anaheim-gazette 1876-11-04

ANAHEIM SUR VOL. 7. Anaheim Gazette SATURDAY...NOVEMBER 11, 1876. OUR AGRICULTURAL CAPABILITY OUR FUTURE PROJECTS, The wonderful stories we occasionally publish regarding the mammoth productions of the vegetable kingdom in our county, are no doubt received with many grains of allowance by our readers in the Northern and Eastern States. Their produlity has been so often played upon, that it is no wonder not give a ready credit. Dissatisfied. I saw a maiden very fair, With lustrous eyes and yellow hair, And soft cheeks flushed with roses rare. Her form was lithe and lightly round, And gold and jewelled gems were wound Her lovely neck and arms around. Health, and wealth, and wondrous art Prodigally played their part, And hung their treasures 'bout her heart. "O, surely here is one," I cried, Springing to the maiden's side, "Whose heart is all a happy tide. "Is it not so, my merry maid?" A sad light in her soft eyes strayed, A shadow on her face was laid. "Happy?" she said, "Ah me—not I; There's many a dark cloud in my sky, on occasion, with their wealth. Their hospitalities are famous, and the best native society is that which gathers in their houses. They are full of public spirit, and enter into public affairs with a zeal and intelligence which have been of the greatest service not only to the English, but to the good weal of the native populations of Bombay. Among themselves, they are rather a brotherhood than a class or race. There is a genuine freemasonry among the Parsees, each being always at hand ready to help his fellow; and, thus knit together, they possess that wide and strong influence which is the result of unity. It is no empty boast of theirs that throughout their community there is not a single pauper or a single prostitute. Their schemes of benevolence are so comprehensive and systematic that a poor Parsee is never in want of aid or employment, while a sick Parsee has always a hospital, amply provided with every comfort, to which to resort. It is very rarely that a Parsee is ever brought into court either on a criminal or civil charge. Prompt in the payment of their debts, almost invariably true to their engagements, they are also quiet, orderly, and law-abiding. Centuries ago they abandoned the Persian tongue of their ancestors, and adopted that of the province of Guzerat, which was the place of their first settlement in Hindostan. Gradually the higher ranks of the Parsees have adopted English as their language, and in many Parsees households English is spoken more frequently than Guzerati. Their interest in human affairs is not limited to their trade or their immediate vicinity. The more intelligent Parsee is familiar with events not only in England but in America. It is a very suggestive sacred fire, they say, was Parsee emigrants from here it has been continuous twelve centuries, being night and day, by the power with costly woods and spices. A PARSEE WEDDING A wedding-feast at the wealthy Parsee is a very picturesque affair. Suchcribed as follows in Rousseau's residence was a large garden, which had led to the brightness of dawn were lighted up with luster were covered with fruit fire. Scarcely had I enchanted spot when I found midst of a great assembly gentlemen, who, in their ceilings about, engaged in conversions other. Their presence in tumme of the ancient Persian scene an Asiatic character itself it was somewhat wild kindly received by the hand-shakings were exchanged their party, I followed house. Here I found Cowducted me into a richly furnished where the ceremony was The dustours (inferior dress), were standing in a ready reciting their monologues, while in the meantime tary band, stationed in the giving us waltzes and quail all the guests were ranging vast apartment, the band cease playing, and a chief the nuptial hymn in that which the clergy of all alike And gold and jewelled gems were wound Her lovely neck and arms around. Health, and wealth, and wondrous art Prodigly played their part, And hung their treasures 'bout her heart. "O, surely here is one," I cried, Springing to the maiden's side, "Whose heart is all a happy tide. "Is it not so, my merry maid?" A sad light in her soft eyes strayed, A shadow on her face was laid. "Happy?" she said, "Ah me—not I; There's many a dark cloud in my sky, And I oft weep and know not why." I turned in sorrow from her side: "In all the wide, wide world," I cried, "There is not one soul satisfied!" The Disciples of Zoroaster. While it is interesting to know of the majestic temples and splendid tombs, the towering palaces, the rich and beautiful architecture of India, it is yet more so to note the characteristics of the Hindos, and of the other races which have found a permanent lodgment and home on the soil of Hindostan. In walking the streets of Bombay, you would not fail to observe certain men of an aspect very different from the mass of turbaned Mohammedans and half-clad Hindoos who were passing to and fro. Tall, erect, with fair complexions, attired in long white robes, reaching to the calves of their legs, with sleeves twice as long as their arms, folded back upon them, short, wide pantaloons, and vests of colored and embroidered silk, these men would strike you as having an air of superior intelligence and activity. Upon their heads you would see a singular, mitre-shaped cap, made of an immense quantity of dark calico, carefully pinned together, while their feet were incased in curious sandals. These are the famous PARSEES OF INDIA, In many respects the most estimable and civilized of the peoples who are settled in the great peninsula. They are only to be found in Bombay and its vicinity, and in all number about two hundred thousand. Alike in their history, their appearance, their religion, and their customs, the Parsees are in very striking contrast with their Hindoo and Mussulman neighbors. Of Persian descent, the disciples of the great prophet Zoroaster, whose faith was once that of all Persia, their ancestors were driven from their native land by the Mohammedan conquest of Persia under the Caliph Omar in the seventh century. A small remnant of the Zoroastrians, indeed, still cleaved to the Persian soil, and were permitted to occupy one of the most barren portions of the kingdom, where a small body of them still lingers; but the mass passed across the Persian Gulf into Hindostan, where they received welcome and protection from the Rajah of Guzerat. A small territory on the coast of Korkan was granted to them by a