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Year: 1877

BEEF ExrRAcr.-Take pound of good juicy beef, from which all the skin and fat has been cut away, chop it up like sausage-meat; mix it thor oughly with pint of cold water, place it on the side of the stove to heat very slowly, and give an occasional stir. It may stand two or three hours before it is allowed to simmer, and will then re- quire but fifteen minutes of gentle boil ing. Salt should be added when the boiling first commences, and this, for invalids, in general, is the only season. ing required. When the extract is thus far prepared, it may be poured from the meat into basin, and allowed to stand until any particles of fat on the surface can be skinned off, and the sediment has subsided and left the soup quite clear, when it may be poured off gently, heated in a clean saucepan, and served. The scum should be we'll cleared as it accumulates.
Year: 1877

IRoN1NG.-To iron smoothly, purchase few cents worth of beeswax and rub it over the leaves ofa thin pamphlet which have been heated through with the flat-iron. Keep it with the ironing sheet and blanket, and when the flat irons are to be used rub them over the waxed surface; then wipe gently on a soft cloth. Shirt bosoms can be easily ironed in this manner. e-S
Year: 1877

The novel uses to which paper has been put of late years as a substitute for wood, iron, cloth etc., have not ex- hausted the directions in which-iU may be made servicable to mankind. It is reported from England that an officer of the royal navy has obtained a patent for sheathing iron vessels with paper to protect them from corrosion and the gathering on them of sea grasses and barnacles. It is said that paper was used on the bottom of vessel in the dock at Portsmouth for some other purpose, and that the officer obtained his patent because on the return of the vessel to the dock, after voyage, he discovered that every part of the vessel below the water line was covered with weeds, grasses and barnacles except the papered portion. He has since ex- perimented with paper as protector of ships bottoms, and finds that when cement or waterproof paper is used, it is the best and cheapest material for protecting iron.
Year: 1877

To mako the best varnish for var nishing a drawing made in India ink with heavy lines and parts, which have been tinted with various colors. Put a drop or two of acetic acid in the ink j; and when the drawing is dry, varnish with mastic yarnish,
Year: 1877

A GOOD wagon costs 8 considerable sum and it should be taken proper care of and made to last as long as possible. Few persons understand the importance of thoroughly lubricating the axles, etc., of wagons and carriages and still fewer know which are the most suitable lubri- cators to use, and the proper way of ap- plying them. A well made wheel will endure ordinary wear from ten to twenty five years, if care is taken to use the right amount of the proper lubrica- tor, but if this matter is not attended to, a wheel will be used up in five or six years. Lard should never be used on a wagon, for it will penetrate the hub and work itself out all around the tenons of the spokes and spoil the wheel. Tal- low is the best lubricator, for wooden axle-trees and castor oil for iron.
Year: 1877

STACKING AND FEEDING.-W. Doyle, of Gratiot, Wisconsin, writes giving his method of caring for straw:

 Straw with us is the principle article of food for cattle in winter, and it be- comes necessary as matter of economy to make the most of it.

 s As the thrashing season comes some time before we feed, the straw should be well stacked and picked up, as in the case of hay, and good fence built about it for it's preservation. Many farmers allow swine to get at the straw stack. This is a miserable practice, for the straw is wasted and made unw hoiesome for winter use. I feed it out with a great deal of care, as would hay, and thus utilize it all
Year: 1877

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON PLANTS An English agricultural paper says it has been proved that the seeds of certain plants, if gathered in one climate and sown in another, will germinate earlier or later and with more or less vigor, according as the new climate is colder or warmer than the old, and that a diff ference of few degrees only in latitude will produce these results. For exam pie, wheat from Scotland sown in the south of England will germinate and ripen much earlier than wheat of ex- actly similar quality gathered in the south and planted in the same latitude in which it was grown. This fact is of the utmost importance to agricultur- alists. To secure early growing grain crops it is only necessary to take care that the seed is gathered in a colder eli mate than that in which it is to be sown. The same thing is noticeable among other plants, and florists and horticul- turalists might take advantage of this circumstance to produce both earlier and stronger plants than they do now, without the appliances of forcing.
Year: 1877

