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Year: 1872

HE CURSE OF CorroN.-The
South, a journal published in New


York, and devoted to the material
interests of the Southern States.
argues that cotton has wrought the
final ruin of that section; not the
simple growth of it, nor even the
exaltation of it into their chief ar.
ticle of production, nor the invest.
ment of millions of dollars and the
expenditure of much mental effort
and physical energy in its culture.
Not in all these has lain the cnrse,
but rather in excessive, absorbing
and, therefore, ruinous devotion to
the growth Of cotton, to the rela.
tive exclusion of other important
agricultural productions, which
were necessary in order to render
her independent of foreign sources
OF SIMPLY, to the neglect of those
mechanic arts without which no
State can realize the highest ad


vantages of civilized condition.
and to the utter disregard of num-.
berless other profitable modes of1
investing capital and utilizing la.
Dor.
Year: 1872

A FAITHFUL WIFr.-The New
York Commercial Advertiser asks:
Is there another woman in the
world so faithful to the memory of
her departed spouse as Lady
franklin? She has spent thou
sands of pounds in vain efforts TO
recover the boz es of the illustrious
navigator; sire has been as true as
the needle to the pole, although
that pole was her husbands worst
enemy and now she wants some.
body to accept $4,000 and bring
her in return the records of the eX.
pedition in which Sir John lost his
life. Very, if disonbodied spirits
can be conscious of what transpires
in this shoal and kank of time
must not Sir Johns contemplation
of the devotion of such a wife add
a new charm to the pleasure of
Paradise?' as. ...... ..
Year: 1872

did not purchase for my bride


Rich jeweled rings and costly fans
But what thought would be her pride
A set complete of pots and pans.
: would not win sweet Jennie's love
By golden gifts Of magic power;
IF she proper wife should prove


She'would prefer some bags of flour.
did not play with Jennie's heart,


Nor try to fix it were it tickle,
But sent, mistrusting modern art,


A side of pork for her to pickle.
did not give her rubies red,


To lend her raven hair relief,
But what would charm when we were we'd
A good supply of potted beef
] did not wanton with her love,
Z. That pined to nestle on my breast,
Just like dropping, tired dove,


But sent couch where it could rest.
did not, when the moon was bright,


Take Jennie out for tranquil walks;
But took her-what would more delight
A dozen each of knives and forks.
did not send her flowers bright,


Whose brightness, ah, so quickly wanes =,
But sent her, in the darkest night,


A set of sheets and counterpanes.
And so at last our little store


Would furnish we'll an ivied cot.
But then-I should have said before


She Tilted me, and kept the lot.
Year: 1872

There are thousands who know nothing
of the blessed influence of comfortable
home, merely from the want of thrift or
from dissipated habits. Youth was spent
in frivolous amusements and demoralizing
associations. leaving them at middle age,
when the intellectual and the physical man
should be in its greatest vigor, enervated
and without one laudable ambition. -
Friends long since lost, confidence gone
and nothing to look to in old age but a
mere liberation in the community where
they should be ornaments. No home to
fly to when wearied with the struggles in-
cident to life, no wife to cheer them in
their dependency, no children to amuse
them. and no virtuous household to give
zest to the joys of life. All is blank, and
there is no hope of succour except that
which is given out by the hand of public
or private charities. When the family oil
an industrious and sober citizen gather a.
round cheeaful fire of wintry day, the
homeless man. is seeking shelter in the sta
ton house, or begging for nights rest
in the out-building of one who started in
life at the same time with no greater ad-
vantage; but honesty and industry built
up that house while dissi pa ton destroyed
the other.
Year: 1872

Ice-water should be drank but sparing-
ly. A most excellent substitute for it is
pounded ice taken in small Jumps into the
mouth and allowed to dissolve upon the
tongue. This will prove very refreshing
and much more enduring in its effects.


