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Year: 1873

One morning, says letter writer, I went to call on Swedish acquaintance and found her doctor with her. He was merely paying complimentary visit, as his services were not required. I learned that an arrangement is made with the medical man a small sum of e5. or G6 8 year contents him, and for that he attends the whole family, how ever often they may happen to be i'll.

 The difficulty seems to be to get hold

 of him quickly enough in an urgent case for if he has gone on his rounds he finishes every visit before he goes to the new patient. A lady with whose relatives was slightly acquainted had husband who had always very delicate health, and upon one occasion, when they were staying with her, he was seized with sharp attack connected with heart complaint. They urged her to send at once for the doctor, but

 she only used some simple remedies, because she said he had just dismissed her usual medical attendant and had made no fresh arrangement with any, body else, so that she could not ask any one to come to her assistance. A poor lady while was there lost & child from water on the brain, and she sat by it for hours in the most terrible anxiety, waiting the doctors time for coming. To people accustomed to command prompt advice in illness, Stockholm, or, indeed, Sweden, would not seem to be desirable place to be attacked in.
Year: 1873

Professor Hamilton, in an able ad- dress on hygiene to the graduates of the Buffalo medical college, denounces broadeloth as an enemy to exercise, and therefore to health. He says:

 American gentlemen have adopted, as a national costume, broadcloth-a thin, tight-ftting black suit of broad cloth. To foreigners we seem always to be- in mourning we travel in black. The priest, the lawyer, the doctor, the literary man, the mechanic and even the day-laborer, choose always the same black broadcloth-a style that never ought to have been adopted out of the drawing-room or the pulpit, because it is feeble and expensive fabric, because it is at the North no protection against the cold, nor is it any more suitable at the South. It is too thin to be warm in winter, and too black to be cool in summer; but especially do we object to it because the wearer is always soil ing it by exposure. Young gentlemen will not play ball, pitch quoits, or wrestle or tumble, or any other similar thing, least their broadcloth should be offended. They will not go out into the storm because the broadcloth will lose it's lustre if rain falls upon it; they will not run, because they have no con- fidence in the strength of their broad cloth i; they do not dare mount horse or leap fence, because broadcloth, as everybody knows, is so faithless. So these young men and these older men, these merchants, mechanics and all, learn to walk, talk and think soberly and carefully they seldom venture even to laugh to the full extent of their sides"
Year: 1873

The life of the English aristocracy is different from what our people suppose. In the latter part of April they go into London for the "season," which lasts until August or September. This time of four or five months is spent in giving and attending dinners, parties, balls, and receptions, at which appear all the grand people of the realm, and distin- guished literary and scientific men are always present. This is what might be called useless, if not wicked life. But with September there is change. A few may then go to the Continent, but the great majority return to the country to remain for seven or eight months. Here really are their homes, rural, charming, and surrounded by every comfort. The pleasant autumn weather is enjoyed in forest and field, in orchard and in flower garden-there are beautiful drives to village, shire town, and country-seats, and there are honored guests in every house. The care of the estate, the welfare of the tenants and dependent friends, and the general interests of the section and the county occupy much of the time, while strength and health are acquired and maintained in frequent hunting excur- sions. Thus it is to be seen that the life and the dearest ties of the best families in England are connected with rural affairs and proprietorship of the soil. The American idea is that the highest and best life is to be found in the city, or at least in a suburb, and that life in the genuine country sur rounded by country sights and sounds is dull and to be despised. Perhaps we shall learn better some day, and come to the conclusion that true gen. tility and broad culture and the hearth est enjoyment are to be found remote from crowded thoroughfares. We can understand from the English life how so many families have perpetuated them selves for hundreds of years, though it is certainly true that much was due to the law of primogeniture by which real ! estate descended to the oldest son.
Year: 1873

Rob and were playmates once,

 Together used to laugh and cry; A youth and maiden are we now

 Oh dear, the years so swiftly fly We used to play at lovers, too,

 When we were children gay and free {; And now, the rogue, he quite insists

 That he should still my lover be. l really can't make up my mind

 To quarrel with the foolish boy, For maybe, if he went away,

 My life would lose one-half it's joy. And if the question I should try

 To argue with him, why, you see, In argument, cen when child,

 Rob always got the best of me. So now what would you really do2

 Rob has word of all say; And, after all, my heart inclines

 To let him have his own dear way. Oh, how persistent men can be

 What can timid maiden do! think, just for the sake of peace, I'd better yield the point-don't you7
Year: 1873

We- The tide of imm lgration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
u new one of DESMOND They say there Is no
comparison between the two
Year: 1873

Egw-YoRK. Wednesday, June IL, 1873.


