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Year: 1869

WASHING MADE EAsY.-The Ohio Cultipator
says the following recipe is worth one thousand
dollars TO every house-keeper: "Take one
pound of sal soda and half pound of unslacked
lime and put them in gallon of wafer, boil
twenty minutes, let it stand till cool, then
drain of and put 10 a small jug or jar; soak
your dirty clothes over night, or uutil they are
wet through, then wiring them, and rub on
plenty of soap, and in one boiler of clothes well
covered with water add one teacupful of the
washing fluid boil half an hour or more rinse,
and your clothes will look better than by the
old way Of washing twice before boiling. This
Is an invaluable recipe, and every poor tired wo-
man should try it.
Year: 1869

and If you let them 60 on they will smash
a prayer meeting all TO pieces; what do
you do with them!"


III never have and never will allow any
one to smash prayer meeting. If I
cannot bring about n reformation by
privately talking TO him, If no other
means will answer. can say to such
man, SIT down. But then, there are
many ways TO be tried first. IL see =
man is apt to talk in set phrase and con-
tinually repeat, interrupt him with a
question. A question is an obstruction
in bis track. He will have to get over
it, or 60 around it, come TO astand-still.
| ask him about his own experience in
relation to what he is talking about, and
in such conversation there is no chance
to be formal"


"Do you make special preparation for
prayer meeting?"


"Yes. That is, always have subject
ia my mind that want to present. Some
times it is adhered to by others, and
sometimes it is not. When it Is not,
never try to bring it back, but | try to
develope the thought that comes out the
most prominently. | try to find out as
quick as possible the leadings of the Holy
Spirit. and then follow them"


did you ever have to exercise any
authority in prayer meetings ofthe nature
you alluded TOP"


II had one man once that used 10
trouble me great deal. He used"-and
here Mr.. Beecher. impersonated him to
the life-"he used to drag his words in
the most tediously slow process that you
can imagine. One evening he commenced
as usual: I-hope--that-my- young
friepds-wil-not-h ot-hke-.me-put-o
-consideration-of the interest OF
eternity and just then | interrupted him
by saying, "Mr. if you 60 on that way
much longer, eternity will be here and
half through before you finish ~
[Harper's Drawer.
Year: 1869

No EXERCISE EorAL To misunderstanding
acts so directly upon the organs within both
chest and abdomen. Ten hearty laughs, real
shouts, will do more to advance the general
health and vitality than an hour spent in the
best attitudes and motions, if done in a sober,
solemn spirit. OF course | know you can t
laugh at will, so you must play with the dog,
play with your children, introduce hundred
games which involve competition and fun Open
the folding doors, move back the center table,
and go it. Play with the bags, run for the pins,
play any of the games which you recall from
Yomr early eXperience
Year: 1869

The following is one of the many good things
from Dickens pen:


The 6rst external revelation of the dry rot in
men is tendency to lurk and lounge; TO be at
street corners without Ineligible reasons to be
going anywhere when met to be about many
places rather than any to do nothing tangible,
but to have an intention of performing number
of tangible duties tomorrow, the day after.
Year: 1869

A MORMON priest nHmed Nicholas, professed a
power of doing miraculous things, and com
pounding a wonderful medicine. He made a
nerve and bone al-healing salve, and thought he
would experiment a little with it. He first
cut off his dogs tail and applied some of the
salve to he stump new tail grew out imme-
diately He then applied some to the piece OF
tail which he had cut off, and a new dog grew
out. He didn't know which dog was which
This may seem tough story, but we have Mich
lass word for it, and We don't think he would
lie
Year: 1869




Central Park
Home and School for the Sons of Deceased Soldiers
Dr. H. T. HELMBoLD


Two bottles only of the package of your valu-
able Buchu presented to the Institute have been
used by the children, and with perfect success.
In the case of our little Lieutenant A. j., his
pride is no longer mortified, and be is free from
the daily morning anathemas of the chamber
maid who has charge of his bedding feel that
a knowledge of the result of our use of your
Buchu with the children under our charge may
save many Superintendent and Matron OF
Boarding Schools and Asylums great amount
of annoyance ; and many poor child suffering
more from 'ceakness than from habit, may be
spared punishment, that is (not knowing it as
weakness instead of a bad habit) most unjustly
inflicted upon them. Thanking you on behalf
of the children, and hoping others may be alike
benefited,


l am respectfully yours,


COL. YOUNG,


General Sup't and Director.
June Is, 1866. 1882
Year: 1869

A FRENCH doctor was called to attend some
young ladies suffering fron violent neuralgia.
The pain ceased by the use of snuff in the nose,
and the doctor found on examination the cause
to have been the larrde of little beetle-like in
sects which had been deposited in the nose while
inhaling flowers, Of which the young ladies were
very fond.
Year: 1869

