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Year: 1872

The process Of lion-taming is
elaborately described by writer
in the London Daily NesOs, part of
whose story we copy:


Whatever is the reason, the forest
lions are more intelligent and teach
able than those bred in confinement.
The lion-tamer begins by taking
the feeding of them into his own
hands, and so gets them to know
him. He commences feeding them
from the outside of the den, then
ventures inside Of one at a time,
always carefully keeping his face to
the animal and avoiding any vio-
lence, which is mistake whenever
it can be avoided, as it rouses the
dormant devil in the beast. Getting
to handle the lion, the tanner begins
by stroking him down the back,
gradually working up to the head,
which he begins to scratch, and the
lion, which, like the cat, likes fric-
tion. begins to rub his head against
the hand. When this familiarity is
we'll established, board is handed
in to the trainer, which he- places
across the den and teaches the lion
to jump over it, using whip with
thong, but not for the purpose of
punishment.


Gradually this board is heightened
the lion jumping over it ut every
stage; and then come the hoops,
etc, held ON top of the board to
quicken the beasts understanding.
TO teach the animal to jump over
the trainer, the latter stoops along
side the board, so that when the
lion clears one, he clears the other,
and half a dozen lessons are ordi-
narily about sufficient to teach this.
TO get lion to lie down and the
tanner to stand on him is more
difficult. 1t is done by flicking the
beast over the back with a small
"tickling" whip, and at the. same
time pressing him down with one
hand. BY raising his head and
taking hold of the nostril with the
right hand, and the under lip and
lower jaw with the left, the lion, by
this great pressure on the nostril
and lip, loses greatly the power of
his jaws, so that man can pull
them open and put his head inside
tho beasts mouth, the feat with
which Van Amburg's name was SO
much associated. The only danger
is lest the animal should raise one
Of his fore paws and stick his talons
in, and II he does, the tanner must
stand fast for his life till he has
shifted the paw. E L
Year: 1872

There are elegant weddings tran
spring every night in New York.
The other evening the most brill
liant affair of the season was con-
snmmated. Ten thousand dollars
was expended for flowers alone.


A very large room in the house
was set with tank the size of the
apartment, which was filed with
water to represent lake. Shrubs
and choice exotics bordered it
lilies floated upon it, and tiny boats
fashioned of flowers we're adrift up
on the tide. Every door was re-
moved from the interior of the
house, and garlands of roses with
trailing vines supplied their places.
Even sets of chairs, and sofas, fuse
less, Of course) were fashioned Of
camelias, and the floor was deeply
strewn with choice floral carpeting.
Within an arbor constructed Of
orange blossoms, figure in white
velvet gave her heart, or its coun-
terfeit, to another figure in full
dress. Perhaps the two will find
sufficient bliss in the thought of the
splendor of their wedding to last
them couple Of years. But, am
thinking, people in these times who
will throw away SO much for an
hours triumph of mere display,
will find their boat wreck before
life together is half done. There
are not enough of the dear old
fashioned weddings nowadays
The necessary aim for the young
men is, first rich, then marry
Is the word help-meet obsolete
l wonder? The age would not
be SO fast, nor so free in license
and practice if we would slip back
into our grandparents ideas about
counting and matrimoay. Don't
you think so, good peoples Good
night.
Year: 1872

fla person falls in a fit, and


begins to snore loudly, with very
red face, it is apoplexy. Let him
be seated so as to favor the blood
going downwards, away from the
head; apply cold cloths to the head,
or cushions Of equal quantities OF
snow or pounded ice and common
salt. If the person is perfectly still,
face pale, and there is no percepti-
BILE breathing, it is 3 fit of fainting.
Do not touch him, except to loosen
the clothing: then keep off five or
ten feet distant, SO as to allow the
air to come in; make no noise, and
there will very soon be calm, quiet
return to consciousness and life, for
it is only momentary cessation Of
the circulation Of the blood to the
head. But suppose there is a very
violent motion Of the hands and
feet, and all SORTS Of bodily contor-
tions, it is epilepsy. Let the man
comfort until he is tired; you can't
hold him still; all your efforts only
tend to aggravate the trouble and to
exhaust the strength; all that ought
to be done is to keep the unfortun-
ate from hurting himself. There is
no suffering felt, for AS soon as he
comes to he will tell you that he
remembers nothing whatever of
what has passed, appears to be the
only calm and self-possessed person
in the whole crowd, and is appar-
emily as perfectly well as before the
occurrence. Dizziness often comes
instantaneously, and we begin to
reel before we know it. Shut the
eyes, whether you are walking along
the street, looking over . preoipioe,
ascending a ladder, or climbing to
q ships masthead; the fear or dixzi-
ness disappears instantly if you
look upward.-HaU's Journal OF
Health. : F. t''3 '- 'I y i'''' '''''
Year: 1872

CARE not pickles good l always
thought they were healthful. What about
salads Are they not good ?"


