The Syracuse Enterprise, Volume 1, Number 44, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 November 1875 — Page 1

j. P. PRICKETT, Editor and Proprietor.

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TH ESH Topics. Herbert 11. Bancroft lias just given the finishing touches to his extensive work, the “ Native Races of the Pacific States, ” upon which he hiw been engaged • for fifteen years. It embraces five targe volumes, of alxmt 1,000 pages eAclu A remarkable equestrian feat was achieved at Waco, Texas, the other day, by u man named Ford, who rode sixty miles jn two hour” and forty nine min- ■ ut<*, the fastest time on record. Forty- ( two homos of the common Texas breed were used. The last mile was made in two minutes, seven seconds. l»n. R. (I. Williams, while under the influence of liquor at Bethany, La., a few days ago, placed a bottle upon his ' head and insisted on one of his com portions shooting at it. Cicero Stepheus did so, and. poor Dr. Williams fell, remarking that it was a Ind shot aud.hc was killed, but did not blame anybody. It is mid that on various railroads, m t named, orders Imv Us-u issued forbid ' ding th« battery-practiced by ; train peddlers in diacbarging their wares ou passengera’taps. The Pennsylvania I railroad'issued orders of this kind some time ago, and others which follow the . -1 pr<-cvd< nt wtl) earn the applause <>f a : much abtiM d traveling public. Mr. John M u key, who is the head of th< famous CahfoHiin firth of Flood A O'linen, and who rceeiv«'S three-fifths of the profits, was ten years ago a mining lal«>rer in Virginia City. 11 is income at present is about 8850,000 per month, or ■ more than 910,000,000 per annum. .Mr. j Mackey is the most retiring and modest of any of California’s millionaires. W. Perkin*. an English pedestrian, recently perfonned the extraordinary | and never Kffore accomplished feat of \ walking eight miles in 59 minutes 5 sec ' ends. His quickest mile was the first one, in 6.46, and the slowest, ths sixth, in 7.52. The first four miles were ac- | comphshed in 28 minutes and 59 second*. Perkins is a young fellow of 23, weigh . ing 132 pounds and 5| feet tall. . ! vS**Jlere is another irronnut who has nar-1 rowly escaped dwitlj while making an as co,turion to pkwsc the spectators at Dw county fair. The afflux happened at j i Owensboro, Ky., and 4he mronaut’s name is Prof Atchinson. The balloon took fire and was. burned when several hundnxl feet high. Atchinson was precipitated to the earth, and miraculously os- > roped death, though badly hurt.; * Uai Carbvth, the editor of the Vine-; land (N. J.)who was shot by Charles K. Limits, on tin* 19th of last March, and who luw carried a bullet: in his brain ever since, died- the other day. He luul alrealy accepted from Ltuidis a sum cd money in satisfaction of any and all claims on account of the shooting, but this fact will not operate os a bar to criminal prosecution. A kixc.tlau fatality turn befallen the I Congressmen-elect from tin* Fourth Dis- | trict of Tennessee. In August of last j year John W. Head was elected to represent the district, and died before taking his scaL 8. M. Fite was chosen to j fill th<* vacancy, and now death has, marked him for his own. If thia rate; of Congressional mortality continues in ; that district, the seat will Spun go beg-; ging for an occupant. A Bic event is to liappen in New Turk i on tike centennial of American indepen-1 deuce. For the jMirt six years workmen have been engaged in tunneling under f the olxrtrnctions in the heritor known as Hell (date, with a view of blowing them [ ~ up. The task of excavating has been j com|»leted, and the work of preparing = for tin' grand blast is now going on. A ' vast quantity of nitro glycerine will be I |4ared in iron tubes in the excavation, ami the whole wiH bo discharged simultaneously, by means of a battery, on the 4th of July, "1876. It will be the biggest lib of July guir ever heard in the land. ‘ Col. D. R. Anthony, the Kansas editor with a pistol ball in his head, has re- . sumed work on the Leavenworth Time*, ' with these remarks: •• The surgeons agree that we are now out of all imine- i dtate danger. Some think that the I aneurism may be cured; others think it i will remain unchanged. All unite in advising our return to business, being cureful to avoid undue mental and physical excitement We wipe put from the past memories of an unpleasant nature, and are prepared to cooperate with all who j will work to advance the interests and < promote the welfare of the human race.” Amoxo the latest engineering projects is a proposition to flood the Desert of Sahara by opening a channel from the Atlantic Ocean, and turning it into an inland sea. And now comes a gentleman who suggests that thia project for utilising the Desert of Sahara will throw the earth off its prewent butanes! Just how serious a disturbance there will be can be ascertained, be says, upon finding the actual length and depth of the desert Meanwhite, he leaves room for the imagination to picture the earth tumbling through space and seriously interferingwith the eqidHbrinm of the other inhabited planets of the universe. In a recent issue of the New Tctk .Harald we find a long and interesting letter from Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, the wellknown Arctic explorer. Dr. Hayes eotpresscs hta belief in the existence of an open Potar Sea, and regrets that the

