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Year: 1873

TOLEDO. January II. - Yesterday
morning the first section Of q freight
train on the Lake Shore railroad, com
ing from the West, when within about
twenty miles Of this city. came to halt
in consequence Of an accident to the
engine. The flag man failed to give
the necessary signal TO the following
section, which was approaching, and it
dashed into the first section. throwing it
from the track, and slmost entirely de-
molishing FIVE cara. The engine OF the
second section Is almost q total wreck
o! eight persons 10 the csboose OF the
first section at the time ot the accident,
FIVE were seriously and perhaps fatally
Injured.
Year: 1873

The President has Wisely refused to call an
extra session of Congress, for the purpose of
making an appropriation to furnish the Con-
gressional Globe with Illustrations by the pho
tolithographic process.
Year: 1873

Prosperity is said to be more trying than
adversely, theory which most people are
willing to accept without trial; but few men
stand the drying out of the natural sap of
their greenness in the artificial heat of city
life This, be it noticed, is nothing against
the drying and seasoning process; character
must be put into the crucible some time. and
why not in this world? A man who cannot
stand seasoning will not have high market
value in any part Of the universe.


Backlog studies' By Warner.
Year: 1873

Alas! that learning should not save pig
from the auction block. The educated
pig" is to be disposed of at Washington for
non-payment of rent. Learning appears not
to be appreciated at the capital.
Year: 1873

An Indiana woman is mad because her hus-
band took her very best sheet to hang him
SELF, VIXEN there was an old clothes-line in
the cellar which was good enough for the pur-
pose. She says he always was extravagant,
and too lazy to 60 into the cellar for anything.
Year: 1873

DETROIT paper tells that lady pas
sepger on a Michigan avenue car tainted
away, and after camphor failed TO restore
her to her senses man opened his knife
and cut her leather belt, which parted with
q loud snap, when the lady opened her eyes.
The belt was drawn so tight that the man
could scarcely work the knife blade under it.
Year: 1873

A REMARKABLY dirty man stopped in
front Of small boy sitting on fence, ex-
pecting to have some fun by chatting him.
He said: "HoW much do you weigh" The
answer was, "Well, about as much as you
would If YOU were washed"
Year: 1873

We Daily Graphic is the title of anew illustrated paper, publish ed every afternoon, at 3a and il Park Place, New York. l his is a new enterprise in daily journal ism. and the number before Us promises Of success.
Year: 1873

butter.


CAULFLowERs AU GRATIN.-Boil them
as directed above, and then dish them
on a crockery dish; spread white
sauce all over, dust with grated cheese,
Swiss cheese is the best, after which
you spread melted butter all over, and
then dust with bread-crumbs; put the
dish in a quick oven for about ten min
utcs, and serve. As they must be served
in the crockery dish, the latter may be
placed inside of another dish to serve.


FRIED.-Boil the caulifowers till
about half done. Mix two tablespoon
fuls of -four with two yolks of eggs,
then add water enough to make rather
thin paste add salt to taste tire two
whites are beaten till stiff, and then
mixed with the yolks, -four, and water
Dip each branch of the caulihowers in
the mixture, and fry them in hot fat.
When done, take them off with a skim
mer, turn into a colander, dust salt all
over, and serve warm.


STEwED. and blanch the cauli-
flowers for about three minutes; take
them off and put them in pan with
two table-spoonfuls of fat, and a few
slices of salt pork at the bottom set
the pan on slow fire, simmer for five
minutescedd two or three tablespoon
fuls of b. tn and one of gravy, stir now
and then, simmer till done, when dish
the canlfowers, add to the sauce salt
and pepper to taste, turn it over the
caulifowers through a strainer, and
serve.


FoB BREAKFAsT.-Bo the caulihow-
ers as directed above until done take
them off, drop them in cold water, and
then drain them. Put one or two yolks
of hard-boiled eggs in a bowl or salad
dish, and mix them well with four
table-spoonfuls of oil, making a paste !;
then mix again with two table-spoonfuls
of vinegG salt, pepper, chopped par
sley, and a little mustard. Stir the
caulifowers in the mixture, and serve
cold.-Harper's Bazar.
Year: 1873

The Ordinary Rules of Health.


