Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1874 — Page 4

A Miser Millionaire.

Is a shabby wooden house, two stones in height, Blending on Eighth avenue, hftlf ft mile below Central Park, lives one of the millionaires of New York. He ia the owner of rows of brick tenements and of half a dozen brown-stone fronts, bat he prefers to be sheltered by the humblest of the roofs that are his. The house that he inhabits is dilapidated and bears not even the pretense of decayed gentility. Its sides, from which the paint has been worn by sun and storm, and its windows, patched with paper deftly pasted on the glass, show willful neglect on the part of the occupant. Young folks who ride past the house on their way to Central Park to dream of their future home pray that it may never be their lot to come to such a shelter. They may well say so, since the interior of the nouse is even less inviting than its outside. Ye* none of them wotud believe, except oh irrefutable testimony, that the spot tb :y despise is the home of one of the wealthy men of the great metropolis. Visitors never find admission to the house. A termagant woman drives beggars, spies and interviewers from the door. They can only get glimpses of a dirty, dark entry without a carpet and of a pair of stairs that seem to go up into a region of , udbroken cobwebs. Only those who come on business can get sight of the owner. Thus it happened that a few days sine* ,a Stenographer was sent to take the occupant’s testimony in a lawsuit. Jhe latter had become involved in ligation, and as lie was understood to be confined to his bed the mdn of hieroglypics was sent to wait upon him. Arrived at the right number the stenographer could not believe that he was ■right, and that the client lived in such a hole. But having knocked on the panel, a frowsy woman in a worn calico dress assured him that it was all right, and led the way ut> stain. The visitor followed with careful tread, and with an impression that he was wading through a shower of dirt. The door of the front room on the second floor admitted him to as strange a panorama as he had ever witnessed. Upon a cheap, stained bedstead lay a man of about sixty years. His hair and long beard were gray almost to whiteness, and his frame was stalwart. His was not a bad face, but rather patriarchal— set off like the Patriarch Casby’s by his abundant locks. The *fian was bed-ridden. All liis wealtli could not find for him the power to bid him arise and Walk. But as if this were not enough, it was evident that he denied himself everything except the mere ne- / cessities »f existence. The only pleasure left was to gloat over his possessions and remember that he was able to buy up hundreds of those who lived in apparent wealth and dressed luxuriously. This pleasure seems to outlast all others. The surroundings of the man were curious. The bed was covered with a cheap spread, and a fragmentary carpet strove to stretch itself over the floor. At the foot of the bed was a row of pigeon-holes and a board that closed up against them. Wien it was necessary to refer to any of the papers ip this receptacle the bed-ridden millionaire raised himself up to a sitting position by pulling on a rope fastened to the bedpost. Then he let down the board upon his knees and reached out for the paper*. When he needed to. make calculations be took a piece of chalk out of a pigeon-hole, scratched away upon the board, and rubbed the figures off when he had finished. Pencil and paper were luxuries altogether too expensive for ordinary use. Board and chalk were cheap. The room was a curiosity shop on an extensive scale. Two or three chairs, a table and a piece of white muslin nailed "to the nppeT half of the window's were its whole furniture. But it had a multitude oftiecorstions. Under the bed and in the corners were baskets of crockery, kitchen utensils, mantel ornaments, bundles of_ clothing and other matters that had evidently been taken in pledge from tenants who had no money to pay rent. On the table was a select assortment of clocks, stuffed birds, varnished fish, shells and knickknacks that no doubt had been highly prized by their owners. Everything evidently was fish that had come into this landlord’s net. The visitor took his seat and began to take the testimony. But it was a more difficult job than he had imagined. The old man protested against his taking down every word that he said. It was “robbery to charge fifty cents a page” for what he said. He'd tell him what to put down. The stenographer quietly remarked that he knew his business. “ Very well,” said the sharp millionaire, “I’ll talk to this woman, and then you ean’t write it." He was answered that the operation was quite ns easy in one case as in the other, nnd finally the work proceeded amid many expostulations and a great deal of protestation against the robbery. During the session a worikingman came in to consult the “boss.” Having received his directions, and being admonished not to waste his time, his employer remarked: “ Some day Wjien you have nothing else to do for half an hour—-mind, I say, when you have nothing else to do —I want you to go to that house of mine on Blank street. _ In the hack yard, under some bricks in tbe upper corner, dig down a foot and you will come to some lead pipe lhat’s buped there. Dig it up and sell! it and bring the money to me. I know what it’s Ayorth; it wi'li bring a dollar and a half. Hind, though, and do it w T hen you’ve nothing else to da ” The visitor qoishjpd, folded up his papers, and left anna a chorus of growls about “robbery.” The last view of the old man revealed him leaning over his board figuring away *)t his sums in chalk. Gray hairs have not taught him wisdom, and the millions he has amassed have only brought him a miner’s miseries.— New York Graphic. —

