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VOL II.
. RIDGWAY, PA,. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 187i
NO. 38,
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LOST.
lie found at dawn In woodlsnd's deep.
Sweet buds still wrnpp'd In dew? sleep.
Be cart them on the murm'rlng tide,
And wistfI rs1d, " Ml walk beside,
I will not hold them to my heart,
Last every love should death Impart,
But when the he, of day It past,
The flowers shall rool my brow at last."
The found of belle, the aontr of birds,
Ho would not hear, nor children'! werds,
lie would not aee two soft bine eyee
That sought hli own wlih tad soi-prlse
Half lingering aid, " No, no, not yet 1"
And turn'd away with faint regret.
And ao ther pasi'd nntmrk'd away,
The glories of that summer day.
With that glad day each aweet found died,
The llowere were lout upon the tide,
And when nlirht foil In cold repora
The stars beheld Ibe bine eyes close.
Ah. loolleh heart I thou wonld'st not stay
Aiyl seize the brightness of to-dny,
Naucht now remains bat longing vain
The past can neTer come asaln I
THE SQUIRE'S MISTAKE.
Squire Dudley was in Lis garden, pull
ing weeds in his paten of tame straw
berries, on the morning when he took a
fancy for Ruth Lee's pretty face. (She
came down the road, looking fresh as a
new-blown rose, in her plain calico dress
and straw hat. Her brown hair, cut
short, blew all about her face in little
rings, and her blue eyes and bright
cheeks made her as pretty a picture as
one often sees. Squire Dudley saw her
just as she came opposite the strawberry
patch, and called out " Good morning
xn his brisk, cheery way.
"O, good morning I" she answered.
"You almost scared me, Bquire Dudley.
I didn't see you until you spoke."
' Pleasant morning, i-n't iff" said the
Squire, coming up to the fence. Ruth
had halted in the road.
"It's beautiful weather," answered
Ruth. " I told mother it was too pleas
ant to stay indoors, and started off on a
visit."
" Are your strawberries ripe yet?" said
the Bquire, wondering that he never had
noticed what a fresh, charming face
"Widow Lee's daughter had before.
" Our strawberries laughed Ruth ;
" wo haven't got one. Our old rooster
got in one diiy about a week ago, and
piuked all he could eat, and then coaxed
the hens in, and, between them they
ruined our strawberry crop."
' Too bad 1" exclaimed tne sympathetic
Squire. " Have so mo of these, Ruth ;
they're just ripe enough to be good."
He picked some great clusters of ripe
berries and handed them over the fence
to her.
"Thank you," said Ruth, smiling.
" How nice they are. Mother was mak
ing great calculations on her strawberry
jam. Sbe was terribly vexed when she
found out what the hens had done."
" I've got lots-to spare," said the Squire.
. " I'll send some over to your mother."
" She'd be much obliged to you," said
Ruth, " if you have more than you
want-" "
" Plenty of them," answered the Squire ;
" plenty of them. Can have them just
as well as not."
" I must be going," said Ruth. " Good
morning."
" Good morning," returned the Squire,
looking after her as she passed down the
road. " I declare there am t a prettier
girl in town than Ruth Lee. I wonder
some of the young fellows have'nt got
her away from the widow. If I was a
young man now "
Squire Dudley stopped suddenly. An
idea had just flashed across his brain.
" I'm titty," he said at last, after think
ing quite bueily for some minutes. " I'm
fit'tv. but I don t look it. 1 don t see
why I should not try my luck, after all.
Girls as young as Ruth marry older men
than I am. I'm sure she'd make any
man a good wife. Her mother is one of
the finest women in the State, and she's
brought her daughter up to know how
to work and be saving and prudent. I'm
sure we need a good housekeeper. Mrs.
Brown, she's old and fussy and crooked,
and this way ef living am t half living,
I do believe I'll marry her, if she'll have
me. Maybe Charley '11 say it's foolish,
but I can t help that.
The Sauire fell to weeding out his
strawberries again dilligeutly, and kept
thinking about Ruth all the while. Long
before dinner was ready be had fully
made up his mind to propose marriage
to Ruth, and bring home a new house
keeper and mistress to the great house
whose mistress had been dead for ten
years or more ; provided, of course, that
Ruth didn't say no, and the Squire thought
there wasn't much danger of that, though
why he should be so sure I can't say.
" Don't you think we need a house
keeper ' ' he said to his son Charles that
afternoon, as bey sat on the verandah.
The Squire evidently saw some new fea
ture in the landscape, for he kept his
face turned away from Charley's as he
spoke.
" A housekeeper V asked Charley.
"We've got one. What do we want of
more, I should like to know '"
" Yes, I know," assented the Squire,
turning red in the face, and beginning
to get a little uneasy ; but Mrs. Brown
isn't such a woman as we need. She
doesn't take any interest in the work as
as a woman would who who had
more interest in it."
