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BY S. B. BOW.
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1857.
VOL. 51.
1 WAST A STEADY MAX,
I'm getting tired of single life,
And see no reason why
The eps and downs of married Ufa
I should not boldly try ;
I'm certain I should do my best
To end as I began,
And try and please, if I but had
A quiet, steady man.
If I hare hd no offer yet,
There's lesa of need, yoa sce,
For any one who thinks of me.
To harbor jealousy.
I own I long hare passed my teens,
And think the wisest plan
Is to look out for one to suit
- I want a steady man ;
One who ill do the best abroad
To help his wife at home.
Who promises that he shall hare
No need from her to roam ;
Who is content with competence,
Nor socks to lead the ran ;
"Whose greatest pride is but to be
Known as a steady man.
CHANCES AND CHANGES.
. BT MRS. FRANCIS D. GAGE.
"1 say, Mr. Conductor, when will the nest
express train go out to St. Louis V
"Eleven o'clock and thirty minutes to-night,
sir," was the gentlerranly reply to the rough
query.
'Eleven o'clock and thirty minutes! Goto
Texas ! Why, it's ten this very minute, I'll
bet my boots against a jack knife the morning
express is off."
"Yes, sir, it ha3 been gone half an hour."
"Why in nature didn't you get us here soon
er 7 Fourteen hours in Chicager is enough to
break a fellow all to smash. Fourteen hours
in Chicager, puffing and blowing ! I've been
told they keep a regular six hundred boss
steam power all the while a running, to blow
themselves up with, and pick the pockets of
every traveler to pay the firemen and engin
eers ! Wal, I guess I can stand it ; I've a
twenty that's never been broke, I think that
will put me through. Why didn't you fire up,
old brag give your old hoss another peck of
oats 1 I tel! ye, this fourteen hours will knock
n.y calculations all Into the middle of next
week."
"Very sorry, sir we've done our best ; but
as we are not clerks of the weather, I hope
you will not lay your misfortunes to our ac
count. Snow drifts and the thermometer six
teen below zero, are enemies we can not readi
ly overcome.'
"That's so," said the first speaker, with
broad emphasis, and a good natured, forgiving
smile. "Fourteen hours in Chicager!"
The stentorian, voice, sounding like a
trumpet, had aroused every sleeper from ely
sian dreams jn to which be might have fallen
after bis long, tedious, cold night's travel-
Every head was turned, every eye was fixed on
the man who had broke the silence. He was
standing by the stove warming his boots. To
have warmed his feet through such a mass of
cowhide and sole leather, would have been a
fourteen hours' operation. Six feet four or five
inches he stood ic those boots, with shoulders
(cased in a iur coat) that looked more like
bearing up a world than yoa will meet ordina
rily, in half a lifetime. His head Webstcrian,
his shaggy hair black as jet, his whiskers to
watch, his dark, pieicingeye, and his jaws c-
ternally moving, with s rousing quid between
them, while a smile of cheerful good humor,
notwithstanding his seeming impatience, at
tracted every one's attention.
"Fourteen hours in Chicager, eh 1 Wal, I
can stand it, If the rest can ; if twenty dollars
won't carry me through, I'll borry oi my
friends, Pre got the things that'll bring 'em,
That's so." :
And be thrust his hand, a little less ins?ze
than a common spade, down into the caver
sous depths of a broad striped, flashy pair of
jnnta, and brought np that great red hand, full
as It could hold, of shining twenty dollar gold
pieces.
"Don't yer think I can stand these ere Chi
eagers for one fourteen hours?"
- A nod of assent from three or four, and a
smile of curiosity from the rest, answered his
question in the affirmative.
"You must baTO been in luck, stranger,'
said an envious looking little man, "you've
more than your share of gold." . 4 .
"I have, eh 7 Well, I reckon not. I came
' honestly by it. That's to. And there's them
living who can remember this, child when he
went Found the p'raries trapping p'rarry hens
and the like, to get him a night lodging, or a
pair of shoet, to keep the Maasasanger from
biting tny toes I'ye hung myself up more nor
one night in the timber, to keep out of the
way of the wild varmints; best sleeping in
the world, in the crotch of a tree top ! Now,
I reckon yon wouldn't believe it,' but I've gene
all winter without a shoe to my f oot ; and lived
en viM ffamft. when I could ketch It. That's
"Didn't 6tunt your growth," said a voice
,rTot a bit of It." 'It brought me up right.