These questions arc frequently pro-
pounded to us, and our uniform answer
is, that pickles, salads, greens, and all the
trash which requires vinegar to make it
palatable, are eaten solely for the vine
gar and as vinegar is a product of decay,
and an acid entirely too strong to be
wholesome, ii should be avoided alto
gether. People who most crave vinegar
are those who eat sugar and fatty matter
in excess. Fruit acids are supplied by
nature in abundance, and are well adapt
ed to furnish the system with all the acid
it requires, and that of the right kind.
Vinegar will eat up bones it will in
iure the teeth and the coats of the stom-
ach it will injure the blood; it will
break down the health. A fat, young
lady who was told that the use of vinegar
would reduce her flesh entered upon the
improvement with such earnestness that
she took half teacupful several times
day. Her fine health soon became great
ly damaged she not only lost her surplus
fat, but her natural flesh as well, and was
reduced to a skinny skeleton. From be-
ing ten pounds heavier than she thought
was becoming, she became thirty pounds
too light. She did not eat any more vim
egar, but the lifelong repentance of her
folly did not bring back the requisite
plumpness of form.


"But good cider vinegar being the
juice of fruit ought not to be Injurious"
says one. The juice of fruit, when it is
natural, Just taken from the fruit, will mot
! injure person, unless too much is TAKEN
Most of us know the effect of drinking
sweet cider in excess. Nature takes care
to keep no more of it in the system than
is needful. But vinegar has undergone
the fermenting process, which is the first
stage of decay, and has now become rela-
lively poisonous All it needs now is
concentrating, like the poisonous acids, to
make it eat the living tissues. Our firm
conviction is, that if on every table there
could be raw or cooked fruit of various
kinds in ample abundance at every meal,
ninety-nine men in hundred, in years
time, would learn to take enough of the
fruit to supply the system with its requi-
site acids, so that neither pickle nor salad,
with vinegar, or vinegar in any form,
would be desired Let vinegar be re-
| pudiated, and fruit be established in its
place, and tho dentist and doctor will
have far less to do, and the undertaker's
work will be much longer postponed
PhreROLogicaI Journal.
Year: 1872

A SAN Francisco gentleman recently
visited a dentist for the purpose of Will
ing away a half.hour or so, and, while
there, lady came in with little girl,
wanting tooth or two drawn for the lat
ter. The child cried when placed in tho
chair, and declared that she would not
have her teeth attended to unless the
strange gentleman would have tooth
drawn first, and, to please the little pa
tient, he took her place with wink at
the doctor. The latter took two or three
instruments, while the gentleman reclined
in the chair smilingly gazing at the ceiling
for the assurance of the watching child,
and, after softly poking at two or three
teeth, TO the horror of the obliging gen
tleman he commenced boring into his
law where tooth had once been extract
ed, and, before he could offer protest, a
tremendous wrench brought out a large
root, which the doctor held up TO the
child with a diabolical grin on his face.
The gentleman rolled off the chair, and,
with an expression of unutterable pain in
his countenance, gazed moment re-
proachfully at his friend and left the
office. The little one did not seem to be
greatly encouraged by the exhibition.
Year: 1872

Representatives at Springfield week ago on the
discovery of the fact that number of letters
mailed by members to their families with little
enclosures of money (the members had just made
a little draw on the treasury had been opened
in their passage from the house to the postofiOe.
The postmaster Of the house looked rs innocent
as Lamb, but awfully frightened. The post.
muster of the city proved by u dozen Of clerks
that he wasn't the thief, as the letters were riAsd


before they came TO his Office. The matter was
u profound mystery Tor week, until Mr.. Miller,
Year: 1872

lion. VIM II. Morrison, democratic member
of the Illinois House of Representatives, Is said
to have created quite q Sensation" among
the radical members few days ago by ad-
dressing the house in this strain;


