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Year: 1878

Coffee placed on a hot shovel and


carried through the house will des-


troy any unpleasant odor, and purify


the atmosphere. 1t is an an excellent
| disinfectapt.


Now is the time for careful house.


keepers to go through their closets


and trunks and see that there are no


moth. millers about. Don't forget


this. Let light and the air, the brush
and the broom go into all the dark
close places of the house.


CEMENT FOR Ks.-Cement for
stopping water leaks may be made of
litharge and boiled linseed oil. Mix
to the consistency of putty. The sur
face must be thoroug bly, dry when
applied. This is a very fine and last
ing cement.-COaaatyy Gentleman.


To REMOVE INK.FRoM CARPETS
Procure a basin of sweet skinned
milk and a sponge, and pour the milk
freely over the spots and then absorb
it again with the sponge, repeating
the operation two Or three times, un-
til the milk Is no longer blackened,
and then wash the milk from the spot
with cloth and water, and not
stain remains behind.


Instead of throwing away the
pieces ofsoap which become too small
for convenient handling, make a
square flannel bag of suitable size;
leave one end partially open. and put
in the pieces as they collect; when 1t
is full baste up the opening. and 1t
makes a nice bath-tub arrangement.
Another way is to add a little water,
set them in tin on the stove, and let
them simmer slowly. When cold
you will have tolerable good soft soap,
just the thing for putting In your
wash boiler or washing tins with.
Or by evaporating part of the water
you may get the soap hard enough to
be nodded into small cakes, which
can be dried for use.


A Few DROPS OF AMMONIA WILL
SAVE MUCH WORK.-Housekee eepers,
purchase a good supply of ammonia
to use in home cleaning. The hus-
band has everything that will tighten
his labors. Now, suppose his wife
had her bottle of spirits of ammonia
to use she takes her basin of water
and a clean cloth, just puts on a few
drops of the fluid, and wipes off all
the dirt; it is worth more than half
days hard labor, and does not hurt
the paint either. She could put a few
drops in her dish water, and see how
easily the dishes could be cleaned; a i
few drops on the sponge would clean
all the windows in the sitting-room,
making them shine like crystal. 1t
would take the stains off the teaspoons |
too, and tablespoonful in the mop
pail would do more towards washing |
up the kitchen floor than ten pounds /
of elbow grease applied to the mop
A housewife has just as
much right to make her work easy
and expeditions as her husband has.
If she does not do it, the fault is her
own in a great measure.
Year: 1878

The Manitoba correspondent of the
New York EUening Post, writes :
Sometimes, however, the trade does
not go on so smoothly. When the
stock of pemmican and robes is small
the indians object to seeing their pile
go for little parcel of tea and sugar.
The weighing balance and steelyard
are their especial object of dislike.
Failing to comprehend the nature of
those machines, or how small guam
tity of one article may equal large
quantity of another, they PROFOUND
conumdrums like this: For why you
put OH one side tea or sugar, and on
the other side little bit of iron? We
don't know what medicine that Is;
but, look here, put on one side of that
thing that swings a bag Of pemmican
and put on the other side blankets and
tea and sugar, and then, when the
two sides stop swinging. you take the
pemmican and we will take the blank
cts and tea; that will be fair, for one
side will be as big as the other


This very luminous idea eliclts
universal satisfaction all around. Ev-
cry Indian of them grunts his unqual-
flied approval, until the trader quiet
ly observes: We'll let it be as you
say. We will make the balance
swing between the pemmica and the
blankets, but We will carry out the
idea still further. You will put your
beaver and marten skins on one side,
1 will put against them on the other
my blankets, and my gun and ball
and powder; then, when both sides
are level you will take the ball and
powder and blankets, and l will take
the marten and the rest of the fine
furs!' This unique proposition sud.
denly illumines the mind of the in
genuous Indian on the question oi
weighing g-balances and steelyards, and
after some deliberation it is firmly re-
solved to abide by the old plan of let
ting the white trader decide the
weight himself in his own way; fol
it is clear that the steelyard is very
great medicine which no brave man
can understand, and which can only
be manipulated by white medicine
man."
Year: 1878

