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Year: 1869

THE SHEPHERD Boy AND THE WOLF is |
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"A shepherd boy who tended his flock OF
SOuthdowns not far from village, used to get
very weary OF so idle ite-nOthing to do but
to sit around holding his crook Ia shepherd
wouldn't be much without his crOok-yOu al
ways see them in the picture books and
watching lot of sheep grazing. lie sighed
for the activity of the tOwn-said he had rath-
er tend bar than tend sheep. One day after
reading the Ledger through twice, and exhaus-
ting all other means of recreation, he thought
he would have little fun with the villagers,
so he raised the cry Of "wolfl wolff" ust to
give the boys a start as he expressed it.


The trick worked exceedingly well. The
fire. bells were rung, the military and fire de-
partmeGt. turned out with music and all
marched in procession to meet the wolf, head
ed by the Mayor, City Council and city Off
cials, representatives of the press, and small
posse Of Capt. Rufhn's police. When they
reached the spot the naughty little shepherd
| boy was rolling on the grass and laughing
enough to split, yelling, "Oh what guy
Oh what a guy!' Then the procession
marched back again in good order. The next
day he tried it again with the same result, and
it did seem as if the monotony of his rather
set-entary life was to be relieved by Fourth
OF July procession every day.


The third day a wolf that had escaped out of
I Forepaugh's s Menagerie actually arrived. The
boy shouted and yelled in good earnest, but
there wern't any fre-bells rung; the military
didn't turn out (they hardly ever do turn out
very well) and the villagers, pulling down a
corner of the eye remarked mot for Joseph. y
So the wolf had a soft thing of it, and he de-
lberately set to work and reduced those sheer
to mutton, regardless of the expostulstions O


young Shep. This fable shows the danger O


liars trying to tell the truth"
Year: 1869

Oh dear me


Am ready to cry,
And 1t sometimes seems though should die :
Nobody knows


The number of woes
That beset such maiden ~ [.


They call me fir.,


And try to convert
Me into hateful contemplate prude;
If they don't mind.


think they will find
That Ill soon teach them what to conclude.
As for the beauK.


Heaven only knows
Why they seem SO determined to persecute me;
What under the sun


l ever have done
To make them act 50, can't see.


II they ask me TO ride


Or to walk by their side.
Whenever think they re about to propose.
manage the thing


Contrivins to bring
The subject at once to q close.


But then il l wait


1t may be too late
For men are but ackle at best $50 th Ysay1
think Ill decide


tOh dear how I'm triedI
To accept one without more delay.
Now John will be here
Tonight without tear.
1t will be very easy to just tell him "yes -
But his hair is so light,
And his whiskers too bright
III wait while longer, guess!
md she sang Good-by john" and mot for Joe.''
Year: 1869

Daniel Webster once wrote, after continued
provocation, to an editor who accused him of
not paying his debts: 1t is true that have
not always paid my debts punctually, and that
/ owe money. One cause of this is that have
not pressed those who owe me for pay. AS
an instance of this l enclose your fathers note
made to me thirty years ago, for money lent to
him to educate his boys.
Year: 1869

A man locked his wife into an upper room.
and, wishing to aggravate her still further,
sent his son up with bone. The youth inno-
Gently brought it, and said, Mother, father
sent this up, and says there's a bone for you
to pick" The gentle mother replied, Take
it back and tell him l say he is not your faith.
or, and that that's bone for him to pick. D."
Year: 1869

Power OF HABIT.-Professiona habit seems
entirely to change the character Of many men
for the time being and your model of benevo-
Ience and forbearance at home is eften severe
and harsh in his business dealings, abroad.
Probably the tiger is placable in his den-,per-
hans uxorious; and, doubtless, the laughing
hyena, though morose and sardonic while for
aging for carrion, is jolly in the midst Of his
family.
Year: 1869

Dickens says: II have known vast quantities
of nonsense talked about bad men not looking
you in the face. Don't trust that converse ional
idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out OF
countenance any day in the week, If there IN
anything to be got by it..
Year: 1869

