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Year: 1877

When it was first announced that


Professor Gray, of Chicago, had invent


ed method by which sounds could be


telegraphed and music played in one
city be made audible in another, the


public was sceptical The. fact has been
demonstrated beyond doubt, and another


wonder of electricity revealed. The


Boston experiment has been recently re-
peated successfully in Chicago by Pro-
fessor Gray, and airs played on the in
strument in Milwaukee were telegraph
ed in sound to the former city, dis
tance of more than eighty miles We
are glad to learn that New York will
soon have an opportunity of listening to
this electrical harp. Mr.. Maurice Stra-
kosch announces that the powers of the
telephone, as the instrument is named,
will be tested between Philadelphia and
this city, so that persons sitting 10 our
Academy of Music will hear the sweet
strains played ninety miles away. The
date and the particulars will soon be
made known. The invention is so re-
cent that its future uses cannot be pre-
dicted, but we may safely believe that
it is something more than a scientific
toy. When sounds can be transmitted
BY electricity over vast distances there
is basis for the most astounding de-
velopment. The time may come when
We can talk by lightning and swear by
thunder, and even that will not be
stranger than practical telegraphy itself
would have been hundred years ago.
When the voltaic pile was discovered no
one dreamed of what Morse could do
with it, and it may be that in the con-
troll of Wagner yet unknown the tele-
phone may be the instrument by which
the music Of the future may be tele-
graphed simultaneously around the
whole world N Y Herald.
Year: 1877

Hope AND FEAR How lovely is the


world when Hope smiles; how unloye-
ly when Fear scowls. Euveloped in
Hope, the soul glorifes its own exist
ence shrouded in Fear, it doubts that
existence They are as light and dark
ness; we are never away from one or
the other. One moment the world is
an Eden to US, tha next moment life is
a desert in the universe of nothingness
Hope and fear are as the winds that
come and go at will We cannot con-
troll our moods. The philosophy is to
bear them What people call 1.-THE
blues" and they constitute a terrible
malady, are malady of the mind The
agencies which produce it are invisible.
We seem to have absorbed a deadly
ether, which prostrates US, robs US Of
all Hope and fills US with all Fear.
These conflicting emotions are an inher-
itance they existed in the first man
and will exist in the last. Like other
fatalities in this strange life of ours,
they are unevenly distributed. Some
souls almost live perpetually in the at
mosphere of Hope; they are the souls
that live most in the sunshine, in the
fresh air, in the heart of Nature they
are the souls that work honestly and
earnestly The sick soul-and our souls
can be much more sickly than our
bodies-does not live in the sunshine,
breathes not fresh air, loves not Nature,
tolls not with the heart in its work =
This is the soul afflicted with "the
blues" Do the afflicted understand
this philosophy? 1t is simple. Prac-
tice it. Be healed.
Year: 1877

BooKs.-B Books are not made for fur.
niture, but there is nothing else that &c
beautifully furnishes a house. The
plainest row of books is more signif-
cant Of refinement than the most elab-
orately-carved sideboard. Give us a
home furnished with books rather than
furniture-both if you can, but books
at any rate. To spend several days at
friends house, and hunger for some
thing to read, while you are treading
on costly carpets, and sitting on luxu-
rious chairs and sleeping upon down as
if one were bribing your body for the
sake Of cheating your mind. Books
are windows through which the soul
looks out. A house without them is
like room without windows. No man
has a right to bring up his children
without surrounding them with books,
if he has the means to buy them. 1t lis
wrong to his family Children learn
to read through being in the presence
of books. The love of knowledge comes
with reading, and grows upon it; and
the love of knowledge in a young mind
is almost warrant against the inferior
excitemeDts of passion and vice
Year: 1877

The SEA.-There is something, saws


Hazlitt, in being near the sea like the


confines of eternity. 1t is a new ele-


ment, pure abstraction. The mind


loves to hover on that which is endless


and forever the same People wonder
at steamboat, the invention of man


managed by man, that makes its Iimpid
path like an iron railway through the
sea. l wonder at the sea itself, the
vast leviathan, smiling in its deep,
walked into fury, fathomless, boundless,
a huge world of water drops. Whence
is it :? where goes it is it of eternity.
or of nothing? Strange, ponderous
riddle. that we can neither penetrate nor
grasp IN our comprehension ebbing
and flowing like human-like, and swai1
lowing it up in thy remorseless womb
what art thou ? What is there in COM
mon with thy life and ours who gaze at
thee? Blind, deaf, aud old, thon seest
not, heareth not, understandest not
neither do we understand who behold
and listen to thee Great as thou art,
unconscious Of thy greatness, unwieldly,
enormous, preposterous, twin-birth Of
matter rest in thy dark, unfathomed
cave of mystery, mocking human pride
and weakness. Still is it given to the
mind of man to wonder at thee, to con-
fess its Ignorance, and to stand in awe
of the stupendOus might and majesty.
and Of its own being, that can question
thinel
Year: 1877

