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Year: 1870

ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY OF
HARTFORD, CoNN.--The services of this
sterling old company have been so long
and so we'll tested, and its wealth and
willingness are so widely known, that
words Of mere endorsement and com.
mendation are simply superauous. 1t
has ever been conservative and careful,
and at the same time vigorous, energetic
and successful beyond all precedent; its
history is as prominently solitary even
among the fruitful records Of American
fire underwriting as is the tall summit Of
its namesake above the vineyards and
orchards of sea. .girt Sicily, and its pol
icies are regarded by the lovers of choice
securities somewhat as financial epicure
regards q government obligation. To
deny that the Ktna is entitled to this
proud rank is to deny just reward to
the successful victor in many hard fought
fields. The company that can point to a
loss list that now approximitates twenty.
seven millions Of dollars, and at the same
time point to q steadily increasing income
and an unfaltering accre;ion Of wealth
until its present assets reach five and
half millions, may be pardoned for look
ing back over the fiery path with com.
placency, as it reads therein record
that has never been traced on this or the
Eastern Continent by any other similar
instruction.


For more than half q century the
Etna has fought the Gre fend in its
earlier days with varying success, but, on
the average, with satisfactory results to
those who have risked their capital in the
enterprise; and, during the last half of
its career, with conspicuous ability and
thrift.


With a national system of agencies
managed with consummate care, the
IEtna carries to every town Of note in
the entire country the benefits of its
superb organization, and brings first.
class insurance within the easy reach of
every property holder that may desire to
avail himself thereof. Both indemnity
from loss by FIRE ard security against loss
by the perls of inland navigation are
afforded in the several departments Of
the Nina's transactions. We shall look
to the future for grand continuance OF
that career that has made the Ktna' 8
name in the past and the present house
hold word throughout the nation.
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Year: 1870

Editor Hearld: I beg leave through
the columns Of your paper, to make an ap.
peal 10 behalf of an effort which was made
somo time since by some Of our citizcns
for the interest and improvement Of the
public generally in knowledge Of an
cient and modern lore. Feeling desire
for some such innocent, interesting and
improving pastime, by request it was
announced among your locals that o
meeting would bo held by the citizens for
the purpose Of ascertaiuing what interest
might be taken in such an effort. Ac-
corlinely, on the appointed evening we
met. Imputable to the inclemency Of the
weather, we we're somewhat disappointed
to see but few present, but we're again
compensated to behold what eagerness
and earncstncss was manifested in the
attempt. After holding meeting Of two
hours length and fully discussing the
propriety Of such an association, with
some ten or twelve participants, we ad-
jouruod. All were Of the opinion that
by proper diligence we could ultimately
succeed in establishing Lyceum, which
might live beyond our time, and be Of
lasting interest to all who might become
members.


During the meeting it vas resolved
that We continue our efforts in this cause
by holding a meeting on the l4th inst,
at which time we might determine what
would be the character Of the institution
A committee of three was appointed to
drauehta Constitution and by laws, to be
read, criticised, amended and signed by
such as might consider it to their interest
to become members Of this order, at the
ensuing meeting.


As to tho nature aud object of this
association, we would advise all to come
and see for themselves. At any rate, w
propose to spend our evenings much more
pleasantly and advantageously than many
others who spend them on the street; and
in the course Of time. we hope to afford ,
pleasant diversion to all who may fee! 10
clined to honor our Hall with their pres
ence j.
Year: 1870

Begin by getting in readiness all the
utensils and ingredients to bc used. See
that the oven is at proper temperature
Rich cake requires slow even oven
plain cake q quicker heat. Never add
fuel when the cake is baking. Line the
tins to be used with buttered paper.
The fruit shonld be prepared, the -four
sifted and meat ured, sugar, butter and
milk, also apportioned out, the eggs laid
in cold water to make them beat light.
Never mix sweet and sour milk.


. Dissolve soda in q little water and
strain cream of tartar or baking powder
must be sifted In with the -four. S,fl
spices through 6ne hair seive, and strain
the yolks of the eggs.


