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Year: 1865

GLAZED RIcE.-Boil some rice in bag
till quite soft, then mash it fine, add little
butter and sugar to the taste, with enough
rich milk or cream to make it as thick as
common batter. Turn it out IN deep bak-
inc dish, and after smoothing it over on the
top spread over it the yelk of an egg which


has first been Beaten light, set it in the oven'


and as soou as il /, brown serve 1t with any
| kind Of sweet sauae OF with saga ana creAul,
Year: 1865

To SEND BOILED RICE TO THE TABLE IN
THE FINEST CoND1rIoN.-Soakt it for seven
hours in cold water, to which little salt has
been added. Have stewpan ready, con-
tanning boiling water, into which put the
soaked rice, and boil it briskly for ten min
utes. Then pour it into a culender, set it
BY the fire to drain, and serve it up. The
grains will be separate and very large. Rice
should be prepared for puddings in this way.
Year: 1865

What you do, perform well, and labor tc
improve. Are you an artist? Keep il
view the high nature of your calling, emu
late the example of Raphael and Da Vinci.
Are you lawyer? Rest not satisfied with
being mere pettifogger, a collector of bills,
a pleader in the lower courts study, that
you may take higher rank. Are you a
minister? Preach well and study your sub
ject. Don't be lazy drawling pastor of a
meagre church, elevate your people and put
energy into them by your discourses there
is no reason why you should not be Bax-
ter or Bunyan, Payson or Beecher.-
Are you mechanic? Let an Albright and
Watt stimulate You never suffer an ar
ticle to go from your shop that won't bear a
scrutiny-that you would not be willing to
stamp the makers name upon. Are you q
merchant? Be attentive to your business,
understand perfectly what you are about T;
leave not your Office too much in the hands
of clerks; suffer not your accounts to go to
loose ends; let Gregor, Parker, Dana
or a Brown be your pattern. Are you
laborer? A fisherman or a clam -digger?-
Be faithful to your business and do every
thing well it is the only way to succeed.


Aim high, go beyond others, ifyou can,
but study and labor so that no one outsteps
you in your profession or business. Never
be idle, never lose moment by sloth and a
lazy spirit ''up and on should be your
motto by day and by night-year in and
wear out
Year: 1865

There is nothing sheds so fine a light upon
the human mind as candor. 1t was called
whiteness by the ancients, for its purity, and
it has always won the esteem due to the
most admirable of the virtues. However
little sought for or practiced, all do to it the
homage of their praise, and all feel the
charm and power of its influence The man
whose opinions make the deepest mark up
on his fellow man, whose influence is the
most lasting and efficient, whose friendship
is instinctively sought where all others have
proved faithless, is not the man of Brilliant
parts, or fattering tongue, or splendid
genius, or commanding power; but he whose
lucid candor and ingenious truth transmit
the hearts real feelings pure and without
refraction. There are other qualities which
are more snowy, and other traits that have
a higher place in the world code of honor,
but none wear better, or gather less tarnsh
by use, or claim deeper homage in that
silent reverence which the mind must pay
to virtue.-Green LedreS
Year: 1865

heading, without purpose, is sauntering,
n9t exercise. More is got from one book on
Which the thoughts settle, for definite end
IN knowledge, than from libraries skinned
oyer by wandering eye. A cottage flower
gives honey to the bee, King garden mono
to the butterfly. Youths, who are destined
ior active careers, or ambitious of distinction


III such paths of literature as requires fresh


ness OF invention, or originality ia thinking.
should avoid the habit Of intense study for
many hours at one time. There is point


IN ~ the tension, ofthe intellect, beyond which
EFFORTS are only waste Of strength Fresh


Iueas 90 not readily spring up within weary


euI, eraih ana whatever exhausts not only en-
ieepIcs IT'S power, but narrows its scope.
We often see men, who have overhead


at college, entering upon life as languidly "a


II they were but snails. They have not the
! yigor to cope with their own generation
TOR their own generation is too young, and
they have wasted the nervous energy which
supplies the sinews of war to youth, in its
contest for fame or fortune. Study with


regularity, at stated hours Those in the
forenoon are the best if they can be secured.
The man who has acquired the habit of
study, though only for one hour, in every
day in the year and keeps to the one thing
studied until it is mastered, will be startled
to see the way he has made at the end of
one year.


