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Year: 1873

USES OF WASTE PAPER Waste paper
can be made to perform variety of service in
household economy. Any su face like a stovo
or CRATE requiring backing can be kept
bright for long time by being rubbed daily
with waste paper. Windows, or any glass
surface that has been thoroughly washed, can
be wiped and polished with pieces of soft
newspaper. Tin that has been secured. or
silver that has been rubbed, can be Frightened
in the same way. Several tn cknesses of news
paper laid under carpets are an economical
substitute for the material found at the car
pet stores for the same purpose. House plants
covered by newspapers will resist the frosts
on cold nights. and outdoor plants can be
protected in the same way. Newspapers
placed between blankets have the effect of
additional bedding. These are only few of
the uses OF waste paper that could easily be
enumerated We recon uend it as a house
hold agent, because the supply is unlimited,
and because, after having done duty once, it
can be sill available for use as kindling, or
be sold to the dealers in the article.
Year: 1873

There is livery stable keeper in Albany
who never lets horse without exacting a
promise that the lessee will drive slowly One
day, last week, youth who wished to attend
afuueral, applied to the livery man for horse.
MY friend, yol, can have one if you'll agree
to drive Slow" swell, see here, I'm going
to funeral, and Tn bound to keep up with
the procession if it kills the horse.''
Year: 1873

The first instance of failure of divorce
suit ever chronicled in Indiana occurred the
other day in the case of lady whose husband
died just before the judges decision could be
rendered, and there is a strong feeling in fav-
or OF committing the attending physician for
contempt of court in not keeping the defen-
dant alive long enough for his matrimonial
career to be terminated in the regular way.
Year: 1873

The New York World says an I1dian boy
with wild cat clawed on to his back has been
running about Texas for week or more. He
can get no relief, as people are afraid that in
shooting the cat they may kill the boy. This
adhesive cat must be the connecting lynx Of
ten referred to by scientific men.
Year: 1873

The most popular fish story of the season
is that concerning the woman OF Penn Yam
and her seventeen year old boy, who were
drifting in boat on Lake Keake, when gi-
gantic trout seized the child by the nose, and
was thence drawn into the boat and killed.
Year: 1873

The TERMINUS ALREADY UNDER A CLOUD.
"A prominent c.tizen We learn reports
that Ill the course of il conversation with
Judge Rice. few days ago. the Judge
admitted that the location at tacoma
does not preclude the company from
selectins any other point for the final
terminus of the Northern Pacific R;,il-
road, aud that he was not certain but
that another location would be made ut
some future time. If this view is en-
tertaiued by the company and its agents,
justice requires that it shou d be made
known to the public- WasAinyten
Ntt. ndqrd. ta ~
Year: 1873

A Western farmer, it IS reported. re-
fused to lock at sim Ie sewing machine
recently, AS he always "sowed wheat by
hand" He is said to be related to the
man who did not want a threshing ma
chine ON his farm; for" said he. ''give
me harness ing tr barrel stave. and
l can make my family toe the mark &C
cording 10 law and Scripter'
Year: 1873

T A horse Thief uinleu Howard,
lately hanged by a vigilance committee
in Missouri, was ascertalned 10 have
been u member Of that committee. The
of the committee demand in
81 b cases that the offender shall be
to the place of execution by the
tail of Is horse an act of cruelty that
was literally carried out in the case Of
Howard.
Year: 1873

at one end, Elliot Bay on the other; it
was SO fixed in the public mind when
the muni6cent subsidy was granted.
Who believes that this immense conc g.
sion would ever have been ID ade with


be understanding that it was to he used
IS basis for carrying on = " truck and


iicker" business for the benefit of spec


,ators, regardless of the interests of


he country? 1t is palpable violation
If the understood conditions Of the
grant. and fraud rpon the public.
Year: 1873

Und.r the fortleth ci.use Of the Mu-
tiny Act any civilian in England may
throw over all the legal claims of his
wife and family by enl,sting. and any
soldier married with or without leave
may repudiate his wife-atwny moment.
Year: 1873

In Salt Lake CRY, dice having been
prohibited. the man who is to disburse
for the drinks is elected as follows: The
candidates take their places at the bar
IN the old fashioned way, and q lump Of
sugar is placed on the counter before
each. The candidate upon whose lump
a fly lights first is the unlucky man.
Year: 1873

Is nov before our Legislature, providing that
goods TO the amount of 5000 shall be exempt from
seizure. A few years ago an act was passed ox-
empting goods to the anount Of one hundred dol
lars At the next session of the legislature the
law was amended TO except rent, and now goods
to the amount OF 800 is by law exempt from exc
cution process for all debts except for rent CO.
py of the new bill will be found in another coli
-umn.
Year: 1873




Mr.. Lambton Young, the Secretary of
the Royal Humane Society, publishes
tho following excellent advice to
bathers


Avoid bathing within two hours after
q meal.


