Lorain County news. (Oberlin and Wellington [Ohio]), 1873-10-09

              onuu outttjjgntjs J M DROITS J U LANG BROWN Sc L V IV O PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS JUSTUS N BROWN Editor County ADVERTISING BATES 1 Inch 8 2V 5 Of s 50 Office in Royces Block second story College Street Oberlin 6 CO a jo 7 fO 16 W V3 W Ij 50 7 BU SUBSCRIPTION i co 1 n to li b column Volume 14 No 32 14 SO S3 OitliO U Oneyear In advance Six utontliB Three months Oberlin Ohio Thursday Morning October 9 1873 Whole Number 708 Jli MM a UV 43 v js oo3o oo r oo 30 0Oj 50 OO Si Ot X col unin One Column J5V 4TTOKNEV A LBERT ALLYN Real Estate rVBrokero iu Aiwmer uiock uievtiumi n su hirtrc Ust of City 1roptity Finn o Lamls for sale or exclmiii Law Office M J Sloan real estate rind collecting aseutN 13 West College struct ObLrlin Oliio WEB3TEH I A AttorueyatLnw Notary Public anil Real Kstato Agent Oflice oq South Main Street Oberlin O E H HIXMAX AttorneviitLaw nnr Vn t tury Public Xorth Amlieist O C W Johnston Geo P Metcnlf TOUNSTON METCALF Attorneys ami J Counsellors at Law NotariesPublicElyriaOhio Oftlco DcWitfs Block OOOK8TOUES nOOURICHEJ Books Stationery Pic XI ttircs Frames Wall Paper etc College and Main streets Edwin Regal dealer in BooksStationery Pictures Picture Frnmes Wall Paper ic No S West College St Oberllu Ohio E C Westervelt Co dealers in Blank Books School Uook9 Ink c BJOTS AMU HUOES s ROYOE manufacturer dealer in Boots and Shoes No 13 W College at BCfdHEKS Dana Warner market WestCollege street All kinds of fresh and salt meat kept n their season ohn Haylor general dealer in fresb salt and smoked Meats No 7 East College St S Pay Dealer in Hides and all VXklnrts of fresh and salt meats No 11 South Main Street A Mendenhall Contractor and Build er Bav windows conservatories Porches inri ltlkimln of odd lobs of nhilii ind Iliiicv work done on short notice Shop on College AlleyOberlin Ohio 13 ACKUS W H Contractor ana Builder norm rotessor atrees uoerim S Colburn Contractor and Builder J Plnnlnir Mill Oberlin Ohio CLOTHIERS T earner Eckert clothiers mer JViliatit tailors and dealers In all kinds of gents urnislilnv ifuodd No 15 West college btrcet AH Brice merchant tailor and dealer In Cloths and Clothing Nol South Main Street r umviisr T F SlUDALLover Westervelts store CI B KNOWLTON office over No 7 West j College st DBUGC1ST8 i VERY H A dealer in Drugs Medicines and Groceries Prescriptions prepared C IIURCHILL BEECHER Drugs Paints Varnishes etc No 1 West college St GARDNER CO Drugs Medicines Oils Paints etc FDKNI1CUE t UNDERTAKING CHAPMAN CHAMBER LINFurniture or all styles Largest assortment in town Store ou Main street opposite the Pars HKST NATIONAL HANK OF Oberlin Designated Depository and Government Agents for sale of Bonds C U Jenkins Cash IM Johnson Pres GKOCEIME8 A J Farrar dealer in flour feed choice family groceries crockery erlassware Ac All kinds of vegetables In llieir season E C Westervelt Co dealers in i Choice Grocerlessell for cashgoods delivered HJ ROSSITER DEALER IN groceries fruits and vegetables Fair prices No a W est Collefte slrvel E C Westervelt Co dealers in Crockery Prices verv low HARDWARE pABTEK BROTHER dealers in Hard ware Stoves and Tinware Solo agents for Jewarts Stoves Job work done in best mfcuuer WEED 4 EDWARDS dealers in Stoves Tin and Sheet Iron Ware andHardware of all kinds Mowing Machines etc Uefchauts Exchange North Main Street HOTELS ARK HOUSE Oberlin O Henry FieldFro rietor JEWELERS PETTIS L B dealer in Watches Clocks Jewelry Spectacles and Fancy Goods Park Housa block TUTTLE C II Watchmaker Engraver and dealer in Watches Clocks Jewelry and Silverware Carrcntots Block LI VERV STABLES FAVEL C H Good Horses and Carriages for hire Also all kinds of teaming done at the shortest i oticc Stable on North Main street opposito the lark n It MAT HEW Fine rigs fast noise am new carriages athis Uverv Stable n East College street next to Park House 1DTRAU8 M dealer in Dry Goods etc I O V lets Block North Main Street HARNESS MAKESS tjL LIOTT t j m a n u f a c t u u e r JLJand denier 1 all kinds of alnirle midloubleharineia KipHlrlnir neatly and promptly done JSO M outk Main Street Oberlin Ohio NOTARY PUBLIC nARKIS W P Notary PublicConveyancer of Deeds etc over the store o 8 0 Uillott Co OMNIBUS to ovcrv train Offlcc South Main street Oberlin O Frank Stone Proprietor pll VMICIANM LLEN4NOBLE Physicians andSurgeons Ollice Uoyces Block DR HAY WARD HomBopathist Offlcc Union Block Residence W Loi ain st Wa BUNCE M D will practice medicine and surgcrv in Oberlin nnd thesurrounding country Calls left at his oflice night or day will bo promptly attended to Oillcc over 10 West College SI DB SMITH Oculist and Anrlst 988 an ncrior Street Cleveland 0 UlLte noun A M to 1 P m and 2 to 6PM PAINTER AND ULAZ1K11N Mitchell Mumtord paintersglaziers and paner hangers over No 9 Somh Main Street The Beat Quality ol work at esi I city prices TELEGRAPH COLLEGE 2U E AR MAN BRO College open day J an evening Send stamp for circular T WIS II TO ANNOUNCE TO THE X citizens of Oberlin and vicinity that