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1h 1 w w III f fie r si VOL. I. NO. 15. The Crowded Street Let me more slowly through the street. Filled with mi ever-shifting train, Amid the sounds of step that beat The aranaoriog walks like autnmn rain. flow fast the flitting figures come ! The mild, the fierce, the stony fsoe Some bright with thoagbtlese smiles, and some Where secret tears hare left their trace. They pass to toil, to strife, to rest To halls in which the feast is spread To chambers where the funeral guest In sflenoe sits beside the bed. And some to happy homes repair, Where children, pressing cheek to cheek, With mute caresses shall declare The tenderness thev cannot hhaaIt Shall shudder as they reach the door Where one who made their dwelling dear, It flower, its light, is seen ne more. Youth, with pale cheek and tender frame. And dreams of greatnestt in thine eye, - Ooeat thou to build an early name, Or early in the task to die ? Keen son of trade, with eager brow, uviw uuiitnug in liny snare I Thy golden fortunes, tower they now, l! .t . .... . . . . . V mtii me guttering spires in air ( Who of this crowd to-ni ht sballread The dance till daylight gleams again ? Who sorrow o'er the untimely dead ? Who writhe in throes of mortal pain ? Some, famine-struck, shall think how long The cold, dark hours, bow slow the light,; And some who flaunt amid the throng Shall hide in dens of shame to-night Each where his tasks or pleasures call, They pass and heed each other not : There is One who heeds, who holds them all In His large love and boundless thought, These struggling tides of life, that-seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end. William Cullen Bryant. 01 lEff MHGHBORS AT P0RKAP0G. BY THOMAS BAILEY. ALDBICH. When I saw the little house building, an eighth of a mile beyond mv own. nn the Old Bay road, I wondered who were to be the tenants. The modest struc ture was set well back from the read, among the trees, as if the inmates were to care nothing whatever for a view of the stylish equipages which Sweep by during the summer season. For mv A. TT 1 " V .m psurs, i use to see the passing, in town fuauh MB hft own ttv letor, who seemed to be 'r. twie architect of the new house, super intended the various details of the work, with an assiduity that gave me a higl opinion of his intelligence and executive Ability, and I congratulated myself on the prospectof having some very agree able neighbors. It was quite early in the 3pring, if I remember, when they moved into the cottage a newly-married couple, evi dently; the wile very young, pretty and with the air of a lady; the husband somewhat aider, but still in the first flush of manhood. It was understood in the village that they came from Bal timore ; but no one knew them person ally, and they brought no letters of in troduction. (For obvious reasons I re frain from mentioning names). Jt was clear that, for the present at least, tbeir own oompany was entirely sufficient for them. They made no advances toward the acquaintance of any of the families m the neighborhood, and consequently were left to themselves. That, appar ently, was what they desired, and why they came to Ponkapog. For after its black bass and wilk duck and teal, soli todeis the chief staple of Ponkapog. Perhaps its perfect rural loveliness 3e Droor sK a. kv r W"ig mgh up nndtr the wing of the Blue bills, and to the odorous breath of pines aod a sFwdars, it chances to ha tVi A m Awl JUL UB b CU- chanting bit of genuine country within fifty miles of Boston, which, moreover can be reached in half an hour's ride by railway. But the nearest railway fsta tion (heaven be praised 1) is two miles distant, and the seclusion is. without a w. 1'onkanoo' h a . -. two nailf Lid render the place .,, looKsiiiu a Wknpact viilaire at a ditan k i . uumveis ami disappears the moment you drive into it -has quite large floating population. I do not allude to the perch and pickerel. in the colonial days, there are a number ;ve draggling off to ward Milton, which are occupied for the summer by people from the city. These birds of passage are a distinct class from the permanent inhabitants, and the two seldom oloselv aMiimiUf, n uuxcdh mere nas been some previous connection It e mat our new neighbors rere to come under tha, haaA uun ui per manent inhabitants- then, ua i . , I -"-j uu uuiii ineir own house, and had the air of intending to live in it nil fh. . e " j cm ruuaa. Are you not going to call on them ?" asked my wife one morning TWU ii . uu aey can on us," she replied " But it is our place to call first, thev Sing strangers." 