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Year: 1873

THE BEST HENS FOR LAY1NG.-In
regard to this much mooted subject
the Germantown Telegraph says /:
"The best hens for laying, and espeoi-
ally in regard to having hens lay in
the winter, much depends on the At
tention that is given them. Almost
any breed will lay in winter AS we'll
as in summer, if they are well ted
and well housed. AS q winter feed
for hens, we have found sour milk or
buttermilk, made very thick with
wheat bran, and q little cayenne pep.
per added, 8 most excellent article.
Just as they 90 to roost we give them
in addition little shelled corn and,
if the weather is very cold, we heat
this in q kettle adding little grease,
almost to the parboiling point.
Year: 1873

What is it that makes all those men
who associate with women superior
to those who do not? What make
the women who are accustomed to
and are at ease in the society OF men
superior to their sex in general ?
Solely because they are in the habit
of free, graceful, continued oonver-
sation with the other sex. Women
in this way lose their frivolity, their
faculties awaken, their delicacies and
pecullarities unfold all their beauty
and captivation in the spirit of rival
ry; and the men lose their pedantic,
rude, declamatory or sullen manner.
The coin of the understanding and
the heart changes continually.
Their asperities are rubbed of, their
natures polished and frightened, and
their richness, like gold, is wrought
into finer workmanship by the fingers
of women than it could ever be done
by those OF men. aaa . a..
Year: 1873

Again, ere could speak the vision fed,
Aud waking found 1 still was there alone;
Ipondered long on what the stranger said,
Who had the way to happiness just shown.
treasured deep the memory of that vale,
Wherein learned how happiness was gained;
And since that time do reherse the tale,
When sadness comes, how JOY may be obtained.
Year: 1873

Tho pressure upon our columns on Sunday morning
In 80 great that wo compelled to request advertisers
to sond in their advertisements for TINT isauc ut M
early an hour possible, in order that they may with
certainty secure tho proper classification.
Year: 1873

old love of gaiety has never returned. She
whispers of vanity have been UNDECIDED,
the LOYALTY of my heart has never been
questioned, because I find purer JOY in a
life of devotion to Him who. when folly
had well high ruined me, raised His holy
arm in my behalf. And to-day. az scatter
fresh spring flowers over the grave of her
whose guileless soul led her mothers feet
back to duty and right, bless in my m
most 9ul Him ''who gave. who took. who
via restore-whO doeth all things welaS
Year: 1873

In the production of newspaper.
what an expenditure of time, money.
labor and Judgment is required Very
few readers have an idea of the trouble
and cost of producing the closely-print-
ed sheet which lies upon their breakfast
table every morning. By day and night
hundreds of persons are watching for
facts and events which they may report
All over the metropolis, and throughout
the length and breadth of the land
there are observant newspaper CORE
spondents, whom nothing escapes. Any
noteworthy occurrence is duly reported,
and anything special is transmitted by
telegraph. How soon does the public
mind become used to marvels A curl
GUS fact concerning journalism is not
known to the general public. 1t is no.
ticeable that whenever an eminent per-
son dies, biographies of his or her life
spring up like mushrooms all over the
country, apparently being the work of a
night Not so, however. The biograph-
les of all leading politicians, and of all
Inen and women eminent in the walks of
literature, science and art, as well as of
foreign monarchs, statesmen and public
characters, are prepared and kept in
readiness, additional facts being ap-
pended from time to time so that at
last, when tidings of death arrive, all
that has to be done is to give the final
particulars. When England was SO ter
ribly agitated by the sudden and critical
illness of the Prince of Wales, which
occurred in the latter part of the year
1872, some of the leading journals We're
unprepared with memoirs, and these
had to be written in hot haste. In sew
eral cases they were actually set up and
kept IN readiness for instant use those
dreadful days and nights when the royal
sufferer was momentarily expected to
breathe his last, and when, indeed, it
was scarcely known whether life was
extinct If some of our prominent men
could penetrate into the editorial arcana,
and peruse the critiques upon them
selves or their career destined for i'm
mediate publication after their death,
they might find entertainment and learn
a few wholesome truths. The story is
told that the late Lord Brougham once
had false rumor of his death circulat-
ed, in order to crafty himself by read
ing what the newspapers said of him,
but that a contradiction got abroad in
those pre-telegraph days before the
memoirs could be completed and issued,
so that the morbid desire was only graf
flied in few cases, and these were not
very complimentary.
Year: 1873

