Decatur Eagle, Volume 11, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1867 — Page 4

W gufr <wnrr. Baby on The Porch. Out on the porch, by the open door, Sweet with roses end cool with shade, Baby is creeping over the floor, — Dear little winsome bluc-cyed maid ! All about her the shadows dance, All above her the roses swing, Sunbeams in the lattice glance, Robins up in the branches sing, Up at the blossoms her fingers reach, Lisping her pleading in broken words, Cooing away in her tender speech, Songs like the twitter of nestling birds, Creeping, creeping over the floor, Soon my birdie will find her wings, Fluttering out at the open door, I nto the wonderful world of things. Wit and Without the deer ladies we should be but a stag nation. The great sucession in buisiness is to get the ‘ring of the true metal' —Printer's Zinc. Five women arc editors of papers in lowa. Women has some of her “writes in that stater If you visit a young woman and you are won and she is won, you will both be one. How strange. Why* hould the highest apple on a tree be a good one ? Ans.—Because it’s a tip top apple. Which is the most profitable of all businesses ?. Ans —The shoe, for every pair is soled before it is finished. Why is the emancipation of the Southern slaves like the shakes ?— Ans.—Because it’s afa vor a nagar operation. Russian America costs the United States about three cents per acre, taking the whole territory- ’ When your wife is silent, hold the baby for her. Perhaps it is as much as she can do to hold her tongue. Scandal is a bit of false money, and he who passes it is frequently as bad as he who originally utters it Why is the punishment of the birch practiced by some pedagogues ? Ans. —Because they arc of opinion that it.makes dull boys smart. “Small thanks to you,” said a plantiffto one of his witiness,“ for what you said in this cause.” “Ah Sir,” replied the conscientious witness, “but just think what I didn't say. Some men are like cats. You may stroke the fur the right way years, and hear nothing but purring ; but accidentally tread on the tail, and all memory of former kindness is obliterated. “Why do you drive such a pit-iful-looking carcass as that ? Why don’t you put a heavier coat of flesh on him, Pat “A heavier coat of flesh! By the powers, the poor creature can hardly carry what little there is on him now!” A negro in a street car in New Orleans threatened to shoot a woman, who had protested against his insults, “as quick as he would any d—n white rebel.”— The conductor said he did not dare to put him out as he was a colored man. Communication by the Atlantic Cable of 1866 has been broken off at New Foundland by an iceberg, and tlie only line of communication with the Old World is at present the cable of 1865. The Company expects to repair the damage without delay. A lady called at the telegraph office in Joliet, one day last week and told Mr. Grow the operator she wanted to send a kiss to her husband in Buffalo. Grow replied, “Oh, yes, ma’am, just give me the kiss and $2,50, and I will send it at once-’ The lady told Grow the directors ought to put younger and better looking men in the position. A Costly JoKE.-The owner of a large dog at Grand Rapids, Michigan, a few days ago placed a hundred dollar looking-glass before his canine to worry him. The dog flew around, barking and growling. The owner was delighted and cried “sick ‘em;” the dog ‘sicked’ the mirror and the other dog disappeared at the same time. The joke rather turned on the owner.

