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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-23

Wilson the secretary OF the New-York Chamber of
Commerce, was here last week TO see about the bill
for reducing the charges of the sandy Hook pilots
liz Is doubtfni If he returned TO New York with any
hope that the bill would pass. Senator Jacobs has
so dexterously shufled the bill abont between the
Committee on Commerce and Navigation and the
Senate delaying the passage Of the bill with every
shuttle that probably the bill will not pass the SEN
ate. Theresecms also little hope among the friends
of the bill reducing the charges OF grain elevators
that it will become a law. 1t is in the Senate
after passing the Assembly and vote Will be taken
upon it next Wednesday.
A bill is now before the Governor. drawn by AS
semblyman Haggerty, that is intended TO prevent
the abuses of the receivcrshIp system which so
shocked the State the past few years. bill
for the equalization of tho salaries of the
teachers in the public schools of Nev-York is now
in the Senate after passing the Assembly. The
Assembly has also ordered TO q third reading bill
to establish school teachers pension fund.- and
bill appropriating money for the police pension
fund The Governor has now under consideration
The Military Code and the bill appropriatiDg &c.
900 for . State Park at Niagara Falls. The only
btu IN Regard to taxation, that of Assembly
Benedict concerning collateral inhertances, is now
in the Senate, Thero seems TO be little prospect of
Mayor Lows bill for the extension of Of Fiatbush
ave. to the East River Bridge becoming law.
from - Brooklyn apparently are hostile Ht to
the measure. Speaker Chaplin, of Brooklyn,
IL IN suspected, in also hostile TO the bill,
and With hun hostile the bill may be considered as
doomed.
: There promises to be bitter coufict this week in
the 6anafe over David Dudley Fields Civil
Codes which has just been reported fayorably by
tho judiciary Committed At the same time In tho
Assembly there will be violent debate over Sena-
tor Grzdys bill authorismg the voters Of the State
81 ths pext eiecttsa - decide upon the question
Whothsr or not tho contract labor aystem, which
6ss made the pEisons sef-snstaming. shall be con-
Hnaeds Already stsp has been taken this session
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
Romance Under Difficulties.
[From q Georgia Paper. ]

| went to rousing sugar bilin' the
other night, and while the lurid flames
were glowing brightly in the furcace saw
the prettiest pair Of Georgia eyes [ ever
saw in my life. They were carried in
the head of splendid looking young
lady. My hair stood on end and fairly
trembled in my boots as listened to the
sweet music of her silver voice singing
merrily on the soft air of thelovely night.
[ assisted her while she stirred the young
suger, but the sweetest lump Of hard
molasses found was the Georgia "gaL. :"
If could have pressed her hand or
talked about sweet taters and crack
ling bread, or if / could have gone to
church with her, [ should rest content,
but could not go account Of a sore toe
1t was my first visit to a sugar bilin', "
and l. will remember it as long as the
yellow moons come and go, or the SWIM
ming stars float over the rolling ocean,
The faint beams OF the young moon trem-
bled on her modest face, while she
gnawed at the Georgia yam as big as my
leg. I also gnawed the "tater on the
other end. We gnawed away until our
mouths and lips we're only an inch apart
Oshush! it was the best sweet ''tater"
ever ate in this world or any other.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31

ders TO the politely a8toniabed footman,
who, after "a few minutes, brought back
q most Mcdea-like message.
'Please, ma'am, cook says there's his
head left, and one of his legs and q
small portion of him still remains I'M
cooked. il the lady would like to take
that home"
"No, no, no." said my husband, has
tily. "The least little bit will do-a
mere fragment Just to enable her to say
she has eaten 1T. She likes it; she was
once heard to say that a little pig tasted
exactly like a baby"
Under the shout of laughter which
followed this unlucky communication
(Which was, alas, quite true), I made my
retreat. But just as was getting into
the carriage, one of the family came run
ming hastily out.
"Stop q minute; you have forgotten
something. You have left behind you
your little pig"
What q narrow escaped Not until the
basket was safely deposited at my feet
did | feel that l had conquered fate,
gained my end-and my pig; and, what
was the most important element in the
ings of my friend.
So we ate him-the pig, [ mean
at least one of his members. Very deli
cious he was, fully iustifying Elias
commentator of himSpr rather of his
race. He was also fully appreciated by
mutual friend of the donor and our
selves, who happened to dine with us
that day, and upon whom we impressed
the necessity of stating publicly that she
had eaten this identical pig in our
house.
Peace to his names! Let him not
perish unchronicled, for he was beau
ty; but let his history be recorded here
"a story without plot or purpose,
or a moral. Except, perhaps, the trite
one, that truth is best. How much or
how little of it has reached my friend, /
know not, but when he reads this in
print, perhaps he will feel that his kind
ly gift was not altogether thrown away.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
TEA TABLE TALK.