Insanity Under the Microscope.

Db. Kiaa*-ESA,pf the Oshkosh (Wig.) Insane Asylum, Has been examining the brains of insaS& persons under the microscope and taking photo-micrographs of cerebral sceowy. To make his inquest »thorough and conscientious as possible he learned -photography, so that he conducts tfea whole investigation, from t“ e _ examination to the »^MprWgninlx ; tnn interesting question W»in or any portion of our bodies wows a trace of the faotof insanim iiallisnil miscall perhaps a mental disease. Hr. Keatpater has never found in medical works but a single case reported of hrs ttti*igation of this character. He«Mfatfce past six years made microscppie examinations of the brains %f° e lunatics and he discovers (ioclaml differences between sane and inl between different classes i mania presenting quite ■Bect from dementia and iriptiona of lunacy. What which he discovered stall In the precise and agPOf science. Itisimwermlpe whether these p > 0 be this—first, >y vgreatgnef, the affont the facts stand Us what

they will. Indeed, -we call attention to liis work not so much for what it amounts to in itself, hut as an encouraging example of patient, laborious and conscientious investigation. Moreover, it is not merely a fancy question in science. Like so many of these investigations which seem purely speculative, it will probably prove to have its practical value. If the law could be laid down With precision that the remains of a person will indicate sanity or insanity, it would have an important hearing upon many life insurance trials and will cases. The “ insanitydodge” injnurdqr trials seems to be as yet safe from exposure from this source, since the brain of a living person cannot be submitted to the microscope without a personal inconvenience not less embarrassing than hanging itself. — Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

Colorado.

