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Year: 1871

An old army officer wao has spent
much Of his time in the West, repre-
sents that the climate of Dakotah or
Montana is more genial than even
that Of Kansas. There is not so
much snow, the temperature Is not so
changaablo, and the winters are not as
long. Horses and cattle are allowed
to run all winter, and the grass that
abounds "put them in such condition
by spring that the horses are hard
and fitted for any service, and the
cattle are unsurpassed for killing"
lie considers the Territories Of Idaho
and Montana, and thence westward e,
absolutely the garden spot Of Amer
lea"
Year: 1871

IT'S DA0K.-It is dark when the
honest and honorable man sces the
result Of years swept cruelty away by
the kuayish and heartlass adversary.
1t is dark when he feels the clouds Of
sorrow gathered around, and knows
that the hopes and happiness Of others
are fading with his own. But in that
hour the memory Of past integrity
will be q true consolation. and assure
him even here on earth Of a gleam of
light in heaven. It's dark when the
voice Of that sweet child, once fondly
loved, is no mere heard in murmers,
Dark when patteriug feet no more
rcsound without the threshold, or as
cond, step by step, the stairs. Dark
when some wcll-known air recalls the
strain once often atluucd to childish
voice now hushcd in death. Darkness
but only the gloom which now her,
aids the daysPring of Immortality and
the infinite light Of heaven.
Year: 1871




From the January No. Of Lppincott's Magazine.


The present condition of the French
finances under the Empire has been
less accurately known than that of al
most any other of the states of Europe,
it having been seemingly the object of
all the recent French ministers of fin
ance to make up their annual budgets
in such way as to prevent alike their
own people and the world outside from
clearly knowing the extent and increase
of the national liabilities. The dis
trust which such course of procedure
has naturally left upon the European
public mind was well illustrated dur
ing the past summer by the circum-
stance that when the English and Con-
tinental journals began discussing what
course the Bank of France, in view of
present and prospective French re-
verses, would adopt for the protection
of the two hundred million dollars of
bullion reported as in its vaults. the
writer found that there was a general
feeling of disbelief among London and
German bankers that any such vast
sum had ever been actually in the
bank s possession.


But make such allowance as is neces-
sary for our lack of accurate informa-
tiOn respecting the French finances, and
allow further, as we must, that France
has greatly increased her wealth, her
commerce and her productiveness un-
der the second Empire, it is yet certain
that, in view of her annual large treas
ury deficit, the evil day of financial, if
not of civil disaster, to the nation
could not have been indefinitely post
poned, In the spring of 1867, John
Bright found himself side by side with
NJ. Fould at one of the splendid mill
tary reviews given by the Emperor in
honor of the opening of the great Ex-
position; and when the former, after
commenting on the evidence of exces-
s;ve expenditure for military purposes
thus presented before them, and also
upon the regularity of the national de-
ficit, finally asked the latter what would
be the ultimate result of it all, the
great minister of finance shrugged his
shoulders with the significance which
only a Frenchman is capable of giving
to this gesture, and pithily replied,
"The end is only a question of time
and endurance
Year: 1871




TIE Scientific American says corned


beef should not be put into a pot until


the water boils, and not taken out until


it is s-cold, unless yen want it dry as a


chip.


It Is said that four parts of yolk OF
J eggs rubbed together with five parts of
glyeerine, form an excellent. ointment
for cutaneous affections, and will keep
even if exposed to the air, for years.
TIE American Agriculturist, while
admitting that good butter may be
made, under favorable circumstances,
without washing, insists that where one
woman can make fair butter thus, nine
viii learn to make excellent butter with
washing. Opinions differ.


To Fry CHICKENS. .-Disseet, salt and
pepper them with cayenne, roll them in
flour and fry them in lard. When the
whole IS fried pour off the lard and put
III quarter of a pound of butter, q
teaeup of cream, little white -four and
some parsley sealded and chopped fine,
for the sauce.


