anaheim-gazette 1885-03-21

WEEKLY GAZETTE Established 1870. For Terms, see Fourth Page. SLAVERY IN PERSIA. [From St. James' Gazette.] The best kind of slaves are the Habassahis, or so-called Abysinians. These are of a high type. The lips are thin—the color light brown; there is often a distinct red in the cheeks, the hair is long, often nearly straight; both males and females have considerable pretensions to good looks. As much as £80 or £100 may be given for a healthy Habassahi girl. As a rule these girls are bought not as servants but as wives. Young Habassahis of both sexes are purchased by the grandee of Persia as playmates and confidential servants for their sons and daughters. The girls become the confidantes of their young mistresses, and ultimately occupy the position of housekeepers or wardrobe women. The young Habassahis boys are the playfellows and fellow-students of their youthful masters; often fulfilling the duties of "whipping boys." I have seen the little slave and playfellow of the Jellal-u-dowich, the son of the King's eldest son, a child of three, wrestling with his infant master, to the great amusement of his father. The two children seemed quite-like brothers; and I was told that the only way of keeping the young Prince in order was to threaten the slave with a whipping. That little black boy some day or other will be a great personage, as, in all human probability, his master will be Shah of Persia. From this class of slaves are taken the eunuchs (few nowadays) maintained by the nobility. The few eunuch children imported are eagerly purchased at double or treble the price of courteous and, at the same time, most carcastic of retorts was that made by a pious bishop to the notorious Cardinal Dubois, when the latter offered him a second benefice. The good prelate declined the offered dignity, on the ground that he could not do his duty to so large a diocess. Dubois exclaimed, in admiration, "You deserve to be cannized as a saint." It would be well, Monseigneur, if I possessed sufficient virtue to receive such an honor, and you sufficient virtue to confer it." Dubois' name recalls the well-known retort of George IV. when Regent. At a dinner in Holland House the conversation turned upon the demerits of the chief French personages of the seventeenth century, and Sydney Smith remarked that in his opinion the Regent Orleans, "a Prince and Regent," was the wickedest man of the time. "I should give the palm to his tutor, Dubois, a priest, Mr. Smith," said the Regent dryly. Equally bitter was the retort of the French General who, after achieving a great success, was asked by a rival, "What will those who envy you say now?" "I was about to inquire of you," was the cool reply. Sometimes a retort is of a purely complimentary character, as in the case of Louis XIV.'s reply to the Prince de Conde. Crippled with gout, the Prince apologized for the stowness with which he followed the King up a staircase. "Cousin," said the monarch smiling, "under your load of laurels it is difficult to walk quickly." Less flattering was the reply of a celebrated lawyer to a medical friend, who interrupted some anecdotes of the legal profession by the exclamation, "Well, I see that your profession does not make angels of men." "No," retorted the barrister, "but yours often does." Reviewing the history of retorts, it must certainly be confessed that the complimentary ones are in the minority, and that these speeches are much as Shakespeare's clown described them—likely to lead on to a "quarrel on the seventh cause." HOUSEHOLD HINTS BEIGNETS DE POMMER.—Take some pleas, reinettes are best; peel and remove pips; cut in round, thin slices; plunge them in a mixture of brandy, lemon juice and sugar; till they have acquired the taste drain them; dust them with flour, and in butter, till a golden color be obtained. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, and seethe them very hot. A Boned Hem.—Take an old hen and let it in water until the bones drop out, chop fine; put it back on the fire in a lit of water in which it was boiled, with ounces of gelatine previously dissolved in little cold water; season very highly whatever way you like, and cook gently a few minutes. Turn out into a shape mold and serve cold. Eggs A LA SUISSE.—Butter well the bottom of a baking-dish and spread with a lace of very thin slices of Parmesan cheese; then very fresh eggs—four or five—and brush them carefully over the cheese so that no yolks are kept intact. Sprinkle them with pepper, salt and nutmeg, pour over them gill of thick sweet cream, and stew with grated cheese. Bake in the oven ten minutes, hold a salamander over the oven to brown it, and send to table with strips of toasted brown bread. This simply made but paradoxically rich dish. COCOANUT CAKE.—Sometimes a dish made which calls for ten eggs, and then is at a loss to know how to use the ten yolk here is a recipe for a yellow cocoanut cake which is very nice. Add to the yolks cup and half of sugar, two thirds of a cup of butter, two thirds of a cup of sweet milk two large cups of flour, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, and half a teaspoonful soda; bake in layers; for the filling beat two eggs very light, add chocolate enough color and one cup of sugar, then thick with cocoanut and spread between the layers after they are baked. The top should ha slave and playfellow of the Jellilu-dowich, the son of the King's eldest son, a child of three, wrestling with his infant master, to the great amusement of his father. The two children seemed quite-like brothers; and I was told that the only way of keeping the young Prince in order was to threaten the slave with a whipping. That little black boy some day or other will be a great personage, as, in all human probability, his master will be Shah of Persia. From this class of slaves are taken the eunuchs (few nowadays) maintained by the nobility. The few eunuch children imported are eagerly purchased at double or treble the price of ordinary slaves. As a rule the Habaashis are delicate, and feel the severe winter of Central and Northern Persia. The greatest care is taken of them. They do no real work, and it is not expected of them. They are well clad, and often the master or mustress glories in lavishing money on the dress of a favorite slave. Sometimes the Persian, by a fall in rank or through money losses, becomes unable to keep his slaves. Does he sell them? No; that would be too degrading. He simply freezes them, and as a rule the slave is made a freedman very much against the grain. The Persian slave, then, is treated more