I amprepared to show a lrie and vellseleHed stock ot Koods such as WATCHES ELGIN WALTHAM UNITED STATES AND NEW YuRK Movements Ladies Gold Watches In American and fine Swiss movenie Gold Leontine Opera X Matinee CHAINS JEWELRY Solid Gold and Plated Sets Sleeve Buttons and fetuds Gold and Silver Thimbles Gold teaa witli llnbber and Pearl Holders Gold Toothpicks and Gold Pencils SILVERWARE Tea Sets Cake Biskets Butter Coolers Castors Card Receivers Solid Silver and Plated Napkin ltlnvs Forks spoons etc Having made arrangements to manufacture all ot my spoons I will make over old ones into new and guarantee each one to get their original sliver CUTLERY Ivory Rubber and solid Steel Handled Cntle or without plated blades Also a largi Boruweni ui eneap iiune cutlery Shears Scissors Pocket JvnUes Nutplcks all of the best Bteelaud warranted Large assortment of Parian Statuory Toilet Sels and fancy Vases CLO CKS Eightday Calendars Seth Thomne andVaterbnry Clocks Have a largo stock nnd will sell at Uie lowest prices All Silver und Plated Goods will be sold as low as elsewhere and no extra charges for engraving Specimens of German Text old English andcommon script can be seen at anv time Watchwork In all Its brunches will be pxecuteil and warranted for sne vearPCSTIIEM EMBER THE ILACEa C Jl TUTTLE Carpenter a Block West College Street ODEItMN O Lorain County Examination of Teachers 73 The Board of School Examiners forLorain County will hold meetings for theexaminaton of Teachers as follows At OBERLIN the last Saturdays ofSeptember October March and April At ELYRIA the second Saturdays ofOctober November December January March April May and June AT WELLINGTON the third Saturdays Of October and March There be will no other Examinations and no certificate will be renewed except upon examination Examinations commence at 9 oclock A M and applicants should be punctual attok hour The Examination Fee of 63 cenm siiift be prepaid GENERAL DIRECTIONS Those who have never taught in this County or who ar personally unknown to the Examiners l ust furnish satisfactory evidence of theirgood moral character Applicants must supply themselves with writing materials either pen or pcncilmay be used In estimating a paper tho general the general appearance as well ascorrectness is considered Penmanship andorthography are judged from the written answers mother branches No communication isaloweikdurlng the examination Anyviolaonortbis rule mav forfeit a certificate THEOLOGICAL BOOKS MISCELA3XEOITS BOOK SABBATH SCHOOL BOOKS A Liberal discount given from pub lishers prices 13 J Goodricli Kept at By keeping cleanly about your home and buy your disinfectants of Olinvcliill Sc Ueecher NO 7 WEST COLLEGE ST IfJOlUJlSj mnTTnTTT GH TUTTLIS Jewelry Store Watches ami Jewelry L 13 PETTIS ultes the attention of Ms cust lie gcnerulU lo Uie 1nre and ol WATCH Krt CLOCKS a filers and theputveilselected slunk id JEWELRY WATCHES AMERICAN SWISS WATCHES of all grades American watches aspecialty such as Elgin Walt ham and New York movements in gold and silver cases LADIES GOLD WATCHES GOLDOPEKA ANDJIATIXEE ClIAIJiS Of the verv latest designs olid Gold nnd Gold Plated Pins and Kanips in uts Slreve Buttons Studs Gold Tens and PenholdersGold Tooth Picks Gold and Silver Thimbles A greatvariety ot solid 18 K Rings both plain and chased SEAL RINGS set with Onyx Amethyst Bloodstone and Moss Agate SILVER WARE TEA SKTS JCASTORs CAKE BASKETS ICS PITCH EftS BUTT Kit COOLEUS SPOON HOLD Kits CELEKV DISHKS CARD RECEIVERS SOLID SILVER SILVKlt PLATED SPOONS FORKS NAPKIN RINGS CLOCKS A great variety Bronze Calendars and Seth Thom 8b Clocks which will be sold at the very lowest CyRepalrlng Watch work Engraving andJewtdry repairing done in all Its branches by skilled wuriwiutu oavmracuou Kiiaranieeti ro cnurp lor engraving ou all goods sold Giv him a call CORNER STORE J PARK HOUSE L BPETTIS Fine Pertumeries Or all kinds TOILET ARTICLES AND o o s i i tics AT Cburcliill A Beechcrs DRUG STORE L A HUBBARD Is still selling GROCERIES AT ISO O SOUTH St fcllls goods compare well with those of hisneighbors Satisfaction Given OR MONEY REFUNDED Thanks for past favors future patronage solicited SELLS OLIEIJ O A S II PHO XO GTtA PHS From the best RETOUCHED NEGATIVES Are made at PLATTS Cheaper than at any other GALLERY in the country doing the same quality of work Let no Man Woman or Child fail to SECURE A NEGATIVE From which they may order at any time as they are PRESERVED FOR YEARS Doubters need only to call to beconvinced that all we say is true n nyn PLATT CARP E T S ITHIEL STONK 215 SUPERIOR ST Cleveland Ohio has a full stock of CIRIS TS For Fall BODY BRUSSELS TAPESTRYBRUSSELS TWO and THREE FLY and an immense Stock of CHEAP CARPETS From 2in to SI vet vnrd I cut these goods at RETAIL as low as other par ties Sell at at uuietMiie Contribution Taxation of TuMic luslitnlions BY PROF C n CHURCHILL The entire separation of church and state does not belong to the conception of a perfect state of society It is anecessity growing out of the presentdepravity of men No human government is pure enough