Biennial sessions of legislature and elections in even years-as 1874-76, etc.—in Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oregon and Vermont. Biennial sessions in even years (elections in the years immediately preceding) in Arkansas, Iowa, Maryland and Ohio. Biennial sessions and elections in odd years-as 1873-75, etc.-in California, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Biennial sessions in odd years (elections in the years immediately preceding) in Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada and Tennessee." rot. A MIXTURE of oil and ink is a good thing to clean kid boots with; the first softens and the last blackens them. BLEEDING from the nose may be stopped by putting bits of lint into the nostrils, and by raising the arms over the head. A BABY will progress very rapidly in its growth by laying it occasionally on a soft rug, and allowing it to have full exercise of its limbs. IN sudden attacks of diarrhoea, a large cup of strong, hot tea, with sugar and milk, will frequently bring the system to a healthy state. STONEMASON'S saw-dust is infinitely better than soap for cleaning floors, and much more economical. MOTHS may be kept out of furs and woolen clothes by wrapping the fabric in muslin. Moths cannot eat through muslin. INK may be taken out of a carpet by a little dissolved oxalic acid or salt of sorrel rubbed on with a flannel, and afterward washed off with cold water; then rub on some hartshorn. A SOLUTION of pearlash in water, thrown upon a fire, extinguishes it instantly; the proportion is a quarter of a pound dissolved in some hot water, and then poured into a bucket of common water. BRASS ornaments may be cleaned by washing with roche alum boiled to a strong ley, in the proportion of an ounce to a pint; when dry, it must be rubbed with a fine tripoli. ONE of the best applications for rheumatism is to bathe the parts affected with water in which potatoes have been recently boiled, as hot as can be borne, just before going to bed. A GOOD cement for mending broken crockery ware may be made by mixing together equal quantities of melted glue, white of egg and white lead, and boiling them together. A COLD application to the bare feet, such as iron, water, rock, earth or ice, when it can be had, is an excellent remedy for cramp. If the patient be seized in the upper part of the body, apply the remedy to the hands. A SIMPLE and effectual remedy for the prevention of milk turning sour in summer time consists in adding to each quart fifteen grains of bi-carbonate of soda. This does not affect the taste of the milk, while it facilitates its digestion. Ir may not be generally known that when good meat is a little tainted by warm weather or overkeeping, washing it with lime-water will restore its sweetness. Dredging powdered charcoal over it will produce the same effect. AN excellent recipe for removing paint or grease spots from garments may be had by mixing four tablespoonfuls of alcohol with a tablespoonful of salt. Shake the whole well together, and apply with a sponge or brush. ALL sorts of vessels and utensils may be purified from long-retained smells of every kind, in the easiest and most perfect manner, by rinsing them out well with charcoal powder, after the grosser impurities have been scoured off with sand and potash. SCALD flannel before you make it up, as it shrinks in the first washing. Much of the shrinking arises from there being too much soap and the water being too cool. Never use soda for flannels. To clean metals, mix half a pint of refined neats'-foot oil and half a gill of spirits of turpentine, and scrape a little rotten stone, wet a woolen rag therewith, and rub the metal well. Wipe it off with a soft cloth, and polish with a dry leather. THE leaves of geranium are an excellent application for cuts, when the skin is rubbed off, and other wounds of the kind. One or two leaves must be bruised and applied on linen to the part, and the wound will become cicatrized in a very short time. SOFT soap mixed with a solution of potash, or caustic soda or pearlash, and slackened lime, mixed with sufficient water to form a paste, is an excellent solvent for old putty and paint. Either of these laid on with an old brush or rag, and left for some hours, will render the putty or paint easily removable. To clean paint, smear it over with whitening mixed to the consistency of common paste in warm water. Rub the surface to be cleaned briskly, and wash off with pure cold water. Grease spots will in this way be almost instantly removed, as well as other filth, and the paint will retain its brilliancy and beauty unimpaired. A VERY pleasant perfume, and also a preventive against moths, may be made of the following ingredients: Take of cloves, carraway seeds, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon and Tonquin beans, of each one ounce; then add as much orris-root as will equal the other ingredients put together. Grind the whole well to powder, and then put it in little bags, among clothes, etc. To clean black cloth, dissolve one ounce of bicarbonate of ammonia in one quart of warm water. With this liquid rub the cloth, using a piece of flannel or black cloth for the purpose. After the application of this solution clean the cloth well with clean water; dry and iron it, brushing the cloth from time to time in the direction of the fibre. To restore scorched linen, take two onions, peel and slice