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HippOphagy.

Man, the monarch of all he surveys, is
fast becoming the eater of all he sees Our
range of food is immeasurably greater than
that of our ancestors, three centuries ago.
Science has lately been playing household
purveyor and cook by providing new edi-
bles and by devising improved ways of
preparing old ones so that their disagree
able qualities are smothered in gravy, dis
guised by sauce, or drowned, like Clar-
ence, in generous wine. A few months
ago an enthusiastic and omnivorous per-
son published in an English magazine the
story of his dinners. From rat to ele-
plant there was neihing he had not eaten.
Stewed snake had satisfied his inner man
and fricasseed cat had been toothsome
morsel for him. Such a connoisseur should
have been one of the sixty-five guests who
sat down at Franco Anglo American
Horse, Mule and Donkey Banquet" at the
Grand Hotel, Paris, on the 5th of April.
The first dish was horse-soup, but it
masqueraded as c0aso1nme de cleudl dlr
ero,ttes grilIees. Its delicious flavor, largely
due, no doubt, to exquisite French cook
cry, converted half the company forth
with. They attacked horse-sausages bold
ly, and found them good, but ass liver
was rank and bad I.oast horse, and
horse, mule and ass tongues were declared
to be as good as deer or OK. The mule
outlets were bad, in fact painfully like the
beef-steak set before the wandering Briton
in Partisan restaurants. A fricandeau OF
ass was /" the success of the evening" The
meat was CLOSE grained, tender and
| Juicy" and the flavor was'' indescribably
and eminently agreeable" Later in the
evening asses milk, butter made of it and
horse-oil were placed upon the table and
used by many of the guests, who had no
suspicion of the real nature of their rel.
ishes. When the serious work of eating
was over number of speeches were made
which rode the hobby of hippophagy to
death. Rosinante was pictured as far
more beautiful in death than in life. The
succulent qualities of Sancho Panza's don
key were dwelt upon. The frightful loss OF
good horsefesh was pointed out. Thou.
sands of pounds of it are annually given
! to dogs or cats or thrown away. Many
human beings might live upon the food
thus destroyed. Yet a horse is usually
eaten after a slow sickness has killed him
| Is the diseased flesh that cats and dogs de.
YOUR fit food for men and women? The
case would be different if horses, mules
and asses were fattened expressly for the
table. This is about to be tried in Paris
| Hippophagy will not long be an unknown
art on this side of the water, for the Hip
pophagic Society Of Paris has offered a
medal and 800 to the first person who
opens horse butcher shop in London OF
New York. Some enterprising Yankee
will doubtless gain the prize. Then the
owner of the donkey wot wouldn't go
will simply drive him to the shop and sell
him by the pound, hide, hoofs and shoes
thrown in. What will Bergh say?-Chi-
] caq0 Tribune.
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New Houses.

There are several house agents IN Lon
don who combine the trade OF letting
houses with that of making coffins. The
two employments do not at first seem To
have any affinity, but in a new suburb
where streets are being run up bvcontract,
and inhabited before they are dry, such a
combination is natural enough. Indeed
IN the hands of an intelligent and enter
prising man the two employments might
be dovetailed with the happiest results. AT
least one death may be expected out of
every large family settling down in a damn
new house. II may only be the baby. but
that will be better than none. If the fami.
~ happens 10 come from Ireland or the
west coast of Scotland, the Darwinian law
will have enabled them to acquire some of
The properties of india-rubber. so that they
would possibly be damp proof, and there
fore not desirable tenants. Such applicants
u ludlcious house-agent will naturally
refuse, and he may not only hope to profit
IN MS capacity of undertaken by some
one taking fatal cold in the damp GENE.
terry, but in his capacity of house
agent he may at every well-con-
Quoted funeral inveigle new victims
for the misunderstanding streets still in
the hands of the builders, and perhaps in.
duce his clients 10 enter them while the
plaster is still wet upon the nine-inch
walls. Doctors are. however. still more
indebted TO new houses than even house
agents or undertakers Ii is said that
when young medical man of fair ability
and pleasing manners wishes TO settle
down in London, his wisest course is 10
choose some fashionable district where
snowy houses with bow windows, pillared
poTticoes, and thin walls are being run up.
Ii the soil on which the houses are
being built is clay, so much the better
for the young doctor; if the level of
the ground is little above that of the
Thames, his prospects are vet more brill
liant. He may safely marry for love: for.
although tie fees he will receive may not
seem overwhelmingly large, he will be
certain of constant employment He may
never become a renowned specialist or
physician in ordinary to a member of
the royal family. but while he is still a
young man he viii be able to set up his
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Calcimining.

