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Year: 1870

The price of the native products
of industry shows the rate of
+ common labor. Thus you can
! buy in Switzerland for a dollar or
a dollar and a quarter, a collar or
other piece of lace that seems to
require days of skillful labor; and
l was assured that lady's neck
tie that was offered for a dollar
and a quarter took eight days to
make. For a franc, in Venice,
elaborate pieces of she'll work
were everywhere offered, and /
did not see how more than one a
day could be made by one pair of
hands, although there is no limit
to what skill can do. In Naples
you can buy finely cut lava cam
eos at from one to two dollars
each. l have a head of Dante,
that cost nre only two dollars,
that is a little gem of art. a
painter offered me a good copy of
a Madonna or Sybil of Guido, |
am not sure what it was, but it
was very beautiful, for four ma
pOleons, or sixteen dollars, and |
did not see how he could have
done it in less than that number
of days. / was led to think that
in Germany skilled labor brought
less than a thaler, or seventy
cents, day, and in Italy appar-
emily less. In Milan, handsome
gloves with three buttons sell for
forty to fifty cents a pair, and in
Rome the most beautiful scarfS
are sold at five and six dollars
each, such as sell in New York
at so many times more. Such
facts of course prove that labor
must be very cheap, and far
cheaper than we ought to desire
to see it in this country.


Houses and rents are closely
connected with the price of labor,
and also of all commodities; for
if labor is cheap, materials are
easily got out and transported,
and if building costs little, rents
will generally be low, and sellers
can live well on comparatively
small profit. In many parts of
Europe, where the buildings are
numerous and the population
does not increase, perhaps dimin-
ishes, houses are almost as free as
the hills and pastures, and are
looked upon as having a sort of
superannuated value. They once
cost something and were valua-
BILE, but they have had their day
and use, and, like old ships, what
ever is made out of them is so
much unexpected luck. l sup
pose that a family with little
money, who wish to live with a
look of splendor, may find many
a palace in Italy in the decayed
cities at less rent than will secure
a third-rate house in New York.
l did not inquire the prices of
stores in Europe, but goods
seemed to be generally cheap,
and rents must be somewhat in
proportion. l bought a good silk
hat in Venice for $40; a hand
some suit of light wooden summer
clothes of the court tailor in Ber-
lin for $40, and had them made to
order. l confess that his majes-
tvs customer somewhat surprised
me by coming with his workmen
to my room, at the Hotel Royal,
to try on the coat in its unfinished
condition on Sunday morning,
just as l was preparing to go to
the pulpit of the American chapel
in Berlin,-a fact that made the
preacher think more, not less, of
the good old Sabbath rest of our
genuine Americans.-ReU. DR..
O&gOOd.
Year: 1870

Our brains are seventy-year


clocks. The angel of life winds


them up once for all, then closes


the case, and gives the key into


the hand of the angel of the res


direction. Tic-tac! tic-tac! 60


the wheels of thought; our will


cannot stop them; they cannot


stop themselves; sleep cannot


still them, madness only makes


them go faster; death alone can


break into the case, and, seizing


the ever-swinging pendulum


which we call the heart, silence


at last the clicking of the terrible


escapement we have carried so


long beneath our wrinkled fore


heads. If we could only get at


them, as we lie on our pillows


and count the dead beats of
thought after thought, and image
after image, jarring through the
tired organ! VIII nobody


block those wheels, uncouple
that pinion, cut the string that


holds these weights, blow up the
internal machine with gunpow-
der? What a passion comes over
us sometimes for silence and rest
that this dreadful mechanism,
unwinding the endless tapestry
of time; embroidered with spec
trail figures of life and death,
could have but one brief holiday?
Who can wonder that men swing
themselves off from beams in
hempen lassoes? that they jump
off from parapets into the swift
and gurgling waters beneath! !
that they take counsel of the
grim fiend who has but to utter
his one peremptory monosylla-
bic, and the restless machine is
shivered as a case that is dashed
upon marble floor? If anybody
would really contrive some kind
of a lever that one could thrust
in among the works of this horrid
automatOn and check them, or
alter their rate of going, what
would the world give for the dis
cOvery? Men are very apt to try
to get at the machine by some in
direct system or other. They
clap on the brakes by means of
opium, they change the madden
ing mOnotony of the rhythm by
means of fermented liquors. 1t
is because the brain is locked up
and we cannot touch its move
ments directly, that we thrust
these coarse tools in through any
crevice by which they may reach |
the interior, alter its rate of 60 |
ing for awhile, and at last spoil |
the machine,-HOl1neS.
Year: 1870

