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Year: 1874

Muslin dresses, even of the most del.
icate colors, can be cleaned in ten min.
ates or quarter Of an hour without
losing their color. Melt half q pound
of soap in gallon of water, empty it
into washing-tub; place near two
other large tubs Of clean water, and
stir into one a quart of bran. Put the
muslin in the soap, turn it over and
kneed it few minutes: squeeze it out
we'll, but do not wiring it, lest it get torn !;
rinse it about quickly y in the bran for
couple of minutes in clean water.
Squeeze ou: dry and hang it between
two lines. A clear, dry day should be
chosen to wash muslin dresses. Half a
dozen may be done this way in half an
hour. The last rinse may be prepared
in the same way as the rinses for wool.
en- fabrics. A colored pattern on a
white ground must not be blued.
The bran. may here be dispensed
with. When the dress is dry make the
starch; for colored muslin white
starch, and unboiled, but made with
boiling water, is best for muslin dresses.
Stir the starch with the end of a wax
candle; dip the dress; hang it again to
dry. When dry rinse it quickly and
thoroughly in clear water hang it to
dry again; sprinkle and roll it up; af-
terward iron it with very hot irons.
Hot irons keep the starch stiff. This
rinsing after starching is called clear
s:arching; none of the stiffness, but
much Of the unsightliness of the starch
is removed in this way. The advantage
Of thus cleaning dresses instead Of
washing them is, first. if colored, the
process is so rapid that there is no time
for the colors to run; secondly, the
fabric is not rubbed, and therefore not
strained and wern out; thirdly, the
|,process saves nearly all labor, and is SO
quickly done that any lady may man
age. it for herself in the absence of a
laundry-maid or lady 3 maid.-H House
hold Guide. a,a..s,%az -. r a.
Year: 1874

POISONED BY EATING TOAD
sTooLs.-Our worthy fellow towns
man, D. c. H. Rothschild came
very near being called to the home
of his fathers last week in conse-
quence of eating of some poison
fungus which the children had
gathered for mushrooms. The Chi
nese cook supposing them to be
genuine had prepared them for
breakfast without Mr.. Rothschld
being aware of their being in the
house, he and his little daughter
partook very sparingly of the dish,
not liking the flavor, and the Chi
naman also ate a portion. All three
were taken violently sick, and the
little girl dangerously SO, but by
the prompt action of DR.. Calhoun
they were brought out of danger,
but we're very sick for two or three
days. The virulenoe of the poi
son Of these toad stools may be
known from the fact that the cook
fried an egg in the pan where he
had cooked the toad stools, which
one of the little boys eat, and he
also was made sick, but not 50 dan
ously as the others. Mushrooms
are excellent eating but if people
are not acquainted with the pro-
per kind they had better leave all
these fungus growths alone.
Year: 1874

WHIEa pill vender and lightning
calculator were entertaining the people
on Water street last Thursday evening
with the extraordinary qualities Of the
pill and the mental capacity Of the cal
culator, saw-mill man from Ctsalady
outfigured the latter, and made him
leave the field.
Year: 1874

SOME think that the reason why Mr..
Sharpstein favors the improvement Of
the Columbia river in preference to the
construction OF the Seattle road Is that
he thinks a good business might some
day be done In rafting his lumber down
that stream. No bloekades TO run, you
know. --
Year: 1874

The crop statistics sttaiRable thus
early in the season indicate that all sec
tions of the country will be blessed with
bountifui harvests. OF course such sta
tistics are very far from being absolutely
trustworthy, for the crops depend main


Iv on the future character Of the season,
and the season viii be made by the
weather, which is a by-wOrd for tickle
ness. But the fact that crop statistics
are regularly collected tends to place
the trade IN the produce of the earth on
a much securer basis than it occupied
some years ago when the grain mer-
chants ef western Europe got nothing but
Temporary sffiuence and certain ultimate
bankruptcy for their speculatiOns on the
weather, and the grain merchants Of the
Isevant by a mysterious sort Of weather
wisdom got possession Of the gfain mar
kets Of London. The old dangers and
uncertainties of grain speculations have
not by any means been removed by the
publication of such crop statistics as are
now collected, and they are not likely
to be efTectually diminished until the
international system of crop reports adj
vocated by many eminent meteoTolo-
gists shall be established. But, barring
Year: 1874

accidents, this will prove a prosperous
year for American farmers. The wheat
crop is in many sections as well assured
as a wheat crop can be before harvest
ing. The west viii have good surplus
OF grain to export, and the south, with
the promise of good cotton crop, viii
also have an unusually large quantity
of grain for hone consumption. .-Nes0
York World.
Year: 1874

