laws of nature. But if we are to tolerate miracles there is an end to all progress. " So speaking he endeavored to cross the abyss at two jumps. His fate would serve the purpose of an impressive warn- j ing if it might lie clearly ascertained ; but the earth having immediately pinched together again, the research of the moral investigator is baffled. Fable of Zambri, the Partrc. A Philadelphias has invented a portable bridge, durably but lightly constructed, intended to be carried on the fire apparatus, and so arranged as to be easily and speedily erected over a railway track, upon which the hose run, and under which cars and other vehicles may run without impediment. A oikl of the period appeared in Central Park, New York city, one day last week, driving a dog-cart and smoking n cigarette.

.V.i i . May, wltlt it trtaaurr of bird tuU flowm, The lliiiit-at .lit U of the ir May, wUfa iu MiiuKliiix of uiisliiiie aud Uuver, Glortuun May U iirrc I

May, with ita vt-lrrUiUie can! at ru, Aud it- tr.au.- uufrtUrrd aud free, That filly rrflrct back the glittrriux aLeu Of in Hiuugut and fluwvr aud trr . May, with it burden of vrrdure aud bloom, Auil Hi zyiihrni, deurloua and aoft, Ix-ar ou thrir brtatli the MWl flow'rtt'a erfume, Aud tlie warbler' rich melody waft. tm. May, lu it glory and beauty again, Hiuiliug aud balmy 1 here ; Wr bail thee, bright May! we rejoice In thy reign TUou beaut 11 ul uueeu uf tbe ar ! .Wir IHUtkM i' ,..... CVRHEXT ITEMS. The tunnel under the city of Baltimore, built at a cost of $2,000,000, will be completed in two months. Gov. Hendbickh wUl visit California in a short time, where he has a large interest in an extensive gold mine. Geoboe Eliot's husband is said to lie the ugliest man in England ; and Hans Christian Andersen is reputed to be the homeliest in all Europe. Detroit, Mich., claims to have a family, composed of father, mother and three children, all of whose birthday anniversaries fall on the 15th of ApriL The East river bridge, in Brooklyn, will require 70,000 tons of masonry in the cjnstruction of the towers, aud 30,000 tons of masonry, 4,200,000 feet of timlier, and 380 tons of iron in sheathing and bolts in the caissons, forming a total weight of 43,000 tons, and a grand total of 113,000 tons in the entire structure. The populations to the square mile in several of the largest cities of the world is as follows : London, 26,000 ; Paris, 28,000 ; Pekin, 28,500 ; New York, 43,000. Pekin has generally been regarded as surpassing all others in the density of its population, but New Yoik exceeds Pekin by 14,500, or mora than 30 per cent, to the square mile. An attempt is shortly to be made to cross the Pacific, from San San Francisco to Japan, in a small sloop, thirty feet long. She is named the Dolphin, and will carrv a crew of three men, in addition to her captain. The object is to hunt sea otter, which are stated to be very plentiful on the Japanese coast. A tocnq man advertised for correspondence with ladies in Cleveland a short time ago. Some fellow answered, and appointed an interview one night ou Euclid avenue. One of their number dressed in woman's clothes and met the advertiser, and then another, pretending to be her brother, belabored the romantic youth with a stuffed club, purposely prepared. He ran away crying loudly for the police. The transportation of coals to Newcastle, according to the New York Herald, is, from lie ing a proverbial expression, in a fair way to become a fact. That paier learns that the Great Eastern, after laying the new Atlantic cable, is to take a cargo from Cow Bay to Europe, on her return trip, of 15,000 tons of coal, and that one of the principal shippers in Cape Breton has contracted to load the monster steamer in fifteen days. The New York World estimates that there are 125,000 women in that city earning their living in other than domestic employments. Of these, 1,800 are milliners, 12,000 artificial flower makers, 20,000 in the hoop-skirt manufactories, 12,000 in the hatting trade, 9,000 tailoresses, while several thousand work in book-binderies, and large numbers are employed making parasols nud umbrellas and in other minor trades. IT WASX'T HER Ill'SBAXlK ALL. " AFTER A story has gope the rounds of literary gossip alxmt an attached pair of names uot unknown to fame, who went to lniard where people also went, who were literary and of good taste. The lady, thinking that as she and her husband were all in all .to each other, it was as well they should remain so,desired of the hostess that there might Ik? no introductions to other boarders, which was observed. Various tender passages between the amiable pair on their wav to and from the dining-room edified the family during the season. In time a Boston man came to board, and ou his way to the basement at dinner, going down late, he heard a light laugh behind him, add a figure not so light as the laugh sprang on his shoulders and claimed a ride down stairs. The Boston man took things coolly, carried his burden down stairs iuto the dining-rmmi, and shot her into a vacant seat at the table. The lady looked up to find her husband already there Wfore her, nud every eye was tnrued to watch these extraordinary proceedings. There was nothing to lie done but to burst into tears, which she did. N w York T, ; nne