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If oustehold Receipts. Kick Pancakes. Two large cups rice well washed; boil in one quart water; when the water boils off, add one quart milk, one cup wheat tiour, one egg. Indian Griddle Cakes. Two cup luls white corn-meal, one cupful flour, one-half cupful yeast, one teaspoonful salt; milk added to make a stiff batter; put in a warm place to rise over night as sponge for bread. To Remove Grease SroTS with Buckwheat. Spread two pieces of coarse brown paper over the grease spot, with a large pinch of buckwheat between them. Then place a warm flat-iron over the paper, aud let it re main until it cools. Beeswax and Salt will make your rusty flat-irons as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of bees wax in a rag, and keep it for that pur pose. When the iions are hot, rub them first with the wax rag, then scour witli a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. To utilize feathers of ducks, chick ens and turkeys, generally thrown aside as refuse, trim the plumes from the stump, inclose them in a tight bag, rub the whoie as if washing clothes, and you will secure a perfectly uniform and light down, excellent for quilting coverlets and not a few other pur poses. To Exterminate Fleas. Take half a pound of Pcrsiin insect powder, half pound powdered borax, oue ounce oil cedar, quarter oil of pennyroyal properly put up by a druggist; close the room tight, sprinUe this powder on carpet, furniture and beds, and keep closed over day or night; then open all windows and air thoroughly, and in twenty-four hours there will be no fleas, flies, or mosquitoes left; the rooms can then be swept and dusted. This applies nearly as well to roaches and water-bugs. Transparent Pictures. Take the cabinet sizes of milk-white glass; it's like the porcelain shades used on lamps. On this paste a scrap book picture (mine are pansies and moss roses), and they will look as if painted on the glass. They can be put on lamp shades in the same way. Care must be taken to get the transpa rent ones (pictures). These pictures are not to be framed, but suspended in the window or to rest on an easel, bracket or mantel shelf. Detroit Free Press. To Boil Rice Properly. To every cup of rice, one quart of water; salt to taste. Let the water boil hard, then throw in rice previously well washed; when it begins to boil do not allow it to be stirred, and boil twenty minutes, not touching it, pour off any water remaining; place the saucepan on back of range, partially covered, for a few minutes; when turned out into the dish for the table each grain will be found separate. The rice .should steam on back of range until it ap pears dry on top, then shaken out into the dish, not removed with the spoon. Sweet Potato Pie. Wash the potatoes and boil them until they are cooked; take off the skins and mash them; to one large teacupful of the potato take one quart of milk, three eggs, sugar to the taste, a pinch of ginger or a little nutmeg. Before mixing all of the milk with,the potato pour about a teacupful ef the milk in the potato and rub them together until they will run through the colan der, to take out the lumps and woody fibres; bake with one crust. When done they should be light and soft like a pumpkin pie; if they are hard and heavy they have too much potato m them. Uses of Stale Bread. 1. Make dressing for meat: crumb it fine, turn hot broth over it, season, add butter and a well beaten egg, or more accord ing to quantity. 2. Make bread pudding: soak two hours in sweet milk, then beat eggs; sugar and spices and bake. I some times add fruit. 3. Make biscuit: soak over night in sour milk, mash one with the hand, mix in your biscuit for breakfast, add ing salt, lard and soda. They are better than without the stale bread. 4. Make pancakes or gems: soak over night in sour milk, add well beaten eggs, corniueal or graham flour to make a batter, and soda and salt, and bake on a gridle or in gem pans. 5. Crumb fine and put them in the next omelet you make. 0. Toast your bread: set a pan of milk on the stove, but do not remove the cream from it, add butter and salt, dip the bread in this and send to the table for supper or breakfast. 7. Crumb fine and put in your toma toes when you are stewing them. 8. Pound fine, season, and roll oys ters or fresh fish in them and fry in nice lard. A MurVe-lxyriny Sjjfmye. In 1871, a vessel laden with a cargo of Carrara marble was wrecked off the south coast of Long Island. This year some of the marble having been raised, was found to be perfectly honeycombed by some marine-boring animal. A fragment of the marble was exhibited at a recent meeting of the New. York Academy of Sciences, and the opinion expressed by one of the members that the work of destruction was probably due to a spe cies of Pholas. Dr. Xewberry, how ever, was inclined to believe that it was due rather to the ravages of a species of sponge of the genus Cliana, and this view has been recently in dorsed in a note on the subject pub lished by Prof. A. E. Verrill, who has had an opportunity of examining some 8Icimens sent to the Peabody Museum of Yale College. Prof. Verrill