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Year: 1876

Farmers should not compel their
stock to run out to pasture as long as
they can get mOuthful to eat, and
make them selves believe that they
are doing justice to their stock, and
saving an honest penny. They are
saving their hay stacks, cribs of corn
and bines of oats, but March winds and
storms will convince them of their
mistake, in not beginning to feed In the
fall and early winter, and feeding up
their stock instead of letting it run
down and getting almost too weak to
get up alone before they try to feed the
stock Sc it will thrive. Two bushels of
corn fed before the holidays to keep the
stock thriving is better than five BUSH
els fed when it is already reduced to
skin and bones. Over feeding poor
stock will generally weaken it. Stock,
when it is found to be very weak, is
generally crowded and overfed. An
ounce of prevention Is worth a pound
of cure. Thousands of heads of cattle
are annually lost in the Uuited States
for the want of proper feed and shelter
from our severe storms in the fall and
eariv winter
Year: 1876

A young man in Olathe, Kansas,
who is particular about his washing.
the other day wrote note to his wash
erwoman and one to his girl, and, by a
strange fatality, put the wrong address
on each envelope and sent them of.
The washerwoman was we'll pleased at
an invitation to take ride the next
day, but when the young lady read "If
you muss up my shirt bosoms, and rub
the buttons of my cullar any more, as
you did the last time, will go some
where else," she cried all the evening,
and declares that she will never speak
to him again.
Year: 1876

To carve fowls, which should always
be laid with the breast uppefmost,
place the fork in the breast, and take
off the wings and legs, without turning
the fowl; then cut out the merry
thought; cut slices from the breast, cut
out the collar-bone, cut of the side
pieces, and then cut the carcass in two.
Divide the joints in the leg of turkey.
In carving a sirlOin, cut thin slices from
the side next to you Git must be put on
the dish, the tenderlOin underneath
then turn it. Help the guests to both
kinds. In carving leg of mutton or
ham, begin by cutting across the mid
die Of the bone. Cut tongue across,
and not lengthwise, and help from the
middle. Carve q fore-quarter of lamb
by separating the shoulder from the
ribs and then divide the ribs. To carve
a loin of veal, begin at the smaller end
and separate the ribs. Help each one
to a piece of kidney and its fat. Carve
pork and mutton in the same way. To
carve fillet of veal, begin at the top
and help to the stufiing with each
slice. In breast of veal, separate the
breast and brisket, and then cut up,
asking which part is preferred. In
carving pig, it is customary to divide
it and take off the head before it comes
to the table, as to many persons the
head is revolving. Cut off the limbs
and divide the ribs.
Year: 1876

The SCIENCE OF ADULTERATION. Some
months ago in examining specimen of
cream of tartar, found two or three per
cent. Of gypsum along with considerable
amount OF rice flour was at loss to un-
derstand how the gypsum came to he there.
1t was not in sufficient quantity to pay for
it, addition as an adulterant. and the adul-
teration was evidently rice -four. On
looking the matter up. found that an adul-
terated article of rice -four, containing from
- to 20 yer cent. Of gypsum. was on the
market. This at once accounted for the
gypsum in the cream of tartar The manip-
ulator wishing to buy his rice -four as cheap
ly as possible, had bought the adulterated
article.


Powdered sugar has been long notorious
for its adulterations. but granulated sugar
Is generally supposed to be all right. was
recently, however, shown an article prepared
from rice, which was not TO be distinguished
from granulated sugar by color or general ap-
pearance. 1t was said that this article was
used for adulterating particular grade Of
granulated sugar that was sent West TO be
used by the confectioners for manufacturing
the powdered sugar.


Rice Hour seems to be an extremely useful
article in this branch of business. Hassal
gives list of no less than ten different sub
stances in which it has beer detected, and yet
his list is not full one. 1t has the great
advantage over common -four that ii does
not cake when packed and become clammy.
1t thus more nearly resembles the various
spices and other articles with which it is
mixed.


This adulteration can only be recognized
by the microscope. The starch gains OF rice
are very small and angular they polarize
slightly.


