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Year: 1878

When dry salt is rubbed into fresh
meats, a brine soon forms, amounting
in bulk to one-third the fluid contain
ed in the raw flesh. Liebig ascertain,
ed that this fluid contained the chief
constitunts of concentrated soup or
infusiOns of meat, and that therefore,
the sailing process changes the cUmpo-
sition more than boiling. In boiling,
where the meat is placed in boiling
water, the albumen remains in a eoag-
.ulated state in the mass of the fiesh, but
in sailing, the albumen IS separated a.
coagulum. 1t is now easy to under.
stand that in salting meat, where this
is pushed so far as to produce the brina
above mentioned, number of sub
stances are withdrawn from the flesh
which are essential to its constitution,
and that it therefore loses in nutritive
qualities in proportion to this abstrac-
ton. The greater error of over saltIng
is one of such frequent occurrence ia
this country, that it is seldom that
home cured meat is free from the evil.
In many instances, one half or two
thirds of the salt used would be amply
sufficient to preserve the meat, and
that is the design of salting bulk. Over
saIted meat is not only very unhealthy,
but not so nutritious as when properly
salted.-AmeIican Stock Journal.
Year: 1878

A LARGE rock at the entrance of the
great artificial harbor of Alexandria
obliges ships to be piloted in zigzag
fashion during the day, while at night
they cannot enter at all. In stormy
weather large vessels remain outside
for days. fearing they will be cast upou
this reef If they attempt tr enter. The
Alexandria harbOr is a work of lesser
magnitude than the Suez Canal, though
its local importance is greater; the con-
tractors are just completing an eight
years labor. Its outer breakwater is
two miles long and more than tlHt
distance from the quays, while a spit
Of land curves round to il so that tire
whole interior, save where the narrow
deep water channel lies, is protected
from wind and wave. Meanwhile, it
is said that Baron de Lesseps, the en-
gineer of the Suez Canal, has gone to
Tunis, where he will make q personal
examination, to learn if it will be pos
sible to carry out the long
project of inundating a portion of the
Desert of Sahara with the water from
the Mediterranean.
Year: 1878

How refreshing it is to see man.
though he be q total stranger, pause and
perform some little act Of benevolence for
the good of his fellow creatures. We have
to record an Instance which occurred the
other evening At the Brook. which the
Portland Advertiser ought to embalm in
It's column of Good Deeds An idle,
drunken dog of fellow was abusing his
wife, who was trying to get him home so
that the police would not get him. He
finally commenced TO strike and kick her,
but Just then two gentlemen who were
driving by In . buggy drew up, and one OF
them stepped ou: and, taking the ruffian
by the collar, gave him such hiding as
few men ever get. He did not stop to re-
monstrate or lecture him any more than he
would have done u a snake, but just laid
the horse-whip over him about fifty times
drawing the blood ut almost every stroke
and wound up the performance with kick
well administ.red where it would do the
most good. Tive noble hearted stranger
then stepped iuio his buggy and drove OF
He did not speak a word during the whole
we do not know Who he was or whence HI
came bot We honor him and would en-
courage him to 90 on doing good. He |!
an honor to bis sex.-04iatVa.
Year: 1878

want to give you two or three rules.
One is


Always look at the person you speak to
When you are addressed look straight at
the person who speaks to you. Do not tor
get this.


Another is


Speak your words plainly. Do not
muter nor humble. If words are worth
saying they are worth prOnOuncing dis
tinctly and clearly.


A third is


Do not say disagreeable things. If you
have nothing pleasant to say, keep silent.


Think three times before you speak
Characterization at Work.
Year: 1878

The weakness i'm the coal stocks today was
not benefited by the rumor that the coal COM
bnatiOn had fallen to pieces, by one of its
dent of the Delaware Lackawanna and West


ern road. denied that the combination had col
lapsed. "On the contrary" said he, never
was it more harmonious than now. The last
meeting was short, simply because everything
proposed was carried unanimously. without
the slightest indication of an objection Fur
ther, Mr.. Sloan said that so far as prices for
coal Tor May had anything to do with the
stocks decline, he would saw that there was
no reduction proposed in the coal itseif-[N
Y Commercial. eth
Year: 1878

