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Year: 1879

EAT ONIoNs.-Few people dream of the
many virtues of onions. and those few are
enthusiastic for the benefcent bulb and
believe it panacca for every i'll. Lung
and liver complaints are certainly benefit
ed, often cured, by n free consumption of
onions either cooked or raw. Colds Weld
to them like magic. Don't be afraid of
them--especially if you are married.
Taken at night all offence will be wanting
by morning. and the good effects will
amply compensate for the trilling annoy
ance. Taken regularly they greatly pro-


mote the health of the lungs and the
digestive organs. An extract made by
boiling down the juice of onions to u
syrup, and taken as medicine, answers
the purpose very well, but fried. roasted
or boiled onions are better. Onions are q
very cheap medicine within everybody's
reach, and they are not by any means as
"bad to take" as the costly nostrums a
neglect of their use will necesstate.


KEEPING MEAT FRESH.-The system of
protecting animal substances by securing
the coaguatOn of their albumen and ex-
clusion of air, is attracting in England
Just now, according to the London Country
Gentleman. n good deal of attention. The
process known as the japanese method


consists in placing raw flesh in porcelain
vessels and pouring on it boiling water,
whereby the albumen on the surface is
quickly coagulated and forms protection
against the further action of the water.
Oil is thon poured on the surface of the
water, so as to prevent the access of air
and consequent putrefaction of the meat


The journal alluded to- in commenting on
this method. says it is undoubtedly pref
erable to that practiced in the process of
preserving timed meats. which appears
to consist in boiling them for such a
length of time that almost all their flavor
is destroyed, and the ultimate result is a
mass of tasteless shreds of muscular fibre.
Year: 1879

"If you are out of debt, it is easy to
keep out; but if you are in debt and
have to pay interest money it's a hard
pull" So said the first speaker in the
car seat behind US, as we were going
home after work, to the seat mate be-
side him.


81 don't know about that" replied
the one addressed; it makes ali the
difference in the world who the man is.
Some men can't keep out of debt any
more than hen can keep out of the
garden. If they get out, they get in
again just as quick as they can, and
seem as happy about it as old TilIey
was about his SOUL"


ayes, / know,"' continued the first
speaker; "but L tell you it is easy to
keep out Of debt if you once get out /;
for If man has been harrassed by debt
as much as have for the last ten years
he will have learned lesson that will
be worth good deal to him. 1t is all
in being Independent, and in making
up your mind to get along without
things, and not getting them till you
have the money to pay for them. And
even then have taught myself to keep
my money in my pocket, even when l
wanted thing very much indeed, and
could have paid for it. But my expe-
rience has taught me that man is not
half so liable to buy things he does not
absolutely need, if he has the money in
his pocket, as he is if he gets it on
credit.n


81 have always thought the other
way about that" said the other, begin
ming before the first speaker had fairly
stopped. "You see, if the man has the
stamps in his fist, away they go for
things here and there, and before he
stops to think he is two or three dollars
out; but if he don't have the money
he can't spend it, and very likely he
wont buy the things and get them
charged.n


"Well, that depends upon the man
too, and the places he has been through" !"
put in the one who had begun the con
yersation. Experience is worth some
thing, and if man don't learn any
thing from it, he is dull scholar. Now
my experience has been that with mon
ey In his wallet which he has worked
hard to earn, he is going to be careful
how he puts it out, and he is sure he is
going to get the worth of his money in
things he needs before he spends it..
Year: 1879

nights and much suffering of children
might be avoided by this simple cure,
which has been safely used on very
young infants 7i


8 The tortures which babies have to
undergo are so many and SO pitiful, and
visited impartially on all about them in
travel and at home so many ailing,
miserable little 'cfeatures are to be seen
on the cars and ferry-boats, taken out
by their distracted mothers for change
OF air, that feel it will be giving gen
eral relief to tell the advice of hOspi-
tai physician, which proved an entire
success in my own family. The pain
of teething may be almost done away
with, and the health of the child bene-
fited, by giving it fine splinters of ice,
picked off with pin, to melt in its
mouth. The fragment is so small that
it is but a drop of warm water before it
can be swallowed, and the child has all
the GOODNESS ,forits feve1ed gums, with
out the slightest injury. The avidity
with which the little things taste the
cooling morsel, the instant quiet which
succeeds hours of fretfuIness, and the
sleep which follows the relief, are the
best witness to this magic remedy. Ice
may be fed to three months child this
way, each splinter being no larger than
a common pin, for five or ten minutes,
the result being that it has swallowed
IN that time teaspOOnful of warm wa
ter, which, so far from being harm, is
good for it, and the process may be re
peated hourly, or as often as the fret
ting fits from teething begin.


