Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-11-21
SATURDAY, NOV. Is, 1864.
LUXURIES.

BEL" New \ Ork city, thus concludes MS eplStle
IS have felt some symptoms of the Western fe
yer, and if the accounts from your Territory con-
tinue favorable, l shall not try to cure myself
otherwise than by taking hair of the dog that
has bitten me- or, in other words, shall migrate.
But then you have no luxuries! at least presume
not-they never have in ne,c countries ;-upon
second thoughts, l think shall wait until you
have. Gas-of course you have none now.'
Such may be the general impression at the
East, but it is in sense erroneous, for
assure our correspondent, as well as others who
will read this sheet, that we have, as community,
a great supply of g Gas"
We need it. ~ is this that initiates the balloon
of enterprise, in many instances, and carries it
over seas of uncertainty and experiment for It is
but an >ther name for daring. An instance Let
man conceive a stupendous plan, talk about it.,
achieve it during the whole period he will meet
with salutations such as this Gas 70 6 Hum
bug!" Folly!'' not even the profitable and ben
etcial result, will relieve the action from these
epithets, when it is canvassed. Mark we'll, how
ever, that those who cry the loudest the
who dare not undertake the full responsibility
Lying is never cOmmendoble-it should not be
dllOrdble but s. Gas" is harmless, and often ben
cicial. We mean in the sense that we have al
ways understood it; spreading ideas that seem at
the time u.opian AMI dwelling largely upon what
may seem impossible but which the future aaay
verify.
But we were to speak more particularly of lux
uries. Do we possess them? What are they
Can the dweller in tn, busy city, from which our
friend addresses Us, elucidate? Let us draw two
pictures of real life, which by their contrast shall
answer for themselves. Within that splendid
mansion, which in its erection and adjoining cost
hundreds Of thousands of dollars, where every
cunning application of art has been lavished
around him, dwells one who has never felt want
or had wish unsranted. The slightest indication
of preference for anything that earth produces,
the air buoys up, or the water susta;ns, is an
swered by possession. There is a languid air of
Incidence, blase sort Of style that marks the
roue and the voluptuary. His wealth not only
brings his real wants, but is wasted as was the
prodigals, in seeking to create new ones, to pan
der to an artificial appetite. His days are passed
in sloth. His nj ghts in wassail lie is surround
ed by an unhealthy atmosphere of fatcry. Syc-
ophants are his friends, and hirclings scorn while
they bow to him. lie is said to dwell in the midst
of luxurics.
Nearly two thousand miles from the scene of
this mans home, in growing, thriving town, the
success of which, he having aided has given him
a competence, resides another specimen of Gods
creation. He inhabits a house some twenty feet
by thirty, built of wood, filled with very ordinary
furniture, yet comfortable, happy, in dependent.
He walks upright before his fellow man, faces the
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his brow is written as it were, 6 Entcrprisc."-
He loves his neighbor, serves his Maker, enjoys in
the family he is blessed with. those pure, heart
felt Joys that only such can know. His days arc
spent in honest trade. his nights in peaceful sum
Der. lie owns no superior on earth-alike ''bles-
sing and blessed,' his life flows smoothly as a
''moonlit lake" upon whose unrnfi1ed bosom no
wave is to break. Thus is it, while
some are inundated with what in fashionable cir
Giles, are called g luxuries," others in far off
region, buffetting with the waves Of life, car
rying out some new enterprise whereby the world
will be made better, and in all this they find lux
uriesthose peculiar luxuries which are the reward
of industry and enterprise. Are they such Who
has the greatest? Will our friend migrate?
Cy-It is stated that a bar of iron, of almost
any size, may be instantly sundered while hot by
the simple application of piece of common roll
birthstone. Holes may be instantly perforated
through bars or plates of heated iron, by the ap
plication of pointed pieces of birthstone. There
is also a method of saving cutting hardened
steel, by means of circular piece of common
thin iron plate or sheet iron, adjusted to lathe,
or otherwise put into violent rotary motion this
will readily cut off pile, cutting-tool or temper
ed steel spring, without drawing Or reducing the
temper.
CO a glowing account of the rapid increase
of population and improvement in Washington
Territory is given in the Olympia Pioneer. There
are in Olympia, ninety well constructed buildings,
and in the Territory fifty mercantile establish
ments and thirty-threc saw-mills, with popula-
ton of 6O00 souls.
e. 1t is said that the Douglas Dinner was as
solemn as the boy who 'whistled at funeral"
CO In Russia, the candles used in the mines
are made of tallow, mixed with powdered char
coal, which is found to increase the intensity of
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