Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1874 — Page 4

Chinese Proverbs.

The excellence of aphorisms has been said to consist chiefly in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words; and if this be the case the Chinese language is peculiarly adapted for the production of proverbs, for it possesses from its peculiar structure a beauty and pointedness of expression which, however, no degree of care or pains can adequately convey into a translation. : Let us cite from various sources a few of the numerous aphorisms, maxims and proverbs current among the Chinese, many of which will suggest parallel sentiments in our own and otter languages: By a long Journey we know of a horse’s strength; so length of days shows a man’s heart. » , To correct an evil which already exists is not so well as to foresee and prevent it Wine and good dinners make abundance of friends, but in the time of advorsity not one is to be found. Cautious conduct under circumstances of suspicion is inculcated somewhat oddly by the following: In a field of melons do not pull up your shoe; under a plum? tree do not adjust your cap. “ Tempus fugit” becomes, in Chinese, “Time flies like an arrow; days and months like a weaver’s shuttle.” Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past. The Chinese evidently agree with Solomon’s well-known advice to a parent, for they say, “If you love your son, be liberal in punishment; if you hate your son, accustom him to dainties.” If you would understand the character of the prince, examine his ministers; if you would understand the disposition of any man, look at his companions; if you would know that of a father, observe his

son. The fame of men’s good actions seldom goes beyond their own doors, but their evil deeds are carried to the distance of a thousand miles. Though powerful medicines are nauseous to taste, they are good for the disease ; though candid advice is unpleasant to the ear, it is profitable for the conduct. From the following simile lookingglasses are evidently appreciated by Chinese ladies: Without a clear mirror a woman cannot know the state of her own face; without a true friend a man cannot discern the errors of his own actions. The evidence of others is not comparable to personal experience, nor is“l heard” as good as “ I saw.” The three great misfortunes in life are, in youth to bury one’s father, in middle age to lose one’s wife, and being old to have no son. The strong feeling existing among the Chinese against a widow’s marrying a second husband is clearly seen in the following: It being asked, “ Supposing a widowed woman to be very poor and destitute, might she in such a case take a second husband?” it was answered, “This question arises merely from the fear of cold and hunger; but to be starved to death is a very small matter compared with the loss of her respectability.” The Chinese, be it observed, are great sticklers for propriety and respectability, and are very much afraid of what they term “losing face.” He who at once knows himself and knows others will triumph as often as he contends. It is too late to pull the rein when the horse has gained the brink of the precipice ; the time for stopping the leak is past when the vessel is in the midst of tho nver.

It is easy to convince a wise man, but to reason with a fool is a’difficult undertaking. To meet with an old friend in a distant country may be compared to the delightfulness of rain after a long drought. The truth of the following sentiment is, we all know, not confined to China: Though a poor man should live in the midst of a noisy market, no one will ask about him; though a rich man should bury himself among the mountains, his relations will come to him from afar. A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years’ mere study of books. Great goodness and great wickedness sooner or later are sure to be rewarded. Of a hundred virtues filial piety is the first. True gold fears not the fire. w A basket of grain producing only a pound of chicken-meat” is Symbolical of a losing business. “ A toad in a well cannot behold the whole heavens” is used in reference to contracted ideas. “ Climbing a tree to hunt for fish” expresses looking for things where they cannot possibly be found. To covet another man’s house and lose one’s own ox (f. e., to lose what property one already has in the effort to acquire more). “ To grind down an iron pestle to make a needle” is a Chinese way of expressing indomitable perseverance. When you converse in the road remember there are men in the grass. Our well-known meteorological doggerel, If it rains before seven, ’Twill be flue before eleven,. reappears m Chinese thus: If it rains when yon open your door, ’Twill shine when your breakfast is o'er. A blustering, harmless fellow they call “ a paper tiger.” Overdoing a thing they call “ a hunchback making a bow.” A spendthrift they compare to a “ rocket,” which gees off at onee.—Harper's Bazar.