Hindoo prince on condition that they should adopt an Indian style of costume, and should always abstain from partaking of the flesh of the ox—a condition which they have faithfully obeyed ever since. The rapid and capricious changes which occurred in the Hindoo dynasty almost invariably true to their engagements, they are also quiet, orderly, and law-abiding. Centuries ago they abandoned the Persian tongue of their ancestors, and adopted that of the province of Guzerat, which was the place of their first settlement in Hindostan. Gradually the higher ranks of the Parseees have adopted English as their language, and in many Parsee households English is spoken more frequently than Guzerati. Their interest in human affairs is not limited to their trade or their immediate vicinity. The more intelligent Parsee is familiar with events not only in England but in America. It is a very suggestive fact that during our rebellion some of the leading Parsee sent generous gifts to the Sanitary Commission, as evidence of their sympathy with the Union. In the list of those who contributed to the relief funds raised to help the sufferers in the Boston and Chicago fires appeared the names of some of the wealthy Parsee merchants of Bombay. It is interesting that the frigate Reindeer, on board of which Francis Key, a prisoner of war, wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner," was built by Parsee ship-builders in the docks of Bombay. THE PARSEE LADIES. We have already fully described the peculiar costume worn by the Parsee men. That of their women, who are generally handsome when young, having lighter complexions and more regular features, and a more spirited expression than the Hindoo women, is graceful and becoming. The women clothe themselves in a long, wide garment of silk, which is folded close about the loins and wrapped across the bosom, and below forms a wide petilcoat. The upper part of this half covers the head, but not so as to conceal the fair faces. The hair is twined by a white handkerchief, forming a tight band across the forehead, which gives them somewhat appearance of nuns. The Parsee women are allowed more liberty than is generally permitted to Oriental wives and daughters. They may be often seen walking the streets of Bombay without escort, making their purchases in the Bazaars—for they are as fond of shopping as the ladies of London or New York—or taking drives across the Island in their curious but comfortable carriages; and at home they are noted for the grace with which they preside over domestic affairs, the ease and intelligence of their conversation, and the engaging simplicity and modesty of their manners. THE PARSEE RELIGION, Derived from the teachings of their great prophet Zoroaster, has been the subject of much discussion, and not a little misapprehension. It is really a strange mixture of truths as grand and simple as Christianity itself, of symbolisms as poetic as that of their neighbors the Buddhists, and of superstitious and absurdities as that of the Veddas of Ceylon. They believe in one omnipotent invisible formless and creating God, and in him they recognize the ruler of the universe and the final judge of mankind. They say that God sprang from "primeval light," and that this in turn came from a certain indefinable essence called "Akrene." God created a certain number of good angels, who are his intermediaries with men; and each angel is the guardian of a almost invariably true to their engagements, they are also quiet, orderly, and law-abiding. Centuries ago they abandoned the Persian tongue of their ancestors, and adopted that of the province of Guzerati. Their interest in human affairs is not limited to their trade or their immediate vicinity. The more intelligent Parsee is familiar with events not only in England but in America. It is a very suggestive fact that during our rebellion some of the leading Parsee sent generous gifts to the Sanitary Commission, as evidence of their sympathy with the Union. In the list of those who contributed to the relief funds raised to help the sufferers in the Boston and Chicago fires appeared the names of some of the wealthy Parsee merchants of Bombay. It is interesting that the frigate Reindeer, on board of which Francis Key, a prisoner of war, wrote the "Star-Spangled Banner," was built by Parsee ship-builders in the docks of Bombay. THE PARSEE LADIES. We have already fully described the peculiar costume worn by the Parsee men. That of their women, who are generally handsome when young, having lighter complexions and more regular features, and a more spirited expression than the Hindoo women, is graceful and becoming. The women clothe themselves in a long, wide garment of silk, which is folded close about the loins and wrapped across the bosom, and below forms a wide petilcoat. The upper part of this half covers the head, but not so as to conceal the fair faces. The hair is twined by a white handkerchief, forming a tight band across the forehead, which gives them somewhat appearance of nuns. The Parsee women are allowed more liberty than is generally permitted to Oriental wives and daughters. They may be often seen walking the streets of Bombay without escort, making their purchases in the Bazaars—for they are as fond of shopping as the ladies of London or New York—or taking drives across the Island in their curious but comfortable carriages; and at home they are noted for the grace with which they preside over domestic affairs, the ease and intelligence of their conversation, and the engaging simplicity and modesty of their manners. THE PARSEE RELIGION, Derived from the teachings of their great prophet Zoroaster, has been the subject of much discussion, and not a little misapprehension. It is really a strange mixture of truths as grand and simple as Christianity itself, of symbolisms as poetic as that of their neighbors the Buddhists, and of superstitious and absurdities as that of the Veddas of Ceylon. They believe in one omnipotent invisible formless and creating God, and in him they recognize the ruler of the universe and the final judge of mankind. They say that God sprang from "primeval light," and that this in turn came from a certain indefinable essence called "Akrene." God created a certain number of good angels, who are his intermediaries with men; and each angel is the guardian of almost invariably true to their engagements, they are also quiet, orderly, and law-abiding. Centuries ago they abandoned the Persian tongue of their ancestors, and adopted that of the province of Guzerati. Their interest in human affairs is not limited to their trade or their immediate vicinity. The more intelligent Parsee is familiar with events not only in England but in America. 