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Arrow and Eureka Ties.
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COTTOW FACTORS,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
And General Agent' for the Sale,of
SEA FOWL GU NOj
Savannali, Ga.
GEORGIA HOME
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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
Capital $350,000.
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THE EUREKA ' a harm less I
XS JUST THE ARTICLE “ ll Di 4 EV
ERY MOTHER WHO; t
.THEHEALTH AND\,y all Drtf
OF HER Clips, Depot
THE EUREKiI^ER
Is designed as a shield to ipmd Bnw. l mois
ture the clothing and beddije process van, and
«leo the<lothing of those whtly safe in 3. care
of them. It is made thoron£estify. r proof.
there being no sewed seam.-, eads of
■which rot when exposed to —___
THE EUREKA DIAPEtK j | structed
ns to fasten below the sjormw" ' to con
form to the shape of tlwdchild ; there
fore it is not liable to fall o. ad conse
rjuently securely retains the liueii diaper in its
place, at the same time giving perfect ease
and comfort to the child. One of i lie many ad
vantages of the Eureka Diaper is, that, the
danger and trouble of using pins Is avoided ;
another fg, that it permits a free drcuD
tiOn of air. They are manufactured in four
different sizes, so as to suit the age and growth
of the child, No. 1 being the smallest and No.
4 the Targek 3 . ..»
This Diaper has no equal, and testimonials
in its favor arc received, irQin all parts of the
country. It is highly recommended by medi
cal men, and by mothers w ose children have
worn it. ' enSWely > T „,
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The Poor.
Sweet Angel of Mercy descend
from tin? sphere of celestial abode,
The poor they are wanting a friend,
Descend on thy heavenly road ;
Bring with you the; best gift to man,
A heart rich with charity's gfaC'e,
That will do what over it cau
In aiding the whole human race.
The wind through the narrow stieet sweeps,
{n (Cellars its \v Ilfs lie is heard,
j Up tenement stairs fiercely leaps,
Ita music is sad and is feared ;
Tile child in'its fiithJr’s armstawakes, -
Thp mother stands gmn with affright,
The father with chilliness shakes,
As fades the last lugtlo W fight.
The night with its aspect of gloom
Appeals at the window or door,
And'soon lie invades the cold room
Arid mocks' at the ills of the poor ;
They shiver and shake in distress,
And wrap themselves up in the rags,
Not haying a shoe or a dress,
As beggars can walk on the flags.
The miser he sleeps in his chair,
■ The merchant is*eomiHng his gains,
Ifidti tSihles tl?iv*e gone to the fair.
The poor they are aching with pains.
In the hulls of'tlie great are arrayed
Stout servants in tinsel and gold,
The dinner in silver is laid —-
But not for the poor and the old.
The snowflakes are gathering fast,
On cottage. On steeple, and mast;
lu.furs the gay sleighcrs drive past.
Unheeding the poor and the blast,
The children are call ing fur biAad,
The parents are dying or weak,
Oh,charity, where is thy tread,
The form,_al|_so gentle and meek ?
If C’hristiarjs there be in this land.
Advance to the rescue, nor halt,
Extend to the poor a kind hand,
For poverty's not their own fault :
Give of your full store a small part, ~
To the orphan, flic father and 'wife';
Oli l.give and eunpble your heart.
Their prayers will attend you through life, j
Ashes for Sweet Potatoes. - A
correspondent in the Southern Cul
tivator says :
“ I notice the question is asked,
which is thp best fertilizer or ma
nure Tor sweet potatoes. From the
experience 1 have had, in manuring
the sweet potato, I must say that
rotted ashes, wheo properly put on
have* precedence' over till I
have had any experience with.—
The plan that 1 adopted was to
open a.4eep tui;row., with a sopoter
plow, and put a plenty Os ashes.—
Bed out on the ashes, and a sure
crop may be realized .ion the poorest
soil. Cow penning is good—so arc
coIGu seed and stable manure;
but, after experimenting with the
ashes, th*v will all be abandoned,
provided ashes can be had. I expe
rimented on-asMuior s'nil as I had,
aud theji-esult was |s line a crop of
potatoes as 1 ever i*aw on any kind
of land. Rotted ashes are good for
cotton also, and almost any’ kind of
vegetation. _! am convinced there
:is not a better fertilizer made on any
plantation than rotted ashes. So
every one wiil find it greatly to his
interest to take special care of it.”