True Love in Detroit

Mr. and Mbs. Corkery occupy rooms on Michigan avenue, between Seventh and Eighth streets. They do not live as happily as two doves in a cot; on the contrary, it’s an every-day occurrence for one or the other to wish he or she was dead. Yesterday morning they had a “jaw” and a fight, and Mr. Corkery remarked that he would rather hang himself than live with her another day. Mrs. Corkery replied that if he wanted to hang himself she would offer no objections, and this made him madder than ever. “I vnU hang mysell!” he exclaimed, striking the table with his fist. “Do so!” she replied, kicking over a

* chair. He yrent out on the veranda overlooking the back yard, unfastened the it overhead, made a nodse, hnowhen he went in for a chair to stand on he said: “In five minutes I made him madder still, and he went out with his chair, put his head in the noose, and ttpere wps a real case of hanging. The with mint have heard him kick over the chair in his struggles, and heard his higher lfiah yras.sawing wood in the next -ySM, '*sw the "whole thing, - rushed around, sprang upstairs, and when he saw Mrs. Corkery washing caps and saucers he shouted : “Your husband is hanging himself.” “Yes, he said he would,” she answered, giving the dish-cloth -a wriqg. Do|eey grabbed for a knife and ran dtft, ahdafter a moment had Corkery down on the floor. It was in good time. The old man was as black in the face as a horse plum, his tongue protruded, his eyes hung out, and another minute would have made a dead Corkery of him. It was along time before he could speak, and they had to bathe him "with whisky'shd into bed. Dolsey obtained the assistance of two other men to do this, and during all their stay Mrs. Corkery neger gave her husband as much as a look. When she had finished washing her dishes she sat down and went-to sewing, taking no interest whatever in the case. When Dolsey remarked that her conduct was cold and unchristian he touched a tender chord, and she replied: “If anybody wishes to hang themselves, is it any of* my business?” Corkery jiaid he would do it,.and.he tried .to, but he still lives, and it is not impossible that the day will come when the two will be happy and sing like Huejays on the top rail of a pasture fence.— Detroit Free Press.

Winter Wraps.

There is unusual variety among H inter wraps, not only in shapes of jackets "and mantles, but in the materials, which range from the pew matelasse silk to plain serge cloth. Among jackets tlie French sacque is the popular garment of the season, because Of its long, shapely style and its adaptability for plain garment* an&fieher ones alike. There afe, however, many stylish Henri Trois and Medicis sacques, with long fronts and short backs, and many of the useful English jackets appear again for general wear. Black wraps are almost universally worn, as they snit with all dresses; the only colored wraps seen are designed for special costumes. The prevailing shapes for velvet wraps are simple jackets and polonaises of various kinds, from the demi-polonaise with its short basque back to long garments that almost cover the figure; the latter have either cuirass corsages or else basques behind with belted fronts. W e have already spoken of the fur borders used on velvet garments. ’ When fur is not chosen the trimmings arte jet galloon and thfead lalce. Camel’s-hair, drap d’ ete and cashmere sacques are warmly wadded or else lined with flannel and worn throughout the winter. The fancy this winter is to trim these woolen wraps with row after row of Titan braid sewed on lengthwise and edged on each side with a line of jet beads. Other sacques have rows of silk soutache or of the mohair tubular braid put in Greek designs or in Idhf pattern. Imported drsp d’ ete sacques are embroidered all over, or else beaded in diamond patterns,, and are edged with fringe. In buying such wraps ladies can select the garment unmade and have it cut to fit them.

Most comfortable of all are'.the cloth jackets, provided a soft, thick, warm cloth is selected. These are smooth-faced beaver cloths, with tufted nap on the wrong side, that are as yielding and flexible- as cashmere. ’These make' senficeaable garments, and should be plainly trimmed Titan braid or else wiih substantial gros grain; the repped turquoise silk ÜBed last-winter frays, and is not worth the trouble of sewing on; jet trimmings are too dressy for these plain cloth garments. It is best to have these cloth jackets buttoned up closely in front and high in the throat, yet the English jackets with their wide re vers collars are still popular and are sold in large quantities. Twenty dollars buys a wellmade sacque of good beaver Cloth. More dressy cloth sacques are woven in matelasse patterns,.

