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COMPROMISE.

10 sHF 3s41EbT ~ fHN 3F1VHHS.
AptiAS, NTH, Jan. 2I.--SuppnEe the COM
rrunlse IL rejected, and the two fIouscs nlcct
and attempt tu count tile vote. Is It probable
that tlcy will ugreci Il NIT, what Is tho al
trEuatlFut Etller ktlie ctIlnpsunhc, Or Rtlarchy.
Is " likely tuat. IN tue last lHcnt, better or
wiser plan will 6t atiopttt!t
Let Congress tnako haste to adopt thta plan
Of settleHcnt, or giYe lis, II they cau, better,
befo7e VIZ Aass civil war, au4 tile ruin and tnd
of tbs Rcputflc. UhR or TUE PKoFLH.
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dealers, a. 20: tt9 omnil,,ssc.. e54fi27; 1,s3s
pctl,llcr., ss',fW 10: % pawnbrol'cr., 81 7s.H:
l0l runners, II, on; A3a, saloons, ti0;, sos; 83
s5uj; i,oD dot,iIo wagons, s5,ost.5s: f.GSs
single wagons, sl,s;o. Is; is pool-t tables, a;1s;D;
10 a.:ootsna-gallcrcs. $7a..5e. Total. s3tU,07o.ni
OF that tosn ucorgr Won floltcn collected s::h-
EE}.Ss tho City Comptrollcr $l7,,, sS1a III, and W.
II. lfcafTurtl, The City CplIcctQr, 81, ,8lt.SQ
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LOUIS WANTS OPINION.

10 Ia Ed110T u TAG 3fltaa1.
Chicago, Jan. :4.5-l uaye read with great In
te1est tho article Ut Dr. Hecbc about Ills ont!.
septic for lIpllthers and scarlet fever. and all
tackled by this terrible dtsea4e. Tie DoctvF paid
but onc visit to our housc, aud directed us to
use Ills preventive; aud, after two days, our
children were u well rs ever.
Nov, what strikes ne a very singular u, that
our Autloslties, when they know, orlnust know.
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htiiE GLASS.

Blue Siaaa scientifically arranged for curative
purpoaes In strips, atetnated With white, arc neat
" framed in black walnut, sixa 20 BY 90, 10 hsnx
III window, nnd sent 10 ANY address upon receipt
Of 50; packed for shipping, $3.25. ". II. Wells
q Bro., Nos Is aud 40 franklin street, aole man.
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McHoyEnN-vAN ARsDALE-on Thnraday
father. 127 West aonsoe street, hy tie isc7. Il. r
GOODWIN, D. D.. John J. Nc0oyern and Mlss Kats
C., youngest daughter Of u. Van Aradalc, Eeo.,
ali OF Chicago. ~
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4 f&cI.

4 FKCTt
Tho only good baking powder, prepared By .
physician, With special regard TO i hcalihSvlness,
Il Ut. Pllce's Cream. Buy 1t IN CAM.
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Tho members Ut the Now Church or Sweden
horxian faith In lhIa city have for SUNNI limc
past experienced feeling that u central church
Tor the accommodation Ut downtown Worship
.rs was q necessity for the rapid Eruwth IT tic
Society, AMI, will that end IN view, haYe Lc1d Ut
lAte several meetings Ut ilu shcru.su House.
Another meeting wa4 held last night. Mr.
14me. kanFon presided. aud 3(r. ]. i. Curtis
.eventY pcrsoas prominent iu tie uew Church
eOearty. II ua4 announced tt,at the new
Hershey Hall had tecn obtained Tor sunday
morning worship. Ths Prof. Swing congregation
hare the LIS uG that h2ll tor sabbath -s:hool ex.
etd1es in tho afternoon. The FinAnee Collt-
mIttco reported plan for tho sup
paft Of the ehltyl- The plan
vaa substantially that ssSts shauld be
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
Kindness to Animals.

