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Year: 1872

Apple Sno,o.-Pare and core twelve
apples, steam until tender, set the ap-
pies aside to cool, then pour over them
a whip made of the whites of three
eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Serve with
sugar and cream favored with extract
vanilla.


Hyacinths all Winter-The hyacinth
is one of the most beautiful and fragrant
of the bulbous flowers, and PAL ticularly
desirable for house culture. Even half
a-dozen grown in pots and Towering
during the winter, will afford more
pleasure to the loved ones at home"
than the same amount of money spent
in any other way. With how much
pleasurable anxiety they watch the
shooting forth of the bright leaves, the
rising of the stately column while the
opening of the first bud makes joyful
thanksgiving of the most dreary win
ter's day. A very small pot will answer
for the hyacinth. Some prefer to plant
three or four in large pot, and this
will make a very pretty ornament.
Cover only the lower half of the bulbs
with soil, press them down until they
are nearly covered, then water until the
soil is moistened thoroughly, and set
the pots in a cool, dark cellar. The
roots will there form, with but little
growth of top. Here they may remain
for several weeks, and pot or two at a
time can be taken into warm, light
room, for Towering, a week or ten days
apart, and succession of flowers OBJ
tanned during most of the winter.
Year: 1872

The City Sanitary Inspector of New
York, in report on contagious diseases,
says with reference to the smallpox:


It is the unanimous opinion and ex-
preston of the medical officers of this
Department that vaccination is not only
safe, but certain preventive of small
pox, when properly, carefully, and judi
ciously performed; and, as proof of
its protective value, it may be stated
that among over 100000 persons vacci-
mated by the Health Inspectors of this


Bureau during the past year, there has
not yet been found one who has con-
tracted smallpox, or its modified form,


who had been successfully vaccinated
previous to becoming infected, while
numbers have fallen victims to this dis
ease who refused to allow the Inspectors
to vaccinate them at the time of ex-
posure. We are fully convinced that
this extraordinary success is due in a
large measure to the fact that vaccine
virus has while in fresh and active
condition only, has been used no crust
or scab has ever been used by us. Our
practice has been only to use such virus
as has been taken from well-selected
healthy child, the afternoon previous,
rejecting that which had become 72
hours old. A supply of bovine virus,
direct from the animal, was used to a
limited extent during the past summer,
which gave no better result than that
from children's arms, and as its propa-
CATION was attended with much diff
Guilty, and a sufficient supply could not
be obtained for our large demand. ex-
cept at a great expense, it was aban-
doned. In the use of childhood lymph,
with the results as proved by our stats
tics of successful vaccination and re-
vaccination, certainly no man should
cavi.. The absolute protection afforded
so large number of persons of whom
by far large majority had been exposed
either directly or indirectly to this fear
full disease, should go far to convince the
most skeptical of its inestimable value


To the carelessness and neglect of pa


rents and physicians, and the opposition
of the misinformed, uninformed, and
injudicious, may be attributed, in 6
large measure, the success of an cpl


demic form of this loathsome disease
Year: 1872

The New Orleans Times gets off the
following on the genial farmer Of Chap
paqua: Mr.. Greeley writes to a con-
fectioner in Boston that in making
calves foot jelly, the Durham breed
should always be selected. Take live
calf, place the hind feet in corn mill,
then begin to turn, and the jell will
flow out in crude state. Collect in a
pan and throw away the calf. When
properly stewed and favored with the
fruit of the axle-tree, it makes a delici-
Gus condiment, and is also good for bone
felon. In the same letter he denies
that sugar plums can be successfully
grated on the Mestipus, or Japan
plum. 1.-THE sugar plum,'' he says
sis the natural fruit of the sugar cane.
While visiting in the South l often saw
colored children gathering them from
the parent stalk, already done up il
fancy paper and blue ribbons"
Year: 1872