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A small territory on the coast of Korkan was granted to them by a Hindoo prince on condition that they should adopt an Indian style of costume, and should always abstain from partaking of the flesh of the ox—a condition which they have faithfully obeyed ever since. The rapid and capricious changes which occurred in the Hindoo dynasties rendered the situation of the Parsees far from a quiet or happy one; but, by steadily observing a prudent course of action, and keeping quietly at their business, they managed to retain their foothold. When the Mussulmans invaded Eastern Hindostan, the Parsees fought on the side of the Hindoos, and thus subjected themselves to the vengeance of the fierce followers of the Prophet. When the English acquired their dominion in Hindostan, they were not slow to discover the virtues of the Parsees, and the value which the support of so peaceable, intelligent, and energetic a race would be to them. To conciliate and make friends with the votaries of Zoroaster became, therefore, a stroke of early policy on the part of the Christian conquerors from the West. The task was the less difficult, as the Parsees, who desired nothing so much as the steady protection of a strong arm and the liberty to pursue their commercial avocations in peace, were equally quick to perceive the advantage which the English rule was likely to afford them. The good understanding between the Parsees and the English has continued ever since, and of all the Indian races, the Parsees are at once the most loyal to the English rule, and have the most readily accepted and followed in the grooves of English civilization. PARSEES OF BOMBAY Are the richest, most prosperous, and most active class of merchants in India, the English of Calcutta and Madras alone excepted. It is more due to them than to any others that Bombay has become the great center and emporium of the trade of Western India. Shrewd and industrious, they are far from being either overreaching or parsimonious. The merchants of European and American cities may well emulate the commercial honesty of this race. They are also lavish, apprehension. It is really a strange mixture of truths as grand and simple as Christianity itself, of symbolisms as poetic as that of their neighbors the Buddhists, and of superstitious and absurdities as that of the Veddas of Ceylon. They believe in one omnipotent, invisible, formless and creating God, and in him they recognize the ruler of the universe and the final judge of mankind. They say that God sprang from "primeval light," and that this in turn came from a certain indefinable essence called "Akrene." God created a certain number of good angels, who are his intermediaries with men; and each angel is the guardian of a certain person, animal or inanimate object. The sun is the eye of God and has a soul, as also have all the stars. Comets are under the protection of the sun and planets, and the dog-star controls the other stars. The stars have spirits, which exercise an influence on human events; and herein it may be, we can discover either the origin or the effect of the science of astrology in the Orient; for it is the Parsee creed that the spirits of the stars are able to reveal the future to favored mortals. There is in the sacred annals of the Parsee a tradition much resembling the account of the magi and the star in the east and Matthew. The Parsees are often spoken of as "fire-worshippers," and in one sense they are so. Fire is sacred to them as the emblem of divinity. The sun is the visible emblem of God. Moreover, although they profess to hate all idols equally with the Jews and the Mussulmans, their devotion to fire in all its forms certainly partakes of idolatry in an exaggerated form. As has been said, the dog-star is an object of peculiar reverence, as being the guide of the other sidereal luminaries. So it is a frequent sight to see long rows of Parsees, in their flowing white gowns, and their curious head gear, standing on the beach of the bay at Bombay, engaged in solemn prayer to the dog-star, as if to a mediator, as it is declining below the horizon. It is true that they worship as emblems or symbols the other elements—water, air, as well as the sacred tree of Holma; but to fire alone they raise temples, and fire is their peculiar idol. The sacred fire which, according to their traditions, Zoroaster himself received from heaven, is still kept alight in their temples. What would become of the Parsees were these sacred fires by any chance to expire; one dreads to imagine. It is to be feared that they would hasten to become converts to Dr. Cunningham's predictions as to the coming of the end. Didn't Vote for Captain Bob Shaftoe congratulate Congress. He had been he had fought and bled—as a soldier was of the course, having consented to take the stump. Bob enquired upon occasion, esp. picturing battle scenes; and rather freely in this style, more about war than he didics. His opponent was a poor soldier. One day Bob addressed multitude in front of a cross. He told the story of his field eloquently and suchin how he had led a forlorn hop been stricken down under ziles of the enemy's battery had lain two nights and one where he fell before succor other things he told equally. When he had concluded unwashed and unterrified sovereigns—approached his pathy in every look. "Cap'n Bob," was all that us? "True as gospel," my friend. "And you rally fit right mouths of the enemy's cannery." Yes." "And got knocked over?" Yes." "And come nigh dyin' nights in misery?" Yes, my friend, it is all told you. I was wounded after that." Well," said the interrogator ible emotion. "I'm blamed suffered enough for the course see why we should send you them Congress fellows. Tot lot. Other man is young isn't of much account and let him suffer awhile; so I for him!" —Ledger. If I am treated rudely, ine into the cause, and if cover any sort of improprio conduct, I may disregard and consider him who dist better than a brute, and wh conduct of a brute disturbed. This passage via Hell Ga course to Europe by fifty m sacred fire, they say, was brought by the Parsee emigrants from Persia to India; there it has been continually burning for twelve centuries, being ever watched, night