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Year: 1877

How many people are there who really
know how to make a mustard plaster7 7
Not one in hundred at the most, per-
haps, and yet mustard plasters are used
in every family, and physiciansprescribe
the application. The ordinary way is to
mix the mustard with water, tempering
it with a little -four; such plaster
as this makes is simply abominable.
Before it has half done its work it begins
to blister the patient, and leaves him
finally with painful, hayed spot, after
producing far less effect in beneficial
way than was intended. Now, mus
tard plaster should never blister at all.
If blister is wanted, there are other
plasters far better than mustard plasters;
then, use no water, but mix the mustard
with the white of an egg, and the result
will be plaster which will draw" per-
fectly, but will not produce blister on
the skin of an infant, no matter how
! long it is allowed to remain on the part.
Year: 1877

State Assayer Hayes, of Massachusetts,,
publishes a warning against the use of
Paris green for the destruction of potato
bugs. He says that there is danger, in
the common mode of digging potatoes,
that the poisoned earth may adhere to
the tubers, and through lack of careful
washing before using, prove fatal. He
also speaks of the danger attending the
presence of poison in household.


In regard to these cautions Professor
Chandler, President of the Board of
Health, says: There is just as much
danger in having Paris green in house
as there is in having loaded revolver,
or any other deadly weapon. 1t does
not poison the potatoes, but it would i'm
pregnate with poison lettuce or salad
that is to be eaten raw, and therefore too
much care can not be taken in its use,
and every precaution should be taken to
prevent it being deposited by the wind
on other plants. The subject has been
discussed by the Board of Health, and
it has been decided that of the twoievils,
Paris green and potato bugs, the former
is the less, and therefore we have sent
out no warning against its use. We
have, however, strictly prohibited its
sale at retail in the city. do not con-
slider its use so dangerous but that the
unchecked ravages of the bug would be
infinitely more So"


The ordinary Paris or imperial green
which is used in the war against the
bugs, is scientifically an aceto arsenite of
copper. 1t is the same green commonly
supposed to be SO dangerous when used
in coloring wallpaper. In Watts's Chem
ical Dictionary this popular superstition
is treated as follows:


This compound is much used as pig
ment, on account Of its splendid green
color. A great deal of needless alarm
has lately been excited about the sup
posed deleterious effects of this pigment,
1t is extensively used for staining wall
papers, and persons inhabiting rooms
thus prepared are said to have had their
health seriously derangsd by the arsen-
ical fumes evolved from it. Now, it is
utterly impossible that arsenic should
volatilize from such compound at ordi-
nary temperatures. 1t does not decom-
pose at any temperature below redness.
The only way in which danger could
arise from the use of paper stained with
an arsenical color, is that particles Of the
compound might be brushed off in dust
ing the paper, and thus become mixed
with the air of the apartment; but it is
not in this way that the supposed acci-
dents are said to have occurred. The
panic has arisen from mistaken notion
as to the volatility of the arsenic. That
the use of the pigment is not really
dangerous, may be safely inferred from
the fact that no bad effects are expert
enced by the workmen engaged in its
manufacture.
Year: 1877

lie
With blush on cheek, she comes and goes;
watch her when she little knows;
Iwonder If she dreams of it.
Sitting and working at my rhymes,
weave into my verse at times
Her sunny hair, or CLEANS Of it.
Upon her window-ledge is set
A box Of towering mignonette
Morning and eve she tends to them
The ssnseless flowers, that do not care
About that loosoned strand Of hair,
As prettily she bends to them.


III.
If 1 could once contrive to get
Into that box of mignonette
Some morning when she tends to them
She comes I see the rich blood rise
4 From throat to cheek Down 60 the eyes
Demurely. as she bends to them.
Year: 1877