Look Our FOR THE CARs.-We
heard a rumor on the street yesterday
that enough iron had been purchased
by Ben. Holladay, for the East side
Railroad, TO complete twenty miles
of the road. We took the trouble to
ascertain what foundation there was
to the report, and learned from gen
tleman who does kyaolo, that 1900 tons
of railroad iron aoas purchased, and
that work would soon commence, and
also, that the first twenty miles ofthe
road will be completed by the first Of
january next. We will soon sec the
iron horse on the track. Let it come;
the sooner the better.-He9d5d.
Year: 1869

WASHINGTON, June l1.-Rccent adj
vices from Cuba state that difficulties be-
tween the Spanish officials and the organ
lied volunteers is on the increase. The
latter have now almost entire control OF
the government Of the island. Such is
their power that they have forced the
Acting Captain General to countenance
the requisition Of Dulce on the home
government for reinforcement of 500
regular troops.
Year: 1869

Some keepers say that cayenne pepper should
be mixed with the food of fowls to promote lay
ing, while others assert that it is too artificial
a stimulant and keeps the birds in as bad
condition as medicine-fed' persons are. Let
US inquire whether 1t is as unnatural as might
at first appear. Wild gallinaceous birds of all
species season their diet plentifully with pung-
ent aromatic herbs and buds. The fine flavor
of the partridge's flesh is owing to its highly
spieed forest fare, such as wintergrecn and
checkerberries So with other kinds of game.
Domesticated birds have lost their peculiar
game flavor, because their Diet is comparative
ly fiat and inspid, thong h nutritious. Audubon,
studying the habits of the wild turkey tells
how the mother bird plucks the buds of the
spice-bush and gives them to her young. We
have for number of years given pepper or
something of the kind, mixed in small quanti-
ties with the soft food OF chickens and grown
fowls, summer and winter, believing that it
makes the diet not unnatural, but more nat
ural; and that health, as we'll as laying, is pro-
NOTED by it, African cayenne is the cheapest
condiment; but ground mustard and ginger
may be occasionally substituted, for variety,
and'part of the time no seasoning should be
used. Boiling water should be turned upon
pepper before using, so as to make it less con-
centrated, the pepper tea, sediment and all,
being stirred into the meal, a heaping tea
spoonful of the dry pepper to peck A little
salt should be added. To be sure, it is said
that salt is poisonous to hens, because 'they
are sometimes killed by eating great deal of
it. But considerable quantity of salt exists
in the bones of all animals 1t is agreed that
it promotes the thrift of cattle, sheep, and
swine; and as for birds, it is proved to be es-
pecially necessary for pigeons, a tribe living
on very similar food to that needed by fowls.
But we would give it sparingly, sailing the
dough rather less than most persons do their
own food.


Charcoal is sometimes eaten by fowls with
great avidity. 1t should always be kept by
them, pounded to the size of kernels of grain,
for the varying needs of animals direct their
appetite, and therefore what they crave will be
good for them. AS all birds that live prinsi-
pally upon the ground swallow much earth
with their food, it probably aids digestion
and some recommend that the chicken dough
should be thrown upon the ground. 1t upon
a fresh spot of earth, we have no objection
but filthy, tainted soil can not improve it.
There is a common tradition expressed in the
saying, Hen Swon't do well unless they can
get at the ground" and we know that cattle,
after being stabbed all winter, sometimes eat
fresh earth greediy. and a sod is'given each
fattening calf to lick for the improvement Of
his appetite When the ground is frozen, il
is our custom to add trihe of clean loan OF
subsoi to the soft feed of fowls. They will
pick out much earthly matter from pile Of
coal al-ashes.-He0rth and Home.
Year: 1869

A correspondent comes to the defense of wo-
men against the current notion that they are
peculiarly addicted to gossip, alleging that in
a country, grocery store, among barrels of mo-
lasses and piles of salt fish, more gossip is talk
ed by men in one evening than in all the hous-
es in the town.
Year: 1869