It pays to treat domestic animals kindly. There is no animal so stupid as not to know the difference between kind and unkind treatment, and none so vicious or ungrateful as not to re- spond in kind to the hand that pets and caresses it, The vicious horse has almost always been timid colt, and required only kind and gentle treat ment to drive away fear and establish confidence, to render him docile.
 It is the nature of all animals to re- sent i'll treatment, even from one ot their own species, and to fight when i'm posed upon. Thus the horse will return kick or bite, while the horned ani- mai will do battle with the arms with which nature has furnished it.
 A timid and spirited colt is very ma turally and rapidly changed into vic. ious and unmanageable horse by rough and unkind handling-and the timid he1fer, by the same treatment, becomes an ugly hooking and kicking COW. Do mestic animals recognize kind words as well as kind acts, and cross word at critical moment will bring fight and de termined opposition, where kind worC would have calmed fear and subdue( anger. In handling domestic animals that man is the most successful Wht governs his own passions. With do nestle animals, kindness begets kind ness, and passion begets passion.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
Shooting Under Water.

Major-General von Uchatius, the in ventor of the new field gun adopted in the Austrian army, publishes in the Vienna Artillery and Engineer Journal an account of some interesting experi- ments recently made by him with the object of ascertaining the effect pro- duced by firing a rifle under water.
 It is known, he says, that fishes, when they are not too much below the sur face of the water, can be shot from the shore or from boat. The armor plates of ships of war, however, do not usually extend any lower than from two to three metres below the surface, as be- yond that depth ships are regarded as unassailable even by the largest shot. This is so, no doubt, when the shot is fired above water; but Major von Uchatius wished to find the result which would be attained by firing under water.
 For this purpose he procured a wooden raft, to the under surface of which a Werndi rife was attached with
 
 the raft f1oated on the water the rifle was fired horizontally at a depth of half metre below the the surface. An at tendant then opened the lock, intro duced cartridge, placed the rifle at full-cock, and fired it from the shore by means of string attached to the trig- ger. The target consisted of wooden | board an inch thick.
 The result of the experiment. was as follows: There was no difficulty in loading and firing the rifle, and there was the advantage that after each shot the inside of the barrel was cleaned by the water. About thirty shots were fired without doing the smallest damage to any part of the rife. At each shot there was a dull sound, which could not be heard beyond distance of fifty paces, and bubbles of smoke rose above the surface. At distance of one and half metres no impression whatever was produced on the target; at one and a quarter metres the bullet entered to a depth of from three to four millimetres alu at oIlc heIIe CHe target was pierced through.
 Major-General Uchatius also made some experiments with the view of as. pertaining whether a greater effect could be produced by corking up the barrel at it's mouth so as to keep the water out, and thereby diminish the resistance to the egress of the bullet but he found that for all practical pur. poses the resistance of the compressed air in the barrel was equal to that o the water, the target being penetrated only at the maximum distance of metre as in the previous experiment.-Pal Mall Gdzette.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
AGRICULTURAL.
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SC

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SOILS.-Our szmiadl adle=aged rnaers=ean- readily re- member when our scientists thought a they had the theory and practice of farming reduced to questidn of arith- ! metic; that all a farmer aneed do was to analyze- both crop and. soil, and apply ; to the latter the ingredients of the for !. merr in which it was deficient. After the expenditure of no small amount of money this was found to be fallacious. For this result member of the New York Farmers Institute gives the fol- lowing reasons: "Chemical analysis has shown that all soils have for their base alumina or clay. and silica or sand. If the former predominates it is called clayey soil, if the latter, sandy one; or if in more equal proportions, a loamy soil. But there are other ingre- dients combined with these earths to a greater or less degree, viz.: carbonate of lime, sufphate of lime or gypsam, . and. aptpasl antlYegetable matter. These are the compQnent parts of every good soil, and on their right proportion de- bends it's fertility and adaptiveness to the growth and maturity of it's produc- tions. A soil peculiarly adapted for wheat has the following proportions of earths to the hundred parts, viz.: car '. bonate of lime, 29; silica, or sand, 32 :; .~ alumiua, or clay, 29, and animal or vegetable matter, II. That these ele-
 ments enter largely into the formation of plants grown upon them has been
 proved by experiment. and these sub- stances are found, with few exceptions,
 in about the same proportions in which they exist in the best natural s0ils.g In
 the analysis of different plants and seeds it is found that 100 parts of ashes made from the following substances, we'll leached and consequently freed from all their salts and soluble matter, yield. .,s ..-
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
Ancient HOrse-Racing.