them, and extract the juice by squeezing or pounding. Then cut up half an ounce of white soap and two ounces of fuller's earth; mix with them the onion juice and half a pint of vinegar. Boil this composition well, and spread it, when cool, over the scorched part of the linen, leaving it to dry thereon. Afterward wash out the linen. THE daily newspaper in a large city is tempted to deal in sensation, to publish matter which, for the worst reasons, attracts attention, and to insert advertisements the profit of which is proportioned to their evil tendency. It is pleasant to note that many of the American journals are superior to these sordid considerations. Among the instances of this good practice which come under our notice is the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Mr. George W. Childs, the proprietor, entered the business with the resolve to appeal to the better judgment and principles of the Philadelphians, and has consistently carried out his resolution. He has found his reward in a very extensive circulation and an appreciation as honorable to Philadel phians as it is just to the Ledger.-The Churchman, Hartford, April 5, 1873. USEFUL FAMILY RECEIPTS. COLD SLAW.-Get a fresh cabbage, take off the outside leaves, cut it in half, and, with a sharp knife, shave it into fine slips. Beat up two eggs, add to it one gill of vinegar and water mixed; place it on the range; when it begins to thicken, stir in a piece of butter the size of a small walnut, a little salt and a teaspoonful of sugar; when cold, pour it over the cabbage, and stir it together; and before sending to table sprinkle with a little black pepper. RICE PUDDING.-Two quarts of milk; a quarter of a pound of rice; sugar to taste; half of a nutmeg (grated); a small piece of butter. Pick and wash the rice, add all the ingredients, and boil the whole until the rice is perfectly soft. If the pudding should then seem rather too thin, let it boil away a little more. APPLE DUMPLINGS.-Pare and core large, tart apples. Make a paste of one pound of flour and half a pound of butter. Cover the apples with the paste; tie them in cloths, but do not squeeze them tightly. Tender apples will boil in three-quarters of an hour. BUCKWHEAT CAKES.-One quart of buckwheat meal; one pint of wheat flour; half a tea-cupful of yeast; salt to taste. Mix the flour, buckwheat and salt with as much water, moderately warm, as will make it into a thin batter. Beat it well, then add the yeast; when well mixed, set it in a warm place to rise. As soon as they are very light, grease the griddle and bake them a delicate brown. EGG AND MILK.-Beat separately the yolk and white of a fresh egg; add to the yolk a tumbler of good milk. Sweeten it with white sugar to taste, then stir in the white. ARROWROOT.-Mix two tablespoonfuls of arrowroot to a smooth paste. To one pint of boiling water add a little lemon peel, and stir in the arrowroot while the water is boiling. Let it cook till quite clear. Sweeten with white sugar, and season with wine and nutmeg if approved. PAP.-Tie a tea-cupful of flour closely in a cloth, and boil it for six hours; then grate some of it and mix with cold milk to the consistency of thin starch, and stir it into boiling milk. When done, sweeten it with sugar to taste. INDIAN MUSH.-To three quarts of boiling water add salt to taste. Stir in gradually sufficient Indian meal to make it quite thick. Let it boil slowly one hour. Beat well until done. By so doing, it becomes very light and smooth. HOMINY.-Two quarts of white corn; three half pints of white beans; two pounds of pickled pork. Wash the corn and put it on to boil in water sufficient to cover it, and as the corn swells more water must be added, so as to keep it covered all the time it is cooking. After boiling four hours, then add the beans and pork, which when done, the hominy may be sent to table. Should the pork not make it sufficiently salt, more may be added. This is very nice warmed over the next day. BEEF TEA.-Cut some of the lean of uncooked beef into pieces about half an inch square, put them into a bottle, wrap around the cork a piece of muslin, then stop the bottle closely and put it into a kettle of cold water. Place the kettle over the fire, and let it boil until all the essence is extracted from the beef; then pour it out and add a little salt. TO BOIL EGGS.-To try the freshness of eggs, put them into a pan of cold water; those that sink are the best. Always let the water boil before putting the eggs in. Three minutes will boil them soft; four minutes the whites will be completely done, and in six minutes they will be sufficiently hard for garnishing salads and dishes requiring them. PAN'D OYSTERS.-Take fifty large oysters, put them into a colander, and pour over a little water to rinse them. After letting them drain, put them into a stew-pan with a quarter of a pound_of butter, salt, black and red pepper to taste. Put them over a clear fire, and stir while cooking. As soon as they commence to shrink, remove them from the fire, and send to table hot. CALF'S FEET JELLY.-Wash and prepare one set of feet, place them in four quarts of water, and let them simmer gently five hours. At the expiration of this time take them out, and pour the liquid into a vessel to cool. When cold, remove every particle of fat, replace the jelly in the preserving kettle, and add one pound of loaf sugar, the rind and juice of two lemons; when the sugar has dissolved, beat two eggs with their shells in one gill of water, which pour into the kettle and boil five minutes, or until perfectly clear; then add one gill of Madeira wine, and strain through a flannel bag into any form you like. PEPPER SAUCE.