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Year: 1875

The New York Tribune editorial rooms
are on the ninth floor, and when a man
comes round to see the author of an arti-
Gle he is told that the elevator is broken.
By the time he reaches the sanctum he
can be floored with pen holder.
Year: 1875

encourage them to use economy ard
frugality. Let US be more frugal in
the future than we have ever been
in the past, and hopefully look for
ward to the good time. coming. Let
us clear our fields and farms of all
rubbish and let US newly repair our
fences. Let us, as soon as possible.
have pastures, and plant largely of
the cereals, and raise our own stock
OF horses, mules, cattle, sheep and
hogs, aud save our own meat. Let
US, as fast as possible, pay up all old
debts, and frm Y resolve not to make
any new ones. Let us be Just to our
creditors, and compromise with them
and each year pay part of what we
owe each one of them; bv this course
we will avoid all litigation and be
happier at the end of each year, as
the time approaches when we can
say, 1--WE owe no man ANYTHING"
Let us repair our houses and gardens
ana encourage our wives and our
daughters to plant flowers and shrub
berry and everything that has a ten
dency to beautify our homes and make
ourselves and our children love our
homes and be contented and happy.


Allow ME again to thank YOU for
the honor you have conferred on me.
Year: 1875

A very common mistake is made
and much fuel wasted in the manner
of replenishing coal fires, both in fur
naces and CRATES. They should be fed
with little coal at time, and often !;
but servants, to save time and trouble,
put on a great deal at once, the first re-
suit being that almost all the heat is
absorbed by the newly put-on coal
which does not give out heat until it
has itself become red hot. Hence, for
a while, the room is cold; but when it
becomes fairly aglow, the heat is insult
ferable.


The time to replenish coal fire is as
soon as the Goals begin to show ashes
on their surface; then put on merely
enough to show layer of black coal
covering the red. This will soon kim
die, and a. there is not much of it, an
excess of heat will not be given out.


Many almost put out the fire by stir.
ring the CRATE rs soon as fresh coal is
put on, thus leaving all the heat in the
ashes, when it should be sent to the
new supply of coal. The time to stir
the fire Is just when the new coal laid
on Is pretty we'll kindled. This method
of managing coal fire is troublesome,
but it saves fuel, gives more uniform
heat, and prevents the discomfort al
formations of heat and cold above re-
ferred to- Halls Journal of Health.
Year: 1875

Our Bridgeport correspondent writes about
Butler in the following words:


We ask permission to throw up our hat and
cheer one round for our favorite in Congress,
BENZ. F. Butler, who in our judgment
stands without peer in the American Congress
to-day. With as much honesty as the best of
his fellows, he has more brains than any of
them. In our judgment Genl. Butler could
rent out score of intellectual farms and have
several plantations left-Hurrah for Ben But
Ter! The following tribute is from the able
and facile pen of one of the best informed
men in the country and one who has hitherto
dealt Butler the bitterest invective. But the
towering strength and overwhelming pressure
of Bens matchless power has forced from his
former foe the following tribute. If any one
don't endorse it, why there is another way
from the dilemma But we shout for the true
man Ben. I'd rather vote for him than any
man in America:


'With all his unpopularity, Genl. Butler is
fortunate man. We cannot anticipate the
verdict of history by piling it upon our antag-

onists in advance, as if our prejudices were
the spirit of that verdict Butler is fortunate
in his opportunity. At the Baltimore conven-
ton of 1860, he rebuked the rampant spirit
which advocated the re-opening of the slave
trade


''1 will not sit in body where man even
advocates piracy he cried boldly. At the
outbreak of the war, whether by trick or
sagacity, he opened the Annapolis route to the
capitol and made the plug -uglies of Baltimore
keep the peace.


"At Fortress Monroe he indicated the great
strategic position of the war, the Peninsula
Route, the open James River and the naval
rendezvous. By hanging one man at New
Orleans he anticipated hundred riots. By
Year: 1875

CHAPPED hands and skin cracks are
unnecessary even in the coolest wealth
er if proper care is observed. Most of
the so-called toilet soaps are cuastic, or
full of lye, and act very injuriously
upon the skin. Genuine CASTLE soap
is almost wholly neutral, and is the
best for washing with. By rinsing
the hands entirely free from every
trace of soap, and wiping them thor
oughly before going out chaps may be
avoided; and any that do appear can
be cured by rubbing the affected parts
with cold cream, or, what is the same
thing, common lard, before retiring.
Year: 1875

holding in its grasp cluster of moss roses
outside two long grey ostrich feathers (natu-
ral), commencing low behind, pass upward on
either side and cross their curled ends in front
like two duelists with their rapiers and peep
ing out from the bow which holds the plumes
behind sly, saucy pigeons head.