The unpleasant oder produced
by perspiration is the source OF
vexatiOn to persons who are sub
ject to it. Procure some COM
pound spirits of ammonia, and
place about two table-spoonfuls
in a basin of water. Washing
the face, hands, and arms with
this, leaves the skin as clean,
neat and fresh as one could wish.
The wash is perfectly harmless,
and very cheap. 1t is recon-
mended on the authority of an
experienced physicians and it
ought to be tried, at least, by all
those whose persons are so often
sive in this respect.
Year: 1870

A little boy named Benjamin West iiv-
ing in Pennsylvania, was set to watch q
baby asleep in q cradle. He looked at it
kindly, and felt pleased to see it smile IN
its sleep. He wished that he could draw q
picture Of the baby; and seeing piece OF
paper on table, with pen and ink, he
tried what he could do. When his mother
came in, he begged her not to De angry
with him for touching the pen. ink, aud
paper; and then he showed her the picture
he had made. His mother saw the baby's
likeness, and was so much pleased that she
kissed the little boy. Then he said, if she
like it he would make picture Of some
flowers she held in her hand; and so he
went on from that time, trying to do bet
ter, until he became one Of the best paint
ers in the world.


In after-life, he said that it was this kiss
from his mother that made him an artist.
Year: 1870

We have long regarded bran as one of
the cheapest and most useful kinds of food
we can have. Many farmers who are un-
able to raise sufficient hay and grain Tor
their stock on their own farm, have found
it profitable to buy it in large quantities
for extra feed.


But its value is generally very much un:
derrsted, the common impression being
that it contains but little nourishment,
with much refuse material. The reverse
is the t.uth; it is especially rich in albu-
men, phosphoric acid and lime
elements especially adapted to the wants
of young stock and mich COWS.
Given in connection with hay, young cat
tie thrive better on it than when fed on
richer food; and in fattening cattle its use
when mixed or alternated with corn meal,
seems to give more rapid growth and
greater weight than when the meal is fed
alone. When it is fed TO calves, it relieves
the extreme costiveness to which they are
subject to in the winter, and they have a
thrifty, healthy appearance in place of the
toe e-co4mszs.}aaaP-Saeass pot-bellied form.
Those who have used it in the dairy, find
that it adds largely to the yield of milk,
and helps much to keep the cows in good
health.


Chemical analysis shows that in COM
psrison with timothy hay, it contains
more nourishment, and has it in form
better adapted to the wants Of the animal.
In its fesh-forming constituents, 1t sur
passes wheat -four and corn meal, but has
less of the fat and heat forming elements.


But the true test of its value is its actual
use. The benefit we have derived from it
ourselves and what we have seen of the
effect resulting from its use, both as sum-
mer and winter food. by others, has i'm
pressed Us very much in its favor; and we
have no hesitation in saying thai stock
raisers. especially those who have 10 buy
extra, fodder, will find it very cheap aud
economical, as well as useful kind of food.
- Western Farmer.
Year: 1870

At this season OF the year the thoughts
of almost every farmer naturally turn
more or less to-the process of killing meat
for the winters use. Most farmers have
pig or two to salt down, and some have
mutton or beef, and the quality of meat
which is to furnish food for the family
VIII depend q good deal on the way it is
cured.


There are various modes of curing meat
but one of the best. perhaps, is that sug-
gested by the Germantown Telegraph,
which is as follows:


To one gallon of water take one and
half pounds of salt, half pound Of sugar,
half an ounce of saltpeter, half an ounce
of potash. In this ratio the pickle to be in
creased to any quantity desired. Lstthese
be boiled together until all the dirt from
the sugar arises to the top and is skinned
of. Then throw it into a tub TO cool, and
when cold, pour it over your beef or pork,
to remain the usual time, say four or five
weeks. The meat must be covered with
pickle, and should not be put down for at
least two days after killing, during which
time it should be slightly sprinkled with
powdered saltpeter, which removes all the
surface blood, &C., leaving the meat fresh
and clean. sSome omit boiling the pickle,
and find il to answer well, though the ope.
ration of boiling purihes the pickle by
throwing off the dirt always to be found
in salt and sugar.
Year: 1870

tion.


