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Year: 1870

BEEF SoUP.-Four pounds of fresh beef
four quarts cold water; two large spoons
OF salt, which makes the fat rise. and it
should be skinned first thing Boil very
slowly, as hard boiling toughens meat. ii
1t should be necessary to use more water.
let 1t be boiling hot when added. When
the meat becomes tender add little rice.
II Will require four or five hours to make
this soup.


10 PRESERVE MAGNUM BoNUN PLUA1s.
Prick them with a needle to prevent
bursting, simmer them very gently in thin
syrup, put them into china bowl, and,
when cold, pour the syrup over. Let
Them lie three days, then make a syrup of
OF lbs. of sugar to 5 lbs. of fruit, with
no more water than hangs to large Jumps
OF the sugar dipped quickly and Instantly
brought out. Boil the plums in this fresh
syrup, after draining them from the first A;
90 them very gently till they are clear
and the syrup adheres to them put them
one bp one into small pots, and pour the
liquor over them


BISCUITS for eating with cheese. Take
as much Hour as you want for your bis
cunts, and with skim milk mix it into a
very stlH poste, after which roll it out to
about the thickness of a penny. then cut
1t INTO small pieces, the size of a shilling.
and after rolling them out very thin bake
them IN quick oven.


A PRETENTIVE AGAINST INFECTION =
burn a small piece of saltpetre IN each
room. If obliged to visit the infected
house drink some water in which little
salpetre has been dissolved, and when the
door of the cottage or room is first opened
stand little to one side, so as not to re-
ceive the first rush of air from the infected
house.


To CURE OFFENSIVE BREATH-Cleanse
the mouth and teeth freely with powdered
charcoal, and particularly after every
meal, when unusually offensive If the
teeth be furred, have them Immediately
scaled, decayed ones stopped or removed,
and useless stumps extracted. Take al
bedtime, occasionally, a mild dose OF ia
lap and rhubarb, and the following morn
ing dose of EPSON salts.


CAMPHoRATED DENTIFRIcE-Pre
chalk, one pound; camphor, one or two
drahms. The camphor must be finely
powdered by moistening it with a little
spirits of wine, and then intimately mixed
with the chalk.


BLACK LACQUER FOR BooTs AND SHOES
HARNESS, &C.-Mix four ounces OF shellaC
and half an ounce of the finest lamp black
IN a stone bottle, with twenty ounces o.
alcohol of the strength of eighty degrees
and close the mouth of the bottle with a
bladder. Add nothing more to the mix.
ture for twenty-four hours. but shake il
often IN that time. Then pierce hole in
the bladder with a needle, place the bottle
IN hot water and let it stand for half al
hour, taking it out often to shake it. I'm
tasten the bladder skin, pour one ounce oi
Venetian turpentine into the bottle, close
up the mouth again and place it one,
more IN warm water. The bottle should
be kept always corked, and it requires t.
be shaken before using the contents.-
Shoe and Leather Reporter.
Year: 1870

Think of twelve innocent looking gen.
tlemen in box in Smith county, Texas,
listening, with wide open eyes, to the fol-
lowing charge:


''If the jury believe, on the evidence
that the plaintiff bought out the defendant
and gave his note for the interest, and the
defendant paid for the note by delivering
to the plaintiff COW, which he warranted
not breachy and the warrant was broken
by reason of the breachiness of the COW,
and he drove her back and rendered her to
the defendant, but he refused to receive
her, and the plaintiff took her home again
and put heavy yoke on her to prevent
her from jumping fences and by means of
the yoke she broke her neck and died and
if the jury further believe that the defend
ants interest in the grocery was worth
anything, the plaintiffs note was worth
less, and the COW good for nothing, either
for beef or milk; then the jury must find
out for. themselves how they will decide
the case, for the court, if she understand
herself-and she thinks she does-don't
know how such a case should be decided


The verdict was "yes," and both parties
appealed.
Year: 1870

Every woman is wise enough and care
full enough to secure for her house plants
every bit of available sunshine during the
colo winter months. Great care is taken
to get southern exposure for them. In
deed if one can secure no other than q
north window for her plants she has too
much love for these unconscious, animate
things to keep them at all. She would
leave them out in the cold to die outright,
than hnger out martyr existence in the
shade.


