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Year: 1877

In the decline of life, as the vigor of the system wanes, and intirmities attack it to which in early life it was & stranger, the use of a safe medicinal stimulant is highly advis- able. Nothing, as experience shows. is SC ad- mirably adapted to the wauts of old people as Hostetter's Stomach Bit,ers. It Is real solace to the aged, and the best safeguard they can possibly use against the complaints to which they are peculiarly liable. It invigorates the body and cheers the mind, is pure. agreeable and effective. Rheumatism, lumbago and gout are more frequently developedi in age than in youth or middle life. Hostetter's Bitters are an excellent remedy for those painful dis orders, and also fortify the system against them. They never create undue excitement, are gentle in their action, and are infinitely purer than the unmedicated stlmulants of commerce..
Year: 1877

ROAST SPRING LAMB.-Select hind quarter of spring lamb; remove the spine carefully without injuring the filbets, cover the outer part with the leafy fat from the inside, tie with strings and roast in a moderate oven for an hour; take off the strings, dish up, drain off the fat and make gravy with the drippings, strain over the lamb, add a paper cuff to the handle :; bone; and serve with a~bowl of mint sauce. E
Year: 1877

MILK-MADE DEssERTs.-Among the many dishes of which milk is the standard material none require 1t more than desserts. We are SO fond of some- thing, as the children would say, to leave a pleasant taste in the mouth, that our dinners do not seem complete with out a concluding delicacy. Desserts add but a trif1e to housekeeping ex- penscs, especially those simply made of milk and eggs. With little ingenuity one recipe may serve with variations for so many dishes. Make soft boiled custard by using pint of milk, the yolk of two eggs, two tablespoOnfuls of sugar and teaspoonful of corn starch, slice two oranges, and line the bottom of your pudding dish; flavor the custard with the juice or grated peel of one orange (be careful to grate only the yellow part-the white skin is very bitter), turn the custard over the orange and bake ten or fifteen minutes. Beat the white of the two eggs with a tablespoonful of sugar, and spread on the top when the pudding is baked and let it brown slightly. For another pudding, slice four apples and let them simmer in the oven with little water till tender. Make custard in the same way as before, pour over them, but flavor with lemon. Again, put half a can of strawberries, peaches or pine- apple in your pudding, and you vary your pudding according to your fruit. The remaining fruit in the can may be used another day by making a corn starch pudding, according to the recipe on the package, adding the fruit while it is boiling, to be served either hot or cold, with cream and sugar or sauce. With berries it is nice to make sauce of cup of sugar, half cup of butter rubbed to cream, favored with tea spoonful of lemon and vanilla, two tea spoonfuls of vinegar. Then pour upon the mixture teacupful of berry juice boiling hot. This same recipe, with a cupful of juice from stewed prunes, makes delicious sauce for a boiled pudding or roly-pOly. Half can of fruit is sufficient for roly-poly. By using fruit in this way one can well make two desserts. will give one other standard recipe, to be varied ac- cording to taste. Put half package of gelatine in cup of cold water, and let it stand ten minutes, then pour on a cup of boiling water, stirring until thoroughly dissolved. Add cup of cream or milk, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and cup of cold boiled coffee, and mould to be eaten cold with cream and sugar. This is called coffee cream. For chocolate cream, make in the same way, but add instead of coffee cup of grated chocolate boiled in 8 cup of milk. For orange cream add the juice and grated peel of one orange and the yolks of two eggs. For pineapple cream, a few slices of pineapple, 8 cup of juice and the yolks of two eggs. Other fruits may be used in the same way.
Year: 1877

Chimney-SavallOars and tbeir Nests.- The chimney swallows is another we'll known bird, which builds it's nest in- side unused chimneys. The nest of this bird is somewhat like that of the barn-swallOw in shape, but is made of small sticks instead of mud. These sticks, like the little balls of mud, are like substance which is formed in the of the bird; for almost all the birds which belong to the swallow family are able to secrete this glue. and make use of it in building their nests.

