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Year: 1871

There is difference of opinion on this
subject, but | hear offer what | have learn
ed from experience: The subject generally
IN discussion Is, whether large or small
horses are the best, but this depends main
~ on the form and constitution of the
horse in view, large horse may out
work small one; in some instances it
may be the reverse of this, but what we
want TO know is which is best for general
use? | think this depends on what Kind of
work they are to he used at. 1t is upiver
sally known that large one will draw the
larger load, and from this we would infer
that they are the best for this purpose,
which is generally the case if they are of a
good form.


One great fault with many of the horses
of the present time is, they have too long
legs to be of proportionate size with the
body such horses will soon wear out.
for common use there is no kind or horses
bclter calculated than small solid, robust
one, such as the French breed, which allow
ol more hard fare and harder usage, than
any other kind know Of For heavy farm
work select solid horse, but in this case
Il large horse Is not needed, for they will
tire sooner than a somewhat smaller one.


But to sum the whole up together. if you
want horse that will bear driving hare,
one lionr, working the next, doing heavy
work one day and light the next, select a
medium size horse, with short thick body,
and not too long legs, and be sure and feed
him well and he will be servicahle for many
years.
Year: 1871

aim at the bear who was still on her perch
in the tree, and now remained there to
keep out of harms way; but she had not
been initiated into the science of gunpow-
der and ball. They soon brought her
down, but not until they had fired ten or
twelve shots. Remington came safely
down. though at great hazard of falling.
lie was carried home next morning to his
anxious friends.


The fright and over cXertion he had en-
dured, had shattered his constitution and
nervous system though he had been an
uncommonly strong athletic youth, he was
ever after comparatively weak. lie would
never venture into the woods alone, and
the mere chipping of . bird or the chip
pering OF n squirrel would make him
nervous, He died in 1920 or thereabouts.
before reaching his siNtieth year.
Year: 1871

An old man, living a little distance out
of Newburyport, was troubled with u
cold and cough the other day, and came
to town to one of the apothecary shops to
get some cough medicine. He took q
bottle of it home with him. as he supposed,
and when he coughed he administered u
dose to himself. As he described the
effect it was terrific. lie said that as soon
rs he took the medicine it Strengthened
him out rs stiff rs q snake, and he lay on
the floor two hours foaming at the mouth
and swelled up as big as two. This he
thought the effects of his disease, and SC
he took another dose, and says that it
stiflened him out sitter than before. He
lay toaming at the mouth for three hours,
and swelled up as big as three. When he
came to himself he took small spoonful
OF the medicine and threw it into the fire,
when it exploded with great flash, and
what remained in the bottle he dashed
against the stone wall He then came
into the city and went to the shop where
he had bought the remedy and told his
story. The attendant listened, and look
ing round the counter found the old gen
tleman's cough mixture, and that bottle
of fly poison was missing. The old man
is little given to exaggeration, and per-
haps he did not swell up OF foam at the
mouth quite as much as he describes, but
it is pretty certain that he took dose of
fly poison for his cough.
Year: 1871

An abundance OF canned fruit is a good
thing in Il family both as regards health.
comfort and enjoyment. All who are in the
habit of laying by in this way large stores
of the different kinds of small fruits in their
season, are convinced that it is a paying
Investment; and with the most it has ceas-
ed in great measure to be regarded as q
luxury, but is rather classed with the
necesSarieS of life.


Many who have plenty of fruit, or who
have the means with which to purchase.
neglect to can it on account of the trouble
or expense, but they will dry or make into
preserves their surplus, with much more
labor and at much greater expense; while
fruit thus prepared viii require more care
and he less palatable than canned.


If properly done, canned fruit requires
but little labor in its preparation and little
attention alterward, and is the least eN-
pcnSive mode in which it can be preserved.


