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Year: 1874

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/ will admit that there are sew
eral kinds Of wine spoken OF
in the Bible, among which are
new wine, old wine, sweet wine,
sour wine, strong wine, mixed
wine, red wine. etc. And it
was a common custom to have
more than one kind Of wine at
fessts. "Every man at the be-
ginning doth set forth good
wine, and when men are we'll
drunk then that which is worse;
but thou has kept the good
wine until now. John 2: 10
This text shows two things, that
1t was a universal custom to
have wine &C feasts, and also
that it was acustom 10 have
more than one kind OF wine.
| wonder if that worse kind
spoken of was a production
of the devils


On the day Of peptecost the
Jews accused the disciples oi
being drunk on new wine, so
that the term new wine IN
those days did not always
mean unlermented wine, but
in their answer the disciples
did not deny being in the hab
it of drinking wine, as they
no doubt would have done if
theypracticed total abstinence.
hut they merely SAID, "we are
not drunk as ye suppose seeing
IT IS but the third hour of the
day." 1t was common then,
and is now, 10 make two and
sometime three kinds or grades
Of wine out Of the same grapes;
thus, when the grapes are
mashed that juice which runs
IF OF IFS own accord IS kept TO
itself, as it contains more grape
sugar and less acid, IL makes
The pest wine. Then The grapes
are pressed moderately and
that juice will make mIddling
good wine; then they are sub
miIIed 10 a very hard pressure
and this last juice will make
an In eriOr wine, such as was
probably used towards The
close of the least when men
we're well drunk. Red wine Is
made of dark colored grapes
usually iermented partially on
the husk; though white wine
can be, and sometimes is made
Of the first run of the black
grapes. What Mr.. Biggs said
about the manner of making
red and white vine is correct.
The same practice is still in
common use, but what he said
about their keeping the wine
in an unfermenied state is un.
true. and he can not prove The
assertion, from the Bible or
any other reliable source nor
by experiment, other than by
the canning process which is
modern invention. II wine
can be thus kept, why do not
some of The advocates Of that
theory demonstrate the tsct by
experiment l have known q
few men who believed in arti
fetal perpetual motions, some
of whom have shown their
faith by spending considerable
labor and money IN trying 70
demonstrate the principle by
experiment. II those men really
believe that wine can be kepI
without fermentation, why do
they not show their faith by
their works and demonstrate
the TACT by experiment. Fol
my part would as much ex'
pect to succeed IN making 9
perpetual motion, as | would
to keep the juice OF the grape
Without fermenting for a twel sc
month, for 10 accomplish thii
| would have to first devise
some plan by which to suspend
the operations Of one of the
lmnutable laws Of the God o
nature, which is as persistent
Year: 1874

The Fish Of Paradise Is one Of the most
peculiar of Chinese fresh-water fish. Tits
small in size pale gray in color, and, at
first sight, having but little about It to at
tract attention. As soon as the animal
becomes excited, however, the long Ems on
the back and belly straighten out and as
sumo rich purple blue tinted with green.
The long and forked-shaped tail spreads
into kind Of fan, and the stripes upon
the sides of the fish become yellow, red,
and blue, constantly changing in color.
The scales seem to become opalescent and
reflect the light with the greatest brillan-
cy, while the eyes appear Illuminated with
bluish-green fire. The habits Of the ami
NAL are as odd as its appearance. The
males take charge Of the young and build
the nest The latter is simply clod Of
foam floating upon the water, and Is made
BY the fish rising to the surface and alter
nately absorbing and expelling air, until
little cluster Of fine bubbles, hardly three
tenths of an inch square, is formed. The
female then deposits her eggs, which are
at once seized upon by the male, who car
ries them in his mouth to the nest. Then
he watches their incubation, carefully
guarding and distributing them With won
derfal sagacity evenly throughout the mass
Of foam. When they clot together, he
pushes them apart with his nose, and, be-
sides, keeps up continual manufacture Of
bubbles until the eggs are lifted up above
the water and rest only upon their soft
couch. As soon as the embryos appear,


his care is doubled. He watches that none
escape; and in case some become separated,


he chases them, catches them in his mouth,
and replaces them carefully in the nest.


