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Year: 1871

The most elegant women Of society have
discarded paniers.


White beads, dull chalk white, are used
to embroidcr black velvet for trimming
black silk dresses for the house.


The "Girl Of the Period" has passed
into caricature. 1t is sincerely to be hoped
that she will shortly pass into history with,
all her Jumps, and be seen no more.


New cravat bows, called the Alexis bow
are of satin of any aud every color, edged
with fur. Russian fancies, it is said, will
be in order for the winter, and fur used in
many ways.


AS there is no marked change in cos
tunes this year, great attention is paid to
small details, in order to give some appear
once of novelty. A conspicuous feature is
the revival of jet trimmings.


Pleated Swiss muslin frills are again
worn standing around the neck in Marie
Stuart fashion, These soft clear muslin
frills are exceedingly becoming when edged
with Valencienncs. A similar frill falls
over the wrist from inside the sleeves.


Waterproof cloaks are now made almost
universally as long sacques, closed down
the front, with sleeves and large talma
capes. They are the most comfortable aud
useful style, as they allow the free use of
the arms, and are at the same time perfect
ly protective. .t


There is fancy just now for wells of
white not dotted thickly with black. They
are of the simplest shape, merely two or
three eighths Of the net passing straight
across the front of the hat and covering
the face to the chin. They are generally
becoming, and are very stylish when worn
with black velvet round hat and black
costume.
Year: 1871

The fragrance of the rose is possessed of
such an unqualified, never-clOyng, ever fresh
sweetness, that we never can have too much of
it-never enough There is nothing that
makes lady wardrobe smell nicer than dried
roseleaves, with suspicion of lavender added
the very fact of such fragrance being
breathed from her clothes-pres would be ac-
cepted, even IN a court of law, as sufficient
evidence that the owner was neat, gentle
thOughted, and pure minded. Musk, patcho-
uli, jasmine while each of them has its admi-
rers, have no power to call up the fresh and
pleasing associations that attend upon the scent
of rose e-eaves


The perfumers, when they wish to preserve
rOse-leaves fresh until they have got a sufi-
clent quantity to dlStill or use in other ways,
are in the habit Of picking them-separating
the leaves from the stalks, and mixing them
into paste with salt in the proportion of six
pounds of leaves to one of common salt This,
put in jars, will keep any length of time.
Packing alternate layers of salt and fresh rose,
leaves away in jars is hrSt-rate, simple way
OF getting fine essence OF rose. Let the Jars
remain covered in the cellar tor a month or
two A; then put the pul into Grape, and press
the moisture from it. Bottle this essence, and
let it stand out, corked, in the sun and dew,
until it is quite clear. One part Of this es-
sence, one part of spirits of wine, and ten
parts Of spring water, will give you a fine
favored roSe-water. 4 good tncture of rose
leaves may be made by simply digesting them
In strong spirits while three parts of leaves
of just-Opened roses to four parts of sweet
olive oil, pounded in mortar, kept still tor a
week, and then expressed, will give you an ex-
cellent oil of roses


| knew an old lady who used to make a
great variety of charms amulets, &C., out of
rOseleaves, that were more fragrant and quite
as durable as those manufactured out of per
tumed clays. Her process was to fill mortar
with roses gathered with the dew on them
sprinkle over them little powdered CHINA
mon and cloves, and then bray them thorough
ly until they formed stiff brown mass of about
the consiStence of putty. This she moulded
into beads crosses, and figures OF various kinds.
and then dried them in the sun or in an oven.
They become as hard as pebbles, and retain
their sweetness long while. Fingers that
are skillful at moulding may in this way turn
out some very pretty and appropriate mantel
MISUNDERSTANDING
Year: 1871

Con LIVER OIL VS.. CREAM-An exchange
says: Some years ago physicians had
habit of recommending every consumptve
patient to take cod liver oil. The incredible
nastiness of the dose must have constituted its
peculiar merit for, as a matter of fact, any re-
suit established by cod liver oil would have
been obtained by the patient had dcream instead
Of oil been prescribed. Suddenly this idea
seems to have dawncd upon the medical facul-
ty. As a consequence, we now have milk
cure announced as a specific for consumption.
Patients who formerly put their trust in cod
livers, are now told that the COW is their only
hope. They are made to drink vast quantities
of pure milk, instead of frequent doses of the
unspeakably vile cod-lver oil The effect is
all that can be desired. The patient who tries
the milk k-cure finds himself rapidly growing
fat, and it is also said that he becomes child.
like and bland in his demeanor."
Year: 1871

Some people possess an unconscious art of
evaporation which is almost a thing to admire.
We may suffer from it more than words can
tell, and yet there is u fascination in its fine
perfection; there is a feeling of inferiOrity on
the part Of the sufferer that fills the soul with
envy. But the admiration and envy are the
after surge. In the presence of the artist
that is, the tOrmenter-there is only anguish
and Indignation.


