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How to Make Spruce Beer.

AS the season is here when pleasant
summer drinks, free from alcoholic in
fluence, are frequently brewed by the
housewife, or the well brought up
daughters, who ought to be taught a
little of every thing in the way of
household dutieS-We append the fol-
lowing recipes, taken from an exchange
and which are claimed to be excellent:
1. Take three gallons of water OF
blood warmth, three half pints of mo-
lasses, tablespoonful of essence of
spruce, and the like quantity of ginger;
mix well together with a gill of yeast;
let stand over night, and bottle in the
morning. 1t will be in good condition
to drink in twenty-fOurs. 1t is pala-
table, wholesome beverage.
2. Those who prefer mead have only
to substitute honey for the molasses
named above, and for one-third the
ginger use allspice. Half the quantity
of yeast will be sufficient, and the bot
tling should occur the second day in
stead of the next morning. twill be
fit to drink in four days after being bot
tied, and viii keep for many weeks
A small quantity of alcohol is formed
during the ferme entation, and this pre-
vents the acetOus fermentation so COM
mon to spruce beer. The essence of
spruce is of course left out in the ma
king of mead. The alcohol formed
from the fermentation of honey resem-
bles that found in m,ethegtiaa, while the
1alcohol formed from the fermentation
of molasses isrum. Those who imagine
that they can make either spruce beer
or mead without entirely forming any
alcohol are mistaken; but it is present
in so slight a proportion as not to be
sensible to the most delicate temper
Iance nerves. -.l 9-;fft .a3I1 a---e
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MiisfeIlanenns.
The Coming Poet.
Boston Correspondence of the New York Even
ing Post. 1ls 80

Boston Correspondence of the New York Even
ing Post. - 80
joaquin Miller, the suddenly-risen
California poet, who, unknown and
alone," grimly hugging his manuscript
crossed the continent, posted through
New York City, set his back against
Boston, and sailed for England; where,
in London, at his own expense, and
without the aid of a publisher, he bro't
out an edition of five hundred copies of
a collection of original poems, which at
once created a sensation in the great
metropolis, and won long columns of
praise from leading London critics =
this but-a-day-ago-unknown joaquin
Miller is just now talked about and ask
ed about here with as much curiosity
and interest as was Bret Harte q while
ago, and the recent number of the Eve
ming Post, containing extracts from
the London reviews, and the reviews
themselves which imne ediately follow
ed, have been sought and eagerly read
by the critics of the town, and efforts
have been made to ascertain who and
what the new poet is. Letters from
London, received to-day, have a good
deal to say about him. In some incom-
prehensible way, they state, Miller got
atonce, after his arrival, into the very
midst of the Rosetti and Swinburne
ciiques of London, and thenceforth be-
came a lion among the litterute,wes.
He is said to be an unadulterated Am
erican of the West, a rough, unvar-
nished Californian, an original forty
miner, and a genius. He has lived a
good part of his days in Mexico and
California, and has roughed il at the
mines and led a life as unlike that Of a
poets as one can imagine. His admir-
ers in London call him the Byron Of
America, and one of them, Rosetti, /
believe, has presented him with a copy
Of q volume of Walt Whitman's poems
inscribed something after this fashion: /:
"This volume of the works of the best
American poet is presented to the sec
ond best American poet" 1t is said
that Froude, the historian, Is preparing
a careful and eulogistic review of the
new poets poems for Frazer's, SWIM
burne for the Fortnightly Review, and
ROsetd for some other periodical, and
Jean Ingel0w and VIM. Morris are
talking to everybody enthusiastically
about them. He has chosen it seems
the Messrs Robert Bros, of this city
as his American publishers, having in
the meantime, with clear eye to bus
iness, procured the American copyright
American editions may, therefore, be
soon looked for, and then comparisons
may be made with the poems of Bret
H6arte, John Hay, and the Michigan
Carleton.
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Breaches Of Promise of Japan.

