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Year: 1873




How TO CURE CoLD,L0ne Of our citizens
who has been troubled Wlih severe cold on the
lungs effected his recovery in the following simple
mau16E, lie boiled little boneset and hoFehOUnd
together and drank freely of the tea before going
to bed. The next day he took i've pills, put one
kind of plaster on his breast another under his
arms and still another en- His lack. Under ad


vice from experienced old lady he took all these
off with an oyster knife In the afternoon and slap
ped on a mustard paste instead His mother put
some onion drafts on his feet and gave him q lump
of tar to swallow Then he put ENme hot bricks
to his feet and went to bed Next morning, an
other old lady cane In With bottle Of goose
crease, and gave him dose Of it on a quill, and
an aunt arrived about the same time from Bethel,
tea, and gave him every half hOnr until noon,
when he took big dose OF salts. After dinner
his wife who had seen hne. old lady OF great ex-
perience in dOcteting, on franklin street, gave
him two pills Of her make, about the size of an
English walnut and OF similar shape, and two
tablespoonfuls Of home made b0lsam to keep
them down. Then he took half pint of hot
rum at the suggestion Of an old sea captain in the
next house, and ste1Incd his legs with an alcohol


bath Atthis crises two ofthe Heighbors arrived


who saw al once that his blood was out OF order
and give him halt gallon Of speRrmint tea, and


biz dose OF castor oil. Before going to bed he
| took eight OF a new kind Ol pill, wrapped abouI
his neck fannel soaked IN hot vinegar and salt


and feathers burnt on a shovel IN his room. H'
ia now thoroughly cured, and full Of gratitude.-
I've advise our readers TO cut this out and keel
lt where it can be readily found when DANCE


Threatens. Exchange, fflr p ~
Year: 1873

The McEnery government maintains their
position with the people, and will organize
resistance to Kellogg in every manner except
by force. A Central Committee has been
formed with branches in every parish, 10 re-
sist and delay the collection of taxes.


They declare their pnFpOse TO withhold all
support from tho usurpation forced upon the
people by the military power of the General
Government. The city is quiet. The mill
taFy have returned to their quarters and the
police to their BEATS
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the DelaUarean estimates
the increase of the value OF the land through
winch the proposed ship canal would pass, if il
should be built, at $40 an acre. The cost would
not DO less than 100000 which would be spent
In the State, and thus stimulate trade.
Year: 1873

A MAN in Pennsylvania has invented
a rat-trap that is made to operate upon
,he selfish passions of the poor rat and
lure him into trouble. A mirror is set in
the back part of the device, beyond the
pait; and as his ratship is out on a for
aging expedition he espies the bait at
the same believing time his own image
IN the mirror to be another rat making
lof II on the opposite side. This is too
much for rat nature to stand and be
eooi over; so he rushes for the bait and
Is caught.
Year: 1873

AN Illinois girl having six lovers Of
.efeo to marry the one who should
oreak up the most prairie in three
Gays The result was that she got
smart husband, and her father found his
i"fm ready for planting free of cost.
Year: 1873

IHE Colorado papers are Dragging


over the wonderfully restorative effects Of
.neir climate upon an Ohio lady who
e3ulu not sweep her room at home, but
snortiy after her arrival in Colorado was
aole to chase her husband mile with
Year: 1873

WELLS, AND WHY WE SINK FOR THEM.
The district between the St. Louis and
Nemadji rivers, the bay OF Superior and the
dieide, the latter extending from the Dalles
OF the St. Louis to Black River Falls, is
paralelism, about ten miles wide at the bay
OF Superior and twenty along the divide, or
rather its northeastern slope.


This district is of recent deposit, the sur
face an inclined plane, whose bay end is
thirty, and rear about four hundred feet
above the Lake, and about twenty five miles
III myth; it is stratifed in alterations of
Fclars sand, or gravel, the latter more or less
cellular. The upper ones of the latter have
been cut off by the abrasion of creeks such
as Pokegama and Clear creek running
across the plane into the rivers. Hence
cellular stratum carrying water course
whose fountain is on or in the divide must
pass beneath the beds of the creeks, that of
Pokegama being below the bay surface,
and cutting off the sub-district of about four
by ten miles upon which Superior is situate.


In view Of these facts we may assume
that a cellular stratum carrying supply of
water will be found at a depth Of from $50
to 200 feet.