3 iThis was said as seriously as the cir- uwuujw uemanaea; but my wife turn- uu w"n wugh, and I said no a, -iwitje irasung to her intuitions lese matters. ae was right. Bhe would not have received, and a oool not at home " Id have been a bitter social pill to we uhu gone out oi our way to bo iw a great deal of our neighbors, A nevertheless. Their cottage lay between us and? we postomee where he was never to be met by any chance and I caught frequent glimpses of the two working in the garden. Floriculture did not appear so much an object as ex ercise. Possibly it was neither ; maybe they were engaged in digging for speci mena of those arrowheads and flint hatchets which are continually coming to the surface hereabout. There is scarcely an acre in which the plowshare has not turned up some primitive stone weapon or domestic utensil, disdainful ly left to us by the red men who once held this domain an ancient tribe call ed the Fnnkvrjoaes. a forlnm which, one Polly Crowd, figures in the annual Blue book, down to the Southern war, as a State pensioner. I quote from the local historiographer. Whether they were developing a kitchen-garden or emulating Prof ScMie mann at Myoenm, the new comers were evidently persons of refined musical taste ; the ladv had a voine of remov able sweetness, although of no great com pass, and I used often to linger of morning by the high gate and listen to her executing an operatic air, oonjec- curaiiy at some window up-stairs, for the house was not visible from the pub lic road. The husband, somewhere about the grounds, would occasionally respond with two or three bars. It was all quite an ideal, Arcadian bnsiness. They seemed very happy together, these two persons, who asked no odds what ever of the community in which had settled themselves. they There was a queerness, a sort of mvs tery, about this couple, which I admit piqued my curiosity, though, as a rule, &ftve no morbid interest in the affairs of my neighbors. They behaved like a pair of lovers who had run off and got married clandestinely. I willingly ac quitted them, the one and the other, of navmg no legal right to do so ; for. to onange a word in the lines of the poet, " It is a ioy to think the best We may of human kind." Admitting the hypothesis of elopement, there was no mystery in their neither sending nor receiving letters. Bat where did they get their groceries ? I do not mean the money to pay for them that is an enigma apart but the gro ceries themselves. No express wagon, no butcher's cart, no vehicle of any de scription, was ever observed to stop at their dom'cile. Yeh they did not order family stores at the sole establishment in the village an inexhaustible little bottle of a shop which (I advertise it gratis) can tarn out anything in the way of groceries, from a handsaw to a pocket handkerchief. I confess that I allowed this unimportant detail of their house keeping to occupy more of my specula tion than was creditable to me. In several respects our neighbors re- minded me of those inexplicable Der- sons we sometimes come across In great cities, though seldom or never in sub urban places, where the field may be supposed too restricted for their opera tionspersons who have no perceptible means of subsistence and manage to live royally on nothing a year. They hold np government bonds, they possess no real estate (our neighbors did own their house), they toil not, neither do they spin; yet they reap all the numer ous advantages that usuallv result from honest toil and skillful spinning. How do they do it ? But this is a digression, and I am quite of the opinion of the old lady in David Copperfield, who says, jjet us nave no meandering 1" ihough my wife had declined to risk a ceremonious call on our neighbors as a family. I saw no reason whv I should not speak to the husband as an iudivid ual, when I happened to encounter him by the wayside. I made several approaches to do so, when it occurred