as a child than as a slave. His master does not hesitate to mate him with his own daughter; and frequently a prepossessing slave may be come the legitimate mistress of a household, or even a favorite wife; ruling her loss fortuneable white rivals. The servants have to take their chance; the warmest corner, the best food, the most solid and stylish clothing, are kept for the slave. Eunuchs are owned only in the houses of the great and rich. Save in the harems of the Shah and his sons, one eunuch rules over the flock of ladies, servants, slaves and children, who are all under his absolute authority. I have only known two white eunuchs in a long experience of Persia, and these men had probably been political offenders or the sons of political criminals. Political pretenders are also blinded, for in the East a blind king can not reign. The eunuchs generally have their quarters in the harems themselves, and, as a rule, they seldom quit their precincts. When they do they are treated with great respect, on account of the powerful influence they wield. The ladies themselves always treat their guardian with the greatest respect, address him as "Master," and invite him to be seated. Like the high officers of State, he carries a long wand of office, and this wand is often encrusted with gems. He often attends the daily council of his master if he be a provincial Governor, and there his advice is listened to with respect; and he takes precedence of all except the Minister, Vice-Governor or Wuzer. Of course he plunges his hands into the political pie, much to his own advantage. He never refuses a bribe. He may do nothing for it, but his hand is ever open. The second enunch of the heir apparent of Persia is a good horseman, a favorite boon companion and a clever shot; generally popular as a prince of good fellows. But the eunuch ages soon. He is an old man at 40; and once seen he is never to be mistaken—his sunken shoulders, his beardless face and his hollow cough mark him distinctly. smiling, "under your load of laurels it is difficult to walk quickly." Less flattering was the reply of a celebrated lawyer to a medical friend, who interrupted some anecdotes of the legal profession by the exclamation, "Well, I see that your profession does not make angels of men." "No," retorted the barrister, "but yours often does." Reviewing the history of retorts, it must certainly be confessed that the complimentary ones are in the minority, and that these speeches are much as Shakespeare's clown described them—likely to lead on to a "quarrel on the seventh cause." How the King of Persia Eats Breakfast [From the London World] The King of Persia is very careful of his health, and his French physician, Dr. Tholozan, is ever within call, so that the unfortunate doctor is as great a gadabout as his master. His Majesty enjoys very fairhealth, a slight paralysis having as yet been his only aliment. His habits of life are simple, his diet plain roasts and boiled. The King is an early riser, 4 or 5 A.M. being his usual time in summer. This gives him a long day, but he breaks it by a siesta. It is the royal habit when tired to be shampooed by his attendants, and it is thought no indignity for a high official to be told to assist in the kneeling process. Shampooing is a real art, and is carried out to scientific perfection by some of his Majesty's more confidential servants. The chief barber is a man high in office. At 12 o'clock the royal breakfast is served. It is a solitary meal. The King is squatting on the ground; some fifty dishes are set before him. His Majesty selects the simplest, and quenches his thirst with buttermilk and iceberbets, which are served in delicious profusion in magnificent china bowls. Dead silence is observed by the few favored courtiers who stand around the walls of the apartments. The royal butlers silently hand the various dishes. As the king eats he addresses those whom he may design to honor with his notice, and these fortunate ones bow low and answer in humble affirmatives, "May I be your sacrifice, Asylum of the Universe." So it is." "It happened exactly as your Majesty ordained," and so on. The same kind of language is used by the royal princes in addressing their father, and they would not presume to sit in the royal presence; but as in Persia no son would sit in his father's presence unless ordered to do so, this more due to filial respect than the awe of majesty. The King rinses his mouth and wipes his hands over agolden bowl, and then he rises and the meal is served to the princes. On leaving them it goes to the courtiers, and lastly the royal farraashes pick the bones and literally lick the platters clean. The royal dinner served about 9 P.M., is a repetition of the breakfast; generally it is enlivened by the playing of the brass bands or, by the music of the native musicians attached to the court. Cocoanut Cake—Sometimes a dish made which calls for ten eggs, and then it is at a loss to know how to use the tem yolk here is a recipe for a yellow cocoanut cake which is very nice. Add to the yolks cup and half of sugar, two thirds of a cup of butter, two thirds of a cup of sweet milk two large cups of flour, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, and half a teaspoonful soda; bake in layers; for the filling beat tea eggs very light, add chocolate enough color and one cup of sugar, then thick with cocoanut and spread between the layers after they are baked. The top should have a plain icing. DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE CREAMS—Taking one and a half gills of cold water and mixing it with two ounces of Bermuda arrowroot and twelve ounces of pulverized sugar. Splitting all the time. Take off the fire and stir till a little cool, put in a few drops vanilla extract, and continue to stir until creams. Then roll into little balls and peel aside. Cut up some best vanilla chocolate into bits and melt over steam (can put in dish over boiling teakettle). Put in no water. When the cream balls are thorough cold, roll them one by one in the melted chocolate, and put them on a buttered plate to cool. Part of the cream, if desired, can be mixed with grated cocoanut or with chopped almonds or pistachio nuts. GREEN PEA SOUP—Put on early in day one quart of peas in a gallon of water with one pound of beef, fowl, or giblets; quarter of a pound of lean bacon, a bunch parsley; thyme and celery tops tied up; stir all to boil together until the peas are soft enough to pass through a colander. This should be done three hours before dinner. Return your peas into the pot; strain to them the water in