The Syracuse Enterprise, Volume 1, Number 43, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 October 1875 — Page 1

j. P. PRICKETT, Editor and Proprietor.

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FIIESII TOPICS. Ax subscriber to the New York Sun ordered his paster stopped because he was not pleased with the course of that journal on certain matters of discussion, and the editor notified him that his requost could not be compil'd witlrut present He had paid in advance, and his uamc had been entered on the books, so that there was noway of taking it oil until his time regularly expires. . SvsAX B. Anthony gives vent to hrfr wrath at the decision of the higlfeet tri btfual in the land denying her the right of suffrage in the following bit of with ering sarcasm : “ You will recollect that 1 was in Missouri last summer at the | bedside of a suffering brother. Well, I couldn’t go five miles ont of town without meeting a flock of grasshoppers that wonk! make a better bench of Judges . than the present Supreme Court of tile Uniteel States.” PKSsuDBNT-M.utixo is a business that occupies a large share of* the editorial mind of the country jnst now. There does not seem to be any lack of timlw-r either. The lllinnit Staate-Acitung nominates Minister Washbume ; the 'Cincinnati Cbminr-rcinJ indicates a pref arenas for Judge Alfonso Taft, and the Cincinnati Times thinks <tov. Hayes j would be the proper man to head th. Republican ticket. Several Indiana papers are red-hot for-Gdy. Morton, and in Illinois quite a number of Republican .-journals are equally earnest in advocat-' ing the claims of John A. Logan. In th<- East a multitude of prospective can .. didatee are named among Republicans j as well ns Demournto—Tilden, Os course, being the most prominent of the latter juirty. After all, "it is mere conjecture as t .wh.wdl be the winning horse; but then, you know, the average .xlitorial mind would-go astray if it were not afforded vent to ite preference in thia respect. . v ~—' . • * Thuy had a lively little pistol matinee down at SpArta, in the mountains of East Tennessee, the other day. Tlie account <>f the affair proceeds to state Hurt Constable Hudson arrested a boisterously drunken man named Padgett, who r-sist.sl and drew a knife du Hudson, who in turn drew a pistol and shot Padgett dead. Sevier Ivana, a friend of Piulgett, coming to his defense, was also ' shot in the abdomen by Hudson and killed. D. C- Lowry, another friend of J*adgett' next attacked Hudson and was placed hurt d<i It is further stat«-<l that the fight was “ very deeper ate we should rather think so—and ••that the men kflled had so many relatives in town that the Constable had to flee from which the inference is drawn that it ia dangerous to kill » man in Ttaanessoe who has relatives. The account closes with the cheerful statement that “a man is killed in the vicinity of Sparta in a personal encounter, on an average once every six mouths. ” What a pleasant neighborhood to live in “the vicinity of. Sjwta" must be. aAiemxkkaihj: instance of the verifi cation of a prophecy of the manner of a death has just been given in Cincinnati. Eight years ago Miss Josie Booth, a Swell known actress, who was then playing nt McVicker’s Theater, in Chicago, told Mrs. Emma Tryon, an intimate and g confidential friend, that when she (Josie) died it would be in her friend’s arms, and that the last glass of water she woa|d ever take would be from her hands. Shortly after this the tyro separated ami saw each other no more until two or three weeks ago, when they met in Cincinnati, where Mite Booth was playing. She was living with Mrs. Tryon, was taken sick in her house, and, i true to her prophecy, di.nl in her friend’s arms. She was attacked suddenly one morning with heart disease, and cried out in a tone pt piercing anguish. for God’s sake, take me in your arms!” Mrs. T. had scarcely raised her dying friend to her breast when she again exclaimed, “For God’s dear sake, give me a drink of cold, cold water.” Holding tlie dying woman in her arms, shq placed the glass of water to her lips, , wliich was swallowed almost at one gulp. In two minutes more she was a corpse. Who can explain away this prediction wit Ira scientific theory I A fraction an section of a new “Com edy of Errors” was enacted in Chicago the other day. Two well-known citizens came ont of a store, of which one was the proprietor, intending to go some blocks distant on a business errand in which they were, mutually interested. In front of the store stood a horse and buggy, and each of the gentlemen was curiously seised with the idea that it belonged to the other. Thus believing. No. 1 slid, in a casual manner, that be would drive No. 2 down town—meaning, of course, that he would drive his (No. ' -J's) team for him. No. 2, fully behoving that the team was No. I’a, was nothing loth, and the pair got into the buggy and drove to No. I‘s office, where they disembarked and went in. The business transacted, No. 2 came down-stairs and returned to his store without a thought of taking what he supposed was No. 1% team. The latter had hardly resumed his ocenpatiou when there came into his office, in much heat and a boiling rage, a tean who observed, without preface, that be bad beard of these horse-thieves, but he didn't suppose that he was one of them, and, further, that it was a— mean trick to take a man’s team in that way, and if there wm ate in the land it sbonM bo used, with much more to the same effect. Os count No.’l wanted to explain, but it wm i

