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Kossuth’s Despair.
It was near here that Kossuth, that
ardent aspirant after pofitical freedom,
.and the hero of the “ War of Inde
pendence,” fleeing from his pursuers,
[crossed the Danube, and sought pro
tection in Turkish territory. There
crossing the frontier he threw himself
down for the last time on the sod of
,liis beloved Fatherland, for whie \ he
id risked so much and fought so card
id pressed on it a sobbing, passionate
iss, and planting his foot on Turkish,
prritory, became, as he himself cas so
touchingly described it in the memo
ries of his exile, “ like a wrecked ship
thrown up by a storm on a desert
shore.” A Turkish officer greeted
him courteously in the name of Allah,
led him to a place which he had
kindly caused to be prepared for 1 im
to rest in for the night, under God’s
free heaven, and asked for his sword
with downcast eyes, as if ashamed
that a Turk should disarm a Hunga
rian, “ I unbuckled it,” he writes,
“ and gave it to him without uttering
a word; my eyes fllhd with tears,
and he, wishing me sound rest, left
me alone -with my sorrow. There I
stood in silent meditation on the bank
—but no longer the Hungarian bank
—of the Danube, the waves of which
were mingled with the tears of the
Hungarian nation—and which, uot
fur from me, grumbled and roared
through the rocky pass of the ‘Iron
Gate.’ ” “ I listened,” he continues,
to this roaring, in rude harmony
[with the storm in my heart, and as I
fcomtemplated the annihilation of
patriotic hopes so undeservedly extin
guished, tears of indescribable grief
.unconsciously showered down my
icheeks.” This rhapsody from the
mce Supreme Dictator of Hun . ary
jay sound unmanly to the ears of the
rundemonstrative Briton; but these
brave, lion-hearted Hungarians,
[whom few things daunt, love their
country passionately, and with a love
as tender as that of womau. It is sad
to think that this brave man, who,
^igh disappointed in his attempts
thieving a recognition of Hungary
|m independent State, has yet been
means of indirectly conferring
ling benefit upon his country,
lild—as he describes himself—still
wanderer, “ arrived at the verge
the grave with no hope for the
ture, and in whose past there is no
".onsolatiou.” No Ionger expatriated,
I could return to the Fatherland if
,e w r ouid ; but he refuses to do so,
I since, by its own act, it has allowed
itself t be [merged into the Austrian
Eruoire.
English and American
Vegetables.
The reappearance on our tables of
eakale and asparagus—our only two
atable greenstuff's—naturally raises
,nce more the perennial question,
fliy have we iu Eulaud no Vegeta
'S? ^doubt the fact is impossible
^st to anybody who knows what
es are like. “Sir,” said an
erreail^J^er at a restaurant in
Strand this is one
ug you can raise in your country
d we can’t raise in ours—a mutton
hop; but then you never tasted green
eas iu all your life.” That antithesis
uts the great vegetable question in a
nutshell. It is impossible in the same
country to have good meat and good
vegetables. For the oest beef and
mutton are a product of the soft, ten
der Englhli greensward,^vhich only
^exists iu a few countries along the
Hptlautic seaboard of Europe, and owes
^lts origin to the constant rainfall.
% The same causes whjch give us good
qeat, however, deny us in England
a possibility of good fruit and vege-
[' tables. For while the herbage requires
i copious rain, the fruits, seeds, pods,
flowers, buds and other miscellaneous
■ objects which we class from the culin-
I ary point of view as vegetables, all
^require copious sunlight. That is
have none of them. Our only
’ good vegetables are such as very young
ihubard, seakale, asparagus and
celery, which are the blanched sprout
ing shoots of perennial plants, IJJnese
mostly come i^ spring thn|^md as
they are nonj^n worse^^veven all
the better, lome soak-
rvive our
e long run.
