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Year: 1876

New YORK, February O. Judge
Blauderford gave decision to-day in the
case brought by the United States gov
ernment against General James Watson
Webb for contempt Of court in not an
swering q question in relation TO the
money paid to officials in Brazil out OF
the government award when Webb was
Minister to that country. The Judge says
that from the nature Of the issue it would
not be necessary that he should give any
more specific answers to the questions put
to him than those he has already given in
regard to the manner in which the money
was disposed Of, and dismissed the con-
tnmnt proceedings.
Year: 1876

no board since their arrival at the no.
Tel, and the man evidently spent his
last cent for the laudanum, as no
money was found upon their clothes.
VINO they were or where they were
from their history or antecedents are
all profound mystery.


This morning large number of
people viewed the remains at under
taker Palmer's office, but no one was
able to identify them.
Year: 1876

In large majority of cases, SAYS the
journal of Health. il will be fonnd that
the heartiest meal OF the day should be
eaten in the morning Ifthe closing re-
past of the day has not been eaten too
late, or has not been too excessive in
quantity, or indigestible in quality, the
stomach will be rested and active in the
morning, after the individual has enjoy
ed a cold bath. The stomach will then
respond quickly with the necessary gas
tric juice for the solution of food, and
if fair amount of exercise is taken
during the day, large mass of food will
be assimilated and converted into blood
and tissue With n good, substantial
break fast, no great amount of food will
be required during the remainder Of the
day. One further meal will be ample,
and that might better be taken At from
two or three o'clock in the afternoon
than at any other period, if business en-
gagements only permit it.


| The break fast may be made from any
kind of wholesome food, and the fewer
kinds the better. The dinner should bt
light and readily digesied, il sound
sleep is desired, and strong appetite and
perfect power Of digestion next day. /
hunger comes, bowl Of sweet milk ant
we'll cooked mush of Indian meal oil
other nnbolted grain will allay il, anc
will digest quickly. One square meal
in every twenty-four hours Ia all Iha
can be taken care of by many veal
stomachs and more than this is an ex
cess and induces headache, nausea anC
distress. II dinners were abandoned
and especially late and heavy dinners
myriads Of dyspeptics would be cured


But under the exigencies Of city life
dinner cannot we'll be avoided. Thi


need not be the tremendous meal il i


customary to make it, If the breaK fas
he substa ntial and nutritious-not
thing of slops and biscuits, as it too OF
ten is
Year: 1876

-OHl thc A-OhNbh SAdhuaIo-l


At recent meeting Of the Society of
Arts, DIR. Bartlett described, in lengthy
paper, the process of concentrating beer.
The inventor of the process is Mr.. Lock
wood, one of the founders of the con-
densed-milk industry, and the plan
adopted is very similar to the process
employed in the preparation of that ar
ticle, viz: By boiling down the beer at
a temperature of about 1l2 degrees in
vacua until it is reduced to n thick semi
fluid state, with but a small proportion
of the original water remaining. The
alcohol IL previously extracted by gen
tie distillatiOn, and readded when the
process OF condensation is complete; the
mixture being then sealed mp in cans.


A barrel of beer containing thirty six
GALLONS may in this manner it was stated
be concentrated in bulk Of little over
two gallons, and all that is wanted to
restore the beverage to its original con-
dition, is the addition of water to the
eAteHb htfIreu. Oub "ucu ~ iFihiAtu
the beer is necessarily without hriskness.
the whole of the carbonic acid having
been driven of, and TO remedy this the
inventor proposes to stimulate the repro.
duction Of the gas by the addition Of a
little yeast or uncondensed beer. DR..
Bartlett said he had put the remade
beers to the practical test of drinking
them almost daily. and had found them
pleasant to the palate and more suitable
from a die tetir point of view than the
general average OF beer.