to safely wiefd suchpower over the church as the EnglishGovernment possesses and no sect is broad enough and unselfish enough to manage wisely the civil power The consciousness of certain malign influences growing out of the union of church and Btate in the fatherland and perpetuated to some extent in thiscountry makes us impaLient of even the sem blance of such a union here We clear away the old foundations of society vith a mighty zeal andselfcomplacency not because we do not need foundations but because thedeeper we dig the more rottenness wediscover and we are determined to beginaltogether anew This we must do and the necessity is likely to continue for many generations Perhaps during our whole national life but you cannot imagine such a separtion in heaven or in the millennium When every government becomes simply just and true and the whole body of religious society becomes compact united and full of spiritual life the apparently natural antagonism of these two great social forces will cease The church using the word in its broadest Benso and the state must erer preserve their individuality and under stand their proper functions but they are the twin yokefellows by Trhichhuman progress is carried forward They need not crowd off as if afraid to touch each other but should acknowledge the guidance of the same Hand should draw steadily equally and harmoniously Nor is separation possible even if it bedesirable The state can do nothing which does not affect religion The church can put forth no effort in her proper sphere which does not act on the state The government may rightfully acknowledge the assistance which religion gives to the promotion of tho proper ends ofgovernment and may refrain from laying upon it any other burden than its ownmaintenance Gifts of money by citizens of the state for the building of houses of j worship the Bupport of public religious J services and institutions of learning or charity are benevolent offerings directly I tending to promote social order and to diminish taxation The donors nolonger derive any revenue from them in which respect such funds differ entirely j from those used by publifeherBor other persons whose operations may beequally promotive of the public welfare so ciety at large including of course the state or the nation is the party directly benefited The donors of such fundB having resigned H private claim to them continue to bear with all others their share of the burden of governmentaccording to their remaining estate For the government to diminish them by taxation is simply making religion and education less available to the poor er class of its citizens In some cases the tax would cause the entire suppression of valuable public institutions To tax the benevolent gifts of the peopleoffered for the promotion of the general good is in no sense taxing the tormer owners of the gifts but taxing the public in its aggregate capacitya proceeding so palpably suicidalso discouraging to pub lic spirit and enterprise bo inconsistent with the duty of the government that it would seem as if the mere statement of it were sufficient to reveal its absurdity Site 8ws In a conference Bpeech at South Bend Ind last week the venerable Bishop Simpson expressed the fear that we will never be able to put down the liquor Baloons until women vote That reminds us of a little story In a recent election in Wyoming the wife of anactive Democratic politician becamewarmly interested in rallying female voters for that ticket By the assistance of her hired girl she had secured the promise of twenty votes from neighboring kitchens and when election morning came she summoned Bridget to go out andmarshal her forces adding that icecream would be ready for the party on their return from the polls The response was immediate and emphatic that no such refreshment as that would answer the purpose of those Amazonian electors It would be no use to lead them to the ballotbox unless they could be promised a good drink of whisky in exchange for their votes And whisky they received We need only add lost Bishop Simpson may suspect that our story is a fiction that our informant had it at firsthand from the lady who did this bit of political dickering Advance Theology in any shape says tl United Presbyterian in clumbily conceiv ed of by The Independent but ofsystematic theology it does not seem to have even dreamed The United Pres byterian reminds us of a certain farmer I who was elevated to the importantpositiouof corporal in the militia The next morning he began to practice the manual of arms in the back yard using ahoehandle for a muskel His wife heaid him calbng Shouliler Arms Present Arms Rightwheel Forward March and then the sound of a fall She ran to the window Her husband had fallen down cellar Are you hurt my dear she asked him Go long in the house woman he vociferated What do you know about war The United Presbyterian in undertaking to discuss theology a little has tumbled head foremost into the dismal darkness of inherited guilt and now insists that its neighbors who keep ont of that hole know