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REGRETS.
BY ALEXANDER LAMONT.

A little blue eyed boy at break of day
In sadness weeping by the shining strand
Because the murmuring sea hath swept
away
His late built towers and palaces of sand :;
Searching in vain for the understanding
shells
That told him secrets of far off seas
OF lotus-lands and fairy haunted dells,
Filled with eternal, mystic melodies.
A wan faced maiden at the TRUSTING gate
With sad eyes gazing DER the waving
Praying that one may come, though late,
so late.
To cheer her heart, all dropping and for
lorn;
Shedding alone deep, penitential tears
For words she uttered in deep passions's
blaze,
That sundered all the love of bygone years,
And sent her since through life by lonely
ways.
A youth beside a little rose wreathed
mound,
Where lies form in silent, peaceful rest;
Weeping upon the consecrated ground
The tears which should have fallen upon
the breast
Of her who lies beneath; in dark despair
Moaning his grief in low and saddened
speech,
And craving pardon in an anxious prayer,
Which now her deadened ear can never
reach.
A child who loses the bright butterfly
Which he has chased by dell, and stream,
and copse;
A dying maiden hearing in the sky
The lark sweet song while leaving life's
bright hopes;
An aged man, at sober twilight's fall,
Sitting beside the fading embers' CLEAN,
Striving in thought life's drama to recall
And finding out how much was but a
dream.
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at the south pole. The latter authority
estimates that the melting of two miles of
ice from the antarctic regions would raise
the ocean level one foot; and the simulta-
neous abstraction of heat from the arctic
regions would add mile to the thickness
of the ice at the north pole; and that these
results would so change the earth's center
of gravity as to cause submergence of
nearly 500 feet in the northern polar re-
gions, and a gradual diminution of this
amount towards the equator But, unfor-
tunately for this theory, the facts show
that the amount of submersion does not
diminish with uniformity as we recede from
the pole, but with much greater rapidity
than the theory requires.
Another theory, advanced by Professor
Shaler, attributes this depression to the
weight of ice accumulated on the CONT
nents during the glacial period. This the
DRY assumes that cap of ice, a mile or
more in thickness, would, by its gravity,
depress the earth's crust at least 500 feet
from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean.
That this weight would tend to produce a
depression cannot be denied; but is is hard
ly probable that it would be sufficient to
produce so great an effect upon the earth's
crust, which is probably not less than 100
miles thick, and so shaped as to offer a re-
sistance to pressure very similar to that of
monstrous arched bridge. Itwould seem
Nd
this depression to the commonly accepted
cause Of all the elevations and depressons
on the earth's surface: the contraction OF
its crust due to constant cooling.
After the disappearance of the ice sheet,
there were local glaciers which conformed
to the larger valleys, like those now seen
in the Alps. They carried down boulders
torn from the rocks along their sides and
deposited them, with other debris, as ter
minal and lateral moraines, which often
damned up rivers and formed many of the
lakes which now beautify our landscapes
Other lakes were formed in the solid rock
by the gougiug action of the boulders
frozen into the ice. At perhaps about the
same time there was again an upheaval or
elevation of the land, Or, more strictly,
SUGGESTIONS of elevations. These caused
rapid drainage, from the land, of the water
previously making up the ice sheet, by
which the drift was stratifed and its peb-
bles assorted and rounded; hills and ridges
were formed by a deposition of material
AL A.
various shapes and sizes are formed by the
snow suspended in the air; and the beau
tiful terraces which ornament so richly our
river valleys were formed. These eleva-
tions were also due to shrinkage of the
earth's crust, for depression in one place
must necessarily make an elevation in
another.-Scientifc american.
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The Wonders of the MicroscOpe-A Living
He'll in Cubic Inch of Sugar.