These p'rarries are wonderful roomy.
thought one spell I would let myself out en
tirely, but mother and me held a corens, and
decided that she was getting old, and blind
like, it tuk too long, and cost too innch time
to aew np the legs of my trousers, and so I put
a step to it, and concluded that six foot five
would do for a feller that couldn't afford the
expensive luxury cf a wife to make bis
breeches. It was only bt love for my mother
that rtopped my growth. If I'd a had an Idea
V 8 mtne, there's no telling what
might a done
"You have so many gold pieces in your pock
et, you can afford to get your trousers made
now. Why don't you and your mother caucus,
and see what you can do f If she would let
you expand yourself you might sell out to Bar
num, and make a fortune travelling with Tom
Thumb, and take the old woman along."
"Stranger !" said the rough, great man, and
his whole face loomed with a mingled expres
sion of pain and pride "stranger! I spoke a
word here I didn't mean to ; a slightly word,
like, about my mother. I would giro all the
gold m my pocket to bring her b:ick, for one
hour, to look upon the country as it is now.
She had her cabin here, when Chicager was no
where ; here she raised her boys she couldn't
ive them larnin,' but she taught us better
things than books can give to be honest, and
useful, and industrious. She taught us to be
faithful and true ; to stand by a friend, and be
generous to an enemy. It's thirty years,
stranger, since we dug her grave by the lake
side with our own hands ; and, with many a
tear and sob, turned ourselves away from the
cabin where we'd been raised the Indians had
killed our father long before, and we'd nothing
to keep us and so we went to seek our for-
unes. My brother, he took down to St. Louis,
and got married down there som'ers; and I
just went where the wind blowed,and when I'd
scraped money enough together, I came back
and bought a few acres of land around my
mother's old cabin, for the place where I'd
lain her bones was sacred, like. Well, in the
courso of t:me, it turned right up in the mid
dle of Chicager. I couldn't stand that I lored
my old mother too well to let omnibusses rattle
over her grave, so I cum back about fifteen
years ago, and quietly moved her away to the
buryin' ground ; and then I went back to
Texas, and wrote to an agent arterward to sell
my land. What cost a few hundred to begin on,
I sold for over forty thousand if I'd a kept it
ill now, it would have been worth ten times
that ; that's so, but I got enough for't. I soon
turned that forty thousand into eighty thou
sand, and that into twice as much, and so on,
till I don't know nor don't care what I'm
worth ; that's so. I work hard, am tLe same
rough customer, remember every day of my
life what my mother taught me ; never drink,
nor fight ; wish I didn't swear and chaw; but
them got to be kind a second natur' like, and
the only thing that troubles me is my money
haven't got no wile nor children, and I'm going
to hunt up ray brother and his folks. If his
boys is clever and industrious, ain't ashamed
of my big boots and old fashioned ways, and
his gals is young women, and not ladies ; If
they help their mother, and don't put on mor'n
two frocks a day, I'll make 'era rich, every
one of 'era.
Now, gentlemen, 'taint often I'm led to
tell on myself alter this fashion. But these
old places, where I trapped when I was a boy,
made mo feci like a child agin and I just felt
like telling these youngsters here about the
changes and chances a feller may meet in life,
if he only tries to make the most of himself.
"But, boys," said he, turning to a party of
young men, "there's, something better than
money. Get Education. Why, boys, if I had
as much larnin' as money, I could be President
in 18G0. just as e-a.-s-y. Why, I could buy up
half the North, and not miss it from my pile.
But get larnin'; don't chaw tobacco ; don't
take to liquor; don't swear; and mind your
mothers that's the advice of a real live Speak
er; and if you mind what I say you may be
men, (and it ain't every fellow that wears a
goatee and breeches, that's a man, by a long
ways.) Foller out her counsels ; never do a
thing that will make you ashamed to meet her
in heaven. Why, boys, I never r done a bad
thing but I heard my mother's voice reprovin
. ' .
me ; and I never aone a gooa imng ana raaae
a good move, but I've seemed to. hear her say,
"That's right, Jack," and that has been the
best of all. Nothin' like a mother, boys ;
nothin' like a mother that's so."