Folks need sunshine quite as much as
plants do. Men and women who have a
fair degree of strength and the use of their
legs can get out into the world and get q
glimpse of the sunshine now and then, and
If they choose to do SO let them live in
rooms with only a northern exposure but
If 1t is possible, let us secure rooms into
which every ray of sunshine that falls in
winter may enter, for the little babies who
are shut up in the house, invalids who
cannot leave their rooms, and aged people
| who are too infrm to get out doors. Let
US reflect for a moment that these classes
of persons if kept in rooms with only north
windows will suffer just as much from the
absence of sunshine, as green, growing
plants would do in the same rooms, and
their suffering is of account in proportion
as human being Is better than a geranium
or fuschia. Everybody knows how q
bright, sunny day in winter gladdens every
| one who is situated so as to enjoy it. Let
1 us make some sacrifices if need be in order
to give the feeble ones their measure OF
| sunshine. of Life
Year: 1870

The English Journal, Land and Wafer.
tells US how, thus: First certrive SO that
the horse shall not hurt you, then teach
him that you are not going to hurt him.
1t is almost always thin skinned horses
that beceme savage while cleaning. Make
out OF four inches of spade handle. a roll.
ing PIN bit, so large that the horse cannot
open his mouth; common brass rings
screwed into each END of the wooden BIT
VIII enable you to fasten it to the head of
the stall: This alone will generally make
horse quiet. 1t was Rarev's plan and
seems to occupy the horses attention. But
II he Is very restive, put on knee cans.
strap up one leg, and clean him on deep
litter, so that if he falls he NAV not hurt
himself Then take a sponge and wash
him all over with or without soap, accord.
ing to his condition; dry him with coarse
Cloth; after washing, hard brush is nee.
essary. If he will stand it, use the usual
hay Wisp, but if he is tender skinned be
content with the cloth with very soft
brush, which will be quite enough for a
morse WIN nne- slfky coat VTasninp IN
hunting stables is made great ceremony.
performed by two grooms, with hot water
and soap, while boy stands ready to
cloth each part when finished, but / am
convinced that all horses in condition NAV
be safelely washed in cold water.
Year: 1870

FEMALE FASHION REFoRM.-A Partisan
journal tells US that a number of ladies
have formed themselves into a society for
the purpose of reforming the fashions that
is to say to reduce the present extrava-
CANT expenditure on dress. They call
their association "L'Union des Femmes
Chretiennes." Each lady promises to
spend so much and no more on her toll
cite annually, and to pay ready money
That any number of women in the city of
Paris could be found to make such sacri-
fees to to the altar of economy and COM
mon sense is truly wonderful; they are
indeed Christians, and Plus TX, who has
lectured the female world on false hair and
too many founces, will no doubt send
them his Apostolic benediction. Will
they not also receive the blessing of hus-
band, and those gentlemen who contribute
to the female toilette before marriage?
Year: 1870

WHEN land is conveyed, it includes not
only the soil, but everything attached to
it, as trees, herbage, buildings, and fences.
A conveyance of land will include build
ings erected by third party without the
consent of the owner, unless such third
party be tenant, and he can establish
that the building was erected for the pur-
pose of his trade or business. The grantee
in the deed will be entitled to such build
ing and the person erecting the same
cannot remove it, although the same, in
fact, was not put up by the owner and
grantor of the land
Year: 1870

The editor of a western paper has been
in the country, troutng, and is responsible
for this fish story:


"a jovial old gentleman whom we met
in our travels told a story Qor the truth
of which we do not veuch) to illustrate
the number Of fisherman upon the streams.


"A few days ago. he said, 4 was cross
ing a bridge over Swift River, when I
heard my name called. 1 looked around
to see who spoke. No person was in
sight, and l was about to pass on, when
my eye fell upon large trout standing
upon his tail in the river, looking as tho
he had spoken to me- Did you speak,
Mr. Trout ? said l. 4 did SIR said he
L wish to inquire if this is the way tc
Bickford's Mill? 1T is said l. Amt
there no other route? said he Guess
not said l, unless you go by land. Why
do you ask p Because the river is so full
of these fsh-hooks that can never get uI
this way"
Year: 1870

To weigh live cattle by measu e, the
only instrument necessary is a measure
with feet and inch marks upon it. The
girth is the circumference of the animal
just behind the shoulder blades. The
length is the distance from the shoulder
blades. The superficial feet are obtained
by multiplying the girth and length.


