Commonplace,
* A commonplace lite,” we say, and we sigh;
Bat why should we sigh as we say ?
The commonplace sun in the commonplace
sky
Makes up the common lacs day;
The moon and the stars are commonplao
things,
And the flower that blooms and the bind |
that sings; |
Bat dark were the world and sad our lot
If the flowers failed and the sun shone not
And God, who studies each separate soul,
tifal whole.
|
Lightning and Kisses,
The storm is conung on apace;
The trees begin to shiver;
Big drops of min drum on the pane,
And set me all a-quiver;
The clouds are black as ink, oh-oh!
How vividly it lightened!
And this premonivory hash
Joe, I am sadly frightened,
“ No wonder, darling, you're atmid
In such a storm as this is;
But never fear the lightning, dear,
I'll blind your eves with kisses.”
1
It's driving down upon us now;
The very house is rooking;
Wind-currents roar, rain-torrents pour
Oh, how my knees are knocking;
The thunders erash and roll as though
The sky had split asunder;
Joe, 1 shall surely faint away,
I am so afmid of thunder,
“ Darling, you well might faint away
In such a storm as this is;
But never lear the thunder, dear,
I'll silence bring with kisses."
“It's such & catching season, Joe,
I'm in a constant pando;
There's that about a thander-cloud
Which seerus almost satanio,
What did yoa say, Joe '—that you wish
"Twould come on every day so?
Yon oruel tellow-—lot me go
How do you dare say so?
“ Of such a cruel wish, my dear,
The explavation this s:
The grass and grain need frequent rain,
And [need frequent kisses.”
A BITTER GAIN.
A remarkableaffinity existed between
the occupants of two separate windows
in one of a dingy row of brick houses
one exceptionally hot summer not many
years ago; it was the more remarkable
that these two people were very unlike
each other, being of opposite sexes, the
one a grizzled, grufl, grumpy bachelor
on the wro.g side of fifty, the other a
round, rosy, rollicking maiden of “sweet
and twenty.” The man was evidently a
foreigner, the woman an unmistakable |
American, and these two heads, framed |
by the embrasures of the separate win-
dows, formed a strong contra-t. It
was about four o'clock in the afternoon,
and both of them were looking for the |
tman- she from her attic window;
e from his second floor front. They
had been coking for the postman every
day for x fortnight, and hope deferred
had paled the cheek and subdued the
merriment of the maiden, while it
deepened the already rubicuna color and |
sharpened the already testy tempera-
ment of the man. Presently appeared
in sight the brisk dapper little fellow,
in the gray uniform, with his bag
strapped over his shoulder, stepping
along from house to house, dealing joy
and sorrow, surprise, fear, ecstacy, all |
the emoions incident to poor hapless
hum nity as he went. But he dealt
nothing to the two anxious watchersin
the dingy brick row. Their heads sim-
ultaneously turned to watch him as he
disappeared around a neighboring cor:
per. The man grunted out a bitter ejac-
ulation, and slammed down the win-
-dow: the girl sighed, and with diffi-
culty repressed a sob as she closea the
blind.
The next day at four o'clock thesame
pantomime was enacted. The same
anxiety, hope, fear, disappointment,
e painted on the two laces. The
girl brushed the tesrs (rom her eyes, |
and put wearily back her hair. As'the |
man with his usual expletive of disgust |
and disappointment, tugged at the
blind, a puff of wind blew the light
ribbon from the hair of the girl straight
into his eyes, and from thence to the
floor of his room. He saw it at once. |
It lay upon the faded carpet almost un-
der his feet. His first impulse was to |
tramp upon it as he marched to and fro |
grow ling at the hard luek that had shu
him up in this hot hole during the dog,
days. His next impulse was to kick
the bauble aside; but it was not of a
kickable nature, and clung close to his
feet. He stooped at last and took it
from the floor and found it suspiciously |
dam
“She's been sniffling again,” he said.
*“ As usual, she gets no letter and cries;
1 get no letter, and I swear. I wonder
which is the most consoling. And why |
in thunder don’t she get her letter ? She
ean't have any rascally lawyers to deal |
with, that lie, and cajole, and cheat and |
stesl. She can't be wailing for a wit- |
ness to come from the other side of the
world to testify in a case that ought to |
have been setiled before Le went to sea. |
1 believe it was a conspiracy on the |
part of these inferna. lawyers to daw-
die along with the case, and not dis.
cover the existence of this Martin Mal-
log till he had shipped again, and was
weil out of their call. And now it
seems that the fate of the suit depends |
upon the testimony of this fellow before |
the mast. At least five thousand pounds |
of my money at this present wnoment is |
at stake in the life of a miserable sailor |
far out at sea.” Here his soliloquy was |
interrupted by a light tap at the door. |
“Come,” he growled, without turning |
his head. i
He thought it was his landlady, Mrs. |
Matson, for whom he had no particular |
affection, or her rough-featured domes-
tic, that he feit certain was shortening |
his life by her miserable cookery. But |
a gentle voice said, * Did you want any- |
thing, sir?” And turning he beheld his |
landlady’s daughter. And how in the!
world shie could bear that relation to the
* fat, swarthy, coarse and commercial
female who kept the house, this lodger
could not imagine. Her eyes were so
soft and brown, so pleading and inno-
cent, frank and confiding as alittle
child's, whereas her motLer's were
narrow and sharp, distrasttul and cun
Pp.
nig,
he young girl flushed under this
scrutinizing gaze, and said again ** You
didn’t want anything, then, Mr. Mc- |
Graw? Mother said you pounded on the |
floor.”
“ Pounded!” said Mr. McGraw; * of
couse I poanded. If I don’t get a letter
soon I'll make smithereens of some of
this Liorsehair furniture about me. If
your mother has any regard for her
gquint-eyed ancestor over there, she'd
better take him down and out of the
way. He's been following me about
with that damaged leer of his for the
last fortnight. It'sa mercy I haven't
stabbed him through the canvas. And,
say,” he added, for the girl was fast
vanishing out of his sight, and she was
. wondrous pleasant article to look upon
in this gloomy old barrack—" say,”
gsid Mr. McGraw. He was still twirl-
ing the bit of blue ribbon in his fingers
and now held it out to the young girl.
“It fell in the window to-day as we
were both looking for that confounded
postman. 1 hope we'll Lave better luck
to morrow, Maggie.”
“1 thought sure we would to-day,
sir,” said Maggie, blushing and sighing.
* I had a good sign this niorning.”
“YWhat w.s that, Maggie?” said Mr.
McGraw, st:Jl holding his end of the
blue ribbon.
* Why, see, sir,” she said, and pointed
to the skirt of her dress. “I put it on
wrong side out this morning, and never
changed it, for Martin used to say it was
sign of good luck.”
“And who is Martin?” said Mr.
McGraw. * Itso happens that I am in-
terested in that name.”
“Tue one I'm looking for a letter
from, sir. The vessel was due a month
ago;” and here her voice broke, and the
brown eyes filled with tears,
“ A sailor with the name of Martin?”
