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Year: 1871

A few years ago grand banquet was


given by the director of the Veterinary


School at Abort, near Paris, for the pur-


pose of demonstrating the value Of horse


flesh as an article of food and, -, order


to give fair trial, beside each dish Of


horse was a corresponding one in beef.


With the exception of the director, none
OF the distinguished guests--the first
men Of the city-had ever paItaken of
this new food. The animal which fur
nished the specimens was an old horse,
twenty-three years old, paralyzed in his
hind quarters, and, therefore, though in
other respects quite healthy, and very
fat, not likely to furnish such good eat
ing as young and more tender one.
Tie verdict in regard to the soup was
unanimously in favor of the horse-fesh
it was declared to be of the same taste as
the beef soup, but richer, stronger,
more gelatinous, and more capable of
concentration. 1.-THE banquet closed
with fine, fat, thick fillet of horse, lard
ed and dressed like venison ; it was tri-
umphantly welcomed, and voted super
excellent it was tender, juicy, high fla
vored, more delicate and melting than
venison, more gamey than beef. 1t was
pronounced to be great
discovery, an immense addition to til
pleasures of the table-a sort of mixture
between venison, hare, and beef" Every
guest begged that the cook would cut off
a good slice, that he might carry it home,
and let the inmates of his house Judge of |
its excellence.
Year: 1871

We had in our school boy named
Ben Simmons, a fat lubberly fellow, who
always had cold feet and was generally
allowed to sit by the stove, tilted back in
chair, and rest his feet against the
upper edge to keep them warm.


School was called. The cold-footed
Ben Simmons was in his usual place,
tilted back in his chair, with his great
boots on the stove, studying his reading
lesson, and had the big dictionary in his
lap, looking out hard word. The
grammar class were parsing.


The teacher stood in front OF his desk
with one elbow resting on 1t, and the
other hand holding his parsing book.


Just at Il II moment Tom Rodgers
ball relied GA on the floor. not stopping
until it was " hin few inches Of the
teachers feet. Without sas ing his eyes
from his boo he ST.. ed leisurely,
picked up the audacious piaything, walk
ed over to the stove, opened the great
door and threw it in. The door swung
to its place again, and he strolled back
to his desk.


He was just setting his elbow into its
former position, ard suffering Sammy
Turner was just trying to say "sk-sk-skip
is a v-v-verb," when dull explosion was
heard, the door of the stove flew open.
and a great sheet of flame burst out, the
wood about quarter of q cord followed
pellmell, Bill Simmons and the diction-
ary had a trial Of skill in turning back
somersaults, and then the great rusty
iron box slid from the four piles VI
IL 4. a Al 4 III
its side. The ball itself shot out like
flaming meteor, and struck the black
board, falling down into the chalk trough
and soon burned itself to n cinder.


The teacher. betraying little surprise
or emotion, threw the burning and
smoking sticks out at the window, and
then called two of the largest boys to
help him right the stove. He never
asked who owned the ball, and he never
cast any more playthings into the fire.
Year: 1871

PUNISHMENT IN Schools. Board
of Aldermen of Washington City have
passed joint resolution providing that
hereafter it shall not be lawful for any
teacher, or superintendent, or trustee, OF
other persons in, or connected with, any
of the public schools OF Washington, by
reason of such relation, to infict punish
ment upon the person of any pupil be-
longing to any Of said schools, whether
by the application of blows, or by con.
strained position of the person, OF by
protracted standing, or by coerced ex-
posure of any pupil to heat, or to cold,
or to darkness, or to solitude, or by deny
ing the privilege of water, or the gratifi-
cation ofany reasonable natural desire,
or by detention in the school house after
the dismissal or intermission of the
school, or by the requirement of exces-
sive study, or in any other manner.
Year: 1871

Re,ore trust again to thee,


Or place my hand In thine;
Be,ore let thy future give


Color and form to mine;
pefore peri, ALL for thee-
Question thy soul tonight for me.
rhreok nIl slighter bonds, nor feel


A shadow Of regret
f.. there one link within the past


That holds thy spirit yet
Or il thy faith NJ clear aud froe
"A thai which can pledge to thssy.
Noes there within thy inmost dreams


