The Syracuse Enterprise, Volume 1, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 October 1875 — Page 1

J. P. PRICKETT, Editor and Proprietor.

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FRESH TOPICS. Nev eh imve tin- State. c*»untv and di*- - * oV trict fair* in the West been ns successful as those of the present year. • it tset ci>*- it has bel li recently decided by the Ohl Catholics in Germany • thMs priwt nray lawfully marry. Ladies, beware of those striped hose are juwt coming into fashion. They product -nipt ions <»n the limbs. Rovkwatf.ii is th< name of a gentleman who writes rosy editorials for the Omaha fir/. He is evidently ulot the fighting editor, ns he w»* badly thrashal, the other <lay, by a wrathy individual who refuged to'take a rose-colored view of one of his playful imragniph*. * Chicago has unproved on the iinentian of a card inscribed “hire a ball,” or “this man was talked to death.” in tended for the discouragement of professional bores. The present device is a small cork fastened by a thread to the buthin-lw4*‘. Wlwu the spanker luis out talk*- Id* welcome, the victim <wlmly places the cork in I : * .. .: »iir. Now that there are **» many ambitions candidates before the conntry it is t time they alionld know 'jflwav they got i their names. Coudultm means white, k and in old Rom* nu n who offered” them selves.for office were “ camiidati,” lie t cause th* y won- very white robes, which, ! J by the way, they sometimes chalked, f »i‘ should any. “whitened,” and when- they proceeded to g<> round—ainbirr—and solicit votes, they were ftmbjUouw. Candnhd je, pk*ate take no | iuu! keep clean. 1 kThat cop|>er-colored statesman,, ora- | * and warrior, Hon. -Spotted Tail, in a Beech to the Black Hills C*>mmi*-*iom B*, the day, gave vent to this Birst of <-!vqu>-m e : “Yesterday, when Be called on you Commissioners, yon Ben- all drunk, and you tried to throw a Blanket over Eiv head. To -day 1 breathe ]Bie free air of heaven among my own Leople, and can now talk to you what I ■id not wish to nay yesterday. If you want our land we want the boundary Bte of Nebraska cluuiged, the reaervaBm enlarged, and we want to.know what B*u sty.” Ugh ' ASi O’uie l< i t of the Spring fieldi M;i*s. i lb publit an draws this pen-1 photograph of the venerable William Alh n ; “He i a tall, angular, loosely built man in a closely fitting suit of shiny black. His head is covered with a shock of idiort white hair, every thread of which loo& as if it might lie clinched on the uctlier side of bis tough old scalp; deep set, snappish eye*. a now that would jnit to d;ini'' the noblest Roman of them all; a large, obstinate month; a massive face without one serene sjxit upon it, hut deeply furrowed over by the passions of ,i\tr ug. cumlxdiyt* nature—throe-are -the immediately striking clmructeristiro of our oWw modern political Rip Van - Wiukl*.” El Brn ai* u James R. Huduyn*, in Ins recent odfrcaa at the Winnebago County (UL),Agricultural Fair, proposed a novel -icheine for reform in rk'ctions. His plan iudn.i*-* the following maw i urro: (!) The subdiviwou of electoral precimta until not more tlian 730 vote* ’ shall be tn any one. a legal requirement that every citizen who cannot give a good excuse shall attend and vote at all i lections, and minority representation iu elections ! popular) of jmlgv* and clerks of election; (2) in cities of mors than 30,000 inhabitants the name ami rroi- . deuce of t ach voter to be publicly read before hrs ballot is deposited, and public proof of hilt identity aud qualification to Jw(Mkven on the apct aud under oath, if aHjfifkured;-and b tliat brads of fami--Bflftall. I* diowed two Voti-*,. one for twUMlviw, and tlie other as y/tjA their families. * a. A -7 vL on the 27th ult., the L reliiclro was drawn by a H* flWiie pablic. Tht ' nt Dnriingtou, in England, and Ki.wge 'vtepi ims- n «u the enginewr, bath of the road and of the locomotive. Mwas the beginning of railroading, aud jfc semi-centennial of the event has just llypln celebratiHl at Darlington by a grand ami banquet, jiarticipatod m gli'tm many distinguished Englisdumm. ' line then opened has sbioe al>aorbe»l into the Northeastern railroml of England, an immeDsy eorporadon, whose capital is i3<o(*,odl> > or egnal io that of our whole Pacific rail- - road, and eventhat is surpassed by three othe£. British railroads. The railroads of t>s world have all been created within - Urid fifty yean. The United State's have laid the most length in that tune, and about as much as all Um rant of Um world put togetlier. The cost and manner of buildurg has been the most magnificent in Eugbtad, where the percent ige of net return and gross earnings to cost is less than with us. Th« recent lynching ot Jas. W. Scta-Uj at Bellefoutaine, Ohio, for the mugtie! of 3liss Allie Langhlin, was one of the most orderly and businros-liko ex<ct» Uon* ever conducted under tire amvpi<*e M JndgnLynch. Wbm Ih<M»opb d the vicinity became acquainted with the of th? ease their indignation knew no boonda, and tho iteecnnnff train* IrrougSt hundreds of teen to the scene of the tragedy. The mostactive partici . pants went to a briek-htln in the out skirts of the town, and organized themselves into four omnpaniro, esch coni pauy and roeh man being numbered After disguising themselves they pro