After which extremely logical argu
ment the Squire got more fidgety than
ever.
" I understand that," answered Charley
" If she had a personal interest in the
place, and in being prudent and keeping
things up, she'd do better than she does
now. Now, she gets pay for her work,
and that'B all she cares for. It's all we
can expect of her."
" Just so," said the Squire, glad to know
that Charley agreed with him so far.
I've been thinking this meming that
the best thing I could do would be to
get some one who would take a personal
interest in matters. I clou t see as you
intend to get married, ana it you won t,
I don't knuw bat I'd better."
The Sauire breathed easier. The worst
was over witn.
. " You tret married ?" exclaimed Char
ley, in intense surprise. " Why, I didn't
know thai you ever thought of such a
thing."
" And I haven't till this morning," ex
claimed the Bquire. " I got to thinking
about it this morning, and the more I
thought about it the more I thought it a
good plan. . You haven't any objec
tions ?'r ' 1
"Of course not," answered Charley.
" Ton ot n do as you think best If you
diea it advisable to get a wife I have
nothing to say further than the hope
that you. will get some one who will
make you happy."
" She will, said the Squire, very de
cidedly, " She will, I am sure." i
" May I ask who 'tis to be '(" inquired
Charley.
" I I haven't asked her yet," answered
the Squire, as red as a rose. " I'd rather
wait until I'm sure of her before I tell
who it is. She might say no, you see,
and I should feel rather cheap."
Prudent Squire Dudley. That after
noon he picked a pan of his finest straw
berries, and directly after tea started off
across lots in the direction of the widow
Lee's, Arith the berries on his arm. It
was dusk before he got to the widow's,
for he walked slowly. He had very busy
thoughts for company. He was wonder
ing; what it was b-pst to do. Should he
propose at once to Ruth, or should he see
her mother first and talk witn iter r lie
concluded that tne last was the wiser
plan.
As he opened the gate noiselessly he
heard voices in the other corner of the
garden, and stopped a moment to find
out if it was the widow and her daugh
ter. " I never had any idea of it before,"
said a voice, which ho recognized as
Charleys, "not the least in the world.
He said he hadn't thought anything
about it until to-day. I couldn t find
out who he had in view. I hope it isn't
old Miss Sharp. She'd like to get some
body.
The Squire burst into a profuse per
spiration at the idea of having Miss
Sharp for a wife. ,
" He said he didn't see as I ever in
tended to get married," wenton Charley.
" I didn't tell him I had got me a wife
picked out, but wanted to. I am sure
he'd approve my taste in making a se
lection. " What nonsense !" laughed a clear,
pleasant voice Ruth's voice, the Squire
knew the moment he heard it. " If I am
going to be your wife I want you to quit
laughing at me in that sly way, pre
tending you are flattering mo all the
tiuio 1"
"His wife! Goodness gracious!"
The Squire was so taken by surprise
that he came near dropping his straw
berries. So it was all settled between
them. And he had come near proposing
to his son's intended wife. He felt cold
all over at the thought of it. How lucky
that he did not take Charley into his
confidence, and tell him who he had con
cluded to marry.
" I declare," exclaimed the Squire,
" I've made a mistake this time, sure
enough. The rascal got the start of me.
I'd like to know what I'm to do ? I've
told him that I intended to get married,
and if I don't, he'll likely as not mistrust
something. Dear me !"
The Squire was in trouble. Another
bright thought occurred to him. There
was the widow - - After all, she would be
more suitable for him than Ruth would
have been. She was somewhere near his
own age. "A fine woman. A smart wo
man. She would make a fine mistress
for his empty house. Why shouldn't he
marry her, since he could not have her
daughter?
"I'll do it," exolaimed the Squire,
bound fo go through with the matter
since ho had got so far. " I'll do it."
He knocked. The door was opened
by the widow, round-cheeked, rosy and
smiling.
" Why, Squire Dudley ! Good even
ing," she exclaimed. " I hardly knew
you at first, you havn't been here in so
long. Come in, take this rocking-chair,
and let me take your hat.
The widow bustled about and got the
Squire a chair and deposited his hat on
the table before he hajjpened to think of
his basket.
" Oh ! Ruth told me your strawberry
crop had proved a failure, so I thought
I d run over and bring you a few. Straw-
berry short-cake don't go bad this time
of year."
" I'm a thousand times obliged to
you, said the widow, taking the basket.
" I was so provoked to think the hens
should spoil mine. Such a nice lot as I
would have had."
" It you want any preserves, come
over and get 'em," said the Squire.
" We've plenty of them. Mrs. Brawn
she won't do anything with 'em, ex-
cept as we use them in the season of
them, I suppose."
" I want to know I" exclaimed the
widow. " You ought to have thbin done
up. lney re so nice in tne winter, i
would like to get some tor jam ; ana it
Mrs. Brown won t take care of them 1 11
do them up on shares."
