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OUR, BEVERAGES.
Osn of the most Striking characteristics of
'different nations, is the peculiarity of - their
beverages. "The bea-drinking.Englishman".
has always been proud of his distinction, and
the excellence of "London Brown Stoat" has
never been denied ; while "Scotch Ale" and
"Irish Whiskey" have each reigned supreme,
the drink ; par excellence, of those parts (Atha
United Kingdom whose name they bear. lily
thel teim "French Brandy," Johnny Crimean
has been made reponsible for an ocean of
vitrolated poison—a liquid fire, more consUm
lag and terrible than all the rivers of lava
poured forth by the craters s of Etna and
Vesuvius—which has flown all over the world,
and perpetrated more murder, and arson than
was ever done by malice aforethought. That,
all this mischief is not justly blamable upon
thb frog-eaters is evident from the fact that
more " French Brandy" is drunk in one year
than 'the vineyards .of France coulit produce
in ten; to say nothing of the.jmraerise quan
tities of wine, the :eat juice of the grape,
which is gym:lowed More it itsdistilled into'
brandy, both at home and •abroad. But
- whoever-is chargeable with the invention of
the mixture of corn distilled•alcohol and sul
phuric acid, flavored with chemicals—no drop
or particle, of which France or the vine - was
ever guilty of—there can be no doubt that
brandy is - French. • •
The south of Europe dtinki.the pure juice
of the gra; e, with very little fermentation,
mild and harm:ess as Our own sweet cider,
while the Hollanders inflame their storeaolts
with gin to keep the rheumatism out of their
legs, and- their damp atmosphere out of 'their
ldngs;' and the Belgians and Getman be
muddle their brains:vith beer. ; Every nation
in
- every qur4ter of the globe, his its peculiar
beverage; the United States Wrg the only
grand exception. Every nation -of 'Europe
being reptosented in our-population, we have
adopted the heverages.and vices of all; we
imbibe all, foreign trash that is brought to
our shores, and -manufacture poisonous imi
tations of all, which find as ready a market
as th' e g enu i n e a r tiJea. , The mational mouth.
is Wide open, and down the national thrbat
is pouring a thousand.rivers of un•national
libations,. which are undermining the national
\constitution and character. • Tempetanee, and
Washingtonian Movements to the contrary
notwithstanding. '''These have passed over
tett It worse guzzling coal--;
nrunity - ,than before.
-Whoever bas been absent from .Philadel:'
nliia for tiftten or twenty years,and returns to.
'day,lhsee great changes in many things,
but in none will he witness a more striking
revolution than in the appearance of the.tip•
piing shops, a tn.nv class of which has sprung
. up. A -strange name fur ,a new article will
greet his ale; at every currier;nay, from
alm s ost every house, in some quarters, the
isysterious nords. " Lager Beer," will stare
him in the face. If he have the curiosity to
peep into one of these-bon es, he will find a
sanded floor, a few bare' tables, (if it be one
of the smaller e-tablishmentF,) and a counter
or bar, behind which will be seen mounted a
couple pf barrels, with enormous brass srig
gots, and a very ,Gerinan-looking man, in
apron and shirt sleeves, with onediand rest
ing upon one of the spiggots. A wink or a
nod .will be sufficient to cause a heavy glass
mug to overffoW with a red, foaming liquid,
and 7 come - sliding across the liar towards
him: • He will taste, but the excessive bitter
- DERE of the dranghlwilLalmost disgust him ;
yet he. will persereie to the end, arid from
thatAinie forward, be an admirer of lager!
There is Something „in it which settles so
comfortable down under his_ ribs, and pro
duvet such a mild, cool, calming influence in
hii'whole system, that 'he will go - away re
juiced at his new discovery. But at night
Le wall witness • the great feature 61 thig
new tipple. He will perchance have a call
at the Post
. office, and the sound of music,
:wind the glare of many gas ligths, will attract
him into the basement, where be will find. an
immense room filled with an immense crowd
of men, rating at an immense number of ta
bles, with _glasses . before them, all sipping
and drinking, all talking and smoking, and
a band planing - in one coiner, all the while,
the:niest inspiring, German airs. The im
mense number of attendants,- carr'ying im
mense numbers 1- ) f bilmrning lager in each
hand, suggesting the idea that • they must
have an immensa number - of fingers, on each
hand, and the immense tumbers of 'comers
and goers, and' drinkers at the bar, will inte
rest and amuse the- stranger fo:' some
time, while he makes one of the number of
those who itnbrbe and listen to the music.
The quiet and order %Veil prevails hem will
also surprise him, and lie will wonder not to
find somebody "getting drunk."
We had a conversation the other-day with
a lad: friend in relation to the evils of intern
perance';'-adme allusion was made to lager
beer, and 'We , suggested the fact that it was
less intoxicating than other. drinks; she - was
shocked it-:the very mention of the Teutonic
beverager "'The horrid' stuff!, Stirely,none
but low Germans eCer drank it; why, its
very name.is enougbl. I have always asso
ciated the idea of every thing that is low and
vulgar with, lager beer." We admitted that
its name.was enough to condemn it amongst
respectable people, inasmuch as lager meant
vaulted, buried; and] therefore the ground
hugs -should most esteem it. 13ut we told
her that many lies - ides the low Germans
drank it, and that a large number of.respec
table Americani partake of it occasionally f
and that a German gentleman and traveler
had told us that he had seen,mcire lager
beer drank in Philadelphia than in any city
of Germany. How, much, we 'thought, is
there. in a name to condemn a mild, whole,
some beverage, when the lady whom we
• were-talking with Vies living in independence
upon a fortune acquired by her husband in
the manufacture of porter, ale and table
beer; good, obi-fashioned . .artiules, but fat
mere' heady rand be-ivudling than the light
hop drink of the Germans! -. . -
We do. not intend, however, to say, a word
In favor of drinking of any-kind ; but we do
think that, when it-is_to be practised, it is
setter to use the most innocuous beverages;
and that, probably, a large quantity of bad
brindy, and worse whiskey, is kept out of
people's stomachs in Philadelphia by the im
memo Quantity of lager which is put in them.