Rock SALT.-Many persons suppose that rock
salt is dug out of mines in substantially the same
condition that it is put into the market but this
is not so the masses of salt are broken up and
dissolved in water Solution is then evaporated,
and the salt removed as it crystalizes. By this
means. the impurities consisting, for the most
part, OF oxide of iron and various earths, are re-
moved and the salt is rendered fit for use. The
greatest salt mine in the world is at Fracow Po-
land where the impure salt is taken out in huge
blocks, broken from its place in the mine by the
use of wedge and sledee hammers.
Year: 1869

Takes pleasure in Announcing to his patrons
and the public generally that the liberal pat
ronage they have bestowed upon him has ena-
oied him to fit up and stock his estatlishme
so that he can now offer them greater induce
mcnts than ever before for the continuance Of
the same --4
Year: 1869

President johnson does good things,
but he also does bad ones. he does some
things that surprise and mortify those
most anxious to defend him. His par
don of that infamous and procured wretch
Sandford Conover, out of the penitentiary,
seems to us alike indefensible and un-
accountable. We are utterly unable to
imagine what can have induced or
prompted it.


Conover was the horrid villain upon
whose testimony, more than upon that OF
all others, Mrs. Mary Surratt was con-
victed of completely in the assassination
of President Lincoln and hung, His
whole testimony was lying testimony.
Every word of it was black with perjury.
lie was employed to swear to exactly
what Bingham and the rest Of the prose-
cutors wanted sworn to. After Mrs. Sur
ratt was throttled to death in mid-air, the
fact of his sworn lies became universally
manifest. 1t was acknowledged even by
himself. He was tried for perjury, con-
victed, and sentenced to the penltentiary
for term of years.


Here was an extraordinary case. Mrs.
Surratt, whose life had been sworn away,
Law in an unknown grave, which no friend
or relative of hers could visit. The ac-
cursed miscreant who had sworn away
her innocent life was in the penitentiary,
and. although no confinement OF his
wretched body, however long continued,
could revivify his dead victim, he should
have been forced to draw, in the deepest
and darkest recesses of prison, every
remaining breath of his life, and even
this punishment would have. been ten
thousand times less than he deserved.
One would suppose that the unnatural,
monstrous and devilish crime committed
by him would be the very last to which
the President of the United States would
be disposed to extend mercy; and yet
Conover is psrdoned, and no attempt is
made. IS we'll there might be none, to
explain the grounds of his pardon. But,
simultaneously with his pardon, We have,
as an Offset, perhaps, the pardon OF the
dead body of his victim. His living
body is freely handed over TO his friends,
and her dead one grudgingly given up to
hers.


How can such things be? If it was
right TO pardon Conover, is there con-
Wet on oil the face of the earth, or in
any black hole beneath the earih's sur
face, whom it is right to keep in contine-
ment? Why should not the prisons OF
the world give up their tenants as uni
versally to day as the graves will give up
theirs on the day of the resurrection 2
Louisville Courier Journal
Year: 1869

D
From the New Orleans Times.


Many strange lawsuits arise in this age
of marvels. One of these is now going
on before Judge Cooley, wherein Ger.
tain wealthy citizen, somewhat advanced
in life, is claimed as the lawful husband
of woman who sues in his name, and
asks to be admitted to the many advan-
tages in respect to property and other
matters, which are due to her position
and character as his lawful spouse and
partner in community.


Her testimony, which has already been
taken in the case, represents that some
time in the year 1912, she being then
only fourteen years of age, was met at
house in Union street by the defendant
to whom she was then and there married
by Methodist preacher of the name OF
Hurd that after their marriage she and
defendant lived together as husband and
wife, travelled as such, returned to the
city and went to housekeeping that she
had two children, were called by the
name of defendant and were recognized
by him as his sons.


