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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1885
Page
4
A compilation of farming tips and rural anecdotes discusses farm economics, crop choices, and practical husbandry. It covers sage sales, popcorn yields, beet sugar use, barbed wire monopolies, oat hardiness, and cellar storage guidance for bulbs and perennials.
A collection of old time recipes and methods including orange rind cake filling roasting spareribs and pork crackling tips. Also instructions for cleaning tripe and two bread cake methods with steps and ingredients. The tone mirrors a practical household guide from a historic period.
A domestic guide insists on method to run a home smoothly. It warns that everything should have a place and be done at the right time. Laziness harms comfort, while orderly, decisive leadership inspires subordinates to steady effort.
Dry air hinders window gardening with moisture-rich cooking air helping plants thrive in kitchens. Use water pans in furnaces or on stoves to maintain humidity and keep dust off leaves with weekly washing of smooth-leaved plants.
The essay contrasts insipid vexatious and happy marriages. It argues insipid matches pair indifference to person with wealth, vexatious unions trap two quick tempered people by fortune and fear, and happy marriages arise from mutual choice beyond fortune or beauty.
Instructions for curing beef in brine to maintain edibility for up to fifteen months. Soak meat overnight, prepare a brine with water salt sugar and saltpeter, pack in a barrel with layers and periodic stirring, remove scum, rebalance with salt and sugar in May, and expect mellow sweet beef at month fifteen.
Mr J W Newcomb of Kenton Ohio denounces a state fair exhibition as a source of evil. He condemns saloon ties and a licensed boarding house and calls for farmers and right thinking people to boycott the event to curb roughs gamblers pickpockets and con artists.
The country shows a tobacco industry boom as plantings spread across Wisconsin. The 1884 crop covers about 7 000 acres with an estimated value of 2 500 000 dollars. Janesville and Edgerton warehouses near 100 000 dollars in value, plus numerous sheds on plantations.
Instructions describe salting a cut of meat with salt brown sugar saltpeter and cayenne then packing in barrels. A boiling pickle is poured over and the meat cures for six weeks before smoking with hickory or corncob smoke for ten days. Finished meat is rubbed with pepper and stored dry.
Superintendent Bennett reports a survey in Piqua Ohio showing high smoking rates among city schoolboys. Among 73 boys aged 12 to 15 in two grades 81 habitually smoked cigarettes while only 7 said they had never smoked. In a 10 to 12 group of 96 boys 68 were smokers and in the ABC class many had begun the practice.
The writer argues English upper classes largely discredit Miss Chamberlain’s association with the Prince of Wales. He claims her popularity in England has been exaggerated by American papers and stresses that any public notice from the Prince would harm an English lady’s reputation. The piece concludes that her supposed triumph is seen as absurd and grotesque by right-thinking English people.
The New York Sun recalls Rev. Dr. Burchard once linked to the rum Romanism and rebellion remark. His sermon harmed his career, as trustees force retirement with a 500 dollar annual pension from the presbytery. Describes social backlash and Burchard’s reaction to criticism.
Pierce Butler backed General Cameron against bribery charges in the Senate dispute over his election. Butler argued the Pennsylvania Senate could not wash its dirty linen, and Cameron retained his seat. After the vote, Butler privately thanked Cameron, who joked about sending a barrel of Pennsylvania whisky.
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes the President seated and Cabinet chosen. It calls on every man to return to work and boost a lively spring trade to support national stability.
Betty sighs after John gives her a ten dollar bill and tempers flare over insinuations. John's anger and Betty's defensiveness escalate until she contemplates leaving. Miss Elvira Simmons probes the friction, but John defends Betty and resolves the rift, with Betty reassessing their bond.
John receives a brown dressing gown as a gift from Betty who recalls buying buttons with a $10 bill. He wonders about the link to the sigh while Betty laughs and explains her worry over the buttons and timing.
The London Letter ridicules the queen as miserly and power hungry, claiming annual income of about 385000 pounds and four million saved over 45 years. It argues royal spending on weddings and gifts is mainly outward and not paid from the queen's purse, linking this to the upcoming marriage of the queen's daughter and potential state support.
General George B. McClellan, re organizing recalled Union forces after Bull Run, confronted a careless quartermaster in a Washington camp. He exposed dirty coffee slops and slovenly tents, warned the officer to curb abuses, and the quarrel ended with the quartermaster quitting that evening to the tune of the Rogue's March as soldiers celebrate his departure.
Washington correspondent notes Reverend Edward Everett Hale visiting Franklin collection at the State Department. After losing his way he mistakenly entered the secretary’s private office, prompting a startled attendant to question him as a foreign minister. Hale joked he was a domestic one and spoke with Secretary Frelinghuysen.
Dan Farley rode flat out on horseback after a moving passenger train to retrieve an over coat left by a departing traveler. The pursuit lasted about a mile and a half, with Farley navigating ditches and hills to overtake the train and deliver the coat to the conductor. Spectators called it an exciting, impossible-feat scene.
The Daily Times reports Chattanooga nearly doubled its population from 13 000 in 1880 to 24 000 in 1885. Manufacturing value exceeded 5 000 000, wholesale capital six times higher than five years ago, and one year saw 500 000 invested in new enterprises with real estate trades around a million dollars above 1882 boom levels. The city’s schools are praised as among the best in the country and improving.
In his third lecture on The Sources of Electricity in London, Professor Tyndall recounted an experiment with a battery equivalent to fifteen Leyden jars. He touched the machine and felt a sudden current surge through his body, leaving him aware that his optic nerves altered perception and limbs seemed to detach for a time.
The San Francisco Record cites Vienna bureau data showing about a third more women reach advanced age. It notes women lead quieter lives, endure pain, and resist certain fatal diseases more often than men, while men die from overwork and stress. The piece argues the gender longevity gap is evident in the United States.
A Colorado girl teacher describes her classroom to home, noting she educates forty scholars of all ages in grammar history physiology mathematics manners morals personal cleanliness fancy work and general civilization.
In 1880 Edward Phelps received the Democratic nomination for Governor of Vermont while he was in Minnesota hunting prairie chickens. He accepted the nomination but reportedly kept knocking over the chickens during the outing.
An Omaha editor cites local child deaths from morphia cough syrup to warn that opiates and narcotics are more dangerous than firearms. The piece endorses Red Star Cough Cure as safe, with city health boards and officials backing the claim.
The ad notes Dr Sage promising to pay a sum to the man who fails to receive benefit from his Catarrh Remedy. It claims he has cured thousands of cataract cases but only if the recipient accepts the offer. The piece ends by asking who will bid next for cure or cash.
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