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l y : TH1 BLUE ijlDGE BLADE, 1 J H. HALLIBURTON, Editor and Proprietor. MORGANTON, N. C, SRDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1SS0 VOLi V. NO. 1. 4?T A BECOICD WEDDEsre RIHCK - ISamnel Bishop (died 1795), Muter of Merchant ' TaTlot'siol, irrotemMpoeBUrth best of which la In praise of his wile, on the anaiTersary of her wedding-day, which was also her birthday, with I ting; , ' " Thee, Majy, with tlis ring I wed," rVi fuiirtowu fears ay. 1 said. , ' IVtuiltl another ring ! Fof wTiat 7 To wol then o'er KiQ? Why nott With Unit first ritig-I married youth, ' (iraco, beauty, innocence awl truth; Ttislc 'huirak sr-De Iwk rewred, Awl all my M-Jly thim appeared. If .tin.-, l,v m-ril s:iif'.'jf1ii's.d, It -ao tiri 111 ' woman' I supposed, 1 pi.id tit:kt fl'i'il'liMn-Tit n4w, ' Tnti'T ilmiMi.- vow; lli-iv, liir 'i t.i;;;-- '-.villi tiit It assure, Willi anior ititiMi-;", as pur, - As wiii.'ti :imi'i toe til' 'tivinf, 1 took tov trritltrand j'!t .htpt mioe) '.; Totjco, iircti'iil. inj "".ail ring A.tnken aii'i a iiib- 1 lnim; '.Villi tliw rltti I wed, till death us part, Tiiy riiK-r virtui'H to my heart; v ' "Those virtnefl which, before untried, jwjwjfc.fca adrkd to th" liiiile; vVf enjo.ru, niy aongarAunMa, ---r-nnsriem'eke, as weaaslere's. , - 'Andwhyt Thiiy (haw lulotsry hour ' Honor's high thought, aft'uction'i power, PfsLTPtion'sdcl, sound jtidiruient's sentence, And UsicJi ine all things but repentance. TUE WAY TO WIN. Edward Stone stood impatiently upon the top step of Uncle Dan's stately resi donee. , There was not the faintest sum of life anywhere around the whole front part of the house was closed and darkened; and having rarg several times without eliciting any response, he . was about to conclude that there was no one within hearing, when a head was thrust out of the upper window. " Young man, go lOund to the side door." ' Considerably startled by this unex pected address, the young man obeyed. Upon tli8 porch - Crushing away the leaves that covered it, was a young girl of fifteen. She looked very pretty as trne stood there, the bright autumnal sunshine fulling on her round white turns and uncovered head. Betting down her broom, she ushered him into a medium-sized, plainly-furnished room which gave no indication the reputed wealth of its owner. The young man took a seat, brushed few llecksof dust from the lapel of hi coat, ran his fingers through his carefully arranged locks, and thus de livered himself: " Tell your master that his nephew, Edward Stone, is here." 0 A faint smile touched the rosy lips, afid with a demure "yes, sir," the girl vanished. A few minutes later an elderly gentle man entered, with intelligent, strongly marked features, and a shrewd look in the eyes, which seemed to take the men tal measure of his visitor at a single glance. " Well, sir, wh&t ia your business with me?" " I am your nephew." "6o my daughter told me. What do you want?" "I was thinking of going into busi ness, and thought I would come and talk it over with you, and ask you to give mo.a Lift.". , ; , .U'; " What better capital do you want than you already have? AiUong able bodied young man wanting a lift? You ought to be ashamed of yourself H What have you been doing?" .Edward's face flushed - with anger at this unceremonious language; but 1 feel imr that he could not afford to quar . rel with his wealthy' relative he gave no other indication of it. " Saved nothing f rom'your salary, I suppose?" No ; its only five hundred ; not more than enough for .iiy expenses." "Humph I You are able to dress your 1 self out of it, I perceive. I have known men to rear and educate a large family on Ave hundred .a year; and if you have been unable to save anything, you certainly are not able to go into business on your own account. When I was at ( your age my Jftoome was lees than three hundred dollars, and I saved half of it. '.What is the business you wish to engage " Stationary and books. Six hundred aonars wiu buy it, m Mr ownr is obliged to fell ; a rare chanv I don't ask you to give me the amount, oil lend it; J will give you my note withjinterest." " Young man, I have sevfral such pa pers already. You can have all of them for five dollars; and I warn you that it will prove a poor jinvestment at inau I can give you some advice, 'through, whichif you follow will be worth a good many times over the amount you asked. But you won't do it." " How do you know that?" said Ed ward, with a sm .In, who began to feel more at home with his eccentric rela tive. " I'd like to hear it, anyway." " Well, hear it is. Go back to your place in the store, save three dollars a week from your salary, which you can " easily do ; learning in the meantime all you possibly can in regard to the busi you wish to pursue. At the end of four years you wilt have the capital you seek, together with sufficient experience and ' judgment to know how to use it And, better still, it will be yours earned by your own industry and self-denial, and worth more to vou than ten times that amount got in any other way. Then come and gee me again." " You'd rather have my money than advice. I daresay," added Mr. intone, as Edward arose to go; " but we'll be bet- ..ter friends four years hence than if I let ' you ' have it. Sit down, nephew, the train you have to take won't leave . untiLix,in the evening. You must stay to tea; I want you to see what a . complete little housekeeper 1 have, and make Tm mjquuintfd with her." " Polly 1" he called out, opening the door into the hall. in jirompt boedience to this summons a ro3 cheeked, bight-eyed girl tripped in. fte neat print dress had been cham) for a ettv merino, but our . hero (jd not fait flo recognize her, and his fa flushed painfully as he did so. " Fllyl" conttaued her father, " this is yoil cousin, Edward. ' He leaves on the sj o'clock train, and I want his short stay with W as pleasant as possi ble." " Polly is my little housekeeper," he added, turning to his nephew: "I hire a woman for the werk, and Bh'e does all the rest When she's eighteen she shall have all tbe servants she wants, bnt she must serve her apprenticeship first. It may stand her in a good stead ; she may .take it into her head to marry a poor man, as her mother did before her. Eh I my girlT". , v r Mary's only reply to this was a smile