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Year: 1875

In roasting poultry, one thick ness oi writing or nice brown wrapping paper, tied around the wing and drumsticks, will keep them from being baked to a crisp and spoiled.

 Flavor for Frosting.-In frost ing tor cakes or buildings, a lit tie lemon juice, tartaric acid or cream of tartar is very pleasant addition to the taste, besides making the frosting much lighter.

 Graham Mufiins.-1 egg, little sugar, l pint sour milk, l tea spoonful of soda, flour enough to thicken; bake in a quick oven, 7 or 3 spoonfuls of sour cream with the milk improves them.

 To prevent paints from crack ing and peeling, boil the linseed oil by the heat or steam until all the moisture is expelled. Oil thus served will dry in one half the usual time without any dryer.

 For Whitewash for your Hen House.-Put three ounces of car bolic acid in twelve quarts of lime water or whitewash, and wash the walls of the poultry house well with this wash and you will repel the lice.

 To Make Furniture Oil-Mix half pint of olive oil witw one pound of soft soap. Boil them well, and apply the mixture to your oiled furniture with piece of cot ton wool. Polish with sort of dry flannel.

 To Cement Wood to Glass; Make solution of isinglass in acetic acid so thick as to be solid when cold. Heat this and apply it. This has been tested by fas- tening the end of a glass tube to pine wood; the wood gave way sooner than the cement.

 To Clean Kid Gloves.-Take one part curd soap and three parts water. Mix with heat, and iron. A little of this rubbed over the kid will readily remove all dirt without injuring the glove or leaving any unpleasant odor

 The Chlldren's Pudding-quar- ter of a pound of suet, quarter of pound of flour, quarter of pound or entrants, two ounces or sugar, two teaspoonfuls of molas- ses, juice aud peel of one lemon, milk. Boil in mould three hours.

 To Polish Tins.-first, rub your tins with damp cloth; then take dry flour and rub it on with your hands; and afterwards take an old newspaper and rub the flour of, and the tins will shine as well as if half an hour had been spent in rubbing them with brick dust or powder, which spells the hands.

 Vegetable Glue.-The addition of a solution of 30 grains of crys- talized sulphate of alumina in 300 grains of water to a solution of
Year: 1875

The question Of granting to women 4
license to preach has been decided in the
negative by the Northern Indiana Meth
Odist Episcopal Conference, upon the
ground that discipline and usage forbid
1t, This view was sustained by Bishop
Bowman, but it Is evident that his sympa-
thies and his sense Of duty are wide apart,
He would like to give the Methodist pull
pit the benefit Of the elOquence and per-
suasiyc powers Of female preachers, but
as the license to preach involves the right
Of ordination, which has been refused 70
women by the General Conference, the
gallant Bishop was forced to shut the
door in the face of the would.be eyangelS,
though not without expressing tho hope
that his decision would be appealed from,
and the matter thus brought before the
General Conference.
Year: 1875

GIvEa boy market-basket of groceriesto carry home and he will swing it across his spine, bend half way to the ground and groan with agony, but give him that weight ofa base bats and he will skip along as mer- " as . potatoe bug in ten-acre lot.
Year: 1875

A Maine girl left her clothing in an open boat and hid herself, and when her parents were crying and saying if they only had her back they would obey her slightest wish, she appeared and said she wanted to marry George.
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winter
and are furnishing the bes.
paying and most easily worked
agency in the world. Our
agents have always been the
most successful, and we nave
lately added NE " and exceed
ingy taking Inducements, re
quirlng only intelligence and
application for any one, e,young
or old, of either sex, to make
really first-class paying bust
Year: 1875

LAVE PROVED, FROM THE MOST AMPLE
efficient and reliable. They are the only medicines
perfectly adapted to popular use-so simple that
mistakes cannot be made in using them; so harm
ess as TO be free from danger; and 80 efficient as
10 be always reliable. They have the highest COM
mendation from all, and will always render stats
Year: 1875

A STRUGGLE WITH A swoRDFIsH WHICH


ATTENDED A SCHOOL OF MACKEREL.


