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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-07-06

rB For those who are fond Of wasting
delicious berries which should be canned
for use when the blackberry season is over,
we give the following recipe, which we
find in an exchange. We doubt not it is
as good as any of the many recipes for pre-
pairing this slop grog, which by misnomer
is usually called wine. There is enough
sugar always used to generate alcohol,
when partially fermented, to prevent the
berry juice and water from turning to vim
egar, if corked tightly, or from rotting and
spelling outright. There is no element
of true wine in the mixture. Grapes are
the only article that will produce wine, and
every man or woman who owns few
square feet of ground, may, with little
attention, raise as many grapes as will pro-
duce all the wine-real wine-desired.-
The slops made of the various berry juices,
sugar and water, approach wine about as
nearly as the decoctions of dried sweet
potatoes, chestnuts and burnt molasses do
coffee. These domestic wines" serve to
teach incipient tipplers the fine art of
dram drinking:
BLACKBERRY WINE.
Take five or ten gallon key, cleanse it
thoroughly. Take only ripe berries, crush
them in wine or cider press, or if not at
hand, in cloths. After expressing the
wine strain carefully, and to each quart of
juice add three pounds of the best yellow
sugar and as much water as will make a
gallon, and in this proportion for any guam
tity. Put the entire mixture in kettle
and bring it to boil, skim and when cool
fill the keg three fourths full and let it fer
ment for one week; then fill up the eask
with freshly-made liquor, and when done
fermenting bung up tight, set away in the
cellar, where it should remain until Febru-
airy or March, when it should be racked off,
the keg scalded out, and the liquor either
returned to the key to remain permanently
or bottled for use. We prefer putting it in
five gallon demiiohns instead of bottles.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24
Stop my Paper.

EVERY publisher of q newspaper has
heard this tremendous order from offended
subscribers, imagined by the offended to
be as dangerous as stroke of lightning,
but in reality more harmless than mos.
quito bite. A good story is told by the
Philadelphia Post of Mr.. Swain, the
former proprietor of the Duly Ledger.
BY his course on some public question,
on which different persons had different
opinions, Mr.. Swain had offended a
number of readers, one of whom met
him on Chestnut street, and thus accost
ed him:
"Mr. Swain, I've stopped the Led
GER"
"What is that, sir 2"
"Pve stopped the Ledger" was the
stern reply.
"Is it possibler said Mr.. Swain. ''My
dear sir, what do you mean? Come with
me to the Office"
And taking the man with him, he en-
tered the office at Third and Chestnut
street. There they found the clerks
busy at their desks; then they assembled to
the editorial and composing rooms, where
everything was going on as usual; finally
they descended to the press-rooms, where
the engines were at work.
IL thought you told me you had stop
ped the Ledger" said Mr.. Swain.
$50 l have" said the offended sub
scriber.
81 don't see the stoppage. The Ledgel
seems to be going on"
"Ohl mean to say-that is, that L
ah-had stopped taking it,"
"Is that all?" exclaimed, Mr.. Swain
"Why, my dear sir, you don't know how
you alarmed me-"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24
Life Echoes.
rfron ms

'The echoes of our lives are ever coming back
upon u.s."
''There's the echo rock, said Marshan;
and, as he spoke, he flung merry laugh
across the meadows that lay between us
and the elevation.
"Not tone lest" said we.
"Scnd over that laugh again, Mar
sham"
Again, at our word, went his ringing
voice, cleaving the still air like the notes
of a bird.
1.-The imitation is almost perfect" said
we. 'tLet us try this echo with differ
ent sound"
We sent strong, CHEEKY cry over the
dreamy meadows, which was echoed
back from afar, and re-echoed from the
gray rocks that lifted their heads above
us.
Then the young man uttered a cry as
of one in suffering, and the cry came
back, only a little sadder in tone,
He then uttered some harsh words
sharply, and the harsh words were re-
peated in fierce impulses of sound.
"Sing, MarshamT said one of the COM
pany.
Marsham's clear voice sent forth tune
full cadence, full of emphasis and express
sion, and echo took up the strains, min
Cling them in such harmony that it SEEM
ed like one glad heart singing to another.
"What a singular phenomenon" re-
marked one of the party.
'Iet it be our instructor"
Twill you point the morals" we asked.
'Yes.'s%
First, as the echo speaks to US, so the
world will speak. If we speak to it cheer
fully, it will reply in as cheerful tone; if
we address it angrily, it will reply in an
ger; if there is hope, and confidence, and
good viii in our voices, it will reply hope
fully in good will and confidence.
Second, the echoes Of our liues are euer
coming back upon u.s. Is it not, then, of
vital moment in what voices our lives
speak? The echoes that come to us from
the outside world are of small account to
those that come from our inner life, to
which we must listen when alone by our
selves. These voices do not die; memory
is continually sending them forth, awak-
ening echoes that fill our minds with glad
aess or regret These echoes are not such
unsubstantial things as come back from
the hills yonder. No, no, my young
friendi
'sThird, if we live in cheerful obedi-
ence to the will of Providence, we shall
speak TO the world cheerfully, and it will
answer US back in a cheerful tone; we
shall seek the good of our neighbor, and
our neighbor's voice will be pleasant to
our ears.
"And, lastly, let us so live that the
echoes of our lives will be SWEET
Youths Companion.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24
The Frozen Well of Brandon, YER
mont.

