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Year: 1873

A HINT TO HoUsEwIvEs-How TO
KEEP KITCHEN-wARE CLEAN AND
BRIGHT.-Every housewife of neat
and tidy habits takes especial delight
in keeping all the tin, copper and iron
ware of her kitchen as clean and
bright as painstaking labor can make
them. A pride in this direction is
commendable, and always meets the
smiling approval of the tyrant man
who pays the household bills. Re-
member that sAPoDIo is the only thing
on earth that will make an old tar.
nished tin pan or a rusty kettle shine
as bright as new. And by the use Of
Sapolio it is the quickest and easiest
thing in the world to keep every uten.
sill in high state of polish.


A good.looking telegraph operator
in Columbus, Ohio, waited about an
hour the other afternoon to witness a
plunge by the sea- lion. His lionship
finally jumped, and a suit of linen
duck went to the washerwoman in the
afternoon.


A Danbury man imagined himself a
hen, and while under the influence of
that conceit sat down on a dozen eggs,
and hatehed out an Italian sunset
circus poster. His wife rep'


debris with the bald end
Year: 1873




The Radical press have discovered that 1t as use
less to attempt 10 escape the of the people
for the blundeIiug policy of Congress, and that
defence Of the want Of honesty and fair dealing
on the part Of the Administration only accumu-
latss sterner opposition to it, Having at last come
TO the conclusion that il necessary to denounce
both, they are nov actively engaged in reading
the members of the last Congress and Grants
Cabinet some Wholesome lectures which, although
cOmiLg too late 10 the Radical party from ut
ter aud hopeless defeat. may render the country
Service in that it will expose the folly, fasehood
aud corruption with which tho great leaders of
RAdiealIsm are tainted


The salary grab is the last hair, and the camel
has gone down under ii if its back is not broken
it will be, as it utterly impossible for the beast
to recover its legs under such load OF stolen cash
ns the ''srab' has taken from the pockets of our
poor tax-ndden voters. No wonder the negroes
Of Maryland arc beginning to abandon the Radi-
cal camp. The leaders Of that party are making
the country poor that starvation is staring the
darkies full In the face and this winter, If all wo
bear is true, viii witness more terrible suffering
Tor food than they have ever experienced before.


The Tunes, Grants organ in New York city,
under The cOnrol of the custom house and other
oAcials there has found it necessary, in order 70
sustain itself to denounes the last Radical Con.
gress and charge the defeat of its party on the
salary grabbers,' while The Tribune, the organ
OF The more independent Republicans Is open and
bold in its demand for a repeal of the whole bill
covering the "salary steal, and even insists upon
the President recommending lite repeal in his next
Annual Message Copious extracts from these
and ether papers Of the Republican party fully
prove how disgusted are the people with the sala-
~ steal and the increase In the Congressional pay
The Democratic party must and will demand its
rePaal No man can stand before the party with
an honest face and demand $4,000 for nine
moaths' service irem the toiling millions.
Year: 1873

CATHOLIC BESErIC1ALf PIC NlC.-A days
pleasurabIe enjoyment is offered our people
Ly the Catholic Beneficial Society, who VIII
on Wednesday next give grand picnic ut
Hattorf's garden. All who have ever here
tofore participated in the festive occasions
of this popular society will need no other
incentive than the mere mention OF the fact
that the picnic is to be under their auspices.
Au invitation will be extended to the dele
gates to the Catholic BENEVOLENT Union oil
Virginia. which will then be in session, and
they will attend in body. (" .'I
Year: 1873

The FREE. BRIDGE AccIDENT.-It now ap-
pears that the little girl Helen Wiltshire,
who was so badly injured at the free bridge
day before yesterday by piece of falling
TIMBER had both feet broken, and it is also
thought HAT she is injured internally,
though at last accounts she was better, and
ii is thought she will recover. ,Eta
Year: 1873

TIE NEW POSTAL CARDS UNDER THE LATE POS
TAI law-useful, servfceable, and cheap. The ad-
yertiser Gun Ill the luck of the cards with any


printed announcement he may wish to make public,


and send them through the mail for only one cent.


