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LIGHT.
Thc following exquisite poem, by WILLIAM PITT PAH
< s.iim* vcairs ago pronounced by one of trie most
U ,V ; , r .'in"iii critics to lie the finest production of
X'Se length in our language
From the quickened womb of the primal gloom
' Tl.e son rolled black and bare,
; 111 wove him a ve>t for his Ktliiop breast
' Of the threads of my golden hair ;
. when the broad tent of thc firmament
Arose iu its airy spars,
j penciled the hue of its matchless blue,
And spangled it round with stars.
; . Anted the flowers of the Eden bowers,
lad their leaves of living green,
mine were the dyes in the sinless eyes
of Eden's virgin queen ;
i when the fiend's art on the trustful heart,
Had fastened its mortal spell,
. .p,. silvery sphere of the first born tear
the trembling earth 1 fell.
ivvn the wave- that hurst o'er the world accursed,
Their work of w rath had sped.
Imlthe Ark's lone few. tried and true,
Came forth among the dead :
UTth the wond'rous gleams of my bridal beams,
j | u de their terrors cease,
! wrote on the roll of the storm's dark scroll,
1, ~l's. vciiarrt of peace.
i,, a pall at rc-t on a senseless breast,
V illi's funeral shadow slept!—
It":, re shepherd -wains on the Bethlehem plains
Their lowly v igil.- kept—
I Slashed on their sight the heralds bright
fit Heaven's redeeming plan,
A-; v chanted the morn of a Savior born—
v.i-iy to the outcast man.
K, ..! favor I -how to the lofty and low,
Oiitlicju-t and unjust 1 descend ;
the Mi nd w hose vain spheres roll in darkness and tears
sve my smile the blest smile of a friend,
\ •,, ||, lWl r , ~f {j,,. waste by my love is embraced,
A- the rose in the garden of Kings ;
At tin' crvsalis bier of the worm I appear.
Audio! the gay butterfly wings.
1 * deviate Morn, like a mourner forlorn,
' Ural- all the pride of her charms,
1 tin bright hours chase night from her flowers
And lead the young day to her arms ;
; when the gay rover seeks Eve for his lover,
.lad sinks to her liulmy repose,
the soft re-t by the zephyr fanned west,
In curtains of amber and rose.
n my sentinel steep, by thc night-brooded deep,
I ;.izc with un-liimlieriilg eye,
vcii the cynosure star of the mariner
h blotted from u* tire sAqr ;
• - 1 filled by me through the merciless sea,
Though sped by the hurricane's wings,
■ iiupas-less, dark, lone, weltering bark
In the haven home safely he brings.
■ ion the (lowers in their dew-spangled bowers,
TV birds in their chamber of green.
1 mountains and plain grow with beauty again,
As they busk in matinal sheen.
' -neb the glad worth of my presence to earth,
Though fitful and fleeting the while,
it glories must rest on the home of the blest,
Ever bright with thc Deity's smile.
11l isrtJlititmts.
Striking Temperance Sketch.
Ar. intellicrent and wealthy man, who did not
MI'S in society, nor habitually at home, had
'"••m in his mansion in which, as often as
-'ire or four times a year, he would gorge
uslf with liquor. When he finds his craving
! T nun coming on, he would lock himself up
■hi room until " the Scale" Was finished.—
i appearance of this room at thc close of
of those sprees was disgustingly filthy. A
•iwho knew his habits remonstrated with
j m. hut was told that reform was impossible,;
'inesistible was his cravings for rum .at ccr
• times. His friend begged him to try.—
• two sons, fifteen and seventeen years of
■f. earnestly pressed the appeal. At last the
•' 1 consented to try, and drawing from his
pi a key. said to his elder son— 44 Here is
vy to the liquor closet ; will you take it
promise me on no condition, and for no
' " 'CM ith which I may threaten you, togive
™ when 1 demand it ?"
lite hoy, knowing how furious his father was
' h occasions, declined the trust. Thefath
i asked the younger son, a boy of uiicom-
M ire. the same question, and he prompt
"eplied—" J will."
