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Year: 1874

We, Representatives of the Republican
party of Minnesota, in State Convention as
sembled, do hereby adopt and declare the
following:


Resolred, That while reaf6rming the prin-
ciples and renewing the pledges enunciated
and given by the Republican party in its
last State and National Conventions, and
recognizing the ability and general fidelity
which have mnrked both State and nation
al administrations in the discharge of the
;hem, we can point with especial pride to
the firm maintenance of our foreign rela-
lions upon the basis of justice and right,
and such as has secured respect and friend
ship abroad and peace and confidence at
home; the judicious enforcement of all
laws having for their object the protection
Of all classes of our citizens both North and
South in their just civil and political
rights, and the whole country against the
perils of insurrection and new rebellion,
the preservation Of the public faith and the
constant improvement Of the public credit;
the reduction of the public debt and the
consequent removal Of the burdens of tax
alton; the preservation of sound currency
against any ruinous initiation inspired by
speculative interests, which may be hailed
as a sure guarantee of the earliest possible
return to specie payment consistent with
the just rights Of both the debtor and credi-
tor classes of our people; and above all
the constant vigilance manifested in hunt
ing out and exposing to public condemna-
ton delinquent officials and corruption in
office wherever and whenever found, re-
gardless of supposed party interests and
party relations, and the correction of all
abuses as fast as discovered its prompt re-
sponse to the popular demand by the repeal
of the Congressional salary bill and other
obnoxious legislation, and its readiness to
grapple with new issues growing out of the
relations of corporate power and produc-
tive industry by the Inauguration of meas
ures looking to the protection of the latter
against all unjust encroachments of the for
mer, and by the opening up of new and
cheaper channels of communication by wa
ter between the granaries of the West and
the markets of the East, as sure guarantees
that the grand old party that saved the
| country is still true to the principles that
gave it birth, in hearty sympathy with the
popular will; able and willing to admins
ter the government in the interests of an


enlightened economy and just regard to


the public welfare, and is worthy the conf
| dence and support of the people.


Resolued, That we heartily approve of the
! action of Governor Davis in relation to the
prosecution of the persons charged by the
| report of the Senate committee with de-
fraudjng the school fund.
Year: 1874

The Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals, puts forth a set
of rules for the treatment Of balky
horses:


l. Pat the horse upon the neck ;
examine the harness carefully, first
on one side, and then on the other,
speaking encouragingly while doing
so; then jump into the wagon, and
give the word go; generally he will
obey.


2. A teamster in Maine says he
can start the worst balky horse by
taking him out Of the shafts and
making him go round in a circle till
he is giddy. If the first dance Of this
sort doesn't cure him, the second
will.


3. To cure a balky horse, simply
place your hand over the horses nose
and shut off his wind until he wants
to 60.


4. The brain of a horse seems to
entertain but one idea at a time
therefore continued whipping only
confirms his stubborn resolve. Ifyou
can by any means give him q new
subject to think Of, you will generally
have no trouble in starting him. A
simple remedy is to take couple Of
turns Of stout twine around the fore.
leg, just below the knee, tight enough
for the horse to feel, and tie in bow.
knot. At the first check he will
generally 60 dancing off, and after q
short distance you can get out and re-
move the string, to prevent injury to
the tendon in your further drive.


8. Take the tail of the horse be
tween the hind legs, and tie it by 8
co1d 10 the saddle girth.


.. Tie string around the horse.
sar, close to the head.
Year: 1874

Take piece of coal tar and dis
solve it in naptha or alcohol, and
when it has reached the consistency
of ink, take a small brush and mark
your initials or name upon your grain
sacks, farm baskets, and all such arti-
cles as are liable to get lost or mis-
laid. 1t will be great convenience
in keeping your sacks together, and
save many that would otherwise be.
come lost if there was no mark to dis
tinguish hthem.-Farmers Union.
Year: 1874

