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Year: 1874

Had Queen Elizabeth lived in our
day, her extravaganza would be far
more extensive than it really was, I
imagine for the old dame-I beg her
pardon, maiden-knew little of real
luxury. During her reign, people would
not eat meat on Wednesday and Satur-
day, except in case of sickness, and
then license must be obtained; one
object of this prohibition was "the
sparing and increase Of the flesh victual
of the realm" They had eggs, butter,
honey and cheese, but almost no vege-
tables except coarse sort of beans and
peas, the former being sometimes, in
case of scarcity, ground with grain tor
the bread of the poor; but it was SO
unpalatable that even beggars refused
it when there was possibility of get.
ting anything better. Herbs OF all
kinds went into the pottage of the poor,
which had not always so much as bone
to give it relish. And these herbs
bitter, often-helped to flavor meats
and fish. Wheaton" bread was scarce,
the poorer classes using a combination
Of bran and meal. The popular drink
for men and women was ale. We read
that royal Bess consumed her full share
of this beverage. Certainly she had no
other inducement to become guilty of
excess IN appetite, and was thus justi-
fed IN making the most OF her privi-
eyes, perhaps.
Year: 1874

One who is anxious to discover the
causes and remedies for the prevailing
lack of honesty traces the matter to the
credit system as we'll as the financial
calamities now upon us. A thousand
honest men are put at the mercy OF q
single dishonest man to pay his debts.
If the one pockets his money and re-:
fuses to pay, he deprives thousand
who are anxious to do so. The best
way to get capital is to work for it.
Work for wages till you have money
of your own. To use another's capital,
if you lose it you must replace it. When
a man finds he owes more than he can
pay. he begins to inquire how he can
get rid OF his debt. If all he has will
not pay all he owes, then less than all
he thinks, will pay part, and he hides
a portion or all from creditors. Learn
to make money a year before you spend
it, then you will buy less and buy
cheaper. Other things being equal,
dishonesty prevails in proportion to the
facilities for escaping obligations. The
wise man has said that the "borrower
is servant to the lender" and he ought
to be until he returns what he has bor-
rowed. When one has the benefit of an
others labor, property, person, skill and
all are bound for the equivalent. The an.
cient Roman and Jewish codes held
that mans life and labor should be
bound for his debts. This may appear,
and sometimes is, severe; but strict
Justice says, "What doth the Lord thy
God require of thee but to do Justly ?"
"Owe no man anything" if you can
help it; but if you do, place what you
have at the disposal of your creditor till
all is paid.
Year: 1874

A New York Sun reporter who visi-
ted VIM. NJ. Tweed in his prison at
Blackwell's Island, says: While stand
ing in the corridor of one Of the wings
the cell occupied by Tweed when he
arrived in the place was pointed out Py
the Warden. While glancing up ana
down the long corridor the reporter
saw large form emerging from q cell
Keeper Macdonald was with the man:
The reporter had full view OF him: IL
was William NJ. Tweed. He walked
quickly along the balcony and recog-
nized the reporter. His face was
flushed, and he seemed much feshier
than when he first became an inmate
of the institution. It was evident, how
ever, that his mental anguish is great,
and that he feels his degradation terri
bly,. His hair is very short and ms
face smooth. He wore brown panta-
looms, vest, and short coat, but with
the disc uise which would be complete
in many others, no one who had ever
seen him would have failed to recoguHe
the man who once carried New York IN
his pocket. He hurried up the staircase
to the hospital. He had been visiting
a sick convict in his cell and admins
tering medicine to him. :.


DIR. Partridge, who is in charge OF
the prison hospital, has never seen
more faithful orderly in the place than
Tweed. The ex-Boss arises at SIX
o'clock every morning and attends to
the wants OF his patients. There are
seventeen convicts on the sick list IN
the hospital. Those who are able to
sit up eat at the same table with Tweed
and the head orderly. Tweed has q
place at the head Of the table and MS
superior officer OF the foot. All fare
alike. and the wealthy orderly never
complains. He is as much in earnest
and as thorough in lis work as he was
in other and brighter days when ne
was Tammany's chieftain, and none OF
the sufferers in his care are neglected
by HIM. 1t is astonishing, the keepers
say, to see how active he is. When
convict is carried in with q crushed
foot or injured in any way Tweed loses
no time in attending to him. He car
ries q little book which contains the
names OF the patients and the physi-
clans instructions about the time when
medicine must be given them or when
bandage or plaster should be re-
moved and Others applied. Thus
"John Smith, two pills every two
hours" is never forgotten, and Tweeds
usefulness is apparent to all. Some
taink he works so necessarily TO kiii
time, but he seems to take wondertuI
interest in every one in the hospital,
and frequently in the middle OF the
night arises to attend to the wants OF q
poor, suffering wretch. - -


