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_____ FOR FARMER AND ATECIIANIC
OLUME V HI.
THE LEHIGH REGISTER
Is published in the borough of Allentown, Lehigh
County, ever!, l%cdnesday, by
A. L. lIIJIHIE,
At 'l,l 50 per annum, payable in advance, and
t 2 00 if not paid until the end of the year. Ni
p a per discontinued, until all nrrearages are paid
except at the option of the proprietor.
10"Offlce in Hamilton Street, one door East of
the German Reformed (Thurch,.mearly opposite
the ..Friedensbote" Office.
(1)13.11V.N1 %HIV laill
By virtue and in pursuance of an order
issued out of the Orphan's Court of the coun
ty of Lehigh, there will be exposed to public
sale, on Saturday the 19th day of January,
1854, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, upon the
premises, a certain
Messnage and Tract of Land,
With the appertenances, situated in North
Whitehall township, in the county of Lehigh
aforesaid, bounded by lands of Conrad Roth,
Samuel Roth, William Clamer, lands lute of
Enoch Butz, Stephen Leh and others, con
taining about sixty acres of land the im
provements are •
, r.. 1..• A Two Story Tavern noose,
~ 5 ; ~
. ; 4111..:: the house is 28 by 98, Shed
~... :'........:4,: Barn, Wagonhouse, Carpenter
shop, Blacksmith shops, and other out build
ings.
on the premises, also a never failing
Well of water, and about 4 acres (tithe above
is ~, T ood Meadow land and about 2 acres
of Woodland, and the • rest is all good ,,
iarming land, the above will be sold in
pieces or the whole together so as to accom
modate purchasers, the land is all in good
condition and in fences,
• Being the real estate of David Frantz,
deceased, late of the township and county
aforesaid. .
Terms on the day at the place of sale, and
due attendance given by
WILLIAM LEINI3ERGER ' Adm' ors.
/AVIA FRANTZ.
14y the Court—N. METZOER, Clerk.
December 21. 11-3 w
Capitalists Look Here ! !
Pvicate Safe
. Of a Trnct of Land, containing an incx
imustible bed of
• Eire Clay,
situate in Upper Milford township, Lehigh
county, about half a mile of Emus, on the
road leading from Emaus to Trumbauers
ville, and neat the proposed Railroad from
Norristown to Allentown, contai ni ng 27 acres,
more or less.
The bed of clay is inexhaustible, and is
at present mined and used at the Allentown
and Catasauqua and other Furnaces ; at the
Zink Furnaces at Bethlehem, and is pro
nounced to be equal if not better in quality
to the best obtained .in this or any other
country. It is therefore deemed worthy the
attention of capitalists. Thereon is also
A. Good Iron Orr Bed,
of the richest and best quality, and the bed !
is from 20 to 30 feet in thickness. 'Phis
together • with the Fire Clay, makes the
property . one of the most desiMble and
money !nuking in the vicinity.
• Thereon is erected a
DWELLING ROUSE,
flit ( part stone and part. log, barn,
_ •, and other necessary out build
'an Apple Orchard, well with
good Water, and a never failing stream/ilk
runs through the land.
OrCompetent judges assert that inter
mixed with this cloy is found the best ma
teriali to•Manulacture the white Porcelain
ware, which makes it worthy of particular
notice.
Persons wishing to examine the above
property, can do so by calling on the owner
who resides thereon, or on the undersigned
where further information may be obtained.
. HENRY W IEDER,
..1 EPHRAIM WIEDER,
Agents of Yttlenline Wieder.
.Novertiber 23, • —tf
.01111321)1Y3 VIDIIIII.
lathe Orphans Court of Lc.l
County.
In the matter of the Account
• a•Owen Miller. Administrator
of Ve,ter Altille,r, deceased, late of Heidelburg
township. .
And now December 9, 1853; the court
appoint sarnuel).KistleriEs q ., Henry Smith
and.,Benjamin S. Levan, Auditors; to audit
and resettle the same account and make dis
iribuAon..aceording to law, and make report
0(404 proceedings to the next stated Or.
phana ' Court, Ippluding all the evidence
10 4 4 glay l hre . suittnilted before them.