To calcimine good-sized room with
two coats, take ten pounds of whiting, dis
solved in hot or boiling water; e-fourth
Of a pound of glue (Which should have
been put to soak in a pint OF
water the night before may now be
melted slowly on the back of the
stove, stirring frequently. To color a
beautiful tint, get two ounces of ultra
marine blue and one ounce Of Venetian
red; mix separately with cold, soft wa
ter, and strain through stocking or thin
cloth, each in separate vessel. The
whiting may now be stirred we'll; if too
thick, add more hot water, and strain
through flour sieve into a good-sized pot.
Add some of the blue and red alternately
till you get the desired shade, which may
be ascertained by putting a little of the
mixture on piece of paper and drying by
the fire. When your color is determined,
pour in the glue; and after mixing well,
apply the wash hot t. the walls, brushing
in any direction, as it mikes better than il
put on too carefully. On white walls two
coats are necessary; but after the room is
once done, one coat is sufficient. Should
the ceiling have to be done, put on the
whiting alone first, thea reheat the wash
and add the paints and glue, the latter to
be light colored, if the walls are to be
white Common glue will answer for q
painted wall.
A paper border finishes the room per-
fectly-makes any room neat and pretty.
Should the second coat not be put on till
next day, heat the mixture, as the glue
will not mix with the other ingredients
unless pretty warm.-Country Gentleman.
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A Curious Coin.

Some three or four years ago there was
dug up from deep in the earth in the cen
trail part of Illinois small coin that has
so far baffied the students TO explain its
figures and inscriptions. On one side il
has grotesque figure of man belabor-
ing another man who is lying on his back.
The characters both resemble the Indian
more than any other race Surrounding
these central tracings are series of char
acters that are guessed TO be letters, but OF
what language nobody can tell On the
other side of the coin is large figure OF
an Indian head-very indistinct No one
has been able to explain the specimen, but
it acquires renewed interest from a story
of the early life of the Spaniards in this
country. 1t seems that in bartering with
the Indians these people offered them
Spanish coins These were to the red
men only pieces of metal with inscriptions
which were wholly meaningless to them,
or because they represented white men
were detestable. They looked upon the
coins as valueless. BY an ingenious
thought, it is said, the Spaniards then
made coins bearing Indian marks and
figures and suggesting the idea of war.
and they were Immediately priced and
passed current. Chicago I,.ter-Ocean.
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PATENT MEDIcNEs.-That there are
some good patent medicines no intelligent
man dare for a moment deny; and pre-
eminent is the great California hero med
icine, VINEGAR BTrTERs, discovered by
DR.. J. WALKER, a prominent physician
of San Francisco. This medicine, al
though called Bitters, is not to be classed
among the vile fancy drinks" recon-
mended and sold over the bar by rum
vendors, but is a combination Of pure
herbalistic extracts known to possess
sterling medicinal qualities, and is COM
pounded without the use in any shape of
spirits. Its action upon the internal sys-
tenn is not stimulating to the extent that
alcoholic poison is, but it at once attacks
blood-impurities, and by removing the
original cause destroys the germs of dis
ease and invites returning health. Its
action upon the stomach and liver renders It
an almost certain specific in the most
stubborn cases of dyspepsia, and in truth
imparts new life and vigor to the whole
syst en-. 1t is one of the best medicines
ever invented. 80
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-29

