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Year: 1874

DR.. Brunton has been writing letters to the
british messenger on the temptation to drunk.
eDness caused by the craving for stmulants
felt by some people. He furnishes, says the


Wedicdl Press and Circular, prescriptions


which he believes will overcome this craving


and which, we presume are to be obtained by
his readers at the nearest chemist. Here are


two Of them:


81. Put a quarter of an ounce of sulphate
OF iron and half an ounce of magnesia i'll an
ordinary quart bottle, and fill it up with
peppermint water. A wine glassful to be taken


three or four times day. Instead of the


peppermint water an infusion of dried pep
ermint may be used. 1t may be made
stronger or weaker according to the taste of
the patient, and should be allowed to cool
before ii is added to the sulphatc of iron and
magnesia. A little gum.arabic or gum
tragacanth added to the mixture will keep
the magneSia better suspended, but this may
perfectly well be omitted, The bottle should
be shaken before the dose is poured out. 2.
Take an ounce Of quassia chips and pour over
them as much cold water as will ill three
quart bottles Let them stand an hour and
then strain Add to the strained liquid 915
fluid drachms Of the solution of iron, sold
under the name of Liquor Ferr Perchloridi."
Two tableSpoOniuls or half Il wineglasstul to
be taken three or four times a day The iron
solution may be measured oVt with IA teaspoon
one teaspoontul being equal to one fluid
drachm; but teaspoons vary in size, and it is
therefore better to use glass measure, which
may be bought at any chemists" No doubt
there are many cases in which Chalybcatc is
indicated, but it may be questioned fit would
not be wiser of those who wish to try the plan
to ask medical man first. The value of such
advice is indicated by the following remarks
appcndedby DR.. Brunton to the receipts we
have quoted: "Whcn persons tongue is
pale, tabby, and marked with the teeth at the
edges, the second prescription may be found
more useful than the first. When there
is any tendency to flatucnce the first should
be taken quarter of an hour before meals;
and il either Of them causes uneaSress when
taken on an empty stomach, they should be
used Immediately after meals. In the pres,
cnCe Of a robust habit or florid complexion
the following prescription, which owe to the
kindncs of John Groom, Of Hampstead may
be found more scrviCeablc than either Of the
preceding. Add one ounce of bruised gentian
root to one quart Of boiling water. Let this
stand four hours; then strain off the liquor,
and add two draChms Of carbonate of
ammonia \ wineglassful may be taken two
or three times day when the craving comes
on. This prescription was used by Mr. Fox
Now of BrightOn) when surgeon of Bedford
Jail. Though I have recommended it in
certain cases in preference to the other pre-
Scrption, it may be used by all who are
addicted to intoxicating drinks
Year: 1874

blotting from the memory the obso-


lete beauties of the "Fille de Nine


Angot."


Thus armed and equipped, the


cheeky girl comes forth only to con-


quer, and for her the world is bound


ed by the limits of her set, and firt-
ing the only end for which the
world was made. She is not only
exciting; indeed she is too silly to


know what she might exact; and her
deepest desires are filled if any
young man will only laugh at her


!mpertinenee, look shocked at her


iimPrTopriety, show his devotion to


her oy forgetting his manners to
every one else, and get himself talk
ed about as victim. But to secure
this the cheeky girl would sacrifice
father and mother, and all tbe
world, and it is to be feared that at
times she must endure humiliation
in the pursuit of the youthful swell
at whom she makes too eager a set.
For the last instinct she dies out
from the heart of man in the deep
conviction that tits woman's place
to be sought, and not to seek, and
the most fatuous fop, that ever wore
kid gloves and button-hole bouquet
can find no other response than
aversion from intercourse which re-
verses all his conceptions of his po-
sition in the world. And while
mamas wonder why their dear boys
do not go more frequently into the
society of the young ladies, and
while the young ladies are willing to
go more than half way to meet
them, that they never dream that
the male creatures resent the pre-
sumption, are repelled by their for
wardness and disgusted by the
sickening attentions of their would
be charmers; and not one in hun
dred but would suck the dryest ci-
gar ever grown on a Connecticut
hillside, or punch the greasiest of
billiard-balls against the hardest of
cushions, rather see the boniest sex
aalead ballet troupe down
the stage; rather go home drunk at
night and wake up with headache
in the morning; rather anything
than endure an over dose of the
cheeky girl. And thus is outraged
society avenged.
Year: 1874

Respectfully Inscribed to the Tan


trumy Sex.