ABOUT mile southeast of the village
| of Brandon, Vermont, there is situated
well, forty one feet deep, the water of
which has the remarkable popularity of
remaining frozen all the year round. In
1859 the owner of the property began the
usual excavations for water. After pass
ing through four feet of clay and ten feet
of soil, bed of frozen gravel, sixteen
feet in thickness, was encountered, which
rapidly changed to mud when exposed to
heat. Further digging penetrated anoth-
er bed of clay, and finally layer of clean
gravel, in which water was found. As
to form in the well, at the rate of from
two to four inches over night, while du-
ring the succeeding summer, though the
well remained open, an occasional skim
of iceweuld appear on the surface.
Eventually the we'll was abandoned,
but since it has. remained unused, it is
found that if the winter ice is not removed
when the weather is quite warm, the
water remains frozen through the hottest
months. During April last, ice twenty
inches thick was taken out, but as the at
mosphere at that time was chilly, freez-
ing again took place. On July 16 of this
eighty-fiye degrees; at two feet from the
sank to thirty-two degrees.
In 1860, four shafts were sunk in i'm
mediate proximity to the well without
striking frozen ground. A fifth endeavor
was more successful, but the experiment
was never completed, though we learn
that it will be once more undertaken next
summer. There is considerable specula-
ton in scientific circles as to why this
particulsr locality, possibly two hundred
feet square, should permit the winter cold
| to descend through from twelve to twen-
ty-ni6e feet of clay and gravel, and freeze
a mass of material averaging fourteen
feet thick, and yet not affect any other
spot composed of similar strata Profes-
sor Hager isof opinion that the phencm-
enon is due TO glacial remains. The beds
of clay, which intercept the suns heat
and besides shed off surface water, to-
gether with the favorable arrangement of
the strata, in connection with its dip and
the proximity of the outcropping lime
stone, it is believed, have protected the
frozen mass from thawing for thousands
of years, while the remainder of the
glacier has long since melted away, leav-
| ing only IT'S moraines in the neighbor-
hood. Mr.. Clarence Sterling, of Bridge
port, Conn who has already spent some
time in the investigation of the subject,
proposes next year to carry down the
fifth well to greater distance.-Scientlfc
American.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24
OHIO, THURsDAY. OCTOBER "A, 1s72.

Thursday, the 2Sth day of November next,
of worship, and there make their acknowl-
edgements to God for His kindness and
bounty.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
eleventh day of October, in the Year of
Our Lord 1872, and of the Independence
Of the United States the ninety seventh.
(Signed) u. s. GRANT.
BY the President,
HAMILTON FIsH, Secretary Of State.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24

Mr.. HEPwoRTH DIXON, in his "History
of William Penn" gives the following
reason for the Quakers' refusal to lift
their hats: with us to raise the hat is
easy we are used to it. Our hats are
made for lifting, and we raise our hats in
cases where our fathers would have bent
the knee. Hat homage is our social
creed. But in the reign of Charles the
Second it was new and strange. A hat
was made to wear, not to carry in your
hand. Men wore their hats in the house
and church, as well as in the street and
park Men sat at meals in felt and lis
tened at play in felt. Hat-lifting, there
fore, was the sign of depraved and
foreign fashion recently brought into
England from abroad. All sober men
put on their hats, while wits and foplings
carried them in their hands. The homely
citizen wore his beaver, and the lord-in-
waiting wore periwig. To wear the
hat was English, and to take it off was
French "
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24
Thanksgiving.