The substantial value of the invention
lay, he thought, in its applicability to
the preparation OF beers for export and
for nse on board ships. The .aving ef
fected would be so considerable that he
saw no reason why beers Of the mos
wholesome type should not he 80 suppl
ed at the antipodes at a moderate ad
vance upon home prices. If the con
densatioD of beer was carried on with
energy and commercial enterprise i
could not fail, he predicted, TO become o
National importance as leading to 1
great increase of our exports. now de
clininR. A discussion followed the read
ing Of the paper, and opinions were ex
changed generally favorable to the view
of the author.
Year: 1876

Cows are not early risers. Unless dis
tnrbed they will lie on cold morning
till the day gets we'll started; appreciaI-
ing the cheap warmth of = comfortable
bed rs much NJ the farmer himself The
horse is quite different. and bes'irs him
self nobody knows when. IL is not Of
ten that We catch him mapping unless he
is very tired. He would look out every
once in awhile in the night il he could,
and see how the weather goes. Last
night, for the first time this winter, ]
gave Ringbone the liberty OF his box
with an open east window twice aS large
as n horse-colIar. Rising at day break
for n wonder-T found the horse with
hIs head out Of that window, winking AT
the pleasant view, one might think, and
calculating the charmS OF an early
spring Of grass like an old hay sPeculs
tuF
Year: 1876

A man dreamt he was travelling, and
came 70 little church, and on the cnpo-
Ia Of that church there was devil fast
asleep. He went along further. and
came to a log cabin. and it was surround
ed by devils all wide awake. He asked
one Of them what it meant; said the
devil: "I will tell you. The fact is,
that whole church is asleep and one
devil can take care Of all the people.
but here are q man and woman who
pray, and they have more power than
the whole church."
Year: 1876

We met with this witty retort in 9
sketch of short trip through portion
Of Ireland. The writer is converting
with his car driver:


Yon are q Catholic, Pat?


Yes. yer honor.


And you pray to the Virgin Maryg


do, yer honor.


Well, there's no doubt she was n good
woman. The Bible says so. But she
may have been no better than your
mother or mine.


That's true, yer honor, but then you
will allow there's a mighty difference in
their children.
Year: 1876

AGE OF SHEEF.-A farming writing
us from Washington county, Indiana,
says that the age Of a sheep may EARLY
be told thus They have eight front
teeth, all ofone size. the first year; at two
years old the two middle teeth having
been shed out are replaced with two n
good deal larger than the others; for the
third year two small teeth come on eth
er side OF the eight; at the end Of the
fourth year there are six large teeth; on
the fifth year all the front teeth are
large, and the teeth all show wear on
the sixth year IndinAA Farmer.
Year: 1876

The following extract we clip from
very interesting address, delivered by
Maj. VIM. J. Sykes, in Brownsville.
Tenn: To he a perfect farmer a man
shOuld combine reading, observation and
practice. A man may work in the fields
all his life and be poor farmer. We
should gain knowledge and by reading
and study, and also by what we see
around ia, and then this knowledge must
be put into practice. Our views, il they
will not stand the test of actual expert
mqnts, are worthless. All sound theory
is based upon practice, and all sensible
practice is the result OF well grounded
information. whether learned by our
own observation, or from the experience
of others. That theory which will moi
stand the test Of experience is worthless
and that practice which il not based mp
on sound theory IL equally worthless.
Year: 1876

THE ATTITUDE OF THE LEFT.


PARIS, July II, 1879
The attitude Of the party Of tho Left has entirely
changed since the vote upon the measure for tho ap
pon,mcnt OF Mayors showed the government had a
majority in the Chamber of Deputies Tho Left will
abstain from all attempts overthrow tho Ministry
henceforth, and only aim at obtaining a republican
majority in the Senate tho partial election which is
fixed for 1878.
Year: 1876

GI4A&SEIOPPELS AGAIN.


The grasshoppers came down in great
numbers Oh Wednesday last and staid
until Sunday, dong much damage.
The southern part of the town suffered
the most. Many of the farmers in that
direction hadlescaped the ravages of the
young hoppers and were feeling hope
full Of a crop, but this was a hungry
crew and little but bare stems remains.
Now those who were ''cleaned outs
early in the spring smile blandly on
their new companions in misery. The
corn is not hurt much. Well, with
''hog and hominy" our forefatllers con-
quered, and why cannot we? If we
may judge by the fine herds of cattle to
be seen in every direction, there is,
however, still another resource left and
the best one of all.
Year: 1876




On Wednesday morning before day
light some settlers came into town and
reported that the Indians were coming,
One rumor was that there were five
hundred camped on one of the lakes in
Murray County. The scare spread
through the southern portion of Muir
ray and the northern portion OF Mobiles,
and the evil done to nervous women
and children can hardly be estimated.
The story originated with a boy who
had seen some men at a distance, and
then a man who was preparing to leave
Murray. County, went from house to
house and spread the alarm, until some
settlers fled, leaving everything behind
them. We understand that a number
of men set out to capture that individ-
ual, and if he is caught We would not
vouch fora1is neck.


