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Year: 1875

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One thing the Republicans of Ohio
are determined upon, and they viii
succeed if they stick to that text,
that is to make q RepHhiicGn ticket
based solidly upon Republican
platform. We cannot afford to resur-
rect the dead, nor can We afford TO
do less than place in nomination
a ticket composed Of energetic.
live Republicans, men who have not
backed down in the presence Of the
enemy, who are identified with the
material industries Of the nation,
and who are free from every sign or
symptom of corruption. With such
ii ticket and such platform the Re
publicans of Ohio can carry the
State by 10000 majority.
Year: 1875

A GOOD thing for spring fever is
to clean up the rubbish that may
have accumulated about your yard
and garden during the winter. This
work is appropriate and equally
beneficial to all members of the
family, both male and female.-Tola
Register.
Year: 1875

Ix the Office Of one of the Detroit
hotels recently gentleman snapped
his finger to boOt-black. and as he
put his foot ON the box. he said:
"You look like Il good, smart boy"
"See here, misterI' replied the boy,
as he rose up, a brush in either hand,
'Pve had that game played on me L
dozen times, and now want to know
whether this is cash shine or
whether you're going to pat me on
the head when | get through and tell
me I'll be Governor of Michigan
some day.
Year: 1875

TnE original copy of the Declara-
ton Of independence, which has been
in the Patent Office at Washington
for years, las faded so that the sig
natures are scarcely visible, and a
skillful Penman IS to go over the
document with the aid Of strong
microscope and retrace all the sigaa-
lures so as to make them distinct and
legible.
Year: 1875

AT recent spiritual seance at East
Boston, policeman succeeded in tying
the medium so securely as to complete
ly battle the spirits, and in response to a
meek appeal finally anwound the ropes.
Year: 1875

At sunrise next morning, the great
battering engine came creaking and
groaning over mounds Of ruin and
piles of slain. Many of those who
dragged it fell by the fire of the gar
rison; but at length it numbered into
the courtyard, and was driven with
its full swing against the door.


Crash! the lock burst and the door
flew open, and in poured the savage
throng. But the foremost recoiled
with cries of terror, for they well
knew the meaning of those barrels
piled in the further corner, and that
woman kneeling beside them, with
her pale, rigid face, and the blazing
torch in her hand. For a moment be-
Year: 1875

How SWEET is a perfect understanding
between man and wife. lie was to smoke
cigars when he wanted them, but he was
to give her ten cents every time he in
dulged in one. He kept his word, and
every time she got fifty cents ahead he'd
borrow it and buy cigars. And SO they
were happy.
Year: 1875

DOCTORs DIsAGREE.-There is trouble
among the doctors Of Richmond, Va.
One Of them is charged with having caused
tie death of female patient by opium
poisoning, and the contention has waxed
so fierce that a challenge to mortal COM
bat has passed, and there is prospect of
death by blood letting. There should be
n better way than that to settle the dis
pute-a method at once more scientific
an1 sensible. Let the doctor who pre-
scribed the dose take it himself If he
dies, it is proof that he was at fault, and
it serves him right; if he survives, let him
double the dose for his adversary, and
thereby prove TO the latter's satisfaction
that he knew what he was about.
Year: 1875

GEN. BIDwELL is about resolving
never again to sow on his farm Of twenty
thousand two hundred and seventy-elght
acres any more wheat or barley, because
some bad men make whiskey out of
wnaat and lager beer out of barley, and
other bad men sell, while others, no
better, drink the vile stuff-Sdc. Bee.
Year: 1875

ONE day last week a smiling infant
toddled away from its home near Viola,
on the Dubuque and Southwestern Rail-
road, Iowa, and lay between the rails to
sleep. A few moments after train came
along, and the engineer, seeing he could
not stop in time, pulled her wide open
and banged the whole train over the
sleeping cberub before it woke, and never
touched hair of it, Had the little one
attempted 10 rise, it would have been
killed instantly.
Year: 1875

A NEAR-siGHTED Boston man was re-
Gently riding in street car, when a lady
opposite bowed to him. He returned the
bow, raised his hat, smiled sweetly, and
was just wondering who she was, when
she came over and whispered in his ear :
"Oh, I'll fix you for this, old man ."
Then he knew it was his wife.
Year: 1875

