The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, October 23, 1879, Image 7
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BY KBBK B. BEXFORD.
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.1 never heard the rob nj
( " tilug half so merriiy
As they - ere sinsing Sunday morn
When Robert stopped for u
t . and as we walked together
Along the pleasant line,
-i We heard the quails all pipin
1 heir prophecies of rain.
v We 3topped to ti lk about It,
L And wonder if they knew,
v? And I think that we concluded '
1 he q uailr were prophets true.
"Then I said we inurt not linger,
For the moments would not wait,
And of all things, I dreaded
To be at church too late.
Then we went down the hill-way
And talked of that and this,
And that audacious creature!?
He asked me for a kiss!
1 1 don't Know what I answereu,
I think 'twas no I said
JEut he didn't take my meaning
And took the kiss instead,
lhen we stopped to talk about it,
1 hough to argue was in vain,
For taat wicked, laughing fellow
Up and kissed my lip3 again.
"Or, lor shame!" I cried, indignant,
But he only laughed at this;
"That shouid satirfy you, Mary,
Haven't I given back the kiss?" * >
And ci course I ouldn't blame him
I( he saw fit to restore
Stolen property, and promise
Tort peat the theft no more
"There's another way to settle
If that doesn't satisfr,"
Bobert said, and all the robins
Soared up, sieging, in the sky.
And of course 1 had to listen
To this little plan of hie,
Though it seemed a deal of trouble
To be taking fora kias.J
What the plan ra? Ml not ell you,
You may guess it in the spring,
Eut b. fore we had it eettled
All the u Us began to rlc g!
Ab, we lost lull ball the sermon,
but perhaps 'twas jtist as well,
for of what the preacher told us,
Not a si ntcrice could I tell,
was thinking of the robins
And the words that Kobert said.
Though I knew the choir was singing,
Kobert's voice I heard instead.
And a happier, sweeter Sabbath
Newer came from God above,
For it was to us a seimoD
And the text was only? lovk!
ABOUT WRITING.
BAD FASHION AND TRICKS OF
STYLE-RICHARD GRAN2 WHITE
ON AFFECTATION
New York Times.
There are fashions in writing j saere
are in dress, and in almost etfd.yiiMng
that nertains to the personalit o.'iaea.
And by fashion I do not mean style,
either that which distinguishes the indi
vidual, or that which marks a period*
The latter may be called a fashion more
properly than the former. For example
the old way of writing prose, cumbrous
longsome, and involved, which prevailed
between the Elizabethan period audlhe
* time ol Dryden?who did more for En*
glish urose than be did for English
poetry?was a fashion. Dryden, and after
him Addison, killed.it; and w? may
. be sure that it will rever come to life
again. But it was not a style; it in no
way expressed any mental peculiarity ol
the writer. He merely adopted it, just
as he put on the hat and coat of the
period. The change of fashion which
gave us the modem, free and varied
manner of prose writing wa3 a very great
change; as great as that from velvet and
lace ruffles and big wigs in the dress of
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to wooitii biuua ?uu *uuer uuiura,
natural hair and simplicity. Since then
there have been some changes in liteiaiy
fashion of minor importance. The greatest
of these was the introduction of the
Johnsonian vocabulary and period. This
fashion, happily, soon passed away. Havng
in it a radical element of absurdity,
when assumed by these whose thoughts
needed strength rather than inflation or
decoration, it became ridiculous. Then
came the fashion of elegant language,
and the sway of pedants and
parsers. This was broken down
chiefly by the piose wrifcio? of
Walter Scott, aided large oj ibe
Edinburgh Review writers, *jJ by
Wilpnn ?rd r>thf?rsin
the most vivid oi all narrative v.?j;ax8,
the master Btory-teller of modern days'
was an inexact writer; one who cared very
little for rule of any kind in language,
and who thought nothing ahout the
grammatical construction o- his sentences,
even if he knew anything upon the subject,
which iR more than doubtful. His
influence, which was for freedom, entirely
changed the fashion in narrative style;
and it affected prose style in all other
kinds of writing. Macaulay, the next
succeeding great writer of English prose,
although his style was peculiar and highly
characteristic, cannot be said to have
set any fashion in writing. He presented
the singular union of splendor with
precision. His style cannot be called
chaste, and I venture to say that it can
hardly be called a manly style, so disturbed
is it with consciousness; but yet
amid all its striving?generally success
iui striving?alter striking effects and
imposing orms, it is exact, correct. After
all, its perfect clearness is its highest
beauty, although perhaps not to every
reader its cbiefest charm. But the
trick of Macaulay's writing is hard to
catch, and he has had no successful imitators
and has set no fashion. It were
well if be had more followers in the perfectly
clean and clear construction of his
^sentences; but even then, clearness is not
fashion.
