Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1885 — Page 2

rHK DBVfl CLEBIt'S WOOING. fIIB. Cl DODGE. j ’ ( “To nitre chtmotnil low niched The urnc.clerk to Miss Faina, •"Jo ether win you for my bride Or hnir-dyem my core, oh!“ The helladmna silken dress And core she knew was sloppy: "O, if you camphor that l eueFs, i Bhc ciitd, *do ask my poppy. “Thou hartshorn near and yet so far," Groaned the voune manna paling. ’’Good bye! I’m morphine search of pa Though licorice his iailing " « "Tou mnskgnm cedda kiss,” she cried. And put her arms a onnd trim; “J opium not I old," she si«h< d, "Now go to pa aad sound him. ’’ . **l wi'l and ask cologne,” he said, T* “And if elixir lover Ton'll potash shroud upon the dead Yi.rmg man you will d.scover.” Ehe castor o ; l black eyes on his--“I will! myrh love—l swear it; If dlsap-ointment ends this biz I'm madder-nous, li to wear it," “Cummin’ and citrate down, "pa cried Un o the youth e amontred. "May,l take chlor vforraf'fay bride?" The young ma , meekjy stammered. "Take Fanra? Thin k hcrParis green Because he took her mother? No[ sonny, Takr a.pii l serene— I’ll give the girl another " THE WEST. Here sleeps the West, the new-born, infant \V< st., Godson ot I rogress. yotihgest potentate On all Time’s scutcheon; still a babe at rest— The giant offspring of the w. mb of Fate. Bail! strong young heir. Great heritage of land Is thine, and lake* as b; oad as skies. And riveis wide as lakes, and grand. Fold pe-vks that dare the bravvsi.eyes. . The dear winds on thy prairies murmur low. Or in thy forest-glades sing ini abv. Or on thy rugged heights of rock and snow Sing all exultant in their battle-cry. They sing sweet peace where labor rests content; They sing high grace where trusting slumber lies; They sing great hope to hearts cn conquest bent. Oh, child! they call thy soul so high emprise. Mock not the West, ve men of other climes. The scholar oft hath passed the one that tang t. Mrck-not the Wes’, ye men of centl 'r times. Best ye should sic suii>assid the work ye wrought! f-'alnte the West! balnte the strong, yourg West! lines /me// We cry, salute the new-come guest! • - Dritick /me//—we drain, the measure in thy prai«e. And till another to tby coming days! —Hough, in the Current.

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS.

How They Were Conducted in the Early 1 Days of the Republic. Thomas Jefferson was the first President inaugurated at Washington. The city was then a country village scattered over an immense territory, and Pennsylvania avenue was a muddy country road. There was a fence about the Capitol grounds, and it is said that Jefferson rode there on horseback, and jumped from his horse and tied him to the bars while he went up to the big white building to be sworn in. He was dressed very plainly, and only a few fritnds accompanied him. The inauguration took place in what .was then the Senate chamber—now the Supreme Court room—and only 1,000people were present. Of these, 150 were ladies. As the President-elect , came in the Senators stood up and Aaron Burr gave the President’s seat to Mr. Jefferson. John Adams, the retiring President, was not present. It is reported that he said that he did not propose to grace the inauguration of the party opposed to him, and that he left the White House on the night of the 2d of March, at midnight, and that before day he had departed from Washington forever. Jefferson’s second ihauguration was even more quiet than his first The oath was taken in the Senate chamber, and after it there was a procession formed at the Navy yard, which marched through the city to martial music. Washington’s first inauguration took place in New York, in the Federal Hall, on the site of the present SubTreasury building, on the 30th of April, 1789. He was sworn in in an open gallery adjoining the Senate chamber, and a great crowd of people were present. His second inauguration took place in the Senate chamber of Independence Hall, Philadelphia, and Judge Cusl* ing, of the Supreme Court, administered the oath of office. The hall was crowded, and his short address •was closely listened to. As he left there was a cheer, and this was about the whole of the ceremony. Washington’s first inauguration was. however, a great event. He left Mount Yernon about the 16 of April, and was escorted first to Alexandria,»where he attended a public dinner. The Alexandrians escorted him to Georgetown, where he was met by citizens of Maryland, and so all along the line of his march to New York he was wined and dined and cheered and serenaded with bands. Philadelphia was illuminateljg in his honor and the bridge over the Hchulkill across which he rode had an arch of laurel. As be passed under this a crown of laurel was let down by machinery, without his seeing the action, so that it rested on his head, and as it fell the people burst into long, loud cheers. The Philadelphians escorted him to Trenton, and here another hr dge decoration was prepared for him. It was a triumphal arch of laurel and flowers supported by thirteen pillars entwined with wreaths of evergreen. On the front was written in large golden letters, “The defender of the mothers will lie the protector of the daughters;” and the women jo ned with the men in welcoming him. It was the same at Princeton, where Tie ■was met by a band of ladies leading their daughters dressed in white, carrying baskets of flowers, and singing *n die in his honor. At Brunswick he was met by the Governor of New Jersey and a committee of Congress, who accompanied him to the water, and he went the rest of the way to New Y< r; in a boat. John Adams was inaugurated in Philadelphia,and Washington delivered his farewell addre-B to the same audience which wi’ne-sed the swearing in of ’ Adams. Cbiet Justice Ellsworth administered the oath, and a discharge of artillery closed the proceedings. That night ,a big dinner was given to