and day, by the priests, and fed with costly woods and spices. A PARSEE WEDDING. A wedding-feast at the house of a wealthy Parsee is a very brilliant and picturesque affair. Such a feast is described as follows in Rousselet’s “India:” “Cowasjee’s residence was in the center of a large garden, which had been illuminated to the brightness of day. The alleys were lighted up with lusters, and the trees were covered with fruit and flowers of fire. Scarcely had I entered this enchanted spot when I found myself in the midst of a great assemblage of Parsee gentlemen, who, in their ceremonial robes, long, white and flowing, were walking about, engaged in conversation with each other. Their presence in this, the costume of the ancient Persians, give to the scene an Asiatic character, in which of itself it was somewhat wanting. I was kindly received by them, numerous hand-shakings were exchanged, and, joining their party, I followed them into the house. Here I found Cowasjee, who conducted me into a richly furnished room where the ceremony was to take place. The dustours (inferior priests), in full dress, were standing in a circle, and already reciting their monotonous psalmodies, while in the meantime a good military band, stationed in the veranda, was giving us waltzes and quadrilles. When all the guests were ranged around the vast apartment, the band was ordered to cease playing, and a chief dustour began the nuptial hymn in that nasal tone of which the eleroy of all religions have the Food for the Nerves. The mind, as it is called, and the body are one, and can only act by the same laws; whether action proceeds from the nervous centres and is invisible, or from the muscular system, and is visible—it is the action produced by force generated within. The German Professor Helmholtz has lately brought the calculations of the force that has to be engendered within our comprehension, and if such a force has to be maintained, it can only be done by nourishment or food. Food consists not only of organic vegetable and animal matter, but also of air and water, and therefore a change of air is often invigorating to the nervous system. Our ideas of the mind’s work are still very confused, for all nervous action is produced by exertion or waste of force. Grief is nervous exertion; joy is nervous exertion; despondency is nervous exertion; every thought is nervous exertion, and all this exertion wants maintaining and feeding. Whenever exhaustion appears, or so-called nervous disorders, it is nothing else but the consequence of want of nourishment. Grief makes a greater claim on the nervous centres than joy, and it is exceedingly wrong to avoid food in grief. Despondency is nothing, but the result of incomplete nutrition of the nerves, which give way under outward pressure; it is only necessary to be judicious and give good nourishment to desponding persons, such as will invigorate and prove of tonic value, and the nervous system will return to its natural elasticity. Despondency exhausts the nervous system greatly, for all thought is action, and desponding What Nature Says About the Sexes. Let those who fancy men and women fitted for the same lives, formed for the same destinies, intended for similar careers, turn their attention for a little while to man and woman in long clothes and socks, still biting at their corals with half the teeth that Providence intends to give them, and attaining their objects in life by shrieking—in other words, to babies, and noticing their tricks and their manners carefully, declare, if they can, that a boy baby and a girl baby are not as evidently intended for two different life-paths as are ducks and chickens. Before she can walk alone, the girl rejoices in any object that imagination can convert into a doll. She has a tenderness for all of its kind, from the waxen beauty with a blue silk dress, to the clothespin with a pocket-handkerchief about its neck. When she is able to toddle about she puts these dolls of hers to bed, makes garments for them, drags them in her little wagon, is troubled about their suppers of sliced apple and segmented gingercake, and before long goes through little dramas in which the doctor is called in to Dolly with the measles, and in which she takes Dolly to a school where a paper preceptress keeps guard over a row of paper scholars. She plays her little life over again with her doll, always playing at being woman, and housewife, and mother. Not so does her little brother, brought up at her side. Dolls never interest him. He detests the pink and white beauties, and ridicules the homely bundles of rags which are so dear to his sister. He is not to be induced to go to the doll’s tea-parties, even while he is in aprons. What he kindly received by them, numerous hand-shakings were exchanged, and joining their party, I followed them into the house. Here I found Cowsasje, who conducted me into a richly furnished room where the ceremony was to take place. The dustours (inferior priests), in full dress, were standing in a circle, and already reciting their monotonous psalmodies, while in the meantime a good military band, stationed in the veranda, was giving us waltzes and quadrilles. When all the guests were ranged around the vast apartment, the band was ordered to cease playing, and a chief dustour began the nuptial hymn in that nasal tone of which the clergy of all religions have the exclusive privilege. The priests formed in order, and went to meet the happy couple, who entered by one of the principal doors. The young bridegroom, all in white, his neck adorned with a garland of flowers, walked by the side of the bride, who clad in a superb suit of brocade, half concealed her features from us behind a veil. When they reached the center of the room the two young people prostrated themselves; and the chief dustour having taken his place close to them, the group was covered with an immense cashmere shawl, which formed a tent and covered them completely. A moment afterwards, when the veil was withdrawn, the youthful pair were man and wife. Then the bride was surrounded by a large circle of Parsee ladies, congratulating and embracing her, or weeping for joy; and the husband proceeded to embrace his father, and shake hands with his friends. After this curious ceremony, we were invited to go into the garden, where beneath the sombre shade of mango and tamarind trees, a magnificent supper was awaiting us. The table was covered with the finest wines, and the most beautiful flowers of the tropics, and the Parsees, without the least hesitation, did honor to all these delicacies. Strains of English and Indian music were alternately heard; sometimes we were soothed by the languishing Guzerati refrain, sometimes the lively measures of a brilliant Parisian quadrilite burst forth. Toward eleven o'clock we were introduced to the Parsee ladies. The dresses of many of them were covered with gold, diamonds, and jewels, which, under the influence of the numerous lustres, presented a strangely variegated and fairy-like appearance. I talked with some of them, who spoke English admirably, and seemed perfectly to understand the rules of conversation. This blending of Indian, and to all apperance, almost European manners could not have taken place on a more agreeable day than that of this fete; and when the hour of departure arrived, I sincerely thanked Cowasje for his invitation."