Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-06-20

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WHAT HAS HE MADE.-The ALBANY Pos
thus replies to statement made in the New
FORK Herald that during the last twenty
years William 3. Astor has so managed {
fortune of twenty millions as to roll it int
sixty millions -
Suppose be has, what then What hal
he made by the operation, except to increase
worry to keep the run of his increased
more oysters, quail, woodcock, and boned tur-
key than he did when he was worth ten mil
lions. He dresses no better and has thous-
and times less fun. We beat him on the slee1
and have no lawsuits with tenants and tres
psssers. Robbers lay for Astor every time he
goes out doors after dark. They don't think
OF US. Astor, with sixty millions Of dollars
has sixty millions of troubles. To keep the
run of his rents, bonds and real estates keeps
Astor in work fourteen hours day, and yet
Astor gets three square meals a day, which is
just what we obtain without any millions, any
tenants, any real estate, and only work eight
hours per day.
''If mems happiness increased with their
worshlpping the Golden Calf The happiness
increases with their earnings up to a certain
polnt-the point necessary to secure the CON-
forts OF lite, say 1000 q year. All beyond
this is superhuous. Being superaous it is
productive of no good whatever. The richer
the man, the greater is the probability that
his sons will live on billiards and die in the
inebriate asylum. With contentment and
s2,OOO year, man may be as happy as
prince. without contentment you will be
mIserabIe; even itFour wealth equal the rent
rolls OF Cr@sus."!
Two OF THE VETERANS old age of
those two Veterans of English literature, Dis
raeli and Carlyle, presents respectively a rather
noted contrast lone of them bringing out a
novel of very high lille, In his we'll known old
style, while the other sits among "the si
lences. /" like Marus among the ruins of Gar.
.bage and gives I'D the world as bad concern;
and little better than the thing Coleridge called
it. ''the devil in straight walscoat. 1hen ,t
the tacia! portraits of the two men are so or
dav-tbat of Disraeli looking ous from among
the 'crows'feet with confident air OF work.
and Carlvle's in its vacant gaze OF weary DIS
ynst, telling the experience of itetl spent
IN combating the "shams' and tallacles OF gen
cral opinion. The biography of his life seems
70 he riyen in the ''careess desoation' Of
Carlyle's look The cable telegram, announG-
inp the illness of the author OF Lothian, Will
awaken here sympathy as generous as IN Eng;
land. No greater tribute could be PAID 10 the
cosmopolitan nature OF the tame OF Disrae''
a REAuTIFUI SENTIMENT. In Augustlu
Daly's play, Under the Gasight, Laura
Courtland utters these beautiful sentimcnts:-'
"Let the woman you look upon be wlse or
vain, beautiful or homely, rich or poor, she nus
but one thing she can really give or refuse-her
heart. Her beauty, her wit, her accomplish
ments, she may sell to you-but her love IS the
treasure without money and without price.
She only asks in return that when you look
npon her yours eyes shall speak mute dego-
INN that when you address her.. your voice
shall be gentle, loving and kind. That you
shall not despise her because she cannot under
stand all at once your vigorous thoughts ana
ambitious plans for when misfortune and evil
have defeated your greatest purposes, her love
remains to console you. You look upon the
trees for strength and grandeur; DO not oe, =
spise the flowers because their fragrance IS all
thew have to give. Remember, love Is all thal
woman can glve--but it is TIE only earthy
thing which God permits US to carry osYouoo
the grave. --
How TO FORCE RADIsHES. .-Radlshes may
be crown in few days by the following some
what singular method: Let some good radlst
seed soak in water for fifty four hours. then
nut them in bag exposed to the sun. In tht
course OF the day termination will commence
The seed must then be sowed in well. manureo
hot he'd. and watered from time to time wit
InIewarm water, Bv this treatment the rad
ishes will, in a very short time, acquire sur
6oiept bulk, and be good to eat, Ii It De re
on;red to get good radishes in Winter, durln
he severe cold, an old caak should he saWn II
uo. and one hslf of it filled with good, earth
Tbe radish seed, beginning to shoot as before
must then be sowed in the other halt OF tn
barrel put On the top OF the tuil one, and th
whole apparatus carried down into the cellar
For watering, lukewarm water should De use
as before. In the course OF five or SIX days tn
radshes will be fit to cat.
DRIED FRUITS. The return Of the seaso
ior gathering fruits and preparing them 1o
market makes it our duty to offer some sugge:
t;ons TO fruit raisers TO bring the best price!
annles ought to be sliced thin, taking out tn
core. There are simple, cheap machines too
doing this at great saving oflabor !; but aVol
That machine which cuts the apples into ring
They are scarcely saleabe in that shape: Ihe
gh ould be dried bright straw color, tskln
care to keep them IRON wet. 1eaen@o SAot,
bs neeIed and cut lengthwiss OF the peacl
and m Great preat care oug ght to be taken to dry the
brirht. The smallest quantity Of stones mls'
9th peelei Or unpeelsd peaches, ip]ures, u
Sale. SALE Blackberries must be dried tho
oughly without breaking them. Cherries: Wh'
pitted, sell better with red and black NIKE
They must be thoroughly dried, and no suga
molasses or syrup mixed with them.