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cured an iron rail from a switch, a rope, mid witli cold-chisels, sledge-hammers, < :c.. proceeded to the jail, lettered dbwn 1 the door and made their way to the cell <x-. iipied by the culprit, who whs taken out and placed upon a l»ox under a tree, with the rope around hi* neck. He was ’ given ten minutes iu which to pray ami confess his other crimes, as be was <.Charged with a number t but he protested his innocence, and claimed that his wife killed Mbs Laughlin through jealousy. Tlielsix was then pushed away, ami lie was left hanging, with his feet a short distance from tho ground. After he was pronounced deml, the lynchers dis}w»r*'d and started for their homes. ;t iex thoi s.txn-uoi.LAR cjurtr A N» w York correspondent states tliat among tho many trrosnrro owm-d by A. T. Stewart, the merohaut priuce, is a nuiguiflcent ciirjwt, which l w«* once intended to grace the halls of royalty, having Iwen manufactured for ti*»- Emperor N.iixtleon. Its size is about forty feet square. Tli«> center-piece, its m<*t prominent objts*t, oivupying nearly onehalf of the whole art's, represents a beautiful, oval shaped picture set in a gold : frame, and suitably hung, woulfi at a distance be. easily mistaken for an elegant painting. The picture hls»t> the harbor, castle and surrounding country of Aiarscilles, Fratice. In the foregroiuid, one is charmed by the blue water ami the stately ships at unchor; fiuth-r back tbi' harbor and ancient castle, rising grandly iu its magiuficent whiteness against the green foliage enveloping the bate of the mountains which form the Imckgrouud, aud lift their hairy , heads into a bine sky, flaked witli fleeey cl< ids. Xapilwa’s coat of arms sur mounts the picture, and a Latin motto, wrought in gold on bide ribtion like ground* lies half unrolled at the base. Immediately surrounding this lovely picture, in a lx*d of rich brown, is a gurlaud <>f Is-autiful flowers, much larger than natural size, but so brilliant and so delicately and accurately reprroentod that it seems as if one uiiglit stoop and lift the petals one from another. Outside of this garland, and serving as a larder to the caqx-t, is a wreath formed of overlapping oak bavro and acorns, also in natural allows their various hluidot of green and brown-blending in exquisite lieauty. Tbja wonderful fabric , was made with the netsllea of poor women, who wrought it iu sections and set t-.eether, after the manner of tlie auurl’s hair "dutwta. Its texture is as ilelieate as a silketi tube; and no painter could portray color or detail with great“r skilL It actually cost SIO,OOO to make it. Mr. Stewart saw it at the Paris Exposition, ( and purcliawsl it as a novelty to exhibit ■ t-i !'ii> nJ* who visit his “up town suite. 11l li rlitt !•( XIHH VE.\l>. \ Qm-er punishments w<-rv iu the olden times inflict**! in the various l>«rts of Euro|a?—in some cases up* to a very recent period— with the object of humiliating the culprit and <-xpoaiug him to public rulicuh’. A oHnniots punishment was that of going in pnxs-ssion through the streets of a town or vifiagc in a dies* covered with images of swonls, whips, rodk, and other iustrnmente of corporeal pnui-b.m. a Iu Germany,* women who ’ had beaten their husbands were made to ride backward on a donkey, liohlmg his tail, ph which occAaion the animal was , loti through the streets by the husluhd. If tl;>- woman struck her husband in sia'h a manner that he eould not ward oft the blow, the donkey was led by the num , who had charge of him; if not, then by lliehnmmd Linja lt. Another v< ry old • istom was that of punishing a heu pecked husband by removing tlu roof of his house, ou tlie groiual that • ante who allows his wife to rule at home does I not de**rve any protection agamat wind and weather.” In France if two wona>u ■ fought in public, they were -wch pnt in a tert of ckwd i»eutry lH>x, which left I only th«ir heads exjaMed, and then postal opposite each other in the marketI place, where they remained for an hour, face'to face, but unable to use tlteir ba»*ls ( or feet. A nmiinou punuhment for scolding women was the “shameful Stone,” ahieh was huug necks. Thia stone was ‘ shape of a bottle. In Spain libelers and alandarere were cmnpelied to stand <«i a ‘ f block and strike ihemtelva* Ihaaßteme* on the mouth aka sign of repentance. 1r : ' :| . ■ sHgnni.tw owrM sx i.v ‘ No animal is exempt from the operaI tiouf of the taw of deaquemation. Birds she.il their feathers annually. serp*»ts . , Uieir skins, quadrupeds their hair, And lobsters and cralis their shells. Sd ■ h ! with humanity. The skin, instead of * { being thrown oil auupally, os with tltese H referred to, is all t&edhne wearing off, M and, therefore, constantly being reI I newed. The scarf-skin ia intetunble. * It is to the true skin, or cutis veva, f what the rough, scaly bark of a tree i»to t the vitalized coat immediately under it * In the use of our hands, feet and the * | ordinary use of the body, fragments of ' slnn ore constantly nibbed SJ that it may be truly said every, living person ’ is always shedding that tisane. IF that r process were interrupted, as it ‘is partialelly by some who neglect to avail them of the benefit M Wri * . become dogged, dnd thdr trtftfty in the - pn'servation of health destroyed. Thus e the actual amouut of aearf-akan dreqqang r offi rubbed off, and washed off in a year * would be about equal to the thickness « and weight <rf a thin sheepskin. : - 1- The Wisconsin man who had to pay t- S2O to prove hta right to fourteen chick b ' ens derives the address of the pcanos I. who says this is the best government tta »- world ever anr.

