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Year: 1878

The Cincinnati Commercial discourses on
"the fine art of eating - The true ep'cn-
reans dinner will always be made up OF
only a few dishes, but those unsurpassed 10
material, cookery aud furnishings. Farie-
ty he has in plenty but he obtains 1t by
having fewer dishes at once, and so stretch
ing out the good things of the appetite fur
ther through time, rather than by taxing
French cook-books and his own brains to
discover for him some new mixture. He
always thus has something good to look
ahead to for the next time, so to speak.
Much of the worry and work fashionable
Americans make over their cookery might
be avoided and much both of time and
food material now wasted might be saved,
if we understood better the fine art OF eat
ing. 1t is serious mistake for cook to
spend her time and worry her brains pre-
pairing haIf-a-dozen different dishes, which,
after all, are apt to be badly cooked, when
three excellent dishes will answer better in
every way. The half dozen dlshe' may
be snobbish, but they are not really appe-
| tizing.


To broil steak, to make a cup OF coffee,
to bake loaf of bread, white or brown
these be the three foundation pillars of all
good cookery. The history of civilization,
civilized cookery as well, passes from sim


plicity into foridness, and from fioridness
| into simplicity again but it is the simple
| ity of true art One kind of rightly-cooked


meat, vegetables ditto, two or three dainty
little side-dishes, and a pyramid of perfect,
| luscious fruit-no one who really knew the
art of enjoying his food would accept any
thing more. And he would have different


round of dishes every day for week, be-


cause there would be so much to choose


from. One will be surprised, when he stops


to recall the hospitable mansions in which
| he has breakfasted at different times, to
| think how few Of the housekeepers broilee


their steak instead of frying it, stepped the


coffee instead of boiling it, and had whole


some. homemade bread. Those benevo


lent ladies who are forming themselves init


associations to kindly help and guide friend


less and unframed yonng women, Wouit
confer an untold benefit on humanity j
thew would teach first themselves, and thel


the untrained young women, how to cook
beefsteak and make coffee and bread as


should be done. Refined and dainty tabl
manners are an indispensable element
the fine art of eating-eating being an or
GRAFTON which is not superlatively pretty t
look at, at it's best.
Year: 1878

Leadville, Col, letter to Chicago Tribune.


One day mining vagabond, named Bas-
sick, just from Australia, without dollar
in his pocket began digging in Tyndall
Hill. About three feet under ground there
was calcareous substance like chalk or
rotten refuse chalky matter. That formed
the whole hill. The people of Rosita were
all laughing at the poor beggar who had
found mine ''as big as piece of chalk"
Bassick's Whitewash Mine " it was call
ed in derision. The tattered prospector
brought the lime down, had assay made of
it and found it very rich in carbonite of
lead carrying silver. AS soon as the discov-
cry was made known the country went wild.
Digging down he found powders, and peb-
bles from the size Of hickory nut to that
of pumpkin. They lay like pebbles in the
bed of river, in this horizontal gulch or
river bed of lime. Every pebble was coat
ed with pure silver cloride, as thick usually
as the finger nail. The like of this forma-
tion-bowlders in silver capsules-is found
nowhere else in the known world It is so
far geological puzzle. From the surface
of the ground down 200 feet that ore has
paid richer than any mine in this country.
Bassick has worked the mine six months,
having the ore we'll worked by Professor
Hill, of Black Hawk. So far it has yielded
and is yielding Mr.. Bassick an average of
1854, 900 month. This may be considered
pretty big yarn. l stood with my mouth
open for at least half an hour after I heard
it. At length got my paralyzed jaws into
working order, and began an investigation.
They shouldn't fool me if I was green
one, and had no shares in anything except
half interest in little blue-eyed girl back
East. found the sum authentic and Ca
pable Of proof felt like hunting up a ra-
vine then and there to die in, when recall
led all the hills-perhaps chalk hills-I have
walked over during my lifetime. The
thought was agony. Perhaps these hills
were full of silyer-coated pills.
Year: 1878

