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Year: 1867

FKu1r FLAvoRED AT Willis. is said that
a gardener of Ghent has, after many trials
succeeded in giving any kind of fruit the ila'
vor he pleases while it is still on the tree.
Let US take an apple for instance; be pricks
it rather deeply in four or five places with a
large needle, and then let's it dip for while
in a bowl containing the liquid possessing
the flavor he wishes to communicate. After
few seconds this liquid will have peneira'
ted into the pulp; and this operation being
repeated two or three times at intervals OF
eight or ten days. the apple is lett to npen
on the tree, aud will subsequently be found


to have acquired the taste either OF straw
berry, raspberry, cloves ETC., according TO
the liquid employed. ...rro..
Year: 1867

VINO MAY YET BE- ENROLLED. - Persons
who by reason of absence or sickness could
not be enrolled prior to the 4th Of August,
and persons who were not naturaized until
after that date.
Year: 1867

NITRO GLYorRINE.-- A correspondent Of
the Alta, writing from Michigan Bluffs, thus
speaks OF the great explosive:


The rvincipal claim here is the North
American, which has yielded about 5000, 900.
1t was here that nitro glycerine was first
used successfully in the mines; or rather, it
was here that it's value for mining purposes
was first conclusively demonstrated. After
the experiment with the explosive liquid had
been abandoned on the Central Pacific Rail.
road and elsewhere in this State, Mr.. Sven.
son, one of the partners in the North Amer
ican, brought some Of it to this claim, and
after trying il he began to make it, and then
made it for the rail road. The men in this
claim now prefer nitro glycerine to powder,
and consider it safer and better every way.
| sat with Mr.. Van Enmon for half an hour
talking in shanty, with quart of the glo.
none in an OPEN bottle not ten feet from
us, its position indicating that the men han.
die it with confidence. Fifteen men now do
as much work with nitro glycerine as % did
while powder was used. The latter broke off
the cement in huge Jumps, which had to be
broken up by picking or blasting, and the
former shattcrs it all to pieces at once. Mr..
Reamer Of Forest Hill, has had a similar ex.
perence. This peculiar advantage of shat,
tering the blasted mass is confined to cement
but there are other decided advantages in
working quartz, and the presumption is that
in few years the consumption of blasting
powder will be very much reduced.
Year: 1867

The detailed report of Engineer Roebling
upon the proposed East River Bridge, printed
in other columns, will he found very interest
ing to the residents of this city. and its lods-
ing-place across the river The need OF a
bridge cannot be disputed; IFS practicabilty Is
clearly demonstrated in this report. The main
span will be 1000 feet, whereas it is claimed
that span of 5000 feet and more can be made
perfectly secure and finn. Should the western
terminus of the bridge be in the vicinity of the
CITY Hall Park, as is probable, there will be
but few valuable buildings to be demolished
to make way for the approaches to the bridge
proper The estimated cost of the bridge is
nearly < 100000, large sum, but one that the
consolidated City of New-York Gor to that
complexion will it come at lasD can well afford
to pay for speedy communication between its
component parts. Now that the report of
competent authority has declared the entire
feasibility of the scheme. and minutely de-
scribed the bridge that may be built, we trust
the work will be pushed forward with metro
Dolitan ygor
Year: 1867

In Convention yesterday the Standing Com
mittce on Education reported a plan for the
management of the educational interests of the
State. Its principal features are the disposition
of the several school funds the provision for
the election, by joint ballot Of the next Legis-
lature after the adoption Of the revised Con-
stitution of State Superintendent of Instruc-
tion, who shall hold his Office for four years /;
the provision for a State Board of Education,
of seven members. of which Board the State
Superintendent and the Controller shall be er
o6ieio members and the provision that in-
struction in the common and union schools Of
the State shall be free. The Canal Board was
requested to determine and report the actual
working capacity of the canal locks.
Year: 1867

The recent movements of Garibaldi, and the
speech he made the day before yesterday on
his arrival in Geneva, throw new light on the
grand combinations which are now being formed
in Europe. We only need recount what We
know of the Generals recent movements to
show their close connection with the other
grave questions now agitating Europe.