It is not upon such changes as these
raHnat I propose *o remark, but upon cer
^^Bbain rather new-fangled forms of expres^Wsion
which seem to me affected and not
felicitous. The first of theee which I
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of the verbs be, have, and do, in sentences
in which the latter clause makes a
comparison with something set forth in
the former. For example:
"Lord George also was displeasedmore
thoroughly displeased than had
been his .wife.?Trollope?Popenjoyi
chapter 4."
"Bankruptcy lias tended, a3 might hare
been expected, no produce bankruptcy ;
and for all purposes of panic as well as
business, New York and London are as
close as were London and Manchester a
few years ago.?[Pall Mall Budget, June
8,1878."
It is needless to give more instances;
the writing of the day is full of them,
and Mr. Trollope, the chief, and one of
the earliest, if ne t the earliest, of offenders,
is but the foremost man of a multi*
tude. This placing of the verb directly
oftor t.hp rnniunotion or preposition is a
new trick in style. It is sheer affectation,
and, if I do not err, is quite unEnglish.
In such sentences as those
given above, the simple English construction
is, "more thoroughly displeased
than his wife hf.d been," "are as close
as London and Manchester were a few
years ago." The placing of the subject
of the verb after it. except by poetic
license, or in ve ry elevated prose (and
even there with great discretion) is not
English; it is not clear; it is not natural,
No good style, even in the soberest
conversation. If I remember rightly,
Macaulay never uses this construction
ner Cardinal Newman, a very correct
writer, whose taste is unexceptionable.
The fashion came in not long ago
through the desire to avoid a verb of
one syllable at the end of a sentence.
For example : "Mary waa not so beautiful
as her sister was." To end the
sentence with a dissyllable instead of a
monosyllable (a very weak affectation),
the verb was transposed, and we had:
"As was her sister." Whoever wishes
to write clear, manly and simple English
will avoid this foolish fashion, which,
however, has become so prevalent that
it appears with a most ridiculous incongruity
even in such writing as that of
the following passage, from a report of a
dramatic performance by "Count Joannes
"In the audience last night were
many Yale students, who were, of course,
boisterous and jolly, and led the attacks
but justice requires the remark that they
did not say as many funny things as
did two or thre9 newsboys in the gal
lery."
The following construction is the con?
sequence of an affectation of elegance
similar to that remarked upon:
"The marriage is reported in Pike
county, California, of Reuben C. Rogers,
a pensioner of 1812, who is 82 years
old*
"^he death is announced at Fort McHenry,
near Baltimore, of Brevet Maj p
Genera' Barry, the commandant."
"The death is announced at Naples,
on the 24 ih inst., of Cardinal
This overwhelming attempt at elegance
has been made thus far chiefly in the
personal columns of newspapers, and in
(telegraphic reports; but, like all affectations
and tricks of fine writing, it is win
. ning admirer?, and the fashion has begun
to spread and to rise.
A simple, clear and truly English construction
forbids the dismembermen t of
the subject of the assertion, which is, the
marriage of'Reuben C. Rogers or the
death of Brevet General Barry. The
severance of these into two parts and
the thrusting of a verb, a particle, a date
and the name of a place between them."
makes a monstrous sentence. Wemi;ht
as well speak or write our news ps ragraphs
in the style of the 'Paradise
Lost," if we are to make a simple announcement
of the fact in this style.
