Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1878 — A York State Farmer Who Love? to Fish. [ARTICLE]

A York State Farmer Who Love? to Fish.

In Chili there is an elderly farmer who is passionately fond of sport—especially fishing and hunting—andhehas a son who is a chip of the old block in that as well as in other respects. One day last summer the old gentleman left home, but before going set his boy at a job he was anxious to have done. Returning sooner than he Was expected, he found that the boy was missing. “Where’s Tom?” he growled, as he entered the kitchen door. “Gone fishing,” said the girl. “Fishing! the rascal; I’ll fish him when I catch him !” And away the angry old fellow went for the brook. Coming within hailing distance of Iris hopeful son, who was bending eagerly over the stream, the father yelled: “Tom ! you scoundrel, Tom !” There was a deprecating movement of one hand on the part of the boy, who did not, however, turn his head. Still more angry, the avenging parent came nearer and bawled out: “I’ll learn you to stay home and work when—” “Sh! sh! sh! father,” said young Izaak Walton; “I’ve got a bite.” The old fellow’s passion perceptibly cooled at that announcement, and, hickly for the boy, the latter just then hauled up a handsome perch. This was too much for dad, who sprung forward and helped unhook the fish, and then: “Tom, have you got another hook?” Victory perched on the boy’s fish-line. —Rochester Sunday Herald.

Ship-Building in the United States. The ship-building of 1877 was larger than for several years, but is not expected to hold on through 1878 on account of the low rates of freight prevailing bn the ocean. About 75,000 tons of wooden shipping was built in Maine and New Hampshire, 15,000 in Massachusetts, 25;000 at other points along the coast, wliile the Delaware river yards turned out half-a-dozen iron steamships, amounting to 15,000 tons. American white-oak vessels of first quality, as well as the iron vessels, are produced as cheaply as the same craft can be produced anywhere in the world.—Springfield Republican.