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Connecticut western news., 1874-05-08
The Old, Old Story.


 bade him good-by, !, With laughing eye, In @ careless, girlish way;
 But turned aside,
 In time to hide The tear that was bound to stray. Yes, I brushed it off With joyous laugh; It had fallen by him unseen; Yet he could not but know, Ere he turned to go, What foolish girl had been. He could not but know Why trembled so Meath the glance of his dark-blue eye; But back to my heart,
 From whence it would start, I repressed the rebel sigh. . hurried along Through motley throng; But my eyes with tears were dim; And my heart was sore It would beat no more With the hope I was dear to him. For his words were cold, And his parting told Me tho warm love-throbs to stih But my passion wild,
 Like wayward child, Would not yield to Reason's will. had loved him long,
 Though knew twas wrong, For he gave me no look or word; Yet, passing me by
 With 8 careless eye, The chords of my heart were stirred. I've seen him smile On the lovely, while He has sometimes frowned on me; Yet his name and face
 can ne'er erase From the books of my memory. Twill keep them there,
 And oft in prayer His dear name I'll wait above; And the angels alone,
 When the night-winds moan, Will hear of my hopeless love.
Connecticut western news., 1874-05-08

A BAD PLACE. -Bayard Taylor says Europe is bad place for an American to learn foreign languages in.E The guides, porters, and other folks have discovered that the English tongue is in the mouth of the Yankee pocket and assail the American traveller in his own language, charging him double prices for everything on account of this little linguistic luxury. The cheapest and most comfortable side of Europe for American visitors is the outside.
Connecticut western news., 1874-05-08
The Hens-A "Piece."
The following is an authentic oompo- sition not retouched." .r-,

The following IS an autnenuc compo- sition not retouched." ,r-,
 THE HENS. the hen my friends is very useful animal. it has to legs and toes and one little claw. Roosters when they are old enough to have little spurs on their legs which are their weapons of defence now to return to hens. they lay eggs and it helps to make cake andfpud- dings. .:. she scratches up food for her chick ems. hens when it is cold curl one fut under the feathers, and stand on the ougher. hens when they have laid their eggs begin to cackl. Boosters and hens go to bed at O o'clock. 3hr
 1928 the humble be @ the Boosters crow
 and away she goes.
 o. H. M
 [age nine years.l
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A Party Platform,

Tn the late Virginia campaign one of the stump-speakers was accustomed to tell the following story with great effect. A party platform, he said, was like an old sign in his native village. When he was boy there was a great rivalry between two barbers, one of whom, John Kenney, pleced on his sign this stanza;
 What do you think s~e
 John Kenney
 Slaves for penny,
 And gives you drink,
 A stranger came along, read the sign, concluded that the state of his beard justified him in paying penny for 8 drink, went in, was shaved, got his drink, paid his penny, and was some what staggered by demand of dime for his drink. @ .--.. -.-,.-
 "Didn't you.uns sign tell nouns that you-uns would shave me-uns for 8 pennyP" ..... Ono F said MT. Kenney, "is that the way yoW read it Look here !" He then stepped out and read as fol- lows @
 s- .a.se' t' What! do you think r John Kenney ,- Slaves for penny
 And gives you drink?"
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are trimmed with ostrich feathers in their natural tints,
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-25
Noses.

