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Year: 1878

Correspondence to the Baltimore Sun.


Just now, in Paris, you will see the
art of great cooking in perfection with
the least amount of fuel In England
and America there is an absolute and
unnecessary waste of fuel as well as Vi
ands by the employment of huge fires.
England is more wasteful by reason of
being more prejudiced than America in
this matter. In one day in England a
cook will consume more fuel and pro-
dnce less good dinners than a French
cook will in month of superb cooking!
Count Rumford laid down practical
rules by which a dinner for one thou
sand persons could be excellently well
cooked and served at cost of ten
cents! Now this process is improved
upon, and dinner for fifteen hundred
persons can be well cooked at a fuel ex-
pense of five cents! Not by gas-that
is wasteful expense-but by the car
donated refuse of the gas house, known
as coke. This coke is placed in a pc
culiarly constructed stove, which per-
mits none of the fumes to pass into any
other place than the closed chimney
The coke is generated into brilliant
fire at first by a powerful draft, then
toned down, as per the wants of the
cook, by a mechanical damper. At this
point all the odor of the gas has gone,
and nothing but clear fire, minus
smell or dust is ready. This fire in the
broad top stove does duty for several
dishes at the same time. You get your
dinner hot and well cooked at cost of
fuel less than ever before known. The
owner of the patent is about to proceed
to America to protect his invention, or
| might explain it.
Year: 1878

Milk is found to form an excellent
solvent for quinine, and also to disguise,
in measure. the bitterness of that
drug. 1t will be found particularly use
full in administering quinine to children.
Five grains in tumblerful of milk is
almost taSteleSS
Year: 1878

The Providence Journal tells this
story: "Some months ago the Lord
Bishop of---came to this country on a
visit to the Rev. Dr., of the Episco-
pal Church in New York. The Doctor
instructed colored boy in his service
to knock at the bedroom door of the
Lord Bishop early in the morning and
say, My Lord, the boy Accordingly,
the next morning, the boy, somewhat
dazed by so much grandeur, knocked at
the Bishops door, who called out,
who is there?' The boy responded
The Lord. my boy
Year: 1878

This is the season of the year when
the night air is very dangerous, but the
girls face death at front gates with the
same heroism which has always been
one Of the chiefest adornments of the
sex.
Year: 1878

The Vanderbilt will case takes aGest of two months4 The character most slaughtered of late has been that of Cornelius the Younger, who is as miserable specimen as the most u fortunate of millionaires ever fathered. The Commodore was not much of saint till very late in life, but he was the superior Of his namesake in every respect.
Year: 1878

50 far from being a mere talker, Secretary Schurz is proving worker of the best sort. he has made a thorough investigation of the Indian department, brought any quantity of corruption, among agents and contractors to light. several of whom have retired from the country till such times as the politicians can get hold of the machine again.
Year: 1878

There were 163 suicides in New York, last year; not half as many as we should imagine from perusing the metropolitan papers. The number of immigrants is less than quarter of the number that used to come in the brisk times inst before '73.
Year: 1878

There seems no doubt that the Democratic Senators are heartily sick of their blunder in supporting Conkling against the President. ltis now thought that if good new names were sent in for the places held by Arthur and Cornell, they would he confirmed
Year: 1878

The Educational Weekly thinks that the
American child both AZ home aud at school, is
perpetually stimulated by false motives. He
Is made to believe that he may yet become a
president. governor, or member of congress,
as though public position was the passport TO
honor and respectability alone lie IS virtually
taught, both by precept and example that he
may acquire great fortune, as though wealth
were the chief end OF human existence. lie is
frequently taunted with the query whether be
means TO be newer OF wood and drawer or
water. or whether he wishes to remain farmer
or mechanic for life, as though the labor OF the
hand and sweat of the brow we're tue sum o..
human evil, and the sign and seal Of human
degradation. The average American girl is
irreparably spoiled ere yet she scarcely reaches
her teens, by false and superficial ideas as to
the true aims of HE, by indisposition for
health giving labor, and by visionary notions
of her relations to the other sex and TO society.
The average American servant-girl has out
grown her business, and now assumes to
dictate terms to the helpless mistress OF the
household she condescends to serve. The
average American boy knows more than bis
father, is master OF his mother, disrespectful
to his superiors, and insolent to everybody.
These are the outcome OF wrong motives and
mistaken methods applied in the early stages
Of educational development.
Year: 1878

