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J. R. GROVE & 4. R. ODER,
VOLUME I.
Tlirec lif'scs of Farewell.
Three, only three, tny darling,
Separate. solemn, slow:
Not like tin - IVift and joyous ones
We used t-. know
When we ki -sed in cause we loved each other
Simply to taste love's sweet.
And lavished our kisses us the summer
Lavishes heat, —
lint as they kiss whose hearts are wrung,
When hope anti fear are spent.
And nothing is left to give, except
A sacrament!
First of the three, tny darling.
Is sacred unto pain:
We have hurt each other often ;
We shall again.
When we pine because we miss each other,
And do not understand
How the written words are so much colder
Than eye and hand.
> kiss thee. dear, for all such pain
Which we may give or take;
Ituricd, forgiven before it eotnes
For our love’s sake!
The second kiss, my darling,
is full of joy's s\\ cet til rill:
Wr have blessed each other always ;
Wo always will.
We shall reach until we feel each other.
Past till of time and space ;
We shall listen till we hear each other
In every place;
The earth is full of messengers,
W bich love sends to anti fro :
T kiss thee, darling, for all joy
Which we shall know.
The last kiss, oh. my darling.
My love--1 cannot see
Through try tears, as I remember
Wlmt it may lie.
We may die and never seo eaoh other.
Die, with no time to give
Any signs that our hearts are faithful
To die, as live.
Token of what they wii! not seo
Who see our parting breath.
This rue last kiss, my darling, seals
The, seal of death 1
THE ROSEIH I) AM) (JOSSAMEIt.
A FAIRV TAPE.
As un honest woodman was sitting one
evening, after his work was done, talk
ing with his wife, lie said, “ I hope the
children will not run into that grove by
the side of the river; it looks more
gloomy than ever ; the old oak tree is
sadly blasted and torn : and some odd
folks, I am sure, are lurking about there,
but who they are, nobody knows.” The
woodman, however, could not say that
they brought ill-luck, whatever they
weio : for every one said that the village
Dad thriven more than ever of late;
ibat the fields looked gayer and greener:
that even the sky was of a deeper blue,
and that the moon and stars shed a
brighter light. So, not knowing wliat
to think, the good people very wisely
•el the new comers alone, ami, in truth,
seldom said or thought anything at all
about them.
That very evening, the woodman’s
daughter Rosebud, and her playfellow
Martin, ran out to have a game of hide
and-seek in the valley. “Where can he
hi' hidden?” said site : “he must have
gone toward the grove ; perhaps lie is
behind the old oak tree;” and down
she ran to look. .Fust then she spied a
little dog that jumped and frisked
round her, ami wagged his tail, and led
her on toward the grove. Then he ran
into it, and she soon jumped up the
bunk by the side of the old oak tree to
look for-him : but was overjoyed to see
.! beautiful meadow, where tlowers anti
s hrubs of every kind grew upon turf of
!he softest green; gay butterflies flew
out; the birds sang sweetly; and,
what was strangest, the prettiest little
children sported about like fairies on all
•itles; some twining the flowers, and
ethers dancing in rings upon the smooth
urf beneath the trees: In the midstof
■ no grove, instead of the hovels of which
Rosebud liad heard, she could see a pal
op. that dazzled her eyes with its bright
ness.
For a while she gazed on the fairy
scene, till at last one of the little
dancers ran up to her, and said, “And
<o pretty Rosebud, you are come at last
to see us ? We have often seen you
play about, and wished to liaveyouwitli
us.” 'Then site plucked some of the
fruit that grew near, and Rosebud at the
first taste forgot her home, and wished
only to see and know more of her fairy
friend'. So she jumped down the bank
and joined the merry dance.
Then they led her about with them,
and showed her all their sports. One
while they danced by moonlight on the
primrose hanks, at another time they
'kipped from hough to bough, among
the trees that hung over the cooling
streams, for they moved as lightly and
easily through the air as on the ground ;
and Rosebud went with them every
where, for they bore her in their arms
lierever they wished to go. Some
times they would throw seeds on the
turf, and little trees would spring up;
and then they would set their feet upon
the branches, and rise as the trees grew
under them, till they danced upon the
houghs in the air, wherever the breezes
carried them, singing merry songs.
At other times they would go and visit
the palace of their queen; and there
the richest food was spread before them,
and the softest music was heard; and
all around grew flowers, which were al
ways cluing their hues, from scarlet to
purple, and yellow, and emerald. Some
: mtes they went to look at the heaps of
t manure which were piled up in the royal
ires ; for little dwarfs werealways cm
i oyed in searching the earth for gold.
■■ nail as this fairy land looked from
without, it seemed within to have no
end; a mist hung around it to shield it
horn the eyes of men ; and some of the
it tie elves sat perched upon the outer
most trees, to keep watch lest the step
i man should break in and spoil the
charm.
“ And who are you ?” said Rosebud
one day. “We are what are called elves
in your world,” said one whose name
was Gossamer, and who had become her
dearest friend ; “we are told you talk
a great deal about us. Some of our
tribes like to work you mischief, hut we
who live here seek only to he happy ;
we meddle little with mankind, and
when we do come among them it is only
to do them good." “ And where is your
queen?” said Rosebud. “Hush! hush!
you cannot see or know her ; you must
leave us before she conies back, which
will he now very soon, for mortal step
cannot come where she is. But you will
know that she is here when you see the
i\ 'adovys gayer, the rivers more spark
ing, and the sun brighter.”