Avoid bathing when exhausted by
fatigue, or from any other cause.


Avoid bathing when the body is cool
ing a;tef perspiyation but bathe when
the body is warm, provided no time is
lost in getting into the water.


Avoid chilling the body by sitting or
standing naked on the banks or in boats,
after having been in the water.


Avoid remaining too long iii the water,
but leave it Immediately there is the
slightest feeling of chilliness.


Avoid bathing altogether in the open
dir If, aftat having been short time in
the water, there is sense OF chilliness,
with numbness Of the hands and feet.
The vigorous and strong may bathe
early in the inoriiifs oh In empty
stomach but the young and those who
are weak had better bathe three hours
after a meal the best time for such is
from two to three hours after breakfast.
Those who are subject to attacks Of
giddiness and faintness, and those who
suffer ffoia pa!bitatiot OF other sense of
discomfort at heart, should not bathe
without at first consulting their medical
aIx
Year: 1873

If there is an interesting feature about
the politics of the present "off year, u
i. is that while Democratic, past Demo-
cratic, Liberal, and Independent or
gans all agree that somebody or some-
thing is dead, there is a most charming
lack of unanimity as to who and what is
the corpse. The Chicago Times, for in
stance, which through the Liberal farce
of last fall clnng with unwavering fidel-
ity to the old party and the old prin-
ciples, is now assured that the Demo-
cratic party is defrlnct, dead and gone,
and that rejuvenation upon a new basis
is the gravest necessity. So radical, in
deed, is the conversion that its chief
object in life seema va he the selection
Year: 1873

A WISE man of the East, that is, in
Springfield, Mass, says that if you wish
to determine whether your watch Keeps
correct time or not you should select
any given star from the corner Of win
dow sash, or through any small hole,
and notice the precise instant at which
the star disappears behind the chimney,
or o.sner stationary object witb;;1a short
dirtshee. If from the same standpoint
the same star disappears earlier by three
minutes and fifty-six seconds the next
night, and by seven minutes and fifty
two seconds the third night, the watch
is right to the half of second.
Year: 1873

The morning after my arrival at the
"Red Dragon" 1 found myself in bed,
strapped down. The people of the inn
told me that 1 had been mad the night
before, and had fought battle royal
with every article of furniture in the
room. knew better, of course; but
kept my own counsel. Icould have told
them that I had conquered not only De
Tremens himself, but also his awful Co.
ST. Pauk's Magazine.
Year: 1873

The movement in the City Council TO establish
City Hospital, is no doubt made with the very
best intsntio1s But ii is difficult to see the need
Of an institution, Just at present. such as the
Council propose to start and run at the expense Oi
the tax payers. II would certainly dWindls down
to = mere city sims house, and We fear finally be-
come more Objectionable than our county institu-
ton Oh the hill What it would cost to keep up
q hospital We cannot tell. But it seems to US We
have not the need for one Just now, aud ii one is
erected. patients viii have 70 be imported from
other eities, or the house would be shut up for
want of inmates. To be sure the paid ksepen
and officials sach an institution would require
might be Interested in fading objects Of charity,
In order 70 keep their salaries going.
Year: 1873

THE RATE RAISED TO FIVE PER CENT.
THREE -FoURTHs OF THE WHOLE INCREASE FOR THE


PAYMENT OF DEPARTMENTAL ExPENsEs-THR


BOARD OF ESTIMATE COMPELLED TO PROMISE A


REDUCTION OF THE ESTIMATES ALREADY MADE.
The exposures in Saturdays TRIBUNE, show
inc the purpose Of the Board OF Estimate Of that city TO
raise the rate Of taxation fully per cent gen
eral comment and the excitement in TO mat
ter continued all day. 1t the topic Of conversation
among tax payers the ferryboat in the cars
and AZ the banks and insurance Offices In Court and Full
ton-sts Further developments show that according TO
the estimates already in. the rate OF taxation will
he fuy IS on $780, instead Of merely above s. stated
IN Fridays TRIBUNE. The rate last year 50 &C. whlo
the separate ward taxes increased It TO 5. o. One mil
lion dollars more are called for than allowed last
YEAR This budget is based upon the provisions OF tho
existing Charter. II tho Charter shall become
law s2sOOOO over and above the million aforesaid will
be needed This will increase the rate to q 25 every
500 of taxable property. The following increase ap-
pears according 10 the estimates already made,
Year: 1873

