Year: 1874

game Is pulling mules tail.


SULPHUR comes from Vesuvius; there
fore it is good for eruptions.


THE New York Sun asserts that as
rule marriages are unhappy.


CoQUETTEs are like weathercocks-only
fixed when they become rusty.


LIBERAIdTY makes friends of enemies;
pride makes enemies of friends.


Do NOT consider debt only as an incon-
venience; you will find it a calamity.


1T has been noticed that nothing makes
a woman laugh so much as a new set of
teeth.


IT has been discovered that the moons
diameter is 156 feet longer at one point
than at others.


A NEW YORK doctor figures it out that
an average woman will shed barrel of
tears in forty years.


THEY fined man in Boston the other
day just for singeing a cat to drive the
witches away. Shamel


AN Alabama editor mildly alludes to
his rival as reservoir of falsehood and
an aqueduct of mendacity."


If you have been tempted into evil fly
from it, it is not falling into the water,
but lying in IL, that browns.


THE newest sleeves are perfectly tight
fitting, with loose and open oversleeves,
which reach only to the elbow.


THE diamond shaped fan is a novelty.
1t is generally of black satin, elaborately
and tastefully worked with gold cord.


"SHE died for me-" said the young
husband when he beheld her dark locks
gradually returning to their original red.


SHOULD tar by any means get smeared
over your clothes rub the spots with lard
thoroughly, then soap and wash as
usual.


AN hours industry will do more to pro-
duce cheerfulness, suppress evil humors,
and retrieve your affairs, than months
moaning.


AN enthusiastic admirer of Goldsmith
Maid has pulled two hairs from the great
trotter's tail, and intends to have them
woven into ring.


THERE are said to be more Jews in New
York than there are in Jerusalem. They
have the finest synagogue in the city and
live in the best streets.


DIFFERENCE between printing and
publishing-You may imprint kiss on
the check of young woman but you
shouldn't publish it.


A RICH but parsimonlous old gentle
man, on being taken to task for his un-
charitableness, said: True, / don't give
much, but if you only knew how it hurts
when give anything you wouldn't won
der"


OPIUM, belladonna and arsenic are the
favorite luxuries among the ladies of
Reading, Pa. 1t is unnecessary to add
that suicide, blindness and sudden death
are not infrequent items in the local
press.


EXPERIMENTS recently mace In En-
gland indicate that wagons are most
easily drawn on all kinds of roads when
the fore and hind wheels are of the same
size, and when the pole lies lower than
the axle.


THE Matrimonial Help Society" idea
is spreading An organization OF the
kind was recently formed in CoDnecti-
cut town, and every old maid in the
place and every widow under sixty years
of age joined it the first day.


BOILING water poured over fruit stains
will cause them to disappear, provided
the boiling water is the first water they
are immersed in. The fabric containing
the stain should be held over the tub and
the boiling water poured through it.


If by chance your wash-boiler should
spring aleak when filled with clothes
over brisk fire, carefully press the
clothes away from the side of the leak
and sift small spoonful of Indian meal
over the water; the leak will close i'm
mediately.


FURNITURE PoIsH.-Beeswax, half
pound alkanet root, quarter of an ounce.
Melt together in a pipkin until the for
mer is well colored; then add linseed
oil and spirits of turpentine, of each
qnarter of gill. Strain through piece
of coarse muslin.


THE best and most wholesome way of
using ripe tomatoes is to slice them and
| let them lie and drain awhile; pour off
the juice and put on little vinegar,
hardly enough to cover them; then
sprinkle on white sugar and let them
stand few minutes before eating.


THE newest thing in fans is of ostrich
feathers so arranged as to form a square.
In the center is small mirror, sur
rounded by imitation pearls. The feath-
ers are of every color, but the entirely
black fans appear to be the most fash
ionable.


A PERSON who represented that he was
clergyman presented himself at the
office of prominent real estate firm in
Boston the other day, and asked if the
! firm would give him a list of all the
| OuCItu lOI SdiC anu ONhCu ny
widows. The query naturally arose
whether he wanted to buy widow OF
marry farm


| 1T is greatly in favor of the use of
heavy petroleum and coal oils as lubri-
cants, that, according to some of the best
authorities, these oils are incapable of
producing spontaneous combustion in
contact with wooden materials. Vegeta-
BILE oils, such as olive oil, are, on the con-
trary, very liable to such combustion
when mixed with wool, sawdust, and
similar material.


A DIsCoNsoLATE widow In the western
part of New York, daughter of n former
noted railroad officer, repairs to the tomb
of her husband every evening at sunset,
enters the vault, and seats herself in
chair formerly used by the departed,
where she remains sometimes several
hours, always an hour, and she has done
this, with scarcely an inteTmission for
two years, since her husbands death.


GEORGE WASHINGTON WESTON (no rel
ative of the distinguished pedestrian
reached st. Louis the other day. He left
New Orleans with his wife, three children
and wheelbarrow, last February, and has
walked the entire distance, wheeling IA
tent and the children, and occasionally
giving his wife a lift. He arrived in st.
Louis as stated and pitched his tent in a
vacant lot, waiting to obtain little
work and recruit his strength and that of
his wife.


To ASCERTAIN if mineral contains
copper, 1t is only necessary to pulverize
portion of it, dissolve it in strong nitric
acid (aquafortis), and dilute a portion of
the clear solution, which will probably
be blue, until almost colorless, then add


:
ammonia carefully. II copper is present
In another portion of the solution, some
what diluted, place piece of perfectly
clean polished steel or iron; in a few
minutes the copper will be deposited
upon the iron in q metallic state.