•Soon afterward Gossamer told Rose
bud the time was come to hid her fare
well ; and she gave her a ring in token
el her friendship, and led her to the
e Ige of the grove. “ Think of me,”
t id she; “but beware how you tell
what you have seen, or try to visit us
again: for if you do, we shall quit this
grove and come back no more.” Turn
ing hack, Rosebud saw nothing but the
old oak and the gloomy grove she had
known before. “ How frightened my
father and mother will be!” thought
she, as she looked at the sun, which had
risen some time. “They will wonder
where I have been all night, and yet I
must not tell them what 1 liave seen.’
Then she hastened homeward, won
dering, however, as she went, to see
that the leaves, which were yesterday
so fresh and green, were now falling dry
and yellow around her. The cottage,
too, seemed changed: and when she
went in, there sat her father, looking
some years older than when she saw
him last, ami her mother, whom she
hardly knew, was by liis side. Close by
was a young man. *• Father,” said
Rosebud, “who is this?” “ Who are
you that calls me fattier?” said he;
“are you—no, you cannot be—our long
lost Rosebud?” But they soon saw that
it was their Rosebud; and the young man,
who was her old friend and playfellow
Martin, said, “No wonder you had for
gotten me in seven years ; do you not
remember how we parted, seven years
ago, while playing in tiie Add? We
thought you were quite lost; hut I am
glad to see that some one has taken
care of you and brought you home at
last. " Rosebud said nothing, for she
could not tell all; hut she wondered at
the strange Dale, and felt gloomy at the
change from fairy land to her father’s
cottage.
Little by little she came to herself,
thought of her story as a mere dream,
and soon became Martin’s bride. Ev
erything seemed to thrive around them,
and Rosebud thought of her friends, and
so called lie ■ first little girl Ellie. The
little thing was loved by every one. It
was pretty and very good-tempered.
Rosebud thought that it was very like
a little elf; and, all without knowing
why, called it the fairy-child.
One day, while Rosebud was dressing
her little Elfie, she found a piece of gold
hanging around her neck by a silken
thread ; and knew it to he of tiie same
sort as she had seen in the hands of tiie
fairy dwarfs. Elsie seemed sorry at its
being seen, and Baid that she had found
it in the garden. But Rosebud watched
her, and soon found that she went every
afternoon to sit by herself in a shady
place behind the house. So one day
she hid herself to see what the child did
there, and to her great wonder Gossa
mer was silting by her side. “ Dear
Elfie,” she was saying, “your mother
and 1 used to sit thus when site was
young and lived among us. Uh, if you
could hut come and do so too. But
since our queen came to us it cannot
he; yet 1 will come and see you and
talk to you whilst you are a child;
when you grow up we must part for
ever." Then she plucked one of the
roses that grew around them, and
breathed gently upon it, anti said,
“ Take this for my sake ; it will now
keep fresh for a whole year.”
Then Rosebud loved her little Elfie
more than ever ; and when she found
that she spent some hours of almost
every day with the elf, she used to hide
herself and watch them without being
seen : till one day, when Gossamer was
hearing her little friend through the air
from tree to tree, her mother was so
frightened lest her child should fall,
that she could not help screaming out;
and Gossamer set her gently on tiie
ground, and seemed angry, and flew
away. But still she used sometimes to
come and play with her little friend;
and would soon, perhaps, have done so
the same as before, had not Rosebud
one day told her husband the whole
story: for she could not hear to hear
him always wondering and laughing at
their little child's odd ways, and saying
he was sure there was something in the
grove that brought them no good. So,
to show him that all she said was true,
she took him to see Elfie and the fairy ;
hut no sooner did Gossamer know that
he was there (which she did in an in
stant), than she changed herself into a
raven and flew off into the grove.
Rosebud burst into tears, anil so did
Elfie, for she knew that she should see
her dear friend no more ; but Martin
was restless and bent upon following
up his search after the fairies, so when
night came he stole away towaid tiie
grove. When he came to it nothing
was to he seen hut the old oak, and the
gloomy grove, and the hovels; and the
thunder rolled, and the wind whistled.
It seemed that all about him was angry.
So ho turned homeward, frightened at
what he had done.
In the morning all the neighbors
flocked around, asking one another
what the noise and hustle of the last
night could mean; and when they
looked about them their trees seemed
blighted and the meadows parched ; the
streams were dried up, and everything
seemed troubled anil sorrowful.
But yet they all thought that, some
how or other, the grove had not near so
forbidding a look as it used to have.
Strange stories were told : how one had
heard flutterings in the air, another had
seen the grove alive, as it were, with
little beings, that flew away irom it.
Each neighbor told his tale, and all
wondered what could have happened.
But Rosebud and her husband knew
what was the matter, and bewailed
their folly ; for they foresaw that their
kind neighbors, to whom they owed all
their luck, were gone forever.
