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VOL 18.
STROUDSBURGr, MONEOE COUNTY, PA. NOVEMBER 25, 1858.
NO. 49.
Published by Theodore Schoch,
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4 Having a general assortment of large, plain and or
jiarncntal Type, we are prepared to execute every de
scription of
Cards, Circulars, Hill Heads, Notes, Blank Receipts,
Justices, Legal and other Ulanks, Famphlcls. io., prin
ted willi neaiiiess and despatch, on reasonable terms
at I his office.
Live Within Your Means.
We don?t like
stinginess.
We don't
like "economy when it comes down to
starvation. We have no sympathy with
'the notion that a poor man t-hould bitch
himself to a post and stand still while the
ret of the world moves forward.
uo man's duty to deny himself of every
'amusement, every luxury, every recrea
tion, every comfort that he may become
rich. It is no rnau's duty to make an ice
berg of himself to shut his eyes and ears
to the suffering of his fellows---and to de
ny himself the enjoyment that result-from
generous actions merely that be may
hoard wealth for his heirs to quarrel a
bout. But there yet an ecnomy which is eve
man's duty and which is commendable in
the man who struggles with poverty an
economy which is consistent with happi
ness, and which must be practiced, if the
poor would secure independence.
It is every man's privilege, and it be
comes his duty to live within his means :
not up to but within them. Wealth does
not make the man, we admit, and .should
never be taken into the account in our
judgment of men. But competence should
be secured when it can he, and it almo.-t
always can be, by the practice of econo
my and self-denial to only a tolerable ex
tent. It should be secured, not so much
for others to look upon, or to raise us in
in the estimation of others, as to secure
the consciousness of independence, and
the constant satisfaction that is derived
from its acquirement and possession.
We would like to impress this single
fact upon the mind of every laboring man
who may peruse this short article that
it is possible for him to rise above pover
ty, and that the path to independence,
though beset with toils and self-sacrifice,
is much pleasanter to the traveler than
any one he can enter upon.
The roan who feels that he is learning
something more than he is spending, will
walk the streets with a much lighter
heart, and enter his home with a much
more cheerful countenance than he who
ppend-s as he goc, or falls gradually be
hind his necesr-itios in acquiring the means
of meeting them.
Next to the slavery of intemperance
there is no slavery on earth more galling
than that of poverty aud indebtedness.
Tho man who is everybody's debtor is ev
erybody's slave, aud in a touch worse
ooudition than he who serves a single
master.
For the sake of the present, then, as
well as for the sake of the future, we
would most earnestly urge upon overy
workingman to live within his means.
Let him lay by something every day if
but a penny, be it a penny it is better
than nothing; infinitely better than run
ning in debt, a peny a day or a penny a
week. If be can earn a dollar let him
try, fairly aud faithfully, the experiment
of living on ninety cents. He will like it.
"People will laugb." L-1 them laugh.
'They will call me stingy." Better be
called stingy than say you do not pay
your debts. "They will wonder why I do
not have better furniture, live in a finer
houe, and attend concerts and play-hou-5C3."
Let them wonder for a while, it
don't hurt them, and it certainly won't
hurt you. By and by you can have a fine
house, and fine furniture of your own, and
they will wouder again, and come billing
and cooing around you like so many
pleased fools. Try the experiment. Live
within your means. Maine Farmer.
Bring out your To and Cak 3.
Among the company of a grand five
dollar ball given at New Orleans, last
spring, in honor of some public event, was
a green 'un who had never seen anything
of the kind upon so grand a scale and
was totally at a loss to understand the ri
diculous, new fangled dances wbich pre-
vailed. Paving an enormous price for a
.ticket and having boen fasting for some
time in anticipation of the supper, his ,
whole thoughts were directed to the en- ;
joyment in that Hue in store for him. j
He itrode up and down the saloon with
his hands in his pantaloons pockets, ac- j
costing every waiter be encountered with: :
"Boy, look here, is supper most ready?
