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Year: 1875

Many a man might have delicacies very
early did he but think how cheaply they
could be had. The materials are often
close to hand, but are not thought OF, or
if thought of the whole matter is put OH
to some convenient time which never
comes.


Garden frames or pits are of this char
acter, With manure in abundance, and
the heat from fermentation wasting away,
almost every one who has a barnyard
might have early vegetables at almost no
cost.


Most early vegetables want little heat.
Lettuce, radishes, asparagus, eauliflOwer
and some others grow when the earth Is
but very little above the freezing point,
and the care in looking after them IS very
| trifing indeed. Cauliflower pits are made
of stone or brick, They are sunk in the
| earth about four feet, sometimes more or
little less, and in the fall of the year are
| filled with manure mixed with leaves or
other coarse vegetable rubbish that VIII
keep the mass from heating too fast. This
is filled up to the glass as well as tramped
in hard, and few inches of earth put over
the whole. On this the young plants in
September are set. As the plants grow
1 the material sinks, so that they are always
close to the glass, which is one Of the es-


sentials of good culture. The plants DO
not grow much in the winter, and about
this season of the year radishes or lettuce


NAV be sOwn between the caulihOwer


plants without interfering much with their


growth. Asparagus may also be dug up


carefully in the tall and planted at the


same time as the caulihower, and thus one
can have four crops all off of the same lit
tie piece of hot-bed ground. We said that
the frame part may be made of brick or
. - boards will do buE
are too temporary. Uuder the influence
of fermenting materials wood lasts but
few wears. Stone or brick will last life
time, The pit may be a foot or so above
the ground at the lower portion, and
framework for the glass fitted thereon.
The glass should slope tolerably so as to
catch the rays of the morning sun. n four
or perhaps six-sash frame of this character,
made of the most durable materials, could
be put up in most cases for one hundred


dollars, and the vegetables got ont OF IL IN


a single spring would be worth nearly


half of that. There would be first radlsh-
es in use, then aspara9u us, then the leIIuce'


following with the caulihower IN AprlI OF


May.


a day will clean out the old manure,
excellent stuff, by the way, for the finer


garden crops and flowers; and another
day will fill in and get ready the material


for new crops. The subsequent attention


will be little. No covering but the sash Is
necessary, as the warmth of the terment-
ing material helping below with the sasn
above, prevents the frost being very severe
in the frames, and little does. not hurt
them. The greater danger is that the air
NAV become too warm. The sashes are


GENERALLY tilted so that there is air at all
times except when very cold.-Gs711aH-
tolcl TeLsqraph.
Year: 1875

CoRSEp BEEF.-The Scientific american
informs the ladies that if they would have
corned beef juicy after ii IS cold, and not as
dry as chip, they should put it into Doll,
ing water when they put it on to cook, and
thew should not take it out OF the pot when
done until cold.
Year: 1875

Speaker Hahn has recently appointed
from the second ward, to be keeper of the
State House, vice JEFF Stokes. removed.


Mr.. Murray has assumed the direction of
affairs, after having filed in the office of the
REPUBLICAN bis declaration that he intends
to give general satisfaction. We have en-
tire confidence in his ability and intent to
keep his word, and are ready to vouch for
him that the State House will be the best
kept official establishment in the city.
Year: 1875

A new style of hand organ is called the
mitrailleuse piano forte. 1t can be moved
from door to door, and by the simple turn
of crank any amount of bad music can ts
fred of by the operator against the ears of
uususpecting victims.
Year: 1875

1t will be seen by notice in another
portion of our paper that the Republican
members Of the House of Representatives
will assemble in caucus, at the State House,
on Monday next, the twelfth instant.
Year: 1875