states that the exposed portions of the slabs examined by him are thoroughly pene trated to the depth of one or two inches by the crooked and irregular borings or galleries of the sponge Cliona sul phurea, so as to reduce them to a com plete honeycomb, readily crumbling in the fingers. The marble is perfectly sound and umiltered beyond the bor ings. He say that the rapid destruc tion of the shells of oysters, etc., by the borings of this sponge has lonr been familiar to him, but he has never before seen examples of its effects on marble or limestone; for calcareous rocks do not occur along those portions of our coast inhabited by the animal. He suggests that its ability to rapidly destroy such rocks might have a prac tical bearing in case of submarine structures of limestone or othr similar materials. Lighting street lamps by electricity has been solved by Mr. St, John Lane Fox, who has successfully applied his apparatus to lighting the lamps in Fall Mall. Each lamp is provided with a small apparatus containing an induc tion coif, the primary wire of which is in the circuit of the line wire, so that a current sent through the latter tra verses the primary of all the coils. The ends of the secondary coils of each lamp are in connection with insulating supports at the burner, so that when they are set in action sparks will pass across the aperture of the burner and ignite the gas. To turn the gas on and off at each lamp Mr. Fox makes use of the core of the induction coil. This, when magnetized by a current of moderate strength, causes a permanent magnet, in connection with a stop cock of peculiar construction, to be rotated on its axis, thereby turning on the gas. The effect of a reverse cur rent is to move the permanent magnet in the reverse direction, and so to turn the gas off. This is effected by a bat tery and apparatus which are placed in a small wooden hut in Waterloo place, and from which the insulated wire passes to the lamps, returning to the hut to complete the circuit, which in the present case is a mile in length. Iron. Scientific Notes. The postal telegraph officials have determined to introduce the sounder devised by Mr. Elisha Gray, of Chicago, into British offices. Over 2,000 farmers in Maine have taken hold of the beet-sugar enterprise, and are raising this root for the fac tory in that State. Among the most remarkable inven tions represented at the recent paper exhibition at Berlin were paper teeth. They are said to be singularly durable. The latest advices received from the New Guinea gold exploration expedi tion are to the effect that three of the party were dead and the others dis pirited or fever-stricken. It seems likely to prove a failure. The Brilvth M( dical Journal says that a site has been secured for a crema torium, near London, by the Cremation Society of Great Britain; aud Mr. Eassie, C. E., has been instructed to erect upon it a pyre of the kind de signed by Gorini and now in use at Milan. M Duveyrier has just shown to what portions of Africa explorers should direct their attention. Seven vast re gions yet remain unknown or shrouded in mystery. As the exploration of Africa has gone on at the rate of about 234,285 square kilometers per year, all of that continent should be known in, less than forty-eight years. timorous. Why was the female warrior of France confined in a cell where no light was admitted? Ans. To keep Joan d'Arc. Cin. SaL Night. An Iowa clergyman boasts that he can marry twenty couples in an hour. Twenty knots an hour is pretty good sneed for a clergyman to make. Cine. Sat. Night. Lo! the poor Indian! When he goes home to his cheerless wigwam in the evening he has no dime novel with which to while away the weary hours; no friend next door to come in and talk politics; no medical almanacs to read; no New York papers with full proceed ings of the racy Vanderbilt will case; no money in a safe for masked robbers to break in and steal no civilized pleasures of this kind. He simply hangs up the bloody scalps he has cap tured during the day, beats his squaw with a club, wraps a buffalo robe around him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. If a pale-face comes within half a mile of his wigwam, the slumbering red man snuffs him afar, awakes, and goes out and shoots him full of arrows. Norr. Herald. Down in Delaware they used to have a party play they called "Fish," but it did not flourish long. It was played this way : If there were a dozen men and girls in the room, some part of the anatomy of the fish was assigned to each one, thus one would repre sent the head, one the fin, another the mouth, etc., until the last one got the tail as his or her portion. Then the wicked man who represented the head" would say, u My head itches," and forthwith commence a vigorous scratching of his knowledge-box, the second would say, " My mouth itches," with the appropriate motions, and so on towards the last; but the play was never appropriately finished, and the party generally broke up at once. It was late, you know. A Scotch Story. Concerning the long-bow, no American effort can sur pass one that comes to us from Scot land: It was told that Colonel