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Pandora, which has just returned to England, did not winter there, and renew the search for the recottfe of Sfr John Franklin’s expedition in the spring. He . believes tliis could only be accomplislied by pasßing the winter there and pursuing the seardb in the spring with sleds. Ho «sys he lielievcs now, as he has always Iw’lieved since his first voyage there, that in the vicinity of the pole there is on open navigable sea in summer, that it may be reached by ship or boat byway lof Smith’s Sound,, and that the North Foie is within the reach of any nation that will think it worth while to spend money enough to get to it. Dr. B. F. Sherman and Mr. Samuel Parker, of Mscou, Mo., have indulged in their last tipple. They called at a drug store in a neighboring village, the other day, and asked for “ something good te drink.” The proprietor told them he had ‘‘something good," and prcxlnctsl a bottle, from wliich they Kith took a good draught, and, thanking the vender of pills, walked out Before they had proceeded ten rods from the store Sherman and Parker both fell dead. An analysis of the contents of the bottle revealed a mixture of whisky and hydrocyanic acid, the deadly poison l»eing in such proportion that sixty of thecompound was. sufficient to produce deiUh. The drug store man is puzzh*d to know how the deadly drug got into the Ixt«1«'. Altogether it is n mysterious :uul inexplicable case, and n sad warning to tipplers. rrrruvw t r -4 utoi k. Early on Sunday morning, the Barlow household was disturbed by such unaccustomed noise os the pounding of the rustling of soot, the rattling of stepladders, the bumping of stoves, tl><- suppreweetl swearing of -Mr. Barlow, and the by no nu-ons suppressed scold - ing of hta spouse. Finally, Mr. Barlow gs-the stove up, u brick and two chqw * serving for the missing leg ; he erected about five lengths of pipe from the back, and he suiq>end«'d about five other i lengths from the chimney and ceiling. Remained but one elbow to connect these two perpendicular and -horizontal systems. Mr. Barlow luul by this time Is come perspiring and profane; when the acrid soot got into his eyes and made them smart he Inul rubbed it put with his hands, which were covered with soot; he had cut his fingers seven times with riiarp edge* of stovepipe, and pinched them seventy times seven times between joints. Mounting on a chair, placed on four bricks, placed on a washboard, plac'd on a tub, placed on a table with one short hg, which was eked, out with a scrubbing-brush, Mr. Barlow essayed for some time to fit the elbow. Mrs. Barlow, meanwhile, stood below, c'ommenting audibly, but by no indans favorably, on his method of conducting operations. At last, being aggravated beyond bounds, Mr. Barlow gave the elbow a sliarp blow horizontally. A suspended stove-pipe offers comparatively little rewstanoe, and Mr. Barlow lost bis , ludanoe. The game leg of the table slip- ' |»-d from off the scrubbing brush, the (tub slid from the table, the washing I board tilted from the tub, the bricks fell ' from the washboard, the cliair tumbled from the bricks, and Mr. Barlow descended from the chair like Lucifer falling from heaven. For a few momenta ■ the atmosphere was filled with Mr. Bari low, bricks, soot, washboards, chairs, I profanity, tubs, tallies, and shrieks; i then there was a dreadful silence. About 19 square' yards of carpet were ruined, I and the circumjacent rooms were a sight I for a housekeeper’s eye. Hardly had Mr. Barlow risen and begun to take stock of his numerous g»sh<*s and abrasions, tlian Mrs. Harlow’s voice roue, ■ anxiously demanding : “John Snediker Barlow, have you l>ent that elbow all I oute*n shape t” “No,’’ roared Mr. ‘ Bartow, "but, by the jumping, ten-toed Jeboesphat, I WILL," and, Suiting the action to the word, ho flattened it bej yend all recognition on the corner of the piano. Then he went out, and, drawing on the tinsmith, ordered him to be round by daybreak on Monday, or . ,■!>. Chicago Tribune. ivrri.iriox or JAF.4X. The meet noUxl cities of Japan are Tokio, the capital (formerly called Yrildo), Kioto, Osaka (or Osakai, Na- ; goya, Hiroshima, Saga, Kagoshima, : Kvnagnwa and Fukuoka. Tbeep are cities of the first class, each reckoned to ■ contain at least 106,000 inhabitants. Nagasaki, Kumamoto. Fukui, Kurume, Yokohama, Oifu and Yoneaawa rank in : the second class, having more than 60,■OOO. Hakodate (Hakodadi), Matsumae, Niigata and Hiogo have from 20,000 to ■ 50,000 each. There are probably fifty ; cities more containuig on an, average ; more than 20,000. The population ol Japan has never been properly ascertained, the Japanese method being merely to count the houses and average five persons to one house. Buch a | "census ” was taken in 1804, and gave a population of 30,000,000. A hasty estimate was made by the Department ol ; Educatkm in 1872, and about 33,000,00( souls were reported. Foreign travelen and those who have long resided ii Japan assign 20,000,000 as the highest, , and as the lowest figure. Shikoku, Kiushui, and the central prov inree are thickly populated, wqxwtalli along the great roads. In the north par of the main island the population it thin, and in the whole ot T«o, Karaffa t and the Japanese Kuriles, according t< I the native estimates, there are fewe ■ than6o,ooo. Tokio (Yeddo) contains 800, - 000, Kkto 567,384, and Osaka 530,881 i souls.—4ppfeAm*s Arnervcaa Cyrio » pttHa.*