Under this title an article in London
Society includes the ensuing prof ession-
al anecdotes:


We know of medical man whose
duty 1t is to take lunch every day at
great castle belonging to noble lord.
The household is immense, and there is
just the chance that there may be some
case of indisposition demanding atten-
ton. He gets some of the best COM
pany and some of the best lunches in
England, and duly charges guinea for
each attendance. There is very
wealthy man, near great city, who
cannot bear to be left for the night.
There is physician of great ability
who drives out of town nightly to sleep
at his residence he is consequently de-
barred evening society, and if he goes
out to dinner, he has to leave his friends
before wine. He has to charge his pa
tlent thousand year, and I think he
earns bis money. Sometimes the SER
vices are such that money cannot repay
them. A friend of mine, Young medi-
Gus, had standing engagement of four
hundred year to look after the health
OF an old lady. She required to be in
spected three times day, and made an
exhibition of her tongue and pulse.
What made things SO aggravating was
that she was as strong as horse, while
the doctor was delicate man. She
was so selfish and perverse that he was
obliged to tell her that he would have
nothing to do with her case. Similarly.
know the son of a rich man, who pro-
posed to pay clergyman several hun
dred pounds year for leave to spend
his evenings with him. The parson.
however, was obliged to tell his rich
friend that he talked such intolerable
twaddle that he could not accept his
company on any terms that could be
named. But the oldest of these ar
rangements is the following: A medi-
cal man has been attending patient
several years, and yet he has never seen
his patient. The gentleman firmly be-
Leves that he has an oesophagus of pc
cullar construction, and that he is. ac-
cordingly, liable at any moment to be
choked. That help may be at hand
when any sudden emergency may occur,
he has physician in the house night
and day. The physician, being human,
must needs take his walks abroad, and
1t becomes necessary to provide sub
stitute for him two hours day. Ac-
cordingly doctor attends daily from
twelve to two, fills up his time by dis
posing of an admirable lunch, and finds
the gold and silver coin, in their usual
happy combination, neatly put up by
his plate, in tissue paper. Up to the
present date he has never had the pleas
ure of exchanging words with his inter
esting patient.
Year: 1873

A letter from Turin states that a scene of great excitement was witnessed on Feb. 7, at the menagerie in the Piazzi d'Armi. M. Bidel, a tanner of wild beasts, had been accustomed to collect lions, ionesses, bears, and hysenas in the same den with a lamb and to make them caress the latter without doing it any injury On this occasion he had thrust the head of the little animal into the mouth of the lion, when suddenly the king of beasts was seen to close it's jaws, from which blood at once flowed in abundance. The spectators were in consternation and uttered loud cries, supposing that the exhibitor himself would be devoured the next moment. Bidel, however, struck the beast smart blow on the head with his closed hand and the dead body of the lamb fell from its mouth The lion roared, but at the order of the tanner went sullenly to lie down in corner of the cage. At that moment ioness rushed on the exhibi- tor, but fortunately only tore the sleeve of his shirt. Bidel then retreated to another corner and ordered, by 8 ges- ture, his terrible pupils to withdraw in- to another compartment. They all obeyed, and the man then profted by that moment to make his escape from the cage.
Year: 1873

London has new diversion. An in dividual, anxious for sport, gets drunk and then hands himself over to the.po- lice as the perpetrator of some shocking murder, recently committed, in which tho murderer has heretofore been un- discovered. After giving the police and newspaper reporters much trouble, the amateur murderer regains sobriety, declares his innocence and is discharg- ed. This joke is ghastly, but on sev- eral occasions it was successfully prac- tised, although the last attempt at it will probably cause it to be abandoned.