and blush. Our hero was considerably i embarrassed by the recollection of the mistake he had made, bnt the quietly cordial greeting of hia young ho teas soon nut him comparaiivflv at rest. At her lathers request vac -rzi rery proud of his daughter's varied accom plishment Mary sang and p!ayed for her cousin ; and his visit ended in singu lar contrast to the stormy way it com menced. Edward refused the five-dollar note tendered to him at parting for iiis traTelinitlexpenset. The old man smiled as he returned the note to his pocketbook. "He's a sensible young chap, after all," he remarked to his daughter, as the door closed after his guest. " It's in him, ii it only can be brought out We shall see, we shall see." " A good deal for father tojay," was Mary's inward comment, who thought her cousin the most agreeable young man she had ever met. Three years later Mr. Stone and his- daughter paused in front of a small .but neat pleasant looking shop, on the plate glass door of which were the words : " Edward Stone, Stationary and Bookstore." ' It Heine too early in the day for was the cheerful response. " Curiously enough it is the same business that I wanted to buy then. The man who took it had to borrow money to pur-ciftrr- Ha&h'ateingaG Aqfe jvolved -Just wnat you wanted tyvao.-- Edward smiled at the point made by his uncle. " It isn't what I've done though. I've saved four dollars a week from my sal ary for the last three years ; and so was not only able to pay the money down but had fifty dollars besides." " Bravo I my boy," cried the delighted old man, with another grasp of the hand that made our hero wince. " I'm Froud of you I You're bound to succeed, see, and without anybody's help. I told your cousin Polly that when she was eighteen I'd buy her a house in the city ; that she should furnish it to suit her self, and havrall the servants she want customers, they touna tne proprietor alone, whose face flushsd with pride and pleasure as ha greeted them. " I got your card nephew1," said the old man, with a cordial grasp of the hand, " and called around to see how you were getting on. I thought it was about time I gave you that little lift you asked of me three years ago. You don't look much u if you needed it though." " Not at present, thank you uncle," ed, and I've kept my word. Come around and see us whenever you can. You'll always find the latch string out." Edward did not fail to accept the in vitation so frankly extended a very pleasant intimacy growing up between the three during the twelve months that followed. Our hero's business grew and prospered until he began to think of re moving to a larger place. His -uncle had given him several liberal orders, as well as sent him a number of customers, but said nothing more about assisting him in any other way until Christmas eve.' Entering the room where Edward and his daughter were sitting, he said: " I mustn't delay any longer the little li't I promised you, nephew, and which you have well earned.' Edward glanced from the five thous and dollar check to the lovely face at his side, and then to that of the speaker. " You are very kind, uncle far kinder than I deserve but " " But what, lad t Speak out ! . would you prefer it in some other form 1 " Edward's fingers closed tenderly and strongly over the hand he had taken in M(, :i - -" " Yenl uncle in thi." The old man looked keenly fn one to the other. " You are asking a good deal, nephew, .folly, bave you been encouraging this young man in his presumption? " " I'm afraid I have, father," was the smiling response. , ' . " Then go, my daughter. I give you into worthy keeping; and if you make your husband's heart as happy as your mother did mine during the few short years that she tarried by my side, he will be blest indeed." Cleopatra's Seedle. General Loring, of the Kvptiitn Army, In Bt. Paltl Pioneor I'leda. "How is that obelisk regarded la Egypt?" ' It is the only object of great histori cal interest left Alexandria, and it won't be there long. It is the first object you Bee in approaching the city from the sea. The obelisk that went to England had been buried for a hundred years in the sand some thirty feet from the one Btanding. Both were brought, from Heliopolis by Cleopatra and placed in front o: the place of the Ctesars. The Kew York pbeli.-k is much better pre served thari the English trophy, and the writing on it is more distinct. It is one of the oldest obelisks in tVe world, and was constructed during thr.t splendid eraof art of tlie twr'fth dynasty, a thou sand yearp before Joseph. Not a man in Egypt could realize that the Khedive had given it awav. They were all wonder-struck. When England was moving her obelisk there was general re joicing inEsrypt when the rumor came back that it was lost in the sea." "'What is the color of the New York obelisV?' " It is the color of a brown-stone front on Fitth Avenue. It came from the famous quarry six hundred miles above Cairo. I thiuk it is about seventy feet hieh. Thi granite, fresh from the quarry, spark'.ts like jewels. The grand est ot all one lists is still sacred in tne Temple of Karnak. It is a hundred feet hih and is the most beautifully cut and engraved of all known obelisks. The one in I'aris was iu this temple and is tne second in heisrht in the world, There is oue in the quarry like the one at Kama's. The New York obelisk is a thousand years older than either of the others. . The most interesting one, his torically, is still.at Heliopolis. It was cut 3,004 years B. C, and preserves nil the style and grandeur of the finest sculptures of that brilliant epoch oi Egyptian art.' It is the only object left of ihe splendid citv of ' On.'". It stood ir front of the .Temple of the Sun, of which Joseph's father was the priest, wher Moses learned his Egyptian wisdom and where J?lato, Solon and "Pythagorai tcarnea uieu pniiosonny." A Goose With History. - Wett Chtr (Pa.) BpuMi. A reporter of the Republican had the following related to him a day or two ago by a party who knew it to be true. Something over a year ago a younir girl of West Bradford Township, about' twelve years of age, had presented to her a goose egg by a neighbor where she was visiting. She carried it home and set it under a hen and hatched out a young gosling of the masculine gender. She married k Mr. Scott, and tht resided on the farm" now