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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

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telling events of the past. present and future Her
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-10

FAR FROM HoME.-Ah keeS, Born IN
China, came all the way from the fowery
land to this Iowland country, to get dead
broke, sick, and into the Charity Hospital,
where he may possibly die and be planted
in the Potter's field, where no loving hand
will stgew roses on All Saints Dayo
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-10
yUE RIVERS

The river here is thirteen feet nine
inches below high water mark Of 1872
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A L hETAkL................ RETAIL.
Sugar cured Hams at 10 cents; best at 1919 cents.
tJOC pounds best Sugar-Curcd Hams at I23 ctnf2
per pound.
10000 pounds Green hams at 8 cents per pound
10000 pounds Green and Smoked Shoulders Oh 9
cents,
also, 500 Mcclellan Saddles at s. 50 each.
bOr sale at $. B. CHuRCHILLS,
No 40 Magazine street,
Between Natclpz and Cravfer sire ss7F.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-10

8Ai'. OF MECHANICS No. G.o-Of ali the
balls 20 take place during The present sea
son. We venture to say that few wil! equal
Shac Of No. 6. in Exposition Hal! lass night.
Music, dancing and dressing were geally
suyegb. and more than all. there existed a
Soci&til!tv which was the chief charm. Not
:. few Of the costumes we've STRIKING, and in
se..ga! instances characters were well re-
presented. The managing committees vice!
with each other in their attentions % guests,
and Sbe ladies seemed 20 entirely forget
worldly trials IN the excitement Of the &c
nnsinn.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-10

'51SIHIsG.~~3A consequence OI aOINt OITs
Of foolishness on the part OF persons engag-
ed in counting She ballots in Mechanics
institute. throwing paper wads, sword
from a cane was drawn. by Mr.. $. B. John
con. and Captain Z. a. Bray being stabbea
IL one Of hie arms-s slight Elesh wound.
Mr.. johnson had been stung by one OF the
wads wetting Lis face. Mr.. johnson was
arrested. and probably tha: VII! be the last
al The ease
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How to Get Rid OF Supernuous Flesh

Not long ago gentleman of three
score, who had hardly ever been sick in
his life, thought he was too feshy and
began TO Bantamize. He succeeded
famously, and boosted TO his friends
that he had got rid of ten pounds in a
few weeks. A little later he was at
tackled with a painful and dangerous
malady, from which he has been suffer
ing more than year. If a man can
sleep soundly, has good appetite, with
no unpleasant reminders after meals,
the bodily habits being regular every
day, he had better leave himself alone,
whether he is as big as hogshead or as
thin and dry AS a fence rail- Several
cases of Bright's disease have been re.
ported by medical men of reputation as
a direct result of practicing Bantam's
plan for getting lean. The very best
and safest way to get rid Of fat is to
work it of. This may be aided by eat
ing food which contains large amount
of nitrogen and a small amount OF
carbon. Nitrogen food is that which
gives strength, power to work, as lean
meats carbonaceous foods are those
which make fat, such as cheese, pota-
toes, rice, corn, peas, beans, tapioca, ar
rowroot, corn-starch, milk, sugar, syrup,
and all oily and fat food. Raw fruit
and berries largely eaten are great aids
to reducing weight. But, after all, the
great reliance should be on exercise and
work in the open air. Barclay, the
great English pedestrian, who perform
ed greater feats than Weston, lost ten
pounds in two or three days walking,
and was never the worse for it.
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A standard yard.stick, which was kept
at the Exchequer in London, and had
been obtained in 1l2O from the length
of King Henry's arm, by his express
order, was examined in l742 by com.
missioner, who wrote: "a kitchen
poker, filed at both ends, would make
as good standard. 1t has been broken
and then repaired so clumsily that the
joint is nearly as loose as O pair of
tongs." In 1850, Mr.. Baird prepared
an accurate copy of this, for the use of
the Government, and this copy of an
arbitrary, clumsy, broken standard was
legally adopted in 1924, when it was or
dered that, if destroyed, it should be
restored by acomparison with the length
of the pendulum vibrating seconds at
the latitude of London.
Ten years later it was destroyed by
the great fire at the Parliament House
(1S34). Repeated attempts were then
made to find the length again by means
of the pendulum, a. previously arranged,
but it was found utterly impracticable,
90 that the British Government was
compelled to make use of such copies of
this burned yard-stick as they supposed
reliable. And we Americans were un.
wise enough not only to stick to the
clumsy, inconvenient and inconsistent
English measures, but even to order
rom q London instrument maker
copy Of this yard-stick for the use Of
our Coast Survey.
Yet our yard standard is one-thou.
sandth of an inch longer than the Brit.
ish stan uard yard-stick.
1t is seen that this standard of length
is entirely arbitrary; but its worst feat.
ure is the unequal division and multi.
plication, which do not correspond with
the system followed in arithmetic all
over the world-namely, the decimal
one.
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imprisonment for LiTe-How Long II
Averages In Three Of the States.

