The mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1863-1943, 1865-01-21
NUMBER 81.
Corr O'LANUs on FaHiEE AIYATRG.-
The Brooklyn EHgle has = correspondent
who knOwsa thing or two. & Hear IhimaE
1t is good thing for . ~Al e pay a.

| 1t is q good thing for . oAAa Y Pey a.
Provided be has one. liza.
Married men generally have. -
So have /.
1t is the natural consequence Of getting
married.
Families, like everything else, are more
expensive than they used to be. Shoes
and clothes cost . sight, now days, and
children have mostly good appetites.
Nine have.
Boys will be boys They can't help it.
They we're born So. 1t is their destiny to
tear their trowsers, and wear out two pair
Of boots o month keeping their blessed
ma constantly employed, like besIeged
garrison, repairing breeches, and their un-
fortunate pa paying out currency, under
strong conviction that there is nothing
like leather"-to wear out.
tried coppcr.tOed boots on my heir.
The copper wore well, and have an idea
that copper boots would be good idea,
but couldn't find metallic shoemaker to
carry it out
Mrs. OIL. also became attached to cop
per. and thought that It would be on i'm
provement and save sewing, il boys pam
taloons were like ships and tea.kettles,
copper bottomed. The suggestion was A
No. l, but we haven't tried it yet.
Copper so ran iU my head at the time
that O'Pake called ME COpperhead.
This was the origin Of the term.
Mrs. OIL. is q very managing woman.
She makes trowsers for our son, Alexan-
der Themistocles, out Of mine, when I've
done with them. lie can get through
three pair to my one, ordinarily, and I am
obliged to wear out my clothes faster than
l used to, in order to keep him sGpplied.
once suggested that it might be within
the resources Of art and industry, to make
him pair out Of new material.
Mrs. OIL. said positively that it couldn't
be done. 1t would ruin us. She conclu-
ded that it vas cheaper to cut up q pair
that had paid twelve dollars for.
subsequently found upon enquiry that
new cloth for the purpose could have been
bought for about two dollars.
ventured to tell Mrs OIL, expecting
a triumph Of male foresight over female
lack Of judgment.
She gave me n look OF scorn, rs she
wanted to know If had asked the price
Of trimmings"
Trimmings we're too much for me.
/ have been afraid Of trimmings ever
since.
Trimmings, suppose, means buttons
and things.
In addition to clothes, the scion Of our
house runs up other expenses.
But what is expense compared with the
Joy father feels, when after days la
borious exercise at the Office, wrestling
with steel pen, he returns to his domes-
tic retreat, and is met at the gate by
smiling cherubim, who in tones that go to
his. fond parents heart, and makes him
forget his troubles, with, Hello, pa, give
me penny"
You hand instinctively goes to the seat
of his affections, your pocket, and draws
forth the coveted coin, which is promptly
invested in molasses candy. -.
Corrox ~ Eovpr The cotton cron or
Egypt, as we find it stated in the Paris
Constitutional, amounts, the present year,
to O.00O, 900 pounds, valued at $50, ,000,.
900; this, too, from country having q
population of less than 100000. We
also notice that the exports Of cotton from
China to Great Britain, in June and July
Of this year, were 50.603 piculs, against
81, 900 in the same period of last year,
and none prior to 1868. On this subject,
the New York Journal Of Commerce, Of
November 23d, says:
England is congratulating herself on
the success Of the effort to make the rich
valley of the Nile tributary to her opu-
lence. She already imagincs that grand
destiny awaits the old home Of the Pha-
raohs. British capital and enterprise are
setting strongly in that direction, in an.
ticipation Of luxuriant yield of cotton,
for which the English people hope to ex-
change the products Of their industry
In the last twenty years British trade
with Egypt has nearly quadrupled, and
amounts now to EGO, ,000, 900 per annum.
In the last year or two this growth has
been remarkably rapid, and in striking
contrast with the incidence and letbargy
heretofore characteristic Of all that per-
tanned to the lands Of the Crescent. Even
the United States derives advantages from
the prosperity now enjoyed by Egypt.
considerable orders being received in New
York for cotton gins, ploughs and other
agricultural Implements. Nor is it bad
sign that complaints shonld be made in
London Journals Of the inadequacy OF rail
way facilities in the valley Of the Nile,
the poor warehouse accommodations at
Cairo, etc. The fact appears to be that
under the stimulus profitable agricu!-
ture, caused by the demands Of English
I r. h. IL. - a.
country to the growth Of great staple,
Egypt is fast wheeling into line among
commercial nations.
DoN'r FORGET YoUR GlRLs.-When l
lived among the Choctaw Indians, says q
traveller, held a consultation with one of
their chiefs respecting the stages of their
progress in the arts of civilized life, and
among other things he informed me that
at their start they made great mistake
they only sent their boys to school,
These boys came home intelligent men,
but they married uneducated and uncivil.
lied wives; and the uniform result was,
the children were all like their mothers.
The father soon lost all his interest bot
in wife and children. And now, saif he.
If we would educate but one CLASP of our
children, we should choose the girls. for
when they become mothers, they educate
their sons. This is the point, and it is
true. No nation can become fully en-.
lightened when mothers are not qualified
to discharge the duties of home work Of
education. Pareutsl give your daughters,
as well as your sons, the best education
in your power.
JONES and Brown were, talking lately
of n vollnD cIarOvufan vphoaa nroa E;nr.