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IRWMMMMIJimil it The Princess Mathilde wept copi TbeManhattanBeacon. been used to servants in their youth and don't know how to treat them. They are alternately distant and familiar, and are dreadfully when the servant become famw too. Those who ate dignified, corf sidcratc, consistent and firm, will get on with servants here as well as clso-whero. Constant changing generally argues protty nearly as much fault in, mistress as in maid.

Applelon's Journal. LOVE AND CATHARTICS A Rock Inland story, founded on fact and as true as gospel. A young man over there, whoso name we keep to oursolves on acconnt of his grandmother, had a girl that he had courted considerably now and then. The last night ol the New York Combination Tronpo Theater over there, this young heathen played off on hfo Nancy and escorted tho handsome daughter of the woman he boarded with to the theater. No.

1 heard of it and vowed everlasting mischief No. 1 was making some shirts 'ft I this same false one ho tho material. With perfect calmness he took the one that was finished up nil nice and pretty, to pawnbroker and spouted it lot fifty cents; took tho money and bought a veil. Her lover came. She upbraided him, wept and talked about cold poison, went to her room, changed her apparel, tied the close veil over her face and went into tho street.

The young man saw the motions, caught his hat, and made for the street sum! tho near- est drug store, got in the hack way, told tho clerk not to avSl Mi's So-so (No. 1) anything dangerous. Said ho wouldn't. Then he put off lo other drug stores to pint them on guard also. No.

1 came along into the store and asked for chloroior n. Clerk went to put it up, but really didn't served something not quite 6 con ducive to perfect rest, though jealousy cases quite as effective. -turned home, made her little? 'wWi, forgave everybody but her John and No. swallowed enough chlorutorin if it had boon chloroform to havo killed a whole family ol marriageable daughters; then bounced into bed. She didn't die hardly av, hut talked about cathartics and emetics, why, even the stump of another.

Evidently a freak of nature. There is not in either England, Ireland or Scotland such a thing as a sleeping car, nor in fact, anywhere in Europe save' in Russia, where the railroads are modeled after ours. Mrs. Nelso Marshall, of Morton, began her second century stronger than she did her first nevertheless she died before the first year was out. Jennie Collins's working school for girls in Boston went up in the fire, but she has reopened it, paying wages as nsual, and calculating on no returns before Christmas.

Since the colored troops fought so nobly at the late election, it is only a misalliance when they marry blondes. It used to be miscegnation. Two cows of Paris, Kentucky, butted each other until tho weaker eank to tho ground exhausted, when the stronger one butted her fallen foe to death. A Maine Democrat, after vainly scrutinizing the election returns in quest of gains for his party, expresses the opinion that "Democracy is kind of unsoddered." Tho poet of the Lynchburg News hasn't been particularly lucky. In an ode to his girl he says "Koen is your sorrow but keener is my grief." Tho compositor, who lost his undermost nickel on the top row the night before, set it up "but keno is my grief." At old Susquehanna Seminary there was a student (quite a verdant young man) who had a better knowledge of hymns than of some of his studies.

One morning, when asked to spell and define prone, he created a sensation in the class by replying, in a solemn tone, "P-r-o-n-e, to wander." HOME COOKING. Half of our countrywomen, who aro in chronic misery about their cooks, never stop to consider that a principal cause of their difficulties is their own ignorance of cooking. There exists not in creation a more perfectly useless thing than the New York fashionable young lady, and the full force of this fact probably only dawns upon her when she is married. What a contrast does she present to those notable housewives who were common enough in this country a hundred years ago We have not the least desire to see ladies, whose means enable them to keep several servants, occupying themselves chiefly with domestic details but, on the other hand, we would have every girl thoroughly initiated in their mysteries. Even in old couutries, where efficient servants are procured with comparative ease, households are rarely well managed where tho lady of tho house is ignorant of housewifely duties, while the most of us know by experience what her ignorance entails.

To know how a dinner should be cooked, it is not necessary to cook one. There are thousands of men who never handled baucepan or spit who can tell exactly why a dish is not quite right. If, instead of thrusting a cooking book into a raw sen art girl's hand, and expecting her with its assistance to send up a dinner, ladies were to sit down and explain exactly how tho thing should be done, and praise and blame with discretion the efforts of their handmaidens, many a man would have a far better table, ajid persons of moderate means would bo able to entertain a couple of friends with a decently cooked dinner at home, instead of going to a great expense by having the necessary articles from a restaurant. There would bo far less trouble about servants among us if their mistrcssos showed a kindly personal interest in their welfare. This especially applies to Irish servants, who are peculiarly amenable to personal influence.

There are many persons here who have not The American ladies needn't be told to sir dowk. Note by the Swedish compositor. caught in Kinchafooneo creek, Geor gia. Mirabeau described his personal a ppearance as being that of a tiger who had the small-pox. Washington City is building a sower large enough to servo as a race course for a six-mule team.

