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The Osceola times., 1881-05-28
Costly Books.
Gath" in The Enquirer.


Nothing has happened among lawyers
since member Of that profession went
to Christ with the leading question so
indication of their vital piety as the fact
that one of them named Hamilton Cole
paid $1,000 for single copy of the Bible.
1t was printed by old Guttenburg, the
chum OF DIR. Faust, whom we see on the
stage every night bedevled by Mephis-
topheles, and deeply in love with Mar
guerite The lawyer bought the book in
order TO get the original gospel, and if
he had not secured it there was
bookseller laying back who had already
bid about 81 200.
You have no idea how much money is
being spent here on private Libraries.
No country in the world is putting so
much money in books-not for the pur-
pose of having them read, but as indica-
tions and exponents of wealth. | know
one gentleman who has spent $4,000 to
illustrate life of Napoleon. The most
costly books on that subject were cut to
pieces to get the pictures ont OF them,
and original sketches and etchings We're
purchased from artists, and then the
whole turned over to what is called an
"inlayer," or man who sets these pie
lures in sheets or leaves of uniform size
by shaving down the edges of the paper,
30 that the print and the sheets will have
the same thickness. TO inlay these pic,
lures costs from fifteen to twenty cents
page, and when all is done a number of
sheets have to be printed especially.
Then autographs from the subjects of the
hook are bought at the auctions and
from collectors. Finally the whole is
sent to glider, who charges perhaps $50
a volume to guild and complete the
scheme. No man can tell what it costs
to go into one OF these conceits till he
tries it. / was weak enough to try to
illustrate an old book of Cromwell this
winter, supposing it might cost me about
$40. But as soon as l struck that subject
the prints on Cromwell went up, as it
appeared, all over town, from 81 to So a
piece; and my little book cost me as much
as piano, and is not done yet.
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28
Bergh on Drink.

Mr.. Henry Bergh has written a letter
in which he says of the whipping post As
applied to the temperance cause
If there be personal devil in this
world he is here, think, in the form Of
rum. Rum, or anything else that steals
away the human senses, is the instigator
of all crime, in which long catalogue stand
conspicously murder, robbery and wife
beating. When once this liquid fire is
taken into the system the wretched slave
Of that demon is ready for anything, and
| would hold him who furnished the
devlish poison equally responsible with
the perpetrat0r for what ensues. | see no
difference between the man who commits
murder and he who provides the material.
suffer alike. Let the laws he administer
ed in that spirit, and in less than six
months the number of rum shops and
distilleries would be diminished ONE
half ut least.
/ have had the courage, some call it
impudence, TO advocate whipping the
man who beats his wife or any other
female Of the human race. | will go
further and declare that. in my opinion,
il TO every ten rum-shops there were to
ne found convenient well-appOlnted
whipping post near at hand, where a
fellow who makes a person drunk, and
he who gets so would be taken, and
there receive dose of twenty lashes,
well laid on their bare backs, the number
of suffering wives and children would be
reduced to minimum. ] suppose that
total abstinence is not attainable. how
ever desirable, but the use of anything
and its abuse are two distinct things, and
he who cannot trust himself TO drink
without getting drunk should no more
be trusted with alcohol than dynamite.
/ often take rlass nf wine or beer with
my dinner, but never at any other time,
and | have never been drunk in my life.
He who drinks TO stupefy his senses is
worse than brute, for the lower animals
never get drunk.
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28

of butter and thee cups Of powdered
sugar. Add Ike yoiks of five eggs, pre-
viously we'll beaten, the juice and grated
rind of one lemon, and cup of milk
with one teaspoon of saleratus lor bak-
ing POWDER dissolved in it. Then add
the whites of the eggs beaten TO stiii
froth; sift in four cups OF flour and bake.
SrRwED ToMAToEs.-Take fine ripe to-
matoes and pour over them boiling wa
ter, in order to loosen the skin. Slip of
the skins and lay the tomatoes in dish
with little butter, salt and pepper scat
tered over them. Set them on the stove
and let them cook slowly about fifteen
minutes. Then take them Off and turn
them. Add little more butter and
dredge over them little -four. Pour
over them scant cup of milk to make a
gravy; set them back ON the stove to
scald about ten minutes.
CREAMED DCHIcKEN.-Clean and cut up
in neat pieces two chickens. Put them
on to boil and before they are done pare
some potatoes, cut them in two, lay them
on top of the chicken and let them boil
till done. Then take up the potatoes
carefully on plate by themselves; pour
a pint Of sweet cream upon the chicken
let it heat, then thicken with a scant
tablespoonful of -four dissolved in a
small cup of milk. Season with salt,
pepper and fresh butter. Ifyou have
no cream sweet milk will answer, but
more butter will be required.
Best SALAD.-The new beets must be
thoroughly boiled-nothing is worse in
the way of food than half-cooked beet.
When done cut them while hot in rath-
er thin slices and marinade them-that
is let them lie for an hour or two in
mixture of two tablespoonfuls oil, one
spoon vinegar, and small pinch of salt.
OF course more than this must be used
if there is to be large dish of salad.
When ready for serving put them in the
salad dish with some very young and
tender leaves of (uncooked) dandelion.
Dress with oil, vinegar, salt and pepper
in the usual way.
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28