,es are more or
e; and really
one must go to America
choice the first. Of
hgoing fruity vegetables—such
e tomato—we in England know
thing. We never have sun enough
ripen them properly; audAveu
th till the appliances of nsr
rdeners, they never get thor
olt throughout in our
as they do in the open air under a
Canadian or Italian sky. They always
have a half-green taste, and are wholly
lacking iu the true rich tomato flavor.
Indeed, the tinned American speci
mens, though tasting of the solder o
skinned squashes anti golden pump
kins iu a Massachusetts market would
astonish Covent Garden, and set some
course, are better savored after all
than our poor starved sunless English
things. As to purple egg-fruit and
green chow-chows, we know them not
at all; wh ill the profusion of rich red
fleshed watermelons and primrose-
nascent Turner to work with all the
pigments on his palette to try his hand
at a new and many-colored subject.
These things require the sun to ripen
them, and we see his face here as a
rule for some two and a half hours
weekly, as duly registered at Glynde
Place, Lewes. Then, again, there are
the winter cherries, the sweet pota
toes, and, best of all earl hly vegetables,
green Indian corn, eaten off' the cob
with fresh butter, and likest to nectar
of all mortal delicacies. As for pulse
generally, our beaus are all stringy ;
we have neither the variety nor the
tenderness of the American bean.
Our peas have some good points—for
English peas ; but they are not half so
large, or luscious, or melting, as Amer
ican peas. They take too long grow
ing, and have got old and hard before
they are big enough to pick. The
delicious crinkly eatable-pod pea would
be impossible h^re ; it would have got
tough and sinewy a month before it
was ready for cooking. We grow
buckwheat to feed our pheasants,but
never ripens as it ought, and buck
wheat pancakes at breakfast will
doubtless be an unknown luxury with
us forever.
in the matter of leafy vegetables we
can do a little better, but not enough
to boast about. We are strong in
salads; our climate provides us with
plenty of fresh green lettuce, and
plenty of slugs, too, to hide in its
recesses. But endive does not flour
ish ; it is a scrubby-looking plant in
England ; though we make up for it
in cresses and the lesser salad stuffs.
Our roots, too, are good; who will
deny the British farmer the glory of
his turnips, his beets and his mangold-
wurzel? When it comes to edible
flowers, however, w r e are hopelessly
left in the lurch. O ir top artichokes
are the hardest and poorest in the
world; they contain a maximum of
fibrous, uneatable bract and a mimi
mim of soft, starchy pulp. In the
south of France, Italy and America
you can often eat the whole flower-
head, choke and all ; in England you
can only extract a pitiful pittauce of a
soft mouthful off’the base of each great
leathery scale. It would be impossible
to dress English artichokes in fried
butter as they do so deliciously at
Florence ; one might as well eat fried
boots. Our cauliflowers and brocoli
are not nearly as good as the Ameri
can ; they are neither so white nor so
delicate in flavor. We can grow cu
cumbers (under glass), because cueum-
bers are eaten green ; but what a
miserable farce are our vegetal>le
marrows ! What Is true of vegetables
is even more true oi fruits. To be sure
our English hot-house grapes are the*
best in the world; but for strawber
ries, raspberries, currants, gooseber
ries, plums aud cherries we must go
to America. Our peaches are a suc
cess ; our apples are a national failure;
and our pears are a standing insult to
the human intelligence. But we may
at least congratulate ourselves that
with the aid of glass and stoves we
can obtain heat and light, enough to
grow the best pineapples in the world
at the moderate price of one guinea
apiece. In Jamaica they usually sell
at two for three halfpence.
Notes on Barbers.
