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 Our Doctors. 
 
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 sneering terms of the medical profession 
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 fend physicians and uphold their reputa- 
 tion for science and skill, is overwhelmed 
 with ridicule, and probably derided as 
 a valetudinarian. Prominent among 
 those who thus hold the medical profes- 
 sion in contempt are the editors of 
 " popular" journals and books, purj^ort- 
 ing to teach men the laws of life, " how 
 not to be sick." etc.. and tUeir univer- 
 
 sal panacea is generally to be found 
 in — " take my paper " — " buy my book." 
 There are Hygienic books and journals 
 worthy of the name, which teach truth 
 instead of merely advertising private 
 schemes and quack medical practice, but 
 their authors are almost without excep- 
 tion, educated Physicians. 
 
 Among laymen, the loudest revilers of 
 the doctor, are those who inheriting 
 sound, vigorous bodies, and strong nerves 
 are never sick, and therefore lielieve, or 
 pretend to, that all illness is but a conse- 
 quence of taking medicine and the doc- 
 tor's visits. If you should apply to one 
 of this disaffected class (not a watch- 
 maker) with your watch which needs 
 repair, and request him to put it in or- 
 der, how would he stare at you ! •• Take 
 it to a watchmaker," he would say ; 
 " but " you reply, " use your own common 
 sense and good judgment and tell me 
 what is the matter with it?'" "Com- 
 mon sense and good judgment be 
 hanged," he would answer; '"how will 
 that help me when I know nothing of 
 the mechanism of a watch ; I never 
 studied machinery, and should ruin it if 
 I ignorantly meddled with it. Take it 
 to a watch-doctor!" Now the mechan- 
 ism' of a watch is simplicity itself com- 
 pared with the wonderful organization 
 of the hixman body. Men in general (to 
 their shame be it said !) know less of 
 their own bodies than of the works of a 
 watch. They look upon anatomy, physi- 
 ology and hygiene as mystic sciences, 
 either beyond their comprehension or 
 unworthy of study. While in health, 
 they are constantly disobeying laws of 
 which they are ignorant, and when sick- 
 ness does come, they are entirely at the 
 mercy of disease and the dorlnr. If the 
 doctor fails at once or finally to repair 
 the mischief done to this exquisite hu- 
 man body by its ignorant occupant, or 
 finds inherent defects in the workman- 
 ship, caused by the transgressions of the 
 sick man's ancestors, how is he then up- 
 braided for ignorance or want of skill ! 
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 the human body and its diseases is a life- 
 long study ; that the practice of medicine 
 is ever progressive and improving. While 
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 TABLE TALK 
 
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 [December, 
 
 and observation all that he can of these 
 matters 'concerning life and health, he 
 should also defer to the superior knowl- 
 edge and experience of the physician, 
 who has concentrated all his time, 
 thought and powers on these momentous 
 things of life and death, and who has 
 also added to his own the experience of 
 those in the profession who have preceded 
 him. 
 
 It is complained that physicians 
 often fail to successfully treat disease. 
 Was it ordained by the Creator tliat man 
 should live forever, or that his years 
 should generally exceed three score and 
 ten ? And why should the members of 
 this profession be singled out for censure, 
 because they have not yet laid bare all 
 the secjets of nature in her relations to 
 life and health ? Are the religious doc- 
 trines of theologians finally settled, and 
 do all agree upon absolute truth at last? 
 In natural philosophy, within a few years, 
 old doctrines have been overturned and 
 new ones enunciated. Chemistry is con- j 
 stantly developing new truths, and lay- 
 ing tlie ghosts of former errors. And as 
 to the science and profession of the hu% 
 language fails to do justice to its astound- 
 ing progress. Old precedents are thrown 
 aside, and new inteqiretations follow each 
 
 that this action on the part of Mr. Lin- 
 coln does not foreshadow his resignation 
 or retirement from his position in the 
 Health Board. Since his accession as 
 President of the Health Commission, he 
 has directed its affairs with an honesty, 
 zeal and courtesy which has won the 
 respect even of the Board's enemies. 
 "We should sincerely regret seeing his 
 place filled by a man of less "back- 
 bone " or by a partisan. 
 
 " Poppies," says Toodles gravely, munch- 
 ing away, "Poppies will, I am informed, 
 
 if eaten frequently, in large doses, 
 
 — and persevered in for a great length 
 
 of time, occasion instant death." 
 
 We are quite curious to ascertain the 
 theological views of Dr. Letheby, as to 
 the Creator who prepares a grain so 
 deadly in its eifects, and then gives it to 
 a large portion of his creatures as their 
 sole food. 
 
 The Vanderbilt Mystery. 
 
 What is the meaning of the Vanderbilt 
 Bronze Statue ? Is it merely a private 
 testimonial from personal friends ? Then 
 it is out of place on the great warehouse 
 of a public corporation, and intrudes of- 
 fensively upon the public attention. Is 
 it then but an architectural ornament 
 of that public building, and paid for by 
 the stockholders of the Hudson River 
 Railroad ? Surely Vanderbilt would have 
 had the grac« to ask permission for such 
 display and expense from those whose 
 money contributed to the show. Per- 
 haps, after all, it is but a freak of the 
 sportive Commodore's fancy, and the 
 bills were footed by himself It is cer- 
 tainly not an expression of public regard 
 or opinion in any sense, for the people 
 have had nothing to do with it. and are 
 still asking — 
 
 ''What doe* UmeariT" 
 
 other in dazzling succession, and such is 
 the beautiful flexibility of this charming 
 science, that every man may find his 
 peculiar views of equity and justice con- 
 firmed by the Bench as well as the Bar, I 
 
 providedhispersonal influence and purse : Wonderful Properties of Indian 
 are commensurate with his vii'ws of jus- 1 Corn. 
 
 tice. Dr. Letheby has been lecturing l)eibre 
 
 One other consideration greatly to j the Society of Arts in London. Describ- 
 the credit of the medical profession is | ing the various kinds of grain, he said: 
 too often overlooked. The physician is ' "Maize, or Indian Corn, is one of the most 
 the recipient of more of our sacred con- - extensively used grains in the world. Since 
 fidence, knows more of our iiersonal and i ^^^ **™''^'' ^ iKlt^nA, it has there also become 
 
 - ., . ^ , . , . a common article of diet, especially when po 
 
 family secrets, our temptations and mis- i , , , 
 
 •' ' tatoes are dear, 
 
 fortunes than even the 
 
 minister. He 
 often holds our lives in his hands, and 
 sometimes more. Our mothers, wives 
 and sisters are forced to confide in him, 
 and some times to trust themselves en- 
 
 The grain is said to cause 
 disease when eaten for a long time, and without 
 other meal — the symptoms being a sculy erup- 
 tion upon the hands, great prostration of the vital 
 poicers, and death after a year or so, with ex- 
 treme emaciation. These effects have been 
 
 ^. , . , . , , ., , , , . 1 often observed among the peasants of Italy, 
 
 tirely in his hands. How does tlie physi- 1 ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^j ^^ ^y^^^ ^^^^ f^^^j,,. 
 
 cian discharge this sacred trust ? how 
 
 This is equal to Artemus Ward's best 
 
 does he wield the tremendous power thus ; a i ^ i. \ .^ r> t *^i i >i „,„ 
 
 , . , . , ^ ' ! eftorts, but has not Dr. Lethebv chosen 
 
 reposed in him ? Let the spotless repu 
 tation of the profession answer. The in- 
 stances of abuse of confidence by medi- 
 cal men are so rare as to have left no stain 
 upon the honorable title of p/n/fiirifni. 
 
 a queer model for a grave scientific lec- 
 ture ? We have known the most serious 
 of the above "symptoms" to occur in 
 persons who (in consequence of poverty) 
 j had been deprived of com meal, or a 
 *^^ ' meal of any sort, but the learned Doctor's 
 
 Metropolitan Board of Health. i experience transcends ours ; we respect- 
 We see that Mr. Geo. B. Lincoln, the fully tender him our editorial hat. The 
 President of the Metropolitan Board of j occurrence of " death after a year or so," 
 Health, has formed a copartnership wUh | indicates a fine sense of humor. We arc 
 
 Mr. Wm. Youngblood, of No. (5 Times 
 Building, for the transaction of a General 
 Advertising Agency business. We hope 
 
 reminded of Burton's Soliloquy upon the 
 fatal effects of poppies, with which, as 
 Toixlles. lie is about to commit suicide: 
 
 Sectarian Encroachments. 
 
 The Roman Catholic Church hm again 
 assumed the oflFensive, in her steadily 
 I though quietly maintained struggle with 
 the democratic institutions of the United 
 States. Tlie Cliurch again claims re- 
 cognition as a distinct power, demands 
 the exclusion of the Bible from our com- 
 mon schools, and that a goodly share of 
 the school money shall be set aside for 
 the use of the sectarian schools, in which 
 children are instructed as members of 
 the Catholic Church. The liberal and 
 tolerant spirit of our people would pro- 
 bably lead them to yield their undoubted 
 rights as a majority, to retain the read- 
 ing of the Bible in the public schools, if 
 they were sure the struggle would end 
 there. But already, in Cincinnati, those 
 Catholics who look upon the battle as 
 won, show their insincerity by declarinS 
 that they do not wish their children to 
 attend schools where no religious prin- 
 ciples are inculcated, and that they must 
 now have their own church-schools sup- 
 ported from the public fund. In San 
 Francisco, they have gone further, and 
 in the Tenth Street public school, the 
 Catholic members of the Board of Educa- 
 tion have caused the Catechism of the 
 Romish Church to be taught to the 
 pujiils, Protestant as well as Catholic, at 
 first, after school hours, and then during 
 school hours. In this city, besides the 
 various munificent donations annually 
 made to the different Catholic Institu- 
 tions by the City Government, we find 
 that under a new section of the tax-levy, 
 out of a sum of 1215,000, appropriated 
 "for the support of schools educating 
 children gratuitously, in said city," 
 •^15(5,000, — nearly three-quarters of the 
 whole— was paid in 1869 to Roman 
 Catholic Church-Schools. 
 
 Amulet-Bead Poisoning. 
 
 (The following statement has been written at our re- 
 quest by Col. Mason A. AN'eld, of the American Agri- 
 cuUurzst, v/bo is conversant with the facts related there- 
 in.— Editor.) 
 
 At the time of the great E.rposition 
 Univcrselle certain fragrant beads were 
 sold in great numbers at the Turkish 
 department. A close inspection shows 
 them to be pressed in moulds and cover- 
 ed with oiTiamental raised figures, oj' 
 
1869. J 
 
 TABLE TALK 
 
 3 
 
 oriental characters. They appear to be 
 composed of aromatic powdersf and per- 
 fumes, formed into a paste with some 
 gluey or gummy base, and then pressed. 
 These beads or amulets (as it is supposed 
 the figures upon them indicate prayers 
 or charms, and are regarded with super- 
 stitious feelings by the natives of the 
 East) have been long;known to Eastern 
 travelers, and have been brought to this 
 country and to Europe. The sale of 
 them at the French capital, however, it 
 seems, set]^a fashion, to/satisfy which, 
 similar beads were manufactured in 
 France, so like the Turkish ones as not 
 to be readily distinguished except by ex- 
 perts or those familiar with both. Some, 
 either French or Turkish, are common 
 now in New York, and'Jare sold in sets 
 of necklace, earrings and bracelets. 
 
 A set was bought at a French store on 
 Broadway in July last, for a lady living 
 on a new place, a few miles from the city. 
 8oon after wearing _them, she was con- 
 scious of being poisoned upon her wrists, 
 palms, fingersjand neck. The appear- 
 ance of the poisoned spots was that of 
 inflammation, the skin being filled 
 with minute pustules, running, when 
 rubbed, into masses of irregular form, 
 which, though having a watery look, 
 were very hard and lunij^y, and did not 
 break. When scratched or rubbed, the 
 inflammation became intense, accom- 
 panied by such intolerable itching that 
 the sufferer could do nothing but wring 
 her hands in pain, until the nervous 
 sensitiveness of the parts was blunted 
 and a sort of lull ensued. It resembled 
 poisoning by '"ivy " {Rhus). Two species 
 of this genus, of the most i)oisonou8 
 character, were known to grow upon tlu^ 
 place, but as throughout her previous 
 life in the countrj' the lady had been 
 frequently in contact witli, and had 
 handled these plants, she could hardly 
 believe it was ivy poisoning. After sev- 
 eral weeks, perhaps a month, of scarcely 
 mitigated suffering, the itching abated 
 and with it the inflammation. During 
 this time the outer skin had peeled oft' 
 from about the entire surface of both 
 hands and wrists, and from some spots 
 in the palms where the irritation was 
 worst and the pain most severe, it had 
 been renewed several times, each time 
 being succeeded by a new crop of pus- 
 tules. 
 
 When relief came, Mrs. drove 
 
 out to visit some friends, wearing again 
 the necklace and bracelets. The neck- 
 lace is worn almost upon the shoulders, 
 not touching the neck but lying upon 
 the dress, hence the neck was very little 
 affected. After this, the poison Ijroke 
 out afresh as severely as at first, and the 
 
 same experience was repeated, but for a 
 shorter period. Some two weeks after, 
 being again comparatively well, she wore 
 the ornaments in her own house, when 
 entertaining a few friends. On retiring 
 she found her hands and especially her 
 wrists again troubling her, and being 
 kept awake, she called to mind that each 
 former attack had followed an occasion 
 when she wore the amulets. 
 
 Finally, after eight weeks of sufl'ering, 
 she was again quite well. (Her general 
 health had not been in the least afi'ected.) 
 Her attending physician called and ex- 
 pressed doubts as to her view of the cause, 
 and asked to see the bracelets. She 
 brought them down from her chamber 
 in her bare hands, holding them proba- 
 bly not more than half a minute. The 
 next day such parts of her hands as 
 would naturally have been touched by 
 them were again " broken out " with the 
 same pustules. This attack lasted but 
 a few days. 
 
 Several other persons experimented 
 with the bracelets. The writer wore one 
 all one evening, frequently breathing 
 upon it, and rubbing it upon the wrist 
 until the skin was quite red yet no poi- 
 sonous effects followed. Her sister wore 
 both necklace and bracelets without harm 
 
 Again, weeks after, all symptoms of 
 
 poison had disappeared, Mrs. again 
 
 carefully laid the amulets in her trunk, 
 made a visit to some friends at a distance, 
 and gave them to a friend, handling 
 them as little as possible. The next day 
 the irritation with all its now well known 
 appearances and accompaniments return- 
 ed, causing no ^little discomfort. It 
 seems as if this could hardly be a solitary 
 case, and in the hope that some other 
 sufferer may be led to discover the true 
 cause of the affliction, it is thus describ- 
 ed in detail. 
 
 There is scarcely any end of remedies 
 which kind friends will recommend to 
 such a suflerer — skim-milk, cream, sour- 
 milk, whey, witch-hazel, lime-water, 
 solution of soda, saleratus-water, lead- 
 water, carbonic acid water, lard, sulphur 
 and lard, dry flowers of sulphur upon 
 the slightly greased surface, — all these 
 were tried with partial good effect if any, 
 the last bringing comfort at times when 
 nothing else would. It was found to be 
 best to wear gloves at night and to put 
 a little dry sulphur into them. Soaking 
 the hands in hot water gives temporary 
 relief almost always, but the parts must 
 be quickly and thoroughly dried. Gly- 
 eerine causes burning pain, and washing 
 in cold water causes chapping, which 
 gi-eatly adds to the suffering. These re- 
 marks apply, we believe, eqtially t« ivy 
 poisoning. 
 
 Encouragement of Art. 
 
 In glancing over the premium-list of 
 the Livingston Co. (N. Y.) Agricultural 
 Fair, for the current year, we observe 
 among the premiums offered the follow- 
 ing : 
 
 For the best Bull $16.00 
 
 " " " Boar 5.00 
 
 " " " specimen Worsted 
 
 Work a.oo 
 
 " '• " Oil Painting 1.00 
 
 " " " Crayon or PencH 
 
 Drawing 1.00 
 
 " "2d" do. do. do. 0.60 
 
 The managers of that Fair take Dry- 
 den's view : 
 
 " For Art may err, but Nature cannot mias." 
 
 Occupation for Women. 
 
 There is no occupation for which wo- 
 men are better fitted by nature than that 
 of the Chemist or Druggist. The science 
 of chemistry can be as readily learned in 
 the school and laboratory by woman as 
 by man, and, as an Art, it requires the 
 delicate manipulation, fine perceptions 
 and mathematical accuracy, in which 
 women excels. In the drug stores for 
 dispensing medicines, but little physical 
 strength is needed, and the business is 
 very remunerative. The late frequency 
 of fatal accidents, resulting from the 
 carelessness of drug clerks, in putting 
 up prescriptions, points with emphasis 
 to the expediency of substituting female 
 prescription clerks, as other things being 
 equal, the superior conscientiousness of 
 women, especially where human life is 
 involved, would go far to insure safety. 
 
 Chat. 
 
 BY KRATER FARRAGO. 
 
 —In oriental lands no one ever thinks of 
 proposing any matter of business, how- 
 ever slight, to another, or even entering 
 into any conversation more serious than 
 an exchange of common-places, without 
 first having eaten with him. We re- 
 verse things ; finish all the business, and 
 then come together to the table for small 
 talk. For bodily health and good diges- 
 tion, it is wholesome to be deliberate in 
 eating and have genial conversation 
 passing around the board. If you see a 
 man eating all to himself with no friendly 
 chat to exchange with others you may 
 set him down in yoitr note-book as a 
 sure candidate for dyspepsia and the 
 doctor. The hyena drags his lunch into 
 a cave all by himself and has nothing to 
 say to any body, except for an occasional 
 growl if some other hyena do but look 
 at his bone. Now the hyena's face is the 
 very type of the dyspeptic's. 
 
TABLE TALK 
 
 [Decembek, 
 
 — Govirmands and epicures have made a great 
 deal of the table, and its pleasures have been 
 lauded in poetic numbers, as though the seat of 
 happiness for a man were in — the palate! I 
 One hard old Roman wished it were three 
 cubits long, instead of a few inches, that be 
 might enjoy the luxurj" of tasting morsels . 
 of brains and fatted livers with prolonged in- 
 dulgence. What a pity he was not made a 
 giraffe ! What a pity he was a man ! 
 
 — Yet the table is a happy institution and ; 
 worthy to be celebrated by the poets. That is ' 
 to say, where viands, well-cooked, healthful 
 and savory, and in sensible variety, are disposed 
 in neatness and good taste around the board ; 
 where abundance shows at once the thrift of 
 the householder, the fertility of grain fields, ' 
 and the richness of the pastures in a land in 
 which no one need be poor ; where again old 
 and young gather together, not to gorman- 
 dize, nor to pamper depraved tastes, but to ! 
 satisfy good, strong, healthy appetites, quick- 
 ened in nature's best methods. Hunger is no 
 crime, and people that don't care what they 
 eat, fish, flesh, fowl or sawdust, we don't i 
 care to be acquainted with. In fact we take to ' 
 a man with all our heart, who, down to a good ; 
 old age, persists that nobody could ever make 
 a pie like his mother ! 
 
 — There the family are gathered, and they 1 
 must be a stupid set, if there is no pleasant . 
 chat flying around ; better than wine, and high- 
 seasoning of foods is this chatter of the young- 
 est, genial conversation of the older ones, and 
 mutual interest of all in one another's experi- 
 ences of the day. Once in a while a stranger 
 thrown in, gives greater zest, as he, mayhap, 
 tells tales of travel, or unrolls his budget of 
 stories. The table is the best part of the fire- 
 side, and it is a good thing that each one has a 
 place and a seat. Then if there come an 
 absence, or a going away to the far-away home, 
 the associations of the particular seat are pre- 
 cious, hallowed. 
 
 — We once did a mean thing, peeping into 
 some half open blinds. We were leading a 
 cheerless and lonely life in a great city — noth ing 
 is more lonely than the throng when you 
 sleep in a fourth story room and eat at restau- 
 rants — the blinds let out a glimpse that brought 
 the tears, and we could not help it — that is help 
 looking in to see a family scene so charming. 
 Grandfather, a hale old gentleman at the centre 
 table reading a big book, grandmother knitting 
 a little, tiny stocking, sons and daughters and 
 sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, and young- 
 sters, some of them playing cards, some of them 
 in happy looking mother a arms. Everyone 
 had something in hand, and all were so full of 
 cheer, it seemed as though we must go in and 
 tell them that we had once belonged to a 
 family, though several thousand miles away, 
 and if they only knew it they would bid us 
 be at home with them. If people only knew 
 each other, and were at home with one another 
 as one big family, what a world this would 
 be! 
 
 — But going out into the world means going 
 out to elbow your way through the throng. We 
 do get provoked at a man who spreads his 
 elbows to cover more than half the sidewalk 
 and marches along stifily as though there 
 were no one else in the world. But there is 
 philosophy in it. If you have not some man- 
 ner of stiffness in these joints you will be apt to 
 find yom-self in the gutter presently along with 
 other rubbish. There is a good deal of savagery 
 
 yet extant, and spite of laws and customs 
 and amenities much need of the original appeal 
 to force. After much struggling with a softer 
 nature we have concluded that it is best, on the 
 whole, to stand for our half of the sidewalk, 
 and we shall probably teach our boy so unless 
 the next generation proves better than the 
 present. 
 
 — If all families were what they should be 
 the world would grow better faster, and people j 
 would be willing to let one another have a 
 chance without this everlasting barbarism of 
 pushing and elbowing. The family is a divine 
 institution, blessed for good if parents under- 
 stand their commission and its responsibilities. 
 When a new generation comes to manhood 
 and you want to know what they are to be, 
 ask what their parents were. Few children, 
 indeed, survive bad home tutelage. They may 
 make money, become aldermen or go to Con- 
 gress ; but they carry the record along with 
 them of faithless parents. A parent must be 
 earnest, faithful, devout, neither too harsh in 
 handling juvenile exuberance, nor careless in 
 letting weeds grow rank in a child's character 
 till they are too stoutly rooted to be torn up. 
 Above all, a good parent will win the affections 
 and the tender confidences of the little ones from 
 the beginning. Such a parent can hardly 
 have a child grow up thankless and bad. 
 Never, O never, takeitfor'granted that your boy 
 is so naturally bad that you can not do anything 
 with him ! 
 
 — We are not after writing a senmon, so you 
 need not begin to arrange yourself for your 
 usual nap under such soporific circumstances. 
 Talking about sleeping in church, we remem- 
 ber something we heard a Doctor of Divinity 
 say years ago. The talk was of the trick, 
 then in vogue, of putting people into sleep by 
 manipulating their heads, called mesmerism. 
 "Pshaw," said the Dr., "that is nothing, I 
 can get into my pulpit any day, and go to 
 pawing with my hands, and I will have a 
 whole church full asleep in five minutes." 
 
 — There are two sides to all things, — we can 
 think of but one exception, just now, and that 
 is the rainbow — two sides to this matter of 
 sleeping in church. Let a man of active 
 habits, and full-blooded, come in from the 
 bustle and stir of the outside into the hush of 
 the sanctuary, and try to constrain his limbs 
 into stillness and his brain into close thinking, 
 listening to a monotonous voice of one reading 
 or declaiming from the pulpit, anything but 
 talking right at him, and it will be a wonder of 
 physics, let alone metaphysics, if he is not very 
 presently nodding more than is needful for as- 
 sent to the preacher's doctrine. Think of 
 what a frightful battle is goingjon, yonder, in 
 Deacon Farmer's head while his sense of 
 decency, of dignity and of worshipfulness is 
 struggling with the wicked imps of sleep. 
 You have been there, and know something of 
 what it is — a sharp fight but not a rousing one. 
 Now the imps are ahead, that is they have his 
 head in the chancery of nod. Down, down, 
 down goes that manly brow, down to a certain 
 magic point — did you ever notice that it is just 
 about so far every time ? Now with a quick, 
 nervous jerk the Deacon is himself again. He 
 feels awkward enough, gives a slight cough, 
 hopes nobody has seen him, fixes a good, 
 steady eye on the minister, and thinks he can 
 keep track of the sermon this time. But it is 
 just that steady eye on the pulpit which is 
 fatal, and the imps well know it. They travel 
 
 up and down the track, from it to the minister, 
 till the air swims with their gymnastics, they 
 weave their web over the drooping lid and 
 away goes the poor head again nid-nid-nodding 
 off to sleep. Why did not Bunyan have this 
 battle of Christian with the imps in the 
 Pilgrim's Progress ? But those were stirring 
 times, and men at meetings were on the look 
 out for the bailiff, and preachers were too 
 much in earnest to narcotize their people. 
 
 — But is the Deacon the wickedest man in 
 church ? Let us see. There is Mr. Pierce (we 
 pronounce it Purse in our neighborhood) op- 
 posite, he does not sleep in meeting ; not he, 
 but his eye is cleiir, cold steady as a basilisk's. 
 Probably he is following the discourse. No sir! 
 more likely following a balloon in its flight. 
 He is working up some grand speculation, in 
 which his piety, his religion, his steadfast 
 attention to the minister are make-weights and 
 ballast just to steady a project for picking the 
 pockets of his fellow-christians in a respectable 
 way. Of course he will be sharp enough to 
 make it all straight with the inquiring world 
 by some happy donations to the church, which 
 will be put down in his books as incidental 
 expenses, percentages in the speculation ! Who 
 is the wickedest man ? 
 
 A Christmas Song of Olden Time. 
 
 The violet sleeps l)ener.th the snow. 
 The lilac-bush is spiked and bare. 
 Dumb is the brooklet's bubbling flow, 
 
 And silvered o'er the pine's black hair ; 
 Shrinking within his soft great coat. 
 
 The owl sits muflled to the chin, 
 The woods resound no wild bird's note. 
 The squirrel curls his hole within. 
 Christmas is here, 
 Skies frosty clear. 
 Woods chill and drear. 
 
 The ponds are dead with cold, the road 
 Rings iron to iron beneath the hoof. 
 And troops of madden'd schoolboys load. 
 
 With homeward shout, the postchaise roof ; 
 Fond hands bedeck the village church. 
 
 And lads, with cold cheeks crimson bright. 
 Bear holly -boughs into the porch, 
 And happy bells peal day and night, 
 "Christmas is here, 
 O time most dear 
 Of all the year ! " 
 
 And now, by mansion, cot, and farm. 
 
 While trembling stars peep forth and freeze. 
 Streaming from window rich and warm, 
 
 A dream of sunshine gilds the trees. 
 The chimneys mutter gusty wrath. 
 
 The waits are chiming down below ; 
 Pile on more logs, draw round the hearth. 
 And gem the bright wine in its glow. 
 Christmas is here. 
 Come all draw near. 
 And make good cheer ! 
 
 Foreign News. 
 
 Majed ben Said, the Sultan of Zanzibar, 
 having been invited to attend the opening of 
 the Suez Canal, states in his reply to M. de 
 Lesseps, that the most welcome news which 
 the soul craves, and the most enticing of the 
 mysteries which delight the heart, is the ten- 
 dering of an attention more delicate than the 
 mornings breeze that falls upon the dew on the 
 flowers and the groves, coming as it does from 
 one who unites generosity with perfection, 
 glory with greatness, correct ideas with an iron 
 will, in one word from the President of the 
 Suez Canal, the bearer of the order of the 
 Mediidieh, «SiC., &c. 
 
1869. J 
 
 TABLE TALK. 
 
 Peof. Charles A. Jot, of Columbia College, 
 aud Editor of the J'nirrKil of Applied OhemiKtry, 
 says in the November number of the Juvnutl — 
 •'A few months ago we saw an autograph letter 
 from Baron Liebig upon the subject of these 
 powders {IlorxforiV » Bread Prcparntwn), in 
 which the first chemical authority of the day 
 says that ■ the nutritive value of flour is in- 
 creased ten per cent, by this discovery ; the 
 result is the same as if the fruitfulness of our 
 harvest fields were increased a like amount.' 
 Liehlg, by this judgment classes llorsford <imong 
 the henefactors of Im niee. He lias made two 
 blades of grass to grow where but one grew 
 before. There is ito qvrstion if the rnUie of 
 these Baking Powders was understood, but thai 
 they would find favor in every household." 
 
 Awful Threat! 
 
 A young man belonging to Fort Scott recently 
 went down to the edge of Arkansas on busi- 
 ness; while there, he went to a party, and 
 while at the party danced often, and became 
 very free with one of the settler's wives. 
 Rackensack stood it as long as he could, but 
 finally, becoming enraged, he went up to the 
 gay youth and said : "Look here Mister! that 
 is my wife you are dancing with." "Well, 
 what of it ?" said the youth. " Why just this ; 
 
 Effects of Santonine. 
 
 " Professor Giovanni suggests that no Santo- 
 nine should be given, except that which has 
 already tiu-ned yellow from exposure to light. 
 When other Santonine is given it is absorbed 
 into the system, and some of it is carried to the 
 aqueous humor, where it is changed by the ac- 
 tion of light into yellowish, or yellowish green 
 spots; and there is some danger of causing 
 serious derangement of vision, by the perma- 
 nence of this dye, or else the doses should only 
 be given at night." 
 
 The above is from the ]\\ T. Medical 
 Gazette. The effects thus ascribed to 
 Santonine are of so serious a nature, that 
 the trutli or falsehood of the above state- 
 ment should be at once demonstrated. 
 Tlie ])eculiar principle of wormseed, 
 known as Santonine. is constantlv ad- 
 ministered to children for worms, and 
 without fear of any sucli possilile result. 
 We have never before known sucli inju- 
 rious properties ascribed to this medicine, 
 but we remember a case reported a num- 
 ber of 3-ears ago (Ann. de Therap, 1857) 
 in which several members of a family 
 
 who had taken a considerable cfuantitv 
 you dance with her agam, you speak to her, „ , , . , . , , , 
 
 you even look at her again and I'll blow the ^ of tliis remedy, e.xperiencod such a change 
 top of your head off!" "Now look here," , "^ theirpowerto distinguish colors, that 
 returned the youth coolly, " do you see that I'ed appeared to them as orange and blite 
 cotton umbrella setting thar?" "Well, s'pose ' became green. 
 
 I do ?" " Well, you handle that umbrella, you 
 touch that umbrella, you even hok at that um- 
 brella, and I'll ram it down your throat and 
 spread it?" Rackensack scooted. 
 
 Remarkable Operation— Extirpa- 
 tion of a Kidney. 
 
 At a meeting of the New York Medical 
 —A half-witted messenger was once sent in Journal Assciation, Dr. H. Knapp made a 
 great haste from Glasgow to Edinburgh for communication concerning a new triumph of 
 two doctors to come and see his sick master. I ^"''S^ry, namely, the successful ertirpeitton of a 
 On his way he was stopped by an inquiry as j '^»*^<'2' ^y Prof. G. Simon, of Heidelberg, 
 to his master's illness. "He's no dead yet," ' Thepatientonwhomtheoperationwasperform- 
 was the reply, " but he soon will be, for I'm \ ^^'' '''"'^y '"^ August last, was a woman. The 
 fast on the way for twa Edinburgh doctors to ' P^^^'^nt experienced some fever during the two 
 come and visit him." ' ^^^ weeks after the operation, but recovered 
 
 entirely within six -weeks.— The Med. and Surg. 
 
 Reporter. 
 
 Antidote to Carbolic Acid. 
 
 Messrs. Calvert wish to make known the fact 
 
 — A short time ago a close-fisted fanner on 
 
 the Sandy River, in Maine, died, after devising 
 
 $1 to his only son. The old gentleman was 
 
 dulyburiedin the venerable chvirchyard, which i ^.'"^ , ., ., . , 
 
 „„«,_,j i -1 1 t,- L ., , , I that sweet oil or castor oil m large quantitv is 
 
 suffered a terrible washing away by the late ., , . .• i . . , ,. ., ""'"j' '= 
 
 fl„^ri „„/! „.!,„-,• . • 1 i X the best antidote to carbolic acid, when it has 
 
 ttooa, and a short time ago his body was found . „ j . . 
 
 „„ „-,„ ,, . , u • t , , oeen swallowed m poisonous doses. 
 
 opposite the son s place, having been brought 
 
 down the river a long distance. When the 
 
 tender-hearted son was informed of the fact, 
 
 he made the touching remark, " Probably come 
 
 back after that dollar !" 
 
 — "John," said a pious uncle to his nephew 
 
 who was paying his first visit to the citv, '„!„ x- ^ rt '' ^ 4-i° i" 
 
 • ' Toiw, w„v ■ f. . 1 s * ■ .1.- ' ^^^ properties of Garb. Acid as a med 
 
 John, we rein the habit of saying something 
 
 before we eat." " All right," said John. " Go 
 
 ahead: You can't turn ?»>/ stomach!" 
 
 -Half 
 Teariy Abstract. 
 
 Until a better antidote is discovered, 
 the above item should be kept in mind, 
 as the free use of Carbolic Acid just now 
 will probably lead to occasional accidents. 
 Physicians are rapidly learning the value 
 
 i- 
 cinal agent, but aside from the fact that 
 the term " Carbolir Arid" is applied to 
 several different preparations, of greatly 
 varying strength, there is reason to be- 
 lieve that its action upon individuals 
 
 Cats and Dogs. 
 In the United Kingdom during the year 
 ending March 31st, 1869, 680,000 dogs were varies greatly; SO much so indeed, that 
 taxed five shillings sterling each. ^ dog-tax ; to some persons a very small quantity is 
 at the same rate per head in this country, poisonous. 
 
 would soon pay off the public debt, judging -*^ 
 
 by the nightly howls in our vicinity ; and the —American Gentleman. Go ahead, now you! 
 same tax upon cats in the city of New York, Dxke. To whom are you speaking, sir? 
 would beggar the inhabitants of that princely | American Gent. Wal, I guess I'm talkin' to 
 municipality. | a man in the way. 
 
 Preparation of Food. 
 
 " Let me write the songs of a nation," 
 said a wise man, " and I care not who 
 makes their laws." 
 