The next consideration is, will such stra-
tum contain force to elevate the water to
our wants, fifty or hundred feet above the
surface?


The answer is bore and find out The
possibility, not to say probability, is in fa-
vor of trying the experiment.


To our sorrow we have found one of the
stratums closed, and holding some water
and large amount of poisonous gas; its
lake exit must have been somewhat closed.
A lower stratum, having its lake end closed
and indurated in the lake bed, we may hope
will contain the force in question.


Before expending any more money and
valuable lives in trying to get water from
our cutoff stratums, it would be at least
philosophical to bore 200 or 500 feet.
r. c..
Year: 1873




1t is stated that the controversy between
the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
respecting the rights Of Superior City and
Duluth, has been settled at Washington
1t appears the arrangement between Gov,
ernor Washburn, Of Wisconsin, on the one
side and committee from Duluth and the
President of the Northern Pacific Railroad
on the other, is about as follows: The rail
road is to be extended to the city Of Supe'
rior within eight months and the same ia
cilities are to be afforded for business, as at
Duluth; the canal across Minnesota Point
connecting the body Of the lake with the
western end Of the bay Of Superior, is to
be abandoned, and, we presume, filled up
and, the natural entrance to the bay, be-
tween Minnesota and Wisconsin Points is
to be dredged out, and perhaps portion
of the bay itself, so that the docks at the
respective cities of Superior and Duluth
can be easily reached by lake craft.


Should this be carried out, there remains
in our mind no longer much doubt where
the developing point will be at the head OF
the great lake The townsite of Superior
is one of the finest in the country-fashIon
ed by the hand of Nature for the purpose
of accommodating a large population. II
Year: 1873

GOV VASHBURN'S VERSION OF THE SET
ELEMENT OF THE CONTRO VERSY Be
TWEEN SUPERIOR AND DULUTH


The following message from Gov. Wash
burn to the Wisconsin Legislature. explains
his action on our harbor difficulties. We
received it by last nights mail and hasten
to lay it before our readers:


STATE OF WISCONSIN,


EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,


Madison Feb 6, 1878. J
To the Honorable the Legislature:


Having received a communication from General g.
w. Cass, president of the North Pacific Railroad Com
pany stating that he desirous of having the tiga-
tion with the of Wisconsin, far it affected
company, terminated if it could be satsfacto-
II terms all parties responded that was equally
anxious of making fair and honorable settlement
On the receipt OF my reply the was laid before
the board of directors of the North Pacific Company
who adopted the following resolution, and | in
vited by telegraph to proceed to New York.


Resolved, That the communication of the Governor
of Wisconsin be referred to the President and that he
be requested to invite an interview with the Governor
and other parties in interest the subject of the suit
of the state eff Wisconsin the City of Duluth, the
Northern Pacific Railroad and Others and dscaimng
connection with interest in said dyke to assure
the Governor of this Boards willingness that an order
be made for the removal of the dixie the bay of
Superior, and that this company will unite with the
authorities OF said state in procuring appropriation
by the general government to improve the navigation
OF the bay of Superior, such plan will best pro-
mote the interests of all parties connected with the
commercial development of said bay, and further, to
the Governor of Wisconsin, of the cordial de-
sire of this company to unite with him in every effort
promote on the broadest basis the commercial in
terests of all accessible points on the western and
southern shores of Lake Superior.


In accordance with the invitation, | proceeded to
New York and there the President and Executive
cou.rsittee of the Northern Pacific Company, and
found them ready and anxious adjust in
cordance with the spirit Of the above resolution.
That all parties might have hearing, the citizens of
Duluth req ested to send committee rep
that city. On the arrival of that committee
and after free and full conference the Northern Pa
cifc Raroud Company entered into the following sp-
ulation:
Year: 1873

A ACoNUNDRUM-Her is a right nice little
conundrum, which a good many people in
this city would like to have answered:


If the northeaster last November carried
away our breakwater near the elevator, al
though those strong 30-toot cribs were well
filed with rock, and also heavily riprapped
on the outside with rock, hundreds of which
weighed several tons each, and if, on that
occasion the timbers of the breakwater
were mere plavthings for the waves, and if
the rocks in the cribs and riprapping were
scattered between that structure and Min
nesota point, like so many grains of sand.
about h0ac many minutes will that embank-
ment of loose rock which has recently been
built out in the lake, just below the eleva-
tor probably stand the avalanche Of Ice
which may reasonably be expected, upon
the breaking up of ice next spring?


