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Year: 1877

The following recipes have been tired
for many years by an experienced house
keeper, and found to be entirely relia-
BILE. We give first tabular statement
of the time for boiling fruits, with the
quantity of sugar required to the quart.


Time of Quantity OF Sug-
Year: 1877

BE PATIENT.-Be patient to your friends.
They are neither omniscient nor omnipo-
tent. They cannot see your heart, and may
misunderstood you. They do not know
what is best for you, and may select what
is worst. Their arms are short, and they
may not be able to reach what you ask.
What II also they lack purity of purpose
and tenacity of affection; do not you also
lack these gracesH Patience is your ref
uge. Endure, and in enduring conquer
them, and if not them, at least yourself.
Above all be patient with your beloved.
Love is the best thing on the earth, but IL
Is to be handled tenderly, and impatience
is a nurse that kills it. Be patient with
your pains and cares. We know 1t il easy
to say and hard to do. But, dear child, you
must be patient. These things are killed
by enduring them, and made strong to
bite and sting by feeding them with your
frets and fears. There is no pain or care
that can last long. None Of them shall en-
ter the city Of God. A little while and you
shall leave behind you the whole troop OF
bowling troubles, and forget In your hrst
sweet hour Of rest that such thlngs were on
aArth.-MNfAOdisf.
Year: 1877

A bill is before the State Legislature in


troduced by Mr.. Fish, of Putnam, which
proposes to put stop to on evil from which
many property owners in New York have
suffered at some time or another. 1t has not
been unusual for an owner to learn for the
first time of some improvement in which his
property is supposed to be interested
through the medium of a notice to payaa
heavy assessment, which has been in exist
ence for some time and to the original
amount of which twelve per cent interest
has been added as penalty for his involun-
tary default. Mr.. Fish proposes to
render this impossible in the future
by provision of law making it the
duty of the Clerk of the Common
Council, whenever an ordinance may be
passed directing any improvement, to i'm
mediately notify all property owners affected
thereby. The parties in interest are also
further protected by being entitled to q
hearing before the Board of Assessors,
Year: 1877

Concentrating Trade at New York.


If it be true that eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty" it is equally SO that con-
slant effort is that of commercial prosperity.
Those who suppose that New York offers the
greatest attractions for trade, and that by a
law of gravitation peculiar to itself it
naturally flows toward our port, must not
forget that extraordinary efforts ore being
made elsewhere to draw commerce to other
lines. The active operations in progress
for the construction of new Welland
Canal may well cause our merchants some
anxiety as to the effect on the trade Of
New York. 1t is proposed to build such
navigable passage between lakes Erie and
Ontario and through Canadian territory
that grain vessels con load at Chicago and
unload at Liverpool without any transship-
ment or disturbance of their cargoes. When
this is made possible, as it is very likely to
be within two or three years, the probability
is that large amount of grain and lumber
from the West will find it's way to Europe
through the st. Lawrence River instead of
through American ports. It is necessary,
therefore, to offset the enterprise of the
Canadians by the vigorous exhibition of the
same qualities on the part of our own mer-
chants and legislators.


The canals which connect the great lakes
with the Hudson River and New York
should be quickly adapted to the growing
necessities of our trade. They should be
widened and deepened along their entire
length so rs to afford ample room for the
passage Of vessels carrying large cargoes.
Although this will entail O considerable
outlay, still the returns will come
one hundred fold in the increased
foliage paid by constantly growing
trade and in tho impetus given to a
highly important industry. New York city
pays large proportion of the State taxes,
and would bear her own share of the cost OF
an improvement which would render her
still more prosperous. Considerations OF
economy should not be permitted in this
case to delay for q moment work that is
vitality necessary to the greatness and pros
perity of the metropolis. Unless we concen-
trate trade in New York by increasing the
facilities for transportation and expectation
we cannot hope to maintain our supremacy
over our enterprising rivals.
Year: 1877

LIVING UP TO HIS REPUTATION. The Spitz
dog has done it again. The victim this
time was o new born infant. too small to de-
fend itself and too weak to cry, SO tho dog
bit it and then sat down, with the calm con-
seriousness of having fulfilled, his family
destiny, to contemplate the result of his
labors. Of course the dog will be de-
Tended; the poor innocent wears such o
heavy white overccat and the weather is SO
much warmer than usual that he had to re-
lieve his feelings in some way. But If the
overcoat of the Spitz fits so tightly why not
ventilate the dog himself? A very small
bullet will do it.
Year: 1877

