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Year: 1875

In PURCHASING YOUR DRY GOODS 1T IS TO
the interest of every one to purchase where the
most goods be had for the least money, provided
the qusnty Is as good. We recommend LEVY
BROTHERS as the place 10 max your purchases.
Year: 1875

ORCHARD GRASS. Two bushels of seed to
the acre IA pouuds TO the busheD is not too
much, but twenty pounds of nice clean seed
will insure good set. To SOW less than tweu-
ty pounds is penny wise and pound foolish, .
for less than twenty pounds will not produce
perfect sod, and all the ground not sodded over
is, of course lost. | believe August to be the
best time for sowing orchatd grass. l sowed
this year small lot in August to rye and or
ohard grass. About the twenty-6fth of next
April shall NOW the rye, which will make a
6ne lot of feed, and by moving 80 early, it will
not interfere with the grass, aud will protect 1t
during the winter. believe this to be even
better than sowing the grass alone. Most farm.
ers wish to SOW grass seed with wheat or oats.
If orchard grass is sown with either of these,
it should be sown in March, | soil all my stock
and consider orchard grass the best of all grass
es for soling, tor the following reason Its
earliness, ateness rapidity of growth, and the
preference stock have for it. All these quail
ties confined make it the best of all grasses
for soiIlDg. Il docs not make as much feed as
corn fodder but it does not require the work
that corn fodder does, and you are obliged to
manure your corn fodder land to keep it up,
while orchard grass improves land every year.
Stock never tire of the grass as they do OF the
fodder. If sowu about the first OF March, 1t Is
not necessary to harrow the seed 10 although
light narrowing will do 20 harm.
Year: 1875

To PRESERVE Milk. Provide bottles, which
must be perfectly clean, sweet aud dry. Put
the milk warm from the COW into these bottles,
and, as they are filled, Immediately cork them
up and tasten the cork With wire. Then spread
little straw on the bolom of boiler, oD
which place the bottles, with straw between
them. Fill it up with cold water. Heat the
water, and as soon as it begins to boil draw
the FIRE aud let the whole gradually cool. When
quite cool take out the bottles, pack them
away in sawdust and put them away in cool
place, but where the milk will not freeze. Milk
preserved 10 this way will keep perfectly sweet
for years.
Year: 1875

A New York correspondent of tho
Boston Transcript writes: "The story
of Miss Ward, who was on the eve
other marriage, is most remarkable.
1t was but half an hour before the
ceremony, and many Of the guests
had assembled. She had beautiful
and rich white satin wedding dress
made, covered with costly lace. A
servant was instructed to hang IL in
8 closet opening from her bo,dar.
The closet door was closed. and tho
bride commenced her toilet for tho
wedding. Everything had been
completed, and nothing remained 10
be done save the putting on Of the
wedding dress. The closet door was
opened, when 10 the beautiful dress
had turned 10 dust and ashes A care.
less spark had somehow fallen into
the lace and consumed the costume.
Other things in the closet were found
to be on fire and had to be thrown
out of a window 10 save the house.
The poor bride .to-be was heartbrokeD.
What could be done? Finally some
one remembered that sister Of Miss
Wards's had been married two years
before and that she had not cut up
her weddingdress. This was hur-
ridly brought from its hiding place
and the poor bride was married in
her sisters weddingdress."
Year: 1875

The worst had come at last and
with a face white and rigid as a corpse,
Alice staggered back to the sofa, and
lay for a long time in a state of I'm
conciousness. But the future must be
met, and after the first shock was over,
she reused herself and tried to an
swer the question, show" 1t was
necessary that she should find .ome-
thing to do without delay, or she
would be homeless and starving. and
after several Intellectual attempts at
something better, she was obliged to
accept the only work that offered it.
Year: 1875

tained that great care should be eXer-
cised in regard to this matter. In
some instances it has been attempted
to feed poultry on large scale in
France on hurse-llesh, and although
thcv dcvour this substance very
grecdily, it has been found to give
them a very unpleasant flavor The
best fattenIng for chickens is said to
be Indian corn meal and milk and
certain large poultry establishments
in France use this entirely, to the
advantage both of the flesh and eggs