•" r a few weeks things went on smoothly,
° n - day the father came home at an unusa-
His manner betokened that his ap
f Mas gnawing and craving. He called
' ''"'Oitger sou and demanded the key to the
closet, but he refused firmly. The re
. ma ddened hint, and seizing .some weapon
r ng at his son. For a moment he stood
i:m with glaring eyes and insane with
- 'it the young hero never quailed. Fix
■ linn hut tearful eyes on his father, lie
father, 1 promised you that I would
- you that key, no matter what violence
.' a '-■ 1 1 threaten, and now you may kill me,
j v er give you that key 1"
the weapon dropped from the man's
' and as he himself expressed it—" the
for liijnor seemed to abandon mc be
ll no 'de firmness of my son."
* as reclaimed, and never fell ; his cure
• ; ": a ' an< l thorough. And there is many
in *ilh as strong an appetite for rum as
'j 111 . hut who is not so fortunate as to
7'' Maine Law so summarily and firmly
-ind at thc right time. Could this
, f 4 ' '"'lp only been at hand, many tliou
, .' ,4 'iiuiikards, once apparently reformed,
not be filling dishonored graves.
I"'"hK w ' 10 f rocs to bed in anger, has thc
a lad-fellow. A wag desires us to
i M' he knows a married man, who though
to Ud meek and geutle as a lamb is
••Hue prcdß-ament.
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
better from %
[Correspondence of the Bradford Reporter.]
BCXVIDKHK, 111., April 11,18.16.
To THE EDITOR OF THE BRADFORD REPORTER :
—Dear Sir: Having just read a letter in your
paper from SILAS NOBI.E, af Dixon, concerning
South-eastern Minnesota, permit me to give
your readers somewhat of an idea of the Mid
dle and Northern part of the Territory, as al
so the Minnesota or St. Peters river country.
I have travelled through a large portion of
South-eastern Minnesota. That part of the
Territory anil the Minnesota or St. Peters ri
ver country, is probably the best part of it.—
The whole Territory is dotted with clear lakes
from one mile to fifty miles long, abounding in
fish, such as bass, pickerel, perch, &c. The
small streams running into the Mississippi, are
full of trout. The country and the vicinity of
St. Paul to the North and Kast, is a poor quali
ty of land, made up for the most part of burr
oak openings and tamarac swamps. The land
extending up as far as Lake Superior, is gen
erally rough and wooded. There is also seme
very poor county north of St. Anthony, of the
same nature as that north of St. Paul. I have
never been up the Mississippi but a short dis
tance above St. Anthony, but the couutry bor
dering the river is represented to be a fine one ;
being mostly wooded laud 011 the north side,
and prairie and timber on the south side.—
There are some flourishing towns in this sec
tion, among which are St. Cloud and Sank Ra
pids ; the latter is noted for a large power,
second only to St. Anthony Falls. To the
west of St. Paul the country is prairie and a
sufficiency of timber, with fine lakes, high banks,
here and there. Among which is Lake Min
uetonka (Minnetouka is the Sioux or Dacotah
for great water). This Lake is about fifty
miles long, and is from three to five miles wide.
A large settlement occupying the south side
and half of the north side. A belt of heavy
nmpic timber one mile in width surrounds it.
The country along the Minnesota or St. Peters
river is good ; but I consider it, (having tra
velled along the river as high up as Fort Ilidge
ly, some two hundred and fifty miles from its
mouth) an excellent country. It has no scarci
ty of timber, which cannot be said of South
eastern Minnesota. I would not say of Min
nesota as some of its admirers do, that it is the
best country on the face of the earth, because
I don't know to a certainty, having never as
yet traveled over the different countries on the
globe ; but I believe it to be a great deal bet
ter country than those who never saw it, sup
pose it is. Any qnc desirous of coming West
from your vicinity need not be afraid of freez
ing in Minnesota ; nor need they be afraid of
starving ; for although the summers are short
tcr thau the summers here, or in your country,
they are much warmer ; the soil as a general
tiling, lias a fine black sand running through
it. This is the case more particularly as high
up as St. Paul. In short, the soil varies from
the lowa line, from a black loam, like that of
Illinois, to a sandy loam as we go north. So
that with the hot summers, and a soil adapted
to the latitude, Nature has made Minnesota so
that men can live there and surround them
selves with most of the productions and luxu
ries of the more Southern climcs. Everything
can be raised there with the exception of peach
es that can be raised in Illinois, and they are
of very rare occurrence in the north part of
this State. The climate is good—it is more
stable than that here, or with you. From the
time Spring sets in, to the first of June, the
weather is comfortable { the nights arc cool,
then it becomes warmer, and so increases op
to the middle of July, when it is hot , and so
continues night and day to the first of Septem
ber. The temperature going from the lowa
line up, will be found to keep pace with the
soil, growing warmer as the soil grows sandier.