NUTRITIoN.-The matter of properly select
ing and preparing food, and its judicious va
ration, is one which does not receive the at
tention that it ought The great chemist and
Psychologist MageDdie, rnadesom interesting
experiments on the effects of certain kinds of
food. He feed geese on gum only, and they
died on the sixteenth day; he fed some on
starch only, and they died on the twenty fourth
day he fed others on boiled white of eggs
only, and they died on the forty sixth day he
fed others on the three kinds mixed together,
and they fattened instead of dying. Here is
proof of the necessity Of not only varying but
mixing food as much as possible, in order to
supply the waste and necessities of every part
of the system. In the first instance, gum
afforded a nourishment similar to starch and
sugar, serving to sustain animal heat, but not
to restore the waste of the tissues, on account
of the absence of nitrogen. In the second
instance, the starch served to keep up the
animal heat, and, being more highly organ
lied than gum, enabled the birds to maintain
existence a few days longer. The want. of
nitrogen, however, proved fatal, os in the case
of gum food. Those fed on the white of eggs
alone had the nitrogen afforded by the albu-
men, but eventually died from want of supply
OF animal heat capable of being yielded by the
starch. Those fed on the three kinds of food
mixed not only survived, but throve because
all the wants of the system were supplied.
Year: 1869

THE LEGIsLATURE.-The doctors will be as
much surprised as disappointed at the singular
fate of their anatomical bill. After it went
through the Senate, and afterwards with slight
notifications through the House, it was sup
posed to be perfectly secure. But when it
went back to the Senate for action on the
House amendments, it was caught up by one
of those mysterious counter r-currents that
sometimes prevail in legislative bodies, and
was hurried to oblivion by the way of indefin-
lite postponement


1t will be seen with qualification that bills
embracing two of the reforms in our educa-
tional system suggested by Superintendent
johnson are passing quietly through the
House, and we have no doubt that they will be
completely successful These are the bills es-
tablishing comfy supervision and county in
stitutes. We regard these measures as of the
greatest possible importance. Among the re-
forms suggested by the Superintendent the
Committee on Education seems to have made
a wise selection. We can wait for the aboli-
tion of the district system (not long, however),
and for compulsory attendance and uniformi-
ty of text books. But for the two corner stones
Of an adequate educational system, viz, an
struction and inspection, we cannot safely wait
longer.


The gentleman who desired to have our Sen
ators and Representatives in Congress instruct
ed to vote for the repeal of the tenure of office
act, gave occasion for the good joke of refer
ring the subject to the next Legislature. Con-
gress will no doubt wait for the action of our
statesmen at Augusta next winter before COM
ing to any conclusion on the subject. 1t will
be seen by our report this morning that the
Rutland Railroad question is agitating the
House.
Year: 1869

WHAT WILL THEY Do WITH THEM p
The short and simple announcement that each
Senator has six tick cts of admission to the
Senate galleries on Inauguration day and each
Representative two of the same, and further
more that "the demand for tickets is very great,
has world of suggestiveness. How these
honorable members must be tormented by Gu
rious constituents, to each one of whom they
are solely indebted for their nominations.
How their slumbers will be disturbed by inn
Fortunate people who will come to them a
midnight to torment them. How many pretty
girls will try the effect of their blandishment
upon them in the hope to secure the coveted
pasteboard. But then, the honorable mem
bers will endure even this for the sake of serv
ing their country.
Year: 1869

ENTERTAINMENTs.- The grand velocipede
rink, one eighth of a mile in extent, at the
Portland and Rochester depot, foot of Myrtle
street, is to be inaugurated tonight at z
o'clock. The Forest City Band will be in at
tendance to enliven the occasion with music,
and three elegant prizes will be offered for the
quickest half-mile time made Seats will be
reserved for ladies. We have no doubt there
will be great throng.


The grand Calico Dress Ball, given by the
Ex-4's and postponed from last Friday night
on account of the weather, will take place this
evening at Lancaster Hall. Everyone knows
what good times the Oceans get up and will
be on hand upon this occasion


The Spiritualists have another of those ia
vorite Sociables tonight at Congress Hall. A
mere render of the fact is sufficient.