' At last supper was announced, and in ,
rushed our hero in advance of every bo- !
dy, and seating himself upon the centre
ofthe table, began to beckon every wai-
ter whose eye he could catch, but no one,
wucb to bis indignation, approached him
until after the ladies had been seated and
served, when he was asked whether he
would take some ham. j
"Ham!" exclaimed he with the most
profound astonishment. "Do you' spose,
iir I can eat five dollars' worth of ham?
Bring us some of your pound cake and
such like. j
J
i-'Mr. Jenkins, will it suit yoa' to settle
that old account of yours ?" " No, sir, J
you are mistaken in the' man. I am not
one of the old scUlcrs." ,
A Remarkable Case of Dishonesty.
From the Chicago Tribune.
A most singular case of dishonesty on
a large scale, by an bumble employee in
a mercantile house. ba8 iust been brought
... ' " O
to light in this city.
lie n iru wo
could
pronounce it singular in other respects
; than of mere magnitude, but it is two true
that no small lu-t enrolls the number of
employees who are suffered almost notori
j ously to carry on expensive living by rob
bing their employers.
Some months ago at an early hour af
ter the usual closing of our Lake street
dry good stores for the evening, an alarm
of fire was sounded for the First District,
and tho salesroom of Messrs. Thompson
& Wetmore, a dry good and silkhouse on
Lake street, near tba corner of State
street, was found to be on fire. The shut-
T . ters and doors were forced and the prem--it
is . . , , . . . , ,r
ises deluged with water, the fire being ex
tinguished without extended progress, al
though it included in more or less serious
loss and ruin both the store and tho silk
aud shawl room in the second story, hav
ing boen at work upon the stair case, the
flames thus invading both rooms. Q'ho
earliest investigation as to the origin of
the lire, and the statements of those first
on tho ground at the earliest appearance
of the same, though nothing was devel
oped to fix a definite crime upon any per
son, was nevertheless almost irresistibly
the source of grave suspicions implicating
the occupants of the premises.
Had they been leas the high minded
and well esteemed men of business they
were, the members of the firm could have
less fully and completely and on the
ground of character alone refuted the im
plication. The houso had been well es
tablished and doing an excellent business,
but not long after the fire made an as
signment, and have sinco been winding
up the business of tho late firm in tho
hands of Frederick Tuttle, Esq., assignee.
About the first of last month, Cyrus P.
Bradley, the well kuown police detective
of this city turned his very wide awake at
tention to a matter wbich was apparently
needing some such notice. The point
proved a good one, the lead was well
worth working, and bis discovered most
excellent results as far as the advance
ment of the cause of justice is concerned.
Information reached the detective that
a German, named Frederick Gross, living
on Wells street and employed as a porter
in Thomson & Wetmore's store, was sell
ing large quantities of dry goods in the
shape of silks, velvets, flannels, blankets,
boaiery, gloves, buttons, and various arti
cles, at about half their cost to various
tailers and small dealers in tho city, and
had also peddled to a large extent in the
country among farmers. Further inves
tigation revealed the fact that Gross camo
to this city about three years ago very
poor, and at the time in question was in
possession of a bouse very finely furnished
and also had large sums of moucy loaned
out. This sudden accumulation of wealth
not coinciding with the low-salaried occu
pation of a porter, and the fact of his do
ing such a thriving business in the dry
goods line, gave rise to the suspicion that
the goods were stolen from the store.
Capt. Bradly at once informed Freder
ick Tuttle, Esq., the assignee, of his sus
picions aud inquired if there was any de
ficiency in the store. Mr. T. replied af
firmitively, but still was very loth to sus
pect Gross, as both Messrs. Thompson &
Wetmore and the clerks had the most im
plicit confidence in the porter, and had
trusted the store in his bands several
times. It was determined, however, to
keep a strict watch upon bim, and accor
dingly the employees watched him during
the day, and Capt. Bradly at night. Du
ring the watch the latter traced bim to
several places where he had sold goods,
and the former observed bim take a piece
of flannel after serving a customer.
