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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-07-15
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

PRESERVING FRUIT FREsH.---Wo
have often hitherto, condemned the prac-
tico of preserving fruits by boiling them
down with sugar to an indigestiblo mass.
We have had through the season, and
have now, an abundant supply Of toma-
toes, cherries, peaches backberries,
huckleberries, pears, and other fruits,
which are as fresh and good as they were
when first gathered, and they have been
kept thus with even less expense than
in the old mode of making them into
"preserves." These have been kept,
mainly, in what are called sclf-sealing,
or air-tight tin cans. The fruits were
slightly cooked, and prepared as if for
table use, and then sealed up perfectly
air tight, as described below After
several years experience, we shall use
the tin cans chiefly this year, with few
wide-nockod glass bottles.
PRESERVING FRUIT BY HERMETIC-
ALLY SEAILNG.-Mrs. Batcham gives
tho following directions in the Ohio
Cultivator:
First select good fresh fruits or veg
etables; stale and fermented can never
be preserved. Vegetables decomposing
quickly, such as green corn, green peas,
asparagus, should be preserved within
six hours after being picked, particular
ly in hot weather. Berries always with
in twenty-four hours. Peaches, ounces,
pears, apples, should be peeled, and the
seeds removed before preserving.
Vegetables should be partially cooked
frst-suoh as corn, peas, and tomatoes
should be boiled a half an hour; aspara-
gus a quarter hour, To the vegetables,
add half a pint of the water they are
cooked in, to the quart,
Fill the can with ripe fruit, adding, if
desired, a little sugar-simply enough
to render the fruit palatable, and set il
into a vessel Of water (warm or cold).
Let the water boil, and continue boiling
until the fruit Is l0eH heated through
say for half an hour. Directions have
been given to simply let the water boil;
but such direction is defective, as at this
time tho fruit in tho center of the ves-
sci will be scarcely warmed Should the
vessel be thon sealed, fermentation will
take place. The heat mast Thoroughly
penetrate the contents Of The Uessel. As
soon as the fruit is sufficiently heated,
seal the can, and the work is done.
Another way is to make a syrup Of
two pounds Of sugar for every six
pounds of fruit, using half a pint Of
wator for every pound Of sugar Skim
the syrup as soon as it boils, and then
put in your fruit, and lot it boil ten
minutes Fill the cans, and seal up
hot Some mako a syrup Of half a
pound Of sugar to every pound Of fruit
i-.1 aowo uro only q uuartor Of wound
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slang Words and Phrases.

The point to which have next to di-
rect attention is manliness in speech
There arc many young men who consid-
Ter it essential to manlinoss that they
should be masters Of slang. The sport
ing world, like its brother, the swell
mob, has a language of it's own; but
this dog English extends far beyond the
sporting world It comes with its
hordcs Of barbarous words, threatening
tho entire extinction Of the genuine
English language.
Now just listen for a moment to our
fast young man, or tho ape Of q fast
young man, who thinks that to bo a
man he must speak in the dark phrase
ology Of slang. IF he docs anything on
his responsibility, he does it on his own
hook. If he secs anything remarkably
good he calls it a sumner, tho suporla-
tive Of which is a regular sumner. If
Ia man is requested TO pay his tavern
bill, he is asked if he will "stand Sam. "
IF he meets savage-looking dog he
calls him an "ugly customer" If he
meets an eccentric man he calls him a
"rummy old cove" A sensible man is
a "chap that's up TO snuff"
Our young friend never scolds, but
"blowa up" never pays, but "stumps
up" never feels fatiguod, but "used
up" He has no hat, but shelters his
head beneath a "tile." He wears no
neckcloth, but surrounds his neck with
a "ohoaker" He lives nowhere, but
there is some place where he "hangs
out" He never goes away or withdraws,
but no bolts-he's "scarce"-he "walks
his chalk"-he "makes tracks'-he
'cuts his lucky" The highest compli-
ment that you can pay him is to tell
him that he is a Irregular brick" He
does not profess to be brave, but he
prides himself on being 'plucky. -
Money is a word which he has forgot
ten, but he talks a good deal about
"tin, and "the noedful," the "rhino"
and the "ready." When a man speaks
he spouts, when he holds his peace che
shuts up" when he is bumiliated, he is
"taken down a peg or two" and made
to "sing small" Now a good deal of
this slang is harmless; many Of the
terms are, I think, very expressive, yet
there is much slang that is objoctiona-
bic.
