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Year: 1878

That fish may be scaled much easier
by first dipping into boiling water about
a minute. That salt fish are quickest
and best freshened by soaking in sour
milk. That salt will curdle new milk !;
hence in preparing milk porridge, gra-
vies, ETC., the salt should not be added
until the dish is prepared. That fresh
meat beginning to sour will sweeten if
placed out of doors in the cool air over
night. That clear boiling water will re-
move tea stains and many fruit stains.
Pour the water through the stain and
thus prevent itspreading over the fabric.
That boiling starch is much improved
by the addition of sperm or salt, or both,
or a little gum arabic dissolved. That
beeswax and salt will make your rusty
flat-irons as clean and smooth as glass.
Tie lump of wax in a rag and keep it
for that purpose. When the irons are
hot, rub them first with the wax rag,
then scour with paper or cloth sprinkled
with salt. That blue ointment and ker.
osene mixed in equal proportions, and
applied to bedsteads, is an unfailing bug
remedy, and that coat of whitewash is
ditto for the walls of log house. That
kerosene will make your tea kettle az
bright as new. Saturate woolen rae
and rub with it. 1t will also remove
stains from the clean vanished furni
ture. That cold rain water and soal


will remove machine grease from wash
able fabrics,
Year: 1878

Deer Miss-This is an important
epock into your life. The 1st thing to
make a good quire singer is to giggle a
little.


Put up your hair in kirl papers every
friday mite soze to have it in good shape
Sunday morning.


If your daddy is rich you can buy
some store hair. If he is very rich buy
some more & build it high up onto your
head: then git high-priced bunnit
that runs up very high, at the high
part of it, and git the milliner to plant
some high-grown artafshels onto the
highest part of it. This will help you
to sing high, as sophrano is the highest
part.


When the tune is Civ out, don't pay
attenshun7 to it, but ask the nearest
young man what it is, and then giggle.
Giggle good eel.


Whisper to the girl next you, that
En- Jones which sits on the Sd sect
from the front on the left-hand side,
has her bunnit trimmed with the same
color exact she had last year, and then
put up your book to your face and
giggle.


Object to every tune unless there is
solow into it for the sophrano. Coff
and hem good eel before you begin to
sing.


When you sing a solow shake your
he'd like you was trying to shake the
artefcials off your bonnit, and when
you come to high tone brace yourself
back little, twist your he'd to one side
and open your mouth the widest on that
side, shet the i've on the same side jest
a triphel and then put in for deer life.


When the preacher gifts under he'd
way with his preachin, write note
onto the blank leaf into the fourpart
of your notebook. That's what the
blank leaf was made for. Git sumbody
to pass the note to sumbody else, and
you watch them while they read it, and
then giggle.


If ennybody talks or laffs in the con-
gregashun and the preacher takes any
notis of it, that's a good chants for you
to giggle, and you ort to giggle a great
eel. The preacher darsent say emmy
thing to you bekause you are in the
quire, and he can't run the meetinhouse
to both ends without the quire. If you
had bo before you went into the quire
give him the mitten-you ought to have
sumbody better now.


Don't forgit to giggle.
Year: 1878

1t is the essential nature of all wines
and spirits to send an increased amount
of blood to the brain. The first effect
of taking a glass of wine, or stronger
form of alcohol, is to send the blood
there faster than common; hence the
circulation that gives the red face. 1t
increases the activity of the brain, and
it works faster, and so does the tongue.
But, as the blood goes to the brain faster
than common, it returns faster, and no
special harm results. But, suppose a
man keeps on drinking, the blood is sent
to the brain so fast, in such large quan-
titles that, in order to make room for it,
the arteries have to enlarge themselves
they increase..in size, and, in doing so,
they press against the more yielding
iaccid veins which carry the blood out
of the brain, and thus diminish their
size, their pores, the result being that
blood is not carried to the arteries of the
brain faster than is natural or healthful,
but it is prevented from leaving it as fast
as usual; hence double set of causes of
death are in operation. Hence man
NAV drink enough of brandy or other
spirits in few hours, or even minutes,
to bring on a fatal attack of apoplexy.
This is, literally, being dead drunk
DR.. Hail.
Year: 1878