We had occasion once to make some nqui-
ries at the advertising desk OF the Daily Idiot.
We suppose the time occupied by our CONVEX
satlOn with the clerk at the desk was not more
than two minutes and thirty-fve seconds, yet
the memory OF those two minutes and thirty
five secOnds-be they more or less-we expect
10 carry with us to our grave 1t was season
OF trial and temptation; of smothered passion
and resentment of madness and misery, fol-
lowed by remOrse. We did not want to kill
the gentlemen on the other side Of the counter
No! We are natura ly of a quiet disposition,
with an uncOnquerable bias against murder.
We merely felt gentle desire to crawl through
the little glass window at which we were talk
ing seize the nape OF that long, unlOvely neck,
and incOntinenty kick the advertising clerk
OF the Ddiy Idiot.


And pray, what had he done you ask


We'll, he had " done nothing, we suppose
nor had he said much The subject matter





pie business affair; nothing of an out-Of-the-
way or exciting nature was on either side. An
observer might have failed to notice anything
that was at all uncourteous in look or lam
guage. Ii was only hat trgid air of insOlence;
that way of making an honest man feel like a
pickpocket; that inimitable art OF exa~pera-
ton


We have often wondered how such people
get along in the world. We once cherished u
theory that their days of prosperity are soon
numbered. A brief basking in the sunshine
of success, and they are cut down and perish
like the flower Of the field that withereth. 4
few years, at the most, of irritating arrogance.
and the world weares of them and fiiugs then!
aside forever. But we are mistaken Alas!
no such moral can be pointed to the tale. They
live and thrive have their salaries Increased,
rise to places of greater dignity as well as pro-
tit. 1t is an inScrutable diSpensaton We
may not even kick k-except in mild, meta
phoric way. We can only mingIe our plants
and our sympathies. We can only cherish a
vain wish that we were Great Men travelling
lncOg. g.-sOmething like President of the
United States, or an ex-Emperor, or million
aire with an idiopathy for purchasing newspa-
per establishments and turning lnsoent sub
ordlnates into the streets. -ScriJner'S Mondh.
Year: 1871

DYING RICH.-The ship Britannia was
wrecked off the coast of Brazil and had on
board large consignment of Spanish dollars.
In the hope of saving some of them a number
Of barrels were brought on deck, but the YES
sci went to pieces and the only hope for life
was by taking at once to the boats.


The last boat was about to push off then
young Mid shipman went back to See if any
one was still on board: To his surprise there
sat "A man on deck with hatchep in his hand,
with which he had broken open several of the
casks the contents of which he was now heap
ing about him.


" What are you doing here?" shouted the
youth. Don't you know that the ship is fast
going to pieces.


The ship may go ; said the man. | have
lived a poor wretch all my life, but I am de-
termined to die rich


The officers remonstrances were answered
by another flourish OF the Ratchet, and the
man was left to his fare


We should count such a person q mad man
but he has too many imitators Men seem
determined to be rich at all hazards. Least of
all risks do they count on losing the soul in the
struggle, at any moment whatever.
Year: 1871

THE ENVELOPE NUISANCE An envelope
containing letter written by one who has the
smallpox may communicate the dreadful dis
ease. A mans heart may sink within him, if,
while struggling to get foothold in the world,
he calls at the postoffice for letter, and is
handed one with lawyers address printed in
one corner. Respectable lawyers do not need
to publish their vocation in order to get bust
ness. But Of all the inconsiderate, ruthless,
foolish, hypOcritical, dangerous, and cruel de-
vices, none exceeds that of sending letters with
a black border around them" mourning en-.
velOpes. Scarcely a reader but will confess
to an undefnable uneasiness, if not an actual
SHOCK to be kept up until the letter is opened,
and the name at the bottom deciphered. The
very sending of mourning letter to any one is
a barbarity, a brutality, a hypocrisy, and
lie. True grief detests display; the deeper
the sorrow, the more intense is the desire to
shun observation, to shrink within itself, to
shut out all creation. Sun.
Year: 1871

