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]}Y FREEMAN & BRO.
Hie (tallunm limes.
Sold^Again.
IV e had lir gered out the season,
Far inio the cooler days,
And the votaries of fashion
All had flo»vn their different ways.
Ours had been no light flirtation,
Such as watering know,
But an earnest love creation,
Laying every barrier low.
I had felt my pnfses beating
At the warm touch of her hand;
I had followed in her footsteps—
Dreamed 1 was in fairy-land.
She.had hung upon my accents,
With her lovely violet eyes
Glistening at the words I whispered,
Beaming with a glad surprise.
We had wondered down the sea beach,
With the moonlight o’er 113 straying;
Listened to the night, winds whisper.
Wondered what the waves were saying.
\nd 'again wc stood together
Near the ocean’s ebb and flowing
While the blushes of the sunset.
On the waves were redly glowing.
“Dearest,” said she, hesitating,
“Ah ! too long wc both have tarried ;
To-morrow v. a must part forever;
Fot, my darting, 1 ann —-married !
“Married!” I exclaimed, upstarting;
“Married,” murmured with a sigh ;
“Then, indeed, this is a parting,
For, my darling, so am 11”
f THE LITTLE LADY.
T was stopping at the Hotel Windsor,
at Rue de Rivoli, Paris.
One morning I was smoking in the
colonade, when a tall, elegantly dressed
“en tie man asked permission to light his
(*i' r ;ir by mine. 1 saw at once that he
was a Frenchman, although his “ Eng
lish was nearly perfect.
“Have you heard the news?'* he in
quired.
Mo. *
«Is it possible? Why, nil Paris is
alive with it at this moment.”
“What has happened '''”
“ The Countess de Marvilla, the fair
est of the fair, was found murdered in
her bed last night, her bureau broken
open and ten thousand franc3 missing
from it. It was terrible. The brute
who did the deed effected his entraLoc
through the window of her chalnber,
near which, unfortunately, w*g a tail
tree, planted by the distinguished grand
father of the countess years ago. Little
did he imagine what a terrible use
would be made of it.”
“This is bad news How any man
could harm a woman thus in cold blood,
is more than I can imagine.”
•'Ah, monsieur, if you had ever seen
pkhe Countess you would wonder still
more. She was beautiful —beautiful as
an angel,” he added, stroking his whis
kers with an unmistakable air of vani
ty; “l know her well.”
“Indeed.”
“Oh, yes. There are in Paris but
very few popular women unknown to
me.”
Pis manner now was decidedly con
ceited, and l felt disgusted* My cold
ness evidently repelled him, for he soon
left me.
Afterwards I heard from others ac
counts of the tragedy. Among the de*
tails of the affair was one which pecul
iarly impressed me—and which my first
informant had not spoken of, an over
sight which surprised me, as the occur
rence he had not mentioned was of that
kind which would be most apt to strike
the fancy.
Upon the throat of tha Countess the
murderer, in throttling her, had left a
mark from a ring he wore—the impres
sion of a chariot wheel with a star ir.
the center.
“This,” said my latest informant,
' may lead to the discovery of the mur
derer. Jean Mosqtieau is already vis
iting the jewelers’ shops to find out
horn which and by whom a ring with
chariot wheel device was purchased.”
“ Who is Juan Mosqueau?”
“ What, Mosqueau, our famous de
tective ? Although his courage is well
known, you would not, to look at his
Hir, delicate face and form, believe that
he could fight a gnat!”
c O
A week later I was aboard the si earn
er bound from Calais to Dover.
Among the passengers I beheld one
whose face looked familiar to me. X
.Wes not long in recognizing this person
"as the same I hud seen in front cf the
Hotel Windsor, and who had first in u
formed me of the murder of the Coun
tess.
He was certainly a very handsome
® an t although his conceited air was a
- upon his good looks#
He moved languidly hither and tliith
er > turning his brown eyes admiringly
l -P ;! n the pretty lady passengers, while
'diking his whiskers with ouy whit
upon the middle of which was a
"“perb diamond ring.
Ic
am rather of a suspicious nature.
s hich, combined with a lively imagin
ation, had ofteft let me into singular
errors.