" I wish you would, said tne Squire.
Things are all going to wreck and
ruin about nay place. 'Taint to be ex-
pected a hired woman will take any in
terest in affairs;" and here he sighed
deeply.
" Not that's so."
It was strange that the Squire had
not found out how things were going to
wreck and ruin before. Mrs Brown had
been there ever since Mrs. Dudley died
The Sauire and the widow keDt ud a
very brisk conversation, and at the end
of an hour he was more deeply in love
with the widow than her daughter, and
began to wonder how he had been so
blind as to overlook such a delightful
woman so long.
By-and-by the widow bustled out,
and presently came back with a pitcher
of last year s cider ana a plate ot cake.
" Do nave something to eat and drink,"
urged the widow, "it id known you
were coming 1 d havn made a cherry
pie. I remember you used to like my
cherry pie."
' I I wish you'd come and make
cherry pies for me all your life," blurted
out the Squire, turning very red in the
face again. " 1 1 came to ask you to
marry me, Mrs. uee.
After which innocent falsehood the
Squire felt decidedly relieved.
" 1 in sure I d as lieve marry you as
any man," answered the widow, blush
iug. and looking as pretty as a rose.
"It's all settled then," cried the de
lighted Squire, and he kissed her plump
on her lips just as the deor opened and
Uharley and Ruth came in.
" Allow me to make you acquainted
with my new housekeeper," said the
Squire, bowing very low to bide his red
i ace.
" And allow me te present my wife
that is to be, answered Charley. " Xou
take the mother and I'll take the dausb
ter." I am happy to say that, tinder the
"new administration," things are no
longer going to wreck and rain.
General Lafayette's Witch.
It it doubtless within the recollection'
of many that in the year 1824 General
Lafayette made a tour of this country,
attended by such an ovation as offered,
perhaps, the grandest spectacle of a na
tion's tribute to a hero the world has
ever seen. During his tour, while on a
visit to some town in the State of Ten
nessee, the General wag mysteriously
robbed of his watch, a valued souvenir,
which had been presented to him (in
1781) by General George Washington to
commemorate at once the affectionate
relatioas which had long existed between
them, and his gallant services at the
seige of Yorktown, the crowning event
in the struggle for American inde
pendence. Directly upon the robbery
becoming known, most strenuous efforts
were made for its recovery, but, despite
the fact that the Governor of Tennessee
offered a reward of one thousand dollars
for its return, not the slightest trace of
it was thereafter obtained, and General
Ltfayette was eventually compelled to
return to France, resigned to the thought
that the precious gift of his dear friend
was lost to him forever.
The years passed on, and with their
lapBe men's recollection of the circum
stance faded away. Lafayette died in
1834, and lor a space of ferty-eight years
the stolen watch bore an unknown his
tory. At the end of that time, but a
few days ago, a gentleman residing in
this city, while visiting Louisville, at
tended an auction sale at a junk shop,
where, strange to relate, he found among
the articles offered a watch which, upon
examination, he discovered to be the
long lost watch of Lafayette.
Suffice it to say that he eagerly pur
chased it, and as quickly formed the
resolution to transmit it to the family of
lieneral Jjatayette, now residing in
Faris ; pending wh'ch transmission, how
ever, the gentleman nas brought it to
his home, and has consented to its ex
hibition for a few days at E. A. Tyler's
eweiry store, on Uanal street.
The watch is open-faced, of cold, with
a double case, and may be remarked as
of a peculiar appearance, being of only
ordinary size, but nearly as thick as it
is wide. The outer case bears upon its
entire surface carved figures, in ha relief,
representing the picture of Mars offering
a crown to the goddess of Peace, who U
surrounded by her emblems, while over
all appear the stern implements of war,
hung high out of reach. On the inner
case appears the yet clearly legible in
scription :
u. wa'ttington
To
Gilbert Mattiera de Inrfuette.
Lord Cornwallis's Capitulation.
Yorktown.
Decu'r 17. 1781."
On the covering of the works is seen
the maker's name E. Halifax, London,
1759.
One can believe that the sight of this
relic, with its host ef historical recollec
tions clustering about it, is well fitted to
awaken a host of reflections, and carry
one's imagination over the bridge of
nearly a century, to the time when the
two dead and gone hero friends stood
side by side, carving out their glorious
names and fame, which to-day shine
through the long vista of years with
lustre that can never fade. New Orleans
limes.
Railway Operatives Tald by the Hour.
The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific
Railroad Company has, says the National
Oar jsuihler, mads an interesting exper
iment which, by its successful result,
seems to have solved the labor question,
so tar as that corporation is concerned.
beveral months ago the superintendent
initiated the plan of paying the em
ployees of the company by the hour,
The mechanics in the shops of the com
pany were all paid by this standard,
wmle engineers and other train men
were paid according to the number of
miles they ran. The latter plan, though
obviously liable to produce inequalities
ot compensation, is said to have worked
satisfactorily, so that in busy seasons the
engineers made as much as f 150 a month.