From the Records.
TESTE—N* hitTZOER,
rthelatte.e , minted anditoro will meet for
that Pitrposei Of their appointment, on Satin:
&yid*. 28th• of I.liin tatry nett; at )& delock
faatheriforernieneat the house of 'lieter
krojhoiti HeOdelburg township, where all
those interested can attend ff they tervproper.
lanuary 9 r 1834.' . • *-3W •
A FAMILY. NEWSPAPER,
t3octicat Elepattinent.
his tread is slow and tremulous,
And his head k white with rime;
And his glance has Inst the fervor
It wore in the summer time.
'The purple grapes have been Ofested
From the maned leaves between;,
And long since has the sickle
To flash in the grain been scen!
Prom the shadowy dells come back,
The sound of the thrasher's flail ;
And the brown nuts are pattering,
On the fallen leaves, like hall.
Lilie a dying man with a crime,
Untold in his bosom dark,
The forest trees are streching out
Their brunches all dead and stark !
The Indian Summer has woven
A dream of ihe happy past,
Yet to where lie entoinli'd his sires
lle hnoas he is gliding fast !
lie knows he is old and feeble,
That his voice has lost its tone,
And that even the wreath of asters,
From his swarthy brow has gone I
Albrellancous Ocicrtions.
Among the new lights which have of late
broken in upon the minds of those who lead
the van in the science of agriculture, there
is none more interesting than that which
seems to foreshow the posibtlity of producing
crops without manure. To Make dame Na
ture yield up her bounties with but little ar
tificial assistance has long been among the
dreams of philosophers ; arid now we have
indications, that the dreams are to give place
to realities. NU result could be more oppor
tune, if, as some political economists assert,
agriculture liflotds far greater means and re
sources fur the well-being of a population
than trade, especially when made use of in
reformatory purposes. The (act, they say,
would have been demonstrated long ago if
agriculture had only had fair play. N .- Veil
it has now got fair play, and is finding en
ergy for improvements and experiments,
which arc gradually leading to a solution of
great questions, and to results very different
from those imagined by theorists. Let us
take a brief survey of the investigations ; it
is something more than mere dry reading:
Everybody knows that there arc fifty five
of fifty-six elements which make up the min
eral world, and only four of which are con
cerned in the vegetable world—namely, hy
drogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen or oz
ote.-11 we know precisely when, where,
and hew plants obtain their supply of these
elements, our theory of agriculture would
remain only the pleasure and profit of redu
cing it to practice. But •we are as yet on
the threshold only of trig' required knowl
edge. What we do know from recent ex
periments is, that plants do absorb azote, and
largely, from the atmosphere. Priestly said
so many years ago : his conclusions, howev
er, were disputed and rejected. As it hap
pens, the, productions which yield food to
man and fodder to cattle most abundantly are
those which mine more especially under con
sideration. Farmers alternate root crops
with grain crops, with a view to prevent ex
haustion ; but this exhaustion as kite experi
ence demonstrates: is best prevented by of
fering all possible facilities for a free and full
supply of nitrogen, and from the atmosphere
rather than from other sources. Water arid
air, indeed, play a more important part in
agriculture than many who till the soil by'
mere routine would be willing to believe..--
NI. Baudrimont, professor of chemistry at
the Faculty of Sciences at Bordeaux, has,
just published a work "On the Existence of
interstitial Currents in Arable Sail, and the
Influence which they caters orrAgriculture,"
in which, after a long:study of subject,
he.states , that there is a. natural process at
work by which liquid currents -rise to the:
surface from a certain. depth inithe , groundi
and thus bring up materials that help either
to maintain, its fertility or to modify its char
acter. Many phenomena of agriculture and
of vegetation have at different times, been
observed, which hitherto inexplicable, are
readily explained on this theory. , S.uch.for
exanipleithe improvements which take place
in fellows and there is reason to believe
that these currents materially influence the
rotation Of crops.
