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The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-01
Breathing Spots for MetropoIi-
tanS.

The capitalists of all our large cities
seem to be competing in the effort to
establish healthy spots for the dust rid
den and heat burthened citizens of the
metropolis of the country. There is a
race between the seashore and the hill
tops. Harding has mathematical the
Kaaterskills, and now III. H. Hoas-
on, Esq, of Philadelphia, is having
erected on one of the many emf
nences in and about Chestnut
Hill, Pa, n of the largest and
finest hotels ever built in the suburbs
of any city. The Location of this i'm
provement is about one mile south of
tie depot at Chestnut Hill and one
thousand yards west of the new Penn
sylvania Railroad to Chestnut Hill.
The structure will nearly cover the
block of ground bounded by Willow
Grove and Wissahiekon and
Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth streets.
The ground there is very high and the
hotel overlooks the Wissahickon and
Park and presents a magnificent view of
the surrounding country /; Roxborough,
with its tall church spires, ON to the
southeast, on an equally high hill, being
quite Conspicuous.
The hotel building is Of stone quar-
ried in the vicinity. The style of
architecture is of the old English type.
The dimeI sions Of the structure, out
side measurement, are length, 227 feet ;
width of main building, 50 feet ; real
wing, l27 feet two wings, each 227
feet. The height is two and a half
stories, the latter being under a pitched
roof, broken with dormer windows.
The building will contain about 300
ROOMS, $50 of which will be for sleeping
purposes. A portico, one-third of a
mile long, will extend around the en-
tire b lilding. The hotel will be furnish
ed with all the modern conveniences
and elegance, and comfort, it is said,
viii prevail in all the arrangements.
Our people I'VE these and other
men Of enterprise their thanks for the
efforts made and risk take in catering
to their comfort.
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Selecting a Horse,


The TSaJ, Field and Farm, than
Which there is no better authority on
the subject, says, that Gin buying a
horse, first look at his head and eyes
Tor Signs of intelligence, temper, cour-
age, and honesty. Unless a horse has
brains, you cannot teach him to do an
thing well. If bad qualities predomi-
nate in 4 horse education only serves to
enlarge and intensity them. The head
is the Indicator of disposition. A
square muzzle, with large nostrils, evil
dences an amplebreathing apparatus and
power. Next, see that he is well under
the jowl, with jaw-bones broad and
wide apart under the throttle. Breadth
and fullness between the ears and eyes
are always desirable. The eyes should
be full and hazel in color, ears small
and thin and thrown well forward.
The horse that turns his ears back every
now and then is not to be trusted.
lie is either a bitter, or a kicker. and is
sure to be vicious in other respects.
and, being naturally vicious, can never
b trained to do anything well, and SO
a horse with a rounding nose, tapering
forehead, and a broad, full face below
the eyes is always ~treacherous and not
10 DE depended on. Avoid the long
legged, stilted animal-always choosing
one with a short, straight back and rump,
withers high and shoulders sloping.
well set back, and with good depth of
chest, fore legs, hind legs straight with
low down hook, short pastern joints,
and a round, mulish shaped foot.u
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-01
The New Chinese Corvette.
Startling Effect of a volIey Fror
Her Decks Upon Herself.

Startling Effect of a Volley From
Her Decks Upon Herself.
Though the Chinese corvette, the
Ting Yuen, has been built at a German
port, she seems to have been constructed
on strict Chinese principles. One of the
chief features of the vessel is that every
time her guns are fired some consider
able injury is done to herself.
AT the first discharge of one of the
Krupp guns we are told that 1.-THE effect
produced was considerable" Skylights
and windows were smashed, a smoke
stack was snapped in two, a thick iron
rail on the bridge was wrenched from
its place, furniture was shattered to
pieces (which the gentlemen could put
in their pockets and carry away with
them as mementoes of the occasion. -
and, last and not least, an eruption of
coalsfromt the bunkers appeared on deck.
One might suppose that this was quite
enough to show the power of the guns
and the construction of the vessel.
But no. The ''scratch crew from the
German Navy" having seen what the
guns could do singly, determined to
know what they would do when fired
all together. Accordingly, after clear
ing the turrets of everybody except one
man who was to fire the guns, they tried
a volley. The effect vas tremendous,
the whole vessel being nearly reduced
to that condition in which gentlemen
could have put it in their pockets and
carried it away as a memento Of the
occasion. The Chinese will always have
the satisfaction of knowing that if it is
ever taken by the enemy it will prove
very dangerous to its captors. Is it
built on German or Chinese principles ?
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Beautifui--and Odoriferous
--Venice.

