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M ticnUntt. Poultry Roosts, Food Vessels and Nests. Arrange your roosts all oa one level, not one above another, as is too often done. The fowls will fight for the top leri:h when one is higher than the other. It is better to have the perches lie in notches in cross pieces, on posts, and not touch the sides of the house. They will not then infect the building with parasites, and can be taken out and cleansed easily. Roosts raised from two and a half to three feet are high enough for ordinary sized birds- but roosts one foot and a half from the floor are high enough for Asiatics. For drinking purposes, an open ves sel or dish is better than afountain,as it can be more thoroughly cleansed. The vessel should be covered with a grating of wire or lath sufficiently open to per mit the birds to put their heads through to drink, but sloping enough to prevent them from walking on it, or sitting on the edge of the vessel and soiling the water. A similar arrangement should be used for vessels intended for soft food. Hoppers should be used for grain, crushed oyster shell and bone, that have a hole near the bottom edge, with a small tray in front to catch the grain, etc., so that no more will run out than the birds consume. The nests can be arranged economi cally in boxes three and a half feet long, fifteen inches wide, the front and the ends eight inches high, the back three inches. The roof should be two feet wide, and slope from the front of the box upward and backward, so as when set against the wall, to leave a passage under the roof, behind the box, open at both ends, for the fowls to pass in that way, as the front will be all closed. One board of the roof, next to the front, should be hung with hinges, so that it can be lifted up to get at the eggs and nests. This box will hold three nests, each a foot square inside, and four or live inches deep, with one side of two of the boxes high enough to form partitions between the nest, when set in the box. A num ber of such nest boxes can be placed next the wall either on the tloor or raised about two feet on shelves, an ar rangement that will give more floor room. The sloping roofs will prevent the fowls from soiling the boxes. There should be no fixtures ; all should be portable, so as to facilitate thoroughly whitewashing and clean ing. Km ral2feio Yorkt r. Agricultural Notes. A good butler cow ought not to eat less than from six to eight quarts of meal per day, but not clear corn meal. Bran is not worth much to make but ter, but mixed with corn meal gives health and thrift. An English fanner, very successful during ten years in fatteningcattle and sheep, supplied a ration made as fol lows: Eight bushels com soaked iu ten pails water two days; then simmer for an hour; afterward mix with four teen pounds coarse, cheap sugar, and commingle with cut straw, hay or other fodder. The process of curing sowed corn ne cessarily occupies some time, since when first cut it contains eighty per cent, of water. One of the best ways of curing sowed corn is to bind it and set it up in stocks, as all corn is cut and set up. It the bundles are of good size and well bound, and the stocks are well put together, being securely bound at the top, the fodder will cure nicely and keep until fed out in the winter. White grubs at the root of cabbages may be destroyed as follows: Loosen the earth close to the root with a hoe, even so much as to disturb the plant a little. Make a solution of one part of soft soap to twelve of soft water, and pour about the root in close contact with the plant. One-fourth of a pint of this solution to a plant two or three times during the season is sufficient. Weaker suds poured on the top would destroy the green worm. We condemn the practice of heaping up the earth about the stems of fruit trees as generally recommended. Some say this mound will steady newly planted trees, and will also tend to keep away mice. The only effects of this mound, to our thinking, are to soften the bark underneath, rendering it more sensitive to the alternations of freezing and thawing of February and March; and to induce sprouts from the parts so covered. Ex. Having placed your bees into winter quarters, store your mind with bee literature, for it will make you wise and successful, and then make hives and boxes for next season's operations, or procure them of some reliable dealer. This is very often the most economical way but don't wait until next spring before you send your order for them, and then get them by ex press. Order them early and get them by freight, thereby saving expense and worry. American Bee Journal. gjctnestic. 