A. B. Allen, of New York, says {:
II would sooner pay double the price
for steel plows than accept as a gift
the best set Of cast-iron plows to be
found in the United States. Though
ever so hard chilled or smoothly pol
ished, cast-iron will foul, more or
less, Oh the mould board, in every
kind of soil, from sandy or gravelly
up to q heavy clay loan. The dirt
thus gathered on the mould-board
adds greatly to it's draft and prevents
good work. Another objection to
cast-iron is, in order to get equal
strength the weight must be consider
ably greater than with steel, and this
is a hard drag all day, and requires
much stronger team. Of this any
one may quickly convince himself
without resort to thermometers or
any other means Of testing the draft.
He has only to hitch light team to a
steel pkow, and stronger one to the
cast-iron, and work them side by side.
In this way have found that pair
of fourteen-hand ponies would do
about the same work and with rs
much ease to themselves, as a pair Of
sixteen-hand horses. The same .ob-
servations about material will also
apply to cultivators. In thus candid
ly advising my brother farmers in
regard to the superior merit Of steel
plows, I am speaking directly against
my own individual interest, for l
have been a manufacturer and dealer
in cast-iron plows for upward of thirty
years past"
Year: 1874

Why does boiling fast render meat
hard?


Because the excessive action Of the
heat causes the albumen of the meat
to set solid, crisps up the tleshy fibers,
and prevents heat having gradual
access to the interior.


Why, when good soup or broth is
required, should the meat be put into
cold water?


Because, as the heat is developed
very gradually, there occurs an in
termixture between the juices Of the
flesh and the external matter. The
soluble and savory parts of the meat
escape and enrich the soup.


Why are stews generally health
full and digestible?


Because, being compounds of vari-
Gus substances, they contain all the
elements of nutrition, and as the
office Of the stomach is to liquify
solid food before diycsting it, the pre-
vious stewing assists the stomach, in
this particular.


What causes the cracking noise
when lard is put into trying-pan?


Lard always contains some portion
of water, and it is the expansion of
this water into steam, forcing its way
through the fat, which causes the
cracking noise. The heat at which
oil or fat boils is much greater than
the water. When the cracking
ceases, the water has been driven off
from the fat and when the fat be-
gins to boil or bubble, its heat will
be very high.


Why in frying fish should the fat
or oil be made very hot before the
fish are put in?


Because, if the temperature is low
when the fish is put into the frying
pan, it becomes sodden in the steam
formed by its water; but if the oil be
very much heated, the water will be
at once driven off, and the fish nicely
Drowned.


Why should fish or meat that is be-
ing fried be frequently turned?
Because the turning assists the
evaporation of the water. When the
fish or meat is allowed to lie too long,
steam is generated under it, and the
substance becomes sodden; and the
moment the steam is driven off the
surface catches to the hot pan, and
becomes burnt and broken.


Why is broiled meat so juicy and
savory?


Because the action of the fire,
hardening its surface, seals up the
pores through which the juice might
escape. 1t acts in the same way that
the sudden dip into boiling water
does upon joints Of meat, but more ef-
fectually. To turn broiling meat,
never use fork, but tongs; fork
opens an escape for the juice, and
wastes the best part of the meat.
Why is cabbage rendered more
wholesome and nutritious by being
boiled in two waters?
Because (according to DR.. Paris)
cabbages contain an essential oil,
which is apt to produce bad effects
and he recommends that they should
be boiled in two successive waters,
till they are soft and digestible.
Year: 1874

Milk will sour quicker if the cows
are fed sour milk. This is not objec-
tionable for butter making, but it is
Objectionable for cheese making.


Cream from a farrow cows milk
will not all come if churned with
cream from new milch COWS. The
mixed cream will make more butter
than the cream from new milch COWS
alone, but not as much As if the cream
is churned separately.


If I were receiving milk from
low, swampy grounds, or from past
ures filled with Weeds or from prai-
ries, would scald it. By heating to
$50 degrees l would drive away the
taint, but scalding would also drive
away the aroma ofthe timothy, clover,
or June grass.


Cream can be raised by freezing,
but this is not practiced in this coun-
try.


If milk is kept at low tempera-
ture, the cream rises slowly.


The effect of sudden change in
milk or cream is to injure the keep
ing of the butter.


Whey, as it comes from the factory
invariably has bad effect when fed
to COWS. If fed while fresh and sweet,
it is not Objectionable.


Raising cream by freezing does not
expsl the animal odor. Neither does
it destroy germs in milk.


