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Year: 1875

The BrunsWicker says: A man
and his wife, seeking to break
themselves of o habit of fretting
and scoldiug, entered into an dgree-
ment of this nature: The one who
lost temper with the other or with
the children, was to be published
as "scold." The medium through
which this humiliating intelligence
was to be published to the world
was not specified in the contract,
but the husband understood that
it was to be through the Bruins
wicker. The wife nearly bit the
end of her tongue off the first days
trial, shapping up the harsh words
which tried to escape her lips. But
both were disdainfully peaceful
until the afternoon of the second
day, wlcn the husband flew into
passion simply because one of
the children polished his stockened
feet with a blacking brush while
he was taking his usual nap. At
the first burst Of anger, Ills wife
quietly arose and put on her bon
net.


"Where are you going r. he in
quired suspiciously.


"To publish you," she replied.


"0h, well go ahead, tho boys at
the office won't give me much of
blast.


"But I'm not gbibg to the pfint-
ing office"


"Where then Z" he asked in sur
prise.


"To the sewing society,"


This brought him to terms, and
long and earnestly he begged her
not to make his weakness known
throughout the length and breadth
of the land. Finally in considera-
ton of a new silk dress, by him to
be delivered, she agreed to let him
off. But it Vas a narrow escape.
Year: 1875

We are informed that q woman
who resides on a small farm in the
vicinity of Manchester about four
months since gave birth to twin
boys, both having perfect bodies
and limbs, and both having perfect
ly formed rattlesnake's heads
Our informant says they will drink
milk out of d dish, using their
tongues like dog, not seeming to
care for their hands at all while
drinking. If left alone in their!
cradle they will quarrel and fight
all the time, and for this reason q
pillow is placed between them
Tie parents are not in the best OF
circumstances, and are at o loss to
know what to do with the children.
Not long since q well-known circus
manager, who has several times
made his farewell trip with his one
horse show, visited the parents and
saw the children. He at once con-
cluded there was fortune In them,
and offered a fabulous price for
the privilege Of exhibiting them
through the country during the
season. But they declined to &C.
cept this offer, and to day the
"snake children are alive and well,
and may be seen by any person
who may have the curiosity to Wit
ness such a wonderful freak of
nature.-Ann Arbor Courier.
Year: 1875

Charley Backus, the practical
joker was in a small town in Cot-
necticut the other day, and as he
started for New York he stood oil
the rear platform Of the last car of
the train. Just as the whistle was
blown, and the cars began to move,
Backus espied big fellow loung-
ing in the depot, and shaking his
fist at him in assumed rage, he
shouted:


"Oh, there you arej you william.
I've been looking for you all over
this cursed town. Oh, you knave,
you thief, you scoundrel."


At this time the train was rapid
ly moving out of the depot, and
Backus wildly shook his fist at
the astonished stranger screaming !:
Dent l wish I had time to get off
the train and thrash you, you
scouhdrel y


To the horror of the minstrel
joker the train was stopped and
backed into the depot. Backus
made a rush for his compartment
in the drawing room car and lock-
himself in, just as the brawhy
listed depot lounger boarded the
train and howled:


"Where is that damned duffer
who has been looking all over this
ere town for me r.


Backus kept himself in his pris-
on until lie reached New York.
Year: 1875

Coffee should be Drowned at least
twice a week, and kept in air-tight
canisters, and only ground Just i'm
mediately before using. Pick the
green coffee carefully over shake it
in a eOiander to free it from dust, and
rub it in a cloth. While roasting,
stir it constantly the moment the
berry craekles and becomes crisp
enough to pulverize, It is sufficiently
roasted. Stir in q small piece Of but
ter the size Of q walnut, and put the
coffee steaming hot into an alr-tight
canister. For making, put your
coffee into q bowl with just sufficient
cold water to moisten It; beat in an
egg, shell and all mix IL well through
the coffee. Rinse your coffee boiler out
with boiling water /; put the coffee in,
and pour over it the required amount
of boiling water. Let lt boil fifteen
minutes. When II begins TO
boil sir il frequer tly, and
never leave It until the grounds sink.
Pour little from the spout, in orcer
to remove the grains that may have
boiled into it, and pour 1t back into
the pot. 1t Is very much better II
served without decanting it. The
proportions OF ground coffee and boil
Ing water vary in every family; so l
give several Allow one tablespoons
ful OF ground coffee for each person,
and one for the pot, and add three
pints OF boiling water to seven spoon
fuls OF coffee. One measure OF ground
coffee and seven Of the same measure
OF boiling water. One ounce Of ground
coffee to one quart OF boiling water.
One ounce Of ground coffee to q pint Of
boiling water. One and a-half ounces
Of ground coffee TO q pint OF boiling
water.
Year: 1875

