Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. Q_ JAKES ft tft\LET, Proprietor*. RENSSELAER, . INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. Moody Aid Saukey, the Chicago e van gelUtc, have *heen forbidden to hold services «J Eton College, England. J. FL lUtadall & Sons, of London, and Marshall of Manchester, England, Tailed an the Sttt, arith aggregate liabilities <4 SL,400,000 Scrims riot* occurred to East tYtirsia on the fcldt, Instigated, it was said, "by the Ultranmtantjs. ft ‘fa reported that the Marquis of Lome and \he Princess Louise intend making a tout of the United States. Ca unt von Arnim has been foend guilty of al»t .-acting public documents drom the archlv es of the Paris Legation- and sentenced to nh»> i months’ imprisonment. 1 ntelligence from Fiance, dated midnight, J* oe 35, represents that th<* k,ss of life by the do od in the Garonne had been appalling. O' per 900 houses had fallen in Tonlouse, and ft was Teported that over 1,000 lives had been I os‘t In the St. Cyprian quarter 218 corpses •a* d already been recovered. More than 20,00 0 persons in Toulouse alone were deprived of. the means of subsistence. At Tremoull--1« st five bowses only remained standing out of 4 (XL In the district of Foix two villages had 1 seen < snftrely -submerged and many dead bodies, bad been ' found. The crops of all kinds throughout the Inundated districts "were altogether destroyed. A totter received in New York on the 25th giv es on aecountof the great earthquake at Cii •cartOySoutti America, on the 18th of May, Tl >e first shock leveled every wall in the city, bv awing in a single instant 8,000 people out of a poputofeou of 10,000. Beveral who were n< Pt killed vubsejuently died of their injuries, a ad many were murdered by robbers, who I tendered in bands. Reports from San < Joyetono, Santiago, Grarulata, Arhaleda, ' OtieUtelh. and San Cristabel, all aggregating ajpopuktton of 30,000, confirm the previous account of the destruction of life and properly in rthose places Garcia, the Spaniard who stole a portion of Murillo’s famous picture from the Seville Cathedral, and who was kidnaped ia Out a ;and subsequently sent to Spain, is reported 'tat have been «hot at Madrid without trial. ’Theimportant Carlist fortress of Mis*vet,■on ’the river Ebra, is officially reported to have •arrandered. A'iJerlin dispatch of the 25th says Count "von Arateft would appeal from the late deoisiionof the Kammergerichtin his case. The total damage by the late inundation of 'the Garonne region was estimated on the 38th at ft >out £lft,“000,000. The lowest estimate of 'deaths in the flooded districts was 2,000. "Fearful inundations have recently occurred in -ilohamia, Moravia, Corinthia, Tyrol mad ■ Herat, with considerable loss of life and immease destruction of property.

DOMESTIC, •Tie Treasury Department at Washington haa received information of the circulation in th£W«stof a new and dangerous counterfiit of.fffhr-ceat scrip of the series of 187 S. The ite* rs il outline is well calculated to deceive. T%e n-amber and letter are slightly wider end heat it «■ than on the genuine one, while in the lo wer left-hand corner the figures 1601 look e lore Bice 180 with a short, perpendicular das h. The Board of Education of Rochester, N. i-. hcs, by a vote of twelve to four, ordered the disr •oniin iance of religious exercises in the pub lie sofcools of that city. A W ilkwfcarre (Pa.) telegram of the ‘■2d says a final settlement of the coal-mint g troubles had been reached, aud all the collieries in that region would start on the 3SdThe ! res idetrt of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co mpany had announced that the Miners' l inion should no longer dictate who should be employed or discharged, and that men SGiou Id not be forced to join the union in order to e nter the mines. A dispat eh was received at the Indian 1 Bureau in Wi whington, on the 3Sd, from Prof. -Jenney, of the Black Hills expedition, dated near Harne y’s Teak, June 17. He says: I ihave d:seov ered gold in small quantities, oc "the north b» lade Castle Creek in terraces cr bars of quart* gravel. I arrived here yester•day. About fifteen miners have located c camp on the orcek above here and hare ■comma.ced working. Gold is found from Castle Crock southwardly to French ‘Creek, .at this point, and the deposits are almost » wholly in Dakota. The region has not been fully explored, but the wield of g"old thusN.ar has been quite small, •sad replete of the richness of the gravel bars are greatv exaggerated. On French Creek the deposits of gravel are very unfavorably sits ate d. The water supply is small and failing and the grade is too little to admit of tailings bd-ng carried off by the stream. The prospect at present is not such as to warrant extended ex ploration* in mining." In accordance with, a decision rendered by Judge B.’odfett that th? alleged illicit distillers must surrender tUeir books to the Government officials, the United States Marshal on the 3Sd took possession cf all books belonging to the establishments ateently seized in Chicago.

