Nebraska Newspapers

    THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY. OCT. 4. 1S32.
fcterci at tie PKi:.o, C-ississ, NeS., as seuai
ibu natter.
GO AWAY!
Wltk a bumpy iwish and a curdled roar,
Street MarVa churn goes drumming:
YoMNr Beubea leans on tbe low half-dooi;
AB Hopes mat tne ourters comine;
curbs and aitrhs. and droos bis eye
What woras can bis ieeunga utter
0, drop ma down in the churn," he cries,
"And make me into butter."
She rests her hands, and gazing steads
A4 sound of his word's vagary;
Then plies the staff with a lightsome laugh
O, go away!" says Mary.
IX a maiden's word means might, they say,
Tfce opposite sense is in it;
Bo Keuben finds in her " Go away!"
A "just come in a minute."
"Ihope," says he. 1 may make so Tree,"
With a grin and a nervous stutter.
Mlty answer should be t your ears," oays ebe,
If I could but leave he buuer."
is arm on the shell that holds the delf.
He looks across tbe dairy:
"Shall IgotohersIde?Sbull I dare her pridr
"O, go away 1 " says Mary.
Be takes the hint and he takes a kiss,
With fears and Inward q inking:
She does not take what he takes amia
Nor wem in an awful taking.
Sweet kisses he takes so loud and fast
That he takes hrr breath completely.
He takes her tight in his arms at last,
. And still she takes it sweetly!
The heart of the boy is wild with joy;
He has won her bis bird, bis fairy;
I'll go outright for the ring to-night! "
"O, go away!" says Mary.
London Sotietv.
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THINGS."
The following extracts are from a recent
lecture delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal
Baage, D. D., L. L. D., before the stu
dents of Coleman's Business College at
Newark, N. J. The celebrated Brooklyn
divine appeared ia. one of the regular
course of college lectures, before one of
tbe finest audiences ever assembled in
Jfewark. Mr. Talmage, on his introduc
tion by President Coleman, was greeted
with great applause. Among many
ether good things, he said :
"Whether it rain or whether it shine,
tfcis is a very pleasant world to live in. If
I had beea consulted as to which of all
the stars I would choose to have been
bora on, then I know of none that I
would have preferred to this.
The human face is admirably adapted
lor its work; it is sunshine in its smile,
tempest m its lrown. nvo eyes, one
snore than is absolutely necessary, so
when one is put out, we can still look
abroad upon the beautiful works of
nature; one nose, which is quite sufficient
for those who walk among so many nui
aances. It maybe inclined to be Roman,
or it may turn up toward the heavens
with celestial admiration. Or perhaps it
reaches out a long way and then sudden
ly shies off, illustrating the old proverb
that it is a long lane that has no turning.
One tongue and one mouth which arc well
able to express our wants and communi
cate our thoughts to each other. Tet
bo two of these features are alike nor
are any two persons alike. It is not in
tended that they should be. On stand
ing before am specimen of sculpture or
painting, a dozen different ruen will have
a dozen different sentiments. We can
not all think alike, but where is the blas
phemer of his God who would criticise
the arch of the sky or the crest of a
wavef or the flock of snow-white fleecy
clouds driven by the siiepherd of the
winds across the hilly pastures of the
heavens, or the burning cities of the sun
set, or the fern-leaf pencilings of the
frost on the window-pane? Why, my
friends, where there is ne discord in
nature, there are a thousand harmonies.
It will be well for ue to work a little
harder when we are tempted to look at
tfae dark side of things, and keep our
thoughts occupied by paying closer at
tention to other things. By always look
ing at th'e dark side, we get discouraged
ana down-hearted, and by the natural
reaction of one soul on another, we may
pet others into tbe same way of thinking-
My ideas of re
ligion are a little different from those of
som people. Mine is a sunshiny re
ligion, a happy religion, full of love
Jove is everlasting sunshine and I have
noticed that tbe more religion people
have of this sort, the happier they are.
Wow, a great many people seem to think
that to be religious one must wear a
long face; but when people come to me
with a long face they don't impress me
at all. The world has a great many de
fightf ul people in it so many real clever
people that have a faculty worth any
urn of money. They neveryet came
away from a picture-gallery but what
they saw one landscape, one face that
they admired. They are very like the
pring, for it seems so full of fragrance
and youth and bloom. Like a priestess,
the stands swinging her censer of per
fume before the Lord. The summer,
too, is the thing for them, for they like
to hear the musical whirr of the machines
a they plow through the shuddering
rrain, the whetting of the scythe, the
lowing of the cattle and the glad carol
ing of the birds. And they like the
autumn, they like the forests that, with
their blood-red leaves flecked with fire,
look like an army marching with ban
men dipped in the sunset's glow. And
they praise God for winter, that brings
the shout of children playing blind
man's buff with handkerchiefs they can
aee through, getting up theatricals in the
kitchen and turning the wood-shed into
royal dressing room. If you are a
lawyer, they are the kind of people you
wiM like for clients ; if yon are a
merchant, they are the people you will
like for customers; if a physician, the
people you will like for patients, but
they an generally enre themselves
by a bottle of laughter and the
laughter, like medicine, is bet
ter if well shaken up.
I noticed that, when I was in the coal
district of Pennsylvania, in the coal
nines, every miner carried his own lio-ht
in his hat. He takes his light with him ;
he is perfectly independent of his neigh
bor. That struck me as a first-rate plan,
for k leaves every man free and teaches
him to depend on himself . A blacksmith
who was in comfortable circumstance
had a son in college, and after awhile he
got a letter from him. Now, neither the
blacksmith or his wife could read, so
they took the letter down te the village
butcher te get him to read it. But tEe
butcher was a very rough man, and be
ing a very rough man he read H this
way:
"Dbar Father Send me some money; I
ass very sick. Your sou, John."
