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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-17
HONE EDUCATION.

: The following rules are worthy of be-
ing printed in letters of gold and placed
in conspicuous place in every house
hold:
l.. From our childhoodis S earliest in
fancy inculcate the necesaity of instant
obedience.
2. Unite frmness with gentleness.
Let your children always understand
that you mean what you say.
3. Never promise them anything,
unless you are quite sure you can give
them what you say.
4. II you tell child to do some
thing, show him how to do it and see that
it is done.
5. Always punish your child for
willfully disobeying you, but never pun
ish him in ange-.
6 6-Never let them know that they
vex you, or make you lose your self
command.
7. If they give way to petulance or
ill-temper wait till they are calm, then
gently reason with them OH the impro-
priety of their conduct.
s. Rember that little present pun
ishment, when the occasion requires. is
much more efectual than the threaten
ing of a greater punishment should the
fault be renewed.
9. Never give your children any 1
thing because they cry for it.
10. On no account allow them to do
at one time what you have forbidden,
under the same circumstances, at an
other.
IL. Teach them that the only sure
and easy way to appear good is to be
good.
II. Accustom them to make their
little recitals with perfect truth.
13. Never allow tale-bearing.
IA. Teach them self-denial, not self
indulgence. -Ex.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-17
HORRIBLE MORMON CRIME,
(salt Lake Letter to the st. Louis Republican,

| (Sait Lake Letter to the st. Louis Republican,
One crime, which was committed
here only short time ago, 1 must
describe. Mrs. Maxwell came to
Salt Lake City with her husband in
1869. Two years afterward her hus-
band took another wife, and one year
subsequent he was sealed to third.
Mrs. Maxwell objected, and in order to
prevail over her sons she told them the
secrets of the Endowment House. The
penalty for revealing these secrets is
dismemberment of the body, cutting of
the throat, and tearing out of the tongue
Mr.. Maxwell overheard his wife, being
in an adjoining room, and forthwith he
infomed the Elders, who sent for the
unfortunate woman and her two sons.
They were taken into what is called the
Ozark pit, blocd-atoning room under
Brigham Young's house. The woman
was then stripped of all her clothes and
then tied on the back to large table
Six members of the priesthood then per-
formed their damnadle crime; they first
cut of their victims tongue, and then
cut her throat, after which her legs and
arms were served. The sons were COM
PEELED to stand by and witness the
dreadful slaughter of their mother.
They were then released and given
twenty-four hours to get out of the Ter
ritory, which was then an impossibility,
The sons went then to the house of
friend, to whom they related the butch
cry of their mother, and then getting
package of provisions started, but on
the following morning were both dead
they had met the Danites. One
other case similar to the above occur
red about five years ago in the City
Hall These are truths, and the lady
to whom the sons told their story is
willing to make affidavit to the facts if
she can be guaranteed immunity from
NJ ormon vengeance.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-17
London.

London has population of four
millions and half, says the Mead
vile, Pa, Crawford Democrat. OF
this multitude only 10000 are church
members, an9 only 100000 are regu-
lar attendants at religious services.
Of the working population it is stat
ed, on as good authority as the Bish-
op Of Litcb6eld, that. only two per
cent. are found in church.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-17

One ton of gold ore from the Ei Dorado
mine of Gold Basin, was lately treated at
the Lone Star concentration works, Mineral
Park A. T., by way of experiment. The
result was most satisfactory, the tailings
only containing about IS per ton of gold,
The reduction gave about one hundred
pounds of concentrations to two Thousand
pounds of ore. The concentrations assay
about S700 per ton.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-17

The outlook tor the manufacture of pig
iron in the South, during 1882, is most prom
ising, particularly in Central Alabama. The
predictions are 400, 900 tons or about 335 per
cent increase over last year. Several of the
largest furnaces in the South have lately been
compelled to stop work in consequence Of be.
ing out Of ore.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-02-17

Notices in Local Column, less than rs cents for
each notice. Exceeding this amount 10 cents per
line for each insertion
Transient and Legal Advertisements 81. 90 per
square for first and 81 90 for each subsequent nser
tton. No charge for affidavit of publication.
Transient advertisements to be paid in ADVANCE.
Professional business cards Il square) Sl2 per
annum,
No deviation in the above rates will be made In.
favor of any advertiser.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14
Simple Little Patents.