BUNNs.-Half cup of butter, half a
cup of yeast, half cup of sugar, one
cup of milk, -four enough to make
batter like griddle-cakes. Let this rise
till light, then add half cup of sugar,
one cup of currants or stoned raisins,
cinnamon or nutmeg to taste, a little
more flour, let it rise again, put in a
third of teaspoonful of soda, cut in
cakes, let them rise a third time, then
bake.
Year: 1871

The Mason and Hamlin Organ Company
have recently purchased two acres of land in
CambTidgeport, and erected another factory
for the making of their various STYLES of or
gans. The Grand Junction Railway, which
connects the several railroads running into
Boston, passes just in the rear of their Cam
bridgeport lot, and viii lay down all the ma
terials used in their business at their door,
and so obviate the expense of carriage


The Mason and Hamlin Company have
hitherto produced more Cabinet Organs than
any other manufacturer in the world, and
more than double the number produced by
any other manufacturer in this country. But
the demand for their instruments has been so
great. that at no time for several years have
they been able to fill their orders. With the
increased facilities which their new factory
will afford them, they can turn out two
hundred instruments every week, or more
than ten thousand year-enough, one would
suppose, to supply the whole world.


The Mason and Hamlin organs have mcreas-
ed in excellence as rapidly as in numbers
Each year some marked improvement has
been made in style or quality. Scientific eX-
pertinent and skilled workmanship have COM
bined to make better what was at hrst very
good, until now these organs have a most en-
viable reputation in Europe not less than IN
America, and are in large demand there ~
well as here. But the Company are not yet
satisfied. Only this year, June II and August
%, they procured patents for improvements
which experts pronounce very important, and
which will undoubtedly add largely to the value
and desirableness of these fayorite instru
ments.-EUeT.y Saturday.


PERSONS who prefer oysters cooked
in their own liquor may be interested
in knowing what the fluid contains.
The Journal of Microscopy says; :;
"Open an oyster, retain the liquor in
the lower or deep shell, and, if viewed
through a microscope, it will be found
to contain multtudes of small oysters,
covered with shells and swimming
nimbly about-one hundred and twen-
ty of which extend but one inch. Be
sides these young oysters, the liquor
contains a variety of animalcule and
myriads of three distinct species of
worms. Sometimes their light re-
presents a blush star about the center
of the shell, which will be beautifully
luminous in dark room"
Year: 1871

Mr.. J. G. Brown, of Henry county,
Ill, in speaking Of the yield of corn In
his vicinity this year, IN comparison
with 1869 end 1868, says:


The quality of this seasons crop is
generally superior, last seasons inferi-
or, and year before last fair. The aver
age of corn is twenty per cent. greater
this year than last, and wheat forty per
cent.


A general report of large crop of
corn is universally circulated by the
press; but our observations in geneal
of the principal corn growing counties
of this State, and through the central
part of Iowa, do not justify the report.
A fair crop was found in Fulton county,
this State, and Jasper county, Iowa;
while the crop in other portions was
generally found to be greatly below an
average. The increase in acreage viii
not make up the decrease in yield; and
we believe the cry of "large crop" will
be turned to "short crop" before an
other is grown.
Year: 1871

Some horses have tender skin, and
the harness viii sometimes gall them
cruelty, in defiance of all means to pre-
vent it. But, many times, the true
cause is attributable to o bad collar.
bad harness, or to a good harness i'm
properly fitted to the animal. A woke
of bows that do not st the oxen veil
will often gall them, and unfit them for
labor, when if these things were as they
ought TO be, they would work with lar
more ease, and their skin would not be
CALLED.