Thinking the matter had gone far e
nough, Capt. Bradley visited bis house on
Fiiday and found there $600 worth of
goods of every description, packed away
in trunks, boxes, carpet bags, and in ev
ery available place. He was subsequent
ly arrested, and acknowledged taking the
goods. It is believed that the operations
of this Gross extent over three year?, and
reach an extent of 810,000, though be
himself "thinks bo did not tako quite as
much as that.'-'
Ho has thus been a persistent and suc
cessful robber of bis employers, mana-
. .
ging nis operations with a skill and in
dutry worthy of a better cause, and the
while he was realising a goodly income
from bis dishonesty, had the prudence
onu skill to keep bis apparent expenses
aD md of living within the means of
0,8 cass f Wc plan of operation
was 88 follows: He came down to the
store before breakfast, opened it, swept
out, and placed the show goods outside of
the window. After the clerk came, and
while he was walking to tho back part of
the store, Gross would go out and taking
a roll of goods, go to bis breakfast. Small
articles be would tako during the day,
and put in bis pockets when unperceived
- by his employers and clerks. Since his
arrest facts have been discovered which
lead to the belief that Gross bo's added
to the list of his erimes the firing of the
Store of bis employes as above, to conceal
a deficiency in the silk department. It
n88 been discovered that on the day af-
ter the fire, he told bis wife that be might
be arrested for it, and wanted her to swear
an alibi, fact which gives strong grounds
for tho suspicion of his guilty connection
with the fire. On Satuday morning
Gross was examined beforonTustice Milli-
ken and fully
81,500 bail.
committed in default o
Short Patent Sermon. ,
I shall give you a sermon
drawn from the following text :
The lady who before the tub,
Is not ashamed to wring and rub ;
Or on the floor ashamed to scrub,
And cares not who calls into see,
Her laboring so industriously,
Will make a wife for you or me.
to-day
My brethern, sinco you know that mar
riage is a divine institution, aud that ev
ery one of you should have a wife, what
kind of a rib would you selct 7 A pretty
useless little doll, or a woman big and
spunky enough to rassel with a bear, and
come off first best ? I imagine you would
care nothing for either extreme; but you
would look for personal charms. O, you
foolish idollators at the shrine of beauty
Know you not that hundrods of husbands
are made miserable by handsome wives,
and that thousands aro happy in the po
session of homely ones! homely without,
but beautiful within. Alas ! what is beau
ty ? It is a flower that wilts and withers
almost as soon as it is plucked, a trans
ient rainbow, a fleeting meteor, a deceit
ful will-of-the-wisp, sublimigated moon
shine. Tho kind of a wife you want is
of good morals and knows bow to mend
trowsers, wbo can reconcile peeling pota
toes with practical or fashionable piety,
who can waltz with the churn dash, and
sing with the tea kettle who understands
broomology, and the true science of mop
ping who can knit stockings without
knitting ber brows, and knit up her hus
bands raveled sleeve of care, who prefers
sewing tares with her needle, to sowing
the tares of scandal with ber tongue.
such is decidedly a better half. Take
her if you can get her let her be up to
the elbow in the suds of the wash tub, or
picking the geese in the cow stable.
My hearers my text speaks of a lady
before the wash tub. You may think it
absurd, but let me assure you that a fe
male can be a lady before the tub in the
kitchen as much as in the drawing room
or in the parlor. What constitutes a lady 7
It is notacostly dress,paintfor theoheeks,
false hair and still falser airs; but it is her
general deportmcnt.her intellectual endow
ments, and that evidence of virtue which
commands the silent respect and admira
tion of the world. She would be recog
nized as a lady at once. It matters not
where or in what situation she were found
whether searching for bed bugs with a
hot poker, or hollering hallelujah at a
Methodist camp meeting. All that I
have further to say, fellow bachelors, is
that, when you marry, see that you get a
lady inside and out one who knows how
to keep the pot boiling and looks well to
her household. So mote it be.
Dow, Jr.
Local Items.