About as odd a combination of dis
contented “ proletaires ” that it is pos
sible to conceive is the strike of the
hairdressers, the imminence of which
was yesterday announced by our Paris
correspondent. It appears that in
some districts of the gay capital the
tonsorial fraternity have decided to
fix the sum of twenty-five centimes,
or twopence half-penny, as the lowest
price for their performance of the
operation of “easy shaving.” Now-
few Frenchmen shave themselves, foi
the simple reason that French razors
sold at moderate prices are of very infe
rior quality, while good razors are
very dear. The working classes have
become highly indignant at the enact
ment of the twenty-five centimes’
minimum as the tariff'for “ une barbe
simple,” and have revenged them
selves by withholding the customary
“ pourboises ” from the hairdressers’
assistants. Consequently these hard
working subordinates, or “ barbers’
clerks,” as they used to be contemptu
ously termed in England, have threat
ened to strike “ en masse” unless the
masters compensate for the loss of the
“ pourboires” by an augmentation in
the wages of the assistants. As for
the master “ coiffeurs,” denounced on
the one hand by their exasperated
customers, and threatened on the
other by their rebellious “ garconc,”
their positiou has come to resemble
that which, according to the old
Scotch proverb, was the case of “the
toad under the harrow, when every
tooth gave her a tig.” The masters
are deterred from lowering [their
charges by the fact that by the rules
of their society any employer accept
ing less than the minimum rate is at
once liable to a preliminary fine of
two hundred francs, or eight pounds
sterling.
Miring in Ancient Times.
The Dispensary.
Felons.—Beef marrow, bound on
aud renewed twice a day, is said to be
the most effectual agent for the cure
of those painful visitants, felons.
In acute 'sickness when milk and
beef-tea disagree, the French hospitals
give a preparation called albumen
water, made by dissolving the white
of an egg in a pint of water and add
ing glycerine to [sweeten, and lemon
juice
) flavor.
Reil
tady for Hiccough.
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In England, absolute free trade in
shaving has long prevailed. There is,
indeed, an ancient Company of Bar
ber-Surgeons, the seventeenth iu pre
cedence among the City Guilds to
which Henry VIII. gave a magnifi
cent picture by Holbein, while Charles
II. presented them with a drinking
cup made from the trunk of the Royal
oak, richly mounted with silver. B t
tiie Barber Surgeons’ Company nevei
exercised any jurisdiction out of the
City proper, and from time immemo
rial the Londoner has been privileged
to enjoy tne luxury of “a penny
shave, - The upper and middle
classes in England, as a rule, shave
themselves, and since the custom ol
wearing the full beard has been re
vived the art of shaving may be said
to have declined in aristocratic Lon
don. In the more densely populated
quarters, however, shaving goes on
from early morning until late at night,
and constant practice on beards oi
every texture makes the “ penny
shaver” a very rapid and tol rably
skillfui executant. He sweeps the
chin of the working man dean in a
minute, and the i the son of toil ad-
mitis'ers some water to his caunte
nance, rubs it dry with the jack-towel
hanging behind the door, pays his
penny, and departs. They manage
these, however, very differently
abroad. The Parisian “ coiffeur ” has
been already glanced at; but the Ital
ian and the Spanish barbers are quite
as skillful artists their Gallic confre-
reu ; nor is the German at all behind
the tonsors of the Latin races. It
may be that foreigners are vainer oi
their personal appearance than Eng
lishmen are. The Americans are cer
tainly very much vainer. He who enters
a “ toilet studio ” in the United States
for the purpose of being “barbed”
or shaved must be prepared to sacri
fice from twenty to forty minutes ol
his time. Everything is done in a
solemn, deliberate aud artistically
complete manner. The actual shav
ing is only one of a series of elaborate
processes to which the customer is
bound to submit. When the parts ot
his face require to be denuded of hair
have been minutely goue over with
the keenest and most dexterously
handled of razors, and the features
have been refreshed with scented
spray, and dried with “ poudre d« riz”
the operation of “ fixing ” commences.
The customer is shampooed, kneaded,
“ machine brushed,” and “fine-
combed.” “Bay rum” and other
mysterious liquids are applied to his
hair, “ brilliantlue ” gives his mus
taches gloss, aud “ pommade Hou-
groise” renders them spiky; while
finally there gently meunders round
l£) head the tropic gale and fragrance
of the curling tongs. For being pro
perly “ barbed ” and properly “ fixed”
a customer at New York or at Chi
cago will pay at least fifteen eeuta
veu-pem^ halfpenny.
