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Year: 1874

The proper way to go fishing is to have a line and several hooks i'll your pocket. To wander out into the country quite by accident and because you have nothing else to do. To cut pole Tn the most convenient swamp or forest. To chance upon some worms and things, wrapping them up in paper which you happen to have in your pocket, or perhaps lncloslng them in the envelope received from your last sweetheart. To come by accident upon some stream famous for ordinary fish, and to make cast, meanwhile re- fecting as to how the thing was done when you were small boy who had run away from school, and who fully expected a thrashing on his return. To deposit the pole on the grass, or to ground it up- on rock, during the period necessary to replenish your pipe. To get bite and be astonished at it, at the same time won dering that the tingling of the fingers ends is not the electric shock that used to come when you fshed with a pin occa- sionally and were glorious at times over q real hook. To be supremely disgusted because the fish are all small. To be more disgusted at the discovery that the stream is much smaller than 1t used to be. and in fact pretty much dried up. To wander away rom thar stream over meau- ow and through forest to brook that was once famous for trout. To discover that the brook has lost it's speckled beauties in deference to chubs and other small fry. To drop the pole finally ands getting into the shade of the wood, to go to sleep Tn the midst of dream as to what has been and what is to be. To come home finally, tired but happy, and wondering how it is those little fellows, with their slender limbs and general weakness, can undergo all this travelling and not get tired of it. There is no red tape about this method of gong fishing. No anxious hours de voted to rods and lines, spoons and things. No extraordinary expense. No mile of preface, and small inch of experi- ence, and two miles of benedition. But after all it is very satisfactory. .-RochcS- ter Chronicle.
Year: 1874

A Decatur man tried to put his calf back in the lot. He had it tied with a rope, and the rope twisted around his wrists. His dog joined him in the at- tempt. His face had the appearance of having been sandpapered. He thinks of sending the calf out to pasture. The flu neral services of the dog were very impOs- ing.
Year: 1874

S Carnivorous animals have the
upper jaw projecting, while those Of a
gramnivorous nature have the lower
jaw projecting. In man with project
ing upper jaw will be found large de-
structiveness and love of animal food


when the lower jaw projects, then the
love for vegetable food. ip l'ii 'i'i
Year: 1874

In reality, these people tnat speak OF
live like paupers. They sleep on the
door the wear round, and often on the
kitchen floor at that. This last is con.
venient, as they can get up and put the
coffee over the spirit lamp, and retire
again until it: is prepared. Coffee is
taken in bed, Of course.


For the benefit of the girls'at home,
who may admire and envy this lady of
luxury that graciously asks you into
her boudoir at IL o'clock, declaring
she has just arisen, and invites you to
take coffee with her, l will tell you
something of her toilets, and the slngu-
lar way in which they change with the
hours of the day.


Madame goes to market as early as
possible. Nobody is out early in the
morning--that is to say. nobody before
whom she cares to keep up an appear
ance--and, as the market people always
measure a customer before setting
price. it is wise to go to the market
shabbily dressed, not only because no
one will see her, but as a matter of
economy. So the toilet Of the day is
not made until this duty is reformed.
In exchange for the great, airy bath
room, with its abundance Of hot and
cold water, and it's fresh, clean towels,
which Americans cannot do without,
Madame has, in little dark hole be-
tween the kitchen and her bedroom,
| A PINT OF WATER


in basin the size of fingcr-bowl. For
water is too precious commodity to be
used unless sparingly. 1t has to be car
ried from the street up five flights of
stairs; and servant must be paid five
cents an hour to do it. No further ar
guments than these are necessary with
Madame. With the aid Of dirty little
towel, for clothes must be washed away
from home-there is neither room nor
water to do it in these papier-mache
boxes lady will succeed in making
herself tery tidy. I have really began
to wonder if there is not such thing as
a dry wash. At 10 the coitfeur comes,
and Madame's hair is dressed, as,
my dear, you never think Of
having yours dressed, except it
be for a ball. If she chance to be a
little gray, the hair is powdered after it
has been arraigned in its intricate pufts,
braids, and frizzes. A coiffeur costs
but few sous, and this dressing Of the
hair is, l believe, the stronghold of
French women. I know that it made
a profound impression upon me.
shall never forget the feeling of 6atter-
ed vanity and unutterable gratitude
experienced when such a fine lady
invited us to make her house our home.
five could put up with their simplicity
and make ourselves comfortable in her
room, she would gladly move
into another apartment. All this
was to be granted because of the very ia.
vorable impression we have made upon
her. Itwould be so disagreeable for us
to move into an ordinary boarding
house; this should be like home to US.


