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Year: 1874

We were q little surprised during a
recent trip in the country to find that
the celebrated illiterate venders of
English cloths'' had been again this
season plying their business successful
ly through this State. These same
men, or at least some of the same kit
were thoroughly advertised in this Sec
tion Of the State last fall, and the only
conclusions that one can come to are
that either these people do not read the
newspapers, or, if they read them, do
not believe them.


Men who were swindled last year
went to the trouble Of publishing cards
Of warning over their own signature,
yet these oily chaps seem to have # und
about the same number of victims as
usual. Those of whose operations We
have heard this year sold their goods
by lots or packages and could not pos
sibly part with less than seventy dollars
worth Of goods at any one time. These
goods were a bankrupt stock, AS usual,
and had come through the lines with.
out paying duty.


The getting goods into the country
without paying duty is always a
strong point with these sharpers.
These venders are generally good
takers, shrewd, and understand human
nature; and they know by instinct
when they have found man who has a
weakness for things that have been
obtained for less than their value, by
the violation Of law, and they are al
ways ready to take such into their con.
fidence by sly wink.


The goods that have been sold in this
portion Of the State by these sharpers
have proved no exception to the gen.
eral rule. While there has been once in
a while good article of cloth in a
package, the greater part has been
worthless. Men who have goods to sell
for less than their real value can always
find q ready sale for them without cart
ing them around over the country, and
if such goods have been obtained by
dishonest means, as notifying as it may
be to admit, there are generally men to
be found in the trade who will take
them before they reach the consumer.


1t is the best way to give all these
bummers the cold shoulder, not to per-
init them to spread out their fine lin.
ems, and silks, and clothes, and to spin
their line yarns, and then there is no
danger Of being wheedled into buying
what you do not want, or more than
you want, because you think you are
getting it cheap, and waking UP to the
Notifying fact that you have paid
three prices for all that you got.


1t is better anyway to buy Of respon.
sible parties near home, whom you
know. s..s., l....>


As IN exchange says, in speaking on
this subject .,yt =..s !.


You had far better 80 to the nearest wool
en- nnanuf1ctory and buy your goods sllch
~ You 1eed-of man who has . reputation
Year: 1874

Shave from the cob, then pack in
stone jar or other earthen vessel i'm
pervious to light, beginning with about
half an inch Of salt in the bottom of
the jar; then pack closely from three
to four inches of corn; then another
layer of salt from quarter to half an
inch, and so continue until you reach
the top of the jar, where you will put
about one inch of salt; then cover the
jar with anything that will keep out
the dirt, and you have a good article
for the table any time during the
year, by soaking short time in cold
water before using.
Year: 1874

A NEW invention has just been tried 10 Paris
which is said to reuder drowning thing OF the
past 1t consists in the employment OF pneu-
matic Indian rubber tube rolled round the
body with a sufficient number OF folds to con-
tain the necessary amount OF air. Ibis tube is
placed concealed in double envelope forming
il shirt 1t terminates by mouth piece, which
shuts with the aid of a simple copper button.
The operation is simple in the extreme, and
tile swimmer or immersed person has enough
air for whole day. When the apparatus
comes to diminish in volume it is easy to ex


pand it again by the principal tube IN deep
water without any effort or difficulty The trial


wa, witnessed at the Henry the Fourth Baths,
when the inventor, NJ. Gosse!ip, showed its
properties. He stood upright, the hands raised
above the head, when the water did not come
above the shoulders; he then t1oa,ed on his back
with arms crossed The apparatus eau be worn
under the clothes like a iaunel wastcoat. 1t
extends from the neck to the knees, fastened III
front by a row Of buttons 1t is composed Of
4 double haunel, in he midst of which an In
dian rubber tube circulates, starting from the
top OF the chest, ascending the lett side OF the
neck, and following the central line OF the back;
there it divides 10 TWO brauches eDclrclDg the
thighs as far as the knees. From the central
part Of the principal tube twelve to fifteen


lesser tubes d!verge to make the round OF the
body and meet 10 front where the row OF buttons
is. This Improvement on the lite belt Is said to
be certain to superSede all existing appliances


in teaching swimming or saving life from snip
wreck.
Year: 1874

The Providence Journal refers to the
careless facility with which clergymen
often perform the marriage ceremony
for any man who comes with woman
on his arm and fee in his hand, and
thinks it was mistake to repeal the old
law which required the publication OF
the banns of marriage. An exception
to the custom to which it alludes is the
following:


This matter is brought to our notice
by the very proper conduct of a clergy
man of this city, who was waited upon
last week by two candidates for matri-
moniaL felicity, and, in the course Of the
inquiries which he deemed it proper to
make of them, he readily discovered that
the man was decidedly under the inhu-
ence of strong liquor, and he told him
that he would not marry him. Why
not?" stammered the expectant bride
groom. Because you are drunk; come
here sober, and will decide whether /
will marry you or not; but in your pres
ent condition you are not fit to enter
into so solemn an engagement. The
man refused to leave till the ceremony
was performed; but he found that the
minister belonged to the church militant,
and made hasty retreat, with boot
close behind him. Doubtless he found
somebody to marry him.
Year: 1874


From the New York Sun. Nov. III


In the green room of the grand opera
house at 10 o'clock yesterday morning,
seated on the chairs and sofas and lean
ing against the walls, were over four
hundred beautiful girls. An advertise
ment in yesterdays Sun for 1900 more
comely young maidens for the new
Black Crook" had called this assem-
blage together bright and early, each
would-be fairy hoping for lucrative
station in the line of beauty. As they
filed past the manager one by one, each
had some special qualification. One
had been on the stage in Niblo's Thea
ter, and would like to go on again, if
she could get place in the front line,
"but you known couldn't afford TO take
back seat-not me-" Another would
take hand" she said, "if she could
get enough pay to keep her little sister.
A faded little old woman, in a suit OF
faded black, hobbled up to the window
and begged for place in one Of the back
rows. A saucy little mink with flashy
red scarf was all there, all there was OF
her-if they wanted her they could have
her." And they did want her, for she
was beautiful. Next letter Of recon-
mendation from San Francisco troupe
was raised up to the window by a mite OF
body, with jaunty parasol on her arm
and a satchel in her hand. A pretty
miss of thirteen, neatly dressed, with a
pink in each cheek, was tenderly taken
into the office, where she might not be
iostled by the crowd. Then followed a
dozen or so of the fair to middling,"
one or two extra superGne," and a long
file of the common.places, the astnte
manager meanwhile taking his choice
and making his selections with the skill
of an old stager.


At last the green.room was empty
the sylphs had disappeared and the
manager sat in his furnished Office to en-
Joy a good cigar.


"How did you manage to collect so
many girls who wish to go on the stageY
asked the reporter. :. ,


"Oh, that was easily dole, replied
the manager; -four lines in this morn
ings Snn did it. l have answered 42O
applicants, a little over 100 applicants
for each line of advertising. would
have been glad to give them all work,
but too many you'd crowd the dressing
rooms"


These girls. Of course, are only for
show. Where do you find your artistes
who do the singing and the dancing2'


I'VE make special contracts with
them. Some of the best operatic talent
in America will be presented in the new
Black Crook" To a good dancer we
pay $35 a week. The singers get more.
To these girls who have not been on the
stage we pay $40 week"
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the New York
Herald suggests a b" simple method Of
controlling runaway horses" A run
ming moose, made with small strong
cord, is to be put over the horses neck,
the eoatrolling end OF the string passing
into the carriage. When the horse at
tempts to run away or to do anything
else which he ought not to do, the driver
has simply to pull the cord, choke the
horse for a minute or two" and he will
necessarily stop for want of breath
The author Of this device says "the phi
losophy Of the operation IS very Obyi-
ous.h 1t is not only obvious but old.
The same philosophy years ago, recon-
mended an intaliible method of prevent
ing a dog from going mad, viz, the cut.
ting off Of the end of his tail-close up
to bis ears. Nay, the operation itself is
now in use In some Western States, for
preventing men from running away with
other peoples horses.
Year: 1874