In Ger Matty, Schleiden is nttiattingptich.
attention by his masterly views onethe phe
nomena: of vegetation: and it . will surprise
many to here that he admits' of ncisrelariort
between the fertility of a soil and' themitan.:'
tity of fertiliting Matters expended upon :it:
""The goodness of the - he say*
pends upon its inorganic conatituenth so far
at least as they are soluble in 'water, or
The Dying Year.
And that ere the Christmas carol .
Has fully died on his ear,
Old Janvitr from the icy north
Will lead out the new• born year!
Revolution in Agrienituree
cl)anio
AIIVNTOWN, LEHIGH CO
through continued action of carbonic acia ;
and the more abundant and various these
solutions, the more fruitful is the ground."
Arguing from this view, it is not richness
of soil or humus that produces the multiplied
varieties of Alpine plants in Germany, or the
absence of it that produces but few. "Sc
luble mineral constituents" are shown to be
the characteristic of our cultivated fields,
and "an agricultural plant" is defined as one
"distinguished from wild individuals of the
same species by peculiar qualities which
constitute its fitness for culture, and which
depend upon a modification of chemical ac
tion." The amazing yield of Indian corn in .
Mexico—from 200 to 600 fold—is some
thing which, with all our skill, we cannot
accomplish, and is a fact in favor of the ar
gument, "that in no case do the organic sub
stance; contained in the ground perform any
direct part in the nutrition of plants." The
annual destruction of, organic matter all over
the earth is estimated at 145 billions of
pounds, equal to 2.1 billions of cubic feet ;
and if all vegetation depends on organic mat
ter for nutrition, 'to satisfy this consumptiOn
"ther !Inlet have been, 5,000 years back, ten
feet deep of pure organic substance on its
surface." A notherillostration is furnished
by taking-the number of cattle and other ani-
I
limits in France in a given year, (1844.) and
' observing the amount of food they consume.
I The process of nutrition would require 76,-
780,000,000 pounds of organic matter—six
times more than the whole number contribu•
ted of organic matter towards reproduction ;
lond in 100 hundred years "the whole organ
ic material of the country would be consu
med."
Again : look nt a farm. [low much more
is carried oil from it than is given back
again : generally the amount of its yield is
three times greater than that of the organic
[natter it receives ; while of the manure ap
plied the greater part is not taken up, but
i m p e rceptibly decomposed. Carbon in the
most impel - 40m of the. constituents of plants;
an acre of sugar plantation produces 7,500
Founds of caries, of which 1,200 pounds are
carbon ; and yet sugar plantations are -rarely
tnanured, and then only with the ashes of
the btirnt canes. \V jilt bananas the result
is still more striking : the yield is 98,000
pounds of trait in a year from a single acre
and of this 17,000 pounds—more than a fifth
—is carbon ; and the same acre will give the
saute return year after year for twenty or.
thirty years ; and the ground at the end of
that time will be richer than at the com
mencement, from nothing more than the de•
cay of the large leaves of the plant. Here
in Europe, too, the difference in weight and
in carbon between the seed and the produce
has often been noted—in w heat, 89 per cent.;
in red clover, 158 per cent.: and in peas,
361 per cent. These facts afford evidence
of a supply of carbon derived from other
sources than those commonly supposed to
exist; and while wit know that seeds will
germinate, and become vigorous plants in
pure quartzose sand, or in cotton wool. or on •
a board, we seem to have proof that the chief
source of supply is the nunosphetee This
is an interesting point, which further
tc
search will verify : Schleiden shows the pro
cess to be eminently simple. Ile says in
his work, of which a translation has been
published by the Ilortitultural Society :"Ac
eordine to Link, Schwartz, and others, an
acre of water-meadows produces 4.400
pounds of hay, which when dry, contains
45.8 per cent. of carbon. The hay then
'Yields 2,000 pounds of carbon, to which 1,-
000 pounds may be added for the portion•of
the year in 'which the grass is not cut, and
the roots. To produce these :3,000 pounds
of carbon, 10,980 pounds of carbonic acid
are requisite, which may be raised to 12,000
pounds, to compensate, for the nigltily ex
piration. Now, Sehubler has shown that an
acre of so wretched a grass as poa amnia
exhales . in 120 days (too low a computation)
of active vegetation 6,000,000 pounds of wa
ter. To supply the exigencies of the plants
therefore, it is only necessary for . the meadow
to imbibe :31 grains of carbonic acid with
every pound of water."
