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The Morning herald., 1878-11-26
"LAUGH AND GROW FAT"

This anc'ent bit of advice is well enough
spare" people. but how shout those
aat are already toofat? What 10 to become
then7 Sit still. and I'll tell you, After
l.nths Of patient investigation and toll
" celebrated an ualytical chemist, j. Q:
tn, has perfected and given to the world
u-rat. Thus far In several hundred
asrs this great remedy has never failed TO
eouce q corpuIent person from three to
M pounds per wee Z. 1t is perfectly harm
~ w. and POSITIVELY efficient. Sold by drug
Anti-Fat n "l,salIy Examined.
ne analyti., 1ist W. B DRAKE, OF
"ahln n. Y, ltly analyzed Alan's
Au'i-Fet, and CAV he following:
CERT4FICATE.
nave subjected Allan Anti-Fat to
99ttmlcal ~ t! analysis, examined the process
FL lts manufacture and can truly say that
ingredients Of which 1t Is compSs, are are
Enu.lreiy vegetable, and cannot put act
fan |ca ranly upon the system, and 1t is well
II nteded.
Sold by druggists.
W. B. DRAKE. Chemist.
FAT PEOPLES MISFORTUNES.
som some Of the savage tribes enter their
wv uuTSeiilngs through hole in the roof and
MI. Mae person becomes so fat that he CAN
S. Had get In he ~ regarded as an outlaw.
Ia flad this system been adopted in the
bHhiled States, the outlaws" could not
lave iaN,e made = more active demand for AL
Wis %b = anti Fat than now exists. Hundreds
ANY, hmo had lived In constant fear of sudden
Sea.h Cos. n nave, by its use, been reduced to q
ia nnpaIs living weight. The Anti-Fat
V4nRfnhIa naPHoN1IV
1885, Sold BY ali druggists.
H. me Rose Of death. Do not wait until
snn ~ nee lc flush l dlca,es advanced con-
Il ~ iuption appears ON the CHEEK Check
,"N coug, and heal he irritatt d
A ~ WI II Els HoNKY OF HoREHOUND
nnu ,;r, = h, before tue crisis comes. Be In
''Pe. p,e. Sold by all d. uggists.
ute 'Aes Toothache Drops cure in one min.
A". novlO.lm
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31
Railroad Notes.

NEARLY three hundred miles of rail-
road was built in California last year.
Work on the railway from Kansas City
to Burlington, Kas, is progressing rapid
ly.
OVER four hundred tons of iron have
Been received for the extension Of the;
Iowa and Narrow-gauge line from Ames
northward.
THE completion of the Colorado Cen
trail Railroad has already had the effect
of cutting down rates on the road be
tween Denver and Cheyenne.
THE st. Paul & Sault st. Marie Rail-
road, wheH built, will pass across the
northern portion of Wisconsin and open
up a valuable tract of country.
THE Lehigh Valley Railroad has just
sent into its shops to be rebuilt locomo-
tive that has been run steady for twenty
years with hardly any repairs.
THE Central Pacific Railroad Company
planted 100000 trees along the line Of
their road last season, and they have Or
dered over 100000, which will be set out
the coming season.
THE managers of the Quincy, Missouri
and Pacific Railroad Company have
made arrangements to commence work
on the extension of the line west of
Kirksville at once, and will push the
work forward as rapidly as possible.
The declining interessin railroad prop
erty is evidenced by the fact that the new
Pennsylvania Petroleum Railroad, grad
ed from Titusville to Cambridge four or
five years ago, has been abandoned, and
part of the track torn up.
THE report of the Minnesota Railway
Companies show that the receipts for the
past twelve months of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railroad, in that State
amount to 81, 267, 1861, of which st. Paul
and Minneapolis have contributed S514,-
600.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31
Cotton Dyeing.

