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Year: 1875

MORE WOMEN THAN MEN IN CHURCH.
The Churchmdn, noting the fact that
women outnumber men in attendance on
religious ministratiOnS, and the prevalent
impression in society that g worship is
rather n wOman's affair." sets itself to dis
cover the reason. Its conclusion is thus
summed up: " There are two points on
which men differ from women both of
which have made them undervalue the or
dinary public ordinances. They are more
intellectual and more practical, and, there
fore, less influenced by authority and the
affections. The average man has intellect
enough to be attracted by skeptical argu-
mentS and Il desire for material results
which mislead him when he has to do with
God, and the soul, and the world to come
In public worship things of this more spir-
itual nature are the subject matter, and
those who cannot rise to them will natur-
ally fall away. But woman is protected
bv her poetry and affections; she has more
reverential love, more sympathy with
those who speak of the future the indeti-
mite, and the sublime. Women enter more
readily into the spirit of prayers and pr;is
e~ offered to Being only partially known
and wholly unseen; they can look onward
to another and better world, and do not
grulge obedience to a duty which the
church, from the beginning, has advocated
with unvarying consistency"
Year: 1875

How TO FAsTEN RUBBER TO WOOD
AND METAL.-As rubber plates AMI rings


are nova days used almost exclusively
for making connections between steam and
other pipes and apparatus, much annoyance
is often experienced by the imposSibilty
Year: 1875

Much has already been said, but not too
much. on the necessity of good supply
of fresh air in the sick room DR. Hamp-
ton of Paris has recently published a pa
per in which he describes several remark
able cures of patients suffering from ty
phus. He attributes their recovery al
most entirely to the free admission of
fresh air into the sick chamber. The cause
of the fever. he thinks. is kind of paraly-
sis of the vital functions. produced by
breathing poisoned atmosphere. and the
remedy that most naturally suggests it
self is pure air. He thinks it can do no
harm in any case of typhus fever. no mat
ter what the complications may be. wheth-
er of the lungs or of any other organs, to
breath the fresh air. for if the patient is
kept warm by artificial means, the free
breathing of it facilitates the oxy genera
ton of the blood. and SO tends. at all
times, to keep up the animal heat. lie al
so declares that there is absolutely no dan :
ger of we'll person taking the disease in
the open air.
Year: 1875

to secure it, and he took his little boy with
him. While there he visited his own
father and mother who were still living
They had not heard from him in long
time. but knew he lived in certain city in
western New York. He resolved not TO
announce himself to see if they would re-
cognlze him. The stage in which he and
his little boy travelled passed within mile
of their home. They reached the house by
walking this distance, partly across the
fields, about sunset. He said that they
were travellers, and begged a nights lodg-
ing. The old people were averse to keep
ing them. and made many excuses. He
continued to urge until they finally yielded.
by agreeable conversation on his part they
became interested in the stranger guest.
They found he came from America.
''What part of America?'' they inquired


He told them. What. did YOU indeed
come from R? Why, is it possible? ?
We have son living there and you have
come from the same place! Can it be that
you know our son?' What is his name
inquired the traveller. John -" ..Oh,
yes. | know him." The interview now
became deeply interesting; Il throng of
questions We're asked and answered, and
their guests became more and more
welcome. But still they h.A no guess who
he was; the changes of years had oblitera-
ted the recollection of his features


He thought best not to divulge the secret
till next morning, believing that if he did
they would not sleep that night He
waited till after breakfast The scene can
not be described. and we shall not attempt
it. Our lady informant. who was well
acquainted with him. met him on the canal
packet he chief mode of iourneying in
those DAYS on his return from Ireland on
this journey, and he gave lifc-like de
scription of the scene in his own eloquent
words, and in speaking of his relation of
the occurrence she said to Us II do not
believe any one could have listened to his
recital without tears


She has since made to us the remark
which accords with what those who re-
member him in his days know of him.
that if the ladies Of R wished ut any
time to get up II subscription or start any
benevolent enterprise, they always went
first to John -, and We're never denied
his generosity always going quite rs far
rs his means would warrant.


What an instructive history was his.
and what an encouragement for Young
men in habits of industry, temperance, in
tegrity and virtue.