He is seldom overworked who can con-
trlve to be in advance of his work If you
have three weeks before you to learn some
thing which a man of average quickness
could learn in week, learn it the first week,
and not the third. Business despatched, is
business well done but business hurried,
is business ill-done. In learning what
others have thought, it is as well to keep in
practice the power to think for ones self,
when an author has added to your knowl-
edge, pause and think and, if possible add
to, or improve it. But, not contented to
have learned problem by heart, try and
deduce from it a corollary not in the book.
Spare no pains in collecting details before
you generalize; but it is only when details
are generalized that truth is grasped.-
The tendency to generalize is universal with
all men who achieve great success, whether
in art, literature or action
Year: 1865

\ very common form of vulgar impudence
is the staring at ladies' To do So in pub
lie place, is ungentlemanly but to avail
ones self of a vicinity, which circumstances
render unavoidable, is contemplate. The
man who will stare continually at lady
across hotel table, or in an omnibus, de.
serves to be arrested. Ignorant young mer
frequently do this under the impression thai
it is not really disagreable to the other sex
and that they are, in fact, paying a specie.
| of compliment. Could they know the wax
alton and annoyance which is often masked
under the air of calmness with which theil
insOlcnce is received, they would think diff.
ferently. | have heard at hotel of instan-
ces in which ladies delayed their meals for
hours subjected themselves to annoyances,
and even left the house in order to avoid the
presence of some conceited puppy, who
possibly, imagined that he was recommend
ing himself to their good graces.
Year: 1865

To ask an unmarried lady how old she is.
To ask lawyer if he ever told lie.


To ask doctor how many persons he has
killed.


To ask a minister whether he ever did
anything very wrong.


TO ask merchant whether he had ever
cheated customer.
To ask young lady whether she would
like beau.


To ask an editor the name of any of his
correspondents.
To ask a subscriber if he has paid the
printer,


To ask a printer if he has got more than
one shirt. .-Akron Beacon.
Year: 1865

As two urchins were trotting along to-
gether, one Of them fell and broke pitcher
he was carrying. He began crying when
the other boy asked him why he took on so.


Cause" said he, when | get home
mother will whip me for breaking the mug"


What said the other, 'hain't you got
no grandmother living at your house p


No was the reply


''Well, | have, and / might break two
mugs and they daren't whip me. "


A physician, examining his student as to
his progress in medicine and surgery asked
him IF man should fall into well
forty feet deep, and strike his head against
one of the tools with which he had been
digging the well; what would be. your
course, ifcalled in as a surgeOn?' Student
Il should advise them to let the man lie,
and fill up the well. "


Ton HOOP called the slamming of
door, by person in passion g wooden
oath. Most men swear by word or deed,
and there is, perhaps, no particular differ
ence in the sinfulness of the two modes.


RHEUMATIsM-Ac correspondent of the
Germantown Telegraph recommends the
application of kerosene oil to the parts af-
fected by rheumatism, as an effectual rem
edy far this painful complaint


In darkness and silence rest the dead
children in the arms of the cold mother; but
at last, when the sun of eternity rises, they
shall arise, and she, too, shall bloom again.


Why is the rise in cotton like the siege of
fort? Because it reduces the breast
works.


The man that forgets a great deal that
has happened, has better memory than he
who remembers great deal that never hap
pened.


Young men who wish to rise in the world
must rise early in the morning.


Society, like shaded silk, must be viewed
in all situations, or its colors will deceive
you.


Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it
is almost as beautiful, and thousand times
as true.


Be kind and obhging to all, but be init.
mate only with the good. Thus you will
gain esteem and offend nobody.


Good nature, like the little busy bee, col
lects sweetness from every herb; while i'll
nature, like the spider, collects poison from
honeyed flowers.


A LADY, while eating oysters at a saloon
in Chicago, found pearl in shell which
the jewellers pronounce worth $3.50. Fat
oyster" that.
Year: 1865

In making butter there are several nice
operations to be gone through with which
require an eye to cleanliness, forethought
and some little experience.


|. On milking clean, fast, yet gently,
regulary twice day, depends the success
of the dairyman. Bad mixers should not
be tolerated in herd 1t is better to pay
double price for good ones


.. Straining is quite simple, but it
should be borne in mind that two pans about
half full each will produce greater amount
of cream than the same amount of milk in
but one pan. The reason of this is the
greater surface.


