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Year: 1874

Varnish your bedsteads in every crcyice,
the ends of the Stats and where they rest,
with furniture varnish, which you can pro-
cure at any druggists. If it gets too thick
thin it with turpentine. 1t is prevention and
cure, ami once well vanished, it will not be
necessary to repeat the dose oftener than once
a year. At other times of cleaning, washing
with cold water will be sufficient This method
preserves your bedsteads rs good as new,
while nearly every other remedy spoils their
beauty and is not as effectual. Prepare for
vanishing by washing with clear water and
wiping dry. Apply 4 varnish brush. If done
in the morning 1t will be dry before night. If
you use cords, wash them with cloth in
strong salt water
Year: 1874

''Be careful what you eat, say our health
advisers. This is all we'll enough, for the
animal diet in warm weather heats the blood,
tends to headaches, and is generally un-
wholesome, unless sparingly used. On the
other hand, fresh vegetables. berries, fruit
and bread are cooling. corrective, and what
the palate most Graves. DO not be afraid to
90 without meat for II month or so. and. if
you like, live on purely vegetable regimen.
You will lose no more strength than is COM
mon to the time, and you will not suffer from
prOtractcd heat. as when dining on the regu-
lation roast. Many persons regard healthy
desire for food as something unretined, in
delicate, and to be constantly discouraged.
But that is all nonsense. 1t is just as neces
sary for the man who works only with his
brain to eat beef and mutton as for the man
who labors solely with his hands. The stom-
ach and the brain are twins. the former be-
ing the elder and having prior right to care.
Let that I've we'll provided for and it will sus-
tain its brother. The people who strive to
check wholesome and natural appetite are
the people who regard dinner merely as Il
feed, and not the centre of an agreeable So
cial custom, an6 rs the domestic event Of the
day We are sorry for them. as they must
regard eating as prOsaic duty obligatory on
them because they have q bias in favor of
living. We all know that we must eat to live,
but by no means live to eat simply because
We enjoy what We eat. We are not gour-
mands because we relish chops, nor are we
invalids because We want Strawberries A
good appetite is good thing, but not if it is
to be worried by urging or neglect.
Year: 1874

Mrs. Woodruff was married at the age
of fifteen to the man whose name che bears
He was a man of considerable ability, but
very Incorporate, which is said to have driven
his wife into her present strange and radical
views. She finally abandoned him. bat after
wards sought her out, and finally died at her
house in New York. Mrs. Woodruff was
legally married to COL Blood several years
ago, bnt they were afterwards divorced for
the avowed purpose on their part Of dcfying
social regulations, and living together without
marriage bonds.
Year: 1874

No housekeeper should be without a bottle
Of spirits of ammonia, for besides its medi-
cal value it is invaluable for household pur-
poses 1t is nearly as useful as soap, and its
cheapness brings it within the reach of all.
Put teaspOOnful of ammonia to quart of
warm soapsuds, dip in flannel cloth and
wipe off the dust aud tly-specks, and see for
yourself how much labor it will save No
scrubbing will be needful. 1t will cleanse
and brighten silver wonderfully; to a pint of
sLds mix teaspO0nful Of spirits, dip IN your
silver spoons, forks, ETC., rub with a brush
and polish with chamOis skin.


For washing mirrors and windOwsit is very
desirable; put few drops of ammonia on u
piece of paper, and it will readily take off
every spot or finger mark on the glass. 1t
will take out grease spots from every fabric {;
put on the ammonia nearly clear, lay blOtting
iron ON it for few moments. A few drops
in water will clean laces and whiten them as
we'll, also muslins. Then it is most refresh
ing agent at the toilet table; few drops in q
basin of water will make u better bath than
pure water. and if the skin is oily it will re-
move all glossiness and disagreeable odors.
Added to fOot-bath it entirely absorbs all
noxious smell, 50 often arising from the feet
in warm weather, and nothing is better for
cleaning the hair from dandruff and dust.


