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RIGHT WAY TO COOK TOMATOES.

Few people understand how to treat to-
matos. Some eat them raw; others have
them slightly boiled with bread (worth-
less stuff; some take off the skin, and
leave the seeds.
Unless you evaporate 70 per cent ol
water from the tomato, you will obtain
ftom it nothing but half nauseous por-
ridges, never that delicious tempting pulp,
whose highly developed fragrance renders
it so pleasing to the nostril, nice to the
taste, sharp to the teeth, and healthy to
the stomach.
Take half peek of ripe. washed toma-
tos, cut them open by halves, scratch out
the seeds, preserve tie skin; have skill
let or any earthcn-ware dish, place it over
brisk fire, with an ounce of butter, and
from one half to one pound of sliced fat
ham; twenty minutes after, put in the to-
matOs, pepper, little salt; let boil fast
for about one hour, diminishing the fire as
the water disappears; let it simmer for
three hours or more on hot ashes, to the
consistency of half liquid. half compact
pulp; turning often with wooden spoon
to prevent any sticking at the bottom; COW
er the skillet when the fire goes down: all
is right.
Ring no bell, blow no horn, the boys
will be at hand bcforetime, snufing hard,
wetting their lips At this stage of pro-
ceedings, the prudent housewife will break
in some eggs, half an hour before dinner,
and then there will be general craving for
more. 4. Nor.
NOTE-Whatever people may think of
Prof. Mot's Ox-yOkes, they must own that
the French beat the world in cookery.-ED.
%. CWltirator.
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mistrllanrous.
THE WAY MAY BENTON GOT MAR
RIED.

why have you never been married,
May?"
This question was asked by gentleman
some thirty-fve or six years of age, who
had been for nearly twenty minutes close
ly watching the motions of a lady who sat
near him at a workable.
The gentleman was fine, noble looking
man, with frank, well formed features and
pleasant expression. He was handsomely
dressed, and to judge by the looks of his
hair, you might have said that he had a
wife, had he looked IN other respects like a
married man-which he did not.
The room in which tho two were sitting
betokened wealth and taste. Its occu-
pants were evidently in the upper ranks of
life
The lady addressed was person of fair,
interesting face and graceful form. She
certainly did look remarkably well, as she
bent her head with its abundant and
shining hair, and piled her white hands in
the task which employed her sight and ap-
parently her whole thoughts.
Probably conviction of her attractive
ness and worth had caused the question
which her companion put in such a hearty
abrupt tone, that May started and dropped
the red worsted work upon which she had
been intent
"What question" she cried with a
light laugh-'.just as if 1 cared about be-
ing married.
"Why should you not care. May? Sure
ly it is the best and happiest state for a
man or woman
Granted with proviso,' said May:
"but Mr.. Rossiter, if you think SO, why
have you never married.?
"YOu are a true Yankee. May. and an
swer question by asking another; but tell
me, now, why you are, at thirty years of
age, still single?"
"HOw dare you say l am thirty years
old? Upon my word, if you were not broth
er to my sister-in-law, I'd not speak to you
again for week.
May pretended to pOut; and the pOut
was quite becoming to her full arched lips.
Didn't you yourself tell me your age,
and that only the day before yesterday?
Your memory seems very short, Miss Ben
ton"
We'll, l didn't expect you were going
to throw it up to me that / was an old
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21
noetrpp.
HOW LoNG2