And, in this connection, there is another
little conundrum which we would like to
ask, viz: If it cost, say, $4,000 to dump
those loose rock out into the lake, about
how many times that sum will it cost the
government to gather them up, again, after
they shall have been scattered and sown by
the waves and the ice, all along the railroad
docks to Minnesota Point?


Our columns are open to any sage or sa
van who can an answer make, to these little
conundrums.


The above must have brought tears from
the eyes of the Tribaae man; a broken and
contrite heart only, could have given out
such a truthful comment upon the late folly
of Duluth.
Year: 1873

A GRAND fox hunt is to come off at Ripon
in few days. The foxes are to be let loose
two or three hours in advance of the hunt
so as to give them good start. There will
be no fences to enclose them, but out upon
the broad prairies they will have room to
run, and the dogs too.
Year: 1873

Governor w Washburn's message did it. He
said there was no use in warning against
the Almighty in the effort to make port
at Duluth, when nature had already pro-
vided a harbor at Superior, only six miles
away. The argument seems to have been a
clncher. Duluth and the Northern Pacific
have succumbed to the inevitable; the dyke
is to be removed; the canal is to be closed
up; the railroad is to be extended to Supe-
rlor; and the rocks and cliffs of Duluth are
to be left to their solitary grandeur forever
more.
Year: 1873

MEATs-When joint of meat comes
from the market, it is we'll to cut it up
at once. Separate your roasting piece,
Out up the part for steaks, and put
away in your coolest place what is left,
to cook afterward. Take out the bones
you mean to make soup of, and boil
them soon, as they will not keep as well
as the meat. It is impossible to say
how long meat must be cooked, much
depends on the fire; coal gives out more
heat than wood; besides, persons differ
in regard to what meat well done means.
Redmeat, like beef, must be cooked
rarer than white meat, as pork. A
good way to find how much done it is is
to stick skewer in near the bone; II
blood follows it, it is not done. Gravy
for roast meat is made by putting some
Drowned -four in, also salt and pepper
and boiling water. In frying meat,
lard is better than butter. Mutton
and beef suet are good when the lard
seems hot try it by throwing in a mite
of bread. When boiling meat or poul
try, skim it often, or the meat will be
dark keep it boiling. Put fresh meat
into boiling water, salt meat into cold
allow one quarter Of an hour to every
pound of meat. In roasting poultry or
birds be careful to baste and turn often.
The back, having little flesh requires
little cooking.
Year: 1873

Some parts of the city are nearly alb
solutely abandoned. You can walk
square after square, day and night,
without finding soul to talk to-,
without finding an open door, Or seeing
light or any other signs of life.


Death and fright have carried or driven
the PEOPLE all away. An owner of
property in what is called the "infected
district, directed his agent, as matter
of charity, not to call on his tenants for
pay on the usual day, and sometime af-
ter, when going through the neighbor'
hood, it was found that all his houses
were empty. Those who had not been
taken by the plague had been driven off
by terror. Business is at a perfect
standstill, when, had it not been for
theepiiemie, Memphis would now be in
the flush of trade and commercial ac-
tivity. A large proportion of the pri-
vate residences are closed, giving those
funereal appearance which.eyen have
had no such sad occaion of mourning
within their walls. Most of them,


however, are associated in the minds of
the citizens with scenes of disease and
death. Very few ladies are met on the
streets, save those wearing the badge of
some charitable society, or the weeds
of mourning, The street cars are never
crowded, generally having but one or
two passengers, and are scarcely more
numerous than hearses. Thesters, of
course, are all closed, and SO, too, are
more than two-thirds of the bar-rooms.
Year: 1873

Here we see a heavy decline in the
gross wheat receipts from Russia dur
ing the first nine months of the present
as compared with the corresponding
periods in the two preceding years. At
the same time there is corresponding
increase in the supplies from the United
States. There is this year decrease
in round numbers of 100000 cwts. of
wheat from Russia, and an increase of
no less than 5000, 900 cwts. in the i'm
ports from the United States. The
falling off in Russian supplies is of
course result of the failure of the
wheat harvest in southern Russia, upon
which western Europe is so largely de-
pendent.
Year: 1873

