Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1878 — Page 4

MY AVIARY. BT OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Through my nortk window, in the wintry weather— My airy oriel on the river-shore — I watch the sea-fowl as they flock together, Where late the boatman flashed hi* dripping oar. The gull, high floating, like a sloop unladen, Lets the loose water waft him as it will; The duck, round-breasted as a rustic maiden, Paddles and plunges, busy, busy still. I see the solemn gulls in council sitting On some broad ice-floe, pondering long and late, y bile overhead the homo-bound ducks are flitting, And leave the tardy conclave in debate. Those weighty que tlons in their breasts revolving Whose deeper meaning science never learns, Till at some reverend Elder’s look dissolving, The speechless senate silently adjourns. But when along the waves the shrill northeaster Shrieks through the laboring coaster’s shrouds “ Beware I” The pale bird, kindling like a Christmas feaster When some wild chorus shakes the vinous air, Flaps from the leaden wave in fierce rejoicing, Feels heaven’s dumb lightning thrill his torpid ner\es, Now on the blase his whistling plumage poising. Now wheeling, whirling in fantastic curves. Such is our gull; a gentleman of leisure, J«obb fleshed than feathered; bagged, you’ll find him such; His virtue silence ; his employment pleasure ; Not bad to look at, and no i good for much. (Vhat of our duck ? He has some high-bred cousins— His Grace the Canvas-back, My Lord the Brant— Avan and Anncr —both served up by dozens, At Boston's Hoc,her, half way to Nahant. As for himself, he seems alert and thriving— Grubs up a living somehow—what, who knows? Crabs? musels? weeds? —Look quick! there’s one just diving! Flop! Splash ! his white breast glistens—down he goes ! And while he’s under - just about a minute I take advantage of the fact to say His fishy carcaHS has no virtue in it The gunning idiot’s worthless hire to pay. He knows you ! “ sportsmen” from suburban alleys, Stretched under seaweed in the treacherous punt; Knows every lazy, shiftless lout that sallies Foeth to w’asto powder—as /ie says, to “hunt.” T watch you with a patient satisfaction, Well pleased to discount your predestined luck ; The float that figures in your sly transaction Will carry back a goose, but not a duck. Shrewd is our bird ; not easy to outwit him ! Sharp is the outlook of those pin-head eyes ; Htill, he is mortal and a shot may hit him, One eaunot always miss him if he tries. Look ! there’s a young one, dreaming not of dan«er ; Sees a flat log come floating down the stream, Htaroa undismayed upon the harmless stranger ; Ah 1 were all strangers harmless as they seen:! Hu bet ! a leaden shower his breast has shattered ; Vainly he flutters, not again to rise ; His soft, white plumes along the waves are scattered ; Helpless the wing that braved the tempest lies. lie sees his comrades high above huu flying To seek their nests among die island reeds; Hlrong is their flight; ail lonely lie is lying! Washed by the crimsoned water as lio bleeds. O Thou who rarest for the failing sparrow, Canst Thou the sillies < sufferer's pang forget? Or is Thy dread account-book's page so narrow’ Its one long column scores Thy creature’s debt? l’oor gentle guest, by nature kindly cherished, A world grows dark with (hec in blinding death ;. One little gasp—thy universe has perished, Wrecked by the idle thief who stole thy breath ! Is this the whole sail story of creation, Lived by its breathing myriads o’er and o’er— One glimpse of day, then black annihilation A sunlit passage to a sunless shore ? Give back our lailh, yo mystery-solving lynxes ! Kobe us once wore in heaven-aspiring creeds ! Happier was dreaming Egypt with licr splijynxcs, The stony convent with its cross and heads? How often gazing where a bird reposes, Rocked on the wavelets, drifting with Hits tide, I lose myself in strango metempsychosis And float a sea-fowl at a sen-fowl's side. From mill, hail, snow, in feathery mantle murtted, Clear-eyed, strong-limbed, with keenest sense to h ar Vi\ mate soil murmuring, v.lio with plumes urr u filed, Where’er I wander still is nestling near; The great blue hollow' like a garment o'er ire; Hpuee all unmeasured, unit corded time ; Willie seen with inward eye moves on before mo 't'liou.dit's pictured (rain in wordless pantomime. —A voice recalls me. —From my window turning I find myself a plumeless biped still; No liesk, no claws, no sign »f wings discerning— In faot, w ith nothing bird-like but my quill. —Atlantic Monthhi.