If one becomes injured, he removes It
from the others, and gives il separate


bubble by itself, and apparently nurses it


until it regains its strength.
Year: 1874

Charles Nordhoa, in the April number
of HaPers, has this interesting account
of the habits of sea lions:


1t is an extraordinary, interesting sight
to see the marine monsters, many of them
bigger than an OK, at play in the surf, and
to watch the superb skill with which they
know how to control their own motions
when huge wave seizes them and seems
likely to dash them in pieces against the
rocks. They love to lie in the sun upon
the bare and warm rocks; aud here they
sleep, crowded together, and lying upon
each other in inextricable confusion. The
bigger the animal, the greater his ambition
appears to be to climb to the highest sum-
nit; and when a huge, Shiny beast has,
with infinite squirming, attained solitary
peak, he does not tire of raising his sharp
pointed head, and complacently looking
about him. They are rough set of brutes
rank bullies, should say; for I have
watched them repeatedly, as big fellow
shouldered his way among his fellows,
reared his huge front to intimidate some
lesser seal which had secured a fayorite
spot, aud, first with howls, and if these
did not suffice, with teeth and main force,
expelled the weaker from his lodgment.
The smaller sea lions, at least those which
have left their mothers, appear to have no
rights which any one Is bound to respect,
They get out Of the way with an abject
promptness which proves that they live in
terror of the stronger members Of the COM
munity; but they do not give up their
places without harsh complaints and pite-
GUS groans.


Plastered against the rocks, and with
their 1.-the and apparently boneless shapes
eonformed to the rude and sharp angles,
they are wonderful, but not a graceful
or pleasing sight. At little distance
they look like huge maggots, and their
slow, ungainly motions upon land do not
lessen this resemblance. Swimming in the
ocean, at distance from the land, they
are inconspicuous objects, as nothing but
the head shows above the water, and that
only at intervals But when the vast surf
which breaks in mountain waves against
the weather side of the Farallones with a
force which would in single sweep dash
to pieces the biggest Indiaman--when a
surf, vehemently and with apparently ir-
resistable might, lifts its tall, white head,
and with deadly roar lashes the rocks
halfway to their sxmmit-then 1t is a
magnificent sight to see dozen or half a
hundred great sea lions at play in the very
midst and ficrccst part of the boiling surge,
so completely masters of the situation that
they allow themselves to be carried within
foot or two of the rocks, and, at the last
and imminent moment, with an adroit
twist of their bodies, avoid the shock, and
diving, reappear beyond the breaker,
Year: 1874

A SUPEnIoR SILVER WAsH.--0ne
ounce Of nitric acid, one silver dime, and
one ounce Of quicksilver. Put in a glass
tumbler until the mass is dissolved, when
a pint of rain-water should be added. If
you want powder, mix with whiting in
stead Of water. Apply in either case with
a cotton rag and polish with soft buekskin.
Year: 1874

The Statesman of the 2lst thinks
the advent of the Oranges, has had a
very healthy effect upon the political
atmosphere. lie thinks both of the
great political parties have been ben
efiitted by their coming upon the
stage. We are not prepared to dis-
pute the conclusion, although the
present uphoaval of the farmers, is
not a political move, yet the presence
Of the hardy and unselfish workers of
the nation, on the stage Of action,
cannot result In anything but the
purifying of the general mass.
Viewed in this light, the present far
mer't movement cannot fail to result
in good, and we trust that we will be
able TO record splendid success in
this matter. and at no distant day
either.
Year: 1874

1t has been said that yellow
fever has again broken out at Shreve-
port. We are glad to see that the
Times emphatically contradicts the
report, and says that the city is now
very healthy.
Year: 1874

"S ''


account OF the turn of the Horrells,
sud the late engagement between the
sheriff aad the land. There seems
to be a settled determination upon
the part Of the citizens of that county
to drive the baud from the country.
Year: 1874