THE BRIGHT STDE.-Look on the
bright side it is the right side. The
times may be hard, but it will make
them no easier to wear a gloomy and
sad countenance. It is the sunshine,
not the cloud, that makes the flower,
Troubles gives sinew and tone to life,
fortitude and courage to man. That
would be a dull sea and the esailor would
never get skill where there was nothing
to. disturb the surface of the ocean.
What, though things look little dark
the lane will turn; and night will end
in broad day. There is more virtue in
one sunbeam than in a whole hemis-
phere of clouds and gloom.
Year: 1873

Diligence, tact, quickness and accu-
raoy, good temper, controlled enthusi-
asm, the power to do without sleep and
an imperturbable digestion, all of these
combined in one man, say q civil SER
want, will no doubt save him from be-
ing a failure in his career. But they
will not secure him a brilliant or a rapid
success. They, or some of them, are
among the conditions of success but
they are not the sole or essential condi-
tions. II is we'll that he should be dill
gent but it is better still that the great
man should think he is SO. He may
strive much to be quick and exact in his
work but he should strive more to
catch and keep his chiefs eye. To hap
pen to be always standing just where
that eye happens to fall +; to be ready
with his "Here am ], send me, " when
ever the chief is considering whom he
shall employ on delicate business, and


then, of course, to do the business satls-
factorily to be about his patron to oc-


cur to him; to observe him to oblige
him; and so, as the last and triumphant
achievement, to become the man Of
whom his patron thinks the best and


the kindliest in his particular depart
ment or profession, and whom, there
fore, he means to send to the top Of it
this is the cheapest, the safest and tru-
est art of rising in life and this is what
is ordinarily meant by button-holing.
Year: 1873

PPTvATE LIFE IN COUNTRY VInLAsEs


The little villages that nestle down
among the Massachusetts, hills are
charming retreats, but I do not know
that I should care to spend more than
five years of life at time IN any one of
them. And as for being retreats, I'm
not sure of that, since I come to think
aboutit. .You stand cut in pretty bold
relief if you are resident, still more
so if you are visitor. For instance,
there was an engaged couple in vii
liamsburg. not nativea TO the manner
Year: 1873

pail Of water, and at bound they
we're racing down the street at head.
long speed. The gentleman, who was
seated At the front Of the coach, made
his way to the back and got out. and
was flung heavily to the ground, re.
ceiving severe cuts about the head
and face. Meantime, the coach with
the three ladies was whirled dswn the
street at a speed that Threatened 10.
slant destruction to the coach aud pos
sibly the death of its occupants, but
lady passenger, Mrs. Bushnell, was
equal to the occasion. STOPPING over
the seat she secured firm hold of the
lines, and taking a turn or two Of the
slack around her waist, put out her
strength to check the speed aud guide
the progress Of the animals. She sue.
ceeded in checking and finally turn.
ing the herses around and driving
them up to the hotel, when half
score of strong arms helped the brave
woman out of the carriage amidst the
warmest praises Of the excited crowd
who witnessed the transaction.
Year: 1873

ALAw has just gone into effect in Hi
neis which authorizes the appointment of
guardians for habitual drunkards. A
jury decides the question of the unltness
of the drunkard to administer his affairs,
n notice being served on the party to the
effect that an application has been made
to the court, after the serving of which
he is debarred from transferring his prop
ertys or making any valid contracts.
Year: 1873

Notwithstanding the increase in the price of
subscription last Fall, when THE ALDlNE
assumed its present noble proportions, and
representative character, the edition was more
than doubled during the past year proving
that the American public appreciate and will
support sincere effort in the cause of Art
The publishers. anxious TO justify tho ready
confidence thus demonstrated, have exerted
themselves to the utmost to develop and inn
prove the work; and the plans for the coming
astonish and delight even the most sanguine
friends of THE ALDINE.


The publishers are authorized TO announce
designs from many of the most eminent artists
of America.