- ... t>a», q. CA3TLKS nr THE AIE. r A mmdwf nl potatv ia bulldis*; j The bricta are of molten gold, Caught «ben tile cloud* of aunaet Their yeUow glory safoM. I Bright aa the hue at the ralnbtnr Turret and baaUeui aland, And bofte ia the x Os thia puJaee to faby-land. Tin- window* are eryatalcd dew-drof*-llerwd together with care, t I And It ahtnea like a mln* ol diamonds. The castle, built in air. . Royal and rich are Um- hangings, Vrspodwitb aattn the wall* Merry and sweat la the music ; That echoes throughout the halt*. | Never a sound of weeping, 1 Never a thought of tin. Nothing that apeak* ot sorrow. Shall enter its gates within ; [ • Never a shadow of darknee*, I Never the giant lieapair, I HbaH dare to enter the oastle, ' The castle built of air. . ,J | And two shall dwell m the castle, And the Joy of life shall lie To keep M aa Xrw Inau evil ' As a fairy palace can be. They will dwell tn the airy fabric. Faithful and fond and good. And land on the gold escutcheon . Taro moostera from the wood. These warder* will guard the portal; I 1 While Bear and Forbear tee there, 1 No harm can reach the castle, The castle in the air. I: — Har/Ifr't Datar. r ‘ t —* ' Bl BUS: A LOVE STORY. '' .... L/'.. ‘ There wa« no doubt about it ; John ■ Wewre was perfectly wretched that . ■ night He had quarreled with Jennie . | Bell anj he wasn’t going to make it up. I ’ The fact was she gave herself too many j airs, and he tlidn't mean to stand it any longer. He didn’t care if she teas pretty; that was no reason why she i i should let half a dozen fellows at a time . hang alvout the shop, or stroll in one at I a time, anil, leaning on their eltows, I chatter and smirk and smile over the counter, cadets and officers too, wild i young feUows, who only did so for their 1 own idle amusement, and would no more dream of marrying her than they would | of inviting her to the boll that was com- I . ing off next month. To be sure he was only a common cavalry soldier, but then i he luul been in the service a good many < years now, had. an excellent character ■ and a good trade at his back, and, more- ■ over, his father had died not long since, 1 : and there was the cottage all ready for ’ j Jennie to walk into, and they might settle < , down at onoe if she’d only be sensible. I Jennie acted as shop-woman for his sis- 1 ter, Mrs. Evans. A very poor little shop < it was, very small and badly stocked, for Mrs. Evans had only managed to get a i few pounds’ worth of things with what ' liad l»een subscribed for her in the garri- 1 ; son after the fever had carried off her i husband. The speculation answered - pretty well at first, for many of the offi- ' cere' wives, knowing what on industrious < woman Mrs. Evans was, made a point of buying their tapes and cottons and sticks 1 of sealing-wax of her. Then Jennie’s i pretty face was seen behind the counter, l and the shop was filled from morning till night with officers and frisky young cadets, and the original customers took i 1 flight—though Mrs. Evans did not know i f it, tor she, believing the business was 1 I safe in the keeping of Jennie, worked ' hard at dressmaking (she had three children to support, and the shop alone 1 ■ would not do it) ’ The officers were not profitable cns- i turners, for they only went to flirt with 1 1 Jennie under the excuse of buying a penny paper, br perhaps asking for a ' tim<>-table. Jennie made the most trim ‘ £ud pretty and obliging of shop-women, ‘ and the place itself was always a pattern ’ of neatot'M ; but the officers’ wives did ' not care to go and buy their thread j where they were evidently interrupting a flirtation, and so the business con i Untied to fall off, and Mrs. Evans began ' to get quite unhappy about it Jennie . —pretty, kind-hearted, tliougbtless Jennie—bad no idea that she had any- ' thing to do with it,,or she would have sent every one of her admirers off at a pace that would have astonished them. " She had been only too delighted, after her brother-in-law died, to come from Devonshire and live with her stater at 1 1 Woolwich—not only because she was r I very fond o( her sister, bat atao beeame she had wished many times to see John Weare again. She had made hta sett i quaintance when her brother and he—--1 for they had been in the same regiment r —were stationed at Plymouth, and she , had paid -them a .flying visit with her e father. John had told her then that he o was tired of the service and wanted >- to settle down, and she inwardly thought i, that he could do do better than ask her a to settle with him. He had been very ,- attentive when she came to Woolwich, >, and gradually established himself on the o footing of a lover till be found the shop y always filled with the officers and cadets, e At flrat he was shy of appearing before 1 hta superiora, then be got jealous and > at taat angry, for he felt that he knew g that they meant her no good, and bee aides it was doing real injury to the a business of the strop. At last be spoke a his mind and told the coquettish Jennie i- what he thought, and was snubbed for if hie pains. 0 "If youthink I don’t know howto w take care of myself, Mr. Weore, you are n much mistaken, and I don’t want any t, one to tell me what’s right or wrong. I s. know foe myself.” r- “Well, Miss Jennie, I didn’t mean to ly give offense. I only told you what I rt thought.” is " Then you might have kept your Lo thoughtafbyouroelf > ”Bheßaidwithalittle io toss of her pretty bead—" unless they ar bad been nine on«,'* Mie added. He heard the aside, and picked up his cour--55 age. a. "It’s awfully hard, too, when one that cares few you really can’t get near

