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Year: 1871

SOMETHING NEw.-An attractive feature
at the skating carnival at Assembly Hall
next Tuesday night will be the .presenta-
ton of season ticket to the gentleman up,
also to the lady appearing in the prettiest
costume. a committee OF gentlemen from
the audience will decide the question.
Great competition Is expected.
Year: 1871

THE FIRST POLICE STATIoN.-The work
Of repairing the first police station is pro-
crossing. The whole of TIE interior parti-
tions have been torn away and four new
and excellent cells pat in the place Of the
dark and gloomy dungeons which were
and police telcs :aph has been removed and
permanently located in the lott OF the build
ing, out OF the way Of everybody, and
where it will not erdanser the lives of the
officers and men. W0rFmcn were engaged
on yesterday in building the partition be-
tween the Office and the cells. When this is
completed, the place properly lathcd and
plastered, painted and cleaned up, it will
begin 10 be babitHble. There is no DEPART
ment of The city government which should
be more carefully watched by the Council
than that which vii! increase the efficiency
of the police force and at the same time
secure the comfort Of It's Officers and men.
Year: 1871

forcement act became a law, its object be.
ing to protect colorcd men in all the rights
TO which other citizens are entitled.


In April, 1871, Congress passed what is
known as the kuklux act, giving the Pres
ident power to protect the loyal people of
the south against organized bands of assas-
sins, and rendering the people Of a county
or city, under certain conditions, response
BILE for the damages done therein by those
outlaws.


Such, briefly, are the leading measures
adopted by a republican Congress, and
sanctioned and sustained by the Republi-
can party, for securing to the colored peo-
pie of the nation tho boon Of liberty and tho
right of equal American citizenship.


As n "companion piece" to this long list
OF acts in the interest of justice and human
ity, We ought perhaps to publish the record
Of the democratic party in behalf of slave
ry, wrong and outrage.


But it can hardly be necessary, at least
until the wounds inflicted upon the backs
of the four millions of ex-slavcs have had
time TO heal. If colored men bear no mall
ice against their democBtie owners, they
will not be apt to forget who fastened and
who broke their chains.
Year: 1871

Proponent.-I desire to submit for solu-
ton proposition of law.


Consultant.-Propose.


Pro.-What is the difference between
the taking of private property for public
use, and The taking of public property for
private use?


Con.-Cometh in the lee lOciS


Pro.-Yea or nay, as you like.


Con.-According to the laws Of New
York, there is no more difference than
there is between Tweedledum and Tweed
ledee.


Pro- beg to assure you there is o
greater difference.


Con-I apprehend, then, that the one
is the exercise of the right of eminent
domain and that the other is the right OF
pre-eminent domain.


Pro.-Give your basis.


Conf base the distinction upon the
difference between an alderman and
man made of less plant timber.


Pro.-I acknowledge the force Of you
argument, but the conclsion is not salts
factory.
Cor.-I give it up.
Pro.-The difference between the tax
ing of private property for private use. is
that the one is co1fscation and the othel
is Jimfscation.--Legal Nescs.
Year: 1871

A certain gentleman, who was regular
frequenter of the greenroom of Drury
Lane Theatre, in the days of Lord By
ron's committee, and who always stood
quietly on the hearth-rug there, with his
back to the fire, was in his usual place
one night when a narrative was related
by another gentleman, newly returned
from the continent, of barrier duel that
had taken place in Paris. A young Eng
lishman-a mere boy-had been despoiled
in a gaming house in the Palace Royal.
had charged a certain gaming Count with
cheating him, had gone out with the Count
had wasted his fire and been slain by the


Count under the frightful circumstances
of the Counts walking up to him, laying


his hand on his heart, and saying, 'You
are brave fellow-have you mother?'
and on his replying in the affirmative, re-
marked. cody, Il am sorry for her," and
blowing his brains out. The gentleman
on the hearth rug paused in taking pinch
of snuff to hear this story, and observed,
with great placidity, 81 am afraid must
kill that rascal A few nights elapsed,
during which the green room hearth rug
was without him, and then he reappeared
precisely as before, and only incidentally
mentioned, in the course of tho evening,
Gentlemen, 1 killed that rascal p He
had gone over to Paris on purpose, had
tracked the count to the same gaming
house, had thrown a glass of wine in his
face in the presence of all the company
assembled there, had told them that he
was come to avenge his young compatriot
and had done it by putting the Count
out of this world, coming back to the
hearth-rug as if nothing had transpired.
Year: 1871