An accurate farmer has furnished
the Country Gentleman q statement
of his experiment with feeding cut
feed aud meal to his horses, accom-
panied with weighing and measuring.
He cuts oats and straw about an inch
long with a raw hide cylinder ma
chine; and this chopped straw is then
treated with corn meal and bran
mixed in about eqdal quantities as to
weight, so that each horse has about q
bushel OF cut feed and three quarts Of
the meal and bran twice IN each day.
Sometimes hay is cut instead of Ost-
straw or both are mixed. IL Is found
that two hundred pounds per week OF
this mixture OF eorn-meal aud bran,
added to the cut feed, will keep a pair
OF working horses in the best cOudi-
tiOn, Tits, he is satified from expert
ment, Is less than tIOo-thir1s cost Of
keeping them on uncut, dry and 1ChOle
grGin. The eorn-meal alone is not so
good for horses as when mixed with
bran. An excellent meal IL made Of
ground oats. The fodder Is cut by
horsepower, ON stormy or spare days,
and stored In large bins, so As to fur
nish always 9 surplus on hand.
Year: 1875

Through life we're found strewlng again


and again,
The sunshine of pleasure or chill blast Of


pain
We either make cheerful our fellows each


day,
Or scatter some discorI to darken the


way.
'Tis ours to gladden. or wOefully chill,
We each have the power to do as we will.
The chances are legion, and we shall abide,
Condemned or exalted. as we may decide.
Kind words cost but little, and OH, how


they cheer
The heart overburdened and east down


with fear;
A word fully spoken, with kindness and


ease,
The hottest OF anger will quickly appease.
Kind deeds are the flowers which cheerfully


bloom
To gladden. our lives as we march to the


tomb;
UpraIslng the fallen and those that are


low,


The depth OF their power no mortal doth


know.
Kind thoughts by kind actions are best un-


derstOOd
They stand "a the essence OF all that is


good
They prompt us to deeds OF the holIest


love,


And meet the approval OF angles above.
IT r. Thompson ia chronological Journal.
Year: 1875

Judge Taft, in his Cleveland speech,
comes out in very definite terms on
the proprosed division of the common
school fund by the Catholics. The fol-
lowing is aR extract


have no desire or purpose to at
tack, or carry on any crusade against
the Catholic Church. But the atti-
tude of the Catholic clergy, a. be-
tween the parties, renders it inn
possible to ignore them ia our present
contest with the Democrats.


A majority of the Catholic voters
in this country, though not all, have
generally voted with the Democratic
party. But the recent enactment OF
the Gsghan bill, 10 give the clergy of
every sect opportunity to minister TO
the spiritual comfort of persons Of
their own faith confined In the Peni-
tentiary and other penal aud REFORM
atOry institutions, has awakened un-
usual apprehensiOns. Not that the
Geghan bill would seem 20 be dam
geIOus or unreasonable in itself-al-
though the general public had not
been aware that there was any Oc-
casiOn for it-but that the Catholic
clergy claimed it as an impOrta mt
measure to which their Church was
entitled, and demanded it at the
hands OF the Democratic majority, as
q consideration for the Catholic vote
in the past, and condition Of their
receiving it in the future. On the
same principle, If the Republicans
should promise to divide the school
fund, or to abandon thesehool system,
they might expect a pledge OF the
/ Catholic vote from the clergy, unless
the Democrats should bill higher.


