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Year: 1872

PorTED MEArs.-It sometimes happens
from some unforeseen circumstances,
that large quantities Of cooked meats,
prepared for a party which did not
come of, perhaps, remain on hand,
which are inevitable lost. Such should
be potted. Cut the meat from the bone,
and chop fine, and season high with
salt and pepper, cloves and cinnamon.
Moisten with VINEGAR, wine, brandy.
cider, and Worcestershire sauce, or
melted butter, according t.: the kind of
meat, or to suit your own taste. Then
pack it tight into stone jar, and cover
over the top with about a quarter Of an
inch of melted butter. 1t will keep
months, and always afford a ready and
excellent dish for the tea table.
Year: 1872

The Tomah Journal tells the follow
ing story:


"A gentleman living near this place
tells OF one OF his neighbors having a
yearling of the bovine genus that has
been siling since last summer, getting
very poor and scrawny, and the owner
had about concluded it would die he.
fore spring WIS over. A few DAYS since.
the gentleman fed his cattle salt, when
the SICK yearling, appearing to be very
salt hungry, took a mouthful of salt,
and Immediately thereafter commenced
to choke and cough, and after severe
fit of cong hing elected from its throat
Il live rattic-snake with one rattle. The
year'ing is now doing incls."
Year: 1872

From the Cincinnati Enquirer, March ,.


Mrs. Mayling is the name of Il widow
lady, with three children, who occupies
a room in the third story of the build
in~ No. $50 Race street. The landlord
has been giving her notice to leave,
very persistently for some time, and she
has us persistently refused to comply with
the wishes of the proprietor. Yester
day morning Mrs. Mayling sent one of
her children in great haste for physi-
clan, stating that she was III 4 very bad
way When the doctor assembled the
stairs leading to her altitudinous room
he was stitled with the fumes OF brlm-
stone. With Il great disregard to con
sequences he pushed forward until he
reached the poor woman's door, which
was opened in response to his knock.
The fumes of birthstone were SO strong,
however, that he was compelled to rush
down one flight Of stairs, where he
called to the woman and asked her
what she was trying to do. She replied
that she was trying to keep possession
of her room, but she was beginning to
despair of being able 10 do SO much
longer. She said the landlord was
lumigating her establishment with
birthstone, for the purpose Of making
her leave the premises, and she was
beginning to find the situation unpIcas-
ant. The doctor informed her that she
could probably exist another hour in
the atmosphere, if her constitution WAS
pretty strong, but he would not warrant
her life and that Of her children for Il
longer time than that. When the doc
tor left the little family were gasping
for wholesome air, like II mackerel ON u
sand bar, ON the lower steps Of the stair
way, and the landlord was still plling
on the birthstone.
Year: 1872

A writer in the New York Herald
says: The following is Mrs. Good
mans celebrated remedy, which has
been unfailing in every case before
the occurrence of spasms. 1t consists
of three doses of eleeampane root,
taken in the following manner, viz :
For the first dose take one and half
ounces of either the dried or green
root; If green CRATE as you would
horse-radish if the dry root, reduce
IL quite fine; mix it in pint of milk
fresh from the COW and boil il down
to half pint. Take this early in the
morning upon an empty stomach and
eat nothing until after 4 O'Clock in the
afternoon. Forty-eight hours after
two ounces of the root prepared in the
way, boiling it down to half as before,
and take it in the same manner
Again, in forty-eight hours take
another dose of same quantity as the
last This makes in all five and a half
ounces of the root and three pints of
milk. The directions are to be closely
observed, using milk fresh from the
COW, boiling each dose down to half
pint; taking the whole dose at once
and upon an empty stOmeeh, fasting
It'll O'Clock, taking the dose every
other day. The green root is prefera-
BILE. 1t is an exceedingly nauseous
dose to prepare or take, but is certain
cure, if taken in time for either
hydrophObia or snake bite. The gen.
tleman who gave US the receipt paid
S25 for it, and was cured by it. Since
then he has prescribed it with certain
effect in a number of cases. In one
case two men were bitten by the
same dog. One took the remedy and
is living to-day, the other refused to
take it and died in most terrible
agony.
Year: 1872