In paper read at domestic economy
congress at Birmingham, England, not
long ago, DR.. Wilson gave the following
hints on the proper times for eating for
different classes of workers: For the act
i've outdoor laborer and artisan, an
early breakfast before work, midday
dinner, with an interval of rest, and a
supper after the days work is over, have
long been proved by experience to be
the most conducive to health. For the
business man later breakfast, mid
day luncheon and a late dinner after
the days work is over, is the best ar
rangement. For literary men, who
write more in the evening than during
the day, an early dinner and light
supper will be found to be the most ad-
vantageous for steady work. Idlers to
enjoy life, if they possibly can, should
dine early if they intend to spend the
evening at theaters and the like, but if
they accept dinner invitations freely
they should be careful not to eat toe
much at the midday meal. The break
fast hour should be determined in great
measure bv the hour of rising; hut in
every case food should be partaken OF
before the material business Of the day
is commenced. Those who like to take
constitutional before breakfast
would find their appetite whetted and
their walk made all the more enjoyable
if they took little milk or cafe au lait
with bread or biscuit, before starting
Work done before breakfast is alway,
irksome and fatiguing, and on that ac
count is very likely to be badly done
The last meal should be sufficiently late
for the whole not to be absorbed before
retiring to rest. To person in health
three meals day ought to be quite
sufficient, and the practice of continu
ally taking something is sure to bring
on indigestion,
Year: 1878

An amusing incident, says the Cleve-
land Voice, took place on suburban
Locust-street, in which an immense dog
and garden hose were the chief partici-
pants. The hose was directed upon the
dog while he was pursuing the even tenor
Of his way unmindful of the sorrows and
tin cans that beset his kind. He in
stantly turned and attacked the stream
of water. He went for it, he bit it
through and through, he mounted it, he
descended it, he climbed up it on one
side and down the other, he shook it, he
tackled it fore and aft right dogfully,
he took it on the fly, he ran with it to
first base, he ordered it up, he went il
alone, to the intense delight of a number
of lookers-on, but all to no purpose. He
only desisted when he had taken ON board
sufficient water to preclude all probabil
ity of hydrophobia for the next si1
weeks. he then skunk away, looking a
completely whipped as a dog knew
hsw,
Year: 1878

Queen Elizabeth, in spite of the repre-
sentation of so many historians, was
heartless in the cruelty of her disposi-
ton, and ugly in person. In her sixty
first year she was thus described: " Her
face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes
small, but black and pleasant; her nose
little hooked; her lips narrow, and
her teeth black; she wore false hair,
and that red; her bosom uncovered !"
yet was this Princess vain to the last
degree, and as susceptible to fattery as
any ever heard of, as the following in
stance may show: "When the States of
Holland sent a splendid embassy to her,
at the first audience one of the Ambas-
sadors' suite said to an English gentle
man that he did not know why they
should speak with such indifference of
the Queens beauty; that they did her
great injury; that he thought her very
charming, and should be happy in hav-
ing so fine woman for his wife. The
Queen, who had her eyes fixed upon the
whole suite of foreigners, when the audi
ence was over, sent for the English
gentleman and commanded him, under
pain of displeasure, to tell her what the
Dutchman had said to him; the gentle
man excused himself long time, pre-
tending that the conversation was moth
ing but a trife; the Queen, however,
was determined to know what the dis
course was, upon which he told Her
Majesty the whole of what had been
said. The conclusion of the matter was
that the Ambassadors were presented
each with chain of gold of 300 crowns
value, and their principal attendants
with one of 100 crowns each; but the
gallant Dutchman who had found the
Queen so very, very handsome, had a
chain of 1000 crowns value, which, il
is said, Mynheer wore to the day of his
DEATH"
Year: 1878

Not the least hideous TO contemplate
among the dangers of the streets is the
possibility of sudden illness when one is
alone in public thoroughfare. The pc
destrian knocked down and tramp1ed
upon by furiously-driven horse, or the
wayfarer struck by a falling chimney,
will be more or less carefully conveyed
to the nearest hospital, there to be tended
with skill and surrounded by com
fort. But the unfortunate who finds
himself suddenly deprived of motion and
speech by the rupture of a tiny blood
vessel in his brain has an exceedingly
slender chance of such comparatively
happy fate; for him are, possibly, only
the ieers of crowd, and rough, unsym-
pathetic removal to the drunkard's cell
of the nearest police station.


