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Year: 1872

JULIA WARD HOWE, who has gone to
London to organize a Peace Congress,
did not meet with a very encouraging
reception in London. She went to the
meeting of the Peace Society, was po-
litely introduced to the MANAGERS thereof,
who were told that she had q speech in
her heart, and she very plainly intims-
ted to them that she had it at the end
Of her tongue. But though the expected


orator of the occasion failed to pat in


his appearance, and there Was no one
on hand to take his place, the fair
prophecies was coolly pushed aside
with the remark that the Society had
never had . woman TO speak on its plat
form. Only those who know Mrs.
Howe can imagine the torments she
endured in that hour Of enforced dumb
Year: 1872

i The Police Commissioners held long
session to-day and decided on the petition
in conformity to law TO allow the mem.
bers of Prince of Orange Lodge to
parade on the 18th of July next, to
celebrate the anniversary Of civil and
religious liberty.
Year: 1872

ready to move out the next morning,
small party of young Indians who
had come across the river from the
Pawnee village on the opposite side,
approached the encampment. These
were the first Indians the party had
seen, aand the young man who had said
that. he intended to shoot the first In
dian ne saw was reminded of his boast,
and he immediately picked up his rifle,
took aim ata young squaw, and shot
her-dead.


The news was carried to the village
at once, the party of whites were sur
rounded by exaspeiated Indians, and
the young man who had doue the
shooting was seized, stripped, tied to
wagon wheel, aud skinned alive, the
poor fellow begging of both enemies
and trends to shoot him, and thus end
his terrible suffering. The remainder
of his party Were compelled 70 stand
by and witness the torture of their
colnrade without being able to render
him any assistance. The unfortunate
man survived the operation but few
moments, and the emigrants were then
allowed to move on.


Since that day the stream upon
whose banks this horrible affair occur
red has been known as "The Raw
Hide"
Year: 1872

TAKING CARE OF LAMPS.-The east
est way to clean petroleum lamps is to
wash With thin milk of lime, which
forms an emulsion with the petroleum,
and removes all trace of it, and by
washing a second time with milk OF
lime and small quantity of chloride
Of lime, even the smell may be so com
pletely removed as to render the YES
sci thus cleansed fit tor. keeping bever-
ayes in. If the milk of lime be used
warm instead of cold, the operation is
rendered much shorter.


The best time for cleaning them is
in the morning, for reasons of safety,
il not convenience. Scarcely week
passes during the winter mouths, but
we read accounts of off,ightful accidents
from kerosene lamps exploding and
killing or soaring for life women and
children.


A simple knowledge of the infama-
bic nature Of the fluid would probably
put stop to nearly all the accidents
AS the oil burns down into the lamp,
highly inflammable gas gathers over
its surface, and as the oil decreases the
gas increases. When the oil is nearly
consumed, a slight jar viii often in.
fame the gas, and an explosion is sure
to follow, dealing with it death and
destruction. A bombshell is no more
to be dreaded. Now, if the lamp is
not allowed to burn more than halt
way down, such accidents are almost
impossible. Always ill your lamp in
the morning; then you need never
fear an explosion.
Year: 1872

An old farmer was out one ine day looking
over his broad acres, With an ak on his shoulder
and a small dog at his heels. They espied a
woo1chuck. The dog gave chase and drove
him into a stone wall, where action imme-
diately commenced. The dog would draw tho
woodchuck k partly out from the wall, and the
woodchuck would take the dog back The old
farmers sympathy getting high on the side of
the dog, he thought he must help him. So,
putting himself in position, with ak above the
dog, he waited for the extraction Of the wood
chuck, when he would cut him down. So an
opportunity offered, and the old man struck,
but the wOodchuak gathered up at the same
time, took the dog in far enough to receive the
blow, and the dog was killed on the spot.
Forty years after, the old man, in relating the
story, would always add: And that dog
don't know to this day but what the woodchuck
killed him."
Year: 1872