The methods iu vogue among the
ancients tor the development of mines
were in many respects far differment
from those in use at the present time.
In the country to the south of us the
descent and ascent of shafts were made
by means of notched logs. These
were from twenty to thirty feet long,
extending from level to level. The
logs or ladders were climbed by the
eure-footed miners, the Aztecs, and
more recently by Indians, who were
engaged iu the dislodgment of the
precious mineral. Tire ore was placed
in rawhide bags containing about half
a bushel, this same being rested upon
the back while it was held in position
by straps extending a< ross the
shoulders, united in front and fastened
through its own weight upon fhe fore
head. “If a mine were overflowing
with water the troublesome fluid was
removed in these bags in the same
manner as the ore by the miners, who
tediously climbed the notched poles,
and whose notches answered the
place of wider steps. The ore was re
moved in a manner almost as tedious.
Fires were built against the walls of
the mine, and as their surface became
calcined the incinerated portions
were dislodged by stone hammers.
The melting was equally as cumber
some ; being effected with charcoal
and bellows. Yet mining was profita
ble under fhese crude methods. It is
not surprising, therefore, that wonder
ful reports continue to reach us of the
abandoned old mines of Sonora, which,
with their introduction of modern ma
chinery, worked by energetic aud ex
perienced Americans, will soon aston
ish the world with their rich produc
tion.” In the early days of the Com
stock we have seen these notched
poles in use in the Mexican mines in
this city; also the rawhide sacks.
Howev er, they used picks and shovels,
and blasted out the ore instead of
burning it out.
The ore was worked in arastras, and
by the patio process—indeed the
patio process was in use here or some
years aud not alone by Mexicans.
Horses were used for treading these
patios to stir up the pulp, and in a
short time the beasts presented a piti
able appearance. The bluestone in
the pulp took all the hairc ff their legs
and covered them with sores, while
the quicksilver salivated and poisoned
them. It is said that horses hecama
to charged with mercury that it oozed
from their eyes.
The Rose-Growing Craze.
growing, aud I have no doubt others
of the trade have had the same expe
rience. I is true that many of these
amateur florists will get their fingers
nurnt, and will not only never realize
a dollar on their investments, but will
work at a loss; yet enough of them
will succeed to give zest to the risk,
for at present prices, when success is
attained, the profits are so great as to
produce the present “craze” on the
subject—a“craze” that probably will
result exactly as th*e Morns Muiticaulis
did in 1840, or the grape-vine fever in
1865. All experience shows that, in
the perishable commodities of fruits,
flowers or vegetables, whenever an
over-supply floods the market and
brings down the prices below a paying
level, less is sold than when they bring
a fair price. Two years ago, in June,
strawberries and cabbage iu the New
York markets got so low as not to pay
even the cost of marketing. The re
sult was that hundreds of loads had to
be taken back and dumped in the
manure yards, as they could not be
disposed of at any price. Some thirty
years ago peaches one day fell down
to twelve cents a basket iu Washing
ton market, New York, and would not
sell at that. In those days the crop
was perhaps held by a score of dealers
only. They got their heads together
and decided to destroy every peach in
the market. It was done. A scarcity
was produced, and in twenty-four
hours peaches w T ent up to $1 per bas
ket. The leader in the movement had
no doubt been a disciple of Adam
Smith, and had wisely studied the
laws of supply and demand.
The present excitement in rose
growing is no doubt largely due to the
unprecedented priceB realized this
winter, which have been caused in a
great measure by the unusual heat and
drouth of last autumn, which weak
ened in many cases, and in others en
tirely destroyed, the plants that would
have been used to produce the crop of
flower*. This, together with a brisk
demand, ha3 resulted in profits which
it is unreasonable to expect can ever
be long continued in any legitimate
business.
Jocose Clips.