 "Let us provide the food for the 
 nation,"' say we, " and we care not who 
 governs it : for the people shall be 
 healthy, contented and happy." 
 
 The food of the American nation is, 
 as a rule, execralile. Producing all the 
 elements necessary for man's diet, in 
 variety and quantity, our tables are a 
 disgrace to the age we live in. This is 
 not altogether owing to the character of 
 our servant-cooks ; it is, in great part, 
 the fault of the employers, the man as 
 well as the woman of the household. 
 The wife deserves blame because she 
 does not strive to acquire the theoretical 
 and in-aetical knowledge required in the 
 kitchen. The husband is greatly in 
 fault, inasmuch as he does not often ap- 
 preciate improvement in the preparation 
 of his food, but c/obbles down whatever 
 is set before liim, with his mind dwell- 
 ing upon his business or cares, until his 
 Inirdened stomach cries out. " Enough." 
 
 Step into one of our popular restau- 
 rants, not one of the " sixpenny plate " 
 order, but into one of those down-town 
 saloons, where business men of means and 
 of ability to indulge their appetites resort. 
 Observe the eager, hunted, wolfish ex- 
 pression of most of these "feeders." 
 Struggling between the pangs of hunger 
 on the one hand, and anxiety to get back 
 to the desk or store on the other, they 
 cram down their food with such haste, 
 tjiat the saliva can not flow fast enough 
 to supply the necessary moisture, and 
 tliey are forced to wash down the dry 
 morsels with frequent draughts of ice- 
 water to avoid strangulation. Is this 
 exaggerated ? We speak fromTlailv ob- 
 servation, and have not told the half 
 And the /oor?— what of that ? The roast 
 meats are generally of good quality; but 
 when served, have lost their distinctive 
 flavor. The beefsteaks are juiceless and 
 tough. The vegetables are watery. 
 The puddings are enriched with eggs 
 and grease, and the sauce! — lard and 
 sugar for " hard-sauce ;" ilour, water and 
 sugar, flavored with cheap rum, for 
 " wine sauce." Pies are— well, they are 
 pies — the American's delight and stand- 
 by. Given, a pale, soft top-crust, smell- 
 ing strongly of lard ; a soggy, putty-like 
 paste at the bottom, and a dab of stale, 
 half-cooked fruit between, and the 
 product is a Pie ! Patriotic feeling and 
 a regard for national susceptibilities for- 
 bids further comment on this portion 
 of the feast. 
 
 AA hy do our countrymen accept such 
 fare quietly, and without even protest? 
 
TABLE TALK. 
 
 [December, 
 
 In too many cases, because their 
 stomachs and sense of taste are so de- 
 praved by long use of liad food, that 
 they can hardly appreciate delicate and 
 well-cooked dishes. At home, it is very 
 much tlie same. Tlie wife is ignorant 
 or indifferent. The husband struggles 
 feebly again,st tlie tide for a while, but 
 finally succumbs, either in despair or 
 from pity for his discouraged wife. The 
 cure for this state of things must begin 
 at home. Let the thoughtful wife re- 
 member that the health and temper of 
 her household are dependent upon the 
 table. Let her study and practice the 
 refinements, the sciejice and art of cook- 
 ery. Xo true woman will feel that such 
 occupation is uuwortiiy or degrading, 
 although many will find it difficult to 
 spare the necessary time : but such 
 should consider that tlieir time, how- 
 ever valuable, can not be more protitalily 
 employed than in thus ministering to 
 the comfort and health of their families. 
 If the table is always supplied with 
 £ood bread or biscuit and butter, much 
 grumbling will Ije av(;ided. But how 
 are we to obtain good bread 'i Surely, 
 not from American liakers ! And if we 
 undertake to make our own bread, with 
 veast, how often do we succeed ? The 
 repeated failures are not the fault of the 
 liread-maker, fur success in making 
 yeast-bread depends upon the quality of 
 the yeast, the temjierature and moisture 
 of the atmosphere, the degree of fermen- 
 tation attained, and upon many other 
 subtle conditions whicli are yet imper- 
 fectly understood. For biscuit, rolls, 
 &c., we may tise .soda and cream-of-tar- 
 tar; but here again we meet with difli- 
 culties; the soda and saleratus are adul- 
 terated and of varying strength, and the 
 creani-of-tartar .sold for domestic jnir- 
 po,ses contains alum, plaster, stale Hour, 
 and sometimes even worse ingredients, 
 so that it is impossible to exactly adjust 
 the quantity of acid and alkali. There 
 is doubt whether pure cream-of-tartar 
 (bi-tartratc of potash) is not debilitating 
 and injuriotis, but it is very certain that 
 such mixtures as we are forced to use 
 exert a very decidedly bad influence 
 upon our health. The " Yeast Powders " 
 Mud " Baking Powders'" of the day con- 
 tain no "yeast" in any form. l)ut are 
 composed in general of the cheap and 
 inferior soda and cream-of-tartar de- 
 scribed above. 
 
 It is remarkable that but one man uf 
 science and chemical skill has ever at- 
 tempted to invent or discover some new 
 agent for raising broad, which should be 
 healthful, cheap, and sure in its action. 
 Professor E. X. Horsford (professor of 
 Chemistry in Harvard University,) long 
 
 studied this subject with great jjersever- 
 ance and enthusiasm. He finally pro- 
 duced a substitute for yeast and other 
 kinds of leaven, and offered it to a few 
 scientific men and physicians for trial. 
 A demand immediately arose for it, 
 which it was impossible to supply, and 
 Professor Horsford was compelled to 
 make arrangements with a prominent 
 chemical establishment in Providence, 
 R. I., for its manufacture, of course, 
 under his own supervision. This inven- 
 tion of Prof. Horsford, known as " Hors- 
 ford's Bread Preparation," has solved all 
 j the problems in the production of light, 
 [palatable and healthy bread. It is used 
 i as well for biscuit, muffins, cakes and all 
 ; other farinaceous food. We can assure 
 the discotiraged housewife of relief from 
 at least one of her domestic troubles, if 
 she will use this preparation. 
 
 We shall treat of the preparation of 
 other kinds of food in future numbers of 
 Table Talk. 
 
 To the Point. 
 
 Practice in mercantile correspondence, 
 however unfavorable to the culttire of 
 the imagination, is certainly calculated 
 to develop a concise and perspicuous 
 style. The following example also 
 teaches the value of punctuation. If the 
 reader " minds his stops " he may be able 
 to see the point: 
 
 An English merchant in the interior 
 wished his agent to attend immediately 
 to the shipment on a vessel of a cargo of 
 coal he had just ptirchased, and sent the 
 following letter ; 
 
 ; board. (Se-mi-col-on board.) 
 
 The next mail brought the following 
 reply from the agent: 
 
 : (t'ol-on). 
 
 1^^* 
 
 "I Have No Time." 
 
 The Chancellor IVAquesseau finding 
 that his wife always kept him waiting a 
 quarter of an hour after the dinner-bell 
 had rung, resolved to devote the time to 
 writing a work on jurisprudence, and 
 putting the project into execution, in 
 course of time produced a work in four 
 quarto volumes. 
 
 The Forged Will. 
 
 A few years since a man of high respectabil- 
 ity was tried in England on a charge of forg- 
 ing a will, in which it was discovered he had 
 an indirect interest to a large amount. Mr. 
 Warren was the associate prosecuting attorney, 
 and the case was tried before Lord Denman. 
 The prisoner being arraigned and the formali- 
 ties gone through with, the prosecutor, placing 
 his thumb over the seal, held up the will and 
 demanded of the prisoner if he had seen the 
 testivtor sign that instrument, to which ho 
 promptly answered he had. 
 
 " And did you sign it at his request as sub- 
 scribing witness?" 
 
 "I did." 
 
 ■' Was it sealed with red or black wax.'' 
 
 "With red wax." 
 
 " Did you see him seal it with red wax." 
 
 "Idid.^' 
 
 " Where was the testator when he sealed the 
 will?" 
 
 "In bed. ' 
 
 ' ' Pray, how long a piece of wax did he 
 use ? ' 
 
 " About three or four inches long.'" 
 
 " Who gave the testator this piece of wax ?" 
 
 "I did.'' 
 
 " Where did you get it ?'' 
 
 " From the drawer of his desk. " 
 
 " How did he light that piece of wax?" 
 
 "With a candle." 
 
 " Where did that piece of candle come 
 from ?" 
 
 " I got it out of a cupboard in his room." 
 
 " How long was that piece of candle?" 
 
 " Perhaps four or five inches long." 
 
 " Who lit that piece of candle?" 
 
 "Hit it. ' 
 
 "With what?" 
 
 "With a match." 
 
 " Where did you get a match ?" 
 
 " On the mantel-shelf in his room." 
 
 Here Warren paused, and fixing his large, 
 deep blue eyes upon the prisoner, he held the 
 will up above his head, his thumb still resting 
 upon the seal, and said in a solemn, measured 
 tone: 
 
 " Now, sir, upon your solemn oath, you saw 
 the testator sign that will — he signed it in his 
 bed — at his request you signed it as a subscrib- 
 ing witness — you saw him seal it — it was with 
 red wax he sealed it — a piece of wax, too. 
 three or four inches long — he lit that wax with 
 a piece of candle which you procured for him 
 from a cupboard — ^you lit that candle by a 
 match which you found on the mantel-shelf ?" 
 
 "Idid." 
 
 "Once more, sir — upon your solemn oath 
 you, did!'" 
 
 "Idid!" 
 
 " My lord — it's a wafer ! ! " 
 
 A Good Paper to Advertise in. 
 
 If one w.ants to commit a wickedness and 
 hide it so effectually that even Mrs. Beecher 
 Stowe cannot scent it out, or the recording 
 angel find it at the great day, let him bury it in 
 the CongrfKsionol (jllobe. It will slumber there 
 beyond the reach of the last trump in the final 
 judgment. — D&nti Piatt. 
 
 — Mythology tells us that lo died because of [ 
 her intense love for Jupiter : but the charm of I 
 the romantic story has lately been destroyed, j 
 by a chemist discovering /o-dide of potassitmj. j 
 — I>niggist. * | 
 
 Wayfarer in the Snow. 
 
 Cheerily the firelight plays 
 
 All about the little room. 
 How the dancing, glancing blaze 
 Doth from nook and corner chase 
 
 Like a ghost — the gloom ! 
 
 Here the world is wan and white ; 
 
 Lonely is the way I go ; 
 Only stars with tremblmg light 
 Look down on the Christmas night. 
 
 On the Christmas snow. 
 
 So, the starlight for the flre, — 
 Forth I pass upon my road ; 
 
 And remember, if I tire. 
 
 Earthly darkness brings us nigher 
 To the light of God. M. j. 
 
1869.] 
 
 TABLE TALK. 
 
 Horsford's Bread Preparation. 
 
 W?uit is it far T 
 
 It is for "Baising" Bread, Bolls, Biscuit, 
 Waffles, Cakes, Dumplings, etc., etc., and takes 
 the place of Yeast, Soda or Salseratus, Cream 
 of Tartar, sour Milk or any other form of 
 leaven. 
 
 How does it differ fi'om other forms of 
 leaven or other " Baking Powders ?" 
 
 Essentially in this : that all other " raising " 
 or leavening agents supply in themselves 
 nothing which is nutritious or required by the 
 human system ; Horsford's Bread Preparation 
 does contain the elements of nutrition in such 
 proportions and form as renders them immedi- 
 ately assimilable. 
 
 Why shtndd ice use itf 
 
 Kecause it is manufactured only by the 
 well-known Rumford Chemical Works of 
 Providence, R. I., under the personal super- 
 vision of Professor E. N. Horsford, of Har- 
 vard University, and the purity of the in- 
 gredients can therefore be relied upon. 
 
 liectrnse the directions for its use are suuplc 
 and easily understood. The proportions of 
 Acid and Soda are not left to careless or igno- 
 rant cooks. 
 
 Jiecause Bread, Biscuit — any form of far- 
 inaceous food — made with this Preparation, 
 may be eaten Hot as well as cold by In ralids 
 and Dyspeptirs. 
 
 Been use the nutritive value of flour is in- 
 creased by the use of Prof. Horsford's inven- 
 tion ten per cent. (See letter from Baron 
 Liebig to Prof. Horsford.) 
 
 liec/mse but a few moments time are re- 
 quired to prepare any form of Bread for baking. 
 The result is certain, and the bread always 
 good. Climate, weather, temperature do not 
 affect the result. 
 
 Because sweet and delicious Hot Biscuit, 
 Rolls, &c., are made by the use of Horsford's 
 Preparatioji, vfith fiour, watei; and salt only, — 
 neither milk, butter, nor other shortening 
 being necessary. 
 
 Because it supplies to the human system 
 the Phosphates which exist in the whole grain, 
 but which are removed with the bran in the 
 manufacture of fine flovu-. 
 
 Because Horsford's Bread Preparation is 
 the only "Baking Powder" which is ^ised, ap- 
 proved, and publidy recommended by scientifc 
 men. Its use is almost universal among phy- 
 sicians. 
 
 Among those who use and have given Hors- 
 ford's Bread Preparation their miqualified ap- 
 proval, we are at liberty to mention : 
 
 The Late Dr. VALENTINE MOTT, Xcw York. 
 
 Dr. WILLARD PARKER 
 
 The Late Dr. HORACE GREEN. . . . 
 
 Dr. WM. H. DWINELLE 
 
 Dr. FORDYCE BARKER 
 
 Dr. JOHN H. GRISCOM 
 
 Dr. AUGUST JACOBI 
 
 Prof. CHAS. A. JOY, Columbia Col.. . 
 
 Prof. C.F.CHANDLER.Columbia Col. » 
 
 Dr. JOHN TORREY', Columbia Col. 
 
 Prof. R. OGDEN DOREMUS 
 
 Dr. WM. A. HAMMOND, Prof, of 
 Diseases of the Mind and Nervous 
 System, and of Clinical Medicine in 
 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
 and late Surgeon General, U.S. Army " 
 
 MASON C. WELD, (Chemist), Asso- 
 ciate Editor American Agriculturist,.. » 
 
 S. H. WALES, Editor Scientific Ameri- 
 can. '■ 
 
 J. B. LYMAN. Agricultural Editor N.Y. 
 Tribune, and Associate Editor "Hearth 
 and Home," » 
 
 ORANGE JUDD, Proprietor and Edi- 
 tor American Agriculturist " 
 
 D. D. T. MOORE; Proprietor and Edi- 
 tor Moore's Rural New Yorker -^ 
 
 Rev.CRA.MMOND KENNEDY, Asso- 
 ciate Editor *' Christian Union," " 
 
 Dr. J. R. NICHOLS Bost., Mass. 
 
 Dk.C.T. JACKSON, Mass. State Chem. v 
 
 Prof. J. C. BOOTH, of U. S. Mint Phila., Penn. 
 
 Prof. SAMUEL H. DICKSON, Jeffer- 
 son Medical College « 
 
 Prof. C. S. GAUNT, M.D 
 
 Prof. SAMUEL JACKSON, M.D.,Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania n 
 
 Dr. A. P. WYLIE Chester, S. C. 
 
 Dr. THOMAS S. JONES Jackson, La. 
 
 Dr. A.J. COMFORT Ft. Ripley, Minn. 
 
 Horsford's Bread Preparation is put up in 
 packages sufflcient for 25 pounds of flour. 
 
 RETAIL PRICE (with Tin Measure) 30cts, 
 
 L-.. WILSON, LOCKWOOD, EVERETT & CO., 
 [ General Agents, 
 
 301 Fulton St., N. Y. City. 
 
 A New York Bakery. 
 
 The N. T. Evening Post lately gave an 
 Interesting account of the Bakeries of New 
 York. One establishment mentioned in this 
 article is in Rutgers Street, and has been in 
 operation for thirty years. It cousumeadaily, for 
 bread alone, ninety barrels of flour, and a little 
 matter of five barrels per day for ginger snaps. 
 The ovens used for baking the bread are 
 eighteen in number, of the old-fashioned, 
 tile-bottomed kind, and are heated at the 
 mouth, as of old. These ovens hold ."iOO loaves 
 each, and turn out at one baking, sufflcient 
 rations for 9,000 ver\' hungry men. Twelve 
 bake-stores are supplied daily with all their 
 stock from this parent establishment. The 
 price of flour is a matter of some consequence 
 to such a concern, as a permanent change of 
 but ten cents per baiTel would make a differ- 
 ence in their profits of $3,000 per annum. 
 But the foregoing statistics of this huge 
 establishment dwindle into insignificance, 
 when compared with the enormous quantity 
 of flour made into bread, in 1869, with Hors- 
 ford's Bread Preparation, and the time is fast 
 approaching when this great Bakery will with 
 others, use nothing but the Hor.^fovd Prepara- 
 tion in mixing all their bread. 
 
 — Recently young Vanderbilt attempted to 
 go into bankruptcy. He stated his debts as 
 over $300,000. Among others to whom he 
 owed various sums of money was the Hon. 
 Horace Greeley. The philosopher was visited 
 by yoimg Vanderbilt just when he was busily 
 writing one of those pleasant little articles on 
 political economy. 
 
 " I have come to get your endorsement on a 
 note, Mr. Greeley," said Vanderbilt. 
 
 The philosopher he.ird the request with com. 
 posure. His mind, however, was engrossed 
 with his work. 
 
 Mechanically he took the check which was 
 presented to him and endorsed it. Young Van. 
 derbilt went direct to a bank and undertook to 
 get the check cashed. 
 
 No one could decipher the endorsement. 
 Young Vanderbilt said it was the name of 
 Horace Greeley. Every person in the bank at 
 tempted to decipher it. Then an aged and 
 trustworthy clerk was dispatched to the Tribune 
 office with the cheek. 
 
 " My God, man, what do you want ?" in- 
 quired the politico-economic philosopher, 
 greatly annoyed when the clerk interrupted him. 
 
 '• Is that your signatiu'e ? " 
 
 "I think it is," replied the philosopher, with- 
 out looking up. 
 
 •■ Are you sure it is ?'' 
 
 " I can't say for certain." replied the phlloao. 
 pher, still bending over his work. 
 
 " I must know for certain whether it is or 
 not " 
 
 Mr. Greeley took the check in his hand 
 scrutinized it. and handed it back, saying, "It 
 is all right ; that is my endorsement. " 
 
 Young Vanderbilt received the money from 
 the bank, and when the check became due it 
 was not paid, and Mr. Greeley had to pay it. 
 
 This came to the knowledge of the elder 
 Vanderbilt, and forthwith he posted to the 
 Tribune ot&ce. He found the philosopher, as 
 his son had found him, busily writing, but this 
 time he was preparing a lecture. 
 
 "lam come to say, Mr. Greeley," said the 
 old Commodore, "that I will not pay a cent of 
 that check.'' 
 
 Mr. Greeley looked up from his manuscript, 
 and mildly remarked, "I did not ask you to." 
 
 The Commodore vanished. — ^V. F. Sun. 
 
 Tlie following letter has been handed 
 to lis by Mr. George F. Wilson, the 
 Treasurei' of the Rumford C'hemical 
 Work.s, of Providence, E .1. It is from 
 Peter Henderson, Usq., the Seedsman, 
 Florist, and Agricultural Writer; he 
 needs no introduction from us where 
 ever an agricultural newspaper is taken. 
 j or agricultural books circulate. 
 
 New York, October 20, 1 8G8. 
 To Mr. Geo. F. Wil.son. 
 Dear Sir, — Last spring I purchased from 
 i your office in New York one ton of your 
 i "Wilson's Ammoniated Superithosphate of 
 Lime," costing $60, and at the same time I 
 j bought a ton of No. 1 Peruvian Guano. 
 j costing $85, with a view to test the Superphos- 
 I phate against the Guano, by careful experi- 
 I ment. Accordingly, two acres of our richest 
 i market garden ground was measured off, and 
 carefully ploughed. One acre was sown with 
 I llie Guano, and the other with your Super- 
 i phosphate, on the ploughed surface, then 
 j thoroughly harrowed in and sown with beets 
 j and onions, equal quantities on each acre 
 ! The crops on both acres were unusually early 
 i and large, netting a clear profit of $500 per 
 I acre, (even at the low rates at which all early 
 j vegetables sold last summer in New York). 
 { There was no perceptible difference in the 
 I effects produced by the Guano and Superphos- 
 phate on the crops of onions and beets ; both 
 were extra fine. But the second crojt {celery) 
 II.OW shows the finest on the arre fertilised with 
 your Superphosphate. 
 
 Very respectfully yom-s, 
 
 PETER HENDERSON. 
 
 The ne.xt letter on the .same subject, 
 was written to John Kno.r, Esq., the 
 '•■ Small Fruit" Grower, by Col Mason C. 
 Weld, of New York, well known as an 
 Agricultural Chemist, and Associate 
 Editor of the "American Agriculturist." 
 
 New York, Jime 7th, 18iii>. 
 2'rt John Kso.x, Esq., Ptttshnrg, Pa. 
 
 Dear Sir,— My friend Mr. Potter, of Wil- 
 son, Lockwood, Everett & Co., of New York, 
 tells me you have made inquiry concerning 
 "Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
 Lime," and asks if I will give you mj' opinion 
 of it. / buy it for my oicn use, knowing the 
 article and having made comparative tests with 
 it last year, in which it stood better than any 
 other Superphosphate that I tried, save one, 
 and fully equal, if not better than that one on 
 certain crops. I am personally acquainted 
 with the members of the firm of Wilson, Lock- 
 wood Everett & Co., and know that their re- 
 presentations can be strictly relied upon. 
 
 Yours truly, 3LAS0N C. WELD. 
 
 Wilson's Ammoniated Superphos- 
 phate of Lime, above refered to, can be 
 had of us direct, or through tiny of the 
 agricultural seed stores, in any quantity, 
 from 100 lbs. to 1.000 ton-s. 
 
 Price, $60 per Ton. 
 
 A pamphlet, descriptive of the above 
 fertilizer, sent free upon application. 
 
 Every ton warranted equal to standard. 
 
 Wilson, Lock-wood, Everett & Co., 
 
 GENERAL AGENTS, 
 
 201 Fulton St., N.Y. 
 
T-A^B L E TALK 
 
 [December. 
 
 HORSFORD'S 
 
 Acid Phosphate, 
 
 (MEDICINAL,) 
 
 Prepared, by the 
 
 RUMFORD C HEMIC A L WORKS. 
 
 PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
 
 UNDER THK DIRECTION OF 
 
 Professor E. N. Hoksford, 
 
 Late Rvmford ProfesRor at Harvard Ujiiver&iti/, 
 Cambridge^ Mass. 
 
 The value of preparations of acid pUosphates 
 as therapeutic agents is in keeping with well- 
 known chemical principles. 
 
 So far as experience goes, Horsford's Acid 
 Phosphate seems to act as if it were nutriment 
 to the cerebral and nervous systems, restoring 
 to their normal action secretory organs that 
 have been deranged, giving vigor where there 
 has been debility, and renewed strength where 
 there has been exhaustion. 
 
 It has been found especially servieeahle in dys- 
 pepsia and disorders incident titer eto : in uri- 
 nary difficvltics, proceeding from paralysis of the 
 bladder or sphincter, and is knotmi to he useful 
 in tendencies to gratel and spcrmatorrha, in 
 cerebral and spi7ial paralysis, mental exhauttion, 
 wakefulness, hysteria, and other nervous affec- 
 tions. 
 
 Each fluid drachm contains : 
 
 .032 of a grain of metallic iron, in the form 
 of oxide combined as an acid phosphate. 
 
 1.100 of uncombined, potential tribasic phos- 
 phoric acid, mixed with tribasic phos- 
 phoric acid combined as monobasic phos- 
 phate of lime, potaesa, magnesia and 
 ammonia. 
 
 It contains no pyrophosphate, or meta-phos- 
 phate of any base whatever. 
 
 Most excellent results have attended its ad- 
 ministration for the prostration and nervous 
 symptoms following Himstroke. 
 
 Physicians desiring to examine and test this 
 remedy, are requested to apply by letter, or 
 otherwise, to the undersigned. — 
 
 Wilson, Lockwood, Everett & Co., 
 
 General Agents, 
 
 201 Fulton St, N.Y. 
 
 The Original and only Genuine 
 
 LIEBia'S 
 
 Extract of Meat, 
 
 18 MADE BY THK 
 
 LIEBIG EXTSAOT OF MEAT 00,, 
 
 And has Baron Liehig'ti Siijnafure on 
 
 erenj Jar. 
 
 GOLD MEDALS AT PARIS 18fi7, HAVRE 
 1868, and THE GRAND DIPLOMA (superior 
 to the Gold Medal), at AMSTERDAM 1869. 
 
 Invaluable in the Sick Room, and as an Ar- 
 ticle of Pood, especially for those who need 
 strengthening diet. It keeps for years in any 
 climate. 
 
 BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. 
 
 J. MILHA V'S SONS, 
 183 Broadway, N. Y.. 
 
 SOLE AGENTS. 
 
 Is Coralline Poisonous? 
 
 The new scarlet dye called Coralline (or 
 Peonine) is accused of very poisonous quali- 
 ties, and several persons both in England and 
 the United States, assert that they have ex- 
 perienced serious and even dangerous con- 
 sequences from wearing socks colored in stripes 
 with this dye. 
 
 In April last, two members of the Paris 
 Academy of Medicine, reported several cases 
 of poisoning with this same dye, and fatal re- 
 sults fiom experiments with it upon animals. 
 More recently other scientific observers in 
 France, including M. Chevreul, have stated to 
 the Academy of Science that Coralline is not at 
 all poisonous, and that worKmcn at the 
 Gobelins Tapestry Works suffer no ill effects 
 from its application to their skin. 
 
 These gentlemen may all be right and yet 
 wrong. The common "poison ivy" (Rhus) 
 causes with some persons inflammatory erup- 
 tions and painful swelling, if they but approach 
 it closely, while most people can handle it 
 with impunity. Again one who is entirely 
 uninfluenced by contact with ivy at one time 
 may suffer greatly from it at another season. 
 Cases are not rare of these personal idiosjTicra- 
 cies, both of susceptibility and insensibility to 
 injuiy from various substances not classed a 
 poisons. A most remarkable instance of this 
 kind is detailed under the head of Amulet 
 Poisoning in another part of this paper. 
 
 Just So! 
 
 The lovers of Horse-radish are informed 
 that they can procure their favorite condiment 
 at Pougera's Pharmacy, 30 North William 
 Street, N. Y. , in the following tempting form, — 
 "Fougera's lodo-Ferrophosphated Elixir of 
 Horse-Radish," which he declares to be "a 
 Diuretic, Tonic, Stimulant, Emmena gogue 
 and powerful Regenerator of the blood." 
 
 — The sprouts of the potato contain an alka- 
 loid termed by chemists solaninc, which is vei-y 
 poisonous if taken into the system. This does 
 not exist in the tubers, unless they are exposed 
 to the light and air, which sometimes occurs 
 fi'om the accidental removal of the earth in 
 cultivation. A potato that shows a blackish- 
 green tint on one side should never be cooked 
 for the table or fed to stock. — Druggist 
 (^London. ) 
 
 WoNDEKS OF Trade. — Twenty car-loads of 
 butter recently went through Cheyenne for 
 California, the contract for which was made 
 over the Atlantic Cable, by a firm in Liverpool 
 with a firm in Chicago, at twenty-seven cents 
 per pound. The butter is consigned to 
 English houses in Hong Kong, Pekin and 
 Canton. — American Qrocer. 
 
 An Eye to Business. 
 
 Newly married couples In Chicago are terri- 
 bl}' bored just now, by the flood of cards and 
 circulars which immediately after the cere- 
 mony flow in upon them through the mails, 
 from lawyers, announcing terms and instruc- 
 tions how to procure a divorce. 
 
 RtTMFORD 
 
 Chemical Works, 
 
 PROVIDENCE, R. I., 
 GEO. F. WILSON, Treasurer, 
 
 .NtANUFACTrEKRS OF 
 
 Aqua Fortis, 
 
 Nitric Acid, 
 
 Muriatic Acid, 
 
 Muriate and Oxy-Muriate of Tia, 
 
 Tin Crystals, 
 
 Blueing, 
 
 Horsford's Patent Anti-Chloride ot 
 Lime, 
 
 Wilson's Anti-Bleach Crystals, 
 
 Eoseoline, 
 
 Luteoline, 
 
 Lazuli lie, 
 
 Horsford's Patent Cream of Tartar, 
 
 Eumford Yeast Powdsrs, 
 
 Horsford's Self-Kaising Bread Prepa- 
 ration, 
 
 Wilson's Ammoniated Super- Phosphate 
 of Lime, 
 
 Wilson's Patent Tobacco Grower. 
 
 Bi-Sulphite of Lime, &c., &c. 
 
 B O JVE CO AL 
 
 'IF STF*;itlOR 'JI'ALITV 
 
 FOR SU6AE EEFINEES. 
 
 — "Lenny, you're a pig," said a farmer to 
 his little five-year-old boy. " Now, do you 
 know what a pig is, Lenny?" "Yes, sir; a 
 pig's a hog's little boy." 
 
 The above articles, and all other productions 
 of the Rumford. Chemical Works, are offered 
 to the Trade through their duly authorized 
 
 Ocueral Agents, 
 
 WILSON, LOCKWOOD, EVERETT & CO., 
 
 •JOl Vulton SI., A'eir York Citi/. 
 
 GEO. F. WILSON, Providence, R. I. 
 RADCLIFFE B. LOCKWOOD, St. Louis. Mo. 
 CHAS. J. EVERETT, New York City. 
 GEO. W. POTTER, Providence, R. I. 
 
 HUDSON RIVER 
 
 Hubber Company, 
 
 WANEROOMS. 
 14 PARK PLACE, N. Y., 
 
 MANTFAOTUEEES OF 
 
 Car Springs, Hose Belting and 
 
 Steam Packing. 
 
 ALL GOODS WARRANTED. 
 
 ALL THE WORKS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 GREATEST LIVING POET 
 
 For SI. '2 5. 
 
 TENNYSON'S POEMS, 
 
 CS-HiOBB BZDITIOlSr, COI-IFI>ETB. 
 
 Sent by Mail, Post-paid, on Receipt of Price, by 
 
 J. E. TILTON tl CO., 
 
 Publishers, 
 
 201 Fulton St., New York. 
 
 J. W. PRATT, Printer, 75 Fulton St., N. Y. 
 
TABLE TALK. 
 
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 tives and good feeling which prompt 
 such offers, we desire here to "' deline our 
 position " so plainly that our remarks 
 may be a standing reply to all readers — 
 and writers. Our ol)ject in publishing 
 Tahh Talk is two-fold : first, to dissemi- 
 nate information upon matters in which 
 we have a personal and jiecuniary inter- 
 est ; secondly, to furnish to our readers 
 original and selected articles upon any 
 and all interesting topics, (not connected 
 with our business,) and of the very 
 
 highest order of merit within our com- 
 mand. If any of our readers possess 
 superior knowledge ujion any subject 
 of practical importance; if they Inive 
 carefully thought out new and truthful 
 ideas, opinions or theories valuable to 
 mankind, and having a reasonable basis 
 of fact; in short, if they have .wmeMiw^ 
 to .my which will certainly interest, in- 
 struct or amuse a larger circle than they 
 can otherwise reach, we shall be happy 
 to hear from them. But don't send us 
 vapid drivelings of immature minds, 
 nor write ponderous Jolinsonian essays 
 upon nothing. We can do all that 
 stupid, heavy business ourselves ; it is 
 in " our department." 
 
 Our paper will reach some persons 
 whose minds are stored with knowledge 
 not accessible to all, who have profited 
 by exjieriences unusual and varied. 
 Such owe a debt to their fellow-men. 
 And there may be in some obsure corner 
 of our land one upon whose soul the 
 Creator has set the gracious seal of poe/. 
 We almost fear to name the sacred word, 
 remembering the fearful and intermin- 
 able deeds done in the mime of poetry, 
 aided and' abetted by the press. Remem- 
 ber, good reader— ^/V«'r reader — that all 
 who love or appreciate even genuine 
 poetry are not themselves poets, and 
 that thousands have poetical imagiiui- 
 ations and visions who will never be 
 able to translate their feelings into ap- 
 propriate and acceptable language. 
 With these words of ]iremonition. we 
 invite the poet's aid. 
 
 Honest criticism anil discussion of 
 anything treated in our columns, and 
 communications upon any of the social 
 or scientific problems of the day, how- 
 ever plain and practical, will always 
 be in order. Whatever interests or af- 
 fects the welfare of the household is a 
 worthy and important subject of treat- 
 ment. Wives and mothers have duties 
 as well as ri(jh1>i in this direction, and 
 should more frequently record their ex- 
 perience for the benefit of others. 
 
 Clothe your ideas in the choicest 
 language you can command, and don't 
 depend upon the editor for corrections- 
 Finally, rfo7/ci?/;- 5e.«/, and stop when you 
 are done! 
 
 Our Land Titles in Danger! 
 
 The greater portion of the entire 
 property of this country is represented 
 by titles to tnnil or " real estate," and it 
 is generally conceded that such property 
 constitutes the very safest form of in- 
 vestment. This popular opinion is in 
 the main well grounded, but yet there 
 exists an element of insecurity in the 
 laws and customs relating to the regis- 
 tration of deeds and mortgages, which, 
 although rarely recognized, must sooner 
 or later affect pecuniary interests of im- 
 mense extent. 
 
 The dangers which thus menace all 
 land titles may be readily pointed out ; 
 and it is worth the while of every 
 reader who has an interest, direct or 
 remote, in real estate, to carefully and 
 thoughtfully follow our Ijrief sketch of 
 these defects of the laws, and our ]n-o- 
 posed remedy. 
 
 Let us 'consider for a moment the 
 customary proceedings in a single pur- 
 chase of a piece of land, which may 
 perhaps be for a homestead for the 
 purchaser. 
 
