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Year: 1877

STRAWBERRY SALAD.-Pick, wash drain and toss crisp, tender lettuce leaves, shred them up fine in the salad bowl, and pour over them some straw berry juice, and serve at once.

 A NUTRITIOUS COMPOSITION. - Take equal quantities of sago and cocoa, mix them, put tablespoonful in a pint ol boiling water, and boil the whole to. gether for few minutes with constant stirring.

 STRAWBERRY GEM TARTs. Make large-sized gems in the usual manner from the fine Graham flour, being care ful not to make them too hard. When done let then stand ten or fifteen min utes to steam, then split open and fill each half with strawberries with or with. out sugar, add spoonful of strawberry juice if it will hold so much, and serve at once.

 ASPARAGUS RoLIs.--.Boil the aspar. agus, as usual, in boiling salted water when tender cut up the tops and all that is eatable and warm over ir milk butter rubbed in flour, yolks of raw eggs beaten, grate of nutmeg, and q small pinch of mace---qualities regulated by the amount of asparagus; have some milk rolls with the crumb scooped out having taken off the top crust, fill the cavity with the boiling asparagus, and place the top crust on at once must be managed quickly, so as to go to the table very hot.

 RHUBARD JELLY.-Peel, and cut mp quite small some fresh rhubarb, put it into a preserving pan with a very little water, and the thin rind of half lemon to every pound of fruit. Boil until re- duced to pulp. Strain the juice, weigh it, and allow one pound of pounded sugar to every pound of juice. Boil the juice, add the sugar, boil, skim, and when it jellies on the skinner pour into pots, and tie down when cool.

 How To SHAPE RoLLs.-Roll on the dough when quite light, and cut with a good sized cutter or tumbler. Dip a clean feather into melted butter and brush lightly over the dough that is cut cut; then fold each circle into crescent, or half moon shape prick on the top, apu pio'C iu 'iiV iht pau tO T1st. When very light, bake in hot oven full twenty minutes. The oven should be so hot that one could not hold the hand in it long enough to count twenty.

 To Cook SALT CoDFIsH. Shred enough fish 10 make pint: put it into two quarts of water and set it where it will keep warm, but do not let it boil, as boiling hardens salt fish. If wished for breakfast, put it to soak the night be- fore. In the morning pour off all the water, replacing it with one pint of sweet milk, and set on the stove. Mix one tablespoonful of corn starch with one tablespoonful of cold milk in bowl, beat into this one egg, and when the milk on the stove is just ready to boil dip from it a few tablespoonfuls, stirring 1t we'll together with the egg and corn starch in the bowl then pour all back into the fish, add small tablespoonful of butter Cor less), let all boil I'D at once so as to thicken. and serve on buttered toast.
Year: 1877

The au thor, Col. John H. Dent, one of Georgia's most intelligent and success fhl farmers, now far advanced in life, contributes this excellent article to that valuable paper, the Southern Plantation and we commend it to the attention ol all southern farmers:

 My last was ciutioning against such large crops of cotton being planted, as ruinous to the agricultural welfare of the south. The Plantation of the 5th, in the editorial department has an ed torial headed, A twenty acre farm," wherein is shown by planting five acres in corn, five acres in cotton, five acres in wheat, five acres in fruit, vegetables and truck patches, by system of high farming, what can be done. The amount of crops indicated are reasonable in the estimates made, and any energetic industrious young man can make such crops on fair farming lands. The editor further re- marks, "contrast that result with the account of the city gentleman, who has everything to buy. Even though the latter may get good salary, he will not end of the year." and the writer may have added, or the farmer that is culti- vating four hundred acre farm, and making cotton his special crop. The twenty acre farm is an illustration of diversined farming, and it is as true as any certain fact, that the only way to farm successfully is to diversity the crops and in accordance with my experience it can be proftably done on farm of two hundred acres in cultivation, but where it is done on two hundred acre farm, at least eighty acres should be put down to small grain crops, sixty to com, fifty to cotton, and ten acres to truck crops---my father maintains that two hun dred acres is farm large enough for any farmer to cultivate with hired labor, if he wants to farm successfully.