Fifty or more subjects for sermons were
announced in the public prints of Saturday
and yesterday, and they were doubtless
discussed in the pulpit to the edification
OF thousands of Christians. Looking over
these lists of medicines for souls, however,
it is impossible not to see that they were
appropriate to those who were whole rather
than to the sick. The successful physician
often sighs to think of what a glorious effect
certain remedies would have if only the
patient could and would take them but
his own preferences make him none the
less careful to give only what tho sick
mans nature can assimilate The physician
of souls wouldsdo we'll to act upon the same
principle The Christian faith has worked
marvels in turning bad men from the errors
of their ways; but there are hosts of people
as we'll worth reforming as any one else
who have no taste for formulated Christian
ity and yet are willing to be urged to lead
better lives. What does the pulpit do for
this class The churches claim with cons
siderable reason that they are the custodi-
ans of most, moral reforms Why are the
literal discussions Of them generally con-
fined to vestry rooms and special
week day meetings? Temperance, char
ity, honesty, truthfulness, chastity and
noble array of other virtues need to be
talked of simply, frequently and urgently
in every pulpit in the land, instead of being
left, as they generally are, to the chance lee
turer and novelist. The needs of the wicked
and not the tastes of the righteous should
determine the utterances of the preacher
with more frequency than they do. To
spring to the top round of a ladder and work
downward is noble feat of vaulting but
the masses are not equal to it; it is hard
enough for them to climb round by round
from the bottom. Work from both ends of
the spiritual ladder and there will bo q
chance for everybody.
Year: 1877

should they so desire, before the improve
ment can be made. This is so just and
necessary measure that it should be sep
arated from the other provisions in Mr.
Fish's bill, some of which are of question
able expediency, and be suffered to stand on
its own merits AS distinct bill there
could be no opposition to its passage, and
in the interests of the real estate owners OF
the city it ought at once to become law.
Year: 1877

A bill ito regulate the reinsurance of
life insurance companies" introduced by
Mr. Tobey, has been reported tavorably
from the Insurance Committee of the Sen
ate 1t is proper the people should under
stand that this bill is n deception and a
cheat The most convenient method by
which a life insurance company can defraud
it's policy holders and cover up rascalities in
it's management is by taking up its policies
in bunch, transferring them to or
reinsuring them in some other COM
pany, and then going ont of business
But the decisions of the courts have
been against this mode of closing the busi-
ness of such institutions. The Continental
would have been reinsured in the New
Jersey Company but for this fact, and
would never have undergone the examina-
ton of a receiver. Even the Security
would have found haven of rest in some
other company. Now Mr.. Tobey's bill,
under pretence of Regulating" such re-
insurance. in fact legalizes it for the first
time. That is its object, and its passage
would be boon to rotten and fraudulent
companies, as 1t would open TO them way
of escape from receiverships, Investigations
and, perhaps, the State Prison.


In order to cover up the cheat in the bill
it is provided that reinsurance shall not
take place without the assent of the Insur-
ance Department and without compliance
with other apparent safeguards against
abuse. But its bald purpose is to legalize
what is now illegal-namely, the wholesale
reinsurance of companies as convenient
method of covering up frauds and avoiding
responsibility after policy holders have been
robbed. That is the bills true object, and
that would be it's real effect should it be.
come law. Now that the Legislature
knows what sort Of measure Mr.. Tobey
proposes it will at least act upon it with
open eyes.
Year: 1877

Our CORRESPONDENT IN FLORIDA who is
prosecuting a vigorous search for the mysterious
source of the smoke column that is observed to
rise from the midst Of n vast swampy region
sends us further particulars regarding the
phenomenon, which we print to-day. The fact
that the appearance Of this strange object has
been noted since the time when the first white
men landed ON the Florida coast, and that all
the efforts to solve the mystery of its cause have
failed, attaches considerable interest to our cor
respondents search. Whether the expe-
,lition will find volcano, grand group of ther-
nal springs, petroleum well, great gas
generator or the fountains Of juvenescencc
dreamed Of by Ponce de Leon, is still matter of
conjecture. There is no doubt whatever but the
unexplorcd interior of Florida contains many
curiostics Of nature the discovery of which will
amply repay the scientist and the explorer.
Year: 1877