This circumstance even might not
have excited so much apprehension,
but for the fact that the Catholic
priesthood have, by the newspapers
under their control, signifisd their
oppOsit on to the common schools Of
the country. They are not willing to
have Catholic children educated in
schools common to ALI and without
seetarian teaching. The apprenen-
sion in the popular mind Is, that if
the Catholic clergy can induce the
Democratic majority to do one thing
at their instance, they may hereafter
induce the Democrats to do snOther
far more important and formidable
thing. viz: To divide the school fund,
or break up the school system. =


1t Is not supposed that the Catholic
clergy have any special regard for
either party, except as it favOrs or OPP
poses their purposes in regard to the
schools. They claim the right to
control the instruction Of Catholic
children i'm secular as well as In re-
ligiOus knowledge and this Is their
politics. To this end they affiliate
with the Democratic party, which Is
not supposed TO make education a
leading object, or to adhere 30 the
common school system with aBy
desperate tenacity.
Year: 1875

ArTER THE HoNoRABLE.-ln the
race for seats at Washington, says the
Tribune, the legal profession has gen
orally the inside track, but the home
legislative bodies contain a better pro
portion of other classes of the commu-
nifty. Tho honest farmer, the village
Doctor or an occasional clergyman,
in his rural simplicity, deems it an
honor to be permitted to write 'Hon-
orable" before his name, and is allowed
the privilege. In some remote districts
where tho caucus is as exemplary in
its deliberations as prayer meeting,
they rotate in Legislative duty; and
when they say, ats Squire So-and-
Sos turn this year." that settles il as
cflectually as if all the known devices
of politics had been brought into play
in procuring the nomination. In Del
aware, which has the reputation of
being a quiet and sober little Common
wealth, the newly elected Legislature,
il is said, does not contain single
lawyer, and we dare say that the State
will not 90 TO ruin in the next year or
two because of that fact. After all,
the Senate of the United States is the
paradise where lawyers go Out of
lour-scoro members about fifty belong
TO that class. m
Year: 1875

POINTED AND TRUE.-The editor OF
the New York Sun, in alluding to the
recent overwhelming defeat of the Rad.
ical party, says What one of the great
est political revolutions of our times
really signifies, among other things, is
this Filled with disgust and abhor-
renee for the horde of hypocrites and
corruptionists whom Grant had drawn
around him, and of whom he was the
most conspicuous figure, the patriotic
masses of both parties alarmed for the
perpetuity of their institutions, detcr-
mined to strike them down. They
saw that Grant and his minions, in
their lust for power and their greed
for spoil, had turned the Temple Of
Liberty into den ofshameless thieves,
and they rose in their indignation and
with one heavy blow crushed and scat
tered them. The revolution doubtless
means much more than this; but 30
much it certainly does mean. Wheth-
er the leaders of the Democratic party
are wise enough to comprehend its
scope remains to be determined
Whether they can shape its future
course will depend upon their ability
to harmonizc their councils on some
vital questions, and win the confidence
of a large proportion of those Rcpubli.
cans who aided the Democracy in
achieving this signal triumph.
Year: 1875

A DANDY AT THE GALLows--The
first Earl of Holland was a great
dandy, who played prominent and
not altogether reputable part in the
history of his time. lie was a favorite
at the Courts of james /. and Charles
T., but when the civil war broke out,
he at first sided with the Parliament
against the king. In an unluclxy hour
he went over TO the Royalist side, took
up arms against the Commonwealth,
was defeated, made prisoner, put TO
trial, and duly sentenced to lose his
head. He appeared upon the scaffold
in n white satin vest and cap, trimmed
with silver lace. His costly garments
were the lawful perquisites Of the exc
cutioner, TO whom the earl said, as he
approached the block, "lIeremy friend,
let my body and my clothes alone
There is ten pounds for thee that is
better than my clothes, ] am sure.
And when you take up my head, do
not take Off my cap" Then, laying
his head upon the block, he added,
"Stay, while | give tho sign" After
a brief prayer he stretched out his
hand, saying, "Now, nowl" Tho word
had hardly left his lips when tho axe
fell, and the head was severed from the
body ut n single stroke.
Year: 1875

