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Year: 1871

Apropos of our lakes, a correspondent
of the New York San sends a very en-.
ticing picture to that journal:


The air is magical and man is happy.
Every day is inspiring, and the delight
of nothing to do perfect. The ther-
mometer averages from fifty to sixty de-
grees, and this for six days between
Buffalo and Duluth. Of all the lakes,
Huron presents the grandest water
scapes, Superior the noblest shores and
most beautiful islands.


In Superior the genuine brook trout
is taken about the rocks on the shores,
where the water is ten feet deep or
more. This is made possible by the
GOODNESS of the water. Its temperature
never rises much above that of ice wa
ter in any part of the lake. Expert
enced an glers have taken there trout
weighing six and seven pounds. They
are caught with bait only, and will not
rise to fly. This, we repeat, is the
speckled brook trout. That lordly fish
is taken by trolling, and is often of the
weight of thirty or forty pounds.


Running the rapids of the Sault Ste'
Marie, with Indians, in birch bark ca
noe, is an orthodox pleasure, and much
commended. 1t is brief, and there is
no danger in it. Ladies may try it with
entire confidence.


The finest scenery is about Thunder
bay, on the British shore Of Lake Su
perior. Thunder cape, precipitous
cliff of red rock, thirteen hundred feet
high and a mile and a half long, stands
on the eastern side of the entrance
while numbers of islands, some lofty
and fiat rooted, others low and round
and all of them wooded, are scattered
along eastward. The outline of Thun
der cape is superb, though it is temper
ed and fringed with trees that break
the level of its long summit. At even
ing its beauty is indescribable. The
setting sun flooded the mountain ano
the islands with golden light such az
Clifford loves to paint, and the clouds
and sky overhead were such as none
but Turner could attempt. Such del
uge of glory The gray expanse OF wa
ter and the purple shadowed sides o
hills and islands, darkening as the da.
faded into the solemn twilight, were th'
setting of the picture.
Year: 1871

The seeds of cookie, chess, and other
weeds that are mixed with the screen
ings from the tanning mill, should be
carefully prevented from getting mixed
with the manure in the barn-yard. We
once permitted a neighbor to run a few
bags of grain through our tanning mill,
and gave him the run of the barn for
that purpose. When he had finished,
and during our absence, he-doubtless
with good ntentions-scattered the
screenings all over the barn-yard, so
that the towels might get the waste
grain. This probably was intended as
sort of recompense for the use of the
mill. Alas we never regretted more
than on this occasion the doing of fa-
vor that resulted badly for ourselves.
Our manure pile was thoroughly seeded
with cookie and chess, and probably ten
years of labor will be inflicted on us be-
| fore those seeds can be eradicated from
the field on which the manure was
spread. We mention this circumstance
| as warning to others, and also as a
| forcible reminder to all that weed seeds


should be consumed with fire and utter
lv DESTROYED. Don't feed them to poul-
try-they won't eat cookie; and the


seeds seem to last forever; by hook OF


by crook they will get into the field


somehow. Put them in a stove and


YOU will have seen the last of them.-
| Hearth and Home.
Year: 1871

PROPAGATION OF THE GRAPE BY Eyes
A German agricultural journal informs
us that the grape vine can be propagat-
ed by means of eyes, so as to save three
years time in the growth, each eye
furnishing new shoot. Each grape
vine will furnish as many shoots as it
has sound eyes, and they are to be cut
off about quarter of an inch from the
eye on each side, so as to leave a
cylinder of wood about half an inch
long, with the eye in the center. If
prepared in the autumn, these eyes
may be put in a cellar in winter. In
April they are to be laid down at a
depth of two or three inches in burrows
about six inches apart, and covered
with little manure, watered in dry
weather, and the earth about them oc-
casionally loosened.
Year: 1871

boiled away; pour this, after stirring,
into the custard, and sweeten all to
taste, add sherry wine to suit, and pour
into the moulds lined with lady fingers
The sugar, flavor, and wine should be
poured in just as soon as possible. Get
it into the moulds as quick as you can.
Set on ice to harden. In summer use
more gelatine.
Year: 1871

