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READ! READ ! READ !
IMM M M
" Is there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
My own, my native land !"
4 N'D now, when patriots look for the ear
lv return of peace and prosperity and a
general resumption of business with assur
ance, we are pleased to inform the public
;hat a large, new, and carefully selected stock
of goods has just been opened at the Old
Stand of JOHN ks.NNFDV ii Co., comprising
i general assortment of
Dry Goods,. Groceries. Stone and
Queens ware, Willow and
Cedar Ware,
Fish, Salt, Hum, Shoulder, Flitch and
Dried Beef\
Ehsese, Sugars, Syrups, Coffee, Teas, Spices,
chips, Tobacco, Segars, Dried Fruit, Turpen
iine and Faints of all kinds, Linseed Oil,
Fioh Oil, Futty and Window Ulass, Coal Oil,
and a large assortment of
Coal Oil Lamps and Chimneys.
.Our Stock will be sold at a small advance
to Country Merchants. As we buy fur cash,
and in large quantities, we sell LOW.
Country Produce taken in Ex
change for Goods.
Remember, one door below the Black Bear
Hotel. JOHN KENNEDY, At
April 10, 1862—1y
PATENT
GOAL OIL GREASE.
THUS Grease is made from COAL OIL,
and has been found by repeated tests
to be the most economical, and at the
same time the best lubricator for Mill
Gearing, Stages, Wagons, Carts, Carriages,
\ chicles of all kinds, and all heavy bearings,
keeping the axles always cool, and not requir
ing them to be looked after for weeks. It has
been tested on railroad cars, and with one
soaking of the waste it has run, with the cars,
'Jtj.oOO miles ! All railroad, omnibus, livery
stable and Express companie-, that have tried
it pronounce it the neplus ultra.
It combines the body and fluidity of tallow,
beeswax and tar, ard unlike general lubrica
tjrs, will not run off, it being warranted to
stand any temperature.
I have it in boxes '2f to 10 lbs. Also kegs
and barrels from 30 to 400 lbs, for general
use and sale. The boxes are more prefera
ble; they are G inches in diameter by 2i inches
Jeep, and hold 2J lbs net; the boxes are clean,
its i hardly a carman, teamster, expressman,
miller or farmer, that would not purchase
iii- box for trial. F. G. FRANCISCUS.
Lewistown, February 12, 1862.
LEWISTOWN BAKERY,
West Market Street, nearly opposite the
Jail.
i 10\RAI> ULLUICII, .JR. would respect
v 1 fully inform his old and citi
zens generally that be continues the Baking
BREAD, CAKES, &c.,
fit the above stand, where those articles can
I)*.* procured fresh every day.
Families desiring Bread. &c. will be sup
plied at their dwellings in any part of town.
Fruit, Bound, Spunge. and all other kinds of
rake, of any size desired, baked to order at
sh rt notice.
Lcwi.-town, February 20, 1862-ly
T HAVE on hand some very choice garden
X seeds, embracing the earliest vegetables
irruwn, such as Peas, Cabbage. .Cauliflower,
ic. F. G. FRANCTSCUS.
PLOWS! PLOWS !
Subsoil Plows. McYeytown Plows,
0 V> ings, Shares, &e., for sale hy
F. G. FRANCISCUS.
~i( 1 Coal Oil Lamps—all sorts and si
tJ\/iQ 8, from 31 cts. to sls 00 each.
ml 2 F. G. FRANCISCUS.
IJRILLIANT Gas Burner, and a large vu
) riety of Parlor and Room Stoves, for
?:s!e at very low prices, by
oct3o F. G. FRANCISCUS.
Hames and. Traces.
\\ r AGON Ha.nes at 50 cts. per pair. Tra
• f ces, Chains, &c., at 75 cents per pair.
All kimls of Chains usually sold in hardware
stores, sold at low rates, by
mhl2 F. G. FRANCISCUS.
/11 LTIVATORS, Cultivator Teeth and
\J Points, at reduced prices from past seas
ons, for sale by F. G. FRANCISCUS. "
fAIhTE II S ?
