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Year: 1873

LIFE IN New YoRK.-Under the most
favorable circumstances one-half the world is
not said to know how the other half lives.
Certain it is that to most of the New York
world, say nine-tenths of it, the published
discoveries of the Sanitary Squad who have
been exploring the underground dwellings of
the Sixth and Fourth wards bring revelations
ofsqualor, filth and degradation hardly possible
to believe. We are told of people living in
cellars unfit for the habitation Of the meanest
brutes, and Of heavy rentals for these dens
flowing into the pockets of people who per-
chance dwell in brown stone fronts, wear
costly clothes, and, mayhap, echo the Phari-
sale selflaudatory thanks to the Diety that
they are not as the sinner and the laboring
man. There were found rooms below the
street level, seven feet by five, where one hun.
dred and sixty cubic feet of such poisoned air
as only could penetrate thither was all that
each lodger could get, while above ground
three thousand cubic feet is only deemed a
fair allowance. One man was found bur-
rowing at depth of fifteen feet below the
surface, and, out Of respect to the inalienable
rights Of man, he was left undisturbed. He
took no dodgers had free mans privilege
to sufocate himself; and to-day he enjoys his
independence in his hole, as woodchuck
possibly might Where these noxious cellars
were used for lodgings, as was the common
case, they were emptied and closed by the
police, and the inmates enjoined to find more
wholesome quarters somewhere else, usually
very much to their disgust and amid loud and
profane protests against their ejectment.
This action of the health officers has long been
needed. Only actual force will prevent the
owners of the rat holes in the lower part of
the city from letting them as human habita-
tions-N. y Herald.
Year: 1873

only two pence sterling. At first applied to
worthless coin the word became the general
title of anything false or counterfeit


"The sign wiz signifying to wit, or name
ly, is all abbreviation of 'videlicet;' but the
third letter was not originally z; it was the
mark used in medicine for drachm, which
in writing much resembles z, and in viz was
simply used as mark or sign Of abbrevia-
fion
Year: 1873

An ingenious yankee, who possesses more
impudence than common sense, and greater
fertility of the brain than may be pleasant to
communicate, recently paid prospecting visit
to Warren, Granville, Franklin and Wake
counties North Carolina, and thus writes to
gentleman in Raleigh after his return home.
Hear him and take lesson from his plans
and surmises, as published in one of the Raj.
eigh papers:


ASTORIA, N. Y, May 13, 1873.


Dear Sir Since my return from the Old
North State, have made discovery, put it
into practical demonstration and taken out
patent for the same And without some un.
foreseen accident, anticipate working up
wonders claim to have successfully accom-
plished what no other man has ever attempted
or even thought of viz: converting cotton,
your North Carolina staple, into one of the
most nutritious articles of food ever used.
Two years since the idea would have been
ridiculous and the mere suggestion of such
thing consigned its author to a seat among
the fools. But I care nothing for the past
and only look to the present and future, and
will, to your entire satisfaction, prove all that
1 claim for this wonderful discovery, and will
keep pace with the rapid strides to improve.
ment, and supply your peoples wants or die
in the attempt. Cotton has heretofore been
worked only into fabrics for the back, and in
many instances, as you we'll know, leaving the
stomach empty, showing among your good peo-
pie an uncomfortable prejudice to the making
and having something to eat. Now ifthey will,
in the future, as they have in the past, ,fgidly
stick to this plan, then my fortune is made, and
in few years can count my wealth by the
million, if not by billions. While honorably
enriching me and mine, I can save from certain
starvation and famine, thousands Of the best
people on Gods green earth. My assertions
are broad and may appear to you overdrawn,
but let me ask you, can people live and -four.
ish, who have entirely ignored the making of
anything in the way of food for man and
beast, and will hunt down and destroy the
last stalk of clover or blade of grass like they
would poisonous serpent?


Every acre of land, poor or rich, is now
spread in this one article, cotton your ruin and
my saviour. On this folly propose making
my fortune, and will again be among you be-
fore the coming Fall. Having had my pro-
cess patented, feel no hesitancy in giving it
to you, and you are at liberty to use it in any
way you may deem best to further my interest
In brief I give you my formula, then you can
Year: 1873

q M ips'


SODA (Bl-CarD) ~ los.