The most convenient and satisfactory
way to preserve eggs fresh that we have
ever tried is to punch numerous holes in a
tin pail, fill 1t with fresh eggs, lower the
pail with the eggs into kettle of melted
tallow, which is as hot as can be without
burning ones fingers when thrust into the
liquid; then lift the pail out quickly, and
the melted tallow will flow out, leaving a
thin coating over every egg. Let the eggs
be removed as soon as possible from the
pail, and be placed on the ends in keg OF
barrel which should be kept in cool eel
lar until the eggs are wanted for use. We
have kept eggs in this manner more than
six months, so fresh that expert judges
supposed they were fresh. AS the egg
are SO much colder than the melted tallow
a thin pellicle of cold tallow will bt
formed almost instantly, which will rem
der the shell impervious to air.-N. Y
Observer.
Year: 1871

Wait until she Is ut her toilet prepare
tory to going out. She will be sure TO ask
you if her bonnet is straight. Remark
that the lives of nine-tenths Of the women
are passed in thinking whether their bon
nets are straight, and wind up with the
remark that you never knew but one wo-
man who had common sense about her.
Wife will ask you who that was. You.
with sigh, reply: "Ahl never mind"
Wife will ask you why you did not marry
her. You say abstractedly, "A why.
indeed?' The climax il reached by this
time, and regular row is sure TO follow.
Year: 1871

Most persons find that the lunches they
catch at railroad stations, or which they
carry with them in their bags or baskets,
give them headaches and serve as very
Door substitutes for warm dinners at
home. 1t is probably because they are
made up SO largely Of cake or pastry
The food is too concentrated, has not en-
ough waste and fluid about it, and so pro-
duce constipation, which is sure cause
of dull head and general bodily discom-
fort. The vegetables and sonps we eat
with our dinners at home, are valuable for
their waste matter as well as for their nu-
triment. With our lunches we miss these
but fruit is still better for those whose
stomachs are healthy enough to eat it un-
cooked, and fruit we can almost always
have with US.


For substantial lunch to take from
home, especially for one who is taking &C
tive exercise, cold chicken is good. or cold
meat cut in slices. These, laid between
buttered slices of bread, make very nice
sandwiches. This biscuit is usually
more exceptable than bread and if cut
open, spread with current jelly, and put
together again, is very nice. The less OF
cake, and the palmer that little, the bet
ter for the travellers comfort. Fresh 80
da crackers and fresh apples make an ex
cellent light lunch but the fine -four
crackers are so concentrated, that it is
best for all who can do so to eat the &C
companying apples without peeling them
A simple lunch of this kind, which yor
can buy as you hasten through the streets
to the depot, is far better than the little
sweet cakes and pastry denominations solo
at stands near the depot. l doubt if wo
men, who know how such things are made
are often caught buying them. Figs o
raisins 60 well with crackers or gem


but fresh juicy fruit is preferable whel
you can get it.-American Agric"It'tr
| ist
Year: 1871

THE Presbyterian Banner, in advising
people how to receive q pastors visit. says
Don't look upon him as stranger. or as
some superior being over whom you must
make great fuss. Receive him as one OF
YOUR own family. Receive him as q
friend,wbom you can safely trust. if indeed
YOU deem him worthy and if you do not,
the less you have to do with him the bet
Year: 1871

MENDINo TIN PANs.-Ten your lady
reader to mend their tin pans with pusg5T
1t is very easily done and is much better,
than to throw them away. Put it on tho
outside let it thoroughly dry, and they
will never have TO mend that place again.
1 have them taat have used for twenty
vearb
Year: 1871

CURE FOR Felen.-As soon as the
rarts begin to swell, get the tincture OF
iobelia and wrap the part affected with a
cloth saturated thoroughly with the tinc-
ture and the felon will be dead.
Year: 1871

Henry Ward Beecher preached re-
Gently on |" Late Hours and the Un-
fruitful Works of Darkness" ........,.


If you want to make the ruin of a
child sure give him. liberty after dark.
You cannot do any thing nearer to in
sure his -damnation than to let him have
liberty to go where he, will without re-


str4int. After dark he will be sure to
get into communication with people
that will undermine all his good quail
ties. I do not like to speak to parents
about their children. Their child can
not, will not lie, when his tongue is like
a bended bow he will not drink, when
there is not a saloon within mile of his
fathers house where he is not as well
known as one of his own decanters !;
he never does iniquitous things, when
he is reeking in filth. Nineteen out of
every twenty allowed perfect freedom
at night will be wounded by it. There
is nothing more important than for a
child to be at home at night, or, if he Is
abroad, you should be with him. If he
is to see any sights or take any plea
sure, there is nothing that he should
see that you should not see with him.
1t is not merely that the child should
be broken down, but there are thoughts
that never ought to find passage into a
mans brain. AS an, eel, if he wriggle
across your carpet, will leave his slime
which no brushing can ever efface, so
there are. thoughts that never can be
got rid of, once permitted to enter; and
there are individuals going round with
obscene books and pictures under the
lappels of their coats that will leave
ideas in the mind of your child that viii
never be effaced. There are men here
who have heard salacious song and
they never will forget it. They will re-
gret it to the end of their lives. 1 do
not believe in child's seeing life, as it
is called, with its damnable lust. and
wickedness, to have all his imagination
set on fire with the flames of hell. No
body goes through this fire but they are
burned; burned I; and they can't get rid
Year: 1871