MOTHERS Az DoCTcBs.-Practical mothers
bodies entrusted to their care. Some Of the
most common sense facts in the physical cul-
ture Of these little ones known to the more
experienced mothers may not come amiss to
those who have had but little care Of children.
The foundation must be well laid to ensure
healthy and happy children. The child must
be we'll slept, well aired, we'll fed and well
bathed. BY thorough understanding and
practice of these four simple rules, much Of
the physical mental and moral suffering in
life would be avoided by parent as well as child.
II healthy child (and delicate one proper
tlonately) is regularly put to bed about dark
in quiet, we'll ventilated or even cold room,
after supper OF plain food, it will naturally
awake at daybreak, good natured, with a keen
appetite for wholesome breakfast. Nutritious,
PLAN food, al regular hours, with no candy or
stimulants, and tree bathing, help the system
to ward off many prevalent ailments and to
bear with much less danger the few that must
necessarily come to the majority OF little ones
The child that is given little confectionery, or
any unsuitable food, and then rocked to seep'
should cause no surprise at waking, peevish
and fevensh. 1t is simply the result of imagin-
airy affection and want OF knowledge on the
part of the one IN charge. 1t will certainly pay
in the end to search diligently for the cause
when little child is proverbialIy cross.-Chi-
cago Alliance.
Year: 1878

The BENEFIT OF LAUaHINo.-Dr. Greene, in
bis Problem of Health" says there is not the
remotest corner or inlet OF the minute blood
vessels OF the human body that does not feel
some wavelet from the convulsion occasioned
by good hearty laughter The life principle, of
the inward man. is shaken to its innermost
depths, sending new tides OF life and strength
to the surface, thus materially tending to in
sure good health to the persons who moderate
ly indulge therein. The blood moves more
rapidly and conveys a different impression to
all the organs of the body as il visits them on
that particular mystic journey when the man
s laughing from what it does at other times.
For this reason every good hearty laugh in
which person INDUCES tends to lepgthen his
life, conveying, as 1t does, new and distinct
stimulus to the vital forces. Doubtless the
time will come when physicians, conceding
more Importance than they do now to the in
fluence OF the mind upon the vital forces OF
the body, will make their prescriptions more
with reference to the condition of the mind,
and less to drugs for the body and in 80 doing
will find the best and most effective methods
Of producing the required effect upon the
patient.
Year: 1878

AMMONIA FOR CLEASING.-T The pantry shelves
are getting grimy, or finger marks around the
door-latches and nobs are looking dark and
unsightly. For lack of time they are left day
after day, for 1T is hard work to scour all the
time, and il wears off the paint, too. The wise
housekeeper has her bottle Of spirits OF ammo
mia to use she takes her basin OF water and q
clean cloth, just puts on few drops Of the
fluid and wipes of all the dirt; 1t If worth
more than a half days labor, and does no;
hurt the paint either. She could put q few
drops In her dishwater and see how easily the
dishes could be cleaned; q few drops on q
sponge would clean all the windows IN the
sitting room, making them shine like crystal
II would take the stains of the teaspoons, and
teaspoonful in the mop pail would do more
towards washing up the kitchen floor than ter
pounds Of elbowgrease applied to the MOI
handle.-Country Gentleman.
Year: 1878

Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
DAN in the right side, under the
| edge OF the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends TO the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss of appe-
ti;e and sickness; the bowels in gen
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with laN: the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied with dull, heavy
sensation in the back part There is
generally considerable loss Of men,
ory accompanied with q painful SEN
sation Of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
\ slight, dry cough is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of
WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of a prickly sensa-
tion OF the skin; his spirits are low; (;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several OF the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them ex-
isted, vet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.
Year: 1878

If fugitive from justice was ever placed
in a dilemma by having the ministers of
the law in his rear and on either flank, with
q yawning abyss before him, he could in
some degree appreciate and sympathize with
the present situation of the Democratic
party. Its course in Congress has been
watched closely by an insulted and wronged
people for eight long and dreary months


Thirty mud-slingng machines, more Oh
lcss-probably niore-have been organized
at heavy public expense for the purpose of
besmirching Republican officials and states
men. These have been kept constantly at
work, attended by battalion of subsidized
tools, who have been denominated "ex-
perts," while drag-nets have been spread in
all directions for Republican catch This
has been the expensive outfit of the Demo
cratic party for an eight-months' session,
with permission to sit at the expense OF
the National Treasury during the in
termission of Congress. Thus equipped
and accoutred, the Democrats have pushed
their investigations at the expense of every
other interest. people suffering for the
want of bread because they could get no
employment, and this suffering augmented
through the exhaustion of appropriations
that had been made by niggard hands and
had run out. The business interests of the
country have languished without even a
cheering look or measure from Congress.
The Government and the people have been
h,tt hn or h.. 4,


power, and the nation seemed to be drifting
on q boundless sea OF uncertainty, without
an apparent care on the part Of the popular
branch Of Congress whether or not the Gov
ernment was saved or shipwrecked.


The first thing in order-the paramount
purpose of large portion of the Democrats
in the House-seemed to be to find some
scandal that would bring disgrace to the
Government. The next high purpose of
these statesmen was made apparent in an
attempt to drain the National Treasury to
pay rebel claims-not few of which, as
was made to appear, had been already paid
by the so-called Confederate Government.
The minority yigilantly watched this as
sault upon the funds of the Government,
and defeated the raid; but the purpose OF
the Democrats was all the same. II they
did not rob the Government it was simply
because they could not. In this way month
after month wore away, until spring came
and summer began to warm up for the oc-
casion-and yet the hunt for fraud and cor
ruption was kept up with vigilance that
weakened the capacity of the House for
more important work The people and the
public interest continued to suffer from
neglect, but investigation was pushed, and
that too without the discovery and exposure
of anything like fraud and corruption in
any of the Executive Departments of the
Government. Wherever wrong or irregu-
larity, or an act that looked like corruption,
has been found, it has been connected with
Year: 1878

THE New York Graphic takes early occa-
sion to advise THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
that 1t is "a trihc mistaken when it assumes
that the. Graphic is advocating the nomi-
nation and election of President HAYES
for a second term. 1t would be prema-
" ture to take such position. Seriously to
support any man now would certainly
tend to defeat him. All that the
Graphic has said is, that if the POTTER
conspiracy should be pressed to u
revolutionary persecution of the Presi-
dent it would raise up an army of
friends who would see to it that ho was
vindicated. But a ring has been put in
" the nose of the Democratic rhinoceros, and
- that changes the prospect, perhaps" This
explanation should no doubt, be perfectly
satisfactory, and it shows that our illus
trated cotemporary has level head.
Year: 1878

IT seems to be conceded that vacancy
in the Congressional delegation from Louis-
ana, a marriage, ora funeral is in order, as
the result of Mr.. ACKLEN's little social in
discretion last week. II was brilliant
thing, it was, that the Democratic House
should disappear from the scene of its many
disgraccs just as one of its members had
been foiled in an attempt to commit an out
rage. High-toned, very!
Year: 1878

patch ascribing this bloody and expensive
Indian war to the failure of the Democratic
House to make appropriations, this weak
and hippant attempt at wit is simply dis
gusting. It is Of a piece, however, with the
entire defense of their policy of parsimony
and demagogism the Democrats are COM
PEELED to resort to. They have no facts or
solid arguments with which 10 meet the
charge of this grave responsibility.
Year: 1878

