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Year: 1878

A New York paper suggests that the
young ladies of Vassar College, having
successfully wrestled with Greek roots,
now turn their attention to che art Of
boiling potatoes. To boil 8 potato pros
perly is thought very simple affair, and
yet there is not one table in fifty where
they appear in that perfection which
makes potato 'boiled with its Jacket
on' one OF the most delicious of escu.
lents. People who do not know what a
boiled potato is, in that high state when
it appears smoking from the pot, and
bursting like cotton pod, into mealy
whiteness, neither too wet nor too dry,
but always piping hot as it is stripped of
its skin and prepared for its garnish of
salt and butter, with pepper according
to taste people who do not know the
boiled potato in that state of perfection
content themselves with the esculeut
sliced and fried IN grease Gan abomina-
tion to the cultured palate and terror
to delicate stomachs), and think they
know what potatoes are! Next to a
potato baked, a potato boiled properly
touches the gastronomic economy in its
tenderest region, and does not pail upon
the taste though it be served at table
365 times year. Whoever does not
relish the potato boiled in the manner
we Fhave described, but must have it
sliced, fried, stewed, or mashed, with ad-
dition of parsley or other savory things,
should suspect the condition of hn
palate and stomach, and consult a physi-
clan for some remedy for morbid ap..
petite. The Lord made TIE potato with
a Jacket on, that was not intended to be
taken of, until the process of cooking is
completed, and all that is delicate and
sweet in its flesh is preserved to tickle
the palate of the eater thereof Gin
cinnati Commercial.
Year: 1878

In regard to this very reputable breed
of Irish dairy cattle, the London Live
Stock Journal says:


1t is hardy constitution OF the Kerry
that most enhances its value; for dairy
purposes especially q remanerative yield
is obtained on what would be to other
animals starvation fare" In the depth
of the winter season l have not only
known the animals to live jumping from
rock to rock and from cliff to cliff, pick
ing a coarse, scanty bite from amidst the
snow clad mountains, but with very
small additional keep at the farmstead-
ing, where they come to be MIXED
morning and evening, to actually thrive
under the circumstances. Few per-
sons think of housing the Kerry either
night or day at any period of the year.
When not giving any milk they remain
for months away concealed in the ravines
of the mountain passes seeking the best
shelter they can from the excessive rain
and snowstorms with which their abodes
are periodically visited. The hair is
thick, but fine and long-provision of
nature typical Of cold latitudes.


What, however, is far more singular in
the constitution of the breed is the readi-
ness with which it successfully adapts
itself to circumstances of wholly re-
verse character. In acclimatizing breeds
of cattle, sheep or pigs, the transition
must be gradual, but with the Kerry, we
have had it suddenly and indiscrimina-
tely transferred from its home in the
mountains to the richest grazing valleys
which our island can boast of, without
experiencing the slightest change as re-
CARDS health. Not alone this, but
we have seen the beasts ushered
at once into the dairy sheds and
there confined for years in tho closest
bondage without any apparent
effect on the constitution. They further
en- the full benefit of the changes as
if the new abode was their native habi-
tation. In be suburbs of large Irish
towns an occasional Kerry is to be met
With, tethered on the grass-plot attached
to the dwelling. The animal is soon
rendered 50 docile as to be fondled by
the children of the house, and the grass
is supplemented with waste of the
kitchen. We have seen the most extra
ordinary results from beasts treated in
this manner. Where no pasture is avail
able, the Kerry is fed in the stall, or, in
its absence, a stable or hand feeding
exclusively. In this latter case the
expenses is not more than 10d per day.
A half-stone of bran, two pounds of oil
sake, two of cotton cake and seven or
eight pounds of hay is, in addition to
water, the usua! daily allowance. The
bran and cake are converted into a mu-
cilsge by being subjected to the action
of boiling water, with which portion of
the hay, chopped, is incorporated. The
animals receive exercise for about half
an hour daily, and their cleanliness is
carefully attended to.
Year: 1878

over the guard to zee how fast he was
gaining, ''ifit's the will of Providence
for this boat to blow up, we'll have to
stand it," Then he halleoed to the fire.
men to roll up another cask of bacon,
and to mix plenty Of rosin with the coal
and give her little turpentine and oil.