The winters arc cold, but not severe. Mercu
ry falls to thirty degrees below zero, averag
ing it for the entire territory. Sometimes (as
last winter) it falls down to forty below. The
air is still in this cold weather, and the sun is
generally shining. The human frame is braced
up. Every one has a keen appetite. These
cold days are the best days in the year for
health. One needs to wrap up well, however.
The scenery through the territory is fine. The
roads arc good most of the year. The ground
docs not heave in the spring. Winds, with
the exception of a wind al>out the fourth of
July, do not prevail. Still, I will not say as
some do, that the climate will cure all the dis
eases of mankind and regenerate old age, for
I don't know. Ido know, however, that in
dividuals iu whom I have great confidence,
have said they thought the climate had cured
them, when they were about to despair ; they
may have been mistaken, the change of pur
suits might have done it.
It is estimated that forty thousand people
went to 'Minnesota last season. As many will
probably go this season. Large towns will
have to be built up. I'ersons of small means
can do well there. Some of the wealthiest men
iu St. Paul six years ago were not worth one
hundred dollars. So far as I ain acquainted
with the Western country, I prefer it to any
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
country I have ever seen. The northeastern
part of Indiana is the poorest portion I have
traveled over, besides it is sickly—and that
remark will apply to the whole State.
I should think by the number of cars which
pass this place, aud by the crowds which pour
into Chicago, that some portions of the Eas
tern country would be depopulated the coming
season. lam waiting now for the boats to run
above Dubuque, when I shall return to Min
nesota, the land of the sky-tinted water.
WM. 11. TOMPKINS.
[For the Bradford Reporter.]
GATHERED PEARLS.
Alice was a lovely child, her sparkling black
eyes, snowy complexion, and golden hair, made
her lovely—while her gentleness and happy,
bird-like freedom, rendered her an agreeuble
companion. Four Springs strewed their flow
ers at her feet ; but like a flower she drooped,
faded and perished. She bowed her little head
under the weight of suffering heaped upon her ;
angels came to waft her happy spirit home to
a world of light. Kind friends composed those
little limbs for the grave ; gentle hands laid
that tiny form in the dust, there to wait the
resurrection morn. Soon the flowers will shed
their dewy fragrance above her head. Dry
thy tears thou stricken Mother, thy little one
waits to welcome thee in a hapjiier, better
world than this. Though she may be hid from
thy sight, jet she sleeps iu peace—where no
storms of sorrow, affliction, or envy shall ever
disturb her sweet repose ; but as a shining an
gel, she will ever bask in the bright suushine
of redeeming love. The silent tear may fall
when those useless little robes are laid away ;
the untold grief may rend thy heart, as no lit
tle footsteps shall greet thy listening ear ; but
do not murmur ; remember she is singing the
songs of the redeemed in glory. Do not wish
to call her back, but try to meet her amid the
blood-washed throng in Heaven.
West Burlington, Pa. M. E. M.
BURLINGTON, April 28, ISAC.
E. O. GOODRICH— *Dear Sir : —Having late
ly returned from the far West, and hearing the
people speak of the extreme cold weather here,
the past winter, I thought I would, through
your columns, let the readers of the Reporter,
(which by the way, I find is a most excellent
pajier,) know liiw cold it was in the West.—
At Taos, New Mexico, it was a few days after
Christmas 39 degrees below zero. The snow
commenced falling the last of September, and
the ground was not, neither had it been, bare
on the 11th of February. Within the remem
brance of that noted individual, the oldest in
habitant, thvre had never been such a hard
winter in New Mexico. Before, it was called
cold at' zero. On the plains Buffalo carcass
es were strewn all along from Bent's Fort to
the crossing of the Arkansas, oil the old Santa
Fe road, a distance of 150 miles ] and the In
dians lost 2,400 horses at the time of our cross
ing the plains. It was cold for seven days—
sleet falling all the time ; but we lost no ani
mals, but it was very severe on them. At
some future time, if this is acceptable to your
readers, I will furnish some sketches of New
Mexico. Yours, Ac., J.
KSER YOUR EYE ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.—
Take carc of them. Don't let them stir with
out watching. Tlicy may do something wrong
if you do. To be sure you never knew them
to do anything very bad, but it may be on your
account they have not. Perhaps, if it had not
been for your kind carc they might have dis
graced themselves and families a longtime ago.