1t is now the season when boys and
glpis In the country give their mothers
sad nights by coming home in the mis-
erles OF poisoning by ivy. The irrita-
tlon by this poison is acute, as l have
reason to know, but the speedy cure for
1t is wash of oXalIc acid, teaspoon
ful OF the salt to pint of water, with
which the poisoned spots are bathed as
often as they grow troublesome. The
lotion smarts severely for few min
utes, but is followed by cessation of the
poison pain, which itches as if one could
tear the part to pieces. The above
may need reducing for young children.
Make it weak at first, and add grains of
the salt till it is strong enough to give
relief. A dessert spoonful of sweet oil
taken daily is said to drive the poison
out of the blood, but three severe cases
were cured without it, to my knowledge,
by the acid alone. 1t should not be
put in tin or anything metallic, as it
corrodes, and may form poisonous COM
pounds.


1t will be useful for poor people, and
those in the country, away from the
drug stores and doctors, to know, on
the authority of DR.. Beach, the noted
botanic doctor, that a strong infusion of
yarrow (white tansy) and boneset is a
good substitute for quinine in fever and
ague, or other malariOus complaints.
The plants should be gathered when in
flower, and a double handful of each
stepped in one quart of boiling water
and drank freely three or four times a
day. The prescription was given by
Dominic Van Saxon, Il well-knOwn mis-
sionary to China for thirty years, who
studied medicine and the properties of
herbs before going out, as most valua-
BILE for usefulness among the poor.-N
Y. Sun.
Year: 1879

Mosquitoes can be driven away from
rooms by the smoke of insect powder
burnt on a hot shovel. When it is moi
easy to get fire, put bit of gum cam
phor in shovel, light, and the gum
will catch as quickly as alcohol; then
sprinkle tablespoonful of insect pow
der (pyrethrum) on the flame, let il
take fire, and blow out the blaze, close
the windows, and let the smoke rise fol
five minutes. 1t will not injure walls
or furniture, and does not harm human
beings, though obnoxious to insects
Hanging cloth on which teaspoonful
OF carbolic acid is poured, at the head
of the bed, will keep mosquitoes away.
and the writer has repeatedly gained a
good nights sleep by this means when
others failed. Take care to place the
cloth or sponge SO that there is no dan
ger of touching it with face or hands in
the night, as the acid burns like caustic
1t is not generally known, as it ought
to be, that the remedy for burns by
carbOlic acid is Canada fir balsam.
spread on the part attacked.


A wash of fifteen or twenty drons ot
common carbolic acid in half-pint ot
water will Immediately relieve the
smart of mosquito bites, hives, prickly
heat, and all irritations of the skin com,
mon in summer. AS the strength OF
carbolic acid commonly sold varies. the
dilution should be tested before using
by wetting a small spot of skin. If &
causes any burning in moment or so
it is too strong, and more water must
be added. The lotion was recommend.
ed by city physician as in use al
Bellevue Hospital, and years of expert.
ence prove its benefit. Many q restles,
Year: 1879

q One of the most remarkable
things in human nature is the willing
ness OF women to sacrifice girls life
for the chance of saving the morals of a
scapegrace man. If a pious mother can
only marry her son Beelzebub to some
"good religious girl" the chance of his
reformation is greatly increased. The
girl is neither here nor there, when one
considers the necessity of saving the
dear Beelzebub. - EdaUard Eqgleston in
Sunday afternoon. -
Year: 1879