A correspondent Of the London Times
writes automatically to that journal {:
"Inever remember the smells SO bad
at Venice as this summer, and they are
even worse ON the Grand Canal than
elsewhere. This, no doubt, arises from
the constant stirring up of the water
and consequentlyalso the solid deposit,
of sewage matter forming the bottom
by the new steamboats,. While all the
sewage of the city is deposited in the
canals, it is clear that ut least in the
hot season the water should be disturb
ed - little as possible
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-01

The awful gloom of wal was de-
pressing our land.
Along the banks of a dark, silent
river our camp wal stationed. !
The fires burned red and high, cast
ing long shadows around, and making
the forests in the background look
darker by contrast.
A small party around a watch-fire
were busy at cards, and except for theIr
muttered -imprecations at ili-luck, or
chuckles of qualification from good
fortune, the silence of the camp was
unbroken.
l stood with barred head at the door of
my tent, weary from the days march,
still unable to sleep.
My thoughts were far away from the
camp-ground. as a soldiers win stray
when the noise OF battle is for a while
silent, and patriotic zeal slumbers dur
ing the brief rest.
From an inner pocket | took out a
small picture.
BY the light of the fire / could see it
plainly.
1t was the lovely face of Doris, half
laughing, half tender, turned over her
shoulder, and looking back at me, with
those fond soft eyes from out of the dark
frame.
The memory of her warm fingers at
parting when she slipped it into mine,
the sweet ''God speed, the tear-dimmed
eyes and quivering lips, rise up in my
mind. | close the cover on the smiling
face and choose to think of her thus as
| saw her last.
Standing there inthe silence, thegrand
breathless calm of nature all around,
with those multitudes of changeless
starry lights above rolling on eternally,
it comes to me with convincing certain
ty that Doris owns my tenderest love.
The s~oftest, best feelings of my nature
are awakened even to think of her.
81 love her p are the words which
beat in my brain.
"While l live, even to the end, | viii
love her forever -
And this is what saddens me, for
Doris rules my heart.
Rhoda feels that she is still bound to
me by the promises that were made in
our younger days.
perhaps in the course of time those
early VOW will be fulfilled % l think
rather recklessly.
I'VE will marry. 4
''Rhoda will tolerate me, and ] will
pity her.
IF We are sensible we will shake
hands on the matter, and decide to make
the best of a bad bargain.
"If not We will separate and end by
cordially hating each other!
What a future -
The next morning, however, these
forebodings are dispelled by a
letter from Rhoda herself. Her conceit
is plainly visible in it.
1t is full of pity for the pain ] must
yitably suffer, appeals for forgive
ness, and self-reproaches.
At last at the end of four pages, !
read that she had married a handsome
ne'er-do-well, and been disowned by her
in consequence.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-01

PITTsBuRe.-At the meeting of the
Windowglass Manufacturer and Work
mems Conference Committee to settle
upon a rate of wages for the ensuing
year, the manufacturers made a propo-
sition which embraced a general reduc-
ton in wages of about 10 per cent. The
workmen refused to accept at once and
requested time for consideration, which
vas granted, and the conference adj
journed until some day next week.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-01

We are willing to bet a picayune that
1T is much pleasanter for General Grant
to read his OWL obituary notice than it
is for Lolita to read of her marriage that
has not taken place.
Men and women played football to-
gether in Lincoln Park, Chicago, last
Saturday afternoon during the band
concert. It's a cold day when Chicago
girls get left when feet business is need
ed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-01
1 feel sorrv f,r her.