A new and dangerous /ounterfeit five-dol-lar note on the First Naftonal Bank of Can•ton, IIL, is reported from Washington. It is a'knilarw) the counterfeit fives on theTraders’ XationA ?ink of Chicago and the First .National Bapk of Paxton, IF. The report of tie commit ion to examine it it* the ftondition of the Oaicago CustomHouse was made fiublic in Washington on th. ? 34th, and is to the effect that the foundation are unsafe aud the stone of a poor quality. Secretary Bristow indorses the report* and has decided to stop work on the building until the meeting of Congress. The severe wind and rain storm on the night of the £3d destroyed fifty houses and three miles of sidewalk and fences in Decorah, lowa. Much damage was done in -ether Western towns There were three executions for murder in TStw England on the 25th. At Dedham, Mass, James H. Costley was hanged for the murder of Julia Hawkes, and at Thomas ton. Me., Bosis H agner and -John True Gordon swung from the same scaffold— the former for the nrader of two Norwegian women tor the purpose «f robbery and the latter for the murder' of bis brother, his brother’s wife and infant child. Gordon was insensible when hur.g, haring in the morning stabbed himself in the hcNet for the purpose of pommittjng AUteide. , . Three rtofgar factories were seizajia Cin-

on the, ss lh for UHclt distillation of. wtfisky. .. _ t The Chicago. Trilmne of the 30th publishes m. dispatch fr-om Omaha, signed i>y United State* Senators Hitchcock and Paddock,, which aaya the reports of grasshopper rav. ***• in N ehraska published In the Chicago T'AP* l * d e re greatly exaggerated. The grass. h°PP*f r j had done but little ft.uriage, and only In ir olated cases. The crops pmnised «l*t’adldly. k . A dispatch has been ipoetoed at tin Indian T;ureau In Washington ‘tram India*:.lnspector Daniels, dated June 34, in which it is stated that the Red Clerjd and Spotted Tail Indians had signed an agreement to relinquish their rights in Nebraska (or the sura O.' 125,000 in horses, cows, wagons, etc. A tornado passed over the northwestern part of Detroit city on the •evening of the 27th. Its path was about 500 feet wide, and thirty houses, besides outbuildings, etc., were deetroyed. ftfour persons were-killed and many others? njured, some seriously.

rERNOKftL. Wm. M. (“Boos”) Tweed vaas in New York city on the 23d and madv his appearance in the Cburt of ‘ Oyer and Terminer, and was held to bail in the sum e!f SB,OOO to answer an indlciment found against him in 1873, and of s|‘,ooo on the Grand Jury indictuient of Mav last. He was subsequently taken in custody on 1 the civil suit and conveyed to Lud-low-Street Jail, to remain until bail in the sirm of $8,000,000 shSald be furnished. Mr. Beach concluded his argument for the plaintiff in the Titton-Beeeher trial on the 38d, after which Y r. Tilton’s counsel presented to the court affidavits concerning additional evidence Which they desired adtnTWed, and a sked lor a reopening of the ease to that end. The f’udge took the matter uniter advisement.