“Uall Me George,” Ben W. served in the Revlutionary War, and had been in the habit of repeating his long and tough yarns so often that at last he really believed them himself. Ben would give a personal anecdote about every battle of the war, in which he himself always, of course figured as the hero. On being asked if.he was in the battle of Monmouth, he replied, “I guess I was. I had my right-hand pocket full of powder, my left-hand pocket still of bullets, and I had father’s double-barreled ducking-gun, six foot long, sir! six foot long! I put in a handful of powder and a handful of bullets, and every time I let her off I knocked down the British, sir, fifty at a time! Gen. Washington rode up to me and said. l ßen, do stop! you're doing em too bad!' I touched my hat to the General and said, ‘Well, General, if you say so, Til cease firing; but I think I ought to kill a few more of the scoundrels.’ With that, the General sprung from his horse, and throwing his arms around me. Exclaimed, ‘•Ben, don't call me General—call me George." ” The Old Newspaper. An instructive lesson way be drawn from the columns of an old newspaper. You meet with names that seem once to have been on every tongue, but now are never mentioned; authors of new books which the reviewer confidently, handed down to the admiration of all after ages, but which somehow have failed to reach our age; popular preachers, whose sermons have sent no echo to our ears; politicians, who fill whole columns of the paper, but have long since retired to an undiscoverale privacy ; swarms of dukes, princes, generals and captains, who played prominent parts in the tragedies or farces of those days, but of whom we were totaly ignorant until we saw the old newspaper.— What a severe critic is time!— With what a ruthless hand he blots out the praises of other journalists; how quietly he shuts down his extinguisher upon lights that the world said would never go out. New Taxes. For each curl on a lady’s head above ten, five cents. For wearing a low-necked dress one dollar. For wearing hoops larger than eight feet in diameter, eight cents for each hoop. For sleeping in church, ten dollars. Seeing a lady home from church, twenty cents. For every flirtation, ten cents. For kissing a pretty girl, one dollar, Each pretty lady to be taxed from twenty-five cents to twentyfive dollars, she to fix the estimate of her own beauty. Old bachelors over thirty are taxed ten dollars, and sentenced to banishment to Utah. Sticking to the Last.—The cobblers of Nantes have recently been on a strike because the name of their patron saint, Crispin, was not included in the Almanac Nantais. The authorities, out of regard for the soles of the people, corrected the calender, and the pride of craft was heel’d. The disturbance was thus allayed, and the cobblers who threatened to come to blows, returned to their wax. Love is as necessary to a women’s heart as a fashionable bonnet to her head. Indeed, we think rather more so ; for nothing less than a large measure of love will content her; whereas the recent fashion has shown that she can be satisfied with a very little bonnet. Miltbn was asked “How is it that in some countries a king is allowed to take his place on the throne at fourteen years but may not marry until he is eigteen ?” “Because,” said the poet, “ it is easier to govern a kingdom than woman.” A wag thus eulogizes his musical attainments; ‘I know two tunes the one is Auld Lang Syne, and tire other isn’t; I always sing the latter. The number of Indians, in the United States at present, is 585,771.

Agricultural. Working Butter. It is hard to define with accuracy what we mean by the grain of butter, but every one knows whether butter looks or feels greasy or waxy. When it has the appearance of wax, we say the grain is good, and the .more it resembles wax in its consistency the better is the grain. The more greasy in its appearance, the more we say the grain has been injured. In order to free butter from the milk with the least injury to the grain, it should be gathered into an eggshaped form with a wooden butter ladle, without touching it with the naked hand; it should then be gashed longitudinally around the whole circumference, making the channels lowest at either end of the transverse axis, so that the milk can run readily away. Pressing the mass together, so that the particles are compelled to slide over each other laterally, as when putty is worked, and mortar .is tempered must be carefully avoided, under penalty of spoiling the grain. It is not easy to work out all the butter-milk at once; it is, therefore, better to set it aside after the first working in a cool place for twelve hours, during which the action of the salt will liberate more of the buttermilk; the first process should then be repeated, with the same precautions against injury to the grain; it is then ready for packing. I need not tell the dairymen of this country that no packages save oaken tubs are fit for butter, nor that the wood from which they are made should be thorougly seasoned. They should be prepared by pouring boiling water into them in which they should soak for twenty-four hours; they are then to be filled with strong brine for two or three days, after which they should be well rubbed with fine salt, when they are ready to receive the butter.— ■. J. S. Gould English and French Horses.— Englishmen are proud of their horses. The superiority of their breeds of race and draft horses has long been admitted by other nations. Indeed, the French and Italians, Germans, Prussians, etc., have been, for more than a century among the best customers of the English breeders. This has been ascribed to peculiarities of climate by some, but agricultural writers generally find a sufficient cause for the great excellence of English horses in the care and skill of the English farmer, in respect to selection, rearing and feeding. “ By means,” says Mr. William Percival, a lecturer and writer of note, “we have progressed from good to better, losing sight of no subsidiary help, until we have attained a perfection in the world beside.” With such claim to acknowledged superiority in breeds, the late victories of French horses on English ground has been exceedingly mortifying to English pride. - - - ' ■■—» — — ‘Trucking’ is a leading branch of New Jersey agriculture, and some of the most unpromising eastern portions of the State have been made to return handsome revenues from this source. From one farm of eighty acres lying in the desolate regions of sand barrens, the rewards of the husbandmen on one season were 5,000 baskets of tomatoes, worth $3,000; more than 1,000 baskets of white potatoes, producing $1,200; 2,000 baskets of pears, which sold for more than SBOO, and more than 1,000 baskets of other truck, which returned sl, 000, making an aggregate, Independent of farm crops, of $6,000. Os course these results were not attained without energy, skill, and plenty manure and fertilizers. Making veal.—lt is not the best veal, nor the cheapest made that which is made with the richest new milk. The milk that is richest in butter is poorest in casein. It is casein, not butter, thatfattens, and makes calves grow fastest. Better skim the milk when the cream has two-thirds risen, warm it to its natural, under heat, and stir in a gill of scalded meal, and a teaspoonful of salt to each quart of milk. Remember the kindness you receive : forget the favors you confer.