We have lately given Il number OF meth
ods for canning, and now we will add the
one we have practiced for a number of
wears and which we have found very sue
cessful


We use glass jars as the cheapest in the
end, and the most easily taken care Of
Pick over the fruit and fill the lars. Take
a common wash boiler, and make of lath,
fastened together by two or three cross
bars, a frame lifted to the bottom of the
boiler. to keep the Jars on the bottom and
10 permit the heat TO pass readily up thro'
Place the jars in the boiler and fill it with
cold water up to the neck of the jars. Put
Stats on the top Of the jars and put on
weights to prevent them from tipping and
filing with water. Bring the water to 4
boiling point, and boil from ten to twenty
minutes according to the quality of the
fruit. When the fruit is well done through,
take out one jar at a time; when the fruit
has settled up from another jar. Have 4
preparation of sugar and water-pound,
or a pound and half, as preferred, to one
quart of water-kept boiling hot, and fill
up the interstices between the fruit with
this; have each jar completely filled, and
then put on the cap and seal up as directed
II sealed up in this way, the Jars are air
light, there will be no trouble about the
fruit keeping. We have common red cur
rants, put up in this way four years ago,
that are in first rate condition now. The
less sugar put in at the time of canning
the more natural will be the taste OF the


fruit on opening.


After canning the jars should he cooled
gradually and kept i'll a cool and dry place.
Year: 1871

A Massachusetts boy cut off his young
sisters golden curls, while she slept, to
get money with which to 60 to the races.


A bitter quarrel has been caused in a
church in Maine by the practice Of some
of the members taking their dogs to
church with them. The choir have re-
fused to sing if the dogs are not ex-
cluded from the sanctuary.
Year: 1871

The letter writers at the watering
places have frequently suggested this
season that it would pay a shrewd spec
ulator to take few droves of handsome
young men to Newport, Long Branch
and Saratoga.
Year: 1871

The March number of the Atlantic
Monthly contains an article, fir M the pen
of E. p. Whipple, upon the wealth and re-
sources OF the United States, which con-
tains figures and estimates regarding the
present and prospective wealth Of the ma
ton that are grand in their greatness. He
estimates the present value of the taxable
property of the nation at $40, 800, 100000 ;
and should .he country increase in wealth
for the next thirty years as rapidly as it has
done in the past twenty, he thinks that the
aggregate value ofthe property would reach
the enormous sum Of s4O5 900, 900, a
sum to which our present public debt of
two and half billions would be a compar-
atively insignificant matter We believe
that with ordinary wisdom in the manage
ment of our public affairs, the next ten
years will witness a growth in our material
interests that will be beyond everything
experienced in this or any other country
Every portion Of the country is SO rapidly
opening up to settlement and enterprise
through the means Of railroads, that there
is ample scope for the profitable invest
ment of capital and the exercise Of every
species of INDUSTRY. Within two or three
years all the present states will be covered
with net work of railroads, bringing their
natural resources into use, and these new
and vast fields will invite lmmi grafton from
the old world in yearly increasing streams.
The recent war, we think, will have the eff
feet Of increasing immigration, because the
people will fear the recurrence Of similar
horrors A good crop this year will start
the country upon new career of prosper
ity. We think that unless there should be
a failure Of crops, the country has expert
enced its hardest years, and that the bur-
dens of the late war will grow lighter and
lighter henceforth.
Year: 1871

From the Madison wis Journal, 18Th


Judge Orion introduced Joint resolution
into the assembly, on Friday suspendlng
the rule in relation to new business for the
purpose of admitting the introducing Of a
memcra! and bill relating to the destruc-
ton of Superior harbor.


A bill was subsequently introduced by
Mr. Vaughn, of Bayfield,, which was passed
by the Assembly. We copy the following
from it:


Section l. The Governor is hereby authorized
and directed inquire into and ascertain whether the
completion of the canal being constructed through
Minnesota Point will such diversion fthe
OF the St Louis river will seriously nure the
harbor of Superior City, the entrance thereto from
the lake. And if, in his opinion, the completion Of
said canal will such diversion and such injury
the said harbor the entrance thereto he is directed
to all necessary and proper means TO prevent the
completion OF said work And for that purpose he
suits to be instituted and employ such
sci to assist him in the prosecution OF the
to him proper and for the best interests of the
State.


The second section appropriates a sufiici-
ent sum to defray the expenses contemplate
ed in the preceding section not exceeding
five thousand dollars to be drawn on a GER
tihcate OF the Governor and Attorney Gen
eral as to the correctness of the account.