After the opening of hie court on the morning of the 34th -Judge Neilson announced ‘That, under the circumstances, lie was compelled, on an examination of the affidavits, to deny the application for reopening the TiltonBceeher case, and, in accordance with Mr, Beach’s request, the papers were filed with the Clerk of the court. The Judge then .proceeded to dediver his charge to the jury, ■which was concluded a little afternoon, and At one o’clock the jury retired for deliberation. Prof. Donaldson and three members of the press made a balloon ascension from Toronto on the 2Sd and were picked up the next day by a vefttvl five miles off Point Peter, on Lake Ontariqf ’They reported having suffered great hardships, being in the water four hours, clinging to the basket of the balloon, which was dragged through the w ater at a fearful speed. Mortimer'Yhompson, better known as Q. K. Philander Doestieks, P. 8., died in New York city oe the 25th, after a short illness. At Plymouth Church prayer-meeting, on the evening of the 25th, Mr. Beecher referred to the scandal trial and said lie should continue to act as pastor of Plymouth Church because he folt that, no matter what the verdict of the jury might be, his congregation woulchstill have faith in and stand by him. The jury had not agreed on a verdict up to the morning of the 26tli. Judge O. S. McFadden, Delegate to Congress from Washington Territory, died at Olympia on the 25tli. Mrs. Tilton has published an affidavit in which she denies all the statements made relative to herself in the affidavits of the al. leged new witnesses upon whose evidence a reopening of the Beecher ease was asked for by Mr. Tilton’s counsel. She also solemnly de - Clares that she is absolutely innocent of all the offenses changed against her with relation to Mr. Beecher, except that under the influence of her husband she had made charges against Mr. Beecher which were false and entirely unfounded, ard which her husband knew to be false.

iPOLITICAL. The Maine (Democratic State Convention met at Augusta on the 22d and nominated Gen.. Charles W. Roberts for Governor. The platform declares in favor of one term for the President, with a yearly salary of $25,000. The New Hampshire Legislature on the 23d elected Benjamin F. Prescott Secretary of State, and alao chose the Republican nominees for State Treasurer, Printer and Commissary General. The New Y<ank State Prohibitionists have nominated: For of State, G. D. Dusenbery; Comptroller, Anson A. Hopkins; Treasurer, Stepher B. Ayers; State Engineer and Surveyor, Gemge A. Dudley; Canal Commissioner, Ira D. Sell; State Prison Inspector, John B. Gibb; Attorney-General, Ed. T. Marsh. Strong prohibition resolutions were adopted by the convention, which was held at Syracuse ou the 23d. i The California Independent State Convention, held at Sacramento on the 23d, adopted a lengthy platform, .a large portion of wliieh is devoted to the trac spoliation' question. A full State ticket was nominated, headed by Gen. Bidwell for Governor and the present acting Governor (Pacheco) for LieutenantGovernor. The lowa Opposition State Convention met tt Des Montes on the 24th and nominated Kon. Shephard Leffler bar Governor; Capt E. P. Woodward for Lieutenant-Governor; W. J. Bnight for Judge of the Supreme Court; A. R. Wright for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The platform adopted declares against a third term and favors a reduction of the President's salary aad the resumption of spevie payment as soon as the tame ean be done without injury to the business interests of the country, and in the meantime favors a sufficient supply of national currency for business purposes, and opposes the present National Banking law. A moti. n that the party organization be knowu as Democratic was laid on the table. In tbeNew Hampshire House of Representatives on the 25th a final vote was taken on the resolutions censoring the Governor and the Council in the Senatorial matter, and they were adopted by a party vote of. IF 4 ayes I to 166 cots.