The BEAUTY OF HOME The beauty
of home depends more OH educated and
refined taste than upon mere wealth. II
there is no artist in the house, it mat
ters little that there is a large balance
at the bank. There is usually no bet
ter excuse for barren home than ig-
norance or carelessness. A little me-
chanical skill can make brackets and
shelves for the walls. A thoughtful
walk in the woods can gather leaves and
lichens and ferns for adorning the un-
pictured rooms A triAe saved from
daily expenses can now and again put a
new book upon the table or shelf The
expenditure of few shilliDgs can con-
vert the plain window into a conserva
tory.
Year: 1877

And sometimes he tells her he is wait
ing very patiently for her to grow up,
that she may fulfil her promise, and
pay him for having restored her moth
er's sight, and | have not the least
doubt in the world but she will do it.
Year: 1877

They tell of prominent grocer who
carried to funeral an umbrella on
which was conspicuously painted the
business Of bis house, and held it over
the preachers head while he conducted
the service.
Year: 1877

An Iowa judge bas decided that a
man may'legally kiss pretty girl if he
can swear be thought it was his wife.
That decision should be denounced by
all good men as an open encouragement
Of perjury.
Year: 1877

Some careless individuals who permit their cows
to stray about the highways and streets. should
be reminded that there is stringent law upon the
statute books against cattle running at large.
They defle the sidewalks slip in at the gates and
destroy terraces. trampe down garden beds and
lawns, and otherwise do q vast amount Of damage,
The ornamental trees and terraces by the high
ways are the property Of the owners of the lots
adjoining, and no man has a right to turn out his
COW to injure another's property.
Year: 1877

There are indications in various localities in
this State of the appearance of the potato bug re-
sembling, by the description, the veritsbe Colors-
do bug. This wicked pest is marching this way,
and we have no doubt our farmers will be COM
PEELED soon to grapPle with the question how best
to exterminate him. The other day farmer in
Connecticut found some of these bugs at work
among his potatoes that were just peeping through
the ground. To kill them, he crushed them with
his bare hands, Handling them without gloves"
The result was that the man died horrible death
from the effects of the poisoning Another far
mer, who had tried the same process, narrowly
escaped. Last year = farmer in Manchester in
this county, came near dying from the effect OF
crushing caterpillars with his bare hands.
Year: 1877

Three hundred men will cover and cut
a section Of three miles square, taking of
over 10000 logs which would measure
about ~, 600, 900 feet, each season. Work
begins at daylight and ends st dark; end
when the days lengthen and the moon
favors longer twilight or earlier morn
the men get the benefit in longer work
ing hours On the river, when the drive
is started, werk begins at three O'Clock in
the morning and ends at pine O'Clock in
the evening, the men having five meals;
breakfast at six, lunch at nine, dinner at
twelve, supper at five and tea at nine.
The meals consist of pork and beans,
corn bread, mOlasses cake, and tea or cof-
fee No stint Is given TO a mans appe-
tite. The fare, such as it is, is abundant,
monotOnous, nutritious and cheap. A
cook is provided for every fifty men.
The beans are generally the large white
bush, par.boled in pots holding half
bushel then ten pounds Of pork is set in
the middle of the beans in the pot, a
quarter Of pint Of molasseS poured into
it, and then the pot is set in a hole sur
rounded by hot ashes and burning char
coal, the top covered with a stone over
which heavy wood fire is built, and
here they stay from five to eight hours
coming out most palatable dish. All
the baking is done in rudely built stone
evens, which are heated before the dough
is mixed, with a good wood fire. The
lOaves of biscuit or cakes are set upon the
hot stones, and are cooked quick and
thoroughly. A camp of 300 men will
consume daily four barrels Of beans, half
q barrel Of pork, one barrel Of -four, half
a barrel of meat, Onequarter Of barrel
of sugar, and five gallons Of molaeses,
The men are encamped in tents, making
their beds Of boughs, while their extra
clothing, a pair Of dark overalls, woolen
shirt, and two pairs Of wooden socks, il
kept in an old grain sack, and used as a
pillow at night. Sunday in the woods
is always a day for sharpening axes,
mending sleds, repairing boots and
clothes, setting out new tenting spot
handler to the cutting in the woods, and
all the odd chores which would grow out
Of the congregation Of 20 large body Of
men. All well regulated camps exclude
liquor. Being usually fifty to two hun.
dred miles from any settlement, and the
men not paid until the end Of the season,
there is little nducemcnt for any specu-
lator TO pcddle rum through the woods
or for the men to straggle off in search
of it.