Among the bystanders none told a
wilder story than the old ferryman,who
plied across the river at the foot of the
grove. He told how at midnight his
boat was carried away, and how hun
dreds of little beings -seemed to load it
with treasures ; how a strange piece of
gold was left for him in tho boat as his
(are ; how the air seemed full of fairy
form fluttering around ; how at last a
great train passed over, that seemed to
he guarding their leader to the meadows
on the otlier side ; and how he heard
soft music floating overhead ; and sweet
voices that sang mournfully a sad song
of farewell.
Poor Elfie mourned their loss the
most, and would spend whole hours
in looking upon the rose that her play
fellow had given her, and singing over
it the pretty air that she had taught
her; till at length, when the year's
charm had passed away, and it began
to fade, she planted the stalk in her
garden, and there it grew, till she could
sit under the shade of it, and think of
her friend Gossamer.— Lady's Journal.
The wife is the sun of the social sys
tem. Unless she attracts there is noth
ing to keep heavy bodies like husbands
from flying off into space.
An Independent Paper—Devoted to Literature. Minina;, Commercial, Agricultural, General and Local News.
FRO STB l RG, ALLEGANY COUNTY. MARYLAND, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1871.
Standing Committees iff the Senate.
The following is a list of the Standing
Commit tees of the Senate for the pres
ent session of Con r resß :
Privileges and Elections —Sumner, Chair
man; Morton, Rice, Carpenter, Logan, Hill
an<l Thurman.
Foreign Relations —Cameron, Chairman;
Harlan, Morton, Patterson, Schurz, Hamlin
ami Casserly.
Finance —Sherman, Chairman; Morrill of
Vermont, Fenton, c-cott, Ames, Wright and
Bayard.
Appropriations— Cole,Chairman; Sprague,
Sawyer, Edmunds, Windom, West and Ste
venson.
Commerce —Chandler, Chairman; Corbett,
Kellogg, Spencer, Buckingham, Conkling
and Vickers.
Manufactures —Hamlin, Chairman; Rob
ertson, Sprague, Gilbert and Johnson.
Agriculture —Moiton, Chairman; Freling
huysen, Robertson, Lewis, and Davis of West
Virginia.
Military Affairs —Wilson, Chairman ;
Cameron, Morton, Ames, Logan, West and
Blair.
Naval AJf'iirs —Cragin, Chairman; An
thony, Nyo,Osborne, Ferry of Michigan,and
Alcorn of Mississippi.
Judiciarg —Trumbull, Chairman; Ed
munds,Conkling, Carpenter, F ’elinghuysen,
Pool and Thurman.
Post Offices and Post Roads —Ramsey,
Chairman: Pomeroy, Gilbert, Cole, Hamlin,
Ferry of Michigan, Kelley.
Public Lands —Pomeroy, Chairman; Tip
ton, Osborne, Sprague, Windom, Logan and
Casserly.
Private Land Claims —Davis of Kentucky,
Chairman; Perry of Connecticut, Caldwell,
Bayard, Blair.
Indian Affairs —Ilarlau, Chairman; Cor
bett, Buckingham, Frelinghuysen, Wilson,
Caldwell, Davis of Kentucky.
Pensions —Edmunds, Chairman; Tipton,
Pratt, Brownlow, Hamilton of Texas, Logan,
Saulsbury.
Revolutionary Claims —Poole, Chairman;
Brownlow, Corbett, llill, Davis of West
Virginia.
Claims —Howe, Chairman ; Scott, Pratt,
Stewart, Bore man, Davis of West Virginia.
District of Columbia —Patterson, Chair
man ; Sumner, Lewis, Spencer, Sawyer,
Hitchcock, Vickers.
Patents —Ferry, of Conn., Chairman ; Car
penter. Morrill, of Maine; Windom, Hamil
ton, of Maryland.
Public Jiuildings and Grounds —Morrill, of
Vermont, Chairman ; Trumbull, Cole, Sum
ner, Stockton.
Territories —Nyo, Chairman; Crogin,.
Schurz, Boreman, Hitchcock, Clayton, and
Cooper.
Pacific Railroads —Stewart, Chairman;
Ramsey, Harlan, Rice, Fenton, Scott, Kel
logg, Hitchcock, Cooper, Ferry, of Michi
gan ; and Kelly.
Mines and Mining —Rico, Chairman ;
Chandler, Flanagan, Tipton, Caldwell, Al
corn, Saulsbury.
Revision of the Laws of the United States —
Conkling, Chairman; Carpenter, Stewart,
Wright, and Hamilton, of Maryland.
Education and Labor —Sawyer, Chairman ;
Morrill, of Vermont; Flanagan, Patterson,
and Johnson.
To Audit and Control Contingent Expenses
of the Senate —Fenton, Chairman ; Windom
and Saulsbury.
Printing —Anthony, Chairman ; llowoand
Casserly.
Library —-Morrill, of Maine, Chairman ;
Howe and Sherman.
Engrossed Rills —Buckingham, Chairman ;
Clayton and Davis, of West Virginia.
Enrolled Bills —Carpenter, Chairman ;
Lewis and Kelly.
Select Committee on Revision of Rules —
Pomeroy, Chairman; Edmumds and Bay
ard.
