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Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
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The typewriter is generally sup posed to be a machine of recent in- vention, but it really dates as far back as 1714. One Henry Mill obtained in that year in England a patent for a device that would "write in printed characters, one at time and one after the other" There is no de- scription of his device to be had now, but it is no doubt true that Mills in vention was the parent of the present typewriter. The idea seems to have lain dormant for over one hundred years, when it was taken up again by various inventors, who sought at sun dry times to embody it in a machine that would work satisfactorily, but apparently without success until 1867, when a firm in Milwaukee made a type writer that Was actually used.
 To such perfection has the machine been brought that even the most de- tailed and intricate statements, con- taining column after column of figures, can be readily made with it, and in neat and business-like form that is impossible with the pen of the average writer. Its use has opened a field for women who have to earn their living that never existed before They are naturally expert and skillfuI in using the fingers, and they readily learn to use the typewriter with great speed. A number of schools have added it to their regular course, and young men who learn to use it find it far easier to obtain situations. Charles Reade said "I advise parents to have their boys and girls taught short hand writing and type-writing. The shorthand writer who can type-w write his notes would be safer from poverty than great Greek scholar"
 The speed with which an expert operator can rattle off words and sentences is wonderful to one who has never tried to use the machine. The fingers play with swift and ceaseles motion over the keys, accompanied by the monotonous "rat-tat" of the ma chine, and sheet after sheet of neatly written manuscript is taken from the roller, from two to three times as fast as an average penman can produce it. Few people write with a pen faster than twenty or thirty words a minute; an expert will bring out of the type writer fifty to eighty words in min ute. What, then, must be the value of a clerk who is an expert at both shorth and and type-writing Chicago TimeS.
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
The easiest vepetable to grow for

The easiest vegetable to grow for this purpose, and one which is also the best on account of it's excellent keep ing qualities, is cabbage. Those who grow cabbage for home use in good quantities, or who grow it for market purposes, need not grow it especially for the poultry, for there are generally enough loose, spongy heads and waste leaves to give quite large flock of fowls generous and regular supply.
 Where there is not room enough on the place to grow tho necessary winter greens, good supply,say one hundred or more heads, of cabbage should be bought when the farmers and market gardeners are selling it off briskly in the fall. which time it can be bought much cheaper than during the winter. In buying it, have it delivered with the roots on, just as it is pulled from the ground. Now take some good sand and put it in a dark part of the cellar, in which plant the cabbage deeply, up to the head, packing the cabbage as closely together as possible, and draw ing the leaves up nicely around it. In this way cabbage can be kept fresh and good until spring, while it can always be readily gotten when needed. It can be kept nicely packed in the ground (though inyerted) out in the garden or near by the house, and well covered with soil to protect it from the frost, but it is frequently anything but "labor of love" to get at it after q heavy freeze. Turnips, turnip tops, beets, onions, etc, are also used for the poultry during the winter, but cannot compare with cabbage for cheapness and handiness. It is time now to be planning to procure a winter supply of green stuff for poultry.-American Poultry Yard.
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
Recipes.

Roasted Turkey.-The turkey should be one year old: after dressing rub well inside with pepper and salt; take one and one-half loaves of bakers bread; rub fine; then stir in your bread one teaspoon of salt, pepper, sage and use melted butter enough to bind all together; rub outside with lard. Bake three hours with even fire.
 Beef Sottp.-Take shank of beef with plenty of meat upon it, put over in cold water, and boil five or six hours, the day before using. The next day skim off the grease, put the jelly in soup kettle and one hour before serving add turnips. carrots, onions, cabbage and potatoes chopped fine in quantity desired; few tomatoes and little celery improves it. Season with salt and pepper, and drop in a few noodles. Three tablespoonful of rice may be added with the vegetables.
 CodfSh BaHS.-Cut the fish in small pieces and put it to soak in lukewarm water over night. In the morning boil it twenty minutes; then change the water, pouring on boiling water and boil fifteen minutes longer When cold, pick the fish to pieces, removing all bones and skin. Chop very fine, adding as much cold mashed potatoes as fish, piece of butter and beaten egg, and sweet milk enough to mois ten. Mould into small balls, and fry nice brown in hot lard or drippings.
 Apple Indian Pudding. Unto one quart of boiling milk stir cup of corn meal. Into this stir a quart of sliced sweet apples. Add a cup of molasses and a teaspoonfui of salt. Mix all together well. When ready to put into the oven, add two quarts of milk. Pour into a large, buttered pudding dish or pan, and bake slowly four hours. When cold, clear amber colored jelly will be formed through out the pudding; the apples will be of dark, rich brown; altogether most delicious dish.
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

