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Year: 1872

Tcpid tea cleans grained wood.
Oil cloth should be frightened, after
washing with soap and wnIer, with skin,
milk. aF --r
Salt and water washing preserves bed
steads from being infected by yermln also,
mattresses.


Simple. salt and water cleans and pre-
serves mating more cfTectually than any
other method


Kerosene oil is the best furniture oil it
eleanses, adds polish. aud preserves from
the ravages of insects.


To get rid OF moths and reaches from
closets and bureau drawers, sprinkle pow
dered borax over and around the shelves
and cover with clean paper.


INSECTS ON PLANrs.-To exterminate
the insects, mix one ounce of carbonate of
ammonia with q gallon Of water, aud with
this fluid water the plants.


BURNs.-The following is said to be an
excellent remedy for burn: Take a tart
apple and simmer in lard until it forms
salve it will heal burn quickly, and al
wavs without n scar. s.


MiLDEw FROM LINES.--l. Wet the
spotted part with solution of chloride Of
lime, or chlorine water, and the stain will
immediately disappear then wash out at
once in warm water. ,. Mix some sof
soap with powered starch, half AS much
salt, and the juice of Il lemon; lay on the
spotted part with brush, then let the gar
ment lay on the grass day and night till
the stain comes out. -.s- r.
Sort GRAHAA BREAD.--Stir Yeast or
milk rising into warm skim milk. then stir
in Graham flour enough to make good
batter as thick as can well be stirred with
spoon; put into deep bake dis,es,und set
in a warm place to rise the same as knead-
ed bread when light, bake moderately
| until there is n hard, brown crust, over the
top, which, if preferred, may be softencd
10y covering with damp cloth,


For ants, place fresh meat bone where
the ants can get at it, and they will flock
to it in large numbers. When they are on
1t dip 1T in hot water repeat it a few
times and the ants will have disappeared.
For moes, dig hole like a post hole
across one of the mole holes, and in the
bottom place some rags, previously dipped
! in sui phur. Set fire to them, and when
once well on fire, cover up close with q
board, and the mole hole acts as a pipe


The mole leaves.


| WARTs.-If the wart is not broken sc
as to expose the raw flesh, the following
will be found very eficacious remedy: TAX,


some muriatic acid and put it on the wart
I and then take some stick caustlc and rul
! it on which will turn the wart white. Let
4 it dry for two or three days, when it will
! be found to have made the wart Gallon,
about half way through. 1t can then b,
pared off as far as it will permit without


drawing blood, and then apply acid ant
caustc again, and let it dry is before


After two or three applications it vii


permit the wart to be parcl close to til,
skin, and it will not grow again.
Year: 1872

INDIGNATION AT ITS SUPPRESSION IN COMMITTEE.


The intimatiOn of THE TRIBUNE yesterday
that the important bill cgslang out of office the pres
ent Police Justices elected under the Tweed admins
tratiou and in the Tweed interest, had been smohered
In Committee. caused much indignant comment among
lawyers outside OF the "Habeas Corpus" Ring and
other organizations which have for the last two
years frustrated justice. For long time past
"shylter lawyers" have had monopoly
OF Police Court business, TO the exclusion Of
honest members OF tho profession, and the benefit Of
criminals no had money TO pay for immunity from
punis hInent Tie community, in consequence, has su
fered and is suffering the consequences OF cOllusion
between incompetent and reckless judges and the st
incompetent and even infamous lawyers and their
clients. The indignation Of the legal fraternity, who
hoped for relief from the pending BILL was varously
EXPIRE sed yesterday in denuncaons OF the Committee
and OF the caucus OF Police Justices and politicians
which subscribed the money TO secure the burial
OF the bill. II was stated that prominent Tmmany
politician and seOckey had carried $4,000 TO Albany
secure defeat of the bill IN Committee, aDd that
prominent TaDmany Assem- yIDan from The Fourteenth
Ward had the disposition Of thetbribcry fund There is
no DOUBT that large amount has been subscribed to de-
feat the measure tou IN all eforts TO secure the names
of those wLO Lave paid money for the purpose have
failed for the present.
Year: 1872