The working up OF cotton and wool
into all sorts of fabrics has of late years
received much development, so that now
% to 30 per cent. Of loose cotton may be
added TO wool, and to the fabrics SO
woven actually deceive the naked eye of
the most experienced dealer-the only
difficult point being to die the cotton
well and fine. A method of accomplish
ing this has, according to the Teaiie
Manufacturer, now been found, so that
with fabrics not requiring to be fulled,
all colors can be produced to resemble
the tints of wool. The loose cotton, rs
1t proceeds from the ball, may be loosed
either by mechanical or manual labor,
and as soon as each raw cotton yarn
has been boiled two hours in water, it is
ready for dyeing; but such manipulation
may be saved in most colors by miners
ing the cotton-as, for example, for
black, in u logwood bath for two hours,
by which time is saved. The chief point
of attention during the boiling process
is to turn the cotton necessarily, so as
to insure all portions being soaked
through, otherwise non-dyed white spots
show up. 1t is also advisable to use sep
arate watts for each bath, much dyeing
material being thus saved.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31
The Greatness of 0bscurity.

1t is a curious circumstance of the war
in the east, and of interest in connection
with the capture of Plevna, that prior to
its occupation by Osman Pasha's army.
Plevna was never heard of outside of its
own immediate neighborhood. 1t had no
commercial prominence, and was entire
ly without military defences save such as
nature provided. PlevDa is twenty seven
miles southwest of Nicopolis, and when
the latter was captured by the Russians
on the 10th of July by General krudener,
many Turkish refugees fled to Plevna
Osman Pasha with a strong corps was
within days march of NIcopolis when
it fell, and after that disaster wandered
into Plevna in a purposeess way, as if
waiting to see what would turn up next
1t was General Krudener who turned up
very quickly after the fall of Nicopois
and occupied Plevna without resistance,
but incautiously marched beyond and
into Osman Pashas army, and was de
feated. Osman was quick to seize the
advantage he had secured 10y chance, and,
marching up his main body, he occupied
Plevna with $4,000 men, This was on
the 18th of July. Following their ira
ditional tactics, the Turks, as soon as
they took possession of the town, began
to use the spade. Fortifications were
erected, and strong earthworks and
stronger redoubts were thrown up, and
there he stayed, repusng every effort of
the Russian and Roumanian armies to
dislodge him until finally, after a long
siege, he was starved out and compelled
to surrender. All these ta,eful events
grew out of the purposeless movements
that characterized the first part of the
campaign. The great fortified towns of
Shumla, Rustchuk, Widden and other
notable Turkish fortresses have had no
conspicuous place thus far in the war,
while an insignificant Turkish town, to-
tally devoid Of artificial means of de-
Tense, has played the most important part
of any point on the scene of military oper-
ations, and whose downfall is probably
the death knell Of an empire of several
centuries of history Hack Eye.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31
Seven Husbands.

The New York Times has special
from Hartford, Connecticut, which says
the town of Coventry has brought suit
against the town of Manchester for the
support of an alleged pauper named
Patti PAMELA Anthony, aud the woman
herself has made deposition which
shows a remarkable career of married
life. The case is before Judge Carpen-
ter, of Hartford, AS arbitrator.
According to her story, she was mar
ried July 5, 1885, to VIM. BLY, of
springfield, who left her three days af-
ter. Six weeks later, she heard he was
dead, and on February 4, of the next
year, she married David L. Rogers, of
Hadlyme, Connecticut. She lived with
Rogers six months, when BLY,, the dead
man, appeared, but was bought up and
gave quit-claim to Rogers for silver
watch and five dollars.
About two years after Rogers went to
sea, and six months following his de-
parture, Mrs. Rogers heard be had been
hanged as pirate. Finding single life
hanging heavily on her hands, she mar
ried, in March, 1S41, Frederick A.
Wheeler, who now lives in Manchester,
Connecticut
Six months after this marriage,
Rogers, the hanged pirate, came bac k,
ousted Wheeler, and lived with Pane
liza till October, 1S49, when he died.
In March, 1850, she married Henry
Myers, of Williamsburg, New York,
and got divorce in March, 1857, and in
the same year married James Davis and
moved to Wisconsin. She lived with
him several years and got divorced.
She then married Richard Marshall
somewhere in Ohio, lived with him
seven years, and got another divorce,
then coming back to Connecticut she
married Emanuel Anthony, of Hartford,
and lived with him six months, when
he ran away.
This record shows she had seven hus-
bands in all She was first married
when fourteen years of age. She says
she is now fifty-six years old. Coventry
owes Manchester for her support, claim
ing her settlement is in Manchester,
where her husband, Wheeler, now lives.
There Rogers marriage is claimed to be
void, as Bly, was still living, but as Bly,
died before Wheeler's marriage, the lat
ter was legal. Manchester says the Bly,
she married is not Bly,, who is said to be
dead, but another man; that the married
BLY, was alive when Wheeler's marriage
took place, which makes that void. 1t
is also held that Wheeler's marriage is
of no effect, under the Connecticut laws,
from the fact that at the time Wheeler
married her, his father was married to
her sister. So he was not only marry
ing his mother-in-law's sister, but also
his fathers step-sister, and so on. 1t is
avery peculiar case.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31
The Japanese PersimmOn.