occupied by Caleb Pennock, West Bradford. The old gander lived, flourished and f u rnMied feathers lor a number of bedr. Mrs. Soott died at an advanced age, and re quested in her will that the gander anouiu not oe an tea or go on tbe place, and It ts now living, being something over eighty years of age. It is very cross and will attack jiersons, tear their clothing, and is as spry as some other geese on the farm which are twenty five, years old, 1 FOR THE MHO FOLKS. Grand Auntie von Tierle had or dered the great family coach and par taken oi luncheon, and at one by the clock, sat wrapped in her tippets and flappets, for her grsnd-nieceg( dM, lings, the treasurers, had put their pretty heads together and for what? Why the great family coach, with Vixen and Spanker, shouldbe ordered to take them a- ride. What a tour they would make! 8ince Grand Auntie von Tiezle came iu possession oi tne great coach, no such marvelous routo had been projected. In fact, why should it have"been? Were not Spanker . and Vixen creatures of blood and mettle? Was not the coach a marvel ot beamy anatoluh! Was not Grand Auitie von Tiezle herself given to cramps and stiches, and v -But it was plain there was anew lea? to be turned with the coming in of the n H ' 8Urer an that Grand Auntie von tiezle had ordered the coach forgone o'clock, and that Bradley, the butler, had been given " who could tell what to make of it? n;iiUnti?,Ton and her caamonea in the in the great in a flutter; clatter! pnrl iuawi. xy jen neart was eaca tongue was all a horse was in a scamper, and the wheels flew round. O Crrand Auntie von Tiezle Was not cer tain about the time it would take to reach Crimpten; it was usually corfsid ered a drive of an hour; everybody thought au hour was not long, and be gan glancing to! the right and to the left, to the left and to the right, to note the progrew on the road. Everybody glanced carelessly, then more carefully then leaned forward in astonishment! Everybody turned to look at everybody' for the coach, at that moment, was dashing past Grand Auntie von Tiezle's own mansion, which they had left with Bradley and the maid servants, and had believed to be amile away! " It is strange;! Itiaodd! It i8 pagj understanding !"r chimed three youn voices. l: Quite remarkable," said Grand Auntie von Tiezle, lying back in the flying coach; and they whisked around a comer, went a block and whisked again around a corner, and, in a trifle of time, were again dashing past Grand Auntie von Tiezje's own mansion 1 Astonishment, sat on every face. "What can be the matter! What can the driver be doing I What can he be dreaming of ! " Impatience mingled with dismay as the horses flew along, dust blew up, and the Bashes were at a clatter, and Uli dct sat, tall and serene, driving Spanker n.A T7-; Would GrandbAuntie von Tiezle ever i speak to him? Would she ever ask aim? Would she ever do nythirie but say :" It is lather ndd ! " " It is vexatious! It is outrageous! " Grand Auntie von Tiezle looked in Iperifict dismay sie heard the ( hiatioriglrom'Ttfi Lrwui.. ' You are on yonr way to Crimpton, are you not, myj dears? It seen;- you are in need of patience." " In need of patience! - On the way to Crinpton? Why Auntie von Titzle, we are but this minute passing, for the fortieth time, the; house from, which we started." i "Ah I" said Anntie von Tiezle. look ing provokingly through her glasses. '""'.'i i" in n ntiui, my aears. Blodget has his orders; he understands the lines" ! "But the road. Auntia deur thn road!" i " The road? Ah yes. it is all correct : it is some miles to Crimpton ; I told Blodgett to drive as fast as he dared." tfut he hasjiot started: he is vet at your door!" I es I well.ihe m turn the corner in a moment. You jm. the roads are poor, a mile beyond, ad I told Blodget to drive the proper number of miles around the block, for wanted him to get to Crimpton, by a smooth and easj1 way" ; Nobody could speak. Astonishment wm giving way to fear. Had Auntie von Tiezle and the driver on the box gone mad? But she continued, quite sanely: " It is .foolish. you -Kn0w, my dears, to ao things oy hard ways ; it is silly to drive over roujh roads when you can fly over smooth onf-?." " We have lost OUr Kew Year1 f rnlir-1 We have lost our ride to Crimpton 1 " cried the voices. "Silly dearsl We are riding right alone." " But the roajd ; there is a right onn : there is only one way that leads to Crimpton!" There is only one way! Ah! How? The real road,, the right road! Then we must take the right road, must we? Then it will not do to go by easy ways, irrooth ways, dur own ways?" Oh, you wicked, teasing Auntie!" chimed the voices. " You mean to show as" o " That if youj mean to do anvthino- this year you must tsct think abont it talk about It-" w " We see it all now we understand it all now." " lo you want to acquire knowledge' Then do not talk of books, and sigh over the covers, and glance at the fmt page and the last page, and hope to get over the difficulties, simply by ridintr aronnrl the block. Great men haVe found it hard to tug over! Choose where tou wish to go this year, and get on road. Do you want t0 fearn patient, gentle? make haste and cet on the road not some easy, smooth rou H the-block road, but the real, right road beware this year of riding round the block when you want to g0 to Crim :s;ii-.saft,i,,tVif"S get on1 roads that led mm, wher.-r-L1 Blodget had pew order-. ,,, Jf Jh flew around, and the dt,t hill k! and on before went Spaitkpr nj .uti and evervbodv know f . 1Ten mile.,. .1 they were at last on , j ' vnutt . the- , '7' nal inmpton, ana wnat s inure . , . , .au to there! O otat Klinale. i. c. W. J1 or January. ' , Children, do vou ever t . . . that nothing was made in ,;', ,Inink vin? If, why not? We can look ar.JUa(j ' aot; see flees, beetles, mosquiu, "8 &nd many other living things Hi'ch have do uiwful iniwuon in lii, i , " 10 we think thatfNature had xl . heo fool away in experiments we',r. mistaken. She knew whM , ml? about when she gave a lwd.bue fM rows of teeth and a 2:40 itlu u J0" had her eyes wide open whn',1 " "e double joint iu the bind le, . "'-"le The insect which i bold f you ia a grasshopper. In soma locn.