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Mi j . ,:V -. y tr. ' ;'-1 '! . 4 JAH.O. NUTTYi Publisher. DfttOTtD TO TBI QIXI1AL WTIttBTI OF CALDWlLL, WAT ACQ A, ABM ASD aDJACI"T COCKTIM. VTEItMH l.no por Annum. no. ia VOL. I, LENOIR, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY '27. 187(1. " i . f ; i' :,;;:"TQ.gitoDflijn auB." , ' OftoaaUd Sr1aiMlortUlel V ' Wask for QBfftRM Mi ' " T rhst eft shall I Ml mj lay ? TU towers kavt om fwa wood-and bill i fts lippHnff river Has white bd4 etui Aa4 IU Mr4 thai Mof M the awpls VrogH Aftf in Um 6athki4 tinfth now ! ! O RoMtmd tfutenA f glito I If Im wkoto U4 ywr w My I If wtttd wag lov ia tbliyUrlng Imtm, Aa4 km fcfcmMd lw7 1 If jrotdk aO UuKkm U of Ufe, ' If tU ytftn tvovgU BoUtlsg e( mt or aUtf. IlMMyMriBf oog tor yon I UmN BoUtlng bUr lUn Mj ? TtM goidB glow of U bwrwUlaa I Tm twk of Um AvtoaiB dy I Tbta thought I giro to yon til to kttft fbo Mtfftk good itod ilitll tuly rMp t 11m 7tr growa rloh m It gtowtth old, AaA Ufrt UlMt moAi wo IU MBda of gold I A Ruse of War. "You'd totter tnak up your mind to do It, Frank. I give you toy word for It, you'll find 'Murelton' not a Dad Dlaoe. tad th stria are well, thtn are no finer glrla than my granddaughter!." Old Judge Ranaom looked earnestly oyer hla sold-rlnuned glaasee at Frank . llazelton's hndaome, indifferent face. "Too oertalolrare very eood, Judge, to prew upon me inch a friendly invi tation to fult 'uurelton.' and under any other drcumsUnoea than those we have dlsonased, I would be delighted to accept. Aj It Is -I confess I haven't the cheek to go down to your place, see m hmHw iiArtalna Ka artrAvotnAn Kit want 8arah, and all the while feel that my object, and your object, Is to select me a wire from among tne young ladles.' "That's the sheerest nonsense, boy. Why on earth shouldn't you marry one of your cousins, and thereby secure 'Laurelton' In the family? Somebody' U get the fine old place with one of my irlrls why shouldn't It as well be you V "I suppose you call yours a very sen sible view ox the case, Judge Hansom But, how .can a fellow expect to curb and harness bis fancy and affection to suit even with Laurelton' thrown lu the bargain t" "Who's talking of fanclea and affec tion f I only ask you to run down to the homestead for the holidays and get acquainted with the girls; then, (fyou fall In love with one of them, well and good. There's not much danger but that they'll take to you, Frank. You're a one fellow, and your five years' ab sence at the German universities add very greatly to your popularity." "Thank you, Judge. Surely I ought to be grateful, and oblige you by fulliug In love with one of my charming cousins." "Then we'll consider it settled, shall wet The Thursday before Christinas." "I guess we'll manage It between us, Sara, Frank's agreed to come, and, what's more, has hair-promised to fall in loVe with oue of the girls." Judge Ransom sat reading his village paper beside the cheery open grate; and fat, motherly Mrs. Ransom sat In her capacious chair, busily daruing socks. Promised to fall in love with one of . the girls 1 Henry , the idea ! W ho ever heard of sued a thing? You never went and told him you wanted him to marry oue of them r" "Of course I did. There's nothing like being open and above-board. I like young Hazel, and told him so; and told him he was welcome to one of my granddaughters, and 'Laurelton' in the bargain." "Welt, Henry Ransom, I never would have believed you were such a a fool I Don't yoq know you've ruined our little arrangement by going and telling him ? Why there's not a man living who'll take a fancy to a, girl that is recom mended to him I Well, if you aren't a nlmshle I" "I can't see what I've done so dread ful. I'm sure you are as anxious to have him In the family as I am." "Of course I am and that Is why J, hate to see anything spoiled so. My word for it, Frank Hazeltoor Is of too noble a nature to deliberately make love to a girl because she la rich ; and, at the same time, I know he will take a dislike t 'era simply because he. knows he Is expected to do the other thing." "Seems to me I have put my foot In it, Sara, according to your way of thinking. I am sure I meant well enough." "Oh, I know that. Now, if youH just leave It tome, and agree to do Just whatl say, I think It'll end all right, yet.' listen, now, and see if a woman can't beat even a judge In love affairs." And he aat and listened, his fine face gradually broadening until It was one big smile from eyebrows to chin. "If you don't deserve a diploma," he declared, Jubilantly. A magnificent December night, with myriads of frostily-twinkling stars above, and a snow-bound landscape below them: and Frank Haselton. wrapped In hit Astrachan overcoat, ana bis seal-akin cap ooally Jammed over his forehead, thought as he was driven from the depot to "Laurel" behind the judge's fast trotters, and In the 'Laurel's' big double-seated,warmly-cu8hioned sleigh, that the lines might fall to a fellow In a far leu pleasant place than that to which he waa going; where the Judge met him at the door, in the broad banner of warm yellow light streaming from within. "Come right In, m boyright In You're as welcome as the first flowers In spring. 