Colorado to-day is the center of the test as well as the largest emigration from the United States. And with reason, for both in the way of geographical position, internal resources and capacity for diversified industry it stands at the head of all the Territories. Geographically, Colorado is in the very van of the column of solid migration, being the western front of that great tier of prosperous commonwealths which belt the Union—Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado. Emigration always moves in straight lines—the population of any one climate, soil, or temperature following its parallel of lath tude. This has been the uniform history of settlement in this country. Colorado, however, will have the advantage of her older sisters in that, while their settlement was slow, fortuitous and disintegrated, hers is rapid, organized and systematic—while theirs was the work of individuals, hers is the work of great organizations, supported by experience, capital and combination. She begins at a point the others only reached after e generation. Already her condition reveals her vantage ground and demonstrates her position as the leader of the great column of the Middle States. Colorado is even now an exceptionally favored territory for any one thinking of going West to settle. ' Society is already established there; railway communication with the Atlantic and Pacific States is direct and good; the Territorial Government economically organized and honestly administered, exempting the settlers from onerous taxation. Witness the following Jtems:______ Taxes.—There were no Territorial taxes laid in 1873. Public Debt. —There is no Territorial debt, and a balance of $18,172.19 in the Treasury. Schools. —The educational facilities of the Territory are first-class. The common school system is well organized. There are good, ladies’ theological, conventual, and boys’ schools. There is a college at Colorado Bprings. The Press —There are 7 daily and 36 other papers published in Colorado. Banks. —There are 27 banks. Telegbatii. —There are 1,018 miles. SOUTHERN COLOKADO. Southern Colorado is the richest, most fertile and mildest-tempered section of the great Territory of Colorado. It is a Btate within itself of magnificent proportions, incalculable natural resources, and a diversity of soil and climate, and a capacity for agricultural, pastural, mining, manufacturing and commercial develop ment which renders it seli-supporting. Lying south of the Great Divide it is the most genial climate of all Colorado. The Arkansas, the greatest river running from the Rocky Mountains, gives it the richest valley and strongest water power in Colorado. Embracing in its limits the South Park and Ban Juan country, it covers the richest mining districts of She Territory, its minerals being not merely gold and silver, but coal, iron, copper, marble, petroleum. « 5 , pueblo. The capital city of this great region is Pueblo, located on the old trading route of the Santa Fe trail, just where that ancient highway crossed and the trunk line of railway now crosses the Arkansas River. .... Pueblo is an old, well-established point. It has been a missionary station, a trading post, a ruilitaiy fort, ana is now a thriving Western town. Its location lias been determined by the established routes of travel for over a century. It has therefore a solid foundation: It is now a railway center. Five roads, two built and three building, converge here. At this point will stand the great central city of toe far west. In every respect of centrality, climate, local situation, position with reference to North, South, East and West, Pueblo is destined to become the great commercial city of the Rocky Mountains. For 1,000 miles along the base of the mountain range there is no point equal to it as a commercial center. , SOUTH PUEBLO. The Systematic development of Pueblo toward this, its own proper position, is now going on under the auspices of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, who have opened to colony settlement and improvement the land on the south bank ol the Arkansas, heretofore unoccupied by reason of the w'ant of capital in Colorado to construct the great irrigating canal necessary to supply water. South Pueblo has been regularly laid out and platted, streets opened and graded, 10,000 treesplfinted along the aveDuesand public squares, a large park laid out and planted, bridges built, and all the foundations for a prosperous town broadly and intelligently laid. The streets are 100 feet wide, the central tyoulevard 150 feet. Acequias, or miniature canals, run along the front of each sidewalk. The main work, however, is the great irrigating canal, twenty miles in length, which has already been built at a cost of |90,000. This canal covers and waters a tract of 10,000 acres, and this tract constitutes the colony settlement of South Pueblo. South Pueblo differs from the generality of towns just starting in having already established railways, telegraph and express and postal connections with the entire country. The old town of Pueblo is located on the north bank of the river, and just opposit* South Pueblo, being connected by four completed bridges and a horse rail<sjionists,lin addition to the facilities of the new town, will have all the advantages in the way of markets, society, etc., afforded by the old town. South Pueblo is not an experiment. One thousand people are now on the colony grounds. The title is clear and simple, confirmed by a recent act of Congress, and now in the trustees of the company, . Jobs Edoab Thompson, Philadelphia, President Pennsylvania B. £. Co. Samuel M. Felton, Philadelphia. Late President P„ W. & B. B. R. Co. Louis H. Meter. Banker, New York. Schools, Churches, Etc,— Large reservations have been and will be made for school; church, park and other public purposes. Expenses op Emigration.— Persons holding certificates, of membership, who apply at an early date, will secure passage and freights on household goods, from the East to South Pueblo, at greatly reduced rate*. These prices note are about as follows forfinUtau tickets;

From Philadelphia to Bonth Fa*blo. $66 00 From Cincinnati to South Pueblo' 46 00 FrAm Chicago to South Pueb10...... 45 00 From Omaha to South Pueblo.... 32 00 From Bt. Louis to South Pueblo 40 00 From Liverpool to South Pueblo £25 These rates are a per centum reduction on the full fares, and will change from time to time as these fares change. Health.— All the world now visits Colorado to find health. Health is the poor man’s capital. Scenehy. —The scenery is the grandest and most beautiful on the continent. Soil. —The valley of the Arkansas raises fifty bushels of wheat to the acre. Social Chances. —Every man’s children start equal and with even chances in the West. Colony Plan.— South Pueblo is being settled by the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, in regular course of their plan for the systematic development of the country along the line of their route, under the same plan of colony which has proved so successful in the case of Colorado Springs, the great pleasure and health resort. This plan secures to the individual settler all the advantages and reductions of colony emigration without subjecting hjm to the ordinary limitations of colonial enterprises, i. moving with a large body, or at a given time. Full details of this plan, with pamphlet and map, will be furnished by either Denver & Rio Grande Railway Co., 216 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia. Thomas C. Parrish, Treasurer, South Pueblo, Colorado. Nelson &. Bollkb, Cincinnati, O. Holbrook & Fox, Boston, Mass. W. O. Buchanan, Montreal, Canada. Geo. F. McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. A. BtKDELUEiMER, Kansas Pacific Depot, - Kansas City. J. BuroeSs Brown, Central Depot, Indianapolis. AlsaoerHay Hill, London, England.