FROM all we C an learn, al.rge crowd will attend
the fancy dress carnival on skates at the Rtuk
February 18th, We advise you to practice II you
wish to participate in the skating that night. All
who wish to skate on that occasion must wear
Year: 1871

We shall support the doctrine Of an
equitable division of taxation among
al classes, a faithful collection of the
fe'ehues, economy in the expeudi-
lures, conformably with the exigen-
c'es OF the State or Country aud the
discharge Of every legitimate obliga-
ton.
Year: 1871

fish was either to be mine or / his'n one OF
tother." So on they went like streak OF
lightning, and kept up the rate of speed
until the line, having chafed in spite of all
Billy's efforts, parted on the third day, with
report like cannon. So he turned back,
and after an internal hard pull" to use
his words, got home again.


For some time Billy's adventure was
the theme of general conversation all along
the coast, and he was quite hero, such
grit and pluck had he exhibited in thus
daring the dangers of the ocean all alone.
And that these dangers and tatigues had
not been slight, was abundantly attested
by his blistered and SCARED face and half
erazed appearance generally But alas,
his glory was to be short lived. One after
noon while standing amid crowd, repeat
ing his adventures for the nine hundred and
ninety ninth time, up walked an old darkey
and accosted him thus, perfectly regardless
of his winks and blinks: "How dye do, Mars
William you'se got home all safe is you ;
Now, gentleman" said he, to the crowd
MARS Williams come mighty nigh starvin
hisself to death in his boat last week You
see, he took leetle too much sperits, and
got lost in the marsh back yonder. and if
had not come through thar by accident, he'd
died afore this" The cat was out. Billy
lives in town now If you meet him, never
mention silver fish. KNARF.
Year: 1871

WASHINGTON, July 13.-Malicious rumors
have lately been in circulation that Lieut.
enant Fred. Grant, the son of the President,
intended to take advantage of his high con-
nections to avoid the army service to which
he has been assigned and make trip to
Europe. This is a falsehood in every respect
Lieutenant Grant has been assigned to the
Fourth Cavalry, now stationed in Texas,
and will join the regiment as soon as the
three months leave of absence which is al
lowed to every cadet in the service shall
have expired. This vacation he will spend
principally at Long Branch.
Year: 1871

Summer business is thus described by the
Pointe Coupee Echo:


Now that we are in midsummer, and a
very warm one at that. outside the planting
interest there is very little activity. Stores
are doing but little, the courts nothing,
and some of our business men who can
afford it have gone or are going off to the
various summer resorts for a few weeks
enjoyment and relaxation. We notice,
however, that some of the stores are replen-
ishing their stock preparatory for the fall
trade. If everything in the various other
branches of business is at stand still, it is
just the contrary with the planters, for
never were hoes and plows kept more busy.
Year: 1871

Any amount and every class of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies
and at as low rates as at any agency in the country


Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1871

Duties and Rights of Newspapers.
An essay read before the Vermont Edit


ors' and Publishers Association at Rstt-


land, Jnne Sh, 1871.


BY col. ALBERT CLARKE OF THE ST. AL


BANS MESSENGER.


Mr.. President and Gentlemen Of the Press;


Two years ago one of our number in
formed US of the demand of the times
upon the live journalist, and last year
another dwelt upon the power and infin-
ence of the press it may not be unprof-
liable now to consider some of our duties
and our rights.


Collectively, we represent the main
source from which the majority of the
people of Vermont derive their current
intelligence and almost the only source
of information as to home affairs. Il is
easy to see, therefore, that we owe duties
to truth, to principle and professional
honor and dignity which deyolve upon
no other class of men in SO high degree,
and upon our fidelity to which depend,
more than we can tell, the tone and in
fiuence of our people in the world.
Churches and school-houses have bad al
most the sole credit heretofore of making
the Puritan peculiar, and of furnishing
the "leaven which is supposed to be
always aggressive, and yet always sweet,
and never too much pulled up. They
have indeed done much and will contin-
ne to do more in proportion to the prog
Year: 1871