Every housewife thinks she can cook
"Greens." 1t is the simplest of all dish
es; and yet in most cases they are not well
served, for much depends upon the man.
ner in which they are boiled. The water
should be soft, and tablespoonful of salt
added to large-sized pot of it, which
should be boiling not when the greens are
thrown in and then it should be kepton the
boiling gallop, but uncovered, until they
are done, which can be told by their sink
ing TO the bottom of the pot, and they
should be skinned out as quickly as pos
sible into colander, so that all the water
will run out. Press them with small
plate, then turn upon a platter, add q
large piece of butter, and cut up fine,
Serve while smoking hot.-1he london
Garden
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carriage without borrowing money, and he
will not find it difficult to insure his life
handsomely for,his children; but in order to
realize this pleasing picture he must secure
for his own habitation an old and we'll
built house. When he is tired of life will
be time enough for him to take O new one
Few people except the Wandering Jew
have the constitution of the nobleman who
is said to have lived for many years al
most rent-free by constantly moving from
one new house to another. His friends
thought he was suffering from some OBJ
scure disease of the brain, but the build
ers' agents found him a capital decoy
duck As soon as they told wavering
client that Lord So-and-so had taken a
house in such terrace the houses in the
terrace were Immediately at premium,
particularly those on each side OF His Lord
ship. In fact builders find it an excellent
speculation to give good house cheap to
tenant with title, and are thankful
even for such small mercies as a knights
widow. Our imaginary doctor will find
his time much taken up in prescribing for
the servants who sleep on the ground
floor of these new houses, and con-
sequently take rheumatism, and for the
babies who sleep next the states and
have bronchitis. Everybody in the
families he attends will have at least one
severe cold on entering, but the piece de
Resistance will be neuralgia. II is sure to
be prevalent in a new district, and has the
merit of being very persistent and diff
cult 10 cure. The Shakers who bivouacked
a few weeks ago under hedges covered
with snow suffered less from illness than
did the inhabitants of some of the streets
in our southern suburbs, where the cold
cannot be kept out in winter nor the heat
in summer, and where the walls are reek-
| ing with damp at every change of tenn.
/ perature Bricks will hold about their
own weight of water, and after having
been thoroughly soaked they take a long
time TO become perfectly dry. As nine
| inch walls are only the thickness of the
length of one brick they are necessarily
not thick enough TO prevent the rain which
! beats on the outside from soaking through
TO the inside. They can never be built SO
as to be really rain-proof, and inside them
every change in the weather can always
| be distinctly felt-Sdturday Rerietr.
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Get the best hands and keep them.
When a man has become used to his work
and his employer he is worth more than a
stranger. There is a way of making men
interested in their work, ofsatistying their
seh-respect, treating them courteously and
reasonably, giving them credit for success,
while holding them strictly responsible for
failures, and, above all, by paying them
promptly and literally, that will make
their work worth double what if would
otherwise be- As land advances in price
more labor must be expended on it to
make il pay profit, and by and by we
must have settled laboring class. We
are now in process of educating this class
of men, and must do it by good manage
ment-Pen and Ploac.
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Cost of Corn Cultivation.

