The Greensboro patriot [September 26, 1877]

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A Narrow Escape.
An Editor Pititi a •' Cave," and
(rVfx Some Experience in Mining.
Tin- Virginia (Nev.) Territorial
Enterprite cays : Below t,,e crop
plugs ol the Gould and Curry mine
is lo lie seen a large cavity, or sink,
which murks the spot ondi r which
■ great cave occurred during the
superiutendency ofObarlej i; ner.
•JS Happening to pasa over th< ground,
we were strongly reminded of a
rather perilous trip which are made
into the underground regions ol
this mine at the lime the cave oc-curred.
Luckily ample warning had been
given by tin- settling of the ground
within the mine and the snapping
and splintering of timber, therefore
no lives were lost in the cave.—
News ol the grand crash in the
mine spread rapidly through the
i town, and all who beard of the ac
Icidentgave a sigh of relief when
told that all the miners escaped mi
injured. The lull extent of the
cave anil the damage dine thereby
in the interior ol the mine was not
known lor some time, hut from the
cavity formed on the surface was
judged to be very great. Being
desirous of obtaining, if possible,
! lull particulars m regard to the
condition of the underground sec-tions
ol the mine, we called upon
Mr. Bonner and made known our
wishes.
" I have not been in the mine for
I three or lour hours, and therefore
am unable to give you an exact ac-count
of the present condition of
the caved portions. However, if
you will venture with me," said
Mr. lionner, " we will go in as far
as possible ai.d see how things
look."
Having agreed to Mr. Bonnet's
proposition, two lauterns were pro-cured,
and we soon fouud ourselves
on the level where the greatest
damage had been done. The min-ers
had all left (hat part of the
mine. Nowhere was to be seen the
friendly twinkle of either lamp or
candle: all was dark as the eaves
of the Cimmerii, save where the
light of oni lanterns fell upon the
walls of the tunnel along which we
were advancing, or where the rays
streamed far ahead and reflected
back by points of polished pyritl
or bright quart/, crystals.
At first, too, all was sil it aa the
tomb, but as we moved forward the
sharp suap ol a falling timber or
the dull boom of a heavy tall ot
earth reached our ears. These
sounds constantly grew more dis-tinct.
Soon was heard a sort ol
runuing fire of Bbarp little snaps
from the bent and splintering tiui
bers, with ever and soou a startling
musket-like report, as some large
limber broke iu twaiu or was rent
asunder.
We were now fast Hearing the
sci ne of the cave. As yet the
ground about us was sound ami
all the timbeia stood intact in tbeil
places. Our advance was BlowIj
and cautiously made. At times
some unusual commotion caused us
to halt and listen hall a mitiuir-,
»ith bodies inclined forward and
eyes strained to penetrate beyond
the light thrown out by our lanterns.
Pew words passed between us.—
- Wait a bit," or " Now let us move
mi."' Irom Mr. Bonner, was about
all that was said.
Presently we came to a drift lead
iug Irom the tunnel we had been
traversing. The snapping and
grinding sounds were now more
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Bouuer, leading the way into the •
drift.
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We had not proceeded far before
we came to where the timbers of
the drift were badly bent and dis-placed.
We wen- in a spot where
[] the ground was settling. A kind
-_! of ticking noise came from the lag
ging overhead and along the sides
of the drift, and dirt sifted down
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Soon wo reached a place where
the posts on the sides ol the dull
were bent like bows. The backs
of these bows projected into the
drift, and were full of splinters,
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ped out—before our eyes. Shortly
we came upon two posts bent out
.1 from opposite sides of the drift till
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their backs wero not more than a
foot apart.
" This looks bad," said Homier.
" Very. Let us go back," said
we.
" It caunot be far to the edge
of the cave. We want to see that.
Suppose we venture 1 Timbers arc
still strong when they snap."
•Then move on," said we, bul
our legs wanted to go the other
way.
Iu passiug between the two benI
posts it wad necessary to turn oui
bodies edgewise. All about us thi
timbers were working and groan
ing, but sti'l stood some distance
apart. At the end of the drilt we
came into a large open space—what
seemed a long and broad chamber
—and turning westward across this
we v. ere soon as near the edge ol
the cave as it was thought sale to
venture.