Mr. Lewes fins found, also, that in a plant
of any one of out ordinary crops,, more than
200 grains of Meer must pass through it, for
a sirraW grain of solid substance to [mermen. ,
P lute within -it.; HO states the evaporation
from nn acre of whent during the period of its
growth to be 114.800 gallons: or 73,510.000
gallons per square mile, Withiclover, it is
rather more ; with peas and - barley, less.—
When we apply these calculations to a coun
ty or a kingdom, we are lost in. the magni
tude of the processes by which nature works;
but we see the more clearly that, on ; such a
scale, the quantity of material supplied by
the air, though minute to the individual, be-
Comes vast in the aggregate. We see, more
over, the necessity for understanding the re,
!miens between evaporation and rate of
growth, 'ne r d . thelnivs and efleets of absorption
in soil's: A thousand pound of dry calcare
"ous sand Will gain two pounda in weight in
tWelVe hears when the hir is moist, While'
pure agricultural clay will gain thirty-SeVen
pounds. •
`The source of nitrogen' comes next to be
considered and. thie also is Seen to be itidel
pendent 'of manures:" Mretipon, , it is obi
served that ..otir doaieitic plants do tot tco
)c Miffusi
Eel
NH, PA., JANUARY 11. 1854
quire a greater supply than in a state of na
ture. A water-meadmir which has never
received any dung yi. Ids yearly from forty
to fifty pounds of nitrogen, while the best
plowed land yields only about thirty-one
pounds. The plants for which most dung'
is used, as potatoes and turnips, are, in fact,
proportionally the poorest in nitrogen."—
That there is a supply independent of the
soil, is further seen in the millions of hides
furnished every year by the cattle of the
Pampas without any diminution of produce;
and in the great quantities of nitrogenous
matters—hay, butter, and cheese,—carried
I off from pasture lands. far more than is re
turned by the animals fed thereon. Experi
ments with various kinds of plants on vari
ous soils have satisfactorily demonstrated
that increase of nitrogen in the land and in
the crops does take place quite irrespective
of supilies of manure.
W ith respect to ammonitt,..it appears that
one thirteenth of a grain in every pound of
water is sufficient for the exigencies of veg
etation, and there is, perhaps, no spring wa
ter in the universe which contains so littlq'
'['hen, as to sulphur and phosphorus, which
are also among the constituents of plants,
the quantity needed in proportion to the time
of vegetation is so small, that one-540,000th
of a grain of sulphureted hydrogen per cubic
foot diffused through the atmosphere tp a
height of 3,000 feet is all that is required.
The consideration that cereals would soon
disappear from the north of Europe, if not
cultivated, and, perhaps, from nearly the
whole of this quarter of the globe, adds!
weight to the arguments in favor of enlight
ened attention to the inorganic constituents
of plants. The point is to bring the soil in
to harmony with the conditions by which
growth may best be promoted. Much de
pends on the nature of the soil ; the darkest
colored lands are generally the highest in
temperature ; hence the advantage of vege
table
mould ; while deep, light sands, and
cloy, which turns almost to stone in dry
weather, weary and vex the cultivator by
their unprofitableness. It is to be remem
bered, however, that soils which have the
highest temperature of their own, may not
be those most susceptible of receiving heat
—that is, from the sun, because some lands
are warmed by the springs that irrigate them.
[fere we have an explanation of the pheno
mena of certain soils Which are Warm in
winter and cool in summer. The applica
tion of humus evolves heat by the process of
combustion; and sand, lime, clay, and hu
mus, are the combinations needed. the clay
being in a proportion of from forty to fifty
per cent.; if less then ten per cent. the land
will be too light and poor.
The Roniante of Life Assurance.