"Hum! Write that way to his father!
han't have a cent" But his wife said
"Now, let's take the letter down to the
baker, he will know how to read it "
So they took the letter down to the
baker he was a mild man, a very mild
uui and he read it this way :
"Daaa Father I am verv sick; send me
! money, lour son, John."
Ah!" says the father, "if that's the
send fair all be wants." rtlreat.
laugnier ana appiauscj it is all in the
way yeu read H. You can take almost
everything in life in the same way. It is
tbe resolution to always look at the
bright side of things that brings us hap
piness and cheerfulness and peace. O
My friends, let us stand up and listen for
the sweet sounds, instead of straining
oar eyes and ears to detect the discords
mi Hfe. Let ue cultivate thyme and ane
mones and roses, and have vines and
flowering plants around the house; have
Me windows arranged so that we can
hoist them to let in the sunshine. God
planted a paradise of bloom in a lit
tle child's cheek, and adorned the pillars
rock by hanging tapestries of morn
ing mist around them. The lark says,
"Twill sing soprano," and the cascade
J, " I will carry the bass; let us leave
st to the owl and the croaking frog and
Me surly bear to do the CTomblimr and
Ike fanlt-finriinn-"
the fault-finding.
l have a respect for the thedsy that
fine elothes will make a gentleman. 1
have no Eking for Lord Chesterfield.
All the fine dothes that a tailor's goose
ever pressed cannot make a gentleman;
I don't care how large a diamond flashes
in his cravat or how elegant the cut of
his garments or the materials from which
they are made. A bootmaker, a hatter
and a tailor got together one day and
resolved to make a gentleman of a man
if it could be done by fine clothes. The
bootmaker said: "I will make a gentle
man's boots," and the hatter said: "1
will make him a fine hat," and the
tailor: "I will make him a fashionable
suit' They did it, and their gentle
man went out. .Before night lie did
something so perfectly contemptible that
everybody said he was not a gentleman,
and a neighbor said: "Sir; you cannot
make a gentleman. God only can make
that large-hearted, generous, magnan
imous being that we call a gentleman."
Applause-J A very little thing will
tell yon that a man is a gentleman.
You can tell that in five minutes. One
day's visit to his home will reveal all his
domestic history as well as if you had it
in a half dozen volumes.
Neither can all the arts and skill of the
dressmaker or perfumer make a lady.
Here is the history of a woman's work
during the late civil war of ours. Her
dress was very much faded, and she
came out from an humble home with a
basketful of little delicacies on her arm.
She had a boy m the army that was
missing after ene of the battles. She
wanted to do something for others, be
cause she couldn't do anything for him.
She went into the hospital, straightened
the bed-clothes, wrote letters, and
when she found a poor fellow shot
through the arm, brought ice for the
shattered limb, turned the hot pillow,
and offered up the silent prayer: "God
do so to me and my soldier boy that is
missing if I neglect to care for these
poor fellows." A man Hearing the whis
per, after she had passed shoves up the
bandage from his eyes and says: "God
bless her! may she get back her soldier
boy that is missing." The great tall
captain wounded m the foot whispers
over to a lieutenant wounded in the head
and says: "Ah! no sham about that;
she's a lady." That vision of kindness
lingers in the Western soldier's dreams,
and that very night he thinks he is home
beyond the prairies and hears the cattle
coming down the lane, and hears the
leaves rustling in the wind and bidding
him a welcome. His children appear at
the door and his wife calls to him to look
at his boy strutting the iloor with his
father's knapsack on. All the house
bold work stops to hear of his advent
ures. Ah! they shall only meet again
in Heaven!
Now, compare such a Christian lady
in the hospital with a woman I saw in a
street ear in Philadelphia. A poor ragged
soldier came in and sat near her. bhe
got up with a show of indignation and
took a seat opposite and said: "What a
dirty fellow!" and I said to myself there
was probably more nobilitj in the mean
est patch of his clothes than in that
woman. Two rough bo3's were riding
down hill and they couldn't steer the
sled as they wanted to, and ran against
a lady and tore her dress. They ex
pected a perfect volley of abuse, but the
lady said: "Boys, boys, you have torn
my dress very much; but 1 see you didn't
mean to. Go on with your fun." One
boy said to the other: "My eyes. Bill,
isn't she a beauty?" She was a lady.
A man of good manners
always has the faculty of making you
feel good; while on the other hand,
when you are in the company of one of
the ill-natured kind, you feel uncom
fortable and unhappy.
Great accomplishments and learning
may often he dignified by gentleness.
Luther's directness would nave been
mightily helped by Melanchton's suavity.
Society will bear anything sooner than
a bore. In a former pastoral eharge
there was a minister that had one or two
offensive characters in his congregation.
One of them was a man who was given
to sneezing at some of the most awkward
and embarrassing moments. When the
church was particularly silent and sol
emn, be would give one of those awful
sneezes, that sounded as if all the inside
of the earth was beinsr rinned awav.
Now, a man has certain inalienable
rights guaranteed to him by the Con
stitution . Among them are that of life and
liberty and the right to sneeze; but what
I contend for is that a man has no right to
select a time when his explosions will an
noy his fellow-worshippers. No man is
well educated, no man is well behaved,
who has no regard for times and cir
cumstances. While without any respect
for one of those obsequies mortals that we
call a fop, or for namby-pambyism in
any form, I yet fully appreciate the value
of good manners and courtesy. Let two
young men go out into the world, the
one with $20,000 to start him and bad
manners, and the other with no capital
and good manners, and the young man
with no capital will beat the other in the
race of life.