Another prevailing fashion, still somewhat
new, but which has passed the
stage of novelty, is the holding of one
preposition in suspense for the introduction
of another, so that both may apply
to one object. One example?the folic wng,
from the London Spectator?will be
enough, for the construction is so com
mon that it is not only found in almost
all writing, but has invaded everyday
speech:
"neKnow.?, iurtner, that the Keeperot
the asylum has either been deceived bv,
or is an accomplice of, these doctors."
Now, the simple English construction
in all such cases is, "Has either been deceived
by these doctors, or is an accomplice
of theirs." The attempt at elegance
produces awkwardness. The leaving
of words like by, of, though, far, at,
etc., which present no complete thought
apart from an object, in the air like an
unsupported wing of an army, is disastrous.
But it has become the fashion
and is thought fine. This construction
has one consequence which has a very
bad effect-?so bad that on that account
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uuiv iii buuuiu us uuuuctuueu tuiu auaadoned.
It throws emphasis upon the
least important words in a sentence.
It is almost impessible to read or to speak
a sentence like that cited above without
emphasizing it thus: "He knows further
that the keeper of the asylum has either
been deceived by, or is an accomplice of
these doctors," which is abominable and
ridiculous.
All such tricks are caught. In some
cases they are consciously affected, but
generally they get their hold by simple
infection. No parent, no one who has
observed ?ho habits of children, needs to
be told t'nat they catch bad tricks as fire
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is caught.' by tiader, while to iuiprefs the
good upon them must be a work of u.t
tiriagpatience. Of all bad tricks, those
of speech are most easily caught, a ad are
cast off with the most difficulty. In illustration
of th?s, I give the foiiewicg
letter, which I: accidentally hit. upon
duriue the last week. It is frotr^a very
eminent man, distinguished notomyaa
a philologist, but as a philosopher The
proof of an article by him was submitted
to rue, and I, with a presumption.which,
at the t-ime, hardiy became the di?parity
ofouryesrs aud his literary eiaiuence
questioned his use <?f reliable. Tnis was
his answer:
July J9,1S60.?-Your query, as to re
liable was quite to the purpose, and I
was glad to exchange it for a less oijec*
tionable word. I never meant to use it;
but the contagion ol evil speaking is hard
to resist; and I often find mvssll employing
words which. I should hardly pardon
in another.
Professor Whitney, injured by follow"
lowing a bad example, has a sneer at the
order of mind which-objects to reliable
and prefers to be relied upon, or trustworthy.
If he could have seen the sig
nature to this letter, although he might
not have changed his opinion as to the
word, I am willing to believe that he
would have done so ae to the propriety
of the sneer.
So Romuntfo
A Boston romance, in which a hale
and hearty man of 50 und a slight, little
woman a couple of years younger
figured, is reported. 'die two met on a
rainy day, while hurrying with tilted
umbrellas about their business, a
collision followed, and the woman
slipped to the sidewalk. In picking her
up the man recognized her as an old
flame. Thirty years before, when she
was a Lowell factory girl, and he a poor
medical student at Harvard, they had
loved eaoh other. In 1849 he went to
California and forgot the girl he left
behind him. He prospered ^ business,
became rich, and m arriea.?-. Later his
wife and children died, andin his loneliness
he remembered the Lowell factory
girl. A dream told him she Was in dis w>co
Ha bnrriftd "Kflst to find her. but
looked in vain till they acddefrtally met.
She was a widow, with twobhildren,
and in destitute circumstances, but that
isall over now.
A Recitation in History.
It was our pleasure some timeago to
hear a class recite on a plan qnife new
to us. It was a class in history/ The
lesson was read as in any ordinary! ending
class, the reader standing. UTien
the one reading made a mistake, the
one next below, on correcting it, took
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' ms place, xne reauing imisueu, hud
hardest words were given to the class to
be spelled, and all misspelling noticed
and corrected by a pupil gave him the
next higher place. The teacher did not
notice any mistakes, but left them all to
be corrected by the pupils. The Questions
were asked by the pupils, beginning
at the foot of the class. If the
pupil questioned could not answer, his
place was taken by the questioner, on
giving a correct answer. The pupils
did all the work except giving out
words to be spelled. It was well and
quickly done. What class would like
to try it??Exchange.