A recent American traveler writing; in a
popular magazine, relates an amnsingiinci
ok*which occurred in Antwept, illustrative
Cit •9 • •11 Olt " " •
"WE JOIN OI.J4ELiVES TO Ne; PART* . THAT DOES NOT CIARHY, FLAG Alto likEP STEP . TO THE DIUSIC OF TUE: ION."
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consumption of lager in Bel.
tclusloa of water as a drink.
i picture is gather -overdraw:4 i ).
se asked the question its a lodging-house,
if they had flood water there, and was
replied- to Set erally by a yrasherwontan,la
stevedore, and . the landlady of the home, thitt
the water wasicellent for their ressectite
purposes, Ise., washing clothes floating ships,
:
and making s up! But, when be corrected
eitch of them, the whole 'company was very
- duel startled by his asking if it was gocid
to drink, and the indignation , of. the la
lord was so much aroused, that h -
e " resent d
the Serious insi lt to his profession and h i
s
country," wit looks of pity and coutemPt
bestowed upon our traveler, whose "foreign
faults" the landlord' had begun. to Overlook
but win) " neyc4 regained 'the great man's eh
teem," nor 'did he ever feian whethe'r the wa
ter of Belgiumwas fit to drinks!
1
• However, " otwithstandiug their constant
guzzling," thin writer says, "I was . ten days
among Belgium . drinkers efore I saw a mat:t
,so drunk thatHhe could not walk erect and
treat politely each one he ruct—which proves
it, though an unseemly practice, yet a sal
one than: drinking - whiskey," Speaking f
all the various stinitllatfUis Ari t tilcs of the
world, he says,l" not one among the list is it
once so wholesome, cheap and harmless as
Belgium hoer, e,nd I look upon its introdui
' fion into the United States as an hisportatit
reformatory
_Movement"—on the score, we
suppose, of its probable supersedure of " those
villainous mixtures that are labelled brandy,
port, champagne, &c., that flow into every
street and ally of -our cities, to every village'
and cross-road of our couctry, and are rapid
ly telling upon our national health, temp&
and reputathd." All this is too true ; and
we might wiSh the lager God-speed in its
work of reformation, if it. could but take tale
place of those (fiery poisons, the consumptioin
of which has, for the last ten years, increased
so rapidly in Our country, and caused such ,
demoralizing effects, as to give is the s chara 1
ter abroad of a nation of murderers and iri
-1 cendiasies . . , _ And there is not the slightwit
1 reason to suppose that the introduction of
I weak, malt. liTiors, and the increased growth
lof light wines would not tend to 'quench '
I ' that, fire which is burning out the beit
i young blood oi our country." 1
In that am of reformation Ohio and tl4
other Western States are doing their share,
in the cultivat:on of the native grape, and its
manufacture into, wines, which are equal in
every respect Ito the same grade 9f Ithenis a t 1
. and German Wines •, while Philadelphia h !
done her par l in thesintnufactula or !err 1
beer, more of hich is- made and consumed
I here, than in any one city ofsof GestnitnYS 1
t la,
i Wo would like„ had we the tide and the sta r I
tistics, (which i we happen -not to have,) t , 1
I enter- more,fully into the details osf this lege
I buisness; but Any one of our readers, who i
1 curious on tb l e salject, may satisfy himse f I
I by a stroll a 011,11 69 billikA OA,IIIA .T.Las.sii?, 1
, Sehuvkill, classic in the song - .of Moore,
where now, in isight of Moore's cottage, may
sbe seen peering up amongst the green trees
; which shade li re roundly swelling bosom or
i
i our lovely wat r bearer, the long, white chiml•
neys of many ani many a-braueri ; and upo
1 a closer inspeclicn 'he may find those hills s t
verdad, all honeycombed with vaults, huge i
storehouses fOr this " nectar of the gods,
8.4 some of its l a . titirera have designated th
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ruby-colored lagers and•he will see the grea ,
I smoking cauldrons in, which the brimmin
Imalt is seething, seething all the fear tonne,
I and the monstrous butts in which it is place
1 to work, and th 6 immense multitude of barrel ,
lof all sizes, k . which St is stored away fo
ripening in them collared vaults, coming in
and going nut by platoons, upon enormouh
I - trucks, and marshalled there by hattalionrj,
I - and regiments, and whale armies, the big
barrels, and the little barrels, and kegs, read
to do service in a new revolution and to fight
a new battle o! the kegs! He might her ,
I ask the questi n whether the Schuylkill w
Iter is good to drink, and be answered " Ye.,
I it is the best it the world for making lager !'
I And he might see the immense quantities of
it that are pusnired b s y maeblossy• to be W-
I preenßted by . the wholesome malt and the
I life giving hops s and would probably conclude
I that a great iver of beer was destined t
sweep throug our streets and alleys, an
1 cleanse them f their foul impurities of - .sit ,
and crime and pollution, just as be sees th
1 scinn and imp cities of the beer worked off 1
1
1 in the vats of he brewery. •
1 ' And our ex loser will no huge Teuton.,
in leather ap ons, with leathery skins an !