Speaking of the number of old bury
ing grounds Ill Boston, some one tells a
story about a stranger who put up at
Gne OF. JdmSs hotel. He was 5,ipon c,
room IN Une rear UI inc UurIuinS, IA
the first sight which met his eyes in the
morning was gloomy expanse of grave
yard, right under his window. He was
a man of sensitive nature-probably
from Leadville or some such pastoral
neighborhOod-and the landscape spoil
ed his appetite for that day. As soon
as his days work or pleasure was over,
he quietly removed his plunder to the
Parker house. Here he asked for a
front room, and went to sleep in peace :;
but in the morning, as before, Aurora's
gentle beams gilded dazzling array of
tOmb-stOnes across School street in the
Kings Chapel graveyard. The gen
tleman from Leadville had another
days bad digestion, but, being of
courageous disposition, he made third
trial and went over to the fremont,
where he expressly stipulated that he
should not be given back room nor
front one. The gentlemanly clerk as
signed him a cheerful parlor on the
west side, and the guest went to bed
happy. He arose at dawn, feeling de-
cidedly more cheerful, and drew his
curtains, to feast his gaze on-the old
Granary cemetery, with tomb-stones
300 years old moldering before him. 1t
was too much for the stranger, who i'm
mediately paid his bill and departed to
hunt up a town "where it wasn't so
darned unhealthy that they had to have
a graveyard attached to every hotel"
Year: 1879

A Cornish miner was recently found
dead in mine, and was duly buried. A
neighbor of the deceased the next night
dreamed that a gentleman in carriage
and pair had driven up to the house of the
deceased, and said he was not dead,
but had been buried alive. This dream
being noised abroad, the next night seven
or eight men went to the graveyard. dug
up the coffin, and carried it to a chapel.
They unscrewed the coffin lid, and there
was the body of their comrade apparently
still living and breathing SO convinced
were they of this that they sat HIM up, and
while some attempted to revive him by
stimulants and friction, others ran off to
the nearest surgeon, two miles distant.
The surgeon arrived, and examined the
body amid great excitement, and then
stated that the man was dead, and had
been dead some days.
Year: 1879

Some dogs, in their love and affection for
their masters, have at times equaled hu-
man beings in their constancy, and even
surpassed them in the marvellous intelli-
gence with which they foresee and avert
approaching danger. The following ex-
ample. related to us by one of the ladies
of the story may prove interesting. Two
girls, daughters of an English country
doctor, were once out for walk together.
Ii was an autumn afternoon, sunny ana
pleasant. They were accompanied by
their little dog named Jack, who was
clever little terrier, and more than once
had proved his claim to be considered, as
indeed. he was, their protector whilst out
walking. Their father often said he felt
quite happy when Jack was with them =
he was quite sure no harm would come to
them. The two girls pursued their walk
menily. The fine afternoon tempted
them to 90 farther than they ought, how
ever. and by the time they returned the
dusk had fallen and they were afraid they
would be late for tea. One of them pro-
posed to take short cut through wood
with which they were well acquainted,
having often gathered blackberries in it on
a summer afternoon. The other agreed,
and so they arrived at the edge OF tie
wood and prepared to enter it. 'All the
same | am rather afraid said Dora, TIE
Younger of the two, there have been sew
eral robberies in the neighborhood, and
saw some very odd-looking men pass our
door to-day besides | am wearing ny
new watch which papa gave me on ny
birthday "Oh nonsense!" her sister
replied. at is nearly six O'Clock now
and we shall be late" Be sure no Cne
will wish to harm u.s. II wish / were
as certain as you are. But what's the
matter with Jack ?'' Just as she had said
this, Jack advanced toward them, and
planting himself in the middle of their
path, sat down and whiined. That is
odd, = said Dora II never remember him
doing that before The other girl de-
rided her fears, and attempted to pass the
dog but he caught her dress with his
teeth, and held her so firmly that she
hardly dared to set herself free. One
more effort she made. but Jack was reso-
Lutte seeing how determined he was to
prevent their further progress, she gave
up trying. "Well. well, you stupid little
brute - she said angrily; Il suppose we
must 60 all that long way round.' So
the two sisters abandoned the idea of tax.
ing the short path through the wood al d
went home by the safe highroad.