In our own State Prison, says the
Boston Globe, there were 1856 convicts
between the years 1928 and 1866 who
had been sent there under life impris-
onment sentence. OF these, % were
pardoned, and several Others ESCAPED
by legal jugglery. During decade, SO
prisoners were sentenced tn endure i'm.
prisonment for life in the Ohio Peniten.
tiary. and "a of them were pardoned.
In wisconsin, for the like term, SO life
convicts were received in the prisons,
and IL par doned therefrom. The aver
age term served by "life men" in the
three States was little more than six
years, which is altogether too slight a
punishment for man who has com.
mitted a murder--and in some cases
two or three.
1t is quite time that in regard to the
treatment OF assassins we lay aside all
sentiment, ana put them upon the
plane with other criminals in the sight
OF the law. Ii their crime entities them
to death, and the Lawmakers have SO
decided it, let there be no appeal from
the decisions Of those who stand in our
courts and represent the laws. If the
law says that murderer shall never 20
at large again, and he is afterward found
mingling with he people, then the law
loses in repute.
1t is by lsxity in the enforcement of
penalties and prostitution of executive
prerogative to political ends that has
made the metropolitan courts OF New
York asynonym for judicial corruption.
Under our governmental system, with
its ever changing administrative ser.
wants, the life imprisonment sentence
is liable to great abuses. The reason
for its imposition, which to one man
in office may seem perfectly just, may
be so placed before his follower that
he instantly reverses the decision of the
courts and sets dangerous man at
liberty.
This has been done repeatedly, and
there walks the streets of Boston TO-DAY
. man who has killed several men, has
been convicted and sentenced to long
terms twice in our own State, and each
time his release has been brought about
through political influence. It is sufi.
Gent comment upon the whole proceed.
ing to know that since his last release
ne has been constantly getting his liv-
ing in an employment which the law OF
this State condemns.
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With all our Wanted discover.e. we
have never been able to produce an
agreeable article OF castor oil or spe.
cifc for sickness. Breathes tn ere a
man with soul 50 dead that he does not
recollect the castor. oiling which his
poor machine used TO undergo at stated
periods OF youth. To castor oil child
o. two or seven years Of age requires
three or four strong women. spoon, a
magnum bottle Of the fluid, a lump of
sugar, towel, jumping.jack and a
seraphic temper. Tho first motion iSto
endeavor to ring in the medicine on the
unsuspecting babe thinly disguised in
milk. This maneuver failing, you par.
ley with the enemy and attempt to cor.
rupt its infantile integrity with bribery
of its pas gold watch, imperial reve-
nues Of small change, and Hesperides
OF small oranges. After having tempted
it thrice to put the spoon of Tantalus to
its lips, it refuses point blank to touch
the nasty thing. Thereupon your sur.
charged Indignation finds vent in cor.
poral chastisement of the rebelious in.
FAINT. 1t howls. Peace being restored,
you bring up reinforcements, and
strategy and diplomacy having failed,
determine to accept nothing but un.
conditional surrender, and prepare to
march at once upon the enemy's works.
A grand co nbined attack is made. The
left wing firmly holds the child's hands,
the right wing pinches its nose so as to
compel it to open its mouth, into which
the center pours deadly fire from the
spoon. Meanwhile the reserve holds
lump of sugar, commisserately saying,
poor 'itti tootsy pootsy, was it nassy
medley, eh?' and keeps tn, towel
ready. The baby yells and chokes, the
young mother, afraid of killing it, lets
go OF its nose, the infant catching
bresth, discharges the whole dose upon
her, and ruins all the front breadths of
her black silk, and follows up its advan.
tage by SO heart-broken yell that the
attacking party surrenders at discretion,
and calls it poor, injured, mamsie's
own tootsens, and it won't take any
more nassy castor oil, if it don't want
to-" A treaty Of peace is then ratified,
whereby the infant is coded immunity
from caster oil, and an ample indem.
nifty in lollipops, and then the young
mother enters into a war with the in.
fants grandmother, who vigorously
the weakness exhibited in
dealing with children nowadays. Peo-
pie have tried all sorts eff expedients. |
Take it In milk. In soda water. From
a hot spoon. Every way. But nolater
Franklin has ever been able to over.
come and annihilate the nastiness of
taking castor oil. 1t has sluggish,
cold, aperient look about it, like an i'll. |
omened pool in deadly swamp. 1t
lncoils itselfinto the fatal spoon like a
boiled rattlesnake. 1t tastes like mol. |
ten graveyards, and ones rye rises at |
t as if it were one Of Mrs. Woedhull's |
ectures. But the feeling, when it has
been achieved, is that ones inside is full |
If earth-worms and cork.screws.
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half teaspoonful Of salt. Bake in four
cakes. and put between the cakes and
over the top the frosting. Take white
OF one egg, one cup of sugar, and one.
half the juice and rind Of one orange
to make fros,ing.
Steam Pudduy.-Two cups of -four,
one cup of milk, one-half cup of butter,
one. half cup OF sugar, one-half cup OF
molasses, one cup Of raisins, one tea
spoonful Of soda. Steam two hours and
serve with a sauce.
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WHERE THE FRENCH INDEMNITY Gors.-

