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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-12-17
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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-09

How MUCH TO EAT.-An American
soldier has daily given him % ounces of
bread, IL ounces of pork or bacon, or 20
ounces of fresh or salt beef, 16 ounces of
potatoes three times week, 16 ounces of
rice, with 16 ounces of coffee, 2.O4
ounces of sugar, 6.4 of gill of beans, 80
of gill of vinegar and 9.16 of gill Of
salt. As to the Quantity of this food, it
is larger and more abundant than would
seem at sight to be necessary, but the
iberality in food has this great advan-
tage: That, in time of hard work, the
fatigue of the individual is diminished
and the power of recuperation sensibly
increased. The total quantity, then,
provided for soldier of the United
States army is larger than is consumed
by the general workingman. OF course.
various conditions of life, climate and
locality have something to do with the
quantity of food. Thus an idle person
can get along very well with 20 ounces of
nitrogenous food flesh and cereal vege-
table food) when, if the same individual
were walking, or in active outdoor life,
double this quantity might be used.
Perhaps the Esquimaux represent the
heaviest feeders in the world, for Parry
tells us of young native who devoured
in the. twenty-four hours 9Z pounds of
sea-horse. half raw, half cooked; III
pounds of bread; 1H pints of good,
strong soup; IL pounds of ship bread,
and pints of water, not counting grog
and Spirits Elk.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-09
The Ideal and Real.

The ideal husband is kind heart
ed, noble man, with the figure of an
Apollo and the beauty of an Adonis,
who pays the same delicate atten-
tions to his wife that he did before
their troth was plighted; the real
husband is round shouldered,
grizzly looking fellow, who buys the
second quality of butter for the table,
eats his meals at down town
restaurant, and only remembers that
he is married when he is obliged to
pay the household expenses.
The ideal housewife is woman
who keeps her home in the most de-
lightful order, who cooks the most
delicious dinners and presides at the
tea table with the grace of a queen; !;
the real housewife is a woman whose
face is red and blazed with cooking
over a hot stove, whose voice is
sharp and earnest and who just
''slats" things around anywhere, no
matter where, in order to get her
work done in season for buzz over
the back yard fence with the neigh
bors.
The ideal newspaper man is man
whose brain is crammed solid full of
all things classical, social and politi-
cal, whose pen can reel off poetry,
sentiment and sense to order, and
into whose presence we should come
with feelings Of awe inspired by
overpowering genius; the real news
paper man is worn out fragment of
humanity, who carries a sickly smile
significant Of hope deferred and
financial depression, and wears a
seventy-five cent alpaca coat.
The ideal politician is man whose
breast is heaving full of patriotism
and whose interest in the welfare of
the country is second only to his
allegiance to Divine power; the real
politician is man with his hands
full of wires, pulling in all directions,
from the dram shop to the pulpit, to
worm himself into an official position
with big pay and lots of nothing
to do.
The ideal baby is little fellow
with the daintiest tinted cheeks, cur
liest hair, sweetest little "coo," and
with angels wings just sprouting
from his shoulders; the real baby is
young wad of humanity with open
valves, screaming all the time, fuzz
on his bald head like thistle down,
and as for angels wings-well, they
don't fasten them on with safety
pins.
The ideal clergyman is man born
too good for this world, with the vir-
tues Of Christianity bristling all over
his character and shining forth like
the rays of the noontide sun; the
real clergyman is man who
breaches his best sermons con an ex-
change" in the hope Of getting call
with a bigger salary.-NeO Haven
Register.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-09

A DENoMINATIoNAL KITTEN.-Not for
relations sake can we afford to suppress
a story told by the Clinton CourG,at:: "a
few days since-this is fact little
fellow, anxious to find home for pet
kitten, where it would stand right good
chance of being well brought up, car
ried 1t to the residence of one of our
clergymen, asking him, as he responded
to the knock, if he would like kitten.
"Oh, I don't know" said he; what
kind of kitten have you got p "a
Unitarian kitten, sir" .sNo, guess not
of that sort" "a few mornings after,
the little fellow appeared at the same
door, rang the door bel, and again
found himself face to face with the nan
of the house. The boy repeated his
offer of the Juvenile feline. '.But,
aren't you the same boy that called the
other day, and isn't this the same little
Unitarian kitten you had then?" II
know il, . the little man responded It's
the same kitten, but he's got his eyes
open now, and he's an Episcopal kitten.
It is fair to surmise that the opening Of
it's eyes proved the salvation of pussy,
and found for it an agreeable and con-
genial home
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-09
Capt. Ingalls, Story.

