Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 January 1869 — Page 2

Gra«l«y on Sh»k»pe»re. .v jn his "Kecollections jif a JBufcy Life/' Greeley tlius discourses: "Did Shakspeare know himself the intellectual prodigy he was, and apprehend that the lines dashed off with such facile rapidity, would_be greedily read With delighted awe and wonder on the isles of the Southern main, far beyond the African cape, which in his "day bounded in that direction the known world? I find.in his writing the presence of amazing power, but not the consciousness of it. Nay, I cannot kelp inspecting that, had he known how great a man he was and is, he would have refrained from acting and talking often like a little one. -The world has known men who profoundly esteem themselves great, and justified that consciousness by every '•act of their lives. I could not dared to have asked Michael Angelo to "build me a tavern stable out of the crumbling walls of a desert monastery or fortress I should have cowered before the glance of his eye as he turned upon me with the question, "Do you think I was sent into the world to bnild stables T' Yet I would not have hesitated—would you ?—to ask Shakspeare to write me an epitlialium, a monody, a pasquinado, an epigram and should not have feared rebuke or refusal if the price named was sufficient. For I see the man working and delving from day to day, like any journeyman among us, with immense courage certainly, and capacity and consciousness of power, but still working up the ordinary playhouse rubbish into his grand, airy, new structures, as any skilled mason might fill up the centre of his wall with the commonest brick, until the difference between him and the other playwrights seems one of the degree purely, and not of kind. But reading him thoughtfully, I am arrested by passage after passage evincing an almost divine faculty—a faculty in which I discern nothing of the playwright, but rather the inspiration of the soul-wrapt prophet, who looks through all things for to him the universe is without opacity and past, present, and future or mere lines of demarcation across the great plain lying lucid and level before him.

This man's nature is a riddle which I, very palpably, cannot read so I turn away perplexed and overmastered, to resume the thread of my discussion. If he were always unappreciated I could comprehend, though I might not accurately measure him if he were only a clever playhouse poet I could more easily and surely measure him but his starry flights and paltry jokes, his celestial penetration and his contemptible puns—form together a riddle entirely too hard for *me. I read him I admire him but

I do not know him and all the commentators and critics serve only to render darkness more visible. My darkness I freely admit, but is it not also in some part their own

A CURIOUS habit of the "gordius," or, as the boys call it, the "horsehair snake," is given by Professor AgassLz, as follows:

Soon after being hatched in the water, and while mere little transparent bodies, they creep into the legs of grasshoppers, and burrow their way into the abdominal cavity, where they undergo further development as worms, sometimes growing to be two or three inches in length before they are freed. When they have grown st long that the grasshopper becomes distended by the size of its strange inhabitant, it bursts, the worm is released, and returns to its aquatic life. A gentleman living in Yonkers writes to us that his little girl recently pulled a gordius six inches long, and another somewhat shorter, from the body of a cricket. They seemed to be protruding like horns. The cricket hopped away, apparently as well as ever. Here are a few facts, perhaps for the naturalists —JV. Y. Tribune.

The Sandusky

says: A

prize of two dollars was recently offered to any member of the Connecticut Teachers' Institute who would write and spell correctly the wox*ds in the following sentence: "It is an agreeable sight to witness the unparalclled embarrassment of an harnessed pcdler, attempting to guage the symmetry of a peeled onion, which a Bybil has stabbed with a poinard, regardless of the inuendoes of the lilies of cornelian hue." Thirty-eight teachers competed for the prize, but not one was nucccssful.

A Texas subscriber to a Boston paper apologizes for delay in sending hie subscription, saying that he could get 11

currency—nothing but specie

going in those parte. A omzEH Brunswick, Maine, has within three years taken $900 worth of squashes from a little more than an acre of [and.

CRAWFORDSV

HARDWARE.

A a

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Hard* TimeS*COTttF"Agafn No More, for

Is seUing ias much Hardware now for $i a (greenback as ftoiild have" Ibeen bought for a Gold Dollar when Wheat sold at 75c and Corn for 20c per bu.

CHEER UP!

it "Ot 3J

OBEGO'S MA1IIIOTH

Is filled from cellar to garret with 'A

N E W O O S

Everybody goes to Gregg's

To get good Bargains and go Goods at

THE MAMMOTH.

Coil Chains, Log Chains,

Trace Chains, Halter Chains, Dog Chains, Jack Chains, very cheap at

GREGG'S MAMMOTH!

For Everything, Anything and All Things

Kept in a first-clas* Hardware Store,

GO TO GRECO'S

And you will "go away rejoicing" with good Goods at Good Bargains. 1

Sam is All Alive!

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Gregg's Mammoth is still Headquarters for Hardware!

The very bait

CHOPPING AXES,

[Very cheap, at

GREGG'S MAMMOTH!

jXl Mill Saws, X-cut Saws, RipSawer, 5© Panel flaws, Wood Saws, Hand Saws, Tenon Saws, Back Saws, ^5 Keyhole Saws—the largest stock ever exhibited in Grawfordsville, Q© alfof which will be sold at a small advance on manufacturers'prices, at

GREGG'S MAMMOTH!