In the new cooking-school for girls estab-
lished in Tew York theory and practice are
charmingly blended. The class is first taken
before teacher who gives chemical analy-
sis of the dinner bill of fare, stating the pro-
portion of nitrates, carbonates and phos-
pilates which enter into it, aud the relation
each bears to the needs of the body. The
girls are then taken into the cook room where
the chef, M. Pallas, throws a few pinches in
to saucepan of water and produces there
from in a surprisingly short time fine batch
of queen fritters, big, bouncing, and light as
feathers. A lesson in jugglery, apropos to
potatoes Ia lyonnaise, follows, the young
women being taught to give the handle of the
pan an ingenious toss which sends every sep
arate slice into. the air in regular procession
and makes them descend again in the same
order into their proper places the other side
up. Cooking as taught in this way, which
we may venture to call q la chinois, is said to
be as good as a play.
Year: 1874

FROM all we can gather respecting the crops
in this state from our exchanges and other
sources, the harvest Of 1874 will average
much better than most years. The hay crop
is large and was secured in prime condition /;
all grain crops ripened in good weather and
must yield well; corn which looked like fail.
ure early in August must have ripened dur
ing the sunny, warm days of September; po-
tatoes Indicate an average yield so that the
supply will be equal to the demand; the
cheese factories and other dairy operations


ave been successful and their products will


'mmand good prices; apples and other fruits


iuii an average so that Maine will have
apples to sell this year instead of having to
purchase for home consumption. Neverthe-
less, there are those who grumble. There al
ways will be such. They have no use for a
real thanksgiving day.
Year: 1874

THE BowDoIN DRILL.-A CORRESPONDENT
writes that in accordance with the vote of the
faculty the students of Bowdoin College have
made their choice between the drill and the
gymnasium. The result has been that the Sem
iors and Juniors have unanimously chosen the
gymnasium, and the Sophomores and Fresh
men likewise. with three exceptions, leaving
the battalion at present composed of three men,
and showing that the students did not rebel
against the drill from the heat Of excitement,
but from a strong and firmly fixed sense of its
utter unftness to serve the purpose for which
it was introduced
Year: 1874

TEMPERANCE IN NEwFIELD.-A correspond
ent in Newfield writes us glowing account of
Temperance reform in that town, resulting
from the lectures of Francis Murphy, which
took place in the Methodist church last Sunday
afternoon and evening, the effect of which can
be best judged from the fact that LAT persons
signed the pledge, and on Monday evening a
Reform Club was organized
Year: 1874

The New York Democratic State Com
mittee have gone into the ''stirring address"
business, and appeal to the people to reouke
Imperialism" The Democracy should
bear in mind that il has ever been the settled
policy of our government not to interfere in
the affairs of foreign nations-un.ess they
were very weak and had gold mines as in the
case OF Mexico.
Year: 1874

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
ut as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
nuncations that are not used.
Year: 1874

General Fitzpatrick says that the Liberal
party is dead, and he ought to know, since he
mas been there himself. He now proposes to
atone Tor his past shortcomings by working
with and for the Republican party.
Year: 1874

On! it is an unhealthy month for those
gentlemen who voted for and took the back
pay. Once these fellows sneered, and said
the bad newspapers were making all the
tousc. Now the Average voter is getting
after the grabbers, and the numerous victims
in the political morgue of the country, if they


:en't entirely insensible, are learning that


,e anti-grab papers have a disagreeably large


nd determined backing. The living may
learn wisdom and goodness from the fate oil
the victims; but for them there is no help.
They can order their marble.


IT seems altogether nonsensical to spend
any more money, men and time in going af-
ter the north pole and the open sea or ice,
whichever it is about it. If we continue in
this world the most OF us will see enough of
the arctic regions to satisfy our taste for it be-
fore dog day heat causes us to languish for
frozen zones. Let us see the man who can
tell us just how the common crowd can per-
suade ton of coal to give out twice the heat
it now does. That's the man we pine to see.
No more north pole, not even in the newspa-
pers-that is-no more of it than we can help
by the aid OF the best heating apparatus.


