Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-06-16

How He Lived and Ruled Among his
PeopIe-HIs Books and Book cAses.

People-Hfs Books and bookcases.
An article in Blacklcoods Magazine has
the following:
Balnamoon Is dinly associated with |
boot hose, coat Tapped and square
poeketed, and cooked hat perched on |
the the top of periwig. His house stood /
among Enclosures OF black fir-woods, in a |
dismal fiat under one of the bleakest of |
the Grarnpians, and several miles from |
the nearest market town. Such as 1t |
was, he seldom stirred from it, further, |
at least, than his easy paced hackney
could carry him, and he ruled his terri
tory with rod of iron. Nothing could |
persuade him to trust himself to wheels,
and lie never slept from under his own
roof. He lived WE'LL but, as DR.. Johnson
would have said, his table was rather
plentiful than delicate. 1t was supplied
entirely, with the exception of the
liquors, from his own shootings or farms.
One leg of mutton faced another; the
roasted pigs came to the table in pairs,
and a dozen or so of fowls on a couple Of
great "ashets" were sent up by way Of
pretty little kickshaws." II va sans
dire that the laird soaked solemnly on
that substantial foundation--in fact, he
was the famous topper who, when his pal
ate began to blunt with age, announced
the cherry brandy he had been swilling
for port, "a pleasant, pure, fruity, and
generous wine, but very old in bottle"
Mr.. Gillies has onestory of Balnamoon's
drinking tastes linking him, moreover,
with literary recoleetions, by contrares,
which we do not remember to have met
| before. The laird had been entertaining
a friend at dinner who was detained over
tsrrI,f 1,.r ,,I
morning the weather was, if anything,
worse, and the laird demanded of the ser
want who awoke him whether Sandie
Hunter had come down stairs. The man
answered in the negative. ''It's an
awfu' morning, ye sayf Then ven
| gang direct to the parlor sea that the
fires blazin', LIGHT the cawnels, set the
| punchbosl filled wi plottie on the break
fast table, steez (bolO the sutherland
wc'se try what kind 81 NIGHT it will
max y The guest, though no milksop,
shrank from beginning the day with the
punchbowl and having disposed
of a breakfast in more Chris
tian fashion, began to think about
killing the morning. "lf l dared
max sac free, Bonnymune, have ye nae
auld buiks about the house p Bonny
mune rs it happened, could accommodate
his visitor, and led the way to turret
library, whore, the shutters being opened,
light was let in upon tonnes that had
been sleeping i'll the dust of a generation
Hunter, who, though a rough diamond,
was something of a diettante, stood
astonished and entrarced. There were
shelves that were filled with superb
lilzeyirs and uncut editions of the classics
in usum Delphini. The laird, with the
superciiousness Of superior mind,
grunted contemptuous commentary on
Sandy Hunters inexplcable raptures.
At last the visitor turned to a compart-
ment that puzzled him. The volumes in
it were veritable, but there was no moving
them; the laird laughed and explained -
'Hrhe shelves (sheives) here was auld
and w0rmeaten; and vac stormy NIGHT
the buiks and shelves the either fell on
the floor vita blatter like thunder. Then
the grieve he wanted the floor for al
Extraordinary crap o. blue pitatoes; and
John clnu TO mend up the shelves, and
IKE an honest lad that lie did. But
when the job was done, and he tried the
bnikS - them, they wudna fit. So h,
'ang"d them regular on the floor, mea
,urtd them with his ruler, and thel
nrasurri the skelves.
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ma ! CARED MN YAK the saw 10 I'M
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l4ii4 packt thelh ana aroVe them WI
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+ ny 'iist eaiel"h VI 7iiaheSpe"Ie a, i ~ wa
!, 9"i'i -. m"t'i' " Nir'"oeo i"r "a
W liHlael' ~ nv ROMANCE :" BOOK aulelh
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Ne p'ieh VI 9nuhS pafS anu IL was eIous
N ~, was sa5s,ew hat missrly in ev.rvthi,
.xc4nt bis vine bills--to know lint suc
re ANN I,ad sIi,,n.d thrnrcb his sng.r.
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SGFENTIFIC MISCELL4SY.
II
~ Nearly every year there falls in son
part of the world u greater or less qua
re tlty of fine yellow powder, which fall