bulyric fermentation. What then il ,h.
chemical composition Of the oro,n ~.
principle so much admired in hut,o,9
Ii is an alcohol, a compound either o.
perhaps even fatty acid, nauseous in q
state OF concentration, but agreeable +"
a moderate form? | know NOT H.
fact that the valued aroma soon becomes
rancid, and that 1t IS always met with in
conjunction with fatty matters. leads ona
to suppose that there is some relatinp
between the fatty acids and the aroma
To so solve this interesting question elaL
crate experiments would be reouired
but meanwhile this is certain, that witb'
out decomposition there is no aroma in
the ordinary sense of the word.
Such are the observations on the aro.
ma of butter, which l made in my teacb.
ings at the dairy attached to the Consn
hagen Royal Agricultural College some
few years ago.
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28
Utah Marble.
salt Lake Tribune.

The irst car load of white marble from
the quarries recently opened at Frisco,
in this territory, was brought 10 this city
a day or two since, and is being shaped
at the marble works of VIM. Brown,
Third South street, few doors east of
the Methodist church. Upon close ex-
animation this marble is found to be of
finer quality than any yet discovered in
the Great Basin, and is pronounced not
inferior to the Italian, which it resembles
very much in its pearly whiteness, and
in the delicacy and beauty Of its veins.
Both Profs. Newberry and Claxton have
examined and pronounced it of the first
quality of extraordinary irmness and
durability; and yet it is worked with re.
markable ease and satisfaction.
So far as scientifically examined its
composition is about as follows:
Its principal constituent is carbonate
of lime in the form Of crystals, as is the
case will all marbles, but differing from
all other grades found in this altitude in
having its crystals cemented together by
silicat of alumnia, thus rendering it
harder, less soluble and giving il greater
power TO resist the action Of the elements,
the frost and the acrid atmosphere, as
well as the force used in crushing.
These properties, it will be observed,
will make it most desirable for monu-
ments; and, when elegance and durabil.
ity combined are sought, no material
known can compare with it for the fronts
of public editces or private dwellings.
The first strata next the surface is
eight inches in thickness the second, IS
inches; the third, 80 inches; and whether
the deposits reaches the confines of the
"infernal regions" has not as yet been
definitely determined
We are informed that, by the present
road the quarry is about four miles dis
tant from the Utah Southern depot; but
this distance may be shoriend by a little
outlay of means in grading to within two
miles.
Eastern marble laid down here costs
Sl0.50 per cubic foot. The Frisco article
can be supplied for about S5 per foot
and probably in large quantities at fig
ures not extravagantly in excess of other
first-class material in buildings. Hail to
the day of marble fronts in Zionl
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28
Z, ,EiC0ngressiona ] speakers.
Philadelphia Record.