The RIGHT TERM-Congrcssman
Brown of Kentucky made violent
speech in Congress last week, and after
drawing strong picture of tyranny
and corruption, he boiled down his
thoughts and characterized the sub
stance of his charges as Butlerism.
For this unparliamentary conduct he
was called to order and afterwards
ccnsured, as he should have been, even
though he did tell the truth and coin
a new and expressive word. Butler
ism is the new term, to cover the
meanness of the meanest acts of the
present Congress.
Year: 1875

n


The New York Sun of the Ilth inst. tells
of the latest fatal misunderstanding among
the animals of Barnum's menagerie: Two
lions, two leopards, and a tame black pam
ther have for some months been kept In one
cage in Barnum's Hippodrome. The lions are
separated from their companions through
the night by iron bars. but in the day
time the bars are withdrawn, and the ami
mails form "hsppy family" No sooner
were the bars taken out yesterday morning
than the leopard made spring for the PAN
theirs throat. The panther was young, but
his muscles were like iron and his skin as
thick as sole leather, and he struck the leop-
ard blow with one of his fore paws that
laid him sprawling on the floor
leopard was on his feet again, and the ami
mails stood face to face. For fully minute
they glared and growled, and then, with q
shock that nearly turned the cage on its
side, they met again, each trying to grasp
the other by the throat. The employees OF
the hippodrome, attracted by the noise OF
the conflict, tried, with bars and spears, to
separate the c0mbatants, but without avail.
Seasoned spears were snapped In two like
straws, and even the keeper of the animals
dared not approach the cage. The leop-
ard, with an unexpected spring. fixed
himself on the psnther's back, and, taking
the loose skin on the back of the latter 8
neck between his teeth, gave the panther.a
toss against the side of the cage that bent the
thick iron nearly double. For a minute
there was great danger that all the beasts in
the cage would escape. The top of the cage
was broken and the floor was split. But the
battle was over: for the panther, without q
sound, struck the floor of the cage, lifeless.
But the leopard was not satisfied with the
death of his antagonist. No sooner was he
convinced that he could approach with
safety than, seizing the panther's head be-
tween his fore paws, he gave him a tearing
with the sharp claws of his hind feet that
nearly stripped the skin from his body.
Then he began with bis teeth, and before the
employees could interfere nearly half OF the
dead panther had been eaten by the leopard.
When at length a sufficient force had been
collected around the cage, the keeper who had
tanned the panther entered the den. There
upon the floor lay his pets silky black skin,
almost entire. His body, not yet cold,
quivered, and his eyes glareu. The leopard
crouched In q corner of the cage, satisfied
with his meal. The iron bars were soon
replaced, and the leopard was prevented
from doing further mischief. At the after


noon performance the leopard was so unruly
that IL was deemed unsafe for the trainer to
enter the cage, but the bars were kept in
their places and no more damsge was done.
Year: 1875




so untimely blighted and SO sadly termin-
ated, have SO often been discussed that they
call for no special mention here. And yet,
Notwithstanding the undeniable genius OF
Mile. Rachel. the brilliancy of her career,
the crowded houses which she always drew,
1t is O matter OF serious doubt among the
sincerest lovers of the dramatic art as to
whether her influence upon the French
stage was In any ways beneficial.
Every evening that she played the theater
was crowded, It is true, but on the evenings
that she did not play, and during her ire
quent absences, no attraction could be found
sufficient to draw the public to the theater.
She had become, as il were, the Comedie
Franchise in her own person, or rather she
was the blazing sun whose effolgence
blinded the eyes OF the spectators to
the luster Of a1y of her attendant
stars. People went to the theater when
Rachel played, and went somewhere else
when tshe did not. This evil would have
been very great had she been as patient
Year: 1875

The man who really loves his horse does
not require to be told that the clipped ami
NAL suffers severely if allowed to stand
uncovered in the bleak air of winter. But
unfortunately, there are a good many peo-
pie who have come into the possession of
quick. stepping horses who have no real
affection Tor the animals which serve them
ana IN whom the delicate sense OF human
lly is blunted. These people care more


Tor show than comfort, and they will keep
clipped horse shivering all day in the
emily streets. In some cases they may
tie small blanket over the loins, but it
never enters into their heads to more fully
protect the shorn equine. Now, clipping


ls an excellent thing when praeticed with


Judgment. but it is nothing short Of
cruelty when made indiscrimnate


The heavy horse which does


slow work should never be deprived OF


his natural coat of hair. As he has to face
all kinds of weather and does not warm
his blood by violent exercise, a long and
thick coat OF hair is essential to his health
and comfort. But with the light, active
horse it is different. We take him from
the warm stable, give him merry spin
over the road, and for the time being are
done with him. Ii his hair is long the
lungs are taxed more severely in aerating
the blood, the pores OF the skin in meas


