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Year: 1875

TxyHE MAGNOLIA HAS BEEN FITTED


up In the most attractive style possible,
with o view to the convenience and comfort
Of patrons The proprietor desires to cali the
attention Of customers, friends aud the public
to his superior stock OF
Year: 1875

RAPID BLEACHING OF LINEN.-According to the
experience of some, time may be saved by bleaching
linen by the following process Rub the linen as it
comes from the loom. in dry condition (best on
table,, with brush, with lather of soap made by
boiling pounds of soap for piece of linen
or pound for a piece of fine and allowing it to
cool; then cover the linen in tub with CLOTH
Prepare ye, for piece of linen by boiling One-half
a bushel of good sfted beech-woOd ashes In rain
spring water and fltering it through lye-basket.
bring it to boiling in clean kettle, and pour it upon
the linen Cover the vessel well. SO that the warmth
and moisture may be retained as long as possible
and allow 1T to stand over night. Spread the linen
Oh the grass in tho morning, to it that spots
become dry during the day. and cover at night again
with the boiling lye. Turn the linen on the second
dey and expose as before, without allowing it to
become dry, and steep it over night in weak hot
soap-suds in a well-cOyered vessel. Wash out the
dissolved dirt in the morning and expose again,
without allowing it TO dry before evening, and then
treat in the usual way until 1t is as white as may be
desired six TO eight days often being sufficient If
necessary. however the soaping aud sleeping may
be repeated as before. when only two DAYS addi-
ti0pal bleaching will be JeQuired.
Year: 1875

COMBINED COLLEGIATE ACTION.


The Standing Committee of the lntercol-
legae Literary Association have selected the following
persons act Trustees Of all moneys that may ac-
sSvs to tue Association and TO take charge OF TIE fellow
Year: 1875

WINONA AND ST. PETER GRANT.


Mr.. Cox's bill renewing the grant to
the Winona and st. Peter railroad conn
pany, designed to cure the defect Of the
former State grant, as exposed by the
Supreme Court in recent decision, was
discussed at some length on propositions
to amend for the further protection Of
settlers on the lands, and pending
an amendment by Mr.. Donne.ly providing
that the company shall stipulate its sub
lection to the right Of the Legislature to
regulate freight and passenger carrying,
the bill was made special order in COM
mittee for next day.


After passing upon numerous local bills
the committee rose and the Senate ad-
journed.
Year: 1875

One of the most remarkable inven-
tiOns in the way of telegraphy was re-
Gently exhibited at the office of the Do
miniOn telegraph company, at Bradford,
Ontario. 1t consists of an apparatus by
which musical sounds can be Transmitted
over telegraphiC wires, and every word
and note be as distinctly heard at the
end of the wires as at the place where
the music originates. In short, when
the invention is in working order, it is
held that concert given at San Fran
cisco can be as plainly heard in New
York as at that place. A second i'm
provement, 500 to be exhibited, is that of
sending messages already written out,
without the usual telegraphic operations,
and pictures as well. The plan is to
have the message written on shellac
paper, then placed into a machine made
for the purpose. 1t is received at the
other terminus upon a piece of shallac
paper from a like machine, plainly writ
ten, like copper plate. Pictures, the in
ventor says, can be perfectly copied by
the same process. All this work can be
done by boys, and if put into operation
will do away with telegraphic operators
altogether Still another discovery,
which it Is claimed can be put into use,
is that of transmitting over single
wire any amount of messages to the
same point, and at the same time. The
plan is to have corresponding number
of instruments at each terminus of the
wire, and one Of each of these tuned to
correspond with one at the other end.
BY this arrangement the entire number
of machines can be operated simuItane-
ously, and each will sound the one tuned
to the corresponding pitch at the other
end, without any interfering with an
other.
Year: 1875

ETC., and vet we 90 on in the same beateI
track, planting cotton to the exclusion 0
everything else-forcing production by
all artificial means, and extending the
cotton belt up to the very base Of the
| mounta ms.


