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HI Eaton Democrat weekly L. G. GOULD, Publisher. Devoted to the Interests of the Democratic Party, and the Collection of Local and General News. Two Dollars per Annum, In Advance, VOL. V.--NO. 26. EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1872. WHOLE NUMBER 257. The New Church Organ. BY WILL M. CARLETON. They're got a bran new organ. Sue, .For all their fuss and search ; They ve done jus as they said they'd do. And fetched it into church. Thoy're bound the critter shall be seen. And on the preacher's right They're hoisted up their new machine. In everybody's sight. They've got a chorister and choir, Aar'n MY voice nd vote; For it was never iit desire To praise the Lord by note. I've been a sister good an' true For five an' thirty year; " I've dene what seemed my part to do. An' prayed my duty clear : I ve snnc the hymns both slow and quick, - Just as the preacher read. And twice, when Deacon Tubbs was sick, I took the fork an' Jed I And now, their bold, new-fangled ways Is comin' all about ; And I. right in my latter days. : Am fairly crowded out. To-day the preacher, good old dear. With tears all in his eyes. Bead " I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies," I alays liked that blessed hymn 1 8 pose I a'lays will ; It somehow gratifies Mr whim. In good old Ortonville ; But when that choir got tip to sing, I couldn't catch a word ; They sung the most dog-gondest thing A body ever heard Some wordly chaps was standin' near. An' when f seed them grin, . I bid farewell to every fear. And boldly waded in. I thought I'd chase their tnne along. An' tried with all my might ; But though my voioe is good an' strong, I couldn't steer it rigtt ; When they was high, then I was low. An' also ccntrawise ; And I too fast, or they too slow, '. . To " mansions in the skies." An' after every Terse, "you know, i They played a little tune s ' I didn't understand, an' bo I started in too roon. I pitched it pr'tty middlin high, 1 fetched a lusty tone. But oh. alas I I found that I Was ringin' there alone 1 They laughed a little. I am told ; But I had done my best ; And not a ware of trouble rolled - Across my peaceful breast. And Sister Brown I could but look . She sits right front of me ; She nerer was no singin' book. An' nerer meant to be; But then she al'ays tried to do . The best she could, she said ; She understood the time right through. An' kep it, with her head; ' But when she tried this morn in', oh, , I had to laugh or cough 1 It kep' her head a bobbin' bo, - - It e'en a'most came off! An'Deaoon Tubbs he all broke down. As one might well suppose ; He took one look at Sister Brown, . .An' meekly scratched his nose. He looked his hymn right thro' and thro' And laid it on the s'at. And then a pensive sigh he drew. An' looked completely beat. An' when they took another boat, .. He didn't eren rise, . But d rawed his red bnndanner oat. An wiped his weepin' eyes. Z've been a sister, good an' true. For fire and thirty year; J're done what seemed my pait to do, . An' prayed my duty clear; But death will etop my voice. I know, ' For he is on ny track : An' some day I to church will go, . An' nerer more come back ; An' when the folks get up to sing Whene'er that time shall be I do cot want no patent thing A f quealin' orer me! AN HOUR OF AGONY. Has the reader ever had a tussle with a Bengal tiger in full vigor and appe t " tite ? has it chanced him to be in a bal- . loon wnen perforated by Prussian bul . . lets ? has it occurred to him to have been indulging a commendable curiosity in ' the- remoter recess of a coal mine, when an explosion suddenly revered the con ; ' section between himself and the world , .w ithout? These are forms of uneasiness - not to be lightly treated of. They shi ink into nothing beside that supreme r commingling of grief, astonishment, , and horror it was my lot to experience on a certain never-to-be-forgotten even ing jtu vanuary, lorry-nine. Time's soothing influence has wrought - "its accustomed eflTep.t. All V; all self-reproach, have died gradually ") m piace oi tnat mental tumult which, for a long period, attended the j-eiueruDrance 01 ine incident in ques tion, I now find myself able to narrate with indifference to which but recently my most intimate friends durst hardly hazard an illusion. The Guild of Lumpeters represents .'one of the mostT ancient and honored - of London civic institutions. What they are, why they are, I have not the ' remotest idea. Enough that, on a cer- tain day in November, they are seen in their glory, their banners brighter, their bands brassier, their knights more cor pulent, themselves sleeker and more redolent of wealth than any of their prosperous rivals. They have a hall solely, it would seem, for purposes of hospitality. They give dinners of in conceivable succulency and toothsome ness. They invite mayors, nay, kings, who don't always come, and princes, who generally do,. and they also invite me. 1 so, tor I like them. All the Lumpeters of my ' acquaintance are noble, large-heat ted men, citizen gen- tlemen, on whom London, in need of arm