THE TRUMPETER'S HOUSE.

I was nearly 10 years of ago, and felt myself bo safely anchored in the peaceable haven of a bachelor’s life that nothing would induce me to run the risk of disturbing it by marriage. But I had reckoned without the trumpeter’s horse. It wna at the end of September, 1864, that I arrived at Paris from Baden, intending only to remain four-aud-twenty hours. I had invited four or live friends to join mo in Poitou for the hunting season, and, as they were to arrive at the beginning of October, I had only allowed myself a week at La Roche Targe to prepare for their reception. A letter from home awaited my arrival at Paris, bringing me the disastrous intelligence that out of twelve horses five had fallen ill or lame during my stay at Baden, so that 1 was under the necessity of remounting ray cavalry before I left Paris. I made the. round of all the horsedealers of the Champs Elysees, where I was shown a collection of screws, the average price of which was .£l2O, but I was neither in a humor nor in cash to throw away my money upon such useless beasts. It was a Wednesday, the dty ol' Cheri’s autumn sale; I went to the Rue de Ponthien, and purchased at a venture eight horses, which cost me altogether £2OO. “Out of the eight,” said I to myself, “there will be surely four ©r five which will go.” Among these horses there was one which, I confess, I bought principally on account of his coat. The catalogue did not assigu to him any special qualifications as a hunter. All that it stated was, “Brutus, a saddle-horse, aged, well-broken. ” It was a large, dapplegray horse, but never had I seen oue better marked, its smooth, white skin dappled over witfi fine black spots, so regularly distributed. The next morning I let': for La Roche Targe, and the following day my horses arrived. My first care was for Brutus. This gray horse had been running for tlio last, forty-eight hours in my head, and I was anxious to try his paces, and see what he was good for. He had long teeth, and every mark of a respectable age, a powerful shoulder, and lie carried his head well; but what I most admired iu Brutus was the way in which he looked at me, following every movement with his attentive, intelligent, inquisitive eye. Even my words seemed to interest him ; he leaned his head on one side as if to hear me, and when I had finished speaking, replied with a merry neigh. The other seven horses were brought out to me in succession, but they resembled any other horses, and Brutus certainly was different from them all. I was anxious to take a little ride in the country, in order to make his acquaintance. Brutus a'l .wed liimself to be saddled, bridled and mounted as a horse who knew his work, and we started quietly together, the best friends possible. He had a beautiful mouth, and answered to ■fevery turn of the rein—arching his neck and champing his bit. His paces were perfect. He began by a slow measured canter, raising his feet very high, and letting them fall with the regularity of a pendulum. I tried him at a trot and a short gallop, but when I sought to quicken his pace he began to amble in grand style. “Ah,” said I; “I see how it is; I have bought an old horse out of the cavalry riding school at Saumur.” I was about to tnrn homeward, satisfied with the taleuts of Brutus, when a shot was heard a short distance off. It was one of my keepers firing at a rabbit, Sr>r which shot be it said, en passant, he afterward received a handsome present trom my wife. I was then exactly in the center of an open space where six long, green roads met. On hearing the shot Brutus stopped short, and put his ears forward iu an attitude oi' attention. I was surprised to see him so impression able. After the' brilliant military education I assumed he had received in his youth, he must be well accustomed to the report of a gun. I pressed ipy knees against him to make him move go, but Bruton w-jultl eot stir, { tried to

