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Year: 1871

Tha secret of woman's dressing well
simply consists in her knowing the three
grand unities of her dress, her own posi-
ton, her own age, and her own points
And no woman can dress well who does
not. After this we need not say that who
ever is attracted by the costume will not
be disappointed in the wearer. She may
not be handsome nor accomplished; but
we will answer for her being even tenn
pered, well informed, thoroughly sensi
BILE, and complete lady.
Year: 1871

A thirsty Vermonter hitched his horse
to a freight car standing on side track
while he proceeded leisurely toward a
nelghboring saloon in quest of "tangle-
loot Meantime the freight train moved
on, and when the Vermonter returned
his team was missing. Proceeding up
the track he came to a wrecked wagon,
wheel here, spoke there, and soon after
stumbled upon the poor horse quite dead,
the animal having been checked to death
ere the halter parted.
Year: 1871

Some genius or other sees in the carri-
er pigeons of Paris the tulfillment of
another scripture prophecy: "For bird
of the air shall carry the voice, and that
which hath wings shall tell the matter"
Year: 1871

A French physician has Investigated
the effect of smoking on thirty-cight boys,
between the ages of nine and fifteen, who
were addicted to the habit. Twenty
seven presented distinct symptoms Of mic
otine poison. In twenty two there were
serious disorders of the circulation, in
digestion, dullness of intellect, and a
marked appetite for strong drinks In
three there was 4 heart affection; in
eight desided deterioration of blood in
twelve there was frequent epistaxis; ten
had disturbed sleep, and four had ulcer
alton of the mucous membrane of the
mouth
Year: 1871

A Jefferson county, N. Y, farmer
laughed when his prudent wife advised


him not to smoke on a load Of hay He
footed it home that night, with his hair
singed, most of his garments prey to
the devouring element, and the iron work
of the wagon in Il potato sack, and then
his wife laughed. The dying agonies OF
the horse were dreadful to contemplate.
Year: 1871

A correspondent of The Examiner writes as follows:

 One of the most important discoveries ever made in the United States is that of diamond fields on this coast by noted prospector of this city. The gems have been seen by sev- eI al jewellers on Montgomery street. and also tested by the lapidares here, who pronounce them to be gems of the first water, One Of them saw weighed thirteen carats in the rough or just as It was found, and several weigh ed from one half of Q carat 10 seven md one half earatS; but where were they found? is the question: That is 8 secret but secrets will out The discoverer tells different stories about the finding of them. He tells one he found them in Utah, another, in Colorado, another, in New Mexico, or Arizona He has visited all the regions named within the last four months,

 The last interview had with him be de- cIared that his discovery was of no value, that the stones were not diamonds but have seen and examined them closely, and think myselfa good judge of diamonds in the rough I offered to have them tested free of charge for him. but he told me he had lost them out oi his ookets. Very pretty story for hi;n to tell, provided he could get any one to believe what he says. but know he knows the value ot diamonds as we'll as any one. l suppose he expects to monopolize the whole thing for him" self and friends, as Aarchall did when he discovered gold on tae American river in IS He is certainly entitled to great deal Of credit for this discovery; but the idea oi ex" pectng to work his mines without ihe outside world knowing of the locality, is ridlcu lous, and to do so will be an impossibiiiy, He ma! succeed in keeping it secret for very shor 1 ime. but the truth will at last come out.
Year: 1871

The ancestors of the good people of
the United States came to this country
ostensibly to escape the prosecutions
of aristocratic England, but, alas for
the Inconsistency of human nature,
they were very far from abandoning
aristocracy when they left the mother
country. They brought it with them,
together with all its accompanying no.
tions and absurdities, and have left it
to their children as an inalienable leg
acy, which they seem to be trying to
increase every day.


In the days of the good colony of
Virginia, the distinctions between rich
and poor were based upon laws, which
like those of the Medes and Persians,
altered not. One of the most devout
followers of this code was wealthy
planter, living in what is known as the
Northern Neck. He was in all other
respects q frank, open hearted, manly
gentleman; but his estimate of his fel-
low.men was founded upon the pin
ciples that governed his selection of
his horses-blood. Wealth, too, was
by no means an unimportant feature
with him. He had our human weak
ness, and, like all of us, was influenced
more than he even believed by pounds,
shillings, and pence.