to my penetration that my neighbor had the air of trying to avoid me. I resolved to put the suspicion to the test, and otia forenoon, when he was sauntering along on the opposite side of the road, in the vicinity of Fisher's saw mill, I deliber ately crossed over to address him. The brusque manner in which he.. harried was not to be nuronderataotf. nt course I was not going to force myself upon nun. ; It was at this time that I began to form uncharitable suppositions touch ing our neighbors, and would have been as well pleased if some of my choicest fruit trees had not overhung their wall. I determined to keep my eyes open later in the season, when the fruit should be ripe to pluck. In some folks, a sense of the delicate shade of difference between meum et tuum does not seem to be very strongly developed in the Moon of Cherries, to use the old Indian phrase. I was sufficiently magnanimous not to impart any of these sinister impressions to the families with whom we were on visiting terms; for I despise a gossip. I would say nothing against the persons up the road until 1 had something defi nite to say. My interest in them was well, not exactly extinguished, but burning low. I met the gentleman at intervals, and passed him without re cognition; nt rarer intervals I saw the lady. Afterra while I not only missed my occasional glimpses of her pretty, slim figure, always draped in some soft black stuff with a bit of soarlet at the throat, but I inferred she did not go about the house singing in her light-heartei man ner, as formerly. What had happened ? Had the honeymoon suffered eclipse already? Was she ill? I fan- WAKRENTON, N. . i m SL I - I AlArl ah a wA .11 3 A V t i i . uw ww ni, ana mat i detected a certain anxiety in the husband, who spent the mornings digging solitarily in tne garden, and seemed to have re- unquisned those long jaunts to the brow of Blue hill, where, there is a superb view combined with sundry ven- eraDie rattlesnakes with twelve rattles. As the days went by it became oertain 4.1 J. it- - 1 -. 7. - . . tuo iaay was connned to her house, pemapa seriously ill, possibly a con- a -i . . - urmea invalid. Whether she was at, tended by a physician from Canton or Milton I was unable to say; but neither the gig with the large white allopathic horse, nor the gig with the homeopathic sorrel mare, was ever seen hitched at the gaturing the day. If a physician had charge of the case, he visited his patient only at night. All this moved my sympathy, and I reproached myself with having hard thoughts of our neighbors. Trouble had come to them eariy. i would have liked to offer them such small, friendly services as lay in my power; but the memory of the repulses I had sustained rankled in me. So I hesitated. t One morning my two boys burst into the library with their eyes sparkling. iou Know the old elm down the road ?" cried one. "Yes." " The elm with the hang-bird's nest ?" shrieked the other. " Yes, yes I" " Well, we both just climbed up, and tnere s three young ones in it !" Then I smiled to think that our new neighbors had got such a promising lime tamiiy. Atlantic Monthly. A Domestic Comedy. TTiwA i 1: lli i ... aacic io uMiie cornea y wnich was acted out in the southern suburbs of Louisville a few days ago: Scene I. Pa (who together with ma is going to spend the day at Aunt Sal lie's in the country) " Now be a good boy, Frankie, and take care of things jute a little man." Frankie " Es-sir." ma" And don't go near the cistern nor meddle with the clock nor chase the chickens." Frankie "No'm." Pa " And don't en ahont tha afahu and remember you are not to touch the horse. If I hear of you even going into tne staoie l u maxe you see smoke. Un- derstand, sir ?" Frankie" Es-sir. " Dn ( A .1 1 Till . a ojiu xuuvue u get you a pair of skates to-morrow. You are not to go aoout tne horse,now ? Frankie" No, sir. Pa (patting his head)" That's right: you are pa's little man." Ma "And ma's" (kisses him good- bye). Scene II. (Two hours later Frankie goes to the stable, bridles the horse, rides into the street, knoaks down an old woman's apple-stand, col lides with a milk wagon, and is finally stopped and taken home with no other damage than a broken bridle-rein. Scene III. Frankie sitting on the woodpile chewing hour after