Therefore dou't relax any effort to keep them
where they ought to be ; never miud your owu
business, that will take carc of itself. There
is a man passing along—there he is looking
over thc fence into his neighbor's garden—be
suspicions of him, perhaps he contemplates
stealing something some of those dark nights ;
there is no knowing what queer fancies he may
have got in his head. If you see any symp
toms of any one passing out of thc path of
rectitude, don't say anything to the erring in
dividual about it, but tell every one else that
you can sec, aud be particular to see a great
many.
It is a good way to circulate such things,
and though it may not benefit yourself, or any
one else particularly, it will be something equal
ly important about some one else. Do keep
something going—silence is a dreadful thing,
though it is said there was silence in the Courts
of Heaven foe the space of half an hour, don't
let any such thing occur on earth ; it would be
too much like Heaven for thc inhabitants of
this mundane sphere. If, after all your watch
ful carc, you can't see anything out of the way
In any one, you may be sure it is not because
they have not done anything bad ; perhaps in
an unguarded momeut, you lost sight of them—
throw out hints tlicy arc no better than they
should lie—that you should not wonder if peo
ple found out what they were after a while,
and that tlicy may not carry their heads so
high. Keep it a going and some one will take
the hint, and begin to help you after a while
then there will be music, and everything work
to a charm.
Bgy- An honest dame in the town of ,
standing beside the corpse of her deceased hus
band, bewailing in piteous tones bis untimely
departure, observed —
44 It's a pity lie's dead, for his teeth are as
good as ever they were."
A Fine Chance to make Money.
The French are, proverbially, an economi
cal people, never suffering any substance of
the material world to be wasted, which can,
by any possibility, be made subservient to the
uses of man. The last attempt, however, of
the Parisian economists, to introduce horse
meat as a common article of food for all clas
ses does not seem to meet with much favor—•
and for this reason : " Poor old horse" is hard
ly fit for ilog meat ; and a horse steak, fat
and juicy, is worth as much as beef of thc same
cut. In consequence of the drain of horses
for the Crimea these noble animals are re-,
markably dear, therefore at present the scheme
cannot have a fair trial. All the old horses
turned out to die are mere skeletons, and the
article of fat is most wofully wanting.
A Monsieur de Sora has, however, invented
a method by which he turns the flesh of these
semi-skeletons to good account; and, for two
or three years past, he has regularly, each fall
brought up large numbers of dilapidated hacks,
which, by a process we shall presently des
cribe, he manages to return to thc metropolis
in the shape of an almost universal article of
diet, especially in thc French cuisine, and he
is rapidly coining a fortune by his enterprise.
It is a well-established fact that the common
barn-door fowl does not as a general tiling
produce eggs during the winter months ; and
many naturalists have attributed the failure to
the lowness of temperature incident to the sea
son. Such theories have, however, been ex
ploded, since experience has proved that, al
though housed in an atmosphere kept at sum
mer heat, and fed—full fed—with various
kinds of grain, both whole and crushed—raw
and cooked—still old Madame Cackle obsti
nately refused to yield only an occasional egg.
It is now well ascertained that the reason is
the want of animal food, which Mrs. Biddy
cannot get in winter. In summer she caters
for herself, and exercises her scratching pro
jiensities in search of the larvaj of insects,
grubs, worms, Ac., which just underlie the
surface of the soil. But, when the earth is
rigid with frost, the flies, bugs, and beetles are
nan est, and thc grasshoppers have departed,
so old biddy deliberately closes the door of
her mill anil will grind out no more eggs until
the vernal months.
Monsieur de Sora was aware of all these
facts, and, living at the time upon an old di
lapidated estate, a few miles from Paris, he
set himself earnestly at the task of construct
ing a hennery, which should be productive
twelve months iu the year. He soon ascer
tained that a certain quantity of raw mince
meat, given regularly, with the other feed, pro
duced thc desired result ; and commencing
with only some three hnudred female fowls,
he found that they averaged, the first year,
sonic twenty-five dozen of eggs, each, in the
three hundred and sixty-five days. The past
season he has wintered, thus far, about one
hundred thousand hens, and a fair proportion
of male birds, with a close approximation to
the same results. During the spring, summer
and autumn, they have the range of the es
tate, but always under surveillance. In thc
winter their apartments are kept at an agree
able temperature ; and although they have
mince meat rations the year round, yet the
quantity is much increased during cold weath
er. They have free access to pure water,
gravel ami sand, and their coiubs are always
red.
