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Year: 1872

used to think that to bake any thing well, the oven must be as hot as it could be without burning the article to be baked, all the time that it was baking. This IS not the case with anything except crackers and cook ies.

 For biscuits, the oven should be equally hot when they are put in, but should begin to cool little before they are taken out; {; this makes them very light, but one has to watch to keep them from being scortched j; eight minutes are enough to bake them; II baked with such fire as that required for bread they are heavy.

 For germs made of graham four and water, or corn bread, the oven should be very hot, but the fire should have been built some time before they are put in, and begin to go down by the time they arc light; for if the oven remains as hot ss was necessary to make them rise, they will burn before they get thoroughly cooked.

 Bread requires much slower fire, but 1t should be even and steady from the first to last.

 Cake requires a still slower fire than bread, but it must not be too slow or the cake will not be thoroughly cooked through, and will fall when taken from the oven. If the fire IS too hot at first, it will crust over before 1t is light. burst through the crust and rise tough and homely. If the cake is large, some nails or bits of iron should be placed under 1t, and paper spread over it; else it will scortch before 1t is cooked through. Any kind of bread or pastry mixed with water requires hotter fire than if mixed with milk.

 Fruit pies require hotter fire than bread, but steady from first till last; if too hot at first the crust will cook before the fruit does; if too slow, towards the last the crust will dry up before the fruit is done; if too hot towards the last the fruit will stew out be- fore the crust is done. Pumpkin pies require . fire as hot as can be without burning the crust.

 Custard pies require slow fire, else they will boil and whey out before they are done But buildings require hot fire, particularly Indian pudding, for they are all the better for being wheyed out.

 In baking meat pies always leave hole in the top crust, else poisonous gas will collect in it.

 For baking meat the fire should never be hot enough to burn the grease pork and chickens require hotter fire than beef. We talk about hot, quick and slow ovens, but it takes long experience to enable one to tell by the feeling, or in other practical manner, just how hot an oven is, until we see its effect on the article cooked, and then ia Is too late; and it is impossible to commu- nicste to any one else the precise tempera- ture which IS represented by our ideas of hot quick, etc.
Year: 1872

A lesson in itself sublime,


A lesson worth enshrining,
Is this g. / take no note of time


Save when the sun is shining"
These motto words a dial bore,


And wisdom never breaches
To human hearts a better lore


That this short sentence teaches.
There is no grove on earth's broad chart
But has some bird to cheer it;
So hope sings on, in every heart,


Although we may not hear it.
And If to-day the heavy wind


OF sorrow is expressing,
Perchance to-morrow's sun will bring
The heavy heart a blessing.
We bid him joyous moments haste,
And then forget their glitter;
We take the cup of life and taste
No portion but the bitter;
But we should teach our hearts to deem
The sweetest drops the strongest;
And pleasant hours should ever seem
To linger round us longest.
The darkest shadows of the night
Are just before the mornings;
Then let us wait the coming light,
All boding phantoms sconing;
And while we're passing on the tide
OF times fast ebbing river,
Let's pluck the blossoms by its side,
And bless the gracious Given.
Year: 1872

The story goes that doctor of diyin-
ity Of Boston gentleman whose face
indicates generous living, while upon
an exchange early one Sunday morning
took stroll through the streets by way
Of constitutional" His attention
was attracted by man who was stand.
ing on corner and evidently suffering
from the effects Of hard drinking the
night before. The doctor passed on,
but, strangely enough soon again met
the same fellow, aud passed him only to
encounter him again in another street.
At the third meeting the droughly fel-
low, evidently mistaking the object Of
the doctors early walk, accosted him
with the remark


say, old fellow, there isn't sin
gle one open, is there z
Year: 1872

1t is stated that of the five hundred
and forty young ladies who tainted last
year, more than one half fell into the
arms Of gentlemen. 0uly one had the
misfortune to fall on the floor.
Year: 1872

A CASE OF CRuELTY.-Col. Freeman


tie of the Coldstream guards has fur


nished to the London Times cores


pondence between himself and the


Secretary of the Dublin and Glasgow
Steam Packet Company which curiously
illustrates the rigid adherence OF the
ordinary English official to regulations,
and his incapacity to discover any cir
cumstances which might sanction any
deviation from them. Corporal Sinclair
of the guards, while in the last stage OF
consumption was refused admittance IN
to the cabin of one of the Glasgow and