nothing about theologyIndependent The Tresident and the Panic Among the excellent executive qualities of the President there is one which has always most plesantly impressed those who know him and that is bis tranquil firmness when his duy seems to him clear Those who served nearest bim in the field say that in the wildest whirl of battle he was never known to lose his selfpossession nor to swear He has au admirable temperament for a president especially at a time when every body in distress turns to theaovernment for help This was strikingly illustrated during the lato panic on the Sunday that he and the Secretary of the Treasury came to the city to consult with the bankers upon the situation The excitement that morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel was unprecedented The corridors and parlors swarmed with a multitude of frenzied people whosupposed that incalculable disasterimpended and that the President had the power of staying it bv a word and of saving the country from financial as he bad already saved it from political ruin Among the crowd were many of the ven wiio are famous as capitalists and iv are supposed to be masters offiiiudce a supposition not based in every instance upon the most accurateknowledge There was also in the throng a distinguished lawyer of politics opposed to those of the President Mr Reverdy Johnson whose advice and opinion were eagerly sought It was a crowd ofspeculators and gamblers in railroad stocks with some of those whom they hadinvolved all passionately desiring that the President would use the public money for their relief The President asked for the law that would authorize him to touch it for such a purpose The distinguished lawyer instantly conceded that there was no lawful authority to do it but that the situation of the country was sothreatening that the President ought to assume the power of dispensing with law and trust to Congress to approve his course He was unwilling at such a moment to put the law aside and establish aprecedent of such momentousjeonsequences It is another of the many proofs which the President has constantly given of his sincere patriotism Among allAmerican Presidents there has been none more scrupulously loyal to law thanGeneral Grant Andnever was thatfidelity more desirable than during aPresidency immediately following a war which always diminishes the sanctity of civil authority Harpers Weekly A short time since the undenendentcontained one of the most scathing rebukes of editorial egotism we have ever seen The person at whom they were aimed was Rev Justin D Fulton D D who was puffed by bis own paper beyond all decency The Baptist Standard comes to the relief of Dr Fulton and Bays the arti cle in the Independent is one of the most ungenerous and unjustifiable personal atacks we have met with in a long time and states that Doctor Fulton had not taken charge of the paper in questibn When the laudatory editorials appeared but that they were inserted by publishers and were just intended to prepare his way We quote a part of the Independents reply which doesnt lack spirit The first words of the first page after the title and the date were these in doubleleaded type We have great pleasure in announcing to our friends and subscribers that this present number of our paper is issued wider the joint editorial supervision of the Rev Justin D Fulton D 1 and Frederick baunders JiiSq If he had nothing to do with theeditorial supervision of the two first numbers of the paper his publisher lied and Dr Fulton endorsed the falsehood by hissilence If he did supervise these issues he himself suppresses the truth andsuggests a falsehood in his letter to the Standard It is of course possible that the puffs of Dr Fulton contained in the columns of his newspaper were notwritten by his pen but these and otherarticles of the paper were written in a Btyle of peculiar stoppiness which is notcharacteristic of Mr Saunders The latter gentleman has some literary reputation and is supposed to be a man of truth If he will certify that Dr Fulton did not write the paragraphs in question and that he did he will relieve his senior of considerable rhetorical discredit at great expense to himself The moral discredit attaching to the transaction is not so easily transferred We have only to add in reply to the Standard that the Independent does mean to be fair and just even to Justin but that it has awholesome contempt for ecclesiasticalbufloonery and means to put that contempt in language so explicit that the wayfaring man though a Fulton shall not err therein A Social UsaffC There is a word to be said concerning that usage on which the reformersexhaust their whole store of invectiveviz the banishing of immnral women from society while immoral men suffer no such exclusion If what they urged was the equal reprobation of these olienders well and good but since it is rather their equal social acceptance which they contend for the square truth must be said that however these parties may stand before Heaven such are the facts of earth that it is the presence of moral