Lemonade is a simple and grateful be-
verage. To make it: Roll the lemons on
something hard till they become soft; CRATE
off the rinds, cut the lemons in slices and
squeeze them in pitcher "a new clothes
pin will answer for squeezer in lieu of
something better); pour on the required
quantity of water, and sweeten according
to taste. The grated rinds. for the sake
of their aroma, should be added too. After
mixing thoroughly. set the pitcher aside
for half an hour; then strain the liquor
through jelly strainer, and put in the
ice.


Travellers who find it inconvenient to
use lemons can carry box of.lemon sugar
prepared from citric acid and sugar, little
of which in a glass of ice water will furnish
quite refreshing drink, and one that will
lip oftentimes to avert sick headache and
billiousness. Citric acid is obtained from
the juice of lemons and lime.
Perry is delicious beverage made from
cherries. and will keep year or more.
Take six pounds of cherries and bruise
them pour on a pint and half Of hot
water, and boil for fifteen minutes; strain
through flannel bag, and add three
hounds of sugar. Boil for half an hour
more, or until the liquid will sink to the
bottom Of a cup of water (try it with tea
spoonful of the liqu d.; then turn into jelly
cups and cover with paper, dipped in the
white of an egg. IL


To prepare the drink Put spoonful
of the jelly into goblet of water, and let
it stand about ten minutes; then stir it up
and fill with pounded ice. Currants and
raspberries made into ''shrub" furnish a
pleasant and cooling drink when mixed
with sice-water. Pounded ice is also an
agreeable addition to saucer of strawber-
ries, or currants. Pound it until it is al
most as fine as snow, and spread it over
the berries. With fruit it is also an ex-
cellent substitute for cream.


Water ices are always acceptable. Those
made of lemon, orange, currants, straw
berries. raspberries, and pineapple, are
much improved by adding stiff beaten
whites of four eggs to every two quarts of
the liquid. Put it in just as it is turned
into the freezer, and it will freeze in a
foam. -iScribner.
Year: 1872

An instructive article on the subject of
sunstroke appears in Lippincot's Maga-
zine for July, from the pen of Horatio c..
Wood, Jr., M. D. The writer shows the
true nature of this always alarming and
often fatal disease, and by inference its
proper treatment, his views in both being
illustrated and confirmed by physiological
experiments The following is summary


Sunstroke (coup de solieD is shown to
be simply an effect of overheating. Ex-
ternal heat is the cause of sunstroke, and
this cheat produces directly all the symp-
TOMS" 1t is we'll remarked, that in such
cases there should be no waiting for the
doctor; but the true nature of the case
should be first clearly ascertained. ''Has
every man that falls unconscious, Of a hot
day. the sunstroke?" A criterion of easy
application is to put the hand on the chest
and ''if the skin be cool you may rest as
sured that whatever be the trouble it is
not sunstroke."


If, on the contrary, the skin be of a
burning heat, the case is certainly sun
stroke, and no time should be lost. Cold
water. drawn from the nearest pump or
hydrant, or, if the case OCCUR in the har.
vest field, from the nearest spring, should
be freely dashed over the head and chest
of the sufferer, who is to be raised for a
moment to allow of the water being pour
ed on his back, and render the cooling of
the body more complete. This is to be
continued until the heat of the surface is
brought down to nearly its natural stan
dard, and consciousness begins to return.
A recommendation which we find in DIR.
Woods paper also is to prevent the heat
accumulatng in the body by interposing
bad conductor in the shape of light fan
mel, worn next the skin, and this article
may also be regarded as the best for outer
garments, loosely made, and also of light
or white color. IA roomy, wide brim-
med porous hat should be used, and in the
crown of it may be placed a wet towel or
large handkerchief" The additional re-
commentator that water should be used
externally and internally" must never be
forgotten.