1 Here's aunt Sara waiting to klssyou--aren'tyou, eht" ... - FranlCfound himself in warm,- moth erly arms, and, laughing 'and joking, was escorted to the pallor, where four young girls were sitting Jn apparent ready weiooms. "Whatl have I coiislnir Judge, vou"t got the hut of me, I had no Idea my courage was to be put to such a test." "indeed, vou needn't think vouareso blessed a to iioases fouf nrottf cousins. Theae are all you need lay claim to Haud and Ida, tot two uoar grand daughters. These other two young la dles are Miss Florence and Irma Cloud esley flsltlng 'Laurelton,' to aaalst in utertalnltfg you." Alter soon an iniunnaj mrwucuun, the loe was Immediately broken; and, before the merry little circle Drone up that night. Frank caught himself Inter nally offering congratulations to himseir that he had come to 'Laurelton.' "Frettmrte of eourse they're prett all of them," he sollleqotxed, mentally, as he carefully arranged hla necktie; one bright, merry morning, a month after he had come to the farm-house. "There's Maud, With her matchless frace and her stately dignified manner, he should wear a coronet and never feel but what the strawberry leavea were honored by her acceptance. But not for a thousand 'Laurelton' would I spend a lifetime with her; when an hour ex hausts all her entertaining and instruc tlve ability." "I wonder what aunt Sara and the Judge would think if they knew of my private opinion or Maud and Ida r lo Be aure, Ida Is a nice, ladylike little thing, and has about as much mind of ber own as a butterfly. 1 doubt If she ever really does think beyond the arrangement of her pretty yellow hair, and tne fit of those marvelously tiny slippers of hers. From which It will be seen Mr. Frank Haxeiton had been very observant. "There's the Misses Cloudeley-en-slble, intelligent girls as I ever saw; only Florence will persist In tyrannizing over dear little Irma" Then the dinner-bell abruptly dis pelled his mental criticisms, and he went down to find them all gone in but Irma Cloudesley, who, with a suhdI clously tearful face, stood before the mirror. She started, half-gulltlly, as he entered. "Oh, I thought you had gone lu. You're late, Mr. llazelton." "And so are you. What has kept your" He saw the flush surge over her cheeks. "I oh nothing much." "Has Flo been teasing yon again ?" He went close up to her, looking down into her face. "No nothing at all. Pleooe go Into dinner, MrHazelton." She looked really distressed, he saw; bnt the headstrong fellow did not obey at all. "I'll go, In a moment. Irma. Toll me first If you are angry with me that vou seem so eager to get rid of me ? Not only now, Irma, butalwuys. You avoid me continually." She blushed rosier than ever and turned her face away. "No, Irma! you must answer me. Have I offended you?" "No, Mr. Hazelton, you have not. Please go to dinner. They won't like it, and Maud will think" She hesitated, and looked painfully confused. "Irma, I positively will not go to din ner until I know what Is the matter with you, if I never eat a mouthful again. What will Maud think ? What right has my cousin to think anything about what I do?" "Oh, Mr. Hazelton you you are cruel to ask me. it wax loolUh in me to say a word." "Jwery word you say Is very sweet to me, little girl. Tell me why you dread Maud's knowing we are here, together? Tell me, Irma, or I shall kl you !" "You know well enough," she fal tered, desperately. "You know they all expect you will marry Maud, and" Frank laughed, and suddenly caught her In both his arms and kissed her. "Don't struggle, Irma -you are my little darling, aren't you ? You lovo me, don't you? Because I love you so very dearly, Irma! dear little Irma ! Maud knows I never shall marry her, and I know I shall marry you, shan't I?" "Oh, Frank !" She whispered it shyly, blissfully, as she looked into his hand some face. "You ought not to love me and lose 'Laurelton ' Indeed, I'm not worth so much." "I consider myself the beat judge of that, Miss CloudoMey! Perhaps you think, in your humility, that