{ title: 'The lake shore news. volume (Wolcott, N.Y.) 1874-1971, December 10, 1874, Page 1, Image 1', download_links: [ { link: 'http://www.loc.gov/rss/ndnp/ndnp.xml', label: 'application/rss+xml', meta: 'News about NYS Historic Newspapers - RSS Feed', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86053181/1874-12-10/ed-1/seq-1/png/', label: 'image/png', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86053181/1874-12-10/ed-1/seq-1.pdf', label: 'application/pdf', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86053181/1874-12-10/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.xml', label: 'application/xml', meta: '', }, { link: '/lccn/sn86053181/1874-12-10/ed-1/seq-1/ocr.txt', label: 'text/plain', meta: '', }, ] }
Image provided by: Pioneer Library System
W. H. THOMAS, Editor. DEVOTED T O HOME INTERESTS, LITE R A T U R E , AND GENERAL IN T E L L IG E N C E . •1.50 a Year, In Advano*. YOL. I. WOLCOTT, W A Y N E CO., N. Y., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1874. NO. 10. T!ie Dead Child. Sho is not dead, But sleeps— JJcsido her crndlc-iicd, 3Ty memory keops Tlio vigil Kiid. Awake, iny child, Awako ! 'Tin long sinco thou linal «m ’’i My hoart will break Unlosa beguiled. No voico ropliea. Tii oho lips -Vaught echo to my erion— In Iifos cclipso, Sho Hilcnt lica. That brow so cold— Tlioso oyes No moro my faco bohold. Alas' alio lies Within death’» fold. ¡>ho dwells with God. Hor foot, With heavenly eandnla Bliod. Traverso tho atreot S\y angels trod. Then let hor Bleep; — Hor dreams Aro bliss. Pear Savior kcop, Near Eden'a atroama, Tho lamb wo woop. THE l*0Wl>Ell BAItGK. In llio days I ’m tolling you about, 5: -which was many years ago, 1 was capon „ of a lighter—a big, broail, flat bnrgo, , -working 011 the Thames , not one of your ' i narrow monkey boats as run ou tho cnuals, though it was tho blowing up of - r tlni Tilbury the other day as piit-mo iu ■V mind of what I ’m going to tell you in ■ my long-winded, roundabout fashion. .'But T s’poso you ain’t in 110 hurry, so lot one go on in my owu way You see, your gouuino lighterman ain’t •a lively sort of a chap, tho untur' of his jwofpssion won’t let him lw ; for lie’s nl- -ways doing things in a quiet, slow, easy- ... ;going fashion. Say he’s in tho river ; y yell, lie tides up and ho tides down, go- ing as slow as you like, and only gives a sweep now audtlicn with a long oar, to - keep the barge’s head right, and stay her from coming broadside ou the piers o’ the bridges. \Vcll, that’s slow work, Rays you ; and ,V (to it is. And it ain’t 110 butter when bargemen gets into r canal,for then .'ho’s only towed by a horso as ain’t picked - «out acauso he’s a lovely Arab as gallops .fifty miles 011 hour—one and a half or \ .two’s about his cut, and that ain’t lively. . As for your new-fangled doings with ; your stoam-tugs, a-pufling aud a-blowiug nnil a-smoking, hko foul chimneys on a f°8&y. din', wiiat I go to say about them is as it’s disgustin', aud didn’t ought to ;■ be allowed. .Tust look at ’em ou tho river now, a-drawing half-a-dozen barges , full o’ coal at once, and stirring up the , ¿river right to tllo bottom I Ah ! there . , waru’t not 110 such doings when I -was '■youug, and a good job too. Well, as I was going to tell you, I was ;. capen of tho .Betsy—us fmo a lighter as ' .you'd lia' found 011 tho river in them ■ .'days, and I ’d got two hands aboard with ..mu. There was Billy Jinks—Gimlet - wo used to call him, becauso ho squinted . so. I never did seo a fellow as could r squint liko Billy could. He'd got a ■ V we rry good pair o’ eye3, o’ny tlioy -wns '.’ odd uns and didn’t fit. They didn’t bc- long to him, you know, and was ovident- ' ly put in liis head iu a huriy wllen lie ' wore made, and I 10 couldn’t do nothiug with ’em. Them eyes of his used to do just whatever they liked, aud rolled and 4 iwissened about in n way as you never <lid see ; and I ’vo often thought since as it was them eyes o’ Billy’s as nrndo him : tako to drink—an<l drink ho could liko ; iv fish. T'other chap was Hob Solly—Toeboy ; they used to call him on tho river, acnuse : o f his lamo foot and tho thick solo he used to wear to ninko ono leg samo leDgth as t’other; aud perhaps, arter all, it was „ ’Bob’H too as mado him such a drinking , chap, and not tho example as Gimlet set .. him. Anyhow, that thoro don’t matter; v# only when I'm tolling a thing I likes to be . exact, as 0110 used to bo with the 111 - woices o’ tho goods ouo used to havo to , deliver up or down tho river Well, I was going up and down tho , river with all sorts o’ goods, from shops, :■ nnd whan’es, and places—sundry tilings, • you know’, for I never had no dealings ; -with coals—and one day, down tho nvcr, y -wo loaded up with barrels off a wharf ^ down by Tilbury—not tho Tilbury as { was blowed up tlie other day, ’cause that v was only a monkey bont, but Tilbury - ilown tho river, you know ; where thcro’s - tho fort, and soldiers, and magazines, nnd nil them sort o' things. Loaded up wo were, aud tho littlo bnr- .. rcls all lying snug, and covered up with ; tarpaulins, and u3 n-wniting for the tide to come—for wo was going up to Dirn- Vphio’s Wharf, up tliero at Isleworth— when Solly comes up to mo, and ho says, says I 10 — “ Guv’nor,” he saj-3, “ wc ain’t got no tnties.