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Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
Household Hints.

Here is an excellent rule for making steamed graham bread: Two cups of graham flour, one egg, one tablespoon full of melted butter, ree-quarters of cup of molasses, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Steam for an hour and three quarters; eat while warm; cover with heavy cloth when you take it from the steamer the crust will be more tender if this is done.
 Goldfish hash is good for breakfast, with the accompaniment of good coffee and light mullins. It is a good plan if you wish for an early breakfast to put the codtish iu cold water, to freshen, the afternoon before, then by tea time it will be ready to be chopped fine with some cold boiled potatoes. Season it with pepper, little cream and butter. Cook it slowly and for at least half an hour.
 Potato cakes, to be served with roast lamb or with game, are made of equal quantities of mashed potatoes and of four, say one quart of each, two table spoonfuls of butter, little salt, and milk enough to make batter as for griddle cakes; to this allow half tea cupful of fresh yeast; let it rise till it is light and bubbles of air form. then bake in muffin tins. These are good also with fricasseed chicken; take them from the tins and drop in the gravy just before sending to the table.
 It will soon be time, if it is not al- ready, to look over the summer cloth- ing, and to put it in order. Stockings and gloves especially may now be mended, and put aside again. If any of your last seasons lisle thread gloves were put away soiled, they can be washed so that they will look almost as good as new. Take warm water and some white soap-toilet soap will do. Put the gloves on your hands; rub the soap on them, and proceed exactly as if you were washing your hands. Wash in two or three waters, and rinse them in clear, warm water. Keep them on 8 few minutes; then hang them up to dry. If you have never tried this, you will be surprised at the result.
 Old-fashioned "raised doughnuts , are seldom seen nowadays, but are easily made after all: Make sponge as for bread, using a quart of water anc two- thirds of cake of yeast, or hal cup of yeast; make this early in tho afternoon; when the sponge is very light add 2 teacup of lard and half !, cup of white sugar, two eggs an( enough grated nutmeg to flavor thu dough. In the morning this spong, will be light; add little flour as yol use the dough, then cut the doughnuts put them in foured plate, and kee] warm until you are ready to fry them ,, drop in very hot lard, and cook longe than you do fried cakes made wit baking powder sift powdered fou over them and send to the breakfas table warm. B, W, B.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
X Matter of Luck.

"Oh, but hasn't he been lucky l" How often do we hear expressions such as the foregoing from person who has rashly plunged into some unsuccessful speculation, when he hears of neighbor having thriven better than himself, though their circumstances seem to have been alike, and he sees no better way of protecting himself from the i'm putation of inferior ability or industry. How consoling it is for the unfortunate when their friends, with amiable tender ness, account for their disasters, by assuring them that they have had hard luck. There is no such thing as luck. Chance there is, and many persons have been indebted to this for great advan- tages. But to suppose that certain in- dividuals are favored through life with frequent recurrence of advantageous chances, while others are exposed to the reverse, is inconsistent with the laws of nature and with every idea which we can form of just and benehcent Deity. If we were to examine closely into what appeared solely the result ot chance, we should probably find ir many instances that stern qualities, consciousness of situation, and hard plodding work, accounted for the most of the results attained.
 1 Of what avail are fortunate chance: to one who has no ability, and whose head is turned by little good fortune To such person favorable chance il the beginning of life is the worst thing that could befall him; for, while wis, mind would have been benefited there by, he is simply outraged on to hi own destruction. He relaxes all hi efforts, trusting that good fortune vii soon come his way again but it is no likely to come his way again, for strange and capricious as it may seem good fortune, like lightning, seldom strikes twicein the same place. e.-Ledger
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
An Elephants Cunning.