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long time before the real owner of the property would listen to any explanation, so firmly was he convinced that it was a case of premeditated larceny. He finally l>ecame satisfied, however, tliat it was a i ludicrous mist*to, and a hearty laugh was indulged in, followed by “drink* for two.” TUE DECOY TRVXK. I A new devise to facilitate robberies at railway tlejxjte has lately been success- i fgjly practiced on the public. Some ingenious person, it appears, has hit upon away by which a trunk can be made to steal another trunk, and a portmanteau to annex to its fellow. In the adventures of Sinbod the Sailor we are told how the 1 merchants got at the precious stones in the valley of the diamonds. The mer- | cliants threw down pieces of meat, wliieh j fell on and absorl>ed the diamonds ; the * eagles swooped on the pieces of meat and flew with them to the upper air; the merchants shot the eagles with arrows and thus got at the meat, the regies, and the jewels. So, we read, the plunderers at the railway depots lay a trunk I artfully contrived on a smaller trunk ; the latter clings to. the former, and the owner of the larger carri** both away. Tlie decoy trank is said to be fitted with k false bottom, wliich goes up when it is | laid on a smaller trunk, and with meehanism inside which does for the inniwent trunk what Polonius recommendixl to I igrtriM to do for his friend, and grapples it to its heart with hooks of steel. In fact, the decoy trunk—we do not know how better to describe it—is made to perform an office like that of certain flowers, which suddenly close at the pressure of a fly or other insect, within their cup, and imprison it there. It , would be well if the ingenuity of detecttives kept pact? with the progress in ingenious contrivances to, (Serpetrate robberies at tlie depots, where they are inerresing so fast and have become snch an evil of late. It is certain, however, that tlie dodge of the trunk will not ex- | plain all three robberieo. In some valuable articles liave been taken out and articles of the same bulk but lees value putin. Tliis sort of jugglery does not look like tlie business of the ingenious trunk. Tlie trunk, in fact, means open robbery ; but then' goes on a good deal of pilfering which must be done by a Ires accomplished .class of offenders. j . - j —— n HKtSTOXES. Sum one has sed that mankind gro weaker and wiser, but I am inklined to thiuk tliat they and weaker. Tlie profeiduonal dandy lias allmost 1 entirely fled; I liavn’t aeon more than ■ lEreeov them in. the last seven yearn, and they was awq'hull seedy and luul ; bunyona. The corrupt are allwuss suspishus; he who is conscious ov no evil, susjiekts none. Most friemlships hav proved failure*, ln'kause the effort generally is to hide the failings ov the friend from himself az well az from tlie world, and this iz not tin- true office ov fnendahip. Rejientance is the highest price we kan pay for eunything. A lost karakter kan be restored, but it takre a grate deal ov virtew and time to do it. Wise men kan sumtimee play the phool suckcesafully, but phools never kan, A very sedate- yung man and a frolik J sum old one are unhelthy extremes. A lawyer ix just ax respektabeTax a shumaker, provided he is just ax honori al>el. Th** man who kant add dignity to a profrahun or employment, needn't ex- - pekt that cither ev them will add enny . dignity to him. s ' !A certain degree ov koufldenee ix necto the suckoees ov enny under- | taking; too mutch modesty iz allmost az bad ax too mutch infpudence. A luv fit and a mad fit are the two pashkma that make us guilty ov the meet j laffidde foUys.— Biding*. TKICKS OF TKJDS. Tlie method of conducting a most in ‘ famous bmduere in New York was re- < eentiy ventilated in a lawsuit in one of the courts of that city. Mr. Anthony Comstock, one of the witnesses, who ia Secretary of the Association for the Supprrerion of Vice, testified that he made! | >lit a special duty to prosecute the pub- | lishera of immoral books whenever he could find them; but be encountered great olwtaclre in the refusal of the offi > cent of the law to assist him. During > j the last three years twenty three tons of • j immoral books, pictures, and articles luwl * i been setaed by him. But the moat suri prising statement made by the witness ‘ is that these books go “ among the very 1 best schools and seminaries in the coun- • try.” He had seised lists of the pupils ' at tb£se seminaries in the hands of pnb- » lishers, which had been procured in this B way: The dealer would send to each* » principal a circular stating that be was L about to publish a directory of all beys ■" and girts in schools in the United States, ’ and offering to pay five cents for every ? name sent him. How the lists of names thus fraudulently obtained were used can 8 be imagined. It would be well for teaches to be on their guard against 14 this detestable trick. , i.' ■ — . » Ar Pierceville, Pa., they went out to t> hunt woodchucks, and found five h:iman I- skeletons. They are supposed to be it those at a family named Searles, which - started fat New York sane years ago, * and was never beard from. This is all ‘t the explanation which is given, a ' -—-——— s EMmnrr engineers in France are workfl tag-taeMtennty abtiM problem < o»e strocting a bridge between France and a England.