The cream which rises first makes
better quality Of butter than that
which rises last.


The more aroma in butter, the less
time it will keep. So with cheese.


In the spring I would work all the
cream into the cheese, to ripen it soon
er and make it better, and work it of
at spring prices. Later in the season
I would skim more.


The cream from ordinary COWS can
nearly all be worked into cheese. 1t
could not be done with milk from the
Jeseys or other COWS whose cream
riss slowly.


To avoid greasy butter, churn with
pressure instead of friction. The dash
ehurn brings butter by pressure, and
makes better butter than most other
kinds of churn. Butter should also
be worked by pressure instead of fric.
ton. The ladle or worker should not
be drawn across the butter, but pres
sed down upon it.


Milk while being scalded for taint
should be stirred.


Results favor shallow setting in.
stead Of deep setting. The amount o:
cream seems larger sometimes from
deep setting, but it is owing to the
fact that in deep setting the larg,
globules carry with them consider
able milk. The amount of butter
from deep setting will be less thar
from shallow setting.
Year: 1874

-Dahlias should be kept we'll
staked and tied up. If the weather
is dry they should be mulched with
long litter or leaves. They should
not be watered, the tendency of water
ing being to produce rank growth
at the expense of Towering before the
early frosts.
Year: 1874

A Little Late.-Nine barrels of letters received Wednesday night. all of which are just two days too late to be of service to us this week. No mails received from Falls Village this week till the time men, toned above, and the consequence is, we have had nothing but storm to write about. It is probably as well, as everybody is in terested in this terrible tearing up of things more than in anything else.
Year: 1874



 The Newspaper Train on the Pennsylva. mia railroad now carries passenger coach It starts from Jersey City at 4.1oA. M. and arrives at West Philadelphia at 6.57. The section between New Brunswick and Trenton is run at the rate of mile min ute. The train has been in operation about year and has met with but one ac- cident, when it struck carriage, killing two persons. When the train was first nut on it was manned by an engineer, fireman and two men to handle the papers. They were volunteers, and signed paper re- leasing the company from all responsibility in case of accident. Upon no ,pretence or plea was any person allowed to ride. The company, finding that tho train was as safe as any other, and that an additional car would add to its safety by giving more bal last to the locomotive, have added pas senger car thereto and opened the line to the public.
Year: 1874

A WESTERN HERo.-They have got new hero out Vest Jack Evans is his name, and there is good authority for say ing that he never heard of David Frederick Strauss or Herbert Spencer. He is an en- gineer on the Chicago, Burlington & Quin- cy railway, and thls is what he did. Seeing little child toddling on the track when it was too late to stop the engine before reaching it, he reversed the machine. ran out on the guard as nimbly as Q cat, jumped and caught the child in his hand and then threw himself sideways from the track, The pilot struck him and pitched him down the bend dozen feet or SO, but he saved the baby and gave it back to his mother. saying You had better take care of that young one.' We hope the young one will prove that it was worth saving at the risk of such brave mans life.
Year: 1874

There are two lakes on Mt. Riga which have been the occasion of the alarm to the inhabitants on the stream it's entire length to it's mouth below Lime Rock where it empties into the Hous. atomic river, and between these two lakes is dam which holds the water in the up, per lake about eight feet higher than that in the lower. This upper dam remains se- cure and perfectly sound, we are informed, notwithstanding the positive informa- tion received Monday from one who had s'just come from there and saw with his own eyes that it was gone." Had this up per dam broken, 1t seems positively certain that the lower one could not have with stood the extraordinary pressure of such a mass of water from eight feet above it, in addition to what it already had, ald which 1t just barely held till drained.