Gum Arabic Powdered '.."......." lbs.


BOILING gal.


Mix the whole in vat and let it stand six
or eight hours. Then run it through ma
chine similar to that used for carding wool.
This thoroughly mixes the mass, and prepares
it for the press. 1t next goes through asmall-
er machine, which cuts it into one lb. rolls,
and sends it into the press at lightning speed.
In the press it is packed and shaped into
loaves much resembling bakers bread and
about the size, shape and color. 1t is now
ready for use, hot or cold, and will keep in
any climate, and under any circumstances.


At Castle Garden, N. Y, last week, I fed
several hundred half starved Chinese emf
grants, who are all now living, well and hear
ty. Their interpreter tells me that they like
the cotton food much, saying it is good, sweet
and lasting, but little too binding.


To remedy the binding part have added
the Palma Christi seed and it now acts like a
charm. I would here say that these poor dev.
lis not having ate any thing in thirty-six hours,
ate an over allowance--but it did them no
harm-many Of them went to sleep and re-
9uired nothing else to eat in three or four
days. Ihave contracted with the department
to start small factory out west to ration the
Indian prisoners, but this will not in any way
interfere with my operations in Carolina, and
before ninety days 60 by I will have big
factory running in or near the city of Raleigh,
knowing that the time is fast approaching
when the cotton food in North Carolina will
be in great demand all of which respectful
ly submit for your kind consideration and ap-
proval, always relying on your judgment in
such matters. If am premature in my plans
you will please feel no hesitancy in saying so,
as shall never act contrary to your advice.
Write me in full and believe me oneever ready
to further the advancement of science, allevi-
ate human suffering, and last, but not least,
advance the interest of your FRIEND.


REMARKs-We give a genuine CO letter
received by gentleman in this city from a
man near the city of New York. Whether he
really has on foot the plans he mentions or at
tempts to ridicule our insane desire to make
cotton, we are at loss to tell. Be it as it
may, we advise every farmer to run over the
article and judge for himself. While we have
been raised in cotton country, and feel the
Importance Of makingit, we deprecate the ex-
clusion of all other products, and feel no hes.
tancy in saying that if we stick to cotton and
cotton alone, it will result in our ruin, it mat
ters not what nrica If hrinos
Year: 1873

PEORIA, March % "A German ma
med Kra zer, a cooper by trade, com
milted suicide yesterday by shooting
himself through the body with a shot
gun. When discovered he was laying
m bed with the muzzle OF the gun
against his breast. and loot on the trig-
ger, indicating the manner OF his death


Family troubles and whisky the cause.
Year: 1873

When q farmer knows that gate is better,
and as time and labor saving fixture, cheaper
than set of bars and posts, and without call
ing on carpenter he can himself make one
why don't he do it


When he has no other fastenings to his gate
and barn doors than stone rolled against them,
and in single evening after supper, is able to
make better one-why don't he do it?


Or when he sees the boards dropping from
his barn and out buildings, and like heaps OF
rubbish lying in piles about the premises, and
need only mailing on again why don't he do it


Or if be is afraid of the expenses of nails,
and is always crying up the maxim of DR..
Franklin, ''save the pence, and pounds will
take care of themselves, and he knows tina!
the same DR.. Franklin also said that many
men are penny wise and pound foolish" and
he does not care to think OF the precept con-
tanned in the latter-why don't he do it?


If he knows that many of his fields would be
greatly improved by dtching, and by the re-
moval Of stumps and stones-why don't ne dc
it? :,


And when he knows that his pasture would
yield nearly double the feed, and OF better
quality, if the bushes were all cut and sub
dued d-why don't he do 1t?


And if he can add fifty per cent to the pro-
duct of his farm by the use Of gypsum why
cont he do it?


IF he can enhance the value of his dwelling
ten fold and the comfort of his family hun
dred fold by small expenditure-why don'i
he do it?


If keeping good fences make gentle stock
and good neighbors- why don't he do it?


