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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-05-14
COMMERCIAL. IrExs.

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.
On the French railways, with 2,I50 trains passing daily, the
loss Of life by accident Is found TO be but one an 100000 pas
sengerz-
been declared by the Androscoggin Company at Lewiston.
Marie. IL is said 10 be the finest cotton mill in the world. Its
capacity Is as OGo spindIes, and IL gives employment to 12Oc
operatives So far, during the war, il has been at work all the
time, and has probably paid for tself-Sl,O 10000.
AMERICAN WAR TAxxs.-A New York paper, commenting on
the taxation bills, says;
The greatest source Of revenue to the Government is still left
90 the mineral wealth Of the country. The Commissioner Of
the General Land Office in his official report states that ." the
yield Of the precious metals alone, will not fall below 100000
900 the present year, and IL will augment with the increase OF
population for centuries to come" "The annual product in
ten years will reach $500 100000 in the precious metals, and
In coal, tin, iron- lead, quicksilver and copper, half that SUN.
He proposes 10 subject these minerals to a Government tax Of
eight per cent, and counts upon a revenue from this source OF
S25,ooo,ooo per annum almost Immediately, and a proportonate
increase in the future. He adds that with an amount Of labor
relatively equal to that expended in California, applied to the
gold fields already known to exist outside Of that State, the
production Of this year, including that Of California, would ex-
coed sico,OOO,O00. In a word, he says: "The value Of these
mines is absolutely fucaiculable" Adopting the Commissioners
fifteen years ut the rate he stats q per cent) and then reducing
IL in the next ten years to 7 per cent, and in the following decade
20 8 per cent. and we have the following result:
Estimated produce Rate Of gsttIs re-
XearI- per annum Of Mines ~ -S1mated produce
5....s $50 600 OOO---aCy. Of Duties
g.. K-0Q0ar1.:-..-s V cent...--.s %6o.0Oo,0o0
80 36,OJO 900. .....s y cent.-.... 12OOOO,OOO
-"-o...... 45O O00, 900. y cent---..-- 100000
10...... 800, OoO, 600. .....6 Y cent..-...- l,OsO.OOO, 600
Total estimated produce of duties in IS years. s2O7O,OOO,OOO
Such a revenue is worthy Of consideration and Congress
should direct its attention to this subject, and act upon it before
Is present session expires
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

SHABBY GENTEE1-Among all the
pitiable and appalling sights which assail
the eyes, and through them the heart,
none can bear comparison with that which
exhibits the peculiar circumstance which,
in common parlance, is known as shabby
gentility. There is mute development
of all the aggregate of human suffering in
ia development of intolerable yet un.
complaining torment, which exc;tes the
tenderest regard in the beholder, and the
most unselGsL sympathy. There is some-
thug gross in bodily suffering; but men
tai pain is delicate in its Intrinsic nature
The diguified suffering Of shabby gentili-
~ is the very realization Of what poets
call, Exquisite agony There is some
thing iu the battered hat, the thrcadbare
coat, and the disordered but highly lus.
trous boots, which the flintiest of natures
cannot deny.
Poverty does not always address it.
self to the sympathies, and seldom, if
ever, in the ratio of its degree. The poor
homeless vagabond, 10 tatters and fifth,
the shivering meudicant, whose empty
pockets cannot afford him more than a
mouldy crust to gnaw, EFFORTS charity
more frequently than he invites. But
shabby geutiity seduces the finer instincts
of the charitable man, and wins upon hu-
man nature insensibly. 1t is not the
lumber Of tatters, nor the hideous MIMI
t.e of privatons, but that which lies be-
ueath the threadbare suit-the mental
suffering, of which this is the evidence
and the symbol. In this lies the vital
principle on which the pathetic quality of
shabby gentility is based.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

Goethe's 8. Mother.