1 brawny arms, lifting, carrying, rolling an
shouldering th barrels as mere toys, drillin
I and: reviewin these troops of barrels, the
; field marsha!s . the lager campaign. Soo h
,t..
of the.inountams end forests they would seem
to be,'so monstrous and giant-like, and so inl
used to- service in these beery caverns. BO
" , I brown and begrimed that he will imagine
them the veritable Titans, still the prisonerh
I -of Ceelus its the bowels of the earth !
I And then tbe horses! For the Titans had
horses, with hich to war against Saturrl,
and here they ate, the same race of giant
steeds. Red' nd round in color and propo*
tion, fat with feeding and sinewy with eierl•
they ate,
cise. With sw tchiitg tails and flowing mane..
} and arching s eats, there they stand, an
I come and go in double teams of fours an
sixes;' geared in strong feather harness, t
the beer waons ; aloft npan which sit
perched 4not er savage-looking Teuton, whs
holds the reign and weilds a'terrible whipsiong
c,, s
and loud soup ing. What determined power
and energy !, When the war of this nest
' revolution . mes to' be waged in earaest,,
what mightn stand against these elements
Sometime ag we had occasion to speak of
the city horse ands we hare since peen ad
monished by some of our triends that we
horse ands
to m ntion the beer horse. We beg .
c.
'his majesty's pardon ! ~For ho is the king of
city horses: His noble cousin, the dray horse,
• is next to him in royalty, but his services th
menial. He toils beneath hogsheads of igi
nominions tnlasses and crates of contempti
ble crockery, pile the horse of the Teuton
. draws only !a er: Lager let him draw ! Long
Ir
maybe drawl_, and roll resounding wagons
through the c.:.
bbe-paved streets, in conscious
triumph i—. -th American.
of the immen
.m, to the
h
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Same ficz Eiiiiiiiii.rros.—The editor
of the Medina Gazette - tellt ofd akfink tein
captured ins house by a dog With tbe One
result of disg st to tbe victors . The terribi
scent was non lied .by burning. tar upon
lire coals of fi hy ,which the. air, was Oil:
feed es by magic. If this kind of fumigatiOO
is a sure sped 80, it deierito taiertoolie and
pnt upon recce. To if: ..
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Nctutrost, cqatsquefratina mita, irentea, fr,ftrifilan Morning, SoiyetninT 25, 1858
The Family of Comets.
• Here is a very amusing letter frotn the
London Times, on the subject of comets:
"A very general feeling exists that as
tromom(-rs are not behaving well about the
comet;.; to judge from the crums they occa
sionally let fall from their scientific platters,
• they know all about it, but still safer a poor
ignorant public to wonder and theorise in
• utter ignoance. At the beginning of the year
they volunteered most minute descriptions of
the signs and wonders that - were to attend
the annular eclipse, aud, relying.on their in•
formation, many of us travelled hundreds of
miles with pockets full of smoked glass, only
to get shunted in a'marshy field, somewhere
in the midland counties, and spend two '
hours very much like a disappointed crowd
at a prize fight. • Possibly the melancholy
failure of Bailey's beads and rose lights an
that occasion may deter the learned frotn
making- any more premature descriptions.
Where everybody is anxious to know some
thing certain about comets, and nobody in
struc:a them, I am inclined to think very
I little is actually known on the subject.
What, for, instance,bas heconee of the 'comet
that, was expected last year ! When may we
look for the re-appearance of the comet that
performed such extraordinary .vagaries in
1846; and shottld'return in 1858 or 18594
Did the comet of 1811 really kill the cats,
multiply twins, and LIM the flies! And is
there any danger of a similar infliction on
husbands and old maids at present! Last
year we were rather frightened about the
comet, and ready to attribute every possible
phenomenon to its agency; but now it has
come upon us so quietly and so free from all
alarming reports, that even the most-timid
can admire it night after night without the
dread of losing a favorite tabby, or without
being prematurely plauged with babies. Im
agine tll9 consternation that would pervade
the comet's admirers if, without any previous
warning, he should appear some morning or
evening with two heads or,half a dozen tails
and yet the history, of 1846 is proof positive
that-such an event might occur; really phi
losophers should prepare the public mind
Tor such a possibility.
When Biela's comet was first seen in 1840,
it was quite round, without any tail What
ever. in about ten days it produced a smaller
comet with a short tail, and not to be out
done in that respect, imutedively shot out a
corresponding tail itself. The growth of the
young comet was very rapid; in less than
six weeks-it equaled its parent in size and
Irrillianoye „and •1 . 1 •••••
test for some days it actually eclipsed it
in brilliancy, but the exertion was too much;
it soon after .began to pale, and gradually
died out nearly a month before its progeni
tor. No sooner was it gone_ than the old
cornet, in an eestacy of delight, shot out three
tails, one of which was triumphantly poin'ed
at the exact spot lately occupied by its un
dutiful offspring. Comets are inntimerable;
they ' appear at- times at the rate of two a
virar, and the orbit of 200 have already been
calculated; but this is quite an inapprecia
ble number when compared to those that are
believed to- traverse our system in all direc
tions, and that Arago puts at from three to
seven millions. Their forms 'are protean.
