Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1870 — Page 4

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CURRENT ITEMS.

Th* number of OentOee in Utah is stated to be Icm than 8,500. At Ware, Mm*., a couple have married after a ooortahlp of thirty years. Rvhry member of the Washington Life Insnranos Company !■ interested in its sneoeaa Th* wheat harvest of France will be about one fourth below the average. A Philadelphian recently died from the mistake of drinking erode oarbolic acid, thinking it was essence of ginger. Th* policies of the Washington are paid within sixty days after receipt of proof of death. Th* wife of Gideon A. Gray, of Bcllaire, 0., recovered SBSO damages recently from P. Burke, for selling liquor to her husband. Charles Dkwolf, of Harmony, 111, wafWjsently stung to death by bees. A horse upset a hive, and the whole swarm settled on his head. A certain photographer in Indianapolis exposes delinquent customers by displaying their pictures upside down, end labeled, “not paid for.” A voexo lady strolling through the woods in Jersey was bung up by the chignon to a limb, Bnd liad to wait two hours fbr a passer-by to extricate her. “ Pat, if Mr. Jones comes before my return, tell him that I will meet him sttwo o’clock." “ Ay, ay, sir ; but what shall I tell him if he don't come ?” A census marshal in Foresteounty, Pa., states that there is a woman in that county 107 years old. She was engaged in chopping wood when he saw her. It is stated that except for a single mile there is an uninterrupted water course from the mouth of the Hudson river to the mouth of the Columbia, on the Pacific. Belfast, Me, is happy in the possession of the Passagassawaukeag Base Ball Club, When they go to a match they take an extra stage coach to bring along the name. I At Pittsburgh, recently, a child fell over a precipice a distance of 300 feet, but his fall being broken by shelving rocks, he was not killed. lie sustained serious injuries, however. A man in Vermont has succeeded in making a folding globe. It is hollow, and can be shut up and carried in a small space. Much ingenuity is displayed in the construction. A toung man recently died at Cincinnati from the effect of pills taken without regard to time, place or number. He was a bachelor, lived alone, and had no medical attendance. A toung lady of Baton Rouge sent a poetical piece to a local paper entitled “May Thirtieth.” She felt unpleasant next day to see it headed “My Thirtieth.” It was about her birthday. To make a valuable speckled dog bul-let-proof, Mark Twain says: “Take off his bide and Hbc it with sbeet-iron. Russia iron is the best, and i 3 slicker aid more showy than the common kind. Dogs prepared in this way do not mind bulA French-Chinese dictionary would seem to most persons a work above any one man’s strength and patience. Au apostolic missionary has just completed that tremendous piece of labor, the first oppy of which he has presented to the French Emperor. A thief went into the depot at lowa City the other night, with revolver in hand, and in the presence of five or six employes of the oompany, broke open a trunk, took from it a quantity of valuable clothing which he recked In a valise of Ms own, sit down, waited till daylight, and then went his way. The witnesses were afraid of his revolver, .

As Governor Fairchild and a friend ■were riding by rail from Madison lately, two young ladies with their beaux entered the crowded car, and the distinguished gentlemen tendered their seats to the fair ones. But great was their surprise to see the younp men occupy their seats and take their fair companions upon their laps. “By George,” said the Governor, “ we might have done that.” A am, iu one of the Boston public schools applied to her teacher for leave to be absent half a day on the plea that they had company at home. The teacher referred her to the printed list of reasons that the School Committee think sufficient to justify absence,'and asked her if her casecame under any of them. She naively replied that it might eome under the head of “domestic affliction.” A traveler who recently passed through Salt Lake City says he saw people at work in the gardens attached to nearly every homestead, driving the grasshoppers in swarms out of the enclosures, using green boughs to whip them with, and “smndgeß” to discouraging them from coming back. A person "vr&ikiDg along the street would have a cloud of them rising before him at every step. The Worcestershire (England) Advertiser publishes an advertisement in which Edward Hicks, No. 27 Friar street, Worcester, invites “his Christian friends” to inspect his “large assortment of boots and shoes.” He expresses a desire for “ihe Divine blessing upon his diligence in business," and promises, if herein sell boots and shoes enough, “to devote a portion of his time to gratuitous mission work. Repairs neatly executed. Bespoke ordej* punctually attended, &c, &c.”

Petroleum as Faint.

The New York Evening Post says: “ Crude petroleum ia not only useful for painting buildings, but it is the best preservative for all manner of farm implements, wood or iron. As soon as it becomes dry, any tool may be handled without the least annoyance. For priming when other paint is to be used, petroleum is not only the cheapest, but the best material to be found. We have between three and four hundred garden sashes in use. A portion of these were pointed two years ago with Prince’s mineral paint and linseed oiL This is now so nearly gone that it has been necessary to oil the sashes to keep them from decaying. The others were oiled with petroleum whep new, and afterwards received one coat of the same paint, .which seems now as fresh and solid 1 as when it was first pat on. This ofl costs from twenty-five cents to thirty cents per gallon, and the only precaution necessary in its use is to have no fire about R until it has been spread for a few hours, long enough for. the moet volatile and inflammable parts to haTS evaporated.

Fifty one Days on a Coral Reef.