Three-fourths of the farmers are un
able TO strike lick toward the making
of crop without giving lien. They
give lien and plant all cotton to buy
corn, -four, bacon, and mules. Every
year it has been growing worse, and the
farmers are now more dependent thar
| they were at the surrender. Is it not
high time to face the danger and make
an effort to rescue the agricultural in.
terest from absolute ruin.


Col. Aiken and other writers have
placed this subject before your readers
in almost every possible shape, but SC
far to little purpose, we fear. The great
troubles is the apathy of the planter,
the unconquerable aversion to get out OF
the old ruts. He will readily jump at
any humbug that promises impossibili-
ties, but he is ever slow to go system
atlcally about any change that requires
time, patience, and system.


The remedy is not to be found in any
one expedient-but in a general reform.
We must practice economy in every
thing. We must practice self-denial.
We must realize in the fact that we are
poor, and cannot afford to live as we
once did. We must try to live within
ourselves as much as possible, and not to
run to the store for everything. Pitch
your crop to make your provisions, and
then make all the cotton you can. But
don't pick out tie poorest fields for your
provision crops, and let the grass take
them. Plant a few acres, put down the
manure, and cultivate well.


Five acres of corn, with thirty bushels
cotton seed, and one hundred pounds
acid phosphate to the acre, will make
more than ten planted on poor land,
with half the work, and the same may
be said of oats.


We have glorious climate, and more
land than we have labor Cultivate the
best land and let the poor rest.


Plough deeper, take more pains in pre-
paration, and you will have less trouble
in cultivating. Provide yourself with
grass lots-barley and rye patches, mil
let, or corn lots; use every means to
keep out of the corn crib.


You will be surprised to find how
well you can utilize these little side
lots You will find it far better in the
long run far better than hauling corn
and hay from the depot over bad roads,
when the crop needs work, or the horses
need reSt-ECchdRqe
Year: 1875

LIME WATER FOR BrFNs.-A CORE
spondent writes that the readiest and
most useful remedy for scalds and burns
is an embrocation of lime water and
linseed oil. These simple agents COM
bined form thick, cream-like substance,
which effectually excludes the air from
the injured parts and allays the intiam
matioI almost instantly. He mentions
Il case where Il child fell backward into a
bath-tub of boiling water, and was nearly
tiaved from her neck to below her hips.
Her agOnies were indescribable; but her
clothing being gently removed, and the
lime and oil preparation thickly spread
over the injured surface, she was sound
asleep in five minutes. Subsequently
the parts were carefully washed with
warm milk and water three times day,
the oil dressing renewed, and the little
patient rapidly recovered. Though ali
the scalded skin came off, she did not
have a scar. This remedy leaves no hard
coat to dry on the sores, but softens the
parts, and aids nature to repair the in
iurv in the readiest and most expeditions
manner. This mixture may be pro
cured in the drug stores; but if not
thus accessible, slack a lump of quick
lime in water, and as soon as the water
is clear, mix it with the oil and shake il
well. If the case Is urgent, us1 boiling
water over the lime, and it will become
clear in five minutes. The preparation
may be kept ready bottled in the house
and it will be as good six months old al
when first made,-American Farm 'IGir
nal,
Year: 1875

If the dramatic professionals one which
it is disgraceful for any lady to adopt,
reason compels us to say that no lady
ought to enter theatre at all. And So
cial inconsistency is still more strongly
brought out when we reflect that how
excessively popular are amateur theatTi-
Gals, and to what professional extent
they are carried. There are several pri-
yatc houses in England which possess a
regular theatre, where every theatrical
COntrivance and stage appurtenances are
to be found, and where performances are
repeated night after night, to which
friends, tenants, and tradespeOple are in
turn invited as spectators. Nobody
thinks there is any harm in this, and as Il
simple matter of fact there is no harm.
Ladies, in the highest sense of the term,
eagerly and brilliantly assist in these per-
formances, which are rapidly becoming
public in every way; for we know that
ladies often act in private theatres 10 pro-
miscuous audience, who pay their money
for admission. Why, then, should edu-
Gated ladies who are born with the dra-
matte instinct strong in them, but have
no other future to look forward to, except,
perhaps, prize in the matrimonial mar
ket, be debarred from adopting the stage
as profession? Surely i is as honor
able to work for livelihood with God
given talents az to sell a handsome face
to wealthy sUitor. Surely it il not less
worthy Of a cleverwOman to teach adults,
from the stage, what they are, and what
they ought to be, than to inculcate the
rudiments of the education III the, school
room. Surely if the theatre is place to
which we may take our wives and daugh-
ters with impunity, we should desire that
the actress whose art they are to witness
should be in their turn women in con-
tact with whom they should have no
cause to shrink from. Is it not a crying
shame, and disgrace to the liberal and
enlightened age in which it is our boast
to live, that, when gentlemen of birth
and education find it necessary to adopt
the stage as their profession, they should
also find it necessary to change their
names, as if they were doing something
of which society thinks they ought to be
ashamed Those who are practically ac-
quainted with the profession know by
bitter experience the toll, the hardships,
the drudgery, the disappointments that
have to be gone through in years Of hard
est work, before a substantial position can
be gained; and society, for whose intel


