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Year: 1873

A young lady in Gloucester is eharg-
ed with keeping light burning in the
parlor until late on Sunday night in
order to harrow the sensitive feelings
of an envious neighbor to the belief
that she has really got bean. 1
Year: 1873

The statistics from sworn returns of
the sales of sewing machines in 1872, IRE
ported in 1879, show that the Singer
manufacturing company sold, last year
over forty-tive thousand more machines
than any other company, and over one


quarter of all machines sold during that
year. Nine out of every ten of SAID Sing
er machines were for family use-proving
the great popularity of the Singer in the
household. Try singer before you buy
Year: 1873

Castoria is more than a substitute for Castor
OIL It is the only safe article in existence which
ia certain to assimilate the food regulate the bow
els cure wind-colic and produce natural sleep IL
contains neither minerals, morphine or alcohol,
and is pleasant to take. Children need not cry
and mothers may rest. nl5-6m
Year: 1873

The Waters Pianos, are known among
the very best, and have received the high
est commentators of musicians. They
are now offered for sale at low prices, and
payment can be made in ell stalments, so
that almost any one can afford to have a
good instrument.


Waterers Concerto Parlor Organs, are
the most beautiful as we'll Us the finest
toned instruments made.


If any OF our friends desire to purchase
either a piano or organ, they can get the
information by calling on Mrs. Millikan
at the residence of the editor of the RE
PUBLICAN, or by letter.


These instruments are all warranted
and the manufacturer has reputation
that is worth preserving, as one Of the
most reliable in the country.
Year: 1873

Tomorrow will be the fourth of July
1t being a national holiday, and day
which should always be remembered by
Americans: the REPUBLICAN office will
not be open for business. We intend to
celebrate.
Year: 1873

Our young friend Mark Tuttle, has
bought an interest in his fathers Photo
graph business, and taken up his resi-
dence permanently in this city. We are
glad of it. Hope he will find plenty OF
paying business here.
Year: 1873

are now prepared to accommodate all who


may wish anything in their line, such as
FRESH MEATS of all kinds. They have
large REFRIGERATOR, always full of ice to
keep their meats fresh and sweet. Thank
full for the liberal patronage received,


they ask a continuation of the same, and
they will merit the same by selling their
lcustomers fresh meats, as cheap as the
cheapest. July 3-mo3.
Year: 1873

How TO HANDLE HoRsEs. Treat them
gently but decisively; never contradict
Yourself to your horse. This will stultify
Yourself in his sight. and he will not
know what to do; remember, he is keen.
Let him know that you are his master,
be good one, a kind one, so he does
what he is bidden. This makes gen.
tie. yet vigorous and even mettlesome
horse, obedient always and trusty, your
friend and associate. loving your society,
looking and asking for it. Such horses
are worth their weight in gold. They
are what you want of them, always clean,
lively. healthy and handsome and gentle !;
children may be suffered to play with
them, and they are trusty everywhere.
What point is this last! What accidents
happen that would be avoided with this
last point always secure.
Year: 1873

A cup of coffee is sure barometer,
if you allow the sugar to drop to the bot
tom Of a cup and watch the bubble arise
without disturbing the coffee. If the
bubbles collect in the middle the wealth
er will be fine. Ifthey adhere to the cup,
forming ring, it will be rainy; and if
the bubbles separate without assuming
any fixed position, changeable weather
may be expected. Try it.
Year: 1873

The Washington correspondent of the
Indianapolis Journal says: ~ do not
know if it is something in the air, but
there is a society manner here that is in
wretched taste when put on by young
girls. 1t is not exactly a simper or a
smirk, with mincing voice and walk,
but an affectation of maturity and gra-
ciousness that amounts to abandon and
effrontery. 1t is absolutely refreshing to
meet well bred, sensible young lady"
Year: 1873

Your children may never have
wealth. observed a clergyman to his
congregation, but when they grow it
VIII be something for them to boast that
Ineir fathers were not members of the
Forty second Congress-
Year: 1873

In Ruskin's late edition of his own
works he says: OF America l usually
say nothing, because, as nation, they
set their truth in liberty and equality,
Oh which detest the one, and deny the
possibility Of the other"
Year: 1873