A Big Foot or a Big Story.
A young lady in Sandusky can probably
boost of the largest feet in the
world. A Detroit gentleman, who was
in a shoe store in that city when the
lady left an order for a pair of shoes,
brought back a "chart" of the foot
which was taken to secure proper
lasts. The young lady is 17 years of
age, is 4} feet high, and weighs 110
pounds, mere is nocmng remanuiuxe
about her except her feet,'an idea of
the immensity of which can be obtained
by the following accurate measurement:
Length, 17 inches; size
around the heel, 22 inohes; around the
instep, 18} inches; around the ball of
the foot, 19 inches; around the smallest
part of the ankle, 16} inches. The
feet are not unsymmetrical, and the
only discomfort the lady experiences is
from the muscular exertion required to
carry them around.?Detroit Fret
Press.
The San Francisco Female Lawyer.
Mrs. Clara S. Fole is a lady who is
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practicing law in can crancisco, ana |
who, judging from report/ has gene j
about her business in a practical and j
I reasonable manner. She is described as |
' eitting in her office at a table covered
with legal works?a bright, fair-haired,
rosy-featured, cheerful, matronly woman,
neatly attired in a dress of dark material,
over which was worn a most nonjudicial
checkered apron. To an interviewer
she said: " There is nothing to
be said about me. I originated from
the cradle, the wash-tub, the sewingmachine,
and the cooking-stove. I have
educated myself and am now trying to
earn a living for myself and little ones
by practicing law, and 1 mean to succeed,
and tliat's.all there is to be said
about me:"
Where the Raisins Come From.
The raisin market of the United
States is mainly supplied from Spain,
the raisins known as Malagas being
considered the best. They come from
a narrow strip of country in the South
of Spain, which surpasses all other regions
for raisins of that character. The
annual yield of Malaga grapes averages
2,250,000 boxes of twenty pounds each.
Of this enormous yield the United
States takes fully one-half, on which it
pays a duty of 2i cents per pound.
The ingenious device of a Boston
wArf1?lnco Vta/?oiiaa
mnv jiiiiiov x ?> vuiui'.^oj iwvvmhaww
somebody had already patented the
same indention, and the disappointment
crazed him. He is possessed by th e
hallucination that his brains were taken
ont to lie repaired and have never been
put back into his head. That is why, he ;
thinks, that he cannot control his mind. ,
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^ '; /*/ < EC|RH A>*D THERE.
' n^iBosraa OCWJI. XXQLISH.
Prom its snood fell one of her tresses
To the side of her snowy neck,
Where jewels of price and. laces
Her delicate throat bedeck,
And she swapt v.-itli garments trailing
'Ihe carpeted floor that night.
Through thi wide and lofty parlors.
In the bright and glaring light.
And she was a beautiful lady
As ever the oyc might see.
With a dainty, step and modest.
And a manner both frank and free;
Ind the lov.sra.who gathered around her,
And strove for her favor there,
For a a smile, or a glance of kindness,
' Were ready to do or dare,
put. when aie guests departed,
, This lady, so courted and blest,
tseended tl>e stairs to her chamber
That wooed her to pleasant rest.
Disrobed, at the bedside kneeling,
I She prayed that the Christ that died
ilight her from all ill deliver
And the snares of earthly pride.
Inothor, alone in her garret,
So chilly and dreary and damp,
Slow plying her busy needle,
By the light of a glimmering lamp,
tlaggard of look and weary,
I And scantily clad and fed,,
With the past a hopeless struggle
And hope for the future dead,
th<re stood on the rickety table
Bemaius of a poor repast?
The meal that labor had brought her
And each was the same as the last.
Breakfast and dinner and anpper
' Alike on the board were spread,
And her bread and tea we're followed
By a diet of tea and bread.