Admiring Brother.
OF all the tceming verdure which coyers hill and


field,


Gladdening the eye Of Youth and Age,
None. a swecter fancy more generously yield
To the mind of Poet, OF Sage
Than n little bashful flower with Reelection run


ming over
modest little trcfoil-its simple name is Clover.
II i. blooming on the mountain, and buried in the


glen
You will find its green leaves pccpingi
II brings TO the heart sweet memories again
Its teudrils are round me creeping
The little bashul flower with Reflection running


over
\ modest little trefoil-its simple name Is Glover
Upon a village street met the little flower
Ithad wandered from its green country home
Had left its quiet friends in the COO! and shadj


bower


And started by itself to roam.
The little bashtul flower with Reflection running


over
4 modest little trefoil-its simple name is CloTer
When last met the truant, it was stealing
10 tic hearts nf al it ckanOed O. uaOut.-
lis pleasant, winning ways, its subtle feeling
Had eaptvated Friendships on the street
The little bashtul flower with Reflection running


over M
modest little trefoil--its simple name is Glover
Year: 1875

"Nym,0 the New York correspondent Of
the Charleston, S. c., News and Courier, says:
The Evening Post has reduced lis price from
five cents to three cents. 1t is printed on the
blanket sheet, but being largely filed with
displayed advertisements has really given less
reading matter daily than some Of the two
cent papers The reduction in price is not
made from necessity, but because the publish
ers feel that they can afford it, and still make
a large profit, and perhaps because they hope
10 popalarize their venerable Journal. The
Evening Post is tie most digniGed and re-
spectacle Of cur dailies It is elaborate and
deliberate as becomes a journal Of Its years
and standing. but it cannot be accused OF
dullness. The business Of the paper is DOW
being moved into the new Evening Post build
ing. at the corner Of Broadway and Fulton
Streets. The Sun is making a series of char
acteristic attacks on the Tribune, which IL
charges with being owned body and sonl by
Jaw Gould. and used by him for stock iobbing
purposes. This accuse ton against the Iri-
bune has been made for the last year; but
a Tribune stockholder assures ne upon his
honor that Jay Gould does not own dol
lars worth Of interest 10 the concern.
Year: 1875

Pesach N Rubenstcin the Pole, who Is in the
Raymond Street JAIL Brooklyn, awaiting the action
Of the Coroner and Grand Jury has recovered from his
lndisposition The circumstantal evidence imputing
10 him the murder of the girl Sara Alexander will be
laid before the Grand Jury by the District Attorney OF
Kings county to-day Coroner Simms will commence
the Inquest Morgde at O'clock and he will
conclude the case as far he is concerned in the
evening No further arrests have been made the police
being Of the opinion that they have completed the
chain OF evidence against the prisoner.
Year: 1875

Until the last days OF the week gold was compara
lively firm the bass Of lI4i4 1149s, with an excep
tionaI advance to HAS. Yesterday, however, sales
made at 1885,, and the market closed at 1l3a1
Cash gold easy and loaned at fiat per cent Tor
carrying The effect Of the policy Of the Secretary OF
the treasury in boarding gold closely watched but it
is not believed that any definite action affecting values
Year: 1875

A BREAKFAST FOR Two CENTs.-A CORE
spobdent in Boston paper shows how person
can get a good breakfast for two cents. He says
that, MY experience and observation has been
that meat is large item in the cost Of living.
BY using less meat and more oat meal, beans
peas, &c. the same amount of nourishment
may be obtained. Get good article of Scotch
or Canada oat meal, and to one quart of boiling
water slowly stir in one teacupfnl of oat meal,
to which add little salt, let it cook slowly for
half an hour, when it may be served with milk
or cream and sugar. Three cents worth of oat
mea three cents worth of milk and six cents
worth of sugar will make good meal for FAM
lily Of six persons Some of the most healthy
people have ever seen had oat meal morning
ard night, and had fresh meat with vegetables
at noon. BY this method of living We make
the morning and evening meal so inexpensive
that the cost of our food will be reduced at
least one half. Beans, peas and many other
articles are also cheap and nutritious.
Year: 1875