We need only add to this narrative that
the name of the place referred to rs R-.
Is Rochester. and the man whose history
is SO interestingly told. was John Allen
chosen Mayor of Rochester in lsi4-
C0nntry Gtutltmrl.
Year: 1875

MONDAY December 2O-The grocery market is
firm and unchanged. Flour quite active and there
have been several large sales within the past few
days. Pork and lard are active with no changes to
note in quotations. Sugars show no change.
Year: 1875

ITO LET-THE FINEST SALOON AND BILLIARD


Room the side; everything the premises in
first order and the place will be disposed of
favorable terms responsible party lease will be given
for term OF years II desired Apply to d. JONES 638
Sixth city
Year: 1875

E. Brlnghurst Il Co. have re-opened their Mineral
Water Fountain for the season. The majority OF
our citizens have tasted and know for themselves
the superiority OF The soda water from this fountain
AMI the delicious favor OF the Fruit syrups they
prepare, Of which there are upwards OF twenty va
rieties They have


GLASS sIPHoN BOTTLES,
and the necessary apparatus for properly filing them
with highly charged Carbonic Acid Water which
can he drawn at Will, making the bottles really


PORTABLE FOUNTAINS,
which enable the invalid who may require 1t, or the
lover OF Soda Water who may desire it, 10 enjoy tine
use OF this delightful beverage at any time at home
We have on draught the following popular
Year: 1875

We recollect one instance in our army
experience when very serious case of
muddle repetition occurred in which no
type-setter was concerned. In the
march of the army of the Potomac up
the Peninsula, the first rebel encamp-
ment captured was at Harwood's Mills,
which the enemy abandoned and fell
back to their entrenchments in front OF
Petersburg. This camp was but pick
ct line, along which winter quarters had
been built, and which proved very
handy for tired troops to occupy for a
day or two, then burn and advance on
the march that Mcclellan said would
soon drive the enemy to the wall.


Here for the first time was tried the
system of passing messages along the
picket line by word of mouth" Gen.
Hancock's headquarters were that even
ing the headquarters of the left wing
of the army. Two belated teams, that
had been out foraging for coarse fodder
for rebel animals had not heard of the
evacuation by their troops and in the ev-
ening drove inside our lines with wagons
well laden with cornstalks They were
captured by the videttes taken to the
nearest reserve and an orderly despatch
ed to inform the commanding General.
Soon after his arrival there the order
was started along the picket line "Send
the two teamsters to Gen. Hancock s
headquarters under guard" Along
the Vermont line the message passed
with tolerable correctness. Then it
went the length of the Irish brigade,
" Send them two sisters to Gen. Han
cock, the head center" Then it trav-
ersed the 20th New York's German
line, Save dem swie layers for Han
cocks headquarters" and when the
mysterious message got as far out along
the line as the regiment guarding the
corral, where the detail was butchering
cattle for the next days ration, the
sturdy pickets gave the order, Save
for Gen. Hancock the two best hind
Quarters. Bennington Banner.
Year: 1875

If there is degree of bluntness in
the hints given above let me make this
apology, that | wished to say things in
a way to be understood and remembered
and in SO doing l may have spoken
roughly. But you will not fail to COM
mand your production to the favor of
the printer, if you will bear these hints
in mind and practice upon them. But
if you forget them, and break over all
the rules here so rudely laid down, i
will still be your friend.
Year: 1875

One of the illusions is that the present
hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it ON your heart that every day is
the best day in the year. No man has
learned anything rightly until he knows
that every day is doomsday.-Emerson
Year: 1875

She tried to sit down in the street.
car but was pinned back so tight she
could not Old lady peeped over her
specs and asked her -


allow long have you been afflicted
that way p


The young lady blushed and made
" a break" sitting down sideways, and
holding her knees together so tight that
she looked as if she had ON one-legged
pair of breeches. Old lady noticed her
sitting in this side-wise cramped position,
and whispered;-


"Bile, s'pOse I've had 'em thar
myself"
Year: 1875

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A DRUGGIST.