FRUIT FARMS AT VINELAND.-The great
profit of fruit culture can be fully recognized
when we consider that quart Of good straw
berries will sell for as much in Philadelp phia,
New York or Boston as bushel of corn will
sell for IN some places of the West. A fruit
farm well laid out, cultivated and attended to-
is sure to be highly remunerative. Experience
proves this fact. 1t requires no more industry
or system than ordinary farming, but it does
require that much. Strawberries last Spring
paid at the rate of from 800 to 500 dollars an
acre. Last Autumn grapes paid as much
In Vineland peaches have always been a sure
and a paying crop. Even when they have
failed in Delaware we have had good crops in
VinelaDd. Twice as much will be done the
present season in the fruit line as was done
last year. An increased area of orchards and
vineyards will come in bearing New ones
will be extensively set out, aud the culture will
receive more skillful and careful attention than
heretofore on account of the profits realized
from it the past several seasons Kmeland


Weekly
Year: 1872

THE WRECKS IN CHARLESTON HARBoR.-
For some time past operations have been
going on under contract with the United States
Government, for the raising of the wrecks of
war vessels that since the war have been such
dangerous distractions to navigation in
Charleston harbor. Thus far the rebel rams
Charleston and Chicora have been raised.


These vessels were sunk in Cooper river near
the city wharves, by an explosion, to prevent
their falling into Union hands; yet strangely
enough one of them was found to be very little
injured A steam engine was taken out of her
in good preservation, result said to be due to
the fact that the ashes of the upper works fell
upon and adhered to the machinery, thus pre-
venting corrosion. Three seven.inch rife guns
have also been taken out in excellent condition.


The next wreck to be raised Is that of the
Patapsco, which divers report TO be also in
good order, but lying deeply imbedded IN
quicksand. aa... ,. t.i bar .'at7 q
Year: 1872

A lady school-teacher in Omaha, having an
inordinate dread of the smallpox, sent home
little girl because she said Der mother was sick
and had marks on her face The next day the
girl appeared at the school house with her
finger in her mouth and her little bonnet swing
ing by the strings, and said to the teacher
Miss =, we've got leetle baby at our
house, but mother told me to tell you 1t is Mt
cdtcltin'." The teacher said she was glad, and
told her pupil to take her seat.
Year: 1872

THE FIRST LUCIFER.-Necessity is the
mother of invention, and it is to Mother Neces-
sity that we are indebted for that very useful
but dangerous little household article-the
lucifer match-Mr. Isaac Holden, in bis evi-
dence before the English Patent Committee,
thus gives the history OF the invention, which,
he says, was due to happy thought that
flashed upon him without any previous consid-
Grafton. Mr.. Holden, many years ago. had to
rise at four in the morning to pursue his stud
les in chemistry, and experienced tie gravest
inconvenience from his tedious efforts to obtain
light from flint and STEEL He was giving
lectures at this time to very large academy


He goes on to say: "Of course | knew, as
other chemists did, the explosive material that
was necessary in order to produce instantaneous
light; but it was very difficult to obtain light
ON wood by that explosive material and the
idea occurred to me to put under the explosive
mixture sui phur. did that and published it
in my next lecture, and showed it. There was
young man in the room whose father was a
chemist in London, and he Immediately wrote
to his father about it, and shortly afterwards
lucifer matches were issued to the world.
Year: 1872

DECLINE IN THE AMERICAN BIRTH RATE
A remarkable diagram has been prepared by
DR.. Toner, the statistician, which gives at a
glance the facts of each census in regard to the
relative longevity of the two sexes; also another
curious table showing the number of children
born to each thousand women between the ages
of fifteen and fifty at each census. This table
reveals the startling fact that what is held up
as the peculiar shame Of Massachusetts, is
equally true of all her sister States 1t is
shown that only one-half as many children are
now born to each thousand women as in 1900,
and that there has been a regular decrease from
one decade of years to another.
Year: 1872

A married friend of ours said he would
always have remained single, but he couldn't
afford it. What it cost him for gals and ice
cream" was more than he now pays to bring
up a wife and eight children. Bachelors
should think of this.
Year: 1872