In its bare solitude he may die at his
leisure during the slow night, the horror
of his situation being heightened by the
fact that he can in many cases, not of
true apoplexy, but of cerebral hemor-
rhage) hear, think and suffer, though un-
able to frame one syllable with his lips.
The idea is painful enough, most GER
tainly, and there is a possibility that it
may become the actual fate of any one
of us. For we must remember that apo
plexy gives no distinct warning of its
impending stroke, and that the most
reverend aspect cannot be relied upon to
impress the mind of the guardian of the
public peace with the possibility that an
''incapable" is dying instead of drunk.
The poet Crabbe had a peculiarly ven
cradle and noble ensemble; yet when he
fell in the roadway with an effusion of
blood on the brain, those who gathered
around him stood philosophizing upon
the melancholy work of the bottle, and he
probably owed his deliverance from the
hands of the ignorant representatives of
law entirely to the fact that his misfor-
tune overlook him, not in crowded city
streets, but in small town, where every
incident is news which flies apace, and
where he was quickly identified. Let
it be admitted, in justice to the police
man, that to distinguish by mere gen.
eral observation between the stupor of
intoxication and the coma of apoplexy
is no light task. In both there may be
flushed, bloated countenance, in both
there may be vomiting and foam upon
lips; in both there may be that peculiar
snoring respiration known technically
as stertor. And if the unfortunate
apoplectic happen to have taken single
glass of alcohol short time before his
seizure, so that its odor may be detected
in his breath, his doom is surely sealed.
Year: 1878

Edmond Megy, a leader OF the party which
assassinated Archbishop Darboy during the
Paris Commune in 1871, is now living in New
York and working at his trade as machinist
He is anxious to institute the principles of the
Commune in this country, and iovially smoked
cigar the other day while he developed to a
reporter his pleasant theories to the prospects
of social revolution.
Year: 1878

notice on the part of the plaintiff and those
through whom he claims must be held to have
been guilty Of laches, and to have abandoned
any claim to any benefit from the purchases
aforesaid, made by his said four cocestuiq,n
t97lStS
Year: 1878

QUEEN Victoria, it is said, has taken
no notice of the marriage OF the Duke of
Norfolk and Lady Flora Hastings, and
the traditional present for the bride of
an Indian shawl has not been forthcom-
ing. The duke is at the head of the
Roman Catholic peerage, and Lady Flora
is convert, Now, her Maje,ty has no
actual dislike to Roman Catholics who
have been brought up in that faith; but
she dislikes converts exceedingly, and
hence the real reason why she resolved to
ignore the wedding Of which every one
has been talking for the last month.
Year: 1878

CoLoRINd CoTToN BLUE.-Take two
pounds Of copperas, one-half pound of
prussiate Of potash, one-half pound oil of
VitrioI. Dissolve the copperas in enough
hot water to cover the goods. Scald two
hours. Take out the goods and rinse in
cold water; then empty the kettle aud
put in fresh, soft water, sufficient to cover
the goods well; add the prussiate of pot
ash put in the goods and boil twenty
minutes; then take out the goods and to
the liquor add oil of vitriol and stir we'll.
Put in the goods again and let them re-
main until the color is as dark as desired
Rinse in cold water.
Year: 1878

The schools OF America lack many
things what they seem most particu-
larry to avoid teaching is the correct
use Of the English language; and as
the consequence, not one man IN one
hundred can write page of copy that
is fit to 60 to the printer without a
radical revision.
Year: 1878

According to public advertisements and in pursuance
of u Judgment OF foreclosure rendered by the Chan
cellor oi New Jersey the property known the Mon
mouth PARK Race Course will come under the hammer
OF the auctioneer on the 9th OF next month.
Year: 1878

Laying aside the thought of our


own rest and comfort, let us look a


little higher. For The chilaren, sake


we mast make the most of ourselves.