A PRETTY COMPLIMENT That was
pretty compliment the little seven
year old boy paid his mother. A con-
versation had been carried on for
quite while on a marriage to take
place soon, and the merits of the
bride were discussed quite freely, and
also the probabilities of her making a
good wife. He had evidently been an
attentive listener. though he had not
been noticed. The company were
surprised to hear him remark, as he
leaned over to kiss his mother: INA,
when 1 get big enough I'm going to
marry lady just like you. Wouldn't
you marry me, map" queried the lit
tie fellow.
Year: 1878

Great labor and ingenuity are ex-
pended on the production of the Bank
Of England notes. They are made
from pure new white linen, and for
200 years have been manufactured In
in the same family. The printing is
done by most curious process in the
bank building. There Is an elaborate
arrangement for insuring that no note
shall be like any other In existence !;
consequently there never was dupli-
cate of Bank of England note except
by forgery.
Year: 1878

The gentleman who attracted atten-
tion in church last week by crying out
"Holy Moses" had no intention OF
disturbing the congregation. He had
been tacking down carpets the day be-
fore, and just as he sat down In his
pew he suddenly remembered that he
had half a paper of tacks in his coat
skirt pocket. We make this explana-
ton in justice to his family, who are
highly respectable.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Erastus Brooks proposes to inquire
whether the Moffett bell punch, by means
of which tax is collected on every glass of
liquor or beer sold in Virginia, will not
settle the excise difficulty in New York. A
resolution introduced by Mr.. Brooks in the
Assembly calls for u report from the Excise
Committee on the subject and if the re-
sponse should be favorable we may soon
expect to hear every time customer is
served over New York bar, the well known
sound which records on our street railroads
tho wonderful conversion of the horse car
conductors. In Virginia by means of this
Moffett punch liquor sellers mark every
drink they sell and on the amount recorded
they pay to tho State q tax of two cents
and a half on each glass Of liquor and half
cent on each glass Of beer. This tax, it is
said, will bring six hundred thousand dol
lars into the State Treasury this year, and
despite the heavy percentage it takes out
of the liquor dealers pockets it is gaining
in popularity. 1t seemed at first TO be al
most farce and was literally ridiculed,
no person supposing that it could be en-
forced. But as it is made penal offence
to omit to punch every time customer
drinks, and as most of the liquor and beer
consumed is sold by bar tenders who do
not care to risk the penalty. it Is believed
Year: 1878

The romances of the coulisse always begin
with bouquet-that is, the written ro-
manoes. There is card on it; it comes
regularly every night to the. budding
stage goddess, and it always is woven Of the
same flowers. She dreams of the donor,
who is noble, handsome and young. They
meet at masked ball. they know each
tating moment! Love, crosses in love and
reconciliations chase each other until she
walks to the altar to be made duchess ut
least We have all read of her, Of dozen
of her. But, alas when we grow older we
know better. Yet the old illusion holds
it's place. Let us look back twenty
years or d SO and think of the
prima donna Of our youth. Was it
Norma, with her bare, rounded arms and
her sickle of gold, warbling to the Druids /;
or Norma smiling. as she stopped to gather
the flowers tossed to her in showers by the
house rs she came flushed before the curtain,
that haunted us longest? There was magic
in the song and romance in the nosegays


Well, perhaps we threw bouquets ourself,
and when we passed the flower age it glad
dened us to see-as in London, Paris or
Dublin--the beauties in the boxes at some
divine song bend over gracefully and drop
their lace-edged posies at the feet of the
Casta Diva. by and by we began to smell
the manager in the enormous flower beds,
and we became cynical. We began to be-
lieve the stories of bouquets hired and re-
sold-.of the florist taking them at the wings
from the lady on the stage. 1t has struck a
great many here in America that the
theatrical flower business is run into
the ground. Performances are interrupted
that the pretty farce of handing flowers
over the footlights may be gone through,
not one in ten of the audience being de-
ceived by the patent humbug There are
times when there would be significance in
q bouquet. Audiences have been known to
literally pelt an actress, ora cantatrice with
genuine floral offerings but the deadly de-
liberateness of the usher with his nocturnal
pyramids and ships and initials and names
starting on his mission ahead Of the ap-
plause and in the middle of an act has
become nuisance. The public has good
many gudgeons in it's numbers, but few are
to be caught nowadays with managerial
flower bait. Selfrespecting managers should
give up the habit or, at least, if they are
incurably welded to it, only carry on their
floral antics when the curtain is down.
Year: 1878