This Mr.. c. had quite large
family, among them daughter whose
beauty was the standing toast of the
country. She was just eighteen, and
budding into lovely womanhood. Not
only was she beautiful in person, but
her amiable disposition aid many &C
complishments made her more than
ordinarily attractive, and half the gen.
tlemen of the Northern Neck were al.
ready sighing for her love.


There was in the country at this time
young man who was already rising
high in the esteem Of his neighbors.
He came Of good family, but was, as
yet, poor young surveyor, who had
taught himself his profession, and who
had spent much of his time in travers-
ing unknown forests, with nothing but
his compass for his guide, and his
chain for his companion, locating
lands, and settling disputed titles. He
was model of manly beauty, and ex-
celled in all the various feats of strenth
in which the olden time Americans
took such pride. He was calm and re-
served, and there was about him dig
nified sweetness OF demeanor that &C.
corded we'll with his frank independ.
encc of character. He was q great fa-
vorite with all who knew him, and
there was no gathering to which be
was not asked.


Mr.. O. seemed especially to like
Year: 1871

Last Saturday afternoon at Memphis
q little girl named Mollie Costello
while playing in nsighbOr's house,
let pistol fall on a table. The pistol
exploded and the bullet entering her
head tore off portion of the skull,
killing her instantly.
Year: 1871

slowed upon those who had wrought their
rum. | brought Billy home with me-and
here ends my narrative, at least for this
evening""


1t being now rather late, bade the cap
tam good night, and called again in the
morning, after breakfast, when | found that
the mother and babe were quite restored
Upon inquiry we learned that the name Of
her husband was William Robertson. As
the day was remarkably fine, | walked
with the captain to the reading room, and
found that the Gar had arrived at Leith
the day before. We took the stage and
rode down. and soon had the pleasure to
see the husband of the captains guest.
When they met the captain seemed much
affected at sight Of him, and in an agitated
manner inquired Of what part Of Scotland
he was a native. He said be was born in
the Grass Market OF Edinburgh; and,
upon further inquiry, we found that be was
the captains cousin, the son Of bis uncle,
who bad married after his bankruptcy, and
died, leaving bis son destitute, who, from
necessity, bad gone to sea. To conclude,
William Robertson came home TO Morning
side happy man. His wife and child re-
sided with the captain until bis death, and
that of Billy, who did not survive him many
moRths. The cousin sailed his own vessel
out of Greenock, and that was the last ac-
count had from him.
Year: 1871

"A private letter has been received By
gentleman Of New York, from q citizen
Jf Sing Sing, from which the following ID
an extract:


The mode Of punishment now in use
in Sing Sing prison j. this: The autbOri-
les axe a small cord and shp-noose X
around the thumbs Of a prisoner, and then


raw him up foot from The floor, and let
aim hang there ill be faints They have
l convict now under punishment, whose
Keeper has hung him up ~ this manner


hree times, and be (the keeper) say that
the convict begs that be will not Kill him.
he let's bim bang all hour and ten minutes.
have been told that the doctor said that II
Ne bad been left 70 hang five minutes long
~ he would have been dead man. After
icing taken down the prisoner y put in
lark cell, in which planks are lard with
holes Lored into them, and pins driven in
which stick up about three inches. The
prisoner has to stand on these pins in Biz
stockings, or lie down upon them. What
10 you think Of such treatmentl I don't
pelie,e If the authorities Of this State knew
What was going on in this prison, they
would allow such punishment. | believe in
punishment, but not in torture. Think Of
he cruelty to hang man il the manner
described, and let him remain suspended
for whole hour. Why, i should not be
allowed to treat dumb beast 10 that way,
and vet human hairos a-a tins toAtured.'
Year: 1871

The fact has been established that bones
disappear in the ocean. BY dredging il 10
common to bring up teeth but rarely bone
Of any kind, as these dissolve if exposed to
the action Of the water but q little time.
On the contrary, dentine, the peculiar sub
stance Of which teeth are formed and the
enamel covering them, resist the destroying
action Of sea water indefinitely.
Year: 1871

Such can always be had, if not in the
country the city swarms with them, anG
benevolent societies are always ready tc
supply the demand.