"Now, Aunt Sallie, do please tell
us why you never got married. You
remember you said once that when
you were a girl you were engaged
to minister, and promised us you
would tell us about it some time.
Now, aunt, please tell us"


"Well, you see, when was about
seventeen years old was living in
Utica, in the State of New York.
Though I say it myself, was quite
good looking girl then, and had
several beaux. The one that took
my fancy was young minister, a
very promising young man, and re-
markably pious and steady. He
thought a good deal of me, and l
kind of took a fancy to him, and
things went on until we we're en-
gagged. One evening he came to
me ard put his arms around me and
kind Of hugged me, when I got ex-
cited and some illustrated. It was
Year: 1873

After breakfast / struggled to a
campfire Just in time to hear Char
ley B. say,"Uncle Pleasant, you are
the only man in the company who
got box and a letter yesterday, and
you have a good wife, and no mis-
take" Uncle Pleasant, who was
aged sixty, and the company CON-
missary, replied: "Yes, we have
lived together nigh forty year, and
she is about as good as the best Of
'cm. There amt no trouble, Charley,
in having of a good wife if you jest
start right. It's all in the start, boy.
You see l married what was called
a putty gal, and SO she was, and l
took her to my new log house, whar
l had already plenty Of meat and
bacon, and sich other things as a
poor man ought to have. Next day
/ went to get in shingles, and when
l come home she hadn't got no DIN
ner. didn't say anything, but got
dinner for her and me, and she eat
Jest as hearty as if she had been
working. The next day twas the
same thing, and while my dander
got up l didn't say nothing, and
again she eat heartily, as if she
liked my cooking nightly. The
third day l came home monstrous
tired, and said to her, "Where's
my dinner?" She said, "Look here,
Pleasant Batkins, I amt gwine to
be cook for no man, and ifyou want
dinner you must cook it Yourself"
Here the pint was reached as you
will see. l cooked dinner without
saying anything, and after me and
she had eat went across the road
and cut three "chinkerpin" switches
and went back, and if you.evcr seed
girl get good larruping, l gave
her one then and thar. She went
straight to her mothers, as / expect
cd she would, and next morning l
went after her with long switch.
She said she wouldn't 60 home to
save me but l told her she would.
When she saw was in earnest, and
l was, she went ahead Of me, and
that day she cooked me as good din
ner as any man wants to sot down to,
and from that hour to this me and
Sukey amt had no trouble. If you
ever get married, boys, be sure and
start right"


New Hampshire towns are talking
of closing their skating rinks soon.
Year: 1873

The Postmaster General has re-
ceived the following letter from a
person who was recently appointed
postmaster (at a salary of $l2 per
annum) Of a town in Ind: ''to the
gineral postmaster at Washington
City my dear friend | hope that you
will not appoint me postmaster in
this ere town haint got no time to
attend to it i suppose you got the
paper somehow my friends sent up
Reckominden me but haint got
time to do the thing up as it ort to be
done. In fact i hardly know what
is goin 20 be done our shoemaker
would be a very good man only he
was Greeley square out which you
know onfits him for the position
there is our storekeeper Jim B


that wants the position mighty bad
but as sure as you're a living man
iim--kaint read good writin and
that's the truble. You see them that
wants it don't know enough to tend
it and them that does don't want to
take it jim-was raised out in
the country ever your friend, &c."
Year: 1873

Men of the highest repute and OF
the incest sense of honor get their
notions of right and wrong sadly
confused under the temptations Of
the race-c course. A more chivalric,
high-toned, and gallant gentleman
than General Jackson did not live
among his cotemporaries. And
yet n story was current in Tennes-
see some fifty years ago-whether
true or false / am not able to say
which goes to show that even he
was shrewdly suspected of playing
his game with advantages" in the
dainty phraseology of sporting men.
The story ran in this wise:


The general became discontented
with a mulatto boy, who had been
his favorite rider, and sold him to
a ncighbor, who was his great rival
on the turf. The boy was to ride
in a very important race against a
favortte horse Of the generals.
Jackson had a heavy bet pending
on the race, and he was overheard
demonstrating with his late rider.
"You black rascal, mind what you
are about. Mono of your old tricks
with me. fl catch you squirting
your tobacco juice IN my boys eyes
I'll cut your heart out"'


This may have been pure fabri-
cation; but if sharp practice on the
turf had not been the rule rather
than the exception, an anecdote of
this description could not have OBJ
tanned currency as applied to Cen
eral Jackson.


l have quoted it not as rejecting
any discredit upon man who stood
above reproach among his neigh
bors, but as indicating the general
moral tone which prevailed among
turfmen half century ago.
Whether there has been any great
improvement in that regard since
that time l shall not undertake to
decide. That the tendency of gam
ing Of all kinds is to lower the tone
of public morals is a proposition
that few rejecting men will be in
clined to dispnte.-"An Old Sta
ger," IN Harper's lKagazine for
Jllne.
Year: 1873

The apathy among those who were dissat-
isfed with the present Administration, and
were not satisfied with any of the opposi-
ton candidates in the field, can be still
more surprisingly demonstrated by a COM
parison Of the vote received by General
Grant with statement of the number of
citizens Of The United States entitled to
vote according to the census of 1870. The
census table is two years old, and therefore
does not represent the actual voting popula-
ton at the time of the Presidential election,
but is the best means Of comparison at hand.
Supposing the annual increase of the popu-
lation TO be 230 per cent, as it was during
the last decade, the number of males over
twenty-one years of age entitled to vote in
November last, was in the neighborhood of
{, 100000.
Year: 1873

OF the votes actually cast for President
the popular majority Of Gen. Grant over all
was 7O2, ,356. To ascertain how closely the
frures in the tables above represented the
real sentiment of tie people Of The United
States, it is necess lry to compare them with
the vote of former elections. In the follow
ing table the largest vote given in each State
by each party at any election during five
years preceding the Presidential election is
printed in columns parallel with the vote
for Greeley and Grant:
Year: 1873

The money market has been quiet and comfortable
to-day with the preponderance of business on call at
1-G4 and interest though between and 2So p m the
rule was thirty and interest pretty exclu-
svely but closed at 767 con at which the bond deal
ers were accommodated throughout. Stocks, offered
as pledge of security, underwent close scrutiny.
Prime commercial paper is held at to II per cent
with rather better outlook for business.


London prices of Government bonds were strong,
and this in connection With higher gold stimulated
strong feeling in the home market particularly in
1868 which advanced to 1861 on sales of S50.00O
The market wound up strong Fisk & Hatch report
as follows at D. M.
Year: 1873

The report that man living in East
Newark had swallowed a set of false
teeth, published two days ago, has
caused no little sensation in Newark
and its vicinity, where the extraordinary
occurrence is everywhere talked of.
The sufferer, Mr.. William Pickel, states
that for several years past he has used q
set of false teeth, fastened to gold
plate, which filled the roof of his mouth.
The plate was secured in its place by
side clasps. Two weeks ago tomorrow
Pickel took his Sunday afternoon nap
in his chair, his head being thrown back
upon the back of the chair. The
sleeper's snoring loosened the plate, and
it fell down his throat. He awoke and
Immediately lay down upon the floor
and attempted to cough it up. He was
unsuccessful, and sent for a physician.
But nothing could remove the teeth
which had lodged in the lower part of
the gullet, just above the breast bone.
In the effort to remove the plate with
instruments DR.. Cutler pushed the plate
into the stomach, and when the instru


ment was withdrawn it was covered with
blood. 1t was thought that if the effort
had been successful the man would
have been killed by Withdrawing the
plate through his throat. During forty
eight hours thereafter Mr.. Picket sut-
fered great agony, but at the end Of that
time the plate passed from the stomach
into the intestines Now Mr.. Pickel
attends to his business, which is that of
a machinist, and says he suffers only oc,,
casional pains in the back. There have
been, it is said, two similar cases in this
country, each of which resulted in the
death of the sufferer. In one case the
teeth Wei e found in the sac of the heart.
In the other case the suffer died while
an operation was being performed to
extract the load.-New York World
Year: 1873