The insanity of DR.. J. @. Aver of Low
ell affords a terrible warning to adver-
tisers. He was man engaged in the
manufacture of pill, not differing from
a hundred other pills which may be
obtained at any drug store. In an un-
guarded moment he made up his mind
that he would advertise, not in the
picayune style of the common dealer,
but in a comprehensive sort of way, by
which he could reach every possible pur-
chaser of pills. He started with the idea
of devoting half of his profits each year
to advertising. The result might have
been foreseen. He accumulated money
so rapidly that he did not know what to
do with it. When he had rolled together
fifteen millions dollars and had vainly
striven to find some outlet to his ever
increasing profits, his mind gave way
under the absorbing cares of his vast
business, and he is now patient at an
asylum for the insane. How easily this
calamity might have been averted; If
he had stuck to the conservative methods
of many of our merchants and refrained
from advertising, he might have been
passing quietly through bankruptcy now
instead of being loaded down with his
uncounted millions. 1t is dangerous
experiment for man who does not want
to become rich to advertise. Or if he
advertises at all he must grudgingly
and at long intervals, lest his profits
should grow out of proportion to his re-
quirements, and he should find himself
burdened with wealth. Advertising,
conducted on the principle of devoting
half the profits of business to it, is, we
repeat, dangerous experiment. Itpre-
cipitates fortune upon the advertiser so
suddenly that the chances are even that
he will not know what to do with his
money. The multitudinous pleasures Of
bankruptcy, insolvency and shining
around" for the wherewithal to meet 8
note are permanently denied to the man
who advertises. There never was in
Europe or America great advertiser
who did not accumulate great fortune
Let those who desire to live unburdened
by the cares of wealth take warning.
Year: 1877

ADVICE TO Nervous PEoPLE.-Now,
from what ever cause or combination
of causes nervousness has been pro-
duced, if happiness aud health are TO
be restored, the causes must be remOv-
ed and the iniury they have caused
must be repaired. For in proportion
TO tie weakness OF mans system
and the enieeblement of his nerves,
will be the liability Of bis falling a
victim 10 other and more fatal mala-
dies and thus il is that every day we
find such diseases as bronchitis, con
sumption, Bright's disease, brain dis
ease, and insanity following at the
heels of nervousness. The indications
are four-fold a: First We remove the
cause, restore the tone of the beart,
improve the blood. All injurious
ha bits must be given mp; late hours
and intemperance in eating abandon
Ell smoking, if practiced stopped.
The food is most important. 1t mast
be abundant and wholesome-nPiiher
too much nor too little. II should not
be sloppy, and soups had better be
avoided as long as solid food can be
taken. Rise from the table feeling
you have had enough, but not op.
pressed with what you have eaten.
The bread should he stale, and no
very heating food taken. Eight hours
sleep should be taken every night if
possible This alone will nearly cure.
Take no narcotics TO make yon sleep.
A few raw oysters before bedtime are
worth all the narcotics 10 the world
are easily digested and furnish materi
al for restoring nervous tissue and
blood. If you wake zip in the middle
of the Eight, sometimes a small stale
biscuit eaten will send you of to sleep
again. A change of scene, air and
cheerful society, with sea bathing, are
excellent agents for caring nervous
ness. Avoid physic-it exhausts the
tone of the system, the very thing you
would restore. Above all, keep up a
good heart and firm reliance on the
great Author OF Efe.-Herdld oJ
Health.
Year: 1877

A KNoTTY Casa lively young
boar was recently sent by rail from
Cus,rain, to Frankfort on the Oder,
being shut up in wooden cage. Or
the journey he managed to get on: OF
the cage, and forthwith devoured 20
pounds of German yeast which haps
pened 10 be in the car. The yeast be
gan TO rise in the interior of the boar
and so enormous was the artificial in
fiation that the poor animal died in the
car. The Erdminer sums up the case
for the lawyers. Is the owner OF the
carcass to proceed against the owner
Of the yeast for the loss OF the bear,
or is the ex-proprIetor Of the yeas; to
proceed against The owner OF the pig
for the loss of bis merchandise ? The
railway company repudiates ell re-
sponsibility, and eminent counsel hold
that the claim of both parties lies
against the constructor CT the faulty
cage; but tie builder contends that
the cage was never calculated 10 with


stand the frantic efforts of pig which
had SO much yeast under his nose.
Year: 1877