-,re where they have no dullar itot street sprinklers he it termed ! ist, but he is the same bird under all i tea. These insects date back to the timi tea the first rail fence on earth was ilt. and they were only two weeks eat up the last shyer of it They are lik est chaps who want to borrow five an for a day or two-scattered all o' the world. They knock their heads i nst the Pyramids of Egypt, and go ii im tng on the coast of California, aey make a noonday lunch for the Ii m! wigwam, and they eat rapper thi palaces ef kines. Jfew great men seem to haye ren much attention to the study i the grasshopper, although there ia oi him to study. - He hasn't got n jij legs as he might have, but he ia i the grasshopper to sneak off and poSvei that. You will see that the riumfJi nas are unusually lono- nri tt t. Jointed and so spread out (Mrrlfts. cornea rfnwn - X on anything tfteretft slips and prams in store for hi If the rnmimrotm. i-J man had limb given to the grasshobner. hlnlH ee a woman with a red sash-ribfa on seven miles up Woodward averT Ii his limbs had the comparative stigth of a grasshopper's, he could kTin a hundred saloon doors in an eveml and not teel a bit weary. These h legs are hinged, for jumping. tture jump a full ten feet, and wfien ty of them come down shejt, it is be. ise of imj .uujpoBition. I Observe his eyes. They axels set that he can see in all directions Jonce. While chewing away on the hile of a barn-shovel he can look for 1 corn with his left eye, and squintfcr the farmer's dog with his rightJWhen you imagine that you can get tt skulk on a grasshopper you are baly left of a man could see as well alhis in sect, his wife would never bAble to surprise him while walking inlie park with another lady. In addition to his long legs le grass- "opper nas wings, ana is theliore en abled to keep track of thini over i vast extent of country. ThJ idea of pinning a chap like him dofu to one township and one e-rade of uricity would be absurd. When tired of walking around over the stubble-fields lome old hopper gives a signal toot oihis horn and away goes the whole drote. some times in one way and acain iJ another. There is always some one oa hand to estimate the exact number of h cloud of these insects. It is eenerallyj the post master or some one else cood in neures. and the number is always given as twelve billions. If there happen to be two or three over they are some lame or blind old insects not worth counting. Grasshoppers were built to be hungry. They can eat seven or eight square meals per day and pick away at the bones of a grindstone between times. They would no doubt thrive much better on a steady diet of raisin-cake and plum-pudding, but grasshoppers cannot have just what they want in this world. tTfl in well n n nn Vintartv knows as a whole he can be got along with j much better than a man two-third drunk. Detroit Free Press. Actual Truth Not the Aim of Art. P. O. Hamerton on Bnbena in International Review. The popular error is a confusion of art with morals or with science. Truth is of great importance in morals, and of supreme importance in science, wmca rejects a proposition when it is proved to be untrue; but truth is of very secondary importance in the fine arts. How fully art may exist In the simple absence of truth is proved by music, one of the noblest and richest of the arts, one of the most imaginative, one of the most influential over the souls ot men, yet simply destitute of truth. Poetry'is not destitute of truth in that absolute way, but it is careless of it, and frequently, when it has the choice, pre fers falsehood, if the falsehood is charm ing, powerful, or pathetic. The poets do not seek to eliminate what is fabulous from history and tradition. They pre fer the fabulous, and they are not even faithful to legends as they find them, but embellish them for their.own pur poses. They do not care in the least what science has to say ; they give de liberately false measurements of depth, height and distance ; they alter the facts of natural history. Shelley affirms that the lark is not a bird but a spirit; Byron maintains the unscientific theory that the nightingale loves the rose and sings for it; and Scott solemnly declares that when a poet dies, mute nature mourns for him just because it lis pleasing to think so. Hundreds of the most charming and best remembered parages of the poets are simply beauti ful lies; so that poetry has been not in accurately defined as the art of lying beautifully. Again, in dramatic writ ing, which is supposed by simple-minded people to be truer than light and fanci ful verse, the speeches which are put into the mouths of personages are such . .i 11 - aforro flf TtfrVl 1 1 PA as ten wen uyoii 05, v. r- . aa ..v... j , v i .i strong efiect on the reader, but they; are very seiaom sucu as r- such circumstances would actually pro nounce. Shakespeare in PulM haa an all but complete indifference to that sort of truth, for he makes his characters deliver orations to each other at times when real persons would say very little . but this was with a view to the business of the stage. Every actor knows that if he lets i chair or walks across a room exactly as such things are done in rea life the "fleet will be bad, and that h his to learn to do these things by art .u a manner which the experience of actors has ascertained to be artistically better 5W truth. So it is with the paint, of great masters-people who fancy hat H is the truth onow the craft of the artist has succeeded ta im t ng upon them. They may be la a lte of mind favorable to the simple Iniovment of works of art, but they can IZI very little about them cnticaUy. numbly imitative sort He touted . , i ...1 njirBnn nnrfar not as tney -.j- : nr, !S t he concerned himself little .bout & rtoXandmuch about himself-. It DM WW oa v iua uinh i true in this sense. . remarkably in- mat i" r ,!...,,,rlent manner. His style, all tatiff .ttw-. And hif admit, was a ver -. nr. willful restatement of nature in .Trms? The painting which was "'"l IZ to nature and no more "ml fvl destitute of style. Mr. Can 0UlSuS Satinet f Kuben. confers that w ht to be saved :dJikoftheUanschool., from trtest "l . d To me it seems ",1 :.t Bain?tok and left with 1 to hi. own strong personal reference to hi. nature. 