An Indian and a Chinaman are part ners in the stationery business in a Nebraska town.
 A foot-pound is a force which will raise a pound one foot, and 33,000 of these foot-pounds make one horse power.
 A new industry has sprung up at New Orleans. Heads of large fish are dried and sold for table and mantel ornaments.
 A pearl as large as pigeon-egg was shown in Paris recently. There were 114 others in the bivalve from which it was taken.
 Prof. Binz finds that coffee is an ab- sOlute antidote to alcohol, if it be taken in a sufficient quantity Dogs satur- ated with caffeine could not be made drunk.
 The divining rod is still believed in, and used in some parts of England. It is said to have been successfully used short time ago in finding water on the premises of a brewer, where digging and boring had failed.
 An Italian astronomer declares that the planet Mars is peopled by intelli- gent beings, who are trying to attract attention from dwellers on this planet He is now engaged in making expsri- ments with a view to discover what the messages mean.
 Statistics show that dogs go mad no oftener in dog days than at any other time. If anything, the number of cases is somewhat greater in spring The bite of a rabid cat is more surely fatal than that of a rabid dog. It is mis- take to suppose that a rabid dog fears or shuns water. In the early stages of the disease it drinks freely. Later 1t delights to seek the water and plunge its nose in, but is unable to swallow 6 drop.
 A joint or gimmal ring was ancient ly a common token among lovers. It was generally made of two or three hoops, so chased and engraved that, when fastened together by a single rivet, the whole three formed one de- sign; the usual device being a ring. When an engagement was contracted, the ring was taken apart, each spouse taking one, and the third one being presented to the principal witness of the contract.
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
Egg Food.

The following foods contain all the ele- ments that exist in eggs: Oats, wheat, barley, corn, bran, linseed, hemp seed, raps seed, crushed fresh bones, mus tard seed, green cabbage and clover; and reasonable mixture of all these, varied more or less, with the aid of crushed limestone and gypsum, would afford every element called for to pro- duce a constant yield of eggs. A large quantity of broken fresh bones is one of the most important aids, and with wheat, barley, broken linseed oil cake, and mustard seed and plenty of green vegetables and water, will pro- vide everything that is required.
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
She Had Seen the Jerseys,

At the Fat Stock Show the other night were two young women from Wabash avenue. They thought it all very stupid and vulgar, and wished papa and mamma would make haste and get ready to go home. Presently they met young gentleman acquaint- ance, who was an amateur stock fancier, and to whom they candidly expressed their disappointment.
 But have you seen the New Jer- seys?" the acquaintance inquired.
 "The new Jerseys? Now you're talking" replied one of the Wabash avenue belles; "I was over to Mar shall Fields this afternoon looking them over over. They are cut in tailor style. with seams like a basque and fini3hed along the edges with rows of stitching. They're just lovely P'- Chicago Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
Kidney Diseases.
Thirty
 Years Record.

Tow people are aware Of ths alarming pruyaioncs Of kidney diseases. especially among those whe have arrived al, or are past middl. are. H is de clarod on geod authority that fully one-han ths deaths in this country are either directly or indis rcctly the result of Kidney disease Of some soFt.
 great majority of men above forty pean of aas. afflicted with some sort Of affection of the lid, noyr or bladder and these diseases ere oa hs ta. srcafs. Persons are often seriously affected before they know of i themselves and thus thnse nsldluut disorders get A good fopthold before anything s done Co dslodge them.
 Drorsy, Gravel Diabetes. nrlRhrs Disease. Ineon. tnonce Debility. cststTh Of The Bladder. Albpmenu tia etc., arc among ths many forms of these diseases M,tto ot these vsry difficult Co cure. defYing the powers oftcutimss Of Che bcst lhysicbus obtAinahe. and arc pronounced by many Go bs incurabia, . Physicians state that many forms of Kidney pa arc very dinrnit Co detect As, in diseases oi this form, oftsntimos thrro arc no symptoms Of a marked nature This sons Of tho reasons why they are E5 difncuh to eure.
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Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
q Y N A T E.