In days of old, they waited at the altar
The men of God-how earnestly and long,
Till, from the cloud of incense, caught th'
whisper,
The "still small vOiee"-they bore it quickly
How earnestly they watched the UnknOwn's
presence,
And longed to see Him. talking face to face
How Moses worshipped in that holy place
Lord. why not now, Thy people wait upon Thee
In holy nearness, follow Thee as then?
Since Thou art come in love, no cloud to hide
Thee?
No terror burning bush, but peace to men.
Peace for the spirit shrcuded in the mortal,
Who fostereth the Dove-the holy sign;
Peace for the souls long waiting at the portal
Of heavenly rest-peace, love and light Di-
vine.
How long, o Lord ?-how long ere Thou wilt
Their prayers, who stand within Thy temple
gates
For some yet lift to The the hallowed censer,
A nation for the heavenly message waits.
OH speak to him who stsndeth in the temple,
With q loud voice and fearful, touch his ear;
Bid justice on the poisonous blossoms trample,
Till crushed oppression teacheth men to
fear.
Oh! touch their hearts, as long ago the ancients,
Who long had dwelt, submissive to wrong
rule,
Were touched we bide the angel of Thy pa-
tienee.
Thy children faint in the Egyptian school
Thy Afric's children long have waited earnest,
In loathsome bondage, waited long Thy word; :;
Waited Thy still small voic,," its kin div i'm
press
To touch the tyrant. till her woe is heard.
Have waited till the pavement of their pathway
Is laid in hearts torn from their ravished
homes;
And Pharaoh, standing in golden gateway,
Got by their toll, scorns to entomb their bones.
But nO,c, o Lord ! zee ,oat thy equal children
Thy fair and ebon sons and daughters watt
Not for the mercy voice. but Sinai's thunder
The wrath, the pestilence-the True Gods
hatel
We wait the wrathful vial poured in anger;
Wait the Destroying Angel, tarrying long.
Come in Thy terrors, God, the Just Avenger,
And seattle the Despot power-requite the
wrong.
In grief and blood no more baptiz: Thy chill
dren,
But be Thy merey's mantle ore them spread;
Till the dread host. 'whelmed in its own do
miniun
Gives DER the TOLLS numbered with the deadl
SPRING HILL, o. CELIA.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

SPECIFIC GRAvIrY.-'What was the sub
ject of Dir. As last lecture 2 said q
young man to gentleman who professed to
be much attached to lectures. and had gen
orally attended series on natural philoso-
ply for a number of winter
1t was Specific Grartty, and very in
teresting lecture 1t was
Specific Gravity l do not exactly un-
derstand what that is, said the inquirer
what is it?'
Why, it is difficult to describe; but ID
is round piece of silver, or tin. little
larger than dollar. and having hole
through it Mr.. A. had one in his hand.
and described it very accurately. 1t is
very ingenious invention, and every mechsn.
ic ought to understand how to use it
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

COOKED FooD FOR SwISE.-Samuel H.
Clay of Kentucky, has been experimenting
in feeding several lots of hogs changing
then from raw to cooked, and from grouud
to unground food with the following results:
One bushel of dry corn made FIVE pounds
and ten ounces of live pork. One bushel
of boiled corn made fourteen pounds and
seven ounces of pork. One bushel of
ground corn, boiled, made in one instance
sixteen pounds and seven ounces and in
another nearly eighteen pounds of pork
Estimating corn at 90 cents bushel, and
pork at eight cents pound. We have as
the result of one bushel of dry corn. As cts.
worth Of pork, of one bushel of boiled corn,
ll6 cents worth of pork: and of pork; and
of one bushel of ground corn 1856 cents Of
pork.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21
BOSTON.

BOSTON.
This city is the capital of the free States
east of the Connecticut line. 1t is famous
in its history as the city in which the Dec
laration of Independence was declared.
This unfortunate event alienated Boston
from southern and western states-which
still refuse to abandon their dependence
upon colorsd slave labor. What shock
ing outrage this is to the heart of an Eng
hshman, who regards all persons as upon
an equality. Boston is hilly city, sur
rounded by swamps, and remarkable for
its aquatic productions.
The amusements of the people of Boston
consist in attending lectures, temperance
meetings, and fugitive slave law conven-
tions, and at these they become, at times,
very much excited. Their lecturers are
generally schoolmasters and professors, (the
people arc nearly all professOrs.) Among
them heard a Mr. Longfellow, who wrote
a poem about a German castle on the Rhine.
They have wit among them by the name
of Oliver Wendell Holmes; but as far as l
could judge of the man, from having once
met him in the street, 1 should not be in
clined to think he had much brilliancy
about him. He is-entirely local in the
character of his mind, and, like the rest of
his townsmen, is always talking of BostOnl
This city holds the same position in INTEL
lectual and moral greatness to the rest of
the Union, that Neweastle-upon-Ty Tyne does
in the United Kingdom to the Empire of
Great Britain. There is one Individual in
Boston who seems to stand very high as
writer. His name ia Emerson-I have
had an opportunity of reading one of his
volumes, and l confess my entire inability
to understand the point at which he is
aiming. He is at the head of a sect here
called Spiritual Rappers / had often
heard of Boston Rappers,' but never had
the good fortune to meet one until my in
to Emerson. Heis very NOR
al and innocent man, but, like the rest of
his townsmen, thinks Boston the greatest
city in the world.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21
TO MAKE FRUIT TREES BEAR.