Does not the while drift of the So
called education of the country run to
a pretense in what people call the high
er branches rather than TO solidity In
the three Rs-reading, writing and
arithmetic? And does any one know
this better than the editor of the daily
newspaper, condemned to read articles
badly written. badly spelled, and based
on very bad calculation It is not West
Point alone which rejects half the peo-
pie who apply for admission. There is
not a bank which wants a new teller,
there is not an importer who wants s
new clerk for correspondence, there Is
not a clergyman who wants q new
amanuensis, there is not merchant
who wants q new bOok-keeper, who does
not reject nine applicants out of ten for
the very reasons for which West Point
has rejected these boys, because they
can not spell, they can not write, and
because they do not know what the rule
of three means. And thus we come
round aosiu to the question, - Would
it not be better to teach three things
thorourhlv than a thousand things III p



ONE curious feature of American pro
eress is the fact that this country con-
sumes as much ice as all the world be-
sides. It is also notable that dyspep-
sis is our national disease. The infer
ence is easy that too much ice-vaseT
impedes digestion There can be and
often is as much insemperancs IN drink
ing water as in drinking whisky.


KATE FIELD says she goes on to the
stage simply 20 get physical exercise.
as sedentary life is killing her. Physi-
clans say that raking in three hundred
dollars a night mas tendency q build
up the tissue.
Year: 1874

Billy now went to his box again,
and received a postal card bear
ing the following brief and ex-
planatory message:


DEAR belly: | sent You BROTH
er's letter through mistake. Mail
it to him in Immediately,
and he will send You yours.


Your sweet chuck, .


Billy is now in q quandary IN
relation to the course TO be pur-
sued by him in the future.
Year: 1874

An attempt was 1nRde in tho State Senate
yesterday to strike out Of the Compulsory Edu~
cation bill tho sixth section, providing clothing
for poor children compelled to attend school.


It failed and tho bill was passed to third road
ing by % to II. Ono more vote is needed to
pass the bill, and this it will get on the next
Year: 1874

Frank, a son of John Mcdonnell, residing
on the east side of First street, below Mon
roe, who is about fourteen years Of age,
went to bed in apparently good health on
Friday night. In about an hour he called
his father and told him he could not see.
The parents sent for the Rev. Father Nash
and for DR.. Cooper. Saturday morning
the lad was no better, but during the after
noon be was able to see for a short time,
but has since been blind. His condition
is really pitiful. This morning he was sit
ting up in bed, and every few minutes a
short, sharp spasm wOnld seize him. He
desires constant watching for fear that he
will harm himself. He put his fingers in
his mouth and attempted to bite them of.
His hands have been bandaged to prevent
him injuring himself. DR.. w. S. Cooper
says the case is most singular one.
Year: 1874

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-In the Tilton-
Beecher case to-day, Judge McCue, of the
Brooklyn City Court, on motion of coun-
sci for defendant, granted an order to show
cause why the order requiring bill Of par
ticulaTs should not be enforced, and Satur-
day next was appointed for t e argument
of the counsel.


The Royal Guest I'm Gotham.


King Kalakana arrived here from Wash
ington this afternoon. He was met at the
Jersey ity depot by the resident Hawaiin
Consul and an :Aldemanic committee.
The chairman of the committee welcomed
the King, and extended the hoSpitalities
and freedom of the city during his stay.
His majesty replied in brief speech, and
the party then took boat, and on their
arrival on this side OF the river, the hide
pendent Troop Of Cavalry was
drawn up in line to receive
the distinguished guest. Headed
by a detachment of mounted police and the
cavalry, the procession proceeded up Court
land street 10 Broadway, thence to Four
teenth street, and along Fifth avenue to the
hotel, where the King was received by
Mayor Vance and a number of prominent
city officials. The Mayor rendered the
hOspitalities of the city TO the royal visitor.
The King made brief response, and his
majesty and suite retired to their rooms.
Year: 1874