Andrew M'Dowall, when he returned from the war, was one day walking along by the Myroch, when he came on an old man sitting greetin' on a muckle stane at the roadside. When he came up the old man rose and took oil' his bonnet, and said: Ye're welcome hame again, laird." " Thank you," said the colonel, add ing, after a pause, " I should surely know your face. Aren't you Nathan McCulloch?" ' Ye're richt, deed,' says Nathan; " it's just me, laird." "You must be a good age, now, Nathan," says the colonel. " I'm no verra aul' yet, laird," was the reply; "I'm just turnt a hunner." "A hundred!" says the colonel, .musing; " well, you must be all that: But the idea of a man of a hundred sitting blubbering that way. What ever could you get to cry about?" " It was my father lashed me, sir," said Nathan, blubbering again; "an he put me oot, so he did." " Your father!" said the colonel; " is your father alive yet?" "Leevin! ay," replied Nathan; "I ken that the day tae my sorrow." "Where is he?" says the colonel " What an age he must be! I would like to see him." "Oh, he's up in the barn there," says Nathan; " an' no in a horrid gude humor the noo, aither." They went up to the barn together, and found the father busy threshing the barley with the big flail and tearing on feartul. Seeing Nathan and the laird coming in, he stopped and saluted the colonel, who, after inquiring how he was, asked him what he had struck Nathan for. "The young rascal!" says the father, " there's nae dooin1 wi' hhn; he's never out o' a mischief. I had tae lick him this mornin for thrown' stunts at his grandfather!" Editor Drawer, in Harper's for Pecemberf A GREAT POWER IN ASIA. It is strange to hear once more of China as a Great Power in Asia. We are prone to forget that the Chinese divide with the English and the Rus sians the supremacy of the Eastern Continent. Every other sovereignty is as subordinate to these three as Bel gium, Denmark, and Portugal are to the Great Powers of Europe. China, however, appeared, until within the past few years, to be fixed in her policy of peace and seclusion, and to decline any relations, hostile or friendly, with foreign countries, either upon her sea board or on her inland borders. The treaties which Europe forced upon the Government at Pekin were regarded with unconcealed detestation, and were borne only as a pan of the harsh order of nature, to which Oriental pa tience always resigns itself. This deli cate reserve was supposed by many to be the result of political weakness and social decay, and the frequent rebel lions of which the outer world heard vaguely were accepted as evidence that the hour of dissolution was at nana. Never did the Celestial Empire seem so near its downfall and partition as some sixteen years ago, before the Taepingswere quelled by the "Ever Victorious Army" of Gordon, and when the Panthay kingdom in Yunnan was apparentlv established as a strong and an aggressive State. The triumph of the Mussulman rebels in Yunnan was followed bv the news of other conflicts between Islam and the Chi nese on the northwestern frontiers of the Empiie, and there also the faith of Monaramea was visioiy gaining grounu. The Moslem revival, of which signs had become visible in every country of Africa and Asia, trom Morocco to tne Malayan Archipelago, had begun to work, it was believed, upon trie pas sionate and ignorant populations of Eastern Turkestan and tne fcalt-inne- pendent provinces of China still fur ther to the north and east. The fer ment in these unknown regions was not proved to be connected with the activitv of the Panthavs, and it is even probable that the interposition of Thibet prevented any unity of pur pose. But the two movements were parts of the same great wave of Mus Hulman advance. The famous Chinese Emperors of the 17th and 18th cen turies had labored to establish in the northwest a chain of vassal govern ments. not organized strictly on the social model of the "Flowery Land," but loyal and submissive to the rule of Pekin. The last of them, Kien Lung, had attempted to stamp out Mohamme danism in the "Six Cities," including Kashgar, but he failed. Ihe Tungan Mussulmans continued to flourish under Chinese rule, and in 1862 there was a general rising m the northwest, which ended in the destruction or ex pulsion of the Chinese garrisons every where. In Kashgar the native Mus sulmans tell under the power ot in vaders of their own faith from Kho kand, reinforced by the fanatics whom Russia was driving eastward out of the Khanates. The ablest leaders of these, Yakoob Ber, whose singular story has lately been told i a very interesting and instructive volume by Mr. Boul ger, made for himself a kingdom in Kashgar, aud assumed to treat almost on equal terms with England and Russia. His power, many predicted, would overthrow and devour the tot tering Chinese dominion and might rise to a height to be compared with that of the greatest of Asiatic con querors and despots. It was even imagined that he might check the ad vance of Russia, and he became, in fact, by treaty, an ally of England. It was possible, indeed, that he would succumb to the strength and perse verance of Russia, but