The recent election for the French Assem-
bly, in the department of Marne -et-Loire
seems to prove that the Republican cause is
increasing in strength. In 1871 the candi-
date of that faction stood at the bottom of the
poll, below Legitimst and Orleanist. In the
election of Sept. 18th, he polled 10000 votes
over either of his opponents, the one a
Bonapartist aud the other an Orleanist who
supported the Septennate, but lacked 1000
votes of a majority. At the last elec ton on
Sunday he was chosen to the Assembly by a
majority of 5000 over his Orleanist competi-
tor, the Bonapartist Withdrawing and pre-
sumably transferring his strength to the can
didate Of the Septennate. This result in a
rural district in the very heart of Anjou does
not indicate the .much-talked-of Bonapartist
reaction among the French peasantry.
Year: 1874

RUNAWAY ON TATNALL ST.-Tatnall street from
Fourth.to Front was all excitement this morn
ing about 8 o'clock. A horse btched at Fourth
became frightened, and breaking from the post
to which he was hitched, dashed down the
street as far as Front where he was stopped be-
fore any damage had been done. 80
Year: 1874




A dispatch from Washington says:


"Allusion having been made to Presi-
dent Grant about compromise finance
measure that would be acceptable to both
sides, the President replied that he did
not know what force was intended to APP
ply to the term COMPROMISED unless IL
was an agreement to carry out the
pledges of the country. That might
be considered compromise by
those who originally defeated
every proposition offered during the
discussion in Congress, and by 80 agree
ing he has reason to believe that such
legislation would meet with his approval
II has been said that he had promised in
his last annual message heartily to sup
port any measure that Congress might de-
eide upon. He did not intend any such
construction to be put upon his language.
If he had not made himself understood,
his more recent message would clear up
anything like ambiguity. One thing
that he had endeavored to make
plain during his Administration has been
that he was for carrying out the solemn
pledges of the Government at the earliest
day possible, and reach specie basis. The
establishment of our currency on gold and
Silver had been uppermost in his mind
whenever he sent to Congress his annual
messages. He had not said what kind of
bill he would approve. 1t was his
earnest hope that Congress would
dispose of the question. The redis-
tribution of $25,000,000 of bank
ing currency, with $5,000,000 of notes be-
longing to broken banks and banks in
| liquidation at the South and West, ought
to furnish, for the present, all that was
! asked for, and he had been assured, since
the veto of ahe Finance bill, that New
England banks were anxious 20 reduce
their circulation, inasmuch as the bonds
now held for circulation would be re-
| leased and furnish them with larger cur
rency capital for loan than they now have.
While our securities were worth in legal
tenders sixteen and seventeen cents
above par, and National Banking notes
were bound to be secured under existing
law at so much sacrifice to banking
capital, he did not wonder that the New
| England banks were anxious TO cancel
their notes and get their bonds. In fact
this suggestion came to him early last
fall, during the stringency in the money
market, and he thought it worth calling
the attention of Congress to in his last
message. Since then he had heard moth
ing to change his opinion on this point"
Year: 1874

AMONG the Karens everything pertain
ing to death is regarded with absolute
horror. The clothes, books and other
possessions of the deceased are all COM
mitted to the flames; and any one who
should knowingly appropriate any part
of them would be considered unclean for
ever. Even the piece of work on which
a man or woman happens to be engaged
when a death is announced to him must
be at once abandoned, and, however valu-
able or costly it is, never resumed. Thus
a house or boat in which is invested per-
haps nearly all a poor mans little fortune
a valuable web of cloth that has cost some
feeble woman months of wearying labor
the harvest of field or garden which is
just about to repay the whole seasons toll
and anxiety-must be all alike consigned
to irredeemable destruction if their own
ers should chance to be engaged on their
work when they see or hear of a death.
This copyist and his wife, worthy young
couple, had been since their marriage
zealously engaged in trying to build them
selves house, living meanwhile in an old
one near by. The frame of the new build
ing was already erected, but funds were
wanting for its completion, and these the
young couple were earning, the man by
writing, the woman by weaving, when
death put stop to their plans. A few
days more would have completed the
books and the cloth, and the sale of them
would have supplied ample means to fin
ish the house. But now the innocent
volumes on which the patient copyist had
spent long days of toll must with the
fine cloth of the poor wife, be consumed by
| fire, and even the frame of the new house
would share the same fate. To touch again
| any of them after such a casualty would,
| in the estimation of these superstitious
| Karens, involve a curse more fatal thar
the poisoned tunic of Nessus conveyed tC
| Hercules, entailing calamity not only tC
the corporeal part, but to the soul through
all future states of being. In accordance
with the Karen custom, as soon as the
young copyist had ceased to breathe
every part of the body, even the face, was
| closely enwrapped in coarse white cloth
and the corpse laid out on bench il
the outer room, where all who came il
might weep over it. Rice was poured
| down in piles at the head and feet to
| gether with fruit, tobacco, cigarettes, anC
betel-Duts; and on one side of the body
was placed basket containing a drink
| ing-cup, knife and spoon, and som'
cooking utensils. The spirit of the deaC
man was then invited to eat freely a