A bill was introduced by Senator Teller to provide for the issue of silver certificates. 1t provides that all holders of silver dollars of 4l2% grains may deposit the same with the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurars in sums of not less than ten dollars and receive certifi- oates therefore, of any denomination corre- spending with the denominations of United States notes as shall be speciSsd by the de- positors. The coin so deposited to be retained in the Treasury for the payment of the same on demand.
 The Senate took up MT. Hoat's bill to regu- late the Presidential successor. Mr. Evarts opened the discussion, aud was Followed by Mir. Edmunds. The bill vests the Presidential succession in the Cabinet. Objections to 1t have been aised, both in and out of Con gress; but it passed the Senate bY very nearly party vote, a few Republicans voting against it.. The bill passed without div ision in the form in which 1t was reported
 Mir. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported favorably all original bill providing for the performance, of the duties of President in case of the dsath, reslg- nation or inability of both the President and Eice-President.
 The following bills among others were in- troduced and referred: By Mir. MePherson- To suspend the coinage of standard silver dollar. By Mir. Beck-To amend the Revised Statutes SO as to authorize the purchase of foreign-built ships by citizens of the United States for use in the foreign carrying trade.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 Eleven Europeans who were working foI the Burmah Trading Company, and employed in the Chadwin forest on learning of the rup- ture between Burmah and the Indian govern ment, tried to reach Maulpoor, but were mur- dered on their way.
 A tenement house at Plymouth, England, was burned Sunday. Fourteen persons perished, while many were injured by leaping from the windows.
 General Lopez Dominguez has accepted the post of Spanish Ambassador to Paris.
 It is reported that the Czar has made overtures of conciliation to Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria.
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
Green Food Supply,

While summer lasts it is not very difficult matter to keep up a good sup ply of green food of different kinds for the poultry, even when they are confined to comparatively small yards; but when Jack Frost asserts his sway, whitening and browning the vegeta- tion of all kinds within his reach, the outside supply of "greens" is suddenly cut short, and unless provisions have been made in anticipation of this, the poultry will be deprived of one great essential to success. Those who have enough land for good sized garden can generally find room to grow enough green food for the winter sup ply of their birds, and poultry br ed CTS who have large numbers of birds and plenty of land make it point to grow a lot of green food especially for theig fowls,
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
Several Sizes Too Small.

Talking about this seat relinquish- ment business said shrill, gimlet voice that was found to emanate from very small man on the lower step of the front platform tsays the horse-car re- porter of the Chicago Maa), "l played a good one on ono of those nice amiable women who think they own the earth as soon as they come inside n street car. Hel hel was sitting ono evening last week wedged right in between big man and fair chunk of a woman, when a lady came in who, I reckoned, weighed about goo pounds. She seemed to feel real mad because some one did not get right up and ask her to be seated. Then I thought I'd have some fun; so l wrig- gled out of my inch and half space, and says:
 "'Have a seat, madamp
 "She smiled thankful sort of smile, and turned around to sit down. You sec, ain't a heavyweight, and only about two inches of space was visible on the seat. She looked at it sort of astcuished, and then kind of sized her self up.
 "Did you sit therep says she.
 "'Yes'm,' I says.
 "Well, says she, I guess amt very ii red
 '"Then everybody snickered good and hard, and two or three fellows went out on the front platform to smoke. That gave her room enough to sit down."
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
THE SUNDAY PULPIT.
Dr. TaInage Delivers Sermon on Rum
 POisOns-A Large Crop.

In the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday morning Rev. Dr. Talmage delivered sermon on the stage of this life, which contained a warning to drunkards. The text was, ''Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place" Job, xvii, 23. Dr. Talmage said the suggestion of the text seemed to be that on the stage of this life every one had some part to take, and yet how little preparation we had made for our part, although we had three galleries for spectators earth and heaven and hell.
 "You and have been appointed on the stage of this life," he continued, ''to represent faith, humility, courage and helpfulness. Don't you realize that we have been more critical of the other per formers than of our own action, and when we ought to have been concentrat- ing our attention upon our own duty we have been critical ot other people on the stage of life, saying this is too high, or too low, or too tame, or too vehement, or too quiet, or too demonstrative, while we ourselves have been preparing to make dead failure of our part and to be ignominiously hissed off the stage. In the first place have to remark that many fail in the drama of this life through dissipation.
 "A French physician has recently dis covered something which all drinkers ought to know. He has found out that alcohol, whether you call it beer, wine, or brandy, or anything else, has in it parasitic life, and these parasites, when you drink alcohol, go into the stomach, and then they get into the blood, and, getting once into the crimson canals of life they roll on until they take part of every tissue of the body. And when the whole physical organism comes under the influence of these noxious in- fnitesimals, so that when any man in delirium tremens sees all forms of rep tiles and insect life, he only sees an ex- aggeration of what really possesses his body. There is no hallucination; he merely sees in the room that which is rioting in his body; so that, when you take alcohol in any shape you are swal- lowing these maggots and reptiles, and when a man, through indulgence, has rheumatism or vertigo or nausea, 1t is only jubilee of maggots, it is only a riot of snakes. There is no delusion about it. An effort has been made to discover some germicide by which these parasites of alcoholism can be killed. But there is no influence that will do this short of total abstinence, to which, before God, swear every young man and every old man in this audience.
 l America is fertile country, and we raise large crops of wheat and corn and rice, but the largest crop raised in America is crop of drunkards. Again, many fail in the drama of this life through indolence, and there are many who fail through a misapprehension of what their duties are, and, not realizing that they have any duties toward others, spend their lives in demonstrating their own selfshness,
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
.eening Cnbbnges in Winter.

