The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-12-17
A Lump of Brown Sugar.

DO you eat brown sugar because it is
cheaper? If you do, buy microscope,
and examine lump of the next you take
home. 'Astonishment will be hardly
the word to express the feelings you will
have at this result. Lest you may not get
the microscope, allow us to describe what
you can see. Under powerful glass, there
will be seen myrads of horrible monsters
as large as beetles, and having the appear
ance of crabs. Four dreadful legs, with
claw incers at the ends Of them, ,jointed
III four parts as with armor, and bristling
with sharp pointed spears, are in front of
the monster, and his head has long pyra-
midal form in two joints, with five finger
tips at the terminus where the mouth should
be. The body is oval shaped and marked
almost exactly like that of a crab, only
upon the rims of an inner circle upon the
back there are twelve more of those long,
sharp spears, with two at the tail, and
four snake-like teneacula, exceedingly fine
in the articulation, and no doubt intended,
like puss's whiskers, to be feelers to warn
tine animals of danger. The reverse side
shows the ugliness of the beast even more
than the diverse; but it also shows the
wondrous mechanical genious of the maker
of it. Each limb is padded with mass of
muscle at the base of it, which gives the
impression of immense power, and over
the muscle there is a case of armOr through
which it shows. These creatures are eager,
FESTIVE and ravenous; always falling foul
OF each other, or attacking great Jumps of
sugar as large in reality as a mathematical
point. With the rincers attached to the
end of each probosis they take hold of and
tear each other, repeating in their small
way the enormous tragedies of Tennyson's
primal monsters. A spoonful of this raw,
coarse sugar was dissolved in about three
times the quantity of water, when, as with
a conjuror's rod, animalcules sprang to the
surface and floated there, swimming about
and up and down, like the beasts that wrig-
gle in soft water tubs, and finally turn
into mosquitoes. They can be seen with
the naked eye, but not in their entire hid
eousness. 1t has been proved that in every
pound of unretined, raw sugar, there are
one hundred Thousand of these acari.
IT WILL PAY!-AND How.-We heard
recently of two farmers who each came to
the village with load of grain. One
accepted the first offer at six cents bushel
over the previous sale. The other having
read in his local paper of an advance of Is
to 20 cents per bushel, held off until he
obtained Is! cents advance, or 81 more
than the other, on 80 bushels of the same
quality of grain. The paper cost him So
for whole year. The above instance was
only one of several such gains during the
year, in sales and purchases. Did the
paper pay9 His family know what is
going on at home and abroad, and are
growing up intelligent. Only last month
a man here received one of forty or fifty
"private confidential circulars sent by
mail to different parties, offering great
returns for $40. He sent the money, and
tboti ba loc ho
of his neighbors received the same ''taking''
circulars and were disposed to invest also,
but turning to the american Agricuhurist
they found the affair described among the
multitude of swindles constantly being
shown up in that journal, and they keep
their money. The paper cost them 81. so a
year. Did it pay I've could give many
illustrations similar to the above. The
man who thinks he cannot afford to take
such papers is greatly mistaken; he cannot
afford to be without them. There is not a
man in the country who can afford to be
without them. There is not a man in the
country who can afford to be without at
least one local paper, even if it be wholly
filled with advertisements. He will sell
enough better, and buy enough cheaper, to
many times repay the cost. And when
this home want is supplied, we are sure it
will pay him to also take such a paper as
the american Agrtculturist. 1t is full of
good, reliable information about all matters
pertaining to soil culture, upon animals,
labor-saving implements, ETC., for the farm,
garden, and household. 1t has capital
department for the young people and little
folks, and the four or five hundred beauti-
full engravings given every year, are alone
worth many times its cost, which is only
$1.50 year; or four copies for S.; ten
fxVn 1nran 0f
$1.00 each. 1t is a marvel of cheapness,
combined with beauty and real value.
The Twentieth annual Volnnae is just
beginning, and we advise all our readers to
send at once and secure it for a year.
ORANGE JUDD & Co., 245 Broadway, New
York, are the Publishers.
Western Paper.