THE Florida branch of the investigation
seems to have been very wisely abandoned
by the POTTER committee. The whole
truth regarding Florida is rs well known
now as it ever can be. 1t shows Demo-
cratic corruption and Republican efforts to
offset it. That is ALL
Year: 1878

WHEN lawmakers violate not only
statute laws, but social and moral laws, as
well as the obligations of decency, by get
ting so drunk as to fail of their duty, and
as to permit fatal blunders OF worse in the
engrossment of bills, and to assail the virtue
OF unprotected women in public restaurants,
there is some reason for the belief that pub
lie morals have deprecated. Yet all this
has happened in Washington within the
past week, and is traceaDle to the Demo-
cratic majority in the House
Year: 1878

GENERAL BEN BUTLER never loses an
opportunity to advertise and increase his
reputation for beastly tyranny in the ex-
animation Of witnesses. On Saturday the
congenial atmosphere of PorTER's mud
singing committee inspired him to an ex-
traordinary display Of this kind A para
graph in the New York Times to the effect
that Senator MATTHEWS had abstained from
appearing before that disreputable body be-
cause Of fear that General BUTLER would
insult him, was sufficient excuse therefor,
and the doughty old criminal lawyer rose
to say that he had no desire to insult any
one; he only wanted the truth. There is n
species Of demagogism about this, and an
ungenerous and unwarranted innuendo that
is truly BUTLERIAN. In other words, he
presumed to intimate that his alleged search
after the truth in Senator MATTHEWS case
would be accepted or construed by that
gentleman as an insult. The fact is, Cen
cral BUTLER is not seeking the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth in
this investigation; but with all the abilities
at his command is joining with the Demo-
Gratis to make the committee pre-eminent as
a smut machine. The Democrats tolerate
him in This, and in Mr.. DARRALL's case al
lowed him to have full swing; to assume
the leadership, in short. They know, how
ever, that his instincts will naturally lead
him to sling mud at them should an oppor-
tunity to do so occur, and they accordingly
treat him with the tender regard of man
who is trying to keep away from the busi-
ness end of a pole cat.
Year: 1878

report to the Prince Charles
what you have seen Of the
justice maintained in the ar
mics of the French


This general, at that time,
first consul, was aftervard
the Emperor Napoleon.
Year: 1878

If that sandy complexoned chap with the
scattering red side whskers who stood lust on
the right Of the speakers stand at the recent
joint discussion between Messrs Burrows and
MoultoD, in Waverly, and who made himself
so conspcuously obnoxious by his incessant
loud talk while Burrows was speaking, knew
how near like a consummate ass be appeared
in the eyes OF decent people, he would want to
crawl into his hole and pull the hole in after
him. He was greenbacker, but we don't know
his name. II we did we would give TIE public
the benefit OF an introduction to him.
Year: 1878

Moulton, the champion of the greenback
cause, fairly and squarely advocated fat 3"
money, saying that they did not want even to
retain the present greenbacks with a promise
to pay, but when they got control of this gov
ernment they proposed that all the currency
should consist of absolute full legal tender
stamped money, which would never huctuate.
There was but little of his argument at best,
and when Burrows got through with HIM, there
was nothing left. Greenbackers can no longer
deny that their party is a fiat" money party
for the doctrine is boldly avowed by their
champion.
Year: 1878

If the NoRTHERNEB should say that the
" Independent man was horse thief. that
would be false, in fact lie. Now we leave it
to the honest people of this county to say
that Hon. J. c. Burrows is salary grabber, 8
when his election to Congress did not take
place until nine months after the salary bill
was passed, and when one of the first votes
cast by Mr. Burrows was for the repeal of the
law increasing salaries.
Year: 1878