lcctual amusement and intelligent recre-
alton the theatre exists, should warmly
and heartily recognize the labOrs and eff
forts of those upon whom it depends so
much, and do all in its pOwer-and it can
do great deal-tO elevate and encour-
age all who possess true dramatic genius.
London Society.
Year: 1875

DoN'T bother your head about people
who are going about trying to take away
your character. Very likely it will do
YOU good. Men are very often like a
pair Of boots-the more they are black
ened the more they shine.
Year: 1875

ONE of the most important, but ono OF
the most difficult things for a powerful
mind, is to be its own master. A pond
may lay quiet in plain, but a kewants
mountains 10 compass and hold 1t in
Year: 1875

TONY PASTOR
in original portfolio of humorous aud descriptive Songs
Gnd will tell the people Where Tweed u as dome in CON
pecon with his regular company of great Stars that have
ade his elegant the fashion able family the
metropolis
NO FREE LIST NO UNOCCUPIED SEATS
Orchestra chairs and private boxes be secured A days
in advance


Carriages may be ordered AZ 10 80.
Year: 1875

A hired girl should be ingenious.
One OF them, in the employ Of a West
street family, discovered unique way
Of extracting teeth. She suffered
nearly whole week with an aching
tooth but had not the courage to 60
to dentist. One afternoon it troubled
her so much as to force her to look for
a remedy, and she finally hit upon a
plan. With a piece of stout twiue
she made loop which she put about
her tooth. Then she took a bit of
soap and rubbed it on che floor oppo-
site the back door. The other end of
the twine she fastened to the knob of
the closed door, then she took a posi-
ton on the soaped boards and con,
menced to lean back. When she had
acquired slope Of aboa. forty five de.
grees the soap suddenly took hold and
she came down on the floor with such
force as to knock a par of ten dollar
vases from mantel upstairs, A1d
there she sat reaching out FOR breath
when the atfrigbted family made their
appearance, while the offending to yth
dangled from q string agaiast the
door, DnuburU Mems.
Year: 1875

Las Sabba,h fascinating gen,le-


man from Montpelier was stopping at


the Addison House. HIS business


was the benevolent one Of srpplying


the candy dispensaries of the iowa,


and of course sweetness was his strong
point He had the waiter trot out his


best breakfast, which he stabbed ia an


experience manner. Then he spent


an hour of elegant leisure in inserting


a wooden toothprick between his ivor-
les. Tip-top cigar next. Patronized
the landlords brother with wiso mod


Grafton. Lunch at noon. More tooth
prick. More cigar. More patronage.


Then he found time heavy on his


hands. But he knew how to tighten
it up. There was a nice young lady


in New Haven, who had the honor of


his acquaintance. The thought OF
that young lady had fermented beneath
his shirt front ever since he arrived in
this vicinity, and So in good season