, nossiblc future shine,
wicrein thy life eould hcnceforth breathe


Untouched, unshared hy mine'
u -o- NJ any price or coat
on tell me now, ere all is lost.
Iook deeper, still. n thou can'st feel


Within thy inmost soul
That thou has kept portion back,


While have staked the whole,
Let no false pity spare the blow
But in true mercy tell me so.
f. there within thy heart need


That mine cannot fulfil
One chord that any other hand


Could better wake or still
Sneak now lest some future day
Nv whole life wither and decay.
Lives there within thy nature hid


The demon spirit, Change;
Shedding a passing glory still


On all things new and stranger
+ may not be thy fault alone,
But shield my heart against thine own.
Coudst thou withdraw thy hand one day.
And answer to my claim
That Fate, and that to-dayls mistake
Not thou--had been to blame?
Some soothe their conscience thus but thou,
Oh surely thou. wilt warn me now
Year: 1871

CoNsrANcY.- young British officer
in India, who was shockingly mutilated
and disfgured IN battle, after mature re-
Election requested n comrade TO write to
his betrothed in England, and release
her from the bridal engagement Her
noble reply was worthy of a true woman
" Tell him il there is enough of his body
left TO contain his soul, shall hold him
TO his engagement.
Year: 1871

NATIONAL GAME LAW. A national
game law for the protection of antelope,
elk, mountain sheep, deer and buffalo,
is urged as necessary by the Chicago
Post The present rate of destruction
will, in half a century, cause this and
other valuable game to become wholly


'.tinct. Hunting on the plains, now-a-
days, is often mere useless slaughter
To kill a dozen buffaloes, simply to get
their tongues, is thought nothing Of
Indian tribes that have lived for ages on
the income of these ANIMALS are thus cut
off from a supply of food, and they re-
gard sticking tomahawk into white
mans skull as but small atonement for
the reckless mischief done to them. The
Post insists that the country ought not
to allow the determination of these
species, If they can by any possibility be
saved. We owe something to the future,
and the effort at least is worth the max
ing even if it fails.
Year: 1871

A SINGULAR TREE-They have in
China what is known as the grease tree.
Large forests grow there, and the
oleaginous product has become nm arti-
Gle of traffic The grease forms an ex-
cellent tallow, burning with a clear,
brilliant and-what is infinitely more to
the purpose-white light and at the
same time emitting not trace Of any
unpleasant odor, or of the ordinary dis
agreeable accompaniment Of combustion
smoke,
Year: 1871

He WOULDN'T TAKE A PAPER-Be-
cause he couldn't spare it ont of his beer
money because he can borrow il from
his more liberal neighbor because he
can see it once week at his BARRIERS
because he knows nothing, and doesn't
want to because he prefers good loaf
on the street corner because he can't
read il himself, nor understand it when
read for him.
Year: 1871

A HrSr.-An Indiana paper feels call
ed upon to rebuke the youths and maid
ems in its town, who block up the side
walk in front Of the drug stores while
they count up their cash in hand TO as
certain il they have sufficient amount
to purchase sas glA0 - ssia for sash
eeuplA
Year: 1871

upon the Louisiana division Of 22e3 miles from New
Orleans to the Sabine River This will probably be
the most valuable portion OF the whole line lit will
be the only rail communication by which the enor
nous productions Of Texas can reach the Southern
metropolis.


50 important is this road considered to Louisiana,
that the State has made very liberal grants in aid OF
the enterprise. by direct donations, by endorsement
ofts bonds and by subscriptions to the stock OF the
Company, amounting in all to over eight million
dollars.
Year: 1871

to an equal amount, both principal and interest
guaranteed by the State of louisiana. The price OF
the two classes is the same and subscribers can take
their choice.


The Bonds are only in denominations of 1000, or
e2o0 each, interest payable January and July, at
the rate OF eight per cent currency in New York. or
seven per cent gold in London at the option OF the
holder, at the time each coupon is due. Bonds can
be registered, II desired.
Year: 1871

oil OF Sweden and Norway In This city, has just beer
made Knight Commander Of the Wasa Order by tho
King Of Sweden.