you are not more to me than ten thousand LaureltonV." "And I really am 7, Frank?" He kissed her over and ovur again. "Shall we go to dinner or, h.is your appetite vanished ? Mine has, after such nectar as your kisses." She laughed, then he saw her beautiful mouth begin to quiver. "Frank you won't be angry, will you? promise me! it wasn't my fault, truly, bnt grandma's." She looked so wistfully at him, and her language was so puzzling, that he laughed outright. "Augry? never! Promise you? anything I" She leaned her head forward, so he could not see her face. "I am not Irma Cloudesley, but Irma Ransom. Sister Florence and I changed Identities with Maud and Ida, who are really the Misses Cloudesly. So, after all, Frank, you shall have 'Laurelton' If you will take it. Will you with me?f That of course settled it, since Frank was so anxious to have Irma. And s6, vfter all, Aunt Sara's ruse of war accom plished the desired end, on the unalter able principle that she and the rest of us women understand, that men are stubborn creatures, who are sure to do Just exactly contrary to the way you waut them to do. ,,: Friendship closes the eye rather than see the moon eclipsed : while malice de nies that )t ts evor at the full. Helja, Women often wA. r a husband that Is pretty until they wait too long. It also happens to men sometimes. Bo It wa with Mr. UrlflUh. wneia ne waa you eg lie waa in love with a beautiful 8lrl, Tmt when he became a man be toughthe could get some one rloher and prettier also and while he waa thus thinking the opportunity was lost ene had married another. And now, reader, Imagine that yotl are standing behind the door of the dining-room, listening to Mr. artOth and his housekeeper's conversation, - "You ought to have a husband, Loxf ." "And I think. Mr. Griffith, you ought to hsve a wife." , "That's so, Lou; but pshaw, I dont bellevs In tho women, as the are now-a-days. But when 1 think of It. they wore not much better when I was youug." "Why so?" "Ah, you've never heard of my three courtships! I thought everybody knew all about them." "Well, upon my word, I don't know anything about them; but I should, Indeed, Tike to know. Ah ha, so you've been In love, too, have you?" "Yes, Louisa, indeed I have, twice, eveu three times. The first is not worth mentioning, but the second Is. Well. I clerked In. a large grocery store; the owner's daughter was th one I set my cap for. She was very pretty and also very rich, well, to be snort l loved her dearly. I visited her Mveral times, but every time she was visited by an other young man, whose name was Fritz. 1 don't know which one of us she liked best. You know how very slow and aafe I am about everything, and so I am in love matters. This will not do In love matters In this country, and so let me toll you what happened. One morning I thought I'd make a sure thing of it; so I dressed up in my very best clothes, put my stove-pipe hat on one-sided, and off l went, no sooner had I opened the hall door to an there came Fritz running down stairs, half losing his breath. He rau against me at the same time knocking my flue hat on, wnlch be accidently stepped upon and exclaimed, "you'll plearc excuse me, but I'm so glad, that I can't help my foolishness. Say, what do you think? I've won her! How do you like that, sir?" I didn't say asythlng, but went home, and never mutionel the hat." "That was the second ; tell tie now about the third I" said Louisa. "Well, I was then forty years old. 1 had been out traveling, and wag JiiHt stopping at a small town in France, when I iiotioed the smallest feet I ever saw on a woman ; they were not hidden by a long 'dress,- but neatly covered with snow-white stockings and slippers. In fact, she was a perfect beauty. She had a basket on her arm which con tained flowers. I stepped up to her and asked her how she sold them. She told me, and I bought all she had. I continued buying from her for three weeks, when oue day I bought all she had to sell. 1 took my flowers and left, Alien suddenly she came running to nio saying: 'Hiank you sir, I am very much obliged to you I' 'For what?" said I. 'Oh, sir, I can't thank you eMOUgh, you have done me such a favor".' 'How ?' said I. 'Oh, sir, by buying my flowers; you seo, sir, I had a sweet heart, and his mother wouldn't let me marry him until I had one hundred dollars cash, and now, thank goodness, 1 have It. So to-morrow I mean to get ' 'Hush!' I exclaimed at the top of my voice. But she wouldn't hush until she had finished telling me how the wedding was to come on. At last she hushed Tier talking. I went home, and afterwards left the town." "But Mr. OrilHths, do tell me about the first courtship." "My first sweetheart loved another also. I could have wedded her If I had not been too slow and bashful, but she was engaged to this other man, and so she married him. I have had awful bad luck with women, and never will have anything more to do with them any more." "But she was engaged, wasn't she?" "Engaged ! pooh ! 