Captain ID. d. Thurlow. Of the schoon-
er G. +. Broara, sighting school Of mack
erel off Fire Island. on Wednesday last,
set out in small boat to capture them
As he was hauling he found that he had
caught something larger than mackerel.
Supposing that he had a shark, he watch
ed its movements anxiously. The mon
ster rushed up under the boat and nearly
capsized it, sent the captain sprawling on
his back and the crew off their seats.
Their antagonist was a swerdfish. He
had driven his sword clear through ths
bottom of the boat. The men lost no
time in getting complicated series OF
half bitches around him with q stout
line. The fish freed himself and darted
off into position for another charge.
But as the grip Of the rope.was frightened
he was soon at the mercy OF his captors.
The fishermen stopped the hole in the
boat and pulled for the schooner, land
ing their captive safely on deck, and
brought him to New York.


The sword measures three feet seven
inches, and the body, from the base OF
the sword to the tail, is over eleven feet.
II weighed three hundred and ninety
pounds, net. Its skin is to be stripped
Of and stuffed for the Central Park Mu-
scum.
Year: 1875

THE TEST OF TIME.-They say that
the famous heather temple of Jugger-


aaut, in British India, is i n bad way,
owing to the fall of a stone, as there is
a prophecy that when the first stone
is unfastened the temple shall not
stand. The present building is sup
posed to have been completed in 1888
at a cost of more than two million
dollars. Itis said that during the last
seven hundred years not a trowel has
been laid upon it in the way OF repairs
Year: 1875

Judge Kelley's speech at Youngstown, Ohio, is
reported on good authority to have done good
service for the Republican ticket in that State.
After waiting to feel its effect, observers assure
us that it " has done the Democracy moro harm
than good" The conclusion OF his address had
80 sharp communistic and destructive twang
that the iron-makers who sent for him rather
discouraged and concluded that the path of
" soft-money" was likely to be a decidedly rough
road for anybody who had anything to lose.
Year: 1875

John A. Storm, Road Master On the To
peka division OF the Kansas Pacific Rail-
way, was instantly killed Saturday morn
ing, about four miles west OF Topeka, while
loading old railroad iron upon fiat car.
An cid rail had been lifted on the car, but
one end extended over the track just as a
train was passing. Storm, seeing it, sprang
forward, and in pushing it back lost his
balance and fell TO the ground, the rails
falling on top Of him crushing his skull
and breaking one of his legs He was a
man greatly respect 4, and leaves q wife
and three children at ST. Maryis Mission.
Year: 1875

OuR dispatches tell us that San Francisco did honor to Arizona in honoring her friend on his arrival in that city She put on her Sunday clothes and did the handsome thinr. for once at least, to one who deserved any compliment they could bestow. Moreover we take it as evidence that this country is not altogether unknown in that more en. frightened portion of creation, however heed less they may appear as to the matter of se curing our trade, etc. We trust it is not simply the buttons on Gen. Crooks coat. or the title he so worthily bears that has so elevated him in their eyes but that they really appreciate the great service he has rendered struggling and long suffering people
Year: 1875

WE are indebted 10 Maurice Tondorf o Camp Apache, for beautifully executed in- vitation card to party given by O., 9th Cavalry, on the 17th of March, ut.

 Although bidden little after the feast we are just as much obliged, and should have been present had it been possible.

 we are informed that it was certainly the most elegant affair ever seen in Arizona. The supper, we are informed, could not have been excelled even in the East. The officers were all in full dress and had their ladies present also in full feather.

 Everything was conducted in the very best manner and gave universal satisfaction.
Year: 1875

SIGNS OF WAR IN EURopE.-Late adyices are to the effect that France and Italy are trying to form an alliance to run a tilt against Germany. Austria and Belgium are also snarling at Germany and may join the other powers. The Berlin Post says that it IS probable that the present French Assem- ply fearing Republican majority in the next disposed to peace, are anxious to pre- clpltate war of revenge under the danger ous auspices of McNahon and the Orlean Princes, who would profit by it and spring revolution. strong party in Italy stand ready to oppose Germany in everything on account of her antiPapal attitude.
Year: 1875

A drive of about 70 miles brought us to this place where we met with a cordial re- ception from Mir. Geo. Wilson, about whom and his section will have something to say in my next. SHEEP HrRprR
Year: 1875