There is no creature in the world so cunning as the elephant, and no crea-
 ture, moreover. so full of duplicity. Its cleverness at stimulating attachment to its keepers can only be equalled in the human race by the hypocrisy of the slave toward his master. The elephant in the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris,
 never forgave his keeper for having made him ridiculous before the crowd assembled to witness his performance on penny trumpet, which the poor man had been at the greatest pains to teach him. A note came out in "Jai du bon tabac" with shrill squeak, when it should have been deep con- tralto. The creature was vain of It's artistic skill, as all artists are, and, fling ing down the trumpet, made a charge against the iron bars of his cage, which sent the crowd flying right and left in the utmost terror, while the keeper, who fortunately had time to creep through the opening left at the bottom of the cage for the purpose of escape in time of danger, ran out of sight imme. diately. He never dared enter the cage again, for he knew by the expression ol the creature's eye that the grudge was owing still. The new keeper wisely withdrew the penny trumpet, and "J'a
 du bon tabac" was heard no more. Tc wound the vanity of the greatest O
 beasts is as dangerous as to trife witt that of the greatest of monarchs.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

THE MASON X HAMLIN Co.-At Milan, Italy, they have recently had a Musical Industrial Exhibition and Competition, under royal patronage; at which were collected and compared, during a period of several months, the largest number and greatest variety of musical instruments, old aud new, ever brought together. America was honored in the award to the Mason & Hamlin Organ Company of the highest medal, and the only one in this department. Consider
 ing that 25O awards were given, alto
 gether, this distinction was very marked. It is a continuation of the triumphs of these famous organ makers at every one of the Worlds Fairs fol fourteen years to which there ha! been no exception. -The Manhattan.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
OleOmargarine and Butter.
A PROPOSED TAX OF TEN CENTS A POUND
 ON THE MANUFACTURED PRODUCT.

A subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means of Congress reported to the full committee a bill providing for the imposition of tax upon oleo- margarine, and requiring that packages of this product shall be plainly and durably stamped with it's name, so that no one can be deceived in buying it. The report was not @ unanimous one, and the bill will be opposed in the full committee, on the ground that the reg such an article is the duty of the State and not of the general Government. The tax proposed is ten cents pound Some time ago a very interesting state ment in relation to the dairy industry and the manufacture of oleomargarine was made before the committee by Con- gressman Jacobs, of New York. He declared that the capital invested in dairy lands, cows, etc., is from $4, ,OOO,- GOO, ,000 to $6, 900, 100000, and that the money value of the product was greater than that of the wheat crop, or than the cotton and wool crop combined. The growth of the manufacture of oleo- margarine, he said, threatened 10 ex- tinguish the dairy industry in New York State. The oleomargarine fac- tories of that State already produced 20, 900, ,000 pounds year. The pro- duct, costing only nine cents pound, was sold for from twenty-five to forty cents. Declaring that the State laws enacted had been intellectual, he in voked the taxing power of Congress to protect the dairy industry, maintaining that Government stamp would bring the spurious article into fair com petition with the genuine, and would prevent the retail dealer from selling oleomar- garine for butter.
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MT. Taylor (Rep., O., chairman of

Mir. Taylor (Rep., o., chairman of the Committee to audi the expenses of the illness and death of President Gar field, submitted bill and report on that subject. Mir. Blackburn (Dem., Ky.) presented the report of the minority. Both reports were referred to the Com mittee of the Whole. The bill ap- propriates for the relief of Lucretia R. Garfield $50, ,000, less any sum paid to the late President Garfield on account of his salary as President of the United | States. It pays to Dr. Bliss $25, 1000; to Drs. Agnew and Hamilton $15, 900 each; to Dr. Reyburn $10,000; to Dr. Susan EdSon $10,000; to William J. Crump, $3,00O; to the Secretary of the Navy, 1O,SS2; to William R. Speare | (undertaker), $1 1885; to o. N. Jones, of Elberon, $1 ,092; and to various mer- chants and others sums varying from fifty cents to $1,000.
 The minority report takes the ground that no evidence has been furnished to the committee to establish the value of the services rendered by the surgeons, and that the committee, therefore, had no more information on the subject than the general public; that the surgeons showed no special skill in the treatment of the President, and that no payment should be made to them in excess of such sums as could be established in law against the estate of the Presi. dent as private citizen. The minority report proposes that the bill shall be recommitted, with instructions to require the surgeons to prove the value of their services as they would in court, and that no more shall be allowed them than would be allowed in court.
 The House resumed the consideration of the Utah election case, and the debate led to some strong attacks on polygamy. The House refused to seat either Can non or Campbell as delegates from Utah.
 During debate on the Tariff Com mission bill MT. Dingley (Me.) con- tended that the decline of American shipping had begun soon after 1855, and was due to the application of the propeller and compound engine to steamships. Then came the civil war, during which the Anglo Confederate cruisers swept third of the American vessels from the seas. He opposed the proposition to allow the purchase and American registry of foreign-b built ships. The real difficulty, he said, was the cost of running ships, and he enumerated the burdens imposed on American ship ping. Mr. King introduced bill ap' propriating $6, 1000, ,000 for the improve ment of the Mississippi levees, and the l House adjourned.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.