TO buy cheap for cash,
X Go to Hoffman's for Chains,
Go to Hoffman's for Forks/
Go to Hoffman's For Spade Shovels.
Go to Hoffman's for Iron, &c.
Lewistown, March 19. 1862.
GOAL OIL.
DOWN again! Best No. lat 9 cts. per
quart, at HOFFMAN'S.
RIO Coffee, extra, at 20 cts per lb, at
feb26 HOFFMAN'S.
BEST QUALITY COAL OIL,
at 10 cents per quart,
For sale by
f ebl9 y. KENNEDY.
ZS<S)'i3rSIBI2aiBIP2B2£S S
you will find, to buy cheap/
1 Hoffman's the afore for Cedarware.
Hoffman's ," Table Cutlery.
Hoffman's " Groceries.
Hoffman's " Wall Paper.
Hoffman's " Oilclotbs.
THE IJIITIEE,
THE TKRASURES OP MEMORY.
Oh ! many and rich are the treasures that lie
In Memory's magic hall!
And a light from the'dim old Ps.st, coming down
Through the misty night, ia around them thrown.
And glimmers upon thein all.
We walk among them, and scarce can see
Through the midst of blinding tears;
There are genjs of beauty, cankered by rust,
And rarest jewels covered with dust—
The treasures of vanished years.
There are faces, and voices, and glances, and song*
Sung in life's early day;
There s a father s blessing, a mother's prayer
•God sare n.y ehitdt'—as sho breathed it there,
And gently passed away.
There s a house by the brook, with its rusty porch,
And the shady elms at the door;
i here are children s voices that sung tiiero with glee,
And one—oh! how sweet was the melody,
Ere death swept the harp-strings o'er!
There's the ineadow-path where we loved to walk,
When the toil of the day was o'er.
With no one beside us. Oh! how we yearn
For the loved and the dead who may not return,
With smiles to greet us more !
Oh! many and rich are the treasures that lie
In Memory's secret cell!
And voices come sounding sad and low.
From the shadowy realms of the 'Jongago,'
Like songs from some fairy shell.
mSLELMIEOUI,
From Godey's Lady's Book.
HOW FIVE BACHELORS KEPT
HOUSE.
BY MAIIY CLARKE.
It was p wartii ev Cr.icg in early June
and in the parior of a pleasant house in
street, in the handsom city of Phil
adelphia, a merry party of young folks were
holding a warm, laughing discussion.
Susy Arnold, the young hostess, who
kept house for her brothers, Ilarry and
George, took one side of the question, while
three other gentlemen, beside her tall
brothers, opposed her. Charles Gray, a
blue-ey<M curly-hcaded man, whose fair,
round face and boyish air formed an ap
parent contradiction to the assertion fcs
made of having five years before attained
his majority ; Joe Norris, who from a Span
ish mother inherited jetty hair and eyes,
and pale complexion, and from his father,
a tall, hue figure and a frank ingenious ex
pression; and Milton Dacres, whose small
figure and bashfull ways, accounted fully
for his nickname Minnie; these three, with
the masters of the house, waged playful
war upon tho little brown-eyed maiden who
sat so upor. j&esofa.
' Say what youjdease,' s&U Susy, 'you
will never convince uie of the superiority
of man in the capacity of housekeeper.'
' But I maintain,' said Joe, ' that men
can keep house without women, but jthat
women can not do so unless we will asist
them.'
' For instance,' .said Ilarry, 'when your
hired girl was sick last winter, Sue, how
would gush a as you have brought up
coal, kept up the funjace £re, and lift
ed about weod, unless your two brothers
had gallantly relieved you of the care ?'
'Not to mention that the furnace fire
went out three'
' A truce,' said George laughing. ' That
was my fault, but accidents will happen in
the best regulated families/
' 1 only wish you could keep house ; for
I would accept Aunt Jane's invitation to
travel with her this summer, were it not
for leaving you.'