Accomplishments.

So called accomplishments are a sort of Mansard roof clapped on the sounder structure of the average English education. Why they are thus denominated when in the possession of them so little is really accomplished, it is difficult to determine. Their material is generally as unsubstantial as that of the thing to which they have been compared, and, subjected to the fiery tests of life and experience, they are almost as readily destroyed. The acquirement of a little knowledge of music, certain rules of drawing, the process of mixing colors, and a few foreign phrases are oftenest the result of much misapplied industry. If music, drawing and painting were studied and cultivated as arts, with the intent of becoming thoroughly proficient in them, that they might stand if need be in good, practical stead, then the time devoted to them would not be wasted. Instead of being mental folfols in which to deck their ill-clothed minds in public, these attainments would be of deep and lasting satisfaction to their possessors, even though not put to any severer trial. Few girls care enough for music and drawing to pursue them after being freed from the restraint of masters, and many would never begin such study were it not for the ambition of parents, guided by a society that demands all girls to be molded after one model. This idea is so obviously impossible as to be absurd. Countless good gardeners, milliners, dressmakers, housekeepers have been spoiled in poor piano-players, simply because knowledge of the piano was considered an elegant acquisition; while an understanding of the other things was regarded as something, shat only .necessity should require. The hours of strumming on unresponsive instruments (unresponsive 1 because touched by no sympathetic fingers) which, otherwise employed, might have made capital cooks are incalculable. The original design was good—to enable women to impart pleasure and improvement to themselves and others; but it signally fails. Seldom are girls willing to play or exhibit she work of their pencil to critical ears and eyes; and when good nature impels them to, what have they to offer ? Ordinarily the merest smatteringmore repellant to ripe judgment than total ignorance would be. Yt is evident that an acquaintance with the alphabet of many branches is not so great an aid to intellectual improvement as being thoroughly versed in one. In this short life it is much to know even one thing well. If thoroughly understood, everything, from steak-broiling to oratoriocomposing, should be considered an accomplishment. Pupils apt at figures should be taught book keeping in place of minims and semi-breves; and natural nurses given an insight into bottles and bandages, in lieu of curved lines and neutral tint. Thus the training of the mind in a direction at once natural and useful contributes to its healthiest growth, and redounds to individual advancement and general advantage.—“ Some and Society," in Scribner's for June.

The Growth of a Feather.

In the skin of a bird where a new feather is to grow there is a little pit, and at the bottom of this an elevation or pyramid; extending up one side of this pyramid is a groove, or furrow, deepest at the base, and gradually growing shallower until it disappears near the top; from each side of this furrow a great many smaller grooves extend around to the other side of the pyramid, and these also decrease in depth, and at last disappear just as they are about to meet on the side opposite the large furrow. The whole pyramid is covered with skin, and the surface is made of the same scales, or flattened cells, that are found over the rest of the body; but, instead of falling off when they are pushed out bv the new ones below them, they become united or welded to each other, so as to form a horn coat over the surface of the pyramid, with ridges on its lower or inner surface corresponding to the grooves on the pyramid; and, as new cells grow at the base, this coat or cast *f the surface is pushed upward till it breaks at its thinnest part, which ip, of course, the smooth part without ridges opposite the large furrow; and then, as* it is pushed onward and flattened, it assumes the form of a feather, the ridge formed in the main furrow being the shaft, while the casts of the side grooves form the separate barbs of the vane. When all of the vane has been formed and pushed forward, the pyramid loses its grooves and becomes smooth, and the wall now formed on its surface, being of the same thickness in all parts, does not break, but remains tubular, and forms the quill, which is attached to what is left of the pyramid. A finger-nail or a hair is formed from the same kind of scales; in the same way, the process diflering only in those features which give to each organ its special character. Feathers, scales, hair, claws and nails, all arernade alike from the dead, flattened cells crowded to the surface by the process of growth. Popular Science Monthly. t The Haywood (Gal.) Advocate tells of an English sportsman who was up that way the other day with the inevitable game-bag, eye-glasses and cloth shoes, (Who, after assassinating helpless buzifards which he found asleep on a fence, returned to town and reported that he had shot a “heagle” and had been pursued by wolves. The wolves were harmless coyotes,, which , after their habit, had been trotting after the terrified hunter, in the hope that he would drop something for them to eat —Texas promises us a larger harvest of gram this season than the has yielded for