A tantrum is a mental Water-spout.


More to be pitied than any other
created intelligence in this universe
is the man who is saddled with
wife who has tantrums. l don't
know whether the word "tantrum"
comes from tantalize and Tantalus
or not, but that ought to be the de-
rivationof it, I'm sure. It is true,
/ as a rule, that since the world began
men have always imposed upon wo-
men; but from that world-old,
worldwide rule it is to be expected
every time the man whose wife has
tantrums. The traditional repose of
Gautimozin grinning upon a bed of
burning Goals was nothing to his
situation. He suffers for the sins
of the whole SEX.


. The worst sort Of -tantrum in the
world is the tantrum matrimoni-
al. Once l knew a lady who want
ed her husband te take her to ride.
The lady was big fat woman. Her
husband was dull, goodish soul,
who had not the remotest under
standing of how to deal with fem
mime tantrum. He refused to take
his better half to ride. He didn't
quarrel, but became obstinate, and
the more obstinate she was, the
more obstinate he. They sat at din
ner with the table all covered with
dishes. Bye and bye the husband
arose from the table and turned to
go out and away. Seeing which
movement ON the partiofl her obsti-
nate husband, at that moment what
does my lady do but suddenly throw
out her hands and upset the table,
with all the dinner dishes, breaking
nearly everything thereon. Then
she tumbled down upon the floor
and burst into tears. She screeched
and sobbed and tore her hair. Then
she set her teeth together, kicked
out her lilly-white .footseytootsies
desperately, and Strengthened back
stiff as poker. Then her fright
ened husband sent for doctor
That was what she wanted. She
was a very nice woman indeed.


Medicine, half way between a
trade and science, with all the po-
tent agencies at his command, has
never yet been able to deal success
fully with feminine nerves. Medi-
cine, mighty medicine, has found
Year: 1874

things. The Superintendent stated


that they might all have been saved


II they had had presence of mind


only 10 do what they were told. But


all they did was to huddle together


and wiring their hands and scream or
jump from fOurth-story window,
Like the rest of the helpless, panickv
feminine race, they had never been
taught self-control, never been train
ed to subordinate theil emotions to
their will and common sense. So
the poor creatures lost their lives in
panic of fear.


One Of the greatest needs of the
women of this day-something
which they want fully as much as the
right to vote-is their need to try to
stop being panicky and tantrumy,
to try to govern their judgment and
their emotions by little strong and
noble common sense. 1t is a pleasant
fiction to call feminine bad temper
dyspepsia, and selfishness ''nerves,"
but 1t is fiction which, in point of
tact, is too thin. A noble soul de-
spISes tantrums. No real lady will
ever have Mysteries. She would as
soon think of chewing tobacco as of
giving way to a tantrum of hyster-
les, or a furious outburst of bad tenn
per. SAYS Papillon:


Irregular living and moderation
in material as in emotional life are
the secret, not, indeed, of happiness,
which is nowhere in this world, but
of serenity and security.


Meet the inevitable sorrows and
cruel agonies of life with a resigned
and firm soul. Ever have some oc-
to employ and divert your
mind, and to make it proof against
the temptation of want or desire.
Thus you will attain the term of life
overmuch disquiet and affiic-
lion. -
Year: 1874

Fading beneath our passing feet,
StreW1 upon lawn and land and street,


Beautiful leaves
DYED with the hues of the sunset sky.
Falling in glory so silently,


Beautiful leaves!
Never TO freshen another spring,
Never to know what the summer may
bring,


Beautiful leaves !
WIihered beneat til the frost and cold,
Soon TO decay in the common mouiu'


Beautiful leaves
Soon will the years that change your
Mark upoE their autumnal PRINT,


Beautiful leaves
So shall we fall from the tree OF time,
Fade as We fade in a wintry cline,


Beautiful! leaves
But when the harvest of life is past,
And we wake in eternal spring a last,


Beautiful leaves
May He who paints your brilliant hue
Form of our lives chaplet new,


Beautiful leaves
Year: 1874

One of the features of Donny
Brook Fair, as given by a descriptive
writer, is that ''once every hour or
so a large police van was driven
through the fair to pick up all the
yerv drunken men who were rolling
about, unable to govern their mo-
tions. They were at once lifted into
the van, and here many of them
again found their legs, and you heard
the muffied singing and the dull
thunder of their dancing inside as
the philanthropic van passed along.
As they got sober they were set
free" .l,,--.... ...r
Year: 1874