'Few, comparatively,have tails; while others
have several, producing and casting them
off at pleasure. The
the
had six
tails, each curled in the form of a quadrant,
while that of 1843, appearing at first without
any continuation, supplied that deficiency at
the rate of 10,000,000 of miles a day 1 Their
speed is immense, and their bulk inconceiv
able; .the cornet of 1843 moved at six times
the rate of the earth in its orbit, and that of
1811 was 600,000,000 of times its size; the
present one is only 400,000,000 of times'
the size of the earth. The nucleus is composed
of ponderable matter, but in infinite less pro
portions than that contained by. any planets,
while -the - tail, is merely attenuated vapor,
many thousand of times less dense than our
atmosphere. It is possible that the nucleus
r•of a cornet should, strike planet, but the
I odds nre 5u0,000,009 to one against it; the
chances against the immersion,of the tail is
much lcs The result of colisior with the
nucleus would be an immediate return to
most everlasting chaos,
while an immersion
of its tail would probably be attended with
no visible result. Comets--do not affect the
seasons. - Taking an interval of 16 years, the
warmest was 17t4, in which there was one
comet; the coldest 1759, in which there
was two, and therefore it is not probable the
comets ever killed cats, wasps, or Julius Cmsar;
produced fine vintages or great droughts, or
can tiow be saddled with the plague of daddy
long-legs, steel petticoats, and other montrosl
ties .
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Tumble up,
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Jump tip,
Climb up,
Run op,
Skate up,
Ride up,
Rush up,
Swim up,
Fly up,
Crawl up,
Fire up, •
Steam up,
Sait up,,
Push up,
Any way so, that you get up arul'aelele up
your Subscription Bills.
HOME PAPERS.—Stick then,ye sturdy yeo
manry and tillers of the soil to your home
newspaper. No matter if you are poor ; re
-member that none are so poor ad the igno
rant, exce p t it be the depraved,and they often
go together. Stick to your own local paper,
though it may not be ao large or imposing
as some city weeklyl blicrentermbeCit is tilts
atlvertiser of your neighboit(ra and daily
business, and tells you what is going on a
round instead of a thousand miles away. If
it is not as nice a -paper and as good
wish to have it, pay up yOur subscript:las
well and get your neigbors to do the - same
rely.upon it,the natant' pride of the publisher
will prompt him to improve it as fast as pos.
sible.:--IVisidittht
•
man is Walking #ickty down
1 3 Whito•. Arena's! the other day *bents 'Oil
soddertfj , struck bya thought aid knocked
trier fetid the telltith•
THE zairrn AFRICAN.
,
Dickens, ittAis lionsehold Word., gives
the f9llowiog description of the natives of the
gold coast in Attica :
The native, Wray's, bears on his head an
earthen, vessel of palm-oil, or carries two or
three'qUills olgold dust,the result of his own
industry in washing the sands after the rains.
His sole article of clothing is a Manchester '
remal, or length of checkered cotton, girded
'round his loins! Bra he knows the value of
his own mercluindise, and' for that of which
he intends to exchange it. He is a bird by
no means to ba'caught by chaff. He will
not exchange Lis palm-oil forabunch of tenth
' ere, nor his gold fort string of beads; neither
does be affect•aly article of European cloth
' ing, nor,hankeettfter any produce of Europe
an civilization.'' He wants rum—the strong,
coarse America rum—and he knows to a
spoonful how nuch he ought to get of it.
He wants a ne .remal,also a closh,or blanket
to throw over Ills shoulders on state OCCR
slow, and a musket to 'make a row with, and
fire off when_ he keeps custom. But he wants
no food,becauseahe maize springs up for him
almost without cultivation,- and his women
pound it between two stones, and Odd water
to make a pasts which he calls kankee, and
on this he gorges himself with great relish.
Sometimes his reel lusteth for meat, and then
the black snails of the forest,, as big as a
fist, furnish him with a soap of which palm
oil is also an esintial ingredient. The prO
vident housewife' threads these snails on a bit
of grass, and dries them in the sun, thus sav
ing her lord and master from the toil of put--
ting out his hands to take them. The long
black haired monkey also provides -him with
a bounteous repast. Pity the. sorrows of a
European travelling through the bush and
partaking of the hospitality (he will have -to
pay handsomely for it,) of a native, when, as
a delicacy reserved for him, there is fished up
out of the big put of soup a black: head with
tire lips drawn back, and the white teeth
grinning, and such a painful resemblance of
the faces around him, that he wonders which
of the younger members
,of the family bat i
been sacrificed for the exegencies of the oc
casion.
. But he is re-assured, and discovers,
that he is not eating man but-monkey. The
native of the gold coast has no desire to buy
a house, nor to build - a house„nor to live in
a house.. He does not wish to add field to
field, or to make a name in the land. His
chief and only desire in his life seems to be to
eat when he is hungry, to drink who `-
can,. eta to - tifeep wild - interim. He has
no anxiety , for himself, and certainly none for
his offspring, who Lave neither to be educat
ed nor her he any misgiving about their fu
ture prospects. They run about the bush if
he lives in -land, or he turns them into the.
sea if he lives on The coast. You may watch
them in any number, and of all ages, from
two to twet.-.., -diving and dito:ztos IMIS4Or
the waves, waiting for a big one, and then.
on the erect of it, you see the little shining
black bodies tossed over and over and round
and round,until screaming with pleasure,they
are washed up on 'the sand, like a tangle of
black seaweed. Then, slowly and with much
noise, they
,unravel themselves and crawl
back to Abe water, and continue this spoil
the whole day long, with the exception of
the time occupied in consuming huge lumps
of kankee, brought to them by the mothers.