Ih the Bbope, the men were employed all
through the season, but worked a re
duced number of hours, while in slack
times they were also employed fewer
hours, instead of being discharged. At
hrst some ot the workmen objected, but
a trial of the scheme is said to have con
vinced all of them of its fairness. It
affords the corporation a perfect protec
tion against strikes., and removes all
cause of ill-feeling between the employ
ers and employed. To some exteut the
same mode of payment is practiced by
the Reading Railroad Company. The
brakesmen, and 'probably the engineers
and conductors, are paid by the number
of trips made.
An Illinois Girl's Manoeuvre.
The daughter of a well-to-do Illinois
farmer yielded her affection to the suit
of a humble shoemaker, who appealed to
the old folks to give their sanction to the
match. They refused, of course. Last
summer the maiden began to pine away,
and by eating slate pencils and drinking
vinegar, made of herself a most interest
ing invalid. The solicitude of her family
was aroused, and all whims of the sick
girl were readily complied with. She
seemed to have a mania for new and ele
gant clothing of all kinds, and the old
gentleman spent a goodly share of his
hoard in gratifying her withe. In tact
she laid up for herself a first-class ward
robe, and a few days ago disappeared
from the paternal roof. A St. Louis jus
tice of the peace united her to the Cris
pin of her choice, and there is mourning
at tne lariu nouse in tne irraine orate.
South American Coast.
Important announcements have been
made by Professor Agassiz, in reference
to tbe South American coast. Among
. ..... . ...
otners, ne tninks ne nas proved tbe ex
istence of glaciers on the southern ex
tremity of the continent, about Mon
tevideo, in Patagonia, and in Chili. He
has also proved the fact of a recent up
heaval of the Patagonian coast by the
disoovery of a salt water pond many feet
above the highest tide, containing large
numbers of living marine mollusca, pre
cisely identical in species with those of
the waters below. On the other hand,
the fact of a very decided subsidence of
the Andes in recent times has been
shown by a comparison of observations
made of heights of different mountain
summits or passes, taken at intervals
within the last hundred years.
Ninety thousand barrels of nork
"cornered in Chicago tor a rue.
The S Lores'' of Garibaldi. . V,
Anne Brewster, writing from Milan
touches upon the following incidents in
the life of the great Italian Liberator :
The villas on Lake Como have various
attractions ; some are historical, some
are simply hoipitable, although elegant
enough to bo show villas, whioh they are
not; and some have curious histories.
Near Como is a palatial villa, with forest-like
grounds, which is one of many
villas belonging to GaTibaldi's second
wife, the Marcbesa. He has refused
750,000 francs for this villa dell' Orino,
but it is said he will take a million if
offered,
A gentleman who sat next me the
other day at a dinner-party gave me a
little bit of a romance about the Mar-
chesa Garibaldi, as the second wife of tV.e
fainous-ltalian General is called. I had
heard that she was the wife of Gari
baldi's son. '
" Not at all," said my dinner-table
companion, a Milanese count, who knew
all about the strange affair ; " she is the
second wife of the General himself. She
left him the day after the wedding, and
they have never met since."
I looked all the questions I was dying
to ask, upon which he added, with a
laugh and shrug, as if he knew more
than was proper to tell at that moment :
" No reasons were ever given on either
side."
The subject was dropped, but it re
called to me a strange story I had heard
some years ago of a seoond marriage of
Garibaldi's, and which served well to join
on to the unfinished or broken link that
my dinner acquaintance had given me,
I'll tell it to you as it was told to me,
and you can join the two links or not,
just as you please.
it was at least a dozen years ago. me
lady was young, titled, rich, handsome,
and fast. No name was given me. She
conceived a desperate, passionate ad mi.
ration tor the famous "Jjioerator ot
Italy." She was young enough to be
Garibaldi s daughter, and he was posing
then, as he has always, for the inoonaol.
able widower the celebrated " Anita,
his first wifo. who accompanied him
through many of his adventures, and
whose sad death has been so often and so
touchingly described, is supposed to be
the only love of Garibaldi's life. Never
theless, the marriagu took place between
the General and tbe young Lombardy
Marches. But, sad to relate, on tbe
wedding day, after the ceremony, Gari
baldi received information, with un
doubted proofs, of the immorality of his
young bride. VV by had he not been lu
formed sooner ? I cannot tell you any
thing but the simple story as I heard it.
1 never ask questions on such occasions.
1 think it keep the cream ot a romance
from rising properly. When the newly
married pair were left alone, Garibaldi
told his young wife what he had heard,
but added, " If you will say you are an
honest woman, I will take your word."
"But if I cannot, what then ?" asked
the Marchesa.
" We must part forever this very mo
ment," replied Garibaldi.
