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BLACKSHEAR, APRIL 1879.
Origin of Two Popular Poems.
Hood’s touching lyric, “The Song of
the Shirt,” was the work of an evening.
Its author was prompted to write it by
the condition of thousands of working
women in the city of Lontfcm. The effect
of its production was foreseen by two
persons, Lemon, the poet's wife and Mark
the editor of Punch
“Now mind, Tom—mind my words,”
said his devoted wife, “ this will tell
wonderfully. It is oue of the best
things you ever did.”
Mr. Lemon, looking over his letters
one morning, openc^ an envelope in¬
closing a poem whi<J| Jy the wri try said
had been rejected three London
journals. He begged the editor to con¬
sign it to the waste-paper basket if it
the was not thought suitable for Punch *as
author was sink of the sight of it.”
The poem was signed Tom Hood, and.
was entitled “ The SoDg of the Shirt.”
It was submitted to the weekly meet¬
ing of the editors and principal con¬
tributors, several of whom opposed its
publication as unsuitable to the pages
of a comic journal. Mr. Lemon, how¬
ever, was so firmly impressed with its
beautv that he published it on Decem¬
ber 16, 1843.
“ The Song of the Shirt ’ trebled the
sale of the paper and created a profound
sensation throughout Great Britain.
People of every class were moved by it.
It was chanted by ballad-singers in the
streets of London, and drew tears from
the eyes of princes. Seven years after
the author’s death the English people
erected a monument over his grave.
IP* *jch gave £uipeas,.the.laJborej shillings .8
sewing-women gave and ponce,
Sculptured on it is the inscription de
vised by himself: “He sang ‘The Song
of the Stiirt.’”
“ The Old Oaken Bucket” was written
fifty or more years ago by a printer
named Samuel Woodworth. He was in
the habit of dropping into a noted drink
ing-saloon kept by one Mallory. Oue
day, after drinking a glass of brandy
and water, he smacked his lips and de
dared that Mallory’s brandy was supe
rior to any drink he had ever tasted.
“ No,” said Mallory, “you are mis¬
taken. There was a drink which in
both our estimations far surpassed this.”
“ What was that ?” incredulously
asked Woodworth.
“ The fresh spring water we used to
drink from the old oaken backet that
hung in the well, after returning from
the fields on a sultry day.”
“Very true,” replied Woodworth,
tear-drops glistening in his eyep.
Returning to his printing office, he
seated himself at his desk ftnd began to
write. In half an hour
“The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bncket,
The moss-covered bucket which hong in the
well”
was embalmed in an inspiring song that
has become as familiar as a household
word.
From Vagrant to Missionary.
John _ , Brady _ , only , a few , years ago wa*
a street vagrant m New York, a
frousy-heade.i, vagabond little savage,
sleepmg under grocer^ carts, m nooks,
and on the docks m neglected areas
and doorways anywhere he could find
room to curl himself up m a ragged
bundle and appropriate to himself a
cat-nap before the inevitable police
man could interrupt his slumber
Then be was committed as a vagabond
and shut up m Biackwell s island; then
being on a farm, he worked and went to
school three months of the year, then
secured the position of bell-ringer at
Yale college, paying thus for his tuition
until he was graduated; then friends
paid Ins way through the New York
Theological seminary, and then, last
.summer, the Tittle street Arab became
tue first _ Presbyterian , . missionary . . lo the ,
burrowing Esquimaux in Alaeka.
A German theorist thinks cooking de
i stroys the nutritive properties of food.
Snails as Food.
We take the following from a curious
paper entitled “In a Suailery,” con¬
tributed to Scribner by Ernest lugersoll
Snails, being great eaters, meet their
just reward in being eaten. Tne paln
dine forms are sought after by all sorts
of water birds, particularly ducks and
rails; while the thrashes and other birds
crush the shells of the land snails and
extraot their juicy bodies. The wood¬
land birds, however, will not eat
naked-bodied Rlugs ; the slime sticks
their beaks and soils their feathers ;
the ducks seem to have no snch
prejudices. Some mammals, like the
raccoons and wood-rats, also eat them ;
insects suck their juices, and the car¬
nivorous sings prey upon one another.
Lastly, man, the greatest enemy of
brute creation, employs several
of snails for culinary purposes. By
Romans they were esteemed a
delicacy, and portions of
were set apart for the cultivation of
large, edible Helix pomatia, where
were fattened by the thousand
bran sodden in wine. From Italy
taste and spread throughout the Old World,
colonies are yet fonnd in
Britain where the Roman
were. They are still regarded as a
cacy in Italy and France,' the
method of preparation being to boil
milk, with plenteous seasoning.
Bncklancksays Engli that several of the
h species are excellent food
hungry boiled people, and recommends
either in milk, or, in winter, raw,
after soaking 8 for an hour in salt
., e©« ollke l French
in London have them placed
upon their bills of fare. Thousands
collected aunually and sent to
as food for cage-birds. Dr. Edward
Gray stated, a few years ago, that
mense United quantities were shipped alive
the States “ as delicacies
I am inclined to think this an
tion. The same author records that
glassmen at Newcastle once a year
a snail feast, collecting the animals
the fields and hedges on the Sunday
fore the feast.
Emigration Into the United States.
