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Year: 1872

CHOCOLATE CAKE.-One cup sugar,
One-half cup butter, One-half cup milk,
two eggs, one teaspOonful soda and two
cups flour; CRATE one-half cake chOc-
olate and mix One-half cup milk and
the yolk of one egg, sweeten to taste,
and add one teaspOOnful vanilla; boil
till soft, and then mix together; bake
three-quarters of an hour. This will
make one very large cake. Or bake the
first mixture in sheets, and after baking
the chocolate spread it between, and it
will make delicious chocolate Jelly
cake.


SMOKY LAMPS Coal oil lamps that
are subject to smoking may be improved
by putting from two to three tablespoons
of coarse salt in them. 1t will make the
lights more brilliant and clear, and keep
the wick clean, besides the prevention
of smoke.


To CLEANSE THE INSIDE OF JARS
Fill them with hot water and stir in Il
spoonful or more of pearlashi empty
them in an hour. and if not perfectly
clean, fill again and let them stand few


hours. For large vessels I've may De
used.


R1RRoNs RENEWED.-WaShi in cool


soan suds and iron while damp. Cover
/ the ribbon with a clean cloth and pass
| ON iron over it. If you wish to stiffen
fLe ribbon, dip it while drying into gum
arabic water.


To REMOVE GREASE FROM FLOORS
AnnIv a paste of wood ashes; keep it on
I several days and then wash Off
Year: 1872

AiAflEh NJ
Lightly as Ellen had appeared to treat
the proposition Of her tutor during her
grandmother's visit t0 her chamber, it
had in reality thoroughly alarmed her.
Her communion with Nature had been
so unbOunded, her love Of the unre-
strained freedom of her country retreat
so deep, and her appreciation of books
and music so satisfactory, that ideas of
marriage had not entered her brain:
and to you, friendly reader, I really feel
ashamed TO acknowledge that this idea
is and has been often prematurely thrust
upon the minds of children, whose fu-
ture mighty work of wifehOOd and ma
ternity needs the added strength of half
a score of years to properly prepare the
soul and body for the most important
functions of earthly existence.


Through the long hours of that never
to-be-forgotten night the poor child
tossed and moaned. a suspicion that
her tutor had in some way been con-
nected with the band Of gipsies who
had committed the raid upon the kiteh-
en-, and thus spoiled her first great par
ty, stole into her senses.


"Auntie Harris told me that he had
invited the gipsies. But what he meant
by getting them into the kitchen can
not imagine. Ny wondrous wise grand
father thinks that Killingsworth would
make a grand match for Ellen Dowd,
does he? Indeed 1 think I'd hardly
be worth killing after becoming Mrs
Killingsworth. The old ghoul told that
old gipsey to repeat that doggerel.
k1lO,0 he did. How tiresome If is n
have throng of company! How wisl
I could have dear old Bouncer back ono,
more! I'd start with him to-morrou
for the country bounded by the settin,
sun. o, sister Sarah, do you live, or ar,
you dead? Would you not open Won
dear heart to your sad darling and le
her nestle there ?"


Thus the poor child soliloquized til
Year: 1872

Tilton, with all his idiOsyneraeies.
cannot be accused of having the least
particle of sympathy for that tyrrany of
public opinion which is intOlerant and
dogmatic, whether in religion or politics,
Orliterature, or art. A man has not only
the right to change his views (as all will
admit but to change them without pen
atty OF taunts, filings and inuendoes. In
religion, TiltOn says a man should be
subject to no bondage which he cannot
shake off in each days sunshine, and
o6edient TO no other authority in the
church save only its Divine Head. Ifhe
chooses to leave the church, he has the
right to do it, and the only missile that
any one should care to fling at him, is
"GOd bless your
Year: 1872

If you take a great deal of pains to
serve the world and to benefit your fell
low creatures, and if, after all, the world
scarcely thanks you for the trouble you
have taken, do not be angry and make
loud talking about the worlds ingrati-
tude, for thenit will seem that you cared
more about the blessings which you pro-
fessed to bestow.
Year: 1872

MALONE, n. Y, June pa man an 4 wife
living at Long Lake, in the A adirondack region,
were, nearly two weeks since, fishing there at
dusk. They were sitting ON rock in the lake
the woman with handkerchief over her
head. One Palmer, guide, with compan'
ion was rowing across the lake, and noticing the
white handkerchief, inquired what it was. The
opinion was given that it was 4 gull, when Pal
mer, replying that he would soon decide, drew
up his rihle and fired. The distance was some
what greater than he had thought, and the bal
falling struck the woman in the breast, killing
her almost Instantly. Palmer is said to have
become almost insane at the result Of his shot
Year: 1872