Washington, and four hundred covers of the choicest viands were served. When Madison was inaugurated Washington City had not more than 8,000 population, and the reports of the day say that it was “strained to its utmost” to accomodate the guests. The day opened with a Federal salute, gnd 10,000 people were unable to gain admittance to the Capitol. The House Of Representatives, and Jefferson was present. The President elect was escorted from Georgetown by a troop of cavalry, aud he came into the Capitol attended, by Cabinet officers. Chief Justice Marshall administered the oath, and after another band of .militia escorted him to the White , House, where Jefferson aided him in his reception. At this ceremony MadisOn wore an entire suit of clothes of American, sheep. His second inauguration was also a grand event, and he Was given a dinner at one of the leading "hotels of Washington. Monroe's two inauguration oaths was administered by Chief Justice Marshall, and his first oath was announced to the people by firing of a single gun. At this ceremony the day was mild, and the address was delivered and the oath taken out of doors. Monroe was the first President inaugurated in the open air. His second inauguration took place in the House of Repre-entaiives, as there was snow on -the ground, and not over 2,000 people could be present. John Quincy Adams’ inauguration took place inside the Capitol on March 4,1825. It was in what is now Statuary Hall, and seats were reserved for ladies. Mr. Adams was led to the Capitol by troops of horsemen, cavalry, and marshals, and the diplomatic corps were present ip costume. Mr. Adams came into the hall a little jifter 12 o'clock, and was iniroduccd by the presiding officers of Congress. He was dressed in a suit of plain black. Behind him came President Monroe and his family. As soon as silence was secured he read the inaugural address, 40 minutes long, and thi n taking the law book containing the oath from Chief Justice Marshall, lie read it in a loud, clear voice. As he closed the audience cheered, aud au artillery salute followed. As the crowd was dispersing Mr. Adams held a sort of a reception. , He shook hands with President Monroe and also with Andrew Jackson, who was to prove in the future his bitterest enemy. , The inauguration of Jackson was attended by thousands, aqd Daniel Webster in speaking about it said : “I never saw such a crowd. People have come 500 miles to see General Jackson, and they Tegslv seem to think that the country is rescued from some dreadful danger.” Jackson came into Washington quietly. He had seen’ the corpse of his wife a few weeks before dressed in the white satin dress prepared forheruse at Washington, and his honors were mixed with sadness. There were more people in Washington than ever before, on the day of the ceremonies “King Mob reigned triumphant.” The address was delivered on the east portico of the Capitol, and to keep the crowd' back a ship’s cable had to be stretehed across half way up the steps. At their close Jackson rode on a spirited horse from the Capitol to the White House, where the motley throng followed and took possession. Refreshments were then serve 4 and the wildest confusion prevailed, in which the guests fought for the victuals. Barrels of orange punch were made, but as the waiters brought it in a rush was made for it and glasses were broken and pails of liquor upset upon costly carpets. Men with heavy, muddy boots stood upon the satin covered chairs, and furniture was broken and curtains torn in the effiorts of the crowd to get a view of the new President. There were a number of pickpockets in the throng, and it is recorJed that one man lost S9OO. The crush was in fact so great that at one time Jackson, who had retreated until he was against the wall, was protected from injury only by a number of his intimate friends, who, linking their hands together, thus made • a living H>pe to keep the people back. Tubs of punch were finally taken down into the gardens of the White House grounds to lead the people off, and the waiters stopped bringing in wine and ice cream to be thrown upon the carpets. Jackson’s second inauguration took place in the Capitol in the presence of Senators and Representatives, foreign ministers, and a number of prominent ladies and gentlemen, and Chief Justice Marshall administered the oath. _ V Martin Van Buren did not make a speech on the day he was inaugurated Vice President with Jackson. His inaugura ion as President was attended bv Jackson, and the foreign representatives made a farewell address to General Jackson on the occasion. Yan Buren read his inaugural address in the open air. and that so distinctly that N. P. Willis says, “Twenty thousand people heard him distinctly.” There was no confusion and everything passed off quietly. General Harrison, when he arrived in Washington to be sworn in, walked from the depot to the City Hall. It was a stormy day in February, and it is said he carried his hat in * his hand and saluted the people who lined the sidewalks at the time. Hero he was addressed by the Mayor and a number of citizens.' Harrisons inaugural ad-, diess had Deen written in Ohio. ltf> was penned on large sheets of foolscap paper, and he showed it to Daniel Webster before he read it. Harrison bad put in a number of allusions td the Greeks and Bomans. which Webster wanted cut out, but the President would not hear to it. He was a gri at admirer of the classics, and in going to the Capitol he preferred to ride on a charger, as the Roman emperors did along the Appisin way, to accepting the carriage giv&n Ijiim by the Wuigs of Baltimore. . The inangnral day *\vap ushered in by the salute of as many (fans as there were States in the Vnion. It was cold and chilly, but the General scorned an overcoat, and rode with his hat in his hand. Behind him came clulw and labor organizations of various kinds, and among them were og cabins covered with inscriptions, cider-barrels, coon skins, and other emblems of the campaign and the frontier. At 12 o’oldck John Tyler entered the Senate and took his oath of office and .delivered his address. As he closed Harrison came in and the crowd ad-