F.OFE EXD AMHiriOX. ■ ' ■ 1 KT MART B. IKUKJB. “ I low yon, I love you." Hie fond wave rang, A» »he crept to the garaieot'a hem Os the lordly hUI. where her wistful te»re u r Weragemmfagitremoo-rttß. zNV “ I love you, I >ove you, oh. lift me tip To your place in the aunUt air; I Or txod, if you will, your face to mine, TUI I touch your golden bain.” •* Nay, nay, fair wave, yet ever be anre Your aong ia aa aweet aa caa be; It tohehett me even aa tooi-beth the wind, Wbtw hiqi rnakrth mnaic foe me.' I “ Th-- Wind, the wind," aaid the murmuring wave, “ The wind te not conatant a day; It blow* where tt Uatetb, while I, O HID. Au faithful for aye and aye-" •• The wind and the atm and the rain." 'l’toth he, “ Are friend*, who my Trrdure renew; But you. little wave, with your aofteet carves, j What la there you can help me to do?" i “ Ab. n-thiag." «h> sighed, “ bnt to love and to lave Your feet with my kieses and tears; ' Only this have I done through the centuries past, Only this MSI do through the years," . • ' " 0, wave keep your tend- rnese all for the wa— | 1 have work which you know not to do; You cannot mount np to the stars with me. And I may not come dewn to you." But love has no choice; and the constant wave, i A worshiper early and late, SUU kieses the hem of his ever-green robe, And whwiw.-s in patience. “ I wait." MA'S MIRACLE. Antony Lichen was my young man, an«l indeed he was a very nice voting man, and it wasn’t his fault he w.us Dutch ; that all camo from being born in foreign parte, and might have' hap- i peued to any’ one ; but my mother was American—American to the backbone, , she’d often nay ; and she liad away of i ahowing foreigners their place, that wa.«r»’t pleasant to them ; and sometimes it provoked them, so they’d up and give her a pi<*ce of their mind—'a thing she couldn’t pnt up with, as she said, coming of a decent family that had no foreigners ! in it. “Sophia, my dear, we're all foreigners in one part of the world or another,” my father would say. “If we was to go to ! Holland, Sophia, we’d be foreigners I there, you know.” But mother she’d not believe it. “ It’s ! them would be foreigners all the same,” ; she’d say, “ wherever we were. And how you could like to think of yourself as such, I do not know.” And I wuldu't I tell which wm right, for I was not booklearned, bnt just a plain young woman that tried to do her best. Only I knew that we couldn’t help where we were born. “ Oh, mother,” I used to say, "I do i declare to gracious, it’s real mean of you to hjlk so of poor Antony! If he’d i roblsxl a bank you couldn’t go on | worse !” But all mother would say j was 4 “Oh, Jane! Jane! how can you be so besotted with tlie Dutch “ Tiim’t the Dutch, ma,” says I. “It’s Antony all by himself.” ; “And that’s exactly the same thing,” says she. Oh, it was dreadful! Sally Ann had her young iuan. He was a farmer. And Amelia Matilda had hers. He was a farmer, too. - And I’m sure neither of I them was as nice as Antony Lichen, i But mother never said a word against ! ’em becsase—as I said once when I was dreadful mad. regularly hopping—they grew on the soil like the cabbages. Sally Ann might have her company a Sunday evening, and Amelia Matilda hern a Wednesday, bnt there was no time for us. *' I wasn’t naturally sly. 1 wouldn’t have you think that of me for worlds. But your steady company is your steady company, come what may, and we made np our minds we’d see each other whether folks liked it or not. That wa§ the ’ way it bt*gan. What began I Ob, Ins ! coming sly into the sewing room on the ■ second floor, where the machine was; ’ getting flrat on the fence and then on the shed, and then in at the window. And I’d say to mother: “ Motliffi, I’m going up to sew.” And she’d say, “Well, Jane, just as you like." And then I’d go up there; and when I’d pnt my candle in the window, in would come Antony; and I’d work the treadle with my foot to drown our voices. The room was a little one, and all it held was the machine and one cane chair, and one big arm cliair, with a stripe*! chintz cover. Oh, yes, and a peach-basket we used for our work. Two people about filled it np, but Antony used to say it was just like heaven. Antony was very poetical. If , mother only could have overlooked his being Dutch, I’m certain sure she’d have said so too. Well, it was delightful. I never was happier. Every time the stairs creaked we thought it was ma, who is a very fleshy lady. And I used to think that if Antony should jump out of the window in a hurry, and ge* down the wrong side into the cistern, and be drowned, 1 what a dreadful thing it would be. Or * even if he wasn’t drowned, our watch--1 dog, Bcee, might take it into his head 1 to held him, and pa had a gun, and of course he’d think it was a robber. Every horrid picture I could think of, I 1 did; but things never turn out as you ‘ expect they will. What you dread ’ never happens, and what you don’t, 1 dOM. We might have been meeting in that , sewing room yet, for all I know—me and j Antony—if it hadn’t been for the aim , coming off that pesky chair. What took L it off, I don’t know, but off it wm anyhow; and pa, who is a great hand to I mend things, lugged it away up garret to mend tt. When he got it mended, he had to leave it until it set, of course ; - and that evening there was only a com- ■ mon ehair and the peach-beakei in Hie I room. Antony nd on the peach-bosket turned bottom upward, and I ant work-