When harness or yoke of bows do
not fit properly, and their skin is liable
to be CALLED, bathe those parts before
they are CALLED with cold water until
the outside skin appears to be quite
soft, and then bathe those parts with a
strong decoction of white oak bark.
Let this be done every day, and the
skin will soon become much harderand
tougher than 1t usually is. A little
care in preventing an i'll is far better
than much labor and skill IN curing it,
or in endeavoring to obviate its in
furious effects Working Farmer.
Year: 1871

IT is said that Miss Kellogg intends
to organize troupe, next year, for the
purpose of giving a season of English
opera, and representing some Of the
best italian works that have not yet
been translated.
Year: 1871

1t was recently stated before an Agri-
cultural Club that the cost of raising
the sugar beet is about eight cents per
bushel; that the product of an acre
Will feed twenty-five cows eight weeks.
Four pounds Of seed to the acre is re-
quired, sown, as early as the soil can
be prepared in May, in rows two-and-a-
half feet apart, and the plants eigh-
teen inches apart in the rows Tie la
Dor has been the great bugbear in the
root culture; but Mr.. Lane says that
the principal labor is in the thinning
the horse cultivator will do the rest,
and should be used often, and adds,
that store hogs winter well upon these
roots.


The President of the club thought
beets were excellent for hogs and better
still for cows. A bushel day and one
ton of hay for the winter are better
for COW than two ton of hay without
the roots. They are as easily cultivated
as corn, if proper care be taken at the
outset. They are more profitable for
a mich COW, than any other crop, un-
less it be green corn in August.
Year: 1871

A correspondent of Laws of Life, who
claims to have had extended expert
ence, is decidedly of opinion that ap-
Piles keep far better when put into close
boxes or barrels, and secluded as much
as possible from the air. When thus
stored, he says, they will come out in
the spring full and plump as when tax
en- from the trees. Many varieties, as
the Talman Sweet, Spitzenberg, and
those kinds that are not considered
as long keepers, and shriyel badly, will
do well treated this way. have, he
continues, found universally that they
keep better to let them lie without
picking over 1t is much better to
pile them into a large bin across the
cellar, say six or seven feet high and
four feet wide, and cover them up
tightly, than to lay them on shelves. L
once saw such bin that a man had
kept through the winter. About the
1st of April he thought he could open
the windows on the side of the cellar
next the bin, to let in air, that they
might keep better. was at his place
and he called my attention to the fact.
two windows Just over the bin were
opened about ten days or two weeks,
and the apples exactly opposite the
windows for about one-third rotted as
much as foot in depth, and the re-
manning part on either side were not
rotted at all.
Year: 1871

When an animal is found licking his.
fellow, it is proof that uneasiness is
present in the stomach, and the licking
of his neighbor is a habit contracted
by instinct, with view Of removing
the unpleasantness. Unfortunately,
instinct is not at all times sufficient to
avoid dangerous practices, and if we
take for granted that the stomach is at
all times fully charged with acrid mat
ter, we shall without hesitation find
remedy. 1t is only necessary to place
within their reach shallow tToughs, In
which is kept a supply of common
chalk If an animal has superabund-
ance of acrid secretion, it will most
certainly swallow some of the chalk,
which will as certainly neutralize the
excess of acrid. If an animal has not
acrid in excess, and partakes of chalk,
it will do no harm. 1t is often too late
to administer remedies to young stock,
and the placing of chalk within their
reach cannot be made too early.
Year: 1871

Three months went by, and the Mar
qUis de Charnay decided that it was
time to terminate his wife's exile. She
at midnight; he met her at
the porte cochere, and giving her his
arm. led her to her boudoir, and seated
her on the satin lounge.
Year: 1871

should learn to Danish from their
hearts the old time prejudices, and il
they cannot do so the law should pun
isb them whenever they allow those
preiudiccs to incito them to violeuce or
to obstruct any citizen in the exercise
of any of his rights.
Year: 1871

