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Year: 1872

The Elmra Gazette says 1.-THE NEW YORK HERALD
source Of the Mississippi. The man found one
place where the river was 80 full Of crooks ana
bends that he had to stop half an hour to let the
compass catch up"


The New Orleans Republican states that news
paper and periodical publishers are hunting up
Stanley the HERALD correspondent on the Living
stone search, to open negotiations with him for
clusively to the HERALD. They are very anxious to
know Of the HERALD people In London where he
may be found ana the next thing will be the search
for Stanley.


The Frederick City Cid.) Republican, says 1t
would ruin England If she should hire Dr. Living
stone to make his explorations at so much month
and found"


democratic dish since Gratz Brown was seen
using his butter in that way By the way" suggests
the Knoxville Chronicle couldn't some OF the demo-
cratic editors who publish falsehoods about the In
temperate habits OF Grant explain why Gratz did
that s'


Says the Louisville Ledger:-'The NEW YORK
HERALD's exploring expedition in the Northwest
has discovered where the Mississippi River takes its
rise. The explorer, who thought he had discovered
the Of the river Is shown to have been mis-
taken. Itasca Lake Is not the place-DOlly Warden
Lake has the distinguished honor. It is situated
In Cass county, Minnesota, and is scarcely one
quarter Of q mile in diameter and has average
depth OF twelve feet"
Year: 1872

Chance 60 Meet Ellis Ward-Whnt
Dick Risdon, the Backer of the 'ROw-
ing Family" ts willing to Do.


NEW YORK. July 13, 1872.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Being desirous OF testing the claims OF some oars
men Of this state to their ability to defeat Ellis
Ward in single scun contest, hereby offer to
match him against any one In the State OF New
York to row single scull race for $1,000 side, at
q place to be selected part way between home and
home. II this challenge is not accepted in two
weeks from the 18th day Of this month will match
two Wards against any two men IN the United
states to row pair-oared race for 200 side or
more. 49,


ANY reply to the above proposition will be at
tended to by addressing me at the CtapDer office.
Yours respectfully, DICK RlSDON.
Year: 1872

Does He Love Me2 Pretty robin at my window, Welcoming the day With thy loud and liquid piping, Read my riddle, pray. l have conned it, waking, sleeping, Vexed the more for aye Thou'rt wizard, pretty robin Does he love mel sayl Lady violet, blooming meekly By the brooklet free, Bending low thy gentle forehead All his grace to see, Turn thee from the wooing water Whisper soft, I pray, For the wind might hear my secret Does he love me? sayl Star, that through the silent night-tide Watchest over him, Write it with thy golden pencil On my easement dim. Thou art skilled in loves deep magic; Tell me then, I Ipray, Now, so none but may read it. Does he love me7 sayl
Year: 1872



 False Theories Overthrown.

 We live under medical dspensation, very differ ent that under which many of forefathers ded The sick longer bled till they faint, gorged with mercury prostrated with violent cath artics bstered their shaven heads Ever since introduction of Hostetters Stomach Bitters twenty years ago. renovation and not depletion and prostration been the watchwords of the udcious portion of the profession. The remarkable of this famous vegetable preventive invigorant and rectve has worked complete revolution the general

 of disease. At first the dogmatc members of the faculty would not believe in it. What" they claimed cure liver complaint without mercury chronic rheumatism without colchcum fever and ague without quinine! Impossble! But the most obstinate ncred- uty must yield in the end to practical demonstration From that time to the pre~ent dyspepsia biliousness intermittent levers, muscular diseases nervous com paints and constipation have vanished under the oper aon of the great specific in at least ninety per cent the in which it has been used remedy for those ailments while preventive of all malades generated by change of climate sudden revulsons of temperature epidemic poi.on in the atmosphere and unwholesome water it's beneficial effects have been obvious and uniform the most perfect confidence in it's properties antidote, safeguard and cure
Year: 1872

ica for their noble devotion to the cause Of
freedom their admission u wider fields of
usefulness ia received with satisfaction, and
the honest demands, Of any class Of citizens
for additional rights should be treated with
respectful consideration.


Is. We heartily approve Of the action Of
Congress in extending amnesty to those
lately in rebellion, and rejoice in the
growth Of peace and fraternal feeling
throughout the land.


l6. The Republican party propose to re-
.fect the rights reserved by the people to
themselves as carefully as the powers dele-
gated by them te the State and TO the Feder-
al Government. II disapproves of the re-
sort to unconstitutional laws for the purpose
Of removing evils by interference with the
rights not surrendered by the people to
either the State or National Government.


