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Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-06-18
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The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13
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Prosaic View of Love.

Common sense is less needed in the business
OF love. perhaps, than any other. The moment
girl begins to think of /" orange blossoms"
that moment she bids farewell to reassa and
plunges into sort of unacy, from which all
the eloquence in the world cannot eAs...a'e
her.
Driving baulky horse is pleasant bust
ness, and so is the attempt to wean an ass from
thistles But what are baulky horses compar-
ed to the stalkiness of girl who has got
the mischief in her head because young
gentleman with hollow checks and b. Il blue
combinations, gets upon the cellar door every
night, and pours his love into her car through
the medium of a four-and-ninepenny apie2
Difficult as it is for fresh fish t. climb
creased liberty pole, with kicking boy in his
mouth, we should much sooner go about TO
look for such phenomenon, than to hunt upa
girl with an infIamod heart that would listen
TO "good 4dy re or who could be made to
believe for one moment, that the enioyments
Of hymenial life depended at all on the frequency
of bread, or the price of butchers meat
Even prodigals have not so hearty contempt
for money, as have those whom Cupid has
inoculated with the virus Of beatc lunacy"
Having. no appetite while eourtng, they imag-
inc that their demands for corned beef and
cabbage, will always find a substitute in sghs
and huggings. How they will deceive them
seves
Although love is boy Of limited appetite,
Hymen takes TO roast beef like an alderman.
But even grant that marriage, like courtship,
could feed on flutes and fatten on nosegay,
how will it be with Harriets, Peters, Johns
and Matilda James that are expected to spring
from it. Children have no respect for the
poetics of life, and much prefer pantry full of
pies to all the velvet sentiments that even
Moore's Melodies abound with.
These remarks we know will be termed
shocking" by many fair reader-but shock
ing as they are, they are true, as scores of
them will discover, when too late to heed the
admonitions they contain. No state in life
has more uses for fat pocketbook than mar
riage.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13
Bathing in the Dead Sea.

The sun was beginning to fall in the heavens
when we reached the actual margin of the
Dead Sea. 1t is impossible to conceive any
thing more desolate than the appearance of the
place. found it difficult enough to get into
the water, for the ground shelves down very
slowly and is rough with stones and large
pieces of half-rotten wood moreover, when |
was in nearly up to my hips, the water knocked
me down. Indeed, it did so when l had gone
as far as my knees, but recovered myself, and
by perseverance did proceed somewhat further
1t must not be imagined that this knocking
down was effected by the movement of the
water. There is no such movement. Every
thing is perfectly still, and the fluid seems not
to be displaced by the entrance of the body
But the effect is that ones feet are tripped up,
and that one falls prostrate on the surface
The water is so strong and buoyant, that,
when above foot in depth has to be encoun
tered, the strength and weight of the bather
are not sufficient to keep down his feet and
legs then essayed to swim; but l could not
do this in the ordinary way as l was unable
to keep enough of my body below the surface !;
so that my head and face seemed to be prope
led down upon it. turned round and foated,
but the glare of the sun was so powerful that
l could not remain long in that position
However, | had bathed in the Dead Sea, and
was so far satisfied. Anything more abomna-
BILE to the palate than this water, if it be wa
ter, never had inside my mouth. expected
it to be extremely salt, and no doubt, if it were
analyxed, such would be the result but there
is favor in it which kills the salt No at
tempt can be made at describing this TASTE
1t may be imagined that 1 did not drink
heartily, merely taking up drop or two with
my tongue from the palm of my hund but it
seemed to me as though had been drenched
with it Even brandy would not relieve me
from it, and then my whole body was in q
mess, and felt as though had been rubbed
with pitch; looking at my limbs l saw no
sign on them of the fluid they seemed to dry
from this as they usually do from any other
water; but still the feeling remained anthony
1rollope, m the London Reuiew.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13