1t is customary with many women tc
leave the DIT ecision of such matters with
their husbands, or the "men folks l,
would be safe and pleasant to do So if the
men folks were only what they should
be, instead of being, oftentimes, thought
less, careless, and selfish. We have known
men to be bright and shining lights in
the church" carry pious face from Sun
day morning until Sunday night, and as
sumo all the phases of conventional piety
while, at the same time, their wives OF
daughters, or both, were actually 4corhin5
Memsttres to death under the approving
smile of their master! The ply sical health
Of horses and cattle were intclligcntly re-
garded, but, then, the loss of H. wife is q
"dispensation of Providence" and the
consolation that comes in the shape OF
another is cheerfully accepted of at tho
end of year.


So, as long as such men exist, it is
neither safe nor advisable to always abid,
by the decision Of the head of the house,
unless half of it at least, grows on youl
own neck. The exercise of any faculty
or quality strengthens and develops it
and SO long as the Creator, in his wisdom
endowed women as well as men with tn,
quality Of judgment, why should they moi
exercise it, at least in their own behalf
Rural New Yorker.
Year: 1871

1t has been my habit for thirty years to
annually grow corn for soiling dairy
cows, at the rate of one acre to ten cows
plant early, so that it will mature and be
ready the first of August. deem it unfit
to feed till it is fully in blossom, and form
ing ears, when it is found to be sweetest,
and contains more saccharine matter. The
ground is marked for rows, three feet
apart, running north and south, to admit
the suns rays to strike the ground be-
tween them. The seed is planted in hills,
eighteen inches apart in the row, with six to
ten seeds in a hill, and titled like any corn
crop. The evergreen sweet corn is prefer
able to other varieties, as it remains green
and succulent longer.


The advantages of planting in rows and
hills are, that the plant grows rapidly on
good ground, and requires all the influ-
ence of sun, heat, light and air that can be
given It, to perfect its physical growth.
Being in rows gives opportunity to move
the ground by cultivation, and freer access
to those elements than whan sown broad
cast or in drills. Corn, like other plants,
master effort to produce its fruit; then it
will make the most and best quality of
milk


AC tSAS NACASCo Va LII AuS uuO
September are, that it relieves pastures
from being grazed too close in season Of
slow growth, and gives opportunity for
them to recuperate for fall grazing Keeps
up good flow of milk through the season
of flies and grasshoppers, and makes bet.
ter butter and cheese than any other
forage, except the flower Of grass feed,
which is an exception to any other torage
l have ever used. My usual custom and
best success has been in turning the
sward late in the fall, and drawing on from
twenty to thirty loads of manure to the
acre; the after sward is we'll dragged to
get loose dirt TO mix with the manure.


When ready to plant, spread the ma.
nure and pulverizc it we'll with the soil.
plant and till we'll, like any other corn
crop. The result is that forty to sixty
pounds of this fodder, fed alone, per day,
on experiment, makes thirty pounds of
milk and three pounds of cheese, or one
and a quarter pounds of butter. Thus
product Of from twelve to eighteen hun
dred pounds OF cheese is obtained, or from
five hundred to seven hundred and fifty
pounds OF batter from one acre of ground
American D1irymem's Association Report.
Year: 1871

THE Journol Of -Applied Chemistry says :
"Soak the feet in warm water, then, with
a sharp instrument, pare off as much of
the corn as can be done without pain, and
bind up the part affected with piece of
linen or muslin thoroughly saturated with
sperm oil, or, what is better, the oil which
floats upon the surface Of the pickle of
herring or mackerel After three or four
days the dressing may be removed, and
the remaining dead cuticle removed by
scraping, when the new skin will be found
to be of II soft and healthy texture, and
less lilhle to the formation of new corn
than before. We have the recipe from a
source which we cannot we'll doubt, and
publish it for the benefit of many suffering
readers"


The pain occasioned by corns may be
greatly alleviatcd by the following pre-
paration: Into an ounce phial ask drug
gist to put two drams of muriatic acid and
six drains Of rose water. With this mix.
ture wet the corns night and morning for
three lays. Soak the feet every evening
in warm water, without soap Put one
third OF the acid into the water, and, with
little picking, the corn will be dissolved.
-,ItsSSe PieSsle
Year: 1871