Removal of Political Disabilities -Robert
son, Chairman ; Boreman, Ames, Hamilton,
of Texas; Vickers, Clayton, ami Stevenson.
On Levees of the Mississippi- Kellogg,
Chairman; Trumbull, Seliurz, Alcorn, and
Blair.
Alleged Outrages in the Southern States —
Scott, Chairman; Chandler, Rice, Pool,
Pratt, Bayard, and Blair.
Dr. Sunnier Prescribes.
Senator Sumner has introduced a
new bill to facilitate a return to specie
payments. llis plan is to issue every
month ten millions of interest-bearing
legal tender notes, similar to those that
were issued in 1863 and 1864, and to
cancel a like amount of greenbacks, the
process to go on till all the greenbacks
have been thus replaced. The new
notes, he proposes, shall bear a 5 per
cent, interest, and shall be paid in coin
at the end of three years, or converted
into 5 per cent, bonds at the option of
the Government. By this means, Mr.
Sumner thinks, resumption could be
reached without shock to business, or
serious disturbance of prices. The new
notes would follow the course of the
similar notes issued during the war.
They would first pass for currency for
two or three months, until a sufficient
amount of interest had accumulated on
them to make it an object for people to
hoard them. They would then disap
pear from circulation. The constant
retirement of the interest notes would
steadily lessen the volume of currency
remaining in circulation, and bring it
nearer to gold value, until it would
finally reach par. Resumption would
then take place, and all the hoards of
gold and silver in the country would
become a part of the circulating me
dium, preventing any injurious contrac
tion resulting from the completion of
tho process of withdrawing the green
backs, which, in about three years,
would all be converted into interest
notes and bonds. Mr. Sumner’s plan
has the approval of many eminent
financiers, bankers, and business men
in New England.
Lucifer Matches.
The invention of the lucifer match
was recently claimed by an English
chemist, Mr. Isaac Holden, in his evi
dence before the Patent Committee of
Parliament. The production of this
most useful and at the same time s most
dangerous fire-work, it is said, was due
to a happy thought which flashed
through the brain of Mr. Holden. This
gentleman was obliged to rise very early
in the morning to pursue his chemical
studies, and experienced great annoy
ance from his tedious efforts to strike a
light by means of flint and steel. lie
was giving lectures at the time to a very
large academy. Mr. Holden says that
he knew the ordinary explosive material
necessary to produce instantaneous light,
but that it was very difficult to obtain a
flame on wood by that explosive mate
rial. The idea then occurred to him to
place sulphur under tho explosive sub
stance, and the expedient proved en
tirely successful. The experiment was
exhibited in Mr. Holden’s lecture-room,
and a young man present immediately
wrote to his father, a chemist in Lon
don, in reference to the discovery, and
shortly afterwards, it is stated, lucifer
matches were manufactured and offered
for sale.
Motto for a sho^ —“ Come to the
scratch.”
KEMCS OF THE (iIICA(U) HUE.
TliHr Muniifurturo—A Itlunciini for thrir
rrr*<rrvniioii Somr Ani.W* which might
Imi ( outriliiitiMl u* Clinrnrti'i'lMtir Tokens.
From the ChicAffo Timon of I>pc. 10.
The Chicago fire relics are just now
the most numerous in the world, infi
nitely more so than pieces of the cruci
fix on which our Savior died, which are
encountered in Italy. In point of num
ber, they surpass the Homan coins in
the British Museum, or the tablets,
statues, and mosaics that Pompeii and
Herculaneum have resurrected. They
are more interesting in this numerous
feature than they are in any intrinsic
merit of their own. This fact has been
duly appreciated in Milwaukee, where
they have already established a manu
factory of Chicago relics that is doing a
larger business than Milwaukee ever
hoped to obtain.
Milwaukee may do a smashing trade
in a certain line of Chicago relics. They
can probably manufacture paper weights
by fusing papers of tacks together, or
can melt beads into a heterogeneous
mass; they can spoil old crockery by a
blow pipe combination, and otherwise
imitate the articles of “ bigotry and vir
tue” which are supposed to be all that
is left of Chicago as it was. There are
other relics of Chicago, however, which
Milwaukee can never hope to achieve.
There are relics of Chicago trade and
Chicago energy that Milwaukee Will
never be able to imitate. Among the
rarest relics are greenbacks. For a few
flays subsequent to the fire, and before
the banks opened, a $lO government
bill looked as big as a bed blanket.
After the banks opened there were
greenbacks enough, but their p is
relics was taken by checks. A s.gued
and certified check was so rarely seen
that it promised to become as much of
a curiosity as Mahlon Ogden's house or
Mr. McCagg’s conservatory, on the
North Side. Charred currency was one
the most deceptive of all the relics
the fire turned out. The more you had
of it the less it was worth. If you sent
a thousand dollars’ worth of it to Wash
ington, you would be pretty sure to get
back about seven dollars and a half—
the remainder being national bank
currency which the government kuows
too much to redeem.
About as uncomfortable a relic as the
tire left was a safe. Unlike Mrs.