Tms, wiith his autograph, was Dr. Oliver W ecdell Holmes' xontributieu to a bazar and fancy fair at Manchester, England, for the benefit of a sick Gbik dren's hospital:*' Hugged in the clinging billows' grasp. From sea-wp>ed fringe (p mountain heather The British oak with rooted grasp Her slender handful holds togetherWith cliffs of white and bowers of tveen „ And ocean nawowing to caress her ’ And hills and threaded streams between— Our little Mother-isle. God bless her! r*— —lt isa good suggestion ofa correspondent of the Hunday-Stkool Timet that everv teacher shall note in a pass T book each bunclay the points made in the day’s lesson in his class, so that when the ‘time of quarterly review comes the teacher shall be able to recall' not only the ground passed over, but the observations mad* in passing.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The crop prospect in Wabash County is ft&id to be excellent. TrttuK is a lady living in Peru who •ha*ses her upper lip regularly. Shehasto. Ta* Evansville Journal has been enlarged and is now cut and parted like the Jioston Globe. Tna Vincennes Sun puts itself squarely 'on the record in favor of English as the \- national language. A little girl named Fry fell from & swing, in Indianapolis, a few days ago ■ and waa fatally hurt. Tuns far Indianapolis has done nothing i to secure a proper representation of the 1 State at the Centennial Exposition. The Bingham firm Of distillers atEvansville have been found guilty of violating the revenue laws and fined S I,OOO. A vorifo fellow named Pratt, agent for the C., It. cfc Ft. IV. Railroad at Ridgevillc, was accidentally killed a few days ago. Indianapolis hopes to induce Director Linderman to regard itself as the best possible location for the new United Mates Mint.

The woolen-mill belonging to Roots & Co., at Connersvilk, was burned to the ground a few days since, involving a loss of $50,000. David Johnson was arrested in Fountain County a few days since for illicit distilling and. held, to bail in SI,BOO to await the action of the United Mates Court. The mother of Hon. John C. New, residing at Indianapolis, fell from a window in lror son’s house the other day and was very seriously injured. She is seventyseven years old. Mrs. Rebecca PniLi-irs, of Jefferson Comity, is eighty-six years old; has thirteen living children, 101 grandchildren, 12SI great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. The Bookwaltcr mansion,near Roll Roy, wae struck by lightning recently and pretty thoroughly shattered. There was no-one in the house at the time, and so nobody was hurt. Little Stella Montz, of Madison, ‘recently went to a drawer where a loaded pistol had been carelessly left, and in taking it out accidentally discharged it, the charge taking effect near the heart -and killing her instantly. Miss Flora Turman receives the highest honor, the valedictory, at Asbury University this year; which is a decided triumph for those who advocated the admission of females, as wel 1 as no small honor for the young lady.— Chicago Tribune . The residence of Andrew Hartman,'in liogansport, was entirely destroyed with all the furniturd a few mornings ago. The family narrowly escaded burning to death, not waking until the fire had nearly cut off ail retreat from the house. Loss $10„ 000. While a party were seining fish in the Kankakee River at Waldron, lately, one young man declared that ho could rerftain under water longer than any of the others. He tried and went down, but did not come up until pulled out dead with grapplinghooks. -Thomas J. Girson, who recently ran away with and married a fourteen-year-old, daughter of John H. Adams, of Indianapolis, has been arrested for perjury,, lie having sworn that the girl was eighteen years old when he received a marriage license. Mr. Cassimek Kroener, of Evansville, a former member of the City Council, was taken with an insane fit the other day and drawing a pistol he attempted to shoot his wife. He was disarmed, arrested, and, on being tried by a board of lunacy commissioners, adjudged insane. The Noblesville Ledger gives the following wool statistics: “ A ilock of Leicester sheep, belonging to Jesse Hodsoa, of Washington Township, numbering twen-ty-four, yielded a few days ago 200 pounds of wool and an average tor each fleece of eight pounds and a thirtl.”^ The State Editorial Association recently in session at Indianapolis adopted a new constitution, and referred the proposition to. meet all the editors of the Northwest at Philadelphia July 4, 1876, to the Executive Committee for action. A committee of seven was appointed to arrange for a grand reunion of Indiana soldiers in Indianapolis next fall.

