JCFFERSOYIAN
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THE WHOLE ART OF GOVERNMENT CONSISTS IN THE ART OF BEING HONEST. JEFFERSON.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1853.
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No 15.
VOL. 13.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
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From tlic Saturday Evening Post,
Reminiscences of England.
English Farm Laborers and tJicir IVascs.
-Factory Operatives-How they Live !
Intemperance Src
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My plcasantest reminiscences of Eng-
land point invariably to the rural districts;
vet they are not unmixed with pain.
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Precisely where I saw the greatest evi-
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dence of successful agriculture ; where
the land appeared a Paradise of beauty,
thcrelheard the most frequent complaints
from the laboring classes. I am well a-
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ware that one must take, with some cau-
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tion, the expression of an individual as
an indication of the average comfort of
his class, or even of the actual condition
of his informant. lie may justly query,
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whether complaints from such quarters
may not arise from that disposition in hu-
man nature to think the present lot the
worst possible. Yet, when I found the
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rate of wages to harmonize so well with
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their cry of "hard times I thought that
their dissatisfaction had another origin
than in a fault-findinir disposition. Let
mc mention the rate of wages in Yfar
wickshire, the best cultivated country
which I visited. Men at work, from
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morning till night, said they received lOd
orlSd. Women, who worked as long and is possible that the rate of wages, and
as hard, according to universal custom, " the greater heaviness of the crops, may
t t ip m . t lead to the continuation of old customs,
received half price. J.eainters, who rose ., , , , e , rm
r ' quite as much a dread of change, lucre
with thc Sun in Summer and long before wa3 0RC peculiarity in reference to the
him iu Winter, and who never found their harvest field, that was novel and pleasant
beds till after sunset, received 10 shillings the gleaning. All that is left behind,
per week. Lads of 12 and 14, who should after the binder has done his work, be-
, , , , , , . longs to the poor of the parish, and in ev-
have been at school, were breaking stones cryVccenflj shocked eld you see
for the road, at sixpence a day. At these uomen aud children, scattered here and
rates, too, they find their morning, their there, gathering the ungathered stalks,
mid-day and their evening meal. In the and preserving them in little bundles for
same neighborhood, chatting with the the winter. I was told that not unfre-
, . , , T i i quently a fortunate individual succeeded,
keeper of a toll-gate and his wife, I bad ? th(J course of thg harves Jn obtainin
the curiosity to make some inquiry into heat enough in this way to last through
their well-being. They considered them- thc year. The sheaves standing much
selves rather a fortunate pair bv their own more thickly over thc fields than you find
. lM1 , .. , i them on thc farms near Philadelphia,
and their children s exertions, they coula . . , , T , '
; speak the same language that 1 heard
make twelve or thirteen shillings weekly. from tbe workmeil that tbeir cr0pS are
They pitied their neighbors, who, with heavier than with us. Forty or fifty
larger families, could only make nine shil- bushels of wheat per acre was considered
lings per week, and many, they said, had so they said no extraordinary yield ;
, . x .L, T . , if my recollection serves me, half of the
to be content with seven. 1 am at a loss , . , J , , , ,. r ' -r,
latter number would satisfy some Penn-
toknow how they succeed in appearing SyiVamans who call themselves good farm
so comfortable, on so little money. Their ers upon good farms,
cottages are almost uniformly neat, envel-' To pass from the country and the con
oped generallyin a profusion of vines and of f,he agricultural popolation, let
, , , , , , ,tJl1 us enter the manufacturing towns, and
rose bushes, and surrounded by little see if anything of interest can be found
patches, of perhaps half an acre, on which there. England is becoming far more a
they raise no inconsiderable part of their making than a growing country. It is
vegetables. These cottagesrent for 5 her manufactures that make her what
pc ATf , she is; it is her manufacturing interest
or iJo per annum. Meat must be to most ,,,.. c t t
. . , , . - that she is fostering or freeing. In the
of them a luxury they do not often taste. great centre of maDUfacturing industry
They exercise an economy in clothing, y0u will see the type of life which is
that is rarely seen among Americans. England's hope and England's problem.