A work recently published in London
gives an account of various means some
times resorted to by individuals to unlawful
ly obtain money from Life Assurance Com
panies, by false representations concerning;
the decease of the insured. The two follow
ing cases are curious and interesting :
As the evening of an autumnal day began
to close, four men might have been seen hir
ing a boat at one of the numerous stairs be
low Blackfriar's bridge. Their appearance
was that of the middle order, but the reck
less during which characterised their air and
mariner, marked them of the class which
hires by others losses. By the time they
had rowed some distance up the river, th e e
only light that guided them was the reflec
tion of the lamps which fringed it, and no
sooner were they shrouded by the darkness
of the night, than, without any apparent
cause, the boat was upset, add the four were
precipitated into the Thames. They were
close to land, and while they buffeted the
tide and made their Way, they helloed lusti
ly for help, which; as the shore was now
ringing with the noise of boats and boatmen
putting off to their assistance, was soon ren
dered. Of the four who had started only
three landed together, and great was their
outcry for their lost companion. The alarm
was itnmediately given: all that skill could
do to recover their friend was tried, but the
night was too dark to render human aid of
much avail, ft was pitiable to the bystand
ers to witness the grief of those who were
saved, Who,.finding 'nothing Moro could be
done, were obliged to 'content themselves
with . offering a reward for the body; coupled
witn a promise to, return early in
e; the morn
.. They then ivent away, and the scene
,
resumed its ordinary quiet..
A few hours after this,. at the dead of
night, a second boat, with the ,same men.
pursued its silent and almost sialitary'cOurse
up the river towards the scene of the previ
ous misfortune. With them was a large,
suspicious looking bniidle, which, when
they had arrived at a spot suitable to their
purpose, they lifted in their arms, placing
their horrible burden-4er it Was the body of
a dead •mar—where; from their judgment
and knowledge'of the tide, the Corpeof their
friend would besought. Favored by:dark
ness and by night, they accomplished their
'object, again rowing rapidly doWn the stream
to an obscure abode' in the neighborhood of:
Greentifich. V o lteh morning began to break,
-they returned rinCe More to' the place Which
had witnessed • tlieW inysteriorts midnight
where, with .mdch apperent anxiety,:
ful 3nformation, Octural 3ntclligcnce,"inm3cmcut, &;c.
IM2l:=2=l
they asked for tidings of their companion. —
The reply was what they expected. A bo
dy had been found—it was that which they
had placed on the strand—and this they at
once identified as that of the friend who had
been 'with them in the boat, and for whom
they had off-red a reward. A coroner's jit•
ry sat upon the remains, a verdict of acci
dental death was recorded, and the object of
the conspirators fairly nchieved. That ob
ject was to defraud an insurance office of n
very large amount—for the missing man had
not been drowned ; the grief was only sim
ulated ; and the body which had been pla
ced.on the banks of the Thames had been
procured to consummate the deception.
Against a fraud planned with so much
art, and carried out with so much skill, no
official regulation could guard, and when
the papers containing the report of the in
quest, and the identity of the body, were for
warded to the representatives oldie deceas
ed, not a doubt can be entertained of its jus
tice. It was true that the claimant, under
his will, was his mistress ; that his execu
tors were the persons who perpetrated the
fraud, and were with him at the time of the
accidentl but there were broad and indis
putable facts to be disposed of, that the in
sured man had met with a sudden and acci
dental death, and this was attested by the
tterdict of a jury. The money was paid,
and with that portion of it which came to the
deceased, he went to Patis. In that gay
capital with a mistress as expensive in her
habits as himself, the cash was soon spent,
and so successful had been the first atte:trpt
in this line, that it seemed a pity for a gen
tleman thus accomplished, to abandon a mine
so rich. Very shortly, therefore, after the
previous fraud,an application was made from
Liverpool to an office in London, to insure
the lire of a gentleman for ..t:2,000. The
applicant was represented as a commercial
traveler, and permission was sought to ex
tend the privilege of traveling in America.