It is with 9 pasture as with man, the
income must be greater than the expenses,
or it grows poor. Crops are the expenses.
L ID quite possible 20 make the surface of
any soil unproductive and Improbable by
carrying of more than is put on. Pastur-
ing with COWS that are yarded at night does
this. Sheep or beeves that remain upon
the land, on the contrary, return more than
an equivalent in manure, and keep the
land improving. Where plaster meets
want of the soil it may be kept improving
by sowing broadcast bushel and half to
the acre every spring. and feeding of the
grass. Many farms in the grazing districts
in the interior are kept up mainly by plas-
ter and feeding. Some of them will carry
a bullock to the acre. Other lands need
lime, and the lime brings in clover, and
this plant, by the large drafts It makes up
on the subsoil and the atmosphere, al
ways improves the pasturage. In other
districts ashes are accessible at reasonable
rates, and they are always q reliable top
dressing.


The effects are visible on some soils in
increased crops of grain for twenty years.
Cheap ashes viii keep up any pastures, pay
their cost, and leave q profit. So will
home made compost, II man VIII but
make and use it. Along the seaboard the
old pastures need nothing better than
creek-mud, and the weeds thrown upon
the shore. Too often these are allowed to
rot on the sand for want OF labor to gather
them. Irrigation is available in other
cases, and where the waters of brook can
be turned over pasture nothing more viii
be needed to keep it in good condition.
Changing soils oftentimes has a wonderful
influence. Sometimes on the same field of
twenty acres there will be sandy or gravely
knolls, nearly bare of vegetation, and hard
clay or muck in swales. A top-dressing of
the sand would pay on the swales, and
nothing could be better for the knolls than
the muck or clay. Our old pastures, to be
kept profitable, must have something done
for then. 1t will not pay to devote ten
acres to q single COW.
Year: 1870




On Monday night last, at quarter past
ten, laundering report Was heard and the
intelligence at once spread that an explo-
sion had taken place at the powder mills
These mills are situated about q mile west
Of our village and are owned by the Latin
d Rend Powder Company. We went out
on Tuesday morning and gathered these
facts: The building in which the explosion
took place is called the cylinder mill and
is used TO mix the Ingredients before
pressing them. 1t is usually started in the
evening and left running all night without
any attendant Materials for about 200
kegs of powder were in the cylinders at
the time of the explosion OF the size and
shape of the building We were unable to
gather any information from anything that
was left in the place where it had previous
ly stood. With the exception of the lower
half of the water wheel and a portion of
the fume. not a vestige of the building or
machinery was left. The charred frag-
ments we're thrown in every direction.
In the cylinders, with the ingredients
were two or three hundred pounds of cop
per balls about three fourths of an inch in
diameter, and many of these were found a
quarter of mile away. This mill was
somewhat isolated and but little damage
was done to any of the surrounding build
ings. Some of the weather boarding was
knocked of building about hundred
yards away, and q number Of psnes from
the windows of the different shops sur
rounding, but the destruction in this direc-
ton was not half as great as we expected to
find. In one of the workshops a clock
was hanging against the side OF the build
l.
sion caused it to tilt forward and stopped
it just at the time the explosion took place
past ten. Some of the glass was
broken in the windows of Mr.. Jacob Kra-
mer's house on the hill east of the mill.
Il is not known what caused the explosion,
but it is supposed that there was some de-
feet in the machinery, and that the fire
was generated by friction. The loss Is be-
tween 81, 600 and S5, 600. The works have
been running the dast three months with
ont anv forAman
Year: 1870

lam not scientific farmer; it is not probable that
ever shall be. I have no such knowledge Of Chem
istry and Geology any man needs TO make him


thoroughly good farmer am quite aware that men
have raised good crops-s good many of them-who
knew nothing of science. and did not consider any
acquaintance with it conducive 10 efficiency or sue
cess IN their voestioa. l have no doubt tbst men
Year: 1870

To THE EDITOR or TIE HERALD:--


While so many plans are being constantly brought
forward for the accomplishment OF tins 30 much
needed Improvement, would call the attention OF
our authorities 10 present trouble that is daily in
creasing, and win soon become unmitigated
nuisance unless remeded, aad which can he done
to the gteal advantage OF the city and OF the rail-
road company | refer to the Harlem Railroad norm
OF Forty second street.