I
His mother was but eighteen when he
was born. She was lively girl, full of
German sentiment, with warm impulses,
by 10 means much troubled with con-
science, exceedingly afraid of her husband,
who was near twenty years her senior, and
seemingly both willing ana skillful in the
invention of OCCASIONAL white lies adapted
to screen her children from his minute,
6dgetty, and rather austere superinten-
deuce. She Spoiled" her children on
principle, and made no preteusion to con-
duct systematic training, which she al.
horred. She said of herself in after years,
that she could "educa,e no child, was
quite unfit for it. give them every wish 50
long as they laughed and we're good, aud
whipped them if they cried and made wry
mouths, without ever looking for any rea
son why they laughed or cried" Her be-
lief in Providence was warm with German
sentiment, AID not little tiugcd with su-
perstition. She rejoiced wiz n. her son
published the Confessions Of Beautiful
Soul which she loved az a memorial of
Il lost pietistic friend. Her religion. was
one OF emotion rather than of moral rever-
enre. She was generous and extravagant,
and, after her husbands death, seems to
have spent capital as well as income
She was passionately fond Of the theatre,
a taste which she transmitted to her son.
Her hearty simplicity of nature made
her everywhere loved. Her servants
loved and stayed with her to the last
She seems to have had at least as much
humor as Der son, which, for Germans,
was not ineonsiderable, aud not much more
sense of awe. She gave the most detailed
orders for her own funeral, and even spe-
CITED the kind oil wine and the size of the
-cracknels with which the mourners we're
to be regaled; ordering the servants not
to put too few raisins into the cakes, as she
never could endure that in her life, and it
would certainly chafe her in her grave -
Having been invited to 90 to party on
the day on which she died, she sent for
answer that "Madame Goethe could not
cong, as she was engaged just then in dy-
Big" Yet her sensitiveness was so great
that she always made it condition with
her servants that they should never re-
peat to her painful news that they
had picked up accidentally, as she wished
to hear nothing sad without absolute ne
cessity. Aud during her sons dangerous
illness at Weimar, in 1905, no one ventur-
ed to speak to her of it till it was passed,
though she affirmed that she had been con
scious all the time of his danger without
the heart to mention it. This peculiarly
Goethe Inherited National Rev,c,o.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02
Mlstellaneous.
How Girls are Bought and Sold in Mar
rage in France.

You know how strictly the young girls
are guarded in France under the eyes of
their parents, aud how completely their
personal independence is sacrificed to spro-
priety" aud their parents will. A gentle
man who lately visited matrimonial office
in this city, with view of obtaining an
insight Into the operations of the system,
gives some interesting details in regard IT,
it. The world, it appears, has in general
a false idea of these establishments, at
least of this Que. 1t is generally believed
that the chief of the establishment keeps
under key battalion of ladies that are
made To lrot around under the eyes of the
visitor, who stands in the position of the
sultan, ready to throw the handkerchief.
Some suppose that they are permitted to
see the ladies who wish to marry through
a keyboe, or some other form of unsuspeo.
ted bulbs eye. On the contrary, nothing
is more simple than this establishment,
and at the same time nothing is more com,
plicated than this wheework.
The women have little to do 10 these
operations, nearly all the business being
accomplished between men. In the con.
jugal comedy, of which the chief of the
establishment is the manager, the women
play part without th,ir knowing it
Thus, he has correspondents in all the
large towns. lie is in relation with
all, or nearly all, the notaries 10 France,
who keep him advised of the different
heiresses whose affairs they manage The
chief arranges these heiresses by divisions,
according to their importance, and he
pretends that be is the onl y man i'll France
who can say, approximately, each hour,
the total Of the united wealth of the heir
esses of the empire.
A gentleman wishes to get married.
lie is lawyer, an agent, or merchant.
He presents himself to the chief of the
matrimonial establishment, who demands
first to know what are his pretensions -
After his visit the first duty of the agent
Is to seek Information Of the character and
position Of the candidate, and if these are
satisfactory, he appoints new rendezvous,
aud proposes 10 bis client different ladies'.
(The ladies', you will recollect, are all the
tine ignorant that they are tht object Of
u speculation.) When the parties come
to terms, the matrimonial agent puts a
plan in operation to bring the lady and gen.
tlcman together, and he arrives at this re-
suit naturally, without the lady ever sus-
pecting that she is a puppet moved by a
thread iu the hands Of a matrimonial
agent.
Ii the hcireSs lives in the provinces,
the agent addr, >scs letter to his CORES
ponden', who can always find means Of
bringing these two unkn ava individuals
int' "aGh others presence. A soircO, u
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02
a Yankee Story.