PRESIDENT GRANT has issued the fol-
lowing Thanksgiving proclamation:
WHEREAS, The revolution of another year
has again brought the time when it is usual
to look back upon the past, and publicly
thank the Almighty for his mercies and his
blessings; and.
WHEREAS, If any one people has more oc-
casion than another for such thankfulness,
it is the citizens of the United States, whose
Government is their creature, subject to their
behests; who have reserved to themselves
ample civil and religious freedom, and equal
ity before the law; who, during the last
from any grievous or general calamity, and
to whom prosperity in agriculture, man.
ufactures and commerce have been
vouchsafed; therefore, by these con-
siderations, l recommend that on
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24
Badly Mixed.

''WHAT's the matter, Bob:"
"Sam, who am II"
"Why, you are yourself, Bob Harrison,
amt you?'
mo, far from it."
"Why, what's the natter"
"Weil, sir, I'm so mixed up, don't
know who am"
'Donit take it so hard to heart"
81 amt I'm taking it in my handker-
chief"
"well, SIR, what's the natter"
"Why, am married"
"Marrieds hal hal hal why, sir, you
should be happy"
0"Yes, but amt"
''Why, all married men are supposed to
be happy"
"Yes, but how many are so?"
'Weil, sir, as / said before, don't take
it so hard-tell us all about it. ;"
swell, Sam, I'll tell you how it is. You
see, married a widder, and this widder
had daughter"
"Oh yesi see how it is. You have
been making love to this daughter"
mol worse than that. You see, my
father was a widower, and he married
this daughter, so that makes my father
my son-in-law, don't 1t? Well, don't you
see how l am mixed ups"
"Well, sir, is that all:"
see, my stepdaughter is my stepmother,
amt she? Well, then, her mother is my
grandmother, amt she? Well, amman
ried to her, amt /? So that makes me
my own grandfather, doesn't its"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24

''She laid me, with sigh, into the
SAND desk, saying to herself:
"I1l keep IT anyway, to show John that
I did write."
My old friends were all gone from the
desk, except q pearl-handled knife and a
gold pen, but I found new sheets of paper
with the same monogram, and. regarding
me as a travelled stranger, they are very
polite to me.
So I'm very comfortable now, but ]
shall never get back my delicate perfume.
Because, you know, any one who has as
sociated with people of vulgar perfume
or ideas-can never quite get rid of the
evil-all his life-ChTistidn Union
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24

We soon arrived at his hospitable home.
His wife was all he had pictured her: a
refined, intelligent, handsome woman,
who would develop and grow in attrac-
tiveness every year of her life. After a
merry evening in their pleasant parlor, |
went to bed, and dreamed that the Mil
lennium had come. and that all women
were like my blue-eyed girl and Mrs. Tom
Foster.-N Y. Independent.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24
The Latest Changes in GeRtlemen's 3
u Fashions. n


LONDON has always filled for men the
position that Paris does for ladies, and
fashions for the sterner sex inaugurated
there have always found their way out
TO this Western world in the end. The
New York MdI has advices of a change
IN the costume of the London fashiona-
bies which is quite interesting as an indi-
cation of what is coming. The CORE
spondent says: "The style of dress most
worn here by gentlemen of fashion, and
especially noticeable at all fashionable
places of morning resort, is light-col-
fored frock coat, usually drab or gray
+tWilled cashmere or fine angola, rather
long in the waist and skirt, silk breast
facing, and bound with silk ribbon to
match, or a velvet collar, plain facings
and double stitched edges, and to wear
buttoned with three buttons. Waistcoat,
white or striped Marseilles, and trow-
sers of dark blue diagonal or ribbed
"worsted" cloth, with a broad, black mo-
hair braid laid on fiat on the seams. This
is decidedly reversing the order of the
dress, dark coat and light trowsers, to
which the habits of the last few years
have accustomed us, but is nevertheless a
very stylish and effective costume, espe-
cially adapted and certain to be much
worn during the early autumn. A large
-StdHIey,'f OF lieu SallOT RuOL is usually
worn, the made sailors knot appearing to
have got out of fashion Patent leather
| Oxford shoes, with brown striped hose
and buttoned boots of the same leather,
with cloth uppers, are much affected.
Morning coats are made to wear two Oh
even three buttons, buttoned and cut
away sharp from the lowest one, but the
style is very difficult to adapt with good
effect to many figures. The latest styles
of dress coats are noticeable for an entire
absence of all angles, the collar forming q
complete roll, usually faced with silk, The
lower front edge of the forepart, which is
usually made without what is technically
called a ''back strap" and the top and bot
tom of the skirt being slightly and grace
fully rounded off, which gives the coat 6
tighter and more elegant appearance thar
the old styles, and is step toward thai
more appropriate and consistent style Of
evening dress for gentlemen SO much tc
be desired"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24