 The Wholesale New York market quotations show:
 BEANS Prime, ss.4o@$S45 fair to good, $3.l00D$3.35 per bushel.
 BUTTER New York sold at 3'@s2c. for choice in pails, and 27@29c. common to good Western sold at 33@34c.. and the common Western at 2l@22c.
 CHEESE Factory fancy, 131lc @1S]ac; do. fair to good, 9@l1c.
 Eaas-Quotations ranged from l714c for or dinary, to 1s1ac for New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
 F1ouR-Superfne, si.25@s51O; Western, $5 OO@$5.75; extra New York, S5 500@S5 60.
 HAY Shipping, 60@65c.; clover, 65@75c.; salt, 65c.; straw, S0@40c.
 HoPs-New York, 22@2Sc.; Eastern, lG@ Bic; yearlings, lo@l5e.; olds, 7@l4r. a
 PETROLEUM Refined, 7ssc.; crude, 619@ 711ac. in bulk in barrels, 7]3c.; naphtha, 61sc. in shipping order, and 11116@l2ss4c: in eases.
 PonK New mess, $1s.25@$lS.5o; dressed hogs. 9Sc. D9]1c. white, $1 .3s@S1.42.
 RYE-State. 92@9Sc.
 Woo1-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, xxx, 45@46c.; XIX, 420i5c.; X, 42943c.; No, l, 45@I7c.; No. g. 3S@40c.; common, S3@35c.; New York and Western Xx and X, 39@i5t4c. No. 1, 44@45c. PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
 FLOUR State family, $6.25@$6.S7: rye flour, & - @4.75; wheat, State, $l.40@ BIAS amber $l.4S; corn, yellow, 93c., mixed State, 911Sc.
 PETROLEUM Refined, 73sc. crude. 64c. WooL-State and Western xX. 46@5Jo.; X, 47@49c.; medium, 50@5lc.; coarse, A5c BOSTON MARKET. FLouR-From S4.25@S5.75 for low and medium. to $5 50@$7. 50 for choice Minnesota. | Corn, S9@90c. for mixed and yellow. BUTTER Common, 20'@3Oc. Vermont | dalry, SS642c.; choice creamery, 42@45c. CuEEsE-9@l41Sc. BEANS - $3. 3.G000$S.70. | HAY-Choice, $20D$2l. CATTLE MARKETS. | BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality. $6 50 q S720 hogs, fair to good, S7. lO@S74Oi best | $7 40.
 EAST LIBERTY. PENN. Best cattle, S6.?5@ $6.75 medium to good, $5.25Gd$@ .00; common | to fair, S4.25DS5, co; Hogs, Yokors. S7 .Oo@ | S7.15; Phiadclphias, $7.4o@$7.6O. Shevp | $R.25@S640. | WATERrowN, MASS. Cattle. choice, 9l0.' @$l1.00; extra, 80 25@$l0.00; first quality $s.50@$9.00; second quality, S65e@$S.0o third quality, $5.50@$5.75. Sheep and lamb wool sheep, $2.5O@Sa.5o; extra, $6 00@ s65o;. spring lambs, 6@7s1c. Veal calves | 4c.@6s1c. T
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How to Make a Chicken Salad.