1 believe they are all engaged ! Anyhow, she was the daughter of a large plantation owner. Her name was Lilly Fones, and I tell you she was a perfect little beauty." "Fones ! Lilly Fones ! Oh, my God ! I am she. I was once the happy Lilly Fones, but now (she burst Into tears) I am only Mrs. Hummel." "Too bad, Mrs. Ruminel. But what became of your husband ?" "He is dead." "And just think you. have been my housekeeper five years now, and I never knew this before. But I guess things will turn out right at last." And they surely did. Louisa is no longer Mrs. Ruminel, but the honored wife of Captain Griffith. A ateaalalaeacerertrr Stata. In the third year of the war, when flags were being placed over churches In Baltimore, Washington, and in many cities West and South, whose members were supposed to be disloyal, a house erected by Southern Methodists in Washington was dedicated. A minister of another denomination alone could be found to accept the service. As he ap proached the porch the flag was seen draped over the door. He deemed it his duty to maintain the principle of entire separation of church and state. Turning to the company assembled, he stated that duty forbade his officiating on the occasion ; and his reasons would be given to the Secretary of War. Amid great excitement both of the suspected church and of army officials present, he returned home, and addressed a note to the Secretary, stating three reasons for his postponing the services : first, that neither the church members nor the excited crowd were In a frame of mind to dedicate a sanctuary to God ; second, that there wasaplaoe to test loyalty, but that the sanctuary was not the place, dnoe he who mistook patriotism for piety might mistake self-interest for patriotism ; and third, that the suspicion txprfMfld by the flag was a stain on CnrUtlan character, tasted for years, whlih must be removed before thy xili be recognised by a minister of another denomination. Willi uls char ScWlstio Vehemence the Secretary ex lalmnd, as the note waa read to him -"ll'i is In the right." The flag was down before 3 o'clock, and no flag from that day waa allowed to be put over a anarch. Watchman and lUJUcUrr. Ivr lafftla. 1' n of science apeak of epidr-nilc waves, and of aearlet fever being com municated by the" few drops of milk wtileli yoa pour Into your tea, or en am diffused In a dlah of atrawbetrlrs. On a late occasion, at a fashionable dinner-party in London, aa many as eight or ten guests, and seven members of the household, took scarlet fever. Ob viously, the Infection mnat have been caught at the dinner-party ; but how waa the pacxling matter of inquiry, for no one In the fam ily of the boat was known to have been affected with the disorder. Waa the disease brougbA to the house-by a waiter f Waa it con veyed in the table-linen from the washerwoman T Waa it aomehow in corporated In the cream that had been used in the dessert 1 An investiga tion on these and other points, as we understand, waa made, but not with any aatlatactory result The cream was thought to be most likely the vehicle of infection : bat how could any one be certain on the point t The cream em ployed in fashionable dessert in Lon don ia possibly made up of half a dozen creama from as many dairiea and in quiry enda only in vague conjecture. Rather a hazardous thing, one would say, going oat to dinner where you may run the chance of being killed in a manner so very mysterious. People, in their innocence, are not aware of the manner in which contagious dis eases may be communicated by public conveyance, by articles of dress, by dwellings, by the very atmosphere. We have J nut heard an instance of the communication of scarlet fever by means of a"kist," the nameusaally given in Scotland to a servant's trunk. A servant sir In Morayshire fell all with scarlet fever, and died. Her kist, a painted wooden box, containing all her worldly goods, her later clothing incladed, was sent home to her rela tions, and lay for some weeks at a sta tion on the Bpeyside Railway before an opportunity occurred for removing it by a cart to her mother's cottage among the hills. Daring this interval the station-master's children, in romp ing about, conducted their gambols on the kist, which was a