Star of the Cape, 27 August 1873 IIIF issue link — Page 5

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If pint, of cold new miU^whieh nhonld be enongfi to fiO flw

fire for kbont Are minnto*, (tining rapidly. Flmror with wind yon pleene roeo wnler u good.' Tom ont the pod ding in > pretty deuert dieh, poor th< unoe around it, and the wont ia done. upon whose handa nalte ia apt to

To Mam Busuxmr Wnm.—W« find the following commended in the Sural H'orB aa the beet and moat eoonomioal method of making blackberry wine: Firat aeeare good berriea, good kega or oaaka, and good HaTana anger. Tho barriaa abonld bo perfectly ripe, tho kega perfectly r’— T '-‘—*

the joioe by pranting i:

or cron a cneeae-praaa. - - aing the joioe, alrain through a doth atrainor; add to erery quart of juice three poonda of anger, and watr “ dent to make one gallon, total no lean than three ponnda of otherwise the wine will grow add. Plaee yoar mixture in m kettle and bring to a boil; akim aa aoon aa it boila, thraHow it to cool, and fill yonr kega abo two-thirda full, and keep ia -a mod ralely cool place—a abed or open rooi Place a loose doth orer the bung, ai four or fire days fill the kega with free made liquor, and allow it to ferment ea long aa it trill, then bung tight, end the leal of Norember remote to the cellar. Beak off in March; have your epigot two inohea above the chime, eo ae not to disturb the sediment Rinse out your kega in boiling water, end return the wine. Then let it atand until Jana, end botUe in dark trine bottles. I have naed fire, tan, end forty-gallon —■a* and think fire —” '

ferabk Filling tho

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Telegraph.

ImaoN Smkx-om.—) cop bnUci. _ _ copa angar, 8 egge, 1 onp odd water, 9 enpe flour, into whidi stir It tea-apoon-fnl cream of tartar; hurt of all f traapoonfnl soda dissolved in a little —‘n, and bake ee for jelly-cake. C 1 tee-apoonfnll« of

ip sugar, jooei line of 1 lemon, end 9 well-beaten of Btir eonetantly till like thick cuati and when a little oool spread betw the layers of oake. k, fogga, onfnl salt, one 1 *. Btir the floor the milk, and beet very am bard, aa this wilt make them rise well; add the waU-beetea eggs, ate., and lastly the rest of the milk. Bake immediately in bnttered on pa in a quick oven for twenty or thirty minntea, end eat with bard aanoe. FBI tho on pa only half full. Dr. 8. J. Parker, in the Country Gentleman, thus relates hie experience lit hiving bees. He says a neighbor has called me half a mile away, to help hive a swarm. Recollect, readers, this la 187S, not 1HS, or 18C8, or other jeer, whan bee publioations did not abound • and if ia, too, after common sense rulei the day. I found all the "acienoei oi bees," falsely so-called, bad been need. Thera lay the tin born, (whet good it did, not one oonld tell), the dinner-bell (bees don't come to dinner whan it rings), water-pail (good in oartain places), molaasea and water (that ought to be poured down the owner’s throat until he cried enough; for the bees, full of honey before they leave thehivw,donrtwaatit) All dy Blue; and twenty of the

irootor, is dead. Thia strange man, whose life has been peculiar, aa well as * tlebrated, is worthy of more th— mention. When charlatanism __ qnackism reaches the height it did with him it becomes an actual art. Contr to what ia told by many, the " B! Doctor" was not an African. Ho bon in 1810, at Pointa-e-Pitre his father end mother haying been slaves. Finding him exceedingly intelligent, hie master allowed him to be matrnelod with hie child ran, andgara him uncommon advantages, which wore embraced with gralat avidity. At the age of eighteen, Trias being the name which he then took, wee sent to Holland, and remained acme years at Amsterdam, where be not only engaged in commercial matters, but also studied medicine. He subsequently removed to Paris, where, with no further instruction in the heal-

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stopped in evident affright at the eight of a monster snake lying eeresTJhc track eome distance in front of them. Giving the reins to his wife Ike gentle-

wife. In l.

tiWdit, mnsartm whhA ‘ ed efforts to eff.-ot

end^e wife dreadfully

taxed, end the team made a spurt which -• once carried the party a hundred da from the scene of conflict. Lookback and finding that his -enemy d the field and allowed no diepoai1 to ran, the gentleman again Jcft __>ie > 3nt! --- fight Ae he advanced, and when within a few feet the snake sprang at him with distended jaws, when e well-direct-ed blow laid Urn on the ground, -*■“ he was soon dispatched. The ana! five inches in diameter and nearl, feet long^ and althongh^tha dog-days ordinary venom and malignity *'— aerpent tribe, yet this faniiahei — the very few and certainly the moot remarkable of instances in that section-of ■ isngfta:

■hewing no signs of retreat 5 on the offensive throughout

it acting on the id fighting to th

1 practitioner.