The MOUNTAIN STREAM.-In the valleys,
they train the docile vine and watch its growth
The gentle rains fall upon it, and the sunshine
and the dew afford it nourishment The course
of the seasons brings the flower, then fruit
and man patiently watches for the harvest
time.
How different, life 10 the mountains. Just
under the dripping caves Of the almost contin-
ual snow bank, the mountain is smitten with
pick and shovel, and its sides drained off in
new channels. Accommodating water and
stained with clay, the stream rushes over mer-
cura snares set for uncertain gold. Goes
slower as it approaches greater streams, and at
last ashamed to present its mudied countenanco
at the congregation of waters, the polluted
blood Of the pure mountain snow stops in its
course, and sinks for shame into the earth.
And the rushing river-pure as the snow,
swift as the wind mighty as the storm-is
hunted to the mountain gorge, and stopped
with dam. a fume is set, and the miner
bids it keep out of its wonted bed and within
the bounds he has set, while he digs up its
channel for gold. Another miner, by leave Of
the first, sets lire Of boxes, and demands of
the tanned stream certain square inches of its
water. He trains it out in nice long boxes, till
it is beyond all influence Of the mother stream
then it is turned on all manner OF dirt-dust
of the earth, and dust of gold. 1t is made vile
and sold again and again forced into dollar
and-a-half diggngs turned down Improbable
shafts; dogs drowned 10 it Cinnamon washed
in it manure and onion patches absorb iii TILL
the Sun, for pity, lifts it again to the clouds
that have their homes in the North.-Sierra
DemecrQt
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13

The Force OF VoLCANoEs.-C Cotopaxi, in
$780, threw its fiery rockets 5000 feet above
its crater, while in l744 the blazing mass
struggling for an outlet, roared so that its aw-
full voice was heard distance Of more than six
hundred miles. In 1891 the crater OF TaDgu-
ragua, one of the great peaks of the Andes
flung out torrents of mud, which damned up
rivers, opened new lakes, and in valleys of
thousand feet wide made deposits six feet deep.
The stream from Vesnyius which, in 1877,
PASSED through Tory del Greco, contained
nearly thirty-four million cubic feet of solid
matter; and, in 1874, when Tory del Greco
was destroyed a second time, the mass of lava
amounted to forty-fve millions of cubic feet !
In 1879 the crater of Etna poured forth
flood that covered over eightysquare miles Of
surface, and measured one hundred millions of
cubic feet. On this occasion the sand and
scoria formed the Monte Ross, near Nicoosi,
a cone two miles in circumference and four
thousand feet high. The stream by Etna,
thrown out in 1910, was in motion at the rate
of yard per day for nine months after the
eruption and it is on record that the lavas of
the same mountain, after terrible eruption,
were not thoroughly cooled and consolidated
ten years after the event.
In the eruption of Vesuvius, A. D. 70, the
scorie and ashes vomited forth far exceeded
the entire bulk Of the mountain while, in
1000, Etna discharged more than twenty times
its own mass. Vesuvius has thrown its own
ashes as far as Constantinople, Syria, and
Egypt; it hurled stones, eight pounds in weight
to Pompeii. a distance of six miles, while SINH
lar masses were hurled up distance of two
thousand feet above its summit Cotopaxi
has projected block of three hundred and
twentyseven feet in volume distance of nine
miles; and Sumbawa, in 1915, during the
most terrible eruption on record, sent its ashes
as far as Java, over distance of three hun
dred miles of surface, and out of majority of
twelve thousand souls only twenty-six escaped.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13
The Bursting of the Bud.

Spring is coming-Spring is coming.
With her sunshine and her shower:
Heaven is ringing with the singing
Of the birds in brake or bower;
Buds are filling. leaves are swelling,
Flowers on field and bloom on tree:
Ger the earth, and air, and ocean,
Nature holds her jubilee
Soft then stealing, comes feeling
Ger my bosom tenderly;
Sweet ponder. as | wander,
For my musings are of thee.
Spring is coming--Spring is coming,
With her mornings fresh and light:
With her noon of chequered glory,
Sky of blue and clouds of white.
Calm, gray nght-falls, when the light falls
From the star-bespangled sky,
While the splendor, pale and tender,
OF the young moon CLEANS on high.
Still at morn, at noon and even,
Spring is full of joy to me;
For ponder, as wander,
And my musings are of thee.
Still on thee my thoughts are dwelling,
Whstsoe'r thy name may be;
Beautiful, beyond words telling,
Is thy presence unto me,
Mornings breaking finds thee waking,
Wandering in the breeze's fight;
Noontide's glory mantles DER thee
In shower of sunny light;
Daylight dying, leaves thee lying
In the silvery twilight ray;
Stars look brightly ON thee nightly
Till the coming of the day.
Everywhere and every minute
Feel | near thee, lovely one:
In the lark and in the linnet
can hear thy joyous tone.
Bud and blooming mark the coming
filthy feet o'er vale and hill;
And thy presence with lifes essence
Makes the forests heart to fill.
Low before thee | adore thee,
Love creative, thee sing;
Now / meet thee, and greet thee
By the holy name of Spring.
Dublin Miscellany
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13