The distance apart of the rivets used to connect two pieces of metal plate to- gether is regulated by the rule that the joint sectional area of the rivets shall be equal to the sectional area of plate left after punching the rivet holes.- RnnEine
Year: 1877

CURE FOR FELoNs.-We have had a case of felon in our family lately, and treated it successfully by 'steaming the whole hand with bitter herbs. It was allowed to progress, through ignorance, until badly swollen, exquisitely pain full, and of livid purple color. Being in the palm of the hand it involved the whole hand and wrist in theswelling. A handful each of tanzy, hops, catnip, and wormwood was thrown in an old basin, small quantity of tobacco and half teacupful of soft soap added, and sufficient water to cover. When boiling hot, the hand was placed over the steam, and a small blanket was thrown over the basin to retain the steam which was applied until the mixture cooled. This was repeated day and night until the pain was entirely removed, which was in forty. eight hours. The relief from the paroxysms of pain is almost magical as soon as the steam is applied.

 The mixture was only once renewed. Between the applications of steam, a poultice of soft soap, thickened with slippery elm flour, was applied, but | think it was unnecessary. After using for day the hand was submitted to a physician, who thought it should be l less than week, but the next day the pain took it's final leave. No anodyne was used to procure sleep, as the steam ing instantly relieved the pain until the next attack.

 | CLEANSING FEATHERS OF THEIR AMI NAL OIL.-The following receipt gained premium from the Society of Arts Take for every gallon of clean water one pound of quicklime, mix them well together, and when the undissolved lime is precipitated in fine powder pou1 off the clean lime water for use.s Put feathers to be cleaned into another tub and add to them quantity of clean lime water, sufficient to cover them about three inches, when well immersed and stirred about therein. The feathers when thoroughly moistened. will sinl down, and should remain in the lime water three or four days; after which the foul liquor should be separated iron them, by laying them in sieve. The feathers should be afterwards wei washed in clean water, and dried upor nets, the meshes of which may be abou the fineness of cabbage-nets. The feathers must, from time to time, bt shaken on the nets, and as they get drt will fall through the meshes, and ar' to be collected for use. The admission of air will be serviceable in drying The process will be completed in thre' weeks; and after being thus prepared the feathers will only require to b. beaten to get rid of the dust. a.l5 e t.!
Year: 1877

The New York World prints facsimile
OF an interesting memorandum in Jefferson's
handwriting suggesting provisions of bill to
regulate the decision of disputed presidential
elections, and probably prepared in 1900,
when the question was up in Congress. It
proposes that the certificate of the executive
of any state shall be conclusive evidence that
the requisite number of votes has been given
for each elector named by him as such, and
further suggests that "whenever the vote of
one or more of the electors of any state shall
Tor any Cause whatever be adjudged invalid,
it shall be lawful for the senators and repre-
sentatives of the said state, either in the
presence of the two houses or separately and
Withdrawn from them, to decide by their own
votes to which of the persons voted for by
any of the electors of their state Tor to what
person. the invalid vote or votes shall be
given; for which purpose they shall be al
lowed the term of one hour and no longer,
during which no other certificate shall be
offered or proceeded on"
Year: 1877

Inc Honorable Samuel j. Randall appears
10 nave become thoroughly alarmed at the
lntrlgues in connection with the Speakership
OF the new House and has hastened to outbid
MS rivals by committing himself unreservedly
70 the furtherance of the raids projected upon
the national treasury by the Southern lead
ers and by the Texas Pacific men. At first
MIR. Randall was, in words at least, opposed
10 the schemes of internal improvement
through which the South hopes to enrich it.
self at the expense of the whole nation. Soon
however, finding that the real leaders of the
party would tolerate no opposition to their
new policy, and would unhesitatingly throw
MIN overheard should he persist in his course,
ne assumed position of mild neutrality
and talked in generalities which had
not even the: merit of glitter about
the necessity of developing by judicious legis-
iatlon the industrial resources of the South.
This non-committal attitude did not prove
satisfactory to his determined allies and he
has been compelled to publicly announce him
self in favor of all the jobs which Lamar and
his following will press upon the attention of
Congress next winter.