which they were boiled; skin the bacon; and let that only of them meat stay in the soup; stew gently till dinner is ready; then put pepper and salt your taste, and a lump of butter the size of a partridge egg. Also if the green celery is omitted, as must be the case sometimes add half a teaspoonful of bruised celeriac seed. It will be a great improvement. COD A LA ESTAGNOLLE—Cut off two-thirds steaks of cod, an inch or more thickness. Take off the skin, and dredge; the slices on both sides with a little flour Place your frying-pan on the fire with some butter and allow it to get thoroughly heated Then put in the slices of cod, and after that become nicely brown take them out carefully and draim them Now have a sauce pan ready with some good brown gravy it. This should be boiling hot, and then should be enough of it to bear the fish from the bottom of the pan. Put the slices in seasoning them with a little salt au cayenne Then add a little lemon juice, lime oil, sugar an onion stuck with clove and a gill of California port. Now set sautépan where the contents may simmer very gently for ten or fifteen minutes when the fish may be taken out and served once on a hot dish, the gravity being strained thickened and poured over it before serving a provincial Governor, and there his advice is listened to with respect; and he takes precedence of all except the Minister, Vice-Governor or Wuzeer. Of course he plunges his hands into the political pie, much to his own advantage. He never refuses a bribe. He may do nothing for it, but his hand is ever open. The second eunuch of the heir apparent of Persia is a good horseman, a favorite boon companion and a clever shot; generally popular as a prince of good fellows. But the eunuch ages soon. He is an old man at 40; and once seen he is never to be mistaken—his sunken shoulders, his beardless face and his hollow cough mark him distinctly. In Persia slaves are well fed, well clothed and well treated; the people look on them as equals, not inferiors; color is no degradation; they are not put to hard labor; the law is the same practically as for others. Mothers are not separated from their children or husbands from their wives. They soon become absorbed by marriage among the Persians, and I can fancy no happier lot for the enslaved black than to be sold in Persia. Some Witty Retorts [London Standard.] A slower-witted man always hates the quicker intelligence which can worst him in a verbal conflict; and bitterer revenges have been taken for sarcastic speeches than for actual injuries. There have been historical instances of polite retorts, like the one chronicled by Horace Walpole of the Danish Minister at the Court of France, who, when a French lady began to censure the conduct of the King of Denmark during his visit to Paris, remarking: "Ah, monsieur, oest une tete"—interposed the word "couronne" as a quiet rebuke. A less courteous but more emphatic interpolation was the well-known exclamation of the fellow in the crowd who, when one of George II.'s favorites addressed the mob round her carriage, "My good people, we are here for all your goods," indignantly growled, "Ay, and for all our chattels, too." It is unfortunate that ignorance of the language must have caused the lady to miss the point of the retort; but many witty replies have been similarly unappreciated by their hearers. A scale of what might be called historical retorts might be formed, ranging upward from the blunt, downright, verbal blow, to the polite and honeyed sarcoma or the delicate hint. Perhaps the most The King rinses his mouth and wipes his hands over agolden bowl, and then rises and the meal is served to the princes. On leaving them it goes to the courtiers, and lastly the royal farrashes pick the bones and literally lick the platters clean. The royal dinner, served about 9 p.m., is a repetition of the breakfast; generally it is enlivened by the playing of the brass bands or by the music of the native musicians attached to the court. A Bad Subject Colonel Mateland was recently appointed agent of a well-known life insurance company. The high standing of Colonel and his excellent qualifications as a business man immediately secured for him a remunerative run of business. The other day, while sitting in his office, a healthy looking man entered and said that he would like to have his life insured. "I am in something of a hurry," said he, "for my friends are waiting for me at the door. I want a $10,000 policy." The company's physician, who was present, pronounced him sound, and the policy was soon made out. Several days later a man met the Colonel in the street and said: "What business did young Blumus have with you the other day?" "Had his life insured." "And you insured it?" Of course. Why shouldn't I! He is in good health." But I believe he will die suddenly." We have an eminent physician to decide upon such possibilities. What makes you think that he will die suddenly? Oh, it's nothing to me, Colonel. If your physician knows, all right. The young fellow requested that he be allowed to go out and settle up his private affairs and the Judge granted it." The judge! gasped the Colonel. Yes, the Circuit Judge. You see the young fellow is to be hanged next Friday. What is Eola Tea? An article of fair price and good value. How do you know that? Because I have common sense, and my common sense tells me that an article which is delicately aromatic, and cheere and invigorates me for more than any tea I ever used before, in good value for the price I pay for it. My motto is, THE BEST OF EVERY THING. A Jap Girl's Toilet When a Japanese girl gets up in the morning she washes her face, but does not have to dress her hair, says a writer in St. Nicholas. That is attended to but once a week. The hair-dresser comes to the house and ranges her jet-black locks in the fashion for little girls of her age. She has no trouble about her hair, and after her bath she serves ant assists her to powder her neck with small white brush. She puts a little paint on her lower lip and a little gilding in the middle. When she removes her sleeping dress, she has on only a short skirt, which is simply a square piece of cloth, crape or silk tied around the waist. No other underclothing is worn. In making her toilet for the day, she first puts on a garment usually made of some coarse material not very long and reaching only to the waist, but with long sleeves. On the neck of this garment is sewed a deep fold of scarlet or some bright-colored crape or silk. A long straight skirt of blue or red crape, silk or wool is tied around the waist and over all three of these garments is worn the kimono, or dress. This is of some dark color, and made of coarse-spun silk or thick crape. For festivals and holidays the dresses are of fine material and very handsome. The outer dress is simply a wrapper reaching to the feet with very long and wide sleeves hanging nearly to the ground and used as pockets. On each shoulder a deep tuck is made which extends to the waist, thus making a little fullness for the shirt. But the dress has no gathered and is straight all the way down. The neck is adorned with a wide piece of black velvet or satin, which reaches nearly to the waist, and the dress is crowned over the肩and confined by a girdle. Over this is worn a very wide such,a piece of HOUSEHOLD HINTS. ARS DE POMME.