Dublin steamers, on the ground that 1t


wa. AGAINST the rules of the company to
allow a cabin passage to non commits
stoned officers or private soldiers so long
as they wear the Queens uniform, al
though no objection is made to admit
persons of the lowest grade in civilian
dress. So the unfortunate man was
obliged to take q steerage passage, the
discomforts Of which greatly aggravated
the malady from which he was suffering;
In reply to a remonstrance from Coione'
Freemantle against this inhumanity, the
Secretary of the company says that
Corperal Sinclair was informed that II
be would cover his uniform with civil
ian overcoat he could obtain a cabin
passage. But as the corporal possessed
no such garment, the permission was OF
little avail. and he became victim to
red tape. The absurdity of the whole
thing becomes apparent when it is con-
sidered that the shabbiest civilian IN
could have obtained on this oc,
casion what was denied to a brave and
veteran.
Year: 1872

And now, girls, says Dio Lewis, let us
return to your dress. In previous chat
l spoke OF one feature of your dress


which | venture to say must be changed


before You can have clear head, good
digestion, and a healthy liver.


| wish now to speak of the dress of
the middle of the body. Every one OF
us lives in proportion to our breathing
If we breathe strong, we live strong; il
our breath is weak our life is weak; the
quantity of air We take into our lungs is
the measure of our life.


Now, go with me to the bail room.
Here we are. Notice that couple: the
are dancing. Watch them. When they
stop observe their breathing. There,
he has taken one deep breath, filling all
the lower part of his lungs, and now his
breathing is quiet. But notice her
breathing. See how the upper part of
her chest works up and down. Watch
her ten minutes. That painting and
pumping will go on.


What do you suppose is the reason for
this difference? Do you suppose the
Creator made a woman's lungs so def
CLcHt III SlAe tuit sue Ids w WOIh luil
way to get her breath? Among young
children there is no difference in the
breathing of boys and girls. If we visit
a farm where persons of both sexes are
engaged in outdoor labor, with the same
freedom of dress, we shall not find the
women breathing in that peculiar way.


No, the working and pumping of that
chest are owing to her dress. The low
er part of the lungs is the large part.
There is where most of the breathing
should be done. There is where the
man does most of his breathing. But
she has so squeezed and contracted the
lower part of her lungs that very little
breath can get down there, so that the
small upper end is compelled to do most
of her breathing. 1t is that little upper
end which is working away so hard I'M
der her ribs now. When lady dances,
luns, or goes up stairs, she suffers
humping of the heart and labored
not because the original con-
stitution Of her breathing apparatus was
faulty, but because she so congresses
the lower, larger part OF her lungs, that
she is like person who has but a single
lung to breath with. There is a lack of
breathing room and of course the breath
ing is labored.


With knife on .corset string, every
should cry out, "Give me liberty
n give me deathr'


Perfect freedom for lungs, heart, liver
md stomach is indispensable to good
circulation and digestion
Without such freedom, living is not
living, but dying.
Year: 1872

writer from Dresden, in the Chicago


Inter- ocean, says that the forced service


in the army is the main cause of the


great emigration, and so great has il


been this scason--over OO0-that


soldiers have been detailed to gather the


crops, and dwellings, are absolutely not


to be found, muslin and frame tents


being throHn up In Berlin to accom-


modate the incoming population, who


are giving up their little homes with the


firm intention, as soon as they can get


passage, of finding others in country


where they imagine no want exists.


In Germany the child of but few
years Of age Is set to labor, either in
carrying the universal korb basket,
suited to their size, upon their back,
dragging their wagons through the
streets, or working in the field. The
korb holds about one and half bushels,
and il is girls or women always who
carry them, either unloading coal boats,
| for which IL y receive five pfenings for
two full baskets (about one and a quarter
cents, or bringing them to market filed
with produce, and many times have |
seen iull-laden one placed upon the
rounded back Of an old woman by II
burly man, who walked 10y her side
laughing and talking while she toiled
along with her heavy load.