-Take two dozen peppers, and cut them up fine, with double the quantity of cabbage; one root of horse-radish grated; one handful of salt; one full tablespoonful of mustard seed; one tablespoonful of allspice; one dessertspoonful of cloves; two tablespoonfuls of sugar and a little mace. Boil the spice and sugar in two quarts of the best cider vinegar, which, as soon as removed from the fire and while yet boiling, pour over the other ingredients. When cold, put it in jars, cover close and keep in a cool place. COLD CUSTARD.-Take one-fourth of a calf's rennet, wash it well, cut it in pieces, and put it into a decanter with a pint of Lisbon wine. In a day or two it will be fit for use. To one pint of milk add a teaspoonful of the wine. Sweeten the milk, and flavor it with vanilla, rose water or lemon. Warm it a little and add the wine, stirring it slightly. Pour it immediately into cups or glasses, and in a few minutes it will become a custard. It makes a firmer curd to put in the wine, omitting the sugar. It may be eaten with sugar and cream. FLOATING ISLAND.-One quart of milk sweetened; the whites of six eggs; wine to the taste; half a pound of pulverized sugar for the island; a little currant jelly. Beat the eggs, and add the half pound of sugar by degrees, and as much currant jelly as will make it a fine pink. Pour the milk in a glass bowl; with a tablespoon place the island on it in heaps tastefully arranged." FOR many years past the editor has been in the habit of reading and then preserving in his scrapbook the Saturday editorials of the Public Ledger, one of the best family newspapers published, and having an immense circulation. Our readers may judge of those editorials in this present number, and in future issues calculate on the diffusion of good to the end, that none of us will live for our selves alone, but for our race, not in the present only, but in the future. Such is the mind of George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, the generous and noble-hearted editor.-From the Liberia Advocate, Monrovia, Jan. 1, 1873. GLEANINGS. NEXT to being a great poet is the power of understanding one. How near are two hearts when there is no deceit between them! GIVE a wise man health, and he will give himself every thing else. CONSCIENCE is a sleeping giant, but his starts are terrible when he awakes. A MAN may be great by chance, but never wise nor good without taking pains for it. JEALOUSY is the voice of narrow minds; confidence the virtue of enlarged ones. SOME hearts, like evening primroses, open most beautifully in the shadows of life. THE prosperous man who yields himself up to temptation bids farewell to welfare. SENTIMENTS of friendships which flow from the heart cannot be frozen in adversity. BAD habits are thistles of the heart, and every indulgence of them is a seed from which will spring a new crop of weeds. THEY declaim most against the world who have most sinned against it, as people generally abuse those whom they have injured. THE only passion which age does not blunt is avarice, and which, the longer we live, only becomes the keener. BE always frank and true; spurn every sort of affectation and disguise. Have the courage to confess your error. Confide your faults and follies to but few. Ir is much better to decide a difference between enemies than friends; for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy, and one of our enemies a friend. MANY people who boast of being 'plain" and "blunt" speakers are merely coarse and boorish. Such persons are constantly inflicting wounds which neither time nor medicine can ever heal. We never respect persons who aim simply to amuse us. There is a vast difference between those we call amusing men and those we denominate entertaining; we laugh with the former and reflect with the latter. THOSE who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. Men and women in search of wives and husbands may do well to note this truth. NEVER be ashamed of confessing your rance, for the wisest man upon the earth is ignorant of many things, insomuch that what he knows is merely nothing in comparison with what he does not know. JOHN was thought to be very stupid; he was sent to mill one day, and the miller said, "John, some people say you are a fool; now, tell me what you do know and what you don't know.' "Well," replied John, "I know millers' hogs are fat." "Yes, that's well, John; now, what don't you know?" "I don't know whose corn fats 'em." THE most important lesson of life is to know how to be happy within ourselves, when home is our comfort, and all in it, even the dog and cat, shares our affection. Do not refine away happiness by thinking that which is good may be better. JANE, what letter in the alphabet do you like best?" "Well, I don't like to say, Mr. Snobbs." "Pooh! nonsense! tell right out, Jane. Which do you like best?" "Well (blushing and dropping her eyes), I like you (u) the best.” NEWSPAPERS.