' I have an idea' cried Charles Gray—
an idea which, if you will agree to act upon
it, shall fully cure the women of the insane
notion of their indispensability—ahem !
that word nearly choked me.'
The uugallant sentence should have
quite strangled you,' said Susy.
' Present company always excepted,'
was the reply.
' The idea ! let's have the idea.'
' Suppose we keep house here, while
Miss Susy travels.'
' Here!' cried Susy, aghast.
' Yes, why not ?'
' But,' said Susy,' I'm sure Jenny would
not stay.'
'We don't want her; we want no wo
men.'
Visions of muddy boots on her parlor so
fas, cigars in the flower vases, pipes on the
centre tables, spittoons in the best bed-room,
and frying pans in the library, flitted
through the young lady's mind ; but before
she could remonstrate, Harry said—
'So be it! Horrah for bachelor's hall.
Pack up your trunk, Susy!'
' h\it Harry*—
' Glorious 1 cried Charles, ' not a petti
coat within the doors for a month/
' But,' again said poor Susy.
' No fusses about tobacco smoke in the
curtains,' chimed in George.
' But, brother' —
' Won't it be gay? said Minnie.
' Gay V groaned the little housekeeper.
' Lay in a supply of cigars, George/ sug
gested Joe. ' When do you go, Miss Susy.'
' Monday, then ! We will come, bag and
baggage, on Monday morning/
With many a flourish, amidst the gayest
jokes, George wrote out a solemn contract,
by which they bound themeselves to ask
do service of any kind at a woman's band
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1862.
for one month from the date of the follow
ing Monday, June, XStJO, and all put their
signatures to the important document.—
Susy, seeing that her brothers were really
in earnest, tried to think that she was glad
to go, and added her laughing directions to
the |many scheme? proposed. At a late
hour the conclave broke up, and Susy re
tired with a head full of sore misgivings.
Monday morning rose faiy and clear.—
Six o clock saw Susy drive away from the
door in a carriage, the trunk strapped be
hind, the lady s pretty travelling dress and
the shawl of her cousin and caviliea all be
speaking travel. Susy saw the servant de
part to spend a month with her mother in
the country. Nine o'clock witnessed the
meeting of the youug bachelors.
'Now then,' said George, after the first
greetings were over, ' I, as the eldest host,
will take charge to-day. As Susy says,
when are you going down town ?'
' I have pcthfog to do fo day, so I'll stay
to assist you,' said Minnie.'
' Thank you.'
' What's for diuner ?' said Joe, trying to
look like the head of a respectable family,
and failing most deplorably in the attempt.
' Yoifll 3ee at three o'clock.'
' Is that the hour V
c \es,' said George, 'and remember I
wait for no one. Punctuality is the soul
of dinner, as somebody once sa>d before
I mentioned the fact.'
Having seen the others off, George and
Minnie went into the library for a smoke,
to prepare them tor the Herculean task be
fore them.
'See,' sai.d George, producing a cook
book ' we are safe.'
' Mrs. Hale ! that's a woman 1' cried Min
nie.
' Whew ! never once thought of that.—
We will stick to the contract. My dear
madom, I am sorry'to appear rude, but I
must show you back to the book case.'
'What's for dinner,' said Minnie.
■ Roast lamb, potatoes, green peas, aspar
agus, and strawberries.'
'That'll do. don't you have to shell
peas or something V
' Yes that's easy enough.'
' It's awful hot,, said Minnie, after a
short silence.
' Horrid V
' Suppose we sheli the peas up here.—
It's cooler here than in the kitchen. I
suppose there's a fire there ?'
' Of course.'
' I'll go bring them up.'
' They're in a basket on the table. Just
leave the rest of the things davn there.'
Shelling peas was rcpid work, even for
unaccustomed fingers, but it is a matter of
taste whether the thorough smoking they
had from the actively puffed cigars improved
their flavor.
' Now, what do you do with them,' said
Minnie.