The attention of horticulturists is now
being attracted to this new and valuable
fruit that has recently been introduced
into this country. This variety differs.
materially from the persimmon of the
Southern States, as it ripens without
frost and is equally palatab!e whether
fresh or dried. The tree is highly orna-
mental, a prolific bearer and as hardy as
the pear. Its season is from October To
March, coming in when fine fruits are
scarce. The fruit is of bright yellow.
orange or reddish color, and is pro-
nounced equal to the pear or peach. 1t
is also sufficiently solid to be packed and
shipped with safety. 1t grows to large
size, attaining in some cases pound
each in weight. The japanese persim-
mon is perfectly adapted to the soil and
climate of this country, and may be cul-
tivated precisely rs the apple. The
grated trees bear in about four years !;
seedlings require double that time and
are not reliable. Colonel Hollister, of
Santa Barbara, Cal, writes as follows Of
the diospyros of kaki:
This fruit is, think, the most beau
tiful of all fruits have ever seen, and is
the most delicious to the taste. | car
ried four of them to San Francisco last
fall, which weighed three-quarters of II
pound each. The fruit is OF rich yell
low color, and smells more like ball of
wax than fruit. 1t is simply splendid
think it will be the greatest acquisition
to our State ever introduced"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31

LIEBIG makes the statement that rain
water filtered through field or garden
soil does not dissolve out a trace Of pot
ash, silicic acid, ammonia, or phosphoric
acid. The soil does not give up to the
water one particle of the food Of plants
which it contains. The most continuous
rain can not remove from the field, except
mechanically, any of the essential con-
s,ituents Of its fertility. The soil not
only retains firmly all the food of plants
which is actually in it, but its power to
preserve all that may be useful to them
also extends to Withdrawing from rain or
other water all the ammonia, potash,
phosphoric and siicic acids held in SO
luton.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31
The Washington Capital notes the ap.

The Washington Capital notes the ap-
pearance at party in that city of the
wife OF New YORK banker, whose dress
was covered on the skirt, so as to make
it appear one piece, with one hundred and
five one hundred dollar bills. The waist
and sleeves were 81 900 bonds sewed in,
and her fingers and ears blazed with dia-
monds. The tiara was said to have been
worth $4,000, and the total value of the
notes and diamonds on her person was
100000. Two pages carried her train,
and watched lest the jewels and green
backs should fall to the floor.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31
The Promise.

l remember what you said
While the stars shone overhead
Frosty stars, that CLEANED above
When | saw you last, my love-
Hand in hand, said good-bye;
Heart to heart you made reply;
Footsteps parting in the snow
Meet again when roses blow
Roses budded, hloomed, and fled
All the summer flowers are dead;
Autumn showered her rainy tears
Hopes have faded into fears.
Frosty stars are shining now,
Once again, above my brow;
Summer streams to ice are chilled,
And thy promise-unfultilled!
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31

THERE are 10000 unsettled pension
claims on file in the pension office at
Washington, and the number is still in
creasing. The number Of pensioners in
creased from 207, %, in 1871, to 10000,
10 1876, when about $50, 1000, 600 we're
disbursed for claims.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31

In his sermon in the Classon Avenue
Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, recently,
the Rev. DIR. Duryea said 1T is no
trouble to live on bread and water rough
some people are making great ado
about it. have done it many . time,
simply for my own pleasure and recrea-
ton, in the forests and in the ZELDA"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31

