Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-11-22

oHCSh lodi III tHe Hous0 UcioIe you cut
the last. We cannot afford to eat new
bread | got things very comfortably,
and as thought, very frugally; but the
next Friday evening, after supper, l had
to say to my husband, 'Wbat must we do?
the money is all gone, and we have moth
ing in the house for to-morrow's dinner.
| am sure | have made it go as far as l
could My husband was very kind; he
found no fault, but said we could have
some flint soup for dinner. He asked, if
there was bread in the house. yes l
said, "a whole loaf and a piece That's
well, he said, 'and, perhaps you have
little oatmeal or four2 there is a little
Good again, and plenty Of herbs in the
garden; we shall do So he washed
couple of flints very clean, and set them
| on with some water and onions, and car
rot or two. When the roots were tender
he put in the meal, and some pepper and
salt, and parsley, and thyme, and the piece
Of stale bread, and | assure you we had
good dinner" "But what was the use Of
the fiints? Why not leave them out and
call it herb porridge?" "That is what /
could not understand at first. Well next
Saturday matters were much the same, so
we again contentedly dined on flint soup.
In the course Of the week, having picked
some bones Of meat, was going to throw
them away, when the thought strdck me,
that if they were chopped up and put in
the soup, they would give at least as much
goodness as flint. My husband thought
so too; so we tried, and found they great
ly improved the soup, and from that time
we never wasted bone and in the course
Of few weeks we found the money hold
out for Saturdays dinner, and even allow
a trfle 10 lay by. My husband was pleas
ed when we got into this course and we
were thoroughly settled in frugal habits,
and not before, he told me the real use Of
the fints in the soup. There are two
things said he, (which have always re-
solved against, as being the ruin Of many
poor people-det and ,casts. So, from
the day took TO providing for myself, l
determined always TO keep bread in the
house, and live on bread and water, raih.
er than run in debt. But instead Of eat
ing dry bread, and drinking cold water, l
set myself TO make it into soup; for |
thought, if tried to boil down the fints,
which could not enrich the liquor, it
might sharpen my wits to make the best
use of anything that COULD II believe"
continued the good woman, "it was to
sharpen my wits rather than his own !
and can truly say, that making flint soup
has taught me to turn to good account
many things that are often thrown away
as it they were worthless as stones. -
From the Family Economist.
AMERICAN LABOR. -Blackw ood's Mag
azipe, which has so long maintained the
tory side of every question, has come
round in most essential point. Instead
Of declaiming, as in former times, against
the American protective system, it now
freely confesses the great wisdom and in
estimable benefits Of that policy, and as
cribes to it, with perfect truth, the unpar-
alleled advancement Of the United States
in wealth, population, independent spirit,
social Improvement, individual end collec-
tive enterprise, and elements Of national
greatness. Blackwood quotes the follow
ing passage of Mr. Webster's speech in
lS4S, as equally remarkable for truth and
eloquence .........
II have spoken Of labor, as one Of the
great elements of our society, the great
substantial interest on which we all stand.
Not teudal service, not predial toll, not
the irksome drudgcry by one race Of man.
kind, subjected, on account Of color, to
the control of another race Of mankind ;
but labor, intelligent, manly, in dependent,
thinking and acting for itself, earning its
own wages, accommodating its own wages
into capital, becoming part Of society
and of our social system, educating child
hood, maintaining worship, claiming the
right of the elective franchise, and helping
to uphold the great fabric of the State
That IS AMER1cAr LABOR, and confess
that all my lsympathies are with it, and
nv voice until am dumb, will be for it,.
NEwspafEns.-The first newspaper
was issued Gin manuscript at Venice in
1888, and was ca He'd the Gazeila. The
first printed newspaper published in Eng
land was in 1888 called the English .Ner-
curv, imprinted by her majesty's printer,
This paper was not regularly published
The first periodical paper was published
at Frankford, Germany in 1912. In 1924
the Public In'eliigencer and London Ga.
zette was established. Soon afterwards
various papers had 'their entrance and
their exits in London among which were
The Parliament Kite, The Secret O,cl, &C..
SC. The "Spectator" was the first pure
ly literary periodical. 1t appeared I'LL
This publication, as is known, owes its
Immortality to Addison. The Taller, con.
Quoted ty Sir Richard Steele, though pub
lished short time previous, was not ex'
clusively literary.
TnE Cosv1cr MlrcuEL.--Tbe subjoin
ed statement, which is generally thouggh'
correct, appears in the Limerick Exam'n'
er--"The friends and family Of John Nit
chel have. we are informed, received no.
LITIGATION from the English Government
; to the effect, that they (the Government
: having taken into consideration the condi
ton Of John Mitchel's health, have grant
, ed him free leave and liberty to 60 where
soever he pleases subject to no restraint
\ with the exception that he shall not retur'
to or settle in any portion or colony in tn
= United Kingdom. He proposes we ar
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