AWKir.utii , m *. CHt Kvrji coaawrx1 •" Aud KO Abt's *-ng*t<i-d ts be marritd 1 To un*- ot oar cteaa! Tm afraid Tint if very luti. h kw»r she tarried H< f degree would be O. M—Old Maid. ' I.know h.-r?” Oh, yes. or I thought so: 1 But I'm more tliau ir><-iiued to believe I was wrong. I'm the fellow she sought *o. But couldn't deceive. I V'-n r- - ' I Z It sa thing I say little about; 1 Twas as open a <-ae< a» well eould I*— - Did six- love no- ?” There wasn't a doubt. Why, she just threw herself at my bM*l> ® u • But I kn- a she'd no heart and less brains ; 1 -■ Aud though money will settle s bread bill. It won't wash off stains. - - • a r : ■. . .*■ . • You're astonished at this ? ' My <tear fellow. What the deuce did I care for her ag. ! like v-u:-a like apples--when mellow. . But the fact was. I knew every page Os h.-r history. “Hirt. d? ' You'd think so. There’s Harry McKeown, Silty-three ; It was site that drove him to tlie.drink so; •- Am I sure ?” As can be. She's a'schemmg coquette, aud I know it f She hasn't the least bit <rf soul Or an atom of truth. — Doesn't shos it ?" ■ Xo; her feelings are under control. • • Th. n it ’» ntuAKAae to say she has twauty. I pdy the fellow she’s caught. It um»t be a matter of duty < With him. or he's bought. Who tbedeve can it l« ? Then- - Fred Baker; You retne tub- r him ?—scored for the Nine; But th-tv ten* innci> fear that he'd take her; He wants Idue bbssl, and not a gold mine. 1 “Chicken” Jones? No. h< • married. Tivaa ; funny. How U< ran a tve race with Jim Prout. ' For the "elaaa cradle,” wasn’t it’? Money He 'a got, and the gout. ; “ Tub ’’Abbott was sweet on her. Sandy Meitilh-.m I— be must be the one. By Jove, it's old “ Handy the dandy I” It’s u-« he ? I gi' e U P- then- I’m <!<me. , /• it one >< our class, are you sure, j That Die vixen has wired for her prey ? Who.'* the fellow? let’s have it! What! •-• ••«*>• ? I - Th- dickens you say Z A DEAD MAN. It Was just before the opening of the ; railway from Taganrog to Kharkof in , 1868, that I was driving those dreary I distances in autumn. For the first two I ttays and nights the weather was lovely, I but on the third morning, soon after | sunrise, the sky became cover**! witli • heavy, torn and jagged clouds, a nortlu J erly wind arose, and with thunder, - lightning, cold gale and snow, tho winter burst on it* a* it yearly breaks on .Southern Russia. In lialf an hour the rich, ' black, rolling plains had become an ocean of inky mnd, and we reached th*' p.art station *>f /ionski only to find the • order : “Impossible to proceed.” 1 I call«*l for tea, and the samovar was brought iu by a fin*', upright, graybearded man, whom, from his black velvet tunic ami slashed slaves, I took to be th*- Postmaster himself. He was followed into the room by a noble-looking 1 Ctwnck woman of his own age, who said,Little hnaband, why don’t you ask 116 lord if he will eat a partridge and a bit of bread ; The kurupatka is plump, and the .lay will l>e long before his troika can lie harnessed to face the j storm. She smiled syeetly as she spoke . —he smiled lovingly upon her; then she left ns, looking lingeringly back. “ Your wife is in love with you still, and you with her, PostJUikstet,” I said. “ You must have Create*! her well when .she waa young'for her to love you so. How long ia it since you wen- married. ” 1 “I am 60,” he replied; “I was married at2s, thirty-five years ago; five years before I died.” . “-Wlmt t" said I. j “ Five ytnirs liefore my <l*-ath. Is it ptwaibte tliat yon don’t know my story t You must have aime from a long way off, for I have heard tliat it is told even I upon tlie Azof.” And throwing liis leg* across a chair, without more ado. he apnke thns: “ I was burn in 1800, and can remember the ret mu from Paris of my father and Uncle—Cossacks of the Don. Those were grand days, when every Coeteck was an officer by birth, and when the Hetman Ptatof was King of Europe, conqueror of the Turks and of the Fn-neh, ami friend and equal of the white tsar. Now, this Petersburg tear says that we’re no lietter than his GreaURussian slave*, and for years my saber and long pistol have- hiuig upon the and when I have worn my my n*l strip* *1 ng take supply of salt. “ In 1834, as a young Postmaster, lor my father was dead, witli a good place and a handsome beard, I was the best match in the two church viltagi's round. I amid pick my wife, and I chose Olga, , i that you saw just now.” ( “ There,” said I. “ All, wait ami see! Wait, little l*Jr*l. Don’t be impatient. Olga was as lowly iaa she was good. You have seen he® in er sixtieth year ; her goodnew is wliat lit was, and, though 1 may be an unsafe judge, her beauty, I think, is not yet ( ! gone. He looked at JDe, I nodded. j I “We were happy at first, but IWM I kind. We had no children. Onedayi *39 she was in low spirits about me, snd .. I flung her arms upon a sudden about my .! neck, with : *Do you rtaU.y love toe, 5 : little John ’’ • Yon know I do.’ ‘But j not aa I love you.” At that very toog | meat, lonl, the must have been _ unchained from hot To tell you what r thoughts flatbed in an instant through g my mad mod would be impossible. That she*said was true! Thai whfla.l Am k>vp her in a kind of way, 1 y wte bonnd to her for life whetherl would t- or dnj In a fit of wild rage I struck liei n one Ahort. nimtpyblew. She looked al ie .me with xt&splfirTnber fey®i, Vfid walked into ottt other room. Inm in*