The grand Inauguration Ball of the aBlues"
at City Hall and that of the Forest City Band
at Ian caster Hall on Thursday night. we
shall mention more particularly tomorrow.
Year: 1869

FIRE IN FERRY VLLAGE.-Monday night
many of our citizens were attracted by bright
light in the direction of Ferry VILLAGE They
supposed it was large bonfire, but it proved
to be confiagration Of some wooden sheds of
small value owned by Mr.. Spear of this city.
Part of them were unoccupied and the re-
mainder were used by Mr.. Grant as a rubber
cleaning establishment. They were burnt
down. The fire caught during one of the pro.
cesses for heating the rubber.
Year: 1869

THE CHRISTIAN MIRROR entirely misappre.
hends the meaning of our little discourse on
social science and capital punishment. But
it's no matter. There be those who saw the
point very easily, and it was for them and not
for the Mirror we wrote.
Year: 1869

The Safes made by the Steam Safe Company
for the new rooms of the Eliot Bank, corner of
State and Devonshire streets, Boston, embody
the highest results of the art of safe making,
and fully meet all demands for protection
against fire and burglars, They are much ad-
mired
Year: 1869

Average temperature Thursday. ay................s4k


FOUND IN rHK wArEH.--The body OF an unknown
man was found floating In the water at the foot OF
aeyenty.nfh street, North river Deceased was about
sortynve years Of age and dressed In black coat and
Year: 1869

and true in his belief. His blood
FASTENED the inevitable conflict,
which has freed the nation of its
greatest sin. And we cannot better
close this article than by quoting
the last words he ever wrote, and
which, read in the light of subse-
quent history, sound like prophecy :


81 am now convinced that the
great iniquity which hangs over this
country cannot. be purged without
great bloodshed"
Year: 1869

WHAT GREELEY THINKs.-The New YORK
7,.;b,,uc thus comments on the final discharge
of Jefferson Davis as follows:


The ex-Presdent of the Contederacy is now
freed from even semblance of prosecution or
trial We do not expect to hear the clamor
now that much simpler and more evidently
just steps in the same cause evoked some time
ago; and vet we fail to perceive why, if this
thing were to be done, it might not better have
been done without the prolonged incarceration
and the other chapters of the discreditable
history.
Year: 1869

Men OF MARK-Of the 49, ,268 registered
voters of Louisiana S6,991 make their mark.
A trooly Republican government is govern
ment based on ignorance. And the men who
have given suffrage to these totally ignorant
Southern negroes are the very men who insist
that IN the North, with white men, intelligence
and education should be the first essential re-
ouircment TO suffrage!
Year: 1869

JUDGE BARNARD-the only member of the
New York bench who dared to risk his life by
beginning the fight against the ruffianism which
rules that city-is the one for whose impeach-
ment Greeley has been bowling the past year.
Year: 1869

A BosToN servant-gal' who had "a fol-
lower" told the lady with whom she sought a
situation that she preferred that her beau
should be kept in ignorance of the fact that
she was doing housework, as he supposed she
was " boarding"
Year: 1869

Coop LICk-The New York Erening Post,
of late date, says:


The Tribune believes in General Grant all
over; it believes in him so hard that it has for
gotten all it ever said against him; it believes
in him in such fierce manner that 1T will
scarcely suffer any one else to believe in hun.
But it will not hear of the repeal of the Tenure
of Office Act.
Year: 1869

were seen in this distance, presenting al
most every variety of natural scenery


The geological formation of the canon con-
sists principally of limestone and sand,
stoue Granite was found only at three
places, and in limited amount. No discov-
cries of precious metals were made, and no
indications of gold or silver were found in
the bed of the river. One section OF the
canon was found to consist of very fine
and beautifully polished marble, which is
at present entirely inaccessible. The
country traversed is barren beyond de-
scription, and is pronounced by Colonel
Powell not susceptible of cultivation,
even by irrigation.


Colonel Powell pronounces the reported
adventures of the man White who fur
nished the data for the article in Ltppan


cotts Magazine on the Grand Canon of the
Colorado, a complete fiction. No lives
were lost in the expedition, but all the in
struments except one set were destroyed
or capsized; and the only provisions
which the party had when they came out
consisted of twenty pounds of flour, com
pletely saturated with water.-C Chicago
Tribune, Sel)t 81.
Year: 1869

MINE ancient pedal friend, last farewell!
So many days we've footed it together
The lane of life-in fair and stormy weather,
Mine eyes we'll nigh their lid dykes overswsll.
will remember when thou did st cncase
My neither limbs with pressure warm and tight
And many a corny twinge, from morn till night
Evinced the ardency of thy embrace.
Soon, like the love of some long-married wife,
Thy grasp, If not so strong, was still as true,
And pleasanter; and as we grew in life,
Thou vert as gentle as a plant shoe;
And while on thee / tramplcd every day,
To shield me thou did ct wear thy very sole away
Though despise the slander-monger's art,
And scoPn the wretch who blackens the fair fame
OF one whose richest fortune is his name,
Crhe wretch whose steel goes deeper than the


heart)