The chief of the bureau of statistics
tt Washington, furnishes the
summary of the official returns of
gration into the United States, last
During the culendar year .1878,
arrived at the several ports of the
States 209,254 passengers, of
153, 207 were emigrants. During
calender year 1877, the total arrival
passengers was 180,361, of whom
503 were immigrarts, showing an
crease of 22,704 in the number of
grants, or abont seventeen per
The ages of the immigrants who
daring 1878 were : Under fifteen
29,685 ; fifteen and under forty,
forty years and upward, 19,464.
were 94,651 males and 58,556 females.
The occupations were : Professional,
1,516; skilled, 16,837 ; not specified,
631 ; without occupations
women and children), 72,121.
countries of last permanent residence,
0 r citizenship, were as follows:
larul, 19,581; Ireland, 17,113; Scotland,
3 700; Great Britain (not specified),
Wales, 311; Germany, 31,958; Austria,
4>881 . Hungary, 632; Sweden,
Norway, 5,216 ; Denmark, 2 688 ;
er i ands> 652; Belgium. 554;
landf 2 ,051 ; France, 5,668 ; Italy,
Sicily, 228 ; Greece, 13; SpaiD,
Portugal, 648: Russia, 4,216; Poland,
554 . Fialtin.i. 22 ; Turkey ia Europe,
23 .Syria, 38 . , ndia> 9 . c hina 8 468
y ont h Africa, 7; Africa (not
4; Quebec and Ontario, 24,533 ; Scotia,
3 ^ . New Brunswick, 1 458;
E , lward I(llandf 849 ; Newfoundland,
108 . British Columbia, 372; Mexico,
437; British Honduras, 4; Central
{ 14 Waited States of Colombia,
Venezuela, 16; Brazil, 11; Peiu,
80 nt.i 1 America (not specified), 10
Cuba, 494, Porto Rico, 13 ; Hayti,
Jamaica, 34 ; Bahamas, 289 ;
NO. 6.
22; St Croix, 11; St Thomas, 18; Trin¬
idad, 7; West Indies (not specified), 81;
Azores, 873 ; Cape Verdes, 6 ; Bermuda,
13 ; Iceland, 168 ; Australia, 684; and
ail other countries, 14.
During the year 1878 fifteen ohildren
were born on the voyage, and the num¬
ber of deaths was seventy-one.
A Frontiersman on the Mule.
One of the Bishop Brothers’ herders,
a bronzed frontiersman, whose face is
shaded by a sombrero with a brim of
the broadest, and whose constant com
panion is a blaeksnake whip, which he
can orook with a report like a rifle, re
lates many aneoaotes of mules, with
whose habits and capabilities he is
thoroughly When conversant. He says:
“ you get on the plains you don’t
want nothing better’n a mule, ami you
can’t get nothing better for plains work.
They can live on less and lay them¬
selves down to more honest hard work
than any other eritter of their size.
Why, stranger, a mule kin ran down an
antelope, long-legged and I never see any of yonr
American horses do that
the Mustangs do it sometimes, bat a mule’s
best. He won’t be so very speedy,
maybe, bnt he’s got the bottom, and
though the Tope’ll git awav from him
at first, and perhaps histe h isself clear
out of sight, the mnle'U tucker him
out and tucker him in the end, if he’s
kept on his trail long enough. Males
ain’t no slouches on the track some¬
times, too. Mnles ’pill live, too, on
what a horse would starve before he’d
and touch. I've They’ll ’eifi grow fat live on and sage work brush, for
known to
weeks by ohowin’ on eaoh other’s manes
and tails and wagon-tongues, feed
boxes, wagon-sheets, sand and sieh
stuff. Oh, you bet a mule’s tough.”—
Colman's Rural World.
Where Genius Fonnd Inspiration.
It is told of Mrs. Siddon that as one
day as she was passing in her
through St. Giles’, London, she saw two
vixens indulging in a struggle that was
a more common sight in the
actress’ time than our own. The trage -
dienne ordered her coaehman to stop,
much to companion the amazement the of occasion. the lady
was her on
perfoimers of this grand combat
tinued their conflict without taking
of who waB or who was not looking on
their exertions. At last, equally
ed, very much disfigured and
ly out of breath, the viragos had to
off from positive exhaustion. Upon this
the majestic Sarah directed her servant
to drive on. “You are
she said to her friend, “ at brawl. my stopping I
to witness a vulgar street
never been satisfied that I had
canght the true facial emotion of
Maobeth, when she talks of Now, dashing
the brains of her babe. one
those women, in threatening the
struck me as having exactly the
sion required; and I am determined
try it to-night, as I have to play
character.” She did, and the effect
electric.
Rome Sentinel Brevities.
—The dollar is mightier than
sword.
—“Now m try to brace up,” as
man said when he bought a pair of
penders.
—“That takes the cake,” as the
positor said when he removed the
of fat poetry from the hook.
—The “Faille Bridal Toilet” is
trated and described in a fashion jour;
To purchase such an outfit is enough
make the average father fail.
—After you have related a rich
to a friend’ aud you expect to hear
burst out into uproarious laughter,
ing is more calculated to convince
of the correctness of the
theory than to have him stare
blandly inquire: “What’s the point?”