Il expect to vote for a republican for the
office of president of the United States next
November. do not think it will be one of
the class the republican majority of this house
would hike. LIDO not expect to vote for Re
publican whose acts the majority of this house
dare not have Investigated before the country
but l 60 expect, and mean what say, if
am afforded an opportunity, to vote for re-
publican tor president, and also for o republi-
can ior governor OF the state Of Illinois, and 1
also expect lrhen do 50 to do it eiM hcdemoc,u-
cy. l am in earnest about this. l may be
mistaken, but this is my belief


Mr.. Morrison, of course, in this way iudi-
Gated his endorsement of what is called the
passive policy" O, the democrats, by which
is meant, that the party is willing to forego its
own name and 7rtstise-in short to make any
sacrifice to bring the government back to an
honest, law-abding, constitution respecting
administration. The democratic party might
hesitate to make this sacrifice were il even
reasonably probable, should they be able to
convince the people that the reelection OF
! Nrant would be ruinous, and thus secure an
honest majority in favor of the democratic
candidate, that such majority would be avail
able. But it is notorious that even four wears
ago Grant was elected President 10y minor
ity vote, and that nothing short OF an over,
whelmnlng majority of two.thirds or three
fourths can avail to defeat him next fall. Does
any one doubt, that should Grant find the
preliminary elections next fall foreshadow his
defeat, he would hesitate to place the elections
Of every northern city, by virtue of his force
bill, under such military control as would Sc
cure him any majority that might be deemed
| necessary? And as to the southern states.
would the present congress count the vote of
single state from Kentucky to Texas, if by
such count Grant should be defeated? There
Is, therefore, no hope or chance of relieving
the country from the incubus ofradicalism cy-
cept by dividing the / st from the dishon-
est in the republican party ,tseli, and by a
union Of the democrats with lhe honest. cor
servatiYe republican masses, combine such an
overwhelming majority agaiEst the treasury
plundcring crew as shall completely over
whelm aud dismay them.
Year: 1872

The Grant collarmen in congress showed
themselves uncommonly tretted and irrated
under the charge of the civil service commits
sion, which was brought to their notice, that
one.fourth of the public revenue is los. in its
collection through the incompetency and dis
honesty of the men in Office. Several ardent
Grant men denounced the commission as Il
"humbug," while Wood showed, by the facts
brought to light in the New York Custom
House Investigation, that the estimate is under
rather than above the mark.
Year: 1872

California has sensation in the shape of
boy brigand Of the mature age of IA years. A
few weeks ago the Sonoma stage was stopped by
. single individual, who so troze the driver and
six inside passengers with fright that they
threw ON. the treasure box 10 be allowed TO 60
on. 1t turned out that the robber was boy of
IA, whose only weapon was a fence stake; and
who claims that the robbery was only intended
Is q joke.
Year: 1872

1T Is quite a serious thing to lie
dragged out of bed at midnight, marched
through the streets without being
allowed time to dress, incarcerated in a
cell, tried before Jeffreys of Justice.
and branded as a swindler-sll without
the shadow Of cause


We clip the above from the Lte2li-
gencerS comments upon the arrest OF
Messrs. BuRKE aud COSTELLO, simply
for the purpose OF inquiring how long
since that paper got to thinking thus
Not many years ago, that paper was
iain to applaud this dragging out OF
he'd at midnight business. 1t wasn't
serious thing" at all, then-quite the
reverse: it was very jolly thing. We
need not name instances-our readers
will remember them in plenty.
Year: 1872

A NUMBER of the corporators OF the
Union Bridge Company met last night
and organized. A subcommittee was
appointed to prepare business to submit
o an adjourned meeting. This COM
mittee subsequently organized by elect
ing DR.. BAIRD chairman. and, after some
informal talk, adjourned to meet again
next Wednesday evening. The Bridge
hall is now started, and it will roll on,
gaining strength at every revolution,
until magnificent structure shall span
the river. This is an enterprise Of over
shsdowing importance to the manuiac-
turing city of Wheeling, and right glad
are we TO see our solid men earnest in
lis behalf.
Year: 1872

If THE oppressive tariff advocates
bsye no better arguments to sustain
,beir cause than such as used by their
organ in this city. yesterday morning,
on the subject Of the arrest Of two itin'
rant lecturers, they had better retire
rom the business.
Year: 1872




From the Cincinnati Gazette.