Women almost invariably make the
mortar and carry it to the builders. They
drag about the streets coal or other mat
ter in wagons holding nearly a ton, upon
one side of the tongue themselves with
n strap over the shoulder and upon the
other dog. They dig and rlow in the
fields, at times harnessed with an OK.
They break the coal in pieces and carry
it up to the houses and assist in saving
wood, which is done on standard three
feet high, one at either end of the saw,
while the man splits it ready for them
to deliver.


The peasantry are uncouth in their
appearance, and rough in their manner,
paying little attention to the graces of
life, and yet have n delight in flowers
and music, which has no lack Of food
in this land of beautiful art. Their diet
is simple. consisting mainly of black
bread, made sour purposely, sausage,
and coffee or beer. Fresh meat they
have but seldom, and the workman
seems to thrive on his lump of bread
and cheese and potatoes, which he eats
at least five times day, and washes
down with the beer made ut home,
brewery beer being too expensive for
his daily use. They have, after all their
haryests, feast, to which all neighbors
resort, gayly dancing the evening away.
In one of our country walks we innocent
" walked into n stable where the women
as usual, were threshing, and the men
idling about, as it was not their work.
A fine was demanded from us as from
others for the entertainment which was
to follow. just now the potatoes are
all gathered and merry makinss are fill
ing the country round. THAR pleasures
are simple, but their life is hard, with
no prospect of change, and America, the
heaven for women and children, and
field of future prosperity for men, is
Ionged for, and every exertion made to
reach it.
Year: 1872

IMPROVEMENTS IN CASTING METALS
The invention OF Mr.. w. Sellers, Of
Pbiladelphia, Pa, relates to a novel me-
thod of discharging the molten metal
from the furnace or crucible in which 1t
has been melted, and of casting or trans
ferring the same into moulds, or into an
other furnace or clucible, without pierre


ing anv part of the earth or bed of the
furnace, or removing the crucible from
The furnace in which it has been heated,
and without exposing the molten metal
during its transit to the action OF the air,
thereby avoiding the oxidizing effect OF
the air thereon, and preventing the con-
veyance of air along with the metal into
the mould. In carrying out this lnven.
ton the transfer Of the metal is effected
through pipe or conduit by the agency
of atmospheric pressure, one end OF the
said pipe or conduit dipping down below
the surface of the molten metal IN the
furnace or crucible, whilst the other end
is in direct communication with the
mould. so that on exhausting, or parti-
ally exhaus.iug, the air from the interior
of the mould, or group Of moulds, the
molten metal will flow freely therein, be-
ing forced along the pipe or conduit by
the pressure of the atmosphere upon the
surface of the metal in the furnace or
crucible.
Year: 1872

A ilrst-rate story is told of very prom.
inent man, who lived in Detroit forty
years ago, and who at that time owned
more steamboat stock than any man in
the Western country, besides other wealth
to large amount.
Like many of the pioneers who acquired
great riches, he was very ignorant in all
that books taught, but his learning is
more like wisdom, and, in common with
many who have lived and passed away,
but left their mark behind them, he knew
what tree would make shingles by looking
at it.


lie had, at the time of our story, Just
completed a splendid new warehouse at
Buffalo, and wanting suitable clerk to
take charge OF it, he advertised for one in
the papers. The next morning early, a
candidate for the position presented him
self, rather too flashy young man in
appearance, bnt the following cosversa-
| tion occurred:


Young man, when you make mistake
in any of your books, how do you correct
itf"


The young man explained, in very
profuse manner, how he should proceed
to make it all right.


"a good way, 10 doubt, TO do it., re-
piled the Old man, "but | shan't want
you


Very soon another asprant put in an
appearance. A similar question was asked
him, and in long and eloquent manner
he pointed out the remedy in all such
cases.


All the reply WIS; "Young man,
shan't want You"


Some three or four others dropped in
during the day, and to each one the same
question was put, and they all had some
smart way of covering up errors in their
books.


The old gentleman was entirely ignor-
ant himself of the art of bookkeeping,
but lie had wisdom in all things, which is
more than a match for learning.


Just at the close Of the day plainly
dressed man with bright eye and brisk
step called for the situation.