II. Itis the duty Of the General Govern
ment to adopt such measures as will tend TO
encourage American commerce and ship
building.


1e. We believe that the modest patriot
ism, the earnest purpose, sound judgment,
practical wisdom, incorruptible integrity
and illustrious services Of Ulysses 8.
Grant have commended him TO the hearts Of
the American people, and, with him at our
head, We start to-day on q new march to
victory.
Year: 1872




Fsllou C;tisens:-It is with no orLi.
nary emotion that / welcome you to
to this, the nineteenth annual fair of
the Iowa State Agricultural Society.
With glad hearts we view the evi.
dences OF advancement and prosper
ty with which We are here surround.
ed. We give hearty and sincere
thanks to the Bounteous Giver OF all
good that He hath in the year that
has gone since last we met in this
beautiful hall, poured upon us and
spared not His richest blessings. He
hath given us tie year itself, vigor-
GUS health, capacity and will to labor,
ample return Of abundant havests,
tho fruit of tree and vine and plant,
and that tho exaltation Of soul known
to him that hath Joy and pride in the
progress and we'll being Of his fellow
man. And thus we meet to to day,
bright in spirit as the sun above us,
cheerful as the dancing leaves, sur
rounded by such abundance that hos
pitality is scarcely virtue. each JOY.
Gus in himself ami glad as he sees the
same light in each of the multitude
Of faces by which he is surrounded.
In this spirit, then, officers, members,
exhibitors, visitors and guests, one
and all accept hearty welcome.


My fellow citizens, the temptation
IS great, amidst these surroundings,
in the heart Of this exposition Of the
industries and products of our State,
to review briefly the advancement
made by Iowa. as we'll as This society
since its organization, were it posi-
ble to do 80. | must recall the time
less than short SCORE Of years dis.
Year: 1872




THE farmers OwN PUDDING. lree
pounds sifted corn meal, three quarters
of pound finely minced beef suet, one
pound dried currants, [weil-washsd and
rubbed dry,l one-half teaspoonful of
soda, (supercarbonate y incorporate the
whole, while dry, and add one and a
half pints of molasses, sufficient
quantity of boiling water, stirring hard
all the time until the mixture is of con
sistency of common mush stand over
night in moderately warm place next
morning tie it in wide-mouthed bag,
leaving it full space to swell boil lnces
sanity four Or five hours "a plate placed
in the bottom Of the pot } served with
boiled or hard sauce, according to taste,
the same as with pudding By many,
this pudding is considered even better
when heated in the oven next day. The
above recipe makes quantity sufficient
for twenty people.
Year: 1872

A RELISH FOR BREAKFAST ON LUNCH
Take a quarter Of a pound of good.
fresh cheese cut it up into thin slices
and put in spider, turning over it a
large cupful of sweet milk add quar-
ter of teaspoonful of dry mustard, q
dash of pepper, little salt, and piece
of butter as large as a butternut stir
the mixture all the time. Have at hand
three Boston crackers finely powered or
rolled, and sprinkle them in gradually
as soon as they are stirred in, turn the
contents into a warm dish and serve.
Year: 1872

INrLUENcE OF WIvEs.-It was not all
a dream which made the wife of julius
Caesar so anxious that he should not so
to the Senate Chamber on the fatal Ides
of March had he complied with her en-
treaties, he might have escaped the dag
ger of Brutus. Disaster seemed to fol-
low disaster in career of Napoleon
from the time he ceased to feel the bal
ance wheel of Josephine S influence on
his impetuous spirit. General Wash
ington, when important questions were
submitted to him, often has said that he
should like carry the subject to his
bed chamber before he formed lis de-
cisions and those who know the clear
Judgment and elevated purpose of Mrs.
Washington thought all the better of
him for wishing to make her his conf
dental counsellor. Indeed, the great
majority of men who have acquired for
themselves great and good name, We're
not only married men, but happily mar
ried-both paired and matched.