CUaIoUs.-The police of Nantes have been
investigating a curious matter, namely, the
discovery in the river of q hand, cut off at the
wrist, holding violin. The explanation is as
follows An old teacher Of the violin named
Sofia lived at Villedeuil sur-Seine, and used
to argue that the left hand was more honora-
Bile than the right, because it manipulated the
strings and was served by the right hand hold
ing the bow. When on his deathbed, the
other day, with his violin in his hand he
begged one OF his old pupils who used to visit
him, and who resided at Nantes, not to allow
his hand to be separated from his violin Ia
Giuseppe Guarnerius of the year l725, and to
destroy it. The young man imagined that the
best way to carry out. the wishes of the de-
ceased was to cut otfsthe haud at the wrist and
to throw it with the violin into the river. He
seemed surprised at being interrogated by the
police, and has been discharged. But he is
nevertheless closels watched, some doubt be-
ing felt as to the state of his mind.
Year: 1875

The day of American whisky is rapidly y
passing away, and larger beer is usurping
the place of alcohol. This is not only
true OF summer but Of all seasons of the
year. OF course the cause of temperance
largely gains by the result, while the
corner groceries lose, and Ium manqfact.


urers groan over diminished profits The
entire question of drinking in the city is
curious and complex study There are
over eight thousand rum and lager beer
shops in the metropolitan district, yielding
to the city a handsome revenue. The
capital upon which these places are start


ed is not always furnished by the man
whose name is painted on the sign over
the doorway. 1t is often furnished by
reputable citizens, church. .goers, pious
and rich, who wish for ready and large
returns. You would be surprised to know
the names of men of standing who arc
silent partners in liquor traffic. Often a
politician supplies the money for one or
more places, and the customers, too, and
in that way builds up local political
power. With hard times and eager de.
mands for money, drinking of all kinds
has diminished to a gratifying extent.
Liquors costing fifteen cents glass must
yield to lager beer at FIVE cents, and hence
the extreme multiplication of the weind-
handlungs. A lager beer saloon can be
furnished and rented and put in motion
for $500 Not one thus far has been
known to fail, while on the contrary
many of their proprietors have grown
rich. The sons Of Erin, who stood by
whisky while it paid, reluctantly put in
the kegs of their Teutonic brethren to
find their business in spirits going to the
dogs. Some are to proud to do this, but
all American and Irish bars must ulti.
mately sell lager beer, The profit on one
glass is two and half cents, but as one
proprietor told me, "While we make
money, even in hard times. we live ths
lives of dogs, IN. Y. Cor. Troy Times
Year: 1875

While saunt ering through the crowded street,
Some half-remembered face meet.
Albeit upon no mortal shore
That face, methinks has smiled before.
Lost in gay and festal throng,
| tremble at some tender song
Set to an air whose golden bars
l must have card in other stars.
In sacred aisles pause to share
The blessings of priestly prayer
When the whole scene which greets mine eyes
In some strange mood I recognize
And one whose every mystic part,
feel prefgured in my heart
AT sunset as I calmly stand
A stranger on an alien strand,
Familiar as my childhoods home
Seems the long stretch Of wave and foam.
One sails toward me Ger the bay,
And what he comes to do or say
can foretell. prescient lore
Springs from some life outlived Of yore.
o swift, instructive, startling CLEANS
Of deep soul knowedgel not as dreams
For aye ye vaguely dawn and die,
But oft with lightning certainty
Pierces through the dark oblivious brain,
To mako old thoughts and memories plain.
Thoughts which perchsnce must travel back,
Across the wild, bewildering track
Of county icons: memories far,
High-reaching as yon pallid star.
Unknown, scarce seen, whose Pickering grace
Faints on the outmost rings of space'


Pad IA. Hayn
Year: 1875

According to the Herald OF Health,
marble'top tables are TO be avoided. 1t
says They are cold, and rapidly ab.
sorb the heat and vitality Of the body,
robbiDg it Of its life. We have heard oi
one invalid whom the doctor could moi
cure, until one day he noticed she used Q
marble stand, and suspected il had some
thing to do with her ill.healtb. So he
forbade her to use it. Soon she was well
We know healthy people who feel ih'
tvinges Of pain 10 the shoulders by sitting
near one. They are handsome, but IN
healthy for all that"
Year: 1875