few foresaw the fate that actually befell him. The Atalik Ghazi, as he was styled, lived to witness the triumphant advance of a Chinese army, and to leave his dis tracted kingdom at his decease to be presently trampled under foot by a conquering Chinese General. The surprising character of this reverse of fortune would hardly be realized, per haps, by us if it were not that China, as mistress of Kashgar, has recovered the spirit she showed when she was a victorious and an organizing power in Central Asia, and has called upon Russia to restore the province of Kuldja, which was annexed seven years ago by the Czar Generals. Russia, while watching cautiously both the Ameer of Kashgar and the Chinese, was involved in quarrels with some of the lesser Mussulman poten tates who had established themselves as independent Princes within the Chinese frontier. A Tungan ruler had made himself master of Kuldja, a pro vince made very valuable by its posi tion both for commercial and strategi cal reasons, but most precious to Rus sia as a lever wherewith to open the gates of China to trade or conquest. The country is enclosed between two towering mountain ranges, the south ern being the Tian-Shan. It is wa tered by the great river Hi, wuich is also the main line of internal traffic. Driven like a wedge into the Chinese territory, as it has been described, Kuldja threatens Kashgar on the one side and the Tuugan districts on the other. In 1871 the Russians, fearing that Yakoob Beg would anticipate them in seizing this natural strong hold, marched upon it. and occupied it after a campaign of a few davs. It was annexed "in perpetuity," accord ing to the General's proclamation. But at that time Russia was anxious to keep on good terms with China, and a promise was given at Peking that the conquest would be restored as soon as the Chinese again appeared with sufficient force to maintain order in Central Asia. The Celestial armies had not then begun to recover their former fame. It is true the Taeping rebellion had been extinguished, but it was not until 1873 that the Panthav capital of Ta-li-foo was stormed and the Mussulman power in Yunnan ut terly uprooted. This was the first evi dence of the reviving energy of China. With a patience, a determination and a courage worthy of high praise, the Chinese next undertook to grapple with Kashgar. Xhey formed a large army, disciplined in something like European fashion, armed with im- E roved weapons, and supported even y heavy artillery of the most scien tific type. Their advance was slow but unresting, and when at length they measured their power against that of the Atalik Ghazi they proved that in every warlike quality they were his superiors. After Yakoob's death Kashgar was easily and completely conquered, and it as now as little likely to rise successfully against the Chinese power as Yunnan itself. The victory in this instance has fairly fallen to those who deserved it, and we may rest assured that the Chinese fully appreciate its meaning. They have now re-established their authority in Eastern Turkestan in such a manner as to entitle them to demand from Russia the performance of her promise. The demand has been made and has been rejected, but only those who are ignorant of the Chinese character will suppose that the rejection has been or will be accepted as final. A Mission from Pekin has been sent to St. Pe tersburg to insist on the retrocession of Kuldja, and if Russia continues to re fuse she will have to reckon with the enmity of China in Asia. But if it proves that China, always formidable for the vast numbers of her people, has once more become an active Power, resolute to reorganize her former dominions in Central Asia, her antagonism may possibly be a serious obstruction in the path of Russian am bition. There is an earnestness and a persistence in the Chinese character which is of the highest worth in war. The Chinese are brave, if hot with the ardor of Europeans, yet with a steadi ness and a contempt for death to which few parallels exist. Their imitative capacity enables them to learn with ease the lessons of European discipline and the use of modern arms. Their skilled soldiers, it is said, have studied German strategy and tactics. The army which conquered Kashgar "closely resembled," Mr. Boulger tells us, "that of a European Power." Why should China hesitate to encounter Russia, if the latter refuses to do what she has promised with respect to Kuldja? Modesty is not a character istic of the Chinese Government or people, and it may be that Tso Tsung Tang, the victor of Kashgar, is eager to match himself against the Russian Generals. He has already shown a warlike and venturesome spirit by prohibiting Russian trade on the Kashgarian frontier, and by ordering Russian citizens to quit the recon quered province. These are violations of Russia's treaty rights with China, but theChioese will probably reply to any remonstrances that when Russia restores Kuldja they will perform their pledges as to trade. The Russian Government now covers its refusal to restore the province annexed in 1871 by presenting a demand for a pecu niary indemnity of two millions