A man who observes the ordinary
rules of health and is careful every day
that he obeys the demand of his body
for exercise and the requirements of
his mind for relaxation will not only
stand a large amount work, but will
continue to good old age to fulfill the
duties of life. Men break down in mid
die life not because they are over
worked but on account of their igno-
rance of the imperative demands of
their physical system. In some cases
it is not ignorance of these demands
but wilfull neglect of their duty to
themselves. Not long since a mer-
chant, hearty and apparently strong,
was taken i'll, and his doctor pronoun-
ced it a case of over work. Perhaps the
doctor thought so, but if he had in
quired closely into the habits of the pa
tient he would have found that it was
not over work, but gross abuse of him
self. Confined in a close apartment
ten hours day in the business season,
eating trash ct cheap restaurants, or
not eating at all during the daytime,
at night making late meal, retiring to
bed with a load of indigestible food, to
wake up in the morning feeling heavy
and seeking relief by some invigorating
cordial, the merchant finally yielded to
these personal assaults, and the doc
tor pronounced it a case of over work.


Men do not guage themselves as they
should. The engineer who would at
tempt to carry a hundred pounds of
steam when he knew his boilers were
only guaged for seventy would be pro-
nounced an idiot, but sensible men to-
day are carrying pressure which their
common sense should tell them is not
only above the limits of their brain
power, but is beyond the average of or
dinary men. When they break they go
to pieces mentally and live sad monu-
ments of the folly of men who will not
obey what is almost intuitively taught
by the very body which they injure. 1t
is more remarkable than we see these
instances of failure and yet heed not the
example. We think we are TO be ex-
empt from such results, but each day
the story is told again and again.


Instances are not rare of men who
appear to lead an industrious life, and
rarely know sickness. They work hard,
but do not appear to be over worked.
When you meet such a case if you Will
inquire closely you viii find that he is
man who takes his meals regularly,
has his seven or eight hours sleep, does
not overeat, is not Incorporate in the
use of anything, and takes his rest as
he goes along. We are like locomo-
tives. We need oiling all the time, not
once a week or once a month. When
you overhead locomotive by overuse,
you take the temper out of it, and it is
used up. 1t is the same with men, wo-
men and children. When shall we grow
wise?
Year: 1873

A PARIS correspondent assures the
fashionable world that " there has been
a regular collapse in the fashions the
hustle has exploded, and now the wo-
men cannot coax their skirts to lie too
fiat. The trimming is all at the bottom
of the skirt and put on as full as posi-
bic, so as to stand very stiff. The sash
is worn around the dress, just above the
knee, tied on the sides with bow and
ends. No dress is considered elegant
that has not sweeper at the bottom of
the skirt for evening robes; it is made
of lace and other rich quillings. The
walking costumes are all worn short.
and just escape the ground which, to
say the least, is clean fashion"
Year: 1873




Choice white winter wheat is best,
but good spring wheat Will do. Grind
so as to have the bran cut fine. Use no
bolt or sieve. Mix the meal with pure
soft water, so thick that it viii lift
heavily with a spoon. Use cast-iron
bread pans, such as are readily to be
had at large hardware stores they are
shallow, oval cups, about a dozen cast
in one plate. Heat the pan well, then
put in the batter, and bake in quick
oven, say, in twenty minutes. The
cakes, sometimes called gems, will
be light, taste good, and be healthy,
and may be eaten warm with perfect
impunity. The heat of the oven and
pan suddenly coagulates the gluten of
the outside, which retains the steam
formed within separates the particles
into cells; and the mass remains po-
rous and digestible. When little old
the bread can be renewed by steaming
or it may be thoroughly dried, and then
ground to rusk, to be eaten with milk,
or made into puddings. For common
family use, this form of bread is su-
periOr
Year: 1873

The New York Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals has is
sued the following circular relative to
the treatment of horses during the
heated term:


"The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals would call atten-
ton to the suffering of horses and mules
in our stfcets during the hot season,
and recommend drivers and others hay-
ing animals under their care the most
considerate treatment. 1t would also
recommend feeding small bundle of
wet hay, or couple of quarts of oats
in the middle of the day; to use but
little corn, as it is very heating, and to
soak whatever is used twenty y-four hours
in salt water before feeding; to use the
wet sponge on the head to furnish
little drinking water as often as practl-
cable, when not overheated, and, as
further means of refreshing the animal,
to throw water upon the legs and such
parts as are liable to chafe by perspira-
ton or otherwise drive slowly and
lessen the load usually imposed in
cooler weather to loosen the checkrein,
or, better, dispense with it altogether;
to cover the animal with a fly net or,
preferable, with a light sheet. The
following preparation is recommended
for animals suffering from being over
heated To one pint of water put one
ounce of chloride of ammonia, one
ounce sweet spirits nitre, one drachm
tincture aconite; give a tablespoonful
every hour or two. Upon the passen-
ger railroad lines the society would ad-
wise slow driving, even walking, when
the weather is oppressive to use the
sponges as above recommended, and to
have men stationed at the proper dis
tances along the route to water the ami
mails to keep them shaded when prac-
ticable, and to provide extra horses to
relieve the load on up grades"
Year: 1873

The application of gunpowder to the
process of pile driving has come into
considerable use in England, its work
ings have demonstrated that consider
able saving is effected both in time and
cost, as compared with the ordinary
method of pile driving.


This apparatus is described as an or
dinary pile-driviny engine, having a
ram from the upper and under side of
which a plunger projects. The ram is
fitted with an arrangement by which it
may be retained at any desired height
above the pile head. A cast iron cap,
having hole in its centre, into which
the lower plunger of the ram Will fit,
is placed on the top of the pile to be
driven, and in the hole is inserted a
small clfe.fge of powder. On the ram
being released, the lower plunger enters
the hole in the cap, compressing the air
within, generates heat, which ignites
the gunpowder.


The force of the explosion is utilized
partly in driving the pile downward and
partly in throwing the ram upward, the
latter being detained at the required
height, ready for the next blow. Should
the ram be thrown too high, the upper
plunger enters an air cylinder, com
pressing the air and cushioning the
blow. A self-acting feeding arrange
ment supplies ammunition automaticaI-
lv after every shot
Year: 1873

If horse has a good constitution,
and has once been a good horse, no matter
how old or how much run down he may be, he
can be greatly improved, and in many respects
made as good as new ly liberal use of
Sheridans Cavalry Condition Powders.
Year: 1873

This terrible scourge is threatening
this country again. This fact is we'll
calculated to impress our readers with
the necessity and the advantage of life
insurance, and will greatly increase. as
the war did, the number of persons
seeking insurance. It is good time now
for any one fitted therefor, to secure the
agency of a frst-class company. The
National Life Insurance of the United
States of America, chartered by con-
gress, with a capital of one million dol
lars, and charges for insurance only
about three-fourths those of mutual in
stitutions, is a company of which any
agent or policy-holder may well be
proud, and we cheerfully advise all per
sons looking for insurance or for en-
ployment to address that company at its
branch Office in Philadelphia.-C01
Year: 1873

VIZ see that PRoCTER & CANDLES
EXTRA OLIVE Soar is becoming very
popular in our city, its quality we know
is superior, and being nicely perfumed
we are not surprised that consumers
prefer it, and that it has large sale.
Year: 1873

A GENTLEMAN afflicted with the chronic
rheumatism says, No description of my
case can convey the vast amount of benefit
have received from the use of Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment. 1 believe it is the best
article in the world for rheumatism.
Year: 1873

There is no science in their preten-
sions TO which mankind are more apt to
commit grevious mistakes, than in the
supposed very obvious one of physiog-
nomy. quarrel not with the princi-
pies of this science, s.s they are laid
down by the learned professors much
less am 1 disposed, with some people,
to deny its existence altogether as any
inlet of knowledge that can be depended
upon. L believe that there is, or may
be, an art to "read the minds con-
struction in the face" But then. in
every species of reading, so much de-
pends upon the eyes of the fadef if
they are blear and apt to dazzle, or in
attentive, or strained with too much at
tention, the optic power will infallibly
bring home false reports of what it
reads. How often do we say upon a
cursory glance at stranger, what fine
open, countenance he has, who, upon
second inspection, prove to have the ex-
act features of a knave ! Nay, on much
more intimate acquaintance, how a de-
lusion of this kind shall continue for
months, years, and then break up all at
once Ask the married man, who has
been so but for a short space of time,
if those blue eyes, where, during so
many years of anxious courtship, truth,
sweetness, serenity seemed to be writ
ten in characters which could not be
misunderstood ask him if the charac-
ters which they now convey be exactly
the same if for truth he does not read
dull virtue (the mimic of constancy),
which changes not only because it wants
the judgment to make a preference if
for sweetness he does not read animal
tranquility, the dead pool of the heart,
which no breeze of passion can stir into
health ? Alas, what is this book of the
countenance good for, which, when we
have read so long, and thought that
we understood its contents, gives as a
countless list of heart-breaking errats
at the end Charles Lamb.
Year: 1873

