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Year: 1872

SOMETHING ABOUT Cup OF COFFEE
It has been truthfully said that even in
these enlightened days, and in the lands
most blessed By the influence of civilization,
there are thousands upon thousands Of per-
sons born into the world who live their long
lives and then 60 down to their graves with
out ever having tasted good cup of coffee.
There are many reasons for this, and the
principal one, of course, must be that SO few
persons know how to make good coffee. And
yet there have been thousands Of receipts
and directions published which teach us how
to make good coffee by boiling it; by not
boiling it; by cohfning the essence and aro-
ma; by making it in an open vessel; by sleeping
it; by not sleeping it; by. clearing it; by not
clearing it; by grinding it fne;, by grinding
it coarse; and by many other methods op-


posed to each other and to all these. Now,
we do not intend to try to tell anybody how
to make good coffee, but We wish to say a
word about the treatment Of the coffee after
it is made. And on this treatment depends
its excellence, brew it as you may. The rule
is simple-never decant it, Whatever else
you do about it, bring it to the table in the
vessel in which it wds made,. A handsome
urn or. gorgeous coHeepot is the grave of
good coffee. Of course, if it is considered
more desirable to have the pot look we'll than
to have the coffee taste well, we have noth-
ing more to say. But when hot coffee is
empticd from one vessel into another the
kitchen ceiling generally receives that es:
sence.laden vapor rwhich should have found
its way into the cups on the breakfast table.
And one word about these cups. When the
coffee enters them it shonld find the milk OF
the cream already there. BY observing these
rules ordinary coffee, made in almost any
way, is very often palatable indeed.
Home and Society, ,Scri5ner's for October.
Year: 1872

, ASAD> STORY There comes from Ph'la-
dolphin sad story about a lame girl, who
for fourteen years, had never left the third
story back room in which she lived. Not
long ago she was carried to Fairmount Park,
on the occasion Of one the excursions OF the
school children. Her delight at sight OF
the fresh radiant nature around her was al
most painful to those who witnessed it. She
Law down on the grass, and touching 1t
lovingly asked what it was, and pnt similar
questions with rcfercacc to the trees and
birds. All day long she lay in the the warm
sunshine gazing ut the blue sky and at the
beautiful river flowing past the Park At
intervals she was observed to weep softly,
from the very excess Of the newborn Joy
within her.
Year: 1872

the arms of bear, who hugged him fondly
and carried him off under the seats to eat at
leisure. The elephant now reached out his
shSR the Isentfes Poiesas a boy
shakes an apple tree for fruit, and this
Year: 1872

All Transient Advertisements will be charged
ONE DOLLAR per Square for the first and SEVEN
TY-FIvE CENTS per Square for each subsequent
insertion Single insertion, 81 so per square.
Year: 1872

The emotion of the mind has a pow
erful influence on the stomach. Let
person who is about to sit down to q
good dinner witha good appetitereceive
piece of news, either exceedingly
ioyful-or exceedingly distressing, his
appetite goes in q moment. Children
who are about to set out on a pleasant
journey, it is well known cannot eat.
This, when / was q child, was called
going Journey proud" On the other
hand, blow ON the stomach will some
times take away life instantly; o drink
Of cold water, when the body has been
very hot, has often the same effect.
Attend to your companions when on a
journey asoot; as their stomachs grow
empty, how sullen and silent the whole
parry becomes. Let crust of bread,
q little cheese, q glass of ale or wine
be taken, and cheerfulness Immediate
Iy reigns, even long before any nutri-
ment has had time to reach the gener-
al circulation. These things also
show the general sympathy between
the stomach and every other part OF
the body.
Year: 1872