•' . —! —-•*«•>—
A Present to the (Tzar!—Cap
tain John Cowden lias made a gift
to the Emperor of Russia of the
plans, specifications and drawings
used in the construction of the cele
brated Confederate rams Aikansas,
Virginia and Tennessee. They
were taken from the archives of the
Confederate government, and pre
sented to Admiral Poisset in trust
for his imperial master. The theo
ry’ developed iu the papers referred
to makes the use between the iron
plates of cotton, or some other elas
tic substance, imperative in the
building of this kind of craft. It is
claimed that shot from gims of the
heaviest calibre cannot take effect
under such circumstances. In ad-
the ‘vessels are stip
. posed to he so shaped that they can
not be struck at right angles.
**• *
A cynical old bachelor says that
it is; the privilege of hoops to sur
sound the loveliest of all things,
among which are girls and whisky.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH % 1872.
A Remarkable History.
In 1858, Mr. Thomas Sheehan of
Dunkirk, N. Y., foreman in the
blacksmith department of the Erie
Railroad shops at that place, pat
ented a submarine grapple, which,
though an ifigefnoufi invention,
proved to be one for which there
was little demand. This was his
first invention, and the cost of its
completion, together with one year’s
struggle to manufacture and intro
duce it, completely exhausted Mr.
Sheehau’s means and reduced him
to the extrernest poverty. He was
in fact in pretty nearly the same
condition as Palissy the Potter, at
the moment of his greatest distress.
A wife and eight children, Shee
han’s family were reduced to the
verge of destitution, and Mrs. Shee
han became unconsciously bitter.
Just at this crisis, Mr. S. D.
Crowell, general freight agent of
the Erie Railroad at Dunkirk,
chanced to meet Mr. Sheehan in
the streets of that town, and ac
costed him with :
“ Well, Thomas, how are the
grapples? I hear they have used
you up.”
“ Yes,” was the answer, “ the
grapples have done my business ;" I
wish I had never seen them.”
“ Throw ’em away,” advised Mr.
Crowell. Have you any now fin
ished ?”
“ I have one almost done,” said
Thomas.
“ Finish that; 1 will pay you for
ty dollars for it, and have it used
for picking up coal at the dock.—
The money will help you in your
present emergency, and you can go
back to your old place in the shop,
and earn a good living for youv
family.”
“ I will,” said Thomas.
Back to his humble home went
the inventor, with new hope in his
breast, and set himself to finish the
grapple with all duo speed. But
upon what slender threads do the
fortunes of men hang ! A tap, the
only one our inventor had of the
size required, suddenly snapped
asunder, and as it was essential to
the progress of the work, he must
have anew one or he could not go
on.
In this strait he applied to his
wife to lend him twenty-five cents
to buy the necessary steel to forge
the tap. But she, having no faith
in the grapple, refused for two very
good reasons—first, that she be
lieved the money would be thrown
away if she gave it to her husband ;
and second, that she had not the
money to give him even if so dis
posed. The refusal was seasoned
with some very hot word-spice,
that made it very 1 unpalatable to
Thomas. But he bethought him of
a merchant who, in brighter days,
had seen the eoltfr of his money,
and who, perhaps, would now give
him credit for the small modicum of
steel he required for the tap.
To this merchant he hied, and
somewhat reluctant to prefer his
request, began beating about the
bush; and finally straying into pol
itics, hot words passed between
them, aqd our friend feeling his
maniinhss tf’Ould suffer too keenly
by asking credit for his steel, came
away without it. With no definite
purpose he went home, pondering
how he should surmount this now
no trifling obstacle of the broken
tap, lie found his wife making lye
for soft soap, but her acidity in no
way neutralized by the alkaline re
action. Despondent and discour
aged, he sat down in no very envi
able mood, when he chanced to spy
a piece of iron lying near the tub at
which his spouse was working.—
Meditating how he could make that,
piece of iron hard enough for a tap,
he was led to a rather fude experi
ment, the results of which have in
the end made him a richer man
-than he ever dreamed of being.