back him, to make him tarn to the right or to the left, but in vain. I made him feel my riding-whip, but still he was immovable. Brntas was not to be displaced; and yet—do not smile, for mine is a true history—each time I urged him to move the horse turned his head round, and gazed upon me with an eye expressive of impatience and surprise, and then relapsed into his motionless attitude. There was evidently some misunderstanding between me and my horse. I saw it in his eyes. Brutus was saving as plainly as he could without speech, “I, horse, do what I ought to do ; and yon, horseman, do not perform your part.” I was more puzzled than embarrassed. “What a strange horse Cheri has sold me ! and why does he look upon me in such a way ?” I was about to proceed to extremities and administer to him a good thrashing, when another shot was fired. The horse then made one bound. I thought I had gained my point, and again tried to start him, but in vain. He stopped short, and planted himself more resolutely than ever. I then got into a rage, and my riding-whip entered into play; I took it in both hands, and struck the horse right and left. But Brutus, too, lost patience, and, finding passive resistance unavailing, defended himself by rearing, kicking and plunging; and, in the midst of the battle, while the horse capered and kicked, and I, exasperated, was flogging him with the loaded butt-end of my broken whip, Brutus, nevertheless, found time to look at me, not only with impatience and surprise, but with rage and indignation. While I required of the horse the obedience he ' refused, he, on his part, was expecting of me something I did not do. How did this end ? To my shame be it spoken, I was relentlessly and disgracefully unseated. Brutus saw there was to be nothing gained by violence, so judged it necessary to employ malice. After a moment’s pause, evidently passed in reflection, the horse put down his head and stood upright on liis fore legs with the address and equilibrium of a clown upon his hands. I was, consequently, deposited upon the sand, which, fortunately, happened to be rather thick in the place where I fell. I tried to raise myself, but I cried out and fell stretched with my face toward the ground. I felt as if a knife were sticking in my left leg. The hurt did not prove serious—the suapping of one of the small tendons —but not the less painful. I succeeded, however, in turning myself, and sat down; but while I was rubbing my eyes, which were filled with sand, I saw the great foot of a horse descend gently upon my head, and again extend me on my back. I then felt quite disheartened, and was ruminating in my mind what this strange horse could be, when I felt a quantity of sand strike rae in the face. I opened my eyes and saw Brutus throwing up the dust with both fore and hind feet, trying to bury me. This lasted for several minutes, when, apparently thinking me sufficiently interred, Brutus knelt by my grave, and then galloped around me, describing a perfect circle. I called out to him to stop. He appeared to be embarrassed ; but seeing my hat, which had been separated irom me in the fall, he took it between his teeth, and galloped down one of the green paths out of sight. I was left alone. I shook oft the sand which covered me, and with my arm and right leg—my left I could not move—dragged myself to a bushy bank, where I seated myself, and shouted with all my might for assistance. But no answer ; the wood was perfectly silent and deserted. , I remained alone in this wretched condition above half an hour, when I saw Brutus in the distance, returning by the same roiul by which he went, enveloped in a cloud of dust. Gradually, as it cleared away, I saw a little carriage approaching—a pony chaise—and iu the pony-cliaise a lady, who drove it, with a small groom iu the seat behind. A few instants after Bratus arrived covered with foam. He stopped before me, let fall my hat at his feet, and addressed me with a neigh, as much as to say: “I have done my duty; I have brought you help.” But I did not trouble myself about Bratus and his explanations; I had no thought or looks save for the beautiful fairy who had come to my aid, and who, jumping from her little carriage, tripped lightly up to me, and suddenly two exclamations were uttered at the same moment: “ Madame de Noriolis !”