Over the embers she's sitting tonight,
Aged and poor; and her tresses white
As the carpet that covers the meadow and hill.
Seventy and three but shes beautiful still
Beautiful stil-fOr the goodness that shines
Where Time, in his round. has penciled the lines
That the cheek which hath vanished
Whatever her history is nobody knows
But l feel, as look on her, feeble and poor
Alone in her cot on the desOate
That once, in the years that have vanished away,
Her face was as fair hOwret in May
That the great joy of loving this has known.
She was somebody's love in the years long agone.
Somebody loved her when, youthful and fair,
The sunlight scarcely light than her hair;
Somebody pressed on her red lips a kiss,
Waiting the moment Tor her whispered "Yes!
But ever and ever and ever so long


Are the since he heard that sweet song
Since she stood at the altar, radiant bride
Somebody's loved one and somebody's pride.


Ever and ever so long since she prest


Her lips to his, answering not in his rest


Since she strewed the spring vioets his bed,
And cried, in her anguish, Beloved, and dead II
Since his dear voice no longer replied to her own.


Who somebody's love IN the years long agone
Year: 1872

A lady in London got the idea into her head
that the devil was in her and hung herself
IfwOmen go to hanging themselves for little
thing like that, they are going to be scarce,
that's all.-Panch
Year: 1872

We have known in our day great many
with their noses, which were either too small
or too large, or too much turned up, or snub,
or in some way not to the taste of the involun-
tary wearers. Science, it seems, has come to
the relief of such sufferers. Alexander Ross
of High Holborn, London, advertises Nose
Machine "by which the soft cartilage of the
nose may be pressed into any desired shape,
simply by wearing the instrument an hour
daily for a short time" There have been old
maids and equally old bachelors, with pug
noses, who always slept with the organ
bandaged down, in the iond hope of securing a
graceful droop; and for the convenience Of
Ross machine will be positively invaluable.
Year: 1872

How TO CHOOSE HUSBAND. Some one
has written an essay, giving instructions how to
choose husband. The writer treats the sub
ject just as if he thought choosing husband
was just as cold bloOded a matter as buying
horse. And it may be so with some people.
Undoubtedly there are mothers who calculate
on the marriage Of their daughters merely with
an eye to external advantages-tO wealth, and
what is called station in ife-with as little
sentiment as they would experience in buying
clock. And there are daughters who enter
tain similar views.


But these are exceptional cases. The great
majority of marriages are determined almost
solely by love. And frequently the parties
would find it as difficult as anybody else to ac-
count for their love for each other.


And when this love, this sentiment of ex-
treme and exclusive devotion to another, is
once experienced, it is very apt to obtain its
object Opposition, from any source, is gene
rally found, in the end, to be vain, and worse
than useless. A few speculative marriages
marriages of convenience and of calculation
take place. But, in the main, Love, and Love
only, is the great match maker. So is has
always been; so it will ever be.
Year: 1872




One OF the noblest instances of industry
and energy we know of is that of two
young boys who are now cultivating farm
by their own efforts alone in the southeast
ern portion of the parish for the support of
their widowed mother. We commend their
example to those who are Just starting in
life and who are wasting their earnings, or
rather their time, in gambling and frOlick-
ing. The best education in the world for
boys and girls, whether from necessity or
the rigid, stern discipline of their parents
and guardians. is that which makes them
denying life. Nearly all of the brilliant
men who are successful without having
steady labor1ous habits owe their success
to the discipline and training which they
acquired from circumstances or rigid dis
cipiinarians, and we can scarcely remember
an exception to the rule.
Year: 1872

An exchange says: Cleveland has in
vented a patent bug-buster, worked with
an air pump. All the apertures in a room
are stopped but one, at which the deadly
bug-buster is placed. By exhausting the
receiver, current OF air is produced strong
enough to draw all the vermin out of the
room, through the air pump, into the hop
per, where they are put under the influence
of chlOroform, and stabbed in the back
with pitchfork.
Year: 1872

A lady in Springfield, Mass, purchased spool
Of cotton at a dry goods store, and insisted upon
the clerk measuring it to make sure it did net
contain less than 200 yards.