HE most graceful walker, says an
English fashion critic, is woman with
her hands and arms free.
IT is related that at house warming
up town the other day, they washed
down the front stoop with champagne,
" for luck. Fashionable extravaganza
could not possibly go lower.-N. Y.
Mail and EI1.
A PENNSYLVANIA paper makes the an
nouncement that it is going to be
fashionable next summer for young
ladies to stay at home and help their
mothers with the washing. There'll be
lots Of questionable girls midsummer,
too.-BO8ton Post.
The pungent philosophy of Josh Bill
llngs on matrimOny, "Go slow, and give
each other half the road" is equally ap-
Hlicable in other affairs in life. The
woman who asserts her right to the
whole road will be apt to find herself
travelling alone.-NeaU AIbany Public
Press.
ST. LOUIS society is agitated by the
fact that a beau gotIinto carriage with
a belle to escort her home from ball,
at which time his face was smooth and
fair, but when he emerged his eye was
blackened, as though by the blow from
q fist, and the girl walked up the steps
OF her home alone.
A PHILADELPHIA youth who has been
to the Hub tells us that the intellectual
| ity of the Boston girl begins at the break
fast table and lasts until the old folks go
to bed. After that, if the right fellow is
III the parlor, and the light is turned
low, she "acts like any other girl. .
Phdladelr1hja NeaO8.
FAINT HEARTRDNEss would never have
won the Vicksburg fair lady who re-
fused her sutton four times. but yielded
when he fell on his knees before her in
parlOr IN the presence of a dancing
company and for the fifth time urged
his suit. She accepted him on the spot
and appointed day for the wedding.
ONE of the lady readers O. the Green
field (Mass.) Gazette senc % it this
sad truth, " as she calls IT, SIN the
little village Of Montague, Mass, within
the limits of half mile, there are living
at the present time forty widows, twenty
old maids, and eighteen younger misses
OF manageable age, while there are only
nineteen single gentlemen.
The fashionable women of London,
who latterly have worn their hair short
in obedience to the dictum requiring
them to look as much like the other sex
as possible, are dismayed by the report
that the hair dressers of the English
metropolis have entered into a conspir-
acy with the coiffeurs of Paris to re-
verse the present mode. "Ladies who
have cropped in haste," says the Pail
Mall Gazette, "Gan purchase at leisure,
and the hair-dresser's trade Will again
look up"
The white necktie has been aban-
dOned for evening dress in eastern cities,
from necessity, III fact, as house ser
wants are dressed so much like the
guests as to cause embarrassment and
confusion. At recent party in New
York a handsome waiter was discovered
flirting with a lady who supposed him
to be same guest to whom she had been
introduced, and at another party one of
the gentleman guests walked up to an
other who was standing in the dressing
room and asked, care you d waiter ?"
mo, sir! are you?" was the indignant
reOly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
Quinine as Cause of Insanity.

JJ
The father of Washington lawyer
guilty Of escapades has recently given
the following explanation of the errat ic
victim: Thinking it safe thing to do,
my son has been in the habit for moBths
of carrying quinine IN his pocket, and
taking it in small but frequent doses,
and the result is an elated, sanguine state
of mind, quite beyond the bounds of
reason. His memory is not yet impaired,
and the marked improvement already
consequent upon being deprived of the
drug, gives his friends reason to expect
complete restoration in a short time.
Meanwhile, let this case be one of many
others to teach us all that, excellent as
quinine may be IN many cases, it is, like
choral or opium or alcohol, exceedingly
dangerous to trife with" The question
which naturally arises In the mind of
the physician on readibg this, whether
quinine has ever been reported as caus-
ing insanity. There are at least two
such cases on record, both of them re-
porteu in the journal of Nervous and
Medical Diseases, July, 1881. In both,
insanity always followed upon the use of
quinine, and, from the character of the
two reported cases, it seems certain that
In some predisposed cases brief, cur
able insanity may follow upon the use of
quinine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
A Remarkable Crystal.