Tbe following items of local intelli
gence wo copy from a paper issued some
where in tho backwoods of Pennsylvania.
The principal occurrences related are
such as might happen in any locality, and
wo therefore give them as we fiud them,
allowing our readers to make the needful
modifications for themselves:
"Wo learn that tho river is very low
and fish plenty. Next Monday will bo
the first day of our first fair, and from all
appearances it's going to bo a first-rate
show; there's to bo a 'flyinghorse,' a 'rear
ing mule,' and a -tumbling jackass' on
hand, expressly for the benefit of the la
dies, and Gum' Davis is expected to get
drunk by tbe timo class G. is attended to.
Matrimony has been greatly on the in
crease for some time past, and after a while
somethingclse willbeontheinorease. Sev
eral jugs of Squire Murriab's Mountain
Dew have left town lately. Somo scoun
drels broke into Mr. Gormley's cellar, got
some fish-oil instead of whiskoy, left his
garden gate open, and an old sow enter
ed and cat up all his sour-krout on tbe
stalk.
Warren money is now good, and John
Forker's potatoes didn't turn out so well
as they might have done; there wll be
an average crop generally. Ross Porter's
oxen run off last night, smashing down
some eighty rods of fence; the low stage
ofthe river, and the rise of candle wick,
induces us to whittle our splinters down
to a point. Cash receipts of the week
fifty cents and a dime from Mr. John
Martin, and trouble and torn trousers."
"Bob, that is a fine horse you have
there what is bo worth?"
"Three hundred and fifty dollars."
"No, not so much as that!"
"Yes, every cent of it and another fifty
on the top of it."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes,ril swear to it."
"All right."
"What aro you so inquisitive for?"
"Merely for assessing purpose; I am
assessor for this ward, and only wanted
to know what you rated your nag."
8ST The aggregate vote of the Sta'le of
nnsylvania this year is 6,049 larger
n it was last year on Governor. &
Pen
than
I polite to all whom you meet. "Yoa can
Outdoor sports being chased by a not ;U(jge of a man by the coat ho dears;"
mad ox, or collecting bills for printers. anQ oveD tDo poprest should be treated
wjtb civility. Take up your books, Sir.
Tbe anxiety that a man feels for want I shall tell no ono of what has passed.
of funds is called capital punishment. If you change your course,- nothing which
Be Courteous, or the Eailroad Conductor
f Caught.
Tbe following incident illustrates the
adage, "You cannot jude of a man by
the coat he wears:"
"Halloa, Limpy, the cars will start in
a minute; hurry up, or we shall leave you
behind!"
The cars were waiting at a station of
one of our Western railroads. The en
gine was puffing and blowing. The baggage-master
was busy with baggage and
checks. The men were hurrying to and
fro with chests and valises, packaged and
trunks. Men, women and children were
rushing for the cars, and hastily securing
tbeir'seats. while the locomotive snorted,
and puffed and blowed.
A man carelessly dressed was standing
on tbe platform of the depot. He was
looking around him, and seemingly paid
littlo attention to what was passing. It
was easy to see that he was lame. At a
hasty glance one might easily have sup
posed that he was a man of neither wealth
nor influence. The conductor of the
train gavo him a contemptuous look, and
slapping him familiarly on tbe shoulder,
called out,
"Halloa, Limpy, better get aboard, or
tbe cars will leave you behind!"
'lime enough, I reckon," replied the
individual so roughly addressed, and he
retained bis seemingly listless position.
The last trunk was tumbled into the
baggage-oar. "All aboard!" cried the
couductor. "Get on Limpy!" said he,
as he passed tho lame, carelessly dressed
man.
The lame man made no reply.
Just as tho train was slowly moving a-
way, tbe lame man stepped on the plat-
orm of tbe last car, and walking in,
quietly took his seat.
nil 1 1 " 1
me tram naa movoa on a lew mues
whon the conductor appeared at tho door
ofthe car where our friend was sitting.
Passing along he soon discovered tbe
stranger whom he bad seen at tbe station.
"Hand out your money here!"