“ Monsieur de la Roche Targe !” I have an aunt between whom and myself my marrying is a source of continual dispute. “ Marry,” she would say. “I will not,” was my answer. “Would you have a young lady? There are Miss A, Miss B, Miss 0. ” “But I won’t marry.” “ Then take a widow; there are Mrs. D, Mrs. E, Mrs. F, etc.” “ But marry I will not.” Madame de Noriolis was always in the first rank among my aunt’s widows. To tell me she was rich, lively, and pretty was unnecessary; but, alter setting forth all her attractions, my aunt would take from her secretary a map of the district where she lived, and point out how the estates of Noriolis and La Roche Targe joined, and she had traced a red line upon the map uniting the two properties, which she constantly obliged me to 1 ok at. “ Eight hundred acres within a ring fence! a fine chance for a sportsman.’ Rut I would shut my eyes aud repeat as before, “I will never marry." Yet, seriously speaking, I was afraid of Madame de Noriolis, and alwaj s saw my head encircled with an aureole of her aunt’s red line. Charming, sensible, t dented, and 800 acres within a ring fence! Escape for your safety if you will not marry. And I always did escape, but this time retreat was impossible. I lay extended on the turf, covered avith sand, my hah' in disorder, my clothes in tatters, and my leg stiff. “What are you doing here?’*inquired Madame de Noriolis. “ What has happened?” I candidly confessed I had been thrown. “But you are not much hurt?” “ No; but I have put something out in my leg—nothing serious, I am Bure.” ‘ ‘ And where is the horse which has played you this trick ?” I pointed out Brutus, who was quietly grazing upon the shoots of the broom. “How! it is him, the good horse! He has amply repaired his wrongs, us I will relate to you later. But you must go home directly.” “ How ? I cannot move a step,” “ But I am going to drive yo'u home, at the risk of compromising you. ” And calling her little groom Bob, she led me gently by one arm, while Bob took the other, and made me get into her carriage. Five minutes afterward we were moving in the direction of La Roche Targe, she holding the reins and driving the pony with a light hand; I looking at her, confused, embarrassed, stupid, ridiculous. Bob was charged to lead back Brutus. “Extend your leg quite straight,” said Madamo de Noriolis, “and I will drive you very gently to avoid jolting. ” When she saw me comfortably installed, “Tell me,” she said, “how you were thrown, and I will explain how I came to your assistance.” I began my story, but, when I spoke of the efforts of Brutus to unseat me afte.r the two shots, “ I understand it all, ’ she exclaimed; “you have bought tiie trumpeter’s Horse. “ The trumpeter’s horse?” “ Yes, that explains it all. You have seen many scenes in the Cirque de l lmperatrice, the performance of the trumpeter’s horse, A Chasseur d’Afrique eate?? the arena upon a gray horse; theg

come the Arabs, who fire upon him, and he is wounded and falls; and, as you did not fall, the horse, indignant at your not performing your part in the piece, threw you down. What did he do next ?” I related the little attempt of Brutus to bury me. “ Exactly like the trumpeter’s horse. He sees his master wounded; but the Arabs may return and kill him, so what does the horse do ? He buries him and gallops off, carrying away the colors that they may not fall into the hands of the Arabs. ” “ That is my hat which Brutus carried off.” “ Precisely. He goes to fetch the vivandiere—the vivandiere of to-day being your humble servant the Countess de Noriolis. Your great gray horse galloped into my courtyard, where I was standing #n the doorsteps, patting On my gloves and ready to get into my carriage. My grooms, seeing a horse saddled and bridled, with a hat in his month and without a rider, tried to catch him; but he escapes their pursuit, goes straight up to the steps, and kneels before me. The men again try to capture him; but he gallops off, stops at the gate, turns round and looks at me. I felt sure he was calling me; so I jumped into my carriage and set off. The horse darts through roads not always adapted for carriages, but I follow him, and arrive where I find you. ” At the moment Madame de Noriolis had finished these words the carriage received a fearful jolt, and we saw in the air the head of Brutus, who was standing erect on his hind legs behind us. Seeing the little back seat of the carriage untenauted, he had taken the opportunity of giving us another specimen of his talents, by executing the most brilliant of all his circus performances. He had placed his fore feet upon the back seat of the little carriage, and was trauquilly continuing his route, trotting upon his hind legs alone, Bob striving in vaiu to replace him upon four. Madame de Noriolis was so frightened that she let the reins escape from her hands and sank fainting in my arms. Witn my left hand I recovered the reins, with my right arm I supported Madame de Noriolis, my leg all the time causing me most frightful torture. In this manner Madame do Noriolis made her first entry into La Roche Targe. WheD she returned there six weeks later she had become my wife. “ Such, indeed, is life,” she exclaimed. “ This would never have come to pass if you had not bought the trumpeter’s horse.”— London Society.

THE GREAT CHEMICAL BANK.