Many an unseltish mother has said,


"Oh, / cannot take all this time, there


are so many things to do for the chill


dren" She does not realize that she


may do more for them in the end by


cultivating herself than ifshe spends
all her time on clothes and cooking.
A generosity which makes the reclpi-
ent weak or selfish is not a blessing
but a curse. Have you not seen
grown.up sons who snubbed their
mcthers opinions in the same breath
with which they called her to bring
their slippers ? The meek little wo-
man has ''trotted around" to wait on
them so long that they have come to
think that that is all she is good for
Their sisters keep MA" in the back.
ground because she ''hasn't a bit Of
STYLE" and $50 uucultivated," forget.
ting that she has always worn shabby
clothes that they might wear fine ones;
that her hands have become horny
with hard work that theirs might be
kept soft and While for the piano, and
that she has denied herself books and
eisure that they might have both.
And there are other children, too
noble for such base ingratitude, who
eel keen though secret sense of loss
Is they kiss the dear withered cheek
md think how much more Of a woman
mother might have been if she had
rot shut herself away from the culture
md sweet compauionshp of books -
Scribner for Aprii. !.
Year: 1878

Let evey dawn Of morning be to
you as the beginning of lite, and every
setting sun be to you as its close then
let every one of these short lives leave
Its record of some kindly thing done
for Others, some godly strength or
knowledge gained tor yourself.
Year: 1878

The grave holds the mortal, but the
immortal roams ou the plane of the
green fields of Eden. Why mourn the
dead when there are no dead? All
nature cries aloud, there are no dead.
Man only dies to give tribute back to
mother earth. The spirit goes whence
it came to seek the infinite mind of the
universe to learn the law, and its re-
lationship, under the law, to that
beautiful world in which it is q
dweller. Why mourn the weak and
weary' Why lament over that which
you know has life, new life, life in
beauty and grandeur ?-[Samuel
Ogden.
Year: 1878

If our ports were now open TO a mod
crate tariff, thai the immense stores of
wheat and corn that willrot on the hands
of the farmers might be sert to Europe,
millions upon millions Df dollars would
flow into the country in balances in our
favor. These millions would 90 into the
hands of the farmer in the shape of ten
TO twenty per cent. ddCpnce in pr,ceS as
well, and then flow into the hands of the
mechanic and laboring man. Why there
is enough surplus grain in this country
TO build a mercantile navy. But it must
lay and rot to please manufacturing mo-
nopolists who stopped their mills to keep
up prices and will not even reduce their
prices to gain foreign market, but will
require our farmers to lose all chance
for making any money by their valu-
able crops to keep up nabobism in the
country. Why will men vote for party
that Keeps them poor and weighs down
continually the price of their land, their
crops, and all that they own.
Year: 1878

The New York Herald says the most
eminent physicians of that city do not
apprehend visit of the yellow fever
there; but that "clean streets and rigid
quarantine are the safeguards" Heaven
has directed the rain clouds to perform a
sanitary work for Wilmington for which
We are ever so gra' eful
Year: 1878

THE worst feature of the greenbacks
as currency, is that it, like the U. S.
Bank sytem, gives to the government the
control of the money, and thus central
ICES the purse and the sword" in the
hands of Dictator should q President
ever usurp the power and endeavor to
make himself the master of the people
instead of their servant.
Year: 1878

He was an entire Stranger 70 The girls
present, and the boys were mean and
would not introduce him. He finally
plucked up courage, and stepping up TO
a young lady requested the pleasure Of
her company for the next dance. She
looked at him in surprise, and informed
him that she had not the pleasure Of his
acquaintance. "Well." remarked the
young man, "you don't take any more
chances than do.
Year: 1878

A MANS VIEw.-Women have a Pc
culiar faculty for doing nothing, with an
outside show Of industry, which men can
not share. They are positive, restless,
anything but inactive. When man is
not smoking he is doing something or
other, no matter what it is and il he is
doing nothing. it is obvious to himself
end the whole world that he is doing
nothing. lie has not wit enough, or art
enough, or incliuaiion-which of the
three ?--to conceal the truth. But the
most desultory Of women always make
believe to be doing something, and wear
the solemn aspect and calm consciences
Of serious purpose. If they are not
doing some work they are pulling it TO
pieces, or they are showing il to some
body, or they are just going to show it
to somebody. They thoroughly UNDER
stand the art ef being strenuously idle.
Year: 1878

SdiIlOIulu NpIIi1 VI thS A''iiN'