Sweating. as Dr. Wood truly remarks,
is natures great refrigerative process, to
be brought on and kept up, not by the
pernicious practice Of the person exposed
to the sun drenching himself with liquor,
but ''by large quantities of water, not toe
cold, but without stint--quarts, if the
thirst crave it." When the sweat cease;
in July and August day, and throbbing
head and dry and hot skin, with unusua
restlessness and headache show themsel
yes, as the laborer or workman values
his life, let him leave his work, however
imperative, and take at once cold bath.
The author cites an experiment of his di
rectly bearing on the question of the caus
of sunstroke. "A hogs bladder was fit
ted over the head of an animal, with tub
Year: 1872

GREEN Corn MUFF1Ns Boil a dosen
ears of green corn, and when cold CRATE
it off as for pudding beat six eggs and
stir gradually into quart of milk stir in
the grated corn until you have moder-
ately thick batter, then add little salt,
place your muffin rings on hot griddle.
and nearly fill them with the batter; bake
quickly, and eat hot with butter.
Year: 1872

@-Pure water will absorb many un.
pleasant odors. A pail full Of clean, fresh
water from a well or spring, placed in
room which has been newly painted, will
absorb during the night SO much of the
smell of the paint as to be totally unfit to
drink
Year: 1872

Learning will accumulate wonder
fully if you add little every day. Do
not wait for long period of leisure. Pick
up the book and gain one new idea, if no
more. Save that one and add another as
soon as you can. Says the old Scotch
adage: Many little makes mickle"
Year: 1872

gentleman had enlarged spleen; pain constantly
the left side, low down. Applied Porous Plaster
After few days the plaster fairly washed off by
a sort Of weeping of the pores of the part He an
pTied towel, which soon became 80 wet he had 10
change 1t several times a day. When this weeping
from the part stopped the pain returned, so that
another Porous Plaster was applied ThIs produced
the same effect as the former application These
applications of Allcock's Porous Plaster alternating
with the towel, were continued for period Of sew
eral months during which time the gentleman't
health was improving. At length he aIeO telt some
thing give way inside. No more iroublei has be 81
we'll aimee.
Year: 1872

From Jno new i Ork lelegfdpn.J


Miss Acheson is one of the eight very
beautiful girls forming the first line Of
coryphees in the Cashmere ballet in the
second act of Lalla Rookh. She is
about eighteen years of age, a perfect
blonde, and by reason of her peculiar
charms is, perhaps, the more noticeable
of any in the ballet organization of the
Grand Opera House. She resides with
her widowed mother, whose only sup
port she has been for the past two years,
and it is creditable to Mr. Sherman that
upon making just inquiry concerning
the young lady reputation, and being
satisfied on that score, he sought to visit
her humble home, which request was
modestly granted. There giving re-
newed expression to his love he was for
mally accepted as a suitor.


Mr.. Sherman is a commission mer-
chant, doing business with his father on
Front street, this city, is twenty three
years of age, and of very proposing
appearance and manners. He express
ed himself at the Grand Opera House
last evening as annoyed at the newspaper
notoriety given him, and said he was
thoroughly aware Of the importance of
the affair to his future welfare and hap
piness, and that, having the consent of
the young lady and her mother, and his
own people not interpesing any obsta-
cles to the union, and being abundantly
able to support wife in creditable style,
he trusted the general public would take
no interest in an arrangement which
really concerned no one but the high
high contracting parties.


In addition to the gentlemen above
named there will be present at the bri-
dal fete on Sunday evening next Mr.. j.
L. Vincent stage manager at the Grand
Opera House; Mr.. Edward F. DeNyse,
Joseph Howard, jr., editor of the Star,
and number of well known young mil
lionaires and bankers of Wall and Broad
streets, this city. The bridal trip will
comprise journey to San Francisco by
rail, thence to Panama, Jamaica, st
Thomas, Rio Janeiro and return to New
VO-ly
Year: 1872




The vossiche Zeitung q ne the follow
ing account of the young An who was
recently arrested in Berlin under sus-
picious circumstances:


