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Year: 1874

Here is the pithiest sermon ever
preached F: "Our ingress into life is
hacked and bare our progress through
life is trouble and care our egress out
of it we know not where; but, doing
we'll here, we shall do we'll there; 1
could not tell more by preaching 3
year."
Year: 1874

In conversation with leading iron
master, IA few days ago, reporter of
the Allentown Pa.) Chronicle learned
that most of the furnaces in the country
are preparing to go into blast again, as
buyers who have been holding off for
lower prices are convinced that iron
will sell no cheaper for the present, and
are sending in their orders, thus Great
ing revival in the trade. The same
authority predicts that next winter the
dullness in iron will equal that which
we just experienced, and says there will
be more iron manufactured in the coun-
try this coming spring than there will
be next fall. The American Iron and
Steel Association have ascertained by a
thorough canvass of the country, that
there are in the United States 864 blast
furnaces in working condition, capable
of an annual production of 100000
tons of pig iron, a quantity greater
than the country can consume at
present, and these furnaces, encouraged
by the present demand for iron, will go
to work, SO that before next fall the de-
mand will be supplied and another ces-
sation will be occasioned.
Year: 1874

sometimes afflicted with earache to an
alarming extent, and there is sometimes
a difficulty in obtaining an efectual
the household says that she takes Il
piece of salt pork an inch or more long,
and half an inch square cut down one
end to fit the ear, and insert it, taking
care to have the piece too large to slip
in. Tie a handkerchief to keep it in
place, if the child will allow it. She
also used pork for sore throat, Group
and lung colds. Cut slices half an inch
thick, dip in warm water, sprinkle on a
little pepper. and sew on flannel. She
has used pork for earache especially,
and always found it to give instant re-
lief.


RICE PuDDING.-One quart of new
milk, one cupful of seeded raisins, two
thirds of Il cupful of rice Keep it hot
in II saucepan on the back part of the
stove for two hours, or until the rice is
soft enough. Then add one quart of
milk, one cupful of sugar, and when
cool enough, two eggs (the yolkes and
whites beaten separately until they are
frothy), piece of butter the size of o
walnut, and a very little salt. Mix
carefully, so as not to break the rice,
and bake about half or three quarters
of an hour.


CARE OF CANARY BIRDS. s.-Hang the
cage where the drafts do not strike the
bird. Give canary and rape seed,
plenty of fresh water, cutie fish bone,
and clean gravel on the bottom of the
cage often. Also, give the birds fresh
water to bathe in every day. After they
have bathed, remove the dish, which
should be shallow. The room should
not be over-heated. Do not give them
cake or sugar. When moulting, feed
them on rape seed slightly moistened.
Hard boiled egg and crackers grated
are excellent. Bed seed will kill birds.
Cabbage and sweet apples are good for
them, and now and then a fig. Plan
tain seed is also wholesome food for
them, and they are extravagantly fond
of it, often eating that when they reject
most other kinds of food. When you
go out for walk, be sure to gather q
sprig for your pet, and before frost
gather and dry some for winter use.
With moderate care the little songstress
will repay your attention with sweet
notes of Joy.
Year: 1874

The newspaper correspondents con-
tinue their relentless war on the famous
essex statesman" Here is one of the
latest shots, fired by a Washington let
ter writer:


The country will be frightened some
fine morning with the tidings that Ben.
Butler has been batted in the face, may
be, if the Lord is especially gracious,
killed like Caesar in the capital" 1t
will be done by some new member
Brown of Calaveras, or any other
wrathy delegate from the western slope.


The seats i'll the house of representa-
tives are arranged in a semi circular
form, with aisles radiating thickly from
the centre. Half a pie cut in slices of
clearinghouse thickness, gives good
idea of the general plan. There is
little area in the center occupied by the
pages-and Ben. Butler. Old Strabis-
mus has a seat somewhere back with
the other representatives, but he never
sits in it. When not lounging in the
lobby he is usually lowering in this bit
of open field directly under the speak
er's nose. When member, new or old,
gainsays statement of Buffers, the
latter makes directly up the aisle and
fixes his complicated stare straight into
the face of the talker. Men who have
become Injured to this horrible phan-
tasm, haunting them in broad daylight
so closely that it's demoniac breath can
almost be felt, talk right on with aston
ishing unconcern. Farnsworth used to
go further. He would return stare for
stare, and leer for leer. But all men
are not Farnsworth's, and it is only
after severe apprenticeship has been
served that a man can preserve his CO.
herency within average proximity to
Buffers relentless jowl.