~zlrs
Year: 1872

How THE CHINESE MAKE TEA.-Among
the newspaper articles floating around
the country and turning up periodically
is one commences thus 1.-The Chi
nese place the tea in cup, pour boil
ing water upon it, and drink the infu-
sion off the leaves" Now this Is Who'll
ly erroneous. The Chinese method IS
lar superior to that commonly followed
in the United States and Europe for
drawing tea They take no sugar
or milk in their tea, and never boil the
leaves, thereby dissipating all the deli
cate aroma, as we do. They have a
small basket, lined with wooden feit, from
en- inch to two inches in thickness, and
with cover padded in the same man
ner. Into this teapot OF common
China porcelain is fitted tightly. When
tea is to be drawn, they put the dry
leaves into the porcelain tea OF, pour
boiling water upon them, put on the lid,
and close the felt-lined cover OF the
basket tightly down upon it. The felt
retains the heat for from six to twelve
hours, and at any time during the day
YOU can pour cup of tea, scaldin9 hot,
fresh, clear and deliciously aromatic,
from the nose of the tea-kettle, which
protrudes from a hole through the side
of the basket. FUELS thus economical,
and the tea is infinitely better thfn can
be produced from the same grade Of
leaves by any other process. This tea
pot and basket can be procured at any
first-class Chinese store, aud u single
trial will satisfy the most skeptical that
our housewives are far behind the semi
barbarians of the Orient in this branch
of their business. We do little better
on coffee but still, as a rule, We are far
behind the natives of coffee producing
countries in preparing it for the table;
and chocolate, the most delicate and
noulishing of all the bibHlous luyuries
of the table, we utterly ruin.-CaH.
Year: 1872

The Mobile Tribune is responsible for
this: last Thursday night an eccen-
tic individual gave a party, and invited
quite number of young ladies and
gentlemen to it. When everything
was going on lovely and no one sus-
pected the denouement, the old gentle
men pointed tire-arm at one Of the
male guests, and dancing about like q
harlequin, exclaimed: Marry my
daughter on the spot! Marry my
daughter on the spotis And the young
man did marry her, but he has not YET
sent nssany cards.
Year: 1872

The German Agricatturist saws that
great portion of the fine flavor of
fresh butter is destroyed by the usual
mode of washing, and it recommends a
thorough kneading for the removal of
the buttermilk, and a subsequent press-
ing in linen cloth. Butter thus pre-
pared, according to our authority, is
pre-eminent for its sweetness of taste
and flavor, qualities which are retained
a long time Toimprove manufactured
butter weare advised by the same au-
thority to work it thoroughly with fresh
cold milk, and then to wash it in clear
water; and it is said that even old and
rancid butter may be rendered palata-
Bile by washing it in water to which
few drops of solution of chloride of
lime have been added.
Year: 1872

The San Francisco Chroaicte argues
wen for the health of one part of the
state by saying THE only doctor in
Alpine county during the past four
wears, and came there within the last
three months, is now serving term
OF Imprisonment in the county Jail,
having been convicted ofpetty larceny.
Year: 1872

A Detroit family undertook to marry
their daughter OF fourteen to man of
sixty. The ceremony was about to
take place when the girls big brother
appeared on the scene. hoisted the an
cient lover ont of doors and over the
gate, and gave him, as parting attcn-
tion. some very different booty from
what he came for.
Year: 1872

A WyaDdotte man appeared at the
Detroit and Milwaukee depot, with o
large mirror under his arm, and while
waiting for the train, he sat the mirror
down against seat. A big dog own
ed by a saloon-keeper wandering in and
out soon caught sight of the ugliest and
meanest dog he ever saw, reflected in
the mirror, He arched his back and
rolled his eyes, and the other dog did
the same. He showed his teeth and
lifted his back little higher, and the
other dog followed suit. At length,
angered beyond control, the dog gave
a howl and jump, intending to get the
other dog by the fore-paw. There was
a smash and crash, a time of cursing
and kicking, and the Wyandotter went
to see the chief of police about having
some one shot.-Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1872

AT the next election there will be
four members of congress to elect from
this state. The state is divided into
three districts. How is the fourth
member to be elected? Did the last
Legislature make any provision for this
contingency VIII some one at Little
Rock enlighten the people on the sub
ject?-Fo Smith Ldepc,ldeat.