Some trees which make a rapid growth
of wood, are very slow in yielding fruit
The Autumn Bergamot is one of this class,
often growing steadily for ten or twelve
years without producing solitary pear
An Orchardist may well become impatient
with such trees, and cast about for some
method to expedite their fruitfulness.
Let him try root pruning. Late in the
Autumn. or early in Winter, uncover the
ends of the roots, and with a sharpe spade,
cut off the tap root, if there be one. and
shorten the side roots, more or less, accord
ing to the luxuriance of the tree. The side
roots should be removed with pruning
knife, and with an upward drawn cut At
the first operation, let the pruning be mod
crate
Another method is to transplant nom
bearing trees frequently-say every two or
three years. of course, this can be done
only on trees of moderate size. This is,
in reality, a sort of root pruning. 1t
checks the flow of sap to the extrmities, and
converts side buds into fruit spurs. Trees
so treated should be kept vigorous by am
pie manuring. Mr.. Riyars, of ENGLAND,
an eminent pomologist, used this method
extensively, to bring new varieties into early
bearing. He prefers it to grating on the
ounce, because, after the trees have been
tested, he can withhold root pruning, and
his trees then assume the qualities of stand
ards, he does not recommend the long con-
tinuance of this practice on any other tree
Too long, and too severe root-pruning in
jures the quality of the fruit and shortens
tie life of the tree.-Amer. Agricultmlst.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21
YES" said May, Il see you understand

"Yes," said May, Il see you understand
it"
"Oh, May, my best, my dear girl Why
didn think of this before? Why didn't
you tell me, dear May
"Tell you'll 1 should have looked well
.-I?"
Indeed you would have looked we'll
looked charming in my eyes. What a
pity you had not confidence enough in me
to have allowed me to guess at the truth
before. Why, May, I should have mar
ried you years ago, and have been the hap
piest and most grateful fellow alive How
stupid men CAN be! But come, May, we
must go and tell my sister. She will be
delighted indeed"
And he led the embarrassed and blush.
ing May into the presence of his sister, and
admitted her to the great rejoicing; and
in few weeks from that day, Rossiter and
May were no more twain, but one flesh.
Nobody knows what a month may bring
forth; nor to what the simplest question
may lead one.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

New KIND OF CIDER.-At the late meet
ing of the United States Agricultural Soci-
ETY., held at Washington, D. c., Mr.. A.
jerks, Virginia farmer, produced num-
Der of bottles of good cider, made from the
juice of the sorgho, or Chinese sugar-cane
Nh. jerks process is very simple. He
treats the juice to bring the feculent mat
ters to the top, whence he removes them by
skimming. He then barrels or bottles the
liquor, and lets it stand. In about eight
days it has become cider, and when fermen-
tation has advanced to the right stage, he
bottles it, and preserves it as champagne
Scientific american.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

An amusing story. says Toledo. Ohio.
correspondent of the Knickerbocker, is told
Of the acute sense of smell of tobacconist
of our city. He, together with his clerk.
was examining some tobacco submitted for
his inspection. After carefully inhaling the
favor by three or four protracted ai e. he
exclaimed to his clerk: John, can't you
smell old leather in that tobaeco?' John
presented it to his olfactories, and thought
he could The chief then smelled again.
and declared that he could also detect
very slight favor Of maple sugar. This
last aroma John pronounced beyond his
powers. Samples ofleaftobacco, you know.
are taken from each end of the hogsheal.
and also from the center The samples ex
amined were from the ends. On taking a
SIMPLE from the middle, there was found an
old boot heel, full of maple pegsI Juds-
ment on 'tobbacker' from this quarter Is
now regarded as final
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

SELF-EvIDENTLY DRUNK.-0ld P, who
resides at Okoloma, Miss, is well known as
one who never pays a debt if it can be
avoided. Has plenty of money, however,
and is jolly, rollicking old chap. Gets
pretty drunk occasionally, when. of course.
some friends take care of him Not long
ago he fell into the hands of friend who
held his note for sum of money, and as it
was a last chance, the friend dived ntoold
P.'s wallet, took out the amount of the nsts
and put the note where the money had been.
When he awoke to consciousness, as was
bis wont, he took his wallet out to count
how much money he was out Findin. his
purse almost empty, he thundered:
How in b-l-a-z-e-s did l spend all NY
money?'
You paid of that note held answered
the friend.
Well muttcred old P, quietly slowing
away his wallet, 4 must have been orful
drunk
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21
A KISS AND IT'S RESULT.