Tie tracks OF that road are now level with the
streets crossing Fourth avenue 10 Eghieth street,
pora,ion has certain vested rights In the avenue
winch no one viii desire to have taken from them;
but at the timc the residents upon the streets
crossing this avenue have also vestel rights among
which are protection OF life from railroad trains
constantly crossing these streets At twenty ana
thirty mics hour. rendering all transit
the city most hazardous, aS witness the constant re-
ports OF people and teams being Killed by Harlem
tie Hudson and Central trains on TINS ROAD and
render life utterly unsafe TO all crossing above Forty
firth street. All tins c.in and should be Tcmeded by
TIE city uniting With the company and lowering the
tracks to Eiehty second street, that bridges for
each street can be thrown over the tracks,
and above 10th street the tracks be Kept
I'D so "a all the streets
ana over the Hudson river on the top chords of the
bridge. By doing thls and Widening the excavation
and embankmeniS Tor four tracks the through and
OF the upper portion Of oar city be enabled cross
from The side 10 the other without being IN
danger o! Their lives. A. The building upon the
Fourth avenue increases this danger also Increases
ana II is time the citv authorizes anh the railroad
company take IL up and act upon this most important
Year: 1870

WHAT NExT.-We understand that a
bill has been introduced in the legislature,
providing for sending Physician to Eu-
rope to see whether they manage Insane
Asyums any better or worse than we do in
California. The Medical Envoy is to be
paid big salary out of the public treasury.
Good thing. This position is intended for
an ex-rebel surgeon for whom there appeals
to be no other ofice-San Mateo Gazette
Year: 1870

SPECIAL TO THE COURIER.


"ERE WE ARE AGAIN WITH A FOUR
horse Wagon which, we challenge any Shop
in the State TO beat. We don't file our work to
make ii smooth just take a look at it. Tape is
che lucky man. SAMUEL ISAACKS
Year: 1870

BACK AGAISs-We are glad to sec our old
friend 1900 :" back again In Richmond. Wehare
missed his cheerful face since New-Year. Mr..
KING has extended his travels South In establish
ing chain Of offices for the great Ne,o York Dye
Works, and one of these Is located In Norfolk
which is likely to prove equally successful with the
one In this city.


AS an evidence of the wonderful, tact and bust
ness-like management of the Agency OF these
New York Dye W Works we are Informed on good
authority that during the past year Hr. KING sent
the greatest number Of parcels through the South
crn Express Company of any other business
man IN Richmond, and the whole Of his years. 8
trade was transacted without the loss Of a single
article, or one single disappointment to the own
crs When we consider that this bGslnessis one OF
single dollars, amounting In the aggregate to


thousands, we can appreciate the industry. tact,
and perseverance of Mr. KING, who now does the
largest business in his line In Virginia. .
Year: 1870

JUDGE JAMES..D. HALYBURToS.-The removal
Of political disabilities, near at hand, will put
1t in the power OF the Legislature to secure the
services Of this able jurist and pure gentleman In
some Of the judicial positions about to be filled.
An experience Of twenty years Of judicial life In
association on the bench with some Of the frs,
judges Of the age laborious and patient devotion
to the learning Of his profession habits Of indus
try in official business; pure and blameless life


a bland and conciliatory demeanor, are among the
traits which all who know him well freely ascribe
to him, and which eminently it him for the judi.
cial Office. On none within the range OF selection
would the crmine of Justice sit mere gracefully
and by none would 1t be kept freer from stain.


MANY FRIENDS.
Year: 1870

General Henry Lees Memoirs.


The London Saturday Repieac, in one OF
its periodical notices of American litera-
turc, has the following fair and discrimi-
mating criticism:


"The most interesting of the American
works Of this month is new edition of
General Henry Lees Memoirs Of the Var
OF Indcpendence IN the States South of the
Potomac, in which he bore an active and
prominent part. Among the Generals OF
the Revolution he was by no means the least
daring, skilful, and successful; and though
unfortunate in mourning unpopularlty and
censure, which CALLED his sensitive spirit
and eventually drove him to resign his COM
mand, he appears to have been thoroughly
true to the republican cause, and to have
enjoyed throughout the confidence and
esteem of Washington. This edition is re-
yised and prefaced with memoir of the
writer by the present representative Of his
family, who, on the same field and in the
same cause of national independence, has
achieved fame yet more brilliant and en-
during, and who, Like his father, has retired
into private life fallen and defeated man.
It is true that calumny itself has spared
the spotless character ofGeneral r. E. Lee,
and that even the bitterest enemies OF his
cause have paid tribute Of enforced respect
to the honor, the gentleness, the genius,
and the heroism of the great. chief OF the
Confederate armies. Nevertheless, there
is in the fate of the son so much resemblance
to that cf the father rs to lend q special
pathos to the brief biography in which the
hero of the Confederate struggle has en-
deavored to exalt and to vindicate the
memory of the soldier of the Revolution.
any. work from the pen of General Lee
would command attention, and there are
features about the present volume which
are OF peculiar interest. The author keeps
his own personality carefully In the back
ground and the reader, while he admires,
cannot but regret the dignifed reserve
which disappoints his hope of learning
from The biography Of the luther any par
ticulars regarding the son, in whom many
who cared comparatively little about the
merits Of his quarrel feel deep personal
interest, which the years spent since the
close Of the war in honorable and useful
ebseurity have IN 40 way. hlunssd OF d.
Year: 1870

THE MECHANICS OF RICHMOND will meet
at the Mechanics Exchange, corner of
Eleventh and Main streets, tonight at half
past o'clock. Important business mat
ters will be brought before them. 1.
Year: 1870

THE SNOW AND COLD WEATHER Of the last
few days remind US Of comfortable fires. Our
friend CHARLES H. PAGE. corner Nineteenth
and Cary and Seventh and Grace streets, Is still
keeping down the price OF coal and wood.
Year: 1870

Nobody loves me but Jack and
jenny said idle Billy DoolittIe- "I
wish L was a donkey, then mother
might call me all day to bring in oven
wood, and / shouldn't hear. don't
like to work nor get lessons, and L
guess won't much more. Jack and
Jen and / will go down to the turnip
field, and make us house snug under
the fence, and eat turnip5, won't we,
Jack? III make me some big long
ears out of brown paper and tie on, and
when father comes after me, III. Just
get down on my hands and feet and
eat turnip-tops, and he will think there
are three donkeys of US, and am gone
off,


That's an ugly old lesson any way,
that Miss Walker gave me. She says
l won't be man if / d)n't study my
lessons, and Pm sure don't want to.
What's the use of being q man and
working like sixty, and have 70 smoke
an old dirty pipe? I'd twice rather be
a donkey and eat turnip-tOps?


Miss Walker was near and saw Billy
throw down his books, and heard every
word he said to his cts. BY and by tie
little fellow fell fast asleep, and she
took him in her arms and carried him
to the house and put him in his trun-
dle-bed. The next day she told him
she would give him no more lessons,
she thought it would be better for him
to be donkey, and have paper ears
and eat turnip-tops, than 70 live in q
nice house, and have good father and
mother. Billy's bright brown eyes
opened wide, and smile crept into his
face Ss he said: so, did you hear me
dream about that? thought was a
donkey, and had great paper ears, and
Jack and Jenny and / bad such nice
time down il the turHip-patchu


Then Miss walker told him that in
Mexico, and some other countries,
where there were no reods, that the
poor dOnkeys had TO carry heavy bur-
dens for many miles over the noun
tains. Sometimes thay are so packed
with wood that you can't see much of
the poor animal but his ears. The mar
row path is very steep and rocky, and
if q misstep is made he may tumble
down the mountain and never get up
again. So he must travel day after
day and get only kicks and cuff, not
as much as turnip-tops to eat.


Billy looked sober as Miss Walker
stopped talking, and said he guessed he
was only in fun when he dreamed, and
If she was willing, he had much rather
get lesson than to be donkey and
get beaten.-LyceuBs Banner.
Year: 1870

The same plate now used in printing
the national bank notes will be used
for the new gold notes, which are to
be printed on yellow paper. The only
change in the wording Of the notes VIII
be that where the words national cur
reacyn appear at the top Of the present
note, the words Irrational gold noten
will appear on the yellow paper Notes,
and the promise topay will specify that
the note is payable to the bearer n
gold.
Year: 1870

Considerable complaint was made
against the proprietOrs of the affair, be
cause the bulls refused to fight. Search
was made for the gate-keeper for the
purpose of compelling refunding of
the admission fee, but ne had disap-
peared with the money-box under his
arm. This was no more than right
the CROW d paid for brutal exhibition
and they got one.


There is a responsibility resting upon
the city government that cannot be
evaded. It rests with them, as law
makers, to put stop to these exhibi-