WHERE The FRENCH INDEMNITY GoEs.-
France is to pay Germany for the pleas
ure Of being besten in the late war,
about ], Al, 4S7, 1861 thalers-equivalent
to say $1,O0O,OOO,O0O. Out Of this
France receives S6,566,666 thalers in
payment for the railways of Alsace and
Lorraine. The Imperial Government
then gives to those persons and corpo
rations in these annexed provinces
whose private property suffered by the
war, 36,7O00,O0O thalers as indemnity
for their losses, and spends IL 100000
thalers in replenishing the railways
with rollingstock and other necessities.
The families of soldiers belonging to
the landwehr who perished in the ser.
vice, have been literally ponsioned !;
100000 thalers was dirtributed among
the leading German Generals, and at
least 100000 set apart as reserve
fund for the next war. After doing all
this, and spending large sums for forti.
fications and other military purposes, a
heavy balance remains, which is to be
divided among the different States of
the Empire in proportion to the mum.
Der Of men furnished by each. nA
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The usefulness of earthquakes was a
favorite subject with the late Sir John
Herschel. Were it not for the changes
in the earth's crust which are constant
ly being effected by the action of sub
terranean forces, of which the earth.
quake is the most active manifestation,
there can be no doubt that the action
of the sea beating upon the land, to-
gether with the denuding power of rain,
would inevitably cover the entire earth
with one vast ocean. "Had the prime
val world been constructed as il now
exists" says Sir John Herschel, time
enough has elapsed, and force enough
directed to that end has been in activi.
ty, to have long ago destroyed every
vestige of land.n Mr.. Proctor shows
most clearly the benefcent manner in
which the restorative action of the
earth's subterranean forces is arranged.
OF course every upheaval of the surface
must be either accompanied or followed
by depression elsewhere. "On CON-
parisou of the various effects, it has been
found that the forces Of upheaval act
ION the whole) more powerfully under
continents, and especially under the
shore.lines of continents, while the
forces of depression act most powerful
ly ION the whole) under the bed of the
ocean. 1t seems as if nature had pro-
vided against the inroads Of the ocean
by seating the earth's upheaving
forces just where they are most
wanted"
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A PerilOus Hour.