To apply this great consumption, M. de So
ra avails himself of the constant supply of su
pcranuatcd and damaged horses, which can
always be gathered from the stables of Paris
and the suburbs. These useless animals are
taken to an abattoir, owned by M. de Sora
himself, and there slaughtered. The blood is
saved, clean, and unmixed with offal. It is
sold for purjKtses of the arts, at a remuerative
price. The skin goes to thc tanner —the head,
hoo', skins, Ac., to the glue-maker and Prus
sian blue manufacturer—the larger bones form
a cheap substitute for ivory with the button
makers—while the remainder of the bony
structure is manufactured into ivory-black, or
used in the shape of bone dust, for agricultu
ral purposes. Even thc marrow is preserved ;
and much of thc fashionable and highly per
fumed lip-salve and jtomade, so much in vogue,
was once enclosed within the leg-bones of old
horses. Uses are also found for thc entrails
—and, iu fact, no portion of the beast is wast
ed. The flesh is clealny dissected off the frame,
cut into suitable pieces and run through a se
ries of revolving knives, the apparatus being
similar to a sausage machine, and delivered in
the shape of a mass of mince meat, slightly
seasoned, into casks, which arc instantly head
ed up and conveyed per rail road to the egg
plantation of M. de Sora. Thc consumption
of horses for this purpose, by M. de Sora, lias
been at the average rate of twenty two per
day for thc past twelve months. A slight ad
dition of black pepper and salt is found to be
beneficial. The fowls cat it with avidity ;
they are ever in good condition, and they lay
each an egg almost daily, in all weathers and
in all seasons. Thc breeding arrangements at
this establishment are also on an immense
scale. In September, October and November
the proprietor sent 12,000 capons to Paris for
sale, lie never allows a hen to set ! The
breeding rooms are warmed by steam, arrang
ed in shelves, and hatched chickens are re
moved to the nursery each morning, and fresh
eggs laid in to supply the places of the empty
shells. A constant succession of chickens is
thus insured, and moreover thc feathers are
always free from vermin. Indeed, a lousy
fowl is unknown upon the premises.
The manure produced in this French estab
lishment is no small item, and since it forms
thc very best fertilizer for many descriptions
of plants, it is eagerly sought for at high jwiccs
by thc market gardeners in the vicinity. Thc
proprietor estimates thc yield this year at
about one hundred cords. He employs nearly
one hundred persons in thc different depart
ments, three-fourths of whom, however, arc
females. Thc sales of eggs during the past
winter have averaged about forty thousand
dozens (480,000 eggs) per week, at the rate
of six dozens for four francs, bringing the ac
tual sales up to $5,000, in round numbers, for
every seven days, o! $269,000 per annam.—
The expenses of M. de Sera's hennery, are in
the neighborhood of $75,000, having a bal
ance iu his favor of $185,000 per year—al
most as remunerative as Col. Fremont's Mari
posa grant.
A WORD FOR PATRICK. —The Philadelphia
North American closes an article ou Irish col
onization of our waste lands with the follow
ing good word for Patrick.
44 The poor Irishman is a rough jewel, but
4 faith 1 there's the making of a man in him.'
O'Connell was not so far wrong when he de
clared his countrymen 4 the finest pisantry in
the world.' We defy any man to be conver
sant with a fair specimen of this people and
not like, while at the same time he may feel
inclined to shake him. Wherever one of them
has the chance, he shows the true points of
manhood. In domestic attachments strong,
in domestic virtues eminent, it is seldom he is
gnilty of a calculating, a deliberate, or a ma
licious wrong. The infusion of Irish blood in
the circulation of the universal Yankee na
tion, gives an impulsiveness and promptitude
which will tell upon our future. Let Patrick
have a fair chance, education and indepen
dence, and we arc not afraid of any harm that
he will do, while we are very hojieful of the
good that enlightened freemen of Irish extrac
tion will accomplish."
FOUND HIS FATHER. —My son, can you take
a trunk up to the hotel ? said a passenger step
ping from a boat on the levee, to a ragged
youngster who sat balancing himself on the
tail of a dray.