repository of contagion, and in doe course were struck down with scarlet fever. At length, the fatal kist was conveyed to it ueatinatian, and the contents were Smpersed among friends and neigh bors. The donations were kindly meant, but they Droved fatal. No precautions had been taken to diein feet the articles, the result being that wherever the clothes of the deceased girl were taken in, scarlet fever found its victims. For several months the fever raited, until the wave of its in fection was expended. Now ensued a remarkable event. The outbreak proved to be an opposing barrier to the spread of a more virulent type of scarlatina advancing from another Quarter at a later Deriod of the year. On reaching the former scene of tbe disease, it waa arrested for want of material to feed upon ; a second attack being very unusual. Chamber $ Jour nal. ral Crae. Sidney Smith, in his work on moral philosophy, speaks in this wise, of what men lose for want of a little oonrage, or independence of mind : A great deal of talent is lost in the world for the want ot a little courage. Every day sends to the grave a number of obscure men. who have only remained in obscurity because their timidity has prevented them from making the first effort ; and who if they could be in duced to beirin. would in all probabil itv. have gone meat lentrhts in the ca reer of fame. The fact is. that to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering, and thinking of tlie cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through aa well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating tasks, and adjusting nice chances : it did very well before the flood, where a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication for a hundred and fifty years, and then live to see its success afterwards ; bat at present, a man waits and doubts and hesitates and consults his brother. and hia uncle, and his particular friends, till one fine day he finds that he is sixty years of age : that he has lost so much time in consulting his first cousin and particular friends, that he baa no more time to follow their advice. A Popular FaliMy Uaerala( Over. wrk. The subject of overwork, then, is one of the greatest Importance to study, and has to be discussed daily by all of us My own opinion has already been ex pressed, that the evils attending it on the community at large are vastly over estimated ; and, judging from my own experience, the persons with unstrung nerves who apply to the doctor are, not the prime minister, tne bishops, judges, and hard-working professional men, but merchants and stockbrokers retired from business, government clerks who work from ten to four, women whose domestic duties and bad servants are driving them to the grave, young ladies whose visits to the village school or Sunday performance on the organ are undermining their health, and so on. In short. In my experience I see more ailments arise from want of occupation than from overwork, and taking the various kinds of nervous and dyspeptic ailments whloh we arc constantly treat ing, I find at least six due to Idleness to one from overwork. I tmfw. 8 per iii whale have a meant of com municating with each other at long dis tances how long has never been (letrr mlued; but certainly at dUUucr as great as are commanded by the eye from the maauliewl of a ship, or In a radius of tlx or seven mllet. Tim meant are a mytlery, but every whaleman hat ob served the fact, and hat bowed hit ojtera tiona In the chase Un It. It htn boon tuggetted that, as water It to good a con ductor of sound, It may bo by sound; but the distances are loo grvat for any OU 11(1 which the whale It capable or making to enetraU), and It la observed that the telegraph Is as iwrfoctaa ever In high wlnda when a thousand waves are breaking. I)rt an Iron Into a he-whale r galtle him by going ou his eye, aud alRiodt tliiiultnneoiiflly with his cutting flukes In the air tbe whole school will how alarm by running ami cutting their finkea, or hy dltappcaring from the surface, and coming up mllet to windward and running head out. If It be a femtle that In xtrtn k, the males are arrcubml in flight, and are apt to gather alout her, and offer chances for more than a ningle whale. Again when a tchool of cowt and calves are frightened to windward and a calf I mi struck, the whole school will "bring to," and gather dowdy around the wounded young, sometimes so c lowly packed that the enclosed loat will not dare to uhc the lance; and they will thus remain as long as the oil f Is alive or the iron holds. Hut should the Iron draw or the calf die, the whole school will Imttantly