ure being clogged and at the end of the


drive he is cnveloped in wet mass. To
dry him we must rub him for hours with


cloths, and subject him to other inconven
fences. If we do not rub him dry, he will


shiver all night in his stall, just as yoa,
Mr.. Querist, would do were you compelled


to try and WOO balmy sleep between
pair of wet blankets. 1t is directly the
opposite with the clipped horse. When
putting forth his best effort he breathes
freely. perspires naturally, and. as there
is no hair to absorb the moisture, he quick
ly gets rid of the sweat drops. You put
him into his stable after hot drive, and
then, with little grooming, he Is ready
for the blanket and comfortable nights
rest. 1t stands to reason, however, that
the clipped horse should not be tied under
roadside shed without being carefully
covered with woolen clothing, nor should
he be forced to shiver through a stretch Of
two hours in the carriage traces waiting
for my lady to finish her gossipping call


upon some gossipping friend. Ii you clip
your carriage horses, you should make it
your business, on descending to the pave
ment from your coach, to see that your
driver throws heavy blankets over the
shorn animals. To allow the poor equines
to stand unprotected in the cold winter
air is to practice downright cruelty. There
is nothing new in any these suggestions
but 1t seems necessary to keep drumming
old facts into the ears Of u good many in


considerate people.-Ihe Iurf, Field and
Farm.
Year: 1875

FRONTING ON TEMPLE STREET,
On the East side of Pearl, and South of Canal
and Reservoir streets. About four minutes
walk from Temple Block.


The Surveyor is now at work surveying
these lots. They are not to be laid out In the
stereotyped style, in square blocks-in order
to get the greatest number of lots, with no re-
gard to the grades of the streets-but
Year: 1875

A celebrated divine from a sister city
who preached at one of the South. end
churches, Sunday last, employed the fol.
lowing language to illustrate certain
point: +" How do we know that we exist,
save by our thought, our consciousness"
etc., ETC., and how does the man in that
pew know whether the one next to him
is awake or asleep" etc., pointing in the
direction of drowsy mortal who was
mid, nodding at furious rate in pew
not far from the front while the occu-
pants of the adjoining slips looked at
one another and smiled appreciation.
Unfortunately no friend was nigh to
nudge the poor man into walking con-
sciousness; so in his blissful ignorance
he nodded on till the end of the chapter,
Boston Traveller.
Year: 1875

Several Texas papers want to see the
whipping post established in their State,
because they imagine that it has done
good in Delaware. The spectacle of a
State as large as Texas following in the
wake of a little semi-civilized potato
patch like Delaware would be a rather
damaging one to hold up as a picture of
the reviving South.
Year: 1875

YOUR DUTY.-You citizens of our town who have never yet had your names on our subscription books. do you think you are doing your duty as good citizens? Do you think yeu are making any money by withholding your little Dollar-and-a half? Don't you know that the influence of this paper is every day giving tone and prestige and prominence to your town? You are reaping the benefit as much as anybody else, and we ask are you too hard run or stingy to help sustain the pa per which is working for you?
Year: 1875

Parent. your boy will read a paper much more greedily than he will his books, and will conse- quently learn to read faster much faster-lf you will keep a well printed newspaper in the house. And besides it will make an intelligent, sensible, rRACTIcA- BILE boy out of him. just such paper as you need is the Russell vile DEMOCRAT, and your duty to yourself and your boy and your country should prompt you to put your name upon our subscrip- tion books at once.
Year: 1875

TIE LINE BETWEEN JOHNSON AND PoPE.-We notice the bill to define the line between Pope and Johnson (the Gazette reporter has it Jackson) was returned by the committee on Monday, with the recommendation that it do not pass. The report was adopt ed. Our people will be glad of this action, as the line proposed by the new bill would have work ed great injustice to Pope. This IS the measure over which the DEMOCRAT had such controver sy with the Van Guard, some months ago, this paper opposing. and the Van guard fayoring the new line.
Year: 1875

Immigrants continue to pass through our city almost daily, westward bound. We never saw so many near-sighted men in all our life--else why do they seek beyond Washington county Fayetteville Democrat.

 Near sighted, or empty-h headed, they must be indeed, for having made Washington county our home for about ten years ourselves, we can testify that no where west of W ashington county can a more attractive, healthy and agreeable home for the immigrant be found.