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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1880)
Minor Trials of this Life. Trying to recollect number of store or car you left umbrella in. Losing penknife. Losing cane. First grease spot on new pantaloons. Shirt buttons found wanting on cold mornings. Mosquitoes. Plies. .Bugs. Flea in trousers. Uncut books and magazine Getting shaved. Full barber shop when you are in a hurry to get shaved. Or when not in a hurry. "Next? Not you, Fir. The othor gent first." The Choice or Food. "Bay rum 1 l." 41 . "Tonic?" "Hair's rather for you?" long. sir. Trim it a little "Shampoo?" House hunting. Piano practice in next room. Accordeon, flute, violin, next room. Headings and recitations. Newspaper witli five supplements. Trying to interest the girl who wants the other man. Hand organs. Trying to talk to an" Oh, dear!" "Oh my!" and "Oh, isn't that nice!" girl. Trying to save mone-. Roineinboring what a fool you made of yourself when tight last night. Heading your own love letters when it was very bad and you were not expected to recover. Tumbling up stairs. Tumbling down stairs. "Shut the door!" "What, never?" Banana and and orange peelings on the pave. Sea sickness. Conundrums. Puns. Itickety chairs. Leather steak. Old bill against you forgotten. Toothache. Trying to write home because it's your duty. Waiting outside for wife while shop ping at Hale's. Only to bo there live minutes, which moans an hour. I Atmosphere of stove-heated railroad cars in winter. i Cold feet. ! First, as regards butcher's meat, atten tion to the following directions will aid the housewife in deciding upon that all- important point its freshness. All lean meat, when fresh, shows a deep purplish red tinge with a bloom on the outside of the muscle, and a paler vermilion red with just a shade of purple in the cut surface. Lean mutton should be quite even in hue, and have no flavor whatever of tallow; lean beef may be a little mar bled with fat, but it must have no flavor of suet. The surface of the meat must be quite dry, even a cut scarcely wetting the finger, and the substance moderately soft, but at the same time so elastic that no mark is left after a )ressure from the linger. Keeping the meat for a day or two in the larder should make no differ ence as regards this. Then, there should be very littlo odor i.i a single joint of meat; it should not waste much in cook ing, and when brought to table roasted, should retain its gravy well, until the knife causes it to gusli out in a rich, ap petizing stream, full of inviting scent and flavor. This is particularly the case with mutton, and. for ascertaining its value, is the easiest tost wo know of. But generally, for all meat, a good test is to push a clean knife up to the hilt into its substance. In good, fresh meat the resistance is uniform, 'but when some parts are softer than others we may be quite sure that putre faction has set in. The smell of the knife is a good aid and this, by the way, is always useful in choosing a ham: for, by pushing a knife deep in, with drawing it and smelling it, one can tell whether the flavor is very salt or the contrary. As regards fat. The raw fat of beef should be of a light yellow color. like fresh butler; mutton should have w Hru taw GRAXDEl'ii, PASr AXD PRESENT. 3otc(l Travel i oinjianloiis him Their Hoc jlion tn H-tv York. The steamer Ameriijuo lately landed in New lork, bringing from Europe among others two women, each noted in her circle and time, each widely commented upon, and each more or less severely censured; Mrs. Lincoln, belonging to a past epoch, wrinkled, faded and gray, who made her way unattended through the crowd, and Sara Bern liar.lt, bloom ing, self-possessed, a creature of the present, and borne to a waiting carriage amid the loud acclaim of the multitude; the one once mistress of the White House, first lady of the greatest liepublic on earth and honored wife of its inn beloved and .subsequently martyred President; the other, queen of" the French drama, the tin wedded mother of four children, triumphant even in her OPEN DEFIANCE OF MOLALITY. The apartments of the former, when in the zenith of her Drosneritv. wore lnni" with regal trappings sit the "exnonsn of great nation. Suddenly hurled from place, in the first flush of' a victory that promised another reign of four years as "Mistress of the Nation's Manse," mis- iortune lias pursued her, dwelling with her in the ward of a private asylum for the insane, hawking her splendid ward lobe before the public at auction, and pursuing her into a banishment that has been little less than oblivion from which her landing in New York, as above stated is a TEMI'OliAKY EMERGENCE Noticeable chiefly because of the noto riety of her traveling companion. While comment and comparison are busy, and How to Bnnu a Log House. As to Putting on Air: the gray and fadod widow nf Pt also very little white and translucent fat, Lincoln is rosting from her iournov in umist uie lean oi uotn snouia uo pale, obscure lodgings, a glance at the Albc ouipenectiy even tinted. The various internal parts of an animal tire more difficult to choose, and great care is