AN INGENIOUS RAscAL.-The following &C
count Of an attempt at highway robbery in Cal
cutta shows that the ingenuity of rascas is not
yet exhaused:


"On the afternoon of January Is the daily re.
mittauce from the custom house to the Bank of
Bengal, at Calcutta. was carried as usual in
money chest on a wheelbarrow, drawn by some
coolies and accompanied by chowkidar of police
and custom house sircar. When the party had
reached within short distance Of the bank. on
the Strand road, daring feat was attempted.
4 man, seemingly European, with his face
masked, aud mounted on a powerful horse,
came up to the chest, suddenly producing from
under his cloths small piece of bamboo, with
hook attracted to one end and kuiie to the
other.


The bamboo itself was attached to bis waist
with long piece of rope. He threw it on the
chest, and tie hook catching the iron handle of
the box, he lifted it up by means Of the rope
and commenced riding along at rapid pace.
The whole of the proceedings. which did GOT
occupy more than few seconds, staggared the
party in charge of the box, and the man might
nave successfully made away with the money
had it not been for its weight. which broke the
handle OF the box. The box fell to the ground
and the man rode away out of sight before any
oue attempted to seize him. The box contaiued
$4,000 rupees, 1000 rupees being in silver and
the rest in ch, cks and notes. The police have
not yet succeeded 10 getting any trace OF the
man who thus, in the middle of the day and
in crowded thoroughiare, endeavored to COM
nit one Of the most daring robberies heard OF
TOR long time.
Year: 1875

Each mother is historian. She writes
not the history Of empires OF Of nations on
paper, but she writes her own history on tho
imperishable mind of her child. That tablet
and that history will remain iudelible when
time shall be no more. That history each
mother shall meet again, and read with eternal
of eternity. The thought should weigh on
the mind of every mother, and render her
deeply circumspecs, prSyerful and faithful in
her solemn work of training up her children
for heaven and immortality.


The minds of children are very susceptible
and easily impressed. A word, q look, frcwn,
may engrave an impression on the mind OF
child which no lapse of time can eface OF
wash out You walk along the seashore when
the tide is out, and you form characters or
write words or names in tho smooth white
sand which is spread out 80 clear and beau.
tiful at your feet, according as your fancy
NAV dictate; but the returning tide shall in O.
few hours wash out and eface all you hayo
written. Not 30 the lines and characters of
truth and error which your conduct impriuts
on the mind of your child. There you write
impressions for the everlasting good or i'll Of
vour child, which neither the floods nor the
sIow-moTing ages of eternity can obliterate.
How careful should each mother be in her
treatmen: of her child How prayerful and
how serious. and how earnest to write the
eternal truths Of God on his mind-those
truths which shall be his guide and teacher
when hcr voice shall be silent in death, and
her lips no longer move in prayer in. his be.
half. in coDmending her dear child to her
covenant God.
Year: 1875

THE WEATHER WE MAY EXPECT NEXT SUM-
MER.-Professor Tice, the meteorological, to whose
remarkable predictions, and their no less remark
able fulfllment, concerning the physical pertur-
nations which accompanied the late equinox of
Venus, we referred to few days ago, states that
the period from the 18th of June next through
the first halt of July will he a season of high
electric tension in the atmosphere, many thun-
der storms, possibly many rain falls and cyclones
such water-spouts and tOrnadoes. The cycle
occurs again abOut the middle of October. The
phenomena twenty days before and after should,
he says, be particularly noted. He claims that
there are meteorological cycles which are influ-
enced by the equinox of Venus, and the record of
the phenomena he adduces not only proves the
occurrence of perturbations at these equinoNes,
but that they begin to manifest themselves as
early as twenty and sometimes as early as TWEEN
ty-fve days anterior to the occurrence of the
equinox, and may continue many days sub
soquent to it. The exact day of bad weather can
not be foretold, can immediate locality of the
paroxysm; bnt by means of the system he claims
to be able TO tell where the disturbance will be
felt least and where it is liable to be the great
est.-PittsbHrg Commercial.
Year: 1875

"REIIEF NoTEs."-These "relief notes. are
from the Kirwin Chief:


A S. Clark is not authorized to solicit aid for
Kirwin, or any other part of Philips County.
He left this part of the country Immediately after
being arrested and tried for stealing, upon which
trial he was acquitted upon a mere technicality.
The citizens of the east will, by refusing to
ognze him, thereby prevent themselves from be-
ing swindled by rank impOstor


Interminable quarreling and squabbling over
the aid business all round is sufficient to disgust,
we should think, the veriest pauper that ever
inhabited a poor house. Our wonder is, that i'll
view of the situation, the eastern people will
ling to give anything to parties who accuse each
other of stealing secondhand clothing from a
panpcrs clothes line


1t is easier for a needle to go through the eye
of a camel, than it is for rich man TO get
through a grasshopper season without drawing
aid.


The following "relief notes" are from the Mar
shall County Ne9s:


We learn that every township in Marshall
County last week voted township relief bonds
Sdbethd 4adraHce.


You are mistaken; we are opposed to squan-
dering ovr own money. The rguv'meut" is GO
ing to send us condensed milk and beans.


Nemaha County has only 96i destitute persons
County that has more destitute than this
pitiful number should be ashamed of itself.


They invoke the aid of the law in Phillips Coun-
ty to compel proper distribution of aid goods.
Year: 1875

IT We have received a copy of the Report OF
the managers of the Atchison and Nebraska Rail.
road for the year 1874 which, while it does not
show as large an amount of nett profits as some
could desire, does not indicate that the road is
running down. For the year 1874, the earnings
of the road were $50 $50 in excess of expenditures
On the one hand, expenses were heavy in pro.
tecting the road from the ravages of the Missouri
River; and on the other hand, as the Secretary
saws, the road is essentially farming one, and
the failure of crops along the route last season
told fearfully upon the freight earnings. Their,
is an encouraging future in store for the Atchsor
and Nebraska yet.
Year: 1875

q Mrs. Sneed committed suicide near Brownsville,
Saline County the fifth instant by taking poison She
granddaughter of Thomas n. Harrison who hang.
ed himself there the Saturday prevous No is
assigned for the act grief the death Of her grand
father Her husband is in the pententary for
horse stealing.-MSsouri Paper.


Which goes to show that the Missouri idea
cannot conceive of such thing as a woman be-
ing driven to suicide by the disgrace of her hus-
band being sent to the penitentiary, but regards
the death of her grandfather Us a calamity too
great to be endured
Year: 1875

r The LeavenwOrth Times, referring to a
short article in our paper recently, which has
been extensively copied and approved by the
.press of the State says that the Chief and other
papers are doing all in their power to discourage
emigration to Kansas. Then the Times proceeds
to express precisely the same views as those in
our article which it condemned.
Year: 1875

u We notice that the mule-spinners in the
New England mills are quitting work. This will
cut off the supply of mules unless stock men fall
back upon the old method of obtaining thcm.
Year: 1875

Under law of Congress authorizing the col
iectlon OF the Portraits of Secretaries of War,


during the different Federal administrations a
likeness of Jefferson Davis has been added to
the gallery of the War Department at Washing
Year: 1875

MORE SAILORS IN TRoUBLE.-William War
rel, Henry Williams, and William Harris,
charged with refusing 10 do duty on board
the schooner w. +. Simmons, were brought
before the Police Justice yesterday morning.
The Justice, upon examining the shipping
papers in the hands OF Captain Gandis, said
that they were irregularly made out, and it
further appeared from the mems statement
that they had agreed TO ship "to Richmond I"
and had signed the articles in blank with
that understanding, and the blank had been
filled up SO rs to make it appear that they
bad shipped "to Richmond and to return TO
some northern port" This. however, the
CAPTAIN denied. The accused We're dis
charged.


AS they were leaving the bar Of the court
one OF the men tipped the Captain ii wink
and said "PIl see you later" Thereupon
the Captain swore he was afraid the men
would do him some bodily Injury. They
were rtarrested and examined on this new
charge. The man who had remarked iii
see YOU later" declared that be and bis COM
panions would not hurt hair of the Cap
iain's head that the words in question
formed the chorus of tnmllar song, and
were by them often used in jocular conVerSa-
ton, The Captain still persisted that bis
life and property would not be safe If the
sailors were allowed TO go at liberty, and
they were accordingly committed to Jail for
thirty days in default of surety to be OF
good behavior and keep the peace.
Year: 1875

forty. I kept in my little church, tor it Helen
we're living she would find me there better
than elsewhere IF she were dead, it seemed
to me that some token of her fate must come
to me at last. Twenty years had passed, and
still there was no answer to my prayer for IT,
dings of her.