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I r , ... - , ~ . the stable-yard. ‘ Harness a troika,' said Ito the atarosta, ‘I leave at once for Kharkof with dispatches that the courier dropped, and that I’vo found npou tlie floor. Quick ! quick! the best courier horses.’ In an instant they were ready. Merrily jingled the bells in the crisp air. Paul took the reins, and off I whirled. In twenty iionrs I was at '• Kharkof. To my friend, the staroeta, at the gn at Kharkof station, who Was equal in rank and pay to most Postmasters themselves, I said : ‘Dome a service, little friend, as I would do one for you. lam going to leave my wife, to whom I liave been unkind, and am going to enlist in the guards. But I wish her to forget me, and she must think me dead. Write to her in a week and tell her tliat I was taken with the cholera and died. Beg her to forgive me for my unkindness ; say that I was gratefid for her love, and that it was my last wish that she should marry again some lad more worthy of her than myself. Make in terest to Imve the state m continued to her as Postmistress. She ia a priest’s daughter and can write.’ We crossed ourselves ; he swore ; we Ixiwed to the image in the corner of the stable, we kissed, and in five minntes 1 was gone. At the recruiting office I enlisted for the Empress’ regiment of cuirassiers of the guard, as a fourteen years’ volunteer, , and in a false name. I’d of course no papers, but they asked no questions, for 1 was a fine recmit. My beard was shaved, my hair was cut, and when I got to Petersburg and was fitted witii my : uniform and eagle-crowned helmet no one would have known me. I rose to ' sergeant and second riding-master. From your padamjna I see that yon are English. Now, in ’53, when I had served my time, there were rumors of war in Turkey against you, and tempting offers . were made to me to stop and drill the I new recruits. Bnt I was wretched, and I homesickness drove me south, though if II found my wife dead or "married again I I intended to kill myself. Petersburg is not a place for Cossacks either. By ! brooding qyer my past I had become i madly in love with my wife. It was no use for me to tell myself that I had left her well off ; that she was married again ’and happy ; tliat she was forty-four and fat; or else, jierliaps, a scarecrow, I was • madly in love. * " “I got my discharge and pension pa i jx-rs, and started south. At Kharkof my friend was ‘ dead.’ What if she, too, were dead f ‘ Who keeps the Donski post station, now.’’ I murmured, crossing myself the while under my long cloak. ‘The widow.’ ‘A widow that ' has kept it fourteen years ?’ ‘ The ' same. ’ In eighteen hours I was there. • I recognized two of the old men, bnt they m?t me. I rushed into the house. t She was at her day-book writing, not ! changed. Only giaver, and with silver |in her black hair. ‘My own little Olga,’4 :in the best style of old days. She did. 1 not turn to look at me, but threw up her arms and fell forward on the table. I • rushed to her and felt her heart, with | mine, too, all but ceasing to beat. In a moment she came to herself—our lips fast glued together. This was in ’53. i This is ’69. Sixteen years gone like a ; day. We have made up for the past, • little lord. ' « “But, would you believe it f /That wretched government at Petersburg insists that I am dead, ami that the Donski station is kept by my widow. Or else they saytheenirasrier riding-master ' must be dead, and with him his pension. My widow accepts the situation with a smile, for our neighbors all know better than to believe the government, but she keeps the books, signs the receipts, and |»*s the taxes. I draw my pension in my cuirassier name. A great Petersburg noble who was passing here last week, told me that be didn’t believe a word of my story, but that the Post mistress and I were * quite in the sash . ieu.’ What did he meant”-—Macuiitt- ’ n*‘» Mttgazfne. ■ BODIKS DEYOVBED BY CITTLBFXBK. \|t does not mitigate the horrors of the . seal to know that the bodies of those who perish by shipwreck, as in the case of are devoured by hideous was made by . "'uterthat fltak '***WS had ttot t« • > 1 recovered, he i »■ and, when he had learned to use it, 'Went with two other diven to the scene of the . disaster, and made several descents. In one of these they saw the head of a female apparently hanging to a reef of . rocks, and on approaching it they saw it ; wta» hd l to the gigantic clutches of a 1 ’ cuttle-fish. The divers counted eight of i these arms, some clinging to the rocks, >, others holding the half-consumed body, 1 and others floating about in the water, j They were Idfeet 01 more to length, and of immense size and strength. The divers j f were not prepared for an encounter with fi this desperate fish, and were hauled up, t but not before Hauser attempted to H spring forward and rescue the bead, in IWBose features be declared he recognized f »these of A stater. He was restrained by , ' the other divers, and proposed to make t! another descent the next day, but when h | morning came he was delirious, and soon 1 after died from the effect of the shock, k j The facte have been sworn to by the surti ’ vivora, who give a minute account of the ■. ’ appetrewy of the fish, which corresponds tto those of any natural history. And I: now the British Admiralty propose to tl have a scientific search made of the ledge r where the shipwreck occurred to see if it; it be true that the victims' of shipd wreck become Ute f<x4 of tlieSo marine O * monsters, ■i ■