Take seat, sir" said the old gentle
MAN, II want to ask you one question.
When you make false entry on your
books, how do you go to work to correct
itw


Turning upon hi questoner cold,
sharp look, the yea lg man replied 81
don't make that kind of mistakes, sir"


"Ah my dear sir, you are just the man
| have been looking for all day." and in a
few moments after, the man who corrected
his blunders by not making them, was in
stalled in the office.
Year: 1872

Is GRANITE DOOMED 1.-The Chicago
fire proved that iron and freestone pre-
sented no obstacle to the spread of great
coniagration. The Boston fire equally
condemns the use of granite-at least of
the sort used in that city. 1t has been
suggested TO us, however, that all of the
varieties of that handsomest of materials
for large structures ought not to fall un-
der the same general condemnation. The
granite used in Boston is of coarse grain
and when exposed to great heat decom-
poses readily while the finer. grained
GRANTEES have far greater resisting powers.
For instance, the latter sort OF granite has
been used much, if not exclusively, in
Richmond, Va, and we are told that all
of the granite structures there withstood
admirably the great fire which devastated
that city near the end of the war-the
Custom House in particular. This is Il
subject which needs investigation by ex-
perts. We should not like to see granite
banished from use for large public build
ings and other stately structures and if
there is anywhere an abundance of hat
material which will stand fire, the fact
ought TO be universally known.
Year: 1872

THE SWORD OF WALLACE. "A curious
fact, saws the PoH Mail Gaset'e has just
come to light in connection with the al


legged Wallace Sword III Dumbarton
Castle. 1t would appear that some
months ago the Grampian Club, through
their secretary, applied to the War Min
lister to obtain the sword for the Wal.
lace Monument on the Abbey Craig,
near Stirling, that it might there be ex


hibited to visitors. \ reply has been
received from the War Office stating that
the late Duke of Wellington caused the
sword to be examined in 1925, and that
it was found to belong to the period of
Edward v, and to have been in all prob
ability used by that monarch when he
entered Chester in state in 1475. The
result is that Mr.. Clrdwell has given in
structions that the sword at Dumbarton
Castle should no longer be exhibited as
that of Sir William Wallace. That such
an order was not issued in 1925, when
the discovery was made of the real
character of the weapon, may probably
be ascribed to an amiable wish on the
part of the authorities of that period not
to wound the susceptibiities of the Scot
ish nation; but he postponement of the
revelation which will now come rs rude
shock to our northern neighbors, was
really an act of cruel kindness, since 1t
led to another fifty years expenditure OF
tervent patriotic emotion over a weapon
which, instead of being a genuine relic
of Wallace. was the sword of an English
king, and an Edward to boot.
Year: 1872

A useful thing in the long run--breath.


All powerful souls have kindred with


each other.


Peru uses her guano to pay her na-
tional debt.


Sin never comes alone. One evil
thought leads often sad and disgraceful
end.


which travels fastest, heat or cold
Heat, of course; because you can catch
cold.


Honest and courageous people have
very little to say about either courage or
honesty.


Vanity is never at its full growth till
it -preadeth into aifectation, and then 1t
is compile


A French society has decided that IL
prolongs the lives and increases the hap
pincss or dogs To make them woiA.


The first exclamation of an American
belle on entering the Cathedral of Mi
Ian was, "Oh, what church to get mar
lied in -


Wendell Phillips says: Put an
| American baby. six months old, on his
feet and he will Immediately say: Mr..
Chairman and call the next cradle to
order"


Farmers children are the hope and
the life of nation. II they grow up
intelligent, moral, patriotic, there is hope
for the country for continuance OF free
institutions.


An item is going the rounds stating
that Detroit sailor refused to ship on
BOARD vessel after seeing rat swim
ashore from her, and that the vessel went
down the very next trip.


The man who produces the largest
yield to area cultivated, with the least
expense, and increases the fertility Of his
soil, is the most scientific farmer, how
ever ignorant he may be OF the fact.


There is nothing which contributes
mo,e to the sweetness of life than friend
ships there is nothing which disturbs
our repose more than friends, if we have
not the discernment to choose them well.


A man in Kent County, Michigan,
has been engaged for a long time in max
ing pure strained honey out of the juice
of basswood, and common sugar, and
the people thereabouts have just found
him out.