As the army of prisoners in the oorri-
dors sat closely together ct the narrow
wooden tables eating their cold roast
beef. soup, and bread, William M.
Tweed, whose saddened countenance
plainly showed his misery, took his
seat at the head Of the plain table in
| the hospital, and tried to look cheerful
| as he and his fellow suffering convicts
ate their scanty meal.
Year: 1874

AMERICAN HOMES for August is out.
This magazine is only g a year, in
cludiDg a beautiful chrome. The
publishers have added a Fashion
Department, which will add to its
value in the eyes of the ladies. The
short stories and poems of the mum
Der are fully up to the standard, and
all together make really frst-class
two dollar magazine. The publish
ers want agents for this and every
place in the country.
Year: 1874

plantations, as we'll as every path and road
for miles, were filled with them. Rats, mice
and reptiles of every kind became an easy
prey to them, and even the birds, which they
attacked whenever they lighted on the ground
in search of food, were so harrassed as to be at
length unable to resist them. Streams of wa
ter opposed only a temporary obstacle to their
progress the foremost rushing blindly on GER
tain death and fresh armies instantly follow.
ing till bank was formed of the carcasses of
those which were drowned, sufficient to dam
up the waters and allow the main body to
pass over in safety. Even fire was tried with
out effect When it was lighted to arrest the
route, they rushed into the blaze in such
myriads as to extinguish it." To such straits
was the unfortunate island reduced by the
ants that a reward Of twenty thousand pounds
was offered, but in vain, for an effectual means
of destroying them; and it was not until a
hurricane in 1870 came and blew them away
and drowned them-doing, by the way, al
most more mischief than the ants-that Gran
ada was freed from those terrible destroyers.
Happily in London we have the steam-roller,
which should be kept ready for immediate ac-
.tion in the face of the calamity with which
we are now threatened.
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the Washington Chron-
icle, who has lately made pilgrimage to
Monticello, once the home of Thomas Jeffer-
son, thus describes the mansion in which the
great statesman dwelt:


at is two-story main building with wings,
the former projecting front and rear, in i'm:
mense porticoes of solid stone, the centre of
the building being capped with plain but
ill-lighted dome. On the ceiling Of the front
portico is a large compass dial, and immedi-
ately over the main door there is set in the
wall large clock, with dials showing inside
and out, and there is now exhibited ladder
made by Jefferson himself, and with which he
wound up the tiLae-keeper, at stated periods,
by the we ghts suspended from pulleys on the
walls of either side. The main entrance real.
ly consists of three double glass doors, all OF
which can be removed, and you first enter a
vestbule, octagonal in shape, and pass imme-
diately into parlor of the same shape. The
two apartments have inlaid floors of walnut,
mahogany and cherry, which have yet to be
surpassed by any work of the kind in
this country Although they were in con-
slant use in Je6erson's days, as he always had
lots of company, and have been used since,
and are still, by picnic and dancing parties,
they are not warped nor injured in the least,
and need, apparently, only soap and water to
restore them to their original glossy appear
ance. There are two small dining rooms, one
in each wing, the rest of the building being
cut up into small and badly lighted bed
rooms. Ventilation seems to have been bu.
ried beneath every other consideration, as
there is no room in the house through which
there could be gained direct air current.
The beds, even, are set in recesses or alcoVes
in the walls, to form which space and room
are sacrificed, and the stairways, one in each
wing, are so constructed and of such scanty
bend that their descent would be perilous in
the daytime without lantern. A covered
way, which is in rather dilapidated condi-
ton, leads from either wing to his library and
office respectively, and an underground pass
age, through which he made his escape from
COL Tarleton and the British cavalry, is shown
to visitors There is suspended in the vesti.
bule a four-light lantern; but beyond the old
gig body, in which it is said he used to ride to
Charlottesville, there is not an article of fur
niture or curiosity in the house. The janitor
or keeper Of the premises is a white man,
named Thomas Wheeler, who lives in the east
wing. He was the overseer for Commodore
Levy, the last tenant Of the entire mansion,
and as the property is now in litigation he re-
mains in charge by suferance, sustaining him,
self by what he can make off the farm and
the collections twenty-five cents each,) which
he demands from visitors"
Year: 1874