Medical evidence proves that, in
chronic diseases, the greater number of
deaths occur just before dawn. This is
eminently true Of brain diseases, and of
all those related cases where death re.
suits from an exhaustion of the vital
power, through overwork, excessive
excitement, or nervous prostration. 1t
is at o'clock in the morning that the
life force is at its lowest ebb, and sue.
cumbs most readily to the assault of
epilepsy, or paralysis, or of the lethargy
that comes in those wildly beautiful
picture dreams, for which medical sci.
ence has as yet found no name, and of
which il has taken no sufficient cognix.
ance. Nine-tenths of those who die in
this way expire in their sleep. In many
such cases, If friend were at hand to
awaken the sleeper when the attack
comes Oh, or, if he were to be awakened
by some accidental noise, he might, by
the use of . few simple preparations,
prolong his life for many years for the
shock which isfatal to the man wrapped
in deep sleep, when the system is pas
sive and relaxed, would be VIGOROUSLY
repealed were it armed with all its wax.
ing energies. Men who do brain work,
and who are on the shady side Of forty,
should be on their guard against this in.
sidious enemy. They should beware of
5 O'Clock in the morning, for it is a
perilous hour. Do you find yourself un-
able to sleep, when you retire for the
night, exhausted with your days work 7
Do you in vain turn from one side to
the other? Does your brain persist in
working when you would fain have it
rest? DO old saws and scraps of rhyme
repeat themselves in your memory with
wearisome iteration, defying your ut
most to silence them? Then, beware
You will be sure to sleep at last. 1t is
only question Of time; for, sooner or
later, nature will assert her rights
English Newspaper.
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The New WoRLD's GRAND RExEpY.-
The Old World has played its part in
vegetable medication. But the botany
of the New World is, as yet, imperfectly
explored. One new and most import.
ant revelation from that land of won.
Observation-Disclosures astonished the
scientific, and accomplished such cures
of diseases Of the stomach and bowels.
bilious complaints, malarious fevers,
nervous affections, and all diseases pro.
ceeding from vitiated condition of the
blood, as have never before been wit
messed.
Before WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
BITrEas all the alcoholic and mineral
medicines are rapidly falling into dis.
use. They cannot resist the empowering
evid Zee brought forward every day, of the
immense superiority Of this medicine. Not
. drop OF any variety Of distilled or ferment-
ed liquor or mineral poison enters into ito
composition. 1t is gentle aperient, tonic,
derived from entirely new vegetable sources,
an unrivaled stomachic, admirable in all
pulmonary diseases and, in fact, a. near 70
universal remedy as botanical discovery and
scientific skill can hope toattaip. Dr.. Walk
or considers it a cure for ell diseases not
organic, and really the great varie,y of dis
eases in which il 10 successful seems to war
rant the opinion. Every family needs such
remedy. II saves pain, anxiety and doc
tors bills. We know what trouble il is 20
keep the bowels Of children in order, and
any remedy that will strengthen and regu-
late their weak and variable digestion must
be domestic blessing.--[Com.
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The report Of the Department: of Agri.
culture for the year 1871, not yet pub
lished, gives the following general sum.
mary Of the quantities, number of acres,
and aggregate value of principal crops
Of the United States in that wear.
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PRESIDENT TILLxAN, Of the Polyteeh-
mic Association Of the American In
stitute, says the weather predictions
which are daily published in our news
papers have been verified to about IS
per cent. that is, three-fourths Of all
the predictions which they have made
have been found 70 be true.
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An ALBINo.-There was the other day
born to South Carolina colored man
and woman who have raised up large
family Of dark children, boy and girl,
whose skin and complexion are perfect
ly white. The hair is also Of a white
color, and somewhat curled, the eye Of
reddish brown, and the pupils Of pink
ish color. The features are decidedly
African.
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THERE are many penalties alta ched ia
greatness, and it is doubtful whether it
may not be preferable to occupy an oh.
scure position, and TO die unlamented
by the public, rather than to be con-
signed to earth with q pompous cere.
monial, or to run the risk of having
ones deeds recorded by an incompetent
biographer. In Italy, however, it is pos.
sible for great man to anticipate in the
prospect Of his decease still more terri
BILE indignity-that his body may be de.
tanned above ground for ever, to crafty
the curiosity Of the public. This is to
be the sad destiny Of Mazzini, whose
mortal Rename, instead Of being con-
signed peacefully to the earth, are to be
preserved by Professor Gorini for the
benefit Of future generations of sight
seers. This is cruel fate, and one we'll
fitted toquench the generous aspirations
Of Italian patriots and statesmen. To
live and die for Italy may be TO live and
die nobly but to have ones body "pet
rifed," possibly to fall into the hands
Of some Italian Barnum, is indeed an
unhappy lot.
A Married lady in Rock Island, ILL.
nois, had been in the habit, for several
years, Of placing needles in her mouth.
Now and then she swallowed one, and
it was sure to appear in some strange
locality a few months after passing down
her throat. During the last Ave years
seven needles have been extracted from
her body in different places-two from
the region Of the stomach and short
ribs, one from the leg near the knee,
and recently one was taken from the
left temple. The lady has always en-.
joyed good health, and has never
suffered any Inconvenience from her
metallic diet.
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The total average cash value per acre
Of yield in the several States is given as
follows.
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The average yield, and cost value, and
price per bushel, ton or pound, of farm
products for the year is estimated as
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AGRICULTURAL.
sprisS Piss.