or purae, might confidently rely. I think if I were other than what I am, I would be a Lumpeter. Pretexts were never wanting for a Lumpeter feed. The recovery of the chief city magistrate from a bilious at tack, the breaking up of the frost, the birtli of a son and heir to the Ban of Croatia, the arrival of a piebald ele phant at the gardens of the Zoological Society, . suoh were among the events I , could recall as having suggested feastful rejoicings. - But that to which I have now to refer was to be regarded as a peculiar gathering, almost in point of . fact, a corporate family-feed, comprising no more than ninety-five guests, select ed with discrimination, for the purpose of testing the- merits of a new head cock. Thus it had rather the nature of a grave and dispassionate deliberation ti ;an of a dinner, a certain sense of re st. on3ibility toning down the exuberant mirth that usually waited on these p easant assemblies. - There were to be no speeches, no music. The usual loyal toast; no more. A bove all, no ladies. The presence of " beauty, chatting in the gallery, might huply. distract the attention of the weaker brethren from the great object of the meeting. The Lumpeters were particular and I . thought conservative id matters of attire. They themselves to a man ad hered to the fashion, moribund, but not defunct, of ankle-buttoned pantaloon?, fi.ured silk stockings, buckled shoes, expansive white waistcoats, and the mighty . cravat patronized by his late in no on In for the T i. the For ers the ble ate the Let er, it, majesty, the fourth George. It was well understood that the adoption of a simi lar costume on the part of their guests would be interpreted by Lumpeters as the most delicate return that could be offered for their hospitality. I, myself, invariably sported the fancy dress in question. On the eventful day I have mentioned it happened that I had been detained at chambers later than usual, and on reacting borne had barely time to dress, wnue doing so, i received an anxious message from a fiiend who was to have accompanied me to the banquet, but who, being late, and himself a stranger 10 me guna, Degged me to secure tor him a seat next my own, With increased expedition - I finished my toilet, and th dining-hall being but nve minutes' wain irom my residence, quickly buttoned on a pair of rough overalls, threw on my cloak, and hurried to the spot. To my astonishment, a crowd, dense and augmenting, was gathered about the door. It was only through the aid of a friendly policeman that I was en abled to make my way. " What was the matter?" I inquired of Number Nineteen B. The answer, half drowned m the clatter of arriving carriages sounded something like " furrin swell." "Who?" Number Nineteen forebore to trust his lips with the name: but it were him as kills the wild beastesses out in Afrikey. It was a more intelligent porter who presently announced to me that the .trench lion-slayer, the Baron Bobadil de Bete-Fauve, had, at the last moment, accepted an invitation to dine at lAimpeters' -Hail. The character of the assembly had undergone a change. Not only had a little reinforcement of a hundred and twenty guests been hastily invited, but a dense mass ot spectators lined the hall, the passages, and the ante-cham ber, and even frothed over into the ban- queting-room itself, the spacious gallery of which was already filled with ladies. whom the chivalrous guild had found it impossible to dream ot excluding. I was late : but dinner had been de ferred half an hour. There would be just time to rush into the room, secure my mend's seat, and then deposit my doak and overalls in the room devoted to such purposes. lhe lormer matter was quietly ar ranged, and 1 was darting back, when J was met by a rush and pressure that al most forced me behind an adjacent screen. The Baron de Bete-Fauve had arrived, and was being triumphantly marched into the hall. The Baron Bobadil de Bete-Fauve. when visible, proved to be a remarkably small gentleman, with intensely black eyes and moustaches, the latter curling nerceiy nmmr it-tq, uumer r but .my own situation demanded all my at tention. Withdraw I could ret. To sit down in that highly-attired society in light brown overalls, such as might De worn Dy a staDiemarr, was not to be thought of. Ah I an idea. Just within the door, near the wall, but with space to get behind it. stood the large screen against which I had been pressed. Cap turing the waiter. I drew him with me into that friendly shelter. Here, help, my man. Can't cet oacK. JUft let me slip on these con founded hurry, now " I gasped, and tore the buttons loose with lieht- ning speed. "All right, sir." The waiter was as quick as I. and scarcely gave me time to disengage the last button, before he caught awav the garment, and bundling it up, vanished the crowd. " Eh I hillo I stop, you ! Good hea it'a impossible! And vet mercv us what shall I do ?" A horrible fact had revealed itself. making my hurried toilet. I had actually buttoned on my overalls omitting my black dress-pantaloons ! What was to become of me? Gar ments, indeed, were there garments even too ample and obtrusive. I had worn while dresting a pair of wide but shortish trousers once used in a Chinese burlesque, written by my friend Skelton the delectation of a private circle. and which, being intended for that oc casion only, were adorned with devices grotesque and terror-striking, repre sented in colors crimson, green, and blue. And these abominable trousers I had brought with me to Lumpeter's Hall! A chill shot through me as I realized full extent of the misadventure. I staggered back faintly against the wall, aim enueavored to collect myself. Glancing round the corner of the screen. - 1 l - . 