The adulteration of bread with alum has
attracted great deal Of attention in Eng
land, and it seems also TO be practised It
some extent in this country. Numerous
methods have been given for the detection o.
the alum, but none of them seem to be as
satisfactory as the analysis of the ash. Al
the other methods are liable to error.-Jour
ma! Of CHEMISTRY
Year: 1876

The New York Nation thinks the repeal
of the Bankrupt law would be ill-advIsed,
and gives some strong reasons for Its belief.
1t says:


The suggestion Of the petitioners that the
panic of 1873 and the consequent depres-
sion from which We are still suffering were
caused by the Bankrupt Act we DO not pro-
pose to discuss, because it does not seem to
be worth discussing the delays complained
of, the dishonest attorneys" the " fraudu-
lent preferences, the small dividends, are
all defects in the working details of the
law, and not arguments for its total repeal.
The process of winding up an estate Is ex-
posed to all these evils, whether it is done
by State or United States machinery. The
process consists of the appointment of re-
ceiyer or assignee, and the collection BY him
OF all the assets, an. the distribution of the
proceeds among the creditors under the
supervision Of court of law. Under eth
er system there will be - dishonest attor-
neys, attempts at fraudulent preferences,
and, if the system Is badly administered,
delays ard small dividends The remedy
for these evils is not oscillating backwards
and forwards from one system to another,
but the improvement Of the machinery for
the administration Of the act. No one will
say that, taking the whole Of the country
together, the State machinery for the settle
ment Of estates is better or more honestly
managed than the judicial resources Of the
General Government, and the conclusive ar
gument is that under the latter there is a
uniform system, while under the former
there Is no system whatever.


1t ought not to be forgotten, too, that as
general rule the smallness of dividends
from insolvent estates depends far more
upon the value of the assets than it does
upon the machinery for winding up. The
smailness Of dividends by which most credit
Ors are now struck, is the result generally
of insufficient inquiry into the basis eff cred
it on which they have advanced money.
The remedy for this is of course ciIcum-
spection and prudence, and stern resolve
to lerd money to - none but good men,"
not the repeal of the Bankrupt Act. This
we certainly hope will not be done without
careful examination oy the Senate into the
facts connected with the administration OF
the act. After succeeding for the first time
in the history Of the country in keeping
bankrupt act on the statute-bOok for num-
Der of years. it would seem very much like
a return 10 barbarism to confess by repeal
ing it that the Government cannot admins
ter it. We do not by any means intend to
say that the act is now satisfactory Amend
ments have been engrafted upon the origi-
nal act which have changed its character.
Bat all this is question of detail. The
main thing is that by a bankrupt act every
thing can be done that can be accomplished
By any other means and that while na-
tional bankrupt act properly administered IS
uniform and just, all others are local, and
therefore necessarily unjust.


The repeal of the Bankrupt law would be,
for Vermont, q return to the old ''grab-law
- and that would be, we think, a calamity
Let the law be amended, where i is faulty,
and then let it have longer trial.
Year: 1876

TURKISH RULES or CoNvERsATIoN.-Con-
versation in Europe has been described as a
duetto in an opera, in which the two persons
engaged in it are talking to an imaginary
third person, each recounting tale Of his
own. Il say something and you say some
thing else, and we will agree to call 1t a
conversation Now in Turkey there are
certain forms or canons Of conversation,
any violation of which Is considered an out
rage, and the sum of which constitutes their
code OF politeness as applied to conversation.
will enumerate these one by one


l. Neeer to interrupt the speaker while
he is taking However long-winded or un-
interesting his conversation may be to you,
politeness requires that you should wait for
his conclusion. You are not under any obli-
CATION to enter into conversation with him at
all 4; but if you do, it is an understood con-
dition of your conversational treaty that you
should let him have his say.