This is a subject that especially interests
every farmer, for thereon principally de-
ponds the profit and loss of the crop. For
this we must turn to the farm-record. We
find, by reference back to the year 1870,
that the cash cost of working was S12. S213
per acre. 1t may be tabulated thus:
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THERE could scarcely be better evil
dence of the extraordinary excellence of
the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs
than the fact that they are so largely ex-
ported to Europe, where they are so
highly appreciated as to find large sales
in competition with instruments made
there by labor which does not cost half
as much. These are the only American
organs largely exported
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As BROAD As CIvILIzATIoE.-The agent of
the Wilson Sewing Machine Company will,
in few DAYS, sail from San Francisco for
Chill, in South America, where he viii open
branch house and exhibit the worid-re-
nowned Wilson shuttle sewing machine at
the grand exposition to be held at Santiago
under the auspices of that Government. By
this step the Wilson Sewing Machine Com
pany VIII complete the circuit of the globe.
They have already immense agencies in
China, Japan, British Indies, England,
France, and throughout South America. SUI
preme in its superiority over all other sew
ing machines, the Wilson goes on widening
its field year after year, carrying the bless
ings of cheap, capable and perfect sewing
machine TO the remotest hsunts of eiyiliza-
ton. Machines viii be delivered at any rail-
road station in this county, free of trans
portation charges, If ordered through the
company's branch house at 1871 State street,
Chicago. They send an elegant catalogue
and chrome circular free on application.
This company want few more good agents.
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The term "bee," now so generally

The term bee" now so generally
applied to spelling classes, has for cen
tury or more been used in connection with
the cuttings, corn-huskings, apple-butter
boilings, and other pleasant gatherings of
country people, where the hum of busy
industry reminded one of the activity of a
beehive. When the quilt was completed,
or the corn all husked, the young people
generally amused themselves with dane.
ing, playing games, etc, and, among
other pleasant amusements, spelling
classes were introduced. To these old
fashioned country customs may, we think
be traced the origin of the term g bee' in
its application to photographic contests.
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Thus we find that the cultivation has
cost about one and one-third days work
per acre to make the crop, or two and one
third days work when cribbed. The
gross profit per acre was S12.171a; the
net profit, deducting rent OF land, SHY
and the cost of working it. s12. S215 per
acre. Again, we find the cost per bushel,
including rent, wear and tear, and other
expenses, to be 25ss cents per bushel, or,
exclusive of rent, 15e5 cents per bushel.
Or, again, if we estimate the value of the
stalks at 81 per acre-and they are worth
more if fed early-we have the net profit
per acre, ss.171a; to be raised or lowered
according to the season, price, etc.
Some farmers claim that the crop can
be made and laid by at a cost of one days
labor per acre. In exceptional cases ii
may be, but it will as often exceed the fig
ures we have given as it viii go under
them.-Chicdgo Tribune.
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-Fricasseed Tripe.-Cleanse tripe well
from the fat, cut it into pieces about two
inches broad and four long put it into a
stew-pan and cover with milk and water let
itboil tiliiender. Slice two onions and put
in stew-pan with a quarter pound butter
salt, pepper and nutmeg to flavor. and lei
them brown; put this sauce with the tripe,
add the juice of a lemon, and serve very
hot
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few years been exhibited in this city a
Prussian who measured over eight feet,
and who seemed like church-steeple at
the side of Tom Thumb and Commodore
Mutt, with whom he generally appeared
N. p. Weekly.
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ELECTRICITY is LrFE.-An nervous dsor-
ders, chronic diseases OF the chest, head, liver,
stomach, kidneys and blood, aches and pains,
nervous and general debility, etc, quickly
cured after drugs fail bv wearing Voltas Elee-
tre Belts and Bands. Valuable book free, by
Volta Belt Co. Cincinnati. Ohio.
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Neither the advice of others nor their
experience is worth anything to the aver
age man. A noted gunner in Maine. who
leaves wife and five children. tried to
pull a double-barreled gun out of chest
by the muzzle the other day.
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JoHxsoN's 4sodvas LiHimeat may be ad-
ministered to children with perfect success
In cases of Group, whooping cough, infiu-
enzs, and almost any of the diseases to
which they are liable.
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PRUssISG's White Wine Vinegar, purest
and cheapest, warranted. to preserve pickles.
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OPPRESSION after eating, headache, nery-
Gus debility, are the effects of indigestion.
One. or two at most, of Pars as Pur5atiae
Pix wiz give immediate relief
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Pomeroy & Co., make the best Elastic Truss
ever invented Address IA Broadway, n. Y.
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BURNFTT's CoCoAINB is the best and cheap
est hair dressing in the world.
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III.
DR.. r. v. PIERCE. Buffalo. N. Y:

Dear SRI have not words to express my
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used your medicines since they have been
brought here but that can say with me they
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me left of all doctors and other medicines
and now use il in their families after being
cured of the same disease as mine. You do
not know what a wonder it created in our
city by its restoring my sister l wrote you
about, for she had been under the care of
three of our best doctors but could not sit
up but for a few minutes at one time.
begged of her TO try your medicines, and be-
fore she had used half the bottles she could
go all around the yard, and has now just
come home from a visit five miles away.
Mrs. THOMAS MCFARLAND.
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by dealers in medicines generally.
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DIR. Pierce, F.yortte Prescription

is very strongly recommended by the Medi-
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their Female Patients 1t is worthy of an
confidence, as may be seen from the follow
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Three M0ney-PIoducing Certain
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A Summer Resort as 1t Should Be.

A summer boarding-place, at which city
people should find all the comforts and
conveniences they wish, has never yet been
established, but it will be seen by the fol.
lowing advertisement that an effort has
been made in that direction:
THE SUITEM HOUSE.
L STRIVE 4 SM Eft Prnnriators
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HINTS ON CARDIAC DIsEAsE--No. 3.

Druggists and Gen. A CTS. San FrarciScn Csfornis
End cor. of Washington and Char,tou Sts., \.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-04
correspondence,

l;O~iiE$rEH, No, June 21, 1875.
EniToR IEPCELICAN:- Notwithstanding the
rava@es OF the grasShoppcrs, and the Governors
adnoni;ion II prepare fer fasting, there is yet
here and there, manifested sufficient courage to
keep up the old custom uf marrying, an. being
given IN marriage. Accordingly on vest relay
We had "lc OF the most pleasant, and vet quiet
affairs that ever made u ripple on the placid social
Surface of our little village.
il. :. CAMPBELL, formerly Principal of the
Public school of savannah, pad recently from
irHas, having grown tired Of sitting Oh thc lonely
banks Of bachrlor,IoIn, resolved to take Il sail
over that conGubiai -ra of which We. of the bach
cl"r fraternity that are lett bchiu,I, hear much
but Au"W liit!c. .tEd. finding in Miss EV.A l..
iHALE. VIII" i, recently froIa Atkinson. Kansas,
hu, War formerly lronl Ibis county those grg,crs,
accomplishments and Wumaniy traits. that
would max, her Il most desirable companion Tor
oTch 4 voyage, hc persuaded hr2 10 ACCOMPANY
hlna. Tie cgcIloHic- tou. place al the Residence
I'll john ,;rccn, the Rev. Mr. Bennett, the uaDii-
i%r Episcopal n|ini-trr OF S#,inua's officiating.
Among those present, We noticed Mrs. Ppair,
,i:r mother OF the brine, Miss Jane Pcalc, OF
-. Joseph, Mrs. John Green, ,Ir. and Mrs.
ihari"S Douglass, all relatives Oftlc bride, anil
i. =. AltErId, If savannah. Eurn the nuutia!,
were over, amt the happy couple lad received
the c,rgTutUia':on> of their friends, the coInrapy
~"i town (" "I:' % those richly spread table
,ha; only mo-" WHO. Liz" Ir,. Green. ere aGtut~
az HIli'irulati:E !hc good tA;n2, "i this WUrIu,
can prepare:
.tl,rr simmer :'ic parties started for -. Joseph.
iT"in winch point tie newly married couple
W"i" /" "H-'r 1r.:il '!i"',!y for Detroit. Itlch..
ana thence T.. Lt'tton, taraul. The fnrrry aogur
o., ~. I ElI.l't Ma, V.EgIt.-- nrtl q p.I-- .1T-