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Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
The Rage For Plush.
From the New York Times.

from the new 1Ork lines.
Plush is still to be used for all purposes,
such as furniture, frames, easles, small
fancy articles, purses, bags, and boxes.
The most elegant cloaks are lined with this
article, and even plush fans are now to be
seen. There is no suit, whether for indoor
or street wear. which is not combined with
the fabric. Light plush toilets have satin
cuirasses. AS this material is clumsy,
waists have only plush collars, cuffs and
pockets White plush will be in vogue for
bridal toilets; it will form the scarfs, trains,
and trimmings combined with white satin.
A dress in this style is only suitable for a
tall, slight person. Very small paniers are
much draped, they are in Louis XIV style,
and hang full. Different shades of green
are in vogue. Among the other
colors used are garnet, ruby,
apricot and salmon colors, shading from
very pale pink to decided flesh and tea COL
ors. All the old gold tints are also in IA
vor. Evening toilets are to be trimmed with
white jet combined with silver threads
Collars and small capes are of different
colored plush, such as white, blue and pink,
trimmed with lace. They are made in va
rious shapes. The mazarin and Chevreuse
collars are suitable for slight figures, as
they broaden the shoulders. As pockets
can no longer be placed in the skirts, am
monieries are generally employed. They
are particularly favored with indoor dresses
and are in the shades of the toilet, but the
material of which they are made is either
satin, plush OF velvet. The trimmings are
passementeries, and +ho-- either EN-
'~>'dAred with eh,.. II, VI 55sa1s in thu
same color. Gloves worn with evening
dresses are long and without buttons, reach.
ing to the elbow, and sometimes even high.
err. They are of white or light undresset
kid, embroidered with small garlands Of
Pompadour flowers worked in colored silk
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Men and Women Mt Home

Some men use their homes as escape
pipes, for all the i'll humors generated by
friction with the world. 1t will not do to
storm and fume ones worst except at home.
All! there one has right to do one pleas
es, or rather as one can. There he has an
original pre- emptive right to have his own
way, and he could undoubtedly carry out
that right fit were not for the happiness
of others, who are intent upon self indul-
gence also. BY the way, having ones own
way is difficult, in world like this, where
every life is so linked in with the lives of
others. have known women, too, who
were put down as saints in the worlds cal
endar-as patterns of neutrality-suspicious.
home temper was badly Inconsistent with
the worlds Judgment. There are softly
modulated and ladylike voices, the charm
of the social circle, which, in the privacy of
homes, break out in irritating taunts and by
angry retorts. There are very attractive
women who destroy all the sweetness and
blessedness of their households by loud and
continual scolding, frettinga and faulttinding.
Il hope am not doomed to a companion
ship of this kind. tits difficult sometimes to
find out until too late. There are charming"
young ladies', fancied angelic by infatuated
young men, who are stubborn, selfwilled
and indolent at home, where they should
be most agreeable. T2N ti&
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Wellington and Waterloo.

Wellington and Waterloo appear in fresh
aspect in the following hitherto unpublished
letter unearthed by the Academy. The wri-
ter, who was an officer at Wellington's head
quarters during the battle, writes, under date
of Brussels, June 10, 1875:
i cannot help writing two lines to con-
graduate and condole with you on the VIC
tory which England has purchased for Eu-
repeat the expense of more than half her
army. must not attempt to give you an
account OF the battle of which the Gazette
Will, L dare say, give us the first distinct in
formation. / understand, however, that it
throws everything which the Duke has be-
fore done into the shade. His personal ex-
ertions were, it seems, incredible, and Ger
tainly secured the success of the day, of
which at one time everybody except himself
despaired. One. of his Aides de- Camp told
me this morning that he took his position
on ridge from which he declared that he
never would move-and never did move but
in triumph. When Bonaparte headed an
overwhelming charge, the Duke threw him
self into the opposing square, by which it
was successfully resisted, l mention these
particulars because they are precisely what
his dispatches will not mention, and because
/ have them from an eye witness. Every
he is happily unhurt One is afraid to in
quire after an acquaintance, the carnage has
been so inexpressibly horrible. No words
can do anything like justice to the valor of
our people, who were literally almost smoth-
cred by the superior numbers of the French,
who were themselves acharnes beyond all
former examples. OF this you will Judge
when tell you that one of the prisoners has
just now, opposite to this house, provoked
a soldier 10 bayonet him by his cries of 'Vive
| fEmpereur!' AS well as can be judged, the
French are supposed to have lost $50 pieces
| Of cannon. The day was at one time sup
posed to be completely lost, and the French
so thoroughly expected to make their appear
ance, 1 thought it prudent to dispatch part
of the department. with papers and some of
our baggage, toward Antwerp, and have this
morning sent after them to return.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
As 1t Used, to be One Hundred Years ago.