\ :.t “ Well, Bob,” I says, “ then hadn’t 1‘you better get sonio.” i “ Yes,” he says, “ I will.” ® _ And. then Gimlet, who had been stnnd- 5.- ing by, ho says— ■S,. “ And wc ain’t got no herring.” SF Tlio -long nnd the short on it wns that them two chaps goes ashore to buy some ?ijorrins aud somo taties, so as wo could <\cook ’em aboard in tho cabin, whcro wo ^bargees reg’lar kind’ o’ lived, you know, i: I ought to ha’ kno-wed better ; but I ’d Kgot an old_ Weekly „Dispatch, a« was tlie ^big paper in them dnys, aud I was spell- ^ ing it over about tlio corrynntion'o’ King ¿George' llio Fourth,' and tlio jolly*row r there’d „been up by Westminster Abbey twhen Queen Carry lino went up to the | (loors and said as sho wanted to be ■» crowned, too. I might lin’ knowed what I ml follow, but I was so wrapped up m !' that thero old noosepaper, not being a [ fast leader, that I never thought about : i t ; and consequently, when it wns about i low tide, and time for us to go,, them I two chaps was nowhere, r ■ “ Seen anything o’ my mates?” Ihol- f lers to a clrnp asliore, for I was now out ' iu tlie stream. “ They’re up at the Blue Posties,” lie '. *»ys. “ Shall I fetch ’em ?” “ Yes, and be hanged to ’em!” I says ; : and I goes down to tho cabin, vexed like, gets hold o’ tjie flint and steel and my pipe, and was going to fill it, when I re membered what wc took aboard, and 1 put ’em all back in tho cupboard. Quarter of an hour alter, just a3 tho tido was beginning to turn, them two chaps comes aboard, reg'lar tossicated, not to say drunk, and worry wild I was, and mado ’em go down into tho cabin, thinking as they’d sloop it off; and then, casting loose, I put out ouo of tho sweeps, and wo began to iloat gently up tho river I got 011 very comfortably that after noon, novor fouling any of tho ships lying in tho Pool, getting woll uudor Loudon Bridge and old Blackfriara, with its covcred-in seats liko small domes of St. Paul’s cut iu half, and so ou and un der Westminster Bridge, which was very much liko tho ono at .Hlaokfriars, and on aiu\ 011 , till tho lido was at its height, when I lot go tlio anchor, and went to look at them two ehupi^, when, instead of being all right, I found as ihr money as ought to havo bought liomna and taties had gone in a bottlp of stuff which 0110 of ’em had smuggled ill uudor] his jacket, and tlioy was wnss than over. Of courso I was prccious wild; but as it’s wiusto o' words to talk to men in that state, I saved it up for them, wout for ward, and rolled myself up in my jacket, pulled a bit o’ tarpaulin ovor me, wished for a pipe, and Now, I supposo that .1 got thinkiug too hariViis T sat thero looking at tho lights, blinking hero and ill tido ran hissing down by tho sides of tho bargo , for after a time I got too tired to think, mid I must liavo gone off fast asleep, for I got dreaming of all sorts of Iiorriblo things through being iu nil un- comfortablo position, and among others —I supposo all ou account of twonty ton of gunpowder I had on board—I dreamed as it had blown up, and I was in our lit tlo boat, rowing. about 011 tho river amongst burnt wood and bits of bargo aud powder barrels, picking up tlie pieces of myself Yes, rowing about and picking up tho pieces of myself ; because, I said to my self, I ought to bo buried decently, and not bo left to go floating about up and dowu with tho tido. I had a hard job, I remember—now lisliing up a foot, now a leg, and now pieces of my body. IIow it wns I never seemed to ask myself, that I could bo rowing about nnd llsli- ing myself up ; but thoro it was, and I got quite cross at last because my head gave me so mneli trouble ; for every time I reached for it with 0110 of the oars it bobbed under water, and caino up again, aud rolled ovor and over, and seemed to laugh and wink at me, till, in a passion, I gave it a heavy tap with tho oar, ami it went under again, and came up 011 tho other Hido of the boat, bobbing up aud down like a lug apple. “ Now, wliat’s tho good of making a fool of yourself?” Isays. “ Why don’t you come up in tho boat along with tho rest of the. pioccs?\ When it opened its mouth and says out loud : “ I ’m as thirsty as a fish.” Now, tho idee of that head of iriino being thirsty, when it was swallowing water out thero in tho river, so tickled me thnt I began to laugh, aud that laughing woko 1110 , all of a cold shiver, to iind it very dark, and tlioso words seeming still to l>o buzzing 111 my cars— “ J.’in as thirsty as a lisli.\ What followed seems to mo now just like some horrible nightmare; for as I snt there, in tho forepart of tlio boat, I could just mako out Bob Solly and Gimlet bending over a littlo keg, evidently as drunk as owls ; aud I saw in a flash that they’d boeu busy with all augur, aud bored a hole in it, thinking it was spirit of somo kind, whon it was lino grain powder. What did I do 1 Nothiug ; but come all over of a cold sweat, tho big drops rau dowu my faco, and I felt as if I couldn’t move. I knew well enough what they’d done—they’d pulled up the tarpaulin, and dragged out a cask, aud were going as they thought to drink ; and as I saw them strugglo toward tho cabin, I thought of my dream, and felt that tho barge would bo blown to pieces. I wanted to jump overboard, and swim for my lifo ; and even then I rcmombcr smiling, aud woudering whether I should .go in a boat and pick myself up. Then I tried to go after them,- to shout, to