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Year: 1876

When youth provides home for his
mother--she widow, perhaps-and sees
that her material wants are ministered to,
he thinks he has done all, perhaps more
than all, that is required OF him. But she
feels that there is lack; she knows that
her boy seldom gives her caress, he has
forgotten all those affectionate ways that
kept the wrinkles from her face, and
made her look so much younger than her
years; he is ready to put his hand In his
pocket to crafty her slightest request
but to give of the abundance of his heart
is another thing entirely. Of course he
loves her, else he would do less TO pro-
mote her comfort; but he does not know
how the mother heart Graves an occa-
sionAl kiss, the support of youthful arms,
the little attentions and kindly courte-
sizes of life, that smooth down so many OF
its asperities, and make the journey less
wearisome. Material aid isgoOd rs far as
il goes, but il has not that sustaining power
which the loving sympathetic heart be-
slows upon its object. Love your mother,
my boy, and don't be ashamed to let the
world know it. Can you begrudge few
extra steps for one who never stopped to
number those you demanded during your
helpless infancyi Have you the heart to
slight.her requests or treat her remarks
with indifference, when you cannot be-
gin to measure the patient devotion with
which she bore with your peculiaritiesi
Anticipate her wants, invite her conf
dence, be prompt, to offer assistance, ex


press your affection as you did when a
child, that the mother may never grieve in
secret for the e'son she has lost.
Year: 1876

MINCEMEAT.-Boil five pounds of lean
and juicy beef until tender, and, while
boiling, keep closely covered. When
cool, chop very fine. Chop we'll three
pounds of nice beef suet, stone three
pounds OF raisins, and chop, three pounds
well-washed and dried currants, two
pounds of citron, cut into thin slices.
Crate the rind of six fresh lemons, two
tablespoonfuls of cinnamon, four good
sized nutmegs, grated, one teaspoonful of
ground white ginger, one teaspoonful of
salt; chop finely fourteen good-sized pip
pins. Mix these well together. IF ne
cessary, use more apples. Put in stone
pot; cover it with good French brandy
and wine. This must be kept in cool,
dry place.


To Cook CODFIsH.-Cut up your fish,
put it on the fire in cold water and let it
heat very gradually, but it must not get
too hot; in about an hour scrape the fish
very clean and get of all the skin, then
put it in clean, cold water; peel your
potatoes and put them on with the fish
and plenty of water in season for them
to get to boiling in time to be done for
dinner; the potatoes are much better for
boiling with the fish. l have seen fish
soaked until it was quite tasteless. 1t
should be served with drawn butter or
pork cut fine and fried light brown,
boiled eggs, onions, beets and squash, or
stewed pumpkin.


A CURE FOR CANCER.-Four different
cases have been permanently cured by
the following prescription; A pure arti
Gle of white vitriol; pulverize fine; put
on the cancer about the thickness OF a
common knife-blade, renewed every two
hours. 1t may, perhaps, take from six
to ten days to kill it. Whenever it is
thoroughly killed you can take the point
of needle and lift it out, but so long as
you find root holding, apply the vitriol
to it until it is killed. Spread the vitriol
on thick linen cloth, or buckskin. or
other soft leather.


BREAKFAST -Housekeepers
will value this receipt as dainty substi-
tute for bread at breakfast or tea: Two
eggs well beaten, with one cupful of su-
gar and lump of butter the size~of an
egg; to this add one pint of milk, with
one teaspoonful of soda, one quart of
-four, and two teaspoonfuls of cream tar
tar; bake in muffin rings on top of the
range, or in gem pans in a quick oven.