TO man who has q qtfck eye for
the picturesque, or, let us say, theap
propriate, the violations of taste he
meets in. modern drawipg-roonsi are
more than disagreeabieAthey are
CHASTITY. am saying nothing about
indecency. That is hardly a portion
of my present subject. But why, if q
woman has a neck. like a skeleton,
must she tell the world so?a Why, If
fate has made her grow stOuter than
it is permitted to be, .niustsh squeeze
and fold her fat into a tight low dress
because it is the fashion? Why must
she draw a hard line around her
shoulders, that seems TO- cut her In
two, and wear sleeves which are
mere straps to keep her gown on,
without caring, without knowing,
whether her arms are models? Why
must she wear trimmings of great O's
and KS and vandykes on her skirt,
SO that at a little distance the first
thing about her that strikes the eye
is the trimming? Why, if very tall,
must she take the arm Of a very little
man, and make herself and him look
absurd? !. Why will she draw atten-
ton to her want of color by wearing
red or arsenic green? Why, with
red hair, is her dress pink? Why,
when in a pale dress, does she lean
against the wall which the barbarity
of custom has papered with white?
Why, with black hair, does she carry
heavy burden Of jet flowers, combs
and impossibly thick plaits that make
her head look like an elephants on
an antelope's body? Why will she
trust to the-very moderate gifts na-
ture has endowed her with,, to fight
against the most abnormal disadvan-
tages? Why why-but. enough;
these are only some Of the insane
mistakes that nearly all girls commit,
many of them girls with artistic
tastes and capacities, in every direc-
tom lexoept dress, whose eyes you
may see shine with pleasure at sum
set or a bean-fiower-which, never
theless, they steadily refuse to take
hint from?


Very few women know what style
of dfesst tsnits them best, Sor what
colors even those who study the art
study it wrongly One may often see
awoman who has the makipgs of q
dignffied goddess be ph&ta scoQuette,
or a little creature attempt to be state
ly who can only be simple. The best
grace Isl perfect, naturalness. Our
manners form themselves, but We
must form our setting of them. Ma
tSfs fiiisa' sa.A Art q sSSSId 1S S5 so$sthins. sSi


You m lst choose suitable colOs aId
suitable shapes for your dresses you
must study the room you are to ap-
pear in, If You ever mean to LOOK
right; and if you know what kind of
room you are about to be seen in, or
if you know that it is one of the


modem white and glaripg drawing
rooms a plain black dress (but never
with low neck and short sleeves) will
always be safe. The reason that an
,oroinzry1 neck withlshort sleeves
looks worse in black than in any
rther color is because the hard line
round the bust and arms is too great
a contrast to the skin. A low neck
always lessons the height, and q dark
dress made thus lessons IT. still more,
and it strikes the artistic eye as cut
ting the body in pieces. in this way:
If you see q fair person dressed in q
low dark, dress, standing against y
hight background some way Oh, the
Year: 1872

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To bolders Of 5-2)S which are being called IN for
redemption. we offer and strongly recommend the
FIRST MORTGAGE GOLD BONDS Of the NORTHERN
PACIFIC L. r. which furnish to the public an invest
ment security combining the ready negohablhty,
the convenience and the high credit of tirSt-class
railroad bond with the solidity and safety Of real
estate mortgage on land worth at least twice the
amount loaned.


They are offered at par in currency. and yield
handsome profit TO those exchanging 5-2Os


JAY COOKE & Co.
Year: 1872

The Vallejo (Cal.) Recorder has the
following A certain husband living
in our neighborhood has habit of
walking in his sleep, and his wife got
so tired of having him frisk around the
house during the silent watches Of the
night that at last she determined to tie
him fast after he got to sleep. She fast
ened string to his ankle and tied the
other end to what happened to be the
most handy, which was her husbands S
double barreled gun, behind the door
in the corner of the room. About one
o'clock the somnambulist arose for the
purpose of taking ramble around the
room. When he had taken about six
steps, the artillery came out of its seclu-
sion in the corner, with jerk, the load
crashing through the panels of the
door. 1t soon brought both parties to
consciousness, and they begged for
Gods sake we would not mention their
names. Yesterday hewa busy putting
a new panel in the door, which is far
better than digging load of buckshot
out of the baby
Year: 1872

drawn out but it will answer, without
removing them from the barrels, to
store them in an out-building or shed,
covering deeply with straw. So protec-
ted, they may be kept frozen all winter
if desired and will, when they come to
thaw out, be fresh and sound. We have
even known apples headed up in barrels
and kept deeply covered in straw, but
not so deep but they were several times
frozen and thawed during winter, and
yet the following spring they were
sound, and in guilty equal to the same
variety kept in a cellar.