The order Of mixing the ingredients Is
as follows:


Put into on earthen dish the required
amount Of butter; stir with . wooden
spoon until fine cream is formed, mex,
add the yolks OF the eggs, then a little Of
the -four, and very gradually tho milk,
stirring the batter ali the time, then the
aavoring and spices, lastly tho whites
beaten to stiff froth alternately with the
remainder of the -four; now beat the
batter until the ingredients are thoroughly
Incorporated; this will insure light, fine
grained cake. The best way to put in the
fruit, after dredging them with -four, is
in alternate layers with the sponge as you
put in the pan.


Put the cake Immediately in the oven
and watch carefully so much depend.
upon the baking. Avoid draft Of cold
air while opening the oven. If the heat
of fire is too great cover the cake for q
while with piece Of brown paper. Try
with broom splinter If it comes on,
quite free from any particles of batter
the cake is done. If desirable to remove
the cake At once from the pans, transfer
it to the top Of = seive until quite cold.
The cake keeps much better, however, to
remain in the pans Cake must not be
frosted until quite cold. A stone jaI
aud clean piece Of linen will keep fresh
. long time.


Stale cake may be steamed, and eater
With hot sauce, which make an excellen,
pudding. .-Household.
Year: 1870

A good thing is . reliable Nursery, and
Lincoln county claims to have such IN
one, known as the Buffalo Nursery, where
oil kinds Of nursery stock can be had,
true to name and at half the price her
citizens have been paying for stock much
inferior to that grown at Buffalo Nursery.
Those interested should call and examine
for themselves.
Year: 1870

A BIRD STORY "A pretty incl
dent is related of canary bird by
a correspondent. The door of
the cage was occasionally left
open that he might enjoy the
freedom of the room. One day
he happened to light upon the
mantle-shelf, whereupon was a
mirror. Here was new discovery
of the most profound interest,"
He gazed long and curiously at
himself, and came to the conclu-
sion that he had found a mate
Going back to his cage, be selec-
ted seed from its box, and brought
it in his bill as an offering to the
stranger. In vain the canary ex-
erted himself to make his new
found friend partake, and becom-
ing weary of that, tried another
tack. Stepping back few inch
es from the glass, he poured forth
his sweetest note, pausing now
and then fora reply. None came;
and moody and disgusted, he flew
back to his perch, hanging his
head in shame and silence for the
rest of the day; and although
the door was repeatedly left open,
refused to come out again.
Year: 1870

but they have not the traits which
will build up On this continent q
great and high-toned power. We
must not judge of those who
come here by those who stay
at home. We get only the dregs.
There is but one way of dealing
with this matter. The policy of
exclusion must be as sharp and vigo-
rous as that OF Massachusetts, or
New York against the coming pau
perism. Itmust be borne in mind
that, under the late amendments
to our National C Constitution, you
can give them no qualified condi-
ton; you put upon them no po-
litlcal restraints, made necessary
by their peculiarities. They can
grasp the rights of voting and law
making despite all State legisla-
tion. 1t is to be hoped that this
subject will be taken up and dis.
cussed in a fair and temperate
way by all classes. We must not
let it drift and settle itself. Un-
less we are ready to give up the
consequences of this new danger
to the public peace and home hap
piness of our people, we must con-
front the problem at the onset.


Truly yours,


HORATIo SEYMOUR.


To Elias Mapes, Recording Sec
retary of Workingmen's Assembly,
Rochester
Year: 1870

A giddy lamb, one afternoon,


Had from the fold departed
The tender shepherd missed it soon,
- And sought it heavy hearted.
Not all the flock that shared his love


Could from the search delay him;
Nor clouds of midnight darkness move
Nor fear of suffering stay him.
But night and day he went his way


In sorrow till he found it;
And when he saw it family lay


He clasped his arm around it,
And closely sheltered in his breast,


From every i'll to save it,
He brought it tc his home of rest,


And pitied aBd forgaye it.
And so the Saviour will receive


The little ones who hear Him;
Their pains remove, their sins forgive,
And draw them gently near Him;
Bless while they live, and when they die
And soul body and sever,
Conduct them to His home on high,


To dwell with Him for ever.
Year: 1870

They have not parted, though their fee
Have wandered far in different ways,


And though they never more may meet
On winter ewes or summer days.