The farmers mellenium must be near
at hand, for one of our Western smart
men, Edward Powers by name, asks
Congress to make an appropriation to
carry out his plan to produce rain at
will, and just when it is needed. He
asks for three hundred cannon, with
sufficient powder for them. and bases
his theory on the fact, as he asserts, that
all extensive battles are followed by
heavy storms. We presume . farmer
who happens to be unprepared, can sue
for consequential damages. . We are
afraid, after all, that we must still plow
deep,i if we wish to avoid the bad effects
Of dry weater.
Year: 1872




The Gazette has to 60 all the way to
Egypt to find simile strong enough for
Iowa office holders appreciation Of
Grant, and says it would have been
easier to dam up the waters Of the Nile
than to have restrained the outspoken
demand Of the pap-suckers to have the
man reelected who provides them with
their bread and butter. But, while paying
SO much attention to the great African
stream, what is the Gazette's opinion, Of
the political Wacht am Rhine? Won't
that take considerable damning, too, to
bring it out right side up?-DavenPort
Democrat. 4
Year: 1872

How TO WATER PLANTS From care.
full experiments, Mr.. Mechi discovered
that plants slightly watered every day
often perish, and always become dwarfed !;
whereas a good soaking given twice q
week almost invariably proved very bene-
fetal. He says:


The sum of our experience. in watering
amounts to this-that thorough soaking Of
the ground two or three times a week is
much better than the same amount OF wa
ter applied in driblets daily. only sufficient
to wet the upper surface, but not the un-
der strata of earth contiguous to the roots.
Cold spring water should, before applying
it to heated soil, be allowed to stand
exposed to the sun and air for few hours.
The colder the water is, and the warmer
the soil, so is the necessity of applying it
10 abundance; for it is evident, though
we can not explain it, that the result pro-
duced upon plants by applying cold water
to the soil, when at high temperature,
unless so copiously applied as to saturate
the soil completely. is fatal to tender or
weakly plants, and often less or more in
furious to strong or healthy ones.
Year: 1872

MEN OF Few WoRDs.-Some men use
words as rihemen use bullets. They say
but little. The few words used 60 right
to the mark. They let you talk. and
guide with their eyes and face, on and on,
till what you say can be answered in a
word or two, and then they lance out a
sentence, pierce the matter to the quick.
and are done. Your conversation falls
into their mind as river into q deep
chasm, and is lost from sight BY its depth
and darkness. They will sometimes sur
prise you with few words, thatgo to the
mark like a gunshot, and then they are
silent again, as if they were reloading.-
Such men are safe counsellors. and true
friends where they profess to be such. To
them truth is more valuable than gold,
while pretension is too gauzy to deceive
them. Words without point. to them. are
like titles without merit, only betraying
the weakness of tho blinded dupes who are
ever used as promoters of other mems
schemes.
Year: 1872

''We don't have to pump water at our
house, we've got dydrant;" $50 city
boy spoke out as he saw his country cous-
ins watering stock and grinding away at
chain pump in we'll.


"a hydrant! What's that?" "All
you have to do is just to 60 up to it and
pull handle. this way. and the water
keeps running, pail full, barrel full.
all day long. We never pump"


Well, that's jolly. But where does the
water come from 2"


Whereat the city boy was foored. He
had grown up to be twelve years old in the
city, and all that he knew was that water
comes from the hydrant, and hot water
from another faucet in the bath room: and
milk from the milk-man; and meat from
the shop on the corner; and bread and
rolls from the baker. In short, every
thing came from somebody's shop. But
he had never thought any further.


People in cities have set of habits which
are second nature. This boy when he
wanted money always went to his father,
and his father took it out of his pocket
How it got in there the boy did not know.


remember when I was little Boston
boy. with two other little chaps of my own
age. going by stone building. and they
said it was bank they told me to 90 in
and get some money. They said all we
had to do was to 60 up and ask for it.
That's the way Pa does-he goes there
every day and gets money" So I went
in, with my head nearly as high as the
teller's counter, and said, II want some
money" But the teller replied. "Get
out of here, you little fool" or words to
that effect; and we three went along won
dering. after our fashion, how it was that
men could get money and boys couldn't.
We did not think further.