The following article, taken from the
Country Gentleman, SO thrillingly sets
forth the fearful results of using tobac-
co that the most hardened sinner must
repent and hasten to be wise after read
ing it:


First experiment, hog was shut up
in a tight pen, and his only food was one
half pound of tobacco a day. In one
week he had lost four pounds. Second
mule was placed in a stall without
food. Two plugs of tobacco were
placed before her twice a day. She
grew gradually restive. On the third
day one plug was forced down her throat,
when she tore the experimentor's ear
with her teeth, showing the bad effect
tobacco has on ones disposition. It
was then found necessary to muzzle
her so that she could not open her
mouth. At the end of eight days she
died. Thi1d, dog was nailed up in a
tobacco hogshead. At the end of four
days he was taken out much reduced.
Fourth, another dog was inclosed in a
tobacco barrel and rolled down a steep
hill. Within two years that dog went
mad Truly these are Satan's nets I
could cite plenty more of such expert
ments. We all know that single drop
of the oil of tobacco placed on the end
of a dogs tail Will kill man in min
ute. OF four men lately killed on the
Erie Railway three were smokers, and
the father of the other an inveterate
chewer of tobacco. On the bodies of
the two men washed ashore after the
late storm on Lake Michigan,
papers of tobacco were found.
In my own neighborhood a very dis
tressing accident, by which a most esti-
mable lady, the mother of seven lonely
children, broke her leg, occasioned by a
pair of runaway horses running into a
fence that surrounded field of tobacco.
Miss Chloe Flatfoot recently died in the
county adjoining mine at the age of 11S
years. She had both chewed and smoked
over 100 years, and as she had no dis
ease till the time of her death, it is
only fair to suppose that it was tobacco
| that killed her. For SO long time was
Satan spreading his nets for her; but I
think Mr.. K. will agree with me that he
must have her sure now. But why null
tiply examples? 4? You know how it is
yourself. So, Mr.. Editor, do not go on
helping spread these nets, by showing
N your paper how to grow large crops
of tobacco any more. Rather interline
the book of Proverbs with the remarks
of our second Solomon. Only let me
add a word of caution to that gentle
man. Does he, let me ask, use tea or
coffeeP These are other nets of Satan
as much as tobacco. Does he eat mince-
pies and use salaratus? More nets.
Does he indulge in ice creams or oys-
! ters Let him beware, lest, when he
least expects, Satan, in scooping in his
tobacco-users, fly away with him Ora
ham bread without salt is his only saliva
tiou
Year: 1874




It does not take q long preparation for
a marriage if the loving couple mean
business. J. @. Adams, of Michigan,
had lived bachelor till he was forty,
and had no time to lose. He went into
a dress-maldng shop in Detroit one
morning and asked the head business
woman if she could make amerino dress
by three O'Clock In the afternoon. She
said she could. John Quincy went out
and came back Immediately leading an
Audrey-looking girl of about seventeen,
wearing calico dress and a straw hat.
She uad bundle of stuf for a dress
under her arm. She agreed to help
make the dress aud sat down at a sew
ing machine and helped. John walked
up and down in front of the shop, as a
constant admonition that he was super
intending the contract. The gown was
finished on time and the girl put into it.
In the meantime John had hailed q
Notwithstanding man and asked him if
he could hitch-up couple for life. he
said that was a branch of his business.
he was retained. John asked the pro-
prietoE of the shopif she had any OBJ
lection TO the use of the dress where it
was made. She had not, and 50 john
Quincy Adams and the Michigan Aud
rey stood up and were married in that
dress-making sanctuary. John emptied
his pockets of nickels and pennies, all
the money he had, q bushel in bulk,
s.. % by count, and gave it TO the


preacher for having detained him. And
that business pair walked out into the


vide world, arm in arm, looking happy,


Bliss is cheap in Michigan.
Year: 1874

fish ponds Just outside the walls; here
they took a good dip IN the water, end
filed their beaks with as much as they
could carry away; then, nothwithstand-
ing the smoke and flames, they few
back to their little ones, poured the
water from their beaks over them and
the nest, and at the same time shaking
it from their feathers. Thus during the
whole day did these faithful birds act
as a winged fire brigade till toward
evening, when all danger for their
young and their nest was over.
Year: 1874