All this had passed while waiting to wood just
outside of Chicago. The great man was swel
ling with emotions called up from the dark
shadows of the past ; bis big, rough, heavy
frame' heaved like a great billew" upon the
ocean. Tears sprang to his deep set and earn
est eyes they swelled up to the brim and
swam around asking to be let fall as tributes
to his mother's memory tributes to the love
of the past. But he choked them down, and
humming a snatch of an old ballad, be thrust
his hands down into his pockets, walked back
to the end of the car, pulled the gigantic col
lar of his shaggy coat up around his ears, but
toned it close, and leaned back against the win
dow in silence. ' , . '
The cars rattled on. What a mind was there I
what a giant intellect, sleeping, buried away
from light and usefulness by a rubbish of pre
judice, habit and custom doing but half work
for want of culture! "A mute, inglorious
Milton," or rather Webster, going about the
world, struggling with his own 60ul, yet bound
in chains of ignorance, ' which precluded his
doing but a moiety of the good in bis power
to do. - :- ' ' '
All the war on our long, -tedious journey, he
had ever been on the watch to do good. He
gave up his aeat by the fire, to an Irish woman
and her child, and took one further bade soon
a yoong girl seated herself by bi aide as the
i.Ain wore on. nd she nodded wearily,
be rose, spread hli"beutif ul leopard kin with
its soft, rich lining, on the seat, made a pillow
of his carpet bag and insisted that she should
lie down and sleep.
"What will you do ?" said she, naively.
"Never mind me I can stand up and sleep
like a buffalo ; I'm used to it that's so !"
A little boy, pulled up from a sound nap to
give place to incomers, was pacified and made
happy by a handful of chestnuts and a glow
ing bit of candy out of the big man's pocket.
When lie left the cars for refreshments, he
brought back a handful of pies, and distrbuted
them among a weary group. A mother and
seven little children, the eldest not twelve
years old, whose husband and father left the
cars at erry stopping place, and returned more
stupid and beastly each time, scolding the
tired, restless ones, with thick tongue, and
glaring his furious red eyes upon tho poor
grieved victim of a wife, like a tiger ou its
prey, "because she did not keep her youug
one still; they would disturb everybody."
No bite of refreshment, no exhilarating
draught, no rest from that fat, cross baby,
came to her all the long night, save when the
big man stretched out his great hand aud
took her baby boy for an hour, and let him
play with his splendid watch to keep him quiet.
"I'll give yer a thousand dollars for him,"
said he as he handed him back to her arms.
"You may have the whole lot for that," an
swered the drunken man, with a swinelike
grunt.
"It's a bargain," said the big man, "pro
vldin' the mother's willing."
"Indeed, sir, its not one of them that can
be had for money," was the quiet yet deter
mined response of the mother's heart.
now kindly he helped her off the cars when,
at the break of day, they came to their jour
ney's end !
Thus, all night, he had been attracting the
attention of the ing ones in the cars. But
his kindness and rough politeness would soon
have been forgotten by the mass of the passen
gers, had he not stamped it upon our memo
ries with gold.
"I wonder who he is ?" " Where did he get
on ?" "What an Interesting character ?" "Ed
ucation would spoil him." What rich furs !"
"Did you notice what a splendid watch he car
ries V "lie's some great man, incog:."
Such were a few of the queries that passed
from lip to lip. But there came no answer,
for he, who alone could have answerdd, sat
crouching in his fur coat, seemingly uncon
scious of his own deep thoughts.
"Chicago !" shouted the brakesman, and in
an instant all was confusion, and our hero was
lost in the crowd. The next we saw of him
was at the baggage stand, looking up a band
box for a sweet looking country girl who was
going to learn the milliner's trade in the city.
As we passed to our carraige we discovered
him again, holding an old man by the hand,
while he grasped the shoulder of the conduc
tor of another train with the other, getting for
the deaf, gray haired sire, tho right informa
tion as to the route he should take to get to
"his darter" who lived near Muscatine, Iowa.