CHARLOTTE RUssE.-For two hours DIS
solve box of Cox's gelatine in little
more than half pint of cold water.
At the end of that time make custard
of two quarts of milk and twelve eggs,
set it in pan of water on the stove,
and let it come to the boil, stirring well.
1t is better to put the milk on first,
then mix the eggs with some of it, and
when it boils pour On the eggs and milk.
Just as it boils, slide the dissolved gela-
tine just in the middle of a pan con-
tanning two quarts of rich cream, and
before you stir it pour the boiling Gust
ard on top; beat it all well together;
have ready vanilla bean cut in small


pieces and scraped and boiled in about
pint of milk until the milk is hall
Year: 1871

Beautiful flowers,


In feathery bowers,
Filling the air with a silent perfume;


Sweet garden of roses,


Your beauty discloses,
charm to subdue the souls sadness and gloom
From rich parterre.


Or where City air,
Though dark and noisome, hath left you living.
Ye come together


In the Summer weather.
To praise His name who is ever giving.


0 the JOY and grace


That enrich the place.
Where your manifold tints and odors are spread
Bewitching and .rare


Ye make the land fair.
AS the Garden of Eden long mourned as dead.
Year: 1871

PREPARATION OF WOODEN LABELS FOR
PLANTS Wooden labels for plants, to
be inserted in the ground, may, it is
said, be preserved for an indefinite
time by first dipping them in solution
of one part of copper vitriol and twenty
four parts water, and subsequently i'm
mersing in lime water, or a solution of
gypsum.
Year: 1871

MANURE FROM DEAD ANIMALs.-Dead
animals are utilized in France by I'M
mersing their soft parts in a very
feeble solution of hydrochloric acid,
which soon transforms them into an
oderless pulp. This is to be mixed
with phosphate of lime, and the result
is a manure of the best quality.
Year: 1871

The great Blood Purifier and delicious drink, War
ner's Vinum Vita, Wine of Life, is free from any
those who require stiniulant It is splendid appe
tzer and tonic and the finest thing in the world for


ciOus article offered to the public far superior to
is more healthy and cheaper. Both male and female
or old can take the Wine of Life It is in fact


life preserver Those who wish to enjoy good health
and free flow of lively spirits, will do well to take
the Wine of Life. 1t is different from any thing
before in USE 1t is sold by druggists. Price 81, in
quart bottles.
Year: 1871

Is optical wonder reveals the thousands Of hidden
1Onders of nature is of permanent and practicable
availability, combining instruction with amusement
and never losing its interest. 1t Itnagnifes
Year: 1871

All good lawyers know the value, in
the practice of their profession, of gen
eral knowledge or Information to be ol,.
tained in practical Intercourse with the
world and studies outside of the law
| library. In book just published by the
daughter of an English advocate, Mr..
John Adolphus, the following is told
which will illustrate the virtue of the
kind tof knowledge referred to. The
writer says:


"a very extraordinary criminal case
was entirely decided by the knowledge
my father had picked up of nautical af-
fairs in his early voyage to and from the
West Indies. Lascars we're on their
trial for the murder of the captain of the
ship; the evidence of the mate seemed
quite conclusive. In the course of it he
said, however, that at the time of the
murder there was great confusion, as the
ship was in much peril, and requiring
all the attention Of the sailors to prevent
her striking on a rock. My father, who
defended the prisoners, asked so many
questions as to the number of the crew,
and where each man was, and what he
~ as sz-engagedz in during this perilous
tim e, that ut last the judge whispered,
Il an ppose Mr.. Adolphus, the questions
are ID the p,Ifpose2 ] own do not see
it Thinking, doubtless, that the time
of the Court was being wasted. Aller q
few more questions as to the duty each
M an was performing, the witness had
accounted Tor every man on board, the
captain heinz below and the two prison
ers numbering him. My father fixed his
eyes steadily on the witness, and said
IN a Searching and loud voice; Then
who was at the helmY The wretehed
mate dropped down in fit, and sooE
after confessed he was himself the mar-
derer In his false evidence he had
given to each man his position, and for
gotten the most material, or rather left
none TO fill it.
Year: 1871