Frozen apples, however, must always
be handed with great care, for when
hard frozen they are unyieldng, and if
ratified together they will be covered
with shallow bruises. which. on being
thawed, first turn brown, and soon after
ward decay.
Year: 1872




II Sir Oracle DuBose would only
indulge in a little silence, he might
have some chance OF impressing peo.
pie with his own estimate Of himself.
He is trying TO create the conviction
that he is a modern Jove, and that il
he does not WELD, he is at least In
collusiOn with the lightning and the
storm. Were it not that his head is
as utterly destitute Of brains as the
huge boots upon his hoofs, and that
he Is entirely lacking in the generous
Qualities which are necessary to q par
ty leader. and did not the peO-
pie rec0i; instinctively from a
nature so selfish, 50 dOmineering, so
full Of bile, 50 crude snd unlearned,
SO faulty OF Judgment, so abOrtive in
conception and notoriously deficient
In tact and originality, he would be
dangerous to the people, whereas he is
now only public nuisance. Not con-
tent with the shameful assault made
upon the APPEAL on Saturday, Sir
Oracle DuB0se rises in his place on
Monday and rRneWs the attack. Bat
the last assault was nothing but a
rehash of his old assertions; thus
showing that he has no origi-
nality, and that his third-rate
powers OF apprehension are even
stamped upon the ideas he borrows.
In his writing and speeches, this self
constituted oracle reminds one of
those crabs which crawl on the reefs
of Florida, and which, armed with
fOrbiddiDg tentaeles and strong, pre-
daceous claws, but terminating behind
In a weak, pUlpy, finless body, drop
themselves into the shell OF other fish
and war upon them from an usurped
fortress. Apart from want of origi-
naIity, his harsngues are mere rant,
assertion and rigmsrOle simply
'three blue beans in a blue
bladder" In other words, he is one
Of those trifas which, as a great
writer tells Us, "hoat and are pre-
served in the shipWreck OF the
State, "whiIe everything solid and
valuable gOes TO the bottom and is
lost forever." But this tireless,
and malignant popipjay will live
TO learn that the APPEAL can no
more be damaged by his saliva than
was the rst-tail file by the slime of
the serpent which undertook to
gnaW it unto death. No one knows
better than this self constituted oracle
that such men as he are the creations
OF the press; aud however much he
may strut and vapor on the floor of
the Senate, he will be quick enough to
ask obsequiOusly for the renewal
OF its fay0rs now that he is
about TO return to that origi-
nal obscurity from which, for his
own sake as well as that OF the public,
be should never have emerged. The
APPEAL with shame. .facedness con-
fesses that it did much towards max
ing the gas-bag which Shelby county
sent TO the State senate, and instead
Of being proud Of the Job, it has abund-
ant cause to deplOre its agency in the
task Of creating the worthless thing.
Year: 1872

After spending the day in voting on
motions to adjourn, alternated with
motions to take recess, but without
coming any nearer to solution of the
difficulty.


Mi. Hooper from the committee on
banking and currency, presented the
testimony taken before that commit
tee la the matter of the failure of the
national banks, with resolution that
it Is the opinion of the committee that
the successful working of the cuEren-
cy bureau required change in the
head Of that bureau.


The testimony and report were Or
derei printed and to be called up fer
future action.