l FARM A.M) HOME. r —— mm Bakings. t Ono daddy-long legs lias a mission. He has been observed toidevour the . larva* of the terrible potato beetle, and i there are prayers health. [ • An old writer in the .4 nterican Hural t Home thinks the reason the quality of ( flour made in the famous Genesee val- } ley of New York has deteriorated is tliat . fanners have continuously cut the wheat before fully ripe, using this wheat for seed. 1 Mr. Mechi, the well-known English > farmer, attaches much importance to > steeping seed wheat in a solution of sulphate of copper. He uses one pound of ; the sulphate to ten quarts of water, steeping the wheat in this ten minutes. When com arrives at full roasting-ear state, it can lx* fed most profitably by being cut and fed stalk and ear together, ' since at no jieriod is there more sugar—which is necessary in fattening—to be found in the plant, and then hogs eat every part with an appetite that shows their appreciation of the dainty food provided for them. 'A Trnnkssee correspondent H>f the Southern Fanner renovates worn-out lands by sowing peas on them and feeding oft. This is done two or three years in success, until enough fertility is gained to grow clover. Then plenty of clover seed is sown from December to 1 February, and a good catch is always sc- ■ cured. Wherever the land is rich enough ■ to grow clover, the fanner has the as- 1 cemlancy, and can soon makes his fields 1 produce any crop he wishes. The diffi-; culty is in getting a start, and for this purpose the Southern field or cow pea is ■ unrivaled. It would be a good plan to keep a note of every little thing that needs attention, so that by-and-by all may be done in order. There will be drains to make and repair, fences to close that have beep oj>ened, stacks to top oft - and prop up, leaves to rake up in woods lots, brush to I clear off, roads and lanes to repair, stables to elean out and whitewash, and a hundred things to do that must be provided for or they will go undone. Every farmer should earry a note book and pencil in his pocket, and make use of them. ‘ ' . | In order to ascertain the gain in weight of growing cattle, an experiment was 1 tried as follows: A short : horn bull calf was weighed on the 12th of April, 1874, when he was just fourteen months old, and his weight was found to be 503 pounds. May 12 he weighed 593 pounds; 1 June 12, 703 pounds July 12. 801 pounds; August 12, 886 pounds, and September 12, 996 poimds-r-a total gain in five months of 463 pounds, or 92J pounds per month. “ ■ Gypsum and ashes are valuable in the compost heap. Twenty pounds of plaster to each good load of manure is sufficient, since one hundred pounds of gypsum will fix twenty pounds of ammonia. Quicklime should not be used with fermenting manure, since it sets the ammonia free instead of fixing it. Ashes contain largely phosphoric acid and potash. When leached, the phosphoric acid remains, and also a good deal of the potash. The phosphoric acid is in a finely 1 divided state, and in combination with . peroxide of iron, magnesia and lime; so the carlxmic acid generated in the com- > jxjst pile will liberate it from iite bases, and render it immediately available to ' plants. J Seed Wheat.—-A- bushel of plump wheat will contain about 650,000 grains, which, if sown upon an acre of ground, 1 will give nearly fifteen grains to every square foot. This is one grain to every nine stpiare inches. If every grain sown should grow (and why should if not if.it, is perfect and properly sown’) there would be one plant to every square of three inches ; the plants, in fact, would stand upon the ground just exactly three inches aj*art. One peck of seed sown equally over en acre would leave the plants six inches apart, which would be too thick for a heavy crop. Two quarts of seed per acre, placed at even distances, would give one plant to every foot, and if they should tiller and spread, as the wheat plant often does, tjie crop ‘ would be tliick enough upon the ground. An English farmer, Maj. Hallet, has i town wheat even more thinly than this, * and has reaped over sixty bushels of •todee, phtmp grain to the acre. Thus, * it is not thwqmntity of seed sown, but the kind of seed and the manner of : sowing it, upon which the crop depends. i Dry paint is removed by dipping a swab with a handle in strong solution of oxalic acid. It softens at once. If a glass stopper won’t move, hold ‘ the neck of the bottle toa flame, or warm ; it by taking iwa turns of a string and ' I aee aawing it. The heat engendered ex--4 panda the neck of the liottle before a J corresponding expansion reaches the j stopper. 4 Ir rats are about, scatter powdered I j glass about their hole*, orpowdered copl! petas, or fill up the crevices with hard ’(■dap, or smear their holes with soft tar, >I or dip the rat in a cup of tar and let it 1; go, and it will tar-plaster every hete in II the house. . | Ham Toast.—Make some nice slices - i of toast, with all the crust trimmed off, 11 dip each slice for an instant into a bowl i;of hot- water, then butter it slightly. 11 Have ready some grated cold ham, and > spread it thick over each slice at toast. « Tongueidast ia made in the same mans ner A TfeitflOe a perpetual paste, take one * ounce of gnm tragacanth or gum dragon, pick it clean, washing off all specks and