Two or three years ago this association
resolved that hencoforth all newspaper
subscriptions ought to be paid in ad-
vaEc. How many Of you have adhered
to the rule then proposed Not one
third Why? Because you have feared
that you would thus reduce your lists.
Had you not better reduce them by eve
ry man who does not pay? To be sure.
Very well, then, will any man who cares
for the paper be willing to go without it
long when the only consideration in the
way is the difference between paying for
it and not paying by and by? "But," it
may be pleaded, Il charge more for it if
not paid in advance, and thereby make
rather than lose" DO you make? Let
such subscriber come in and begin to
hint about some other paper and you
will hardly stop to talk long about that
extra half dollar, so that if you should
figure up the result at the end of the
year, you would find that you had not
received half nor quarter enough of these
extra half dollars to offset those pleasant
little papers from postmasters in all quar-
ters, marked "oficial, and informing
you that your paper addressed to such a
one, is refused, or remains dead in the

office, or must be discontinued because
the postage is not paid. No, gentlemen,
the greatest fallacy we have is trusting
strangers for sum that is too small to
collect and then hoping to make it up
from those who pay extra without
grudge, and then, if extracted will not
renew
Year: 1871

for its advertisements And yet the news
of these "insides" is always a week or
more older than of legitimate papers !;
their views are those of men who public


y proclaim that they ride three horses
in different directions at the same time
and their advertisements are necessarily
all foreign from the locality where the
paper purports to issue.


Therefore, SO far as one entire half of
the paper is concerned, it tails far below
that standard Of interest, which fresh
ness and nearness always give, and as
for the other half, it is what might be
expected from men who find it impossi
BILE to make whole newspaper, and are
therefore willing not only to deceive
their patrons but to disgrace the proies-
sion, which has always been accredited
with some principles and some brains,
by going into the market to hawk about
other peoples wares. So far as my
knowledge goes, not a siugle newspaper
establishment in the country of any rec
ognized standing and influence has
adopted the system, and in great ma
jority of cases the papers are dated at
little villages where in fact they are not
issued, and are issued from places where
they are not in sufficient demand to sup
port an establishment. They are fraud
on advertisers, fraud upon subscribers,
a fraud upon the government in the
matter of postage, and scandal on the
honest and laborious press. They are
"half and half" of that which is old
enough to be stale, and that which is fiat
enough to be dishwater, and never, since
Barnum attached the tail Of fish to the
body of the Egyptian mummy and ad-
vertised it as "the beautiful, original and
and genuine siren of the sea-" has
greater humbug been put before the
world.
Year: 1871

But of course, in all these things rea-
son is TO be used. / only plead for
rule to which there may be exceptions,
but which shall enable the publisher to
derive, as everybody else derives, fair
and legitimate income from his resources.
How much more comfortable, how much
more dignified, how much more certain
this will be than the craving, cringing
cowardice which dares not claim its
own, but goes before the public with
that elimination OF cupidity embodied in
the phrase, poor printer y A great
protession-the acknowledged ArchIme-
dean lever Of the nineteenth century
ought by the very soundness of its busI-
ness basis to be above temptation, al
ways courteous, but always courageous,
the unflinching friend of the people, and
the strong right arm of Christianity.


Firm in the right. the daily press should be


The tyrants foe. the champion of the free;


faithlnl and constant to It's sacred trust;


Ialm In Its utterance; IN lts judgments Just:


Wise In its teaching uncorrupt. and strong


To speed the right and TO denounee the wrong


Long may II be ere candor must confess


On Freedom shores weak and ysnal presss
Year: 1871

AN Indiana man has effected a strategcai
combination against the potatoe bug. Ill,
planted grain Of corn in each hill Of pota-
oes. The corn came up before the potatoes,
which Of course cheated the little pests into
the belief that it was a corntie!d, and they
never went near the potatoes until it was too
late to do any damage.
Year: 1871

KIND words are the bright flowers Of
ear,h's existence; they make very paradise
of he humblest home the earth can show
Use them, and especially around tho fire.
side circle. They are jewels beyond price,
and moro precious to heal the wounded
heart, and make tho weighed down spiii
glad, than all other blessings the earth can
give,
Year: 1871