women and not men in Bociety which would instantly fetter there the freedom of every virtuous member of the sex It is because the line is so strongly anil inexorably drawn between reputable female society and the disreputable that a man of careless life is compelled to leave his careless manners behind him when he enters the former certain else to be promptly kicked out of it for his failure in virtuous etiquette even by men who might think very lightlyindeed of his lapses from virtuouscharacter elsewhere It is idle tosentimentalize about the unmistakable air ofinnocence it is hateful to women to bepistaken even alar off in such matters they feel slurred by the speculation ut a glance and it is the sifting of their own sex which saves them from suchannoyances even in a world of unsifted men American women have had anunexampled freedom because American men have had on the whole an unexampled respect for and belief in women The soil of old Puritan morality made the open confident ground where the women of this country have walked andhowever that foundation may be sinking through the trrowinedissipations of men our highwav of liberty would be far more fatally ruined by the similardiffusion through society of corrupt women Lulu Gray Noble Scnbncrs for October A New Womans College There is to be a new WomansColleee at Northampton Mass It will be founded on a generous bequest made by Miss Sophia Smith of Hatfield a town adjoinirjg Northampton who very sensibly took it upon herself to appoint the Board of Trustees This Boardembraces the names of Professors Tyler and Julius Seelye of Amherst CollegeProfessor Park of Andover Joseph White of Williamstown B G Northrop of fijeff Haven and Governor Washburn J ol Massachusetts Such a board of trustees means business and the business is in fact begun A site for the college lias been purchased and is everything that it ought to beProfessor L Clark Seelye of Amherst has been elected the President of theinstitution and has accepted the place What remains to be done is to erect the buildings and determine upon the scheme to be pursued Exactly here we wish to offer a few suggestions We do not believe in bringing large bodies either of young men or joung women under a single roof and keeping them there for a period of four years We are free to sav that no consideration would induce us to place a young wo mandaughter or ward in a college which wouidshut her away from all family life for a period of four years The system is unnatural and no young women in ten can be subjected to its without injury Diseases of bodydiseases of imagination vices of body and imagination everything we would save our children from are bred in these great institutions whore life and association are circumscribed as weeds are forced in hotbeds If we can have a college in which these perils are mainly avoided let us have it if we cannot the quicker the buildings burn down and the longer they remain burned down the better We can think of only one way in which this can be accomplished and that is instead of having the girls all under one roof to brine them under twentv Let the college consist of one centralbuilding for class and assembly rooms and of tasteful dwellingbouses each capable say of boarding twenty girls Let each dwellinghouse be conducted by aprofessor who with his wife and children shall form the center of the family Insist that there shall be a real family in every house and it will not be hard for every young woman to feel that for the timeshe is a member of it Do not shut out men from the daily conduct of school affairs Dr JG HollandScribners for October TIio Gentleman in Politics There is work enough legitimate work for the American scholar in the study and intelligent handling of thesequestions but the fact that there is aconsiderable number of American scholars mixed up with every scheme of iniquity in the country leads us to suspect that the country is not to be saved byscholarship alone There are two sides lo the matter as there are to most matters In our late civil war it was West Point pit ted against West Point each side bein actuated by its own independent ideas of duty and patriotism What we realty want is gentlemen in politics A gentleman is a person who knows something of the world who pos sesses dignity and selfrespect whorecognizes tho rights of otherB and the du ties he owes to society m all its relations who would as soon commit suicide as stain his palm with a bribe who would not degrade himself by intrigues There are various types of gentlemen too and the higher the type the better thepolitician If beyond all he is a man of faith and religion a Christiangentleman he is the highest type of agentleman and in his hands the questions which Mr Reid has proposed to the scholar would have the fairest handling that men are capable of giving them We do not think that the worst feature of our politics is lack of intelligence in our politicians There is a great deal of cultivated brajn in Congress Public questions are understood and intelligent ly discussed there Congress does not