Over iOO of the leading citizens of Indianapolis, irrespective of party, recently tendered John C. New a public dinner previous to his departure for Washington to assume his official "duties as Treasurer of the United States. Mr. New'taodestly declined the compliment for the reason that he had yet been untried in so responsible a position, and his ability to successfully discharge the duties are unproved. Tiie following Postmasters were appointed in Indiana during the week ending June 12, 1875:'Belle Union, Putnam County, James N. Bourne; Deer held, Randolph County, David S. Collins; Jcvtesborough, Grant County, Samuel R. Spence; Lawrence, Clarion County, Isaac Retards; Mahalasville, Morgan County, •Thomas W. Kingsbury; New Corner, Delaware County. Philip Wooding; RainsviTle; Warren County, C. H. Hodman; Rolling Prairie, Li Porte County, James PoweU; Urueyville, Johnson ‘ County Henry Fisher. b iLLiAtt FRiEDERt>rEG, a Terre Haute grocer, was attacked and nearly beaten to death by a burglar a few mornings ago. He roomed in the rear of his store ind for coolness had pulled the bed up near a window. The fastenings were insecure and the burglar opened tire window and struck him fifteen times on the head with * heavy piece of iron. His skull w*s\ fractured by blows on the top of the head. The ruffian entered. secured $1,500 in money from his vicuna's pocket-book and some loose change in the ruoney-drawer, ! and left, no clew. , Friederburg’ was sot discovered until morning.

Absurd “Remedies.”

John George Hokman is not generally recognized as one of Berk* County'* authors and writers, yet he has published a work which found considerable sale throughout the country. It is a small I volume of seventy-two pages and is a J “ collection of mysterious and invaluablb arts and remedies for man as well as i beast, with many proofs of v their virtue and efficacy in healing diseases, etc., the i greater part of which was never seen until | 1820.” The book starts out with a remedy for ! hysterics. The hand is to be laid on the | heart and the following words spoken: ‘‘Matrix, patrix, lav tliyself right and ! safe, or thou or I shall on the third day I till the grave.” For hysteria and colds this remedy is j given. It must be strictly attended, to j every evening: “It is to put off your stockings and rub the flesh carefully between the tOC6.” To cure worms the following must be repeated three times. At the end of the first timb the patient must be tapped once in the back, twice for the second and three times for the third. The words are: “ Mary, God’s mother, traversed the land, holding three worms close in her hand; | one was white, the other was black and i the third was red!” —— If you are being slandered and want to \ < prevent it “ Take off your shirt and turn it wrong-side out, and then fun your two thumbs down to your thighs.” Following words repeated will cure colic: “I w arn ye colie fiends! There is one sifting in judgement who speaketh. Therefore beware, ye liends.” Following is said to be a good remedy for fever: “ Good morning, dear Thursday. Take away from (me) ‘the seventyseven gold fevers. Oh, Thou, dear Lord, lake them away! This must be used on Thursday for the first time, on Friday for the second time, and on Saturday for the third time, and each time thrice.” Asa precaution against injuries he advises a person to carry the right eye of a wolf fastened inside of his right sleeve. - “ If you call upon another to ask for a favor take care to carry a little of the fivefinger grass with” you and you shall certainly obtain what you want.” “ To catch plenty of fish take rose seed and mustard seed, ancl at the foot of the weasel, and hang these in a net, and the fish will certainly collect there.” The root of iron weed tied around the neck will cure running ulcers, and will cure the piles if the roots are boiled in honey and drank; it also clears the breath. Children who carry it are easily educated and grown up cheerily and very well. For wildfire repeat the words: “ Wildfire and the dragon flew over the wagon; the wildfire abated and the dragon skeuted.” To stop pains or smarting in a wound: “Cut three small twigs from a tree, all to be cut off in one cut, rub one end of each twig in the wound, and wrap them separately in a piece of white paper, and put them in a warm, dry place.” To destroy warts : “ Roast chicken feet and rub the warts with them, then bury the feet,under the caves.” To cure toothache “ Stir the tooth with a needle until blood flows; soak a thread in it; take flour and make a paste and spread it on a rag. Wrap this rag around the root of an apple tree, and tie it with a thread.” To banish whooping-cough cut three small bunches of hair from the crown of the head of a child that has never seen its father, sew this up in an unbleached rag and hang it around the person’s neck. “For burns, say ‘burn, I blow on thee;’ it must be blown on three times in the same breath, like the fire by the sun.” To stop bleeding, count fifty backward and when you arrive at three it will all be over. “If you burn a large frog to ashes, and mix the ashes with water, you will obtain an ointment that will, if put on any place • covered with hair, destroy }t and prevent it from growing again.” A pow-wow for sore mouth reads: “If you have the»scurvy or quinsy too, I breathe my breath three times on you.” For consumption, say; “ Consumption, I order thee out of the bones into the flesh, cut of the flesh upon the skin, out of the skin into the wilds of the forest.” Another cure for burn reads: “Three holy men went out walking. They did bless the heat and the burning; they blessed that it riJight not increase; they blessed that it might quickly cease.” To cure a snake bite say: “God has created all things, and they were good; thou only serpent are damned, cursed be thou and thy sting. Zing, zing, zing.” Mr. Hoh man goes on to give many more remedies of the above class. The words given are spoken over the patient, and if the ailment is a cut, bruise, burn, wound or sprain of any kind the operator blows upon it, at the same time repeating the words. The text of the book was first published in 1820 in this country, and it is something like the book written by Albertus Magnus in the seventeenth century. Since those early periods the beliefs of the people have gently changed.— Reading (Pa.) Eagle.

