Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-01-01

early marriage, the selection Of good domestic
wife, are happily illustrated in the following
article copied from al exchange, which we
commend to the perusAl Of our bachelor
friends:
81 have been married twenty two years. The
first four years before was married, began
forming with $50 acres, in the Blue Grass re-
gon, Kentucky. | handled cattle, hogs, sheep,
and horses es--principaIIy the two first named,
and lived, | thought, tolerably economically;
spent none of my money in any way, and yet
at the end of four years had little or no clear
money | then married young lady IS years
Of age who had never done any housework or
work OF any kind, except make portion OF her
own clothes.
She had never made shirt, drawers, pants
or Waistcoat, or even scwed a stich on coat, {,
aud vet before we had been married year,
she had made me every one of the articles of
clothing named, and knit numbers OF pairs Of
socks for ,oc-~ve-, and mended divers articles
for me- not excepting al old hat or two. she
had also mnde butter, sold eggs, chickens and
other fowls and vegetables to the amount OF
near 5000 in cash, at the cad OF tho year,
whereas. during the four years that | was SIN
gle, | had never sold fVe cents worth-besldes
making me purely happy and contented with my
have made money clear oil cxpcnps ever since
We have been married, in everything that we
have undertaken on the farm, nl she has
made $3.50 to $500 every year, except one, dur
ing the time, selling butter, cggs,and market
ing of different kinds.
My yearly expenses for fine clobing, etc,
before was married, were more thu my year
ly expenses were after was marries,combined
with the expenses of my wife and c,ldren, and
our farm has increased from $50 to 100 acres
and believe that if had not marrod, it new
er would have increased
DOES THE EARTH Grow Sick !2rhis is
q question asked and partially answred by u
writer IN recent English magazine, 'ho pro
ceeds to show that such cpldemlcias the
plague of ancient times, and the chtara Of
more modern era, are always hcr3ded by
peculiar phenomena, and sometimes y earth
quakes and volcanic eruptions.
1T seems rs though the cause Of he grand
epidemics that from time to time deolate the
world lies beyond the sphere of hunin action,
and is to be found in morbitic listrbancc, or
sickening in the earth itself. Uoqustionably,
those great plaques, like common DISEASES, are
intensified in their severity by defctive sarl'
tary arrangements, and are propagked by con
tagion 10 some extent beyond the Stual zones
or region of morbid telluric acip ; but still
unlike small pox, typhus and sole other dls
eases-whose origin may be ascrsd wholly to
vicious conditions of ife-maldies s@oop
down upon mankind as frous higher
world almost beyond his ken-a mcbltlc oreatti
which sweeps over the face OF tn earth, and
which, although exhalingifrom or globe, has
it's exciting cause in the varying governments
and conditions in the far-off welds OF oros
which surround us"
MARRlAaE.-Tell US not in idljngle mar,
rage is an empty dream for tie glrl Is oeau
that single, and things are not Wat they seem.
Life is real, life is earnest, sing bessedness
fb "Man thou art, to man rdurncst, mas
been spoken of the rib. Not aJoyment anu
not sorrow is our destined end way OUT ~
act that each Tomorrow finds Is nearer mar
rage day. Lifc is long, and youth IS neetine, Lee. It,
and our hearts, though light ald gay sun tlAe
pleasant drums are beating w.dding marGhes
all the woy. In the worlds abroad field OF
battle, in the bivouao of life, be rot like dumb
driven cattie-be heroine, wife. trust no
future. howe'er pleasant let the dead past
burv it's dead; act, act in the living present
beor, within md hope ahead. Lives OF mar
r;aed folks remind us We can live our lives Us
we'll and, departing. leave be hind lis such ex
amnles as shall tell '~-such exampIeN that an
other wasting time IN luIc sport'a III, ,''Fh' uh
married brother, seeing, shall take heart sand
court Let us, then, be up and doing with a
heart on triumph set still coptrVlne' stu
pursuing, and each one husband get.
A CHEAP PAINT FOR FENCES, ETc;-,IWo
quarts of skim milk, eight ounces OF ireSh
slaked lime, six ounces OF boiled. iltseeu on
two ounces of white Burgundy pitch; dissolve
in the oil by gentle heat. The lime must be
sIaked in cold water and dried until 1t crumoleS
into fne powder, then mix it with on"4ourth
nart of milk, adding the oil and pitch Imlxedl
bv degrees. Stir the mixture, adding the re-
mainder of the milk, and then add three pounds
Of Snanish white Any other color may oe
"sed instead Of the Spanish white, if necessary
Th;s naipt is highly recommended by Enehsl
gardeners for painting gates, sheds or o'he'
iarm- buildings.
WALKING ToRpEDo.-A CaIlornla nj, l,s l'ars'
taIs how an old lady residing IN San fFiIs'I'" H T
!e'.S na occs.on mua to spank her little boy, ne n.'
%sen @ nlavipg about the wharves, ana 'ao aursa go
on on'a Ieakv can of nitro ycerlne. the sI"Sn M
unence Of which was that the hrs' snaLS n'Ins;nr Nv
tuopSS w ,nuspI tSpluStt'G