almost worthless for fodder, and hence should
be sown by itself andcut by the last Of May
or first of June. For permanent pasture it
is one of the most valuable grasses known I;
he had field Of ten acres, on which he had
had to seed timothy and clover every other
year, but il is now in orchard grass for the
sirth year, and had yielded more this year
than ever. The other caution is that it is a
delicate plant to start. For a permanent
meadow he had sown one bushel Of clover
seed, one of timothy and fvo Of orchard
grass Sow the last of August or first Of
September, and cover lightly. The clover
and timothy will disappear after few cut
tings, and leave the orchard grass alone.
About not changing pastures frequently, he
agreed with Mr.. Lewis-ho would regulate
the number of cattle TO the size Of the field
and keep them there He believed also in
top-dressing; frequent surface manuring
will even keep clover growing year afer
year. Ten years ago a piece Of his
farm was heavily dressed with sheep manure
and it was growing excellent clover now


Mr.. Reeder advocated seeding both kinds
Of clover at the same time, as more pasture
would be obtained in that way-Couatrg
Gentleman.
Year: 1872

DIR. Queensvile, in the Moniteur ScieR-
tifque, describes mode Of washing which
has been widely adopted in Germany and
Belgium. The operation consists in dssolv-
ing two pounds Of soap in about three gal.
Ions Of water as hot as the hand can bear,
and adding to this one tablespoonful Of tur-
pentine and three of liquid mmonia the
mixture must then be we'll stirred, and the
linen stepped in it for two or three hours,
taking care to cover up the vessel containing
them as nearly hermetlcally as possible.
The clothes are afterwards washed out and
rinsed in the usual way The soap and wa.
ter may be reheated and used second time,
but in that case half tablespoonful of tur-
pentine and tablespoonful Of ammonia must
be added. The process is said to cause a
great economy of time, labor, and fuel. The
linen scarcely suffers at all, as there is little
necessity for rubbing aud its cleanliness and
color are perfect, The ammonia and turpen-
tine, although their detersive action is great,
have no injurious effect upon the linen; and
while the former evaporates Immediately,
the smell Of the latter is said to disappear en-
tirely during the drying of the clothes.


FrOsting.


Take the white of one egg without beating
and mix stiff with puIvsrized sugar spread
on the cake. by tho time you get it on, il
will be hard and glossy.
Year: 1872

Intemperance is a vice which all should
shun. 1t is a vice which will rapidly gain
ground in this land of light and liberty, if
the laws of the land are not strictly enforc-
cd. 1t is daily dragging its victims to
drunkard's grave


Who are its victims2 Are they the sons
Of drunkards and men of crime Not al
ways. Some of them are the sons of honest,
upright and temperate men, who have been
led by bad associates to take the first glass,
and thus began their downward course which
resulted in crime and disgrace.


What a curse to the land is the sale Of
spirituous liquors. They are the cause of un.
told suffering. How many once happy
home is made desolate, how many heart
wrung with bitter anguish how many fathers
and mothers are weeping over their sons who
are daily drinking glass after glass at the
grogshops, and while under its influence are
often led to do things which will disgrace
themselves and their friends.


Which commits the greatest crime, the
assassin who creeps into mans home at
midnight and murders human being, or the
rumseller who deals out glass after glass to
a man who while under the influence Of rum,
will 60 to his home and beat his family most
cruelty, and perhaps murder them, and then
when he returns to his senses and finds what
he has done, plunges dagger through his
heart and breathes his last. He has escaped
the penalties of the law, but he fills mur-
| derer's and a drunkards grave.


The first glass is taken, taste is formed,
and then if a man does not try to overcome
that appetite, he takes another glass and an-
other, until at last he cares not whether he
leads life Of happiness or misery. If he
feels the pangs of remorse stealing over him,
he drinks until his senses are benumbed and
conscience is stilled. Once started on his
\ downward course it is hard to return. Then
young men beware Of the first glass for at
last it biteth like serpent and stingeth like
an adder.


Young ladies do not encourage your broth
ers and friends to drink, by speaking lightly
of it. But do all in your power to drive this
grim monster from our land.


A GREEN MOUNTAIN GIRL.
Year: 1872

A tourist, who was asked in what part of
Switzerland he felt the heat most, replied,
When | was going to Berne.