There are few really good takers !,
congress that is men who are distin.
guished for their oratory. Judge Thur.
mans speeches never needed revision
except TO see if the quoted authorities
were correct. Gen. Burnside repeats
himself in about every ten sentences
and is apt to become nervous. Ben Uni
fires away in sledge-h e-hammer STYLE If
oratory Morgan, of Alabama, is another
Democratic orato protesting the distinct.
i've peculiarities Of the takers of the
south. A gallery lounger can tell in
second from what section of the country
a speaker comes. The pecularities Of
dialect are marked in these represen.
tative men the same as in the lower
classes Of society in their vicinity. over
in the house SUNSET Cox causes trouble
to the printers. He always prepares his
speeches, and revises them He writes
on all sorts Of paper. One page NAV be
yellow, another white, third leaf from
book. Then his handwriting is NOT
letter-press, SO Cox is dreaded Randall
revises every speech he makes. Gen.
Harry White had habit of sending for
books during debate until his desk was
Uttered and he could scarcely be seen.
By the time he found the authority de.
sired debate would be exhausted, and he
would produce a scare, nothing more.
This was an old trick of Whites The
most remarkable instance of the effect Of
talking is that which Nh. Blounts voice
has upon journalist who is well known
here. BlOunt has the pure unaduterated
southern accent, and is inclined TO be
harsh without meaning it. A few years
ago young man who was student at
the Annapolis academy was detected in
a hazing sCrape. The matter came be-
fore congress, and Mr.. Blount made
violent speech against the naval cadets.
One of the young men occupied seat in
the gallery, and the effect Of Blonnts
speech, coupled with the thought Of be-
ing dismissed from the academy, was
such that he became violently i'll. and
had to be carried from the capitol Later
ON in his career he branched out as a
journalist, and was assigned to duty in
the house gallery. Blount arose TO speak,
and the recollectiOns of past events ramx
SO vividly TO the young mans mind that
he again became i'll. lie tried in vain,
day after day, to conquer the feeling,
but found il impossible. Every time
Blount spoke he became sick. At last he
was compelled to relinquish his position
on this account. Even to this day that
gentleman never appears in the house
galleries for fear of Blount. There is no
distinctive great orator in the house
whom the crowds rush in to hear speak.
The talking was done by some seven or
eight, or rather WAS during the last
session, and there is no promise that the
order Of things will be changed in the
future. The great debaters are confined
TO the senate, and the crop i3 being fast
thinned out there. The retirement of
Wallace, Thurman and Blaine, and the
death ofCspenter, took away -four Of the
most brilliant men at "A swoop.
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28

and" soberly added Trix, eve give
papa the money, and he thinks old Bar
timeo has sold picture for him 20 some
of the Italian dealers downtown. Poor
papa, and il makes him so happy And,
indeed, indeed no one speaks TO Miriam
except in the greatest courtesy and kind
ness. And we hope you will not betray
our secret TO poor papa, as he would
never never forgive us all'
pray" cried Mayell, genuinely touch
ed, "do not imagine that could be guilty
of such dishonorable thing. Believe
me, Miss Castleton-"
Miriam, very white and cold, was
looking at him with eyes that flashed
scornful lightning.
"Here is the wretched coin you gave
me-" said she. "Take it back"
"Why?" he asked, confounded and
hurt.
Because hate yonp she answered,
abruptly seizing her sisters arm, Come,
Trix, let us gol"
But he posted himself directly across
her path, determined not thus to part.
But why do You hate me?' said he.
Because | respect your courage and
sense, and honor your filial duty?"
Because you despise me" she retort-
ed.
"Never" he cried, taking her hand
in spite OF herself and then and there
they became fast friends.
81 am coming tomorrow" he said, "to
order picture of your father. Will you
also bid me wecome?"
And she answered, shyly.
"Yes."
But she went out singing no more.
Blind Bartimeo and his violin were
unaccompanied now. Warde Castleton
died the next summer, entirely unaware
of the deception that had been practiced
upon him, and Captain Mayell asked
pretty Miriam to be his wife.
DO you know, darling" lac said, 81
have loved you ever since | saw you
singing on the pavement in that pictur-
esque Italian costume?"
And among her wedding gifts was a
diamond studded gold locket, in which
was set the tiny silver coin which he
given her on that bleak November after
noon when the twilight was verging in
to dusk,
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28
Working on the Panama Canal.