 A little girl named Harriet Buswell was recently murdered in Great Coram street, and there was much excitement over it, and an unsuccessful search for the murderer, until MT. George Cooper presented himself at the police station, declared that he was the murderer, and that he had done the deed for friend of his in consideration of $500. He was kept in jail over night, and next morning arraigned in Bow street, where upon he calmly announced that his whole story was 8 falsehood, his only excuse for telling it having been that he had been drinking whiskey and old ale for week, and had touch of delirium tremens." He expected to be discharged, as previous iokers of the same sort had been, but the magistrate thought proper to look at the matter in different light, and he remanded Cooper to hard labor for month pend ing further inquiries. The magistrate said he did not suppose that Cooper really was the murderer, but the whole affair justified his being remanded in custody, and, besides, little hard work and total abstinence from "whis- key and old ale" would do him no harm.

 So the crestfallen joker was taken back to jail, and the popular but ghastly diversion has received merited re- Jbuke.-Philadelohta Ledger.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph relates the following |: A hen and Q large flock of chickens were in the habit of coming round our north back door, and were rather troublesome. One day Miss c. put out favorite cat, saying, "There, Julia, if you can catch one of these chickens you shall have the whole of it." No sooner said than done-the whole chick en was caught and eaten. The hen came as usual next day with her chick ems, but never after that day did she come without the company of another hen, which invariably took her position between the hen and chickens and the house-door, and marched like any faith full sentinel back and forward in the space. If the cat made her appearance, she would fly at her, and drive her away with such vigor that the cat was glad to run. "Julia never got another of those chickens. Now how did this mo- ther hen communicate and make the other hen comprehend her loss and the service she required? This is simple fact. ..s. l1
Year: 1873

That slate may have been once mud is made probable by the simple fact that it can be turned into mud again. " If you grind up slate, and then analyze it, you will find its mineral constituents to be exactly those of very fine, rich and tenacious clay. Wherever the top of the slate beds and the soil upon it are laid bare, the black layers of slate may be seen gradually melting-if I may use the word," says the Rev. Charles Kings ley in Town Geology" under the in fuence of rain and frost, into a rich tenacious clay, which is now not black, like it's parent slate, but red, from the oxidation of the iron which it contains. But, granting this, how did the first change take place? It must be allowed at starting that time enough has elapsed and events enough have happened since our supposed mud began first to become slate to allow of many strange transfor- nations. For these states are found in the oldest beds of rock, save one series, in the known world and it is notorious that the older and lower the beds in which the states are found, the better that is, the more perfectly elaborate-is the slate. The best states of Snowdon q must confine myself to the districts which I know personally are found ill the so-called Cambrian beds. Below these beds but one series of beds is as yet known in the world, called the Laurentian. They occur to thickness of some eighty thousand feet in Labra- dor, Canada and the Adirondack Noun tains of New York but their represent atives in Europe are, as far as known, only to be found in the northwest high lands of Scotland and in the island of Lewis, which consists entirely of them and it is to be remembered, as 8 proof of their inconceivable antiquity, that they have been upheayed and shifted long before the Cambrian rocks were laid down uncomfortable, on their worn and broken edges"
Year: 1873

This table of wages is computed in most trades upon basis of eight or nine hours of work. Men in the build ing trade, for instance, work eight hours, while others in other ahnes are employed nine and a few ten hours. A percentage of discount should also be made for lost time, careful inquiry among employers eliciting the fact that in most avocations the men lose on an average one day out of the six from one cause or another.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
prS
Year: 1873

Reader, the merchant, druggist and gro
Ger where you usually trade, keeps Renne's
Pain Killing Magic Oil for sale. If they
are out, they will get new supply at your
request, but be sure and call for it by the
full name, and take nothing else in its
stead. 1T works like charm.
Year: 1873

public opinion. In this case the new
ideas are likely to be strong enough to
prevail and leave the priests and the
deity in despair.