The young woman turned, left her
husband of an hour, and never saw him
again. It was said that the stories
against her character were false, and the
voung girl, though gay, was innocent
But her pride was so wounded at the
charge being made by her husband at
that moment, and in such a peremptory
manner, that she scorned to justify her
self ; his want of faith in her dispelled
her illusions and broke the charm of her
love.
Increased Consumption of Sugar.
Though the manufacture of sugar was
commenced in ;the West Indies early in
the sixteenth century, yet its use in do
mestic economy did not become general
in Europe or America before the begin
ning of the last century. In the year
1 1()0, only 10,000 tons were used in Great
Britain, though the English were at that
time the leading manufacturers ot sugar.
The consumption of sugar in the British
Islands in the year 1870 is stated at
600,000 tons. In this country tbe con
sumption of sugar is steadily increasing.
Since the close of the late war, the ratio
of increase has been about 10 per cent,
annually, and in the year 18T1 the sugar
consumed in the United States amounted
to 700,000 tons, an increase of 15 per
cent, on the preceding year. This is the
largest consumption of sugar, in propor
tion to the popu'ation, found in uny na
tion on the globe. A very small pro
portion ef the sugar consumed in the
United States is produced within its own
territory, while in Europe the produc
tion ot sugar is rapidly increasing, and
bids fair soon to render the urinciual na
tions of that quarter independent of the
tropical regions in regard to the supply
of sugar. Since the year 1850, the pro
duction cf sugar from beets in France
has risen from 60,000 tons to 300,000; in
Austria, from 10,000 to 80,000 tons ; and
Russia, where beet-culture was intro
duced since 1850, now produces 100,000
tons of sugar. X he increased consump
tion of sugar may be taken as the evi
dence of an advance toward a higher
civilization. - .
A Thorn In the Flesh.
Sixty-one year ago Mr. Willian Wirt
man, a well-known citizen of Bath
county, Ky. he then being quite a young
man ran a thorn into his foot, below
his ankle, from which he suffered con
siderably. As it went deep, the attempt
of the physicians to extract it caused him
excruciating pain so much bo, that it
was deemed best to desist from further
attempt, for fear lock-inw might ensue,
The thorn remained in tbe foot, and iu
course of time the wound made by it
healed up. The pain ceased, and after
that he experienced no inconvenience
from walking on the wot.
Time passed on, and he thought no
more of the matter until last week, when,
feeling an itching sensation in the leg
just below the knee, be scratched the
part, when the skin loosened and gave
way, and, to his surprise, a dark sueck
was visible. He caught hold of it with
his thumb and fore-finger, and pulling
at it out came the thorn. It had been
imbedded sixty-one years, and had made
its way thus far up his leg, coming out
on tbe side opposite to that in which it
entered. The thorn when it came out
wag as sound as when it went in. All
the above is strictly true.
Indiana has twenty-three daily, four
tn-weekly, one semi-weeniy, 213 weekly
Karrlago of a Widow In India.
. In India there is a strong reform par
ty, the object of which is to promote the
marriage of widows. Formerly the Hin
doo widow considered it her duty to go to
the funeral pile and be consumed with
her husband s corpse ; but this practice
having been abolished by the British
authorities in India, the plan of starving to which attention has been specially di
ll as frequently been resorted to by wid- reefed for some years in the BOuthern
ws as a means of fulfilling the require- counties, although they grow in many
ments of their religion ; while those who other parts of the State,
have consented to survive their lords The almond begins to bear at three
have been obliged by publio opinion to years from the bud, and at five years will
wear a certain dress, live in retirement,
eat sparingly, and make themselves as
miserable as possible.
Against such requirements the reform
party spoken of are waging bitter war,
insisting that there is no good reason
why Hindoo wadows should not be per-
mitted to marry a second time as well as
English widows.
A recent number of the Bombay Ga-
tette contains an account of the tribula
tions ff a young widow named Jivokre,
who had charge of a girls' school in a
villae in the Broach collectorate, and
who so far defied native opinion as to
contemplate a second marriage. The
mother of the lady discovered her de
sign, and had her strictly watched to
prevent her bringing such disgrace upon
her family. A stratagem on the pirt
of the young lady's lover to evade this
surveillance was detected by the villa-
rer. who rnsn in virtuous indignation,
seized Jivokre. shaved her hair and cru-
pllv TnrtnrRrl her. after whie.h h waa
taken to another village end put under
lnelr ttnrl rrmin. All thean inrlio-nitiea to
Jivokre only served to increase the deter
mination of her lover, who was a school
master, and he appealed to the magis
trate for aid. Eventually the widow was
released, while two of her persecutors
were committed to prison for trial, and
soon after she was quietly married by
iSrahmans in tbe presence ot a large
number .ot the reform party. It is not
probable, however, that Jivokre's
troubles are over yet.for the Hindoos are
greatly incensed against her for what
they regard as a shocking violation ot
morality. The priests who performed
the .ceremony are threatened with ex
communication, and various wavs will
undoubtedly be found to remind both
husband and wife of the estimation in
which they are held by their neighbors.