Oblivion must be the ultimate doom
of all who have set at defiance the
maxims of decency, morality and re-
ligiOn, however bright their genius,
and however vast their powers. AS
the world grows older, and, we trust
better-as it approximates to that
state of religious and moral elevation
which Christianity warrants us to
anticipate, many production which
a licentiOus age has pardoned for its
genius, will be thrown aside in spite
of it. In that day, if genius rebel


liOusly refuse, as it assuredly will not,
to consecrate itself to goodness, the
world will rather turn to the humhlest
productions which are instinct with
virtue, than TO the fairest works of
genius when polluted by vice. In q
word, the lone idolatary of intellect
which has enslaved the world will be
broken; and the world will see that,
bright as genius may be, virtue is
brighter still. Happy the writers who
if destined to live so long, have, with
souls prophetic of The great change,
and true to the dictates of morality
and religion, never written line but
what after ages may gratefully turn
TO for solid instruction or innocent
delight; and happy, also, all who,
though not destined to see those dis
tart times, have in any measure con-
tributed to form and hasten theml
Year: 1872

Modern science has entirely changed
public opinion In regard to the fearful


pestilences which affiiet civilized
societies. Formerly when "the black
DEATH" or the plague, or small pOx,
or cholera appeared and spread their


mysterious and terrible ravages, the


feeling of the people at once was that
this was supernatural visitation for
national sins, and that the only mode
OF escape was prayer and fasting and
religious ceremonial.


Now the more enlightened view is
that such calamities are, indeed. pun
ishments for national sins, but they
are the practical iniquities of every
day life-uncleanliness, neglect of
ventilation, carelessness about food, ],
and disregard of the laws of health,
especially in the cleansing of houses
and public ways. The only apprOpri-
ate repentance for such offences is to
cease committing them; to make
clean the persons and houses; to
purify streets and lanes; to enforce
ventilation, and see that the masses
Of the people live in abOdes fit for
human beings. Evidently the relig-
iOus lesson in these diseases and pes
tilenees is that man should carefully
obey the laws of health, and take care
of his fellow man.


Modern science has elassed a large
number Of diseases under the generic
name Of foul air diseases" such as
scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid,
cholera and small pOx. These are
believed to be absolutely under the
control of sanitary arrangements I;
that is, If body of physicians and
sanitarians could manage a whole
city as they now do a prison or an
asylum, they could absolutely prevent
or kill out the maladies. II is related
that in sanitary books that the direc-
tor of a model prison in England ex-
pressed himself as ashamed and con-
vieted at the appearance once of a
sporadic case of small pox in his
building, knowing that it arose en-
tirely from some local neglect. The
material for the foul air diseases fills
our whole atmosphere we take it in
every pore.


Without doubt, if we had organs
sufficiently fine for the purpose, we
should see floating all through the air
the various germ-seeds of our pesti-
lenees-there 6 cloud Of small pOx
germs, there the winged germs Of
diDhtheria, or the small fungi of
cholera iDfantum and typhus. and a
multitude beyond all computation of
seeds of sickness, pestilenee and
plague. And these germs cannot be
exclusively OF the soil which
generated them. We are made our
brothers. keeper, and we suffer for
his neglect.
Year: 1872

Air, the breath Of life, is the first
want of the human being, and it il
also the last. At every puIsatiOn
during life, we need this life-sustain- .
ing element. Yet. one would suppose.
by the bad ventilation of houses
churches and theatres. that a man
was made to live without air-at least,
that il was a matter of Indifference
whether be had much or little, or
whether it was good or bad. We read
in the papers of the death of persons
from suffOcatiOn in wells, mines, or
by escaping gas, and we are startled,
wondering why people will be 50
careless; yet thousands of people die
by inches, or only half live, in eOnse-
quenee of the impurity of the air
which they breathe. If one is shut
up in a small room without any ad-
mission of fresh air, the air contained
within the room soon becomes impure
by having been bTeathed over and
over, and very great lassitude or de-
preston of life and spirits is the con-
sequence. The blood requires to be
Tevitalized constantly within the
lungs, by coming in contact with
atmospheric air. Indeed that Is the
whole Office of the lungs, to aerate or
revitaliZe the blood (which is there
met by the atmospheric air), and
change it from dark Yenous blood to
bright scarlet arterial blood, thus pre-
pairing it to carry life to every part
and tissue of the system. In the lungs
the blood loses many of its impurities,
and takes on the life-giving oxygen
from the air; and in proportion as the
air is abundant and pure which we
breathe, in that proportion we have
the glow of health and the enthusi-
asm of living which comes from WELL
Yitalized blood.
Year: 1872

