Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-03-21
uit, Sentiment, ST.

How TO BECOME An AMERIcAS.-An native and
an adopted citizen were disputing the other day
about their respective patriotism. Said the aaop
ted citizen:
IL love America as much as you do J!
aGranted y said the native.
81 love liberty with a fervor you cannot excel
agreed"
IL vote conscientously, pay my taxes before
they are due, foster education both private ana
public, cherish the Constitution and laws"
"Well, and what else g, asked the native point
eddy.
aWhat would YOU have more 2" demanded the
adopted citizen.
"Sharc our national prgtsdieesl and then will
call you an American"
AN Irish KNOW NoTHING-One of our citl-
gems was on the train last Friday, a few miles
east of Dunkirk, when serious smash-up occurred
An Irishman was found among the rubbish of
broken car, knocked into insensibili,y, and taken
to a neghboring house, when he soon after return
ed to consciousness The first words he uttered
WERE By the powersi an wasn't it a Know
Nothing was for few moments, gintlemen
The ludicrous remark dissipated for the time be-
ing, the gloom occasioned by the sad disaster
Lafayette { lady Courier
The following story is told OF one of our old
Massachusetts, clergymen, Dr. Morse. AT an as
ISOLATION dinner debate TO the benefit
of whipping in bringing up children. The Doc
TOR took the affirmative, and his chief opponent
wa. young minister whose reputation for We
racity was not very high. He affirmed that pa
rents often did harm TO their children by unjust
punishment from not knowing the facts of the
case. why" said he, Z" the only time my father
ever whipped me for telling the truth
Well" retorted the Doctor, il cured you of il,
didn, it,
"SHE ALWAYS MADE HOME HAPrr.
was the brief but impressive sentiment which
friend wished US to add 10 obituary notice of
one who had gone on before"
What better tribute could be offered to the
memory OF the loved and lost? Eloquence, with
her loftiest eulogy-poesy with her most thrill.
ing dirge-coud afford nothing sweet, so touch
ing so suggestive of the virtues of the dead, as
those simple words, She Arrays made home happy.
TO Judge impartiaIy, we are put in the bal
ance the good qualities of men against their bad
ones.
= Printers accounts are said to be like faith
!" the substance of things hoped for, and the evil
dence of things not seem
GuNpowDER-The Liverpool (England) Stan
dard says: Some of the effects of ignted gun
powder are wonderful. When gunpowder is
heaped up in the open air and nhamed, there is
no report, and but httie effect is produced. a
small quantity open and ignited in room, forces
the air outward., SO to blow out the windows
but the same quantity confined with bomb, with
in the same room, and ignaed, tears in pieces and
sets on fire the whole house. Count Rumford
loaded mortar with one-twentieth of an ounce OF
powder, and placed upon it twenty -Iour pound
cannon; he then closed up every opening as COM
pletely as possible, and fired the charge, which
burst the mortar with tremendous explosion,
and lifted up its enormous weight In another
experiment, Count Rumford confined twenty eight
grains of powder in a cylindrical space which it
just filled and upon being fired, it tore asunder
piece of iron which would have resisted strain
of four hundred thousand pounds
LARD CANDLEs-A. ParfneIee, writing TO the
New England Farmer, gives the following receipt
for making lard candles -
"For II lbs. of lard take 1 ID. of salt?eter
and lb. of alum, mix them and puiYerize them
dissolve the saltpeter and alum with gill of boil:
ing water; pour the compound into the lard be- |
fore it is quite all melted stir the whole until 1t
boils skim off what rises; let it simmer until |
the water is boiled out, or till it ceas=s to throw
off steam; pour off the lard as soon as it done
and clean the boiler while it is hot. If the cam
dies are to be run, you may commence immediate |
ly; if to be dipped let the lard cool first TO cake.