The consumption Of axes and handle,
is enormous, an Ak lasting about a month
and handle three weeks The axes are
sharpened daily, having regular sharpen.
ers, while others require each man to
keep his own axe in order. The old axes
are never collected for the Junk dealer
the distance to ship them being almost
too great to make it an economical meas.
ure. Woodsmen generally consider
spruce harder on axes than either birch
or pine. The gum which runs out Of a
spruce tree is found hard enough to CHR
the edge of the axe when striking
through Nortblravew Ldmbemoa.
Year: 1877

The widow Van COtt entertained her
hearers in the West Thirteenth Street
Methodist meeting house last evening by
telling them the following story: She
was announced to conduct a series of re-
vival meeting in one of the cities in the
interior of the empire state. A young
man who was at the club with party OF
iovial fellows, said "Widow Van Cott
is coming to town and 7 am going to
attend her meetings" One of bis COM
rades responded: "If you 20 to hear the
widow III bet five dollars she will con-
vert you and make christian of you,
The young man clinched the wager


Then another comrade wagered five dol
lars with the young man, and the exam
ple was followed until every member Of
the company had deposited five dollars
against a corresponding amount with the
stakeholder. The pools were made or
the condition that the young man should
attend the meetings every evening as
long as Mrs. Van Cott was in town


"The young man went to the meeting, u


said the widow, "and God touched his
heart. He would have gone to the
altar, but he didn't want to lose hi


money. He told me that after | had gonC
away he would embrace religion, an(
write and let me know the fact | saiC
to him: You will not do as you thinl
YOU will. You must come to the alta


now or never" MIS-. Van Cott closeC
her meetings in the place and went away
She did not get the promised letter; bu
she was told that the young man, afte
Year: 1877

The New York Herald of Sunday
Gays: Seventeen Kentucky mules were
taken aboard the steamship State OF
Pennsylvania last night kicking up
before and behind, as sailor expressed
it. No finer animals of the kind are to
be seen, one of the chief kickers standing
sixteen hands and three inches high and
built in proportion. This is said to be
the first shipment of the kind to Europe
They come from Stonewall, in Scott
county, Kentucky, and are three year'
old. About forty more are to follow
them in a week or So The cheap(s'
among them in Kentucky cost $3.50
They are to be used for dray horses il
Glasgow"
Year: 1877

The Brown Brothers have decided to To- cate their foundry on Mccormick street be- low the 0. K. Stables, where they are un- loading their machinery and getting ready to set it up. Many who have not observed the demand for such work as is usually done in foundry and machine shop, may be ready to ask where they will find demand for their wares, but when it is once under way, as past experience has shown, the very fact of its presence in the country, will ere ate business, and bring broken machinery from a long distance Ia he repaired or have parts cast new. Worn out stoves can have new doors, or faulty sides made new, and a thousand other articles of common use can hc repaired and made as good as new, in- stead If throwing them away. When all the quartz mills now projected shall be started to running they will have a large demand for shoes ani dies which are constantly wearing out. There is little 10 be appre- hended on the score of non patronage.
Year: 1877

Our many contemporaries in speaking of the distance 10 be repaired on the Mogollon range to make it pasSable for freight teams put the distance at thirty miles which Is just about double the distance that will have to be worked
Year: 1877

The ault and Safe oi the Bank ot Arizona are worth visit to that institution to eX- amino, even though you have no idea of robbing it or borrowing money from il. They are from the safe and Lock Co. of Hall & Co, and the vault itself, which Is fire proof, would be hard to crack if there were no Safe inside which is nearly a foot thick and manufactured entirely of Damascus steel. laid on in inch plates. We should rather be locked up in the Yavapai county jail than in either this Vault or Safe with permis- sioI to dig out
Year: 1877

