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Year: 1866

/ do not believe there is
such thing as genuine Sherry wine to
be had in either England or Scotland.
1t is all adulterated with bad brandy
and other Objectionable materials. l
have long since ceased to drink it.
Port wine is still worse, yet immense
quantities are drank. | am told it is
almost impossible to purchase either
Sherry or Port pure and unadulterated,
even in Cadiz or Oporto. They are first
adulterated there, and then q second
dose is added here, from some horri-
bic compounds. In much of the Sher-
ry that is sold, l am assured that there
is not single drop of grape juice.
There are large manufactures in Ham
burg where Sherry is made without a
single drop of the juice of the grape.
Such stuff is enough to poison people.
For this reason those wines which were
from time immemorial the accustomed
beverages of the higher and middle
classes of Great Britain, have come to
be Stunned as poisons. Our strong
ales have come TO be substituted as the
common table beverages. l doubt if it
would be possible for you to get pure
Sherry, even if you imported direct
from Cadiz TO America-certainly none
of it comes to England, so far as my OBJ
servation goes. We are beginning to
use the light French wines. There is
no wine l like so well as pure Bur-
gundy.


Leaving Europe to herself, it is more
then we can do successfully to cope
with the adulterators of wines
and liquors in this country. The
extent to which it is practiced among
hxuor dealers as class, would be in
credible were it not a well established
fact, known to thousands in every
large community, besides the dealers
themselves. Wines of foreign growth
are too little used in this country to
have their true flavor and properties
appreciated hence frauds are most
easily practiced. They are daily pre-
scribed by physicians and resorted to
by invalids, who confidently take into
their stomachs poison worse than the
disease they wish to eradicate. Few
can detect the spurious character of
the article. We're it the water we are
accustomed to draw from our hydrants
here in Chicago, the cheat would be at
once detected-you can't pass the stuff
of for pure water upon man or beast
| should like to witness the joke if any
liquor dealer has the cheek to try it.


We're not this article so long already
l would show you what vile stuff goes
under the name of brandy, wine, cordi-
ais, gin, etc, ond add few recipes for
making brandy, port, sherry, etc.
Year: 1866

The Macon Telegraph says that the au-
thorities Of that city are obliged to furnish
from six to ten coffins per day, to bury negro
paupers. Freedom is great thing for the
poor African. Free to starve and to die"
Year: 1866

THE NEXT BEsr.-A lady of a certain age
saws the reason an old maid is generally so
devoted to her cat is that not havirga bus
band, she naturally, takes to the next most
treacherens animal.
Year: 1866

would very much like to learn to play the
piano. How shall / obtain a teacher
| think gentleman teacher is by far the
best. As | cannot afford to pay much
for learning, can you inform me how to


obtain one? / can have the use of u
friends piano to practice on. q
Answer-It is our private opinion that
your husband would slightly object to a
male instructor, especially if he we're
young as well as good looking; and we
fancy that you would not be inclined to
consider any other an eligible person.
If you possessed sufficient share of
discretion, madam, you would not solicit
your husband to permit you to employ
any but female teacher, nor would you
even insinuate that you are weak enough
to indulge in what is, under the circum-
stances, such an equivocal preference.


To be frank with you, since you seem
to consider our advice of some interest,
it is our conviction that young mar
ried woman whose husband has no money
to spare for superauous luxuries, always
acts wise part when she devotes her
time and her energies to rendering his
condition in life comfortable, and to prac-
ticing that economy in all things without
which such condition of comfort can
never be secured. After marriage,
the piano is an accomplishment of no
importance to woman whose sphere of
life is not one of moneyed ease and in
dolence. Such wife has graver things
to occupy her serious attention. If she
loves her husband sincerely, she will take
r. III. - L.. ax.1
his apparel-she will take far more de-
light in seeing him. go out, in fact, with a
neat and tidy appearance, owing to
her industry-than in throwing away her
time land perhaps her morals) with a
gentleman who proposes to teach her the
use of piano-if not considerably more
than that before she has done with him.
If your husband does not see il in this
light, why he deserves what is in store
for both of you, domestic unhappiness.
Year: 1866

their sacred desks into political stands,
and wallow in the worldly pool Of poll
tics


He sleeps with a white lady and not
with moits wench as does Thad.
Stevens, the gambling head of the Re-
publican party.
Morrissey is not a bounty broker, a
sanitary swindler, hospital robber, a
thieving army chaplain, bloated bond
holder, growing rich at the expense OF
the poor as are thousands of the Radical
leaders.