The stem Of the American wild
rice, /tzdntd aquattc0. is now coming
extensively into use as a material COR
paper pulp, yielding, as it does, fully
as much Of the raw material as the
esparto, and being comparatively free
from silicates. The paper made from
this substance is quite as strong and
as flexible as that from rags, while it
is easily bleached, economical in
respect to chemicals, pure in color,
and remarkably free from specks and
blem;shes.
Year: 1875

1t is generally expected that the
daughters Of farmers will help their
mothers. If they do not, there are
at least two reasons which nav be
given-one is that the mothers, prefer
10 do the work themselves, and let the
girls do nothing, and the other, that
the latter are unwilling 10 90 into the
kitchen or dairy. Now, there is
wrong in both, if it is true as above
stated. There is nothing more con-
ducive to health than the ordinary
houscwork upon farm. | say oyIt-
nary, because anything that involves
heavy lifting should never be required
of woman. The art of making
good bread is rare accomplishment,
and requires as much good sense and


application as the ability to play the
guitar or pianotorte.


\ gain, after the h0usework is done
for the day, much can be done by the
girls tow ards cultivating flowers in
the door-yard. In a village, or city
the lots are often SO small that no
room is Afforded for flowers. On the
farm there is always :oom enough.
and no excuse can he offered why
they should not be cultivated. There
is not only the satisfaction Of seeing
the beautiful mound. aud borders, but
the care requisite in training them has
a tendency 10 cultivate a correct taste
in everything else If the front yard
looks nicely, the house will be apt to
present the same appearance. Flow
crS outside will stimulate taste for
pictures inside the house. There is
nothing which produces so favorable
impressions upon pasSer by, as to
see flowers growing in front of a farm
house. There is no way in which
farm house can be made to resemble
city residence better than to devote
space to the cultivation Of flowers
and ornamental shrubs. Again, there
is no better way for the girls to rem
der the farm home attractive to their
brothers, than to secure their concur
renee in the cultivation of a flower
garden. a taste for flowers, will tend
to render tie boys more gentle, and
filter companions for their sisters.
They will be less disposed to wander
off upon the bills with gun in hand,
ii the Young ladies will seek to render
home attractive.


Muct might lie added 20 the fore
going remarks, but this article is al
ready too long for these colums.-
OR Home JOuyp0I.
Year: 1875

/ TO One-half ounce of white, hard
varnish, add two ounces of methylated
, spirit. Shake up well, and allow it to
settle for an hour or two. Clean very
carefully plate of glass and coat
with the varnish. When dry, semi
Opaque fila of exquisite liueness will
be left OH the glass, which answers
well as a substitute for grinding the
glass.


USEFUL PEEFUME-A very pleas
ant perfume, and also a preventive
against moths, may be made of the
following ingredients : Take of cloves,
caraway seeds. nutmeg, mace, CHINA
mon and Tonquin beans, Of each an
ounce then add as much Florentine
orris root as will equal the other IN
gradients put together. Grind the
whole wei to powder, and then put
it in little bags among clothes, etc.


To CLEAN PAINTINGs.-T remove
hy-specks from paintings without in
iuring, dip soft rag in iine'y-powder-
ed and weIl-sifted Spanish white and
rub the surface Of the canvas gently
with ii. This will remove the smoke,
dust and grease. Then wash the
surface with hardly tep;d, clean water
by means Of soft sponge, and rub
the surface dry ly means of piece
Of soft chamois leather The colors
appear as fresh as when the painting
was new.


SCARLET RED.-Takc soft water
sufficient to cover the cloth or yarn
you wish to color; bring it to boiling
heat in a copper or brass kettle /; then
add one ounce and half of cream Of
tartar for every pound Of cloth now
boil minute or two and then add
two ounces of powdered lac and three
ounces of madder compound (the lac
and compound must be previously
mixed in glass or earthcn bowD;
boil five minutes; now wet the yarn
in warm water and wiring il aud put
il in the dye; boil the whole nearly
an hour, take the yarn or cloth out
and rinse it in clear cold water.


a nice waterproof paper, transpar-
ent and imrervious to grease, is OBJ
tained by soaking good paper in an
aqueous solution of shellac in borax.
1t resembles parchment paper in some
respects If the aqueous solution is
colored with aniliine colors, very
handsome paper for artificial flowers
is procured.