The fearful phase of all this matter
is that Butler grows worse as he grows
older, in congressional sin. Five or six
years ago he could be endured if not
cured, and even fresh representative
fish could be allowed to founder in the
shallow waters of n maiden speech with
a modicnm of annoyance. Now Butler
waits until the raw member has worried
well into the core of his address. Hav-
ing gradually found that his voice does
not ring particularly different jangle
in the halls of Capitol hill from its old
time twang in the district school-house
or police court, the new delegate has
partially acquired confidence in himself
and is warming into something like Wig
or. This is Buffers cue. The Essex
county fiend drives his hands into his
pockets and starts across the house, os-
tenslbly upon private impulse. He
contrives to take path which will bring
him face to face with the victim; then
abruptly stops as If he had for the first
Year: 1874

day labor has been made at any time since the panic
and is proposed for this Winter one OF me prn
ciDa men In The management OF the road remarked tna
the making little enough, buttbe COMPANY
considers that under present circumstances ~ eDtteu
TO hours or work for the money Last winter the
hours OF work were decreased. This Winter It is not
unlikely that they viii be extended without change OF
pay No uuusua reduction IN force has been made but
many tracKmcn and other workmen only engaged
untIi cold WeaIher.
Year: 1874

In sholt it is the SIMPLEST, SAFEST, most
DURABLE and most ECONOMICAL Engine in
the world. We fully guarantee them in all the abeve
particulars COLTS ARMS CO. have spared no
expense in getting up SPECIAL TOOLS AND MA
CHIMES with which to build these Engines. 50 that
every part Is made up to gauge and perfectly in
terchangeabe, the importance of which will be un-
derstood by all who at all familiar with machin
cry. Thus, every Engine of given size is an exact
of breakage the broken part can be Immediately re-
placed by its perfect duplicate.


The inventor of this Engine had in view, in its
construction, the great need that exists tor perfect
Steam Engne-of small power-adapted to all kinds
of light mechanical work, and that should also COM
bine all that is good in Steam Engineering.


The first point was, to secure perfectly phio-
sophical Boiler and Furnace, in order to insure the
most perfect combustion and to take up the greatest
possible amount of heat in generating steam.


The second point was to make perfect cutoff
Engine, working steam expansvely, and keeping up
the temperature OF the cylinder to prevent loss by
radiation or condensation.


The third point was. to combine and make the
whole mechanically and scientifically correct ma
chine; all its parts being provided with means to
I,rrrnher ~ ys~--s-~-s at
these particulars much care has been taken as in
the largest and most perfect engine constructed


The result is-THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF POWER
PROPORTIONED TO THE AMOUNT OF FUEL CON-
SUMED-thus proving the fact-we known to men
of scence-thdt Ddter is the best medium to trans
NIT the mechanical forces, generated in the CON-
6ustio Of fuel to the production of naOtt0e Qoacer
Machinery for any purpose furnished at


Manufacturers Prices.
Year: 1874




sIoN-INsTANcEs OF RECENT FRAUD AND FORGERY


IN ART.


70 the Editor Of The Trt6une.


SIR: The letter in relation to pretended
picture by R.cnau.t which you published Saturday,
ad the good extortIng from the auctiOneer the
confession that picture IN question not what the
r,nted catalogue OF the sale declared 1t TO be, THE
Salorne By R-gnault. The picture upon which this
ART 81 received great reputation This was the only
Yoiut of interest ID long Grafton made by the
toneer before Offering picture for sale The remain
ing matter was Wind cation OF his own integrity, set
Of by scornful illusions your correspondents knowE
edge Of art as well 10 the condition OF his finances
IL seemed pity that after having made So strong
point as The latter the effect Of the auctoneors con
fe,oD should have been weakened by the declaration
that though not Salome" OF the Salon OF 1870 II
was painted by RegnauIt for all that As, however
no one in the audience was convinced Of the auction
GERS certanty-iOr SO Judge since aA his eloquence
could not persuade single bt-and as the principal
Ioint sought be established gained IN the free
ing the French public from the charge Of having pro-
nOunced Henri Regnau great painter on the strength
OF this particular pcture-I need say no more on that
subject. But should like know whethersthe public
has really redress this matter OF forged pictures
and whether its only safety hes In the vigilance OF
the newspapers 1t is only few days ago that a
Nater-col0r drawing pretending to be by Turner,
and stated in me catalogue to be such sold at
an auction in Broadway by a wel-snown firm
This drawing aughabie scrawl-was sold for two
hundred and odd dol ars, though II was not worth
ten cents Not only was Turner but was not Ike
Turner. nor, let hope, like anybody The same
drawing had been before sold at auction
aud the agent Of gentleman VINO had given an order TO
buy II at any reasonable price, II II were turner
wrote to IA principal after The sale YOnr Turner
Year: 1874