A RKMAMXAHL* story reaches us from Liverpool Blx BriJors have just paaned through a succession of adventures on a desert island, which more than realised the poet thrilling of the many romantic stories of shipwreck written for our youth. The fine new iron clipper ship Mercuriua left Ban Francisco early In January last an her return to England, having previously made her flnt voyage from the Clyde to Sydney. Blif was cbmmandea by Oapt. Cuthbertnon, an experienced navigator, and all went well with her until the 25th of March. In the early morning of that day, it being then dark and raining heavily, the good ahlD struck upon a dangerous coral island, known as the Rocas reef in latitude 3:52 8., longitude 83:20 w. No one on board had thought of danger until five minutes before the Mercnnufi struck. The lookout man then gave the alarm, “Breakers ahead!” The captain was called, the course of the ship was altered, and her helm was put “ hard over.” But It was too late. A few seconds of that Intense anxiety in the endurance of which men seem to live years, and then all doubts were solved by the Mercurius first grazing her sMe below the water against the sharp edges of the coral, and then striking violently on it twioe. She began to fill instantly, and as she was hanging as It were over tho ledge of the rock, the word was passed to man the long boat, in the hope of saving all hands. But while this was being done, the ship lurched suddenly outwards and went down like a stone, in eight fathoms of water. It may bo remarked that one of the characteristics of coral reefs is that they have frequently deep water right up to them, and the rocky islands in the Red Sea, the position of which is wrongly given on the charts, arc especially dangsronrfrom this fact, and because like the Rocas Reef, they lie low, and at night or in thick weather elude observations thoroughly, x Out of the twenty-two hands od board of th* Mercurius the morning 'found but six alive, and tbefe aftffl striPUMg two hours and until the fide feel, gMfied afoot ing on tho ledge ahd proceeded toexplo re It. Their story remlndirßoe rosi this time of Philip Robinson Family Robinson, and therlfgenioushero of Mr. Read’s and Mr. BoncisanU’s now« 1 Looking to the sea,-wtops or the fore and main-mast of the Medmrhls were just visible out of the waterj-leolSngqver the islands which wen* to be their 'home, some fifteen acres if barren rock, interspersed with patches of sand,, and connected by a narrow isthmus with another rock equally barren, of the same size, met their gaze. One cocoanut tree formed the only sign of vegetation. It was the sole survivor of those which Were planted there some years ago by order of Her Majesty’s Consul at Pernambuco, in order that the reef might be seen more easily by vessels on the Brazil or Cape Horn route, in direct track of which it lies; but there had been wrecks here previously, and with the aid of articles left behind by the survivors, the shipwrecked men contrived to bend circumstances to their will. They found two iron tanks deposited,in convenient positions and filled with water, as well as a considerable quantity of broken timber, out of which they built themselves a log hut. They found, too, that pearl of price, a broken knife, a hammer, a two ounce weight and a large copper bolt, and with these clumsy tools they made two boats «ut of the planking strewed about the rocks, fastening them with nails which they extracted from the broken timber of other wrecks. It does not appear that the poor follows had any thought of escaping in these boats, but they were enabled to make fishing excursions and to sail with signals flyiDg in search of passing ships in the early morniDg and in evening, when the sun’s fierceness was subdued; — -- —; They had no clothes, and except in their hut no shade, and the tropical heat was terrible. The majority of the men saved were in their berths when thc’Mercurius struck, and swam to the rock in their shirts; and it was not until one of their number made a hat out of the fibre of the solitary cocoa tree, sewing it together with a needle made out of a piece of brass found on the island, that any protection for the head was to be seen among them. To add to their misery, the reef swarmed with venomous ants, which bit tho strangers unmercifully, and -with an effect which can only be realized by those who have suffered from insect life of tropical climes.

The commisssriat question was settled in a way which will make every schoolboy’s mouth water who reads of it. They went in their boat and caught fish and turtle, and they had an abundance of birds’ eggs and shell-fish. They manufactured bird traps and caught young birds, cooking thens by a fire which they never suffered to go out by night or day. They had, of course, no matches, and no means of procuring a light other than the timehonored one we nave all read of in Cooper’s novels—that of rubbing two bits of wood together till they ignite. There was no fuel belonging to the island, and the broken debris of former wrecks supplied the only material for the all-important fire. Three times during their sojourn on the rock was this fire suffered from some accident to go out; and three times was the experiment in friction anxiously and successfully tried. So the time wore on until fifty-one weary days had been spent on the reef, days m which every man scanned the horizon, and in which the strong man cheered the faint hearted, and all spoke hope in turn. It is easy to picture the existence these men led. The first gratitude of escape; the anxious search for fellow survivors; the mournful conclusion that the rest of their shipmates were no more; the stern necessity which bade them work, invent, contrive; the development, day by day, of some fresh ingenuity, come little suspected quality in each, and the gradual accumulation of reliefs, and even comforts—can all be traced. They were prudent men—men taught by calamity to prepare for a rainy day; for, when rescued, they had two hundred eggs in store, and are described as being in good condition. Their rescue was not effected until the 15th of May, when the commander of the iron clipper bark Silver Craig, Captain Cohn, was approaching Pernambuco, and discerned a lump on the well known Bocae Reef, which he made out to be a hut. Drawing nearer he discerned a signal of distress, composed of 'a seaman’s stnped shirt, fluttering half-mast high, and he then hove-to within two miles from the island, and waited until six nearly naked men put out in their rude boats and came on board. They were kindly and hospitably received, and had a passage given them to Liverpool, where S are now telling their strange story, exhibiting to their friends the cocoaflbre hats, which were until recently their only articles of attire, and which they now keep as mementoes of the perils they have escaped. * .- * * In simple force, in romance, in strangeness, in fertility of resources and in ad-' venture the real experiences of these six ailors on a desolate island, is worthy of Defoe, and makes most fictitious histories of shipwreck seem tame and feeble by comparison.— London News.

In Prussia. 1,604 persons who had been legally divorced, applied during 1809 for permission to re-marry. Of this number, all but 355 were allowed to try it again.

A Wanderer Meets His Wife at the Grate of Her Second Husband.