There is comparatively httle doing in the
general horse market Trade in all horses ranging
der the category work business horses carried
under moderately active demand, and with little or
no change values The market for higherpriced stock
continues slow sales being confined 10 few Of the bet
ter known and more responsible dealers while the bulk
OF inferior and carriage horses by which the market
is actually flooded will probably become the property OF
boardingsable keepers II not previously disposed Of
under the hammer


There was fair attendance of city and country buy
ers at Messrs Barker & Chase's City Auction Mart and
N Y Tattersalls, where the following stock dis
Year: 1873

third win be the apparatus for medcaS1 sp Of Dr.


Morton who also Is medical attendant 10 the Snto S
establishment The water used Is all rengemens are
made 10 have ladies bring their maids they prefer
Year: 1873

As the image of the sun reflected
from mirror, Or the smooth surface of
"a lake, reveals to lis that it is and what
it is, so the soul of man jus; as clearly
and Just as certainly reveals that God
is and what He is.-Wodge
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsr.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
Of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

THE MOsT PERFECT. The housekeep-
ers of America very generally know DR.
Prices Cream Baking Powder and Special
Flavorings They are beyond all question
the best and most perfect of anything for
the purpose in the market, and are now
having the largest sale. A million fami-
lies use them constantly, and the house
wife who has used them once will never
be without them. Grocers and dealers
can supply you.
Year: 1873

FooD Is LFE-"One mar" says the
proverb. may lead the horse to water,
but twenty men cannot make him drink. ~
But it is also true that the horse cannot
drink unless he be taken Eto the water
In like manner, while it is true that each
part of the body must be in condition Of
readiness to take up from the blood the
nutriment it needs, it is also true that
there must be abundance Of good blood
for each part to take up nutriment from.
Now, in order to have good blood, we
must have, on the one hand, sufhciency
of appropriate wholesome food, and, on
the other hand, we must have sufficiently
keen digestive power, that is, simply-dis-
solving power-in the stomach. Many
suffer more or less deficiency in this dis
solving" power, To supply this very def
cheney, is the primary and eh..f function
of that great Jynic stimulent, Dr. Gottliet
Fisch's Bitters


This subject continued next week under
Nutrition; Holr Possible.
Year: 1873


The cunning hand that carved this face,


A little helmeted Minerva
The hand. say, ere Phidias wrought,


Had lost its subtle skill and fervor.
Who was he? Was he glad or sad,


Who knew 10 carve in such fashion
Perchance he shaped this dainty head


For some brown girl that scorned his passion
But he is dust; we may not know


His happy or unhappy story.
Nameless, and dead these thousand years,
His work outlives him-there's his glory.
Both man and jewel lay in earth


Beneath q lava-buried city;
The thousand summers came and went,


With neither haste. nor hate. nor pity.
The years wiped out the man, but left


The jewel fresh as any blossom,
Till some Visconti dug II up


To rise and fall on Mabers bosom
o, Roman brother see how Time


Your gracious handwork has guarded;
See how your loving, patient art


Has come, at last to be rewarded!
Who would not suffer sights of men,


And pangs Of hopeless passion also,
To have his carven agate-stone


On such a bosom rise and fall sol


II. b. AldTich. IN the August Atlantic.
Year: 1873

TnE SENATE YESTERDAY agreed In the re-
port Of the conference committee on the
sloop of war bill, axlng the number at eight.
1t Is to ho hoped that We shall get at least
one at the Washington navy yard.
Year: 1873

A scene witnessed by some travellers in
the north of Norway, from aclift one thou
sand feet above the sea, is thus described :