Sunday morning comes in a house
hold; Sunday morning and the father
steps from his room to the room where
the children are playing, and he says:
"Hush, hush, children: close that piano,
and stop that noise;" and altogether they
have a very solemn and awful time of it.
Sunday morning comes in another
household, and the father goes from his
room to the room where the children are
and he says: "Now this is the last
day of aQ the week; let's be
happy. Now, Jenny, you sit down
to the piano and play Sunday
school tunes, and you, Johnnie and Rob
bie, get down the hymn-books and be
prepared to sing as soon as I read this
psalm of David 'O, praise the Lord, all
ye angels of His: praise Him, all ye
stars and light; mountains and all hills;
iruiUul trees and all cedars, beasts and
all cattle, creeping things and flyino
fowls; let everything that hath breatE
praise the name of the Lord, for His
name only is excellent and His praise
above heaven and earth.' Go now,
children, get ready to sing while I beat
time for you." They sing, and let me
tell you that a person that can sing, and
won't sing deserves to be sent to Sinn
Sing. Laughter.
Despondencj is the most unprofitable
thing that 1 know of. The hyacinth is
the only flower I know of that will start
best in a dark cellar. Good cheer di
vides our burdens and carries three
fourths of them. To most of us, life's a
struggle an Austerlitz, a Waterloo. We
all have care enough. God knows, we
all cry enough. If we didn't laugh and
play sometimes, I don't know what
would become of us. Lack of acquaint
ance with the laws of life often results in
depression of spirits. Did you ever know
of a man among yeur acquaintance that
preferred to work till ten or eleven
o'clock at night, and then take a heartv
supper, and do that regularly, to ever
look on tiie bright side of things? Tell
me what a man eats, when he eats, and
hnwlnnirit aVn. V.Tn. -. -. :. it .11
--. -ij, . . mm w cab lb, SUU1 Will
tell you how he gets along in business.
A man who will go to the store in the
morning, find business matters all mixed
up, cannot see how to raise the money to
pay his notes, things all going wron
has been up too late the night before or
eaten something that didn't agree with
him. We must live well if we want to
take a cheerful view of life. We want
to live out-doors as much as possible.
If yon own a horse, have him well
groomed let him be black er bay or
gray or sorrel no matter, have him
brought out of the stable, get him some
water, put the bucket te bos mouth and
hear the water rattle down his throat in
great swallows, pat him on the shoulder,
and then put your foot in the stirup and
leap into the saddle; let him prance and
gallop and paw and plunge till you feel
the blood tingle in your veins. Let him
trot and gallop and amble, keep a stiff
rein and a firm seat, and after an hour
of that, you will come back with an ap
petite that will amaze the good folks at
home. I have known people
who spent fortunes at Saratoga and
Baden Baden, and came home unbene
fited, to jom in a game or two of base
ball, and in attempting to catch the ball
have actually taken their lost health "on
the fly," as it were. Whether it be boat,
skate, rod, gun or gymnasium, get out
of the city if you can, go into the coun
try. get plenty of fresh air and exercise,
and you will come back to the shop, counting-room
and stool and pulpit better pre
pared to bargain, to instruct, to work, to
pray and preach. Remember, there is
no stock that pays a better dividend than
a cheerful heart and a pleasant face and
kind words.
The Work f Scribblers and Scnurlen.
"Scribblers," said a hotel clerk, " are
among the many nuisances we have to
encounter. They infest the reading room
and waste our stationary ; they write all
over the blotters ; they fill waste baskets
with scratched envelopes ; they write
on the walls, the doors, the advertising
books, the bills of fare, and even in the
Bibles. The young married couples are
fond of scrawling their names. The
bride plays with her new name as with a
toy. She likes to write it and to see it
written; and the bridegroom, having
little else to do, humors her. I eould
show you fifty window panes with names
and initials scratched in this way with
diamond rings. The idiots and vandals
often leave their addresses in this way,
and if we eould prove that they wrote
them we could sue them for damages. I
have seen a costly plate glass mirror
marred by some heedless scribbler's dia
mond ring. It takes at least one day
each week for a servant to scrub off as
much as can be removed of the pencil
ings which the idle travelers inscribe in
various parts of the house. .
"Of all the itches that afflict human
ity," said Librarian W. T. Peoples, of
the Mercantile Library, "I think the
cacotthes scribendi is the worst. The
scribblers are a decided nuisance in this
library. Not even an act of the Legisla
ture, or the standing reward of fifty dol
lars for the detection of a person in the act
of thus mutilating a library book, has been
sufficient to stop them. Circulating as
we do many thousand volumes a day, it
is a physical impossibility to examine
every book upon its return. The conse
quence is that many books are issued
after they have been scribbled, and should
one be detected upon its return the per
son returning it could claim, with a show
of plausibility, that the book was thus
marred when issued.
"The worst offenders we have are the
readers of our juvenile books. They ara
not content with the frequent comments,
'This is a bully story,' 'Good for him,'
and similar harmless remarks, but fre
quently put in vile expressions, that make
the book useless for further circulation.
The value of books thus destroyed is no
inconsiderable sum every year." N. T.
Sun.
tee of tbe Sea Serpents Killed.
It is but a few years since Mr. Robert
Young, one of our most worthy and re
spected citixens, caught a glimpse of an
acquatie monster in Chats Lake, near
Araprior, Canada, which he described as
being of enormous size and proportions.
Captain Brown, of the steamer Alliance,
also got a view of these monsters in the
same waters the summer before last,
and various other people claim to have
seen large specimens at different times
and at divers places. But this week
we are in a position to announce the
capture of what is probably one of the
progeny of the original old Chats Lake
serpent, which has often struck terror to
the hearts of the superstitious river men.
While coming down from the Snow
Rapids with a tow last Monday evening,
and while off Black well's Island, the
crew of the Levi Young noticed a huge
serpent swimming ahead of the boat.