INDIANAPOLIS, June "a meeting prelimi
nary to the Convention OF Farmers Of Indiana held
IN me State House Tonight. The attendance full
enough to Indicate a large convention tomorrow. A
fear freely expressed by the speakers. lest the
leaders OF the other old parties should in
get control of the Convention. The party favorng
increase OF the currency much the strongest
though occasional protests made. An effort
disclosed to commend the of Senator Morton
the financial question, but auson to his explanatory
letter sed proposition before it fairly opened
The Convention will be in session several days and will
eudeavor select State ticket of the very best
be found The platform viii be made up from other


platforms OF similar conventions. The outside attend
of politicians of the old parties is large and rest
less. They will exhaust all the OF statesman
ship TO induce Convention exDepd ts energies in
resolutions and 20 home without nominating q ticket
Their efforts will probably FAM
Year: 1874

Professor Rood has been making some experiments on the duration of a flash of lightning, and on the length of time necessary for distinct vision. lightning ranged from intervals of time shorter than one-thousandth of a second up to others at least as great as one- twentieth of @ second. By means of mirror revolving at the rate of $50 revo- lutions a minute, he found that the first act of the electrical discharge of Leyden jar was in certain cases only forty billionths of second, an interval of time just sufficient to enable ray of light to travel forty feet. Through a micrometer reduction he found that four billionths of @ second was sufficient for human vision.
Year: 1874

In his autobiography in "Ten Min ute Talk" Elihu Burritt tells how he studied mathematics. He couldn't afford time to attend school, so he used to do certain problems "in his head" while hammering away on his anvil. Here is one of them :-"How many yards of cloth, three feet in width, cut into strips an inch wide, and allowing half an inch at each end for the lap, would it require to reach from the cen tre of the sun to the centre of the earth, and how much would it all cost at a shilling yard ?" He would not allow himself to make a single figure with chalk or charcoal in working out this problem, and he would carry home to his brother all the multiplications in his head, and give them off to him and his assistant, who took them down on their states, and verified and proved each separate calculation, and found the final result to be correct.
Year: 1874

There is living in Newport, R. l., says correspondent, a man quite as re- markable for his muscular powers as he who in olden times bore off on his shoulders the gates of Gaza. When 8 youth he was wont to shoulder barrel of flour with his feet inside a peck measure. On one occasion, on Stevens wharf, as the result of banter that he could not shoulder an anchor weighing $50 pounds, he raised it to his shoul- ders, carried it up Bannister's wharf, up four steps into the United States Hotel (west door), carried it through, down one step, out of the south door, down the wharf back again, and de- posited it on the scales for weighing The distance he carried 1t must have been from 300 to 400 yards. The feat was considered so remarkable that it was placed upon the town records, where it may be seen by any who may be in- credulous.

 On another occasion half dozen men were tugging at a hogshead of ing to place it on end, when he ordered Though now fifty-seven years old, he is I0dly JULIO Ou d WdSoI GO 111U GO his shoulder a barrel of flour. The same man Che is an out-and-out tee totaler now) has been known to stand at the bar of the old Park House and drink thirtytwo glasses of liquor with out turning round. On one occasion he says that he and another man, making a night of it, sat down to half bar rel of beer, and drank it all up before morning. Yet no person ever saw this man in the gutter, or even stagger from the effects of his potations. It was his boast in his younger days that he could outfit and out-drink any man in Rhode Island. The reader may think that in the dearth of items" we have been stringing together Q bunch of Munchaused tales for our and their amusement but the man is still living, and there are those among us who will verify the statements above made."
Year: 1874