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: you,” he pleaded. Just then Jennie i ; caught sight of Capt McGee, a tall and handsome man, with long whiskers and a red nose, coming in the direction of j the shop, with a big bunch of flowers in ’ his hand. She had heard John Weare’s last words, but she was secretly of opinion that “he ought to have come up to the scratch before,” so she thought a little jealousy might do him good. • “Oh! here comes Capt. McGee, she said in a delighted tone." “ Well, he’s just the biggest blackleg < in the service, Jennie, and if you take my < advice you’ll send him off sharp. ” “I believe you are jealous, Mr. Weare, and telling stories about the Captain ; : he is always very polite to me," and she , i smoothed her pretty hair and arranged 1 the trifles on the counter. “ Oh, he’s polite enough, no doubt.” “ And he’s bringing me some flowers. ” ] “ Now look here, Jennie, are you going I to take them “ Os course I am.” i “ Well, then, good-by.” 1 “ Good-by,” she laughed. Os course she knew he wouldn’t go. < “ Jennie, he’ll be in directly, and I i shall be off, but you must ehooee between ( him and me. If you are going to keep , on talking to him I shall never come in ( the place again, so which is it to be t” • “ The Captain.” “ But lam not joking. I’ll never see , yon again.” i “ No more am I joking, so good-by.” “Good-by”—and he went i 11. He kept resolutely away for a whole month—never once went near the place. I If Jennie wanted him she might send 1 for him or get her sister to invite him to ’ tea, as she had done before. But John 1 Weare was not sent for, neither was he 1 invited to tea, and his spirits began to wax low. “ If she’d cared about me she’d have got in my way somehow before this— , trust a woman,” he thought. ( The idea of not being cared for was not cheerful. That night he strolled carelessly by the shop, but on the oppo- , site side of the way. Nothing was to be < seen of Jennie. He walked on in a brown study, then crossed over, and went deliberately by the shop, with only ( one eye, however, turned in its direc- ( bon, but not a sign of Jennie. He went back to the barracks in a dejected frame ' of mind. ( “It’s an awful pity—such a nice girl;, ( and there’s the cottage all ready for her to step into, and me ready to retire from , the service and a good trade at my back; j it’s too bad, all on account of that Capt < McGee, too. And the fruit in the gar- ' den (of the cottage) all ripe and no one tp pick it” The very next morning John Weare 1 walked deliberately into the shop and asked for a penny newspaper, and had the felicity of being served by Mrs. Evans. . 3 ) “ Quite a stranger, Mr. Weare," she said; but that was the only remark she , made, and for the life of him he could not screw up his courage to ask for her sister. That night John Weare was miserable. “ She can’t care a rush for me,” he ' thought and marched all over the town, ' and nearly to Greenwich and back, in his excitement. The next day was a lucky one for John- He came across Bibbs. Bibbs wns Mrs. Evans eldest boy. No one knew what his real name was, or why he was called Bibbs; but he was never called anything else. “Bibbs,” said John Weare, “come and have some fruit" and he carried him off in triumph to the cottage, and stuffed him with gooseberries till he couldn't move, and with black currants till his mouth was as black as a crow. Then he carried him inside and stood him on the table, and sat down before him. “ How old are you, Bibbs ?” He thought it better to begin the conversation with a question. \ " Five and a half. Is that your sword up there ?” “Yea. Who gave you those bronze shoes, Bibbs I” Now he knew Jennie bad given them to him, but he so wanted to hear her name. “ Auntie, one s going away soon,” he added. “ Let me look at your sword now.” “ Where’s she going to I” he asked in consternation. “ Devonshire. Do let me try on your sword.” •• Why is she going!" he asked, with a sick feeling at his heart. “She’s ill, I think ; and she’s always crying now; one day she was crying over the silver thing you gave her, and kissing it like anything.** The “ silver thing ” was a little heart of about the size of a shilling, which he had bought at Chariton Fair last October, and timidly requested he* to accept. John Weare jumped up and showed Bibbs his sword, and carried him on his ' back all over the place, and entreated him to have more black currants in his delight. But Bibbs declined. * * Aunt Jennie’s going to bring me some from Eltham to-night,” he said. So Jennie was going toEltham, was she I John Weare took Bibbs home, and on the way presented him with a white woolly lamb that moved on wheels and squeaked, and a monkey that went up a stick on being gently > pushed. •' Crying over her silver thing !* said John Weare. “Hl go and hang about the Etthkrnroad till I see her and beg ' her pardon.”