These country cousins ground away at
their chain pump in well that never goes
dry. What keeps the water in the we'll
they have not stopped to ask. Out there
at Chicago MIR. Farwell has drilled an ar
tesian we'll some hundreds of feet deep,
within three-fourths of a mile Of lake
Year: 1872

When astronomers assure US that the
diametcrs, of the circles which the planets
describe in their perpetual revolutions
round the sun, are millions upon millions
of miles-how is it possible for the mind
to take in an idea of the space or room in
which such globes as those of eighty and
ninety thousand miles in diameter are run
ming, thirty times more rapidly than a
cannon ball. without the slightest inter-
ference with others?


Space-without limit There is no
boundary, no barrier, no precipitous ter
mination, but space forever and ever, and
there the intellect leaves the pursuit-the
brain of man cannot grasp it.


But there is something more perplex-
ing in the belief that interminable space
is filled with billions, aye, with countless
organized worlds. beyond all human COM
putation, far excelling our own in gran
deur of proportions, physical resources
and beauty, so immensely distant that no
telescope can ever survey those on the
nearest border of that celestial space which
they occupy; and yet still beyond and be-
yond, so far that the light they send a.
broad. at the speed of one hundred and
ninety-two millions Of miles in one second ,
may not reach this earth for hundred of
millions of years to come, and there again
and again there are globes infinitely null
tiplied. Space, then. is field in which
the Almighty displays the majesty of His
supreme power.


EEA man at camp meeting out West
boasting that he had been married twenty
five years during which time he had not
given his wife cross word or look. He
forgot to tell his hearers that he dared not
do one or the other.
Year: 1872

pint of water in New York city is brought
forty miles, and that it cost more than
thirteen millions of dollars to bring it, and
that the people in New York, if they only
had habit of thinking further, would be
just as grateful to God and men for giving
them drink as I was in Payta.


So it is about everything in great city.
There is long, long procession of men
between US and the fountain of supply of
whatever we have and enjoy. We 60 to
shop to buy. and don't think any furth-
er-as if things grew in shops!


Our city boy, having got a-going in his
good habit, started one morning to the
bakers for dozen rolls. And, talking
with the baker as he had done with the
plumber, he learned that the rolls were
made of flour. the -four came from the
docks, brought there in barges from AL
bany, and to Albany by rail to Oswego,
where it had been manufactured from
wheat. The mills were kept going by
water from the Oswego river. Remem-
bering what he had learned about the
Croton river, he made short cut and
said: Eyes, the sun keeps the mills GO
ing" The wheat came from the upper
lakes, from Wisconsin. He heard of ele-
vators in Milwaukee and Duluth. And
the wheat came to the elevators on cars,
and the cars came, some of them, three
hundred miles. The wheat was raised by
farmers. And the Sun made the wheat
grow.


Another time he went to the meat shop
and learned that the meat came from the
butchers, bought. in the quarter at Wash
ington market Ard the butcher bought
his steer at Bullshead yards. And the
steer came down the Hudson river rail-
way from Albany, Buffalo and Chicago.
He tracked the steer to an Iowa farm and
found that he was born in Texas, and had
been fed on grass ever since he was wean-
ed. And the Sun made the grass grow.


Another day he went to the tailor shop
and tracked pair of trousers of his up
through the piece of goods to the manu-
factory of wool in Connecticut. He track
ed the wool back to New York, and from
New York to Liverpool, and from Liver
pool to London, and from London to New
Zealand. where there are millions of sheep
that nibble the grass and the Sun makes
the grass grow.


Every day that he went on one of these
| long excursions, he found hundreds of men
at work bringing what he needed to him.
But at the head of the line of benefactors
he always found the Sun.