The plaintiff, though closely cross
interrogated, adhered to all these facts,
and ber counsel claim to have corrobors-
ting testimony thereof. But serious
obstacle arises, an obstinate fact, which
defendant opposes to plaintiff claim,
aud that is, his previous marriage to
wife who was living at the time of his al
legged marriage to plaintiff, aud for many
years afterward. This fact being assumed
it is an interesting question as to the
status of the plaintiff.


According to the law, the second mar
riage was void by reason of the previous
and subsisiiug marriage. But it is asked
by plaintiffs counsel, "if man shall
impose himself on a woman, hold her
out to the world as his wife, live with her
for years in that relation, and then sban-
don her without recourse and without
legal claim upon bis estate 2


This question is the more interesting
in this State from the peculiar state of
our law, which recognizes the wife as
partner entitled to one-half of the assets
and gains during cohabitation. Now. if
these assets, and gains were realized
during the time the plaintiff and defend
ant were living together as husband and
wife, the law would presume that they
were the product of their joint labor,
economy, thrift and management. Isshe
not, therefore, better entitled to the same
than the lawful wife who was not an
active participant in the community 2


Bat, then, shall the lawful wife be ex-
cluded from her rights because of her
husbands abandonment Both parties
would appear to have equitable claims,
assuming the facts to be as stated; but
If each takes one-half of the community,
the husband will be stripped Of every
thing. he will cease to be a partner.
Perhaps this would be 3 just punishment
for bis polygamous tastes.


Altogether the case is one for the
proper solution of which Solomon or q
"Daniel come to Judgment" viii be
demanded.
Year: 1869

A news item, telling of a man who fell
in the Ere and was literally cooked"
says since the accident the poor fellow
has been delirinus" Same way with
holy Ben since tbsy roasted him the
other day in the House. BE couldn't
tell your spoons from his.
Year: 1869

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s neverdi disturbed.
Year: 1869

EVENING SESSIONS OF THE SESaTe.-Nr.
Stewart introduced in the Senate this n nornIng
aresolution providing that until the Constitu-
tional amendment, now before the Senate, be
disposed OF, recess be taken from four until
seven O'Clock i'm the evening There was some
discussion as to when a vote should be taken
and it seemed 10 be understood that no vote
would be taken on the amendment At the ever
ing session, and that no ether business would
be con sidered at those sessions.
Year: 1869

Whether in the young or old, married or sin.
gle, at tho dawn Of womanhood, or tho turn Of
life, these tonic medicine display 60 decided m
influence that a marked improvement il soon
perceptible in the health Of the patient. being a
purely vegetable preparation, they are n safe md
reliable remedy for all cl0sscs Of Females in cv-
cry condition Of health aud station Of life.
Year: 1869

A CHEAP BARoMErER.-A Western
paper is responsible for the following:
1t is said that cup of coffee is a sure
barometer, If you allow the sugar to
drop to the bottom OF cup and watch
the bubbles arise without disturbing
the coffee. II the bubbles collect in the
middle the weather will be fine; il they
adhere to the cup, forming q ring, It
will be rainy; and il the bubbles sepa-
rate without assuming any fixed posi-
ton, changeable weather may be e1-
noCtpd.
Year: 1869

MASQUERADE AT WHITE SULPHUR
SPR1NGs-They are going to have a
grand masquerade ball over at White
Sulphur Springs next Friday evening.
Robert E. Lee Is chief manager, and
most of his associates are ex.rebels.
Regret is expressed that Chief Justice
Chase will not be present, having gone
North. To make the thing complete
Rosecrans ought also to be there.
Year: 1869

Charge or Fraud and COrrupttOn-EE.


fort TO Delay Admission.