 The chimney swallows are usually not abundant in large cities, and so are met with there only now and then; but in small towns, and in the country, they are very common, and nearly every unused chimney has at least one nest. The birds feed almost entirely upon insects, and when the young brood is matched, the parents hunt for food therefore you often may hear, in the middle of the night, the twittering of the young birds in the chimney when the old ones return to the nest with the insects which they have captured. Like the barn swallows, the chimney-swal- lows are very sociable, and so many often build in the same chimney that the nests block up the fue and entirely stop the draft. When heavy and long which the nests are stuck on becomes softened, and the old birds striking against the nests while flying in and out, break them from their attachment to the bricks, so that that they fall to the bottom ot the Hue. It is said that, in 1857, during 8 long season of wet, cold weather in June, four hundred and eighty of these birds, young and old, were precipitated down single chim- ney in Woodbury, Connecticut. Some times the chimney swallow and the barn swallow build their nests in caves or hollow trees, but barns and chimneys are so much more safe and convenient, that they are almost always selected in preference.-St. Nicholas.
Year: 1877

THE husband who informed his wife six months ago that he would let her put out the washing as soon as times i'm proved, has kept his promise. He lets her put it out-on the line. And still she is not happy.
Year: 1877

A FRENcHMAN having heard the word press made use of to signify persuasion, as 'spress that gentleman to take some- thing to eat," took occasion at a party to use term which he thought synony- nous, and begged friend to squeeze a young lady to sing. Et
Year: 1877

Doubtless in the number Of things that
the conceptions of the average coroner and
the theories of the average juryman. An
evidence that coroners have views entirely
their own as to the administration of their
offices-views not to be confounded in any
degree whatever with the views Of other
people-is to be found in the fact that one
of these functionaries appears to believe that
the paramour of Katie Riedl is as much en-
titled to his liberty as any other man.
To the mind Of the ordinary observer, who
has not the special theories Of the detectives
to confound his common sense, it is plain
that if Welspiel cannot be hanged the fault
is not in the facts, but only in the inca
pacity of the police to make the facts ap-
pear. No man could be hanged, Of course,
on what is now known to the public Of this
mans connection with the girl. His rela-
tionship with the last desperate fact in her
history must be traced and made clear,
and the discovery Of the several facts,
each apparently trivial, that might
establish this CONNECTION would not be q
labor Of insuperable difficulty if our admin
istration of criminal justice were organized
on a system that tended to develop rather
than to smother those nice faculties of per-
ception and reasoning that make good
detective. It is the want Of such system
that has made the famous Kelsey case at
Huntington, L. l., a standing reproach to
justice. In that case some twenty persons
are apparently acquainted with all the facts
of a murder. If we consider the nature of
the human mind-how much man is crea-
ture of his conscience and of his well or i'll
grounded fears, how he depends upon other
men, how at last the burden of terrible
secret becomes unbearablc--it is not to be
doubted that there is always one or more of
that twenty ready at all times to pour out
all the details of that crime If an adroit
detective would slightly tip him in the right
direction. In the organization of modern
society the many means of killing with
secrecy that science puts in a murderer's
way, and the facilities of escape that are
always accessible near great cities, first
rate detective system becomes an insepara-
bic condition of the safety of life; and such
q system we do not possess wherefore mur.
der is likely to cease to be punishable
offence in this community save when the
murderers ore exceptionally clumsy fellows.
Year: 1877




The commission made comparatively short
work of the South Carolina case, deciding 1t
yesterday. as everybody foresaw it would
be decided. in favor Of Hayes. This is the
last case that can be submitted to the CON-
mission, there being no other State from
which there are double sets Of returns. But
although this is q fact we'll known person
ally to all its members it is a fact Of which
they have no official knowledge, SO they
are not at liberty TO dissolve the
commission until the join. convention shall
have completed its work and declared the
final result. They accordingly adjourned
until Friday morning, which may be taken
as an indication Of their opinion that they
may then lay down their office. They
doubtless expect that tho joint convention
will get through on Thursday, for the COM
mission, having no further business to
transact. need to meet again only for the
purpose of formal dissolution. Their
opinion that this step may be taken on Fri
day morning would seem to rest on good
grounds.