Mir. W. Simpson, in a paper on "Chinese Architecture, read before one of the English societies, describes as follows the Chinese method of rais- ing money for the building or repairing of temples:

 'In the streets of Peking one day found a man in a sort of wooden sentry box; large nails had been driven into it, so that their points projected through. This prevented the man from leaning against the sides, and the only rest he had was from sitting on board within. He was a monk, and never seemed to sleep, for he had 8 string with which he night and day sounded a large sonorous bell every few minutes, as sort of advertisement of his pur- pose. This was, that the benevolent should come forward with money; each nail represented a sum. When any one paid that sum, his name was stuck up on bit of paper, and the nail was pulled out, making it more com fortable for the hermit within. All the nails represented the necessary amount for the repair of a temple which was close behind. This is common pro. ceeding for raising the wind for such purposes. I was told that this monk had been two years shut up, and that he would likely be another year before he got out of his cocoon of nails,"
Year: 1874

A QUESTION. Gas-Light Journal puts the very timely question, "Why may not 1oetroleoduct come all the way to New York, and thus save the greater part of the cost of oil at the seaboard ? In the oil regions there are already 675 miles of pipes for the conveyance of oil to shipping points on the Alleghany Valley Railroad.
Year: 1874

BOSTON, Mass, Sept. 10, 1874.


General Butler addressed the voters of Essex
this evening upon the political issues of the day,
and requested their suffrage. His speech was in
substance the same that delivered in Gloucester.
The condition OF Southern affairs received partlcu-
lar attention and he argued that II he were refused
a reelection one faithful watchdog woula be re-
moved from the tower of right and OF justice, and
such howl would 60 up from rebeldom as had
not been heard since the beginning of the war.
In addition to the points touched upon in the first
speech he spoke OF the p opposed reciprocity treaty.
expressing himself as unalterably opposed to
1t on the ground that 1t would strike DEATH
blow to the shipbuilding interests
of his district. He was opposed to civil service
reform because men would be kept in office all
their ,ives and 1t Disseminated against the poor
soldiers and their widows in favor OF those who
spent their lives in accommodating mere book learn
ing, which was not practical


The attendance was as large as the hall would
accommodate and considerable enthusiasm was
manifested.
Year: 1874

The Redemption OF Currency.


The National Bank Redemption Agency gives
notice that in consequence OF the expansion Of the
five per cent fund and the failure OF the national
banks to make prompt and general response to
the request for an additional deposit OF five per
cent OF their circulation. 1t has become necessary
to stop the redemption OF national bank notes for
a short time. Remitances OF national bank notes
which are now in transit Will be counted and paid
for. but those RENTED after this date will be held
until notice Is given Of the resumption Of redemp-
tions. Mean while the whole force OF the agency
VIII be employed on the assortment of the notes
already returned IN order enable 1t to make calls
upon the banks to reimburse the Treasury for their
redemption. 1t Is hoped that redemptions will
be resumed within two or three weeks. The ces
sation Of redemptions need not prevent COM
plance with the call for the additional five per
cent deposit. The larger the amount OF legal
tenders deposit under the call the sooner the
agency will be enabled to resume redemptlOns.
There seems to be some mlsunders landing as to
the operation OF the additional call. The deposits
made under this call will De treated simply as are
advances from the banks to reimburse the Treas
ury for their notes redeemed but not yet assorted.
AS fast as the notes shall be assorted their amount
will be charged against the additional deposit and
no request for reimbursement will be made upon
the banks making the deposit until 1t shall be ex
hauSted.
Year: 1874

Late on Saturday night OF last week young man
named Thomas Martin Murray, one OF the bell boys
in Laurelton Hall, Oyster Bay Long Island, entered
a ski1 for the purpose Of crossing to the other side
of the harbor. Next morning the sKin was found
floating in the harbOr, and lears were entertained
that the young man had been drowned. Early
this morning his lifeless body was found where it
mad been washed ashore. Justice Chipp held an
inquest In the absence OF Coroner Bayles. Verdict,
accidental drowning
Year: 1874