"I don't pay," replied the lame man
very quietly.
"Don't pay?"
"No Sir."
"We'll see about that. I s'tiall put you
out at the next station!" and he seized the
valiso wbich was on the rack over tho
head of our friend.
"Better not be so rough, young man,"
returned the stranger.
The conductor released the carpet bagfor
a moment, and seeing he could do no moje
then, be passed on to collect the fare from
other passengers. As he stopped at a
seat a few paces off, a gentleman who had
heard the conversation just mentioned
looked up at tbe conduotor and asked
him:
"Do you know to whom you were
speaking just now?"
"No, Sir."
"That was Peter Warburton, the Pres
ident of the road."
"Are you sure of that, Sir?" replied tbe
conductor, trying to conceal bis agita
tion. "I know him."
Tbe color rose a little in the young
man's faoe, but with a strong effort be
controlled himself, and went on collecting
tbe fare as usual.
Meanwhile Mr. Warburton sat quietly
in his seat none of those who were near
him could unravel the expression of his
face, nor tell what would bo tbe next
movement in the scene. And be of
what thought ho? He had been rudely
treated; he had been unkindly taunted
with tbe infirmity which bad come prob
ably through no fault of bis. He could
revenge himself if he chose. He could
tell the Directors tbe simple truth, and
the young man would bo deprived of bis
place at once. Should he do it?
And yet, why should he care? He
know what he was worth. He knew how
he had risen by bis own exertions to the
position be now held. When, a little
orange peddler, he stood by tbo street
crossings, he had many a rebuff. He bad
outlived those days of hardship; ho was
respected now. Should ho care for a
stranger's roughness or taunt 7 Those
wbo sat near him waited curiously to sec
tbo end.
Prosently tho eonductor came back.
With a steady energy bo walked up to
Mr. Warburton's side. He took his books
rom bis pocket, the bank bills, the tick-"
ets wbieb he had collected, and laid them
in Mr. Warburton's hand.
"I resign my place, Sir," be said.
The President looked over the accounts
for a moment, then motioning to the va'
cant seat at his side, said:
"Sit down, Sir, I would like to talk
with you."
As tbe young man sat down, the Pres
ident turned to bim a face in wbich was
no angry feeling, and spoke to bim in an
under tone.
"My young friend, I have no revenge
ful feelings to gratify in this matterr but
vou have been verv imorudent. Your
manner, had it been thus to a stranger
would have been very iniurious to the m
terests of tho Company. I might tell
theTm f " bnt 1 mU p
80 I should throw you out of your si
;t,0 Bnd jon.ghtfind ,t difficult to
xy doing
situa-
find
another. But in future, remember to be
has happened to-day shall injure you.
Your situation is still contined. Good
morning, Sir.
The train of oars swept on, as many a
train bad done before; but within it n
lesson had been -given and learned, and
the purport of the lesson ran somewhat
thus Don't judge from appearances.
Keep the Staff in Your own Hand.
TBero was living at Harlem, an old
man who related the following story of
himself. He was possessed of a good
j farm, with servants aud everything nec
essary for bis business, and bad but one
child, a son, who having married, it was
agreed that the young couplo should live
in the house with the parent, as be was a
widower. Things went exceedingly well
for some timo, when tbe son proposed to
the parent that he should make over to
bim his estate, promising to build a new
bouse and otherwise improve the farm.
Tho father, through persuasion, gave him
a deed or a gift of it, and everything be
longing to it.
After a few years, as the father grew
old, he grew a little fretful and dissatis
isfied, while the son thinking that he bad
nothing more to expect from bim, forgot
bis filial duty, and used bis father worse
than be did his servants. The old man
was no longer permitted to cat at the ta
blo with bis son and wife, but compelled
to take bis meals in tbe chimney corner,
and be continually otherwise ill used by
them. Tbe old man ate bis victuals dai-
lv from a wooden bowl, which his son
made for him. His erandson Baw his
father make this bowl, and sat making
iust such another.