And he went, and Jennie met him, and pouted, and declared hadn’t once thought of him, and then broke down and cried. And John begged her pardon, and declared that he had been a heartless brute; and then Jennie contradicted him and said it was all her fault, and told him how Mrs. Dunlop, the Colonel’s wife, had one day walked in and told her, in the kindest possible manner, that she was spoiling her sister’s business, for the ladies who had been interested in her welfare kept away because of Jennie’s flirting propensities, which filled up the shop with idle officers, who were always in the way; and how she had been so ashamed and wretched, and so cut up at the desertion of John Weare, that she had determined to go back to , Devonshire. “ But you won’t now I” he said, as they leaned over the stile leading to the Elt- j ham fields. “ You’ll get ready at once,.and we’ll be married as soon as possible, before the fruit in the garden is spoilt f” It took a long time to talk her into it (about three-quarters of an hour), but then she was very happy at heart, and ehattered like a young magpie, and told John how she had snubbed Capt McGee, and had thrown all his flowers out of the window. “ And it really was all through that dear Bibbs that you waylaid me tonight?” she asked. “Certainly." " Why, but for him I might never have seen you again!" “ Perhaps not” “ I’ll give Bibbs a regular hug when I get home,” she thought And she did; and the day before she was married she bought him a rocking-horse, which he delights in to this day.— Cassell’s Uy Magazine. THXT HAVE TO FAT IT. In June, 1857, the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company gave a policy for $3,000 to Sarah Leslie, of New York, on the life of her husband, James. He survived her and became the owner of the policy, which he deposited with the insurance company as security for a loan | of S3OO. Between June, 1865 and Oct 1868, the policy by various assignments, Itecame the property of Leslie’s daughter, i and she not knowing when the premiums | fell due, applied at the office of the company. She was told that the company would give her notice when the premium fell due. But the company gave her no such notice. On the 7th of June, 1870, the daughter was told that the policy had been canceled for non-payment of the premium, which fell due on the 3d of June. At that time Leslie was sick, and the fact had been talked of in the company’s office. The daughter immediately tendered payment of the premium, but the company refused to receive it; the premium next falling due was also tendered and refused. Leslie died in March, 1871, and the company refusing to pay the policy, the daughter sued and got a verdict for the full amount. The judgment was affirmed in the general term, the court holding that the plaintiff was justified in depending upon the defendant’s promise, and that her failure to pay the premium having been due to their omission to warn her as promised, they were estopped from setting up this defense. The company then applied to the Court of Appeals, and that tribunal has just affirmed the judgment, with costs. DKCADXNCK OF TBK HANDFICH ISLAIfDS. Many of the white residents of the Sandwich Islands are leaving, and those of them who have lately arrived in San Francisco do not give encouraging reports of the condition of affairs existing there. They say business is dead, the past summer has been fearfully hot, money is scarce, and life at Honolulu unendurable. The natives have not only decreased in numbers from 500,000 a century ago to about 35,000 at the present time, but they have grown poorer and poorer within the last twenty years. The race of chiefs who made them work has died out, and a blight is upon everything. Not one hundred cocoanut trees have been planted by the natives in the last fifty years, and even tare is growing acarrw The white men who run the government own moat of the land, and have turned it into sugar plantations, or nse it for pasturage. The natives who labor for them receive miserable wages, which they are obliged to take in goods at exorbitant rates, and are always in debt to their employers. If they rebel against these conditions they are imprisoned. This was the story told by a man just from the islands to a reporter of the San ’Franriann Chronicle. On the same authority it was said that if it was not for the constant presence of an American man-of-war in the harbor of Honolulu a revolution would break out in forty-eight hours, which would upset l King Katakana’s kingdom in a jiffy. TEX HKATBBIT CH IFF*. The irrepreamble Chinaman has asserted himself famously in the Sandwich Islands. Some of the planters there, believing that cheap Chinese labor would bean inprovement upon that of the Kanakas, imported a lot of coolies ; but many of these, after working a while, managed to save enough money to set up for themselves, and now they are competing in all kinds of business with their old masters. It is said there are from 4,000 to 5,000 Chinamen in the islands, and that they haw not only almost monopolized ■ the retail trade, but some of them do an extensive business as merchants and planters. They marry and intermarry with the natives, and the handsomest half caste woman in Honolulu is the wife ‘of a prosperous Chinese merchant •