EVERY paper which appears in Paris on
Monday is dated Tuesday, and this usage
is based upon the utterly nonsenslcal no
tiOn that when the paper reaches the cOun-
try at a days distance from Paris it will,
if dated correctly, seem to be day old.
They seem 20 fancy that the country people
are so stupid as not to know that it must
be day old whatever date it bears, and
they seem also in caring for the small no
tions of the countrymen to utterly ignore
what may be thought in the case by the
people in Paris.
Year: 1874

SOMEBODY disposed to be in time writes
to Figaro to knoWlwhether, in making New
Year visits, he must turn the corner of his
card and which corner. If the person he
calls upon is "nOt at home" Figaro
quotes the authorities to the effect that if
the card is left as formality and without
the intention to make visit, it must be
left fiat But if there is an intention to
make a visit and the person called upon is
not at home, the whole right end Of the
card must be turned down in large fold,
so that the fold will bend to the underside
OF the card.
Year: 1874

IT is not altogether certain that
Lewis E. Parsons will be confirmed as
United States District Judge for Ala
bama, in place of Dick Busteed, re-
signed, many Senators regarding his
nomination as one utterly unfit to have
been made. He was chairman of the
Chattanooga Outrage Convention, has
been on all sides of politics within the
last five years, and is regarded as the
most notorious scalawag in the South.
Two years ago he was conspicuous in
the outrage business, and was witness
where innocent parties were finally ac-
quilted.
Year: 1874

CoUNTERFEIT half dollars in fractional
currency are TINS detected: On the counter
felt the lock Of hair in the corner Of Dex-
ter's forehead touches the other hair at
each end, while in the genuine it is a ~C'
shaped lock, and touches only at the lower
and
Year: 1874

How comical it seems, to be sure,
when contemporary reminds us of it,
that the repeal of the legal tender
clause should now be urgently pressed
as ''the first great requisite in return
to prosperity" by the same President
who, only 3 few years ago, packed the
Federal Supreme Court to reverse a
decision that rendered the legal tender
clause nugatory.
Year: 1874

The following petition was presented
TO the Council yesterday and referred
to the Committee on Fire and Water.
We believe it represents the wishes
not only of the signers but a large ma
jority of our citizens;


Los ANGELES, Sept. 2lth.


To the Honorable Mayor and Com
mon Council of the City of Los Ange-
les - GENTLEMEN: We, the under
signed, respectfully represent to your
honorable body the necessity of pro-
viding this city at once with some ad-
ditional means for the extinguishment
of fires. AS the fire department is or
ganizing at present, we are without
adequate security for the protection of
our property. In the Babcock
Chemical Engine" the want of water
in certain localities, which at times
has retarded the working of the
steamer, is obviated The engine is
light and can be taken rapidly to a
fire at distance from the center of
the city, and is ready to do its work
the moment it arrives on the ground.


We, therefore, earnestly request
your honorable body to purchase a
Babcock Engine, satisfied that such
action would meet with the unqali-
fled approval of all interested in the
welfare of the city.


Signed by eighty-seven citizens.
Year: 1874

na- The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
"a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
com parison between the two. 21lo
Year: 1874




RASH WORDS. - An old proverb says,
"Speak in haste, and you will repent at
leisure How many sad hours of regret
have followed words spoken in thoughtless-
ness or passion. When anger rules the
tongue both wit and wisdom are draven
away.


A city lady, with a noisy boy of five or
six years of age, was passing the summer
season at hotel kept by Quaker landlord
IN Atlantic City. The boy annoying the
landlord by drumming nosily upon the hand
some halaslrade, the Friend took him up
bodily and deposited him in the back yard.
The angry mother took his part, and after
soundly beraiing the landlord, said, 81 will
leave Immediately" The Quaker touched
a bell, and when the colorcd waiter appeared.
said quietly to him, Samuel, bring down
this friends baggage from No. 96. If she
wants thy help in getting carriage thee
will help her kindly" This cooled off the
anger Of the mother, and she apologized and
begged to stay; but tn, quaker was firm,
and said, "My house shall never make any
one liar. My book-keeper will settle with
thee Farewell" Another hour found the
lady seeking another hotel, exiIed from her
cozy room by an angry word.
Year: 1874

The result Of Tuesdays election is
the success Of the Republican State
ticket. the probable election Of Dunnell
in the 1st District, close between Cox and
Strait in the I'd District, and close in
the Sd District between Wilson and
King, with chances in favor Of King,
and Legislature close.
Year: 1874

TRACK COMPLETED TO MARKET ST. AND THE NEW


DEPOT RENTED.