8. Scalding is quite an important feature
in the way of making butter in cool wealth
er. The cream rises much quicker, the
milk keeps much longer, the butter is of a
better color, and it churns in one half the
time.


4. Skimming should always be done be-
fore the milk is loppered otherwise much
of the cream turns into whey and is lost.


5. Churning whether done by hand OF
otherwise, should occupy forty or fifty
minutes.


6. Washing in cold, soft water is one Of
its preserving qualities, and should be con-
tinued until it shows no color of the milk
ny tHc uSc VI luc luulc. cry udTu water
is highly charged with lime, and must, in
measure, impart to it its alkaline prop
critics.


I. Sailing is necessarily done with the
best kind of ground salt the quantities
vary according to the state it is taken from
the churn-if soft, more if hard, less-al-
ways taking taste for the surest guide.


s. First working, after about twenty
four hours, is for the purpose of giving it
greater compactness.


9. Second working takes place at time
of packing, and when the butter has dis
solved the salt, that the brine may be work
ed out.


10. Packing is done with the hands, or
with butter null; and when butter is put
into wooden vessels they should be soaked
two or three days in strong brine before
using. After each packing cover the butter
with wet cloth, and put layer of salt up
on it. In this way the salt can easily be
removed by simply taking taking hold of
the edges of the cloth


Butter made in this way will keep any
length of time required.
Year: 1865

That the war is becoming more and more
unpopular every day. is a fact now so palpa-
bic as to require no evidence to prove it
heretofore, opposition to the war was al
most exclusively confined to the Democrats
or "CoDperheads," as they were called by
the sclf-styled ''loyalists But now, how
ever, we find that some of the men who
voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and
again voted for him in 1864 are speaking
as bitterly against the war; as ever did the
rebel sympathisers We have not heard
ofa single Loyal Lacquer" in Knox county
who has expressed a willingness to respond
to the Presidents late call for 300 900
more by volunteering to "put down this
rebellion. But, on the contrary, we have
heard of quite number of them who are
cursing poor Old Abe in the most shameful
manner, and who declare that they have
given their last dollar for the purpose of
carrying the war on. They say they have
been led long enough in the way of paying
enormous bounties to get townships out OF
the !draft-thc call upon them being one
continuous demand, like the mother of the
horse leech, Of give give give !"


We heard the other day Off Loyal Lea
from the draft on the ground that he had
lost most of his teeth, and could not there
fore 'bite cartridge The gentleman to
whom the application was made, was one Of
a committee appointed to correct the enroll
ment in his township. ''You appear to en-
joy good health" said the committeeman,
you say you are only thirty-nine years of
age. and believe you voted for Mr. Lin
cOln"-"d-n Abe Lincoln, was the instant
and angry reply Of the Loyalist, 81 ac-
knowledge being guilty of that sin, but if
God forgives me for it, | solemnly promise
not to commit such an act of folly and wick
edness again. .u


This incident illustrates the present feel
ing of the Loyal Leaguers" towards the
war. Not one of them is willing to become
food for gunpowder;' and many of them
are unwilling to pay another dollar to induce
others to fight for them. Indeed, so far as
we can hear, the Democrats every where are
taking the lead in raising money with which
to make up the quotas assigned to the diff
ferent townships, under the late call.


That Democrats should complain of the
constant demands Of Abraham Lincoln for
fresh subjects for slaughter, is the most
natural thing in the world but for ''loyal'
Abolitionists to utter word of complaint
is to us unaccountably strange. BY voting
for Abraham Lincoln they indorsed all his
war measures" including emancipation,
confiscation, negro equality, more drafts,
more destruction of human life, more ruin
and beggary, more wailing widows and
orphans. They are now getting precisely
what they voted for, and have no right to
complain. The pill is bitter and nauseating,
we admit, but it is pill of their own making
and they must swallow it, nolenS volens =
M Vernon Banner.


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HAPPINESS without health is not impos
Year: 1865

A sick cobber must be regarded as being
well when he begins to mend.


Much credit, little faith much ore, little
gold many words, little work.


To the contemplative soul there is no lit
tleness. The least of things is infinite.


Mortified Pride often takes the name and
guise of broken heart.


We use riches as children use toys-to
amuse us till we fall asleep.