Your sou ? cried the boy, eyeing him from
head to foot. Well, I'll be dod rabbed, if I
ain't in luck. Here I've been trying to find
iny daddy these three years, and all of a sud
den, up comes the old hoss himself, and knows
me riirlit off. How are you ? streching out his
muddy paw.
The traveler was non-plussed. Between a
smile and a frown, he inquired :
What is your name, sir ?
My name T You don't know ? Well, its
nothing in these parts to have so many chil
dren that they don't know their names. My
uaine's William, but some folks call me rag
ged Bill, for short. The other part I reckon
you know ; if you dou't you can ax the old
woman.
And shouldering the trunk, he started off
towards the hotel, mumbling to himself : Well,
this is a go. The old mau's come home at last.
Good clothes, big truuk, must have the tin.
Well, 1 am in luck.
A FRAGMENT OF NOAH'S ARK DISCOVERED IN
ILLINOIS. —The Bardstown Illinoisan says :
While visiting a friend in Sangamon Bottom,
in this county, a short time since, we were
called to examine a specimen of stone which
he had lately taken from a neighboring quar
ry. The curiosity consisted of two sandstone
rocks, which were found joining each other
in centexural form, which when separated, the
face of the one presen ted the appearance of
having been a part of the side of a vessel near
the gunwale ; there seems no doubt to have
been an overlapping of the timbers in the
form of a coruice or moulding around the ves
sel. Thc work of art is as plain to be seen
on the stone as on the floating vessel ; the
holes formed by the nails arc very distinct, os
well as the fossilixed texture of the wood.—
There are also pieces of iroa with the speci
men, which seem to have been used iustcuil of
caulking between the strips of plank.
SHALL I PRAY TO CHANCE ?—An English la
dy, who had forsaken her God and the Bible
for thc gloom and darkness of infidelity, was
crossing the Atlantic, and asked a pious sailor
how long tlicy should be out. 41 In fourteen
days, if it's God's will, we shall lie in Liver
pool," answered the sailor.
44 If it is God's will ?" said the lady ; 44 what
a senseless expression ; dou't yon kuow that it
all comes by chuuce ?"
In a few days a terrible storm arose, and
tlie lady stood cliuging to the side of the cabin
door in an agony of terror, when the sailor
passed her.
44 What do you think," said she, 44 will thc
storm soon be over V
44 It seems likely to las for some time, mad
am."
44 Oh," she cried, 44 pray that we need not be
lost."
His only and calm reply was, 44 SluiU I pray
to chance ?"
ADVANTAGE OF USING TOBACCO. —Thc fol
lowing was communicated to Com. Wilkes of
the Exploring expedition by a savage of the
Feojce Islands. He stated that a vessel, the
hulk of which was still lying on the beach, had
conic ashore in a storm, and that all the crew
had fallen in thc hauds of the Islanders.
44 What did you do with them ?" inquired
Wilkes.
''Killed 'em all," answered thc savage.
44 What did you do with them after you
had killed them ?"
" Eat 'cm—good," returned thc cannibal.
44 Did you cat them all ?" asked the half
sick Commodore.
44 Yes, we cat all but one."
44 And why did von spare one ?"
44 Because lie taste too much like tobacco—
couldn't cat no how !"
If thc tobacco ehewcr should happen to fall
into hands of New Zealand savages, or get
shipwrecked somewhere in thc Fccjec group,
lie will have thc consolation of knowing that
he will not lie cut into steaks and buried in
thc uncousccratcd stomach of a cannibal.
INDIAN CAKES —Take some mush, and milk
or warm water to make a batter, and floor
enough to make tlic cake hold together ; two
or three eggs, two spoonfuls molasses or su
gar, a little nutmeg or lemon, to suit thc taste;
bake ou a griddle or in an oven.
VOL. XVI. NO. 48.
In How Cold Weather Can Animal Life
be Sustained.
\Y hile we are waiting for Dr. Kane's official
rejwrt of his last expedition to the Arctic
ocean, there are some scientific results, the
publication of which we may be permitted to
anticipate. '1 he first of these is the condition
of animal and vegetable life in a high northern
latitude.
I)r. Kane's party succeeded in reaching lati
tude 80 degrees a higher northern point upon
the coast of Greenland than had yet been at
tained by any previous navigator. lie found
inhabiting this inhospitable region the Esqui
maux Indian, the reindeer, and many varieties
of the lloral world, principally of the Alpine
s]>ecies. The latter were numerous, but di
minutive. How far north the hnman race and
animals exist, is not known ; but Dr. Kane's
observations clearly establish the fact, that the
extreme cold latitude 80 degrees is not the lira
it to their northern navigation.