—Appletons' Journal. Didn't Vote for Him. Captain Bob Shafoe concluded to run for Congress. He had been in the wars—he had fought and bled—and his record as a soldier was of the very best. Of course, having consented to run, he had to take the stump. Bob could be eloquent upon occasion, especially when picturing battle scenes; and he indulged rather freely in this style, for he knew more about war than he did about politics. His opponent was a politician, and appears, or so-called nervous disorders, it is nothing else but the consequence of want of nourishment. Grief makes a greater claim on the nervous centres than joy, and it is exceedingly wrong to avoid food in grief. Despondency is nothing, but the result of incomplete nutrition of the nerves, which give way under outward pressure; it is only necessary to be judicious and give good nourishment to desponding persons, such as will invigorate and prove of tonic value, and the nervous system will return to its natural elasticity. Despondency exhausts the nervous system greatly, for all thought is action, and desponding thought wastes more force than joyous thought. Nervous diseases are the consequence of continued waste of nervous action and incomplete nutrition, and require nothing but judicious dietetic treatment. We have, at the outset of our movement, always maintained that all nervous disorders and so-called lunacy can be greatly affected by diet, and we maintain this now; healthy and judicious food moulds the character and nourishes the brain.—National Food and Fuel Reformer. A Word to Mothers.—Young mother, take care what you say before that child. See you not how earnestly those little eyes are fixed upon you! Take heed how you drop a careless word in his presence, for those little ears will surely treasure it up, and it may be repeated to you when you would rather not hear it. Take heed to your actions, also, for every movement you make is watched and remembered. Remember, too, that it may one day imitated. Perhaps you think, "Oh, it is only a little thing," and it passes from your memory; but, when the imitation comes, then you are startled and alarmed. But how can you correct the fault, when the little offender looks up into your face and says, "Mamma did so, too." Your children are penetrating, inquisitive little beings; they examine your looks, listen to your words, observe your actions during your most unguarded moments; they detect instinctively your motives, the real drift of your actions; they catch the genuine tone of your mind; and by these unpremeditated, unintentional lessons, you are really influencing and forming their minds in a degree you will never be able to counteract by any formal lesson; you are creating associations which no words will efface. How To Cook Spring Chicken.—It is generally conceded that chicken, merely split open and broiled, are dry and savory eating. I, therefore, give to the housekeepers of the Rural my recipe, which has been pronounced good by many. Clean the chickens nicely; cut them down the back; break the breast bone; wash, and wipe them dry; season them both in and outside with salt and pepper; place them in a dripping pan with a little water; put it in a quick oven until they are a delicate brown on both sides; baste them frequently with butter; renew the water as it evaporates. When the chickens are done, remove to a hot dish; add a little more water and a teaspoonful of flour to form the gravy. Serve the gravy in a sauce-tureen, or in the dish with the chickens. Two Very Small People. Two of the smallest children in the world for their ages, says the Philadelphia Times, of which are twelve years and two months, respectively; were introduced to the faculty and students of the Jefferson Medical College recently. Senorita Lucia Zarata, a sprightly brunette, is a fraction under twenty inches high and weighs five pounds in her elegant street costume, which includes complete female garb from a bonnet down to the modern gaiter; the latter being less than three inches long. It was explained that she was born at San Carlos near the city of Vera Cruz, Mexico, and that her parents were both large and healthy persons. She speaks Spanish fluently and understands a smattering of the English tongue. Gen. Mite will be twelve years old in a few days. He was born at Green, Chenango County, New York, his parents bearing the name of Flinn; the father who accompanies the diminutive weighing 171 pounds and the mother 136 pounds. At his birth the General weighed two and one-half pounds. His avoirdupois now is nine pounds; height twenty-two inches. He is a blonde. The General wore a full ball-room costume consisting of black coat and pantaloons, white vest and white necktie. During his visit to the college the little fellow talked fluently and was quite active; and when not treading on the trail of her ladyship's dress, was busily engaged in casting afternoons through Turkey. One contends this dilemma: wilful rather than present strenuity brought her near the proclamation King at such demotion; will forfeit must have hitherto admired a brave tricky and sweet Tribune. THE EXTREME TRADIE.