1t matters not though realms divide,
Though boundless seas between them roll


For still, defying wind and tide,
Heart yearns to heart, and soul to soul.


They are not psrted-only those
Are parted whom no love unites


Their absence breaks not our repose
Who have no share in our delights


They may be by our side, and still
As far from us as pole from pole,


Who lack the sympathetic thrill
Of fheart TO heart and soul to soul.
Year: 1870

An exchange says: at would
seem that the hot season extends
to the remote parts of the country,
as report comes from Iowa City
that the catfish come out of the
river and lie in the shade and fan
themselves with their tails, while
the dogfsh flop out of the water
and follow the ice-wagons all
around the streets, trying to pick
up a piece of ice. Either this is
true, or Iowa has some of the ly-
INCEST editors in the world"
Year: 1870

Great Eaters.


In the time of Charles the
Elrst, Taylor, the water Poet, gave
an account of one Nicholas Wood
d Kentish man, who had q power
sf slowing away marvellous
ssuantity of food at a meal. BE
vas credited with having on one
occasion devoured a whole sheep;
on another, three dozen pigeons
90 third, several rabbits; on a
fourth, eighteen yards of black
pudding; while on two other occa-
sions the quantities set down were
sixty pounds of cherries and three
pecks of damsons. But it will
be better to disbelieve these state.
ments, and attend to the more
moderate, though still startling
account given by Taylor, that
''two loynes of mutton and one
loYne of veal were but as three
sprats to him" Once at Sir War
ham st. Leger's house, he showed
himself so violent of teeth and
stomach that he ate as much as
would have served thirty men, SO
that his belly was like to turn
bankrupt aud break, but that the
serving man turned him to the
fire, and anointed his puncheon
with grease and butter to make it
stretch and hold; and afterward,
being laid in bed, he slept eight
hours, and tasted all the while,
which when the knight under
stood, he commanded him to be
laid in the stocks, and there to en-
dure as long as he had lain bed
rid with eating"


In the time of George the First
there was a man who, In fit of
religious enthusiasm, tried to
maintain a Lenten fast for forty
days and forty nights. Breaking
down in this resolution after few
days he took revenge on himself
by becoming an enormous eater,
devouring large quantities OF raw
flesh with much avidity Some
what over a century ago, a Pol
ish soldier, presented to the court
of Saxony as marvel of voraci-
ty, one day ate twelve pounds of
beef and half of a roasted calf.
About the same time youth of
seventeen, apprentice to a Thames
waterman, ate five pounds OF
shoulder of lamb and two quarts
of green peas in fifty minutes.


An achievement of about equal
gluttony was that of brewers
man who at an inn in Aldergate
street, demolished a roast goose
of six pounds weight, quartern
loaf and three quarts Of porter In
an hour and eighteen minutes
Early in the reign of George the
third, a watchmaker's apprentice,
nineteen years of age, in three
quarters of an hour, devoured a
leg of pork weighing six pounds,
and a proportionate quantity OF
peas and pudding, washing down
these eomestibles with q pint OF
brandy taken off iu two draughts'
A few years afterwards there was
beggar at Gottingen, who on more
than one occasion ate twelve
pounds of meat at a meal. After
his death his stomach, which was
very large, was found to contain
numerous bits of flint and other
odds and ends, which nature very
properly refused to recognize as
food. In fact, setting aside alto
gether the real or alleged eating
up of whole sheep or hog, the
instances are very numerous In
which a joint sufficient for a large
family has disappeared at q meal
within the unworthy corpus OF
Que man.
Year: 1870

A girl in New Jersey, picking
up an artificial bug as she thought,
and finding it to be lively cock
roach, screamed and tainted. Her
sister ran screaming down stairs,
and fell to the bottom, and a
young man in the hall ran to the
street crying ''6re," and in leaping
from the stoop sprained his ankle.
The alarm of fire brought out
the fire companies, and five
streams of water were brought to
bear on the house, the windows
smashed in and the furniture
ruined. The owner of the house
abused the firemen, and was
whipped on eleven occasions by
as many different fremen. A
few days afterwards the house ac-
tually took fire, when the fire.
men refused to make an effort to
the ground-all because a young
lady was afraid of a bug.
Year: 1870

