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Year: 1877

A splendid item about a man being
kicked all to pieces by a horse yester.
day, was utterly spoiled by the care
lessness of the man himself, who
climbed into the haymow and stayed
there until the horse stopped kicking.
And yet cold world may blame a re-
porter for this.
Year: 1877

The Vicksburg Miss Herald says
that $1,000 industrious laborers could
find room and opportunity to make a
living in that neighborhood that is
it might add-if they would always
vote the straight Democratic ticket
and ask no questions.-&. Joe Her.
aid.
Year: 1877

A Maine girl left her clothing in an
open boat and hid herself, and when
her parents were crying and saying if
they only had her back again they
would obey her slightest wish, she ap-
peared and said she wanted to marry
lake
Year: 1877

a distressed mother writes to a
newspaper for advice, which she gets
thusly: THE only way to cure your
son of staying out late O. nights is to
break his legs, or to get the girl he
runs after to do your housework.'
Year: 1877

eye. For tired eyes, we believe,
from our own experience, that water
hot as can be borne is refreshing
and beneficial. If the eyes are
fatigued by bad artificial illumina-
tion, blue or slightly smoked glasses
will be useful, and in order to avoid
the lateral rays they should be
large and round. If the irritation
of the eyes persists, all work must
be abandoned, and an examination
made to see if there be anydisturb-
ance of refraction, of power of ac-
commodation or Of the mobility of
the eyes. Presbyopia, or so-called
far-sghtedness," superyenes ear
ller with those who are constantly
at work than with other indlyidu-
ais, and as soon as it does convex
glasses should be at once resorted
to, without which the muscle of
accommodation would be fatigued
to no purpose. AT first they should
be used for working in the evening,
after the fatigue of the day; but a
long-sighted person should only
use spectacles for looking at near
objects, not at far ones. Work re-
quiring close application favors the
development of myopia, or "near-
sightedness," precisely in proper
tion as the conditions Of illumina-
tions are bad. If the action of
those causes continues, the myopia
will increase until vision is lost. A
slight degree of myopia may be
favorable to close work, but, as a
general rule, work requiring close
application, by the arrangement of
circulation that it inevitably in
duces in the eye, is much more in
furious to the myopic, and is the
great cause Of the development of
myopia and its complications.
Young people should be examined,
and if they are myopic, hindered
from undertaking tedious studies
and all professions demanding close
application Of the eye.
Year: 1877

have described, and as he goes up
the stairs to ring the bell l see that
there is a chip out Of the bell han
de" $50 there isl cried the VS.
itor; "now l believe there is some
thing in geology after all. You
needn't say anything more; you
needn't see anything more. You'd
see the front door opened by a wild
ow who is forty-seven if she is a
day, with hair that don't match her
eyes and secondhand teeth she
bought on installmentS, and a figure
like cattle upon the thousand hills
I'll be back as soon as I've snatched
them bald-headed and got my di-
yorce to read the stars and see
about that purling young man with
the railroad stock, and get his ad.
dress" And she departed with
blood in her eye-in both eyes.
Year: 1877

HATSG PEOPLE Hato not. 1t is not
worth while. Your life is not long enough to
make 1t pay TO cherish i'll wall or hard
thoughts toward any one. If that man hns
cheated you, or that woman played you false.
What If this friend has forsalien you in your
time OF need or that one having won your
utmost confidence. your warmest love, has
concluded that he prefers to consider and
treat you AS II stranger. Let 1t all pass.
What difference will 1t make to you in a few
years when you go hence to the ''undiscover-
ed country All who treat you wrong now
will be more sorry for it then than YOU, even
in your deepest disappointment and grief,
can be. few more smiles few more tears,
some pleasure. much pain. a little longer
hurrylng and worrying in the world. some
hasty greetings and abrupt farewells, and
life will he over. and the injurer and the in
iured will be laid away and ere long forgot
ten. Is it worth while to hate each other
Year: 1877

When you see young fellow who year
ago used to step up and order lager for the
crowd with the utmost sang trOid, patiently
trundling baby carriage along the street on
Sunday afternoon, and looking choptallen in
his last season 5 hat, don't it speak volumes
for the reforming influence Of woman's so
ciety H-Puck.
Year: 1877