Can be printed ut this Office ut low rates.
Year: 1873

Madrid executions are real jolly affairs. A
murderer was recently led upon the scaffold
and sat down, trembling and nearly dead from
terror, while the instrument was got ready.
The executioner found that the iron collar
was too small, and his machine was out of or
der. So he worked half an hour, tinkering
and hammering on the concern, cheering the
dropping spirits of his victim, from time to
time, by trying on the collar and assuring
him that he had got it almost ready. When
it was fixed, the victims head was fastened
back to post, and the collar tightened with
a screw until he was strangled. W +
Year: 1873

San Antonio is in state of profanity over
the irregularities Of the mail. The Post Of
flee Department is not seriously disturbed by
this, inasmuch as it regards profanity at San
Antonio as the normal expression of its citi-
zens. rr ftfs'tr3evr
Year: 1873

TRIAL OF THE ODoRLEss EXoAvAToR.- THIS
morning the first trial Of the "OdOrless Excava-
tor" in this city, was made at the residence of
John q. Baker, on 4th street near Poplar, in the
presence Of a large crowd. 1be apparatus was
put TO work about IL O'Clock, and In six minutes
removed 490 gallons from the cesspool. The ma
chine worked in a very satisfactory mannsr, and
if this trial is fair test of ITS abilities il will


prove q valuable introduction, provided the cost
Of its operation is confined to a reasonable figure
Year: 1873

Floating Away ON q Cake Office.
Il Yesterday morning, vessel became wedged
- the Ice near North Point and could neither
move one way nor the other y One Of the
crew, a cOlOred man, thought that he would
take ramble oyer the surrounding Ice, and,
contrary TO the advice of those ON board,
extended his tour for distance Of about three
hundred yards. just as he was about to re-
trace his steps, the ice between himself and
the vessel cracked and separated with O loud
report MI


This unforeseen mishap was caused by a
large field Of hOating ice striking unperceved
just above were the vessel was lying. The
man ran to the edge of the ice upon which he
was standing, but sudden gust of wind COM
ing up at the time separated it from the main
nelqs and he was carried down the stream
Inc remainder OF the crew viewed the scene
with terror, expecting to see the ice break up
every moment and the man sent to the
bottom. The ice hoated on down the river,
and the captain, to save the mans life, had the
row boat manned and five men sent out to
his relief


They had to proceed with care, as the edges
OF nOatlng ice were very sharp. At this time
the field of ice which the man was on had
hoated half a mile, and was still going on at a
rapid rate. The boat finally came unto him,
but the floating field struck another large field
OF Ice and was shattered into small fragments.
Ihe man went down crying ont for help and
tbe boats crew pushed through the shattered
Ice with all their strength. They were able
to make but little headway.


After the man had sunk and rose to the
surface twice, he was finally rescued in an
lnsensible condition. Before the boat could
get back to the ship the mans clothing had
frozen stiff. One getting aboard Testoratives
were applied and after about half an hours
work he was completely Tesuscitated. The
poor FELLOW says he don't want to venture
upon dangerous river ice again.
Year: 1873

bright and black. But what if | should
live to be a grizzly. hunchbacked Old
crone, like those told you of, hideous
and helpless, and be sent TO die at last in
the charity. .housep You don't know what
an awful thing it is to think about. Yet
/ try hard TO console myself, sven with
that dismal thought. know that how
ever it may be, there is no trouble SO bad
that it won't end some time; that the
very worst grief which can come to the
heart can't possibly last forever. | bo
lieve. too. yea, know. that above tie
cold and darkness. above the storms and
the clouds. there is land where it Is al.
ways day, and that the good ! have mis-
ed here is waiting for me there. And So,
good night"


Hunchback Margery did not
60 out OH her rounds next day, they No..
ticed. They did not see her 90 out or in.
In the evening late, they feared she must
be i'll. and went TO her room. A stale.
sickly smell of smoke was in the room.
Her lamp had burned down and gone out.
Margery was sitting by the window.
One delicate hand lay across her lap her
hand was always delicate and fine, like a
lady's-the other grasped little picture.
1t was her fathers likeness, with the face
like her own, pleasant and kindly. The
long rows Of gas lights still wound in
and out among the hills above the silent
city, but Margery was not looking at
them. A sweet, gentle smile was on her
face, and her eyes were closed. She was
dead