sterling to meet the expenses of the Russian conquest and occupation. But the real reason for t he refusal has been avowed by the Russian Press. As a Russian writer has observed, "the re trocession of Kuldja would be an act of political suicide,; for not only would it raise the prestige of China to a higher point than ever before, but " it would undermine our-j position in Eastern Asia by giving tne Chinese a strong military position within our natural frontier." However Russia may act, therefore, the re-awakened energy of China may, if it continues, create se rious embarassments for her. The Chinese may not rush precipitately into war; but their attitude will keep many thousands of Russian soldiers continually vigilant on the Hi, and will so far weaken the advance of Russia on the western portion of Turkestan. The age of invading and conquering multitudes is past, and there is little fear that China will pour out her mil lions to swamp Western civilization; but a disciplined China, armed and ambitious, standing on the Russian border, is an element in the Asiatic problem that cannot be omitted from any future speculations without the risk of serious error. JOSH BILLINGS. WISE AND WITTY SAYINGS CULLED FROM HIS FARMER'S ALLMINAX. I hav finally cum to the konklushun that if I kant prove a thing without betting $3 on it, the thing has got a dredphul weak spot suinwhere. Q. What is the best religious kreed to hav? A. Charily. If a man will swop ofl all the religious kreed he has got on hand, and invest the proceeds in charity, he will always be proud ov the job. vj. Will yu pleze define an enthusi ast? A. An enthusiast iz a party who believes about four times az mutch az he kan prove, and kan prove about four times az mutch as ennyboddy else beleaves. Allmost enny phool kan prove that the Bible ain't true; it takes a wize man to beleave it. It iz a wize man who proffits bi hiz own expeiience -but it iz a good deal wizer one who lets the rattlesnaik bite the other phellow. Yung man, set down and keep still; yu will hav plenty ov chances yei to make a phool ov yureself before yu die. Take all the phools out of this world and thare wouldn't be enny phun nor proffit living in it. . I would az soon think ov pulling the feathers out ov a peakok's tale az to interfere with the inosent vanity ov a man. Marrid life iz a little game, in which the woman, if she iz called, iz allmost sure to hav a strate flush. The man who knows a thing, and can tell it in the fewest words, iz the hard est kind ov a man to beat in a kross examinashun. The things that i kant prove i beleave the most; i beleave that one apple iz sour and another sweet, but i will give enny highly eddicated man a span ov matched mules who will tell me what makes them so. The smartest thing about enny man iz his conschience; he may outargy hiz reason or stultify his faith, but he kant beat hiz conschience. Tne best thing i kno ov iz a fust rate wife, and the next best thing iz a second rate one. Thare aint nothing that a man will thrive so well on az abuse that aint merited. When yu cum acrost a man who dis trusts evervboddy, yu hav found one wiiom it iz sate tor everyboddy to dis trust. The Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph says: We have said, and furnished statistics from time to time to prove, that the consumption of opium is large ly increasing in the State of Maine. Some three weeks since, when travel ing, we entered the store of a druggist, a friend. Just passing out was a lady in dress and bearing, though enfeebled, who had just been making a purchase of opium. Said our friend, here is a fact for you. That Irdy has just pur chased $10 worth of opium, and she has made similar purcmises for several years, coming once every year, from I know not where, and, inieod, I have never yet fouud oi t her name. She buys about the same amount each year. That lady did not dare to purchase at home for fear of detection, bat when she wanted opium she obtained it of dealers residing at a distance from her place of residence. THE NIGHT "AFTER" CHRISTMAS. COMPAKION POKM TO TH NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS." Twas the night after Christmas, when . all through the house Every soul was a bed and as still as a mouse; ' The stockings (so lately St. Nicholas' care), Were emptied of all that was eatable there. r. f The darHngsJiad duly been tucked in their beds, With very full stomachs and pains in their heads. ' I was dozing away in my new cotton cap. And Nancy was rather far gone in a nap. When out in the nursery there arose such a clatter. I sprang from my sleep, crying " What is I flew to each bedside, still half in a doze, Tore open the curtains and threw off the clothes, While the light of a candle served clearly to show The piteous plight of the objects below; For what to the father's fond eye should appeal, But the little pale face of each sick little dear, For each pet that had crammed itself as full as a tick, I knew in a moment now felt like Old Nick. Their pulses were rapid, their breathings the same; What their stomachs rejected I'll mention by name: Now Turkey, now Stuffing, Plum Pud ding of course, And