N °w, a Impulse moved tno to
France anu hold out my hajtd to the
|f taD whom I bud involuntarily disliked
ooui the first, in order that I might
, lve 4 chance to glance at his riug.—
Somehow the idea possessed me that I
S! 'ould discover a chariot-wheel device
U P OII the glittering bauble.
' he stranger did not at first recognize
I,ie “ He soon did, however, and frank*
m y extended his left band, which was
n °* the one containing the ring.
My brain fairly reeled. The man’s
'•huvior was a confirmation of my
suspicions.
u Monsieur will please excuse me ;
Ul y other arm is lame with rheumatism.”
He beheld me glance towards the
1 lU S> ar ‘d I was sure I saw him start
and turu pale *at'the same tice looking
much surprised. ~Ho, however, opened
his right hand, as if perfectly willing
for me to shako it if I chose.
Then I had a good look- at the ring,
and felt ashamed of my suspicions.—
The device was a common heart, which
bore no resemblance to a chariot wheel.
After a gcueral conversation to recov
er my self-possession, I turned away, re
solved in the future to have a better
opinion of my fellow creatures.
The stranger’s good looks seemed to
attract the attention of a good many cf
the ladies. Ono especially, a modest
looking little thing, attired in block,
kept clitecliag ‘furtivo glances at
the handsome passenger. Finally she
glided so close to him that ioPturning
he brushed against her.
An apology smilingly received by the
little lady, a remark about the weather
on the part of the gentleman, and the
two were soon conversing with anima
tion. Meanwhile the blushing cheek
and bright eyes of the iair one seemed
to betoken that she was well pleased
with her companion,whose air was more
conceited than ever.
“ 1 am airf.id tfe shall have a storm,”
*he remarked, pointing towards a .dark
cloud upon which the captain of the
boat was gazing anxiously.
“ We may, but do not be alarmed,
madaroe.”
With an air of nonchalance he pull
ed a' red cigar case from his pocket and
asked hie compauion if she objected to
a smoke. Then he started, aud quickly
returning the red one to his pocket ue
pulled forth another of a blue color.
“How many cigars do you smoke a
day ?” inquired the lady, amused at the
sight of two cases.
The other colored, and it struck me
that his voice faltered and his hand
trembled, as he made some laughing re-
Pty-
Soon the storm came pouring down
upon us. We were midway in the
channel, so that we caught the full
force of the sea and gale. Both were
terrific.
The sea swept the boa‘, which lay so
far over that the machinery was soon
damaged so that it would not work.—
The wind,screaming like a demon, threw
her ov«r still further.
Suddenly we observed the sailors en
deatorhng to loosen a long boat on the
davits at the stern. Meanwhile, there
was an ominous, ‘grinding, smashing 1
noise under thfc counter. The truth
could net be couceaiad—we were siuk J
ing!
The lad La screnaied • the handsome
passenger lost his self control, and raft
hither and||thither.
The cool behavior of the little iauy
iu black contraetcl strangely with the
agitated deaieano.* of those around her.
There she stood, calm aftd immova
ble, her bright steel blue eyes fixed up
on the handsome stranger, of whom she
did not lose sight for a moment.
“ Keep quiet, ladies and gentlemen,”
sang out the captain, keep quiet, and
dou’t crowd around the boat so 1 There
will be room in it for you all; and, be
sides, there is a schooner coming to our
assistance”- I —pointing to a vessel bowl
ing towards us before the wind.
There was, however, a panic among
those addressed. The moment the boat
was lowered, Lto it they all bundled,
among them the handsome passenger.
A huge sen coming along, roaring
like thunder, parted the tcckjes, tearing
the bout from the steamer before the la
dy in black or 1 could enter it. The
handsome passenger, losing his balance,
fell over the gunwale, and, being unable
to swim, wildly threw up his arms.
I must acknowledge that I was so
I e'.:grossed with the perilous situation of
[ my fair companion and myself —now the
0.-ly tv.o left aboard the steamer —that
I paid little attention to the drowning
ma...
The steamer was, in fact, going down
fa si—vr&s already nearly engulfed in
the stormy waves, her heated and half
suume. o cd boilers hissing as the steam
cams gushing ent like the spout of a
whale.