There is great change going on i'll
India. Mcn are beginning to think and
write for themselves aud Young India :
is different man from his father Still
these superstitions will show themselves
at times.
Year: 1873

The Chicago superintendent of public
schools recommends the establishment
of school expressly for the worst 81 ass
of pupils. to which ill-behaved scholars
will he sent from other schools. His
theory is that this plan will educate the
evil disposed mentally and morally.
while the other schools will not be kept
back by them.
Year: 1873

ALFRED WALTON. Druggist No. 235 Marke
street, respectfully informs bis friend and the public
in general that he keeps hand all descriptions OF
meIicines. and thar competent person is at all
times rsady to prescribe for such sick as call at tha
store and that charge is made except the regular
price of the medicines. the rice as they would
pay anywhere else; but that ne one is visited at
their residences
Year: 1873

This charming actress has been holding
quite a levee in New Orleans since her re-
turn from Galveston, where she won the
esteem OF the people and the warmest
laudations of the press. Three months ago
this lady left legion of friends in the
Crescent City to try her dramatic fortunes
in the Lone Star State; that she left there
with regret, even to return to her old
friends and admirers here, is evidence that
her conspicuous and varied talents were
not unapprecisted by our warm-hcarted
friends across the gulf.


Miss Freeman did not win her !aurels
easily. During her brief sojourn she ape
peared in seventy-fve ditferent characters.
embracing wide range of characteriza
ton that few could successfully master. but
the public verdict has been, in detail and
as a whole, such as might flatter the pride
of the most gifted artist in the land.


We Join in the general wish that she may
soon crafty her friends by reaPpearanee
in one Of our own theatres.
Year: 1873

We take pleasure in announcing to per
sons desirous of participating IN this most
innocent and healthful exercise, that there
are now two skating clubs in our city, the
first having organized themselves under the
name of the "New Orleans Skating Club"
and meet on Monday and Thursday nights
of each week. The second, being organized
by the members of the Exposition enter
tainments. have adopted the name of the
Exposition Skating Club and will give
their first entertainment on Tuesday night
next, in the rooms of the association, Caron
delet Hall. Exposition building.


The same hall is also opened on Wednes
day night of each week to enable gentlemen
to receive instruction and practice. We
also take pleasure in stating that on Satur-
day night the hall of the association is open
to the public. that all may have an oppor'
tuRity Of participating "a this most delight
ful amusement.


The clubs TO which we have referred have
been organized By some of our most prOmio
nent and respectable citizens. and if we may
Judge OF the pleasure the skating affords to
members and their invited guests by what
can be seen in the hall, skating must soon
become one of our most beautiful as well as
healthful sources of amusement.


Persons DESTROYS OF joining either of
these club. can have their application for
membership forwarded tc the proper par
ties By leaving j: at tho office Of the asso-
citation. In behalf Of thu management of
the Exposition Skating Club, we would in
form the members that the ladies' invita-
| tions for their FIRST entertainment are now
ready and can be bad by calling upon the
] secretary.
Year: 1873

An old lady in town of Worcester eoun.
II. Massachusetts, recently refused the
gift of load of wood from tree which
had been struck by lightning through fear
that some of the "Auid" might remain in
the wood and cause disaster to he. kitchen
stOya
Year: 1873

Our readers should not forget that Messrs.
Montgomery, Armory Hail. No. 81 Camp
street. is the best place to buy furniture Of
all kinds and Styles Their stock is large
and well selected, and suited to all classes
OF socetyo The poor man who wants q
cheap bedstead is waited on with the same
politeness as the rich. and their high stand
ing in business is a guarantee tina: what
ever they promise they Will perform. Give
them CALI
Year: 1873