1aid Mr. MeGraw, with increased in-
terest. * What's his last name, Mag-
e
+» Malloy, sir—Martin Malloy.”
VOLUME XIII
“(God bless my soul!” said MeGraw ;
wthis is a remarkable coincidence!
Why, Maggie. this is the very man 1'm
A heavy sum of
friend of
than a
depends upon this
1 suppose he is mare
money
yours,
“ We're promised to be married, sir,
r this voyage He had a chance of
rising to second mate; and ob, I'm
sorry we waited!”
“So am I.” said Mr. MeGraw, “lt
he'd stopped long enough to be married
we might have got hold of him for a
witness, and that would have been the
making of many a thousand pounds for
me: but never mind, Maggie; lol's de.
pend upon the augury of tne ps tticoat
You seo our fates are linked together,
and as only one of us wears a petticoat,
the one garment must serve for us both;
and I'll tell you what, Maggie" —for she
g again, and he hated
er gO I'l tell vou what, when
Martin comes back, and wins for me
money, a good round sum of it
shal! go for a wedding outfit for you.”
“1f he only comes back!" said Mag-
gio, and went out of the door, leaving
the ribbon still in the hand ot Mr. Me-
Graw—a meditative, alto.
gether changed expression his
face.
“A most remarkable coincidence!” he
repeated to himself. ** This accounts
for the interest I've taken in that girl
from the start. A queer freak of destiny
has thrown us together, and here we
are both hanging upon the fate of this
I don't suppose he's worthy of
her. No doubt he’s a rough, common,
abusive brute; but he's young"—bher
Mr. MeGraw gave vent to a grunt that
was meant for a sigh—"‘and, 1 suppose,
after his low mshion, good looking."
Here Mr. McGraw kicked over the
»
BO
¥
i
LO se
this
softened,
upon
the blue ribbon in his vest pocket, drew
a cha'r to the window, filied his nipe,
and looking out upon a triangular bit
reverie.
The next morning Maggie was at her
old post at the attic window. Mr.
McGraw was also rattiing at his blinds;
but he looked fully as often up at Mag
gie as he did down the street forthe
postman, snd was quite jocular and
smiling for a man of his nervous tem-
perament.
“ Any more signs, Maggie?” he said,
almost dislocating his neck to geta good
look at her pretty face.
Maggie shook her head, and smiled
mournfully.
“1 dream>d of white horses, sir, and
mother says it’s a bad sign.”
“ Your mother is always a {—" Here
the postman stopped at the door, and
will ever know whether Mr,
McGraw meant to cal his landlady a
onversation was stopped by the coming
the long-looked-lor letters. There
as one for Maggie, and one for Mr
McGraw. Maggie had run down to the
taken both letters, and fled up
Her hand was trembling
MeGraw's hand.
“I'm afraid to open mine,’
' she sad;
Mr
At the first sentence, however,
Mr. McGraw started, and put his spec-
he had read the missive hall
All
* My God!" said Mr. HeGraw, “she’s
got the news already. And rushing out
his rather gouty legs could carry him,
he saw the poor girl stretched lifeless
upon the floor, the fatal letter crumpled
in her hand. Then he pounded in right
good earnest; and being a man of
The
}
she
Maggie wearily opened her eyes,
she saw Mr. McGraw
“ I'm a bitter reminder of her loss,
’ The doctor and
Maggie's mother looked at him inquir-
But Mr. McGraw did not
Maggie opened her eyes again. After
her first long, sobbing breath, her first
* Let him
He has lost his money,
" Here the words froze
“ Wh-re is he?” she said.
me,
and [ have lost~—
Qo
e put her arms around his neck and
Mr.
McGraw had lived a lonely bachelor’s
life; hiskith and kin were far away.
was 4 new experience to him—
new and strangely sweet For years
His eyes
w.re wet and blurred; a queer choking
sensation arose in iis throat; his voice
was husky ss he blurted out some con-
ing words.
‘ He can never come back to speak for
you,” said poor Maggie. ‘You have
lost all your money. 1'm very sorry for
you, Mr. McGraw.”
Shie meant she was sorry for herself,
but the poor child craved companion-
ship in her grief.
Heaven knows she got it from Mr.
McGraw. From this time out he be-
came devoted to the duty of assuaging
the grief of the bereaved girl. He filled
his pockets with bonbons, and ribbons,
and the various gewgaws he thought
would soften the affliction of a girl of
twenty, and failing with those, sought
her eyes went wistfully wandering out
Then he would say, gently,
“ Come, Maggie,” and she would obey
utiful fashion, lifting her
face to his, full of some sort of affection
—he didn’t stop to consider what it was;
but Maggie knew that she owed this
luxury of melancholy entirely to Mr.
McGraw. He had coaxed her mother
into giving over Maggie's ordinary
drudgery to other hands, so that she
could have the comfort of nursing her
little persuasion, and met his entreaties
half way.
ears parried the thrusts and
having for y a
a
caterimgs of anxious mothers in beh
so as it furthered his own happiness,
and rendered him more and more com-
fortable ns time went by.
Now that the hot summer was gone,
blow, the old brick lodgings were
not so gloomy. The obliquely yisioned
ancestor had been taken from the wall;
the horsehair furniture covered with a
gay chintz; the rusty grate was rubbed
nto a rubicund i omy and therein
he coals blazed generously. Therewas
no stint in the maternal blessings shiow-
ered upon this lodger, and Mr. McGraw
for the Grst time, appreciated his deal-
ings with a commercial woman, who
was willing to spend money when there
was considerable to be made by it. This
excellent woman even endeavored to
put an air of smartness into Maggie's
wardrobe, and garnished her cloak with
a crimson trimming. Maggie wore the
cloak, but her face was sadly out of
keeping with the brave garment. She
had grown so much more subdued, and
so much 1n hosaerer manner and ap-
pearance, that Mr. McGraw felt more
and more at ease in her society, and of
thie two he began to appear the bright-
est, and wore an air of briskness and
Hditor
:
vigor that went far to make up tor his
mature vears His lawyers declared
that never, in the whole course of thelr
EXP rience sen BR An pos
. had they
pos
sessed with admirable
ophy
As the months went by, it began Lo be
generally ceded by all concerned
that Mr. McGraw was *' paying saillen
to Ma and she was treated
that rare consideration that Les
nek demanded.
¢ only creature that seemed utterly
ignorant of the situation was poor Mag.
gie herself, who had never lor a moment
forgotten her dead sailor, or ceased re
viving his memory to Mr. McGraw,
who scemed the only one that
fully sympathize with her and consoi
hey
such
&¥
0
tion’
with
good
by
i
sR,
could
i
Mr. MoGraw had endeavored to infuse
into his manner something of the bear-
ing of a lover, but Maggie invariably
received these advances with the gentile
gratitude that had become a part of her
nature, and Me. MoGraw instinotively
shrank from anything that might shock
her delicacy, or estrange her Irom him
Que morning, as ti y stood upon the
ong pier and jo vked out to sea, he said
to the gird * Shal
you be SOITY, my dear, 10 see me one ol
these days sailing away from you inn
ship like that one over yonder, never
perhaps to look upon your sweet ince
again?"