the best turnout in the stable was be-


fore the door. He got in, took the
ribbons, spread his coat tails carefully
apart, sat down between them, tipped
a wink at the bystanders, and was off.
Those coat tails swelled with the best
assorted candies The skies were
fair, and the road glorious, and he
soon reached the temple where the
object of his intended treat was en-
shrined, alighted, and was in the
charming presence. There was an
other fellow there. Proabbly her
brother. With his shiny plug in his
hand, with sacharine smile and hon
eyed word he greeted her, and after a
short conversation he asked her for
the distinguished honor and exquisite
pleasure of her company in little
drive. Thereupon the young lady
gave him an introduction to the other
fellow. The other fellow was her
husband. Thunder! The wilted
drummer of sweets got into his buggy
in hurry, sat down upon his candy,
found his seat uneasy, got up, spread
his coat tails apart sat down again and
drove rapidly oft. And they say the
leaves Of the trees that he passed were
utterly withered by the language he
in expressing his disgust at
the mutations which a few short
months will make. The first sour
Year: 1875

One example Of the way il which
Moody and Sankey, the American re.
vivalists in England. talk to Tie peo-
pie there in the way OF anecdotes is
thus given by an English paper: Not
long ago there was man complain
ing about my talking so about names
written in the Book of Life he did
not believe in it. 1t took some time
to look the subject up, and l was
amazed to find so much in Scripture
about names being in the Book of
Life. Two years ago friend of
mine who was in London was going
back to America, She went to Liver
pool with 4 party of American friends
and they were talking about what ho-
tel they should Sop at, and decided
to go to the Northwestern. The no
tel was full, and as they were star'jag
to find another, they said to my friend:
"Are you not going with us ?" My
friend said NO I am going to stay
here" "Oh, no. they said; "you
cannot stay here" But my friend
said : Il am going to stay" "How
is it {? Il have got Il room Where
did yoa get it. "Wby, | sent my
name on ahead She had telegraph
ed few days before and scared a
room. And that is just wat the chill
d"en OF God are doing now; they arc
sending their names on ahead aud get
ting them down in the Book OF Life.
They are not waiting for the dying
minute. My II end, send your name
on ahead to night, and iG you really
want it there, God will put it there.
Year: 1875

During our attendance at Cir cult Court last week we had an ample opportunity to witness some of the embarrassing and dama- ging results of the insufiiciency of the fees allowed some of our off cials under the present fee bill, and we now have to record the humiliating fact that the process es of the Court were not only re- tarded, but almost thwarted of execution for want of some one in whose hands to place them. The instances to which we alludc were where warrants had been issued to compel the attendance of wit. nesses. The Sheriff who was present waiting upon the Court informed the Judge that he was unable to procure the services of deputies to execute the processes, although he offered the entire fees allowed by law. After an embar- rassing halt in matters, a volun. teer was finally found and sworn in as a special deputy to execute the warrants.

 Economy is good thing, and a judicious economy in our law. makers would, of course, be very commendable, but such economy as this, we are disposed to think, will fail to win many laurels for our legislative friends.

 This evil has been complained of and pointed out time and again by the press of the State, and we predict that the member who now opposes a remedy for the evil, in the shape of more adequate fees, will want the honors of office a long time, before he again gets them by the free suffrages of the people.
Year: 1875

In everything except the jury system, we believe the majority rule is approved and considered as binding. Majority rule has always been considered, we be- lieve, as one of the essential prin- ciples of republicanism. Where there is doubt or dispute upon a point, the decision of q majority of those who may be acquainted with the facts in the case and who are competent to judge of the facts in the case and who are competent to judge of the matter in dispute, is accepted as correct and just. The justice and cor rectness of the principles that the majority shall rule is recognized, as before stated, in almost every matter, except in trial by jury.

 Why is it that the rule does not hold good hereS Why, in the instance and the very place that men apply for adjudication of their claims and rights with the expectation of getting justice, is the rule ignored, and the dissent of ONE considered sufficient to annul the assent of a unanimous voice all but one. The decision of eleven men in any other capac- ity than that of jury would be sufficient to overthrow the decis- ion of one man with the same lights before each. If twelve ac- countants were employed to com pute the interest on a note, and eleven out of the twelve made it one and the same amount while ONE made it a different amount, who would be considered right, the one or the eleven? Or who would doubt the correctness of the calculation made by the eleven, because the twelfth one differed !? Why should not this same rule hold good in the system of trial by jury?
Year: 1875

