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Year: 1871

I would say TO tho young wife, do not
Imagine that because you have obtained a
husband, that your attention to personal
neathess and department. may be relaxed.
Row in reality 10 the time for you to OK.
hlbit superior taste md excellence in the
cultivation of your address, and tho be-
coming elegance of your appearance. II it
required some little caro- to foster tho I'D.
miratioh Of q lover, how much more IL
requisite 10 keep yourself lovely in the
eyes Of him to whom there Is no privacy
or disguise-your hourly companion And
II 1t was due to your lover that you should
always present to him, who proposed to
wed and cherish you, neat and lady like
aspect, how much moIo Ia he ontiSled to
a similar mark Of respect, who has kept
his promise with honorable fidelity, and
linked all his hopes of future happiness
with youra2 II you can manage these
matters without appearing to study them,
so much the better. Some husbands are
impatient at the routine of the toilette,
and not unreasonably so--thcy possess
active and energetic spirits, sorely dis
turbcd by any waste of time Some wives
have discovered an admirable facility ia
dealing with this difficulty; and it is {.
secret which, having been discovered by
some, may be known to oil, and is we'll
worth the finding out,
Year: 1871

| To CHOOSE PoRK.--This meat Is 80 pro
verbally, and even dangerously unwhole.
somewhen Ill fed, or in any degree dis
case that itsquality should bo closely
examined before 1t is purchased. When
not home-fattoned, it should be bought, u
possible, Of somo respectable farmer, un
lees the butcher who supplies 1t can DO
perfectly relied on. Both the fat and lean
should be very white, aud the latter finely
grained the rind should BIO thin, smooth,
and cool to the touch If It be. cla nmy,
the pork Ia stale aud should be at once re.
jected 1t ought also to be scrupulously
avoided when the fAt, instead Of being
quite clear Of all blomish, Is full of small
kernels, which are Indicative Of disease.
The manner of cutting up the pork varies
In different countries and also according
to the purposes for which 1t Is intended.
The legs are either made into hams, or
slightly salted for few days, and boiled
they are also sometimes roasted when tho
po k is not large nor coarse, with savory
forcemeOt inserted between the skin and
f1esh of the knuckle. The part Of the
shoulder called the hand is also piCl1led in
the same way as hams and bacon, or it may
be salted and boiled, but it is too sinewy
for roasting, After these and the head
have been taken of, the remainder, with
ont further division than being split down
the back, may be converted into whole
sides, or htchers, Of bacon but when the
meat is large and srequired in part for
various other purposes, q chine may bc
taken out and the fat pared off the bones
Of the ribs and'loins for bacon; the thin
part Of the body converted into picked
pork, aud tho ribs and other bones toasted,
or made into pics and sausages, The feet
are generally sOltod down for immediate
use. The lons Of the young and delicate
pork are roasted with the skin on and
this is scored in regular stripes Of about
quarter Of an inch wide with thepoint Of
a sharp knife, before the joints are laid to
the fire. The skin Of the leg also is cut
through in the same manner. Thisis done
to prevent its blistcring, and to render it
more easy to carve, as the skin (or crack.
ling) becomes so eFisp and hard In the cook
ing, that 1t is otherwise sometimes diff
cult to divide 1t, To be at any time fit for
table, pork must be perfectly sweet, and
thoroughly cooked; great attention also
should be given to It when 1t Is in pickle,
for If any part of it be long exposed TO the
air, without being turned into, or well and
frequently basted with the brine, it will
often become tainted during the process of
curing it.
Year: 1871

One of the ever recurring questions
met with in looking over our correspond
ence is "Whnt articles Of food may
properly be called vegetables, and what
fruits" There ia no trouble in defining
what fruit Is according to the botanist's
view--lt is riponed pistil with whatever
may be permanently attached 1t, whether
pulpy and edible or not Strictly speak
ing, poppy.head Is as much n fruit as is a
pear. But when we come to popular usage
it is not so easy to decide which among
the fruits shall be called vegetables. We
once suggested that those eaten without
preparation should be called fruits, and
those that ore used cooked or dressed
should be called vegetables. This very
nearly coyers the ground, but not COM
pletely In this case the tomato cooked
or as salad would be n vegetable, but if
eaten. as some prefefSit, raw and plain, it
then sa fruit