necessary in seeing that they are perfectly fresh; when decomposed "they are very unwholesome. Generally speak ing, liver, kidneys, etc., may be safely eaten when in their uncooked con dition they show a bright even color throughout, and are quite free from ion or bruises. But a of advice is needed as to the selection of sweetbread, which is the thymus gland of the calf, for butch ers will sometimes send the pancreas or stomach bread marks of special word congest llifitPiici This iimv lin Making a purchase at one shop and recognized, however, even when cooked same article marKed nity per iui .iinrmi seeing cent, cheaper at the next Having your ash box stolen. Salesman or woman who argues that you ought to like this or that pattern. Four friends giving you directions to some place all at once. Same old yarn you've heard forty times before. "That reminds me of a littlo dote." India rubber shoe stuck in the mud. Umbrella turned wrong side out by wind. Firecrackers a month before and after the Fourth. Waiting for your change at one of our big stores. Salesman or woman who seems in a Lurry for you to buy and clear out. Dogs and cats at night. Holes in pocket discharging ten cent pieces down trouser leg to pavement. Corns. Tight boots. Dull penknives. Bad cigars. Bemark of friend: "Gottin' old like the rest of us." Man who will talk behind you all through the play. Door bell that won't ring. Taxes. Crowded steamboat without seats. Third-class hotel with first-class charges. Bail way station coflee. Peg in a shoe. Man you owe. Man who owes you and does likewise. If a Bepublioan a Democratic speech. If a Democrat a Republican speech. Coal dealer's tons. Slippery front door step. Pen non cs( when you want it. Miserable pen when you get it. Thick ink. No envelopes. No postage stamps. Musty eggs for breakfast. Long sermon. High wind blowing hat off. Street car that won't stop. Too late for train or boat. Gettiug up cold mornings. Trying to sleep hot nights. Counting week's salary after jamboree. Fly in coffee. Fly in tea. Fly in soup. Crying babies on car or boat. Enlarged shirt button-hole at neck, letting neck-gear down by the run. Sight of steamboat smokestack moving off when ninety seconds too late. Or rear of train when ninety seconds too late. Man who chews and spits in the car or boat. Person who calls while 3ou're out and leaves no name. Old friend who calls when you're out and leaves no address. Very interesting story in stray maga zine: '"To be continued." Slamming window blinds. Trying to think of man's name you've forgotten. Trying to recollect where you put it. Bestaurant with "all the delicacies of the season" on the programme. Ten minutes choosing dinner. Waiter after ten minute's absence: "We're out of them articles." N. B. But this is not a minor trial. Jrics; and, as it is very inferior in diges ! tibility to the more delicate gland, it is as well to be quite sure about the real article before buying it. A young and therefore tender fowl may be known- before plucking bv the .... . - ; Jargeness of the feet and leg joints; and I after plucking a thin neck and violet anec-1 thighs may bo taken as invariable signs of age and toughness, especially in tur keys and fowls. The age of ducks and geese is tested in a different manner i. e., by their beaks, the lower part of which breaks away quite readily when they are young. One of the most objec tionable drawbacks to an old fowl, duck or goose, i3 the rank and disagreeable odor, Young birds of the gallinaceous marie Hotel, on the corner of Twenty- iCtK ..l...,i. .1 1 -i i i i .- iiiui nnuub mm jjroaciway, to wnicli Mile. Barnhardt was conducted, will complete the sad comparison between presont glory and departed grandeur. This suite consists of SEVEN A J'AIITM ENTS, All located on the first floor. The parlor is quite large, commanding a fine view of Madison Square and Fifth avenue. The coiling has just been decorated in blue, purple and red, and the lloor is covered with a heavy Axminster carpet of yellow, blue and crimson. The fur niture, of the style of Louis VII., is upholstered in crimson and gold. Dark purple silk 1 brequins, with fine maroon tapestry adorn the four windows of the "room. The sleeping apartment adjoins the par lor, and is furnished with walnut furni ture of the style of Louis XIIL, up holstered in pale blue. The two remain ing rooms on the Twenty-fourth street side are to be used, the one as an apart ment for one of her suite, the other as a private dining-room. The remaining apartment are on the opposite side of tho hall. The studio is a perfect marvel of beauty, containing tropical plants, busts, luxurious chairs, lounges and curtains of rich colors. The bedstead is of rose wood, and is adorned with richly lined coverings. Near the window oommond- viow of Broad way. is an elegant o A correspondence of the Canada Farmer writes: Select straight trees, say one foot diameter at the butt, trim limbs and knots closely; cut the logs sixteen and twenty-six feet long, or eighteen and thirty feet long. Buildings of these di mensions can be divided to better advan tage than the usual 18x2-1 house. Divide when building, and then it will be done with logs, if