An Englishman was Dragging of tn
English railroads to Yankee travele
seated at his side in Que of the cars of {
"fast train,' in England The engine
bell was rung as the train neared sta.
ton. 1t suggests to the Yankee an op
portunity of stalking down his CON paniou
peg or two" "What's that noise p
innocently enquired the Yankee.
ave are approaching town." said the
Englishman; they have to commence
ringing about ten miles before they get to
station, or else the train would run BY
it before the bell could be heard Won
derful, isn't it?. l suppose they hayen't
invented bells in America yet p
"Why, yes" replied the Yankee, tive We
got bells, but cant use them on our rail.
roads. We run so 'tarnel fast that the
train always keeps ahead of the sound -
No u.s. whatever; the sound never reaches
the village till after the train gets by
"Iudced y exclaimed the English
Fact" said the Yankee; chad to give
up bells. Then we tried whistles-but
they wouldn't answer, either. I was on
locomotive when the whistle was tried
We were going at tremendous rate
hurricanes were nowhere, and | had to
hold my hair on. We saw a wagon
crossing the track about FIVE miles ahead,
and the engineer let the whistle Oh,
screeching like trooper 1t screamed
awfully, but it wasn't no use. The next
thing | knew, l was picking myself out of
pond by the roadside, amid the frag-
ments of the locomotive, dead horses,
broken wagon, and dead engineer lying
beside me. Just then the whistle come
along, mixed up with some frightful
oaths that l heard the engineer use when
he first saw the horses. Poor fellow he
was dead before his voice got to him.
"After that we tried lights, supposing
these would travel faster than the sound.
We got some so powerful that the chick
ems woke up all along the road when we
came by, surprising it to be morning
But the locomotive kept ahead of it still,
and was in the darkness, with the light
close on behind it. The inhabitants pe.i-
toned against it; they could not sleep
With SO much light in the night time
Finally we had to station electric tele-
graphs along the road, with signal men to
telegraph when the train was in sight !;
and have heard that some of the fast
trairs beat the lightning fifteen minutes
every forty miles. But l can't say as
that is true but the rest l know to be
So"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

THE RULING PAssIoN.-In the BALD
Eagle Ridges" in Clinton county, Penn.
sylvania, lives certain maiden lady
Twice in her lifetime she was engaged to
be married, and twice some unforeseen
event interposed to destroy her hopes of
matrimonial bliss. Hers was sad case.
Time began to wrinkle her fair brow, and
no new suitors were there to offer them
selves. To add to her distress she became
sick, "nigh unto DEATH" The junior
preacher on the circuit-a large, over
grown and bashful boy-was sent for
The sick room was we'll filed with sympa.
thlzing ncighbors when the ''young ii-
vine" made his appearance, aud after sou,e
remarks, proceeded to read a portion Of
Scripture. He fell upon the chapter in
which the woman Of Samaria is introduced.
When he rs4d tue words, ITO call thy
husband" the sick woman groaued a lit
tic but " hen lie uttered the words, "The
wv.au Answered aud said have no hus-
baud the dying woman rose upright III
her Lel, her eyes flushing fire as she
'squeaked vu. the following:
Il aii't agoin' TO stand yer taunts, if
you are preacher; clear out Of the house
nowl I've had t,oo chances for hus-
band aud will live to have anuther-ses
81 dou't p
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

COULDN'T TURN HIS SfVMACa.-A
newly arrived stuIuut al d o.riain college
down east cl.anveI one DAY to dine at the
same table With one Of tue protessors.-
As soon The company were seated, the
student to the surprise aud merriment Of
the lest, began helpiug hiuself to the diff
iercut v..nis placed before him. "Hold
Oh m"meul, my friend" said the profess
sor, gravely, laying his hand GU the young
man arm, Il Lave few words to say be-
fore you begin" The student looked The
professor in the eye moment, and then
coolly remarked, "Well, just say what you
please you cau't turn my stomach"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

KEEP Busy Men who have half a
dozen irons in the fire are not the ones to
20 crazy 1t is the man Of voluntary or
compelled leisure who mopes, and piues,
and thinks himself into the madhouse or
the grave. Motion is all Natures law.
Action is mans salvation, physical aud
mental. And yet, nine out of ten are
wstfully looking forward to the coveted
hour when they shall have leisure to do
nothing, or something, only if they feel
like 1.-THE very siren that has ured to
death many a successful man. Es only
is truly wise who lays himself OUT 10 wol!t
till life's latest hour, and that Is the lnau
who will live the longest, aaI ~. .ns IL
most purpose.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02
VOL. VIII.---NO. Sc.
A Printer on a Tramp.