—Take some apples are best; peel and remove the skin round, thin slices; plunge them in brandy, lemon juice and they have acquired the taste; dust them with flour, and fry till a golden color be obtained. With powdered sugar, and serve hot. HEM.—Take an old hen and boil it until the bones drop out, and put it back on the fire in a little warmer in which it was boiled, with an almond previously dissolved in a cold water; season very highly in away you like, and cook gently for minutes. Turn out into a shape or reserve cold. LA SUISSE.—Butter well the bot-taking-dish and spread with a layer of Parmesan cheese; take eggs—four or five—and break fully over the cheese so that the kept intact. Sprinkle them with salt and nutmeg, pour ever them a kink sweet cream, and stew this and cheese. Bake in the oven for two hours, hold a salamander over the top, and send to table with thin roasted brown bread. This is a cake but paradoxically rich dish. CAKE.—Sometimes a dish is baked calls for ten eggs, and then one to know how to use the ten yolks; recipe for a yellow cocoanut cake-ery nice. Add to the yolks one half of sugar, two thirds of a cup two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, cups of flour, one teaspoonful of tartar, and half a teaspoonful of oil layers; for the filling beat two light, add chocolate enough to one cup of sugar, then thicken out and spread between the layers are baked. The top should have broccaded silk or satin, stiff with embroidery in gold or silver lined with soft silk and fastened behind in a large bow. When these are all on, but barefooted, or, if in cool weather, in white mitten socks, made to reach only to the ankle, and with a place in which to put the great toe (just as mittens have a place for the thumb) she goes out to say "Ohaio," or "Good morning," to her father and mother. MAPLE SUGAR RANDOLPH, N. Y., March 2—The maple sugar season opens with the present thaw; after an unusually cold winter, which, the farmers say, assures a fine and generous run of sap and a consequent abundance of sugar. Cattaraugus county annually produces about 100,000 pounds of maple sugar, more than one-half of which is manufactured within twelve miles of Randolph, which is situated on a prolific hard-wood range at the headwaters of the Allegany river. This season promises to outrival all others, and it is an open secret that the natural product will be stimulated by a generous admixture of muscovado sugar, cheap grades of which may be had at 6½ cents a pound, while the maple is worth from 12½ to 15 cents. One local dealer says that he has disposed of ten barrels of brown sugar to a single proprietor of a "sap bush." The methods of maple sugar manufacture have changed since the days when the boys were kept out of school the last part of the winter term to gather elders, from which the path was forced and the bark stripped off, making a tube through which the sap was to be conducted to the open wooden bucket. Then the trees were bored with augers, the taps introduced, and the work of gathering the sap begun, the product going to a hugo log trough, half filled with leaves, which gave to the sugar the aroma and flavor of the spicy woods, including worms, anails, etc. Now the taps are perforated steel tubes, EVERYTHING. One halt of the entire orange crop of Florida is raised within a radius of twenty-four miles around Ocala. George Riddle of Carroll county, Mo., in the father of twenty-two daughters—among them five sets of twins—all living and at home, and has 400 acres of land for each one. A Missouri farmer states that he has realized more money from the nuts produced from ten acres of hickory trees than any man in the State has from a ten-acre apple orchard. A solid silver balustrade, which has stood in one of the Mexican churches since the time of Cortez, was torn down not long ago and taken to the mint and coined, producing 60,000 silver dollars. A lady whose bang was destroyed by a recent explosion of natural gas in Allegheny county, has used the company whose pipes led to the disaster, placing the value of the ornament at $100—and the value of a bang is likely to be judicially determined. A little girl who rang door-bells about dusk in Schoenectady and sobbingly asked for a light with which to hunt for a suppositional five-cent piece she had lost near by, gathered in more half-dimes than lights from sympathetic people, until her little game was detected. The State of Arkansas derives $25,000 an annum from its penitentiary by leasing the labor of eighty convicts to cigar manufacturers and handing over 280 others to farmers, the consideration being $375 per month and all expenses. Large quantities of barbed wire for fencing purposes are now being shipped from this country to Brazil and to Central America. A short time ago a vessel sailed for Honduras with barbed wire as one-third of her entire cargo. more here cockled. Then threw more beans and less pills. The sum of the cackling indulged in convention finally attracted Mention again and she went forth cause. She didn't learn it just entirely cause was concealed without Not a pill was to be seen. Beans lay on the ground writtent effects of blue moss. The grimly in a fence corner labe d of pedophyllia. Two young pullets had been so high that they were fighting out there to a pill that one of them had Other fowls staggered about in fashion, as if wondering whether with them. Two hundred and thirty-six found in the craw of one of which was killed for dinner that body could explain how they did doctor came home. He shed roof and the pills taken for chicken's craw and said one's words. The family dined that bought at the grocery store. Was Afraid He'd A young woman from the country ing her ex-sweetheart for breakfast and the lawyers were, as usual sorts of inquisitive interrogator. "You say," remarked one," fendant frequently sat very close." Yes, sir," was the reply, flush. "How close?" "Close enough so's one cheek sittin' room we needed." "And you say he put his you!" "No, I didn't." "What did you say then?" "I said he put both arms around." "Then what?" but paradoxically rich dish. Cake.