No st0ck on the farm is more inclined
10 roam than the few weeks old pigs,
who find out the smallest crevice in a
fence, and break into the fields, front
yards, gardens, in squads bent on mis-.
chief, and giving Infinite trouble, and
oftentimes causing considerable damage.
Many farmers deem it the best course
10 let them roam, thinking thereby
something is gained in the way of food,
and perhaps hardness. If we were
breeding pigs for races, and wanted
hard muscle and tough nerves, this
practice would be commendable. But
X sleek, plump, contented porkers are
the object, then closer confinement is
fan better.
Until q pigis nearly or quite three
months old, be ID better off ii restricted
to comfortable pen and yard. We say
comfortable Enclosure, because that con-
dition is certainly quite essential to his
health and thrift. II should be dry,
sheltered. and not too confined. We
venture 10 say that litter of pigs thus
confined will, when three months old,
weigh one-quarter moro than If let run
meantime. And in both cases they
shall have consumed the same food.
Besides, they will have more quiet dis.
positions.
At this period, or when weaned, we
would turn them in clover lot, supply.
ing other food in abundance, and, If
convenient, let them clean the stubbles
and orchard after harvest. They should
60 into the pen for final fattening, if
that is to be their fate when they are yet
pigs.-American Rural Home.
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Domestic Recipes.

AdnteTdfed CoUee.-A sure test by
which to know genuine coffee is to
throw a teaspoonful Of ground coffee
INTO tumbler of cold water; if it is
the real article it will float, as the adul.
terations will sink at once.
II Cure Rin9scernss. the best
lula cigars; smoke one sufficient
length OF time to accumulate one-fourth
or one-half inch Of ashes upon the end
OF the cigar. Now wet the whole sur.
lace of the Sol with the saliva of the
mouth; then rub the ashes from the
end OF the cigar thoroughly into and
al over the sore. Do this three times a
DAY, and inside Of week all will be
smooth and well.-E H., in the Rural
Ns~ Yorker.
Cookies.-One cup of white sugar,
rolled fine, mixed with half cup OF
outer; a half cup Of sour cream, mixed
with a teaspoonful of saleratus. Add
TWO eggs, thoroughly beaten. Season
WIN caraway seeds or nutmeg. Roll
INN, sprinkle sugar on. Roll lightly
once, cut them in circular shape and
BAKE in a quick oven.
Good Orange Cake Yolks Of five
eggs, whites Of three, two cups Of sugar,
one'half cup of water, grated rind and
Juice OF one orange, one cup Of -four,
ohe teaspoonful Of cream tartar, one.