Year: 1874

Sharon.

 The weather of last week has thoroughly humbled the Doctor; he has candidly promised to have mercy upon us by proph esYing no more, having been driven to the conclusion that it is not his forte. Now look out for spring. The visages of the farmers heightened fully three inches last week as the snow storms followed each other in such quick succession, and in fact l might say gloomy countenances were universal. l will make single exception however in the case of very estimable lady friend who looked upon the wintry storms so philosophically, and seemed to draw so much comfort therefrem, that l ventured to enquire the reason, and re- ceived in reply the following information : She had caused some strawberry plants to be set out in her garden early in April, and says she, I expect them to bear abundantly the coming summer. for the poor things will never know but that they were trans planted last autumn I have no doubt about the correctness of her views, and I confidently expect to eat some of those strawberries......I fear owe you an apolo- gy MT. Editor. for not sending a few items of news last week which I had carefully laid away in my mind, and was just on the point of inditing when was interrupted by an event as strange ss it was memen- tous. A paper was thrust into my hands in which was an article of about column e length headed Sharon I laid my pencil aside and perused that article, but failed to comprehend it; re-read it with a similar result; I read it backward, sidewise, diag- onally and each line alternately, but be- came more bewildered than ever; but at last,as in the depths of despair was about to give it up, chanced to glance at the signature and little light dawned upon my mind. waded through 1t once more and l think Understood it. I believe I can say without fear of contradiction, that it announced to the world the fact that Shar on has six street lamps. But how utterly insignificant and diminutiYe it made me feel as compared my own unvarnished productions with that sublime conglomera- tion of euphonious sentences how sighed for the genius of my unknown friend that enabled him to annihilate whole Web. stsr's unabridged in the description of six street lan ps. I meditated long as to whether l would throw up the sponge with out struggle, when my combatatlve dis poAtion became aroused. I called to mind that three more street lamps were soon to be erected. and arose in my wrath and vowed that would not be outdone if I had to throw two Worcester's unabridped into the breech. Fired with an ardent zeal to outstrip my unknown connection. I went for those three street lamps in this wise: Reliable information from an in controvertibly trustworthy origin has been publicly enunciated, and has infringed up- on the tympana of my auricular organs. that three of our enterprising citizens have contracted for, and will speedily cause to be erected upon the grand plaza in close proximity to their respective residences. each, one street luminary of great power, whose combined action will shed such an eRulgence of radiant light upon the siuu- ous and tortuous ways of this metopoiis. that our unknown friend may perform his nocturnal wanderings without apprehen- sion of colliding with the umbrageous elms which beautify the boulevard without fear of stumbling over and disturbing the tran qull slumbers of any of the bovine species or the graminiyorous genus which, uncon. scious of wrong, may have wooed gentle sleep upon our spacious sidewalks, and without the dread of troubling the placid waters which gently ripple beneath Good wins bridge, by unceremoniously deposit ing himself thereinto, o,and-and-there. Pm stuck; ingloriously stuck. My feyered brain refused to perform it's functions Worcester curtlY declined to give me aid. and l retired to my couch disconsolate and vanquished man; and the horrors of that night no pen can describe. Animated street lamps and dictionaries in diabolical and fantastic. shapes danced about and up- on me; frowned hideously, and pointed long, pony fingers at me as if in solemn mockery at my discontinue. IaToke at dawn wiser if not better man, and nev- CT again shall invoke so unequal con- lest no more shall court the sublime l willingly accord to my unknown friend the laurel wreath accompanied with my blessing. .and will conclude as should have begun by the simple statement that three new street lamps are about to be erected. Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Knight, Dr. Powers and L. Vanalstyne.

 HUMILITY.