A few weeks ago the preparations for an in


surrection in the Papal States, and for aiding
this insurrection by an army of Garibaldian
volunteers, had been made on the largest scale.
A strong hope was at one time entertained
that the Ministry would cOnnive at the move
ment, and would make no attempt to prevent the
open collection of the Garibaldian army of


volunteers. Accordingly, the formation of the


army near the Papal frontier was begun, and
the speedy invasion of the States of the Church


openly announced But the Ministry shrank from
offending France, and Ratazz declared that the
Government adhered to tho FrancO-Italian Con-


vention, and would prevent by force any hos
tile demonstration against Rome. The move
ment was, nevertheless, not Immediately
abandoned 1t was thought that the Roman
people themselves, aided by those volunteers
who could elude the vigilance of the Italian
troops, WOuIu Dt dOle w OftIILIOW IHc dItil
rule, and at least demonstrate the
ability of the Italian nation to settle
this question in tue sense Of the National party
as long as foreign Intervention was kept off.
Suddenly, however, the whole movement was
postponed. The volunteers, by order of Carl
baldi, dispersed and returned to their homes.
The General istated THAT the movement
would be made at a more Opportune time. In
his speech at Geneva he says very positively
that the plan of action WiH soon be carried into
effect.


In the meanwhile, the French and Italian
papers charged the Prussian Government with
having supplied Garibald with money and
arms, and with supporting and encouraging in
every possible way his plan of action. The
reports were so positive that there was strong
reason to Believe them not to be without
foundation. The belief in them was greatly
strengthened by the report that Garibaldi had
accepted an invitation from the Prussan
Embassador at Florence to dine with him.
This latter report is now c9ntradicted by a
Cable dispatch, but the denial, even if cortect,
does by no means extend to negotiations
having taken place between Garibaldi
and agents of the Prussian Govern
ment. Garibaldi, Informed of the plans
of Russia and Prussia against Turkey and
Austria, would not be slow to understand that
the right moment FOR tho liberation of Rome
will arrive when France. wholly occupied With
Year: 1867

The highly important dispatch telegraphed to
THE TRIBUNE from C0nstantinOpe, aud pub
lshed in this paper exclusively yesterday morn
ing, is another proof of the superiority of our
journal as a ropertory Of news over all our CO.
temporaries. The intelligence Of the postpone


ment Of Garibaldis last attempt upon Rome
was first made known in this country through
a special dispatch from our correspondent in
Florence, and now we have the satisfaction of
being the first TO announce movement on the
part of Russia which probably assures the
speedy dissolution of the Turkish empire, and
may be the signal for general European war.
Year: 1867

The Boston Posts Washington dispatch says /:
The political gossips here much excited to-day over
report that President Johnson contemplates u grand
coup detdt should Congress attempt further encroach-
ment upon the Executive prerogaves. IL is charged
that his procamatons but the forerunners OF des
perae intention to the disposal OF Congress should arti.
ces OF Impeachment be preferred against him This
runor is but the natural offspring OF well grounded
fear that the Legislative Department ia determined 10
force an issne which might possibly lead 20 result


have good authority for saying that the President will


leave the preservation OF the Constitution the peope
themselves after he has exhausted his legitimate author
ity in its defense He does not believe in going outside
the Constitution for preserve il when the peope
hold the remedy in their own hands. =
Year: 1867

The Second North German Parliament was
opened in Berlin yesterday by a speech of the
King The tenor of the royal speech was very
hopeful but it gave no indications as TO the
pending political questions. The relations OF the
South German States to the Confederation, the
King said, were fixed by the treaties of the
Zollverein. In conclusion, the King gave ut
terance to some pacific aspirations.
Year: 1867

The proposed meeting of the Governors of
LOYAL States may be a very good thing OF a
very foolish thing, just as they choose to make
it. We hope they will meet, but before they
do so it ought to be well understood what
they are to meet for. There is no crisis upon
us as yet, and only uneasiness can come OF a
meeting of State Executives for deSultory dis
cussions of the political situation.
Year: 1867

The report that Garibaldi dined with the
Prussian ambassador is contradicted but it is
not stated by whose authority. 1t can hardly
be doubted that secret negotiations have been
carried on between Garibaldi and the agents of
the Prussian Government.
Year: 1867

stopped yesterday morning. About O'Clock m. largo
drove cattle crossed the bridge from the weschese
side and while the cattle the BRIDGE portion
the south end about 80 feet from the drsY gaze way
None 9f tho aqjIQals were irluresL
Year: 1867