PROSPECT OF A LABORATORY FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL


EXPERIMENTS AT THE ANDERSON SCHOOL or


PENIKEsE IsLAND-AL LETTER FRoMPEoF. AGAssIz.
To me Edttor Of The Tribune.


SIR: / read in this mornings TRIBUNE a few
remarks concerning Dr. Brownsequard and the AuJor-
son School OF Natural History Penikcse Island wlch
lead me to infer that information concerning my
plans for that institution not DO unwecome 10 you


Natural History IS to-day longer descriptive
science. IL aims at improving knowledge by expert
ment as well b. observation. Aud FROM tho first day
knew the intentions OF Mr. Anderson 1 have wished to
combine physical and chemical experiments with the in
strucOn aud the work Of research to DO carried at
Penikese That physiological experiments lie at the
very foundation OF an exhaustive study OF zoology
plain as the simplest truth But to do anything o value
In that direction master Is needed AZ the head OF the
department and Of course thought a5 Of my old
friend Brownsequard Hearing OF his intention TO pay


visit this Summer 70 his scientific friends In Europe,
felt that my hopes for the School were involved In his
movements and at once came 10 NewYOr determined
TO do my utmost TO induce him to JOIN me in laying tho
most solid foundation for the Anderson School


Ihave so far succeeded that my friend has promised
me to give up his journey to Europe aud to stand by
until the School Is fully organized, and know shall
have the sympathy OF all tho friends OF science iu
nv success Whether il will be possible FOR mo TO in
duce Dr. BrownsGquard largely to forego for the pres
ent the advantages OF a medical practice, to devote
himself hereafter chiefly 70 physiological experiment
the future may decide. But what rejoice In Is the fact
now settled that shall have, in connection with the
Anderson School, physiological laboratory worthy Of
the high importance physiology has gained OF late
In reference TO medical SCIENCE and thus the school
may extend the range Of its usefulness in the appca
zion of science to the practical of modern oy!za
tioD. LOUIS AGAssIz.


Eeuo- York, juno II, 1873
Year: 1873

This is an increase Of s7So2s9 6s aggregate in
crease OF s5 per cent This Is as far the Board OF Est
mate have gone But the calculations for other pur-
noses made in the Controllers Office and by the Clerk
OF the Board OF Estimate, will be found below. The cal
cuations are based upon the investigations OF the city
and deGoiences as existing last year. and the computed
omoppts which will be called for this year are as fol-
lows:
Year: 1873

A couple of old panicky gentlemen near
Xenia, says the Gazette of that city, hop
ing to save themselves from financial rum
drew their deposits from the Xenia banks
the other day-Jne having $3.50, and the
other $l60-and took them home. That
very night some robbers made them lit
tie visit, and relieved them of every bit of
their kcash Moral Place your money
where it will do tie most good-in the
bank
Year: 1873

The Philadelphia Press clamors for the
insertion OF an article in the Bill of
Commonwealth all distinctions on account
of race or color" This war once before
the Convention and was voted down, and
we know of no better way to secure the
VoUing down Of the new Constitution
than by the adoption of such an article
1t looks very much to US, as a movement
on the part Of the ring who are desirous
Of making capital in their opposition to
the new lnstrument.-P Pittsburgh Post.
Year: 1873

No man ever gets his moneys worth
out of a newspaper unless he reads the
advertising oolums attentively. They in
form him who are the live business men
of the town, and he also finds out where
he can obtain the best bargains.
Year: 1873

also draw warrant on District No. fund in
favor of j. Sylvester for $45 90 for lumber.