Westerwell is the illegitimate son of a
Polish countess and Belgian noble
man, and was born in Luckenwalde. he
never knew his parents personally, but
when an infant was placed in the hands
of a guardian, by whom, after tedious
lawsuit, he was consigned to a letter.
carrier called Westerwell, who adopted
him, being himself childless, after OBJ
tanning from the father a considerable
sum of money by way of remuneration.
As the mother at his birth had con-
cealed herself under an assumed name,
and the father had to keep his own
name secret. the suit excited the curl
osty Of the public not a little, and all
sorts of conjectures we're hazarded about
the parties directly concerned in the
case, The young Westerwell gave his
adopted parents, whose name he as
sumed, very little satisfaction. He was
not diligent, learned little, and, far
from being pious, he INDUCED in every
sort of frivolity and immortality; so that
his soster-father was not ill-pleased when
his adopted SON left him in 1867. In
the ranks Of the Papal Zouaves he is
said to have conducted himself better
than when he was here. The Prussian
military authorities had pronounced
him unfit for the army, which will sur
prise no one who has noted the feebly
developed person and the timid, unman-
ly mien of the young Westerwell.
Year: 1872

The following observations on diet,
habit, etc., will be found quite as yalu-
able as any: Quinine should not be
eaten after hearty meal of India rubber;
the spermaeeti contained in the former
will unite with the oxalic acid of the
latter, and wagon grease will be evolved
with disastrous results. Before taking
a bath the entire body shoHld be care
fully washed. Thes lay on coating of
tar and get into the water. 1t can t
touch you anywhere. 1t is not so fash
ionable as it was to chop cord of wood
before breakfast; none but very old men
who cling to the traditions of youth like
a lean leech to a stuffed frog, ever do it,
and they commonly perish at it. Get
ting out of bed in a perspiration is to be
avoided-always lie in bed as long as
you can find any excuse for it. Nothing
is more injurious than the ordinary
method of going up stairs; it causes the
alkali in the blood to settle in the corns,
producing Arianism and strangulation.
The proper way is to lie on your stomach
and 20 up feet first Never sleep with
your eyes shut; it is degenerate habit.
Bathing, as intimated above, is con-
dueted on a wrong principle. 1t is prob
able that the custom might be advan-
tageously abolished altogether. Bath
houses and bathing rooms in dwellings
are things of recent growth. Our grand
fathers seldom or never bathed; and it
is conceded that they lived to be several
hundred years old. Potatoes should al
ways be eaten with the skins on, skins
contain. bicarbonate of mucilage, which
is just what the liver requires. When
the custom of giving the skins to the
poor originated, science was almost
wholly unknown. There are more things
it would be we'll to know, but strict
compliance with the rules already given
will enable you to live as long as you
wish to. Further instructions would not
nrnlono vour nionru
Year: 1872

A letter from Hope Valley, says the
Virginia Enterprise, informs ms that the
snow in that region is ten feet deep on
the level, and more solidly packed than
the Oldest inhabitant has ever seen it.
The writer was up on the summit a few
days since and found the snow twenty
feet deep. Below the summit the snow
had drifted into ravines till the tops of
the tallest pines are hardly visible. He
saws: 81 have spent many winters In
the Sierras, but have never before seen
the snow packed so hard as it now is !
spent the winter Of lS6l.62 at Hermit
Valley, on the Big Tree route. when we
had two feet of snow on the first of
March, but it was not packed Ike this
Should we have two weeks of good
weather it would be sufficiently firm to
hear up a horse. Now is the time for
YOU city folks to come up here and
have a genuine old-fashioned sleigh
ride-if you don't care for sleigh
riding. we can accommodate you
with a snow.shoe ride down the
mountains. We are but ten miles
from Woodford's, where the grass is
sprinring up-what a contrastl Trout
isLing on snow-shoes would be quite a
novelty 10 you town folks, but we have
plenty OF It here when we can get a
pleasant day. The creek is open in
many places, and Is al alive with the
speckled beauties. was out day or
two since and caught fifty In a very
short time. They are not bad to take
this stormy weather" A journal OF the
weather for February, kept BY Mr..
Richie. shows that it showed fourteen
days out of twenty-nine; eleven days are
set down as "clear and cold, and on
the 18th it rained hard all day aRd all
night, the thermometer standing at forty
degrees above zero. The thermometer
was below zero but one day during the
p,oeth--the 27th, when it was two de-
rrees below. The record shows that it
was . very rough month, as on many
days the Thermometer ranged from zero
to eight degrees above.
Year: 1872