The number of people engaged in utterly
useless occupations 10 already 80 great tnat
it seems difficult to add to their number
with any pretence of novelty. Some hun
livelihood by travelling through the country
and knocking leather ball about with
stick. Still other able bodied young men
support themselves comfortably by knock
ing ivory balls about with stick on
green table. Others make their living by
walking incredible distance in an lmpOssi
BILE number of hours. Still others of the
able bodied subsist by throwing such rash
persons as can be induced to wrestle with
them. The perennial slaughter of pigeons
is to many a source of fame and fortune,
while more than one aspiring youth thinks
backs of his countrymen whenever he can
turn an indefinite number of somersaults
without breaking his neck:
The list of useless occupations might be
very widely extended, SO as to include, in
deed, many who are by no means aware OF
for the present, we shall limit ourselves to
noting the advent of a-person who may be
said to have achieved the champion novel
ty in uselessness. He has discovered an
employment for his nose which, we are
convinced, the most .sanguine admirers of
that highly ornamental and versatile feat
ure never dreamed of. At an early date in
the history of our country it was pressed
into service as an organ of speech. Mozart,
in the well-known story, bafaed a rival
musician by using his own admirably pro-
portioned nose to play upon the piano.
forte. Many persons, as of late has been
once or twice agreeably exemplified, have
realized the extreme adaptability of the
feature to the purpose of being pulled.
But hitherto, go far as we are aware, no
one has hit upon the expedient of playing
billiards with his nose.
For one Mr.. Jefferson, who, as we learn
with certain throb of patriotic pride, is
an American, it was reserved to make this
happy discovery, with which he has lately
been enrapturing our British cousins. He
played in London, not long since, before a
large assembly, game of 500 points against
certain "veteran Dufton," who used
Que. Mr.. Jefferson struck the ball "with
the point or side of his nose," and in this
way "actually won the game" We may
expect, therefore, to see "nose billiards"
erected into a recognized "profession,"
until some emulous countryman of Mr..
Jefferson, or, perhaps, that ingenious gen.
tleman himself, shall haply invent me-
thod of playing the game with his ears-a
feature in which we should judge Mr.. JEFF.
ferson and Mr.. Jeferson's admirers to be
literally provided.-N. Y. Times.
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Marriage Kade Easy.