One hundred years ago not pound of coal
or cubic foot Of gas had been burned in
the country No iron stoves we're used,
and no continuance for economizing heat
were employed until DR.. Franklin had in
vented the iron framed fireplace, which
still bears his name. All the cooking and
WARMING in town, as well as in the country,
were done by the aid of fire .hndled on
the brick hearth-or in the brick ovens.
Pine knots or tallow candles furnished the
light for the long winter nights, and sanded
floors supplied fireplace of rugs and carpets.
The water used for household purposes
was drawn from deep wells by the creak-
ing sweep. No form of pump was
used in this country, so far as we can
learn, until after the commencement of the
present century. There were no friction
matches in those days, by the aid Of which
fire could be easily started and if the fire
went out upon the hearth one night, and
the finder was damp, SO that the spark
could not catch, the alternative remained
of wading through the snow mile OF more
to borrow brand of neighbor. Only
one room in any house was warm unless
some member Of the family was ILL.,; in all
the rest the temperature was at zero during
many nights in the Winter. The men and
women Of one hundred years ago undressed
and went to bed in temperature colder
than that of our barns and woodsheds and
they never complained.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
A Boston Anti. Widow League.

The young ladies of Boston have formed
m Anti Widow League, and the following is
q copy of a petition recently sent to the
Governor of Massachusetts,:
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF ALI THE MAIDS
WHOSE NAMES ARE UNDERWRITERS :
Whereas we, the humble petitioners, are
at present in very melancholy disposition
of mind, considering how all the bachelors
are blindly captivated by widows, and our
own youthful charms thereby neglected; in
consequence of this, our request is that
your Excellency will for the future order
that no widow presume to marry any young
man till the maids are provided for, OF else
to pay, each of them, q fine for satisfaction
for invading our liberties; and likewise a
fine to be levied on all such bachelors as
shall be married to widows. The great dis
advantage it is to us maids is that the wild
ows by their forward carriage, do snap up
the young men, and have the vanity to
think their merit beyond ours, which is a
great imposition on us, who ought to have
thepreference. This is humbly recommen-
ded to your Excellency's consideration, and
hope you will permit no further insults.
And we maids, in duty bound, will ever
pray.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
The Boston Cooking School.

The normal cooking classes of the Boston
cooking school are now fairly under way,
and it may be predicted that, before another
year, the school will be able to provide all
the teachers for which they have now appi-
cations from various parts of the country.
The pupils of these classes all come from
out of town, and the larger number of them
from other States. Even Washingto mis- rep
resented. The classes are kept small COM
prising six or seven, so that at each lecture
every pupil can prepare one dish. Mrs.
Lincoln, who has general charge of the
school, has had the best kind of training for
her work in practical housekeeping, to which
experience she adds what is scarcely less es-
sential in her position, the natural ability to
impart information. The managers of the
school have arranged that the pupils of the
Normal classes shall get some practical ex-
perience in teaching before they are gradu-
ated from their course, which comprises
twenty four lessons. They will take turns
in conducting the classes of the free schools
at the north and south parts of the city,
which will be carried on during the winter
for the benefit of the poor and unfortunate
of these localities
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
The Paradise Of Children.