For cleaning hair and nail brushes it is
equally good. Put teaspoonful of ammonia
into one pint of water and shake the brushes
through the water. When they look white
rinse them in water and put them in the SUM-
shine, or in q warm place, to dry. The dirt
lest brushes will come out of this bath white
and clean. For medical purposes it is un-
rivaled f0rthe headache it isa desirable stim-
ulsnl; frequent inhaling of its pungent
odors will often remove catarrhal colds. There
is no better remedy for heartburn and dys-
pepsla, and the aromatic spirits of ammonia is
especially prepared for these troubles Ten
drops of it in wine glass are often great
relief The spirits of ammonia can be taken
IN the same way, but it is not as palatable.


In addition to all these uses the effect of
ammonia on vegetation is beneficial If you
desire roses. geraniums, fuchsias, etc., to be-
come more furnishing, you can try it upon
them by adding five or six drops to every
pint of warm water you give them, but don't
repeat the dose oftener than five or six days,
lest you stimulate them too highly. So he
sure and keep large bottle of it in the house,
and have glass stopper for it, as it is very
evanescent, and also injurious to corks,-E
Year: 1874

The BALLOON Ascension at the Hippo


drome Postponed Until To-day.


The announcement that the first OF q series OF
balloon ascensions to be made by william II.
Donaldson was to take place yesterday afternoon
suniced to attract large crowd both within and
without the Hippodrome The aerial flight was
announced to take place Immediately after the
conclusion OF the afternoon performance. The in
nation began In the arena Of the Hippodrome early
in the morning and occupied three hours. When
flied the giistenfng globe OF Berkley cambria
swayed TO and fro with every current OF
the meshes of the netting It seemed the
most fragile conveyance in which humanity could
possibly embark IL soon became apparent, how
ever, to Mr.. Donaldson that the lifting power OF
the coal gas, as supplied by the Mutual Gas Com
pany, strongly impregnated as 1t Is with naphtha,
was not suniclent to carry the balloon and its liv-
Ing freight into the air. The 1850 cubic feet OF
gas, in tnis instance, did not possess q lifting
power OF more than eighty pounds, while balloon
OF the same size, filed with the ordi-
nary coal gas, has taken up three per.
sons and 100 pounds OF ballast There was
only one way to do, and that was to empty the
gas. TINS was accordingly done. The manager OF
the Hippodrome at once made arrangements TO
tap the gas main OF another company and 1t is
confidently hoped that the balloon will be got OF
to-day. Mr. Donaldson declares his full conviction
OF the existence OF an easterly air current which,
as surely as fate VIII sooner later be the means
OF carrying some navigator OF the air across the
Atlantic TO the Old World. He expresses great
regret af the misfortune OF yesterday.
Year: 1874

Near Monmouth junction. on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, yesterday morning, an unknown man,
supposed to be tramp was struck by the loco
motive OF the half-past seven train from New
York and instantly killed. The unfortunate man
was sitting on the track putting on his shoes, but
get out OF the way TAe body was picked up and
taken to the junction.
Year: 1874

heavens. And they tell US that for a week
or more yet TO come IL VIII continue to
brighten, ana widen and Iengthen, and
draw nearer, II seeking the embrace OF
mother earth; that 1t is coming head with ever
increasing velocity but that the all-pOwerful sun
wlli draw IT from our little planet and then shoot
1t Off again into the darkness OF chaos perhaps not
to be seen here for q thousand years TO come And
to this arrangement there can be no objections
Year: 1874

Only about twenty of the persons employed BY
the American Bank Note Company have been dis
charged. The company has at present more than
300 persons AT work, and Is now busily engaged
In the completion OF orders already on hand.
Year: 1874

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ness portion Of the city, by taking passage in
the street cars will find no inconvenience IN
attending evening school. It is worthy Of
note that they take as much interest and
make as rapid advancement as men.
Much might be said Of business penmanship,
correspondence, mercantile law and the la,0
class, also Of the manner in which the
s'actual business'' department is conducted,
but for want Of space refer you to the an
|nual announcement and catalogue Of the in.
stitution which will be promptly forwarded
to those who will address the Principal,
Prof. w. A. Faddis.


