New-York daily tribune., 1845-03-20

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That keeps the old man young
IT,s ..o nowss IN LIFE 1t is useful as well as
,,eree.;,g 10 notice the changes for the better or
worse. which ten or hfteen years serve to operate
in a community. ,,.,s
refused credi. in 1890, for stove worth twelve
dollars He is now director IN one OF the banks.
and is worth l50 900 dollars at least Every cent OF
this has been made In Cincinnati during that period.
know another business man, also on fIaln- |
street, who was refused credit IN 1873, by lrn IN
the drug line for the amount Of five dollars. in |
1890 that very firm lent that very man hv9 thousand
dollars upon his endorsed note,
/ know an extensive dealer iii the city, now
worth 100, 900 dollars, and who can command more
money on short notice. for sixty, ninety, or one
hundred and twenty days, than almost any man
in Cincinnati, TO whom |, as clerk Tor grocery
house here in 1880, sold hogshead OF sugar, with
gres: nisgiving and reluctance, under some appre-
hension OF not getting the money when IL pecaine
due. ,o,o
that when trusted him for keg OF saltpetre, my
employer told me might as well have rolled It IN IN
the Ohio Since that period he was worth IN 1887
one hundred thousand dollars; again bankrupt
in 1871, and now worth twenty thousand dollars.
| know man good for thirty thousand dollars,
who ten years ago exhibited a monkey through
the streets of Cincinnati, for living:
know heavy business man, bank director,
who sold apples in basket when boy through
the streets
knew one Of the first merchants IN our city IN
1925. who could at that period have bought entire
blocks of the city on credit, director IN one OF
the banks who within ten years OF that period,
died insolvsnt and ntsmperate. =,
Another influential man of that day, whose credit
was unlimited, being president OF one OF our IN,
surance companies, and also oank dlfec,of' o'eo
within five years, insolvent and lslemperaie. ,o,-
Another individual, who was consderes IN 1881
worth half million of dollars, has died since,
leaving the estate lusolvent. -.
Another individual, of credit equal to all hiS
wants. and worth, at one time, twelve thousand
dollars, and Judge of the Court, died in our city
hospital, and was buried at the public expense;
have seen him once and again presiding at public
meetings.
Tho founder of the Fenitentiary system, in Penn
sylyana. and well known in that State and else
where as public man, died pauPer IN the Con-
mercia Hospital in that city. have seen HIM
addressing the Legislature oil that State, at Harrs-
burgh, and listened to with the attention and de-
ference that would have been paid to John Quincy
Adams, or any other public man OF this age.
know n lady, the descendant of distinguished
Governor of Massachusetts, who supports herself
BY her needle, and the niece OF n Governor oi New
Jersey still living, who, washes tor subsistence.
know lady, who. thirty years ago, in the
city in which then lived, was the cynosnre OF al
eyes, one Of the mos: graceful and beautiful of the
sex. and moving in the first circles OF wealth and
fashion, now engaged in drudsery and dependence,
at one dollar and fifty cents per week. All these
reside in this city.
compared TO some Of the realities OF human HE!
[Cists Advertiser.
GAMsLsRs.-The following paragraph is trans
lation from the German OF Lichwehr It's bold
picture and forcibly drawn
"A man who had gone over great part oi the
world returned at length home from hls travels;
his friends came and requested HIM to relate what
he had seen Listen, said he. Eleven hundred
miles beyond the country OF the Hurons there are
men whom thought very strange they frequently
st Mt table until late in the night; there is cloth
laid, they dc not wettheir mouths; ightninss nigh,
flash around them; two armies might be engaged
in battle even the sky might threaten 10 crush
them in ts fall, they would remain unmoved on
their seats for they are deaf and dumb Yet now
and then there escapes from their lips haltbroken,
unconnected, and unmeanlng sound, and they hor
riby roll their eyes at the same time. often stood
looking at them with astonishment, Tor when ssch
sitiings take place people frequently so to witness
them. Believe me, brethren, shalt never toTget
pair, fury, malicious JOY, and anguish, were by
turns visible in their countenances, Their rage,
assure you, appeared to me that of the ures; their
gravity ,tha; Of the Judges of hell and their an
guish that Of maletactors.' But what was their
10 the welfare OF the community On, NO!
sThey are seeking the philosophers stone . 'You
are mistaken They wish 10 discover the quad
rature of the circle T. No They do penance
fer old sins,' Nothing of all this Then they
nor see; what can they be doing , They are
GAAraLrNa!'"
EARLY PcrAToEs growing of early pota-
toes 10 carried 10 very high degree OF PERFECTION
in Lancashire, in England The following method
IL pursued there in preparing the seed, and we doubt
not but the ,ntormation will be very acceptable 10
these about this city and elsewhere engaged IN The
business. The grand enemy that potatoes have 10
encounter at this season is the spring irosts, which
are easily guarded against in the following manner
while the growth Of the potato is progressing in
perfect security.
Wsen they have procured the seed they select
for their earliest kinds the cultivators aware that
the root and top end OF the tubes gernnate al dit
ferrnt periods, assort their sets in the following
manner: the sets near the top OF waxy end are
found TO come TO maturity fortnight earlier than
those q; the root emo, aud these, therefore, form
two classes Of sets TO. an earlier and later crop.
The sets from the top put separate from the sets
into which the bottom or root end Is divided; and
ALI. after being sprinkled with lime are put on a
room floor where strong current OF air can be IN.
troduced al pleasure the sets laid thin. about two
LAYERS in depth, and covered with chsh or dry
dust about two inches thick. Tins screens them
from fros;s and keeps them moderately warm,
causing them 10 yeSetateS ou', 3' s"s s1.s .,i'e,
admits air TO strengthen them and harden Their
shoots, which the cultvator improves by opening
the doors and windows on every opportunity al
forded by mild weather. They mus, be frequently
and when the shoots are sPrens an :nch
and half or TWO inches, one-halt OF their covering
must be carefully removed with either wooden
AXE or BY hand, taking care not to disturb or
,reak the shoots Light as well as air IS requisite
% strengthen and establish the roots In this man
Ter they suffer them 10 remain until 1t Is safe 70
,lans them, giving them all the air possible. BY |
his method the shoots at the top become green, |
caves are sprung, and the plants are moderately
lardy. They are planted in rows in the usual
method with the setting stick, but not so wide
part as for a later crop. The top sets are put ou
rom ten days to two weeks before the other ones
although the sets under this management are ena-
led to bear little frost without injury yet the first
rop would be the better and safer Of little COW
ring in frosty nights. louisville Journal