COOKING CELERY. "A correspondent
of the american Farmer says that cooked
celery is an everyday dish on his table
in the winter, and sometimes late into
spring. he gives the process as follows
"Cut on the unbleached part; cut the
bleached up in pieces about two inches
long; parboil until tender, then stir in
milk and butter, with salt and pepper to
Year: 1876

Notwithstanding the perfect simplicity


of the Digger Indians life, he is an invet-


crate gambler; his principal game is very


simple, consisting of holding both hands
behind him, in one of which is a stick.


while another bets he can tell in which


hand he holds it. 1t is stated that dig


gers" scorn cheating, and after the bets


are made never change the stick from one


hand to the other Their money consists


of little round shells with a hole in the
center, which one of their number is Sc


lected to manufacture. No counterfeit
ing is ever attempted. Each shell repre-
sents about half a cent of American money,
and is taken by their tribe as greedily as
gold. Their social habits are, to say the


least, peculiar. The wigwams are built
throughout of redwood bark, and are
round in shape, which can be better ex-
planned by saying that they are in the
shape of bowl upside down with a
smaller one placed also upside down on
top. There are no windows, and aside
from the aperture for entrance, which is
about two feet square, and a small open
ing at the top to allow the smoke to es-
cape, there is no opening in this conical-
shaped inclosure. To enter one of these
huts it becomes necessary to get down
and crawl in. Once inside a strange
sight meets the eye. The majority of
both sexes go perfectly naked, and being
scrupulously particular, each one does his
or her own cooking. They sleep in hol-
low places in the ground, with feet to the
center. Their cooking apparatus, which
consists of good sized rocks, followed
out, is in convenient reach, and the dig
ger need not rise to prepare his breakfast |
The food consists of bread made from
acorns, which are first buried, then roast
ed, then pulverized, and lastly mixed with
water and baked. This bread is said to |
be very nourishing.
Year: 1876

The notion that the moon influences
our atmosphere is fully disposed of:


The notion that the moon exerts an in
huence on weather Is so deeply rooted
that notwithstanding all the attacks
which have been made against II since
meteorology has been seriously studied,
1t continues to retain its hold upon u.s.
And yet there never was popular super
stition more utterly without basis than
this one. If the moon did really possess
any power over weather, that power
could only be exercised in one of three
ways-by reflection of the suns rays, by
attraction, or by emanation. No other
form of action is conceivable. Now, as
the brightest light of a full moon is
never equal in intensity or quantity to
that which is reflected towards us by a
white cloud on a summer day, it can
scarcely be pretended that weather is
affected BY such a cause. That the moon
does exert attraction on us is manifest
we see its working in the tides; but,
though 1t can move water, it is most un-
likely that it can do the same to air, for
the specific gravity Of the atmosphere is
50 small that there is nothing to be at
tracted. Laplace calculated, indeed, that
the joint attraction of the sun and moon
together could not stir the atmosphere at
quicker rate than five miles day. As
for lunar emanations, not a sign of them
has ever been discovered. The idea Of
an influence produced by the phases Of
the moon is therefore based on no recog-
nizable cause whatever. Furthermore,
It is now distinctly shown that no varia-
tons at all really occur in weather at the
moment of the changes of quarter, any
more than at other ordinary times. Since
the establishment Of meteorological sta.
tions all over the earth, it has beer
proved by millions of observations thai
there is no simultaneousness whatever


between the supposed cause and the sup
posed effect. The whole story is a fancy
and q superstition, which has been handed
down to US uncontrolled, and which We
have accepted as true because our fore
fathers believed 1t. The moon exercises
no more influence on weather than her


rings do. on the government of Switzer


land.
Year: 1876

One of the dangers of the home-life IS


this habit of dlsrespect- which is


bred by familiarity. People who are all


beauty and sunshine for crowd of


strangers, for whom they have not the


faintest affection, are all ugliness and


gloom for their own, by whose love they


live. The pleasant little prettiness CT


dress and personal adornment, which


mark the desire to please, are put on only


for the admiration of those whose ad-


miration goes for nothing while the


house companions are treated only TO the


ragged gowns and thread-bare coats. the


touzzled hair and stubby beard, which, If
marking the ease and comfort of the
sans tde0n of home, mark also the iudiffer-
ence and disrespect which do so much
damage to the sweetness and delicacv of
daily life. And what is true of the dress
is trCer still of the manners and tempers
OF home, In both of which we find too
often that want of respect which seems
to run side by side with affection and the
custom of familiarity. 1t is d reg1etable
habit under any of its conditions. but
never more so than when it invades the
home and endangers still more that
which is already too much endangered by
other things. Parents and up-bringers
do not pay enough attention to this in
the young. They allow habits of disre-
spect to be formed-rude, rough, insolent,
impatient-and salve over the sore with
the stereotyped excuse: "They mean
nothing by it," which, if we look at it
Alright is worse than no excuse at all; for
if they really do mean nothing by it,
and their disrespect is not what it seems
tn be, the result of strong anger, uncon-
trollable temper, but is merely habit,
then it ought to be conquered without
loss of time, being merely manner that
hurts all parties alike (LOndon) Queen.
Year: 1876

a minute the great mass was locked in.