A great man is most calm in storms, q
little one most stormy in calms.


III women do the greater part Of the talk
ing, they also do the better part of it.
Year: 1865

The AUTUMN LE,vEs.-What are you doing
with themf Do you let the wind blow them
hither and thither? Do you know they are
we'll worth gathering, saving and using? To-
day, during ride. we saw German women TAX
ing them up by the roadside and filling bags
with them. A wagon stood near, and they
were to be taken to the suburban gardens to
help mako early and crisp vegetables for the
city folks. The Germans are systematic econ
omists. They know that these leaves contain
inorganic matter necessary to. plants-that it
cannot be got so easily and abundantly in any
other form--tbat for compost, litter for hog
pens, horse stables, sheep sheds, ETC., there is
nothing better that for use in hot-bcds in
spring they are worth ten times tho cost Of
gathering. And there are many farmers who
will pay great deal moro for foreign fertil-
izer which will not yield them 90 much real
profit as the leaves that cover the ground and
which may be had for the gathering. Gather,
store, and use the autumn leaves. ...
Year: 1865

DEw.-It is very common error to suppose
that dow falls In the Same manner as rain or


mist. only In much finer particles. A very
slight observation will suffice to show that dew


Is not thus formed for Il Is often deposited on


the sides and on the under part Of blades OF
grass and other substances, as we'll as on their
upper surfaces. It 10 formed 10 fact, by the
condensation Of the moisture Of the atmosphere.
II bottle Is brought from cool cellar in the
summer, copious deposition Of dew takes
place on It's outer surface. rfa sudden hail
storm drives against the window, dew Is often
deposited on the inner surface. In these and
similar instances, the surface exposed to the
air Is colder than the air itself. And since !.
Is found that heat always passes from hotter
body to one that Is colder, the invisible vapol
Of water in tho atmosphere, immediately Ia
contact with the glass, loses part Of tho hea'
which 10 necessary In order to keep IL state
Of vapor, and is condensed or reduced to tht
form Of water. Y ., ...,.-...- al ,e.n.ss.
Year: 1865

n Give your swine charcoal. Its nutri.ive
qualities are such that they subsist on II fol
weeks together without other food. Geese
when confined so rs to deprive them Of motion
and fed on small quantity Of corn mixed with
charcoal, have become fat in eight days. Hog.
eat II voraciously after little time, and are
never sick while they have good supply. I,
should bo always kept in the sty, and fed to
the inmates regularly like oil other food.
Year: 1865

CURE FOR In GROWING NALs.-It is
stated that cauterization by hot tallow is an
immediate cure for in growing nails. Put a
small piece of talow in spoon, and heat
it over lamp until it becomes very hot and
drop two or threo drops between nail and
granulations. The effect is almost magical


Pain and tenderness are at once relieved
and in q few days the granuations all 90,
leaving the diseased parts dry, and destitute
of all feeling, and the edge of the nail ex.
posed, SO as to admit of being pared away
without any Inconvenience. The operation
causee little If any pain, If tho iallow is
properly heated '-GermantO,ca Telegraph.
Year: 1865

Dick Turner, the most tloody- minded and
atrocious of the jani.ors of the LIbby Prison,
is now an innate of that place. Like all
cruel men when in power he is coward when
in peril, and a letter from Richmond describes
him to be perfect sample of Fagin, the jew,
whose feelings while under condemnation are
so terribly depicted by Dickens in his " Oil
yer Twist" Turner denies his identity,
which is sure, as thousands testify very wil-
lingy. They 60 in succession to his cell door
and tsunt him with his crimes, and glory in
his downfall One man spas in his face few
days ago. This Turner shot several men
dead when they went to a window to get a
mouthful Of fresh air, kicked, knocked down,
starved and shsmefully maltreated others F;
and, as everybody VII, ever was under his
government says, is a 6end for whom hanging
is too good, That will, however, be his
doom, for he is to be tried for murder and the
evidence against HIM would condemn him a
hundred times.
Year: 1865

The Argus man flew into foolish passion
because, in the most delicate manner possi-
BILE, we reported the fact that a file of soldiers
called upon him and induced him to put out
a flag. But it was true, every word, the facts
being given to us by the soldiers, Now let
the Argus man quarrel with them, il he dare
do it. 1t is not brave in him to attack us,
when he knows perfectly we'll that if we could
we would not touch him with the tip end oi
the north pole.
Year: 1865