1 , , , ouservea, witn a snudder. that the. company were taking their places, while ladies in the gallery had nserr-en masse, and were directing so concen trated a nre ot eyes upon the entrance, where the valiant lion-queller had paused to return the salute that greeted him, that to escape had become impos sible. I must remain where I was, till able to concert with some compassionate attendant a plan of escape. There was the settling murmur and buzz, the "Gentlemen, pray silence. grace 1" and the " Stand still, wait 1" in a voice of authoritv. Grace fol lowed, and the noise of feasting : but next intelligible words froze mv very soul. " Remove that screen !" Instinctively I clutched and held it. back. There came a violent tug ; but there was too much at stake for a fee defense, and I held on with desper tenacity. yuick, now, with that screen !" said voice . of authority. " What's the matter ?" " There's a gent, be'ind a-'oldinc of it back," said some officious booby. "Here you !" 1 gasped. " Five shil lings ! Ten! Twenty I Five pounds! Fetch brown overalls ! Forsot iron the screen alone, can't ye?" " Bless mv 'eart. sir ! 'Era a on said a waiter, grinning, but compas sionate, for he had recognized me, even thus. " Take that thing out of the wav " roared the voice of authority. " Must do it, sir," explained the wait lhe heatables can't come by. Stop ! There's a wacant seat. 'Taint three steps off." mats mine," I groaned. " 'Ow luckv 1 Now iust vnn clin -iiIa as I shifts the screen, so's to purtect a if de to A you. Tuck the table-kiver well into your weskit, and nobody'll be the wiser. one, two, three, hott you go !" Off it was necessary to go, for he caught away my defenses, but extended the folding arms of the screen, so as nearly to touch the vacant seat, rn that instant, how I hardly knew, I found myself fairly seated at the board, the c - . 1 ... . iriend wno would nave accompanied me at my side. " You take it coolly, old fellow," re marked the latter. " I fancied that at these dinners punctuality " "i tane it coolly, very coolly," I re plied. "And it is for your sake I am doing so. May I ask you to spare me as much adjacent table-cloth as is com patible with your personal . conve nience?" "Table-cloth! Assuredly. But why? -.mere are reasons, nidden reasons. But of that hereafter. A glass of wine ! " " My friend is agitated. His manly fingers quiver. Something is amiss with Charteris," remarked my companion, in the sepulchral tone he is given to use when chaffing those he loves. Dicky Skelton, who never, so far as it is ascertained, had a relative in the world, dressed always in the deepest mourning. i e never laughs, outwardly. He is mirth itself, within. He has written burlesques by the score. To Skelton is due the evisceration of words that have baffled the skill of the most accomplished tormentors of the English language. " My tnend, confide in me." continued ajick, smacKing his lips, tor the .Lumpe ter Burgundy is not to be tasted every dar. Von ftro ill n.K Mao " day. You are ill at ease " At the knees. A trifle." " To remember one's troubles in such a scene is weak." " To forget one's trousers is madness." I whispered, with clenched teeth, in his ear. "One's !" ejaculated Skelton. faintly, as he turned upon me a counte nance naturally wan and lengthy, but now whitened and elongated with real aiarm. iou don't mean . Do I distinctly understand ?" Jcou understand mv reasons for re quiring as large a portion cf the table cloth as you can conveniently spare.' " Now this is very noteworthy, yes, it is reaiiy curious," remarked Mr. Skel ton, with more interest than sympathy " I do not remember having met with a precisely similar situation. A man may, indeed, forget an essential gar ment, lhe mind cannot always be dwelling on these outward things. But has he no friend ? Wife, servant, grand mother ? Is there no hand to bar his exit, no tongue to sav. 