PAY Up!-Pay up! If you have money pass
it along. Haul out the old purse, and hand
over the dollar; you owe it; it is not yours
pay it! Don't know when you'll ever see an
other dollar? Well, perhaps you never ought
to see another till you learn what money il
made for, and cease to hoard it up. But wheth-
er you ever see another dollar or not, this one
is not yours, that is clear if you owe it for al
honest debt. Pass it along pay your debts anc
trust in God to bring it back again in His owr
good time. Money is made to be used, and the
way to use it is to pay your debts. A few dol
lars used in good community will pay the
debts and leave everybody clear, and with as
much as they had at the beginning few dol
lars boarded makes everybody trouble, anC
does no ore any good.
Year: 1873

Men often speak Of good manners as an ac-
complishment. | speak of them as duty
What, then, are good manners? Such man
ners as take away rudeness and remit to the
brute creation all coarseness. There are great
many who feel that good manners are effemi-
nate They have feeling that rude bluntness
is great deal more manly than good manners.
1t is great deal more beastly. But when
men are crowded into communities the art of
living together is no small art. How to dimin-
ish friction how to promote ease OF inter-
course how to make every part OF mans
life contribute to the welfare and satisfaction
of those around him. how to keep down often
sive pride; how to Danish the raspings of sell
fishness from the intercourse of men; how to
move among men inspired by various and con-
ficting motives, and yet not have collisions
this is the function of good manners.


1t is not effeminate to be refined And in
this land no man should plead inability. There
may be peasantry in other countries: there
may be class in foreign lands who have no
opportunities; there may be those whose toll
is so continuous, whose opportunities for know
Ing what constitutes good manners are so few,
and whose ignorance is so gross that they are
excusable; but this is not the case with any
within the sound of my voice.


/ affirm for every American citizen the right
to be net simply man, but good-mannered
man.


Not only is the violation of good manners in
excusable on ordinary grounds, but it is sinful.
When, therefore, parents and guardians and
teachers would inspire the young with desire
for the manners of good society, it is not to be
thought that they are accomplishments which
may be accepted or rejected. Every man is
bound to observe the laws of poiteness. 1t is
the expression of goodwill and kindness. 1t
promotes both beauty in the man who possesses
it, and happiness in those who are about him.
1t is religious duty, and should be part of re-
| lgious training
Year: 1873

Or all the epidemic diseases that spread
terror and desolation over the earth, no
one is SO much dreaded as the yellow
fever. A large percentage of those att
tackled do not recover, and since it is high
ly contagious, the unhappy victims are
often left to face death alone. Sometimes
they are deserted by their nearest friends,
the instinct of self-preseryation proving
stronger than the ties Of consanguinity and
affection. just now the people Of Shreve-
port, La, are experiencing the horrors of
this terrible epidemic. All communion
ton with the city by public conveyances
has been stopped, and a dispatch received
last night informs us Of the death of a tel
egraph operator, and the mortal illness Of
one Of the telegraph managers, so that it
is quite possible that even this means Of
learning the condition of the plague-strlck-
en- community will be cut off. The yellow
fever has also made its appearance at Mem
phis. .s .. gs'
Year: 1873

ANOTHER GENEVA AWARD. The
dissolute old Duke of Brunswick has made
d strange--that is for him strange--use of
the immense fortune whichhe had accumu-
lated during his long life. Nobody knows
precisely how much money he left behind
him, but the amount is varously estimated
between three hundred and five hundred
millions of francs. He had bequeathed
the whole of this immense estate to the
city of Geneva by the terms of his will,
which have recently been made known.
True, when the war and the Communist
rebellion drove HIM from Paris, which was
Paris to him no longer when shot and shell
and armed men took the place of the
luxurious pleasures which he had lived
since his duchy was absorbed into Prussia,
he retired to the Swiss metropolis, and it
gave him shelter until the day ofhis death,
but il might have been thought that there
was little in that moral city, whose life is
still tinctured with the ascetic morality OF
Calvin, to make it dear to the heart of the
old roue. Geneva is literally suffering
from its embarrassment Of riches. Ii is
difficult to say what disposition shall be
made Of the vast legacy. The benefactor
is to be honored with splendid mauso-
leum, but that will absorb but an infini-
tesimal tithc of the amount. Fgg
Year: 1873