A number or poor women who make living by keep
ing apple stands in the vicinity of the markets visited
the City Hall yesterday in search Of information to
whether the ordinance prohibiting their method of bus
mess would be suspended during the holidays. 1t
pears that it is the power OF the Mayor or Board
OF Aldermen TO interfere, such authority rests
solely with the Police Commissioners 1t understood
Messrs voorhs and Smith favor the SUSPENSION while
Messrs. Matsel aud Dsbecker have some objections.


The Committee OF the Board OF Aldermen having
charge OF providing suitable rooms for the additional
Judge the Court of General Sessions have not yet
rived at any conclusion They will probably make
port at the next meeting of the Board.


Mayor wickham yesterday signed the warrants for
payment OF the poll clerks and inspectors who ocated
at the last election.
Year: 1875

At 10 O'Clock A. NJ, to nominate candidates for
the Assembly and for county Offices, to be
supported by the Independent voters OF said
county at the coming election.


The apportionment Of delegates is based on
the vote of 1873. Delegates will be elected by
ballot, and all residents of the county are
qualified TO vote at the elections hereinafter
called who are in hearty sympathy with the
reform movement and who will pledge them
selves to support the Peoples Independent
Party In the approaching county election.


Elections for Delegates to said Convention
will be held in the several voting places on
Year: 1875




Tho Republican party is rousing. From all
est spirit of the organization is awakening, and
that it will from this time to the Presidential
election manifest greater degree of courage
and energy than it has shown at any time for
years. We do not say this as mere words OF
party encouragement lit is based upon actual
manifestations Of the popular temper Never,
for years, has there been 30 decided DISPOSE
ton to compact the Republican ranks, and to
gather in all the strength they once presented,
as there is now shown. There was time, few
months ago, when the Democrats seemed to be
gaining ground, but they do not appear to be
doing that now. We venture the assertion that
their own leaders feel the renux Of the tide,
which for awhile, as they conceived, was setting
80 strongly and steadily forward to victory in
1876, and that they are by no means 30 encour-
aged and 80 sanguine as they were at the open
ing Of 1875.


II the Republicans persevere in the policy Of
the last few months-to deserpe success, by
truly serving the public interests they will win
success. They need for the national contest of
next year, all ate uotes they used to haze, and q
wise aud liberal policy will rally them, again.
To encounter united Democratic we must have
united Republican party. Less than that will
be less than enough. To secure it is the effort
apparently, Of the Republicans who have guided
the party action in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and
their platforms and their nominations seem to
have the cordial support OF every element which
has belonged to Or affiliated with the party. We
do not see a single sign, in those States, Of
dissatisfaction amongst Republicans on the
contrary every expression is that of hopeful
purpose TO succeed
Year: 1875

E 1t is difficult to imagine anything
to surpass the. pathos of tho Rhode
Island widows answer to the question
why she didn't grieve over the death OF
her husband: D." Because it gives other
people more room to BREATHE"
Year: 1875

WE have often wondered how that un- couth looking man, the coarse joker who spent some of the years of his early life among the rude boatmen of the West, and nearly all of it on the frontier, could erigi- nate the beautifully poetic idea contained in the subjoined extract, and the still more striking and eloquent passage found Tn his address at the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetry-a passage which, for beauty of diction, we venture to say, is not surpassed by anything in the English language. But to the words of the inaugural. Mir. Lincoln said:

 We are not enemies. but friends. We must not be enemies though passion may have strained, it must notsbreak our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and heartstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Unionlwhen again touched, as it surely will be, by the better angels of our nature.