A Dutchman, sitting ct the doorof his
tavern out West, il approached by q. tall
thin Yankee, who is emigrating W eastward
on foot, with a bundle on cane over his
shoulder.
"Vell Mishter Walking Sbtick, vot you
want ?" a.
Crest and refseshment,' is the ro-
ply.
Supper aud lochin, l suppose |"
Eyes, supper and lodging"
"Pe you Yankee pedler, init chew.
elry in your pack, to cheat the girls Z"
"No sir, am no Yankee psdler."
"A singn' masther, too lazy to work."
I'M, sir"
"a shenteel shoemaker, vat loves to
measure te gals. foots unit ankgl,s peter
tan to make te shoss p
"No, sir, or l should oertainly have
meuded my own shoes"
"a book achent, vot bodders to school
committees till dey do vot you Wish,
shoost to get rid Of you 2"
"Guess again, sir. 1 am no book
agent"
"Te tuyvel A dcntisht, preakin' te
beeple's chaws at a dollar schnag?"
"No, sir, am no tooth puller.'
"Prenolochist, ten, feelin' tie young
folks heads like so many cappidge?"
"No, nor phrenolog'st."
"Vell, ten, vat tie tuyvel can you per-
Shoost tell, unit you shall have te pest sas-
sage for supper, unit shtay all night, free
gratis, mitout payin' Won cent, unit chill
of viskey to shtart init in te morniu."
81 am an humble disciple of Faust-a
professor of the art Of preventative Of all
arts-a typographer, at your service"
"Vatch dat p
ga printer, sir; man that prints books
and newspapers"
"a man vat prints pooks unit uewspa-
persY Oh ! yaw, yaw, dat ish ia man
vat prints newspapers! Yaw, yaw! I
wish | may be shot if l didn't tink you
wash poor tuyvel of district school mas
ter, vat works for nothing AMI poards
around novare. ] fought you vas him.
Walk in, walk iu, Mishter Priuterman !"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02
A Fruitful Vine.

In the Harleian MSS. we find mention
made of certain Scottish weaver, who
had no less than sixty-two children, and
all. by one wife. This family included
four daughters who lived to be women,
aud the rest of the three.scure and two
were boys, who all lived to be baptised.
Out of these, forty-six actually reached
mans estate. The writer, one Thomas
Gibbons, adds, that during the time of
this frutfulness Oh the part of the wife,
the husband was absent for some FIVE years
in the Low Countries, where he served
under Captain Selby; and that after his
return home his wife was again delivered
of three children at birth, and "con-
tiuued in her due time in such births"
until>he ceased chldbearing.
The informant of Mr.. Gibbons was
John Delaval, Esq, of Northumberland
who was high sheriff of that county iu
1925, and who, in 1880, rode fron' New
castle to place about thirty miles beyond
Edinburgh, to see this worthy and fruit
full couple Mr.. Delaval, however, did
not find any of the children then residing
with their parents, though three or four
of them were living at Newcastle at the
tune. 1t appears that Sir John Bowes,
and other wealthy Northumbrian "gentle-
men of quality" adopted and brought up
the children in patches of ten and twelve
piece, that the residue were "disposed
of by others among the Scottish aad
English gentlemen Of the Border Coun-
try.-Oace q Week..
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

s. 4 person complained to DR.. Frank
lin Of having been insulted by one who
called him scoundrel. "Ah," replied
the doctor, "and what did you call him p
"Why,' said he, II called him scoun-
drel, too" "Well," resumed Franklin,
81 presume you are both gentlemen of We
raciiy, and as the account seems balan.
ced between you. each should regard it a,
a receipt in full"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02
Qoetital.
THE CHILDREN's HOUR.

Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to hover,
Comes pause in the days occupations,
That is known us the children's hour.
hear in the chamber above me,
The patter of little feet,
The sound of door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study see in the lamplight
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice and laughing Allegro,
And Edith with golden hair.
whisper, and then a silence;
Yet know by their merry eyes,
They are plotting and planning together,
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall
BY three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall
They climb up into my turret "a
Der the arms and back of my chair;
If try to escape they surround INC,
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till think of the Bishop of Bineen
In his mouse tower on the Rhine
Do you think, O blue-eyed banditt,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old moustache rs | am,
Is not match for you all
have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let yon depart,
But pnt you down into the dungeon.
In the round-tower Of my heart.
And there will keep you forever
Yes, forever and day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin
And moulder in dust away
LoNGFELLow.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

GRASS EVERYWHERE -Universality
Of grass is one of the most poetical of facts
in the economy Of the world. There is
no place which it will not beautify. 1t
climbs up the steep mountain passes,
which are inaccessible to man, and forms
lodges Of green, amid the rivings of the
crags; it leaps down between steep, shelly.
ing precipiees, and there fastens its slen-
der roots in the dry crevicts, which the
earthquakes had rent long ago, and into
which the water trickles, when the sun
beams strike the hoary SHOWS above
There it leaps and twiues in the morning
light, and filings its sweet, sweet laughing
grcenness to the sun there it creeps and
climbs about the mazes of solitude, and
waves its airy tassels with the wind. 1t
beauthes even that spot, and spreads over
the sightless visage of death and darkness,
the serene beauty of a summer smile,
Ainging its green lustre on the bold gran
lite, and pertaining the lips of morning,
as she stoops from Heaven to kiss the
green things of the earth. 1t makes a
moist and yielding carpet over the whole
earth, on which the impetuous may pass
with hurried tread, or the foot of beauty
l,nger. And from this universally Of
growth, grass derives its specific name.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02
%. BIBB & co.
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

g. Experiments that have recently
been made in France show that hors
can live seventeen days without fova Or
drink, and twenty-five days upon water
alone. If he consumes solid food without
drinking, he can only live i've days. A
horse that had been d.privcd Of w9ser for
three days driuA cl.'.4 ga!!Jus IN three
minutes.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

R9r Mr.. Rock, the player, once advised
a sceue-shiftcr to get subscription on re-
ceiving and accident. A few days after
he desired the man to show him list Of
names, which he read, and returned it to
the poor fellow, who, with sAme surprise.
said, "Why, Mr.. Rock, won't you give me-
something" SIS it me you mean 7 says
Rock, "why, man, didn't l giOs you the
hint!"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02
s5y@ nWould Won Xix

Ray~ "Would you like to lock at tho
moou 2" asked a "protessor' who uad sta
toned his glass at the o,rvvt corner, OF a"
Emeraller, IT, lho dis,l wild yc-wouiI
| be af Of giving Je a dime to lux at the
noou with one eye, whn | can Sc it wild
Two al uot cUstiu lno cutW
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

s9-Stays were quite unknown in Rus
STA until Peter the Great danced with some
of the Hanoverian ladies on his journey
to Pomerania. Quite astounded, the mon
arch exclaimed u his suite after the ball,
"What conf1uuded hard bones these Ger
man women have !"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

e. A pupctual man is very rarely a
poor man. and never man of doubtful
credit. His small accounts are frequently
settled, and he never meets with difficulty
in raising money to pay large Demands
Small debts neglected ruin credit, aud when
a man has lost that, he will iud himsef
at the bottom of a hill he caunot ascend.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

eT-A famous musician, who had made
his fortune by marriage, being requested
to sing in company, "Pemit me,' said he.
"to initiate the nightingale, who ncr,r
sings after be has made his uest.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

gJb"I believe the jury have been iuoc-
ul,ted for stupidity said testy lawyer.
THAT may be-" replied his opponent, "but
the bar and the court are Of the opinion
that you had it in the natural way
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-02

Vs. Fine sensibiIities are like woodbiues,
delightful luxuries Of beauty to Irvine
around solid, upright stem of understand.
ing, but very poor thiags if they are left to
creep slung the GROUND.