Holding our lanterns above our
heads, we saw before us a black
and yawning pit or chasm. The
light of the lanterns tailed to show
US either the top or bottom of the
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G oils. further side. It seemed to have
neither top nor bottom—seenied but
a shapeless, boundless region ot
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itoeau ""o this frightful pit there fell
ENTIRELY NEWatoek ever> half minute, Irom somewhere
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masses of earth and rocks. At
times, judging iium the thunderous
sounds, buudreds of tons at or.ee
tumbled from the roof and the Bides
ot the chasm. Smaller masses were
almost constantly dropping in some
direction, while the splintering,
snapping and groaning of timbers
in all directions was something! A Boy's
frightful.
Suddenly, as we stood quaking
iu the midst of the tremendous
commotion, a great mass of rock
and earth fell from some place high
up on the wall of our side of the
shoreless sea ot darkness, almost
grazing the brink of the chasm
before us. With the fall of the
mass came a rush of wind that
nearly extinguished the candles in
our lauterns. Elevating his light
and gazing upward, Mr. Bonner
cried : " Fall back '. fall back ! the
roof is giving way !"
Almost as he spoke a mass of
several tons fell from the roof ot
our chamber not ten feet in front
of us, and iu falling took a large
bile out of the edge of our floor.
"Quick, quick! This way! We
must get out of this !" cried Bon-ner.
We ran back to the drift by
which we had entered. The two
posts between which we had squeez-ed
had closed together.
•• Back, back P cried Bonner.—
'• This way ? I know a drift.—
Quick, we may reach it !"
Back along the drilt we darted
amid sounds never to he forgotten
and such as have seldom stuuned
mortal ears. All 'about us was in
motion—all rapidly siukiug.
Bonner led the way across the
chamber we had left a few moments
before. In a corner on the east
side, the light of his lantern showed
the mouth of a drift, toward which
he was hastening. Hardly was
there time to observe this before he
held up his lantern, crying: " Back,
back !" and with a rumbling crash
the mouth of the drilt closed and
the ground before and about it be-gan
to disappear.
" Quick !" cried Bonner, grasp-ing
our arm and hurrying us along.
" To the drift again, it is our only
. b ince!"
Into the drift we once more dart-ed.
Squeezing our way between
the cracking posts, we reached the
plai a where we had before beeu
Btopped. Though crushed together
in the niddle, there was still a
small open space between the posts
at the bottom.
Throwing himself flat on the lloor
ol the drift, Bonner pushed his
lantern through the opening, then
by mighty effort struggled
through alter it. Be seemed an
hour in passing, though he proba-bly
wriggled through iu less than
ten seconds. Our fear that he
would stick fast was agonizing.
"Quick! Give me your hands!
Leave your lantern !" shouted Bon-ner
th? moment he was through.
Instantly we were down and had
both hands through the opening.—
In about two seconds we were
hauled through as a hunter pulls a
squirrel ont ol its skin. A short
dash look us to the main tunnel,
and as we gained it Bouuer fervent-ly
exclaimed : " Sale at last, thank
God !"
We were about to make similar
utterance, when Bonner thrust his
lantern into the mouth ol the drift,
crying: "Look, look! There she
go) s !" and as he spoke, down went
the .shattered portion of the drift,
breaking away to within fifteen feet
of where we weie standing.
'■ Let us go," said we; the whole
moil!!!,sin is falling ! '
•• All is sound lieie," said Bonnet;
"yet I il lii'l cue co lemain longer.
Had ! known what we were getting
mto I should never have passed
through this crumbling drilt. How-ever.
" All is well that ends well,''
and you have seen and heard what
you will probably neither see nor
hear again, should you remain in
the miucs all your life."
It was rather a lively bit of un-derground
experience.
Composition
bies.
History of Alcohol.
Alcohol was invented 060 years
ago by the son of a Strange woman,
llagar, in Arabia. Ladies used it
with a powder to paint themselves
that they might appear more beau-tiful,
and this powder was called
alcohol. During the reign of Wil-liam
and Mary, an act was passed
encouraging the manufacture of
spiiiis. Soon alter intemperance
and profligacy prevailed to such an
extent that the retailers in intoxica-ting
drinks put up signs in public
places informing the people that
they might get drunk for a penny,
and have some straw io get sober
on. In the sixteenth century dis
tided spirits spread over the conti-nent
ol Europe. About this time
it was in'roduced into the colonies,
as the United States were then call-ed.