>. Never to diyerge, in the middle of a
conversation, from the main thread of dis
course into collateral issue. The breach OF
this rule is considered by Turk as an un-
| tardonable rudeness. To drive red her
| ring, as it were, across the scent OF converse
tion is, in his opinion, to confound all
thought and render all profitable consecu-
tive conversation impossible This leads,
as a corollary, to.


g. To allow a short but sufficient pause
between the conclusion of discussion on
one subject and the entering on a new
subject


4 Never tell person thing he know:
already.


5. Not to excuse oneself when convicted
of being in the wrong. How very seldom
you hear in Europe, "Yes, | was in the
wrong. am sorry for it, But in Turkey
it is considered a violation of principle anC
breach of politeness to refuse to be con
ycted of error The cause of this differ
ence lies deep in tie character of the tive
races; in the absence on the part of tn,
Turk of petty vanity and distracting self
esteem. The proudest race in the world
they are entirely exempt from vanity.


6. When you have nothing to say to hol'
your tongue. They never talk for the sax
of talking. Empty, idle jabbering isl
Frank but not an Ottoman practice. Ii
Europe it is considered de rigueur to ''sa
something" whether that something
worth saying or not. Not so in Turkey t
say something when yon have nothing to sa
worth saying is considered there degrade
tion to yourself, and rudeness to you
neighbor.-PaR Mall Gazette.
Year: 1876

TIOHl lHc <au-tlI ANcN duAf hcfc4AAo-


There is young gentleman in this town
who is looked upon as sort of woman
hater, and who, it was believed until recent
ly, would not marry the hsndsomest and
best woman on earth if every hair in her
head was Koh-i-noor diamond. On ac-
count of leap-year some young ladies'
concluded to put up b on this young man
and arrange it for on, of their number to
propose marriage to him, while the others
watched the fun through holes bored in the
partition.


The gentleman was invited 10 call at the
house of the young lady who was to do the
proposing, and on the designated evening he
was there, seated in the parlor while the
accessories to the plot were stationed at their
eye-holes. After some desultory conversa-
tion about the weather and the club party
the young lady suddenly dropped on her knees
before the gentleman and in endearing terms
declared her passion


Darling" she said, 81 long have loved
thee, but the cruel conventionalities of So
ciety have forced me to conceal my passion.
Leap-year, which gives to oppressed woman
one blessed privilege, is now here, and
take advantage of it to tell thee | adore
thee. Look not thus coldly on me dear
est spurn me not from your presence. See
me on my bended knees imploring that you
will not say me nay. Grant me but one
kiss from those ruby lips; fold me to thine
arms and say that thou wilt be mine mine,
only mine, forever and for aye


Contrary to expectation. the gentleman
displayed not tie least astonishment during
the foregoing recital, and when it was con-
cluded he went over to the stove, and, fold
ing his hands under his coat-tails, thus re-
Piled


''lm told your dad owns hundred shares
Of North Carson, and that you've got two
brindle bulldogs in your own right and with
out membranes likewise am informed
that you are good hand at making slap Jacks
and biscuits, that you don't chew gum,
which by the way, is powerful expensive
these hard times. In view Of these facts
consent, and leave it to you to name the
day"


Horrifed, the lady tried to explain that it
was all a joke, but the gentleman would not
accept any such explanation, and threatens a
breach of promise suit unless she fulfls her
promise, in which event he will summon the
people a. Witnesses.
Year: 1876

- OBEY IF there has gotten into our
prayer meetings habit Of gush, a perverted
sentiment, which you may call sentimental
ism, 50 that religion is conceived of by our
young people as simply - Coming to Jesus"
rather than being honest in trade and re-
gardful Of others rights, then we had better
change our preaching. And our prayer meet
ing folks had better change their manner
of praying and exhorting ; for we know that
religion when YOU analyze it down to the
last analysis has but one crystal drop and you
can see clear through that drOp,and it spells
out this " obey