A man will die for want of breath in
five minutes, for want of sleep in ten
DAYS, for want of water in week, for
want of food at varying intervals, de-
pending on constitution, habits OF life
and the circumstances of the occasion.


An indianapolis girl is afflicted with
mania for stuaing small articles into her
ears. The doctor who is treating her
has washed out five pieces of straw, two
of coal, an apple seed, two small chicken
bones, piece of gravel and black
beetle.


A Kansas county court hos dooidcd
that an Indian trader who took squaw
after the Indian fashion was thereby
legally married to her, so that the chill
dren inherit his property. The decision
will affect great many persons IN the
West. and the case will be carried up.


The Oldest inhabitant in eastern Texas
has never seen such dry season as this.
Small streams that were never known
% cease running before are now nearly
lried up, and Trinity is so low it can be
'orded in many places by horsemen and
,rossed by footmen on logs and rocks.


Never talk of your parentage, for II 1t
$ honorable you virtually acknowledge
,our claims to rest on the merit of others;
II if it is mean you wish to show that some.
hing good has at length come out OF
Nazareth; or if it is neither your conver-
alton can be interesting only to yourself.
Year: 1872

CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. The Utica
On. " Observer says that the following
correspondence recently passed between
State official and his son, who applied
for position in his department:


Ny Dear Sir Il have received vour
application for appointment as chief
clerk in my department I have made
diligent inquiries as to your antecedents,
and finding them satisfactory, I have
concluded to give You the place you de-
sire


The hopeful son, not to be outdone.
replies as follows


Sir:-Your favor of the LIST instant is
at hand. The unexpected intelligence
which it conveys gratifies me greatly:
In the discharge of my new duties
shall endeavor to win your confidence
and esteem. AS you become better ac-
quainted with me personally, trust
will have no reason to regret the choice
You have made.
Year: 1872

He DID Nor WISH TO PURCHASE A
WIFE.-The following anecdote of the
eccentric John Randolph, of Roanoke,
is related by q writer in a Virginia
paper:


An old man told me that he lived near
the residence of Miss -, to whom it
was said MIR. Randolph was engaged to
be married. On one occasion he had
been at her residence short time, and
had left; and as it was said that the NAL
riage would take place shortly, he
thought he would go and inquire of the
old lady. She said Mr.. Randolph had
left in great haste, and told him to go
and see where, in his hurry he had cut
the reins of his bride. instead of un-
tying them 1t Itappears that it was pro-
posed that he should make marriage
settlement, whereupoD he said: 1T is
not my purpose to purchase. When I
desire to purchase 1 shall go to the cheap
est market-I shall go to Africa" With
this remark he left the house, went to
where his horse was tied, cut the reins
and Immediately departed.
Year: 1872

WHAT ADVERTISING DID. Millaud, the


banker and newspaper speeulator, who
died recently in Paris, and who founded


the Petite Journal, which at one time had


a daily circulation of nearly half q mil


lion copies, was an enthusiastic believer
in the advantages of liberal advertising.


One day he had at his table nearly all


the proprietors of the leading Paris dali
lies. They conversed about advertising.


Millaud asserted that the most worth
less articles could be sold in vast quanti-
ties, if literally advertised. Emil de
Girardin, of La Presse, who was present,
took issue with him on the subject.
" What will yoH bet exclaimed Mil
land that I can sell in one week one
hundred thousand francs worth of the
most common cabbage seed under the
pretext that it will produce mammoth
cabbage heads ? All I have to do is to
advertise it at once in whole page IN
sertion in the daily papers of this city"
Girardin replied that he would give him
a page in his paper for nothing if he
should win his wager. The other news
paper publishers agreed to do the same
thing. At the expiration of the week
they inquired of Millaud how the cab
bage seed had fiourished. He showed
them that he had sold nearly twice as
much as he had promised, while orders
were still pouring in; but he said the
joke must stop there, and no further or
defs would be filled.
Year: 1872

the amazement of those who had pro-
nouneed the, man dead, it was found
that indications Of life still remained in
the body of the buried one. He was at
once taken back to his house, and after
considerable exertiou and the applying
of proper restoratives, he was virtually
brought to life again. He is now living
and doing we'll.