An exchange informs US that the old
philopena trick has been revived again
in Alabama, where the young lady takes
a double almond in her teeth, and the
Young man bites it off That sort of thing
used to be popular in Doylestown, Penn,
but is hardly ever tried any more since
the painful accident occurred at a philo-
pena party last winter, The lady who
held the almond between her teeth was
somewhat advanced in years and not a
little delapidated. The almond was un-
commonly tough, and the man who nib
bled at it was deadly in earnest. He
closed his teeth on it and pulled. II
would not give. He pulled harder but
made no impression. He clenched his
Jaws on it and gave desperate wrench.
1t is unpleasant to relate what followed
but as truth crushed to earth will certainly
rise again anyhow, whether we try to
keep il down or not, we may be pardoned
for saving thai as consequence of the
violent efforts the young man, he found
himself standing up in that room, holding
in his mouth nut in which were imbeded
a double set of porcelain teeth belonging
to the aforesaid maiden. 1t was embarrass-
ing in a certain sense, tor all parties, and
the young man thought it would be sooth-
ing to the feelings OF the company, if he
went home Other and less perllous games
are in vogue at Doylestown, this year
MAX Adeier.
Year: 1872

There was a spirit abroad in the conven-
ton resolved to manifest itself and to be
heard. IL was plain that this body was di-
yided into two strong sections, one anxious
TO precipitate the presentation Of candidates
the other equally earnest and determined to
without regard to what the platform may be.
slave off such action until the report of the
committee on resolutions could be'defnitely
acted upon. To effect the latter object,
Year: 1872

1t is getting warm out in Utah. Brig
ham Young has been arrested on the
charge of murder by the United States
Marshal. He appeared in court, attend
ed by many high church dignitaries, and
ton.


Mr. Hampstead moved that the prisoner
be admitted to bail on the ground that
he was an old mau, IL years of age, and
in feeble health. He had come 400 miles
to meet this and all other charges, and his
physician certified that imprisonment
wonld impair his life.


Mr. Bates had no opposition to bail,
but suggested that if bail be taken it be
fixed at s50O,000


Judge Mexican said that the govern
ment of the United States has no Jail in
Salt Lake City for holding prisoners ar
rested on process issued from the Uni
ted States Courts. The Marshal is required
to exercise the discretion which the law
vests in him. Sometimes such prisoners
are kept at Camp Douglas, but the COM
mander of that fort was not obliged to re-
ccive them. The prisoner is reported to
be the owner of several houses 10 the city
If he choose to put under the control of
the Marshal some situable building 10
which to be detained, it will be for the
Marshal to decide whether to adopt it
1t is the option of the prisoner to make
such an offer In any event, the Mar
shal will look to it that every comfort Of
the prisoner be provided for, remember
ing that he is an old man. decline to
admit to bail


On leaving the court, Brigham tender
ed the Marshal his residence in South
Temple street, which was accepted, aud
Brigham is now prisoner in his own
house He seemed perfectly cool and un-
concerned.
Year: 1872

We have received from Surveyor Cen
eral Campbell copy of his annual report
to the Governor, detailing the operations
of his department during the year past.
The revenues Of the Office, during the
past year, have been $l1 ,629S2. of which
Sl3, 1872 " were patent fees. This is an
Increase of revenue, as compared with
seven years past Two items of interest
are considered in the report. One is the
proPriety of providing fre-proof safes for
the preservation of the valuable books
and documents of the Office At present
they are liable, in case of fire. to be
entirely destroyed. The importance of
this suggestion is so entirely obvious that
it should be promptly adopted tits pos
slble that the chronic agitation in behalf
of removing the capital to Philadelphia
has prevented the Legislature from con-
sidering this and kindred subjects. Yet
this ought not to be allowed to interfere
with the safety of important papers. The
other item refers to the gradual increase
of the agricultural college aud scrip fund.
BY disposing of the existing bonds, and
funding anew the amount, the same will
be increased FROM 1891, 500 to S406 COS,
which the Surveyor General suggests,
should be brought, by State aid, up to
S5O0,0Oo. This is urged on the ground
of financial embarrassment on the part of
the college, and because of negligence on
the part of the State to take prompt ad-
vantage of the market for the sale of the
scrip. BY delay in properly legislating
on the. subject, nearly fifty per cent. of
the value of the scrip was lost, other
States being more prompt in placing their
scrip on the market These are all prac-
teal suggestions, based on right reason,
and deserve careful consideration on the
part of the Legislature.
Year: 1872