It is very remarkable that, in spite of the excessive affection of the Greeks and
 Romans for all sorts of games and sports,
 horse-racing in our sense of the word
 had no existence among them. The great racing capabilities of the horse were, indeed, fully recognized and abundantly utilized; but it was always
 in harness, and almost invariably in double harness, that he was brought into the lists; and the art of riding, whether on the flat or across the coun- try, seems never by any accident to have been made the subject of match or a bet. The course, moreover, upon which
 the Greek horses were driven was very different from the smooth turf of Epson or Ascot. The hippodrome was an in closed space, surrounded entirely with rows Of seats raised on artificial or natural mounds, and the whole extent of it's circuit was not as much as half a
 mile, the soil of it, in spite of all pos slble precautions, being always of a
 sandy or dusty nature. One of the con- sequences of this limited sphere of ac- tion was the necessity of increasing greatly the number of circuits or 'Iaps' to be accomplished in the race; and it is | clear from the accounts which have come down to us that as many as eight revo- lutiOns were sometimes required to complete the race. In the earliest times | this was not the case, and in the | chariot-race, of which such a detailed account is given in Homer, the drivers may go and return once to and from a | distant rock. But in the Olympian and
 Isthmian hippodrome the distance
 from the start to the first turn was
 only about four hundred yards. Here
 a stone pillar was erected, and the
 chariots were obliged to turn sharp
 around it, and leaving it on the left, to
 return in directly opposite direction till they arrived at another similar pil-
 lar, which they rounded in like man.
 ner, and so orounded on the second Clap ''
 Of course the act of making so sharp a
 turn was that upon which each chario-
 teer especially prided himself; and, in
 deed, considering that as many as 8
 dozen chariots were often engaged ir
 the competition, they deserved all the
 credit they may claim. Between the two
 turning posts was low wall, which
 prevented the returning chariots iron
 careening against those proceeding ir
 the opposite direction, and there were
 umpires on the spot to decide any case of wilful collision or fraud of any sort
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
PitileSs PreteXtS.

One of the bad and sad things of hu- of well-to-do people who justify their lack of benevolence by the fact that it is difficult to know where aims are well bestowed. In this objection there is just enough truth to stagger people of poorly developed reasoning powers. It is true that in giving away aims in almost any form there is danger that those who deserve them will not get them, and that those who do not deserve them will, But in numerous cases this difficulty may be removed by little patience. It is safe to assume that any man who really wants to help the de- serving poor can, without much diff culty, find some trustworthy and com petent person who is fully capable of judging of the necessity and deserts of particular cases. Nearly every respon- sible head of family knows of one or more poor families who would be glad of help delicately given. In world so full as this of bitter elbowing, it is per haps too much to expect of an ambitious man that he should step aside from the tolls of competition and grope among noisome purlieus for the penniless and destitute. It may, perhaps, looking at the thing severely, be his duty to do so, but practically we must allow some thing for the weakness of human nature, and not put too tight strain on him. But we venture to say that he must be an abnormally situated man who has no sistance he is justified in trusting in this matter. One of the most contempt ible of pretexts for penuriousness is that which dwells perpetually upon the risks which beset charity.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
Thieves in Regent Street.

Regent street, the great shopping ground of fashionable London, is haunted now by new variety of in- genious and audacious thieves. Good looking, weH-got up footmen, some times in one livery and sometimes in another, watch carriages as they stand about near some favorite shop, and while the coachman has gone little way for a glass, and the footman is gossiping with his fellows round the shop door, walk boldly up. open the carriage door, and make off with any available article. If caught at the door of the carriage there is the ready ex- cuse of having been sent to Lady So- and-So's carriage for some parcel, and ready apology for the mistake. The makeup of these thieves is perfect, and as varied as that of detective.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
Never Forget Anything.