"God bless him for his good deeds!" was
our earnest aspiration, as we whirled around
the comer. May his shadow never grow less,
or the gold In bis pocket diminish, for in his
unnumbered charities and mercies, dropped so
unostentatiously here and there, he is, per
haps, doing more good in his day and genera-
rion, than he who denotes his thousands to
build charitable institutions, to give honor to
his own name.' '
Oh, how much the world needs great hearts
that are capable to comprehend little things !
and yet how often it happens that the learned,
the wise, and the rich, outgrow the everyday
wants of humanity, and, feeling within them
selves the power to move mightily, pass by the
humble duties thatewould make a thousand
hearts leap with joy and push on, looking for
some wrong to right, some great sorrow to be
soothed, some giant work to be accomplished ;
and failing to find the great work, live and
die, incarcerated by their own selfishness, and
do nothing at all I " - -
The rough man's nature seemed the nature
of the little chiid. His quick eye saw at a
glance ; his great heart warmed, and his great
hand executed his little works of charity so
small that one would have expected to sec them
slipjbetwecn his giant fingers unaccomplished
yet they were donev The "angel over his
shoulder" will have a longer column to sot
down to his account of deeds well done, than
all tho rest of the passengers of that crowded
passenger car, on that long, tedious, stormy
night, in January, 1856. . .4ar . ; -
The Newport, Kentucky, News says that a
slave was chained np and beaten to death re
cently in Pulaski county, by a Mr. St'igal, his
owner, who gave him one hundred lashes a day
for six days, and would have given him anoth
er hundred, but he was dead the seventh mor
ning. The cause of the slave's whipping was
his going to see his wife, on the next planta
tion, after having been forbidden. '; ;
Tho Jersey City Telegraph says that about
2500 cans of milk, containing 40 quart each,
or in the aggregate 100,000 quarts, are' bro't
to that city every day, of which the New Jer
sey company brings from Essex, Union, Mid
dlesex and Somerset counties about CC0 can.
The freight on all Is about $700, and. the
ceipts at 6 cente per quart, la $6000.
PRAISE YOUR WIFE.
Praise your wile, man ; for pity's sake, give
her a little encouragement ; it wont hurt her.
She has made your homo comfortable, your
hearth bright and shining, your food agreea
ble. For pity's sake, tell her you tharik her,
if nothing more. She don't expect it; it will
make her eyes open wider than they have for
these ten years ; but it will do her good for all
that, and yon too.
There arc many women to-day thirsting for
the word of praise, the language of encourage
ment. Through summer's heat and winter's
toil they have drudged uncomplainingly ; and
so accustomed have their fathers, brothers and
husbands become to their monotonous labors,
that they look' for and upon them as they do
upon the daily -rising of the sun, and its daily
going down. Homely every-day life may be
made beautiful by an appreciation of its very
homeliness. You know that if the floor is
clean, manual labor has been performed to
make it so. You know that if you can take
from your drawer a white shirt whenever you
want it, somebody's fingers have ached in the
task of making it so fresh and agreeable, so
smooth and lustrous. Everything that pleases
tho eye and the sense has been produced by
constant work, much thought, great care and
untiring efforts, bodily and mentally.
It is not that many men do not appreciate
these things, and feel a glow of gratitude for
the numberless attentions bestowed upon them
in sickness and in health ; but they are so self
ish in that feeling. They don't come out w ith
a hearty "Why, how pleasant you make things
look, wife ;" or, "I am obliged to you for ta
king so much pains." They thank the tailor
for giving them "fits ;" they thank the man in
the full omnibus who gives them a seat ; they
thank the young lady who moves along in the
concert room ; in short, they thank everybody
and everything out of doors because it is the
custom ; and they come home, tip their chairs
back and their heels up, pull out the newspa
per, grumble if wife asks them to take the ba
by, scold if the fire has got down ; or, if ev
erything is just right, shut their mouths with
a smack of satisfaction, but never say to her,
"I thank you."