9 The Housekeeper's Jugglery. It sounds like a very good motto, "One thing at a time, and that done well;" but we housekeepers know that it would never answer for us. We must do a great many things at a time, or at least keep a great many wheels in motion at once, or there will be a sad deficiency in some department. The household profession calls tor a skill somewhat like that of the Chinese jugglers, who keep a dozen or two balls in the air at the same time, catching and tossing each at precisely the right moment, and never allowing one to fall. According as a housekeeper is able to keep a great number of irons in the fire at once without burning any, will be her general success. She must have an eye on the oven, the kettle and the sauce-pan, the baby and the three-ycw-old, and very likely be setting the table for diuner, all at once. For none of these things can go on well without her constant supervision. Housekeeping may go on as regularly as clock-work, and yet be very unlike clock-work in one respect. You can not wind it up and set it going in the morning and then have it run on alone for the rest of the day. The winding and grinding process lias to go on con tinually. I think this "jugglery" is the hard est lesson for the young housekeeper to learn; yet it is one of the possibili ties. Those "Heathen Chinese" did not acquire all their skill at once. They were obliged to toss and miss their balls a great many thousands of times before they succeeded In per forming their wonderful feats. The best housekeepers could tell you a great many tales of burnt pie-crust, and up set cream pitchers, and heavy cake when compauy was coming, and many tears dropped over the ironing board, before they arrived at their present state of perfection. So take courage, and be content to gain skill little by little. Systematize your work so that you can keep many things in hand at once. Thus you may save a great deal of precious time to do what you please with. If vou wait to fully finish off one thing before you bngin another, you will all your life realize the truth of the old saying, that "a woman's work is never doue." Mural A fie Yorker. Honnehold Receipt. Krrvfis am) ItiTEs. Carbonate of soda wet ami applied externally to the hit? of a snider, or anv venomous creature, will neutralize the poisonous effect almost instantly, n acts hkb a charm in the case of fenake-bite. Cuke for Colds. To make candied femmi or ieni)ermiut for colds, boil one and one-half pounds of sugar in a half-pint of water till it begins tocanuy rmnid t.lio sides: mit in eiirht drops of essence; pour it upon buttered paper, and cut it with a knite. Cuoup Preventive. First get a piece of chamois skin, make it like a little bib, cut the neck and sew on tapes to tie it on; then melt together some tallow and pine tar; rub some of this in the chamois, and let the child wear it all the time, lienew with the tar occasionally. Toothache. For toothache, take equal parts of camphor, sulphuric ether, ammonia, laudanum, tincture of cayenne, and one eighth part of oil of cloves. Mix well together. Satu rate with the liquid a small piece of cotton, and apply to the cavity of the diseased tooth, and the pain will cease immediately. Treatment of Boils. Boils should be brought to a head by warm poultices of camomile llowers, or boiled white lily root, or onion root by fermentation with hot water, or by stimulating plasters. When ripe they should be destroyed by a needle er a lancet. But this should not be at tempted until they are fully proved. Hoarseness. A writer in the Medical liecord cites a number of cases in which borax is proved a most effect ual remedy in certain forms of colds. He states that in sudden hoarseness, or loss of voice in public speakers or singers from colds, relief for an hour or so, as if by magic, may be often ob tained by slowly dissolving, partially swallowing, a lump of borax the size of a garden pea, or about three or four grains, held in the mouth for ten min utes before speaking or singing. This produces a profuse secretion of saliva, or "watering" of the mouth and throat probably restoring the voice or tone to the dried vocal cords, j list as "wetting" brings back the missing notes to a flute when it is too drv. Scientific. It is pointed out that the factor of safety or stability of the Cleopatra's Needle is too small. As it stands, it is already calculated to bear a pressure of 110 lbs. to the square foot, whereas the force of no hurricane is believed to ex ceed '2' lbs. to the foot. Mr. John Holden, architect of Manchester, re calls the fact that on the 7th day of February, 1808, the pressure registered at the Liverpool Observatory was over 10 lbs. to the square foot. The instru ment, in charge of Mr. Hartnup, on re registered up toGU lbs.; but his opinion was that the pressure reached between 70 lbs. and 80 lbs. to the square foot. At Liverpool, on the J7th of Septem ber, 187.J, the pressure registered was 70 lbs. to the square foot; and at the same place