The paternal domain is, for the most part, a
circular hul, under the mud floor of which
the ancestors of the family have been buried
for many generations. • .
-
it\ AMP
ATURE AVENGES HErtsEt.i•.--What wreck
so shocking to behold as the. wreck of a dis
solute man—tlie vigor of life exhausted, and
yet the f i rst step in an honorable career not
taken ;
.in himself a lalar 7 hottse of disease
dead, but,, , by , a heathenish custom "of socie
ty, not buried I Rogues have had the initial
letter of their title burnt into the palms of
their hands; even for murder, Cain was on
ly brancipd jp . the forehmdl but pier the
whole person cf the debauched or the inebri
ate, the signatures of infamy are written.
How nature brands him with stigma and opt
probrium 1 How 'she hangs labels all over
him to testify her disgust at hiS existence,
and to admonish others to beware of his
example! How she loosens all his joints,
sends tremors along his muscles, and bends
forward his -frame as if to bring him_on all
fours with kindred brutes, or to degrade hirn
to the reptile's crawling 1 How she disfigures
'his countenance, as if-intent upon obliterat
ing all traces of her own image, so that she
may swear she never made him 1 How, she
pours rheum over his eyes, sends foul spirits
to inhabit his breath, and shrieks as with a
trutfipet from every pore of his body, BEHOLD
A BEAST !-1110TECS !Yana.
FIRST FAMILIES OF Viaortita.----The orig
ination of thesterm 'First Family of Virginia,'
is thus explained by an exchange ;
"In the early settlement of that State it
was found impossible to colonize it unless
women went - there. Accordingly a ship load
was sent out, but no planter was allowed to
marry one of them until he had first paid one
hundred pounds of tobacco for her passage.
When the second ship load came-, no one
would pay more than seventy-five pounds for
the matrimonial privilege except it were a
very superior article. Consequently the de
scendants of all those who were sold for one
hundred pounds of tobacco were ranked as
first families, while those who brought but
seventy five pounds are now ranked among
the second families ; and the reason why no
one can ever find one of the second families
is because you can't gat a. Virginian to ad
mit that his mother only brought seventy-Ove
pounds Of tobacco. - -
„L"Tr 'Oh 1 love you like anything,' said
a young countryman to his sweetheart,warm
ly. pressirig.her, hand.
"Ditto,” said phe, gently returning the
pressure.-
The ardent lover, not happening to be over
and above learned, las sorely puzzled to
understand the Meaning . of dittp-r-hot
ashamed to expose his Ignorance by asking
the girl. He went home. and the next day
tseips at work in the cabbage patch with his
father said :
"Middy what is the 111011,010 0 di,
"Why," said the old man, "this is one nab
baik• Leah; , ain't it e
,
"Wef; ltiat eve's ditto:'
"Rot the good for nethin! gal
.1" tjanulaloci
the indigos'', boy, "she called me a cabbage
head,and I'll be darned VT ever go to see her
again. 7
A Lints Dmicourr iv Mt y:-:-A
enterprising traveling agent for a well-known
Cleveland tomb stone manufactory , lately
made a business visit to a small town in an
adjoining county. Bearing in the village
that it man in a remote part of the township
had - tost his wife ' lie thought he- would go
and see him and offev,him consolation and a
grave stone, on his usual reasonable terms.
He started. The road was a frightful ime
but the . agent persevered and finally arrived
at the - bereaved men's house. - Bereaved
man's hired girl told the agent that the, be,-
reared man was splitting fence rails, "over'n
pasture about two mike." The indefatig
able agent hitched. his horse and started for
the "pastur.". After falling into all manner
of mudholiss, scratching himself witli.brikts
and tumbling over decayed logs, the agent at
length found the bereaved man. In -.sub
dued voice he asked the man if be had lost
his wifp. - The man-said be.had.—The agent
was very
. sorry to hear of hand sympathized
with the man-very deeply in his great afilic
tion ; but-death, he said, was an insatiate
archer, and shot down all, both of high and
low degree. Informed _the man that "what
was his loss was her gain," and would be glad
to sell him-a grave stone to mark the spot
where the beloved one slept—marble or com
mon stone, as he chose,at prices defying coma
petition. The bereaved men,said that there
was "a little difficulty in the war."
_"llevn't you lost your wife r inquired the
agent. •
"Why, yes I hare-said the man, "but no
grave stun ain't necessary; you see the cue
sed critter ain't dead.
,She's scooted with an
other man !"—The agent retired.— Cleveland
Plaindealer.
13ETROTHAL AND MARRIAGE CUSTOMS IN‘
GERMANY.—Wben a maid is betrothed, she
is called a bride, and so continues until she
becorries a wife. All the while she is engag
ed she is a bride. The lovers immediately
upon their betrothal, ischarige plain gold
rings, which are ever worn afterwards, till
death•parts tbern. The woman wears hers
on the third finger of her left hand, and when
she becomes a wife Ler ring• is transferred to
the•thircl finfferrof her right band ; there it
rentains.—The' husband always wears his
,ring just as the wife wears hers, .so that, if
you look upon a man's hand you can. tell
whether he is mortgaged , or. not. There is
no cheating for him ever after—no coquetting
with the girls, as if re were an,. unmarried
man, for ~ht . oy-uns-Truger
ring. A married Viennese ladi was much
amused when told that in the baited States
we only "ring" women, but let husbands run
unmarked ! ,`Oh, that is dreadful !" said
she, much shocked. "Think there is Frede
rick, my busband—tweuty-fnur—so young,
so handsome—and all the girls would be
taking him for an unmarried man, and be
making lore to him ! Oh, kis. dreadful, is
it not 1 They would never know he was
married. How can you do so in your coun
try i I would not live there with Frederick
for the world."