NEW YORK, July 20.
The Herald says Colonel Whitelsey
and number of Virginia radicals are
In Washington getting up documents
to prove that the election in Virginia
was carried by fraud. AfndavitS are
being prepared and will be placed be-
fore the reconstruction committee at
the meeting of Congress. It is hoped
by this to have the election set aside or
else have an investigation held and
delay the admission of the State.
Year: 1869

IN one of his eccentric speeches, sena-
tor Sprague said that nothing In the
world was more mean and cowardly
than a million OF dollars,-except two
millions. II this be so, what must we
think Of the generosity and pluck Of
Asa Packer, the Democratic nominee
for Governor of Pennsylvania, who Is
worth twenty millions?
Year: 1869

TIE New York Times we'll remarks
that there never can be q more favora-
BILE opportunity for reforming the char
acter of our Legislature than is offered
by the present political calm. every
nomination for the Legislature, to be
made this fall, can be and ought; to be
made with special reference to PeTsonas
inoo1THptibility." And SO we say for
our own State. si-&t s'
Year: 1869

In Teuuessee the State emigration So
ciety do not accord with themoVetnent
toward China for,laborers.. They. con-
tend that the troubleaWitha the South
has been the want of q solid middle
class. There had been until very lately
the aristocracy of planters and slave
holders on the one hand, and the slaves
and ignorant poor whites on the other
No middle class had existed to carry
forward progressive ideas and insure
social and political disability. 4
Year: 1869

IMPORTANT ENGINEERING IMPROVE
NfNr-C Cast iron tubes for wafer or gas
are now made in England by turning of
one end couically and boring out the
ends of the tubes to which it is to be fit
ted at the same angle, so that the end OF
one tube may be inserted into the other
without the addition of the ordinary ce-
ment. The junction is effected very
quickly. and the joint is perfectly tight
Pipes thirty-six inches in diameter nave
been perfectly joined in this way. LlV-
erpool has about ninety miles OF gas
pipe with this joint, and the leakage Is
said to be much less than in the other
cities.
Year: 1869

\ BRAVE WoMAN-MIrs. Eliza Col
yer, widow lady living near Apple,


ILL.,, killed wildcat few nights since
under circumstances which showed her
to be a woman Of remarkable nerve. The
house dog was making good deal of
noise back Of the garden, and on going
out to investigate she saw something
jumping from tree to tree. She returned
to the house for her lantern, and went
back to the grove, when she found that
the animal-which proved to be wild
cat OF the largest species-had engaged
the dog in combat, but Immediately on
seeing the light released itself from the
dog and made spring for Mrs Colyer,
Year: 1869

One fthe most conspicuous examples of the
inconsistency Of the better class of American
citizens we have yet seen Is furnished by the
case Of Mr. George William Curtis lately
nominated for the office o. Secretary of STATE
by the Repu blican Convention of New York.
Probably no man In the country has inveighed
more frequently CT more forcibly against the
folly and wickedness Of elevating Incompetent
or bad men TO cfiee than MIR. Curtis; yet he is
no sooner selected for a public position for
which he is preeminentIy ft-and which, il
may be added, should not be considered by
him as beneath his just aspirations in the quail.
ties OF responsibility and dignity-than he
hasteEs into print to say that sit is impossible
for me (hIm) 70 accept the nomination"


1t is quite likely th at Mr.. Curtis could have
filled the office in question only at some incon-
yenis nee and probably at some pecuniary
sacrifice TO himself. But is that the only point
10 be considered! Should not the duty which
the good citizen owes TO the community at large
also be taken into account Is it to be forever
the mission Of that class always to preach and
never to practice! II so, we may as well shu
our eyes, field our hands, and tamely submit to
the reign OF incom petents and thieves, Unless
gentlemen OF character and responsibility are
willing 10 share between them the annoyauces
and sacrifices Of attending primary elections
and holding comparatively insIgnifi can't offce
they must put up with the evils brought upon
US by rulers who are not so squeamish, and
WHO have little or nothing at stake. This les
sen, OF all others, the American people have
need TO learn IL they heed II, complaints OF
corruption III office, increased taxation, and
conse 9ueut depreciation Of property, will soon
cease to be heard. IL they do not, they will
likely continue 10 suffer until they have NO
alternative but to choose between aosolu ute ruin
and 'he sharp remedy afforded by q vigilance
Committee.
Year: 1869

The Tennessee Legislature meets to-day, ana
dispatch from Nashville says there is the
most intense feeling on the Senatorial question,
everything else being in the shade. There is a
tremendous pressure being brought to bear
against johnson.
Year: 1869