The prompt capture of Mercer, the thief


who snatched at midday of Monday pack


age of bonds from under the arm of an aged


but agile citizen who had just crossed Fifth


avenue at Thirtieth street, was very credit
able to the officers, but shows one of the
many dangers of our great city. So many
aged citizens carry home ordinary bundles
without molestation that the conviction is
forced on US that the thief or his confeder-
ates must have had pretty exact informa-
ton of the contents of Mr.. Moore's
package. 1t is not very difficult
to trace how the thieves came to expect,
when Mr.. Moore appeared on Broadway
carefully hugging package and looking
axiously about him all the while, that the
package contained bonds. Mr.. Moore's
house was robbed by burglars some years
since of half million in bonds. The greater
portion of the property was recovered, the
owner paying tax of forty thousand dol
lars for the transaction. The thieves were
punished, but Mr.. Moore, doubtless, went
on the thieves register as an old party who
kept bonds in his house and carried them
back and forward. 1t is not improbable,
too, that the thieves were aware of his pur-
chase and his errand on Monday to have
the bonds registered, and followed him and
watched their chance. We suppose that to
the end of time there will be criminal
class numbering many acute and daring
men in its ranks, and that daylight will be
no bar to their operations But there are
certain precautions which can and
should be always taken. We do
not think that taking seat in q
street car with thirty-fve thousand-dol-
lar bonds under ones arm and scanning
anxiously every passenger is good prepara-
ton for ever so short a, walk across quiet
side streets uptown. A CAB would take a
man to his door at greatly reduced risk.
1t may be asked, ''Why should man be
forced to spend more than five cents to go
up town. If the man has thirty i've gro
Gerry chromos we should say, "Why in
deed ?" But there are people who always
want to run their bond business on n
chrome basis, and yet insist that they
should run no more risk. That is an error
which the robber who represents the grim
logic Of events endeavors to point out. The
tax on property must be paid one way or
another, although we all agree that the
State Prison is the place for unauthorized
collectors like Mercer, alias Meyers.
Year: 1878

The announcement of the rules, regula-
tions and charges that are to prevail ut the
Working Women's Hotel has drawn forth
considerable criticism, and some not of q
favorable character. 1t is insisted that the
prices to be paid for rooms and accommoda-
tions are too high to enable the poorer class
or even the general body of workwomen to
become inmates, and that the rules are
oppressive. But it seems to be forgotten
that the institution, while it will not suit
one set of female employees, may fill the
wants of another set, and that to those
who can afford to pay for its ac.
commodations it may prove very great
advantage. The late Mr.. A. Il. Stewart
when he conc eived the idea of the hotel
evidently intended it for women who earn
fair salaries and can pay fair price for
board, but who in such home might have
comforts they could not expect elsewhere,
and especially escape the danger of enter
ing strange lodging houses in large city.
Mr.. Stewards foundation of the hotel was
charitable act, for which his memory de-
serves respect. There is no reason to sup
pose that it has not been carried to com-
pletion in accordance with his known plan
and desires. If it should prove a success
in it's way it will probably encourage some
other charitable person to establish n
cheaper home, on similar model for
women who earn salaries too small to
enable them to pay the charges at the hotel.
1t is an interesting experiment, deserving
a fair trial, and may be useful as an illus
tration of the moderate prices at which
large hotels may be run.
Year: 1878