—It is revival of trade midst and heart when usually suffers and becomes revival well cities; it mightthe effects of it. But trade is a reviving West journal's note authors,and a general go,Cincinnati report greater been known since leans we hear coming into town upon business hopeful efforts export trade.dull for a Didn't Vote for Him. Captain Bob Shaftoe concluded to run for Congress. He had been in the wars—he had fought and bled—and his record as a soldier was of the very best. Of course, having consented to run, he had to take the stump. Bob could be eloquent upon occasion, especially when picturing battle scenes; and he indulged rather freely in this style, for he knew more about war than he did about politics. His opponent was a politician, and not a soldier. One day Bob addressed an assembled multitude in front of a cross-road grocery. He told the story of his hardships in the field eloquently and touchingly. He told how he had led a forlorn hope; how he had been stricken down under the very muzzles of the enemy's battery; and how he had lain two nights and one day suffering where he fell before succor came. And other things he told equally thrilling. When he had concluded, one of the unwashed and unterrified—one of the sovereigns—approached him with sympathy in every look. "Cap'n Bob, was all that true you told us?" "True as gospel, my friend." "And you rally fit up to the mouths of the enemy's cannon?" "Yes." "And got knocked over?" "Yes." "And come nigh dyin'?—two whole nights in misery?" "Yes, my friend, it is all true as I have told you. I was wounded four times after that." "Well," said the interrogator, with visible emotion, "I'm blamed if you haint suffered enough for the country. I don't see why we should send you out among them Congress fellows. They're a hard lot. Toother man is younger'n you, and ain't of much account anyway. I say, let him suffer awhile; so I guess I'll vote for him!"—Ledger. If I am treated rudely, let me examine into the cause, and if I cannot discover any sort of impropriety in my own conduct, I may disregard the rudeness, and consider him who displays it as no better than a brute, and why should the conduct of a brute disturb me? The passage via Hell Gate shortens the course to Europe by fifty miles. A DEADLY PRACTICE.—It is a quite common custom with those who use kerosene lamps, when the light is not needed and with the idea of saving oil, to turn down the wick sufficiently low to make it smoke, and not low enough to put out the flame. The result is the room is filled with smoke and the air poisoned. A case occurred the other day, in Cayuga county, New York, in which this practice was nearly fatal in its result, a young lady having gone to sleep with her lamp thus arranged and been nearly suffocated. Either allow the wick to be high enough to burn clear, or else extinguish the light. TO MAKE A GOOD MUCILAGE.—The best quality of mucilage is made by dissolving clear glue in equal volumes of water and strong vinegar, and adding one-fourth of an equal volume of alcohol, and a small quantity of a solution of alum in water. The action of the vinegar is due to the acetic acid which it contains. This prevents the composition from gelatinizing by cooling; but the same result may be accomplished by adding a small quantity of nitric acid. Some of the preparations offered for sale are merely boiled starch, or flour, mixed with nitric acid to prevent the gelatinizing. ALUM will only purify water from organic impurities, which it will precipitate in the same manner as it precipitates dissolved coloring matter in the manufacture of lakes from dye woods. One teaspoonful of alum in four gallons of water is sufficient. If the water contains such an amount of impurities that this quantity will not purify it, it is unfit for drinking purposes. A SIMPLE remedy for neuralgia is horseradish. Grate and mix it in vinegar, the same as for table purposes, and apply to the temple when the face or head is affected, or the wrist when the pain is In the arm or shoulder. OLD IN A FEW DAYS. He was born at Green, Chenango County, New York, his parents bearing the name of Flinn; the father, who accompanies the diminutive weighing 171 pounds and the mother 125 pounds. At his birth the General weighed two and one-half pounds. His avoidupois now is nine pounds; height twenty-two inches. He is a blonde. The General wore a full ball-room costume, consisting of black coat and pantaloons, white vest and white necktie. During his visit to the college the little fellow talked fluently and was quite active, and, when not treading on the trail of her ladyship's dress, was bually engaged in casting affectionate glances at her. In presenting the lilliputians to the admiring assemblage Prof. Getchelt said that he had brought the couple there to introduce them from Philadelphia Museum, at Ninth and Arch, as something wonderful, even in this wonderful age. He explained that he had made a careful examination of the subjects and found them healthy, intelligent, and perfectly formed. The heart of either, said he, is not larger than an ordinary sized hickory nut, and the liver in equal proportion, and yet they perform the functions as regularly and perfectly as those of fully developed men and women. Their brains, he added, correspond well with the size of their bodies, and their intelligence surpasses their size. At the conclusion of the Professor's remarks the General shook hands all around, and the pert Miss bowed and threw kisses at the gullies with whom she had been coquetting. A French physician, who has just been received by the Pope, thus reports to the Roman correspondent of the Uniure: "The Pope is healthy and vigorous; he has no disease. All his organs are in perfect harmony, and his countenance, voice and gesture, are those of a man of sixty, not of eighty-five. He can, and even should, apart from unforeseen accidents, live thus ten years more." SINCE 1868. Give us sincere friends, or none. This hollow glitter of smiles and words—compliments that mean nothing—protestations of affection as solid as the froth from champagne—invitations that are but pretty sentences, uttered because such things are customary—are all worthless. There is no need of them. Young damals like house plants should be kept in doors these moonlight nights. Front and love do not go well together. The former brings on consumption and the latter matrimony. NESS revival within cities; it might be reviving West journals note arcs; and a genus go; Cincinnati report greater been known since leans we hear coming into upon business hopeful efforts export trade; dull for a again. The cheerfully ever which has been of all. There of an improved iron—Neu Yon. THE CITADEN most interesting walls of the nighthe sole rearchitecture of As the city has yond its old body were found to convenience; as seriously content however; was that an effort marks has been parts will roma at intervals by travel. Lord Hirent part in hand of