To CURE HoARsENEss.--Bea we'll
the whites Of two eggs, add two table
spoonfuls white sugar, CRATE in half a
nutmeg, add pint of lukewarm water,
stir we'll and drink often. Repeat the
preparation if necessary.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31

Poor England! Her industries are
suffering everywhere and becoming the
subjects of attack from all directions.
Germany is now reported to be fairly
flooding the hosiery districts of Noting
hamshire and Leicestershire with yarns
of astonishing qualities and prices. Bel
GUM is sending over iron, and the United
States, says an English journal, is sup
plying our warehousemen with ship loads
of calico, good salable prints, and wear
able cottons at rates that command buy
ers. American beef is underselling the
famous beef of England, our fruits ale
constantly increasing in demand, and
our cutlery completes with English wares
in Sheffield itself Chicago Commercial
Adrertiser.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31

GRAHAM MUFFINs.-Take equal parts
of milk and Graham flour and mix well
with little salt. The flour should be
passed through coarse sieve, and the
ingredients mixed over night. The lit
tie roll pans, the best for this use,should
be heated quite hot and well buttered,
and the oven should bake quickly.
The pans must be not quite half flied.
A little experience will teach any one
how to do this all right
CORN MUFFINs. Three cupfuls corn
meal, one cupful of flour, one egg, one
half cupful sugar or molasses, two tea
spoonfuls of cream tartar, and one of
soda, and piece of butter the size of
butternut; wet with milk to about the
consistency of sponge cake.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31

How TO PUT Down EGGs.-I send you
a receipt for putting down eggs that l
have used to our entire satisfaction for
over twenty-five years. l never expect
to find, nor do wish for, better one,
either in point of simplicity, economy,or
certainty. Take of good salt half a
pint, Of unslacked lime piece the size
of a teacup. Put both in stone jar
Pour into the jar two gallons of boiling
water. Let stand till perfectly cool, then
put in your eggs. BE sure that your
eggs are all good. Care must be taken
not to crack any of them in putting
them in, or they will spoil Immediately.
The eggs must be entirely covered with
the brine, and kept i'll cool place.
BE careful not to have too much salt, or
the yolks may harden. l have kept
eggs in that way from September until
May, and used them for the most delicate
cake and omelette. A friend in the com
mission business, in making some
changes in his store, found few eggs
had been overlooked, and had been in
a brine prepared in that way nearly two
years. He took them home, and they
were found to be perfectly sweet and
nice.-C0r. Of the Detroit Tribune.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31

The monks of St. Bernard save the
traveller, and the dogs get all the credit.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31
A NOVEL WAY OF MAKING JELLY CAB

a NOVEL WAY OF MAKING ELY CAKE.
Take the whites of six eggs, one cup
of white sugar, same of flour, one tea
spoonful of butter, two tablespoonfuls of
sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls cream Of
tartar, and one Of soda. Bake in a large
oblong dripping pan, so the cake VOL be
very thin; meanwhile stir another batch,
making just the same, with the exception
of using the yolks instead of the whites
when both are done, spread when warm
with jelly, or preserves of any kind; put
together, bring the largest side of the
cake toward you, and roll Immediately
or cut in four or eight parts, put together
alternately, putting jelly between each
layer, and frost lightly over the top. An
other method is to make three pans, max
ing the third layer of one.third red-sand
sugar, proceeding the same as for the
other layers; in putting together let the
first layer be the yellow. made of the
yolks, then the red, and lastly the whites.
Nicely frost the top, and you have beau
tiful as we'll as delicious party cake.
They are very pretty made into rolls.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31
Singing in the Family.