Owing to the kindness and efficiency of
the TEACHERS special mention might be made
Of each, but suffice it to say that they are
lever ready and willing to assist students in
whatever will result in their advancement.
Much more of the useful can be
learned here in the same time and expense
than other classes of schools r r Stu
dents acquire habits Of economy and method
which follow them through ]i6.


J. T. BUCHANAN.


MoBERlY, NO.
Year: 1874

Never put particle Of soap about
your silver if you would have it retain
its original ]ustre. When it wants pol.
ishing, take piece Of soft leather and
whiting and rub hard. The proprietor
of one of the oldest silver establish.
1nents in the city of Philadelphia says
that ''housckeepers ruin their silver by
washing it in soap suas' as it makes it
look like pewter


Stove lustre, when mixed with tur'
pentine and applied in the usual man
ner, is blacker, more glossy, and more
durable than when mixed with any
other liquid. The turpentine prevents
rust, and when put on an old rusty
stove, will make it look as good as new.


TO extract ink from cotton, silk and
wooden goods, saturate the spots with
spirits Of turpentine. and let it remain
several hours; then rub it between the
hands. 1t will crumble away without
inuring either the color or texture o1
the article.
Year: 1874

The Duchess Former says: To


three gallons of brine strong enough to
bear an egg add q quarter Of pound
Of nice white sugar and one tablespoon,
ful of saltpeter. Boil the brine, and
wWA it is cold strain carefully. Make
yodAbutter into rolls, and wrap each
roll separately in clean white muslin


cloth, tying up with string. Pack a
large jar full, weight the butter down.
and pour over the brine until all is sub.
merged. This will keep reall y good
butter perfectly sweet and fresh for a
whole year. Be careful to not put


upon ice butter that you wish to keep
for any length of time. In summer,
when the heat will not admit Of butter
being made into rolls, pack closely in
small jars, and using the same brine,
allow it to cover the butter to the
depth of at least four inches. This ex-
cludes the air and answers very nearly
as we'll as the first method suggested
Year: 1874

Perhaps the very best dish Of pre-
pared apples for the table is to bake
Slowly, with just neat enough not to
break the skin. When done lay open
and remove the core; sprinkle with SUI
gar, (granulated is best) and work su-
gar and pulp together; work to fine
consistency, which few strokes of the
spoon will do; then close the skin upon
it and lay away to cool; it ought to be
eaten cold. An Asopus Spitzenburg is
the best fruit for it, and the best time
for it is about the holidays


Never boil coffee. The reason is that
not only the better part of it the ex-
hilerating) escapes, but that the extrac'
tive properties, which, if largely used,
are unhealthy, are alone present. Bring
up to the boiling point, but do not boil.
You thus get sufficient Of the extrac.
tive matter to give body, retsining all
the volatile, healthy, and relishing prop
critics.


To mend chinaware, take very, thick
solution Of gum arabic, and stir into it
plaster of paris until the mixture is of
a proper consistency. Apply it with a
brush to the fractured edges Of the
chinaware and stick them together. In
4 few days it will be impossible to break
the article in the same place. The
whiteness of the cement renders it
doubly valuable.


1t is said that drops prepared as fol-
lows will cure the worse case of tooth
ache ever known: One ounce of alcohol,
two drahms Cayenne pepper, one ounce
kerosene oil; let it stand twenty.four
hours after mixing. y. :
When white marble is stained, apply
benzolc to the stain and then very care
fully rub it on with very clean, soft
piece of rag, Repeat until the stain
disappears. Soap and soda both injurc
white arble. '''' q"
Year: 1874

A curious mode Of fish Matching is
said to be followed in China. Having
collected the necessary spawn from the
waters edge, the fishermen place GER
tain quantity in an empty hens egg,
which is sealed up with wax and put
under the sitting hen. After some
days they break the egg, and empty
the fry into water we'll warmed by the
sun, and there nurse them until they
are sufficiently strong to be tuEped. into
q lake or river.
Year: 1874