My heart still keeps Il tender SPOT for
the dear little Rhoda of the past, though
il can find no open portal for this later
edition, and it is with a sigh of pity
mingled with a new sense Of freedom
that close up the letter.
The week following we had some hard
fighting.
1t is with a shudder that | recall it
even now ,
The familiar faces, bright with quick
ening life, in a second of time quiVering
in agony Or fixed in death
The tranping steeds, the cannon, the
carnage IL can see it all.
1 live over again in fancy the bullet
striking my arm and rendering me pow
erless to fight, though | still cheered on
in lusty tones my men to the charge (;
then another bullet comes direct to its
mark and ] fall from my horse.
The passionate, distorted faces of the
soldiers grow dim, the noise of the con-
fict becomes faint, and lie there n
among the many.
When next / wake it is in a white
washed ward.
The clarifying sunlight falls on the
livid faces of dying menl
Nothing is clear to me.
j place my hand feebly to my head
there is no hair there.
The other arm is bandaged, so is one
of my legs.
| am in a maze.
The only memory which stands out
with any distinctness is a women's face.
L cannot understand where the face
was nor to whom it belonged, but l
knew that it looked down at me full of
tent!erest pity-that the lips had prayed
for me and blessed me. There it was
again bending over me
The same violet eyes, now full of tears
of unbounded joy, were looking down
into mine.
felt the same cool, soothing hand
on my brow, and saw the familiar hair
on which the nurses cap sat like a
| crown.
Then the sweet lips are laid on mine
in an earnest kiss full of wondering SOL
emnity, full of athrilling power that car
ried me back from the borders of death
into nnclouded life to love the bestower
of that kiss for evermore.
For it was Doris, who left all and
came to nurse me-Doris whokissed me.
And could it be possible to do ought
but love her after that, do you think ?
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She mods erac U,ly, aud goes back
to her former position.
''Miss Harper, are you unhappy ?" |
ask abruptly.
Not here, " she answers. Among
the flowers and in the stiffness ! am
very happy, though sometimes-oh, |
do feel so lonely in the state of life
into which it has pleased Heaven to
call me. as the dear old catechism
says
II am at peace with the world to-
night, " ! say, uncontrolled JOY ringing
in my tones. ''Rhoda will he home to-
morrow j.
''She is very dear to you, this Rhoda
of yours" she asks.
VERY :" | say solemnly, from my
heart.
"As the old song runs, she is the
very eyes of me-"
1t is the afternoon of the next day.
Rhoda has come.
/. | am standing out here on the bal
cony, watching her a she sits inside,
furling and unfurling her fan, and
glancing up archly at the young maa
standing up close by her side.
1t is in truth Rhoda, but how changed
how sadly changed from the dear
little maiden of years past
Where has the simplicity which sat so
well upon her gone?
Did it depart forever when she put
away her riotous childhood?
And so / watch her, a disappoint-
ment at my heart SO great that there is
room for no other feeling.
Her beautiful soft hair, which had
n C crowned her head like a halo, is
distorted into a hideous cdi6ce piled
high over her forehead.
Voluminous skirts take up half the
space in the room, and she kicks them
into place $ unceremoniously as a
heroine of opera boafe..
Her voice has lost much of its sweet
ness, and is loud and affected.
She has learned the cant phrases of
scientific atheism, and plays with the
great doubts of the age like a purring
kitten with a ball of yarn.
How different from the memory l
had loved 50 well, and cherished so
tenderly among strange lands. and
| faces ~
With a sore, bitter heart | turned
away-I cannot stand it.
Her mirthless, affected laugh mad
dens me. al
In the garden came across Doris
and her young charge.
She reads my disappointment and
pities me. srm e
1t is only another version of the old
proverb, Sometimes bitter bubbles
| up" she says softly.
But 1 am not to be comforted, and l
sit moody and silent holding the skein
of bright wool for her al she rolls it
into a ball.
And while she winds and winds she
talks in her soft sweet voice and as my
fancy keeps time with the incessant
winding, a feeling of rest and salts
faction steals over me.
l forget Rhoda, with her frivolity
and lately acquired worldliness.
A drop of oil has fallen on the
| troubled waters of my life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-03-31

