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i - ' i ALBWELL mm JAH. O. NUTTY, Publlahor. DITOTKD TO Till QUWUL IITKU8T8 Of 01LDT1IX, WAJATOA, AJ8U1 AID ADJACOT COtJUTIXH. TEIIMH: Cl.50 por Annum. ; VQL. I. LENOIR, N. CL THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1876. NO. 32. Xj. JLi L . JL. . A f 4 t i t 5. ! TEl CROBS-ROiDfl. Whan Uit roftdi oroaaad wa mat. My love and 1 1 u Uie uoar bay the ahlpa TuMMd bMTily. Jmf were gone oat on earth, Itut UlOM In hNTBI Tr,amblad, for two more hearta Tha Ood hath riven. Ilia acoante broke tha pauaa My tongua waa Ued i(a found laatworda to aaj . 1 My sobs replied. 1 11 "Than ha drew my white face Up to Um light, And aaid: "Farewell, poor lore ; Dee love, d night!" At tha oroae-roade wa klaaad latoodaloue. Ilia waa the tea ward road. Mine lad ma home. Ho called, "I ahall return !" I knaw, "not ao ;" Not otis In tan raturna Orthoae tha go. Dreary the great world grew, And tha ann oold ; Bo young, an hour ago, I had grown old. Our Ood made ma for him ; Wo loved each other ; Yet fate gave him one road. And me another. A Turquoise Ring. Hattie Thorpe, the nursery governess, sat playing at building block-houses with her two little charges, Artie, aged nine, and Louie, aged seven. She was only eighteen herself a tiny girl for that age, with a sweet baby-face, and evidently ho much of a child that It seemed perfectly natural to see her with younger children, and as much lnter CHted In their childish games as them selves. A most efficient nursery gov erness Mrs. Langley found her, as she gave the children their reading and spelling lessons dally, and played with them at addition and subtraction In a way to make the horrors of arithmetic quite fascinating. She slept In their room at night, dressed them In the morning, and romped with them all lay, iih well as kept a gentle surveil lance over them at the table, where she always nut with the family, except on grand company occasions, when she disappeared with them Into a small temporary nalon a manger, where they three dined together, enjoying these meals most of any. As Nelly Langley told her cousin Kdwnrd, with a laugh, she waa not vvn mIUm! upon ta pity ti pat at elder sister except when she was in the humor. It w:is a perfect comfort to have a girl like Hattie. She took all responsibility about the children off one's mind. Cousin Edward laughed, too, when she said It; but perhaps it occurred to him that a little responsibility about the children now and then would do Nelly good, while a little less might occa sionally relieve Miss Thorpe, for Artie and Louis, though cherubs In a general way, were not always angels. But he Celt no disposition to argue the point with the handsome, brilliant girl, who always received' him with smiles, de ferred to his opinions, played her best music for him In her finest style, and showed in her whole manner that she considered her cousin Edward the choice specimen of manhood in the universe. Mr. Edward Montague was a wealthy young man, and, indeed, the great catch f the set in which Miss Langley was a bright particular star; and that ambi tious young lady was a credit to her mamma's bringing up, and left nothing undone to captivate the heir of the family; besides which she greatly ad mired tier cousin, and was as deeply in love with him as any society young ludy permits herself to be before mar riage or a positive engagement warrants an extravagant amount of feeling. The cousins smiled at each other as their eyes met, after a niinutes's survey of tho three children playing block houses. Nelly put out her hand as if inspired to assist at the game ; and then, catching sight of her slender forefinger, she uttered an explanation. "Oh, my ring ! my lovely ring, Cou sin Edward, that you gave me I" "Have you lost it?" the gentleman enquired, languidly. "I hope not this time. It has been mislaid so often, and turned up again. But I shall lose it some time, I know. I'm unfortunate about it. You see, on account of the pearls, I take it off every time I wash my hands, and then I for get to put it on again." "Pooh! It isn't lost, Nelly. Send Miss Thorpe to see if you have left It on your dressing-table." Miss Thorpe didn't wait to he sent, but ran away at once to look for the missing trinket. It wss lovely, and inany a time little Hattie had looked on it with almost covetous glances, long ing for such a ring to wear on her own pretty finger. She returned from her quest in a few minutes, looking dis appointed, and saying she couldn't find it anv where. "You couldn't have half looked," the young lady declared, Impatiently, "be cause know I left it on the dressing table. 