some time in April, 1807, the pressure was 45 lbs. At Sydney, Australia, on the 10th of September, 1870, the Government Astronomer re ports "that the wind in some of the gusts lasting several minutes attained the extraordinary velocity of 15.'i miles an hour, equal to a pressure of 117 lbs. to the square foot; and during twelve minutes between twelve and half-past the velocity of the wind was 112 miles per hour." The question of the velocity and pressure of the wind is of great im portance, especially in the manufactur ing districts; and for many years the firm of which Mr. Holden is a member, in calculating the stability of factory chimneys, has assumed the pressure to be not less than 80 lbs. to U0 lbs. on the square foot. Engineer. A Novelty in Illuminated Dials. Apropos of illuminated watch faces and clock dials, to which attention has re cently been directed, M. Recordon, of Paris, communicates the fact to one of our French exchanges that two years ago he took out a patent for, and has since been manufacturing, illuminated dials on an entirely different principle from those produced by the use of chemicals. His device is this: A Geissler tube containing a gas which gives a brilliant light is placed on the dial; a battery about the size of a thimble is attached as an ornament to the watch chain, and a miniature in duction coil is also hidden in the latter. When it becomes desirable to consult the watch in the dark, a spring is pressed; the current passes into the coil, then into the Geissler tube, and illuminates the dial. The portable battery used for this purposa is that of Trouve, which, in a small compass, has considerable strength. Reduced to the size of a thimble, it is still sufficiently strong in its action to last a year. M. Recordon also applies the same princi ple to the illumination of clock faces. The Tunnel under the British Channel. The reason why the Channel Tunnel Company recently ceased their opera tions in St. Margaret's Bay is stated to be that, when the reports as to the soundings between Sangatte and St. Margaret's Bay were handed in by the surveyors, it was found that to cut a tunnel between those points would entail an enormous amount of work in sinking. The site in question has, therefore, been finally abandoned. The scheme now before the company pro vides for the sinking of a new shaft at or close to Dover. The site on the French side at San gatte, near Boulogne, is still looked upon as the best that could be chosen for the commencement of the tunnel. The shaft sunk there is already 70 meters in depth, with a diameter of 2 meters, and the engineers consider that when they have got 10 meters further down the horizontal cutting may be commenced. The engineers of both countries agree that the French opening of the tunnel is the most difficult part of the undertaking, sis a clayey soil has to be dealt with instead of chalk, and the incursion of water causes much trou ble. Some tests have been made at Ports mouth, England, to ascertain the effect of a shot striking the air chamber of a Whitehead torpedo. The first shots were fired from a rille, but beyond slightly indenting the torpedo, no dam age was done. The Gatling gun was then tried at a range of 100 to k200 yards, but it did little more injury than the rille. It was then tired at point blank range, when a shot penetrated the chamber, letting the confined air, which was at a pressure of 1,000 pounds per square inch, escape harmlessly. The gauge attached to steam engines has suggested to M. Berard the idea of applying the same principles to clocks. Vhen the machine is running with uniform velocity the dial point is at zero, and any irregularity is shown by a right or left movement of the pointer; the same gauge can be adapted to the face of the clock, and the needle will indicate if the movement of the hands is regular or not. juinoroits. A young man with his first goatee may be said to have a tuft time of it. Garlic is said to be a sovereign remedy for gout. There is no remedy for garlic. A Jockey calls his horses Kerosene and Petroleum, because they are a parafiiue steeds. When the Sultan loses his temper, the ladies of the household speak of him as a harem-scare-'em fellow. "My friends," said a minister as a preface of his sermon, "let us say a few words before we begin. " The gentleman who kissed a lady's "snowy brow" caught a severe cold, ami has leen laid up ever since. "You seem to walk more erect than usual, my friend." "Yes, I have been straitened b circumstances." If a woman were to change her sex, why could she no longer be a Christian? Because she would be a heia)theu. A romantic young man says that a young woman's heart is like the moon it changes continually, but always has a man in it. The young man who wrote and asked his girl to accept a "biu ket" of flowers became a little