They have little acquaintance with, the The retrospect of visits to these hives, is
t x i ii r u- l. j v - j not, altogether, so pleasant as when I re
latest Pans fashions : the drab, corduroy ' , , ' . , , , , ., , ,
' ' j member the worse paid but better look
breeches, and the well worn, well brushed, 5ng peasantry: In Birmingham, Shef-
well kept coat, speak in unmistakeable field, Leeds and Manchester, I had the
language of "Long, long ago' After best opportunities of inspecting the work
all, they perhaps enjoy as good health, P3 fnd ware-houses, and of observing
, , , ; the habits and condition of the workmen
live as long lives, as tuose who eat roast and workwomen. In Manchester alone,
beef and plum pudding every day. My I found an approach to what I hoped to
sympathies are less interested for them see. Birmingham was the first of these
on account of what they eat, drink and towns that I visited, and going in as I
, . i n j did, late in the afternoon, and at a time
wear, than because they geem to -be de- . ' v . . , . , .
. 3 . ; when an election was being centested, the
privedofall supply of intellectual food. worsfc facQ Fag presented to me. The
Schools, for the free education of all, ore circumstances under which I entered it,
inconceivable to most of them. The nc-' made my mind receptive of the shadow,
ccssitv for them mcf. UsJf nnon ' not the sun. I had left Warwick and
a-. .u.i- j. . . m, , i
vnu aiienuon or every inquirer, xneiaa, landscapes behind, and plunged
to whom I have already referred as a suddcnly into the smoke-crowned, dust-stone-breaker,
was very ignorant. Sun- filled town. I met the hands just releas
dav Schools had eivenhim all the educated from the shops, very many standing
tion he had received, and in the branches
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upon wnicn x carccmsea mm, ne snowea , their v;sits frequenfct Tbo nexfc
that they make a very poor substitute for m0rning I visited several large establish
the common school. I did not step out mcnts, and found a better appearance
of my department to make inquiries into
his theological attainments.
Mjlnquiries respecting the condition
of the agricultural classes vwere not con-j
fined to the laborers ; I conversed -with
some of the renters, and found similar
complaints coming from them. Here,
fUov wnre directed against burthen3ome
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taxes and removed protection. I found
most of them axious for the ministerial
candidates in the then pending election.
They hoped that soracthiug would be
done for their benefit, though few were
sanguine enough to expect the re-enactment
of corn-laws; indeed few seemed to
desire it, but they looked for some inde
finable good from a ministerial victory.
Those whose expectations took a definite
. form, thought that D'lsraeli's indemnity
would be a removal of some of the many
t taxes that weigh upon the agriculturists,
! from the shoulders of the renter to those
of the land owner. I thought it required
a large amount of -hope, to suppose that a
party, made up largely oflanded aristocra
; cy, would ignore its past practice to this
CXm?t' . , ,
Thet gering f the hay and gram
presented some features of novelty to me;
some marked contrasts to the methods I
had seen employed in my visits to Amer-
iban farms. Patent reapers have not yet
found their way into those parts in which
it was my fortune to spend the harvest;
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but as they are not yet very common in
Pennsylvania, this did not seem strange
to me. It seemed odd, however, to find
the sickle still holding its place, in spite
of ile cradle .an(1 ,o sec thiFJ or' fortJ
hands turned into the corn with no weap-
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on but this msigiuucant knife ; to see
them trudging home in the evening, with
no ponderous cradle on their shoulders
hut the scarce noticeable sickle in hand,
lJ earlst. "collections of country life,
bring the sickle to my mind as a rusty,
discJrded instrulnCnt, only brought into
use ju souje case 0f special difficulty, when
fingered or unfingured scythe was une-
qual to the emergency. I was not a little
surprised, therefore, when I found it still
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hold its place in a country so much older
tban Qurs Thc abseuce of innovation is
shown in other agricultural implements,
You see wagons that are themselves a
load. You see, in the hay field, the hand
rake, used as a gleaner, almost invariably:
instead of a man, a horse and horse-rake
you will see a long row of men and wo
men diligently canvassing the field. It
Kenilworth Castle, and a succession of
at doorf ffn-ops, of which the
number is legion. They looked as it
worn by those whom I saw at worlc.
! found mucn to interest me in the glass,
; bnttania and papier viacJie manufactory
iiere and tbcy mayf0rra the subject of a
future letter. At present I have only to
do with workmen, not with their work.