President LERDO DE TEJADA is n notable
exception to Mexican ex-rulers generally in hav-
ing escaped from his country with whole skin.
As he is probably the ablest of living Mcxicans
our report of his arrival i'll New York and Of
his opinions on Mexican affairs demand moro
than ordinary attention.
Year: 1877

TIE CHARGES against the president and
cashier of prominent Hartford bank give en-
phasis to the demand for more business-like
method Of bank examination. careful ex-
aminer happened upon the irregularities in this
sasc but they would have escaped almost any
pne in an examination of the usual order
Year: 1877

THE ROUND OF MARINE DISASTERS is made
complete by the burning Of the Bavaria, reported
this morning; but the sadness of the story is
greatly relieved by the report of the gallant and
humane conduct Of Captain Frostick, who res
cued all the passengers and crew.
Year: 1877

perfectly natural appearance. The
body was in such a condition as to
permit its being raised at the mead
and stood on its feet and handled as
one would statue. It was shipped
as freight. inclosed in a common
wooden box, as weighing, box includ-
ed. 200 pounds. At the time of his
death deceased weighed 40 pounds,
and as the box the body was shipped
in could not have weighed over sixty
pounds, the body seems to have lost
nothing in weight during its six
months burial.
Year: 1877

An INVENTION has just been success
fully applied in Liverpool to the print
ing machine, by means of which news
papers may be printed upon an unbroken
roll of paper without the necessity Of
previously stereOtyping the pages and
moulding them to the shape of the cyl
inders to which they are affixed. The de-
tails of the process have not been COM
municated, further than that the type it.
self is fixed on the cylinder referred TO.
but with the exception that it has been
yet found impracticable to apply the auto
matte folding process to the machine, the
plan is fully successful. The advantage
of the invention is that, while giving the
highest rate of speed it will save the
cost of stereotyping, which, except in the
case of very large impressions, is other
wise unnecessary.
Year: 1877

CUTTING GLASS WITHOUT DIAMOND. -
An easy method of breaking glass to any
required form is by making small
notch, bymeans of file, on the edge oil
apiece of glass, then make the end Of rod
of iron red hot in the fire, apply the hot
iron to the notch, and draw it slowly
along the surface of the glass in any di-
rection you please; crack will be made
and will follow the direction Of the iron.
Round glass bottles and TASKS may be cut
in the middle by wrapping round them
worsted thread dipped in spirits Of tur-
pentine, and setting it on fire when fas-
tened on the glass. This process is IA
miliar to old campaigners, with whom
glass bottles are more plenty than tumb-
lers, and the former is thus utilized TO
supply want Of the latter.
Year: 1877

IT Is stated that if steel is rather hard
under the hammer when heated TO the
proper cherry-red, it may be covered
with salt and hammered to about the
shape required. More softness can then
be obtained, if desired to give a further
finish to the shape, by sprinkling it with
a mixture of salt, blue vitriol, sal am
moniac, saltpeter, and alum, made cherry
red again, sprinkled with this mixture
and hammered into shape. This process
is or may be repeated until entirely fin
ished. When ready, the steel is hsr-
dened in a solution of the same miItnrei
the result being highly satisfactory.
Year: 1877

A Danbury housekeeper observed to
the hired girl, the other morning: Ann,
as we have entered upon the dawn of an
other century of our nations history, I
guess you had better get a toothbrush OF
your own"
Year: 1877

Together we walked in the evening time.
Above us the sky spread golden and clear,
And he bent his head and looked in my eyes,
As if he he held me of all most dear.


o. 1t was sweet In the evening time!
And our pathway went through fields Of


wheat


Narrow that path and rough the way,
But he was near, and the birds sang true
and the stars came out In the twilight gray.


