Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1876 — Page 7

The Railroad Introduced Into China.

It is an announcement of more than usual interest, this which comes from China, that the railroad has been introduced into that country. It is a abort line —no more than five miles in length—but the attention of the world is turned to its inauguration with wander and with calculations of the splendid results which will follow to China and the world. An English firm some years since managed to purchase the right of way for a carriage road from Shanghai to Woosung, ten miles (listant. A miniature locomotive was built and sent to Shanghai to accustom the people to the “ carriage’ ’ that waa to be run on this road. Every effort was made to prevent any shock to the peculiar and tenacious conservatism of the people. ' So skillfully was this done that a considerable number of subscriptions of Chinese capital were obtained. The construction of the road began January last, five miles have been completed, and on the Ist of July the road was opened, and was to be completed to-day. Mongolians appear to have been delighted. A shrewd stroke was made in permitting them to ride free the first two days. The offer was accepted by hundreds, and the new means of conveyance at once secured popular favor. The Chinese proved not to be so hopelessly conservative that he could not recognize the superiority of the locomotive to the wheelbarrows, palanquins, and other similar men-movea carriages that now furnish transportation for Chinese travel and traffic as a thousand years ago. There are now twelve trains a day, six each way, running on the road. They are crowdea with passengers, and the road is paying a handsome profit already, which will assure it and all similar enterprises an immense popularity with the thrifty Chinese. The London Times devotes a great deal of space to this important enterprise. It says: “ It is to be borne in mind that the little line has not been laid down on principles which would be the most advantageous in a country so densely populated as China. Its details have only been adopted as affording the readiest and most practicable means of securing a beginning—of inserting the thin end of the wedge. Moreover, it was very desirable that the line should be able to earn as good a dividend in as short a time »s possible, an element very essential to success in any enterprise in any country, and especially in China. It is stated that there are a number of small subscribers in China, and a good dividend would do more than anything else to promote an interest in railways in that country. Now, however, that tlie initiative has been taken, it is to be hoped that the example may be speedily followed in other parts of the country, and that the little Shanghai Railway may prove the precursor of a railway system which at no distant period may be found extending its ramifications throughout the Celestial Empire. It is probable that the governing classes in China, regarding railways from a strategic point of view, will recognize their importance more readily from that than from a purely commercial aspect. In whatever light the question may be viewed, the initiative which has been taken in such works is clearly a matter for congratulation.” China has had the telegraph in operation for several years in a small v?hy. It gained the favor of the Government by the service it was made to do in carrying on the campaign against the Formosan rebels. The telegraph and the railroad now have a brilliant future before them in China. Their extension will necessarily be slow, but their influence must be tremendous, not alone on China, but on every nation that sells China anything or buys anything of her —that is the world. Four hundred millions of people so keen and active as the Chinese cannot have two such instruments as the telegraph wire and the locomotive placed on their lands without great results. The construction of the roads will be a source of great profit to the United States-. Though China furnishes the labor that builds die roads, and England supplies the Bessemer steel for the rails —though here we will compete with her —the United States will certainly send the locomotives. We have supplied Russia, and can command the market in China. Increased facilities of transportation will cheapen the silks, the teas, the drugs, spices and precious woods China sends us, and increase the wealth that enables China to buy our products. The introduction of the railroad into China is the most important fact in the history of that distinctive factor of modern progress since its introductien into America fifty years ago.— Chicago Tribune.

A Wonderful Piece of Wood-Carving Over 1,000 Years Old.

A representative of the Pre»s was yesterday permitted to examine one of the most wonderful works of antiquity ever brought to the notice of the present generation, belonging to Cesare Facchini, an Italian gentleman who recently arrived in this city from Rome. It is evidently a relic of religious art, and is said to be over 1,000 years old. The work is entirely of wood, cut from the groves of Lebanon, and is about four feet square and as many feet in height. It represents the early history of the world, from the time of creation up to the crucifixion of the Son of God, and is made up of figures and emblems, illustrating familiar biblical characters. First, immediately on the front of the work is a miniature representation of chaos, and above ft the Garden of Eden, containing a diversified landscape thronging with beasts, birds, reptiles and trees. The figures are all of carved wood. On the left-hand side is an image of Adam, and on the right one of Eve, who holds in her right hand the fatal apple. Near by, on an elevation, is a picture of a man between two wild beasts—an elephant and lion—typifying the two stages of civilization. Next in order comes a sacred figure of Joshua bestriding a charger. The warrior holds in one hand his sword' and in the other a shield, having on its front a representation of the sun. To the right of this striking figure may be seen a carving of Aaron, the High Priest, whose arms are outstretched. Near him is the golden calf and a band of soldiers, clad in full costume, and just above these, on what appears to be a mountain, the figure of Moses, the lawgiver, who has with him the tablet on which are inscribed the ten commandments. In his right hand the leader of the Israelites holds the rod with which he he smote the rock and caused water to flow forth. Above this is a representation of the Lord and the burning bush. Further oh toward the rear of the work is exhibited Noah engaged in building the ark, which is in the last stages of completion. The Patriarch is surrounded with his ship-carpentering tools." On the left side, in ■well defined and regular order, is seen the stable in which the Blessed Redeemer was born. The manager and animals, Joseph and Mary, the infant Jesus, are all of carved wood. Then is seen the wise men of the East following the Star of Bethlehem to the scene of the Nativity.

