Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-01-25

CAKEs.-Some clever fellow, in whose
heart the memories Of youth are kept green,
thus dscourses on the above, q. first thought
homely, subject. He does it we'll, and
draws his pictures most tru,hfully, as many
Of our readers con attest: ...
.sThere is one other thing q buck wheat
cake is good for, besides eating. Railways
reminds one Of bis youth, and i. is good TO
remember that happy time. With us, il car
ries US back to The days when we were
young; when the cold, frosty mornings
made i. hard to ge, up; when the broad f,e-
place, filled with cracking hickory, the sus-
pended griddle, the great cofee-poi, and the
long handled frying pan, had not ye. given
way to the iron stove, OF worse yet, to the
long range, like those they used TO cook
Saracenes and schisma.ics upon when the
way 10 school was long and snowy, and
there were drifts 10 be wsded through, SO
thu, we tied our trousers about the ankles
with broad ,aEes; when the school-house
stood in bleak field, and the pile Of green,
wood was slowed under; when the master
was cross aud the lesson in Webs,er's SPELL
ing book was hard to ''ge.;'' when we car
ried our dinners, and ate them around the
gree. box. stove, the while we built castles
and projected our youthful minds into the
future Of life when we went home, al even
ing, and laid our tired heads in her lap whom
we knew then as mother, bu, never knew
we'll until we mourned her death when the
nigh, csme down cold and bleak, and the
evening was long, candy pulling was re-
sorted 10, by the children, while that good
mother safe by with her sewing, her mind
filled chow lille we knew j. ,hen,) with
anxious wishes for our future good when,
in fact, youth snd JOY, and strong hope, and
perfec. relisnce on The world were ours, and
before The hard fruits Of life had stamped
their impress on our character, as upon our
| features. "*
"These scenes and recollections the snun-
al return of the buck wheat season brings
with it, and we are surprised, at each re-
volving cycle Of the year, 'ba.'hey become
no fainter, though the lapse Of time changes
US, and each autumn Of our life brings Us
SO much nearer 10 tha. final harvest, when
like all we mus. be garnered 10 The grave.
So as at each step towards that certain fate,
1--WE love TO pause and casing a retrospective
/ glance, ponder Tor moment over lbe JOY
Gus outset Of the journey"
GUNPowDER.-"Some of the effects Of
ignited gunpowder," says the Liverpool
| Standard, 'ssre wonderful. When gunpow-
der is heaped up in the open air and inflam-'
ed, there is no report, and bu. little effect is
produced. small quantity open and ig-'
ni,ed in q room forces the air outwards, so as
to blow ou, the windows; bu, the same guam
,ity confined within bomb, within the same
room, and ignised, tears iu piecies snd sets
on fire 10 the whole house. Count Rum
ford loaded q mortar with one-twen.ie.h Of
an ounce Of powder, end placed upon il
twenty -four pound cannon; he then closed
up every opening as completely aspossIble.
and fred the charge, which burs, the NOR
tor with tremendous explosion, and lifted
up It's enormous weight. In another expe-
riment, Coun. Rumford confined twenty
eigh. grains of powder in a cy Iindricsl space,
which i. jus, filled, end upon being fred il
tore ssunder piece Of iron which would
have resisted strain of four hundred thous-
and pounds."