sawetl lumber cannot be obtained, for a partition. Let the bed room occupy about one third of the house; no hall, but a srairway in one corner of the largest room, a lauding at the bottom, say two feet wide, and one or two steps high, if two steps, one must be placed sideways to tne landing. Tho stairs should be close to the end of the house to economize space, and slant across towards, or beyond, the middle of tho chamber lloor. Place :i post or rail ing at the head of the stairs. If it is nothing more than two or three saplings or poles. Choose a buildingspot where there is a little rise of ground (not a hill or small mountain to travel up and down :'forty times" a day) where there is, if possible. another elevation some six or eight feet higher than where the house is to stand ..1 l l i-r i i i . in it huoul twenty icet distant, n mere is no such elevation then build "Skid way" and draw your logs to it. If there is not a rock foundation, dig down to solid ground and place the most durable timber at tho bottom, or place posts or large stones under the walls; for because it is only a log house little or no atten tion is often paid to the underpining, consequently much inconvenience and trouble is experienced by settling, de ranging doors, breaking windows, etc. Boll your logs upon a couple of skids, or long polls, until the walls are too high to do so. lhen attach a strong rnne Ihe peacock is a majestic biped. Whether we contemplate the gaudiuess ot his plumage, the proud way in which he carries his head, or the stately stvle of his footsteps, there is much in his general walk and conversation that com pels attention. When he lifts up his voice m a shrill scream whoso notes re echo as far as the ear can reach, we are attracted, even is we do not admire. He struts about with an air of importance as if he owned the whole neighborhood and could impart information as to the value of every piece of real estate there in, l'rom his personal appearance he might be supposed to be both wealthy and talented, for his feathers are gilt edged and his dainty demeanor betokens a certain kind of culture. If he were only shrewd enough to hold his tongue, peo2)le might not dis cover what an empty headed creature he is. His speech betrays him. He tolls his story with sneh mock dignity as to expose the shallowness of his pretensions. And yet he is happy because he is all un conscious of the fact that he is as easily seen through as if made of green glass instead of being clad in those gorgeous green feathers. To go on dress parade this biped has no equal. It is in tho performance of solid duty that he is found lacking. For regular usefulness the ordinary barn-yard hen is his supe rior. While ho lives the poaoock is of no particular use. When slain there is but little of him, and that little makes a not very savory meal. The common duck, who waddles through the miro and quacks as he waddles, is, whether alive or dead, a far more desirable bird than tho peacock in all his pomp and pride. We must not blame the poor peacock for his apparent vanity and airishness, lor circumstances beyond his control about an inch thick, in the middle of the liave mad0 these traits a part of his be building, next the top log, and bring the ino or hnn to strut is as natural as other end over the top log, and after roll- or me duck to waddle. He comes as iug another log on the polos, give the honestly by that high-toned screech as rope one wind or half wind around the fche canary by his tuneful song. The gay middle of the log, having placed two be- feathers grew in his tail by the same de- side each other like temporary beams in- crG0 of Providence that provided bristles side the house, for one of the men to stand upon; then let him ''pull away" while the other men, one at each end of the log, assists with light 'bulls" (these are made by withes or strong bark tied across near the end of a forked polej un til the log touches the building, when by simultaneous 'effort the log can be roll ed on. If too heavy, the men must ascend each with a light hand pry, one of them at each end pry up, when it will roll on for tho pig s back and wool for tlmt. of the sheep. If the bird does his best it is not for us to find fault with him. But if human beings of whom better things might be expected find no higher aim than to ape the bird of brilliant plumage and stately mien, they may justly be made to serve as targets for the arrows of the critic. There aro some human beings who are born with goldeu spoons in their mouths, and for whom there is no special mission in the easily; another should then be rolled up world except to count their spoons and m a similar manner, or if it is end logs. roil three (one for partition) before com mencing to ''notch down;" while this is being done tho third man can be getting other logs ready, etc. Thoroughly "dove tail" or ''saddle" notch the corners, par ticularly the top logs, or plates upon which the rafters and roof rest. Only strut on dress parade. Hnunilv thosA people are few; so few, indeed, that the world can afford to feed them in pay for the sport and and the instruction thev afford. The sport is mingled with in struction, for as the world amuses itself by looking at tliese good people and watching their antics while on dress the top log of the partition need be dove- parade, it learns from them a wholesome ing a tribe may bo known by their uudevelop c1Vftn 010 Ul eroa acti-ess can rGt-'"ie ed spurs, and young 'partridges bv the TV er f'1 stud3 llfe as Pi(jfcurc1 i long pointed wing feathers, which grow ,liu1 ll'T tlmfc noted thoroughfare. The rounded at the tin with aire. apartments were engaged by and fitted In the case of fish many people trust to the sense of smell; but this is not always to be depended upon, as it may be de- ceived by the use of ice. 