FATAL DELUs1oN.


Home indeed! have my doubts if
there be many such things in Paris, ex-
cept where some Americans have made
their nest for few years. This matter
lof home, am coming to think, is purely
American. The English cannot make
one; they find such repose only in a
house which their ancestors have occu.
pied. An American will make a little
room home in single day.


A. w.
Year: 1874

Correspondence OF Tue N. i. lrlDune.j


LONG BRANCH, July l9.-The success
of the season here is already assured.
A few weeks ago, when the cottagers
were putting their houses in order, old
patrons of the hotels were quizzing the
landlords about prices, and suggesting
a reduction from those of last year.
The times were hard, they said, trade
dull, almost as many as last year going
to Europe to save expense, and unless
content with empty rooms the gushing
hotel keepers must lower their rates.
The latter we're not so sure about it.
Theirs were the pockets interested, and
they had theory of their own. New
cottages were building, the President
was coming as usual, and money had
been made since the panic. The class
that spend the summer at the Branch,
they concluded, would crowd their
houses this season. Terms, therefore.
for the most part, held their own, and
now the boats from New York
are as heavily loaded as ever,
and last Sunday the crowd
outnumbered that of the corresponding
Sunday of 1873. Many went to the
races at Monmouth Park on Saturday,
and many remained at the Branch over
Sunday, while hundreds besides the
regular guests sought relief from the
discomforts of the city for a single day.
To imagine that any one comes to a
Long Branch hotel for rest or retirement
would be a most singular conception.
Such pretense is seldom made. In,
general, people come here as they would
70 in winter to continuous Academy
ball-with intermissions of daylight
for sleep and dress. There is a varia-
ton in the hours, to be sure, but only
such as the fashion makes. Those who
do the proper thing, sleep later than in
the city, but they dress oftener, and, if
anything, with greater at
tempt at display. What
wonder that many sensible
New Workers seek the remote resorts.
such as Rye Beach, the Isle of Shoals,
and Mount Desert, where they can do
IS they please, without diamonds and
in ignorance Of the latest fashions:
am not saying that there is no enjoy
ment here. A few there are who make
the best of their surroundings, bathe,
romp, dress naturally, and are inde-
pendent; and Of course everybody
drives out every day, for, thanks to
Gen. Grant, or some one else, this is
fashionable. Then there is dancing,
evenings, at the hotels, for which good
music is furnished. The preparations
N the shape of toilets are very elabor-
ate, and occasionally betray signs Of
good taste. Certainly there is no lack
Of richness and expense, and what other
considerations are requisite At Long
Branch? Where these are possible, it
is, fortunately, not essential that there
should be any remarkable degree Of
beauty intermingled. 49,.


ACCOMMODATIONS.


Whoever comes to Long Branch ex-
poets to pay for it, and in this respect
he is not disappointed; nor does he have
his heart set upon anything extravagant
in the way of apartment, while he is de-
termined to be content with whatever
the poor landlord can afford him at the
table at pittance of $5 per day. He
has the good fortune to get room with
= window, and large enough for wash
stand, bureau, bed and chair, all well
tested bv use. A candle 9ives the hest
Year: 1874

It does not follow that because it is
profitable to make the greatest weight
of carcass for the butcher at ten
months, that it is also profitable to
breeA from either sex at so early an
age. we are aware that some excel
lent Seeders advise that the SOW
should ave her first litter at twelve
month ; but eight months is too
You for the SOW to have acquired the
proper maturity to be coupled with the


boar, and the pigs in many such cases


are weak and puny. Nothing is really


gained by coupling before the SOW is


ten to twelve months old. The pigs


will be much more valuable under the


latter plan.


Ne believe that too early breeding


reduces the number of healthy pigs


reared, more than all the gain in time
is worth. From several reports we have
received from large breeders, four per
safiy breeding, while If the SOW is al
lowed further to mature, six would be
the average in breeding upon a large
scale. There is no doubt that the at
tention given to high feeding and early
maturity during the last few years has
rendered the SOW fit to breed earlier
than formerly, but there is danger of
carrying this too far and thus weaken
ing the constitution.