A Remarkable New York Institution— Annual Dividends of 100 Per Cent. The New York World, in chronicling the death of John Quentin Jones, President of the Chemical Bank, of that city, gives the following history of the soundest financial institution in the United States: In 1833 “The Chemical Manufacturing Company ” was incorporated by an act of the Legislature ‘ ‘ with banking privileges.” The manufacture of the chemicals was carried on in a building on Thirst-first street, near the North river—subsequently bought by the Hudson River Railroad Company and turned into a depot. The banking business was done in a building where the Park Bank now stands— 2lG Broadway. Mr. John Q. Jones was Superintendent of the chemical works, and John Mason was President of the “ Chemical Bank.” Mr. Mason died in 1839, and Isaac Jones, liis son-in-law, and cousin of John Q. Jones, succeeded him as President, he having been tlie cashier of the bank for several years. On the election of Isaac Jones to the Presidency, John Q. Jones succeeded him as cashier, and by them the affairs of the bank were managed until 1844, when a complete reorganization took place under the General Banking law passed that year. John Q. Jones was elected President of the bank. The capital stock was $300,000, divided into 3,000 shares of $10() each. Mr. Jones, on liis succession to the Presidency, was surrounded by a coterie of rich and influential men. and C. Y. S. Roosevelt, John David Wolfe, Robert McCokry, Peter Goelet, Robert Goelct, and Joseph Sampson became his associates in the management of the bank. These men held shares in the bank, and deposited their money in it. Among the depositors were the Lorillards, the Stuarts, and many of the leadiug New York merchants of that day, including the late Alexander T. Stewart, .who, however, could not be classed among the leading merchants at that time. Mr. Jones had a settled plan l'rom the first, ami stuck to it. It was to do business with a small capital stock, maintain a large -surplus and command the confidence of the punlic. Most of the shareholders were already rich, and it was agreed that the profits of the concern, instead of being paid out in dividends, Bhoald be used to extend its business. Thus for five years—from 1844 till 1849 —n0 dividends were paid out. At last the surplus became so large that Mr. Jones became embarrassed and asked the advice of some of his friends who were interested as to what ought to be done. By one of them lie was told that the safest place for him to put these large accumulated profits was in the pockets of the shareholders. A dividend was declared accordingly, and since 1849 dividends have been declared regularly. For many years past these dividends have amounted to 100 per cent, per annum. The system has been to pay a dividend of 15 per cent, every two months, which, in tlie year, would amount to 90 per cent.; but, just before Christmas, an extra dividend of 10 per cent, would be paid out, making up the full amount of 100 per cent, per annum. The present market value of the shares cannot be told for the reason that they are not on tlie market. The last that were sold brought $1,600 per share of SIOO. Although paying out these enormous dividends of 100 per cent, every year, the bank has a surplus of $3,000,000.

For many years the Chemical Bank has been regarded as one of the soundest financial corporations in the world. During the great panic of 1857 and the crisis of 1861 it was the only bank in this city that maintained a gold basis. In 1873 it could have done the same, but was forced to succumb owing to the great pressure made by the other banks. The business of the bank increased so rapidly that three years ago it became necessary to have an enlarged space for carrying it on. A building on Chambers street was leased and a connection made with the old building so as to form an L. The bank’s list of depositors, although, of course, greatly increased, has not changed in character. It includes a large proportion of the wealthy real-es-tate owners, retired merchants, etc.

The Way the Pope Warms his Hands.

The Holy Father is now much better, and, had it not been for the paralysis of his limbs, it might be said that his health was as good as it was last spring. For the past three days he has been taken from his bed at 9 o’clock in the morning and placed in his arm-ohair, in which he remains until 2 o’clock in the day. It is ku*wn that he has a horror of fire. He can’t endure a stove in any of his apartments; but when the weather is bad, aud his hands become cold, he asks for his palletta. This palletta is a silver ball a little larger than an egg, in which hot water is inclosed. The Pope takes it, rolls it in Iris hands for a few moments ; then, when his hands are warm enough, he places it upon a footstool, and takes it up again if he finds it necessary. This ingenious method of wamibg the fyrrtds is the invention of the Pope bimeelf. ~~ - - v - ->