I tell you what, men, young and old, if you
did but show an ordinary civility toward those
common articles of housekeeping, your wives ;
if you gave the one hundred and sixtieth part
of the compliments you almost choked them
with before they were married ; if you would
stop your badinage about who you are going
to have when number one is dead, (such things
wives may laugh at, but they sink deep, some
limes ;) if you would cease to speak of her
faults, however banteringly, before others, few
er women would seek for other sources of hap
piness than your cold, so-so-ish affection
Praise your wife, then, for all the good quali
ties she has, and you may rest assured that
her deficiencies are fully counterbalanced by
your own.
A "TAIL" OF A "SSAIK."
"Animals," says the lawyer, "sometimes
very nearly approach reason in their cunning
"I got interested In the study of serpents
down in Arkansas, where I spent most of last
year. I don't know why, but I was constantly
watching them and testing their sagacity, by
placing them in a new situation, and surroun
ding them with novel experiments. Of all
kinds, I experimented most with rattlesnakes
and copperheads. -
"One afternoon I seated myself on a little
knoll in the woods to smoke and read for I
always had a book or a newspaper with me,
and had been enjoying myself for some time
when I espied a copperhead making for a hole
within ten feet of where I sat. Of course I
threw down my book and cigar, and proceeded
to try a new experiment. As soon as I stir
red the. rascal made a rush for the hole; but
I caught the tail as he got nearly in, and jerk
ed him some twenty feet backward. He threw
bfmself into a coil in no time, and waited for
me to pitch in. But I concluded not to let
hira try his hole again. '
"After a while he - started for it, stopping
when I stirred to coil himself up ; but as I
kept pretty quiet, he recovered confidence
and again went in. Again I jerked him out
No sooner did he hit the ground than he made
a grand rush for the holo in a straight line for
my legs ! But that didn't work, for I got out
of the way, and gave him another flirt.
"This time he lay still awhile, appearing to
reflect on the course to be taken. Altera
time he tried it again, though rather slowly.
After getting his head a little way in, he stop
ped and wriggled bis tail, as if on purpose for
me to grab it.' I did so ; and quicker ; than a
flash he drew his bead oat, and came within
a quarter . of an inch of striking me in the
face. However, I jerked him qujte a distance,
and resolved to look out the next time Well,
he tried the same game again, but it wouldn't
workr-I was too quick for him. - . .
"This time he lay in a coil half an hour,
without Stirring. At last, however, he tried
It once more. He advanced to within five feet
of the. hole very alowly, coiled again, and then,
by heavens ! got the start of me by one of the
cutest tricks you ever heard of .'f , : . ;
' ;How was Ul" we all exclaimed, in one
breath... . : - fv- .v.- ?.
"Why," aaid the aarrator, linking his voice
to the acm oi oleinaity and looking as hon
est and as a man could look, "tchy he just tur
ned his head towards tny hand, and trad doicn
that hole tail first .'"
Facts for tue Curious. Thomas Jefferson
and John Adams both died on the 4th of July,
182C. John Adams died in his 91st year, and
was eight years older than Thomas Jefferson ;
Thomas Jefferson was eight years older than
James Madison ; James Madison was eight
years older than James Monroe ; James Mon
roe was eight years older than John Q. Ad
ams. The hrst nre or our 1'residents all rev
olutionary men ended the ;erms of their ser
vice in the 60th year of their age. Washing
ton born Feb. 22d 1732, inaugurated 17S3,
term of service expired in the 6Cth year of
his ngc ; John Adams born Oct. 19th 1735, in
augurated 1797, term of service expired in the
6Gth year of his age ; Thomas Jefferson born
April 21st 1743, inaugurated 1801. term of ser
vice expired in the CCth year of his age ;
James Madison, born March 4th 1751, inaugu
rated 1S09, term of service expired in the CCth
year of his age ; James Monroe, born April 2d
1759, inangu.ated 1817, term of service ex
pired in the CCth year of his age.