pale when she said she wooden ware it. Little boy at the owning of a pro posed spelling-match "Let's start fair, grandmother. You take 'Ne buchadnezzar and I'll take 'cat' " Says a Western editor, "Who drinks all the wh'skey made in the United States is what staggers us." It is enough to stagger anybody. A lively lady remarked: "1 notice that the.se women's rights people are invariably men's lefts." Mr. Dickens used to repeat this with admiration. It was an apt answer of a young lady, who, being asked where was her native place, replied, "I have none; 1 am the daughter of a Methodist minis ter."' A Kentuckian married a girl with out previously telling her that one of his legs was built of oak wood, and now she walnut live with him. He pines and sings 4tOak gum back to me," but she won't go. JVorr. Herald. An emigrant hearing the sunset gun at New York, asked a sailor, "What is that?" "Why, that's the sun set!" was the reply. "Sunset!" said Pat. "And does it go down in this country with such a bang as that?" Two French ladies are conversing on the qualities and demerits of their own fair sex. Said one, with a twinkle in her beautiful blue eyes, "I have never known but t wo women who were really perfect." "Who was the other?" asked her companion, with a smile on her fine thin lip. Herald P. I. Man. The Hard-headed Breed. Sym pathizing bystander about an unfor tunate man who has been knocked down and stunned by the tram. "Poor man! Take him to the station," In jured one (recovering). "Tyek me to the station? What for, then? If aw've dune ony harm to y'or engine, aw's williu' to pay for't." It is not true that Bertha Von Hillern has paralysis of the 1 . Now, before we complete the word let us re flect. If we go on and say " egs," some awfully particular folks will stop their subscriptions, and if we say " imbs" the other crowd will accuse us of mock modesty. Guess we won't finish the sentence. Anyhow, she hasn't got paralysis. Logics Lady (to shopman), after making him turn over all the stock: "There, that's exactly the quality I want; but it is green, and I want plum color." Insinuating shopman : "You can't do better than take this. Besides, ma'am, it is plum-color." Lady: "What! Plum-color?" Shopman: "Cer tainly. Only the plums are not ripe!'' ' Exchange. "A Curious but Melancholy Af fair" is the St. Louis Globe-Democrat'' s heading over a story of a farmer who put his gun-barrel (he did not know it was loaded) into a forge to heat off the rust, and vigorously plied the bellows while standing opposite the muzzle. This is something like the title devised by the Montreal reporter when an iron shutter was blown off of an upper story of a house and descended corner-wise on the head of a pedestrian "Fatal but Unpleasant Accident." THE AVALANCHE. THE PElilLS OF AN ALPINE ASCENT. The following graphic account of the perils of avalanches in the Alps is from ''Hours of Exercise in the Alps," by the celebrated John Tyndall, the sci ent'st. A party of six were being con ducted by two local guides and a fam ous Alpine guide, Johann Joseph Ben nen, over the Haut de Cry, one of the Swiss Alps. They advanced in the beginning of the ascent very rapidly. The peak was glistening before them, and hoies of success cheered their spirits. After a time they came to snow frozen upon the surface which would bear them a few steps and then break down. This, of course, delayed mat ters and was very fatiguing. Finally it came to a point that, in order to reach a certain arete, they would be obliged to go up a steep snow field 800 feet high, 150 feet broad at the top and 500 feet at the bottom. During the ascent they sank about one foot deep at every step. After mounting for some distance the two leading men suddenly sunk above their waists. They were enabled to get out after some struggles, and presently found better footing and came to the conclu sion that the snow was accidentally softer there than elsewhere. But Ben nen was afraid of starting an avalanche, and said so. They started forward again but let the book complete the story: The snow-field split in two about fourteen or fifteen feet above us. The cleft was at first quite narrow, not more than an inch broad. An awful silence ensued, and then it was broken by Bennen's voice: " Wir sind alle verloren " (we are all lost). His words were slow and solemn, and those who knew him felt what they really meant when spoken by such a man as Bennen. They were his last words. I drove my alpenstock into the snow and brought the weight of my body to bear on it. It went in to within three inches of the top. I then waited. It was an awful moment of suspense. I turned my head toward Benner to see whether he had done the same thing, To my astonishment, I saw him turn round, face the valley and stretch out both arms. The ground on which we stood began to move