THERE is a man in Paris with great
project. He proposes to light that city
with one lamp. He wants to suspend it
at proper hight by means Of balloon.
His argument is that all Paris can be
lighted on that plan as well as an opera
house. The authorities have prejudice
against this plan, because he boards in a
lunatic asylum.
Year: 1875

A funny use Of steam is found on Duck
River, in Tennessee, on which steam
boat, drawing only foot of water, and
having a grist mil on boards wanders up
and down, stopping when she is wanted
to grind a bushel or two Of corn for the
farmers.
Year: 1875

READING the great Surgeons deca-
ration, "A cigar is a thing to thank God
for" Navy Yard school boy bought a
cigar. He was afterwards seen hanging
over fence, but he was not giving thanks.
- Wash. Chronicle.
Year: 1875

THERE was method in the madness of
the st. Louis woman, who, after walking
down TO the river TO commit suicide,
suddenly remembered that she'd left the
cat in the milk pantry, and went back
home on the flying jump.
Year: 1875

ALFONSO is not the only one who is
disgusted with the trade of royalty.
His Majesty Of Greece threatens to retire
also. The business will soon get to have
such bad name that no one with any
regard for his character will take it at any
price.
Year: 1875

A NEW HAMPSHIRE woman wants this
Beecher business stopped. If Beecher
will hold up his right hand and "agree to
be struck dead if he is guilty." she will
believe him innocent unless he falls.
Year: 1875

A FARMER complains that hook and
ladder company has been organized in his
neighborhood. He states that the ladder
is used after dark for climbing into the
hen house, after which the hooking is
done.
Year: 1875

WHEN boy falls and peels the skin
off his nose, the first thing he does is to
get up and yell. When girl tumbles
and hurts herself badly, the first thing
she does is to get up and look at her dress
Year: 1875

ThcA,d 4 become the most popular
of large }cal instruments. There are
now about two hundred and fifty makers
of them in the United States, which pro-
duce more than forty thousand organs
per annum. Most of these are very poor
instruments. This is naturally so, be-
cause there are few articles in the manu-
facture of which 80 much saving can be
made by the use of inferior, Improperly
prepared material, and inferior work
manship, and yet which, when finished,
show 80 little difference to the average
purchaser. The important parts of an
organ, made as well as they can be, cost
two or three times as much as if made as
low as possible. Yet, when the organ is
done, it is not easy from casual hearings
to tell the difference between the best
and "A very poor one. Especially when
shown by one who knows how to cover
up defects, to one who has not special
skill in such matters, it is not difficult to
make poor organ appear good one.


The temptation TO makers, then, to
produce, at fraction of the cost, an or
gan which will sell almost as well as a
good one is almost irresistible. Hence
the fact that so few good organs are made
and so many poor ones, and that the
country is flooded with peddlers and
dealers selling these poor organs, which
pay such large profits The buyer of the
poor organ does not fail to find out his
mistake after while. The thin reedy
tone of his cheap organ soon becomes
offensive: it works noisily and roughly,
is constantly out of order, and becomes
useless by the time a really good instru-
ment would have been getting into its
prime. A good organ ought to last a
generation, at least; poor one may last
five years, with considerable tinkcring, or
break down much sooner.


There is one safe way. Get genuine
production of one of the very best max
ers and you cannot 20 astray. Among
these undoubtedly stands prc-eminent
the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co.. whose
organs are so well known that other
makers are generally content to claim
that they can make as good an organ as
the Mason & Hamlin. They invented
and introduced the Cabinet or Parlor
Organ in its improved form, started with
and have always closely adhered to the
policy of making only the best work,
have shown such skill as have given
their organs the highest reputation, not
only in this country but also in Europe.
At the great exposition at Vienna, in
competition with eighty of the best max
ers in the world, they obtained the high
est medals. To cnumerate the compe.
titions at which they have received
similar honors would be 70 give list of
the fairs at which they have exhibited /;
and to mention the prominent musicians
who recommend their organs as un-
equaled would really be to give a very
good list of the most illustrious musical
names in the country, with a good repre-
sentatiOn in Europe.