The wages of those employed, not only
in Birmingham, but in the other towns
n,amed, are much higher than those re
ceived for labor on the farm. An indus
trius, skilful man, earn earn in the facto
ries which I visited, four, five or even six
shillings per day; yet in many cases, I am
not sure that I might not say in a major
ity, there is much less apparent comfort
than on the part of the agricultural labor
er. The factory hand is dressed in more
modern garments, but they hang loosely,
carelessly, and often raggedly on him.
He is not so well fed as the peasant, and
his dwelling bears no comparison in point
of neatness, with tho pretty cottages that
dot the smiling country. You must ex
cuse the absence of flowers around the
houses of the poor in a city ; you may
perhaps excuse thepresence of filth, though
propriety struggles with charity in the ef
fort. How is it, that with so much grea
ter means of comfort, in almost every
particular, the inhabitant of the city is
inferior to the country man ? Why is it
that the narrow, close, uncleaned, unsew
ered streets swarm with ill-dressed, un
shaven, unwashed men, coarse, brutal
women, and ragged, squalid children, des
titute of learning, wonderfully precocious
in wickedness? Tho answer comes up
like a chorus, in which the o'ermastering
tone is, they are victims not of the facto
ry, but of the gin-shop ! It is not low
wages, hard work, and long days ; only
in pert pent up, unscavengered streets
and unventilated houses, that make the
misery you see.
You may find, with little exertion, in
all these towns, quarters where the work
people live with a tolerable degree of com
fort. You must first become a little ac
customed to the dingy appearance of a
place, over which hovers at all times a
cloud of smoke, descending without prov
ocation, and shrouding the city in ever
lasting mourning suit. You are soon con
vinced that with so gloomy an exterior,
there may be joy and gladness within.
Those who reside here, have no advan
tage over their more miserable fellow-la-borers,
save in greater self-control or less
temptation. A single incident of a visit
to the largest cutlery in Sheffield, proba
bly in thc world, contains the pith of tho
explanation. I noticed that many of the
rooms were almost vacant, long rows of
benches without workmen, forges unfired,
tools lying idle. On asking my guide for
an explanation, he said, "Oh, it is 'blue
Monday,' and we don't expect a full com-
i . f i n...- i xi
pieniem oi nanus. Vjenainiy more man
one -third of the places were vacant. He
assured me that it was no unusual num
ber, and that many were absent till the
middle of the weelj, when, having dis
posed of all they had earned the week be
fore, they were ready to replenish their
purses. This is the tax that weighs upon
thc nation. It is not sufficient that from
the hands of labor must come the shilling
or eighteen pence on every pound that
support the lords of the land in idleness
and extravagance, but they mustpay aself
imposed tax of double or triple this a
mount, to support the lords of the gin-palace.
Ah ! it is a melancholy fact that
the drinking population of the United
Kingdom, spend annually, for liquor, a
sum equal to the whole expenses of the
Government interest on the national
debt, army, navy, royalty, aristocracy,
hierarchy and all. C. G-.
Symptoms of 0Id-Ma id ism.
When a woman begins drinking her
tea without sugar that's a symytom.
When a woman begins reading stories in
bed that's a symptom. When she sighs
on hearing of a wedding that's a symp
tom. When she begins to tell how many
offers she has refused that's a symptom.
When she begins to call men deceitful
creatures and says she wouldn't have one
When she changes her shoes every time
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torn. When she must have a little dog
trotting after her, and when she says a
servant-girl has no business to have a
sweet-heart-that's a symptom.
Yhen she begins to rub her fingers o-
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ver cuairs ana taDies to see n tuey are
dusty that's a symptom. When she
goes to bed with her stockings and flan
nel night-cap on that's a symptom.
When she put3 her fingers before her
mouth when talking lest you might dis
cover her false teeth that's a symptom.
When she begins to talk about rheumatic i
pains in her elbows and knees that's a
an unfailing symptom. When she refu
ses to tell her age that's a self-evident
symptom
When she begins to talk about
the d
f a4- J ilA .
unguis ui uuluu icut, uuu niu ueuea-
)f excluding the cold air-that's a
sity of
symptom.
In short, when she becomes a lean,
crabbed, snappish, ricketty concern, dis
playing cheeks pursed up with wrinkles,
and a form as spare as a hamper, instead
of the rosy plumpness of youth, or the
mellow rotundity of matronly expansion
she may be set down as a sure speci
men of old-maidism. Brooklyn Eagle.
Mormon Marriage.
The Mormon paper, The Seer, gives
the following account of the formalities
observed when a Saint espouses supple
mentarywives, after he alreado has one
of those companions:
A.