The liisl notice we have oi its
us- in ! iblio life, was among tne
laborers of the iluogariau mines
ol ibe fifteenth century. In 1751,
it waa used by the English solders
as a cordial. The. alcohol in Europe
v i made of grapes, and sold in
l; and Spain as a medicine.—
Genoese afterwards made it m
grr<n, and sold it as medicine, iu
bottles, under the name ol water of
Id... LTutil the sixteenth century
it had only been kept by the A
pothecaries as medicine. During
the reign of Henry VII. brandy
was unknown in Ireland, and soou
its alarming effect induced the gov-ernment
to pass a law prohibiting
its manufacture. About 130 years
ago it was used as a beverage, es-pecially
among a great number of
the soldiers in the English colonies
in North America, under the pre-posterous
notion that it prevented
sickness, aud made men fearless on
the field of battle. It was looked
upon as a sovereign specific. Such
is a brief sketch ol the introduction
of alcohol into society as a bever-age.
The history of it is written
in the wretchedness, the tears, the
groans, poverty and murder of
thousands. It has marched the
laud with the tread ot agiaut, leav-ing
the impress of its footsteps iu
the bones, sinews, and life's blood
of the people.—PkiUuhljikia Gazette.
There are four or five diflerent
kinds of babies. There is the big
baby, the white baby and the poo
die dog, and there is the baby ele-phant.
Most of these babies were born
in a boarding house, 'cept the baby
elephant; I think he was born on a
railroad train, 'cause he allus carries
ins trunk with him.
A white baby is a pootier nor a
elephant baby, but he can't eat so
much hay.
All the babies what I have ever
seen were born very young,|'special
ly the gal babies, and they- can't
none of them talk the United States
language.
My father had—I mean ray moth
er had a baby once. It was not an
elephant baby, it coined one day
when there was nobody at home ;
it was a funny looking fellow, just
like a lobster.
I asked my father was it a boy
or a girl, aud he say he don't know
whether he was a father or mother.
This little baby has got two legs,
just like a monkey.
His name is Marian.
He don't look like my father nor
my mother, but he looks just like
my Uncle Tom 'cause the little ba-by
aiu't got no hair ou his iiead.
One day I asked my Uncle Tom
what was the reason he ain't got no
hair ami the little baby aiu't got no
hair. He says he don't know,
'cept that the little baby was born
so, and he was a married man.
One day I pulled a feather out of
the old rooster's tail and I stuck it
up the baby's nose and it tickled
him so he almost died. It was on-ly
a little bit of a feather, and I
dou't see what he wanted to make
such a fuss aboui it for. My moth-er
said I ought'er be ashamed of
myself aud I didn't git no bread on
my butter for mor'n a week.
I think I'd rather be a girl not a
boy, 'cause when a girl gets a whip-ping
she gits it ou her lingers, but
when a boy gets a licking he gets
it all over.
I don't like babies very much
anyhow, 'cause they make so ranch
noise. I never knew but one quiet
baby and ho died.
Some Burlington Poetry.
CANTO pantos.
This stauza is expressive of the
author's Intense Amazement:
Blcaa me, how the years are diitinc—
\ Thirty-three!
Land alive, how old I'm gitting—
Thirty-three!
Fleeting years! What they hnu taught
me,
Far ootw-eighta what they have brought
me,
And at last they've come and caught ma
Thirty-three.
CiSTO SKCUNDU3.
This stanza indicates a Coutented
Spirit, a serene, placid Christian
resignation and acceptance of what
he cau't help:
Good enough ; I'd rather far he
Thirty-three,
Than stay in my twenties arhi-
Trarilee ;
It, in weakness, I'd bo longing
For the days whoso jojo come thronging
In my dreams, I should be wronging
Thirty-three.
CANTON TKRTICS.
In which he grows just a little
bit sentimental aud reminiscent:
Oh, the bright years of my golden
Summer time;
Tender love dreams t of the olden
Loving time,
Dreaming cau not make them clearer,
Wishing ran not bring them nearer,
Words can never make ibuiu dearer ;
Nary time.
CANTO o,UARTC8.
Ut is brought back to the present
by a man who,with imploring looks,
hands him a bill, eight months old,
and in affecting pantomime inti-mates
that his wife and children
must starve if those clothes are not
paid for :
Here's a fellow with a dirty
Bill I see:
And I feel like ten times thirty
Tl.ii-tbil-threi',!
Pleaanre is a lieeting babble,
A:..l 1 carry two ineu'a trouble
And no wonder—I'm a double,
Double a !
How Noah Got His Name.
After the aik had been out about
two weeks the wife of the captaiu
began to get tired and restless and
anxious to be ouce more ou dry
land Hence she fell into a habit
ot eveiy now and then calling out
to her husband and inquiring if
there were siuy signs of clearing up,
etc., and as he always answered
••No," she would iu despair add
"Ah !" aud so il went from hour to
hour aud day io day.