The ocean stretched away in silent vast
ness at our feet the sound of waves scarce
ly reached our airy lookout away in the
north the huge old sun swung low along
the horizon, like the slow beat of the
pendulum in the tall clock of our grand
fathers parlor corner. We all stood silent,
looking at our watches. When both hands
came together at twelve, midnight, the full
round orb hung triumphantly above the
waves, a bridge of gold running due north
spanning the water between us and him.
There he shone in majesty, which knew
no setting. We involuntarily took off our
hats no word was said. Combine, if you
can, the most brilliant sunrise and sunset
you ever saw, and the beauties will pale be-
fore the gorgeous coloring which now lit
up ocean, heaven and mountain. In half
an hour the sun had swung up perceptibly
on his beat, the colors changed to those Of
morning, fresh breeze rippled over the
floor, one songster after another piped up
in the grove behind us-we had slid into
another day.
Year: 1873

Quite large crowd was assembled at
HaW kins's club room over his well known
salon. to bid in the pools, but the present
stringepcy of money and dearth of busi-
ness was plainly demonstrated in the rdi-
culOus smallness of the ventures. We don't
| reproach anybody because they don't bet
on our horse races. but the manner in
which this community is forced to play at
sporting on the turf is painfully ludicrous.
Enthusiasm is not wanting; there is here an
innate love of the turf; Southerners are
born riders, they are natural cavaliers, but
just now it would seem that first class
race meet is an impossibility in our midst.


Some OF the finest gentlemen in the land
are at the head of our turf organization,
bat somehow or other our masses lack the
pelt and power to make proper response
to their efforts. Our natural love of the
noblest animal given to mans service is in
no ways disproven by lack of attendance
on his triumphs On the field. When stern
necessity over-rides inclination, when the
Lares and Penates put to flight all thought
of Olympian games, we can not charge our
people with apathy, and can only hope for
better days when the race track will be
used less as gambling medium, and more
az a means Of developing the noble horse.


This morning sales of pools will be re-
suned by Mr.. Baker and Captain w. N.
Conner at Hawkins's club room at half
past nine O'Clock.
Year: 1873

All the talk about early rising is
moon shine. The habit of turning out
of bed in the middle of the night suits
some people; let them enjoy it. But it is
only folly to lay down general rule up
on the subject. Some men are fit for
nothing all day after they have risen
early every morning. Their energies
are deadened, their imaginations are
heavy, their spirits are depressed. 1t is
said you can work so well early in the
morning. Some people can, but others
can work best at night; others again in
the afternoon. Long trial and expert
ment form the only conclusive tests on
these points. AS for getting up early
because Professor Cannon has written
letters TO the papers proving the neces-
sity of it, let no one be goose enough to
do it. We all know the model man,
aged eighty: 81 Invariably rise at i've :;
work three hours, take light break
fast, namely, a cracker and a pinch of
salt, work five hours more, never smoke,
never drink anything but barley water,
eat no dinner, and go to bed at six in the
evening" If anybody finds that donk-
eyfied sort of life suit him, by all means
let him continue it.


But few people would care to live 10
eighty on those terms. If any man can
not get well withered and crumpled up
on easier terms than those, it is almost
as we'll that he depart before he is a nui-
sance TO himself and a bother to every
body else.
Year: 1873

By recent order of the War De
partment, issued in conformity with
act of Congress, it is directed ''that
whenever satisfactory proof shall be
furnished the War Department that
any non-commissioned officer or pri-
vate soldier who served in the army of
the United States in the late war
against the rebellion, has lost his Ger
tifcate of discharge, or the. same has
been destroyed without his privity or
procurement, the Secretary of War
shall be authorized to furnish, on re-
quest, to such non-commissioned off
Ger or private, acopy ofsuch certificate
of discharge, to be indelibly marked, so
that it may be knownas a duplicate.
Provided, such certificate shall not
be accepted as a voucher for the pay
ment of any claim against the United
States for pay, bounty or allowance,
or as evidence in any other case.
Year: 1873