'There ain't fciany of then;.,' he added,
as he looked at the little green balls rolling
about at the bcttorp of the huge market
basket and then eyed the large pile cFshells
on the floor.
' You boil then;, of course,' was the
answer of George.
' Oh ! suppose we go down.'
' Well, come along,' said George, taking
up the basket.
The fire burned brightly; Jennie had
left all in good order, and the prospect was
not bad for the amateur cooks.
' W hat do you boil them in, George V
' Oh, anything.'
' But where is it V
' In some of the closets, 1 guess.'
Susy would surely have fainted could
she have seen jthe overhauling of her neat
ly arranged closets that followed.
' This ?' Minnie dragged forth a pot large
enough te boil about twenty pounds of meat
in.
'Yes/
In they went, unwashed.
' Hot water and cold/
' Either.'
'All right; that's done.'
' Now the asparagus; how do you fix it/
' I wonder if you roast mutton in this
thing!' said George, nolding up a large
pudding dish.
' I guess so. Put it in the oven, don't
you ?'
' Y-e-e-s.'
George determined to find a book on
cookery written by a man, the very next
day.
1 You boil asparagus, don't you George?'
' Yes, here's a tin thing that' 3 Icr.g and
shallow; I guess that's for such things/
And a dripping pan came forth from the
closet.
The asparagus fitted iu like a charm, a3
both men declared, and water was added
and all set on the range.
The mutton next went, on the pudding
dish, into the oven.
' Come let's go up stairs again ; it's fear
fully hot here/ said George.
But the dinner ?'
' Oh, that's got nothing to do but to cook
until three o'clock/
' Oh, George, here's the potatoes ?'
Another pot was procured, and the po
tatoes, with about two gallons of water to
the half peek of Murphies, put on the fire.
Smoking, chatting, reading, and a little
practice on the violin, filled up the morn
ing, though George declared it was horrid
slow, and Minnie wondered what on earth
women did themselves.
Half past two brought home three hun
gry men to dinner.
J.caving the cooks to • dish up,' they all
adjourned to the parlor to cook themselves.
That it was dusty there, was Dot noticed.
.Jennie had made the beds before she left,
but dusting the parlor was Susy's work, and
her early start had prevented her from
doing it
' George'—Minnie's voice was rather
doleful.
' What! ?
' The fire is out.'
' Gut!'
' I wonder ifan/thing is cooked ?'
'The asparagus is burnt fast to the pan.'
' So is the meat!'
The potatoes!'
' Broken all tq pieces, floating about in
the water.'
'The peas are all mushy, Miunig!'
' Punctuality is the soul of dinner,'cried
Joe, froii fhfi parlor; it's ten minutes past
three.'
' Go set the table,' growled George.
It was unique in its arrangements, that
table, as the gentlemen sat down to dinner.
The meat figured on an enoriaogs dish,
with au ocean of white china surrounding
it shrunken proportions. The potatoes, in
little lumps, unskined, were piled up in a
fruit dish; the green pass which Minnie
£ad with indefinite difficult fished from the
meat pot, was served on a red earthern
plate, and the stalks of asparagus were in
the salad bowl! The tablecloth was away,
and the napkins were omitted altogether.
' Where's the gravy,' was Joe's first
question.
' There wasn't fi.ny.'
' The meat is burned,' cried one voice.
' It's stone cold,' cried another.
'What is tcis V said another, digging
into the pile of peas.
' Faugh !' followed a daring attempt to
eat some asparagus.
' Never pind/ said Joe. < Home was
not built in a day.' Give us some bread
and butter, and pickles, George.'
'No, not pickles, preserves,'said Char
ley.'
'Susy locked both up,'said Harry, laugh
ing. 'She declared a'woman put them up,
and that if we wanted them we must pre
pare them for ourselves.'
Minnie produced the strawberries and
some sugar, and the gentlemen declared
they had dined superbly.
' Von fellows clear away,' satd Minnie,
'we're tired.'
'You wash up, don't you " queried Joe
'Yes.'
'Where's the water?'