1867* 1867THE DECATUR EAGLE. SkULt>so:rl"fc>e For Your Honxe Having recently been to a heavy outlay, in the purchase of new material, we ask on the part of the people of the County a corresponding support. For that purpose we address ourselves to all who feel an interest in the County Paper, and ask their influence in extending its circulation. We want PAYING SUBSCRIBERS! PAYMENT IN ADVANCE—Or on short time. We hope to make large additions to our list from every Post Office in the County, which can be done with a little effort upon the part of our friends. Archimedes would have moved the world had he found a place to have rested his lever. We have found another lever—money—with which to move the world, and it is an excellent motive power to keep the types in a Printing Office clicking.. We do not wish to move the world, however, simply to have the press self-sustaining — Let us hear from those who feel an interest in our enterprise. Address all orders to A. J. HILL, Decatur, Ind. GREAT EXCITEMENT! HEW GOODS! A.T O7TXE3 FART STORE! Second Door South of the Post Office, DECATUR, INDIANA. js. XjJUfigkei of MILLINERY GOODS, Consisting of the latest Styles of Ladies’ and Misses Hats and Bonnets. Also a good variety of Velvets, Silks, Flowers and Ribbons, of every color anti shade; black and white Laces, Crapes, Veils, Plumes, Jets, Hat and Bonnet Ornaments* A large assortment of Undersleeves, Magic Ruffling, Edgings, Flutings, Illusions, Bombazines. Brilliants, Swiss and Cambric Muslins, plain and bordered Jackonets, Irish Linen, Nansooks, Dimity, Ladies’ and Gents’ Kid, Silk and Cotton Gloves, HOSIERY, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION; 250 different kinds of Buttons and Embroidery; Velvet, SiTk, Worsted, Gold, Silver and Straw Braids, and Trimmings; Drops and Bugle Trimming of every variety; Dress and Skirt Trimmings, Rubber, Cotton, Silk, Gold and Silver Cord and Tassels; Belting and Belt Buckles. Whalebone, Corsets and Corset Stays; HOOP StKIFtTSI, of every size and style; Ladies’ Vests and Drawers; Spring and Summer Shawls and Scarfs; Ladies’ andUents’ Neckties, Paper aijd Linen Collarsand Cuffs; Ladies’ and Gents’ Handkerchiefs, Gents’ Suspenders and Shirt Bosoms. I have also a large. and new assortment of Patent,’ Silk and Cotton Threads of every quality; Needles, Pins, Thimbles, Hooks and Eyes, Beads, Fans, Tapes, Zephyr Yarn. Also the latest styles of Parasols, Umbrellas, Ladies’ Baskets, Head Nets; a large supply of Table Covers, Tidies, Trunks, Valises, Cloth and Hair Brushes, Hair Pins, Memorandas. Pencils, Steel Pens and Penholders of all kinds, Snuff and Tobacco Boxes, Hand and Pocket Mirrors; all kinds of Combs, Violin Strings and Notions of every kind. Bonnets and Hats made to order; idso Bleached Pressed and Shaped in the latest styles. Particular attention paid to w CLOAK AND DRESS MAKING! and all work warranted. I have a large aud well selected stock of the latest styles of HATS & CAPS, of every description, for Men and Boys, that I am selling cheaper than anywhere else. Soliciting a call from every person I shall endeavor to please all, and sell at the lowest prices. Come and see us before purchasing elsewhere. May 15,1867. • V. B. SIMCOKE.

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