 The terms having been agreed upon, 
 " the title is searched,'" indirectly by the 
 purchaser's lawyer or agent. To do this 
 it is necessary to consult carefully the 
 written Eecords of the County, contain- 
 ing copies of all deeds, mortgages, re- 
 leases, etc., relating to lands in that 
 county. If all the links in the chain 
 of transfer are found complete upon the 
 Kecord, and no mortgages or other 
 liens are found upon the Record un- 
 satisfied (or in force), the title is pro- 
 nounced good, and the purchaser is 
 instructed by his attorney that he may 
 close the negotiation with safety, and 
 accept a deed or transfer of title of the 
 laud. The purchaser now receives his 
 deed, duly signed, with the correctness 
 of the signature attested by a commis- 
 sioner of deeds, or other qualified offi- 
 cial. To further comply with the law, 
 and to protect his newly acquired title, 
 the jnirchaser must record the deed re- 
 ceived, as a public notice to the world, 
 or to all persons interested, that he 
 has become the owner. Accordingly, 
 the deed is sent to the Recorder or 
 
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 [January 
 
 County Clerk for such entry, who notes 
 on the document the day and hour of 
 its reception ; copies it in its turn upon 
 his Record, and returns it to the owner, 
 who, receiving it, glances at the Clerk's 
 endorsement, congratulates himself up- 
 on the safe termination of the aflair, and 
 not unfrequently tosses the document 
 into a drawer, desk, or other receptacle 
 of unimportant papers, which will prob- 
 ably never be wanted again. If he gave 
 the former owner a bond and mortgage 
 for a part of the purchase money, the 
 mortgage is in the same way deposited 
 with the Clerk for record, and by him 
 returned to the seller of the land. 
 
 We will now mention some of the 
 dangers which beset the new owner of 
 this land, assuring our readers that 
 they are not merely imaginary. Assum- 
 ing that the seller's title was perfectly 
 good, and that the deed was safely re- 
 turned to its present owner — 
 
 First, The Recorder or Registrar may 
 have accidentally, by himself or by his 
 clerk, incorrectly coined the deed upon 
 the Record, and the error is more likely 
 to occur in the description of the boun- 
 daries and contents of the estate than 
 in the more common and conventional 
 parts of the conveyance. The owner 
 or his attorney rarely or never compares 
 the entry with the original document. 
 
 Secondly, Tlie Recorder may carelessly 
 put his certificate of entry on the docu- 
 ment in advance, and return \i ivitliout 
 a copy Imniny l)cen iiinde; or he may do 
 this intentionally, and for reward. 
 
 Thirdly, The Record may accidentally 
 be destroyed by fire, or it may be muti- 
 lated or stolen by interested parties. 
 
 Fourthly, Supposing the property 
 to be nearly or quite clear from mort- 
 gages or other liens, a fraudulent mort- 
 gage may be drawn by evil disposed 
 persons, the name of the real owner of 
 the property forged, and the certificate 
 (forged or genuine) of a commissioner 
 or notary obtained, attesting the signa- 
 ture : this mortgage may be used to 
 raise money upon, and, of course, will be 
 recorded. It will then affect the owners 
 interest in tlie estate, and any attempt 
 to sell his property, just as much as if 
 it was genuine ; and it must Ije i^roved 
 fraudulent before the owner's title can 
 be cleared. 
 
 Fifthly, a fictitious deed may be simi- 
 larly prepared and recorded, and the 
 legal title on the Record be actually 
 vested in another person. If the new 
 purchaser has bought the property (un- 
 der the forged deed) in good faith, and 
 will produce the fraudulent document, 
 the rightful owner may succeed in re- 
 covering his title at the cost of expen- 
 
 sive legal proceedings. If, however, the 
 buyer is in collusion with the seller, and 
 the deed, after record, is destroyed, what 
 then is the remedy ? It is very difficult 
 to pi'ove a negative, and exceedingly 
 hard to prove a forgei-y without the 
 possession of the original fraudulent 
 document. 
 
 Some persons will say that there are 
 risks in all investments and business 
 transactions, and that those just men- 
 tioned are unavoidable. But experience 
 has taught us that the above risks are 
 of an unusual kind and degree, and 
 that they can and should be greatly 
 lessened, if not entirely prevented. Other 
 persons will think our fears are of the 
 imagination, and greatly exaggerated. 
 We were told so by lawyers, when, seve- 
 ral years ago, we suggested all the proba- 
 bilities above mentioned ; and yet, within 
 five years, we have known the particulars 
 of a dozen cases of frauds in land titles 
 and conveyances, some of these evincing 
 an ingenuity far exceeding anything 
 here anticipated. 
 
 In one case, a lady owning improved 
 real estate, failed to receive her rent for 
 a year, and visiting her property, found 
 her ownership disputed by the tenant. 
 Reference to the record showed that the 
 property had been mortgaged to one 
 party and sold to another, and she only 
 recovered her own by tedious and costly 
 litigation and a compromise-payment to 
 the tenant. The question is naturally 
 asked, how the certificate of the attesting 
 notary or commissioner is obtained ? We 
 should ask rather, what difficulty is there 
 in procuring it ? One-half of the pei'- 
 sons execixting conveyances are unknown 
 to the attesting commissioner of deeds. 
 We have fi-equently employed strangers 
 in that capacity, without the formality 
 of an introduction, and we have had our 
 own signature certified in a very consi- 
 derable transfer of U. S. registered bonds, 
 by a notary who had no evidence of our 
 identity whatever. If any one doubts 
 that under existing laws, his titles to real 
 estate may readily be endangered, when- 
 ever a sufficient motive is presented to 
 designing scoundrels, we will furnish the 
 skeptic with some facts and rulings of 
 even U. S. Courts which will be more 
 eloquent and suggestive than any argu- 
 ments of ours. 
 
 We will but allude to the well-known 
 insecurity of the buildings containing 
 the Records, the danger from fire or 
 thieves, and the ample opportunity af- 
 forded for mutilating or removing por- 
 tions of a Record-book. A personal ex- 
 amination by a committee of land-owners 
 of each county of the offices and safes of 
 the Register would alone create a revolu- 
 
 tion in the manner of preserving these 
 important records. 
 
 Our proposed remedy is two fold: 
 
 First — Religiously preserve all deeds, 
 mortgages, releases, etc., just as carefully 
 as if they were not recorded. 
 
 Secondly — Amend the registry laws as 
 follows: compel the execution of all 
 documents relating to real estate transfers 
 or liens, in duplicate ; one copy of which 
 shall be retained by the rightful holders, 
 and the other, having the same original 
 signatures, including those of witnesses 
 and commissioner of deeds, shall l)c de- 
 posited with the Recorder or Register 
 who, after copying it as usual, shall file 
 and preserve it in a fire-proof and thief- 
 proof biiilding, and who shall allow no 
 access to these oriyinalsviiihowixm order 
 of court. 
 
 The additional expense of such pre- 
 servation of records might be large, but 
 it eould not be greater than the possible 
 loss to one single land-owner by fraud, 
 under the present wretched and utterly 
 inefficient method. 
 
 One of Beecher's Best Sermons. 
 
 Henry Ward Beecher was lately ar- 
 raigned before Plymouth Church by 
 some of the dissentiny members, for his 
 action in the Richardson marriage. Mr. 
 Beecher made one of his characteristic 
 addresses to the meeting, in which he 
 gave a fi'ank, manly explanation of his 
 motives and feelings, and concluded 
 with the following pithy remark, which 
 we heartily commend to the great and 
 astute "I told you so,"' family. 
 
 " Finally," said Mr. Beecher, " I can 
 say with the honest Dutchman, that if 
 my foresight was as good as my Jiind- 
 siyht T shoiild have done verv differ- 
 ently !" 
 
 Inns of Court. 
 
 In olden times a nobleman's or coun- 
 try-gentleman's town-house or lodging- 
 place, during the season of attendance 
 at court, was called an Inn. In French 
 the word Hotel still signifies the same 
 thing — a palace or nobleman's residence. 
 Both words are now used in English to 
 mean a quite difi"erent thing. The Inns 
 of Court in London are law colleges, 
 where students collect for instruction. 
 Anciently the students were all noble- 
 men's sons, and the place of their city 
 abode was naturally called an Inn. There 
 are four 2)rincipal Inns of Court, Lin- 
 coln's Inn, Gray's Inn, the Middle Tem- 
 ple, and the Inner Temple. The first 
 two were formerly the palaces of the 
 Earls of Lincoln and Gray. The other 
 two were the commandery of the Knights 
 Templar, which order was suppressed 
 
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 11 
 
 for its scandalous iniquities early in the 
 fourteenth century. 
 
 American Enterprise. 
 
 The large share of profits arising from 
 the business of fire insurance carried out 
 of the country by foreign companies, 
 has naturally given rise to much grum- 
 bling and bitter complaints on the part 
 of American Underwriters. At their 
 instance, the Legislatures of several 
 States have enacted laws taxing heavily 
 the receipts from such sources, of all 
 foreign corporations, and requiring 
 special deposits in the State of a portion 
 of the foreign capital so employed. 
 
 AVliile the hostility of our American 
 companies to foreign interference with 
 the biisiness of fire insurance in the 
 United States has thus found vent, the 
 Home Insurmire Company, of New York, 
 has " carried the war into Africa." They 
 have established a branch in Europe 
 for general European business, Avith its 
 headquarters in the City of Hamlnirg. 
 This is, in our opinion, the wisest and 
 most honoral)le method of meeting 
 the enemy. Legislative discrimination 
 against foreign capital — except for se- 
 curing enforcement of oliligations — and 
 whining complaints, are alike unworthy 
 of a generous, manly, commercial spirit. 
 Let all compete on a common field, and 
 "may the l)est man win!" 
 
 Position in Sleep. 
 
 There are many theories about this- 
 matter, most of them founded on fanci- 
 ful ideas of fact. The best test is in 
 one's own experience, and it is quite 
 likely that there are individual peculiari- 
 ties in this matter as well as in eating, so 
 that no one rule applies to all. Some 
 have dreams, unrest, and perhaps night- 
 mare, if they lie on their backs. Others 
 find it a most comfortable position. 
 Very likely the condition of the stomach 
 at the time, whether it is full of undi- 
 gested food which weighs on important 
 arteries, nerves, and vital organs, or 
 whether it is empty, may make consid- 
 erable difference in the comfort of this 
 position. So wonderfully are we made 
 that no position, naturally taken in 
 sleep, can have any very serious effect on 
 the health. If we should say anything 
 in favor of one position over another, it 
 would \w that, as in the inflation of the 
 lungs the chest is elevated by certain 
 muscles ; these muscles have to lift 
 against gravity when a person lies on 
 the back, and therefore a side position 
 should seem to be more favorable as re- 
 lieving them from needless work, up- 
 
 hill. In general, let the muscles of the 
 l)ody be relaxed, let the knees be slightly 
 drawn up. let the fingers be extended or 
 hang without tension, let the head be 
 not bent over, that the blood-vessels 
 may have full play ; and if you change 
 position two or three times in the night, 
 the 1)ody will be more easily rested by 
 morning. Shall you sleep with head to 
 the north and feet south ? We know of 
 no law under heaven that shall prevent 
 you keeping this polarity if you wish, 
 and if there is any virtue in it, you are 
 at least on the safe side, provided you 
 know toward which pole your head 
 ought to point. 
 
 Remember Stanton. 
 
 Before this paper is in type the death 
 of Edwin M. Stanton will have been dis- 
 cussed by every friend and enemy of his 
 in the land, and any reflections of ours 
 will have long been anticipated. We 
 therefore simply record the unexpected 
 event, which took place on the 24th of 
 December, and add our testimony to his 
 character as an incorruptible patriot and 
 to the incalculable services rendered by 
 him to his country in her darkest hour. 
 However individuals may complain of 
 alleged injustice at his hands, to the na- 
 tion he was trve. With the disburse- 
 ments of hundreds of millions of money 
 passing through his hands, and unequal- 
 ed opportunities for advancing his pri- 
 vate interests, Edwin M. Stanton retired 
 from his official position a comparatively 
 poor man. When monuments are erected 
 to Peabodys andVanderbilts, what should 
 be done for the memory of our late Se- 
 cretary of War ? 
 
 Professor Lunsford Yandell, jr., M.D., 
 in a late address before the University 
 of Louisville, Kentucky, said: — 
 
 "There is little doubt in my mind 
 " that the had biscuits of America are 
 " in a great measure to blame for the 
 " numberless homicides which render 
 " our country a by-word among nations. 
 " Bad lireud breeds battle, murder and 
 " sudden death." 
 
 True as Gospel! every word of it. 
 Banish heavy, sour bread and saleratus 
 biscuit from our country, and we should 
 be the best natured people on the face 
 of the earth. Bad bread and "bad 
 blood" are synonymous. We have 
 known a Calvinist clergyman who saw 
 nothing but endless and fiery torments 
 in prospect for all his congregation, to 
 be so changed in his views, feelings and 
 temper by using Horsfoid's Bread Pre- 
 piaration, that his countenance and ser- 
 mons were fairly illumined by broad 
 
 views of Christian charity and tolera- 
 tion. 
 
 Lead Poisoning— Prof. Johnson. 
 
 Instances of lead-poisoning having 
 been frequently attributed to the use 
 of water transmitted through lead 
 pipes, a substitute for that dangerous 
 metal has long been sought. Both 
 block-tin and tin-lined pipes have been 
 introduced, and both have been widely 
 recommended by chemists. Controversy 
 upon the relative merits of the two last 
 named pipes naturally followed; audit 
 was asserted by some experts that, theo- 
 reticaUy, in the case of the tin-lined 
 pipe, galvanic action would take place 
 at the soldered joints, and possibly at 
 other parts of the inner surface of the 
 pipe. Mr. Donald G. Mitchell, of the 
 Hearth and Home, having strongly re- 
 commended the tin-lined pipe to his 
 readers, and having his faith somewhat 
 shaken by adverse statements on good 
 chemical avithority, in September last 
 referred this matter of the action of 
 potable waters on different metals to 
 Professor S. W. Johnson, of Yale Col- 
 lege, requesting his views in settlement 
 of the questions involved. Professor 
 .Johnson's response was duly received 
 and published in Hearth and Home, but 
 believing from the inquiries of many 
 professional friends that it failed to re- 
 ceive the publicity due to so remark- 
 able a document, we give the following 
 synopsis of his report. 
 
 Prof. Johnson says that the use of 
 lead pipes is often unattended by any 
 apparent CAal consequences, and again 
 is often productive of injury to health. 
 That the same is trtie of pipes rej)uted 
 to be made of the best commercial block- 
 tin. That fin-lined pipes have been 
 ("as he hears") in use for years, with 
 the best results, while, on the other 
 hand, this pipe sometimes suffers rapid 
 corrosion ; and he mentions a case in 
 New Haven (upon information,) where 
 the tin-lining was completely dissolved 
 away by the water in the space of a year. 
 Prof. Johnson says nothing of the source 
 or quality of the water concerned in 
 any of the foregoing cases. He men- 
 tions an instance within his personal 
 knowledge, of lead-poisoniiig, in which 
 the well-water used completely destroyed 
 lead pipes, and perforated a block-tin 
 pipe. L^pon two careful analyses of this 
 well-water by Prof. Johnson, he failed 
 to discover any lead in solution. Prof. 
 Johnson afterwards occupying the jire- 
 mises, had the well cleaned, and substi- 
 tuted galvanized zinc-coated iron pipe. 
 The water dissolved the zinc, (which 
 appeared as a white scum in the water 
 
12 
 
 first drawn in the morning,) and finally 
 attacked the iron. Again, In- .■^ays that 
 •• in all cases of lead corrosion coming 
 under his observation, the ad ion has 
 not been simply a general solvnit lircct 
 extending over the whole surface of tlie 
 metal, l)Ut the pipe has been pitted or 
 perforated in spots. These pits are 
 found in vertical as well as in horiznutal 
 pipes, and appear as if induced either 
 by something accidental originally im- 
 bedded in the lead or deposited nptm it 
 from the water. It is not uncommon to 
 see a pipe perforated at one short section 
 of its course, and elsewhere remaining 
 sound. May we not, therefore, conchide 
 that local and accidental causes some- 
 times impair or destroy metallic jiipes in 
 such a way as to bring them into un- 
 merited disrepnte ?" The Professor's 
 defence of metallic pipes in the last sen- 
 tence is weak. Our conclusion from the 
 facts just stated is, that the lead and tin 
 used in the manufacture of pijjes is so im- 
 pure aiid wanting in homogeneousness, 
 that the water finds abundant material to 
 work upon, and galvanic action must 
 ensue. 
 
 As to the very important query, 
 whether galvanic action induces corro- 
 sion at the joint.'^ of tin-lined pipes, Prof. 
 Johnson says, "'Accoi'ding to analogy 
 and theory," he answers the (question 
 in the affirmative, but as to the fact. 
 •• his information is insufticient to justify 
 a verdict." ■' It is conceded." he says 
 further, "that tin is less easily acted 
 on than lead, and that the products are 
 less poisonous. I am not certai// that 
 this is always true; but if generally 
 true, it appears that tin -lined pipes 
 would be very serviceable, could they be 
 joined — not in the usual way, which is 
 liable to leave both metals exposed to 
 the water, but by flanging the pipes and 
 connecting them witli screw-collars, so 
 that the tin lining should be unbroken 
 throughout." Prof. Johnson alludes to 
 the absence of any other materials than 
 tin or lead suitable for small water-pipes. 
 He advises that water which has stood 
 long in metallic pii^es should nerer be 
 used for drinking or cooking; speaks of 
 the protective infltience of iron upon 
 lead or tin pipes, (when in contact). 
 which, he says, is of the same nature as 
 the preservative effect of lead upon tin 
 alone, and concludes as follows: 
 
 " In consideration of the serious con- 
 sequences which so often follow the 
 employment of lead for water-service, 
 we may be tempted to declaim violently 
 against its further toleration; but tin- 
 man life is, at tlte best, a series of nur- 
 row escapes, and we must seek, by intel- 
 ligence and care, to mitigate and neu- 
 
 'I' A B L E TALK. 
 
 tralize the evils Avhich can not be wholly 
 overcome excejit at a cost greater than 
 is involved in rendering them harmless 
 by precaution." 
 
 When a man of Professor Johu.son's 
 scientific attainments surrenders thus 
 ignobly in a struggle with evils conse- 
 quent upon insufficient knowledge, the 
 faith of ignorant men in the power of 
 science may ^\-ell be shaken. We search 
 this liepdi-t in vain for evidence of the 
 "intelligence and care" which usually 
 chara<'ti'rize Professor Johnson's writ- 
 ings on scientific subjects; and we think 
 he owes to his own reputation a com- 
 plete investigation of lliis great sanitary 
 problem, wliich shall lie wortliv of him- 
 self. 
 
 [January, 
 
 We take pleasure in presenting an- 
 other of the many ruliintary commen- 
 dations of Professor Horsford's Bread 
 Preparation, which are constantly being 
 given by conscientious and scientific 
 jirofessional men. The following edi- 
 torial is extracted from The Medical 
 Gazette (N. Y.) of January 1, 1870, 
 which paper, by the way, is one of the 
 very best exponents of modei'n, liberal, 
 medical science : 
 
 Horsford's Bread Preparation. 
 
 So many utterly worthless dietary prepara- 
 tions are thrown upon the market and lavishly 
 vaunted in high-sounding advertisements, that 
 good and bad are liable to be confounded in a i 
 common distrust, founded on repeated disap- 
 pointment. It may, therefore, be well to in- 
 form our readers that the baking powders pre- 
 pared according to the formula of Professor 
 Horsford, are really a valvahle additio-n to our 
 (iliineutary renoanrs. In bread made with 
 these powders, the phosphatic elements in 
 which ordinary flour is deficient, are restored, 
 and furnish, so to speak, a therapeutic food in 
 some morbid conditions. Dentists especially, 
 may find this a convenient mode of supplying 
 phosphatic material in the rapid caries which 
 sometimes affects children's teeth. 
 
 — Isn't it aljout time tliat those 
 "Gates Ajar" were close^l i-* Tlie title 
 of this book and the reviews of it have 
 stared us in the faco until the namo 
 haunts ns like one of the stupid street- 
 songs, which everybody whistles and 
 hums with equal perseverance and dis- 
 gust. Bo. good i)eople. shut u\) — the 
 aforesaid " Gates ;" lock them and throw 
 away the key I 
 
 — The German Chemist, Landsberg, says 
 that artificial light contains 90 per cent, of cal- 
 orific rays, while sunlight contains only 50 
 per cent. To the number of these rays he 
 attributes the disagreeable sensations produced 
 upon the eye by aitifictal light. By passing it 
 through alum or mica, the calorific rays are 
 interrupted, and the light rendered more agree- 
 able and less injurious. — London Druggist. 
 
 The American Agriculturist. 
 
 Ten years or more ago, when we lived 
 in the great city, and rarely got sight of 
 a sunset or a glimpse of sky larger than 
 a blanket, we wa-re often consciotts of 
 certain thrills of sympathy with far-off" 
 rural scenes, and of longings for the 
 sweet-scented meadows, shadowy woods 
 and blue mountain peaks which we knew 
 were waiting to greet us with a lover's 
 welcome. Some lingering drop of vaga- 
 bond blood (of bow-and-arrow origin), 
 would start a ferment in our veins which 
 turned us for the time against brick 
 walls, civilization and our fellow-man. 
 If it was in "the leafy summer-time," as 
 we trudged down-town to our daily work, 
 it was a solace to pass through one of the 
 public sqtiares or parks, where a mo- 
 mentary view of the tender grass-tips 
 and rustling leaves refreshed us, and 
 calmed our wayward imjiulse to flee from 
 the abodes of men. 
 
 At such times our favorite books lost 
 all their charms, and reading became 
 hateful to us. But once a month (and 
 as quickly as it was issued), we used to 
 seize upon the Agriculturist, and atevery 
 seasonable moment we devoured its sug- 
 gestive contents. It was a feast to us. 
 Farms and gardens rose before our de- 
 lighted vision as fair and beautiful as 
 heart could wish. Its familiar talk of 
 the detail of rural affairs could only be 
 written by those whose daily life was 
 passed amid such scenes. Nothing of 
 the ■■• sentimental shepherd " order in- 
 sulted our intelligence or offended our 
 taste in the Ai/riculturist, but the real 
 poetry of nature was there in abundance. 
 We felt that the hand which penned the 
 lines we read also held the plow and the 
 jn-uniiig-knife ; the smell of the fresh 
 earth, the .scent of the apple-blossom and 
 the clover were there. And so the 
 At/riculturisthec-dme to us a connecting 
 link between our monotonous city life 
 and the world of nature as revealed by 
 Herrick, Bloomfield or quaint old Gil- 
 bert White. 
 
 If our favorite paper was desirable 
 when we lived in New York, it became 
 a " necessary of life" when we moved 
 into the country. We proved its teach- 
 ings by our practice, and found country 
 neighbors (from the city like ourselves,) 
 who successfully carried on their farms 
 solely by the monthly calendar of direc- 
 tions published in the At/riculturist. 
 
 Jiulging by the past, we hardly dare to 
 predict its future ; but we nniy say with 
 befitting modesty, that we already look 
 upon the American AyricuUnrist as a 
 daugerotis rival ; in short, as a (jreat biy 
 Table Talk ! 
 
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 13 
 
 The Windy Night. 
 
 Alow and aloof, 
 
 Over the roof, 
 How the midnight tempests howl I 
 With a dreary voice, like the dismal tune 
 Of wolves that bay at the desert moon : — 
 
 Or whistle and shriek 
 
 Through limbs that creak, 
 
 "Tu-who! tu-whil I" 
 
 They cry and flit, 
 " Tu-whlt ! — tu-who !" like the solemn owl I 
 
 Alow and aloof. 
 
 Over the roof. 
 Sweep the moaning ^^inds amain, 
 
 And wildly dash 
 
 The elm and ash. 
 Clattering on the window sash ! 
 
 With a clatter and patter. 
 
 Like hail and rain. 
 
 That well nigh shatlei- 
 
 The dusky pane ! 
 
 Alow and aloof. 
 
 Over the roof. 
 How the tempests swell and roar ! 
 
 Though no foot is a-stir. 
 
 Though the cat and the cur 
 Lie dozing the kitchen fire before ; 
 
 There are feet of air 
 
 On every stair I 
 
 Through every hall — 
 
 Through each gusty door. 
 
 There's a jostle and bustle. 
 
 With a silken rustle 
 Like the meeting of guests at a festival ! 
 
 Alow and aloof, 
 
 Over the roof. 
 How the stormy tempests swell ! 
 
 And make the vane 
 
 On the spire complain — 
 They heave at the steeple with might and main; 
 
 And burst and sweep 
 
 Into the belfry, on the bell ! 
 They smite it so hard, and they smite it so well. 
 The sexton tosses his arms in sleep. 
 And dreams he is ringing a funeral knell : 
 
 Thomas Buchanan Read 
 
 — From the record of ii series of 
 experiments made at various times by 
 Prof. Jeffries Wymaii, of Harvard Uni- 
 versity, we select the following interest- 
 ing and suggestive results. 
 
 1. In thenual waters, plants belonging to the 
 lower kinds of algae live in water the tem- 
 perature of which, in some instances, rises as 
 high as 208'^ F. (4'^ below boiling point.) 
 
 2. Solutions of organic matter boiled for 25 
 minutes, and exposed only to air which had 
 passed through iron tubes heated to redness, 
 became the seat of infusorial life. 
 
 3. Similar solutions contained in ilasks her- 
 metically sealed, and then immersed in boiling 
 water for periods varying from a few minutes 
 to four hours, also became the seat of infuso- 
 rial life. The infusoria were chietly vibrios, 
 bacteriums and monads. 
 
 4. No ciliated infusoria, unless monads are 
 such, appeared in the ex|)eriments referred to 
 in the above conclusions. 
 
 5. No infusoria ot any kind appeared if the 
 boiling was prolonged beyond a period of five 
 hours. 
 
 G. Infusoria having the faculty of locomo- 
 tion, lost this when exposed in water to a tem- 
 perature of fiom 120" to 134" F. 
 
 7. If vibrios, bacteriums and monads are 
 added to a clear and limpid organic solution, 
 this becomes turbid, from their nmltiplication, 
 in from one to two days. If, however, they 
 have been previously boiled, the solution does 
 not become turbid until from one to two days 
 later, and in some of the experiments not 
 sooner than does the same solution to which 
 no infusoria have been added. 
 
 Mr. Andrew's New Science, Uni- 
 versology. 
 
 " We publish an extraordinary card signed by 
 some of the most scientific men and ripest 
 thinkers in this city, calling attention to the 
 claim of Mr. Stephen Pearl Andrews to the 
 discoveiy of the Unity of the Sciences, or to 
 the discoverj', in other words, of the funda- 
 mental science which is to make all the special 
 sciences one organic whole. 
 
 •• The gentlemen who sign this card have, it 
 seems, listened to such preliminary exposition 
 of his scientific ideas by Mr. Andrews as to 
 satisfy them of their • importance' and 
 originality' and of the ' profound research ■ 
 which they imply. Some of them, indeed, we 
 are aware, from personal knowledge, have gone 
 much farther than what is stated in this card, 
 and having laboriously perused the proofs of 
 Mr. Andrews' great work, now in type, are 
 greatly impressed by it. 
 
 " Even a preliminary and conditional accep- 
 tance of such a claim to a new philosophy, 
 science, and scientific method by such men as 
 Parke Godwin, President Barnard, of Colum- 
 bia College, Prof. Martin of the LTniversity. 
 Prof.Youmans, and others, places Mr. Anchews 
 upon a high vanfcige ground, in coming before 
 the general public. We hope that it will prove 
 true, that to an American scholar is reserved 
 the honor of so great an achievement as the 
 demonstration of the unity of the sciences." — 
 The Eceiiliifi Mull. 
 
 Universology. 
 
 "The undersigned having listened to Mr 
 Stephen Pearl Andrews' preliminary statement 
 of 'Universology,' and being impressed with 
 the importance and originality of the new 
 scientific claim, as well as with the profound 
 research implied in it, do cordially concur in 
 urging the publication of the work at the 
 earliest possible date. 
 
 '■ Parke Godwin, Isaac Lewis Peet, Principal 
 of the New York Institution for the Deaf and 
 Dumb ; Frederick R. Marvin, Geo. Wakeman, 
 N. B. Emerson, M. D. ; Titus Munson Coan, 
 M. D. ; J. West Nevins, late United State Vice- 
 Consul at Genoa, Italy ; John H. Staats, "]?. B. 
 Wakeman, G. W. Madox, F. A. P. Barnard, 
 President of Columbia College ; Professor E. 
 L. Youmans, George Opdyke, Rev. O. B. Fi-oth- 
 inghani, Charles P. Daly, President of the 
 American Geographical and Statistical Society; 
 Rev. Benj. N. Martin, Professor New York 
 University; C. Goepp, E. R. Slraznicky, Assist- 
 ant Librarian Astor Libraiy ; Charles F. Tay- 
 lor, M.D. " 
 
 The popular idea that the human heart 
 cannot be even touched by a foreign substance 
 without endangering life is entu-ely erroneous. 
 Operations have been successfully performed 
 for removing an effusion of fluid within the 
 pericardium, ( the membranous sac containing 
 the heart,) in which the pericardium has been 
 pierced, and the instrument brought in direct 
 contact with the heart, so that every beat of 
 that organ moved the instrument to and fro. 
 No pain was experienced by the patient wlien 
 the heart was thus touched. In such cases, it 
 is essential to prevent the admission of air into 
 the sac, and this may be done by connecting 
 the end of the instrument ( a canulaj with an 
 india-rubber tube, the loose end of which being 
 kept under water, allows the escape of tlie dis- 
 turbing fluid without danger to the patient. 
 
 — Carbolized catgut has been substituted 
 for silk and linen ligatures for tying arteries. 
 Dr. Jas. Spence, President of the Royal College 
 of Surgeons in Edinburg, reports that having 
 tied the carotid arteiy with one of these liga- 
 tures, within 24 hours the catgut became 
 softened into a gelatinous jiulp by the heat and 
 moisture of the surrounding tissues, and allowed 
 the artery to open. Death ensued. 
 
 Okoide is a metallic composition resembling 
 gold in color, softness, malleability and other 
 qualities so closely that it is difficult to dis- 
 tinguish it from the precious metal. It is com- 
 posed of 100 jjarts of copper; 17 parts of tin 
 or zinc ; G parts of magnesia , 3-G parts ot 
 sal-ammoniac ; 1-8 parts of calcined lime and 
 i) parts of cream of tartar. It was invented in 
 France, and is much u.sed in the manufacture 
 of cheap jewelry. 
 
 Sumner's first falling out with Mrs. Julia 
 Ward Howe occurred three years ago, upon 
 her invitation to meet Edwin Booth at dinner. 
 The Senator replied that ' • he was too much ab- 
 sorbed by the welfare of the masses to take 
 any interest in individuals." To this note, put 
 in her scrap-book, the lady appended this com- 
 ment : " When last heard from, the Almighty 
 had not yet reached this point. " Boston was 
 stirred to its depths. The Senator entreated, 
 the lady relented, and both text and commen- 
 tary were destroyed. — N. V. Wmid. 
 
 — •' Mamma,'' said a little boy, " is it wicked 
 to say dmn'" "Certainly, ' replied mamma, 
 "I hope I shall never hear you use such a 
 word." "Well, mamma, is it wicked to say 
 milldam, cofferdam, or Amsterdam ':■" " Why 
 no, my child; those are common words and 
 are perfectly proper." " Well," returned six- 
 year-old, "the old cow in the barn has just 
 got a turnip in her throat, and if you don't 
 hurry out there, she'll cofferdam head off!" — 
 N. i^. Indepeiident. 
 
 — If a continuous solid iron rail was laid 
 
 along a track for a distance of 160 miles, 
 
 it would be absolutely impogxibk for any 
 
 mechanical force whatsoever, applied at one 
 
 end, to move the other end, or the whole 
 
 bar, instantaneously. A certain quantity of 
 
 time is required for the force applied at the 
 
 end to travel from molecule to molecule of the 
 
 metal, and the bar could not be moved until 
 
 that force had been thus transmitted to the 
 
 furthermost particle of the iron, which in Ibis 
 
 case would require about one niinule and a 
 
 quarter. 
 
 »«»• 
 
 — Sir Richard Jebb being called to a patient 
 who fancied himself veiy ill, told him ingenu- 
 ously what he thought, and declined prescrib- 
 ing, thinking it unnecessary. — "Now you are 
 here," said the patient, " I shall be obliged to 
 you. Sir Richard, If you will tell me how I 
 must live — what I may eat, aud what not ?" — 
 "My directions as to that point," said Sir 
 Richard, who abominated this sort of question, 
 " will be few and simple : you must not eat t he 
 poker, shovel, or tongs, for they are hard of 
 digestion ; nor the bellows, because they are 
 windy ; but anything else you please." 
 
 — "My Brother," I sed to a coUerd purson, 
 " air you aware that you've been 'maucipated '! 
 Do you realize how glorious it is to be free '/ 
 Tell me, my dear cullerd brother, does it not 
 seem to you like some dream, or do you real- 
 ize the great fact in all its lovin' and holy mag- 
 nitude '!" — He sed he v.'ould take some gin. — 
 Art emus Ward. 
 
14 
 
 TABLE TAjLK. 
 
 (Janttaey, 
 
 Horsford's Bread Preparation 
 
 A?id other arliclex of our nunnifarlurv- 
 are Icept hi stock and mid to the trade 
 Ini tlic foUoiriiHi finris : 
 
 New York City. 
 
 Acker, Merrall & Condit, 132 Chambers Street. 
 
 Bogle & Lyles, 83 Barclay Street. 
 
 H. W. Belcher & Co., 41 Warren Street. 
 
 Martin Y. Bunn & Co., 335 Greenwich Street. 
 