do oomotliing, but tho bones seem to have been taken out of my body, and for tho first timo in my life I know what it was to lie in a horrible state of fear. That went, though, at last, and I stood up sliivcring, and made for tho side. I looked at our distanco from tho shore— about fifty yards—and kicked off my boots. I raiso'd my hands, and' 111 an other moment I should have plunged overboard, when something seemed to say to mo: “ You coward!” and I stopped short. Of courso : I was capcn, and if I de- Berted tho barge up sho must go, aud Lord help the poor peoplu ashore. But if I stayed? • Well, I might savo ’em. I ran aft along the sido of tho barge, feeling sure it was all a dream, foe. the men were out of sight; but when I readied tho cabin hatchway I heard words as chilled mo right tlirough. “ I t ’sawful queer, Bob,\ Gimlet hic cupped; “ tho stuff’s running out all over iny hands, nnd yet it ain’t wet, and •it tastes salt.” ■ “ We’ll soon seo what it’s mado on, lnd,” says Gimlet, thickly ; and then I had the old nightmare feoliiic como over mo, and couldn’t stir—couldn't speak, only listen, -with tho thought of twenty lon.of'powder aboard, and there with the loose powder 'runniug all over them my mate Gimlet busy with tinder-box,\ flint nnd steel. Nick—nick—nick—nick! ' ^ There was a stoppage—a faint glow,:ns of a man blowing the tinder, and I be came myself again, and, mad with fear, I crawled tlirough the trap. Then thero was tho sputtering and blue burning of n brimstone match ; and I saw tho faces of the men quite plain. Tlio splint blazed up. “ Wo 11 soon see what’s it’s liko now,” said Gimlet, thickly. And he lowered tho burning match, and in that one moment I saw tho barrel at one side of the cabin, and the powder that liad run ont of the hole tlioy had bored running about over the white floor zig-zag, like a black snake, and making a reg’lar train. At that same moment a burnt ipiece fell from the burning match, tlio train ilred and began to run .over tlis -floor, and I threw myself between it and, the barrel, flat on the planks. ■ I can’t tell you how it was, only that somo one uttered-a horrible yell, thero was the slmrp Hash nnd liiss of .tlio pow der, my face wa3 scorc.hcd as I lay flat, aud tho placo was full of smoko and as dark ns pitch. It seomcd to bo an hour, it may only havo been a few seconds, when I heard them two rush up 011 tlio tho little .deck - r then tliero were two heavy splashes, and I knew that they were swimming .aslioro nud I was nlo,no. I darou’t move, for tho powder cask was touching mo, nnd, for nuglit I knewi there might lie scores of sparks 011 my clothes. And so I lay there, expecting my ilrenm to como truo cadr moment, till I could bear it 110 more, for (l giddy feeling cnino over mo, aud I supposo I fainted. When I camo to, tho smoko had cleared away, but, all tlio snmo, I daren’t movo for long onougli; nnd at Inst,-when my souses—wlint wns left—told mo tlmt if thero had been any dnngor, it would hnvo been beforo now, I roused mysolf aud edged a littlo nway. I felt rendy to faint ngniu , but by degrees got nwny, wout on deck and threw my cont into tho water, looked mysolf idl over, and thou, lighting hard against tho .wish to jump ovor and swim aslioro, I forced 1(1 v«AHti-.iiig hatchway, looked down to . seo all black thoro as nitcR j\aiu(\\iliSTI F knelt dowu 011 that bit of n deck and to God ns I'd said for years. At daylight next morning I wont be low again ; aud I could sco how wo wore saved ; for my throwing mysolf down had driven tho light dust two ways, and what with that and my body, tho train when ftredhad not gouo witliiu two foot of tho barrel. It was a Iiorriblo shook, though ; and I didn’t get over it for years. I used to dream night after night about trying1 to got that bobbing head of mine into tho boat, and then I used to cry out and fmicy I saw tho flash ; but- 1 got over it in time, and seldom had tho horrible dream any more. But I had it tho night after tho Tilbury went, for I thought a good deal that day about my lucky cs- eape, and that upset mo moro than it did Toeboy nnd Gimlet, for tlioy went nshoro thnt night, and next day wero tossicated as over. It’s dangerous work, though, with that powder , nnd, speaking as an old man I say, thank God I ’m out of tho trade. How an Operator >Vas Waked Up. Tho Troy Whig relates tho following . “ We have heard much of the'wonders of eablo telegraphy 111 outrunning timo and annihilating spneo, but an nnccdoto re lated to 11 s tho other evening by Jlr. W. P. Phillips, assistant agent of tlio State Associated Press in Now York, who was 011 a visit to this city, surpasses anything we havo ever heard. A gentleman of the Western Union Telegraph oflico at No. 115 Broadway, New York, was sitting in tho cable-room when n telegram from Philadelphia, destined for Paris, camo pver tho wires. This message, liko all others for 1’rnuce, was to go over tho cablo via Duxbury, Mass. Tlio operator cnlled Duxbury a fow tunes, aud then said * That fellow is asleep evidently ; but tho cablo men aro always awake—I ’ll havo to get 0110 of them to go iu and wako him up. ’ So lio stopped to another desk, called Plaister Cove, in Newfound land, and sent tho following messago: ‘ To Cablo Ox>erator, Duxbury—Please go in and wake up my owu truo lovo.’ This message Plaister Cove hastened to seud across tho ocean to Valencia, Ire land, who in turn ‘ rushed ’ it to Lon don ; thence it was hurried to Paris, aud still onward to tho European end of tho French cablo at St. Pierre , tho operator thero flashed it back to Duxbury. In less than two minutes by the clock tho message had accomplished its journey of some 8,000 miles, by land and sea, as was evidenced by the clicking of tho in strument on tho Duxbury desk, which ticked out in a manner a littlo moro pet ulant . * That is n nico way to do ; go ahead. Your own truo love. ’ ” Horse Disease In Ohio. A di8ca30 far moro fatal than tho epi zootic, which raged so fearfully nnd with such disastrous results among horses, has broken out in portions of Oliio. At Akron over seventy horses aro affected and about twenty-live or thirty have died from it. Tho Beacon, of tho abovo named place, says tlmt among tho symp toms of tho iliseaso a staggering gait and loss of appotito socm to be tlio most prominent and provalont, accompanied with a violent cough nud fever. Post mortem examinations havo shown that tho liuigs wero 'particularly affected, these being black and rotten. A great deal of inflammation was noticed about tho cano of tho heart, nnd the condition of tho liver evidenced n great deni of bilo iu tho blood. The mucous membrane was also highly inflamed ; in fact a slint- tcrcd stnto of tho system wns mnnifested. Tho loss of nppetite, n lending veterinary surgeon contends, is tho first dreadod noto of tho disense, for ns tho animal re fuses to take nourishment and drink it is almost impossible, in many cases, to effect a cure. Tlio fatal, cases in Akron thus far havo had n run of eight days, and as tho weather grows colder tho fa tality increases. T h a t 'Possum.—Sam nnd Jack went ’possum hunting, and caught a little ’possum. - Tliey put tho.-.virmirit'on to cook. • Jack ' went\ to sfcop,'1 and\Sam smelling how good tho little ’possum was, conceived tho idea of trying liim. A •'taste did not miflioo; ho by degrees nte the -wholo animal. Now ho 'was troublod abont Jack. '-A bright thought came. Ho greased Jack’s ‘ month and hands and liid tho bones by his sido. When Jack awoko ho Bmcllod ’possum strong, but; he saw- none in tho pot. “ Look here, Sam, wlinr dat ’possum?” “ Go off! you cat him np, Jack. Look at your kinds nnd month, nnd. seo dem bones.” “ Well, Sam, of I eat'dat ’possum ho fills less space dan any ’pos sum cber I seed!” In L ije .—The vicissitudes'of liie were strikingly illustrated in this city,'says the New York Sun. About the timo that Mayor Hnvemeyer died liis nephew was married to Jfiss Clara Morris, the actress. Alderman Vanco was made mayor before the late incumbent’s body was cold, and in.tho evening the newly elected mayor was entertained at a dinner in Del- Tlic Stranger Witness. Agontlomau, followed by. a servant in livery, rodo into nn inn in tlio west , of England ono evening,'a liitlo after dusk. Ho told tlio landlord that I 10 should bo detained in thnt part of the country for a fow days, nnd wished to know’ if thero Were any amusements goiug ou, iu th town to occupy tho timo that ho was not busy, lio Was informed by the landlord that it was tlioir rnco and assizo week, and that ho tlieroforo wonld havo plenty to occupy his leisitro moments. On tlio gentlomnn’8 making answer thnt this wns fortuuato, ns lio was fond of hearing trinls, tho host iuformod him thnt n very interesting robbery trial, wns to como off 011 tlio noxt day. That* tho ovidenco wnS very strong against tho' prisoner, nnd tho people’s opinion was greatly divided, as tho man insisted that h*!?-wa8 in anothor part of tho kingdom whon t tho robbery was committed. The goutlomau expressed considemblo nnxiety to witness tho trinl. According ly tho next morning tho host procured liim n good locntion tlirough his influence with tho court oflicors. W liilo tho ovidenco proceeded ngaiust him, tho prisoncr’u eyes remained fixed 011 tho ground,: but upon being called upon for his defense ho looked Up( and tho stranger, fainted away. At first this was supposed to bo a trick to ¿ruin but being questioned 011 liis recovery, lio asserted that that gentle man could savo his lifo it I 10 might put a fow questions to llhll. The cyos of tho wholo court were now turned upon tho stranger, who seemed somewhat embarrassed, but stated that although lio coilld not remember tho prisoner, ho was willing to answer any questions that might bo proposed. Tlio court granted tho prisoner’s request, and I 10 nsked tlio stranger if ho remembered .being iu Dover on n certain date. To which tho goutloman answered that ho had landed at Dovor shortly before, but could not positively nfllrm that ho w'us thoro that exact day. “ Don’t you remember thnt n man in n blue jnckot nnd trowsers carried your trunk to tho inn,” nsked tho prisoner. “ .