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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Not one of the Presbyterian churches
in Nebraska is encountered with u mort
gage debt.
1t transpires that the school-house
in New York whore SO many children
were killed recently, was reported eight
years ago as being unsafe.
The New Congregational Year Book
has added the Welsh churches of Penn
sylvania, heretofore omitted. They num-
Der ffty-one churches.
When Rev w. G. Richardson. of
the Amherst, Mass, Methodist Church.
got sick few Sundays ago, his wife took
the desk and preached a sermon
"A young lady applying for situa-
ton as teacher in Spencer County, Ken
lucky, in reply to a question said: II
ain t much of an arithmeticker but am
an elegant grammarest,
Mr.. Jay Cooke has completed ar
engagements for the transformation of
his beautiful former home, Ogontz, near
Chelten Hills, Pa, into a young ladies'
boarding-school. The property ia
valued at about million dollars.-M
Y. Graphic.
Teacher; "Well, how stupid you
are, to be sure. Can't multiply eighty
eight by twenty-five? I'll wager that
Charles can do it in less than no time.''
Pupil: Il shouldn't be surprised. Thew
say that fools multiply very rapidly now
days"
"A great strife is being stirred I'D i'm
New York because sext~As of certain
fashionable churches have been made to
take down their signs from the sacred
edifices. The objections were that the
sections were undertakers, and used their
signs on the churches to advertise their
callings.-N. Y. Times.
The safest kind of school building or
other public institution or hall is one like
q certain California church, the pastor of
which, when it was dedicated, said
"There are fourteen entrances to this
edifice, and if any one hears anything
here that dspleases him he has a choice
of fourteen exits by which to leave"
The Trustees of Columbia College,
New York City, declare it inexpedient to
prepared for women's education in the
college they deem it expedient to take
measures to raise the standard of female
education by proposing courses of study
to be pursued outside the college, but
under its authority and with suitable
academic honors.
The Board of Managers of the Amer
lean Bible Society met in New York re-
Gently and heard a report on the progress
of the work of resupplying the United
States with the holy scriptures. From the
bepinninp of the fiscal wear nm To Janu-
airy 81, colporteurs visited 2S8,71 fami-
lies; 35,242 of them were supplied with
biblesby sale or gift; 1896 copies were
given to destitute persons and 125,81o
were sold. 1t has cost the Society lit
tie less than fourteen cents for everv
family visited and about twenty-four
cents for every copy of the Bible put in
circulation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31
IN THE CATACOMBS.

Never lived Yankee yet
But was ready to bet
On the u. 5. A.
II you speak of Italy's sunny cline,
Maine kin beat it, every timel"
II you tell of Etna's fount of fire,
You rouse his ire,
In an injured way
He IL probably say, ..
~ don't think much of smokin hill,
We've got moderate little rill
Kin make yer old volcaner still;
Pour ould imagery down the crater,
m guess twill cool her fiery natter"
You have doubtless heard of those ancient
lies,
Manufactured for a prize;
The reputation of each rose higher,
AS he proved himself the bigger liar.
Said an Englishman: "Only t'other day,
Sailing from Dover to CALAIS,
saw man without float or oar,
Swimming across from the English shore,
Manfully breasting the angry sea-"
Friend" said the Yankee, that tCds meP'
Mindful ot all these thrice told tales,
Whenever a Yankee to Europe sails,
The boys try every sort of plan
To rouse his astonishment If they can.
Sam Brown was a fellow from way down East
Who never was staggered" in the least.
No tale of marvellous beast or bird,
Could match the stories he had heard
No curious place or wondrous view
WAS ekil to Podunk, / tell yu.'
They showed him room where queen had
slept;
'Twan't 'up to the tavern daddy kept"
They showed him Lucerne. But he had
drunk
From the beautiful Mollichunkamunk.
They took him at last to ancient Rome,
And inveigled him into a catacomb.
Here they piled him with draughts of wine
Though he vowed old cider was twice as fine,)
Till the fumes OF Falernian filled his head
And he slept so sound as the silent dead,
They removed a mummy to make him ROOM
And laid him at length in the rocky tomb.
They piled old skeletons round the stone,
Set a dip in a candlestick of bone,
And left him to slumber there alone.
Then watched from a distance the taper's
CLEAN,
Waiting to jeeT at his frightened scream,
When he should awake from his drunken
dream.
After time the Yankee woke,
But instantly saw through the flimsy Joke:
SO never cry or shout he uttered,
But solemnly rose and slowly muttered;
II see how it is. It's the Judgment day,
We've all been dead and slowed away:
All these stone furreners sleepn' yet,
An I'm the fust one up, you bet?
Can't none o. you Romans start, / wonder7
United States is ahead, by thunder"
H. H. Bdiidrd, in Good Cheer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-31