1 remember quite well now, and so must you, Hattie. It was just before dinner, and you were there, because you dressed my hair. Go again. Hattie, ami look on the window-sill; it's Just possible I might have laid it there." Hattie went, and was gone a long time; but she came back looking more disappointed than before. She had looked on the dressing-table, on the bureau, behind the bureau, on the floor, on the window-sill everywhere; but not a vestige of the turquoise ring could she find. "How provoking! Was the window open, did you notice?" "Yes, If ins Helen, the window Van open." "Then It may have fallen out. Come with me, Edward, and we will look," and the pair went out together. Mr. Montague and Mum Langley saun tered round the house, and looked In the grass under her window, but with out success: and then they plucked roaei, and playfully pelted each other with them, and very soon forgot all about what they came out for. aud pro ceeded to flirt and make love In a non ootnmltal but delightful style, after the most approved fashion made and pro vided for such cases. The new moon was glittering like a silver sickle In the sky before they thought of returning to the house ; and thev were brooch t back to tha contem plation of such an Idea by Helen re marking that the dew waa railing, and she dare not remain out any longer. "And I haven't found my ring I They call turquoise a lucky stone; I m sure I've hat the wrong kind of luck with that one. Who could have taken It f I know I left it on the dressing-table. Home one has stolen it." "Ob, nonsense, Nell ; and never mind, anyway, I'll get you another, and a prettier one, without pearls on it. and then you won't have to remove it all the time." Onoe or twice that evening, and again the next day, Miss Langley spoke of her missing ring; the servants were Interrogated; mamma was complained to; Artie and Louis were ordered to divulge Its hiding-place, If, in the spirit of practical joking which these'. young gentlemen often indulged in, they had secreted it; but Questions, complaints, threats, were all In vain, the turquoise was gone as much as if Jessica had ex changed it for a second monkey. .Something over a weex had passed away, and Edward Montague, in order to redeem his promise to his cousin, had run up to town, and was returning In the late evening, carrying in his breast pocket a small velvet case, Insldo of which reposed a lovely turquoise ring, having on It Helen's Initial In tiny ula monds. It was such a lovely ring that the salesman at ilnany's had smiled and given Edward a knowing look, as If to Intimate that lie knew It was in tended as an engagement ring; and Edward, smiling to himself as lie walked up the garden path round by the sum mer-house and toward the slue door, half determined to ask his cousin, as he slipped it on her linger, to wear It there lu token of a promise to give him not only that finger, buther whole hand and heart. As he passed by the summer-house the sound of smothered weeping from within smote painfully on his ear. Could It be Helen? He rushed in, and nearly stumbled over a little black bundle of something that omuched on th navir, with its )iau bent over its arms, crying and sobbing in a penect tempest or tears. Edward nearly fell, and did, In fact, stumble, so that he caught the crouch ing bundle of black, and as he steadied himself he also picked It up and set It on his feet. And then, with the moon light shining on Its little flushed, tear wet face, and its luxuriant brown hair all hanging about its shoulders, it proved to be poor little Hattie 1 liorpe. "Miss Thorpe! Why, I'm so sorry! Is anything the matter?" Edward asked, gently, fearing some misfortune to the girl, or that she had lost some relative; for he was not aware that the little governess was fatherless and mo therless, and without a blood relation in the wide world. Battle's tears and sobs redoubled ; she placed her two hands before her face, and sank down on a seat In an attitude of shame and despair. Edward was the tenderest hearted of mortals, and felt infinitely grieved at suoh a spectacle of grief. He sat down beside her, and drew the little hands away from her face. "Do tell me what is the trouble," he said, kindly. "Oh, Mr. Edward," sobbed the poor child, "how can I say it? Miss Helen thinks I have stolen her turquoise ring." "Impossible!" exclaimed Edward, shocked. "Oh yes, sir. Thank you, sir. It is impossible, but she thinks so." "Helen can't think anything so cruel. I'm sure you must be mistaken." "I'm not mistaken, sir. She said so, plain, two or three times that 1 stole her ring because you gave it to her, Mr. Edward, and that I would like to steal you too." Edward laughed ; but a warm blush stole over his cheek. The