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271 



Weiting fob the Press. — Causeur knows 

 thai he will deserve and win the thanks of all 

 managing editors if he c*n but impress these 

 few simply, rules upon the minds of those who 

 write occasionally for the press: 



I. Write upon one side of the leaf only. 

 Why ? Because it is often necessary to cat 

 the pages into "takes" for the compositors, 

 and this cannot be done when both sides are 

 written upon. 



11 Write clearly and distinctly, being 

 particularly careful in the matter of proper 

 names, aud words from foreign languages. 

 Why? Because you have no right to ask 

 either editor or compositor to -waste his time 

 puzzling out the results of your careless self- 

 ishness. 



lit. Don't write in a microscopic hand. 

 Why ? Bi.-Ciuse the compositor has to rend it 

 across Lis case, at a distance of nearly two 

 feet. Also, because the editor often wants to 

 make additions and other changes. 



IV. Don't begin at the very top of the first 

 page. Why ? Because if you have -written a 

 head for your article the editor will probably 

 ■want to change it, and if you have not — 

 which is the better way— he must write one. 

 Besides he wants room in which to write in- 

 structions to the printer as to the type to be 

 used, where aud when the proof is to he sent, 

 etc. 



V. Never roll your manuscript. Why ? 

 Because it maddens and exasperates every one 

 who touches it— editor, compositor and proof 

 reader. 



VI. Be brief. Why? Because people 

 don't rend long stories. The number of read- 

 ers which any two articles have is inversely 

 proportioned to the square of their respective 

 lengths. That is, a half column article is 

 read by four times as many people as one of 

 double that length, 



VII. Have the fear of the -waste basket 

 constantly and steadily before your eyes. 

 Why ? Because it will save you a vast 

 amount of useless labor to say nothing of 

 paper and postage. 



VIII. Always write your full name and 

 address plainly at the end of your letter. 

 Why ? Because it will often happen that the 

 editor will want to communicate with you, 

 and because he needs to know the writer's 

 name as a guarantee of good faith. If you 

 use a pseudonym or initials, write your own 

 Dame and address below it. It will never be 

 divulged. 



IX. 4i These precepts in thy memory keep, " 

 and for fear you might, forget them, cut them 

 out and put them where you can readily run 

 through them when tempted to spill innocent 

 ink. 



Causeur's word for it those -who heed these 

 rules will be beloved and favored in every 

 editorial sanctum.— Boston Transcript Cau- 

 erie. 



Effect of Diet ok Liquor DsrxinNG.— 

 Charles Napier, an English scientific man, 

 has been testing the truth of Liebig's theory 

 that liquor drinking is compatible with ani- 

 mal food, but not with a farinaceous diet. 

 The experiment was tried upon twenty-seven 

 liquor-drinking persons, with results sub- 

 stantiating the Liebig theory. Among the 

 more striking instances of reform brought 

 about by a change of diet was that, of a gentle- 

 man of sixty wlio had been addicted to intem- 

 perate habits for thirty-five years, his out. 

 bursts averaging one a week. His constitu- 

 tion was so shattered that he had great difficulty 

 in insuring his life. 



After an at tack of delirium tremens, which 

 nearly ended fatally, he was persuaded to en- 

 ter upon a farinaceous diet, which, we are 

 assured, cured him completely in seven 

 mouths. He seems to have been very thin at 

 the beginning of the experiment, but at the 

 close of the period named had gained twenty- 

 eight pounds, being then of abjut the normal 

 ■weight of a person of his height. Among the 

 articles of food which arc specified by Napier 

 as pre-eminent for antagonism to alcohol are 

 macaroni, haricot beans, dried peans, and len- 

 tils, all of which shou d be well boiled and 

 flavored with plenty of butter or olive-oil. 