Custards, and Crullers, and Cran berry Sauce. Before outraged Nature all went to the wall, Yes, Lollypops, Flapdoodle, dinner and all. Like pellets which urchins from pop-guns let fly, Went figs, nuts and raisins, jams, jelly and pie, Till each error of diet was brought to my view, To the shame of mamma and Santa Claus too. I turned from the sight, to my bed-room stepped back. And brought out a vial marked " Pure Ipecac," When my Nancy exclaimed, for their suf ferings shocked her, "Don't yon think you had better, love, go for the doctor? I went and was scarcely back under my roof, When I heard the sharp clatter of old "Jalap's" hoof ; I might say that I hardly had turned my self lound, When the doctor came into the room with a bound. He was covered with mud from his head to his foot. And the suit he had on was his very best suit; He hardly had time to put that on his back, And he looked like a Fal staff half fuddled with sack. His eyes, how they twinkled ! Had the doctor got merry ? His cheeks looked like Port and his breath smelt like Slurry; He hadn't been shaved for a fortnight or so, And his beard nor his skin wasn't as "white as the snow;" But inspecting their tongues in spite of their teeth, And drawing his watch from his waistcoat beneath, He felt each pulse, saying, "Each little belly Must get rid" here he laughed "of the rest of that jelly." I gazed on each, chubby, plump,"sick lit tle elf, And groaned, when he said so, in spite of myself ; But a wink of his eye, when he physicked our Fred, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He didn't prescribe, but he went straight to Ids work, And dosed all the rest, gave his trousers a jerk, And adding directions while blowing his nose, He buttoned his coat, from his chair he arose, Then jumped in his gig, gave old "Jalap' a whistle, And "Jalap" dashed of as though pricked by a thistle ; But the doctor exclaimed as he drove out of sight, "They'll be all well to-morrow Good night, Jones ! Good night !" 1 A CHAPTER OF FIRST THINGS. The first schooner launched in this country w built at Cape Ann in 1714. The first lime made in New England was burnett in Newbury, Mass., by James Noyes. The first cotton factory in the United States was established at Beverly,Mass.. 1787. It continued in operation until 1802, and then stopped, ninety pe cent, of the capital having been sunk in the enterprise. The first cast-iron edifice erected in America was upon the corner of Centre and Duane streets, New York. Samuel F. B. Morse, of telegraphic fame, studied painting in England, and was the first person to deliver a course of public lectures upon Art in America. The first successful experiment of burning anthracite coal in an open frate was by Judge Jesse Fell, of Pennsylvania, February 11, 1808. The tulip was first introduced into Europe by the celebrated botanist, Conrad Gesner, aoout the year 1559. Its beauty soon made it so much of a favorite, and there was so great a desire to possess it that what is still known as the u tulip mania" sprang up in Holland. One plant was regarded as making its possessor rich, and was often given as a munificent marriage portion to the bride. More than two thousand dollars were given for a sin gle plant a great sum in that country and in those days. Inflammable gas was first evolved from coal in 1736 to 1739. A use of the gas was first attempted at Corn wall in 1792. The first display of gas lights was made at Boulton & Watt's foundry, at Birmingham, on the occa sion of rejoicings for peace in England in 180. Gas was permanently used at the cotton mills in Manchester, where one thousand burners were lighted in 1805. Gas-light was first introduced in London, August 16, 1807. Pall Mall was lighted in 1809; London generally in 1814. Gas was first introduced al Baltimore in 1821: at New York in 1823. The first Methodist meeting-house built in New England was erected in Stratfield parish, town of Stratford, now Trumbull, New Haven county, Conn., in September, 1789, and was called "Lee's Chapel," from ltev. Jesse Lee, the apostle of New England Methodism. The next was in Lynn, Mass., 1791, a few months after Mr. Wesley's death. It was begun June 14th, raised on the 21st, and dedicated on the 26th, the frescoing, carpeting, cushioning, and the putting in of gas and other "dainty fixings" being of course omitted. The first annual con ference of the Methodists in New Eng land was held in this houue by Bishop Asbury, August 1, 1792, the precursor of a great number on the same spot. The first Methodist Conference in America was held in Philadelphia in 1773. It consisted of ten preachers. The first locomotives in the United States, says the Journal of the Franklin Institute, were brought over from Eng land by Horatio Allen, of New York, in the fall of 1829 or the spring of 1830, and one of them was set up on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, at Carboudale, Pa., but, being found too heavy for the track, its use was aban doned. The first locomotive constructed in this country was built by the West Point Foundry, at New York in 1830, for the South Carolina Railroad, and named the Phoenix. A second engine was