John Ryan aged forty years, druggist, at No. 42s
Second avenue held for trial in default OF S. 900
bail on charge OF committing indecent assault on
Eliza Daley, aged twelve years ONO 800 East Twenty
fourth street The girl called upon the druggist to
learn If he sold sealing wax While IN conversation
with him ~-esented her with bottle OF cologne and
then took s,aes with her, which she resented Be
fore coud leave tho however he locked tho
door and again renewed his attack upon her. Finally
he pushed her into back and
there assaulted her in the most indecent
and outrageous manner but did not succeed in his ve
purpose gentleman who resides across tho avenue,
who witnessed part OF the assault and the locking of tho
door caused Ryan's by Officer Murphy, OF tho
Twenty precinct He denied his guilt in the most
solemn manner


THE LIQUOR DEALERS AND THE POLICE


Fifteen more liquor dealers were held at this Court ves-
crday trial. having by their confessions violated
tho Excise law They had all been locked up over
night and the protest of the Court against such arbi
trary use or their power by the police was renewed.
the arrests OF these people continued TO be made AZ
night Judge Duffy said he will keep his Court open till
twelve o'clock p. NJ, so as to discharge them on bail
Year: 1875

T"when the cold wind blows.
take care of your nose that it doesn't
get froze. and wrap up your toes in
in warm wooden hose" The above, we
suppose, was written in prose by some
one who knows the effects Of cold
SHOWS.
Year: 1875

A MARrrxD MAx-A married man,
hearing that the eating of certain kinds
Of animal food would aid the tissues of
the human body-as, for instance,
calves brains would nourish the eater 8
liver-immediately gave strict orders
to his butcher that 70 more tongue Of
any kind should be sold 70 his wife.
Year: 1875

erasmus Putnam of indianapolis was
ABOUT to die. He had property worth six
or seven thousand dollars. Also, a wife
and four adult sons and daughters. lie
said that he would make his will, and
therefore confusion arose. The wife and
offspring first Quarreled, and then fought,
the noise of the conflict bringing in a po.
liceman from the street. In the midst OF
the melee MIR. Putnam died without hay.
ing made any will, and his wife and one
son were taken to the police station for
disorderly conduct.
Year: 1875

T HIsfavorite spring dish may be made
wholesome or poisonous, inviting or dis
gusting, according TO the skill of the
cook.


To make it as bad as possible, cut the
ham thin, don't take out much of the
salt, fry it very brown; take it out of the
frying pan and drop in the eggs. The
pan must be smoking hot, and well COW
cred with a brown substance. Cook the
eggs until the yolks are hard and the
whites of a dirty brown color, well
crisped and frizzled. Place the eggs
around the ham on a dish and pour some
of the half-burned fat over all. Then
eat as much as you can, and as fast as
you can, and it will not be the fault of
this recipe if you do not feel uncomfort-
able. A regular course of ham and eggs
cooked in this way will insure any
amount of spring fever, biliousness, dys-
pepsia, etc.


To make a dish of ham and eggs as
good as possible, cut the ham nearly half
an inch thick, boil it in plenty of water
till barely cooked through, pour off the
water and put the pan in a place just hot
enough to brown the fat part of the ham
slightly, but not hot enough to make
smoke, or to brown the lean meat much.
When this is finished remove the frying
pan from the fire, take up the ham, pour
off the fat into cup, and wipe the pan
till it shines like mirror, without sin
gle speck to mar the polish. Then put
in spoonful of the clear part of the
fat, break in the eggs, and set the pan in
a place scarcely hotter than boiling
water; cover it, and let the eggs cook as
slowly as possible for four or five min
utes, taking them up as soon as they can
be lifted out. Place them around the
ham, and do not pour any of the fat on
the dish. Eat with mashed potatoes
Country Gentleman
Year: 1875

Remedy for Lockjaw-The follow
ing remedy, simple as it IS, is said to
have saved thousands from death by
lockjaw: Smoke the wound or bruise
with the smoke of wool. Twenty min
utes in the smoke of wool will take the
pain out of the worst wound and repeat
ed once or twice will allay the worst case
of inflammation arising from wound
Ohio Farmer.