The little crooked old woman had gone
away into the beautiful country.
Year: 1873

It is thought thas tho prevailing policy Of
Prohibition In Massachusetts will cut Bomo
figure in tho next Slate election. The most
notnb1o fcaturo Of 1t Ia tho result Of tho applca-
tion Of tho prohibitory principle to formonted aa
well as distilled liquors. Formerly, tho dis
tillors and whisky-sollera mado common cauBo
with tho brewers in tho general opposition
to tho prohibitionists. Now It is said
that tho whisky mon have cut Off from
the beor and alo interests, and TINT they orc
prctty we'll content with tho present situation.
The explanation Of this apparently anomalous
division ia to be found in tho circumstance that
the brewing business cannot bo carried on
secretly and in defiance Of tho Inv, while this Ia
practicable with the distllling businoas. Tho re-
suit is that liquor is aurreptitiouely distilled and
sold, tho difference In price and tho falling
off in competition fully compromising for
tho loss occasioned by the restrictions put
upon the businoBs. A natural consequence Of
this is that strong drinks are much more gouor-
ally used now than thoy were before the malt
liquors were prescribed, and miGory and crime
are increasing in proportion. THUS tho issue iH
brought within tho roady comprehension Of tho
people, and tho Boston journal predicts TINT, Il
tho Bame strong-headod pulley shall be main
tanned, prohibition will bo short-liyed in tho
Stnfn
Year: 1873

land by acknowledgment of that which he
conscientiously believes to be an illegal act
The State makes title to his home, and by
his refusal to comply with the law, that
title ripens into an absolute and irreyoc-
able right "Such title shall be held and
recognized by all courts in this State as
valid in law" tits thus that an honest, OBJ
stinate and ill-advised citizen may turn
himself and family out of house and home
by complying with the exhortation of
those who will maintain principle. let
it cost the public what it may.
Year: 1873

The proprietor of the Montreal Witness
is under commitment for libel in per
mitting the publication of temperance
diatribe against gentleman who had wine
on his table at a private entertainment
given to the Governor General.
Year: 1873

In an article on the recent conflict at arms
in this city, the Washington Chronicle con-
C!udes with this sentence: There Is now
no help but to back up the authority OF the
government recognized by the State courts,
at whatever hazard to peace and life"
Year: 1873

A Tennessee belle lately punished suitor
who sought to gain her hand through false
aspersion of his rival, by going with him to
the altar, and then responding mo" at the
critical moment, and completing the mar
Siage ceremony with the calumniated one.
Year: 1873

This is an important point whero there is
much danger of waste, and care should be ta-
ken never to cut fast enough, or stir hard
enough, TO whiten the whey. II should take
at least Is minutes to cut vat sufficiently
fine, and about two hours--more or less, as
the milk works fast or slow--to raise tho
heat to 9Se. The heat is then turned off and
the curd allowed to rest, turning il up once
in half or throe-fourths of an hour, until the
acid is sufficiently developed the whey is now
drawn, and cold water passed under the vat
to cool the mass below 90e, when the curd is
dipped to the sink. II is salted at the rate
Of p pounds salt in cool weather, and 2a
pounds in hot weather to 1000 pounds Of
milk.


Mr.. Goodenough claims that under this
process the cream Of the milk is nearly all
retained in the curds, that loss from waste Is
reduced to the minimum point, and that >
very fine quality of cheese is the result. Tbi;
report from Mr.. Goodcnoughs factory for
1872 shows that only 37-100 pounds Of
milk were required for q pound Of cured
cheese, and the cheese was sold at u price
averaging s13.43 per 100 pounds. These
averages are comparatively large, and speak
well for his process Of manufacture.
Year: 1873