 Thomas P. Cooper, 182 South Street. 
 
 E. M. Course, 324 Greenwich Street. 
 
 Day, Hoagland & Stigcr, .''.4 Cortlandt Street. 
 
 Earle & Co., i)7 Front Street. 
 
 Garbutt, Griggs & Co., 168 Chambers Street. 
 
 E. C. Hazard, 192 Chambers Street. 
 
 E. & R. Mead, Jr., & Co., 13 Coenties Slip. 
 
 George A. Merwin & Co., 242 Washington St. 
 
 Moore, Jenkins & Co., 229 Front Street. 
 
 Moore & Walcefield, 49 Broadway. 
 
 James Olwell & Co., 181 West Street. 
 
 Potter & Williams, 218 Front Street. 
 
 Robert Seaman, 117 West Street. 
 
 Sherwood & Van Name, 2.54 Greenwich St. 
 
 H. K. Thurber & Co., 173 Chamber Street. 
 
 Henry Welsh, 321 Washington Street. 
 
 Gardner G. Yvelin, 206 Fulton Street. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 Note. — The follo^ving List is as large as we have space 
 to print in this issue. 
 
 Aladorf & Doscher, Brooklyn, N. T. 
 • R. J. Owens, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 Valentine & Bergen, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 R. M. Bishop & Co., Cincinnati. 
 
 A. A. Colter & Co., Cincinnati. 
 Smith & Curtis, Cleveland. 
 Strong & Armstrong, Cleveland. 
 Callender & Co., Buifalo, N. Y. 
 Butler, Earhart & Co., Columbus, Ohio. 
 Williams & Co., Chillieothe, Ohio. 
 Fallis & Linton, Toledo, Ohio. 
 Benson & Wood, Toledo, Ohio. 
 Lippincott & Browulee, Steubenville, Ohio. 
 King & Owens, Chicago, III. 
 
 Downer & Co., Chicago, 111. 
 
 Fleek and Sherwood, Newark, Ohio. 
 
 Montgomery & Warner, Newark, Ohio. 
 
 B. Trentman & Son, Fort Wayne, Ind. 
 Browning & Slotin, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 Sevcriu. Schimll & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 
 Delano & Trippe, Troy, N. Y. 
 Comstook Bros., Utica, N. Y. 
 
 Adams, Rowdey & Ney, Utica, N. Y. 
 A. Ethridge & Co., Rome, N. Y. 
 
 C. C. Loomis & Co., T^yracuse, N. Y. 
 Mathews & Brownson, Brighampton, N. Y. 
 Lormore Bros. & Reid, Elmira, N. Y. 
 John Y. Selover, Auburn, N. Y. 
 
 A. A. Solomons & Co., Savannah, Ga. 
 
 C. L. Gilbert, Savannah, Ga. 
 
 Swarbrick & Co., New Orleans, La. 
 
 T. H. Hinchman & Sons, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 E. S. Bush & Co., Detroit, Mich. 
 
 Lorenzo Baker, Schaghticoke, N. Y. 
 
 H. A. Barton, Livonia Station, N. Y. 
 
 Birdsall, Baker & Co., Wellsville, N. Y. 
 
 Brantley & Pringle, Sandersville, Ga. 
 
 A. H. Blackal!, Chicago, 111. 
 
 J. S. Burdsal & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Benton, Myers & Canfiekl, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 G. W. Brown & Co., Columbus, Ga. 
 
 Wm. Chamberlain, Barrytown, N. Y. 
 
 O. Chamberlain, Amenia, N. Y. 
 
 G. W. Comstock, South Orange, N. J. 
 
 H. B. Crosby & Son, Paterson, N. J. 
 
 W. D. Cooper & Bro., Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Wm. Caldwell, Evansville, Ind. 
 
 The Courts. 
 
 IMPORTANT OASES AND DECISIONS. 
 
 Superi&r Court, Trial Term. Journeay r.i. 
 Mcclmnieii' National Bank. 
 
 This case furnishes another forcible illustra- 
 tion" of the'danger of ".dependence upon the 
 Becord in Real Estate transactions, and of the 
 po.isi/jilitie.i mentioned in the editorial con- 
 tained in this number of Table Talk, headed 
 " Our Land Titles in Danyer. " A curious and 
 interesting question of liability in payment of 
 checks upon forged endorsements is also in- 
 volved. The facts are these : 
 
 Maiy E. Bull was the actual owner of cer- 
 tain real estate on Staten Island. A woman 
 representing herself as Mary E. Bull, of Hart- 
 ford, Conn., called on Albert Journeay, at his 
 real estate office in New York, and left a 
 memorandum of this property belonging to 
 Miss Bull, stating that she wislied to sell it, and 
 that if it could not be sold very soon, she 
 would like a loan of $1,000 secured by bond 
 and mortgage upon the premises. She then 
 went to New Haven, and calling upon a re- 
 spectable firm of lawyers in that cit}', Messrs. 
 Peck and Gardner, she presented a letter from 
 Journeay, which stated that he had been ap- 
 pointed her agent for the property. She then 
 asked Messrs. P. and G. to act for her, and to 
 procure the loan. Mr. Journeay prepared the 
 papers for the loan in New York and sent 
 them on to New Haven ; they were signed by 
 this woman as "Mary E. Bull," aod returned 
 to Jourueav, who. thereupon, forwarded his 
 check for the loan of $1,000, to tlie order of 
 Mary E. Bull. Through her relations with 
 Peck and Gardner she easily obtained the 
 money upon her endorsement as M. E. B., 
 from the City Bank of New Haven. Soon 
 after, the property was sold by Journeay for 
 about $2,200, and the deed having been" pre- 
 pared Ijy him and duly executed, and returned 
 by the pretended owner, Journeay sent her a 
 second check to same order, for the balance, 
 $1,200, which she as readily procured the 
 money for at the same bank. These two 
 checks were foi-warded to the Nassau Bank for 
 collection, and were paid by the Mechanics' 
 National Bank of this city, where plaintiff 
 kept his account. A year after, the real owner, 
 Maiy E. Bull, sold the land, and upon search 
 of the title by the purchaser, the fraudulent 
 conveyance was discovered. The woman who 
 bad so cleverly played the part, of "Mary E. 
 Bull," was, of course, not to be found, and 
 Jounieay brought suit against the Mechanics' 
 National Bank, to recover the amount of the 
 two checks paid, $2,200, on the ground that 
 the endorsement of Mary E. Bull was forged. 
 The Bank's defense is substantially this, that 
 Journeay dealt with the person who wrote the 
 endorsement, that he intended to pay tier ttie 
 money, and that it being proved that the person 
 recognized try Jiim as Maiy E. Bull had re- 
 ceived the money, he could not require the 
 Bank to rectify his own mistake in identity. 
 
 The Judge directed a verdict for the plaintiff 
 for the whole .amount claimed, subject to the 
 decision of the General Term. 
 
 (2.) 
 
 Court of Appeals. Mar/cTiemi vs. Javdon. 
 
 This decision finally settles an important 
 question as to the rights of parties dealing in 
 stocks through a broker, "on margin." In 
 our judgment, it will open up an immense 
 amount of litigation, unless, indeed, all claims 
 under the decision are at once compromised by 
 the brokers. 
 
 Markham bought stock through his brokers, 
 thejaudons, in the usual way. "on a margin." 
 The stock fell in price until the margin was 
 exhausted. The brokers notified Markham 
 that if he did not make his margin good they 
 would sell him out, but they did not specify 
 time or place of sale. They sold the stock 
 and brought him in debt ; aftenvards the stock 
 rose in value. 
 
 The Court decides — 
 
 1 . That when a broker buys stock for a cus 
 tomer, and agrees to pay for it and carry it on 
 
 receiving a deposit of a margin of money or 
 stock, he holds the stock so purchased as a 
 pledge for the repayment of the money he ad- 
 vances, and can not sell it, even if the value of 
 the stock falls so as to exhaust the margin, 
 without giving notice of the time and place of 
 the sale. 
 
 2. That evidence of the custom or usage of 
 brokers can not be received to change these 
 rights and relations of the parties to such 
 transaction. 
 
 3. That a broker who sells out his custom- 
 er's stock after his margin is gone, but without 
 giving him notice of the time and place of the 
 sale, IS liable to the customer for the Iiitjliest 
 J) rice of the sloe/,: dawn to tlie time <f the trial, 
 because the customer owns the stock, and the 
 act of the broker is a wrongful commission. 
 
 THE MAN WHO SMOKES IN THE 
 STREET. 
 I knew by the smoke that so lazily curled 
 From his lips twas a loafer I happened to 
 meet. 
 And I said, " if a nuisance there be in the world, 
 Tis smoking cigars in a frequented street. " 
 Twas night, and the ladies were glidingaround. 
 And in manj' an eye shone the glittering tear. 
 But the loafer puffed on,andI hcardnotasound. 
 Save the short, hacking cough of each smoke- 
 smitten dear. 
 
 Among the early visitors to California were 
 a youngEnglish college graduate and his father, 
 traveling for pleasure. While sojourning at 
 San Francisco, the sou joined a hunting party 
 bound for the mountains. When they had 
 been gone several weeks, the J'oung English- 
 man became accidentally separated from his 
 companions, and after a long search they found 
 the lifeless body of the poor fellow, mutilated 
 by the small wolves of that country, known as 
 Coyotes. The leader of the band, a stalwart, 
 khid-hearted old hunter, albeit a man of few 
 words, felt it incumbent upon him to notify 
 the bereaved parent of the sad event, and ac- 
 cordingly dispatched to him the following la- 
 conic epistle : 
 
 "Dear Sir, 
 The Kyotes hev eat your son's head off." 
 
 Chinese English. 
 
 The oft quoted lines — 
 
 " l\Iy iinriie is Noival ; rm the (IrHmpian Hills 
 
 " M*> father fed (iict/ecds) his tlock, — a frugal ewaiu !" 
 
 is thus rendered by a Chinaman of liberal edu- 
 education : 
 
 " My name Ilong Norval. Topside Grampian Hills 
 
 '' Fader chow-chow lie sheep. Berry small-liearted man!" 
 
 It would be a relief to hear this new version 
 substituted for the old, in our schools, 
 take notice ! 
 
 Boys, 
 
 " The wife's inability to make good bread is 
 a ground of divorce among the Ai'abs. " — Neio 
 Tort: Sun. 
 
 Suppose this Arabian law should be grafted 
 on our code. Horrible suggestion ! Ladies 1 
 you who have wayward or discontented hus- 
 bands, be forewarned and forearmed ! Spike 
 the enemy's guns while he is yet asleep. Pro- 
 cure Horsford s Bread Preparation :ind use it ; 
 then obseiwc the change 1 See the frown and 
 the crisp tender roll vanish together; re- 
 strain your joy as the disappearing loaf is fol- 
 lowed by a look of beaming gratitude, until 
 conquered by the savory temptations of j your 
 tabic, your husband exclaims with the Arab, 
 "Great is Allah! and Horsford is his pro- 
 phet !" 
 
 Prudent wives who already use the Bread 
 Preparation, need not read this. Their hus- 
 bands need no further propitiation ; having 
 loving wives and good bread, they are happy. 
 
1870.] 
 
 TABLE TALK. 
 
 16 
 
 . Horsford's Bread Preparation. 
 
 Wlutt is it for ? 
 
 It is for " Haisi/iff" Bread, Btilln^ Bi.fci/if, 
 Waffles, Cakes, Dumplings, etc., etc., and takes 
 the place of Yeast, Soda or Salasratus, Cream 
 of Tartar, sour Milk or any other form of 
 leaven. 
 
 How does it differ from other forms of 
 leaven or other " B;ikiug Powders ?" 
 
 Essentially in this : that all other " raising " 
 or leavening agents supply in themselves 
 nothing which is nutritious or required by the 
 human system ; Horsford's Bread Preparation 
 does contain the elements of nutrition in such 
 " proportions and form as renders them immedi- 
 ately assimilable. 
 
 Whi/ slwuld we use it? 
 
 Jiecaifse it is manufactured only by the 
 well-known Rumford Chemical Works of 
 Providence, R. I., under t!ie personal super- 
 vision of Professor E. N. Horsford, of Har- 
 vard University, and the purity of the in- 
 gredients can therefore be relied upon. 
 
 Jicoi iifte the directions for its use are simple 
 and easily understood. The proportions of 
 Acid and Soda are not left to careless or igno- 
 rant cooks. 
 
 Because Bread, Biscuit — any form of far- 
 inaceous food — made with this Preparation, 
 may be eaten Hot as well as cold by Iiwalids 
 and Dyspeptics. 
 
 Beeti II tie the nutritive value of flour is in- 
 creased by the use of Prof. Horsford's inven- 
 tion ten per cent. (See letter from Baron 
 Liebig to Prof. Horsford.) 
 
 Bei^'iiine but a few moments time are re- 
 quired to prepare any form of Bread for baking. 
 The result is certain, and the bread always 
 good. Climate, weather, temperature do not 
 affect the result 
 
 Because sweet and delicious Hot Biscuit, 
 Rolls, &c., are made by the use of Horsford's 
 Preparation, -mthfour, water, and salt only, — 
 neither milk, butter, nor other shortening 
 being necessary. 
 
 Berfiii.se a supplies to the human system 
 the Phosphates which exist in the whole grain, 
 but which are removed with the bran in the 
 manuf actm-e of fine flour. 
 
 Beemise Horsford's Bread Preparation is 
 the only "Baking Powder" which is used, ap- 
 proeed, and publicly recommended by scientific 
 men. Its use is almost universal among pfiy- 
 sicians. 
 
 Among those who use and have given Hors- 
 ford's Bread: Preparaziori their unqualified ap- 
 proval, we are at liberty to mention : 
 
 The Late Dr. VALENTINE MOTT, New York, 
 
 Dr. VVILLARD PARKER « 
 
 The Late Dr. HORACE GREEN. . . . 
 
 Dr. WM. H. DWINELLE >. 
 
 Dr. FORDYCE BARKER .. 
 
 Dr. JOHN H. GRISCOM » 
 
 Dr. AUGUST JACOBI .. 
 
 Prof. CHAS, .\. JOY, Columbia Col. . . 
 
 Prof. C.F.CHANDLER.Columbia Col. ii 
 
 Dr. JOHN TORREY, Columbia Col. '> 
 
 Prof. R. OGDEN DOREMUS ii 
 
 Dr. WM. A. HAMMOND, Prof, of 
 Diseases of the Mind and Nervous 
 System, and of Clinical Medicine in 
 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
 and late Surgeon General, U. S. Army w 
 
 MASON C. WELD, (Chemist), Asso- 
 ciate Editor American AgTiculturist,.. " 
 
 S. H, M'ALES, Editor Scientific Ameri- 
 can, » 
 
 J. B. LYMAN. Agricultural Editor N. Y. 
 Tribune, and Associate Editor "Hearth 
 and Home," » 
 
 0R.\NGE JUDD, Proprietor and Edi- 
 tor American Agriculturist, ') 
 
 D, D. T. MOORE, Proprietor and Edi- 
 tor Moore's Rural New Yorker w 
 
 Rev.CRAMMOND KENNEDY Asso- 
 ciate Editor " Christian Union,' » 
 
 Dr. J. R. NICHOLS Best., Mass. 
 
 Dk.C.T. JACKSON, Mass. State Chem. , '< 
 
 Prof. J. C. BOOTH, of U. S. Mint PhTla., Penn. 
 
 Prof. SAMUEL H. DICKSON, Jeffer- 
 son Medical College » 
 
 Prof. C. S. GAUNT, M.D., .1 
 
 Prof. SAMUEL JACKSON, M.D.,Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania >} 
 
 Dr. A. P. WYLIE Chester, S. C. 
 
 Dr. THOMAS S. JONES _.. Jackson, La. 
 
 Dr. A. J. COMFORT .Tt. Ripley, Minn. 
 
 Horsford's Bread Prepa/ration is put up in 
 packages sufiicient for 25 pounds of flour. 
 
 RETAIL PRICE (with Tin Measure) 30cts. 
 
 WILSON, LOCKWOOD, EVEEETT & CO,, 
 General Agents, 
 
 201 Fulton St., N. Y. City. 
 
 Pass Him Around. 
 
 United States Mail Agent Thomas C. Smith 
 on Saturday found in the New Haven Depot a 
 package containing $22,000 in cash. On re- 
 turning it to its owner, Mr. Watson, a soap 
 mauufactm'er of Boston, he received as a re- 
 ward $2,000 and a valuable diamond pin. 
 
 The following lines of " poetry "' taken from 
 an obituary notice in the New York Times of 
 January 16th, however appropriate and just to 
 the deceased, reflect rather severely upon the 
 survivors : — 
 
 ■' God takes the good, too good on earth to stay, 
 And leaves the bad, too bad lo tai^e away." 
 
 The Ikpalliblb Test. — On entering the 
 chamber of a French marquis one morning, 
 whom he had attended through a very danger- 
 ous illness. Dr. Bouvart was thus accosted: 
 " Good-day to you, Mr. Bouvart ; I feel quite 
 in spirits, and think my fever has left me." 
 
 " I am sure it has," replied Bouvart, dryly. 
 " The very first expression you used convinces 
 me of it.' 
 
 "Pray, explain yourself." 
 
 " Nothing is easier. In the first days of your 
 illness, when your life was in danger, I was 
 your dearest friend ; as you began to get bet- 
 ter, I was your good Bouvart ; and now I am 
 Mr. Bouvart : depend upon it, you are quite 
 recovered. " 
 
 An EQtirvocAi, Answer. — A certain literary 
 gentleman, wishing to be undisturbed one day, 
 instructed his servant to admit no one, and if 
 any one should inquire for him to give them 
 an equivocal answer. Night came, and the 
 gentleman proceeded to interrogate Pat as to 
 callers. "Did any one call?" "Yes, sir, 
 wan gintleman." " What did he say ?'' "He 
 axed was yer honor in." " Well, what did 
 you tell him ? ' " Sure, I gave him a quivikle 
 answer jist." "How was that?" "I axed 
 him was his grandmother a monkey ! ' ' 
 
 — A biography of Robespierre, published in a 
 late Irish paper, concludes with the following 
 remarkable sentence : " This extraordinary 
 man left no children behind him except his 
 brother, who was killed at the same time." 
 
 — ' ' I say, boy, stop that ox ! " "I haven't got 
 no stopper. " " Well, head him, then. " " He's 
 already headed, sir." "Confoimd your im- 
 pertinence, turn him!"' " He's right side out 
 already, sir.'' " Speak to him, you rascal, 
 you !" " Good morning, Mr. Ox.'' 
 
 An exchange tells of a negro who insisted 
 that his race was mentioned in the Bible. He 
 said he had heard the preacher read about how 
 " Nigger Demus wanted to be born again." 
 
 — Abernethy used to tell his pupils that all 
 human diseases sprang from two causes, 
 stuffiny and fretting. 
 
 — Contrasted Proverbs. — " In a multitude of 
 councillors there is wisdom. — Solomon. In a 
 multitude of councilmen there is folly. — N. Y. 
 Tax-Payer. 
 
 Our life is but a winter's day ; 
 Some only breakfast, and away ! 
 Others to dinner st;iy, and are full fed : 
 The oldest man but sups and goes to bed ! 
 Large is his debt, who lingers through the day ; 
 Who goes the soonest, has the least to pay I 
 
 The following letter has been handed 
 to us by Me. George F. Wilson, the 
 Treasurer of the Rnniford Chemical 
 Works, of Providence, E. I. It is from 
 Peter Henderson, Esq., the Seedsman, 
 Florist, and Agricultural Writer; he 
 needs no introduction from us where 
 ever an agricultural newspaper is taken, 
 or agricultural tiooks circulate. 
 
 New Yoek, October 20, 1868. 
 To Mr. Geo. F. Wilson. 
 
 Dear Sie, — Last spring I purchased from 
 your office in New York one ton of your 
 "Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
 Lime," costing $G0, and at the same time I 
 bought a ton of No. 1 Peruvian Guano, 
 costing $85, with a view to test the Superphos- 
 phate against the Guano, by careful experi- 
 ment. Accordingly, two acres of our richest 
 market garden ground was measured off, and 
 carefully ploughed. One acre was sown with 
 the Guano, and the other with your Super- 
 phosphate, on the ploughed surface, then 
 thoroughly harrowed in and sown with beets 
 and onions, equal quantities on each acre. 
 The crops on both acres were unusually early 
 and large, netting a clear profit of $500 per 
 acre, (even at the low rates at which all early 
 vegetables sold last summer in New York). 
 There was no perceptible difference in the 
 effects produced by the Guano and Superphos- 
 phate on the crops of onions and beets ; both 
 were extra fine. But the second crop (^celery) 
 noio shows tJie finest on the acre fertilized with 
 your Superplwsphate. 
 
 Yery respectfully yours, 
 
 PETER HENDERSON. 
 
 The next letter on the same subject, 
 was written to JoJui Knox, Esq.. the 
 " Small Fruit" Grower, by Col. Mason 0. 
 Weld, of New York, well known as an 
 Agricultural Chemist, and Associate 
 Editor of the "American Agriculturist." 
 
 New York, June 7th, 1869. 
 TV John Knox, Esq., Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Dear Sik,— My friend Mr. Potter, of Wil- 
 son, Lockwood, Everett & Co., of New York, 
 tells me you have made inquiiy concerning 
 "Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
 Lime," and asks if I will give you my opinion 
 of it. / buy it for my own use, knowing the 
 article and having made comparative tests with 
 it last year, in which it stood better than any 
 other Superi>hosphate that I tried, save one. 
 and fully equal, if not better than that one on 
 certain crops. I am personally acquainted 
 with the members of the lirm of Wilson, Lock- 
 wood, Everett & Co., and know that their re- 
 presentations can be strictly relied ui)on. 
 
 Yours truly, MASON C. WELD. 
 
 \A'il.son's Ammoniated Superphos- 
 phate of Lime, above referred to, can be 
 had of us direct, or through any of the 
 agricultural seed stores, in any iiuantity, 
 from 100 lbs. to 1,000 tons. 
 
 Fiice, $60 per Ton. 
 
 A pamphlet, descriptive of the aljove 
 fertilizer, sent free upon application. 
 
 Every ton warranted equal to standard. 
 
 Wilson, Lock-wood, Everett & Co., 
 
 GENERAL AGENTS, 
 
 201 Fulton St., N.Y. 
 
16 
 
 TABLE TALK 
 
 [January. 
 
 IVEW r>ET»OTS. 
 
 In addition to our Agenciet* in Hip principal 
 cities and towns of tlie WEST, for the greater 
 convenience of the trade, we have established 
 Depotn for all our goods in Chicago, Cincinnati 
 .•Old St. Louis, as follows ; 
 
 CHICAGO, 
 
 Messrs. KING k OWEN, 250 & 252 South Water St. 
 
 CINCINNATI-, 
 
 Messrs. E. M. BISHOF & CO., S5 and 87 Eace St. 
 
 ST. LOUIS, 
 
 Messrs. FEED. F. EOSIEE & CO., 521 North 2d St. 
 Orders for Horsforii's Bread Preparation, 
 liumfnrd Yeast Poirders, Horsfo-rd' s (Jremn of 
 Tartar iSuhstitiitf, &c., &c., will be received 
 and filled at the above Depots, as well as by 
 many other Agents, whose names ai'e given 
 elsewliere, without the delay of shipment from 
 New York. Buyers of our goods in small 
 quantities will always xare monei/, as well as 
 time, by ordering of our nearest Agent. 
 
 Wilson, Lockwood, Everett &. Co, 
 
 201 FnUou St., X.Y. 
 
 Aduxteeation of Floue. — Last week, before 
 the Sheffield borough magistrates, Alfred 
 Tangle, of the Victoria and Albert Mills, Bright 
 villc, was charged with having unlawfully adul- 
 terated flour, &c., with alum. It was proved 
 that defendant had purchased from a druggist 
 no less than eOOlbs of alum, with which he had 
 adulterated about soo,OOOlbs of flour. Defend- 
 ant had three retail shops besides his mills, and 
 carries on a large trade. The magistrates said 
 it was a very liad case, and fined the defend- 
 ant £H> and costs, with the alternative of a 
 month's imprisonment ; particulars of the 
 offence to be puV)lished in the newspapers in 
 addition. The evidence caused a great sensa- 
 tion in court. — London Paper. 
 
 Use John Dwight & Co.'s • 
 
 BEST-SALAERATUS, 
 or their Super Carb. Soda. 
 
 No others are equal to these for cooking 
 purposes. Estalilished 1846. 
 
 JOHN DWIGHT & CO., 
 
 11 Old Slip, New York. 
 
 I — A man can give his neighbor a promissory 
 
 note, moistened by a fluid just invented by a 
 
 French chemist, and in a month afterward the 
 
 holder will have nothing to show for it but a 
 
 little dust. If this fact becomes generally 
 
 ! known, short credit will become the nde — in 
 
 ! order that the borrower may be compelled to 
 
 ! come down with the dust before his note does. 
 
 HORSFORD'S 
 
 Acid Phosphate, 
 
 (MEDICINAL,) 
 
 Prepared by the 
 
 RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS, 
 
 PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
 
 UNDliK THE DIRECTION OF 
 
 Professoij E. N. Horsfukd, 
 
 f.nfp Riiniford Prnfessar at Harvard (Jnivcrmit/ 
 Ca7/ibrido-e, Ma.tx. 
 
 A Bad One. — I remember once hearing an 
 
 I Irishman ask whether Tl\omas Case was a 
 
 ; rogue. "Is it Tom?' exclaimed Pat with a 
 
 look of astonishment, " Pon me sowl, if I had 
 
 a warrant agin the divil, I'd take Tom Case on 
 
 suspicion." 
 
 BURNET & LEONARD, 
 
 Steam Boiler Manufacturers 
 
 44? *.o 452 Ogden Street. Newark, N, J. 
 
 MARINE AND STATIONARY BOILERS, 
 
 OIL STILLS, \VATER TANKS. 
 
 VARNISH KETTLES, 
 
 STEAM RENDERING TANKS 
 for Lard, Tallow and Grease. 
 
 OUR 
 
 for Steam Engines always on hand. 
 
 OUK SPECIALITY 18 
 
 First-Ciass Work at less than New YorkPrices 
 
 The value of preparations of acid phosphates 
 as therapeutic agents is in keeping with well- 
 known chemical principles. 
 
 So far as experience goes, Horsford's Acid 
 Phosphate seems to act as if it were nutriment 
 to the cerebral and nervous systems, restoring 
 to their normal action secretory organs that 
 have been deranged, giving vigor where there 
 has been debility, and renewed strength where 
 there has been exhaustion. 
 
 It has hecii f'yimd especiaUy seroiceaMe, in. dys 
 perpnia and disorders incident thereto : in iiri- 
 nary diffieidties, proceedinff f mat. paralysis of the 
 Madder or sphineler, and is kitt'irn to he usefal 
 in tendencies to gravel and .rpermatorrhoi, in 
 cerebral and spinal paralysis, mental eThanition , 
 icakef Illness, hys^'cria, and other nernms affec- 
 tions. 
 
 Each fluid drachm contains : 
 
 .032 of a grain of metallic iron, in the form i 
 of oxide combined as an acid phosphate. '• 
 
 1 .100 of uncombiued, potential tribasic phos- 1 
 phoric acid, mixed with tribasic phos- [ 
 phoric acid combined as monobasic phos- 
 phate of lime, potassa, magnesia and 
 ammonia. 
 
 It contains no pyro-phosphate, ormeta-phos- ' 
 phate of any base whatever. 
 
 Most excellent results have attended its ad- 
 ministration for the prostration and nervous 
 symptoms following >^>in.<itroke. j 
 
 Physicians desiring to examine and test this j 
 I'emedy, are retiuested to apply by letter, or j 
 otherwise, to the undersigned. — 
 
 Wilson, Locl(wood, Everett & Co., 
 
 General Agents, 
 
 201 Fulton St., N. Y. | 
 
 ' — Brick Pomeroy boasts that he once worked 
 I at a case alongside of a negro printer, and Siiys 
 I he is proud of the fact. Now let us hear from 
 ! the darkey 
 
 — A man in Cincinnati advertises for a situ- 
 ation : "Work not so much an object as good 
 wages. 
 
 — An old trapper of Arizona, who has just 
 scalped his fifteenth Indian, says : " It is good 
 slaying out liere this season. " 
 
 The lady Principal of a school, in her ad- 
 vertisement, mentioned her lady assistant, and 
 the " reputation for teaching which she bears;" 
 but the printer left out the " which," so the ad- 
 vertisement went forth commending the lady's 
 " re])Utation for teaching she bears" 
 
 My mother wants to know if your mother 11 
 
 lend ^"^^ mnfli^i' vnnr TnnttiAr'Q rtiptn vp tn nmUp 
 
 our 
 
 ly mother wants to know if your mother 11 
 1 my mother your mother's pickaxe to make 
 hog a hen-coop ? 
 
 — Work is not the worst thing in the world. 
 Dr. Weinhold describes it as in the first ages a 
 necessity, in the classical ages a burden, in the 
 middle ages a privilege, in modern times a 
 right, in the future a duty, and at all times 
 ideally, a pleasure. It is indeed a fact, that 
 without work man becomes wretched. 
 
 English Pimue. — "While Marshal Sebasti- 
 an! was French Minister in England, he sat 
 next Lord Palmerston at a city dinner, and, 
 after listening to all that was said in praise of 
 England in the various speeches delivered 
 during the evening, he remarked to his neigh- 
 bor, ' Oh, my lord, if I was not a Frenchman 
 I should wish to be an Englislunan.' 'And 
 I,' coldly replied old Pam, 'if I was not an 
 Englishman, should wish to be one.' " 
 
 WATERMAN'S 
 
 CAST mON BAKE-PANS, 
 
 Also known as the 
 
 "gem: p^ist," 
 
 Of \arious shapes aiul s\7,e!i, T9r Baking 
 
 White & Graham Rolls, Biscuit, Corn 
 Cakev Etc.. Etc. 
 
 They Bake more Quickly than Tin or Sheet Iron. 
 
 They produce Lighter Biscuit, Cake, Etc. 
 
 They do not wear out. 
 
 They eive more Crust. 
 
 They do not Bum the Dough. 
 
 Much Time is Saved, a^ it is not necessary to Mould or 
 Shape the Dough. 
 
 They are recommended as THE BEST by the Manu- 
 facturers of Hors/ord's Bread Preparation. 
 
 Manufactured and sold to the trade by 
 
 RUSSELL &. ERWIN MANUFACTURING CO. 
 
 45 & 47 Chambers Steet, New York Citv. 
 
 The Original and only Genuine 
 
 LIEBIG'S 
 
 Extract of Meat, 
 
 IS MADE BT THE 
 
 LIEBIG EXTEAOT OF MEAT 00., 
 
 A7i(l hns flic iSifjnii/iires (if Baron Lic- 
 
 bifj. Ihe inrevfar, (uiil of Ma.r PeUen- 
 
 icoffer. (Irh'iiiiie. on evenj Jar, wifJi- 
 
 (inf w/n'rJi none ran he e/enuine. 
 
 It is the only ai'ticle that received GOLD 
 MEDALS AT PARIS 1867, HAVRE 1868, and 
 THE GRAND DIPLOMA (superior to the 
 Gold Medal), at AMSTERDAM 18t;9. 
 
 It is invaluable as Food, especially for those 
 who need strengthening diet. It seciu'es econ- 
 omy in houselieeeping, and excellence in 
 cookery, while saving time, trouble, fuel and 
 health. ' It is admirably adapted to the use of 
 Travelers' and Hunters . and on ship-board and 
 on farms and plantations where fresh meat 
 cannot be had for daily use. It keeps foryears 
 in any climate. 
 
 Be particular to ask for LIEBIG'S COM- 
 PANY'S extract, and 
 
 BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. 
 ./. MTLHAVS SONS. 
 183 Broadway, N. Y.. 
 
 SOLE AGENTS. 
 
TABLE TALK. 
 
 "A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LUMP." 
 
 Vol. L-No. 3. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 15, 1870. 
 
 r Price 5 Cts., 
 \ 50 Cts. per Annnm. 
 
 To Our Readers. 
 
 The increasing impDrtance of certain special- 
 ties of our business, the» demand for informa- 
 tion concerning them, and the impracticability 
 of conveying such information in detail to the 
 public by the general Press of the couutiy, 
 compel us to issue a Newspaper of our own. 
 
 Believing that a mere advertising sheet is 
 worthlesx alike to jinblisher and reader, we in- 
 tend to give in each number sufficient original 
 and selected literaiy matter to make our 
 Journal interesting. In futm-e issues, valuable 
 papers on scientific subjects, written for us by 
 men of acknowledged ability, will appear, and 
 we shall con.stantly endeavor to present inter- 
 esting facts and discoveries in applied science. 
 
 The reputiUion we seek for our Paper is that 
 of entire trustworthiness in all its statements, 
 and we invite readers who may hold difperent 
 opinions from those expressed in Table Talk, 
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 Our constant cn-culation of 5,000 copies will 
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 Talk the widest possible circulation. 
 
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 201 Fulton St., N. Y. City. 
 
 The Editor ahne is responsible for the opinions^ state- 
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 All comtnunieaticns, of wliateZ'er nature^ /or Table 
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 We have changed the dat^ of publica- 
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 It is our intention to make Table Talk 
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 ing Journal, and we shall lie liapjiy to 
 receive subscriptions from all those 
 
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 now very low: it will be higher. The read- 
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 of information from twelve numbers of 
 TAiiLE Talk must be a dull scholar. 
 Jokes have already appeared in it which 
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 If there is any one who would like to 
 read Table Talk Imtistoo mean to pay 
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 terms embrace all classes, we confidently 
 look for large suliscription lists. 
 