Boil a young tender chicken, and when cold separate the meat from the bones ; cut it into little square blocks or dice do not mince it. Out white tender stalks of celery into about three. quarter inch lengths, saving the outside green stalks for soup; mix the chicken and celery together, and then stir we'll into them mixture in the proportion of three tablespoonfuls of vinegar to one tablespoonful of oil, with pepper, salt and little mustard to taste. Put this aside for an hour or two, or until just before serving; this is called mari hating the chicken it will absorb the vinegar. When about to serve, mix the celery and chicken with Mayon- naise sauce, leaving portion of the sauce to mask the top. Reserve several fresh ends or leaves of celery with which to garnish the dish. Stick a little bouquet of these tops in the centre of the salad, then row around it. From the centre to each of the. four sides sprinkle rows of capers. Sometimes slices or little cut diamonds of hard boiled eggs are used for garnlshing. Chicken salad is often made with let tuce instead of celery. Marlnate the chicken alone add it to the small ten- der leaves (uncnt of the lettuce the last moment before serving; then pour Mayonnaise dressing over the top. Garnish with little centre heads of let. tuce, oapers, cold, chopped red beets, ii you choose, or sliced hard-boiled eggs. Sometimes little strips of anchovy are added for a garnish. When on the table it should all be mixed together. Many may profit by this recipe fol chicken salad; for it is as tonishing how few understand making so common a dish. It is generally minced and mixed, with hard-boile6 eggs for dressing.
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The Gulf Stream and Sardines.

At the French Academy of Sciences the other day, M. Blavier, mining en- gineer, called attention to the disap- pearance of the sardine from the coast of Brittany, where it used to bring in the fishermen 15,OOO,OOOf. year. He attributed this to a change in the direc- of the Gulf Stream, which also account ed for the mild winter and the early spring. M. Blanchard remarked that in England a committee of engineers and Photographers were studying the apparent change in the Gulf Stream, and that information might be obtained from them. Fish usually change their regular grounds, however, owing to the absence or abundance of food.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
New Orleans Cemeteries.

The cemeteries are all located about midway between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartraln. It is the highest spot of ground that could be obtained, and it differs from the surrounding land only in being a swamp in reasonably wet weather, while pretty much all of Louisiana is swamp at all seasons of the year. As the people of New Orleans strenuously object oputting themselves into water while living, it was not likely that they should die happy if they thought they were to be entombed in it after death. When water don't come all the way to the surface in the ceme- teries, it is invariably found at depth of two feet below the surface, and ln order to give dry burials the dead are buried ln the mounds above ground. As a general thing every head of a family has his own crypt in the ceme- tery they are built of brick or marble about the size of an old-fashioned coun- try bake-house.
 Where the parties are too poor to build crypt they bury in the cemetery wall. The walls that enclose the ceme. terles are usually about eight feet thick and ten feet high. These walls are honeycombed with cells, each cell being about two feet square, and in length the thickness of the wall. Each cell is numbered, and when the dead are placed in these cells they are sealed with slab of marble or iron and left to bake, as il were, in these mortuary bake-houses, tin-rooted and heated by the rays of a tropical sun.
 Many of these crypts are really hand some and costly resting places for the dead; when built of marble, with suf- ficient space for ten or twelve persons, they frequently cost from ten to twenty thousand dollars.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
The Art of Counting.

Why she doesn't count the years: In the green room of Parisian theatre the conversation turned upon the deli cate subject of age. Presently a gen. tleman visitor ventured upon the indis- erect query: "Now, what age are you, my dear friend ?? addressing his re- no longer be considered in her first youth. "What question, indeed p said the lady; Chow can that possibly interest you2'' Simple curiosity" re- sponded the visitor. We'll, then, ] will be frank with you. Really, I dc not know. One counts ones money, ones jewels and ones deeds of value because it may happen that they could be lost or stolen, but as am absolute. ly certain that nobody will take yeal from my age, and that shall neve, lose one, why, where is the need o1 counting. .-London Era.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

THE most extensive Homeopathic Medicine house in the United States is that of Boericke & Tafel, being estab- lished since 1885. They have now es- tablished well-stocked Pharmacies, de- voted exclusively to the sale of homoeo- pathic medicines and books, in the fol lowing cities New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, New Orleans and San Francisco. For descriptive price currents of medicine cases and books for family and for veterinary use, address them at either of above named cities.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

PAPER.-We must not be surprised to hear of a paper furniture factory starting into existence before long. Paper can now be made of strong flores and con- pressed into substance so hard that only diamond can scratch it. A foreign journal says that wood will be super. ceded by paper.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
A Judge,S ExOerIence.

Judge J. T. Bossier, of St. Tammany parish, La., and of the State Legisla. ture, thus expressed his opinion to one of our representatives CT have found St. Jacobs Oil to be very ef1icacious in sprains and bruises. In my opinion there is no oil or liniment equal to it" -Net0 Orleans (La.) Times Democrat.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
Curious Currency.