The news that q second European is
about to turn Mahommedan, as means OF
getting more married without fears of the
law against bigamy, renders q volume by
Mr.. Shama Churn Sircar on Mahommedan
Law-Iagore La,u Lectures, published by
Thacker and Sphinx, of Calcutta-just come
from the press, very interesting, for 1t
treats at length on Mahommedan marriages.
The first Essential prescribed for mat
rimony might seem to cynics to preclude
the venture altogether, for it is cody laid
down that "both the contracting parties
m ust be sene and discreet" But passing
over that initial difficulty, it would seem
as if marriage threatened Mohommedan
of either sex on all sides, and that it would
be next to impossible to escape the meshes
which it spread to catch the unwary.
girl may marry herself by simple smile:
She can only escape the danger by compli-
eating it with sneer. If, when she be
asked will she marry SO and SO, she holds
her tongue, =" the law respects the modesty
of her SEX" and her silence is taken for
consent. If she laugh it is the same, pro-
vided the spectators see no reason to be-
than at the proposed bridegroom. A man
may be tied up before he is aware. If he
say to q woman, marry thee" or even
simply, Marry me-" and she is prompt
and skilled enough to reply, ~ have &C
oepted mot Il accept, for the present
its Effects" the contract is effected" The
same end can be produced in variety of
other ways. If woman is polite enough
to say to an eligible, Il have given myself
as an aims to you," or, in a more mercenary
form, " have sold myself to you al
ways carefully minding her tenses-the
marriage is good. And reel procally if the
ardent lover says, g. have bought you for
so much" and she answers 4" Yes" Tor
smiles a smile without sneer), the mar
riage is contracted. A coed deal of caution
would seem to be necessary in writing love
letters, for if lady says to a couple of her
friends, " Bear ye witness that 30 and 30
has written offering me marriage, and
that have accepted him." the marriage is
valid. The only time when a Mahomme-
dan need not be desperately on his guard
is when he is either walking. or riding with
lady; the preterite tense does not count
on such occasions; but if he and she be in
boat in progress" he must look out,
and at the first symptom of departure
from the present tense of the indicative
mood, jump into the river.-Ihe Homegard
Mail.
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What can be done to save our young
men Z "Pray for them," says one. "In-
vite them to attend the social meetings of
the Church" says another. Yes, we an
problem we have to deal with require
active effort and wisely directed planning
and expenditure The lights in the bill
lard saloons and the bar-rooms burn
brilliantly every night, while the dark
shadows of the closed churches fall across
the path of the young man, who ia forced
in his loneliness to spend his leisure hours
ontside the cheerless boarding house, that
at the best is poor substitute for home.
The influences that have ak days in which
to gain a hold will not be broken by the
seventh. Perhaps it is impossible to use
even portion of the church buildings for
the purpose of a reading room and library,
that shall offer a welcome every evening to
all who may choose to enter, but it is pos
sible to secure such rooms elsewhere. Let
it be done at once. This is a practical
way of doing good that will meet the ap-
probation of the better part of the Com
munity. Go, especially, to those who
taries. If wise, they know that it is money
in their pockets to aid such organizations.
Late hours in dissipation break down mind
and body. Sin costs, and the beginning
of dishonesty and defalcations can usually
be traced back to misspent evenings. In
olreciy, II NOT olrecIiy, employers have 10
pay largely for running these haunts of
sin that meet us on every side of our
cities and villages, and they are glad to
assist in those enterprises that will attract
their employees away from these places
1t is good sign to see 80 many of our
large manufacturing corporations making
provisions for opening reading rooms and
libraries that shall be free to all. Where
this is not done, q few earnest workers
will find it easy to start the enterprise,
and reap the rich reward that comes from
opening doors that may lead young men
into paths of usefulness.-De la Sale
MONTHLY.
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OLEoMARaARINE.-Th new article Of
butter (says the st. Francisco NeUs Letter.
is now being openly manufactured in this
city. The novelty of the invention calls
forth much curiosity from citizens DESTROYS
of testing it's relative merits. Seeing is
believing, and all who visit the manufac-
tory in Sanscme street are surprised at the
neatness and simplicity of the operation.
Cleanliness is next to Goodness. Thus
this butter, surely, ought to be the best in
the market. Let all prejudice be removed
by going to see the ingredients from which
it is made. Clean suet from fat beef cat
tie, purified seven times by fire and then
churned with good sweet milk from the
dairy, gives now per day LOCO pounds of
choice family butter at 35. In a few weeks
5000 per day will be turned out, at an ex-
pense, or rather, cost, of l2ac. per pound.
The profit is now large all the stearine
product is sold to the candle dealers.
Just remember that for zoe. you can buy
q two pound roll of this choice butter,
while dol. Csc. is the price of ordinary, or
rather choice old-fashioned made butter.
There have been one million pounds of this
article sold, which have given universal sa
tisfaction. In New York two large establish
ments are fitted up for 10000 pounds per
day. Massachusetts,, New Jersey, Mary
land, etc., are in full blast of success.
California lie now In a condition, with its
oleomargarine butter, to defy ranches,
dealers, marketmen, and supply the market
with butter good in quality and easy in
price.
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To see a father treating his sons like
younger brothers, and to see sons coveting
their fathers company and conversation,
because they think him the wisest and
most agreeable man of their acquaintance,
is the most amiable picture the eye can
behold; it is transplanted self-love, as
sacred as friendship, as pleasurable as love,
and as happy as religion can make it.
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BOOKS AND STATIONERY.

A CARD.
TO THE READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS OF THE
CATHOLIC WORLD IN THIS CITY. STATE,
AND SECTION OF COUNTRY:
The yearly Inscription for this Magazine at the Old
Catholic Bookstore of z. F. GOGARTY. Isl Camp
street commencing with the January Number for 1874
will DO q All are invited to subscribe at home and
not send their money to New York. This reduction 10
made to protect Subscribers from unfair and mper
tinent hterference. General and Free Agent for all
Catholic Newspapers and Magazines. ja4
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Never revenge an injury. If you have
an enemy, act kindly towards him, and
make him your friend. You may not win
him over at once, but try again. Little by
repeated kindness will soften heart of
stone.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-25

A young lady at Winchester lately called
upon a Photographic artist and asked him
to take her picture with an expression as
if composing a poem.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-25

A Nebraska man, on his dying bed, re-
membered that his wife was smokiDgsOm
hams, and he said, 'ENow, Henrietta, Don't
go whimpering about and forget them.
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The first steamships that crossed the
Atlantic were the Great Western and Sir
ips, in 1888.
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It's Topography, Fortihoations and Boulevards.

sIREET PAvEMENTs, SEWERAGE, WATER SUPPLY
BUILDING MATERIAL AND ARCHITECTURE
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THE VlCKSbURG WAR.