What then would become Of tho melon
family, are they fruitsH
Year: 1871

The prcss dispatches from Europe to
New York for four weeks recently mum.
bered about 100000 words. Here is a man
sitting In darkened room at Hearts Con.
tent. The ocean cable terminates here
A fine wire attached thereto Is made to
surround two small cores Of soft iron. AS
the electric wave, produced by few pieces
of copper and zinc at Valentia passes
through the wire these cores become mag
netic enough to move the slightest object
A looking.glass, half an inch in diameter,
Is fixed on q bar of iron one.tonth of an
inch square, and half an inch long. On
this tiny glass lamp is made to glaro 80
that it's light Is reflected on a tablet on the
wall, The language Of the cable is dc
noted by the shifting Of this reflected light
from side to side, Lcttor by lottor is thus
expressed in this manner In uttor silence
on the wall. There Is no record made by
the machine except as the patient watcher
calls out TO comrade the translated flashes
as they come, ard which he records. II
seems miracle Of patience There is
something Of awe crecps over us as we SEQ
the evidence Of human touch 5000 miles
away, swaying that limo of light by such
delicate process as this
Year: 1871

Many people take no care Of their money
TIL they have como nearly to the end of it,
and others do just the same with their
timo. Their best days they throw away.
lot them run like sand through their fin.
gers, os long as they think thcy still havo
an almost countless number Of thcm TO
spend but when they find their days flow
ing rapidly away 30 that at last they havo
very few left, then they will at once mako
very wiee use Of Them but. unluckily,
they have by that timo no notion how TO
do II.
Year: 1871

A GLUE WHICH WILL UNITE POLISHED
STEEL,-The following is receipt for a
cement used TO fasten diamonds and other
precious stones to metallic surfaces, and
which is said to be capable of strongly


uniting surfaces of polished steel. Dis
solve five or six bits Of gum mOstic, each
the size of a largo pea, in as much spirit Of
wine as will suffice to render it liquid. In
another vessel dissolve In brandy as much
islnglass, previously softened in water, as
will mako two-ounco phial Of strong


glue, adding two small bits of gum am.
monioc, which must bc rubbed until dis.


olved Then mix the whole with heat,
Keep in phial closely stopped. When 1t
is to be used set the phial in boiling water.
Year: 1871

The grand Democratic thun.
der from New Hampshire will
reverberate and re-echo from
all the valleys in every State
of our once glorious Union, un.
til the political atmosphere Of
the whole country is purified
by the dissolution Of mephitic
Radicalism, and the sun Of the
Constitution again irradiates
and WHITES "the best govern.
ment on earth," which it is
when free from Radical NAL
administration and corruption.
Year: 1871

Even ForneY with the Press
abandons Grants administers
ton on the removal of Sumner
from the Craftsmanship of the
Committee on Foreign RcIa-
tions. Forney is doubtless look
ing out for pastures new, but
he is one of a few migrate rem
egades who will be plainly
made to understand that they
have forever forfeited position
with the Democracy.
Year: 1871

Now is the time to fix up
your premises-poy your debts
forgive your enemies-be at
peace with all men and women
kind-subscribe for the En-.
quirer and thus be prepared to
spend the summer comfortably.
Year: 1871

ERIE, Pa, May l2.-Mace and Co
burn met at 10 A. NJ, at the Reed
House. Mace proposed Kansas City
as the fighting ground Coburn OBJ
iected to this, and offered one thousand
to five hundred dollars to Mace to meet
him and fight in room fifteen miles
from here. Mace would not agree to
this. The referee finally decided that
the men should meet at Kansas City on
June I'd and proceed with the fight.
The stakeholder declared all bets off.
Mace and Coburn start for New York
to-day.


ERIE, Pa, May l2.-All the arrange
ments between Mace and Coburn have
been satisfactorily concluded and the
parties have left for New York. The
fight is to take place at Kansas City,
June I'd, unless other arrangements be
made previous to that date 1t is high
ly probable that the men will never
meet in the ring. The grudge origin
ally felt by both men has ripened into
bitter and intense hatred, and if they
ever do meet it will only be but to pun.
mel each other into hash. Coburn
stock has gone down many degrees.
Plenty Of evidence has come to light
that the game was to delay the fight
and give all the warning necessary to
the authorities, and many consider it a
partiality on the part Of the referee that
the fight was not given to Mace. Both
men met at the Reed House this morn
ing and agreed upon the above result.
The bitterness existing towards each
other was intense.
Year: 1871