The fashion for building long ocean
steamers recalls TO "a correspondents,
memory the following story gHf


i am reminded Of the loss of the
steamer. Home, many. years ago. on a
voyage from New York, I think, to
Charleston She broke in two at the
moment when the bow and stern of the
vessel raised by, waves SO high as


to deprive the center of the steamer of
the support of the sea, and many lives


were lost. The defence of unseaworthi.


ness was made, and perhaps proved, but,
the counsel for the owners, 50 complete-
ly described the character of the de-


fence in his opening sentence, that


scarcely hope existed that it would be


maintained. 1t was old George Griffin,


as he was then called, who summed up


for the prosecution. May it please the


court and gentlemen of the jury" said


he, " you have heard the tragedy of the
Home for the benefit of the under
WRITER'S" Mr.. Lord, the counsel of the
insurance company, has just concluded
powerful argument to show the dan


ger to human life if such vessels were
encouraged, and the opening remark of


Mr.. Griffin was so truly descriptive as to
occasion a smile throughout the. court
room. The jury found that she was
seaworthy, but she undoubtedly lacked
the strength necessary for a rough voy-
age. But the danger from great length
is of another sort. Occasionally steam
ers of that kind get in the trough of
the sea and are greatly embarrassed to
get out until the storm is over. afei :
Year: 1871

In conversation, recently, with an
intelligent gentleman, one interested
in all farm processes, and practically ia


miliar with many parts of farming, he
related the manner of making, or rather
pressing. cheese, practiced by a neigh
bor of his-a woman skilled I'M house
hold economy, and famous for her nice
cheese. With the number of COWS -usu-'
ally kept, it takes three days to nake'a
cheese. Her former method was to run


up a curd each morning, keeping them


until the third day, then mixing old and


new curds together, and putting them


into the hoop and pressing Her prac-


tice is now to run up the curd and put


it into the press at once, the hoop being


about one-third fufi.S The next morning


the second curd is run up, that which
was in the hoop is taken out, the cloth


changed, placed in the hoop again, the
top of it then scratched or broken with
fork, and the second curd put in,
when it is again placed in the press,
where it remains all day. The third


mornings curd is then run up, the
cheese taken from the press, turned,


the surface hacked up with fork, and
the third curd again sliced on, bringing
the first curd in the middle of the
cheese. It is then pressed sufficiently
taken o,:t and placed in the curing
room. By this process the work each


morning is cleared all away, and good


sized cheese is produced of superior
quality, and one as firm and solid as il
I all were placed in the hoop at once
Maine Farmer. q
Year: 1871

The Scientific American says Put
little common whitewax in your starch,
saw two ounces te-the pound then, if
you use any thin patent starch, be sure
YOU use it warm, otherwise the wax.win
get cold and gritty, and spot your linen,
giving it the appearance of being stain
ed with grease. It is different with
collar starch-it can be used quite: cold !;
however, of that anon Now, then,
about polishing shirts; starch the.
fronts and wristbands as stiff as You can
Always starch twice that lis, starch and
dry then starch again. s1ron your shirt
in the usual way, making the linen nice
and firm but without any attempt at
good finish don lift the plaits your
shirt il now ready for polishing, but You
ought to have board the same size as
a common shirt board made of hard
wood, and covered with only one ply Of
plain cotton cloth. Put this board into
the breast of your shirt, damp the front
very lightly with wet sponge, then
take polishing iron which is fat and
beveled E'a little at one end-polish'
gently with the beveled part, taking
care not to drive the linen up into
wave-like blisters of course this re-
quires a little practice, but if you are
careful and persevere, in short time
you will be able to give that enamel
like finish which seems to be so much
wanted. F - F&@& a~5-.f ~ 81 "


To DRESS CoLLARs.-Use the best
starch, say two pounds, and four ounces
of wax, and six and a half pints of wa
ter; first dissolve the wax in the boiling
water, take the vessel off the fire and
allow it to stand for i've minutes dur


ing this time dissolve the starch in the
smallest possible quantity of cold water,
and boil for twenty-five minutes-keep
stirring all the time this starch can be
used quite cold; rub it well into the
collars, wiring as tight as you can, finish
by wringing in clorh. then iron ;thus
you will have them stiff without being
hard, and when well dressed will have
that beautiful elastic finish SO much ad-
mired in new collars. ,.--sFY
Year: 1871