DROPOSAIS will he received at the Custom


House NeyYork City Ohce Of the Superintendent Of Repairs
until August HEATING THE THIRD AND FOURTH STORIES
or THE NEW YORK CUSTOMH0usB WITH Low PRESSURE
AMIBATING APPARATUS DIRECT RADIATION. The coils
radiators be appropriately finished Cured with onament
and have marble The bidder the price cubic
foot space heated FIRST for heating without ventilation and secondly
for heating With introduction Of fresh air each radiator and In either
heat degrees during the
eoest The price include all the cutting and repairs
that become for Of the construction Of
the apparatus The bidder must state the and kind Of boilers
(Wheher kind and the
rang surface 600 feet be heated be proposes
in both the above


will retained
efficiency established
authorized officers Of the Department BY It's operation during full



Proposals ba sealed and norsed Proposals for Heating App
New-York Custom House, aud addressed F. MORSE
Superintendent Of Repairs. J. T. MORSE, Superintendent.
Year: 1867

LEES ARMY.-Henry Ward Beecher says in the concluding chapter of his novel:

 'He (the hero of the story) had had part in the last grand battles, stormed Lees lines, earned every step by desperate endeavor, and after every advantage, found Lee stell firm, defiant desperate. No one so well knew the incomparable skill and bravery of that now waning army of Nor thern Virginia as they who for four years had fought it, and now in the hour of it's supreme disaster, were grinding it to pow der rather than forcing it to surrender; and when. at length, cut off from its lines of retreat by that lion of the battlefield, whose ramping cavalry lay crouched across his only path, his artillery gone, his trains taken or destroyed, his ammunition expen- ded, his chief officers slain, or wounded, or captured, his men reduced to handful, overwearied by nights without sleep and days taxed to the uttermost, Lees army yielded, General Cathcart, and every other brave man. in their admiration felt that the heroism of Lees army was the only worthy measure of the perseverance and the bravery of the Army of the Poto. mac. In every generous bosom rose the thought-'These are not of another nation, but our citizens Their mistakes, their evil cause, belonged to the system under which they were reared, but their military skill and heroic bravery belong to the na- tion, that will never cease to mourn that such valor had not been expended in better cause, and that the iron pen must write: "The utmost valor misdirected and wastedn nF
Year: 1867

The TOMATO AS FooD.-A good
medical authority ascribes to the
tomato the following very impor-
tant medical qualities:
LIST. That the tomato is one of
the most powerful aperients- of
the liver and the digestive organs;
where calomel is indicated, it is
one of the most effective and least
harmful medical agents known to
the profession.


I'd. That a chemical extract
will supersede the use of calomel
in cure of disease,


Sd. That he has successfully
treated diarrhoea with this article
alone.


4th. That when used as an ar
ticle of diet, it is almost sovereign
for dyspepsia and Indigestion.


9Th, Thatit should be constantly
used as daily food. Either cook
ed or raw, or in the form of cat
sup, it is the most healthy article
now in use.
Year: 1867

Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, in a
recent conversation with CORES
pondent of the New York Times,
in reply to a question as to his
views of the future, is reported
to have said;


eff the collision of the races
is kept off for four or five years
intelligence will do here what II
does everywhere else-control the
votes; but we have a fearful or
deal to pass through meanwhile,
and I have not the heart to seek
to raise the veil that shrouds the
future"


1t is known that the blacks
have a majority of nearly two tc
one of the Voters in South Carroll
ma.
Year: 1867

From a work recently published
in England, the annexed extract


on the Doyancy Of the waters


and the appearance Of the Dead
Sea is taken: "Though in breadth
not exceeding ten miles, the Dead
Sea seems boundless to the eye
when looking from North to South,
and the murmur of waves, as they


break on its flint strewn shore, to-
gether with the lines of drift-wood


and fragments of bitumen on the


beach, give to it's waters a resem-


blance to the ocean. Curious to
experience the sensations of swim
ming in SO strange a sea, l put to
the test the accounts of the ex-
treme buoyance felt in it, and I
was quickly convinced there was
no exaggeration in what l had
heard. I found the water almost
tepid, and so strong that the chief
difficulty was to keep sufficiently
submerged, the. feet starting up in
the air at ever vigorous stroke