'ln the hydrant.'
'Wlvat do you wash 'em in ■'
'Pan, I guess.'
Away went Joe on a voyage of investi
gation. .and returned soon" with a tin dish
full of cold water. The 'leavings/ as
Harry termed the remains of the sumptu
ous dinner, were thrown from the window
into Susy s jlower beds, and armed with a
bar of soap and a fine damask table napkin,
Joe began to wash up.
'How the grease sticks?'
Perspiration streaming from every pore,
he rubbed manfully at the greasy plates
and dishes, and if the water was cold, he
certainly was not.
'I have wet my shirt front!' Splash No. 1.
'Good for white pants !' Splash No. 2.
'■That weut into my eyes;somebody wipe
this, my hands are wet. Don't rub them
out, Hal!'
The table was cleared at last. Five
damp, greasy napkins thrown into a corner
of the room, testified that the dishes were
washed and wiped. The water followed
the leavings, and the quintet sat down to
cool ofi. (Do oigfrs assist tfcatoperation?)
Spite of the superb dinner, five ' inner
men called, like Oliver Twist, for more, at
abou.t 7 o'clock.
'What's for tea?' Four voices echoed it.
'Let's have coffee; I can make coffee,'
said George.
'Apd a steak; I can cook it,' cried Joe.
'There's bread and butter,' said Harry.
George went for the steak ; Minnie un
dertook to make the fire; Harry cut the
bread; Joe set the tabic; while Charley
cleared the kitchen by sweeping the pots
and pans used at dinner in a closet, wash
ing being omitted in the operation.
Minnie, blowing and puffing making the
fire, was saluted with—
' How it smokes!'
'What ails this fire, Min ?'
Ilarry discovered the cause, pulled out
the damper, and a merry blaze repaid him.
The coffee boiled, the steak sputtered in
the pan, and the men panted, perspired,
whistled, and used improper words over the
heat.
ft was a good supper, and piling up the
dishes —ft was too hot to wash—the five
bachelors returned to the parlor.
It was involuntary, but each pair of eyes
rested for a moment on the seat Susy was
wont to occupy. A little music, more talk
ing, and still more smoking filled the time
till midnight, when each one yawned him
self off to bed. Harry, who was the one
to lock up, was tjie latest. The kitchen
looked dreary; no fire, greasy frying pan
placed as a helmet over the coflee pot, bits
of bread lying about loose, dirty pots here
and dirty dishes there. The parlor in dis
order; chairs stood in forlorn coufusion ;
smoke hung over ail. The dining room,
with its pilee of dirty enp saucers and
plates, its unswept floor, greasy napkins,
and smoky almqsphere, was wofst of )1,
and Harry inwardly admitted that somehow
the house did not look as comfortable as
usuaj.
There was f'uu the next morning making
up the beds. The milkman and baker had
vainly knocked for admittance, and finally
Tctitgd iu disgust, and the bachelors break
fasted off the stale bread left from the
night s feast, and the coffee black and sweet.
Every man clear up his own room.'
The order given, each started to obey.
.Joe pulled oft the clothes from his bed.
and having laid tfie bolster and pillow on,
proceeded tq put on first a blanket, next a
spread, and fiually the two sheets, finishing
cfi the whole by putting himself on the top
to rest from his toils. Minnie, after pul
ling all ths clothes off one sde in trying to
tuck them in cu the other, and then cor
recting the mistake by tucking them in on
the other side and pulling them off the first,
put his bolsters op qyer the pillow, and con
cluded it would do. Charley merely smooth
ed his down, sagely observing that if he
pulled the things off he never could put
them on again. Ilarry and George, who
shared the same room, having followed
Charley's plan, put on an extra touch by
sweeping the room, and leaving a pile of
dust lying in the middle of the entry.
Three day's experience convinced them
that bachelors' cookery was slow starvation.
Steaks and coffee for breakfast were follow
ed by coffee and steaks for dinner, and both
for tea. Char'ey suggested that they
should have their meals scot from a restau
rant.