silence be came a trifle awkward, and to break it he said : "That's worse nonsense than the other. You wouldn't Bteal uie either, would you?" "I wouldn't steal anything, Mr. Ed ward, of course; and besides" "I'm not worth stealing," Edward Interrupted. "You are worth anything," cried little Hattie, with unnecessary fervor. "But still you wouldn't steal me," said Edward, laughing. "I couldn't you know ;" and the largo Innocent eyes were raised appealingly. "I'm not so sure of that," thought Edward, unconsciously pressing the soft little hands he still held between his own. He bent over her in a gentle, protecting way, and whispered, "You are a dear little thing, and I am sure you eould do nothing In the world but what Is good and sweet like your self," And then, what with the moon light, which made the girl more child like than ever, and, the wet eyelashes and pretty quivering mouth that trem bled like a baby's, and the two faces being so close together, Edward kissed little Hattie, and bade her not to cry any more, and he would see her put right In every way. Hattie wasn't angry. He was lust like a nloe big brother; but she thrilled and trembled under his kiss, and the dreamed all night of a fair young prince with a beautiful turquoise ring, and he could And no finger that fitted it till he tried It oil hers Just like Cinderella and the glass slipper. Edward was as good as Lis word, aud spoke to Helen very seriously about the soouiauon sue ad made against Miss Thorpe; bat that didn't mend matters, for Helen really believed that Hattie had stolen the ring, and was Indignant with ber cousin Tor asserting the contrary, A lover's quarrel was the result, and Ed ward kept the new ring In bis pocket, and delayed the Important question he had Intended to nut when presenting It. Miss langley bad a soene wltn mam ma, and insisted that Uie Utile chit or a KoverneM. with ber make-believe child liko ways, aud her deceit aud hypocrisy, should be turned out of doors; but mamma chose to take time to think about that she knew she had a trea sure, and she wtin't going to throw It away for the sake of a mere suspicion, possibly unfounded. Besides, she had conscientious scruple about discharg ing Miss Thorpe without a character, and perhaps ruining her prospects in life. Mrs. Langley maintained this virtu ous resolution tor several aays: out iiue vouUm-voui t What would you have ? Are even the conscientious soruples of a irood mother to stand In the way of her advancement? Mrs. Langley very soon saw that Helen was right, and that Kdward was quite too rouoh Interested In the little governess; and Hattie re ceived her discharge on the following day, being permitted to finish her week, to allow her the opportunity of finding another roof to shelter her poor home less head. But we all know the fate of "vaulting ambition," and even the cleverest mam mas do at times o'erleap discretion, and suffer In a similar way; and It happened so on this occasion. If, as Mrs. Langley and Helen declared, Hattie was playing a deep game, these ladies threw her i trump card and played it for her. Ed ward found the little governess crying again; and this time her despair was complete, for she was thrown on the world with blemished reputation and the suspicion of theft attached to her The young man overflowed with pity and Indignation, and having been gradually falling in love with the childish little creature, her present misery brought his feelings to a climax. He took possession of her, bade her to consider herself his promised wife, and with many tender assurances and sev eral kisses on the trembling lips, vowed she should never know care or trouble again. Then he put the new turquols ring on her finger, and as the diamond initial was 1L, little Hattie did not know It had first been intended to sig nify Helen. Edward was no hypocrite, but he was angry with his aunt and cousin, and so he went away to town and did not confide to these ladles the aews of his engagement; and Hattie had little Inducement for confidence on her part. Mrs. Langley believed Edward to be really attached to Helen, and so he had been, and was still to a certain extent; she made no effort to keep him, there fore, feeling sure that he would soon return of his own accord, and she was quite as well pleased to have him away irom tne nouse uuring name's last days there, for she felt convinced that his only danger from that Quarter was in constant association. Hattie was a dangerous girl to have in the same house with a young man of Edward's disposition she was such a sweet, pretty-looking, baby-like thing, and he was so good aud kind and generous. As for the little governess, her behavior was perfect, aud