THE ZANZIBAR.


Take a black felt hat, with fur beaver brim :;
trim it with brocaded scarf of three mingled
coors, gold, scarlet and blue, passing it under
the brim and over the crown; let short ostrich
tips OF theses colors project from the crown on
the left side while a bird flies down the right,
aud you have the Zanzibar or take a black
velvet toquc, cover the crown with a brocaded
silk kerchief of mixed scarlet and black add
TO this red and black wings, tips and a gold
clasp. and you have the Zanzibar again.
Year: 1875

This disease is more prevalent dur
ing the spring and fall than at other
seasons. The reason is that changes
of temperature are then more sudden
and more frequent. There are per-
sons who have lived many yearsiR
fever and ague districts without
ing had the disease. With propo[
care and attention, all might avoid it.
An observance of these simple rules
would generally ward off the disease:


Avoid exposure to the damp air Of
the early morning and the early even
ing, except when exercising, and then
do not remain in the open air to cool
off. Avoid great fatigue; sleep eight
hours out Of twenty-four. Be sure
that the water used for drinking and
cooking is perfectly pure. Wear fam
mel under-clothing at all seasons
Keep the feet dry and warm.


To cure fever and ague take twelve
grains of quinine at one dose, about
an hour before the chill is expected.
Just one week from that hour take
another twelve grains of quinine. The
disease will seldom return. This is
the dose for an adult. Children
should take smaller doses, according
to age. The reason that decided
doses of quinine cure fever and ague
seems to be, that the disease receives
shock which breaks it. Small doses
of quinine only hold it in check dur
ing the time the medicine is being
taken; as soon as it is suspended the
disease usually returns. Hence the
popular notion that the quinine only
ssfeeds" the disease. The fault is not
with the medicine, but in the manner
of administering it. While we do not
believe in encouraging the employ
ment of medicine, we are bound to say
that quinine, periodically administer
ed, has proved the only ssdead-shot"
for fever and ague in our practice
DR.. Hall.
Year: 1875

As our lady readers would likely wish to
know what their vain sisters in the iAshiona-
bic world are after in the way of bomne;s, We
clip for their information the folio wing from an
Year: 1875

WA pale man with long hair got into
the car. 1t was cold day, and the seat
near the stove was occupied by man and
an notwithstanding boy. Thepale man
backed up to the stove and remarked:
Man run over, just now" The inquisi-
tive looking boy sprang to his feet and
rushed out OF the car like maniac. The
pale man settled down in the vacated seat
and explained: "He run over the track
ahead Of the engine. He wasn't struck
Year: 1875

At last she completely cured him.
For months she had patiently endured
the pangs so many thousands of young
wives are compelled to suffer. Almost
every morning at breakfast the-heart-
less huubar1d exprEsseu The hope that
he might live to see the day when he
should get such coffee as he used to
have at home. Or such corn bread
as his mother was wont to make and
bake. At dinner the meat was over
baked in the range. To be sure his
mother used to roast the meat in an
old-fashioned Dutch tin oven, and the
piece was always done to turn-the
last turn of the revolving spit. Those
days were forever gone. But he might
and ought to get such a green apple
pie with new cheese as his mother used
to give him. At length the long suf-
fering wife arose in her wrath, upset
the table, sending the dishes and their
contents clashing to the carpet, strid-
ed over to the astonished husband,
gave him a box on the ear which
knocked him off his chair, and remark
ed: "There's clip over the head of
you, such as your mother used to give
you when you was boy, goldern yer"
Thereafter there was domestic peace
and quiet in that house, with never
even an allusion to the maternal cook.
cry and comforts of the by-gone days.
Year: 1875

dark brown velvet bonnet, round whose
crown clings scarf of creamy silk and ecru
lace. Perched on the crown, merle Jronzi,
fiutters his gorgeous wings; the brim glistens
near the edge with gilt braid, inside quilting
of ecru lace, and touffe of scarlet and soft tea
roses rests just above the wearer's brow.