WHY BROTHER DICES()); LEFT THE CH Cam.
—Mr. Dickson, a colored barber, was.sha•
ring one of his customers, a .respeetable-cit
izen, one morning, when a conver•ation-oc
cured between ihern,reipecting Mr. DickAon'a
former connection with a colored church in
the place,
"I believe you are will:ekeit with the
church in street, Mr. Dickson," said the
customer.
"No, sah, not at all?'
"What 1 are you not a member of the Af
rican Church r'
"Not this year,sah."
"Why did you leave their communion, Mr.
Dickson if I may be permitted to ask."
"Why, I tell you,, salt," said Mr. Dickson,
strapping a concave razor ou the imam of his
hand.
"It wss just like dis. - I fined dat church
in good fsit. t 'gib ten dollars toward stated
preaching ob de Gospel de fire year, and de
peepil call me brother Dickson. De second
year my business not so good, and I only gib
five dollars. Dat year de church peepil call
me Mr. Dickson." -
"kit razor burl youotah
"No, the razor goes. very well." . -
"Well, sab , the third year I felt very poor,
sickness in my family, and didn't gib nuffin
for preacbing. Well, eel), after dat they call
me 014 Nigger Dickson, and I leff' em
! !". _ .
.
So saying ; Mr. Dickson brushed his ens
tower's hair, and the gentleman ,iteparted i
Well satisfied. with the reason wby Mr. Dick
son left the church.
Ramorarcyr(!)—A young Miss, who had
left, a rural home for a short abode in the
city, returned in a few months, much chang
ed. On going to the field where her former
companions, busy "cocking"lhay,the first
article that met her eye was a rake., •
. "Why, what is this I" said she, affecting
ignorance.
"That i--why that is a—"-
Her question bad not been answered,wben,
treading on tbe.end ofttlap rake, it flew up
and struck her in the face, and with an ex
clamation, "D—n the rake !" not only 'show
ed her knowledge dale implement,but taught
her a lesson, the moral of which we will let
the reader consider.
jr A tall, stooping, .
rtmton otc,;(7er-
Mont presented himsel fin rota ofth'e Boston
House, a few days since, where a number of
ladies and gentlemen were standing, and in.
Tared fur Mr. —, a . deputy in one .of the
State officer. He was'nat Gni: The next
inquiry was :
•
"How shall I know him 1"
Anrwer-.-:"He is a tall, dark complexioned
young man, a heavy beard and must
ache, ,
".Te he disfigured in any other way?" was
the next question, delivered with the utmost
naivette and without the shadow of emotion.
p - v ery bod y present roared -16eri the laugh
-cattle in.
There was epoch more font than fancy
;the crow rely of an unto/Louse female
culprit, when andeccross exan3insion is ,a
petty court by a
- browbeating WA of the
law., , „ . -
said he,"what conduct have you
pursued' through lift, that should , subplot you
to the suspicion of this outrage upon the
plaintiff,!" , • ,
impudence, which has been the making ef t
you, has owned my ruen." , _
45Witational.
.1f you would learn;--study. If you would
become learned,—practice what you learn.
The Co-Odueatioli of theiexee.
The following' is 4u:rioted froth r ho adAresa
made by Prof. J. E. Stoddard, of Pa., SIMI*
Yea" ft? 3
ictrspi t anience has not yet'unfOldedethe
particular titanner in Which the society of
females exerts snob n potent influence in ,ele r
rating,' refining and.purifrinA Ehe thoughts:
nevertbeleu that influence is quietly, 1 may
say almost imperceptibly, yet irresistibly an-
Complishing its work. • We trace its power
hi the influence of a sister over a brother, of
the mother ever the. husbitid and her son.
But the work of 'investigating, from a few'
simple facts, the extent and ilsnost omnipo
tent power, of this irifluenee remains to be
discovered, by some profound investigation
of the taws of the Orator.
"The law that moulds a tear, .•
And bids it. trickle froni its source;
That very law Preserves this.earth a sphere
And guides the planets in their course."
"What gravity is to the solar system,
female influence. is to human society, regulat
ing, governing and sustaining. The society
of intelligent and virtuous women will_
- dispel
base and groveling thoughts as does the ap
proaching sun the blighting frosts of autumn.
Let us then, Mr. President, deceive ourselves
no longer, by considering the co-education of
the sexes as productive of naught big evil ;
but rather let us consider •that they were
created to enjoy each other:a society, and to
improve and strengthen each other in every
good and great work, when placed together
uder healthful and-efficient regulations.
"The mind of ma) and woman is composed
of precisely the . saints number -and- kind of
faculties the one, as a general thing, the
Coarser and sterner; and in .the other, the
more refined and milder faculties or prindiples
of our nature predominate. Thus the sexes
are designed by an all-wise Creatorto exert a
mutually elevating and'refining influence up
on each other. That course of training wlduli
is best calculated to develop the •inihd,dand
to.elevate the thoughts of the one, and in
every other way to prepare him to become an
honorable and useful_memha of ewiety and
to enjoy efirrivaliappiness hereafter, will have
a corresponding effect.npon the other in pre
, paring her to.fill the high and holy position
designed by God. . .