I , , ' ~ •' ‘ 1 dirt; then put it into a wide-mqjkthed bottle or jar which will hold a quartXud add as much corrosive sublimate aswrill ’ lie ou a three-cent piece. Nbw pour over it one and a half pints of cold water. or cistern water is the best. Cover ' the jar tightly and leave it till next day, 1 when tho gum will be dissolved and f nearly fill it up. Stir the mass well with a wooden spoon or stick; do not use t metal, because the corrosive sublimate 1 will blacken it. ■“ Repeat the stirring r , three or four times during the day, and it will for.ll a thick jelly, which must be 1 kept closely covered, as it will keep fresh * for any length of time if only opened ■ when needed for use. For paper and f many other materials it makes a strong ■ 1 and colorless cement, and, lieing always ready at hand, it. induces the house- • keeper to mend many littl<> things which ■ would otherwise be negleeteil. nAJiBEBRIEB. The coming man is he who owes you. An unprincipled bachelor says troub- : les never come single. Economy is lieginning to prevail again. At a funeral, Saturday’, nine men appeared with ymblacked boot heels. The young man who puts musk on himself is beginning to dwarf into insignificance now that the pungent skunk has put in his appearance. j A newly completed Danbury house ! has folding doors. The man designed , single doors, but his wife preferred the j former. She said they were so handy 1 in case of a funeral. When a dog barks at you, go for him, j Follow him over the fence, chase him beyond hills, careen after him through swamps. Give np your whole life to charing him. That is the only way to ; get the best of a cur ; and to get the best ' of a eur is greater than reaching heaven. ! There were two young married men together in front of the Postoffice, Monday evering. Asked one, “ Will you go a fishing to-morrow 1” Said the other, with a troubled countenance, “ I can’t. There will be work at the shop to-mor-row, and I must work when I can get it. i Besides I have got to play base-ball three ■ days this week. ” 1 Cotntry people may laugh at the ignorance of city people in the matter of , agriculture, but Danbury furnishes an instance of city shrewdness which is certainly marvellous. He is a New York banker, and he owns a farm in this vicinity. He bought a piano, but he ■ < coulW make no headway in acquiring a knowledge of it. Then he got a handorgan. This he plays with ease. The other day he was seen under a tree near the house, witii the organ at his ride. He was playing the “Blue Danube,” and as the sweet strains rolled out ou the balmy air, five men mowing in tlie next field were observetl to move their scythes in harmony. It was a beautiful picture. The bright sunlight, the delicious air, the twittering birds, the scent of the new hay, and in the midst tljereof the quiet, serene face of the j charmed organist, one eye taking in the glory of the fleecy silver clouds along the horizon, and the other toying pleas- i antly witii the five swinging scythes. ’ When the fleecy clomls deepened in col- ! or, and swelled in proportion, clustering closer together, the farmer organist ! •peedily- sprung his instrument into a galop, and almost simultaneously the five , scythes leaped into new life, and right! merrily the work went ahead. Not a j frown, not aii ugly word, not an oath. ■ Music, ecstatic goddess, did it all! That; banker’s farm is the liest one in this sec•tion. He is going to dig his potatoes and husk his corn and pull his turnips with tliat organ. EDITOR WANTED. About four y«-ars ago the King of Bur--1 mail wished to start a weekly newspaper, in the vernacular and in English, and forthwith consulted an eminent British official then in Burmah about the matter. His Majesty said there need be no ; trouble about minor details; he would | to them himself; wlmt he wanted was j a competent English editor, with an Anglo-Indian experience of journalism, to whom a thousand rupees would be paid. His Majesty added tliat he would make only one stipulation, namely, that the editor should jileilgi* himself to follow with constant approval the line of i policy adopted by the ('onrt. tliat noth-' ing displeasing to Ins Majesty should ever appear to the journal, and that in I mw of tlwee. rules being infringed tlie editor should beforehand sanction his , liability to-receive immediately five hundred strokes on the sole of his foot with the “ slukkak wukk,” whatever that may mean. The capital of the Burmese empire is still to want of a newspaper. STORY OF A WEDDING-RING. That miserable and insignificant non-, ■. entity, the bridegroom, is, of-courae, of; no account whatever during tlie wedding ceremony. Nobody looks at him, nobody thinks of him. There are no tears ; for his immolatioa, no smelling-bottles for his agitation. He is, for the time, a bkek-eoated background to a picture of, radiant beauty. What is he that he should interrupt with his nervousness the even course of the ceremony which (i fixes his fate forever ’ No eemsure, therefore, can be too liarsh for the man 1 who, being married the other day, put the wedding-ring tote his mouth when [ the wedding begmi, that he might find .|it at the proper moment. That moment -1 arrived. The minister winked for the ring. The trembling bridegroom gave ria obedient start, a sudden gulp—and , ■ the ring had disappeared down his un--1 ’ lucky throat!