The curious hold superstitiOni has
on the minds of the japanese is well
illustrated by the proceedings taken
by a. Japanese damsel when her lover
proves false to his vows. When the
world is at rest at two in the morning,
the woman rises. She dons white
robe, and high sandals or clogs. Her
Golf is q metal tripod, in which are
thrust three lighted candles, around her
neck she hangs mirror, which falls
upon her breast; in her left hand she
carries a. small straight figure-the
effigy of her faithless lover; and in the
right she carries a hammer and nails,
with which she fixes the figure to one
of the sacred trees that surround the
shrine. Then she prays for the death
of the traitor, vowing that if her petl-
ton be heard, she will herself pull out
the nails which now offend the god by
wounding the mystic tree. Night after
night she. comes to the shrine, and each
night she strikes in two more nails, be-
llieving that every nail will shorten her
lovers life; for the god, to save his
tree, will surely strike him dead.
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From Harper's Bazaar.
TIE COURTLN.
By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
God makes sech nights. all white and still
Fur'z you can look or listen.
Moon shine an snow on field and hill,
All silence an all glisten.
Zekle crep' up, quite unbeknown, li
An peeked in thru the winder;
An there sat Hubby all alone,
18th no one nigh to hinder. 5ll
A fireplace filed the rooms one side,
With halfa cord o. wood in
There warn't no stoves (till comfort died)
To bake ye to a puddin'. T
The walnut logs shot sparkles out
Towards the pootiest, bless her!
An leetle flames danced ali about
The chiny on the dresser. sfe
Agin the chimbly crook-neeks hung,
And IN amongst 'em rusted
The old queens arm that gran'ther Young
Fetched back from Concord busted.
The very room, cos sne was in,
Seemed warm from floor TO ceilin',
An she looked fully as rosy ag1n
Ez the apples she was peelin'. .,ulsa7a.5
vas AAA17 " AAuB0OAh COi1C W lOOh
On sech a blessed creature;
A dogrose blushin' to the brook s.....f
Amt modester ner sweeter- Cd
He was six foot o. man, A I, .eafjit
Clean grit an human natur;
None coulden't quicker pitch ton,
Nor dror furrer straighter.
He'dsparked IL with some twenty gals
He'd squirrel 'em. danced 'em, druv 'em;
Fust this one. an tibet. by spelis-le
All is, he coulden't love ,en. 20
But long o. her his veins 'ould run
All crinkly, like curled maple;
The tide she bresh.d felt full o. sun, .aal
Ez south slope In Ap'il les
She thoughtno vice he'd sech swing
Ez lnis'n in the choir: Zoos r
Myi when he made .ole Hundred" ring
She kEOsUed the Lord was higher.
AM she blushed scarlit in prayer,
When her new meetin' bunnet n
| Felt somehow thru its crown pair
o. blue eyes sot upon it. @
Thet night, 1 tell ye, she looked some,
She seemed to've got new soul;
For she felt sartin-sur he'd come,
Down to her very rhoe-sole Ly-l
She heered foot. and knowed 1t tn, rs
A raspin' on the scraper-
AL ways to once her feelin's few, It.,
Like sparks in bur nt-up paper.
He kim Differed on the mat, gy Be-,
Some doubtfie o. the selkle;
His heart KEEP goin' pity pat, -a>lA
But hern went pity Zekle.
An yit she gin her chair jerk.
Ez though she wished him furder;
An on her apples KEEP to work,
Parin' away like murder.
E'You went to see my pa. 1 s'pose?'' 2
"Wa'al....-no-....Icam I came dasignin"-
ITO see my ma? she's sprinkling clo'es
Agin to morror's i'nin'."
To say why gals act SO or so.
Or don't, 'ould be pres sumin'; con - -
Mebby to mean yes an say no
Comes natural TO women.
He stood spell on one foot fust,
Then stood aspell on th'other.
An on which one he felt the wust
He couldn't ha' told ye nuther.
Says he, ssl'd better call agin;p
Says she, think likely, Mister;u
Thet last word pricked him like pin,
An,--.wa'aa. he mp and stst.her.
When ma, pymeby upon lem slips,
Huldy sot paleez ashes,
All kin, osmfly roun' the lips, =
An teary rom, the lashes.
For she was 5ss' the quiet kind
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-13

A little boy and girl had been eau
toned never to take then egg when
gathering eggs, but one evening thegirl
reached the nest first, seized an egg,
and started for the house. He disap-
pointed brother followed, erying:-
Mother! Mother! Susy she's been and
got the egg the old hen measures by.
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A little girl in Iowa City, after having
studied for some time picture of the
Magdalen reclining on her face and
weeping, suddenly turned to her moth
er and exclaimed: -"Mamma, I know
why Mrs. Magdalen is crying. 1t is
because Mr.. Magdalen does notbuy her
clothes enough"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-13

The combined population of the
eight largest cities in the United States
New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn,
st. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston
and Cincinnati-are less than the popu-
lation of the city of London, as an
nounced by the recent British census.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-13

CHOPPED PICKLES. gallon of
green tomatoes chopped fine, four
green peppers, three onions, and hand
full Of salt sprfnkled over them. Let
them stand six hours, drain off the IL
quor and add one tablespoonful of
ground pepper, one of allspice, one of
made mustard, half a pint of mustard
seed, and three pints of vinegar e'...i'
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COUGHING MOkEl

w WarMer;s Cough Ba1sRm Is heaIIDg, Ss1fr-
ening and expectOrating. The extraordinary
power II possesses in Immediately relieving.
and eventually curing, the most obstina ie
cases OF Coughs, Colds, Sore Throst, Bronchitis
and Consumption is almost incredible. 90
prompt is The relief and certain its effects in all
the above cases, or any affection of the threat
and lungs, that thousands of physicians are
daily prescribing it, and enc and all say that il
is the most healing and expeetorating n1edi-
by drus 2lsts in large bottles. Price One LOllar.
It is youi wn fault If you still cough and suffer.
The Ba1sam will cure. .aF ~ gl.ir
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Louisville boasts of an eighteen years
old belle who can lift a tub of clothing
from the ground to an elevation of four
feet, and have the clothes-line white
with the results of the labor of her own
little hands in a short while. Mean
time her mother sits in her parlor
taking her ease in her oldage AS soon
as this becomes generally known the
railroads running into that city will
have to run extra trains. sss.
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Some one wishing to be witty OH n
gentleman with large mouth, asked
him II he had long lease on that mouth
of his,' when lie good -humoredly an
swered, No, have it only from year to
year. H. ,a
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-13