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i ing the machine ; and we were talking, 1 and whispering, and kissing, as folks that liked each other as we did do, you ; know, when all of a sudden, creak, creak, j went the stairs. ' “That’s ijaa,” saytf I. “It is nobody,” says Antony. “It is I the usual false alarm.” Creak went the stairs again. “ It is ma this time,” says I. And just then I heard some one fum- | bling in the dark for the handle of the I door. There was no time for Antony to , get out of the window*; but a sudden noj tion seised me—an idea that seemed to fall from., the stars. The slip-cover of die arm chair hung over the machine ; and as Antony sat on the peach-basket, I slipped it over his. head. He took the idea in a minnte, and slipped liis hands into the right place, itnd there he win, in a moment, a chintz -covered arm-chair, i and nothing else. Scared as I was, I I couldn’t help laughing when I saw ma j there looking straight at it, and never j guessing it was anything but what it j seemed. “ How industrious you be to-night, Jane,” said she. “ I’ve come up to tell i you that Dominie Saybrook’s son is in j the parlor inquiring fog, you. You might i put on your white dress and that set you i had for Christinas, before you come dowh, I should think. Your hair is sproozy. Seems funny to me how your hair comes so mussed. I never saw it nicer than it was at tea.” * Now I hated Dominie Saybrook's son. ! The peskiest critter I ever saw, and I ' wouldn’t have had him if he’d been made of gold and lined with diamonds. But I knew that it wasn't possible for mortal man to sit as still as Antony was sitting -much longer; and he was a little jealous of Sam Saybrook, and if he was to wiggle ever so little, ma’d see him certain j sure. So I didn’t make any answer, but —“ Yes,'ma — right away;” and I went to the door in a hurry, hoping she’d come after me to my bedroom and give poor Antony a chance. Z But what were my feelings when ma jest turns about and goes Mast me, and i says she: ; “ I’ll jest sit down in the arm-chair and rest a bit, for them steep stairs oilers takes my breath away.” And down she sot. I heard the peach Iwsket go squash, and I heard Antony cry out, “Ach Himmel;” and there they were flat fin the floor, ma atop and Antony’s head smothered up in the cover. I gave up ail for lost, and just stood and shrnck, when all of a sudden up jumped ima and rushed out of the room with her hands over her eyes—l after her: “Oh, ma! ma!” says I. “Oh, Jane! Jane!” says she. “I never expected I should see a miracle. It’s a sign of death,” says she; “ I know I shan’t live a year.” We’d got into the dining room now, and there was pa and the help, and sister Sally Ann and her beau, and Amelia Matilda and hern. “ Ob, what is the matter ?” says one, and “oh, wlmt is the matter?” says I tother. ** I held my tongue, for I saw ma hadn’t I found out Antony yet “Oh! oh! oh!” says ma. “Oh! oh! oh! You won’t believe me, I know; but Jane saw it I went to sit down in the arm-chair in the sewing- ■ room—the chintz arm-chair, you know—- • and it swore Dutch at me, and tumbled down. It’s a miracle, I know. It’s a | sign and a token, and I’ll be gone before a year is passed. I’m skeered to death ! I’m skeered to death !” r “Nonsense, Sophy,” says pa. “There ain’t no arm-chair in the sewing room. It’s up in the.garret a mend-, ng-" “Tell yon I saw it,” says ma. “ Didn’t I, Jane t Didn’t I sit in it, and it swore Dutch, and tumbled over.” “ I did see it” says I, “ and it did go over.” | “ Bother !” says pa. “ I’ll see for - myself.” And up stairs he ran, and all of us after him ; but Antony was gone, and the nsl cover hung over the sewing-ma chine. “ There’s no chair there,” says pa. “Then,” says poor ma, “I’ve seen its ghost, or else Satan took the form ■ ot an arm-chair, for I swear it swore Dutch!” 1 We had a dreadful time with ma that , night, and I-did not what to do ; i but I wrote a note to Antony that mornI ing, and he acted like a man. He came over and confessed, and I believe saved ma’s life ; anyhow, she was so glad to find there hadn’t been any miracle, after all, that she said she’d forgive us. And J Antony did talk beautiful, I am sure ; and she said it was his misfortune, not his fault, to be a foreigner, and that he might come to see me when he chose, ' and that's bow it all ended. And we’re I married now, and have fourteen chill dren, and everything that the heart can ! i wish. And Sally Ann is married to her i young man, and Amelia Matilda to . hern, but they ain’t neither of ’em as i happy as me and Antony, if we didn't i ■ have the fever and ague down to our . place. I asked for the big armchair when I went 1 to bouaekeepin’; and I sot store by it, I I can tell you. Sometimes I’ll look at it i until I kinder tlynk old courtin’ days i ain’t gone, and Antony is inside of it, - and ma makin’ ready to sit down. You > see, I’m a romantic disposition, and al 1 lets was. » ; The Crown Princess of Germany com- - mands as Colonel a regiment of hussars, s and during recent maneuvers before the t Emperor she appeared mounted at th< - head of her cavaliers.