Bon fifteen yewrs ago there lived In the northern port of Portage township a young married oonple by the name of William and Anna Clarklmon. They owned a little farm, and made enough to keep them comfortably In the world, and were apparently happy. William was handaonie and weD-educated, having graduated whir honor at an Beetern university. He did not like the honest but humble occupation of farming. Wealth accumulated too slowly by following the plow; he wanted to tnake money by the thousand* of dollars. Bo the farm was sold. Mrs. Clarklnson went to live with her parents, and William started for the rssre million dollars in a couple of years. For a few months-Mrs. Clarklnson occaaUnuOly heard from hot husband, either directly or through some of the neighbors wno had friends with the same train with which her husband was going. Then there was a long interval, during which ao word came. After a time there were rumors that the train had been attacked by Indians, and every one killed. This was at last too truthftillv verified by one poor feHoW, who was found by another party a few days after with Just Hie enough left to tell how the train had been attacked one dark sight, and before.apy ootild itcovrt' from no Surprise, all <s»re killed tod Scalped, and the IhaismT rode triumphantly away with their booty. For three years Mrs. Ciarkinson mournedfqrAerdeacOwhbaßd. After the lapse of that time she married again, and moved to Wood county. For nearly twelve yeaf»4ie was as happy at a ktid and affectionate husband and two beautiful children could make a woman. At the endxJ.that time (which, carries us up ,-to t3»fl "ISf Inst!) Affliction again casts Its mantle over her. Death claimed her husband, and again she was a sorrowing, weeping widok. f ' 7 '• She follows weeping to the grave—she hears the sad t solemn words: ‘ Dust to dust and ashes to ashes”—the earth falls with a dull, dreary ttyid upon the coffin, as the sexton slowly Covers Up all that remains of him whose spirit has gone before to the other world. The widow raises thd black veil and looks around. As she does so she meets a pair of eyes fixed intently upon her. Hhe starts—memory rushes back fifteen years and brings up the picture of her first husband. There can be no mistake—’tis he! The recognition is mutual. There is a scene—the widow and wife faint the bronzed stranger explains” his relation to the woman, and all repair to the home of her who ten minutes ago was a widow, but now is again a wife. Then Mr. William Ciarkinson tells how he was not killed by the Indians at the time of that sudden onslaught on the plains, but was taken prisoner by the Blackfeet and carried far away among their mountain fastnesses, and during all those long years had been forced to slave for his cruel cantors, .He had finally escaped, and during his flight through mountain, gulches he discovered a rich gold deposit. How he had •written back to his ola friends, but could get no answer. He then went back and worked the gold mine which he had discovered. He grew rich, and longed to again visit the home of his youth and happiness. He had got off the cars at Pittsburgh and,taken the stage to Bowling Green—had hired a buggy there and was driving to his old home when he overtook the funeral—a stfange impulse induced him to follow—the widow’s person seemed strangely familiar, and when she .drew aside her veil he recognized her as the wife he had bidden adieu to fifteen years before, sad whom he had thought to be dead. They are now living happily together.— FiruUay , 0., Courier.

A Puff that did not Pay.

The steamer “Great Republic" that left here yesterday for New Orleans had among her passengers half a dozen young men bound for Louisiana where they intended seeking their fortunes, selling sewing machines to maids and matrons in that sunny clime. Unluckily for the boys, some kind friend sent a complimentary notice of their departure to one of the morning papers. What was unluckier still, some of the boy 3 had forgotten to settle with their tailor,, who seeing the notice in the paper, clipped it out, pasted it on the back of bi 3 card, and sent it in the hands of a constable to the boys with compliments. Mr. Constable, armed with his warrants, and with the card and compliments, proceeded immediately to “board” the steamer and seize the baggage. One of t lie, young men did not seem to appreciate the visit, and was-deliberating how to get out of the fix, when young man No. 2 comes to his relief and claims all of the trunks. “If that is true,” says the polite officer. “it changes the case. Can you prove that the trnnksnre yours? ” “.Certainly, sir,” says the young man Na 2, “ plenty of proot right here on the bqtot” " That is all that is necessary then,’-sir,” says _ the officer. “ Please read that,” handing him a warrant in his own name. Young man No. 2 wilts. Both pay for the clothes, as they ought to have done long ago, and the steamer goes on her way. The boys thought the puff didn’t pay, but the tailor Is well pleased and rays he intends to patronize the newspapers more liberally hereafter.— Missouri Republican.

The Sweetest Moment in Love-Making.

Periiaps there is no period, says Anthony Trollope, so pleasant among all the pleasant periods of love-making as that in which the intimacy between lovers is so assured, and the coming events so near, as to produce and induce the conversation about the ordinary little matters of life; what can be done with the limited means at their r isposal; how that life shall be begun which they shall lead together, what idea each has of other’s antics; what each can do for the other. There was a true sense of the delight of intimacy in the girl who declared that she never loved her lover so well as when she told him how many pairs of stockings she had got. It is very sweet to gaze at the stars, and it is sweet to sit out among the haycocks. The reading of poetry together, out of the samo book, with brows all close, and arms all mingled, is very sweet; the pouring out of whole hearts in writing words, which the writer knpws would be KelchW be ridiculous by any eyes or cars and sense but those of the dear one to whom they are sent, is very sweet; but for the girl who has made a shirt for the man she loves, there has come a moment in the last stitch of it sweeter than any stars, hayeock, poetry, or superlative epithets have produced.

Anecdote of the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia.