Mr. Kandalps surrender is very significant.
1t means that the Northern Democrats have
yielded to the pressure brought upon them
py their Southern allies, have abandoned the
last but one of the old party dogmas state
rights being still adhered to - and have
adopted in its entirety the Whig scheme of
internal improvements. The old line Whig,
at whose appearance we have all scoffed, will
nave seat in the next Congress, and will do
much toward debating the legislation of that
body. The South will be nearly solid for the
Texas Pacific subsidy and like schemes, the
majority of Northern Democratic members
will do as the South requests, and the advo-
Gates of railroad subsidies will thus come
within few votes of controlling both houses
at the start. There is danger that the few
votes needed may be given by Republicans
who in their anxiety to conciiate
the South are ready to work and
vote against the best interests of the
North and the Nation. Such a course
would be suicidal, but in the blindness of
their new zeal the men who are so anxious
Tor reconciliation that they are willing to
bribe the South with land grants and money
subsidies, fail to perceive the drift of their
policy. They can only be deferred from their
unwise course by strong expression of pop
ular opposition. Here in Maine the Repub-
licans have given an unmistakable expression
OF opinion while the Democracy hold an
ominous silence. Let the people Of the state
see to it that this declaration against land
grants is endorsed by strong popular ma
Jority, for unless we show, here and else
where, that the nation is strongly opposed to
these subsidy schemes the raid upon the
Treasury will certainly succeed.
Year: 1877

The great wall of China was measured in
many places by Mr.. Unthank, an American
engineer, lately engaged on survey for a
Chinese railway. His measurements give
the height at IS feet, and width on top of
10 feet. Every few hundred yards there is a
tower "a feet square, and from twenty to 45
feet high. The foundation of the wall is Of
solid granite. Mr.. Unthank brought with
him brick from the wall, which is supposed
to have been made 200 years before the time
OF Christ. In building this immense stone
fence to keep out the Tartars, the builders
never attempted to avoid mountains or
chasms to save expense. For 1900 miles the
wall goes over plain and mountain, and every
foot of the foundation is in solid granite, aud
the rest of the structure in solid masonry.
In some places the wall is built smooth up
against the bank, or canons, or precipices,
where there is sheer descent of 1000 feet.
Small streams are arched over, but in the
larger streams the wall runs to the waters s
edge, and tower Is built on each side. On
the top Of the wall there are breastworks or
defenses, facing in and out, so the defending
force can pass from one tower to the other
without being exposed to any enemy from
either side. To calculate the time of bnild.
ing or the cost of this wall is beyond human
skill. So far as the magnitude of the work
is concerned, 1t surpasses anything in ancient
or modern times of which there is any trace.
The pyramids of Egypt are nothing COM
pared to it.
Year: 1877

we 10 not read anonymous letters and communi
cations' The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or reserve eommu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1877

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS IS furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Journal
Year: 1877

The Thibodaux Sentinel fires an
other solid shot at the bayou ques-
ton:


One of the citizens of Thibodaux
lately had conversation with mem
Der of the Levee Board and inquired
the object that Board had in desiring
to close up Bayou Lafourche at Don
aldsonville, and was answered that it
Was less expensive to keep up levee
for 800 yards than it was to maintain
levee for $50 miles. Amy ordinary
fool could make such calculation as
that and not strain his brain pan
either. A section of country that can
raise and ship SlO,0O0,000 worth of
products and requires from five to
eight million dollars worth of return
merchandise annually, must have its
navigation cut off, and be shut out
from the commerce of the world be-
cause 300 yards is less than $50 miles.