The diversion of lhe course of a river is
in plain violation Of law. To turn the cur
rent of a navigable river like the St. Louis,
and thus ruin a natural harbor and destroy
a city, is a wrong that should be resisted.
The Duluth people invested their money,
knowing that there was no good harbor
there; while the Superior people invested
their money because there was good har-
bOr on thp Wisconsin side If Is not fair.
it is not legal to destroy the Superior har-
Dor and all possible means should be taken
by the State to protect its citizens from the
injury that would follow should the citizens
of Minnesota transfer the mouth OF the riv
er to their own territory several miles west
of where it nowis.
Year: 1871

WAsHINGTON February 26-The Presi
dent has approved the act granting pensions
to soldiers and sailors OF the war of 1912
| and the widows Of deceased soldiers. pass
ed February IA, 1871. 1t authorizes and
and directs the Secretary of the Interior to
| place on the pension roll the names of the
surviving officers and enlisted and drafted
men, including militia and vcunteers. Of
the military and naval service of the Uni
ted States who served sixty days in the war
with Great Britain Of Sl2, and were honor
ably discharged, and to such officers and
soldiers as may have been personally named
| in any resolution of Congress for any speci-
hc service in said war, although their term
OF seryice may have been less than sixty
days, and who at no time during the late
rebellion against the authority of the United
States adhered to the cause of the enemies
of the government, giving them aid an!
comfort, or exercised the functions of any
office whatever under any authority in hos
tility to the United States, and v ho shall
take and subscribe an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States, and the
surviving widows Of such officers and en-
listed and drafted men provided, that such
widows shall have been married prior to





war to an officer or enlisted or drafted man
who served as aforesaid in said war, and
she'll not have remarked This act shall
not apply to any person receiving pension
at the rate of So or more per month, nor to
any person receiving pension less than IS
per month except for the difference between
the pension now received and SO per month.
Pensions under this act shall be at the rate
of So per month, except us herein provided
when person is receiving pension of less
than S8 per month, and shall be paid to the
persons entitled thereto from and after the
passage of this act for and during the term
of their natural lives.


Before the name Of any person shall be
placed upon the pension roll under this act
proof shall be made under such rules and
regulations as the Secretary OF the Interior
may prescribe, that the applicant is entitled
to pension under the visions Of this
act; and any person who shall falsely take
any oath required to be taken under the pro-
visions of this act shall be guilty of perjury:
and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause
to be stricken from the pension roll the
name of any person whenever it shall APP
pear by proof satisfactory to him that such
name was put upon such roll through ia Sc
or fraudulent representations as to the right
Of such person to pension under the pro
visions of this act. The loss of a certificate
Of discharge shall not deprive the applicant
of the benefits of this act but other proof of
service performed and of an honorable dis
charge if satisfactory shall be deemed suffi-
cIent.


The provision of section twelve and thir-
teen of an act entitled can act supplement
tary to an act to grant pensions" approved
July 4, 854, and ofsections two, three, and
four of an act entitled can act supplement
tary to several acts relating to PENSIONS"
approved June 6, 1866, shall be applicable
to the pensions granted by this act.
Year: 1871

A TRIP TO BASSWOOD lsLAND-Through
the kindness OF William Knight, Esq, we
took ride on the ice to the Ba>swood Is
land Quarry, a few days since, and was
surprised to note the Improvement made at
that place during the winter. Heretofore
the quarry has been worked under great
disadvantage, as the proper facilities for
getting out stone were lacking and having
to clear off the timber and the soil on the
surface, which averages about three feet,
building docks. ETC., caused the yield of
building stone to be comparatively small !;
but at present the facilities are complete
and no doubt the summer of 1871 will see
a much larger quantity Of this beautiful
brown stone, put into market than ever be-
fore. Since the close of navigation, two
immense derricks have been added max
ing four in all, two of which are worked by
horsepower, and the balance by hand. In
additon to drilling by hand, a steam drill
is to be operated, and will add greatly in
the progress of the work. A large surface
is prepared and tracks have been laid to
the main derrick from all parts of the quar-
ry, for the purpose of conveying the stone
on cars to the dock ready for shipment.
There are three lay ers of stone at least nine
feet through, with seams every twelve or
fourteen feet of white sand, which is of
Z eat advantage in quarrying it. The blocks
OF stone are got out in various sizes to suit
the order. The stone is said to be of far
better quality as the work progresses from
the shore. Many other items regarding the
quarry we fail to mention for want of space.
w are more than ever convinced that this
Island quarry is capable of supplying a vast
amount Of stone for an unlimited number
of years. We hope to be able to able 10
visit the quarry while the summer opera
tions are in progress, and transcribe in some
future article, more fully the interesting
method procuring and shipping the stone.