DxIED BEEF FOR FAMILY UsE--A
lady saws in the WeStern Stock Jour
nal Take Of The best portion OF the
bind quarter of a beef a. many pounds
as YOU desire to cure. We have the
bul cher cut from the quarter por-
liou from ten 10 twelve inches long /;
take out the bone, and divide it length.
wise into pieces about six inches thick
following the LAYERS Of muscle as close
II as possible Then it is 10 such form
that When il is shaved for use one can
always cut across the grain, which
makes halt the difference in the enjoy
meut Of il. Prepare brine OF salt
and water in sufficient quantity TO
cover the beef; let the brine contain
as much sal; as The water will dis
solve. For ever twenty tve pounds
of beef take three pounds OF white su
gar and one half ounce of saltPeter.
dissolved in hot water, also dissolve
the sugar in hot water, and add both
to the brine Put in the meat, and
place sufficient weigh, upon II 10 keep
il under the brine. When il has been
in the brine nine or ten days take ii
ont, drain it well, fasten strings
through The smallest and poorest end
of each piece, and suspend them from
hooks 10 The cealing over the kitchen
stove. Do not let the pieces hang
near enough 10 each other TO touch.
Pm a piece of newspaper around each
one to keep off the dust. In eight or
ten days the smallest pieces will be
dried enough. Do not dry it as much
es you like it to be when eaten, for IL
viii dry out some after coming from
the hooks. When taken dowG sew
each piece in white cloth and paint II
all over thoroughly with the same
preparation that is used for painting
cheese. Ii these directions are tOllOw>
ed we will warrant the beef to keep,
providing You do not ca; 1t all, which
YOU will be tempted to do, for it is
very palaIable. If you like 1t smoked,
it can be hung in the smoke house
with the hams, or be hung in a barrel
and smosed with clean cobs placed In
an old Tin pan. Be sure not to let the
cobs blaze keep the barrel well COW
cred The smoking dries 1t at the
came time, so you have only to drain
i! after taking from the brine before
the placing in smoke. Beet tongues
can be prepared IN the same way As
the dried teef, if one likes them dried
but very nice plan is 10 have jan
of brine, prepared as above, and put
the tongues in it, weighing them down.
Keep them there unti! wanted for use
then taPe ont as many as needed, soak
in fresh water over night and boil -four
fours. Pickle the beef and tongue.
while the wa, er is cold. Ii is difficult
TO keep them from spelling if picked
in hot weather.
Year: 1877

SLEEP THE BE>r BRAIN SrMULANT.-
The best possible thing for a man 10
do when he feels too weak 10 carry
anything through, is to go to bed and
sleep as long as he can. This is The
only recuperation OF brain power, the
only actual recuperaiiob Of BRAIN
force because during sleep the brain
is in a stale of rest, in a condition TO
receive and appropriate PARTICLES of
nutriment from The blood, which take
the place of those which have been
consumed By previous labor, since the
very act Of thinking burns up solid
particles, as every turn of the wheel
or screw of the steamer Is the result
of consumption by fire of the fuel ID
the furnace. The supply OF consum-
ed brain substance can only be had
from the nutritive PARTICLES IN the
blood, which We're obtained from The
TODD eaten previously and the brain
is so constituted that it can best
receive and appropriate to itself those
nulritive PARTICLES during stale OF
rest, of quiet and stillnrss of sleep.
Mere stimulan,s supply nothing in
themselves, they goad the brain and
force i: TO greater consumption of lis
substance until it is so exhausted that
there is not power enough left to re-
ceive a supply.
Year: 1877

A DANBURy young man who was
once clerk, lately went on farm to
work. The first night il his new po
sition he was detailed TO remove a call
from the apartment of its parent to
another shed, and while engaged, as
thousands have been before him, ii
sh wing the contrary beast along, the
IN ther reached under the tails of his
coat with her horns, and suddenly
lifted him up against the root of The
building with force that threatened
to shatter every bone in his body
The first thing he did on returning tc
earth was 10 rub himself; the next
thing was TO throw up his place. He
said be didn't doubt that agriculture
was noble pursuit, and that the farm.
er needed an assistant in the discharge
OF his multilarious duties, but he didn't
believe that be was calculated fol-
making skylights in cowsheds.
Year: 1877