—Sometimes a dish is called for ten eggs, and then one to know how to use the ten yolks; recipe for a yellow cocoanut cake very nice. Add to the yolks one half of sugar, two thirds of a cup two thirds of a cup of sweet milk, cups of flour, one teaspoonful of tartar, and half a teaspoonful of oil in layers; for the filling beat two light, add chocolate enough to one cup of sugar, then thicken and spread between the layers are baked. The top should have egg. Chocolate Cream.—Take half gills of cold water and mix ounces of Bermuda arrow root ounces of pulverized sugar. Stir dry and boil about ten minutes, then time. Take off the fire and little cool, put in a few drops of extract, and continue to stir until it when roll into little balls and put up some best vanilla chocolate and melt over steam (can put on boiling teakettle). Put in no waist in the cream balls are thoroughly them one by one in the melted and put them on a buttered plate part of the cream, if desired, can with grated coconut or with chops or pistachio nuts. Soup.—Put on early in the heart of peas in a gallon of water, sound of beef, fowl, or giblets, a pound of lean bacon, a bunch of yme and calyne tops tied up; suffolil together until the peas are to pass through a colander. Be done three hours before dinner your peas into the pot; strain water in which they were boiled bacon, and let that only of the soup, and stew gently till ready; then put pepper and salt to and a lump of butter the size of egg. Also, if the green celery must be the case sometimes, teaspoonful of bruised celery will be a great improvement. Espagnole.—Cut off two or three of the cod, an inch or more in Take off the skin, and dredge both sides with a little flour. Frying pan on the fire with some allow it to get thoroughly heated. The slices of cod, and after they are fully brown, take them out care-taken them. Now have a sauce with some good brown gravy in should be boiling hot, and there enough of it to bear the fish up bottom of the pan. Put the slices them with a little salt and then add a little lemon juice, a jar, an onion stuck with cloves California port. Now set a sauce the contents may simmer for ten or fifteen minutes, when be taken out and served at eat dish, the gravity being strained, and poured over it before serving. Cure For Stuttering [Phrenological Journal.] A gentleman who stanmered from childhood almost up to manhood gives a very simple remedy for the misfortune: "Gointo a room where you will be quiet and alone; get some book that will interest, but not excite you, and then sit down and read two hours to yourself, keeping your teeth together. Do the same thing every two or three days, or once a week if very tiresome, always taking care to read slowly and distinctly, moving the lips, but not the tooth. Then, when conversing with others, try to speak as slowly and distinctly as possible, and make up your mind that you will not stammer. Well I tried this remedy, not having much faith in it, I must confess, but willing to do almost anything to cure myself of such an annoying difficulty. I read for two hours aloud with my teeth together. The first a "sap bush." The methods of maple sugar manufacture have changed since the days when the boys were kept out of school the last part of the winter term to gather elders, from which the wall was forced and the bark stripped off, making a tube through which the sap was to be conducted to the open wooden bucket. Then the trees were bored with angers, the taps introduced, and the work of gathering the sap begun, the product going to a huge log trough, half filled with leaves, which gave to the sugar the aroma and flavor of the spicy woods, including worms, snails, etc. Now the taps are perforated steel tubes, driven in with a hammer; the buckets are of tin and closely covered; the trough has given place to the cabinet, fitted with pipes leading to the boiling pan, and all are contained in a neat building. The product is much lighter colored, and it lacks the flavor of other days. The Editor Takes a Rest [Arkansas Weekly.] Last week the tired editor, after laboring hard in the vineyard, concluded that he would go out among the brethern. While down in the Dry Fork neighborhood we preached at Ebenezar, and accompanied Brother Sam Hayfoot home to dinner. There were several of the brethern present, and among them we were pleased to notice old Brother Shopwell. He is an old servant of the Lord, and had the small-pox kept out of the way we think that his countenance would escapc a great wrong. Sister Hayfoot, kind reader, knows how to get up a good dinner. She has our idea of cooking cabbage, for like us, she thinks that they should be boiled until their brittleness melts into the everlasting pot. After having served the inner man we all again assembled in the sitting room, where Sister Stoveall favored us with a hymn and seventy-five cents, for which she wanted six month's subscription. One dollar would have struck us with a little more warmth, but in these days of sin and hard times a half loaf is better than a Boston cracker. Brother Smithfield, a good old soul as ever lived, declares that he will take the paper when he sells his red steer. Gentle reader, do you know of any one who wants to buy a steer? Cure For Stuttering [Phrenological Journal.] A gentleman who stanmered from childhood almost up to manhood gives a very simple remedy for the misfortune: "Gointo a room where you will be quiet and alone; get some book that will interest, but not excite you, and then sit down and read two hours to yourself, keeping your teeth together. Do the same thing every two or three days, or once a week if very tiresome, always taking care to read slowly and distinctly, moving the lips, but not the tooth. Then, when conversing with others, try to speak as slowly and distinctly as possible, and make up your mind that you will not stammer. Well I tried this remedy, not having much faith in it, I must confess, but willing to do almost anything to cure myself of such an annoying difficulty. I read for two hours aloud with my teeth together. The first a "sap bush." The methods of maple sugar manufacture have changed since the days when the boys were kept out of school the last part of the winter term to gather elders, from which the wall was forced and the bark stripped