Par down in tho midnight somber
She nodded and stitched away,
then snatched some honrs of slumber,
To be up at the morning gray.
Bat ere sho sank on her pallot
She thanked the Girer of Good,
Who had blessed her weary labor
With shelter and rest and food.
A year had passed, and the monrners
' -B&re slowly to her place of rest
fhe woman whom kindly fortune
With beauty and wealth hod blest;
And there at the churchyard portals
A funeral entered in
)f the seamstress poor who struggled
Her needs of life to win.
Jne borne in a rosewood casket,
__Witk many a nodding plume,
Mtii a lenguieneu i am 01 coacaes
And tbo pomp of grief and gloom;
Ind one, by a few attended,
i In a coffin of pine was brought;
Ind both lay down in the chambers
By the spado and mattock wrought,
hit ero those bodies were buried,
Aid the clay to clay was given,
Pwo fleslile/ts forms soared upward
And met at the gate of heaven,
freed of the flesh those spirits
And purged of all earthly sin,
fThat mattered their once condition,
As to glory they entered inf
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ALL SORTS.
Siaix is in better credit than Russia,
G{bman cooks cover fish with sugar.
XtB voweuof the patriot?"I want to
be president." V
IhNew Zealand, as in California, the
Cbiaman abounds.
,1mak with a creaky pair of boots has
muse in his sole.
Amoxument to Edward Everett has
V/??3 nnroibiil of. lUlftTinf. A lllnilTl CpTTlP
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Tie convicts of the New York State
prion are refusing to work because
the; do not get enough to eat.
Imnce Louis Napoleon received demojstrations
of welcome whenever he
appared in public at Cape Town. He
has not yet combed any bullets out of
hh&air. ,
Mace has two sons, according to
anLustraliin paper, and they are preacheramong
the iMymouth brethren, one
of hem being a young man of unusual
pjHmse. -f
SlKron, Ohio, has had fourteen elopemnts
within'a year, and married men
thre are taking the precaution at
niiht to cliain their wives to the bed
pat.
1 mad dog in Chesterfield county,
Bath Carolina, recently bit Mr. Tucker,
wb in turn bit two of his children, and
thdives of all three are now despaired
of.
J \ wealthy Boston woman has started
twdritchen-gardens in the city, where
yong girls a) e to be taught housework
byneans of miniature furniture and
utftsils.
'he effects of too much sleep are not
leasignal than those arising from its
prr.tion. The whole nervous system
beunes blunted, so that the muscular
en^gy is enfeebled.
'he scaffolding that has remained for
fift-six years around the tower of
Raen Cathedral, in France, was recti
oed a few days ago, the lantern kavingt
length been completely restored.
hn Chinese are more and more
oning Europeans from the profits they
ha) hitherto enjoyed. They have
laty formed at Hong Kong a Chinese
Msne Insurance Company with a capital
$600,000.
riE locomotives on one of the princip
French railways are provided with
8M clocks placed in front at the bottomf
the smoke-stack. Tliey are not
aflted by the vibration, and they tell
thiation-masters the exact time of the
axial of trains. , ,
tioN Gould and his wife, who were
m^ied nearly seventy-three years ago,
are'ving witn tneir sou, wno ;s /u
ye! "diu, near Moutpelier, Vt. The
huand Is in 99th year, and his wife
in ?r 96th. Th.sT have lived upon the
sai farm all their Lurried life.
iw that the Tramp Is m operatioin
Connecticut, eve^ ingenious
tr^> carries with him evidences of an
ocoation. Some have a btl'B??'
urcella-sticks, and others a ttfflH3^
thrives them the caste of a c!o"h*
mar or traveling tinker.