It so happened that from a dis
tant relative, a Roman Catholic
priest in Ireland, our friend had in
herited quite a library of works on
chemistry, some of them rare and
valuable. He had read some of
these books to very good purpose.
“ There is surely carbon in that
lye,” thought he. “If I only could
get that into-this iron in the proper
proportion I should have steel, and.
from that my tap, and so finish my
grapple.”
With little faith or hope that he
should succeed, ho took, some of the
lye, and adding, without any par
ticular reason for so doing, some
saltpetre and common salt, made a
paste with this solution and a hard
grudged saucerful of the little re
maining flour there was in the
house. Ho then forged the tap,
' and, enveloping it in the paste, put
the whole into a luted iron box and
exposed it to heat for two hours in
a blacksmith’s fiiOi To his joy and
surprise, when ho took it out, it
was hard enough to cut cast stoel.
The grapple was finished, and S4O
flowed into the family treasury of
Thomas Sheehan. He went back
to his old work, disgusted with
patents, and resolved never to have
anyehing to do with one again.—
But the remembrance of the tap,
hardened in so unique a manner,
stimulated him. Having a great
deal of case-hardening to do, he
thought one day he would repeat
the experiment upon a large
scale, which he did with perfect
success.
For twelve months he went on
to experiment, purchasing the ma
terials with his own money, and
working in secret by night and at
odd hours. At the end of twelve
months he reconsidered his sen
tence of condemnation on patents,
and applied for one on his process,
which was granted September 4,
1860, the claim being for a combi
nation of damaged flour, potash lye,
or lye from hard wood ashes, nitre,
common salt, and sulphate of- zinc,
lor case hardening iron. In 1867
he patented an improvement on the
above-named process. In 1868 he
took out another patent for an en
tirely new process, which consists
in the use of raw limestone, char
coal, black oxide of manganese, sal,
soda, common salt and pulverized
rosin, combined for converting iron
into steel, which is now widely used,
and from which he has reaped quite
a foituue.
No less than twenty three of the
leading railways in America now
use this process, under license from
the patentee, for hardening the
links, guides, pins, and nuts of lo
comotives, effecting, we are told,
no less a saving than from five to
six hundred dollars annually on each
locomotive," in obviating the lost
motion consequent upon the wear
of links, guides and pins. The in
ventor has already received for li
censes under his patent of 1868,
$29,650, and has just sold the re
mainder of his patent in America
for $45,000. —Scientific American.
High Heeled Boots, Chi
nese Foot and Crooked
Shins.
It is worthy of note that while a
malignant hatred of Chinese, indi
vidually, is fomented under cover '
of hostility to their immigration,
our females have fallen in love with
Chinese costumes and customs, in
some respects, and accepted them
as models. Tbe’pictures of Chinese
ladies, to which one has been ac
customed for many yoars, bear a
close resemblance to the American
belle of the present day. The re
pulsive hump, the cripled feet, and
the mincing gait of our women, if
they do not. fortify the Darwinian
theory of the origin of the speeies
from monkeys, at least give the ap
pear nee of retrograding monkey
wards. The dress, uncouth and
forming as it is, would not of itself
deserve notice, but the high heels,
tripling the feet and distorting the
limbs, are an outrage of grace on
anatomy, on humanity, entitling
the authors, if they could be detect
ed, to criminal responsibility. A
convention of corn doctors, in the
interest of the trade, could not de
vise a better scheme for good times.