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Farm. The best way to protect the bark of trees from mice, rabbits or farm stock, is to tie a small bundle of dead branches around the part to be protected.—Gardener'B Chronicle. I have used oils and fats for the preservation of eggs with considerable success, and find that oils or thin fats are immensely inferior to solid fats or waxes —a fact, I believe, which is very often overlooked.— Mark Lane Express. Typhoid fever is now regarded by our best physicians as a filth fever, and in many cases the immediate cause is to be found in the access of filth to the well or spring from which the water is obtained for domestic purposes.— Western Farm Journal. In three pens, three hogs, each nearly full grown, and abont equal in weight and thriftiness, were fed four months as follows: One pen, soaked com; one pen, cooked corn-meal; one pen, dry com. At the close of the experiment, those fed on dry com had made the most weight.— Producer. Experience has proved that plowing in the fall is one of the most effective as well as one of the quickest and easiest methods of fining the soil, and that land which was plowed in the fall can be worked earlier in the spring, and more easily during the season than will be possible if the plowing is neglected We have tried this plan and found it to work so well as to merit acceptance as one of the “principles” of agricultural practice.” — N. E. Homestead. Talking about cutting potato seed, a member qf the Elmira Farmers’ Club says : “Asa rale, it is economy to cut the seed, and cut it small. I took two bushels and twelve pounds and cut to single eyes. They planted half an acre in rows, three feet apart, eighteen inches between the hills, l marked the ground with a plow, dropped the seed in the furrow, and plowed a furrow ever for covering, bo that there should be fair comparison with large seed put in by the same method. I wanted no coaxing nor playiDg with fancy seed. In the fall I plowed out and sold 103 bushels from the half acre, and what were not plowed out of course I did not get. I planted fourteen rods of early rose, the seed cut to single eyes and one piece in the hill. From the piece I dug thirty bushels of good-sized potatoes.

Bones are fed to fowls iu two forms—in either a fresh or a calcined state. The former method is much tlie better, as the bones are rich in both organic and inorganic matter, just as they were in the frame-work of the animal from which they were taken. In this condition they are easily and quickly taken up by the secretive organs and appropriated to supply the wastes and wants of the system. Burned or calcined bones are freed from all organic matter, and there remain only the ashes of the bones, which are chiefly lime (phosphate and carbonate), and consequently inferior to fresh bone. The only objection to.fresh bones is the difficulty of keeping them fresh. The best and most satisfactory substitute is burnt bones. The water is removed by the heat, leaving the lime in a dry and crisp state easily crushed.— Exchange. We find lining the shell a thin skin, which, when kept in healthy condition by the albumen of the egg, is impervious to air; but, if the eggs remain too long in oue position, the yelk, being heavier than the albumen, gradually sinks through it, and comes in contact with the skin. As it has none of the qualities requisite for keeping the skin lubricated and healthy, the skin soon becomes dry and pervious to air, which penetrates it to the yelk, causing the mass to rot. Therefore the true plan is to keep the yelk in its central position. By doing this, the egg can be preserved for a long time. My plan for accomplishing this is to take a keg or barrel, and pack the eggs on their sides, end to end, layiug a tier first around next to the staves, so continuing until a layer is made, and so on till the barrel is full. Use oats for packing; jar them down as much as is required to keep them firmly in their places, and head up the barrel ready for market. By rolling the barrel about a quarter around every few days, the yelks of the eggs will be kept as required. Cor. American Stock Journal.