The latest bear story comes from
Porcupine Valley, Nevada. A big
cinnamon bear came down to the
station buildings from the noun
tains, about the middle Of the af-
ternoon, during the fury Of snow,
and got after some young hogs that
were running about the barn, some
two hundred ards from the house.
The sudden, appearance OF bruin
created a great commotion in the
barn -yard-the hogs boohing and
snorting, and the fowls cackling at
a great rate. The noise attracted
the attention of the men at the
station. and going toward the barn,
they saw the bear in full chase
and close upon the heels of the
porker. Finding the bear close
upon him, the hog lodged behind
a harrow that was leaning against
the side of the barn, when bruin
| ran his head through the harrow
up to his shoulders in vain at
tempt to reach the frightened pig.
The pig darted from its cover, and
the bear, in pulling to withdraw its
head, was caught in the side OF
one Of his jaws by the sharp point
| of the harrow teeth. The bear be
gan pulling to free himself, when
down came the harrow, and, be-
ing turned with the teeth down,
the fastening process was most
substantially finished, as not only
the tooth thatwas in the jaw was
forced into the gro und, but all the
rest weres similarly fastened and
bruin most etfectually trapped
Seeing and comprehending the
situation, Thomas Rand, keeper o.


the station, ran to wood pile
seized an axe, and by a few blows


soon despatched the bear, which


weighed nearly four hundred


pounds when dressed. sgs ssa
Year: 1871

Thursday afternoon very cool youth
of fifteen got over the fence, walked into
the kitchen, and thence into the dining
room of dwelling near Sixteenth and
Brown streets. No one happened to be
in that portion of the house at the time,
the cool youth hunted around till he
struck plate of fried oysters, to
which he proceeded to pay his de-
YOURS.


But he made such smacking of chops
over them, that he hadn't eaten more
than zen, when the domestic came
into the room, just as he was making a
reach for the thirteenth. "What are you
doing there2" she asked in astonish-
ment. The cool youth, with refreshing
audacity, turned her flank by another
question:


Ibid you see anything of my canary
bird? thought it flew in herer'


you rascal" was the reply, ''get out
of thisr'


The cool youth cut for the gate, but
before he closed it after him, he asked,
with earnestness: Don't you want
your yard sodded ?''-I'hila. EUening
Star.
Year: 1871

An invalid lady beard much of tho
beneficial properties of the water from a
certain spring some distance from where
she resided. She had read pamphlet
that enumerates many diseases for
which it was specific, among which she
recognized at least half-a-dozen with
which she was afflicted. Much to her
joy, she was told that her son had to
visit the very town where it was located
and fiye-gallon keg and strict injunc-
ton were laid upon him to bring back
some of the water.


The keg was put into the ph@ton, and
slipping under the seat YVES overlooked.
The business was urgent, and took some
time to perform it, and the wafer was
quite forgotten. lie had got near home
in the evening, when, kneeling down
under the seat for something, he felt tht
Aeg. To go back was not to bo thought
of, and to admit his stupidity was iIa-
possible.


He drew his horse up by wall, near
which was an old well from which the
family had drunk for century, and fill
ing the keg, went home.


The first question was, "Did you get
the water ?''


"Yes," said he; "but hang me If
can see any difference in it from any
other water, and he then brought in the
keg.


A glass was handed to the invalid who
drank it with infinite relish, and said she
was surprised at her son not seeing any
difference. There was undoubtedly a
medical taste about it, and it did not fill
her up as other water did, which she had
always heard of mineral water.


Her son hoped it would do her good;
and by the time the keg was exhausted,
she was ready to give certificate of the
value of the water, it having reliev ed her
Of all her ailments.
Year: 1871

I was passenger on a steamer from
Panama to San Francisco when the rush
of travel on that line was immense. We
were badly crowded, and there was no
room for chairs or tables, yet we were
bound to have game of 'old sledge."
A Baptist minister, smiiten with the
n st for gold, had deserted his flock, and
occupied a sleeping-place OH the cabin
floor. Being large, corpulent man,
and finding him a sound sleeper, four of
us squatted around him, and commence
ed to play ON his broad stomach, scoring
the points of the game On his black vest.
We played for several hours, undisturb-
ed, except by an occasional snore of UNI
common force. 1 had won considerable
and one of my opponents, Jim Doyle by
name, becoming excited at my turning
up "Jack," brought down his fist on the
lower part of the parsons stomach with
great power. The pious old gentleman
was awakened thereby, and looked up
with some surprise; but seeing the state
of the case, quietly exclaimed: go on
with your game, boys; but if you are
going to ponnd me in that manner, you
had better let me turn over"
Year: 1871

