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'Multum in Pavim:\ Vol. 2, No. 24: EOCHESTSB, N. Y. THUSSDAY JUNE 26, 2381. 35 cents a year. Sunir'es. I From the Hawkeye. KEASOXS. She ne'er will crown with her earnest love The life of some honest, loving man, For sle kindled the fire in the kitchen stove With a lightsome tilt of the kerosene, can. And he—his work has been laid, away A'most before it was well begun; For 1 e didn't know, they heard him say, Tl ere was any load in the empty gun. SUMMING UP. One day in the summer A mercantile bummer, A young Boston drummer, Came out to the West ; Like other examples lie travels and tramples; \ Fach line of Iris samples lie said was the best. In his business he glories To sit down and pour his Big stock of new stories In his customer's ear; Bi t when he would sell him The merchant would'tell him He'd have to expel him If lie talked business here. So the Jong summer faded And l>'s new stories shaded. And v earied and jaded. He ] ickecl up his goods; And 1 e said, tins young drummer. This mercantile hummer. He'd wasted all summer. Out West in the w oods. Euling out Temptation. A Metropolitan Coffee-House Company has recently been formed in New York city with a capital of $100,000, It is not intend- ed as a money-making, nor yet planned as a money-sinking, enterprise. The question of profits is'incidental and secondary to the main object, which is to furnish the public more especially the wage earning and con- j sumiiig public, resorts as attractive as the i saloons, and as free to all. This, though seemingly a hard and im- | practicable task, has not been found to be | such when actually undertaken with suffi- i-eieut public spirit, capital, and pi'actical j aims. In the chief cities of Great Britain, | where, if anywhere, there are well-defined i grades and classes, afid habits, especially j bad ones, are regarded as peculiarly invet- i erate, coffee-houses have flourished for the I last half-dozen years. They seem to have I Sprung up there as part of the great im- | pulse given through the efforts of Moody j and Saukey for the^better care of the mass- I'es in every respect; They have multiplied i in that country and also in its dependen- \ cies. And now the movement is to be tried | here and under excellent auspices, we are •glad to say. A company consisting of eight gentlemen, well known in business and other circles, hss been formed, with Dr. J. | G. Holland at their head. * * * * • * i In addition to serving such refreshments ! as are not of an intoxicating nature, and ! fostering\similar institutions, the city over, (this company proposes to supply such eslah- ! lishments with suitable reading matter.