'Poodles’ door-plate, with the name of
Thompson, and her cotlin, it is not a
handy tiling to have in the house. The
suggestion for a monument of safes was,
therefore, greedily accepted oy all men
who were so unfortunate as to be the own
ers of these iron instances of incon
stancy. The only objection to this
scheme for a monument of safes is
that, it another great lire should come,
it would probably bv among the first
things to be destroyed. If it is desira
ble to have a monument of the great
conflagration, which shall lie fire proof,
it would probably be surer to build it of
papier maehe.
A good relic of the fire is an insur
ance policy. Tt is worth more as a relic
than it is as a policy. There will also
be no difficulty in keeping it. It would
be the last thing on earth that anybody
would ever steal. An insurance policy
in a Chicago company would he a good
thing to throw in among your papers of
value. Tt would he burglar-proof. If a
thief should ever come across it he
would drop the whole mass as valueless.
If a Chicago insurance policy is better
for one thing than it is for another, it is
better as a relic than it is for kindling
a fire; as a rule, it is too hard and tough
to serve for the latter purpose.
Among the most dilapidated relics of
the conflagration was that numerous
anatomical specimen, usually preserved
in spirits, that is sometimes known as
“ hummer ” and sometimes as “ scala
wag.” The fire cleaned out this class of
individuals so completely that one of
them will henceforth he regarded as the
greatest curiosity of this community.
It might he an interesting, and cer
tainly a highly patriotic proceeding to
gather together into a museum oi the
Area relic from each of the most prom
inent institutions and buildings of the
city. A few suggestions may contribute
to give this movement some practical
shape.
From the Tribune building might be
taken that historic cockroach which
seemed to be about the only live thing
about the establishment. If something
more characteristic were desired, and
the museum building should prove to
sufficiently strong to bear up under (he
weight, one of the editorials of that
paper—select any one for the past four
years —would indicate something of the
ponderosity of the institution.
From the Times establishment there
would he so many good things to select
that it would be difficult to hunt its
representative. It would be most char
acteristic, perhaps, to select one of the
religious articles of the Sunday edition
criticizing the worldly and profane
course of the daily editions, or a chapter
on the horrible crime of abortion, as
practiced in this city before the fire.
In the matter of the Mail, Republican,
Post, and Journal, their entire edition for
one day might be gathered in without
taking up any room to speak of.
The theatres would furnish some in
teresting relics. Crosby’s Opera-House
might possibly contribute some blonde
wigs, a good many short skirts, a few
pads for the limbs, and one or two
Theodore Thomas tickets. McVicker
could spare some of the brass horns he
used to have in his orchestra, and a mo
del for the most cosy auditorium in the
country- From Wood’s Museum might
he bottled one of thoseancient and fisli
like smells that used to come up from
the regions below, and a lady’s hand
kerchief to he used alternately in pro
tecting the nose from this onslaught,
and in “smashing” the young men in
the parquet. From llooley’s might he
transmitted Frank Aiken’s “ Ticket-of-
Leavo.” The Dearborn theatre could
deposit for safe-keeping that wonderful
baby which created such a rumpus in
its internal arrangements.
Ihe hotels of Chicago could club to
gether and, in this way pcrh."p.-, et up
one go*d square meal. The banks
could make a liberal donation of dis
counted paper, on transactions that
took place just before the fire without
collateral. The churches might present
a contribution-box as one of the things
most essential to the welfare in the fu
ture as in the past.
To complete the collection, each in
dividual and each business could proba
bly suggest and contribute, until 4 mu-
seum of “ Chicago as it Was” could be
I made up that would be more of a
curiosity than any monument of old
safes.
Current Items.
Mrs. Sarah .1. Hale, editress of
Galley's Lady's Hook , is 84—and still
j she’s Hale.
Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, that either did,
! or didn’t, set Chicago on fire, lias been
bought on speculation by two Louisville
(Ivy.) hoys.
A Boston firm shipped a hook-and
ladder carriage last week to Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands, byway of the Pacific
railroad to San Francisco.
Mrs. Stanton, widow of the late
Kdwin M. Stanton, resides in a fine
mansion at Oermautown. Philadelphia.
She has a yearly income from the
“Stanton fund” of $7,000.
Tiik United States survey steamer
Hasslcr, with its distinguished party of
scientific explorers, Bailed from Boston
on the 4tli upon its voyage along the
Atlantic and Pacific coast of North and
South America.
.James McCunn, while walking on the
Long Island railroad track near Dutch
Kills, was struck by a locomotive and
fatally injured 'Tuesday evening. His
wife was killed a year ago by a train on
the Flushing road.
Washington Territory has more than
doubled its population during the last
ten years, has $11,500,000 worth of tax
able property, and the annual exports
are valued at $400,000. Its saw-mills
got out 130,000,000 feet of lumber an
nually.
(Tn K Peabody (Mass.) Press says :
“ Many persons who have had occasion
to visit the Essex depot in this town,
have for some time past noticed a large
dun-colored dog, who anxiously watches
the passengers as they alight, as though
seeking tor some particular person.
This dog belonged to Mr. Ernest S.
Merrill, one of the victims of the Revere
disaster. When young Merrill left
home for the last time his dog left him
at tile depot. The faithful dog still
watches for his master, who will never
come back.”