The next moment there was a splash
in the river, but before the yawl could
be lowered the man had succeeded in
reaching the shore, and hallooed out:


''Go on with the race. I guess I'll
walk ~
Year: 1878




On this point the Germantown Tele-
graph remarks: 1t used to be rule to
wait for shower before setting out
things. As soon as rain came the women
and children of the househould we're GU.
in the shower as happy as young ducks.
The cabbage or what not were then
planted, and congratulations were freely
exchanged on having taken advantage Of
the opportunity. But as we have learned
TO disregard the moons signs in sowing
seed, SO we care no more for the weather
in setting plants. Indeed those who
think they know a thing or two, tell
us they would sooner take the dry
weather for the work than wet.


But they have their ewn way of doing
things. One Of these la to 60 over the
ground where the plants are to be set,
and make lot of holes with q dibbie,
deep down in the earth, where the plants
are to grow, and fill these holes with
water. twill soon soak away, leaving
the ground in q half dry, half wet condi-
tion. The plants to be set out are taken
from the seed bed and put into bucket
Year: 1878

"Wind," says an old horseman, lis the
grand secret of a fast horse. Good lungs
will cover multitude of faults; whilst,
on the other hand, perfection of shape
and form are useless when the wind is
cut" The chest, therefore, in all cases
should be large and capacious. In shape
it may vary somewhat, according to the
service to which the horse is to be put.
If he is kept for slow work and heavy
drawing, the chest may be nearly cir.
cular in form, because this shape is the
one for strength and bulk, to receive and
bear up against the pressure of the collar;
while at the same time sufficient room is
secured for that expansion of the lungs
caused by slow and regular work. But
If the chest is circular, let it be at the
same time deep, or else the lungs may be
cramped. A horse with shallow chest
is worthless for any purpose. The rule,
then, is this: For q draft.horse, cir
cular but deep chest; but as you pass
through the different degrees of speed,
up to the racer and trotter, the chest
must increase in depth, compared to it's
roundness, until, for the highest rate of
speed, you must have chest as deep as
greyhound, and at the same time not
lacking in breadth. Every breeder
should keep this rule in mind when
selecting his brood. mares and stallion,
for he may be sure that shallow-chested
parents never beget deep-chested colts.
Year: 1878

The relaxing power of Johnson's An
odyne Liniment is almost miraculous. A
gentleman whose leg was bent at the knee
and stiff Tor twenty years, had it limbered
by its use, and the leg is now as good as the
other.


The evil consequences resulting from i'm.
pure blood are beyond human calculation,
so are the vast sums expended in worthless
remedies. Parsons Purgative Pills make
new rich blood, and taken one night for
three months will change the blood in the
entire system.
Year: 1878

A Virginia merchant applied nc
New York the other day for credit
on q bill of goods. "I can't credit
you," said the merchant. "Why
not ?" asked the Nirginian. "Well,
things are uncertain in your State
on the public debt question, and so
many people seem opposed 10 the
payment Of il that we fear the same
sentiment will very soon prevail
with respect To private debts; aud
while ! know you are man Of
honor and to be trusted, vet / do
not know what your partner may
be, or how your heirs might be ai-
fected. A State that even permits
itself to debate the question of its
obligations is already half way on
the road TO repudiation, and the
honest must suffer for the sins of
the dishonest" And II we do not
speedily stop this misehieviOus cry
of Reputation this will be the stand
ing reply 10 all who seek credit
abroad: ave do not doubt you, hut
cannot take the risk !" and soon
Virginia will have no credit in any
of the great trade centres, but must
be prepared TO bIy and sell for
"ready cash."
Year: 1878

We print below a paragraph


which seems to Indicate serious


consideration of the principle OF


total abstinence in England, by


circles in which hitherto temper


ance has been considered a matter


quite beneath the notice of people


in good society. One thing which


in our opinion will favor water


drinkinglin London is the fact that


Englishmen are finding out the use
of ice. The greatest obstacle to the
expulsion of wine and beer from the
dinner table in that well fed metro
polls is the fact that it is impossible
to get a glass of water there which
human stomach can tolerate. Ice
water will be the most efficient
apostle of temperance to the middle
classes of England:


In England, where the theory
and practice of total abstinence
have always been scOffed at by the
cultivated majority, the awful pre-
Valence of drunkenness is leading
to the formation of a public senti-
ment against drinking as strong as
any that ever existed in this country.
The clergy have hitherto maintain
ed drinking practices, but now
many of the ministers of the Estab-
lished as well as of the Dissenting
bodies, with large section of the
medical profession and distinguished
men from every walk in life have
united in vigorous movement for
the suppression of drunkenness.
Canon Farrar, ina sermon preached
a few Sundays since in Westminster
Abbey, "declared alcoholic drinking
and drunkenness to be the one
glaring, disgraceful and perilous
national vice, by which the nation
stands unenViably distinguished
and seriously endangered" )" So
strong feeling of the evils ofdrunk-
enness as that which now pre-
walls in respectable circles in Eng
land naturally leads to the adoption
of the Christian rule of total absti-
nence. 1t does not require the i'm
position of total abstinence upon
others as a rule; it only leads a man
to say "Because this evil is so great,
and because Iwish tOsave those who
are running themselves by drink,
and because l cannot very effective
ly urge them to abstain without alb
myself, I therefore relin-
quish a luxury which I have not
abused and to which / deem myself
entitled, that j may the more sue
ce5sfully persuade those to abandon
it to whom it is proving curse" "
It begins to be evident in England
that this course of conduct
is something very different from
and the same truth
ought to be equally evident on this
side of the ocean.
Year: 1878




The iron industry of thisscountry
was not only among the first to fee
the effects of the catastrophe of 1878
but it has also suffered more in pro-
portion during the five years that
have since elapsed than any other
we can think of. The reason for
this is well known. ItWas the sud.
den collapse of railroad construction
and extension. For the past two OF
three years not One-half of the SOC
blast furnaces in the country have
been worked, and the demand fOI
iron has been so small that the
other half have scarcely paid eX-
penses. Since colonial days the
, price of iron in the United States,
malleable as well as pig iron, was
never quoted so low as at the be-
ginning of the present year. For
several months back, however, the
trade has picked up wonderfully.
As it was the first to start on the
| downward road to adversely, so it
would now seem to be leading all
other industries on the highway to
prosperity.


One of the most extensive mill
owners in Pennsylvania, in cOnVef-
sation the other day with a repre-
sentative of the Philadelphia Press,
said that there was more iron being
consumed at the present time, all
over the country, than for years
past. As a consequence prices are
showing a tendency to stiffen, and
works that have been standing for
years are starting up every week.
The outlook, according to the same
authority, is really promising.


But, perhaps, the most important
fact of all is that our manufactures
no longer fear foreign competition.
The panic has taught them this val
liable lesson: how to manufacture
as cheaply as their foreign competi-
tors. The home trade is therefore
secure, and no longer needs the arti-
fetal protection of the tariff. Nor is
this all that has been gained. Our
manufacturers are also prepared to
compete for orders in Europe, where
a great demand for iron, consequent
upon the treaty of Berlin, is begin
ming to spring up. France is lead
ing the way. She has just issued
the first inStallment of the loan OF
three milliards, destined for the
construction of local railways. Aus
rO-Hungary, by the Berlin treaty,
has obtained the power to insist up
on the extension of her network OF
railways to Constantinople and the
Kgean, which the blind obstinacy
of the Porte has hitherto resisted.
She is also negotiating with Servia
and Roumania, with a view to con-
structing the salQnipa railway with
out delay. There are ambitious
schemes, too, for the opening up OF
Asiatic-Turkey, by running rail,
road through the valley of the Eu'
pirates schemes which are meet
| ing with much favor among capital,
lists in London. The fact is, people
with capital are beginning to show
a disposition to risk it in anything
that promises fair returns, and the
construction of railways is again tC
be the favorite venture. With 6
promising market, then, for our iron
abroad and a certain and increased
demand for it at home, the irOI
manufacturers of the country may
once more take courage.
Year: 1878




1t is forcibly put forth by the


Chicago Times that a decrease in


production cannot induce better


times. We give an extract fEom an


elaborate article on the subject,


which cannot fail to give matter for


reflection:


All the talk about creating pros
! perity by doing loss work, arises


from the assumption that too Inuch


is produced-thatt there is too great


an abundance of eXchangeable and


useful products. How it is possible


for any human being to assume
such thing is a mystery. 1t is
| hardly possible to find a man,


woman or child that has enough OF
everything. The great mass of the
people would gladly double their
consumption if they could. Very


many would gladly consume more
food, and most people who have
food enough would be glad to inn
prove its quality. There is hardly
one person in a hundred who would
not double his consumption of
clothing, and more than double his
supply of furniture and articles of
personal use and adornrnent, such
as watches and jewelry, If they could
afford to do SO. There are very few
people who would not be glad to
spend more than twice as much as
they do in building dwellings and
improving their surroundings. If
it were possible for once to fully
satisfy the wants Of all men, new
wants would arise, impelling to
further industry. All the manual
labor of man, supplemented by all
the aid he can possibly derive from
machinery-from the forces of ma
ture reduced to service-will never
be able to satisfy his wants. 1t is
the very fact that human wants are
not supplied-that production is not
equal to demand-that impels our
labor reformers to write essays, and
make speeches in favor of reducing
the hours of labor. They have not
enough themselves, and they see
others about them who have not !
enough, and they imagine that |
somehow they and these others can
get enough by assuming that there |
is too much in existence, and there
upon producing less.


The real trouble is, briefly stated,
that things are not producing i'm due |
proportion. Relatively too much |
of some things and too little of |
other things is produced. The re-
suit is that exchanges are clogged,
and production is arrested. It is
because production is arrested, that
men who depend wholly upon their
personal efforts cannot find employ
ment at good wages. Every man
and woman alive could work early
and late, Sundays as well as week
days, without "gorging" the mar
kets, if only he or she knew ex-
actly what to produce. The reasons
why things are not produced in due
proportion, and the means by which
production can be maintained in
due proportion, are not subjects of
in this article. The pres
ent object is to point out that gene
raj Over-production is impossible,
and therefore general prosperity
cannot be created by reducing pro-
duction equally at points.
Year: 1878

Beautiful, beautiful silken hair"
Phillip murmured fondly, toying
lovingly with one of her nut-brown
tresses, ''soft as the plumage on an
angels wing; light as the thistle
down that dances on the summer
air; the simmer of sunset, the
glitter of yellow gold, the red-brOwn
autumnal forests blend in enhancing
beauty in its ho2d9 Aha snd lud5tb ba afen sendt II
what to say next. There was a
moment of profound silence, and
then Aurelia took it from him and
went out of the room with it. When
She came back he was gone. They
meet now, but they meet as
stI angers, and the eyes that were
wont to beam upon each other with
the awakened love light now glare
as though life was an eternal day.
Year: 1878

The footing of the list for 1864 IS
s61.07, while that for 1878 is but
$13.45, for the same articles. In
1864 Iaborers received at the rate of
two dollars per day, while now the
same class Of wOrkmen receive from
a dollar to a dollar and a quarter a
day but the dollar a day they now
earn will purchase nearly two and
One-half times as much as the two
dollars they earned in 1864.
Year: 1878

THE Supreme Court of North
Carolina elected in 1863, and the
last official remains of Republican
ism in that State adjourned last
week, to be succeeded by the court
recently elected by the Democracy.
Year: 1878

THE average human body is made
up of several pals of water, a mass
of charcoal sufficient to cook a good
dinner, a quantity of hydrogen
that would float small balloon, q
piece of iron large enough to make
pocket knife, and lump of phos-
phorus that would serve for half a
dozen boxes of lucifer matches, also
various proportions of soda, potosh,
lime, magnesia, oxygen, chlorine
and nitrogen.
Year: 1878

lit. make 1t a rough road, defeat it,


they see in such result, curses for


the republican party, its unpopularity


before the people; to this end then


this party that forced the.nation down


into the dark valley ofrebellion by Its


nativeinherent tcussedness, cannotnow


be expected to yield other fruit than
Its record shows 1t has yielded here


tofore. 1t may be expected therefore,
that for party purposes this old DEM
ocratic party will recklessly and wick
edly lead the country TO financial dis
aster, IL thereby they can make 1t a
successful partisan measure. It isnot
too much to say also, that the dema-
gogue renegade republicans, in their
mad, break-neck race after Office and
power, that has already led them into
alliance with the democrats, will join,
too, with their new partners In any
folly and wickedness that may seem
to win votes and power.