One night the wind came out
from the northeast and made things
very lively on board. The jib clew
lines were all parted; the topsail
binnacle was carried away and the
main sheet blowu into pieces no
larger than live cent haukerc'jiefs.
Of course the "old inau" was kept
busy aud was not iu the best of
humor, lie had just hailed the
lookout and asked it he has seen
auythiog of "Ay rat," and received
in answer "Nay rat, sir!"—had just
ordered Sliem, who was steering, lo
"keep her off two points,'' when
Ham came ou board and reported
that the largest elephant had brok-en
loose, and iusisted on takiug his
trunk iuto the camel's depaitmeut,
who iu turn had got their backs up
about the interview. The various
beasts had taken sides in the quar-rel,
and there was a grand row gen
ensily. Just as the captain had
persuaded the elephant to go back
to his own room, aud had checked
his trunk in order to pacily him,
there came a voice, "Any signs of
its clearing up, dear?" It was
raining theu literally in sheets. To
the inquiry was given the usual
reply, and to the reply was add the
usual "Ah," ouly iu a sadder tone
teau usual.
It was a little more than the old
mau could staud, and he yellowed
out " 'No,' 'Ah,' 'No.' 'Ah!' it is
nothing but 'No,' 'Ah !' all day long.
You had better call me 'Noah,' aud
be doue with it!" and he went be-low
to splice the main brace, which
had parted. And so it was that the
captain of that first great ship came
to be called "Noah."
The study of the origin ot names
is one great interest, and it. is rath-er
remarkable that so little atten-tion
has beeu paid to it. Almost
any name cau be traced to its prob-able
origin. Thus "Smashpiper,"
the smasher of piper, or '■Tugmut-ton,"
he w ho was celebrated as a
tugger ol mutton. Why not ap-poiut
a committee to ascertain the
origin of all names I it would be
as useful as many other researches.
—Max Adeler.
CANTO IIVKTfS.
He runs out of Latin. Ami also
out of •' poetry :"
Well, old Time has been inosl graci -
Unto me,
Aud he's blessed my contumacious
Thirty-three,
With Ibe brightest fortune, maybe,
Ever came to the lord or lady :
NVith a million dollar baby,
Ho, ho, b- !j
It is very well to laugh tit a wo-man's
tantrums when a mouse
makes its appearance near her
skirts, but a little merriment should
be reserved for the man who plays
circus while a June bug is walking
up the inside of his clothing with
the slow steps of a day laborer.
" My son," said a mother to a
little boy four years old. " whom
above others will you wish to see
when you pass inlo the spirit
world I" " Goliab P shouted the
child, with joyous anticipation, "un-less,"'
he quickly added, " there's a
bigger lellow there."
Even if a boy is always whistling |
'• I want to be an angel," it is just j
as well to keep the preserved pears
on the top shelf of the pantry.
An old gentleman who is getting
" thin at the top" says, " Always
pick out a bald-headed barber to
shave you because he cau't consist-ently
ask you to buy any hair re-storative."
"This has no reference i. the fire-twen-ties.
Ho was never iu them, and if he
ever got in them, all the Federal bayonet.-
in America couldn't, lisli him o:it of them
i bey were ». II gone
(This is pure fiction. Ho wants to lei
on he had ox sweetheart! toehooae from,
when the fscr is that he waa an object of
pity, mid bin wife, who was a very eon-
Beientioua young girl, was lor a long tiun
undecided whether to „■ i aa a missionsrj
to fgobogobogo, Centra! Africa, or Dairy
bin),and she tiually closed the latter aa
the creator act of self-denial and charity.
I Ho does not stun,-, habitually, bnl
had io adopt the habit Iu this, inab noe, in
order to till out the shori
y " He, he, he!'' There is a double mean-ing
iu this line. The expression .,
is intended to represent Hysterical Laugh-ter.
It is also ihat kind of a baby.
(Iu conclusion the author desires
to express his warmest thanks to
ihe appreciative and flattering
lriends who presented him last
night with a $150 gold watch and
chain, and a purse of £.500. He re-grets
exceedingly that their ex-treme
modesty, and their oveikiud
aversion to calling him from his
bed prompted them to hang such
valuable gills on the front gate, as
some tramps, who were up and stir-ring
before the author was awake
this morning, carried them away. |
But the author thanks the kind
donors just as heartily, and will
ever prize their magnificent gift as
a meineuto of the happiest occa-sions
of bis life.)—Haickeye.
Instinct of Wild Geese.