•The Emperor’s third son, Alexis, who is said to be contemplating a visit to this country during the present year, is in the naval service. Somewhat more than a year ago, when holding, the rank of midshipman, the flag ship in which he was serving was wrecked on the coast of Denmark. The Anmiral ordered the lifeboats t,O be lowered, and directed Alexis to take charge of the first boat. The royal midshipman declined to obey the order. It was peremptorily repeated: “I, your commanding officer, order you into the boat” “Admiral, I cannot obey you,” said the Prince. “It would not become the son of the Emperor to be the first to leave the ship. I shall remain with

you|to it j under arrest for disobedience of orders as soon as ciroumstßpoe Will allow, nn- do so.” “ I mean no disobedicno©, but leanncSobey, rejoined the youthful Kero. In due time almost the entire crew reached th* shore is safety, only some four or five having perished in the transit from the ship. Among the last to land were the Admiral and the Grand Duke Alexia. Tents wefe hastily erected from the sails and spars of the ship saved from the wreck, and the rigid distupUne of shiplife was promptly resumed. The young Prince was placed under arrest for his previous disobedience of orders. As soon as possible, ,the Russian Minister at Copenhagen was Informed of the facts, and telegraphed them to the Emperor, from whom he received the following Teply: “ I approve the act of the Aamiral In placing the midahlpman under arrest for disobedience of orders, and I bless and kiss my son for disobeying them.”— Lippincotfs Magazine.

Spots on the Sun.

Our readers are all familiar with the existence of spots on the surface of the sun, and their variation in number and size from one time to another. Tho exigence of these spots, and the question of their periodicity, have been investigated by astronomers for some years past, and several successive periods of appearance and disappearance have been established quite satisfactorily. —• — The principal of these are. an elevenyear period, a fifty-six year period, a two-hundred-and-tWenty-three-day period, a twenty seven day period, and a five-hun-dred-and-eighty-fottr day period. Among other causes for the occurrence of these spots, and their periodicity, that of planetary disturbance has been warmly urged, although the precise connection between the position of the planets and the solar spots is not ’yet established. Professor Kirkwood, an eminent American astronomer, has lately published an elaborate memoir, in which, as a summary of his investigations, he states that the fact of the connection between the changes of the solar spots and the position of certain planets is unquestionable, and that a particular region of the solar surface is more susceptible than others to planetary disturbances, these occurring, as they do, between definite parallels of latitude, the number being greater in the northern than the southern hemisphere of the sun. He also announces that of the cycles of variation above mentioned, that of eleven years has been traced to the influence of Mercury; and that the marked irregularity of this period, from 1822 to 1867, is equally dufe to the disturbing action of Venus also; and finally, that tho fifty-six-year cycle is determined by joint action of Mercury and the earth. —Hirper's Magazine.

Begging as a Speculation.

There are two classes of beggars—those who beg from sheer laziness, lack of self-respect-, and a total want of the courage necessary to make a thief; and those to whom the misfortunes of life present the alternative, beg or starve. The former may or may not be in the majority, but they are very numerous, and it is extremely unfortunate for the large clas3 of worthy and respectable beggars who are eager and willing to earn an honest living that there are so many imposters in the business. When a man by industry and frugality has accumulated a stock of crippled limbs or obscured optics, and sets out to do business on them with a conscientious intention to deal fairly with the public, it injures his prospects of pecuniary success to have another man come along pretending to be lame or blind when he ain’t, especially if the public finds it out. The public don’t like to be taken in by beggars. It is astonishing, though, how the severity of the operation of being taken in is mitigated when the swindler has money. It is not our intention to enter into an elaborate classification of the different varieties of beggars, but simply to speak of the manner in which professional begging i 3 systematized here in Cincinnati. We have it from a gentleman who claims to have investigated the subject closely, and to his own satisfaction, at least, that there is a man here who hires beggars who are blind or lame, or who have other infirmities which excite the sympathies of a feeling though somewhat hurried public, paying them a percentage on their collections, or by the day, he controlling and directing their movement I" Our informant avers that he has watched the man, and seen Mm locating his forces early in the morning, an operation which lie performs with consummate tact. Long observation and experience in the business have enabled him to judge of the value of certain corners and stairways, and he can figure to a' cent just what a doorstep is worth. There is a nice discrimination to bG used in stationing his men. For instance, beggars with deformed limbs must be placed in a position best calculated to make the deformity conspicuous and noticeable. Sore-eyed beggars are located where the sun will shine in their faces, as the sun increases the wretchedness of their appearance. A sore eyed beggar has about twice the commercial value in the sun that he has in the shade. When the sun gets around in the afternoon the boss'goes around and moves his sore eyed mendicants to suit-. They don’t like it,'of course, but that is the way they are compelled to have it. The rules of the boss compel beggars with one leg to stand all the time they are on duty, leaning painfully on a crutch. Wooden legs are strictly prohibited, impairing as they do the idea of helplessness. Very old beggars command the highest pay. A young and vigorous beggar might obtain money of the passing .public by the aid of a club, but, temporarily successful as that means of begging may be, it hurts the business in the long rap. The young and vigorous beggar must be content to work for smallwages until such time as age and infirmities overtake him, when, if he is industrious and persevering, he may be able to make a very comfortable living. Tumors are in demand with this speculator in mendicity, particularly if they are on the head and large. They are better, too, on Children. If in passing by yon pause * moment, Wondering which is the head and which the tumor, there is an opportunity for your charitable 'feelings to be worked upon, don’t yOu see? One of those extreme and (thank heaven) rare eases of inflammatory rheumatism sometimes seen where the joints are so swelled, distorted and drawn up as to make the man look like a heap of log chains, would doubtless command a big price from this singular speculator. —Cincinnati limes.

The Beautiful Sunshina.