O! it vas sweet IN the evening time I
Softly he spoke Of the days long past,
Softly of blessed days to be;
Close to his arm and closer prest--
The corn-field path was Eden to me.


o. it was sweet in the evening time,
Grayer the light grew and grayer still,
The rocks fitted home through the purple


shade,
The nightingales sang where the thorns stood


high,


As / walked with him in the woodland glade


o! it was sweet in the evening time =
And the latest CLEANS of daylight died;
My hand in has embodied lay;
We swept thedew from the wheatas wepassed
For narrower, narrower wound the way.


o. it was sweet in the evening time !
He looked in the depths Of my eyes and said,
'.Sorrow and gladness viii come for Us, sweet,
But together well walk through the fields of


life


Close as we walked through the fields of


wheat.


o. it was sweet in the evening time
Year: 1877

A writer in the Galaty furnishes an in
teresting article on the social relations ex-
isting among the French people. He
states that the ties which bind relations
together are very strong, hence the pru-
dence exercised by parents in the choice
of husband for their daughter, or a wife
for their son. The man who marries the
daughter also marries her family, to the
cousin german. The parents look to a
possible husband for their daughter with
a view to close and constant association,
and they exercise a vigilant watch lest her
affections should become engaged in a
quarter not approved by them The pa
rental authority is admitted to such An
extent, that if the young man were to
propose marriage to their daughter,
without consulting them, he would be
held as dishonorable man ; the PROPOSE
ton is made to them, and they give the
answer, III some instances without the
daughters knowledge This brings about
solidarity in the family, composed OF mem
bers predispcsed to kindliness and sympa-
thy, and it also gives rise to uneasiness
when new element is presented for ad-
mission, lest it should disturb harmony.


Through intimacy and sympathy they
have accommodated themselves to each
others habits and caprices, and have sue
ceeded in living in the same groove. The
French are much attached to their habits,
the proof of which is, that they can never
entirely accommodate themselves to those
of other lands, but after a season of nos
talgia return to those Of their native coun-
try. This tenacity To habit sometimes
assumes form that is ludicrous. Matri-
monial propositions have been refused be
cause the candidate disliked the game Of
bezique or the novels of Dumas A pos
sible marriage connection with foreigner
of different religion and race, is regarded
with disfavor, and the daughter is kept
away from such temptation by generally
holding aloof from foreign intercourse.


There is much going TO and fro between
family connections in France, in the way
Of dinners, breakfasts, and quiet parties
OF pleasure. Besides the social intercourse
there are close relations in practical affairs
If memberof the family yentertains pro-
position IN q matter of business, it is SUBJ
mitted to his wife, and probably to all his
immediate connections, before it is de-
cided upon. This is in striking contrast
to the American, who often concludes al
fairs involving the half OF his fortune,
without his wife's knowledge II is car
ried 10 an extent that is wearisome in
France.
Year: 1877

"JoHs" As An IMMaIGRAST.-A quarter
of century ago it Was fashionable to say
'-the Yankee is TO be found everywhere, and
at that time his ubiqai.y gave cause for the
invention of the proverb. 1t is so, however,
10 longer. The Chinaman has since become
the ayant-eourier Of civilization He was
early in the field on this coast after the dis
covery of gold; has spread himself all over
Australia turns up IS domestic and small
trader OH the Atlantic slope works on the
sugar plantations of the Hawaiian Islands i;
cultivates tobacco in Cuba Is . sailor On the
steamships of the Pacific Ocean, and has
penetrated even the Black Hills, regardless
of hardship and danger. The town OF Dead
wood has its Chinese quarter, and whenever
the local press has occasion to allude to its
Chinese residents, it is insconnection with
crime or some act of rowdyism. Ii there be
credulous people who imagine that the eyll
of Chinese immigration Will correct itself
without any Intervention OF the law, let
them consult this propensity Of the Mongol-
ians to seek out new countries Tor home,
and calculate how long it would take them
TO outnumber our people by natural increase
and fountain head of four hundred millions
to draw from.
Year: 1877

1t IS a pleasing and refreshing sigh. TO
see man, in the spring of the year, with
pair of new lavender pants, spotless
vest, and cut-away coat, gracefully go
down in the slush and ice on street cross
ing. He springs to save himself; but he
only ruptures his wardrobe, and merely
breaks the suddenness Of his fall Again
he jumps TO regain his footing but the
treaeherous ice hillocks only trip hiin up
the more till at last he goes down demor-
allied and fioundering in the mud, from
which he crawls, without a single smile
on his face and madness in every part Of
his body, while a boy, who has been
standing and watching the exploit in open
mouthed wonder, asks "I say, you cork
screw, how do you do that 2
Year: 1877