Women whose pedals are solifled
may escape with only corns, of
which we hope and pray they may
have a full and tender crop. But
that a whole generation of little
girls should have their toes jammed
into the points of their boots, to do
the work of beds, and that their
legs should be thrown out of natu
ral balance, and the pliant bones
bent into semi-circles, is a sacrifice
to iastiion which would disgrace a
nation of Hottentots. Should the
picked custom hold a few years
there will not be a decent foot, or
an ajsthetic leg in our female popu
lation, except among washerwomen
and the like. And all this is a tri
fle compared with the mischief done
to the pelvis, spine and the chest,
by the constrained attitude which
the abnormal elevation of the heel
must, of necessity, induce. Fash
ion is at best a cruel tyrant; but
the whole history of her capricious
rule does not exhibit a grosser vio
lation of natural laws, and a more
unpardonable assault on the beauty
and health of women, than the in
vention of high-heelded boots.—
Pacific Medical Journal .
—A farmer saw an advertised
recipe to prevent wells and cisterns
from freezing, lie sent the money
and received the answer. Take in
your well-or cistern on cold nights,
1 and keep it by the fire.
Telegraphic Tricks.
The danger of Operating at a
Hotel Breakfast• Table ,
Two young men, telegraph oper
ators, who board at one of our lead
ing third-class hotels, and being of
somewhat hilarious disposition, find
great amusement in carrying on
conversation with each other at ta
ble by ticking on their plates with
a knife, fork or spoon. For the
information of those not familiar
with telegraphy it may be well to
state that a combination of sounds
or ticks constitutes the telegraphic
alphabet, and persons familiar with
these sounds can converse thereby
as intelligibly as with spoken words
The young lightning-strikers, as
already stated, were in the habit of
induling in table-talk by this means
whenever they desire to say any
thing private to each other. For
instance, No 1 would pick up
the knife and tick off some remark
as this to No- 2 : “Why is this
butter like the offense of Hamlet’s
uncle ?”
No 2 —“ l give it up.”
No. I.—“ Because it’s rank and
smells to heaven.”
Os course the joke is not appre
ciated by the landlord (who sits
close by), because lie dosen’t under
stand ekgraphic ticks, and prob
ably he wouldn’t appreciate it
muchif he did; but the jokers
enjoy it immensely, and laugh im
moderately, while the other guests
wonder what can he the occasion
for this merriment, and naturally
conclude the operators must be
idiots.
A few days ago, while the fun
loving youths were seated at break
fast, a stout young man entered the
dining-room with a hansome girl
on his arm, whose timid, blushing
countenance showed her to be a
bride. The couple had, in fact,
been married hut a day or two pre
vious, and had come to San Francis
co from their home in Oakland or
Mud Spiings, or some other rural
village, for the purpose of spending
the honeymoon. The telegraphic
tickers as soon as the
hnsband and wifenad seated them
selves.
No. 1 opened the discourse as
follows: “What al ovely little pig
eon this is along side of me—ain’t
she P*
No: 2 —“ Perfectly charming ;
looks as if butter wouldn’t melt in
her mouth. Just married, 1 guess
Don’t you think so?”
No. I—“ Yes, I should Judge she
was. What luscious lips she’s got !
If that country pumpkin was out
of the road, I would give her a hug
and a kiss just for luck.”
No. I—“ Suppose you try it any
how. - Give her a little nudge un
der the table with your knee.”
There is no telling to what ex
tent the impudent rascals might
have gone but for an amazing and
entirely unforseen event. The
bridegroom’s face had flushed, and
a dark scowl was on liis brow dur
ing the progress of the ticking con
versation ; but the operators were
too much occupied by each other to
pay any attention to him. The
reader may form some idea of the
young men’s consternation when
the partner of the lady'picked up
his knife and ticked off the follow
ing terse but vigorous message:
“This lady is my wife, and as
soon, as she gets through with
her breakfast I propose to wring
your necks —you insolent whelps.”
The counternance fell very sud
denly when this message commenc
ed. By 7 the time it ended they had
lost dll appetite and appreciation
of jokes, aDd slipped out of the
dining room in a very rapid and
unceremonious manner. The bride
groom, it seems, was a telegraph
operator, and “knew how it was
himself.”— San Francisco Chro\
icle.