hour the broken end of the bridle-rein. acene IV. Ma (on her return) Inrf -rrmt 1 J 1 --" unr ou UCCU utttll IU6 cis- tern, nor meddled -with the clock, nor chased the chickens ?" Frankie" No'm." .Fa "And you haven't been about the horse ?" Frankie "No, sir." Pa" That's a fine fellow ! Here are some chestnuts Aunt Sallie sent von." Scene V. (at the stable) Pa "Franklandl" Frankie "Es, sir." Pa --"Come 'ere. sir!" (loweringlvi " What does this mean ? Look at this bridle ! Didn't I tell you not to go near the stable, sir ?" Frankie " Es, sir; but but I ain't had the bridle 'tall. I ain't an' it looks like like the calf has been a-chewin' of it again it does." Pa-" It does that-away ; that ever- lastin' calf 1 I'll sell him to-morrow. It's the second new bridle he's ruined." Scene VI. A. calf led to the butch- ers; a father buying a pair of skates out of the proceeds; a happy boy on the ice. A Buried Forest, It has been recently discovered that an oak forest lies buried in the valley of tue ruiaa, near Kosenburg, Hesse uassei, uermany, at a depth of from six w nine itxre doiow tne surface. The wood flourished at a very remote period, The greater number of the trees discov- ered were in good preservation; but, owing to the action of the water through unnumbered ages, they have become buujruuguiy oibok in color. They have ftlftO hpmmfl vamr hmu .1 1 n , I iv.j uu ou j tuuet!, bo tnat they would be good material for carving and ornamental cabinet work. Some of the trees are of great size; one taken out of a gravelly portion of the bed op- TWkaifA fl-l Ck nll.nn T 1 . I r-""-- ui jxtumoacQ, and srnce sent to the geological museum at jerun, was nny-nine feet long, nearly five feet in diameter near the root, and about thirty-eight inches at the top. Even larger specimens have been found. It is reported that the furniture and fittings of the geological museum at mar marourg are to be made from this long- ounea timber, it is not yet decided whether these buried oaks belong to a species still existing or- to an extinct. one C, FEIDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1879. FARM, GARDES ASD HOUSEHOLD Household Hiata. mean a crass Kettle before using I I . . i m it for cooking with salt and vinegar. See that the beef and pork are always UJlde brine, and that the brine is kept 8weet and clean. Lames will have a less dis&irreeahia I - ' 0 smell if you dip your wick-yarn strong hot vinegar, anddrv it. Woolens should be washed in very hot suds and not rinsed. Lukewarm water shrinks them. Never iron flannels. Hartshorn will restore colors taken out by acid. It may be dropped upon any garment especially black) without do ing harm. vr nxap MUYB HJ1U IOrKS 111 woolens. Wrap them in good, strong paper. Steel is injured by lying in woolens. TtnUlna 41 L I. 1 i . mint, uave ueen used lor rose water should be used for nothing else; if scalded ever so much, they will kill the spirit of what is put into them. - IMtswiA mliA u 1- Jl ... r. i . - j-uwD wuu uuuu) uanuies win nno it a great improvement to steep the wicks in lime-water and saltpetre and dry tnem. xne flame is clearer, and the tallow will not run. Indian meal should te kept in a oool r - " place, and stirred open to the air once in a wnue. A large stone tint in the middle of a barrel of vv meal is a good thing to keep it oool. Spirits of turpentine is good to take grease spots out of woolen clothes, to 11 . m. ... taxe spots of paint from mahogany fur niture. and to cleanRe hii w n' ,TOT" Cockroaches and all other vermin nave an aversion to spirits of turpentine. nwuuuK-uttu iuii oi coats, or a shovel of coals, held over varnished furniture will take out white H r i it, . uare snouid be taken not to hold the coals near enough to scorch: and the place should be rubbed with flannel while warm. opots in lurniture may usuallv be cleaned by rubbing them quick and hard 1 SB -m . . witn a nannei wet with the same thing wnicn tooE out the color? if mm ipa the cloth with rum, etc. The very best restorative for defaced varnished furni- . .. . ture is rotten-stone pulverized, and mb- on Wlth lm8eed oil . 