The authoress Of "Unbeaten Tracks in
Japan" says that she never saw people
take SO much delight in their children as
the Japanese. They are to be seen, she
writes, carrying them about, or holding
their hand in walking, watching and enter
ing into their games, supplying them con-
stantly with new toys, taking them to pic
mics and festivals, never being content to
be without them, and treating other peoples
children also with suitable measure Of af-
lection and attention. Both fathers and moth
ers take pride in their children. It is most
amusing about six every morning to see
twelve or fourteen men sitting on low
wall each with child under two in his
arms, fondling and playing with it, and
showing off its physique and intelligence.
To judge from appearances, the children
form the chief topic at this morning gath
ering. At night after the houses are shut
up, looking through the long fringe of rope
or rattan which conceals the sliding door,
you see the father, in the bosom of his
family bending his ugly kindly face over a
gentle looking baby, and the mother en-
folding two children destitute of clothing
in her arms" In spite of this homage
Japanese children are not "spoilt." They
are trained to perfect obedience and cermo-
NOUS politeness, and are, in fact. more like
men and women then children.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06

this mundane anxiety and irreverent curios-
ity, Sandy replied in self-excuse: "That it
wasna because he wad tax ony if it were
offered him, but jist in respeck that it wad
look weel on the table" We have not for
gotten that Highland teetotaler who was
found drinking the mountain dew at his
breakfast in some wayside inn where he
thought he would not be known. "Och,
Donald, and we thocht We were an abstain
err exclaimed Deacon who happened to
look in quite unexpectedly. "And SO am, -
replied the detected culprit, who scorned to
suggest that his beverage was oaly toast
and water so 1 am; but We ken, my frien,
that am no q bigoted ane."
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
He Put His Arm Around Her.

Little Rock Gazette.
The other day several men were standing
on a street corner, talking, when hand
somely dressed lady passed.
''You may not believe me-" said q man
named Spriggins, "but have had my arm
around that lady
"You are vile slanderer, sir, exclaimed
young Mr.. Paperage, and drawing off he
struck Mr.. Spriggins heavy blow between
the eyes. Both parties were instantly ar
rested, and when MIR. Spriggins requested
that the lady be summoned, policeman
caught up with her and requested her pres
afternoon session.
Judge, said Paperage, while several &C
quaintances and myself were standing on
the street talking, this lady passed. Then
this man, pointing to Spriggins, remarked
that he had put his arms around her. The
lady is nothing to me, Judge, but my moth
er was lady, and my sisters are ladies, and
I have always made it point to chastise a
man who speaks ill of a lady" 1....
"Mr. Spriggins," remarked the Judge,
did you say that you had put your arms
around the lady?''
"Yes, sir" q.
"Then the gentleman did right in striking
you. Ladies are not safe in Little Rock so
| long as such rllfians are allowed to insult
them"
Judge, allow the lady to speak, request
ed Spriggins. 8-nr
Certainly. You will please make your
statement"
| CT didn't hear the man when he said that
he put his arm around me, and as 1 passed
on do not know what occurred" h. a.
Excuse me for being blunt, but-but-''
"Do you mean to ask me if the man ever
put his arm around me?" sa
Eyes"
"Then must say that he has
For few moments there was deep ST.
lence, only disturbed by boy who picked
at the plastering with a horseshoe nail.
"What right had he to put his arm around
your" stammered the Judge.
Because, said the woman, ''he is my
husband. -"
When the court adjourned, the men took
beer, and "the court adjourned"
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06

much larger then the bones would have
been, and the fingers of the right hand We're
gone. The petrificaion weighed nearly 200
pounds, and more unsightly object could
not we'll be imagined. 1t was brought down
to Lake Bigler and L. J. Wilson, of San
Francisco, has offered 800 for it, as he
wished to present it to the Academy of Sci.
ence. In all probability the body is that OF
an Indian woman. There is tradition that
years ago the Indians had battle at Cas-
cade Lake, in which the squaws joined, and
the dead were buried ON the shore of the
lake
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
AN OLD Ballad.
(16OO.l

Q600.)
! prithee send me back my heart
Since cannot have thine;
For If from yours you will not part,
Why then shouldst thou have mine?
But now I think ont, let it lie,
To find it were in vain; A
For thou st q thief in either eye
Would steal it back again.
Why should two hearts in one breast lie,
And yet not lodge together!
Glove! where is thy sympathy,
If thus our breasts thou sever!
But love is such a mystery,
cannot find it out;
For when think I'm bestSresoly'd, =
I then am in most doubt.
Then farewell care and farewell woe, 3
will no longer pine;
For I'll believe have her heart,
As much as she has mine.
Sir John Sucking
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Treatment of Frozen Plants.