When they arrived. how thankful how
unutterably thankful did they feel to their
little protector, whose intelligence had
been so far superior to theirs, and had
saved them despite themselves. A man
had been found in the wood shortly
after they had left it, murdered and robbed
it was conjectured, by the tramps who had
passed through the village in the morning.
Thus Jack had preserved his mistresses
from meeting a similar fate. Their graft
tude, it is needless to add. was profound
toward their little four-footed protector,
who, we are glad to hear lived to a good
old Chambers Journal.
Year: 1879

"Shc insists that it is Of more importance. that
her family shall be kept in full health. than
that she should have all the fashionable
dresses and styles OF the times. She there
fore sees to it, that each member of her fami
ly is supplied with enough Hop Bitters, at the
first appearance of any symptoms of i'll health,
to prevent fit of sickness with its attendant
expense. care and anxiety. All women
should exercise their wisdom in this way
Ed
Year: 1879

New York, Dec. ia dispatch to
the Tribune from Washington says, Will
Its will to morrow introduce two bills
and move their reference to the judi
ciary committee. One of these provides
for an amendment to the jury law of
Utah, making the practice Of polygamy,
or belief that it is morally or legally
right for man to have more than one
wife at the same time, sufficient cause
for challenge and rejection of juror
in any trial of an offense against anti
polygamy laws. The other bill deprives
all persons in the territories, women as
well as men, who may be in polyga-
nous relation, of the right to vote or
hold Office.
Year: 1879

THE ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER IN RICHMOND
NA.-Counsel for Angelo Baccigalupo, who at
tempted to murder his wife in Richmond on
Saturday night, will set up the plea that he Is
insane. The prisoner took the train on Satuf-
day for the west, and got as far as Milford on
the Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad, re.
turned to the city and made the desperate at
tempt to murder his wife
Year: 1879

RIGHT REy. BISHOP KEANE OF the {CatholIc)
diocese OF Richmond, was yesterday invited BY
the clerk OF the Virginia House OF Delegates to
open that body with prayer during the present
week. This Is the first time that similar invt-
tation has been extended by that body to a
Catholic prelate within the recollection OF the
Oldest attache OF the House.
Year: 1879

RETURN OF THE AMERICAN EXHIBITS - The
ships Supply and Trimountain with returned
goods from the Paris exposition, arrived ct
New York yesterday. They will discharge ca:-
and all goods not taken from the wharf within
As hours after landing Will be put in bonded
warehouse at the cost and risk of owners The
supply has as part OF her cargo the American
pictures The Constitution Is still at Lisbon
and cannot reach this country before May LIST.
commissioner General Mccormick will go TO
New X0ric y q -
Year: 1879

In THE GENERAL sensations Of the
times comes q report from New Castle
by one Of the inmates OF the prison
complaining of i'll treatment by the war.
den. He, the prisoner, complains that
his letters for his wife instead Of being
mailed are mutilated and returned to
him, that he is starved for nearly two
days at a time for some imaginary
offence, and that the warden uses very
profane and harsh language towards
him. The complaint is such, that at
least demands the interference Of the
Sheriff. Because a man is prisoner
and unable to help himself, is NO
reason he should be subjected to
insult and i'll treatment, and we do not
believe Sheriff Pyle would permit such
things to exist If he knew Of it. The
substance of the letter is given in
our local columns.
Year: 1879

The indications are strengenthing tina


the Democrats intend to abandon tn,


discussion of finances and southern


matters in the approaching Preslden.


tial contest, and that they will con.


fine themselves to an open advocacy


of free trade. Fernando Wood, chair.


man Of the Finance Committee of Con.


gress, and the free trade leader of the


same, hiss for some time before the ad
journment of the late extra session OF


Congress, been in Europe and will re-


turn it at the commencement of the


regular session in December full of ar.


gument in favor of free trade. He has


already written letter to somebody


stating that the tariff will be made one


of the leading issues of the next canvass


for the Presidency, also stating that
he has received assurances from the
Western States in support Of a free
trade policy. All this shows the
weakness of the Democratic party. The
first leading issue with them if it could
be made popular, would be the repeal
Of all the Federal election laws that
they might be left free to carry
elections in seme Of the principal cities
Of the north, after ths Southern shot
gun plan.