8I. .j ..i .bstractvwtfc Talue. HEW TOMFTFTT TU2S AGO. I Tmlk M OM Sow Yark br Wa. (;""i.siJ!l"!,,k.ttM When I was a boy. said Mr. Dodge ia a conveioational tone to the audience, there vera only 85,000 Inhabitants in New York. I remember going to the old stone bridge, which was entirely cut off from the city. I remember well the first murder 1 ever heard talked of. A William street tailor killed his wife. He was hanged oa a hill at Broadway and White street The Battery then was a promenade and the Castle Garden was a i ort. - The Bowery tireen was a beautiful spot near the city. . I recall the fact ot a minister who had a church in Wall street, hiring a house in White street as hit residence. - itobert lennox, the father -of the present Mr. Lennox, f fostuttet with him for hi impru dence in living so far up town and hay ing a church ia the city. The old watchers were a curious institution. These men used to shout through their horns the hour and that all was well, and they could be heard by nearly the whole of New York. We used to take a great deal of paint to drum up custom. In 1826 I wens into business on my own account. I had for my partner an old family friend who had been graduated from Yale College. He came down to the city with the idea that he knew a great deal about every thing. I had sold a large amount of goods to eastern and western peddlers. Peddlers in those days used to stop at the villages and show their goods. Soon after we started in business, three of these peddlers came in with leather straps over their shoulders. They caw something they liked in the window, and came in to make a bargain. They had large tin boxes with them. I said to them while they were in the store : "I see that you have started in business just like myself. I would like you to put your tin boxes there," pointing to a place in the store, "and have your goods sent here, eyen if you don't buy any thing from me. I want to make a show of business and people will think I am doing a large trade." They selected places and were well pleased. My part ner from Yale came to me and said: "Are these what you call customers?" I said, "Yes, large oaks from little acorns grow." He didn't quite agree with me. These three peddlers grew to be noble men. Oiiei is in Ohio, and another is in Danbuj-y, and has accumu lated a large fortune. In those days, when the minute eer vice began in the churches, two chains were stretched across the street, and no one was allowed to pass the church. Brooklyn was a very small village then, with not more then) jU.IKXJ inhabitants. There was no ferry, and hundreds f little boats of all sorts and colors were st the river front, ak thick a the lack men are now at the Grand Central De pot They charged ten cents. After ward there were thehorse-boats to carry people across. In 1824 the first steam ferryboat went ovet to Brooklyn. Not sr the ferry in Witt uunton pushed forwai orward the areat plan ef uniting the Hudson River with the lakes and of forming a canal. It was decided that the State shculd build the canal. In 1825, it was completed. A canal boat came from Buffalo to Al bany and was towed down the Hutison Eiver. The steamboat Chancellor Liv ingston, loaded with the leading men of Western New York, was on the river to celebrate the event. De Witt Clinton was there and also Dr. Mitchell, who had brought bottles of water from" the Western lakes. He made an address. He poured the bottler of water from Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and the other lakes into the river, and said that the commerce of the West was now to be mingled with the comme.ee of the world as these waters were mingled with the water? of the world. True Stories About Animals. Eawktye.l One damp afternoon the turtle came waddling out into the big room to borrow a little sand to lay his eggs in. " My friend," the elephant said, " yours is a very hard case." " Yes," the turtle replied, " but while there's life there's soup." The elephant was greatly astonished, for he didn't know the turtle was given to that sort of thing at all, and all the other animals grinned, because, you see, it wasn't often that the elephant met anybody in the menagerie who could talk to him. " Well," said he, after a pause, " it's a good thing your back is so broad." " Yes, it is," replied the turtle, "be cause there's no telling what make comb of it." The animals cheered softly and the elephant looked amazed. " Well, old go-as-you-please," he said presently, " you pay as you go, don't you: " Oh yes," the turtle said, " 1 have to shell out every once in a while. How's hides?" he asked cheerfully. i. -tu . i - i . i i l vu, lury ic cosy, inccitr iuauisoiu, i a little ma,bej but nothing to worry over. House-moving business keeps up, I reckon ?" " Yes, yes," the turtle said, " nothing rushing particularly, hut I'm in and out all day. Nothing unusual in shawl straps, is there?" Tne animals cheered at this delicate allusion to the trunk business, and for he first time In his life the elephant looked as though he was going to lose his temper, but he rallied and said : " Ob; no, much the same as usual ; just a kind of hand to mouth business. By the way, didn't I see your father's old overcoat up in front of the restaurant yesterday f' 11 f -nA vnn AlA mmtA ftlfti. lg. JVU U1U, MUU UIV, VIA. v.v, " he wasn't the kind of a man to die and make no sign. Going down into the billiard-room pretty soon t" The elephant said " no. they'd have to excuse him, but if they'd wait till the hyena came along he'd have some native whine with them." And then the turtle aid "all right, he'd drop in about tusk." And the menagerie went to supper that night with the greatest enthusiasm. But the elephant was very quiet, and only poke once, and that was to ask the os trich where he supposed the turtle grew to be so cute? And the foolish bird of the desert tossed an iron bolt-head down its throat, and replied: " Picked it up, I reckon." And then, children, the elephant grinned and said there seemed to be an epidemic in the menagerie, and he leaned up against the center-pole and went to bed- Miss Stevess, a young American lady, has taken the highest diploma for porcelain painting in London, and has orders from the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Connaught Her representa tion of American autumn foliage is said to be especially beautiful and effective. The Process of Incnbaboa. There are many things the existence of which the majority of us live and die ia ignorance of. Only by close obsef fatten do we acquaint ourselves