Every picture should be hung with its
horizon on level with the eye OF q
spectator of ordinary statne, and there
should be q clear space of three feet at
least between the larger pictures, and
two feet between the smaller ones, which
space should be illed up, if possible,
with velvet of dark maroon color. A
flock paper with slight pattern and all
Of one color is the next best thing to
velvet. The supreme merit Of any col
lection is unity. Every picture onght
10 illustrate and help the rest And, If
the buyer keeps in view some great
eading purpose, the unity will most
i Kelly come of itself, but it cannot be
sas fiy reached otherWise Mere miscel
Ispe Gus buying, according to the ca
nr;ce of the moment, leads to the raking
iogetb, n Of unrelated objects, but not
10 that beautiful and helpful order,
which miItipHes a million fold the value
of every particle.
Year: 1871

The English have been for some years
sadly worried by estimates that indicate
the exhaustion of their supplies Of coal
within century or two.A And now
some professor Of hard facts comes to
the front with the assurance that even
the vast extent Of our American forests
cannot very long hold out against the
enormous consumption Of wood. More
than 10000 acres of our best timber,
he says, are devastated every rear TO
supply the demand for railway sleepers
alone; and the locomotives now in USE
consume the product Of double that area.
Year: 1871

BERLIN Dec. 5, 1870.


How is the war to end2 VIII 1t be terminated by
the surrender OF Paris, apparently SO imminentp
VIII the German hosts occupy the country In
definitely until the establishment OF formal gov
ernment with which peace can be nader These are
the great questions which absorb the attention of
everybody and to such extent that events dating
only few months hack, but Of the highest impor-
tance, as they were the immediate precursors, and
in some respects, the causes OF the war, are now
almost entirely lost sight OF. This is but too natural
amid the struggle which has assumed an intensity
Of national hatred, tasking the utmost efforts OF
both countries, and taking the character OF o
rough and tumble fight for life and death. Under
such depcrable NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. deeply
stirred, minds biased by national prejudices-it
must require a long time, even after peace shall
have been restored, before any one living on this
side OF the water could begin to write up faithful
account not so much OF the protracted and deadly
struggle of the comparative share OF either nation
III urging on, by its stubbornness or ambition, the
conflict.


1t may be that Americans favored by their dis
tance from the scene OF action, by the unbiased re-
ports they obtain, in nne, by the birdseye view
afforded to them, will be inclined to enlighten the
rest OF the world as to their Impressions respecting
the bearing OF the two nations previously to
the declaration OF war; and, should there be
any such desrous OF taxing time by the fcrelock and
showing their independence of the old beaten track
OF historians who VIII not even admit that history
can be faithful unless fifty years have gone by, to
them the following collection OF dispatches found
by the Germans In the castle OF st. Cloud and set
ting forth not only public sentiment in France, but
he action OF her governmental and representative
bodies, may be OF especial value.


We VIII add that no doubt can exist as to their
genuineness, 1t having been vouched for by the
Prussian government. When the Germans entered
ST. Cloud they discovered the business room OF the
Emperor just as he must have left 1t when saylng
forth to the campaign. AS to Germany's diplomatic
action IN those momentous days. we may at some
other time be enabled to furnish you materials; but
as France took the initiative the documents that
follow throw full light upon the action OF both.


The following are the original kilograms found at
the castle of ST. Cloud:-
Year: 1871

The San Francisco Caronio< urges the Col lector of Customs and the Superintendent of the Mint to discharge certain deputies and employees who voted for him that the Chroni- eie strove to defeat. The Chronicle is open and above board in all its sayings. but this would seem 10 carry candor to the extreme of bad example.
Year: 1871

The last German expedition to the North Pole is said to have been success The .e- counts published claim that the open Polar sea was discovered, absolutely free from ice and swarming with whales.
Year: 1871

It IS thus that the Los Angeles Ners notices the arrival of Vincent Colyer at that city;

 Those whom curiosity may inspire with wish to behold monster will find him at the Pico House."
Year: 1871

Mayor too, seems favOrably inclined. ant
it is generally supposed that the sppropria
ton will eventually pass by a unanimou
vote.


Dogs and Hydrophobia.


A good deal has Of late been said on this
subject. If the dog tax license were prop
erly enforced, and if the police and night
watchmen were authorized or instructed to
kill all the dogs caught loose without the
! two dollar tag in day time, and all dogs, in.
discriminatory, found in the streets in the
! night time, we would soon be rid of all the
worthless ours that now infest the city, and
make night hideous with their incessant
and senseless barking.


