The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-04-01

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and the other morning the PRAYING boar
der actually s'strucli - Something like
the following dialogue occurred at the table
| Landlord Will you pray, NJ. Mid
Atid-No sir, l will not
Laadlord-Why not, Mr. Mild!
Mild-It don't pay SIR l can't pray on
such victuaIs as these. And unless YOU bind
yoursei in writing, to set a better table than
you have for the last three weeks, nary aaofler
prayer DO you gel out of me
And that's the way the matter stood at latest
adyiees.
DISTINGUISHED PoTAroEs.-Tn Gerard's fine,
1897, Frgnian potatoes, as they were then
called, were just beginning 10 be known. A
sweet potato had been previously known,
which was used as kind OF condiment at the
tables ct the rich. OF these Gerard says -
''Tbey are USED to be eaten roasted in ashes
some, when they be SO roasted infuse them.
and sop them 10 wine; aud others, 10 gire them
the greater grace IN eating, do boil them with
prunes, and 50 eat them. And likewise others
dress them being first roasted,) with oil, vine
gar and salt, every man according TO his own
taste and liking: notwithstanding, howeverth they
be dressed, they comfort, nourish, and strength
en The body" These were sold by women,
who stood about the Exchange with Baskets
The same writer says of the common potato,
which, for a considerable time after It's INTRO
duclion, was rarity, that lit was likewise
food, as also a meat for pleasure, being either
roasted in the embeTs or boiled and eaten with
oil, vinegar, or dressed any other way bY the
band of some one cunning in cookery They
were originally the size of walnuts.
Hit HIM AGAx.-The following is a pretty
good take off to the S.sensation storlrs the FIRST
chapter Of which Is freqnep:y iRssie1lf4 iRssie1l ip ip Jour
nails as an aabts OR hat
THe FIRST Kiss.-sAn, reau, L..
ling hps',J whispered, and pressed my sung
no but she returned myth She did not say
went from under my feet my soul @aa a..earIh
ger in my body I touched the stars knew
the happiness OF the sefaPhim!" !" The above
is all OF this deeply exciting story that We can
publish. The remainder will be found in the
New York Blower of pril lst, which has fou,
million more subscribers than there are inhabl-
tants in the world Korn Kob writes for it
Tad Pole writes for it, and it is sold every
where in The world aud out Of it.
WONDERS OF THE HcAvENs.-John Herschel
in his essay on the power of the telescope to
penetrate into space, says there are stars so
infinitely remote as TO be situated at the dis
tance of twelve millions of millions of miles
from our earth SO that light which travels
with the velocity OF twelve millions of miles
in q minute, would require two mi ilions of
years for lis transit from those distant orbs to
our town; while the astronomer, who should
record the aspect Of mutations of such star,
would De relating. not lis history at the pres
ent day, bot that which took place two millions
of years gone by. What is our earth in space
almost infinite and still more, what is man,
that he should be the special object of regard to
the Infinite Author OF this system Of worlds
BEAUTIFUL WoRLD. All this beautiful
world know not what to make of it =
Sometimes It is all sunshine ADD gladness, and
Heaven itself liesi not far of-and then it
suddenly changes and Is dark and sorrowful,
and the clouds shut out the day. In the lives
OF the saddest OF US, there are bright days like
this, We feel as five could take the great world
IN our arms. Then come gloomy hours when
the fire will not burn on cur hearihs, and all,
without and within, is dismal, cold and dark
Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrow,
which the world knows not, and oftrntimes we
call man cold when he is only wrapt in sad
ness.-Loagfeliow.
MUslc.-To keep spring in your heart learn
10 sing. There is great deal of merit in
than most people are aware of
Il cobber who smooths his wax ends with Bon
ny Doom or Sweet Home, will do as much
work in day cordwaner, gwen TO cur
sing and i'll nature, will do in week Songs are
like sunshine-they run too cheerfuInpss, and
so Gil your bosom with buoyancy for the
time being, that you feel like yard of June,
or an acre lot filed with yiolets and bobollnks
Try ii on and see.
UT"Boy !" said pious deacon, ..don't you
know il is very wicked 10 FISH on the Sab
bath Gay?'
..Oh! deacon there is no harm done; / don't
catch anything"
u When mans heart oasifes or turns 10
bone, be dies at once but fit petrifies, or in
other words, turns to stone, be invariably lives
TOO long for any useful purpose.
q Why is a minister like a locomotive
Ans. = We have TO look out for hlm when the
bell rings.