Yet it has been my daily wont, | own,


To black thy face until the skin has shone
With ebon glow as lustrous as the hue


That forms the charm of Guincas native breed.
But twas not that ] hated thee, indeed;
Lprized thee so, that when thy sole broke thro,
And let in water, twas my special heed
man Of avis thy gaping wounds should sew;
And hing pangs athwart my pocket shoot
To part with thee at last, worn and faithful


boot
Year: 1869

On the night of the 11th inst, baby
of the feminine gender, about six weeks
old, was found on the front door step. of
the glass warehouse Of Messrs. VIM.
Frank 81 Son, Pittsburgh. The little
founding was conveyed to the house of
neighbor until permanent provision could
be made for it. The affair was soon noised
about, and the child became an object of
great curiosity. 1t was very beautiful,
and the habiliments in which it had been
thus rudely presented to the public were
of very fine quality, suggesting an aristo-
cratic origin for the infant Rich and
poor, old and young, male and female,
married and single people, all became in
terested in the little waif, and all were
eager to adopt it. No one asked "Who
was her father? Who was her mother?"
but all were anxious to take the position
of father or mother. The interest being
so great, it was finally determined by the
temporary caretaker, to put the little one
up at auction, and sell her to the highest
bidder. This plan will be acted upon, and
the terms are cash-the money to be a
bonus for her benefit, to be placed in the
bank at compound interest, and to be
drawn when the girl arrives at the age of
eighteen years An interesting time was
anticipated at the sale, and the beautiful
foundling will doubtless bring a fabulous
price-Erc7tGnge
Year: 1869

tered a dentists office at Virginia City,
Neb., the other day to have her teeth
filled. She was seated in the operating
chair, and parting pair of rich and tempt
ing lips, displayed two rows of ivory
white and glistening teeth. The doctor
couldn't understand it, and told her that
she had no teeth which required filling
and none to be extracted. She couldn't
understand much English, and the doctor
don't speak Spanish, and so the converse
ton grew lively by signs alone. Again
did he search, but with no better success.
He began to get excited. At last she
rushed from the Office and soon returned
with a lady of fashion, whose front teeth
disclosed the gold The dear thing only
wanted to be in the fashion.


A MRS ROBINSON, living about six
miles from Indianapolis, recently displayed
great heroism in saving her child from
drowning The child was playing near
an open cistern containing over six feet of
water, and fell in. The mother, alone in
the house, heard the splash and subsequent
screams. She went to the cistern and saw
the child floating on the water, and then
ran for ladder which she found had been
misplaced. She again fastened to the
cistern, and finding that the child had
sunk, plunged to the bottom, and after
two or three unsuccessful attempts at
length brought up the child, apparently
lifeless. Her cries had attracted neigh
Dor, who took the child and finally sue
ceeded in rescuing the heroic woman.
Both mother and child were in little time
fully restored.


THE Cape Cod Gazette relates the fol-
lowing instance of pluck and persistence
Con the afternoon Of the gale, two young
men of West Sandwich, named Gibbs,
went out in the bay fishing, in dory.
The gale coming upon them carried away
their sail and upset their boat, they cling
ing to the wreck One of them, who
could swim, divested himself of his boots,
took an oar, and struck out for the shore,
which was about q mile distant, telling
the other, who could not swim, to cling to
the wreck, and he would save him. After
reaching the shore, he constructed raft
composed of several rails, which he Sc
cured with his pants by tearing them into
strips for the purpose, launched it and
started to the rescue of his companion.
| When within few rods of him the raft
| was dashed to pieces He clung to one
of the rails, told his companion to hold on
| to the boat, and struck out for the shore.
He then constructed another launch, with
boards, which he secured by tearing his
drawers into strips, and a few nails. He
started for the wreck, and when within a
short distance of the boat the raft was
again demolished by the waves. He now
took to the wreck, cut the anchor-rope
and the wind having abated, drifted ashore
where the boat was righted and bailed
out. They then divided clothes and
started for home"