Being asked by bis father what he made "aruuesa 01 me rocits ui wmco meir ma
it for, he answered, 'for you to eat out 1 terials once formed a part. Clays which
of when you grow as old as grandfather. I contain an alkali and iron, readily fuso
Although this ought to have turned bis I at a oigh temperature,- wbereas neither
heart, and made him reflect that as he 1 alumnia nor silica fuse, when unmixed
dealt by bis father, he might expect to be ' with otuer substances. Burnt bricks are
dealt with by his children when be grew simple cubes of clay submitted to pres
old, still it had no effect with him, and , ure in molds, and gradually dried, to e
the ill usage was carried to such an ex- vaporate the moi.ture slowlyr then they
tent, that tbe old man could no longer ! are exposed to a bigh heat in the burning
bear it, and left the bouse and went to a , process. As clay shrinks greatly when
relation and noighbor of his, declaring, . lfc i9 Deing driod aQd burned, articles made
that if bis friend could not help him to , of ifc raUst he fired very carefully, or they
get his farm back again, he should be 0- wil1 break in pieces or become distorted
bligod to come and live with him. J in form.- For this reason, bricks, when
His friend answered that he might molded, are first dried in the sun, before
come and live with him, and, if he would thcJ arc burned; during wet weather,
follow his direction, he would heln him ' tberefore, this business cannot be carried?
to get bis estate again. "Take this bag on in our country in ;ac common way.
of dollars, carry it into your room, at your ' Potter's clay for stone-ware contains
son's, shut it un well in vour chest, and 43 5 Parts silica; alumnia, 32F-2; lime,
about tbe time they will call you to din-
ncr, shut your door and have all your mtusible m ajjorcelain HUn; it only in
dollars spread on the table in the middle durates in firing. Tho glazed face in
of the room. When tbey call you mako tonc-ware is made by a fusible composi
a noise with them by sweeping them into . tion Put. on the surface,
the bag again." I Kaolin or porcelaiu olaya are genrally
The baft took immediately. The wife , foQD(1 in beds or 8eam3 among granitio
peeped through the key bole and saw tho , rocks from .which they have been disin-
dollars spread
d out on the table, and told
it to ber husband.
When the old man
came down they insisted on bis sitting at
the table with them, and treated him with
uncommon rsspoct
The old man related to bis friend what
he bad done, who gave bim diroctions
what to do if bis son asked the money
from him.
After a few days, tho son discovered
the old man very busily engaged in count
ing out bis money, and at tbe next meal
timo asked what money it was that he
had been counting.
"Only tbo money I had received for
the discharge of one of the bonds I had
standing out. I expect more in a few
days, and I fear I shall be obliged to
take Mr. N 's farm, upon whiob I
have a mortgage, as he is not able to
raiso the money, and if the farm is sold
it will not fetch as much as will discharge
the mortgage."
After a few days, tbo son told tbe fath
er he intended to build a house on the
farm, and would bo glad if tho father
would let him have tbe money.
"Yes child, all that I have is coming
to you. I intend giving you the bond
and mortgage I bave, but then I think it
will be best to put it all together in a new
deed of gift. I will get neighbor L
to call here and get a npw."
Accordingly his friend and cousin, who
bad devised tho scheme, came to the
house, when tho son gave tho old deed
that another might bo drawn from it.
When tho old man got the deed in bis
hand, bo broke off the seal and commit
ted the writing to tho fire, saying:
"Burn! cursed instrument of my folly
and my misery! and you, my dutiful
children, as this estate is all my own a
gaio, you must remove immediately, un
less you be content to become my tenants;
I bave learned by sad experience, that it
is best for a parent to hold the loaf under
his men arm and that one father can
better maintain ten children, tban ten
children can one father."
Tbo Albany Statesman, alluding to a
candidate for office, who was defeated in
that city, says be had such an itching for
office that his friends oonoluded to scratch
him!
"Master at home?" ''No, sir, ho'sout,"
"Mi'sfross at home?" "No sir, she's out,V
"Then I'll step in and sit by the fire.