The Cincinnati courts decide that
food that has been frozen is unhealthy,
and punish persons for selling it.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-16
1vlI NEW SERIES, VOL. xxx.
George III. Boxer.

In referring to the success of Gran
cesca da Rimini," correspondent Of the
Springfield Republican says that, al.
though George H. Boxer possesses fine
talents and ripe scholarship, his writings,
mainly plays and poems, have made very
little pecuniary return to him. After he
had published, while still very young.
"The Lesson of Life and Other Poems,
he wrote "Calaynos," to compete for q
prize Edwin Forrest had offered for the
best American tragedy. The actor, OF
course, expected to personate the lending
part but he so disliked it, notwithstand-
ing TINT the committee had awarded it the
prize, that he refused to put it on the
stage, much to the annoyance of the au-
thor. The piece, subsequently produced
in London, met with considerable favor.
Forests objection to it was, MS may in
ferred, neither dramatic nor literary, but
simply that there was not enough Of the
principal character; in other words, that
it would not allow him histrionic Mono
poly. Since then Boxer has written can
ne Boleyn," "Leonor di GuEman" and
francesca" no one of which, until now,
may be said to have enjoyed prosperity.
Francesca, acbeit somewhat declama.
tory, contains much impassioned dialogue
and many effective situations. 1t is, on
the whole, superior TO. Silvio Penico's
drama of the same name, in which Salvi-
nj as Paolo won SO much reputation in
Europe, although he has never presented
it here. Pcllico makes the lover the chief
parsonage, who elicits the sympathy of
the audience, while Boxer, favorlng sound
conventional ethics, makes the husband
the central figure, and the true hero Of
the piece. Fortunately for the poet, his
circumstances are financially Independent,
and he can afford the luxury of writing
without conciliating publishers or public.
But then he lives in Philadelphia.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-16
Fashions In CarrlR gcs.

"That we are getting to be very lux.
curious people is seen in the display oi
our equipages on the fashionable drives"
said veteran manufacturer recently.
Fashions in carriages change much the
same rs fashions in dresses. Only short
time ago village carts were all the rage.
Now they are us common rs sparrows.
The latest fashion is the revival OF eight
spring vehicles like the Victoria or Dor
say, named after English styles. Their
popularity is that they have four elliptic
springs, and four springs. They cost
Sl700 to $500, and seat two persons be-
sides the driver. Very pretty styles are
the Stanhope phaeton, the spider. the
vis-a-vis and the Duke some of which
were seen at Newport this season.
'1t is now quite an ordinary thing for
wealthy people to have carriages built to
order after their own ideas, derived from
what they have seen. Most of the artis-
tic ideas in carriages come from France,
but in the matter of machinery for car
riage building we are ahead OF the French.
We also send abroad considerable of our
hickory, which is the best wood for car
riage building. Thsrc are few carriages
imported. Most of those exported are
cheap kinds that go to Australia, Africa,
Mexico and South America.
zone thing that we have to import is the
high-toned coachman. He is nobby fell
low, who knows how to fan tails, pull
names, trim fetlocks, and polish hoofs.
He has his assistants and disdains to Ia
Dor. He draws from 500 to 800 month,
and perquisites. He walks about the sta
bles in a lordly way, seeing that things
are done rightly. He comes out, with
his gloves on, mounts his box, and has the
reins handed to him. His clothes are as
handsome and fit as well as these of his
employer, and his style is immense. This
soft of thing does not grow in this coun-
tro. 1t must be imported
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-16