FARM AND HOME. farm Makings. To use oats as feed for fowls mix it with its bulk of corn and have it ground; this makes excellent feed. | Meetings for discussion of agricultural topics are to be held in Michigan the coming winter under arrangements made by the State Board of Agriculture. ' Now is the time to select com husks to make mattresses. Nothing makes as desirable a mattress' as the clean, white inner husk of corn. Free them of the knobs and then run them through a fodder cutter that will cut them about one or two inches long; put them in the tick, and go to bed and dream of para- , disc. • I- 0 W hatever rural work we can perform this fall is that much off our hands when spring work will lie pressing. The garden should be carefully cleared of bld vines and refuse litter of every descrip-, tion; the bean-poles and pea-sticks should be cleaned and put away for next season’s campaign; the soil ought to be manured and dug over, and the surface suffered to remain in ridges to be acted upon by the frost. Sued Foster says that he is now, after much observation and experience, “fully satisfied that orchards should be plowed every year; the less grass the better; plow in late fall and early spring.” Os I his own orchard he says: “I know of j none, nor have I seen or heard of one in j this country, tliat is this year, so produc- j tive. I have kept under the plow all the | time, usually with a crop of potatoes or ■ com—no manure. ”, A new bee hive was exliibited at the i recent agricultural show at Caen, I France, by M. Manget, costing only one ; franc, which protects the bees from the | extremes of heat and cold, allowing the honey to be removed without fumigation, and can also be transported to dis- ' taut localities. M. Manget has three : hundred well-stocked hives. He has ’ also invented another hive, where the j vapor generated by the bees easily ee- : capes, thus preventing the glass from being obscured. It is a positive luxury to ride or drive a horse that can walk’off with you at | the rate of five miles an hour. It is such a relief to feel, when yon ease up your horse from his swinging trot, or lope, tliat yon have not come to a standi still, but tliat you are yet making, re- ! spectable progress. For our own pri vate use on the road, the walk is the gait : which we prize above all others, and anything which promisee to increase the ! number of fast walkers shall receive our hearty encouragement. Early feeding adds flesh more rapidly than late, and puts on a thick covering of fat during the warm weather to protect them during the colder season of ■ winter. The early fed com being soft, I is easily digested, and assists the fatten•i ing process greatly, as all know who have j tritxl cooked food for stock. We have i known many farmers to delay the feed- • ing of their hogs until late in the fall, , so that, they might save their com and hit a late market for their pork, but we never knew one to secure the best results in tliat way. In gathering corn, take such ears only as are finest and from the most prolific stalks. Never take from a stalk having but one ear, if large and thrifty stalks > can be found with two or more goodsized ears. Generally but one of them , is fit for seed, and that usually the second from the ground. But if the lowest is the best, take that. Always take ears • I that are filled out to the end, and that . beyond the husk, if such can be found. : When you come to plant, before shelling break every ear, and see if the pith of the cob isdrieil up; for if it fe not, the ’ ’ com is not ripe. •' A bed sown with spinach, which upon the advent of freezing weather should • | be covered with a thin coating of straw, will give the owner many an enjoyable ( meal in advance of any other fresh crop. ! Then, too, a few plants of lettuce set out on a warm, sunny slope on the side of j ridges, will be ready for cutting very early and will be acceptable to almost every one. Onions planted now make t early greens, as two or three warm days ‘ ■ after the frost is out starts them into ' growth. All such crops will be the beti ter for a thin coating of straw. Ji EroMmy. • I An inkstand was turned over upon a ? white table-cloth; a servant threw over 1 : it a mixture of salt and pepper plenti- > j fully, and all traces of it disappeared. r Onion Peeling.—ln peeling and slic- ’ ing onions, it is said that if you hold be- • ' tween your teeth a pair of scissors, a 1 steel kiiife, or almost any &on or steel ’ substance, no tears need be shed during • the operation. s Pofvlab Remedy fob Spitting of • i Blood. —Infusion of red rosea, five I ounces and a half; syrup of poppies, r half an ounce; diluted sulphuric acid, ’ I twenty drops. Mix. One or two tea- ’ I spoonfuls four times a day. r ■ The Zaneef recommends a JYench way of preserving eggs by plunging in II to a cauldron ot boiling water a colander j ! containing one dozen, and allowing them |to remain for one minute. This immerB I mon coagulates a thin layer of albumen . lon the surface, and the admission of air ’ is thereby prevented. The best recipe for gioseed shirtbosoms is: Take two ounces of fine gum-arabic powder, pour on a pint or t-; more of water, and then, having covered j, ! it, let it stand all night In the morn- « . ing, pour it carefully from the dregs e ‘ into a elean bottle, cork and keep it for * use. Add a tcaspoonfnl of this gnm-