Mr. John Durgan, chief engineer, and
a deck hand, named Shaw jumped in to a
boat and started in pursuit of the reptile.
They succeeded in getting within strik
ing: distance of the serpent when Mr.
Durgan struck it a blow over the head
with his oar. The beast then turned and
made for the occupants of the boat, lit
erally churning the water with his tail in
his fury. Another powerful and well
directed blow with an oar on the neck of
the serpent laid it out dead when it was
taken in tow and brought aboard
the steamer. The erew of the
boat stretched it out on the rail and
measured it with a rule. Its total
length was eleven feet, while the body
was thirteen inches in circumference.
Its jaws were pried open and a pair of
compasses inserted, which were opened
out to a distance of six inches. The
description given of this reptile is the
same as that given by Mr. Young and
Captain Brown, so that is possible that the
one just killed is a lineal descendant of
the old king snake who has sported him
self in Chats Lake for years past Ara
prior Chronicle.
mum
A Surgical Kerelatira.'
About two weeks ago a daughter of
Mr. William Hindhough, aged about
twenty months, fell from a chair back
wards, and in her struggles on the floor
swallowed something which she had in
her mouth, and which was supposed to
be a hair-pin, from the information that
could be obtained. The child has been
in a precarious state eversince, suffering
excruciating pain. The conditions be
came so serious that Dr. Eddy, the at
tending physician, decided that an op
eration was necessary if the child's life
was to be saved at all, and this morning
performed it, with the assistance of Dr.
Clark. To the astonishment of the op
erating physicians and all concerned,
the foreign substance was found to bo,
not a hair-pin, but a steel hat-pin a little
over nve inches long and having a large
jet head, and which was found in the
stomach and very successfully removed.
A slight protuberance appeared on the
left side just above the lower rib. This
was cut into and tbe point of the pin
was revealed. There are hopes for the
recovery of the child. Oswego Palla
dium. m
A party of ladies and gentlemen
who were recreating in the woods At
Lake George recently sat down under a
huge ledge of rocks for a rest. Present
ly they heard a rustling among the
leaves and bushes over their heads, and
looking up saw a huge black bear. Old
bruin evidently did not know of their
presence, for he rolled down the declev
ity into their midst Upon learning that
he had intruded, the bear suddenly
picked himself up and ran off at a rapid
speed. In the meantime the ladies had
taken flight and on taking an inventory
it was found that Miss Payne, of Brook
lyn, had lost a diamond earring; Miss
Marden, of Boston, her hat feather, and
Miss Matthias, of New York, her slipper.
All bruin lost was his presence of mind.
N. Y. Sun.
A most wonderful surgical operation
was performed in Southington, Com.,
recently, which saved the life of the little
son of Orlando Whitney, of Darieo,
whose neck was dislocated by the upset
ting of a carriage. The operation re
quired great skill and delicate manipu
lating. The little one was obliged to
lie in a plaster of pans cast of his whole
body from his neck to below the knee
joints. It was the only thing that could
have saved his life. A movement to the
right or the left would have caused in
stant death. New Haven Register.
m
Two years ago a man in Georgia
killed his wife. He fled, and has not
yet been captured. In his stead two
men have been arrested at different
points in the State. Each one had, as
did the murderer, a scar on his forehead,
three on his face and an inflexible bur
toe. N. Y. Herald.
The Xesqaite.
There is another little lady whom yon
have fed and regaled on your own ex
pense, and very unwillingly withal. She
is by no means modest, but steals unbid
den into your room. She generally her
alds her coming with song that is any
thing but soothing, and she is so per
severing that even the strong "bars"
with which you protect yourself are not
Eroof against her persecutions. You
ave all, no doubt, at times exercised a
little strategy with the mosquito, and
when the little torment was fairly settled,
made a dexterous movement of the hand,
and, with a slap, exclaimed: "I've got
him this time' No such thing, you
never got him in your life, but probably
have often succeeded in crushing her,
for the male mosquito is a considerate
gentleman. In lieu of- the piercer of the
female he is decorated with a beautiful
plume, and has such a love of home
that lie seldom sallies forth from the
swamp where he was born, but contents
himself with vegetable rather than ani
mal juices. (I do not wish to make any
reflections, but in the insect world it is
always the females which sting.)
But to its history. The mosquito was
not born a winged fly, and if you will
examine a tub of rain water that has
stood uncovered and unmolested for a
week or more during any of the summer
months, you may see it in all its various
forms. You may see the female support
ing herself on the water with her four
front legs and crossing the hinder pair
like the letter X. In this support made bv
the legs she is depositing her eggs, which
are just perceptible to the naked eye.
By the aid of lens they are seen to be
glued together so as to form a lit
tle boat, which knocks about on the
water till the young hatch. And what
hatched from them? Why, these very
wrigglers which jerk away every time
you touch the water. They are destined
to live a certain period in this watery
element and can not take wing and join
their parant in her war song and house
invasions, till after throwing off the skin
a lew times, they have become full
grown, and then with another molt have
changed to what are technicallv known
as pupae. In this state they are no
longer able to do anything but'patiently
float with their humped backs on the
surface of the water or to swim bv jerks
of the tail beneath after the fashion of
a shrimp or lobster. At the end of three
days they stretch out on the surface like
a boat, the mosquito bursts the skin and
gradually works out of the shell which
supports her during the critical opera
tion. She rests with her long legs on
the surface for a few moments, till the
wings have expanded and become dry,
and then flies away to fulfill her mission,
a totally different animal to what she was
a few hours before, and no more able to
live in the water as she did then than are
any of us. Is it not wonderful that such
profound changes should take place in so
short a time? Even the bird has to learn
to use its wings by practice and slow de
gree, but the mosquito uses her newly
acquired organs of flight to perfection
from the start
In this transformation from an aquatie
to an lurial life the mosquito has first
breathed from a long tube near tile tail,
next, through two tubular horns near
the head, and, finally, through a scries
of spiracles along the whole body.