~fhe shell of an egg is porous and the
oxygen of the air goes through the shell
and keeps up kind of respiration. An
egg soon becomes stale in bad air or in
dry air charged with carbonic acid.
Eggs may be dried and made to retain
their goodness for a long time; or the
shell may be vanished, which excludes
the air, and then if kept in moderate
temperature they may be kept good for
years. French poultry-raisers are very
successful and ship millions of eggs to
England annually. Fresh eggs are more
transparent at the center, old ones at the
top. Very old ones are not transparent
in either place. In water in which one
tenth of salt has been dissolved good
eggs sink and Indifferent ones SWIM
Bad eggs float in pure water.


Beef Callops.-Have two pounds of
rump steak cut into very thin slices and
divide these into pieces about three
inches long and two wide; beat with the
blade of knife and dredge with flour;
put them in a frying pan with little
butter or clarified beef-dripping and let
them fry for about three minutes, then
lay them in small stew-pan and pour
over them the melted butter and one
half pint of gravy or of hot water. Add
a teaspoonful of butter rubbed in with
three teaspoonfuls of flour, salt and pep
per to taste, one teaspOonful of capers
or one-half dozen picked nasturtiums
and finely minced onion if liked. Let
the whole simmer but not boil for fifteen
minutes; serve in Il hot, covered dish
Household.


Novel Way of Making Jelly Cake
Take the whites of six eggs, one cup
white sugar, same of flour, tablespoon
butter, two tablespoons sweet milk, two
teaspoons cream tartar and one of soda.
the cake will be very thin. Meanwhile
stir another batch, making just the same,
with the exception of using the yolks in
stead of the whites; when both are done,
spread, while warm, between with jelly or
preserve juice of any kind, put together
bring the largest side of the cake toward
you, and roll Immediately; or cut in four
or eight parts, put together alternately,
putting jelly between each layer, and
frost lightly over the top. Another
method is to make three pans, making
the third layer of one-third red sand
sugar, filling the cup with white sugar,
using the eggs and proceeding the same
as for the other layers. In putting to-
gether let the first layer be the yellow,
made of the yolks, than the red, and last
ly the white. Nicely frost the top, and
you have beautiful as well as a de-
licious party cake. They are very pretty
made into rolls
Year: 1875

In speaking of the Indictment
found against VIM. S. King Of Min
neapolis, by the Grand Jury at
Washington the Minneapolis T|ib-
~ne has the following:


The action of the jury is of such
doubtful legality that it is possible
that the indictment will not hold wa
ter. If it does, and the case is or
dered for trial, Col. King will be
thus afforded an opportunity of
clearing himself in advance of the
meeting of Congress.


Which is a very mild and pretty
way of saying that Bill Kings law
yers will do their utmost to pick
some technical flaw in the bill of in
dictment, but if they fail to get their
client off in that way, then the great
and good man will stand his trial
because he cannot help himself with
out he commits suicide. Canada
would not save him now, a requisi-
tion would reach him even there.
Year: 1875

A gentleman who is we'll known
in this part of the Country,
who has made two or more visits to
the southwark and spent some con-
siderable time in trying to find a
better place to live in than Mime
sofa, after looking the ground all
over and investing elsewhere and
getting sick of his investment, has
come to the conclusion that there
is no State ahead of Minnesota.


The much talked of country en-
braced in Nebraska, Kansas, Colo-
RADIO and Texas, he claims is
subject to drouths, which render
crops uncertain, is visited by hot
winds that destroy vegetation and
are for the time being almost unen-
durable, besides seeming to be the
natural home for the locust or grass
hopper. The climate in all this
region he finds to be subject to fire.
quent and sudden changes.


In speaking of Tennessee he said
he met parties coming from there
who had been attracted thither two
or three years since by the glowing
accounts of mildness of climate,
richness of soil, cheapness Of land,
and hadlost everything, INCLUDING that
most valuable of all possessions,
good health. They had been shak-
en- by ague and burned by fevers
and were used up generally. They
said that in the valleys the soil was
rich but there was where sickness
most prevailed.


Another Minnesotian just re-
turned from California, reports that
he found logs and msts part OF the
time and the rest of the time dust,
that the country is overrun with
people and that it is no place for
man who has not plenty of money,
the poorest place in the world for
man who has all his fortune to make:
wages as compared with the cost OF
living, being much lower there than
here.