Mrs. Langley's heart smote her often, and she determined to do her best for Miss Thome, who took her dismissal so well, and went about her duties sadly and quietly, with such sweetness and gentleness toward her young pupils. "Whatever I can do, Miss Thorpe, you must command me," said Mrs. Langley, on the morning she paid the young girl's wages. "If you should need a reference, you know " "I would send to you, madam, and you would Bay I was a thief," Hattie interrupted, bitterly. "I would do nothing of the sort, Miss Thorpe," aud a faint blush tinged the lady's pale cheek; "but if you choose to be impertinent" "I have no such Intention, madam: and for your favor I thank you, but I don't think 1 shall require It." The color on Mrs. Langley's cheek deepened to an angry red; she bade her little governess "Good-morning" stiffly enough, feeling justly aggrieved ; and so soon as they were alone she re marked to Miss Langley that such were a lady's thanks for trying to be kind to "that sort of person." Hattie said, 'Good-morn ing, Miss Helen," kissed Artie and Louis, who set up an ear-piervtng wall at losing her, and then walked quietly away, leaving her modest little box to be sent after her. At the mew York terminus she was met by Mr. Edward Montague, and the two got into a close carriage and were speedily driven to the houseofaolorloal mend, ana in ten minutes more were pronounced man and wife. Edward had now been absent from his aunt's for nearly a week, and the good lady was getting anxious for his speedy return. She was consulting with Lansrlev on the exDedlencv of sendlnar him word to come back and finish his visit, when a letter was placed In her hands. The envelope was very elegant and betrayed the nature or Its contents at once. Mother and daughter smiled, and Mrs. Langley said, breaking the seal, "I wonder what two turtle-doves have paired now." A couple of cards dropped out that solved the question at once, ana not to Mrs. Langley's satisfaction, for she be came very paie. sue silently pa the cards to Miss Langley. "I told vou so. mamma the nunnin ir. deceitful little minx?" and the young lady flung aside' the harmless bits of i V 3 1 a1 i a paste ooara as u iney naa Durnea ner. "Nelly 1 Nelly I here's your ring I" and Artie and Louis burst into the room with shouts of triumph. "Where do you think we found It? Why, Grip, the crow, stole It, aad we found It In a nest or his, with lota or other things. Ain't you glad to get It?" Miss Helen drooped the rlnr at her feet, and stamped viciously on It. "1 wish to heaven I had never seen It I" she said. "Lucky, Indeed I But for that miserable turquola ring I would have been his wife now." Mmr Tlaaee mm taU Baaw4j. This country wss never more pros perous really than now; the only need Is a clear perception of lu actual con dition, and the adaptation of its forces to this condition. ' The remedy I shall propoae la a plea sant one. as this suffering country Is not really ill, but remarkably well; and the very evils which seem so heavy are the beet indication of lu thrift, lu Srodlglous vitality, according to my lsgnosls of the case; and I think you will agree with me. The condition of affairs is this : Vast numbers of men are out of em ployment. They are consuming and not producing. They desire work, but there Is no work for them. Every branch of industry Is full and over flowing. There is s glut of every pro duct, waiting to be consumed. Exces sive accumulation had been growing for years, until It culminated In the fall of 1873. Since then labor has been reduced to the gauge of necessity, over production no longer goes on, and many thousand men are now without work. Their work is not needed, but they need work, ror they need wages to obtain the necessaries of life. Everything produced is produced In abundance by the workers now employed; and the accumulation of an Immense over pro duction continues on hand. What is the cause of this apparent evil ? Labor taving invention. Mouth after month, year after year, the great idleness continues. The army of the unemployed is increasing In nura bers. lhe amount of work they would do, and wish to do. Is not done; is lost for ever, a great stream of waste. No adequate measures are taken to utilize this labor, to prevent this needless suf fering, to end this painful condition of unwilling idleness. Labor which would mane an enormous showing, if per formed, Is not performed, and the whole nation feels the loss as well as the un employed. Labor-saving Inventions in crease In number as they should; la borers diminish in number, forced out Into idleness, to avoid a still greater over production; and no new, great enterprises are engaged in, although to establish