Yes. Arkansas being divided into
but three districts, and having been
allotted an additional member of con,
gress, the latter, until the state is re,
districted by tho legislature, as will
doubtless be done at the next session,
will have to be elected by the people of
the entire state Gazette
Year: 1872

The sudden death Of DIR. Woodruff,
the former husband of the woman.
Victoria G. Woodruff, on the 9lh inst.
in New York, was the occasion Of a
great deal Of excitement among the
Woodhull'ClaAin clan. Itseems that
the deceased had been long intemper-
ately indulging in the use of morphine.
Some OF The family who were much
excited expressed the opinion that the
little old man had been badly treated
by his family. The coroner, however
certified that his death was due to az
incorporate use Of morphine.
Year: 1872

INDUSTRIAL PRoREss IN THE
SoUrH.-Tt is gratifying to observe" 3"
says the New Orleans Times, "the pro,
gress we are making in industrial de-
velopments, and the new fields opened
by enterprise and ingenuity to our
people. Before the war inventive
skill was almost exclusively confined
to the north and west; now every week
inventions are patented by southern
patenteos. Before the war our brooms
were all made in the north and west;
now they are chiefly manufactured in
this city. Our cotton seed oil and
seed cake factories are the largest and
best in the entire country. Our iron
foundries begin to take high rank,
though there is still wide margin for
improvement. Thousands of tons Of
old iron are every month shipped to
Cincinnati and the North which ought
to be converted into articles of use and
value in our own smelling furnaces
and rolling mills, and which will be,
as soon as we are provided with the
proper means and appliances. We
are gradually multiplying our indus
tries, especially the small ones, which
utilize what otherwise might be wasted
or yield but little Just here we may
add that owing to the limited number
OF small industrial enterprise in this
city, we have a superabundance of un.
skilled manual power which is now
running into vagabondage, but which,
with satisfactory means of employment,
would become not only useful and
selfsustaining, but largely profitable
to the general community. Idle hands
and idle brains are fruitful sources of
mischief, while, on the contrary, busy
hands and brains are the sure founda-
tons of peoples wealth.
Year: 1872

COUNTRY PAPERs.-Godey's La
dy's Book has the followingjust tribute
to the country press;


"Wnat tells Us SO readily the stand-
ard of a town or city as the appearance
of its paperl And its youth or its age
can as well be determined by the OBJ
serving as hya personal notice. The
enterprise of its citizens is depicted by
its advertisements, their liberality by
the looks Of the paper. Some papers
show good, solid, healthy foundation,
pletofio purses, and well,to,do appear
ance generally; others show a striving
to contend with the grasping thousand
around them, trying hard TO wrench
out an existence from the close listed
community around them. An occa-
sional meteoric display in its columns of
telegraph or local or editorials show
what it can do, if it had the means,
but it cannot continue in the expensive
work until support comes, which ought
to be readily granted, A newspaper
is like church, it needs fostering in
the commencement, and for a few years;
and then as general thing,i it can walk
alone, and reflect credit upon its loca-
ton. Take your home paper; it gives
you more news Of immediate interest
than New York or other papers; it
talks for you when other localities
belle you; it stands up for your rights I;
you always have champion in your
home paper, and those who stand up for
you should certainly be well sustained.


Iour interests are equal, and you
must rise or fall together. Therefore
it is your interests to support your
home paper not grudgipgly, but in a
liberal spirit;as a pleasure not as a dis
agreeble duty; but as an investment
that will amply repay the expenditure. ;
Year: 1872

BLAZING HIS WAY.-Peter Cart
wright having been brought up in log
cabin, did not like climbing stairs, and
when he took up his quarters in hotel
he preferred rooms on lower floor. He
once went to Chicago and booked him-
self atthe fremont House. The preacher
was assigned to room in the eighth or
ninth story. Soon after being shown
to his room, Cartwright rang the bell.
A waiter was promptly In attendance.
~ want an axe" said Cartwright. Tho
astonished servant said hewouldprocuro
one. Having obtained an axe, Cart


wright asked the walter to guide him
down stairs. Al the first turn In the
stairs. Cartwright blazed his mark In the
walnut baluster. The dumbfounded


waiter asked what he meant. ~ want
10 know my way back to my room
again" said Cartwright. The preacher
was assigned to room at more rural


distance from mother earth.
Year: 1872

When the sarcastic man uses his gift
for the good Of his kind, he may, per-
haps, be tolerated in society. There ex-
ist a few people who are at once benevo.
lent and sarcastic, who are too noble to
use this dangerous weapon upon people
who are weak and blundering, who are
too just to use it against people who do
not deserve it, but who take an exquisite
pleasure in finishing the fellow who
overbearingly treads on the toes Of
every one about him. We know one or
two ladies in particular whose biting
sarcasm isan inestimable blessing, a shell
ter to the weak, and certain destruc.
ton to the oppressor. But these kindly
disposed individuals are rarely met
with. Generally speaking, the sarcastic
man or woman thinks IL the most de.
lightful thing In the world to hurt other
people with the poisoned arrows Of Ill.
natured speech. What such people call
conversation Is death to their victims.