The Pacific Insurance Company has declared semi.
annual dividend OF per cent, payable on demand
Year: 1871

Under a active demand for the rcinVestnem or
the January interest the Government bond market has
been strong and higher the entire list the upward
turn being assisted by prospective easy money. Fisk
Hatch report as follows at =. M:
Year: 1871

THB OTHER LIFE. By VS. II HoLcoNBB, u D. Emo Pp 7'S


J. b. Lppiocott Co.


The basis of this volume is the conviction
that we can know nothing OF a future life from scientific
studies from theological specuatOns, or from cOnmuDi-
cation with spirits aud that the writings OF swedenborg
afford the only authentic source of light on the subject
Referring to the skepca conclusion that the existence
of spiritual world is mere hypothesis the author ad
nits that skeptcsm instead of being enemy Of re-
Hgion is in reality friend in disguise. 1t exists by
divine permission and is overruled by Divine Providence
for It's own ends In barbarOus countries which are
o prey to superstition and despOtism, there are
no skeptics. A childish imagination dominates
over reason. skepticism is necessary phase in
the evolution OF the mind. But at present
its mission is drawing to close, although skeptics
are unconscious Of the fact. Swedenborg has been
chosen as the instrument TO unvail the mysteries
both of this life and the life TO He works no mira
ces TO compel belief but gives spiritual light to
llunine the understanding The truths which he pro-
claims not 10 be received the authority Of his
name but on their intrinsic character and merit Like
the aoms Of geometry they to be in their
light and in the relations they bear TO each other The
laws Of the spiritual world not believed the au-
fhorty of swedenborg any than geOmetrcal theO
rems on the authority of Euclid. They true in the
mature Of things, and when comprehended by the
reason can never be dislodged fIOm the human mind
The application Of the teachings OF swedenbOrg to the
doctrine Of Immortality is conducted with ability and
skill combined with the fervent enthusiasm OF undOubt
fnR faith In the master To readers who have nOreance
claims OF Swedenborg, as divine messenger the
work is without certain degree Of interest Its
simple and transparent style ia attractive the radiant
GLOW which annates its composition forms an agreeable
n not wholesome atmosphere, and they who cannot
rept il as the word OF revelation may enjoy II as recital
Of enchanting visions.
Year: 1871

Trade in the city yesterday was lively.


But one case was tried before the Recorder
Some of the police are opposed to wearing
borrowed uniforms.


The alley near the Atkin House needs a few
new plank. . g 1 1-Fonf


The balloon attached to the New York circus
did better at Bristol than here. Ad9H
The drays had no rest yesterday from their
labors in hauling grain. H sF' r@st
Year: 1871

Harrison county can boast of the mean
est man in Indiana A farmer in the
north part of that county has his father
living with him, and employed at low
wages. Last week the farmer child died,
and naturally enough, the old man attend
ed the funeral of his grandchild. The
dutiful son, in settling with his father a
iew Gays AFTER the funeral, docked him for
the time heslost in attending. the ehild's
burial
Year: 1871

The Gardener's Monthly says LIQUID ma
nure made from rotten wood is a capital
fertilizer for yiolets- Once, he thought,
as shady places were the natural places
would be good thing in the soil, and so
made the experiment.. -sasa.oe Z
Year: 1871

TIE MasOns have shown lately n
decided increase in their order by the
multiplication Of lodges and the erec-
ton of new and magnificent build
iDgs. AT Memphis Grand Masonic
Temple is soon to be erected to cost
some $500, 600 and designed to be the
finest Eublic building in the South.
IL Is to be constructed ofmarble, which
has been donated by Col. JOHN Will
LIAMs from his Knoxville quarries.
By q census of the order of MasOns,
Just completed it appears that the vast
Increase of which they boast is real.
Over forty thousand new members
have been initiated during the past
year, the entire number now reaching
nearly five hundred thousand. The
reason of this prosperity lies probably,
~ much as in anything else, in tie
social attractions Of Masonry. The
lodge supplies the place of a club to
its members. and the entertainment it
affords Is an acceptable relief to men
wearied with the cares Of business.
To this are added the more substanti-
al benefits of mutual assistance in
distress for which the order is cele-
brated, so that the wonder h rather
that 1t does not increase faster than
it does.
Year: 1871