suffer from lack of knowledge andculture half as much as it does from lack of principle If Congress were composed of gentlemen we could even dispense with what scholars we have and be bet ter off than we are todav In the government of our cities we could very well afford to get along with out scholars if we could have onlymodestly educated gentlemen If theheavyjawed floridfaced fullbellieddiamondbrooched bully who now typifies the city politician were put to hisappropriate work of railroadbuilding orEuperintending gangs of ignorant workmen and there could be put in his place good quiet business men of gentlemanlyinstincts and of sound moral principle we could get along very comfortably without the scholar though there would not be the slightest objection to him In brief we want better men than we have a great deal more than we want brighter or better educated men GeorgeWashington got along very well as apolitician on a limited capital of culture and a very large one of patriotism andpersonal dignity Aaron Burr was ascholar whose lack of principle spoiled him for any good end in politics and made his name a stench in the nostrils of his country DrJ G Holland Scribncrsfoi October Zhp about omc The agricultural editor of the New York Herald says that a successfulgrapist assures him that he has always found tree leaves weedings of the garden chip manure and forest mold either singly or combined freely applied the best mulch for grape vines Milk for butter making should be handled gently and put at rest as soon as possible A reduction of temperature desirable as soon as the millc is drawn this should be elkcted with the least amount of stirring When set it should bo protected from even the least jar Churning in a milk room or any work that jars the building will retard the rising of cream A French paper contains this recipe for preserving fence posts TaUe linseed oil boil it and mix it with charcoal dust until the mixture has the consistency of an ordinary paint Give to the posts a single coat of the mixture or paint before planting them and no farmer even living the age of the patriarchs of old will live long enough losee the same posts rotten Fall Trealincnt of Sheep It is customary to give sheep the run of the fields till the snow cuts off their support And even after that we often see them pawing up the snow to get the grass The result is almost invariably that the sheep go into winter quarters in a reduced condition It requires then extra feed to bring them up again grain at that and grain is not generally a profitable feed for store Bheep or at least is less profitable than other cheaper yet nutritious fodder When the fall rains come cold and often soaking and later the snows damp ana clinging sun worse sneiter snoultt be prepared lor sheep indeed they should have access to shelter the entire summer to avoid the heat as well as the spring and fall rains and if they do not readily take advantage oi it they should be made to occupy it and feed there Exchange Larcriue Shrubs i It is often to us a subject of surprise to find so few persons especially those re siding in the country a distance from nurseries who attempt to increase their stock of shrnbberv by laverine the branches Almost every variety of shrubs can be thus multiplied Even among those who do this it is not often that the queen of flowers the Rose is thus treated It is usually nronanted by sticking cuttings from the new wood in August and nursing carefully through the winter By layering the growing branches however it is by tho succeed season a bloomer and this too can be done easily that is without the use of a sash or hot bed usually resorted to with the cutting In laying down take a sharp knife and slit the part of the branch that enters the ground from one joint to another then cover with two inches of soil and fasten down with a forked stick Not only roses but almost every kind of shrub can be thus propagated And the person who does not know how to do thisshould go without them all the days of bis life Ger Telegraph Novel Agricultural Patent A writer in one of our magazines com menting on the patents that have been issued for agricultural implements says Only three years have passed away since a very ingenious gentleman from the ru ral districts applied tor a patent toprevent cows from switching their tails He presented two models one shaped like a bottle around the neck of which the cows tail was to be curled the other consisted of a square block with a hole through the center wherein the tail was to be put and then tied in a knot so that the animal could not withdraw it On tha presentation of the application the official examiner thought it could not be granted because of a similar device in Don Quixote where Sancho Panzatrying to sleep n a hayloft was kept awake by the braying of bis donkey below His wakefulness gave Snncho time to reflect that when riding the donkey theanimal always switched his tail when he brayed Descending hastily from the hayloft the squire tied a block to the donkeys tail to prevent him frombraying But as this