With asm interesting facts. We know that a ken sets three weeks before bringing out her young ; a turkey sets four wesks r about twenty-six days; the common duck nearly the same length of time; while the robin brinks ont her fledgling ia about eleven days. The young oi the latter bird is not fully formed when it comes from the shell. The eyes, beak, and feathers grow afterward, and the body grows into shape, requiring fully eleven days more before the young bird can help itself, and indeed for many days after leaving the nest it is fed and cared for by the parents. The "People's Practical Poultry Book " says ot incubation: " The hen kiLL scarcely set on -her eggs twelve bow beiotc some lineaments ot the nead ana body if the chicken appear. The heart ms v he seen to beat at the end of the second day of incubation. It has at this time somewhat the form ef a horse shoe: but no blood appears. At the end of two days two vessels of blood are to be distinguished, the pulsation of which is very visible. One or these is the left ventricle, and the other is the root of the great artery. At the fiftieth hour one auricle of the heart appears, ri'spnililinp- a noose folded down UDon itself. Ihe beating of the heart is first observed in- the auricle, and afterward in the ventricle. At the end of seventy hours the wings are distinguishable; sin 1 on the head two bubbles are seen for the brain, one for the bill, and two for the fore and hind part of the head Toward the endjofithe fourth d'ay the two auricles already visible draw nearer to the heart thanibefore. ihe liver ap pears toward thei end of the fifth day. At the end of one hundred and thirty- one hours the first voluntary motion is observed. At the end of seven hours more the lungs and stomach become visible; and, four hours afterward, the intfitines. loins. and UDDer-iaw. At the one-hundred-aud-lorty-fourih hour the ventricles are visibls, and two drops of blood, instead of the single one that was seen before. On tne seventh day the brain begins to have some consist ency. At the two-hundred-and-nine- teenth hour the bill opens, and the flesh appears on the breast In four hours more the orrasrjone is seen, in six hours after this the ribs aDDear. (form ing from (he back,) and the bill is clearly visible, as well as the gall-bladder. The bill becomes green at the end of two hundred and thirty-six hours: and, if the chicken be taken out of its covering at this period, it evidently moves itself. The fea'thero begin to shoot out toward the two-hundred-and-forlieth hour, and the skull becomes gristly. At the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth hour the ribs are perfect At the three-hundred-and- tlarty-hrst hour tne gpieen araws near the stomach, and the lungs to the chest At the end of three hundred and fifty five hours the bill frequently opens and shuts, and at the end of the eighteenth day the first cry of the chicken is heard. Ii-a&arwacd. gets uou strength, and 1 n . : 1 1 l .u t . ! U -mt- ' " Mil Kb leil&bU Lb 1Q enabled to set itself free from its con finement." In the whole process, we must remark that every part appears in its proper time. If, for example, the liver is formed on the fifth day, it is founded on the peceeding situation of the chicken, and on the changes that are to follow. No part of the body could possibly appear sooner or later without the whole embryo suffering. The Richest Man in Italy. fParU Slebe. Count Telfener is reputed to be the richest man in Italy. He purchased ehe of Sing Victor Emanuel's estates' ifl the country, and he also taught the (ate King's palaoe at Maccao, and the royal villa outside Porta Salara. The pur chase of the Maccao Palace was effected before, and that of the Royal Villa on the Via Salara after, the death of Vic tor Emanuel. On occasion of the pur chase of the Maccao Palace, Bignor Telfener was created a count. Last year Count Telfener married for his 3econd wife, Ada, the sister-in-law of Mr. Mackey, the millionaire, who.now resid. sin Paris. Part of the wedding festivities consisted in the exhibition of races between Count Telfer.er's horses, on a course laid out in the Royal Villa, which was thrown open for the day to the public, and was honored by visits from King Humbert and the notables of Rome. The title of the Royal Villa was changed, in compliment to the bride, to " Villa da." Honors and riches seemed to pour in upon Count Telfener, and he was elected to represent Foligno in the Chamber of Deputies; but he never took his seat, technic.il onjections to his return were raise 1 en the ground that, as an Au-iiri.-n subject by birth, he was ineli gible to represent sn Italian constit uency. Thcso objections might, of cor.rre, Lave been overcome by letters of naturalization. Ihe newspapers, huwev r, announce that CountTelfenor ha rt -i.;: ed his seat for Foligno, and iritcii:- to fix his residence in Paris, win-re he will open a bank. 1'iv this transfer of domicils Rome lore- :vti'lion.ire, and it may be ex- pec i il ihat the crates and palaces pur lr.d from the royal family will be offered for sale. .The Telfener palace at Maccao is furnished with regal sump iouness. The Villa Ada possesses very ex'ei.nive grounds, commanding most int-rn lirtnr views. The palace erected by Wci-r Emanuel isnot finished in the ii ti r r. but requires some thousands to rtv.d' r it habitable. Rumor said thai iii'-!-c properties, on which the late Ivi:i eipruded millions, were sold for a com pa rat: ve trifling su" , The Power of a Cyclone. In discussing the two cyclones which visited the Bav of Bengal in October, 187G. Mr. Elliott. Meteorological Re porter to the Government of Bengal, in cidentally gives some idea of the cyclo pean forces which are developed by such storms. The average "daily evapora tion " registered by the Bengal instru ments in October is "two inches." The amount of heat absorbed by the conver sion ef this amount of water daily over ao large an area ss the Bay of Bengal ia enormous. " Roughly estimated, says Mr. Elliott, " it is equal to the continu ous working power of 300.000 steam en gines of l.OOii-horse power." A aim pie calculation will show that it suffices to raise aloft over 45,000 cubic feet of water in twenty-four hours from every square mile of the bosom of the bay, and transport it to the clouds which overhang it When we