SFater to a pint of starch made in the usual way. Shorts Pudding.—Take four eggs $ well beaten, a pint of milk, and make a thin batter with the shorts. When boiling corn beef dip in your pudding-bag and fill with the above. Have plenty of room in the kettle with the beef, an-1 be ! shre that the water is boiling; put in the pudding and let it boil two hours, without letting it stop. Eat with sweetened cream or any other pudding sauce. An open fire, with a large chimney throat, is the best ventilator for any room; the one-half or two-thirds of the heat carried Up the chimney is the price paid for immunity from disease; and large though this seems from its daily draft on the wood-pile or coal-bin, it is trifling when compart'd with doctors’ bills and- with the loss of strength and efficiency that invariably results from living in unventilated apartments. An excellent process intended to improve spoiled butter was patented in 1859. It is founded on the fact that the butter in barrels spoils first and mostly from the outside; the hoops and staves are therefore removed from the spoiled butter, and it is surrounded with a bag and buried in charcoal contained in a large barrel or any other suitable receptacle. The well-known and wonderful absorbent power of the charcoal i for odors removes all strong flavor from the butter, and soon gives it the appearance of a fresh article, salable in the' i ' market at a price far in advance of that which rancid butter brings. 8.1.VK OF .VEKJIDJ. The opening of the Bank of Nevada in San Francisco with a gold capital of 15,000,000, which took place on Oct 4, attracted a great crowd, mainly drawn by curiosity to .see the new building and j the piles of ghtteriug coin which were displayed to the best advantage in open I safes, in trays, and on the floor. This bank is owned by six men, the most | prominent of whom are Flood <fc O’Brien, : who, a few years ago the proprietors of a smfLll drinking saloon, are now regarded . as the two wealthiest-men on the Pacific Coast. They made their money by lucky mining speculations,:and are the princi- ; pal owners of the “ big bonanza ” of the Comstock lode. It is doubtful if the establishment of this bank will add to the happiness or ptpsperity of the people of the Pacific States, as it is understood that instemi of doing a commercial business it will make a specialty of advancing loans ujxm mining stock. The building itself is a continual reminder of the wonderful rapidity with which its ; proprietors attained their enormous wealth,' and consequently an incentive to speculation in a class of stocks which will ultimately prove disastrous to by far the greater portion of those who dabble in them. It is said that it is the ambition of Flcod & O’Brien to get possession of all the Comstock mines, and it is shrewdly suspected that they entertain the hope of effecting this by making loans on hypothecated stocks, which the hypothecators may never be able to redeem. When it is remembered what sudden fluctuations frequently occur in the mining stocks of the Pacific States, it will not seem unreasonable to anticipate such a result, whether the bank proprietors themselves have it in view or not. .1 CURIOV3 CODE. What would servants in the present day say to such a code of rules and regulations as was adopted 300 years ago in the household of Sir J. Harrington, the translator of Ariosto? A servant absent from prayers to be fined 5 cents; for uttering an oath, 3 cents, and the ; same sum for leavings door open ; a fine iof 5 cents from Ladyday to Michael- ' mas for all who are in bed after 7, or. out i after 9 ; a fine of 3 cents for any bedsun- | made, fire built or candle-box undesined ' after 8 ; a fine of 10 cents for any man I detected in teaching the children obscene 1 words ; a fine of 3 cents for any man I waiting without a trencher, or .who isab- ! sent at a meal; any one breaking any of i the butler’s glass, 25 cents ; a fine of 5 cents for any one who has not laid the I table for dinner by 10:30 or the supper by 6; a fine of 16 cents for any one ab- ; sent a day without leave ; for any man i striking another, a fine of 3 cents; for any follower visiting the cook, 3 cents ; a fine of 3 cents for any man appearing * in a foul shirt, broken hose, untied shoes or torn doublet; a fine of 3 cents ‘ for any stranger’s room left for four hours after he be dressed ; a fine of Scents if the hall be not cleansed by 8 in winter and 7 in summer the porter to be fined I 3 cents if the court gate be not shut dur- . ing meats ; a fine of Kkcents if the stairs i be not cleansed every Friday after dinI j ner. AH these fines were deducted by ! ■ the steward at the quarterly payment of the men’s wages. ’ i * CROOE’S REV EXGE. * I John Dailey, the father-in-law of Gen. , Crook, of the regular army, is a candi- , date for doorkeeper of the House of Representatives at Washington. Os Dailey and Crook the foilowing story is ( told: During the war Gen. Crook, then in command of the Cumberland, was r i vuriting his future wife at the home of II her father, at Oakdale, Md., when her . I brother, a Captain of guerrillas in the > i Shenandoah Valley, stole through the r ■ lines with a email force, surrounded the house, captured Crook, and successfully made off with him. ’ Soon after, Crook *! gnf exchanged, and revenged himself by 9 making a permanent capture of the J daughter.— Philadelphia Times. -I It is estimated that the school popus | lation St Texas is naw 350,000. The avr [ erage cost of the schools per pupil is - 1 $1.56 a month.