MANUFACTURERs OF HAIR CLOTH


Hair cloth is made from the hair of


horses tails, which is brought, some of


it from South America, but more from


Russia. In the latter country it is col


lected at the great fairs of Novgorod,


Mimi and Isbilt. It is of all shades


and color, and for use is dyed black.


The poorest quality sells for about fifty
cents a pound the best for 81, the
price rapidly increasing as the length
exceeds twenty-four inches. In the
fabrication of hair cloth the hair is wet
with water, and when we'll soaked is put
in loom to be woven with a cotton
warp. The weaving mechanicism is so
perfect in its operation that if one of
the hairs forming the weft is missed,
the device acting upon it continues to
work until it has grasped it, all the
other parts of the machine standing |
still
Year: 1873

TIE VIENNA SCANDAL. - Exporting
official abuse is not likely to help the re-
pute of our model Republic on the Euro
pean continent therefore, every honest
citizen must feel mortified that so much
suspicion of irregularities" on the part
of the National Commissioners to the
Vienna Exposition has arisen as to COM
pei the State Department to suspend them
and order their conduct to be investiga-
ted. If they have gone into truck and
dicker business and become the paid
agents OF parties with axes to grind in
the way of trade, instead of being honor
able representatives of their country,
they deserve the most serious condemna'
ton and the speediest punishment. The
nation cannot afford to have its character
bought and sold at the Austrian Paris
aud shrewd Yankee deception must moi
there be allowed the slightest degree tc
mar the fair fame Of America won al
Geneva. The scandal, if there be foun
dation for it as feared, is shameful in thu
extreme, and the reputation of the au
thors of it, when shown to be guilty, ii
the most emphatic manner should b.
Indignantly demanded by the people
Questionable lobbying and beating trans
actions are bad enough at home but tia
men assumed to be above reproach shoul'
seek high positions to carry rascalit.
abroad where it will be conspicuous as
national disgrace, it is crime who's
enormity is increased by its bad faith an'
treachery-Boston Transcript.
Year: 1873

Breach of Promise Cases are fairly
kaleidoscope in their variety, and here is
one from the Norwich assizes, in England,
which is notable for its novelty. A ship
captain put into Yarmouth for repairs,
and landed just in time to see fight.
During the progress of the fracas he ex-
pressed an opinion as to its merits, which
was echoed by girl at his side. Turn
ing to her instantly, he asked if she was
engaged, and when she replied in the neg
ative, he proposed at once and was accept
ed. Subsequently he called upon the
girls mother and secured her consent,
when he started for South Shield to pre-
Pare for the wedding. There his friends
reminded him of the trifing circumstance
that he was already married, and would
not let him return to execute his rash
and bigamous purpose, but instead sent a
message to the girl at Yarmouth stating
that he was dead. The bereayed female
thought it only proper that she should
attend the funeral and accordingly pro-
ceeded to South Shield. Finding him
alive, she brought suit for her disappoint-
ment, and the jury gave her verdict of
$500. This suggests, among other things,
the question whether married man may
be mulcted for failing to keep promise
to commit bigamy.
Year: 1873




One of the Irishman said to those who
looked at this hideous spectacle, "Shure
he's anchored already" You have au
antidram shop party in this state. It's a
grand fzzle. Why, the President of it.
last convention was nincompoop. 1t Is
not worth the powder to blow it up. Ii
is a sick calf and will require great nurs'
to keep it alive. Let the church arise il
her might and give bounds to this terrible
evil of intemperence. She alone can dc
it. We resolve in conference to preacl
temperance once year. God save us
| never think of preaching a sermon
without getting temperance into it. l
is Just as necessary as it is to get Chris
in it. | would have prohibltory law /
| could have such one as | wanted.