Shortly after six O'Clock last night an unknown
man, roughly dressed, Of medium height and
build, attempted to Jump from the Battery pier
dock to the steamer Thomas Kiley lying close by,
but accidentally fell between the two and received
fatal internal injuries He was picked up by the
boats pilot, Captain Albert, who summoned con-
veyance and carried the wounded man to Bellevue
Hospital where he died at halpast eight O'Clock.
There was nothing about mis- person to lead to his
Identification, but the indications are that he is
boatman engaged In the locality where the acci-
dent occurred, and 1t Is expected that his friends
will appear and claim the body
Year: 1874

An Excellent ArtfcIe.-Mrs. Winslow'H
SOOTHING SYRUP Is excellent article for all dis
Of children relieves the child rom pain resu
Iates the and bowels and by giving health
the child comforts and rests the mother. During
process OF teething value is nestmabe wind
collie and gripping In the bowels.
Year: 1874

A.-since the Invention of the Elastic
TRUSS 6S3 Broadway the metal dealers find their
occupation gone. dropping their buckets into empty
wells, and growing old in drawing nothing cut"
Year: 1874

does not accord with the State Committees mani
festo Should the Infatonists by any means get
control of the Convention, no one would be sur
prsed to see the Hard Money men bolt In BODY
and hold another convention.


The present indications are that the Liberal Demo-
cratic Convention will nominate new ticket, IN
stead of accepting the Farmers ticket. as has been
proposed by some Of them. II the Bourbons should
also put put up ticket on an Imitation. White Mans
platform there would be four in the field and the
politics of this State would be more mixed than
they have been before for many years.
Year: 1874

A DISTINGUISHED Kentucky preach
or, incidentally referring to capitsl
punishment in q recent sermon, said /:
Il hold to he the Bible teaching on
the subject that death is the rightful
penalty kr the crime Of murder, ac-
cordisg b the law of God and no hu-
mas legislation has any authority to
saeer this Divine statute that no
earthly Governor has the right to par.
don in any case, except where his par
don is designed to rectify the errors
arising from imperfection in human
laws and their administration. I at
tribute much Of the violence aud blood.
shed in our State 10 the common fail.
ure to punish crime-sPccially in the
crime Of murder. The sight Of hu-
man being hanging shastly on the gal.
lows Is most revolving spectacle, and
one from which We turn instinctively
away with shuddering horror: and yet
when that spectacle expresses a peo-
ple's adherence of crime and testifies
to the purity and strength OF govern
ment and declares that there are prin-
ciples of justice more precious than
evea human life, we car but regard it
as q ''uoble sight"
Year: 1874

As YET We have no cause TO regret
making this journal an uncompromis.
ing Democratic paper. II may be a
popular course to blow hot and cold
with the same mouth, but II don't suit
the temperament Of the editors Of this
humble sheet. While we respect our
opponents when they make an open
fight against our politics. we hold in
utter contempt the hand that strikes
an assassins blow. We have many
true friends. who differ from us in pol.
itics, whom We are arc proud to own
as friends and greet Is countrymen,
and to whom we are grateful for pa
tronage and support. As citizens Of
a common country, we acknowledge
their worth, as neighbors and friends,
we love them. In politics, We concede
them the right to make battle and
fight valiantly-the harder they fight
for their principles, men or measures,
the more we respect them; and we
believe they regard I. thus generously.
Let it be understood, then: In war,
we ,trike to slay; out Of war, We kiss
the hand that returns the blow, and
never with the lips of Judasl
Year: 1874

THE Maysvi'te Eagle says: ut is a
notorious fact that the grand and petit
juries of our courts are more response
BILE for the law-breaking in Kentucky
than any law officer. The judges al.
ways do their duty in instructing the
juries. the Commonwealth Attorneys
prosecute to the extent Of the law in
nearly every case, but all the instruction
and all the prosecution on the part Of
the attorney avail nothing if the juries
fail to do their duty, as they generally
do. 1t has become very common
practice for jurymen to compromise
and vote upon cases as though they
were not sworn to 60 according to law
and the evidence. 1t is often the case
that jurymen let the majority rule, re.
gardless of what they believe to be
iustice.
Year: 1874

A KANSAS Deacon had to draw out
his revolver in order to get at his nick
ell for the contribution box. A Missis-
sippi worshipper's pistol exploded
in his pocket while he was kneeling in
prayer, and wounded the venerable
Elder who was offering the prayer.
As they were carrying the wounded
Christian from the church he asked
them to be careful aud mot let his
pistol drop out Of his pocket and
wound somebody else"