One who obtains a Mason & Hamlin
Cabinet Organ need have no doubt that
he has the best instrument of its class
which can be made.-NeW York hide
uendsnf
Year: 1875

Coal ashes, sifted very finely, thor
oughly ground, and mixed with oil makes u
good, cheap paint. Any coloring matter
may be added.


THE BEST WAY TO Cook CoDFIsH.-
Strip it of its skin and cut il in pieces
about the size of ones hand; place it in
water and allow il TO simmer on the stove
until it becomes tender. 1t should never
be allowed to boil Boiling hardens and
darkens the fish, and deprives il Of much
of its flavor,


REsToRAnyEs FOR THE SICK.-Bake
two calfs feet in two pints of water and
the same quantity of rev milk in jar,
closely covered, three hours and half
When cold remove the fat Put in what
ever flavor is liked the navoring can be
baked in it; little cinnamon, lemon-peel
or mace; add sugar after.


A COOP DENTIFRICE.-Diss two
ounces of borax in three pints of boiling
water; before quite cold add one teaspoon
ful of t,ncture Of myrrh, and one table
spoonful Of spirits of camphor. Bottle
the mixture fr use. Add one wine glass
full of the solution 10 half pint Of tepid
water, and use it daily. 1t preserves and
beauties the teeth and arrests decay.


TOMATO PREsERvEs.-Tak sound, ripe
tomatoes, scald and peel, then add as
much white sugar by weight as you have
tomatoes, and let them stand over night;
drain off the syrup, and bring to boil
and skim well; put in the tomatoes and
boil gently twenty minutes; remove the
fruit and boil the syrup until it thickcns;
put the fruit into jars and pour the syrup
over, add few slices of lemon to each
jar, and you will have something excellent


MAKING PIcKLEs.-Wash the cucum
bers, put layer in the barrel, and
sprinkle on a teaspoonful of salt, ther
cucumbers alternately; pour on boiling
water enough to cover them, let then
stand twenty-four hours, then pour of
the brine, scald and turn it on the cucum
bers two successive days; then take then
from the brine, wipe them dry, and scale
good cider vinegar and pour on them hot
For barrel of pickles, put in bag one
half pound of ground cloves and allspic,
each, piece Of alum the sice of al
English walnut; and horse radish no
sliced. Scald the vinegar and pour OF
hot several times to make the pickle
hard and green. They will keep unit
cucumbers come again, if they are stirreC
often.
Year: 1875

To REMOVE FoREIGN BODIES FROM
THE EYE.-A medical correspondent of
the lancet makes suggestion which
may prove useful on emergency to SOM
of our readers: He says: "In consa-
quonce of the difficulty experienced in
removing from a patient Il portion of
steel bcdded in the cornea, which did not
yield to the spud or needle, some other
means of removal became necessary.
Dry, soft, white silk waste suggested it.
self TO me, and was wound roud thin
piece of wood, 50 as to completely envel-
ope its end. This soft application was
brushed once backward and forward
horizontally over the part of the corners
where the foreign substance seemed fixed.
To my astonishment it was at once en-
tangled by the delicate but strong mashes
of the silk, and was withdrawn with the
greatest ease caught by the same. A
gentleman, in turning steel at a lathe,
felt that portion had entered his eye.
He went nj once to a surgeon, who, with
the most skilltul manipulation, failed to
extract the same, saying it would soon
work out of itself The next morning
the patient saw me, having suffered Sc
verely since the accident, and on the first
the portion of steel was ex-
tracted." F"
Year: 1875

The people of Utah-the Mormons-a
correspondent says, rs whole are very
poor in all that constitutes material
wealth. Their condition in this respect
is half pastoral and half agricultural
The wealth resulting from pastoral life is
necessarily small for want of market
The herds which swarm through the
country cannot certainly find consumers
in the territory, and | know to my cha
grin how difficult it is to buy piece of
fresh beef in places where the cattle are
the most abundant. The agricultural
product is obtained with great labor, for