While we are deploring the utter con-
tempt of,the law which led in West Virginia
to the numbering of murderer by mob,
we are called on to chronicle the extra
ordinary doings Of party of dog-lynch-
ers upon Bergen Heights, in the ncighbor-
ing State of New Jersey. A ferocious dog
last Thursday bit and severely mangled a
child. The citizens became excited, and q
gang Of men, masked like the people down
South and out West who take prisoners
from jails and hang them to trees, made an
onslaught upon all the dogs of Bergen. We
do not admire the average town dog; we
loathe the white-coated Spitz therefore we
can be acquitted of any false sentiment in
the matter but a masked band, armed with
clubs and pistols, slaughtering dogs by tho
hundred some Of which, no doubt, were
valuable animals, looks little wild, within
few miles of New York Hydrophobia is
terrible thing, but you must kill all the
dogs if you will abolish it. 1t will not be
enough to kill half or three-quarters, or
nine out of ten Of the dogs of Bergen, but
you must kill all the Bergen dogs, all the
Jersey dogs and the dogs of all the States
bordering on Jersey. This is too much of q
task for any masked gang. Thorough" is
the most impossible of political or social
maxims The French Revoutionists took to
cutting aristocrats' heads off to abolish aris-
tocracy, but they did not cut enough to pre-
vent the fresh crop. Here we have one
child in alleged danger of hydrophobia,
and half the community runs mad with
cynophobia. What the sight OF water is to
dog in the rabies the glimpse of dog
was to the cynophobic Bergenites. They
foam and fire pistols at the wag Of n mon
grel's tail, and yet they will not kill all the
dogs. The police of Bergen took no notice
of the affair. Where is Mr.. Bergh? This
new disease may prove catching, and we
look to him to dognose it and prescribe and
apply the remedy.
Year: 1878

that tolerably faithful record of the sales
is kept.


The bell punch arrangement would seem
curious to our people at first but II the
quantity of liquor sold over the New York
bars is not greatly overstated the tax would
soon pay off our city debt. Responsible
liquor dealers who keep reputable establish
ments would observe the law, and their
punching would, no doubt, be done with
the strictest integrity. There might be con-
siderable evasion in the lower class Of drink
ing houses. whose customers would pay no
particular attention TO the bell, at all
events after it had been sounded few
times on their behalf; but we see no
reason why such law should not be as well
enforced in New York as any liquor laws we
have heretofore had. There are certainly
some good features about the Virginia sys-
TEN. man who hears the tell-tale bell rs
he lifts his glass to his lips must neces-
sarily be reminded of the number already
punched" to his account. The constant
ringing is likely to impose check on
chronic "repeaters" for very shame. AS the
bell gives forth an audible sound it might be
practicable for a curious person on the out
side of the door to discover how many
times customer was served and this re-
Election, while it opens up a prospect Of
domestic trouble, may have sometimes
wholesome effect. If we are to have the
Bell Punch law. however, the temperance
people ought to insist on one improvement
over the Virginia system. There ought to
be bell punch dials for the consumers as
we'll as for the sellers, and the people who
drink ought to be compelled to carry their
record about their person in conspicuous
place, like fremans or policeman's
badge, so that every person might see how
many times they have contributed to the
public treasury. We do not insist that the
heaviest drinker should be regarded as the
most public spirited citizen, but these indi-
vidual records would be n useful check on
the dealers registers and would, moreover,
prove curious and instructive study.
Year: 1878

CoSGREss.-Ihe leading features Of Congress
yesterday were the speech OF Mr.. Blaine on the
Halifax award, the reporting by the Senate
Judiciary Committee of the bill to repeal the
Bankrupt law. the discussion of the Pacific Rail
.oad Sinking Fund bill, and the adoption of "a
'csoluton making the tariff bill the special
rder OH the ith of next month. 1t is evident
hat the House intends to at least discuss the
latter measure,
Year: 1878

The PUBLIC WILL be interested in the answe er
OF the elevated railroad companies to the inquiry
of the Aldermen as to the non-extensiop of their
lines to kingsbridgc i'll accordance with the con
Year: 1878

SECRETARY SnERMAN's request to the city au-
thorities for permission to move some Of his
bureaus into the rooms in the Post Office build
ing not needed for the courts or postal purposes
shows that he does not particularly care to put
the governments title in jeopardy.
Year: 1878