learned that Capt. NJ. D. Ingalls,, of
the schooner Chalcedony, lying at
Rumery's wha1f, had actually seen the
big sssea-serpent," off Monhegan island,
a few days ago. The hardy mariner
grinned little when the reporter told
him he had come to interview him about
the big snake he was reported to have
lately seen. but asserted the story was
not far from the truth. The captain then
went on to tell about the strange thing
he recently saw, substantially as follows:
''Last Saturday, about o'clock in the
afternoon, we were slowly sailing past
Monhegan, there being very little wind,
about twenty miles southwest of the
island, when we caught sight of what
looked like large schooner floating
bottom up. As the object lay almost
dead ahead, we made directly for it,
but before we got very close Cape Ann
schooner lay to and sent a boats crew to
inspect what now plainly appeared to be
monstrous carcass of some species or
other. We finally hove to, about a ships
length off, and took leisurely survey
of the thing. It was dead; and foated
on the water with it's belly, of dirt
brown color, up. It's head was at least
twenty feet long, and about ten feet
through at the thickest point About
midway of the body, which was, I should
guess, about forty feet long. were two
fins of clear white, each about IL feet
in length. The body seemed to taper
from the back of the head down to the
size of small log, distinct from the
whale tribe, as the end had nothing that
looked like fuke. The shape of the
creatures head was more like tierce
than anything I can iken it to. have
seen almost all kinds of shapes that can
be found in these waters, but never saw
the like of this before. Two years ago,
off Seguin, I saw shooting through the
water thing which, I think, resembled
this creature considerably, but didn't
get close enough to it to say for certain.
The men from the Cape Ann schooner
got on the dead creature, and one of the
boys cut double shuttle on its belly,
which for all the world looked like the
bottom of schooner covered with
barnacles and seaweed by the weather.
We should have towed the thing to Port
land had there been any wind, but as
there wasn't, we steered away and left it.
What sort of sea monster this was !
| cannot say for sure, but in my opinion
it was the original sea serpent which has
been seen once in while for years past,
and which, when alive, was too swift q
| swimmer for any sailing vessel to gel
along side Portland lMe.) Argus.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-09

AAAA WEEK in your own town and no
rass trial You without sa give tss
VVVThe best opportunity ever offered for
those willing to work. You should try nothing
else until you see for yourself what you do at
the business we offer. No room to explain here.
You can devote all your time or only your spare
time to the business, and make great pay for
every hour you work Women make as much
as men. Send for special private terms and par
ticulars. which we mafl free. Sc outfit free
Don't complain of hard times while YOU have
sach chance. Address II. HALLETT CO..
Portland, Maine 16:3IyI
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-09

"WHo BREAKS, PAYs."-Would you
know the origin of the proverb: Who
breaks-pays A glazier who was
putting in panes in windows of great
mansion of Rue des Prouvaries, in 1476,
when Louis XII was King of France.
This mansion belonged to Laurent Her.
belot, wealthy grocer of those days,
who had one of the most princely abodes
in Paris. In 1476 Alfonzo V, King of
Portugal, came to Paris to solicit Louis
XI's aid to recover Castillo, which
Ferdinand, son of the King of Aragon,
had wrested from him. Afraid that resi-
dence in the Bastille would not be agree
able, Louis XI lodged the King of Por-
tugal with Laurent Herbelot. This
rich grocer's mansion is still stand
ing at the corner of Rue
des Prouvaries and Rue st. Honore.
To put the mansion in through repair for
the King of Portugal glazier, too, was
summoned. While he was putting panes
into windows of the ground floor passer
knocked over the basket in which the
panes were and broke several of them.
Laurent Herbelot exclaimed to the awk-
ward fellow: .sPlague take you! You
are the cause that the mansion, which
will tomorrow have the King of Portu-
gal IOr guest, Will noI De CLOSED, paneS
will be wanting in the windows. "The
passer, confused by his awkwardness and
this apostrophe, took to his heels. The
glazier ran after him, seized him by the
throat, saying: "Halt, my beauty! don't
run away SO fast; settle your bill with
me; who breaks, pays" 'How much?"
Fifteen cents a pane. You broke four"
The passer paid sixty cents. The saying
became popular Winners took great
fancy to it (drunkards broke many
panes) and posted on the doors: "Who
breaks, pays" New Orleans Picayune.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-09