The simple little patents appear to pay
the best. Among these trides is the IA
yorite toy-the ''return ball'-a wooden
ball with an elastic string attached, sell
ing for ten cents each. but yielding to
It's patentee an income equal to $50, 900
a year. The rubber tip on the end Of
lead pencils affords the owner of the
royalty an Independent fortune. The
inventor of the gTlmmed newspaper
wrapper is also q rich man. The gimlet
pointed screw has evolved more wealth
than most silver mines, and the man who
first thought of putting copper tips to
children's shoes is as well off as if his
father had left him $2,000,000 in United
States bonds. Although roller skates
are not so much used in countries where
ice is abundant, in South America, espe-
cially in Brazil, they are very highly
esteemed, and have yielded over 81, ,O0O,-
900, 900 to their inventor. But he had
to spend fully $125, 900 in England alone
fighting infringements. The dancing
Jim Crow" a toy, provides an annual
income of $75, 600 to its inventor, and
the common needle threader is worth
$4,000 a year to the man that thought of
it. The ''drive we'll" was an idea of Col.
Green, whose troops, during the war;
were in want of water He conceived
the notion of driving q two-inch tube
into the ground until water was reached
and then attaching a pump. This
simple cOntrivance was patented after
the war, and the tens of thousands of
farmers who have adopted it have been
obliged to pay him a royalty, a moderate
estimate of which is placed at So, ,000,-
600. The spring window shade yields
an income of 500, 900 a year the stylo-
graphic pen also brings in 81 200, 900 a
year; the marking pen for shading in
different colors, 800, 900; rubber stamps
the same. A very large fortune has
been reaped by Western miner, who,
ten years since, invented metal rivet
or eyelet at each end of the mouth OF
coat and pants pockets to resist the
strain caused by the carriage of pieces
of ore and heavy tools.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14
ROOF-TOP LIFE IN NEW YORK.

What do you think of the queer lives
led by ianitors' families? I know jani-
tor who has charge of a big building
down Broadway who has four little tots
of children, and they don't get down into
the street more than once a week
or so. Two OF them were born
in the seventh story of an immense
iron building, just under the roof. One
of them to my certain knowledge has
never been down in the street at ALL
That's a fact. It will be down some day.
1t was only born lately. Where do
you think the childrens playground is :?
1t is the roof, and rare, good yard it is,
too, with flowers growing on it, and
everything just like a good, big paved
yard.
There is a high ledge around the four
sides, SO there is no danger of the young
sters falling off. And there are clothes
lines there, and tubs standing about, and
clothes-pins lying on the ground-every-
thing so natural you might easily i'm
agine yourself in somebody's back yard.
The children seldom see anything of the
world down below; and their mother
hardly ever does, for she has her hands
full taking care of the youngsters. There
is nice secluded life for you, with no
danger of annoyance from prying neigh
bors.
There is something attractive about
it, too. Just think of the janitor, at
dark, shutting up the whole place and
barring the big iron doors with himself
inside. There he is, with his family
about him, and all the world securely
locked out. It is as good as living in a
castle with the bridge drawn up and the
moat full of water. But even when the
outer doors are locked the janitors are
not always shut in from the world.
There is a block of buildings in one of
the principal business centers OF New
York City, all about the same height.
Each building has its janitor, and each
ianitor has his family. When the outer
doors are shut and locked and no out
slider can by any possibility make his
way in, the janitors' families begin to
visit. The roofs form their avenues and
boulevards, their grand promenade.
There is something slightly curious
about that way of living, isn't there ;
having your neighbor dropping in
through the roof instead of coming
through the door? 1t is something like
the way of living of the old cave-dwellers
in the southwest
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14
Some Controversies.