'Mv dear, mv very urar sir, return, renect. tjonsult, if not prevailing fashions, at least that warmth and comfort as needful to man as his daily food ?' Did none do this ?" L shook my head, and briefly re counted the cause and manner of my misioriune. My friend gazed at me sorrowfully " So lair above !" he murmured. " So well, so singular below! Who. now. in this brilliant assembly graced, as I perceive, with the presence of many beautiful (and giggling) women would imagine that you, sitting here so well got up, radiant with artificial mirth, are . tuna rP 'w;ifrt,'o s;nq l replied, curtly, that I accented the situation, as he was pleased to term it, with the calmness that seemed expe dient, and that having done all that man could do, I awaited the decrees of late, and the arrival of the waiter, to whom I had offered a sovereien to smuggle my overalls, at the first oppor tune moment. "Awfully lucky for vou. mv bov. there's to be no speech-making I" con tinued Skelton. " We would have had you on your defenseless legs in no time." Have you seen the toast list, gentle men ?" asked a portly member of the guild, on my left, as he politely offered card. There was a catalogue of at least twenty toasts, with names appended as proposers ; and, as proposing that of the guest of the evening, the Baron de Bete-Fauve, "Mr. Reginald Charteris!" At the same moment a note was placed in my hand. It was from the chairman. "Oblige us. We know vour ready eloquence. Baron struck with vour face and manner. Wishes to hear you speak. Touch up the lions." bnatchmg out my pencil-case I wrote : Throat impracticable. Uvula cut off this morning. Should create more as tonishment than interest if forced unon my legs." irthed-Jhatiteril was averted, fTsrysprrits rose as the merry feast pro ceeded, and I began to see more dis tinctly the humorous side of my little misadventure. xne atmosphere was warm and pleasant. Why, 1 had been present at many a dinner in the north where men dined, from preference, without their that is. in kilts. True, I had not exactly a kilt ; but, even were compelled to stand torth from my present retirement, the exhibition of knee, the publication of calf, would be no greater than is legally sanctioned within five hundred miles of this spot. Ha ! a sensation. " Pray silence," &c. Grace. " Non nobis." Then the usual loyal toasts, and we drank prosperity to several collateral branches of the reign ing house (the Lumpeters were nothing not loyal), before we arrived at the great toast of the evening the Baron Bete-Fauve. This was given by the chairman himself ; and, with the baron's r?p!y (in French), and counter proposi tion of the health of the ladies, was re ceived with the greatest enthusiasm. Tho excitement was just settling down, when "Hallo!" exclaimed Skelton. "what's up now ? Is any one expected, I won der ? They are putting a big chair next Bete-Fauve. It must be a swell. Can the Prince of " "I bee your pardon. Mr. Charteris " said the voice of the head-steward, who. lunuweu py iwo attendant waiters, had approached us unobserved. "The chair. sir, presents his compliments, and begs yuu win uo mm ana tne isaron de Bete Fauve the favor to occupy the seat that has been placed for you between them." My heart stood still. My hair rose. chill of horror shot through me. j.ne oaron, sir, speaks no English, and though him and the chair has been hard at it all dinner, neither of 'em has understood a word," said the steward, confidentially. " The chair, sir, and the company generally, added Mr. Feastful, with poetic exaggeration, " would 'ail with pleasure the spectacle of your in troduction to ine Daron." - ine Daron be " I know not what 1 was about to say. My voice fal tered. I had caught a glimpse of the fair occupants of the gallery, leaning over the balustrade in their eagerness to examine the favored individual for whom the chair of state had been so ostentatiously prepared, and a vision of myselt marching up the hall, clad in my abominable burlesque Chinese trou sers, the mark of every eye, almost made me reel in my chair. I shuddered, strove to speak, con ceived a wild thought of diving under the table, when, whishl with a lurid, fitful swirl, out went the enormous lus tre, with all tho miner lights following suit. We were in total darkness. I will not describe the confusion that succeeded, the screams of laughter from the gallery, the scramble and the crash below. Torches gleamed in ths door ways almost before we knew what had happened, and the accident that had occasioned the sudden extinction of our light was remedied within a few minutes. But, when ordered was restored, one chair stood vacant at that hospitable board ! Whether its occupant had been trampled under foot in the disorder, or had vanished with the light was never known. My private opinion is that while anxious inquiries were being made in the Lumpeters' Hall, the missing gentleman was warming his legs at his domestic hearth, sipping his crog. and smiling at the peril he had so narrowly escaped. All the rear Hound. Current Items. A Danburt, Conn., dog has learned to bring in eggs from the barn, and his delighted owner names him Leigh Hunt. A block of buildings on Eighth ave nue, between Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth streets, New York, was burned on Fri day morning. .Loss $75,000. A farm has just been sold in Con necticut, at Farmington, for which no deed was ever given. It was orieinallv l l-a r . V i i . . J uuugut irom me xndians, and has re mained m the same family for 232 years. Mb. Jones, of Earlville, 111., while using a crowbar to adjust some ma chinery of a corn-sheller while in full motion, on the 1st inBt., had the bar driven through his body. The iniurv was latai. j- . i - " An intelligent