FARM AND HOME. Farm Bakings. » A Michigan potato-grower , reports i ‘Eureka “equal in quality to Early Rose, and Snowflake a little better.” Wi milk 13,000,000 cows in this country, keep 3,000 creameries and cheese ' factories, ana have a cheese an 1 butter i product of $450,000,000. The adoption I of oleomargerine adds $lO to the value of a cow by putting all her cream to butter, I the beef fat and skim milk providing the cheese. This cheese sells with the highest cream cheese. A groat deal of trouble which is; caused by hens scratching in gardens would be avoided if the owners would feed their biddies and not compel them j I to scratch for a living. Hens -should ' have good food, clear water and plenty of thick milk. When these things are | I provided they will have time to do some- j thing beside running all over the barn , in search of food. I Noticks of the effects of salt on the soil are to be found among the records of the Jews; notably so in the book of Zephaniah, where it speaks, however, of I its effects in excess only; but there is little doubt that the earliest agriculturalists had discovered the fertilizing properties of this useful product when used in proper proportions and in tlie. proper place.— English Mechanic. Door-yard fences kept bright with pure white lead are terribly fatal to cattle. About every such fence in the ; ! neighborhood reckons a calf-martyr. I can refer you to no statistics, but this item of New England neatness must have cost us a big figure in veal and beef alone. Mr. Mattoon, of Springfield, the eminent breeder of Devon cattle, says paint costs more than lumber.— Olcott's Courant. Recently we gave the results of some ‘ experiments made in Europe under grass and under clean’ surfaces, showing that the frost did not penetrate near so deep, nor did it thaw so early in spring—and i we suggested that these facts ought to have an influence in orcharding. A friend | informs us that the orchard of Godfrey Zimmerman, near Buffalo, not “neglect- ' ed" in grass, but cultivated in grass, lias shown great advantages in this respect. Last winter killed large numbers of fruit j I trees near there, where the surface was j clean; but Mr. Zimmerman’s trees are in splendid health and well filled with fruit. —Gardeners’ Monthly. A pnr.T, column of “ grasshopper antidote,” collected from Kansas exchanges by the Atchison Champion, records, , among handsome yields of corn, wheat and potatoes, a cabbage 4} feet in circumference, an 8-pbund beet, a pod 30 inches long containing 1,752 beans, an ear of corn with 1,784 kernels, one vine with 27 squashes, “ each large as an 8gallon cask;” a cotton plant 70 inches high, 18 ears of corn on two stalks (“raised without any relief bonds or government rations"), a 3-pound sweet potato, and a mustang melon more than 3 feet in circumference, together with other bounties too numerous to itemize. Truly, there’s life in the old land yet. It is dangerous to give salt to hogs without limit or discretion. It irritates the stomach and intestines, and many , deaths have been traced directly to its accidental excessive use. The symptoms of salt poisoning are very similar to those of cholera, extensive patches of inflammation and the destruction of part of the lining membranes of the intestines being found after death. Yet salt in proper quantities is undoubtedly useful. To give it safely, it should be mixed with the feed, a handful only being thrown into a barrel of the feed. Or it may be mixed with an equal quantity of powdered charcoal, and a small handful of the mixture scattered along the feed trough once a week for every dozen hogs. When hogs are at pasture, and ran root in the .ground as much as they wish, they need no salt. The -Cambridge City (Ind.) Tribune says: “ Mr. Marlett lately bought in I Kentucky twenty-six head of flue cattle, j Soon after bringing them home they be- ■ I gan to die from some unknown disease, j and up to last Saturday night fourteen iof them had died. On examination they ■ were all found covered with parasites from an eighth to a fourth of an inch in length, resembling the common sheep I tick, though longer in proportion to j width. These ticks were not only found on the cattle, but on post mortem examination were found in the stomach of the affected animal. It is supposed by Mr. Marlett, and those who have investigated | the subject, that the parasites come from , the care in which the cattle were shipped, as these care had been used previously | for shipment of Texas stock.” Domestic JPeonomy. Salt and lemon juice will clean straw ; i hats. To stiffen them nse a little gum ■ water. Cement to Unite India-Rubber.— j Take sixteen parts of gutta percha, four parts of India-rubber, two parts of com- ’ momcaulkers* pitch, one part of linseed ’ i oil The ingredients are melted together, and used hot. It will unite ‘ leather or rubber that has not been vulr canized. I To Restore Furniture. —The best t preparation for restoring furniture, esperially • that somewhat marred or , scratched, is a mixture of three parts of t linseed oil and one part of spirits of tur--1 pen tine. It not only disfigj ! ured surface, but restores wood to its I original color, and leaves a luster upon surface. Put on with a woolen t cloth, and when dry, mb with woolen. e I In washing calicoes, in which the col!on are not fast, be careful not to boil