want law making the offense of selling
liquor punishable with death. That
radical, is it? Was it radical to han,
Foster? He was half drunk when he mur
dered Putnam. He knew just enough t
tell Putnam he was going to give hir
hell The man who sold the liquor t
Foster murdered Putnam. The man VIII
sold Booth the brandy he drank just be
fore he fired the fatal shot murdere
Lincoln. Am radical when | ca
for the hanging of these men ? But tall
brethren, is cheap, especially so with
man who has got such a pair of below
as | have. 1t requires courage, thougl
to fight the monster. God help US
stand up straight for temperance.


The reporter adds that opipions were d
vided among the ministers as to the prC
priety of such speech,
Year: 1873

An editor whose brains were balanced
by bottle of Bourbon whisky lately wrote
up a melancholy event in the following
manner Yesterday morning at -four
o'clock. p. m, man with heel in the
hole of his stocking, committed arsenic by
swallowing dose of suicide. The inquest
OF the verdict returned jury that the de-
ceased came to the facts in accordance
with his death. lie leaves child and
six small wives to lament the end of his
untimely loss. In death we are in the
midst Of life"
Year: 1873

The Wnd Music better style than the Lime Rock Kellogg together larger crowd than be daily the vantage the former pleasure. pleasure profit combined We only goods very cheap boys good natured that everybody Bring along your butter old on anything and everything you and we'll swop

 NBMoney will be exchange goods not be persuaded trusted
Year: 1873

The prayer question has come up


again in England in a curious though
not altogether new aspect. Our read


ers know that the island has been the
/ object of what appeared to superficial
/ wisdom a most unnecessary washing
| by rain. For more than one hundred
/ days it has rained every day +; the


fields were flooded and sOdden, wheat


could not be got in, and all agrieul-
/ tural operations were delayed The


rain was, beside great Inconvenience,
even to the BritOns, who are aceus .


toned to live half the time under wa
\ ter, like the seals, and who are popu-


larly supposed to be born with silk


umbrella in their hands. In eOnsid-


Grafton of this inordinately wet time,
the Archbishop Of Canterbury, the


day before Christmas, addressed a note


to the ArchdeacOns OF Canterbury and


Maidstone, expressing his surprise to


hear that the clergy generally had not
used the prayer for fine weather pre-
seribed in case of excessive rain. And


he trusts that if there is continuance
of the unusually wet weather, the
clergy will use this prayer when the
circumstances of the district seem to
require it.


Upon this, Mr.. ]. Bailey Denton
writes to the Pail Mall Gazette, apol-
ogiZiDg for his presumption as lay
man, and saying that his observation
of nature in relation to Tainfalls leads
him to the conclusion that we should
be guilty of great ingratitude by pray
ing now for any deviation from the
present order of things; for he ex-
plains that the present excess Of rain
is lust what was wanted to restore the
balance Of the water supply, which
the droughts Of recent years have
greatly disturbed. And he thus con-
tinues:


"Up to the present moment, in
spite Of all the rain we have had, the
deep wells dependent on the water
bearing strata for their supply show
little Indication of rising,toward their
usual level at this time of the year.
But after the continued downfall of
the last three months, there is a great
probability that the equilibrium Will
be regained, for as the days lengthen
so the springs strengthen, and by
May or June the deficiency may exist
10 longer. Permit me to point out to
the clergy IOr L0elI cODhlucEdtAOA III |
regard to the present subject, that the |
general health of the country was
never better, if so satisfactory, as at !
this moment, and that while we are
all disposed to think that this is due
to the cleansing effects OF. heavy rain
falls in washing out the dirty places
of our closely populated towns and
villages, it is not at all impossible that
the same benefit will follow the thor
ough washing of land, which will
clear localities of endemic diseases
among cattle and sheep."r /


There is nothing in this of the half
sneer of the prayer-gauge test. Rather
the clergy ought to be grateful to Mr..
Denton for reminding the people that /
they are in the hands Of an all-wise
which works ON a vast /
scale, and not infrequently brings
under the cover of appar-
ent damage and discomfort. The
Bishop OF Canterbury has evidently
other and various views of the gov
ernment of the universe.-HdrGoTd
COlTaat.