WONDERFUL CALcULATIoN.-A writer thus
undertakes to convey some idea of the greatness
of the population Of China
"The mind can not grasp the real import of
What does it mean? Count it Night and
day, without rest, or food, or sleep, you contin-
ue the weary work yet eleven days has passed
before you have counted the first million, and
more than as many years before the end of the
tedious task is reached"
He also supposes this mighty multitude to
take up its line of march, in grand procession,
placed in single file at six feet apart, and
marching at the rate of thirty miles per day,
except on the Sabbath, which is given TO
rest
Day after day the moving column advanc
es, the head pushing on far toward the rising
sun, now bridges the Pacific, now bridges the
Atlantic. And now tie Pacific is crossed, bnt
still the long procession marches on, stretching
across high mountains, and sunny plains, and
utodu iNciS, tulOuSu Oulud duu luuld, duu
the European kingdoms, and on again over the
stormy bosom of the Atlantic. But the circuit
of the world itself affords not standing room.
The endless column will double upon ITSELF and
double again and again, and shall girde the
earth eighteen times before the reservoir which
furnishes these numberless multitudes is ex-
hausted. Weeks, months, and years roll away,
and still they come, men, women, and children
Since the march began the little child has
become man, and yet on they come, in unfail-
ing numbers. Not till the end of forty one
years will the last Of the long procession have
passed"
Such is China in its population and if Ho-
mer could preach eloquently on the vanity of
man as mortal, with equal eloquence, had he
seen or contemplated the millions of China
could he have preached on the vanity of man
as an indivnual?
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13
Do Right.

No matter what another does,
Do right yourself
Do not stand and cover and fear
The dreaded world will laugh and jeer,
Scorn all such peril
Stand, with your forehead to the blast,
Stand, with your bosom to the storm,
Stand, till the tempest all is past,
With proud, erect, unshaken form!
The foes of Right in vain may try
Your course to stay;
Never with tremblidg heart say " die
But say the nobler words, "I'l try
And win the day
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13

A CELEBRATED writer says: No woman
can be lady who can wound or mortify an
other. No matter how beautiful, how refined,
how cultivated she may be, she is in reality
coarse, and the innate vulgarity of her nature
manifests itself here Uniformly kind, courte-
Gus and polite treatment of all persons, Is one
mark of true woman"
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13

A boy being praised for his quickness Of
reply, a gentleman observed thus:
When children are SO very keen, they gen.
orally become stupid as they advance in years"
The lad Immediately replied
"Wbat keen boy You must have been"
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13

WHY DOES GuNPowDER DRIVE BALL FROM
A CANNON ?-When gunpowder is burned, the
elements of which it is composed are changed
from the solid to the gaseous form, and. as
gasses, they occupy some three or four hundred
times more bulk than they do in the solid state
at the same temperature. But the substance,
at the same time as they are changed into gasses,
are intensely heated, and by this means their
volume of pressure is still more augmented
Various statements have been made in relation
to the amount of pressure produced by the
burning ofgunpowder, but the bestexperiments
that We have seen any account of were made
by some of the officers of our army. Little
cylinders furnished with solid pistons, and con-
tanning oil, were inserted in the metal of the
gun, opening at right angles into the bore, so
that the pressure of the gasses would drive in the
piston, COMPRISING the oil. An arrangement
was made by which the piston marked the dis
tance to which it was forced into the cylinder,
thus registering the compression. The force
required to compress the oil to the same extent
was afterwards ascertained by means of lever
and weight. The pressure in the several parts
of the bore was thus measured, and was found
to be about $4,000 pounds to the square inch
near the breech and to diminish rapidly to-
wards the muzzle.
Gunpowder is composed of three substances
-saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal Saltpetre
is the nitrate of potash, its constituents being
nitrogen, oxygen and potassium. In the best
gunpowder, the ingredients are so mixed that
the composition consists of one atom of potash
to one of nitric acid, three of carbon and one
sulphur, and, by explosion, this is changed into
one atom of sulphret of potassium. one of nj
trogen and three of carbonic acid. In this
change 100 parts by weight yield SO parts by
weight of gas (nitrogen and carbonic acid)
the other Al parts being solid suIphuret of po-
tassium. The increase of volume in this case
is 300 for l at the same temperature and the
increase oftemperature is varously conjectured,
from 1000 to 5000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13