What assertions will make one he
lieve that in one second of time, one
beat of the pendulum of clock, q ray
of light travels over l52 600 miles, and
would, therefore, per'crm the tour OF
the world in about the sam. time that
it requires to wink with our eyelids, and
in mnch less time than swift I-inuer
occupies in taking a sir gle ri lie !!
What mortal can be made to believe,
without demonstration, that the sun is
almost million times larger than the
earth and that, although so remote
from us, 4 cam Il ball shot ilr,c'ly to.
ward It, and maintaining its full speed,
would be twenty years in reaching it,
yet it affects the earth Ly it' attraction
in an appreciable instant of time? =? Vic
would not ask for demonstration when
tod that a gnat's wing, in its ordinary
flight, beats many hundred times in a
s, cond or there exists animated and
regularly organized beings, many thou
sands of whose bodies laid together
would not extend an inch?


But what are these to the astonishing
truths which modern optical inquiries
have disclosed, which teaches that every
point Of medium through which ray
of light passes is affected with II success
sion of periodical movements, regularly
recurring at equal intervals, no less
than five hundred million of millions of
times in a single second? That it is by
such movements communicated to the
nerves of the eye that we see; nay,
more, that it is the difference in the
frequency of their recurrence which at-
feet us wi h the sense of the diversity of
colors2 That, for instance, in acquiring
the sensation of redness, our eyes are
affected four hundred and eiehty-two
million of millions of times; OF yellow
ness, five hundred and forty mil
lion of millions of times; and of vio-
let, seven hundred and seven millions
of times per second? Do not such
things sound more like the raving of
madmen than the sober conclusions of
people in their waking sense They
are, nevertheless, to which any one may
arrive, who will only be at the trouble
of examining the chain Of reasoning by
which they have been obtained.
Year: 1873

open stove oven. Care must be taken
not to get the oven too hot, else it may
scorch. Tarn from side to side several
times during the day. 1t takes but a
short time to dry, and it is much better
than dried beef.


DRIED HAM.-Take small hams (if too
salt, soak in warm water for twelve
hours), partially bake in an oven just
enough TO cook the fat, remove to tin
oven an | dry for several days. Cut in
thin slices for the table. Ham prepared
after this manner can be kept for several
months in hot weather, and make very
convenient dish for unexpected guests.
By many preferred to dried beef.
HousEnoLD MrAsUREs.-The following
are the household weights and meas
ures: Wheat flower-~one pound is one
quart. Indian meal--one pound two
ounces is one quart. Butter-when soft,
one pound one ounce is one quart.
White sugar, powdered-one pound one
ounce is one quart. Best brown sugar
one pound two ounces is one quart.
Eggs, average size-ten are one pound.
Liquid measure-tiiteen tablespoonful
are half pint.


ECONOMICAL DIsH-Take the remnant
of cold boiled leg of mutton, or of q
roast of beef; shave it into Shin slices !;
season, and add, if you like it, an onion
chopped fine, or pinch of sweet herbs.
Put this on baking dish, and pour
over the gravy, if you have any if not,
little water, butter and flour. Then
take hot boiled potatoes mash fire !;
add little milk and salt, or butter to
soften them into smooth paste, which
lay over the meat. Then put the dish
in the oven and bake a nice brown.


APPLE CREAM.-Boil twelve apples of
rich flavor, until quite soft; then rub
the pulp through a wire or hair sieve !;
add half pint of white sugar, the yolks
of three eggs well beaten; whip up the
whites of three eggs to stiff froth, and
mix two tablespoonfuls OF sugar with
them. Put the apples and yolks into a
pudding dish and heap the beaten froth
upon it, making it higher in the center.
Bake i. in hot oven for ten or fifteen
minutes-just long enough to brown the
white nicely.