He is not straddling trimmer, like
Raymond--not peace man in war times
and o war man in peace times, like
Greeley, but better man before God and
man than any leader in the Radical
party. He is more honest, more liberal
more trustworthy, more patriotic, and
has better record every way than have
half of the Republicans, and the pluck
to meet his enemies in a fair, square,
stand-up fight, and not to incite mobs
and imprison people as so long was the
fashion with Republicans in the days OF
the little bell.


And five were on dying bed, in need
of heavenly intercession, we would give
more for the prayers of muscular, liberal,
gentlemanly John Morrissey than for
those of the majority of orthodox so
called Christians of the present age.


If Morrissey was Radical twould be
all right. Then, what howl that party
would set up against those who would
object to him, because as they would say,
he was once poor man, but one who
was striving to be somebody.


He wanted money. He got it by
gambling-by keeping gaming houses
where rich men fight the tiger" Now
tell us if that is not better way than to
get it by stealing spoons and jewelry Ia
Brute Butler? Or by sacrificing the
lives of soldiers as Banks did2 Or by
stealing mules, horses and cotton, as two
thirds OF the army officers did? Or by
robbing hospitals as chaplains did ? Or
by swindling contracts as most of the
ll.oono did
Year: 1866

Take dead dog-a dead one is better
than live, although the latter might an
swer-take off the hide and send 1t to q
tannery In process of time it will reap
pear in the furnishing shops, and the lazy
whose worthless poodle was poisoned by an
upfeeling policeman will pay many times i's
supposed value for piece Of its skin IN tne
shape of pair of genuine kid gloves. bu'
this is only a small rart Of the defunc, poo.
die. When the hide has been removed pu,
the remainder of the poodle IN Kettle anu
boil it. With the fat which Is the produc,
Of the boiling. mix little soda. ms VIII
produce n sweet substance calico giycerine,
or sugar of fat the commercial Va'uc "
which is very considerable, and is capao'e
of almost ind finite increase. MIX IL Win a
little nitric and sulphuric acid and the proc
uct is nitro glycerine, few ounces OF which
according to recent experiments, made some
what accidentally. would be sufficient to blow
the whole city of Chicago over to the state
of N;cb;oan This is one of the uses to
which a dead dog or dead cat might be put.
Rut Il i not the most desirable or profitable
use. Glycerine is one of the chief lngredi:
ents in the manufacture of cosmetics and
rerfumes for the toilet, and in the more
choice and expensive kinds it is lndispensa-
BILE. 1t is also an Ingredient IN the manufac-
ture of smelling salts. The lady whose un.
happy poodle has passed from this vale OF
woe through the agency of a barbarous po-
liceman. has the consolation of knowing that
death is not the end of dogs. any more than
it is the end of human beings; but that after
death she shall meet that shaggy friend agnin
in another and brighter shape-aye, that her
hands shall touch and cheek shall feel and
lips shall taste and nose shall smell that bet
ter part of him that hath triumphed over
death and passed beyond the dark valley to
bloom in brighter glory on his mistress
cheek, enrich the carmne of her lips, revive
the dsooping spirit through her nasal organ,
and she'd immortal perfume on the folds OF
her cambric pocket handkerchief!


Nor are these all the valuable uses OF
dead dog. From the residuum of the boiling
are obtained soap and candles from the
tendons gelatine from the bones phosphorus
and phosphate Of lime. or carbon through
which the sugar Of our coffee is refined
Chicago Post
Year: 1866