To any quantity Of glue use common
whisky instead of water. Put both TO-
getser in a bottle; cork tight, and set
it away for three or four days. It will
then be fit for use, without the applica-
ton of heat. twill be found useful


and handy article in every household.
Year: 1874

Alone upon the wide, wide world


'Tis hard to dwell alone
To catch no look of human love,


To list no gentle tone
But wander through life's busy crowd
Lone as a corse within its shroud.
Alons-tis hard to sit and weep,


In some untrodden shade,
Ger all the wrecks of life and JOY


A few brief years have made
To trace the links of that bright chain
Which time will ne'er unite again.
Alone-tis deeper grief to dream


Of those we loved in youth,
And feel, though time has changd US


not,


Their hearts are lost to truth
To wake, alas, too late and find
Their VOWS have pass'd us as the wind.
Alone-tis agony for one,


Of spirit proud and strong,
To feel life's pulses ebbing fast


Before the worlds cold wrong;
And sternly hide each pang OF fate
That leaves the heart so desolate.
Alone-tis sometimes sweet to mark


The green and quiet spot,
Where we may sleep when life is DER,


By all the world forgot;
With none TO bless our churchyard hours
But leaves, and birds, and summer


flowers.
Year: 1874

nation Of suspicion, are just as effec-
tive in reality as would have been an
open assertion. 1t is as if he had said
"This is too shameful to impute to any
man-we should not think him guilty
of it and yet, in fact, do think be is
guilty of it." Does not this in effect
exaggerate the charge


It is not only the damage inflicted
upon the person assailed that makes
these so injurious. That is badenough.
Every tale told of him diminishes his
value and taints his reputation. 1t is
not forgotten; it is repeated and magni-
fed, till it becomes shame and scandal.
And he is helpless, because it all goes
on behind his back.


But it works mischief to society.
In a general and most lamentable way,
it works a gradual influence to lower
the standard of good feeling and mutu
al esteem all through the ranks of social
life. This one tells of this fault, that
one of that, and another of still another.
To-day you hear something to the det-
rlmenC OI one iiidu o CDaiaSeSi eo-nS'
row something against second, and
the next day against third. Now this
one falls in your regard by taxing you
with some falling with which he has no
concern, and you lose something of
your liking for him. Next comes an
other with his intermeddling tongue,
and he begins to be despised and dis
liked, and put away from your regard;
and again third goes through the same
lowering process.


In this way there is continual power
brought to bear to depress the scale OF
mutual esteem, break ties of friendship,
to lessen our faith in each other, and to
cause us to withdraw resentfully within
ourselves. The bond of mutual love re-
laxes-retaliatiols are provoked; there
is no one of whom you have not heard
some evil, no one in whom there is hot
something to diminish your respect, no
one from whom you have not received
some exhibition of uncharitablehess. 1t
is almost wonder that we can live to-
gether, or bear each others presence,
when there are So many causes to him
der
Year: 1874

The Howe MACHINE CoNpANY.-As
the recent embarrassments Of the Howe
Machine Company, from outside causes
have been widely known, it is proper
that a somewhat detailed account of its
present condition should be equally
widespread, aud it gives US much plea
sure to promise that the real facts show
that the Company is in a most unex-
pectly sound and prosperous condition.
The mortgage to the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company has been released,
aud there are now no other encumbran.
ces whatever on the property OF this
immense manufacturing concern.


1t has been the practice of this conf
pauy to pay all its employees on, the
18th of every month. That is, on the
18th of February they pay all wages
due for the month of January, and on
the 18th of March they pay for the
month Of February, and so on through
the year; but it is well known that dur
ing the panic the company failed to
make payment with regularity or to the
full amount due. We are now inform.
ed that in the month of February all
wages, about S70,0oO, due to the fret
of January were paid in full, and Ia
month or two, the company expects to
resume its former practice OF paying
promptly and in full on the regular pay
days. The company has now six hun
dred and twenty-five employees work
ing eight hours per day, and making
about two hundred aud fifty machines
daily. On the first of April they intend
TO resume the ten hour system and put
on more workmen.