The St. Louis Republican says:
" Dr. Laukford, who returui d a day
or two since from the South eastern
part of the State, mentions the :ol
lowing curious fact in natural his-tory,
lie gives the statement on
the authority of Mr. VV. It. Smith,
a leading tanner and miller living
near Morley, in Scott county, Mo.
About a year ago Mr. Smith cap
tureil two young wild geese and
raised them with the balance of
his domestic goslings. The wild \
ones became quite tame and took
kindly to the changes ol civilized i
life. They adopted their habits to i
the ordinary delights of the barn-yard
and swam in the pond with j
the tame geese, without showing a i
disposition to go ou a wild goose
chase. At length, about the 4th
ol Not ember, the weather began
to change, and after being domes
ticated some eight months the wild
fellows, prompted by an instinct to
seek a more sunny clime on the up
proach oi winter, spiead lln.ii
wings Is) ihe breeze and started on
a migratory tour, Hyiug Southward.
Their departure was natural and
to be expected. After an absence
ot two months, early in January,
great was Mr. Smith's surprise to
tied on getting up one morning that
the iwo wild geese hid returned to
their old haunts on his farm.—
They not ouly returned, but eleven
more wild geese with them as ri»ii
ors, which they piloted safely irom
some Southern bayou. The new
comers made themselves at home,
and were led and fondled by the
children. They come up to the mill
at feeding time to get their rations
and gabble all together and put on
all the airs of civilized geese who
have had a good moril training.
Mosquitos.
■Jometking About the Animal in A'e-rada
that Renders it Unpleaaant
Out There.
They were telling hunting stories
in a C street saloon a night or two
since, and after several persous had
given in their experience an old
chap who appeared to be a strang-
I er in towu took the floor. Said he:
••Thar is a power o game down to
Hnmboldt Sink—ducks, geese, and
sick—but in some resjiects it is on-pleasaut
down thar I got about
the wnst fooled I ever was in uiy
lile the fust time I camped down
thar. I was on a huut, end had a
little round tent that I stuck up in
the shadder of a bunch of willers.—
At night I curled up in this tent-just
room enough for me—calkerla
tin' to git up bright and airly next
morning to try my luck on the
ducks aud geese. Thar seemed to
be cousiderably many muskeeters
about, so when I got into my tent I
pinned up the slit that made the
door in sicfa away so as to keep 'em
out. Next morniu' I woke up, aud
finding it still dark took another
nap. I slept a good while, and
when 1 woke up it was still dark.
Took another nap and woke up.
Still dark. 1 thought daylight
would never come. I tried to sleep
but only dozed off a little at times.
1' seemed Ihe longest night I ever
saw. Finally, I concluded to see
what time it was, anyhow. So I
struck a match and looked at my
watch. It was 10 minutes of 1:
o'clock. This beat me. I concltid-s'cl
I'd take a lock outside an' see if
thar was enny sign of daylight
couiiu'. I unpinned my teut and
on pullin' open the door a black
mass of something that seemed
alive fell ou the ground, a bfaze of
light at the same time strikin' my
eyes and nearly hi imlin' me. Rein'
kinder frightened, I rushed out aud
thar 1 saw all over my tent, and
kiverin'of it to tho depth of 'bout
four inches, a reg'lar mass of mus
keeters. I looked at the sun add
saw that my watch was right. It
was - o'clock in the afternoon.
Gentlemen, I never was so fooled
afore ii: all my life regaulin' the
o'daj—all along o' them air nius-keeters,
and it wasn't the reg'lai
muskeeter time neither.''—Virginia
'.Vi rada Enterprise.
Commerce of The World.
Distinguished Women in Gov-ernment
Employ.
Among the distinguished women
of fallen fortunes now holding sit
nations in the departmentsatWasa-iugton
are Mrs Mary Wilcox, th"
grand daughter of President Jack-i.
and the only person living
who WP« born in the White House ;
Mrs. Charlotte L. Livingston, whose
$1)00 position was obtained by her
relative, Senator I'addock, after all
argument against her endeavoring
to support herself had failed ; Mrs.
C. E Morris, of Ibis city, giand
slaughter of Robert Morris; Miss
France exjiortf wines, brandies,
silks,fancy articles, furniture, jew-elry,
clocks, watches, paper, perfu-mery
aud faucy goods generally.
Italy exports corn, oil, flax, flour,
wines, essences, dyesrufts, drugs,
fine marble, »oap,pa"itiugs, engrav-ings,
molasses aud salt.