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

• —Cayenne pepper is death to bed-bugs. Dust the bedspreads, crevices and niches well with the condiment.— Exchange. —To sweeten a tainted meat barrel, after washing and scalding to remove grease, fill with fresh soil and let it remaiD a week or ten days. —Lemon Buttery-One pound sugar, five eggs, juice and grated rinds Of three large or four small lemons (none of the seeds), one-quartej pound fresh butter Put into a saucepan and boil about ten minutes, stirring all the time, till thick as honey. Good for jelly cakes, tarts and cheese cakes. Keeps well if dry and cool. —Filing Handsaws. —In filing handsaws that are intended to cut only one way, the majority of mechanics file toward the handle, which leaves the teeth with more bevel on the back than on the front, which is caused by the taper of the file. A few persons file their saws toward the point, which gives more bevel to the front or cutting side of the teeth. Some think that the back side of the teeth should be filed nearly square across, and that the saw will cut equally well and remain sharp much longer. The front side of the teeth should be beveled to suit the timber; soft wood requires more bevel than hard wood. —Western Rural. —Strawberry Short-Cake.—Rub a piece of butter the size of an egg into a little flour, pour into it two cups of sour cream, one teaspoon of soda and a little salt. Mix into dough and roll into cakes about one-half inch thick and ten inches in diameter. Prick with a fork and bake in a quick oven. IjHten done split them open with a knife ana spread with nice butter; lay the bottom piece on a plate and cover it with strawberries nearly an inch deep. (It is better to have the strawberries sprinkled with sugar a few hours before they are put into the cake.) Put over this the topjjf the cake with the crust side down, and a layer of strawberries again; over this lay the bottom piece of another cake and more berries, and put on the top piece right side up. Serve with sweet cream. Short-cakes are sometimes made in this way, substituting raspberries or other fruit for strawberries. —Cut-worms.—The New York Times says: “We have succeeded in greatly reducing the number of this pest by enticing a flock of poultry into the field while it was being plowed. The fowls followed the plow closely, picking up every cutworm exposed and searching every furrow _ for more. There is no other way of ridding the fields of these vermin but by encouraging their natural enemies. These are crows and blackbirds, which devour the grubs and skunks and moles, which devour both the grubs and the beetles, of which they are the larvse. While these creatures are killed or driven off we shall suffer from the depredations of the insects, which are their natural prey. To prevent the destruction of the young corn by the cut-worms to some extent, the seed should be rolled in common pine t§r and then dried in plaster before it is sown.” —Mr. Isaac N. Jacquess, a pioneer of Mt. Carmel, 111., has found a way to kill caterpillars, and that way he tells through the Register, as follows: “ I have an orchard which has been badly infested with caterpillars and I have tried many ways to get rid of them. First, by burning them out, which perhaps would have answered had I commenced soon enough. I then tried shaking them out of the trees, but they were soon back again. My last plan was as follows: Scrape all the loose bark from the trunk of the tree, then take a strip of woolen cloth, and, after saturate ing it with sulphur and grease, tie it around the body of the tree just below where the branches start out; then take a brush and paint a strip two or three inches wide at the band on the tree. The caterpillars, after being shaken out, will again endeavor to mount the tree, but will stop at the sulphur line, where they can be destroyed by the bushel. A week’s labor could have been saved had I known of this plan at the start. I believe it worthy of publication.”

