The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-04-21

And weep to think how fortune grinds her
wheel.
No more in cakes and pies indulge
Eliminate such trash;
Eat, till repleted stomach bulge,
Eat of the homely hash;
Things have gone to smash
FInancially-it's rash
To deal ''Oncircumspect" in butter, milk
We've drank the cup of plenty-let us drain
the dregs.
Collars-you need not burn them,
When worn three days they've been;
Carefully, lovingly turn them,
The grease will not be seen.
But pay your rent-its better
Out in the cold, cold sleet
Than in the house; your feet
\ on cannot warm--in the winter--on the
street.
Mend your shoes more often
With grease the leather soften;
Let patch, done up quite neat
Where the overcoat covers the seat
BE administered to the pants; the hat
Why, trot out the old one-whO cares for
that?
Cheap is the rich white bean,
With luscious pork distilled;
To feed the Yankee lean,
Who hankers to be filled.
Rich is the juicy liverl
Can any one object?
Can any one diskiver
A dish of more effect
In making us rekiver
From the effects of too much 'bill for
meat"
Which We, in great extravaganza, did eat.
Pca-soup as a steady diet
May not be quite proper,
Yet should poor man try it;
1t makes very good stopper
For children's mouths; its quite
Hearty-this is no whopper.
Let the noble soup-bone simmer
Five cents pound;
Nourishment good deal Simmer
Might easily be found.
Let no vile prejudice, narrow.
Exclude such wealth of cartilage and mar
row.
In these grim times, on cruel
To live is not very cruel.
Cruel is good
The kind of food
That chemists say makes bone.
Yet we are willing to own
That not on cruel alone.
Any more than on pine wood,
Or the soft sandstone,
Can man grow very vigorous
Cheap, but mite too rigorous.
Herrings cost little-nIce
Are these, with cheap boiled rice,
For an after dish these fish,
With potatoes splenty-say yfive-and-twenty-
Makes as good meal as man could wish.
What shall this Yankee nation do-sit down
And pine and say, 'Tm bustedr'
Give up of life and energy and crown
Like some old knight
In some medieval fight,
Who's Just been badly "wusteds"
Nol these hard times themselves shall" bust"
And own that they have got the ''wust.
BY strict economy We'll wipe them out;
Cur Uncle knows, we trust, what he's about.
Wen work and save and plow and reap
with "vigger,"
And thus eliminate the minus 'fgger,"
And solve the problem of our common veal,
And prove the roots of our equation real
The Sandusky p. .. Robbery.
A correspondent of the Cleveland
Leader, April 18th, says: "Considera-
BILE excitement prevails here over bold
robbery at the post office last evening
before the office closed. One of the
messengers brought in thirty-eight reg
istered letters, fourteen of which the
chief clerk in the postoffice receipted for
and the whole number were left lying
on a desk in the postofficce. The post
master, Mr.. Van Tine, and one of the
route agents, are said to have been the
only persons in the room where the let
tiers were lying. The postmaster stepped
out of the room and left the building
for moment, leaving, as he alleges, the
route agent alone in the department.
When the postmaster returned the regis
tered letters were gone and the route
agent had left the department. Very
singularly the postmaster has taken no
legal action in the matter as yet, al
though we understand that he claims
that the letters could not have gotten
out of the room unless carried away by
the route agent"
Mr.. VAN TINE, the present Postmast-
er at Sandusky City, is to be succeeded
by JOHN NJ. BoALT, Esq, on the 1st of
next month. There has been much
trouble over the matter, and justice to
all parties demand that there should be
a thorough investigation. VAN TINR is
a one-armed soldier, and, as is to be ex-
pected, there is much sympathy for him
among the people. OF his successor,
Mr.. BoALT, all parties speak in the
highest terms.