built the same year by the same establishment for the same road, and named the West Point. In the spring of 1831 a third engine was built by the same establishment for the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, from Albany to Schenectady, and called the De Witt Clinton. This was the first locomotive run in the State of New York. This engine was put on the road by David Mathews. The first Stephenson loco motive ever imported into this coun try was the Robert Fulton. This en gine was brought out in the summer of 1831 for the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad; it was subsequently rebuilt and named the John Bull. Prudently Break Up your Cold by the timely use of Dr. Jayne's Ex pectorant, an old remedy for Sore Lungs and Throats, and a certain curative for Coughs. Advertisements. In writing to parties Advertis ing in these Columns pl tion this pap. A IMi PLflM Anybody can learn to make mnnev mnirtlv nnerat- ing in Stocks, by the "Two Unerring Rules for Suc cess," In Messrs. Lawrence & Go's new circular. Tbe combination method, which this firm has made so successful, enables people with large or small means to reap all the benefits of largest capital and best skill, thousands of orders, iu various sums, are pooled into one vast amount and eo operated as a mighty whole, thus securing to each shareholder all the advantages of the largest operator. Iui- uienao proms are uivmea uioutmy. Any amount, from 95 to (5.000 or more, can be used successfully. N . Y. Baptist Weekly, Septemlier 2Mb, 1878, says, "By the combination system 815 would make 175. or 5 ier cent. : 50 pays (350, or 7 per cent. ; tlOO makes $1.0(0, or 10 per cent, on the stock, during the montn , accoro ing w tne market. ' rant intiu Illustrated Newspaper, June 2th: 'The couiol nation method of operating stocks Is the most suc cessful ever adopted." New York Independent Sept. 12th: "The combination system is founded upon correct business principles, aud no person need be without an income whil It is kept working ny Messrs. i.awrence a Co. Brooklyn Journal, April 29th. "Our editor made a uet profit of $101.25 from 20 In one of Messrs. Lawrence ft Go's com binations" New circular mailed free) explains everything. Stocks and bonds wanted. Govern ment bonds supplied. LAW KEN CK ft CO., Bank ers, 57 Exchange Place. N. Y. PLAYS Mew York Drama. All the latest and standard plays. The be8tDUblislied. Three full nlava in oue volume, sent anywhere on receipt of fifteen cents. Send stamp for catalogue. juvH jest MAKV1KK, vt union square, . X. GROT 'ft BAKER Graver fc Bate --OrC . ftrwnta Wiif 11 & TV. one Needle Gatxre, one Gauge and Screw, one Embroidery Plate, ene Dozen Assorted Needles, one Screw Driver, one Oil can, and one Bonk of Instructions. Rem! t by Post Office Order, Registered Letter, Check or Greenbacks. ORDER AT ONCK. . We cannot guarantee that you will get a machine at this price after the next 9 days. v Address, G. W. HAMERSLi , 293 and 295 Broadway, New York, Beta to A. C. Brfton Co., arc cbeuoat Street, PMIaaelphla, or the Publisher or this Paper. COMPOUND OXYGEN. FOR Consumption, Asthma, Catarrh, Dyspepsia, XTeadaeh, Debil'itv am. vnronic ana nervous Disorders. A but Nature own life-giving element. It does not cure by mbstitutinff nn .... 1 'Dnil mt another, as wber drugs are taken, but a natc- BAL PROCESS OF BSVITALIZATION. HAVK BKEJT MADE in Chromic and Kbbvocs rrcv. 8ES, WHIOH ABB ATTRACTING WIDE ATTENTION. toftt.Rev. Jno. Of Rtofimtn a Va. ; Hon. Wjt. D. Kellky, Gen. Fitz Henk-v Warrex, T.8. Arthur, and others who have used and been largely benefited by this treatment. By simple inhal ation. This can be done at our of- flee, or by the patient at his own home. This 1 8 tent by express In a compact package. TWO MONTHS' sitp. PLY, with Inhaling apparatus and full and explicit directions. Brochure (212 pp.) with many testimonials of most remark ABLE C17KKS. Drs. STARKEY & PALEN, 1112 Girard St. Philadelnbla. ARTHUR'S Home Magazine for 1879. Tor so many years a guest in the homes and hearts of the people, with whose household carts and duties, and social life, interests, and pleasures it has so closely identified Itself, the Home Maazise comes again, as the new year approaches, and suits for the old place among you. and the old cordial welcome. VinOltllA F.TOVVnCEND our readets, will commence a new Serlnl story in the January number. This will be followed iy v TENDER andmUE MSK nnftCI I A linC wl" contribute a .s.-! i. s . IIUUCLLA IllbC articles on Western 1'ion.vr Life, under the title of "Fadia Footprint, or, the Lowly LIveaofLoBC Ao. DIDftEV DATTfl under the title of "Oor rlrwCl rll I lU Neighborhood," tsgoii.:- give a series ot papers In her ieculiar vein, which will be spicy and good, of course. CHATTY DROOKS rreXi? sensible, and pleasant way, under the title of "WrlaklM mui Dtale or, Myaeiraad My !rl r.lAFJY HEW (VRITERGafiaor ready large list of contributors, while supitlirs r choice literary matter will 1 drawn from all avail able sources, in order to give the Home Maca.i r. an interest and value second to no periodical in the country. TERT.18 FOR 1879. 