From a calculation made by Baron La
tour, the mosquito in flight vibrates its
wings 3,000 times a minute a rapidity
of motion hardly conceivable.
Those who have traveled in summer
on the lower Mississippi or the North
west have experienced the torment which
these frail flies can inflict. At times they
drive every one from the boat, and trains
can sometimes only be run with comfort
on the Northern 'Pacific by keeping a
smudge in the baggage car and the doors
of all the coaches open to the fumes.
The bravest man on the fleetest horse
dares not cross some of the more rank
and dark prairies of northern Minnesota
in June. It is well known that Father
De Smith once very nearly died of mos
quito bites, his flesh being so swollen
around the arms and legs that it literally
burst.
Mosquitoes have caused tbe rout of
armies and the desertion of cities, and I
would counsel all who desire to learn
how the hum of an insignificant gnat may
inspire more terror than the roar of a lion,
to consult Kirby and Spencer's history of
the former.
There are many species of the mos
quito, all differing somewhat in habit
and season of appearance, and doubtless
also, in mode of development, which, in
fact, has been studied in but few. They
occur everywhere, whether in the torrid
or the arctic zone, and are nowhere
more numerous or tormenting than in
Lapland.
Both the fly and mosquito are great
scavengers in infancy, the one purifying
the air we breath, the other the water we
drink. They perform, in this way, an
indirect service to man which few, per
haps, appreciate, and which somewhat
atones for the bad habits in maturity.
Prof. C. Y. Riley.
A Jersey Clam-Bake.
The clam-bake that is indigenous to
Rhode Island and is imitated in Glen
Island is not the clam-bake of New
Jersey. A Rhode Island clam-bake is
prepared bv building a fire over a bed of
stones. When thoroughly heated, the
stones are swept clear of embers and
ashes, and on this solid foundation the
superstructure of clams and their ac
companiments is erected. The accom
paniments are frequently other shell-fish,
sweet-corn, and vegetables, chickens
and fish. Seaweed and blankets are
thrown over the imposing pile to confine
the heat of the stones until it shall have
done its perfect work of cooking each
component part of this savory mass.
Those who have tasted of the products
of a Rhode Island clam-bake in the hands
of experienced bake engineers unite in
the verdict that it is delicious.
In the New Jersey clam-bake, round,
hard clams, and even blue noses are
utilized. They are packed tightly to
gether, noses down on the ground, with
in the circumference of an old wagon
tire, which serves to confine them beyond
the possibility of opening under the in
fluence of heat. Light kindling wood
and shavings are then carefully and
evenly disposed upon the dams and
fired. There is room for a considerable
exercise of skill in this apparently simple
operation, for it depends upon the proper
packing of the dams, and, above all,
upon the degree of judgment with
which the firing is done whether the bake
is a success or not. If there is neither
too much nor too little heat, and if the
clams have been so packed that their
liquor has oozed slowly out in the pro
cess of cooking, the result win oe that
each pair of blackened and scorched
shells will open at a touch and disclose
a fairly savory and succulent morsel.
If there has been too much fire, the cal
cined shells will crumble in the removal,
and the clam will be hard and indiges
tible. With too little fire the shells re
fuse to open until persuaded by a prac
tical clam-opener. The residt is a
tough and elastic mouthful. The ac
companiment of a New Jersey elam
bake are hard tack and German beer.
N. Y. Sun.
m m
A French chemist is said to have in
vented a process by which fabrics ean
be permeated with a solution of tin, an
exceedingly thin layer being spread over
the cloth, rendering it waterproof and
protecting it against rough usage. The
utility of the invention is not quite ap
parent, for probably few people would
care to don garments in whiek they
would bear a very close resemblance to
animated tin kettles and teapots, though
in the preparation of theatrical dresses
and even in the bright " trimmings" ia
which the female heart delights, the in
vention might find ft limited aypticrtieft.
The " Down-East " Dialect.
"But you and I have heard and conned
aud laughed over the provincialism of
the 'Georgia Cracker,' ami the 'West
ern Hoosier,' and I have for you some
of the expressions of the 'Down-east
Yankee.' I have recently been visiting
the mountains of Maine and New Hamp
shire, and while enjoying the sights my
self, collected some of the sounds for
you; they are in this book," and she
handed me a small memorandum.
"You can lug that off with
you"
lug, mind you, and not tote 93 the South
erner would say, nor tack, a la the West
ern man.
"Why, how you talk!" I responded,
as my eyes fell on that quotation in the
little book.
"Yes," laughingly, she rejoined, "that
is one expression of surprise, and
want to know is another, with tlicre!
sure and du tell! for mild exclamations
of wonder."
And then we drew our chairs near to
gether like two school children, one
knowing tbe lesson and teaching it to
the other.
"Where were you when you wrote
this book?"
" Please study its orthography and
speak by it" she interrupted. " I writ
what you have before you m Oxford
County, Me. I see people there en a
holiday from all over the country, a
marster large crowd. How the men did
swop hosses, watches, boots and knives
on that day. It was an enjoyable occa
sion. Two men fit, but neither was much
hurt Twe boys cim a tall far (fir)
tree that made me kinder narvous; I was
sheered they would fall and get scrut iched.
An Injean encampment was once jest
where we el dinner."
" That is very good. Clary Augusty,"
remarke'd her husband. " Go on and
tell about Hiss Hill's husband's hoss."