The AMERICAN FEMALE FoIcR.-The
old dispute about the harshness of voice
said to be characteristic of American wo-
men is again revived with yigor, and the
charge is repeated with increased force
and serocity. The fair daughters of the
land have their champions, who MAINTAIN
stoutly that American women speak with
the tongues Of angels, and perhaps they
do, for the voice seems to be no gauge OF
character, and an angelic disposition may
frequently be found with harsh and even
strident utteranee. But on the whole,
much as it grieyes us, We shall have to
ioin the party OF the attack. We are
ready to acknowledge. with the Boston
Post, that a retort in kind might be made
regarding the sterner sex, but Just now
we are talking about American women.
For the purposes Of speech they appear
to lack skill in the use of their vocal or
cans. They talk too loud or too shrlii,
too low OF too fat. Sometimes they work
in nasal twang, which is the unkindest
cut of all, and rarely does one Of our
counsrywomen achieve that happy mean
which makes speech more golden than 81
lence. When we do meet such an one
her power is Immediately felt; her at
tractiveness acknowledged Her face may
be the pIainest of the PLAIN, but the sub
tie music OF her voice overcomes all pre-
iudices that the vision may have formed,
and give her place in the esteem OF her
Lind that Ia a simple observer is ineIph-
cable Parents spend thousands Of dol
lars to have their daughters taught to
sing, but never take any pans TO have
them instructed III the art OF taking.
Nature does the most, OF course, but caro-
and culture can accomplish great deal,
and We assure the ladies' that when tney
acquire the grace of musical speech they
Will not lack consideration IN any society
they may enter.
Year: 1877

DISEASED SALMoN-A Puget Sound
contemporary ays:-"It may not gener-
ally be known, but nevertheless it is a
fact, that one out of every ten salmon sold
on our streets Is not fit to be eaten. If
you examine them as they come out of
the water, you will find they are covered
with Little black parasites resembling a
small tadpole. These 'fish-lice, as they
are called, attach themselves to the fish
and infiict wound from which the sal
mon bleeds and becomes materially weak
ened- The parasite lays its eggs within
the wound which it inficts and from the
eggs come worms which render the fish
unit 10 be eaten Any Observing person
can see for himself and be satisfied"
Year: 1877

RIPE CUCUMBER PIcKLES.-Pare them and
take the seeds out, cut them across the Gu
cumber, and they viii be in rings (which is
the fashion nowadays, soak them IN weak
alumni and salt water twenty four hours or
more pour this water off and rinse them ;
then make syrup, the same as for picked
peaches. three pounds of sugar to pint OF
vinegar cook them until soft add spices to
suit the taste; cloves and cinnamon are the
best with little allspiee added to it.
Year: 1877

air, striving to make one bale up
on q green cloth to strike another,
it were better that he practyse
standing on bys head, the which
not only needeth the greater skill,
but withaI doth make the break.
king Of q worthless back the more
likely."-Nese York World. si
Year: 1877

Let me live without fortune, II Providence will 1t,
For Joy can be found where small treasure


shed; -
Those who bear full cup are most fearful to spill


it,


And oftentimes walk with the narrowest tread'
care not though Pate may deny me proiusion,
u earth will but show me some rays from ABOVE
Tell me not that Gods light is dreamy illusion.
could live without Fortune, bu' not "inoul


Love.


Oh tits pleasant to know there are beings above US
Who tune the NEST exquisite strings in our heart,
To ieel that they would not be happy without US,
And that we in our loneliness, sigh when we part.
Oh there's something divine in the thought that We


cherish


A star-beam within us, that shines from above
To know that if all the world gives should perish
The greatest o. Fortune still dwells in our love
Oh it's glory to feel that We live for some Others
That sell is not all We depend on below,
That affection yet links sisters and brothers.
whose faith will be constant, come veal or cOme
woe.


Though the vulture Of trouble may hsrass our


bosom,


Meier fear while our -pirit is led by the dove =
Let the desert Of Life give Eternity's blossom,
And we'll live without Fortune, while favored by


Love!