[From the Virginia CNey.l Enterprise, Jan. 49,
Augustus r. Richter, of La Grange,
Oregon, who was ID this city yesterday,
has a most beautiful and interesting
specimen of crystallized quartz. 1t is a
fragment, five or six ounces in weight,
of large crystal, and is as transparent
as the clearest water. Within the crys-
tai, like flies in amber, are to be seen a
dozen or more mosquitoes and small
gnats. Several of these are seen with
outstretched legs and wings, just as if
floating IN water. The crystal, of which
the specimen is a fragment, seems to
have formed in crevice in hard rock,
OF which it bears the impress on two
sides. The piece of crystal came from
the Etha Mine, Ell Dorado County, Cal,
and was found at depth OF $50 feet be-
low the surface.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31

the honor of the firm Ia every respect.
His employers heard he was IN spree
at the very first town on his route, and
after waiting four days for I'D answer to
their telegram ordering him home, re-
ceived the following: Drummer from
Boston said he could outdrink any hyena
connected with our house. Took me
four days to lay him out, but I was
bound to sustain the honor of the firm.
| go west from here"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
THE CONSTANT HEART,
BY EDMUND CLARENCE srEDmAN.

Saddle songe is out of season
When brides and lovers mate.
When soGle to sOule must pavp syeta ton
And fate be joyned with fate;
SADDLE songe and wofull thought oonfrola
This constant heart of myne,
And make newe love treason
Unto my Valentine.
HOW shall my wan HDpR utter
The summons to the dedde,-
"nere MOVIE repeate the promise swete,
20 fare my love hath hedd7
MY onely love! What musicke feet
- ohau crosse the walle that barres?
To earthe the burthen nutter.
Or SINCE it to the STAIRS.
Perchance she dweIles a epjrjta
In beautye undes troyed
Where brightest STAIRS are closely satt
Fare out beyonde the voyd;
If Margaret be risen yet
Her locke viii hither turne.
/ knowe that she viii heare il
And all my treWe heart learne
But if no resurrection
Unseale her dwellinge low,
If one so fayre must bide her there
Until the trumpe shall bIowe,
Nathesse shall Love OJtYie Despaire
whilst constant heart is mYne}
And, robbed of her perfection,
Be faithful to her shrine
At this blythe season bending.
He whisper to the clodde,
TO the chill grasse where shadows passs
And leafess branches nodde:
1nere Keepe my Watche, and erye-Alas
mat Love may not forget,
mat Joye must have swifte ending
ana life be laggard yet! -CentUyU
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
The Cheapness of Mankind

Nothing is 50 cheap III the market OF
the world as men. The very OK that is
to be slaughtered tomorrow is worth more
than man, for he can be eaten after be
is killed. The most worthless thing on
the face Of the earth is the human crea-
ture, whom religion calls "the child of
God" Whole continents can be sunk
and never missed, It is true, that there
is. Incidentally, value attached to men.
They are good to make nations, armies,
and churches. The worth of man can
not be estimated until you determine
the worth of immortality. Measure man
not by what he is, but by what he is tc
be when he is freed from all the bonds
which bind him here.-R w. Beecher.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 81, 1883.
A SUMMER PILGRIMAGE.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.

10 kneel before some sanity shrine,
TO breathe the health of airs divine,
Or battle where sacred rivers flow,
The cowled and turbaned pilgrims go.
[, too, palmer, take, as they
With staff and scallop-shell, my way
To feel. from burdening cares and ills,
The strong uplifting of the hills.
The years are many since, at first,
For dreamed-of wonders all sthirst,
I saw on Winnepesaukee fall
The shadow of the mountain wall.
All! where are they who sailed with me
The beautiful island-studded sea2
And am he whose keen surprise
Flashed out from such unclOuded eyes?
Still, when the sun of summer burns,
My longing for the hills returns;
And northward, leaving at my back
The warm vale of the Merrimac,
/ 60 to meet the winds of morn.
Blown down the hll-gaps, mountain-born,
Breathe scent of pines, and satisfy
The hunger of a lowland eye.
Again 1 see the day decline
Along a ridged horizon line;
Touching the hill-tops, as a nun
Her beaded rosary, sinks the sun,
One lalse lies golden, which shall soon
BE silver in the rising moon;
And one, the crimson Of the skies
And mountain purple multiplies.
With the untroubled quiet blends
The distance-sOftened voice of friends;
The girls light laugh no discord brings
10 the low song the pine tree sings;
And. not unwelcOme, comes the hail
Of bOyhOod from his nearing sail.
The human presence breaks no spell,
And sunset still is miracle
CAM as the hour, methinks feel
sense of worship DER me steal;
Nor that of satyr-charming Pan,
No cult OF Nature shaming Man,
Not Beauty's self. but that which lives
Aud sdines through all the wells it weayes--
Soul OF the mountain, lake and wood,
Their Witness to the Eternal GoCdl
o gems of sapphire, granite set!
O bills that charmed horizons fret!
/ know how fair your morns can break,
In rosy light on isle and lake;
How over wooded slopes can run
The MONDAY play Of cloud and sun
And evening droop her orifamme
Of gold and red in still AsQuam.
The summer moons may round again.
And careless feet those hills profane:
These sunsets waste on vacant eyes
The lavish splen dor of the skies;
Fashion and folly, misplaced here.
Sigh for their natural atmosphere,
And travelled pride the outlook scorn
OF lesser lights than matterhorn;
But let US dream that hill aud sky
Of unseen beauty prOphesy;
And IN these tinted lakes behold
The tralhng Of the raiment fold
Of that which, still Guiding gaze,
Allures to upper-tending ways,
Whose footprints make wherever found.
Our common earth holy ground.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31