Quick 1t is already trembling, and
about TO move. Only swift and agile
feet can save them.


The climb along the ridge, and over
the hummocks. They are safe ashore at
the very instant when the dull roar and
swash sets in again, and the great, grind
ing mass is on the move.


The master had fully intended to pun
ish Dick Corson. But he couldn't The
events of the morning had punished him.
His disgrace was so complete that whip
ping would almost have been a mercy.
But the teacher did write upon the black
board, "Bulies are not generally brave" !"
And. Dick Corson left school, Youths
Companion.
Year: 1876

The following mode of tying hyenas in


their dens, as practiced in Afgauistan, is
given-by Arthur Connolly in his OUerldnd
Journal, in the words of an Afghan chief,


the Shirkaree Syud Daoud: "When you


have tracked the beast to his den you
take a rope with two slip-knots upon it
in your right hand, and with your left
holding felt cloak before you, you go
boldly but quietly in. The animal does
not know the nature of the danger, and
therefore retires to the back of his den,
but you may always tell where his head
is by the glare Of his eyes. You keep
moving on gradually towards him on
your knees, and when you are within dis
tance, throw the cloak over his head,
close with him. and take care be does not
free himself The beast is so frightened
that he covers back, and though he may
bite the felt, he cannot turn his neck
round to hurt you, so you quietly feel for
his fore legs, slip the knots over them,
and then, with one strong pull, draw
them tight up to the back of his neck,
and tie them there. The beast is now
your own, and you can do what you like
Win nim' we BeneTally take tnose we
catch home to the krail, and hunt them
on the plain with brides in their mouths,
that our dogs may be taught not to fear
the brutes when they meet them Wild"


Hyenas are also taken alive by the
Arabs by very similar method, except
that a wooden gag is used instead of a.
felt cloak. The similarity in the mode
of capture in two such distant countries
as Algeria and Afghanistan, and by two
races so different, is remarkable. From
the fact that the Afghans consider that
the fea. requires great presence of mind,
and an instance being given of man
having died of a bite received in a clumsy
attempt; we may infer that the Afghan
hyena is more powerful or more ferocious
than his African conpener.
Year: 1876

SOMEBODY who has heard of PROPOSE
ton to have separate street cars for
women, says that he sees no necessity
for it, as he never had any objection
to riding in the same car with woman.
Year: 1876

The Republican, this morning, claimed
to be superior to that intolerapt party
spirit which abuses and denouDces po-
lltical opponents. The Republican very
promptly printed the SANDER put forth
by the New York Times, to the effect
that Gov. Tlden had committed the
crime Of perjury in swearing to the
amount Of his revenue, and 1t has rung
the changes on that lie for more than a
week. As the slander has been fully
exposed and refuted, and the New York
Times proved TO be no better than u for
ger, we should like to see the Kepubli-
can exhibit u little Of its superiority to
partisan spirit by printing the vindica-
tion Of Coy. Tilden.
Year: 1876

What is the matter with the Radicals?
Why do they so outrageously treat their
candidate for Vice President rs they are
doing2 Wheeler is to speak during the
campaign, but what u field has been
selected for him-Vermontl Just think
OF It'll His speeches are considered so
little effective that Vermont, State
stepped In Radicalism, which the Demo-
Gratis have never once dreamed OF carry
ing. has been selected for his special
use. Vermont has always been a sort
of Radical Botany Bay. where all the
old used-up frauds, all the broken
down political hacks, were sent to air
the old jokes and old speeches, while
the orators were reserved for such close
States as Indiana and Ohio. 1t GER
tainly is very far from complimentary
to Wheeler to send him speaking In Yer
mont, where the State Is pretty sure
Radical, speech or no speech.
Year: 1876