Last night we saw the hidden wonders
of raw sugar as they were revealed to US
by microscope of uncommon power and
great detective ability, which will forever
set US against all sweets in that form with
an intensity of horror such as no man can
conceive who has not been behind the
scenes. We saw the living hell itself,
however, in less than a quarter of an ounce
of raw sugar. There were myriads, APP
parently, of horrible insects as large as
beetles, and having the appearance of
crabs. Four dreadful legs with claw-pinch-
ers at the end of them, jointed in four
parts as with armor, and bristlng with
sharp pointed spears, were in front of the
monster, and his head was long pyra-
midal form in two joints, with five finger
tips at the terminus where the mouth
ought to have been. The body was oval
shaped, and marked almost exactly like
that of a crab, only upon the rims of an
inner circle upon the back there were
twelve more Of those long sharp spears,
with two at the tail, and four snake. like
tentacula, exceedingly fine in articulation,
and no doubt intended like puss' whiskers
to be feelers, to warn the hinder parts of
contiguous danger. The reverse side
showed the ugliness of the beast even more
than the DIVERSE but it also showed the
wondrous mechanical genius of the maker
of it. Each limb was padded by mass of
muscle at the base, which gave the impress
sion Of immense (relative) power, and over
the muscle there was a case of armor
through which it showed. Talk about
lively beasts, and lively they were. Eager,
restless, revenous; always falling foul of
each other, or attacking great joints of
sugar, as large, in reality, as a mathemat-
cal point. With the pinchers attached to
the end of each proboscis they caught hold
Of one another, and tore one another, re-
peating in their small way the enormous
tragedies of Tennyson's primal monsters.
The way these marvels came to light
was this: A spoonful of raw, coarse sugar
was dissolved in about three times the
quantity of water, when, as with con-
jurors rod, the animacules sprang to the
surface, and floatsd there, swimming about
and up and down, like the beasts that
wriggle in soft water tubs, and finally turn
into flies resembling mosquitoes, but harm
less. These sugar animacules, or ocarus
sachari as the scientific men call them,
were then gathered up in a spoon, and
placed under glass magnifying about 200
times. They could be seen, however, with
the naked eye, to begin with, but not in
their entire hideousness until the object
glass brought it out. 1t has been proved
that in every pound of unrefned raw sugar,
there are 100000 of these acari. In 10
grains wgt, DR.. Hassel, of London, found
100 of these insects; and DR.. Barker, of
the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland,
found 1, 400 in As grains weight, or 22S, 900
in a pound. Worse still, as matter of
aesthetics, this is the very same insect that
bores into the skin of its victims in Scotch
beds, and treats them to taste of the
"Scotch fiddle" alias the itch.
Ne,o York Sun.
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right angles to its face. Needles, build
ers call them. The upper surface of each
needle was profusely creased, and smaller
needle, planed surface down, inserted along
each larger one. Spur braces fixed at the
foot in these upper timbers held the wall
plumb. The jack screws, working hori-
zontally, were set at the ends, Oh one side
of the ten upper needles. This being done,
an eighteen inch slit was taken off verti.
cally from the stable building Just inside
the wall At : o'clock in the morning,
says the New York World, man at each
jack screw began to work it, and the wall
moved an inch safely. $50 onr' said the
boss, with some little excitement, and this
time one Of the ten men did not work his
rack as much as the rest. The overseers
were little nervous at this, but the wall
carried the lazy needle along with the rest.
By 10 o'clock the 1900 square feet of wall
were pushed up tight against the open side
of the stable, and the whole was perfectly
plumb and mistaken. The men in the
stable pursued their usual avocations dur
ing this performance, which attracted a
crowd of interested spectators.
Scientific ADer;rnn
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A Skillfully Executed Job.