Gen. Gorloff, the Russian represen
tative pro tern at Washington, is a soldier
and a scholar. He is the author of sev
eral works on military tactics. For
some time past he has been superin
tending the manufacture of arms for
his Government, at Hartford, the Czar
having entered into a large contract for
weapons with a large firm in the latter
city. Like all of his countrymen, Gen.
Gorlofl 1 gained the good will of all
Americans with whom he came in con
tact, and was probably one of the most
popular men in Hartford.
Miss Creak .(pronounced Cra-ak), the
lady to whom Gen. I). E. Sickles is mar
ried, is but twenty-two. She was born
in Spain, speaks English imperfectly,
and is represented as beautiful and ac
complished, but not wealthy. Her
father is Assistant Treasurer of the
Province of Andalusia. The family is
of Irish descent, has long been settled
in Spain, and occupies an enviable
social position. Miss Creak was an in
timate friend of Gen. Sickles’ daughter,
and accompanied her in a recent tout;
of Europe.
The Pittsburgh papers speak of an
invention to rid that smoky city of its
greatest nuisance. A man there has
invented a small iron apparatus, which,
it is said, when attached to stoves,
ranges, and other objects where wood
and coal are used, consumes all the
smoke and gas generated, not a particle
of the vapor escaping through the
chimney. The inventor also claims
that, as no soot is made, it will be im
possible for chimneys to catch fire, and
a reduction of insurance rates will be
the result.
The celebrated lady doctor, Miss
Fowler, in practice at Orange, N. J., was
recently married, and is now Mrs.
Ormshy. She is a sister of Fowler, the
phrenologist, and has met with extraor
dinary success as a medical practitioner
of the homeopathic school. Her income
from her practice has, for years past,
been from $15,000 to $20,000 per year.
•She treats patients of both sexes, has
the names of over six hundred families
on her practice-hooks, and has more
business than all the half dozen male
doctors of the place put together. In
carrying on her profession she drives
between forty and fifty miles every day.
She is remarkably successful as a doc
tor. She is a handsome woman of 40,
clear-headed, stout-hearted, strong
willed, vivacious, and intellectual. Her
husband is a New York merchant.
.Sensible to tile Last.
President Porter, of Yale Collepe, the
ogier day, gave his students a deal of
good advice. Of course, it is unneces
sary to say what a considerable portion
of it was, because all young men are
always exhorted to he sell-reliant, faith
ful, honest, and industrious, and to
show energy and invincible determina
tion. But Dr. Torter went into several
particulars. “ Don’t drink,” he said,
“and don’t chew”—tobacco, we pre
sume he meant, and not honest food.
“ Don’t swear,” he added, “ and don’t
deceive; don’t read novels; don’t
marry until you can support a wife.”
So much for the Doctor’s negative ad
vice. “Be in earnest,” he went on to
say, “ and he self-reliant.” Good ! “Be
generous and he civil.” Better! “Read
the papers and advertise your business,”
Best! That last hit of advice is what
we call beautiful 1 Little need was
there for the excellent and sagacious
and learned gentleman to add, “Make
money and do goo 1 with it!” He
meant, of course, that one who doesn’t
rend the papers or advertise isn’t likely
to make much money, or to do much
good with what little he may make.
The carrier pigeons “Tornado” and
“Typhoon” recently flew from a point
in the Gulf Stream near the Galapagos
Islands to Montclair, N. .1., at the aver
age speed for “Tornado” of 196 miles
an hour, and for “ Typhoon” of 202
miles an hour; that is, a mile in a little
more than seventeen seconds. “Ty
phoon” was an old bird, and fell dead
as soon as it reached its destination.
And now deriding him when he is
down, they declare that Tweed is like
the Black Sea because he is not the
Boas-for-us.
Household Recipes.
Molasses Drop Cake —One cup of mo
lasses, half a cup of butter or lard, half
a cup of water, three cups of flour, two
teaspoonsfuls of ginger, one teaspoonful
ot soda. Beat well together, and drop
with a spoon on a buttered pan, or in
muffin rings. Bake quickly.
Mince Meat —One pound of finely
chopped roast beef, half a pound of
chopped suet, quarter of a peek of
chopped apples, one pound of raisins,
quarter of a pound of currants, same
quantity of citron, one nutmeg, two ta
ble spoonfuls of cinnamon, juice of two
lemons, one pound of sugar, and cider
and brandy to moisten it
Buckwheat Cakes — A griddle for baking
should never be greased, as this destroys
the delicate flavor of the cakes. .Scour
well with a cloth and sand, and wash
with hot suds, wipe dry, and just before
baking rub with a coarse elotii and salt.
It is not necessary to wash and scour it
every time it is wanted; only once to
get all the grease out; but use the cloth
and salt every time you put on fresh
cakes, just as grease would be used.
To Cook an Old Fowl —Dress and stuff
as for roasting ; then boil three hours
in a covered pot witti one quart of wa
ter, to which add two tablespoonfuls of
vinegar; then take it from the water,
rub over with a little butter, sprinkle
on some flour, and put the fowl into a
bake-pan, and bake it in a hot oven one
hour. Use the liquor in the pot for
gravy and to baste with. The vinegar
makes it very tender, but does not taste
at all.