WOMEN AND DlRT.-Old DR.. Cooper. of
South Carolina, used to say to his students ::
Don't be afraid of little dirt, young gentle
men. What is dirt? Why, nothing at all
offensive, when chemically viewed, Rub a
little akali upon that dirty grease spot upon
your coat, and it undergoes change and be-
comes a soap. Now rub it with little water,
and it disappears it is neither grease, soap,
water, nor dirt. That is not very odorous
pile Of dirt you observe there. Wellscatter a
little gypsum over it, and it is no longer dirty.
Everything you call dirt is worthy of your no.
tice as students of chemistry. Analyze it. 1t
will all separate into very clean clements
Dirt makes corn. corn makes bread and meat,
and that makes very sweet young lady that
l saw one of you kissing last night So, after
all, you were kissing dirt, particularly if she
whitens her face with chalk or fuer's earth.
There is no telling, young gentlemen, what is
dirt
THERE is touching beauty in the radent
look of a girl just crossing the limits of youth,
and commencing her journey through the
checkered space of womanhood 1t is all the
dew-sparkle and morning-glory to her ardent,
buoyant spirit, as she presses forward exulting
10 blissful anticipations, But the Withering
heat of the conflict of life creeps on !; the dew
drops exhale; the garlands OF hope, shattered
and dead, strew the path and too often, ere
noontide, the brow and sweet smiles are ex-
changed for the weary look of one longing for
the evening rest. the twilight, the night.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13

YoU have splendid ear, but very poor
voice said the organ grinder to the donkey.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13

A GLORIOUS EPITAPH.-On grave-stone
in New London appears the following inscrip-
ton. The records of ancient Greece or Rome
do not exhibit nober instance of patriotic
heroism
"On the Goth of October, 17Sl, 1000 Eng
lishmen fell on the town with fire and sword.
A line of powder was then laid from the maya
zine of the fort to the sea, there to be lighted
thus to blow the fort into the air. William
Holman, who lay not far distant, beheld it,
and said to one of his wounded friends, who
was still alive, We will endeavor to crawl to
this line. We will completely wet the powder
with our blood. Thus will we, with the little
life that remains to US, save the fort and mag
azine, and perhaps few of our comrades who
are only wounded He alone had strength to
accomplish this noble design. In his Both
year he died on the powder he had overfowed
with his blood. His friends, and seven of his
wounded companions, by that means had their
lives preserved"
After this simple narrative are the following
words, in large characters
HERE RESTS WILLIAM HOFFMAN"
A SHORT CLERGYMAN.-A few miles below
Poughkeepse, n. Y, there now lives, and has
lived for several years past worthy clergy
man, man, however, very short in stature
Upon certain Sunday, about eight years ago,
this clergyman was invited by the pastor of a
church in that village to fill his pulpit for the
day. The invitation was accepted, and Sunday
morning saw Mr. in the pulpit Now it
happened that the pulpit was a high one, and
accordingly nearly hid the poor little clergy
man from view. However, the congregation,
out of respect, managed to keep their counte-
nances, and with over pious faces, seemed re-
ligiously anxious for the text. They were not
obliged to wait long, for nose and two little
eyes suddenly appeared over the top of the
pulpit, and a squeaking, tremulous voice pro-
claimed in nasal tones the text:
"Be of good cheer it is I-be not afraid y
A general roar of laughter followed the an
nouncement-the clergyman became confused,
and turned all sorts OF colors. Many, in the
general uproar, left the church and it was a
long time before the minister was enabled to
proceed with the sermon, so abruptly broken
off.
Afternoon came-and the little man, stand
ing on footstool, had a fair view OF bis audi
ence. The text was announced in due form
"A little while ye shall see me, and again a
little while and ye shall not see me"
In the course of his sermon he repeated bis
text with great earnestness, and stepping back
lost his elevated footing and disappeared from
his hearers The effect may be more readily
imagined than described.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13