Let your pulpits henceforth insist that God
must be oJeyed. If the People wish to know
what religion is they should be told that
religion is obeying God. Not God up in
heaven somewhere, as you yainly picture
him, but God written in human statutes So
far as they are just God written in human
legislation 50 far as it Is wise Sod written
organicallY in the fbres of your stomach and
the muscles of your legs and arms God
written in the beauty of the world, IN the yoic,
OF human rights, in the progress of man as
truly as the pages of the Bible. This great
universal God, whose great law Of right
eousness is written everywhere and in every
thing must be obeyed ; and when be has obey
ed, the man has become one with Him.
Reu. ". H. II. Murray, IN The Golden Rale
Year: 1876

showery Gay in early spring
An old man and a child
Are seated near a scaffoluing
Where marble blocks are piled.
His clothes are stained by age and sell,
As hers BY rain nd sun;
He looks as If his days of toll
We're very nearly done.
To eat his dinner he had sought
staircase proud and vast,
And here the dateous child had brought
His scanty noon repast.
A worn-out workman needing aid;
A blooming child OF light,
The stately palace stepe-all made
most pathetic sight.
bad sought shelter from the storm,
And saw this lowly pair,
But none could see the Shining Form
That watched beside them there.


-COrritX M1qd.f1,
Year: 1876

Come up, come up, o, son surinv air.


Come from your silver shining seas
where All day long you toss the vsv,


About the low and palm plumed keys,
Forsake the spicy lemon groves.


The bzlms and blisses or IN, soutb
Ant blow across the longing land


The breath Of your delicious mouth.
Come from the almond bough you stir


The myrtle thicket where you sigh
oh. leave the nightingale. for here


The robin Whistles far and nigh.
For here the violet in the wood


Thrills with the sweetness you shall take.
And wrapped away from life and love


The wild rose dreams, and fain would wake
For here is reed and rush and grass,
And tiptoe in the dark and dew,
Each sod OF the brown earth aspires


To meet the sun, the sun ana you
Then come, o flesh spring airs. once more
create the old deli shtful things.
and WOO the frozen world again


win hints of heaven upon yonr wings.
Year: 1876

ONE of the citizens Danbury, Conn.
who had just returned from the West,
was telling : in Morrill's grocery, Of a
narrow escape he had from q terrible
death. lie was crossing a long railroad
bridge on foot, when he was surprised
to see Locomotive coming around a
curve and tearing toward him at ter
rife speed. Tho bridge was too mar
row to allow Of escape at either side,
and he did not dare to Jump into the
yawning abyss below. In flash be
took in the situation and formed his
plan of action. He started on a swift
run toward the coming locomotive,
and when within few feet OF it he con-
centrated all his nerve and muscle into
one effort and leaped straight up in the
air. Tho fearful monster shot under
him, and he came down on the bridge,
saved from death, but seriously shaken
up by the descent. There was mo-
mont Of deep silence upon tho close of
this narration. Then one of the COM
panJ sighed, and shut his knife, and un-
expectedly said Whats the use Of
presence of mind when q man can lie
like that"
Year: 1876

All intelligent travellers who have Wis
tied Brazil speak in the most glowing
terms OF the country. Prof. Agassiz
regarded it as the most productive and
interesting country on the globe, and
the one in which it is the easiest to OBJ
tain livelihood. Some who have sailed
mp the Amazon declare that vessel can
be loaded with Brazil nuts at on expense
OF only few cents per bushel. These
constitute valuable article of commerce
while the oil extracted from them is very
desirable. All the tropical fruits are
produced in Brazil almost without culti-
yation. The soil in many parts of the
country will produce twenty successive
crops OF cotton, tobacco, or sugar cane,
without the application of manure. No
country in the world approaches the
lalsl of Dom Pedro in the variety of for
est productions. Prof. Agassiz states
that he saw lit different kind of yalu-
able woods that were cut from piece of
land not halfn mile square. They re-
presented almost every variety of color,
and many Of them were capable of re-
ceising high polish. One tree fur
nishes wax that is used for candles an
other pith that is used for food and
still another yields 8 juice which is used
In the place of intoxicating liquor. There
is single variety OF palm from which
the natives obtain food, drink, clothing,
bedding, cordage, fshing-tackle, medi-
cine, and the~material they manufacture
into dwellings, weapons, harpoons and
musical Instruments. Doubtless the
day is not distant whom the valuable
woods of Brazil will be used for various
useful and ornamental purposes. Bra
I'll is not only ga wooden country" but
country that produces the most beau
tnul woods in the world.
Year: 1876

A little girl less than five years Of age,


Memphis, was recently loft with some
relatives in Missouri. The child was
told by her friends one day last
week that her mother was sick. She
became so restive and anxious to come
home (and mono OF her relntives being
ablo to come with her) that they finally
yielded to her en.reaties and placed her
in the CATS, on the Iron Mountain Rail-
road, at station this side of st. Louis,
but failed to give her any card or dircc-
ton to show whers she was 60
ing. She had not single acquaintance
on tho train, but came On to Belmont,
where she stopped over all night with
the other passengers. A widow lady
who keeps hotel at that place found
that she was alone, took charge Of her,
and pat her to sleep with her children.