scatter. Whaling captains have taken pains to observe from the masthead, when a boat was going on to a whale to leeward, the effect ou the school miles to windward ; and soon as tRe eye could turn from one spot to the other, the alarm of the struck whale to leeward would lie communi cated to those to windward. Let a man fail ia business, what an effect it has ou his former creditors ! Men who have taken him by the arm. laughed and chatted with him by the hour, shrug their shoulders and pass on witn a cold "now 10 you ao T" Every trifle of a bill is banted up and presented that would not have seen tbe lifrht for montns to come, but for the misfortunes of the debtor. If it is paid, well and eood : if not the scowl of the sheriff, perhaps, meets him at the corner. A man that has never failed knows but little of human nature. In prosperity he sails along gently, wafted by favorite smiles and kind words from everybody. He prides himself upon his name and spotless character, and makes his boast that he has not an enemy in the world. Alas ! the change. He looks at the world in a differentligbt when reverses come upon him. He reads suspicion on every brow. He hardly knows how to move or to do, this thing or the other ; there are spies about him, a writ is ready for bis back. To know what kind of stuff the world is made of, a person must be unfortunate, and, stop paying once in a life time. If be has kind friends then they are made manifest. A fail ure is a moral seive, it brinies out the wheat and shows the chaff. A man thus learns that words and pretended good will are not and do not constitute real friendship. aklaa; CfcrUlatiui Present. A very old practice and one still re aected is that of giving presents. The practice is as old as the vUitof the three kings, Melchlor, Jaser, and Balthazar, to the manger. How pleasant this custom is can Ire attested any day. Stop at any street corner during Christmas week and watch the crowds that hurry past. They are hastening to smih1 money, not to make it, and their coun tenances plainly indicate how much pleasure there Is in planning the inno cent deceits and gay surprises which add so much to every Christmas gift. Ami the joy with which, on Christmas eve, the mothers nte;il at midnight to fill their darling's stockings as they dangle from the nuiiitleplece Is only equalled by the breathless delight with which in the early morning their chil dren patter barefooted over the floor, and feel, for they cannot yet see, to the uttermost stocking toe to discover what Santa Claus has brought them, rortu nately as much Christmas happiness can be bought with a little money or with a great deal. The child is not particular about the costliness of its playthings, and with his elders it is the act of giving as a proof of remembrance and affection which is or ought to be, more valued than the gift itself. Watting Dinner. Nothing is more trying to the mis tress of a house in any grade of life than to be compelled to "wait dinner" for the convenience of tardy guests, to sav nothing of the discomfort inflicted on other visitors. The busy people of the world are punctual people ; the man whose every moment is worth money to himself and the others always man aires to be in time. It is hard that such persons as these should be compelled to waste a long time in watting dinner lor the arrival ot some man or woman whose unpunctuallty is merely the re sult of an Impertinent want of fore thought. The proper mode of treating such persons would bo to iguore them altogether. If, when the dinner hour arrived, dinner were served, and the drawlers were compelled by their late arrival either to go without dinner or to sit down in the middle of the feast- no bringing back of earlier dishes al lowed this evil of careless lateness would soon be remedied. "So sorry to be late," ought to be met by "So sorry we couldiv't wait, but glad to have you join us at this stage." ir ladies would take tills matter in their own hands, the habit of late arrival, which Is a positive social nuisance, would soon be cured, FOOD FOR THOUGHT. When flatterers meet the devil gees to dine. Your saver of smart things has a 'bad heart. I I'atcal. Women alwava give more than they protnlso men (eat. We cannot escape to morrow by aler-p nor eternity by death. judrcltlon keeps the door ajar; but decision shuts arid bolta It. The greatrtt misfortune of all la not to Ire able to bear mltfortuus. We are liable to be corrected by book as by companion!. yulding. The fellow who recovered hla appetite say t he la now In a gnaw-mal eondlou. An English r rtmf At itf fr-lt'ln the manufacture or bricks