A feminine school teacher in Hamp-
shire county, Massachusetts,, expects to
achieve immortality, or at least get her
name in the papers, by her original
method of furnishing refractory pupils
by making them eat paper wads, grass
hOpperS, etc.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-13

Young man wants to know what
business he had better go into that will
enable him to occupy a high position
in society. Let him try the roofing
business; in that trade a smart man
will soon get to the top Of the ladder.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-13

A farmer in Carroll Co. found five
young wolves in a hollow tree the 9TH
er day. The County Auditor gave him
two dollars apiece for knocking them
in the head.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-13

SCoURs IN CAI.VEs.-Take wheat
-four the size of a hens egg, tie in a
cotton cloth, and scorch it in hot ashes
or Goals until it is brown nearly TO the
center; then pound it fine and put, one
bunch at a time in the milk for one
dose; one or two doses will cure. l'-
DIG.
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TOMATO CATsUP.-One bushel ripe to-
matoes- until soft-squeeze
through sieve, and add one quart of
vinegar, half pint of salt, one OF,
cloves, one OF. allspice, half or. cayenne
pepper, two OF. mustard seed, and
boil the whole three hours. lrof egr.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-13

The Louisville Courier Journal has
discovered at least one good reason
why the negro ought not to be educa-
ted. Whenever he gets so he can read
newspapers he will no longer be eligi-
BILE for a Juror ys-s..r.. .,.,
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Every seventh person in London is in
receipt of public charity. The cost of
aiding this class has increased during
the past ten years 6S per cent. faster
than the growth of the great metropo-
lie
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-07-13

They have some queer names in Gin
cinnati.. One of its city officials is a
Schwindler, and another a Stielhoff; it
has a Judge who always treats prisoners
to Swing, and one of its jailors is a
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The best humor is that which con-
tains the most humanity, that which
is favored throughout with tender
ness and kindness. h
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Two Ohio girls filed lighted kero-
sene lamps last week. 1t was the nom
kind, and both leep in the
valley Boston Post.
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Ladies wear blue and gray wells tied
around the neck as protection from
the sun, besides being very becoming.
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1t is stated that DR.. Bliss, of Wash
ington, has cured cancer on the per-
son of the vice Presidents mother
which was before thought incuraDle.
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Brain Exercise.

The kind of intellectual exercise
which is most beneficial and stimula-
ting, is that in which the mind is not
merely receptive, but partly at least
creative. The wholesome effects of Ori-
ginal mental work are not confined to
the intellectual powers alone, but ex-
tend to the nutritive and other corpo-
real functions. - Excess of this or any
other labor is of course hurtftl, and in
the case of original work is peculiarly
exhausting. Some of these principles
are-i illustrated in the following extract
from ''The Autoerat of the Breakfast
Table," by Oliver Wendell Holmes,
himself physician as well as consum-
mate literary artist: - q - !. ~.
"This business of conversation is a
very serious matter. There are men
that it weakens one to talk with an
hour more thana days fasting would
do-the men of genius that / fancy
must have erectile heads like the cobra
di eapello. You remember what they
tell of William Pinkney, the great
pleader; how in his eloquent parox-
syns the veins of his neck would swell
and his face flush, and his eyes glitter
until he seemed on the verge of apo
-plexy. The hydraulic arrangements
for Supplying the brain with blood are
cnly second in Importance to its own
organization. The bulbOus-headed fel-
lows that steam well when they are at
work, are the men that draw big au-
diences and give us marrowy books and
pictures. Its a good sign to have ones
feet grow cold when he is writing. A
great writer and speaker onee-told me
that he often wrote with his feet in hot
water; but for this all his blood would
have run into his head, as the mercury
sometimes withdraws into the ball of a
thermometer" a7lf5fft}
AS each kind of business and employ
ment exercises a particular set of or
gans of the body or faculties of the
mind, our amusements SHOULD be so
contrfved as to afford rest to those suf-
ficiently worked organs or faculties,
and call into play those which usually
lie dormant, To many, whose ordinary
business is of an active kind, involving
no intellectual operations except routine
or clerk-like ones, yet whose mental
powers are superior, chess is a most
suitable recreation. Billiards, on the
other hand, is foundto be a better game
for those who have much head work
and not eaOugh of exercise. yi.1.E
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Young ladies in Iowa select s hoes in
company with their beauX. They are
sure to take No. 2, and exchange them
next day for No. 5.
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ADMINISTRATOR Notice,

M0TiCE Is hereby given, that In the Probate
IN Court of Belmont County, Ohio, the under
signed vas appointed and qualified as Admin
istrator OF the estate OF Nathan Warfleld, decd,
Allpersons indebted to said estate are re-
9uested to make immediate payment, and
quested to present them within one year
THOS, L. FRAME, Admr.
. te223w ofNathan Warfleld, decd,