SOME of the Chicago life insurance COM
panies are in trouble The receiver OF cne
of them, the Republic life. says there IS a
balance of nearly three and half million
dollars against the company The dlree-
tors OF the Chicago life, after report in
which they condemn Secretary Clapp, who
has He'd, declare that the company constant
ly has lost money since its organisation,
that various expedienIs haze been resoIted
to to bridge over the crisis and Indicate that
they will apply for receiver.
Year: 1877

TURKEY, as she views the gigantic army
of Russia moving down upon hsr borhsrs,
cries out in the agony of her soul, 'Idt B
have only little money to organize or
commissariat and transportation services
and we will hurl Russia back upon hG
frontiers with losses that she viii NOT easily
forget, for in every one Of our msn heats \
large heart full of bitter hatred fUr the
Cossack. and is ready TO express thai
hatred in bloody deeds" The Turks Ere
evidently ready, and Russia will be mat
by fire all along the line.
Year: 1877

OWING to the cunciIiating policy nd
President HAYES there viii unaOubtrdly
be less partisan feeling between the Re
publican and Democratic members ni the
next Congress than ever before.
Year: 1877

President Vanderbilt, of the New York
Central and Hudson river railroad, has is
sued circular stating that OF the twelve
thousand employees of the company less than
Eve hundred struck, and that no injury was
done to property. In recognition of their
fealty he directs that one hundred thousand
dollars be divided ratably, according to their
positions on the payroll, among all the EN-
ployes engaged in operating the road. He
says no men who, in time Of trial, embarrass
the company can remain in or re.enter its
service, and adds that the pay will be in
creased the moment that business justifies it.
Year: 1877

The recent heavy importations of
opium at this port have led TO consider
able comment, and various causes have
been assigned. A Tribune reporter OBJ
tanned at the custom house the following
figures, showing the amounts imported
during the present year and its cost:
Year: 1877

On Monday Of last week tho Pres,
ident of the United States issued the
f olowing proclamation:


The completed circle OF summer
and winter, seed time and harvest,
has brought US to the accustomed
season at which religious people
celebrate with praise and thank,giv-
ing the enduring mercy Of Almighty
God. This devout and public confes,
sion of the constant attendance of
man upon the Divine Father for all
good gifts Of life and health, of peace
and happiness, so early in our history
made a habit of by our people, finds
in the survey Of the past year new
grounds for its joyful and grateful
manifestation in all the blessings
which depend upon bsnignant sea
sons. This has been a memorable
year over the wide territory of our
country. With all its diversity of
soil and climate and products, the
earth has yielded n bountiful return
to the labor of the husbandman. The
health of the people has been blight
cd by no prevalent or wide spread
diseases. No great disasters of
shipwreck upon our coasts or to our
commerce on the seas have brought
loss and hardship to merchants or
mariners, and the unclouded happi.
ness of community with sympathetic
sorrow. In all that concerns our
strength and peace and greatness as
= nation, in all that touches the per
manence and security of our govern.
ment and the benehcent Institutions
on which it rests; in all that affects
the character and dispositions of our
people and tests our capacity to, en-
Joy and uphold the equal and free
condition Of society, is now perma
nent and universal throughout the
land. The experience of the last
year is conspicuously marked by the
protecting providence OF God, and is
iulI Of promise and hope for coming
generations. Under sense of these
infinite obligations to the Great
Ruler of times and seasons and events
let us humbly ascribe it to our own
faults and frailities, if any degree of
that perfect concord and happiness,
peace and justice which such great
mcrcies should ditfuse through the
hearts and lives of our people do not
altogether and always aud every
where prevail. Let us with one
spirit and one voice lift up praise and
Thanksgiving to God for his manifold
goodness to our land and his mani,
fest care for the nation.