Tallow Dips.

A writer in Lippincott'a Magazine savs: “Seventy years ago,.when gas and kerosene were not, and wax candles were an extsfcvagac.ee indulged in only on state occasions, even by the wealthy, the tailowdip was an article of necessity, and ‘can-dle-dip day’ was as certain of occurrence as Christmas, though perhaps even less welcome than the equally certain anneal fast-day. Fancy an immense kitchen with fireplace in the center of one side. Over the blaze of backlog and forestick, and something like half a cord of 4 eight-foot wood,’ are swinging the iron cranes laden with great kettles of melting tallow. On tire opposite side of the kitchen two long poles, about two feet apart, are supported at their extremities upon the seats of chairs. Beside the poles are other great kettles containing molted tallow poured on the top of hot water. Across tlu; poles are tire slender caudle-rods from which depend ranks upon ranks of caadtewicks made of tow. for cotton-wick is a later invention. Little by little, by endlessly repeating the slow process of dipping into the kettles of melted tallow and hanging them to cool, the wicks take on their proper coating of tallow. To make the candle as large as possible was the aim. for the more tallow the brighter the light. When done the ranks, of candles still depending from the rods were hung in the sunniest spots of a sunny garret to bleach.” A TiTfsyn.L” philosopher is cudgeling his ounce of or ius in an attempt to -understand why a woman can, lal! in love with a man who Las a cork leg. Some-! body oughirfr* infonu him a; once that in j nine cases out of ten a cork leg is much the most intelligent and incorruptible part j of man. and there is now and then a i woman who comprehends the fact.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—The Congregational Union was founded twenty three years ago. and has assisted 925 churches in thirty-four States and Territories, at an expense of nearly $600,000. —The salaries of the Bishops of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church are now paid by voluntary contributions from them embers of the churches. Their treasurer reports them fully up. —Bishop Haven estimates the wealth of the Methodist Episcopal denomination as at least $1,000,000,000, and says-: “We do not get a mill per year tax ou our capital for the world's Christianization outside our own parishes.” —The receipts of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America for the year just ended were $54.240; of which amount $34,626 were from church collections. The total amount falls $1,103 below that of the previous year. —Zachariah L. Jamison, a Seneca Indian more than sixty years old, sustained at a recent, meeting of the Presbytery of Buffalo a satisfactory examination, and was ordained a preacher to his own nation, on the reservation in Western New York. The Indians on the reservation number 3,000. ' <i . eO —The Archbishop of Canterbury takes a deep interest in the labors of the evangelists Moody and Saukey in the city of London. He “rejoices when Christ is preached, whether regularly or irregularly, and trusts that the clergy will endeavor to deepen the salutary impression produced by the revivalists.” —A new religious vagary in California is a sect of “ Child Christians,” who interpret literally the passage “ Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.” They endeavor to feel and act like children, playing childish games ami adopting an infantile manner of speech. —The London Telegraph says of Mr. Moody: “Notwithstanding all the easy talk about hysteria, epidemics, magnetism, nervous systems and the like, the philosophers and divines have yet to explain to us why it is a bad thing for these Yankee itinerants to turn people by thousands to right and virtuous lives, and a good thing when a Bishop or Cardinal manages to convert half a dozen.” —The late English Baptist anniversaries show a clear increase of members for the past year of 10,572, a larger number than for the last ten years. There were twentylive new churches organized during the year, and thirty-two new chapels were built, at a cost of £64,185; 124 others were enlarged ancl improved at a cost of £41),863. The work of the denomination in the United Kingdom indicates growth and liberality.