Mr.. Monahen, who has charge of the
work, is an experienced man in the busi-
ness, having been thus engaged some eigh-
teen years, in different quarrles. He in
forms us that Messrs. Strong, French &
Co. design employing about loo MN this
season. Their contract for the milwaukee,
Court House expires in October, and they
propose to meet the demand for stone re.
quired, to finish that beautiful structure
Baytieid Press, -Hurch II.
Year: 1871

ICE.-In gathering ice, be sure there is a
deep bed ot straw tn place the first layer
upon. Wheat chaff is said to be excellent
The object being to bed The ice upon non
conductor of heat which will let the water
pass off freely. Cut the cakes as even as
possible SO that little space will be wasted
BY chinks; brush the cracks full of ice chips
aud dust, free from dirt, especially around
the sides. The more solldly ice is packed
upon the sides which are exposed to thaw-
ing the better.
Year: 1871

MAPLE SUGAR MAKING-Now is the time
to make maple syrup and sugar, and, there
tore, a few words OH the subject will not
be amiss. Wooden taps and buckets are
preferable to tin ones IN the drawing of sap,
for the reason that the latter will rust and
darken the sap. The more cleanliness and
care that Is exercised IN sugar-making, as
IN everything else, the more profitable and
better will be the sugar. Strain the sap in
to large copper pan, and when it is well
boiled but still thin, rain through a clean
cloth again into clean butter frkins which
have been scaded, and let it stand a day.
Of course, should there be any more sap on
hand, the pan could be used after the first
was out to boil it IN. The second day. af-
ter the pan is carefully washed out, pour
the syrup boiled first into it, and boil it
down almost to grained sugar, incessantlv
stirring and sklmmlng 1t during the whole
period OF boiling Then pour into the fir
klns and set aside until the warm days Of
May. Then place into a barrel or tirkin
with three or four augur holes, and set it
upon tub to drain. Each morning. for
three weeks, lay clean linen clothes N the
top OF the sugar pressing tightly down, so
that not a particle will be LETT uncovered.
About a gallon of syrup will, at the end of
that time, have drained from fifty pounds
OF sugar, and the sugar Itself will be of
high quality and Of a crystalline whiteness
To make the syrup INTO cakes the sap is
boiled to greater consistency than for
grained sugar, and must be stirred con-
stantly. New mllk is used by some manu-
facturers to whlen the sugar Their plan
Is, after the syrup is put on to boil second
time, just when it has reached the boiling
point, to turn in a large coffee cup Of new
milk. A thick scum will soon rise to tie
top, and this IS strained off at once, for if
left to boil it will darken rather than whu-
Ell the sugar. Many farmers may have dif-
terent appliances than those me0,ioned Tor
the making OF their sugar and syrup. which
may be more convenient and HANDY to
them, and to these it may be sid that the
great deS1deratttna III sugar making IS clean
lHess. The sap should be strained and
the syrup should be strained, and no sedi-
ment allowed to enter into the proc,s SIS of
manufacture.
Year: 1871

les and Provisions of which we keep Good Stock
consisting of CHOICE and FANCY GROCERIES,
as well STAPLES. In this line we would call
special attention to our TEAS, which we think are
not excelled by anything in the market.


sB-When visiting our store, if you do not what
you want, ASK FOR IT.
Year: 1871




The following extract from the
Journal of young lady in Virginia,
who, in 1772, visited the Lees and
Washingtons OIL the Potomac, gives
different idea of the Father of his
Country from that which has been
generally entertained:


II must tell you our frolic after
we went to our room. We took it
into our heads to want to eat. Well,
we had large dish of bacon and
beef; after that a bowl of sago
cream; and after that an apple pie.
While we were eating the apple pie
in bed-GOd bless you ! making a
great noise. in came Mr.. Washing
ton, dressed in Hannah's short gown
and petticoat, and seized and kissed
me twenty times, in spite of all the
resistance | could make, and then
cousin Molly. Hannah soon follow
ed, dressed in his coat. They joined
us in eating the apple pie, and then
went out. After this, we took it in
to our heads to want to eat oysters.
We got up, put on our wrappers,
and went down into the cellar to get
them. DO you think Mr.. Washing
ton did not follow us and scare us
just to death ? We went up, though,
and eat our oysters. We slept in
the old lady's room, too, and she sat
laughing fit to kill herself at us.
(Wonder where the pickles were ?)'