A navy blue bonnet with a sweeping bow
of velvet and twilled silk just inside the brim,
Year: 1875

New Orleans, Feb. Elm the con-
servative caucus last night, the debate
on compromise was kept up until
after midnight. The proposition under
consideration was that the cOnserva-
tives should have majority Of about
ten in the House and that the past
action of the Kellogg government
should not be inquired into. The vote
stood 50 in favor of this compromise
to p against. After this vote, Speaker
Wilt, it is stated, rendered his resig-
nation, and Gov. McEnery, who was
present, by courtesy, said that by this
action of the caucus it was evident to
him it was time to lower the Demo
cratic banner, and he therefore wished
to retire.


New Orleans, February THE
proposed compromise is the gem
eral topic of conversation to-day
among the politicians and bust
ness men. The indications are
that the vote tomorrow in the
conservative caucus will be very
close, the members, apparently being
equal for and against compromise.
1t is understood that not a member of
the present legislature will yield,
consequently the proposed adjustment
is generally regarded imPracticabIe.
Year: 1875

On Sunday as one of the strietest
deacons was getting ready to shake the
lines over his horses backs and
say ge hup," his wife happened to
remember that his calf hsdn't been
fed. The deacon looked at his Sun
day clothes and observed that he did
not deem it incumbent upon him to
suffer for the negligence of others; to
which the deaconess replied that such
language 10 the presence and hearing
of the children, ON Sunday morning,
and from a pillar of the church, was
enough to shake ones belief IN the
profession that had been made by one
She could name. The deacon handed
the lines to his Oldest boy. and climbed
over the wheel without saying a word.
He went around to the front door, aud
took the key from under the mat, and
as he was trying to put the key in the
hole it slipped from his hand and slid
down into the snow. Finally he got
into the kitchen, and started with the
milk for the barnyard. He set the
pail down on the ground and called for
the calf, but the beast whisked its tail
in the air and beloved at him. Then
he captured the animal and pulled It
along by the ears and iammed its head
into the pail; but the calf gave spring.
sending the milk in a cloud of spray
over the deacon shirt front. Intrying
to recapture the beast, the 'eacon
dropped his hymn book out Of his pock-
et. and before he could rescue it
the calf stepped both feet on it and


fore the cover of. The deacon got
mad. He took hoop-polc and bella
bored the calf. One end of the pole
struck the shed, aud, bounding up,
Knocked the deaeon's plug hat off. 1t
rolled directly under the calf, who SET
his foot through the tile, and went tear
ing around the yard with his tail in the
air and the hat fastened just above
the knuckle joint. The deacon went
into the house, and as he unbuttoDed
his shirt collar. he called out, Mara.
you 90 on to church, and if anybody
asks after me-. tell them ! stayed at
home to feed the cal"
Year: 1875

DOM write there, said father 10
son, who was writing with q diamond
on his window.


why nOtY


Because you can't rub il out"


Did it ever occur TO you, my child,
that you are daily writing what you
can't rub out?


You made cruel speech TO your
. mother the other day. 1t wrote itself
on her loving heart and gave her great
pain. 1t is there now, and hurts her
every time she thinks Of it. You can't
rubt it out.


You whispered a wicked thought one
day in the ear of your playmate. IL
wrote itself on his mind aud led him
to do a wicked act 1t is there now !;
you can't rub il out ...


All your thoughts, all your words
all your acts are written in the book of
God. The record is very sad one.
You can't rub it out.


Mind mel what you write on the
minds Of others will stay there. 1t
cant be rubbed out anyhow. But glo-
rious news What is written in Gods
book can be blotted out You can't
rub it out, but the precious blood of
Jesus can blot it out if you are sorry,
aud ask him.
Year: 1875

There is no other one way by which
friendship may be so quickly broken
or so thoroughly and completely crush.
ed out of existence, as BY coldness OF
manner: hard words are no eompeti.
tors at all, for they are often satisfac.
torily explained. 1t is frequently said
that" like begets like" and l believe
that il is often So If We meet with
an acaaintsuce who grasps our hand
cordially, and gives it a generous and
hearty shake, and their countenance
lights up with cheerful smile as they
utter pleasant and welcome saluta-
ton, if we are feeling dull and moody
we are or should atonce be ashamed OF
that feeling, and instantly put forth all
our energies to disguise and Danish it
If on the contrary We meet with one
who repels our very attempt to be cor
dial by studied coldness of manner,
we very soon become impervious to
any genial feeling for him. and q larger
stock Of pride springs to our aid than
we ever dreamed that our heart pos
sessed, and q gulf is then and there
formed. over which a passable bridge
can never be erected.
Year: 1875