A successful business man told me there were two things which he learned when he was IS, which were after wards of great use to him, namely, ''never to lose anything and never to forget anything." An old lawyer sent him with an important paper, with certain instructions what to do with it. "But," inquired the young man. ''sup- pose 1 lose it; what shall 1 do then ?'' The answer was with the utmost em- phasis, "You must not lose it n' "I don't mean to-" said the young man, "but suppose 1 should happen to?" But you must not happen to; 1 shall make no provision for such an occur renee; you must not lose !' This put new train of thought into the young mans mind, and he found that if he was determined to do thing he could do it. He made such provision against every contingency that he never lost anything. He found this equally true about forgetting. If certain matter of importance was to be remem- llc plIlncC IL uOWIl OH HIS nllllQ fastened it there, and made it stay. He used to say, 'Nhen a man tells me that he forgot to do something, I tell him that he might as well have said, I did not care enough about your busi- ness to take the trouble to think of it again. l once had an intelligent young man in my employment who deemed it sufficient excuse for ne- glecting any important task to say, "I forgot tn' I told that would never answer. If he was sufficiently inter- ested, he would be careful to remem- Der. It was because he did not care enough that he forgot. I drilled him with this truth. He worked for me three years and Curing the last of the three he was utterly changed in this respect. He did not forget a thing. His forgetting he found, was a lazy, careless habit of the mind. which he cured.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
The Best Loved Women.

It is the womenly women who are so tenderly reverenced on earth, so lov- ingly mourned and missed when, ''life's ftful fever over," they rest in peace. The mothers whose life and memory are Gods intrument for the salvation of their sons, the "believing wives who sanctify the unbelieving husbands" ," the sisters whose influence has power to win brother from his evil ways or to strengthen him in the path of light, the thousand women who have been to men guardian angels in truth, all belong to the class of womenly women, the brightest ornaments of earth.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14

sincere woman is for that reason per haps impossible" ''The common rela- ton among men is mutual indifference; :; that among women, enmity. x Even on meeting in the street they look at each other like Guelphs and Ghibel- lines; and on being introduced to each other, two women always behave with more visible stiffness and insincerity than two men, for which reason com pliments between women sound much more ridiculous than between men. .''- The .Ne,c Quarterly Mdgd<ine.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
Schopenhauer on Women.

The true vocation and the highest merit of women Schopenhauer believes to be embodied in the words of French author ''Sans les femmes, le con- mencement de nOtre vie serait prive de secours, le milieu de plaisirs. ct la fin de consolation" ''The very appearance of the female form, ; he continues, "shows that woman is not destined for great intellectual or physical achievements. She pays the debt of life not by doing but by suffering, by the pains of child bearing, by the care for her infant. and the submission to her husband, to whom she ought to be a patient and cheering companion.' How much soever such an idea of woman's mission may clash with modern notions on the subject, it gives but a mild foretaste of what is to follow. Here is more racy specimen :: "Women are so eminently adapted to tend and educate our early infancy, be- cause they themselves are childish, silly, short-sighted-in fact, big children-all their lives, They form a kind of inter- mediate step between the child and the man, who is the representative of hu- manity proper.' We next come to a contribution to the philosophy of mar riage worthy of Balzac himself. "Na- ture," Schopenhauer opines, ''intends girls for startling effect in melodra- matic sense; for that reason she endows them with abundant beauty and charms, for few years and at the cost of the remainder of their lives, in order that they may captivate the fancy of man to such degree as to induce him to un- dertake the support of their existence; for calm deliberation would hardly be sufficient motive for such step." '"The more perfect a thing is" we read in another paragraph, ''the later and slower will be it's maturity. Man at tains the maturity of his intellectual faculty hardly before the 18th year; woman at her 18th; but then the latter is accordingly of the narrowest com pass" That an asserter of male su- periority to this degree should scorn the idea of wOman's rights and advocate her perpetual tutelage in matters of property, Hldy Scclu ItIurdl. buG noFe again we tread on personal ground. The improvidence of his mother, which lost her own and imminently endan- gered Schopenhauer's moderate compe- tence, was one of his chief grievances against her, and when he speaks of the extravaganza of the sex, the individual allusiOn is as obvious as in that other passage where he lays the greater pro- portion of judicial perjuries at woman's door, and suggests that the testimony of two men ought to be tantamount to that of double that number of females at least. But Schopenhauer would be the last person to admit, or even realize to himself, this reminiscence of fair though voluble plaintiff in certain lawsuit. According to him, woman's want of veracity is founded on an eternal law of nature. What his teeth and claws are to the lion, his tusks to the elephant, his horns to the bull, his personal strength and his reason to man, that to woman is the gift of deception, given to her by nature as her weapon of attack and defense. "Hypocrisv. therefore, is natural to her, and at the command of stupid and clever women alike. A wholly truthful and
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14