froea slag. Characters never change. Opinions alter; character! are only developed Disraeli. There Is no such thing as liberty for no man It free If he Is the slave of hit conaclenoe. The human heart is made for love, an the household hearth lor Are; and for truth, aa the household lamn for lurbt. The nupcrfliious blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to lyrabollte tbe large way in winch uod loves to do pleasant tilings. For six montha matrimonial happl nest depends upon the state of a man's heart; forever after upou the condition of hla stomach. Slag Is a chemical compound, the combination of an acid with various bases and aa much salt as the sulphate of alumina or potassa. The silica Is the acid, and the lime, alumina, magnesia snd the alkalies are the basis. It appears that a Valenciennes laoe rnaker, working twelve hours a day. can produce only one-third of an Inch of Valenciennes lace in a week. Every piece of Alenoon point passes through the hands of twelve workwomen. ; She was tripping up WaaklnTton street with a lady companion, arid both were painfully pinned back. In step ping up to surmount the curbstone, she stuck her tiny foot right through her "rront breadtn." Only her com panion's support saved her front falling I Hinting perhaps. don to matt bar dreanaakar. The French connoisseurs maintain that an English dinner is positively in decent and immoral. A huge chunk of bloody roast beef, carved by a lank. lynx-eyed Englishman, a mass of plumb pudding, solid enough to mow down a regiment, form a spectacle they say, to frighten the gods, and one which sug gests the shambles. ' Statuettes and other artistic forms in phistcr are made very closely to resem ble silver in appearance by being cov ered with a thin coat of powdered mica. This owder is mixed with collodion, and then applied to the objects In plas ter with a brush, after the manner of paint. The mica can be easily tinted in various colors. It can be washed In water, and unlike sliver, Is not liable to tx'comc tarnished by sulphurated gases. Addison says: "I have always pre ferred cheerfulness to mirth. The lat ter I consider-as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth Is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and per mament. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depression of melancholy ; on tho contrary, cheerful ness, though it does not give the mind such an 'exquisite 'gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sor row. Mirth is like a flash of lightning which breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Absinthe drinking is becoming such a science amongst the students. of Paris that "professors of absinthe" -' have sprung up to instruct the young Idea as to the proper mode of imbibing this favorite beverage. A regular course of lectures is given, and we find that there are seven different ways to mix the absinthe. First comes the Hus sarde this is to pour out the water in three equal quantities ; then the Parls ienne adding the water drop by drop; next the Puree equal quantities of ab sinthe and water, poured out simulta neously. Fourthly we have the Ama zone similar to the Hussarde, with the addition of two spoonful of alrop de gomme; the Vichy a third 'of absinthe, a third of orgeat, and a third of water; the Bourgeoise exactly like the pro ceeding, only substituting anisette for orgeat, and lastly l'Abs; consisting of pure absinthe with a few drops of brandy. One of the greatest curiosities in Japan to the stranger is the wonderful variety of coins that are used dally. In some instances it takes one thousand pieces to make a dollar. They are called "cash," and are seldom received by foreigners, who, as a general rule, re fuse to take them in change. Imagine making a trade of five cents, and giving a man a fifty-cent piece, ana receiving four hundred and fifty of these coppers. This coin Is peculiarly made, having a square hole in the center. They are about the site of our dime piece, and nearly two thirds of the thickness. Next to this comes the quarter of a cent then the half cent, eight-tenths " of a cent, and the one and two-cent pieces. In silver coins they have Ave. ten twenty, fifty-cent and one dollar pieces. In gold, the one, two, fly ten and twenty dollars, which ar ivery pretty coinages Indeed. . Next. j& tala comes the Government serlet of paper money, In various denominations, rang ing from 5 eta to one hundred dollars. This money Is made on quit .Inferior paper to ours, and from general appear auce will not last lik the American, money. Jv,, '-4 ,
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