HOW TO M AXE LEA RoPEkLf.-lH ne
proper way to make a cup Of good tea
is matter of some importance. The
plan which l have practiced for these
twelve months is this The teapot is at
once filled up with boiling water, then
the tea is put into the pot, and is al.
lowed to stand for five minutes before it
is used the leves gradually absorb the
water, and are gradually sunk to the bot
tom. The result is, that the tea leaves
are not scalded, as they are when boil
ing water is poured upon them, and
you get all the true flavor of the tea.
In truth, much less tea is required in
this way than under the old common
practice.
Year: 1873

The Iowa Homestead says: All that
the farmer can obtain for his corn at
any of the railroad stations in tll the
western half of Iowa, is from 10 to I or
Is cents bushel, such are the extrava-
CANT rates imposed for freight East. AS
fuel is scarce in all this portion of our
State, coal rating from II to 20 cents
bushel, it is goodleconomy for the farm
er to burn his surplus corn. To take
load of corn to railroad market,
scarcely sufficient is obtained for it to
pay moderate estimate on the time ex-
pended for his team and himself. A
bushel of corn, it is estimated, will pro-
duce as much heat as bushel of coal,
consequently it is cheaper, by at least
25 per cent, all contingencies consider
ed, to burn corn at its present prices
than to burn either coal or wood. In
some of the counties north of us this
course is practced.
Year: 1873

A writer in the Terre Haute Ind
JournM has discovered new cure Tor
the ague. He says to those afflicted
with this provoking malady, crawl down
stairs head foremost. Laugh at the
idea if you please, but do your crawling
first; you can then afford to laugh.
Just as the chill is coming on, start at
the top of a long fight of stairs, and
crawl down on your hands and feet,
head foremost. You never did harder
work in your life, and when you arrive
at the bottom, instead of shaking, you
will find yourself putting, red in the
face, and perspiring freely, from the
strong exertiohs made in the effort to
support yourself. Try it. 1t won't cost
you near as much as quinine or patent
medicines, and if it fails it will only do
what they do every day.
Year: 1873

An exchange says the easiest, quick
est, and best way to kill fowl is to open
his beak, and then, with a pointed and
narrow knife, make an incision at the
back of the roof, which will divide the
vertebra and cause immediate death;
after which hang the fowl up by the
legs till the bleeding ceases then rinse
the beak out with vinegar and water.
Fowls killed in this manner keep longer,
and do not present the ursightly ex
ternal marks of those killed by the ordi-
nary system of wringing the neck. In
this connection we wish to impress on
our readers the necessity of special care
in dressing poultry for market. The
difference IN price will more than COM
pensate for the trouble. Also, don't
send in poultry in poor condition-holi.
day customers all look for and will take
only fat birds.
Year: 1873

Some interesting as well as curious in
vestigations VI have been made by NJ.
Dufour, as to the rate of growth of the
nails. Among the results thus arrived
at appears the fact that the nails of the
little fingers grow more slowly than
those of the other fingers and the
thumbs, the difference being about one
ninth. The mean rate Of these-ex-
Guiding the little fingers-is about the
hundredth part of an inch in ten days.
The rate of growth on the thumbs is
apparently greater than that on the six
longer fingers. The nails grow at about
the same rate on both hands. The rate
of growth is not constant throughout
the length of the nail, it being greater
near the base. The substance of the
nail advances equally throughout its
breadth. The rate of nail-growtb in an
individual at intervals of several years
shows sensible differences.
Year: 1873

Why not make good, comfortable
stye, using bricks or stones? Also have
number of them, so that each gener-
alton can be kept distinct whenever
desirable. There is positively no greater
nuis tnce than number OF ravenous
hogs around, and it can easily be proved
that whenever they are managed in the
old-fashioned way of running in a semi
wild state they injure property and de-
stroy crops, poultry, etc, to double their
value.


At the present time there are swine
eating more corn than all the other ami
mails on the farm, which will never
make, when fat, half of what the corn
is worth and in addition thereto, milk
swill, clover, ETC., is carted them in the
woods, stream of water usually car
ries Off their dung, and every now and
then night comes in which they get
out and deal destruction wherever incli
nation leads them. Yet with good
brick or stone stye, so built that their
noses cannot be used, and kept thriving
from their birth, they will pay for what
they eat, and make manure enough to
treble the yield of many crops, the con-


umption of which extra growth of
whstever these crops may be will in time
bring The land to the greatest fertility.