She said no word, clung closer to
arm, and two big tears roiled out of her
eyes. He took courage then to put his
arm about her—not but that it
often been there before, but that was in
& fatherly sort of way.
“Would you be afraid, Maggie, to
cross the sea with me?" he said.
“ Afraid!” she replied; *'1
never be afraid of the sea.”
There was an unpleasant inflection in
these words that was closely connected
with the dead sailor, and Mr. McGraw
essaved still another inquiry. ** Don't
you love me e, Maggie?" said
“1 love you better than yhody
now," she said.
He longed to ask her if her love was
anything of the nature of the ardent
yassion she had once held for the sailor
Malloy, but of course he refrained. and
indeed he was well content with his
present happiness, Mr. MoGraw felt
certain of the future. There seemed no
obstacle to his happiness, and that very
day he resolved to get his affairs in
shape so that he could leave the country
at a moment's notice. He stooped and
kissed Maggie good-bya, and started off
blithely to see his lawyers,
“Don't be long,” she called from the
window. * 1 shall wait here till you
come back.”
Gud bless the child!” said poor Mr.
McGraw. There certainly now is
nothing to hinder our happiness.”
[he lawyers were out, and the office
was in care of the boy. On a low chair
by the door a man sat, with his head
resting upon his knees. His whole ap
pearance was of that slipshod wature
that it seemed as if he might fall to
pieces at any moment. His frame, of
herculean dimensions, was the more |
pitiable that the flesh had shrunken
from the bones, and the features ol his
face were harsh and forbidding in their
prominence. His clothes were faded
and patched, his hat was pulled over Lis
eyes, and altogether he was a most for-
lorn and pitiable ohjeet in this office of
a prosperous solicitor,
i
clinging to his arm
"
iis
had
cou id
a iLL Le
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fay
In the heyday of happiness, how could
Mr. McGraw pass this wretched fellow
creature by without a word?
“ Good morning, my poor fellow,”
said. ** You seem to be in a sorry pligh
Can 1 do anything for you?"
“You can tell me, "said the man, in
a hoarse and hollow voice, “if it's true
that these people here will be giad to
see me. [I'm told there's a reward ollered
for any news of me, and I'd like a litte
money to prink up before I go to see wy
sweetheart. She'll be thinking it's my
ghost il 1 go to her like this”
“Some wretched criminal,” thought
Mr. McGraw, vho has risked every-
thing to see this woman he loves. See
here, my good fellow,” he said, lower.
ing his voice, ** if this money will be of
any use to you, take it, and go; but I'd |
keep clear of the law if | were you.”
* Why, thank you, sir," said the man,
putting back the bills, * but I'm no beg.
gar. I'll wait and hear what these land
sharks have to say.”
At that moment the senior lawyer en-
tered, and turned upon the fellow a ais-
trustful glance. “What do vou want
liere? he said, sharply. ’
he
t
+
for news of a shipwrecked
Martin Malloy.”
* I offered ten pounds,” said the law.
yer, turning to Mr. McGraw.
“The deuce you did!"
sai or called
said Mr.
and was gazing at the man with
strained eyes. ‘*This Malloy is dead,”
hie added, still keeping bis eyes upen the
man.
** but as near as he likes to be." Then
he went on to tell the story of the wreck,
the exposure ‘in the open boat, the
agony and starvation, the death and
insanity of most of the crew. It was
the lips of the miserable mariner. Mr.
McGraw's face grew old and wrinkled
as he listened. The lawyer at length
uttered an ejaculation of joy. ‘1 con-
gratulate you, Mr. McGraw,” he said,
as safe as if you held it in your hands.”
But Mr. McGraw had fallen back
against the wall. They loosened his
necktie, and threw water in his face.
A big part of his money was at stake,
you see, and he's hidden his feelings so
| long under a mask of resignation that
now he is overcome. (Geta cabatonce,”
hit added, to the boy.
But Mr. McGraw revived, and by the
able to go home alone. [le, however,
the cab rolled along, his eyes were still
| fixed Rpon his dilapidated companion.
** Nobody would know you, I sup-
pose?” he said to the sailor.
““ Not a soul, sir,” sald Marlin
“Not even the—a—the person you
| spoke of as your sweatheart?”
“She least of any,” said Martin. “I
think she'd run away from me on
| sight,”
“You think so?”
“I'm sure of it. I bet you a dollar
| she would.”
“Yet it wouldn't pain you?”
“Why, no— why should it? Women
| folks are made that way. But I'll soon
{ prink up if I get a chance.”
He began to prink up already, put his
| hat back, and brushed his rumpled hair
{ trom his forehead, looked from the win-
| dow of the cab with the air of a man to
whom life was unspeakably rare and
(sweet, He was emaciated, shrunken,
sallow, fierce-eyed and forlorn; he was
| poer and patched; but Mr. McGraw
| would willingly have taken his place in
| the race for happiness; he knew that all
| was lost, Here was Martin Malloy; that
was the end of everything.
The thought came a little too late that
seeing her long-lost lover might kill the
girl or drive her mad. He began to ex-
pinin to Martin, as gradually as he
cou’d, that the house to which they
were journeying was the one that con-
tained his sweetheart. Mr. McGraw
chose the most careful phraseology he
could muster, but the sailor seemed ali
at once to get on fire. He flung his hat
upon the seat beside him; he stretched
from the window his long shrunken
Neck.
“You'd better get out and come in
after I've broken it to her. It may kill
her; it may drive het mad. The shock
was a terribie one to me,” said Mr.
McGraw.
“That be hanged!” said Martin.
HALL,
‘You're an old man, you kaow, and
thought your money--hut my
Maggie !" here he stopped, an! the
flame of delight burned in his cheeks
He grew suddenly young
and strong under the gage of poor My
Motiraw
Maggie sat there by the window, as
she had promised, Oh, the bitterness
of i
the other! One moment Mr. MoGraw
saw lier as he had left her— pale, eaim,
subdued, patient; the next, a crimson
Gl
and eves,
than before; suddenly it disap-
peared, and Mr. MoGraw thought it
had fallen away somewhere in a faint;
but presently it shone on the breast ol
the sailor, so radiant and beautiful that
it dazzled poor Mr. MeGraw
“Why, you did know me," said Mar.
tin, tears bursting out of his burning
eyes * In spite of everything, she did
know me! | owe you a dollar, Mr,
McGraw I"
* And, * Master Shallow,
a thousand pound,’ quoted Mr. Meo.
Graw, with a bitter grin,
What more can be said?
LOOK piRoe a
awsuit bad
paler
The wedding
Het on, after the
been decided in favor of
Mr. MeGraw. Maggie's wedding trip
WAS Cross the sea, but not in a stesmer,
It was in a trig little vessel, which Mr,
a wedding present,
at the express request of the bride,
** Martin wouldn't give up the sea,”
@ sald.