Now, therefore, |, Rutherford b
Hayes, President of the Omitted
States, do appoint Thursday, the
goth day Of November next, as n
day of national thanksgiving and
prayer, and earnestly recommend,
that Withdrawing themselves from
secular cares and labors, the people
Of the United States DO meet to
gether on that day in their respective
places Of worship, therci to igive
thanks snd praises soLAImightyEGod
for His mercies, and to. devouty y be.
reech their continuance. In witness
whereof, etc. II. b. HAYES.
Year: 1877

Years ago when Rock Island was
a small village and its people had
lots of fun all to themselves, very
sober and dignifed soldier citizen
put his own head under one end of a
yoke and q little bulls under another
TO teach the animal how to be useful
and work. When he fonnd the bull
was running away with him toward a
crowd around u country store, he
measured sixteen feet at jump,
kept up with the bull and yelled at
the top OF his voice: Look out!
here we comel darn our fool sou Is!
Head US somebody" and when he
was halted, and the yoke was being
lifted from his neck he said: I'm.
yoke the bull; never mind me; l
will stand"
Year: 1877

The Pacific Coast is not alone in
its troubles. Eastern papers say that
thousands Of men, women and child
rem are in a" destitute condition, and
unless times brighten up before
spring, very many will probably
starve to death. We have the ad.
vantage of an immense clam bed ON
Puget Sound" Star"
Year: 1877

we'll and set it to rise again. When well
risen, knead it again and roll out about
an inch thick cut it out with round
biscuit cutter, spread a very little melted
butter or lard over the surface, and then
lap them over, 50 that they form half
circle or crescent; let them rise little
while before baking.


FRENCH HAsH-After dinner, take
What meat you have left and cut all the
flesh from the bones that you can; pour
what gravy you may have over 1t at1d set
it away. Break the bones and put them
on the fire to stew, with sufficient water
to cover them, and little onion; stew
them all the afternoon, then strain off
the liquor and pour it over your meat;
in the morning put it Oh the fire in a
clean saucepan, aid let if stew a little;
season it well with kitchen salt, and
thicken it slightly with little flour.
When you dish it up, put some slices of
toasted bread iii yodf dish. and pour it
ON hot. Garnish, if you please, tsith
parsley and hard-boiled eggs cut in half.


To STUFF LEG OF VEAL OR FLEsHY
PIECE OF BEEF. Crate or break into
crumbs pound loaf of light bread; take
a piece Of bitter the sise of black wal
nut; two beaten eggs, and work 1t up
with your bread crumbs; season with
kitchen salt, and flavor slightly with nut
meg if it is rather stiff, add a little wine
OF Ffeiich brandy te make it sufficiently
soft; take long knife and flake i'll in
cision around the bone +; put your stuf-
fug into it, and sew it up at the top to
keep the stufing in !; rub little butter
and kitchen salt over it, and put it on to
roast as soon as any gravy is drawn,
Keep basting it well when nearly done,
spread over it some butter, and Sprinkle
bread crumbs over it; put it on again,
and roast until well done; garnish with
celery or parsley.
Year: 1877

Is there no place on the face of the earth
Where charity dwelleth where virtue hath birth?
Where bosoms in mercy and kindness will heave,
Ard the poor and the wretched shall ask and re-


ceive?


Is there no place on earth where knock from the


poor


VIII bring kind angel to open the door?
All ! search the wide world wherever you can,
There is no open door for the moneyless man
Go look in your hail. where the chandeliers light
Drives off with its splendor the darkness of night
Where the bright hanging velvet in shadowy fold
Sweeps gracefully down with its trimming of gold
And the mirrors of silver take up and renew
In long-lighted vistas the wildering view;
Go there in your patches and find, if you can,
A welcoming smile for the moneyless man!
Go look in yon church of the coud-reaching spire,
Which gives back to the sun his look of red fire;
Where the arches and columns gorgeous within,
And the walls pure a soul without sin;
Go down the long aisle-see the rich and the great
In the pomp and the pride of their worldly estate ;
Walk down in your patches and find, if you can,
Who opens pew for moneyless man.
Go look to yon Judge, in dark flowing gown,
With the scales wherein law weigheth quietly down
Where he frowns on the weak and smiles on the


strong,


And Furnishes right while he justifes wrong;
Where jurors their lips on the Bible have laid,
To render verdict they've already made;
Go there in the court room and find, ii you can,
ANY law for the cause of a moneyless
Go look in the banks where Mammon has told
His hundreds and thousands of silver and gold;
Where, safe from the hands of the starving and


poor,


Lies pile upon pile of the glittering ore;
Walk up TO the counter-ah, there you may stay
Till your Imps grow old and your hairs turn gray
And you'Ibfnd, at the bank, not one of the clan
With money to lend to a moneyless man.
Then go to your hoveI-no raven has fed
The wife who has suffered so long for her bread
Kneel down by the pallet and kiss the death-frost
From the lips of the angels your poverty lost
Then turn in your agony upward to God
And bless while it smites you the Christening rod,
And you'll find at the end of your life's little span
There's Il lceIcoBle GboUe for the moneyless man.
Year: 1877

PANCAKES two teaspoonfuls of
flour, and pour over it just enough boil
ing water to scald it; mix with it pint
of sweet milk, the yelks of two eggs, and
then beat in a pint of flour and the
whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth;
This same batter is good baked as waffies.