The West Baton Rouge Sugar Plan
ter also has something more TO say
upou the same subject:


The Donaldsonville CHIEF does not
agree with us that there is some ras-
cality in the project to close the Bayou
Lafourche. We are not iufalliabienor
have we any claims that way, but it
does seem little strange that a prop
osition to close is all at once forced
upon the people when the only par
ties to be benefited by the move are
the gentlemen composing the railroad
company. The good planters on the
banks of that bayou have contented
themselves with such conyeniences
and benefits as their water privileges
conferred without expressing the wish
for a change, when, presto railroad
company sees an eye to business in
closing the bayou and stiaightway the
machinery is put to work, commenc-
ing in Washington. Success or failure
is yet to be determined. We did not
wish in any manner to convey the
impression that DR.. Darrall was en-
gagged in a rascafly transaction or that
| he would countenance any thing of
the kind, but believe that he has been
made catspaw without his knowl-
edge. Besides, objections may be
made by planters living above Bayou
Lafourche to having !. larger body of
water forced against their levees tlian
they are entitled to by the laws of
nature. Further, We are of opinion
that the bayou can not be legally
closed even by the United States gov
ernment because, as we stated before,
in the purchase of Louisiana from
France, all navigable bayous and run
ming streams were forever to be
opened to navigation. And one point
more: The outlet system has been
growing in favor for several years
past, after thoroughly testing the old
theory of confning the waters of the
river to its banks, from which has re-
suited so much disaster to the State
Year: 1877

it) you will excuse me this week if
my accounts from the seat of war re-
garding the May-Bennett duel are
somewhat meagre, but the fact is, that
the New York dailies have already so
completely and severely wounded and
ri1dled both participants in all avail
able parts of their persons that there
is no sound place left me to put in a
bullet. l did think of explaining to
you how the matter was finally set
tied by an appeal to swords, men,
tioning the fact, the head of "young
Jim was now on exhibition at the
medical museum in this city, but |
refrain. I was never cut out for an
editor.


And so James Gordon Bennett goes
to Europe, a fugitive from the laws
of his country. At least, judge that
is what is means by the sale of the
New York Herald to-day, to Ben But
ler. There is no doubt of this sale
being q genuine transaction, for 1
myself saw it consummated. The
price paid was three cents -he bought
it at news stand in this city.


SENTINEL.
Year: 1877




Snow is all very well when you
have logs to haul, or when you want
to osleighride, but in the narrow streets
of New York, is nuisance, pure and
simple. The street-cars are running
only half the number of cars at the
very time when the capacity for carry
ing ought to be doubled, and the
streets are so blockaded as to make
trucks superauons. The consequence
is terrible interruption of trade.
The terminal facilities of New York
are wretched at best, and very
heavy proportion of the produce con-
signed to this market has to be hand
led by trucks. Now that trucking is
Year: 1877

Gen. Pleasonton's blue glass theory is
assailed by the Scientific American. His
idea that electricity is generated by the pas
sage of light through glass is declared to be
absurd Nor have the colOred rays any ben
efcial effect on life, the reverse rather being
the truth, as pure, white light is best
The only good that can possibly come OF blue
glass is in its use as q shade for decreasing
the intensity of solar light.
Year: 1877

At the Columbus depot, on Thursday,
while awaiting the departure OF the train
which was to bear him to Washington, and
in obedience to calls from the vast crowd in
attendance, Gov. Hayes spoke as follows:


"My Fellow Citizens: appear to say
few words in bidding goodbye to you.
understand very we'll the uncertainty of pub


lie affairs at Washington. understand very
we'll that possibly next week l may be with
you agaiu to resume my place in the Cover
ernOrs Office and as your fellow>citizen, but
| also understand that it is my duty to be at
Washington prepared to assume another posi-
tion, higher and moro responsible, and with
more difficult duties.


Il have thought as I looked upon this
great audience, and as to-day gazed on the
people who thronged our route. to this depot,
of a similar occurrence sixteen years ago.
4 little less than sixteen years ago l marched
down High street with thousand men to
pass to the East ard the South to do what we
could to restore the Union Of the States and
to re>estsblish the authority of the constitu-
ton. TCheers.l In that work We were en-
iuentIy successful so far as it was possible to
be successful by force of arms. l am not
hero to say word in dioparagement of what
was accomplished by the brave men who
went out with me from different parts of the
country. OF my comrades one-third never
returned to their homes. They persisted in
the discharge of their duty that the republic
might live. But there was something force
could not do. We would have our Union to
be union of hearts I'VE would have our con>
stitution obeyed not merely because Of force
that compels obedience, but obeyed because
the people love the principles Of the constitu-
tion. Long continued appIause.1


"Aud to-day, if l am called to the work
to which Abraham Lincoln was called sixteen
years ago, it is under brighter skies and more
favorable auspices. lApplause ] do hope.
do fervcntly believe that by the aid of Di-
vine Providence we may do something in this
day of peace by works of peace towards re-
establishing in the hearts of our countrymen
a real, hearty attachment to the constitution
as it is and to the Union as it is" Long
continued applause. which was only stopped
by the approach Of a locomotive. which moved
slowly down to take the car away.l
Year: 1877

From the London News.