Ad you wouldn't give up Martin,"
sa. ar. MeGraw,
Why, no, sir, not for the world,”
said the foolish girl,
So poor Mr, McGraw
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RiONDC.
A Word About Diamonds
The diamond has many histories
has a chemical and a commercial, a
mineralogical and a mystieal history.
hilstory, comprising the varied adven-
tures of! individual stones; there a
history of diamond cutting and counter |
feiting, of diamond discoveries and dia- |
mond robberies, and there promises
soen to be a history of dinmond manu- |
facture. The earliest known home of
the gera was in India From India it |
made its way westward to the Greeks, |
wlio, among its many remarkable quali.
ties, singled out its pre eminent hard. |
ness as that by which it was thencefor-
ward to be distinguished when known,
and detected when doubtful. They
named it adamas, the indomitable, and
invented fables in illustration of this
character, which passed current and un-
questioned for many hundreds of years
Such was the obduracy of the genline
diamond, they maintained, that the at.
tempt to break it between hammer and
anvil resulted, not in the fracture o! the
but the rending the metal;
snd numerous gems of the purest waler
were immolated, generation aller gen-
eration the tlind tradition his
perilous ordeal by iron.
is
stone, of
wo of t
There was, in
feed, it was added, one method by which
this otherwise invincible resistance
sould be overcome, Immersion for a
sertain time in warm goat's hiood ren-
dered the crystal amenable to the blows
of the hammer, although even then, like
the Calydonian h the of
The bes, it contrived £0 nvoive
sturdy ad in its own desir
tion.
Now truth is that the diamond,
although the hardest of known sub.
stances, is also one of the most brittle,
it natural cleavage
along which it splits with the utmost
facility. When the Koh-i-noor was be
ing recut in 1852, the jeweler to whose
care it was intrusted during the opera-
tion submitted it to the inspection of
his most valued customers, who
heedlessly let it slip through his fingers. |
The jeweler, seeing it fai, all but ost
his senses with terror, and called forth
a similar access of retrospective dismay
in his distinguished visitor by expliain-
ing that it the jewel hat touched the
ground at a certain angle it would
most intallibly have separated into frag-
ments,
The extreme difficulty of polishing |
the diamond caused it, in early times, to |
ero at giege
Its
Versary { qs
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the :
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one Ol
in
both as a poison and as aun antidote to |
poison is of high antiquity, and as re- |
gards the healing brane is even yet not |
wholly extinct. Benvenuto Cellini re-
Intes that he owed his life to the avaricd
of an apothecary in substituting pow-
i
i
he had been bribed to mix with his
against various other perils, and the |
conviction of its mystical virtues con- |
It wis said to confer valor, to
madness, to give success in lawsuits,
dispels nocturnal panic; and Sir John
Diamond superstitions, in our days,
seem to have taken refuge in the East.
The Shah of Persia is said to possess one |
the great diamond of the Rajah of Mat.
tan, in Borneo, weighing 367 carats, and
is credited with the virtue, not of talis- |
man alone. but of a panacea as wi i,
The natives of the island believe that
water in which it has been immersed
cures every disorder; and the vast price
offered for it by the Governor of Ba-
tava, of $150,000, two ships of war tully
equipped, together with sundry arms |
and munitions, was refused, not because
of the intrinsic value of the jewel, but |
because the fortunes of the dynasty |
It appears to be commonly lost sight
value entirely independent of their de
corative purvose. A peculiar modifi
eation of diamond, known as ** carbon-
ado,” which is as unsightly as cast iron,
{2 sold for use in rock-boring machines,
at an average price of four and a halt to
five dollars the carat, Fifteen years ago
an unlimited supply of this substance
wes offered to a London merchant at
the ridiculously low price of three
pence n carat; the Amsterdam cut-
ters, however, reported unfevorably as
to its employment in their trade, and the
proposal was declined. It was never
renewed ; for shortly afterward the ser-
viceableness of the stone (which is as
hard as diamond itselt), both for rock
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FARY, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD, | RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
Secours in Calves. | The gifts of the Presbyterian church
and foreign, last amounted
$11,000,
Gentleman writes It has been my your
provinee for several years to take charge
of the calves, and 1 have had very good | There are now sixty Protestant
nek, and find that when they first be churches in Spain, wliose congregn-
| gin to eat sour milk they are generally | tions aggregate 20,000, and are rapidly
apt to scour, and if the looseness is not | growing. -
hacked redo . SW. _
che ke d, it reduces them Now, as an The Northern Methodist church has
ounce of prevantive Ia better than a seventeen churches in New Orleans
ound of care, 1 use about a great sp .
ha of ‘prepared chalk i i hele eink with 3,500 members and church property
. i . : ‘| yalued at $131,000,
I stir it into the milk, and they never
mind it. One dose is sufficient as a The Methodist church is making
general rule Another good thing for | steady progress in Denmark, Ten years
the calves 1s occasionally to throw a | 8go there were but two churches of that
shiovelfu! of fresh earth upon the floor of faith, now there are five,
the stable where they can see it They | The American Baptist missionary
will lick it up, and seem to enjoy it very | union will begin mission work in Li-
much. When they are old enough to | beria this year, with the object of estab.
be turned out, they generally help them- | ishing ultimately a mission in the
selves toa few licks of earth every day. | nterior,
It seems to be a natural instinet, and | The Presbyterian church of England
something that they crave | has 268 churches organized into 10 pres.
used to give rennet, or a solution of | byteries. Its ministers number 49,
rennet just as it is prepared for cheese | and ils communicants 54,859, It has 350
making, when a calf scoured; a couple | Sunday-shools, with 587,148 scholars.
of spoonfuls in six quaris of milk; but I The Primitive Methodist missionary
like theprepared chalk much better. It | oo joty of England has 78 mission sta.
RA BEGIN d at any drugstore at | gions in the United Kingdom, and in
small cost; and it is a very handy thing | Canada, 90 in Australia, and 3 in Africa,
| to use,and has always proved efficacious, | with 318 missionaries and colonial
not only in preventing, but also in eur- | \inisters :
ing the Comp iaint, 1 think the earth | Large aocessions from the Mormon
18 quite 8 necessary item, and as | have population have been made to the Pres.
n :ver seen anything written or printed | ot rian church at Salt Lake City, Utak
about it, I lave ventured to suggest | 1 Sun Peto county fifty or sixty have
that those who are raising calves should | heey received into the Presbyterian
supply the little creatures with fresh | bo 0h there :
earth, and see how much they relish it. NY gE
[ take it from the garden, and itis better
to be moist than dry.
i When [ began to feed
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can ba
The Presbyterian general assembly,
lately held at Madison, adopted resolu-
tions against the reading of secular
papers on Sunday, and against the in-
vestment of money in enterprises carried
out on Sunday.