Next is a representation of St. Peter, fearing in his right Und the keys of heaven, while With tfre fwt he seems to be drag. ging a net well filled with fish. An allegorical picture of death contains aakeleton with scythe in hand, andabove this hovers the angels spoken of by John in the Apocalypse. The central portion of this Remarkable carving is,'perhaps, themost Worthy of note, because of the very many devicesand figures represented. Here are clustered a number of pillars, such as the Corinthian, lonic, Doric, etc. High up stands the mystic lamp of life on the Book of the Revelations, bedring seven distinct seals. Under |it stands the figure of the Ruler of the Universe, who holds in one hand a golden sceptre and balances a globe in the other. On either side of this are angels holding the evenly balanced scales of justice. On pedestals are angels holding cornucopias, and near by a miniature representation of the City of Jerusalem, surrounded by its high walls, and on a tablet on the walls are Hebrew characters, which, when translated, read, “Lord, Lord, why hast Thou forsaken me!” The very central object is a representation of the Crucifixion of. the Son of God, and under it is an allegorical picture of the triumph over death, apd beneath this a representation of hell. It must be remembered that most of these figures are distinct and separate from tlie general woodwork. Taken as a whole, it is certainly one of the most ingenious, instructive and marvelous pieces of carving that has ever been seen in this or any other city. An interesting history is connected with it, and is saia to be a sacred reliquia of the ancient order of Templars. It has been preserved with the greatest care and veneration as an heirloom by the old and illustrious family of the Casanovas of Bologna, in Italy, and of which the present owner of this relic is the direct representative. Its first possession is traced back to I’oalo Casanova, a celebrated jurist, canon of the Metropolitan Church, prothonotary and historian, after the tyrannical suppression of the Knights Companion of the Order of Guadente, successors to the Knights Templar. Sometime ago it was decided to have the monument examined in detail by some of the most competent savgns of the day, so as to ascertain as far as possible with such work its approximate value in a religious and historical point of view. The attention of several connoisseurs, professors of antique lore and others was called to it, and they unanimously pronounced it to be a work of the greatest interest, and one which should be interpreted and described by a fully competent person. The choice fell on Signor Carlo Pancaldi, the celebrated archaeologist and historian, of Bologna. But, curiously enough, the great authority, like other professors in similar cases, at first attached no importance to the monument. On re-examining it, however, he found the object exceedingly interesting, and finally he came to the conclusion that the monument revealed, in a figurative or semi-hidden manner, the primitive historic secrets of the Order of Guadente, a secret so zealously kept by that ancient priesthood that they caused the death of Prometheus and Savonarola, and cruelly persecuted Galileo and others’, who, being initiated into the secret, had dared to divulge it.— Philadelphia Press.

Long Life.