AFRICAy GEOGRAPHY. Explorations and Interrstinff DitnrtriH-Tlw Victoria Niyansa an Inland Sea, and Not a» Afft/rcffation of Smalt Lakes. The two letters which liave been received by the New York Herald and the London Daily Telegraph, from*Mr. Henry M. Stanley, the commander of the Anglo-American expedition organized by those newspapers for the exploration of the Nile sources, says the New York Aun, are interesting contributions to geographical science. Their value is i greatly impaired, however, by Mr. Stan- ■ ley’s obvious lack of literary talent | skill as a reporter, which seems to ren- ! der necessary some clearer statement of ■ his achievements. In Central Africa, immediately under the equator, He two immense lakes, side by side, known to geographers as the Victoria and Albert Niyanzas, and dis- ■ covered respectively by Capt. John Han- . ning Speke and Sir Samuel Baker. The term Niyanza is an African word signifying lake or expanse of water. These lakes are connected by a westward flow ing river, called the Somerset or Victoria Nile, running out of the Victoria Niyanza, into the more western Albert Niyanza, whose northern outlet is positively known to be the White Nile itself. What Stanley has discovered is the fact that the Victoria Niyanza, the most remote source of the Nile actually known to be such, is in reality an inland sea instead of an | aggregation of small lakes, as some explorers have supposed, or a mere marshy I tract, as has been conjectured by a few geographers. The first successful attempt at the exploration of this region was made in 1857, when Capt. Speke and Capt Richard F. Burton set out from Zanzibar toward the interior. They made their way to Lake Tanganyika, where Burton remained, while Speke proceeded on an 1 excursion to the northeast in the course of which he discovered the Victoria Niyanza, first catching sight of its waters from the southern extremity, in July, 1858, close to the spot whence Stanley’s letters are dated. He subsequently explored its western shores, being accompanied by Capt J. A. Grant, of the British army, with whom he discovered ■ its outlet, the Victoria Nile, which, however, they did not trace down to the Albert Lake. The success of Speke in finding this sheet of water which he described as so extensive, and boldly assumed to be the true source of the Nile, aroused the jealI ousy of his former companion, Capt. Burton, to an astonishing degree. Burton is an experienced traveler, of exceptional attainments as a linguist and man of letters, but hard headed, rough, and unrefined. He attacked Speke’s geography and ridiculed his lake; but the correctness of the one and the existence of the other were vindicated in a series i of able articles contributed to Blackwood's Magazine by Mr. Laurfenoe Oliphant At this time, however, Burton’s conduct toward his old associate had become almost brutal. Capt. Speke was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while out shooting, after his return to England. This melancholy occurrence took place near Bath during the meeting of the British Association at that city in 1864, wh&flspeke’s geographical views ■ were expected to excite vigorous hostile criticism; and Burton did not hesitate to suggest that it was in fact the suicide of a disappointed explorer. It is just to add that of late years Capt Burton has manifested some sense of shame for his infamous attack on one of the purest "and best of African travelers. If we may believe Mr. Stanley, the truth sustains Speke’s assertions and even his suppositions founded on native information, in every material particular. The present expedition marched from the eastern coast of Africa to the lake, a distance of about seven hundred and fifty miles, in one hundred and three days, with a loss of one hundred and eighty-one men from fever and fighting lon the route. A cedar boat called the Lady Alice was carried with them, and launched on the bosom of the Victoria Niyanza- Leaving the larger portion of his party at the village of Kagehyi, near , the southern end, Stanley embarked on a boat voyage of a thousand miles, and from the map sent home appears to have 1 explored the entire circumference of the lake, with the exception of the southwestern coast, the locality of which, however, was pretty accurately fixed by Speke on his second journey. The lake is where Speke said it was—as Stanley s observations indicate a difference of only sixteen minutes in latitude—and what Speke said it was. His substantial accuracy can no longer be questioned, provided Stanley’s statements are accepted. LIGHTER FREIGHT CARS. That the English people understand the importance of building freight cars I no heavier than absolutely necessary bet- * ter than we, is proved by the observations of Mr. A. W. Humphreys, oi New ’ York, a practical man whose observations ■ '• on iron-making and railroading in En- • i gland are reported by the New York i1 Tribune. Mr. Humphreys noticed that •; the cars bringing ore and coke to the !; iron furnaces in England were marked ’ j 13,000 pounds, and in some cases as low •I m 12.000 Bounds—or six tons. This was > the weight of the car. The load of ore > they carried was 19,000 pounds, or nine ' I and a half tone. x In this country, Mr. : Humphreys remarks, the cars weigh 18,r 000 to 20,000 pounds, and carry about ’ ten tons of freight Our cars, therefore, t are a third heavier than the English and -I carry only about the same weight of pay--1 ing freight—or to put it in a different s ! way, they cany three tons of deadweight 1 more than they need to.