l ne recent fcNerSeS-Ine buTn- inr back, as it were, of the "tidal wave. which have befallcn the Democratic party, may at first glance, seem to be sufficient to cause some doubts as to the re suit of the great national contest next year. The result of the late elections, while they cannot be taken, by any means, as an index to the temper of the mass of the voters of the United States at next years election, serve as guage by which we may measure the relative strength of the two great parties at the present time. This strength may remain as it now is, or it may shift from one side to the other. Which side will be gainer by any shifting of voters from one side to the other, will depend upon the issues pre- scented by the two parties during the next campaign. The pre- sumption is, that the Democratic party will learn wisdom from this years elections and will enter the presidential campaign upon a platform which will challenge the admiration and command the votes of many conservative voters who were scared from their ban her this year by many false repre- sentatlons by the opposite party. The great bug q boo of imitation and opposition to the public school system drove thousands and tens of thousands of votes from the democratic tickets this year. which will gladly seek the oppor- tunity to cast their votes next year with the party to defeat third termism and to rebuke the ambition and personalism of the present administration. There is little liability for the democratic party to be looser by any changes in public sentiment between the present and the election next year. A careful survey of the field shows that all that will be required in order to secure success next year, will be for that party to hold what she now has. And if she can re gain Ohio next October victory in the presidential contest will be doubly insured.

 The New York Herald in a re- view of the situation since the 2d inst, places the different states as follows: the democratic states and the number of electoral votes to which each is entitled, arc:
Year: 1875

Republican electoral votes lsl

 From these figures we see that the democratic party will elect their presidential candidate next year by majority of seven cleo toral votes, provided there is no falling of.

 There IS but little room to doubt that they will not only hold their own, but make accessions from the states which in the rc. cent election went republican.

 With the present lights before us there is no reason for the dem ocratic party to be discouraged.
Year: 1875

MUSICAL EDUCATGoy IN OUR


SCHOOLS. How is this great power


Of music to be controlled aid brought


to bear most directly. most efficient
", on our people, That nation is
the best-educated in which knowl
edge is most difused, in which the


results of learning are within the grasp


of the greatest number. Oaly so far


as any art or science becomes part
Of popuI lar education can that art or
science become a power, and influence


in land. OF the growing desire
among our people for n higher music
al education We have many signs in


the frequency Of festivals and choral
unions and the number of musical as.
sociations. We Americans are a
conglomerate race, made up of the
best of every people under the sun,
so transfused that the origin of even
single family can scarcely be traced
without an element of Celtic or Teu-
tonic race discovering itself. Per
haps this is the source of the musical
taste so widely spread among US ss a
people. We say taste not culture:
we are not yet a cultivated people
in any true sense. ~ national
characteristic. to he SONG and music
lovers belong to the Irish ana Ger
man races rather than to the Saxon.
It is rare to find n German or An
Irish girl without mn ear for music.
In our Western States and centres of
population the Germans instinctive-
" gather, in remembrance Of the
father land, into Sangvereins, pre-
serving the songs and musical tradi-
tions Of the old land, while they wei
come gladly any thing fresh and
worthy from The new. The marvel
ouS achievements Of the school feSti-
walls in the Music Hall in Boston are
largely due to the fue voices. the
quick perception, of the Irish, either
by birth or descent, who constitute a
majority Of the pupils in our public
schools.


No one thing has done more for
music in the past twenty years than
lis introduction "a IN Integral part Of
our common-school education. In
the large cities and suburban towns
little seems left to desire in that di-
rection. From the time children at
the age of five enter the primary
school till at the age of sixteen or
eighteen they graduate from the high
or normal school. music is Is much a
part Of their training rs the mulii-
and spelling book. -
The next generation will see what
we fore see, and reap the harvest this
generation i, 80 wisely sowing.


If, "a we contend, music is in itself
purifying and eicyating, fit cln dis
place and crowd ont bascr pleasures
by giving innocent recreation and ey-
element 70 a people that must be
4 people who must be busy
for good or for evil, we can not have
too much OF it. II cannot enter too
largely or to- deeply INTO the system
IF common school elucltiou,-ELL
GRAY, in Hrpet5 N'Jriae 5r Octo
jer.