If SOW shows herself good breeder,
1t is economy to keep her several years
as breeder, for the extra number of
pigs she will rear will pay for the extra |
feed. Great care should be used not To |
give the sol while in pig, too much
'oncentrat p food. The principal brood
IS farrowa in spring, and consequently
he SOW kept in doors during the win
er, and she is too often fed almost
Fholly on grain, which is apt to keep
Ter IN feverish and badly eonstipated
ondition.s This often causes the
igs to be but poorly developed and too
uny to rear. She should be fed. as a
art of diet, upon roots-tu nips, beets.
arrots-or other green and laxative food
hen obtainab e, or, in lieu of these.
pom second crop clover cut green, or !
pom nicely cured aftermath of timothy {
other fine grass, with her grain.
This is best if cut short and mixed -
1all quantity with the meal and gra
1T If none of these coarse foods a
nd, then take bran and very Il


meal, and mix all into slop w
2 grain to be fed. This will keep the
wells of the breeding SOW in nearly IL,
same condition as on grass. This I
Year: 1874

NANTUCKET GOLDFISH. the thick
part out of a firm, white, dried Goldfish,
and soak it over night, then cut it into
very small pieces, and parboil for few
minutes, changing the water until the
fish remains but slightly salted. Drain
off the water, leaving the fish in the
saucepan. Pour over it little more
milk than will cover it; when it becomes
heated, add little butter and pepper,
thicken with flour stirred smooth in
milk. Stir constantly for a few min
utes
Year: 1874

CHEAP SPoNGR- CAKE PUDDING.
three small sponge-cakes in little milk,
and mix them with the juice and grated
rind of a lemon, piece of butter, a
very little loaf sugar and one egg. Beat
altogether, and bake half an hour in q
quick oven.
Year: 1874

IF we can benefit the reAers of this
paper any by recommending Ahrsons' Purga-
tive Pills to be the best antiEilous medicine
in the country, we are willing to do so. We
have had about good a chance to know as
any one


THE Elmwood and Warwick collars
are unsurpassed for quality Of stock, neatness
OF tit. and beauty of style. This is acknowl-
edged by all that wear them.
Year: 1874

To CURE HAMs.-Take the hams as


soon as the pig is cold enough to be cut


up, rub them with common salt. and
leave them for three days to drain:
throw away the brine, and for couple
OF hams, of from fifteen to eighteen
pounds weight, mix together two
ounces saltpeter, and a pound of coarse
sugar, and one pound common salt.
Rub the hams well with this in eyery |
part, lay them in the pans rhine down
ward, and keep them for three days well |
covered with the mixture. Pour over
them . bottle of good vinegar (about
three pints), end turn and baste them
daily for lonth. Drain them we'll
rub them with bran, and let them be
smoked for month. This method =
best suited for large hams.
Year: 1874

CARD REcEIvER.-No. 2. From the
card board in any fanciful shape and
with a brush spread thick paste OF
gum arabic over the receiver, and sprin-
kIe rice thickly over it and leave it to
dry. In the meantime put a parcel OF
red sealing-wax in alcohol, to dissolve,
which will take twenty-foGr hours, then
put this solution smoothly over the re-
ceiver and the rice on it, and it will be
a good imitation of coral.
Year: 1874

BARLEY SUGAR.-Dissolve one and a
half pounds of loaf sugar in half pint
of water, with the white of half an
egg when it is at candy height add
teacupful of strained lemon juice, and
boil it quickly till it RECEIVERS its former
state pour it over marble slab, and
when it becomes stiff, cut it in strips
and twist it.
Year: 1874

