The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-07-29
Summers Best Gift.

vi all the many blessings which that bountl
ful matron, Summer, showers so prodigally upon
unworthy man, perhaps the best are her fruits
From the first warm days of leafy June" fal
into the long, cold winter months there is a
rapid succession of delicious pomological pro-
ducts, such as ought to make every one who has
u soul-perhaps we should have said, stomach
return unceasing thanks to the tountiful
Giver of all good.
First, the beautiful strawberry, with its deli
eious and powerful havor-its glowing color,
midway between crimson and scarlet, spanged
with golden dots, and its wonderful adaptable
ty TO sugar and cream-- seems to lead the way.
Summer is new-the air is bamy-the lesave are
crisp and fresh, so the fruit in season must also
be new, balmy crisp aud fresh
But as the season advances-as nature grows
richer and more tropical--ths air more languid,
the breeze softer, the sights and sounds more
veluptuous aud less brilliant, another sort of
fpnit is required, and 10! we have the raspbs rry
ITO. our mind, the finest Of all small fruits
Its deeply crimson hue--its almost overpower-
ing perfume "making sick with two much
sweet and its royalty lucous hdvor--closely
akin to that OF the kisses Of love--al conspire
to make II appropriate to the heavy glory of
midsummer
Then come the downy checked peaches with
their deliciously shaded tints of orange, scarlet
and -bloom--the golden and ruddy apples
the nectarines, pears, and juicy plums--we could
I'LL volume with catalogue OF delicac cles p
An enthusiastic but indolent friend once said
that if he had an income OF million year, he
would devote his life to lying on his back, hear
ing Alboni sing, and eating fresh fruit. We
are hardly prepared to announce this as our LOT.
tiest ambition, but We certainly think that he
would have remarkably good time of it,
A HAPPY HoME-r6e first year of mar
ried life is most important era in the history
n huSh nd off n - ;,
so is almost all subsequent existence. The wife
and husband then assimiale their views and
their desires, or else conjure up their dislikes,
and SO add fuel to their preudices and animosi-
ties forever afterward.
~ have somewhere read' says Rev. DR.. Wise
in his Bridal Greetings OF bridegroom who
glored in his eccentricities. He requested his
bride to accompany him into the garden a day
or two after the wedding. He then threw a
line over the roof Of their cottage. Giving his
wife one end of it, he retreated to the other side
and exclaimed:
"Pull the line p
She pulled at his request, as far as shs could.
He cried
"Pul it over"
81 can't, she replied.
"Pull with all your might = shouted the
whimsical husband.
But in vain were all the efforts of the bride
10 pull over the line, so long as the husband
held the opposite end. But when he came
round, and both pulled at one end, it came over
with great ease,
There" said he, Gas the line fell from the
roof "you see how hard and Intellectual was
our labor when we pulled in opposition to each
other but how easy and pleasant it is when
we both pull together. 1t will be so, my dear,
through life. If We oppose each other, it will
DC hard work; if we act together, it will be
pleasant to live. Let US, therefore, always pull
together"
in this illustration, homely as it may be- there
Is sound philosophy Husband and wife must
mutually bear and concede, if they wish toI
make nome retreat OF Joy and bliss. Que
alone cannot make home happy. There must
be union OF action, sweetness of spirit and
great torbearance and love in both husband and
WIFE, 10 secure the great end of happiness in the
domestic circle
HE WAY THE MONEY GoEs.-Senator Will
son, III his speech on the extravagant sums
spent by the Administration in collecting the
national revenue, stated that there are al Niaga-
n ~ men employed at an expense of Sl20OOI
to collect $4,000 at Oswego % men at $lS-
700 to collect 10000; at Buffalo 20 men at SI7,
oo9 to collect $40, 600 at Pattsburg 26 men
atSl4OOO to collect $4,000 at Burlington 33I
men at $4,000 to collect $500; at Wiscasset
o men at $7,0 900 to collect $l30; at Portsmouth
~ men at $1,000 TO collect $500 at New
buryport l3 men at $4,000 to collect 80 900
at Marblehead 8 men at g., 200 to collect $780,
at New Bedford ID men at 81 800 to collect
e4SoO at Perth Amboy l3 men at 81 500 toI
collect Sl 800; at Norfolk 90 men at $4,000
TO collect sol 900; at Ocracoke men at S2,OOOI
to collect SS2; at Toledo 7men at 1000 to col
lect 1867; at Datroit 10 men at $3, 900 to col
lect S49o; at San Francisco l34 men at 1902.
900 to collect 81 $4,000 at Benicia 3 men at
$4,000 to collect % 300 at Stockton man at
% LOG TO collect Sl42; at Sacramento man
at $500 to collect S402; at Sandego men at
$500 10 collect $50; at Monterey men at
StsgS0 to collect Si5; at San Pedro men at
$4'sOos to collect 1904, glance at these
hsures will suffice to convince any man that
she number OF employees at these places has
been purposely increased in older to affold snug
places for politicians whom tse party end II
necessary 10 reward,