Mrs. Winslow's family almanac and domestic receipt book for 1874.

Date:
1874
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Mrs. Winslow's family almanac and domestic receipt book for 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OCTOBER—31 Days. Sew mazagan beans, and frame peas on a warm southern border; lay into the ground purple and white brocoh, within a lew inches of their lower leaves, letting their heads face to the north; transplant cauliflowers and purple brocoli under frames and hand-glasses j cabbages, garlic, lettuces, and shalots under frames. moon’s phases. Last Quar., 2nd, lh. 38m. p.m. New Moon, 10th, llh. lm. a.m. First Quar., 18th, lh. 20m. p.m. Full Moon, 25th, 7h. 20m. a.m. Day of Mh. Wk. SUNDAYS, FESTIVALS, & HISTORICAL EVENTS. Sun rises & sets. Moon South High Water at London Bridge. 1 Th Pheasant Shooting com. r6 3 6 38 morn. 5 13 after. 5 37 2 Fr Dr. Canning died, 1842 King’s College Opened, 1831 so 35 6 36 6 1 6 27 3 Sat r6 7 7 31 6 59 7 35 4 S 18(A Sunday after Trinity s5 29 8 21 8 17 9 9 5 M Hyde Park Riots, 1866 r6 10 9 7 10 3 10 49 6 Tu St. Faith s5 24 9 60 11 27 11 59 7 W Sortie from Metz, 1870 r6 14 10 31 0 24 8 Th Waterloo Bridge Mysiery,’67 s5 20 11 10 0 44 1 3 9 Fr Battle of Pernyville, 186*2 r6 17 11 49 1 22 1 38 10 Sat Sebastopol taken, 1855 s5 15 after. 1 53 2 7 11 S 11)th Sunday after Trinity rS 20 0 29 2 21 2 36 12 M Lord Lyndhurst died, 1863 s5 10 1 11 2 60 3 3 13 Tu Fire Insurance ceases r6 24 1 65 3 18 3 33 14 W Napoleon landed at St. s5 6 2 42 3 47 4 2 15 Th Helena, 1815 r6 2 3 32 4 16 4 31 16 Fr Surrender of Soissons s5 27 4 25 4 60 5 5 17 Sat Sebastopol bombarded, 1854 r6 30 5 20 5 24 5 45 18 S 20th Sunday after Trinity s4 58 6 15 6 7 6 35 19 M Leigh Hunt born, 1784 r6 32 7 9 7 7 7 46 20 Tu s4 64 8 1 8 33 9 25 21 W Battle of Trafalgar, ISOS r6 30 8 62 10 14 10 64 22 Th Sortie from Paris, 1870 S4 60 9 43 11 28 11 64 23 Fr Earl of Derby died, I860 r3 40 10 33 ___ - - 0 17 24 Sat D. Webster died, 1852 s4 45 11 26 0 40 1 0 25 S 21s? Sunday after Trinity r6 44 morn. 1 20 1 40 26 M Royal Charter wrecked, ’59 s4 41 1 20 2 1 2 22 27 Tu Lord Palmerston buried, ’65 r3 48 2 22 2 42 3 5 28 W Gen. Cavaignac died, 1857 s4 37 3 25 3 28 3 48 29 Th Hare hunting begins r6 51 4 26 4 10 4 34 30 Fr Lord Dundonald died, 1860 s4 34 5 24 4 65 6 19 31 Sat Mar. Westminster died, ’69 r6 65 6 17 5 44 6 12 The difference be¬ tween a blunder and a mistake has thus been defined:— When a man puts down a bad um¬ brella and takes up a good one, he makes a mistake, but when he puts down a good one and takes up a bad one he makes a blunder. The “ heart ” is the best card in the chance game of ma¬ trimony; sometimes overcome by dia¬ monds and knaves, often won by tricks, occasionally treated in a shuffling man¬ ner, and then altogether. cut Scotland’s Brightest Light—Burns A Liberty of the Press—Squeezing a pretty girl in a crowd. The Western wits now call bigamy Utah-lizing the fe¬ male sex. What are “fancy goods? Often things that people don’t fancy. A German, the other day, reading an account of a meeting, came to the words, “ The meeting then dissolved.” He could not define the meaning of the last word, so referred to his dictionary and felt satisfied. In a few minutes a friend came in, when he said, “ Dey must haf very hot wedder dere. I ret an agount of a meeting where all de peoples melted away.” The Best and Surest Remedy in the World For all diseases with which children are afflicted during the process of teeth¬ ing is “Mrs. Winslow's'Soothing Syrup. It not only relieves the child from pain, but invigorates the stomach and bowels, cures wind-colic, and by giving sleep to the child, gives rest to the mother. Perfectly safe in all cases. Sold everywhere by Chemists, at Is. l|d. per bottle.