scales. Il is stated that ik cannot pass
over a piate Of glass, or ether entirely
smooth surface. We saw the expsfi-
ment tried, BY placing small pane of
glass In q box, in which vas a common
black snake. BE was made to pass over
it repeatedly, bHt evidently found that
he had no foothold ON It and the third
time he approached It, elevated the fore
part of his body slightly, and brought
his head down beyond the glass, and,
on bassing, his body seemed scarcely to
touch it. This gave an opportunity to
witness the wave-like movement of the
scales, that is, Of their elevation, which
runs from the head to the tail, enabling
the animal to move continuously, instead
Of by q series of minute pushes, as
would occur If ali the scales be lifted
and depressed at once.-P0pular Sci
epos MORthIy.
Year: 1874

The following table is annexed to the
reptrt of an officer appointed TO inves-
tigate the customs collection districts of
the Atlantic coast, giving a summary of
all receipts from customs at the smaller
ports Of the Atlantic coast during the
fiscal year ending June, 80, 1873, to-
gether with the cost of collecting the
same. The report recommends that
the entire Atlantic coast be redistricted
for customs use, and that all the smaller
collection districts be consolidated and
the majority of them abolished
Year: 1874

tor woman who, in the midst of
splendid luxury, will turn her heart
against the innocent children of her
own brother, who suffered and died in
the street Come, children, let US go,
and thank God that this ia not the only
representative of the woman Of His
creation


He hurried from the room but as
he paused for a moment at the hall
door to call up his carriage. the porter
ran forward, saying:


Miss Ethel begs you will leave your
address. She says you don't under
stand her.


Jack found card, seribbled his
hotel address on the back, and with
the children hurried away.


Well, Miss Halliday came, and
when Jack told her the whole story,
she took the children home; and
though half of New York was sighing
at her feet, she turned them all away,
and fell in love with jack She says


! admired him when he stood up
and so fearlessly passed my sentence of
eternal punishment: but / was so
frightened that / felt sure that / could
never revoke the sentence unless |
made him fall in love with me; and
while | was doing so, | fell in love
myself, and | am now quite at rest,
feeling sure that Jack S merits will help
me through


So they were married, and Jack has
the handsomest wife at the capital, and
a fortune into the bargain and Ethel
Chickering values the love of her ugly,
honest husband more than the adora-
tion of every Adonis in the world
Year: 1874

Iris a no less fatal erroi to despise
labor when regulated by intellect than
to value it for its sake. We are al
ways, in these days, trying to separate
the two; we want one man to be al
ways thinking and another to be al
ways working; and We call one a gen.
tleman and the other an operative,
whereas the working man ought to al
ways be thinking and the thinker to be
always; working and both should be
gentlemen iu the bestsense. As it is, we
make both ungentle, the one envyiny,
the other despising his brother; and the
mass of society is made up of morbid
thinkers and miserable workers. Now,
it is only by labor that thought can be
made healthy, and only by. thought
that labor can be made happy, and the
two cannot be separated without I'M
punity. All professions should be lib
eral, and there should be less pride felt
in peculiarity of employment, and more
in excellence Of achievement.
Year: 1874

The following article is clipped from
the Benton County Democrat, pub
lished in Oregon. We commend it to
our readers, and hope that, be they of
whatever party they may, they will give
it careful and unbiased reading:


Events of the past twelve years
have clearly shown that the party in
power during this period cannot and
will not preserve those principles of
honest, just and constitutional govern