It is fair to presume that the bank
ing system Of the country is not such
that it cannot be improved; 1t doubt
less can be, but 1t is no time now for
any radical innovations. We shall
be ready to discuss radical changes
upon their merits at proper time.


One thing is very certain, however,
that a political currency, dependent
for Its volume upon the action of Con-
gress at each session, and to be dis
cussed from the stump each campaign,
no sensible people will ever adopt; 1t
would be the greatest destroyer of the
prosperity of the country that could
be devised. The volume of currency
should be regulated and controlled by
the demands of trade, and for this
purpose left in the hands Of the peo-
pie and not delivered over into the
hands of their agents In Congress,
and SO be controlled by the demagog-
ical promises ofthe blatant Office seek
or who promises anything from the
stump to win.


The people themselves bold in their
hands the tides of trade; the people
make them; the people know the ne
of the trade they create as no
else does or can, and they are
surely the proper place to lodge the
arbiter of what the volume of curren-
cy shall be, and by this method alone
will the currency be regulated by the
real demands of trade.
Year: 1878

Resolved, That the legal-tender
quality of the silver dollar (4l23 grains
standard silver shall be maintained
and enforced, and that any discrimi-
nation against said silver dollar by
any national bank, in refusing to re-
ceive them and treat them as legal
dollars, shall be deemed a defiance of
the laws of the United States, and the
Committee on Banking and Currency
Is hereby instructed to mature and
bring in a bill for the withdrawal
from circulation of the notes of all
such banks SO offending.


Several objections were made, and
the proposition was not received.
Year: 1878

WHEN THE LATE EPIDEMIC CAME


on she was among the foremost to 20
TO tho bedside of tho stricken and the
dying. She watched by day and by
night--as faithful q nurse % ever saw
the spark Of life 60 out Not only
with her hands did she aid the suffer.
Ing, but In words as well did she
give strength to many . poor heart
Thus she labored and thus she fulflll.
ed the sacred vow OF her life, till the
Father Of Mercy claimed the Slater oi
Mercy ~ His own. Annie McKeene
OF 1888. wss the Sister Celeste whose
Soath IL announced In the notice q
| II cta Of this article.
Year: 1878

they went TO an humble preachers
house, and without alighting, had
him make them man and wife. She
threw away her woman's dress and
donned male attire. She put ON
belt besides and two revolvers, and
her long hair she tucked under her
hat. Ona june morning, 1868, as
they with half dozen others were
riding along over the prairie near
whore now stands the littlo town of
Lees Summit, they were met by q
detachment of the 7th Missouri State
Militia. There was
Year: 1878

FEMALE BEAUTY.A London medical
journal of high authority says that eff
forts are making by number of women
of prominence to form a "School of
Beauty" in England, the members


pledging themselves to do everythingin
their power to render themselves come
ly by natural means. Prizes are to be
given to those who can move with ease
and grace, and SO furnish evidence of
good health and physical unconstrain-
ment. Something of this kind is need
ed here. Although American women
have, to great extent, seen the folly
and the ugliness of lacing and going
thinly clad in cold weather, there are
still many who think an absurdly-small
waist attractive, and any number that
so pinch their feet that they cannot
walk comfortably or becomingly. They
do these ridiculous things generally be-
cause they imagine that men admire
them. Ifmen have done SO, they do so
no longer. They prefer healthy and
graceful women to invalid and awkward
ones, as all women must be who cramp
their waists, wear shoes too small, or
dress in any way to interfere with their
freedom and satisfaction. Nature and
Beauty are one. No woman can be
beautiful who fetters> or hinders nature.


The more nearly she approaches the nat
ural the closer sho comes to loveliness.
Women have heard this thousand
times, and accept it mentally. Yet in
their blind worship of false gods, thew
sacrifice themselves to infirmity and de-.
formity. 1t is entirely incomprehensi-
BILE to men that so many women will en-
dure pain and incur disease from a mis-
taken notion of beauty.-N. Y. Times.