AS it is often desired, to write the
message on postal cards with invisi-
Die ink, We may state that ordinary
lemon juice makes pretty legible
ink, sulphuric acid diluted with 20
parts of water makes black ink.
Both these fluids dry leaving hardly
any perceptible marx on the card,
while slight heat will bring the
words out.
Year: 1875

From the Virginia (Ncy) Enterprise


a butcher Of this city, who is the
inventor of new kind of sausage,
containing vast amount Of nutri-
nient in Il greatly condensed form,
named the same the "Multum in
Parvo sausage" \ few davs since
he employed Il painter to paint him a
sign bearing the above name, to be
erected in front of his market.
Yesterday the sign was completed
and brought to the butcher for bis
acceptance. Judge of the surprise
and Indignation of the inventive
butcher, whcn he fully realized that
the great flaming vernilion and blue
letters on the sign before him read /:
Mutton in Porkp sausage" The
painter swore that that was what the
butcher told him to put on the sign,
and said that be Thought it very
appropriate name" When the painter
said this, the butcher seized IA cleaver,
and it took three nien to hold him, so
desirous was he of splitting open the
head Of the poor trembling artist"
Year: 1875

One of the great benefits of having good
wharves and wharf room is made manifest
in the case of the steamship Guillermo,
which vessel having been chartered in Ha-
vana to load cotton at this port for Europe,
arrived at Quarantine six days ago. While
lying out the balance of the ten days re-
quired by law, and undergoing the proper
process of fumig at;on, one thousand bales
of cotton was received upon the wharf
allotted to her, the bills of lading signed,
and the shipper enabled to draw upon the
consignee the same as though it were on
shipboard; thus helping the community at
large, from the producer all along the line.
Three months ago there were only four
wharves in the city capable of holding up
q thousand bales of cotton.
Year: 1875

As soon as the fast mail system becomes
a certainty with us, a new reason will be
given why the cheap news and periodical
depot of Charles Staub, at Goldthwaite's
bookstore, No. So Canal street, should be
extensively patronized. He now keeps on
hand stock of publications equal to any
emergency, but is constantly studying how
he can better suit the tastes of his patrons.
He permits no one to outdo him in enter
prise, or to sell cheaper than he does.
Year: 1875

hero; his glory was in their keeping; in
their affection and admiration he could be
promoted no higher. Mr.. Welles might
have written more than he writes now in
praise of Faragut. lie says the capture Of
New Orleans was a victory for the navy,
and we all say SO without detractng from
the honers earned by General Butler in
afterward ruling the city and guarding the
flag replanted here bv the naval forces
Year: 1875

THE portraiture of COL Lamar by q


political foe, in the Milwaukee News.


(Republican) will be read with interest.
his emnently successful Congressional
career is due to his perfect apprehension
OF the situation, his recognition of the
changes wrought by the war, and his
capacity to fall in with surrounding cir.
cumstances and turn them to the hest ac-
count for the people of the South. With
out compromising their dignity, he has,
by course of mingled courtesy and firm
ness, conciliated and won the respect of
her foes. They have recognized in him
a true knight who did his fighting when
the war was raging, and who, since its
termination, has made it a point of honor
10 yield gracefully to the decree rendered
by the supreme tribunal of nations.
Year: 1875

New YoRW, June lO-At the session
Of the General Synod Of the German Re.
formed Church this morning, in Jersey
City, the subject Of the financial condition
Of the Church in Chicago was brought up,
and resolutions adopted insiructing tho
committee to go into the Methodist or
Presbyterian Church and get some Cncr.
gctic minister who would bring the
Church out Of its troubles,
Year: 1875

MANY who are suffering from the effects of the
warm weather and are dcblitiated are advised by
physicians to take moderate amounts Of whisky
two or three times during the day In little while
those who adopt this advice frequently increase
the number of " drinks,' and in time become con-
hrmed incbriates. A beverage which will no
create thirst for intoxicating liquors, and whice
is inteded especially for the benefit CT debllitaed
persons, whether at home or abroad, ia DR..
SchencKs Tea Weed Tonic, Containing the juices
of many medicinal herbs, this preparation does not
create an appetite for the Intoxicating cup. The
nourlshing and the life-supportug properties OF
many valuable natural productions contained in it
and we'll known tomedical men have a most
strengthening influence, a single bottle of the
Tonic will demonstrate ius valuable qualities
For debility arising from sickness over exertion OF
from any cause whatever, wincglassful OF Ses
Weed Tonic taken after meals will strengthen the
stomach and create an appetite for wholesome food
To all who are about leaving their homes, We
desire TO say that the excellent effects OF Dr.
Scheuck's seasonable remedies, Sea Weed Tonic
and Mandrake Pills, are particu AIRY evident wheI
taken by those who are injuriously affected DIV
change Of water and diet, No derson should leay'
home without taking supply OF these sateguard
along. For sale by all Druggists
Year: 1875