[ romombcr thnt a mnn did carry my trunk, but I do not remember his dross.” “ But,” snid tho prisoner, nnxiously, “ don’t you romomber tlint tho 1111111 who carried your trunk told you a story about his being iu tho somco, that lio thought liimsolf an ill-used man, and that ho showed you n scar ho had on 011 c sido of liis forehead ?” During the last pnrt of tho speech the stranger’s faco changed, and lie snid that ho did romembor tho scar. Tho prisoner p.usliod asido his hair displnyiugn sear on his forehead, nud tho witness nflirmed positively with gront emotion that I 10 wns tho very mnn. A buzz of satisfaction ran tlirough tho court, for tho day ou which tho witness had mot tho prisoner at Dover was tho very day of tlio robbery. ’l'lio stranger, however, could not bo certain of tho time, but stated that ho sometimes mado memorandum of dates in Ins pockot book, and turning to that found tlmt the dato of his landing corre sponded with tho prisoner's assertion. This being the only circumstance neces sary to prove an alibi, tho prisoner was immediately acquitted amul great np- plnuso and congratulations. Tho nbovo trinl occurred in 18I12, nnd within less than a mouth the gonllemnn- ly witness who camo to tho inn attended by a servant in livery„tho servant who followed him, and tho prisoner, wero all three brought back to tho samo jail for robbing tho mail. It turned out tlmt the clover defense at tho Inst trial was a skillfully arranged plot of tho confeder ates to releaso tlieir accomplice. Regularity of Hnliils. Among nil tlio preventives of illness, conservntors of health nnd precursors or insurers of longevity, wo regnrd regu larity of habits as tlie most important. This is csjiecinlly truo relative to eating and sleeping, 'i'he man or woman who is not regular in taking meals and sleep ing will sooner or later suffer tho conse quences of a neglect of ono of Nature's inviolable laws. It will not do to break fast ono day at eight, another at six, and then at ten or eleven—for i f one does liis digestive organs will goon bo out of or der, and serious consequences may ensue. And tho samo is truo in regard to sleep ing. Onr hours of rest, as a rule, should be tho same ovory night. It is not snfo for even tho most robust and healthy to long violatc'tlio law of regularity in this matter. Tlie man who retires and rises at irregular periods, varying from two to four or six hours, as many aro accus- tomcil to do, cannot enjoy good health, or live long and happily. Every ono should adopt a ralo to retiro nt a certain hour and adhere to it as strictly as possi ble—never doviating except in emergen cies, or on occoimt of vitally important business. ______________________ A Child’s W ill. Men often speak of breaking tho will of a child ; but it seems to mo thnt they bnd better brook tho neck. Tlie will needs regulation, not destroying. I should ns soon break tho legs of- a horso in training liim, as a child’s will. I would discipline and develop it into harmonious proportions. I never yet heard of a will in itself too strong, moro than an arm too'mighty or a mmd too comprehensive in its grasp and too powerful in its hold. Tho instruction of children should 1» such as animate, in spire, strain ; but not to how, cut and enrvo; for I wonld always' treat a child as a live tree, which was to bo helped to grow, novor’ as dry, dead timber, to 1ms carved into this or thnt shape, and to liavo certain moldings grooved upon it. A live tree, and not dead timber, is every littlo child .— Tlicodorc P a r her. Short-Homed Cattle. A t a convention of short-horned cattle dealers in Springfield, Illinois, nearly ono hundred prominent, stockmen wero present. Tlie convention was called to order by Dr. Stevenson. He showed thnt there is a difference of fourteen per cont. in tho increaso in weight of short horns over common cattle when fed alike, and thirty-eight per cent, in value when sold, making fifty-eiglit per cent, advan tage to tho breeder of short-horns. Beef of a better flavor and moro milk and but ter can bo produced from short-horn cows. 'Ho advocated a speedy cliaiigo from' a common to 'a higher grade of eat- tleT Tho Cost of l ’orlc. Tho profits realized by tho pork pack ing trade, says a correspondent, must lie immense. Tho hogs nro bought of tho farmers at this season of tho year nt prices varying from five to seven cents a pound, while suit pork is sold at.twelvo cents, aud if portions of tho aiiiimtl, liko tho foot, head, guts, etc., havo to bo dis posed of at a cheaper, price, others, like tho hams, aro. sold much dearer! A denl- ‘er in Chicago stated to mo thnt by wnit- ing for tho propor tieRson lw> o»u always mnungo to irnko a barrel of ‘2(X) polluds cost liim from $10 to .$12, nnd soli it for §20 or $22, sometimes oven higher tlmu that, and thero aro firms thnt slaughter as many as tliroo and four thousand hogs in 0110 day. .At their rooont convention at St. Louis tho pork pnekeffl l’eSolved to obtain a ‘ littlo additional profit by re ducing tho weight of the barrel’s con tents. Up to ¿1 0 prpsont timo tho bar rel contained not 200 poundd of meat, which, tlirough being suited, soon aug mented tlio weight to 212 or 215 pounds. Tho retailora took advantage of this, and frequently purclinsod a largo number of biiri'els for t'to solo purpnso of ubstmet ing tho surplus itud JMtttclling tho reduced barrels. Tllo convention flyi'cod iiooord* Snjjly lliat from tllo 1st of Jnimnry, 1875, tho contents of tllo bhrrel «ball bo liM) pounds fresh meat, which will giVo about 205 pounds to tho cousuiucr, and will prevent tho barrels being opened and tlioir pontents loosened to tho detriment of tlio quality of llio mcnti Thero is another point of interest In connection with pork packuig, and 0110 which goes a long way to explain why the provision tiiuio is so profitable, and that is tlio low ioVol Uf wn>jo;i in it. The