One morning at family prayer our boy
heard his father read: That ye may be
the children of your Father which is in
heaven, for he maketh his sun to rise on
the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain
on the just and on the unjust" And he
thought to himself, "God stands at the
head and makes the sunshine and the rain;
and good men take it up where God leaves
it. Every one proves himself to be child
of God when he takes good gift and makes
it better, and passes it on to satisfy want
somewhere" And so when he kneeled
DOWN to pray, and came at last, in the
Lords prayer. to the words-"Give US
this day our daily bread. he prayed them
better than he ever did before, because he
had learned to THINK FURTHER.
Year: 1872

EEL Here is Quaker toast that has a
thought in it: This is me and mine to
thee and thine. I wish when thee and
thine come to see me and mine that me
and mine will treat thee and thine as kind
ly as thee and thine have treated me and
mine"
Year: 1872

To REDUCE BONES TO MEAL.-A writer
in the Horticulturist says he buys bones
of the butcher at dollar the hundred
pounds, and considers them the cheapest
fertilizer he can obtain. He transforms
them into meal by the following simple
and effective process: I have a large
water-tight hogshead standing out doors,
near the kitchen. In the spring I cover
the bottom about six inches deep with dry
soil. On this I put layer Of bones about
the same depth, aud cover them entirely
with unleached ashes. On these another
layer Of bones, them ashes. and so on uu-
til the hogshead is full. I leave it. then.
exposed to the sun aud rain all summer
and winter, until the next spring. Then
on removing the contents of the hogshead,
I find nearly all the bones so soft that
they will crumble to powder under very
slight pressure, and, mixed with the ashes
and the soil, they give nice little pile of
most valuable manure, ready for immedi-
ate use. Any of the bones not sufficient
ly subdued, return to the hogshead again
for another twelve months slumber.
Year: 1872

The greenback average Of the New York banks
Elsst week was over three millions of dollars and


s ascribsd to their restoration by the Wall street
lpecuhtors who had locked them up to produce u
stringency in money the week before.
Year: 1872

S~NsSNSAAS


WehRve our say this morning pretty full
ly and plainly in regard to some features
ofthe Railroad and Bridge Question now
before the First Branch Of Council It Is
asking q good deal TO ask that all we have
said under the several heads may be read;
but We feel that the PRESENT. Is a crisis in
the financial affairs Of the city which
dwarfS in the gravity Of It's consequences
all else that can for day or two. occupy
the attention Of city taxpayers. wehGYs
not, Of course, discussed the question ex-
haustivelyi but we have presented facts
and considerations enough, we trust, to
awaken solicitude in the minds oithose
who maydo uiithe honor to give them a
careful reading as to the action to be taken
by the First Branch Of Council at q
meeting to be held, perhaps this evening,
but certainly at very early day.
Year: 1872

JOHN IN THE KITCHEN.-The proverbial clean
Illness of the new element" the Chinese, whose
influx into this city has become quite exten-
sive recently, will not be denied by those who
have had an opportunity to observe them close
ly; and yet, like everything else, tt is boasted
virtue of the ''sons of the sun" is, after all, rel
atve. 1t was but yesterday that large circle
was put into a roar of laughter upon being in
formed by a charming lady of the manner en-
ployed by a Chinese cook TO season salad
The story may appear incredible, but it comes
from undoubted authority. The lady in ques-
ton related that one of her friends, who enjoys
the service of one of those Celestial Brilliant
Savarins, upon descending into her kitchen the
other day, was not little surprised and still
more disgusted to discover her cook leaning
over copiously filed dish of salad, beating
his nfamed cheek alternately with his right
and left hands, and pouring from his mouth in
to the dish gushing spray of a mixture of oil,
vinegar, salt, pepper, egg-yolk, and mustard,
and then, with his tapering digits, mix the
whole still further to make it ready for the Ia
hie. The housekeepers emotions naturally
caused her to faint, and the last heard of the
Chinese cook he was applying at city foundry
for position in the moulding department of
the institution, where his services aa spray
spouter would be invaluable.
Year: 1872

lsg- One of our young citizens who went in
to the country last week to work on farm for
few weeks and seek "health instead of dissi-
patton" returned the other day little out of
sorts, but healthy. He had blistered his hands
hoeing corn, torn the seat out of pair of $50
pants at pic-n one eye was blackened from
attempting to draw water from an "old oaken
bucket" and crank, his forehead was furrow-
ed with mosquito bites, stone bruise gave him
the Alexandra limp, he was freckled like the
leopard, and had been sunstruck four times
With these exceptions he had experienced an
elegant time, and is going next summer-to Jail
in preference to the county Cleveland Lead
er
Year: 1872