There is no social life in China.
Woman is alone and expects to be
alone and to pass her days in mental
toll, If born to poverty, or in embrOid-
cry and useless leisure work if wealthy
She is cleanly and nice in her habits,
and as happy as she can be in her
low state of social development, and
the question of regeneratiDg China
depe ends far more upon her than any
other cause. As the population has
reached its maximum, there is a
necessity to check it, and however
stringent the laws against female in
fanticide it is extensively practieed,
particularly in seaboard towns where
emigration takes place. There are
many proofs of this murderous Gus
tom, some of which are the number of
foundling asylums which receive no
male children, proclamations bullet
ined through the cities warning
against female infantieide; and the
great excess everywhere of the num-
Der of males over females The
parents are not brutal but necessity
regards no affections, and the poor
little girl baby is drowned before she
knows what life is and what miseries
she has escaped through the door Of
her early death.
Year: 1872

One great cause of the poverty of
the present day, is the fai uTe of many
people to appreciate small things.
They say that if they cannot save
large sums, they will not save any.
| thing. They do not realize how a
daily addition, be it ever so small,
will soon make large pile. If the
young men and women of to-day viii
only begin, and begin now to save q
little from their earnings, and invest
in some savings bank, and weekly or
monthly add to their mite, they will
wear a happy smile Of content ard
Independence when they reach mid
die life. Not only the pile itself will
increase, but the desire and ability TO
increase it will soon grow.


Let the clerk and tradesman, laboTer
and artisan, make now and at once a
beginning. Store up some of your
youthful force and vigOr for future
cOntins ency. Let pare nts teach their
children to begin early to save. Be
gin at the fOuntainhead to control the
stream of extTavagance, and then the
work will be easy to choose between
poverty and riches. Let our youth
go on in the habits of extravaganza,
for fifteen years to come, as they have
for fifty years past, and we shall be
nation of beggars with a mOneyed
aristOcracy. Let a generation Of such
as save in small sums be reared, and
we shall be free from want. Do not
be ambitious for rextTavagant fortunes
but seek that which is the duty of
every man to Obtain-independenee
and comfortable home. Wealth in
sufficient quantities is within the
reach of all 1t can be had By only
one proeess-saving
Year: 1872

a deacon being in c neighborine
town one Saturday, fell in with {
travelling minister and invited him tC
come to his town and preach mex
Sunday, and to his house for dinner
So Sunday morning the deacon told
his family that the minister would be
there to dinner, and, as they were out
OF meat, told his hired boy to go to q
certain place by the side of the road
and dig out a wOodchuck that was
supposed TO have burrowed there and
they would have him for dinner
While the boy was digging away al
the woOdchuck hole, the minister
came along on his way to preach. On
seeing the 10y thus digging, be
hauled up and aceosted him with:


"Well, my son, what are you doing
there ?"


Digging out a woodchuck, sir"
said the boy.


"Why, but don't you know it is
very wicked? ? and besides, you won't
get him if you do dig for him on Sun
day."


"Git himI" said the boy. 'Thun-
der! I've got TO git'im; the minister's
coming to our house to dinner, and
we amt got any meat"
Year: 1872

Prof. James E. johnson, of Scot
Land, says that half the saline matter
of the blood (75 per cent consists OF
common salt, and as this is partly
dissolved every day through the
skin and kidneys, the necessity of
continued supplies of it to the healthy
body is sufficiently obvious. The
bile also contains sOda-one of the in
gradients of salt-as a special and in
dispensable constituent, and so do all
the caTtilages of the body. Stint the
supply of salt, and neither will the
bile be. able properly to assist diges-
tiOn, nor the cartilages to be built up
again as fast as they naturally waste.
1t is better to place salt where stock
can have free access to it than 20 give
it occasionally, in small quantities.
They will help themselves to what
they need, if allowed to do so at
pleasure, otherwise, when they be-
come salt hungry, they may take
more than is wholesome.
Year: 1872