highest figures seem to bo a week paid to tho butchers (or tlio moil who ac tually kill the beasts) and $1G to the clerks. All the rest of the nion, nnd thoro aro several thousands of them, work at Ihernto of from jH to S2 a day, while there is 110 tnulo ill Chicago 111 which 11 workman earns loss. As butchery does not roquiro, however, nny particular .skilled labor, ovorybody is deemed fit for it, and a community I hls sprung up in tho neighborhood of tho stock yard of which 110 poll could desciibo tho diame ter. Tile sctim of t llo wholo W o r l d HeottiH to bo congregated tlioi'o, rin d » kind of a aniall Biiburb is now developing itself, with its banks, its hotel, its drinking plnccs, its morals nnd its idens, into tho nature of which a man with the faintest belief in humanity having boon crcated by God, had better novor attempt to in quire. Wlint first strikes, however, tho Btmn- gor visiting tho stocking yard is tho un accountable difference botw’een the. cost of livbig 111 America nnd the prices of tho first necessaries of lifo. An avcrago head of cattle can bo bought hero for §25, wliilo it would cost ns much ns $!)0 oriilOO in tho old country. A hog can bo bought for about $0 or $$10, or at re tail for about 8 or !) cents a pound, 0110 - tliird of tlio English prico. The same is mo with bread nnd Vegetables. Yet liv ing hero costs three or four times as much ns iu England. Thoro must lio evidently something utterly wrong in tho very basin of tho social nnd economical orgnnizntion of this country, lint to mako out whore tho weak point is, is a much easier aud much moro convenient work for Amcncnns to do than for slmn- gers. ______________________ Wealth of >’arniers. When ono takes a divo into agricultural statistics by way of ascertaining tho actual result, ho is struck by tho fnct that there must necessnrily lie a variety of other classes who nro oven woreo off than tho farmers themselves. Mr. b. .15. Kugglos exhibits a taste for this sort of inquiry, and at tho Social Scicuco Con gress he gave tho results of liis investiga tion iu somo astonishing figures, lto stated that tho people of ton States lying north of tho Ohio river, owned, in 1850, farm property valued at 3 0 1 - 1 , 0 0 0 , 000 . Tim population of tboso Slates had doubled iu tho last ten years. In 1870 tho valtio of this farm property was $ 0 , 132,000,000. Tlio value of tho farm E roducts was not given in 1850 and 18G0, ut in 1870 it was shown in tlioso States to bo $978,000,000. Tho farmer was not a serf, lio had no tyrannical landlord to oppress him. It was shown thnt 075 of every 1,000 farmers in this section owned /arms. In twenty yenrs they had accumulated 25,000,000,000 worth ’ of proporty. Tlio census of 1870 showed that tliero wero 2,000,000 farmers. This would givo au average amount of 82,500 eacli. It is also shown that they had paid their help less tlmn ton por ocnt. of their incomo. Tlioy liad paid #91,000,- 000 for help. I t was likowiso shown tlmt each and all of tlieso poverty-stricken farmers abovo tho ago'of ten years wero in receipt of nn income of &1G0. I 11 tho light of this great progress, wlmt would bo tho result in 1900? In 1850 there wero raised 300,000,000 bushels of grnin in tho States; in' :]800, ¡300,000,000 bushels ; in 1870, 810,000,000 bushels, or 21,000,000 tons of grain. Tho figures are stupendous. An Analysis of the CoqncUc. Punch finyn : Tho coqnctto is a grndn- nto in tho science of flirtation,' lins taken oveiy degrco from her alm a mater —who is so good a mistress of arts tlmt sho no longer needs a tutor, nnd 1 » ^competent to manago her own affairs without the aid of ft chaperon. Sho is a psychologi cal curiomty—undergoing two clianges beforo arriving at maturity— from thein- scct of tho school period Blie becomes tho clirysalis of tho ball room, whenco slio emerges from beneatli the wing o her chaperon,-to flutter forth tho full grown butterfly, or coquette. She has a scale of attractions by which sho mea3- 'urcs her deportment toward different in dividuals. Slio'ain nt a moment’s notice IjO: intensely agreeablo or quiotly rej>el- lant. Sho can smile With one sido of her fhco upon a now conquest nud frown with tlio other upon his waning rival. She knows instinctively tho exact mo ment when to commence a flirtation ; nnd having no passion, no foeling, can adroitly break off an ineligible one, oven if tho wedding liveries liavo been ordered. Flattery is her food, and ca price her rulo of conduct Sho may win our astonishment by her boldness, inge nuity, nnd protean clinngcs o f demeanor, but not our admiration or esteem. Celestial Wisdom. Lot us cito from various soiuces a fow of tho numerous nphorisnis, .maxims nnd proverbs current among tho Chi nese. By a long journoy wo know a horse’s strength ; so length of days show a man’s heart. , . To correct an evil which already ox- ists is not bo Well as to forseo and pre vent it. J . <\ Wino and good diuners mako abund ance of friends, but in the timo of ad versity not ouo is to bo found. Cautious conduct under circumstances of suspicion is inoiUcatcil somewhat odd ly by tlio following : In a flold of melons do not pull up your shoo ; under a balm treo do not adjust your cap. ~ Tcmpux fugit bccomes in Cliineso, “ Timo flio3 liko an arrow ; days and montli3 Hko a weaver’s sliuttlo..” „ ; Do not anxiously expeet what is