Cultivate singing in the family. Be-
gin when the child is not yet three years
old. The songs and hymns your mother
sang, bring them all back to your memo
ry, and teach them to your little ones
mix them all together, to meet the SINH
lar moods, as IN after life they come over
US SO mysteriously sometimes. Many a
time and oft, in the very whirl of bust
ness, in the sunshine and gayety of the
streets, and amid the splendor of the
drives in a park, some little thing wakes
up the memories of early youth-the old
mill, the cool spring, the shady tree by
the little school house-and the next in
slant we almost see again the rudy
cheeks, the smiling faces and the merry
eyes of schoolmates, some grayheaded
now, most "lie moldering in the grave
And 1.-THE song your mother sang
springs unbidden to the lips, and soothes
and sweetens all these memories.
At other times, amid the crushing mis-
haps of business, a merry ditty of the
olden time pops up its little head, breaks
in upon the ugly train of thought, throws
the mind into another channel; light
breaks in from behind the cloud in the
sky, and new courage is given to us. The
honest man goes singing to his work, and
when the days labor is done, his tools
laid aside, and he is on his way home,
where wife and child, and tidy table, and
cheerful tireside await him, he cannot but
whistle or sing.-Occident.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-31

HOME, WIFE AND SATURDAY NIGHT
Happy is the man who has little home
and Il little angel in it of Saturday
night--a house, no matter how little,
provided it will hold two or so; no mat
ter how humbly furnished, provided there
is hope in it. Let the winds blow-close
the curtains. What if they are plain cal
leo, without border, tassel or any such
thing. Let the rain come down-heap up
the fire. No matter if you haven't can
die to bless yourself with, for what a
beautiful light glowing coal makes
shedding cloudless sunset through the
room-just light enough to talk by; not
loud, as in the highways; not rapid, as in
the hurrying world; but softly, slowly,
whispering, with pauses between, for the
storm without and the thoughts within
to fill up with. Then wheel the sofa
around 10y the fire; no matter if the sofa
is settee, uncushioned at that, if so be
it is just large enough for two and half
in it. How sweetly the music of silver
bells for the time to come falls on the lis
tening heart then! How mournfully
swell the chimes of ''the days that are no
morer'
The daily gazette., 1878-04-29
Il

Hon. p. Il. Barnum, the proprietor of
the Gown, only and greatest show on
earth" will appear at the performances
IN this CITY, this afternoon, and address
the audience. 70 morrow evening Mr..
Barnarp will lecture in Washington.
Mr.. Fred Lawrence, BarAum's Dress
agent, one of the most agreeable and
thorough gentlemen that ever contracted
for an ''ad., Is also in town, to day, set
thing all the bills and making things gen
orally pleasant for the newspaper men
and others with whom he has business
Col. Mctinnis, President of the Ex.
position building at Louisville, KY, was
In this city on Saturday. He was here
for the purpose ofinducing Capt. Reed
owner of the Great Engle clock, to ex-
hibit it at the exposition that opens in
that city on September 1st, and contin-
ues for six weeks.
The daily gazette., 1878-04-29
From the N. Y. Herald.
business Prosperity in New
England

During the past two months we have
repeatedly called attention to the fact
that the enormous amount of advertis-
ing printed in our columns was one of
the best possible signs of the revival of
business. In the letter which we print
ed last Saturday morning, reviewing the
proceedings OF recent meeting of the
New England cotton manufacturers, the
statistics presented in regard to that
great braEch of business fully confirmed
our theory, and in the letter published
this morning from the same section we
have additional confirmation of the cor
rectness OF our position. There can be
no doubt, in fact, that business is becom-
ing better every day, and the bankrupt
cy lists are no evidence to the contrary.
The war period was fruitful in specu-
lative enterprises Of all kinds huge
fabric OF credit was erected, and ths tot
tering of establishments built in this
way should not be taken as a proof that
the country is going to destruction.
These failures only prove that business
Is being. placed on healthy basis, and
that we are getting down to bed rock,
which is the only sure business founda-
tlon upon which to build. The inter-
views printed on another page show that
the New England cotton mills are to-day
making handsome profits, which the
mills of Great Britain are not doing, and
that our export cotton trade is larger
than it was before the war. In the leather
trade, which is another of the great in
dustries of Massachusetts, the same
healthy and encouraging condition is re-
ported. No better evidence than this
could be presented of our returning
prosperity. 1t is possible that other
branches of industry have not yet begun
to experience this healthy activity, but
in the nature of things it cannot be- long
delayed. When the great industries be-
gin to move all the lesser ones must in
evitably move with them.