 We are beginning tD feel now the force of this language, for" the better angels of our nature" are touching the mystic chords of memory in a way that is producing vibra- tions all over this continent and that heart must be irredeemsbly wicked that would seek to retard the restoration of the era of good feeling. We have had enough of strife and bitterness for our time. Let us now seek to cultivate a better spirit. "Behold how good and how pleasant thing 1t is for brethren to dwell together in unity" -Lynchburg Virginian, June 29th.
Year: 1875

A DIAMOND SAw.-Diamonds are likely to become as useful as they are ornamental. The diamond drill is the only drill that can bore its way through certain rocks whose hardness soon dulls the best steel drills And now diamond saw has been invented, which promises to do with stone what the finest steel saw does with wood. It consists of a thin meta! disk, the teeth of which are nothing more than minute black diamonds, imbedded in the metallic edge of the sheet. When revolving at high speed, this disk cuts into the sides of stone slab as though it were piece of timber; and not only can straight cuttings be made, but by an ingeni- ous mechanical device. bowels and round edges are cut. As labor saving machine, the inventor judges that one of them will do the work of fourteen stone-cutters.
Year: 1875

The EARTHQUAKE AT SEA.-The following
are additional particulars of the earthquake at
sea: "The ship Hamilton of Boston, lies at her
pier in Brooklyn a picture of nautical neatness
First officer Hill said: I'VE reached here after
voyage of l29 days from Manila On the 4th
of June, about three o'clock in the morning,
was standing aft near the wheel in charge Of
the vessel. We were then not far from the is
land of Barbados, in latitude 10 16 north and
longitude 57.51 and running in light trade
wind blowing about four knots an hoar; the
water was as smooth as the river here; sudden
ly the ship entered sea running dead a head
which was so heavy that it pitched the water
through the ha~ser pipes and threw spray over
the bow. For ten or fifteen minutes the ship
pitched in this sea and then there came heavy
rumbllng sound, as if fifty barrels were rolling
over the deck. 1 hurried forward, expecting to
find everything loose, but there was not a thing
wrong. This rumbliDg continued for five or
ten minutes longer. The ship tumb,ed and
shook exactly as If she were humping over q
sand bar and the sea ran heavier and heavier
Then there was heavy shock as if the ship
had run square into that dock there, and then
everything was quiet The rumbliDg noise
stopped and the sea became smooth and the
ship went on all right"
Year: 1875

SCIENCE is continually discovering traits of
usefulness in the animals and bugs which
have been regarded as the most noxious and
useless. She has tender regard for the de-
spised creatures, and it is only when tits pro-
posed to elevate man by intoxicating a be-
lief in his immortality that she screams
out a protest. The mosquito was the
latest object of her solicitude Now she
comes to the rescue of the traduced bed
bug, and assures us that the insect, if
only put 10 bath in a saturated solu-
tion of saltpetre, will yield delicious per-
fume in comparison with which the odors of
Araby and the drug shops are nothing. The
tender heart of the scientist is wrung how
ever at the reflection that the bug of poten-
tial perfume must give up his life in order to
be use full. 1t is only in death that he is
lovely, and the honors of the sachet and the
cut-glass bottle are post-humous.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nicatons that are not used.
Year: 1875

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersgned by Stanley T..
Pullen Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials OF every person claiming to represent
Journal as we have information that several bum
mers" are seeking courtesies in the name of the
PRESS, and we have no disposition to be- even pas
sively, party to such frauds.
Year: 1875

An earnest desire to justify your generous conf
dence, and strong regard for the honor and soeI-
fare of our State, inspire NTH the firm reSoloe TO
spare no effort and to consider other consequences
IN the endedror to faitaly discharge the duties that
iciH be incumbent on me If your choice shall proUe
to De the choice of the people also. pledge you and
thousands for aohona you act, in that event honest
purpose and fred determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care.


Gen. ConnOr's Accordance
Year: 1875

A SPECIAL to the Boston Advertiser SAYS
that the Treasury Department has received
information that the pending investigation as
to the construction of the post Office and Gus
tom house at Boston has developed many IL
regularities.