A young girl named Lottie Dough
erty recently died at Millyille, N. J.,
from the effects of wound sustained
by her during a successful effort tc
save the lives of nearly thousand
people. In Augustlast, according te
the Millville Republican, the deceas-
ed, while occupying the post of tele-
graph operator at Eagle Station,
on the line of the Pennsylvania Cen
tral Railroad, wasplsced in aposition
of responsibility which might have
proved too much for most men. Du-
ring fearful thunder storm, an i'm
mense tree was struck by lightning
and thrown across the railroad track.
Almost at the same instant, the tel
egraph apparatus Yas disabled, Find
ing it impossible to send a message
to warn the approaching train of
danger, the brave girl seized red
lamp, and ran up the line swinging
it above her head. The engineer saw
the signal in time to avoid fearful
disaster. The engine ran against the
tree, however, with force enough to
disconnect heavy branch, which
struck her on the shoulder, and in
ficted the injuries that resulted in
her death. The passengers were so
grateful for their escape that an at
tempt was made to reward her, but
she firmly refused to accept anything
for having done her duty Such acts
of personal heroism should not be
allowed to go unrewarded, and the
men and women who were on the
train that August night might have
now an opportunity to mark their ap-
probation of poor Lottie's bravery by
causing a handsome monument to be
erected to her memory-[N. Y.
Times.
Year: 1873

To TELL AN HONEST MANA letter
writer says: "Talking with a hotel
keeper the other day, I remarked that
in a large city like this, he must lose
a great deal by transient customers,
who would go away and forget to
pay their bills. He replied, "Oh, no,
1 never lose much by folks of that
sort. 1 have made it rule in my
house whenever a man wants q room,
and has no baggage, to demand pay


in advance, as is usual. If he mani
tests no objection, and puts his hand
in his pocket for money, 1 tell him it
is all right he can pay just as well


when he is going away. That kind
of a man always pays. But there is
another sort of fellow who when in
formed of the rule, pretends to be
very indignant, insisting that he is a
gentleman by,-and is not in the
habit of having his name questioned
or his honesty doubted. In such
cases 1 invariably insist on the pro-
duction of the funds, for I know if I
don't get them then, I should never
get them in this world. Men who
talk about their honor, and assume
to be insulted when requested to pay,
can be depended on for frst-class
dead beats" #
Year: 1873

Grease spots should first be
taken out with liquid ammon-
ia, and then you apply the
remedy of some of the Chat
am street dealers in old clothes
namely, one or two ounces OF
common tobacco boiled in a
half gallon of water. In the
decoction you dip stiff brush,
and rub the clothes thorough
ly in all directions, no matter
what color of cloth. When
the liquid is well penetrated,
rub in one direction and sus-
pend the cloth to dry; by this
treatment it becomes clean
and lustrous, and singularly
enough, no tobacco smell will
remain.
Year: 1873

It is good thing for a young man to
be "knocked about in the world, though
his seft-hearted parents may not think
so. All youths, or if not all, certainly
nineteen-twentieths of the sum total,
enter life with a surplusage of self-con-
ceit. II, ia measuring themselves with
wiser and older men than they re,they
discover that it is unwarranted, and get
rid oft gracefully of their own accord,
we'll and good; if not, it is desirable, for
their own sakes, that it be knocked out
of them.


A boy who is sent to large school
soon finds his level. His will may have
been paramount at home; but school
boys are democratic in their ideas, and
if arrogant, are sure to be thrashed into
recognition of the golden rule. The
world is great public school, and it
soon teaches a new pupil his proper
place. If he has the attributes that be-
long to leader, he will be installed in
the position of leader; if not, whatev-
er his own opinion of his abilities may
be, he will be compelled to fall in with
the rank and file. If not destined to
greatness, the next best thing to which
he can aspire is respectability; but no
man can either be truly great or respect
able who is vain, pompous and over
bearing.