A tramp has condeseended to throw
down the mask, and tell something
beside his loss. This tramp writes to
the Providence Journal in extenuation
of his profession which is composed
"of men who go from place to place
through the country, gathering and
disseminating, Of course, q great deal
Of useful information, relying mainly
upon the public hospitality for their
Temporary maintenance, never wear
Ing out their Welcome By long 500
iourn in one place, never interfering
ia politics, carefully and conscienti-
ously abstaining from all agitation OF
the labor question in any Of its phases.
Year: 1875

A New York correspondent says ' Major PowelIs remarkable dIs coveries in the ancient and pre-abori ginal Province of Tusayan, in Arizona will be published by Scribner & Co. in their magazine for December The stone cities in which those strong sur vivors of high antiquity still live, in the heart of the wilderness, are fully de scribed and Illustrated, together with their domestic and political manners and customs, and their polytheism and mythology and ceremonies-to which no man of modern civilization was ever before admitted Altogether noth ing so curious and wonderful in its line has appeared since the exploration of Central America
Year: 1875

Judge C. T. Hayden IS an lndefati gable pioneer. He seems to naturally look about for some new enterprise or field of operations, and has latterS been looking out route for a direct road from Salt River valley to San Carlos, and thinks he has found one which is practicable. over which good road may be constructed at q small expense; the distance, he thinks, will be from 100 or f20niles He says the route passes between Superstition mountains and the mountains border ing on Salt river, and that he has made "a cursory examination of it as far as Pinto Creek"

 The Judge says This is route of great importance to the government as we'll as to every person in the Territory. It would save the expense of long lines of transportation to San Carlos Agency and Camp Apache, and would help to open up mineral district and much otherwise attractive country"

 He thinks the road of such import ance that by proper representations, Congress could be induced to make an appropriation to build It. Delegate Stevens is quite familiar with the ad- vantages that road over the proposed route would be to all interests, and will doubtless give e' due cAIs:sideration.

 We really think it would be of great importance, and that Judge Hayden does not overrate the value of it if well built.
Year: 1875

ARIZONA MINING STATIsTICs.-GOv. Mccormick desires us to say that he has agreed to furnish the Commissioner of Mines and Mining, full statement of the present condition of the mining interests of this Territory for hls next annual report. and also requests that facts and figures from the several dis tricts be sent to him at Tucson. This opportunity for giving the world al large fresh report upon our leading industry, ought to be thoroughly i'm proved.
Year: 1875

SECRETARY CHANDLER authorizes a sweeping and explicit denial of the widespread assertions that he has made or is making removals in the Interior Department for failures to contribute to campaign funds. He says, with reference to the dismisssls of clerks employed at the Patent office, that they were made for causes, and not in any way based on person. al or political considerations.
Year: 1875

The following letter needs no ex- planation to enable all concerned to understand it. At request of interested parties, its publication was not made at the time of it's receipt by the Cover nor Every man who has only declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, should remember its contents
Year: 1875

"RoUSDs' PRINTERS CABINET" for October is received. It is published four times a year, and geographically is the equal of The Aldine of New York 1; and it is also filled with information useful to every practical printer and newspaper proprietor.
Year: 1875

THE country is now constantly flood ed with Washington and New York teiegrams regarding the United States and Spain-all of which are evidently guess work and bad al that. SD far as auNlhiug unusual is concerned. there fore we leave out about all that comss jO us
Year: 1875

PROVISIONS,


HOG PRoDUCTs-Were rather less active and
easier on the speculative articles, In sympathy with
decline In the price Of uve hogs. The following are
the stocks Of product On hand now In this city, with
Comparisons as reported by the Secretary Of tho Pork
Packers Association:
Year: 1875

The Louisville Courier-Journat has
the following sensible remarks regard
ing the management of newspaper:


Some people estimate the ability
of q newspaper and the talent of its ed
itor by the quantity Of its original
matter. 1t Is comparatively an easy
task for frothy writer to pour out
daily column of wOrds--upon any
and all subjects. His ideas may flow
in one weak, washy, everlasting flood,
and the command Of his language
may enable him to string them to-
gether like punches of onions, and
vet his paper may be a meager and
poor concern. Indeed the mere writ
ing part of editing paper is but q
small portion of the work. The care,
the time employed in selecting, Is far
more important, the tact of a good
editor is better shown by his selection
than anything else; and that, we
know, is half the battle. But, as we
have said, an editor ought to be esti-
mated and his labor understood and
appreciated by the general conduct OF
his paper--its tone, its uniform con-
sistent course, its aims, manliness
its dignity and propriety. To pre-
serve these as they should be pre-
served is enough to occupy the time
and attention of any man. Ii to
these be added the general supervision
of the newspaper establishment,
which most editors have to encoun-
ter, the wonder is how they find time
to write at all.
Year: 1875

One who has tried it. communicates
the following sensonable item about suring
sore throats. Let each one Of our half
million readers buy at any drug store one
ounce of camphorated oil and Eve cents
worth Of chlorate Of potash. Whenever
any soreness appears 10 the throat put the
potash in half tumbler Of water and with
i gargle the throat thoroughly with the
campLo,a.ed oil at night before going to
bed, and also pin around the throat small
strin Ct wollen flannel. This is simple.
cheap and sure remedy. 4
Year: 1875

Charivari recently had conversation
with physician on the effects Of he Paris
siege which the latter especially regretted
because ii had killed OF ID short time
thousands Of feeble pcfsous, who would
have otherwise fingered through years. TO
the great profit Of the doctors.
Year: 1875

In TROUBLE AGAlN.-Mr. f. &. Snead, the
young Georgian who was tried for forgery
and acquitted in the Hastings Court on
Tuesday. was arrested on Wednesday on
the charge Of interfering with the chain
gang, and with giving one of the pris-
oners a knife. He was brought be-
tore Justice White yesterday morning. He
stated that he would have been on his way
to Georgia but from the fact be missed the
train, and after being left he went where the
chain. gang was at work to give johnson,
one of the prisoners, some tobacco, and hav-
ing small pen.knife in his pocket he also
gave il TO johnson 10 use in cutting up his
food. Snead was required to give surety in
the sum of 500, in default of which he was
Sput to iaiI
Year: 1875

RICHMOND AND TRANS ALLEoHANY MAR.
Row.GAUGE RAILROAD .CoaP1NY. Both
houses of The General Assembly have passed
bill which provides that in the event Of a
subscription being made by the city Of Rich.
mond to the capital stock of the Richmond
and Trans-Alleghany Narrow-Gauge Rail-
way Company it shall be lawful for said city
and company to enter into an agreement and
contract between themselves to the effect
that in consideration of such subscription
the said company may agree and bind itself
never to construct any branch of said road
except the branches mentioned in the eighth
section of the charter of said company in
the counties of Patrick, Washington, Smyth
Carroll, and Grayson; nor to form any rum
ming connections with any other railroad


without first obtaining the formal consent OF
the municipal government Of said city TO
such branches or proposed connections ex-
cept as aforesaid, anything in the charters of
said city or company to the contrary not.
withstanding. The bill now goes to the Co.
werner.
Year: 1875

The Department Of Agriculture pub
fishes the following experiments, which
a gentleman in Georgia tried and found
effective in dispelling serious trouble
in horses:


about thirty years ago friend lost
by bots very fine horse. He took from
the stomach of the dead horse about a
gill Of bots, and brought them to my of.
fee to experiment upon. He made prep
arations Of every remedy he had heard
Of, and put some of them into each.-
Most had no effect, a few affected them
slightly, but sage tea more than any
thing else; that killed them in fifteen
minutes.


"He concluded he would kill them by
putting them in nitric acid, but il had
no more effect on them than water; the
third day they were as lively as when
put in. A bunch of tanzy was growing
by my Office. He took handful Of that,
bruised it, added little water, squeezed
out the juice and put some bots in il;
they were dead in one minute. Since
then have had it given to every horae.
have never known it to fail of giving
entire relief My friend had another
horse affected with the bots several
years later. He gave him the tanzy IN
the morning, and dose of salts in the
evening, and the next morning he took
up from the excretions three half pints
of bots"