The proposed new bridge at Min ehaha will be commenced in the spring. It will be a toll bridge. A Hartford paper asserts that every Boston ian who dies with a high forehead expects a statue. Henry Clay Dean, formerly, of Iowa, is now a resident ol a Missouri town called "Rebel Post." A black bear chased a little North Carolina school girl. She saved her life, but lost her dinner basket.

he Boston papers have fallen out witta Dion Boucicault and his wife, and advise him to go West. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle calls. Woodhull a libertine! The D.and C. probably know A bill will be presented to the Nebraska Legislature this winter for removing the Capital to Kearney. An exchange says the professsion-al.

murderer "thinks too much of his friends to be ever caught killing any ju.dges." A letter addressed to Julyouth foamd its way to the Zenith City of tho Unsalted Seas after much meari-dering. Tho Indians of Nebraska are allowed free rides on all freight trains in Nebraska in the vain hope that they may fall off. Tho granite alone in Beebe's Block, memorablo as one of the first and finest destroyed by the Boston fire, cost $70,000. A man in the small-pox district is happy. He has convinced his mother-in-law that vaccination is a humbug.

Tho cheeks of insurance men and editors, convalescent from small-pox in St. Lcuis are utilized as horse-radish graters. Sebastopool is being repaired, and will become again he strongest fort and the most important town on the Black sea. Count Alberta Delia Gherardesa has been banished trom Italy for a yoar for engaging in a duel with Sig-nor Giulio Valensin. Forty-pound wild turkeys, with beards a foot Ion-, aro the formidable game that sportsmen bag in Georgia.

It will no doubt interest tho world to know that Fiji has changed her fiscal policy from direct to indirect taxation. Sinca tho removal of the lighthouse at North Point, Michigan, seventeen wrecks have occurred near the placo. It bsgins to transpire in New York that the biggest stealings of the Ring occured in the matter of street openings. Eight of tho nine sons of Mrs. Bca-mer, of Lansing, Michigan, who were pi'esent at her funeral, actod as pallbearers.

Wagon wheels aro considered lawful plunder at East St. Louis. Nothing but stoves, very hot, is safe in that vicinity. The Troy Press saj's: "Only fifteen hundred and eighty days more of President Grant. Pationce, good people." George Francis Train writes daily notes to Woodhull and Clafilin, and a going to start a paper to givo this correspondence to the public.

Parepa-Rosa is under a cloud. She had no building Burned in Boston. Only two Southern editors have been shot during tfte past fact moves the Augusta Chronicle to wonder if Southern journalism is not moving backward. During tho month of October there were 899,950 bushels of wheat transferred from the Southern Minnesota Railroad to La Crosse, and shipped to Milwaukee. A Jones county, gentleman went hunting last week, and caught a bird with only one leg, and not I ously over the remains of Theophile Gautier.

The Boston "drummers" rested only one night, and then were off to drum afrain. When Mario and Grisi lived to gether tbeir joint earnings amounted to $150,000 a year. The bill of fare1 at first-class Flori da holds has "sugar bilins" among the list of viands. Mr. Halpine, at Oshkosh, died at his post, which he embraced in a state of inebriation.

George Haydcn killed twenty-four wild ducks at a single shot near Isa pies, Wisconsin. William M. Carlton, author of "Bet sey and I are out," is giving read ings through Ohio. Chattanooga, situated in th midst of coal mines without number, is without coal for fuel. Twenty-four ehiekens brought more money than a load of corn did in Des Moines last week.

The verdict in the Robertson case has met the unanimous approval of the Kentucky press. A little yacht of only five tons measurement is about to sail from the Seino for New York. Vanderbilt's avarice increases as he approaches tho point where Lis wealth wi'l not count. Mansfield, has a kleptomaiac tress, who has been creating a panic among dry goods clerks. A cargo of American apples is on the way to Australia, where the fruit sells at $10 per bushel.

Forstcr, the biographer of Dickens, is very ill, and his work may never be completed. Tho solitary prisoner in Clark county, Wisconsin jail, came near being burned out last week. Eleven hundred and eighteen prisoners are beneath the sunny locks of Auburn prison, New York. The Wichita, Kansas, Eagle tells about a hay stack in that neighborhood a quarter of a mile long. A bottle of liniment exploded in a Neilsville, Wisconsin, drug store, and anointed a dozen loafers.

Near Ripon, Wisconsin, farmers are obliged to drive their cattle one and two miles to water. General Kilpatrick has permitted his old war horao to die, in a New Jersey stone quarry. French and English physicians almost universally prescribe a free use of lemon juice for tho rheumatism. Mr. Edward S.

Pollard, of the Lost Cause, is again dangerously ill. This time it is feared he will not recover. It is said that Mr. Darwin's delicate health will prevent his accepting Rectorship of the University of Aberdeen. Tho chagrin of defeat is embittered by a knowledge of the fact that old Jesse Grant voted for a Democratic Congressman.

Rubenstcin's mother used to give lessons in vocal music fiftj' years ago when she was a mere child of eighty happy summers. A San Francisco dressmaker who made a dress too small was Bued by her patron and made to pay $40, the price of tho dress. Nast, with a malice truly devilish, makes tho fire-fiend a woman resembling Miss Anthony. Nast's scalp won't bo worth a cent A summer hotel, to be ready far next summer, will bo erected on tho shore of Babhooncck, New Hampshire. What a lovely name.