To Keep Pure Air in a Sick
Room. —The following simple ar
rangement will remedy the evil of
foul gas, generated by butning a
Kerosene lamp all night in a
nursery or sick room. Take a rai
sin or any other suitable sized box
that will contain the lamp when set
up on end. Place the lamp in the
box, outside the window, with the
open side facing the room- When
there are blinds the box can be at
tached to each by leaving them a
little open and fastening with a cord:
or the lamp box can be nailed to
the window-casing in a permanent
manner. The lamp burns quite as
well outside, and a decided improve
merit of the air in the room is ex
perienced. Try it. —Home and
Health.
Clear Starching.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentlemah says:
The terrors of clear starching
have darkly hung around many a
young wife, and she has dreaded
ironing dear Fred’s nice shirts more
than doing all the rest of his work
for a week. To such poor trem
blers let me say, patiently perse
vere. Practice alone will make
perfect. Shed no vain tears over
shirts he pronounces “ horrid,” and
declares “ he can never wear.” —
Wash them out and try again. In
cold weather if you have no dresses
or skirts, use cold starch, it is so
much easier made and used. For
two bosßomed shirts, one pair ot
cuffs and two or three collars, take
a small teaspoonful of starch, dis
solved in about a coffee cup of cold
water, stir until the water looks like
milk; dip in the collars and cuffs
first, then the bossoms; wring as
dry as possible. Set the starch one
side; roll the linen up in a dry
cloth. After it has lain a few mo
ments, iron after this wise : Put a
piece of cotton cloth over the lin
en ; rub .a bit of beaswax over the
iron and around the point and edges;
wipe clean with a coarse towel;
iron over che cotton cloth a bit;
remove it and smooth the linen
very fast offe way until perfectly
dry. If not stiff enough stir your
starch well and dip in again, pro
ceeding as before. Some always
starch collars and cuffs twice. I
never do. If your shirts are cut
sack you can iron them without a
bosom board, but if there are gath
ers in the back you had better have
one. It should be a little longer
and wider than the bosom. Cover
it with two or three thicknesses of
white flannel, then two of cotton
cloth; drawn very smooth and
tight, and sewed together on the
back. Iron the bosom until dry,
smOoth and glossy; remove the
board, hang the shirts by the fire.—
When thoroughly dry, start up ev
ery plait, unless very finely plaited,
by slipping your finger under it
from top to bottom. If the bosom
is too stiff use less starch next time.
So few people understand using
cold starch, I have written very’
plsfinly. Most of the people use
too much, get disgusted and won’t
try to learn. If your iron sticks,
use sandpaper; if it sticks then,
rest assured you have used too
much starch. When done with the
starch, set the howl away and let it
settle until the water is clear, then
pour it off and let the starch dry a
few hours. When dry, gerape from
the bowl with a spoon, and put
back in your starch box—it is as
good as new. * -
Are Moles a Pest. —There is a
great difference of opinion as to
this question. Our own is that the
mole is harmless as a rule—some
times it damages lawns and gardens
in pursuit of its food, which usually
is the earth worm. If it should go
through a hill of corn and injure it
by loosening the rootlets, it is still
in pursuit of the earthworm, which
is, in dry times, found about the
.roots of corn and other vegetables,
grass, etc., more abundantly than
elsewhere. So far as our observa
tions extend, we have never known
the mole to eat vegetable matter. —
It would seem to be, strictly, a car
nivorous animal. And on this head
here is something to the point:
Mr. Weber, one of the savans of
Zurich, Switzerland, recently 7 ex
amined the stomachs of a number
of moles caught in different locali
ties, but failed to discover therein
the slightest vestige of plant or
roots; whereas they were filled by
the remains of earthworms. He
shut np several of these animals in
a box containing earth and sod
with growing grass, and a small
case of grub or earth worms. In
nine days two moles devoured 341
white worms, 193 earth worms, 25
caterpillars, and a dead mouse.—
Fed with a mixed diet of raw meat
and vegetables, the moles ate the
meat and left the plants ; and when
vegetables exclusively were dealt
out to them, iu twenty-four hours
both died of starvation.— German
town Telegraph.