Effects of Ashes and Lime.

Place a piece of iron or steel in damp ashes, and it will soon corrode with rust. Place the iron or steel in lime mortar, and the rust will disappear. Sow small grain where a brush-pile or log-heap has been burned, or where a liberal dressing of ashes has been applied, and there will be a rank growth that will probably fall and never mature. Sow the grain where the lime has been applied to the soil, and the grain will grow with stout, stiff straw, and plump, hard heads that maturewelh Ashes cause a rank growth of the herbaceous part of the plants, such as leaves, straw and grass; lime induces a growth of the woody part of plants, and the grain or fruit. Ashes stimulate heavy muck, and rich or virgin soils. They appear to disintegrate or make available what is already in the soil. They seem to act specially on vegetable mold and manures from the barn yard. Apply them to the most offensive pile of compost and they will render it inodorous and worthless as a fertilizer, their effect being that of releasing the ammonia from the compost. Ashes used with a compost heap of decaying vegetable matter would be wasted—worse than wasted—as they render the compost inert as a fertilizer. Applied to an offensive sink, sewer or'cesspool, they serve an excellent purpose as a disinfectant. They promote the growth of grass and forage especially, proving very valuable on low lands; will stimulate trees, etc.; to vigorous growth when the soil is strong. They exhaust strong soils and injure poor ones. Lime improves poor soils, especially sandy ones, by rendering them more compact and capable of retaining fertility when applied. As a promoter of health "and vigor in apple trees it is one of the best applications that can be made to the soil. Under iis influence trees mature well, the fruit is finer, and trees are freer from disease. Lime may be applied with benefit on most soils and many plants, but it is of special value to the apple tree and strawberry plant, while ashes are valuable on heavy or rich soils for the grosser feeding of plants, such as our native plums and currant bushes.— Cor. Hprtieulturist.

Training and Driving Colts.

The warm days of spring usually put the youngsters of the family in mind of breaking or training colts. The animal passions are aroused in those who have seen them subdued by literally breaking their spirit, but not in those who have been taught that gentleness and patience are the most potent powers in subduing any of the domesticated animals. If the animal has been handled from the time it was a colt, it will usually submit to the bitting harness quietly. It may then be turned into some safe vard, and allowed to wander about at will tor an hour, care being taken at first not to check the head too high, but slightly above the natural position in which it is carried, or it may be exercised for a time at the end of a fifteen foot cord or strap, until it be somewhat tired. It may be checked up more and more each day, being gradually compelled to carry its heaa higher and higher. When it will walk or trot at command, or even before, the colt may be hitched alongside a steady old mare and driven. If frightened, it,will, if the driver keepscalm, soon recover, and usually proceed quietly enough; and, whenever it does so, it should soon thereafter be taken from tb* harness. As soon as it overcomes the

sense of fear at being harnessed, it may be put to light plowing by the side of a strong, steady horse, giving the colt, of course, the long end of the drawbar. Whatever the provocation t p anger, the driver should keep cool. At least, do not gel angry until the colt has forgotten the cause of the anger, if it consumes the whole day, for when both horse and driver get angry at the same time the two-legged brute is almost sure to give the quadruped a partial lesson by teaching it its own strength, and the lesson will never be forgotten. Patience and firmness are the powers that can make a horse or mule subservient to man. If the horse is a fine one, or likely to become valuable as a driving horse, it should never be put to drawing heavy loads at all, but must receive a very different course of training from that practiced on the ordinary horse. Its farm education, however, like that of any eolt,. should be commenced during the first winter of its life and should proceed thus up to the time it is two years past. Its real training should be commenced by exercising in the bitting harness, driving to a light vehicle beside a steady horse, never, however on long journeys, but only sufficient to harden its flesh and induce muscular development. At three years old and until it is four It should be driven with exceeding care, only enough for exercise, since it is a critical age for the colt for the reasdh that* it is the period when the second dentition takes place, and as a consequence the young animal cannot eat hard food so well as at a more advanced age. Indeed, all young-horses should be used carefully until they are six years old, and no horse should be put to fast and exhaustive work until period. If properly used until this time they will increase in stoutness, ability and speed until they are en or even twelve years of age.— Western Rural.