The Customhouse crowd played strong
game on the ground that the Democratic
party was split, and they could win by
plurality of votes. Now the die-in-the-ditch-
eTs think the Republican party is busted
and that same is their game. If the Re
publicans Of this State-Liberals, Campbell
ties or Grantites-let them win by any such
sly trick. we mistake their metal.
Year: 1872

Senator Kellogg and Marshal Packard
are said to have taken sudden fight to Long
Branch to be instructed By Ulysses L as to
what next to do in Louisiana. We hope
they viii soon return and give US new
lesson in the art of government according
to the modern Republican system.
Year: 1872

IT WAS DoNE.-Piggy got into large
yard where he did not belong, and try
ing to get out again he stuck fast under
a high board fence, and there began to
kick and squeal in the good old way.
His master, big, fat Irishman, hear
ing the hubbub, ran out of the house
near by, and caught his pig by the ears,
endeavoring to pull him through the
hole before the trespass was detected.
But this treatment had no effect but to
make the pig yell the more. An old
ram in the yard hearing the noise, and
seeing piggy's hind-legs and tail flour
ishing away in menacing manner, &C
cepted what he thought was challenge
and lowering his head charged with all
his might. He struck his mark squarely
and fairly, aud the pig shot through
the hole like pork cannon.ball, and
striking his master full in the breast,
knocked him fiat on his back. The only
person who witnessed this closing scene
was just entering the yard, and not
being aware how many actors were
engaged in it, was very muck surprised
to hear what he supposed to be the pig,
swearing in Irish on the other side OF
the fence.
Year: 1872

THE CURIOUs.-Somep people are fond
of puZzling over curious items, and for
the benefit of all such persons the fol-
lowing conundrum or riddle or puzzle
is inserted among the records of the
reading-room. In the first place, an
impossibility must be supposed posi-
BILE, namely, that man thirty-five
years old marries girl of FIVE, which
makes the groom seven times as old as
the bride. When the girl is ten years
old the man is forty, and four times as
old as his wife 4; when she is fifteen the
man is forty. five, that is three times as
old. When she is thirty, the man is
sixty, that is twice as old as his wife,
and now will somebody be good enough
to ascertain how long they have to live
together to make the girl as old as the
man 1t is just barely possible that an
answer to this question il as impossi-
BILE as the hypothesis on which the
whole thing is based. That is for the
curious to ascertain, however. All an
swers should be sent to the Office of the
San Francisco Bulletin, and the success
full individual, whether by actual exper-
iment or not is unimportant, will find
his or her name recorded in the obituary
column of the aforesaid journal.
Year: 1872

There is only one man for whom vote can
be cast in the Mayoralty election tomorrow,
in the interest of reform, without any COM
FUNCTIONS or misgivings. If one votes Tor
Abraham r. Lawrence, he knows what he is
doing. 1t is not merely the best vote which
can be cast. 1t is the only one which is alb
solutely safe.


In every point of view Mr.. Lawrence is the
preferable candidate. He is young and strong;
perfectly honest well educated, and good
lawyer. He is q man Of the best character and
undisputed social currency. He is thoroughly
acquainted with the city, its history and its
needs, its laws and its customs. He cannot be
tempted to commit a wrong. He is too intel
ligent and alert to be hoodwinked while others
are stealing. He will give us the strongest
and the purest administration which we have
had in many years. Ho is tho regular
Reform candidate. He was interested heart
and soul in this movement for the reformation
of our city politics, from the very beginning
He was member and the counsel of the
Committee of Seventy which has now cause
lsssly turned against him. He was presented
"a a Reform candidate and should have been
accepted by all honest men. Let every one
vote for him, who wishes TO protest at once
against dishonesty in the municipal govern
ment and blind partisanship in municipal
o1octicna