Tom Sanders, Of Buffalo. owns
little, law, slow mare. that is the rid
icule Of his friends One recent eve-
ming he and some of these friends
were talking OF horses. when he as
tonishcd them by offering To bet one
hundred dollars that he could ride
his mare twenty miles in an hour
He counted out the money in tan.
talizing way, remarking that his mare
had been laughed at long enough,
aud he had made up his mind to
show what she could do. 1t seemed
Ike rohbipg him. so they all said, to
take his bet: but he insisted. and the
stakes were lut into trustworthy
hands. \ day was chosen for trial,
and when il came Tom led them to
the Central railroad depot, where the
homely little mare was found aboard
a baggage car. Tom had ,icketed
her for Rochester by express, and
when the train was ready to start he
got on her back, smiling triumphant
ly. He said he reckoned that he
could ride that way twenty miles in
an hour, unless the time table lied
Away went the train, with the referee
holding the watch. and the three fell
lows who had joined in the bet
against the mare very sorrowfuily of
expression About fifteen miles had
been run IN about half an hour, and
Tom was gr.nning in anticipation of
easy victory. when the car bumped
over something, and he was thrown
off the mare, by hastily applied air
brakes. An axle had broken, and the
train was stopped for more than an
hour. AID Tom was no: so rueiul
over the loss Of the stakes and the
failure of his trick, as he was over his
stupidity in not thinking Of taking
the mare of the ears and riding the
rest of the twenty miles. as there had
been ample timg' to do within tho
h hour.
Year: 1875

Medicine never did and never can cure
dyspepsia; the true remedy is to eat less
and less at each meal until no discomfort
is felt afterward continue tins for q
short time, and then gradually increase
the amount eaten, as a convalescent
gradually increases exercise or labor III
proportion to the gradually increasing
strength; but as often as discomfort fol-
lows after eating-that is, any feeling or
sensation which attracts the attention IN
pleasantly--dim diminish the food TO the
equisite amount, as be fore stated. This
is the true key to the alienation and cure
of our national disease, dyspepsia.


While eating too much causes one case
of dyspepsia, eating too often causes a
hundred, If not ten thousand. Some of
the Indian trappers IN the Rocky Moan-
tains rise early, hunt all day for their
game, come TO camp at night, eat six or
seven pounds OF meat, lie down TO sleep,
and live hundred years. An old beau
in the Federal city, in Henry Clay time,
attended every party to which he was in
vited; but If, at any time, he was unex-
pectedly called after his regular meal, he
would go, help himself bountifully, but
would not eat anything next day, SO as
to average only one meal in twenty-four
hours. He lived beyond fourscore, a
lively, Joyous cold boy"


Greenland is not depopulated; yet the
Esquimaux eat once day, or week, or
more, five, ten, yes, twenty pounds of
provisions at single meal; and some
times, when they have strength to eat no
longer, some one puts the food in their
mouths for them. One man is reported
to have gone to sleep with part of sau-
sage hanging out of his mouth.


The place where the greatest number
of persons are cured of dyspepsia is in
the penitentiary; where they eat plenti-
fully, but not often; not "tit bits, not
the wing of a sucking dove," butplain,
nutritious food; no bitters, no tonics, no
liquor. This is most suggestive.


No child, no one, man or woman, is
well who comes TO the breakfast table
without an appetite. If this happens
only occasionally, it is ground for dis
quietude, and if habitual for young girls
1t is ground for alarm, because it is very
sure to be followed by cold feet, head
ache, chilliness, the forerunners of
troublesome ailments always, and some
times of incurable disease.