not yet como ; do not vainly regret what is already past. • It’ yoli would understand tho disposi tion of any mall look at his companions ; if you would know that of a father ob serve his son. Tho fame of men’sgood actions seldom goes beyond tlioir doors, but their evil deeds mo carried to tho distanco of 1,000 miles. Though powerful medicines are nause ous to M 10 taste, they aro good for tho diseaSO ; though candid advico is uu- plcasaut to tho e:lr, it is profitable fur tho conduct. Tlio ovidenco of others is not compara ble to perantial experience, nor is “ 1 heard ” as good iW \ f saw,” llo who at unco knows himself and knows others will triumph as often as he contends. ! It is ton lato to pull the rein when the horso lnus galitod tlio brink of tho prcoi- pico ; tho timo for stopping tllo leak is post whon tho vessel is 111 tho midst of tho river . To meet with nn old friend in n dis tant country may bo compared to tllo delightfiilnoss of rain after a long drought. , 1 • Tho truth of tho following Bonlimont j«i, wo all know, not confined to China : Though a poor man should livo in the midst of a noisy market, 110 mnn will ask about him ; though tho rich man should bury himself among the moun tains, his rotations will como to him from afar. A single conversation ncl'oss tho tnlilo with n wiso mini is-betlor than ton years’ moro study of books. Truo gold fears not tho tiro. “ A toad in a well cauiiol behold tho wholo heavens” is used in referenco to contradicted ideas. To covet another man’s houso and pso one’s own ox (t. e., to loso what j»rop- erty ono already has in tho ofibrt to ac quire more). ‘ ■' ‘ ‘ To grind down an iron pcstlo to mako a uccille,” is a Chinese way of expressing indomitable pei'sovemuee. When you convorso in tho road, re member that thoro uro men in tho grass. Our well-known meteorological dog gerel, “ If it raina beforo aovon, Twill bo lino beforo clovon,’! reappears in Chinese thus . ** i f it raitiM when you open vour door, Twill Hhlno whon your brenkfiutt ia o’er.\ A blustering, harmless follow tlioy cnll “ a paper tiger.”' Ovordoing'n thing tlioy call “ a hunchback making a bow. A spendthrift thoy compare to \a rocket,” which goes ofT at once. Habits of the Urassho|i)>er. Professor Htimiston, of Worthington, Minnesota, describes tho grasshopper's modo of depositing hor eggs ¡11 the soil, Fvcceipt for a hot breakfast—Admiro your landlady’s new bonnet. n Biibjeot which ho has hikl excellent op portunity' for studying this year. Tllo tail of tho fomnlo locust consists of a hard, bony, cone-shaped Hillistaneo, ca pable of being thrust into tho gftillttd from ono-hnlf of nn inch to an inch in doptli. Just nbovo this, 011 tho ltody of tho insect, nnd nttnched to it, is tho egg cell. Tho grasshopper is nble to push its conical tail down into’ tho\ground nnd leavo it. there, with tho cell • containing tlio eggs! Tho warm sun in tho spring cnuscs.tho eggs to lmtcli, and tho field is covered with millions of young grass hoppers, not as ! largo as a kornel ‘ of wheat, just whon tlio tendor shoots of grain begin to show themselves nbovo tho ground. Tho dnmnge tlioy do is im mense, for thoy rcmnin a long timo in ono spot, and work upon tlio young shoots. Perhaps tho best mode of treat ment is “ backsetting,” or plowing tho field, nnd thus turning tho surfaco soil, with its storo of eggs, several inches un der. Tliis prevents hatching, nnd though not a complete, remedy, is very useful. Whose Hoy Is That?' Ho may bo' seen nny dny, in almost nny pnrt of tho village ; lio never makes room for you on tho sidewnlk, looks, nt you snucily, nnd swears smartly if asked anything ; he is very impudent, nnd ofton vulgar to Indies who pass ; I 10 de lights in frightonin^ and sometimes does serious injury to little boys and girls ; he lounges, at the street, coniors, and is tho first, arrivnl nt a dog fight or nny other sport or fiernpo ; ho crowds into tho i iost-oltico in tho evening, and multiplies limsclf and his antics nt such,a rate thnt people, having legitimate business aro crowded' o u t; ho tliinks himself very slmrp, ho is certainly very noisy ; I 10 ‘can Bmoko and chow tobacco now nnd then, and rip out au oath most nny timo ; we ask whoso boy he is. Mother, is ho yours ? Wo tliink lie’ is, for thero are many good qualities in the lnd, and wo do not think tlmt you know what lie does on the street. Look after him, mother ; keep him moro nt liomo./Train liim and yon will liavo a son to bo proud of. ] T e a c t i i . n o Him.—A woman in this ! city, says tho Lowell (Mnss.) Citizen, is . endeavoring in n novel way to induco her I “ liego lord ” to leavo his cups. Sho has [ long tried moral suasion without avail, and though repentedly promising to mend 1 his ways nud do better, ho genemlly re- . turns home, when nt large, in a miserable plight. He did so lately, when his wifo ’ took him in hand, tied him in his room | in nn upper chamber, nnd was keeping liim thero nt last accounts.' 