structure more important, in view of
the safety of life and property, can be
we'll imagined than such a bridge as this,
having span of fifty two feet, crossing
from ten to twelve feet above the stream
whose water is middle deep The ac,
cdent itself is evidence of its important
character. The plaintiffs wagon was
overturned in the fall, the body crushed,
the load of wheat fell underneath it into
the stream, aud one Of the horses was
killed. AS remarked by our brother
Read, "a bridge looks fair till it breaks
down it is not like pit which you can
see and avoid" ''In practice it is used
up to the last moment" Hence, such a
structure demands constant vigilance to
guard and preserve it. Therefore, when
bridge is old, having stood for the
length of time the timbers composing it
are accustomed to last, aud when it may
be reasonbly expected that decay has set
in, it is negligence to omit all proper
precautions to ascertain its true condition.
Nor will mere appearance 10 such case
excuse the neglect. 1t is a matter Of
common knowledge that invisible defects
may, and under such circumstances
probably do exist-that either wet or dry
rot may have set in and not be visible,
and therefore should be sought for. But
no one of ordinary intelligence would
think of seeking for an unsound and
invisible defect by merely inspecting the
surface of the wood. This being the case,
it is clearly the duty of the Supervisors,
having thus reason to believe that defects
may exist, to call to their assistance those
whose skill will enable them to ascertain
the true state Of the structure and
determine the question Of its safety


Without boing this much, at least, their
duty TO the public is not performed. Not
to do it is, therefore, Negligence
Year: 1872

From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.


A few days ago man residing in the
the Ninth Ward, named Ruskowski, after
being sick with the smallpox for some
time, died, as was supposed. According
to the regulations recently passed by the
Board of Health, he was buried shortly
after his decease. His sister, who, it
seems, was not satisfied with the hasty
manner in which her brother was dispos
ed of, was so worked up by the circum-
stances, and SO certain that all was not
right, that to satisfy herself she had his
body exhumed some six hour after the
burial. To her own JOY, and to the
amusement of those who had pronounced
the man dead, it was found that indica-
tions of life still remained 10 the body of
the buried one lie was at once taken
back to his house, and after considerable
exertions and the applying OF the proper
restoratives, he was virtually brought to
life again. He is now living and doing
well.
Year: 1872

NewYork is really the city Of decep-
tions 4 man must not on y look sharp
as the his company, but he can hardly
trust his own senses The well formed
man he meets in the street may be in
debted for his elegant proportion to the
genius of his tailor, and the belle of beau
ty may be half padding. A young man
of quite elegant exterior passed at oue Of
our fashionable watering places for a
man of wealth. lie became greatly smit
ten with the daughter of wealthy mer-
chant, who, besides what her father would
leave her, had handsome fortune in her
own right. He referred to we'll knowo
gentleman in New York, who thought
him rich, aud who knew the amount Of
his income tax. He was accepted and
married. 1t was found that he was a
clerk in dry goods house on quite an
ordinary salary. He secured money en-.
ough to pay a good sized income tax
His investment proved more lucrative
than a Wall street speculation, as it Sc
cured him rich wife.


Several instances have been known In
which parties have made splurge at the
Springs and elsewhere, and have got in
Productions to wealthy people, and return
ed to New York, hired handsomely
furnished house in good location for a
month or two have received their styl,
ish friends in style, married their daugh-
ters, and then retired to the back street
to which they really belonged How
many of such marriages have terminated
will bc ascertained by examing the re
cords of courts in Iudiana-B Boston Jour
nat
Year: 1872

At Brookville, the train was caught in
bank-it could neither back one nor 90
ahead, The wires were tapped and dis
patches sent to different quarters for men
and shovels. While the train was wait
ing the bufaloes gathered from the plains
to be leeside for shelter IF any one felt
disposed be might, from his seat in the
car, pop them over with his revolver-the
rest would not nove-they could not be
driven away by engine whistliug or the
human voice, but crowded their shaggy
sides mp close to the cars and there stood
with bowed heads for the storm to pass.
Many were seen to fall down in their
tracks, dead from the cold, and when at
last the train was dug ont and moved off,
the track was lined with these huge
shaggy, frozen carcasses. We think a
robe luxury in winter-so it is. Imag-
inc the seventy Of the weather when the
animal who furnishes the robe freezes to
death under his natural protection
Kansas Cor. New York Times.
Year: 1872