them Is clearly the remedy for the condition of over production in the existing industries. The Oalaxy. Artlflclal Harbl. A composition known as artificial marble, and possessing great solidity and impermeability, has come into use in France as a substitute for the natural article, it being also lighter than, and taking an equal polish to, the latter, besides resisting the action of frost better. When it is desired to have the article remain white, the plan is to take about fourteen ounces sulphate of po tassa, four gallons river water, two pounds gum arable, twenty pounds purified cement, and twenty pounds marble or alabaster powder. Of this a mixture is first made by dissolving over a slow fire, stirring all the time, four teen ounces sulphate of potassa in four gallons of water, and after fusion dis solving two pounds gum arable; a sec ond mixture Is then made by stirring together twenty pounds purified ce ment, twenty pounds of the dust, and five pounds lime slacked sufficiently to cause it to crumble into powder. A part of both of these mixtures Is then poured into a mortar and stirred until the ingredient assumes the state of a thick paste, and beaten with a pestle until the mass becomes elastic. In making moldings or castings the mold is greased and a first layer of the com position applied about one-third of an inch in thickness, and this first layer is backed by another, formed by boiling, for about three or four hours over a brisk fire, hemp, tow, or other filamen tous substances, cut small in the first mixture of gum and sulphate of potassa. The product is mix jd with the second mixture until the filamentous parts are divided through the mass and the whole reduced to a paste. Oriental Naianea. The Orientals are as fond of calling people by nicknames as Westerners could possibly be, and these names, sug gested by some peculiarity of feature or manner are often exceedingly appro priate. Six-fingered, half-mustache, shovel nose; liquor Jug, a drunkard; catch-no-jackals, an unsuccessful hun ter; son of golden hair, a red-headed man ; son of the nightingale, laughter, come and ago, busybody ; son of a fox, son of a cat, son of a wolf, a sheep thief; son of thunder, son of the devil, and many similar, are but examples of the appropriateness of these names. The designations of girls are supposed to be expressive of those charms whioh will aid them In securing a fortunate alli ance in matrimony, the chief end of an Eastern woman's life. Often the names of the most brilliant stars are given them, as Venus and others; the word Esther means a star, and was the favor ite name for Jewish girls. They were named light, dawn, twilight, moon light, and the names of favorite trees also given them, such as the pomegran ate, almond, and date palm. They were also called after precious metals and gems, and given the names of fleet and graceful animals and birds, as well as of moral qualities, Diamond, emerald, pearl, brilliant, gem, sugar Up,prlncess, gatelle, dove, sparrow, and among the moral attributes well-spoken, love, af fection, and the holy one. it laaaara. Tb a rule of manners to avoid exag geration. A ladr loses as soon as she admires too easily and too much. In man or woman, the face aud the person lose power when Uiey arp on the strain to express admiration. A man makes his inferiors his superiors by beat. Why need you, who are not a gossip, talk as a gossip, and tell eagerly what the neighbors or Uie journals say? State your opinion- without apology. The at titude Is Uie main point, assuring your companion Uiat, come good news or Dad, you remain In good heart aud mind, which is Uie best news you can possibly communicate. Self control Is the rule. You have in you Uiere a noisy, sensual savage, which you are to keep down, and turn all his strength to beauty. For Insunce what a seneschal and de tective Is laughter. It seems to require several generations to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of man. Some times, when in almost expression the CbocUw and the slave have been worked out to him, a coarse nature still betrays ltseir In his contemptible squeals or Joy. The great gain Is, not to shine, not to conquer ypur companion then you learn nothing but conceit but to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown, horse and foot, with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. There Is a defeat that Is useful. Then you can see the real and the counterfeit, and will never accept the counterfeit again. You will adopt the art of war that has defeated you. You will ride to battle horsed on the very logic which you found Irreslatlble. You will accept the fertile truth Instead of the solemn cus tomary lie. When people come to sec us we fool ishly prattle, lest we be Inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. A lady of my ac quaintance said "I don't care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say It." The law of the table is beauty a respect to the common soul of all the guests. Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact never violates for a moment this law ; never intrudes the orders of the house, the vices of the absent, or a tariff of expenses, or professional privacies; as we say, we never "talk shop" before company. Lovers abstain from cares ses, and haters from Insults, while they sit in one parlor with common friends. Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Ralph Waldo Emer- ! a Garret A garret Is like a sea-shore, whose wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to pieces. It is a realm of darkness and thick dust, and shroud-like cobwebs, and dead things they wrap In their gray folds. There is the cradle which the old man you just remember was rocked in ; there is his old chair, with both arms gone; there is the large wooden reel, which the blear eyed old deacon sent the minister's lady, who thanked him graciously, and in fitting season bowed it out to the Umbo of troublesome con veniences. And there are old leather portmanteaus, like stranded porpoises, their mouths gaping la gaunt hunger; and old brass andirons, waiting until time shall revenge them on their paltry substitutes; and the empty churn, with Its Idle dasher, which the Nancys and Phoebes used to handle to good pur pose; and the shaky old spinning wheel, which was running at the time of the hanging the Salem witches. The garret is the peaceable refuge of many books, invalids from their birth, which are sent "with the best regards of the author" the respectful cripples which have lost a cover; the odd volumes of honored sets, the school-books which have so often been the subjects of assault and battery : the pictured story-books of "Mother Goose" and one (probably about bears) on certain pages of which a tender hand had crossed out some thing, which might have made us hide our heads under the bed clothes in ter rora novel, perhaps "Coelebs In Search of a Wife," and old Latin alchemy book, in parchment covers, where one might find the mighty secret of the Soap of Sages, the Vinegar of Philosophers and the Dew of Heavenly Grace. Can such a room stand for a century and have no romance to bequeath to after time ? Hla-ht KaJlrakd Kldl. We have sometimes heard it re marked by timid persons that they would not travel at night upon a rail roadtheir impression being that there is more danger of accidents in the dark than there lain daylight Upon first tnought it would seem to be the tact. There are many circumstances whioh make night travelling comparatively safe. All work uson the track is stopped. Comparatively few other trains are on the road. Switches are more likely to be right than at any other times, as they are not in use for other trains, and are locked. The sig nals for night trains, being made at night, would scarcely fail to be ob served and obeyed ; and what is more important, would be seen at a greater distance than if made at daylight. The engineer has less to attract his atten tion than in daylight While after all. a rock or tree falling across the bend in the track In broad daylight or an intended obstruction, is nearly as much a "bidden danger" as if encountered in the night. There are many places in nearly all roada where the range of view ia less than the reflecting head light at night So, after all it would appear that one could take a night's rest in arailroad car with comparative safety. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. The happiest women, like the happi est nations, have no hlatory. Of all Uie work that produces re ulu, nine-tenths must be drudgery. The world Is a looking glass aud gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at It and It will In turn look surly upon you; laugh at lt.and with It, and It Is a jolly, kind companion. TKocKeray. Thnnt la no mutation, that It Is far preferable to remain under the Influ ence or moderate errors, wan to oe Dan dled about for the whole of Ufe from' one opinion to another, at the pleasure, and for tho sport of superior lntelll genoe. (yf Bmilh. There are 450,000,000 of people in China, and all men, women and chil dren wear cotton clothing, both trpper and under. Allowing ten yards, for the outfit of each person, of cotton doth weighing five ounces to the square yard we have 4,600,000,000 yards of cotton cloth, weighing 700,000 tons. The mnlberry tree Is universally known not to put forth 1U buds aud leaves till Uie