Why are Indian servants called coolies
Probably because their principal duty is to
fan their masters in the heat of the day.


Love never reasons, but profusely gives
gives, like thoughtless prodigal, its ALL and
trembles then lest II has done too little


five would build on a sure foundation in
friendship. we must love our friends for then
sakes rather than for our own.


A lady wrote of her lover who had become
insane, that "he had gone out OF his mind
but had never gone out Of hers


Men are sometimes accused ofpride mere
ly because their aocusors would be proud
themselves were they in their places,


Good Is positive. Evil is merely private
not absolute, II is like cold, which is the
privation of heat. All evil Is so much death
or nonentity.
Year: 1872

next spring we got but one or two bushels /;
and last spring | found but half bushel
Gut very early, before the stalk becomes
tough, couch grass makes very good hay. 1t
is lighter, and is less rich in sugar, starch
and gum than timothy. l think, yet stock
like il. There is an old saying that il you
give the devil rope enough he will hang him
self 1t is nos so with devil grass. Give it
the possession of the soil ten years, and you
may think it has run itself out. But plow
and manure again, and see it mount up
again in full hatefulness.


botany For Farmers Sons.


l wish to advise every young farmer to
study botany, if he can. Let him get Gray's
"School and Field Book of Botany" and
improve some of his spare hours in learning
something of the structure Of plants and
the laws of vegetable life and growth, and
in making the acquaintance of the plants he
daily meets, so that he may distinguish
the useful from the worthless, the indigo.
nous from the new conner, and the innocent
ones from the poisonous. Every plant he
meets will then have a secret to tell him, and
as farmer he will not grope in the dark
amid the mysteries of the vegetable world.
He will make few blunders He will not
plant his seeds so deep that they will lie
dormant for many days, shut out from the
influence Of the atmosphere and the heat
Of the sun. He will not defoliate his plants
in order to hasten the maturity of their
fruits by exposing them to the rays of the
sun. He will not attempt to graft scions Of
his fruit trees into the maple, nor to hybrid
ize the apple and the pear. He will not be.
lieve that wheat can turn to chess. With
some knowledge of botany and the other sci
cnces which aid agriculture, he will shape
his methods intelligently, and earn a high
degree of success.
Year: 1872

By JOHN H. YATES
Well, wife, I've been to church to-day-been to a sty
lish ono
And seeing you can't 90 from home I'll tell you what
was donei
You would have been surprised to what saw there
to-dayj
The sisters we're xed up so ano they hardly bowed to
pray.
had on these coarse clothes of mnO-nOt much the
worse for
But then they knew wasn't one they call million
aire,
So they led the old man to seat away back by the
door
Twas bOokless and uncushoned, reserved seat for
he poor.
Pretty soon in came a stranger with gold ring and
clothing Rne
They led him to a cushioned seat far in advance Of
minei
thought that wasn't exactly right to seat him up SO
When he was young, and was old, and very hard to
hear.
But then, there's aceOuntin for what some people
do;
Tho finest clothing nowadays oft gets the finest pew
But when we reach the blessed home and undehled by
Wen see wealth beggin' at the gate, while poverty
goesie
couldn't hear the sarmon sat 80 far away
So through the hours Of service, could only watch
and pray;''
Watch the doinis Of the Christians near me, round
about
Pray that God would make them pure within as they
were pure without.
While sat there lookn all around upon the rich and
great
kept tAnkin' of tho rich and the bcggar at the
gatei
How by all but dogs forsaten, the poor beggars form
grew cold
And the angels bore his spirit to the mansions built Of
gold.
How at last the rich perished and his spirit took
its fight
From the purple and fine linen, 70 the home of endless
night
There he learned as he stood gain at the beggar in
the sky,
at isn't all of life to live, nor all Of death to de-"
doubt not thcre were wealthy sires in that religious
fold
Who went up from their dwellings like the Pharisce Of
old;
Then returned home from their worship with head
uplfed high,
To spurn the hungry from their door with naught tC
satisfy.
Out out with such professions they doing more
to-day
To stop the weary sinner ftom the Gospels shinin
way
Than ali the books Of nhdels than all that has beer
tried
Since Christ was born in Betklehcm-sinco Christ wa
crucled.
How simple are the works of God, and yet how very
grand
The shells in ocean cavems-the flowers on the land.
He gilds the clouds ofevenin with gold light from Hi
throne,
Not for the rich only not for the poor alone
Then why should man look down man, because o