AL this talk about the Indians CON-
ing is foolish in the extreme. Itcomes
mainly from men of weak nerves who
rather like to frighten women and chill
dren. The wild Indians are hundreds
of miles away, and the few tame Indi.
ans about the agencies in Dakota are
not nearly as dangerous as the white
tramps who are roaming over the coun-
frv
Year: 1876

The indications are that we shall have
but small harvest of prairie chickens
this year. There were plenty of old
ones in the spring and the grasshoppers
must have given them enough to eat,
but we are afflicted with great num-
ber of unframed and irresponsible
pointer dogs, who have been roaming
at will oyer the prairies. No doubt
they have destroyed the nests.
Year: 1876

There will be preaching at the Hersey
school house next Sabbath. Mr.. Tut
tie requests that the congregation as
scmble promptly at 2:45 p. NJ, as he
must return to Worthington before
evening. The effort he is making to
supply our lack Of regular religious
teaching ought to be recognized by at
least giving him full houses.
Year: 1876

111I IN OE O1OA1.


The Rock County Herald gives an
account Of our trip to Pipestone and of
the accident which befell our wagon by
the breaking of the ''reach'' or coup
ling. But as the Herald's informant is
very wide Of the mark, and hasn't told
the half we propose to give the ''true
story" so here goes:


We had got out to the Crock" the
principal attraction and chief article of
commerce, of the LuVerne people,
when our buggy, like the ''onc-hoss-
shay" fell all OF a heap at once. Every
portion of it gave way together, and it
lay as fiat as a pancake. With the aid
of wrench and bed-cord we put it
together, and set cut for Pipestone.
About sundoWn a storm struck US, and
when the storm was over, we found
ourselves some 25 or so miles north of
Pipestone, surrounded by a band of
hostile Indians. We shook hands with
them all around and formed treaty
to wait until morning for the fight to
begin. In the morning, however, we
scalped every Indian of them, took
their ponies and blankets, and got into
Pipestone in time for a good breakfast
with onr friend Sweet. After doing"
the quarry, we hired a man to take the
ponies and other things wrested from
the Indians to LuVerne. Arrived there,
we found the hotel full, but our young
friend Stoughton, of the Herald, and
his brother, came down and offered
their room to the ladies Of our party.
The next morning we went around Lu-
Verne and gathered items about the
celebration at that place. We learned
that our friend Croft, editor of the
Herald, had gotten up a ROW" among
a number of drunken men, so that he
might haye a good item for his paper,
and that the whole town came nearly
being turned over to free fight, !"
This is newspaper enterprise" and if
ever the editor of the Herald becomes
''seedy" and wants a place as ''local''
let him apply to us. We give this
"truc account of the breaking of our
''coupling" to correct the rumors which
are atlOat.
Year: 1876

The Centennial Concert given at the
school house OIL the evening of the
Fourth, everything considered, was a
decided success. We hope this is only
the beginning Of what we are to have
in the future.
Year: 1876

The General in bis journey from Helena
had experienced what most people would con
slider rough time. A stage-ride of 500
miles in winter naturally could not afford q
man vast deal of pleasure. He reports
that be encountered considerable snow on
the higher slopes, but the valleys were dry
and unpleasantly dusty. Work on the Boze-
man extension will be commenced Immedia-
tely, and the last 200 miles of the road from
Lake Superior to Bismarck, which has not
been in operation during the winter seasons,
on account Of the frequent -blockades,
will be Immediately placed in running order,
and trains will be run regularly hereafter.


From the st. Paul Pioneer-Press, FEB Is


The gratifying news was received in this
city yesterday that orders had been received
from President c. B. Wright, of the North
ern Pacific railroad, to proceed at once with
the work of opening that road for travel be-
tween Fargo and Bismarck. Instructions to
this effect were transmitted to Superintend-
ent Towne, at Brainerd, and the latter will
commence without delay to carry out the
wishes of the president, BY collecting the
necessary force of men for that duty. 1t is
not known what obstacles are to be encoun-
tered, or whether the heavy snow storm of
SUNDAY NAV nave increased tn6 QllncultleS,
but it is believed that if nothing worse than
the ordinary Instructions are to be removed,
the road will be clear in the course of a week,
or by the first of March, in any event.
Should these hopes be realized, the rush to
the Black Hills, by way of Bismarck will be
very great, for it is generally conceded that
this is by all odds the best route to the gold
fields Gen Custer and other parties will
start west as soon as the cars are in motion.