Among mantles the newest have round backs belted down, and ending with the loops Worth is so fond of making on the back of all garments, while the fronts are long and either rounded or square. Dolmans still remain in favor, |u| more especially with ladies who have several wraps in their wardrobes, as the Dolman is too light and dressy for general wear. Velvet, Sicilienne, damel’s-hair, ahd cashmere are the fabrics for Dolmans. For trimming they are richly wrought with beads and soutache, and edged with thread lace or fringe. Ladies whp braid well cover their Dolmans with intricate soutache-work; in one instance a cashmere Dolinten was so elaborately braided that it cost the wearer SIOO, although she was her The long cloaks with a cape" in front, or else a sort of Chinese wrap with square sleeves, are exhibited at all the best houses, but will not be worn until midwinter. Fur borders, especially those of black marten, are used in such cloaks. Seal-skin sacques will rival these cloaks as midwinter wraps. New water-proof cloaks are of lighter blue English cloth, dark plum-color, navy blue, and black. They have long cords and tassels on thA hoods. A novelty this season -if:- %- long ciseular of checked black "aftd "HVhtte sßk, '*Mned throughout with vtery thin glazed indiarubber to make it water proof. The silk is not injured by water, and the whole garment is very light and almost inodorous.—Harper’s Bazar.

The argument of some who still use the check-rein is that it makes their horses hold together better *for show purposes. An English writer wants to know if they mean thereby that the horse would tumble to pieces if his nose was not tied to his t&Q.—Bottm Tranteript.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To Cube Cnn.TH.AJ kb.—Pour boiling water oyer one pint of wood ashes; when cool enough immerse the feat; lot them remain about half an hour. — Household. Oyster Sauce. —Take fifty oysters, rinse and put- them in a stew-pan with one gill of cream. As soon as they become hot stfr in' one ounce of batter, mixed to a paste with a little Soar. This is a delightful sauce to eat with boiled turkey or flue fat young pullets, im which case the fowls should also be stufied with oysters and bread-crumbs. — Harper’s Baear. How to Make Ebasive Soap.—A genuine er&sive soap that will remove grease and stains from clothing is made as follows : Two pounds of good Castile soap; half a pound of carbonate of potash, dissolved in half a pint of hot Water. Out the soap in thin ftijces, boil the soap with the potash until it is thick enough to mold in cakes; add alcohol, half an ounce; camphor, half an ounce; hartshorn, half an ouuoe; color with half an ounce of pulverized charcoal. Pickled Onions.— For sott pickled onions, throw them into boiling salt and water, and boil until you can put a steel fork into them. ' Skim out on to platters to drain off, then put into jars or bottles, and pour hot vinegar, spiced to taste, over. them. Cork up tightly. For hard, white pick ed onions, peel and scatter salt over them, and let them stand three days. Drain through a colander, pack In bottles and ptfur over them white vinegar (chemist’s vinegar) in which plenty of capsicum has been steepad.-r-Oounfry Gentleman.

Ip one portion of vegetables be boiled in pure water and another in water to which a little salt has been added, a decided difference is perceptible in the taste, and odor and especially in the tenderness of the two portions. Vegetables boiled in water without salt are vastly inferior In flavor. This inferiority may go so far in case of onions that, they are -almost entirely destitute of odor or taste, though when cooked in salted water they possess besides the pleasant salt taste a peculiar sweetness and strong aroma. They also contain more soluble matter than when cooked in pure water. Evidently-the salt by adding density to the water'"hinders ths solution-and evaporation of the soluble and flavoring principles of the vegetables.. This the advantages of an- addition of salt to the boiling water. And it is impossible to correct by after additions of Beat to the vegetables the want of flavor in such as have been boiled without it. —Western Rural.

Curing Pork and Beef.

The season will soon be at hand when farmers will be thinking of killing and packing their yearly supply of pork. There is always more or less complaint about pork. .getting rusty or sour or tainted. Thare is no reason why these complaints should be necessary, except from causes that are easily obviated. Pork will get spur or tainted from contact with tiie atmosphere', from being kept too warm or from alternations of heat and cold, especially if the salt used be’nbt of the first quality. Now, since a perfectly cool and equable temperature is not available to every farmer, and especially to that class which is obliged to depend more than any other on salt pork for their summer meat, it is particularly necessary that they use the best salt in the market for curing their pork and other meat. If this salt cannot be bought at the county town, and it is often difficult to do so, an order should be sent direct to the nearest commercial city. This may easily be done economically by a few farmers clobbing together, each taking a barrel; or if there is a Grange or club the matter then becomes still more simple. The order only is to be sent to the agent. While the price of the better grades of salt is so little in advance of that of the common grades, every man who salts meat #f any kind should never risk the curing with any but the best. If he get the coarse solar fii* diamond there will be no trouble.