While DR.. Carr was at Gallipolis, his at
teption was called to case of yellow fever
ten miles out from the place, and in COM
pany with resident physician, rode out in
a buggy to the house Of small farmer by
the name of Buck or Burke, whose son was
the victim. DR.. Carr arrived at the place
after nightfall, and found the farmer sit.
ting at a watch-6re, of pine knots in front
of his domicile, afraid to enter lest ne
should catch the yellow fever. The doctor
made known the object of his visit. The
man said he was glad to see him, for he
said that all the rest of the family bad
gone-scared away by his sons horrible
sickness. He thought his boy was dead,
for he hadn't heard him for several hours,
and did not dare enter the house. While
they we're talking groan was heard in the
! house. DR.. Carr took brand and entered,
and following the directions of the father
found the bedroom, but not the patient.
| The place was in q state of disorder and
was very filthy. An abominabie stencil
| peryaded it, and the floors of the three
ground floor rooms were smeared all over
with black vomit. 1t was sickening sight.
DIR. Carr came out and told the father that
the young man was not inside. "He must
be in there somewhere" replied the man,
ofor heard him groan just now" Dr
Carr replenishsd his light and re-entered'
and after more careful search found what
be thought at first was a negro, covered
with black and filthy clothing, in dirty
corner behind the cook:ng-stove Ii wal
the wrstched, abandoned and dying youth


covered with filth, who in his delirium ant
search for water had crawled all over TIM
dirty floors of the cabin. and finally, e1


hausted, sank down to die. Dr. Car


learned that for twenty -four hours no on


had been near the poor wretch. his owl


flesh and blood forsook him and fed, ant


there he suffered and died in manner tha


freezes ones blood to think Of.
Year: 1878

A GREAT EsTATE.-To illustrate the
grand scale on which some of the English
estates are laid out, may mention that the
Chatsworth estate Of the Duke of Devon
shire contains 1000 acres, which he retains
for his private park and flower garden, be-
sides thousands of acres more rented for
farming. His park is bounded on all sides
by hills which cut it off from the rest OF
the world and no ether house than his own
can be seen from the windows OF his grand
mansion. His flower garden alone COM
prises 1o2 acres, wherein go laborers are
constantly employed to keep it in order.
The remainder oil the 1900 acres are all in
grass and woodland, and stocked with deer.
A forester has charge of the estate, and the
understanding with him is that he shall
have at his disposal all the produce from
| the deer-yenlson, pelts, horns, etc.-on
condition that he shall keep at least 2,ooo
head constantly in the herd.
Year: 1878

She was visiting some friends-was
pretty and stylish, and was admired
by several young men, one of whom
had permission to "call any time". He
was full of that juice of youthful as
piration that pertains to the advanced
age of nineteen or twenty, and he as
siduously cultivated an incipient growth
of eye brows on his upper lip, and had
rag'd out in his best, and approached
the abiding place of her he loved with
conscientious pride and gentlemanly
stride, thinking she might be watching
his coming from the window; so he
picked his dainty way through the
mud with due nonchalance, without
even so much as looking up to see if his
graceful contOrtions were observed.


To indicate the easy familiarity and
intimate terms he considered himself on
with this particular maiden, he thought
to enter the house by the side door, and
was in the act of reaching forth his
nicely gloved hand to knock, when the
dirty water struck him full in the face
and breast, completely whiting himself
and his immaculate shirt front.


5000! Why, Mr.. g., I-I-did'nt
mean-Oh, dear, dear" exclaimed the
little beauty.


"Tu-sh-ugh. It's no-ugh-nothing,
said Mr.. G., sputtering, catching his
breath and trying to smile smile, all
at the same time, making so cOmical an
appearance withal that the young lady
and her hostess, who was a witness of
the scene became convulsed with laugh
ter. This was too much; twas addingin-
suit to injury and the crest fallen young
man retreated, winding his homeward
way through fields and by-ways, and
then, he solemnly sweared swear, to
live and die a bachelor free-have moth
ing to do with the fair-and alone i'll
his bed, with kivered up head, blessed
the chance that made him fiee.-Stan-
stead Journal.
Year: 1878