In times of the severe cold, the more ten
der plants in the window will sometimes
be chilled and frozen. Such plants should
not be put near the stove to be thawed out;
but kept where the temperature is a trife
above freezing point that the thawing may
be gradual, and in the dark, that deleterious
chemical changes may not take place. If
severely touched with the frost, it is best to
remove the frozen parts, that new stems
may be forced out from the buds below.
Water freely, and finally bring them to the
ordinary temperature for houseplants: sixty
five or seventy degrees.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
A Fortified Indian Squaw

the Carson New Appeal, recently discover
was going out to fish, and when pushing of
which attracted his attention.. He investi-
gated and found petrifed hand protrud-
ing from the sand on the beach. In short
time he had unearthed woman in a COM
plete state of petrifcation. The body was
small, brown, scrawny and emaciated The
petrifcation had hideous appearance and
the body must have belonged to shrivelled,
sickly woman. The left breast was we'll
developed, but the arms and legs were not
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06

At the last session of Congress, after the
hot debates on the riders" to the
appropriation bill, Gen. Garfield and Mr.
Hewitt were engaged in friendly converse
ton. 1t will be remembered that Garfield
had denounced the action of the Democrats
as revolutionary. Said Hewitt: General l
have some fine Alderney stock, and l will
send thoroughbred bull calf on one con-
dition." What is the condition." asked
Garfield. That the bull shall be namedby
me-, said Hewitt All right said the Gen
eral. And what name will you give him."
Revolution, said Hewitt. We'll" re-
joined the General, it shall be that. if you
say so, but l think more approate name
would be Congressional Rider" The calf
soon came to the farm, and bears the name
that the donor gave him.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
The fashionable English rage at presen,

The fashionable English rage at present
is for everything American. American la
dies are the most eagerly sought for in Lon
don society; American writer's command
their own terms in the magazines, especial
real American humorists," American nov
elists write for three or four periodicals at
time, in short, to take" with the public,
all things must come from New York, Bos.
ten or Philadelphia, from mouse-trap to a
clothes wringer, from a ballet dancer to
countess.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
A GOOD WIFE.

It may be under palace roof,
Princely and wide;
No pomp foregone, no pleasure lost,
No wish denied;
But if beneath the diamonds flash
Sweet, kind eyes hide, ...
A pleasant place, a happy place,
Is our fireside.
1t may be 'twixt four lowly walls,
No show, no pride; ..-..-. ... .
Where sorrows oft-times enter in,
But meier abide. ..
Yet if she sits beside the hearth,
Help, comfort guide,
A blessed place, heavenly place,
liz our fireside
Tho author. Of ttIoln Halifax !,
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
What it Costs to Smoke.

The cost of regular smoking is shown by
the following computation, upon the basis
of a weekly expenditure of one dollar, the
amount, S26, being brought in as capital at
the end of every six months, at Z per cent
per annum compound interest. 1t amounts
to at the end of
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Some Reasons for Drinking.
From Chambers Journal.

recounted, we think by Dean Ramsay, in
at the parish minister if there would be any.
whisky in heaven. On being rebuked for
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
To- Choirsr and Musical Societies.

GETS of standard books at half-price, almost as
- good new. For chcirs, set of twelve copies
Zundel's mtroit So worth SIS new; fourteen copies
Bakers Short Anthems and Sentences 5000, worth
$2l. For clubs societies nine copies Opera Chorus
Book, $40. worth 500 30; thirteen copies Bakers
cantata, Burning Ship $3.50. worth $l6.25. Ad-
dress 81, care Pioneer Press, st. Paul
n n u. Nov l 1880 No l.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
REGIMES.