The great wall of China was measur-
ed in many places by Mr.. Unthank, an
American engineer, lately engaged on a
survey for Chinese railway. His
mcasurment gives the height at eighteen
feet, and width on top of fifteen feet.
Every few hundred yards there is "a
tower twenty-four feet square, and from
twenty to forty feet high, The founda-
ton of the wall is of solid granite. Mr..
Unthank brought with him brick from
the wall, which is supposed to have been
made 200 years before the time of Christ.
In building this immense stone fence to
keep out the Tartars the builders never
attempted to avoid mountains or chasms
to save expense. For 1900 miles the
wall goes over plain and mountain, and
every foot of the foundation is in solid
granite, and the rest of the structure is
solid masonry. In some places the wall
is built smooth up against the bank, or
canons, or precipices, where there is a
sheer descent of 1000 feet. Small
streams are archcd over, but in the
larger streams the wall runs to the wa
ter's edge and tower is built on each
side. On the top of the wall there are
breast works, or dofcnccs, facing in and
out, so the defending force can pass
from one tower to another without be-
ing exposed to an enemy from either
side. TO calculate the time building OF
cost of this wall is beyond human skill.
So far as the magnitude of this work is
concerned it surpassos everything in an
cient or modern times of which there is
any trace. The pyramids of Egypt arc
nothing compared to it.
Year: 1877

The Burlington (Vt,) Free Press Of
Tuesday says: an one of the mines oi
the Grown Point Iron Company, the
other day, an explosion occurred by
which a man named Burt lost one hand
and one eye and had his skull fractured
Burt had been deaf and dumb from in
fancy and had married deaf mute fol
wife. He survived his injuries, and
curious to relate, the accident restored
his hearing and he is now learning tc
talk and making eommendable progress
We get this from the Treasurer of the
company"
Year: 1877

From the London telegraph


Last night there was great shooting
in the camp, and hear several cores
pondents who are now at Eski Saghn
thought it was JOY ut the occupation of
Tirnova by the Turks. TWAS, however,
only n renewal of the custom the troops
had got into in Montenegro OF shouting
to each other. This custom the Marshal
Mehemet Ali is very partial to, MS he
says it conduces greatly toward the keep
ing up of good spirits among the men.
He told us that often in Montenegro,
when it was wet and cold, and the men
were all huddled together and getting
into very low spirits, this shouting was
set going, and one battalion shouting to
another along the sides of the hills, to-
gether with their rc-cchoing sounds,
made such a noise that it could be heard
for miles, and had the double effect of
raising the mems spirits by breaking the
monotony of their unpleasant state, and
also somewhat damped the ardor of any
enemy who might be in hearing, and
who naturally formed an exaggerated
idea of their numbers. In the camp
here there is very little going on. Posts
and outposts go ont as usual, and drill
goes on. 1 saw the same men dancing
this evening, but in slow and solemn
manner, as bcfitting the Turks, Some
thirty formed in a line, the end files
having handkerchiefs in their hands.
They then join hands and began singing
some kind of country song. The dance
itself consisted of moving three steps to
the right, and then doing balance move
ment on one foot, during which time the
end files waved their handkerchiofs; ;
then another three steps, and de MORO
AS they came round they gradually
made up circle; this formed, they
stopped, after being at it for about
twenty minutes Mehemet Ali is very
full of the bridge he has ordered to be
built at Silistria Hewould like to make
even II small reconnaissance in the
cnemy's country, and treat them to a
little of what they have given us here in
the way of burningvillay and so on.