 This brings me to the subject, diversi. fled farming, which I have advocated and recommended ever since tho emanci- patton of slavery. The farmers capital now chiefly consist in his farm and stock. and his interestsis in improving his lands and making them more productive and valuable every year. This can only be done by diversified crops, and stock to furnish him manures, for if he allows his farm..to run down and get less productive, his capital is being diminished, and his income less as much. A provident farmer will keep an eye to keeping of his lands, knowing that his success is dependent on their fertility-aad any rehecting farmer will soon discover that it will take the best of management, and most untiring energy and industry, to keep up a two hundred acre farm, improving in fertility and keeping it in repairs. On two hundred acre farm it will take at least seven good mules or horses to cultivate it properly-one yoke of good oxen for hauling, four good cows, five breeding sows, and twenty sheep. That is ample stock for such a sized farm, but it can support more if deemed necessary. This
Year: 1877

Hsw are we to explain the marvellous cures that have appeared to be effected by the blue glass treatment? We are inclined to think that the sunshine which did not come through the glass was the curative agent, rather than that which traversed the colored panes. We believe in the benefcent influence of sun. shine-the pure, natural article and not merely the residual rays that get through the Pleasonton strainer. We do not doubt the honesty of the general, nor that he really believes he is improving on the divine gift of sunlight by his blue-glass filter; but, even fiji were d deliberate deception, we could forgive him for it 80 long as he requires only one blue pane to several colorless ones. Anything that will induce people to let the sunlight into their houses is to be welcomed, if there be spice of quack- cry in it. We have no doubt that many who are now taking their daily sun-bath, innocently tempered by tho
Year: 1877

Thiers has beautiful library of twenty thousand volumes, and it is lighted from the top. His eighty years have hardly slackened the rate of his labor. He is up by daylight, brews his own coffee, and is closeted with M. Bar tholemy Saint Hilaire when the busy quarter around him is still silent. He is great economist of his time and health, and sleeps twice in the course of the day. His drinks are milk and coffee, and he eats plain meats. When he wants to gather strength for long effort in the tribune, copious glass of coffee appears before him,
Year: 1877

Some months ago lady was committed to
the Western Lunatic Asylum as patient, one
phase of her insanity being almost complete
silence She appeared to know or notice no
one. A few days ago her little daughter,
prattler not yet two years old, which she had
not seen since she was bereft of her reason, was
brought to see her. The mother bad greatly
altered in appearance, her hair being cut of
and the change in her mental health had been
reflected in her features, but the child sprang
to her at once, aud clasping her round the
knees buried her face 10 her dress, crying It's
my mamma-my own, opn mammal The
mother hardly noticed the child, but the little
one climbed into her lap and commenced
stroking her hair with its little hands, all the
time grooming, My oion mammal" In lit
tie while the mother began to notice it, and
shortly the maternal feeling fully re-asserted
itself in close clasps of recognition and ahec-
tion. Since the visit the patient has under
gone marked improyement.-Stdunton Iihdi-
Gator
Year: 1877

The Huntington Mirror says: We feel it
our duty to give recipe for the cure of dip
liberia, which we know from personal knowl-
edge has cured several cases. 1t is simply TO
put some pure tar on plate aud apply hot
Goals to it, not hot enough, however, to create
a blaze. Then place a funnel upside down
over the tar aud let the patient inhac the
fumes arising from the burning tar through
the spout of the funnel 1t will give instant
relief, and may he repeated as often as may
be necessary. Tar spread on piece of cloth
and applied to the throat in connection with
theinhaing process is also good, much better
than old fitch and liniments. II should not
be removed until the throat is relieved Of all
soreness"
Year: 1877

For a durable and cheap paint foT house
floors dissolve Que ounce Of glue in quart Of
warm water and thicken with paint. After
putting this on 90 over /, with a coat Of boiled
linseed oil it viii be dry and ready for use in
two hours.-Sohhern FdrmeT.
Year: 1877

Cincinnati Commercial.