Still the event is considered important
as a practical ftep toward the correction
nf a false publio sentiment among the
Hindoos.
The Housekeeper.
TO KEEP JELLIES FROM MOULDING,
Pulverize loaf sugar as fine as flour
if possible, and cover the surface of the
jelly with this to the depth of one-fourth
of an inch. This will prevent mould,
even if the jellies are kept tor years.
EGO MIRROB.
Smear a dish with some fresh butter ;
break some newly laid eggs, one at a
time, into a teacup, and lay them in
the dish carefully, sprinkle over them a
little salt and pepper, and place them
in the oven until they are well set.
Make a small shovel pan red hot, and
bold it over tbe eggs until they are But
ficiently cooked, and serve while hot.
DIXAH'S GINGERBREAD.
Two cupfuls of molasses, two cupfuls
of water or sour milk, half a cupful ot
brown sugar, one tablespoonful ot gin-
ger, one ot melted butter, and one and a
half teaspoonfuls of saleratus ; add a lit
tie salt; not very stiff; bake in two
large cakes.
hue stopping a few days at Saratoga
last summer, the excellent gingerbread
on the table attracted general notice, I
made my way to the kitchen, and learn-
ed from Dinah, the cook, her process of
making it ; and for want ot anotbet
name we called it Dinah s gingerbread.
Carrot coffee I drank in New Hampshire
and like it well. It is said to be very
good for those subject to bilious difficul
ties. A HOUSEKEEPER.
PEACH PTJDDINO.
One quart of peaches cut fine and well
flavored, one desert plate of bread crumbs,
three eggs, one pound of suet chopped
fine, one nutmeg and one glass ot wmo ;
serve with wine sauce.
APPLE FLOAT.
To one quart of apples, partially
stewed and well mashed, put the whites
of three eggs well beaten, and four heap
ing tablesDoonfuls ot loaf sugar: beat
them together tor tureen minutes, ana
eat with rich milk and nutmeg.
Useful Invention.
The most complete and useful inven
tion in use for supplying railroad !.
gines with water without stopping trains
at tanks, as is customary, is that i& use
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and some
other roads leading from Pittsburg.
The following is a description of tbe ar
rangemeut and its workings: In the
centre of the track is an iron trough,
one-fourth of a mile long, eighteen inch
es wide, and six inches deep. Near a
stream is the steam engine (same
used in filling a tank,) with force pumps,
and along the trough is a water pipe
with "inlet pipes" at distances of a few
yardf , through which the trough is filled
with water, no tank being used. Also
along the trough is a steam pipe, for use
in freezing weather ; and at distances of
about three yards are inlet pipes through
which the steam is forced into the trough
of water and prevents freezing. A heavy
pressure of steam will soon make the
water "on a boil." At short distances iu
said steam pipe are " Extension Joints,"
so that if theie is a heavy pressure of
steam, the length of tbe pipe is increased
and the pipe is not " bursted" by tbe A Second Great Eastern. A con
extra pressure. When a locomotive draw- tract has been made by Hooper's Tele
ing a train reaches tbe trough, tbe engi-
neer or assistant, by a lever, lowers an
iron scoop into tne trough, dipping four
inches, the speed is slightly checked, and
the speed forces a stream of water from
the trough up the scoop into the water
tanks of the tender. Before the end of
the trougn is reacnea tne necessary sup-
ply of water is on hand, the scoop m
raised to its proper place, and the train
proceeds on time. This we consider one
of the best ana simplest invention in
use, and is another evidence of Ameri-
cans being a fast, very Jatt, people, and
that they knew how to go through
without stopping on the way.
The American oyster has keen pro-
3 1 1 A. J , 1 .
nounoea tne pest in tne world.
FruiNGrowing in California.
Mr. Charles Nordhoff 's new book has
an interesting chapter on the cultivation
ot the semi-tropical fruits in California,
whioh has been attended with a degree
of suooess that seems almost incredible.
The orange, almond, olive, lemon, citron,
lime, and Englii-h walnut are the fruits
yield twelve pounds to the tree, or 1,200
pounds to the aore, which at twents
cents a pound would give $ 240 an acre.
They bear tor several years, and at eight
years may be reckoned on for twenty
pounds to the tree, which would give
$400 to the acre. The almonds fall to
the ground when they are ripe ; the husk
is easily nicked off : and as the harvest
time is dry, the shells are bright and
clean.