GOVERNOR BATE, of Tennessee. was
left an orphan in early life. He served
as clerk on steamboat between Nash
vile and New Orleans; enlisted and
fought with honor through the Mexican
war; at it's close studied law, and prac.
ticed till the late war began, when he
enlisted and became distinguished sol,
der
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31

A YOUNG politician explained the TAT
tered condition of his trousers to his
father by stating that he was sitting
under an apple tree enjoying himself
when a farmers dog came along and
contested his seat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31

The bird-hunt of the Selma Gala. gun
club, which took place few days ago,
resulted in the death of about 9. 600
birds, besides several deer and hundreds
of squirrels.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-08-15
Ladies Gambling at Cards.

The great crowds have not yet begun
their rush for Coney Island, but they
will begin in a very few days. The
Sheepshead Bay races have drawn enor-
nous crowds on certain days; among
them a great many ladies. Ladies are
fond of racing, and they don't object at
winning a little pin money by buying
French pools. / find that women are
fond of games of chance, from racing to
poker, and they are apt to have pretty
good luck, for some of them are very
clever card players, and they don't play
for penny points, either. A young lady
of my acquaintance was invited to a
lunch party at an acquaintance's home
not long ago, and after lunch it was
proposed that they play a little game OF
cards. My friend supposed that the
game would be "old maid" or "casino''
| or some other of these old-fashioned Ia
| dy's games; but bless your heart, 1t was
poker they proposed. She didn't know
the game. So they substituted whist,
and before the afternoon was over she
had lost ten dollars to her hostess. She
thought, of course, that it was a joke,
and said: II am in your debt $40, L be-
lieve; oh, very well, I'll pay you when
next we meet Il hope that you will
said the hostess; "ladies shoulo be very
particular about paying debts OF honor,
NV friend discharged the obligation anc
then broke off the friendship.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-08-15
THE RIVER PRESS
FLOATING

us the bowling of a dog always fol-
lowed by death?n asked a little girl of
her father. "Notalways, my dear; some
times the man that shoots at the dog
misses him. was the parents reply.
An Altoona man claims to have seen
a veritable hoop snake rear that place.
1t is strongly suspected that he devoted
considerable time to inspecting the con-
'hoop."
There are people who profess to be un-
able to decide where to go to spend a va
cation. This is generally pretence.
Such persons usually do not mean to go,
but wish others to think they could If
they would.
"What shall T write about?O asked a
young reporter of the managing editor.
.Oh, write about the first thing that
comes to hand,n was the brief order.
The scribe drew pay that night for an
article on dOor-knObs.
A self-acting sofa just large enough for
two. has been invented. If properly
wound up it will begin to ring a warn
ing bell lust before 10 o'clock. At
lott splits apart, and while one-half
carries the daughter up stairs, the other
half kicks her young man out Of doors.
They will come high but people must
have them.
Somebody put a small mud-turtle,
about the size of a silver dollar, in a bed
at a New Jersey hotel, and the stranger
who was assigned to that room, on pre-
pairing to retire, caught sight OF 1t. lie
at once resumed his clothes, remarklng:
II expected to have a pretty lively night
of it, but if they're as big as That dont
propose to get in with EN-"
A youth who had for two or three
years been paying his addresses to a S2o,
900 Brooklyn girl discovered the otne]
day that there was a rival in the field
He thereupon sat down and wrote
Darling, I have advanced over 500
margins and can do no more. How doe
the deal stand?u The next day brough
him an answer which read: Margin:
exhausted and deal closed. Better IN
vest in a Sc, 900 girl.
The train fiend started on his rount
through the cars and stopped snort De
fore a mild-eyed granger with hay see'
in his hair. Then he uplifted his volc
in a stave of secular melody:
peanuts, apples, bananas, popcorn
Popcorn, bananas, apples, peanuts
Peanuts, APP
"Git eout!n shrieked the farmer. D.
you take me for a menagerle? Wh.
don'tyou tackle some o. them ere youni
monkeys in the other carr"
Cause grinned the boy. 1--WE 60
orders to serve the rang 'tangs and gol
illas first. Want anything to-day ~
The anthropoid silenced the laughte
by treating all hands to peanuts.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-08-15
The Tale of q Country Sharper.