Iiextific men, after spending years
of udy on the subject, are now pre- *
pai to declare that the 'possum does 1
no!eign death, but that he simply, 1
rea anci truly faints. But how is it
thtke Little chap "comes to " so sudder,
and runs away the moment your
baas turned ? * i
j?ooit settler in Kansas lacked the ?
mes to build a wooden house, and *
plaed one of mud. By means of 1
slolmt excessive work, ha raised the t
wai section by sectioQ^^ting them 8
dry the sun as he^KJ^iced. No 8
soar-was the etru^^Wone than n g
fellto a heap. The builder then com- ?
rnifl stiioide. c
iuso 1878 the American and En- <3
gliKocieties distributed 3,850,376 Bi- c
bleriz.: In Russia, 740,823 in sixty- g
nidanguages; in Turkey, 64,508 in t
niilangnages; India, 343,616; China,
1593; Japan, 61,398; Italy, 52,828;
Fne, 133,160; Serria and R'oumania, ti
1280; Spain, 68,393; Austria, 274,- ii
8623ermany, 468,108; South Ameri- w
ca, ,348; Mexico, 30,000. S
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On- Catcliing Cold.
The increase of catarrh remedies is
alarming, if the demand is indicated by
the abundance of the supply. The cold I
once caught?or, more properly, having j
caught us?we willingly submit to
every kind of remedy, but if any one
hints at precautions against colds in a
climate which within a month has more
than once varied thirty degrees in a
dozen hours, he is accused of "coddling"
?is requested not to "fuss"?and soon
finds there is nothing against which the
population of all classes is more averse
to take precautions. Some one has
said there are only two classes in the
community who understand anything
about catching cold?doctors and people
who suffer from face-ache and
rheumatism. Very few of us have the
slightest conception that when the thermometer
stands at 28 deg. (a muoh
higher temperature than the average of
the past January) the warmth of every
breath of air which finds its way into
our bodies has to be raised 70 desr. The
mere effort of the vital forces to perform
this work is of itself exhausting.
The changes hourly taking place between
one room and another, the rise
and fall of the heat in our stoves and
furnaces, dependent on the judgment
of our Bridgets or Johns, may involve
?does involve?sudden falls in the
temperature to which only a strong
and perfect vital apparatus can adjust
itself without difficulty. Chilliness
kills from Maine to Texas, ,
in a twelvemonth, as many victims as
last year's visitation of yellow fever- . .
and chilliness is what we seldom un,
derstand. We' sit patiently in bad
draughts?draughts under doors?at :
our backs?in church?and we expose
ourselves to unnecessary draughts for j
ventilation, which, however, should i
never blow upon ourselves. It may be
doubted whether our own total abandonment
of the night-caps and bed-curtains
of our forefathers in winter-time
is altogether a sanitary improvement.
The air of a bed-chamber should be
pure air?purer than a furnaced house
commonly provides, but, with precautions
for keeping the air pure, we think
we might safely trust ourselves with the
screens and night-caps of antiquity.
Another modern idea is not to sleep in
flannel. True, flannel may most ju
diciously be changed at nighty and thus
avoid the dreadful state of things which
we are continually warned about under
the head of "exhalations;" but does a
bear take ofl his warm ooat when he
goes to sleep in a hollow tree, or a fox
undress himself in his burrow? Another
trouble is oold feet, and we may
get damp feet from shoes that do not
let in water. A child sits for hours in
school with a chill creeping up him
from the soles of his feet, arising from
wetted shoe leather. It would probably
be safer to run barefoot through the
streets and dry our wet feet on warn
carpet when we get home, than to sit
hours with this dampness rising through
our soles. A mother of a family who
has successfully raised healthy children
told us that her plan while her boys
were young was to dress them
warmly, especially their feet and
chests, and let them take free
exercise in any weather. But she always
exacted that they should come
home when damp or chilled. She
ordered them to run home through any ,
rain rather than take refuge anywhere
after they had been rained upon, and, j
upon reaching home, if cold or damp, !
she always superintended their putting
on warm stockings and dry shoes. We
can offer no better suggestion. " Fresh 1
air with due care" is the precaution 1
against consumption. The late Charles '
Sumner wns a member of a consumptive
family; all of his brothers and sisters,
but one, were attacked by it as
they reached manhood and woman- \
hood. The disease began to de- <
velop itself in Mr. Sumner venr j
early in his public career. He was ad- <
vised by his physician in Boston to dress j
warmly, protect his feet and body, and I
live in the open air, sawing wood, and 1
engaging as far as possible in manual i
labor; leading, in short, the life a labor- (
ing man would lead out of doors, and j
supplementing this regimen by sanitary i
precautions in temperature, diet and f
personal habits when no longer in the 1
open air. In conclusion, we will add, ?