DARING DEATH FOR A BETA South Bend
young lad, ten or eleven years of age, boaSted
TO a cOmrade that he could make the switch
engine that was coming toward them stop.
His bet was taken, and he stepped on the track
down the track. The engineer whistled. rang
the bell. and finally stopped the engine within
about two feet OF the young scamp. The boy
was kicked of the track by one of the train
men.-( Indianapolis Journal.
Year: 1878

BENJAMIN MOVES Observation-Disclosures
insurance Company, who is confined in the
Newark jail, was taken into court yesterday
10 plead TO an indictment for conspiracy to
Mutual Life Insurance Company. He plead


ed not guilty. His trial was set down for MAY
SIN. Y sam 97th ''
Year: 1878

Mrs. BANNIsTER PROTESTS BEFORE GOD
THAT SHE Is AN INNOCENT WoMAN-A re
porter Of the Chicago Tdibune visited Mrs
Bannister, formerly Fannie Richards few
days ago, and found her averSe to talking on
the subject of the McCOSkry scandal, but she
said: He hever wrote me a letter he didn't
sign. and they We're all noble and pure in their
language. The bishop was not dirty person.
nor did he write without cause, or for the sake
of hearing from me-" Here Mrs. Bannister
broke completely and sobbed for good
twenty minutes. II protest before God, ~ she
said, recovering, that am an innocent wO
man, and the victim of a great scandal NY
relations with the bishop were always those
of the most honorable character. NV huS-
band knows that came to him a pure wo-
man, and he will assert it before the world


The stories that have got into the papers are
lies from beginning to end, and they have
been invented by that wretched fellow, George
Mcconnell, whom l did so much for and
whom thought so much of until found him
mean sneak thief, who stole my letters from
my writing desk, and actually picked my
pocket of one. got that fellow employment
on the Post and Tribune through the bishops
influence, and tried to do all I could for him,
but he was a mean fellow. and when gave
him up he SwOre he would have revenge
Year: 1878

The SOCIALISTS AS A POLITICAL PARTY
The national executive committee of the
SOeialistic Labor Party have had published
their party in Chicago, or elsewhere are
undergoing military drill drill, as charged in
dispatches from Chicago few days ago. They
cal, and declare that no supply OF arms has
been purchased or distributed to any branch
Year: 1878

The NEW TESTAMENT REVISION COMPANY
neld their monthly session in New York last
week, and finished the first revision of Ephe


slams and part of Coossians. The Old Tesla
ment Company continued the revision of
Year: 1878

DISTRICT COMMISSIONER BRYAN returned to
the city last night from flying trip of about
one week through North and South Carolina
in the interest of the Vitcultural Society of
this District. which society purposes to encOur-
age emigration to those states to start grape
culture. Mr.. Bryan was at his Office this morn
ing for few minutes, and Immediately left
for the Capitol to urge the passage of some
measure, to furnish means to keep our public
schools running the full term.
Year: 1878

The police force Of San Francisco is
in very disgusted state Of mind. The
men have recently been equipped in
blue suits, which have not only shrunk
badly on being wet, but the color is so
poor that the underclothing, collars
and cuffs Of the policemen have been
stained a bright azure tint. An in
spection was held the other day, and
in almost every case the seams and
edges of the garments had worn white,
and the legs Of the officers trousers
shrunk half way up to their knees.
One officer of the harbor force showed
that after three weeks exposure to the
sea air his coat had shrunk so badly
that he couldn't button it by three
inches, while another member of the
force exhibited pair Of trousers, one
leg of which had become two inches
shorter than its mate. One officer was
found to have in his pocket bottle
of liquid blueing and sponge, with
which he retouched his uniform wher-
ever it showed white spots.
Year: 1878

DIR. PRETTYMAN, it is said, Is to receive
the Greenback nomination for, Congress


We fear that II Mr.. Martin be driven to de.
lend the extreme views of Senator Bayard -,
upon the financial question las no one sus-
poets him of having any of his own he will
have great deal Of trouble to win. The
loss Of Democratic Congressman in this
State, must be avoided by all means, as
Delaware will count as much in the next
house Of representative, Of the Presidential


election goes into it as Pennsylvania. Can


we win with Martins S..
Year: 1878

T..