extend the calculation from a single square mile to the area of this whole Indian Gulf, the mind is lost in the effort to conceive the force which, in a day's time, can lift 50,000,000 tons! Yet it would be easy to show that such figures, fabulous as they seem, do not adequately represent toe cyclonic iorces oi a single storm, ABOUT PEX51E9. ITawr They ClrlliH m 7 Wee Mm Veed. From Hi. Philadelphia RMMi.J Pennies fire scare, and the Mint call not turn them out fist enough to supply the demand. Coins of this denomina tion are turned out only at the United States Mint in this c"ity, and from here the whole country is supplied. The penny is a most important factor IQ the commerces of the country, much more than most people imagine. The Mint is six weeks behind iu its orders for the supply of these small coins, which is, in part, owing to the tact mat au tne available material is being used for other purposes, and but a small part can be put to penny-mating. " Where do all tbe pennies go?" asked a iifcorrj re porter of a Mint official yes- XenUf. " Weil, the horse-car companies lase a good part of the supply, but we limit each company to $20 worth per day. Then they are obliged to pitch out with three-cent pieces, ot which tney aiw.ye secure large quantities. But the mer chants make the heaviest demands upon us, the great retail dry goods houses tafc inb' all they can get, and then crying fofmore." ' Where are pennies most used! mipstinriprl t.ll rpnnrtflr. " Well, there is no purt in the United States hardly where they are not used,' wm the reniv : " but there are some sec tions where they are strangers, and as rare as gold s dollars are here. In the South the penny is almost unknown, the smallest coin being a five-cent piece, Recently, however, there has been some demand for them from merchants in Georgia and Alabama. In the far West there is but little demand for the penny, but when one gets to St. Louis, or east of that point, then the penny becomes a fmilir friend. Wherever there are six-cent fares on the street-cars then there is s demand from that city for pen nies. Now, Louisville seldom, if ever, calls upon us, while Cincinnati is con tinually crying for the one-cent pieee. New York consumes a big lot, and soo the Eastern States. The two-cent piece was a good help to us for a time, but none of them have been coined for ten years, and all that are sent in and re deemed are recoined into one-cent pieces." " It is a somewhat remarkable thing, but such is the fact," continued the offi cer, "that competition in iraue muura id increases the demand for pennies. Whenever trade is briskest, then the penny is needed most that is, retail trade. When ihe banks take from us, although large, dees not fluctuate like the calls trom the traaesmen. Ane em States are the great penny centers, and it is only as the population of the West increases that it wants pennies, The five-cent piece is the standard coin in the West, but tne penny is maaiug in roads on it, and great ones, too. " Are vou making many Bland dol lars?" was the next question the reporter rjut to the official. " Don't call them Bland dollars, but rtsildlf.riffJrer.Tl" replied theHXfficlal.'hi languart be, nuycouiu nut- ue iuibuulcu. " They nd raland dollars, and it Is a popul-.-'-flctnixAe people make to call theia'V -v. tt name. Now, put that back W?vvtar where you will remem ber it ito were not created by the Bland bill. Which was for free coinage, but under another act" After this kindly correction the Record man determined that hereafter, that if any of his friends come to borrow Bland dollars of him they would not get them not by that name anyhow; per. haps not by any other. This has been one ot the busiest yean ever known at the Mint, . and Colonel Snowden has had his hands full. Most of the time the machinery has been at work night and day. Ihe value of the coins turned out for the calendar year ending yesterday was: Gold, $9,744, 645; silver, $14,815,235; base coins, $165,003. The number of standard sil ver dollars coined was I4,8u,iuti, and the number of gold one dollar pieces 3,030. The official year of the mint does not close until the 30th of June. -i Wouldn't be Bull-Dozed. D.troil Fr.. Pre...) One would imagine that the office of the Water Board would be a good place to secure variety, but such is far from being the case. Outside of the people who pay rents when due and have ne words about it, there is only one other class. The man who has waited until notified that the water will be shut ofl f he doesn't come to time, walks into the office with a look of awful dignity on his brow, and says: " Going to shut on my water, eni" Silence on the part of the clerk. " I'd like to see you try it on, I ouldl If this Water Board imagines that it runs the whole city it will find itself grandly mistaken! ' More silence trom tne ciera. " If the water had heea shut off I'd have given this board such a tilt as it never had before I It can brow-beat some men, but it musn't try any Ctesar- lsm on me! The clerk looks out of the window. " T now ref rue to rtav the rates, and you shut the water off if you dare 1 I'll make a test case of it and carry it to the Supreme Court!" The Clerk .shifts his weight to the other leg. " Yes. I'll carry it to tne cupreme Court if it costs me $10,000. I have never allowed any one to trample on me, and it s too late to oegin now. .... . . ! The clerk softly whistles, and the in dignant citizen starts for the door, halts, returns siowiy, ana says: " No, you can't brow beat me." The clerk begins making out his re ceipt "I know my rights as aa American citizen, and I will maintain them how much is it f "Six dollars," "We have no Cxar In this country, and take it out of this ten." " Fine day." remarks the clerk as he hands over the change. " Yes, purtv fair. This board musn't try to bull-dose me. l a aot the man to submit to any sort oi tyranny. IjOoxj like snow, don't it? Is that clock right? Lota of pipes frozen up, I 'spose. WeH,gooo-iay." A valtjabls cow. belonging to L. K. Smith, of Franklin, after acting very strangely for six months, and being reduced to a mere skeleton, died the other day, and a water snake, which the animal had swallowed ia drinking, waa found in her neck, just under the skin. The snak in attempting to escape from th cow's stomach, had lodged ia the glands