AAA A MONTH guaranteed. Twelve
V"Iv dollars day made at home by
eNlDuuu the industrious Capital not re-
YVVVqu Vquile,i; we will start you. Men,
women, boys and girls make money faster at
work for us than at anything else. The work is
light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go
right at Those who are wise whe see this notice
will send us their addresses at once and see for
themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now
is the time, Those already at work are laying
up large sums of money. Address TRUE CO.,
Augusta, Maine
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-07-09

One OF the best epitaphs, and one Of
the shortest also, is that which Jerr0ld
gave for Charles knight, the amiable
historian. It was simply Good
Knight.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-12-25
The Mistletoc.

1t is natural for us to sing when we
are glad, and carol singing once formed
principal feature at all great feasts or
banquets. But in later times the carol
seems to have been devoted to Christmas
alone, and when the Yule log was blazing
brightly upon the wide hearth, and the
green mistletoe boughs hung from the
wall and decorated windows and doors,
the wassail- bowl was filed to OVERLOOKING,
and true friends pledged each other with
II joyful Christmas song; and under the
mistletoe bonghs the young people joined
hands in the old-fashioned dance and
chanted blithe carol to which their
feet kept time.
We, of modern days, have little idea
of the rare virtues which were once mp
propriatcd to the mistletoe. He who
hung mistletoc around his neck believed
that the witches would have no power to
harm him, and that was truly comfort
able thought in days when the firm be-
lief in witches was almost universal
The Druids and the Celtic nations attrib-
uted the most valuable medicinal prop
critics to the mistletoe, calling it all heal.
In Wales it was known as gstidhel
The New DOMINION and Wheeling
r2r1tsfe,. 40. 40 A. wear.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-12-25

mum, to offer poor unfortunate starry
ing pilgrim cold mutton scraps, sour
potatoes aud stale bread, when the smell
of turkey covers the whole house with q
sweet odor, and very breeze that sails
through the streets goes laden with tho
spicery of toothsome cookery ?"
"Thats IA precious sight better than
you deserve said the lady of the house,
land | hnin't got nothing more for you.
Eat it up aud move on.
"Can you expect that providence will
continue to lavish upon you the bless
ings of comfort and luxury, il you do
not in time like this Of general fcstivity
and feasting share with the feeble men,
dicant that tottcrs to your door, few
crumbs and seasouable td-lits from
your table of abundance, to remind his
shriveled palate OF the joys Of youth and
the vicissitudes of after life p said the
blear-eyed vagrant in plaintivo tones.
You're lazy, good for-nothing vag-
abond-and ought to be ashamed to eat
bread you didn't earn" said the woman,
impatiently.
THAT amt it it, resumed tho tramp.
II ask you, AZ Christian woman, and
the mother of innocent children that
may some day walk in my footsteps, il
you don't think the leg Of turkey, with
an unmistakable suggestion of dressing,
and mayh p dish of cranberries to
heighten tie scenic effect, with cup OF
Golfer for company, and waria biscuit
or two for sociability, would be about
the square thing on M occasion like the
present ?"
''No, don't, you lazy loafer. You
don't deserve crust
''Or say, perhaps half dozen fried
oysters, the breast of a chicken, slice
of veDison, with n touch Of jelly for
background, three or four sweet potatoes,
a parsnip, or slice Of squash, maybe,
with few selections from your assert
ment of cake thrown in for generositys
sake. Don't that strike you rs coming
n little more near the embodiment OF
genuine charity than this froth Of the
garbage box you have asked me to soil
my stomach with ?"
"Stop your CAB, and clenr out, or you
shan't have bite. That all have got
for you. Dinner won't Is done for two
hours" said the woman, getting mad.
II don't wish to be importunate, mum,
but wouldn't for the world have the
enjoyment of this hapF day married by
the thoughts Of fenorso which will be
sure to break in upon you, by and by,
when your overloaded stomach begins to
attract attention, aud make you regret
that you did not lessen the temptation
to indulge in table excess by sharing
your bounty with the humble and hun
cry waif before you. As for this stuff
you We offered me--though I'm suffering
tortures for want OF food have too
much self-respect to waste my time ON
it to-day. L started out for Christmas
dinner that was worth the name, and + II
find it if / have to work for it. Good
day, mum, and Happy Now Year to
you-ovtr the left
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-12-25
A Christmas SNOWFALL.