The NEW RESERVOIR BUILDING
The addition to the reservoir building, some
forty by sixty feet, at the west end, is pro-
crossing satisfactorily. The basement, of
James river granite, has been laid, and the
superstructure of brick is nearly completed.
A very powerful turbine wheel has been
fixed in position, and the accessories to
make it effective are being supplied with
all due haste. The site for the proposed
addition to the reservoir has not yet been
definitely determined on. 3G 2
Year: 1873

REAL ESTATE. All real estate whose
owners have not paid the taxes thereon
will be sold to satisfy the same at the sew
eral November and December courts.
Parties owning this sort of property had
better ante up and save trouble.
Year: 1873

ARCHBISHOP BAYLEY, of Baltimore,
has made very sensible suggestion with
reiei ence to the liqour question, and one
which is specially interesting as showing
how a prelate would interfere with intem-
perance. The position which he assumes
is that any real good government would
enforce an inspection of liquors or stop
their sale altogether. By inspection he
means not q gauger's inspection, but a
technical analysis, which would at
once expose the poisonous compounds
with which liquors are adulterated,
and which are responsible, not only for
the quality deleterious to health, but, to
"a large extent, for that influence which
maddens and demonizes men and leads
them to the commission Of crime. There
can be very little doubt that law which
would enforce such an inspection as this
and punish its violator by confscating and
destroying his liquors, with the additional
penalty of fine and imprisonment, would
60 far towards reducing the present increase
Of crime. 1t is at least much more
practical idea than the theory that men can
be legislated sober.
Year: 1873

+ LAKEWOOD CEMETERY.-Whi so
much is being done for the west end Of the
city we hope that the council will not for
get that the eastern portion of our town
has an equal claim on its benefcent regard
The people want awide-paved or macadam-
lied street OF road leading from the west
brow of Church Hill into Oakwood Gene.
terry, and agitation will not cease until they
get it. eri
Year: 1873

MIsCHIEvoUsNEss THAT SHOULD BE
UNIsHED.--Sunday night last party of
young men, who were evidently on drum
ken tare, tore down the sign Of Main
street merchant and threw it in the street,
Such miscreants as these certainly deserve
punishment; for, Independent of the loss
sustained by the merchant of his sign.
which was very valuable, as it was re-
yolying one, they are gross violators of the
Sabbath. We understand that the police
have a clue to these parties, and possibly
at an early day they will meet their re-
ward at the hands of justice.
Year: 1873

The dusky maidens of the forest, says
the Reese River (Nevada) Reveille, are
heavy on calico, and whenever one OF
them cleans up on protracted wash
ing lob, or makes winning at Indian
poker, she rushes directly to dry goods
store and makes an inyegtment in calico
of glaring colors. She is always accom-
panied by a band of red sisters, and as
soon as the purchase is completed the
whole band squat down on the sidewalk
and the fortunate squaw proceeds to the
manufacture of the garment. The In
dian women hereabouts ply The needle
deftly, and it is study towatch group
sitting on the sidewalk during the opera
ton Of making dress. They chatter
along Just the same as white women in
sewing circle, ana Rc euppose sling
scandal as lively as church members at
at tea party. Even casual observer
can detect an expression of envy on the
faces of those less fortunate squaws who
do not possess the wherowith to indulge
ia new calico.
Year: 1873

A London letter says of the late Lord
Westbury: Not long since he addressed
the peers as your lordships who are
still BY courtesy called learned, and
when he 6rst entered the House Of Lerds
the late Lord Derby had to remind him
that the Assembly was not used to such
a style of Language as he had adopted.
In consultation with another barrister he
said. You had better turn this over
again in what you are pleased to call
your mind He was keen and singu-
larly lucid speaker, and went straight at
the heart Of a subject, but he was, per
hans, more Ingenious than sound as a
Judge. One Of his most famous deci-
sioas vas that 10 favor Of the theological
essays and reviews which saade 30 much
stir a dozen years ago. A sarcastic cpl
tsph, composed about that time, thus
commemorated him: he abolished hell
with costs. and took away from pious
members ofthe Church Of England their
last hope Of everlasting damnation.
Year: 1873