Making axd Savisg Mancres. In a re
cent meeting of the Legislative Agricultural
Club of Connecticut, this subject was under
discussion, and there was a rcry unanimous
concurrence in the opinion, that the value of
barn-yard manure is much increased by keep
ing it under cover. Barnyards washed by ev
ery rain, and manuro heaps subject to the rain
and to the sunshine lose vast amounts of their
valuable constituents. One of the speakers
stated that he had raa.de fifty to seventy loads
of manure from two hogs, lie uses anything
that can grow in one season mullens, brush,
alders, etc. All such material will rot in a
hog-pen ; makes more manure in his hog-pen
than in the yard, and keeps his yard manure
as much under cover as possible.
Free Love-ism m Ohio. Free love-ism has
broken out in Ohio. At a recent convention
in Ravenna, Mrs. Lewis said, "although she
had one husband in Cleveland, she considered
herself married to the whole human race.
All men were her husbands, and she had an
undying love for them." She said also, "what
business is it to the world whether one man is
the father of my children or ten men are t I
have the right to say who shall be the father
of my offspring." The universal affection
creed is crossed with spiritualism and a very
strong trace of religious infidelity. Whether
the three will become incorporated into a new
religion is yet a subject of doubt, though there
are strong leanings that way.
MrsTiRiocs Disease. The National Ho
tel disease" has suddenly made its appearance
in the capital of Kussia. After a dinner which
took place at a large educational establish
ment in St. Petersburg for.the daughters of
the nobility, under the patronage of the Em
press, a number of young persons who were
present on the occasion were taken suddenly
ill. Fivo of them died within twenty-four
hours, and -the sixth was in the greatest dan
ger. The Emperor visited the establishment,
and ordered a most searching investigation "to
be instituted, but nothing has yet been discov
ered to throw light on the subject.
A Safe Man to Ixsfhe. By a steamboat
explosion on a Western river, a passenger was
thrown unhurt into the water, and at once
struck out lnstily for the shore, blowing like a
porpcise ail the while. Ho reached the bank
almost exhausted, and was caught by a by
stander and drawn out panting. . "Well, old
fellow," said his friend, "had a hard time,
eh V "Yc-yes, pre-pretty hard, considering
Wasn't doin' it for myself, though ; was a
workin' for one o' them insurance offices in
New York. Got a policy on my life, and I
wanted to save them. I didn't care,"
Judge Wilmot's letter in favor of true A
merican principles, says the Reading Journal,
has completely knocked the breath out of the
"side-door" operators. Their occupation is
gone. The rank and file are ercry where flock
ing to- the Union standard. Sanderson & Co.
find themselres in the position of leaders with
out a party. They had better come out as flat
footed Locofocos, and be done with it. The
farce is as good as played out.
In five years from the present date Russia
will have attained the ago of one thousand
years, an event to be celebrated by the erec
tion of a monument, for which a subscription
has been set on foot. The monument is to be
built in the city of Novogorod, the capital of
the first ruler of the empire, and voluntary con
tributions in aid of its erection will be received
by government officials throughout the empire
until 1862.
Chief Justice Carter, of Evansvillc, Ind.,
and two constables of that city, aro now in jail
there, having been sentenced to thirty days'
confinement for a petty offcnce.and the Journal
states that one of the constables of tho city
is in jail, that two others ran away in the night
and have not yet returned, and that an ex-Justice
swindled a number of his "neighbors aud
decamped.
JjyTbere Is a man in Connecticut so much
opposed to capital punishment that he refused
to bang his gate.
WHAT MEN DRIN K.
A story has been going the rounds of the
papers for several weeks, the gist of which Is
contained in the following paragraph :
"In tho manufacture of brandy from raw
spirits, a certain artich called "essence of
brandy," is sometimes used, which, In its pro
perties is nearly allied to prusslc acid, and a
drop or two will produce instant death. At
Toronto, Canada, a manufacturer of brandy,
named Morris, applied his tongue to s prepara
tion of this essence with a view probably to
ascertain its strength,- and in less than sixty
seconds was a corpse."
From the various commentaries which have
been made in relation to this fatal experiment
of touching one's tongue to the "essence of
brandy," it would seem that many of our edi
torial brethren have an extremely vague and
indefinite idea of the natnre of this strange
and potent "essence." We propose to en
lighten them, to the end that they and their
readers will have a good reason to adopt the
"taste not" adage in relation to this and alt
similar essences.