 THESE TWO LAKES COVER AN AREA OF TERRITORY OF MORE
Year: 1874

GAMBLISG IN BOsTOS.-Tbe Boston Traveller
SAYS: "EveD in our own comparatively we'll
ordt red city the dens OF gamblers are many, and
the breaking up OF them causes only a transient
snspension Of business. Any day or evening can
be seen in the neighborhood OF BowdOin square
a score CT gamblers ready and on the lookout
for victim; in the same neighborhOOd may be
found half score OF gambling hells In full
blast every evening, Sunday hardly excepted
At the races-not inside the gates-but outside
upon the bridges and on the road, the three-card
monte play ply their sharping with al open
DeSs and not little success. The fact is, from
some cause or other, when these men are cap
tUred they escape with Only the smallest pun
shment, and il il safe 70 say that the fun force
Of the law has not been applied q half dozen
times IN five years time.
Year: 1874

NOTwITHsTAEDING the notice of the stoppage
Of redemptioDs by the National Bank Redemp-
ton Agency a considers able number of remit
lance of bank notes for redemption were re-
ceIveG at the agency to day from New York
and Philadelphia forwarded after the pu5lica-
ton OF the notice. Under the terms OF the no.
tice these will be held until redemptions are
r Umed and the same course will be pursu d
with all other Temittsnces forwarded after the
10 Instant, the date of the notice.
Year: 1874

tYrsm the wilmington Cy. c. star.l


At the house OF u colored woman by
the name Of Mag Blutbey. on the corner
OF Tenth and Wooster streets. there re-
sides colored man and his wife by the
namo Of Fisher. who are the parents OF
q girl child about nine months old, who
Is certainly one OF the greatest curios-
tiles OF the human species that we have
ever heard or read about. EI-poliec-
man William II. Harris. who visited the
house on Sunday and examined the
child. informs "a that its skin is perfect
ly white. although its parents are both
OF dark ginger cake complexion. Its
form and features are perfect up to the
bridge Of the nose. the chin, mouth and
nasal organ being not only well formed.
but really handsome in their symmetcry
and general appearance; but commencing
with the eyes, the face and head has
the appearance Of an animal. more re-
sembling q white bear than anything
else OF the animal species our informant
could call to mind. Tho hair is OF a
whitish color and like the wool OF a
sheep. It's eyes are round and piercing.
resembling those OF mink, and revolye
in their sockets in very peculiar man.
ner. They cannot bear the light OF q
lamp or candle and are instantly closed
when one is brought in the room. and
are only kept open in the daytime when
the room is somewhat darkened. II has
no eyebrows and the lid is OF peculiar
formation. in one particular resembling
the eyelid of a human being. II is very
timid, and when any one approaches Il
has the appearance and actions Of n
rabbit startled from lis lair. Here is
fne field for those who make human
nature in its various forms and peculiar
itios IN object Of study and analysis.
Year: 1874

President Grants message and Secretary
Bsistow's report, which will bo presented to
Congress next week, will be, if their contents
hnve been correctly forecast, two Of tho most
remarkable documents that lavo boon pro-
luced by tho present Administration. Tho
common belief is that the President and the
Secretary will strongly urge tho nan,ing Of n
aayfor the resumption Of apeciepayments, and
will suggest that it be not later than tho 1at Of
january, 1876. The immediate effects Of
such recommendation upon the markets Of
sllis country would be most favorable; il it
should be received aud adopted by Congress,
there would bo recovery from tho present
business depression at small expense and
without painful effort.
Year: 1874

The County Attorney has made virtue
OF necessity and pronounced the Egan archl-
tect contract to be illegal. The County
Board will probably initiate tho example by
resembling tho resolutions passed at the
November meeting There is really no use
in getting bad name and stealing nothing
worth the Fsli1e.
Year: 1874

It was announced in the afternoon pnpers
yesterday that Sunset Cox would address
meeting Of striking longshoremen in Cooper
Institute last night. The dispatches this
morning do not say whether ho matle such
bn address or not. If ho did, lie went for to
establish considerable reputation as DOM
AQQpuA.
Year: 1874

whatever may be the trouble, have dis
appeared, and in lieu thereof, there is a
complexion as clean, clear. soft and
beautiful as the most exacting could
wish. This is enameling. The prepara-
ton is mineral paint that Stimulates the
clearest flesh, and it stays on several
days without repairs. The victim once
enameled has to go regularly for repairs,
which gives Madame mortgage on her
purse Unfortunately for the artist, the
mineral gets into the system, and the
victim dies In few years of paralysis );
but as there is a new class of vain wo
men born every year. she never lacks
| customers.