When the pork has been killed, and hung in a cool place for twenty-four hours, it should be sufficiently deprived of the animal heat to be safely laid down in salt. If not thoroughly deprived of this heat it is liable to trouble, even with the best salt# Therefore, this is the first and most important step in the curing of pork. Cut it into suitable pieces, and rub each one separately with salt, hams, shoulders, chops, bacon, and side meat; stack it up so that the blood may drain for forty-eight hours. Then pack the side meat on its edge, in sweet barrels, as closely as possible, always keeping the skin side next the side of the barrel, and using one-half btfsheTj by measure, of coarse salt to each barrel. When the barrel is full, weight the meat with a&lt stone, and pour on sufficient cold water until bubbles cease to rise and the meat is entirely covered, always remembering that fat meat will not take up an excess of salt, If the barrel is to be headed up, do this before the water is put in, and pour it through a vent in the top. If thereafter you keep the barrels in a cool place, as the cellar, and, upon taking from the barrel, are careful to keep the meat submerged, it will keep one, two, or three years, perfectly. For curing in the best manner, hams, shoulders, chops and bacon, after the blood has been drained as previously recommended, should be packed in a suitable cask pretty tight; make a brine of two pounds of salt, one pound sugar and four ounces saltpeter to each gallon of water; scald and skim this brine, and when cold pour over the meat; keep in a cold place, but not so as to be frozen, for about four weeks. Thus cured, meat will not require any freshening and it will retain its red color admirably. It is a most excellent way for corned beef but it will not keep during hot weather. The hams and bacon, however, will be all right, for the smoking will tend to preserve them. Dfy salting is performed by rubbing the meat with a mixture to be used warm in the following proportions: Four pounds salt, three ounces saltpeter and sufficient molasses to make a thick paste. If the meatiß packed in casks and the brine

■ 1 «!■•*£ 1 1 - J '< ' " ’ allowed to form and saturate it, it is then called wet salting. For home consumption we should much prefer Hie pickling process previously given, since the meat may safely lie in the brine until it may he smoked in the spring; and the brine, thoroughly scalded and skimmed, with that taken from the corned beef and strengthened by the addition of one pound more of Balt to each gallon, may be returned to the beef, which will remain sweet until July at least.— Western Rural.

Judgment op Musicians.—Theodore Thomas, the distinguished founder and conductor of the famous “Thomas Orchestra,” JNew York, ought to * know as well as any etna the opinions entertained by musicians respecting musical instruments. He declares that they generally agree with him in regarding the Mason A Hamlin Cabinet Organs as mueh the best instruments otf this class in the world. It is not, therefore, surprising that they are now largely exported to Europe* commanding higher pnees there than the instruments of their bOst makers. — Exeh. »»- —When reminaea oi me want of progress in agriculture and manufactures, the Spaniards relate a legend that Adam, once upon a time, requested leave to revisit this world —once his Paradise. The leave was granted, and an angel commissioned to conduct him. On wings of love the patriarch fastened to his native earth; hut so changed, so strange it seemed to him that he felt at home nowhere until he came to Portugal. “ Ah, here,” exclaimed he, “settoe down here; everything here is jtfst as I left it!” Destruction i». Disguise. —lt is a fact that mixtures of bad liquors and acid astringents are often given for medicines. They are potent to destroy! and may be safely warranted to ruin morally and physically any human being that sticks to them long enough. More drunkards haye been made by these villainous concoctions labeled medicines than by the liquors of Commerce. Alcoholic poisons, advertised as remedies, are more mischievous than tavern drams. For intermittent and remittent fevers, as well as for all other diseases which these fiery frauds are falsely certified to relieve, Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters, the ne plus ultra of vegetable medicines, is a positive cure. But this is not all; the great Temperance Elixir is a sovereign specific for the depraved appetite for stimulants created by the false tonics and bogus restoratives of Missionaries of Intemperance. Within the present year many well-known oitizens have certified that a course of Vinegar Bitters invariably obliterates the desire for spirituous excitants 7

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