About the House. To Whiten a Red Nose.— Stop using salt, the cause of erysipelas. Dressing for Cold Slaw. —To the well-beaten yelk of one egg add a little milk, two or three table-spoonfuls of vinegar, a small piece of butter ; stir it over the fire until it comes to a boil. Bread Sauce. —Pour boiling milk on a slice of bread without crust, then beat it fine and add a little salt and whole pepper-corns; serve it hot, in a sauce tureen. To Keep juice of a Pie from Boiling Over. —Wet the edges of both crusts; press tightly together; stick a fork several times through the upper crust to allow the steam to escape. How to Cure Bunions. —Tallow dropped from a lighted candle on the affected part will eradicate the heat and finally remove the bunion. A strip of candle should also be wound around the corn. Bandage at night. To Pickle Peaches. —Take as much vinegar as will cover the quantity of peaches you have. After it "has boiled sufficiently sweeten it to your taste, put in your spices, cloves, cinnamon, or mace. Boil together, for a little while, then put in your peaches (peeled, or with the skins on, as you prefer). Boil for fifteen miuutes, or until they are tender. Take them out, and boil the vinegar down until it is strong enough to keep them. Keep in a cool place. Pork Cake. —One pound pork, chopped fine ; add one pint of hot water to dissolve it; let it cool; then add two cupfuls sugar, two pounds raisins, stoned and chopped; one pound of currants, half pound of citron, cut fine; one tableSpoonful of spices—cloves, allspice, cinnamon, mace—one nutmeg, one pound of flour, and two teaspoonfuls of soda. This makes a nice large cake. Bake in a slow oven four hours. Mushroom Sauce.— One half-pint of button mushrooms, one half-pint of good beef gravy, one table-spoonful of mushroom catchup, thickening of butter and floor; put the gravy iuto a saucepan, thicken it, and stir over the fire until it boils ; prepare mushrooms by cutting off the stalks and wiping them free from grit and dirt; put then into the gravy, and let them simmer very gently about ten minutes; then add catchup and serve. To Cleanse White Ribbon. —Dissolve, by means of gentle heat, one tablespoonful strained honey; one tablespoonful shavings of good common soap in one-half teacupful pure alcohol; spread ribbon smoothly on clean board; rub the mixture on both sides with a piece of white flannel until the stains disappear; rinse thoroughly in cold water, changing it ofton, blueing the last; do not wring, but strip repeatedly through the fingers; iron 'while wet between two cloths; if carefully done, only the natural stiffness will be retained; colors can be treated in same manner without injury.

A Bridal Trip on Horseback.

The days of chivalry and all that sort of thing have not departed, although railroads and Pullman palace cars have taken most of the romance out of traveling, and rendered bridal tours but another name for an expensive and often unwarranted luxury. Colorado, however, has not yet quite surrendered to the allurements of modern fashionable life, but uas a fashion of herownwoiihy

of her brave sons and fair daughters. Frank 8. Byers and wife arrived in Denver, on Monday, from Middle Park. They came through on horseback in a little more than two days. The first day’s journey was fifty miles, and over the summit of the snowy range. That is romance and reality in a bridal tour as wonderful as it is rare in these latter years of effeminate ease. What would a fifth avenue belle or a Boston beauty think of journeying fifty miles through snow and storm over the Rocky mountains in midwinter, as it were, on a pleasure trip ? —Denver News.

OUR FORESTS.

Another Step Looking to the Preset vatlon of the Timber Lands. [From the Baltimore Sun.] The Commissioner of Agriculture has addressed a letter to the President recommending an appropriation of SB,OOO to prosecute during the next year the inquiries into the subject of forestry which were begun last year under the auspices of the department by Dr. Hough, of New York. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill of April 16, 1876, made provision for the investigation, with a view chiefly to discover the means best adapted to the preservation and renewal of forests, the influences of forests upon climate, etc. Dr. Hough, who was selected by the Commissioner of Agriculture for the purpose, has diligently prosecuted the inquiry, not only in the United States, but has entered into a correspondence with officers of foreign Governments connected with the forest management and forestry schools which abound in Europe, where the vital importance of this great interest is well understood, and where for long years an intelligent and settled policy has prevailed looking to the increase of the woods, the equal seasonable distribution of the rainfall, maintenance of forest upon the higher lands, and the subsequent preservation of the regular supply of water for the springs, rivulets and rivers, and the prevention of the terrible floods which wash bare the unclothed mountain slopes, and by sudden overflows destroy the agriculture and the manufactures of the valleys. Dr. Hough has already compiled statistics of the most valuable character, embracing statements of the exportation of every class of forest products from each port of the United States to each country, from the organization of the Government to the present time. He has also a wealth of matter, historical and instructive, which will be of interest not only to every agriculturist and land-owner, but to every person who has hope for a prosperous future of his country. The question of timber culture and timber preservation, not only on the public, but on private lands of the United States, is one of the most difficult and one of the most interesting problems that can attract our attention. The forest laws of Europe have for us much that is suggestive and instructive, and there are many features of them which it would be to our interest to adopt. Congress should afford every facility for a proper understanding of the subject, and there is no doubt that it will cheerfully make the necessary appropriation to enable Dr. Hough to continue his inquiries. There is no longer any controversy as to the fact that something must be done to arrest the wholesale destruction of timber which is still going on in every part of the United States where there is any timber left.