clean dhudeen of the Boer, is as much
superior to both rs the mixture smok-
ed in it is superior to either of the
others.
The Asiatic, so far MS my observation
goes, never smokes his tobacco pure. The
simple leaf is to strong for him and his
tasts for sweets leads him to miz it with
sugar, molasses, or honey, and-in the
case OF the luxurious, notably the young
Mohammedan 'swells"-to perfume and
quality the mixture with paste of roses
and spices. When ready for the pipe it
looks like crude opium, tenacious black
amalgam, and when kindled gives out n
faint, sickly odor, surprisingly tenacious
and penetrating A Hindoo smoking his
hookah. or even the plebeian hubblo-bub-
BILE, can be smelt out from long distance
AS the lurking servant often finds out
to his cost. Apparently unconscious Of
the far-reaching properties of the scent,
he will squat just round the corner to have
quiet smoke with friend when he
ought to be about his work and retribu-
tion guided to the spot by the nose sud-
denly overtaken him in his fancied secur-
ity. The varieties of tobacco grown in
the East are chiefly "Shiraz" and "Lata-
kia" and though they differ in degrees of
quality, they are very seldom above med
iocrity for the European taste. There is
no preparation of the leaf worth calling
preparation for the Oriental smoker de-
pends upon his particular tobacconist or
his own servant to mix up the compound
to suit his own taste. The flavor of the
actual leaf itself. therefore, goes for little.
When away from their own country, how
ever, the natives of India will change
their habit and smoke the pure leaf-as,
for instance. in the sugar plantations of
Mauritius, where I have seen the coolic
smoking original-looking cigarettes of his
own manufacture. But the most surpris-
ing specimens of the self-made cigar are
to be found among the emancipared ne
groes of that earthly paradise, the Sey-
chelles Islands. There the tobacco plant
has run wild, and the negro will some
times 30 far bcstir himself as to order his
wife to make him some cigars and the re-
suits are such distorted preposterous cat
erpillars Of tobacco as might make a Reg
ent-street tobacconist howl. The mater
ial, however, is excellent, being the best
Havana or. Virginia. leaf run wild, but with
out curing or preparation of any kind is
naturally coarse and acrid. The negro,
however, likes it, and consumes his home
rolled cigars in unstinted abundance.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-16
Apple Gathering,
Just such another hlowy day,
With gran caprlcious SKY,

Just such another hlowy day,
With gran capricious SKY,
Ana In the orchard, glad -nd gay,
Were Cousin Joan and
Bo,h mounted on ladder lons, the apples all
among
And oh, how sweet the hazel eyes
That there looked up al me
The truesi, softest, deepest eyes
That ever shall see.
Then what a perfect mouth thought 1t would be
If from those rosy lips might but steal one little
kiss.
For was not her cousin, too?
And half benz nv head
But not the dreadful tning TO do
No, no ! I've ever said
But she. pcrchance, had fAnciei SO, aud, sudden,
And from the movement, to the ground the ladder
staggering went.
Nv graceful darling, lovely Joan,
Fe. lightly, without harm;
And l. as she arose alone,
Sc .ce felt my broken arm.
But when, ',thout glance and looking scornfui'
She turned way, then, with the two-fold pain,I
groaned aloud.
She s. 'rtcd, and her face grew whlte
But hen fell TO my share
Such gentle ministries, that light
Seemed all the pain 10 bear.
fingers dcft and tender, once in mine held you
fast,
And, hamb'y craving got the kiss longedso for at
last.
And with 1t, too, my sweetheart jean,
Whose pity grew TO love;
still. who had never been nv own
But for that day above
Then, at the apple gathering in the dear old apple
When not a single fruit was plucked by my lair
Prom London Society.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-16