There was prison some FIVE miles from NJ,
gray and gloomy place. A man was to be
executed for foul murder. He was har.
dened wretch, but there was all the more need
for spiritual aid; and, the prison chaplain
being very ill at the time, l was requested to
visit him. I went, of course.


1t was, strange to say, the anniversary of
Helens disappearance.


The same spring weather-warm at noon,
cool at highland the grass was sprinlglng IN
the garden, fresh and green and the buds
were on the trees and the lilac bushes, just as
on the day when I looked back and saw my
wife smiling at me over her shoulder, as she
knelt beside the garden beds, scattering the
flower seeds.


thought of all this even as entered the
prison gates and the cell Of the doomed man.
I found him, now that death was near, more
pvuitvnt thuu had hoped. His guilt was es'
tablshed, and he made no effort to deny it..
And when had talked to him some time, he
wept, sobbing heavily, as such men do when
grief overcomes them.


"This was fight aud with man." he
said, when he regained his composare. "The
God you talk of may forgive that. But pray.
ers can't save me. I've done one thing in my
life that can't be got over. That would drag
me down if all the angels tried to save me-"


II killed woman once It's long while
ago. But I've seen her face ever since Now,
if I was to look over my shoulder, I'd BEE it
there. Some think that confession does one
good. I'll tell you. 1t can't hurt, and I'll
die easier. I was tempted by her Jewels and
she was alone in garden, in a quiet place. l
jumped the fence, and grabbed 'em. She
screamed and struggled, and I stabbed her.
Then when had the jewels-ruby earrings
they were, and pin-I took great stone off
an old we'll, and dropped the body in. l can
hear the water splash now as it did when l
dropped her in, and the sound of girl sing
ing in her house. / can see the blood on my
hands, and hear the gravel under my feet as
I ran away. l got some money by the job,
but took no comfort in it. I've never taken
any since. A woman, and young and pretty,
and doing no harm to me-"


"What is the matter? Help help! Great
heavens, how you look p


1 heard him cry this out, as lost conscious.
ness. The truth had come to me at last. l
knew it had, before he told the tale to others,
and owned that the scene of this terrible story
was the parsonage at NJ; before they lifted
the stone from the old we'll, and found in the
mire at its bottom the broad wedding ring,
which proved that what else lay there, was all
that was left of my beloved wife.
Year: 1875

boo even intimated that he would like to try
another cast, but Burleigh expressed himself
fully satisfied.


Mr.. Smith, however, offered to take "a shot,
but not at too short range. We were stand
ing in front of one of the storehouses. Carn-
boo placed Smith in front of the door and
stood with his back to him, with Smiths hand
on his shoulder.


None of US knew what sort of maneuvre
he had in mind, not even Myers. Standing
in this position, the black threw the boomerang
straight ahead. Immediately it curved in the
air. Then it disappeared around the corner
of the building, and, before he had time to
guess what was meant, it came around the
other end (having passed completely around
the store-house) and gave him a sounding slap
on the back, which made his eyes snap.
Year: 1875

THE LITTLE STRANGER.-A little baby
stranger came to family in Augusta last week,
and bright 6ve.year old child in that house
hold was brought to see the new conner. He
greeted the little one with apparent pleasure
and delight, patting it playfully under the
chin and smoothing down its soft hair. Then
all at once came the inquiry, "Say, how was
God when you left p
Year: 1875

SAN TRAU, CAL. November IA
dispatch from Carson says: A man nam
ed Thos Burt was hung by the Nlgllanis
last evening. II WAS found this morn
ing hanging to the gate of the cemetery.
He had been recently engaged IN many
cases of arson and robbery. He had es-
capped imprisonment for want of legal
evidence. He had received repeated warm
ing to leave the vicinity, which he had
d Isregardcd lie WAS taken quietly out
of his bed by masked men and hung
without any disturbance. He was II
native of New York and 2G years old.