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LOVE IS PERPETUAL. Prithee, tell me, Dimple-chin, ‘ ■ At what age does love begin 7 Some blue eyes have scarcely seen Summers three, my fairy queen, But a miracle of sweets, Soft approaches, sly retreats, Show the little archer there, Hidden in your pretty hair! When didn't learn a heart to win -7 thee, tell me, Dimple-chin! “ Oh,’’ the rosy lips reply, “ I can’t tell you if I try. ’Tis so long 1. cant remember; Ask some younger lass than 11” Tell, oh tell me, grizzled face, Do your heart and head keep pace 7 When does hoary love expire 7 When do frosts put out the fire 7 Can its embers burn below All that chill December snow 7 Can you still soft bands to press. Bonny heads to smooth and bless 7 When does love give up the chase 7 Tell, oh tell me, grizzled face? . “ Ahl” the wise old lips reply, “ Youth may pass and strength may die; But of love I cant foretoken; Ask some older sage than I!” PLEASANTRIES. A kidnapping affair—Catching a young goat asleep. Colleges of Farmacy—Agricultural institutes. Abe not curtain lectures a species of lay preaching? A man too strictly economical becomes an econo-miser. Academy of Design—A young lady’s boarding school. When a man has nothing else to tax, he taxes his resources. The man who teaches penmanship should do what is write. Tnr only man not spoiled by being lionized was the Prophet Daniel. A pauper’s son ought to make a good balloonist, for he is a heir o’naught. A good temperance work —Removing the bars at the mouth of the Mississippi. What does the grocer do with all his things before he sells them ? Gives them a weigh? ; -< Why might carpenters believe there is no such thing as stone? Because they never saw it. Slang is both strong and weak. Its strength consists in the ability to express in it, sharp and nervous and full, the idea intended to be conveyed. Its weakness is in the fact that it is the language of the unrefined, the uneducated, tire low.—PAiYade/phia Hbrth American. X Detroiter was called on as a witness in a case before one of the Justices lately, and when the oath was administered he raised both hands and said: “I shall spoke nodding what ain’t drew if ever 1 hope to die so quick as a minute!” He was so earnest and solemn that the lawyers let him alone. An Englishman was boasting to a Yankee that they had/ a book in the British Museum which was once owned by Cicero. “Oh, that ain’t nothin’,” retorted the Yankee; “in the museum in Busting they’ve got the lead-pencil that Noah used to check oil the animals tlmt went into the ark.” r A washerwoman knocks at the door of one of the rooms in South. A wellknown ’75 man is quietly keeping a chair down, and the following dialogue takes place: Female—“Do you want any Washing done ?” ’75 (with dignity)— ‘ ‘ I am a tutor, madam.” 1 Female —“Oh! • of course, then, you won’t have any done.”— Yale Record. Two or three months 4 ago a Detroiter started to build him a house, and as he had always heard his wife “jawing around ” about the lack of closets in houses he determined to give her an agreeable surprise. She went up with him a day or two ago, and he pointed out eleven different closets to her and asked: “Now, what do you say?” “Well,” she replied, after another look around, “if there was another closet off the hall I’d be willing to live and die here !”— Detroit Free Press. “HIGH DIDDLE DIDDLE,” IS MILTOSIC VEBbE. Heard ye that mirthful melody 1 Remote It rose; and etraight the .train, approaching near Caught of the careful cat the critic ear— Proud dame in tortoise decked or tabby coat. The villain vermin’» vixen Vanquisher. Her frolic paw the festive fiddle smote, Which, as high Hesperponrvd his glittering glance, Inspired the not awkward eow to dance Above the beamy moon; all this beheld The dog diminutive, while its strange romance With laughter loud his simple bosom swelled, The dish, high heaped with food of savory store, Kissel the bright spoon, by kindred love impelled Buch is the nursery tale of infant lore. THE LEVER THAT MOVES THE WORLD. It is not the polished orator who . shapes public opinion, but the quiet editor, whose words go out to the public ear without parade or ceremony. The orator may please the ear and tickle the fancy, but the editor does more : he satisfies the mind, and ojxies to every household a fund of knowledge. The orator by burning words and impassioned eloquence, may drive men to a sense of duty; but the editor, if he be true to his profession, attracts men by the presentation of thoughts which appeal to the nobler qualities of head and heart. The ♦ords of the orator drop from the lips, and are lost, while the words of the editor drop from the press, and, like coined money, pass for what they are worthy; if pure gold in the truths conveyed, they pass current everywhere. For good or evil, the editor wields a powerful influence. He can exalt or debase a community. He can advance public virtue, oar encourage public corruption. How important, then, that the editor shorn 1 be a good man, and that all papers that convey correct sentiments to the public ear should receivefi^ 1 fiU PP° rt ’ Brigham Young has been dubbed Brig Gen. from having been called > “Brfggy, dear,” so often by his numerous wives.