Next morning the kind lady put the lit
tie traveller on the fsrryboat, and asked
q eentlcman to put her.in the car at Col


umbus. She came on to Memphis, ma
king all the changes Of cars, without


missing . connection. No other Incl
dents of her journey are known, for she
cannot tell them, until after she passed


Humboldt. She was sndeavoring 10 tie
up the remnant Of lunch, of which she


had been partaking, when she exclaim-
ed, "Wsll, if nobody win help me tic mp
myself" A gentlemen from Louisville
approached. tied up her lunch, and got
into = conversation with her. She told
him her name the name Of her mother,
and the street and number OF her moth
er's rssidencs. The passengers gather


ed around. asked her questions, and
made divers eonjectures about her.


The gentleman from Louisville pro
posed to take charge of her, and go with
her 10 find her mother. The conductor
Of the train consented 10 this, provided
he would pledge himself that in ease her


mother was not found, that the child


should be returned to the officers Of the
road, 10 be delivered up when called for
BY friends. At the depot the gentleman
took her in hack, and ordered the dri-
yer u go to the street and number given
by the child. There they found the
sick mother, whose JOY at seeing her
child was equallsd only by her surprise.
The gentleman explained all he knew
about it and left. Seeing that the lady
was poor and in bad health he called
next pay end proposed 10 take the child
home with him, and to raise and educate
her "a his own child, stating that he
had ample means to do 30. What moth
er could part with such o ohild7 She
clAsped her little treasure to her bosom,
and her tears expressed both her graft
tude to the gentleman and her declen-
sion of his kind offer. She says now
that in case she does not recover, she
desires little Daisy, to be given to the


kind hearted Mr.. O., of Louisville.


There is no telling what the future Of
our little heroine may be, but We hope
that her journey Of life may be as fortu-
nate and successful As was her trip from
Missouri to Memphis.
Year: 1876

The election held in our town last
Saturday resulted in n complete victory
for the Democratic Conservative ticket.
Major e. y. Smith was elected Mayor by
l35 majority, and all the other officers
by majorities ranging from 1873 to 14l
numbers Of the colored people voting
the straight Democratic Conservative
ticket The parish Of Webster will 90
almost as unanimously for the same
ticket next November.
Year: 1876

Get your rooms in advance.


Else you wont stand a chance
Al The good things that roam ut Point Clear,
For all people do tell


That nj the Grand Hotel
The visitor makes his Point Clear
Year: 1876

WANTED-A SITUATION By A YOUNG
w married man. who speaks both English
and French is thoroughly acquainted with the
city as Book-keeper. Clerk or Collector. Best of
city references given as to honesty industry
and capacity. Address p. Democrat office
Year: 1876

During the storm Of Saturday night and
yesterday, the limbs of several trees in the
City Hall yard, We're blown down, and the
fence on French street, between Second and
Third street, was also damaged to consid-
cradle extent. We trust that the new
Chairman of the Street Committee and the
Street Commissioner will not allow the own
ers to put the old fence up again, but will
compel them to build new and substantial
fence, as the one they have is not only dan
gerous but nuisance in that neighbor-
hood.
Year: 1876

Last evening, as our reporter was going
his rounds in the storm, in search of locals,
the only man he could find, who appeared
perfectly happy, was Robert W. Birnie, the
sail and awning maker, who was all smiles.
We suppose the cause of this was that
nearly every awning in the city was in rib
bons, and although he has large amount
of work on hand, he will find time to de-
vote portion Of his labor to making new
awnings and repairing the old ones dam
aged by the storm.