The following table contains the rule to
ascertain the weight of the animal


If less than one foot IN girth, multiply
superficial feet by eleven.


If less than tiYe and more than three,
multiply superficial feet by sixteen.


If less than nine and more than seven,
multiply superficial feet by forty.


Example: Suppose pig to measure in
girth two feet and length one foot nine
inches. There would then be three and a
half feet which multiplied by eleven,
gives thirty-eight and half pounds as the
weight of the animal when dressed. In
this way the weight of the four quarters
can be substantially ascertained during
life Southern Cultivator.
Year: 1870

WEGSAeys


Turnips should never be pulled, it in
jures them. 1t is better to send boy up
and let him shake the tree.


The guano is fine bird, but great care
is necessary in rearing it. 1t should not
be imported earlier than June or later
than September In the winter it should
be kdpt in a warm place, where it can
hatch out its young.


1t is evident that we are to have a back
ward season for grain. Therefore it will
be well for the farmer to begin setting out
his cornstalks and planting his buckwheat
) cakes in July instead of August.


The pumpkin is favorite with the ma
tives of New England, who prefer it tc
the gooseberry for the making of fruit
cake, and who likewise give it the prefer
ence over the raspberry for feeding cows
as being more filling and as fully satisfy
ing. The pumpkin is the most esculent o
the orange family that will thrive in tn,
north, except the gourd and one or two
varieties of the squash But the custom
of planting it in the front yard with th'
shrubbery is fast going out of vogue, for i
is now generally conceded that the pump
kin, as a shade tree, is failure.
Year: 1870

NOTICE is hereby given that petition will be
IN presented to the County Commissioners of
stark county, Ohio,


On Monday, September 5th, 1870,
at their office in Canton, Ohio setting forth tina
the public interest and convenience require the
alteration of part of county road in Lake town
ship in said county. Said petition prays (for the
purpose of altering said road that a payt of said
road be changed and located follows: COM
mencing the west line of the southeast quar-
ter of section thirteen, where two YOads diverge,
one running north ON the quarter line and one
northwest over Jonathan Nease's land thence
running south for the new route along the west
line of said quarter section, and along the west
line of the northeast quarter of section twenty
four in said township so far as to strike road
coming in a westerly direction over the lands of
George Weaver. Said petition Prays that the fol-
lowing part Of the old road be vacated, to wit :
commencing at the initial point above mentioned
and running thence through the lands of John
Ringer and through part of the land of George
Weaver TO a point where two roads diverge, one
running westwardly to the point of the terminus
of the new route proposed to be established, as
above described, and one running to the south
east over the lands of said Weaver.


said petition prays that such steps be taken by
said Commissioners as shall effect the alteration
proposed JOHN RINGER


And others, Petitioners.


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Year: 1870

One great cause of poverty of the pres
ent day is, the failure of the people to ap.
preclate small things-they sec if they
cannot save large sums, they will not save
anything. They do not realize how a
daily addition, be it ever SO small, will
soon make large pile; if the young men
and young women of to day will only be-
gin, and begin now, to save little from
their earnings, and plant in the soil of some
good savings-bank, and weekly or month
ly add their mite, they will wear happy
smile of competence and independence
when they reach middle life. Not only
the pile itself will increase it will also
grow. Let clerk and tradesman, laberer
and artisan, make now and at once a be-
ginning. Store up some of your youthful
force and vigor for future contingencies.
Let parents teach their children to begin
early to save. Begin at the fountain head
to control the stream of extravaganza, and
| then the work will be easy To choose
! between spending and saving is to choose
between poverty and riches. Let our
youth go on in the habits of extravaganza
for fifty years to come as they have for
fifty years past, and we shall be nation
OF beggars with a mOneyed aristocracy.
Let generation of such as save in small
sums be reared, and we shall be from want.
Do not be ambitious for extraVagant for
tunes, but seek that which it is the duty
OF every man to Observation-Disclosures and
a comfortable home. Wealth and enough
is within the reach of all. It is obtalnable
by one process, and by one only-saving.
Builder.
Year: 1870