Said I, MY pretty miss.
Let me have little kiss
And revel'd in the bliss,
Rich and nlelier;
"Just help yourself to more
Sand she, tripping o'er the floor.
And backing toward the door
Of the cellar.
never saw the trap
Till fell through kerslap.
And you should have seen me drap
Through the hole;
Full twenty feet fell
How 1 struck 1 cannot tell
But sent up sueh yell,
On my soul.
That the girl thought | was dying.
And at once set up crying
For the old man who was trying,
No. far off.
To mend broken pump.
He turned, and with jump
Cleared sled, and tumbled plump
Into trough
But what has this to do
With the story, which is true
As the gospel, old or new? ?
With hop.
He cams up. inquired the matter
Whence the screaming and the elatter p
He had half mind TO rap her
On the top
OF her head. She meekly pointed
Down the steps, where l, lay disjointed,
Lay, with grease and mud annointed.
On the floor.
blizzard" up those stairs was carried
Quite month there blizzard" tarried-
In two months was Blizzard married
Nothing more.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

BENEFIT OF RAINY DAY.-'noscy,'
said an affected young lady to friend who
had called in to see her, do you think 10
will be fine tomorrow Rosalie, thinking
she wished it to be fine, replied. Yes
III be so put out if it is ine.' said Bessie.
'as l want to go visiting Why, how
strange you are, Bessie Why. Rosey,
where I'm going they have splendid dinners,
and such company; and if it rains must
stop to dinner and dry my clothes, and then
may be they'd send some young gentleman
home with me. Yousee now. don't you?
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21
FUNERAL OF A SIBERIAN CHIEF.

At late meeting of the London Royal
Historical Society, Mr. Atkinson, whose in
teresting travels among the Kirgiz, and
other nomades of Siberia, have recently
been published, delivered to the meeting
"a Narrative of some of his Adventures
amoung those rarely visited tribes, " giving
graphic picture of their habits and man.
ners The following is an account of the
funeral of chief named Darma Syrym,
who died near Norzaisan, when Mr.. Atkin-
con was on a visit to the tribe:
80 soon as the chief was dead, messen-
gers were sent off to invite the head men
residing within hundred miles, who all
Immediately repaired to the place. The
body of the chief was laid out in the best
attire, his chair of state was placed at his
head, his saddle, arms, and clothing were
hung around, and silk curtains were sus-
pended from the roof of his court. His
wives and daughters, with the females of
the tribe, knelt around, chanting the fune-
raj dirgc, in which the voices of men occa-
sionally joined. While this was going on.
the funeral feast was preparing Ten horses
and hundred sheep were slaughtered, and
the flesh was thrown into numerous caul-
drons, boiling over fires built in the ground,
which were constantly kept stirred by men
stripped to the waist. When sufficient
quantity of food was dressed, the feast be-
gan. The guests sat in a circle round the
meat, the chiefs nearest the centre; those
of next degree next them; and the women
outside.
"The feast lasted seven days, during
which 1000 persons partook heartily in the
consumption of mutton and horse flesh
On the eighth day the body was conveyed
to the tomb on a camel; the camel also
carried the chair of state. The two favor
lite horses of the chief followed; after which
went the whole tribe, singing the funeral
hymn. On reaching the place of burial,
the body was deposited in the grave, and
the horses were forthwith slain, and placed
beside the body of their master. When the
grave was filed up, all returned to the en-
campment to continue the funeral feast,
which was furnished by 100 horses and
1000 sheep, slaughtered for the occasion.
The festival continued for several days after
the burial, the chief and the family of the
deceased chanting his praises every day,
until all the guests had gradually departed
for heir homes The feast was kept up by
the tribe for considerable time afterwards /
and the chanting was repeated every day,
at sunrise and sunset, for a whole year.
Mr.. Atkinson dwelt on the very impressive
nature of the ceremOny-the wailing mu-
sic of the funeral chants-the sorrow, ap-
parent at least, exhibited by an immense
concourse of mourners, mingled with the al
most savage accompaniment of the feast;
all this, in the midst of desert which
seemed of unlimited extent, produced an
effect which an Englishman finds it diff
cult to picture to himself
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