For example, as Archdoacon Hare OBJ
serves in one Of his sermons, the word
governor" when applied to a father, is
to be reprehended. L have heard a
young man call his father the relieving
officer" Does it not betray on the part
Of the young man great ignorance Of
the paternal and flial relationship, or
great contempt for them2 The father
to such young men merely governor
merely the representative of authori-
ty. Innocently enough the expression
is used by thousands of young men who
venerate and love their parents, but on
ly think of it, and 1 am sure you will
admit that it is a cold, hoartless word
when thus applied, and one that forth
with ought to be abandoned.
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gel visits, few and far between" in old
John Norris (1G57, 171D:
"Liko angels visits, short and bright,
Mortality's too weak TO hold them longi"
and in Robert Blair's "Gravo' (1G99,
1746):
"In visits, like those Of angels, short, and far
between"
"Mau proposes, but God disposes," "
often quoted from Thomas q Kompis,
O38G, 1471, ode Imitatione Christi)
is Of much greater antiquity, and is
found in the "Chronicles Of Battle Alb
bey," G036, 1860 and in "Pierco
Ploughman's Vision"
Sir Walter Scott is made TO father the
popular catohword, "Thores a guide time
coming" CBob Roy, chap. 32.)
"Tho Almighty Dollar" is the express
sion of Washington Irving.
"Millions for defence, but not one
cent for tribute, was first said by Charles
Cotosworth Pinckney, when Ambassa-
dor to the French Republic, 1896.
Another morn rises on mid-noon, " is
in Wordsworth's "Prelude," and pre-
yiously in Milton, from whom it was
quoted by Webster.
"Librarics, before whose tones meek
eyed Patience folds her hands in de-
.spair," is from Everott's Phi Beta Kap-
pa oraton.-- Bartloy's Collection.
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Of sugar to pound Of fruit-whilo
some use no sugar at all.
To keep peaches, pare and cut them
up. IF thrown into cold water, they
will retain their frmness and color
Heat them in the cans as abovo--or boil
them ten minutes in q syrup. In this
way, strawberries, raspborries, cherries,
plums, peaches, &C., &C., may be kept
for any length Of time in the same con-
dition that they were sealed up, with
their flavor unchanged. For small
fruits, it is best to make a syrup without
water, and boil the fruit in it for only a
few minutes.
Tomatoes should bo boiled, and the
skins taken off, and then placed in a
kettle and brought to boil, nd kept so
tghiJe filling the cans.
To KEEP HAMS IN SUMMER-One
good way is to put a layer of coarse salt
in the bottom Of a barrel, then lay in a
ham and cover it with salt, and then an
other, and so on till the barrel is filled.
Of course, this salt should be dry, and
the barrel should be kept in a dry place.
Another and better way, is to sew up
each ham in coarse cloth bag, then
give the whole a coating Of whitewash
and hang up the bag in a smoke-house,
or any dark, cool place.
A sure way of keeping hams fresh, but
not a neat way, is to bag them as before
mentioned, and bury the bag in the ash
hole, taking it out as wanted
We have known them to keep very
well by simply wrapping them in sever.
al thicknessos of newspaper and hang
ing in an open garret. A correspond.
ent says they also "kecp perfectly, as he
has proved, by packing in sweet dry
hay run through hay cutter Then
wrap them with a single thickness of
newspaper, and surround each ham with
a portion of the hay; tie the whole in
large cotton bags, and hang in a dry
place"
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THE OLD GREEN LANE.

BY ELIZA COOK.
Twas tho very merry summer time
That gurlands hills and dells,
Aud the south wind rang fairy chime
Upon the foxglove belsi
The cuckoo stood on the lady-brchi
To bid her a last Goodbye
The lark sprung over the village church,
And VIII histled in tho skyi
And we had como from the harvest sheaves,
A blithe and tawny train,
And tracked our path with poppy leaves,
Along the old green lane.
Twas a pleasant way, on summer day,
And we were a happy set,
As we idly bent where the streamlet went,
To get our fingers wet;
With the dog-rose here, and the orchls there
And the woodbine twining through
With the broad trees meeting everywhere,
And the grass still wet with dew.
All we oil forgot, in that bllssGul spot,
The names Of cure and pain,
As we lay on the banks by the shepherds cot
To rest in the old green lane,
Oh, days gone by can but sigh,
As think Of that rich hour,
When my heart in its flee but seemed TO DO
Another woOd-side flower;
For though the trees be still as fair,
And the wild bloom still as gay
Though the south wind sends as sweet an air
And Heaven as bright day.