mute preacher at his feet tells of life begun
and ended without stain; and surely if this
be vouchssfed to mortality, how much purer
and holier must be the spiritual land, enlight'
ened by the sun of infinite goodness, whence
emanated the soul of that brief sojourner
among us? -,


How swells the heart of the parent with
mournful joy while standing by the earth
beds of lost little ones7 Mournful, because
a sweet little treasure has been taken away
Joyful because that precious jewel glitters in
the diadem of the Redeemer
Year: 1874

ROUND THE HousE-If you are buying
car pets for durability, choose small figures:


If your hat-irons are rough, rub them with
fine salt and it will make them smooth.


Wood ashes and common salt made COM
pact with water will stop the cracks ct stove
and prevent the smoke from escaping.


To clean Drowned porcelain kettle, boil
peeled potatoes in it. The porcelain will be
rendered nearly as white as when new.


To ascertain whether bed be damp or not,
after the bed is warmed, put g lass goblet in
between the sheets, and if the bed be damp,
in few minutes drops of water will appear
on the inside of the glass. :,


A strong solution of carbolic acid and
water poured into holes kills all the ants 1t
touches and the survivors Immediately take
themselves of.


A small piece of paper or linen, molstened
with spirits Of turpentine and put into
bureau or wardrobe for single day, two or
three times, is said to be sufficient preserva-
tion against moths.


For cleaning glass newspaper is one Of the
best articles to use. The chemical operations
of some of the ingredients of printing ink
give beautiful polish. Slightly moisten
piece of paper, roll it up, and rub the glass;
then take dry, soft piece and repeat the pro-
cess. No lint will remain, as is the case when
cloth is used.


Water in which potatoes have been boiled
exercises remarkably cleaning influence
upon slverware of all kinds, especially spoons
that have become blackened by eggs. Even
delcately chased and engraved articles can,
it is said, be made bright by this method bet
ter than by the use of the ordinary polishing
powder, which is apt to settle in the depres-
sions, requiring particular care in the re-
moyal,
Year: 1874

The PUIsE.-A healthful grown persons
pulse beats seventy times in minute; there
may be good health down to sixty; but if the
pulse exceeds seventy there is disease the
machine is working too fast; it is working it.
self out there is a fever or Inflammation
somewhere, and the body is feeding on itself,
as in consumption. When the pulse is quick
that is overseventy-it gradually yincreases with
the decreased chances Of cure until it reaches
one hundred and ten or one hundred and
twenty, when death comes before many days.
When the pulse is over seventy for months,
and there is slight cough, the lungs are at
fected. Every intelligent person owes it to
himself to learn from his family physician
how to ascertain the pulse in health, then BY
comparing it with whatit was when ailing, ne
may have some idea of the urgency Of his
case Parents should know the healthy pulse
of each child, as now and then person is
born with peculiarly slow or fast pulse, and
the case in hand may be of that popularity.
An infants pulse is one hundred and forty;a
child of six, about eighty; and from twenty
to sixty years, it is seventy beats a minute,
declining to sixty at fourscore. There are
pulses all over the body, but where there is
only skin and bone, as at the temples, it IS
most easily felt.
Year: 1874

moved or put on the hoof and hence, while
standing in the stall or turned out to PASTURE
the horse may go barefooted. In winter time
the covering serves as protection against, ILL.,
ness due to the common practice of mlngllng
salt with the ice and snow in city Streets
while the roughened surface Of the rubber BE-
meath serves to give the animal a foothold IN
slippery weather. As compared with iron
shoes, the Cost of the rubber ones is about one
third more, and their weight is some 4O per
cent less, while they are very durable. Six
teen sizes are manufactured, 20 that accurate
fits may be obtsined.
Year: 1874