We would fain hope that the joint con-
vention will wind up its business to-day,
which would be practicable enough if the
filibusters would accept the inevitable and
raise no further frivolous objections. Each
house is entitled to two hours debate on the
South Carolina decision, and two hours also
on each OF the States Of Vermont and Wis
consin, which are to be assailed with
democratic objections. AS the republicans
have sure thing in all these States
they can afford to expedite the proceedings
by leaving all the talk to their opponents.
If they should thus refrain from debate the
count may possibly be completed to-day,
but it is more probable that it will run
into tomorrow. 1t is safe to assume that
tomorrow will bring IN end to this great
controversy, and that when the commission
meets on Friday it will at once adjourn sine
die
Year: 1877

The Aldermen do not seem likely 10 profit
by their attempt to assail the management
Of the Department of Public Works. The
investigation yesterday simply disclosed the
tact that the expenditures of the department
had been reduced one million and half
dollars in less than two years. One million
Of this saving has been effected in salaries
and by the substitution Of the contract sys-
TEN for days work. This latter economy is
the one which excites the Aldermanic ire


Under the day labor system they were ac-
customed to send their needy constituents
to the department for labor tickets, which
meant dollar and eighty cents day out
Of the city treasury and nothing to do. An
army Of worthless idlers, who are really the
ingmen, was thus fastened on the city, and
the expenses of the department were swelled
for its support. Under the contract system,
although contractor has to employ labor
ers he hires only those who are willing to
do a fair days work for fuir days wages,
and pays no attention to Aldermanic recon-
mendations This is the case in o nutshell.
The Aldermen think that the Public Works
Department ought to be run in their politi-
cal interests. The head of the department
believes that it ought to be managed in the
interests Of the city. and the people are
likely to approve Of this view of the subject.
Year: 1877

Our Paris special despatch lifts the curtain
somewhat freely and discloses more than
has been hitherto known of the Patti-Caux
difficulty. 1t appears that the Marquis is
charged, as the basis Of demand for di-
vorce, with all the grosser offences against
propriety that husbands commonly commit.
He has, it is alleged, treated the little Diva
with cruelty. Here is q fine field for the
speculation of several thousand masculine
admirers of the prlma donna in this coun-
try and other countries who may consider
what they will do with Caux if they ever
catch him. "Blows" and "coarse epithets"
are the substantial facts of this cruelty. In
regard to the lady's fortune the Marquis
if the story is true-has exhibited that
peculiar sense Of honor which SO
often characterizes gentlemen Of old
and noble families. He has shown
an old and noble indifference to the distinc-
ton between what was hers and what was
his which may be praiseworthy in so far as
it assumes their inseparable matrimonial
unity, but is not in accordance with the re-
quirements Of the marriage contract, by
which the scion of noble race promised
not to spend more than one-half Of what his
wife should earn All this is denied by the
Marquis, who resists the demand for divorce,
and the trial will be protracted and pi-
Quant.
Year: 1877

In the news from Columbus the judicious
reader will perceive with sensation of re-
lief pleasing symptom of the passing away
of the stage of severe excitement in national
politics and the cropping out once more of
the comic element of the canvass. One
character that we have which is distinctly
and supremely national is the Office hunter.
men who endeavor to get themselves into
Office. But the difference between this
country and other countries is like that be-
tween Egypt and other lands. There are
lizards everywhere; but in Egypt the lizard
is a crocodile This hungry, Unsuitable
arrogant, impudent, humble, sublime, mag
nificent and pitiful creature, who is always
to be found at the door of the man Just
coming into power; who sketches out for him
a scheme for the distribution Of the Offices
in his neighborhood, and puts it in the lofty
form of dsinterested advice; or who begs
some small place of profit for himself or his
father or mother, grandfather or grandson
or who sends by telegraph his eight hum
dred words of q programme for the reor-
ganization of society in the Southern States,
with himself on top-his character in
all his guises belongs to our country. He is
scored and scatheda q great deal in the severe
indignation of people who regard him as
The source of the evil of which he is only m
indication, while in fact he should be en-.
joyed and laughed at as the great national
Nricowhar
Year: 1877