lack Of goldi
Why scat him in the poorest pew because his clothe


are oldi
heart with noble motives-a heart that God ha
blest-
May be beatn' Heavens music meath that faded Goa


and vest.
I'm old may be childish-but love simplictyi
l love to see II shinn' In a Christians pietyi
Jesus told US in His sermon, In Judea mountain wild
He that wants to go to Heaven must be like littl
child.
Our heads growing gray, dear wie-our hearts or


beating slow
In little while the Master will call for US to goi
When we reach the pearly gateways and look In wit


joyful eyes,
Wen see no stylish worship the temple Of the skie
Year: 1872

From the st. Louis Globe {Republican)


The reelection Of President Grant, first and
best, brings to us the assurance OF peaceful
and quiet future as far ahead as man may look,
and with peace will come tide Of fortune and
prosperity unequalled in the history OF the world
That the Democrats Of the South, whose vague
and half-forgotten hopes revived so rapidly dur.
bi1ity, is a fact which should now be patent to
the dullest Those amendments whose provi-
sions we're SO repugnant to the inborn feelings
and lifelong prejudices Of Southerners,
must now be regarded as established
beyond Ill possibility of change.
It is now quite certain that no violent disturb
ance Of the financial course OF the Adninistra-
tion will be attempted, and our National credit
and the interests OF business will feel the infll-
ence OF this security. What we have escaped
from is no less subject of congratulation than
treds Of race will now no longer be kept alive by
the hopes Of = supremacy which would override
the rights OF citizens, ia small source OF COM
fort; but the sum OF all the dangers which
threatened us with the election OF Greeley was
the restoration to power OF the Democratic par
ty and the Democratic spirit. Alike ignorant of
the past and blind to the future, clnging to the
empty form and neglecting the substance, skep-
tlca1 Of any improvement, suspicious OF any pro-
gress, contemptuous OF any scientific training or
methodical management, easy-going, Indifferent
drag on the car Of our country's progress. That
the life has gone out Of it We hope; that out Of
lts Ifeless remains may be reconstructed an Or
ganlzahon more in harmony with our National
il the best fate we can wish it; and
that We have escaped it's domination wiu be q
cause of rejoicing and thanksgiving as long as
it is remembered.
Year: 1872

Beyond this the most particular conveyancer viii
not seek for a flaw in the title, and is happy
when that point is Enthusiastically reached in
tracing the chain ct conveyance and transmis-
Year: 1872

was made. Yesterday Judge Barrett. OF the su-
preme Court, before whom the case was brought,
gave as follows his


DECISION Upon THE DEMURRER.


The principal ground OF demurrer plaintiffs
have mistaken their remedy This, however good
ground OF demurrer. As said by Comstock, J., in
Emory Pease 20New York. 6A:"If the which the
plaintiG states entities him to any remedy legal or
has prayed Judgment 70 which no Is not entitled"
This the doctrine Of numerous other eases and Is set
tied law. Upon the plaintiffs showing the plains
have right thc appointment Of trustee for the pur
pose of carrying out the directions OF the will" This Is
decision upon grand demurrer. and the Court must
to consider whether the relief actually demanded
Is or Is not appropriate sequence from the fact
stated The other ground OF demurrer equally untcn-
able. 1t proceeds upon the admission that the de-
iendants domurring have interest in the controver


In other words they claim not that there too lew but
too many defendants This not ground OF demurrer as
has been settled N numerous cases BESIDES u ap
that upon the face OF the wills OF William and MRS
W. Gray these defendants at least be said as matter
OF legal nstrument to claim some interest In the estate
In that aspect they properly Joined IN the purpose
cutting them of and concerning an unim
peachabe title TO property sought to be sold underline
decree, and personal Judgment Is claimed against
them they have just ground OF complaint For these
reasons the demurrer must be oyerrulcd with costs
Year: 1872

A Will and It's Curious Contingencies


How the Case Got Into the Courts and


How 1t Stands-A Demurrer Overruled.


