The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-02-14
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CREATING PETx1s.
Agriculturists have their Jokes
~ well as literary men. Judge
Peters, of punning memory, one Of
the founders of the Pennsylvania
Agricultural Society, commenced q
reform in butter making, ~ an ex :
ample that should render Philadel-
phia what il il, the best butter
market in the world. At his first
experiment of making sales in the
market house, his butter was seized
- being Of short weight; and his
weights were consequently sent to
the esaminer, coming home stamp
ed, G. F., for Commapwealth Of
Psnnsylvania. "AbI'' said the in
veterate and veteran Wit to his wife.
s'they've found MS out and marked
us G r., Cheating Peters!"
3 THE CHEROKEE ROSE.
The legend Of the Cherokee rose
10 as pretty as the flower itself.
An Indian chief of the Seminole
tribe was taken prisoner by his
enemies, the Cherokees, and doom
ed TO torture, but fell so i'll that it
became necessary to wait for, his
restoration to health before COM
Uniting him to the Ere. As he lay
prostrated by disease in the cabin
Of the Cherokee warrior, the daugh-
ter Of the latter, q young, dark faced
maid, was his nurse. She fell in
love with the young chieftain, and
wishing to save his life, urged him
TO escape; but he would not do so
unless she would fee with him.
She consented. Yet before they
had gone far, impelled by soft re
gret at leaving home, she asked
permission Of her lover to return
for the purpose Of bearing away
some memento Of it. So, retracing
her footsteps, she broke sprig
from the white rose which climbed
mp the poles of her fathers tent,
and preserving it during her fight
through the wilderness, planted it
by the door of her new home in
the land Of the Seminoles. And
from that day this beautiful flower
has always been known between
capes Of Florida and throughout
the Southern States by the name
of the Cherokee Rose. Z &
CONGRESSIONAL HUMOR.
Mansfield T.. Walworth, IN his
political researches, brings to light
the following piece Of Congresidon
Il humor. When the question o.
the emblems and devices for oul
national arms was before Congress
member fsom the South warmly
opposed the eagle n monarchica'
bird. The King Of birds could no'
be suitable representative Of 9
country whose institutions were
founded in hostility to kings
Judge Thatcher, in reply, proposed
the goose, which he said was |
most humble and republican biri
and would in other respects prove
advantageous, inasmuch as the gos
lings would be convenient to pu
on the ten cent pieces The laugh
ter which followed was more thar
the Southernor could bear. Con
STRUNG his good humored iron.
into an insult, he sent q challenge
Thatcher returned it to the bearer
observing that Re would not accep
Il. .
"what, viii you be branded as
coward!"
eyes, sir, if he pleases. I Ialway
WAS . coward, apd he knew it, o
he never would have sent . chal
leng to me" -
The joke was too good to be re
sisted, even by the angry party. I
occasioned infinite mirth in Con
Igressionial circles, and the forme
cordial intercourse between tn
parties was restored.
| m AN EXTINCT FAMILY. Z.
It is q curious fact that there ar
| no known descendants of Christie
phsr Columbus left on earth. 81
had two sons, one of whom, Do
Diego, rose to distinction as q
admiral, and the other, Fernando
| % q scholor. Fernando was
great traveller. He not only thric
visited America, but subsequent
traversed the whole Of Europe an
almost every accessible portion {
Asia and Africa He appears I
have been q profound scholar and
thoroughly good man. In his wi
he stipulated that his library, co,
tanning twenty thousand volume
which he gave to the Cathedral {
Seville, should be free to the PEI
pie, and it is at this day. Frol
books in this collection the lat
Washington Irving obtained Q col
siderable portion of the informatio
on which his '.Life of Columbul
was founded. The following quail
epitaph, almost obliterated by tim
appears upon the tablet whie
marks the site of his tomb: s.:Wh,
doth it profit me to have sprinkle
the whole world with my sweet;
have three times crossed the ne
world discovered by my father,
have embelished the shores of ira,
quill Guadalquiver and preferre