A private letter from Colon, dated the
sth Of March, just received at Liverpool,
makes the following reference to the
present position of NJ. de Lessep's canal
across the Isthmus of Panama:
"There are in the field to-day 73 civil
engineers, clerks, etc. They are engaged
in making Complementary survey
that is, verifying last years survey and
in endeavoring to make it better. They
have 400 laborers, and will take POO
more. They have divided the distance
into four-mile surveying camps, and APP
parently are thoroughly organized. Their
great obstacle is the Chagres River
They propose to do away with it entirely
by building a dam at a point where, at
and between Mount Gamboa and an
other, it strikes the proposed line of the
canal This dam will be most stu
pendous affair, perhaps the largest ever
built if indeed they succeed in building
it. They have already sunk a shaft 100
feet deep at the point where they pro-
pose TO build the dam and have not
found bed rock, which they must do be.
fore the dam is commenced. This fact
is giving them great anxiety. The di-
mensions of the proposed dam are
Length 1900 yards, height 30 yards,
thickness at bottom l0i0 yards and
thickness at top 260 yards. BY building
tins dam they will (or they propose to-
create a lake capable of holding l,0O0,-
900, 600 tons of water, which will have an
overflow to the Pacific.
"Their present estimate is this; Canal
to be completed in six years, working
5000 men. The canal can be made at
this point-viz: Colon TO Panama-and
will be, if it is built anywhere in this
region, for the NicaraguaE route is i'm
practicable. But whoever builds il must
have money. This NJ de Lesseps has
not. lie has only promises and diplo-
Macy
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28
The Aroma OF Better.
J. r. segelcke Royal Agricultural College
Of Denmark

Of Denmark.
Is the aroma of butter due TO aromatic
principles pre-eXisting in the milk or
not2 According to the generally re-
ceiyed opinion the aromatic principles
OF butter already exist in the milk as
given by the cow, and pass from the
milk into the cream, and from the cream
into the butter, unless they be destroyed
by chemical decomposition during the
process of cream-rising or Of churu-
ing.
NV experience does not confirm this
opinion. On the contrary, ii puts it be-
yond doubt that the aromatic piinci-
pies of butter do not exist in natural
milk, and that it is the decomposition of
the principles of this latter-probably Of
even utterly inodorous principles
gives rise TO the aroma of butter,
If the temperature of the milk when
set for cream be from 10 degrees to -
degreet C.. go degrees TO 53.6 degrees f. J
or more, it dec.mposes, forming Tactic
acid and several other new principles,
among them aromatic principles, and il
needs but to churn the cream t. obtain
the aromatic butter. If on the other
hand. the temperature of the milk AT
SuCn tllhc Dt near lIttIlHH polHt, tile ue
composition necessary for the production
of aromatic principles is held in check,
and consequently, the aroma of butter
obtained from fresh cream is so feeble
that it is not perceptable to persons ao-
customed to buffers prepared as above
indicated, in the same way as French
buffers are made at present. But if it
be desired to obtain more aromatic
butter, all that is required is to place the
cream in circumstances favorable for lac
tic fermentation, and a few hours will
produce the required result.
In either case, the aroma formed may
be more or less agreeable-tha all de-
pends on the fundamental principles of
the milk, on the quantity of the prin-
ciples necessary for the formation of
aromatic principles that is present, and
on the method Of manipulation en-
ployed.
In either case, again the appearance
of aromatic principles is accompanied
by that of Tactic acid. Whether the aro-
matte principles sought for in butter are
produced by Tactic fermentation, by
general fermentation, or
by several lamentations combined, do
not know.
In practice. il will often be noticed |
that Tactic fermentation Is accompanied |
by alcoholic fermentation, and even BIZ !!
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28
Language of Sweet sixteen.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit free iresS.
MY daughter never uses slang" says
some staid paterfamilias, who is de-
nouncing the idea that American Young
lady speaks any other than the purest
college taught English and he is sincere
in his belief But should some curious
senior, with an eye to the truth, linger
near this young lady and her school
friends, ten TO one this is an exact and
not overdrawn description of what he
would hear:
Meet me on the ave this aft and we
will go to the mat"
"Well, good aft! "
81 had perfectly mag time, and don't
you forget it,"
Don't give me away, Kate"
"Well, ! should softly exclaim.'
81 should blush to murmur!"
81 should remark
81 should mutter!'
81 should smile'
Are you going to the musicalc?'
"You just bet ami
Have you got your lesson in physical
geography"
"What do you take me for?
Il told the Guy ! wanted a new hand
kerchief dress"
did he tumble TO the racket"
Did he trail?"
"Did he catch on?"
"fIe forked over girls, and its my
treat"
These are the sweet girl graduates who
stand up in the month Of roses and read
charming essays on "The Real and the
IDEAL" life as it Should Be" "Re-
FORMS" and other practical subjects and
who turn from admiring teachers, TO
whom they have listened with tears in
their mock serious eyes, TO say III low
aside, "He's giving us taify, girls and
who christens everything that does not
| please them as "snide.'
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28
A Cow with u History.
Philadelphia Pres.