irrigation is laborious process. Ofall
forms of wealth the scarce.t is ready
money. Trade consists mainly in barter,
the currency being grain, cattle and
horses. In most of the villages II $50
bank note, and even $40 note, is not
negotiable whena small debt is contracted.
To make change for it would exhaust the
bankablc resources of the community.
But though the people are very poor,
their requirements are small, and there
is no poverty or suffering; while "respcc-
table poverty" the most terrible of ALL
is unheard Of and would be incompre-
hensible to them. Fashion and appear
ances donot trouble thisprimitive people
and there is as yet no social distinction
between rich and poor, The teamster or
herdcr has too much of the wild indepcn-
doncc of the fronticrsmcn To feel abashed
in the presence of anybody, and makes
himself at home wherever he may be.
The morals of the people, with the cx-
ception of polygamy, are much better
than those of neighboring territories.
Industry is the best safeguard against
stealing, drunkenness and gambling, and
as the whole population has some occu-
patton, these vices have but little foothold
among them.
Year: 1875

WHEN is the best hour to have dinner?
Noontime will not suit the business men,
vet il IS the best for the rest oftho house
hold, and there the difficulty lies. Chill
dren should eat their heartiest meal at
midday, and then 90 to bed after an early
supper. For adults, if the male members
of the household can get home at that
hour, five O'Clock is a suitable time Then
there is the whole evening for digestion
before going TO bed.
Year: 1875

Elsewhere we give an article from the Spirit of Arkansas, which we would that every farmer in the whole country could read and ponder upon.

 When results such as these fig ures show can be obtained under our system of farming, which no one will pretend to deny is defect i've and indifferent, what would be the result if we had a fair te st with a systematic and scientific mode of farming with improved machinery and cultivators like they have in the older states?

 If Arkansas. with more than thirty millions of acres of lands which yet can be brought into use for farming, pasturagc and fruit growing, and with the re- cord she has made as shown by the figures given below, does not make one of the richest and most populOus states in the Union at no distant day, we will be very much puzzled to know why she does not.

 Farmers in other states who read these things of Arkansas may doubt and hesitate to act, but by so doing they are standing in the way of their own prosperi- ty. If farmer from Iowa, Ind, Illinois, Nebraska, Ohio, or of most any of the older states would sell their lands there, even if they had to take half of what they con sidered them worth, they could come to Arkansas and buy twice the number of acres of land capa- ble of producing, as the figures show, almost or altogether twice as much value per acre. We have said time and again, and we still stick to it, that our farmers here make a living and make mouey too when they try, with less eXertion and with more loss es from bad management, than any people do elsewhere.

 We do not think it possible for our immense advantages to fail much longer to attaact a large in- Aux of energetic, thrifty farmers from the middle and northwest ern states; and then we expect to see the day of Arkansas prosper ity as an agricultural country eclipse anything heretofore expe- rienced in this country.

 Read the article headed "What the figures tell"
Year: 1875

Washington City is to be wis ited by the celebrated revivafists, Moody and Sankey. It is to be hoped that the moral atmosphere of that polluted city, where cor ruption and demoralization reigns so universally, will be purified and disinfected by the good seed which these gentlemen are sup posed to scatter wherever they go. With their labors and the reform which the incoming Dem ocratic administration will effect the national capitol will get quite a purging.
Year: 1875

Let the farmers of the middle and northwestern states look at the figures for themselves. They are from the official records of the country, and tell the story of how great are the advantages of Ar kansas over any other state. But they do not tell it all. For every

 acre of cleared land, Arkansas had only one dollar and twenty cents worth of farming implements, and l Iowa had two dollars worth, Mas
Year: 1875

twenty millions of human opera tives, have arrived at the correct theory of sound and profitable manufacturing industries. Ma tions, like individuals, arc taught bv experience. If these results are attainable in England after much experience, might we not do something in the way of pro- ductive results in cotton spinning here where this cotton is grown. We have fattered ourselves that our merchants and monied men are the peers in enterprise and ability of any similar class in England or America. We have two mills in this city fitted amply with everything which is needed, and so complete are they that they could be opened and operat- ed morrow. The owners of one of these factories have rendered it rent free, to any person or per sons who will put it into opera tion, and thus give employment to many who would work, if any thing to do could be obtained.