In the usual way of keeping cab bage in the winter, there is consider able loss by freezing and decay. In attempting to avoid this waste, we have tried with success the method of pitting here described. A long pit three feet deep, and little wider Git may be made as wide as desirable), was dug out on part of the field where the soil was dry and sandy, and there was no danger that water would enter. The bottom of the pit was loosened up, so that the first tier of the caobages were planted in it, the stems being set so deep that the heads rested on the soil. The cabbages of the next tier were set alternately be- tween the lower ones, having the roots partly in the soil. A third tier was placed on the second, but reversed, with the roots upward. All the soft heads were put at the top. Straw was laid between the stems, leaving the roots out, and earth was thrown upon the straw, burying the roots three or four inches. In pulling the cabbages the roots were all taken up with them, and not cut off. A covering of boards was laid on the pit, to shed rain. In the spring these cabbages came out in the best condition; the soft heads had filled up, and none of the cabbages had been frozen.
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
SADIE CORTELYOU's FATE.
The Funeral of the Little Actress Attended
 by Many Friends.

On bed of lilies, immorteles and other flowers the wasted body of little Sadie Courtel- you, the actress, lay at rest on Wednesday, while her face looked up from the coffin and preached sad sermon to the group of actress es and singers who had gathered to bid good by to their late companion. Suffering and death had greatly changed the face, as was seen by the large photograph above the death mask, but the brown curls clustered about the white brow just as they had many time when the pretty Venus smiled ot her audiences across the footlights.
 When Coroner Levy reached the house at No. 6l West Forty-second street, New York, early in the day, to carry on the investigation made necessary by cowardly anonymous postal card, he found tle parlor full of soft voiced young women in neat-fitting suits, who were hard at work decking the room with smi- lax and lilies. They heaped up their floral gifts upon the coffin as if determined to rob death of it's terrible aspect, and filled the hands of the dead with flowers. They were able to furnish the coroner with valuable ln- formation regarding Sadie's illness, and though he became satisfied that the charge of malpractice was malicious one, he thought it best 10 order an autopsy after the funeral services in order to leave no opportunity for suspicion and future gossip.
 Before II o'clock the pleasant parlor was full of people. Many of them were actors and actresses, but few brazen curiosity-seeker5 crowded their way in. The heart-broken mother of the dead girl and yonnger sister sat beside the coffin, and behind them the leading ladies of the "Evangeline' Company sat and silently wept. Rev. Dr. MacArthur, of the Calvary Baptist Church. friend of Mrs. Cortelyous, uttered brief prayer and addressed . few words of sympathy and warning to the friends of the dead woman. He referred kindly to the dangers menacing their craft and called upon them to lead pru dent and honest lives. When these few wise words were spoken the friends gathered about the casket and dropped tears upon the pallid face aud then one by one stole softly away.
 Deputy Coroner Donlin and Dr. Crosby made an autopsy in the afternoo", and found not the slightest evidence of malpractice. Death had been due to peritonitis and gas tritiA
 Dr. Crosby felt very sore that his certificate of death had been in any way questioned, par ticplarly Aa he had attended Miss COriejyou without any expectation of pay. He said that he WAS first calls d on December l, and admin tered opiates. The patient vehemently de- nied Shat she had resorted to any criminal means to relieve herself of embarrassment. She had nearly recovered . week ago and left her bed against the doctors wishes. Periton- itis resulted from this exposure, and it was impossible to save her
Connecticut western news., 1885-12-23
The Vanderbilt Will.

Wm. H. VAnderbilt's will was entered for probate in New Yo,k The widow and four sons are made executors. Fach of the eight children receive 4i0,00O,0 GOO, the sum of 8, 900, 0N0 in each case to be held in trust. The widow is bequeathed the Fifth avenue palace, it's pictures and belongings, with an annuity of &200, 600 and $500, 900 absolutely. The largest share of the railroad property goes to the two eldest sons, Cornelius and William K, who have about $60, GOO, 900 each. The sum of e1 000, 900 iE given to charities, and a small sum is divided between the nephews, uncles and aunts of the deceased who are not otherwise interested in the will.