When floating, half the body rose
above the surface, and, with a pill
low, one might have slept upon
the water. After q time, the
strangeness of the sensationin some
measure disappeared, and on ap-
preaching the shore | carelessly
dropped my feet to walk out
when 10! as if bladder had been
attached to each heel, they few
upwards; the struggle to recover
myself sent my head down, the
vilely bitter and briny water, from
which I had hitherto guarded my
head, now rushed into my
mouth, eyes, ears, and nose, and
for one horrible moment the only
doubt l had was whether was to
be drowned or poisoned. Coming
to the surface, however, l swan
to land, making no further attempt
to walk in dead water, which, |
am inclined to believe, is almost
impossible"
Year: 1867

The London Builder recon-
mends a plan for lighting a dark
room, in which the darkness is
caused by its being situated in a
narrow street or lane. The Bull
der saysit the glass Of a window
in such a room is placed several
inches within the outer face of
the wall, as is the general custom
in building houses, it will admit
very little light, that which it gets
being only the reflected light from
the walls of the opposite houses.
IF, however, for the window be
substituted another in which all
the. panes of glass are roughly
ground on the outside and flush
with the outer wall, the light
from the whole Of the visible sky
and from the remotest parts of the
opposite wall will be introduced in-
to the apartment, reflected from
the innumerable faces or facets
which the rough grinding of the
glass has produced. The whole
window will appear as if the sky
were beyond it, and from every
point Of this luminous surface
light will radiate into all parts of
the room.
Year: 1867

In Cincinnati, the other day
a man got a divorce without bis
wife's knowledge, upon q simple
statement in his petition that she
represented herself to be thirty
two years of age at the time of
her marriage, when she was in
reality over forty, and that she
was ca common scold." No pa
pers were served upon her, and the
necessary legal notice was publish.
ed in "Price Current" or other
paper of that class, which no wo'
man ever sees. Her character,
too, was faultless, and she had a
child fourteen months old, and
the sole apparent motive of the
husband was q desire to marry an.
other woman.
Year: 1867

CURE FOR Hollow HoRN.-Take
a handful of fine salt moistened
with soft soap, rub thoroughly
from the horns down each side of
the back bone and across the loins
Feed on green food, potatoes cut,
or turnips, with small quantity
of bran sprinkled over them
Three or four applications general.
ly effect a cure.


ScoUss IN CALVES, SHEEP, PIGS.
For scours in calves, pigs, and
sheep, a correspondent of the
Maine Farmer takes a quantity of
good oats, boils them one hour,
and gives them freely Of the tea
until cure is effected. From
many trials he is satisfied that the
remedy is safe and certain. .


Works IN~HeRsEs.-We have
found the following drench very
effectual in expelling worms:


Aloes, four drachms; oil of
wormseed, 20 drops; powdered
male fern (aspidium felix mas) l
ounce-to be given in one pint of
soap-suds an hour before feeding.


To ToUGHEN HORSES HooFs.-
A great many livery men bathe
their horses hoofs two or three
times a week in chamber lye, to
tougher the hoof and keepit moist.
It's application is very useful to
horses that are driven hard every
day.


CLEANSING Wool OF GUMMY MAT
TER.-The Maine Farmer gives
the following:


"Take one pound of saleratus
for twelve pounds of wool, dissolve
in water not quite boiling hot. then
put in the wool and stir occasional
ly for one hour; take it out and
squeeze it thoroughly, or what is
better, run through a clothes
wringer, rinse in cold water, and
spread on the grass to dry. This
process will remove all gum and
dirt from any kind of wool, and
make it much better for custom
work"
Year: 1867

The Ottumwa, Iowa, Mercury
has the following;


GA few days ago, in Keokuk
county, a babe six months old
was crying Justify and the appli-
ances seemed to have no effect
1t still cried, and the mother was
perplexed to know what the troub-
le was. At last, after it seemed
almost exhausted it spoke with
startling distinctness these words
Give me a drink of whisky Of
course the mother was frightened,
but she gave whisky, when it i'm
mediately went to sleep. The
infant had never spoken before,
nor has it since. We can vouch
for the truth of the above, as we
are personally acquainted with
the parents of the child"
Year: 1867

There was a fellow once step.
ped out of the door of a tavern
on the Mississippi, meaning to
walk a mile up the shore to another
tavern. Just at the landing there
lay a big raft, one of the regular
old fashioned whalers-a raft a
mile long.