Persons who have been at Rome will remember that the charge for a south side room is nearly double that for one of northern, exposure. This is the result of a practical fact impressed upon the minds of the people from the observation of centuries, that sunshine is healthful; and yet very few seem to have arrived to that height of intelligence. Read over the advertisements any.. day for “ furnished rooms,” and thq' indispensable requisite, next to a “ high stoop, brown front, west side,” is that it shall be a front room; it may front a pig pen or a plank yard, a stable or a steamery, all the same; only if it is a “ front room,” tq overlook the street; as if we would die if we oouldn’t see something; as if there was nothing to

4o but ait U Um window ud gu* tX Uu punters-by by th* hour. A New York merchant noticed that all hia bookkeepers became eomtnmptlTe in a few years and died. One day it occurred to him it be the result of their occupying a roofn where the sansbine never entered, in oonseouence of high walls; next day he gave hie clerks a sunshiny room, and never had a consumptive bookkeeper afterward. Another New York merchant placed his son on a beautiful improved fkrm in Illinois. The best upper room of the house overlooked the-nrairle. Three years later the son returned to New York an invalid—the cough, the hectic, the death t On close Inquiry, he stated to the physidan always found his clothing damp and mouldv. “Did the sun ever shine in your room t" st/fi* 53* on the north side of the house.”—JEschartge.

Eradicating Thistles.

A summer fallow will eradicate thistles, and do it by keeping the thistles from seeing the light. The beauty here is to begin early In plowing. This prevents the first crop from appearing. In this way, by a regular course of four plowing, there is no chance for the pests to see the light. They are thus kept in the dark not only in the summer, but the two winters are added, making a continuous dearth of a year and a half. This will kill them. We have known three plowings to do it, and that is all that is necessary where the plowing is deep and the ground all turned down, so that no strips or careless furrows give chance for the thistles to appear by the next plowing, or if the last plowing, in the fall. Care must be taken, and this pest can be removed as well as not. And land thus treated, plowed three or four timee, with the numerous thistle roots and y oung shoots rotted in it, is a bed fit for any crop. No manure is needed, as the land that grows thistles successfully is not poor land. But the working the soil is the greatest benefit. If a plowing is given it late in the fall 6r early winter, whether after the summer treatment or preceding it, all the better; this may be the fourth plowing. It would be best were it done the fall before, and then plowed a little deeper than usual. Three times plowing will then be sufficient the season following. The late plowing in the tall.will prevent any growth of the thistles by the first plowing time in the'spring, which may be late, for it will answer m the first plowing, and it may even be considered as one of the three plowings, thus necessitating but two plowings during the summer. But it wants to be done as it were in the winter. The frost will then have its - -effect upon the insects, seeds of weeds, weeds themselves, and the raw ground brought up from below. will become mellowed and partially decomposed, the process Of disintegration finished during the summer, so that there will be a great depth of thoroughly mellow, and some new soil, having most or all of the ingredients necessary to farming. It will take thistles such along time to penetrate this soil, that two plowings, besides the fall or winter plowing, will suffice. This in clay soil, or, as we know by experience, in drift, where there is considerable clay and much gravel and sand. In your low rich plains of rivermade soli, the thistles wiin>e too fast for the plow if passing but twice through the soil. In the old thistle districts like this, the pest is not considered at all; land is not valued at a dollar less in consequence. The thistles are probably worth as much in the manure they furnish as is the damage they do. A fallow is sure to clear them, or a heavy meadow will do about the same thing. There may be a few left, but they will dwindle, and must struggle for existence; a rich meadow is not the place for them, especially one prepared from a good fallow bed. The summer fallow as a means of eradicating the thistle has jeferenee more particularly to grain farms. Plowing favors the thistle in the ordinary treatment of the land. Hence our grain farms, before the dairying epoch, have had a hard time of it, as we well enough know ourselves. It was only by the. thorough work of three plowings that we succeeded. Fallows were made In those days. Since the introduction of the dairy, all is changed. There are few thistles, and these are becoming less. Grass is an obstruction to them, whether meadow or pasture, hut particularly meadow, and more particularly when heavy and kept heavy. Top-dressings are good for grass, but in general not for thistles. — Cor. Country Gentleman.

On a recent Sunday, as a Philadelphia lady was proceeding to church, she encountered a half-starved dog. Her feelings of pity were at once aroused, and she took the animal home and fed him high. She was just congratulating her-, self on her humanity, when the dog bit her husband so that he cannot recover, and had to be killed by a policeman to prevent him from tearing the lady into strips. It isn’t likely that she will meddle with any more dogs, unless she marries again. It must have been pretty warm in Albany the other day, for, according to a paper of that city, on that day a young man going down Broadway met two ladies and raised his hat, and before he got the hat on his head again, the sun burned his hair all "off, so that he is bald-headed. The Ncsrery.—The hearts of the ittle ones who receive the number for August will be more than delighted with Its pretty pictures and stories. Every family blessed with the presence of a child should take The Nursery. It will richly repay Its cost ($1.60 a year, with reductions to clubs,) in the happiness it will afford the children. Address John L. Shorey, 36 Biotnffold street, Boston, Mass. Evbby Saturday.—“ On the Cliff at Newport,” “ Odalisque,” “ A View oil Constantinople and Pera,” “Little Nell and Her Grandlather," “ Morning Calls," “ Virginia Drowned,” and “The Ketnm of the Herd,” aro the titles of the seven beautiful fuli-pago engravings in No 81, for July 30. This number also contains a portrait of the Due do Grammont, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, with biographical sketch, and the usual quantity of flesh reading matter. The publishers announce that they have secured, from the pen of Mr. Edmund Yates, a new eerial novel, entitled “Nobody’s Fortune,” due notice of tho appearance of which will he given. Flelds, Osgood & CO., Boston. $5.00 per year. 1