The administration Of law in cases of as
sault Is such as to encourage men TO take
vengeance into their own hands and to
leave them no other recourse. Generally
a premeditated assault has the premedita-
ton of something very like murder. If
the surprised man is able to resist, it be-
comes a deadly affray. For fear Of this the
assailant means to disable him at the onset,
at the risk of murder. And If there is
danger of the affair being turned against
him, he means to kill. The attack of Lew
is Dent upon Mr.. Henry Reed had in it all
of these elements of murderous premedita-
tion in the most aggravated degree. Yet,
Judge Mills let him off with fine of 500,
when by law he could have imprisoned
him. This is even called large penalty.
But if person steals thing of a few dol.
lars value, though in want or under strong
temptation, he would be sent to the work.
house for several months. If of the value
of $40, to the penitentiary for not less than
a year.


Mr.. Dent pleaded the necessity Of this
assault to vindicate his honor, and talked OF
how gentleman should regard it, and
Judge Mills said be was affected by it. He
pleaded also the enormity Of charging a
brother-in-law of the President with selling
his favers. 1t appears that we were misin-
formed that he was cousin of the brothers.
in-law. He is one of the brothers in-law
President Grant is cursed with. he is q
pretty fellow to talk of honor. He is an
attorney, claim agent, broker, procurer,
upon the strength of the influence be is
thought to have by his relationship to the
President. The pretense Is an indecency.
Had be particle of honor or manhood, he
would take himself away from the Capital,
or to some other ostensible business.


If be has any influence in working claims
or favors through his relationship, he is
pimp and disgrace to the Administration.
If be has not, he is swindler, trading on
false pretense. He, base procurer and
sWindler, talked of mis- honor, and Judge
Mills seems to have allowed the plea. But
the charge of his taking this bribe is ac-
cordiDg to his professional business. 1t is
no more dishonorable than the rest, and is
hlrz
Year: 1872

A friend in the country has an obserVato-
ry on top of his fac, elevated mansion, in
which be has placed telescope OF power
enough to command a very extended view,
and here after dinner smokes his cigar and
enjoys the panorama. Some time since he
thoughtlessly directed the tube towards
the house of delightful young widow, liv-
ing some miles away in the valley below,
and was pleased to see her on the doorstep
seemingly unemployed. Taking out his
watch be was about to make a mental mem
oranda OF what he saw, and tell her when
they met next, but the pleasant picture
was so changed in moment that be
concluded to say nothing about it for the
present. Another friend, of the sterner sex,
just then drove up, jumped from bis car
rage, threw his arms where they were most
wanted, and kissed her. The engagement
was not long aft@ announced; but great
caution is commendable in telescope neigh
borhood.-BostOn Transcript.
Year: 1872

The Edinburgh Court Of Session has de-
cided that the women students at the uni
versity in that city are enabled to complete
their curriculum as medical students and
to be graduated on the usual conditions.
The ladies thus obtain as a right what they
long sought as a favor. The decision will
put some of the professors in an awkward
position, as they have declared all along
that rather than teach women they would
resign their professorships. i+
Year: 1872

God is never in hurry. 1t comes of
our unbelief in Him that we are so apt to
be in q hurry. He that belieyeth should
not make haste. five look at the history
of the material world, or the intellectual
world, or the social world, nothing is clear
er than that God never was in a hurry, and
that He can afford to wait.
Year: 1872

A CHINESE CUsroM. In China for
many centuries it was the custom among
the poorer classes to drown female child
as soon as it was born; and in Hindostan
to this Gay a father whose daughter is
asked in marriage prostrates himself to the
ground, and says, 81 thank you for get
ing this burden off my shoulders, and will
pray to the UnneDtionable One that il
may never make yours acben' If the pres
ent condition of society were necessary,
these customs would be humane and wise,
and it would be well to move for thtir
introduction into our society. Bnl W..
manly influence ought to be strone clouo a
to right these evils, and to restain the
downward impulse Of family life. If the
family affections of the very poor are very
srong, it is partly because in such families
each member is independent, the women
as well as the men support themselves, and
not hanging as drag upon the man who
acts as its head.
Year: 1872

Hoes HAIR is recommended by farm
e. for hens nest, because cattle will not
disturb the nest, since they dislike the
smell of swine, and because hens sitting
on such nests will not become infested
with lice. The last reason is the best
cattle ought not to have access to hens
| nests


FISH FOR FoDDER.-A Bangor, Me-,
paper states that the farmers along the
Penobscot, during the last winter have
made use of large numbers of toncodS, in
frozen state, as food for their hogs, and
that their COWS and sheep took at once to
these fish, and consumed them readily,
the sheep seeming to thrive on the new
diet.