Boraic Acid for Skin Diseases.-Boraic acid has lately been used abroad with great success as an eternal application in the treatment of vegetable parasitic diseases of the skin. In the different forms of the tinea-T. tonsurans cercinata and in that very troublesome form of the disease which affects the scrotum and the inner side of the upper parts of the shighs of many Europeans inI India, it's application is said to act like charm. A solution of a drachm of the acid to an ounce of water, or as much of the acid as the water will take up, is found to meet the requirements of the case satis- factorily. AS further treatment the af- fected parts should be we'll bathed in the solution twice daily, some little fri- tion being used, and the solution al- lowed to dry on the part.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14

BRANDED PEAcHEs.-To every pound of peeled peaches add one pound of sugar and one gill of white brandy !; make a syrup of the sugar, add only enough water to dissolve it, let it come to boil, then put the fruit in and let it boil five minutes; remove the fruit carefully, then let the syrup boil fifteen or twenty minutes longer, until it kettle at once from the fire; pour the hot syrup over the fruit and seal at once. If, after the peaches have been removed, a reddish liquor oozes from them, drain this off before adding the clear syrup. Put up in glass jars that have been rolled Tn hot water. The peaches should not be over-ripe. White cling-stones are, perhaps, the best.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
That InSidiOus Foe tO Health

An atmosphere impregnated with the seeds of malaria. is rendered harmless by the timely use of Hostetters Stomach Bitters and If 8 resort to this benign protective agent has un- wisely been deferred until the fever fits have developed, it will have the effect of checking them and preventing their return. This state. ment is corroborated by thousands who have tried this medicine for fever and ague and bilious remittent fever, besides affections of the stomach. liver and bowels peculiarly rife in malarious localities. Throughout the Vest indeed in every part of the American continent where malaria prevails, it is the accepted specific. Nor is the area of it's usefulness circumscribed by the limits of the United States since it is widely used in South Ameri- ca. Mexico. Australia. and elsewhere.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14
Fashionable Garters.

Fashion concentrates her extrava- gances not only in lace, but in stock ings and garters. In Lisle thread stock ings are as fiimsy and delicate as cob web. Silk stockings come in such tints as pale cream color, tilleul, lemon, scarlet, pink and blue. The designs embroidered upon them as copies of nature are works of art. The instep of one style of delicate blue is worked with bunch of strawberries, and round the leg spiral of pale flowers is exquisitely embroidered; another is dotted with moss rosebuds in garlands. Black cur rants, with tiny green figs, cherries, and all manner of feathers, ferns and flowers and vines find place in their natural colors upon these stockings, for which an enormous price is asked and readily given. Some of the most ele- gant stockings have the tops trimmed with Valenciennes rutfles; between these is clasped the garter. Garters of James I. style are fashionable. These are broad, with gold fringes and point lace ends. They range in price from $5 to $50 pair. Garter buckles are made of gold or dead silver, with pol ished silver notices or the initial or monograms in gems; and in the way of souvenirs and betting gifts pair of beautiful garters is purchased with the same consideration that is expended upon pair of bracelets. A late trous- seau contained garters to match the stockings; several pair were made ot white velvet, with filagree silver clasps in the full rosette of lace nestled s bunch of perfumed, waxy orange bios. soms. A pair of gray velvet garters had stamped in blue letters the motto
 'Honi soit," &c. Garter buckles car be purchased in pairs, and attached to variety of garters at pleasure.
Connecticut western news., 1877-09-14

LAMB CHOPS ALA V1LLERo1,-Remoye the spine, flatten and pare nicely eight large Uncovered lamb chops, season with salt and pepper, and put into a sautoir with four ounces of melted butter; fry slightly brown on both sides, drain and press between two tin sheets with weight on top; immerse in lukewarm and pretty consistent bechamel or Allemande sauce, arrange on dish and cool thoroughly; then roll in pulverized crackers, dip in beaten eggs and roll again in fresh crumbs; smooth nicely and fry of a nice color; dish up in circle, fill the centre with fried parsley, put small paper rutfles on the rib bones, and serve.