1 Copy. 1 year, $2.25 3 Copies, 1 year, $5 50 6 Copies, and 1 to Club-Getter, $11.00. The Premium to Club-Oetter for either f these two Clubs will be $1.00 worth of ButtcrRk's Patterns for Ladles and Children's Dresses. 10 Copies, and 1 to Clnb-G tter $17 50 15 Copies and 1 to Club-Getter $26 00. PREMIUM on f 17. 50 Club me pai r $ 1. 5') Th ree-Hut-ton Kid Gloves, and fl.00 wAth of Butterick's Patterns. Premium ox 126.00 Club two pairs $1.50 Three Button Kid Gloves, and f l.oo worth of liutteri k-s Patterns. I AfftCf IMIinO For these we offer as Prem LAIlUI.il WLUIIW iums full Dress Patterns or elegant Black Silk or fine English and French Cash mere. 49FalI particulars in regard to these large and valuable Premiums will be found in our Special Circular to Club-Getters, which will be in at lei I m application to all who desire to make up C1iin For 187, Jt&SPECIMElT XVMBER, 10 CENTS. T. S. ARTHUR & SON. Star South Sixth Street. PHILADELPHIA AGENTS WANTED lor the WOEK SA73 0 f G0S By irr. IIKUBKUT W. M Oit KIM, A, M., 1. I. The Grand History of the World before Adam. Its dateless origin, thrilling and mys terious changes in Itecomiiig a fit abode for man. The beauties, wonders and realities of 1'la.n as shown by Science. So plain, clear and easily understood that all read it wllh delight, .strongest commendations. Send for a Circular, Terms and Sample illustrations. AddreBS, J. C. McCU .iD Y, Si CO. PhlUula. THE UNITED MEDK5&L ASSOCIATION of Eurxie and America, send their famous Pre scriptions, by unil, f r f I, for the cure of uny diseise, of either sex, plaiting hospital treatment wit'iin the r ia-li or all. Address, giving symptoms, U. M. Association, KoxXSi, Buffalo, N. V. SEND 20 CENTS and receive by mail free, post age paid, a pair of patent cork insoles. Worth double tiie money. St;i;,c sij of shoe you wear, men's, women's, or cliHiren's. Waterproof. Linl with Canton llaiuiKl. Address U1CO.W. BICAVKItS, 145 8th ave.. New York. 1'. O. box 1,-iJU. AGENTS Kotwi'hstandiHtr all tne sham off ers presented to Agents, there is yet au opening for everylxKly to make money nonorauiy aui easily, inexperienced nanus make little fortuues in leisure hours. Teachers are doubling their salaries. Boys and girls.'are making men's wages Our Agents can ever look customers straight in the face, for our very life depends on keeping faith. No charge for outfit, and no experi ence needed. When our terms are known there is a scramble for agencies, so this will appear only once. A iiostal card secures all particulars. FAMILY HKItM-l) IMIBMSIIING CO.. Box 1,3 IU, Boston, Ma.".s. Smootii i acts aaU uaid Heads, Attention. For a sure & rapid growth of Hair use CoSMKTIO I'KKPa RA TION, thu results ol alife-loug study. Wehaveyettole'"oro B out of the many thousand treated where itfalled toproduce a sou, n eavy in t un j within or o weeKS, on uie iiiniii" race, no injury, saiisracuon giwmu teed. Mailed free, price 5u cents.. U. II. WiriiERSTlNE & CO., Herkimer, W. X. Q BT Bose Coral Combinaticn.3 Take advantage of this offer. ORDER ATOnCEI We wnnt a cample ol oar p ood In every kiwe la tbe land, id to iulroiw-e thim we viirt all tbe article, coutnlned in our Rose Corsl Combina tion, a belnw enumerated lor only One Dollar. On Itdiei' Elegant Kote Coral hecklace, with Charm attached. On Ladies' fciepant Rote Coral Set Ear-Ringi and Pin, Koil wires. One pair Lad'm' Kleeant Roee Coral Cuff Pin. One LAdtei' tleganl lime Coral Sbawl Pin. Co? pair Ldiesrt;icrant Koae Coral Ear-lrop(. One Child'i bote Coral Pin- . T'nit errand array of onr Celebrated KeH Coral Jewelry will be encioMdia a II aud name Bo. "! ent. all i-harget prepaid, to an addrett in the WOULD, receipt ol ONE DOLLAR. . . , The Necklace alone, we tend with thlt combina tion we (rantee aaaot k fcocht Im mt store la the laod for lean thaa Vl.Xo Our Mauinwtb CatalunMie tent ree. Wo refer to any of the New York Papert or Ei pret Com pan left. Addreat ROYAL MAMUFACTUKINU CO, ft&g 4e S60 Broadway, N. Y. IT. B. A Q B3T Bom Coral Comtlnaticn., SElfM MIES. A GREAT OFFER. We will deliver, boxed, to any shipping point In New York, a new Genuine GR0VER & BAKER Family SEWING MACHINE, with all Improvements, for GI5.00. SI5.00. 016.00. This Is the same machine that has been sold through dealers at SC5. This machine is furnished complete In every particular, with polished Black Walnut Table and Box Cover that locks down, the Iron Work finished In Black and Gold. Its high reputation Is earned by true merit, and 30 years of honorable service. Every machine is guaranteed In perfect running order, or money refunded. Each machine Is carefully boxed and DELIVERED FREE onboard cars or steamer. It can be en thy express or freight to any part o f the would. A8 an evidence of good faith on our part, on receipt off s. we will eenaioanypointtnismacnine, ivruaiauce Perfect ct satisl isfactlon and complete substantiation of every statement made guaranteed or the money refunded. Every machine is furnished free with the following Attachments, viz: With three Hem- M.M x a X-t-t 11,... n..n,.l1H..Caiiin
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 2, 1879, edition 1
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