The last religious census in France
| shows that there are 35,387,703 Roman
Catholics, 467.581 Calvinists, 80,117
Lutherans, and 33,119 of other FProtes.
«nt denominations, The Jews number
about 50,000, and 90,000 are attached to
no church.
The late general synod of the Reformed
meal to the
welerring it to anything else. | take
wif a pint, pour boiling wateron it in a
pail, stir it well, put in a teaspoonful of
salt, and then fill the pail (whicu holds
yquarts) with sour milk, and stir it
wel. 1 feed this twice a day, and give
them good bright hay for dinner. They
thrive well, and seem well satisfied with
their rations.
Management of Grass Lands.
RATS,
| Mrs, Benedict's Homarkable and Valuakle
Discovery.
It has always been easy for house
| wives, who are troubled with rats to
| poison them, but tho problem has been
| to induce them to die upon the field of
| honor, so to speak, to wit, the kitchen
floor. They have usually preferred to
{ retire vo their inaccessible retreats in the
| walls ns soon as they have fel the symp-
{toms of arsenic poisoning, and the low
| state of sanitary science prevailing in
| their communities is such that poisoned
| rats are never properly buried or incin.
| erated by their associates. The problem
| has been how Lo kill the rats without
| bringing unpleasant odors into the
| house,
{ Ms. Benediot has solved the difficulty
| and is entitled to the honor we give io
| an inventor and benefactor. She was
| engaged, it appears, in the domestic
| manufacture of plaster casts of various
kinds, Complaint having been made of
the fragility of those wares, Mrs, Bene.
dict began a course of experiments with
the hope of giving greater durability to
her casts, @ of her devices was to
mix wheaten flour with her pulverized
plaster of Paris, so thatthe g.uten of the
flour might make the paste less brittle.
One evening she had vistors, who reng
her doorbell just as she was sifting the
mixed plaster and flour for the third
time by way of mixing them intimately,
as the chemists say. She had already
set a dish of water at hand, intending to
| make a east at once, and when the door.
| bell rang she hastily removed her pron
| and went to welcome her guests, leaving
| ber materials upon the! kitchen table.
The guests stayed unti. late bedtime,
and when they bade her adieu Mrs. Ben-
edict went to bed without returning to
the kitchen,
What happened in the night was this,
A rat, sniffing the odor of flour, made
up the legs of the table tothe top, where
he was speedily joined by other foragers
~his brethren. The dish of flour and
plaster was easily reached, and the rats
ate freely and hastily of it, as it is their
custom to do. It was mther a dry sup-
per, and water being at hand, each rat
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chuch reports an increase of 10 churches |
in the year, making now 510; a loss of |
two ministers, now 544; a loss of 1,06] |
families, giving a total of 43,950; a de. |
John B. Moore, Esq., of Concord
Mass, gives his experience with grass
lands, which is very suggestive. He
does not top dress the land, but plows
it pp every five or six years. The land
which he lays down to grass is gener
ally where he has raised a crop of eab
bages or canliflowers, frequently both.
He generally plants a couple of acres
with ocauliflowers, and his rule is to |
keep twenty-five scores in grass. On
this, with ten acres of swale hay, he
keeps four horses and thirty head of
cattle, and sells annually fifty tons of
hay ina year. On his farm he always
has refuse from his vegetable garden
and also corn-stalks, which he feeas to
his cattle. He cuts two crops of hay in
a vear. The first crop he sells; the sec.
ond, with his swale lay, garden refuse
and cornstalks, he feeds to his stock.
His horses he feeds with his best hay,
and never lets his cattle feed upon his
mowings. The grass that grows after | led States 8 i
the second mowing he jets remain upon | 83.261 schools, 586,335 teachers, and |
the ground. The land which he has in | 6,623,134 scholars, making a total of |
grass is moist, and he could not turn his | 7,508,452. In Canada there are 5,400 |
eattle upon it without their poaching. | Schools, 41,712 teachers, and 340,170 |
This he considers of the reasons | scholars, These figures include of |
why he raises such heavy crops of hay. | course only Protestant evangelical de- |
A neighbor of his, who always fed his | nominations. There are in the world |
cows on the aftermath, and who has | 1,460,881 teachers, pnd 12,340,316 schol- |
equally as good land as his, and who
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manured as heavily, failed to get any- At the late meeting of the Congrega- |
Ming like so good crops as Mr. Moore | tional general association of New Jersey |
did. When asked why it was, Mr. | the reportof the churches made a favor-
Moore replied that he attnbuted it to | able showing. The association has re- |
the fact thst he never fed his aftermath. ceived two churches during the past
Since that, bis neighor ceased turning | year~the Congregational church, of |
his cows upon his mowing. and now | Plainfield, N. J., and the Third church, |
he cuts as heavy crops of hay as does | of Jersey City. It has dropped one~the |
Mr. Moore. First church of Plainfield. It now
{ numbers thirty-two churches, Two |
other churches have just been organized |
{ will probably soon apoly for recog- |
The tots] membership of the |
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aggregate of 50.208. The number of
baptized members not in full com.
munion, 20,648, Number of infant bap- |
| tisms not given. i
During the four and a half months’ |
labor of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in |
St. Louis, Mr. Moody averaged from |
ten to twelve sermons every woek. The
meetings were a success; what de-
gree eternity alone will reveal, It has |
been estimated that the number of pro- |
fessed conversions reached 2,400, The |
additions to the various churches from
November 1, 1879, to May 1, 1880, were |
about 700 i
Mr. E. Payson Porter, of Philadel |
phia, has ooilected with great labor |
| statistics of Sunday-schools of the Uni- |
He finds that there are |
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Hecipes,
Ixiss Poraroes.—Old potatoes should
be pared and soaked several hours in | and
cold water: then pul over to ook in nition, |
water. For baking. wash, trim | associntion is 4.910; its total benevo- |
and souk as above. New potatoes | lent ofterings for the year, $14,120. The |
should be prepared just before cooking, | limits of the association extend south to |
and put over in boiling water, Baltimore, where the last meeting was i
SCALLOPED TOMATOES. —Cut and peel | held. The church in Washington is the |
your tomatoes; first a layer of bread | largest, numbering 631 members, and the |
crumbs, then a layer of tomatoes, then | church in Chester, N. J., is by iar the !
pepper, salt, a little sugar and butter, | oldest. i
then the bread crumbs; over the last |
layer of crumbs spread besten egg, and |
bake three-quarters of an hour.