Be THoRouGH.-There can be nothing Of
more Importance than thoroughness Every
live, progressive farmer must of necessity be
thorough, if he expects to make his occupa.
ton success. He must not try to do too
much by cultivating too many acres with too
little help and machinery, nor should he keep
more stock than can be kept in good, thriv-
ing condition. He should aim to keep ahead
of his work, which has been previously
planned, and work out his plans to the very
letter. Whatever is worth doing should be
done we'll. Thoroughness in farming pays.
When plowing, pillow with as much care as if
you were competing for premium. Let no
cut and covering be done, but set your plow
SO that it will be square and true, and not so
that it will run sidewise, like a hog to wallow.
When narrowing make no balks, but usually
wrap the harrow half, and get the seed bed in
good order. See that the soil is pulverized,
so that the plant food will be available. In
seeding, get the best seed, fan it thoroughly,
and arrange your seves so that all the small
and imperfect grains will be separated from
the large and perfect ones.


To be thorough, we must be saving. Too
much grain is wasted iu nearly avery harvest
field. 1t pays to take the cradle and swath
around the field, so that the reaper can run
the first round without driving over the stand
ing grain. A little more thoroughness in the
matter of saving grain when harvesting and
threshing, would amount in the aggregate to a
sum that would astonish many farmer who
has never seriously considered the matter
american Stock Journal.
Year: 1874

GcoD NArURE.-Be good natured if you
can, for there is no attraction so great, no
charm so admirable A face that is full of
the expression of amiability is always beauti-
full. 1t needs no paint and no powder. Co.'S
metics are superhuous for it. Rouge cannot
improve the cheeks, nor lily white mend its
complexion. Its loveiness lies beyond all
this 1t is not beauty that is but skin deep.
For when you gaze in the face of a noble
hearted man or woman, it is not the shape of
the features you really see, nor yet the tint of
the cheek, the hue of thelip, or the brilliance
of the eye.


You see the nameless something which ami
mates all these, and leaves for your instinct a
sense of grateful fascination you see an in
describable embodiment Of the heartfelt good
ness within, which wins your regard in spite
of external appearances, and deies all the
critical rules of the aesthetic. Cultivate good
nature, therefore. 1t is better than "apples
of gold set in pictures of silver" for gold will
take to itself wings and fly away, silver will
tarnish in time, and both, when abundant,
Year: 1874

LITTLE VREAT MEN.-1rI IS IemarKaDIe
thing that some Of the greatest men in history
have been of small future stature. Certainly,
from all experience, height Of person has no
influence on the mental faculties. The chan.
ces seem to be that smallness of size, in fact,
at times, little lameness is advantageous
The reason for this is tolerably plain. Tall
and robust men are apt to devote themselves,
or at least to derive so much enjoyment from
boisterous pursuits, as to be rather Indifferent
to any speciality in mental culture. Men of
small stature, and perhaps weak health, are,
on the contrary, driven to mental occupation.
Studying hard in their several vocations, they
rise to distinction. A comforting reflection
this for young men who have the misfortune
to labor under personal infrmities
Year: 1874

The city of Los Angeles will not al
ways confine herself to the level plain.
She will expand and grow. She will
ascend the slope and extend over the
high lands on either side of the river. 1t
is more than probable that men now
walking the streets will see the city
thus grow and remember this predic-
tion. Cities of large size must have
ample sewerage. If the Los Angeles
river was deep and rapid stream al
ways running large volume of water,
Los Angeles city would have a main
sewer ready furnished. Small sewers
beneath the surface of the streets run
ming to the river from the high lands,


would give the city a system of sewer
age of which there would never be
cause for complaint. But as the river
does not furnish us the much needed


main sewer, it will become the duty
of the citizens to build one sooner or
later. Owing to the level surface of
Year: 1874

No better or more convincing
proof of the rapid increase of
business and the general pros
prosperity of this portion of the State
can be offered than glance at life in
Wilmington harbor. The facilities
which a few years ago were more than
sufficient for accommodation of trade
during the busiest seasons, are now to-
tally inadequate for the regular trade.
There is an immense amount of
freight landed at Wilmington harbor
The cargoes of the steamers have kept
the landing facilities so busy that q
schooner loaded with ties for the
Spring Street Railroad has been wait
ing ten days for an opportunity to dis
charge her cargo. This speaks we'll
for the prosperity of our city and
valley.
Year: 1874