slowly, and I felt the utter uselessuess of any alpenstock. I soon sank up to my shoulders, and began descending backwards. From this movement I saw nothing of what had happened to the rest of the party. With a good deal of trouble I suc ceeded in turning round. The speed of the avalanche increased rapidly, and before long I was covered up with snow and in utter darkness. I was suffocat ing, when, with a jerk, I suddenly came to the surface again. The rope had caught, most probably on a rock, and this was evidently the moment when it broke. I was on a wave of the avalanche, and saw it before me as I was carried down. It was the most awful sight I ever witnessed. The head of the avalanche was already at the spot where we had made our last halt. The head alone was preceded by a thick cloud of snow dust; the rest of the avalanche was clear. Around me I heard the horrid hiss ing of the snow, and far before me the thundering of the formost part of the avalanche. To prevent myself sinking again I made use of my arms, much in the same way as w hen swimming in a standing position. At last 1 noticed that 1 was moving slower; then 1 saw the pieces of snow in front of me stop at some yards distance; then the snow straight before me stopped, and I heard on a large scale the same creaking sound that is produced when a heavy cart passes over hard-frozen snow in winter. I felt t hat I also had stopped, and instantly threw up botli arms to pro tect my head in case 1 should again be covered up. I had stopjed, but the snow behind me was still in motion; its pi ess ure on my body was so strong that I thought I should be crushed to death. This tremendous pressure lasted but a short time, and ceased as sud denly as it had begun. 1 was then covered up with snow coming from le hind me. My first impulse was to try and recover my head, but this 1 could not do. The avalance had frozen by pressure the moment it stopped, and I was frozen in. Whilst trying vainly to move my arms, I suddenly became aware that the hands as far as the wrists had the faculty of motion. The conclusion was easy; they must be above the snow. I set to work as well as I could; it was time, for I could not have held out much longer. At last 1 saw a faint glimmer of light. The crust above my head was getting thinner and it let a little air pass, but I could not reach it any more with my hands; the idea struck me that I might pierce it with my breath. After several efforts I succeeded in doing so, and felt sudden ly a rush of air towards my mouth; I saw the sky again through a little round hole. A dead silence reigned around me. I was so surprised to be still alive, and so persuaded at the first moment thao none of my fellow sufferers had survived that I did not even think of shouting for them. I then made vain efforts to extricate my arms, but found it impossible; the most I could do was to join the ends of my fingers, but they could not reach the snow any longer. After a few minutes I heard a man shouting. What a relief it was to know that I was not the sole survivor ! To know that perhaps he was not frozen in and could come to my assistance ! I answered. The voice approached, but seemed uncertain where to go, and yet it was quite near. A sudden exclamation of surprise ! Rebot had seen my hands. He cleared my head in an instant, and was about to try to cut me out completely, when I sawa foot above the snow, and so near to me that I could touch it with my arms, although they were not quite free yet. I at once tried to move the foot; it was my poor friend's. A pang of agony shot through me as I saw that the foot did not move. Poor Boissoult had lost sensation, and was perhaps already dead. Rebot did his best; after some time he wished me to help him, so he freed my arms a little more, so that I could make use of them. I could do but little, for Rebot had torn the ax from my shoulder as soon as he had cleared my head (I generally carry an ax separate from my alpenstock, the blade tied to the belt and the handle attached to the left shoulder). Before coming to me Rebot had helped Nance out of the snow; he was lying nearly horizontally, and was not much covered over. Nance found Be vard, who was upright in the snow, but covered up to the head. After about twenty minutes the two last named guides came up. I w as at length taken out; the snow had to be cut with the axe down to my Teet, before could be pulled out. A few minutes after 1 o'clock, p. m. we came to my poor friend's face. I wished the body to be taken out completely, but nothing could induce the three guides to work any longer, from the moment they saw that it was too late to save him. I acknowledge that they were as nearly as incapable of doing anything as I was. When I was taken out of the snow the cord had to be cut. We tried the end going towards Bennen, but could not