BUFFALOES STOPPING THE TRAIN


Leaving the last named station, Ellis.
on the Kansas Pacific r. r. we proceed
cd on, making better time in this one
hundred miles than in the last but night
coming on, the weary traveller took his
berth in the sleepiug-car (if he had oneI,
but he was not long destined to remain in
blissful slumber, as ever and anon the
shrill whistle sounded the alarm to
brake or stop the train. This occurring
every few minutes, the passengers wanted
to know the cause of it, and were inform
ed that the plains were covered by Buffa-
10.


Sleep was forgotten, and all eyes were
turned towards the plains and while the
grand midnight headlight (the moon)
was casting its clear rays across this wide
and extended waste of land, rejecting
with near the clearness of daylight upon
the snow covered ground, it revealed to
the excited passengers sight but seldom
the privilege of man to witness-namely.
a sea Of Jufd1o, as far as the eye could
reach. At times there was one mass of
living, tramping and stampeding buffalo
and deer, and here and there few elk In
their midst; and for more than humid
red miles the train had to encounter these
droves of animals at short intervals. and
some eight or ten times the engineer had
to reverse his engine to keep from run
ming into them. While this was goiuy
on, passengers who mad arms kent up a
constant fire upon the fear stricken brutes,
but | could not see that any of the shots
took effect although one large bull run
ming not more than twenty FIVE feet from
the cars, made one terrible leap into the
air, after shot from passenger a few
seats ahead of me. 1t seems to have had
no other effect on him, after the lean,
than to accelerate his speed This NAV
be sport to those who indulge in it, but T
think it is cruelty in the extreme, and for
humanlty's sake should be stopped. As
regards the number of buffaloes that was
seen that night, an old hunter in the cars
estimated it at one hundred thousand.


After long and tedious ride fbarrinc
the buffalo, &c. }, the train arrived at Den,
yer on Thanksgiving morning.-Kausas
Cor. st LOUIS Democrat
Year: 1872

A Woman Devoured by a Panther.


The Pensacola Mail, of Septem-
Der II, learns of a terrible event that
occurred in Perdido, a few days
previous. 1t says: "An old lady.


whose name we could not learn, was


in the habit Of going from her house


to a little store near the mills to sell
vegetables. She had to cross the
river to get there, and on this Occa-
sion was put across by a man who


waited with his skif to put her ever
again. AS the evening passed on,
and she did not appear, he, became


uneasy, and with another went in
search of her. AS they came near a
thick swamp, they beheld a sight of
horror that chilled them to the bone.
Pieces of flesh and blood and parts
of the old lady's raiment we're scat
tered around, showing that she had


been deyoured by some wild beast,
and the tracks of q large panther
were seen, showing plainly what an
imal it was. The men followed up
the trail Of blood, occasionally find
ing a small portion Of flesh, for a
long distance into the swamp, but
did not see the panther nor the body
of the victim. They went back for
their guns, and gathered together
several Of the neighbors, and at last
accounts they were hunting
the beast, but had not yet
yet found him. We hope 10 hear
soon that they Iave rid the country
of such dangerous game. The place
is not more than ten miles from here,
but there. is not much communities
tion between the eplaces."
Year: 1872

Port Pillows Bluff Banks Burning.


One Of the strangest phen omenon
of the times is reported to US from
the site of old Fort Pillow, fifty miles
above this city. 1t is no more nor
less than the bluff banks Of the river,
that rises fifty or sixty feet above
the water level, is on fire, and for
the past several weeks has been burn
ing like a volcano for the distance of
several hundred yards along the east
side of the river on a line ten or
twelve feet above the water Level.
At night lurid fame OF blaze OF
fire rises from the side of the bluff
to height of two or three feet which
then spreads into smoke and passes
on over the summit of the hill. dis
tributing itself with the atmosphere
and floating away skyward. The
steamer Celefte, on her last trip.
passed by the place in broad daylight
and at a time wnen light wind blew
from the shore, carrying the smoke
towards the Arkansas shore and COW
ering the river with a thick haze al
most Like fog. What strange COM
bustible formation composes the riv-
er bluff of the old fort, or what first
set it on fire, to burn after the fash
ion described, is one Of the most
marvellous events of the times, and
puzzles the people Of the vicinity no
little. We shall seek to be farther
informed upon this wonderful phen-
Omenon with no little curiosity.-
Memphis [ Tenn. AvaZanche.
Year: 1872