A lazy man is always good-natured. He never flies into passion. He might crawl into one, if that were possible /; but the idea of his flying into one is prepos- terous. Who ever heard of lazy man breaking into bank where O crowbar had to be used, or drilling into safe Not but that he might covet his neigh bor's goods contained therein, but the horror of handling crowbar and drills would always deter him from actually committing burglary. He never runs away with his neighbours wife, simply on account of the horror he has of running. If he is ever known to run, it is to-run to seed. He rarely lies about his neigh bors, for it would be too much exertion ]; but he lies about a bar room all day. He is of inestimable service to billiard saloon, keeping the chairs warm and watching the game, for few would care to play where there are no spectators. The fact that he does this without pay, day in, day out, shows the unseltishness of his nature. The lazy man never gets up revolutions, instructions, and other popular settlements, and don't make 0 nuisance of himself by training around the country making incendiary speeches to promote public discomfort. In his own neighborhood he is never busybody in other peoples affairs, for the very idea of being Q busybody at anything would drive him out of his head. No lazy man ever ran mad. If he went crazy, it was because he couldn't go anywhere else without walking. Lazy men don't dis turb the quiet of peaceful neighbors by putting up factories, furnaces, and other abominations. s.-ErchdRge. . -t.
Year: 1871

No matter what line you travel, be it the Western Pacific, the California or the river steamer, the public baby is always on board. It can travel on three lines at once. Change your car to rid yourself of the P. B., and you may find its duplicate in the next. Release your self at your journeys end from the intiic- ton get room at the hotel the public at night to the theatre, the public baby is in the next seat.

 The mission of the public baby on coming into the world is to growl The parents of the public baby deem all this bowling a concord of harmonious sound. They would not have single note wasted. This is why they manage that it shall always go off in public. This is why it is taken to the theatre-to rip and tear into the finest orchestral strains, or insert screech into the eliminating moment of the dying scene.

 The public baby seems to have full head of ugliness on all the time. l ex- amined one the other day while coming up here on the cars. When we started from Oakland Point, felt strange sense of Q missing presence. wondered at the cause. All was soon explained At San Antonio, the public baby came on board. I had forgotten that this little baby never missed trip. nor paid cent. Then I felt at home.

 At first, this public baby cried and howled on general principles It hadn't as yet discovered any special cause of grievance. It cried because it hadn't. It's little hands were sticky with some thing, its little face was sticky it rubbed it's little face with it's sticky hands; the stickiness on it's little face was thus amalgated with the stickiness on it's hands, and vice versa. !a s:a 7. '...., .-.'+..

 Then, when it had prepared this mix ture, it wanted to rub it all over us who sat near by. It clutched at lady's hat or bonnet ribbons (what do you call them now?) on the forward seat it did transfer an irregular spot of molasses- colored brown to the bright blue of the broad silk ribbon the lady turned she looked for the moment as if she might be Mir. Herod's wife or sister the pa rents withdrew their sticky offspring ; the offspring cried because it couldn't have that lady to paw. "" "a

 They gave it colored candy. By this the little < wellspring of pleasure worked itself still more into an uneasy lump of saccharine and mucilaginous nastiness the place where the candy went inside of itsoon filled up; 1t cried because it couldn't hold any more; it wanted to go to its father it went it then cried to go back to it's mother :; it went it then howled to go back to its father. He went into the smoking car. That mother held the public baby high up it cried. She held it topside down then it did cry trife less !; the rush of blood had stopped it a little. Unfortun- ately, the mother soon discovered this. The child was saved-saved to howl for years.-Froms he Sam FTaaacisco Reporter
Year: 1871

Nature seems to have taken into con- sideration their warlike disposition, for she has certainly endowed them with the power of renewing their arms and legs. It is also asserted that they are almost, if not quite, insensible to pain, for celebrated naturalist states that he once saw crab eating another which 1t had just killed, while 8 larger one was picking off and eating bits of hiS body.