" Wall, I wish you could have seen
that animil he was such a pool y cooler
(pretty creature). I couldn't help 6c
grutdii Mr. Hill, for tbe anhnit was
not a skeered of anything, not even the
kers. He was a horse of great vally
(value). He was full ef spcrret, but
Miss Hill's Young-uns have rid1 m often.
He was as sound as a berril and a fine
roader. Charles, be you really gon-ter
to try to buy him?" she asked of her
husband.
lmEfl could git red of two I now have
theus house I sot foot into would be
Hill's.
" What did von find to eat so far
North?" I queried.
"dickens, nigs, butter, bris (lwrries)
and cake (biscuit). The last Sunday we
was in Oxford we had bilcd fowl for din
ner and it war monstrous nice. I think
the water of them folks wells be the best
I ever drinked. Them people is mighty
clever, but awful curis. Now there is
Bill Haskill as has been keepiii1 company
with Lizy Jane Wiggins nigh onto twelve
years and they Aam'niarricdyi7. There
is Miss Stcllings, a widder woman with a
sight '0 money, but they say slic sot so
mueli store by her husband (loved him
so much) that she won't let no man keep
company with her. Although the sun
was murster hot skcersely anybody had
umbrils (umbrellas). I had a lace fringed
parasol with me, but when I riz it I sec
two or three siecriii' at me so hard I took
it down. The dressing of some of the
men was not stylish. Some of the cots
(coats) fit gauming (uncouth). A few
men alwaj's sot kcrlcd up (crooked) as
ef they had the rumatiz."
"Please pause here for a definition.'"
I asked: "What is this and where did
you catcli it?"
"Let me look; oh yes; that is skimi
qilious. That word was fust heard in a
church trial. The parson was arraigned,
charged with having attended dances.
Deacon Podger having been appointed
to put the charges in writing, read them
at the church meeting. He stated there
in that the pastor had been guilty of an
offense of immense magnitude and pre
ponderosity, and that his punishment
should be skimiqilious. It is said that
upon the pronouncement of the last
word the parson skipped through an
open window, ran oft as if for his life,
and has never been heard of since.
There are other words worth observing
as luther for leather, Mowed for blew,
kittle for kettle, div for dived, fer for far,
hem for hers, yourn for yours, sitsser for
saucer, hacTnt orter for should not. A
cat yows and a bird yips; this keow gives
more milk as the other, instead of than
the other." Boston Post.
Japanese Peonies.
At Kanasawa, a fishing village about
fourteen miles from Yokohama, are to be
seen in their glory the finest flowers
grown in Japan. They are peonies, and
their gorgeous beauty is exceeded by no
other blossoms to be found ia this land of
the Rising Sun. The plants are of aa
average height of about six feet, and
have been flourishing their wealth of
beauty these three hundred vears. The
peony is in full flower during the month
of April, the later buds not opening
until the first days of May. It was in
the last daj's of April that I was honored
with an invitation from the Superinten
dent of Customs of the-Portof Yokohama
to join a party whom he had invited to
proceed on his steam launch to Kan
asawa to see the peonies. An hour and
a half was enjo3-"ed in steaming from
Yokohama to Kanasawa, where we found
quite a number of people of both sexes,
children and adults, gathered to witness
our arrival. There is no beach at Kan
asawa, a wall of niaonry being built
along its irregular front, encroaching on
its quiet bay. The houses of the village
are many of them built close up to the
edge of this wall, and are nearly all on
made ground. Our party not having
any other mission than to view the flow
ers, we were lmmeuiateiy taicen to we
grounds where they were to be seen.
Like all Japanese gardens, they are care
fully kept. The peonies occupied a
space by themselves, there being a num
ber of ditlerent varieties ami colors
some white, streaked with delicate
shades of pink, deepening into bright
hues of scarlet, with stamens variegated
with purple, scarlet, pink and shades of
color almost indescribable. Others there
were of delicate shades of purple, some
almost a salmon color, and one besh
bore flowers of a rich dark maroon shade.
We were told by the owner of the prem
ises that some of these shrubs had pro
duced as many as one hundred and
twenty flowers, the largest measuring
about fifteen inches in diameter. The
average size of those still in bloom was
about eight inches in diameter. They
have a large mass of stamen, and as the
leaves radiate from the calyx horizon
tally; the flower has a saucer-like shape.
The stamen of the peony is of many va
riegated hues, and is a beanty in itself.
One tree of the yew species of grand
proportions, that could tell of the history
of Kanasawa for a period exceeding ten
centuries, stands upon these grounds.
It has given of its generous shade to
more than thirty generations of the man
whe planted it. Yokoluana Cor. San
Francisco Chronicle.
It is proposed to honor the memory
of Garibaldi by changing the name of
his old home from Isola di Caprera to
Isola di Garibaldi, and by building there
a hospital for invalid soldiers, who shaH
be the guardians of his tomb, and a lofty
light-house, which all mariners on the
Jlediterranean will know forever as the
Garibaldi beacon.
Egg parties are the latest country
amusements. The girl write their
names on an egg and deposit it ia a
basket The gentlemen draw the eggs
from the basket and claim the company
ef the girl whose egg they have taken.
N. Y. Graphic.
Hope looks forwasd; mtmorj backward.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
A slab from Plymouth rock is to be
set in the inside wall of Pilgrim Church,
Harlem, New York.
The Universalis! Convention of
Maine passed resolutions urging active
effort to stop the alarming increase of di
vorce. The Wpman's Presbyterian Board
of Missions of the Northwest will send
out seven young ladies as foreign mis
sionaries this year. Chicago Tribune.
Over 10.000,000 pupils are enrolled
in the public schools of this country, and
the expenditure is about $80,000,000
annually. Thirty States have a perma
nent school fund of 110,000,000.