This is another villianous false
hood: “Horace Greeley heard
that they made 8,000 pounds of
butter fi-om sixteen cows, at Dan
bury. He bought a lot of cows, at
once, and is going to have them
ground up and churned* “You
see,” said he, “I can buy live beef
at eight cents a pound, and butter
is worth forty. If it costs too cents
a pound for labor, I shall clear 30
per cent. The man who says this
is not so is a liar and a horse thief.”
Can Woman Kf.ep a Secret. —•
Men say women can’t keep a secret.
It is just the reverse—women can,
men can’t. Women carry with
them to their graves secrets that
would kill any man. Woman nev
er tells; man blabs and lives.--
Man cannot keep a secret; woman
cannot make it -known. What is
sport to the man is death to the
woman. Adam was a sneak. Eve
would have kept the apple a secret.
Be ye fruitful. 'Who ever heard a
woman talk about her
Everybody has heard a man gossip.
Man delights in telling of his illicit
conquests; woman would cut her
tongue out first. Men are coarse in
their club-room talk; women re
fined in their parlor conversation.—
Who ever heard of a woman telling
of her lovers ? Who has uot list
ened to the dissipation of the men ?
Men boast; women don’t. Wo
men never tell tales out of school;
men are always babbling. So down
with another old adage. Woman
can keep a secret, and her ability
to do so is proved by the conduct
of a St. John’s [New Foundland]
girl, who did not tell her lover she
was worth four millions in her own
right until after the marriage.—
Nineteenth Century.
From Josh Billings’ Almixax
far 1872.—The only human, being
on the face of this earth that I real
ly envy, is a lasting Christian.
Men ov little authority are like
men ov little strength—alwus anx
ious tew lift something.
There iz two kind ov men that
I don’t kare to meet when I am in
a great hurry—men that I owe, and
men that want to owe me.
There iz no better- evidence ov
wisdom than tew believe what we
kant understand.
Yu will alwus notis ono thing—
the devil never offers tew go into
partnership with the bizzy ;but you
will often see him offer to jine the
lazy and furnish all the necessary
capital.
Hope has made a great many
blunders; but there is one thing
about her that I alwus did like —
she means well.
Whenever yu hear a man who
alwus wants tew bet his bottom
dollar, yu ban make up your mind
that iz the size ov his pile.
I look upon the north pole as one
ov the pekuliar spots of ground.
If it ain’t never found, we shaut be
none ov the wuss off; and if it iz
found, we shant be none the better
off.
The highest rate of interest that
we pay iz borrowed trouble. Things
that are alwus going to happen
never do happen.
Immor rALiTy. —How beautiful the
following gem from the pen of the
late George D. Prentice, and how
happy the heart that can see these
beauties as he portrays them
“Why is it that the rainbow and the
cloud come over us with a beauty
that is not of earth, and then pass
away, and leave us to muse on their
faded loveliness ? why is it that the
stars which hold their nightly festi
vals around the midnight throne,
are placed above the reach of our
limited faculties, forever mocking
us with their unapproachable
glory ? And why is it that bright
forms of human beauty are presented
to our view, and then taken from
us, leaving the thousand streams of
affections to flow back in Alpine
torants upon our hearts? We are
bom to a higher destiny than earth
There is a realm where the rainbow
never fades—where the stars will
be set, but before us like island
that slumber on the ocean, and
where the beautiful being that
passes before us like a meteor will
6tay in our presence forever.”
Dull Times. —When business is
dull, go to work and make business.
It is no way to sit down and com
plain of hard times. Keep stirring.
If everybody sat down and waited
for better times they never would
come till doomsday. If a million
of people make a little extra effort
to realize their desire in business,
hard times give away to their «f
--fortsjlike an ice dam before a flood,
and currents of business set in fresh
onco more. It is the same way
with.each single individual. Don’t
heln to block the wheel of business
by keeping still.
Hard times is but another name
for stagnation of business, and there
is no way to make a stagnant pool
fresh, except to stir it. If you try to
infuSe life into your business, your
neighbor will be surprised to
see how much you cau do to keep
business going. Activity is life,
stagualion is death.