Mr.. William M. Tweed was called as
witness on the part of the city yesterday in
the Brown contract suit, but on being sworn
he read Gpaper setting forth his reasons for
declining to answer any questions in that
or any other case in which the city or State
may be a party until he is set free. He
claims that he appeared as a witness before
the Aldermanic investigating committee
last autumn and gave evidence regarding
the ''Ring frauds" on the promise
that he should be liberated from
imprisonment for so doing, and he acts
under the advice Of counsel in refusing
now to testify on behalf of the city. Comp
troller Kelly addresses a letter to the Attor-
ney General, stating that Tweed did receive
promise of his freedom provided he made
q Confession and gave up all his property
Mr.. Kelly claims that he made the confes-
sion and is ready to give up all he
possesses, and that it is unjust and of
no public advantage to keep him
longer in confinement, especially as he
can give testimony in various suits
advantageous to the city. Both as private
citizen and as public officer Mr.. Kelly
asks the Attorney General to make the re-
lease. Whatever may be thought of the
propriety of suffering the great public rob-
Der to go free without having restored to the
city any of the millions he has stolen
Comptroller Kelly will be respected for the
frank, bold manner in which he has spoken
his sentiments on the subject. He thinks
Tweed ought to be liberated, and he does not
fear to say SO in plain language and in
public manner. Many persons differ
from him and think that the notorious
criminal should be in a State prison and in
convict's garb instead of in Ludlow Street
Jail. Many others doubtless agree with
Mr.. Kelly without having the moral cour-
age to take the open position he has taken.
It is for the Attorney General to decide
what action justice and expediency demand
in the case.
Year: 1878

1876 but they will differ in one point, and
that point OF the greatest moment In 1876,
when England refused her consent to what
the other Powers proposed to do. she simply
withdrew from the negotiation and stood
still, and events followed their course. She
contented herself with protest She can
not do that now. 1t was not course that
redounded greatly to her honor as she pur-
sued it in 1876. She encouraged the Otto
man to fight and left him to fight alone
That was not creditable, but it was notigno-
minious. But with her ships in the Sea Of
Marmora, with her great preparations on
foot and her campaign plans under discus
sion, she cannot simply turn away now and
permit events to go by default. She must
swallow the Treaty of San Stefano and make
believe she likes it, or she must fight.
Year: 1878

want to give you two or three rules
Oue is


Always look at the person you speak
to. When you are addressed, look
straight as the person who speaks to you
DO not forget this.


Another is


Speak your words plainly. Do not
mutter nor humble II words are worth
saying, they ara worth pronouneing dis
tinctly and clearly.


A third is s


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


A fourth is-and oh children, remem-
b,r il all your lives


Think three times before you spoak
once! t Yft#


Have you something to do that YOU
find hard and woull prefer not to do Z
Then listen to wise old grandmother.
Do the hard things first, and get it over
with II you have done wrong, go and
confess it. your lesson is tough, mas
ter il. If the garden is to he weeded,
weed it first and play afterward. Do
the thing you don't like to do first, and
then, with a clear conscience. try the rest.
Christian at Work.
Year: 1878




A Washington N. G., dispatch of the
18th says Mr.. Ashton Starke, well
known farmer living near here, has for
some time past been suffering with IN
oppressive feeling about the chest and
stomach. frequently Of such painful
nature that he found it impossible to
walk erect lie consulted one of the
most prominent physicians, but could not
obtain any relief until to day, when in
his desperation he took about gill Of
castor oil, and this evening his stomach
was relieved Of genuine moccasin snake
twelve inches in length. The snake was
put in box with chicken, and soon
struck it and killed it. Mr. Starke is
now entirely relieved. He suppose that
the snake won't into his stomach while he
was drinking at spring.
Year: 1878

ONE of the Hall Brothers, ship-builders,
Of Port Ludlow, visited this port few
days ago. lie says times are not very
brisk up there, but that he is pushing
work along slowly. The barkentine
which he now has on the stocks is the
twenty-third that he has built since start
ing at that point about four years ago.
Year: 1878

CAPT Gilbert of the Winetre1, reports
that last week he succeeded in getting
about 70 miles down on his trip toward
Neah Bay, andthat in consequence Of run
ming into log he had to run back to
Dungeness to repair his schooner. A
plank had to be removed and new one
inserted
Year: 1878

Mr.. A. f. Learned expects stock OF
dry goods and clothing up from San
Francisco, to arrive about the middle of
this mouth. He will therefore change
the line OF his business somewhat.
Year: 1878

TIE little steam ferry boat, recently
plying across Port Discovery Bay,
will remain idle until the mill
starts to work again. In the meantime a
row boat Is used for the convenience OF
passengers.