"Call again" Why? Don't you owe
this bill? You do?' Then why not pay
it? Do you say it is not convenient ?
Then why contract the debt? What
right have yon to buy when you cannot
pay? Do you say you can pay, but don't
ike to spare the money? Isn't your
course, then, a little thievish? What
right have you to keep another mans or
woman's money in your pocket? Only a
seamstress, a washer woman, a laborer,
you say? Are you not mean, then, as
well as thievish? Because the creditor
is poor, or weak, and afraid to push you,
you carelessly put him of, do your Are
you man, a woman, or worse than a
heather, or which? Or, are you simply
thOughtless.
Year: 1870

The dome of the Capitol at Washing
ton is one of the largest in the world, be-
ing l37 feet in diameter at the base, and
200 feet high. The architect, Mr.. Walter
naturally thought so large a mass of iron
would be affected by the suns rays, SC
that the expansion would be unequal, ac-
cording as the sun shown on one or the
other side. To ascertain the extent of the
expansion, he extended a wire within the
dome from the top to the bottom, and
CONNECTED with it by delicate mechan-
ism pencil, which would draw on a paper
the line of movement. He expected quite
a regular curve as the opposite sides of the
dome were affected by the daily passage
Of the sun. But he found that it is not
the sun, but the wind, that has most effect
The american Journal Of Science contains
a copy of the fig1re drawn one windy day
showing all the changes and lulls of the
storm, and making very curious and
complicated figure
Year: 1870

IMMORTALITY OF A -Beauti-
full it is to understand and know that a
thought did never yet die; that as thou,
the originator thereof, hast gathered it,
and created it from the whole past, so thou
wilt transmit it to the whole future. 1t
is thus that the heroic heart, the seeing
eye of the first time, still feels and in us Of
the latest that the wise man stands ever
encompassed and spiritually embraced by
a cloud of witnesses and brothers; and
there is a living, literal communion of
saints, wide as the world itself, and as all
the history Of the world.-Carlyle.
Year: 1870

Let man fail in business, what a Won
derful effect it has on his former friends
and creditors Men who had taken him
by the arm, laughed and chatted with
him by the hour, shrug up their shoulders
and pass him by with a chilling chow do
you do?" Every trife of bill is hunted
up and presented that would not have
seen daylight for months to come, but for
the misfortune of the debtor. If it is
paid, well and good if not, the scowl of
the sheriff perhaps meets him at the cor
ner. a man that never fails knows but
little Of human nature. In prosperity he
sails along gently waited by favoring smiles
and kind words from everybody. He
prides himself on his good name and spot
less character, and makes his boast that he
has not an enemy in the world. Alas
the change He looks upon the world in
a different light when reverses come upon
him. He hardly knows how to move, or
whether to do this thing or the other-for
there are spies about him, and a writ
ready for his back To understand what
kind of stuff the world is made, a person
must be unfortunate, and stop payment
once IN a lifetime. If he has kind friends
then they are made manifest A failure
Is moral sieve it brings out the wheat
and shows the chaff A man thus learns
that words and pretended goodwill do not
constitute real friendship.
Year: 1870

WEIGHT OF HAY BY MEAsURE.-The
following rule is in Nelson's Mercantile
Arithmetic: Ten cubic yards of meadow
hay weighs a ton. When the hay is taken
out of old or lower part of large stocks,
eight or nine cubic yards will make ton
Ten to twelve cubic yards of clover, when
dry, will make a ton"
Year: 1870

To secure constant and thorough drilling, the
classes are divided into sections of from twenty
TO thirty which are taught separately. In the
lower classes the instruction Is mainly given by
Textbooks and Exercises. in the higher classes
lectures are combined with these. The exami'
nations aIe botO oral and written, and those for
proficiency and distinctions are thorough and
distinctions are thorough and rigid.
Year: 1870

yesterday the Police steamer Metropolitan
figured in Court The Metropolitan, otherwise
styled "Mud-Turtle," was built In Buffalo at large
expanse for Tie Harbor Police Of this city. Her first
exploit in our harbor was to sink while they were
towing her 10. She aflerward recklessly ran into
every passing craft and then run aground on the
rocks at Hell Gate. The history OF the Metropolitan
10 n succession OF mishaps. Tie complaint yestsr.
day was made by Capt Todd, her commander,
against the pilot for allowing the metropolitan 10
run into the bark Excelsior. The pilot lWinters)
said, In defence, that ho could not CONTROLLER helm
that she "wabblod," that she was too wonderful q
cram for him 10 pilot