In 1866 Mr.. William Gray died in this city, leaving
q widow two sons and considerable real and per-
sona property. lie left life estate to the widow,
and directed that In case the sons died before she
did and without leaving any children, their por
ton OF the property should revert to her. and that
upon her death one-haf OF the estate should be
given, share and share alike to the American Bible
Society and the American Colonization Society


Both sons died before her and neither left children
The widow died about year ago. A dispute has
arisen about the property and the Court has been
invoked to settle IT, on the complaint demurrer
Year: 1872

Government Clerk Prevented from


Voting I'm BroOklyn-sFloodlng the


Country with Administration v0tcrs',-


Judge Thompson's Sentiments.


william L. Brown, q clerk in.the Treasury De.
partmsnt at washington, formerly resident OF
Brooklyn, where he owns the premises 10 Skilman
street, returned to Brooklyn on Saturday and ap-
piled to the registers in the Seventh district OF the
Fifteenth ward to place his name on the list.
They did so; but IL appears that both
he and his family resided in washington
and have done so for two years past; they
Thompson for mandamus to compel the registers
to place his name on the voters list. Judge
were right, and denounced "the practice OF Hood.
ing the country with voters in the pay OF the ad-
ministration" as one that should be crushed. II
taners should be kept there and sent ont at cleo
ton times to do at the polls the bidding OF their
motion for mandamns In HIS opinion .H the judge ie
said My conclusion Is that the word SERVICE as
here employed treferring to those IN government
ordinary empl0ye Of one or the departments OF the
general government. Secondly-Even II this use
OF the word service In the constitution is construed
as broad enough to cover case OF such employ
ment the question OF actual residence still remains
to be settled IN the case OF the rclator. The
expression that "such service shall not be deemed
to have gained or lost residenccu does not pre-
vent him from actually changing his residence. 1t
not ipso Jdcto In and OF ITSELF change such resi-
dcnce It does not debar him from making such
change. He may establish a residence In the city
OF Washington and exercise all the privileges OF o
resident or that place. The relator could undoubt-
edly have continued his legal residence In Brook
lynby leaving his family here, and by such other
acts as would have clearly manifested his intention
to continue such residence. But he has chosen to
remove absolutely with his family to the city OF
washington, leaving nothing here to indicate his
continued residence, and relying upon vague In
tention Of returning TO this city NJ some remote
period, when he shall have been turned out oil his
present oiilcal position.


THE GREAT APOSTLE


OF one OF the political parties ol this country has
Year: 1872

COTLDN'T Fool THE MINIsTER.-An
Elmira man. anxious to appear liberal
at Il donation, marked - castor up to
Sl2. Next day the minister called at
his store and stated that he could not
afford to Use Sl2 castor, and desired
to exchange it for its marked value in
more needed goods. He WAS soon after
seen vending his way home with dozen
dollars worth of groceries. The mer-
chant is engaged in figuring the exact
profit of marking up the castor.


A Georgia tinted voter took fearful
revenge on Il mule that threw him, by
calling him IA darned old democrat
Year: 1872

Many of our readers have doubtless
heard of the famous travelling stones of
Australia. Similar curiosities have re-
Gently been found in Nevada, which are
described as perfectly round, the majority
OF them as large as walnut and of an
irony nature. When distributed about
upon the floor, table, or other level sur
face, within two or three feet of each
other, they Immediately begin travelling
toward common centre, and there hud-
died up in bunch like lot of eggs in
n nest. A single stone removed to the
distance of three and half feet, being
released, at once started off with wonder
full and somewhat comical celebrity to join
lis fellows; taken away four or five feet
it remained motionless. They arc found
in region that is comparatively level,
and is nothing but bare rock. Scattered
over ttis barren region are little basins,
from foot to rod in diameter, and it is
in the bottom of these ;;Lhat the rolling
stones are found. They are sm the size
of a pea to FIVE or six inches in diameter.
The cause of these stone rolling together
is doubtless to be found in the material of
which they are composed which appears
to be loadstone, or magnetic iron ore.