utilitarian occasion of his nounced that Cinken taken the expet which was to be of Kent. MILLIONS ower over the city asting at a height feet; and all getterlies are all insect with breast with black; and toward 1868, the butter now appearing Wisconsin; Mr Joseph Missouri non attracted Texas; and new swarms is passed St. Louis Rivers. GOES THE MOST abundant growth GAZETTE. NO. 3 The Servian Dilemma. The English journals, up to the 21st ult., come to us crowded with reports of popular meetings in regard to the Eastern question. One of the most important was held at Glasgow, the Lord Provost presiding and the Duke of Argyll making the leading speech, which was, of course, a force arraignment of the Government's policy. Mr. Baring's report, which is now published in full, does not differ sufficiently from Mr. Eugene Schuyler's, so far as the outrages in Bulgaria are concerned, to mitigate the popular indignation or justify in any way the former attitude of the government. The feelings of the English people are so deeply aroused that they even seem impatient of the explanations offered. They have decided once for all that England's rejection of the memorandum of the Berlin Conference was a blunder which has wrought great evil, the end whereof is not yet. Transfer this humane and generous protest against Turkish crime to Russia; add to it the ties of blood and religious faith; strengthen it with the traditional policy of the nation, and we may imagine how much more deep and intense is the feeling among the Russian people. Alexander II. may write a pacific letter to the Emperor of Austria, and instruct his representatives of other courts to unite earnestly in the effort to establish a basis of peace; but, autocrat as he is, he will not dare refuse to receive such warlike addresses as that sent by the town of Nicolaieff, or to prevent the migration of armed Cossacks toward Servia. The popular excitement in Russia can no more be repressed than in England. This Female Gamblers in the West. The existence of a female gambling-house in this city has been suspected by some and known to a few favored ones for some time past—in fact ever since the opening of the institution. At first it bloomed and flourished during the winter months as the reception apartment of Miss Mary Landon and Mme. Burgolne on Main street, near the Junction. These two feminines passed for mother and daughter, and by their industry and modest deportment won their way into the family acquaintance of some of the best families in the city. How or where they obtained capital sufficient to fit up and open their present magnificent establishment is one of those things the ordinary news-gatherer fails to find out. But that the madam and her quondam daughter have made money, and lots of it, too, since they left their rooms near the Junction, it is plainly evident to those who visit their sung and sylvan retreat. The police made the first complaint about these women early last spring or late in the winter, but as they soon afterwards removed from the building complained of, no one cared to inquire where they went. It was left to an occasional contributor of the Times to re-discover the retreat of these now notable females and give an idea of the way in which fast girls and boys pass the nights, as some of them say, 'out of town on business.' The secret leaked out through a colored girl who was recently discharged for some irregularity, and imparted by her to another domestic, and by her to the person who visited the "retreat." They called it the "retreat" because of its charming nature. through little er is called in miles, and in to a school keeps guard scholars. She main with her woman, and other, brought interest him. write beauties, handles of rags er. He is not rolls tea-params. What he he's head, on character of a ball and a sease, and fancy who someht of other mems, though serially, while wenderness of be wretched a thousand house of any would like with his case to see her with her broththe paths they need, for man is led from less like a looks less thing mascueducation, the the same woman and childhood more it learns DALLAS. People. Children in the Philadelphia twelve years early, were instudents of age recently. Rightly brucenty inches in her elecludes comnet down to being less as explained los, near the that her healthy perfluently and the English twelve years was born at New York, his Flinn; the diminutive, mother 125 marital weighed His avoirduright, twenty- The Genostume, conlooms, white making his visit talked fluand, when her ladyship's a casting af- to it ties of blood and religious faith; strengthen it with the traditional policy of the nation, and we may imagine how much more deep and intense is the feeling among the Russian people. Alexander II. may write a pacific letter to the Emperor of Austria, and instruct his representatives of other courts to unite earnestly in the effort to establish a basis of peace; but, autocrat as he is, he will not dare refuse to receive such warlike addresses as that sent by the town of Nicolaieff, or to prevent the migration of armed Cossacks toward Servia. The popular excitement in Russia can no more be repressed than in England. This simple fact, we believe, will explain much that seems contradictory in our daily advices from Europe. The recent independent action of Servia and Monte-negro, therefore, greatly complicates the situation. By prolonging the contest it gives time for the popular sympathy of Russia to come forward as an increasing element therein, while the popular sympathy of England, already moved so earnestly in the same direction, will for a time prevent aid being extended to Turkey. One contingency may put an end to this dilemma. Servia's course has been wilful rather than well considered, and her present stake may be lost. The first resumption of hostilities has evidently brought her no encouraging success, and the proclamation of Prince Milan, as King, at such a moment, is ludicrous defiance. Moreover, Gen. Tchernayeff is not even original in his manner of proclamation. He imitates Garibaldi, who, after conquering Naples, first saluted Victor Emanuel as "King of Italy," when the two met at Teano. Let Tchernayeff first reconquer Servia for Milan, before getting up his dramatic scene! The only thing which will justify the present position of Servia to the world is—immediate success. There has already been too much of unnecessary bloodshed and devastation. If the Servian armies are strong enough to push the Turks back over the border, and become invaders in their turn, they may win more than they dream of by advancing at once. If they merely mean a demonstration for the sake of effect, they will forfeit much of the sympathy they have hitherto received. The world admires a brave and enduring, but not a tricky and swaggering race.