II may be the Republican party will
continue to exist as one OF the two pow
erful political org anizations of the coun-
try; but i only hope ofdoing so is to fol-
low the lead of the administration in its
policy of concil iation and reform of the
civil service. 1t must stand by its own
pledges as made in the platform adopted
az the last notional convention, notably
those of the fifth resolution Of the series
and which the President is endeauoring
to apply in affairs OF government. If it
fail to do tnat, and through the agency
of senators and representatives who are
reluctant to give up the power they have
acquired in disturbing the spoils of Office
among their henchmsn, it will go to pie
ces, and there will be no occasion for
tears of regret if it does.
Year: 1877

York County, New Brunswick, beavers
are sagacious animals. A man named
Nackawick, hunting beaver, recently
came upon lagoon which showed marks
of having been lately damned up by
these industrious creatures. Leaving
his ak near beaver-house, the trapper
proceeded to explore the region round
about, but on returning in about an
hour no ak was to be found. This
mysterious disappearance puzzled him,
but his astonishment turned into posi-
tive alarm when, going to the foot of a
large juniper tree, no traces could be
seen of his camp-kettle and provisions.
Faint from hunger and fatigue, he found
his way to the edge of the pond, where
small black object gliding over the
surface of the water attracted bis atten-
ton. Closer inspection revealed huge
beaver swimming off with the camp
kettle in his mouth. The disguised
trapper slowly left the fated spot, minus
ak, kettle, and good dinner, carried of by
the beavers. Whether the beavers sunk
the ak in the middle of the pond OF
conveyed it to a place of safety is, ol
course, unknown; but from the method
of their operations he firmly believed
that they made sure of the ak first
knowing that it was the instrument
with which he designed destroying theil
homes. The kettle, which seemed the
more harmless and inoffensive weapon
they left till the last.
Year: 1877

According to the author of La PoliteSse
Francaise, work recently published in
Paris, gentleman, when he gives his
hand to friend, must press his friends
hand, but not shake it. If he is about
to shake hands with peasant he must
present bis hand ungloved, or the peas
ant will consider himself insulted. If he
is about to shake hands with lady, he
must keep his gloves on. When he offers
to conduct lady to the piano, he must,
in taking her hand, half close his own.
In dancing with lady, he must not per-
NIT himself to squeeze her hand and he
must, if he wishes to show himself true
gentleman-or, at least, "a veritable
gentleman"-spend eighteen thousand
francs, or three thousand five hundred
dollars, a year on his gloves. A gentle
man who spent this much year on his
gloves of various kinds and colors, would
probably, if only for the sake of consis-
tency, treat himself every day to at least
one new hat. All, however, that we are
told on the subject is that gentleman's
hat should always be bright and bril-
liant" A gentleman never altogether
separates himself from his hat, though
it is not etiquette to wear it in room.
In the street on meeting an equal of his
own sex he takes it off for moment. On
meeting lady or superior of his own
sex, he remains uncovered until he is
told to put his hat on. Do not eat in the
street, do not smoke pipe in the street,
do not smoke cigar in the street, if you
are walking with lady-"not even if
you happen to be this lady's husband" "
1t seems odd to tell gentleman who is
supposed to spend three thousand five
hundred dollars year on his gloves not
to smoke pipe in the street, but we have
reproduced this caution as we find it
When you bow, bow properly, but not SC
deeply that your vertebral column will
make right angle with your legs. Il
an officer in uniform salutes you, do moi
make yourself ridiculous by returning
his salute in military fashion. A lawyer
will not only think you silly, but will bt
irritated if, visiting him on matter o
business, you ask him how ne is, inquire
after the health of his wife, express .
hope that the children are all we'll, ant
so on. This sort of talk should be re


served for friends whose time is not valu


able, or who have no right to charg


for it.
Year: 1877

According to writer IN the Augusta


(Ga.) Constitutionalist, bees are disposed to


rob each others hives, and to fight fol


the booty. They don't know what fear


is, and will fight anything. Sometimes
swarm gets out of honey, or finds Its
supply will not last through winter.
Then it makes raid on the nearest hive,
and battle ensues. The correspondent
thus describes battle between swarm
of italian bees and an American one:


A party of these robbers came and set
in one of my italian hives the other day.
A good many of my Italian bees were
out gathering honey, and the marauders
effected lodging on my hive, and
fought their way inside the hive,
though the home-guards of the Italians
fought with desperation, and contested
every inch of ground. 1t was the
fercest battle you ever saw. A regular
hani-to-hand Waterloo. A tempest of
short, shrill notes and hoarser huns
(the war-cries of the combatants) were
heard fifty yards.