In this Church of Latter Day Saints
every man is strictly limited to one wife,
unless the Lord, through the President
and Prophet of the Church, gives a reve
lation permitting him to take more.
Without such a revelation it would be
sinful, according to the Book of Mermon,
which this Church are reqired to obey.
Hence the Boob of Mermon is somewhat
moro strict than the Bible; for there is
nothing in the Bible that limits man kind
to one wife, but the Book of Mormon
does absolutely forbid a man to have
more than one wife, unless God shall
commend otherwise. .
No man in Utah, who already has a
wife, and who may desire to obtain
an-
other, has any right to make any propo
consulted the President over the whole , telh the flowing :-8nl story
Church, and through him obtains a reve-1 tbe odo in which Capt. Perry was swin-;
lation from God, as to whether it would , Qne of fcbe gip3iegj an oU TOmalj fantastio and tithing gesture, "If 'tis
be pleasing in His sight. If he is forbid- ( told him that a treasure of enormous not love I feel, pray what is it?" "Per
den by revelation, that the ends the mat-' value was secreted on his farm, but re- ba3 sa-ld tbe youn(r a(iyj "something
ter; if, by revelation, the privilege is gran- fused to disclose its location unless he ' ' ,,
ted, he still has no right to consult the ' 6? ve her.SOOO This sum was procured, J '
,. . , , , , , , placed in a trunk, and locked, the key n . - ,
feelings of the young lady until he has ob- cing given to c'apt perrji In tbre i The entire assets of a recent bankrupt
tained the approbation of her parents, ' days, the gipsy returned, and she and ere nine sma11 children! The creditors
provided they are living in Utah; if their Perry had an interview alone. The acted magnanimously, and let him keep
consent cannot be obtained, this also ends trunk was opened, and the bundle was them.
the matter. But if the parents or
guar-
dians freely give their consent then he
may make propositions of marriage to
the young lady ; if she refuse these prop
ositions, this also ends the matter; but if!
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she accept, a day is generally set apart
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by the parties for the marriage ceremony
to be celebrated. It is necessary to state
that, before any man takes the least step
toward getting another wife, it is his duty
to consult the feelings of the wife which
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he already has, and obtain her consent,
as recorded in the twenty-fourth para-
graph of the revelation, published in the
v
I mat
o. of The Seer.
When the day set apart for the solemn
ization of the marriage ceremony has ar -
rived, tho bridegroom and h"i3 wife, and
also the bride, together with their rela-
tives, and such other guests as may be
invited, assembly at the place which they
have appointed. The Scribe then pro-
ceeds to take the names, ages, native towns
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Counties, States and countries of thc par- whom he was deceived. The house they ( Pubhsh tbe foUowing receipt for chap
ties to be married, which he carefully en-' occupy was searched, and, tied up in(Pcd hands:
ters on record. The President, who is J hankerchiefs, rags, and in kettles, boxes, j Take three drachms of gum camphor
the Prophet, fceer ana iteveiator over tue
whole Church throughout the world and
who alone holUs tho toys ot authority in
this solemn ordinance, (as recorded in the
second and fifth paragraphs ot the iteve- jng been in bills of Baltimore' banks."
lation on Marrige,) calls upon the bride- 'be Rejmblic says that the victim to
groom and his wife, and the bride, to a- to this superstitious folly is a- man of re
rise, which they do, fronting the President, gpectable standing, and adds:
The wife stands on the left hand of her j ye still further have to regret to say
husband, while the bride stands on her that Captain Perry, on Saturday, not
left. The President, then, puts the content with the serious lesson he had re
question to the wife: "Are you wil- ceived. actually visited a professional for-
ling to give this woman to your husband
i U !.: !,.(., 1 A AA rr.iPn Cm fJrirt
to be his lawful and wedded wife for time wberc it was likely he could find his lost uniting in Paris a man named Jules Le
and for all eternity ? If you are, you will money." ' u f tho T.o.
manifest it by placing her right hand!