Snowballs filled with Christmas gifts
is late idea Of holiday hnmor. A frame
Of whalebone or wires in halves is filled
with toys and bon-bons, covered with
thick paper, the halves lightly fastened
together and covered with plLe white
wAdding. The balls may DO male small
and the fun of pelting the fam with
them forms part Of the ceremonies of
Christmas morning, the ball flying open
and scattering the presents over the re-
ceivers head. Or hinge snowfall is
made and rolled into the room, us part Of
the Christmas tree festivities. The semi
circular whalebone or crinoline "dress
improvers" can be put to good use for
snowballs in their way by joining pair
and covering round with cotto'
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-12-25
The Happy Christmas Eennioa.

On Christmas it is customary for all
the members of family to collect and
unite in merry making, feasting and
otherwise enjoying themselves. With
what mingled emotions Of Joy and sorrow
are these happy reunions looked back
upon in after years by participants think
ing of those dear ones now, perhaps,
separated from them forever.
Let Us make Christmas picture: The
sleighride to the house, the welcome at
the door, the bounteous feast with ac-
companying jokes and hunor, the stor-
les, games and other pastimes that follow,
the unwilling Of tho children's Christmas
tree in the evening, and finally the fare
well for the night.
Then there is the jolly mystery OF famous
old Kris Eringle," who comes III his
sleigh drawn hy reindeer, over the tops
of houses, pops down the chimneys, never
spelling with SCOT the pretty things he
brings, to stuff full the row Of stockings
that hang from the mantel. Let us i'm
agins for an instant the little, rosy,
laughing, happy faces that peep into
these stockings in the morning, and
shout gleefllly as each treasure is
brought to light.
Christmas has many happy memories
70 set against the sad ones that tell Of
les of time and friends
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-12-25
Pleasant Remembrance.

Sitting here, 1 find myself holding o
levee of departed Christmas nights. ST.
lently, into my study of imagination
come these apparitions, clad in snowy
nantes, broochcd and gemmed with
frosts Their numbers do not care to
count, for they are the number of my
years. The visa9es of some are sad
enough; but, ON the whole, It's a con-
gregation of jolly ghosts. / hear sound
as of light music, whisk of women's
dresses whirled around in dance, and the
click as OF glasses pledged by friends
Before one apparition is mound on
which the snow is lying. 1 know that
spring of mistletoe. 0, spirit in the
midst Under it swung the girl / loved
and kissed her, too. And thou, too,
with trenchef in hand; remember thy
reigning night. Where now are the
many boys and girls that thrust their
fingers in thy blaze?
The kindly Christmas tree, from which
trust every gentle reader will pull a
bon ton or two, is already sparkling with
the sweet fruits of its season. You,
young ladies', will pluck Cuttings fruits
from it; and with the sugar-plum you
will find one of those delicious conun-
drums, which the confectioners intro
duce into the sweetmeats, and which ap-
ply to the cunning passion of love.
There are some standing about the tree
who don't care about the love- riddle part
Patience, little people! dozen Christ
masses more and you will be reading
those wonderful conundrums. As for us
older folks, we watch the young people
pulling at the branches; but we no long
er reach for the fruits, and for us the
Christmas lights have mostly gone ont.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-12-25
MORGANTOWN, W. VA, SATURDAY. DECEMBER IS, 1880.
here. my little maiden9"