Give children an abundance Ofout-
door exercise, fun and frolie; make
them regular in their habits, and feed
them only on plain, nOurishing food,
and they will seldom, if ever, com
plain of lack of appetite. But keep
them Overtasked in school, confined
closely to the house the rest of the
time, frOwning down every attempt
at play; feed them upon rich or high
seasoned food, candies, nuts, &C,
allow them to eat between meals and
late in the evening, and you need not
expect them 10 have gpOdappetites.-
On the contrary, you may expect
they will be pale, weak and siekly.-
Don't cram them with food when
they don't want il, or have no appe-
tite for it-sueh a course is slow muir
der. If they have no appetite, en-
courage, and If need be, command
them to take exercise in the open air


Don't allow them TO study too much,
and especially keep them from read
ing the exciting light literature which
so much abOunds in our bookstores
and circulating libraries. In addi-
tiOn to securing exercise for the chill
dren as above, change their diet some
what; especially if they have been
eating fine flour, change to coarse or
Graham -four.
Year: 1872

No young man ever thinks that. he
shall die. He may believe that 9TH
ers will, or he will assent to the doe
trine that "all men are mortal" but
he is far enough from bringing il
home to imselfindividually Youth
buOyant activity and animal spirits
hold absolute antipathy with old age,
as well as with death, nor have we in
the hey-day of life the remotest con-
eeption how ''this sensible warm mo-
tiOn can become a kneaded elod." Or
if, in q moment of idle speculation we
look vaguely forward to the close of
life, 1t is amazing at what a distance
it seems, what long, leisurely per-
spective there is between. We eye
the farthest verge of the horizon and
think what a way we shall have to
look back upon ere we arrive at our
journeys end, and, 10! before we in
the least suspect it, the mists are at
our feet and the shadows of death
encompass us.-Le PreUOst.
Year: 1872

Emerson says: do not hang a
dismal picture on your wall, and 10
not deal with sables and glOoms in
your conversation" Beeeher follows
with: Away with these fellows who
go bowling through life, all the while
passing for birds of paradise. He
that cannot laugh and be gay should
look well 10 himself He should fast
aud pray until his face breaks forth
into light" Talmage then takes up
the strain: Some people have an idea
that they comfort the afflicted when
they groan over them. Don't drive
a hearse over a mans soul. When
you bind up q broken bone of the
soul, and you want spllnts. do not
make them of cast irsn-~ After such
eOunselingsand admOnitions lay aside
your long faces.
Year: 1872

The Southern papers say that there
never were as fine oranges i'm Florida
as there are this year, and that it is
owing to a severe gale which blew of
nearly three-ffths of the young fruit,
Just after they were fairly formed.
The Germantown Telegraph urges q
lesson from this, to be needed by
fruit growers of every class. 1--WE
take up the fruit-grOwers' societies in
any part of the community and note
the great difference of opinion which
prevails as to the quality of any one
fruit. One speaker, perhaps, eharae-
terizes it as food for the gods, while
another would not give il TO his pigsl
No doubt, if the facts could be ascer-
tanned, il would be found that one
had an over crop, and the other but
few on his trees.


I'm the grape, we know how fOrci-
bly, all writers warn US against the
evil of over cropping. The best vine
yardists cut away large proportion
of the punches. and assert not only
that it aids the size but the quality of
those which are left; aud, in the pear
itself, we all know hcw the large, fat,
juicy fellow is far superior to the lean
scrub from the same tree.