The true essenco of all the alcoholic or in
toxicating liquors in the world Is alcohol it
self. "Raw spirit" is simply alcohol, diluted
with water. Every other alcoholic beverage,
whether known as "spirituous or malt liquors,
wine," &c, is nothing more or less than alco
hol and water, commonly knowp as "raw whis
key" and certain extraneous admixtures,
alias poisons. With this raw whiskey and the
appropriate compound or essence, all kinds of
liquors, rum, brandy, wine, gin, ale, beer, etc.,
in all their variety, can be made to order on
very short notice, and of any required degree
of flavor, pungency, or intoxicating potency.
The manufacture of these compounds has be
come quite an important business, and some
of our chemists and druggists make their man
ufacture and sale a speciality.
The adulteration of alcohol, or the manufac
tured fictitious liqnors, is as profitable to tho
producer as it is killing to the consumer. For
example, ten cents' worth of arsenic or corro
stive sublimate, added to a barrel of rum, bran
dy, gin, or whiskey, will double its commer
cial Value, thatf is, it will enable the dealer to
add to it a barrel of water, and still have the
same potency to effect, or disturb, or stimu
late the system as an ordinary glass, or drink,
or dose.
But if the well-skilled manufacturer wishes
to augment the power of his liquor to act on
the brain and nervous system rather than on
the digestive and circulating system, that is,
to intoxicate and stupefy rather than excite or
irritate, he has only to change the leading drug
ot his "essence" from a caustic to a uarcotio.
Instead of arsenic, cayenne, corrosive subli
mate, phosphorus, etc., he will use prussic
acid, strychnine, henbane, belladona, etc.
A dollar's worth of either of these drugs
will increase the potency of a whole barrel of
alcohol, in whatever form or disguise.it may
appear as a baveragc, one hundred per cent.
Hence, if a barrel of brandy, without es
sence," will amount, when retailed by the
drink, to one hundred and twenty dollars and
ninety-six ceufs, (we aiiow half a (eiii lor a
drink, price six cents,) one dollar invested in
prussic acid or strychnine will enable the same
barrel to bear an equal amount of water, while
each drink will "make drunk come," equal to
the genuine article, and if the flavoring and
pungency is carefully managed with extract of
logwood, burnt sugar, sulphuric acid, vitriol,
sugar of lead, grains of paradise, cocculus in
dicus, bops, alum, horse-radish, "botanical"
juniper, lime, chamber lye, etc., the "most
fastidious taste" will not be offended, and the
"connoisseur" will find his cultivated appe
tency and 'sensuality fully satisfied, while the
dealer gets for his barrel of brandy two hundred
and forty-one dollars and ninety-twe ceuts.
The paragraph above quoted represents tho
"essence of brandy" which killed the Toronto
manufacturer, to be in its properties, "very ,
nearly allied to prussic uciJ. It is indeed to.
It is as nearly allied to prussic acid as prussia
acid is to itself. The same experiment baa
been tried many timer before, and with exact
ly the same result. Many chemists, physi
cians and apothecaries have accidently tasted
the contents of a bottle containing prussic.
acid, and "in le.s than sixty seconds wete
corpses." Life Illustrated.
In the Bull-fighting days, a blacksmith who
was rearing a bull-pup, induced his father to
go on all-fours and imitate the bull. The ca
nine pupil pinned the old man by the nose.
The son, disregarding the paternal roaring, ex- .
cUimcd, "hold him, Growler, boy, held him !
Bear it, daddy, bear it ! It will be the making
of the pup!" . ,
JX7""Do you sell pies T" asked a green look
ing fellow, as he lounged into a confectioner's
in Wellington street. "Pies sir?" replied
the gentlemanly proprietor. "Yes sir; a'l
sorts ; what kind of pie will you Lave, sir t"
"Well, I think I'll take a mag pie. .; ; .
An Irishman remarked to his companion, o
observing a lady pass, "Pat, did yoa ever see
so thin a woman as that before r" Thin,'
replied the other, "botberashen, I seen a wo
man as tbin aa two of her put together, I have."
There aro now sevea murderers in the Pitta-
burgbjail. .
PresidentBuchanan is now atBedfora.pnsge