The olive grows slowly at first, be
ginning t bear at four years, but does
not yield a full crop until the tenth or
twelfth year. It then returns on an
average for the orchard about twenty-
hve gallons of olives for each tree. It is
more profitable to make the fruit into
oil than to pickle it. From five to seV'
en gallons ot ripe olives go to one gallon
ot . , , . ,
T1o citron, which bears in four or five
years, IS also a profitable crop, it IS a
straggling, tall ehrub ; three of them in
i"s Angeles bore, at tour years, without
8Peci.al c.arVthis year, forty-five dollars
worth Ot fruit,
The lemon, which beeomes a statoly,
tar-spreaaing tree, bears in ten years a
valuable crop. It is not yet planted in
orchards to a great extent; one tree, ten
years old, which I saw in Los Angeles,
yielded bUO lemons ; one, ntteen years
old, bore two thousand lemons. They
fetch in San Francisco thirty dollars per
1,000.
Last, I come to the orange. " All
these trees do well, and are profitable,"
said an orange cultivator to me ; "but
they don't compare with the orange ;
when you have a bearing orange orch
ard, it is like finding monrvy in the
street.
Los Angeles is, at present, the center
of tbe orange culture in this State. The
treo grows well in all Southern Cali
fornia, where water can be had for irri
gation.
bixty orange trees are commonly
planted to the acre. They may be safely
transplanted at three or even tour years.
if care is used to keep the air from the
roots. They grow from seed; and it is
believed in California that grafting does
not change or improve the fruit. It be
gins to bear in irorn six to eight years
irom the seed, and yields a crop tor mar
ket at ten years.
Xt is in (Jautornia, as elsewhere, a tre
mendous bearer. At Los Angelos I saw
two trees in an orchard, one seventeen
years old, from which 2,800 oranges bad
been picked, and it still contained a tew
another, three years younger, had yield
ed 2,000 oranges.
At from ten to twelve years from the
seed the tree usually bears 1,000 oranges,
and they are Belling now in ban r ran
Cisco tor from ten dollars to thirty-hve
dollars per thousand.
I have satisfied myself, by examina
tion of nearly all the bearing orchards
in the southern counties, and by compar
ing tho evidence of their owners, that at
ntteen years from tbe seed, or twelve
years from the planting of tnree-year
old trees, an orange oicbard which has
been faithfully cared tor, and is favor
ably situated, will bear an average of
1,000 oranges to tbe tree. This would
give, at $20 per 1,000 a low average a
product ot $1,200 per acre.
Une man can car tor 20 acres ot such
1 orchard; and every other expense,
including picking, boxes, shipping, and
commissions in San Francisco is covered
by $5 per acre. The net profit per acre
would, therefore, be a trifle less than
$000.
Mr. Rose has 2,000 acres of fine, fair-
lying land, well watered, so that he can
irrigate the whole of it. Twelve hundred
acre 8 are under fence, and in cultivation
and pasture. He raises, as field crops,
barley, wheat, and oats, and keeps a
large range for a valuable herd of mares
and colts, the latter from three stallions
which he has imported from the East.
His orchard consists of 400 young but
bearing orange-trees, 4,000 not bearing,
and 2,000 more now being planted ; 500
lemons, of which 50 are in bearing ;
13o,000 vines, from which be made 100,-
000 gallons of white wine, and 3,000 gal
lons of brandy, last year j 350 English
walnuts, loo almonds ; and the place
contains besides, in considerable quanti
ties, apples, petrs, peaches, apricots, nec
tarines, pomegranates, hgs, Spanish
chestnuts and olives.
He mentioned to me, as part of his
last year's crop, 250,000 oranges, 50,000
lemons, 25,000 pounds of walnuts, etc.,
etc
He thinks his success due to deep and
thorough cultivation, and regular irri
gation. He irrigates all his trees once
iu six weeks, and plows or hoes after
every irrigation. 1 did not see a single
weed or bunch of grass in all his orch
ards, and sucn clean culture is very
pleasant to the eye. He has on his place
wine-presses, and a still-rouse for mak
ing brandy. One man on his place, and
with his system,, can care for twenty
acres of orchard, and one man can pick
5,000 oranges in a day. He buys the
shocks and makes his own boxes, and
also makes his own wine-casks. His reg
ular force consists of fifteen men, of
whom the plowmen are Indians ; some
others are Chinese.
graph Works (limited) for tbe construe-
tion of a steamer specially desigued for
the laving ot submarine telegraph cables.
This will be the first cable steamer
specially built, and it is contemplated
that a considerable saving will be effect-
ed in the cost of laying future submarine
cables by its use. The vessel will be ca
pable of taking 3,000 to 4,000 miles of
cable in one length, and will be em-
ployed in the submergence of the Great
I Western Telegraph Company eable,
and of whioh about one thousand miles
have passed the tests of Sir William
Thomson and Prof. Fleeming Jenkin, the
I engineers of the company.
There are five female practising physi
cians i uinguamton, i. 1.
Facts and Figures.
Potatoes in Maine are selling for thir
ty cents a bushel.