Judge Bosworth said that the Metropolitan must
be an excellent boat, for she hid met with mishaps
enough to shatteT any ordinary vessel lie referre
the complaint to the Board Of Adjudication.
Year: 1870

Bacon SAYS reading makes a full
man; bu: without digestion, fullness is
dyspepsia, and creates sleepiness and
inert rat incapable Of action. Hazlitt
saws you might as we'll ask the para
lytic to leap from his chair and throw
away his crutch, or without a miracle
to take up his bed and walk, as to ex-
pect the learned reader to throw down
his book and think to himself He is
borrower OF sense. He has no ideas
Of his own, aud must live on those
of others. The Habit of supplying
our ideas from foreign sources enfee-
bles all eternal strength Of thought, as
course Of dram-drinking destroy. the
tone OF the stomach. The Word OF
God is pre-eminently a book for direct
reading, and is never seen in its glory if
we will persist in wearing the colored
spectacles OF another mans comment.
Pure and cool are its streams if We
drink Immediately from the well head,
but when the precious crystal has long
stood in earthen vessels, its freshness is
gone; the truth is there, perhaps. but
not the life. We should let texts lie on
our hearts till they melt into them like
snow-fakes dissolving into the soil.
Year: 1870

What sound so sweet,
After day of fiery heat,
And sunstrokes in the dusty street,


As the pleasant voice of the singing rain


Dashing against the window pane? r
The queenly rose
And vassal flowers their eyes unclose!
While God His benison bestows;


And the sick man dreams of health again,
Cheered by the dance of the dropping rain.


The bubbles break
While showers descend on the breezy lake,
And the water nymphs from slumber wake;
{ Homeward driving his harvest vain
, The farmer curses the cooling rain.
The plague fiend stops
In his dread career to hear the drops;
Then. farmer, why mourn o'er your crops;
True faith sublime nee leaned in vain


On the Power that sends us the healing rain.
II tbringeth cure ~.tI
To the blistered feet of the starving poor.
And their hearts are strengthened to endure |;
While we, in love with life again,


His hot brow bares to the welcome rain.


OF murmuring shells
And the silvery chime of fairy bells,
Were never born such music spells,


To cheer the visionary brain


Of listening bard as the summer rain.


Earth looks more fair
When drops that Danish the suns hot glare
Fall from the csterns Of upper air;


And her breast is cleansed of many stain
BY the gentle path Of summer rain.


1t caught its chime,
Not in the fading realm of time,
But above, above in holier cline;


And ever hear an angels strain


Blend with the dash of the summer rain.
Year: 1870

An Ohio widow who had missed her
first husband and got married again in
his absence, was gratified but astOnished
TO see him at the funeral Of her second
and weeping like first mourner They
talked i all over afterwards, and con-
cluded 70 begin life again together.
Year: 1870

Ladies at Saratoga and shsFop soy
that the way to feel cool is TO rub the
outside rim Of the ear. with little
cologne or spirits Of ammonia, and you
will keep delightfully."- cool on the warm
est day.
Year: 1870

This was the CRY that simultaneously
burst from thousands of thr0ats, and few
there were but believed il expressed the
truth. In less time than it takes to write
il, however, his head appeared above the
water. and he struck out feeblY for the
only boat between him and the elevator,
in which were a party Of police and po-
lice surgeon Phelps. More dead than
alive be was hauled into the boat, and
at once rowed TO a room in the elevator.
IL was noticed By those who were near
enough that his entire right side was
Year: 1870

The homely word sprawl" precisely
expresses what Thorne did in the air,
and therefore we use it. 1t was evident
to all that watched him that the change
in the position of his body from the per-
pendicular to the horizontal was imme-
diately consequent upon his spreading
his legs apart AS he did this when not
more than one-third of the way down,
the velocity could scarcely have then
made him unconscious, and we can only
conclude that his nerve failed him, and
he threw out his limbs through an i'm
pulse cognate to that which causes a
drowning man to clutch at straws.