"WHAT is yonr hurry, Jimmy?" asked
a kind lady of precocious little urchin
other day. go, / must 60" "Where are
yor going, Jimmyg" With heaving
sigh, and pointing to the school-house,
"Into the house of correction, ma'amr
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24

THERE must be something done to pre-
vent those horrible mistakes of druggists
clerks. One of the careless fellows lately
gave young man in Louisville bottle
of mucilage instead of cologne. The
youth went to church, and, after applying
the contents freely to his handkerchief,
and applying the handkerchief freely TO
his nose, he was in no condition for de-
vout worship. This thing is getting TO be
alarming. Chicago Inter- Ocean.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24

READY-MADE EPITAPHs.-On depart
ed clown: Though lost to sight, to num-
merry dear" On faithful bookkeeper
''Posted up" On one drowned: fHe
! left large circle" etc.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24

THE difference between the school boy
and the clerk boy is, that one stores the
mind and the other minds the store.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-24

and was stamped with curious sign, ''6
cents due" - -
Well, / went into another horrid bag,
but / had got used to it by this time; be-
sides, my strong, buff overcoat protected
me pretty well, and all my neighbors had
also clean, buff overcoats. After short
journey found myself in another post
office.
Then / was given to a man with big
bag, and knew him the minute / saw
him. He was the very man who took me
from my mistress, so long ago, and my
heart beat for joy as / thought should
soon see her again, and perhaps return to
my dear old home in her desk
She came to the door and took me.
"Six cents DUE" said he.
"Why," said she, looking at my new
overcoat, 'from the Dead Letter Officer
She took out her purse and paid the car
rier six cents. That was to pay for my
journey from California to Washington,
and from Washington back TO New York,
two fares-or postages-you see.
When she had paid, she went into the
house, and opened the letter.
my own letter to John, / declareT she
exclaimed, "written last summer. Iwon-
der why he never got it." and she looked
carefully at me. ''Oh, / see. 1t is di-
rected to Box 437, and it should be 1856.
| What shameful blunder"
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-05-14
insurance Notice.

On and after the tenth day of April,
1879, The Home Reserve force of Insur-
auce Agents belonging to "The Pennsylva-
mia Central Insurance Company" will leave
Pottsville in heavy force, and occupy ten
different counties of the State, where they
will continue to act as the Company's S
Agents until full line of Local Agents
can be appointed, when they will be recalled.
AS a body of men, believe they are supe-
rior Insurance Agents, and most of them
speak the English, French, Welsh and Ger
man Languages. The City Insurance
Journals, with all their sneers at Mutual
Companies, and continual cry of Fraud
Fraud ! &C., cannot muster any better In
surance material Why don't the City In
surance papers tell the public that no Mu-
tual Company broke or failed during the
last ten years? Why don't they tell the
public that more than half the Stock Com
panies started within the last ten years
have? 1t is a well-known fact that Mutual
Companies cannot fail.
JAMES III. GRIER,
Secretary of Pennsylvania Central Insur-
ance Company. 6 IS
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-05-14
An Apt Quotation.