The hair is another source of revenue
to the beautifers. Does the lady want
| to convert her black tresses into the yell
| low, now so popular? Nothingeasier. The
hair is plastered with something about
as pleasant as lime, which must be kept
on night and day for a week or SO, which
bleaches it to the color required, the
eyebrows being similarly treated, that
| the effect may be harmonious. True,
| this induces paralysis, out where is the
woman who would not take the chances
! of paralysis for the enhancement of her
| beauty? Is the forehead too high
| Madame shaves the hair ON the forehead
an inch OF two, and applies a liquid
n -hich she makes, and fine fuzz grows.
THIS is shaved again and again TIL it
gets thick, and long enough to be ar
ranged to the taste of the wearer.


Women are not the only patrons of
Madame. Men write her from all parts
of the country for her preparations to
make hair grow and to change the color
of hair.


They drive pro. dtable trade, for a
woman may go without sufficient under
clothing but she will b ave the means Of
beautifying herself. Bridget, in the
kitchen, buys her ten cents worth of
white lead for her face, an d the mistress
up stairs pays the cosmetic artist 800
for enameHng but it is all t,) one end.
One-half the world lives on the vanity
and folly Of the other half.


BUSINESS


shows a slight improvement this eek
very slight, but It is an improvem ent.
Merchants from the great outside are
beginning to buy, and though they touch
it lightly, they are touching, and the
wholesale people here are Frightening
up aittle.


But it is not lively yet-nor even fair
ly good. They are buying just as little
as they can, and just as close as they
eau. But the flood gates are open lit
tie, and it is to be hoped that they viii
be lifted higher ere many days. The
sale of domestic manufactures keeps up
better than imported goods. Imported
finery hangs heavily, which would in
dicate an economy on the part of the
people that leads them only to such pur-
chases as are actually necessary. And
yet the grocery trade is still duller. This
is one of the seasons in which all signs
fail, and in which Judgment is good for
nothing. PIETRo
Year: 1874

A POLITICAL CoNFERENCE.- There
was conference Of Republican candi-
dates and some others from different parts
Of the State, i'll this city, last evening,
having reference to the present political
campaign. From comparison Of views,
it would seem that the prospects of the
Republicans in the severd Congression-
al districts was never better. The peo-
pie are satisfied that this is the true par
ty for the welfare Of the country, and
viii rally to its support at the coming
election, and continue it in power. Ev-
cry indication points to this result and
we predict that Republicans will Oe elect
ed in the six districts that now have
representatives of hatparty in Congress,
by respectable majorities; and in the
other two districts there will be a lively
contest, and the result is By no means
certain. The skies are Frightening for
the Republican party, and promise a
glorious result in November State
Journal.
Year: 1874

The THIRD Term BUGABOO.-There
is scarcely Democratic or Reform con-
vention held in any part of the country
which does not utter denunclatlon
against an imaginary third term on the
part of President Grant. This is pure
ly bugaboo, to frighten some weak
minded persons into the support Of the
sO-called Reform Democracy.


There is not Republican convention
Of any kind in the northern or western
states which has passed a resolve In fa-
vor of a third term. Some OF them have
declared directly against it, as, for in
stance, the great Republican State of
PENNSYLVANIA. It is true that a resolve
did pass the Florida and South Carolina
conventions in favor of third term for
Grant. But these are insignificant ex
pressions compared with the general SEN
timent of the national Republican party,
which is decidedly against third term
for President Grant, or, in fact, for any
man because the Republican party be-
lieves that two Presidential terms are
sufficient to satisfy the ambition OF any
citizen, and it further believes that there
are other Republican statesmen equally
as well qualified as the presentincumbent
to hold the Executive trust.


The people in '76 desire change, not
merely in the Presidency, but i'll the Cab
met, and to insure the latter there must
be new President. President Grant
has always been SO dragged down by his
Cabinet that no matter how strong and
popular he might be personally, he can
not survive the unpopularity of his cab
met officers, whose management, in
many cases, has been the source of the
profoundest regret to q very large class
of earnest and active Republicans all
over the land,


Neither is there any reason for sup
posing that President Grant desires. or
expects, OF is using his influence to Sc
cure, third term. He has prepared a
| farm near st. Louis for his retirement in
TT. So we think that we are amply
justified in pronouncing 'fhe third term
purely bugaboo.-Euening Wisconsin.