of the throat, and worked its way to the skin. Connecticut Paptr. " I'll take the responsibility," a a doting father said, when he held out his arms lor the baby. OOD-HTOHT. bt ax. v at. a aood-Blcht, lb day at a4. The myriad (tan break owheadl Mt km Ilea aleepbw calmly ele Th brook and rUl art weepUc. Tbe Mrda ban aleeed and atuat, Aad toad tarewaU beran; The day baa died, rood nlfht! Blf ht tasaaa rap ta.ro ualj brisk! Oood-alKht, s toad farewell; Tare-nil, aeod-aUfbt, (anU Ocod-Bifhtmy tore, Oood-aaa-ht, tbe etare above Are watcbiBf tbee, faieweill The moea M o theeea, ball Of allTor in Ita nlendor brig Oood-eAtbt, my Ioto, foed-aicha. Var aeay the tiara ra epaee IAaht tbe eBleOdor of thy fieer And It eatahea the beam of Uht, And my lore breathe, nod-ait hif. I, too, en tbe etan pale abowi I, too, watch my Ufa, Bay leret The wind aayi to yon rood a:h. And the aee, -My love, aettrut Oood-nlrht, aood-aJaht, an tbe i eiaee ateewtea Inn radiance OTer alt Tbe opal tope of poplare tall: Bu. an Ifm Hit th. aaOnmi. Weep! my lore. UU the btrfla ewaket Then tood-nlrht, my lore, ' Tbe ear break, white above. ETEBT-DA1 SPICERIES. Half fare a mulatto. Thb amount of money a man leave! is the kind of a funeral pile his relativ w take the most interest in. An Irish farrier once sent a bill to a gentleman with the following item. To- curing your honor's horse that died, 6s." " Art must anchor in nature,"aaid a fashionable belle when she slipped and sat down in a mud hole and stuck there. Sleubenvilte Herald. The New York rprf throws up IU hat and shouts "Ouray for the Indians." C-me, young man, you ought to be a lit rle Meeker. Rockland Courier. "GoinqI" "This," said an auctioneer. holding up a well known volume, " is a book by a poor and pious girl of poor aud pious poems." ' Dioby, will you take some of that butter?" "Thank you, ma'am; I be long to the temperance society can't take anything strong," replied Digby. Grant made the greatest effort of hit life at Pittsburg. He said: "I am fretty good on the smoke myself, but 'ittsburg beats mo." Wheeling leader. A country paper makes the follow ing correction : " For ' It's a poor mule that won't work both ways,' in yester day's issue, please read, ' It's a poor rule,' etc." It is very difficult to find fault with a dear little three-year-old wko buries his head under the clothes anu sings: " Now I lay me down to rlcep Pop goes the weasel. TitR light of exncrlenM haa ahowa, 'fit. it nmri- fittnl, alaa Kit a matr u ciirtltly blow In the fun, Thau 'c& tu blow out the gaa. Tbe betrayed dollar is one that find itself not able to pass for more than -ninety cents after it has been stamped "In God we Trust" New Orleans Picayune. . , A SCTfiER American 'girt U to UHSM " a nobleman. Why is it that our girls refusc'lostippdi't their owa count-ymejjt ' There is a lack of patriotism some- where. Atlanta Constitution. " This Is a hard, cruelly hard world, -V writes a cynic. Yes, it is, it is; and of an icy morning one never know how soon- he'il lose his footing and soma down on it " Purrs meeloee," eald JT.aU last eve, - ' 'Tin biiae to euffocate" Qiioih (iwirne: " My pet, U you'd lua alerra. '; With tbee I'D Hitler, Kate." " Get out of this," shouted an irri tatod merchant to a mendacious clerk. - " this is the third lie I have caught yea in since ten o'clock this morning." "Oh. well," said the new man, " don't ibe hard, on me. Give a fellow time to lean th " 1 rules of the house." ' A great many boys and girls fait desperately in fove with each other, , , and rave over disappointed hopes, be . - fore tney are old enough to tell that ? difference between the heartache aad - the colic. Very few such cases prove fatal. Steubenville Herald. J. A Danbury man sent a boy with, a bill for seven dollars, to be collected. The boy got the money and came back. 1 he mau gave him ten cents aaylnr. Here's for your trouble." The boy took the coin and asked, "Ain't you , going to give me something tor my honesty." Danbury News. Here is a little domestic-economy comedy from England: Clergyman " So I hear you've got married again. Jacob .. Jacobs xes, sur; 1 thought as how winter was coming cm, and Betty, she d got one blanket, and I got t'other, we might aa well make it a pair and be more comfortable like." Prosperity, as the world goes, is like a bar of hot iron. A great many grab the thing, and same people find it too heavy to hold without spitting on their hands. Oswego Record. We prefer ta souse the iron as a sure means to secura the prosperity of our fingers Erratis Enrique, at sure to select - pig Iron you wish to make th souse a success. The very latest style of fe'toci l i j i . mm iiir, ia ouuiiu w.y with a littlfl'ban.i i m jjnittj ain't married eithei 13 09l. spell had nothing to do 1 eavT 'em on a real bona fide 1 iae. i ort uupatcn. I he tou: production of honey ia the United States ha. for years past aver aged about ntty milium pounds area Dually. This year the supply is watp mated at -half that quantity, owing to a failure of the crop la California, aad f partial laiiure la other states. The Story ef Oliver Twist. Th true story of the origin of "Olivet Twist" i. not generally knows. It la this: After tbe amaxing tKXNsaot' taa " Pickwick Papers," Dtckea was ttla ing of following it up by a atory ot London life, with which he waa Beora familiar than with Engtkh country lif. Just about that time he happened to visit the studio of George Cruikahank, and was shown some drawing the latter had made llluawating the career of a Ixindon thief. There waa a sketch oX Fagin's den. with the Artful Oodgat and Master Charley Bates; pictures ot Bill Stkea and hi. dog, aad Kaacy Sikes, and lastly, Fagia ia th COS' detuned cell TVken a as naca struck by the power of these character sketches and the result was that he chart red taa whole plot of " Oliver Twist." lastead of taking him through trpiriUeaa ad venture in the country he introduced him into the theive dea la London, bowed up UMftr Ufa of sin and shame, but brought hi hero through -pare and undefiled. Thus, it will be seen that George Cruikottank, aot Charle Dickens, was the ortgiuator of the leading char acter that appau ia " Oliver Twist. " MB wr 7 7-.:' Srrr- A 1 1 ,-. " . - t 1 ' 1
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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