The habits of the Esquimaux are peculiar.
They are essentially a migratory people, and,
with sledges drawu by dogs, undertake jour
neys of hundreds of miles in extent, depending
for their subsistence upon such nourishment as
chance throws in their way. This the party
under Dr. Kane found to be sufficiently abun
dant to meet their own wants.
During the whole cruise they were never se
riously iu want of food but one occasion,which
was on their return—they were nearing Mel
ville bay. Here fortunately a fine fat seal pre
sented itself—stretched at length on the ice. A
boat was manned to go in pursuit of it, and Dr
Kauc describes the excitemeut of the chase as
so intense, that one of the most experienced
gunners of the party could hardly command
himself sufficiently to fire at it until it was in
the very act of escaping.
The temperature at which the explorations
were conducted, was between TO and 80 de
grees below zero. So intense was this cold,
that the alcoholic thermometers failed to indi
cate accurately the temperature, nud even
chloroform and the essentia! oils, which resist
low temperatures, became thick and turbid.—
It was only by a careful observation aud com
parison of many instruments, that they were
enabled to attain to any accuracy in regard to
the extent of the cold.
An opportunity has been thas given to test
the ability of the human body to resist a tem
perature of seventy degrees below zero, for se
veral months together. The Doctor and his
party were enabled to do this by an immense
consumption of animal food, the ordinary daily
allowance to each man being six or eigh ducks,
or an equivalent in several pounds of the fat
of seal.
Shortly after the discovery of the compound
nature of the atmosphere by Priestly, Craw
ford broached the theory that animal heat of
the body is uiaintaiued at au uniform temper
ature of degrees, by means of a liberal con
sumption of food, containing carbon in excess,
as animal food where the cold is severe. The
most beautiful aud brilliant series of experi
ments prosecuted by Licbig, were those intend
ed to establish this theory, which they do most
successfully.
In this connection, the experiment of Dr.
Kauc and his party, showing the kind and
amount of food required to enable the human
body to resist the depressing influence of a con
tinued low temperature, for a jieriod of time
longer than any other recorded, is of tho high
est practical value.
We have in physical geography, as the re
sults of this cruise, a newly discovered laud
flanked by lofty mountaiu ranges, a wide and
iceless open sea, pointing to an undiscovered
region of large extent towards the north pole,
and immense glaciers, before which those of
Cyr aud Chamouni dwindle into insignificance.
Must it not be very romantic to be on
your knees before a lovely one, of Love's love
ly daughters, heaving up a torrent of sweet
words between her glowing, parted lips, rais
ing roses on her cheeks by the acre, bringing
tears of humid pleasure to her eyes, and just
at the identical moment when she is going to
swoon away into your arms, to hear her anx
ious mother cry : " You, Sally, hare yon. fed
the pigs ?"
BAKED IXDIAX PinniXG. —lnto one quart of
boiling milk scald three tahicspoonfills of In
dian meal ; when cold, add a teaenpfal of mo
lasses, a piece of butter the .size of an egg, a
teaspoonful of salt, also ginger and cinnamon ;
bake in a pudding dish from one to two hours
in a cook stove, or longer if in a brick oven
When done it has the appearance of brown
bread.
" You say," said the judge, " that the
squire who married you to the first wife, au
thorized you to take sixteen ? What do you
mean by that ?"
" Well," said Hans, "he dold mc that I
should half four potter, four vorser, four rich
er, four boorcr—ant in tny couudry four diuics
four alway make sixteen."
A YIGII.AXCB COMMITTER,—A Western edi
tor, complaining that he could not sleep one
night, summed up the causes. A wailing
babe of 17 months old—a dog howling under
the window—a cat in the alley—a colored
serenade at the shanty over the way—a tooth
ache—and a pig trying to get in" the back
door.
#5?" Mr. lluggins at the breakfast tabic.—
" Mary Anne, bring me a egg."
Finished daughter— "AM egg, if you please,
father—speak correctly."
lluggins—" A negg, is it, my dear—a negg,
ch ? Weil, Mary Anne, instead of of one,
you may bring mc two neggs."
Bkir* Where twenty persons have stomachs
but one has braius, hence brewers grow rich
while printers remain jioor.