St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-07-10

~ hnlckerbocker, with Mace the lnlmlta.
ble; and the Continental, improving so
fast that it will soon be too good to keep
without ice. The novelists also are pelt-
ing US with sugar plums. There is Bull
wer's "Strange Story" which all the ad-
mirers of this author will read because tits
his. Sala's t'Two Prima Donnas" almost
as Frenchi6ed as Sues, not so immortal or
so we'll written, with heroine whose fol-
ly exceeds even Thackery's women, and
that is saying a good deal. Pity that to
fit lady for shining in love story she
must exhibit lack Of common sense but
then if either Of the principal persouages
were possessed Of this homely quality what
would become of the delicate distresses
which word would clear up? So sup
pose with thrilling tales we must accept
Tom Noodles. Wilkie Collins has DROP
ped the heart beating style, perhaps for
one novel only, but for so much let us be
thankful. A pleasant, graceful little thing
with very simple machinery in the "Sto-
len Mask"
Then the transportation tastidjous
ones appetite becomes with plenty! The
New York Sunday Times publishes the
best stories Of any paper I know, and its
poetry and paragraphs are equally good,
but these are not to my taste while Jennie
June's parlor and sidewalk gossip is al
ways sensible; though sometimes. WHOLE
some bitterness is perceptible where there
is wrong to be righted, or where plain
truth is to be spoken she is on hand and
never fiuches,-a large pattern of good
woman is the writer in question.
Who would take the mawkish Ledger
but for the sprinkling of cayenne Fanny
Fern or Mrs. George Washington Smith
<the same person l suspect) seasons it with.
The Springfield Republican is very mild
dose of brain when Mary Ames's bold pen
Gil sketches are wanting, in spite OF the
platitudes of Timothy Titmouse.. The
Louisville Journal is good only as served
through other papers with all the sugar
plums saved and the pudding left behind.
The Home Journal, of New York, is full
Of refined, pleasant chit-chat, knows how
to extract the spice from new books IN a
way to make the purchase irresistable.--
Nobody cares about the, ''Lookings on at
the War;" Of course-why should they p
But there are other things We find there
that do want to know.
Somehow the Independent is not So
prominent as it was; perhaps H. W.
Beecher has said nothing remarkable late
ly or it would have been copied sure; and
one of its most glorious contributors is
gone, the master mind of the age among
women-E. B. Browning. Then, there is
the St. Cloud DEMOCRAT, a well-known
paper. Who does not "Pshaw - when
the editress fails to give pungency to the
dish, and from laziness or any other cause
fails to stick her pen through the last pop
ular subject and impale it if deserving on
her caustio spear, or with word of en-
couragement send it on its way if worthy
The Cleveland Plain Deulcr is another
noteworthy sheet. There are hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of good local papers
in the States whose fame never passes tho
boundaries of their own peculiar place,
but these are known everywhere. Who
does not recollect, for it's not long ago,
the scramble for copies Of Wilkes Spirit
OF the Times containing the editors let
tiers on the war ?-clear, terse, descriptive
they were gone an hour after the arrival
Of the mail and not Spirit to be procur.
red. It is worth while to he known as
the editor Of any Of these periodicals, and
in their company, extracting the food best
suited to my taste, is spent the leisure
hours of -. IA ~
l. Yours Truly, RUTH HALL.
GREEN PEAS have been plenty for two
weeks, and on the Fourth we dined at Mr..
Hyke's where new potatoes were served.