I was advancing to throw my arm
around the little lady, fearing to see her
washed away, when, quietly motioning j
ue back with one hand she seized a coil ;
of rope and threw one end to the hand- j
some passenger. He caught ft, when ;
turning to me. the lady requested me to !
haul the man aboard, I complied, mar- '
veling at the love and devotion thus j
shown by a worar.n to an acquaintance
of an hour.
“llis power over the female sex must
he great,” I thought. “He is conceit
ed, but not without reason.”
The idea dashed clearly aerooj my
mind in spite of my danger. The
schooner, however, was very near, and
I tlad every reason to believe that we
should be picked up.
I was right. We were all taken
aboard the schooner, the handsome pas
senger among the rest. Then the lady
in black pulled forth a revolver, point
ing h rt the head of him whom she had
jcscueu.
“ Out with that red cigar-case !” she
said sternly. “I vrouM like to see what
Monsieur carries in it.”
•‘Why—why,” stammered the stran
gef, “what is—”
15efore he could say Gather vord,
the little Amazon thrust her
hand in his pocked, pulleu forth Jic
red cigar ease and opening it a ring
dropped to the deck.
The ring she Sicked Up. and hold'
irtg it up before us all exci imed—
“ I have found it at hist. Ihe jew--,
eler assured me it the only one of
the device in Paris— a chariot wheel!
This person is the murderer of the
Countess Be Marville !”
The handsome passenger stood as if
frozen to the deck, making no resistance
CA LHOUN, LA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1874.
as the lady in black slipped a pair of
hand-cuffs over his wrists.
“ By w hat right,” he stammered, “do
you —”
He paused as the other threw off her
dress and false hair, revealing the per
son of a slender man with delicate girl
ish features
“I am Jean Mosquea, the detective,”
he quietly remarked, “and I robbed the
sea of this mart that the scaffold might
not be cheated.”
There is little more to add. The
main proof having been obtained, other
proof on the prisoner’s trial was brought
forth, showing him guilty beyond a
doubt.
Long before his execution his name
was ascertained to be Louis Rosseneau,
a noted adventuier and gambler, who,
however, by cool effrontery and a win
ning address, backed by his good looks,
had been enabled to move among the
first circles of Parisian society.
jlJKsste Language.
It is important that children culti
vate the manner of framing their
thoughts into words. The cultivation
purifies the thought and elevates the
moral powers. We clip from The Or
phan’s Friend :
Every word that falls from the lips
of mothers and sisters especially should
be pure, and concise, and simple ; rtot
pearls, that fall from the lips of the
princess, but sweet, good words, that
little children can gather without fears
of soil, or after shame or blame, or any
regrets to pain through all their life.
Children should be taught the fre
quent use of goad strong, expressive
words—words that mean exactly what
they should express in their proper
places
If a child, or young person, has a
a loose, flungtogether way of stringing
words when endeavoring to say some
thing, he should be made to “try again”
and see if lie can’t do better.
It is painful to lLten to many girls
talk. They begin with a “My good
ness!” and interlard it with “oh’s!”
and “ sakes alive !” and “so sweet!” and
“so queenly,” aud so many silly phrases
that one is tempted to believe they
have had no taaining at all, or else
their mothers were very foulish women.
There is nothing more disgusting than
the twaddle of ill-bred girls; one is
provoked often into taking up a paper
and reading, and letting them ripple
and gurgle on, like brooks that flow
they know not whither.
My heart warms with love for sensi
bl; girls and pure boys; and after all,
if our girls and boys are not this, I
fear it is our fault that this great trust
rests in the heart and hand of the wo
men of our land. If we have a noble,
useful purpose in life, we will infuse
the right spirit into those around us.
Thfe benefit of One Advertisement.
We would call the attention of our
readers to the following paragraph,
which we find in one of our exchanges :
“ If there is one man on this conti~
nent above another who appreciates the
benefit of advertising, it is Orange Judd.
A number of years ago, when he and
his wife spent their evenings in putting
up packages, an d a penny had its full
value to them, he sent a boy Mth a
check for a hundred dollars to the Her
ald office with instructions to pay what
was due and leave the rest for future
advertising. The boy being dull of
comprehension didn’t understand him,
and told the bookkeeper to use one
hundred dollars for one day. The nest
morning what was Mr. Judd’s horror,
on taking up the. Herald, to see ‘ Bead
the American Agriculturist ’ repeated
for nearly a whole column. He Hished
down to the office for an explanation,
and found that they only fotlowed in
structions, and there was no help for it.