BOSTON journal describes an extraoroi-


narv :. frost flower" of Russia. which has
hse1 nroduced, it is said, in Boston, In a
tsmperature of artificial cold. This wonder
ful nIant. or rather flower, is found only on
the northern boundaries of Siberia. where
the snov is eternal. 1t was discovered in
1863 by Count Swinoskof, the eminent Rus
sian botsnist, who was ennobled by the Gar
for his discovery. Bursting firm the snow
on the first day of the year it grows to the
hight of three feet, and flowers on the third
day, remains 10 flower for twenty four hours,
and then dissolves itself into its original ele-
ment-stem, leaves and flowers being Of the
finest snow. The stalk is about one inch in
diameter the leaves three in number, in
the broadest part are an inch and half in
width and are covered with infnitessimal
cones of snow they grow only on one side OF
the stalk, to the north, curving gracefully
in the same direction. The flower when
fully expanded is in shape perfect star;
the petals are three inches in length, half
an inch wide in the broadest parts. and ta
pering sharply to point. These are also
Interlaced one with another in a beautiful
manner, forming the most delicate basket
or frost work that the eye ever beheld: for
truly this is frost-work the most wonderful.
The anthers are five in number, and on the
third day after the birth of the flower OF
snow" are to be seen on the extremeties
thereof, trembling and glittering like da-
monds, the seeds of this wonderful flower,
about as large as a pins head. The old
botanist says when first he beheld this flow
er he was dumb with astonishment; filled
with wonderment, which gave way tojoy the
most ecstatic on beholding this wonderful
~ofr rtoh
on of snow. To see this flower springing
from the snowy desert-born of its own
composite atoms. | touched the stem of one
lightly, but it fell at my touch, and morsel
of snow only remained in my hand" Gath.
ering some of the flowers in snow, in order
to preserve the little diamond like seeds, he
hied to St. Petersburg with, to him, the
greatest prize of his lifetime. All through
the year they were kept in snow, and on the
first day of the year following the Court of
ST. Petersburg were delighted with the burs-
ting forth of the wonderful hower!' ~ Our
friends in Boston succeeded in obtaining
several of the seeds, and all through the
Summer and Autumn they have been i'm
bedded in snow brought at great expense
from the White mountains and the coast of
Labrador; and they now have the most
uubounded satisfaction and pleasure of an
nouncing that all signs are favorable to
the realization of their fondest hopes, the
production of the IS flower of snow" The
snow and ice are in large glass refrger ator,
with the thermometer forty five degrees be-
low zero, and the solid bed of snow has al
ready begun to show little assures and a
slight bulging in the centre unmistakable
evidence of the forthcoming of the phenO-
menon.
Year: 1866

A VETERAN. at the battle of Trafalgar,
who was actively employed at one of the guns
on the quarter deck of the Britannia, had his
leg shot off little below the knee, and OBJ
serving an officer, who was ordering him to
be conveyed to the cockpit, said, Is That's but
n shilling touch; an inch higher, and
should have my eighteen pence for it,
alluding to the scale of pensions then allowed
for wounds. which. of course, increase accord
ing to their severity. The same resolute
fellow, as they were lifting him on brother
tar's shoulder. said to one of his friends
g Bob, take look for my leg, and give me
the silver buckle out of my shoe; (they wore
buckles then) I'll do as much for you, please
God. another time.v
Year: 1866

How THE TWENTIETH MARRIAGE DAY
WAS CELEBRATED.-A Paris letter writes tells
the following story:


short time ago, Frenchman and his
wife gave dinner party TO celebrate the
twentieth year of their marriage. just be-
fore dinner, one of them broke tumbler.-
This led to discussion, which degenerated
into quarrel, which ended in each party
expressing wonder at having had the patience
to live twenty years with so horrid and stupid
an animal as the other. The wife put on
her bonnet and quit the house. The husband
lighted a chatting dish full of charcoal in his
chamber, and lay on the floor When the
guests came, and failed to obtain entrance.
they broke open the doors, and found the
husband corpse.
Year: 1866

A NEW method has been discovered for
shoeing refractory, unmanageable horses
thick blanket is in the first place thrown
over the head of the horse to pre-
vent him from seeing anything. A man
then takes his position in front of the horse,
and on the first sign of kicking or resistance
of any kind, administers one or two smart
blows on the side of its head, leaving his
hand for some time on the smitten part
The horse gets frightened and allows the
shoeing process to be finished without inter-
ruption. This simple remedy has succeed
ed where all the previously used means have
failed.
Year: 1866

GABRIEL's TRUxP.-A baker in England
stole q tombstone for the hearth of his oven
One of his customers, finding death s-head
on the bottom of his loaf of bread, ran in
dismay to bis deacon, fearing the end of the
world was approaching. The latter was in
equal trepidation when, on examining his
own loaf, he found the marrow bones. In
their alarm, they had recourse to the par.
son, who could afford them no consolation,
inssmuch as Resurgam" was set forth in
bold relief upon his own loaf
Year: 1866

That leave the poison to crawl through the system,
eating its way into the tissues and organs beneath
the apparently smooth surface, to burst out in the
future with viruence that will battle the effects of
medicine, when PERFECT CURES be OBJ
tanned by consulting physician whom long prac-
tce and thorough investigate into the causes of
DISEASES of the URINARY ORGANS enables
to determine at once the nature of the disease.