8llk or anything that has silk in it. Bnoma oe washed m water almost cold. not water turns silk yellow. It mav be washed in suds made of nice white soaD 1 AW out no soap should be put upon it Avoid the use of hot irons in smoothing sua. jjiitner rub the articles dry with a soit ciotn, or put them between towels and press them with weights. Manure for Orchards Wood ashes are, doubtless, excellent for orchards, but instead of beinr nut around the trees, they should be spread over the land. But where are the ashes to come from in this region? We have little or no wood, and, of course, little or no ashes. In our limited exnerienftA " lomueu one turner a tout or chards,4 as well as fruit trees of everv kind that we have enltivaterf nA . we believe, the principle can be applied pretty much to everything that grows upon the earth, which is. "that the application of manure benefits them all " Ground occupied by fruit trees should be manured as liberally as are other portions of the land used for the rais ing of wheat or corn. It is the neglect to d so, in connection with the negli gent with which the orchards are J. A "1 ureateu in many sections, that makes them unprofitable, and to be worn out permanently. And as to the kind of manure witn wnich orchards oueht to be treated : While without exception, will prove an ad- vantage, mere is none in the world to be compared with barn-yard manure. A liberal application of this onlv eVPrL third year, while careful rrnninff er. mg, and washing the trunks of tha trees, will make a prodigious change in the orchard. This tD dressing nan ha applied at any time when the ormmH i nt frozen, and if not bestowed in too heavy lumps so as to ininre the :Ar. chard) grass, will yield a couple of tons f good hay. We have known thraa uH crops of hay to be cut from one or chard. Germantown Telegraph. Protecting Trees In Winter. Many fruit trees are lost everv vear lor want of a little care at the proper time. Many young trees are destrovei by rabbits, and many almost every winter y the heat of the sun in warm days toward spring. Frequently the rays of ue sun, shining on the south side of the trees, will take out the frost, and if near spring, start the sap, and probably in a day or two it will turn very old. This -sudden thawing and freezing will cause the bark to crack up, and perhaps peel off the next summer, and very fre- I'll : . . 1 hudu'v am or unppie tne tree, a pre- ventive is to take what is called " straw board," or the thick paper used under the ceilings in building houses, or to take tin, or basswood or hemlock bark, nnJ L 3 XI 1 - . put wouna me tree, and let it ex- tend pretty well up around the body of the tree, so it will keep the sun from taking the frost out When setting trees, they should be marked, so that the side of the tree that stood to the north in the nursery is set to the north when put in the orchard. This will also 88ve many trees. O. S. Tempter, in Country Gentleman. , Alabama clears some $30,000 working out her convicts. a year I " " . TIMELY TOPIC'S. Street thieves in Montreal snatch fur caps from the heads of ladies. A . ' wortingmen in Philadelphia have over $70,000,000 invested in co-opera tive loan associations. The finest wheat in the world is grown in Barbary and Egypt, a fact whioh has always existed and always will, on ac count of climatic influences. The Scotch s the poorest. The total number of periodicals pub lications in the United States is 8.703. nM4 o oin . " ismuoii O,ou a year ago. mere are thirteen more daily and 307 more weekly newspapers than this time last year. i ne. united mates government will make a determined effort in 1880 to as oertain the number of Indians in this country. Just now very little about it W Tn'a?&l Meaham Wy8 266'000' and Gen. Sherman Duts it at 222 mn ' Caleb Cushing, it is said, could read sixteen hours a day for a month and never forget an important fact obtained m tnat time. While attornev-general that , w w ne ,w, have hlB meal8 brought to him " uin wrmg-aesx. nis cus- 1 or inii v W 1 w-sr- 1 f. i . " uiwsu was j eat tne entire meal without looking at it or resting from his worst. at. .Loms has a free lodging house, Z T w w P". mostly wr prn ifAm x u lzii t i P8' MeP ery night. A new rule is that everv inAtrar mn( and on the first night of its enforcement the physicians operated on nearly 400 " . arms. Many objected, but the alterna tive was a night in the streets, and as tks i. U 1 -a . . uo wwmw