ttore cat in Boston im proves every lavorable opportunity to abstract a five cent nickel from the money drawer, and parrying it in his moutn to a Dutcner's shop near by, pur chases a "square meal." A Boston jury being instructed that. a. husband could recover damages for the ies oi nis wile proportioned to her use- tuiness, returned a verdict of six cents. And it is a good thin? for that name jury that the woman is dead. Nevada pays its schoolmasters $118.75. gold, a month, and its school $72.16. These are the highest average salaries in the Union. North Carolina contents itself with teachers valued at $20.50 and $18.50 respectively. In the suit of James P.Dennv against tne aew tors central railroad, claim ing $5,000 damages for ejectment from a train Decause or stopping over at a way station while traveling on a through ticket, a verdict of $250 was given the plaintiff. It is reported that a Boston landlord refrained from collecting rent from one of his tenants for several years that he might avoid payment of the income tax thereon, and that by the recent failure of the tenant -he has lost the entire sum, amounting to many thousand dol lars. In view of the fact that the Prince of Wales has always been an eminent pa tron of the London theaters, the prin cipal London actors have drawn up and had beautifully embossed on vellum an address to the Prince congratulatiog him upon his recovery fromhis recent illness. The Wilmington (N. C.) Star has the particulars of a curious marriage near Laurel Hill. A certain individual got tired of his wife, after living with her about fifteen years, and hired another man to take her over to South Carolina and marry her. civing him a mule nnd $55 in money to take her off his hands. At Kahoka, Clark county. Missouri. is preserved a copy of the Ulster County Record, of New York, published in 1799. ii. is a p iper izxis. Among the con tents are a report of Washington's fu neral, and the advertisement of a saw mill for sale at Rochester, in the stock of which i3 included " a stout, healthy, active negro wench.". Books. God be thanked for books ! Thev re the voices of the distant and dead. and make us heirs of the spiritual life of the past ages. Books are the true travelers. Ihev give to all who will faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence of the best and great est oi our race. sso matter how poor 1 am. No matter though the prosperous of my own time will not enter my ob scure dwelling. If the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode un der my roof, if Milton will cross my threshold and sing- to me of Paradise. Shakspeare open to me worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual compan ionfhip; and I may Uecome a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the nlace Channing. A company has been formed at Vic toria for killing fur seals in Alaska, out side of the territory controlled by the Alaska Fur Company. The raw skins are worth in London $18, but under the present combination only gell for forty cents in Alaska, David Davis. A Washington correspondent of the ouicago ATxoune writes as tollows con cerning Associate Justice Davis of the United States Supreme Court, the Labor jveiorm nominee lor President : Many foolish and vague things the Labor Reformers have done, but not this time. The friend and executor of Abraham .Lincoln is not a character to be pooh-poohed in this alert and grate ful period of the world, and the re markable unanimity with which the journals of the South have hailed it, shows that the great Illinoian's charac ter's not lightly esteemed in the section which will be largest benefited by his numanity and decision as a ruler. David Davis, to look upon, is a larse. portly man the very heaviest and most solid object which ever approached the Executive pedestal of the Republic. If elected, he will be the largest ruler of tne world in avoirdupois, lie weighs nearly 300 pounds, and the colors of liis hair, skin, and eyes indicate a physical ueann oi iiKe strength and substantial ity. His hair is thick, short, and iron- gray, his skin clear and ruddy, and his eyes bright, keen and bluish-gray. He wears the dress of a simple, unaffected citizen, lives plainly and simply, enjoys iiie it nappens, nKe a philosopher. feet health, tone and steady habits. As a Justice, he is one of the moBt attentive "iw Kuvfu ujntsswon. ana nas vprv nor. and considerate on the Bench, with strong " horse-sense " of citizen -piiVt, and privileges ; and there is probably no man in the land more perfectly and iy picaiiy an American. Bribery as a Fine Art. borne curious evidence has arrived from New Orleans to show the tactics of tho Warmouth men when it was desira- able to make Pmchback President of the Senate. The following was one of tne arrangements made with Senator Lewis : New Orleans, Jan. 19, 1972. lhe agreement shows that a box haa been deposited in the Louisiana Savings Bank by two persons known to the Jf resident thereof: that the said box contains, in cash and other values. $15,000, and that the same is to be de livered only on the joint order of the parties depositing it, except