The depression in dry goods aud the man-
ufActuring interests begin to tell how se-
verely regular business is strai1ed to sup
port tha unhealthy activity rported on the
Stock Exchange. Greenbacks are still at
q premium of sal per cent, owing to the
SLOW absorption of the loan certificates,
which it will take a month to clear out of
the way at the present rate. The slight
improvement in foreign exchange, is the
best feature of the day, as it indicates some
increased ability to move crops.
Year: 1873

Our Legislature has passed a Joint
resolution requesting Gov Washburn to
open correspondence with the authorities
of the State of New York for the pur-
pose CT finding out at what price they
will sell the canal from Buffalo to Alba.
ny, provided the same is made free from
all tolls; that he shall transmit the in
formation to the Governors of Ohio
Indiana. Illinois, Minnesota. Iowa and
massachusetts,, and snch other persons
as he may deem proper, inviting them to
COOP crate in the Effort to purchase the
said canal; and that he be requested
to report such correspondence To The
next Legislature with his views thereon


This action will interest all those in
our State who understand how important
it is TO the prosperity Of Wisconsin, in
common with the whole Northwest, to
secure cheaper aud greater facilities for
the movement Of produce eastward We
do not aplreheud ally inime diate p!acti-
cal results from this measure, but it may
be the means of opening the way to
lower tolls, if not the abolition of tolls
upon the Erie Canal A good deal has
been SAID in regard to the making of
this canal free, and it is not impossible
that this movement may prove to be
the inst practical measure in that direc-
ton Wisconsin
Year: 1873

The following is an extract from an
in the London (England) Farmer -


For storing eggs very good plan is to
have large board pierced with holes in
regular rows. Many breeders keep them
In bran and this latter method is, perhaps,
best for those meant only to be eaten, but
for setting hens the pierced board has
many obvious conveniences. They should
be ALWAYS kept with the large end down.
wards. This direction being exactly con-
trary to that usually given, we should
state that our attention was first called
specially to the subject by a most intelli-
gent lady, who advocated this plan, alleg-
ing as the probable reason of its superior
ity, keeping eggs ON the small end APP
pears to me to cause the air buble to spread,
detaching it from the shell, or rather from
its membranous lining, and, after being
kept so for fortnight, the air-bubble will
be found to be much spread, and the eggs
to have lost much vitality, though still very
good for eating" She then described her
success the other way, adding, lowing to
this method of storing. such thing as q
stale egg has never been known in my
house and as regards success in Matching,
for several seasons, when | was able to
attend to my poultry myself, Of many
brood set every egg produced a chick"
We We're by no means hasty in adopting or
recommending this plan, but after care
full observation and comparison for two
seasons, have proved undisputably that
both for eating or setting. eggs do keep
much better the large end down. There
is, after week, a marked difference in
the two positions as regards the spreading
of the r-bubble-which is well. known to
effect both the freshness for eating, and
vitality for setting, of stored eggs-and
after three weeks the difference can be
discerned even by the taste alone. 1t will
of course, matter little which mode It
adopted, provided the eggs are used for
either purpose within short time; but
the longer kept, the more the difference
from the two positions increases, and while
eggs stored with the small end down can
not be depended upon after fortnight to
produce moie than a proportion OF chick
ems. those kept in the way we now advo-
cate will keep perfectly good for Matching
a month, or even more.
Year: 1873

We learn, and wo take much pleasure in an
nounciug that Judge Lawrence las formed d
partnership in this city and will shortly take
up his residence among us and rcsnmo tho prac-
tico of tho profession which ho has 30 honor
ably illuaratcd on tho Supreme Bench of Tho
Htote
Year: 1873

a veascl is to bo sent by the Navy Department
noxt wael to Groonlalld, in quot OF information
concerning the missing PolariB and the Budding
ton party. Should It's officers fail to learn any
thing of their whereabouts from the DanoB Or
tho EAauimaux Of tho island q vessol thorough
ly equipped for III Arctic voyage will be dis
matched in enerch Of them.