was Ditteny ooid. none chose it. xne robbery of a Chicago jewelry story in broad daylight was bold and successful. Three men rode up in a sleigh. One stayed in his seat and held md fastened it on the ontside by pnt. i , 4 .. ... K P1300 01 wooa in tne latch, so that y canUL me out of 'be store. oixuwiitxj me snow window with a hatchet, and grabbed two bags of dia monus worth 56,000. All three rode rapidly away with the plunder, and have not been caught. A correspondent mentions a source of danger in the use of kerosene lamos wnicn eeems to have been generallv ovenooxed, namely, the habit of allow ing lamps to stand near hot stoves, on "u,fFs m otner places where y Dscome heated sufficientiy to con- gas Nofc unfreqnently P3rns enSaged in cooking or other W 8tove 8tand ,tbe lamp on an adjacent mantelpiece, or even on tne top of a raised oven; or when ironing will set the lamp near the stand on which the heated iron rest n needless to enlarge upon the risky char acter of such practices. How to Barn Coal. A very common mistake is made and much fuel wasted in the manner of re plenishing coal fires, both in furnaces and grates. They should be fed with a little coal at a time, and often; but servants, to save time and trouble, put on a great deal at once; the first result being that almost all the heat is absorbed by the newiy-put-on coal, which does not give OUt heat until it has beeome raA hnt Menoe, for a while the room is cold: but when it becomes fairly agldw, the heat is insufferable. The time tn vAniond a coftl fire is M BOOn M tbe 00818 begin to show ashes on their surface; then put on mrely enough to show a layer of D1ac coal covering the red. This will 800n kmdle 8nd 88 there is not much " an excess of heat will not be given out Many also put out the fire by stir- rmZ tne 8te 88 HOon as fresh coal is Put on thus leaving all the heat in the a8neB when " should be sent to the new I mPPl7 ot coal. The time to stir the fire is just when the new ooal laid on is pretty wen Kindled. This method of managing a coal fire is Muumosuiue, out it saves iuei, gives a nnnkl.n.M 1 L IM. . - I more uniform heat, and prevents the discomfort of alternations of heat and cold above referred to. Where the Timber Goes. To make shoe pegs enough for Amer ican use consumes annually 100,000 cords of timber, and to make lucifer matches 300,000 cubic feat of the best p:ne are required every year. Lasts and boot-trees take 500,000 cords of birch, beech and maple, and the han dles of tools 500,000 more. The baking of bricks consumes 2,000,000 oords of wood, or what would cover with forest about 50,000 acres of land. Telegraph poles alrealy up represent 800.000 trees, and their annual repairs consume 300,000 more. The ties of railroads consume annually thirty years' growth of 75,000 acres, and to fence all the railroads in the United States would cost $45,000,000, with a yearly expendi ture of $15,000,OCO for repairs. These are some of die ways which American forests are going. There are others: packing boxes, for instance, cost in 1874 $12, 000,000, while the timber used each year in making wagons and agricultural implements is valued at more than $100,000,000. A Glacier Meadow et the Sierra. Imagine yourself at tha Tnolnmne da springs on the bank of the river, ai days journey above Yosemite valley. You set off northward through a forest that stretches away indefinitely before you, seemingly unbroken by openings of any kind. As soon as you are fairly into the woods, the gray mountain peaks, with their snowy gorges and hol lows, are lost to view. The ground is litteted with fallen trunks that lie crossed and reorossed like storm-lodged wheat; and besides this close growth of pines, the rich moraine soil supports a luxuriant - growth of ribbon-leaved grasses, chiefly bmmos, triticum and agrostis, whioh rear their handsome spikes and panicles above your waist. Making your way through this fertile wilderness, finding lively bits of inter est now and then in the squirrels and Clark crows, and perchance in a deer or bear, after the lapse of an hour or two vertical bars of sunshine are seen ahead between the brown shafts of the pines, and then you suddeni, - emerged rom the . . UU"J I.rom me lurrWL HM Hii fiwH iiru-m a do imhrn M uougum ui JlATpiO lawn lying