Connecticut, liaised Doughnuts —lleat a
pint of milk just lukewarm and stir into
it a small cup of melted lard, and sift in
flour until it is a thick batter ; add a
small cup of domestic yeast, and keep
it warm until the batter is light, then
work into it four beaten eggs, two cups
of sugar rolled free from lumps, a tea
spoonful of salt and two of cinnamon.
When the whole is well mixed, knead
in flour until about an stiff sis buscuit
dough, .Set it where it will keep warm
till of a spongy lightness, then roll the
dough out half an inch thick and cut it
into cakes. Let them remain till light,
then fry them in hot lard.
Lemon Cake —Two cups of flour, two of
sugar, six eggs, six tablespoonfuls of
butter, four of milk, two teaspoonfuls of
cream tartar sifted with the flour, and
one teaspoofnl of soda. Beat all well
together, and bake in two loaves. For
the jelly to use with it, take three
lourths of a pound of sugar, one-fourth
of a pound of butter, six eggs, the rind
of three lemons grated, and the juice.
Beat the sugar, butter and eggs thor
oughly together, and set in a dish of hot
water until heated, then add the grated
lemon and juice; stir until thick enough
and quite smooth, then split the cake
and put this jelly in while warm. It is
very delicious.
Taking up Hoots. —Much extra labor
may be avoided by managing the root
harvest with judgment. Tliero is a
great deal of handling of this crop, and
many a back-ache is necessarily incident
to it at the best. A serviceable and
useful tool to pick up roots, either tur
nips or potatoes, may be made by taking
a piece of three-eighth round iron rod
three feet long, bending it in the shape
of a scoop, bringing the ends together,
and inserting them into a long fork
handle. Then with one-eighth inch
iron wiro weave a basket, shaped like a
deep spoon or ladle, on this frame of
rod, with interstices two inches square.
The effect is to make a tool with which
roots may be scooped up rapidly with
out stooping, and pitched into a cart or
wagon, or thrown into a heap for pit
ting. Small potatoes, stones, and loose
earth wdl escape through the spaces.
We have used such a contrivance many
seasons with great increase of comfort
and expedition in harvesting our root
crops.
Varied Diet for Poultry. —Corn is the
cheapest and best food for fowls, if we
are to name one article. They iike it
better than any other grain, and it
probably must always be the main de
pendence in this country in keeping
poultry. But there must be a variety.
Hens are as omnivorous, perhaps, as any
animal in the world, man excepted.
They even exceed swine in tliiß respect.
We all know how distasteful a uniform
diet is to ourselves. The appetite, both
in men and brutes, is determined by
the varying state of the system, and a
kind of food that is craved at one time
will be rejected at another. Wheat
bran is excellent. Hens soon tire of
cooked grain, but it should be fed part
of the time. Every day in the year,
when fowls do not have access to grass,
fresh vegetable food should be allowed,
and a small quantity of meat if there
is not insect forage. Corn should pre
ponderate for growing chickens, be
cause the cheapest, and for fattening
fowls; but for layers wheat should occu
py a prominent place.
Foreign Agricultural Items. — In France,
one consequence of the war has been to
seriously reduce the number of grazing
cattle. Fat beeves are exceedingly
scarce, and cattle men are devoting
their energies to raising young stock as
the basis of a future supply. In
Western Russia there are vast natural
prairies hitherto unused. It is now
proposed to utilize these by means of a
company, headed by a Russian prince,
who propose to stock them with cattle,
and, after fattening them, to prepare
the beef in a portable shape for ship
ment to the markets of Western Eu
rope. English papers wonder at the
fact that sixty-two agricultural fairs
have been held during .September and
October in four New England Statts
only. Two agricultural colonies from
France are about to settle on the Santa
Cruz river in Patagonia. The director
of the San Jose Colony, which left
France to settle in the Argentine Re
public, regrets that he did not choose
the Mississippi Valley as the location of
his enterprise. An agricultural asso
ciation for improvement in farm opera
tions and the education of the farmers
by the establishment of agricultural
iournals, has been inaugurated in Bel
gium.
On Monday of last week, four men,
who were ascending the shaft of the
Pewabic mine, at Lake Superior, were
precipitated from the “ skip” in which
they were riding to the bottoiq of the
shaft and instantly killed.
Editors and Proprietors.
NUMBER 14.
Prosody.
Thr following rhymed rebuke of common
errors in pronunciation conveys some useful
hints:
There was a Viirl, and *ho was fair to see.
Whoso classic ’nomcn was Eurydice ;
As full of mischief, like to most young ladies.
Sometimes raising Cain, anti sometimes Hades.
This smiling beauty, though she gained eclat.
To use hyperbole, concealed a claw.
A flirt she was—and thought no sin to bo—
Though driving lovers into syncope.
She flattered some, though always “sino die,”
Until they were all crowned with misery.
She danced and waltzed, until quite sick was
she.
flier Goddess was Terpsichore);
Hut soon got well anti cat her hominy.
With all the tragic airs of great Melpomene.
Her mind sometimes on .Jupiter and 10.