Both of these gentlemen after
weighing all the advantages and dis
advantages presented by the States
named, claim that Minnesota is far
ahead of any all or either Of them,
and we more than half believe that
they are right.
Year: 1875




Editor Of The Grange Advance:


Through your widely circulated paper
l wish to say few words to many
friends in and around Red Wing, who,
when l told them was going to see
Texas, wished me to give them an &C.
count of what l saw and of the country.
l hesitated so to do for some time, not
because I did not want all to know, but
because did not feel competent to
write for publication. Still, feeling a
desire to crafty the many inquiring
ones will try and give you my views.


While have located myself in Tex
as and feel satisfied with my location,
and the climate Of the country, others
might vary far from me in judgment,
therefore I would say to all who have
desire to change locations or climate,
60 and see for yourselves and be satis-
fed. I am, for one, we'll convinced that
Texas climate is preferable for people
we'll along in years who are breaking
down with hard labor and becoming
crippled with rheumatism and other d.
seases, and while I have bought farm
in N orthern Texas and intend m owing in
September, I don't wish it to be UNDER
stood that 90 feeling that / am bet
tering the soil of Goodhue, or the eli
mate, other than the winter months,
neither do think I can better the So
ciety. If should say that would be
saying that which would be false, for
while have had the pleasure of max
ing the acquaintance of many business
men in Fort Worth, Texas, and found
them open hearted and genial, still
shall look forward rather with sorrow
than otherwise to the day of departure
from all of my old and tried friends of
Red Wing, with whom for twenty years
I have met in social gatherings. I
know I shall often think of the past af-
ter I am gone, but declining years have
compelled me to seek a warmer climate.


Well, to speak of my trip to Texas,
l will be short, for I had quick trip
and a short stay; but while there,
was not only on the move over the
county, but l moved my tongue, in
making inquiries Of very many, and in
particular Of aged men from the North
ern States, asked them of the effect
of Texas life on their health, and also
Of the length Of time they had lived
there. They invariably told me they
had improved in health and their look
did not contradict them. The climate,
so far as could learn, (for I cannot
speak from my own experience, since
my stay was so short, is cool in Sum-
mer and SO mild in Winter that cattle
and horses live with what they pick on
the pralrles and they invariably do
we'll. They complain this year Of
hard winter and backward spring; yet
Mr.. Bennett, formerly from MINES ota,
told me he had put up some ice four
inches thick, and that was the only
freeze of any Importance, last winter.
Farmers, many Of them, told me they
plowed, all but three days in January,
in their shirt sleeves. In Dallas Coun-
ty found fine land, but it lay quite
low and fat, and the water is rather
poor, in fact SO poor that the people
have ague and do not look as healthy
Year: 1875

T Ferdinand H., Grand Duke of Tuscan,
was also. it appears, the slave of his infrIni-
ties. He was often seen walking up and
down his apartment between two large
thermometers, at which he anxiously and
continually glanced, putting on skull caps,
of which he had five or sin in his hand, ac-
cording to the degree of cold or heat that
the instrument pointed towards. So, too,
with the Abbe de st. Martin, who is in the
seventeenth century was SO notorious for
his monomania. He always had nine skull
caps on his head to keep him from the cold,
and on the top Of those he put wig, which
Of course was never by any chance in its
proper position ! More than this, he wore
nine pair of stockings one oyer the other j;
his bed was of brick, under which there
was furnace, where he made fire in
order to obtain just that amount of warmth
that he desired. The Jesuit Ghezzi wore
seven caps under his wig. Fourier. the


mathematician, who had returned from
Egypt nearly dead with rheumatism, suf-
fered severely when he found himself in
temperature below twenty degrees Reaumur,
and a servant followed him about every
where, in readiness to offer him additional
coats and wrappings. During the latter
years Of his life, when rendered Aors de
combat by the asthma, from which he suf-
fered since his youth, he lived almost en-
tirely in a kind of box, which allowed no
deviation Of the body, and allowed nothing
to pass except his heao and arms.-11e
Churchman'S Shilling Magazine.