The various garden vegetables are said to be 

 helpful, but a diet mainly composed of them 

 would not resist the tendency to intemperance 

 bo effectually as one of macaroni and farina- 

 ceous food. From this point of view high 

 glutinous bread would he of great utility, but 

 it should not he sour, such acidity being cal- 

 culated to foster the habit of alcoholic drink- 

 ing. A like remark may be applied to the 

 use of suited food. If we inquire lhe cause 

 of a vegetarian's alleged disinclination to al- 

 coholic liquors we find that the carbonaceous 

 starch contained in the macaroni, beans, or 

 oleaginous aliment appears to render un- 

 necessary, and therefore repulsive, carbon iu 

 an alcoholic form.— New York Graphic. 



the trooper around his waist. Each biscuit 

 weighs, when baked dry and hard, about two 

 ounces. Seven biscuits are broken up and 

 given to the horse in tbe morning, moistened 

 with water if convenient, otherwise dry; 

 twelve at noon, and seven at night. After 

 careful experiment in camp, on the march, 

 and campaigiug, they are reported by all the 

 cavalry and artillery officers better than oats. 

 A trooper can easily carry thirty pounds of 

 these biscuits, which will furnish his horse 

 with full rationB for eight, days, or will serve, 

 with forage, for twelve days' hard marching. 



publication^, 



The Sole Resident of Carson Citt. — 

 Riding one autumnal duy in company with a 

 party of borderers in quest of buffalo, wc 

 came upon a town standing silent and de- 

 serted in the midst of a prairie. "That," 

 said one, "is Carson City. It did a good 

 trade in the old wagon days, but it busted up 

 when the railroad went farther west and the 

 people moved on. There's only one man left 

 in it now, and he's got snakes in his boots the 

 hull year round." Marveling what manner of 

 man this was who dwelt alone in the silent 

 city, we rode on. Only one house showed 

 signs of occupation, and in it dwelt the man. 

 We had passed through the deserted streets 

 aud gained the prairie beyond when a shot 

 rang out behind us and a bullet cut the grass 

 to our left. " Hello ! he's on the shoot," 

 cried one. " Ride, boys !" and we rode. Car- 

 son City soon faded from view, but not so 

 the memory of that " busted-up " town and 

 its solitary indweller, who had perennial 

 " jim jams" and was "on the shoot."— From 

 a Nevada Letter 



Exploring the Foot Hills of the Rockt 

 Mountains.— Borne attaches of the school of 

 Mines at Golden, Nevada, have been explor- 

 ing the foot of Green Mountains under the 

 direction of Prof. Lakes. A local paper says . 

 The basaltic lava capping the table mountains 

 above Golden were passed en route and their 

 origin explained as a lava outburst from a fis- 

 sure extending along the eastern flank of the 

 mountains, from which a flood of moltau ma- 

 terial poured over the surrounding country 

 and preserved, on the base of the Table 

 mountains and the mesas of the divide, the 

 ancient prairie from the denuding floods 

 which, with these exceptions, have brought 

 it to its present low level. This eruption was 

 contemporaneous with similar overflows from 

 Alaska to South America, which covered the 

 region west of the Rockies with a lava flood 

 thousands of miles in width aud hundreds of 

 feet thick, at a time when mountain making 

 was going on in various parts of the world 

 — when the Himalayas and the Alps were 

 in their last throes. 



—In 1831, at New Haven, Professor Silli- 

 man drove into a small maple tree a staple 

 upon which to hang a lantern. The other 

 day lhe staple was found inside a block of 

 wood, and for a while people wondered how 

 it got there. 



— "Cheese it," according to our excellent 

 and elegant friend Dr. Elliott Coues, is a cor- 

 ruption of "dont give it a whey."— Washing- 

 ton Capital 



Horse Biscuits— The horses of the Ger- 

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 biscuits consist of thirty parts of oat flour, 

 thirty parts of dextrinated pea flour, thirty 

 parts of rye flower, and ten parts of linseed 

 Hum'; sometimes of twenty parts of pea flour, 

 twenty pans of win at flour, twenty parts of 

 corn nieal, twenty parts of rye flour, ten parts 

 of grated bread, and ten parts of linseed 

 flour. The ingredi nlS are made into biscuits. 

 The first named mixture is the best. These 

 biscuits are made with a hole in the middle 

 of each, so they can be strung on a string, 

 and hung to the saddle bow, or be carried by 



Messrs. TIFFANV & CO., in- 

 vite attention to trie new pat- 

 terns of their Plated Ware, 

 made expressly for this season. 



The articles are specially de- 

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 the adaptability of forms to the 

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This ware is made of hard 



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