‘We are ruined,’ he said to his wife, ‘a
whole year’s advertising gone in a day.’
But, instead of being his ruin, it was
the beginning of his success. Imme
diatcly subscriptions poured in from
ail parts of the country. The Agricul
turist soon became an institution, and
its propriter is one of the richest men
in New York Mr. Judd has contin
ued from that day of his lucky mistake,
to be one of the most extensive adver
timer’s in the country, and he has his
reward.”
Broken YotVsa
Vain are attempts to gather togeth
er and cement into sound form, the
old fragments of friendship and afieC'
tic n.
Although it seems to the thoughtless
that broken vows, and forfeited esteem
are not worth an effort to avoid, farther
along the route of reflection, is display
ed a serious, sorrowful importance in all
attachments and friendships.
Experience reverts to a past thickly
strewn with heartaches and a thousand
sad hours caused by efforts to patch up
a once cherished sentiment,. which has
been ruthlessly shattered. Some of its
finest bits, have been' lost, others broken
to atoms, so that ever more there must
remain unfilled nitches in a mended and
repaired affection.
Why will people dash a cup to at
oms, which contains no drop of bitter
ness in its depths of sweetness ? Surely
Time is cruel enough, and ali too soon
..hifts the scenes and separates friends,
so tlufc variety and novelty are not want
i.. g.
Who has not seen the waves of time
was!; away their choicest jewels, and
mingld them with the sands upon the
beach, or bury them in the deep ocean
;of the Hast? Powerless ate human
,hands to restore them. •
God is the only sea diver who shall
resurrect the treasures of the heart.—
Elm Orlou.
The worst men often give the best
advice.— Bailey.
The Law of the Rood.
The great leadiug rule is, that no
one has the right to be iu the middle
of the road, except when no other per
son is present to claim his right to the
use of o.ne half the highway ; which
claim he has precisely the same Tight
to assert, when traveling in the same
direction, that he has when he meets
another. This is the way of every
State in the Union, and so far as \ve
are informed, ot every civilized coun
try; and all persons violating it are lia
ble for all damages resulting from their
conduct.
When teams meet, the American law
is that each, turning to the right, shall
give half the road. The custom and
the law of England require teams to
turn out to the left—as expressed in an
old doggerel :
The rule of the road is a paradox quite:
In riding or driving along,
If you keep to the lets, you are sure to go
right,
If you keep to the right, yon go wrong.
In passing, the party iu front is re
quired to turn to the left, so as to al
low the person in the rear who is trav
eling at a more rapid rate to pass by on
his right.
Where teams approach at right an
gles, or intersecting roads, it is the duty
of the party who, by turning to the
right, would pass to the rear of other
team, to pull up and allow the other to
pass.
A person with a light vehicle, meet
ing or desiring to pass a heavily laden
team, especially if thcHatter is going
up a hill, will generally turn out, with
out requiring the man with the load
ed wagon to give half the rod ; but
the law imposes no such obligation
in any ease, and under all circumstan
ces requires each party to give half
the road, unless by accident or some
obstruction it 13 found impossible to do
so.
If a party happens to be in the wrong
place on the road or street, a party
coming in collision with him is not en
titled to damages, if by the use ordinary
and reasonacle diligence he could have
avoided it. —National Live Stock Jour
nal.
True Worth.
A really modest and meritorious per
son will not utakQ pretertsions of any
kind. His malliler and expressions will
always have a tendency to underrate his
real ability, not because he will pretend
to be less capable than he really is, but
So many men have become pretentious
in tlieif manners and expressions he
fears he may be considered as such
We are in consequence, too apt to con
sider the extent and capacity of those
whom we meet a little below the stand
ard indicated by their acts and expres
sions. Therefore, true merit is seldom
properly appreciated, and its cultiva
tion is never greatly encouraged, on the
contrary, pretence is almost always suc
cessful. lie who is pretentious affects
the interest of society in a similar man
ner as the swindler. He induces men
to doubt the capacity of others, aud of
ten to refuse aid and employment, be
cause they measure the merits of all ly
those of the pretentious fop and conceit
ed ignorance. Many an honest and
skillful man, and many a valuable im
provement, has been refused support
and adoption because the pretentious
swindler has previously misled the peo
ple and imposed upon them outrageous
ly. Pretentions of every kind are true
indications of a weak mind or a would
be swindler.