4 them ; but wash in the usual way with soap, and rinse in hard water. For dark colored goods add a little salt to the water ; for light, a little Vinegar. Corn Griddle Cakes. —To one pint of grated corn, add two eggs and a piece o( butter half the size of an egg, a little milk, salt and flour; they may be baked on the griddle or dropped into hot lard. i Baked Fish.—Take a middling sized I fish or a very large blackfish, making a I stuffing of bread, a little pork chopped I fine, sweet herbs, an onion, salt and pepper ; place the fish in a bake-pan with a ' little water, sufficient to keep it moist ; add a glass of red wine, a little flour and 1 butter. Stewed Fruit for Breakfast.— Stewed fruits are excellent for breakfast, not only for children, but also for grown up men and wdmeu ; and yet how few families ever think of placing them upon their tables! Prunes, apples, pears—all are available for the purpose, and all cheap, and prepared with very little trouble. Baked Mutton Chops.—Put each chop into a piece of paper with pepper and salt, and seasoning of such herbs as are , agreeable. Add a little butter ; put each into another piece of paper before baking. When done sufficiently in a quick oven, serve, having the outer paper removed, the first paper being left in order to retain the heat and WHAT IS IS" THE RED-ROOM. If two persons are to occupy a bedroom during the night, says Science of Health, let them step on the weighing scale as they retire, and then again in i the morning, and they will find that their actual weight is at least a pound less in the ’Jnorning. Frequently there will be a loss of two or more pounds, and the average loss throughout theyear will be a pound of matter, which has gone off from their bodies, partly from i the lungs and partly through the pores of the skin. The escaped matter is carbonic acid and decayed animal matter or ‘ poisonous exhalation. This is diffused through the air in part, and part absorbed by the bed-clothes. If a single ounce of wood-cotton be burned in a room, it will so completely saturate the air with smoke that one can hardly breathe, though there can hardly be one ounce of foreign matter in the air. If an ounce of cotton be burned every half an hour during the night, the air will be < kept continually saturated with smoke, unices there be an open door or window ! for it to escape. Now, the sixteen ounces of smoke thus formed is far less poisonous than the sixteen of exhalations I from the lungs and bodies of two per- ' sons who have lost a pound in weight during the eight hours of sleeping; for, I while the dry smoke is mainly takeninto the lungs, the damp odors from the Ixxly are absorbed both into the lungs and into the pores of the whole body; Need more be said to show the importance of having bed-rooms well ventilated, and of thoroughly airing the sheets, coverlids, and mattresses in the morning, before packing them up in the form of a neatlymade bed. , THE HISTORY OF CHOLERAThe causes and prevention of cholera are well set forth in a report on the i cholera epidemic of 1873, by Supervisi ing Surgeon Woodworth, which has ■ just been published by the United , States Treasury Department Dr. I Woodworth claims it to be an i established fact that cholera is' occasioned by the access of a specific poison to the alimentary canal, which is developed spontaneously in Hindostan. As far as the world outside of that country is concerned, the poison is contained in the ejections of the sick. The poison may be communicated through the air or through food and ’ drink- Acids are the best antidote to I the poison, and may be contained in [ water or soil, in atmospheric gases, and the secretions of the stomach. This may also be artificially administered, '■ and experience has shown that diluted I sulphuric acid taken internally is a valui able prophylactic. Alkaline waters or ' foods are, on the contrary, favorable to the contraction and spread of the disease. The points which are here given in brief are very thoroughly and clearly elaborated by Dr. Wood worth, and the. pamphlet deserves the attention of medical men. THE OLDEST GRAY GOOSE. •There has been a great deal of talk about centennials and centenarians recenby, but they have all been thrown into the shade by an individual who recently departed this life in Paris aged two hundred and three years. This aged creature was, however, not a hu- ' man being; but a goose, belonging to a workman named Payen, who resided at i Villeneque Saint George. It had been : in the possession of the family over two . centuries, as certain documents in the I hands of its present owner conclusively proved. It was called Babette,and knew i its name perfectly, always coming when called by it For three years past it has been in a semi-lethargic condition, but up to that tame it had been lively and preserved a good appearance. The Director of the Jardin des Plantes, hearing ! of the existence of tliis venerable fowl, , i caused it to be purchased. The fatigues .of a journey to Paris were too much fol a constitution enfeebled by two centuries of existence, and Babette expired in a few hours after her arrival at hei new home. She is to be stuffed and in stalled with all honors in the museun attached to the gardens.— Lucy Hoopei in Appleton’s Journal. 1 The gambler’s I-deal—Four sues,

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NUMBER 44.