Dispatches were also received from Chica
go, announcing that the Legislature of Mon
tana had voted almost unanimously a subsi-
dy of three millions OF dollars to the North
ern Pacific road, and that the directors of the
company, had decided TO resume work on the
extension of the line westward from BIS
marck early in the spring. The route has
been surveyed and staked from the Missouri
to the Yellowstone, and it is confidently be-


ieved that the road will be carried into Mon
tana during the present year This is cheer
ing news and it is believed to be perfectly
reliable.
Year: 1876

In accordance with the notice
which appeared in last weeks TIMES
quite a number of our citizens as.
sembled at the Conrt House on
Tuesday evening to talk over mat
tiers concerning annexation and
compromise. No action of any sort
was taken, the meeting being called
simply to have a "friendly talk
and to compare views with one an
other. The prevailing sentiment
however, seemed to be that it i,
not best at the present time to en-
terrain any propositions whatever
looking towards annexation or com
promise, and as THE TIMES is, snd
has been, inclined to that opinion
we let the matter drop.
Year: 1876

IN another column we publish ar
ticles from The Brainerd Tribune,
Chicago Tribune and st. Paul
Pioneer-Prsss concerning the accep-
tance by the Montana Legislature
of the proposition of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, and also concern
ing the prospects for its immediate
extension. This is glorious news
for the n. P. country, and will no
doubt tend to greatly revive busi-
ness at the head of the lake.
Year: 1876

Montana Grants the Road a Condi-


tional Subsidy of SO, ,500,00O-360


Miles to be Built from Bismarck In


to Montana in Two Years, Opening


up the Black Hills, Yellowstone e


Valley and Montana Mines. s.-Con-


struction to be Commenced in the


Spring.-The Road has Shaken Off


it's membranes and is Going


Ahead Three Cheers fer the


Northern Pacific.


From the Brainerd Tribune


We give below this week, the full text OF
the Memorial to the Montana Legislature OF
Vice President Stark and Chief Engineer
". u, Roberts, Of the Northern Pacific Rail
road, who went last month to Montana for
the purpose of securing a loan from that
Territory for the extension of the road into
their borders, as more fully st forth in the
memorial


The prospects of their success have been
good from the very first, owing partly to the
very feasible proposition of the company to
the Territory and partly to the strong desire
of the people of the Territory for railroad,
and last evening the report reached here that
Montana had accepted the proposition of
the company in full. The report received is
not official, but is vet quite authentic, and at
the hour of going to press is not successfully
contradicted, and we feel justified in calling
it reliable


Tits is certainly good news to this section,
not entirely undeserved by those who have
stuck ts the road through the dark years that
have overshadowed i.slnce the failure of j.
Cooke & Co., maintaining faith in its future
thr ough ell, though at times against hope.
Hurrah for the Northern Pacific against the
world, after all!
Year: 1876

A gratifying evidence Of 3lr. BLA1Ngis re-
turning health md strength was afforded
yesterday in his appearance at tho Conven-
ton Of tho Third Congressional District
whercat his successor in the House was
nominated. He was we'll enough to attend
tho Convention md mike speech.
Year: 1876