A Layman’s Brace*
A young married friend tells a good
joke on lumself perpetrated by a little
three-year old “ pride of the family.”
She is the only pledge of love that has
twined itself around the heart aud af
fections of himself and wife. A few
evenings since a minister visited the
family and remained until after tea. —
At the table the reverend visitor asked
the blessing, and the little one opened
her eyes to the fullest capacity in star
tied wonderment. She could not un
derstand what had been’done, and it was
with great persuasion that her mother
could keep her quiet during the time
they were at the table. When they
left it, she walked up to the minister,
for whom she had formed a great friend
ship, and said :
“ What did you sav at the table before
we commenced eating ?”
“ My little darling, I thanked God
for his goodness in giving us to eat. so
that we might grow and be strong.”
“Papa don’t say that.”
“ What does your papa say ?”
“ Papa says, ‘Godlemighty, what a
supper V ”
Labor-Sa vI NO M ACIIIN ER Y. — The
equalization of the cost of manufactur
ing in England and toe United States,
by the use of labor-saving machinery to
a greater extent in this country than in
the former, will develop a healthy com
pete ion between manufacturers that
can scarcely fail to improve the products
of all. The President of the British
Association, it) a recent address said :
“ Any manufacturer of the present day
who does not make efficient arrange
ments for gradually perfecting and im
proving Lis process ought to make at
once enough money to retire, tor so
many are moving onward in this and
other countries that he will soon be left
behind.” The remark is even more
forcibly true here than in England, for
our manufacturers have not only to
; compete with each other, but to enter
j the markets of the world in an honora
j ble vivalship with established inanufact
j urers of the Old World.
0
| Is the bottle discontent seeks for
comfort,cowardice for courage, and bash,
fulness for confidence.
has elicited many tnrious
facts respecting water, among which are
the subjoined: Os every twelve hun
dred tons of earth a landholder has in
his estate, four hundred arc water. The
snow-capped sh’thmits of Snowden and
Ben Nevis have water in a solidified
form. The air we breathe contains five
grains of water to every cubic foot of
its hulk. The potatoes and turnips
which are boiled for dinner have, in
their taw state, the one severity five per l
cent, and the other ninety per cent of
water. If a man weighing two huu
dred were squeezed fiat in a hydraulic
press, one bundled and fcixy pouad* o'
of water would run out, aid only fifty
pounds residue remain. A man is. elum- i
ically speaking, forty-five pounds car
bon and nitrogen, diffused through five
and a half pailfuls of water.
There i? exhibited in St. Louis just
now a curious bit of work in amateur
art. This is a medallion of a sleeping
i'nce, very well executed it is said, not
in clay nor marble, but in butter. It
came from the head and hands of an
Arkansas farmer’s wife, who caught the
idea while busy in her dairy. She made
a quantity of studies with the aid of
her butter paddle, cedar sticks, broom
straws and a came Ts-hair pencil, and at
last succeeded in modeling a really cred
itable head. It is ingeniously mounted
in a milk-pan, which in turn is framed.
There is something pathetic in the en
deavor of this untaught, hard working
woman to use in the intervals of butter
making. and dish-washing the natural
talent she can never develop.
'Restoring Faded Flowers.—
Place the flower in a small empty tea
cup or scent-bottle. Half fill a saucer
with water, in the center of which place
the cup or bottle containing the flower,
over which invert a tumbler the top of
which rests in the water, covering the
flower in the cup and excluding the r-.ir.
The effect is surprising; in a short
time the faded flower will revive, the
color will return into the pet-.ds, which
quickly expand, and the sweet, returns
as powerfully a:s when the flower is
plucked. Care should be taken that
the flower docs not come in contact with
the sides or bottom of the invcrtel
tumbler.