An editor in New Jersey had a
little nephew only six months old,
and the little nephew died. Some
of the editors friends considered
that it would be good thing to give
the afflicted uncle substantial ex-
preston of their sympathy ; so they
contracted with q local sculptor for
gravestone. The design consisted
of an angel carrying the little one in
her arms and flying away, while
woman sat weeping ON the ground.
ltwas executed horribly. The tomb
stone was sent to the editor with the
simple request that he would ac-
cept it. AS he was absent, the jul
nior editor determined to acknowl-
edge it, although he hadn't the
slightest idea what it meant. So
the next day he burst out in the pa
per with the following remarks:


CART NEws.-We have received
from the hands of our eminent >sculp-
tor, Felix Mellins, comic bas-re-
lief designed for an ornamental fire
board. 1t represents an Irishman
in his night-shirt running away with
the little god Cupid, while the Irish
mans sweetheart hides her head in
differently in the corner. Every
true work of art tells it's own story,
and we understand as soon as we
glance at this, that our Irish friend
has been coquetted with by the fair
one, and is pretending to transfer
his love to other quarters. There is
a lurking smile on the Irishman's lips
which expresses his mischievous in
tentions perfectly. We think it
would have been better, however, to
have clothed him in something else
than a night-shirt, and to have
smoothed down his hair. We have
placed the chef.F@urre beneath our
parlor mantle-piece, where it will
surely be admired by our. friends
when they call. We are glad to en-
courage such progress in local art"


This was painful. A committee
called on the editor when he re-
returned,and explained the tomb
stone to him; and that night an as
sistant editor was seen coming down
the stairs six steps at time, and
flying up the street without coat OF
hat.
Year: 1871

Spurg"on >cntentiouSly expresses a
number Of thoughts worth remem-
herring in the following appropriate
sentences, which he publishes as "ai-
vice gratis ::


Nobody is more like an honest man
than thorough rogue.


When YOU see man with great
deal If religion displayed in his shop
window, you may depend upon it he
keeps a very small stock of it within.


DO not choose your friend by his
looks; handsome shoes often pinch
the feet.


DO not be fond Of compliments re-
member "Thank you, pussy, and
thank you. pussy kill the cat. .


Don't believe the man who talks
the most for mewing cats are very
seldom good mousers.


BY no means put yourself in an
other persons power. If YOU put
Your thumb between two grinders
they are very apt to bite.


Drink nothing without seeing it.
sign nothing without reading it, and
make sure that it means nothing more
than it SAYS.


Don't 90 to law unless YOU have
nothing to lose lawyers houses are
built of fools heads.
Put no dependence on the label OF
q bag, and count money after your
own kind.


In any business never wade into
water where you cannot see bottom


See the sack open before YOU buy
what is in it. for he who trades in
the dark asks TO be chestsd.


Keep clear of a man who does not
value his own character.
Year: 1871

There are people Of every civilized
country under the sun who have mis-
taken ideas about the business of
printing and the manufacture Of news
papers. They believe that newspa-
per can exist, thrive and flourish on
itself, without any external aid, on
the principle on which the bear man
ages to tide over the cold weather,
Understanding sustenance or board.
Many of the people Of Canada labor
under this strange idea, hence it
comes that some of our brethren Of
the provincial press are driven half
yearly to dun and clamor for what is
due them and to browbeat readers
who believe that they can read their
paper without money and without
price. Our brother of the Allison
Star, of the Goth ult., makes an appeal
ad m,Ssricordtam, which is q fair sam
pie of what printers are driven to by
the wanton neglect and carelessnesS
of those whom they faithfully serve.
He says: 1--WE want money and must
have it. From the date Of our com
mencement to the present, We have
not urged upon our subscribers or ad-
vcrtis RS the necessity of paving up.
There is an end to all things, and We
find that the time has arrived when
We cannot refrain from asking for
what should have been paid long
since. Printers, like other people,
require money. We have larg"
weekly outlay in the way of wages,
paper, ink, &c. We therefore trust
this hint may be sufficient" Every
straightforward man will admit that
there is something desperately wi3ked
in the system which compel- decent
man to turn bumbaliii and throw out
such vivid hints and insinuations as
the above. Every st. ,ight forward man
will admit, also, that the parties WHO
are the cause Of such transforma-
tion are guilty Of uncEarltahleness,
but downright dishonesty, and should
be plarard-d as swlndlerS of the poor
and needy. The printer ought to be
the last man in the world subjected
to gouging His profits are small
for wears often invisible he has then
to toll early and late, to slave often
when men are at rest to steer his bark
through a multitude Of abuse which,
if iustlce were done, should fall on
other shoulders, and-bcsides doing
all ths-he must never lose sight of
the interest. of his readers, nor cease
to push them forward with might and
main. 7oronto Telegraph.
Year: 1871