device originated with a Spaniard and had never been repeated in this country the Office decided to grant the patent Our readers willtherefore remember that they cannot lie a cows tail to prevent its switchingwithout payment of royalty to the owner of this privilege lUECEIANICAL MeTIIOD FOR FATTENING Poultry In the Gardens ofAcclimatation at Paris it is very scientificallypracticed under the direction of MOdile Martin Its advantages say theauthorities do not consist in the rapidity of the process alone but above all in the special quality of the meat thusproduced It is solid very tender exceedingly finegrained not overfat which would not be an advantage very white in color and of a flavor quite exceptionallyexcellent If this is so of course there is no help for the chickens They must perforce enter their epinetles and bemathematically crammed Behold here theingenious contrivance of the Gardens ofAcclimatation for manufacturing thisexceptionally excellent flavor It is a huge cylinder with fourteen faces each in five stories of threecompartments each It holds therefore 210 fowls The cylinder is hollow andempty except for the axis on which it turns This hollow construction renders it easily ventilated and kept clean Before it is a box for the operutor This box orcarriage moves up and down by pulleys The gaveur that sounds less offensive than crammer operates thusCommencing at the bottom o one of these fourteen faces he seizes with the left hand the neck of the chicken andpressing on each side of the beak the bird is forced to open its mouth as any lady knows who has doctored a sick chicken or canary The gaveur then introduces the metallic end of the rubber tube into the throat of tho chicken and by apressure of the foot on a pedal the food rises and at the same time the amountpassing through the tube is indicated on a dial in front of the operator It istherefore a skillful operation for ihe gaveur whatever other motions are necessary must pay strict attention to the needle on the dial or he will give his chicken too much or too little The threechickens duly fed he turns the cylinder on its axis a little and the next face of it isbefore him When he has completed the round he turns ie crang anu tnecarriage rises to the next story and so lie goes on to the fop Having completed the upper circuit every chicken m that cpinelte is duly fed Then he turns the crank in the other direction and the carriage descends to the floor where it rests on a railroad It is then moved along before the next rpineite nnd the whole operation on 210 more chickens is repeated A skillful operator will gave or cram 400 chickens in an hour That is less than nine seconds to each one for the time to move the cylinder to move the carriage up down and to the next cpinette must be counted out Vndjr this cpinette regime it requires an average of fifteen days to fallen a duck eighteen for a chukentwenty for a goose and twenty five for a turkey The food used for chickens is barley and corn meal mixed with miiK into a dough so thin that no other liquid is necessary Tho ordinary quantity given is from ten to twenty centiliters or from seventenths to one and fonrtenlhs of a gill each time but this quantity is reachedgradually When the maximum that any chicken can assimilate is found the numberindicating this quantity is plactd before its compartment and the gaveur must measure it exactly on tho dial Truly this is an age of wonders What a laborsaving invention ihis rpiiiettc must he to the chickens Maybe it is not wise to give these details What if someenterprising American should be thereby tempted to invest his whole fortune in a grand improved automaton steampower epinette warranted to feed ten thousand chickens a minute Marie I funland in Harpers for October Account him thy real friend whodesires thv good rather than thy good will Our real commentators are ourstrongest traits of character and we usually come out of the Bible with all those texts sticking to us which ouridiosyncrasies attract Bcechei The V it oralCL Winks for his part after an Irour or two of it got bored with the levity of the conversation and rustled about ho that he was put out of the carrinirc to run for the benefit of his health Ho went along for a mile pleased enough gathering dust in clouds about him But when he intimated a desire to be taken the bovs hardhearted beings laugh ed in the face of Winks A ran will do you good old fellow said Dick with cruel satisfaction A short time after ward I am sorrv to sav a dreadful acci dent nature unknown happened in Winks He uttered a heartrending hriek mid appeared immediately after making bis way toward the carriage holding one feathery paw indemonstrative suffering The anxious partystopped immediately and Winks made his wav toward them laboriously limping and uttering painful cries But when all adust as he was this hypocrite was luted into the carnage holding up tho injured member and was laid upon tho softest cushion to have it examined words fail me to express the sardonic grin with which he showed his milk white teeth There was no