A Wife’s Sympathy.—A writer
says that *‘what the true man most
wants of a wife is her companionship,
■sympathy, courage ‘ant*, love.” lie is
right. The true man wants his wife’s
companionship when he has to get up
in the night to see what that noise is in
the cellar. Her courage is eminently
valuable in the general neighborhood
debates over the possession of some do
mestic article, and her love is absolutely
indispensable when he gets in late.—
But her sympathy ! Well, anyone who
has ever picked up the wrong stove!id
with his bare hand estimate the val
ue of that
The devotion of Mary’s little lamb,
which “followed her to school,one day,”
is equalled by that of a duck at Athol,
which, it is said, is «o much attached
to a young lady who feeds it that it at
tends her to church or wherever she
goes. At a recent entertainment at
Music Hall the duck waited below T uti
til the young lady came down stairs,
and then escorted her home with many
a complacent quack.
- —-o* ■*— -
Tiie first patent in the United States
of which there is any record, was grant"
ed to Samuel Hopkins, July 31, lID ),
for making pot and pear! ashes. The
second was to James Stacey Sampson,
August 6, 1793, for making candles;
and the third and last for the year 1790
was to Oliver Evans, for making flour
and meal. The latter beats date De
cember 18, 1790.'
Experience is a pocket-compass
that few think of consulting until they
have lost their way. Most of the shad
ows that cross our path through life are
caused by standing in cur own light.—
In weighing the character of men we
penetrate beneath the envelope of
affectation and assumption which many
habitually wear.
There is nothing like courage in
misfortune. Next to fakh in Provi
dence, a man’s faith in himself is his
salvation. It is the secret of all power
and success. It makes a man strong as
the pillared iron; as elastic as the
springing steel.
Never attempt to do anything that
is not right. Just as sure as you do
you will get into trouble If you even
suspect that anything is wrong, do it
not until you are sure your suspicions
are groundless.
How, like the shadow upon the dial.
! thought is ever returning to t e place
of beginning—where we first began to
love; to the homesteadand thetrysting
place, the play-ground and the grave
yard.
It takes two to make a quarrel—just
remember that. It takes two to get a
quarrel fairly going, so hold your tongue
the moment a storm i3 brewing, and
you are without the pale of discord.
It often happens that they are the
best people whose character hare been
most injured by slander, as we often
find that to be the sweetest fruit which
the birds have been peeking at.
Action is the real teacher. Instruct
ion does but prevent waste and mis
takes; and mistakes themselves are of
ten the best teachers of all.
Try what forgiveness will do before
you report to punishment.
lIOrSFHOI.R-lIIMS,
Ointment fop Freckles.—Take of
flour of mustard 3 ounces; leuron juice
to make a stiff paste, q. s.; oil of al
monds. I fl. ounce.
Sp lF.n d11) SpoN f; l # Ca k e. —Weigh
eleven eggs, and allow the weight in
1 fine white sugar, and the weight of eight
I eggs in lightly sifted flour, the half of
1 a lemon juice, or one table spoouful of
vinegar. Mix yelks and sugar, beat
lightly, and add alternately, whites of
eggs ami flour; li en stir but lightly,
and bake slowly.— Mrs. H’aize.
f)r i f.> > < kuit Melange.—Boil the
fruit until perfectly soft; beat the white
of lour eggs with pounded sugar till
smooth like icing ; season the fruit with
spices and sugar ; put in a baking di.-h.
Spread the eggs smoothly AVer it, and
bake till a light brown. Serve with
cream. Green apples prepared in this
way are still nicer.
Rich Wedding cake. —Five pounds
finest flour, three pounds good butter,
five pounds currants, two pounds sifted
loaf-sugar, two nutmegs, one quarter
ounce mace, one-quarter ounce of cloves,
sixteen eggs, one pound sweet almonds*
one half pound candied citron, one-halt
pound orange and lemon peel, half a
pint of rich raspberry sirup. Bake five
hours in a slow oVen.
Removal of Ink Spots. When
these are of long standing it is difficult
to get them out, since the iron has be
come thoroughly peroxidized and must
be reduced. Tbe following is recom
mended : Water, 1 liter ; hydrochloric
acid, 100 grams ; tin salt, 100 grams.
Moisten the spot with this solution, keep
ing it moist until the color disappears,
and rinse with water.
French Pancakes. Two eggs,
two ounces of butter, two ounces silted
sugar, two ounces of flour, half pint of
new milk. Beat the eggs thoroughly
and put them into a basin with the but
ter, which should bo beaten to a cream ;
stir in the sugar and flour, and when
these ingredients are well mixed, add
the milk ; keep stirring and beating the
mixture for a lew minutes ; put cn but
tered plates, and bake in a quick oven
fur twenty minutes. Serve with a cut
lemon and sifted sugar, or pile the pan
cakes high on a dish, with a laVer o<
preserve or marmalade between each.