 There is nothing which is diff cult to learn in the practical man. agement of a power loom. In the great Baltic mills of the Sprague Brothers in Rhode Island, girl twelve years old usually tended four looms, each of which wove forty yards of cotton daily. The work is not more difficult than any other sedentary employment, and in spinning there is no grim ness nor dirty work to be done. The mills are models of cleanli- ness. Why cannot the expert ment, be made here of giving the factory sy stem,sal ,',c.Saged in other cities, a fair trial? But let it be done in earnest, for defective combinations never bring out re- suits which are tests of the cor rectness of q system we ought to manufacture. Successful facto- ries would bring to us good pop ulation and render susceptible of solution a very grave and serious social problem. The absence of factories deprives that element of our people which in other cities easily find employment in manu factories, where the manual labor is light, of employment at all. This city will never improve to the extent it's position warrants it's friend so expect until we pro vide suitable occupations for all our people, and we have learned to invest our money properly in human labor.
Year: 1875

The post office department is about to take advantage of the great achievment which the sue cess of the New York Herald s lightning mail train has proved to he, and place in operation a gov crnment lightning mail train by which mails can be delivered to the western and southern states one day sooner than they are now

 A good scheme, if it is ayailing the government of the success of private enterprise.
Year: 1875

The Weekly Grange says there is a horse now living in Jackson, Michigan, which is said to be fifty one years old. We have heard of a great many things which we didn't always believe.
Year: 1875

The Van Guard wants a say in the selection of the democratic nominees tor president and vice president in 1876, and asks how Hendricks and.Garland would do.

 They are good enough for us.
Year: 1875

An unsuccessful attempt was make last week by two occupants of the jail at Washington to burn their way out. The fire was dis covered in time to prevent any serious damage. So says the Tel egraph.
Year: 1875

and as to pleasantness the question IS even
more doubtful. For. however advantageous
to the health it might be if any man could so
change the face of nature that the winter
temperature Of our latitude should vary bat
few degrees. and never fall below the
freezing point, there is still question
whether very Geld, dry winter Is not less
injurious to health than our alterations OF
frost and fog, with snow and slop. There
are few varieties of our various climate
more exhausting to US than these damp,
murky, thawing days which so soon follow
our snow-storms. which themselves follow
these sudden falls 10 temperature. \ winter
in which the snow falls early, and lies dry
and crisp for six weeks, is certainly pleasant
er, and there is a reason TO believe healthier,
than one in which we arc alternately pinch
cd, blue, and shivering with the Thermometer
near zero, and steaming under oyercoats that
We dare not throw of, lest we should be
chilled to the marrow with the dampness OF an
air filed with moisture only a few degrees
above the freezing point. The long, hard
winters Of Canada and Of Russia have this ad-
vantage over our mider but more variable ones,
that they are comparatively dry, and that, be-
ing calculable, they may be provided against
with a reasonable certainty of fit adaptation.
Within doors the Russian or the Canadian is
generally comfortable, even in the seyerest
winter and out of doors lie is subjected
only to cold, and not to wet feet and damp
and bedraggled garments. And. notwith-
standing their severe winters, Russians and
Canadians are healthy, and generally are
fine looking people.


Our problem is difficult one it j. 20
adapt ourselves. our homes and our clothing
not 50 much to the cold as to the changes OF
our winters. To accomplish this Is worth
all the care and attention It may require
The notion generally held till very lately.
and even now held by some. that care ol
this sort enfeebles race i unworthy Of con-
sideration. The - hardening system
is DOW thoroughly exploded in the Judgment
Of all competent Psychologists. Care IN this
respect merely husbands the vital force, an!
the man who does that Is stronger for 1t IN
miad and body the more capable Of endurance.
We, as a rdlc are too reckless in this matter,
as We are in many others. As q general rule
we do not wrap ourselves up enough in cold
weather. 1t Is only OF late years that we
have began To wear tie good. stout, thick
sold shoes that we require for six months ~
the year. 1t makes one shudder to think 81
the limsy things in which our fathers aad,
above all our mothers used "a shiver through
the streets. And We are no, all Of u quite
sensible on this point vet. We are too apt
10 forget that neglect means disease; that
exposure brings sickness and death; that 10
does 80 in all countries in the extreme OF heat
and cold, but, above all that is does
50 in the vici-situles Of our climate.
Withdrawing as We bc-an-we say that if
a man can endure heueed fear 10 other unte
the sun.