as herein after provided, the one being a State Senator agrees to regularly attend the sessions of the State Senate at the Me chanics' Institute, to vote to sustain Pinchback as President of the Senate. and on all political questions with the party sustaining the State Administra tion a3 now existing, and on the 4th of iu.arcn next, or when the Legislature ad journs, the said box shall be withdrawn from the bank and the $15,000 therein contained be taken out and be the prop erty of the said Senator, he having ful filled his part of the agreement ; other wise tne said dox and all its contents to be withdrawn by the other party. Fossil Elephants in Alaska. It has been generally supposed by scientific men that the fossil elephant C LI 1 1 1 ... . ' oi oiuena nad no representative in the same latitude on this continent. Re cent examinations on the Yukon river in Alaska, however, have established the fact that the remains are even more plentiful on the west than on the east side ot. the North Pacific. Enormous oi cones are iouna, and a supply of ivory sufiicient to last the world for centuries. The valleys of all the streams and all the low grounds are failed with bones and tusks, so that every vessel now arrivmg from these remote possessions has part of its cargo maue up oi tnese new-iound remains. The elephant, whose range was former. ly almost universal, is now confined to a small portion ot Africa and Asia, and it wouid seem as it the species was in process of slow extinction. Neither Europe nor America, which once swarmed with them, has now either a climate or vegetation fitted to their ex istence. Their remains, however, are likely to give Alaska a value not pre viously suspected. Keep Files of Your Love Letters. The multiplicity of breach of promise suits during the last few years is fast establishing a host of precedents, which will serve to regulate hereafter the al ways granted damages. It is curious to note these attempts to reduce emotions to a cash valuation. It is the general practice for maids and widows all forlorn to file the love letters of the perfidious man, in order that the jury may gather from their inanity the depth of his affection, but it has been reserved for a delicately-organized, sensitive Indiana maiden to file her own letters as well. so that the jury could see the intensity oi ner love, and transmute each heart throb and soul-thrill into the more prac tical form of dollars and cents. It is at best a queer love that seeks to soothe its wounds by plastering them over with greenbacks, and it is difficult to see how any amount of money can recompense a true woman for the in evitable publicity and scandal that a plaintiff in such a suit must endure. Cheap Iron Dwellings. An English firm is doing quite an ex tensive business in supplying Austria with iron dwelling houses, manufac tured in England and set up at short notice by English mechanics wherever the purchaser desires. The houses that are most in demand are those which have two, four or six rooms, the pur chasers being generally the better class of Austrian artisans. The great want of the advanced workingmen of the large continental cities has long been for small, comfortable dwellings, and this want is being rapidly met by the intro duction of the English houses of iron, which are not only warm, strong and reasonably elegant, but cheaper than can be built in Vienna, at least of any domestic material. This seems curious when there are taken into account all charges incidental upon the cost of ma terial, construction, carriage and cus tom house duties, and it suggests that the enterprise might be made to pay in this country, especially in the neigh borhood of the iron and coal fields. The iron houses of America are, with very few exceptions, large and costly, no attempt having been made to intro duce dwellings for workmen. at Farm and Garden. The Value of Corn Cobs. Considera ble discussion has recently arisen in ag ricultural journals and at farmers1 meetings upon the nutritive value of com cobs when ground and fed to ani mals. It is a very common practice among larmers to grind the whole ears of corn, and feed the product to milch cows, working oxen, and often to horses. This plan we have adopted to a considerable extent at our farm, but we have had some misgivings as to the utility or advisability of the practice. With the view of ascertaining as nearly as practicable the exact nutritive value of the cobs, we selected a nice ear of Lakeside corn from a bundle hanging in our counting room, and removing the kernels, subjected the cob to analysis. It gave of Water 78 Crude fibre . .. 