"A 3 the sturdy oak and the modest violet
both Sourish and arrive at maturity under
the vivifying and strengthening influence of
the same successions of sunshine and showers,
[so will the - mind of both males and females
be most systematinally and harmoniously
developed and strengthened fir usefulness
[ here and happinons hereafter, in - the same
[ clas,ses and under precisely the same cousre of
study. Noi will Bach a joint . education of
the sexes have any more of a tendency to
cause women to aspire to the position of men,
or men'to assume the duties of women, than
the settle sticcessiori „of :sunshine acid showers '
will give to the violet the outspreading
branches and rigidity of the oak, or the oak
the-beautiful tints and more delicate texture
of the violet. Let, then, our sons and daugh•
ters grow ttp together,—Pursue the same
course of study,—in the same school ; and
the universally acknowledged blessings that
wess a nation enjoy,• that arise from the in
telligence, virtue, and piety of the women of
Ameriea, will continue to shed their benign
influence over the .j .. and, carrying joy and
gladness to thouaands of houses,. now the
abodes of misery and w retched ness,—/ndiana
School Journal.
How Shall I Govern ?
- Thi■ is the great question amonit all• classes
and-grades of Teachers. Tbe.re are thous so
constituted by nature,that they govern with
out any effort. "It, governs itself," said a
Teacher of thislstamp,. when. inquired of on
this point. There in, without doubt too
much governing in _many of our , schools.
That Teacher governs best,who governs least.
The great business of the Teacher is, to in
struct. Not,alorie in that of which the text
book tretite,but in all that is requisite to make
a.good man. And first, the scholitr, should
be taught that honesty islhe foimdation up
on which be must build—end that, it is as
much a duty to be honest with himself as
with his,neighbor• If this groat lesson can
be incplcated,The govern,ing ! of . that enholar
is comparatively, easy. Teachers are too apt
to notice unimportant acts, and call scholars
to an ItCpotint. for them. Better by far leave
them unobserved, unless they are in tliem
(elves wropg. A shake of the head, or a
look or the. eye, serve as the best cheek upon
improprieties. Does a scholar laugh odt
loud, at what to you may seem a frivolous
matter? Do not scold him for it: He very
likely could not help it. A. right good hearty
laugh occasionally does a school good. Let
all enjoy it„ . and if passible, join with them.
Itehakes out the cobwebs, end makes one
Wel better.- 'Tis healthy. Does he .whisper
too !ouch and is be mischievous I Ask him
kindly, when alone, if, he will,vot set,in an
other seat that you tipsy.dersighate,,—yon need
noktell hitn.why, unless ho ask you. Then
as kindly - WI him why. It is quite possible
he ,willpeed no further reproof, or the ohane.
iog of seats. Be kind, yet firm. Bear this
in mind, u fact which wp !carped from ex
perience, years ago, that just. one. half less
punislatrOcnt, or reproof is needed, where none
but ateschOlar and Teacher meet.
TIIE SHACK .]IN SCHOOL.'
The following- incident,in a district school
i t toldb y Mr. Pitt ‘ Palmer; of New
York, President . of the 10anhattan Insuraoce
Company, in a poetical addreis before "The
Literary Sriety," in Stookbridge, Massaohe
setts, his native home !
• A district eihool, not 'fiir. away.
'Mid Berkshire hills, one winter'. day,
Wan humming with its wonted no t
Of three-wore minecd Orli and boys;
Some few upon their task - intent,
• Sot morn on furtive mischief bent. ,
The,widle.the muter's downward look
Was Sidened oit„a copy-book ;
Woenenddenly behind his back:-
. Rose ,harp atd,cloir &roolo'
were a bi tt i vi 0 %4 1151ACK
Let off in one,tv..2 Miss
wrendcus kiss I
qt.-- „Aka
ir. startled master ode*:
..t, thir,"s little imp replies,_
~liYtl~tr
Caw I
, - -
tl , l /
"WathWilliam illitkif you plea l
,
kith hothanna Peath
I saw him '
With frown tha makes a statue tj
The master thn dared ' Hither, ,
Like wretch o' rtaken in his trim
With stolen ch ttels on his back.
Will hung/iis. eadlnlear and a,
ndlo the awful presence Cam - 1
A great, gritmilbashful simpleton
ifhe butt of alligood natured fa , ,
With smile supotessied,atie birch a'
a l
The threatener altered- 4 Na a,.'
That you my b ggest pupil alto
Be guilty of a " act so rude! 1
Before the who e set school, to b.
What evil esiiisputs-yon- to't
''Twits uhe,tiertilf.isir,”sobbeA the
4 didn't mean t 4 be so liad
But when Seminal shook her, c-,
And whispered ! waa'fraid of, girl:
- And dlinfen'titim a haby's doll, ,
-1 ebuldn't stand it, sir, at all.
But up and kistied her on the spO,
I know—boo b 0,-liiinght-to not
I_
soutehoW,4om her look ~
-I thought she .- o' wished me
Ari,culturai
Cultivate the Far,
sts well u th
HORSES
Blindness ismer 'common unto. ,
in our cities. ' Tb s is caused in
measure by keepin: them in dark
stables, and abadiT. their eyes wit.
!Antlers... Disk, iventilated cell
pine • quite comm. Th is stupid
should be abolish because such sl
very detrimental tithe heskth of th
animals. All stab ea\ should be dr
d
structures, .provid witht windows
abundant light, a d should also be
i l
ly whitewashed. The horse is a i
dry, sunny region, and 'requires t'
dry and warm in oder to attain. to-
est. perfection, , . 1 - .1 i ....... . i
Closi.and condoled stables, just'
which are so cotiation, are _ the frequ
of that violent di ase Called of° 1
few years since, gpat ravages we .1
ted among the ca tslry - horses of. , '1
this disesse, but it ps now almost u.i
that nountry. Tkiis result has bee. '
about by simplyrrisking largar sta .1
ling,the size of lit stallts;:and.seuu
ventillitioni: •In r.opurtles to lth'
horses need more fresh air than me.,
to perform the_ function of respirit
they are commonly 'cooped up i'
stalls, which are nhtlarke t nongh
dorpouse's.lungs it work..,.'