Indeed, their pleasures are Identical


with the refined joys Of q party ofurchins
pelting pond of frogs to death. The
frogs cannot help themselves, aud it Is


such fun to kill them! There are occa-
sions when sarcasm is an excellent wea-


pom but it should never be used except


in self defence. Advancing civilization,


which has abolished the thumb'screw
and rack, which has put away the pis.


tol and bowie-knife, will some day


abolish the. finer savagery of sarcasm.


And let us hope that in the good-breed-


ing of the latter.day, wit will be no


cover for meanness, ,smartness no excuse


for malignity; that the man who airs


his smartness by sayingan unkind thing


will be socially abolished, unless he can


show that he spoke in elfdefence or


to use the cant of the day-in moment


of temporary insanity"
Year: 1872

ARATHER contemplate trick was played
ON vuo of OuI yuung clerks, Sunday night.


He bought cut glass bottle of cologne,
with glass stopper and pink ribbon, to
present to a young lady he is keeping
company with, but on reaching the house
he felt little embarrassed for fear there
were members of the family present, and
so he left the beautiful gift on the stoop
and passed in. The movement was per-
ceived by graceless brother of the young
lady, who appropriated the cologne to his
own use, and refilled the bottle with
hartshorn from the family jar, and then
hung around to observe the result. In a
little while the young man slipped out on
the stoop, and securing the splendid gift,
slipped back again into the parlor, where,
with few appropriate words, he pressed
it upon the blushing girl. Like good
and faithful daughter that she was she at
once hurried into the presence of her
mother, and the old lady was charmed.


They didn't put up scent stuff like
that when she was a girl; it was
kept in china tea cup and it
was held together by samples of all
the family's hair. But she was very
much pleased with it. She drew out the
stopper, laid the beautiful petals of her
nostrils over the aperture, and fetched a
pull at the contents that fairly made them
bubble. Then she laid the bottle down,
and picked up brass mounted fire shovel
instead, and said she, as soon as she could
say anything: "Where is that plaguy
brat?" And he, ali unconscious of what
had happened, was in front of the mirror
adjusting his necktie and smiling at him.
self. And here she found him, and said
to him: oh, you are laughing at the
trick of an old woman, are you, you wall
eyed leper." And then she basted him
one on the ear. And he, being by nature
more eloquent with his legs than his
Year: 1872

married (his bride was worth $3.50, ,OOO)
Mr. Hotten perpetrated jocose para
graph in the San Francisco Netcs Letter,
which vexed the object of it so thorough
ly that he cannot forget or forgive it


"MARK TwAIN's MARRIAGE.


"Mark Twain, who, when he has been
long enough sober to permit an estimate,
has been uniformly found to bear spot
less character, has got married. 1t was
not the act of desperate man-it was
not committed while laboring under tenn
porary insanity his insanity is not of
that type, nor does he ever labor; it was
the cool, methodical, cumulative caleula-
tion of human nature working in the
breast of an orphan, hankering for some
one with fortune to love-some one
with bank account to caress. For years
he has felt this matrimony coming on.
Ever since he left California there has
been an undertone of despair running
through all his letters, like the subdued
wall of pig beneath washtub. He
felt that he was going, that no earthly
power could save him; but, as a conces-
sion to his weeping publishers, he tried a
change of climate by putting on linen
coat and writing letters from the West
Indies. Then he tried rhubarb, and du-
ring his latter months he was almost con-
stantly under the influence of this power
full drug. But rhubarb, while it may give
fitful glitter to the eye and deceitful
redness to the gills, cannot long delay the
pangs of approaching marriage. Rhubarb
was not what Mark wanted. Well, that
genial spirit has passed away; that loving,
bright smile will no more greet the early
bar-keeper, nor the old familiar chalk it
down delight his ear. Poor Mark he
was good schemer, but he couldn't be
made to work"


But man who is professional joker
should not cut up so rough at what was,
of course, only written as jest.