SAUSAGE RoLLs.-In the evening make
up about quart Of flour into a dough,
exactly as you would for light rolls set
them in warm place to insure them be-
ing light In the morning make them
into rolls, putting in the middle of each
one piece of sausage meat, about the
size of black walnut bake as other
rolls. Any other meat chopped may be
used as substitute for the sausage.


GRAND BRE.KFAsT HAsH.-Make pam
cake batter by the given recipe, and
bake them as large as a good-sized din
ner-plate. AS soon as you bake one,
spread it over with Il layer of French
hash, then lay on the next, and continue
piliag them up, with layers of hash be-
tween each, until you have stack five
or six inches high, or more then set it
in your oven long enough to heat it well
through. When you serve this dish, cut
it down through the whole pile. This is
a delightful breakfast dish for cold
weather


CRESCENT RoLLs.-Take about two
pounds of well raised light bread dough.
Rub fine on your pastry board large
teaspoonful OF white sugar, and d piece
of sofa about the size OF large pea,
+ and some -four. Lay your dough on
tbs e-d stick OF it piece of butter
about the size OF an egg. Knead it very
Year: 1877

ASTONISHING TITiLITY OF Il DOG.


About six weeks ago gentleman, who
prided himself ON having one of the best
rabbit dogs in the city, went rabbit
hunting north of the city. The dog
soon struck the trail of game, and made
chase. Contrary to expectation, he
failed to return. Search was made for
him through the whole neighborhood,
but with no success, and the owner of
that dog went home with heavy heart.
About three days ago man passing an
old mineral hole heard noise coming
from the bottom of the shaft. A wind
lass was procured, man went down, and
discovered the living skeleton of dog,
which he kindly brought to the surface.
1t was soon found that the dog belonged
to the Dubuque gentleman, and was
brought to him He he'd lost his good
looks and changed so radically in ap-
pearance that his master had grave
doubts as to his identity, but the dog S
recognition of him and evident delight
at seeing Hln eSdlh SdoISllto hiih Iii'' he
was his dog. When he fell into the
mineral hole he weighed forty-seven
pounds: when he was rescued he
weighed only twenty pounds. He lost
flesh, but gained an appetite, for the
first thing he swallowed was chunk of
bread soaked in whisky. He then took
long sleep. and was furnished with
something more substantial, if not
stronger, and is now in fair way to re-
gain his former sleek look. Neither e
fan OF seventy feet nor thirty days
starvation could Kill that dog.-Du
/ hume (T172.z1 Times.
Year: 1877

George fastened home full of accom-
plishment, and found that his wife had
gone out shopping. So, writing her a
short note, he left it on the side table,
and then withdrew to his smoking
ROOM
Year: 1877

Is there no place on the face of the earth
Where charity dwelleth, where virtue hath birth?
Where bosoms in mercy and kindness will heave,
Ard the poor and the wretched shall ask and


ceive?
Year: 1877

A farmer and his wife called at a pho
tographic gallery last month to have
some photographs taken Of the latter,
aud while the operator was getting
ready the husband gave the wife little
advice as to how she was to sit. ''Fas-
ten your mind on something" be said {,
"Or else you will laugh and spoil the
job Thing about early days, and what
you'd have been if hadn't pitied you.
Just fasten your mind on that !"
Year: 1877

BREAD.-The following is the recipe
BY which the celebrated Vienna bread
was made. that became SO famous on
the Centennial grounds for its delicious
ness as to command four prices, indeed
to sell for far more than it was worth.