 Thus crab number three was eating crab number two, who went on feeding as if he did not mind his big brother treating him as he had crab number one. There is another fact equally remarkable, and that is, that some crabs-the spider, for instaDce-throw away their limbs with apparently as much ease as an old soldier could his wooden leg. When pursued they are probably aware that their enemy wants something to eat, and therefore fling him a leg to appease his appetite and to save the loss of more. once had spider crab sent to me, and I was very much vexed to find that he had lost leg, and blamed the person who had put him into g basket, for having, as l thought, done. it carelessly., I put him by himself in glass ot fresh seawater, and next morning, on looking at him. you may guess my surprise at finding that he had but one leg left to his body, the others being strewed about the bot tom of the glass. I presume that he felt SO annoyed at being captured and imprisoned that he threw away his legs in fit of despair, or perhaps it was an act of spite against me for being the cause of his capture. At all events, he paid the just penalty of his folly, for after trying to hobble about on one leg for day or two he died. Before we return, must tell you that the shell of the crab does not grow much larger, although his body increases in size, When he begins to find his jacket too tight to be comfortable, he has a natural desire to take it off This is not an easy task to perform because he has so many claws and legs, the covering of which is so attached to the jacket. He therefore crawls beneath heavy stone, which holds his shell tight, and then wriggles himself out of his shell clothing. As soon as he has undressed himself he becomes much bigger than he was before, and could not possibly re-enter his shell. His body is then as soft as your hand ; and, therefore, well knowing that if he met any hard-coated crab, he would cer- tainly be killed and eaten, he hides him. self until his skin hardens and forms a new suit of armor to protect him from his foes.--Ldule F0lks.7 a994
Year: 1871

GRADES. Railroad engineers will be interested in knowing that recent re- ports from Switzerland seem to indicate that such steep grades as that of the Mount Rigi Railroad, even with the ex- ercise of the greatest precautions, are not entirely safe. An ascending pas senger train on this well-known road was recently stopped by the inability of the locomotive to carry it any further.

 All the brakes were applied as tight as possible, but absolutely without effect i; the train began to slip down gradually and was soon beyond the control of the engineer and brakeslnen, when the timely arrival of another train with fresh en- zine fortunately averted a shocking ac- cident. The slipping train had acquired but little velocity, otherwise it would have been impossible to hold it, even by means of the other locomotive.
Year: 1871

SwINDLED.-I is not strange that for eign travellers who land in New York complain of the miserable hack system of American cities. A California United States Senator arrived at hotel in New York. In the evening he concluded to go and see Forrest as "Coriolanus. In front of the hotel he found hackman, and told him to drive him to Niblo's Garden. Said hackman drove him round nineteen blocks and landed him safely at the theatre, waited until the theatre was out, and drove around seventeen blocks back to the hotel. His fare was fifteen dollars. It was not until the next day. that the successful politician ascer- tained that both the hotel and theatre were under the same roof, and that the entrance to each were less than twenty feet apart
Year: 1871

It is said that an ancient law -giver once put stop to a suicidal mania among the young women of his country by ordering the bodies of all who took their own lives to be exposed naked to the public view. The dread of that which was to come after death, the ignominy of exposure and the insults of the rabble, was relled upon to stay the fatal hand, and is recorded to have justified the faith reposed in it. To mark its apprehension of suicides, the Athenian law cut off the hand which dealt the blow and for centuries the old common law of England ordained the burial of the self murderer in the high way with stake through the body. As public opinion would not tolerate any of these usages now, unless, perhaps, the exposure, half-naked, at the Morgue of the men and women who drown them selves be an exception and these usages are pretty much all that mankind has devised to deter from suicide, it becomes a question whether some ignominous punishment might not be awarded such wretches as are arrested in the act of suicide before their purpose can be crrried into execution. In England, if such person is found under the influence of liquor, he is put away in jail for month or so to get sober if lunatic, he is sent to the asylum and in case he is sober and we'll to dc, a heavy fine is added to the imprisonment. It would be we'll if this were the course of law in the United States. Every now and then we read of some would-be suicide pulled out of the water, or cut down from @ tree limb or rafter, or otherwise prevented from self-murder, and yet no pain or penalty is inflicted. But a few days since q man was soverpowered by the police just as he was about to blow his brains out, and that was the end of it, instead of some ignominious punishment having been awarded.
Year: 1871

CUR1oUs.-It is certainly curious chemical fact that the substance required to form common table salt are both of them poisonous-chlorine and sodium. No one can use either of these articles separately with safety, and yet combine them, and they form substance neces- sary to health, and one found upon every table.