Adjourned.
Year: 1872

Tie London Times regards the con-
test in America for the Presidency prin-
cipally from the point of view of the
indirect claims 1t makes computa-
ton Of the probable result of the cleo
tons, which, as it says, 'tif sound in
wolves an admission that, if the whole
electorate of the Federation were fused
together to choose President by a
plebiscite, Mr.. Greeley wonld defeat his
opponent in something like the proper
tion of to 9" 1t then adds: s'It is
difficult to avoid the conclusion that
President Grants position has been
much injured by the refusal to enter
tain the indirect claims Although very
little was publicly said about the matter
when the opinion of the Tribunal was
voluntarily given, there was evidence of
much silent modification in America -
Every person can easily fancy for him.
self what he would have felt if the rep.
resentative of his country in the face of
the world had acted in the absurd FASH
ion Mr. Fish chose to adopt, and we
know that Americans of all classes
were much chagrined at being made to
appear at once so grasping and SO OBJ
sequious."
Year: 1872

Boil small pot full of potatoes, and
bathe the parts affected with the water
in which the potatoes are boiled, as hot
as car be applied, Immediately before
going to bed The pain will be reno
we'd. at least alleviated, the next morn
ing Some of the most obstinate rheu-
matte pains have been cured by one ap
plication Of this novel and simple RENE
DIV.
Year: 1872

IHE TOMATO AS F0oD.-A chemist OF
some celebrity considers the tomato an
invaluable article of diet, and ascribes
to it important medical properties. He
regards it as peculiarly useful in all
those affections of the liver and other
organs where calomel is considered in
dispensable; and believes that chemic-
al pill can be obtained from it which
will altogether supercede the use of cal
omel. He says that it is also almost a
sovereign remedy for dyspepsia and in
digestion, and advises the frequent use
of it as an article of diet.
Year: 1872

To succeed in the world; it is much
more necessary to possess the penetra-
ton to discover who is a fool than to
discover who is d clever man.


What do we need To make us coiisid-
crate? Much good sense and q dtop
Of pity IN the heart.
Year: 1872

In some recouections Of early theatrical days
in New York, it iB noticed, among othor things,


that tho performance was announced to begin
at "precisely m half hour alter oclock." !"
The custom indicates that there was much more
frugaIty in social life then than any of our largo
American cities enjoy at the present time, and
suggests that a return to the custom might
produce many changes for the better
in tho general discontinuance Of keep
ing late hours. There is no reason why
social and public amusements should 1ast until
late in the night. The lateness of their hours
is largely Responsible for the character Of dssi-
patton which they so often assume. It is by no
means exclusively a custom Of primitive times
to keep good hours. In most Of the German
cities, the theatrical and operatic performances
begin at an early hour, in many cases as carly as
81 o'clock. The practice contributes very sen
Year: 1872

sibly to the enjoyment Of the perform
ances. They are concluded at 915 o'clock,
after furnishing good, long intornnis-
sions for visiting the 6n6ets or
chatting in the boxes, and the audience retires
in ample season to get to bed at the usual hour,
or to attend social reception without being
obliged to forego some favorite opera, play, or
ballet. Among the benefits which accompany
the practice Of opening public entertainments at
an earlier hour in this country, would be 3 desr-
able limitation Of business hours. It has been
found in great commercial centres that as much
business can be done by systematic attention to
it for six hours as if ten hours were occupied.
In London, for instance, it is the custom to
transact the bulk Of the wholesale and sample
trade, as well as professional business, within
the hours Of 10 a. N. and ?. m. One Of the
results Of the custom is, that every business man
is found at his post, while, without the estab-
ishuent Of fixed hours and in the relaxation
which is sought in stretch Of from o'clock in
the morning till or o'clock in the evening.
there is never any certainty Of finding the man
you want to see. There is reason to suspect that
rs much time is lost on this account as would
occur by limiting business hours. The per-
nicious results Of overtaxation Of the physical
and mental system, which are 80 general in
America, are largely due to the practice Of doing
business at all times Of day; and it is probable
that the saving in health and vigor would more
than compensate for tie apparent loss of time
that would ensue from the change. tits coming
to be very generally felt that tie nouralgias, the
nervous attacks, and the debility which are
notable among both American men and women,
as compared with the people OF other countries,
are to be traced to the late hours which
are kept in our American cities. The trouble
which the reformors have found is where theycan
begin the general change which is acknowledged
to be SO desirable. May not their starting point
be found in the hours Of opening at tho public
places Of nmusement7 It would be for the COM
fort, convenience, and, profit OF managers to
begin their performances at G:30 o'clock, instead
of s o'clock, and to 9 very large extent, such a
change would regulate hours both before and
after their entertainments.
Year: 1872

estate in Chicago and the vicinity. That these
men are as ahrewd and safe in their calculations
as tho business community generally is proved
by the fact that there have been fewer failures
among them during the past ten years than
among the mercantile classes.
Year: 1872

present price they yield ssren per cent income :"
gold


This great work is about completed there are now
400 miles finished. and only about 20 miles re-
man to unite the Atlantic tide waters to the Quo
River valley by the shortest and easiest ral route
possible.