DRESDEN, June w. When
VIC arrived among the earliest, the
interior was glowing at white heat;
the stream Of gas had been shut off,
the steel bars along the floor were
painful to look upon. When an
audience Of about one hundred and
twenty spectators, all evidently OF
the most intelligent and respectable
class, and embracing in their number
over a dozen ladies', had assembled,
one of the Messrs. S!emens made a
short address explanatory of the pro-
cess we were about to witness; and
then the two corpses were brought
forward, scwcd in linen sacks, and
resting on long, narrow boards. The
iron door Of the furnace was swung
open and these boards instantly
thrust into the glowing interior, and
as rapidly withdrawn, leaving the
two sacks containing the bodies rest
ing on the white hot furnace bars.
The door was instantly closed and its
edges rapidly stamped" with wet
clay, but before it closed we saw the
wrapping shriveled up into nothing
ness, and dancing, lambent flames
play over the naked bodies. The
process Of burning lasted precisely an
hour and seventeen minutes by the
watch and we had ample opportunity
to note the process of combustion
within, through our "oeiI du beW"
left in the iron furnace door for that
purpose. To the play of the flames
over the corpses, succeeded two dark
masses like burned roast beef, the
outlines of the figures being distinct
ly visible, then two masses of brown
lsh Goals through which the white
ribs and skulls showed grimly, while
the masses seemed to palpitate in the
throbbing heat; then two heaps Of
red ashes, which slowly turned to
white. Then the tamping was
knocked out from around an iron
door at the bottom of the furnaces, a
wooden shovel like that used by ba-
kers thrust in, on which the clear,
pure, dry, bright white ashes were
collected, and passed around among
the spectators for inspection and the
minutest examination. There was
nothing repulsive about the entire
proceeding; no roaring or cracking,
or offensive odor; the only part of
the ceremony which might have
shocked the sensitive was where the
bodies were thrust from the plank in
to the glowing oven and left upon the
incandescent bars, while the door
swung to and hid them from sight,
| and this would not be worse, after
custom had made it familiar, than the
lowering Of the body into the ground
and the scattering of earth upon the
coffin. We broke up as the shades
Of evening we're stealing over the
valley of the Elbe from the hills of
Saxon Switzerland, and came away
well satisfied with cremation as a


neat, clean, convenient and expedient


method of disposing Of the bodies of


the dead in thickly populated coun-


tries. 1t was authoritatively stated


that the body of a man of average


size leaves a residue of four to four


and half pounds of ashes, that of an


average woman a residue of about


three pounds. Did | remember to


mention that the corpse Of which


spoke Of as having been cremated


were the bodies of large mastiff and


cat? But the experiment was as


satisfactory as if they had been "hu


mans"
Year: 1876

Paris Letter, Philadelphia Telegraph


Queer things are occasionally to
be seen in Paris, butaqueerer sight
than that which / witnessed this
morning on the Rue de la Paix, it
has rarely, if ever, been my lot to
behold. In making my morning
walks, l met a large white poodle,
shaved and clipped lion fashion,
who wore q round, black velvet cap,
coquettshly placed on the side OF
his curly head. In his mouth he
carried a basket, to the handle Of
which a small ecru silk parasol had
been adroitly attached in such q
manner that in carrying the basket
the dog held the parasol over his
head, and so shaded himself from
the rays of the sun. 1t is impos-
sible to describe the gravity anC
aplomb Of his dogship, or the inn,
mense amusement of the street
boys and passers-by at this move
spectacle.
Year: 1876




Paris cor. Applston's Journal,


believe / mentioned in a former
letter, when speaking of artists
models, that many of them are wo-
men of undoubted correctness of
life and purity of morals. An
American artist told me recently
that he knew Of one such, young
Frenchwoman, who always pre-
faces the terms Of her engagement
with the stipulation that if one In
sulting word be addressed to her
she will at once quit the studio,
and consider her contract as can
celed. Her story is quite q roman
tic one. She came to Paris with
her husband from the provinces a
few years ago, and they embarked
in some small business, but proving
unfortunate they lost all their cap
ital and were forced to support
themselves by their daily labor.
The husband got an engagement in
a cafe, and the wife went out sew
ing by the day, receiving sixty cents
a day for her services, without
board. One day a lady artist for
whom she was working was 50
struck by the fine outlines Of her
seamstress' form, that she paid her
to sit a few hours as a model for a
nude nymph. She then counseled
her to give up sewing, and to adopt
the trade Of a model, which the
young woman, with the approba-
tion of her husband, did. She
now receives three dollars a day
regularly, is saving money, and
contemplates taking the lease Of d
small shop as soon as she has laid
by a sufficient sum. A celebrated
Spanish painter in Paris has re-
Gently created quite q scandal in
Paris by marrying a model. This
girl-she was young and very beau
tiful-was engaged to sit to an
| italian artist for term Of months
but the Spaniard, hearing of her
extraordinary loyeliness, managed
to tempt her away, and became 50
infatuated with her that he soon
after made her his wife. She is
said to be only sixteen years oi
age, and as vicious as she is hand
some.