Register, young orchard trees are often
ruined by the mice in winter. Thousands
Of fine young trees are thus girdled every
winter, often in orchards kept too clean
for the safety of the trees in trying will
ters. A safe and sure remedy is to pile a
neat mound around each tree. To pro-
perly mound IN orchard of say two hun
dred trees would be light days work.
The mice in trailing under the snow
seem to have no idea of climbing a small
mound to get ut the tree"
Washing cans and pals is n very i'm
portant work in the dairy, especially when
they have contained sour milk. The
acid must be completely removed, or it
will sour the next milk that is put in the
cans. Want of care in this respect makes
much mischief, and has much to do with
the fact so bitterly complained Of, viz,
that ordinary farm dairy butter sells for
seven to twelve cents pound Good
butter cannot be made from milk set in
cans that are not perfectly clean. - The
DAIRY.
Ono OF the most prosperous farmers of
Aroostook County, Me-, is Mr. G.. w. p.
Jerrard of Caribou, who cultvates only
thirteen acres of land, but those acres are
made to yield about as abundantly of
special crops as any one of the vegetable
farms situated around Boston. On one-half
acre of land he this year obtained 300
bushels of onions, and the greatest por-
tion of the crop came from one-half of
the piece. He also makes n specially Of
bee keeping, and this season has gather
ed from 200 hives Il, 900 pounds of honey,
which he has sold for not less than twenty
cents pound. Quite number OF other
farmers in his neighborhood have apia-
ries, but Mr.. Jerrard is called the "honey
king" of Aroostook.
The last number of the German Ag-
ricuitural Ycar.Book" contains an inter-
esting article on the diet of the sparrow,
in which DR.. Schleh, on the strength of
evidence afforded by the interiors Of 116
sparrows, oil of which have been minute
ly examined, acquits the accused bird as
mot guilty" of destroying crops. 1t is
true, he admits, that while the sparrow is
rs yet unable to gain its own living, it
feeds exclusively on grain, but afterward,
when both animal food and vegetables
are accessible, it contents itself with
plants. DIR. Schleh concludes by saying
that while it would be unadvisable to in
clude the sparrow in the select number
of birds which flourish under the care of
the Society for the Protection of Ami
mails, it would be equally unadvisable to
cxtirpate the whole race, inasmuch as he
believes that young sparrows would form
an appreciGble addition to our articles OF
food.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-16

On the night of July 6, 1881, storm of
unprecedented violence swcp. over goodly
portion of the State of Iowa, the rainfall be-
ing SO heavy that nearly all streams from the
Des Mones river down to the usually
insignificant creek became raging torrents,
ove,ilowing their banks and carrying off
everything that was not deeply imbcdded in
the earth. Living Nth her parents not far
from Honey creek, was n young girl, only 1G
years old, named Kate Shelley. Late in the
evening while sitting by window which
Honey creek railroad bridge, the young girl
saw, for an Instant locomotive headlight,
and then it rapidly disappeared from
view, literally sank out of sight,
and Kate knew that the bridge had
gone down. Hoping that even she, a
timid, young girl, might be of some service
to those who had gone down with the wreck,
this second Grace Darling lighted an old
lamp and putting on a waterproof, went out
into a most fearful storm. She first essayed
to reach the bridge by one of the numerous
pathways leading from her home, but this
was found impossible, as the angry flood,
which ovcrowed all, very soon admonished
her. In order to reach the railroad track
size was then compelled to climb rocky and
briery cmbankment, and when she reached
tue track net clotnlnB was III snreus, her
flesh shockingly lacera,ed aud her strength
all but gone. She managed, however,
TO reach the remnant of The bridge,
and leaning far over she heard the
voicc of the engineer (who had climbed
out of the reach of the waters and was cling
ing to atimbcr support, siyins that the train
which had gone down was freight train,
and that he was the only survivor. He also
implorcd her to hurry TO the nearest station
and give tie alarm, 50 as 10 stop an express
train, then nearly due, aud effect his own
rescue The brave girl did rs she was bid
den, but when she sci foot upon the trcstlc,
almost 800 feet in length, which spauned the
Des Moines river, the ga'c was 50 severe as
10 cXtingush her light and almost blow her
into the river. Throwing away her lantern
the Courageous girl crcpt over the bridge
and having gained the other bank ran to the
station, told her story and sank to the ground
unconscious. When the express came nlprg
it was stopped aud after hearing the prl's
story the passengers rewarded her with Il
handsome purse. This is to be supplement-
cd this week by the presentation 10 her OF a
medal commemorative Of her her ic achieve
mcnt, ordered by the Iowa legislature, n
grand celebration si4,nliziug the event.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-16
THE NATIONAL CAPIrOL.
Some Of tho Historical Paintings In the
ROtunda.