MECHANICAL AND SCIENTIFIC.

—Awnings can be rendered waterproof by plunging the fabric into a solution containing 20 per cent, of soap and afterward , into another solution containing the same percentage of sulphate of copper. Wash, and the operation is finished. —To make a cheap galvanic battery take a cylindrical vessel, and put another of porous porcelain inside of it; fill the vessel with diluted sulphuric acid, and the space between the two with sulphate of copper (if you require to plate the article with copper); if not a solution with the salt of gold, silver, etc., according to that which you wish it to be; put a slip of zinc in the sulphuric acid and attach a copper wire to it, and the other end to the medal or article you wish to plate, and immerse that in t.lie other solution. Your battery is now complete. If you want the copper to be very thick you must put a few solid crystals of copper in the solution ; where you do not want it to come in contact you must touch it with a little grease; if you want to take the copper off the article you must do it over with a slight varnish. —Of late years one of the most important and useful operations in surgery has been that of grafting new and healthy skin upon a wound or sore and thus establishing the healing process and obtaining a cicatrization. Hitherto the particles of skin have been taken from some sound part of the patient’s body and applied to the diseased or injured point, but M. Anger lias recently demonstrated that pieces of skin may be taken from amputated limbs and used successfully in heteroplasty. In one case M. Anger took strips of skin from the palmer surface of an amputated finger and applied them to the ulcerated leg of another person. In three days the bandages were ' removed and the grafted parts found firmly united to the surface and evidently vascularized. To insure success it is necessary that the graft be made immediately upon amputation.

—An ingenious apparatus for sawing wood has been introduced in England with very* satisfactory results. In order to secure the log from rising with the drag of the saw on its bed while being cut it is kept down by means of pressing rollers or bowles, carried by vertical water cylinders, in which stationary pistons are inserted, their rods being pendant from a transverse beam of the saw frame. The upper and lower ends of each cylinder are brought into communication by an outside pipe which allows the water which fills the cylinder to pass from one to the other side of the fixed piston. The water forms an elastic packing between the piston and the lower ends- of the cylinder and serves to retain the bowles of the cylinders in contact with the timber when once lowered in contact therewith. In order that the machine may operate upon balks or logs of varying thickness the cylinders are fitted with a vertical rack in gear with pinions for raising and lowering the cylinders.