Socrates alone retained his calm
ness. What is this strange outcry ?
he said. ! sent away the women
mainly in order that they might not
offend in this way, for have heard
that u man should die in peace. Be
quiet then, and have PATIENCE
When we heard that, we were ashamed,
and refrained our tears; and he
walked about until, as he said, his
legs began to fail, and then he lay on
his back, according to the directions,
and the man who gave him the poi
son now and then looked at his feet
and legs and after a while he pres
sed his foot hard, and asked him if he
could feel, and he said, No and then
his leg, and so upwards and upwards,
and showed us that he was cold and
stiff. And he felt them himself, and
said, when the poison reaches the
heart that will be the end. He was
beginning to grow cold about the
groin, when he uncovered his face,
for he had covered himself up, and
said (they wore his last words) he
said, Critic, | owe cock to Asclepius,
will you remember to pay the debt :?
The debt shall be paid, said Critic !;
is there anything else ? There was no
answer to this question; but in min
Year: 1871

J


mean you to stay


That's so, who ever knew girl
nova a-days to say what she meant
Keep company with them whole
year upon a stretch, then ask them to
have you and see how'll they act
Ten chances to one if they don't open
their blue eyes in astonishment at
what they term your presumption,
and ask you what in the world you
mean" Why they never thought of
such thing as marrying not they,
why what ever put such a prepos-
ferrous idea into your head y what
had they ever done to allow you for
moment to suppose they cared a
whit more for you than they did for
Mr.. Smith over the way or Mr.. Jones
around the corner, and yet mark my
word if YOU are green enough to still
persist in your suit, it will not be
long before they will tell you with
seeming reluctance, that they will
tNlUh aDOuI VIC ludllcl, "hSh IA ~ "&Ai
they had thought Of nothing else for
at least six months and wondered
when you would offer yourself, call.
ing you in their hearts "a slow catch.
After they had kept you on tender
hooks until you have become tired,
and you have about made up your
mind to let them 60 and devote your
self to other fair one, and conclude
YOU will ask them just once more,
they will simper out "yts" with as
innocent an air as possible.


Now in Bible days it was nj so, not
a bit of it, Then, a woman $ conduct
was All index of her heart, when for
instance the Father of Rebecca asked
her if she would 60 with the servant
of Isaac She replied at once, II will
90" Had she been Il daughter Of
the nineteenth century, she would Of
said "Oh pshaw 60 with him,
"whatll 60 with him for? Why
no, Isaac must be sick Go with
him why Of course ! won't = And
then, she would have gone with hlm,
Oh these girls
Year: 1871

BEA MAS-Foolish spending is
the father of poverty. DO not be
ashamed Of work, nor of hard work


Work for the best salary or wages
You can get, but work for half price
rather than be idle. Be your own
and do no let society or fash
ion swallow up your individuality
hat, coat and boots. Do not eat up
or wear out all that you earn. Com
pei your selfish body to spare some
thing for profits saved. BE stingy to
your own appetite, but merciful to
others necessities. Help others, and
ask no help for yourself See that
YOU are proud. Let your pride be
of the right kind. BE too proud to
be lazy too proud to give up with
out conquering every difficulty, too
proud to wear coat that YOU cannot
afford to buy, too proud to be in com
pany that YOU cannot keep up in ex-
pcnses too proud to lie, or steal, or
cheat; too proud to be Stingy.
Year: 1871

The Voice OF an oppressed People.