In speech last week at Milford,
Mass, Gen Butler said:
The editor of the New York
Tribune is running for President,
Or thinks he is, and he is now
stumping the West on that propo-
si,ion as against President Grant
Now, I think that President Grant
is the better man, and ] don't &C
for the editor of the Tribune, and
so the editor Of the Tribune goes





for me-"
Year: 1871

One of our contemporaries in the
course Of an obituary notice Of
Walter Montgomery, the actor,
gravely says that the cause of his
suicide is inexplicable, unless the
statement that he had been married
shortly before, supplies a clue to
feelings which prompted the act.
Year: 1871

How TO MEASURE Corn IN THE
CRIB After leveling the corn,
multiply the length and breadth Of
the crib together, and the product
by the depth, which will give the
cubic feet of the bulk of the corn
then divide the last product by
twelve and the quotient will be the
number of barrels of shelled corn
in the crib.
Year: 1871

The result Of the recent election
in California disappoints both par
ties. The State in all estimates for
the Presidential election in 1872
has uniformly been placed among
the "certain" for the Democrats,
and as uniformly conceded by the
Republicans. The San Francisco
Bulletin before the election claim
ed only "a fair prospect" for the
election Of the Republican ticket.
Any one not we'll acquainted with
political canvasses will see, after
reading the annexed paragraph,
that the San Francisco paper did
not believe strongly in the success
of its political party when it said:


There is fair prospect that the
Republican State ticket will be
elected, and it ought to be if Cali-
fornia wants to keep In tie ranks
of national progress, and cares to
be identified with the patriotic, lib
eral sentiment of the republic. We
believe, also, that q more rational
and public spirited administration
of State affairs may be expected
from Republicans, with less ten
dency to degrade everyth thing to a
partisan level and stronger one
to carry out jldicious reforms
With q pure, able, and firm man
like Newton Booth at the head of
its administration, the Sta.e will
be in hearty sympathy with the
national spirit, and We shall have
reasonable assurance that a sound
practical home policy will be car
ried out f"


The brilliant Republican victory
in California is as significant as it
is complete and overwhelming -
The canvass had been bitter and
exciting, aud the people have &c
cided that the constitution as it it.
without an if or ,roviso, shall be
the law. 1t is square notice to
the revolutionists to cease their st


temps to overturn the results of
the war, TO disband their Ku Klnx


bands, accep5 the situation in good
faith, embrace the enfranchised
ci izen and subside, or take new
departure through the graveyard.
Year: 1871

Tom MURPHY Is credited with having had
the President suppress the pardon of Bowen,
which had been promised to the devoted wife
Of the unlucky carpet-baggcr, and for which
the poor woman has waited with gradually
sinking heart at the State Department in
Washington for moro than week. Tom is
said to have remarked to another gentleman
relative to the matter:-"We have decided not
to pardon Bowen. 1t would not be expe-
dent" II Tom has become power behind the
throne at last we warn him that he is not serv-
ing the power upon the throne very kindly or
well when he makes him ridiculous by with
drawing one day what he has done the day
before 1t is better and more expedient that
Bowen be pardoned than that the Presidents 3
word, once given, should be departed from.
Year: 1871

THE TRIAL OF NAVAL OFFICER LArLIN is
to commence at Herkimer, N. Y, on a charge
of perjury, which appears to have no better
foundation than q very natural confusion of
statement about matter OF which it is hardly
probable any man would feel interested
enough to retain very clear memory Of
details. The Naval Officer appears to have
stated that certain bond had not left his
possession during a certain period, when, on
the other hand, another gentleman claims to
have had the bond in his own possession at
least for time during that period. As the
Naval Officer, however, certainly had the
bond back again as good as ever, and nobody
Is the worse for its temporary change of
hands, the whole prosecution looks like case
of tweedledum and tweedledee. II would
have looked less like trining If the thrifty
gentlemen of Herkimer had prosecuted Mr..
Latin for his unparalleled oversight in mailing
the bond In mistake for campaign docu-
ment
Year: 1871

GENERAL NEWTON is PREPARING a ''stunpcr"
Of an explosion at He'll Gate He intends to
charge all Halctt's Rock with nitro-glycerine
and giant powder, and then by electricity set
it of. The result will be a bigger irecrscker
than any Fourth Of Jily has ever seen. Hal
let's Rock will bo scattered all about East
River, the bars and bolts of He'll Gate will be
shattered and new route to the sea will be
opened. What the result Of the explosion
may be in the far future is question already
bewildering New York.