Well, the fellow heard the land
lord say the raft was mile long,
and he said to himself, 81 will 60
forth and see this great wonder,
and let my eyes behold the tim
Der which the hand of man hath
hewn." So he got on at the low
er end and began to ambulate
over the raft in pretty fair time.
But just as he got started the raft
started too, and as he walked up
the river itwalked down, both GO
ing at the same rate. When he got
to the end of the sticks he found
they were near shore and in sight
of a tavern, so he landed and
walked straight to the bar-room
he'd come out Of. The general
sameness Of things took him a
little aback, but he looked the
landlord steadily in the face and
settled it in his own way:


publican, said he, care you gift
ed with a twin brother, who keeps
a similar size tavern, with a du-
plicate wife, a COMFORTING wood
pile, and corresponding circus bill,
a mile from here?'


The tavern keeper was fond of j
fun, and accordingly said that it
was just SO.


Sand, publican, have you among
your dry goods for the entertain
ment of man and horse any whis-
ky OF the same size as that OF
your brother's?"


And the tavern man said, that
from the rising of the sun until
the going down of the same he
had.


They took the drinks, when
the stranger said: Publican,
that twin brother of yours is al
fine young mana very fine man,
indeed. But do you know, I'ml
afraid he suffers a good deal with
the Chicago diptheria?"


"And what's that?" asked the
toddy-sticker.


SITS when the truth settles so
firm in a man that none of itcomes
out. Common doctors, of the cat
nip sort, call it lying. When |
left your brothers confectionery
there was raft at his door which
he swore was a mile long. Well,
publican, I walked that raft from
bill to tail, from his door to yours.
Now l know my time, and I'm
just as good for myself as for a
hoss, and better than any man
you ever see. / always walk al
mile in exactly twenty minutes,
on agood road, and I'll be busted
with an overloaded Injun gun if
I've been more'n ten minutes com,
ing here, steppin over the blamed
logs at that"
Year: 1867

The editor of an exchange in
making an appeal to his subscri-
bers who are in arrears to pay up
says: awe hope they will set
tie without delay. Not that we
want the money-oh, no! Our
ink is given us, we steal our paper,
and win our printers wages at sew
en- up. So it costs nothing to car
ry on business. Nevertheless, as
a matter of accommodation, and
to ease their consciences, we will
take that they owe if they will
send in Immediately"
Year: 1867

Set a pitcher of iced water In a
room inhabited, and in a few
hours it will have absorbed from
the room nearly all the respired
and perspired gassesof the room,
the air Of which will have become
purer, but the water utterly filthy.
This depends on the fact that wa
ter has the faculty of condensing,
and thereby absorbing all the
gasses, which it does without in
creasing its own bulk. The colder
the wateris the greater its capaci-
ty to contain these gasses. At an
ordinary temperature a pint OF


water will contain pint of car
bonic acid gas and several pints
of ammonia. This capacity is
nearly doubled by reducing the
temperature to that of ice. Hence
water kept in a room awhile is
always unfit for use, and should
be&ten renewed whether it has
become warm or not. And for
the same reason the water in a
pump stock should be pumped
out in the morning before any of


it is used. That which has stood
in the pitcher over night is not fit
for coffee water in the morning.
Impure water is more injurious
to the health than impure air,
and. every person should provide
the means of obtaining fresh, pure
water for domestic uses.
Year: 1867

At the South Pewablo mines,
Lake Superior, a man and his
wife had a severe quarrel, result
ing in his packing his bundle and
starting off for Ontonagon, declar-
ing that he would live with her
no longer. She followed him a.
long the road, begging him to re-
turn; but he was inexorable, and
trudged on. Finally she became
SO exasperated that she vowed
that if he did not turn about
she would strip herself stark max
ed, and in that condition follow
him to his journeys end. As he
did not stop, she was as good as
her word, and leaving her cloth
ing by the road side, she followed
him in the cool, fascinating cos
tune of nature. This only made
him laugh. When they came to
the intersection Of the road they
were surprised by meeting with a
party of young men who had been
out fishing, and then the husband
began to think the wife's costume
was not exactly the kind prescrib-
ed by court etiquette, and cutting
switch, he started her back on a
run, not allowing her to stop and
gather up her clothes. Our inform
antsays she made splendid time in
going from the clearing tothe house
probably because she was not
Inconvenience by extra clothing.
Since then both parties have in
definitely postponed their trip to
Ontonagon.