In matters of controversy, the woman
usually has the best of it. A witty old
author advises men to avoid arguments
with ladies, because in spinning yarns
among silks and satins man is sure to
be worsted and twisted, and when man
is worsted and twisted he may consider
himself wound up.
The above retort might be matched by
a dozen others culled from domestic con-
troversy, in which the woman has come
off triumphant. Really, my dear, :"
said a friend Of ours to his better half,
''you have sadly disappointed me. L
once considered you jewel of a woman;
but you've turned out only bit of mat
rimonial paste.
''Then, my love, " was the reply, ''con-
sole yourself with the idea that paste is
very adhesive, and in this case will stick
to you as long as you live" "See here, ="
said fault-fnding husband, 1--WE must
have things arranged in this house so
that we shall know where everything is
kept"
"With all my heart, " sweetly answered
his wife ''and let us begin with your
late hours, my love. I should dearly
love to know where they are kept" He
lets things run on as usual. 1t is not
often, however, that one comes across
such crushing retort as that which a
Sheffield husband received from his wife
the other day, through the medium Of
the public press.
He advertised in one of the local jour
nails that he, Thomas A, would no lon
ger be answerable for the debts incurred
by his wife, who seems to have been a
truly amiable creature, if one may judge
from the advertisement which she pub
lished next day in reply "This is to no
tify that [, Elizabeth A., am able to pay
all my own debts, now that L have got
shut of Tommy. - Ghan1ber8's Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14
DOMESTIC RECIPES.

MINoE MEAT.-ThOroughly cleanse
four pounds of currants and remove the
stones from four pounds of raisins /; cut
up two pounds of candied citron, one
pound candied lemon, and one pound
orange peel, into shreds or very small
dice: remove the skin and then chop up
four pounds of fresh beef suet, and place
this with the currants and candied peel
in an earthern pan; next chop the raisins
with four pounds of peeled apples, and
add them to the other ingredients; trim
away all the sinewy parts from eight
pounds of roasted sirloin of beef, and
chop all the lean of the meat quite fine;
this will produce about four pounds,
which must also be placed in the pan; to
the foregoing must now be added four
pounds of moist sugar, four ounces OF
ground spice-consisting OF nutmegs,
cloves, and cinnamon In equal proper
tions. with the grated rinds of twelve
oranges, and of the same number OF
lemons; the whole must be thoroughly
mixed together, and pressed down to a
level in the pan; put the lid on the pan,
place a cloth over it and tie it down close,
so as to exclude the air as much as pos
sible; the mince meat should be kept IN
a cool place, and will be fit for use IN
fortnight after it is made.
PLUM PUDDING. NG.-Proportions One
pound of beef kidney grease, one pound
of dry Corinthian raisins Smyrna and
Malaga mixed), one pound and three
ounces of fresh bread crumbs, one table
spoonful of flour, twelve ounces of brown
sugar, nine ounces of orange peel and
citron mixed, little SALT half of grated
nutmeg, one pinch of pulverized ginger
and little lemon peel, chopped fine,
about ten eggs, and one tablespoonful of
sweet cream This is sufficient for two
good-sized puddings. After having
washed the raisins in lukewarm water,
place them in basin or wooden bowl,
with the peel already cut into square
pieces, and steep in little brandy. Now
trim the beef kidney fat and chop it very
fine, with one spoonful of flour, mix it
we'll with the crumbs of bread, brown
sugar and eggs; then add raisins, the peel,
salt, nutmeg, ginger, and, last of all,
and after it is well mixed, the cream.
Spread all this in a large napkin, well
buttered, fold up the corners of the nap
kin, and tie to the level of the pudding,
so as to make it round then plunge the
pudding into saucepan of boiling wa
ter, and let it boil at least four hours
constant boiling. Take it out and let
it drain in a sieve cut it from the top so
as to keep on a level, and then turn it
out on dish, removing the napkin care
fully, so as not to disturb the fine part
of the pudding. Sprinkle with little
sauce. Serve a little sauce separate.
This pudding may be cooked in mold !;
have the mold well buttered, and the
pudding tied in napkin, also well but
tered boil four hours.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14
A Thousand Million Suns.