-There is no book so cheap as a newspaper, none so interesting, because it consists of a variety measured out in suitable proportions as to time and quality. Being new every week or day, it invites to a habit of reading, and affords an easy and agreeable mode of acquiring knowledge, so essential to the welfare of the individual and the community. It causes many an hour to pass away pleasantly and profitably which would otherwise have been spent in idleness and mischief. BOOKS A BLESSING.-Literature is a ray of that wisdom which pervades the universe. Like the sun, it enlightens, rejoices and warms. By the aid of books we collect around us all things-all places, men and times. By them we are all recalled to the duties of human life. By the sacred example of greatness our passions are diverted and we are all aroused to virtue. Literature is the daughter of heaven, who has descended upon earth to soften the evils of life. Have recourse, then, to books. The sages who have written long before our days are so many travelers in the paths of calamity, who stretch out their friendly hands, inviting us, when abandoned by the world, to join their society. COMPARATIVELY few persons are aware of the application and talent required to prepare the contents of a well-conducted newspaper, and send it forth daily or weekly for the gratification and igno-instruction of its readers. The proper appreciation, however, of a valuable journal by the masses has undoubtedly become an assured fact. This is fully attested by the immense circulation of the Philadelphia Ledger, which finds its way, not only into the counting-house and residence of the wealthy, but also into the hands of the humble portion of society, which includes the vast number of operators and employés. The amount of benefit resulting from the excellent management, high moral tone and extensive circulation of the journal in question is incalculable. It is greatly to the credit of the proprietor of that gigantic concern that nothing is permitted to appear in the columns of the Ledger calculated to corrupt the morals or to pervert the taste. Many of its editorial articles are as dignified in tone and as elegant in composition as some of the finest essays in the magazines of the country, while its complete description of the most important events of the civilized world, together with the accuracy of its local intelligence, commends it to all classes of readers.-West Chester Local News, March 11. THERE is a moral dignity in minding one's own business to which few can attain, Solomon says that he who meddles with business not belonging to him is like him who taketh a dog by the ears; whereas he who pursues a contrary course is like him who sits down to a good meal with no one to make him afraid. ARITHMETIC.-A science differently studied by fathers and sons, the first generally confining themselves to addition and the second to subtraction. d. h. m. SITUATION OF LIBRARIES IN PHIL-1853, Aug. 13, Arabia, Liverpool to N.Y. 9 22 55 ADELPHIA. Academy of Natural Sciences, Broad and San som sts. Academy of the Fine Arts, temporarily at Philadelphia Saving Fund. American Mechanics', N. E. cor. Fourth and George sts. American Philosophical Society, 104 S. Fifth st. 1854, June 28, Baltic, 1856, July 8, 1857, June 23, Persia, 9 17 15 3,Vanderbilt, Cowes " Southampton to New York.. 9000 July 8, 1858, June 9, 1859, May 21, 1860, Aug. 6, Great Eastern, N. Y. to Milford Haven. 4 8 7 1863, Dec., 1866, July 2, Scotia, N. Y. to Liverpool 8 21 City of Paris, New York Commercial, Merchants' Exchange. Franklin Institute, 15 S. Seventh st. Friends' (Orthodox), 304 Arch st. Friends' (Hicksite), Race st. near Fifteenth. Historical Society of Penna., 820 Spruce st. to Queenstown...... July 23, Scotia, Liverpool to N. Y. July 30, Ville de Paris, Brest to 1867, Nov. 29, City of Paris, Queens Kensington Institute, cor. Girard av. and Day st. 1869, July 15, Moyamensing Institute, cor. Eleventh and Cath arine sts. town to New York..... Weser, Southampton to New York. Russia, New York to Queenstown.... Aug. 26, City of Paris, Queens- Oct., Periere, Brest to N. Y.. 1870, Aug., Scotia, Queenstown to N. Y. 1872,April, Spain, Queenstown to Sandy Hook. May, Adriatic, Queenstown to June, City of Brussels, Sandy 1873, Jan., Baltic, N. Y. to Queenstown Aug., Ohio, of Phila. & Liverpool line, Cape Henlopen to Queenstown Oct., Ohio, Queenstown to Cape Henlopen.. Rydal Hall, Antwerp to Philadelphia.. 7 9∞ 3.30 8 10 49 THE press of Philadelphia, sustained in a great measure, directly and indirectly, by the manufacturing industries in our midst, is in duty bound to give to these interests a share of attention in occasional résumes and statistics. These notices are not as frequent as the merits of the case demand, save in an exceptional instance to which we desire to allude, and from whose columns we propose in the future to glean and give to our readers much valuable information. We refer to the Public Ledger. The leaders of this journal have been noted for some years past, especially since George W. Childs, Esq., assumed proprietorship, for the piquancy of their style, the amount of information contained in a condensed form, and the strong common sense brought to bear upon living questions. The industries of the nation, our State and city more especially, have received in its columns the closest and most constant attention, evincing an appreciation of its surroundings most creditable to the management of that journal. We give herewith an article of the date of March 20th, broad in its character and replete with facts and figures.-The Protectionist, Phila delphia, April, 1873. |