DAM in the right side, under the
L edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and il
frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss of appe-
tite and sickness; the bowels in gen
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with
pain. accompanied with a dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There is
generally a considerable loss of mem
ory, accompanied with a painful SEN
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
a slight, dry cough is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of
weariness and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of a prickly sensa-
ton of the skin; his spirits are low;
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them ex-
listed, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.
Year: 1878

Sherwood says that there was never 80 much
idle money in this country as now, and yet he
would cure all our ills by the addition of
81 ,4OO, 100000 OF absolute irredeemable paper
on the principle we presume that the hair of
the dog will cure the bite"
Year: 1878

The series of meetings held by Burrows in
this county, were very successful and will be
productive OF great good to the cause. The
mastery manner in which he handles the sub
jeot is both interesting and convincing
Year: 1878

Sherwood compares the conflict Of opinions
on the currency question to the conflict be-
tween freedom and slavery. Unfortunately
he was on the torong side in that contest, and
has assumed the same position in the present
issue.
Year: 1878

TIE good people of Round Rock
and Williamson county have re-adopted
the whisky prohibition act. If the
law be bad let it We fairly and rigidly
enforced, and thei people will speed
lily rescind it. Th. Headlight declares
the measure unconstitutional. Then
the license laws art unconstitutional,
and every State in the Union has a
more or less stringentprohibition code,
and substantially tie same bill of
rights, and each government is invested
with much the same lower to tax and
license. Bawds and Whisky and gam
ing are alike licensed and the power
to license is the confession of the pow
er In the legislature no to license or 10
DESTROY.
Year: 1878

THE Indiana Democratic Convention
went as far on the greenback question
as the regular Greenback organizations,
and the Texas Convention will do like
wise. The Texas delegation IN Con-
gross, excepting Schleicher, 90 as far
as anybody in offering financial relief
to the people, and no Democrat in
Texas is opposed to the Greenback
movement. We speak of the matter in
the light of national policy, and not
as partisan movement led by disap-
pointed or anxious politicians, and
hence we are at less to know why
Governor Hubbard has resolved to play
to the Greenback vote. Can it be over
anxiety about the Nomination.
Year: 1878

IRRIGATED farms along the Rio Fro
produce eighty bushels OF corn and
two hos gsheads of sugar and perennial
vegetables. The same lncalculable
riches will be given the valley of the
Colorado when the dam is built at the
base of Mount Bonnell or at Marble
Falls, and a canal extended to the cap
itsl. This will be done when narrow
gauge has been built fifty miles to-
wards the northwest, doubling the
trade and riches and population of the
capital.
Year: 1878

THE outrageous fishery award must
be paid. There is no honorable mode
of escape, and the fact that the Presi-
dent would use the unexpended bal
ance of the Geneva award in this mat
ter, without calling upon Congress for
an appropriation, has excited great
CONSERVATION among those exceeding
good people who have been trying to
steal the unexpended balance of the
Geneva award.
Year: 1878

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resumption Is schieYed. The next
proper measure is the conversion of the
six per cent. into four per cent. con-
soils, and finally the substitution of cur
rency for these bonds. Gold will
thus be made of equal value with
other currency. ANY sudden, vio-
lent or excessive change in the
value of either of three kinds of
currency would give banks and
brokers opportunities for speculation.
They exaggers,e each blunder and
each difference made by the laws be-
tween the three species of currency,
and until there is no reason in law for
the preference OF gold perfect equality
Is unattainabls. Paper money has
great advantages over metallic. 1t is
preferred practically to the metals, and
whenever it will buy them without
loss it will be preferred in towns and
cities and among migratory popula-
tions; but silver is boarded and most
pleasing to interior farming popula-
tions. There is music in its jingle,
and where ordinary transactions are
small it is preferred. But whenever
this premium of one per cent. on gold
is destroyed by making duties payable
in paper, paper and gold will have
equal value, and the sooner Mr.. Sher.
mans purposes are accomplished. the
better for the country.