for the benefit of that class of the com- c
munity who, as we have said, delight in i
remedies and precautions, the recipe for s
a cold given by Gen. George Washing- t
ton to an old lady in Newport when a 1
very young girl, in 1781. He was o
lodged in her father's house?the old i
Vernon mansion?and, as she was sent c
early to bed with a bad cold, he re- e
marked to Mrs. Vernon: "My own e
remedy, my dear madam, is always to c
eat, just before I step into bed, a hot I
roasted onion if I have a cold."-Balti- t
more American. t
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A Lively Owl. J
A thief broke into a shop in Provi- v
dence recently, anil looked about to see
what he could steal. Suddenly an owl.
which is caged by day but is set at lib
erty at sunset, pounced upon the in- ?
trude5?and frightened him out of his
senses. So savage was the attack that
he retreated in extreme disorder, leav- ?
ing his hat and jimmy behind him. ^
When the storekeeper opened the shop ?
the next morning he found blood ^
;t -uns on the iloor and desk. The owl's .
!??( vers were ruffled and its claws were
rdwi^ biood. j
^'M^Fetched Tea. ^
Spriggs' mm:aen aunt has been visit- .
ng the Spriggs family for some time ,
rnd the othef eve. \Dgf/h V.^who
o fix up something for Spngg8'
lad a violent cold . SPngg*
o take anything, and Pre^ B0?* the 1
rinft brought him. a sn *>***
aid said, "Here's your v Sp"ggB !
grasped the bowl, took on. 8 j
wallow, and then spluttert uy"?
lerl that's far-fetched tea.' * ? /?_
[uietly responded the maiden at. j _ 1
am-o-mile." And Spriggs sm. ,
:enial smile as he took the remaim.
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DrniVG n storm in Nevada ro? *entl?
ill {Mors of saud were to bo seen" valtz* v
lg about tlig^leserts^gimilar t< > the |
underfill phenomena of the great j
aharu desert. I 1
H. ~7^ y^V^BnBBHBIHB
The purchase by fo. L. Z. Leiter, of-^HHfl
this city, of a copy of Eiiof's Indian -J
Bible, at the Brinley sale in New York 9^^H|
on Tuesday of last week, suggests a few -yBH
remarks concerning this famous book. -V!
John Eliot, the . "Apostle of the Indians,"
came to Boston in 1631, and
very zealously set about converting the 1
copper-colored aborigines of this county,
and he succeeded so well that he
lived to see no less than twenty-four
Christian preaohers of the native blood.
He established the first Indian church
at the Indian town of Natick, on Charles
river, in 1660. After writing a grammar
of the language of the Massachusetts
Indiana, and mating some minor translations
into their dialect, he commenced
about the year 1650 in his great work
_ e X? 11? At , V V TVM V 1 ^ ?
oi translating tne wnoie.Bioie; ana uotton
Mather remarks, in his "Magnolia,"
that he did it all with a ?nglA pen. By
the year 1660 it was so far advanced
that the society sent over from London
a printer named Marmadnke Johnson
to assist in the printing. New types
were sent for that particular purpose,
and were set by a native Indian. In
1661 the New Testament appeared in a
quarto volume of about 150 pages, on
good paper.
The Old Testament was three years
in the press, and the entire Bible appeared
in 1668. As many as 1,500
were struck ofi& but it would appear
that most of those that have been preserved
were sent to England and probably
distributed by the society. The size
was about 7ixh$ inches. To
the superintendence of the printing
of the second edition of the Bible
Mr. Eliot gave some of the last years of
his life. It was begun in 1680 and not
completed till the beginning of 1686.
The title pages are dated 1680 and 1685.