within the right hand your husband.";
The right hands of the bridegroom and
bnd bride, being thus joined, the wife
takes her husband by the left arm as if
in tho attitude of walking. The Presi-
dent then t)roceeds to ask the following
3 question of the man : "Bo you, brother,
(calling him by 'name,) take sister (calling
'f brid. H hr Tc) by ? handj
to receive ner unio 3'ourseii, io ue your
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lawlul and wedded wile, and you to be
her lawful and wedded husband, for time
and for all eternity, with a covenant and
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(promise, on your part, mat you win rui-
! 11 oil l,n Uttto n.l
uii uil iuv- in ii', iiiita uuu uiuuiwvj
. . . . m.trinion ; the
new ana everlasting covenant, doing this
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m tue presence ot liou, angcis, anu inese
witnesses, ofyourown free will and choice:'
The bridegroom answers, yes. ThoPres -
ident then puts the question to the bride :
" Do you, sister, (calling Iter by name,)
take brother (calling him byname,) by
the right hand, and give yourself to him,
to be his lawful and wedded wife for time
and for all eternity, with a covenant and
promise, on your part, that you will fulfill
all the laws, rites and ordinauces pertain -
ingtothis holy matrimony, in the now
and everlasting covenant, doing this m tne
presence of God, angels and these
wit-
' nnfonn y sTtT11 IVkA TTl11 H n fl fll Olf? A '
. uuooca. ui yum win
The bride answers, yes. The President
then savs. "In the name of the Lord Je
sus Christ, and by tbe authority of the
Holy Priesthood, I pronounce you legal
ly and lawfully husband and wife for time
and for all eternity ; and seal upon you
the blessings of the holy resurection, with
power to come forth in the morning of the
first resurrection, clothed with glory, im
mortality and eternallives; and I seal up-
on you the blessings of thrones, and do- j The following was picked up in tho
minions, and principalities, and powers, ' street a few days since, accompanying alit
and exaltations, together with the bles-1 bunch of gr;zziy.brown hair, which
sings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and t , , , f :tY,
say unto you be fruitful, and multiply, 1 looked as lf lfc bad bccn Pullcd 0Ut Wlth a
mm renlenish fli onrfh fl.if. t-nn mnw.nne loom corao:
you may
have joy and rejoicing in your posterity i
in the day of the Lord Jesus. All these
blessings, together with all other blessings
pertaining to the new and everlasting cov
enant, I seal upon 3'our heads, through
your faithfulness unto the end,, by the
authority of the Holy Priesthood, in tho
name of the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Ghost, Amen." The Scribe
then enters on the general record the date
and place of the mairiage, together withbut -f dot can take it to tbe divil
the names of two or three witnesses who j . , J . , ' i, A . . T
I n-iH V An A I'm nnf of nil Trr hlf K I ar.
were nresent.
Gipsy Delusions.
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gang ot cipsies recently visiteu
iounu exactly as it nau Deen pracea. no
was then required to go upon his knees,
in order that her incantations performed
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over tue trurnc ana money
misut
have
f!io!r full nffpnf:. Whiln sn nncr.icrPfl lior .
cloak fel1 vPon the tvunk but she quickly
i .1 :i. i i i,i w.
p . . V , . ' -n
mysterious proceedings being over, Per -
ry was called to examinc the trunk, and
found it all right; he relocked, and pock-
keted the l;ey. He was now told that
the coultStur n datnd fthmonc
Pa s.c , rei.Ur' an Hn?l
. xc, in the trunk were all right, she
; woujd be afc liberty to point out to him
the exact locality of the treasure on his
farm- Ihe ninth day came, but the gip-
!sy did not appear, and after
waitmsr a
day or two longer thc trunk was opened,
but the bundle iu which the $1,000 was
1 T,iaccfi. -was found to contain onlv some
. tw0 hundred coppers and a few leaves of
j tobacco. The ninsv had substituted this
The gipsy had substituted this
bundle for the one containing his money,
, Capt. Perry followed the gipsies to Wash-1
.intrton. and had several of them arrested, I
but was unable to identify the woman by i
&cj the officers found large quantities ot
gold and silver coin, amounting to S20, -
, q00. Capt. Perry could identify none of
m0ney the greater portion of it hav-
tunc-tellcr in Washington, to be informed
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Chemical anlysis has demonstrated,
in N. York, that much of the 11 fine
vinegar" whioh is sold to and used by
families in that city, abounds with poison.