season is so far advanced that, In the ordinary course of evenU, Uiere Is no Inclement weather to be ap prehended. It has, therefore, been called the wisest of trees, and in heral dry It la adopted as an hieroglyph) of wisdom whose property Is to speak and to do all tilings In opportune season. A Bible has been printed In Oxford. University wnich Is Drobablv the small est ever printed. It is four and a half Inches long, two and three-quarter inches broad, and half an Inch thick. It Is printed on rough, unbleached In dian paper, extremely thin and opaque and weighs, bound in limp morocco leather, less than three and a half ounces, going through the English post for two cents. The aborigines of New Holland grat ify their taste by consuming a kind of worm found In rotten trees, and which they discover by the sound which the tree gives on being struck in a certain manner. Serpents are eaten freely by some tribes ; and others, such as the European gypsies, prefer the flesh of animals whieh have died a natural death to those killed and dressed ac cording to the mode usual in civilized countries. It is asserted that while California produces 8,000,000 gallons of wine, the home consumption does not amount to more than 1,500,000 gallons. In first hands the wines are known to be abso lutely pure, for which reason they are extensively Imitated by a fraudulent article abroad, or so, adulterated as to entirely lose their original virtue and flavor. For these reasons the foreign demand for the article is much more limited than It should be. Palslev. near Glasgow, is Drobablv the greatest thread-manufacturing centre In the world, its exports of sew ing cottons for last year amounting to near $8,000,000. The United States is the best customer, taking last year 2, 314,000 pounds, valued at $2,450,000. The exportation to this country, how ever, is decreasing, Uie Coatsea and the Clarks, two of the largest firms, having established mills in tills country, and American enterprise also having suc cessfully gone into the business. We have been often told "a little learning is a dangerous thing," and we may be just as well assured that a little bread is not the safest of all things ; it would be far better to have plenty of both ; but the sophism of those who used this argument is. that it represents the choice between little and much, whereas our election must be between little and none at alL If the choice is to be made between a small portion of Information or of food, and absolute ig norance or starvation, common-sense gives it decision in the homely proverb "Half a loaf is better than none." According to a recent and elaborate estimate, upon what partlculaa data is not stated, the Swiss are the greatest letter writers In the world, carry Ing on in a year a correspondence of twenty three letters for each inhabitant. Eng land comes next with twenty and a half, and the United States occupy the third place with nineteen. France, far behind, holds only the ninth rank as a letter-writing people. The Swiss are also ahead as telegraphists, forwarding eighty-one despatches for each hun dred persons, against fifty-one in Eng land and nfty-three in the United States. The closing of the Franciscan monas tery at Salmunster, in Germany having been directed by the authorities, every thing portable within the building was carried off by the monks, not excepting the stoves. One gigantic stove, how ever, withstood their efforts, and was purchased at the government sale of Uie property by Prince Ysenburg-Blr-steln. This mammoth stove which stood in the refectory of the monastery is said to have been built in the fif teenth century, and according to the monks, Is the identical stove at which Martin Luther, on his return from the diet of Worms, warmed himself in the house of his friend Ulrich von Hutten. French polish for furniture can be made by putting half an ounce of shel lac, the same quantity of gumlac and a quarter of an ounce of gum sandarac into a pint of spirits of wine. Put them all together in a stone bottle near the fire, shaking it very often. As soon as the gums are dissolved it is ready for use. Now make a roller of woolen rags soft old broadcloth will do nicely put a little of the polish on it, and alBO a few drops of linseed oil. Rub the surface to be polished with this, going round and round, over a small space at a time, until it begins to be quite smooth. Then finish by a second rubbing with spirits of wine and more of the polish, and your furniture will have a brilliant lustre, equal to new.
Lenoir News-Topic (Lenoir, N.C.)
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May 4, 1876, edition 1
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