Having effected

belonged, Vries launched oui mwi magnificence. His rooms wt— furnished with regal grandeur, and r nnfraqnently visited out of curioait end not a little wonder was created the crowds of patients waiting at — boors for attention. Although a black man. Tries Boomed attendance of his own color, and surrounded himself with servants. For a length of time the '‘Bleak Doctor" was restore of Paris. Suddenly he faded ont of sight, end was heard of no^nora until a fow^^dsya and his past life recalled. Of hie great

his death. He expired i erty, not even leaving tb th 1 The Lateat Attempt. A watering-plaoe o ns that the American the fashionable reeor . beggars. Any young n

The eorreapondent adds; Pah 1 Tribute. Have yon nc heard of exchange f If Mias Jc naps only silks daring a campaign end Mias Smith only jewels, what can be isier than equalisation T Miaa Jc rites to Miaa Smith ; “ Mx Dun Oi.iaraai: Pre got two -M-rna of this «tn“ “ ’ —* —

my lent By

aplenmil rte" that was yon night, I ear* with kisses,

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ora with the

rer with the ring. How are yon off r French stays ? Xont^ with tore.

■o many yonng me; „—» the lima. •fteraV yonng Pinckney goes ora erery three months, for no other purpose than to pnrahaao praaanta in Pane. Aa aoon aa it’s nomad that he ia packing his tranka Ike bellea kin him and aak him to bring them ora a trifle. On the day he oaila Philomena seeds her card

fttzzsxzt s3sr==.''itra£rj SiSuffi-erEb 2rsatirs.'s^iias

n immediately afterwards •U im.. me hands of detectivea —> ir report fully confirmed the it of Mrs. Sailor. Ho foam m in which Mies Rowland had been

that ho wee forced •o to get fresh air. In a earner „ chamber of starvation he discovered e -whitewash bucket partly empty, and from patches of whitewash here and there on the walla he inferred that the had been' endeavoring to eon-..-aces of the preaenoe of their captive, bnt too late. Mrs. Rowland

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now occupying a ec

' lady, gives it as h

le will n

few days longer, i ’-oed to that vi Rowland eecap

tlio ground over tho roofa of adjoining

“"t give;

ly jar by a 1

Sand and Water, who recently witnessed e domestic infelicity of this nature in the Zoological Gardena at London, nothing mare extraordinary tliar thia in the way of a conjugal “ row ’ oonld be imagined. The male and. fe nule s hippopotami in -the Gardena an. known reapeotively aa Obeah and Dih Their youthful offspring, now eight months, and whose name ia Guy Fawkes, was until a few days ago kept in the den with hia mother. The fr~ ily disturbance referred to above coned when the time came for Guy Fawkes to be introduced to hie f “ ~~ The portcullis of old Dil'a den h . been raised, she end her offspring came ont end marched towards Obeah, who was munching- gnus near by. Aa his wife approached him Obeah trumpeted several times and grinned. Guy Fawkes went up to hia father and began to mb hia nose against the parental snout. This sort of thing lasted for two or throe seconds, and anudenly old DU rushed at Obeah and the two gigantic I engaged for a few minutes in a a fight, rearing upon their hind legs, clashing their tuaka together, opening their portentons jews, and biting at each other maliciously. Obeah was finally wonted, end wee ignominiously driven into hie pond, trials the "old woman" with Gny Fawkes on her beck stared at him, granting, and apparently threatening him for three-quarters of an hour. At the expiration of that time, however, peace was declared, and the moat affectionate family endearmenta known in the bright lexicon of hippopotami were exchanged between the now reconciled and contented tri

discovered 1 tha'utee^dhmae.'wUrii^ Tolo (OaL) paper says: Lately two mysterious fires occurred at Woodland, Tolo county, and no one eonld aocoun' for their origin. A day or two after thi hut fire a man named Ed. Niokereoi delivered himself up to the police am voluntarily eonfeee eg himself the anthc: of both. He eaid be had boon drinking ' ely. and t'-* -»■