But as,astronomers increased their es-
serving more and more carefully the
others positions, they diminished the
possible range of the as yet undetected
apparent motions, mems conceptions of
the grandeur of the material universe in
creased. With Briarean arms, science
thrust back the stars into the depths of
space, until the glories of the nocturnal
heavens We're changed from SO many
thousand points of light to as many suns,
many as grand as our own, many far
grander, some like Sirius, Vega, and
Canopus, so much vaster than he is, that
by comparison with them he seems the
merest miniature of a sun.
But even this, stupendous though it
seems, is little compared with the scene
presented when we rightly interpret what
the telescope reveals respecting the
depths of space beyond the domain of
the visible stars. For each star we can
see. thousands were made visible by the
telescope of Galileo, in later times tens
of thousands, and in the days of the elder
Herschel hundreds of thousands. With
the best telescopes in our own time it is
probable that as many as a thousand mil
lion stars could be seen were every part
of the celestial sphere examined. A
thousand million suns, a thousand million
repetitions of the glories and the wonders
which modern science reveals in the
central orb of our system !-PRoFEssoR
PROCTOR.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14
Oil on Troubled Waters.

Once more the experiment of pouring
oil upon the waters has been tried at
Aberdeen. Previous attempts to smooth
the waves with unctuous fluids were said
to have been successful, and the latest
reported venture is also stated to have
materially mitigated the fury of the
North Sea. On a former occasion, an
immense quantity of oil was projected
on to the sea. In this experiment, how
ever, the comparatively Insignificant
amount of seventy gallons sufliced to
produce a gratifying effect. The wind
blew fercely from the southeast, vexing
the inlet to the harbor, and the Commits
sioners. who deserve credit for their per-
severance, resolved to test the utility Of
oil again. The result so far justified their
public spirit as, to impress them with ou
opinion that the dangers attending tho
entry of ships into the sheltered pool
might be abated were this recipe for
tanning Neptune exhibited on occasions
when he is unusually turbulent.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14
THE NEsFOR OF THE PRESS:
A Few Incidents in the Life of Thurloyy
Weed.

Mr.. Weed himself says ''Morgan fin.
ished his book in a house adjoining that
in which we resided in Rochester. Mr.
Dyer. his friend, after enjoining secrecy,
showed us the manuscript and asked us
to print it. We did not think that a man
who had taken such oaths to keep secrets
was at liberty to reveal them, and de-
c1ined the printing of the book which
created all that excitement.
While Mr. Weed was an apprentice in
the office of the Ly1aa in Onondaga Hol-
low, little incident occurred which he
relates as follows:
An obituary notice of the death of the
accomplished lady ef then youthful
and promising but row. venerable and
eminent clergyman ~ Rev. Derrick c.
Lanslng), was ilalfas arz just before the
paper was going to press. In setting it
up the word ''consort" occurred. It
was new, and did not strike me as con-
veying the appropriate idea; and instead
of referring to the dictionary substi-
tuted the word comfort" so that the
deceased was thus made the ''comfort'
rather than the ''consort" of the be-
reaved husband. The paper was thus
worked off and sent about the village
and while felicitating myself on an
intellectual achievement the blunder was
discovered by Mr.. Brown, one-eyed
shoemaker, and my ears yet tingle with
the boxing my stupidity cost them.
When the first steamboat came up the
Hudson River he and a few other boys
placed their clothes on a plank and swan
out to the island (now the steamboat
landing) to see the wonder pass. ''It
came up he writes, "with an awful
noise and surge, its huge paddle-wheels
exposed and its tunnels vomiting fire
and smoke so that to the unaccus toned
eyes of young Thurlow and his comrades
it seemed more like monster from the
internal regions than anything else they
could imagine. They were greatly
but it passed harmlessly, and
they had it to say in after years that
they saw the first steamboat that ever
went up the Hudson.
In its biographical notice the New
York Tribune says Thurlow Weeds life
almost spans the history of this country
under its present Constitution. He was
born before Washington died, and when |
Clay, and Calhoun were MAX
ing their regulations he had edited sew
eral country newspapers and fought in
The battles of his country. He was older |
han Seward, or Lincoln, or Greeley, and |
when Clay, Webster, and Calhoun were |
lead he had not entered upon the most |
Important part of his career. He was |
live when Napoleon's star appeared in
he darkness of the French Revolution,
nd was already young man when the
'attle of Waterloo was fought He lived |
nd worked -.-S1- uIIree generations of |
public men. Most of the men who are !
low beginning to attract attention might |
lave been his grandsons. Benjamin
Franklin died seven years before Mr.. |
Weed was born The lives of these two |
journalists take the world back into the |
'eign of Louis XIV. and beyond the
birth of Frederick the Great. Another
such would very nearly reach the time Of
Shakespeare.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14
KEEPING FARM ACCOUNTS.