A gentleman has recently left us for
an extensive tour throughout the East
ern States, and foreign countries, who is
destined to make his mark, and of whom
we expect to receive the most favorable
reports from all parts of the world which
he may visit. Knowing him to be a thor
ough gentleman and man OF moral worth,
and addicted to no small vices-being a
stranger to strong drink or the use of
tobacco,-we feel it duty to inform
our readers in the East and foreign
parts, what sort of a man they are bout
to meet with, and in what high estima-
ton he is held at home here on the Pa,
cifc coast. Doctor w. F. Carver, tho
born in New York State, was captured
by the Indians while yet but baby, and
lived for nineteen years among the say
ages, which is just one-half Of his life
time. Wild life has produced in this
man a wonderful result, in as much as
we see before us no Wild Bill, no rough
bearded frontiersman. clad in skins, and
armed to the teeth with knife and pis-
tol, type of humanity which is usually
handed over to civilization as the result
of years of association with the great
American Savage, made so famous by
Fennimore Cooper. Instead, however,
we find Doctor Carver to be q tall, hand
somely proportioned man, courteous in
manner, not given to brag, but inclined
to reserve regarding his many and truly
wonderful exploits upon the plains, and
his marvellous skill with the rifle, which
finally made him terror to the Indians.
After leaving his life upon the plains,
DR.. Carver settled down in the middle
West and became proficient in the prac-
tice. of dentistry. A few years ago he
came to California and settled in Oak
land, there pursuing his profession. His
wonderful skill at rihe-shooting soon at
tracted attention, and the Doctor was
Year: 1878

SUPERINTENDENT PARKER informs
us that our county Normal Institute for
this year will commence Monday, July
20. and continue five weeks.


These annually recurring Institutes
afford opportunities for special training
which are of great value to all of us and
especially to those teachers who have
been, and are, unable to avail themselves
of the more extended course provided
in the State Normal School,


Our Institute last year was large and
enthusiastic; we hope to see it larger
this year, and let all who come, come
expecting to do hard work.
Year: 1878

Froude says: 1 confess it sickens me
to see our philosophic savans, as they
call themselves, swinging in mid-air
among the precipices of life, examining
flower here, a rock there; analyzing
them and cutting them in pieces and
discovering the combination of elements
which went to their making, and calling
this wisdom. What is man the wiser or
the happier for knowing how the air
plants feed, or how many centuries the
flint-stone was in forming, unless the
knowledge Of them can be linked on to
humanity, and elucidate for us some of
our hard moral mysteries.
Year: 1878

Experiments in driving by electricity
have been made in Frence An electro
magnet is placed beneath the coach
mans seat, from which one wire is car
ried along the reins to the horses bit,
and another to the crupper, so that the
whole length of the spine forms part OF
an electric current. A sudden shock,
which the driver can administer at dis
cretion, will, it is said, arrest the most
furious runaway III H@ltas 9aa
Year: 1878

AN Oregon legislative committee has
discovered that the swamp land funds have
been sqlandered and indirectly stolen by
Gov. Chadwick aud his flvorites, and now
there is music in the air with a prospect
Of heavy thunder coming.
Year: 1878

NO less than thirty barns. with their
contents have been burned in the VILLAIN
nette valley this season. Most of this
unusual destruction OF valuable property
is known to be the doings OF worthless
trAmpS.
Year: 1878

THE hop crop in the United States is
short, this year, and prices bid fair to be
good, for first and second qualities This
will be fortunate for growers ON the Sound.
as most of their crops will come under
these two classitcations.
Year: 1878

We see that a man in Connecticut was
killed the other day while trying to
board freight train" There is reason
In all these things: no doub; when the
man took the freight train TO board he
gave IL salsratus biscuit. rye coffee and
strong butter for breakfast, and tough
mutton three times week for dinner.
till in q fit Of dyspepsia the freight train
rose up and killed HIM.
Year: 1878

The facilities OF the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside OF San
francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted TO US will be executed with neat
ness ami dispatch at the lowest living
Year: 1878

will with the public and the
tin perfectly that these high
How
paid for experience and we have



paid SILVER We shall at all times conduct business
cheap
the people have cheap goods at the
TOWNEY'S