The Boston Cuitivator gives the follow
ing sensible and practical advice to its
readers H1s 2 '-s5s-@ g


"Every farmer should have can of
linseed. oil and brush on hand, and
whenever he buys new tool he should
soak it well with oil, and dry it by the
fire or in the sun before using. The
wood, by this treatment, is toughened
and strengthened, and rendered imper-
vious to water. Wet new hay rake,
and when it dries it will begin to loose
in the joints but if well oiled, the wet
will have but slight effect. Shovels and
forks are preserved from checking and
cracking in the top of the handle by
oiling; the wood becomes smooth as
glass by use, and is far less liable to blis-
ter the hand when long used AK and
hammer handles often break where the
wood enters the iron; this part particu-
larly should be toughened with oil to
the eye of the AK will prevent its swell
ing and shrinking, and sometimes get
ting loose. The tools on a large farm
COST a heavy sum of money; they should


be of the most approved kinds. 1t is a
poor economy, at the present prices of
labor, to set men at work with ordinary,
old-fashioned Implements 3 Laborers
should be required to return the tools
to the places provided for them after
using, they should be put away, clean,
bright, and oiled, The mouldboards of


plows are apt to get rusty from one sea-
son to another, even if sheltered; they
should be brushed over with few drops


of oil when put away, and they will
then remain in good order until want
I edn
Year: 1871

FLowERs.-A garden is beautiful
book, writ by the gnger of God every


flower and every leaf is a letter. You
have only to learn then-and he is a
poor Ounce who cannot, if he will, do
that-to learn them and join them, and
then go on reading and reading. And
you will find yourself carried away from
the earth by the beautiful story you are
going through. You do not know what
beautiful thoughts grow out of ground
and seem to talk to man. And then
there are some flowers that seem to me
like over-dutiful children tend them
never so little and they come up and
flourish, and shew, as 1 may say, their
bright and happy faces to you.-D0ptglas
JerroM -- E1s
Year: 1871

g There is good deal of amusement
in the following magic table of figures.
Hand it to young lady and. request
her to tell you in which column or col
umns her age is contained, add together
the figures at the top of the columns in
which her age is found, and you have
the great secret. Thus, suppose her age
to be II, you will find that number in


the first and fifth columns, and the first
figures of these columns added together
Year: 1871

EverysfarIner hasstl1e meansS at hand
of manufacturing, at snallfcest, vone; of
the most valuable fertilizers in use from
the contents of the privy, that are too
often nearly lost on account of their
-offensiveness or want of proper knowl-,
edge. IF the term, fertilizer, at the
head of this article is suggestive of adul-
teration, all fears of this kind will van
ish after fair trial. q


Early in spring make a curb of proper
size under cover, and place in the bot
tom a layer of dry muck six inches
deep, or IN its absence soil will do and
may be advantageously taken from the
marginal elevations of ploughed fields.
Upon this place a layer of the said con-
tents two inches deep, and thus build
up the pile in alternate layers, using
two or three times the quantity of muck,
covering the whole with it to the depth
of ten inches. Now save all the liquids
from the sleeping apartments through
the summer and pour upon the top,
adding more muck as may be necessary.
In one year this will be fit for use, well
decomposed, free from offensive odoI
and may be handled as well as so much
earth. / have used this compost in top
dressing grass lands with marked re-
suits. Last spring piece thus treated
was far ahead of the rest and had to be
cut ten days in advance. A small guam
tity in corn hills will push the young
plants forward, give them a rich, dark
green color and stamina they will not
forget during the season.-N Farmer.


SEASONING WooD.-The following is
from the Cabinet Maker: Small pieces
of non-resinous wood may be perfectly
seasoned by boiling four or five hours.
! Sash-frames of Spanish chestnut have
been "wedged up' within six weeks of
the tree being felled, which have stood
to admiration. The boiling seems to
take the sap out of the wood, which
shripks nearly one-tenth in the process.
1t is also well worth knowing that trees
felled while in full leaf in June OF July,
and allowed to lie with their tops and
lops on until every leaf has fallen, are
then neatly dry, as the leaves will not
drop of themselves till they have drawn
up and exhausted all the sap in the
tree. The time required is from a
month to six weeks, according as the
weather is dry or moist. Trees SO


treated will never push again, or show
leaves, as the stocks of winter-felled


timber invariably do if allowed to lie,


and thus prove that they have lost


vitality which the latter retains. The


floor of mill laid with poplar SO treated


and cut up and put in place in hess than


month after the leaves fell, has never


shown the slightest symptom OF shrink
age or other indication of not being
perfectly seasoned.
Year: 1871

A FRENcHMAN took room in Paris,I
on condition that the landlady would
wake him up every morning at eight
o'clock, and tell him the day of the
week, the state of the weather, and un-
der what form of government he lived,