The Barron Rooks Yield Brcml! Yes, tho rugged dins of tne ocean strand produce something that. If not bread. Is more nourishing and tattering than the stall of life ltaelf. The Sea Moss which carpets the rocks on the shows of Ireland, Icc'and, and the coasts of Northern Europe, Is as ttuly a food staple, when property prepared, as wheat, rye or Indian corn. The Irish variety, locally known as Carageen, Is now manufactured, under a patent. Into one of the meat nutritious, palatable, digestible and delicious elements of sustenance the world has over seen. The article has been patented under the name of Si s Moss Faetne, and the extensive mills of the fin Moss Farine Co., New York, arenow turning out Immense quantities of this economic luxury, which has already taken a prominent place among tho commodities of the American produce market. Its pries is almost nominal ; and the paddings, custards, tellies, creams, Wane mange, and other light table luxuries prepared from It are superior in flavor (as well as in cheapness) to those made from corn starch, malzena, ravelenta, or any of the other gelatinous extracts of grain. In numbers there is safety, it was upon this principle that tho formula cf Judsoh’b Mountain Herb Pills was prepared. Dr. Jadson, Intending to spend a fortune in advertising his pills, submitted his recipe to the revision of the most intelligent and learned physicians of the age, and the result is a slmplo hut most efficacious menicino —the Jubson's Mountain Hxbb Pills. They puiiiv tho blood, remove all obstructions, elcanso the skin of all pimples and blotches, and are perfectly sure and safe in their operation. The Hudson's Mountain Herb Pills care Biliousness, Female irregularities, Headache and many of tho diseases arising bom Impure blood and a deranged digestion. Use the Junpos’s Mountain Herb Pills, and when you have proved their virtue recommend them to your friends. They are both sugar-coated and plain. For sale everywhere.

Onrws Oatanh la tta wont fhnns aaSiwMK I ”'** «mulna no Tobacco! note* tpUuMaiatmwtion and iMpafldal rjaajfttn Davu' Paib Ktu.tm.-~from the rep<vt( or dealjrs In this city, we think no proprletagy-mpdldns kaa bad a lorror sal*. It* valuable properties, ee • *o®* d £ c .* , ? for . P* l ?- osnnot (Ml lo b* aanundiy appreciated, and np Dually ihonld be without it. In <■*• of accident, or sudden attack erf dysentery, diarrhea sholsr. morbus, and even AalaUc cholank yields to It* metric power, m we see by teporte from those soctlone in ,11m southwest whelk the disease ha* heenpartlentarty virulent the past summer.— Montreal 7 Yannript. Batchelor’s Hair Dye. nis splendid hair iye Is the beet In the world, tha only true and perfeot Dye; harmless, reliable, Instantaneous; no disappointment; no ridiculous tints; remedies the U 1 effect* of bsd eyes; Invigorates and leaves the hair soft and beautiful black er brown. Sold by all Drngglate and Porfumora, aUeet r °N Crl Vo ! *° d ** ™ Wl * rtetoT J< 1® Bond Be on Your Guard. The unexampled Success which for twenty years haa accompanied the nee of Hoetetter’e Stomach Bitters provokes the envy of Ignorant noetrnmmongers In all patts of the country, and the counterfeiting bnslness having heea measurably played out In conseqnence of the nnmerons suits Instituted against the offenders, a new system of tactics has been adopted. In the Sonth and West especially, a legion of “Bitters,” prepared from worthless materials and bearing a variety of names, have been got np by Irresponsible adventurers with the hope of substituting them to some extent for the Standard Tonic of the Age. In some cases country druggists are the concocters and proprietors of these unscientific and trashy compounds, which are warmly recommended by the venders, who endeavor to palm them off upon the cradnlons In lien or the great specific which has never yet had a successful competitor either among proprietary prepartlons or the medicines prescribed In private practice. This notlco Is Intended to pnt.tbe public on their guard against persuasions of parties engaged In the attempt to substitute mere rubbish for the most efficient stomaeblc and alterative at present known. At this season of the year when debility and complaints arising from a lack of vital energy so generally prevail, It Is of the greatest conscqueacs that, no tricks should be played with depressed and enfeebled systems. Ask, therefore, for Hoetetter’s Stomach Bitters, the great vegetable invigorant and alterative, and reject, with deserved contempt, the worse than useless medleys offered In its place. It Is as lmpoitant to the public as to the proprietors of the famous restorative, that this advice should be heeded.

The Most Popular Medicine Extant. IB4of Thirty Years 1870 Since th« Introduction of PERRY DAVIS’ PAIN KILLER* Thirty years ft has teen before the pnbllc, and In that time has become known In all parts of the world, and been used by people of all nations. . • It remains, to-day, :hat same good and efficient remedy. Its wonderfm power In relieving the most severe pains has never been equaled, and It has earned Its world-wide popularity by Its Intrinsic merit. No curative agent has had s> wlde-spre&d sale or given such universal satisfaction. Directions accompany each bottle. J. IV. HARRIS & CO., Bole Proprietors, Cincinnati, Ohio. Bold by all Draught*. qqqqqqqqqq SOMETHING NEW! Will all those Afflicted with Cough or Consumption Head the following and learn the value of AXaljUUt’S LUNG BALSAM. DR. LLOYD, of Ohio, Surgeon In the army during the war, from exposure. Contracted consumption. He says: “I have no hesitancy In stating that It was by the use of your LUNG BALbAM that I am now alive and enjoying health.” fiWiu? B, of Missouri, says: recommend your BALSAM In preference to any other medicine lor Coughs, and it gives satisfaction. ALLEN’S LUNG BALSAM I? L P n Jt and Throat difficulties. It should be thoroughly testes before using any other Balsam. It will cure when all others fall. Directions accompany each pottle. J. N. HARRIS &, CO., Bole Proprietors, Cincinnati, Ohio. rjßr SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. HOW tO CET PATENTS IS FULLY EXPLAINED In a Pamphlet of 108 pages just Issued by MUNN & CO., 37 Park Row, New York. SENT FRBE. MUNN A CO.. Editors Scientific American, the beat mechanical paper l„ n the world. (i£s Ybabb Experiknok,) PA TENTS.— have taken More Patents ana examined More Inventions, than any other agency. Send sketch and description fw^o^lnion. CIDER MILLS * _______ HAVEN’S AMERICAN Warranted to Produce MORE CIDER Than any other Style. Don’t believe the yarns of competing ‘ Agent*.** Learn the FACTS, by comparing Mills or addjeaslng JAMES L. HAVEN «fc CO., No. Ml Walnut fit., Cincinnati.