So long as there exists in the city Of VII
mington lack of that phase Of charity
which would endow hospital and manage
1t within the intent and purpose of such an
institution, we need not expect to be blessed
with one worth having. It Is useless to
write about what the hospital was intended
to have been, or what it might have been,
but limit ourselves to what It is. 1t is, as
at present managed, and as it has been
managed, burden to the people, without
any commensurate benefit. We are inform
ed that, for months, there has been only one
patient, and that, the trouble Of being ad-.
mitted 10 such that patient dangerously
wounded would be sure to die, If he de-
pended upon treatment there, before he
could receive admission. This is all wrong,
and while 1t continues the hospital scheme
is . farce. .-.'s1
'~ A hospital managed BY political mAjor-
ity Of Council is sure to be badly conducted.
If some disinterested and humane people
were to take the matter In hand, and
examine the arrangements and manage
ment of either the Episcopal or st. Joseph'a
Hospital, in Philadelphia, both of which
are absolutely unsectarian, in practical de-
tail, they might with some aid give hospi-
tai worthy of our city. We are in favor Of
q hospital, but not of such an institution as
we now have under that name.
Year: 1878

EY- A Raleigh. n. &. negro invited
two of his friends to accompany him to
a swamp pasture at night, where u
neighbor had fat heifer. They went,
found heifer, killed her, divided the
meat and went home. Next day the
negro found that his COW was missing,
and that in the darkness an unfortunate
mistake had been made. But when he
went to his friends to get pay for the
beef they refused to pay him, wherefore
he mourns sore.
Year: 1878

1ur. Editor We might write out
a pean of praise to the Giver of all
Good for our pure, wholesome and
sparkling water, and reasonably ex-
pect every voice to join in singing the
same. That, however, is not what
just now concerns the people of Frost
burg as regards that indispensable ar
tiole, but they are rather concerned,
first as consumers, in the cost of the
article, and, secondly, as stockholders,
in the dividend to which they are, or
ought to be entitled on their stock.
AS regards the former class, they say
they have paid for what they have
used, paid, they thought, good price,
as we'll when they were not able to
pay as when they We're, and that they
are paying now at the rate Of ta0o
dollars d head for every man. aconaam
and child, to say nothing of extras.
The stockholders at the same time say
that they have received no dividend
on their stock for at leastseven years,


although q part of that period, five
years of it at least, marks the most
prosperous era IN the history Of Frost
burg-the five years just previous to
laying down the new water pipes.
1t has, therefore, become almost an
enigma to our people, how these things
can be. Certainly, some body can
rise and explain. Xxx
Year: 1878

AN Eastern paper wants to inter
view the man who ever heard Of o
paragrapher "failing for 100000
with NJ assets" If some enterpris.
ing fe low will furnish the 100000,
we are willing to do the failing part
so as to let the world behold the
spectacle for once.
Year: 1878

you are old, baldheaded, and carry
a big bass drum under your vest,
you will be a shining, profitable
light to the coming generation. See
here! II / ever catch you playing
any more tricks on the old man |
will break you in two-gitp And
Sine settled back. tired out after
so much unaccustomed talking,
while the boy shot around the cor
uer.
Year: 1878

People are committing suicide now-a-
days on all sorts Of pretexts. A Troy On
" woman took strychnine because her
husband wouldn't run into debt to buy her
velvet clork; l6-year old Kentucky
girl took ratsbane because an Old married
man told her he had no business to love
her, and an Arcola Ull.) man hung him
selfin a sInoke-house because he had only
$4,000 in the world, and feared he might
come to want.
Year: 1878

We were sorry, Tuesday evening
to see two or three young Good Tenn
plars drunk so soon after leaving the
lodge. a young man, just forming
appetites, habits and character, who
than this is almost sure ID become a
drunken sot, a wreck, a ruin, source
of sorrow to friends and parents. 1t
made our heart ache with pity and re-
greC and our cheek burn with shame
TO see friends, with whom we had
met in the lodge room less than a
week ago, making themselves con-
spicuOus on the streets by the brawl-
ings of drunken imbecility.
Year: 1878

- Two of the cars that were tum-
bled into the slough Tuesday morning
of last week by the washing out of
the bridge, were drawn out without
much damage to them; but the one
loaded with ties, in the effort to pull
it out with two engines, was torn in
TO kindling wood. The trucks were
not recovered, hut are yet beneath the
mud in the slough.
Year: 1878

A lady gives to the Western RH-
raj, the following recipe for making
green corn pudding: One quart of
green corn grated or scraped off the
cob, one coffee cup of sweet milk, one
egg, one large spoonful of butter. two
cups of flour. Add a little salt, a
pinch of allspice. Bake on butter
ed pan as you would bread. Bake
three-quarters of an hour and eat it
with butter.
Year: 1878

| am now closing out my summer
stock, and before restocking, l desire
all those indebted to me to call and
settle during the month of August.
Some accounts have been standing
long, and if such do not settle with
out further notice their accounts will
be left with an officer for collection.