Prussia exports linen, woolens,
iinc, articles of iron, copper aud
brass, indigo, wax, name, musical
instruments, tobacco, wines aud
porcelain.
Germany exports wool, woolen
goods, liueus, rags, corn, timber,
iron, lead, tin, rlax, hemp, wines,
wax, tallow, cattle.
Austria exports minerals, raw and
mauufactured silk, thread, glass,
wax, tar, nntgall, wiue, houey and
mathematical instruments.
England exports cottons, woolens
glass, hardware, earthenware, cut-lery,
iron, metallic wares, salt, coal,
watches, tiu, silks and linens.
Russia exports tallow, llax, hemp,
flour, iron, bristles, fur and potash.
Spain exports wines, brandies,
iron, fresh and dried fruits, quick
silver, sulphur, salt, cork, saffron, g^I*-
anchovies, silks and woolens.
China exports tea, rhubarb,
musk, giuger, borax, ziuc, silks,
cassia, fllligree work, ivory ware,
lacquered ware and porcelain.
Turkey exports opium, silks,
drugs, gum, dried fruits, tobacco,
wines, camel's hair, carpots, shawls,
camlets aud morocco.
Hiudostau exports gold aud sil-ver,
cochineal, indigo, sarsaparilla,
vanilla, jalap, fustic, Campeachy
FARMER'S COLUMN.
Age of Vegetables.
The species of vegetables we
now cultivate have been raised and
eaten for centuries. Even before
the Christian era many of them
were iu use.
Lettuce has been used on the ta-ble
for thousands of years: Hero-dotus
tells us that it was served at
tho royal table conturies before the
Christian era, aud one of the noble
families at Rome derived its name
from this plant.
Spinach, asparagus and celery
have beeu cultivated and eaten
aaioug the eastern nations thou-sands
of years. Jesus took the
mustard seed as the exponent of a
parable.
Radishes were known and grown
by the Greeks, aud were offered at
Apollo's shrine wrought in pre-cious
metals.
Parsnips were raised and brought
from the Rhine to add to the luxu-ries
of Tiberius' table.
Beets were most esteemed, cen-turies
ago, and carrots were in such
repute in Queen Elizabeth's reign,
that the ladies of her court adorned
their huge structioos of false hair
with feathery plumes.
Peas, at Elizabeth's court, were
very rare, and were imported from
Holland at a great delicacy.
Fruits, also, were in great repute
among the ancients,
The currant was cultivated cen-turies
ago in European gardens,
and was called the Corinthian
Evelyn in his charming diary,
i speaks of his berries as Coriutue ;
I hence the name of currants.
Tin. damson plum was extensive-
| ly cultivated at Damascus, whence
the name.
The cherry came from Cosus, a
city of Poutus, ami the delicious
peach, king of truits, was liret
known in Persia.
Tin' quince was a holy fruit, ded-icated
to the goddess of love, aud
wood, pitueuto drugs and dye stuffs, was called Cydonian apple.
Brazil exports coffee, indigo, su
gar, rice, hides, dried] meat, tallow,
gold, diamonds and other stones,
gnms, mahogany and india-rubber.
The West Indies export, sugar,
molasses, rum, tobacco, cigars, ma-hogany,
dyewood, coffee, pimento,
fresh fruits aud preserves, wax
ginger and other spices.
The East Indies export cloves,
nutmegs, mace, pepper, rice, indigo
gold dust, camphor, benzine, sul-phur,
ivory, rattans, sandal, wool,
zinc, and nuts.
The United States exports prin-cipally
agricutural produce, tobac-
Pears were as ancient as apples,
ami are mentioned among the Par-aslisal
fruits.
Grapes wero known at a very re-mote
period, and are ol ten mention-eil
in the Bible.
Good Stock vs. Scrubs.
Do our stockmen aud farmers
appreciate the difference between a
good steer or cow and a poor one f
Do they know how much more a
good large draft horse biings than
a little, inferioi animal, bred from
-—- i a small worthless trotter, so called ;
co, cotton, flour provisions of all : or . „, „.,.,, ,,.,,,, nor or 8lu,e
■ Bda lint ,,,. <n ,,„.,., .,,., ,. I I " . . .. n kiusls, lumber, turpentine, agricul
tural implements, sewing machines,
cotton goods, cutlery, boilders'
hardware, funiture, locomotives,
munitions ot war, gold, silver,
quicksilver, etc,
HOUSEHOLD RECEIPS.