The popular feature Of copiously illus
tratcd Christmas number Of THE ALDINE
will be continued.
Year: 1873

Those who believe that the greatest men
are the most sensible of their own defects
will be glad to think that Mr.. Chase's modes
ty was one OF the signs of his greatness.
There was no subject about which he talked
less than himself; he rarely or ever referred
to himself or his history in any way. There
have been few men, with so much,to remem-
ber, so little given to "reminiscences. Not on
ly would he seldom volunteer recollections,
but it required the greatest skill to even draw
them from him. His modesty as to the accu-
racy of his judgment led him always to speak
carefully, and with provisos, where men Of
tenth part of his intellectual weight were dog
matte. 1t showed itself as much in his
frankness in confessiug lack of knowledge of
various subjects as in anything. He had none
of that pretentiousness which claims all
knowledge as its own. Even when Ques-
toned on subjects with which he might be
expected to be familiar, his plain answer was,
again and again, Il don't know."-C Atlantic
Monthly for November.
Year: 1873

u


citeIneni About His Confirmation.


From the New York Tribune, Dec 0.


Mr. Alexander r. Shepherd was yes
terday confirmed as Governor of the
District of Columbia by unanimous
vote of the Senate. His nomination
was the most scandalous one yet made
by the President. and it was confident
ly predicted that it would be postponed
until after the holidays, and then posi-
bly, withdrawn. But he knew his Sen
ate. He was,so certain Of his hold
upon them that he invited a large num-
Der Of members Of both Houses to dine
with him yesterday to celebrate his sue
cess. The vote WAS taken in
a thin Senate, and not
voice was raised against him. Every
body In Washington knows what
he is His friends, when they praise
him, limit their panegyrics to an ex-
preston Of confidence IN his smart
ness" You will never catch him, 3"
they say. The alarming state Of the
finances Of the district, due entirely to
the operations Of this man, is well
known to the Senate. But those who
believe him to be a knavC were out of
the way when their names were called,
and the faithful! friends of the White
House were all on hand to do as they
were bid. How can body so servile
be expected to deal with any public
questions which require nerve and con-
science? No wonder they drag Sumner
from his committee, and choose Car
pentcr to preside over their delibera-
tions.


From the Cincinnati Gazette.


WASHINGTON, Dee 9.--The Senat
tors ascertained to-day tLat very few
members Of that bydy were aware,
during the executive session yesterday,
that any action hard been taken in the
case Of Shepherd, of this District. l.
further appeared that the nomination
was not regularly reported from the
committee, but the matter, in the form
of an agreement Of some Of the men,
bers to report Shepherd favorably, was
taken on the floor OF the Senate by pri-
vatc appeal to individual members, and
that some of the members Of the COM
mittee were not consulted at all. The
matter has assumed the shape Of mere
trick and imposition upon the Senate,
and some members who have promised
that investigation should precede ac-
ton in the case. will feel bound to
move reconsideration.


From the Cincinnati Commercial.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-SenatOr
Conkling pledged himself some time
since to oppose a confirmation without
investigation, and he is one of those
who did not know what was transplr-
inc when the confirmation was made.
He feels bound to have the matter re-
considered. There is quite feeling Of
Indignation in the Senate at the man.
ner in which the job was carried
through. 1t will not have a good effect
upon the legislation desired by the
Ring.
Year: 1873

The JVdtercuIe Telegraph has an ac-
count of fire which has broken out in
gully about four miles northeast OF Had
oath, Washington county, and has contin-
ed to burn, apparently in the same spot,
for three weeks. A destructive prairie fire
swept over that locality some time ago, and
after DAYS had passed, and the occurrence
was nearly forgotten, smoke was observed
emerging from that gully. This excited
the curiosity of the scientific ones, and an
investigation was made, when it was dis
covered that the smoke issued from crew
ice in a large stone imbedded in the side OF
the gully. Some of the wise ones declared
it a vein of coal on fire, as there are indica-
tions of coal in that vicinity. But the
smoke does not smell like that of coal. 1t
is a clear smoke, and ascends in large and
steady volumes and floats off the surround
ing country. There are indications OF an
immense fire beneath the surface OF the
earth. and much alarm is felt. At night
the fire and smoke stream upward toward
the dark empyrean, and the darkness is
dispelled for a long distance fromthe place.
Year: 1873

taken up. Mr.. Sherman said the bill did
not confer any privileges other than to al
low the bank to assume [the nape? OF
national banks. He hoped it would be
passed. After some discussion the bill was
laid over to be called up at an early day:


AT 2:20 the Senate went into Executive
session and soon after adjourned.