Yet the merry set are far and wide,
And we never shall meet again
We shall never rumble, side by side,
Along the old green lane.
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miscellaneous.
Familiar Quotations.

The famous phrase, ga wise and mas
terly inactivity" which was used by
John @. Calhoun, and previously by
John Randolph, is found, for the first
time, in the 'Vindicia Gallica" of Sir
James Macintosh, G791) in the follow
ing passage: "The Commons, faithful
to their system, remained in a wise and
mastorly inactivity"
"God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb" is often quoted as a verse Of
Scripture, but is from Sterne's "Senti-
mental Journey" though not original
with him, as it occurs in George Her
bert's "Jacula Prudentum": "TO a
close shorn sheep God gives wind by
measure and more literally in French
collection Of proverbs, Henri Estienne,
"Premias, 1504,) "God measures the
wind to a shorn sheep"
"Men use language TO conceal their
thoughts" which has been asoribed to
Talloyrand and to Goldsmith, is here
referred to Young (satire H., line 2OD
"Whsre natures end Of language is declined
And men talk only TO conceal their mind"
The phrase was also employed by Vol
taire: "Men use words only to dis
guiso their thoughts"
Cowper's familiar line, "God made the
country, aud man made the town." ap-
pears originally in Cowley, with still
stronger antithesis: "God the FIRST gar
den made, and the first city Cain" So,
also, ,Cowper's panegyrio Of tea, "the cups
that cheer, but not inebriate, was first
applied by Bishop Berkley, in his "Si-
ris, A." to tho sovereign virtues of the tar
water "It is Of a nature so mild and
benign, and proportionod to the human
constitution, as TO warm without heating,
to cheer but notjnobriato."
Wordsworth'g "Tho child is father to
the man, is hinted at in Millions "Par-
adise Regained'
"The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day"
$50 didst thou travel on hfo's common way,
In cheerful godlmess,"
from the Excursion" was anticipated
by Sir Thomas Moore:
"Joumeylng on life's common way,
In cheerful godIincss."
We find Thomas Campbclls "liko an
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THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.--It is
an exquisite and beautiful thing in our
nature that when the heart is touched
and softened by some tranquil happi-
ness or adectiOnato feeling, the memory
of the dead comes over it most power
fully and irrosistibly. 1t would seem
as though our better thoughts and sym
pathies were charms, in virtue of which
the soul is enabled to hold some vague
aud mysterious intercourse with the
spirits Of those whom we dearly loved in
lifel AlasI how often and how long
may those patient angels hover above us;
Watching for tho spell which is so sell
dom uttered aud so soon forgotten!
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Tho First sewing-ctrole.

"Mothor," said a young lady, edo
you wish mo TO attend the sewing socie-
ty this afternoon? I do not feel much
inclination so TO do, nor do altogether
approve Of these modern innovations for
promoting benevolent objects"
"The sowing-circle, my daughter, is no
modern innovation; indeed, it is one Of
the most ancient occupations wo have
upon record Even before the days Of
Abraham, we fnd an allusion to a SINH
lar institution, and a most celebrated
one is mentioned in the time Of tho an
todiluvians, whore tho names Of the
parties are given, tho articles they
made, and the material Of which they
were composed"
"Why, mother, this is strange Was
the company largo2 And the convor-
sation-was it gay or serious, frivolous
or instruotivo?"
at is affirmed that tho number was
limited that gentlemen we're not only
admitted, but actually assisted in sew
ing. Judging from The cause Of the
origin Of this society, it is supposed
their conversation tagged, as their en-
ployment recalled to their minds a great
loss, in which all succeeding sewing So
cietics, to the present day, are greatly
interested. Moreover, tho essential de-
mand for the articles they were making,
proved that great moral change had
deteriorated their very natures. Tears,
it is said, were poured forth; sobs and
stihed groans often escaped them, as
they were thus employed"
"Well, L had no idea Of such a society
as this for sewing, nor of one so ancient
You have raised my curiosity in no
small degree. Is it known, mother,
what kind of articles were made at this
meeting?"