Somebody stole box of cigars from Ben Weaver's store last evening before he closed the house. The temptation to steal cigars made from fine Havana tobacco like those is very great, but nevertheless, they cost the proprietor a considerable sum of money, and the thief ought to be punished.
Year: 1877

There is talk of laying the corner stone of the new court house in accordance with established usage, with Masonic ceremonies, etc., on the 25th inst, provided the work men are ready by that time and the iron work shall have arrived
Year: 1877

News comes to Us that Capt. llardy'S cat tie are dying near the Sandy, Tn Mohave county, for want of water. There is plenty of grass where there is no water, and plenty of water in the river where there i> no grass.
Year: 1877

Yesterday afternoon the writer wit
messed strange sight in the Record Of
flee Our attention was attracted by
several lusty squeaks from the inside of
a pail almost full of water, into which
halfgrown mouse had fallen. The alarm
had scarcely died away before four or
five more mice appeared on the scene,
and began clambering to the top edge of
the pail For several moments after
gaining the top of the pail and catching
sight OF the mouse in the water a squeak
ing coniab was held.


First one mouse and then another
would cling to the rim of the bucket
with his hind legs, and while almost
touching the water with his nose, squeak
out either consolation or advice to the
immersed but while all this was going on
the swimming powers of the unfortunate
mouse in the pail was rapidly giving
out. At last happy thought seemed tC
strike the biggest mouse in the crowd
and almost without a squeak he firmly
fastened his forefeet to the edge of the
pail and let his body and tail hang down
The drowning mouse saw it, and maxim!
last desperate effort for life, swan t.
the spot, seized the tail of his brothe
mouse, and amid squeaks of delight from
all the mice present, was hauled high anC
dry out of the water and over the edg
of the bucket Corjnne Record
Year: 1877

NUMBER CAKE.-One cup of butter /;
two cups of sugar; two tablespoonfuls Of
molasses three cups of flour; four eggs /;
one teaspoOniul of soda two teaspoons
of cream tartar one cup of raisins spice
to taste.


RICE AND APPLEs.-The following is
very nice thing, especially for chill
dren: Core as many nice apples as viii
fill the dish; boil them in light moIasses;
prepare quarter of pound of rice in
milk, with sugar and salt; put some OF
the rice into the dish, then put in the
apples and fill up the intervals with rice,
and bake in the oven until it is fine
color.


A Use FOR CAYENNE PEPPER.-Ca Cay
enne pepper will keep the butter and
store-room free from ants and cock
reaches. fla mouse makes an entrance
into part OF the dwelling, saturate a
rag with CAYENNE in solution and stufit
into the hole whick can be repaired with
either wood or mortar. No rat or mouse
will eat that rag for the purpose of open
ing communication with the depot Of
supplies.


REGULATING THE KITCHEN - The
healthfulness of house largely depe25
upon its cleanliness and. above az
things, cleanliness must prevail in the
kitchen. Watch the drains, see that
no imperfection in them permits the
passage of tea and coffee-grounds, scraps
of meat, and vegetable-pariug, all of
which will choke the traps and attract
the rats. Have the pipes flooded once
week with common washing soda dis
solved in hot water, and then with a
solution of chloride of lime, in order 10
overcome unpleasant and unhealthy
odors. Use only good soap for cleaning
and washing. 1t viii dissolve COM
pletely in hot water, producing solu-
ton nearly clear and free from dis
agreeable smell.
Year: 1877