smooth and free in the light use a iase. This is a glacier meadow. It is about a mile and a half long by quarter of a mile wide. The trees come pressing forward all around in close. i i o iuuuu iu uiuoc. serried ranks, planting their feet exactlv ml on its marcin. and hnldina thmnwic J -" r v ?o erect, strict and orderly, like soldiers on parade; thus 1 bounding the meadow with exquisite precision, yet with free curving lines such as nature alone can draw. With inexDreesible delitrht mn waoe out into the grassy sun-lake, feel ... . mg yourself contained in one of nature's most sacred chambers, withdrawn from the sterner influences of the mountains. secure from al' intrusion, secure from yourself, free in the universal beauty. And notwithstanding the scene is so im pressively spiritual, and you seem dis solved in it, yet everything about you is oeating with warm, terrestrial, human love, delightfully substantial and familiar. The rosiny pines are types of health and steadfastness; the robins feeding on the sod belong to the L!T. ' Z . . ..,I' i j o bis Tory lntmu- ely these are tae very friend flowers of the old home garden. Bees hum as in a harvest noon, butterflies waver above the flowers, and, like them. you live in the vital sunshine, too richly and homogeneously joy-filled to be ca paDie 01 partial thought You are all eye, sifted through and through with light and beauty. John Muir, Scribner. in 1 he Weather for 1879. Richard MansiH's " Almanac of Plan- etary Meteorology" for 1879, has the loiiowing : if the positions of the planets affect the temperature of our earth's asmosphere during the year 1879, as they have done when in similar P08101! during the past Yearn ( nar. ticularly the positions that gave us the mud wmter of 1877- 73 and earlv sprinff of 1878), we may expect very erratic sea WW A. W sons during 1879. Agreeable to this theory we shall have oool weather set in early in the antumn of 1878 ; it will grow cooler somewhat faster than the mean of the season in November and through December, with temperature below the me in ; tolerably steady cold weather through January, with temperature below the mean ; win ter will continue through February followed by a cold March. We shall be flatterei by the prospect of spring during a few days about the middle of April, while Mercury is about passing its inferior conjunction with the sun, but this will soon mum mv anA tne weather, or temperature, sink be law be average of the season, and will probablv remain hplm tha mon throughout May, June and July while we hU move into a hot, stormy sum- mer about the last days of August, and tQese conditions continuing through September and most of October .Between the autumn and winter months cool droughts will likelv prevail over hurge landed countries in the tem- perate zone lrcatel far from the seas. fhue an excess of oool rains will probably occur on and about the ssacoast countries during the same term. These abnormal irregularities of the aeasons of 1879 must affect the crops in many and great parts of the earth during the year. "Rome Sentinel" Brevities. Old Bore-us The exchange fiend. Old Sol is not very much of a prodigal sun this winter. ' The home of the brave "The wig wam of Spotted Tail. Cassabianca probably delivered bis well-known speech on deck-ora.ion day. It is not so much upon the quantitv as the quality of a man's work that his good name depends. This also applies to his talk. Grown people may discuss the merits of great men and envy them, but the average small boy knows of no man in this world whose merits he can discuss so intelligently and whom he envies so much as the end-mas of a minstrel show. The emperor and empress of Germany state that they do not wish any gifts at the coming anniversary of their wed ding. Kaiser, why under the sun didn't you say so a little sooner. We have ex pended about half of our wealth for an elegant present, which is even now on its way to Germany. T was ever thus SUBffllPTIOH PRICE $2.00 per An Items or Interest. The song of the sea Nep-tune. Running for office The office boy. There's many a slip 'twixt the foot and the ice. A man who carries a watch is behind time. The worst aches will heal, the heels will ache. Fast friends Two young men their wild oats. Every man should