The New Orleans Picayune mentions the ship
ment OF bale of ramie from that city to Balti
MORE and expresses the belief that it is the
first bale of this fibre ever sent to market from
that country.


Keepers of coffee houses, hotels, public houses
and eating houses in Rome are punished by i'm
prisonment OF not less than ten nor more than
thirty days, il they permit blasphemy on the
premises.


A beer barrel was being filed with beer in a
Cincinnati brewery, the beer being forced from
vat by compressed air when the pressure was
applied with too much force, the vat exploded,
and a mans head was nearly blown of.
Year: 1872

GHERIFFALTY.
TO the voters Of the Republican Party of New Cas-
tie county:


~Rmw GENTLEMEN by many


friends and the flattering vote given to
me at the last nomination election, I am
induced to again offer myself as a candidate for
nomination of Sheriff for the County OF New Castle,
pledgng myself 10 abide by the nomination Of said
Party and give my hearty support to the successful
candidate.


Respectfully EDWIN LEWIS,
WfmfnQtOn Hundred ian25 tdWtf
Year: 1872

Mr.. Bayard, Washington report says, is for
Judge Davis, should he be nominated at Cincin-
natl. This report may not be true but it more
than likely is true. That is to say Senator Bay
ard approves of the abdcation of the Democrat
ic Party, and coniesses that it can no longer
enter the national field with even hope of sue
cess, under its own name, and with one of its
own members as candidate. Do the Demo-
oracy of Delaware agree with Senator Bayard
DO they, too, admit that they cannot go in at the
front door of the White House, but must creep
in at some back window if they get insii at all
Year: 1872

Ethan Allen, chairman of the Liberal Republican National Committee. has written letter in response to an inquiry as to the future of that party. In his letter he says:-

 We were defeated because no great issues divided tie political parties, and mere personal arguments were not suffi- cient to bring out the popular vote or to cause a change Of administration. We made platform at Cincinnati looking to certain reforms. At Baltimore the de- mocracy took the liberal platform and the nominee. At Philadelphia the repub- licans adopted substantially the same platform and narro wed the fight to one of men, not principles.

 He claims that Mr. Greeley was not unpopular, but says the democracy took no interest in the election, for the reason that MT. G. had always been an enemy to then. "It is now." he adds, " too soon to determine as to the future," and con- cludes his letter in the following language:

 If General Grant faithfully ca: :ries out the pledges of his party, which are sub- stantially the same as those made by the liberals at Cincinnati, he may be the real, though not to us the accepted, agent of reform. If General Grant carries out the measures of our party, consistency, if nothing else, may compel our approval. We cannot honestly assail him if he does for the nation that which we claim to be right. It remains to be seen what General Grant will do in thls direction. He has begun we'll in the Civel Service line in Philadelphia. Will he continue on this road of reforn2 If so, we must applaud him. If he do not, we must resist like honest men who claim to battle for the public good. When Congress has settled down to business presume the leaders of our party-Messrs, Sumner, Trumblll, Schurz, Tipton and the many others in the two houses-will "point the way' before us. It would be premature and imprudent to indicate any course till these able and honest men have had time and opportunity to speak. The liberal repub. licans can do no better than to be passive for the present and to watch events. Ii we have forced the enemy,in self-defence, to adopt our own code ot political morals, then we have already won the victory, even though other hands than those which we would have chosen execute the reform. But if the party in power prove by their recreancy that the VOWS made in the storm are to be broken in the sum- shine, then it will be in order to send every liberal republican again to his proper place to prove by future efforts that the liberal victory has in truth been only postponed.
Year: 1872

Pierre Blot who is known as good authority on the subject says:

 If roasted, the birds are placed as near the fire as possible at first, and then put back by degrees to prevent burning. They must be pasted often with the juice in the pan.