A new and interesting experiment in
house moving was performed in this city
New York; not long ago, at No. 116 West
Twenty fourth street, in the presence of a
number Of prominent builders and inspec-
tors. About month ago the Society ST.
Crescent de Paul determined to build on
the vacant lots in rear of their Twenty
third street building. A survey of the
land being made, it was discovered that
the wall of the five story brick livery stable
adjoining, occupied by S. c. Mott en-
croached eighteen inches on their property.
The owner was notified to remove the wall
to the eastward, and Weeks and Brothers,
builders, were authorized to tear it down
and rebuild. Mr. Weeks did not like to
pull down the wall, and hit upon plan for
moving it bodily.
Ten yellow pine timbers, IL by 12 inches,
planned on the upper surface, were let in
horizontally under the wall, at equal dis
lance, just above the foundation, and at
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HINTS FOR THE FAMILY.-Meat should
be cooked by quick fire, as the rapid
closing of the outer pores retains all the
juices within, and these, becoming heated.
create natural process of steaming in its
own gravy.
Vegetables do not ordinarily form as
large part of the ordinary subsistence of
en- American as they should. Whether
cooked alone, or Jointly with the cheaper
pieces of meat in the form of ragout,
they will always serve as a substantial
means of nutrition, and tend to diminish
the cost of household consumption.
Eating too often is unhealthy. 1t is
weakening and injurious to mix fresh food
with that which is partly digested, and the
stomach also needs rest after the labor of
digesting meal. In grown persons four
or five hours should intervene between each
meal. Children who are growing fast need
a simple luncheon Of bread between meals.
Brass ornaments should be first washed
with . strong lye made of rock alum, i'll
pint of water; when dry, rub with leather
and fine tripol. This will give to brass the
brilliancy of gold.
To clean gold: Powder some whiting,
and make it into moist paste with some
sal volatile. Cover over the gold orna-
ments and surface with soft brush; let it
dry, and then brush it off with moderate
ly hard brush.
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SOME QUEER RAILWAY BUILDERS
There were workmen ON the Pacific rail
way even more curious than the Irish or
Chinese navvies. During the Summer of
1868, the Laramie river became very low,
much to the distress of contractor who
had cut great many thousand cross-ties-
the timbcrs on which the rails are laid
and which he expected to float down to
the point where the railroad was to cross
He was at first at loss to know what to
do, but resolved, finally, to build a dam
across the river at various points, and,
when the stream was thus made high
enough, set his RATS afloat. Large parties
of men, therefore, went to work building
the dams. No sooner would the men leave
off work at night than thousands of beav-
ers would begin and work hard at the dam
during the whole night.
Water is always as necessary to the com
fort of beavers as on this occasion it was
to the welfare of the contractor; and it
was probably for this reason, and not
because they wished to see the railroad
finished, that the beaver community joined
in the labor of building the dams.
81. Nicholas for December.
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THE REASON WHY OUR YEAR BEGINS
ON JANUARY 1sT.-Prior to 154 before
Christ, the Romans counted the year from
the day on which consuls term of Office
began. This was by law, the 18th of
March, so that the year began with that
day. In the 600th year of the city of Rome,
which was 154 B. c., the Lustanians (who
occupied that portion of Spain of that day,
which nearly corresponds to Portugal of
this day, together with northeastern neigh
bors, the Vettones, overran and pillaged
the Roman provinces in Spain, carrying
their successful warfare almost to the gates
of New Carthage (Cartagena(, which was
the Roman capital in Spain. This disaster
upon the Home Government at Rome that
it was at once decided to send consul to
Spain, which had not been done for very
many years previous. The exigency was
ments for the provinces were required to
start at once. To do so, they were COM
PEELED to anticipate the legal day for the
Inauguration Of the new Consuls whose
term did not begin till the 18th of March,
and they were indicted into Office two and
half months before the legal time
Thenceforth the day for consuls entering
upon office was shifted from 18th of March
to the LIST day of January. "Thus," says
Mommsen in his History of Rome, vol. 8.
page Is, twas established the beginning
of the year which we now use at the pres
ent day."
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GIGANTIC LAND ToRToIsEs.-A remark
able addition to the Geological Societys
collection in Regents Park, London, was
recently made in the shape of pair of
gigantic land tortoises from Aldabra Island,
in the Indian Ocean. The male is an enor-
nous animal, nearly six feet long, and is
stated to weigh over eight hundred pounds.
He is believed to be more than hundred
years old, but is still growing. These tor
toises are the last survivors of race of
gigantic tortoises which were formerly
islands of the Indian Ocean, and are of
very great scientific interest.
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ELKToN DIRECTORY.
COTNTY OEEICERS.


Clerk Of Circuit Court. Arthur W. Mitchell.
Deputy Clerk, W X. Rrckeins.
REGISTER Of Wis Reuben D. lamar.
Deputy Register, r. f. lamar.
Auditor, Clinton Mccullough.
Commissioner in Chancery. +. A Ellis.
States Attorney, Clinton Mccullough,
Sheriff, Benoni Cooling.
Deputy Sheriff. Z. Wesley Janney.
COUNTY Commissioners, Walter Armstrong, fres, IL.
NJ Crawford. Sr., and Samuel Gerry.
Clerk 10 the Board, Isaac T. Nanarsda'e.
Public School Commissioners, F. s. Everist Pres. S.
j. England. and George Bidde.
Examiner and Secretary, Rev. John squler
Notaries Public r. L. lamar and S. Il. Foard.
Justices of the Peace J. X. Brown, and e. Il. howard
orpbans' Court, James McCauley, Chief Judge, Jas.
N. Eyan. and Jas. A. Lewis, Associate Judges.
TOWN OFFICERS.
To,cn Commissioners DR.. John H. lamar, President
DR. r. H. Tuft Secretary, Thomas bremen, Treasurer
Samuel B. Foarl, Morris Dunbar, John L. Alexander,
and William Falls.
Totrn Brilif Timothy White.
NATIONAL BANK OF ELKTON.
President, J. Tome Cashier r Mcfarland
Teller, John T. brown Clerk, G c. Strickland
Di:caunt Day, Tuesday OpcHs A. N c,osea ) P NJ.
POST OFFICE.
Mrs VI NJ. Mahan, p. NJ. Opens A. NJ: closes P y.
Mails close as foows:-lst mail, $40 a. NJ ID mail
1925 A. NJ: 3rd mail $40 p.
CHURCHES.
NE CEnreh. Rev. C. A. Ph,stus.
Pre.buterran Church Rev W. W ncberton
Episcopal Church, Rev. H. A Skinner.
Roman Catholic Church, Rev. VIM. ballard
African NJ P Church, Rev John T. Scott
LODGES-NIGHTS OF MEETING.
Washington Lodge, No. 81, X of P, every Thursday
evening. , ~
Union Lodge No. IS A. F. A. NJ, the First and Third
Wednesday nights of every month.
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Punctuality in all Things.