Those who expect to think should not
eat much food which simply produces
warmth and fat, such as ham, fat pork,
white bread, butter, rice, tapioca, and
starch. These contain very little phos-
phatic food, being chiefly carbonaceous.
Prof Agassiz says, fish enters largely in
to the requisition of the human system.
It is kind of food which refreshes the
system, especially after intellectual fatigue.
There is no other article of food that sup.
plies the waste of the head so thoroughly
as fish diet. Fish contains phosphorus to
a large extent, chemical element which
the brain requires for growth and life. He
would not say that the exclusive use of
fish would make blockhead wise man,
but that the brain would not be wanting in
one of its ess initial elements" Man can.
not, however, live on fish alone, because
most fish are not fat enough to furnish
the hcat-producing element in sufficient
quantity. The amount of phosphate or
brain-supporting food contained in the
flesh Of animals is in proportion to the
activity of that animal; those of great &C.
tivity such as the canary bird, for instance,
secures food which feeds brain, nerve aud
muscle, but does not produce fat. The
flesh Of the trout, the pickcrel or salmon
imparts more mental and physical v,gor
10 the Gator than the flesh Of comparative.
ly dormant fish, like the eel and founder.
The flesh of wild animals, such as the
bison, deer or boar, promotes activity in
the eater more than the stall fed OK, sheep,
or hog Wild game generally is consider
ed better food especially for the GONZALES.
or goose. Barley, oats and wheat,
ground without boiling, furnish
food for brain but lawyers, ministers, and
students eat the white, supertine, or bolted
wheat bread, and 60 to sleep. That which
would fatten pig, and give him no desire
to exercise or to think is eaten by the
learned and refined of the human race,
who look in pity upon the poor peasant
following the plow, because he is obliged
to eat his brown loaf; which brown loaf
and cheap fish and wild game contain the
incitement to branwork, in which poems,
orations and art are conceived and nursed


The proper food for laboring men-we
mean those who have to exercise muscular
strength chietly-should be that which
contains the greatest amount of nitrogen.
Among these articles barley and cheese
stand high. The red flesh of the OK or
sheep are the leading articles. Men who
train prize lighters seem to understand
much better than others how to build up
physical strength and endurance. When
their battle and their race is ended, they
lay aside their unbolted bread and fruit,
lean beef and mutton, and fall into their
old habits of liquor r-drinking and of eat
ing starch bearing articles, such as rice
fine bread, pudding with fat meat and but


ter, and they soon become as fat and lazy
as these carbonaceous articles can make
-ILrenOL0U1cOL I0nrnnL
Year: 1871

For about a week past a few rough.
looking sharpers from New York have
been operating in this vicinity. swindlinp
the farmers by what is known as the clotR
dodge. They went around by twos. and
played their game in the folio wing man.
ner: One of these two would go to q house
and offer for sale piece of cloth at verv
low price. If he sold the cloth there his
pal would reach the house soon after he
left it, and ask the inmates whether man
had sold them any cloth. When the cloth
was shown to the second conner, he would
instantly claim it, saying that it had been
stolen from him, and the purchasers, TO
avoid being implicated in any trouble,
would Of course surrender the cloth, and
lose what they had paid for it. 1t is said
that these sharpers made Newburg their
headquarters, but carefully refrained from
practlcing their little game here. Police
Officer Andrews has been watching them,
not liking their looks, but not being able
to bring anything directly against them
until to day. But they left town for New
York last night, leaving, it is said,
some unpaid bills behind them. If ex-
changes will refer to the "dark ways" of
this gang of New York gentlemen, who
live by their wits, at other peoples ex-
pense, farmers in other sections may be
put on their guard against the swindlers.-
Neaobu7y J0ur,lul
Year: 1871