dizzy. But step or two more, and the
descent just made sinks into utter in
significance compared to what is before
us. Then we had the huge walls of the
parted rock as the rails of a staircase !;
now we have naught but the smooth,
rounded surface of the storm washed
boulders to cling to, and CT either side
of our narrow way depths at the bot
tom of which mans body could never
be discovered with human eye. Be-
hind us the precipitous rocks over and
through which we came ahead of us
the slender barrier of rock Overhanging
the appalling chasm, and all there ex-
lists between us and it. COwards at
heart, pale of face, and with painful
breath, we slowly crawl on hands and
knees to the ledge, and as the fated
murderer feels the knotted moose fall
down over his head, SO feel we as our
eyes extend beyond the rocks to catch
one awful glimpse of the eternity of
space. Few dare to look more than
once, and one glance suffices for COM
prehension of the meaning of the word
depth never before even dreamed of,
and never afterward forgotten. The
gorge is 1000 feet sheer depth, the
most precipitous and sublime in its pro-
portions of any chasm on the continent.
The opposite wall towers hundreds of
feet above us, and if possible to imagine
anything more terrifying than the posi-
tion on this side, that upon the other
would be, were its brink safe to ap-
proach. Overhanging crags, black and
blasted at their SUBMITS, or bristling
with stark and gnarled pines, reach up
into profoundly dizzy heights, while
lower down monstrous rocks threaten
to tOpple and carry to destruction any
foolhardy climber who weuld venture
upon them.


Among all the thousands who have
visited the Grand Canon and the Royal
Gorge, harm has befallen none, for
despite the seeming horror of the situa-
ton, the appalling depths and rugged
paths, the fascination of the danger ap-
pears to give birth to greatest caution.
The canon, except in the dead of win
ter, is approachable only from the top,
the walls below being so precipitous
and the river such torrent as to defy
all access. When frozen, as the waters
are for brief periods during the coolest
months, the way up the canon may be
accomplished, but only at the risk of
personal comfort and not little dan
ger. Mr.. Talbot, the photographer at
Canon City, ventured into the canon
last winter with his apparatus, and
after infinite trouble, secured the ex-
cellent views which afford us some con-
ceptiOn of the grandeur of the gorge
from the bsttom.-The Rocky Mountain
| Tourist
Year: 1878

BY BRET HARTR.
my sister'll be down in minute, and says you're


to wait, if you please,
And says might stay till she came, if I'd promise


her never to tease,
Nor speak till you spoke to me first. But that's


nonsense, for how would you know
What she told me to say, if 1 didn'tY Don't you


really and truly think soi
"And then you'd feel strange here alonel And you


wouldn't know just where to sit;
For that chair isn't strong its legs, and aoe new


er use it bit.
We keep it to match with the sofa. But Jack says


it would be like you
To flop yourself right down upon it and knock out


the very last screw.
"S'pose you try9 1 won't tell. You're afraid to!


Oh! you're afraid they would think it was


meant


Well, then, there's the album-that's pretty, if


you're sure that your fingers are clean.
For sister says sometimes daub it but she only


says that when she's cross.
There's her picture. You know it2 It's like her


but she amt as good looking, of coursel
This is ME. It's the best of 'em all. Now, tell


me, you'd never have thought
That once was little as that It's the only one


that could be bought
For that was the message to Pa from the photo


graph man where 1 sat
That he wouldn't print off any more till he first


got his money for that.
WHAT Maybe you're tired of waiting Why


often she's longer than this.
There's all her back hair to do up and all of heI
front curls to friz.
But it's nice to be sitting here talking like grown
people; just you and me.
Do you think you'll be coming here often? Oh do
But don't come like Tom Lee.
tom Lee. Her last beau. Why, my goodness
He used to be here day and night,
Till the folks thought that he'd be her husband


and Jack says that gave him fright.
You won't run away, then, as he did9 for youre
not rich man, they say.
Pa says you are poor church-mouse. Now, are
youl And how poor are theyl
"Ain't you glad that you met meY Well, 1 am fol
know now your hair isn't red.
But what there is left of it's mousy and not what
that naughty Jack said.
But there must go. Sisters coming But


wish 1 could wait, just to
If she up to you and she kissed you in the way


that she used to kiss Lee"
Year: 1878

LET YOUR NEIGHBoRs ALoNE.-No
people are such thorough nuisances as
those who are perpetually meddling
with the business of their neighbors-
who are always on the alert for any thing
suspicious-always ready to believe the
worst of everybody. What is it to you
if your neighbOr does bring home
brown paper package and covered
basket? You will live just as long if
you never know what they contain. 1t
is none of your business. Aud if your
fiighty neighbor, Mrs. Lightfoot, indulg-
es herself in a new bonnet, while her
devoted husband wears patched boots,
you need not fret about it-he is the
only sufferer, not you. No need of
making hue and cry over her suppos-
ed extravaganza. The money did not
come out of your pocket, and conse-
quently it is none of your business.
What if the minister does call OH Ann
Smith twice a week ? Why exercise
your brain about it.
Year: 1878