Shipping fresh beef to England has
grown almost too rapidly as a staple
branch of trade. So generally has the
method of sending beef abroad in refrig-
Grated apartments become that a large
proportion of the transatlantic steamers
have been fitted with the necessary ap-
pliances for the trade, and from New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore large
consignments have been sent forward
every week. The trade in shipping live
cattle has also grown, so that both in
dressed meats and in beef on the hoof,
EDgland has been supplied with prodig-
uous quantities, and the United States
has disposed OF great numbers of cattle.
1t is to be hoped that the number is not
too great. Everything can be overdone,
and this business of foreign meat ship
ment may be, and, possibly, has been
The enormous shipments have depressed
the prices of meats abroad Hence we
are not surprised to hear that recent con-
signments of dressed beef from Philadel-
phia to England have turned out loss
so that the trade bids fair to be some
what restricted in the future. The busi-
ness has evidently been pushed to the
point of reaction, and this is not much
to be regretted. Our own meat supply
has gone up in price, the great foreign
demand being urged rs the reason for Tho
advance at home, the butchers and drov
ers declaring that it IS stripping the coun
try of available cattle, and thus forcinl
higher prices. 1t is not certain whether
these foreign shipments really cause the
advance or whether they are availed o
as a convenient excuse, but the same
should be true of meat as of grain
With the falling off of the foreign de
mand prices oug ght to decline, and ther
is no reason why we should not bu,
meat in this country as low as it can %
bought in England. At present the pre-
vailing quotations seem to be highe
here than there, though we send then
much of their supply.-PhiJadelphi
/ TedQcr
Year: 1877

once heard of an unfortunate gentle
man who had become insane, but was re-
stored to sound health simply by causing
the mind to make sudden revulsion,
which was done by skilifully causing him
to become jealous of his wife, who was a
most excellent lady and aware OF the
process. On this hint we might learn to
manage balky horse he is insane on
the subject of going. that is selfevident.
If we can manage TO make him think on
some other subject, lie will naturally for
get about going and 90 before ne knows
it. The following devices have been sue
cessfully tried to accomplish the desired
end: l. Tying string around the
horses ear close to the head =. Hitch
ing the horse to the swingletree by means
OF cord instead of the tugs; the cord
fastened to the horses tail. 9. Filling
the mouth full of some disagreeabIe sub.
stance. 4. Tying stout twine around
the leg just below the knee and then re-
moving it when he has travelled some
distance. Never whip balky horse, fol
the more he is whipped the crazier ne viii
become. Let everything be done gently
for boisterous words only confuse min
and make him worse. Treat him in the
mild manner that you would Graz,
man. and you viii succeed.
Year: 1877

Americans would be glad to see the
days of the second empire return, when
the gay court was open to them, and the
leading lady in millinery ruled it. Cos
TUNES are very handsome now, and cost
enough, am sure but the show and the
glitter are not the same as then, and,
while the finest taste is seen in certain
places, in others there is q plentiful lack
Of it. 1t seems rather funny, however,
to hear Nine. fAmericane, with nes en-
rair and such crushing manner, object
to the manner in which the bourgeoisie
are pushing themselves into society
Messieurs Burlanger and Cordonnier are
not at all to her liking, although the for
tune she inherits may have been made
in that redolent portion of New York
known as the swamp. There is no one
who hates the smell of leather as your
true republican, especially when he has
settled in Paris. He likes titles and
orders, and his genealogical tree invariably
goes by to at least William the Con-
queror's time, albeit, at home, his grand
father did not even knew where he was
born. However, we all have our weak
nesses, and they develop differently
under different skies and circumstances.
Certain people are born with aspirations,
and they cannot help it; and l think


most of these come to Paris.-Paris Cor.
/ Hartford Tinlfs.
Year: 1877

We urge upon our readers the import
ance of not allowing their grass and
clover to stand until they are matured.
The advantages OF early cutting cannot
be over-stated. Stock, we know, will
thrive and fatten on good pasture, while
on the same grass, matured and made
into hay, according to the common Gus
tom, stock will run down in flesh. This
is because the nutritious juice is not
saved. When the grass is matured and
dried, the juices are gone even before it
Is cut, or they may be evaporated in
curing. Some months ago we gave the
results of some very interesting expert
ments in feeding cattle on grass cut be-
fore it was headed out, showing that
such grass, properly cured, will fatten
cattle as well az the green grass of our
best pastures, and that the aftermath, in
meadows thus cut, started right up, just
as the grass does on a closely-cropped
pasture. These are considerations of
great Importance to nj! farmers, and es-
pecially so to stock-breeders. We there
fore respectfully urge that our readers
shall give this suggestion of the early
cutting and curing of grass a fair test,
and then, as to all their meadows, the
clover should be cut as soon as it is fairly
in blossom, and the timothy while it is
in flower. For ourselves, we aim to cut
rather before than after these periods
especially when the weather is good fox
curing. Particular pains should be taken
not to cure too much, never forgetting
that the great object is to preserve and
save the juices.-National LiUe-StocI
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