The aroma of butter has very complex
origin. 1t springs from certain volatile oils
which exist in the plants on which the ami
mails feed. Voelcker reports butter to con-
tain two per cent. of these oils. To these are
given the names butyrin, caproin and capry-
olin, and from them are formed the butyric,
caproic and capryolic acids which are the Oc-
cusion Of rancidity in butter. The easy for
nation Of these acids is one of the greatest
obstacles to the manufacture of good butter.
But the volatile oils in butter are not confined
to three nor four varieties. Every species of
herb upon which the cows feed, and, indeed,
upon tho farm, has more or less volatile oil
peculiar to itself, on which its peculiar odor
and flavor depend. 1t is easy to see how the
flavor and odor of butter are affected by the
food the COW consumes. A COW eating pep
permint, for instance, carries the oil Of pep
permint into her blood and thence into her
milk, where, combining with the cream, it is
carried into the butter, giving it the favor and
aroma of the mint. Cows do not live on
single variety of horbage. Twenty different
kinds are more likely to be found in a single
pasture than only one. The mingled oils Of
all these constitute the aroma Of the butter
made from their milk, each one having its
modifying influence, though some may be
distinctly recognized, when, like onions, gar
lie, or cabbage, their influence is greater than
that Of all the rest.


The kinds Of food which furnish the most
agreeable aromas are the most desirable for
dairy pasture, though they may not yield the
most. More people are moro pleased with
the aroma from Kentucky blue grass than
with any other; hence blue grass is regarded
as the best food for the dairy. BY little
attention, every dairyman can determine for
himself what food is most suitable for his
herd and that little attention will impress
upon him the fact that if he would make
clean favored butter his COWS must not live
on garbage, litter or strong scented weeds
There is another popularity about the essen
tial oils in herbage from which the dairymau
may sometimes derive advantage. 1t is the
different degrees oflightness they possess, the
rapidity with which their ESSENTIAL oils are
evaporatcd by heat. For instance, the pun.
gent oil Of the horse -radish is so volatile as tc
escape in short time by exposing the crushed
radish to the air; the poisonous oil Of the
mild parsnip and of ivy escape while the To-
liage is willing an offensive oil in greer
clover which affects butter unfavorably, es
capes while it is drying, so that the dry PLAN
makes better product than the green. The
aromas of turnips, cabbage, onions, etc.. arr
heavier and are not entirely carried away by
drying. But by heating the freshly drawn
milk, even these oils can in many instances
be entirely driven out.-Cor. Lire Stool
Journal.
Year: 1873

At the last meeting Of the American Dali
rymen's Association, Mr.. Goodenough, of ST..
Lawrence Co., gave his method Of " working
back the cream" together with his general
management of the curds, in which remarka-
bly, good results were obtained, and his state
ments and statistics elected deep interest in
the convention. Recently, he has addressed
letter to the secretary of the Association,
giving his process of cheese making somewhat
in detail, and the letter is printed in the an
nual report just now come to hand. We
have no space in this connection to give the
letter entire, hut shall present briefly some of
the leading features of his process.


The evenings milk is cooled by dipping
and floating ice in a tin tub holding about
four pals, until the temperature Of the mass
is down to 100; running water is allowed to
pass through the water vat under the milk
all night during hot weather; in cool wealth
er the water is shut of, as the design is, in
either case to cool the milk down to 65' /;
and when this temperature is reached, it is
preferred that the milk should stand still, as
Mr.. G. believes that agitation tends 10 sepa-
rate the butter from the caseine and thereby
cause waste. Under this treatment, the cream
in the morning is limpid and light, but should
not be stirred until the mornings milk arrives
in sufficient quantity to enable the maid to
skim at the same time that the new milk is
running in the vat. Then the cream should
be removed with the dipper and passed
through the strainer with the new milk, while
the temperature of that in the vat is at 70o,
and with the heat turned on to secure this
point, if necessary, gradually raising the heat
to 800.


AT this point, he says, if due care has been
taken and the milk in the vat sufficiently
stirred to secure an even temperature, there
will be no more appearance Of cream than on
new milk, nor will it separate any more read
lily. The rennet is now added, and there
should be evidence Of coagulatiOn within
twenty minutes. The mass may be OCCASION
ally agtated up to this time but after cOag.
ulation has commenced, agitation should not
be continued, as it tends to produce a soft
curd.