Our State Superintendent fccom-
mends compulsory education, and
Governor Booth while not exactly en-
dorsing his arguments in its favor, yet
gives the weight of his official infu-
ence in its favor. In the main we like
the ideas advanced in the Governors
late Message, but the idea of cOmpell-
ing the attendance Of our youth at the
public schools, however forciblc the
arguments in its favor may seem, do
not appear to us to be consistent with
his other professions. The Governor
and the reformers generally seem to be
impressed to some extent at least, with
the great truth that we are governed
too much. Our Government is get
ting altogether too paternal, and is
sticking it's nose into many things
that are none of its business. The
people are beginning to realize this.
They want change, and instead Of
going still further, and invading even
the sacred sprecincts of the family, to
carry out some utopian scheme of uni
versal education, they ask that the
State shall relax its hold upon their
domestic affairs, and leave them some.
thing to attend to without Govern
ment interference.
Year: 1873

GOVERNOR BooTH may well call
attention to the abuse of special legis-
lation. The State Of Illinois found
that such intolerable evils flowed from
the practice, that in its new constitu-
ton special legislation was cut off at
one fell swoop, and yet we are follow
ing right on in her abandoned path.
OF six hundred and thirty-seven acts
passed at the last session of our legis-
ture, only one hundred and fifty-two
were Of a general character, and many
Of these could have been dispensed
with, If a general law covering their
scope had been adopted. The only
safety lies in rigid exclusion of spe-
cial Legislation from our statute books.
Year: 1873

EDITOR HERALD: Among the many
remedies for the evils of land mon
opoly, the latcstis foreshadowed In
paragraph in Governor Booths mes
sage, in which it is recommended that
taxes shall only be levied on land,
while the improvements thereon, and
personal property are exempt. 1t is
urged that this will throw the burden
of taxation upon the owners of unim-
proved lands and town lots, and COM
pei them to throw their possessions
into market. The chief objection to
this plan is that it violates the plain,
honest principle of equality before the
law. All property being entitled to
equal protection should bear an equal
proportion of the burden OF taxation,
and any plan by which certain class
of property is made to pay more than
its legitimate share, is simply dis
guised cOnfiscation. There can be
little doubt that the unimproved lands
of the State, have in many instances,
escaped paying their fair share OF the
taxes, by reason Of under-valuation,
and would-be reformers would show
more wisdom in striving for the reme-
dies within their reach and withal
strictly just, than by seeking to over
turn the whole system of taxation. If
all the property in the State were as
sessed at fair cash value in the mar
ket, taxes would not only be equally
apportioncd, but incidentally, the di-
vision and sale of our large landed es-
tates would be encouraged.


If indeed confiscatiOn in any form is
to be practised, let us 60 at it boldly,
and after prohibiting any ono person
from holding more than say $40 acres
of land, condemn to the public use all
in excess of this amount held by any
one owner. BY this means tho State
would become the owner of the sur
plus land by purchase and the exercise
of sovereignty, and no one could COM
plain of unequal taxation, or cOnfisca-
ton. It is generally conceded that no
individual has the right to monopo-
lize the waters of the State, and is
water more important than land: If
the State has the right to restrict the
quantity of water that an individual
shall appropriate to his exclusive use,
why has it not the same right to limit
the area of land that he shall absorb?
Possibly the people of the State are
not ready for such radical change III
the policy that has obtained of allow
ing every one to grab all that he can,
but we are sure that very few will OBJ
ject to just and equitable valuation
of all property, and a thorough system
of taxation that will not allow any
species of wealth to escape its just
share of the expenses Of the State.
Year: 1873

THE Alto proposes to demolish the
Grangers by having the Republican
party grant them all they ask for, and
thinks that this plainly leaving them
nothing to stand on, will effectually
dispose of the new party. But what
will become of the Republicans if they
follow the Altd's advice? That party
is essentially a monopolist's party, and
if it should yield to all the demands OF
the reformers, there would be nothing
for it to do but curl up and die.