Rasen Mivrox Morrins,.—One quart
of milk, alittle salt, two spoonfu.s of | An insect i
yeast, two eggs, piece of butter size of | of an ounce 18 capable of “raising” a |
un egg, meited in milk, which must be | man weighing 220 pounds from a bench
warmed: make in the morning and | in the public park, and then have lotsof
raise until night, or vice versa; eggs to | lifting material left. Just stop and
he put in jast before cooking; flour, | think of it. The stinger of the bee is |
bake in rings, in a spider over a slow | nol near as large as the finest needle, |
fire; split and butter before sending to | but such is the force behind it that it |
table. | can be driven through heavy cloth pants,
CHICKEN Mixce.—The quantity o |Dacked by merino drawers and into the
| flesh. If aman could wield a crowbar
seasoning added to taste. In hashes and | 10 comparison, he could drive it through
dishes of the kind it is impossible to | S¢VeR rawmills and a distillery at one
The seasoning | POW. Nature could not give the bee
| teeth and claws without spoiling its
| beauty, and in compensation she gave
| this stinger as a weapon of attack and
detense. If the bee had no weapon, ants,
beetles and bugs could cuff him arouud
as they pleased; but, as it is, he is the
boss of the walk, and won't take a word
from any of them.
The bumble-bee is not naturally of a
for about twenty minutes, then put in | quarrelsome disposition, but he cart
| sit down over half an hour without feel
ing that some one was doing him a great
wrong. If left to himself, he will
crawl up your coat sleeve, look around
a a ! . | and go about his business; but if wel-
. In the principal dairy districts in | comed with a blow between the eyes, he
France many of the dairymen milk their | js going to be revenged if he breaks a
cows thrice daily. A French paver, | jog. He invar ably closes his eye when
hie stings, and you have only to look a
bee square in the face to see when he is
fooling around, and when he means
fourteen per cent, per annum.
The hayfield is a favoriteresort of the
bumble-bee, but you can find him al
most everywhere else if you try hard.
Having no pair of long hind legs he
cannot build his nest in a marsh, like a
frog; and having no beak in which to
carry straw he cannot nest in a tree like
a bird. He therefore takes to the grass,
and under the roots of an old stump, or
among a pile of old rails, he rears his
genule young, and gives them printed in-
structions as to the difference between
stinging six-inch stove pipes and runa-
way boys. The knowledge of old bees
is powerful. They know where the
schoolhouse is. They know when the
school is out. They can sail miles away
from home, get in their work on a
farmer's son weeding out corn, and re-
turn home without missing a tence cor-
ner, or need of an afternoon nap. As a
rule they are early risers. Barefooted
boys driving up their cows at daylight
will find the bumble bee out of bed, and
"ready to begin the arduous labors of the
cold
The Bumble-Hee.
| Did you ever stop to consider the im-
| mente power possessed by a Lumble-bee? |
weighing no more than a tenth |
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salt; putaltogether into a stewpan, and
If you have not eream, use a
to the consistency ot cream with butter
Lieated : serve with curls of fried bacon
A Hint for the Dairy,
170 quarts of milk. With two milkings
Morocover,
analysis showed that the milk in the
first case was richer in butter globules
than that in the second case, in the pro-
portion of 4.1 to 3.5.
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Indigo Factory,
Have you ever thought what indigo
is, and where it comes from? Near the
city of Allahabad, in India, our mis-
sionaries may see the little indigo plan
growing, and the factory where our ins
digo is prepared for use. The follow-
ing account of the preparation of the
indigo from the plant was given by the
proprietor to one who traveled in that
country:
It is the young shoots of the humble
plant you see before you which provide
ius with the precious material for dyeing,
and not the flowers, as is commonly
drilling and gem-engraving, was dis.
it became an object of energeuc coms
petition. ** Carbonado ” resembles in
a hlackish-brown hue anda crystalline
exture. It is composed of tne same
material as dinmond, and is in fact sup-
posed to he diamond which hns gome-
how got spoiled in the making.
found in masses of from one to two
pounds weight, and oniy in the neigh-
borhood of Bahia, for the lumps of
“oarbon” occasionally met with in
South Africa are deficient in hardness,
and thus seem to have been arrested at
a still earlier stage of their progress to-
ward mineral perfection. *' Bort,"
which is another deficient member of
the diamond family, but is nevertheless
180 highly prized in the arts, consists
in an aggregation of tiny crystals, mixed,
like the black diamonds of Borneo, with
a certain proportion of amorphous car-
bon. We see in it a failure or a freak
of nature; and just as the ring of ns-
teroids in the solar system is supposed
to represent a single majestic planet, so
the forces thus scattered in separate
centers of crystallization would presum-
ably, under normal “onditions, have
united to form one radiant 1ewel.
supposed. The gathering of these
| shoots is a very delicate operation.
| When they have arrived at a proper de-
gre of maturity, they must be speedily
removed, and each cutting must be exe.
cuted with rapidity and during the
night, for the sun would wither the
branches, and deprive them of their
properties, We therefore require a
great many hands; all the villagers on
my estate are placed inrequisition. The
workmen are all dispersed in the fields
at midnight; and in the morning the
produce of the harvest is deposited in
these stone troughs, which have been
previously filled with water. Then is
the time for the sun to perform its part.
Under the influence of its rays the sub-
stances undergo a species of fermenta-
tion; the water becomes colored with
variegated tinges, and rapidly turns
blue. After aspaceot about forty-eight
hours, the liquid is drawn off from the
smallest troughs. It now emits a
slightly ammoniacal smell, and the color
is almost black. It is allowed to evapo-
rate again, und is then placed in metal
vats, heated by steam, in which, when
the evaporation has ceased, a deposit of
pure indigo is formed. It only remains
to dry this deposit, pack it, and send it
to the market at Calcutta.
day. Along about sundown he quits
work, counts noses to see it the family
are all in, and then stows himself away
for a night of calm snd peaceful re-
pose.
A Year's Work at the Mints,
The following is a statement of the
coinage executed during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1880,
Pieces. Value.
1,075,768 $21,515,360 00
1.883.632 18,836,320 00
3,168,172 15,790,860 00
3,080 9,090 00
1,250 3,075 00
3,080 3,080 00
Total gold... 6,124,862 $66,157,736 00
Standard dollars. .27,983,760 $37,938,760 00
Halt-dollars , ..... 6,660 3,276 00
Quarter dollars. .. 15,8560 3,837 60
Dimes. . 15,730 1,675 00
Total silver. .27,971,400 $27,942,437 60
Five oonts....... 24,0560
Three cents 32,760
One conts........ 26,774,160
Total minor. . 26,831,850 $269,971 00
Total coinnge. ....60,928,112 §84,270,144 50
The above is the largest coinage in
any one year in the historyof the mint.
Double eagles. ...
Halt-engles.......
Three dollars...
Quarter eagles...
Dollars .... .
turned from the savory dish of flour and
plaster to slake his thirst with water.
Everybody who has had to do with plas-
ter of Paris will guess at once what hap-
ened The water drank first wetted
the plaster in the rats’ stomachs, and
then, in technical phirase, *“ set ™ it; that
is to say, the plaster thus made into a
paste instantly grew hard in each rat's
stomach, making a cast of all its convo-
lutions. The event proved that with
such a cast in existence it is impossible
for a rat to retreat even across the kitch-
en.
The next morning thirteen of them lay
dead in & circle arpund the water dish.