30.95 Ash i i Carbohydrates, fat, and albuminoids 60.41 " 100.00 lhe amount of fat was not accurately determined, but it was proved to be more than one per cent. The amount of water is probably smaller than it would have been had the corn been taken directly from the grain house, in stead of the warm room in which it had been hanging for some weeks. The re sults of the analysis prove that there is in corn cobs a considerable amount of fat-producing and flesh-forming constit uents. In the sixty per cent, of carbo hydrates, albuminoids, fat, etc.,- are found the elements which have nutritive value, and in order that we may obtain some idea of its comparative worth, let us contrast it with the dry straw of some grains. Wheat straw contains about 30 per cent, of carbohydrates, 2 per cent, of albuminoids, and 1 per cent, of fat : oat straw, 38 per cent, of the first-named substances, 2J of the second, and 2 of the third; rye straw, 27 of the first, 11 of ine second, and l 3-IU ot the third. It is shown that cobs have a higher value than wheat or rye straw, and they equal in nutritive constituents the best quality of oat straw. J hese results indicate the utility of ieeuing tnem to our animals, provided there are no objections of a strictly physical nature, or objections arising ircin duik ana aimcuity or reducing the cob to a sufficiently fine powder. It is not probable that cob meal can be per fectly digested unless comminution is 1" 1 1, . 1 - nr. . , It . . . . carried to an extreme point, and there fore the finer the cobs are ground, the higher the value, and the less the lia bility of gastric disturbance. It is cer tain we do not give sufficient attention to the matter of grinding any of the grains fed to the animals. They should be ground as fine as possible, in order that they may be easy of digestion, and in order that the nutritive substances may be fully utilized. There is a posi tive loss in feeding out coarsely ground grains of any kind, and in grinding the cob with the corn, give special attention to the work of comminution. The corn in the ear should be thoroughly dry be fore it is carried to mill, and there will De less dithculty in reducing it to a fine powder. Boston Journal of Chemistry. Soil for the Potato. Almost anv well- drained soil will do. A clay loam is probably the best. It is the best as it is cool and. moist, two characteristics which the potato requires, and which are not so readily obtainable with sand or gravel. But the land wants to be mellow, and deeply mellow ; this to se cure the one quality, moisture, which, in our droughty summers is generally found lacking ; it must not lack with the potato. Hence deep culture, and when the soil is in condition to make it most mellow, the state between the dry and wet, always avoiding the wet, the dry not important in the fall, so that the land can be well plowed. And the fall is the time, and good at that. The soil must be re plowed with the first chance in the spring; it cannot be done too early, providing it is dry enough and the sod is well rotted, which it will be if the plowing has been done early enough in the fall. This is important, this early work, so aa to give chance for early planting, for it should understood, if it is not, that the po-1 tato cannot be planted too early. With j the nrst mellow soil this should be done. Plow not only, but cultivate and harrow, so as to get the soil a powdery ! mellow, which the rotten turf will lavor. Hints for the Housewife. Washing Woolens. If you do not wish to have white flannel shrink when j washed, make a good suds of hard soap. : and wash the flannel in it, withou rub- j bing any soap on them j rub theni out in another suds, then wring them out of it, and put them in a clean tub, and turn on sufficient boiling water to cover them. A little indigo in the boiling wa ter makes the flannels look nicer. If you wish to have your flannels shrink, so as to have them thick, wash them in soft soap suds, and rinse them in cold water. lxlored woolens that incline to fade should be washed in beef's gall and warm water before they are put into soap-suds. Colored pantaloons look very well washed with beefs gall and fair warm water, and pressed on the wrong side while damp. liice budding. lake one teacup of rice, one teaspoon ful salt, add water and boil until tender; remove frem the fire; add one quart sweet milk, two or more eggs, small half cup butter, a small tea cup sugar, half a nutmeg, and bake. To be eaten warm or cold. Raspberries. Do not uncover too soon. Plant as soon as the weather will permit. setting the plants four feet each apart. Injudicious Brutality. The execution by blowing from the mouth of cannon sixty-five out of eighty nine prisoners, captured by the English Kolta Mair, Hindostan, is condemned by the colonial papers as a needless piece of cruelty. The act was perpetra ted in a native state and not on colonial soil, and was foolish as well as barbarous. The Times (of India) predicts that it will give a population of not less than 100,000 men already hostile and fana tical an excuse for attacks upon the British Government and colonists which may cause serious consequences in the future. The shipping of oysters to Enilandjis proving very profitable. Hidden. 