Eben Z. Rexford in the american
Ag,4cuJttntst for December, says:
In order to know what crops are pay
ing best, it is necessary that farmer
should keep an account with each field
on h,s farm. If he were to have a gen
eral account, he could tell at the years
end whether he had made or lost, but
precisely where the gain or loss came
from, he could not know with any de-
gree of certainty. He might lose money
in corn, while the profit realized in wheat
would be sufficient to over-balance this
loss. If he keeps a record with the corn
field, and another with the wheat-feld.
he can tell just what the loss or gain
from each field is.
The keeping of field accounts necessi-
tates the plotting of the farm, with
number for each field. This should be
done in advance of the work of spring.
The accounts, instead of being kept be
tween the farmer and another person
will be between himself and field No. l,
or 2, or 3, etc. Two small blank books
are needed in which to preserve the rec
ord. One, the ordinary day-book of the
merchant, in which is entered the trans
actions for the day. The other, led
ger, has each page ruled for debt and
credit. On the left-hand side will be
entered all expenses which the cultlva-
ton of the field and the harvesting and
sale of the crop occasions. The right
hand side is for the receipts from the
sale of the crops. At the head Of each
ledger page put the number of the field,
the record of whichis kept on that page
For example, begin with field No. l.
This, it may be supposed, is planted to
corn If work was begun on this field
by plowing, April Goth, the day-book
entry will be:
April goth ~ Field No. 1, DR..
To one days work, man and team. $3.50
Each day the work done on that field
will be charged to it. This day-book
account should be attended to every day;
if neglected, these important items will
be forgotten. Perhaps the first work
done on this field will be manuring it.
If so, the entry in the day-book of the
first days work would stand like this
April Goth .. Field No. l. DIR.
To 10 loads of manure, SOC. each. $500.
To work of man and team. ...-...... 2.5O.
After that would come plowing, harrow
ing, marking, planting, cost of seed, ETC.,
and then the items of expense for cult
waiting and harvesting, as performed
through the season. Bear in mind that
every item of expense belonging to the
field must be charged to it.
If anything is sold from the field, or
used by the farmer, it must be credited
to the field. For instance, corn may be
used for eating. Make an entry in the
day-book thus:
August 3d........ Field No. 1, CR.
By green corn. Observation-Disclosures. 25c.
The above will give an idea of what the
day-book entries should be. 1t is a sort
of diary of every days work, and all ex
penses connected Herewith. Keep this
diary in such way that you know just
what field the work went to, and what
has been received from that field. Every
thing going to the field makes it a debtor.
Every thing coming from the field makes
the farmer the debtor. Thought of In
this way, the keeping Of the day-book is
a very simple thing.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14

Nor so FUNNY.-Richard Ramsey, en-
gagged few days ago in hauling sand
from under bridge near Raritan. n. j.,
amused himself by throwing shovelful
of sand against the bridge flooring when
ever anyone drove over it, for the pur-
pose of making the horse jump. A large
stone in the last shovelful he threw re-
bounded and struck him over the eye,
inficting injuries from which he died
two dove later
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14

Nor HEALTHY writers upon
public health claim that the wooden
blocks used in many cities for pavements
have a decided unhealthy influence. The
blocks being placed with their fibrous
ends upward, are saturated with rain, in
which is dissolved the filth of the streets.
The pavement thus remains damp for a
long time, and presents large and un-
wholesome evaporating surface.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-12-14

"WHAr ails the telephone ?" yelled the
editor of the central Office, which he had
been vainly calling for ten minutes.
.'The battery wants to be charged, came
the indistiact answer. ''Well, charge
it murmured the editor, mechanically.
1t gets to be second nature with some
-RocElaud Courier Gazette.