Tho inhabitants of the Solomon Islands have curious system of decimal currency. A cocoanut seems to be the unit. But the circulating medium con- sists of strings of white and red shell beads, dogs teeth and porpoise teeth.
 One string of white money is equiva- lent to ten cocoanuts or one flat stick of tobacco. Ten strings of white money make one string of red money or one dog's tooth; ten dogs teeth make one ''isa' tor fifty porpoise teeth) !; and ten isas are equivalent to one "good quality Wife," So that wife in good society is worth ten thousand cocoanuts.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

Too EARNEST. Marshal of Te- cumseh, Mich, was ordered to enforce an ordinance against street encum- brances. His way of performing that duty was to throw disobedient grocer into the gutter, and hold him there un- til he promised to remove his stand from the sidewalk. The officer was sub- sequently dismissed for "too much zeal and too little discretion"
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

ST. PETERSBURG result of the census of St. Petersburg, taken on Dec. 27 last, gives the total population at S61, 300. The previous census was taken ln 1869, and in twelve years the popu- lation increased 29 per cent.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

RHEuMATIsM.-Thereh has boon no medicine for Rheumatism ever introduced that cqusls Durang's Rheumatic Remedy. 1t is as sure to cure as the seasons are to follow each other Many of our prominent men in public life herr have taken it with great success. We unhesi- tatingly recommend it, Washington City Re publicdn.
 Sold at all drug stores. Price, one dollar six bottles for five dollars. Write for free cir cular to the proprietor, R. K. Helpenstine Washington, D, O,
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THE result of my use of St. Jacobs Oil for rheumatism is II have been recommending it ever since, says the Mayor of Chicago, Hon. Garter H. Har- rison, in the Chicago Times.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
MONROE, !

MONROE, Mich., Sept. 25, 1875. s1Rs-I have been taking Hop Bitters for Inflammation of kidneys and bladder. It has done for me what four doctors failed to do. The effect of Hop Bitters seemed like magic to ma " L. CARTER
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HOW TO SECURE HEALTH,

It is strange any one will suffer frc Arrangements brought on by impure blood. when sO0vILL'S SARSA- PAR1LLA AND STILLINGIA,o or BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP will restore health to the physical organization strengthening syrup pleasant to te, and the BEST BLOOD PURIFIER ever discovered. curing Scrofula, Syphtic disorders Weakness of the Kidneys ErySpeas Malaria Nervous disorders Debility, Bilious complaints and Diseases of the Blood. Liver, Kidneys, Stomach Sktn etc
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

A FINE.-The Queen imposes a fine of ten oxen and @ on any person in Madagascar who manufactures alcoholic beverages, and a lighter one on those who sell or drink them.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

THE Frenchman was true @sthete who borrowed a couple of chairs for his empty room, saying that he would be so dreadfully mortified if @ robber should come in and find it unfurnished.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

ANY person having bald head and failing | to see the benefit to be derived from the great l petroleum hair renewer, Carboline, as now i'm. proved and perfected, in the face of the vast
 | number of testimonials from our very best | citizens is surely going it blind.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

GERMANY. to official sta- tistics the total population of the Ger man empire. as given by the last cen- sus, was 45, 234, ,061, of whom A, 958. .205 were natives and 275,S ,S56 foreigners. Of males there were 22, 1855, 433, and of females 23,O4S, CPS. Prussia contributes 13,414, ,966, the next most populous States being Batavia, with two and half millions, and Saxony (the most popu- Ions of all for its area) with one and & half millions. The greatest number of suicides occur in Saxony, Leipsic alone recording moro self-murders than any of the other great European capitals.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

MRs DUKES, of Colfax, Indiana. had run ming sore on her ankle for two years. Llha- sey's RoDd Searcher cured it.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

BUTTER. facts lead to the conclusion that butter was invented by a MT. Strong, of ancient Greece. Ocean,
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

DR. PIERcE's "PELLErs little liver pills
 (sugar-coated) purify the blood, speedily cor rect all disorders of tho liver, stomach md bnvels Ky druppiSts
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

"SrILERs LIVER PILLS" have been the standard remedy for malaria, liver complaint onrtirnnnss oto fnr fifty XaArR.