Oyster Stew.—Carefully drain the
juice from one quart of oysters, remov
ing them from the liquor with a spoon,
not piercing with a fork. Measure the
juice, and if not half a pint in quantity,
add water enough to fill the measure
Place over the fire in a porcelain stew
pan, adding a piece of blitter the size of
a large walnut. When it comes to a
boil, carefully remove all scum that may
arise. Put in the oysters, and let them
huat through, not cooking enough to
shrivel them; add a little more than
half a pint of cream, let it all scald
through again, remove from the stove,
and season to suit the taste. New milk
will do instead of cream, and the stove
should be very hot, so as to cook them
quickly. |
Turnip Soup.—For a very small
family, take a neck of mutton, and di
vide it into steaks, omitting all the fat
For a family of moderate size, take a
breast as well as a neck. Put them in
to a soup pot with sufficient water to
cover them, and let them stew till well
browned. Skim them carefully. Then
nour on more water, in the proportion
of a pint to each pound of meat, and
add eight er ten turnips pared and sliced
thin, with a very little pepper and silt.
Let the soup boil till the turnips are all
dissolved, and the meat in rags. Add,
toward the last, some bits of butter
rol'ed in flour, and in five minutes af
terward the soup will all be done.—
Carefully remove all the bits of meat,
iitid bone be'bre you send the soup to
the table. It will be found very good,
and highly flavored with the turnips.
Arsenic in Hydrophobia.—ln a
late number of the Correspondenz Bla‘t,
Dr. Guisan gives a number of feasts
showing the value of arsenic as a pro
phylactic in hydrophobia, and even as
a remedy also after the symptoms are
marked. He relates that a rabid dog
between the 7th and 9th of June, Lit
thirteen persons in various towns of the
canton of Freiburg. All were recom
mended to be treated with one-twentieth
of a grain of arsenic morning and even
ing, as a prophylactic measure. Eight
submitted to this and none were affect
ed. Four declined, or were not allow
ed to take the arsenic. Os those four,
two remained unaffected, and two died.
One began the arsenic treatment, but
speedily left it off; she was attacked,
but at a much later period, and died.—
Dr. Guisan recommends not only the in
ternal employment of the arsenic, but
that the wound should be dressed with
it
Custard (FUjfficiFnt for Twelve
Cups).—A lady writes U3: “1 found
out the other day that an excellent cus
tard might be made with ifiany eggs
less than what are generally used. —
Having occasion to make some custards
for a small party, and not having suffi
cient eggs, I made the following with
what I had—four eggs, or, at least, the
yelks of the same : First, beat the yolks
with about 7 ozs. of cr shed lump su
gar till very smooth, slowly adding a lit
tle more than a teacup of cold, sweet
milk. Have ready on the fire nearly a
pint and a half of milk, boiling hot. —
To this add (quickly, and stirring the
whole tium) the beaten eggs, sugar and
milk, iu which should be blended three
teaspoonfuls of fine flour. When it be
gins to boil add half a glass of sherry
and a few drops of essence to taste ;
then pour the whole into i juir to cool.
When cool stir in 2 ozs. of sweet aU j
moods, beaten in a mortal, and fill your j
custard cups.
VOLUME IV.—NO. 24.
FIS ITPMS.
A Ftoux City Justice of the Peace,
about to marry a couple, said : •• Hold
.up your right hands. Now what do
you know about this etUe ?”
Cooing is well before marrt
; age, but the billing doesn’t generally
! £ome till after; and then it comes from
silk dresses and other articles.
To avoid the smell of oniofll—care-
L fully sprinkle ti.e room with disinfect
ing fluid or chloride of lime mixed with
water. Another plan is to leave the
house at once.
“ The Israelites Crossing the Red
S‘ , u" is one of the paintings exhibited
by a pioiAsor in Maine, who claims in
his advertisement that they wi re “pho
tographed direct from nature."
Owing to John Robinson's ci cus
being in town, the regulab Thursday
evening prayer meeting has been post
poned.” said a recent number of the
Enterprise; Dalla*. TeiaS.