We had apleassnt call yesterday from
DAVID MoRsAN, Esq, Of Irondsle, Ohio
near WellsVille, proprietor Of the Morgan
furnace and rolling mill at that point, and
also one Of the owners Of the Republic
and Spur Mountain iron. ore mines at Lake
Superior. Mr.. MORGAN tells us that the
statement published in our columns yes.
terday from the Marquette Journal in re.
gard to the shipments Of ore this season
as compared with last, showing a falling
of Of some 40 per cent, Is substantially
correct Many Of the mines are entirely
idle this summer, and others are only
working partial force. The policy of
the ore companies seems to bo TO hold


their product rather than sell It at
figures 10 correspond with the present
price Of pig iron. Besides their inability
TO mine their ore proftably at such a
price, they reason that q concession of
the kind on their part would simply be
followed by farther reduction in the
present low price oil pig iron, and there
fore would result in no good, but injury,
to all parties concerned, by breaking down
prices toa ruinouS point from which It
might not easily rally, The market is now
undergoing q natural adjustment such


furnaces as can not make iron a, prices
10 justify them in remaining In blast are
Year: 1874

PoRTaMoUTH, July 1.-THE steamer
Ambassador having arrived, arrange.
mens are complete for laying the shore
end Of the cable. The Faradsy is moored
in the lower harbor while the Ambasss.
dor Is lying in shore of Rye Beach. It is
hoped that all will be finished SO that
both vessels can sail for Far Bay Wednes.
day evening. The cable ior the beach Is
being taken of tho Ambassador in
launches, and tits hoped It may be brought
ashore and laid before morning,
when guns will be fred to announce the
connection. Operative instruments have
been set up in a private house near
straW's Point George Straw and several
distinguished men are at the point. Bon
fires are burning on the shore, rockets
arc being sent up from tho Ambassadors
and private residences, and the scene this
evening at Slraw's Point Is one Of great
commotion and interest.
Year: 1874

gradually blowing out On the other


hand, those that have rolling mills at.
tached to them, the product Of which Is
in demand, will continue iu operations
and thus prices will at last adjust them
selves according to the law Of supply and
demand,
Year: 1874

AS to the wretch who SO well deserved the
halter, tradition says that he was not hung,
but released, after considerable period of inn
prisOnmeDt, at the earnest entreaties Of q
young and beautiful daughter. As his act
was merely planned aud premeditated. bur not
accomplished, probably it was Thought that the
severest penalty of the law could not justly
be inflicted. And, while Washington was i'm
flexible in everything where the good of the
country was imperilled, ne was. like all truly
great and noble souls, rather disposed, where
merely his own personal wrongs were con>
cerned, to err on the side of Mercy than of
Justice.
Year: 1874

All over tue city Tie oyster saloons are scattered
wards nave their appropriate oyster houses, and
along the river fronts the hardy. blackened sons
simple tables and tpe ineleeant series OF bottles
q condlmehts which are always ASSOCIATED WITH
tns Setoaps p0nS os soss s y
unusual to find the oyster saloon and barroom one
and the same establishment, and In this double


% ans % ne %
words regular 'gin-swillers," carefully avoid
bar with an oyster saloon attached. Ir Is estl-
mated that there at least 1000 oyster saloons
proper In the city, all doing thriving business.
Il requires but 2 small capital TO embark In this
profits good, the NUMBER OF these saloons has
largely increased during recent years.


THE IMMENSE TRADE.


Along the East River, In the neiRhborhood OF
BrOome street, there are eighteen large wholesale
establishments and on the North River there are
great bulk OF the oyster trade In New York. In
the busy season the river in front OF the offices OF
these wholesale dealers swarms with schooners
ana boats laden with oysters. on the East River
sixty boats may be seen In single day waiting to
be unloaded, while on the North River, where the
many as $50 boats, including some schoop-
ers have been counted. Besides these larRe
an,a amount l OF business Is done with Independent
the large wholesale houses. A HERALD reporter en-
deavored to ind some wholesale dealer who would
done In this city, but failed to ind one who would
say more than That the trade was really enormous,
and the number OF men altogether employed out.
side and In the city, In the business OF supply was
beyond his counting to anything like a reasonable
estimate. 1t would be safe to say, said one
gentleman, that 100000 men make o livelihood
out OF the oyster trade, but the business
is not confined to New York alone. The export to
the West Is about equal to the consumption In this
city. Chicago does great oyster business, and
the trade with the West Is increasing In proper
tlon as the population increases there. From
baltimore, also. large supplies are sent to the
west Tne oyster trade from Virginia Is immense
IN the winter months, fully 100 sail of vessels
ing into our rivers for the oyster market Tho
growing proportions or the business cannot be ac-
Hpraten measured. bnt that II u yearly extending
Year: 1874

the legal prosecution sre said to be
greater than the wostk Of The prines
pal estate IN litigation. The mana.
gers OF one OF tho estates refuse to
contribute their proportion Of the
costs, rs they were not parties to the
SUIT. So II is reported new suit to be
commenced to make them pay their
proportionate share. It is thought
that the expenses OF the suit will swal.
low up all the property. Every one
else has lest, but tho lawyers have
made good thing out Of the case.
Year: 1874