If this were not published i'll an
authoritative manner, we should
doubt it's authenticity. The idea of
George Washington dressed i'll a
woman's short gown and petticOat
going with another woman dressed
i'll his coat into the bedroom of some
young ladies who were sitting up in
bed at night eating bacon and beef,
sago cream and apple pie, and join
ing in the frolic, is something aston
ishing. Not satisfied with this, it
seems that when the young women
afterward went down to the cellar to
get some oysters to complete their
banquet, Washington followed them
and scared them nearly to death.
We are afraid that our stereotyped
conception of WashingtOn's charac-
ter will have to be considerably mod
flied by these revelations.
Year: 1871

According to sad juvenile expe-
rience, it takes ten boys on each
side to play base ball in Boston on
the Sabbath. Nine do the actual
play, and the additional boy looks
out for the police.
Year: 1871

The story that the New York Tri-
bune is having Mr.. Greeley's old
editorial manuscripts engraved as
maps of the seat of war is ridiculous
on the face Of it, when any one con-
siders that they can be put to ser
vice as new editorials by giving
them to fresh compositor to set
up the second time.
Year: 1871

The mosquitoes are so plentiful
in the Adirondacks that they can't
all get on a stranger at once, so they
stand around in reliefs and wait for
their turns, like customers in bar
Der shop. They exhaust a man in
three days, and then let him alone,
like a deserted Oil well, to accumu-
late more blood.
Year: 1871

A singular operation to save q
mans life-that of the TRANSMISSION
of blood from lamb to his body
is reported to have been performed
in Wilmington, Delaware, recently,
by Drs. King and Winants. The
subject was a colored man, an in
mate of the city hospital, who had
lately seemed in danger of death
FROM mere exhaustion. When laid
upon the table he was too weak to
talk, and appeared to have but a
few hours of life in him. When his
vein was opened, but one drop of
blood fell from it. The carotid ar
terry of the lamb was opened, and
the blood was forced from thence by
the palpitation of the animals heart,
through a small glass tube, into the
patients cephalic vein. In this way
about eight ounces of blood were
conveyed from the lamb to the man.
The operation was entirely satisfac-
tory in it's results, and the patient is
said to be doing very well.
Year: 1871

As time speeds on with relentless wing,


He brings change to all;
The daisies peep from the lap Of Spring,
! And oak leaves fade and fall.
The new grows old and the old departs,
And the years their cycles fill
The friend that is new may be kind and true
But give me the old friend still
The friend that loved when the Spring was


born,


That was true when a Summer died.
That was still unchanged through the ebb and


flow


OF Lifes unstable tide.
The flower that blooms in the suns warm ray
May fade when the night is chill;
The friend that is new may be kind and true,
But give me the old friend still
Ali give me clasp of the same warm hand
That I felt in the days OF yore;
And give me the heart that time has proved,
It's true to the utmost core.
For time speeds on and friends are few,
Who the void in the heart can fill
The friend that is new may be kind and true,
But give me the old friend still.
Year: 1871

A farmer residing at Glen Falls,
IN. Y, raised whirlWind the other
day after the following novel manner
1t demonstrates clearly the theory
and cause of the violent phenomena:


Wishing to burn a fallow of about
fifteen or twenty acres, he ignited the
bush at several places at outer edge.
The flames rushed toward the centre
and assumed a rotary motion, which
increased in velocity till a terrific
whirlwind was formed, which tore
up small trees, root and branch, and
frightened everybody who witnessed
it. A column Of smoke arose to so
great a heigh that it was visible for
many miles, and a noise as loud US
thunder accompanied this singular
phenomenon.