We are not furnished with the mo-
tive which prompts the attack of the
Express OH the German American
Club Platform, and through it the
German born citizens. The platform
adopted by the association speaks for
itself and sets up no national claims of
any kind and none political that may
not be endorsed by those who are not in
favor OF Legislative temperance. The
German-American Club is not ma
tional organization, for the reason that
voter of any nationality may be-
come member of it and participate
at its meetings. The gentlemen who
compose the club are not asked if they
are Germans, or Irishmen, or Span
iards, nor is nationality made the test
of membership. The platform has
been published, and all who endorse
the principles laid down in that plat
form may become members OF the
club. There is neither truth nor
sense in the following paragraph, and
it reads like a premeditated insult to
every man speaking the German lam
guage in the United States:


The German is the least useful language
one could be possibly possessed of in active
life in this country, for the reason that Ger
mans readily acquire the English on their ar
rival here Practically, the Chinese tongue
would be Infinitely more valuable in The
commercial and racial relations now spring.
ing up on this side of the Continent.


1t is possible the Chinese language
might be more useful to the ErpreSs
management than the German, but
with the majority of people the Ger
man tongue is more desirable both in
social and business point of view.
We have never heard that the German
born citizens of Los Angeles were
forming German Political Club, and
we venture the statement that not a
German-kmerican can be found who
will say such club has been formed
oris proposed to be formed. We are
opposed to the formation of German
Political Clubs, Irish Political
Clubs, or exclusive American
Clubs, and we cannot and will not en-
dorse the proposition of the Express to
re-organize the Know-Nothing party.
Year: 1874

the valley this main sewer will neces-
sarily be several miles in length, but
if il had to be laid down for ten miles
in order to obtain the required fall it
does not obviate the fact that some
day it must be built. With a large
we'll built sewer extending from the
upper portion of the city down the
river the necessary distance, into
which the smaller sewer may empty
their contents there will be no diff
Guilty in keeping the city well drained
of sewage. So long as there is no sys-
tenn or rule by which underground
drains are built and so long as there is
no adequate main sewer to which all
smaller ones may lead there will al
ways be trouble about sewerage.
Year: 1874

The following card is published in
Et NueUO MundO:


1t not being possible for me in my
present condition to obtain the money
necessary to pay my lawyers for my
defense and for the costs indispensable
in the trial of my case, entreat eX-
ceedingly the friends of humanity,
principally my countrymen, to help
me in making up the fund necessary
for my defense. L appeal to all per-
sons of philanthropic dispositions.
They will eternally oblige me and
will receive the heartfelt gratitude of
one in disgrace.


TIBURCIo NASQUEZ.
Year: 1874

IN Alpine county, people who do
not properly deport themselves are
made to leave. If each county in the
State adopted this plan what n rush
there would be for Nevada, and how
our population would decrease.
Year: 1874

THE Express thinks the city should
be provided with pound for rhe vic
Tins of the I" +. X" The readers Of
that paper have been urging the
Council to make such arrangement
for month past.
Year: 1874

The Manchester papers have the
following: "Some engineers in Ba-
den have just contrived an ingen-
ious piece of mechanism, which has
already been adopted in some of the
public buildings and streets Of Hell
delberg. The object is to provide
for the simultaneous lighting of the
easlights of the town. This has been
done both in Paris and with us in the
Albert Hall by the use of an electric
wire, but the German engineers have
invented method more simple and
durable. Their apparatus can be af-
fixed equally to all gas-jets, and it is
made to act, not by any special me-
chanism, but simply by the incress-
ed pressure Of the gas, which is al
WAYS laid on from the gasometer
when the lamps should be lighted.
The one act Of turning on the gas 1t
the main ignites it vt all the burners
fitted with the new spparasus. In
achieving this result the designers
did not really obtain any very prsc-
teal advantage over the method Of
ignition by electricity. But they
pushed the invention still further,
and have proved that when the
pressure is diminished ut the main,
the gas n either be totally extin-
guished or let down to thread. II
is chiefly in the lighting ofthe streets
Of town that the invention will be
of practical use. Directly the gas il
turned on the whole city viii be sim
ultaneonsly Illuminated, and when in
the early morning the pressure - re-
dnced the light may he totally ex-
tinguished."