 Cranberry sauce and currant jelly are usual ly relshed with venison, geese, turkeys, etc. Water-cress will be found quite an improve Ment when served with quails and partridges, and forms pretty ornament to the dish when tastefully placed around the birds after they nave been dished and the gravy poured over them.

 Many excellent dishes are spoiled by not being served at the proper time. Every body knows t6e difference between steak served directly from the gridiron, and one that has been kept in the oven some time.

 As gravy is indispensable to roast meat, we will tell our readers how to make it.. The best meat is generally fat, especially a joint, turkey, or a chicken, etc.; therefore when the meat is roasted there is scarcely any liquid but fat left in the pan. As fat must not be served, the joint or bird is dished and put in the oven, the door of which is left open; all the fat is turned of the pan, broth is put in instead, and the pan is placed over the fire. Take a wooden spoon, stir gently all over the bottom of the pan, give one boil, turn the contents over the joint through 8 strainer, and serve. You then have gravy that de- serves that name, and not greasy, muddy substance, as uninviting to the eye as to the palate.

 The digestive apparatus of man is not made to digest raw flour. When flour is used in the composition of sauce it must first be properly cooked.

 Broth is easily and cheaply made. A care full cook will find almost enough to make as much broth as is necessary for the soup, sauces, and gravies in the trimmings of roast, ing pieces, the bones of roasted joints of beet and veal that are generally left on the dish, and tie bones of turkeys and chickens. When there is not enough of the above, a pound or two of beef, according to the size of the family, may be bought to make the broth The pieces for soup are either from the shin, leg, or chuck-piece, and must be
Year: 1872

KEEPING APPLES IN PLAsTER.-A cor. respondent of the Rural NeD Yorker thus describes his method of keeping apples io plaster. He says: "I have been experi- menting the past few years with apples, and find those packed in plaster keep much longer than any other way I have tried. I use flour barrels, as they are made tighter. I first covered the bottom of the barrel with plaster, then layer of apples, then cover with plaster, and so on till the bar rel IS full; then put the head in and drive the hoops tight. The plaster, being of a cold nature, keeps the fruit at an even temperature, and, being fine and dry, packs so close as to keep the apples air. tight. I had Northern Spy and Swaar almost as fresh in May as when they were picked, and found no decayed ones, and think they would have kept till early apples were ripe, had we not used them. Shall put up several barrels for next spring and summer use, as am satisfied that our best varieties, such as Steel's Red Winter, Wagner and Seek-no further, will keep several months longer than putting them tip with out plaster, and will retain theil flavor much better besides"
Year: 1872

IMMENSE HAMMER AND ANvIL.--The largest portion of tue stuPendous steam hammer to be erected in the royal gun factories at W Woolwich, for the more expe- ditious manufacture of heavy guns, was recently cast in the Dial Square Of the Royal Arsenal. The weight of tie metal used in the casting was los tons, which was first collected from number of fur naces in thEce immense receptacles. and from them poured into the mould, which had been carefully prepared below the level of the floor. While the casting is cooling, the last of the large plates used in the foundations will be made, the weight of this plate being 9S tons. There will be then only the anvil face to cast-a mere trife of 60 tons-and then tLe bed of the hammer will be complete, its total weight down to the piles upon which it rests being about 650 tons. The weight of the falling mass, which answers as the hammer. head, will be 34 tons, the most pondereus hammer of the kingdom.
Year: 1872

HoME-MADE YEAsT.-Boil two hand fuls of hops, which should be tied in small bag, in six quarts of water; then slice thin six large potatoes and boil them with the hops when they are soft, skim them out and mash them per fectly fine add to them one and a half pints of wheat flour, stirred to smooth batter with cold water; turn over the whole the boiling hop liquor, first taking out the bag and squeezing it dry then hang it aside to use another time, for 1t will make two patches of yeast. Stir into this mixture two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one of ginger and one of salt. When milk-warm, add teacupful of yeast, set in warm place to rise, and it will be ready to put into jug by the next morning. ~ --2t"