He drove a policeman into a doorway
on Woodbridge street Sunday evening
and began:
about two hours ago a cadaverous
woodenhead might have been seen
gawping at the river from the foot OF
Randolph street. He didn't know
enough to chew gum. That was me-"
"You, eh? WellW
"Well, he gawped and gawped, and
he knew he had $40 in his pocket, Il
he chuckled and tickled and said he had
come to town to look around and see
things and go homeand be a lion. That
was me again"
II see.n
"He lust fairly ached to have a bunko
man come up and slap him on the back
and call him Josepheus Eastwood, and
ask how pa and ma and the children all
got along. He itched to have a three
card man tickle him under the chin and
call him a red fox from Ionia county,
and open up his little game. His bones
all screamed out for the man with the
bogus gold pieces, and he drew down his
left eye as he thought how they'd take
him for a hay-stack and get sold. lie
was an internal idiot. That's me-"
"Yes.n
ell, DIS ne was oUdIuAAS IhSAS A
feeling how sharp and cute and cunning
he was, up comes a mar who was breath
ing hard and looking scarf, n says ne
he to me in a whisper: You look like
a friend to the unfortunate. ! can see
by the cut Of your face that L can trust
you. / have wounded a man who had
insulted my wife, and | must skip 70
Canada to escape arrest. L have. no
money, but here is a hundred dollar
bond. Lend me 500 and keep the BOND
until T see you.' That is what he said.
The doubIe-iinted idiot from the coun-
try took it all in like a boy gulplng
down sulphur and 'lasses. That's me
some more.0.
Pm listening" ,
1.-THE greenhorn was fiattered and
tickled. He saw a chance to make 9oU
on the bond. The bond proof, back &C
ton, copper-riyeted agricultural peach
blossom figured as how led cash lhat
bond tomorrow and skip, and as now
the man in haste to reach Canada would
never find him, and as how them SlOO
would buy a yoke of oxen, and SO ne
passed over his greenbacks and pocketed
the bond. Yes, the bald-headed cross,
eyed, bow-legged turnip patch ala ina
Very thing. That's me to a dot"
us it possible?"
"And here's the bond-Worthless
And here / am-strapped! Ana some,
Where up town is the sharper-ticklee
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-08-15
Eastern Capital For Mining.

Notwithstanding the many splendid
fortunes that have been made through
investments of eastern capital in the
mines of Colorado (by the men who Ju-
diciously sold) that peculiar class OF IN
vestments seems to be losing favor some
how. So high a financial authority rs
the Wall street NeWs assures us that only
the other day a stranger made his ap-
nearance in the office of a Baltimore
man and presented a letter of introduce
tion to the effect that he was Mr.. Blank
Of Denver, who had come east to see
about organizing a company to develop
. silver mine. The Baltimorean read
the letter and then stood up and called:
"James! james,"
James appeared at the door with a
broom in one hand and a waste-basket
in the other, and the gentleman CON
tinued:.
thames, 90 down to the night-Watch-
MANS office and borrow his shotgun"
sExcuse me, sir; but-but-, STAN
mared the silver man, reaching for his
hatNabut is this something new?"
"Just wait a moment" replled Tie
gentleman, as he walked to a 1ro.
beg pardon-but, excuse me-. you
knoW-see you again-good mornings,
gasped the Spectator, as he G OUT,
and went down stairs like q man VINO
expected every instant to feel a charge
Of bird shot ripping the pickets OF his
back fence.
Singular that a man with a silver
mine should go east to be as easily dis
couraged as that.