off, making a tube through which the sap was to be conducted to the open wooden bucket. Then the trees were bored with angers, the taps introduced, and the work of gathering the sap begun, the product going to a huge log trough, half filled with leaves, which gave to the sugar the aroma and flavor of the spicy woods, including worms, snails, etc. Now the taps are perforated steel tubes, driven in with a hammer; the buckets are of tin and closely covered; the trough has given place to the cabinet, fitted with pipes leading to the boiling pan, and all are contained in a neat building. The product is much lighter colored, and it lacks the flavor of other days. The Editor Takes a Rest [Arkansas Weekly.] Last week the tired editor, after laboring hard in the vineyard, concluded that he would go out among the brethern. While down in the Dry Fork neighborhood we preached at Ebenezar, and accompanied Brother Sam Hayfoot home to dinner. There were several of the brethern present, and among them we were pleased to notice old Brother Shopwell. He is an old servant of the Lord, and had the small-pox kept out of the way we think that his countenance would escapc a great wrong. Sister Hayfoot Kind Reader knows how to get up a good dinner. She has our idea of cooking cabbage for like us she thinks that they should be boiled until their brittleness melts into the everlasting pot. After having served the inner man we all again assembled in the sitting room where Sister Stoveall favored us with a hymn and seventy-five cents for which she wanted six month's subscription. One dollar would have struck us with a little more warmth, but in these days of sin and hard times a half loaf is better than a Boston cracker. Brother Smithfield,a good old soul as ever lived , declares that he will take paper when he sells his red steer. Gentle reader ,do you know of any one who wants to buy a steer? Cure For Stuttering [Phrenological Journal.] A gentleman who stanmered from childhood almost up to manhood gives a very simple remedy for the misfortune: "Gointo a room where you will be quiet and alone; get some book that will interest but not excite you,and then sit down and read two hours to yourself ,keeping your teeth together. Do the same thing every two or three days ,or once a week if very tiresome ,always taking care to read slowly and distinctly ,movingthe lips ,but notthe tooth .Thenwhen conversingwithothers，trytospeakaslowlyanddistinctlyaspossible,andmakeupyourmindthatyouwillnotstammer.WellI triedthisremedy,nothavingmuchfaithinit，Imustconfess,butwillingtodoalmostanythingtocuremyselfofsuchanannoyingdifficulty.Ireadfowerexactlywithyourmindwithmyteethtogether.Thefirsta"sapbush." The methods of maple sugar manufacture have changed since the days when the boys were kept out of school the last part of the winter term to gather elders ,fromwhichthewallwasforcedandthebarkstrippedoff,makinga tubethroughwhichthesapwastobeconducttedtotheopenwoodenbucket.Thenthetreeswereboredwithangers,thetapsintroduced,andtheworkofgatheringthesapbeginned,thesapbeginnedwithpipesleadingtotheboilingpan,andallarecontainedinanneatbuilding.Theproductismuchlightercolored,anditlackslestlightenedandspillwoodsincludingworms,snails,eTC. Nowthetapsareperforatedsteeltubes,driveninwithahammer;thebucketsareof Tinandcloselycovered;thetroughhas givenplacetotheboilingpan,fittedwithpipesleadingtotheboilingpan,andallarecontainedinanneatbuilding.Theproductismuchlightercolored,anditlackslestlightenedandspillwoodsincludingworms,snails,eTC. TheintermentaliveofMissCoxofOkonoko,N.Va.,recallsbymindfromitspenitentiarybyleasingthelaborofeightconvictstocigarmanufacturers,andhandover280otherstocarmers,theconsiderbeing$375permonthandallexpenses. LargequantitiesofbarbedwireforfencingpurposesarenowbeingshippedfromthiscountrytoBrazilandtoCentralAmerica.AshorttimeagovesselsailedforHonduraswithbarbedwireasone-thirdofherent cargo. ThecostofthemaintenanceofreligionintheUnitedStatesisestimatedatone-halfacentperannumforeachindividual.Amemberofthefamilydies,therepresentativeoftheolderbranchthereof,justbeforethehourforinterment,buriesa daggerintheheartofthedeadtoinsurehimselfofnoawakening.Thedaggerusedisone sacredtothepurpose,andhasbedevotedtoitsuseformanygenerations.Thecustomoriginatedbecauseoftheburialaliveofamemberofthefamily,andaninhitedtendeneytopeculiarformofheart disease.TheSalvationArmyattackedHartford,Conn,,theothernight.Theadvanceagentsbilledthetowninthisway: HELLO!BILL! WHAT'SUPNOW? Why,ain'tyouheardaboutit?TheMALVATIONARMY FolksaregoingtohaveabigKICKUP UP. TheyaregoingtohavethebossdownfromNewYorkonTuesday,Feb.24th. Who'sthe boss? Why,dontyouknow? COMMISSIONERSMITH, Thehallelujahmanwithhiscornet.Andthenthereisthatotherchap,Capt.Walsh, THEMINSTREEL whoplaysonhisbanjo.Andthenthestaffiscomingaswell. What'stheStaff? Why,a lotoffellowssthatgowiththebosstohelphim.AndthentherearesomeHALLELUJAHLASSES Iguesswemusttakethatin.Whereisit? AttheAMERICANHALL, andthey saywemustbeearlytogetagoodseat.Andthereisasilvercollectiontopayexpenses.Iguesswecangiveadime Thatnotmuch. Officersincommand: Capt.RalphBryant, Capt.AlfredHarris, Lieut.GeorgeEvans. CatchingaWildMan WHEELING.W.Va.,March13.-The mysteryofthewildmanwhohascreatedsuchconsternation,aroundBrown'sstation Ohio,(forsometime,hassen somewhatclearedup.Afteradesperate sightthe wildmanwas caught.Hewantedbeafmanwas caught.Bespeakeda fear A Wife.NotA Br Caller-I'mso glad,mydearlookingso wellandhappy.Yo Jap Girl's Toilet Japanese girl gets up in the morning to wash her face, but does not have hair, says a writer in St. Nicholas is attended to but once a week. Her comes to the house and arrives black locks in the fashion for her age. She has no trouble air, and after her bath the server to powder her neck with a brush. She puts a little red flower lip and a little gilding in when she removes her sleeping on only a short skirt, which square piece of cloth, crape or and the waist. No other underwear. In making her toilet first puts on a garment usually coarse material not very long, only to the waist, but with On the neck of this garment deep fold of scarlet or some red crape, silk or wool is the waist and over all three of its is worn the kimono, or dress. Some dark color, and made of pill or thick crape. For festi-days the dresse are of fine ma-ry handsome. The outer dress wrapper reaching to the feet, long and wide sleeves hanging ground and used as pockets. Under a deep tuck is made which waist, thus making a little straight all the way down. Dorned with a wide piece of satin, which reaches nearly and the dress is enclosed over confined by a girdle. Over very wide