 •• Do we take advertisements ? " — Yes, a 
 limited number, and at the low rate of 
 §1.00 per inch, each insertion, or $10.00 
 fur a whole column. But we take no 
 advertisements at any price of quack- 
 medicines, Bnchu, Oroide "Watches, etc. 
 That "sands of life" fellow, and the 
 convalescent clergyman in the Bible 
 Htiuxv who is so anxious to benefit his 
 credulous fellow men. will get no aid 
 in their philanthropic schemes here. 
 They'll have to go over to the Independ- 
 ent office, where although they get less 
 circulation, they can obtain lower terms, 
 and at so much a square foot of space. 
 
 But we are filling np too much valua- 
 lile space about ourselves, and so, with a 
 graceful wave of our coat-tails, we vanish. 
 
 The Republican Court. 
 
 Certain very respectable gentlemen of 
 this cit}', prominent among whom was 
 Mr. Moses H. Grinnell, recently gave 
 a private entertainment to Prince 
 Arthur, at Delmoriico's. Great care 
 was exercised by these gentlemen that 
 none should lie invited to this exclusive 
 affair, who by social position and culture 
 were not qualified to do honor to the 
 distinguished guest. When supper was 
 announced, the Prince was escorted to a 
 private room, where, with a few very 
 select companions, the royal hunger was 
 appeased. The larger portion of the 
 company were graciously permitted to 
 suimear by, and possibly found consola- 
 tion in listening to the distant mur- 
 murs of the Prince's voice, and the clink 
 of his glass, as the entrancing sounds 
 floated through the partition walls to 
 
 their expectant ears. This arrangement 
 may have lieen according to European 
 court etiquette, and might in Europe be 
 considered in good taste, but here it was 
 degrading to those by whose order the 
 distinction was made, and insulting to 
 the ladies and gentlemen who were 
 obliged to submit to it. It would be in- 
 teresting to know Juitr the line was 
 drawn which thus sejiarated the sheep 
 from the goats. Fancy the solemn coun- 
 cil in session to decide who should sit at 
 the Prince's table. What delicate bal- 
 ancing of rival claims are there, as the 
 the name of each candidate for the 
 high honor is brought forward I How 
 many nice points have to be discussed 
 and adjusted, of comiiarative wealth, in- 
 come, location and style of residence, 
 number of servants, horses and carriages, 
 quantity of plate, diamonds, the church 
 attended, dress worn, family physician, 
 style of tomb in Greenwood and so on 
 ad injinit nni ! And then, appeared to 
 that cominittee, the skeleton liefore the 
 feast, the sad reflection, that decide how 
 they would, every invited guest omitted 
 from the '• roll of honor" became from 
 that hour their secret but deadly enemy I 
 Let us drop the curtain on this new act 
 of Vanity Fair, and leave these ^•enera- 
 ble courtiers to the inevitable penalty of 
 their snobbishness. 
 
 Modesty and Medicine. 
 
 The question whether those women 
 who desire to qualify themselves as phy- 
 sicians, shall be allowed the same priv- 
 ileges extended to the other sex, and 
 especially that of attendance upon the 
 regular Clinics of the hospitals, has 
 again forced itself upon the imblic atten- 
 tion under peculiarly disagreeable cir- 
 cumstances. It will be but too well 
 remembered that in November last, cer- 
 tain medical students at the Pennsyl- 
 vania Hospital in Philadelphia, mani- 
 fested their gentlemanly instincts, and, 
 at the same time, their opposition to the 
 presence of some thirty female students, 
 by howling and jeering at these ladies 
 as they entered and departed from the 
 hospital. These young men knew that 
 the female students had the same per- 
 
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 TABLE TALK 
 
 [February, 
 
 mission from the Board of Managers to 
 attend the Clinics as themselves, but 
 they attempted to constitute themselves 
 both makers and executers of the law. 
 Public opinion condemned in very plain 
 terms the manner of their opposition, 
 and the rights of female students — there 
 at least — were more plainly acknowl- 
 edged and firmly established than before. 
 Scarcely has this storm of indignation 
 aroused by the action of the Philadel- 
 phia students subsided, when a similar 
 outrage is rejiorted at Bellevne Hospital, 
 in this city. For several years the 
 Clinics at Bellevne have been attended 
 by students of both sexes. The ladies 
 now attending are also students of the 
 Woman's Medical College, and as such 
 ai'e entitled to the privileges of Bellevne, 
 both under the charter of that institti- 
 tion and by Legislative law. Yet with- 
 out having given any provocation by 
 word or deed, they were assailed in the 
 lecture-room by foul and indecent lan- 
 guage and paper missiles, and one of ihe 
 ladies received in her laji an indecent 
 drawing which was characterized by the 
 lecturer — Prof. Wood — as " shockingly 
 obscene." These acts, it will be remem- 
 bered, were not the mad pranks of 
 thoitghtless school-boys; they were per- 
 petrated by ineti of accountable age ; by 
 men who [claim recognition of decent 
 people, and who expect under their title 
 of pJn/fiician to be admitted into our 
 families and to the professional confi- 
 dence of pure and refined women. " But 
 surely," says the incredulous reader, 
 "they must have experienced some 
 provocation ; they certainly give some 
 reason for such unusual and unmanly 
 conduct." Yes, they do offer an excuse, 
 both the Pliiladelphia students and 
 those of Bellevne, and let them have the 
 full benefit of it. Their defense is sim- 
 ply this, that in their opinion, it is im- 
 modest and unwomanly for these ladies 
 to obtrude their presence at the Clinics, 
 during the unavoidable personal expo- 
 sure necessary in many cases of disease 
 and surgical operations, and that their 
 own sensibilities arc shocked by having 
 to view these cases in company with wo- 
 men. This is the pith of their argu- 
 ment. Now it may fairly be doubted 
 whether with the majority of medical 
 students this is true, for they certainly 
 bear a reputation for pretty thick skins; 
 and, as a class, would hardly serve as 
 models of monility and propriety in 
 their relations with the other sex. Yet 
 these are the fellows who with burning 
 cheeks and down-cast eyes shrink from 
 the presence of pure women, and who 
 are driven by very excess of delicacy 
 into acts of indecent desperation ! 
 
 If these female students had ever given 
 evidence of unworthy or impure motives; 
 if they had not compelled the respect 
 of all their pure minded associates, 
 would they have been subjected to such 
 treatment? No! The very men who 
 perpetrated these outrages would have 
 courted their favor, and would have 
 been their friends and protectors. And 
 if the students of Bellevne who condemn 
 these lawless and unmanly acts of a 
 portion of their number, do not publicly 
 express their disapproval, a stigma will 
 rest upon the entire body, and may afiect 
 the professional career of innocent per- 
 sons. 
 
 Now we are disposed to believe that 
 some students and even practicing phy- 
 sicians are embarrassed by the presence 
 of ladies during the investigation of de- 
 licate cases of disease, and it is even, 
 possible that their skill in manipulating 
 instruments may thereby be affected. 
 But the delicate organization which 
 renders such men susceptible to this 
 embarrassment also makes it impossible 
 for them to be even passive witnesses of 
 stich outrages as occurred at Bellevne. 
 
 That many women desire a physician 
 of their own sex is very certain ; and 
 that some women intend to qualify 
 themselves for such service is an estab- 
 lished fact. The opposition may be 
 strong and bitter, but the experiment 
 will be tried in spite of all the medical 
 students and colleges in the laud. For 
 the honor of the profession then give 
 woman a fair chaiK'e. If she is willing 
 to brave the taunts of men, to endure 
 the revolting sights and sounds of the 
 amphitheatre to fit herself for her high 
 calling, respect her motives and courage 
 if you can not approve her judgment. 
 Until female physicians are sufficiently 
 numerous to support hospitals and oper- 
 ating rooms of their own, they must be 
 allowed the privileges of such as are now 
 established, even at the cost of some 
 annoyance to our modest doctors of the 
 other sex. 
 
 ^^M 
 
 Greenbacks at Par. 
 
 About the only surprising circum- 
 stance connected with the late impor- 
 tant decision of the Supreme Court of 
 the United States, that all existing 
 contracts or debts made or created pre- 
 vious to the passage of the Legal Tender 
 Act, (February 25, 1863), must be paid 
 in coin, is the remarkably small effect 
 produced upon business transactions or 
 the public mmd. Under this decision, 
 the payment of coin may be required 
 upon the principal or interest of Mori- 
 gacjes, of Bonds, of States, Counties 
 and Towns, or of Eailroad Com- 
 
 panies and other Corporations ; of 
 Promissory Notes, Life, and probably. 
 Fire Insnrance Pojicies, Reiitah, &c., 
 &c., all of course of date previous to 
 February 25, 18(32, and where the 
 original contract has not been vitiated 
 or changed. The reasons for this apathy 
 are various, such as an indisposition to 
 arouse o^ijiosition and hard feeling by 
 pressing claims under the decision, and 
 the low jnice of gold : but, chiefly, feeling 
 that every attem])t to enforce claims by 
 the creditor will be promptly resisted by 
 litigation in the State Courts, whereby 
 delay nuiy Ije experienced, even for 
 years, in collecting claims in an>i form, 
 and involving heavy expenses. The 
 result would not be certain, and if in 
 the State Courts the claim fi>i- coin 
 should not be sustained, the plaintiff' 
 would have to yield or appeal to the U. 
 S. Supreme Court. Now the original 
 decision, first announced, was concurred 
 in by four out of seven Jtulges. there 
 being Iavo vacancies, and a majority of a 
 quorum l>eing sulScient to decide a 
 case in that court. But when those two 
 vacancies are filleJ, who can say witii 
 any certainty that this decision might 
 not be reversed ? It is improbalile, but 
 possible, and there is just sufficient of 
 that element of inicerfriintti to deter 
 creditors from pressing their claims in 
 the face of determined op])osition. The 
 opinion of the Court was pulilicly an- 
 nounced on the 7th of February, and 
 we have yet to hear of a single compli- 
 ance with a demand for coin, or of an 
 attempt to enforce a claim in the State 
 Courts. 
 
 The Honors Divided. 
 
 The Ckn'sfidH Union has justly at- 
 tracted much attention and received 
 great praise from the reading world since 
 Mr. Beecher assumed the position of 
 chief editor. This is a proof of the warm 
 interest felt by the public in Mr. Beecher 
 and in all that he undertakes, as well as 
 a compliment to his editorial proficiency. 
 While meting out full justice to the 
 ability of the talented editor-in-chief, the 
 public has overlooked the silent claims 
 of the gentleman who fii-st made that 
 paper respectable and influential, and to 
 whose zeal and energy the Gliristian 
 Vnionis still indebted for its high posi- 
 tion as a leading religious journal. We 
 refer to the Reverend CRAMiiOND Ken- 
 KEDT. When the old Church Union 
 had fallen so low that that "thei-e were 
 none so poor as to do it reverence," Mr. 
 Kennedy bought out the pajier, and as 
 sole editor and proprietor determined to 
 retrieve its lost fortunes. We watched 
 his struggles with keen interest ; the 
 
1870. J 
 
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 19 
 
 odds were against him. but the genial 
 Christian spirit of the paper rallied sj'm- 
 pathizing friends to his side, and nnder 
 . his enthusiastic efforts the Church Union 
 fought its way to the front, to a position 
 as a dignified Christian lil)eral journal, 
 to which good men of all denominations 
 w ere glad to contribute. At this stage 
 a stoclv company was formed, in which 
 Messrs. Ford & Co. and otlier well-known 
 publishers were largely interested, and 
 the name of the i)aper was clianged to 
 that of the Christ iaii Union, Mr. Ken- 
 nedy continued to lie the working-editor, 
 audit is nodisiiaragement of Mr. Beecher 
 to say that tlie burden of editorial hibor 
 and responsibility still rests ujioii Mr. 
 Kennedy's shoulders. 
 
 The Christian Union can now "stand 
 alone ;" it is a success. We iire heartily 
 glad of it, for it is the only religious 
 journal within our knowledge wliich 
 faithfully strives to allay sectarian strife, 
 and to iind points of resemblance and 
 liarmony among Christians, ratlier than 
 those of difl'ercnce. Christians have 
 fought among thehiselves over dry doc- 
 trinal husks for centuries, without ad- 
 vancing the sacred cause one atom l)y 
 such means; now let us try the other 
 way, and -jierhaps when mir hearts are 
 purged of their sectai'ian comhativeiiess, 
 we may ex|)erience on eartli a little of 
 the heaven we all hope tii i-cach he 
 after. 
 
 Science, Falsely So Called. 
 
 There is no doubt that people should 
 know a great deal more about them- 
 selves and the things around them than 
 they do. Science must l)e made popu- 
 lar in the seuse that wiuitever can be 
 rendered into common language, or 
 l)rought within the grasp of common 
 reasoning, sluiuld be widely taught. A 
 love of science should also be cultivated. 
 Hajjpily there is a thirst for just such 
 intnrmation, and book-writers, editors, 
 and lecturers recognize the tone of the 
 market with delicate precision. And 
 here comes in a mischief wliich is grow- 
 ing rank, the large dissemination of 
 acience, falseti/ so called. There are lec- 
 turers who are anxious to instruct the 
 dear people, whose whole stock in trade 
 is that that they have crammed a book, 
 as the college expression goes. If you 
 challenge their statenients,^nd ask for 
 the authority, they appeal to Professor 
 Nobody and Professor Noljody and Pro- 
 
 most cherished ornaments by more 
 mountebanks than liy those who have 
 legitimately attained them through 
 scholarship. And if you look through 
 Professor Nobody's book to find the an- 
 cestry of his facts, you will doubtless see 
 a fine parade of great names quoted, but 
 all in a jumble. The writer is plainly 
 lifting himself up on the shoulders of 
 giants in science, not to see more him- 
 self from that precarious height, but to 
 be seen l)y the dear public ! And when 
 he does venture on an opinion of his 
 own, it is at the expen.se of a great 
 tumble. In fact, liis work will not bear 
 any criticism, and true scientists will 
 give him a severe letting alone as a 
 humbug. But the lecturers and the 
 papers must have their pabulum, and so 
 the book sells, albeit a great "' sell.'' 
 
 The daily press i^ropagates a vast deal 
 of absurdity of this kind. Every paper 
 has its scientific corner for the dear 
 people, who like the paragraphs as they 
 do sugar-plums. There is surely some- 
 thing very grand in being able to tell 
 your neighbor all about the fossil giant, 
 and how many centuries old it is ; about 
 the chemistry of digestion; about the 
 meteors ; about the deep-sea dredgings, 
 etc. But then the press can not aflTord 
 to keej) scientific experts in their edi- 
 torial rooms, and they have a man usu- 
 u'e- 1 ally called "'Scissors'' — or it may be a 
 I boy ; most any one who can read will do. 
 I Now this ubiquitous " Scissors '' is just 
 as intelligent as a broom, and does 
 pretty much the same work in gathering 
 trash, only that he is able to paste it to- 
 gether. The amount of crude, garbled, 
 distorted, false science that is thus 
 broadly propagated is extraordinary, for 
 the most part through simple ignorance. 
 As every story gathers in traveling, so 
 original facts get amplified and tw'isted, 
 and argued into wretched nonsense. 
 Even in the first-class journals we see 
 almost every day specimens of this mis- 
 erable literature. "Worse than the igno- 
 rance, tJiere is, again, not unfrequently 
 a systematic effort to poison the chan- 
 nels of public news by false science, for 
 the deliberate purpose of influencing 
 trade, affecting the market price of 
 commodities, or preparing a golden path 
 for some new invention. It is one of 
 the neatest tricl-: ; which graces our 
 American civilizutiou, to betray her 
 newspapers into raising a sensation on 
 some subject, economical and sanitary. 
 
 a holding which almost nothing will root 
 out. Beware of false prophets ! 
 
 An Economical President. 
 
 Not many years ago a presidential conven- 
 tion was considering tlie qualifications of 
 various candidates for the high offlce of 
 Chief Magistrate, and Millard Fillmore was 
 among the aspirants for the position. A 
 trusted friend in his interest labored faithfully 
 with the individual members of the conven- 
 tion, and linally reached the Maine delegation. 
 One of these gentlemen met Mr. Fillmore's 
 friend more than half way, and declared en- 
 thusiastically his intention to vote for Fillmore 
 — " every time." Said he, " I was once invited 
 to a dinner party at Mr. Fillmore's residence. 
 We had a good time, and Mr. Fillmore made a 
 speech. "While he was speaking we heard a 
 nistling in the pantry behind. Mr. Fillmore 
 paused, stepped back and opened the pantry 
 door. A mouse was in the flour barrel. Mr. 
 Fillmore seized the mouse by the scruif of 
 the neck, raised him, shook him gently over 
 the barrel until all the adhering fiour had 
 fallen back into the barrel, and then, going 
 to the window, dropped the offender softly 
 on the ground. Now, sir, the man in whose 
 character is thus combined — such profound 
 economy with so much humanity — is my choice 
 for president!'' 
 
 All 
 
 fessor Nobody. You look up the works 
 
 of this distinguished gentleman, and in the name of science ! 
 
 you find on the title-page that he is an When once a notion on any subject 
 
 M. D. or a late Professor. Now it hap- has been largely published to the people 
 
 pens that both these titles are worn aii and innocentlyadoptedby them, it gains 
 
 Value of Phosphoric Acid in 
 Medicine. 
 
 P^rom the Chicago Medical Journal we 
 quote the following extracts from an in- 
 teresting monograph on the physiolog- 
 ical action and tlierapeutic uses of dilute 
 phosphoric acid, written by Dr. .Tudsou 
 B. Andrews, physician in the New Voi-k 
 State Lunatic Asylum. 
 
 " Cases are sometimes under treatment at the 
 Asylum, and more frequently in private prac- 
 tice, especially from among literary, profes- 
 sional or business men, which are characterized 
 by loss of mental power from excessive brain 
 activity. 
 
 "The patient is languid, unable to perform 
 mental labor with the usual facility, is nervous, 
 at times fearful, timid and agitated; the mem- 
 ory is weakened, and permanent impairment 
 seriously threatened. Examination reveals no 
 organic lesion, but the symptoms are such as 
 justly occasion alarm. Such cases have been 
 improperly called by some recent writers cases 
 of cerebral paresis, a term too strong in its im- 
 port, but expressive of the great danger which 
 impends. For the recovery of these cases, re- 
 laxation from business and labor, and the use 
 of the phosphoric acid, combined with some 
 suitable tonic, generally suffices. 
 
 •' In case where menial effort has been pro- 
 tracted till a sense of weariness renders its 
 continuance difficult, a dose of the acid, from 
 its stimulant effect, relieves fatigue and seems 
 to invigorate the mental powers, and prepare 
 the mind for renewed exertion."" In the night 
 in order to prepare the way for some in- i sweats attending consumption, and other ex- 
 coming discoverer or pill-vender. 
 
 hausting diseases, this acid is employed with 
 benefit, and has some advantages over the aro- 
 matic sulphuric acid, so generally used. It is 
 much more agreeable to the taste, more likely 
 to be tolerated, and does not constipate the 
 bowels. The anti-scnrliutic power of this acid 
 
20 
 
 TABLE TALK. 
 
 ("February, 
 
 is well settled. A marked case of purpura oc- 
 curred in tbe Asylum recently. The patient 
 had been an inmate for several months, and 
 though eating the ordinary diet of the house, 
 in which vegetables are bountifully supplied, 
 became scorbutic. The gums were red and 
 spongy ; there was lassitude, soreness of the 
 muscles, and an eruption presenting the forms 
 of petechise and vibices upon tbe anterior of 
 the chest and tbe inner surface of t)ie thighs. 
 •The patient was given the acid in half 
 drachm doses, and in two weeks entirely re- 
 covered. In cases of aniEmia and chlorosis, 
 in both of which there is a depressed condition 
 of the nervous system, phosphoric acid in 
 combination with ferruginous tonics, has been 
 found especially efficacious. ****** 
 
 ■' Plmaphorus in substance is now recom- 
 mended in many of the Journals, in some forms 
 of paralysis, in locomotor ataxy, and in other 
 of the neuroses. If in tin element difficult to 
 dUpenxe unil diingenjun to iidininintcr. In the 
 stomach it is converted largel)' into phosphoric 
 acid. It is from this change taking place in 
 the stomach, that the danger is to be appre- 
 hended. Is it not better to employ the acid, 
 which in proper doses is harmless, than to in- 
 cur tlie risk of consequences in giving phos- 
 phorus in substance ? ******** 
 
 "In the administration of this remedy, one 
 general principle should be kept in mind, viz : 
 not to e.Khibit it in cases of congestion of the 
 brain, or in those in which there is an inflamma- 
 tory action, either in the nerve substance or 
 the meninges, »s its stimulant effect might 
 prove an aggravation to existing disease. In 
 no case in which it has lieen given, has it dis- 
 turbed digestion. or proved an irritant to the 
 stomach, even when its administration has 
 been prolonged." 
 
 The foregoing remarks tipou plio.s- 
 l^horicacid apply with increased force to 
 that form of thi.s invaluable agent jtre- 
 pared Ijy Professor E. N. llorsford. (of 
 Harvard University.) and known as 
 '•Ifnrsfiird's Acid Fkosphati:' 
 
 Physicians will find an abstract of 
 analysis of the Acid Phosphate in an- 
 other column of this Paper. 
 
 * A professor in one of our Medical Schools, 
 in a ktter to Dr. Gray, recently remarked : | 
 
 " Wonderful thing that phosphoric acid, and 
 well named by me pliyschological lemonade. 
 My Unu'h at noon (we dine at six) consists of 
 ricu cheese, bre id, and a glass of phosphoric 
 acid lemonade, and on that I have worked eight 
 and nine hours a day, with my pen, for the 
 past seven weeks in this hot weather, without 
 Headache or any depression. I never lake 
 over fifteen drops, and only once a day, and 
 when f.itigued. It is wonderful how quick it ; 
 climbs into the anterior lobes, scatters capillary 
 congestion, and satisfies the hungry tis.sues 
 with its own p.ibulum. ' 
 
 Unhonored and Unsung. 
 
 The half-serious detiuition of military 
 glory, as " getting killed on the field aud 
 having your name mis-spelled in the 
 Gazeftv,'' finds its counterpart in the 
 distinction usually arrived at by the 
 inventor of useful and valuable improve- 
 ments, which benefit mankind if not 
 himself. Really meritorious inventions 
 are generally ascribed to any but the 
 aefual inventor, and too often his share 
 
 of the pecuniary profit arising from his 
 
 work is in ]n'o])orfioii to the fame ac- 
 quired. 
 
 The perverse tendency of the world 
 to ignore the real author of new inven- 
 tions has been again illustrated in the 
 Xeiv York Tribune, which lately iiub- 
 lished an article giving all the credit due 
 for the use of cast iron in Architecture 
 to Mr. Badger of the ArchitecUiral Iron 
 Works of N. Y., when no fact has been 
 more fully demonstrated than that Mr. 
 James Bogardus made the first cast-iron 
 columns, and erected (in New York) the 
 first cast-iron building. He made with 
 his own hands the original patterns for 
 the ornamental portion of the fronts, 
 including the capitals of the Corinthian 
 columns, and a writer in the Tribune of 
 February 5tli, states that the whole profit 
 realized by Mr. Bogardus from his pa- 
 tented inventions and improvements in 
 this business, which he originated, has 
 not exceeded ^4,500. 
 
 We have taken the liberty of printing 
 the subjoined communication from Di-. 
 Adolph Oft, formerly of the "Ecole 
 Polytechnique" in Zurich, (Switzerland), 
 aud well known in this city through his 
 writings in the Journal of Applied 
 Chemiatri/ and other scientific i)ublica- 
 tions. The opinion of Dr. Ott is the 
 more significant from the fact that he 
 was one of the Judges of the last Fair 
 of the American Insfifute, and in that 
 capacity, examined and compared the 
 various competing Baking Powders. 
 
 New Yoi:k, January 2St/i, 1870. 
 Messes Wilson, Lookwood, Eveebtt & Co. 
 
 New Yoek. 
 Gentlemen : 
 I have made a series of experiments with all 
 the self-raising bread preparations, or baking 
 powders, now to be found in the New York 
 market, and it affords me pleasure to state that 
 with the Baking Powder of Professor llors- 
 ford known as "Horsford's Bread Prepara- 
 tion," I have succeeded in producing not only 
 the most palatable, but also the whitest and 
 most cellular bread, pastry and cakes. As 
 regards the high nutritive value of phosphates 
 in bread, or food in general, I scarcely can 
 believe that any doubt can be entertained about 
 it by any i)hysician of the present day, who is 
 at all acquainted with the progress of physio- 
 logical researches during the last decades. 
 Very Respectfully, 
 
 ADOLPH OTT, 
 
 Analytical Chemist. 
 
 More deserving of gratitude, eulogium, praise, 
 Than the Claeiojj's ?iew /leading which floats 
 at her mast. 
 Her enlargement is such, that she ranks first in 
 size 
 Of Arkansas journals, of old, or young date; 
 Planters, merchants, traders her rare virtues 
 prize ; 
 Her merits unparalleled all celebrate. 
 
 The Atlantic and Pacific together are wed; 
 
 The bands are of Iron that do them combine; 
 The future will hear the Steam-cars proud tread. 
 
 And ages unborn will bless Oil. 
 A stately monument, too, our Court-House will 
 stand ; 
 The November Fair will hold a high place ; 
 The Evergreen Cemeteiy, with its deathstricken 
 band. 
 As we speak, naught can from our memory 
 efface. 
 
 The "Steam-Cars proud tread "is certainly 
 a "bold figger," and a new one, and the versa- 
 tilty of the poet is beautifully illustrated by 
 the case with which he glides from the "iVo- 
 vemher Fair " to the dark and gloomly picture 
 of the ^'■Eeergreen Cemetiri/." 
 
 The Helena [Arkansas] Weekly Clarion of 
 Januarj' 5, publishes under the heading of 
 "Fiietry and Miscellany," eleven stauz.is enti- 
 tled "Our earner's Address," two stanzas of 
 which we quote as a sample, although all the 
 others are equally good. • 
 
 No improvement so marked does rivet my gaze. 
 As taking my exit I look back on the past. 
 
 The Covetous Deacon. 
 
 A DREAM THAT WAS XOT ALT. A DREAM. 
 
 (These verses, which were published anony. 
 mousl}' more than ten years ago in a small isolat- 
 ed village, were founded on fact, and speedily 
 followed by the excommunication of the 
 offender. The year is memorable in that 
 neighborhood for the ravages that were made 
 by diptheria.) 
 
 As I lay on the motionless bosom of sleep, 
 
 I dreamed of a covetous deacon ; 
 And his sin and his doom in a sulphurous light 
 Flared up and flashed out like a beacon. 
 
 A homeless boy. 
 
 Before she slept at noon his mother's joy. 
 
 And now her care. 
 
 Up there. 
 
 Came to the deacon's door. 
 
 II. 
 
 In my dreaming I heard him beseeching to toil. 
 
 His bread and a shelter for wages, [eyes. 
 
 With a scarce-hid surprise in his grey, wolfish 
 
 The deacon the orphan engages. 
 
 A wolf in wool, 
 
 A selfish schemer as a fawning fool — 
 
 The Devil s there ! 
 
 Beware 
 Of every hypocrite ! 
 
 m. 
 
 In my dreaming I saw pallid children in shrouds 
 
 And bosoms with agony swelling; 
 
 While chariots of gold with their horses of fire 
 
 Sped upward from many a dwelling. 
 
 Pale death ajar 
 
 The gate of gloiy held ; a shining car 
 
 An infant throng 
 
 Along 
 
 The rub.v pavement rolled. 
 
 IV. 
 The Plague-angel entered the deacon's abode, 
 
 0'er.shadowed his little ones sleeping. 
 And breathed in the face of the orphan the bliglit 
 That filled the fair valley with weeping. 
 
 Diseased, alone, 
 
 A stranger, and his mother dead, his moan 
 
 Was Christ's appeal 
 
 To heal 
 
 Him in His suffering child. 
 
 V. 
 
 In my dreaming. Love whisper'd to Jdstioe, 
 who frowned, 
 " In his selfishness resteth his danger :" 
 From the Lmd of the Blessed these Seraphs 
 had come 
 To judge between him and the stranger. 
 
 t pon the toioii 
 
 While Sa/ihath belts were culling Angels down. 
 
 And souls whii stray 
 
 To pray. 
 
 He cast tlie Saviour out. 
 
1870.] 
 
 TABLE TALK. 
 
 21 
 
 VI. 
 
 The heart of the deacon grew small in niv dream 
 
 And became like a comb without honey; 
 
 I traced him till dusty and bleeding he died 
 
 In the struggle with Mammon for money. 
 
 Upon his soul, 
 
 A conscious and imperishable scroll, 
 
 In holy ire, 
 
 With'fire, 
 
 The Angel .TnsTioE wrote : 
 
 He might hnrr hcni our hrother 
 
 But self he lored mid seiTed too mil. 
 
 And now he biirnti — himself the hell 
 
 To ii'hi'h he 's doom'd foietvr." 
 
 Old English Homes. 
 
 The aspect of the Elizabethan house is known 
 to every Englishman. Who does not remem- 
 ber the gable end, the gilt vane, the stone-shaft- 
 ed oriel, the chimuej's of moulded brick, with 
 their rich ornaments, over grown by the honey- 
 suckle or the ivy. Outside is the old terrace, 
 with its ivied statues and roses; inside the old 
 hall, with the lozenged tloor, the stag's horns 
 and quaint pictures. What recollections linger 
 in the faded tapestrj-, the tall Flemish' tligou, 
 the shovelboard, and the worm-eaten cross- 
 bows 1 
 
 The houses, built for leisure days of magnifi- 
 cence and display, have geuerallj their court- 
 yards, where the bridal or the hunting train 
 could wind and prance, the terrace where the 
 ladies, with merlin in their fists, could pace in 
 company with the mad lovers in the ruff and 
 cloak, with roses in their shoes, and gilt rapiers 
 by their sides ; huge panelled rooms, stamped 
 with heraldic devices, where greybearded men 
 could entrance Shallows and Ague-cheeks with 
 "excellent good conceited things," or perform 
 ravishingly upon the viol or ganitio. They 
 have high clock towers, bushed with ivy, where 
 owls build among the bells, and from whence 
 thundering vollies were discharged at the birth 
 or marriage of heirs; quaint gardens, with 
 clipped hedges, where lovers watched the foun- 
 tain god who weeps perpetually for some deed 
 done long since in the tiesh ; t)Owling-greens 
 where the old knights and chaplains every day 
 quarrelled and made friends ; huge halls for 
 Christmas feasts and mummings, or a chapel 
 for secret masses or early prayers ; long pass- 
 ages for voices at n idnight and wind murmur- 
 ings; and burial vaults for the dead to lie in 
 quietly and be forgotten. 
 
 These old houses could only have been built 
 by a nation fearing no enemy. They breathe 
 an old secure religious grandeur and faith; they 
 boast a richness and a sense of permanence ; 
 they were monuments and shrines added to and 
 improved till they became objects of pride, of 
 love, and of adoration. 
 
 They have been sanctified bj' the residence of 
 many ancestors; they seem to have shared their 
 joys and sorrows; they had been the theatre of 
 great actions and great crimes ; they were the 
 visible type of the greatness and wealth of a fam- 
 ily. The love of the soil, with our reserved cold 
 natures, became a passion as deep as it was 
 undemonstrative. No wonder that poets and 
 dramatists alike lamented the downfall of the 
 patrimonial trees, the prodigal s sale of the 
 old mansion, and the arrival of the new lieir, 
 a stranger to the land. In the love for these 
 old houses there was something unselfish and 
 almost sacred ; it was no mere mean exultation 
 in the powers of riches; it was a pleasure 
 mixed with pain at the thought of past genera- 
 tions, a thought which roused to exertion, spur- 
 red on drooping virtue, and stimulated ev^ 
 the noblest energy. No wonder that the Amer- 
 
 ican traveller visits these mansions still as the 
 chief characteristics of the old country, looking 
 upon them as contemporaries of Shakespere, 
 places where FalstafP visited and The two Gen- 
 tlemen met. 
 
 The Elizabethan houses are wonderful in 
 their individualit}-. They seem to share all the 
 hopes, and joj's, and i^assions of the builder. 
 They have sunny spots, caves of shadow, 
 l)right clear quadrangles, and glfiomy coiTidors. 
 There is no mood in your mind they will not 
 fit. They have about them a calm stately dig- 
 nity, neither self conscious nor arrogant. They 
 do not oppress you with a sense of wealth, but 
 greet you like old friends. They are neither 
 flimsy nor tawdry, nor so massy and dark as to 
 remind you of a workhouse and a gaol. The)' 
 seem fit for all seasons. They are cool in 
 summer and cheery in winter. The terrace is 
 for .June, the porch for December. The bay 
 window is so clear and airy that you could not 
 believe the same house had that red cavern of 
 a fire-iilace, the very shrine of comf.:)rt and 
 of warmth, hallowed both by legend and recol- 
 lection. Alas! that one cannot order an ave- 
 nue ready made, that one cannot purchase a 
 genealogy! In these old houses, the portraits 
 frown at a mere purchaser as a stranger; the 
 ghosts refuse to leave their churchyard beds to 
 welcome or disturb you, and the veiy tenants 
 look upon you as an upstart and an interloper. 
 We never see one of those old gateways, 
 arched and massive, without imagining a haw- 
 king party setting out. the gallant shouting 
 below to the lady who leans from the mullion- 
 ed window above; feathers flying, hawks 
 screaming, and dogs yelping. We love old 
 places like Burleigh, with the stcepled clock 
 tower, the paved quadrangle, and pillared 
 cloister : the broad staircases, the parapets and 
 
 I bossy capitals, the fan ceiling, the l)nrtizans, 
 
 I the waggon roof pierced and pendant, the hall 
 gallery for the musicians, and the heavy cor- 
 nices, are all dear to us as the old familiar things 
 
 I of childhood. 
 