A SHILLING's WoRTH-A fellow who
came by the railroad, being a stranger,
strolled about for some time on the outskirts
OF town 10 search of barber. He finally
discovered one, and requested the operator to
take of shilliug's worth of hair. The bar.
Der trimmed his locks very neatly, soaped up
the remainder very handsomely, and then
combed and brushed him up ill his head
looked as if it belonged to some other person
than himself Are you done ? asked the
stranger, as the barber removed the napkin
from his neck. yes, SIR said the barber,
with low bow. Are you certain YOU took
Oh shilling's WORTH Yes, sir; there's a
glass, you can look for YOURSELF 'Well.'
said the stranger, If you think you have
taken shilling's worth of, don't know as
have got any change, so you may lust Axe
the hair for your trouble. On hearing tbis


the barber made jump for the man Sbsra'
upon the man made a jump for the door.
which not being bOlted, be bolted bimself
Year: 1869

A RURAL cotemporary, in an obituary no
tice of a friend, says lie was all that those
who knew him best could wish. He left
behind blessed memory and seven thousand
dollars in Government bonds.
Year: 1869

Timid and shy as frightened hare,
Who knoweth her heart or her secret thought 7
Is it lover or fancy lingering there1
Dearest OF jewels are the slowest bought
Coy as maiden the adage is old
Far better be coy than a maiden too bold
Finally won Is the wife like the maidi
Read here the answer plain as a book


trusting, in thine, soft hand is laid
Boldly 10 thine, the loving eyes look,


Alb, It is we'll and we need not be told,
" The love of my wife is more precious than


gold"
Year: 1869

The fall of rain at-ihe mouth of the Col
umbia, and at Shoalwater Bay, is still
greater by fifty per cent, than at Stella
COON, amounting to eighty.six inches in a
Year.


These remarks about the climate Ct the
Territory are intended to apply only to its
Year: 1869

THE MALE AND FEMALE HEAD.-It is
often argued that the difference between
men and women is only one of circumstan-
ces. Now take family of'childrcn, all
having the same two parents, and why is
then that there will be'a difference in tho
size and form of the heads of the boys and
girls! The circumstances are precisely
the same, and yet, OIL the very day Of birth,
the male body, head included, viii average
a size larger than the female, and the shape
of the two also will differ This difference
Of size is not matter of argument-but a
great fact.


Peacock performed great many expert
ments for the purpose of determining tho
average weight of the male and female
brain, and demonstrated that the male
brain is considerably the largest, the aver
age weight of the former being ffty ounces,
while the average weight of the latter is
only forty-four ounces. DR.. Crisis expcr-
iments in the hospital of Nuremberg exhib-
tied the same results, and they were con-
6rmcd by DIR. Bibra. Hoffman, of Sile-
sia, from seventy experiments, also proved
the average weight of the female brain to
be the lightcst. Laurel also demonstrated
by measuring over two thousand heads,
that the female head is considerably small
er, both in its diameter and circumference,
than that of the male. But why quote au-
thority on subject concerning which all
men may be posted by the use of their own
eyes? The female head is seen to be not
only smaller than the male head, but diff
ferently shaped, thereby indicating the diff.
fereut sphere in which the Almighty Crc-
ator intended woman should, move The
Intellect of man is more massive than that
of woman, fitting him for the scvercr and
and courser conflict of public life. That
of woman is more delicate and beautiful,
fitting her precisely to be the charming
priestess of home.
Year: 1869

The following is late decision from
he Internal Revenue Department:


WHEN FAILURE To AFFIx STAMP
WILL NOT ISvAIIDATE INSTRUMENT
The omission to atfix a revenue stamp
90 an instrument requiring one will not
nyalIdate an instrument. unless such
omission be with the intent to defraud
the Governments of the stamp duty"
Year: 1869

Some ofour best teachers consider khe fesd~
ing of fictitious stories almost fatal to any de e
gree of eminence in the attainment Of useful
knowledge. One Of the greatest difficulties in
in teaching, as we all know. is the absence of
curiosity. The pupil does not care to know
what the teacher has to communicate. Why?
Because his attention is pre.occupied. His
field of vision is crowded with objects more
interesting to him than those which the
teacher has to communicate. The story>read :
or lives IN . fever or frenzy. Like the lq-
uor faster, he has formed a habit and it must
be gratifed. You try solid conversation with
q regular devourer Of weekly or monthly sto>
ries, and you are met with stupidity OF astsse.
There is nothing in the mind addressed
that can make response, any moro than in a
diseased body there can be the animation Of
robust health.


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