more the matter with tho little villains paw my gentle readeithan with yours or mine X Germau Sunday The Germans idea ot Sunday isaiithiigbut Puritanic It is tho veryopposite It is for them a day ofamusement It is no unusual thing to beasked by a Germau on Monday morning Well how did you amuse yourselfyesterday There are those among the Germans of course who respect and keep the Sabbath but then there arealways enough of them who do not and to judge by the numbers in which theyfrequent their places of amusement onSunday the parks beergardens andpublic halls a stranger might possibly be tempted to inquire whether the Germans had any idea of a Sabbath Menwomen and children older men with their wives and younger ones with their sweethearts throng these places every Sunday and enjoy themselves careless of what impression they make on their fellowcitizens of American origin to whom the sound of brass instruments on the Sabbath air is anything but welcome or edifying In tiie cold days of winter when the parks and beergardena are dreary and shorn of their beauty tho German seeks amusement in some hall instead Here he treats himself to a compound of rather heterogeneouselements to music beer and smoke and to all of thom at once Any Sundayafternoon in the cold of winter you may find him with his wife or child or both in some large hall one of a hundred or five hundred smoking his meerschaum or his cigar sipping his beer wine or coffee aud listening to a selection from Meyerbeer or Beethoven Were itsummer he would add the odor of roses to the fumes of his tobacco and the smell of his beer for he is as fond of flowers as he is of any of these and is neverhappier than when the air trembling to the notes of the orchestra is redolent with tobacco smoke the perfume of the rose heliotrope and hop and he is himself in the midst of them all lnic Monthly for October Swimming in the Salt lake There are no fish in the great Salt Lake The only living thing beneath its waters is a worm about a quarter of an inch long This worm shows upbeautifully beneath the lens of a microscope When a storm arises the worms aredriven ashore by the thousands anddevoured by the black gulls We found a pure stream pouring into tho lake It was filled with little chubs and shiners The fish became frightened and were driven down the brook into the briny lake The instant they touched its waters they came to the surface belly upward and died without a gasp The water is remarkably buoyant Eggs and potatoes float upon itlike corks Mr Rood and myself stripped and went in swimming I dove into the lake from a long pier which had been built for a small steamboat that formerly pliedupon the waters The sensation was novel The water was bo salty that my eyes and ears began to smart but so buoyant that I found no difficulty in floating even when the air was exhausted in my lunge As I struck out lor the beach I felt as light as a feather In spite of all that I could do my heels would fly out of tho water I found it impossible to stand upon the bottom Tho lightness of the water and thesurgingof the waves forced my feet from under me A person who could notswim might be easily drowned in five feet of water His head would go down iike a lump of lead while his feet would fly up like a pair of ducks Tho water is as clear a3 tli9 water of Seneca Lake so clear that the bottom could be seen at the depth of twenty feet When wo reached tho shore ami crawled out upon the sand in tho light of the sun our bodie3 were quickly coated with salt We wero compelled to go to tho little stream from which we had driven the chubs and tinners and wash off in fresh water before wo put on our clothes Our hair was filled wilh grains of salt which could not be washed out The Mormons occasionally visit the lakes in droves for the purpose ot bathing Many of them say that their health is improved by leaving the salt upon their bodies and dressing without wiping themselves New York Sav Vaifs What modern argument in support of thy truthfulness of revalalin didDavid address to Goliath The Testimony of the Hocks The strongest propensity in a womans nature says a surly editor is a desire to know what ingoing on and the next is to boss the job What proof have we from Sampsons later hhtorv tint he retained hid witafter his hair was cut When thePhilistines desired him to amuse them ho brought down the house Over the shop door of a porkbutcher in a village in the eastern counties may be seen a signboard representing a mint in a black coal brumiUhing ft hatehri with the inscription John Smith kiJU pigs like his father A minisler nhu had a negro servant in his family happened 010 Sunday when preaching t see the ncro wh was at church an 1 who could not read or wrim a wordscribhlingaway most ind ustriously After meeting he said to th negro Tom what wero you doing in the church Takin notes tnasa nil do g amnion takes notes Bring your notes hero and t me see them Tom brought hb notes which looked more like Chinese than KtigHtsh Why Tom this is all nonsense 1 thought so massa nil de time dat you was preachin it