This insurance was effected, and when only
a few months had elapsed, information was
received by the company that the insured
ffentlernan, while bathing in one of the great
American lakes, had been drowned ; that
his clothes had been left on the banks of the
water where his body had been found ; and
in verification of this ; all the necessary doc
uments were lodged in due time. As the
death and identity of the traveler seemed
clearly es!ablished, the office intimated its
readiness to pay the policy at the end of
three months; but throe months seemed a
very long period to those who felt the uncer
tain tenure by which their Claims was held;
so, to induce the office to pay ready money,
they offered a large and unbusiness like dish
count. This, together, perhaps, With some
suspicions created by the manner of the ap'-
plicant, placed the office on its attar& In
quiries were soon instituted,and discoveries.
made which induced them to proceed still
further; but no sooner was it found that a
close inquisition was being entered on, than
the claim was abartdoned,and the claimants
seen no more nt the office. '
..About 18:10, two persons resided in the
then obscdre suburbs of St. Giles, one of
whom was a woman of about twenty, the
other ii man whose age would hirve alloWed
him to lie the woman's father. Their posi
tion might be characterized by the Modern
term, "Shabby genteel." They kept little
company, and little was remarked of them
beyond the fact, that the tnan was . tall and
military looking, and the woman, though
handsome, haughty and frigid. On n sad=
den the latter was taken ill in the night.—
The man procured assistance, and on the
arrival of the leech, his. daughter Was found
in agony, rind soon betame insensible; and
died in his presenCe. The doctor laid his
hand on her heart, shook his head, intima
ting that all was over, and went his Way.—
The searchers came, rind the coffin with its
Contents was committed to the earth. Int
mediately after, the bereaved father claimed
from the underviriters a sum insured on his I
daughter's life, and left the place.
No great time had elapsed, when the'
neighborhood of Queen Square began toff
shake its head at the' rather suspicious con-1
nection which existed between one of the
inmates of a house.in that locality, and a la
dy who resided with them. The gentleman
assumed the, title of Capinin,and the style of
n macaroni,'and visited Jtartelagh with the
lady, who acconipanied him everywhere.—
Being apparently wealthy, he attained it
certain position—was: knewn as a dabbler in
the ((Judd, rind was seen occasionally at
Lloyd's and Garraway-'-s, chiefly affecting
the company of assurers. His house soon
became the resort of the young bloods of the
day, where, if they lost their money, they
were repaid by a glance from the goddess of
the place. It was noticetlthat the mast'ef - of
the house never lost—and no'doubt his curhl
rent expensei were ;Met by his gainbling
gains. Soon t'ame an alarmteg interruption
to these recreations. Any one • Who had
possessed sufficient tisCrimination might
haye recognized in the 'captain and' his ina
morata the father and dadghter'of the'i3uherb'
of St. Gilee The same ntocletragetly Was'
again reneted. The lady Was •fitiied . with
spawns at the heart,' which seeined.' to con=
veihie het frame, and again thee:fan was
the Agony of despair. Phyaicinns were cent
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for in haste.; one only arrived in time tones
her die ; the rest, satisfied that life had fled.
took their. fees and departed. Altera sham.
funeral, the gallant captain claimed and re
ceived from various urderwriters,with whom
he had assured the life of the lady,'suins
amounting to many thousand.
A few days later a mature looking per.
soilage appeared daily on the commercial
walks of Liverpool, in the character of a
merchant. Deep in the mysteries of corn •
and cotton, a constant later - icier nt church. a
subscriber to local charities, and a giver of
good dinners, he soon became generally res
pected. The hospitalitif sof his house were
gracefully dispensed by a lady who passed
as his niece, and for a time all went on
smoothly. At length it became whispered
abroad that his Speculatiovs we re not so sue
cessful as usual, and his own admissions
gave a. sanction to.the whiSper. It soon be•
came advisable to borrow money on the se:
curity of property belonging to his niece.
To do so they must more their lives for
about 42,000. This was easy enough.--
secrccy was necessary fur the sake of his
credit, and under cover of this he effected at
least ten daferent assurances for 42,000 each
in London and else Where. Again he had
the genic in his own hands--again the lady
fell Suddenly ill, and died of convulsions.