be taken according to his faoe value. A photographer belongs to the tin type of humanity. Goal miners dare not sty nothing has been made in vain. In down in the mouth. Despise not small things; the largest corn is always found on the smallest toe. A clock records time with its hmds, but a regiment marks time with its feet The man who unexpectedly sat down in some warm glue thinks there is more than one way of getting badly stuck. Tnere was a young man in the city Whose pants were so nice, 'twere a pity To soil them: but witty Boys spattered the pretty Light lavender pants. Henoe this ditty. -Ac York Mail. A Paduoah (Ky.) paper says money is so scarce in that place that even the change in the weather is hailed with pleasure. Toasting reputations are of slow growth. The man who wakes up famous som morning, is quite apt to go to bed some night and sleep it all oS.Josh BiU ling. In Japan the Fourth of July is now a general holiday, because on that slay was fought the decisive battle of Uyeno, in the contest which resulted in the es tablishment of the temporal power of the Mikado. The proprietor of a building site in Wisconsin advertises his land for sale in this wise: " The town of Poggis and surrounding country is the most beauti ful which nature ever made. The scene ry is celestial; also two wagons and a yoke of steers." He took tw o steps. His heart flew oat, Off shot his specks. He gUfcHffia; - 'He flew Hteps thirty-two? And lit. Hart !" said we, " No r said he, "Bat icy The galaxy." The Prussian returns of births, deaths, and marriages for the year 1877 have just been published. From the figures quoted in the German papers it appears that 1,092,200 children were bom in the year in question. The number for 1878 is stated te have been greater. There were 716,400 deaths, 378,500 of males and 337,900 of females. Fourteen per sons had reached the age of 107 years, 228 the age of 102 years, 3,568 were be tween ninety-seven and eighty-eight years old, 27,252 between eighty-seven and seventy-eight, and 58,249 between seventy -seven and sixty-eight The num ber of marriages contracted was 210,300, against 221,700 in 1876. i Large Farms. A New York paper has the following editorial : The experience of the last few years has shown that the cultivation of great farms in the West, where they are ai most entirely owned, has been anything but lucrative. They have proved in the main both injurious to individuals and the country; the failure of the colossal farmers in Illinois being exam ples of the untoward fate attendant upon gigantic enterprises of the kind. Farming on a grand scale, even with the assistance of improved machinery and implements, is a dangeTane erpri -ment here, and usually" terminus dis astrously. The majority of agricultur ists who have made money on small farms have lost it on large farms, and this experience has been repeated in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska and Dakota. The trouble is that our big farmers undertake far more than they can accomplish, and their grand ambition ends in partial or slov enly cultivation. It is estimated that the money sunk by large farmers during the last ten years amounts to more then $100,000,000, and it is thought that their failures have tangnt them a valua ble and much-needed lesson. Much of the success of France has been ascribed to the subdivision of the country into small farms, which, thoroughly tilled, support a large population. Although we do not usually regard France as ag ricultural, she prod noes more wheat, it is said, than the whole of the United States. Her crop for 1868 is represent ed at 850.000.000 bushels, while ann or the same year was only 210.000.000 bushels. Wines, silks, laces, oil. and fine fabrics of divers kinds are not her sole exports; she sends enormous quan-, tities of grain, batter, eggs, and other household prod acts to Great Britain. Two-thirds of the entire area ef Franc under cultivation, while little o one-third if so much is under, ti v ation in tins country, and hf arms yield on an average, per acreyfnree or our times what the broed regions of the West do.
The Warren News (Warrenton, N.C.)
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Feb. 7, 1879, edition 1
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