As the season is non, approachl,
owing to inclemen ,weatlier, bo ~
more confined indor..,those who p.
animals should no'. devote some att
provide them with stables suitable t .
tune and, wants, aid by-so doing
greatly increase 1 . eir health and 10.
•
Scientifi,c America . • . z i
. .
..
-Chinese VI
As food for man
are highly nutriti
casein which IheY 1
one fotrrth of, thee"
make cheese. from
peas are boiled an
of gypsum. The,
the taste and smel,
in, the streets pft ' h
considerable artici
people.
Therels.a. larg „white pea used
for übtaining oil nd its which sib
trade is carried. n at Shianghau
Noithern Chinese ports. These
ground in a mill, and. then pressed i
what complicated l t : lougli most effic
by 'means of wedg,. o si
&slims under
parts of • the framework with MS!
oil is used both far eating and burn
for the ,hatter purpose hdwever); an
like 'M all /rtudistotes; is distrib 1
China in every direction, as food fu
buffaloes.—Scientific American.
getable Che l
and beast,beane
onti, from the Iv
contain—which
r ; weight, 114
:the' casein or ,
1 oongulifed by.
I -
! ••hoese gradually I
of milk cheese. i
targe cities' an;
off' the food or t
• - A Che , p Ice Boom.'
,4
, fartner g o rntnupicates'sthe folk
,•leand,yru rnyisxperiebee. I p
off the north east orner of tny- wool
e fiz,
which opens to th , west,And is 25
The ice roomis bout nine feet
IhIP-bil i rdell on x •stucis on the
east, and (hied on the 'inside, leavin:,
inches space betty n empty. On
is an inch-board p rtition, just tig l
to bold saw;dust. ;' On the west
bc;ards like bartAtiy height I wish
ice, And leave the u pper part open,
.convenient. This Is mybouse..
"Into it, on the round, I put fro,
ten inches of saw- yst,then put. in •
foot from the partition on every side
it in as closely as Ijoan, and in as lar
I caii confenientlyi handle. I the.
sptcee,nest th e pa titions with saw,
a good - depth (say otie foot) over th.
it is done for the sari -'
"I have practic:
past,and had-all I
uses, and some t
and, ];lead plenty •
"The whole c.
hemlock boards.
.day's work. Nei
most aoy other lo
Bove described.
id in this way t
anted for
give to my
1 echNl ice )eft la } ,
!A!, ,of making gi
In &qv nail., and
,li s bor r farmers,, try
/.aton is Al good
on Abe 111.oa
Fruit Tret
Wciting ti
peculiarity of Geri
America"..thighe
Along the publi.
miles are rows of
hedge or fe,
hang in profusi...'
the roadfside, and
be porloinod,not a
Frequently come,.
one 9r more trees
do to have it seer,
witbp of, straw a.l
owneratilit.
•
,romit, , il.„lrto of'
I h
aux, froth. w ise ;
.tea(n An iinporta;
for 11%11. 1
fruit . trees, uopto,
wk; yet the ripe
~on their bough
not an apple or,
etietry twig will
• man buys th
!Otis ,Season, Al
dly respected is
, I .ut the trunk in .
Papking Bitter far Wisti t 'l
l'uke* * l o o d*lrt 'half ba
bofit-balf full of water , „ ter, A h m . p
sufficien t i ll ma te a strong bti
I
0 tand
~... ..,day or tW,o -to sett* ant
wont rises on the top. Work ,t,
thoroughly in rot a of ,from
_a \po
half to two poun
.1, put. Ahem in -
placing a weight
p n,tharn 4 pot X I
the brine. I havput down butte
• way in May whi tskeplawast and
the not year ii , une• •
lad, )
g bone!
great,
confined
harness
stable" 1'
practice
bles.are
noble
, roomy
to nffoyd.
frequent.
.ative of
be kept
be
greats
1
ike those
:tit cause'
deri.. A
commit.
ranee by
Down in
brought
lea,doub•
ing good
.ir :bulk,
, in (ruler
on, yet
. narrow
ci keep a
g when;
will be
oil such
odor& to
le the v i i rnad
they will
gty.....
and pea*
'acuity of
is string
Chinimi
/ 1 ;nos
salutiol
- acquires
It is soid
• forms s
a Chinese
in China
enormous
and the
peas are
a soma
eat press,
the outer
tit. The
;og tenure
tbcoake;
tad abot,'L
I pigs and
ing
rtitioned
howe,
Feet wide:
ukrei4 -
-
l orth 'end
the fo:tr -
'he sohth
I. enough
'lip in
pile nay
tint ns ,
• %ix to
.y ieis•one
pnekinz
• a hloeb.
lin the.
u4t and
• top,and
o yeah
nd'potber
l eighbors.
week.
0 feet of
a half a
eg the a-
huother
~Yonbg
•t lesson.
• redv of
°eve(' by
ruit. may
or cover
broken.
fru4 of
he must
• bind a
•ken of
R UBO.
el fill,
t in spit .
Let ft
altito off
s butter
nd,mtd
he Ouk:
Om Ander
kooanntil