'riie best tests ot freshness are the fullness of the eye balls and the bright pink hue of the gills when raw, and when cooked the firmness of the flesh, which in the case of stale fish is flabby and stringy, even if pre served by cold from visible putrefaction lne cheapest kind of fish are best to buy, for when any kind is cheapest it is sure to be the most plentiful, in fullest season, and thereiore most wholesome Great care is necessary in purchasing caviare the roe of the sturgeon which should always be obtained straight from a fishmonger, and as fresh as possible. Fresh caviare is soft, pale in color, and exhibits the ova quite distinctly; but when it is old anil out of season it is black, homogeneous in texture, and is very indigestible in fact, none but the very freshest is to bo recommended for digestibility. The preserved sorts are to be avoided, for very often they aro ex tremelv unwholesome indeed, almost unfit for human consumption. The Pronunciation of "U Ninety-nine out of every hundred Northerners will say institoot for insti tute, dooty for duty a perfect rhyme to the word beauty. They will call new and news noo and noos and so on I through the dozens and hundreds of sim ilar words. Not a dictionary in the Eng- glish language authorizes this. In stu dent and stupid, the "u" has ; he same sound as in cupid, and should not be pronounced stoodent and stoopid, as so many teachers are in the habit of sound ing them. It is simply vulgarism to call a door doah as wo all admit isn't it as much of a vulgarism to call a newspaper a noospaper? One vulgarism is North ern, and the other Southern; that's the only difference. Then the London Punch wishes to burlesque the pronun ciation of servants, it makes them call the duke dook, the tutor footer, and a tube a toob. You never find tho best Northern speakers, such as Wendell Phillips, George William Curtis, Emer son, Holmes, and men of that class, say ing noo for new, Toosday for Tuesday, avenoo for avenue, or calling a dupe a doop. It is a fault that a Southerner never falls into. He has slips enough of another kind, but he doesn't slip on the long "u." " 1 up under the personal supervision of K Nillsou, the correspondent of the Fhjaro of Paris. The Story of "CliHlerella." The story of "Cinderella," which is now being told nightly at one of the New York theatres, has connected with' it much curious folk lore, some of which it may bo worth whilo to collate from tho London newspapers, which hunted the stories up apropos of the general inter est aroused by the presentation there of the little cinder-lass's touching story as a Christmas pantomime two years' ago. According to tho French version of 3ie story, a woman hail two daughters, only one of whom she loved. The other, named Cendronsette, she once directed to spin some cotton. Now, Cindreusette could not spin, and would, certainly have been beaten if a cow to which she had been kind had not done her task for her. Next day the other sister tried to get the cow to spin, but the cow. which knew its friends, played her a trick. The mother then ordered the cow to be killed, but before its death it bade Cend reusette to gather its bones into its hide and to wish over them for an v thing she desired. The wishes brought to Cenclreusette three beautiful dresses on which shone the sun, the moon, the sky, and tho sea. In these she captivated a prince, who traced her by means of the f It tm 1 111 II nl ! 1 I 1 . xiuijiimi supper, winch, by the way, scholars say was not of gold,' nor yet of glass, (panloi'le cn rem') but of fur. punlnujbi a rair.) In the Scotch story a dying queen gives her daughter "a little red calfy," which is killed hy the cruel stop mother. From the calf's bones Bashin-eoatie, as she is call ed from a coat woven of rushes, gets "braw claes" very much as Cendrousette did. In an Italian version r.lso 11 cow plays the good fairy's part. In the mod ern Greek story two duutrhtni-s boil their mother and make a meal of her. but tho youngest sister prefers to go hungry, and when she mother's bones she is rewarded by find ing three beautiful dresses. One dress IS as beautiful nc fl. ono nn1 ifs " W 3t tailed to prevent it from springing out ward on account of weight of roof rest ing thereon. The Avail should be twelve feet high, for one and a half stories; between lower and upper floor, feet at least for health. Considering the roof I need not speak in particular, as there are several kinds material to construct it ot in a new eight oi lesson, namely, to bo as little like