II have seen somewhere a statement
that COW was sold at auction in this
country, some years ago, for $4,000. Is
this so; and if so, in what did her value
consist? Please tell doubter something
about it if you can"
The statement is true. The COW was
a famous short-horn owned by Samuel
Campbell wealthy stock-breeder and
manufacturer, residing at New York
Mills, near Utica, \. y. About one
hundred animals at this sale brought
over 100000. This particular COW was
bid off by the agent of n rich English
man for breeding purposes. After buy
ing her the new owner came TO the con-
clusion that he had paid too dear for the
whistle, and instructed his agent, instead
of sending her to England, 10 sell her in
this country at the best attainable price.
After little the agent fonnd a customer
by knocking off exactly $4,000. The
new owner-a gentleman residing at
Fordham, n. Y, We think kept the
COW until she dropped cali, whereupon
she was taken sick with milk fever, or
something like it and died. Her value
consisted in her pedigree rather than in
any wonderful capacity as Il milk produ.
Ger or butter maker, or, to put it in
phrase, her value consisted
in what she brought her owner-and 10
the last two owners that wasn't much,
unless in the way of valuable expert.
ence.
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28
The Defect In the Auti-Treating Law.
Milwaukee Wisconsin

1t is generally conceded that the decis-
ion Of Judge Mallory, on a test case un-
der that law, will dispose of il ctlectually
that no one will attempt 10 enforce its
provisions: The Judge decided that the
amendment is affixed to statute pre-.
viously repealed, and that the anti-treat-
ing law is not complete of itself, without
the efficacy of the previously repealed
statute. II is possible that an amend
ment to a void statute may be a law, pro-
vided the amendment itself is complete
in all its provisions; but in this case the
anti-treating law enacts that II was to be
a law of the State. "by adding" its PEN
alties TO a previous law; but, inasmuch
as the Judge decides that that statute
has been repealed, il seems quite clear
that the amendment is not law, accord
ing to the decisions of the courts. Many
politicians regard this as happy solu-
ton of the difficulty. as it eliminates the
anti-treating law from the issues of the
next canvas, merely because, by legis-
lative mistake, there is no valid law of
that character on the statute book.
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28

PRIVATE DALZRLL writes of Boston
Corbett's troubles after killing Wilkes
Booth: "From that hour he never knew
a moments peace. The pistol with which
he killed Booth was stolen from him that
night, but the holster was left and he
had it at my house. From the moment
Corbett killed Booth he was a doomed
man. Oge disaster followed another
lie was treated with scorn by his officers
and neglected by the government, and
his share of the reward he lost. II never
did him any good. He was stopped on
the road by masked men, pistol put to
his breast and he was required 20 dis
mount and surrender his hard-earned
money the very day he received it. lie
was stripped Of his clothing and every
dollar he had. This was on his way 10
Washington. The officers there, wild
with rage at him for depriving them of
the pomp and circumstance of leading
Booth in captive alive, and parading
him through long public trial, of which
they should be central figures, felt like
prosecuting him further; but better
counsels prevailed, and he was released
and permitted to retire from the service
branded and disgraced."
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28

SPEAKING of the decease of worthy
citizen, a western paper says his last ILL
ness was brief and unprolonged. II must
be a consolation TO deceased's relatives
that his last illness was brief, and still
more consoling that his last illness was
unprolsnged.
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28

Mosr people seem to think that advice
like physic iuust be disagreeable TO do good.
Now we advise our readers TO keep DIR. Bulls
Cough Syrup handy; this advice Is good and
t;sc remedy agreeable.
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28
HOnOred aud Bieet.

When a board of eminent physicians and
chemists announced the discovery that by
combining some well known valuable rem.
edies, the most wonderful medicine was
produced, which would cure such a wide
range OF diseases that most all other renie-
dies could he dispensed with, many were
sksptical; but proof Of its merits BY actual
trial hes dinpelled all doubt. and to-day tine
enr9xN4n0 that Cvsuf medicias, Hop Bit
A1eesd 81 boensed By I'll = hem
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28

A BosroN man has carried a pocket
book fifty-two years. But what is there
In that?
The Osceola times., 1881-05-28

The train of thought leads the pencil
and hence Il il led penci.