'All men cooks, so we stick to the con
tract,' was his final observation.
The motion was seconded and carried by
a unanimous vote.
By this time every dish, plate, napkin,
pot and pan in the house was dirty, and
jcj'fully concluding that they wouldn't want
them any more, the gentlemen piled them
up in the kitchen sink, on the floor and ta
ble and left them.
'Harry'—it was George's yoice—'Haven't
got a clean shirt.'
'Nor U
'Nor I.'
•Nor 1..'
'l've got one.'
'Nor a handkerchief, nor a collar, nor a
pair of stockings, nor—'
'§top ! Two weeks since Susy went, and
no washing day!'
There was a dead silence.
'Who knows how to wash ?'
No answer.
'l—l've seen it done,' Baid one faint
voice, owned by Charley. 'Y'ou soap the
things and rub 'em on a board.'
'Can anybody iron ?'
They all thought they could manage that
part.
The kitchen was opened for the first time
for ten days. One cry burst from five lips.
Tables, chairs, floor, dresser, sink, were one
mass of roaches, collected by the greasy
dishes. They overran every piace.
'Shut the door. Now for it,' cried George,
and dashed at the invaders. Bedlam seem
ed to have broken loose. In reaching after
one of the 'critters' Charley upset the table.
Crash went tha crockery. Screams of laugh
ter, cries of disgust, blows thick as hail,
comments on the heat, jokes, warnings flew
about for an hour, and then the panting
party ceased from fheir labors, and viewed
sternly the ' cold corpuses' of their foes.
A scream from Minnie—
' There's one down my back ?'
George cried —'Jce, there's one on your
hair!'
'Don't mention it. Look at the fellow
on your shirt sleeve.'
A general stampede for the bath room
followed.
' Let's wash up here,'
No sooner said than done. The soiled
clothes were collected from all the rooms,
and the boards and soap brought up from
the kitchen.
Joe and Harry washed, blistering hands
and streaming foreheads testifying to their
efforts—Cold water required a great deal
of rubbing, and somehow the things had a
yellow tinge after all, as George rem irked
as he rung them out. Minnie objecting to
going into the yard, hung them over the
chairs in the dining room and the banis
ters in the entry as fast as George and
Charley wrung them out. Dinner time
came and found thejn still at work. Din
ner eaten, the dishes carried off by the
waiter from the restaurant, they changed
places, and the washers wrung and hung
up, while the others washed.
Six o'clock saw the last shirt hanging
in damp limpness over the parlor chande
lier ; the handkerchiefs waved from the
mantlepiece, and the stockings dangled
from the bars of the Canterbury.
' They always iron the next day, so they
can dry in the night,' said Harry.
After another slaughter of roaches in the
morning the fire was lighted, the irons put
en, and the clothes collected, rough, dry,
for the final touches. Every man had vis
ions of smooth, clean linen to repay him
for his unaccustomed efforts. Such is hope!
Charley took the first step. Planting
his iron on the front of a shirt, a smell
greeted his nostrils, and he lifted it again
to behold a large brown mark, the precise
shape of the flat-iron, burned on the bosom
of his 'go to meeting, shirt.' Minnie's
iron, being almost cold, was travelling
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briskly up and down his shirt, but produ
cing no visible effect.
It was humiliatiug but true, that Joe
took an order to a gentleman's furnishing
store that morning for a supply of linen,
and the 1 washed clothes' were consigned
to the 1 pot closet' to await Susy,s return.
Susy's return ! How can I describe if.!
Eyery man on that day found he'had an
imperative engagement abroad, ana the
tie maiden found an empty house. She
went first to the parlor. Dust lay in piles.
One curtain was torn from the cornice,
and lay in limp folds against the window.