journed to the east portico, i where Harrison, bareheaded and without an overcoat, delivered a flowejrv address. It was bitter'cold and the rest of the people were uncomfortable in overcoats. As the president closed. Chief Justice Taney administered the oath and the thousands dispersed, Harrison going to the White House on horseback as lie had come. Here he received the people in crowds, and that night he visited the three inaugural balls which. were given in his honor. The fatigue and exposure of his inauguration must have had much to do with hastening President Harrison’s death. At any rale he fell sick before the close of the month of his inauguration, ahd on the 4th of April he died. His last words weie: ‘Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of government; I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.” And with that he died. , It was a bad day when Polk was inaugurated. Still there was a grand procession, and thousands of military men marching to the music of many bands. The President rode to the Capitol in a carriage, the Mar.ne Band played, and silk banners waved on every side. Taylor’s inauguration took place on a cloudy day, but it was otherwise pleasant. Old Zacli rode up to the Capitol dressed in plain black in a carriage drawn by four gray horses. As he did so, the roofs of the houses along the iine of march were crowde I, every window was full, and the streets were lined with sightseers. Polk and his Cabinet were present at the inauguration, and General Taylor delivered his addressin a remarkably distinct voice from the east front of the Capitol. When Frank Pierce was sworn in it was cloudy and snowy. 'I he President spoke his_ inaugural from memory to 20,000 people from the east portico, and Chief Justice Taney administered the oath. Bucliannan was inaugurated on a bright and sunny day, and a full description of the ceremonies described them as grand in the extreme. The President attended the inaugural ball and his entrance upon his offic al career showed no signs of the disturbances which were to close it.—Washington Letter.

Pure Olive Oil.

Absolutely pure olive oilisa commodity seldom found in this country, so great is the temptation of manufacturers to adulterate with cottou-seed oily which resemblfes the other very closely in some respects, and which is so much cheaper. To get the absolutely pure, therefore, is information that many would like to have. In reply, therefore, to a query, made through these columns some months since, we would say that we know of but one place, and that is Cannon’s Point, St. Simons Island, of Mr. W. F. Shadman, who has the only olive grove in this country where the oil is manufactured. There are a few trees at Dungenness, or Cumberland Island, and elsewhere. Mr. Shadman has 160 full bearing trees, and will make this season between 100 rmd 200 gallons of unadulterated material in three grades, pure, merchantable, and crude. From him we learn the process of manufacture, which may be interesting to some of our readers. The olives, which are about the size of plums, are first gathered and passed through a mill which crushes the berry but not the kernel. This pulp is placed in small crocus bags, which are dampened with cold water and kneaded like bread on an inclined table with trough attached; The water washes out the oil and both drain into the trough. The oil being lighter floats, and is skimmed off and filtered. This makes the first quality, which sells from §8 to $lO per gallon. The same process is gone through with warm or tepid water, which yields a second grade of oil, almost' twice the quantity of the first, and is sold at from $5 to $6 per gallon. A third washing or kneading in warmer water still, brings out the crude oil, in quantity, equal to the first, and vrhich sells at from $2.50 to $3,50 per gallon. The proportion is 25 per cent, pure, 50 medium or merchantable, and 25 crude. Mr. Shadman has been experimenting for several years to find out just how to get out this oil and has at last found that washing is the only process which all the oil can be extracted. The pure oil, of which we have a sample before ns, which is delightful in flavor, and will keep perfectly sweet for a century or more. The other grades, being less pure, in course of time become rancid. This grove of Mr. Shadman’s was planted nearly a century ago by Hon. James Hamilton Couper, the father of Mr. J. M. Conper. The young trees were secured for Mr. Couper in Spain by the then minister to Spain from the United States. The trees are still vigorous and in fine bearing order. —Brunswick ( Ga .) Ajipeal.