"Upon this point there is not q little
diversity of opinion. A certain ancient
scholar, brought up in Egypt, and a
very learned man, calls them, in his
language, Cbdg0r0tb; but as it regards
the Interpretation Of this term, there
are numerous cOnjeotures. Some think
they were aprons; others say they were
a sort Of short dresses; while many of-
firm that the recent Bloomer costume is
but the revival of the fashion then set
by this very ancient sewing society"
"But, mother, why should the forma-
tion of this society or the occasion that
commenced it, affect us now?"
off the members Of the parent sew
ing-circlo had not felt the need Of the
articles they made, there would be no
occasion for mantua-makors, milliners
or tailors; and thimbles, pins and nee
dies, 1 suppose, would never have been
heard Of"
"Can you refer me, mother, to the
history where this singular institution
is recorded, as I feel almost disposed to
be skeptical, although 1 do not doubt
your word?"
GAS regards the existence of this an
cient society, no record is better authen-
tioatod. 1t is penned by the greatest
scholar the world ever saw, a man celo-
bratcd for his wisdom and erudition
and who was under the most solemn OBJ
legations to write nothing but the truth
The words, as they were interpreted by
a convooation Of learned divinos, assem-
blod for that very purpose, about three
hundred years ago, read thus: And
they sewed fg-loavos together, and
made themselves aprons - Mothers
Magazine.
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Everybody knows thatwo have a diff
Guilty with Paraguay. But very few
know what it is orwhat is the cause of it.
The history Of tho cause, from the doou-
.monts recently published, appears to be
this:
Twelve years ago the Paraguayan Gov
crnment issued a decree encouraging
and inviting foreigners TO settle there
and engage in trade-by Offering them
lands, monopolios, &c. This was done
for the purpose of developing the re-
sources aud increasing the oommorco Of
the country, "The Yankees" are alwavr
on the lookout for such openings and
the invitation was responded to bv tho
formation Of an Emigrant Company in
Rhode Island. The Legislature inoor-
porated it with a capital Of $500. 600.
The company bought and took TO
Paraguay steam-engines, vessels. saw
mills, cOttOn-gins, plantinp-macbines
.sugarmills, briok-maohinos. rice-mills
agricultural implements, &C., enough for
o large colony. A large number of me-
chanics, farmers, and others, embarked
in the enterprise, and the colony was
formally planted in 1853. The Govern
ment received them, bestowed the pro
missed privileges upon them, and encour-
aged them to enter upon a large busi-
ness.
Paraguay is one Of the finest timbered
countries in the world, and has some of
the best tobacco land in America. Tho
Company soon found that their Saw
Mill, (the first ever built South of the
Amazon and East Of the Andes,) was
most lucrative property, and their Cigar
Factory was equally profitable. It
happened that President Lopez found It
out also.
Though nominally Republic, Para
quay is in fact a dospotism, and the
President is an absolute Dictator. With
him, to cOvet the property and thriving
business Of los Yankees was natural, as
to seize it was practicable. He Illuminated
three DEGREES revoking their lands, repu-
dating his contracts with them. and
coniscating their privileges for his own
benefit. He seized their mill, vessels
and machinery, and would not even let
them leave the country, alive, unless they
would formally relinquish every thing to
him. 1t happened that an American
man-of-war, the Water Witch, Com. Page,
came along just then, took the Americans
on board, in defiance Of the President,
and brought them home. They now
demand rcparatiOn. Lopez, in reply,
declares that the Water Witch commit
ted "scandalous hostility" in taking
them of, and sets up, in justification of
his conduct, the plea that they had prac-
tioed fraud in obtaining title to their
lands. A little prompt and firm action
on the part of our Government would
bring President Lopez to terms quite
easy.
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For the News.
PATRIOTIC ODE.
July 4th, 1853.

July 4th, 1858.
by NOAH.
My Country, hail We celebrate thy day!
Past four-score years the Lord hath pros
per'd theo.
Arise, and retrospect thy glorious way,
And gird thyselr to gain thy destiny.
My native landl Thy bto and mine bo one,
And such the fate Of each true child Of thlnei
Then on, right on, the path thou hast begun
Till Liberty shall live In ev'ry cline!
My mother land! whose breast did nourish mo-
Ny prayer to God for thee that thou be pure
That all thy children Of a truth be free,
And nations praise and bless thee evermorol
My father land! Thy great protecting wm,
claim to be my shield whero'or Igo,
On land or seo, dare foreign foo to harm,
Thine aid be sure, and grant It be not slow
My klndrods home To thee owe my all
Life and estate--obodienoe to thy luwsi-
Cursed craven he who hears his country's CALL
And fears or fails to vlndicato her cause.