I THE LOST SATCHEL. L She came from South Bend, and when 1 she got off the train she discovered that • her big satchel hadn’t come along with , the baggage. She flourished her check • under the baggage-master's nose and loudly demanded “that satch-eel,” [ and after a long hunt he was forced to i say : > “ Madam, there is some mistake. I’m i very sorry, but the satchel is sure to • come on the next train. ” [ “Do you s’pose I’m going to wait ■ around here till to-morrer,” she indig- ; nantly responded, pushing the check under his eye. “You can go on and we’ll forward it, ■ madam.” > “I’d look purty going on and leaving that satchel to foller," she exclaimed. “ Every dud I’ve got in the world, ’cept these on my back, are in it, and I’m going to have ’em or this road will get sued!” He made another search, failed to find I it, and said : “It must have l»een left, but it’s sure ' to come.” “ Where’s the boss of this road <” site j ■ demanded, waving her check around, i “ I’m going to see if I am to lie defrauded of a satchel chuck full of as good i clothes as any woman of my age in In- j diana ever put on !” The man pointed down the depot and she walked up to the ticket office and i yelled at the agent: See here, mister —I want forty dol- . lars or my satchel!” I. “I.don’t know anything about your i satchel,” he replied. “ Yon don’t, eh!” she said, throwing down the big brass check. “What’s that?” . I “ A check, madam. ” “ Yes, a check for my satchel, and now the satchel can’t be found! It’s probai bly bin stolen, but I know everything in i it. There was three chemies with ruffles around the top, one new night-gown, two pairs of stockings darned in the heels, one gray dress which ccst twenty-eight cents a yard in South Bend, another 1 night-gown torn on the back, two check j “• “It was detained, and will be here on the next train,” he interrupted. “ But I’m bound for Oswego, and I don’t care for any of your next trains !” she snapped. “ Well, you’ll have to see some one else; I have nothing to do with the baggage-” . ’ i “I iriil see some one else, young man ! I’ll see the man who bosses this road, and I’ll have my satchel or the pay for it or I’ll have the whole crowd of you in, jail!” Turning away she caught sight of a ■ policeman, and bearing down on him she I •aid: “ Be you a police !” “Yes’m.'.’ “ Well then, I want this railroad arrested! They’ve stolen my satchel.” . “Oh, I guess you’ll find it all right,” he replied. “Baggage is frequently l lost, but it always turns up all right again. You have the check all right ?” “ Yes, and I can remember every ar- , tide in itp There is a nightgown torn in the back; there is a bottle of hair revigorator that was never uncorked; there’s one new nightgown with a mffle around the top; there’s two yards of flannel for my daughter’s baby ; there’s a white envelope ■ there's a liottle of | goose ile ; there’s —” “Oh, well, it’ll come along,” inter- ' rupted the officer. “ And I’ve got to wait I” I “ Yes, or go on and let them send it.” “ I vum if I will!” she said, pushing the check into his ear; “I’m going to liave tliat satchel or the pay for it! I’d look purty landing in Oswego with' these old duds on, wouldn’t I!” “ Welk I can’t help you.” “Then I’ll help myself! The Wilkinsons never did let anyone impose on 'em yet, and we shan’t ’low it now I” She got a boy to show her up stairs to the general offices, and walking into the j Superintendent’s room, she asked : “ Bo you the boss of this road i” “ I’m the Superintendent,” he replied. “ You see that check “Yes.” ■ “ Well, that’s my satchel clieck. The ‘ satchel haint here ; it’s bin stolen or lost. I want forty dollars right away.” I “ You’ll have to see the baggage-mas- | ter, madam.” “ I’ll see nobody! That satchel’s bin ; hooked as sure's your born, but I can identify it. I know everything in it There was a night-gown, perfectly new, made oi i there was a ' bottle of hair nightgown with a hole in the jfl| jy| there was a-- —” fl .; + ?3 At this moment the came up and informed her that the lost satchel had been found under a pile of | tranks, and she arose and remarked : ' “ Well, that's all right. Looks to me aa if there was a little suspicion here, but this railroad wants to understand > that I can stick up for my rights with any body. I was bound to have that satchel er put the hull caboodle of ye j where you couldn’t break out (7 And, parading up and down the de.pot . with the big satchel under her arm, her eyes wore a look ox proud triumph.— Detroit Free Prm. . I Cheap Dressing Table.—You can l make a very convenient dressing ! table for a chamber, by standing up a dry-goods box of right size and height, covering the top and curtaining it. Let 4 the open part be in ft- mt, and put shelves j inside and yon have a subatitnte for a bureau. The handy boys can arrange i the box and the girls can cover if. L

TERMS: S2:OO a Year.