Sift in a tin pan four pounds Of -four,
bank it up against the sides. pour in
one quart Of milk and water, and mix
into it enough -four to form a thin bat
ter; then quickly and lightly add one
pint ofmilk, in which is dissolved one
ounce Of salt and one and three-quarter
ounces of yeast leave the remainder of
the -four against the sides Of the pan /;
cover the pan with a cloth and set in
place free from draught for tbree-quar-
ters Of an hour then mix in the rest Of
the -four until the dough will leave the
bottom and sides of the pan, and let it
stand TWO and half hours Final
ly, deEide the mass into one pound
pieces, to be cut in turn into twelve
parts each. This gives square pieces
about three and a half inches Thick,
each corner of which is taken up and
folded over to the centre, and then the
cases are turned over on a dough board
to rise for half an hour, when they arc
put into hot oven that bakes them 10
ten minutes. THE yeast is the Patent
Compressed Yeast" now generally
sold in the large towns and cities


The ingredients may be devided into
smaller proportions. SO that a single
One-pound loaf could be baked as well
as four one-pound loaves.
Year: 1877

A FRENcH gardener states that the
proximity Of the ounce exercises an
unfavOrable influence on apple and pear
trees the latter failing to thrive in
its immediate neighborhood. The likes
and dislikes Of plant life present field
Of observation but little explored. and
its careful study may account for many
failures and disappOintments in garden
work.
Year: 1877

The Boston advertiser tells a pitiful
story of the efforts OF poor girl in Au-
burn, Me-, to get an education. She
wished to 60 to the Portland high
school. She was very poor, and unable
to pay her board in a strange city, so
she made an arrangement with the
proprietor of boarding house to do
what she could to assist her as pay
ment for board. Every morning she
arose at 8 O'Clock, got breakfast, then
went to school, and on her return clear
ed away the dinner things, and then
prepared the supper. After supper she
cleared up and did other housework.
The result was a breakdown with
typhoid fever and she was taken to the
hospital. There the matron discovered
that the poor girls clothing, while very
neat, consisted only of a calico dress
and one cotton skirt. The girl, as soon
as she is well enough, will 60 home to
an aunt in Auburn, who will keep her
until she can again endeavor to support
herself.
Year: 1877

Geo. w. Peck, editor of the La Crosse
San, sportsman of much enthusiasm
in Wisconsin, gives his experience try
ing to raise pup. The following is his
story: s


We had never been so proud of any
thing in the dog line as we were
of that Peruvian retriever pup. Time
passed on and the pup began to grow.
He did not grow tall, but spread out
lengthwise and sidewise, and his feet
got big. There never was so long dog
Of his age as that one was. And talk
about tail; kangaroo's tail would be
nowhere. Ore wiggle of his tail would
sweep eleven old-fas ashioned flower pots
off the verandah, and you might kick
him as much as you pleased and he was
the same long dog. You couldn't tele-
scope him together an inch. He was
the most cowardly dog that ever was.
Ii COW came along and scratched
against tree, he would crawl under
the house and howl all afternoon. Once
little girl came in the gate after swill,
and when he looked at her she dropped
her swill-pail and ran. He heard her
cry and ran the other way, and it was
two days before we got him home, and
then we had to carry him in a basket.
He was retriever. His best "holt''
was hens. He got acquainted with Mr..
Manchester chickens early in the sea-
son, and he retrieved them regardless
of expense. He would occasionally
come back from Manchester's without
hen, but it was not the dogs fault.
Ii Manchester had not thrown wood at
him he never would have come back
that way. That is where we have always
blamed Manchester. But when Man
chester went to the Centennial the dog
got even. The dog and skunk that
lived under the barn broke up the hen
business there. We might meet him on
the sidewalk, and he never seemed to
know US. If we spoke to him he would
wag foot or eighteen inches of the
lower end of his tail, look away be-.
yoHd, and seem to be trying to think if
he hadn't met US in another world, ,ages
ago. The other day he came home
bowling, walking on two legs. Some
one bad put charge Of shot in him,
and we knew Manchester had got back,
though there was nothing about it in
the papers. He seemed to be as full of
shot as-well, he was reasonably full,
and every time he went to sit down he
howled wofully. He was dog of sed-
entary habits, and when his utensil
for sitting down was not as well as could
be expected, his capacity for enjoy
ment was limited, and he would stand
and lean against barrel and discourse
in foreign tongue until nobody could
sleep in the entire neighborhood. In
his helpless condition the hens used to
show fight, and we saw it was humiliat-
ing to him, SO we prepared to lead him
like lamb to the slaughter. We took
him to the police office to get the dollar
we paid for his license and to have him
shot.