Yeast and Yeast Cakes.

Pare four good-sized potatoes and put with one large handful o‘s hops into one quart of cold water, and boil, being careful in handling the hops not to lose the lupuline, or fine yellow powder of the hop, wherein consists its chief strength. The term “ handful ” may seem as vague as the “ bigness of a piece of chalk,” but so small a quantity of hops would be about as difficult to weigh or to measure in any other manner as would a few feathers. When the potatoes are done take them out, mash fine and mix with them about half a teacupful of wheat flour and a little salt. Strain upon this the water from the hops, which must be very hot. When the batter is cool enough—that is, “ blood warm”—add a teacupful and a half of yeast, and set in a warm place to rise. When perfectlv light pour into a stone jug, cork tightly and set in the cellar. For yeast cakes proceed as above till the addition of the flour, which omit, substituting Indian meal, stirring it in as you add the boiling hop-water until the mixture is very stiff'. When sufficiently cool, add a full teacupful of yeast, which it will be necessary to work in with the hand, and let stand six or eight hours; then make into long rolls and cut in slices about an inch thick; sprinkle dry meal on plates, boards, or tins; lay on the cakes, and place where they will ary quickly.—Hearth and Home.

Feeding Meal to Cows.

The best way to give meal to cows is either to mix it with some cut hay, moistened so that the meal will adhere to it, or to scald it and give it in the shape of a thin gruel as a drink. In the first place it is necessary to perfect digestion that the saliva should be mixed with the food and that the food should he returned from the first stomach to the mouth for a second chewing or rumination. This is only done when the food is bulky, requiring considerable chewing. In the second place the gullet, or passage from the mouth to the stomach, in ruminants, opens directly into the third stomach, having intermediate longitudinal openings closed by lips, by which the food enters the first and second stomachs. If the food is bulky and solid it separates the lips of these openings and finds an entrance to either or both the first and second stomach. If otherwise, it passes over the closed lips and enters the third stomach. In the first case, by a periodic inverted action of the gullet, the food is thrown in small quantities from the stomachs to tfi" where it is reduced to a soft semi-liquid condition, in which state it is passed easily to the third stomach for digestion. In the second place it misses this process of rumination, and is therefore not in a condition for perfect digestion, and the meal is seen to pass away in considerable quantities unaltered.—American Agriculturist. A schooner with a cargo of 25,000 bushels of corn recently sailed from Chicago for Cork, Ireland. One would naturally suppose that she had to make a long and tedious land-journey through Canada, but this she avoided by taking to the Canals of that country. —“ Tom, what in the world put matrimony in your head?” “ Well, the fact is, I was getting short of shirts.” 1)b. R. V. Pierce, of the World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y., whose Family Medicines have won golden opinions and achieved world-wide reputation, after patient study and much experimenting, succeeded in perfecting a Compound Extract of Smart-Weed, or Water Pepper, that is Aestined to become as celebrated as liis other medicines. It owes its efficacy not cntirely to the Smart-Weed, which, however, is a sovereign remedial agent, but largely to a happy combination of' that fieri) with Jamaica Ginger and other vegetable agents. The combination is such aslo make it a very pleasant remedy to take. Taken internally, it cures Diarrhoea, Dysentery (or Bloodv Flux), Summer Complaint, Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Cholera Infautum, Colic, Cramps and Pain in the Stomach, breaks up Colds, Crumps, Febrile and Inflammatory Attacks, Rheumatism and Neuralgia. Applied externally, it cures Sprains and Bruises, Frost Bites, Chilblains, Felons, Rheumatic Affections, Scalds, Burns, Cuts, Neuralgia, Pain in Back, Soreness or Stiffness of Joints, Btings and Bites of Poisonous Insects and Reptiles, 1 Caked Breasts or “Ague in Breast,” and Enlarged Glands; in short, is an unexcelled Lin. iment for Man and Beast. It is sold bv druggists. _ Wilhoft’s Tonic is not a panacea—is not a cure for everything, but Is a cathoiicon for malarious diseases, and day by day adds fresh laurels to its crown of glorious success. Engorged Livers and Spleens along the shady banks of our lakes and rivers are restored Ur their healthy and normal secretions. Health and vigor follow its use, and Chills have taken their departure from every household where WHboft’s Anti-Periodic is kept and taken. Don’t fail to try it. Wbeelock, Finlay & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. Fob sale by ai.t. Druggists. r Toothache proceeds from ague in the face operating upon the exposed nerve of a decayed tooth. Rub the gum thoroughly with the finger wet with Johnson's Anodyne Lint, merit , heat the face well and lap a flannel wet with the liniment on the face, also put a little of the liniment into the cavity of the tooth on cotton. The system frequently gets out of order and should, be at once regulated, else other troubles will ensue; when physic is needed take Parsons' Purgative Pills ; they are a safe, wholesome and natural medicine. The Northwestern Hobsb-Nail Co.’s “ Finished ” Nail is the best in the world.