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock market
was fairly active during the day. and there was
decided Improvement in prices. Among the
stocks in which there was an advance were the
two telegraph companies, the coal stocks and
Rock Island Gold opened ut 1919, declined
10 1O4ai, but closed firm at the opening price.
Government stocks closed steady after slight
decline, and railroad bonds were generally lower.
Money on call was easy ut 2l2 per cent,
closing at 3 per cent on call.
Year: 1877

preposterous. It is like expecting to make
efficient soldiers of Falstaff's rotten. ragged
and cowardly brigade by merely reducing
the allowance of sack and cutting down the
pay Of its doughty commander.
Year: 1877

For WAYS THAT ARE DARK and for tricks
that arc vain the life insurance director seems
peculiar. A statement made to Judge Dykman
Yesterday and printed in the HERALD to-day
shows how easily insurance bonanzas can be
made to order
Year: 1877

Do THE ALDERMEN Know what terrible
precedent they are attempting to establish by
their action against Deputy Commissioner
Thompson! If uniitness for Office is to drive
men out Of city positions who will be left to
transact necessary busnessi
Year: 1877

AN ITALIAN PADRoSE, who made the mistake
OF supposing that only the officers Of the law
looked out for juvenile street musicians, finds
himself to-day dependent upon himself for n
living. His thanks have not yet been received
by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Chilflren
Year: 1877

BROOKLYN has at last gained possession of the
WaIabout, and will erect q grand market
therein, upon the completion of which the in
habitants of the third city of the Union will no
longer have to go into the next town to buy their
fnnd
Year: 1877

A VERY ORIGINAL DEGREE OF DIVORCE is
printed this morning. The authority cited is OF
great antiquity and highly respected but should
the signer OF the decree attempt to marry again
he will speedily find occasion to renew tho howl
about ~ goddess nation"
Year: 1877

THE ESSENTIALS OF TIE REPORT of the Park
Department are given in tho HERALD today.
They will prove interesting to taxpayers and
simply delightful to people with plenty of taste
but no property to be taxed.
Year: 1877

accessories as a strollng company can muster
but there is a lively demand for the music, ana
according to the laws Of trade the demand
will infallibly create the supply. so we must
cen make the best of it.


In the line of concert music the first place
belongs of course to the Thomas series. The
public is probably not aware how narrowly 1t
escaped losing these entertainments but the
orchestra having been saved, thanks TO the
taste and liberality of the West rather than of
our own people, the symphony soir6es will be
continued with even more than the former
brIlliancy. We have already mentioned some
of the new works which are likely to find q
place on the programmes of the season. The
Philharmonic Society, under Thomas's direc-
ton, will no doubt renew its youth, and It's
concerts will become once more what they
used to be, events of the foremost I'M
portance in fashionable and artistic CIR
cles Dr. Damrosch promises an interest


ing seasons work with the Oratorio So
ciety, and intends TO produce, as usual, several
of the old standard masterpieces, as well as
one or two classical cantatas as yet unknown
TO our audiences. Mr. StrakOsch, it will be re-
membered, has promised series of mIscella-
neous concerts on the plan of the Monday
Popular Concerts which are fashionable in
London but he has not yet given the details,
and we presume that the enterprise depends
somewhat upon other ventures which are
not fully arranged
Year: 1877

Even the demagOgue fails to impart any
lasting liyeness TO Midsummer politics


Not single ''outrage" comes to the surface to
gladden. the heart If the enemy of the Southern policy


If Mr.. Cox would come ont in a small card,
taking strong ground against subsidies his chances Tor
the Spcakcrship would cease 10 De ridiculous.


Republicans who are eager To give aid and
comfort 70 the Democracy can accomplish this result
most readily by diversified and ndiscrminae ADJUST Oh
tne administration


The second speech of Mr.. West has proved
that he capable OF making very RAPID progress in pot
lea science lie ought 10 nave gone 70 school ior fo''
night at least before he delivered his FIRST orailoh


Judge Vests last speech has the merit OK
being GOOD deal more sensible on the financial ana Ia
bor questions than the platform he stands on s There
Is gIin comfort in il Tor the silver dollar disciple.


There is a little talk about Republican
ticket In Virginia but Is likely To amount to not Eg
The Democratic party united under Col Holiday And
n Republican candidate would be a mere fOrnalty with
a majority OF from 10000 to 10000 against him.