Itrailed Tomatoes.—Take smooth,
flat tomatoes: wipe and sot them
on a gridirou, with the stem side
down, over live coals. When this
is brown, turn them aud let cook
until quite hot through ; place them
ou a hot slish. To be dressed, when
eaten, with bntter, pepper and salt.
Green Corn Pudding.—Grate the
corn from six ears, mix with half a
more than a "prairie" rooter or a
Mexican mongrel f It they do not
just let them make inquiries of
those who raise and sell the im-proved
breeds. We know the good
stock brings 100 per sent, more
than the scrub, ami at their en-hanced
value it is more profitable
to feed or to graze than the poorer
kinds. It is a wast., of capital for
a farmer to breed anything but
go d Btcck, whatever argument
may be advanced in lavor ol the
Texan cow upon the plains. It is
aa easy to raise a 1,600 pound
at lour years old, it good bulls and
cows are Oaed to breed from, as to
i niue hundred pound Texan,
aud the pries obtained lor the full
breed one is nearly twis!it as much
Sophie Walker, who was Secretary | pint of sweet milk, one-third cup of i as the scrub letches. As to horse
of the Treasury doling the presi-1 sugar, one tablespoonfnl of flour, j it is almost impossible to sell
deiiey of James K. Polk from 1845
to 1816; Miss Dade, whose mother
was a cousin of Gen. Scott; Miss
Markoo, slaughter of Francis
sfarkoo, who for thirty years was
attached to the diplomatic corps of
the State Department ; Miss Helen
McLean Kimball, widow of Col.
Ivonball, who signally distinguish-ed
himseif iu the Mexican war:
Miss Saiiie Upton, of Brooklyn, N.
V.. danghter of the late Francis
Upton, a distinguished lawyer, anil
the author of several staudard
works ou admiralty and mariue
jurisprudence; Mrs. Cuiplin, widow
ol United States District Judge
Chaplin ; Mis. Tiffy, a cousin of the
pn sent Secretary ol the State, anil
Mrs. Grauger, the widow of the late
Gen. Gordon Grauger, the circum-stances
of whoso massacre by the
Indians with Gen. Caster are too
recent to require the story here.
A Remarkable Invention.
Another invention pertaining to
electricity, quite as woderlul as the
telephone, though, perhaps, less
calculated to attract popular notice,
has recently been secuted by patent
■"it the United States to a Swedish
inventor. The apparatus is an auto-matic
raihvav signal, which enables
the station officials to know the
uecise position oi any train at any
time ; i; gives sound signals to the
eiigit.es r. ami at the station before
the trains enters, thus enabling
ihes to be cleared and arranged
in lime 10 prevent accident. If
two trains approach each other,
whether running in tho same or
opposite directions, the engineers
• II both tiuins receive signals in
time to prevent collision, and the
Station people are at the same time
autot: itically informed ol the posi-tion
■ bo'i: trains. Any train
may, by stopping at certaiu points
of the road where "coninets," are
arranged, open telegraphic commu-nication
with the stations at both
ends ol the route, and two tr.-.ins
;: i\ in the same manner telegraph
• i each other. A complete record
is automatically kept at each sta-
Sion of the speed ol each train aud
if tin-, xaut time it enters or leaves
the s.atiou. Stop signals may be
sent at any time from the statious
two eggs beaton, one tablespoonful
ot butter, anil a little salt. Baku
till it rises up in an ovel in the mid-dle.
Scolloped Tomatoes.—Put alter
nate layers of sliced tomatoes aud
bread crumbs iuto a bread pan
Season with sliced onion, butter,
pepper and salt; and bake for one
hour.
Bcch'iiinl.—Gat half a pound ol
veal ami a slice of lean ham into
dice, and stew them in bulter with
a few green onious and some sprigs
of pu'slcv ; then add one pint of
sweet milk; one tablespoonful of
Hour, m :sls' smooth in a little cohi
milk; let the sauce simmer gently
for an hour. Strain belore it is sent
to the table, or poured over meat.
Another Wan.—Mix colsl, and
well together, in a tin eauca-pan
two ounces of butter and a table
sposinful of Hour ; then adsl a pint
of sweet milk and set on the fire :
Stir constantly, and when getting
rather thick remove from the fire:
beat the yelk of an egg in a cup
with a ti-aspoonful of water: turn
it into the sauce and mix well to-gether:
season with salt and white
pepper to taste, and it is ready for
| use.