"That's out tool"
A Large Nest. In Philadelphia there
is a Widow lady wlio has twenty-five
childron, all living at home and none
married.
Clay and its Uses.
There are few substances more useful
tban humble clay. It is employed to
contruct our Louses, in tho form of bricks:
and, under tho names of china and htbne
ware, it assumes tbo most varied and
beautiful configurations in vessels' and ar
ticles employed in every household.
When we reflect on the varied uses of clay
it'becomes an exalted material in our es
timation, because it is indispensable to
the supply of so many wants. Yet al
though it has been employed in the arts
from time immemorial, its composition
and qualities arc not very generally
known. Clay is the product of several
kinds of rocks; its character being deter
mined by that from which it is derived.
It is generally found as a sedimentary
deposit, having been disintegrated froin'
rocks by tbe action of water and the at
mosphere. Common blue clay is the pro
duct of slaty rocks, and is a mixture of
the oxyd of the metal alumnium and in
palpable silica or sand'. It is the alumnt
ous oxyd which renders it unctuous and
plastio when moist, and capable,- in thafi
state, of being molded into any form. '
The commou clay u?cd in making bricks'
contains a little oxyd of iron; this, wbcu
burned, imparts to them their peculiar
rod color.
Tho manufacture of bricks in our
country is carried on very extensively, in
volving the investment of an immense
aggregate capital, and the employment of
many thousand operatives. Within the
! past fifteen years, machines have super
seded band-moulding in brick-making, in
large Jar(l8- A!l articles made of clay,
when exposed to a very high temperature,
sucU as turning m a Kiln, acquire tho
'3i5? ir0D. h water, 18. This clay is
, legraieu. Jiucy contain no iron ieia-
8Par 3 their base. Most of tbe stono-
! Waro and finc porcelain wbich come into
our country from abroad aro manufactur
ed in Staffordshire, England, where 810,-
' 000,000 worth of articles are made an-
nually, three-fourths of which are expof-
farl msfl. f r A'mnpi.n Til..laf n
eclain is cheaper, but it is iuferior to tbe
French. As the gilding and ornamenting
of china ware greatly enhance its value,
and, of course, increase the tariff dues on
it, much plain porcelain is now imported
into, and afterwards decorated in this
city.
Fire-clay is composed of alumnia and
silica; and bricks made of it aro very re
fractory. Thoso used for our household
stoves are exorbitant in price, and are
generally inferior in quality, as they are"
liable to fuse in burning what is called
"red ash" anthracite coal, which contains
a little iron. A stove can be liued in a
more durablo manner with potter's clay
than with fire-bfick, at one-third the cost.
It is applied by plastering it on the met
al, and allowing it to dry slowly after
wards. This information may be useful
to many of our readers, who can readily
obtain such clay. Scientific American.
6ure: of Scours in Cattle.
An Englishfarmer recommcds the use
of acorn meal as a sure cure of diarrhea
in horn cattle, sheep and lambs, aud
young stock generally. He says:
"I sent tho dried acorns to the mill to
bo ground into flour, and, when I found
symptoms of scour or diarrea in my cat
tle, I ordered two haudfuls to be mixed
in a bran mash, and given warm immedi
ately, and to continue it once a day until
tbe disease disappeared. This proved a
never-failing cure in.-omuch that I nev
er had any trouble from the di.casc after
ward: and my neighbors, seeing this, had
recourso to mo for a little of my acorn'
flour when the disease appeared in their
cattle, which, of course, I was glad to
give them, the rc.-ult being the same as
in my own case."
A vender of cement describing its ac
tion.faid it was peculiarly useful in mend
ing jars. A purchaser inquired if it
would mond the jar of a door? "Thero
fs no ocoattion for its use in that oaso,"
said the pedlar, "for that is generally
sound enough." Another asked him "if
it would mend family jars?" "In that
case, again, there is more sound than
senso," replied tho pedlar, and va-'
mosed.
How we printers lie,' as tbo devil sad
when he got up too late for breakfa$.