NUMBER 40.

JMTHJtF AND THE MOSSY OID STILE. 1 Do ye know where I first saw my Mary, f The s inny-eyed rosy-cheeked fairy, With her long silken hair and her bosom so fair, . And a smile—of that smile be ye wary! Chohvs.—With her long silken hair, and her bosom so fair. And a smile—sweet the smile of my Mary ! i Ou her bead was that dear Gypsy bonnet, ■ Blue-bell, rose, and lily upon it; I But scarce were they seen for the laughing eye* ! sheen. And the lovely sweet face of my Mary I Oh, see you' yon mossy old stile there 2 Oh, I first saw her soft, gentle smile there, Oh, ’twas that sweet smile did my bosom beguile. For sweet is the smile of my Mary! Dear to me i: yon mossy old stile there, I For ob. my young heart she did wile there. But I know she’ll be true, or else I might rue That stile, and that smile, and that Mary I Cbokvs.—For I know she’ll be true, or else I might | rue. That stile,and that smile, and that Mary! PLEASANTRIES. Engaged for every set—A her. Dependence is a poor trade to follow. Fever without ague is no great shakes. Desirable bdnds for exchange—Vagabonds. I “ Belles” call a great many people to i church. Matchless maid—The kitchen girl ' out of lucifers. I Piece-makers—Steam, gunpowder and nitro-glycerine. A young lady advertises to teach “ vocal singing.” For thin people to get suddenly fat — i Step on a banana peel and come down plump. Adage on the Public Worship act: Those who play at vestments must expect suits.—PuncA. The num who had an idea floating in his mind was found to have water on the brain. The merriest place in the universe is just beyond the earth’s atmosphere, for there all bodies lose their gravity. Eugene—“ Gome, sit down on the shelly shore, and hear the mighty ocean roar.” Amelia—"lcan’t sit down, you silly goose, because I’d burst my, pinback loose.” “Suppose I should quiz you about • your bald head, you wouldn’t get mad, would you ?” said a young fop to an indignant old man in a railway depot. “ Not at all; I shOuld*only just say that when my head gets as soft as yourn I kin raise h’ar to sell, or somethin’ o’ that sort,” smilingly replied the old man. Two men met and soon got into a hot controversy about something, and finally one of them challenged the other to fight The cliallenged party fluttered round, and tried to avoid committing himself | on this issue, but finally, pressed by the • other, he promptly refused to fight, j j “ Not that I am afraid of you, but I was I always an unlucky man in a fight” A Kansas clergyman paused in the midst of a sermon he was delivering a few weeks ago and remarked, with a savage scowl upon his countenance and in a voice loud enough to be heard outside the church, “If the boy who flung that egg through the window will remain until the services are over I’ll show him what a Christian minister can do for the salvation of his soul.” SONG. A worJ said in the dark, And hands pressed, for a token: “ Now, little maiden, mark The word that you have epoken; Be not yonr promise broken !” My bps upon her eheek -* Felt tears amid their kisses. •‘Oh. pardon I bespeak— If for my doubting this is : JatT Now all my doubting cease. —Scribner jfor October. AN ACTOR’S MISHAPS. Referring to the recent accident to himself, Edwin Booth said to a cone spondent, the other day: “Some years ago, while playing in the South, I was stabbed in the hand by an actor playing with me. The play was ‘The Apostate. ’ He was the hero, and I the villain, and in the last act he was to take a dagger from my hand, with which I was about to kill his lady love, and kill me. He was a very powerful young fellow, which was unfortunate for me, for he became ; so excited by the action of the play, that when he grabbed the dagger he held my hand. I tried to throw it up, but he held it against my breast, and then stabbed it twice. He did not know anything about it, nor did I, until the curiain fell, and I found my hand covered with blood. If my hand had hot been in the way, he would have stabbed me in the breast. I played the next night, and then erysipelas set in, and I had a bad time with it. Bnt, with that exception, I had not been this last nori- —- dent I a trap . ifeed out of a sechouse, j and come out aUngnt each time.” HONORS TO EDOAR A. POE. Edgar A. Poe’s monument, to be placed over liis grave in Baltimore, is finished. It is of white marble, eight feet high. On the front of the monument is a beautifully medaffloS - ’* of the poet, carved from a photograph in the possession of a member of Poe’s family. The likeness in marble is mid to be c -rrect. The memorial will prolia- M > bly be dedicated early in October. Invitations liave been sent to Henry W. Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John G. Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John G. Saxe. They havw sent letters in reply, but it is not known whether any of them have indicated an intention of being present Two poems liave been composed for the occasion, one by a lady in Baltimore, and the oth er by a poet of a Northern State. Piof, Shepherd will deliver the oration.