ToP-DREssNG MEADows.-The past
two seasons have much Injured both
pastures and meadows. There have been
but few good catches of clover the last
ten years, and the dry summers have in.
jured the stand Of grass. Narrowing
the sod, sowing fresh seed, and liberal
dressing of manures will do more as a
remedy than plowing up these fields.
EASEMENTS FOR BARNs.-Some sensible
and practical things are sand in a report
upon barn Architecture submitted to
the Berkshire Agricultural Society by
Oren Benedict, and printed in the Mass,
achusetts Ploughmon Many farms have
too many outbuidings-a barn here, a
barn there, a granery in one place, pig
pen in another, and q hennery in still
another. AS a general rule it is more
economical and convenient to have all
the offices of the barn under one roof
The same roof will cover basement and
two stories as well as one story, and the
less siding you expose to the weather the
better Easements to barns give solid
foundation op which the superstructure
can be reared without fear Of its becom-
ing lopsided or travelling off with the
Winters wind or frost They furnish
warm stabling for stock, safe housing for
roots, and shelter for manure. There is
possibility, however, of securing
warmth in basement stables at the ex-
pense of light and air, and consequently
of the health of the stock. No animal
can thrive where there is not good cir
culation of fresh air. This can be Sc.
cured by having ventiIating tubes run
from basement to roof With these
should be connected tubes bringing in
fresh air from some lower elevation.
Next TO air and food, sunlight is ESSENTIAL
to the health of the stock. The inferior
animals as well as man delight in a sun,
bath. The farmer who confines his
stock in dark stables day after day, is
not only depriving them of much enjoy
ment, but of one of the great essentials
to health and thrift. The stables should
therefore be on the south side of the
barn, and be we'll glazed.
Year: 1872

A lIoRsE lTEM.-The San Francisco
Jforniaq Cal thus adds another to the
numerous remedies for "balky" horse:
Recently a horse drawing q grocery
wagon up Pacific street took a notion
into his lean head that he had gone far
enough, and, in spite of urging, coaxing,
and whipping, stood stock-still, with his
legs braced and bis ears drawn back.
The usual crowd surrounded him, and
innumcrable treatments were suggested
and tried with no avail They sawed his
fore Ices with rope, stopped his breath
ing, twisted his tail, and pulled and
pushed him but he only braced himself
The harder, and locked at the crowd
with an eye of contempt. at last tall
Piker came along, and picking up a
large handful Of mud from the gutter
crammed it into the brute's mouth.
There was a scattering of the crowd as
the old horse kicked and roared, and the
scene ended IN an exciting race by the
young man after his horse and wagon,
as they tore up the street at pace they
never equalled before"


We publiSh the above because we have
seen it tried, and have tried it, and in
both instances it was succeSsful.-GO GOdey's
LUdY'S BOOk.
Year: 1872

SLEEP NEcEssARY.-"A A man who would
be good worker" says Henry Ward
Beccher, "must be a good sleeper The
quality Of mental activity depends upon
the quality Of sleep. Men need on an
average eight hours of sleep a day. A


lymphatic temperament NAV require nine;
nervous temperament six or seven. A
lymphatic man is sluggish, moves and
sleeps slowly. But nervous man acts
quickly IN everything. He does more in
an hour than sluggish man in two hours,
and so in his sleep. Every man must sleep
according to his tcmperament-but eight
hours Is the average. Whoever by work,
pleasure, sorrow, or by any other cause, is
regularly diminishing his sleep, is destroy
ing his life. A man may hold out for a
time, but the crash will come, and he will
die. There is great deal of intemperance
besides that of tobacco, OPIUM, or brandy.
Men are dissipated who overtax their sys-
TEN all day, and undersIeep every night"