A German correspondent of the
Pail HAL Gazette says that it has
been established by official inquiries
that the first shot in the Franco-G Ger
man war was fired by the Prussian
Sergeant Major Of Artillery Schranz,
who, with patrol from Saarbrucken,
met a French cavalry, and wounded
one of them. He has been decorated
with the Iron Cross, and was present
ed by the Emperor William with a
revolver of rich workmanship.
Year: 1872

The woman's rights movement
must be making considerable head
way in England if we are to believe
a statement Of "a London correspond
ent Of the Scotsman, who says that
one of the leading lady advocates Of
Woman's suffrage intends. at the next
general election, to offer herself as a
candidate for parliamentary honors
in a popular constituency.
Year: 1872

There is no town in Mort hern Ohio that has a
healthier or steadier growth than Fremont Man
ufactures are receiving particular attention.
Buildings rapidly going on. The great trouble
now is to obtain the mechanics to do the work;
Year: 1872

Further Testimony Taken Before the


Fire Marshal I'm Relation to the Burn


ing Of Barn um's Museum.


Two more witnesses were examined before Fire
Marshal McSpedon yesterday as to the cause OF the
fire that took place In Barnums Museum. The fol-
lowing is the testimony they gave:-


William H. Frakc, being duly sworn, stated-1
am employed at Barnum's Museum in taking care
OF animals; after the performance on Tuesday
night last and after all the visitors had left the
building Charles Welt, another employe, and I
went out together; we returned at between half
past twelve and one O'Clock; we knocked at the
door and Mr.. Nelson, the night watchman,
came and let us in; Welt and ! then
went to bed together; was always In the habit OF
hanging my best clothes by the wax figures, within
eight or ten feet from the place where the fire
Year: 1872

BLUE LIGHT AS AN ORGANIC STIMU-
LIANT AT recent meeting of the Phila-
drlphit Agricultural Society, General
Pleasanton read m interesting paper on
The effects of sunlight on plants and ami
mails when transmitted through blue
glass. Geraniums which had become un-
healthy recovered their vigor and became
more deeply colored when covered with
blue glass; and the branches of the sam"
grape vine showed a remarkable difference
in their growth OF leaves according a.
thew We're or We're not covered with blue
ylass, the leaves on the former having
diameter of six to eight inches, being of a
deep green color and perfectly healthy
while the uncovered branches were only
two inches in diameter and of pale,
-yellowsh color, indicating feeble
vitality. The paper also mentioned case
of the wife of Philapelphia physician
who had for some time been suffering
from complication OF disorders which
had baffled the skill of her hysicians, and
who, on the suggestion of General Pleas
anton, tried the following plan: Every
other pane of glass in one of the windows
of the patients room was removed and
blue glass substituted, and the patient re-
quired to expose her back and spine to
the action of the combined blue aid
white lights for thirty minutes each day,
at the same hour. At the beginning OF
the treatment she was unable to sleep or
eat, was in miserable condition, and.
wasting rapidly. At the end of ten days
the pains in her back were less her hair
had begun growing thickly, and there was
q marked improvement in her general
condition. In three weeks she was al
most entirely well.-Medical Record.
Year: 1872

OLD GERMAN LAVA work by Herr
Gieske on "The Humorous Element in
German Law" was recently published at
Berlin, and contains, among other inter-
estlng matter, descriptions Of the punish
ments to which deliDquents were subjected
in oil times. However ludicrouS some of
these infections may seem to the Germans
of Bsmarck's day: they must have been
anything but funny to those who suffered
them. Up to the middle of the seventeenth
century it was the custom in Hesse to seat
a woman who had beaten her goodman
on a donkey facing the tail, which she
was made to grasp firmly, and in this po-
,irion she went through the town, her
husband leading the donkey. Men who
persistently allowed themselves to be
henpecked had the roofs of their houses
removed. on the ground that man who
permits lis wife to rule at home does not
deserve to he protected from wind and
weather. Slanderers and libelers were
made to stand in public on q block, and
strike themselves three times on the
mouth as o token of repentance.