Ordered that the Report Of the Hospital
Physician be accepted, and Auditor draw
warrants on Hospital fund to pay the follow
Year: 1873

We all have two lives-a life of action and
a life of afterthought. The man who lives
morally, usefully, intellectually " who Is
good, does good and turns all his mental and
moral faculties to good daccount-may be said
to live two self-satisfactory lives in one. His
life of acts, made up of the performance of
his obligations to God, his neighbor and
himself, must in the main be happy His
life of afterthnneht, a.. ''l.ivh AIculOry sum-
mons MS life of action to the bar of con-
science, where it is weighed in the balance of
justice and not found wanting, cannot by
otherwise than consolatory. But as the good
we have done grows more and more comfort
ing to us as we reflect upon it, so does the
evil we have committed grow in horror as it
glares upon us from the vistas of memory


We have our choice We can be twice
blessed or twice-cursed- blessed in doing and
in thinking of what we have done, or be
cursed alike in the act and afterthought We
can people the present with pursuing fends
or ministering angels, who will come to us
in the future from what will then be the past
to torment or bless us. Such present re-
ceiyes new glory in changing to the past.
Let the young and thoughtless understand at
the very outset of their active career that
the evil to-day cannot elude the scrutinizing
Tomorrow
Year: 1873

A DANBURY young man who was once a
clerk lately went on farm to work. The
first night in his new position he was detailed
to remove calf from the apartment of its
parent to another shed, and while engaged.
as thousands have been before him, in showing
the contrary beast along, the mother reached
under the tails of his coat with her horns, and
Suddenly lifted him up against the roof of the
building with force that threatened to shat
ter every bone in his body. The first thing
he did was to rub himself, the next thing was
to throw up his place. He said that he didn't
doubt but that agriculture was noble pur-
suit, and that the farmer needed an assistant
in the discharge of the multifarious duties.
but he didn't believe the Creator designer
him for making skylights in cowsheds.
Year: 1873

How it strikes the Danbury Neus man is
appended:


"You are generally looking at something
very intently when it happens-psrhaps you
are smiling to yourself. Then your left foot
shoots out to one side with a suddcnness that
creates sickness in your family. Ice COM
mences to form ON your spine and perspira-
ton on your brow, and your scalp lifts enough
to permit streak of cold air to pass under.
The other leg goes olt at this juncture, your
head snaps violently to the front, and there
is a faint impression on your mind that the
world i, about to cdme to an end with no.
body in charge. Mifs of sidewalk spin out
from you like lightning Three-story build
ings jump over your mead in quick success
sion. People disappear suddenly and with
appalling mystery. Then your eyes close,
your consciousness wanes, and your soul
goes out in one expiring qiuver, and--and
you arrive. The hard reality of the scene is
then forced upon you with unpleasant alb
ruptness. Everything is in its place but your
spine. You get up and move off with a
sickly attempt at smile, feeling at the time
that the back of your head is laughing from
ear to ear, and finding that the hardest thing
is not the sidewalk, but to keep from rubbing
Year: 1873

THE most elegant and costly costume ever
made in Paris was sent TO a lady for a fancy
dress ball in New York. The first outside
skirt is made of gold cloth over the front Of
this are extended thread of pearls, so as to
form squares; in the centre of each is diff
ferent flower, made of imitation jewels !;
the second jupe is made of white satin, en-
brodered in silver, with a flounce of old lace
placed round the edge and turned upwards.
The heavy folds on each side are retained
by Jewels, and the long pointed corsage is
covered with them in front. The court man.
tie of sky-blue satin is caught up on the
shoulders underneath ruff of gold lace up
held by invisible wires. Strings of pearls
and diamonds adorn the neck and arms. In
the hig Ii coiffure, Duthe style. is to be placed
miniature vessel under full sail over this,
garlands of flowers are strewn, and serve
to retain the structure in its position. The
costume cost nearly $4,000, including the
jewels and lace, more than two months were
spent upon the drawings and subsequent
preparation of the dress.
Year: 1873

What becomes of all the quicksilver brought


to this State and use in our reduction works


is matter worthy of receiving the critical


attention of some of our scientists. Quick


silver in large quantities is constantly being
brought to the State and not an ounce is ever


sent way. After it has been used in amalga-


mating the precious metals contained in the


ores operated upon, it is separated from the


metals with which it is combined by retorting


and is again used in the amalgamating pans.