There was no halt in forwarding the funer.;
al—;the body ley almost in state, and was
visited by numerous friends who called td
see the last of her. The physician certified
that she had died of a complaint he could
scarcely name, nod the grave receiv.;
ed a coffin. The merchant retained his po
sition' in Liverpool, and lore his sorrows.
with dignity, scarcely alluding to the assure
ance that were due, and affecting indiffq.
ence when they we're named. But he had
selected his victims with drill—they were
safe men ; and he duly received the money:
From this period he seerried to decline id
healthchange of air was prescribed—and
thus the desponding father, the gallant.capa
tain, and the respectable merchant, got clear
off with his enormous booty, chuckling air
the success of his infamous scheme.
NOT AFRAID OF Hops.—A big bellied fel•
low named Rolf!, used to frequent a drntri
shop, in. Philadelphia where a few wits and
mutton headed individuals were wont to con?
gregate. Old Rolf! was "death on the pale
hors" on beer; he could drink equal to a
London tapster or a Dutch BurgutnasteN
and had often taken down his pint nt ono
gulp, easy ns lolling off a log. One day; a
few jockers being around, one doubted the ca.;
parity of the old man to guttle a quart of beer
at a draught.
'You choost pay for em,' says Rolli, Voti
choost pay for ens, an' by tender den you sea
if old Jake Rola' can't swnllar 4 . quart of peer
without winkin.'
, We'll pay for it daddy,' says one, if you'll
down with it in one long guzz!e.'
.Veri yell, fetch on the peer.'
The beer was brought !in a large, deep
brown mug. Before :pouring in'the beer, a
defunct noise had been quietly inn - noted . ;
the old man took the !Wig, foaming to the
brim. raised it to the necessary elevation:"
and clown it went.
1 • How'd it rro doddy 1' tes.:s' the!cry,ns the
i old mn, with bloated visag:• and distmidedi
eye, sat down the empty mug. o ~
.Ilow'd it go? 13.111! Glom! Dlit vas yen
tam pig hop in de bottom. but yott thinks ,/
care a tam for dem zings.'
t 7 01..1? vs UOLY.—In th, eastern, part of
Delaware county, in that State, Ocre• recd•
ded a man by the name novo'
a justice of the pence, and very Bolsi.
ble man, but by Common consent the ugliest
looking individual in the whole county, ,
ing Icing, gaunt,' sallow, and awry, with
gait like a kangaroo. One day he was bUnt.
Mg,. and 'no, one of the mountain roadi
meta Man on foot and alone; Who
ger, gaunter, uglier, by all ruhri4.' tharitimw'l
sett. ' Ike could give the "Squirt." fifty, and', ,
beat him. Without saying a word,
raised .his gun and deliberately levelled '
the strangtir. 's sa 5h00t:,.. 4
shouted the mart in great alarm.
,• i'Strattl,
ffer," I:woie •
ten years,agcs, l
• that if I ever met a man uglier than I Was ,
I'd shciiit 'him, and yon are the'first one I've
ever :wen t ." The stranger, after taking:a
careful survey of his rival, replied, ".Valli?'' 1 look worse than you thishoot ; I don't want
to live.stfirkinger !" • - ; '
DOWN' 0:V fitu.—A dandy, not very rear
markable for the acuteness of his feeling Of
his wit, wishing to-banter a testy old gen,
tionan, who had lately. garnished his' montlt
with a complete set oi false teeth,illppantly i .
ing , • 0.
• • • 1, 1
Well, my good lir, I have nit.en'.:hett . r4 i ;
you complain. of yotur .teeth pray,wh!P.,dq,,
you expect to,be troulaled w ; il,h, : th,efeet t hp e chct,
again ?
hen you have, afrxtionatthelyclirt li ,
or alirain`fe'Ver: tv#:the
, in .1
e'clitor'soin'ewhere in the, we'sqi,t,iti.,
becaine so 11611(4,,, from ilypendin'r'On the
bitsidess'attine far 'l:irtind,
'iilt 2l d"
pro6oses to sell Wadi(' lo eatite'gt.fithit4ti.'
to be used as a etovelape.
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