In all diseases entrusted to the Doctors care,
Year: 1866

Tho undersigned will open the Point Clear Hotel


The 10th day of May next,
This establishment is being repanted and put in
pete repair and condition Gas and water works being
erected the grounds beautifully laid out and the house
nshsd entirely new with the best of materials and the latest
Improvements.


Arrangements will be made for direct communication will
New Orleans and Mobile both by steamboat and telegraph


BILLIARD TABLES
OF the most approved pattern been ordered Ten PHI
Alleys being built and every suitable to the eli
mate and place afforded man, woman and child For


BATHING AND FISHING
And heahunes celebrated watering place has no supe
rO on the continent the undersigned intends to make
the most easant and comfortable in the world


CHAS. E. SNEDES, Manager.
Year: 1866

FATHER roo MUCH.-A Mormon elder was lately
refused legal divorce in England oA the groana
lat a Mormon marriage is no marriage at at a
Mormoa has hitherto been considered very much
i married man
Year: 1866

The Union Medicdle, a French journal,
publishes paper by DR.. Outlay, on a curl
Gus and useful invention, due to the inge-
nuity of a celebrated eXcOnjuror, NJ. Rob-
ert Houdin. The object is to give the
alarm Of fire at the very commencement of
the threatened catastrophe, aud the follow.
ing description will show how this is ac-
complished: Suppose copper lamina and
steel one to be soldered together by their
surfaces, so asto form single blade, cop
per on one side andIsteel on the other. Let
it be fixed vertically, by one of its extreml-
o ties, to board, without, however. quite
touching it, in order to avoid all friction.
The arrangement will be best understood
by supposing knife to be brought close
to the board as if with the intention of cnt.
tiag it through. Now. suppose a metal
knob to be fixed on the board, on the steel
side of the blade, and at short distance
from it. This knob is connected with one
of the poles of voltaic battery, the other
pole of which communicates with the screw
which secures the fixed extremity of the
blade, and with one OF those bells or Alarms
which we see used Ia the telegraph offices
to prepare the clerks for the reception of a
message. Now let the blade be warmed !;
as the dilation Of copper by heat is greater
than that Of steel, it follows that the blade
will be bent, the concave side being the
steel one; and if the heat applied be suffi-


cieht contact will be effected between
= the blade and the knob. No sooner does
this take place than the bell begins to ring,
and continues doing so until the contact Is
interrupted. A very small degree OF heat
will be sufficient to produce the requisite
curvature Of the blade; even a burningci-
gar will do so at distance of about three
inches. This facility might In many cases
prove rather a drawback. were it not that
the sensitiveness of the apparatus may be
diminished at pleasure by increasing the
distance of thekuob from the blade. iir
Year: 1866

can present nothing better than the


programme of the Committee, am
greatly apprehensive that its days will
be numbered. l trust fellow citizens,
that this will not be the case; that it
will discard its hostility and its at
tempt to continue alienation between
the two sections of country, and that
it will embrace these principles which
look to harmony and to the restoration
of peace. If it should do this it will
still continue to be the great and con-
trolling party of the country, and cover
itself with imperishable glory. If it
does not, its days are numbered, and
the epitaph that will be written will be:
1t knew how to prosecute the war
with vigor, but it lacked the wisdom to
ayll itself of the benefits of victory.
[ Applause.
Year: 1866

No one can read the testimony given by


Gen Lee before the Reconstruction Commit
tee and that of Gen. Terry, the Federal com
mander in Virginia, without being struck
by the difference not only in manner but in
acting between these two men. The one is
fair frank. manly outspollen evidently an
imared 10y a feeling of nothing to extenuate
or set down aught in malice" the other.
while acknowledging that admittdnce to re-
spectacle society Is not enjoyed by him. re-
lates with miGuteness, and detail that
shows the auimosity Of his nature, all the
particularities OF the feeling of that society
whose doors are barred to him In the one
is quiet dignity. a calmness of manner,
and a candor that carries conviction TO the
reader Of the sincerity of his utterance: in
the other is displayed an attempt to color
his story with the hue of that feeling which
| the oStracism exercised toward himself by
! the Nirginians has produced. We are con
| vinced now Of that which we formerly but
| suspected-that Gen Terry does not possess
| the qualities that command the respect OF
| the Virginians The hero s'yyho reaped the
reward OF the capture of Fort Fisher, effect.
| ed by Ames, Is the worthy prototype OF this
| deuouncer of that society which he can view
only through the medium OF that jealousy
which pictures Virginia society by the aid
of light from Intelligent contrabands" and
freedmen bureau officers. We congratulate