A scooped pumpkin made an excel
lent ballot box at a reeent Kansas elec
tion. Two Indian mothers have been arrests
ed at Oakland, California, for papoose
icide. . Native Alaskans get drunk on beer
made by fermenting sugar and flour to
gether.
Immense white pearl buttons are now
much used as trimming for mourning
dresses.
Ostrich feathers and Chantilly lace are
much used together for trimming street
costumes. -
A oigBT factory has just been started
in Key West, Fla., whioh will employ
500 hands.
There is a negro woman' living near
Columbus, Ga., 106 years old, who never
nursed Washington.
The creek which formerly flowed un
der the Natural Bridge in Virginia has
entirely disappeared.
The State of Nebraska is building a
penitentiary at Lincoln that will accom
modate 800 boarders.
A good drain on a farm. Heavy mort
gage at ten per cent, will drain it about
as rapidly or anything.
One thousand dollars fine or imprison
ment for one year is the penalty tor bet
ting on elections in Illinois.
Borax, hitherto mainly proeured from
foreign sources, has been found to exist
in inexhaustible quantities in Nevada.
The " little busy beeB " of Pennsylva
nia have been unusually industrious the
past season and the honey crop will be
large.
The Union Pacific Railroad is having a
snow plough constructed that will weigh
htty tons and will require three locomo
tives to move.
Professor T. Sterry Hunt, one of the
most distinguished scientific- men of the
day, has taken up his residence in Bos
ton, and become one of the Professors
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
Circumstantial evidence is not always
correct, but when you see an old farmer
who owns a fine water melon patch buy
ing jalap or ipecac, it is safe to wander
beyond his plantation in selecting your
melons after dark.
A colored gentleman went to consult
one of the most conscientious lawyers,
and after stating his case, said, " Now, .
Mr. , I know you's a lawyer, but I
wish you would please, sir, jiss toll me de
truff 'bout dat matter."
Tho misery of being called upon sud
denly to make a speech wis got over by
a mathematician, who delivered himself
in this fashion ; " Gentlemen, a morbid
desire for originality prevents me from
saying, 1 this is the proudest moment of
my life,' and it does not occur to me to
say anything else."
Much as we grumble about the travel
ling accommodations upon our railroads,
we are much better off than our British
brethren. There is not in either Eng
land, Ireland or Scotland such a thing as
a sleeping car; nor, in fact, anywhere in
Europe save in Russia, where the rail
roads are modelled after our own.
Co-operative dairying is becoming ex
tensively practised. In fact, it has been
found to be the best, cheapest, and most
satisfactory way of bringing the con
tents of the dairy to market. Of all co
operative associations, those for cheese
or butter-making, or for sending milk to
consumers direct, have been the most
successful.
Baltimore oysters are now sent to Lon
don by the ship-load. During the past
winter a British steamship made two
trips from the Chesapeake to that city,
loaded exclusively with Baltimore oys
ters, and so great was the success attend
ing the experiment that three large ves
sels are now on the way to that port
under charter to -take oysters to Lon
don. A deer swam across the Ohio River,
from Ohio to the Kentucky shore the
other day, near the mouth of the Little
Miami River, and was subsequently shot
and was killed by the men working at the
pumping house of the .Newport Water
Works. A quarrel arese among some of
the parties about the killing of the ani
mal, whioh resulted in one of them
breaking the other s arm by striking it
with a gun.
At Barnsley, Charles Garrety, an aged
man, employed as cupola or furnace
tender at the well-known Oaks colliery,
was committed for two months, without
the option of a fine, for being found in
possession of a quantity of matches, con
trary to the special rules-of the colliery.
The Chairman said in consequence of
serious explosions which had occurred in
Yorkshire and elsewhere the magistrates
had come to a decision to commit all
persons found with matches in their pos
session.
The Transcript notioes the exportation
of Boston carriages and harness to Eng
land last week. It says : " The English,
have long studied these branches of me
chanical art, and are quite perfect in
them, in some sense. But our schooling
has differed from theirs, and our results
differ. Distances are great in this coun
try, roads heavy often, and Americans
have been more concerned with the at
tainment of speed and light weight than
with tbe stately, ponderous style of the
Old World. As we lead the world in
that inestimable artificial product, the
trotting horse, so we do in the attain
ment of the desiderata in the way of
equipage whioh go to complete his tri
umph. A good deal of discussion is taking
place in England on a subject which is
anything but pleasant the flogging of
a certain class of criminals. A member
of Parliament, whose opinion are
worthy of respect, and who is evidently
very tender-hearted, protests against
this punishment, and says it makes bin
ashamed of being an Englishman ; but
really he need uot be ashamed of that,
unless it be that he is ashamed of being
a fellow-countryman of the scoundrels
that are flogged. We have never seen
the administration of the cat, and hope
we never may, but we believe it is a very
hopeful chastisement in certain oases,
and believe moreover that it would be
well to extend this punishment to those
who commit violent outrages on women
and children in every clime.