1.-THE good effect of fruit thinning
is not half enough insisted upon; but
such facts as this of the orange crop
may help to do it."
Year: 1872

Here is an aneedote told by one
minister about another. A certain
presiding elder, who was noted for
seldom being very animated, and
seldom up to time, and seldom very
brief, once kept a congregation wait
ing a long lime for his appearance,
and when at last he did come he
preached for them prosy sermon OF
unusual length, on the text - Feed
my lambs" He had not yet finished
when that original old minister
known as camp meeting John"
arose from a seat in the congregation
and said, Brother, have had some
experience in raising lambs myself.
and have found the following rules
absolutely necessary to successful
raising: First, give them their foot
in season; second, give them a little
at time; third, give it them warm" "
Year: 1872

Some ingenious Yankee has invent
ed a process by which maple-sugar
can be made out of common New Or
leans molasses, flavoring it by steam
ing maple wood. The next thing we
are looking for is a process whereby
they will make honey from cod-liver
oil, fiavoring II with bees-wsx.
Year: 1872

There is a peculiar mystery and
significance about the hour of mid
night. tits the isthmus between two
worlds, the climax of the past day,
the verge of that which is to come
wrapping us in sleep after a weary
travail, and promising US a morrow
which since the first birth of creation
has ncrer failed.
Year: 1872

was q gala day on board the Polaris
The good ship was hemmed in by
heavy field ice, but the weather was
as pleasant as an Italian spring day.
The Esquimaux and the dogs, which
Capt. Hall procured at st. Johns
were brought into rtquisition' and q
seal hunt was proposed as the object
of the day. The dogs were lowered
TO the ice in a boat from the davits,
and were tackled to low sledges by
the EsqIimsuX. Capt. Hall says that
the sagaclty and traetableness of the c
animals was remarkable. After hall
an hours stretch gallop over the heavy
ice, the painting dogs suddenly drew
up and yelled and paved the surface.
One of the EsquimauX-the oldest OF
the lot at once Interpreted the wal
ming Of the dogs, and quick as light
ming he bounded from his seat and
turned the dogs heads toward the
shif. In half the time IL took to reach
the distance they. had travelled from
the Palaris. the eager dogs pulled up
beside the hill. Around the horizon
then there were murky clouds assem-
bling and the atmosphere felt misty
and bleak. Within an hour after the
warning of the sagaciOus animals,
the ice had been broken up and then
the POlaris was separated from it by
a stormy channel nearly half mile
in width. Had The seal hunting par
ty fulfilled their inten ton of urging
on the dogs and keeping up the sport
until moonlight, few of them would
hove survived the excursion. Upon
another occasion tbs sc valuable dogs
acted as settlers in scenting out large
numb Der of seals which would have
probably passed the notice CT the In
dians themselves. On that day they
shot owe forty seals and brought back
to she ship the clippers" or paws of
several old harpers, which were given
to the cooks charge, and proved to be
a rare and palatable relish.


The most important clue to the tx
istence of
Year: 1872

The first Semiannual Editorial Conven
ton for 1872, of the 10th and 18th Con-
gressional Districts, is to meet at Ken
dallville on Friday the 18th of April.
The Iaadionion says with truth if the or
ganization is to be kept up ly a small
proportion of the number of editors its
benficial influence is doubtful. The last
meeting of the Convention was in this
place. Those in attendance seemed to
enjoy the meeting; but they might just
as well have assembled without an organ
ization, and had a friendly chat, so far as
any good was effected, as they did with
the name of an organization. The laws
which should govern the association were
not present, and no one seemed to know
what they were. No reports were made
by officers. No one knew who had paid
a memberships fee, or annval dues-Nor
who was entitled to vote or hold Office
No reports were made by the officers.
No one knew anything about the finan-
cial condition of the association. Th e
whole thing seemed to be conducted upon
the plan newspaper establishments were
long ago conducted in the West


We rather liked the appearance of the
editors who assembled here last Fail and
felt an inclination to join them, in thei r
labors to promote the interests of printers
and publishers but could not learn the
nature of the laws that govern them.


From comments made by some of the
leading papers in this part of the State
the Knox Ledger and the Laporte argos,
for instance-we infer that it is considered
decidedly wrong to publish a certain class
of advertisements, at reasonable paying
price. This they call rafting. They do not
deny the right of a publisher to do job
printing at less than the cost Of the work


That is called competition.


Now if we can find out what is requir-
ed ola member of the association, and
can get definition of the words rafting
and cOmpetiti0n, as understood by the or
ganization, and that definition is as we
were instructed some time ago, and the
| requirements of the association are rea-
sonable, we still desire to be one in theil
midst.