Cigars lay about loose, some whole, some
half smoked, some reduced to a mere stump;
spittoons were in every corner; the chairs
were ' promiscusly deranged; on the cent
er table three bottles, two demijohns, &
pack of cards, and about two dozen tum
blers replaced her pretty books. The pi
ano bore two pairs of boots, deposited there
when the owners were too tired to go up
stairs, and forgotten afterwards; the Cant
erbury had a dish of chicken salad repos
ing peacefully upon it;cn<? ottoman sup
ported a hat and cane, another a coat; every
chair can ied some relic of the departed guests
here a handkerchief, there a cigar case, on
one a pocket comb, on another a toothpick.
Susy was dismayed ; but, like a brave little
woman, determined to face fill 1 the muss,'
at once. The kitchen came next. As we
have described it on the eventful ironing
day, so it remained, roaches inclusive, me
andering everywhere. The library was
next in order, and was the counterpart of
the parlor, only more so; dining room dit
to , bed rooms to match.
Susy looked at the washboards in the
bathroom, the market basket in the bath
room, the parlor chairs in the kitchen, (' It
was the nearest,' Joe said when they
brought tb.sja put;) the frying pan in the
bedroom, (Charley broke his basinf) the
bread pan iu the spare room (' for dirty
water' Joe said;) the dish clothes in the
bed rooms (towels all dirty.) She contem
plated the fioors, unswept for a month ;
marked the dust, the accumulation of i
similar time, and then weut to her own room,
the only orderly, because untouched place
in the house. A little note lay on the ta
ble:
'We own the beat! It takes a woman !
We beg pardon! We'll dq so po more 1
Clear up, and invite us to dinner.
FIVE REPENTANT BACHELORS'
The First Printed Book.
It is a remarkable and most interesting
fact, says a secular paper, that the very first
use to which the discovery of printing was
applied was the production of the Bible.
This was accomplished at Mentz, between
the years 1450 and 1455. Guttenbprg was
the inventor of the art, apd JVpst, a gold
smith, furaished the necessary funds. Had
it been a single page or an entire sheet,
which was then produced, there might have
been less occasion to have noticed it; but
there was something in the whole charac
ter of the affair which, if not unprecedent
ed, rendered it singular in the current of
human events. This Bible was in two fo
lio volumes, which have been justly praised
for the beauty and strength of the y 'per,
the exactness of the register, and the lus
tre of the ink. The work contained twelve
hundred and eighty-two pages, and being
the first ever printed, of course involved a
long period of time, and an immense amount
of mental, manual and mechanical labor;
and yet, for a long time after it had been
finished and offered for sale, pot a single
human being, save the artists themselves,
knew how it had been accomplished.
Of the first printed Bible, eighteen cop
ies are now known to be in existence; four
of which are printed on yellum. Two of
these are in England, one being in the
Grenville collection ; one is ip the Royal
Library at Berlin; and one in the Royal Li
brary of Paris; of the remaining fourteen
copies, ten are in England—there being a
copy in Oxford, Edinburgh, London, and
seven in the collection of different noble
men. The vellum copy has been sold as
high as eight hundred dollars.— Weekly
Argus.
The meaning of 'Hurrah !' —A great
many people have shouted' Hurrah!' 'many
a time and oft,' but comparatively few know
its derivation and primary meaning. It
originated among the Eastern nations,
where it yeas used as a war cry—from the
belief that every man who died in the bat
tle for his country went to heaven. It is
derived from the Scalvonic word 'Hurrag,'
which means 'To Paradise.
British Mines. —An English writer esti
mates that from the various mines of Great
Britain a total annual product of over $207,-
000,000 is obtained. Some of the coal
mines are sunk to an enormous depth —one
at Duckenfield being 2,504 feet deep. A
copper mine at Jpesayean is 2,180 feet deep.
Many other tin and copper mines are ap
proaching tbeee depths; and under the At
lantis waves, in BotaTlack, Levant, and oth
er mines, man is daily pursuing his under
ground labors at a half a mile from the
shore.
SELLING off all kinds of Tin Ware, at
wholesale prices at retail. Those in want
of tin ware will do well to call here before
purchasing elsewhere.
mh!2 F. G. FRANCtSCUS.