AMERICAN GIRLS IN GERMANY.-An
other curse whick follows the Amerl
can girl, is the suspicion that she Is al
ways rich, and the very fact that she
is able 10 come 10 Europe confirms
the idea. There are always adyen
turers in search of fortune, but the late
Franco Prussian war has quadrupied
This class of people in Germany Prus
sia, particularly, has always been poor,
but her graded classes of nobility have
always managed 10 live III comfort o.
their pitrances. The speculations fol
lowing so quickly in the footsteps "i
the war advanced every article OF
commerce to such an enormous price
that the proud noble, with bis very
small income and his very great pride
found himself on the very verge OF
starvation, while his less scIupulcu>
burgher Deighbor rolled IN wealth and
luxury. Many still contrive to live
with an economy that wound startle
poor American, while others have
turned themselves loose on society with
the firm conviction that their position
and title are sufficient recOmpense for
a wife and her fortune. Unhappi!y
there are too many girls here among
the burghers and elsewhere who are
of the same opinion, but our Amer
can girl will at times be taken in pre-
terence, because she having no title Is
accepted as a matter of course, but
German wife without one is always
spoken of, if not with di-respect, al
least in tone That conveys tie feel
ing Of inequality. Barons and counts
are as thick, therefore, DOW as Impor
tations III election times in America,
anG all a girl has TO do il she he anxi-
ous to have a title is TO make exhibit
of her income and take her choice
from a prince down, according 10 the
price she is able TO pay. The Ameri-
can girls who who have married Off
GERS here, and Cincinnati furnishes her
quota, have capital good husbands,
and domestic life is 4 hundred times,
easier for the woman than at home.
Servants are better trained and cheap
er, and an officer, according to his
rank, is entitled TO one or more
"Barsche," who are the faithful faclo-
tums of the house and do more work
than a halGdozen girls. There l., too "a
bond of Union through the army, and
their affection and protection Of each
other are really beautiful and touch
ing. But alter all girls, my advice is,
come over here with your mother or
some truoty friend, see and enjoy to
your heart content all that is antique
and grand and beautiful, study and
learn all you possibly can, then go
home and marry a good, honest Amer
| lean
Year: 1877

SIGYs-II isa good sign tosee man
do an set of charity ; it is bad sign to
hear him hOasling Of it. II is a good
sign TO see an honest man wearing his
own clothes, it is bad sign 10 see
them filling the holes in the window
1t is good sign 10 see man wipirg
the perspira,ion from his brow it is a
bad sign to see him wipe his chops as
be comes out of the beer shop. Ii Is
a good sign to see woman dress with
TASTE and neatnesS it is bad sign to
see her husband sued for her tinery.
1t is good sign TO see man adver
tise in the newspapers Il is a bad
>ign to see the authorities advertise
FOR him. II is good sign to see a
man sending his children TO school it
is bad sign to zee them educated at
the evening school on The street.
Year: 1877

The diseases arising from compress


sion of the chest and body in early
life are not exclusively restricted to
the female sex. Schoolboys and


youths constantly practice the habit


of binding up their clothes around
their bodies by means of a belt tight


ened firmly above the hips, instead of


wearing the braces over the shoulder.


Some boys and youths are also taught


the plan Of putting on al extra belt
for holding in the breath" before they
run or leap. In the pursuit of certain
active businesses, in which weights
have to be carried, this same system
of wearing tight belt is adopted and
practiced by workingmen, until the
and ingenious support, as it
is assumed to be, becomes like the
corset of a woman, a veritable neces-
sity. To the belt the same objection
applies as to the tight band and cor
set. 1t impedes the free action of the
abdominal organs; itimpedes the free
action of the abdominal organs; it


mpedes the freedom Of the respira-
ion; it interferes with the circulation;
n the young athletes who wear it
while they are running, rowing, climb
ne or wrestling it tends to bring on
lernia-rupture.
Year: 1877

|


Uses OF CRAB APPLES There are so


many ways Of using them that the


supply is hardly equal to the demand


They make the most delicious jelly.


and they can be favored with lemon


and various extracts 50 as to be de-


lightful. Then they make splendid
sweet pickles, and keep nicely. They
are fully as nice as plums for pre-
serves, and for pies they are excel
lent. A friend of mine canned bush
el Of crab apples last year, and such
pies as they made during the summer
makes ones mouth water to think of
them! They can be sliced and dried,
and are good. There are plenty of
ways to use them to advantage, but
they do make the very best jelly Of
any fruit that am acquainted with.
1t requires granulated sugar, pound
for pound, as the old saying is, for
preserves. Maple sugar is nice for
preserves or canning, but it will not
do for crab apple jelly. think there
is no fruit nicer to use in a family,
they can be turned to account in SO.
many ways that are palatable and nu-
tritious- Ex.
Year: 1877

There are as good horses drawing in
carts as IN coaches, and as good men arc
engaged in humble employment as in the
highest.