stand it. The explanation given to the curious
iuqurer By the operatives themselves is that they
use no stimulant, but drink only the pure cold


limestone water which comes out Of the cracks in
The rock in plentitnde. The quarry Is also con-
nected by railroad with the Northern Central
Year: 1872

of the drilling OF channeling machines now be-
comes so loud tba conversation, except in high
tone, is failure Reaching the edge OF the ex-
cavation the sight is astonishing. A large hole,
embracing nm area OF about two acres is seen,
resembling in some respects, it might be sup
posed, the crater of a volcano; the rumbling OF
machinery, the smoke Of steam engines, and an
occasional blast of surface or blackstone fur
nishing the accessories; but peering over the
edge the comparison is disturbed by seeing scores
OF men busily engaged at depth, upon the va
rous lodges or platforms, of from so to 100 feet
On all sides are seen the solid walls OF white rock,
looking as though the supply could never be ex-
hausted, and although it is stated that at least
million tons of stone have been taken out, there
would seem at casual glance to be only a small
q1antity of the upper surface removed.
Year: 1872

That Quinine only effects temporary sus-
pension of the attacks of Fever and Ague, un-
less its use is preceded by a reliable, Anti
Bilious Medicine THE TESTIMONY OF
THO USA NDS establishes beyond doubt that
Year: 1872

The Baltimore Sun of I4th instant contained
an interesting article on the extensive marble
works near Cockeysville, from which we make
the following extracts:


It's a fact, perhaps not generally known, that
there is such ing as
Year: 1872

THE FOLLOWING TOWN SITE ENTRIES


L embracing Lots In the Town Of GOLD
HILL, have this day been passed for patenting,
the required proof Of residence and citizenship
In each caso having boon furnished.
Year: 1872

ALL BILLS AGAINST THE CROWN
n Point Gold and Silver Mining Company and
Rhode Island MIL, must be presented In DU-
PLICATE at the office OF said Company on or
before tho FIRST DAY OF each month. to be
audited. Bills presented AFTER that date may
have to lay over until the next month for pay
ment. By order OF the


Gold Hill, February q, 1917. fe?l 2m
Year: 1872

Down town In the narrow streets bordering on
rivers brink the scene is most appalling. Walk
ing from the South ferry, which has almost de-
serted appearance, round South street by that
elbow OF the East River known as Coenties slip
and up as far Pike street. tho change noticeable
In the traIlc was wonderful TO behold. There
were not even horses to load and unload cargoes
from the vessels TO the dock or from the dock to
the vessels.


The large piles OF merchandise that are usually
to be seen on the sidewalks and which block them
up and impede pedestriansm, were not visible
to any one that had eyes. The little narrow courts
leading OF South street, which are usually
choked with trucks, were clear to all
corners, and the docks themselves were
blank and dismal. In conversation with many
downtown merchants our reporter asccrtained
that business had come to perfect standstill, and
that it was impossible to get truckmen, as their
horses were either sick or dying, and those who
had good horses for which they had paid from two
hundred and fifty to three hundred dollars
apiece, refused to imperil their safety unless
such large compensation was given
them per load would place the
merchants profits on gross amount to merely
nominal figure. One -four merchant told the re-
porter that he had an order 10 send 5000 barrels Of
Year: 1872

meeting OF the boot and shoe dealers was held
at the shoe and Leather Exchange this morning to
confer as to the necessary steps for the delivery
and receipt Of goods during the prevalence OF the
horse epidemic. Satisfactory assurances were
given that the needed means OF transportation
had been secured. With better weather to-day
number OF horse teams have been brought out.
been engaged by the trade, and the merchants
and their clerks will furnish what man power
travel on the Metropolitan route was partially re-
sumed this morning, four horses being put to each
car and making limited number OF trips. Some
Of the South Boston cars are being drawn by con-
ductors and drivers Of the company. The iare
charged was twenty-five cents, and the car was
well DatrOniZed.