■ always a

le^dnotere^km—^-^— aliwhteat 0

whenever he in-

dulgod in^drini he became snob in spite

Itrong reeeived through the e letter eigned “ Mary," to pat the polios on ian who would be eer

that he had mitten it

ecription oi

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hope that if he got to dnnklng t— lice might arrest him before Ke oonld do any mischief. The case is a strange one, end perhaps fnmlahee a new -type

Whether the gain of a wife is' the loea of an eye ia a qnestion i *-re may bo decided by a certain

S.SES was in the U6on totbe ■t long ago, being^ utterly an in her path, in he™elt nrahaanddanlyi ' "

hot the walk One of Mr. Whsa's •

an Italian girl of twaaty-fouror twentyattona black'eyes and an abnndan that deep black hair for which IUU; dies are justly famed. She had tl rand manners of a lady. She spo oaly broken English, bnt anfllcient well to make herself understood. 8! played end sung like a prims done She wore a sad expression, like o carrying a great trouble ; bnt wb ' 1 mid ronar’ 1 -

A photographer was present with hie .photographic apparatn* and took building sail the workmen while i which. oTeonree, proriueed ...... ilone pictures—men, White and oolored, in almost every position, i ' tn represented. At 8 o’oloek

all quarters. Among the Orel there was ’ a young man named Winfield Hanks, j Without stopping to inquire about U condition or the well he was let dow with a rope to bring np one of th bodies, and while engaged in tying th rope he became insensible. The e:

e prise instantly at her ich were not extrsvagantune saw how useful each

ground and —lathed s ;, stairways

-lecnre Blanks, and hronght him to the jop.' A slight flattering of the heart ws? ma'ufested after he was hronght up, bnt it aoon ceased to beat No one else daring to go down, a grappli ng-hook was attached to a rope and the bodies of the other two were brought ont, life being extinct By thi time a largo crowd of peoplo had arrived, and gave deep expressions of sympathy for tho friends of the dead. It wa of tho moat heart-rending aconee witnessed in that neighborhood. Miaa Wine was abont eighteen years of an accomplished young lady, brother, about twenty-one, had jc turned from-college to epend his tion, bnt he wag destined never t tnm Yonng Mr. Hanks waa a a nan, J. D. Hanks, abont years of ago, and a yonng .. . Jilt proepects. He had been calamity r — ie heartor .. _ cannot be expressed. Abloom is ^ cast never to witness again.—t'inetnnafi Oorvmereial.

, ftfcmfi, not her menial. Madame showered tokens of affection npom her, and endeavored to introduce ner to her friends. But hero madame met with oppoeiti Signoriia, willing and nnselfiBh other matters, positively refused to shown ontsido of tho family circle _ which she was engaged. She repelled

forbade, perseverance.

t of all this f Why occupy . space with preliminaries? Bathe advent oi cignarita, ' '

/—laid, par titioi

lathed and partly jlasb red, doors . he nfiSst of workmen. The scene is a busy a comic one—the bricklayers erecting

scaffolding, for tho second story.

o'clock A.M.. view taken of v front on Prince street; second story brickwork two thirds up, with carpoters ready to lawthe floor, and plwit(

painted and brick penciled

delay u

m abort of brick and thin

nsequen

Weii^wha

jive tlio rafter -siting. The

implete

18 A.M.. first

a admirers and lorcm, a

required to re Tng. Tinners

white-coating » h. in tho first story,

rafter foi tho rooi iaiu. n, .., last brick was placed upon the noys, and the brioklayeri are - Roof aheathed. and tinners begin to lay

moans. One day the virion of eignorita onret upon him and ho woe insta-* 1 - transfoimed into a mad lover. In • he essayed to interview the lady a trifling pretexts resorted to . love-stricken youths. He followed her tm-her home.' He procured an intro- - duction to madame, and, sought thia to ‘ become acquainted with the mysterious > rignoritn. But all hu peine resulted in ; a barren introdnotioa v Md tho exchange of a lew oommonpiaoe wards. Though

so have of concealing their operatic m the knowledgeoflewfol anthori . ■' " "ie existence of the eoc

the Sierra Nevada mountains of CallforUKi, the medicinAl Jiropcrtics of which ire extracted tborefroni without tho use I of Alcohol. Tho question Is almost | ! daily caked. "What U the cause of the j