According to the Hebrew literature, with which, happily, Christendom is familiar, the ancients had a peculiarly strong horror of death. The supreme promise in those primitive days was “that thy days may be long in the land.” At the present time mere existence is not looked upon as a blessing to be coveted. To live on under conditions of misery is esteemed worse than death, unless there be hope of a change for the better. Life is good or ill according to its accessories. But Uie instinct of a continuance, as it might be called, is sufficiently eager to make inquiry into the comparative duration of human life in various trades and professions an interesting one. In the recently-published supplement to the thirty-fifth annual report of the British Registrar General of Births, Deaths ana Marriages, a chapter is devoted to this subject. As a class, professional men live longer than tradesmen. The ministers, who are compelled to be moral, in reputation, at least, are longest lived. Lawyersand doctors rank next, and in the order named. Protestant clergymen have abetter record, from the standpoint of longevity, than the celibates of the Romish priesthood. The latter rarely pass beyond the people of mature middle age. Of artisans, those are the best off, physically, who work in wood, whether indoors or out. The exhalations from wood seem to be peculiarly wholesome. Next to them are the operatives in woolen mills. For some unexplained reason they live longer than the “hands” in cotton mills. The ironmongers labor under the serious disadvantage of being excessively overheated nearly all the time they are at work. Tailors and shoemakers live longer than most artisans. Those who serve the public at hostelries of any kind, from grogshops to hotels, present a high rate of mortality, owing, no doubt, to the fact that as a class they are much given to social drinking. The manufacture of tobacco, in any form whatever, is exceedingly deleterious. Working with chemicals is worst of all. The poison is sure to permeate the air, more or less, and gradually destroy life. Farm labor is of all others the most favorable to longevity. Such are the general facts attested by this report. The ennui of rural life is less wearing to the system than the excitement of the city, still it is claimed that excitement, if not excessive, is invigorating to the body. It does one good to be aroused occasionally. The blood gets torpid and thick if unstirred by some unwonted emotion. It is like a stream which breeds miasma if it flows on too lazily. A vigorous stirring up by either emotions of pleasure, curiosity or* anxiety serves as a tonic. If the farmers did not overwork, and had enough excitement of a legitimate kind, their mode of life would be the very ideal for longevity. As it is, we advise all who care most for long life to make a straight “chute” for the country and stay there. — Chicago Journal.

—Says a Massachusetts correspondent: “In Cambridge, Longfellow is loved, Lowell admired. Though younger by a dozen years, it is generally conceded that Lowell is a broader, finer scholar, than the translator of Dante and the author of the 'Spanish Student? Mr. Longfellow is primarily a noetzMr. Lowell is both a poet and critic. The conversation of both is simple and witty; that of Mr. Lowell is characterized by a blunt, Yankee-like frankness suggestive of the * Biglow Papers? Mr. Longfellow's library is a model of order and artistic arrangement; Mr. Lowell’s is suggestive of the original chaos; books in cases, on shelves, tables, chairs and the floor, books anywhere, everywhere, helter-skelter?’

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—The mole is becoming quite as much annoyance in some places as the potato beetle, because he cannot be so readily extinguished. A little arsenic er strychnine, carefully put into the soft portion of kernels of corn, and these dropped into the runways will thin them off. Try it. —Stuffed Eggs—Cut In halves carefully, across, six hard-boiled eggs. Take out the yelks and mash with parsley and onion chopped very finely, and yelk of egg raw; one teaspoonful of butter, salt and pepper. With this mixture refill, the nalves, place them in a baking dish, cover with white sauce or drawn butter, sprinkle With powdered crackers and set the dish In the oven a few minutes to brown delicately. —To make friar’s omelet, prepare twelve apples as for sauce, add sugar; stir tn while hot one-quarter pound butter, nutmeg and lemon-rind grated. Let it cool, then add four eggs, the yelks and whites beaten separately. Butter a deep dish and strew the bottom apd sides thickly with bread crumbs. Pour in the omelet, bake slowly one hour. Turn Out on a Blatter, sprinkle sugar over, and eat nearj cold. —Please tell the Farmer readers that common poke-root steeped in water and the liquid applied to currants and gooseberries, is sure death to the currant woim. I dug two bushels of the root yesterday, and applied a half dozen pails of water. This morning I am going over my 900 bushes, as the worms have come in great numbers. The season is rather backward and the weather continues jcold. Caterpillars are swarming upon orchards and forests, and in four weeks from this tims this will be a desolate looking country.— L. F. Abbott, in Maine Fanner. —For snow eggs: Whisk the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth, with a little powdered sugar. Set one quart of milk, sweetened to the taste, to boil; drop the egg froth on it by tablespoonfills; a few seconds will cook them; take them out on a sieve to drain. When all the egg froth is cooked strain what is left of the milk; let it get cold and mix gradually with it the beaten yelks of the eggs, with any flavoring you prefer. Put the vessel containing this into a saucepan of water, and keep stirring on the fire till the cream thickens. To serve, pile up the whites in a platter, pour the custard around them, and sprinkle the top with colored sugar, or “ hundreds and thousands,” fine confections, of different colors, for this and similar purposes.

Haul Out the Manure.