Godet’b Lady’s Book.—The illustrations in the July number are: A handsome chromo picture, “The Cottage Door;” a beautiful colored fashion-plate; an extension sheet, con-

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Thirty Years’ Experience of an Old Nurse. Mas. Winslow's Soothing Syrup la the prcacrip tlon of one.of'the best Female Physicians and Nursei In the United States, and has been used lor thirty years with never-falling safety and succcas by mill lona of mothers and children, from the feeble Infant of one week old to the adult. It corrects acidity o, the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bow els, and gives rest, lr ■'lth, and comfort to mother am child. We believe It to be the Best and Surest Reme dyinthe Vorla In all cases of DYSENTERY am DIARRIKEA IN CHILDREN, whether i'. artsesfronTecthing or from any other cause. Full direction! for us l - will accompany each bottle. Non-Genuine uuless rne fac-simiU: of CURTIS & PERKINS la oi the outside wrapper. Sold by all Mbdioink Dealers.

Children Often hook Pale and Sick From no other cause than having worms In the stom acb. BROWN’S VERMIFUGE COMFIi'S will destroy Worms without Injury to the child, being perfectly white, and free from ! lorlng or othei injurious Ingredients usually used In worm prepara tlons. CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietors, No. 215 Fulton street, New York. Sold by Druggists and Chemists, and Dealers it Ifedieines. at Twenty-five Cents Box. Ye Old Mexican Mustang Liniment has produced more cures of rheumatism, neuralgia, sprains, scalds, burns, salt rheum, sore nipples, swelling, lameness, chapped hands, poisonous bites, stings, • bruises, etc., etc., on men, women and children and ■ ■ -J_ *r ; ' - sprains, strains, galls, stiff joints, inflammation, etc., in beasts, than all other liniments put together. It will do what is promised or ye money refunded. Reanimating tlie Hair.—When the h&lr ceases to draw from the scalp the natural lubricant whichis it* sustenance, its Yitalityis;«s it were, pended, and, if not promptly attended to, baldness will be the certain result. The one sure method of avoiding such an unpleasant catastropho is to use Lyon’s Kathairon, which, when well rubbed into the scalp, will speedily reanimate the liair and prevent it from falling out. The Grand Revolution in Medical Treatment which was commenced in 1860 is still in progress. Nothing can stop it, for it is founded on the principle, now universally acknowledged, that physical vigor is the most formidable antagonist of all human ailments, and experience has shown that Plantation Bitters is a peerless invigorant, as well as the best possible safeguard against epidemic diseases. The Secret of Captivation.—Features ol Grecian mould, a well-turned neck and beautifully rounded arms, are no doubt very nice things to have and ladles who possess these charms have reason t< be thankful to Mother Nature; yet, after all, the most captivating of all womanly charms Is a pure, fresl and brilliant complexion. This superlative fascina tion any lady may secure by using Haoan’s Magno lia Balm. ? ‘ HTAsthma can be cured. See Hurst’s advertls 0 - ment.

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