To one peck of ripe tomatoes, add one tea
cup full of salt; three tablespoontuls of black
pepper; two do alspice; one large red pepper,
trerh from the garden; four large onions,
chopped fine; one teacup of brown sugar
one quart of vinegar. Pour boiling water
on the tomatoes to remove the skins, then cut
up in pieces or mash in your fingers, add the
above ingredients, and boil two hours in a
large porcelain kettle Add teacup of Gel.
cry seed if llged, and then mash it through
n common colander. Put on the fire again,
and let it come to boil, then bottle while
hot, and seal the bottle, although it will keep
a long time If only corked, without being
sealed. Dry all that will not pass through
the colander for soupin the winter; but mash
all through that will go, as it makes the cat.
sup richer and thicker The above catsup
know will keep year, and have no doubt
would keep two or three years, as mine is
just as good now as when | put it up last
summer, and many of the bottles were merely
cOrked. | boiled it longer than two hours,
making 1t very dark and when put through
the colander, so thick and almost jelly-lke
that it has to be shaken out of the bottles
AmyricHB Ag19culturaSt.
Year: 1874

one Of the great advantages Of 1atu!aI pas-
pastures is, there are varieties following each
other, so that there is always prottA,ion OF
young and tempting herbagc for all kinds OF
animals; then another great dcsideralum Is
gained by a crop always sure without any
plowing or cultivation or seed; and this sav.
ing of labor and wearing OF implements is
important in this country of dear manual
help. America might be IA very great sheep
country, and instead of buying wool, might
sell il to bring in more than all the corn does,
and it is positively certain, if talf the land
now in cultivation was put into grass, and
brought up to "A proper state of fertility, and
the half of all new land was held inviolablc,
the moiety which was under cultivation for
the growth of corn and grain would produce
more than double per acre, on account of the
more careful working of the soil and the in.
creased quantity of manure obtainable
through the keeping CT so much more live
stock for when pastures and mowings have
become once established on good fertile
ground, it Is a wonderful assistance to arabic
land to have and equal quantity of grass land
on the farm. -h0cheSter Democrat.
Year: 1874

A FARMERS EXPERIENCE.--That success
of farming is experience.


That to ask a mans advice is not STOPPING,
but often of much benefit.


That to keep place for everything and ev.
erything IN It's place saves many step, and is
pretty sure to lead to good tools and to keep
them in good order.


That ii is good thing to grow into farming
and not to jump into it.


That kindness to stock, like good shelter,
is saving of fodder.


That by making home pleasant you keep
your boys out Of the city.
That to fight weeds is to favor grain, and
to do justice to your neighbsrs.


That it is a good thing to keep an eye open
to experiments, and to note all, both good and
bad.


That it is a good, paying thing TO take pa
pers, keep posted, and be sociablc with the
neighbOrs.
Year: 1874

THE New SKIRT STYLE IN BALL Room
Low neckS and short sleeves seemed to be
entirely out of style even at the hops and
balls. We saw only two ladies with uncov-
cred arms, and they were the observed of all
observers. The grand feature, however,
which took the place Of the decOlcttc style
was the stra.ing of the skirts over the hip
into a bunch on the back of the dress. This
fashion was carried to a ridiculous extreme,
and the great effort of the ultra-fashionists
was TOO look as lean and lanky as possible.
How some of them managed to walk IN such
tight-iiting harness was difficult to mag
inc, how they managed to dance was incom.
prehensible. This foolish fashion displayed
its most absurd features in the dancing hall.
We watched the movements of young vic
tim during waltz, whose dress was a pink
silk with white muslin oyerdreSs Her
skirts were so tightly drawn back, and her
limbs so painly outlined, that If it had not
been for her train and the bunchcd-up mass
resting on her back, we should have doubted
if she had anything on. We must not expect
fashion without folly, and, this year, the alb.
surdity consists in covering the neck and
arms and making a cOmpensating exhibition
of the hips and limbs. There is no objection
to the fashion carried to moderate extent ;
for it is surely more classic than the hoops
that have borne sway for years and that
make monstrosty of the human form dl-
vine - Pr0Didence Journal Saratoga Letter.
Year: 1874

How TO Cook CoRNED BEEF. Don't boil
it, for corned beet should never be boiled. 1t
should only simmer, being placed on a part
of the range or stove where this process may
go on uninterruptcdly from four to six hours,
according to the size of the pieces. If is to
be served, let the meat remain in the liquor
until cold. Tough meat can be made tender
by letting it remain in the liquor until the
next day, and then bring it to the boiiHg
point just before serving.
Year: 1874