In the West, where no provisions are made to accumulate and protect the manure heaps, it is better that the farmer, during the dry months of autumn, remove all the barnyard manures and scatter them on the fields as evenly as possible. All refuse from old straw-stacks should be served in the same way, before threshing time, so that as little of its substance may be lost as possible, for while exposed to the elements, the rains wash the betterportions of it away, and thus it is lost. If scattered upon the fields when the ground is dry, the rains which fall upon it cany the fertilizing portions of it into the soil and spread it upon the surface in such manner as to be readily appropriated to plant growth when plowed under in the spring. We think it quite preferable to spread manures when being hauled, for two reasons; the labor is less and the land will be more uniformly enriched. If left in heaps any length of time, the rains cause much of the fertilizing properties to be left in the vicinity where the heaps lie, and thereby give portions of the land more than their proportion of the benefits. There is quite too much manure allowed to go to waste upon the fertile prairldb of the West, and farms, having been under cultivation for many years without the proper rotation of crops, which includes the grasses, begin to show unmistakable signs of exhaustion, and though the soil is no poorer than when in its virgin state, yet its conditions are so changed—the organic portions having returned to the inorganic—that it becomes necessary to provide the means for restoring these condiditions, to keep up a uniform yield of crops. Though the farms are large, and the farmer finds it difficult to get barnyard manure enough to go very far, yet he should make good use of what he has and it where it is needed most. Chemical analysis is but a poor guide for the agriculturist, for it proves qualities and kinds rather than conditions of soil. The condition is the important part to be considered, the thing the farmer must persistently look after. The inorganic properties must be converted into tlie organic, which may be done by the use of clover and the grasses, used for pasturage, and by supplying the vegetable mold in the form of manures, etc. The portions of the farm contiguous to the barnyard are more easily kept in a productive state than the outlying portions. The washings of the feea lots, the droppings of the domestic animals during certain portions of the year, and the effects of the pastures for the stock, which are apt to be located in the vicinity of the farm-house, all tend to keep up the fertility of the soil to this limited extent, so that the manure should be applied upon the extreme portions of the farm, that one part may not remain in good heart at the expense of any other portion. Our farmers must not rest upon the results of the past, for, as has always been seen by experienced farmers, large crops will not continue forever. Because our fertile prairies have consented to send abundant returns so many years, it does not follow that they will continue to do so forever. The soil being a manufacturer, it cannot produce the perfect articles of commerce if the raw material is exhausted.—Western Rural.

Hulled Corn.

This old-fashioned luxury is coming into style again, and as it is really a deli cious dish when properly prepared, it may be acceptable to know the modus operandi of doing it right. Take a six quart panful of ashes (hard-wood ashes if possible, as they are stronger); put them into an iron kettle, with three gallons of water; let them boil about five minutes; then set off from the fire, and turn in a pint of coid water to settle it. Turn off the lye and strain; put it into an iron kettle, and put in six quarts of shelled corn; put it over a brisk fire, and let it boil half an hour, skimming and stirring frequently. The outside skin of the kernels will then slip off. Strain off the lye, and rinse thoroughly in several clear waters. When the lye is thus weakened turn the com into a large dish-pan, and turn In water enough to cover it; then rub thoroughly with the hands, till the little black chits come off; rinse and strain off till the water looks clear; then put back into a clean kettle, with water enough to cover it, and let it boil slowly. It will swell no more than double the first quantity. Boil till quite soft; it may be necessary to add

water occarfonalty; itfr often, so as not to bum at the bottom of the kettle; when Julte soft put Ip two large tablespoonfuls f salt, afid stir well. To be eaten with milk, or butter and sugar. It is a healthy dWb, and although there is work In preparing it, yet It U good enough to pay fqr the labor and trouble. It is good either hot or cold, and was considered by our gtandparente to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table. Wheat hulled in the same way is considered a great delicacy, and a very beneficial diet for invalids. but is not so staple or nutritions as Indian corn. Smaller quantities can be prepared by using less lye and corn.— Farmer's Wife, in Country Gentleman.

Remarkable. Self-Sacrifice.

This is a true story. The happy circumstances occurred on last Bunday evening. He escorted her to and from church, and upon arriving at her home their discussion Of the sermon and the extreme heat suggested an invitation, readily accepted by Charles, that they step into the house and partake of a cooling glass of lemonade. She led him to the diningroom, and there found naughty brother Ben about to squeeze tlie last lemon in the house for his own individual benefit! Calling him aside, she induced Ben, by means of sundry threats and promises, to dissect that lemon and make Charlie and herself a glass. A self-sacrificing thought struck her! “No, Ben,” said she, “put the juice of the whole lemon into Charlie’s glass and bring me a glass of water. He won’t notice it—there’s no light in the parlor!” Ben was making one good, strong lemonade, as directed, when Charlie quietly slipped Out, and remarked: “I say, Ben! put the juice of your entire lemon in your sister's glass and bring me some ice water—there is no light in the E’>r, and she won’t notice it!” Ben’s is in obeying orders. With a merry twinkle in his eye he drank the lemonade, then carried them each a glass of water, which they drank with much apparent relish, asking each other between “if it was sweet enough.” And naughty brother Ben, with the taste of that lemonade in his mouth, stood out in the hall and laughed till his sides ached to hear them assure each other that it was “just right!” “so palatable and so refreshing!” —Boston Globe.