ST. LOUIS, Sept. % Some settlers in
Southern Kansas, at Q meeting held at
Baxter Springs, a few days ago, passed a
series of resolutions embodying something
new under the sun. They want a new
constitution for their State, and to pre-
vent land monopoly, they favor the pas
sage of an act to forbid the sale of land
to persons already owners of sufficiency,
and to limit the amount that persons not
owners may acquire by purchase or de-
scent to 160 acres. As a national meas
ure, they demand the revocation of all
grants of land to railroads, except 80
much as may be necessary to the working
of the roads, and the passage of an act of
Congress that will secure to actual land
less settlers upon public lands one quar-
ter section each free of cost, with a
vested right from the date of settlement.


They demand repeal of the national
banking law, and believing that money
should be coined out of the cheapest ma
terial, they demand that the government
shall make it of paper, issue it directly to
the people, and make it legal tender for
all debts, public and private, to the end
that there shall be but one kind of money
for rich and poor alike. They favor the
immediate payment of the national debt,
according to the terms of contract, strict
revenue tariff, opposed to the so-called
protection theory, and denounce the pre-
tence of enforcing the fourteenth amend
ment to clothe the President with the
power of setting aside the sacred right of
self government, and using the armed
heel of his troops to secure his re- -elec-
fiOn
Year: 1871

If we may believe the New York
World, piece of vandalism is in pre-
paration in Boston which is not very far
behind the lconoclastic folly of those who
pulled down the Vendome column in
Paris. The World says that certain
Boston speculstors propose to level and
grade the historic mound known as Bun.
ker Hill, in that city, for the purpose of
of cutting it up ints building lots.


Wheiher this enterprise has received
the sanction of the municipal authorities
or the public is not stated, nor are any
details given with regard to the manner
or matter of the work, or the names and
character of those said to be engaged or
interested in the project; so that the an
noucement may be premature, or the
facts even evolved from the depths of
the New York journalists imagination.


1t is certainly to be hoped that the
scheme-if scheme there be-will prove
abortive, for the whole country has a
common heritage of patriotic pride in
Bunker Hill, and its destruction, espe-
cially for mere mercenary purposes, would
be considered national outrage, nav, al
most q national crime.
Year: 1871

The fact may not be very generally
known that very large share of all the
ivory of commerce has been for years
obtained from the Arctic regions and is
the product of elephants that lived, it
may be, hundred thousand years ago.
The whole country lying along the Siber-
ian rivers is vast deposit of the remains
of ancient animals, principally elephants,
who were entombed by some terrible and
wide spread conVulsion. They are found
in the aluvisl soil and in the ice along
the Arctic ocean, sometimes with the
flesh preserved to 80 perfect degree that
dogs devour it. Our Alaska possessions
have the same rich stores of ivory on all
their larger streams SO far as explored. The
marshy ground along them is underlaid
with bones and tusks, and the latter are
sometimes sticking out of the mud like
stumps of saplings. a prominent gen.
tlemsn connected with the Alaska Fur
company affirms there is ivory enough on
/, the Yukon river to supply the commerce
of the world for q hundred years.
Whether this ivory region extends across
the North American continent or is con-
fined to the country between the Pacific
and the mountain range, is not yet deter
mined
Year: 1871

Won MoLTKE is reported SIS having said
that he had never read any account OF
the late civil war in America, because ne
did not like to have his mird confused
with what was really but the doings OF
a mob.
Year: 1871

New YORK, February 14.-The


World has a dispatch frOm Philadel-
phia giving additional particulars
from Captain DrummOnd OF his sight
ing the Tennessee. The Captain says :
81 first saw this vessel about eleven
o'clock on the night Of Januray 18th.
The vessel left New York harbOr late
in the afternoon Of the 18th by land
time. 1t was on the 18th by nautical
time and the 18th by land time that l
first saw her masthead lights. l do
not know that she was a bark-rigged
vessel. Her miZzen tops might have
been furled and l not discern it. The
vessel was acting very strangely, and
it was all we could do TO
keep out Of her way. She was
steering directly south. She crossed
our bows, within five hundred feet of
US. This Wss about one hundred
miles from Cape Hatteras. A perfect
gale was blowing. The Anderson
shipped a great deal of water during
the night, and labOred very heavily.
I felt confident il was the Tennessee
we saw. fshe got through the storm
all right, she would certainly have
put in at Jamaica in four days, and
reported from that place." Both Cap
tain DrummOnd and first mate are
positive it was the Tennessee that
they saw, as she would have been
Just at that place on the 18th of jan
uary, land time. Captain Drum
mOnd would have reported it before,
but did not know that the Tennessee
had not been heard from.