The examination was induced by a pre-
vlnns nrm in London, made bv a coinmis-
' sion of eminent chemists and doctors,who
' report that out of twentyreight samples
purchased at the houses of-various re-
tauers, in amereni parts ui tu uuv
the productions ot almost every maker,
only four were free from sulphuric acid
0r oil of vitriol. Twenty-four were adul-
. ,1 HnHMntv
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terateu witn maL powenui ami wimuanu
;nnK..l nM Tn Pliilnflfilnhin. -ilso.this
iiiiutiui vu. - 1- , ,
' nnJcnnmw liouid is made, and sold in
large quantities, and doubless in all other
...b n '
cities.
i
( 'A Fraudulext Health Insurance
Association. It seems that for two
years past, an institution called the C,U.
S. Mutual Health Assoiation ofN. Y.,"
' claiming to have been incorporated with
; a cash and guaranteed capital of $20,-
000, for insuring tho health of members
! against loss by sickness or accident,those
'paying 82 per annum to have S2 per
j week in case of sickness and more in
proportion to the amount tncy pa.
Complaints were made under oath that
if Ttf 1 C ft
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public, and four of the Company have
fictitious concern to deiraud the
Anne Arundel County, Maryland, andjbrated sculptor of the Emperor Charles
while in the vicinity of Bristol Post-Of- Y' was a Sreat coxcomb- S0t pUn' .
fice, Capt. Robert Perry, a gentleman of islied one da? h a f Bolof a to
i m li j i J whom he took into his head to make love
considerable means, was swindled by one
of them out of 81,000. The gipsies then ! in a foDPlsh manncr' Se was "!
, ft .1 v.1. t j i i i ner at a ball, in the midst of which he
left the neighborhood, and removed to ' , , . ,
. ' heavy work, than flour bread. For per-
If you wish to collect together all the sons who use but little exercise also, rye
pretty girls in town, advertise a "Locture aud Indian is still more salutary, if pos
to Young Men." " sible in its effects.
j If it should happen to get hard and
Blessed is tho woman who30 husband crumbly before consumed he thinks hU
has a wooden le, as she. will have but animals will readily help him to use up
one stocking to knit.
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Och, Biddy my darlint,
Here's a lock of my hair,
An' if there's a snarl in it,
Devil a bit do I care,
Ony howl
I'm goin' off, Biddy,
To work on the track;
Ye can take it and kape it
Until I get back.
It ye like:
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A Bite. Alfonso Lombardi, a cele-
' The worthiest people are most injured
bv slanders: as we usually find it to be
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thc best fruit which thc birds have been
. PeciinS at-
i Girdled Trees. A correspondent of
' e .
the Genesee Farmer says that girdled
trees may be preserved by thc following:
"Take out a block of wood extending
abVC and belW tllC girdle' tak
from the body or limb of another tree a
....
' Wock corresponding in size and shape,
with the bark on, and adjust it in the
plaCe, and bind it there, on the principle
of engrafting." This plan, it is said, ha3
proved successful.
Cure for CnAPrED Hands. Most of
1 our juveniles during the winter season,
are troubled with chapped hands. For
the benefit of the mothers, who are oblig
ed to listen to their endless complaints,
three do, white beeswax, three do, sper
' . Qunces
maceti and two ounces olive oil put
(
j tnem togethc
r in a cup upon the stove,
where they will melt slowly and form a
white ointment in a few minutes. If the
hands be affected anoint them on going
to bed, and put on a pair of gloves. A day
or two will suffice to heal them.
A Han of no Weight.
Europeans state that there is now cx-
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baire has, by some scientific process, the
secret of which is not disclosed succeeded
jn depriving his body of its tendency to
Uat fining the power of recalling
f ' m c
" at will. He is, consequently, cnanica
j to perform the most marvelous feats.
T-Jo walks, or rather glides, with naked
feetj aong the edge of a gigantic razor
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4l, elrin I -I a
can
balance himself on his head on the point
of the sharpest sword, and will stand on
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a aencate neeaie, piacea pomi. upwaras,
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wiinoub even uuiiuiiiir it, xiis iut ioii
w" . . ,
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.Tnomnhe. and remainiusr susDendcd m
, Triomphe, and remainiug suspended in
the air for half an hour. All the scien
tific men in Paris are in a state of the
highest excitement, and it is said that
immense sums havo been offered to him
to disclose his secret. This is certainly
wonderful if true.
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j Rye and Indian McaL
A correspondent of the Germantown
reCommends. Rve and Indian
o r
bread in preference to wheat flour, and
savs: " It is very nutritious and will
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sustain a laboring man longer and in
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the refuse of his loaves.