Killed by a Meteor.

A correspondent in New South Wales gives, the following particulars of a remarkable accident: On the night of the so .ar eclipse a great deal of electrical disturbance was observed, and all through the month meteors have been almost nightly. Just after the eclipse one of the most singular incidents probably that have ever occurred took place. As the schooner Urania was passing Crowley Head about half an hour after midnight on the 18th ult., a meteor, described as being like a ball of fire, fell immediately over the vessel’s stern, exploded with a loud report like that of a heavy piece of ordnance, and k hied the steersman, a man named Hales. Eveiy one on board felt a violent shock, like that of a volcanic battery, but no one except Sales was seriously injured. Sparks of fire were scattered all about the deck, and the flash of the meteor was so brilliant that the steward, who was lying in a berth below, saw fire through the caulked seam of the deck. His cabin was at the same time filled with .smoke, which blackened some papers lying about. The paint on all the aft part of tlie ship was discolored, similarly to what it might have been had the ship been smoked with charcoal. A peculiar, indescribable smell was perceived for some time after the explosion, and a quantity of flakes like the soot from a steamer’s funnel were scattered about the deck. The meteoi apparently traveled with the wind, which' was from the south. Tlie body of Sales, the man who was killed, appeared to be blackened, but showed no other mjirkß of injury. Sales was a young man about twenty-three years of age, ana is described as a smart seaman. —Mr. George Smith, the Assyrian explorer, is expected to return to England soon, by the way of Bagdad and Bombay.

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ARI MHIHIs" 3 “THEMATOK” 100 C SOLD LAST SEASON WITHOUT ONE FAILURE OR REJECTION This Is the famous Threshing machine Aat taß ■swept the field” and created such • revolution to*• trade, by its matcsum an TnutAgwDIG principles. THE ENORMOUS WABT i*rvto*bvittoOw stole, ot Threshers, can be SAVED «to' Improved Machine, eufficiaU, m wery job, to Mee dtoss ' van till exvenaeA of threshinfl'. FLAXy TIMOTHY, MILLET, HUNGARIAN W like seed* are threshed, aemnted, cleaned and **s«42 a* easily and perfectly a* Wheat, Oats, Eye er Bhrh*. AN EXTRA PRICE is usually paid for gr*to"*mCi seeds cleaned by thl* machine, ft* extra etrnntlwe. IN THE WET GRAIN of M 75, these were suiwf ■ tially the ONLY MACHINES that could run wittpsuGß and ALL GRAIN, TIME and MONEY wasting comjdSto tious, such a* “Endlee* Aprons,’* “Raddles,” “Bssrtutu,** “ Pickers,” etc., are enbrehr dtqMswd iM; lea* RtoML one-half the usual Gears, Belt*, Baxes, and vfonraate.smier managed: more durable; light runnings no****. - lyrepairs; nodust; no “ litterings ”to clean upi ixof: troubled by adverse winds, rian or storm*. FARMERS and GRAIN RAISERS who «N JHftN to th* large saving made by tt will not employ bato- - rlor and wasteful machines, but will fttot oa.MMa' Improved Thresher doing thor watk_FOUB SIZES made for 8, fi, Ifi «wi B HtoMkPowers. At*o a specialty of SxrABATOBg, deetpM* ■nd made txnnau vox maw rowx*. TWO STYLES OF HORSE POWERS, riuoarto “■’■rtP l * Gvm-.-hnd oor«Spur (Wosto bury Style), both “ Mounted " on /our wheel*. IF INTERESTED in Threshing or Gra&.RaftfaK apply to our nearest Dealer, or write to n* Ibr'lltaatM. teJftmta (**nt ftee), giving toU psrtlcrton Style*, Price*, Tenn*, etc. XidMOt, Shepard Cb,, BATIUI CREEK MXCK ———— rr 77. r. ~

The Enemy of Disease, the Foe«ff Pain to Man and Beast, Is tbs Grand Old MUSTANG LINIMENT, WHO YIELD TO ITEM AGIC. TOUCH. A f Boe. or -00, has often savsii the life of ahaasaa bela*,awd reoteroA Am ItfbmaduMflnlMOMManymwaitimlrtojMamw SPECIAL ADVANTACEST The best and most elegant rooms in the West. Over 80) students the past year. . Commercial Arithmetic taught by eminent professosaa. th Snl taSn iMsda al tknasWr - U—tahaW riMOSII. gib i Wife gioiftir A.N.B. A k SW-K-