Ii is all well enough TO charge Senator Nor
toms illness To indigestion and fatigue, but tine real
Is the suphurous aud yaregated swearing a Portland
IL is wonder that any member of the Committee got
OF it alive The descent into the crater OF vcsnylu
is nothing compared with lt.


The Maine Democrat is as solemn as his
brother in ONO. The tremendous respec,abiy OF tha
head OF the ticket is what Expresses him. lie tres 70
warm himself up the work of the canvass but the ef
tori is as vain as It is laborious The party cid
enjoy voting for an old Republican and never Will
The Virginia Democrats were so much 0c-
cuped with state questions that they forgot say an
thing in their platform about the Presidents policy.
This * Involuntary evidence that Virginia. like tho
rest of South. busy pking Itself a
devote time 10 making President three cara
In advance.


The President told n Pittsburg gentleman
last week that he thought the labor trouble was about
ended ana that labor aud capital would reconcile
themselves and prosperity would return 70 the country
lie uttered nonsense about National Labor Bureau
and took such healthy view of AFFAIRS that the despOnt
ent visitor went home more cheerful IN spirit.


A Republican oiicialn who has been tray-
elng Ohio business has returned to Washington
in most lugubFious frame oi mind. lie fears defeat Tor
the party unless something done TO repair the mistakes
already made The mistakes he discovered were the 70
moval OF oiccholders from politics. aud too mnch otsn
Icy Matthews aud Carl schurz influence in the Admins
traIion. Tue "ofcal ia especially unhappy about hr
sohurz who, he says offended many faithful niohn
Of the party by his cavalier treatment Of all politicians


Gen. Robert Toombs is the same old SIX
pence. He has been tho Trading spirit OF the Boaroohs
IN the Georgia Constitutional Convention. opposn
attempts to recognize the great progress OF events ou
Year: 1877

The Secretary of the Treasury addressed last
night an audience larger by some millions than
the population of Mansfield, Ohio. He spoke
to the whole Nation, and wherever the news
paper penetrates his words will be sure OF
attention. He is one of the chief officers of
the Government his department of the Ad-
ministratiOn touches most nearly the daily in
terests OF the whole community he speaks at
a time when questions of finance and business
have an oyershadOwing importance, and i'll
locality where these issues OF the day are
defined with particular sharpness. But
he does not c0nfine his attention to
the affairs of the Treasury He told
us that he meant to speak for himself
and not for his chief or his colleagues but he
has really given us an exceedingly able de-


fence of the whole AdministratiOa-fOrcb
because it is founded ON solid truth, adroit
because it is sllillfuily planned and happily
worded. Reminding his hearers of what many
of us have forgotten, that the Presidents dis
establishment order expressly recognizes the
right of public officers to express their views
"On public questiors, either orally or through
"the press" ne surveys the political field, and
throws upon some OF the most bitterly disputed
DOlDlS Oh CURRENT tlctuhHioH tIt SiiONS ilENt
of a plain cOmmon-sense. We do not re-
member to have seen anywhere so good a
statement of the Southern question, so clear
an explanation of the Louisiana problem, or of
the Presidents solution of it. lie does not fall
into the common blunder, which Judge West
committed the right before, of treating the
Presidents action at the South as an expert


'ment' to be judged by its consequences and
not by its motives !; but he makes it plain that
neither in Louisiana nor in South Carolina
could Mr.. Hayes have constitutionally acted
otherwise than he did and that whether the
Bourbon Democrats do their duty or not, the
President at any rate has done his


One branch of the Civil Service Reform move
ment-namely that which attempts 10 release
politics from the control Of ring of Office


holders-is relieved in Secretary Shermin's
sensible exposition from a great deal Of the
rhetorical nonsense and impracticabiliTy with
which some Jealous hght-weight theorists have
contriyed to discgcdit it. The other branch,
which seeks to conduct the public bu :
ness upon rational PRINCIPLES, is " II
illustrated by his narrative of the iri-
provements this Administration has nj
ready effected in abolishing sinecurcs. limit
ing the abuses of patronage and reduci ~ the
expenses. These are positive achievements of
which the President and his assistants have
good right to boast. SO, too, have they reason