 How we dwell on the feudal grandeur of the 
 
 I deep embrasured windows, and the family pic- 
 tures on the walls between the panelled and 
 radiated ceilings, the broad heraldic panes, the 
 rich fringed dais, and the stone figures that 
 watch you from the fire-place ; and then we 
 wander in dreams, following tip-toe after Bea- 
 trice up broad hall stah-cases, with carved 
 balustrades and pillared images, cupids, and 
 vine wreaths, suits of armour, and sheaves of 
 weapons, aod calm, watchful, ancestral pic- 
 tures. The staircase winds round, carved like 
 
 ! a casket over head, past tapestried rooms and 
 sounding corridors that echo even the velvet- 
 footed maiden's step ; outside in the moon- 
 light are the clipped yews black as coffin 
 plumes, and' the fountain splashing silver on 
 the sleeping flowers, broiid swards holy and 
 calm in the glamour light and gilded vanes 
 shifting and changing ever to catch the stray 
 moombeams. The windows are shining like 
 bright armour and the brook where the deer 
 drink is breaking like melting metal over the 
 pebbles. The lions that supjHjrt the great clock 
 in the towef, I see, are staring stonily at the 
 hour, and the two statues in the niches bide 
 their time in the deep shadows that rest under 
 the roof and projecting eaves. 
 
 I step again into the hall, and see Lorenzo 
 whispering to .Jessica, and the faded banners 
 over head whisper too, and the griflins in the 
 oriel say nothing, but the wind is piping in the 
 great twisted chimney— stalks where the swal- 
 
 low builds, and the moon glmts on the great 
 stone globes of the gateway, where the roses 
 cling and the turf is striped with the ominous 
 shadow as of prison bars. 
 
 But this is only one scene : there is another 
 chamber, with Corinthian columns and Grecian 
 statues, where grave Capulet sits reading, his 
 cap and sword lying on the table, and there is 
 a bullet hole near him in the panel, and there 
 is a legend about it which I am not going to tell 
 here. Well maj- he be proud when his genealogy 
 stares at him from the windows and from the 
 tapestiy, and is gilded on the ceiling, when his 
 crest is round the weather mouldings, and over 
 eveiy gateway, and on the tiles in the hall floor. 
 How can he, English Capulet, forget that he is 
 of a very ancient and princely lineage ? 
 
 There are rushes on the floor, and the fire- 
 brands rest on the wings of brass [lelicans; and 
 there are old, dim mirrors on the wall, and 
 oak buffets and carved screens, and the walls 
 are panelled with his badge ; and there are 
 stone seats round the room, and the door is 
 huge and clamped, and the embrasures of im- 
 mense thickness. Without, the deer are feeding 
 in the sunlight, and the boys are running at 
 the quintain, or trying their bows ; and there 
 is a lady reading Plato at the window, where 
 the rose struggles in. In the distance is a 
 village of gable roofs and striped white walls ; 
 and a wedding procession is passing out across 
 the meadows: the bride also, and the favours, 
 and the pipers, amd the fiddlers, are all coining 
 to the Hall. — Shakspere's Enrjlund. 
 
 London Underground Railway. 
 
 The locomotives of the London Under- 
 ground Railway are so arranged that the ex- 
 haust steam may at will be turned into the 
 water-tank instead of the chimney, and that 
 the furnace may, at a moment's notice, be 
 shut up air-tight. The road is not a continuous 
 tunnel, but a series of alternate tunnels and 
 open cuttings. In the open cutting, the en- 
 gines are run as on any other road ; but as 
 soon as a tunnel is reached, the exhaust is 
 turned into the tank, the fire-box shut tight, 
 and the engine run through by the accumulated 
 ! heat in the furnace and boiler. The cost of 
 I this road was about $4,000,000 per mile.— 
 I Franklin Jimrnid. 
 
 Santonine— again. 
 
 According to Prof. Frauceschi, santonine, 
 the vegetable base of Artemiiia santonica, in 
 itself white, when taken internally, causes ob- 
 jects to appear tinged with yellow. He attri- 
 butes this to the santonine imparting a yellow 
 tint to the humors of the eye, having under- 
 gone a chemical change of color from contact 
 with the serum of the blood. 
 
 Steel Billiard Balls. — Billiard balls are 
 now frequently made of steel instead of ivory; 
 they are verj' elastic, and not liable to crack 
 like ivory balls. 
 
 — Lactic acid has been employed in the 
 Darmstadt Hospital by Dr. Weber for curing 
 croup. It is found to have a remarkable 
 power of dissolving . fibrinous exudations. 
 Ten to twenty drops, in half an ounce of 
 water, are thrown into the throat and passages 
 by a spray apparatus, taking care to protect 
 the face and eyes from the cauterizing effects 
 of the vapor. The proportion of lactic acid 
 is reduced as the cure progresses. 
 
22 
 
 TABLE TALK, 
 
 [Pebruaby, 
 
 Horsford's Bread Preparation 
 
 .Itiil i)//ifr tirliclt'x (if (iiir umii iifurt nve 
 lire ki'pl ill xlitik mill siilil tn lln' triiile 
 III/ till' fiilliiiri iiij finiis : 
 
 New York City. 
 
 Acker, Merrall & Condit, 132 Chambers Street. 
 
 Bogle & Lyles, 83 Barclay Street. 
 
 H. W. Bclfher & Co., 4l"\Varren Street. 
 
 Martin Y. Bunn & Co., 335 Greenwich Street. 
 
 Thomas P. Cooper, 1S2 South Street. 
 
 E. M. Course, 324 Greenwich Street. 
 
 Day, Hoaglanil & Stiger, .")+ Cortlandt Street. 
 
 E:irle & Co.. !I7 Front Street. 
 
 Garbutt, Griggs & Co., 1(;8 Chambers Street. 
 
 E. C. Hazard, l!t2 Chambers Street. 
 
 E. & K. Mead, Jr., & Co., 13 Coenties Slip. 
 
 George A. Merwin & Co., 242 Washington St. 
 
 Moore, Jenkins & Co., 22-1 Front Street. 
 
 Moore & Wakefield, 41) Broadway. 
 
 James Olwell & Co., 1«1 AVest Street. 
 
 Potter & Williams, 218 Front Street. 
 
 Robert Seaman. 117 West Street. 
 
 Shewood & Van Name, 2.')4 Greenwich Street. 
 
 H. K. Thnrber & Co., 173 Chambers Stieet. 
 
 Henry Welsh, 321 Washington Street. 
 
 Gardner G. Yvelin, 206 Fulton Street. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 Note.— Tile lolluwir.jr List i:i as large as we have 
 space to print in this issue : 
 
 M. Delano, Canastoto, N. Y. 
 
 Wm. W. Davis & Co., Portsmouth. Va. 
 
 James D.ivis, Terre Haute. Ind. 
 
 .lohn F. Dunham, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 \V. H. Floyd & Co., St. Joseph. Mo. 
 
 C. I. Hipley, Terre Haute, Ind. 
 
 I. G. Muslin &Co., Aledo, 111. 
 
 S. S. Middleton, Hobokeu, N. J. 
 
 Turner & Bennell, Jersey City. 
 
 C. Lawrence, Jersey City. 
 
 Norton & Lidd, Jersey City. 
 
 Palmer ifc Waterbury. Saratoga Springs. 
 
 H. B. Ives & Son, Springfield, III. 
 
 I. L. Ives & Son, Ogdensburgh, N. Y. 
 
 Young & Son, Atlanta, 111. 
 
 Alsdorf i& Dosclier, Brooklyn. N. Y. 
 
 R. J. Owens. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Valentine & Bergen. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 R. M. Bishop & Co., Cincinnati. 
 
 A. A. Colter & Co., Cincinnati. 
 Smith & Curtis, Cleveland. 
 Strong & Armstrong, Cleveland. 
 Caliender & Co., BufPalo, N. Y. 
 Butler, Earhart & Co., Columbus, Ohio. 
 Williams & Co., Cliillicothe, Ohio. 
 Fallis & Linton, Toledo, Ohio. 
 Benson & Wood, Toledo, Ohio. 
 Lippincott it Brownlee, Steubenville, Oliio. 
 King & Owens, Cliicago, 111. 
 
 Downer & Co., Chicago, 111. 
 Fleek & Sherwood, Newark, Ohio. 
 Montgomery & Warner, NewarK, Oliio. 
 
 B. Trentman & Son, Fort Wayne, Ind. 
 Browning & Sloan, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 Severin, Schnull & Co., Indianapolis, Iiul. 
 Delano >& Tripp, Troy, N. Y. 
 Comstock Bros., Utica, N. Y. 
 
 Adams, Rowley vSb Ney, Utica, N. Y. 
 A. Ethridge & Co., Rome, N. Y. 
 
 C. C. Loomis & Co., Syracuse, N. Y. 
 Mathews & Browuson, Brighampton, N. Y. 
 Lormore Bros. & Reid, Elmira, N. Y. 
 John Y. Selover. Auburn, N.Y. 
 
 A. A. Solomons & Co., Savannah, Ga. 
 C. L. Gilbert, Savannah, Ga. 
 Swarbrick & Co., New Orleans, La. 
 T. H. Hincliinaii A: Sons, Detroit. Mich. 
 
 ' Warming and Ventilating. 
 
 lv\cf)il ill I'lililic Schools, llall.s, and 
 other crowdi'd aiiartiiiciits, liave we too 
 mill', or too i)iiir/i vciitihitioii for liealtli, 
 comfort, ami I'coiiomy. The reader will 
 draw liis own cdiirliii^ions from tlie fol- 
 lowing fads. 
 
 Xearly half the coal Inirned in llot- 
 Air Furnaces and Steam Heaters is con- 
 .snmed in giving the cold air taken from 
 withont. the temperature of that within. \ 
 Thi.s coal is lost, for all the air entering 
 a lionse must escape therefrom and carry 
 its heat with it, which near the ceiling 
 from whence it escapes is ordinarily from I 
 75 to 80 degrees. 
 
 A. J. Downing in a treatise on Warm- ' 
 iiig and \'enti]atiiig, says: "No furnace 
 is lit for warming and ventilating a dwell- 
 ing house wliicli delivers the air warmer 
 tliaii Iv'O degrees — because air may be' 
 heated to that temperature witliout in 
 the least impairing its salubrity, wliile 
 if raised to 150 degrees or 180 degrees 
 I iis is often the case, it is sure to become 
 gaseous and inipurc"' 
 
 Now if tile air be admitted at "^l de- 
 grees, delivered at 130 degrees, and es- 
 cape at '0 degrees, then just one-half 
 the Coal is lost. 
 
 Each adult jierson takes in and ex- 
 hales from the lungs 500 cnliic feet of 
 ; air every ."'i hours. Perfect ventilation 
 I consists in expelling this air from the 
 ! house as fast as exhaled, and supplying 
 its place with pure air. 
 
 A Hot Air Furnace burning 60 
 ; jiounds of coal a day, takes in at 20 de- 
 grees, heats to 120 degrees and ex])els 
 from I he bouse some ;5(J0,000 cubic feet 
 of air. — aliout one hundred times more 
 than is inhaled by an ordinary family. 
 Now if this finds its way out through 
 crevices of doors and windows, why pro- 
 vide special means of. exit for one hund- 
 redth, or fiftieth of this quantity? 
 
 Again, any room in which 30 pounds 
 of coal is burned in 2i hours, admits air 
 enough for the respiration of 13 persons 
 for the same length of time. There are 
 probably few houses so nearly air-tight 
 as to prevent tlie combustion of several 
 times this quantity of fuel. And fur- 
 ther, the air that supports combustion 
 usually enters near the floor with a con- 
 siderable (|uantity added thereto, for if a 
 column of air 13 feet high, within a room, 
 have a temperature of 50 degrees above 
 that without, it will have a buoyant force 
 of 24 of a i^ound to the square foot which 
 will drive it out through crevices or other 
 openings near the ceiling with a theoret- 
 ical velocity of 350 feet a minute. 
 
 The reiterated assertion that we re- 
 quire more ventilation and, should have 
 enormous openings for that purpose in 
 
 our ceilings and roofs, is easily made, and 
 of no value : but improvement, whether 
 if come from more or less ventilation, 
 can only be made by careful, laborious 
 mathematical calculations based on all 
 of the manv plivsical laws connected 
 therewith. 
 
 'frlllifll/. X. J. A. 
 
 Almost every one lias observed the tiitooed 
 lines encircling the limbs and tninks of orchard 
 and other trees, consisting of little holes about 
 the size of peas, drilled into the bark at near 
 intervals. The books all tell us that these 
 holes are made by woodpeckers for the pur- 
 pose of reaching and dislodging the larvas of 
 wood boring insects, which are to be found 
 underneath the bark. Our friend Mr. J. G. 
 Bell, the Ornithologist, of Piermont, informs 
 us that this statement is incorrect, and that 
 these holes are bored by the woodpecker not 
 to obtain the grub already there, but with a 
 purpose evincing even more sagacity on the 
 part of the bird. He says that the above e.\- 
 planation never satisfied him, as it seemed 
 unreasonable that the insects sought for should 
 be located in almost mathematical planes, and 
 upijn the most vigorous and healthy trees, and 
 he therefore made careful observations to de- 
 termine the cause of the phenomena. Mr. 
 Bell found that the woodpecker would attack 
 a healthy orchard (generally an apple) tree and 
 drill liole after hole in tlie trunk or limb, as 
 rapidly as possible. He frequently inten-upted 
 a bird at his work and could discover no signs 
 of insect life in the wholly or partially com- 
 pleted holes. When a bird had girdled a tree 
 with one of these rings it /lew off and com 
 menced on anotliertree. Closely watching the 
 tree just abandoned Mr. Bell saw that sap 
 quickly commenced to oze from the holes, and 
 that the black ants (about a quarter of an inch 
 in length) which infested eveiT tree were soon 
 attracted by the sweet sap and congregated 
 about the holes to feed upon it. iVfter a short 
 interval, the woodpecker returned to the scene 
 of his first labors and leisurely picked off these 
 ants without the trouble of hunting for them. 
 Several of these birds fl'ere shot and the ants 
 which they had just eaten were found in tlieir 
 crops. Tlie reason formerly assigned for this 
 work of the woodpeckers indicated merely 
 i.iHtinct, but Mr. Bell's explanation proves a 
 reaioiiiiKj fa(ailty on the part of the industrious 
 bird. 
 
 From the same authority we learn an inter- 
 esting fact relating to frogs which we have not 
 seen in print. Mr. Bell says that while engaged 
 in midwinter in deepening the bed of a shallow 
 brook, he removed a large flat stone from be- 
 neath the siu'face of the water, and found in 
 the mud under the stone a number of frogs, 
 who upon being released, at once entered a 
 vigorous protest against any suspicion of their 
 torindity by executing a frog-dance in the 
 graceful and classical style of the Bliwk Crook. 
 Closer examination disclosed the fact that the 
 mouth of each of these frogs was sealed up by 
 a smooth membrane or skin, which excluded 
 water and probably air. Mr. Bell says that 
 Professor Baird noticed this phenomenon some 
 time ago. What purpose does this membrane 
 serve 'f When does it first appear and when is 
 it dis<Mrded ? Can any of our readers tell us? 
 
1870.] 
 
 TABLE TALK, 
 
 23 
 
 Horsford's Bread Preparation. 
 
 What is it for ? 
 
 It is for " Rftising " Bread, Bolls, Bismiit, 
 Waffles, Cnke.H, Diimpli/ir/s, eh:, etc., and takes 
 the place of Yeast, Soda or Salseratus, Cream 
 of Tartar, sour Milk or any other form of 
 leaven. 
 
 How does it difer from other forms of 
 leaven or other "Baking Powders?" 
 
 Essentially in this : that all other " raising " 
 or leavening agents supply in themselves 
 nothing which is nutritious or required by the 
 human system ; Horsford's Bread Preparation 
 does contain the elements of nutrition in such 
 proportions and form as renders them immedi- 
 ately assimilable. 
 
 W/ty should ire vse itf 
 
 Because it is manufactured only by the 
 well-known Rumford Chemical Works of 
 Providence, R. I., under the personal super- 
 vision of Professor E. N. Horsford, of Har- 
 vard University, and the purUy of the in- 
 gredients can therefore be relied upon. 
 
 Becenise the directions for its use are simple 
 and easily understood. The proportions of 
 Acid and Soda are not left to careless or igno- 
 rant cooks. 
 
 Because Bread, Biscuit — anj' fonn of far- 
 inaceous food — made with this Preparation, 
 may be eaten Hot as well as cold by Iiwedids 
 and Dyspeptics, 
 
 Because the nutritive value of flour is in- 
 creased b}' the use of Prof. Horsford's inven- 
 tion ten per cent. (See letter from Baron 
 ^Liebig to Prof. Horsford.) 
 
 Because but a few moments time are re- 
 quired to prepare any form of Bread for baking. 
 The result is certain, and the bread always 
 good. Climate, weather, temperature do not 
 affect the result 
 
 Because sweet and delicious Hot Biscuit, 
 Rolls, &c., are made by the use of Horsford's 
 Preparation, with flour, water, and salt only, — 
 neither milk, butter, nor other shortening 
 being necessary. 
 
 Because it supplies to the human system 
 the Phosphates which exist in the whole grain, 
 but which are removed with the bran in the 
 manufacture of fine floor. 
 
 Because Horsford's Bread Preparation is 
 the onlt) "Baking Powder" which is used, ap- 
 proved, and publicly recommended by scientific 
 men. Its use is almost universal among phy- 
 sicians. 
 
 Among those who use and have given Hors- 
 ford's Bread Preparaiani their unqualified ap- 
 proval, we are at liberty to mention : 
 
 The Late Dr. VALENTINE MOTT, New York. 
 
 Dr. VVILLARD PARKER « 
 
 TheLateD! HORACE green.... v 
 
 Dr. \VM, H. DWIXELLE " 
 
 Dr. FORDYCE barker » 
 
 Dr. JOHN H. GRISCOM " 
 
 Dr. august JACOBI » 
 
 Prof. CHAS. A. JOY, ('olumbia Col.. . •. 
 
 Prof, C.F.CHANDLER.Columbia Col. » 
 
 Dr. JOHN TORREY, Columbia Col. 
 
 Prof. R. OGDEN DOREMUS 
 
 Dr. WM. a. HAMMOND, Prof, of 
 Diseases of the Mind and Nervous 
 System, and of Clinical Medicine in 
 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 
 and late Surgeon General, U.S. Army " 
 
 MASON C. WELD, (Chemist). Asso- 
 ciate Editor American Asriculturist,. . » 
 
 S. H. Vi'ALES, Editor Scientific Ameri- 
 can, » 
 
 J. B. LYMAN. AgriculturalEdi-wrN.Y. 
 Tribune, and .\ssociate Editor "Hearth 
 and Home," n 
 
 ORANGE JUDD, Proprietor and Edi- 
 tor American Agriculturist n 
 
 D. D. T. MOORE, Proprietor and Edi- 
 tor Moore's Rural New Yorker >i 
 
 Rev.CRAMMOND KENNEDY, Asso- 
 ciate Editor " Christian Union," " 
 
 Dr. J. R. NICHOLS Bost., Mass. 
 
 Dr.C.T. JACKSON, Mass. State Chem. 
 
 Prof. J. C. BOOTH, of U. S. Mint Phila., Penn. 
 
 Prof. SAMUEL H. DICKSON, Jeffer- 
 son Medical College » 
 
 Prof. C. S. GAUNT, M.D., •■ 
 
 Prof. SAMUEL JACKSON, M.D.,Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania " 
 
 Dk. A. P. WYLIE « Chester, S. C. 
 
 Dr. THOMAS S. JONES Jackson, La. 
 
 Dr. A. J. COMFORT Ft. Ripley, Minn. 
 
 Horsford's Bread Preparation is put up in 
 packages sulBcient for 25 pounds of flour. 
 
 RETAIL PRICE (with Tin IVIeasure) 30cts. 
 
 ; WILSON, LOCKWOOD, EVERETT & CO., 
 
 Genera, Agents, 
 
 201 Fulton St., N. Y. Citv. ! 
 
 Sunshine for Batchelors. 
 
 — How much of the humor and poetiy which 
 serve to lighten the cares of this plodding life 
 are due to children. The most cynical person 
 cannot fail at times to be struck with the un- 
 conscious and original utterances of these little 
 ones. We shall occasionally record such a\i- 
 thentic specimens of quaint child-talk as fall 
 in our way, and we shall be jileased to receive 
 additions to our stock of this kind of literature. 
 
 — One little girl we know of was listening 
 on a Sunday afternoon to the scriptural account 
 of the Crucifixion, which her mother read from 
 the bible. The little one was highly wrought 
 up by the tragic picture, and listened with such 
 an earnest solemn face to all the affei ling de- 
 tails, that her mother began to fear it would be 
 too much for the sensibilities of her tender- 
 hearted child. She read on however, and when 
 she had finished the verse which speaks of tlie 
 crucifixion of the two thieves on either side, 
 the absorbed child gazing into her mothers 
 face, cried out in a voice full of compassion — 
 " did they icir/gle mamma ? '' 
 
 — On a lovely June morning last summer we 
 were in the. country, hard at work over our 
 flower beds, and our little four-year-old girl 
 came to see what we were about. The rich deep 
 blue of the heavens, unobscured by a single 
 cloud, soon caught her quick eye, and with a 
 measured turn of her head she took in the 
 whole glorious sweep. Drawing a long breath 
 with delight she exclaimed — "what a beautiful, 
 beautiful blue sky. Why papa, I should think 
 it was God's Christmas.'" 
 
 The following letter has been handed 
 to us by Mr. George F. Wilson, the 
 Treasurer of the Rumford Chemical 
 Works, of Providence, 1\. I. It is from 
 Peter Henden<(i)t, E.sq.. the Seedsman, 
 Florist, and Agricultural A\riter: he 
 needs no introductioit from us wliere 
 ever an agricultural news])aper i.s taken, 
 or agricultural book.s circulate. 
 
 New York, October 20, 1868. 
 To Mr. Geo. F. Wilson. 
 ' Dear Sir, — Last spring I purchased from 
 I your office in New York one ton of your 
 "Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
 Lime," co.sting $60, and at the same time I 
 bought a ton of No. 1 Peruvian Guano, 
 costing $85, with a view to test the Superphos- 
 phate against the Guano, by careful experi- 
 ment. Accordingly, two acres of our richest 
 market garden ground was measured off, and 
 carefully ploughed. One acre Wiis sown witli 
 the Guano, and the other with your Super 
 phosphate, on the ploughed surface, then 
 thoroughly harrowed in and sown whh beets 
 and onions, equal quantities on each acre. 
 The crops on both acres were unusually early 
 and large, netting a clear profit of $500 per 
 acre, (even at the low rates at which all early 
 vegetables sold last summer in New York). 
 There was no perceptiljle difference in the 
 effects produced by the Guano and Superphos- 
 phate on the crops of onions and beets; both 
 were ertra fine. But the second crop {celery) 
 now .■fhoirs the finest on the acre fertilised with 
 your Superpho.fphalr. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, 
 
 PETER HENDERSON. 
 
 — Another little child (also a girl) 6 years of 
 age, was terribly afraid of rats. While sleep- 
 ing with an older sister who was equally 
 timid on the rat question, little Annie was 
 awakened in the night liy a scratching and 
 rustling in the room which she imiuediMtely 
 referred to a r;it. She had no faith in the pro- 
 tective power of her sister, and she was afraid 
 to attract the attention of the dreaded enemy 
 by screaming, but her mother-wit quickly came 
 to her aid, and she called out in vociferous 
 tones — "7iere pass.' puss' pass.' here's a rat!', 
 Annie well knew there was no cat within hear, 
 ing, but she thought the rat might not be so 
 well posted I 
 
 — This same little mischief once had a fav- 
 orite kitten, which slept at night in a doll's 
 cradle, on a miniature bed and pillow. One 
 evening the pillow was mislaid, and she hunted 
 long for it. At length she discovered the miss- 
 ing article, and as she caught it up exclaimed 
 — "why here's that cat-er-pillar'" 
 
 — Said a male advocate of woman's rights : 
 " When I am in a crowded car, and a lady 
 comes in, I think it is the duty of some man to 
 get up and give her his seat. I look around the 
 car to see if any man in the crowd looks like 
 making a move in that direction, iind when I 
 see them all keep their seats, I hide my face 
 behind my newspaper, and blush for my sex. ' 
 
 — An afilicted husband was returning from 
 the funeral of his wife, when a friend asked 
 him how he was. "Well," said he, patheti- 
 cally, "I think I feel better for that little 
 walk." 
 
 The ue.xt letter on the same subject, 
 was written to JnJiii Knn.r, Esrj.. the 
 "Small Fruit" Grower, by Ciil. Miisaii ('. 
 Weld, of New York, well known as an 
 Agricultural Chemi.st. and A.-^.sociate 
 Editor of the '•American Agriculturist." 
 
 New York, .June 7th. ^Xi\'.t. 
 To John Knox, Esq., PiM-iburg, Pa. 
 
 Dear Sir,— My friend Mr. Potter, of Wil- 
 son, Lockwood, Everett & C^o. , of New York, 
 tells me you have made inquiry concerning 
 "Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
 Lime," and asks if I will give you my opinion 
 of it. / buy it for my own use, knowing the 
 article and having made comparative tests with 
 it last year, in which it stood better than any 
 other Superphosphate that I tried, save one. 
 and fully equal, if not better than that one on 
 certain crops. I am personally acipiainted 
 with the members of the firm of Wilson, Lock- 
 wood, Everett & Co., and know that their re- 
 presentations can be strictly relied upon. 
 
 Yours truly, MASON C. WELD. 
 
 A\ iLsoir.s Ammoniated Sui)eri)iios- 
 phate of Lime. al)<)ve referred to, can be 
 had of us direct, or through any of the 
 agricultural .seed stores, in any c|uaiifit \. 
 from 100 II )s. to l.otiO tons. 
 
 Price. $<i() per 'l\ni. 
 A pamphlet, tlescrijdive of tlie above 
 fertilizer, sent free upon apjilication. 
 Every ton warranted ennal to xiandurd. 
 
 Wilson, Lock'wood, Everett & Co, , 
 
 GENERAL AGENTS, 
 
 201 Fulton St., N.Y. 
 
24 
 
 TABLE TALK. 
 
 [Febrttaey. 
 
 INE W DEPOTS. 
 
 In addition to our Agencies in the principal 
 cities and towns of the WEST, for the greater 
 convenience of the trade, we liave established 
 Depnts for all our goods in Chicago, Cincinnati 
 and St. Louis, as follows : 
 
 CHICAGO, 
 
 Messrs. KIIIG & OWEN, 250 & 252 South Water St. 
 
 CINCINNATI, 
 
 Messrs. R, M. ilSIIOP & CO., S5 and 87 Race Lt. 
 
 ST. LOUIS 
 
 Messrs. TEED. F. P.'.ZIEK & CO., 521 North 24 St. 
 Orders for Horsford's Bread Preparation, 
 Mumford Yeai<t Powders, ILmford's Cream of 
 Tartar Substitute, &c., &c., will be received 
 and filled at the above Depots, as well as by 
 many other Agents, whose names are given 
 elsewhere, without the delay of shipment from 
 New York. Buyers of our goods m small 
 quantities will always sai-e iiuiney, as well as 
 time, by ordering of our nearest Agent. 
 
 Wilson, Lockwood, Everett k Co. 
 
 201 FuUonSt., N.Y. 
 
 Bleaching of Suoae. — It has been found 
 by experiment that a stream of electricity from 
 a powerful electro-magnetic machine, driven 
 through a solution of brown unrefined sugar> 
 will bleach it. electricity being thus made to 
 perform the function of charcoal. One of 
 Wilde's electro-maguetic machines, driven by 
 a 15-horse-power engine, has been set up for 
 this object in a sugar refinery in Whitechapel. 
 
 Reproddotion of Bones by the Marrow 
 OF Bones- — M. Gonjon has won the prize of 
 500 francs, granted by the French Acadeni_v 
 of Sciences, for demonstrating that the marrow 
 of bones has the same power of reproducing 
 bony substance as the periosteum ; tliat en- 
 grafted elsewhere in the body it possesses the 
 extraordinary' quality of reproducing bone, as 
 the author showed in a rabbit in which bone 
 had been made to grow under the skin by the 
 transplantation of some of the animal's m'ar- 
 row ! — Medical Record. 
 
 "Honor where Honor is Dde.'' — The 
 " principal performers" in Mr. Charles Kean's 
 Tempest having been called for by the audience, 
 there was an immediate rush of the hundred- 
 and-forty carpenters from behind the scenes. 
 
 ^ Use John Dwight & Co.'s 
 
 BEST-SALAERATUS, 
 or their Super Carb. Soda. 
 
 No others are equal to these for cooking 
 purposes. Established 1846. 
 
 JOHN DWIGHT & CO., 
 
 I ) Old Slip, New York. 
 
 BURNET & LEONARD, 
 
 Steam Boiler Manufacturers 
 
 446 to 452 Ogden Street, Newark, N. J. 
 
 M.\KI\K AND ST.\TIONAHY BOILEKS, 
 
 OIL .STILLS, WATER TANKS, 
 
 VARNTSII KETTLES. 
 
 ST^AM RENDERING TANKS 
 for Lard, Tallow and Grease. 
 
 OUK 
 
 IMPROVED HEA-TTKRlsj 
 
 for Steam Engines always on hand. 
 
 out: Sl'KCIAl.lTV IS 
 
 First-Class Work at less than New York Prices. 
 
 HORSFORD'S 
 
 Acid Phosphate, 
 
 (MEDICINAL.; 
 
 fve pared, by the 
 
 RIMFOIW CHEMICAL WORKS, 
 
 OF 
 
 PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
 
 L'NDg,!: THS DIFP.CTION OF 
 
 PrOFESSOR E. X. HORSFOKD. 
 
 I.ate H'liiiford Pnfrsuftr at Harvard Uiiivfrutt^ 
 Cambritltse, Mass. 
 
 WATERMAN'S 
 
 Also known as tlie 
 
 -Mrs. E. C. Stanton, while on the cars near CAST IRON BAKE-PANS 
 Jacksonville, 111, was approached by a young ^***' * **WVA1 m**mm***4XW, 
 
 gentleman with a head about the size of an 
 apple, who, with a pompous air, said — "Mrs. 
 Stanton, I believe ? ' " That is my name," re- 
 plied the lady. "I heard your lecture last 
 night ; I am not yet prepared for Womjxn's 
 Suffi'age!" " Indeed !" said Mrs. Stanton, "I 
 fear you will block the wheels of progress for 
 a centmy.' 
 
 The value of preparations of acid phosphates 
 as therapeutic agents is in keeping with well- 
 known chemical principles. ! 
 
 So far as experience goes, Horsford's Acid 
 Phosphate seems to act as if it were nutriment ' 
 to the cerebral and nervous systems, restoring j 
 to their normal action secretory organs that 
 have been deranged, giving vigor where there 
 has been debility, and renewed strength where 
 there has been exhaustion. 
 
 It has been found especially serciceable iu.dys 
 pepsia and disorders incident thereto : in uri_ 
 nary difficulties, proceeding from paralysis of the 
 bladder or sphincter, and is kitoiru to be useful 
 ill, tendencies to gravel aud spermatorrha; in 
 cerebral and spinal fuirnlysix, mental er/iauslion, ! 
 wakefulness, hysteria, and other nervous affec- 
 tions. 
 
 Each fluid drachm contains ; 
 
 .032 of a grain of metallic iron, in the form 
 of oxide combined as an acid phosphate. 
 
 1.100 of uncombined, potential triliasic i)hos- 
 phoric acid, mixed with tribasic phos- 
 phoric acid combined as monobasic phos- 
 phate of lime, pota.'-'sa, magnesia and 
 ammonia. 
 
 It contains no pyrophosphate, or meta phos- 
 phate of any base whatever. 
 
 Most excellent results have attended its ad 
 ministration for the prostration and nervous 
 symptoms following Sunstroke. 
 
 Physicians desiring to examine and test this | 
 remedy, ^'e requested to apjily by letter, or i 
 otherwise,'to f'(P undersigned. — 
 
 Wilson, Lockwood, Everett & Co., j 
 
 Genseal Agents, ' 
 
 201 Fulton St., N.Y. i 
 
 — Mr. Otis Clapp propounded on Monday 
 evening, in a lecture at Boston, the query: 
 " What can be done to check the growth of 
 the criminal and perishing classes?'' An in- 
 fallible means to this end, as tested in Great 
 Britain and America, consists in giving them 
 gin during their early infancy. 
 
 — " Red as a Ro.se is She," is the title of a 
 recent novel. Soon we shall have "Blue as a 
 Cotton Umbrella is He. " 
 
 *^^* 
 
 — A young lady, going into a barrack-room 
 at Fort George, saw an officer toasting a slice 
 of bread on the point of his sword, upon 
 which she exclaimed, " I think, sir, you have 
 got the staff of life at the point of death." 
 
 — At a Teachers' Institute in Ohio, recently, 
 a lady teacher was given the word hazardous 
 to spell and define, and did it in this style : 
 "H-a-z, haz, a-r-d, hazard, e-double-s, ess, 
 hazardess — a fenvale hazard." 
 
 — Mr. Choate was arguing a case Ijefore a 
 full bench of the Svipreme Court of Massachu- 
 setts, when, wishing to compliment Judge 
 Shaw, he exclaimed : ""SXHien I look upon the 
 venenible Chief Justice, I am like a Hindoo 
 before his idol— I know that he is ugly, but I 
 feel that he is very great.' 
 
 ♦^. 
 
 — What is the difference between a man 
 paralyzed with fear and a leopard's tail? One 
 is rooted to the spot and the other is spotted to 
 the root. •' 
 
 While & Graham Rolls, Biscuit, Corn 
 Calces, Etc , Etc. 
 
 They Bake more QuicUy than Tin or Sheet Iron. 
 
 Tliey produce Ligftter llrsi'uA*, ctfke, Etc. 
 
 They do not wear out. 
 
 They give more Crust. 
 