Each party in New York has put for
candidate for Governor. Both Seymour
and Morgan have had experience rs
occupants Of the Gubernatorial chair,
and will carry into the can nvass strong
personal rs well as party following.
Considering the relationships of the
State and Presidential election, how
ever, the chances are decidedly in favor
OF Seymour. Tilden's strength will in
crease his. and both will work together
for the accomplishment Of common
nt1rpoga
Year: 1876

1t is stated that the Customhouse off,
cials who have been appointed as United
States Supervisors at the Registration
offices on the part OF the Radicals, lave
been requested by proper authority to
either resign the Customhouse offices
or their Supervisorsbips. There are
about twenty OF these ambitious youths
desirous Of serving their party in a
double capacity at double salaries.
Year: 1876

Farmers United states-ln fact, all tho leading
botels--are literally crowded vita Gags. and
before each ever since darkness came
there has been a grand display OF
pyrotechnica AS wrtcp procession is passing over
haliowed ground. the same rod by the Continental
troops Almost hundred years the most critical
period OF the Revolution; and those who load the line
Of march dressed in II o old Continental costumes
Despite the laencss OF tho hour halfpast eevcnl the
procession greeted With cheers and huzzas, and
often tho music OF the band Is completely drowned IN
the greetings OF the spectators Not only the windows
but the housctops are crowded with ladies and gentle
men who wave handkcrchcfs, down bunches Of
flowers and IN various other ways demonstrate their
enthusiasm. The procession Is headed soy superb
band from Allentown Pa. behind the band follows a
company OF cavalry and behind these numerous citi.
In carriages As tho procdssion passes from point
point bonircs are seen at every turning point The
air - filed with exploding fireworks, and canrons
belch forth their thunder from Washington head
quarters from Old Fort Nonsense and from the Green
No one sleep in Morristown tonight There
much excitement. too much noise, too much MUSIC
and too much patriotic enthusiasm.
Year: 1876

About eight O'Clock last evening there was an expo
sion OF fireworks at No 2o7 Smith street The hrS
noor of the building was occupied by Frederick Som
mervillc as cigar store few days ago he laid IN
stock OF fireworks for sale The explosion was caused
by some person throwing Lighted match tho door
The proprietor and Francis Lent aged IL. were IN he
store tho time The young man was instantly
killed The body terribly burned party Of
men standing the door at the TIME were severely
burned about the hands and head. The loss build
ing and stock estimated by Marshal Ready at 00n
INSURED In the Germania Insurance Company for
90 Mo
Year: 1876

The city is elaboraiey decorated and brilliantly u.
Illuminated tonight while fireworks are making the
heavens gorgeous Innumcrabc processona are pass
ing through the streets The utmost order prevails,
everybody striving TO celebrate the occasion In the
happicst
Year: 1876

What glorious old fellow the weather
is, and dhow lie is always on hand when you
want an item and can't find one? Did the
subject ever strike you in this light beforcp
It would If you belonged TO the pencil
pushing fraternity. But we have no space
for pulling the weather on general princi-
pies, simply as a convenient subject for an
item; what we desire to do is to call parti-.
cular attention to tie weather which has
prevailed in Dakota during the month of
December-1875 Even the old settlers who
have become accustomed TO our, delightful
winters have expressed themselves in terms
OF the warmcst approval of the conduct Of
the weather clerk during TIC closing month
of 70, For fifteen daysof the month the
mean temperature was above the freezing
point and nearly every day has been clear
and pleasant. Open doors and windows in
dwellings and stores has been the rule
three. fourths Of the month during the day
time, There has been but for.r stormy
days. and they didn't amount to much
just sufficient to remind the people Of this
American Italy that such things may hap
pen even here
Year: 1876

SALT LAKE, Jan. There has
been heavy fall Of snow during the
past few days. There is IL feet of
snow on level at Alta City. No
mail from there during the past week.
The Central Pacific train from the
west was ten hours late in arriving
at Ogden yesterday.
Year: 1876