In consequence of the extraordinary
prices obtained for rosebuds during the
past two or three years, not only have
the regular florists used their large
profits in extending their greenhouse
structures for that purpose, but the
fabulous reports of the profits of rose
growing have excited the cupidity of
many capitalists in the vicinity of
New York, Boston and Chicago, and
in all probability iu the other large
cities of the Union. These men have
an abundance of means, and begin on
a scale usually at which the ordinary
florist, who had to climb his way up,
ends; so we have already iu the vicin
ity of New York at least a dozen estab
lishments for the forcing of rosebuds
in winter, owned by men who count
their capital by millions. These gen
tlemen, of course, know nothing prac
tically about the busiuess, relying
altogether upon their gardeners for
success;—for who ever heard of a
millionaire florist? Whether they do
succeed or not in fuaking a profit of a
few thousand dollars a year is not vital
to men who count their income by
the hundred thousand ; yet it is curi
ous with what interest the rise or fall
of a few cents iu the rose market is
regarded even by them. New Jersey
has iryore than her .quota of these mil
lionaire florists. Already we h»ve
four iu Madison, one iu Summit and
two in Orange, New Jersey, and it is
said that there is as much iuterset
manifested by them in the prices at
which, in the technical slang of the
flower-shops, “Cooks,” “Jacks,” “Mer-
rnets” and “Perles” are quoted iu
Broadway as is evinced in Wall Street
in “Wabash,” “Lake Shore,” “Erie”
or “Central.” It is true that, one at
least, of these gentlemen gives all the
profits that accrue from his roses to
charitable purposes; but it is feared
that he has few imitators among his
compeers in this particular; for the
motive is the same as iu all other in
vestments—to get the largest profit
possible from the smallest amount or
money involved. Within the past
twelve months I have been consulted
by at least a score of gentlemen about
p embark iu the business of rose-
“ I’ll feed my boarders on the fat of
the land,” observed Mrs. Stuffem, as
she receipted for a tub of oleomarga
rine.
Ft o the prices that some pby scians
charge one can readily imagine that
high heels are fashionable.
“ Well, Mary, how do you liko
your new home in Vermont?”
“ Well, mum, we all like it but father,
and the air is too embracing for him,
but under flte canister of heaven I
think there isn’t a moro beautifuller
place.”
School patron : “ Well, Mr. Syntax,
you have a very fair school here!”
Mr. Syntax : “ Yes, sir ; the school is
well enough, but the curriculum is
defective.” Patrou: “ What, the
curriculum defective? We must see
architect at once about it, and have it
raised a few feet higher.”
“ Gentlemen of the jury,” said an
Irish lawyer, “it will be for you to
say whether the defendant shall bo
allowed to come into court with un-
blushing foot-steps, with a cloak of
hypocrisy in his mouth, and draw
three bullocks out of my clients
pocket with impunity.”
An old gentleman finding a couple
of his neices fencing with broomsticks,
said : “ Come, come, my dears, that
kind of accomplishment will not aid
you in getting husbands.” “I know
it, uncle,” responded one ot the girls,
as she gave a lunge, “ but it will help
to keep our husbands in order when
we get ’em.”
Two geese with one stone: Two
young swells were making fun of a
good country curate. The abbe, after
standing it % pretty well for awhile,
said : “ Allow me to say, gentlemen,
that I am not precisely a fop nor al
get her a fool, but betwixt the two,
The young men departed. —IYen<
Fooliahncaa.
Sunlight, Daylight and Gaslif
It has been proven by direct cot
parison that objects which are whf
by sunlight appear yellowish ui
the electric light, and red whei
by gaslight. “ The illusion,”
Dr. Werner Siemens, “ arises (
our being accustomed to see the
redly lllumiuuted after sunset,
this basis forming a different
colors for ourselves. Dayligt
accordingly by night appear stj
than Mlie electric lhht. Ti
idea >Suld disappear if eiej
natij^mmie £enj
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