here, my little maiden?"
Because you were 50 good. said
Nina To-day mother cried and toll !
me how pleasant it used to be in Ger
many; and oh, Mr.. Santa Claus, you
must know where her father and mother
are. She said she ran away from them;
and know she thought it was very
naughty only what could she do If
they wouldn't let father come IMP"
Hans, Hans, it is our daughterl"
cried the old woman "What was the
name of your mothers father?"
&c 1t was Ansen, Mrs. Santa Claus, 7"
said Nina
The old lady began to cry. She
caught the child in her arms and kissed
her fondly.
ooh, good Mrs. Santa Claus you will
ask Mr.. Santa Claus to help mother,
won't your" pleaded Nina
But now the old couple took her by
the hands and led her away to an inner
room, where the old lady rumaged in the
drawer of little bureau and brought
out an old-fashioned daguerreotype.
See, child she said Don't this
look like any one you know?"
at looks like mother" cried Nina,
only-only not so old"
ut is enough" said the old gentleman.
"Child, God has sent you. / am not
Santa Claus. / am only an old toy-maker,
working here in Weehawken-ina strange
country to which came from my father
land. But my dear, am your grand
father, and this is your grandmother.
We came to America to look for our
daughter when we heard she was a
widow, but we could not find her. Now
we are going to go and take care of her.
We will go with you. And again l say,
God sent you"
So in a few moments Nina and her
grandparents were on their way across
the ferry.
1t was late in the afternoon when they
climbed the stairs of the tenement house
Then the old people waited outside in
the entry, and Nina went into the poor,
half-furnished room and found little
Biddy Flynn still waiting patiently.
"What happened we, Mina?' she
asked. "The mother has been frettin9
for you.
"Ohl my child am nearly frightened
to deathr' sobbed the poor woman.
"Motherl" cried Nina. ooh, mother!
Welb 10 OeIuaDy W uuu ohnba Claus-
for we never needed him 80 much But
it was not Germany, and I did not find
him: but--oh, MOTHER found grand
father and grandmother"
"Mother! Father cried the poor
woman; and the next instant they rushed
in and had her in their arms.
80 Nina had q merry Christmas after
ALL and you may be sure that her mother
got well, and that Santa Claus did not
Forget her
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-12-25
Christmas Carols.

In Shakspeare's time carols were sung
in the streets at night during Christmas
by the waits, or watches, who expected
to receive gifts for their singing Many
a writer of old times and customs refers
to the .'wakeful ketches of Christmas
Eve" 1t was after the Reformation that
they ceased to sing Latin hymns in the
churches, and substituted the sweet
Christmas carols. For there were two
kinds of carols in vogue-those of a
devotional nature, which were sung not
only in the churches, but also through
the streets from house to house upon
Christmas Eve, and even after that morn
ing and evening, until Twelfth Day.
In those times men were able to spare
more than one brief day for the celebra-
ton of Christmas, and kept up the
festival for at least twelve days. Other
carols were of livelier nature, and were
especially adapted to the revel and the
feast where the lord of misrule had
potent sway. These carols were also
called wassail-songs, and probably
originated among the Anglo-Normans,
who were of a convivial nature No
Christmas entertainment was complete
without the Joyous singing of carols, and
thence came the motto, mo Song, no
Supper" for every geuest at the table
was expected to join in the carol. One
of the rules laid down by the ancient
customs was that 'the ancientest master
OF the revel il, after dinner and supper,
to sing carol, song, and to command
the other gentlemen present to sing with
him and the companies.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-12-25
Christmas in Norway.

In the mountain districts the day is
kept with hearty hospitality. All work
is suspended for thirteen days. The en-
trance Of every house is decorated, and
the walls Of the kitchen are roughly
adorned with gaudy pictures, fantastic
ally painted in water colors Through
ont Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
the merry making is entirely domestic,
restricted to the members OF each house.
hold Not even friendly visit is paid.
On the following days the neighbors as
semble at each others houses by turns,
for csrousing. No regular meal is pro
vided, but open house is kept, the tables
richly spread for all Corners. No stran-
ger is permitted to leave the house until
he has partaken Of the strong Yule ale,
which is served up in true Norwegian
fashion, cask following cask in rapid sue
cession. On these occasions the servants
sit ut the same table with the host, his
wife and family. All are dressed in their
gala attire of rich colored cloth, trimmed
with gold and silver braid, the women
wearing caps and aprons Of brilliant
hues.