Mrs. Benedict, like a wise woman, kept
her secret and made profit of it. She
undertook, for a consideration, to clear
the premises of her neighbors of the
ts, and succeeded. It was not long
Peiore the town was as free of this sort
of vermin as if the pied piper of Hameiin
had traveled that way. Then Mrs. Ben-
edict advertised for agents to work up
he business throughout the country,
selling each the secret for a fair price.—
New York Evewing Post.
Reporting by Telephone.
The London T¥mes gives an account
of a method of reporting late debates in
the house of (ommons by telep.aone
lately adopted in the office of that jour.
nal. A type-setting machine has for
some time been used in the office, to
which, it is stated, a fair workman can
attain an average speed of one hundred
lines an hour, even when composing
from manuscript which he has to read
for himself; and this speed can be
doubled, or nearly so, when the oper-
ator is assisted by a reader, snd thus
composes from dictation. The mode in
which the telephone has been brought
into use in connection with this ma-
chine is thus described : The conductors
of this journal, having obtained permis.
gion from the metropolitan board of
works to lay down the necessary wires
jn the subway of the embankment,
formed a new connection between the
house of commons and the office, and
placed one of Edison's loud-speak-
ing telephoves st either end. The
immediate result of this arrangement
has been to bring the compositor at the
machine into direct communication
with the parliamentary reporter at the
house and to enable the debates to be
reported and printed from balf to three:
quarters of an hour later than had pre.
viously been possible. The notes made
by the reporter can be read direct.y into
the telephone-receiver in a room adjoin-
ing the gallery either by the reporter
himself when relieved or by another
person employed for the purpose, and
the compositor at the machine in the of-
fice sits with his ears in juxtaposition
with the other terminal of the instru.
ment. The plan which bas been found
the most efficacious for the purpose of
shutting out distracting sounds ofother
kinds is to place the disc of the telephone
above and behind the compositor and
then to arrange two tubes, each with
two trumpet-shaped extremities, in
such a manner that these extremities
are applied at one end to the two sides
of the telephone disc and at the other
end to the two ears of the compos-
itor. The compositor is also furnished
with a speaking instrument, with a key
for ringing a bell, and a bell which is
rung from the house—a simple code of
bell signals, consisting of one, two or
three strokes, sufficing for the ordinary
requirements of each message. he
compositor anncunces by the 11 that
he is ready, receives a sentence, strikes
the bell to indicate that he understands
it, sets up the type with his machine,
strikes the bell again for the reader to
continue his dictation, and so on until
the work is carried as far as tine will
aliow. If there is any doubt or diffi-
culty abont the words, » bell signal wid
cause them to be repeated, or explana-
tions can be sought and received by
direct vocal communication. In this
power, indeed, resides one of the chiet
advantages of the method, and one
which ought to lead to greater accur-
acy than has ever previously been at
tainable, The names of people, places,
ete., can be spelled out jetter by etter if
there is any doubt about them.
C—O
A Wonderful Mesmeriser.
Strange stories come from India of
the feats performed by a native mos-
meriser named Buni, whose magnetic
power would appear to be fourd quite
irresistible by the lower animals, upon
which he exciusively exerts it. He
ives scances, to which the public are
nvited to bring all manner ol ferocious
and untamable wild beasts, and holds
them with his glittering eye. Ina few
seconds they subside into a condition of
cataieptic stiffness, from which they
can only be revived by certain passes
which he solemnly executes with his
right hand. A snake in a state of
violent irritation was brought to Buni
by a menagerie proprietor, nelosed ina
wooden cage. When deposited on the
platform it was writhing and hissing
fiercely. Buni bent over the cage and
fixed his eyes upon its occupant, gently
waving his hand over the scrpent's rest
less head. In less than a minute the
snake stretched itself out, stiffened, and
lay apparently dead. Buni took it up
and thrust several needles into its body,
but it gave no sign of life. A few
passes then restored it to its former
angry a tivity. Subsequently a savage
dog, held in a leash by its owner, was
brought in, and, at Bun.'s command, let
loose upon him. AS 1L Was rusinz to-
ward him, bristling will fury, Jc raisea
his hand, and in a secona tie herce
brute dropped upon its ne.ly as thougn
it was stricken bv lightning. It seemed
absolutely paralyzea oy some unknown
agency, and was unable to move a
muscle until released rox the mag-
netiser's spell by a majestic wave oi ais
.
NUMBER 28.
ITEXS OF INTEREST
A hunter in Georgia killed four
a iy.
oor a. . that don ¢
It is an indictable oflense to bet on an
election in Alnbama. a=
in A
| killed u lot of chickens in
Bowling Grem, Ky, "
Sir Garnet Wolseley rode 340 in
roe dayeia South Afeen. jay:
purse but rich in-de a terran, nt
Fly time~When Liear het -
rion, Ala, can play ever
em dg p het e
Charles Reade, it seems, made
$45,000 out of * Drink.” Just what
many a man has Jost. £
The blind man should be the most
contented man in the world, because he
can have have he sees. ~
The of the
: man who is not
which covers a piece rough
water Sol more Ji rc
v 3
sickle for an gs os
The first birth of a Japanese child in
ow York, ad proba 1s the Used
ARs
FIRST AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.
Some Account of the Boston News-Lets
ter, Printed Une Hundred Years Age.
It is 4 fact wortty of record that in
Boston was made the fist attempt to
set np a newspaper in North America,
and that this attempt dates back pest
200 years—to the 85th of A ;
The title of this sncient sheet was Fub-
lick (xcourvences, both Foreign and Do-
mestick, Only one number of this paper
is known to have been printed, this
hore the date of September 25, 1680, but
whether it was sus for lack of
patronage, or hecauwe the ve
authorities spoke of it as a pamphlet
ublished contrary to law, snd contain-
ing * reflections of a very high nature,”
is not known. It was printed by Ben.
jamin Harris for Richard Pierce, and,
so far as known, the only copy in ex-
istence is deposited in the state paper
office in London. It was printed on
the first three sides of s folded sheet—
two columns to a page, and each about
seven by eleven inches in size, and was
to have appeared once a month,
It is stil a mors siguificant and im.
portant fast that the first new
that was published in North pa
was published in Boston. It was called
The Boston News Leiter, and the initia
number bore 1 he date of Monday, April
24, 1704. It was a half sheet of .