The peoples rulers Great In peace or war,
Oh, may they earn as we'll the title good,
Never the peace Of nations lightly mar,
Nor conquests foul, baptizo with heroes
blood.
Our Union flag, that wins a worlds caress,
Waves brightly, bathed in light Of many
stars;
Oh, may IFS stars increase its stripes grow less,
And never wave o'er fratricldal warsl
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Tbr gonrr Cjrtlr.
Pleasant Homes.

The homes Of America will not be-
come what they should be, until true
idea of life shall become more widely i'm
planted. Tho worship Of tho dollar
does more to degrade American homes,
and the life Of those homes, than any
thing-than all things--else. Utility
is the God of almost universal worship.
The chief end Of life is to gather gold;
and that gold is counted lost which
hangs a picture upon the wall, which
purchases flowers for the yard, which
buys a toy or a book for the eager hand
of childhood. Is this the whole of hu-
man life J.? Then it is a mean, meagre,
and most undesirable thingl A child
will go forth from such a home as a
horse will 60 from a stall-glad to find
free air and wider pasture. The in
duence Of such a home upon him, in af-
rSlife, will be Just nothing at all, or
nothing good. Thousands are rushing
from homes like these every year
They crowd into cities They crowd in
to villages They swarm into all places
where life is clothed with a higher sig
nifcance; and the old shell Of home is
deserted by every bird as soon as it can
fly. Ancestral homesteads and patri-
monial acres have no sacredness; and
when the father and mother die, tho
strangers presence obliterates associa-
tiOns that should be among the most sa-
cred Of all things.
I would have you build up for your
selves aud your children a home which
will never be lightly parted with --a a
home which shall be TO all whose lives
have been associated with it, the most
interesting and precious spot upon earth.
/ would have that home the abode of
dignity, proprioty, beauty, grace, love,
genial fellowships and happy associa-
tions. Out from that homo / would
have good influence flow into neighbor-
hoods and communities In such a
home / would sec noble ambition TAX
ing root, and receiving all generous cul-
ture. And then I would see you, young
husband and young wife, happy Do
not deprive yourse YES Of such inhuon-
ccs as will come to you through an iu-
Btitution like this No money can pay
you for such a deprivation. No oircum-
stances but those Of utter poverty can
justify you in denying these influences
to your Children ["rimothy Titoomb. "
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LoNdwoOD AND THE ToMn or Ma
PoLEoN. THE st. Helena Herald, Of
the 9th Of March, contains au ordinance
of the governor, granting 30 the Empor-
or Of tho French, aud his heirs in per-
petuity, the lands forming tho sitos Of
Longwood and tho tomb Of Napoleon j.
The lands in Napoloonb Vale, whore
the tomb is situated, comprise about 23
acres, while those of Longwood oom-
prise about 3 acros They recently Boz
longed Do private owners, and have
been purchased by the Crown for tho
purpose of the present transfer, at n
cost Of q 600 for tho tomb, and $500
for the house,
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DEATH OF A VENERABLE LADY
While the Superior Court was in ses-
sion to-day, Judge Lee received a tel
ographic dispatch announcing the death,
in Washington, this forenoon, Of his
venerable and venerated mother, upon
which the Court Immediately adjourned.
Mrs. Lee was universally and highly
esteemed for her eminently charitable
feelings and great kindness Of heart
I Baltimore Patriot.
Mrs. Lee was the widow Of one of
Washingtou's Aid-de-camps, and retain
ed a vivid recollection Of revolutionary
scenes. Washington "gave her away"
at her marriage, and honored her with a
wedding dinner at Mount Vernon.
She was upwards Of ninety years Of
age Albany Journal
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FAIREsT, SWEETEST, DEAREST.

Say, by what name can impart
My sense, dear girl, Of what thou art2
Nay, though to frown thou darest,
Z say thou art of girls the pride,
And, though that modest lip may chide,
Mary 'll call thee-Fairest.
Yet, no-that word can but express
The soft and winning loveliness
In which the sight thou meetest;
But not thy heartily temper, too
So good, so swect-ah! that will do
Mary IN call thee Sweetest!
But forrest, sweetest, vain would be
To speak the love 1 feel for thee;
Why smil st thou as thou hearest2
"Because," she cried, "one little name
Is all | wish from thee to claim
That precious name is--Dearest!"
MRS. Opie.