while in the body, and exhorted not TO b.


ashamed, whilst all his deceased friend


who had preceded him to the land o


spirits were urged to return and escor
their brother to his destined abode


Meanwhile the nearest relatives, with tn


young wife at their head, crowded rounC
the dead body, prostrated themselves witt


walls and lamentations, and implored tn


departed to return and bless their longing


ears once more with the sound Of his ia
miliar voice. Others sang dolorous dill


ties and chanted songs in figurative Ian


guage and in a peculiar measure.-LiI
| ptncOtt's Magazine.
Year: 1874

To THE ordinary eye, the incoming
modes appear but slight variations of the
outgoing. Indeed, the violent changes
of fashion once deemed necessary to
mark the recurrent seasons have become
obsolete. Modistes have unhappily dis
covered the fact that poor feminine ma
ture may be gently and gradually led into
all sorts of absurdities which 1t would
rebel against if called to accept them sud-
denly.


The principal and prettiest change is
in the combination of over-skirt and
polonaise into mysterious kind of jacket
for street wear. 1t takes the place of the
two other garments, and the skirt trim
ming is generally carried high enough to
meet the lowest edge of the jacket. We
say lowest edge advisedly, because the
jacket is rarely of the same length all
round. Sometimes il has only short
basque behind, with long, tab ends in
front; or the back is extended into two
tails corresponding with the form OF a
gentleman's dress coats while the front
has little more than frill, met by the
garniture of the tablier. Beside these
many of the garments are long in front
over the hips; while others again
make no pretension to depth ex
cept on the sides. Every variety
is worn and accepted but the old,fash
ioned polonaise and over-skirt. These
though often appearing, are not regarded
as exactly en- regle. Polonaises that would
naturally be mistaken for over-dresses
and over-dresses bearing the air of polo
naises, are alone allowed. Since 1t is i'm
possible to do away with the over-skirl
entirely, the fashion-makers design the
most singular and characterless specimens
Year: 1874

foot, stripped them naked, and then beat them
with clubs, winding up the performance by
innicting severe wounds with sharp knife,
and then left them TO dieuo unless relieved by
others. So crafty was he IN concealing all
evidences of his connection with these out
RACES that over hundred boys were arrested
before suspicion attached to him. This was
10 1872. For these offense he was finally
brought to justice and sent to the House Of
Correction. Last February he was released
OF course during his confinement he was COM
PEELED to abstain from deeds of violence, but
on his release his appetite was only
satated by downright murder. A little
playmate was the victim, and he was
tortured and finally killed, the method being
the same and only varying in intensity from
his former efforts in that direction narrated
above He was arrested and confined. When
asked why he committed the murder, he can
didly replied 81 could not help it." BY ma
ture, OF probably by mental disease, the In
stinct of destruction and the promptings OF a
savage disposition dominated his will, and
perhaps rendered him for the moment ire
| sponsible. OF course this is no reason why
| he should be leniently dealt with and while
| his age (fourteen years) and his mental in
| trinity may protect him from the gallows, he
will probably be put somewhere, so l can't
| 10 such things" as he himself said In answer
to the question what he thought ought to be
done with him.