Munich Cream Pudding.—Stir in
; one i|uart of rich milk when boil-
| ing, four ounces of corn starch dis-
1 solved iu a little cold milk ; when
a lit-tle,
trilling horse except for a cow
pony, but. the large draft horse al-ways
sells at good figures. A
Berkshire or Poland China hog
will make nearly double the pounds
gfTneat from a given amount of
foosl thai, the poor, ill bred hog will
and tin- meal is better. A Merino
ewe will produce front eight to ten
pounds ol good uieri'hantable wool ;
the Mexican and specimens brought
from Missouri and Arkansas to the
State will not show over three
pounds ol hair ami wool that sell
only for carpet wools.
Why our farmers will waste their
in.,,i.-,, feed aud graze on such
kinds sit stock is a mystery, when
'hey i:an do so much better; but
we are young and have time to im-prove,
and judging from tho num-ber
oi enterprising stock infill who
are purchasing good bulls and
rams, tho day is not far distant
whin Colorado will do far better
than she is doing now. We hope
to sec belore another year the stock
of hogs in our State quadrupled,
anil before five years enough pork
mailc in our State to supply the
home slemand.—Colorado El
Watering Stock-
We want to help tho agricultural
papers in iiiiprisslng upou farmers
the humanity, if not the necessity,
of furnishing fresh aud clear water
tor their cattle ami horses. Any-done,
stir in five well beaten eggs thing which is water is considered
with seven ounces of sugar, a little
salt, flavoring to snit the taste.
In this weather some theatrical
manager should be shrewd enough
to engage a popular star.—Philad-elphia
Press
An exchange speaks of the
" genesis ol Mai k Twain." Thought
he was booked as a levity cuss.
In the education of children
bodily health should have primary
attention. Tho tree of knowledge
should be grafted with the tree ot
life.
to
apparatus may !»■ arranged to send
atop or danger signals to trains ap-proaching
swinging bridges which
are not properly locked and fasten
ed. When this invention shall
have been generally introduced,
railroad accislents wjl! be almost
impossible.— Chicago Journal of
Commerce,
It is Bupposed that Kosciuske fell
on Freedom, or else why did Free-dom
shriek when Eosciusko fell!
The Boston policeman is allowed
neither club nor belt. He over-comes
the offender by sheer intel-lectuality.
Cream Crackers.—One pint ol
cream, six eggs, a little salt, llour
euough to form a stiff dough.—
Bear the eggs very light, mix all
the ingredients together, anil pound
the slough halt an hour. Itoll out
thin, cut into fancy shape, and
bake in a moderate oven.
Jicst Apple Pi--.—Take a dish,
the size ol a soup plate, till it heap
ing with peeler tart apples, cored
anil ijuartered: pour over it ono
teacup of molasses, an three great
spoonfuls of sugar, dredge over this
a considerable quantity of llour,
s'liongh to thicken the s_\ i up a good
deal, ('over it with a crust made
of cream, if you have it: if not.
any train while moving. The common dough; with butter work
esl in, or plain pie crust, lapping
the eslge over the dish, and pinch
ing it down tight, to keep the syrup
from runuing out. Bake an hour
and a half. Make several at once
as they keep well.
sufficient by some, aud because the
creatures, when so tbisty they can-not
resist, will drink, they are giv-en
credit for liking aud being satis-fled
with it, am! when they sle
cline it, are supposed not to uo
thirsty Bul give them access to a
clear running brook and mark the
difference in the frequency and
which they drink. In traveling
through a legion of clear mountain
streams we have often seen or hors-es
take dri kaftei drink, aa though
iu very appreciation of its purity,
ami whi na watering trough or or-diuarv
pool would not have recived
their notice. But a more satisfied
inducement is the establish tact
that stock flourishes better and
keeps in better condition with the
privilege ol pun- water than with
that indifferent. We consider it,
too, ;i crueltj to keep sheep so long
from water as is otteu done, just
because thej can manage to
without it B tduranoe Is not com-lort.
Il our animal natures must
b" pampered with drinks of diverse
kinds, oi favored flavor, tempera-ture
and strength, accordiug to our
feelings, let us no! begrudge to our
animals, who know but one kind
and mu^t take that as they fiud it,
the qua east of purity aud
freshness We know that crystal
" Mama," said a little five-year-old,
" what is a widow and what is
a widower ?" The mother explain-ed
to her little fellow, " If you
should grow up and get married anil
your wife should die, whv then you springs do not rise on every farm,
would be a widower/ "Oh no, I but Mr. Bergh ought to lustruct
wouldn't9 said the little fellow: some people who think that cattle
"I'd court another girl."— and horses are not appreciative
Fact. It occurred in New Bedford, judges of the quality of water.
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