 They do not Bum the Dough. 
 
 Much Time is Saved, a.~^ it is not necessary to Mouid or 
 
 5/m/t-the Dough. 
 They are recommended as THE BEST by the Mauu 
 
 facturers of Hors/oi-iV s Bread Prepataiion. 
 
 Manufactured and sold to the trade by 
 RUSSELL & ERWIN MANUFACTURING CO. 
 
 45 & 47 Chambers Steet, New York City. 
 
 The Original and only Genuine 
 
 LIEBIG'S 
 
 Extract of Meat, 
 
 IS MADE BT TUE 
 
 LIEBIG EXTRACT OF MEAT CO., 
 
 And lilts file Sifi natures iif Baron Lic- 
 
 biij. the inrcnfur, and of Ma.r Petfen- 
 
 i-offer, (lelegaic, on rreri/ Jar, witJt- 
 
 'ovt H'liirh none ran he f/e)niine. 
 It is the only article that received GOLD 
 MEDALS AT PARIS I8C.7. HAVRE 1808, and 
 THE GRAND DIPLOMA (superior to the 
 Gold Medal), at AMSTERDAM isciit. 
 
 It is invaluable as Food, especially for those 
 who need strengthening diet. It secures econ- 
 omy in housekeeeping, and excellence in 
 cookery, while saving time, trouble, fuel and 
 healt/i. It is admirably adapted to the use of 
 Travelers' and Hunters", and on shipboard and 
 on farms and plantations where fi'esh meat 
 cannot be had for daily use. It keeps foryears 
 in any climate. 
 
 Be particular to ask for LIEBIG'S COM 
 PAJSTY'S extract, and 
 
 BEWARE OF BIITATIONS. 
 J. MIL HA IPS SONS, 
 183 Broadway. N. Y., 
 
 SOLE AGENTS. 
 
 J. W. Pratt, Printer, 76 i'ulton Street, N. Y. 
 
TABLE TALK. 
 
 "A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LUMP." 
 
 Vol. I.-N0. 4. 
 
 NEW YORK, MARCH 15, 1870. 
 
 f Price 5 Cts., 
 1 50 Cts. per Annum. 
 
 To Our Readers. 
 
 The increasiug importance of certain special- 
 ties of our lousiness, tbc demand for informa- 
 tion ooucerniug tliem, and tlie inipracticaliility 
 of conveying such information in detail to the 
 public by the general Pre.ss of the country, 
 compel us to issue a Newspaper of our own. 
 
 Believing tliat a mere advertising sheet is 
 wi/r!.!(kx.s alike to publisher and reader, we in- 
 tend to give in each number sufficient original 
 and selected literary matter to make our 
 Journal interesting. In future issues, valuable 
 papers on scientific sulijects, written for us by 
 men of acknowledged ability, will appear, and 
 we shall constantly endeavor to present inter- 
 esting facts and discoveries in applied science. 
 
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 Bread Before Votes. 
 
 Tlieiv is one pltase of •■ woniairs 
 riglits" wliicli i.s sadly iieglt'cted, eveu 
 by those who have untlertaken the special 
 mission of redressing the wrougs of 
 women, and that is the right to support 
 herself. Who of its do not know women, 
 without hiishauds or male relatives upon 
 whom they can depend for support, who 
 have tastes and feelings as -imperious 
 and rclined as our own, Init having a 
 knowledge of no occupation, by rea- 
 son of sheer poverty are compelled to 
 find some means of earning their own 
 living ? Have we not all too many such 
 applicants, tearfully seeking our "ad- 
 vice," and for whom we sympathetically 
 
 I rack our brains in vain ? Don't dismiss 
 the disagreeable subject with ii sigh, and 
 a hoj)eless exclamation of " poor crea- 
 ' tures ;'' for, dear reader, in the ups and 
 downs of this driving, shifting, restless 
 life, it is not impossible that your wife 
 : or daughter may 3'et droji into the ranks 
 of these " poor creatures," and it may be 
 but selfish prudence on your ]>art, to in- 
 quire now what prospect ytmrdear ones 
 would have in such case, of kee])ing the 
 wolf from the door. 
 
 The loss of property. the sudden change 
 for the worse in worldly j^osition, the 
 descent from the brown-stone-frout to 
 the retiring red brick house on the side 
 street, are all of too common occurrence 
 to excite much surprise, or, alas, to elicit 
 very profound sympathy. The wealthy 
 merchant of to-day, who is overtaken liy 
 pecuniary misfortune, sinks rapidly away 
 from the sight and memory of his former 
 associates, who certainly manifest a de- 
 gree of resignation under the afHictiou 
 sufficient for both parties. But too of- 
 ten business failure is followed by broken 
 health; and death — that inexorable })ut 
 easily satisiied creditor — gives a receipt 
 iu full. Then the scanty savings from 
 the wreck are gathered carefully tip. and 
 the stricken widow looks wearily around 
 at her dependent children and asks her- 
 self "'what shall I do to keep my little 
 ones together; what «oi I do ? " Per- 
 haps there are grown up daughters, and 
 the problem becomes even more difficult. 
 ■• One will teach music." But the ranks 
 are already overflowing, and the number 
 exceeds that of the pupils. A school is 
 thought of, but poor tmcher, poor pay; 
 the experiment fails and is soon aban- 
 doned. One by one the arcomplixhments 
 are found to be a jjoor dependence for 
 support, and generally, all attempts at 
 a livelihood end in the needle. 
 
 If you would apjjreciate the detiuition 
 of what Dr. Johnson called "a good 
 hater," just ask a woman who gets her 
 living by sewing how she feels toward 
 her needle. And a great many women 
 who sew only for their own families have 
 quite its vindictive feelings toward that 
 useful but remorseless little instrument. 
 In that direction •• the path of glory leads 
 Init to tlie grave." 
 
 1 There is a lesson in this oft told tale 
 which should be studied by both men 
 and women, and which, paradoxically, 
 can only be of use to those who do not 
 yet need it. And it is this: first, new 
 avenues of employment for women, in 
 old or new occupations, must be dis- 
 covered and kept open ; and. secondly, 
 girls must be so trained while young, 
 that, if necessary, they may avail them- 
 selves of these opportunities. "This is 
 chimerical and impracticable." is it, oh I 
 man of ease ? Then the sooner we go 
 about the work and get it into practical 
 shape the better. On the one hand in- 
 dependence, health of mind, morals and 
 body, and virtue; on the other, depend- 
 ence, poverty, starvation and death — or 
 the brothel. 
 
 Shake your head, hide; it ostrich-like, 
 and stop your ears ! But those ^\ho 
 have marked the steps in the fatal de- 
 scent, worn by thousands of weary, un- 
 willing feet, know the end — death or 
 worse. This is the alternative presented 
 to-day to thousands of women,_who are 
 dependent upon the favor of man for 
 employment at all, and who have hopes 
 as soaring, characters ;ts worthy, and 
 hearts as pure as your home-treasures 
 or mine, good friend. 
 
 What shall be done for this most needy, 
 most helpless, but thoroughly deserving 
 class? What lia>^ been done is but a 
 dro]) in the ocean. The ajipeals for 
 work and Ijread increase daily, hourly. 
 
 Are tlie busy brains and energetic 
 hands of thousands of pitying men and 
 women, burning with a desire to do 
 good, useless for the' defence and salva- 
 tion of this unfortunate class ? Let us 
 \vd\c j)rarfic(il siiyr/es/ions from any who 
 are interested, and who recognize the 
 claims of humanity even under the for- 
 bidding garb of iiovertv. 
 
 Unscrupulous Generosity. 
 
 One of the most remarkable instances 
 of reckless generosity that has ever been 
 brougiit to light, has its origin strangely 
 enough, in a transaction growing out of 
 politics, in which responsible and well- 
 to-do citizens deliberately risked their 
 property (and that of their friends) for 
 
26 
 
 TABLE TALK 
 
 [March, 
 
 the benefit of an unfortunate neighbor 
 and his family. In 1865, Mr. James 
 O'Neill was elected Surrofjafe, for the 
 term of five years, of Hudson Count}' 
 New Jersey, which county includes Jer- 
 sey City, Hobokeu and other thriving 
 and wealthy towns. For a long time it 
 has been evident, that owing to mental 
 aberration, or some similar cause, Mr. 
 O'Neill was totally unfit to discharge 
 his official duties, and that the work of 
 his important office was entrusted to and 
 administered by a small boy, who was, 
 however, intelligent enough to generally 
 select the proper blanks, and make some 
 disposition of the voluminous business 
 of the office, whether riglit or wrong. 
 But in the face of these facts, this poor 
 demented gentleman was last fall ac- 
 tually re-elected to tlie office for a second 
 term of five years. Last month, Mr- 
 O'Neill's derangement assumed a foi-m 
 more threatening to the personal safety 
 of his friends, and he was removed to 
 the State Lunatic Asylum at Trenton, 
 where he died on the 35th of Fel)raary. 
 The reason given for Mr. O'Neill's re- 
 nomination by his political friends — 
 who were perfectly well aware of his un- 
 fortunate mental condition — was that 
 he and__liis family were dependent on the 
 emoluments of the office. A most hu- 
 mane and benevolent motive, abstractly 
 considered, but when the interests of 
 the widows and orphans of the dead and 
 dying are taken into account, the re- 
 election of Mr. O'Neill becomes an inde- 
 fensible and unscrupulous crime. 
 
 The interests jeopardized were im- 
 mense. Those who knew of his condi- 
 tion and who were responsible for his 
 continuance in office, being foi'ewarned, 
 could protect themselves in any dealings 
 they might have with the Surrogate, but 
 very many other persons were ignorant 
 of Mr. O'Neill's derangement, and were 
 therefore at the mercy nf liis uiiiladniin- 
 istration. 
 
 Having business at tins office several 
 months before the late Surrogate's re- 
 election, we had inn]ilc evidence of tlie 
 loose and dangerous manner in which 
 the affairs of tile office were administered 
 — or rather bungled. Viilualile papei's 
 were mislaid or lost; others were made 
 out wrong, and the poor, irresponsible 
 Surrogate's signature affixed to whatever 
 his boy saw fit to lay before him. We 
 believe the little fellow was conscientious, 
 and, for a boy, careful in what he did, 
 but in matters affecting the settlement 
 of important estates, one prefers to be 
 in more experienced hands. 
 
 When the mental condition of Mr. 
 O'Neill was first ascertained, it was 
 
 ))l;iinh the illlty of the ( 'liaueellol' of llie 
 
 state to" remove him forthwith. But to 
 have hesitated in such removal after 
 there-election, was, on the part of the 
 Chancellor, a weakness deserving the 
 severest cwnsure. 
 
 With the deepest compassion for tin- 
 sad fate of the late Surrogate and liis 
 bereaved family, we yet feel that the in- 
 terests'^and rights of the community 
 have been shamefully trifled with, and 
 the inhal)itants of Hudson County may 
 consider themselves peculiarly favored, 
 if the evil done ended with the life of 
 the innocent but unfortunate Surrogate, 
 
 We have an announcement to make 
 to our readers to-day which constitutes 
 the first unpleasant duty devolving upon 
 us in connection with the publication of 
 our paper. With this number. Table 
 Talk will be discontinued, or at least 
 suspended for the ]iresent. 
 
 It is with sincere regret that we make 
 this statement. Oureditorial i-elations 
 with our readers have been exceedingly 
 pleasant and encouraging, and if the 
 ultimate pecuniary success of the paper 
 was our sole aim, we should have no 
 reason for ceasing to issue it. 
 
 But the whole labor of preparation of 
 Table Talk has rested upon a single 
 member of our firm, and an approaching 
 change in his duties will render it im- 
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 under the delay in filling their orders, 
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 If a like imperative demand should 
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 again be published, and in that event its 
 readers may continue to hear from their 
 friend, The Editor. 
 
 One of Woman's Wrongs. 
 
 The free discussion of the questions 
 at issue in the late Students' outrages at 
 Bellevue Hospital has already borne 
 good fruit. Hidden evils attendant up- 
 on clinical or bedside instruction, have 
 lieen dragged to the surface and exposed 
 to the gaze and criticism of the public. 
 Among the most objectionable featui'es 
 of our hospital practice is that of the 
 immodest, unnecessary and unfeeling 
 exposure of female patients to the eyes 
 of scoffing students at the clinical lec- 
 tures. That such ex])osnre is made, 
 often unnecessarily, and in opposition 
 to the wishes and pleadings of the hu- 
 
 The interests of the partners in the miliated patient, can not be denied, 
 house of Wilson, Lockwood, Everett 
 
 &• Co, remains the same, but that mem- 
 ber of the firm who has acted as the 
 Editor of this paper, will be occupied 
 hereafter in a different department of 
 the business, connected with the manu- 
 
 An extreme case of this luiture was 
 lately detailed in the CJirisfiaii Union, 
 and in the Tribune of March 5th, The 
 scene was witnessed in one of our hosi)i- 
 tals, and is described by a laMy,— ,c wife 
 ;ind mother. We do not lielieve that 
 
 facture of some of the products dealt in any unprofessional man can read that 
 
 simple tale without feeling every nerve 
 
 by the firm. 
 
 The success attending the efforts of 
 our firm during the past year, for the 
 thorough introduction of the. specialties 
 dealt in by us has been very gratifying. 
 But this success is not solely the reward 
 of well directed efforts ; it is largely 
 owing to the intrinsic merit of the 
 articles themselves. They are manu- 
 factured with an intelligent appreciation 
 of great sanilanj. domestic and atjricitl- 
 tiiral wants, by able and scientific chem- 
 ists ; and so rigidly has the standard ex- 
 cellence of all these products, manufac- 
 tured by Professor Ilorsford and Mr. ! of the pn 
 Geo. F, Wilson been maintained for the 
 past ten years, that the stamp of the 
 " Rumford Chemical Works" is to-day 
 as sure a sign of pure and standard 
 quality as the IT, S. Assay-mark upon a 
 bar of silver or gold. ^ 
 
 LmsI veav iiniiort;int iiilditions were 
 
 thrill with righteous indignation, and 
 every muscle harden into iron, for the 
 chastisement of the inhuman wretch, 
 who thus insulted all womanliood iu the 
 person of one poor, helpless girl. With 
 sorrow and shame we declare that this 
 is not an isolated case. Even now we 
 recall the sickening memory of a more 
 oToss and liarbarous outrage than this, 
 of a similar character, but one unfit in 
 its details for print. It is useless to .say 
 that these are professi(n\al matters, not 
 understood by the public, and are none 
 ic's business. It is the pub- 
 lic's business. Such an insult offered 
 to a defenceless woman is an appeal to 
 the honor of every true man for protec- 
 tion and punishment. We rejoice to see 
 that physicians and medical journals are 
 aroused upon the subject of this and 
 kindred evils, and we iioini «ith satis- 
 
1870. J 
 
 TABLE TALK. 
 
 27 
 
 faction to an editorial in the Medical 
 Gazette (N. Y.), of March oth, contain- 
 ing a frank admission of tlie abuse of 
 clinical privileges in the useless expo- 
 sure of female patients, and a recom- 
 mendation that such practices be here- 
 after discarded. The article referred to 
 characterizes such public exposiire as 
 " uselefis" as " needless and demuraliz- 
 ing," . . . "the agony of which, to 
 the patient is not compensated for by any 
 adequate advantage to the class." 
 
 These declarations, coming from such 
 men as Dr. Peters and Dr. Carroll, are 
 significant, and will be heeded by the 
 professio?!. We trust that the efforts of 
 these gentlemen in initiating a reform 
 will be as energetic as their candor is 
 honorable. 
 
 No More Income Tax. 
 
 It is pretty well understood that the 
 present assessment of Income Tax is 
 upon incomes for the year 1869, and 
 that no law now exists by which this 
 obnoxious tax can be assessed hereafter. 
 The opposition of the whole nation to 
 any form of tax upon individual in- 
 comes is so unanimous, and .so well 
 founded, that we doubt whether such a 
 tax will ever again be authorized by 
 Congress. In its best form, and with 
 the most lenient administration, it is 
 exceedingly rejmlsive to American citi- 
 zens, but administered as it has been, 
 witliout discretion or method, and under 
 tile harshest and most arbitrary interjire- 
 tations of the law l)y a thick-skulled 
 commissioner, it has become so offensive 
 that even our best citizens seem deter- 
 mined ti_) evade or resist it. In the face 
 of this universal ]>ublic sentiment. In- 
 ternal Revenue Commis.sioner Delano, 
 with the scornful eontemijt of a petty 
 despot for the wishes of his subjects, 
 jiroclaims that He " is opj)osed to the 
 abolitiou or i-eductiou of the Income 
 Tax." Very likely ! He will undoubt- 
 edly mourn the loss of such a powerful 
 agency for annoying good citizens, who 
 have no ajipeal from his unjust and out- 
 rageous decrees, but he will get little 
 sympathy in his mortification, save from 
 his army of prying assessors, who 
 thus lose a potent weapon for extortion 
 and black -mail. 
 
 The most offensive feature of this tax 
 is that it gives to many iiTcsjJonsible, 
 rude and utterly untrustworthy assessors, 
 the privilege of prying into every per- 
 son's private affairs, and not unfre- 
 quently the information thus acquired 
 is turned to i)rivate account. Gentle- 
 men are often subjected to the most 
 severe and unjustifiable cross-examina- 
 tion as t(t their private and fan||l. 
 
 affairs, and are compelled to answer 
 questions so impertinent and unwarrant- 
 able, that only the oflHcial character of 
 the inquisitor shields him from summary 
 punishmerit. It is true that there are 
 excejjtions, and that some assessors re- 
 tain their humanity and good manners 
 even when serving under Commissioner 
 Delano. But these exceptions are rarely 
 met with in our cities ; they must be 
 looked for in the rural districts, where 
 this important office often falls into the 
 hands of gentlemen, whatever may be 
 their station in life. 
 
 As if to test the people's endurance of 
 official arrogance and stupidity to the 
 last degree, the income lists and returns 
 were at one time (but under another 
 commissioner) thrown open to the pub- 
 lic, and were actually given to the news- 
 paper press for publication. This was 
 one of the greatest insults ever offered 
 to a community, and our children will 
 read of it in future years with amaze- 
 ment at the patience with which we sub- 
 mitted to such an outrage. 
 
 The Income Tax has aroused more 
 disloyal and vindictive feeling, has made 
 more enemies against the Government 
 and administration, and has been the 
 cause of more perjury and falsehood 
 than all other methods of taxation de- 
 vised by Congress. It now should be 
 fully understood by every one that this 
 odious tax is hereafter entirely unneces- 
 sary. 
 
 During the fiscal year ending June 
 30, 180 :, the total receipts of the U. S. 
 Government were as follows : 
 
 Intermil Revenue i20(;,027,.')37 43 
 
 Customs 17(i,4l7,siO 8« 
 
 Otlier sources Cexclud- 
 ing loaus) 48,l.S8,(i61 DO 
 
 Total 1490,034,010 27 
 
 Of tbis sum there w;is derived from tax 
 upon individual incomes $27,417,957, 
 being about A'rr' and one-half per cent. oS 
 the total amount. 
 
 For the fiscal year ending .Tune .30, 
 1868, the total receipts were from 
 
 luternal Revenue $191,087,,5e9 41 
 
 Customs 1G4,4G4,,")!)9 50 
 
 Other sources (exclud- 
 ing cans) 50,085,894 35 
 
 Total $405,638,083 32 
 
 Of this sum there was derived from 
 tax ujjon individual incomes $2o,.390,370, 
 being less than six per cent, of the total 
 amount. 
 
 For the fiscal year ending June 30, 
 1869, the total receipts were from 
 
 Internal Revenue |158,356,460 8H 
 
 Customs 180,048,426 63 
 
 Otlier sources (exclud- 
 cluding loan) 32, 588, 859 72 
 
 Total $370,943,747 21 
 
 Of this amount, the whole sum to be 
 collected for tax upon individual in- 
 comes, according to the estimate of 
 Commissioner Delano, was 126,000,000, 
 equal to seven jjer cent, of the whole sum. 
 
 These figures are taken from the offi- 
 cial Finance Beport of the U. S'., just 
 published, and the statement of the re- 
 ceipts from Income Tax, which for some 
 reason has been continually over-stated 
 by the press, is from Commissioner De- 
 lano's Report. 
 
 Now from March 1, 1869, to March 1, 
 1870, the Public Debt was reduced by 
 the sum of $87,134,782 34, or, to state it 
 differently, the siirplus income of the 
 Government for the year 1869 was nearly 
 equal to the collections of the tax on in- 
 dividual incomes for three and one-half 
 years ! We have no comment to make 
 on these figures; they tell their own 
 story. But at the risk of tiring our non- 
 statistical readers, we Avill add the figures 
 of income to the Government for the 
 year ending June 30, 1869, from some 
 other principal sources of Internal Re- 
 venue, which were as follows: 
 
 Spirits $4.5,026,402 
 
 Tohicco 23,430,708 
 
 StLUiipf 10,420,710 
 
 'I'he striking disjiarity between the 
 trifling jjercentage of Government in- 
 come derived from this very objection- 
 able tax, and the intense irritation oc- 
 casioned by its continuance, will be ap- 
 parent to all. 
 
 Let our representatives in Congress 
 be instructed that the people will not 
 again tolerate the infliction of this un- 
 po])ular. iippressive, detested Inroine Tax. 
 
 The following communication from 
 Professor Eug. W. Hilgard, the dis- 
 tinguished MississijDpi State Geologist, 
 and professor of Chemistry in the Uni- 
 versity of Mississijipi, at Oxford, will be 
 read with interest and entire confidence 
 in its statements, by all who know Prof. 
 Hilgard either personally or by reputa- 
 tion. The commendation of such men 
 of science as Prof. Hilgard, Prof. Joy, 
 of Columbia College, Prof Samuel Jack- 
 son, of University of Pennsylvania, Prof 
 Liebig, of Germany, and other.s, whose 
 voluntary testimonials we have hereto- 
 fore published, are more valued by Prof. 
 Horsford the inventor of this wonderful 
 '• Bread Preparation," than any pecuni- 
 ary benefit which may po.ssibly accrue to 
 him : 
 
 Univeksity of Mississippi. 
 If, as Prof. Liebig remarl«, " Horsford's 
 Baking Powder constitutes one of the weighti- 
 est and most beneficent inventions of recent 
 times," this is most especially true for this 
 country, where the leavened bread universally 
 used in Europe is so commonly replaced by 
 
28 
 
 TABLE TALK. 
 
 [March, 
 
 hastily-made biscuits raised, or attempted to be 
 raised, by sod;i or ''yeast powders;" tlius in- 
 troducing ingredients foreign to the proper 
 substance of the food, whose injurious effects 
 upon digestion and general health manifest 
 themselves in the alarming prevalence of 
 " dyspepsia." From a scientilic point of view, 
 as well as from that of experience, I most 
 earnestly recommend this preparation to all 
 who, while desirous of avoiding the trouble 
 and uncertainly attending the use of yeast 
 would enjoy tlie advantage and luxurj' of first 
 rate light bread. All those habitually using 
 soda for buscuits, muffins, batter-cakes, etc., 
 will find in it a .substitvite which, not only ren. 
 ders these articles of food more nutritious and 
 healthy, but also more agreeable to the taste, 
 BUG. W. HILGARD, 
 
 State Geologint, etc. 
 
 Methods of Bread Raising. 
 
 BY PROF. EODNF.Y WELrll. 
 
 The folU)wing essay was writteu for 
 the Prnirie Farmer Annual, published 
 in Chicago. Upon reading it we found 
 80 mucli correct and valuable scientific 
 information, so simply and cleaiij' ex- 
 pressed, tliat we obtained permission 
 from the pul)lishe.s to re-2)rint it. For 
 want of space we are compelled to (jinit 
 some portions of the original treatise, 
 but we presumi^ the article can be ob- 
 tained entire, from the publishers. 
 
 Professor Welch, the author, is very 
 favorably kmnvn at the East as well as 
 in the AYest, for his scientific attain- 
 ments. He is now the lecturer on 
 Chemistry at tlie Halinemunn 3Iedical 
 College of Chicago, and is also an editor 
 of the Prairie/ Farmer : 
 
 Since the days of the unleavened bread of the 
 ancient Jews, a great number of methods have 
 been resorted to for the purpose of giving to 
 the loaf of wheaten bread an agreeable degree 
 of lightness or porosity. Independent of the 
 fact that such bread is much easier to masticate, 
 this lightening of the loaf seems necessary to 
 adapt it to the requirements of digestion. The 
 fluids in the stomach, by means of which the 
 food is dissolved, act upon the surfaces they 
 are brought in contact with; it is plain, then, 
 that the larger the amount of surface we pre- 
 sent to their action, the easier and quicker the 
 digestion will be accomplished. A large amount 
 of surface is produced by giving to the mass of 
 dough the peculiar cellular structure which is 
 found in raised or light bread. Through such 
 a mass the fluids may permeate veiy readily 
 and thus the digesting process will be greatly 
 facilitated. 
 
 The substance in the flour that is relied on 
 for forming cells or cavities, is the gluten. 
 This may be separated from the starch, which 
 is the other principal ingredient of wheat flour, 
 by stretching over a tumbler a piece of course 
 cloth and stirring upon it some flour on which 
 water is constantly poured. The starch wil] 
 pass through the cloth and become mixed with 
 the water but not dissolved by it. The gluten 
 will remain behind. On examination it will 
 be found to be of slightly darker color than the 
 starch, and be so tenacious that it can be drawn 
 out into long threads. Flour that is deficient 
 in gluten will not be porous, as the starch wiU 
 
 prevent the gas from passing through it, not 
 having sufficient tenacity to retain it. 
 
 Carbonic acid is tlie gas ordinarily employed 
 1 to distend the vesciclcs formed from tlie gluten. 
 Common air is not a(lai)ted to the purpose, as 
 it is liable to cause the bread to become sour ; 
 while ammonia, as set free from the carbunate, 
 is liable to impart to the bread an offensive 
 taste and smell. Were it not for this disad- 
 vantage, carbonate of ammonia would be the 
 cheapest substance for bread raising, as both 
 the ingredients of the compound become gas- 
 eous at the temjierature required to bake bread. 
 
 Carbonic acid gas may be produced for bread 
 raising in two ways : by the action of fermen- 
 tation on the starch of the flour, and by setting 
 it free from chemical substances with which 
 it is combined. The first of these methods is 
 the one that has been longest in use and which 
 is generally employed. Leaven, which is sim- 
 ply a piece of sour dough, left from some pre- 
 vious baking, was the means used by the an- 
 cients for producing fermentation. Almost 
 any substance which contains sugar and a 
 sufficient amount of nitrogenous matter, such 
 as gluten, will pass into a state of fermentation 
 without any exciter of fermentation, if it is 
 moistened and exposed to a suitable degree 
 of heat. But the operation may be greatly 
 hastened by adding to the materials an amount 
 of yeast, which is a species of microscopic 
 vegetation spontaneously developed in the or- 
 gans of certain plants. This yeast jilant not 
 only produces a decomposition of sugar, but it 
 causes the starch to change into sugar previous 
 to its decomposition, and also occasions thg 
 production of an immense amount of additional 
 yeast. 
 
 If yeast is not checked in its working it will 
 produce the decomposition of all the sugar and 
 starch which is contained in the flour ; but 
 either the dryness of the baked loaf or the heat 
 which is required to bake it, is sufficient to stop 
 its growth. 
 
 The first action of yeast on ttour is to change 
 the starch it contains into sugar ; this sugar is 
 then decomposed into alcohol, water and car- 
 bonic acid. Part of the alcohol is retained in 
 the bread, giving it an agreeable, sweetish fla- 
 vor, but most of it, from its easy volatility, 
 passes into the oven and is lost. The carbonic 
 acid that is produced swells the mass to a con- 
 siderable extent liefore it is put into the oven, 
 but the heat required for baking causes it to 
 expand and distends the cavities in which ii is 
 inclosed. The great object of Kneeding the 
 dough is to distribute the gas more evenly 
 through the mass, otherwise the cavities which 
 contain it would be too large and unequally 
 distributed. 
 
 The disadvantages attending the use of yeast 
 for raising bread, are mainly these : The diffi- 
 culty of obtaining good active yeast in the 
 country at all times, and in large towns during 
 the winter, since a low degree of cold destroys 
 the life of the plant; the uncertainty of the 
 action of the yeast, for it is a fact known to 
 every housewife that, scarcely two batches of 
 bread a year, prepared as nearly as possible 
 in the same way, will be alike. Sometimes the 
 paste raises so slow that it is not ready when it 
 )is wanted for the oven. At another trial the 
 j action may be too quick, causing acetic fer- 
 mentation to take place, which will render the 
 bread sour. A great deal of time is consumed 
 and care required in watching the progress of 
 the working of the yeast and regulating the 
 temperature, which is necessaiy to a complete 
 
 raising. More important than these two, is the 
 
 Ions of ahimt oiie-fovr1i'( nth part of tJie treight of 
 the flour, trfiich ix tnintrd in the ju-odiiction of this 
 gas. At the ordinaay high price of flour, there 
 is a seeming wrong in destroj'ing so large a 
 proportion of this most valuable article of food 
 in the manufacture of a gas which exists in un- 
 limited quantities in articles of little worth. 
 
 Various attempts have been made, both in 
 Europe and in this country, to counteract some 
 of the difficulties we have spoken of. Thus 
 Liebig proposes the use of lime water in mix- 
 ing the dough, for the purpose of neutralizing 
 any acid tliat might be produced by carrying 
 the fermenlatiau to the second stage. Mege 
 Mouries advocates fermenting, for a consider- 
 able time, tlie middlings which are sifted out 
 in the bolting process, and using them for 
 raising the loaf. Attempts have also been 
 made to render the yeast capable of lieing pre- 
 served by compressing it, and placing it in small 
 vessels, so as to exclude the air. Another me- 
 thod is to whisk brewer's yeast till it forms a. 
 uniform liquid mass, which is then spread ujion 
 dishes by means of a soft brtish. When one 
 coat is tolerably dry, another is laid on, till 
 quite a thickness is acquired ; the whole should 
 then be covered. The object of both these 
 processes is to prepare the yeast, so that it may 
 be transported, and be ready for use on ship 
 board, or in the countiy. Yeast cakes, which 
 are composed of corn meal saturated with yeast, 
 and dried at a moderate degree of heat, have 
 been used for the same purpose. The difficulty 
 attending their use is that they iire unreliable, 
 owing to the fact that they absorb water and 
 take up air, and by these agencies their active 
 principle is destroyed. To remedy this defect 
 the author of this article proposed to cover them 
 with some substance like stearine, which would 
 be impenetrable to air and moisture. 
 
 The other methods of raising bread consist 
 in eliminating carbonic acid from some base, 
 by the use of some other acid. Carbonic acid 
 is a gas at ordinaiy temperatures, and as it is 
 the mildest of the acids, it is readily driven off 
 if we place some stronger acid where it will 
 come in contact with the base to which it is 
 united. 
 
 Of these carbonates, salerafii.t. which is a bi- 
 carbonate of potassa, was for a long time used, 
 on account of its then comparative cheapness. 
 In the country it is still used to a considerable 
 extent, together with Koiir mil/,; which sup]ilies 
 lactic acid. The great difficulties in the use of 
 these substances are these : the lactic acid in 
 the sour milk is variable in quantity, so that 
 experience is no certain guide in determining 
 the amount of either substance to be employed. 
 If too little milk is used, or that containing too 
 little acid, considerable saleratus may not be 
 neutralized ; and will accordingly impart a 
 brown color to the bread and a nauseous taste 
 to the mouth. Simdar results attend the un- 
 equal distribution of the alkali throughout the 
 food. On these accounts tn'-car/ionate of soda, 
 has, since its price has become clieaper, nearly 
 displaced the use of saleratus, as the soda is 
 much less caustic than the potassa, and there is 
 consequently less liability than any unneutral- 
 ized portion will discolor the bread or be offen- 
 sive to the taste. Soda is also to be preferred 
 to potash, inasmucli as the former is found in 
 the blood, while the hitter is at best a useless 
 substance in the stonnich, and it is probable 
 that its presence is highly injurious. 
 
 Tartaric acid and the lii-cn rlionatc of noda_ are 
 well known as materials for producing a light 
 
1870 
 -•J 
 
 TABLE TALK. 
 
 20 
 
 and palatable bread ; and if the two substances i When these substances are brought together 
 are united in the right proportions, tartrate of -ivith sufficient water, the uncombined acid 
 soda will be produced. More frequently, how- unites with the soda, setting free the carbonic 
 ever, cream nftartfir is used inst(;ad of tartaric , acid, and forming the phosphate of soda : this 
 acid. This substance is to be ])referred to tar- salt, together with the phosphates of lime, al- 
 taric acid, as it is slow to dissolve, and accord- ready formed, very nearly supply the amount 
 ingly the desired effervescence Is kept up for a j of the phosphate that are removed by the Ixill : 
 considerable time. This compound is a bi-tar- : thus we have a white loaf of bread," that is as 
 trate of potash, and is what is known to the j healthy and nutritious as the brown loaf made 
 chemist as an acid salt— that is, it contains one | from Graham flom-. There is little danger that 
 proportion of free acid, and one of combined ' the phosporic :!cid will be ad\dleraled, as is the 
 acid. By combining this with the bi-carbonate , case with cream of tai'tar, as it is comparatively 
 of soda the portion of free acid unites with the ' ob_cap and the sources of its supply are abun- 
 soda, eliminatmg two equivalents of gaseous dant. Its manufactm-e, too, is protected by 
 carbonic acid, while two neutral salts, the tar- patent, and is under the immediate supervision 
 trate of potasli and tartrate of soda remain in of the inventor, whose reputation is a sufficient 
 the bread. The objection to the use of cream guarantee that it will be furnished the market 
 of tartar, is that scarcely a specimen of the | pure and unadulterated, 
 pure article can be found in the market ; while 
 that which is prepared for the countrj- trade is 
 frequently adulterated to the extent of three- 
 fourths of its weight. In consequence of these 
 adulterations, there is no certainty in the 
 amount of the substance which jiurports to be 
 cream of tartar, that should be used to neutral- 
 ize the soda. The only way in which we can 
 be certain of correct results, is to procure the 
 crystals of the salt, and then pulverize them at 
 home. 
 