move it; it went straight down and showed us that there was the grave of the bravest guide Valais ever had, and ever will have. RULES FOR POLITE BEHAVIOUR, 1766. Do not nudge your neighbor with your elbow; do not scratch yourself; do not betray by any gesture that you are hungry, and do not look eagerly at the food as though you could devour the whole of it. Whoever it be dis tributing the cut viands, do not hastily present your plate to be served first; do not crunch the bones nor break the stones of fruit with your teeth. Do n ot suck the bones to get out the marrow. It is very inde cent to touch anything fat, either sauce or syrup, with the fingers, seeing that you are thereby compelled to prac tice two or three other indecencies, to wipe your hands frequently on your dinner napkin, and so dirty it like a kitchen clout to wipe them on your bread, which is even more uncleanly, or to lick your fingers, which is the height of impropriety. Be careful not to dip your portion in the dish, or what you are eating into the salt-cellar; do not offer to others what you have al ready tasted; and take it for a general rule that what has once been on your plate must never be put back in the dish. There is nothing so abominable as to clean or wipe a disli or plate with one's hands; during the dinner do not criticise the meats and sauces or ask to drink first, for it is a great incivility. Carefully avoid talking with the mouth full. It is uncivil to pick one's teeth during the repast either with a knife or fork. In placing yourself at the table, have the head uncovered. Always wipe your spoon when, after having already used it, you wish to take something from another plate, as there are some people so delicate that they would not partake even of soup, where you had dipped your spoon, having previously carried it to your mouth. Join the lips in eating, so as not to make a lapping noise, like animals. If, unfortunately, you burn yourself, bear it patiently if you can, but if you cannot, take your plate delicately in one hand, and, lifting it up, cover your mouth with the other hand, putting back upon it what burned you, and then you will pass your plate behind you to a lackey. Do not drink your wine as though you were tasting it, and do not make two or three draughts of your glass, for that is too familiar, but drink it down at once and resolutely, looking into it as you do so. One must also take care in drinking not to make any noise in the throat, marking the number of times one swal lows, in such a way that the company can count them. A CURIOUS MODE OF TAKING TURTLE. In the neighborhood of Cuba a pecu liar method of securing the turtle is pursued by the natives, advantage being taken of the habits of a species of remora, or sucking-fish, peculiar to those waters. Three or four species of remora are known, having collect ively a wide range. The white tailed remora (Erhemis aVtioiuda, Mitch.) frequents our North Atlantic coast, ?nd is sometimes taken in Long Island Sound, where it is known as the shark sucker. The chief peculiarity of all these fish consists in an oval disk on the top of the head and the adjacent parts of the back, the surface of which is crossed by transverse cartilaginous plates, arranged somewhat like the slats of a Venetian blind; on the mid dle of the under surface are hook-like projections, connected by short bands with the skull and vertebra., and their upper margin is beset with fine teeth. According to De Blainville, this organ is an anterior dorsal fin, whose rays are split and expanded horizontally on each side instead of standing erect in the usual way. By means of this ap paratus, partly suctorial, partly pre hensile by the hooks, the re'nora at taches itself to rocks, ships, floating timber, and the bodies of other fish, especially sharks, which it uses either for anchorage or for labor-saving transit. The species of remora inhabiting Cuban waters (called Reve, that is, reversed, by the Spaniards, because its back is usually mistaken for its belly) is; employed by the native ishermen. The boatmen in quest of the turtle carry several rcves in a tub, and when they approach their game a pro perly tethered reve is cast oil'. On perceiving the turtle ihe fish quietly attaches itself so firmly that the prize can be easily secured. Colcomb states that the fish's hold is so strong that it will allow itself to be torn asunder without letting go. This living fish hook is held by means of a ring attached to the remora's tail, and a stout line made of the liber of palm bark. By a peculiar manipula tion the fish is induced to let go its hold upon the turtle when both have been hauled into the boat. The remora is then returned to its tub, to await the discovery of another turtle. BEE CULTURE IN EGYPT. The Egyptians exhibit great skill' in their manner of cultivating