The soft side Of the finance question
proved TO be a bubble easily pricked,
without substance, and they are now
ready to abandon that aud the shot
gun cause for free tariff platform We
predict that the party will be equally
unsuccessful with the free trade issue,
At time when through protective
.ariff and resunption Of specie pay
nents, business has been revived in
he country and laboring men have
both work end increased wages. The
Republicans have no more to fear
rom the tariff issue than from the soft
money and shotgun issue. All they
ave TO do Is to stand fast az the up-
lipching advocates Of fair elections,
ound money and protective tariff,
md victory is theirs, either upon one
n all OF the issues named. Upon the
arff issue Wilmington should be Re-
,ublican by majority of thousands.
I is through the protective tariff policy
,assed by the Republican party that
lsr manufactures are kept in opera.
ion and her thousands of laboring men
:ept employed.
Year: 1879

1t was currently reported that MHs.
Sarah zsiglsr, the unfortunate woman
who says she was betrayed BY . city
oficial, was 10 have been arrested yes
tsrday iffound in the city, on q pre-
ssrrsd charge Of perjury, but SO fsr Is


We have heard the arrest was not made.
From the sources from which We have
derived our information there is no
doubt that An arrest was contemplated,
but We are glad to believe that the Sec
ond sober, sensible thought has pre-
vailed, and we hope that nothing Of the
kind will be attempted. There can be
no doubt that public sympathy is on
the side Of the woman, and that barring
some misstatements that were almost
unavoidable, her story is generally be-
lieved, and any attempt now TO have
her arrested for what she has said
would be looked upon as heartless
persecution which would be vigorously
resented by the public. The idea of
arresting her it is intlmated was for
the purpose Of throwing her into prison
supposing that she wsuld be unable to
obtain bail, and that rather than lay
in jail she would recant her charges
and thereby make a loophole OF es-
cape for some persons who find them
selves in very unpleasant dilemma.
A scheme like this il carried out would
make prosecuted heroine or martyr
out of the woman, and those who en-
gage in such an attempt to heap further
disgrace and shame upon her would
find that they have been handling .
which rebounding would
but iniure themselves.
Year: 1879




As THE City Council will NO doubt en-
tor into full investigation Of the City
Hospital affair We would rsitsrsts our
suggestion Of yesterday. that . COM
mittse Of citizens be appointed to whom
all the powers Of the City Council shall
be delegated to make the investigation.
1t Is not that w have lost confidence in
the gentlemen who compose the City
Council that We make this suggestion,
but that the public may bo fully salts


fed. 1t Is no use denying the fact that
owing to reports duplicating certain
members Of Council in the misnanage-
msnt Of the City Hospital, nothing
short OF thorough investigation by =
competent committee of citizens would
satisfy the public. We are satisfied that
even an investigation by q committee
Of Council would result in q condemna-
ton of the practice Of holding periodi-
cal set outs or feasts on extra occasions,
at an institution W here there are maim-
ed and sick people who require rest
and quietness. If city officials really
must wind up special occasions with
banquets, a banquettins house should
be reaorted to. The City Hospital was
instituted as a place where crippled
and sick persons could have that care
and attention, that quietness and ease
which they could not perhaps have
even in their own homes, and this tact
alone forbids the idea that 1t is a place
for banquetting and feasting, which is
always attended Nth more or less bois-
terousness and mirth. In regard to the
charges that an unusual amount Of liq-
uors are consumed there We know moth
ing only as We See and hear of bills that
council ordered paid, which are sugges-
tive. II, as is intimsted in the" Every
those bills have been spirited
away from the City Council Clerk Office
by Mr.. Lee the Superintendent Of the
City Hospital, that is certainly matter
which requires strict, speedy and rigid
and that this invsstiga-
ion shall be an impartial one, and re-
nsved from every semblance ofa white
project on behalf Of the public
It large without regard to politics, we
ay again let the committee be citizens
# mature judgment unbiased by preju-
lice, and who are known to be upright
,onest men. In saying this We do not
wish to be understood as casting any
upon the gentlemen compos-
ng the City Council, for we believe
here are just as honest and upright
nen in the City Council as outside of 1t
md who would be governed by correct
md honest motives, but owing to the
complex condition of affairs, and the
lose relation ship existing between the
;ity Council and the City Hospital,
ound reason shows that an investiga-
ion and decision to be respected by the
'ublic, should be made by an impair
ial citizens committee.
Year: 1879

TUE CRY HOSPITAL bills for whiskey
furnished seem to have taken wings
and flown away, as they cannot be
found in the Clerks Office where they
should be and where other bills of the
city are to be found. Perhaps they
have gone to keep company with the
coal oil contracts that disappeared so
mystsriously when the present Super.
intendent Of the City Hospital was
Clerk Of tho City Council.