The Michigan Horticultural Society
recently resolved that the grounds about
a country school house ought to be at
least one acre in extent and handsomely
laid out ornamented with trees, shrub
bery and flowers.
Miss Alice E. Freeman, the new
President of Wellesley College, has re
ceived the degree of Ph. D. from Michi
gan University. This is said to be the
hrst time a degree has been conferred
upon a woman in this country. Detroit
Post.
The Young Women's Christian Asso
ciation, of New Haven, have purchased
a large house for the purpose of estab
lishing a home in which young women
who -are strangers and come to the city
to obtain employment may have a good
home on reasonable terms. Tiie build
ing, besides containing rooms for board
ers, will have a library and class-room.
jV". Y. Independent.
One of the most generous and wise
givers of Chicago, is Mr. Cyrus H.
AlcCormick. He has given largely to
the Chicago Theological Seminary (Pres
byterian) anil erected three houses for
tho Professors, and now guarantees the
salaries of the Faculty till 1887. By that
time the valuable real-estate of the Semi
nary will become productive, and relieve
the institution from all financial embar
rassment N. Y. Examiner.
One of the tiresome old men who be
long to the Concord School of Philos
ophy lately delivered a lecture before
the school, and in the course thereof
asked a new member, who herself is an
authoress of no mean reputation, what
her idea of a philosopher was. He was
much astounded and not a little taken
back when she replied, almost instantly:
"My idea of a philosopher is a man up
in a balloon, his family and friends
holding the ropes which hold him to
earth and trying to haul him down."
Chicago News.
The Western University of Pennsyl
vania, for sixty-three years in Pitts
burgh, has sold its property there to the
county for $80,000, and now removes,
taking with' it a money endowment of
over $300,000, to Allegheny, temporarily
leasing excellent quarters in the United
Presbyterian Theological Seminar for
the College, and in the Reformed Theo
logical Seminary for the Preparatory
School and Scliool of Engineering and
Chemistry. The observatory is already
in Allegheny, crowning the hill over
hanging tlie city. Tho University will
face the Presbyterian Theological Sem
inary, across the park, and so will be in
an eminently scholastic and pleasant
neighborhood. Christian Union.
PONttENT FARA6KAPIIS.
Dueling is actually becoming almost
as dangerous as fooling with a toy-pistol.
Baltimore Herald.
It is better to be thought a fool than
a knave, says the saw; out it is better
still to be known to be neither.
"No pay. no paper," is the epigra
matic way a York State paper has of re
minding its backward subscribers of
their obligations.
"Bridget, I told you to have my hot
water ready the first thing in the morn
ing." "Sure, sir," replied Bridget,
"didn't 1 bring it up and lave it at the
door last night, so as to have it in time?"
An exchange
which has been
says: "A new fashion
set at Newport, and
ought to become popular everywhere, is
the abolition of the check rein." We
always thought all the fashion at New
port was due to the check rein. Lowell
Citizen.
Young lady, very much shocked:
"O ma, did-you know that insulting pup
py that just passed us? I looked at the
wretch until he got way out of sight,
and he had the impudence to stare at
me, the horrid thing; and just as he
turned the corner he actually lifted his
hat and bowed." Chicago Tribune.
"Now," they said to her, "you can
go in and see him; but remember that he
is very sick with heart disease, and don't
say a word that will trouble him." Then
she walked in, sat down on the edge of
a chair, and remarked cheerfully, as she
shook her head: "Ah ah! m! sad,
ain't it? Thought I'd just run in, 'cause
they said there wuz noknowin' how soon
you might drop ofT."
When Mr. Billony went home and
saw a handsome bouquet reposing on
one of the parlor chairs he mentally ob
served that it was a shame to let such
beautiful flowers lie there to wither; so
he took them up tenderly, procured a
basin of water, and placed them care
fully therein and the same instant his
wife gave a piercing shriek, and fainted
dead away. But it was too late. Mrs.
Billony's new bonnet was utterly ruined.
Thcmistoclcs was an old Greek fogy,
and it's extremely fortunate that he died
outside the city limits of New York.
When two young men sued for his daugh
ter's hand he gave his preference to the
poor youth, saying that in his opinion a
man without riches is better than riches
without a man. Suck conservatism has
long since been outgrown, and it even
seems queer that any person of common
sense eould have used his reasoning pow
ers to so little purpose. N. Y. Herald.
"O, Farmer Robinson, isn't it just
delightful?" This new mown hay, how
fragrant; the hum of the insects, how
musical." "Yes, Miss," said the old
farmer as he jabbed the snath of his
scythe into the ground and went under
the apple tree to interview the jug. "To
those what ain't used to it. Miss, I sup
pose 'tis delightful. The hay does smell
sort o' fragrant, but take a sniff from
that jug if you want to get the real per
fumery," and he gallantly passed it to
his city guest, handle foremost. New
Haven Register.
mum
The Original Bootblacks,
We believe New York claims to be she
place where the street bootblack first
appeared, but the professional bootblack
is essentially a Boston institution. At
first the business was associated with
window-washing, chimney-sweeping,
clothes cleaning, and waiting and tend
ing, and the principal localities were
Lindell Street, now Exchange Place,
Franklin Avenue, and Brattle Street.
In time, however, it became a distinot
branch, and many of the bootblacks of
that day acquired a handsome independ
ence and became real estate holders.
The custom then was to call at the
homes of the gentry, take the boots and
shoes, string them on long poles and
carry them to their respective places of
business, polish and return them at an
early hour the next day. These poles
would hold a dozen or more pairs, and it
was a novel sight to see the bootblacks
passing to and fro. The boots were al
most invariably blacked on a tree last
Most of the blacking was done by the
week or month, and the bills sent in
were a curiosity in their way. But those
were good old times. The boot-polisher
of that day was an important factor in
fashionable life, and the shine on a gen
tleman's boot marked his social standing
as much as the cut and quality of his
coat, the style of his beaver, or the per
fection of his linea. Boston Traveller.