This morning, for the first time, the regular
train on the w. & W. Bailroad made its starting
point the terminus Of their new track at Mar
ket st. in Water. The repairs on the Market
st. bridge compelled them to d pit this meas
ure eailier than had teen anticipated but after
Monday next, all trains will start from this
point


of Market street and the railroad has been rent
ed by the company. and will be used hereafter
as depot for the reception of Freight and the
convenience of passengers.
Year: 1874

CoNGRKss-The impression seems TO be
gaining ground that Congress will not be ready
10 adjourn on Monday next for the reason that
there is much business oil importance before it
which it will hardly be possible to dispose of by
the time mentioned. Among the important
measures remaining to be acted upon are the
currency, moiety, and several appropriation
bills; also. the bill TO provide government for
the District of Columbia. All Of these measures
will evoke considerable discussion, and it is
doubted if they can be disposed Of as early as
Monday next. A strong effort will be made,
however. through night sessions and extra work,
to dispose Of the business on hand for an ad-
curnment on that day Wash. jHGr
Year: 1874

The Democratic nomination election is pro-
gressing this afternoon. In the city votes are
taken at the City Hall only. The polls will close
al o'clock. There Is very little competition and
the yole will. Therefore no doubt be light. IT ID
desirable, however, that all should signify theil
preference by voting
Year: 1874

= Mr.. Stewards behavior In these two
cases, though it heartily deserves the Sc
we're and universal condemnation which
Won saw it received from all classes of The
Deoule who witnessed it, was, no doubt,
very discreditable to man of mature
years who had held the highest executive
Office in his State. It must have pre-
pared all who knew HIM to expect that
his course as politician wcuid come to
no good. That love of justice, that rev.
erence for truth, and that high regard for
the public safety which be did not display
in his forensic efforts, are as necessary to
a statesman as lawyer. We will see if
you have exaggerated his merits IN one
capacity as much as IN the other.


He began his active political life with
anti Masonry. A charge was publicly
made that one William Morgan, citizen
of Western New York, had been f0rcibly
seized by Masons and taken out of the
State to prevent him from revealing the
secrets of their society. To kidnap
freeman and laWlessly carry him away be-
vopd the reach of habeas corpus or other
relief. was at that time regarded as a most
atrocious crime; and the people in great
numbers cried aloud for the punishment
of the m4ielactCrs. 4 judicial inVesti-
Year: 1874

A heart-rending history finds It's end.
ing in the story of tho suicide Of q
young wife at Fonda, N. Y. There Is
an untold volume-a romance Of a life's
history full OF promise aud hope at the
beginning, perhaps-and an ending in
tho suicidal death. Mrs. Anna Jelfer.
son, wife who had not yet budded
from her girlhood-whose age was only
flfteen-killed herself by taking ar
senic, and domestic troubles are the
alleged cause for the act. The very
words OF the dispatch-"this was tho
second attempt, the cause being the re-
fusal Of her father to support her I'M
less she would leave her husband, which
she declined to do seem to stand out
boldly in testimony OF hcr grief, and
one reads the announcement over again
in doubt Of its truth. Yet tho sad
story Of the suicide seems told in the
manner OF her death, and the warning
TO girlish wives, who wed but to suffer
and to liesis q sad record OF the sui
cidels refuge from her troubles.
Year: 1874

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


l beg the HERALD to accept my most grateful
thanks for its spontaneous aid to me extended
day before yesterday. Your kindly and generous
Interference for me in my troubles is what one
might naturally expect from such journal.
Again l thank thank You, and, through you, the
New York Mall and all my friends OF tie press and
otherwise.


am glad to feel that the public does not blame
me because OF the fate which seems to have over
whelmed me- am grateful to all my creditors, too.
II sink 1t will he III Legitimate public enterprise.
But for the theatre | should have been rich.
hope to fight through as soon as my health will
permit. have had my share OF Ill luck; but 1t Is
consoing TO feel that the public and press have
bound me to them by ties of gratitude which can
never be sundered Gratefully,


NEW YORK, Sept 80. EDWIN BOOTH.