0 blupbes, rise not to my cheek ; 0 tell-tale eyes be clear end cay ; 0 lips no warmer language rpeak To him than simply yea and nay. 0 heart 1 in thy most deep reccas, . , Be safely, surely hid away . This secret, that he may not guess. They call me besnfiful ; alas ! ' - , By him uncared for, what eare I ? Once I knelt down and kissed the grass His foot had pressed in passing by ; A little common buttercup That he bad ernshed and left to die. Still for his sake I treasured np. 0 teoder Father I is is sin To love Thy noblest creatures thus. ' " Although no answering love we win ? Art Thau not ever leading usl And hast Thou sent this love to me. To calm my heart tumultuous. And guide me, through my grief, to Thee 7 0 let me love him to the end -Most purely : and percbanea tone day He'll take my hand and oall me friend. When time for lore is pased away i : When eyes that shine when he is near Are dim ; when golden looks are gray? And Death, the angel, draweth near. Varieties. "Bugle paint" is the concentrated slang for frontier whisky. Qcert for Spiritualists Are low spir its less than medium sighs? j Sherman's march to tho See his visit to the Pope. Lowell Courier. . Wht is a muff like a fool t ' Because it holds a lady's hand without squeezing it- . - . . :. How is it known that Adam and Eve were disorderly after they, left Eden T Because they raised Cain. - ' If you would be pungent be brief; for it is with words as with -sunbeams the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self ; . but unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels. Am Irishman, just landed, was asked what party he belonged to. " Party is it t" said he ; "I suppose you've got a government? Thin I'm agin it." , With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought ; they mistake buttercups in the grass for im measurable gold mines under ground. A greenhorn was offered at a public dinner a plate of maccaroni soup, but declined it, declaring that they f could not play any boiled pipe-stems on him." Halt the Borrows of women would be averted, if they could repress the speech they know to be useless aa-Ji the speech they had resolved not to utter. " Mat it pleas your honor," exclaimed a juryman, " I am deaf in one rear." " Then you may be excased, aa it is necessary for a juror to hear both sides," said the judge. Coxpetenct means, to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportuni ties of education, the delights ot leisure, and the bliss of giving. . Tex St. . Louis girls were so badly frightened by the experience of one of their number who dislocated her neck while resisting a kiss, that they.- now hold their lips in the softest and most comfortable position whenever they see a man anywhere near. ' A youth who applied for a mar- riage license in Cambridge. Mass.. the other day. was reminded by the clerk of two previous applications, and said : " Yes ; but the other two girls didn't know I wanted to get married till I showed them the document this one does." He got the paper. There is nothing so affecting in a child as a certain sweet inborn spirit of self-abnegation. Sammy was a little boy, at school in a village far from his home. One day his father came to see him, and they took a walk together. Meeting the principal of the school, Sammy per formed the ceremony of introduction. "Mr. S.," said he, " this is a father of mine." Consequential Damages. If England has to pay our modest consequential claims, she can reap a rich reward therefore by filing a little bill against France. When Franklin met Silas Deane in Paris, in 1776, the two rebels built and equipped a fleet of privateers against England, while France was at peace with her. The losses they caused were enormous. Silas Deane wrote to Eobert Morris : " We have alarmed England, stopped the great fair at Chester, raised the rates of insurance, and deferred the English merchants ' from employing the national flag, so th atTfaere has beeuBeen7aartHg -th e last few weeks, the singular spectacle of forty French vessels loading in the Thames with English merchandise.". Conyngham and Paul Jones won their victories in vessels built and armed at Havre and Brest. 'If it had not been for the aid of France in ships, clothing, arms, men, and, above all, money, dur ing the two years before she acknowl edged our independence, there would have been no independence to acknowl edge at that time. The war wojld have been ended by our defeat, if conse quential damages are a valid claim, how much ought England to demand from France? A Prudent Husband. For presence ot mind and prudence of conduct, Mr. Byrne, of Brooklyn, has probably few equals. On Tuesday last, on entering his house, he found Mrs. Byrne hanging by the neck do-. mestic difficulties, combined with gin, having induced her to seek solace in suicide. The impulsive man who should find his wife in. such peculiar circum stances would naturally hasten to cut her down. Not so the cool and pru dent Byrne. He calmly felt her pulse and otherwise assured himself that she was quite dead, and then leisurely called in his neighbors to witness the specticle. When asked why he did not cut her down at once, he replied that he did not care to incur the sua picion of having choked her, but felt that no possible suspicion could attach to him were his neighbors to find her still hanging. Evidently Mr. Byrne sets a high value upon his character, and we need not expect to find him en tangled in any difficulties which pru dence and forethought can avert.