We wish Administrator Lewis would agi-
tate the matter at the police board, and
bring about determined action to rid the
community Of this pest Of dangerous and
worthless ours.


The Wharf at the Head of Gaiennie


Street.


Major Belger, United States quartermas-
ter, who has heretofore had possession in
the name of the United States, of the wharf
at the head OF Gaiennie street, wishes it un.
derstoOd that he has not absolutely relir-
pushed the possession Of the wharf to the
city. The question as to the right Of pos
session between the general government
and the city is now before the federal court,
and Major Belger will abide by whatever
decision may be made in the premises.


Miscellaneous.


A very useless and dangerous contrivaace
are the very heavy and massive swinging
doors attached to the rear of our street rail-
road cars.


The doors are lot used for the purpose
for which they are placed, on the contrary,
are left dangling open, as though expressly
intended to shut only when the car would
suddenly be stopped, or in making curves,
in order, we might say, suddenly to mash
the hands and fingers of thoughtless or un-
passengers who may be seated
III the coveted corner of the car and have
hold Of the doorpost. This should be RENE
died. A great blessing, also, it would he if
passengers would assist the drivers in wean-
ing, by summary process, naughty boys |
from hanging on to the steps and incom-
moding passengers going in and out.
Year: 1871

OUTDOOR AND FURNITURE SALEs-To
correct an impression that seems to exis,
that he confines his business exclusively to
the sale Of real estate and stocks. Colonel
Walton, so well known in this community
as an auctioneer, finds it necessary to an.
nounce that he will give his personal atten-
ton to all outdoor sales and to sales of fur
niture, as well as to the sale of real estate
and stocks, by auction. He is entitled from
his long experience as an auctioneer to a
fair share OF any business he solicits, for it
is well known that he is equal in business as
well as in most other things to the accom-
plishment Of whatever he undertakes. See
his advertisement.
Year: 1871

THOSE who have expected that the pro
grcssiye Republicans Of Mlss6WlNwOpld
go over to the Democracy are soon un'
deceived. The prospectus for'1s7l oil the
Missouri Democrat the leading journal Of
the Brown and sChurz men, declares that
Tho impression which our enemies have
been busily seeking to create, 10 the alb
surdl effect that in some contingency this
paper may be used against the Republican
party, had never tho first particle Of just
ground, and Is utterly false"
Year: 1871

The Country Gentleman says that cul-
tivat"rs frequently allow raspberry bushes
to run rampant the season through, and do
the pruning the following spring, when
much severe cutting is r. quisite in bring
of attention at the right time, and small
amount of labor, will enable the owner to
bring them into suitable form, retain all
their vigor, and obviate much Of the care
II ouired for stalking the plans.
Year: 1871

"A young lady writes from Leaven-
worth to the Chief of Police in Kansas
CITY as follows: "There is man in your
place named Johnny Bascombe, who is in
love with me, and who was driven away
from our house last week by my old father,
who drives away every one who comes to
court me- Plea>e. for my sake, find out
Johnny and give him my picture, which l
enclose to you, and tell him l will stick
to him, father or no father, and if you ever
come up here will come to see you and
thank YOU. Just tell Johnny that his lula
sent him the picture, and he will know It.
all" The police official was puzzled tos
know what to do about the matter.
Year: 1871

Since December1, 1870, there has


been paid into the Treasury Of the
State of Louisiana five millions.
four hundred and forty-one thou
sand, two hundred and fOrty-two
dollars and eighty cents. Tho ex-
penses of the government for the
same period were six-milliOns
four hundred and sixty-five thou
sand, five hundred and seventy
five dollars and thirty cents. Ex-
cess ofexpenditures over receipts,
one million, twenty-four thousand
three hundred and thirty-two
dollars and fifty cents.


The taxpayers of Louisiana are
already taxed more than they are
able TO bear, and yet their burden
will have to be increased in order
to meet this excess ofexpenditures
over the receipts. If the work
of retrenchment is not soon COM
menced, the people will have to
take matters into their own hands,
and resort to tho only means
left to free themselves of the
onerous burden Of taxation which
hangs like an incubus over their
industry and enterprlse--REPU-
DIATIoN.