How Ireland is to be Set Free.

O’Donovan Rossa, whose “skirmishing fund” now amounts to $44,373, hints darkly, in the Irish World, at the manner in which he will expend it against England. He quotes a description of a body of Russian cavalry who, “ in a belt round their waist, carry a few pounds of gun-cotton or dynamite, and, with this highly-destructive explosive, they may work incalculable harm.” He adds that gun-cotton and dynamite are not very dear, and leaves the reader to infer that the fund, thus expended, would destroy a great part of England. He adds : “A small charge of gun-cotton, placed sim ply upon a rail and fired with a fuse, suffices to blow several feet of the iron to a distance of many yards, thus rendering the failway unserviceable in an instant. A trooper may dismount., place a charge at the base of a telegraph pole, fire it, and be in his saddle again within sixty seconds. Even light bridges and well-built stockades may be thrown down by the violent detonation of compressed gun-cotton, and forest-roads considerably obstructed by trees thrown across, which are never so rapidly felled as when a small charge of this explosive is fired at their roots.” Rossa claims the iuvention of this kind of warfare, and says, jocularly, that Russia ought to pay him a royalty. He also describes a terribly destructive torpedo that has recently been invented, and says that he will probably be able to obtain the secret of its construction. —New York Si'ii.

Honor In His Own Land.

Says Comley in his recently-issued work, The History of New York State, “ The day has passed when the benefactors of humanity were allowed to live in ignominious poverty—their sacrifices, their labors, unrecompensed. Today, the benefactors of the people—the men who devote their lives and energies to the interests of humanity—these are the men whom the world delights to honor, and whom it rewards with princely fortunes. As an earnest worker for the welfare of his fellow-men, Dr. R. V. Pierce has won their warmest sympathy and esteem. While seeking to be their servant only, he has become a prince among them. Yet the immense fortune lavished upon him by a generous people he hoards not, but invests iu the erection and establishment of institutions directly contributive to the publio good, the people thus realizing, in their liberal patronage, a new meaning of that beautiful Oriental custom of casting bread upon the waters. Noted in both public and private life for bis unswerving integrity and all those sterling virtues that ennoble manhood, Dr. Pierce ranks high amoDg those few men, whose names the Empire State is justly proud to inscribe upon her roll of honor. Ambitious, yet moved by an ambition strictly amenable to the most discriminating and well-balanced judgment, his future career promises to be one of unparalleled activity and usefulness, ably supplementing the work he has already accomplished, by a life at once noble in effort, enviable in its grand results.” While Dr. Pierce’s genius and energy have won for him so enviable a position on the records of 4 nation, having been elected Senator by an overwhelming majority, his justly celebrated Household Remedies have gained for him a yet more desirable place in the hearts of a grateful people. His Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription have brought health and happiness to ten thousand households.

Happy Influence of a Great Specific.

For the preservation or recovery of health and strength, the diet should be wholesome and nutritious. When it happens that the alimentary processes are disturbed by improper or half-masticated food, the best remedy for the evil results of abusing the digestive organs is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a most agreeable, prompt and gentle remedy for dyspepsia, and for the bilious and evacuative irregularities which result from it. The liver and bowels, in common with the stomach, experience its beneficent influences. Tfie refuse of the system is carried off through its natural outlet, a healthy flow and secretion of the bile is promoted, and a powerful impetus is given to assimilation in consequence of its use. It healthfully stimulates the bladder and kidneys when they are inactive, and by its tonic and regulating action fortifies the system against malax ia.

Get the Genuine.

The genuine Dooley's Yeast Powkh is sold only in cans. Always refuse it if offered loose or in bulk. It is the practice of many grocers and dealers to keep cheap Baking or Yeast Powder loose, and sell it for any brand that is called for. We, therefore, caution purchasers to see that they get it only in cans, under the Label and Trade Mark of the Manufacturers, Dooley & Brother, New York. Egypt lias 765 non-navigable canals used solely for irrigation, and 62 canals used both for irrigation and traffic. Of these canals over 100 have been opened during the reign of the Khedive. Patsktesi and inventors should read *dvertiwwArit of Mm Bro*. in another column

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