A short time since, John Van Buren
and other dignitaries were having a good
time over their wine and walnuts at a ia
nous boarding house, in New York, when
the landlady, plump, rose widow-came
into the room. Madam what are your
pOlitics?" inquired one of the party, Il
am straightout, Silver Gray Whig," she
replied. look at her closely, gentlemen.
remarked the Prince, for l assure you the
male species of that animal is entirely ex-
tinct. IL
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

ancients if we, like them, would enjoy the
priceless boon of health, and our nation no
longer be called as it has heen, ''welk in
body, but strong in intellect" but be both
and Intellectually strong.
c. A. REED,
An Old Teacher.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

L'Estrange went to visit Nat Lee in a
madhouse. Mr.. Lee" said he, Il fear
you do not know me-" Not know you?"
said the poet
Custom may alter men. and manners
change,
But I am still strangr Lee, and you arc still
LEStrGngs."
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

A MoTHER's PRAYER.-An exchange
says: The boy that feels that his name is
in good mother $ prayer is COM
parativcly safe from vice and the ruin to
which it leads The sweetest thought than
N. P. Willis ever penned. grew out of
reverence to his pious mothers prayers for
him. Tossed by the waves, in vessel which
was bearing him homeward, he wrote,
"sleep safe, OH wave worn mariner,
Nor fear to night, nor storm seal
The ear OF Heaven bends low to herr;
He comes to shore who sleeps with me-"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

The Albany Statesman gives sketch Of
a lecture by blind man, and gravely says,
be spoke without notes
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

How is it that husbandman and seams
tress follow the same corruption? Because
the one gathers what he sows, and the 9TH
er sews what she gathers.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21
ENGLISH NOTES ON AMERICA" !"
BY A DISTINGUISHED TRAVELLER.

Our writer makes some very interesting
and unique remarks upon society in BOs-
ton--
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-09-21

What is next to an oystero The shell.
A hard case that.
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WHOLE NO. 9242.z
Wariittp.

Blizzard" Californian, relates the follow
ing in an epistlein which he endeavors to prove
and does-that anybody can write poetry.
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co MI E!!!
BARNUM'S HARDWARE STORE,
At Warren Trumbull Co., Ohio,

rs now filed with ample stocks. and
Il replste with the latest styles Of HOUSE TRIM
MINGS and most desirable coiors Tor painting blinds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1859-03-05

THRILLING IScIDExT.--Mr. J. T.
Headly, in his ''Diary Of Chaplain
in the Army of the Revolution" relates
the following:
Soon after the battle of Bunker Hill.
as the British were advancing through
Charleston to the attack, soldier en-
tered house where the husband lay
sick. His wife WAS young and beauti-
ful, and hearing the soldier in the next
room went out to meet him. He i'm
mediately addressed insulting propo-
sails to her. Being angi1ly repulsed he
attempted violence, when her screams
aroused her sick husband from his bed
Nerved with the sudden excitement,
he leaped up, and seeing his wife strug-
Cling in the arms Of a British soldier,
ran him through the body. The man
fell back on the floor, and as his eyes
met those Of the destroyer, he shrieked
olt, "my brother" The recognition
was mutual, and with the exclamation
''1 have murdered my brother," the
over excited invalid husband fell dead
on the corpse. The unhappy brothers
were Scotchmen. One had emigrated
to America several years before, and
the other had joined the English army,
and after a long separation had thus
met to perish together.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1859-03-05

Let right principles, chaste thoughts,
noble purposes, manly aims, grow in
your garden-not the accursed wild
oats! Be temperate, prudent, virtuous,
obedient to superiors, honorable, kind.
Aim to be a man-not a sensualist-
Govern yourself as {. man, instead of
letting passion, appetite, or any sensual
desire rule you like tyrant Sow no
more wild oats. You will find trouble
enough with the seeds already scatter
ed in your fields
"The scales, said my friend, sdroppcd
at once from my eyes. I saw that the
good old physician was right, and that
this cant about sowing wild oats in
volved one Of the most dangerous fal-
lacles into which the mind Of a vouno
man could fall. 1t was my last folly Of
this kind"