Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1849-03-27
A GOOD NEWSPAPER.

The advantage of we'll conducted newa-
paper to a family are universally acknowl-
edged to be both numerous and important.
A good newspaper is perfect mirror Of the
times, rejecting every event O. interest that
takes place. No mind can be we'll inform
ed which does not habitually consult the pa
ses of the newspapers. 1t is of great impor-
lance to children that they have the means
placed before them of becoming acquainted
with what is taking place in the world
They thus, early in life, prepare their minds
to understand those affairs in which they
must, when grown up, become actors A
child who grows up ignorant of all events
save those that occur in his immediate vi
cinity is sure to blunder, and often to
blunder fatally, when he arrives at manhood
and is called to perform his part in the great
and stirring drama of life Such child
will most probably continue to be child
Us far as knowledge is concerned, all the
days of his life. He will go on year after
year ignorant of the spiyit of the age and
without the means OF approaching those
great movements in which his wn welfare
and the welfare of those who arc to come af-
ter him are involved. Blu, one, who in car
ly years learns from newspapers what sub
! jects are Interesting his own country and
the people OF other countries, is thus fitted
to begin his career inte'igently and TO un-
derstand whatever is designed to agitale or
to advance society. In view of the yast
Importance to children in becoming acquain-
ted with the world and its affairs, any par
ent who fails to place within the reach of
those VIII ON Providence has consigned to
his caae good newspaper, is unflithful to
the momentous trust which has been conf
ded to him, and is guilty OF gross and un-
pardonabc neg lcct of duty. No child should
be suffered to grow up in Ignorance of the
government under which he is destined to
live, or the subjects that occupy the atten
ton Of the people, or OF the condition Of the
people under other governments. IN youth,
he should be taught to take an interest in all
the movements OF society, and then, when
he is called on to participate in those move
ments, he will be able to perform his duly
lntelllgertly in all his re atoms to his coun-
try and to those with whom he may become
assoclated. Many minds that have become
conspicuous have received their first incen-
tIVcs to eSertlon and development from
newspapers. They have been first directed
to the studies in which they afterwards ex
ce'led by becoming acquainted with them
through the medium of newspapers which
they were in the habit Of reading. No pa
rent can tell what great and important re
suit to his children depend on his placing
newspapers within their reach aud cncour-
aging them to read them.
No one. who from his childhood has been
in the habit threading newspapers conduct
ed with skill and ability, can grow up il IL
norance. His mind will have all its views
enlarged and corrected by intercourse with
the writing: ofmen who have distinguish she'd
themselves by their intellectual superiority
Such q mind will not be GWarfad and be-
clouded by Ignorance 1t will rejoice in the
) light that enables il to form truthful opin.
ions on subjects Of duty and Of interest, and
understand something Of that sublime ma
chlnery which regulates the celestial worlds
! that revosve over his head and of the mys-
terlous processes of nature that are ever
working out their stupendous results in the
fields and forest around him.
Let those parents who would give their
children the means Of becoming intelligent,
supply them with good newspapers. For
such newspapers there is no substitute Ell
Their in books or conversation, for they con-
f tain vast amount Of valuable information
that cannot be procured from any other
source. Such newspaper is the cheapest
of educators, by stimulating the mind, aid
f whilst furnishing it with the food ofthought
, informing it ofan immense number of con
stantly occurring facts that leave IN impress
sion on society.
SELLING Corn ON THE CoB.-We have
noticed for the last few years q custom come
, into general use, of selling corn on the cob
During the late fall we witnessed severa
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custom we hold to be "more honored in the
breach than the observance" and, there
fore, should be reformed. The cost oftrans
portatlon costly item of expense, is there
by at least doubled-the merchant purchas
er gets the cobs for nothing, while the far
mer unne ,essarily imposes heavy tax up
on himself. Setting aside this view of the
subject, there are others OF vast moment tt
every farmer who looks upon economy Us
virtue. The cob Of the corn crushed into
meal, or broken into suitably sized pieces
and cooked is worth as a matter of nutri
mont, two ffths as much as grain as food
for mich COWS or working oxen while it i'm.
proves the quality Of the manure made bv
the beasts fed upon it, imparting to it be-
SIDES very sensible portion of heterogeneous
matter, other certain mineral salts which
would be otherwise lost.
To the man who may not have paid at
tention to the study Of economy this may up.
pear small matter, but if he will reflect,
that every time he may sell two hnndred
bushels of corn in the ears, he pays the
transportation upon hundred bushels more
than he receives any consideration for,-
that he gives away one hundred bushels OF
excellent food-that he removes that guam.
tity of manure from his farm, and to that ex.
tent mpoverishes his land, he will see at
once tina: he is warning against his interest,
and that justice to himself requires that he
should no longer pursue practice at once
so rulnous and impolitc.-[American Far
mer. .H,@ &,.-.. III d.. '-..."s y.'
The Milwaukee Sentinel gives the fol.
lowing information: -... ......l
"The Milwaukee and Galena Telegraph
Company are pushing their enterprise
Westward, as fast as their means will
permit. Liberal subscriptions have been
made to the stock, in the Western coun-
ties, and arrangements are in progress ia