MINNIE c.. Cook.
Year: 1878

- Complaint is made by ladies OF
the west part of Main street that tall
weeds hang over the sidewalk, and
that i'm the early morning before the
dew is off it is disagreeable walking
on account OF their dress skirts be-
coming bedraggled and dirty; and


they really think the marshal should


see to having those nOXiOus weeds
cut down.
Year: 1878

- Every body had their smoked
glass ready last Monday afternoon
and curiously viewed the eclipse of
the sun. twas nearly total, but not
quite, here, and was a mellow strange
looking twilight. The sky was clear
and all looked to their entire satisfac-
ton. We see accounts of very satis-
factory observations being made by
scientists at different points. An ac-
count from Denver, where it was to-
tai, says:


LAS the period of totality came on
the sight from an elevated station was
grand. An extreme dark shadow fell
on Longs peak, seventy-five miles
distant, and sweeping rapidly south
eastward covered the plain like a gray
pail. To the northeastward clouds
could be seen bathing in sunlight,
and presenting a view of beautiful
sunset. During the period of obser-
vation the moon appeared like huge
black ball surrounded by beautiful
circle of light, and as the sunlight
suddenly burst forth again, chickens
crowed as though morning had dawn
ed."
Year: 1878

The railroad track takes up a.
bout all the room there is between the
river and the fences OH the road lead
ing ont of town South. A good wag-
on road should be opened at once, or
the Southern trade will turn in some
other direction than Brownville.
Year: 1878

Notice is hereby given chat will
examine all persons who may desire
to offer themselves as candidates for
teachers of the primary or common
schools of this county. at Brow nvilIe
on the 3rd day and on the 24th day of
August 1878.
Year: 1878

THE Indications are that the most


p owerful lobby that ever besleged


Congress will be on hand next


winter to press the passage OF the
johnson bill. If this measure is


successful a guarantee of $4,000 u


mile will be given by the United
States to the Southern Pacific,
Texas. Pacific aud other roads
am opgst which the building of the
thirty-second parallel road will be
parceled out. Col. Scott will


either consent to take his share for


the portion of the road he is able to
build or all schemes ofnational aid
will fail through their clashing
pretentions. They may-and prob


ably will-all fail anyhow, but the
most reliable accounts indicate
that the Johnson bill will develop


formi dable strength. Any larger
measure of aid than that embraced
in its scope would seem to be i'm.
practicable of attainment by either


Huntington or Scott. Most of the
Washington correspondents agree


that Scotps great embarrassment
during the last session has arisen.
with vensl Congressman, from his


lack of money, and those not ap-
proachable through the avenue Of
the pocket are chary of the impu'
tations which would follow their
voting for the Scott guarantee.
Scott has made his fifth unsuccess-


full attempt to get his aid bill


through Congress. His sixth and
probably his last will be made next
| winter,
Year: 1878

A VERY large party of excursion
SITS from Bakersfield will arrive in
Los Angeles Saturday. We un-
de rstand that it will embrace be-
tween one hundred and sixty and
one hundred and seventy of the
best people sof our nei2hboring
county, and that the families OF
many of them will remain all
through the summer. We trust
that every possible courtesy will
be extended to our visitors. Los
Angeles is lamentably backward In
things Of this kind. We should
always aim to put our best foot
forw ard and should RENE lnber that
q little time and money spent in
giving visitors pleasant impress
ions of Los Angeles is of the char
acter of bread cast upon the waters
which will return before the lapse
Of many days.
Year: 1878

THE Western world has permit


ted itself to be fearfully agitated
over the introduction Of Sepoys by
England Into the Mediterranean,
with view to an eventual partic-
ipation In the Eastern war. The
whole episode is amusing rather
than serious. The history Of wars
betwsen Europeans and East In
dians, from the time OF Give down,
hare shown that the Oriental is
pet fighter. Ten thousand Eng
lIehmen under Lord Give were al
Year: 1878