ourselves that Mississippi has a military com


mauder who cannot entertain such feelings


and whose enlightened and just course hai


commanded the respect of our people ant


the commendation of his government.


n In Northern pulpit, recently, the Off


ciating clergyman warmed with his subiecr


until be began TO smoke, and the impenitent


part of the congregation thought they smell


birthstone. A box of matches in his pocket


had ignited and set him on fire. He wa
Year: 1866

Immunity against the Fevers
and ChilIs of Spring and Fall,
the Dysenteries and Diarrheas
of Summer, and the various
Bilious complaints attendant
upon the entire year, IS what
the South needs and must have
before that favored region will
attain the full need of its great
ness. Emigl aaon thither has
been and is retarded for the
lack of it; AMI for the same
reason, cotton raising has been
restricted and interfered with.
Year: 1866

Your attention is called to PERRY'S PATENT
IUHERE BELLOWS NOZZLE, which gives the
blast on the bottom instead of the side the fire
and makes quicker and hotter fire than is possible
otherwlse. 1t gives one two or three blasts the
same fire, and spreads the heat a wide surface
or concentrates it on point at pleasure. Thus
the whole wing or bar of plow can be heated even
~ and perfectly, without danger of burning and
what with ordinary Tuyeres requires five or six
heats, can be done at one. 1t greatly in time,
iron and fuel The fire is completely under the
control OF the Blacksmith, and no fuel is wasted.
1t never gets hot, and will last indefinitely.
Year: 1866

Physically less muscular, and generally
speaking, less powerfully built than men, We
are accustomed to speak Of women as belong
ing to the weaker sex. II is very easy so TO
speak OF them, though not quite so easy to see
how, except in the physical view Of the ques-
ton, they generally desire the distinction.
Pass in review before you batch of your
married friends, and ask yourself candidly !:
Are the wives in the majority of the cases to
be looked upon as weaker characters than
their husbands? If you want weak thing
done. an Improbable but pleasant thing, to
which would you 60 for assistance in the car
rying out of your scheme-to the husband or
the wife? Which of the two would be the
more capable of saying " No?" monosylla-
Bile often requiring for It's utteranee, at the
proper moment, the very greatest amount of
moral force. That expression g the weaker
sex" seems to me, just now. to be more than
ever inappropriate when applied to the young
ladies dancing in our ball, promenading in
our flower shows, endangering our lives when
we would cross Ratten row, or bidding US
. stand and deliver in the bazaar room or
tents in which they hold their fancy fairs. OF
whatever else we may accuse those fair and
exemplary creatures, we must by no means
charge them with undue timdity or irrational
shyness and reserve.-Chesterfeld Junior,
in All the Year Round.
Year: 1866

PosTroSED.-A few weeks ago the Demo
cratic Central Committee published straight
out Democratic call for State Convention Of
the party, to be held at DesMoines next
month. 1t looked as if the party had picked
up courage and had determined to assume q
show of pluck and honesty, and stand up by
their name and their record before the people
once more.


But their hearts soon failed them, their
knees trembled, they experienced weakness
in the Lumbar regions, and an utter demoral-
ization of the kidneys, and in view Of these
promonitions have been constrained to post
pone their convention for few weeks.


1t is evident that the Copperhead creation
can't stand alone in Iowa, and unless it finds
nurses and pap very speedily, it will not sur
vive the dog days. Amy one who will under
take to nurse the thing and provide the neces-
sary pap for its nourishment will be entitled
to name it, and make such disposition Of it
as he, she or they may see fit, for it is now in
the condition of destitute founding exposed
to certain death.
Year: 1866

The following is verbatim copy of note
received by Liverpool schoolmaster: ''Sur
Pies not to wip VIM. H for being late
for be as to take is fathers meet to work
every day, every other week L sometimes
at other times