 Most of the baking powders which are in the 
 market, are composed of pulverized argul^ 
 (which is entdf cream of tartar), and hi-i-arhon- 
 iite of miiiii, in the proportions in v.'hicb luitural 
 salts may be produced. In order to keep these 
 substances from combining in the can, consi- 
 derable A-j^/yw/- or cheap .li^rc/* is used, which 
 also serves the purpose of giving the appearance 
 that the purchaser is getting a large amount of 
 raising material ; considerable alum is also used 
 for the purpose of increasing the bulk, for giv- 
 ing whiteness to the powder, as well as for 
 causing the bread to be of a more desired color, 
 and to have a cellular structure, less liable to 
 crumble when it is cut. The presence of alum | the poet rises above his office as mere translator. 
 
 We clipped recently from the N. Y. Evening 
 Pout, for our paper, a musical translation from 
 Heine, written, as we learn from the appended 
 initials, by Mr. Wm. P. Palmer, the Poet- 
 President of the Manhattan Fire Insurance 
 Company, of this city. We have since seen in 
 the Pout another translation (if the same lines, 
 by whom we know not. We reprint them 
 both ; the first for its beauty, and the second 
 for contrast. 
 
 The lines by Mr. Palmer are a poet's inter- 
 pretation of a poet's conceptions. The others 
 are in our estimation prosaic and ungraceful. 
 In the last verse, for instance, of the anony- 
 mous translation, the idea conveyed is that 
 " here or there ■' the heavens are still bending 
 over, and the funer.il lamps of the stars hang- 
 ing above the grave. While tlie first translator 
 emphasizes the thought by the declaration that 
 the heavens— ("God's heaven"; — will be as 
 bright and the stars as near wherever the body 
 may finally repose. In the line — 
 
 Seo-dirged in tJic drifted xnndx.' 
 
 in liaking powder or bread may be detected by 
 boiling some of the substance, straining the 
 liquor, and adding to it a few drops of aqua 
 ammonia or chloride of farium, either of which 
 will produce a white precipitate if alum be 
 present. 
 
 The greatest improvement ever made in r,us- 
 ing bread without the use of yeast, is the pro- 
 cess of Prof. Horsford, of Harvard University. 
 This method aims at using substances for rais- 
 ing bread, that so far from leaving any injuri- 
 ous products behind, nbmlutely add to the flour 
 Mome of the most desired elements of nutirition. 
 It is a well known fact that flour, as it passes 
 through the bolt, is deprived of some of its 
 most valuable constituents — the salts of phos- 
 phoric acid — These phosphates, which are es- 
 sential to the development of the bcnies and are 
 required for the growth of various tissues of 
 the body, are abundant in the kernal of the 
 wheat, taken as a whole, but are located almost 
 entirely in the inner coating of the bran. At- 
 tention was called, many years ago, to the fact 
 that the most valuable portion of wheat grown, 
 was fed to stock, while a part inferior in the 
 elements of true nutrition was used for the 
 food of man. But all in vain was the warning 
 of the chemists and microscopists ; people, 
 with the exception of a few dysijej^tics, pre- 
 ferred a white loaf of bread to a healthful one ; 
 and so what is known as Graham or unbolted 
 flour, never came into general use. The sub- 
 stance useds by Prof. Horsford, are a dry acid 
 
 phosphate of lime and bi-earbonate of so(?'f.^ (ate. 
 
 and gives new force and beauty to the original. 
 
 WHERE ? 
 
 Fivm fl/r German of heifte'.s " Jiniiain^." 
 
 BY WM. P. I'ALMER. 
 
 Where shall jiilgrim, worn and hoary. 
 On his last dear couch recline ? 
 
 Under palms in soutbern glory? 
 Under lindens by the Rhine ? 
 
 Shall my form to earth be hurried 
 In the waste, by straugc^r hands ? 
 
 Or on some lone coast lie buried. 
 Sea-dirged iu the drifted sands ? 
 
 Matters not ! God's heaven as brightly 
 Will surround me th"re as herej^ 
 
 And its stars. like death lamps, nightly 
 Hover o'er me, just as near! 
 
 WHERE ? 
 
 Where shall be the resting-place 
 Of (his we;iry frame of mine ? 
 
 Under palm-trees iu the South ? 
 Under lindens by tiie Rhine? 
 
 Shall I in some desert, lie. 
 
 Covered by a stranger's hand ? 
 
 Or upou the barren beach 
 Of an ocean, in the sand ? 
 
 All is one, for here or there 
 
 Heaven shall bend around my bed ; 
 
 And at night the stars snail hang — 
 Funeral lamps above the dead . 
 
 A New Bi:eed. — Our little girl informed us 
 the other day that her uncle K. had a beautiful 
 Con-foundland dog. After seeing the pup we 
 decided that the name was perfectly appropri- 
 
 Pepsine. 
 
 Pepsine is the solvent or digestive principle 
 
 1 of the gastric juice. 
 
 Medicinal Pepsin e is used for aiding digestion 
 
 J in the human stomach, and is (U'epared as fol- 
 
 [ lows : the mucous membrane hning the interior 
 of the stomach of calves, sheep or pigs, is 
 dried, pulverized and generally mixed with 
 powdered starch, and administered in sheiTy 
 wine. A new method of preparation is de- 
 scribed by Dr. Edward Long, of Dubliu. in the 
 Pharmacist, of Chicago, which consists in di- 
 gesting the fresh and thoroughly cleansed 
 stomach of the ])ig iu gh/ceriiir for one week. 
 The resulting fluid is strained and filtered, and 
 
 I one drachm of it mixed with 1,5 drops of muri- 
 atic acid and 100 ounces of water, " readily 
 dissolved 700 grains of moist fibrine, properly 
 prepared, wliile the sohitions in general use dis- 
 solved but 75 grains. ' 
 
 The medicinal use of " pepsine," so called, 
 has been attended with much uncertainty, and 
 physicians differ greatly upon its merits. But 
 leaving out of question the various degrees of 
 strength and modes of preparation, it .should 
 be remembered that the gastric juice of animals 
 differs with the food tliey eat, and that while 
 the animals from which we obtain the ''pep- 
 sine " subsist chiefly upon vegetable food, man 
 requires and consumes a large quantity of ani- 
 mal food. It has long been known that the 
 gastric juice of flesh-eating animals has but 
 little solvent effect upon vegetables, and tice 
 cersa, while the gastric juice of the human 
 stomach dissolves readily either kind of food. 
 As " medicinal pepsine " is but a preparation 
 of the gastric juice of animals, it can not be 
 reasonably expected that it should acquire new 
 powers wheu introduced into the human 
 stomach. If the chemical principle, p:psine, 
 can be separated from the gastric juice, and 
 administered by itself, more satisfactoiy re- 
 sidts may be attained. 
 
 Phospho-Glyceric Acid for Pre- 
 serving Meat. 
 
 It is gratifj'ing to sec how the use of phos- 
 phoric acid preparations for the various pur- 
 poses of the household is constantly gaining 
 ground. Scarcely have the Acid Phosphate 
 and Phosphatic Baking Powders been intro- 
 duced by us, when a chemist in Washington, 
 Dr. T. E. DoTcn, has applied a mixture of 
 phospho-glyceric acid with other substances 
 for keeping meat fres'n. The process, which 
 is herewith brought for the first time before 
 the public, is as follows : 
 
 The doctor introduces in the liquid or gas- 
 eons state, mixtures of aldehyde in glycerine 
 or phospho-glyceric acid, in the body of the 
 kdled animal, or parts thereof, or introduces 
 aldehyde vapors iu the lungs of the IFving ani- 
 mal until death occurs. Aldehyde is a kind of 
 ether, a very light volatile liquid of decided 
 odor. By the absorption of oxygen it is trans- 
 formed in the meat into acetic acid, which is 
 itself an antiseptic, and the perhaps objection- 
 able odor of the ald'-hyde will thus entirely 
 disappear. 
 
 Dr. Doteh has found that none of the nutri- 
 tive elements of the meat are lost ; as is for in- 
 stance the case in salting. It is said also that 
 the meat will retain the appearance of, and will 
 taste like fresh meat even after months. The 
 oleo-phosphoric acid is in itself a light nutri- 
 tive element, being a secondary jjroduct of de- 
 composition of the oleo-phosphoric acid, which 
 
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 [Maj. J 
 
 is the chief ingredient of the fatty matter of 
 the liver, the brain and the nerves, and proba- 
 bly also of tha blood. Oleo-phosphoric acid 
 has also been met with in the yolk of the egg. 
 Some of our best clicmists, as for instance 
 Mr. Adolph Oit, speaks in verj^ favorable terms 
 of this process, and we sincerely hope that the 
 inventor will reap the full benefit due to him 
 for the labor bestowed upon a subject so im- 
 portant in its connection with the preservation 
 and cheapening of food. 
 
 Lead-Encased Block-Tin Pipe. 
 
 This kind of pipe for conducting drinking 
 water has been ui high favor, especially among 
 the more intelligent classes, for some years 
 past. It has been shown most conclusively 
 by men of high scientific ability, tliat water, 
 after being in contact with lead for any length 
 of time, becomes poisonous. The records of 
 the New York Hospital and other institutions 
 will show liow niiuiv i)ainful and even fatal 
 disorders have been caused by lead poison. In 
 view of these considerations we were at first 
 much surprised, when we noticed tlie stand 
 taken by the eminent and scientific Prof. John- 
 son, of Yale College, as quoted in the January 
 number of Table Talk. He does not exactly 
 favor the use of lead pipe, but rather throws 
 discredit upon tin lined pipe. Upon second 
 tliought, however, we think the Professor 
 should receive the thanks of all who use tiu-hned 
 pipe, for guarding them against the use of pipe 
 hiiprupcrhi joined. The Professor calls for a 
 better mode of joining these pipes, so as to pre- 
 vent i/altianic action. When this action takes 
 place decomposition of the interior lining, and 
 finally an impereeptil)le but poisonous action of 
 tlic water upon the adjacent lead surely follows. 
 
 This requirement of the Professor has been 
 met by the manufacturers. The Colwclls, Shaw 
 & Willard Minufacturing C(unpany, and the 
 only objection against tin-li]iediiipe has been re- 
 moved, by the invention which we take pleasure 
 in bringing to public notice by the following 
 diagram and description. 
 
 Fig. 5 
 
 DESCRIPTION OF NEW .TOINT. 
 
 Fig. 1 is a T joint with the 
 ends of the pipe attached. 
 
 Fig. 2 is a sectional view 
 of same, showing the perfect, 
 iiuiun this method secures. 
 
 Fig. 3 is a single joint with 
 ) i|ie attached. 
 
 I'^ig. 4, a sectional view of 
 same. 
 
 Fig. 5, a single joint ready 
 fur use ; it is made of brass 
 and heavily tinned, both in- 
 side and out ; a, a, are the 
 conical ends to which the pipe is fitted. A, the 
 outer flange to whicli the heat is applied, which 
 momentarily melts the tin and forms a perfectly 
 secure joint. 
 
 K^ Send for Catalogue. .^ 
 
 Mathematical Demonstration. 
 
 ■•Pretty time to l)e coming home to your 
 family, Mr. Smith ; here it is three o'clock in 
 the morning ! " " Three o'clock, my dear ! why 
 it's only one o'clock ; you've been dreaming. " 
 " Smith— you're drunk ! I tell you it is three 
 o'clock : look for yourself.'' " And I tell you, 
 madam, I'm not drunk : it's one o'clock, for I 
 heard it strike one as I came 'round the corner, 
 t/iree tiiiien .' " 
 
 Impudence. 
 
 A newspapi-r published in the sju-ighdy and 
 growing village of Chicago (situated in the 
 State of Illinois,) with patronizing assurance, 
 speaks of New York as "?/«' Chii-ngi) of the 
 Eaut!" This is almost equal to the effrontery 
 of the Chicago Daily Times in styling itself 
 " the Table Talk of the West !" 
 
 — Popular ideas of the seat of the moral 
 qualities in man are not much more correct ' 
 than those of a little girl whom we once saw 
 helped at table to the heart of a roast chicken. 
 She raised it on her fork and contemplated it | 
 with great interest and gravity. " Papa," said I 
 she, "IS this the place where the chicken had i 
 
 I I ji all his love for his friends : 
 
 — •• I should like to know why you have sued • 
 me ?" demanded an indignant borrower of his j 
 creditor who had just commenced an action 
 against hmi for debt. '• Why, my dear fellow, 
 I did it to oblige you.' "To oblige me?" j 
 '• Certainly, to oblige you to pay the debt." \ 
 
 — An Irishman, leaning against a lamp-post 
 as a funeral procession was passing by, was 
 asked who was dead. " I can't exactly say, 
 sur," said he, "but I presume it is the jintle- 
 man in the coffin." 
 
 Fi(/ 2 
 
 — A cynical friend commenting the other 
 day upon the fi-equency of weddings, likened 
 the young people to pigs. Said lie. "it's the 
 old story constantly repeated, (^ue pig dijis 
 his nose into a trough of hot swill, and burn- 
 ing that sensitive organ, sets up a loud sipieal. 
 Immediately all the other pigs run and thrust 
 their noses into the hot mess, just to see what 
 that pig was squealing about. ' 
 •<^« 
 
 — Mr. Seward is sr.id to have stopped at only 
 four public houses during his entire trip to 
 Mexico and back. How awfully thirsty be 
 must have been wbQ ' he returned.-^ World. 
 
 U IV ION ATT A CH M E rVT , 
 
 (FOR L.VMPrt.) 
 
 UNION ATTACHMENT. 
 
 (FOIi G.VS BrR.VER.) 
 
 13^206 Pearl Street. «^ 
 
18 70. 
 Horsford's Bread Preparation. 
 
 Whiit in it for? 
 
 It is for " Jimiiiy" Bread, Ralln, Bixeiiit, 
 Waffie)), Cii.kes, Di(mplin.ijs, etc., etc., and takes 
 the place of Yeast, Soda or Sala?ratus, Cream 
 of Tartar, sour Milk or any otlier form of 
 leaven. 
 
 How does it difer from other forms of 
 leaven or other " Baking Powders?" 
 
 Essentially in this: that all other "raising" 
 or leavening agents supply in themselves 
 nothing which is nutritious or required by the 
 human system ; HorsJ\>rd' ."< Brcitd Prepanition 
 does contain the elements of nutrition in such 
 proportions and form as renders them immedi- 
 ately assimilable. 
 
 Why nhnild ire tise it? 
 
 Recdiise it is manufai'tured only by the 
 well-known Rumford Chemical Works of 
 Providence, R. I., under the personal super- 
 vision of Professor E. N. Horsford, of Har- 
 vard University, and the purity of the in- 
 gredients can therefore be relied upon. 
 
 Jiec't use the directions for its use are simple 
 and easily understood. The proportions of 
 Acid and Soda are not left to careless or igno- 
 rant cooks. 
 
 Becaitse Bread, Biscuit — any form of far- 
 inaceous food — made with this Preparation, 
 may be eaten Hot as well as cold by Invalids 
 and Dj/spepties. 
 
 Because the nutritive value of flour is in- 
 creased by the use of Prof. Horsford's inven- 
 tion ten per cent. (See letter from Baron 
 Liebig to Prof. Horsford.) 
 
 Secaiise but a few moments time are re- 
 quired to prepare any form of Bread for baking. 
 The result is certain, and the bread always 
 good. Climate, weather, temperature do not 
 affect the result. 
 
 Because sweet and delicious Hot Biscuit, 
 Rolls, &c., are made by the use of Hor.iford's 
 Preparation, \\\\\\ flour, irater, and mdt only, — 
 neither milk, butter, nor other shortening 
 being necessary. 
 
 Because it supplies to the human system 
 the Phoxphates which exist in the whole grain, 
 but which are removed with the bran in the 
 manufacture of fine flour. 
 
 Because Horsford's. Bread Preparation is 
 the onli/ "Baking Powdef" which is vsed, ap- 
 proved, and publicly recommended by scientific 
 men. Its use is almost universal among phy- 
 sicians. 
 
 Among those who use and have given Hors- 
 ford's Bread Preparauon their unqualified ap- 
 proval, we are at liberty to mention : 
 
 The Late Dr. V.\LEXTINE MOTT, New York. 
 Dk. WILLARD P.ARKER 
 
 TheLateDj. horaie c;reen.... 
 
 Dr. WM. H. DVVINELLE 
 
 Dr. FORDYCE HARKER 
 
 Dr. JOHN H. GRISrOM 
 
 Dr. august JACOKI 
 
 Prof. CHAS. A. JOY, Columbia Col... 
 
 Prof. O.K. CHANDLER, Columbia Col. 
 
 Dr. JOHN TORREY, Columbia Col. » 
 
 Pr<if. R. OGDEN DOREMUS 
 
 Dr. WM. A. HAMMOND, Prof, of 
 Diseases of the Mind and Nervous 
 System, and of Clinical Medicine in 
 Bellcvue Hospital Medical College, 
 and late Surgeon General, U.S. Army " 
 
 MASON C. WELD, tChemist), Asso- 
 ciate Editor American Agriculturist,.. " 
 
 S. H. WALES, Editor Scientific Ameri- 
 can, " 
 
 J. B.LYMAN. Agricultural Edi-irN.Y. 
 Tribune, and Associate Editor '"Hearth 
 and Home," •< 
 
 ORANGE JUDO, Proprietor and Edi- 
 tor American .Agriculturist, '■ 
 
 D. D. T. MOORK, Proprietor and Edi- 
 tor .Moore's Rural New Yorker » 
 
 Rev. CR.\-MMOND KENNEDY, Asso- 
 ciate Editor " Christian Union," jt 
 
 Dr. J. R. NICHOLS Bost., Mass. 
 
 Dr.C.T. J,\CI<S0N, Mass. State Chem. >i 
 
 Prof. J. C. BOOTH, of U. S. Mint Phila., Penn. 
 
 Prof. SAMUEL H. DICKSON, Jeffer- 
 son Medical College " 
 
 Prof. C. S. GAUNT, M.D., .. 
 
 Prof. SAMUEL JACKSON, M.D., Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania " 
 
 Dr. A. P. WYLIE Chester, S. C. 
 
 Dr. THOMAS S. JONES Jacl<son, La. 
 
 Dr. A. J. COMFORT ".Ft. Ripley, Minn. 
 
 Horsford's Bread Preparation is put up in 
 packages sufficient for 2.5 pounds of flour. 
 
 RETAIL PRICE (with Tin Measure) 30cts. 
 
 WILSON, LOOKWOOD, EVERETT & CO., 
 
 Oeneral Ayents, 
 
 201 Fulton St., N. Y. City. 
 
 TABLE TALK, 
 
 31 
 
 — An Eastern youth traveling in the uncivil- 
 ized regions between here and California, pro- 
 vided himself with a small pistol, so as not to 
 be out of fashion. While he was apparently 
 examining it, but really " showing off," a 
 lirawny miner, whose belt was weighted with 
 two heavj' six-shooters, asked him whtit he had 
 there. " Why," replied the young man from 
 the East, "that is a pistol." " That a pistol!" 
 said the rough, "Wall, if you should shoot me 
 with it, and I should erer find it out—VA lick 
 voti like fun." 
 
 — Dr. Banks says that sair-dustpiUivio\\\(\ 
 effectually cure most of the disea.ses which 
 now afflict mankind, — if every individual would 
 make his own saw dust. 
 
 — •^^ 
 
 — Some persons — (we don't mean yav, 
 reader,)— are like the French nation, of whom 
 it was wittily said in '48, that they did not 
 know what they wanted, and would never rest 
 till they had got it ! 
 
 — A hog may not be m thorough mathemati- 
 cian, but he is very fond of a good square root. 
 
 Motto fou the " Fat Men's Association." — 
 
 "We are such stuff as dreams are made of." — 
 
 Tempest, Act IV, Scene I. 
 
 — One venerable darkey down South is " a- 
 gwine to vote for dat Fifteenth CVimmand- 
 ment ' the first time he has a chance. 
 
 — Gardeners mind their peas, actors mind 
 their cues, but church-wardens, instead of 
 minding their p's and qs, verj' often give all 
 their attention to their pews and keys. 
 
 — Here is a little girl who will take all the 
 prizes in some up-town school, l:iy-and-by : 
 "Did I not tell you." said her father, " not to 
 pick flowers in the conservatory without 
 leave ?" "Yes, papa ; but all these had leaves." 
 — Eveniiig Post. 
 
 — A negro parson in the West, preaching 
 against the love of money, concluded his ser- 
 mon by saying: "And finally, brethren, you 
 can judge what God thinks of money by the 
 class of people be gives it to." 
 
 We find the following verses in the Christian 
 Union. It is prudent to state that the views 
 therein expressed tire not those of Mr. Beecher, 
 but of modern materialistic jihilosopher.s. 
 They are nearly as intelligible as Prof. Hux- 
 lej's recent lectures, and are more amusing. 
 
 The Cosmic Egg. 
 
 Upon the Rock yet uncreate, 
 Amid a Chaos inchoate. 
 An uncreated Being sate — 
 Beneath Him Hock, 
 Above Him Cloud, 
 And the Cloud was Rock, 
 And the Rock was Cloud. 
 
 The rock was growing moist and warm. 
 
 The cloud began to take the Form. 
 
 As though a something would be Born — 
 
 A form chaotic, vast and vague. 
 
 Which issued in The Cosmic Eijg. 
 
 Then the Being uncreate 
 Upon The Egg did Incubate, 
 
 And thus became the Incubator : 
 And of The Egg did Allegate, 
 
 And thus became the Alligator; 
 And the Incubator was Potentate, 
 But the Alligator was Potentator. , 
 
 The following letter has been handed 
 to us l)y Mr. George F. Wilson, the 
 Treasurer of the Rumford Chemical 
 Works, of Providence, R. I. It is from 
 ' Peter Henderson, Esq., tlie Seedsman, 
 Florist, and Agricultural Writer; he 
 needs no introduction from us where 
 ever an agricultural newspaper is taken, 
 or agricultural books circulate. 
 
 New Yokk, October 20, 1 sns. 
 To Mr. Geo. F. Wilson. 
 
 Dear Sir, — Last spring I purchased from 
 your oftice in New York one ton of your 
 "Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
 Lime," costing fliO, and at the same time I 
 bought a ton of No. 1 Peruvian Guano, 
 costing $85, with a view to test the Superphos- 
 phate against the Guano, by careful experi- 
 ment. Accordingly, two acres of our richest 
 maiket garden ground was measured off, and 
 carefully ploughed. One acre was sown with 
 i the Guano, and the other with your Super- 
 I phosphate, on the ploughed surface, then 
 thoroughly harrowed in and sown with beets 
 and onions, equal quantities on each acre. 
 The crops on both acres were unusually early 
 and large, netting a clear profit of $5(10 per 
 acre, (even at the low rates at which all early 
 vegetables sold last summer in New York). 
 There was no perceptible difference in the 
 effects produced by the Guano and Superphos- 
 phate on the crops of onions and beets ; both 
 icere extra fine. But (he second crop (celery) 
 now shotes the finest on the acre fertilised with 
 your Superphti.Hphate. 
 
 Verv respectfully yours. 
 
 PETER HENDERSON. 
 
 The next letter on tlie same subject, 
 was written to Jnhn Knnx; Esq., the 
 " Small Fruit" Grower, by Col. iMa.mi C. 
 Weld, of New York, well known as an 
 Agricultural Chemist, and Associate 
 Editor of the "American Agriculturist." 
 
 New York, June 7th, 1869. 
 To .Jons Knox, Esq., Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Dear Sir,— My friend Mr. Potter, of Wil- 
 son, Lockwood, Everett & Co. , of New York, 
 tells me you have made inciuiry concerning 
 ."Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of 
 ! Lime, " and asks if I will give you my opinion 
 of it. / buy a for my aim vse, knowing the 
 article and having made comparative tests with 
 it last year, in which it stood better than any 
 other Superphosphate that I tried, save one. 
 and fully equal, if not better than that one on 
 certain crops. I am personally acquainted 
 with the members of the firm of Wilson, Lock- 
 wood, Everett & Co., and know that their re- 
 presentations can be strictly relied upon. 
 
 Yours truly, MASON C. WELD. 
 
 Wil.son's Ammoniated Superphos- 
 phate of Lime, above referred to, can be 
 had of us direct, or through any of the 
 agricultural seed stores, in any quantity, 
 from 100 lbs. to 1.000 ton.s. 
 
 Price, $00 per Ton'. 
 
 A jiamphlet, descriptive of the above 
 fertilizer, sent free upon application. 
 Every ton warranted equal to standard. 
 
 Wilson, Lockwood, Everett & Co., 
 
 GENERAL AGENTS, 
 
 201 Fulton St., N.Y. 
 
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 TABLE TALK. 
 
 FMarch. 
 
 IVEW DEPOTS. 
 
 In addition to our Agencies in the principal 
 cities and towns of the WEST, for the greater ; discussion 
 convenience of the trade, we liave established 
 Depots for all our goods in Chicago. Cincinnati 
 and St. Louis, as follows : 
 
 CHICAGO, 
 
 Messrs. KING !i OWEN, 250 & 252 South Water St, 
 
 CINCINNATI, 
 
 Messrs. L M. BISHOP & CO., S5 and 87 Race 
 
 ST, LOUIS. 
 
 Messrs. FEED. P, ROZIER & CO., 521 North 2d St, 
 Orders for Horsford's Bkead Preparation, 
 Rumfurd Teii«t PnirdcrK, II<irnJ't/rd's Cream of \ 
 Tnrhir Siibstiiut'\ &c., &c., will be received | 
 and filled at the above Depots, as well as by j 
 many other Agents, whose names are given 
 elsewhere, without the delny of shipment from , 
 New York. Buyers of our goods in small I 
 quantities will always mre money, as well as 
 time, by ordering of (jur nearest Agent. 
 
 Wilson, Lockwood, Everett & Co, 
 
 201 Fulton St., N.Y. 
 
 First, Second, or Third Person ? 
 
 A few years ago, in the Austniliau House of 
 Assembly, the subject of education was under 
 A member was speaking in favor 
 ] \ of the necessity and extension of educational 
 privileges, and with enthusiastic warmth, ex- 
 claimed, " Sir, we must educate our children." 
 But instantly it flashed upon his mind that he 
 was unblest with babies, and he corrected him- 
 self with — " Sir. you nuist educate your chil- 
 dren." But at this juoposition, the chairman, 
 who was addressed, began to ^hake his head 
 and grin. " Sir," continued the perple.xed 
 orator, amidst the roiir of the house, "sir, you 
 — they — we — must educate their children ! ' 
 
 LIEBIG'S 
 
 Extract of Meat, 
 
 OF LA PLATA, 
 
 HORSFORD'S 
 
 Acid Phosphate, 
 
 (MEDICINAL,; 
 
 Frepared by the 
 
 RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS, 
 
 I. 
 
 PROVIDENCE, 
 
 t'NUlK THE DIPfc-TION :";r 
 
 Professor E. K Horsford, 
 
 Late Rvmfoi'd Professor at Harvard IJniven 
 Camhrid'^e, Mass. 
 
 ,ty 
 
 The value of preparations of acid phosphates 
 as therapeutic agents is in keeping with well- 
 known chemical principles. 
 
 So far as experience goes, Horsford's Acid 
 Phosphate seems to act as if it were nutriment 
 to the cerebral and nervous systems, restoring 
 to their normal action secret<n'y ovgans that 
 have been deranged, giving vigor where tliere 
 has been debility, and renewed strength where 
 there has been exhaustion. 
 
 It has been found espeeudii) serciecaUe in dys- 
 pepula and disorders ineident thereto : in uri- 
 nary difficulties, proceeding from, paralysis of the 
 bladder or s'phine.ter, and is known to be useful 
 ■in tendencies to r/ratel and spermatorrho', in 
 cei'ebrul and spinal paralysis, mental exhaustimi, 
 wakefulness, hysteria, and other nerroiis affec- 
 tions. 
 
 Each fluid drachm contains : 
 
 .U32 of a grain of metallic iron, in the form 
 of oxide combined as an acid phosphate. 
 
 I.UIO of micombined, potential tribasic phos- 
 phoric acid, mixed with tribasic phos- 
 phoric acid combined as monobasic phos- 
 phate of lime, potassa, magnesia and 
 ammcmia. 
 
 It contains no pyro-phosphate, or meta phos- 
 phate of any base whatever. 
 
 Most excellent results have attended its ad 
 
 — The state of society in Arkansas was ex- 1 
 ceedingly " rough" a few years ago. The t 
 most frightful tragedies were frequently en- 
 acted, and the inhabitants seemed to think 
 ■ nothing of them. The following anecdote is j 
 ] substantially true : Two desperadoes met at a 
 tavern, in Helena, one evening. They were 
 named respectively Tom Scroggs and Bdl 
 ' Pike. Says Scroggs — I 
 
 "How's things?" I 
 
 " Peart," says Pike. ! 
 
 " Heard you said you'd bleed me uext time 
 we met," says Scroggs. i 
 
 "That's me," says Pike, and tv.-o bowie- 
 knives flashed fiercely together. The fellows 
 hacked and carved each other pretty briskly 
 for ten or twelve minutes, when Pike, having 
 lost an ear and having received two or three 
 pretty bad punctures in his abdomen, struck 
 his colors, and declared that he was satisfied. 
 
 " What s all this?' tremblingly inquired a 
 stranger, who entered just as the fight ended. 
 
 "Oh, its of no 'count," says the landlord, 
 an ethereal Ci-eature of fOme two hundred iiud 
 fifty pounds weight, and with a face like the 
 broad side of abarn,—" 'taint nothin ; some of 
 the boys been enjoyin' theirselees a little ■' that's 
 all! Won t you hist in a little pizen, stranger!'' 
 and the genial l-andlord set out a black bottle 
 and a yellow bowl of brown sugar. 
 
 The Original and only Genuine 
 
 LIEBIG-'S 
 
 Extract of Meat, 
 
 K MADE BY THE 
 
 LIEBIG'S EXTRACT OF MEAT CO., 
 
 And has the Sifpuil arcn of Baron Lie- 
 
 Mg, the inventor, and of Dr. Ma.r V. Pet- 
 
 tenkofer, delegate, on every Jar, wifh- 
 
 oiit which none can be genvine. 
 It is the only ai-ticle that received GOLD 
 MEDALS AT PARIS Isc", HAVRE 18««, and 
 THE GRAND DIPLOMA (superior to the 
 Gold Medal), at AMSTERDAM 1869. 
 
 It is invaluable as Pood, especially for those 
 who need strengthening nourishment. It se- 
 cures economy in housekeeepiug, and excel- 
 lence in cookery, while saving time, trouble, 
 fuel aud heidMi. It is admirably adapted to 
 the use of Travelers' and Hunters', and on 
 ship board and on farms and plantations where 
 fresh meat cannot be had for daily use. It 
 keeps for years in any climate. This is the 
 only sort used by the governments of England, 
 
 MANUFAOTDKEU BY 
 
 A. BENITES & CO., Buenos Aykf.s. 
 
 This is a pure extract of beef, prepared ac- 
 cording to the improved process of Baron von 
 Liehiy. While it is invaluable in the sick-room 
 in the preparation of beef tea, a more extended 
 use for it will be found in every household, as 
 an economical and perfect substitute for fresh 
 beef in the preparation of all kinds of soups, 
 sauces, etc. Persons traveling on land or sea 
 will find it indispensable. It is put up in 1 lb., 
 ilb., ^Ib. and i lb. pots. 
 
 Persons wishing ttie best article in the market 
 as well as the elieapest, will ask for the Liebig't 
 E.vtract of Meat, of La Plata. 
 
 E. FOUGERA, 
 
 Agent for United States, 
 30 North William S t.. New York. 
 
 FO UGER A'S 
 
 Compound lodinised 
 
 COD LIVER OIL. 
 
 Far superior to all others, being five times as 
 strong and as efiicacious as pure Cod Liver Oil. 
 It is recommended in Consumption, Scrofula, 
 Rickets, Rheumatism, etc. 
 
 FOUGERA'S 
 
 READY MADE 
 
 MUSTARD PLASTERS, 
 
 Always ready for use, clean and reliable, should 
 be in ever\' familv. 
 
 FOUGERA'S 
 
 VERMIFUGE, 
 
 An agreeable and certain remedy for children 
 and adults. 
 
 FOUGERA'S 
 
 PECTORAL PASTE. 
 
 A pleasant remedy for Coughs, Bronchitis, 
 Irritation of the Throat, etc. 
 
 ministration for the prostration and nervmis ' France, Russia, Prussia, Italy, Holland and 
 ' others. 
 
 Be particular to ask for LIEBIG'S COM- 
 PANY'S extract, and 
 
 BEWARE OP IMITATIONS. 
 J. 3IILHA U'S SONS, 
 183 Broadway, N. Y.. 
 
 SOLE AGENTS. 
 
 symptoms following Sunstroke. 
 
 Physicians desiring to examine and test this 
 remedy, are requested to apply by letter, or 
 otherwise, to the undersigned. 
 
 Wilson, Lockwood, Everett & Co., 
 
 GBN3RAL AOENTS. 
 
 201 Fulton St., N. Y. 
 
 LANCELOT'S CIGARETTES, 
 
 FOR ASTHMA, 
 
 'WILL. CAUSE IMMEDIATE RELIEF. 
 
 All the above for sale by Druggists generally, 
 aiftl by 
 
 E. FOUGERA, 
 
 Importing and Manufacturing Pharmacist, 
 30 North William St., Neiv York. 
 
 J. W. Prati, Printer, 76 Fulton Street N. Y. 
 
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