The COURTESY OF MAsoNRY.-Lodge No.
227, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge
of Ireland, was attached, by travelling war
rant which had been granted in the year 1852,
to the 46th regiment of the British army. while
serving in America, during the war of the
Revolution. The lodge chest, at one time, SAYS
the London Freemason's Review, fell into the
hands of the Americans they reported the
circumstance to General Washington, who EN-.
braced the opportunity of testifying his estima-
ton of Masonry in the most marked and
gratifying manner, by directing that guard
of honor, under distinguished officer, should
take charge of the chest, with many articles of
value belonging to the 46tb, and return them
to the regiment The surprise, the feeling Of
both officers and men, may be imagined, when
they perceived the flag of truce that announced
this elegant compliment from their noble oppo-
nent but still more noble brother. The guard
of honor, with their flutes playing sacred
march-the chest, containing tha Constitution
and implements of the Craft, borne aloft, like
another ark of the covenant, equally by En-
glshmen and Americans, who, lately engaged
in the strife of war, now marched through the
infaded ranks of the gallant regiment, that,
with presented arms and colors, hailed the
glorious act by cheers, which the sentiment
rendered sacred as the hallelujahs of an angels
song
A Similar courtesy was extended to this
lodge on another and subsequent occasion. In
the year 1905, while in the island of Dominica.
the 10th regiment was attacked by French
force, war at that time existing between the
governments of France and Great Britain and
again the lodge had the misfortune to lose its
chest, which was carried on board the French
fleet, its captors having had no opportunity of
discovering the nature of its contents. But
three years afterwards, when the character of
the prize had become known, the French gov
who had commanded the expedition, returned
the chest with several complimentary presents,
as tribute from an enlightened nation to the
excellence and sacred character of the masonic
institution.
In 1884, the warrant of constitution of this
lodge was renewed by the Grand Lodge of Ire
land, on which occasion these interesting Incl
dents in its history were elected from the
records
Of the ultimate fate of the lodge whose vi
cissitudes in war form so interesting a portion
of the annals Of Freemasonry, it is fortunate
that we can furnish the history. The lodge
became again dormant, but was revived on the
2Sth Of March, 1o49, and established perma-
nently in Montreal, as g The Lodge of Social
and Military Virtues, No. 227."-Amer,can
Freemason
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13
TERMS.
Business Notice.

Messrs. THos CALLow and d. NJ. BIsHoP having
purchased interests in the RECORD Newspaper and
Job Printing establishment, will hereafter be asso-
ciated in conducting the business of the same No
change will be made in the Editorial control of the
Paper.
The weekly Butte record., 1861-04-13

A New AIR SH1P.-A recent number of
the Moniteur states that new attempt at
arial navigation has lately been made in
France The inventor, NJ. Vert, who belongs
to the department Of engineers, has constructed
balloon Of nearly thirty English feet in length,
moved by small steam engine which is heat
ed by alcohol and furnished with spindles, pla-
ced before and behind the balloon and under
the engine. The whole apparatus weighs about
sixty English pounds, the steam engine compo-
sing nearly fourth of the weight. This aral
ship has the form and the name of fish, and
is called indeed the Flying Fish," name
given it by the inventor, from its perfect re-
semblance to dolphin, which exhibits his
whole system Just as that fish moves to the
right or left by means Of his tail, the Flying
Fish is put in the same direction by rudder,
which, relative to the size of the balloon, is of
a size equal to the tail of fish of the same
proportions. With the least possible effort,
the helm thus placed at the extremity of the
erial ship forces it to make curve, and con-
sequently to direct itself. In the same way it
is this form of fish given to the balloon,
which offers the smallest resistance in direction
Of the movement the perpendicular section
in that direction being less than in ordinary
balloons. How far the Dolphin viii an
swer the expectations of its inventor remains
to be tested by experience.