Just as soon as Mr.. Bryant is
safely dead comes a dispatch from
Pittsfield, Mass, to announce that
on the afternoon he met with his
accident the cord by which large
and costly steel portrait of him was
suspended in an office broke and
the picture fell. When Ben Wade
died his bust fell off of some one's
mantel-riece and was smashed.
When Andy Johnson died the
glass over the face of his portrait
in some ones backschop cracked.
And so OH.
Year: 1878

The recent legislation in New Jersey, says the Tribune, reducing the rate of interest to per cent. excites much com ment throughout the State. There are only seven States besides New Jersey which have adopted so low rate with out granting the privilege of contract be- tween the borrower and lender. In fif- teen other States the legal rate is per cent. but higher rates are allowed by contract, six of the fifteen placing no limit whatever upon the contract rate and the remainder restricting this rate to 8 or 10 per cent. Altogether there are fif- teen States which allow any rate by con tract and impose no penalty for usury. After tune 1t may dawn upon law makers that efforts to make cheap in- terest by legislative enactment are liable to be failures, even when the penalty for usury is a forfeiture of the principal, as 1t is in Delaware, or forfeiture of both principal and interest, as it Is in Arkan- sas and Oregon, or choice between fine and imprisonment as it is in Idaho. Peo- pie who lend money are in the habit of getting what their money is worth, and in the long run it is the borrower who suffers, because he is charged an extra amount as a premium of insurance against prosecution for usury.
Year: 1878

The custom of waking the dead, with the expectation that they in some way join in the festivities, is very an- cient and not confined to any particular nation. St. Folk, who lived as late as the reign of Louis XVI, gives full and interesting account of what occurred during the forty days when the Kings wax effigy lay in state. The people con- tinued to serve him with meals as though alive. The napkin and the basin of water were handed to the royal arm chair and also the wines which His Majesty preferred. The Hindoo offers the re- gently dead his share of the funeral cakes, and the Spaniards put wine and bread on the tombs of those they love on the anniversary of thelr decease. The Bulgarians hold feast in the cemetery on Palm Sunday and leave the remains on the graves of their friends, who, they are sure, will rise from the ground dur ing the night and eat. The Hibernian is not the only man of the century with whom this custom is persistent,
Year: 1878

General Sherman says We have now as fine a lot of gallant young fellows in the Army as were ever gathered under the fag-brave, dashing and capable, ready for any seryise, however hard it may be, and enduring uncomplainingly all of the hardships incident to frontier life and savage warfare. I have seen them at their far-off posts in the wilder ness, on the battlefield, in society and in every position in which they can be placed they conduct themselves, as a rule, in manner that reflects credit on the service and on the people whose ser wants they are, and from whom they ought to receive at least the reward of recognition rather than the sneers so frequently seen in the press and uttered on the floors of Congress. In all of my travels, at home or abroad, have never seen finer body of men than the young officers of our Army, and unhesitating- ly assert that from Washington to Can ton their superiors cannot b97 found in any branch of the service, civil or mill tary. of any nation on the globe.
Year: 1878

Gustave Labutat, the New Orleans wife-murderer, told the ghastly story oi his crime with Parisian nonchalance " I said to my wife, Your fate is sealed but will give you tune to pray; and God bless her, she did pray. After she had prayed, put my arm around hel waist, and, taking the knife from my pocket, I stuck it to the hilt in hel stomach. I thought the first blow hao killed her, but on finding she was not dead, I picked her up, kissed her, and said /: God bless you, I love you ; you are not dead pray again, because I am going to finish you She placed he1 arms around my neck and said, Gus tave, love you Oh, God it was the happiest moment of my life I saw she was suffering, and, as could not stand and see her suffer, took the knife blade, the handle being broken, and cut her throat" All these details go to show that man can murder his wife in the most affectionate manner.
Year: 1878

Mir. John T. Raymond is quoted as declaring that he went on the stage when he was seventeen years old. "I was cast, he says, as Lopez, in the Honey moon, and all had to say was, I am appointed to ask you to our merry-making on the green hard by This was to the duke and duchess. got my mouth open and there it stuck. House came down. Next day actors said it was the hit of the season. Everybody thought it was done purposely. Next night I was cast for Smatter, in Hunting 8 Turtle Did the same thing again, and then they knew I was nothing but a fraud. Manager said was only worth $6 week. And yet here I am, the owner of high priced play, written by man with $1, 300 name, and especially adapted for the undersigned"