The fight is strictly hand-to-hand.
An Italian bee throws himself in front
of an American bee 10 stop his progress.
Two or three little Americans throw
themselves with blind fury on the gigan-
tic foreigner, and nip him with their
sharp, swapping beaks in thousand
places. The object with him seems to be
to catch them by the tip of the wing,
and give them twist, which breaks or
splits it, and deprives him of the power
of flying. 1t is then easy for the Italian
to bounce him and finish him up.


The robbershavejusta about fought their
way into the honey-cells when the tide
of the battle begins to change. A great
many of the Italians have come in from
their honey hunt, and seeing in mo-
ment how the thing is, and, being fresh
and vigorous, literally cut their way
through the ranks of the little Ameri-
cans. Enough of these have come to turn
the fortunes of the fight.


The defeat never becomes a rout,
though. Though thousands of the SOL
diers are slain, the balance continue the
fight until all are dead except a few
dozens of them. They still wage the
arrogant war, being determined on
" honey or DEATH" and they will strug-
gle until actually the last one is slain.


Then, without moments rest, the
Italians plunge into the mass of dead
and dying, and commence carrying the
dead out of the hive. 1 came to their
help, and actually took over two quarts
of dead bees out of the hive, and the Ital-
ians retired to dress their wounds and
discuss the combat. l never saw such a
desperate fight in my life.
Year: 1877

Drunk! Young man, did you ever
stop to think how that word sounds?


Did you ever think what misery and
woe you brought upon your friends
when you degraded your manhood by
getting drunk? How it rings in the
ears of a devoted wife! How it makes
the heart of fond mother bleed! How
it crushes out the hopes of a doting
father. and brings reproach and shame
upon loving sister. Drunk! See him
as he leans against some friendly house.
He stands ready to fall into hell, uncon-
scious as to his approaching fate. His
wife with fearful eyes and aching heart
sits at the window to hear her husbands
footstep. Alas! they come not. He is
drunk The husband, the parent, is
drunk! spending his means of support
for liquor, while his family is starving
for bread, his children suffering fol-
clothing. His friends one by one, are
reluctantly leaving him TO a miserable
fate.
Year: 1877

"The night was lovely. A full moon


was in the sky, and her light fell directly


upon the Jail. The white walls had 8


ghost-like look from the grove, and the


winds that rustled the leaves around me
seemed to sing the requiem of the doomed
man. l found relief among the trees
but all at once was wishing that I had
not left my house.


"a face white and wan as death ap-
peared suddenly at one of the barred win
dows. I knew that it was John Upshot's.
The apparition startled me, and I was
on my feet in an instant, staring at the
window. He seemed to be taking his
last look at the beautiful earth unfolded
to his gaze by the moon, and longing
look it seemed to ne. could see that
his face was pressed against the bars, and
when recollected that the man must be
standing on the very tips of his toes in
order to maintain his position, I felt his
eagerness. For many minutes l watched
that white face, and if 1 pitied its guilty
owner in that moment ofhi pain, am
sure, gentlemen, that you will pardon
me.


81 was thus gazing at John Upshot
when the loud report of a gun caused me
to start and whirl quickly in my tracks.


"The weapon seemed to have been dis
charged within few PAGES of my posi-
ton; but could not see living soul
besides myself in the grove. My first
impression was that an attempt had been
made upon my own life; but had not
felt the whistle of the ball, and was quite
certain that it had not penetrated my
person. But, in order to be prepared for
second shot, l drew weapon and started
towards the suspected position of the as
sassin. My search proved fruitless; but
as the trees were throwing long shadows,
1 knew that any person could easily
elude me. The shot worked me up to
no little pitch of excitement, and as I
turned my head towards the town, 1
happened to glance at the Jail.


"John Upshot's face was no longer at
the window!


al returned home mystifed by the
shot, but resolving to discover its author.
My wife met me at the door with white
face, and said that she feared that Up
shot had taken his life as she had heard
the fall of heavy body in the direction
of his cell.


"a minute later flung wide the cell
door, and to nay horror found John Up-
shot lying on the floor with the moon
light falling upon the bloodiest face that
1 have ever beheld. OF course my first
thought was one of suicide; but the
rigid hand grasped no revolver, though
there was CHASTITY bullet wound between
the eyes. 1 lifted the man, but he was
dead, and knew would not hang him
on the coming day. Of course 1 was not
long in associating the shot in the grove
with the criminals death, and an obser-
vation taken on the following night con-
vinced me of the fact. The affair is still
involved in mystery to the people of
Usage; but to me it mas been made
clear.