—lt is stated that previous to its being made known that Mr. Lick, of San Francisco, intended to found an observatory witli the grandest telescope in the world a similar instrument had been projected in France by M. Foucault, in ISGS, but. was ;suspended in consequence of the latter's death. It has since, however, been resumed under the direction of M. Wolf, and the work is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. The tube of this gigantic instrument is nearly fifty feet long and six feet eight inches in diameter, The reflector is to be produced at the St. Gobin glass works, and the production of the mold alone, which is already completed, occupied six months. The mirror w ill be produced spherical and will afterward be worked up to a parabolic form, and will finally be covered with silver or gold. The power of this telescope will be far greater than that of any other hitherto constructed —to be greatly exceeded, however, by the Lick instrument. The Atlantic cotton mills, of Laurence, Mass., employing 1,250 operatives, and manufacturing 450,000 yards per week, will shut doWrn on account of the dull market on the 10th of July, and remain closed till Sept. 1.

Finding Out the Secrets.

Mrs. Brown and her gossip, Mrs.White, were conversing about husbands and the, secrets of Freemasonry. Mr Brown was a Freemason, and the fact of not being able to share the secrets of the order with him made Mrs. Brown very unhappy. She was pouring out her grief to Mrs. \\ bite, and saving for the thousandth time: “ I wonder what they do in the lodge-room V” “I have no doubt but it’s dreadful ” replied Mrs. mite. ‘ • But if my husband was a Mason I’ll bet I’d find out what he did.” ‘‘ But how? They dare nottell.” “Ah! but I’d make him tell.” “ How? oh, how?” asked Mrs. Brown, anxiously. “.Hush! I’ll tell you; but don'tbreathe it for the world, because it is a dead secret.” •“ No, no; I won’t.” “Well, do you know’ that tickling a person’s ear when they are asleep will make them talk?” “ No; will’t, though?” “ Yes. Now you wait till Brown comes home from the lodge next time and have a broom-straw in the bed with you. When he gets asleep you tickle 'his ear with it gently, and he will begin to talk about what he has been doing at the lodge, and in this way you can get the whole business out of him.” ” Gracious me! You don't say so, Mrs. White!” “To be sure I do. I always get my husband’s secrets out of him in this way.” “ I'll do it; I’ll do it.” “And you’ll tell me all about it, won’t you?” v “ Certainly. But you must never say anything about it.” “Oh, cm course not. I'm very closemouthed,” replied Mrs. White, earnestly. So it was -agreed upon and they separated. But unfortunately Mr. White had overheard the conspiracy and lost no time in informing Mr. Brown, who laughed heartily over it. A few nights afterward Brown attended a meeting of his lodge, and his wife was all anxiety regarding it. On retiring she armed herself with a spray from her broom and wakefully. waited for her lord and master to return. At last she had almost broken down the veil of secrecy which had troubled her so long, and her heart beat wildly when she heard him open the front door and come in. Of course she ‘ pretended to be asleep and did not see the 1 comical smile on her husband’s face as he turned up the gas and began disrobing for bed. But he said nothing, and in a few moments lie was comfortably tucked in and giving out premonitory indications of approaching sleep. Then Mrs. Brown opened her eyes cautiously and convinced herself that lie had gone to that land from which sleepy husbands never return until some time the next day. Cautiously she reached under the pillow and took the broom-straw from its hiding-place. Then she reached over carefully and began to tickle her husband’s ear, and he was all the while doing his best to keep from exploding with laughter. Finally he began' to talk a little and her ears were keenly alive to every syllable. “ Yes, he must die,” said he. “He betrayed our secrets to liis wife. I’ve got to kill him—the lot fell on me.” Mrs. Brown screamed and leaped from the bed, while lier husband, unable to control himself, gave vent to his laughter and disturbed the neighbors for the next ten minutes. But they never came to any understanding about the strange affair. She never asked him what he was laughing at find he never inquired what it was that made her scream and leap out of bed so quickly. «■ Mrs. Brown and Mrs. White don’t speak now. She thinks Mrs. White played a joke on her, and she seems to have lost much of her anxiety regarding the secrets of Freemasonry. — Detroit Free Press. —A thoughtful book-canvasscr out West wears cowhide pants.

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