The sword of Dombrowski, the Communist leader, hangs in a New York show window. St. Lwuis is justly elated with the near marble quarries opened at Glen- coe, Missouri. One hundred and twenty grains of chloral per night will prevent or cure delirium tremens. The forces at the navy yards are being reducad, much to the disgust of the imported Sturgeon over six feet long and above eighty pounds in weight are Q.

GOODWIN, Publislief. jSATUItDA DEC. 1872, SCRAPS. -Joaquin Miller has gone to Europe. Tanzy bitters will inebriate cockroaches.

Sumner loses about 810,000 by the Boston fire. The Boston fire roasted about bags of coffee. Tuscaloosa, thinks of having a negro Mayor. Carlotta Patti has a passion for euchre and diamords. A Maine suicided by swallowing a broomstick.

A right-angled tri angle a successful fishing excursion. There arc said to be 200 railway directors in Parliament. Denver is ptepating to adopt the St. Louis "social" system. Stuffed birds are popular for "inside now, in Coal is $16 a ton in St.

Paul, with the prospect of rising to 820. Robert Bowles has been bailed in London in the sum of $40,000. Clarksville, is to have a race track for training purposes. Nilsson is highly delighted over her success at St. Petersburg.

Ah Wet is a laundryman in San Francisco, Ah Li is a shoemaker. The Texas State Senate will stand 17 Democrats and 13 Radicals. Street beggars should always carry change, at least for a dollar. That polypus has been abducted from Bishop Whipple's nose. Tho Californians are becoming anxious about their wheat crop.

A government bridge to cost over $60,000 is to be built at Moline. Bismark's health is a chronic source of anxiety with the Germans. Mrs. Gates has been married to Mr. Titus, the manager of her troupe.

A canal between Lake Superior and the St. Croix river is talked of. Des Moines is manufacturing its gas from petroleum with great success. Government will repair che damaged breakwater at Duluth immediately. Poughkecpeie has only two streets.

All the rest are avenues and alleys. The lake tunnel, to give a supply of water to Cleveland, is nearly finished. Spurgeon's sister is preaching at Willingham, Cambridge, England. One New York firm has this year imported 15,000,000 goose quill toothpicks. Kansas "tiger wrestlers' are now going it afoot and wearing nankeen pants.

Up to the first of this month Iowa has laid out 8225,430,06 on the new capitol. J. II. Beatty, of Nokomis, has lost 83,000 worth of cattle by the Texas fever. A spunky Philadelphia woman gored an insolent ruffian with her umbrella.

Goldsmith Maid and Lucy won $32,000 in gold during their trip to California. A large rcgioa in Upper Wisconsin is mailless in consequence of the epizootic. The members of tho Oregon Legislature receive less pay than street laborers. The Shah of Persia lias set asido $10,000,000 to pay his expenses while in Europe. The total number of students at Dartmouth College, in all its departments, is 403.

Michigan has lost immensely by the destruction of her cranberry crt by fire. Henry Smith, of Wall street, is the successor of Jim Fisk. It require three short hand reporters to interview the average Louisville lady. Thirty-eight inches of snow whiten and cool tho iron regions of Lake Superior. that bogus chloroform was worth a I car load of such like.

The girl is about the house, but her John isn and if ho prefers a natural death, bet- ter not be. RAILROAD CONDUCTORS. i A convention of railroad eondu.t- ors associated for mutual life instir- a nee, met at Louisville, on tho' 23d and presented some inter esting statistics in regard to their occupation. The association has numbered during the fotir roars ftC its existence, 5,260 members; of these 1,020 have forfeited their member- -ship, on account of being called upon for payments on the death of an ji associate, or of having failed to pay their dues. The present number of members is 3,587.

During the for i years, the annual tax on each mem her has averaged $33.50, by which the sum ol 395,989 has been, clect-1 ed and paid to the families on the dead. Of these 46 conductors havo been killeu at their post of duty; 71 have died of disease, and 17 have! been disabled for life. The record of the year past to Aug-1 ust 1st, shows that 16 have died oi the road; 3 from amputation of limbs; 3 from spine disease; 1 from sun-, stroke, and, strange to say, 12 from consumption. It is a serious fact tha.f consumption carried off one-third of the number of the dead. But it may not surprise us when wo remembeij how the railroad conductor is ex I posed, in all weathers, to Btroiii.4 drafts of wind, to constant chang trom tho cold platform to the lieatvu interior of a car.

and is compelled 4 to cat his meals in haste, and paydays and nights in a state of inccsj sant jolting, noise, hurry, anxiety, and confusion, sufficiently to wcaw out speedily any ordinary humar frame. I The occupation of a railroad con ductor is not an envi.ible oio. Tl. statistics of the association sjfLoui-- ville teach us that these men, as 4 class, are entitled to more sympathy and consideration, in' the discharge of their vexatious duties, than thi unthinking travelling public has bet disposed to give them. The thirsty of Topeka call for "Bo i ton fire" when they want the tender to set out something.

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