Let Mr. Booth Play in New York.


NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 1874.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


/ think II Mr.. Edwin Booth, the actor,
should commence an engagement IN New YORK
city he would soon realize money enough to pay
all his creditors. / have heard some OF my lady
friends say that II he appeared they would go to
the theatre every night 1 think 1t q pity that the
embarrassments OF so great man should be pub
lished 10 the world; but everybody knows OF them
hope ne VIII be wise enough TO take advantage oil
IN E. IN.
Year: 1874

We understand that there has been
some Misunderstanding between mem
bers of this company, which caused u
partial breaking up of the camp; but
all disagreements have been amicably
adjusted and some of the men will
start back to-day to work on the ditch.
The card in this mornings issue call
ing for unsettled accounts speaks well
for the company This is one of the
few compani es in Southern California
which has always had funds in the
hands of its Treasurer. Men who go
to work on such q basis must succeed.
They may not get the water on the
mines quite as soon rs they expect,
but there is no such thing as failure
in any company headed by such a man
as the President. He means what he
says and says what he means, and his
declarations are Enthusiastically in favor
of the Castac mines. We look upon
this as one of the finest investments
of all the mines in the country, and
once the water is on the gravel beds,
the company will be independent.
There are thousands of acres of rich
gravel in that belt which will yet be
worked out and made to pay hand
somely.
Year: 1874

not generous; she charged frightful
prices for her sweets. One could not
get sugar-plums enough to "go round"
just for .)fve cents. "Oh for quar-
ter" And the days of quarters CON-
ing. We wanted dollars, and dollars
brought scorn Of their single blessed
ness. If one had a hundred, now.
And having hundreds, thousands are
desired; and having thousands, one
envies the millionaire What is the
use of living if one must pinch and save
thousands More, more, MORE" is
still tie secret cry more, more,
more"


But some do live to be millionaires !?
That is very true; but they are no
more contented than the rest ofthe world.
There is always something that cannot
be bought, and that is inevitably the
thing a millionaire sets his heart upon.


Let US get moral out of this, if we
can. Morals are very useful. If moth
ing can bring contentment, which is
true, let us try to catch that will-o.the-
wisp in the very dawn Of life. Let
us endeavor to have and hold it, while
we have nothing--no money, no fame,
no honors. Let US be conterted with
the fact that we live; that we see, and
hear, and speak; that there is blue
sky sometimes, green things growing
under it. Don't wait until those green
things grow on your own estate, else
you may wait until your estate is just
little bit of turf some six feet long.
Hold content fast Once gone you
never find her again-never-though
you have ladies full of diamonds and
bags full Of gold for your very own.


Strive for money if you will, but
sacrifice nothing for it for, know that
at the moment when you are richest,
you may look back on the moment when
you were the poorest, and had neither
house, nor lands, nor gold, and feel that
you were richer then than gold can
ever make you-aud that amidst the
misty memories Of humble roof and
coarse attire and common food content
lies dead.-Mary Kyle Dallas in the
Ledger
Year: 1874

The gag law of Poland and Frelinghuy-
sen must be wiped from the statute book
SO far as it has any relation to the press
That portion of which empowers the Grim.
inal court of the District of Columbia to
try ordinary offences, which. through the
bungling legislation of congress- had no
court to try them, is right and proper, and
should be retained but the gag features
should be stricken out. What is necessary
is to amend the law by providing that ii
shall never be applied to cases of construc-
tive publication Then the law will no
longer contemplate the arrest of an editor
writer o. publisher in New York ur San
Francisco or New Orleans, with his trans
portation to Washington for trial under an
indictment found there for things publish
ed elsewhere.


With su1h an amendment this act will
cease to be a gag law and it is an inter
esting fact that it was siuIilar amend
meDt which Senator Carpenter and Sena
tor Conking refused to be allowed to be
made in Carpenters celebrated bill for a
gag law ; anA in this refusal the who,e
body of Republican senators concurrcd,
except the manly and patriotic senator
from New Hampshire, Mr.. Wadleigh.


Possibly now. however. they may think
differently; and if the Republican party
are really opposed to gag law designed
to muzzle and cripple the press. such an
amendment as we have indicated will he
passed the very first thing at the next ses
sion of congress.-N Y Sun.