There can be but little doubt that the
dyspeptics of the nation would be dimin-
ished one-half in a few years if children
were not sent to school until seven years
Year: 1875

to yourself, and, / am equally certain,
some annoyance to your landlady, would
help the relief society more by keeping
your washerwoman beyond the need OF
It's help, by giving her honest pay fol
the only part of her work on which she
makes any real profit, than to put it into
the soup-house fund to help you don't
know who, or how needy or deserving
they really are? Don't you see that you
take honest bread to give to possible i'm
posters Z"


But, Miss Bryant, don't you ap
prove of the bazarl Don't you think
the soup-house is a good thing? 2"


" Yes, the strikers think so, feeling
sure that their families will be helped
while they fight their employers. The
frontier towns think SO when they have
foreign invasions of needy adventurers
One who has depended on the soup-house
will depend again ; and you do much tc
encourage vice and idleness. No, girls
Have your bazar. Enjoy yourselves,
make yourselves pretty, and have yoru
good time. God bless you all But
while You are doing it, don't discharge
the music teacher and teach the little
sisters if you can afford to pay her, fol
she has mother to support, or somebody
else nor do unsuitable work and make
yourself i'll when the fee for one doctors
visit will be godsend to some pool
woman glad of the job. If you are rich
enough to be generous, You can be hon
est, and help others to be. If you econ
omize, try to do it all yourself don't
crowd another's place. Don't try tc
teach, and take the place of poorer
girl who could do it just as well, or bet
ter, who lives on it, while you only buy
ribbons with the money"


But the example,"


Fudge ls Burchell says. People
who are needy don't want your example
they want your place. Your room III the
army of teachers is 1ar better than youi
company. Now, there is a large class OF
people born and bred to better days who
will grow very cold and feel very hungry
and never tell anybody, who viii always
be decent and pinched and patient, and
hold it is the business of good Chris
tians to help these, and help them with
honest pay for honest work, and with
such timely help, delicately offered, as
will confirm them i'll their own self-rc-
spect."


This was quite n speech for Miss Bry-
ant. But the result was seen for al
though not nearly so many persons
"donated work or articles as were
asked to do SO, so much was paid out for
such offices that there were not so very
many poor folks to help that winter, for
Freeville is only a small place, after all.


And the young folks had a glorious
good time, and will talk of it for years to
come.
Year: 1875

Don't be in too great a hurry;
Hurries never pay.
Take your time a wary general
Always feels his way.
Do not pull your line too quickly;
Rather give II play.
Take her sometimes TO a concert
Sometimes TO ball;
Sometimes spend pleasant evening"
Sonnet mes only call
Sometimes twill be far the wisest
Not to go at all
Do not meet your would-Le-rivals
With Jealous frown;
Show her that you don't care twopence
For any man in town.
Praise her other beaux then surely
She will run them down.
Send her presents-not too costly,
Tri1es light az air;
Dainty fruits to please her palate
Flowers for her hair
Something that will show you chose it
Fairest for the fair.
Vex her sometimes constant sunshine
IL SO very talne);
just little dash of water


Brightens up flame
Love that doesn't fiZZ and splutter
Isn't worth the namer
Then, at last, some quiet evening
(Moonlit nights are stale),
Drop into her cosy parlor,


Looking rather pale.
Strive TO hide your woe unuttered,
But be sure to fan.
Just hint n distant journey
As a secret half-confessed,
Darkly speak of hidden sorrow,
That forbids you rest;
Whisper that Ills hard 20 leave her,
But perhaps It's best.
Then if she should blush and tremble
With shy surprise
II there IL no roguish sparkle
Twinkling in her eyes
Then-then tell the old, old story
Told first meath Edens skies.
Year: 1875

On day fixed, order being previously
given, the police of Munich seize every
beggar of every kind in the streets, and
convey all, bodily, to a large manufac-
tory, the character of which is, in fact,
that of a workhouse, with, however, the
valuable addition of military discipline.
Once secured within the new military
workhouse, the beggars are washed,
dressed, and fed given free permission
to stay or go, as they please but to eat
the excellent dinner provided at tho
workhouse, they must do the work for
which alone that dinner is the recon-
pense. AS proof of the success of tho
system, it may be mentioned that in five
years time the institution was realizing
nearly 81 900 per annum. But what was
that The real glory lay in the fact that
a vicious, idle race of beings, who were
numbered by thousands, even in so"
small a city as Munich, were gradually
converted into honest workmen ; wero'
instructed in religion, and raised in.
moral character; while the citizens wero
relieved of what had been tax on them
purses and tempers alike.
Year: 1875

of age, and were not allowed to eat any
thing between the three regular meals of
the day, except an apple or an orange.
The subject merits the thoughtful con
sideration of every conscientious parent.
Mothers especially are under great re
sponsibilities i'll this connection. DR.
INN