If the Taxpayers are forced to
this last resort, they can accept
it without any compunctions of
conscience; for they are not in
honor bound to pay the large in-
crease of the State debt within
the last three years. They have
had no voice in the management
Of public affairs, and their rights
and interests have been almost
wholly ignored 7by the molly
horde who have been foisted into
power by the anamolous condition
of things resulting from the late
war. The people will not resort
to Reputation only Us last rem
edy and as a necessity to save
themselves from financial ruin.
Year: 1871

From the ST. Louis Times.


We are not of those who be
lieve that fire, blood or pestilence
though it has swept five siNths o1
Chicago out of existence, has
power to annihilate the city
That municipality has gained 4
commercial position of which nc
calamity, short of absolute ex-
tinctiOn, can possibly rob her
There are those who intimate
that her growth and expansion
and greatness have been accident
al that it was merely by chance
that the location of General
Scott's garrison in 1882 became
afterwards the seat of n mighty
metropolis that there was no
Typographical necessity for the
erection of Il city at this point
that it was IL mistake in fact, and
that the fire has swept alFits adj
vantages out of being and fin
ally that Chicago, like cities of
the ancient past, under the stroke
of an overwhelming calamity, is
destined to pass out of being as
Il center Of trade, commerce, art,
literature and enlightenment.


The men who indulge them
selves in such vaticinations as
these are either fanatics or fools.
They certainly mistake the elias
tic power Of Yankee energy in
the time of trial; they miscalcu-
late the distance to which our
American philosophy is likely to
rebound when its capacities are
forced to Il test; they place but a
poor and uncharitable estimate
upon the surmOunting vigor Of
our Western enterprise.


If it was an accident that Occa-
stoned the location of Chicago,
originally; if it was 10y accident
that the commerce of the great
lakes centered at this point if it
was only 10y accident that the
trade Of the Northwest enriched
and built it up; if it was merely
an accident whereby Chicago be-
came so great, munificent and
beautitul-it is equally to be be-
lieved that the same causes,
accidental or otherwise, which
contributed to her magnificent
progress, are still vital and Wig
orous, surmounting the flames OF
the confiagration, and potent
now, us ever, to make Chicago
once again., far more than she
has just been unmat}e.


The force of the accident thai
gave her impetus at first is per.
ennial-indestructible. \ thou
sand auxiliary forces are now al
work to perpetuate her greatness


Were Chicago, to the last
building within her corporate
limits, swept out OF being, Chi
cago would still arise from the
wide waste of ruin, and sooner Oh
later assert her commercial infu-
ence in the country.


The depot of products, meal
culable in value, transmitted from
all quarters of the Northwest ;
the enyepot Of the commerce of
the lakes; the converging point
Of numerous railways, virtually
her own: there is no sort of
doubt but that she will retain
her position, regain at last her
Importance, and at no distant
day'rc-assert Il certain supremacy
of Western interests.


That Chicago will lose much
Of the trade hitherto claimed as
beyond dispute or competition,
her own; that she will never per-
haps "cmount to her relative
scale in the rank of American
cities, is perhaps possible; but
we much mistake the character
Of her people and the capacity OF
her hackers, if she does not re-
store in less than ten years far
more than she has lost i'm the last
ten days.
Year: 1871

The punishment had lasted hours, and night closed upon the horrible scene. The name of the victim whose torturcs were contem- plated with satisfaction by the most refined ladies of the Kingdom, was Robert Francis Damiens, and his crime that of stabbing Louis Ky. with knife. The king was very slightly wounded, but terribly alarmed. The assassin was arrested on the spot His mo tive was religious fanaticism, the king being at variance with the Archbishop of Paris and hostile to certain pretensions of the Church. No one but king would have ordered such a diabolical punishment to be inflicted But what monsters of cruelty the great majority of monarchs have been.
Year: 1871

The latest frog story is quite startling. The reptile was delivered from slab of solid rock, way down in Connecticut, within which it must have remained encased since the creation of the world. It died of ad- miration, upon beholding the sun. and was immediately transferred to bottle contain ing alcohol to be sent to Yale College, when some man with better appetite for whisky than for science drank the alcohol and threw the ancien: denizen of earth into gutter.