By the time the novice has found his
legitimate social position, be the same
high or low, the probability is that the
disagreeable traits of his character will
be softened down or worn away. Most
likely the process of abrasion will be
rough, perhaps very rough; but when it
is all over, and he begins to see himself
as others see him, and not reflected in
the mirror of selEconceit, he will be
thankful that he has run the gauntlet,
and arrived, though by rough road, at
selfknowledge. Upon the whole, what
ever loving mothers may think to the
contrary, it is good thing for youths
to be knocked about in the world-it
makes men of fthem.-TCasket.
Year: 1873

I


If young wine drinkers only knew
how wine is made, when it comes
from the pure grape, and understood
what gives It the peculiar aroma Of
which amateurs have 50, much to say,
they would reform at once. a writer
in Portugal says:


Portugal has long been famed for
its wine. At Lisbon I witnessed the
process of manufacture, and. I must
say not to the increase of an appetite
for the article The grapes are
thrown into await, and with bare feet
trampled into pulp. Tc. see these fat,
pussy people almost knee deep in
grape juice, putting and Blowing un-
der their task till their grape stained
legs arezstreaksd with sweat rolling
down and intermingling with the
embryo wine, is not particularly ap-
petizing. I have sometimes sat at
the table and been not little disgust
ed to witness how the wine-wise
smack their lips and talk knowingly
and most wisely of the aromatic
flavor of this wine, the rich bouquet
Of that, and the nutty oiliness of the
other. I am rather inclined to think
that these finely drawn and exquisite
shades of fragrance that connoisseurs
discover depend somewhat upon the
temperature of the day when the wine
was made, and perhaps as much upon
the leanness or fatness, and the filth
or cleanliness of the persons who
made It. I have no question that if
work about our barnyards and farms
was done barefootedas it is done here,
and the good housewife was to use
the evenings footbath to make tea
for the next days party, there would
be general adjusting of spectacles,
a peculiar sniff of noses, and perhaps,
quite as sage remarks by the old
ladies on the rich aroma of the delec-
table beverage before them as you
hear in a company of wine snobs, who
measure a mans gentility by the num-
Der of brands of wine he can distin-
guish, and the fippant fuency with
which he can discuss their nice shades
of differences.
Year: 1873




For the benefit of those who may
be afflicted, as 1 have been, with pim-
pies on the face, so notifying and
destructive to good looks, I would say
that bathing the face at bedtime
with strong solution of borax and
water is an excellent remedy. Battle
as frequently as you please with it it
is safe and is sure to dispel and pre-
vent pimples from coming again, ]
have experienced SO much benefit
from it that / would wish the remedy
made pubic,-[Reno, in Germantown
Telegraph.
Year: 1873

Some old genius, who very evidently
"knoYs thing or two," gives the
following advice to young men who
"depend on father for their support:


"Come, Off with yoar coat, clinch the
saw, the plow harmless, the ak, the,
pick-axe, the spade--anything that will
enable; tear your jacket, rather than be
the passive recipient of the old gentle
mans bounty Sooner than play the
dandy at dads expense, hire yourself
out to stop holes, or watch the bars, and
when you think yourself entitled to a
resting spell, do it on your own hook.
Get up in the morning turn around at
least twice before breakfast help the old
gentleman, give him how and then a
lift in business, learn how to take the
lead, and not dependent forever on being
led and you have no idea bow the
principle will benefit you. Do this, and
our word for it, you will seem to breathe
a new atmosphere, possess new frame
treada new earth, wake to new destiny
and you may begin to aspire to man
hood"
Year: 1873




We desire to call attention to the
subject of the cultivation of forest
trees An abundance of good timber
is a very important source of public
wealth. The time has now arrived
when it has become absolutely nee
essary that the cultivation of forests
should be made part of the public
policy of the nation. There are very
many farms in this county which have
been deprived of too much timber.
Those who have given attention to
the subject, attribute the severe
drouths, to which our country has been
so frequently subjected of late years,
to the fact that our lands have, been
denuded of forest trees. The RENE
dy is within the control of individual
farmers. Let every farmer, therefore,
look over his tarm, and plant forest
trees wherever he can find suitable
places for them.
Year: 1873

gions of Delaware and New Jersey
give assurance of a bountiful crop.
Raspberry plants suffered badly last
winter and fruit will be scarce. We
have also fair promise of good crop
of peaches in the lower part of Della


ware, and Maryland, the seventies Of
the last winter season not having
affected them.