A year after this thrilling event 1
was summoned to the deathbed of Lillian
Blake, the beautiful daughter of Upshot's
victim. She was near the grave, but she
told me strange story, and before l left
the room, l knew that the fair girl had
avenged her fathers death by Staying
his murderer on the night before the day
of legal execution"
Year: 1877

A MEMPHIS dispatch says that during
a heavy rain-storm lately, fall of small
live snakes were noticed in the southern
part of the city, thousands ofwhich could
be seen next day. They were from a
foot to a foot and half in length.
Year: 1877

GENERAL JAMES SHIELDS, the new
Adjutant General of Missouri, was shot
through the body with grapeshot at
the battle of Cerro Gordo, during the
Mexican war, and large silk handker-
chief was drawn through his body to
clean the wound. He afterward served a
term as United States Senator from
Illinois, and then as a major general
during the civil war in the Union
Armv.
Year: 1877

meeting OF the committee appointed by the Brook
Ign Common Council to Investigate tho alleged cor
ruption and fraud IN the work tho now municipal
building In course oil completion In that city cid
yesterday uiterhoon The committee received reports
IRON the experts appointed TO inspect the work and
material, but no action was takon.
Year: 1877

A singular combat took place in the
PIuzl de Acho, or Bull Ring OF Linn :, GA
sunday last. The event was q stIuggle
for supremacy between an African Lion
and Peruvian bull. The proverbial
courage and deXterity OF the last-named
animal failed to produce the requisite
effect upon his tawny antagonist, and
after a lew Intellectual attempts to dis
!olge the lion from the firm hold he had
taken on the DulPs throat and nose, the
champion oil Peru quietly lay down and
became food tor his master.-[ Panama
SLar,
Year: 1877

No OCCUPATION.-A GRAvE MISTAKE.
We recently read a sad letter from an am
bilious young man. He had been unfor-
tunate in some respects, but life lay before
him, and he was ambitious he experienced
however, double misfortune in this world,
in which there Is so much to do, from not
knowing how to do anything. "My father"
he wrote, "did not think 1t worth while for
me to learn any trade or business" He
had been thrown on his resources, and, al
though now man in stature and years, he
was mere infant in his capacity to earn a
living. How awkward What a misfor-
tune Yet such cases frequently come under
our observation; and they lead us to look
upon the culpability as very great, of auy
parent who brings up son without having
him practically and thoroughly instructed
in some way of earning an honest living
Every man should have some profession OF
trade; should know how to do something
Then, whether he steadfastly pursues it o.
not, he at least has an occupation to which
in an emergency, he may resort, for the sup
port of himself and others who may be de
pendent upon him. A practical know-noth
ing is greatly to be pitied in this practica
| world. .-NeW York Ledger.
Year: 1877

CONTINUED.


The process of mining out the coal,
ready to be put on the cars, is as fol-
lows:


The miner excavates with his
pick a horizontal slot from one side of
the room to the other, in that part
Of the coal known as "the under
mining" This slot is excavated for
a distance of three to four feet i'll the
solid coal from the face Of the head
ing or room. He usually begins at
one side Of the room, and after cut
ting she slot for several feet, if he is
at all afraid that part Of the breast
may fall before he gets the slot en-
tirely finished for the width of the
room, he puts some wedges in the slot
to hold up the breast coal above it
and keeps adding wedges as he goes
on with the slot.


This process is called by the miners
"underminlng." After he has finish
ed his undermining. he drives another
vertical slot on the side of the room
from the undermining to the roof
This slot is eight or ten inches wide
sometimes a foot. He then drives
a similar slot on the other side of the
room. These side slots are called by
the miners "shearing," After this he
knocks out his wedges from the un,
dermining and drives some iror
wedges near the line of the roof o
the mine and breaks off the mass o
coal which he had undermined
and sheared, and which was helc
only in place by its adhesion to tn
Year: 1877

The work has been begun after long and
careful preliminary labor, and with the
most ample resources for carrying it on to
q successful terBination.


None Of the original stereotype plates
have Seen used, but every page has been