A rumot, has been in circulation for
some days past that, Gov. Ponder con-
templates pardoning I. G. West, the
hero Of the Dover Turner tragedy. For
the credit Of the State and the Governor
himself we earnestly hope this report is
sincerrect. io West escaped the more Sc
we're punishment for the crime Of MUIR
der, and Ills sentence for the crime Of
arson was assuredly sufficiently light to
make the exercise Of Executive clemsn-
~ in his behalf entirely unnecessary.
If popular sympathy on account Of his
supposed alteration Of mind secured for
him an escape from Punishment for his
greater crime of murder, no excuse
should BE- drawn therefron for interfer-
ing with the punishment inflicted upon
him for the lesser crime Of which he
was convicted.
Year: 1874

If we seem to dwell at too great
length ON the subject of the best mode
of selecting candidates for county and
State offices, we have no better apology
to offer than the deep interest We feel
in the honest and economical admins
tration of the peoples government.
After weighing all the plans that have
been offered, we see no other solution
of the problem, so far at least as re-
CARDS county officers, but the exercise
by the voters of their right to choose
their own agents. If it is their inten-
ton to get rid Of middlemen in politics,
as well as trade, they must do so by the
the same means-organization. With
out banding together, as in Oranges,
they fall as far short of harmony in
spirit or action as if they had no inter
ests In common, and no common pur-
pose to subserve. To bring about any
such desirable reforms as those contem-
plated by the Grangers, they must be-
gin the work by selecting honest and
competent agents for every department
Of the government. whether State or
Federal.-ClGrksUiUe Chronicle.
Year: 1874

The correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, at Chattanooga, is slight
ly mistaken in his opinion that there
will be a union of the Radicals and those
who supported Mr.. johnson in his race
for Congress, and that the combination
will sweep the State from Carter to
Shelby. In the first place, not even
the leadiag men who supported Mr..
johnson will enter into such a union;
and in the second place, if they did,
the great body of the rank and file of
those who followed them before, would
utterly refuse to follow them into the
unholy alliance. We know that there
is a lot of intriguers at work to effect
such union upon the basis, perhaps,
of sending Mr.. johnson to the United
States Senate, and of electing May
nard Governor. But we firmly believe
tho people will effectually squelch this
nefarious game, and send its secret
machinators to an everlasting obscurity
and contempt GaIIatin TeaReSSedn.
Year: 1874

AMONG theeuriousrevelations brought
TO light by the death of Charles Sumner
was the fact that he had declined the
place of Chief Justice, when Taney died.
Mr.. Lincoln made him the offer Of the
place in the following terms:


The vacant Chief Justiceship is
placed at your disposal. A LINCOLN. "


Mr.. Sumner declined the honor, say
ing 10 friend at the time:


There was a time when this Office
would have been the realized dream Of
my youth; but now it must mott can
not be. The breach between Mr.. Chase
and the President is growing wider and
wider, and this VIII eloseit. Nopersonal
sacrifice IS too great, nor can anything
tempt me to desert my post. The Re
publican party must remainintaet until
its mission is fulfilled
Year: 1874

Some really good and intelligent pee
pie in our midst are considerably exer-
cised because they fear the Changers
secretly intend to take a hand in the
politics of the country. We assure
these gentlemen that they need not
trouble themselves about this matter.
The part that the Grangers Will take in
the politics of the day will be taken as
common citizens of common country.
and openly. Each one will follow his
individual convictions of duty, and
vote for such men and for such meas.
ures as he thinks will best subserve the
interests of the country and promote
its progress. This they have an indis.
putable right to do, and this it is their
solemn duty to do as freemen and citi-
zens. Who would have them GO less or
otherwise?-GaILatin TenaesseeaR.