'He make« no complaint, but like :a Tdntifiil man tliiuks his better half iu .the rifkt, aud 1 quietly accepts tho situation. Items of Interest. During tlio past.year tho United State? imported 19,SGI,000 pounds of tea froiu Jnpan. According to official statistics just pub lished, tliero wero 5,275 suicides in Franco in 1872. j MonkeyB never grow nny older iu ex pression. A young monkey looks qx- nctly liko his (jriuidpnpn incited up and born over again. Tlio Grangers of Powder liiver val ley, Oregon, make tree-planting ou farms .nml highway» mi iudispcnaablo prerequisite to membership. , Cliicngo, with 150,000 population, pnys 81.110.000 for advertising annually, bt. Louis, with n population of -100,001), pill’s 8675.000 for tlio snmo purpose. A littlo girl seoiug n dog scratching to bo lot iu nt nn opposite door, promptly knocked at tlio window nnd called out, “ lug o bell, doggy; ing 0 bell.\ A colored hunter in Tonuessco lins n black sheop thnt joins in tho cliaso with tho houuds, and puts the dogs on tho right scent when thoy havo lost it. Four thousand persons wnitcd in tho street« all niglit at Paris to sco tho execu tion of Moreau, who poisoned Ins two wives—and tlio oxocution wns postponed. A good many persons who couldn’t 1%) hired for lovo or money to saw four sticks of wood twieoiu two, will sit down and write all day 011 tho “ lamentable de struction of American forests.” Jf a iiei-son in a houso 011 tiro has tho prcfjenoo of mind to apply n wot cloth or handkerchief to his mouth or nostrils, |i piusmgo can then bo cUccted through tho densest smoko without nny serious in- convoiilflnoo. A clergyman o 11 ce posted tho following notice 011 \ tho. gato of tlio duu'di,-: “ Found, two huts in my stmwlierry bi'd. Tho owner can have tho snmo by proving propeHy.\ Wo don’t boliovo tho (iwnniHi 'will call for them. ; Mention is made of a turkey in Host Hartford, Conn., who was ubueryed on a fence with tears 111 his eye-'’ studying nil almanne nnd reckoning 011 liifi toes how lollg it. w iw 'to 'Thanksgiving. lie is since dead nnd dressed nud dcglutilioued nnd digested. .7 All Altoona mnn says that animals ap preciate tlio humorous from the fact tlmt lio saw a broad grin ripple over till) visage of n'licig at which he had thrown a. huge boulder, only to have it graze tlio brilto mid smash a §1-10 plale-glas^ win dow Iwyoud. Says tho Now’ York tin» .’ We don’t prelend to understand tho merits or tho controversy between tho longshoremen mid tho shipowners; but this is cerium : tho.pr.ioo of everything else has como dowu nnd is coming dowu, and tho pneo of liiljor must como down also. .If tlio boat winch a human V>eing gives out in twenty-four horn's could, consis tently with lifo, bo retained within tho lxxly, its temiKjratiiro would in that tune liavo reached 185 dog., Fahrenheit, a temi>omturo nbovo tho coagulation of albumen, and high onougli to cook tho tissues. “ Whcnt is improving, hogs nro high, thero is plontyf of ’monoy to buy, and within tho noxt sixty dnys over ono hun dred millions of dollars, iu good, crispy greenbacks nnd national bank notes, will be distributed among Western farmers.\ This is tho cheerful manner in winch ,>\ Westorn paper puts it. ■Tlie other day n.minister offered prayer nt tho laying of n corner-stone. A brisk young reporter biifltlcrt up mul wml: ,f‘i wish you would givo me tho mnuuscnpt of tho pmyor.” “ 1 uover write out injr prayers,” replicdtho preacher. “ Well, said tho reporter, “ I couldn't hear a word you said.” “ I wasn’t praying to yon,” quickly responded the pnrson. A ridable Case. An Irishman arrested for highway rob bery, on being brought beforo a magis trate, asserted thnt ho was moro entitled to bo pitied than to 1«) punished. “ Pitiod 1” exclaimed the jusliee, wliilo Ills oyebrowfl archcd with more Uuui or- liinury wonder and contempt; “ nnd 011 wlint nceount, pray?” „ “ Sure, on account of my misfortune. “ Your misfortune, indeed ! What I thnt we liavo caught you, I suppose i “ Oh, tlio gintlomnn that's brought inn hero knows my misfortuno well enough. But tho gentleman was as astonished ns tho magistrate liimsclf, and ¡ei incapa ble of understanding the eulpnt s meau- , “ You will own, I suppose,” said life worship, “ that you stopped this gentle man 011 the highway ?” “ Oh, yes, I did that same. “ And that you took from him fifty pounds in bills i” . ,, “ And tliero your honor’s right ngnin. “ Well, then, yon perplexing vaga bond, what do you mean by your mis- fortimo ?” . “ Sure, nnd tho money wnsn t 111 niy pocket nbovo a week, when the dirty bank stopped payment, nnd I was robbed of every shillin’.” He Ift Master Xow.- A Japanese Indy lins invented a means of reconciliation-betwoon ..quarrclsomo partners which should not lie confined in-'practice t o r that’ distant part of tho world. Having quarreled with her hus band, sho decided upon dyinfj. Not content with merely relinquishing this dreary world’ sho ’endeavored to ji*Jl at tho greatest possiblo sacrifico. ShoViit ont her tongue, and awaited death. 1 « - tnnatoly for all parties, death did list arrivo as soon as her husband. Sho was therefore saved. And now Nakamura has.n model wifo. When I 10 complains of tho toughness of his steak, sho can meroly look at liim. Turning his eyes ui another direction, ho can mnko tlio'mo6t satirical comments'upon feminine econo my ; can wonder why women novor do | learn how to keep down tho grocer.’* bill, to save a portion of their husbands galnry ; enn nssnro her that n littlo va riety of delicacies for brenkfast is some thing that any woman of senso could find ; can grum ble at tho milliner’s bill, and growl aboct the ,eoal being . all ,put, without inBcerna*''a word . 0 / 'remou- ■crim the evil without