Gather your grapes when quite ripe and
pack them in sawdust, using instead OF boxes
common nail kegs from a hardware store
After carefully packing the kegs, bury them
in trench dug in high ground, beneath a
shed where the rain can neither fall nor soak
in. Be careful TO dry the sawdust in an oven
before using it. In this way grapes, after be.
ing buried for months, are as sweet and finely
favored as if fresh from the vines, The pro
cess is cheap and can be easily tested.
Year: 1874

WISTERING CADBAGE.-To keep cabbage
through the winter, pack in sawduSt in the


barn and allow the whole to freeze, the saw
dust being such nOnconductor of heat that
once it becomes frozen through, it will not
thaw out until well into April, and cabbage
will come oat almost as nice as when put in,
Year: 1874

To AVOID GREASY BCTTER.-Churn with
pressure instead of friction. The dash churn
brings butter by pressure and makes Letter
butter than most other kinds of churns. But
ter should also be worked by pressure instead
Of friction. The ladc or worker should not
be drawn across the butter, but pressed down
upon it-RH1ui Ne,c Yorker.
Year: 1874

FATrENING HoGs.-Hogs intended tor fat
tening should be pushed now. \ pound of
corn now will lay on more fat than pound
and half in cold weather Besides, early
pork pays better usually than that made in
winter The butchers want light pigs,
and will pay fairly for them. Give the swine
plenty OF water and shade, but not much
range
Year: 1874

KEEPING WINTER APPLEs.-A member OF
the Michigan Pomological Society stated at
the late Adrian meeting that he was very sue
cessful in keeping winter apples, and had
had sound, fresh fruit in May, by the follow
ing treatment: He picks the fruit in October
and places it in heaps in the orchard, cover
ing them with hay. These heaps remain un,
touched till December the slight moisture of
the earth and a few inches Of hay preventing
any injury to the apples, even during sharp
freezes. They arc then assorted and packed
in barrels which, after heading up, are plac-
ed in a cold cellar which is kept at a tempe,
rature of about 33', and if it should happen


to be few degrees lower for short time, the
protection of the barrels will prevent injury.
Year: 1874

LAYING HENs.-Treat hens kindly if you
want them to lay eggs. y pcttcd hen Is a
singing hen, ana singing hen Is invariably
laying one. The housewife who feeds her
flock of dozen petted fowls out OF her
apron, Will have eggs to spare; when her
neighbor, who counts his hens by the hun
dred, but pelts them about his premises with
sticks and stones, and sets the dog on them
whenever he catches them in tables, will not
have eggs for his own use. Avoid chasing
or frightening fowls, it injuries them. If you
want to kill take them quietly from the roOst
at night and allow them neither to hutter or
scream to disturb the rest II YOU do not
want to kill them the same evening, put them
in coop, or other suitable place, where they
can be had next morning without further
trouble. -LdEcdstCr Fdrmcr.
Year: 1874




The Popular Science Monthly for
March says: I assume that there is
no point of view to be regarded as be-
longing to the deceased person, and
that no one believes that the dead has
any interest in the matter. We who
live may anxiously hope-as I should
hope, at least-to do no evil to sur
vivors after death, whatever we may
have done of harm to others during life.
But, being deceased, take it we can
have no wishes or feelings touching
this subject. What is best to be done
with the dead is, then, mainly a ques-
tiOn for the living, and to them it is
one of extreme Importance. When the
globe was thinly peopled, and when
there were no large bodies of men liv-
ing in close neighborhood, the subject
was an incOnsiderable one and could af-
ford to wait, and might indeed be left
for its solution to sentiment Of any
kind. But the rapid increase of popI-
lation forces it irto notice, and especi-
ally mans tendency to live in crowded
cities. There is no necessity to prove,
as the fact is too patent, that our pres
ent mode of treating the dead, namely,
that by burial beneath the soil, is full
of danger to the living. Hence intra-
mural interment has been recently for
hidden, the first step in aseries of reforms
which must follow. At present we who
dwell in towns are able to escape much
evil by selecting a portion of ground
distant-in this year of grace 1873
some five or ten miles from any very
populous neigborhoOd, and by sending
to be buried there-lRying by poison
nevertheless, it is certain, for our
children's children, who Will find
your remains polluting their water
sources, when the now distant plot is
covered, as it will be, more or less
closely, by human dwellings. For it
can be a question of time only when
now every waste spot will be utilized
for food-production or shelter, and
when some other mode of disposing of
the dead than that of burial must be
adopted. If, therefore, burial IN the
soil be certainly injurious either now
or in the future, has not the time al
ready come to discuss the possibility of
replacing it by a better process We
cannot to soon cease to do evil and
learn to do we'll. Is it not indeed a
social sin of no small magnitude to
SOW the seed o. disease and death
broadcast, caring only to be certain that
they cannot do much harm to our own
generation 1t may be granted, to an
ticipate objection, that it is quite pos
sible that the bodies now buried may
have lost most, if not all, their power
of doing mischief by the time that the
particular soil they inhabit Is turned
mp again to the suns rays, although
this is by no means certain but it is
beyond dispute that the margin of
safety as to time grows narrower year
by year, and that pollution of wells
streams which supply the living must
ere long arise wherever I'VE bury our
dead in this country"
Year: 1874