1t is astonishing how many people there
are who neglect punctuality. Thousands
have failed in life from this cause alone,
1t is not only serious vice in itself, but it
is the fruitful parent of numerous other
vices, so that he who becomes the victim of
it gets involved in tolls from which it is
almost impossible to escape. 1t makes the
merchant wasteful of time; it saps the
business reputation Of the lawyer, and it
Injuries the prospects of mechanics who
might otherwise rise to fortune: in word,
there is not profession, nor station in
life, which is not liable to the canker of
this destructive habit.
In mercantile affairs, punctuality is as
important as in military. Many are the
instances in which the neglect to renew an
insurance punctually has led to a serious
loss. Hundreds of city merchants are now
suffering in consequence of the want of
punctuality among their Western custom
ers in paying up accounts. With sound
policy do the banks insist, under the PEN
atty of protest, on the punctual payment
of notes; for were they to do otherwise,
commercial transactions would fall into
inextricable confusion. Many and many
time has the failure of one man to meet
his obligations brought on the ruin of a
score of others, just as the topping down,
in line of bricks, Of the master brick
causes the fall of all the rest.
Perhaps there is no class of men less
punctual than mechanics. Do you want
an upholsterer He rarely comes when he
agrees So with carpenters, painters, and
nearly all others. Tailors and shoemakers
often do not have their articles home in
time. The consequence is that thousands
remain poor all their lives, who, if they
were more faithful to their word, would
secure large run of custom, and SO make
their fortunes. What would become of
THE Cecil Wing if it were not punctual in
going to press? or if our paper makers
were not punctual in delivering paper? or
if our compositors were not punctual in
coming to work? Be punctual, if you
would succeed.
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The State of Michigan has debt of
only 81, AS, $50, and the amount to be
raised annually for State purposes is only
So, 20S, 1929. OF course taxation is low.
This is the result of Republican rule, Mich
igan having been Republican State for
twenty successive years.
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Queen Victoria has been subjected to
bitter personal attacks on the part of some
of the English press because she recently
attended the funeral ceremonies of Scot
fish peasant in the Highlands. They call
it breach of dignity and etiquette not be
passed over. Just as if Queen were not
a human being, with human feelings.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-01-01

sB- Go into q store in Cecil county on
a wash day and sit one hour, and You will
hear enough calls for more of MooRE's
" Wilmington City Soap" to make you
dream at night, you are making soap in
tin pan with a tea spoon for ladls. Try
it. q
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Leaves of the pineapple, now being
extensively cultivated in the East Indies,
are turned to account by being converted
into kind of wadding, which is used for
upholstering, instead of hair. A sort Of
flannel is also manufactured from them
from which substantial waistcoats and
skirts can be made.
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NOTICE TO GUNNERS.

All persons warned not to trespass the lands
OF the subscriber with Dog Gun all persons onnd
so offending will have the law rigidy enforced against
them. I. POOLE,
Oct %, 1ST5-3m FrenchtOwu,
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IN CHESAPEAKE CITY,
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

The School Commissioners Of Cecil county will meet
al their Office Elkton for the transaction Of current
School business, the SECOND TUESDAY of each
and every month. JOHN SQUlER,
May 9. IsT4-H Secretary.
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FIRE INSURANCE.

MUTUAL ms. co. OF CECIL co.
lXl Office in Odd Follows Hall VIM. Torbert, Pres"
+. A. Ellis. Secretary and Treasurer.
FARMERS INSURANCE, York, Pa.
IL f. +. Ewing Agent Office at Whig Building, on
North street.
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