The slight agitation Of the surface Of the
milk keeps the cream Incorporated with the
milk until the action of the rennet is sufficient
to retain it, and this is an important point in
avoiding waste. In about 80 or go minutes,
when the curd is ready to cut, the horizontal
knife is used, then the perpendicular knife
cutting the mass into cubes it is now left at
rest for 8 to 10 minutes, when the curds are
carefully turned up with the hands, and the
knife in q skillful hand commences its work,
Year: 1873

Bl ID. L.. ADAlR,


Until within the last dozen years, bee
was a bee and no one thought Of one bee be-
ing better than or different from another
Just then the Italian bee stepped in and re-
vealed the fact that the law OF variations ap-
Piled to insects as well as TO higher animals
and to vegetables not only that the Italian
bees, Gs n class, differed from our native bees,
but that the Italians differed among them
selves, and our common bees were not all
alike.


Now this condition of things, instead of
being difficulty, is just what we want in
order to get superior varieties, and if taken
hold of properly will result in very few
years in doubling the utility of this already
most useful insect.


Now, the only use we have for bees is to
produce honey, and therefore VIC sheuld cul-
tivate such instincts as will contribute to that
end.


FecundIty of Queens.


A small colony of bees cannot gather as
much honey as a large one, therefore fecund-
ity in the queen should be increased, and the
swarming instinct suppressed. 1t is estimat-
ed that the ovaries of queen contain the
germs of about 100000 eggs, and when they
are laid she dies. If the laying instinct can
be cultivated so that all Of these can be de-
posted in one season, instead of extending
the period over three to five years, as is gen.
orally the case, it is evident that great ad-
vance will be made. But if the swarming
impulse is retained, and the colony is contn-
ualy being disorganized by swarming, the
gain will be of doubtful value. In every
apiary the owner can point out certain colo
nics that are continually more pOpulous than
others. Such should be selected to breed
from, and all unprOlifc queens should be de-
stroyed aud their places filed with Others
produced from eggs of the prolific, although
the infertile queen shodld be Italian, and
even imported. In order to increase their
productiveness, when your young queens be-
gin to lay, keep them at it, and never let
them stop day if you can prevent it. II
the natural supply of honey gives out, feed
feed all the time and never let the queen be
at a loss for empty cells in which to deposit
her eggs Throw away your hives Of 1000
cubic inches capacity, and put your bees in
hives of double that size; for you cannot put
a gallon in quart measure, and SO long as
you keep your bees 50 pent up, the queen will
be prevented from developing her full capac'
ity. Raise your queens at the season of the
year when your colonies are the most indus,
trious and populous, and from the youngest
prolific queens, that they may inherit the
vigor of youth, and not the exhaustion ol
old age,


DsPrIvIng Beos OF stings.


Next to fecundity, perhaps, the most desir-
able thing is quietness. If the bee could be
deprived of the singing instinct, a new Inn
petus would be Immediately given to bee
keeping, for a large majority of persons are
deferred from engaging in the business through
fear of being stung, while many who have
bees fail to give them proper attention
from the same cause. Fortunately, we find
Year: 1873

things that they have been allowed to do the
carrying business of the country; for these
things that they have been given land grants
and appropriations. 1t is for these things
that every fair man is willing that they shall
make just and reasonable profit on their
immense capital invested, and their skill and
talent for doing business. And this squares
the account, and settles the whole bill The
people do not propose to throw into the count
the right to abuse and extort to oppress and
rob to corner" gold and upset the whole
financial equilibrium of the country.
Year: 1873

then swinging it until the desired effect was
pfoduced.


We cannet affirm that oua ways aro any
nearer perfection, having never tried theirs,
but the Imagination certainly fails to bring
before us anything very delicious or tempt
ing for the appetite after such procedure.
win some one tell us through the FARMER
prior to the leathern swing patent? r."
Year: 1873

1t is interesting to notice a man of tender
corns on a crOquet-gound, He will stand
around, always in the way, until some sunny
haired maiden croquets on his pet toe, and
then he will go waltzing off on one leg among
the shrubbery, choking himself black in tho
face with ordinations he dare not utter,
while the maiden will smile serenely and
murmur " Oh, Mr.. =, did not mean
to %


When man meets his fitting mate, society
begins,