—New York Tribune. THE EXTRAORDINARY REVIVAL OF TRADE.-It is remarkable that a general revival of trade should take place in the midst and heat of a Presidential canvass, when, usually, even in good times, trade suffers and becomes slack. If this business revival were felt only in the Eastern cities, it might properly be called one of the effects of the Centennial Exhibition. But trade is awakening, and confidence reviving West as well as East. St. Louis journals note an increase of country buyers, and a generally active trade. Chicago, Cincinnati, and other Western cities report greater activity in trade than has been known since 1873. From New Orleans we hear that the new cotton crop coming into market has a marked effect upon business. New England reports hopeful efforts toward establishing an export trade. Wool, which has been dull for a long time, finds sale the winter, but as they soon afterwards removed from the building complained of, no one cared to inquire where they went. It was left to an occasional contributor of the Times to re-discover the retreat of these now notable females and give an idea of the way in which fast girls and boys pass the nights, as some of them say, 'out of town on business." The secret leaked out through a colored girl who was recently discharged for some irregularity, and imparted by her to another domestic, and by her to the person who visited the "retreat." They called it the "retreat" because of its charming privacy and apparent obscurity. It is on Main street, not far from the court-house. The front of the building would appear to the ordinary observer as a building unoccupied. The windows are darkened above, and, were it not for the side door, left open night and day, but which is seldom used, no one would suppose the upper part of the building occupied. But it is now discovered to be the popular place of resort for various classes of people who nightly assemble to play with and provoke Dame Fortune as represented by her most fascinating votaries. But let last victim tell his own story: "We were shown first into a small but neatly furnished ante-room, lighted only by the light which penetrated from the next room, which, in the darkness, appeared brilliantly lighted. Our party was admitted immediately on the presentation of cards previously furnished at the gaming house we had just left, and a gaily-dressed colored girl admitted us to the parlors adjoining, where the madame greeted us and engaged us in conversation for a few minutes, and then led the way to the place we had come to see—the retreat." "It was a strange sight—one that fairly astounded one at first glance. Here in a room gaudily but not richly decorated and brilliantly lighted, were assembled at least thirty men and women, three-fourths of whom were engaged in the fascination of games of chance. At one table sat the quondam seamstress, Miss Landon, attired in a loose, white lace wrapper, her fingers glittering with pearls. She was dealing fare for the amusement of a young merchant of this city and two women, both strangers to me. Four or five persons sat by the table looking lazily on, smoking and sipping refreshments. At an adjoining table two men and two women were engaged in a game in which bright new half-dollars passed for checks, and gold pieces occasionally passed current. One of the women,'a girl of the period,' smoked her cigar with the nonehance of an adept, while her neighbor on the right,a middle-aged woman of means,k kept a record of the game on paper. They appeared to be playing whist. At two small tables in the far corner of the room six or seven women with one or two men were interested in games of chance, apparently poker or eucher,and money appeared to be passing freely but rather silently.Taking down a billiard cue we accepted the challenge of Mine.Burgolne,and engaged with our friend and a girl who had just prepared to start for home,在a friendly game of billiards. These are a few of the observations made during a short visit to a retreat whose existence is The Citadel of Quebec.—One of the most interesting features of Quebec is the walls of the ancient citadel, being well nigh the sole remaining specimen of the architecture of the early French settlers. As the city has grown and extended beyond its old boundaries, the fortifications were found to occasion considerable inconvenience, and their demolition was seriously contemplated. Public opinion, however, was so strongly against the idea that an effort to save the ancient landmarks has been successful. The ramparts will remain, but they will be pierced at intervals by gateways for purposes of travel. Lord Dufferin has taken a prominent part in endeavoring to stay the hand of utilitarian vandalism, and on the occasion of his recent visit to Quebec announced that Queen Victoria had undertaken the expense of one of the gateways, which was to bear the name of the Duke of Kent. Millions of butterflies are passing over the city at all hours of the day, flying at a height of three or four hundred feet, and all going westward. The butterflies are all of the same species, a large insect with brownish-red wings marked with black, and all fly in the same direction, toward the west. In September, 1868, the butterflies appeared as they are now appearing at St. Louis, at Madison, Wisconsin; Montana, Illinois, and St. Joseph, Missouri. In 1870 the phenomenon attracted attention at Waxahachie, Texas, and now the statement comes that a swarm is passing near Kokuk, Iowa.—St. Louis Republianc. Goon the man communicated, more abundant given. The American dollar is derived from the German "thaler," (literally, "valley piece"), the first thalers having been coined in Goachimathal, in Bohemia, where there are extensive silver mines.) The same name is also used in Sweden and Denmark, where the unit of currency is called a rixdale or royal dollar. As for the sign or abbreviation of ($) authorities are divided as to its origin, but it is generally admitted that $ was originally written with the S on the U; but for the sake of ceterity, it was considered to be expedient to change the U to two strokes through S, which has remained the accepted sign.