The properties of Dn. Wu.kse’s s v s r si si Usr^ir?7^ , UMi, P Ux«ivo“!hmetta I 5, r j n l “S 0 r' , a^°out. ,l I? ooePhMVi ho

a that there is at preeant porformrng in one of the concert halls of that city a gentleman known aa Dibolo. *'• Mr. Dibolo'a miaaion upon earth appears to be to devour red hot coals and subject hie tongue to a process of rings by drawing across it a rod hot poker. To the — : " itiated his perforraanee certainly aoenda the laws of nature. He appears upon the platform (we cannot altogeth- * n "" V " UtSepre^ .rhich ho blows hi larkable ability, hie satanio majesty takes a lamp of burning oharooal, puts it into hia month, ana eats it like a chooolate caramel. Ho next takes a stick of sealing-wax, which he a stick of candy. He then oaila telligent imbibera of lager-beer fi audience, and bids them watch him heat apiece of lead, after heating whi anpa the contents with e red-hot i and, shortly thereafter, drops the fled lead ont of hie month. Hie performance closes by drawing a red-hot poker aero as his tongue. It ia not by any means a pleasing exhibition, still it illustrates a principle long known «* scientific men—that the aide can bo trained, by the nae of certain chemicals, to stand the aevereat teat of heat. The man's month looks like a blackened pit,

The first effect of maternity on mare, writes a eorreapondent from well known horse firm of Kentnoky, ia to rouse all her savage qualities, and it ia oftentimes dangerous to approach her, and to touch her oolt ia to bring her wrath npon jtm. Bnt there are e“ oewtlona to thia rule. Sometimes mar exchange oolta. Mr. Grimatead told - he had a ' thoroughbred mare who e changed her ooit, also a thorough-bred, with another mare who had a trotting oolt All pertiee seemed to agree to the * except their owner. Tho colts

walks , extremely unpleasant to tho lady, in thus w--v compelled 'to reunqt fear of tho opportunities of her 1stricken persecutor. In Lanrelton there was stopp:

■amo conquest, were utterly nnc weeks ago. It happened that one day eignorita was ont walking, and os usual followed like e shadow by theByoaaetier. The latter, in a fit of mad desperation, approached the lady and insisted on opening a conversation. Ho told hia love, of, oOnrae, explained how it would bo impossible for him to live without her love, and implored for eome slight mercy and hope, Bignorita remains dumb and immovable. In a Ironry • love tho poor yonng fellow aeizod h< hand and madly beeeechcd her to releu The only response was a a ror, followed by the anddc of th© yonng Prussian—lover the rote of defender of injt oence, Prussian supposed By be some rowdy offender, and iterfared by .knocking th

In the her h<

idy eseaped to

her home, leaving the Prussian and Syoaaetter alone. * When the latter recovered somewhat from hia unexpected drubbing, be demanded an explanation, and the nsnal result followed—« challenge according to the code. It it

both >the parties pn

if the details of

bargain, el positively

not receive them, eo both ooita had be taken into the stable and brought np by hand. Another ringnlar instance of a maternal freak waa told me by Mr.. Ten Broeek. One of hia maree had twins, ene the color of herself, and striking likeness of her, the othi. •' taking after” (ea the country people a»j) it sire in form and color. The man', from the firat, made ■ pet of her

is stunted in its growth, be unnatural mother fared rever, for it was

The New York Journal of Commeree, i an editorial, oaila for “ good butter,” ud complains that— As butter, following the eouree which heeee hu lately taken, becomes ml more a factory product, the lereial question U: ' k, attract

latest qnotations thirty-one to tbiitytwo oenta a pound, ia almost iuappreciis

will therefore find their profit andacItuir'iriKn it will be etrange if we ue quidity of table kind^athMat.

_ eorreapondent of the Mane! (N. H.) {Mow says that as a him on the fern of M. F. Foster, m Milford, N. H.,had nearly finiahed loading hia laat load of hay. the home started at full speed far the barn. Aa the front door waa open, he entered the door-way without inoonvenienoe, bnt did net stop there. One half of the door on the opposi* d being open, he smashed the othei' iiaif into fragments and f out That end of the bare stand' granite wall eleven feet high. The horse took a loan to the ground heels over nd the wagon and hay following, completely ora on the forward ad lay bottom up, beyond the

her person revealed the information that her lover had jilted her, and she committed the rash sot in deeperatifThe letterwu addressed toferfld lover, and wu eon abed in Abo moat feotionate terms, wishing hi ' ' in another’s love hereafter, ing him to forget her. i for the rcekma of the

XTpower in (he the party, bnt there may, be enough earn- me a thousand miles ‘further, would be a sin and a shame to abandc_ except nnder the direet ne'dl, then, if I go on, and ebe , t power eo that leant help myself, why, the little canoe 'Donald■on’mut be my lari re