them as possible. When men and women of whom the world expects service neglect their work to put on airs and to play pea cock, the sport ceases and the display becomes in the highest degree melan choly. One of tho saddest sights is a peacock caught in a storm. A common barnyard country, sneh as "scoops," bark, hand- iowl looks sorry enough as he stands on made shingles, etc., but do not put on a "shanty roof." Build a peaked roof and a pretty sharp one too. This kind affords good chamber room (which is lost by a shanty covering;, and looks So much bettor. Do not build on a low, flat surface, if you don't wish to live in a mud hole. Small log b.irus and other out-buiidings can be raided by three men. Moss, taken from standing trees, thor oughly forced into the cra.'ks and crev ices, is an excellent substitute when mortar for plastering can not bo obtained. Tuc American tilii. The defects of the American girl ma' be done away with by giving less )romi nenco to the purely intellectual or purely practical side of her education. For while one class of men-aro striving to solve the problems of life by educating women intellectually, there is another class which arte shouting for education in domestic matters. While tho pro fessors at Harvard are rejoicing over some girl who can take in their philoso- or their mathematics, tho news pines one leg in the rain, with dripping feath ers closely adhering to his stalwart form. But such a wet fowl is beauty itself com pared with the forlorn appearance of tho draggled and disastrous peacock when soaked with rain and stuck up with mud. His proud head droops, his tail trails in the mire, and each step seems a miserere. Thus it is with the airish person from under whom tho stilts of ponrposit" are knocked, and who, having for some time been appraised at his own estimate, sud denly finds himself marked down to what the world considers his actual cash value. Tho world makes some mistakes, but it has a fashion of marking values of this sort with a reasonable degree of no.. curacy. A Siiuewd Old Valet. The greater part of the stories which relate to the gains and the losses of gamsters are tragic rather than comic. One which belongs to the category of the latter is reported from Monaco. A certain Ger man Baron, belonging to one of the best families in Mecklenburg, was one day so lucky as to gam 300,000 francs. He left can her tho but roast own poor only turkey, bake bread, or dresses. Neither girl any chance to to work, with make gives exist, either waves, another as "the spring and its flowers, ' and the third as "tho heaven with its stars." In Sicily and the He brides a sheep takes the idace of the good and wonder working cow. The story can also be trnnnrl tn the remote East, to Germany, and to Egypt, and it is luueumceiy old. paper editor sings the praises of her who tables, hastened to his hotel, and at once locKed up nis enormous sum in a cash box. On awakening next morning what was his dismay to find that it had disappeared, as well as his old valet Jean, who on a hundred occasions had given proofs of his fidelity and his affec tion for his master. As it was, the Baron found himself short of money, and telegraphed to his father for assistance, acquainting him, at the same time, with his adventure. This was the answer he received: "Don't disturb yourself. Jean is here wiih all the money which you think you have lost. He feared that your louis would go the way they had come, hand or brain. No one says to her: "You are not only yourself, but ossi bly the future mother of other beings. Do not, therefore, allow yourself to be driven by either school of apostles be yond what you may do easily, comforta bly, or pleasurably. The healthy bal ance of your nervous system is far more important to you and your future family relations than all the mathe matics or dressmaking, or even roasting of turkeys. Occupy yourself steadfastly, fthd, littlo liking the anticipation, he has but without strain, without hurry, and come here to keep the treasure safe. You w luiuuu uuitiiiiLiuii. riiiii out nrsc wnat oinu iuu. you can do best, and, even if it does not come up to somebody else's standard, learn to content yourself with that." Atlantic Monthly. Frederick tile Ctkeat. Ho writes k the Russian Ambassador on the occasion of the death of the Empress Anne: "It would be impossible to express the loss of this great Princess, for she was en dowed with every virtue, was the delight of the people and of her numerous friends, among whom I hardly dare to assume even a modest place." The day before he had written to his own minis ter: "The Empress of Russia is dead. The Lord favors us, and luck is on our side." The statue of Jeanne d'Arc, re cently unveiled at Compeigne, the town where sho was taken prisoner by tho English,, is equestrian, and represents Jeanne holding a stand ard in one hand and pointing to the euemy with tho other. Tho sculptor is Mm Leroux. The Government cast the work in bronze and presented ifc to the town of Compeigne, which has had it erected in front of tho bel fry, almost on the spot where 'Jeanne" was taken prisoner byr tho Picardy archer who was in the service of the English. !