IF ,WANT

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The very best

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Made, just step into

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DRY GOODS

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SELL THEM CHEAPER

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Iron, Steel, Horse Shoes,

Horse Shoos, Nail Rods, Steel Calks, Ac., below all competition at

GREGG'S MAMMOTH!

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Carvers, Scissors and'Shears, at greatly reduced prices, at

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THEHonor

Great Prize the Cross of the Legion of and Gold Medal,'Swarded to Amepcan Sewlpg Machines at the Paris Exposition of 1807, overt \.

EIGHTY-TWO CQMPETITORS, as per Imperial Decree, published in the Monit'eur ^niver5er (Omcfal iroBrnal 6f the French Empire), Tuesday,'2d July,1867.

The Lock-Stitch inrented by Mr. H6we, and made on this Machine, is the most popular and durable,' is alike on both sides, and will neither Bir nok

Persons from a distance can order a Machine with perfect confidence bf being able to operate it in a few hours successfully, by the aid of the printed instructions that accompany each Machine. Drafts or current funds

must

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accompany the order. Machines

maybe ordered by Express, also to collect on delivery, if the purchaser prefers. We advise shipping by express, as the most convenient and expeditious way.

The demand for this New and Improved Hacfcftne Is unprecedented in the history of Sewing Machines.

In all the principal towns where Agencies are not already established, we desire energetic and responsible parties as Agents. Many places are of sufficient importance to warrant persons in making it their exclu sive business.

Send for circular and samples. OLIN & FOLTZ, General Agents for Central Indiana, 12 North Pennsylvania ss. Indianapolis. decl0m6

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THE

AMERICAN SHUTTLE

SEWING MACHINE.

Is retailed at a price within the reach of

all. This Machine uses a Htraight needle,

makes the LOCK STITCH (alike on both

sides), has a self-adjusting tension, and can

do every variety of sewing. .It will ham,

fell, bind, cord, braid, seam, quilt, tuck,

ruffle and gather will work equally well on

silk, linen or cotton goods,, with silk, linen,

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linen, or cotton thread.

THE AMERICAN

SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE

Warranted for Five Years!

Our Agents wiU be supplied with dupli

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made by (he Singer, Wheeler A Wilson

Howe, and Florenee Machines. It has the

Under-feed, like the best of high priced ma

chine*, and is the only low-priced Shuttle

Machine in the market that- has this feed

We are enabled to sell a No. 1 SHUTTLE

MAC INE at a very low price, on account

of its Simplicity, and consequent low cost of 'J* Manufacturing, in comparison with Com-

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G. V. Br. ANDREWS,

General Agent, Detroit,. Mish.

K. B.—For the benefit of our Agents we

have arranged with parties who hswe Goods

suitaMatfor Se*#ng Ifcnhfcte Agento to eelh

We will send Books of: Samples and full

paa«iflUl*e on ri»eipt of dee yd ClHDp.

AddfeM G. N. B. ANIHRW,

AfeA, Detroit

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Groceries and' Provisions

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Machines are subject to the principle invented by him. A Machine was needed' possessing simplicity and DUKABii,iTY, and adapted to a great range of work one easily understood and comprehended by all. To produce such a Machine has been tne stndv df'EfiasHow'e Jr., who gave to the world the First Sew Machine, more than twenty years ago now we offer his last production,' a machine embracing all essential qualities,-and pro nounced.the Best Machii^i in the World.

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COFFEES, r'» ".j-t ^teas,~--•o -:a

TOBACCOS, and FINE CIGARS^

'Which cannot be excelled in the city. .. The highest market price paid at all timM for PRODUCE. .- .« .wtC

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BUTCHERS.

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Fresh Meats of alt Kinds, USTo. lO Green St., •m. ANNOUNCE

to the public that they are

now prepared to furnish

Meats by the Quantity'

—either by the SIDE or QUARTER—as low as can be obtained anywhere, from farmers or anybody else, and

DELIVER, IT

To any part of the city, without extra charge They have made special arrangements foj KILLING HOGS to an extent of 500 pe* day, if required.

They pay the highest prices for Beef Cafe tie. Hogs, Sheep, Hides and Peltries. They are prepared to STEAM Fat Hog* that have died, And want .the farmers bring them along in any quantity no dax»f ger of their bringing too many. nol9 F. B. GUTHRIE & BRO. ii -v -.M* -*L if

MERCHANT TAILOR.

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JOHN MAAS,

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MERCHANT TAlIiORVe

6 Coinmc^al RbW/Crr^i St.

HAVING

just returned froxn the Xtffc

and is offering the best indueemenwB' any house in the city. Vr# HIS PRICES ARE THE LOWBFGIY

HIS PBICES ARE THE IOWESB

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FURJriSUJJVG Goons,

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He atoo bega reepeetftiDr inform al those whd desire good-fitting and reliable CLOTHING made to order te t*U and e&amine ny sew FflU and Wint® rtoA, JUST IK. I defj compeMttw HTYLS, FBICSB and WOMKMAHMB1F. ocM JOHN MAA8.