Thus it is used over and over until it has dis


appeared. Whether 1t floats away with the


water used in amalgamating or is lost by


evaporation there must be vast quantities of


it collecting somewhere, as it is a metal not
easily destroyed. In case it is lost by evapora-
ton it must condcnse and fall to the ground
somewhere near the works in which it is
used, and if it floats away in the water it
must eventually find a resting place on the
bottom of the stream in which it is floated
away. 1t is an axiom among millmen that
wherever quicksilver is lost, silver is lost;"
therefore there must be a great amount of
silver lost, as we shall presently see. The
amount of quicksilver furnished mills in this
section of the State alone by the bank of
California averages 800 TASKS of 763 pounds
each, or 81, 200 pounds per month. This in
one year would amount to 734, 400 pounds of
quicksilver, that goes somewhere, and count
ing backwards for ten years shows 1884, 600
ponnas tnat has gone somewhere, either up
the hue or down the f1ume. The quantity of
quicksilver distributed monthly among the
mills shows just how much is lost. None is
sold or sent out of the country with the bull
lion therefore, if there were no loss, the
mills would never want any more quicksilver
than enough to give them a start at first, as
the same lot could be used over and over, ad
mfnitum. But there is loss and very
large one, as exactly shown by the demand
for quicksilver, as it all goes to supply the
place of that lost.-Ierr5tortnl Enterprise.
Year: 1873

There is no country where there is so much
dyspepsia as in America, because our people
pay SO little attention to food, and eat too
much meat for the exercise they take. If one
has mental labor, fish every second day at
least is requisite. Soup sets all the glands at
work, and prepares the stomach for the
more important functions of digestion, and
therefore should be taken at dinner every
day Beef broth is to the old what milk is
to the young. Cookery properly attended
keeps man in health. If the stomach is out
of order, the brain is affected. We should
cat more fruit, Vegetables, soup and fish.
Good and wcll-prepared food beauties the
physique, the same as good and well-directed
education beauties the mind. Wrinkles are
produced by want of the variety of food.
The man who does not use his brain to select
and prepare his food is not above the brutes,
which take it in the raw state.-Home and
Health.
Year: 1873

The Washington Star says: Among the
many notable persons at the inauguration of
President Grant was John l.. Glen, of the
oath U. S. infantry, who reached here few
days since from his regiment at Fort Brown,
Texas, in order to place in the National Asy-
lum an invalid soldier. Lieutenant Glenn has
national reputation, and is written down in
Frank Moores Rebellion Record" and in
Lossing's History of the Civil Conflict in
America, as Little Johnny Glen, the drum
mer boy of Chickamauga," at which battle he
laid aside his drum and assumed the musket
during the entire day. During the retirement
performed guerre de mort upon a Colonel
of Texan regiment, who had ridden up with
a drawn sword demanding his surrender, by
suddenly swinging up his musket from an order
arms and emptying the saddle of his assailant.
This daring act of one so young sent his name
flying through the country. He afterwards
had his little horse killed under him. and was
wounded in the shoulder at the same time, at
Atlanta, whilst delivering a dispatch from
Major General Thomas to General Logan.
He entered the army in May, 1861, before he
was 10 years of age, as drummer-bOy and
served with distinction to the end of the war,
during which time he was present at the bat
tie of Shiloh, and at nearly every other bat
tie in which the Army of the Cumberland
was engaged. He is the youngest officer
ever commissioned in the United States army,
and Lossing's History speaks of him as the
youngest person, of whom we have any &C
count, that ever bore arms in battle, either
in this country or in Europe; and his military
record is a matter of history upon the files
of the War Department. Considering his
years, he is without peer, either in the Old
World or in the New. ...
Year: 1873

If you wish to see deep snow, go up through the valleys in the Northeast part of the town; but don't believe the stories in our county papers about our drifts. It is thought we may have to tunnel through the drift by the house of Capt. Gaylord, when it thaws; but our people do not tie their horses to the meeting-house steeple. Spring is comming and I saw some live grasshoppers lately cought by Chester Riley,

 Miss Howe had house full at the ex- animation of her school in the Academy and all were pleased with the improvement. . .-. H M
Year: 1873

All persons who desire to vote at the coming election, must see that their names are on the register list. Those desir;no to vote in any town in which they have never been made electors mnst present their application to the registrars on. or before, the 18th day of March.
Year: 1873

An immense crowd assembled to the inauguration on Tuesday of last week. The procession was the largest and finest seen in Washington since the war and much enthusiasm was manifested insspite of the extreme cold weather and sharp wind