CINCINNATI, o., Dec. Q.--The TINES
Vicksburg dispatches say the fight was
renewed at Snyder's Bluff, two mile
from that city last evening, between q
body of several hundred negroes and
forty whites. A courier was sent to
Vicksburg for reinforcements, which
were sent out on double quick time,
and, after short skirmish, four negroes
being killed and three wounded, the ne
groes retreated.
Last night the negroes drove in the
white pickets from Fort Hill and, it is
said, have intrenched themselves. They
had received large relnforcements from
other counties and at last accounts
they were marching on the city up the
lssaquena road, driving the whites be-
fore them.
They fred into funeral procession
yesterday, wounding one white man.
and the fire was returned, three ne
groes being killed
MEMPHIS. Dec. 9.--An iUdidncho
special from Vicksburg says: In the
skirmiSh last night one white man was
killed and one wounded. The nun Der
of negroes is snknown.
An effort was made to hang the
sheriff, who was prisoner, but it was
prevented by strong guard.
The negroes are being reinforced
from Issaquena county and are march
ing on the city in large force, driving
the whites before them.
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head and the tail. The Republican
party, he added, had now its last op.
portunity to relieve the country,
to recover confidence by showing
that the people are objects of its care.
Mr.. Garfield believed the path point
ed by this bill would lead to the most
measureless disaster which has ever be-
fallen the American people The
reason why money cannot be borrowed,
except at large rates of interest or upon
call is. he said, not because capitalists
feared the coming of specie resumption
but for fear Of Just such measures as
this. The government, he argued.
would be embarrassed and its credit In.
jured, by the operations of measure
like this. Now we are almost down to
solid ground and real value. he said. if
there was ever time when the Ame1i-
can States needed courage and self.de-
nial-that self-denial which shall re-
duce expenditures and expansion and
resist all schemes that would keep us
from solid and honest industries and
honest rules--that time is now. 1t
was clear to him that the prime cause
of the disasters which have come upon
the country recently has been the I'M
settled, unsteady, auctuating values,
and that the remedy is to reach solid
ground.
Mr.. Dawes held that Congress should
apply itself to determine upon some
policy which should make the govern
ment promises to pay equal to the
money of the world, and which should
make up to those who have been forced
to take the deprecated paper the diff
ference between it and gold.
MIR. Cox deprecated this discussion
as necessarily fruitless, except to cause
fluctuations in business and to ove-awe
the coming House by threats of what
the Senate or President would dc. 1t
was the dying kick of dying party.
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ufactured goods beyond our own power
to consume. The duties on the foreign
material that enters into their manufac-

ufactured goods beyond our own power
to consume. The duties on the foreign
material that enters into their manufac-
ture. have enhanced their cost so that
they cannot be reported; and hence
stagnation, hard times panic, and all
the ills of the protection policy. We
ere either compelled to sell our surplus
manufacture in foreign markets at a
loss, (but alas, where are ours ships =
OF cease producing till these are CON
sumcd.
The whole force, almost, Of this ter
rible dep ession has fallen OH the labor
ers for whose interest this legislation is
claimed.
The same fate has overtaken the
Western farmer, who was protected
from the importation Of Canadian grain.
The tariff kept out the grain which
we carried via New York to Liverpool
along with ours. Now that grain goes
to Liverpool via Montreal which has be-
come,the second wheat market On the
continent, and bids fair to become the
first, thus transferring the carrying
trade to Canada, which we formerly en-
joyed
Yours, 3.