A fisherman of Bloomsbury,
Pennsylvania, was caught in a
thunder shower the other day and
struck by lightning. The fluid
stripped him stark naked, but
didn't hurt particle. In his re.
port of the catastrophe he says it
is a first rate way to get your
clothes off if you are in a hurry.
Year: 1870

That report about a bottle of
wine being found in a gunboat
sunk during the war is altogether
too thin. In those TIRES they
didn't have officers that let any
liquid go to waste in that way.
Year: 1870

An old couple in Cambridge,
Mass, quarrelled, and the man
took a watch he gave his wife at
their marriage, and sold it in Bos-
ton. She then stole his false teeth
while he slept and kept them till
he brought the watch back.
Draw game!
Year: 1870

The census viii show decrease
OF from six to ten thousand in the
population of New Hampshire
This Is the first instance of the
loss Of population by g State since
the formation Of the Constitution.
Year: 1870

At the famous White Pine mines
q man was recently hired to dig a
grave for one who died there
When the funeral arrived at the
grave the digger was in it, and re-
fused to leave, declaring that he
had "struck fine lead,' and could
not think of allowing the BODY to
be 'buried in the hole"
Year: 1870

The news reaches US from Prescott
that the substantial men in and about
that town have decided TO establish IL
new journal there. Their patience
with the malicious course OF the Miner
has been exhausted. Its editor has
chosen to baselessly and causelessly
slander the best friends and represen-
tatives Of the Territory, and join hands
with her worst enemies. Although
not constantly, he has for years made
this his rule Of action. He would sac
rifice any and every interest and prin-
ciple for partisan friends, whereas the
larger share of his patronage comes
from those who prefer to subordinate
partisanship to the general welfare,
and to carry out their wishes and get
for their outlay what their Judgment
says is best for all, they have deter
mined to establish a complete printing
establishment in Prescott in the early
part of next year. The Office Will be
entirely new, have a first class Gordon
job press, and all the appointments
complete for the wants of the country
It viii advocate the interests OF the
people at large, and especially al 10
cal ones.
Year: 1870

I wrote to you a few days a 60


Our readers will hesitate to believe
one SO iliterate as this letter shows
Mr.. Cusenbary to be would presume
to ask any thing Of the people unless
possibly common school education,
and yet this man not only had the as
surance to announce himself q candi-
date for Congress in opposition TO Gov.
Mccormick but the effrontery to say
in his circular that the Territory had
not been properly represented in
Washington, and that he was conf
dent that if elected he could do better
service than Mccormick had done!


Next to Mowry, this man has more
assurance than any one who figured
III the recent campaign, and we are
not surprised that no one voted for
him. A bull in china shop would
not be more out OF place than Cusen-
barry III Congress, and the charge of
the Miner thai Gov. Mccormick had
anything to do with making him a
candidate was one Of the most silly
and absurd ,sof all the Miner false
hoods, and yet Marion has not had the
manliness to retract it.
Year: 1870

WE have Just heard of one of the most
wonderful freaks of nature it has ever
been our lot to record. 1t seems that one
day last summer little girl, living in
Beaver street, was down near the Island
creek, playing with one of her mates, when
she discovered a very small turtle OF the
land species Thinking it would be nice
to have the shell for plaything, the child
picked it up, and carried it home and gave
it to her mother, who first cut off the tur-
ties head and then proceeded to pick 1T
out of the shell in pieces. After awhile
the heart was taken out, and excited no
little curiosity from the fact that 1t was
beating still, although some time had
elapsed since the turtles life was supposed
to be ended by taking off his head. Wish
ing to experiment little and see just how
much life there was in turtles heart out
side his shell, the mother pierced it with
a needle, and in this condition it showed
life for four and half days, when it was
thrown out in the back yard, and finally
disposed of by being swallowed whole by
an old gray hen, which, with few other
fowls, were kept as sort of pets for the
children.