A correspondent Of the New York World
makes the following observations on the
condition he 6nds- the people OF Southwestern
Virginia:


He 6ods much suffering, The battle fields
and pathways OF the arrnies constitute one
asst tract of desolation and but little mas bee n
done in the way OF restoration Whilst ac-
knowledging the freedom of their slaves the
late masters in a convention resolved that il
wou Id be better for the slaves 10 remain and
work for their late masters until a better
arrangement could be made that they would
not employ negro without consent of his
former owner that all civil officers be re-
quested TO take the oath so ss TO enable them
10 resume the functions OF their offices and
pledging themselves to employ all slaves who
will properly demean themselves, and refuse
employment TO the idle and vicious Lynch
burg, though never the so9ne OF strife, looss
shabby aud forbdd,ng There is more
tobacco In store there than in any other city


the Union, and there is much in the
surrounding country Among the people
there az some petty manifestations OF spite
leit, but as general rule the fraternity is more
C Wplete than could have been expected The
upper classes ere moody, silent an sulen
Toe merchants and small farmers seem TO
think their whole urseofreasouing may have
been defective Some OF The more ardent
rebels are certain that If the North could see
the results Of its Emancipation policy ii
would undo il -
Year: 1865

FAMILY COURTEsIEs-I tho family
the law of pleasing ought to extend from
tho highest TO the lowest. You arc bsund
to please your children; and your chill
dren are bound to please each other; and
you are bound to please your servants, if
you expect them to please you. Some
men are pleasant in the household aud
nowhere else. have known such men.
They are good fathers aud kind husbands.
If you had seen them in their own house
you would have thought that they were
angels, almost; but if you had seen them
on the street, or in the store, or anywhere
else out of the house, you would have
thought them almost demoniac. But
the opposite is apt to be the case. When
We are among our neighbors, or among
strangers, We hold ourselves with self
respect and endeavor to act with propri.
ETY.; but when we get home We say to our.
selves: Il have played a part long
enough, and am now going to be natural
so We sit down, and We are ugly, aud
suappisb, and blunt, and disagreeable. -


We lay aside those thousand little cour.
tesies that mako tho roughest floor
smooth, that makes the hardest thing
like velvet, and that makes life pleasant.
We expend all our politeuess in places
where it will be pro6table-where it will
bring silver aud gold.
Year: 1865

THE MOTHER OF HARoLD.-There is
q singular fact with relation to the great
conspiracy which has heretofore escaped
publicity. Tho mother of Harold who
was to assassinato Gen Grant, is strong
Uuionist, and had many times protested
against her sons secession tendencies.
After his part in the assassination plot
became known, she stiffled all the nat
ural feelings of mother, and resolutely
said she had tried in vain to teach him
better counsols, and now he must take
the result of his wicked conduct without
expecting sympathy from her Although
his sisters visited him frequently during
Year: 1865

the requisite intelligence and patriotism
to be intrusted with q participa 10
the management of public ,ffairs, State or
National, without regard to their nation.
ality, as I do not believe that tho liberty
of any class Of people can be considered
safe, who are to be permantly deprived
Of the exercise Of this right.


I do not disguise these opinions; you
may therefore make what use Of this
letter you may deem proper.


have the honor to be,


Very respectfully,


Your obi serv't,


JAS. HARLAN.
Year: 1865

bis imprisonment, and did all in their
power to secure pardon for him, his
mother would do neither, but maintain.
ed her singular resolution with more
than Spartan 6rmness to the last
Springfield Republican.
Year: 1865

FAST RUoY.-One of the buoys left by the
Great Eastern TO mark where the Atlantic
cable parted, was lately seen by vessel in
longitude "a 48, over 500 miles east Of the
point where it was planted, which was in
Longitude 40 3s. That is nearly as good
time rs the Great Eastern herself can make
The intention Of those who left it in mid
ocean was to make the buoy fast, and they
seemed to have succeeded beyond the most
sanguine expectations"


Guess that boy" is carrying back the
broken end Of the cable 10 tho coast of Ire
land. ....
Year: 1865

The Board of Equalization consumed to-
day in listening to evidence in relation to
the taxes of the Pacific Railroad. At the
time of going to press the Board had not
decided The question.