How A man llid Away SI,BOO in
Gold, and How iie Lost it ? —-The
Chronicle and Sentinel relates the
following curious story of a loss
sustained by a Mr. ll.i ugh ton, an
Augusta merchant, a few nights
ago, at the hands of burglars :
From what we could learn, it
appears that during the war Mr,
Ilaughton came into possession of
eighteen hundred dollars in gold
coin, a portion of the same being
in foreign pieces, Spanish doub
loons, etc. For fear of accidents,
we suppose, for those were ticklish
time*, the coin was placed in a tin
box in layers, and between each
layer was placed cotton, wired
down. In this way the box contain
ed a solid mass, which made no
noise when shaken. The box was
then placed in a mould of sand aud
melted lead poured around it, until
an apparently solid block of the
metal was formed. This block wa*
kept in the store and used to cut
wads on, and for other purposes.
This precious block was in the store
on the night of the robbery and
the burglars took it, either know
ing its value, or carrying it off to
sell as old metal. If the latter sup
position is true, it may be curious
to reflect what a number of unsus
pecting junk dealers may handle
this precious lump without ever
knowing its value. If it ever gets
into the melting pot the secret will
be revealed at once.
Power of the Press. — I love to
hear the rumbling of the steam
power press better than the roar of
artillery. It is silently attacking
and B vanquishing the Malakoffs of
vice aud the Redans of evil; and
its parallels and approaches cannot
he resisted. I like the click of the
type in the composing stick of the
compositor better than the click of
the musket in the hand of the sol
dier. It bears a leaden messenger
of deadlier power, ofeublimer force
and of a surer aim, which will hit
its mark, though it is a thousand
years ahead ! — Chapin ,
Onions. — “Onions,” says Dr,
Hall, “are one of the most nutri
tious, healthful aud detestable arti
cles of food found in our markets.
VVe jne ver ate one to our knowledge,
and never expect to; we can smell
them a mile off, perhaps. A few
grains of coffee, eaten immediately
afterwards, or a teaspooeful of vin
egar swallowed, removes at once
the odor of the breath. If onions
are half boiled, and the water thown
away and then put in soup to be
boiled “done,” the oder will be but
little noticed.”
Three little hoys were disputing
as to whose father said the short
est grace. My father says: “Lord
we thank you for these provisions.”
Second boy—“Aud mine says,‘Fath
er, bless this food to us.’ ”* Third
boy —“Ah, but mine’s the best of
all. He shoves'his plate toward
mamma and says, ’Darn ye, fill up.”
“Hello, dar, you darkey, what
you axefordat old blind mule, hey?”
“Well, I dunno ; guess 1 moufc
takethirty-five dollars.” “Thirty-five
dollars 1 I’ll give you five.” “Well,
you may have ’ini; I wont stand on
thirty doilars— in a mule trade.”
A man having been rendered
deaf by the whistle of a locomotive,
the engineer of the train was sur
prised on his return to the station
to observe eleven bald-headed men
in a line by the track, with a served
infuuction to “do your darndesL”
They were all married.
“Cuffee, what do you t’ink de
mose useful ob de planets—de sun
or de moon ?
“Well, Sambo, I t’ink de moon
orter take de fust rank in dat artic
le.”
“Why you t’ink so, Cuffee?
“Well, I tell you : kase de moon
shines by night, when we want
light, and de sun shines by day
when we don't!”
It is common to speak f>f those
whom a flirt has jilted as her vic
tims. This is a grave error. Her
real victim is the man whom she
accepts. A happy simile runs thus:
coquette is a rose from whom every
lover plucks a leaf— the thorns re
maining for her futuro husband.
Some of the Louisville ladies have
formed a “Tie-the-Garter-above-the-
Knce-Olub.’, Every gentleman in
Kentucky is anxious to be master of
ceremonies at the initiatory’ exerci
ses.
—A Wisconsin editor was called
out of bed one night to receive a
subscription. After that he sat up
nights for over a week, but the of
fence was’t repeated.
A workman fell through the el
evator opening in the Eagle aud
Phoenix Mills, in Columbus, the
other day, a distance of sixty feet.
He is thought to be fatally injured*
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