John Henderson, a Yankee suing for
a divorce in Indiana, alleges that his
wife trapped him by n.cans false
hair, false eyebrows, false complexion,
a big bustle, and a deceitful tongue.
To thicken the hair—Take two
ounces of molasses, two ounces of glue,
and otic ounce of Roman cement; mix
and apply before going to bed. It will
make the hair very thick. Perfume to
taste.
A Mississippi editor threatens to put
a man’s nose in a parenthesis. Non
sense has been described as sense that
differs from ode’s own. It is never
proper to stone your fli ighbor, but you
may rock his baby.
Twenty-seven Nashville Indies, deter
mined to practice economy, vowed not
to wear any thing more expensive than
calico dre-ses to chinch; and they
stuck to it, as hone of them h:\Vc at
tended church since.
He s-id it was too cold to get up,
and she said it wasn’t her place to kin
dle fires, and she wouldn’t, and they
both lay abed some thirty-odd hours iri
Portland Maine. She, pretty hungry
by that time, thought better of it.
A fair young creature, with a pen
chant for cards, thus addresses an epis
tle to her masculine friend: “Como
and play youcur this evening.” And
he trot mad, and said a “ graduate” who
had such spells as that was no right
lower for him.
“ Mike, why don’t you fire at those
ducks, boy ? Don’t you see you have
got the whole flock before your gun ?”
I know 1 have ; but when I get a
good aim at one, two or three others
will swim right up between it and
me.”
An inebriated Irishman, on being
kindly questioned in a very narrow
lane, across which he was reeling, as t<i
the length of the road he had travel
ed. replied. “ Faith, it’s not so much the
length of it as the breadth of it that
Fred me.”
11 So your mother’s dead, is she V*
inquired a boot black yesterday of a
rather solemn faced lad, who had come
back with his “kit” after an absence of
a day or two. “ Yes, she is,” replied
the boy, and then straightening him
self up he continued : “ And dad did
the fair thing by her—seven more
hacks than Mrs. had the other
day.”
‘Gentlemen of ihc jury,” said a
judge in summing up. “in thi3 case
council on both sides are impudent rmd
incredible; the witness on been sides
are indecent and incredible; aud the
plaintiff and defendant both stand silch
acknowledged rogues, that it is to me
utterly indifferent which *way you give
a verdict.”
A Yankee lecturer on “ The Sanita
ry Conditions of Existence,” sternly
asked his audience, “ Dees one wptnun
in fifty fill the lower half of her lungs
with air?” and was utterly disconcerted
hy hearing a squealing voice reply, “ I
guess if you’d ever heard the voice of
your mother-in law when she was in
a rage, you Wouldn’t ask that ques
tion*.”
During a visit of some young men to
a youfig lady in Shclbyv'lle, the other
evening, a little brother of the young
lady came into the room, and after sur
veying the young gentleman, said ; “ I
bet I can do something that you can’t ”
One of them imprudently asked him
wh it it was. lie said, “ I can kiss my
sister and you can’t.” In nine cases out
of ten it is fatal to include little boys in
conversation with their older sisters.
The act of shop keeping is carried
to a high degree of perfection in Char
leston, Mo. When a lady tides up to a
store in that place three clerks seize
the bridle.two take the horse by the tail
and yank him close to the stile-block—«
Two more clerks spread a roll of Brus
scls carpet across the sidewalk, while,
the merchant in white kid gloves, white
vest, and forked-tail coat escorts the I;.‘-
dy to a luxurious divan, where she sl'iis
at ease and makes her purchase.
A colored preacher in St. Augustine
was over heard by a Northern lady giv
ing to an attentive assembly an aaeount
of the deluge. He closed his fanciful
ly embellished history as follows : “Aud
de rain come down in big spouts, and
conic up to de dc step of de houses,
and 'yin to cober de flo.’ 'and den do
sinner be searet. and knock at de do’ ob
de aik bery hard And de big lion hear
de racket, and roaT, and de dog bark,
aud de ox bellow, but Noah keep otf
readiu’ de Bible. And de sinner say,
“Noah, Noah, let us come iu.’ Aud
Noah say, 4 1 berry sorry, but I can’t
let you iu. for de Lord h b lock de d"’
and trow away de key.”