the bee. The flowers and the harvest are much earlier in upper Egypt than in lower, and the inhabitants profit by this cir cumstance in regard to their bees. They collect the hives of different vil lages on large barks, and every pro prietor attaches a peculiar mark to his hive; when the boat is loaded, the con ductors descend the river slowly, stopping at all places where they can find pasturage for the bees. After having thus spent three months on the Nile, the hives are returned to the proprietor, and after deducting a small sum due to the boatman for bavin? conducted his hives from one end of Egypt to the other, he finds him self on a sudden enriched with a quan tity of honey and wax, which is immc -diately sent to the market. This specie's of industry procures for the Egyptians an abundance of wax and honey, which they export in large quantities to foreign countries. As an old colored man and his son stopped in front of an umbrella store, the son saw some umbrellas with covers on them, and questioned his father: "What's de covers on them dar um'rellas for?" "Why, chile, dem's put ober de um'rellas to keep 'em dry when it rains," was the father's re sponse. "AVhat do you do for a living?" asked a farmer of a burly beggar, who applied at his door for cold victuals and old clothes. "I don't do nothing much, but travel about," was the answer. "Are you good at traveliug?" asked the farmer. "Yes," replied the beggar. "Then let us see you travel," said the farmer. COASTING. The boys were coasting down Syca more Street Hill last evening, when John Sanscript and his wife came along. They had been up on Baltimore street visiting, and were on their way home. "Just see thern boys, now," said John, as he braced up at the intersec tion of Mulberry street. "It really re minds me of the days when I was a lad. Do you know, Jane, that I used to coast down hill on a sled that way?" "Itid you, John?" "Why, yes; but that's fifty years ago!" Sanscript scratched his head con templatively and then muttered, sotto voice: "Dummy granddaddy's buttons, if I don't try it." "Try what, dear?" anxiously asked Mrs. S. "I'm going to coast just once, to fere. Here, sonny" (to a lad who had just pulled up the hill with his sled) 'Here, sonny, I'll give you a quarter to let me slide down on your sled once." The bargain was eagerly nailed and clinched. "Be keerful, old man," urged the boy, as Sanscript squatted rather awk wardly on the sled; "be keerful, I say, and don't let her flunk one way or 'tother till she brings up or you'll git mashed." "Never mind, younker," assured John; "I've been here afore some years afore, but " But what will never be known, for just then the sled, of its own accord, started down hill, and even John him self has not been able to recall what he was about to observe. The surprise at the sled's unexpected movement was! general. "Look out!" yelled the boy. "Oh, John!" screamed Mrs. San script. ' 4 Whoa, there!" yelled John. But the sled wouldn't whoa. It seemed to ha ve set off down that hill to beat its best time. John had chance only to clutch hold of both sides and hold his breath for fear the wind would blow off the top of his head. The only thought he had time to foster was that the boy must have greased the sled's runners as a practical joke. And if this was coasting, he had never coasted, if his recollection served him right. Two-thirds way down the hill the sled struck an ice hummock, and im mediately his course was changed to a parabolic curve. Whack! bang! crash! clink! The bringing up was awfully sudden and uncertain. Sanscript and the sled disappeared as abrubtly as a shooting star. The latter lay shivered to atoms against a lamp-posjt, and Sanscript lay shiveringin the grocery cellar just op posite. When the off runner of the sled collided with the lamp-post and stopped the vehicle Sanscript rose like a circus leaper and went right on turning twenty somersaults to the second. He went through the grocery window as the circus-leaper goes through a paper hoop. The grocer appeared soon after and compromised upon John paying the following bill: Wiin'v sasii. .'rushed cliet-so. Hogshead molasses. l:l'it liiiis goods, $10 00 12 W is a 1 10 Total 471 30 Then the boy came in Avith a bill of 65 for his sled, to say nothing of the loss of a suit of clothes, a surgeon's bill for plastering sundry skinned sur faces, and the bill of a hackman who conveyed the fainting wife home. In the cooler moments of afterthought Sanscript reckoned ii. up and dis covered that it had cost him 100.78 to recall recollections of fifty years ago, and required but one minute and live seconds of old Father Time in which to do the recollecting. Cincinnati En quirer. Justice Bradley at the age of three years could spell words of four syllables. 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