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x t t- 1 m . ,r Youngstown, Ohio, 31ay lOth, 1SS0
B. J. Hernial! A Co., Gents: I had a very valuable lianibletoman colt which I
prized very highly, ho bad a lan,'e bone spavin on one joint ami a small one on the
other, whirh made bim very lame; I had him under the charge or two vcterinarv
fui " w.l, a,,e,l ,0cur b- J ww "Of day reaillm: the advertisement or Ken
dall's bpavin Cure 111 tin Chicago Express, I determined at once to trv it, and -ot our
druggists here to send for it, they ordered three bottle. I took thein'all and thought
I would give it a tbornuirh trial, I ued it according to directions and tbe fourth dav
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Early lat summer .Me-rs. 1$. J. Kend
uremic m.
...... ..... .,, ,,,.,.,.-,.., , lu(: jrreas mr a uau column advertisement for om-
year settinir lorth the merits or Kendall's Spavin Cure. At the amo time we ecured
from the nrm a quantity or book-, entitled Dr. Kendall's Treatise on the Horse and
his Ureases, which we are giviii' to advance iiavinsr subscribers to tin- Pr. ..-
About t he time tin advertisement first appeared in this paper 3Ir. 1". G Scher
merhorn, who resides near Colliers, had a spavined horse He read the advertNe
nient and concluded to test the ellicacy or the remedy, although his friends lauehed
at hiscreduality. He bought a bottle or Kendall's Spavin Cure and commenced I us in '
it on the horse in ac.-ord nice with the directions, and be Informed us this week that
it effected uch a .uipk-tc cure that an expert horseman, who examined the animal
recently could tind no trace or the spavin or the place where it had been located Mr
Schermerhi.ru has since secured a copy or Kendall's Treatise on the Horse aiid'his
Diseases i, w Inch he prizes very hiirhly and would be loth to part with at anv price
provided he could uot obtain another copy. So much tor advertising reliable articles.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE.
Columbiana, Ohio, Dec. 17th 1S80
B.J. Kendall & Co.. Gents: You will find below a recommendation front 'our
expressman. We sell Kendall's Spavin Cure and tind all who use it are pleased with
it. You may send us more advertising matter, and a Tew nice card- with our names
" th- COXLEY A KING.
B.J. Kendall .v Co.. Uents: I am using your Spavin Cure Tor a bone spavin
(bought of Conley tfc Kins:, Druggists, Columbiana, Ohio.) I find it just the tiiiii- to'
cure a spavin: the lameness has all left my mare, and bv further use or the cure I
look for the lump to leave. The one bottle Wa worth to me ten times the eot
Yours truly, FKAXK 15 ELL.
KENDALL'S SPA FIN CURE.
Horse and his Diseases.
bone spavin. One bottle
bunch.
Milwaukee, Wis., .lan.Mth, 1SS.
B. .1. Kendall tv Co., Gents: 1 have the highest opinion of Kendall's Spavin Cure
I tind it equally good for many other troubles named by voii, and partieularlv for
removing enlargements.
Yours very truly, C. F. UUADLEY.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE.
Kendall's Spavin Cure is sure in its effects, mild in its action as it does nut
blister, yet it is penetrating and powerful to reach any de.jp seated pain or to re
move any bony growth or any other enlargement ir used for several dav, such as
spavins, splints, callous, sprains, swelling, any lament's- and all enlargements or
the joints or limbs, or rheumatism in man and for any purpose fur whicha liniment
is used for man or beast. It is now known to be the best liniin. nt for in m ever used,
acting mild yet certain in its effects. It is used in full strength with perfect if. tv
at all seasons of tbe year.
Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think gives positive proof, of its
virtues. Xo remedy has met with such unqualified success to our knowledge, for
beast as well as man. Price $1 per bottle, or six bottles for $.".
AIL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you,
or it will be sent to anv address on receipt of" price, bv the proprietors,
18 Dr. B. J. KENDALL & CO, Enosburg Falls, Vermont.
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All Through Trains are equipped with
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Pullman Palace Cars,
Day Coaches and Baggage and Express
Cars or the latest designs.
Through Tickets at Lowest Bates
Arc on sale at all principal Stations, where
passengers can obtain information as to
Koutcs, Kates and Connections, and can
secure Sleeping-Car accommodations.
Quick Time,
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Xo Delays,
As trains run to and from Union Depots
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LAND, FARMS,
AND
CITy PROPERTY FOB SALE,
-AT THE-
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On Long Time and low rate
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All wlihing to buy Rail Road Lands
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make a ipecialty or buying and selling
lands on commission; all persons wish
ing to sell forms or unimproved land
will find it to their advantage to leave
their lands with me for sale, as my fa
cilities for affecting sales are unsur
passed. I am prepared to make final
proor Tor all parties wishing to get a
patent for their homesteads.
ISJTIIenry Cordes, Clerk, writes and
speaks Merman.
SAMUEL C. SMITH,
&gt. U. P. Land Department,
021-y COLUMBUS. NEB
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remarkable that I let
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cry respectfully, L. T. FOSTER.
Y.
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lal! & Co., or KnosburgU Falls, Vt., nia
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II. J. Kendall Jfc Co.. Cents: 1'Iease sent!
us a -tipplv of :iderttsing matter for Ken
dall s Spa, i i Cure. It has a good gale here ,t
gives the best (satisfaction. OI"all we h i e
sold we have yet to learn the first unfavora
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de a
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entirely cured the lamene.is and removed most all the
Yours respectfully, LHEltOY M. (JKaIIA.M.
1870.
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