On and after the 1st day Of January 1876,
my business will be conducted on the e.r.
claslesly cash plan, being fully convinced
that it Is the only true plan by which jus.
tice can be done to buyer aud seller. This
conclusion has been arrived at utter mature
deliberation and long experience. and it is
the intention to adhere strictly to the letter
of this notice. Goods. can and will be sold
for less margin for cash than on credit,
and the public arc invited to come and be
convinced that this is self evident fact.
It is proper at the close Of this year, 1875,
TO return our thanks to the many friends
who have given US SO. literally of their
patronage, and hope the New car will
open bright With promises for every man,
woman aud child, (in fact would like 10
make you oil New Years present il our
purse was long enough.) In, the future we
may be found in Pennington's block, Third
street, next door to postoflice, ready to mix
medicine by hand power, as it, is more
economical than the horse plan.


2l2 Jo.l hAEAlNER,
Year: 1876

Gustav Guisky, butchers boy
aged is hanged himself IN his emr
ployers ice house yesterday. Guisky
and his employer were talking about
the negroes who. were hanged about
a fortnight ago and the former said
that he would like to experience
the sensation of being hanged He
placed a rope over hook in the ice
house and putting his head in the
moose, his feet slipped from under
him and he was choked to death
when found by his employer ten
minutes after the conversation.
Year: 1876

The campaign is 10 be won by presenting
to the people all the facts of the personal
and political records of all the candidates on
both sides. The people should know that
Hayes is a convicted tax-dodger, plunderer
of the soldiers who served under him, and
the candidate of the Know-Nothing party.
The people should know that Wheeler, the
Republican candidate for vice-president, Is
the leader of the scOundrels who perpetrated
the several Pacific railroad robberies, and
that he is chosen by that gang as a candi-
date for that office, in which he
can, if elected, do the most good
for himself and his supporters
In short, let the people know that the Re-
publican party, as exemplified by its leaders,
managers and candidates, is a party of thieves,
tricksters and confidence men, and the re-
suit in November will show that the people
will not sustain that organization The
present campaign is one of the people against
the men who have plundered them for the
last ten years. and this ought TO be pushed
with vigor. No honest man will be hurt, but
Republican candidates are already begin
ming to whine that they are getting hurt.
This is an indication that the people are
on the right track. and we urge them to
crowd the thieves"
Year: 1876

cold hearth-stone, and then he takes his seat
the table between the husband and the wife,
at between the parents and the chill
dren, and he is not cheering Why? 1t is
the hard story of poverty and suffering that
he has always. Oh, he won't go away, Why
viii he stay in SO many homes of this coun-
try. My Independent friend, come vote
that he may go. [Cheersl My Republican
friend. come and declare your independence
of the trammels and tyranny of your party
and bid him go. There he sits now with his
cold CLASSY eye and his hard features beside
the table that is not well supplied; beside so
many hearths he will be this winter Oh,
So many hearths. Where there is no cheer
ing heat and no cheering light. Won't You
help to drive him out? He has come
through the bad Republican policies of gov
ernment. He was not there before. but he
is there and who can put him out? l be-
licye Samuel j. Tilden can and will


Cheers Elect the Democratic candidate
and let hope spring up once more in the
American heart and he will go. [Cheers
Year: 1876

There was one orator this year that they
all had heard. His voice is not musical; his
appearance is not agreeable and he does not
wait until you shall gather in great crowds
like you are here to-day, Eut step by step he
visits each one of your houses 1t is General
Hard Times. As he steps upon your thrcsh-
hold with his cold, CLASSY eye, he looks into
your house, and into many house he en-
ters and looks into the closet, and into tthe
meal tub, and he takes his seat by the side
Year: 1876

frauds to elect the Republican candidates,
or candidates of the Grant party, at
any cost? Do you know of the power
of money that is against us, and the power
of Office, which at the present moment is no
longer at the service of the people, but at the
service of the party? AS told my German
fellow citizens, the government of the United
States does no longer belong to the Ameri-
can people, but seems to belong in fee sim
pie to Ulysses S. Grant, and the central Re-
publican committee.