Are warranted equal to any made. They
are prepared from the fruits and will be
found much better than many of the Ex-
tracts that are sold.


a5-Aslx your Grocer or Druggist for WILT
BERGERS EXTRACTS.
Year: 1871

It has frequently been said cf the people of Arizona, that they are in favor of war against the Indians only for pecuniary mo- tiyes, and that they are opposed to any mea- sure which might bring about permanent peace If other evidence than the unanimous voice of the people, were necessary to refute this ealumny, it might readily be furnished by the due and impartial observance of the de,ual conduct of the people in every section of the Territory, but, particularly, in the part which is being acted by the citizens of Prescott and the immediate vicinity. It is only a brief time since a large number of our citizens-smarting under sense of injury, and actuated by spirit of retaliation and vengeance upon the authors of fragrant out rage at Agua Fria-abandoned their business pursuits, and, at great sacrifice of time and money, enrolled themselves under military leader, marched against the common enemy, and very materially aided in the achievement of brilliant success. For this Spartan-likc devotion they have not suggested their right to even a vote of thanks for the loss of much valuable tune they have not demanded re- muneration; private money expended in fit ting out the expedition will not be reimburs- | ed, nor have they asked that it be--they struck A successful blow in the common cause and the consciousness of having done n good service to the country they deem an ample reward.

 The unsclfish among mankind will best ap- precia,c this sacrifice on the part of the citi- zens of Prescott and there will not be want ing, among the selfish, those who will he ready to misrepresent their fervor and their intrepidity more especially when it shall have been made known that large party of our citizens is again under arns and in pursuit of the enemy. This expedition started from Prescott on Tuesday evening, under command of Mr. Townsend-decidedly the most sue ccssful Indian slayer in Arizona.

 X report since circulated here, says tha, the expedition will probably be compelled tC abandon the pursuit and return, in conse quence of the inability of the military com mander of Camp Verde to send detachmen, of troops along with it. The band which il is the object of the citizen force to overcom, is known to number some two hundred war riurs, and as there are less than twenty fivs men under Mir. Townsend, it would seen positive rashness for him 10 persist in tho chase if denied military cooperation.

 But another report is likewise current which contradicts the former, and says tha General Grover has offered the assistance O 30 men. Should this be the true report tn, expedition will not prove abortive, and VI, may look with confidence for another brlli ant achievement as the result.

 At present we shall continue to hope that the laudable endeavor put forth by our citi zens may not have been thwarted by any un reasonable view of the case, such as tha, which, We understand, is considered suiiicien to letter the troops at Verde.
Year: 1871

The Los Angeles Express says that by the direction of the Secretary of War, Colonel Wendell will commence work upon the Will mington Breakwater as soon as the lumber which has been contracted for can be deliver ed. The timber will be brought from Puget Sound and the first movement. after it's ar. rival, will be to drive piles and extend the railroad to deep water. Abundant success to the enterprise say we.
Year: 1871

NEW YORK, October 19.-Lste
files of Brazilian journals contain the
following facts concerning the recent
legislative action in Brazil on this i'm.
portant subject:


One of the bills, which met with the
greatest opposition, appropriated S.
00O, 900, to be used to free about 8
million and a halt of slaves. The
ground of opposition was the fact that
this sum was too small, one
of the senators saying that by this
bill only ten thousand slaves
permanently should be freed. The
bill finally psssedappropristes much
larger sum, while pay for each slave
is put at very low figures. By the
plan emancipation will be gradual,
only children born after the passage
of the act on the twenty-seventh day
Of last mOnth-are to be at once liberia
ted. 1t is thought that the whole
number of slaves in the empire will
not exceed a million and half. The
majority of these are in the southern
part of the country. The sugar in
terest will not suffer from the change.
1t is doubtful about the results in the
coffee regions. AS the emperor favOrs
emancipation the passage OF the bill
by the legislative branch Of the gov
eminent practically delivers Brazil
frOm the evils of slavery.