such, a piece of get some book that will interest, but not excite you, and then sit down and read two hours to yourself, keeping your teeth together. Do the same thing every two or three days, or once a week if very tiresome, always taking care to read slowly and distinctly, moving the lips, but not the tooth. Then, when conversing with others, try to speak as slowly and distinctly as possible, and make up your mind that you will not stammer. Well I tried this remedy, not having much faith in it, I must confess, but willing to do almost anything to cure myself of such an annoying difficulty. I read for two hours aloud with my teeth together. The first result was to make my tongue and jaws ache, that is while I was reading, and the next to make me feel as if something had loosened my talking powers, for I could speak with less difficulty immediately. The change was so great that everybody who knew me remarked it. I repeated the remedy every five or six days for a month, and then at longer intervals until cured. Drunkenness in Ohio. [Ohio State Journal] On Wednesday a drunken member had to be brought into the Legislature to vote on the License amendment and Columbus Re-organization bills, and it was not his first appearance there in that condition. On Thursday, two members appeared on the floor of the House in a state of intoxication. One of them abused the Speaker, called his colleagues bribe-takers and horse thieves, and used the most obscene and profane language. Yesterday the Judge hearing the criminal case in the Common Pleas Court was so much under the influence of liquor that the clerks could not make out his entries. He left his seat of dignity to come down and weep over the defendant and cut such a figure as to shock even the lobby that hangs about the trials of criminals. Splendid Menace The public should note the fact that the only proprietary medicine on earth that ever received the supreme award of Gold Medal at the great International World Fairs, Industrial Expositions and State Faira, in St. Jacob's Oil. After the most thorough and practical tests, in hospitals and elsewhere, it has universally triumphed over all competitors, and been proclaimed by Judges and Jurors, including eminent physicians, to be the best prize among remedies in existence. Catching a Wild Man: WHEELING, W. Va., March 13.-The mystery of the wild man who has created such consternation; around Brown's station, Ohio, for some time, has been somewhat cleared up. After a desperate fight the wild man was caught. He presented a fearful sight, Hair covered his body, and he was filthy and savage beyond description. He lived in a cave on the hills and subsisted wholly on raw food; he talked gibberish which could not be understood, and nothing regarding his history could be learned. He was committed to the Poorhouse at Steuben-ville. It is believed he is an escaped luna,tie. Chickens and Pillars: Dr. Jones, who practices in a suburb of Erie, Pa., has an elaborate machine for making pills. The doctor's practice is quite extensive and when he puts the machine in operation the result is enough to scare a nervous patient into convalescence or fits. Not long ago Dr. Jones made several quarts of pills and waited for a bright day to dry them. As soon as he got a good look at the sun he spread the pills carefully on the roof of a convenient outbuilding and drove off to see his patients. About half an hour after the doctor's buggy had disappeared, Mrs. Jones heard an unusually vociferous squawk from the boss rooster of the back yard, but she had not curiosity enough to investigate the cause, being confident that no colored brother would invade the chicken reservation on such a bright day. If she had looked she would have seen the rooster perched on the roof of the outbuilding eating pills as though he were laying up for seven lean years of famine. Attracted by the rouder's summons to the banquet, and his evident enjoyment thereof one or two hens flew up to the tap of the shan and proceeded to devour the pills. They canned and clinked a little after satisfying their appetites, and more hens came. Then he sitteth up all night to get from Ohio, and in the end learn other fellows have carried it. He marrieth a red-headed herwart on her nose, and the nextternal ancestor goeth under, withand great liabilities,and comelive with his beloved son-in-lawSuch is life and such is man, odds against him. A Wife, Not a Bunny Caller—I'm so glad, my dear-looking so well and happy.Yet tour was not one of long duration.Very sensible. Bride—My husband was perfect to prolong the tour, but I know presence was required at his place. Caller—Very few brides are as that.Bride—Oh! but I ceased tovery early.In less than a week wife.Caller—I do not understand.Bride—We had not been manbefore he asked me to sew on a A Steady Young Man "Jane, I hear your bean is not very steady,they say." "Oh,yes,his is one osteady young man I ever saw." "Steady? Oh.no,他 can't behe was anything but steady." "Well,his is just steady.Ho come to the house every eveningwere first engaged,drunk or sol Ostrich Farming The San Francisco capital money into the experiment of eating at Anaheim are gratified to ten young catches,hatched lazily doing well and eleven old birds.The experiment seems likely to occur, according to reports from farm.-San Francisco Bulletin. When the blood is headed wires,and moves sluggibly in this alternative is needed,a this convalescent fluid cannot long without uddie.There is nothing better to Sarsaparilla to purify the blood,the energy to the system. GAZETTE. 21, 1885. NO. 24 more hens cockled. Then there were still more hens and less pills. The increased volumes of the cockling indulged in by the hen convention finally attracted Mrs. Jones' attention again and she went forth to learn the cause. She didn't learn it just then, for the entire cause was concealed within the house. Not a pill was to be seen. Two or three hens lay on the ground writhing from the effects of blue mass. The hens rosetter sat grimly in a fence corner laboring under a dose of pedophyllin. Two or three young pullets had been so highly benefited that they were fighting out the disputed title to a pill that one of them had swallowed. Other fowls staggered about in a dandelion sort of fashion, as if wondering what was the matter with them. Two hundred and thirty-seven pills were found in the crawl of one of the chickens which was killed for dinner that day. Nobody could explain how they got there till the doctor came home. He examined the shed roof and the pills taken from the slain chicken's crawl and said one or two little words. The family dined that day on eggs bought at the grocery store. Was Afraid He'd Stop? A young woman from the country was suing her ex-sweetheart for breach of promise, and the lawyers were, as usual, making all sorts of inquisitive interrogatories. "You say," remarked one, "that the defendant frequently sat very close to you!" "Yes, sir," was the reply, with a hectic flush. "How close?" "Close enough so's one cheer was all the sittin' room we needed." "And you say he put his arm around you!" "No, I didn't." "What did you say then!" "I said he put both arms around me." "Then what!" NEW NO. 8 WHEELER & WILSON, With Straight, Self-Setting Needle and Push-Feed ABSOLUTED NEW! In Principle, and design. No Shuttle to thread. Sews from the thinnest gauss to the heaviest cloth of leather. Can DARN, PAULH, MEND and EMBRIDEN without any attachment. Only needs to be seen and tried to be approved. Don't buy until you have seen the New No. 8. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. E. C. GLIDDEN, Agent, 33 North Main Street (Penet Block) LOS ANGELES, CAL. J. H. BULLARD, A.B., M.D. Physician and Surgeon. Office and Drug Store on Los Angeles St. opposite Planters' Hotel. HOMEOPATHIC DRUGS always on hand. Office Hours, 8 to 9:30 and 12 to 12:30 A.M.; 1 to 2 and 6:30 to 7:30 P. DR. E. L COWAN, DENTIST, Will be in his Anaheim office on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each week. H. C. KELLOGG, Civil Engineer and Surveyor. (Deputy County Surveyor.) Office in Room 2, over Langerberger's Store, corner Center and Lemon streets, Anaheim. M. B. HARRISON, Attorney-at-Law. ANAHEIM. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OF the State. C. W. MOOBES, Attorney-At-Law. KROEGER'S BLOCK, CENTER STREET . . . ANAHEIM. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law. SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. BICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC GAVERY OFFICE. L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adelaide and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street. MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST price. All orders promptly attended to All work guaranteed. LUMBER YARD PLANING, SAWING, AND MOULDING MILLS. OF Saxton & Cox, Anaheim. NEAR THE RAILROAD DEPOT All varieties of Pine, Redwood,and Service LUMBER Doors, Sashes, and Blinds, Grape Dozen, Freel Boxes, Bee-Nives, and Freit Dryers. Builders' Hardware and Nails Plain and Fancy SCROLL SAWING a best Nail. Anaheim Crist Mill! Grain, Feed, Meal, etc.of all Varieties CORN SHELLED AND SHIPPED ANAHEIM STORAGE WAREHOUSE GRAIN, WOOL, AND GENERAL MERCHANDISING FAXES ON STORAGE. GRAIN BAGRA and TWINE constantly on hand CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED Of all kinds of PRODUCE. Advances made by CHANDIKE forwarded and sold on Committees at best Markets. A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING AND Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. (Adjoining the Gasworks Office). City Stables, He sitteth up all night to get the returns from Ohio, and in the end learnth that the other fellows have carried it. He marrieth a red-headed heiress with a wart on her nose, and the next day her parental ancestor goeth under, with few assets and great liabilities, and cometh home to live with his beloved son-in-law. Such is life and such is man, with decided odds against him. A Wife, Not a Bride. Caller—I'm so glad, my dear, to see you looking so well and happy. Your wedding was not one of long duration, I notice. Very sensible. Bride—My husband was perfectly willing to prolong the tour, but I knew that his presence was required at his place of business. Caller—Very few brides are as considerate as that. Bride—Oh! but I ceased to be a bride very early. In less than a week I became a wife. Caller—I do not understand. Bride—We had not been married a week before he asked me to sew on a button. A Steady Young Man "Jane, I hear your bean is a little wild; not very steady, they say." "Oh, yes, he is; he is one of the most steady young men I ever saw." "Steady? Oh, no, he can't be. I've heard he was anything but steady." "Well, he is just steady. He has always come to the house every evening since we were first engaged, drunk or sober." Ostrich Farming The San Francisco capitalists who put money into the experiment of ostrich farming at Anaheim, are gratified to know that an young ostrich, hatched last year, are going well and eleven old birds are laying. The experiment seems likely to prove a success, according to reports from the ostrich farm — San Francisco Bulletin. When the blood is loaded with ingratiens and moves sluggishly to the coils, an anaerobic is needed, as this condition of the final fluid cannot long without serious damage. There is nothing better than Ayer's arsenal to purify the blood, and import energy in the system. L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street. MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. WM. R. HARKER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. S. A. DENNIS, Carriage and Sign Painter, Center Street, Anaheim. OFFERS AS REFERENCES THE NUMEROUS wagons and signs painted by him in Anaheim. PRICES REASONABLE. The patronage of the public respectfully solicited may? Dress-Making. WOULD SAY TO THE LADIES OF ANAHEIM and viability that having settled permanently among you, I respectfully solicit your patronage. I will guarantee Perfect Fitting and Work Nestly Done. Will also do stamping, and keep on hand material for All Kinds of Embroidery. H. C. CURMING. Residence at the Dr. Ballay place. Dec 13 20m Casks, Pipes AND PUNCHEONS IN PERFECT ORDER For Sale at Low Prices. B DREYFUS & CO., Anaheim. Pure Lard. IF YOU WANT A PURIC ARTIGLE OF LARD, buy the ROBERT ECCLES BRAND. AND Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. (Adjoining the Garvey Office) City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Kreager's Block) ANAHEIM. L.F.Lowis... Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commodious in the town, and spacious adjoining will be paid to Boarding and Grooming Bergen. The charge in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice and careful dress familiar with the country, supplied when required. The per capita of the public is respectfully solicited. We Have Just Received a Carload of FURNITURE! Direct from Eastern Factories. Latest Styles at prices lower than in Los Angeles. Call and examine for yourself. F. & J. MACKS Land For Sale (FOUR MILES NORTHEAST OF ANAHEIM) On the Kraemer Tract, Twenty - Acre Lots. Apply to Bee Sites. D. C. GURNEY