in size about twelve by eight pr
made up intwo pages folio, with two
columns on each page. The title is in
Roman letters of the size which print
ers call French and under it are
the words * printed a» authority,” in
old English. The imprint is: ** Boston;
printed by B. Green; sold by Nichols
Boone, at his shop near the old meet
house.” The proprietor was evidently
John Campbell, postmaster, as indi-
cated by the following advertisement,
which was the only one the paper con-
tained -
“This News-Leller is to be continued
weekly: and all persons who have any
houses, lands, tenaments, farms, shi
vessels, goods, wares or werchand
ete, to be sold or let; or servants runa-
way, or goods stolen or lost; may have
the same § at a reasonable rate,
from twelve pence to five shillings, and
not to exceed: Who may agree with
John Campbel, of Bos-
ton. All persons in town or country
may have the News Leller weekly,
yearly, upon reasonable terms,
with John Campbel, postmaster, for the
e
Campbell was a Scotchman, and be-
sides attending to his duties as postinns-
ter and editor and publisher of the
News-Letler, did some iness as book-
seller. Judging from copies of his pa-
per, bis literary sceomplishments were
of u limited charateter, for what little
original matter there is, is poorly con-
structed, without regard to pun
or grammatical construction, and con-
sisted mainly of iis own business adver-
tisements. The paper was chiefly made
up of extracts from on papers,
which were necessarily several months
old, consequently its support was feeble,
and its circulation limited. The paper
was issued weekly, and the num-
ber contains three printed the
fourth being left blank, evidently for the
want of news to fill ue This piece of
enterprise was apparently not sppreci-
ated, as but two pages appeared in the
next number, and alo in the issues for |
many years thereatter. Up to November
3, 1707, the News-Letter was printed by
Bartholomew Green, and from that date
to October 2, 1711, it was “ Printed by
John Allen in Pudding-lane (now Dev-
onshire street), and sold at the postcflice
in Cornhill (than a part of Washington
street). Atthat time the postoffice and
Allen's printing office were destroyed by
fire, and the paper was printed by
B. Green, for John Campbell, postmas-
ter, till the end of the year 1733.
Campbell made frequent importunat e
calls upon the public to support his en-
terprise, “50 as to enable the under
taker to earry it on effectually.” In |jove at
January, 1719, Campbell proposed pub- | but the other ninety-six verses may be
lishing his paper on a whole sheet, |
“ because with half a sheet a week it is
impossible to carry on ali the publick
news of Europe; " but his expectations
were far from realized, judging from
his statement that *‘the Undertaker
hiad not suitable encouragement, even
to print half a Sheet Weekly, seeing
that hie cannot vend 300 at an Impres-
sion tho’ some ignorantiy concludes he
Sells upwards of a Thousand; far less |
is he able to print a sheel every
Week, without an Addition of 4,6 oi 8
Shillings a Year, as everyone thinks fit
to give payable Quarterly, which will
only help to pay tor Press and Paper,
iving his labor for nothing." in the
fatter part of the same year another
postmaster was appointed, who began
the publication of a rival newspaper.
This disturbed Campbell greatly, and
when, in 1721, James Franklin estab-
lished a third newspaper, the New
England Courant, his ire was aroused,
and he expressed his feelings in the
News-Letter more forcibly than elo-
quently, as follows:
“On Monday last, the 7th Currant,
News in this
Cour-
States, created 3 sensation, In
three cen
Ve Ee 1300. Venetd artists jn
Oe 5 ]
came to Jo and ms in ured
them in 1673; and afterward the French
tegan to expel them
Lady Mary Wortley we iatro-
duced inoculation ifito England, from
tried upon crimina’s, until its sue-
ily tested.
The discouraged collector
sented that littiemstter. * ell, axe
his friend, * you are around
“Yes,” says the fellow, with ac
count in bis hand, “but I want to get
square.” ‘yp 8
Tea was first known in | .
brought from India by re heing
1610. In Eagiand it was rit introduced
antil 1666, when it was fron
Holland and sold for sixty shi
Chiness dwart, now iy french ish
don, sings oniy three verses of a nasive
song shout his sweetheart ,
When a dog eats grass it is said to b2
of rain. It certain'y is an owes
hing when the brute gets a lon:
ge ¢ lable. when the funtly
ve company suppet, ves
his shoulders and howls and kicks with
his hind legs and screams horribly in a
foreign language, and is lifted out of the
rcom by his tail by the hired It
the sign a he Bired girl :
came forth a Third
town, entitled the New
rant, by Homo non unius Negotii ; or
Jack of all Trades, and it would seem,
Good at none, giving some very, very
frothy fulsome Account of himself, bvt
lest the continuance of thatstyle should
offend his readers; wherein with sub-
mission (I speak for the publisher of
this intelligence, whose endeavors have
always been to give no offense, not
meddling with things outside his own
Province.) The said Jack promises in
retense of Friendship'to the other News
Publishers to amend iikeAle in Summer,
Reflecting too, too much that my per-
formances are now and then , very
Dull, misrepresenting my candid en- have a proverb. * An ass’ ears are
deavors {wocording yo the Tajeat of my | jung in order to catch oaths.”
Capacity and Education; no
yy Sphere) In giving & true and [AAV ery encouraging accounts Are Pubs
fenuine account of all Matters of Fact, Indian in ed ar
sth Foreign and Domestick, and well training sshool, whiers wm
Attested, for these Seventeen Years and cational
half past,” ete.
The quarrel between these two papers
added to the prosperity of both for a
while. and for two months Campbell
issued a whole sheet every week, but
atthe expiration of that time the News.
Letter was reduced to its original di-
mensions. No copies of the early num-
bers of Franklin's papers are in exist-
ence, but it is safe to assume that his
replies were (qually as caustic and
bitter. The files of the News-Letler
iown to 1792, when Bartholomew
Green became Jropricion, are very im-
erfect, but the most complete are
ound in the library of the Massachu-
setts Historical society in this ty, and
these are all bound in two volumes,
embracing not half of the numbers for
the years previous to 1790. The News-
Leifer was printed upon the coarse
p ‘per in use at that day, and as the type
was of the ancient order, with
“g's,” its print is rather difficult to de-
cipher, but well repays one tor the
effort As previously stated, most of
{be matter is copied from the London
papers, but occasionally there is refer-
ence to local events, which are remark=
able alike for their quaintuness of compo-
sition and the singular character of the
events recorded. The News-Letter was
published without interruption for a
period of seventy-two years, and was the
only paper printed in Boston during
the siege.
ol
wi saints.” The Mexican
insists & mule cannot be made to
stand withon® such g, snd
hoes, Kiowas.
Perces, Wichitas, Seminoles and sev-
know why you are
eral others.
“ William, do you
like a donkey? **Liké a donkey?"
echoed William, opening Lis eyes wide
“no, 1 dont.” Do you give cup?” “
I get
he sat down to Supper,
why I am likea donke
All the authentic writings of Shakes-
peare that remsin are three signatures
to his will, preserved in
mons, London, and one signature on
each of two law documen
British museum and the other in the
library of the city of Lov“on.
Jome, wnjoying
breezes on the rear p mofn
very
i
car, when he fell into conversation w
vers agresnbie young man.
with his p address,
1 manners and
and expressed himself to that
Hebe boheme sete
“ nia
5 1
s answered with Sletity by the 1
man. Was yo!
broad smile
i
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QuIRLED PoTATOES.—Bol. potatoes;
when hot pres s lignuy through a COl-
ander into a dish or platier; sprinkle
over a little salt and set in an oven a
moment to dry, not brown, before send-
ing to the table. Thisis an attractive
dish and is very nice.