This is the latest attainment ia surgi-
cal science. An exchange describes the
new process If a limb is 10 be am
putated, for instance, the surgeon be-
gins by administering an@ sthetics, as
usual, and the patient being reduced
to a comatose state, he takes q long,
elastic bandage, and, beginning at the
toes, wraps it around the limb very
tightly, each successive tuIn overrap
ing the former at least one-balf, until
the entire limb below, and four or five
inches above, the place of amputation
is completely enveloped. This forces
all the blood in the limb upward, be-
yond the point of incision. When this
is accomplished, a piece of flexible rub
Der tube is wound tightly around MEM
Der just at the upper edge of the band
age and secured by knots This pre-
vents the blood from returning, and it
only remains necessary to remove the
elastic bandage below, in order to
be ready for the amputation. No blood
follows the knife, and the operator can
see to perform his work as well rs If
carving round of beefsteak. When
the work is completed, and all the arte-
ries tied, the tube is Ioosened for the
purpose of letting IN the blood, IN or
der to discover any twig-arterieB not yet
fastened. BY this method the patient
not only does not lose any blood from
above the wound, but even that below
is retained in the veins, leaving much
greater strength in the body to recover
from the shock than where the usual
hemorrhage occurs. It is thought that
this method may be also utilized to
avoid the administration of aL@sthe-
tics, which are so much, though as a
rule unnecessarily feared. The very
tight elastic bsndage several inches
above the incision, it is believed, dead
ems the nerves of sensation to such an
extent that the operation can be per-
formed without great pein to the sub
iect, even though not under the inhu-
ence of ether.
Year: 1874

Tell person that you are perfectly
willing 70 make bet with him that he
cannot see through water, say, in 3 tum-
bier, though he prepare the vessel for
the experiment, provided he follows
your directions, which shall in no way
interfere with his vision, nor will you
touch tho glass after he has once depoe-
tied It. This viii give rise 20 some
quibble, and yoa viii be accused Of
wanting to "put something IN, etc. /;
all these you can stoutly deny. and pro-
ceed to the experiment, which simply
consists IN placing a tumbler Of water
in an elevated posItion-say, on q chair
placed on q table-snd directing your
friend to look up through the water et
the ceiling IN an oblique direction,
when, instead Of seeing what is above
the water, he viii zee the reflection OF
those objects which are on the other
side Of the glass and level with him.
The explanation Of this is that there
is always an angle at which you get to-
tai reflection Ia E transparent medium ;
this is very Pretiily seen At the large
aqueria.
Year: 1874

Recent evidence about the last allied
war against China shows that at the
taking of the summer palace one build
ing was full of silks, the produce of a
tax which requires every manufacturer
to send in the first piece he makes of
each sort. A part of these was used in
stead of ropes, which were wanted to
picket the French horses. Then there
was a palace full of drawings, a series
of four thousand, illustrating the whole
history of China. The soldiers, ignor-
ant of their value, trod them under foot
and used them for kindling fires.
Scarcely two hundred were saved. Then
there was the carrisge palace, in which
were found the magnificent coaches
which were presented to the emperor of
China by the English embassy in 1918.
Since then they had never been used.
The iron work was loose, and the leather
had become IS hard and brittle as wood.
One palace was fall Of furs.