A lady writing to her father, described
the loss of favorite COW as follows:
Yesterday poor dolly strayed from
the pasture, and unfortunately selecting
the railroad track for her luckless liberty,
was caught by the late afternoon train from
the north, and left in nearly equ portions
on either side of the track"
To which the father promptly and sue
cinctly replied.
"Apropos of your COW, see Genesis, XIV.
H."
Consulting Genesis according to his di-
rections she read: "And it came to pass
that, when the sun went down, it was
dark, behold smoking furnace and burn
ing lamp passed between those pieces.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-05-14
PERRY COUNTY
Real Estate. Insurance,
AND
CLAIM AGENCY.
LEWIS POTTER & co.,
Real Estate Brokers, Insurance, & Claim Agent
New Bloomfield, Pa.

WEINYITE the attention of buyers and sell.
w ers to the advantages we offer them In pur.
chasing or disposng of real estate through our Of
flee.
We have very large list OF desrab property,
consisting of farms, town property, mills store
and tavern stands, and real estate OF any descrip.
tlon which we are prepared to offer at great bar
gains. We advertise our property very extensive
y and use all efforts, skill; and diligence to
effect sale We make no charges unless the
property Is sold while registered with u.s. We also
draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, andall legal pa
pers at moderate rates
=, Some of the best, cheapest, and most reliable
lire, life, and cattle insurance companies in the
United States are represented at this agency
Property insured either on the cash or mutual
plan, and perpetually at 81 and IS per thousand.
Pensions bountes, and all kinds of war claims
collected There are thousands OF soldiers and
heirs OF soldiers who are entitled to pensions and
bounty, who have never made application. Sol
diers II you were wounded, ruptured. orcOntract-
ed disease in the service from which you are dis
abled, you are entitled to pension.
When widows of soldiers die or marry the minor
children are entitled TO the pension.
Parties having any business to transact In our
line, are respectfully invited TO give us call, as
we are confident we can render satisfaction In any
branch of our business
AS- No charge for information.
420ly LEWIS POTTER 4 co.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-05-14
The New York Herald.

GONE of our readers may be interested
~ in correct statement of the cost of
publishing and labor required to conduct
the New York Herald, the oldest of the
quarto dailies in that city. The editorial
staff consists of one chief one managing,
one financial, one city editor and eight
editorial writer's The ship news, foreign
news, domestic news, statistical matters
and transaction departments each has
chief, with such assistants as may be re-
quired while the city department is presid-
ed over by chief, who must have gone
through all the gradations of the repor-
torial department. This force consists of
twenty-seven reporters, who cover all the
news points in New York, Jersey City,
Brooklyn and contiguous places of easy ac-
cess to New York. The salary of the
managing editor is 1000 per annum; the
financial editor, $4,000 per annum, and the
writers, or sub-editors, $40 to $50 per week
reporters $25 to $35 per week. In the
composing room seventy-fve men are EN-
ployed, whose pay depends upon the skill
and steadiness of their labor, some making
as high as $44 dollars per week. The cler-
ical force of the paper numbers about
twenty, divided into relays for day and
night work.
The editorial force meet daily in the
"council ROOM of the establishment. The
meeting is presided over by Bennett, father
or son, as the case may be, or in the alb
sence of both these gentlemen then by the
senior writer, Dr. George B. Wallis. At
this council all the current questions of the
day are discussed, all formality in speaking
on topics is avoided and it partakes more
of family gathering. Mr.. Bennett, after
carefully looking over his memorandum of
"points," breaks silence and the converse
ton takes a cheerful turn, and continues for
upward of two hours. In the interim each
editor is assigned to write certain article.
Mr.. Bennett, senior, has not written an
article for the Herald for upwards of thirty
years, yet he identifies himself with the
editorial colums by requiring the editors to
keep the tone and style of their articles
within certain cardinal points.
Mr.. Bennett has a telegraph wire mine
niles connecting the Herald Office with his
residence at Fort Washington; also a
shorter line (three niles to his house on
Fifth Avenue. BY this means he is in con-
slant communication with the office. I'm
portant news from Europe, and indeed
| from any part of the world, is ANNOUNCED to
him, and he frequently sends the points for
leader over the wires the telegraph keys
being manipulated by the gentle hand of
his daughter, Jeanette. The foreign cor
respondence of the Herald is now in
charge of gentleman residing in Lon
don, who receives a salary of $4,000 a
year in gold. He moves and inculcates the
correspondents at the various European
capitals. The receipts from advertising
range from $4,000 to $4,000 per day
Printing Gazette.