Eliot died in 1690, aged about 86.?
Chicago Inter Ocean.
In Indian Fuueral.
" Ned," a Digger Indian, was found
dead alongside the railroad track, near
Auburn last Wednesday, having apparently
fallen from the platform of a car
End frontnrpd his slrnll. His friends
being notified, they placed the remains
apon a horse and conveyed them to
Clipper gap, where they were duly cremated
in the manner customary with
the red men of that section. The funeral
pile, which is built of wood to the height
of about four feet, is kept burning
about five hours, during which time
relatives and friends place upon it such
articles as they desire to contribute to
aid the deceased when he shall have arrived
at the happy hunting groundsone
gives a blanket, another a bow and
arrow, another a saddle, etc. When the
flesh has all been consumed and only
the bones remain, these are raked together
and a fire kept burning about
them until they also become ashes.
When the fire finally dies out the ashes
are all collected, taken to the burkl
ground and interred, a little sugar loafshaped
mound being erected over them.
The female relatives of the deceased,
as evidence of mourning, smear their
faces and heads with tar ?the extent
of the application indicating the closeness
of their relationship?and this is
left until it naturally wears off. There
was a large attendance at "Ned's"
funeral, every train arriving at the gap
bringing a number of bucks and
squaws. As they are allowed to ride
free, the train men usually press the
bucks into service when it is necessary
to wood up, but on such an occasion as
this they sturdily refuse, replying, " No
vork; funeral to-day." ?Sacramento
Record-Union.
Hints for Keeping Off Wrinkles.
There is no such thing as wiping out
vrinkles. In men they are often hon)rable
evidence of hard mental labor;
n women they are usually the evidence
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>1 coming age, aiuiougn care anu siu'ering
have much to do with them.
3ometimes fair foreheads are prerua;urely
wrinkled from a nervous habit of ,
aising the eyebrows, and from a too
jreat and too constant pressure of the
lillow on one or both sides of the head
vhile sleeping. And just here comes a
act work remembering. If the forelead
has escaped wrinkles, crow's feet
ire prematurely seen about the corners
)f the eyes. We all see the crow's feet
n men and women whose brows are
mooth and young-looking. They are
he result of sleeping on the right and
Aft nidoq Thfi nressnre unon the temple
ind cheeks leaves wrinkles at the corlers
and nnderneath the eyes which
lisappear in a few hours, but finally belome
so fized that neither hours nor
iblutions will abate them. If girl children
were compelled to sleep on their
)acks and continued the habit when
hey reach womanhood and afterward,
hey would arrive at middle life without
tow's feet gathering in the neighborlood
of the eyes, and in most cases
heir foreheads would be free from even
hallow furrows.
Americans 2b Endinbnrgh.
Our American cousin is not by any
neans popular with the canny people
>f Edinburgh. He goes to the hotels*
liDes at the table d'hote, but Is so 'cute
is to take his wine at the bar. He goes
;o the "stores," turns over all the goods,
ind invariably comes to the conclusion
;hat he can buy them cheaper in New
" ' TT- .3^ liimoclf at\ linrvrof
IOrK. Xm IIW iiinuo iiiiimv** wv - ?
table, and, therefore, so unpopular, that
several shopkeepers in the modern
Athens have displayed cards in their
vindows bearing the inscription, "No
Americans served here."? London
rEng.) Echo.
Where the Whisky Comes From.
The three great highwiues-prodHcing
nf tim country are the Fifth
Illinois (Peoria), the First Illinois (Chicago),
and the First Ohio (Cincinnuti).
The number of proof gallons of highwines
produced by each during the year
1878 was as follows:
Peoria 11,580.360.07
Chicago Iii,l!?.riii8.00
Cincinnati 9.123.570.15
TJie distillery of Zell, Francis & Co., ~
of Peoria, led every other in the conn- j
try in the amount o* spirits prouuccu .
l?y a single establishment.?Peoria J
'III.) Transcript. f
^"Ur-RELIEF?Drinking in a sampie? M
oon ^ to drown sorrow. M