Young men steel your hearts against
the iasidlons young woman who will
soon make her appearance at the church
fair and smile on you, and Try to induce
you to pay two dollars for a ten cent pen
wiper,


A little girl who had often heard her
mother speak Of her father, who was
somewhat bald, as being self-made
man, asked her one day if father was a
selC-made man, why didn't he put more
hair on his head


A little girl, where minister had
been invited to dinner was privately
placed or her good behaviour. Finding
"A lull in the conversation at the table,
she folded her hands and said; 20,
God please pass the butter"


The inaationists say "the grecnbacks
saved the nation" General Garfield per-
tiuently asks why it didn't save the
Confederacy, for that section had much
more liberal supply of paper money.


A young lady dropped her bandkor-
chief on the street recently, and it blew
close to the dangerous eDd Of "a mule
The young man who picked it up will
not send her his photo for several days,
as he doesn't look well with his chin
under his ear.


Circassian girls arc now sold in the
slave markets Of Egypt for $3.50, but
who would pay out 80 much cash when
Massachusetts has thirty-cight thousand
surplus women who are calling for hus-
bands.


With clear sky. bright sun and
gentle breeze, you can have friends in
plenty but let fortune frown and the
ornament be overcast, and then your
friends will prove like the strings Of a Lutte
of which you tighten many before you
will iind one that will bear the stretch
and keep the pitch.
Year: 1877

The majority of our readers seem to
think that nothing can be more easy or
pleasant than TO edit a paper but OF all
difficult employments by which men
make their bread and butter, there IS
none, we firmly believe, that so taxes
The mind temper and flesh. as thet OF
editing paper. There is none that re-
quires nicer tact, sounder Judgment
a more constant application. quicker
wit. or kinder heart.


He must expose himself in all he does.
as much in selecting tie thoughts OF
Others. as in publishing bis own. and
therefore the better way Tor him in The
onse, is to begin frankly, to save himself
from after contradictions and mortiica-
tions. Whoever succeeds tolerably well
as an editor is something more than an
ordinary man. let bis cotemporaries think
of him as they will.-Bdnner.
Year: 1877

NJ. dOrcet gives some curious and
heretofore unknown details respecting
famous model who posed for the Atalan-
IA of Pradier and the young girl in
Gerome's Cock Fight" now in the gal
lery Of Luxembourg. She was also the
parsonage from whom Henri Murger
drew his Musette. She was a thorough
original and though she arrived in Paris
young and illiterate peasant, she man
aged to educate herself, even going so
far as 10 study Latin. While posing for
the Atalsnta, she ceased one day to come
at the accustomed hour, SO Pradier went
in search of her. and found her, as he
thought, lying dead. An attack OF brain
fever had struck her down, and in few
days all was over TO all appearance. But
this seeming. death was only the rigidity Of
an intense attack of catalepsy, and poor
Musette knew all that was passing
around her. After the first shock was
over, Pradier concluded that ne would
take east from the corpse. The model
ling of the hands and feet gave the poor
patient no uneasiness, but it was far
otherwise when it was question Of TAX
ing cast from the head and chest
Even if care had been taken to keep the
mouth and nostrils free, which in the
case of an artists modelling corpse was
extremely improbable, the weight OF the
plaster ON her chest would infallibly suf-
focate her. So great was poor Musette's
fright that that the very excess OF her
terror triumphed over the lethargy and
enabled her TO break its fetters. To the
amazement of the artist the supposed
oorpse bounded from the bed, and seiLing
a mass of the half liquid plaster she
dashed it full in Pradier's face. The vio-
lent e1srtion did her good. A profuse
perspiration ensued and Musette was
saved. But the sculptor vainly tried to
win her favor again. She never forgave
him for merely being the innocent OF
her death by suffocation, even though he
did actually save her life She refused ever
10 set foot in his studie again and Pradier
vas forced to engage another model TO
ssmplets bis Atalants.