u ROSALIE. , When thou, in all thy loveliness, * Sweet Rosalie, wert mine, Os earth's one more, of heaven’s one less, I counted things divine! But since the lilies o'er thy breast i Out of thy sweetness spring. Os love’s delight I miss the rest. And keep alone the sting! 'v ! Till now I reckon things divine Not as I did before; Earth’s share has dwindled down to mine, And heaven has all the more. \—The Galaxy far November. PLEASANTRIES. i The fare thing—A horse-car ticket. How to be wise—Don’t think tha you know everything. ’ Why is the greatest bore like a tree? Both appear best when leaving. The schoolmistress may not be a mind reader, but she makes readers mind. The marrying trade is not so brisk in Philadelphia this year as it was last, by 1 1,000. Money is too scarce for rings and I gaiters. Ministers are sad. A clerk in a grocery store in New York has successfully counterfeited 81 greenbacks with pen and different colored i inks. He is now in jail. When a mouse makes its appearance I in a ladies’ sewing circle, the women i with striped stockings on always jump ; the highest.— Brooklyn Argus. Old lady (sharply, to stranger) — I “Well, miss, what are you stanng at? i What do you see in my face?” Young lady—“ Nothing/’ End of conversation. Customer —“ Look here, this photo s abominable ! You’ve made me a perfect ' fright! ” Young lady— ‘ ‘ Beg pardon, but we thought you wanteel one of our guaranteed correct 1 likenesses.” The Cincinnati inquirer thinks that Eve must have been a very unhappy woman. There was no other woman to pass her on the street that she might look around and see how that dress fitted in the back! “How are ye, Smith?” says Jones. Smith pretended not to know him, and answered hesitatingly, “ Sir, you have the advantage of me.’'. “Yes, I suppose so. Everybody has that’s got com- < mon sense.” i When an Indiana girl gets tired of a ' lover, and determines to dismiss him, she doesn’t throw much fresco work into her speecn. “ I guess you can pull off now, Sam,” is her icy remark, “ this egg won’t hatch.” Pleasant notice of a local warrior by the New York World: “ Charley Spencer, at the head of his regiment yesterday, had a spare horse in the line in case his first horse was shot under him by a bottle of Belfast ale." Said a wife to her husband: “How is it that you can’t come'home nights in some sort of season?” The gentle retort was: “You got me in the way of it. Before we were married you used to ' throw your arms about my neck at three o’clock and say, ‘ Don’t go, darling; it is early yet;’ but now if I happen to stay out till two it is a terrible affair." A newlt-married young lady, anx ions to conceal her inexpenenpfin culinary matters from her cook, insisted in ordering a leg of mutton for dinner every day. The cook growing weary of the same cooking and the same fare, at last ventured to suggest, “Should yon not like some other thing to-day, ma’am?” “ Yes, let us have a leg of beef for a change.” | THE SHAPES OF WORDS. The old question of a reform in the spelling of the English language was discussed by the American Philological Association, which met at Newport last slimmer. The upshot of the discussion was the appointment of a committee of six linguists to consider the subject and report upon it at the meeting of the Philological Convention in this city next year. English spelling, as well as the spelling of most other languages, European and Oriental, is constantly undergoing change. We have not only departed from the spelling that was practiced, i with variations, in the time of Chaucer, ! but from that of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, who w«tc very .irregular spellers, and even frotn that yshmb Dr. Samuel Johnsoh adopted in Jiis famous | dictionary at the close of thelSst Century. - The spelling in vogue in this ; country also differs somewhat' from that in England, though the difference is slight and affects but a small number of words. Noah Webster desired a far more thorough going system of reconstruction in spelling than he felt himself able to carry out; but many even of such novel--1 ties as he introduced into the earlier editions of his dictionary failed to meet ‘ popular approval, and have not held their 1 ; ground.— New York Sun. ALL ABOUT A COFFEE POT. Brooklyn is famous for great lawsuits. Tne City Court was called upon recently 1 to settle a question which involves not ’ only large property interests but the 3 peace and happiness of two families. 7 The parties to the suit are Mrs. Henrietta F J. Peden on the one hand, and Mrs. 1 Nettie Little and her husband on the 8 other. -The casus belli is a tin coffee * pot valued somewhere in the neighbor--1 f hood of fifty • cents, currency. Mrs. I Peden, being found in possession of the ? property in question, was stigmatized as ’ a thief by Mrs. Little, who claimed it. 3 | Mrs. Little was aided and abetted in he r | slanderous act by the masculine Little, l ’ and both were dragged before the bar of ° public justice to show cause why they r should not pay Mrs. Peden 83,000 dam- ‘‘ ages forth» injury to her good name. n The jury acquitted the defendants, t ore ”■ by depriving Mrs. Peden not only of her : good name and coffee pot but of sun r I dollars expended in legal services.