ment upon which the American Union
was founded. Every year and every
returning victory of that party has
brought the country nearer TO bank
ruptcy and ruin, and but tended to the
subyersioD of every yestige of those
ideas of free government enunciated
BY the founders of the republic and
trainers of the great magma charta. the
bulwark of safety to the people of the
union. That party, during all these
years, has been stealthily and covertly
striving to break down state rights,
and subyert the entire framework of
liberty and even handed justice in the
country. They have been striving for
consolidation and empire, which once
accomplished, the step to despOtism is
but short and inevitable. To prevent
this it is not the mission of Demoera-
cy to assail any one individual but
the whole principles and measures of
the party, Just as was done seventy
three years ago, when Thomas Jeffer-
son triumphatly assumed the chief
magistraey of the nation. The propO-
sition to elect Grant TO third term Is
denounced as Csesarism; but truly
says A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, enc
of the wisest statesmen of the nation,
las long as he violates no law, the as
saults of those who would preserve the
liberties of this country should be
aimed at the authors of bad laws, and
wicked measures, as well as the princi-
pies and policies on which they are
based; and not against the officers,
high or low, who executed them. The
salvation and preservation of the free
institutions of the country depends
upon the Democracy. This is their
high mission, and they will fulfill 1t by
strictly adhering to and persistently
maintaining the principles of the con-
stitution, and not in following the lead
of the malcontent Republicans who
have fallen out with Gen. Grant. 7
Here we have the plain issue before
the people. The true mission Of De-
mocracy is to save the country from
utter ruin and anarchy by strict ad-
herence to. and unfinching, fearless
advocacy of, the cardinal and vital
principles which gave it birth and con-
Quoted it through eighty years of ad
vancement and prosperity. Then let
Democrats everywhere unite, nail the
flag of constitutional liberty to the
masthead of the ship of state, and
battle for its honor and supremacy. If
defeat cannot be averted, let the truth
full historian inscribe upon our tomb
stone, as the Spartans did upon the
simple monument at Thermopyla that
I'VE died in obedience to her sacred
laws"
Year: 1874

The New York Times, recognized
Grant organ has this to say in its is
sue of Dec. IL


The nomination of Attorney Gen
eral Williams for the post of Chief
Justice was re-committed to the Judi
ciary Committee on Monday, fact
which seems to indicate that there is
great opposition in the Senate to his
appointment. This is one of those
cases in which serious responsibility
is thrown upon the Senate, and which
it cannot evade without doing itself
great injury. Very little is knewn by
the general public about the Attorney
General, but it cannot be denied that
his fitness for the high Office of Chief
Justice has been impugned, on grounds
which are apparently very strong
The Senate must have in Its possess
ion full information in regard to his
character and abilities, and if that in
formation is unfavorable to Mr.. Viii
liams his nomination ought to be re-
iected. The Bar in this State is op-
posed. almost to man, to Mr.. Wilt
ans. The Bar of every other State
seems to be of the same mind. The
President, there can be no doubt. has
acted in perfect good faith, but he may
have been mistaken in his selection oi
this particular man. If so, he will
doubtless find it out, and we trust he
will then make another nomination
which will prove more acceptable tc
the Bar and TO the country"
Year: 1874

You should not only be religious and
love religion you should make relig-
ion attractive, useful, and agreeable to
every one around. The sick will like
your religion if it leads you to tend
them, your family will be attracted to
1t If they see you more careful in your
duties, more patient, more gentle in
finding fault. If your husband sees
that, as you become more devout, you
are also more afieetiOnate to him, more
tenderly submissive, he will be won to
your religion. In word, let your re-
ligion be as winning to others as pos
sible.
Year: 1874

A LOVER of peculiarly practical
turn of mind has been discovered. In
one Of his letters to his sweetheart he
wrote Il wish. my dear, that you
would not write such long letters to
me. If you were to bring an action
for breach of promise against me, the
lawyers would have to copy the CORES
pOndence between us, and charge four
pence for every folio of seyenty-two
words. The shorter the letters the
more we shall save from the lawyers.
Year: 1874

a NEAR-sIGHTED hen that ate saw
dust, suppOsing it TO becornmeal. then
went and laid nest full of bureau
knobs, set on them three weeks and
Matched out complete set Of parlOr
furniture, was pretty fair average
hen.
Year: 1874

A party Of long tailed monkeys want
ed to cross narrow fiver, over which
there was no bridge After discussing
things among themselves, the ingenious
creatures ran to 'atree that grew on the
bank of the river; climbing the tree the
largest of them grasped strong branch
second monkey laid firm hold of tha
ones tail, third took. hold of the sec
ond monkeys tail, and so on until they
formed a long string, hanging nearly to
the surface of the river. ee-..


A traveller, who was in the distance
then saw them begin to swing backwards
and forwards, until the last monkey wa
able with his claws to catch hold of {
tree ON the opposite side of the water. A
loud challenge of joy was heard, and in
moment the monkeys we're capering
about in all directions.


How much may be done by union and
brotherly kindness! How few quarrel>
would happen between brothers and sis
ters'if they would only be like the long
tailed monkeys and ."help one another.