Secretary Russell discussed the ques-
ton of ensilage with the farmers of Berk-
shire recently. A brief report of the
meeting shows that he is willing to con-
cede the claims of the reasonable advo-
Gates of ensilage with whom the State
board has no difference of opinion. He
stated the opposition to ensilage" which
the silo men had attributed to him was an
opposition to the preposterous claims of
interested men, and that no one now
claimed as much for ensilage as was con-
ceded by the Massachusetts State board in
1880. The original claims of the amount
produced TO the acre, the feeding value of
ensilage. the cost per ton, etc, had all
been modified by experiences of practical
men. No one now quotes Baily on any
of these points The recent Ensilage
Congress and the reports made at the Mas
sachusetts institute seem to set the product
of our lands at about 13tons on the acre, or
much less than the board expected in
1880, and about one-fifth of what was
claimed by the enthusiasts of that time.
The nutrative value as predicted by the
State board was also established by ex-
pertinent Mr.. Russell quoted Goess-
mann, Nichols Prof. Cook of New
Jersey. Major Henry f. Alvord and others.
to show that enslage had an equal value
with ordinary corn stover. He argued
that it is now proved that ensilage is only
an auxiliary in feeding, but may be well
considered convenience and cheap and
desirable substitute for root crops. He
called 30 to 40 pounds a full ration and
remarked that this should be ted once a
day.
Mr.. Russell further stated that 20 tons
of ensilage to the acre was as large crop
a. 400 bushels of shelled corn would be.
He compared the ensilage with an acre of
winter rye cut to be cured for hay early in
June, followed by Hungarian grass cut in
August. and followed by barley cut green
for soiling; also with early potatoes fol-
lowed by turnips.s He declared that much
of the exaggeration about the value of en-
silage came from men who had never
worked an acre for its worth until they
had silo to fill, and he bad thought that
the discussion had been Of importance in
proving the productive capacity Of our
land. and especially, in the light it had
thrown upon the value of corn stover.
He protested against the comparison of
ensilage with the hay crop, and declared
that it could only be compared with crops
that were the product of annual ploughing
and tillage. Mr.. Russell was shrewdly
questioned by the audience, and the silo
men present seemed generally to agree
| with him
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NO n.

Co, at Lawrence. Kan, was robbed Tuesday
night of about 5000 worth of silks. There
is no clew 10 the perpetrators.
Michael MeCaffrey. who killed his wife and
mother-in-law at Montpelier, VT, was de-
clared not guilty of murder Wednesday, by
reason of insanity. He will be placed in the
Brattleboro' asylum.
The central body of the Ladies' Land
League of New York has resolved to hold y
mass meeting early in April, to raise funds
20 be presented to Mr.. Parnell on his arrival
in that city.
meeting of the Western Nail Association
was held on Wednesday, and it was decided
| to postpone the stoppage of the mills until
April 81, as the trade justities all the Western
mills continuing at work.
The Governor of louisiana has pardoned T.
| Lee Shute, who was convicted of having en-
bezzled the public moneys of the city of New
Orleans. and sentenced to one year in the
| peitentiary.
The Pennsylvania House has declared the
seat of n l.. Dukes vacant, and ordered that
a new writ of election be issued. This action
was taken in consequent of the reception by
| the speaker of letter from Dukes declining
TO accept the seat
| AT a meeting of the Committee of the Irish
National League in Dublin Wednesday. MIR.
Timothy ID. Sullivan, member of ParliSment
for Westmea;h, repudiated the charge that
the League was connected with the Irish
dynamite party in America. ODonovan
Rosa and Sir William Harcourt, he said,
must fight their own battle"
| The river is rising two inches per day at
| Atchafaaya, La. The passenger trains have
| been stopped between the river and Baton
Rouge junction. the water being over the
| track from one tn three feet in depth. The
new levees between Churchville and Simms-
| port are fast giving way, and one break has
| already been announced. Very few planta-
| tions along the river will escape the overflow.
Prof Newcomb of Salem, taxidermst of
the Jeanette expedition, has just received
letter from st. Petersburg stating that the
bodies of DE Long and his comrades are be-
tween Bulum and Iakoutsk, Siberia, being
conveyed by dog reindeer sleds. The
bodies are sewed in deerskins. The inter
prefer of the Harber search party describes
the condition of them as follows: Faces
quite white, eyes disappeared, extremties
black" This same interpreter, very in
telligcnt Dane, further stated that in 1.-THE
whale boat of the Jeanette. he, with Lieut..
IIarber, L. :. N. thoroughly explored the
Siberian coast. No traces of Lieut.. Chip
were discovered" The bodies of Capt. De
Long and his comrades will probably be
detained in Yakoutsk until October or Noven-
Der, as the country is well nigh impossible
during the summer months, owing to the
numerous bogs and morasses.
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