UNIVERSITY OF IIIINV. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. Tbe course of Instruction consists of three terms: the first commencing on the first Tuesdty of September; tbe second on the last Tuesday of November, and the third on the first Tuesday of March. Students can enter at any time during the course. The School Is completely organized. It pursues a plan of study designed to embrace the several branches of the law. It aspires to give an accurate knowledge of the law—the present condition of the law, with facility In Its application. as the course Is short, the Faculty Intends thorough woik o» Its part, and expects Rom each student diligent and persistent study. Circulars may be had on application to ISAAC EDWARDK Albany, N. Y.

GOLDEN FOUNTAIN PEN. GREATEST INVENTION OF THE AGE. whn IIAVC a “■ used It to be the best pen made or sold in this country! Will not corrode. Sixty lines written with one pen of ink! Will outwear a dozen best steel pent. Fut up In neat slide boxes, Bold only by Agents, and for this reason any energetic person can realize *3OO per month. Profit over 230 per cent. Two sample pens, 10 centß; two boxes. 50cents; five boxes.sl.oo; twelve boxes, $2.00. Address WESTERN PUBLISHING CO- Pittsburgh, Pa. AMERICAN SAW CO., Ko. t Ferry Bt.. cor. Gold, New York. TPOR A CIRCULAR of great interest to everybody -T address D. B. GALLANDKA. Toledo. Ohio. TO CONSUMPTIVES.—Tou can get a sure cure A for Coughs and Colds, and all lung complaints tree. It has cured thousands. Send for it to DANIEL AD EE. P. O, Box 8531, New York. I I'llHraffliaaK .x3s HOFF’S MALT EXTRACT is not only renowned In cases of Hoarseness, Coughs, Dyspepsia, etc., and on account of it* non-exciting properties as a beverage which can be nsed at ail limes by every one, but Is doubly eo In cases of Tubercnlar Consumption. The offlolal reports of many of the military liospl'ale of Europe state that: “it puts a stop to ilia Inroad of this powerful enemy, and renders tho progress of the malady Impossible, it fa a direct antagonist to a tubercular, morbid constitution by preventing the set* tllng and fixing of the albuminous matter; moreover, it powerfally excites the ac lvlty of the lungs ana Increases the circulation ol the blood." I . l J.l. r L rsTB AND GROCERS. TARRANT Ar C0.,378 Greenwich 5t., 11. Y.» Sole Aqrnis foe United States, ko ,

A MEAT MEDMIAL DISCOVERY Dr. WALKER’S C AUTO VO A VINEGAR BITTERS

Hundred* of Thouiaads Btar testimony to thalr Wonder-- 1 ful Curative Effect*. WHAT ARE THEY? ft THEY ABE NOT A VILB 1 FANCY DRINK.I

FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, whether in yougeroM, married or tingle, at the d*wn of womanhood or at thekara «f Me, theae Tonic Bitten have mo equal. *F~ Band for a circular.

Made of Poor Ken, Whiskey, Proof BplK i and Refine Liquors doctored, aplccd andewcctenedto pleaae the taste, called “Tonic*,”" Appc’.xere,” “ Restorers," Ac., that lead the tippler oa to drunkenness and ruin, but are e true Medicine, made from the Native Boots tnd Herbs of California, free from all Alcoholic Stimulants, They are the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and A LIN. GIVING PRINCIPLE * perfect Renovator end Invlgoratdr of the System, carrying off ell poisonous matter and restoring the blood to s healthy condltk a. No person can take these Bitters according to dl. tlon and remain long unwell. *IOO will be given for an lnenrablc caac, provided the bones are not destroyed by mineral polssn or other moans, and the vital organs wasted beyond tho point of repair. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism and Gout, Dyspepsia, or Indigestion, Bilioas.Reinlttent and Intermittent Fevers Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys up 1 Bladder, these Bitters have been most succe'_ful. Such Diseases are caused by Vitlnt 1 Blood .wblob Is generally produced by derangemt nt of tbe Digestive Organs. DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Head ache, Pain In the Shoulders,Coughs, Tightness of tho Chest, Dizziness, Soar Eructations of the Stomach, Bad tasto In the Month, Bllloas Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammationot the Dungs,Pain In the regions of tho Kldnoys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. They Invigorate the stomach, and stimulate tho ton pld liver and bowels, which render them of unequalloefficacy In cleansing the blood of all impurities, and Imparting new life and vigor to the whole system. FOR SIC IN D fSEASES, Eruptlons.Tetter.Salt Khucm.Blotchcs, Spots, Plmplos, Pustules, Bolls, Carbuncles, Ring- Worms, Scald Head, Soro Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Ilnmors and Diseases of tho Skin, of whatever name or nntnro are literally dng np and carried out of the system In a short time by tbe nsc of these Bitters. Oho bottle sh such cases will convince themostlncredulousofthelr curative effect. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its Impurities bursting through tho skin lnPlmples.E-up. tions or sores cleanseltwb.cn you find It obstructed and Blugglsh In tbe veins; cleanse It when It Is foul, and your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure and the health of tho system will follow. PIN, TAPE andether WORMS, lurking In tho Bystem of so many thousands, arc effectually destroycd and removed. For full directions, read careftn’" the circular around each bottle, printed In four lauguages—English, German, French and Spanish. J. WALKED, Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD & CP, Druggists and Gon. Agents, San FranclßCO, Cal, and 32 and 34 Commerco Street, New Tork. tT SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS. G-alo cfc Biook.l, WHOLESALE DRXCU2I6T9* Agents for B. Keith & Co’s Active Principles of Plants; Chapman & Dunk’s Pharmaceutical PnpaTatlons; Chaa. Kllis, Son & Co.’s Burar Coated Pills and Gra .nles ;*F. Paturel & Co.’s Swedish Leeches. Vaccine ViriiH and French Artlflcfnl Eyca (inserted and tool'll without pain or even inconvenience ) —aspecially. GALK A BLOCKI. 202 Randelph-st., Chicago, 111.