MEAT PIE-Cut cold roast beef into thin
slices about two and half inches long
Peel raw potatoes, and cut them i'll thin
slices. Have ready deep dish, put layer
of crust in the bottom. next some potatoes,
then cover them with the beef, adding po-
tatoes and beef until the dish is full. Sea-
son it as you would chicken pie, fill it with
boiling water, cover it with crust, and bake
it,
To BLEACH FERNs.-Take ID pound
chloride of lime and dissolve it one quart of
water in an earthen vessel. Let it settle
and filter it, and bottle for use. Of this
solution, use a spooful to nineteen spoon
fuls of water, or one-twentieth part of what
ever may be wanted to cover the leaves or
ferns. immense the latter in the solution,
carefully After short time, they will be
the loveliest white ferns imaginable. We
have kept a vase of them fifteen months,
and they are the admiration of all who en-
tered the room. They should be taken out
on plate or glsss and t1oated off-when
dry enough, press between papers.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06

Most smokers (of cigars will pay out at
leas % cents day for 1.-The weed, at which
rate the amounts in the above table would
be nearly doubled. Moral: Don't smoke
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
FARM AND GARDEN.
Notes for the Farm

According to recent figures the average
value an acre for cleared land in Maine is
$12 81; in Newhampshire, SIS; in Vermont,
$15 %; in Massachusetts,, 1856; in Connect
icut $29.
TO prevent horses getting scratches and
grease in winter, rub their legs dry every
time they are brought in from work, no mat
ter whether it is once twice, or three times
day. Good thorough grooming and clean,
dry stables are the best preventives OF
scratches aud similar diseases in horses.
1t is best to give horse water before
giving oats. The water stays in the stomach
a very short time, but is very quickly alb
sorbed or passed into the bowels, where it
is absorbed and goes into the blood. The
horse secretes a very large quantity
than four quarts-of saliva while eating n
meal, which is sufficient to reduce the food
to pulp suitable for its digestion. So
that to give water soon after eating, except
in very small quantity, would be apt to
cause indigestion and waste OF the food by
excessive dilution.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06

The debt of Philadelphia has increased
from $4S, 794, 1854 in 1870 to about 1913 900,
600 at the present time.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Household Notes.


Art needlework as applied to house deco
ration ic the fashionable craze of the hour.
Bonnet strings must now be a yard long
no more no less-and are tied either in
front or behind. 1t is considered the ut
most height of elegance to arrange them in
one long looped bow low on the back hair.
The true meaning of home is not place
to 90 to only when you feel hungry and
cross-where you may with impunity wear
your worst coat and your worst temper.
Such home is undervalued and its
sanctity and sweetness wantonly desecrated.
Home should correspond with the beautiful
ideal which we all admire, nay venerate,
where all the baser passions are subdued
and controlled by the best affections.
To make handsome needle book, take
piece of pasteboard six and one-half inches
long and two and ne-quarter wide, round
off the corners of one end and cover with
silk, velvet or cashmere, bind the edge with
ribbon and coral stitch the edge with floss
in some contrasting color, at the square end
on the side designed for the needles. Make
pocket of flannel for whole packets of
needles and then cut pieces of flannel and
buttonhole stitch the edges and fasten in
for the needles. Roll up and tie with a
bow of ribbon.
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Al, m HARDWARE
KINGSBURY & DRAPER,
EEE 81 Builders Hardware,
AND MA(yuJNISTS, TON

MECHANICS AND MACHINISTS' TOOL
- sPECIALTIEs. -
Darling, Brown Sharpes Machinists Tools; Bail ey
Patent Planes Disston's Saws; real Bronze Hardwar
for Private Residences and Public Buildings. We car
~ large stock of Spruce Spoon Oars in all lengths
Morris tribune., 1881-01-06

FLOORING Matched and Dressed, 1t$32 90
sIDING-Dressed, list, $40 90; I'd, sis 90;
Sd, $22 90; 4th, $19 90.
SHINGLES NJ XX, So 90; A star, $3 90;
X, So %. Min, 81 so; No. l, 81 90.
LATH AND PICKETS-Lath, 81 25 per M;
Pickets, S13 90 "a SD 90