The quantities of white o., poplar pine, walnut
and other valuable timbers; the camel, splint and
bitmnous Goals the varieties of iron ores the lime
stone salt and other products render the route of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad probably the
most attractive location for coal-minlng, iron
making and kindred manufactures and industries
in the United States


The company have at considerable expense, caused
a geological survey to be made of the route of the
road by Prof Ridgway. Copies of his valuable Re
port, with map and also a pamphlet containing the
latest information in reference to the present cond


ton and future prospects Of the road be had on
application at our office. FISK * HATCH
Year: 1872

The Nashville correspondent of tho
Memphis appeal in long letter is sepa-
rating the wheat from the chaff in tho
Democratic press of the State. 1t blows
away the boiling organ of Knoxville as
mean chaff in the following style;


The success of Andrew Johnson, if it
were possible, would destroy forever all
hopes OF Democratic organization, and
consequently of Democratic success. The
conduct of the Press and Herald at
Knoxville, is shameful. Processing to be
Democratic paper it supports the chief
disorganizer. The Banner and Avalanche
are more consistent, for their object is
evident and declared. The Times at
Chattanooga, the only Democratic daily
now in East Tennessee, is doing noble
work, and deserves the thanks and sup.
port OF the party throughout the State.
The Press and Herald cannot be consid-
cred Democratic paper, because it is
trying to disorganize and destroy the
party. There are several other good and
true papers in East Tennessee, among
them the Athens Post, Sweetwater En-
terprise, Morristown Gazette, Cleveland
Banner and others which it has not
been my good fortune to see.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Johnson asks from the people of
Tennessee an endorsement of his career.
To get this, lie seeks to pull down the
Democratic party which sustained him
in all that portion of his career that de-
pended on the people of Tennessee. He
can expect little count9uNnce from Dem
ocrats in such a course. We will not
accuse him of looking for much Radical
support. He knows, as well as we, that
his application for personal endorse.
ment has been presented so awkwardly
and under such awkward surroundings.
that it must inevitably go to protest.
He knows Tennessee and Tennesseeans
well enough to see clearly that there is
no possible chance for bis success in tie
present canvass. His continued candi-
dacy only renders possible the election
OF the Radical Maynard, which woull be
impossible otherwise. Tho surest method
he could take of proving his love for the
people, and his title to their gratitude,
would be to withdraw magnOnimously,
and thus confound the disorganizers,
who are really his enemies us well az
enemies of the Democracy.
Year: 1872

ALL reverence unto Epitaphs,


For high or for the lOWly,
Whenever they on graves are writ


BY Truth, and so made holy.
Such make, in their deep earnestness,


The living grander-hearted,
And keep the souls, though freed from time,
Still from our souls impaired
And many are the Epitaphs


In prose or in verse flowing,
And silent sacred music there


On board or marble glowing
Oh, heavenly the influence,


Angels unseen around us,
While often white robes, like their own,
Seem to have softly wound u.s..
Some Epitaphs shrine in the hearts
Beauty divinely tender,
And some throne the sublime in all
Eternity's own splendor:
But one there is that marrles Doth


Sublimity and Beauty;
Within one little line it lives


lie taied to do his duty!
Year: 1872

THE noble manner in which some men
conduct themselves in the hour OF danger
was illustrated recently, in q panic which
occurred on an East River steamer, caused
by an accident to the machinery. One
man snatched life-preserver from the
hands of a woman, and encased his own
manly chest in it, while another provided
himself with six life-preservers, and was
in the act of putting them all on, one
over another, when he was forced to de-
liver five of them to women,