During these hard times the company
has made a very careful estimate OF its
property and liabilities, ard they ind
that their total assets at fair estimate,
exceed their total liabilities by the I'M.
mense sum Of nine million eight hun
dred and thirty-eight thousand dollars,
exclusive of the Glasgow factory, which
has not been affected in tho least by tho
temporary embarrassments OF the COM
panv in this country. This showing Is
certainly very gratifying, and we trust
that in the future the company viii en-
Joy its old time prosperity. .-BridgPof
Daily Standard. 3
Year: 1874

True marriage is conlpanionshlp, ana
with the termination Of companionship
veritable divorce begins. Wedlock, as
generally seen, is cumbersome vol
ume, with sweet prelude of verse fol
lowed by tedious chapters of awdwardly
constructed prose. The poem represents
companionship, and the subsequent part
is withdrawal If the companionsllp
could but be preserved, each month
would prove a honeymoon; discords,
chickering's, and misunderstanding
would diminish rather than increase,
because the action of contact wears OIL
angles and adjusts uneven surfaces to
one another Men would not sulk; wo-
men would not regret; nor would both
turn to the past with the unavai!ing
wish to undo the present. Their bur.
dens would be lighter by the sharing OF
them, and their discontents be softened
by sympathetic unfolding. Their ways
might be dark and devious, but the
consciousness that they should walk,
where's 'er they went, closely and tender
" together, would shed such light upon
their pathway that the darkness would
be dispelled and the deviousness made
straight. 1t is never too late to resume
companionship-would that they who
need it most might remember this y
and yet they who have surrendered it
rarely look for it again. When they
step apart, the slightest channel OF their
separation broadens and deepens, until
what was a crevice becomes yawning
chasm, which few have the strength or
courage to leap. If they would but
stretch their yearning arms across,
wounded faith, broken affection, bruised
tenderness could pass over the natural
bridge and be made whole once more
by receiving back what had been their
own, and must soon again be naturally
possessed. But companionship OF the
married is only portion of that which
is needful. Were there more compan-
ionship preceding marriage, there would
be less disharmony and misconception
after it. How can men and women,
who have been sedulously kept apart
during early years, expect to dwell IN
concord and happiness in their maturi-
ty? Where is the miracle that can
convert ignorance into understanding,
and strangeness into sympathy They
whose destiny is common, whose histo-
ry is written in the same chapters
whose veal and woe are inseparabie'
should be reared together; 80 tar as
practicable, measured and counterbal-
anced one with the other. The segre-
cation Of the sexes is unnatural and un-
wholesome; has the faint OF monklsh
superstition, and yields too often nox,
ious fruit. What can be more absurd
and mischievous than our common MODE
of education AS soon as boys and
girl learn they are such, they are sepa,,
rated, as if they were wolves ana
lambs, and every effort is made by ped
agogy toward their mutual alienation.
Assidious training at school and at home
does what it can to render then enc
mics, and after long slumbering, the
old enemy often breaks ont IN connu6ial
relations, and refuses to be placated.
Nothing but the inherent and inextin-
guishablc attraction between man and
woman thwarts the purpose OF false dis
cipline and pernicious tuition. As the
bud opens to the sun, as the tides obey
the moon, we sentiment beings seek
our mates and recognize them by in
atipct J,tnius Heart BTopne.
Year: 1874

The senate entertained a variety of
bills. among them one looking to the
expectation of distilled spirits, and an
other to increase the pensions of soldiers
and sailors totally disabled. Senator
Anthony revealed some little imposi-
tions practiced in the printing depart
ment, by bills of private nature being
printed three Of four times, and wanted
if discontinued. The senate refused to
have the affairs of the pension office in
vestigated. The Territorial railway
company bill engaged the atten-
ton of the senate until the
hour of adjournment. The house begun
business on the mOiety bill, which was
discu- -sed until the expiration of the
morning hour, when the currency bill
WAS resumed, upon which the usual
amount of flash eloquence was ventils-
ted, until the excitement grew to fever
heat, when on motion the further con-
sideration of the bill was postponed till
Tuesday, when an effort viii be made to
pass the senate substitute. Most Of the
opponents of expansion voted against
the postpOnement.