Woultl dwell -mixed up with Virgo and with
Leo;
Her favorite book was Hon Quixote.
Although nrone to think him rough and haughty.
Still from her lips, to hear a diatribe.
Was worth the world, and all the rest beside.
A maid she had ; fat, fair and fancy free.
Rejoicing in the name, Euphrosyne:
This demoiselle thought herself a Phryne,
Though her mistress called her “ stupid ninnF,”
Her favorite author was Humus Fils--
(Each well-thumbed work was spotted o’er with
grease).
And then sho owned a small epitome
Of ancient Home, which was a sight to see.
She knew but little of Professor Blot,
Her cooking was indifferently slow
Hut her chief care was on the household Lares.
Hound which she bustled like a hundred fairies.
In short, take her all in all. it was plain to see
Sho favored Juno more than Niobe.
Eurydice, at length, was, strange to say,
Enchanted with a man, and brought to bay;
Henceforth her constant study was to bo.
How best to imitate Calliope.
While her fair maid, we scarco need indicate.
Brought her Penates to the Syndicate ;
\nd helped, their Epithalamiuin to sing,
Though not the least connected with “the ring.”
Eurydice, farewell ! and you too, fair Euphra
sy no !
Forgive us that wo uso your names to air our
prosody.
Chips from Other Blockheads.
Love, n cough, anil money, cannot
long bo hid.
A stamp you can’t buy—Tho stamp of
a gentleman.
It costs more to avenge wrongs than
to bear them.
The great unknown—people who
never advertise.
Oi.d sailors are never so much at sea
as when they are on shore.
It is a mistake to suppose that Alexis
lives on Czar-dines.
We very frequently hear of Generals
capturing pieces of artillery. “ What's
the use ot capturing pieces?” sayß Mrs.
Partington ; “ why not capture whole
ones ?”
A Dutch Justice gives the following
oath to witnesses : “ You do awfully
swore you will toll the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth, the
best what you can't.”
Let every man be himself; let him
cultivate first, self-respect; and then
respect for others. Helf-respect gives
self-possession, and self-possession is one
the crowning graces of society.
“ Mv dear,” said a young lady to her
country cousin, “when you’ve been a
littlo longer in London you won’t be so
green.” “ Better green than withered? ”
was (lie retort.
The New York World accounts for the
inequality of the sexes by saying that
in early life the boy masters his oppor
tunities, while the girl commonly
misses hers.
The following notice is stuck up on a
bridge at Denver, in Colorado: “No
vehicle drawn by more than one animal
is allowed to cross this bridge in oppo
site directions at the same time.”
Thev are fond of titles in the East.
Among his other high sounding titles
tho King of Ava has that of “ Lord of
Twenty-four Umbrellas.” This looks aa
though he was prepared for a long reign
“Do you observe what a fine head
my hoy has ?” said an admiring father
to a circle of friends. “ Come hero my
son. You’re a chip of the old block,
aren't you?” “Yes, pa. The teacher
told me yesterday that I was a regular
blockhead.”
A County Clerk in lowa recently re
ceived a note reading as follows : Mis
ter Klurc—Sur —Tssoo marrig lisens to
wunst for Mister and Mis for
sucuinstanees requir ’em to marry rite
orf. They is old enuff, , step
mother and ant.
Soliciting relief of an English lady, a
Frenchman gravely said : “ Madame, I
nevaire beg, but dat I have von vife vid
several small family dat is growing very
large, and nosing to make dere bread
out of but de perspiration of my own
eyebrow.”
“ Ms, I am going to make some soft
soap for the fair this Fall 1” said a
beautiful miss of seventeen to her
mother the other day. What put
that notion into your head, Sally ?”
“ Why, ma, the premium is just what I
have been wanting.” “ Pray, what is
it? “A ‘Worcester Farmer;’ I hop*
he will be a good looking one."
A Racy Advertisement.
William Wilson is a genius who keeps
a “horse restaurant” at White Pine,
Nevada, and he issues the following
musical advertisement. We give him
the benefit of our circulation :
William M. Wilson’s livery stable and
horse restaurant. Live stock faster
than anybody’s, and all trained to re
spect woman’s rights —also children’s—
yet warranted to get away from any
thing else on the road. Buggies,
broughams, barouches, hacks, sulkies,
road wagons, hearses, and every kind of
vehicles for slow or fast travel—with
horses to correspond. Funeral turn
outs cheerfully furnished, and guaran
teed to make the proper impression.
Bloated aristocrats from abroad taken
onto uny road, and warranted ahead of
any stage or any other conveyance—for
money. No complaint is ever heard
from stock fed in this stable. More
hilarity than was ever known in any
other collection of dumb animals since
the procession from Noah’s landing.
No hay ropes about this establishment
—everything is turned loose; the key
to the barley sacks hangs dangling
within reach of the humblest horse in
tho stable, and no pains are spared to
make the guests of the establishment
distinguish the difference between this
and the desert waste.
Wm. M. Wilson.
The following epitaph, in a cematary
of Oswego, New York, shows that the
bereaved parents had rather mixed no
tions on the subject of dual existence:
“Here lies my two children dear,
One in Ireland and the other here.”