Not many days after the heart had been
thrown away, and all recollection of il
had vanished, old gray "Biddy took it
into her head to lay an egg. And now
comes the marvellous part of the transac,
tion. Having occasion to use an egg next
morning, to settle the coffee, the mother
took " Biddy's" egg, opened 1t, and in the
yery centre of it, instead of the yolk, she
found the cery Identical heart which had
been thrown away previously, and in a!
perfect Q condition as ever. She conlo
hardly believe her eyes, and SO she called
her husband and children, all OF whom
were satisfied that it was the same heart
as the needle punctures were still plainly
visible.-TfOU, N. y, Times.
Year: 1870

ASTRONOMY, In conjunction with optics,
has been making some extraordinary dis.
coveries in the last few months. The
spectroscope is a wonderful aid to the
telescope, and as the latter brings TO view
distant worlds the former indicates the
materials of which they are made. The
late eclipse of the sun demonstrated that
immense volumes of hydrogen gas stretch
ed upwards hundreds of miles above Its
surface, making reality the oceans of
flame which have often figured in hyper.
bole.


A thought has occurred to us in this
connection, which we venture TO COM
mend to the attention of our astronomi-
cal and geological friends. II is q well.
known fact in geology that in past periods
vastly greater heat has pervaded the
earth than at the present time. The flora
and fauna of tropical climate flonrished
at the poles Scientific men have been
ingenious in speculation about the cause
OF the change. Some have ascribed IL to
the internal heat of the earth, which has
been gradually evolved in successive ages,
Others have attributed it TO different
relation of the axis of the earth to the
plane of the elliptic. Possibly others
may have suggested change in the in





do not remember to have seen 1t in our
limited reading. But the phenomenon
finds an easy solution on this hypothesis
During the last year q small star in the
constellation of the Northern Crown sud
denly became bright as star of the first
magnitude. Astronomers at once re-
sorted to the telescope to explain the mys-
terry, but could find only confirmation of
the fact, with 70 hint of its cause Opti-
clans applied the spectroscope, and at once
the mystery was revealed. A vast ocean
of hydrogen was in flame, and Its combus-
tion melted the small star, one of the most
brilliant in the armament. The mathe-
maticans took up the data given them in
the increase of light, and proved that for
| any worlds of which this star may be the
central sun, there must have been an in
crease of heat to seven hundred and eighty
times the normal standard. If these
worlds are made of similar materials with
our earth, they must have dissolved under
| this intense heat, as in the final catastro-
phe of our globe predicted by Peter.


Our thought, then, is simply this. If by
internal changes, or combustions in the
central sun, the condition of all the planets
must be senslhly affected and, if our sun
is liable to such changes as this star in the
northern crown 1--WE know it has untold
volumes of hydrogen above its surfce)
why may not the former extreme heat OF
the earth have been due simply to atmos
pheric changes in the SUM- And why
may they not occur on a larger scale in the
future, heralding the final Judgment p
Providence Journal.
Year: 1870

A LETTER from druggist is published
in the New York World, which calls at
tention 10 the enormous sale OF a prep
aration known as soothing sirup, an
analysis of which is alleged to detect q
large percentage of morphine, and from
which several cases of narcotic poisoning s
have been reported in medical periodicals
of high authority. IL Is averred thrt not
only are children proportionately less
tolerant than adults Of the action Of OPT
ates, but that in them the operation OF
these drugs is exceedingly capricious and
Year: 1870

The Pella Blade has q long artic le
in favor of the nomination Of Elk.
Gov. Stone for Congress from this
district. We entertain the highest
esteem for Gov. Stone as a citizen
and also Us a public servant, but we
at the same time doubt the propriety
Of giving him the place SO well filled
by Hon. VIM. Loughridge.


Mr.. Loughridge is now filling his
second term in Congress. He has
already won the confidence and es-
TEEN OF Senators and Representa-
lives, and hence he wiclds a large
influence in matters of legislation
He is good man and true, aud is in
shape, il continued in Office, to do
good service for his district and also
for the country at large; wc should
therefore hesitate to exchange him
for any new man. 1t would require
at least two terms before any other
man could bo prepared TO do as good
work as we may expect from Mr..
Loughridge. We believe that schools
could advance much faster by retain
ing tho samo instructor for several
terms; and the same rule applies
with far greater force in the matter
Of selecting Congressman. BY all
means let us have our old member
another year. Centervillc Loyal
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