We Misuse osr Bodies. It would be as rational toendeavorto repair a watch with a chisel ar.d a sledgo hammer, as to attempt to remedy the derangements of the delicate organs of digestion and secretion with drastic cathartics. In Tabbant's E-rKK-vzbcent Seltzer Apkrient, are combined. In duo proportion, all the Ingredients required to relieve the bow.lt from obstiucilons. Invigorate tbe stomach, regulate the quantity and Improve Hie quality ol t! e gastric Juice and the bile, and neutralize any acid matter that may exist In the circulation. BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. ASK FORTITK “ ORIENT” FLAVORING EXTRACTS—The Purest and Bast In use. L. J. HITZ A CO- 311 State-st,, Chicago. ThlßlsNO PATENT MEDICINE HUMBUG, gotten up to dupe the Ignorant and credulous, nor 1* It represented as being “ composed of rare and precious substances brought from the four corners of the earth, carried seven times across tbe Great Desert of Saharah on the backs of fourteen camels, and brought across the Atlantic Ocean on two ships.” It Is a simple, mild, ,toothing Remedy, a perfect Specific. lor Catarrh and “Cold nt the Ha ad,” also for offensive Breath, Loss or Impairment of the Sense of Smell, Tasto or Hearing, Watering or Weak Eyes, Pain or pressnre In the Head, when caused, as they all not unlrequently 1 are, by the violence ot Catarrh. I offer. In good faith, a standing reward *SOO for a case or Catarrh that I cannot cure. FOR SALS BY MOST DUGGIBTS EVERYWHERE. PSIO* 50 C*NTS. Sent by mall, post-paid, on receipt of Sixty Cents. Four packages for *2.00 or 1 Dozen for *5.00. Bond a two cent stamp for Dr. Sage’s pamphlet on Catarrh. Address the proprietor, R.V.PIKiiCKM. D., Buffalo, N. ,Y. BDIIftQIIIA’S Cider Vinegar, celebrated for rtiUoolllul Oita purity, strength, and palatableness. Warr anted to preserve pickles. First premium awarded at the u. 8. Fair, the Illinois State Fair, and Chicago City Fair. Largest works of the kind In the United States, established 1848. CHAB. G. E. TRUSSING, 880 and34l State-st., Chicago, HT Ask your grocer for Prusslng’s Vinegar Black as the Raven’s Wing Is Kidder’s Raven Indelible Ink. It flows freely, never blots, and never fades. Used as easily as common Ink, with a steel or a quill pen. Remember “ Raven Ink.” Bold everywhere. KIDDER A WETHERELL.Manufacturers. N. Y. $75 TO SOLDIERS Having Artificial limbs—by recent set of Congress. Apply to B. S. 11LOOM & CO.. U. 8. Claim Agents, - Shelby, Ohio. PROMPT, HONORABLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD Agents wanted In every city, town and village for the largest and most successful DOLLAR HOUSE In tbe country—THE ONLY ONE Indorsed by the leading papers ana Express Companies of the United States. Our goods give universal satlstacton, our Premiums to Agents OANN9T na excelled, and our checks are free. Haying two Houses—Boiton and Chicago—onr facilities are unequalled, and our business exceeds in amount all other houses In this trade combined. §T Send for Circulnra and Free Club to 8. C. THOMPSON & CO., 73 Lakc-st., Chicago, or 136 Federal st, Boston. P. B.—Country deal rrs having Dollar Stores or departments will find It to their advsntage to examlno onr stock before purchasing elsewhere. Special bargalnaln Hosiery,Towels,Handkerchiefs, etc. THE Weed Family Favorite As now perfected and manufactured by tho Weed S.M. Co., of Hartford, Is tbe best and most reliable FAMILY SEWING MACHINE t For all kinds or family work In use. Responsible Agents wftntcdjn every connty. A liberal discount to the trade. Send for price list and terms to GKO. C. THOM AS, 191 Lake-at., Chicago, Aftont lor the Northwwt. State where you •see this advertisement 258 K A FEVER AND AeUEr DANBIGKR’S VEGETABLE FEVER rOWDERB. A safe remedy. Effectually cures all cases within twen-ty-four honra. *1 per box. Address the proprietor, J. A. DANSIGKB, 71 liberty Street, New York.

They are a Gentle Far* alive on well a* a Tonic, possessing also, the peculiar merit of acting as a powerful agent In relieving Casgaarine or Inftsmmitlonof the Liver, aad all the Visceral Organs.