and precept upon prtcept IS the most
effective mode Of education. The drop
ping water wears away the stone, and
hence the Necessity of telling often of
the virtues of WsTARs BALsAM OF WILD
CHERRY. Ally one who has tried it need
not to be reminded of its value. They
are sure to keep it in the house ba,
there are constantly draughts of air
and imprudent people who catch cold
aud need to be told that this Balsam is
the very best for the breaking up Of
Old Coughs and the speedy removal OF
new bronchial and lung difficulties. II
challenges the closest investigation
The value of the Wild Cherry as a
non -irritant to the delicate lung tissues
is acknowledged, and It's combination
BY DR.. Wistar in his Balsam is happy
application of pleasant and effective
remedy to fearful and often deadly
disease. Ask yonr druggist for it. SO
cents and 81 a bottle.
Year: 1878

When a man Is seriously i'll he should
call on his doctors at once, but when his
trouble is only cough or "A sore throat
he need only invest % conts in a bottle
of DR.. Bulls cough syrup.
Year: 1878

In Missouri farmers are selling their win
ter wheat at 6Oc per bushel. Most OF them
believe that prices are nearly at the bottom,
hut that there Is little encouragement of hope
Tor higher quotations at present, unless bad
weather causes partial failure OF the spring
vUhaaf nroD
Year: 1878

The public clamor against the new elevated
railway In New York city, which has been in
creasing ever since the cars began to run, will
not be quieted by a statement just made to
the grand jury by 1873 physicians Of the city,
to the effect that the noise and smoke of the
trains will do great and permanent injury to
the health of all the unfortunate residents
along the line. It is quite likely that the dis
advantages and dangers Of rapid transit in
New York will be found to outbalance its ad-
vantages.
Year: 1878

The purpose of the movement Of the New
York hotel proprietors in organizing Is not 80
much to guard against being imposed on by


gwindlers as to effect reform In the matter Of
hiring help. 1t Is said that, although the
hotels have had to redace their prices, wait
ers, cooks and other hotel employees get their
old wages, which are out Of proportion to
those for similar grades of labor in other
business. It Is proposed to regulate the pay
Of hotel servants according to fixed sched-
Year: 1878

Reports, financial and other, show that the
last years income from the Suez canal was
more profitable than any previous years
The ywogk itself Is In excellent shape, but
there Is trouble ahead. An engineer from the
Foreign Office In London feels himself bound
10 confess that the slow yet unavoidable silt
ing up of the sea basin along the coast cannot
but be regarded with uneasiness for the tu-
ture, Swallowing that, though it is not one
Of paramount Importance at the present mo-
ment. may become eventually Of vital interest
In the question of maintenance of navigable
channel from the Mediterranean to the Red
Sea,
Year: 1878

EDITOR CITIZEN Some of your
readers would perhaps not be angry
with me for trespassing on your
space. I'll not say their time, fol-
no one is forced to peruse this.


Two weeks ago found me in your
county enjoying the "proverbial
Giles hospitality" The Fourth
dawned brightly and gave some OF
Pulaski's citizens a Uarna welcome
to the Springs. Spending few days
at Elkton was to me not grievous,
for there as in district No. met
many who had endeared themselves
to me by acts of kindness. How
much we ought TO love those who
befriend us when we need help! In
gratitude is one of the most despi-
cable of sins, and he who forgets
his friends deserves the name OF
'1gnoble Wretch"


At your city my heart was glad
dened by meeting one whom
learned to love in early boyhood,
Rev. j. d. Barbee, one of Tennes
sees ablest preachers. After spend
ing several days in Pulaski ! have
come to the conclusion that very
few of our county towns do the
business of your city.