Early in the fifteenth century we have
Beau Twain, called "the Scholar" He
wrote beautiful beautiful hand. Any
he could initiate anybody's hand so closeld
that it was enough to make person laugh
his head off to see it. He had infinite
sport with his talent. But by and by he
took contract to break stone for q road,
and the roughness of the work spoiled his
hand. Still, he enjoyed life all the time he
was in the stone business, which, with in
considerable intervals, was some forty two
years. In fact, he died in harness. Dur
ing all those long years he gave such sat
isfaction that he never was through with
one contract week till government gave
him another. He was perfect pet And
he was always favorite with his fellow.
artists, and was a conspicuous memb:r of
their benevolent secret society, called the
Chain Gang. He always wore his hair
short, had preference for striped clothes,
and died lamented by the government
He was sore loss to his country. For he
was so regular
Year: 1871

Augustus Twain seems to have made
something of q stir about the year 1160
He was as full of fun as he could be, and
used to take his old saber and sharpen il
up, and get in convenient place on dark
night, and stick it through people as they
went by, to see them jump. He was a
born humorist. But he got to going toe
far with it; and the first time he was
found stripping one Of these parties, the
authorities removed one end of him, and
put it up on nice high place on Temple
Bar, where it could contemplate the peo.
pie and have good time. He never liked
any situation SO much or stuck to it SO
long.
Year: 1871

Then for the next two hundred years
the family tree shows succession of SOL
diers-noble, high-spirited fellows, who
always went into battle singing, right be
hind the army, and who always went out
a-whooping, right ahead of it.


This is scathing rebuke to old dead
Froissart's poor witticism, that our family
tree never had but one limb to it, and that
that one stuck out at right angles, and
bore fruit winter and summer.
Year: 1871

This paper prepared by corps Editors of special
qualifications and every pains taken to itindspens-
able to every Railroad Man. Its altogether Independent
avoids all undue putting Of men or corporations givee
fully and imparaly, aims especially to give practt
cal Information which will directly aid its readers in the
prosecution of their business Business find in the
RARoAD GAZETTE the earliest information of the open
Ing of stations railroads In course Of construction
and thus enabled to establish relations with such towns
from the beginning Of their existence.
Year: 1871

TooTHAcHE proceeds from ague in the face,
operating upon the exposed nerve Of de-
the finger, wet with Johnson's Anody.ae Lini-
nsent heat the face well, and lay flannel
Wet with the liniment on the face also put q
little Of the liniment into the cavity Of the
tooth ON cotton
Year: 1871

Is without doubt the EXrEt TORANr REMEDY ever
offered to the afflicted public 1t contains opium In
any form, and its harmless to the most delicate


n Directions accompany each bottle
Year: 1871

in which the whole financial affairs of the
institution have been conducted.


'We are of opinion that thorough in
vestigation should be made into the affairs
of the penitentiary, beginning with July lst.
1867; and that such an examination will
develop state Of affairs that no mild term
will properly express. We are of the opin-
ION that our committee can make such an
exsmiualion, and we have no hesi'ancy IN
saying that, in our Judgment. if our Chair
man had been supported in his endeavors 70
make such an investigation as is demanded
by the tax payers of the state, we would not
now have q bill before this House establish
ing commission to sit during the vacation,
at great expense to the state, TO do what it
was our duty to have done.


The matter will be fully investigated by
the Penitentisry Committee next winter,
and the infamy of its management will be
fully exposed
Year: 1871

A young husband iu Baltimore is 10
a nice pickle. From some cause ho
concluded his wife did not love him as
we'll rs she should, aud he determined
to test that element. Accordingly ho
wrote note, telling her that be was
going to drown himself in the canal,
and that before she read the contents
OF that note his spirit would be how
ering over her, observing how she toot
his death. The would DO suicide en-,
trusted the note to q small boy, but the
boy mistook the direction and carrie d
the note to next door neighbor Of hi,
wife. Not liking to communicate the
dreadful intelligence to the uulucky
woman, tho lady handed the note to an
officer, with instructions, il possible, to
prevent the rash act. The officer hurried
Of, aud sure enough, found tho man on
the bank of the great canal. Rushing
up the officer seized the uulucky hus-
band, aud marched him of to tho sta.
tiOn house, Notwithstanding his pro.
sestations that it was all q joke and
that he did no, intend to commit sui
eide, etc. After the incarceration Of
tho husband, the note was handed to
the wife, with the information that b.
had been saved After upbraiding
the officer for not letting the "darned
fool drown HIMSELF the wife made 9
charge Of lunacy against him, aud h,
barely escaped being placed in the
asylum.