Any one who has visited the capitol knows
how much more the painting and statues
have been chosen from the efforts Of loby lists
than by the judgment of competent ant crit
les, writes Washington correspondent,
The naked Washington in front of the
Capitol, at cost of SAG, TO, was worse than
hr,'wing the money away, and the same
may be said Of the parody on President
Lincoln, for which Winnie Ream persuaded
Congress to pay her $4,000. There are
other statues, however, which are better.
The Scott statue in the northwest is good. 1t
cost $1,000. Clark Mills statue of Jack
SOD, opposite the White House, cost S2S, ,422,
and the groups of statuary on the front Of
the Capitol cost more than $4,000. These
last would not bring in the Italian market
more than the cost Of the marble of which
they arc made. The historical paintings in
the rotunda by Trumbull cost S32, 900.
They arc not worth much as works of art,
but are very valuable as being actual por-
traits of the men represented taken from
life.
Each of these old pictures has its history.
The faces in some Of the older of them are
taken from the sittings OF famous society
bellies of the days when they were painted
This summer several Of the descendants of
the people thus portrayed have hern here
| looking AT their ancestors, ana NGoN y
case where agrand -dau- htcr came To see how
her yourg grandmother, once famous
Philadelphia helc looked In historical
costume. Many noted woman, aud many
not noted, lave thus hal themselves pre-
served ut the expense oi the government and
the generosity of the artist. The head OF
"Libvrly" on the silver coin now used was,
| am told taken from the face of Phila-
dclphia madcn, anu it was no. long ago that
one of the men connected with the bureau OF
engraving and printing put his daughters
face upon the shoulder df some allegorical
character on one of our bank nncs Had
bis daughter been good lvOkne, his might
have escaped notice But she was not, and
her full sensual lips i'll became the charac
ter she represented. A great deal OF fur
was made about it, and i, was finally
changed.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-16

Blessed Is the bride whom the sun shines on;
Blessed Is the corpse which the rain rains on.
saw thee young and beautiful,
] saw thee rich and gay
In the nrst blush of womanhOod
Upon thy wedding day;
rhe church bells rang
And the little children sang
"Flowers, flowers, kiss her feet
Sweets to the sweet,
The winters past, the rains arc gone
Blessed Is the bI lde whom the sun shines on"
saw thee poor and dnsolatc,
saw thee fade away
In broken-hearted widowhOoi
Before thy locks were gray;
The death bell rang
And the little children sang
"Lllies dress her wnding-shcet
Sweets to the sweet
The summers past, the sunshine gone;
Blessed Is the corpse which The rain rams on.
Blessed Ia the bride whom the sun shines on;
lessed Is the corpse which the rain rains on.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-11-16
Opens.

~. ere the storm, silence nlls the world,
No blade In Stirred no banner Is unfurcd,
In conscious field or wood
50, all the morning, hushcd aud tfanced with fear
secme! 70 see messenger draw nca-,
Whose GRAND was not good.
turned, and 10 within the open door,
Inc one deemed bcsct with pcrs sore,
Close hy me, smiling stood.
II,
snow not why Il said that summer mighty
Thc heart IN ruc siould he so wondrous light,
=, sweet each moments breath
Assurance Kind grcets Inc from every star
The a'l-g hcring breeze. that hnstens from afar,
How glad thing 1t saith
That was the night my friend beyond the seas,
within u tent beneath the olivc-trecs,
Turned his blue eyes on death.
-BdH D. Thomas IN NotspG,r Atlantic.