From Pulaski went to Corners
vile by way of Buford's Station.
All along the route are to be seen
fine crops of corn. While we be-
wall our loss of the wheat crop, we
may take heart, for everywhere the
exclamation is, "Did you ever see
finer corn?" With regard to crops,
one thing which pleased me very
much l must mention. From Pu-
laski to Cornersville there is not to
be found, l think, q single crop OF
cotton. But, on the other hand,
several venerable gins are to be
seen surrounded and almost hidden
by the luXuriant growth of Indian
corn. This is as it should be. My
heart was gladdened by the woe-be
gone appearance of the once pow
erful cotton presses with their long
levers poised in mid air as some
huge giant raising his arms in des-
pair, and beseeching his conquerors
to ''spare me yet a little longer" "
Corn, wheat and grass are sure to
be the crops of Giles in less than
five years.


Will you allow me to call the at
tention of your readers especially to
the necessity of draining their
farms. For proof of the advantages
of a system of drainage / would
point them to a farm lying two and
one-half miles from town on the
Columbia road on the west side of
the road. A gentleman told me
that few years ago a certain field
was badly washed, and now there is
scarcely a vestage of gully on the
entire farm. Farmers, think of
this.


After seeing your county from
center to circumference, and com
pairing it with others, / feel little
like the old gentleman did when he
said, THAT man is shorely one of
the best men in the world-'cept
one. and that's my Tommy"


FLAT CREEK, d. G. r.


BEDFORD Co, July 20th.
Year: 1878

and the soil, incalculable in value,
and sufficient to give homes and
employment to many millions of
people. All we need to restore the
equilibrium between production and
consumption, thus giving bread to
the hungry and labor to the idle, is
to expand our settlements oyer the
broad West, diversity occupation
and at the same time open channels
of transportation to all the markets
of the world. The rich farming
and grazing lands of Northern
Texas, and the richer mineral fields
of Arizona and New Mexico, are at
tracing immigration from all parts
of the country and the world. Since
my last visit here 1 am informed
that nearly quarter of million of
people have been added to Texas
alone.


WANT OF TRANSPORTATION.


The vast territory lying west of
this point has absolutely no facili-
ties for transportation either by
river or rail, and its settlement and
development cannot be secured
without the completion of the Texas
Pacific on the 32d parallel. Dom
Pedro, the wise Emperor of Brazil,
has undertaken to cancel the food
and labor famine of some provinces
in that vast realm, by inauguratlng
vUnPlyG Of M o1
Shall a great republic show less
good sense and liberality than the
monarch of Brazil2


INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION.


On the 10Th of next November an
international convention is to as
semble in New Orleans to recon
mend legislation upon a few great
measures of pressing and present
necessity to this whole country.
These will embrace 1st, the estab-
lishment of a steamship line from
New Orleans to Mexico and South
America, and for this reason dele
gates will attend from Mexico, Cen
tral and South America. I'd, The
improvement of the Mississippi
river, and Sd, The completion of
the Texas Pacific from Fort Worth
to San Diego. AS delegates will
be invited from all points Of the
United States, the Northern Pacific,
which, like the last named, can be
built without subsidy, should re-
ceive favorable action in the con-
vention. No omnibus bill is want
ed, but such a unity of Western
and Southern sentiment, as shall
show to Congress that these great
producing sections of the United
States, claim and demand such IA
cilities of internal and foreign COM
merce as will place them in easy
communication with all the markets
of the world. These things are a
necessity to .he West and South,
and of the highest Importance to
the whole country. j. L. Il.
Year: 1878

Springfield Record; If every news
paper publisher and editor in the
State of Tennessee will send US his
name, age, and the length of time
he has, in any way, been connected
with a printing office, he will confer
a great favor. Name the date
when you first entered the business.
The place and office: also whether
you are a practical printer or not
Also the office with which you are
connected. Will the press of Ten
nessee assist us in this by publish
ing the above? We made some
headway in our project at the last
meeting of our Association-and
while we request ali from whom we
got the desired information to pub
lish this it is unnecessary for
them to personally answer the
above questions.
Year: 1878

The Floridian says an OK went
into the water at Lake jackson and
was attacked and his leg broken by
an alligator. The OK beloved and
struck for the land, dragging the al
ligator with him. Attracted by the
blood and the noise, other alliga
tors came to the attack, and the OK
tossed them in the air with his
horns, he incautiously backed into
the water, when q huge alligator
seized him by the nose and drown
ed him.
Year: 1878

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