A Downy Woodpecker.

From an article by John Burroughs, in the Century, entitled “Winter Neighbors,” we take the following: “My bird is a genuine little savage, doubtless, but I value him as a neighbor. It is a satisfaction during the ct Id or stormy winter nights to know he is warm and cosy there in his relre.t. When the day is bad and unfit to be abroad in, he is there too. When I wish to know if he is at home, I go and s rap upon his tree, and, if he is not too lazy or indifferent, after some delay he shows his head in round doorway about ten feet above, and looks down inquiringly upon me—sometimes latterly I think half resentfully, as much as to say. ‘I would thank you hot to disturb me so often.* After sundown, he will not put his head out any rqore whoa I call, bnt as I step away I can get a glimpse of him inside, looking cold and reserved. He is a late riser, especially if it is a cold or disagreeable morning, in this respect being like the barn fowls; it is sometimes near nine o’clock before 1 see him leave his tree. On the other hand, lie comes home early, being in if the day is unpleasant by 4 p. m. He lives all alone; in this respect I do not commend his example Wl ere his mate is I should Lke to know.* * Thebe are 10,000 wind mills in Holland. Ths is pretty good for a small conntry, bnt it doesn’t begin to compare with Ameriea during a political campaign.

REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN.

BY BEN: PERLEY POORE.

During the Twenty-fifth Congress there came to Washington Dr. Perrine. a native of Connecticut, who was the exhibitor, in the room of the House Coipmittee on Agriculture, of specim ns of tropical fruits and fibrous plants and their fibers. He had collected them while United States Consul at Campeachy, and he had conceived the idea of acclimating them ip Florida. He was an interesting talker, and lie would* give his visitors a vast amount of information, describing the habits of different varieties of useful plants, and demonstrating that the sand barrens of the South, and their impracticable for all other purposes not merely useless but deleterious might be made to produce, by self-propagation, and almost without labor, the various fibrous plants which yield the fibers front which Manilla and Sisal rope, and all the great and beautiful variety of grass cloths are manufactured. The marshes bear one class of plants and the most arid sands another class, and the climate is sufficiently warm through Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carol na, north ns Virginia. It was Dr. Perrine’s strong desire to see those productions introduced into all that section of country, that the decline of cotton, rice and tobacco crops, from exhaustion of the soil, might be made up by this spontaneous and prolific cultivation of those immense tracts now esteemed valueless,giving a ,new and permanent source of wealth and prosperity. It was fpr aid in this great project that he asked of the Government a grant of those same barren lands which some of the officers of our army had pronounced worthless and uninhabitable. With all these memorials of his labor, Dr. Per rine remained nearly unnoticed for months. The North and the South at last' became acquainted with the subject he had so deeply at heart. They saw, as he did, a splendid scheme for the increase of national wealth, by the improvement of otherwise barren soils, for the production of new materials for useful manufactures; and his simple request that he might locate a settlement for tlie propagation of tropical plants in Florida upon Government lands was granted, with the privilege of purchasing any surrounding - lands hereafter when the Indians should be removed and the land and bogs offered for sale at the regular market price. This gave him the right to enter upon the land, and it was all he asked. It was readily granted. Dr, Perrine would not wait for the cessation of Indian hostilities, but went to Florida to commence operations. Unfortunately for him and for science, the Seminoles soon raided his establishment at Indian Key, and the enthusiastic riian was killed, a martyr in the cause of soil culture. Since the War of the others have taken up his labors, and the sands of Florida are beginning to blossom like the rose, furnishing cocoanuts, pine-apples, oranges, and lemons. Early in January; 18(52, a squad of the Baltimore Provost Guard brought to Washington Mrs. Baxley, who had been indiscreet enough to boast, on a Chesapeake Bay steamer, that she was a secessionist, just from Biehmond, where she had kissed President Davis’s hand. When the boalt reached Baltimore she was about to go on shore, when a detective requested her to walk into the ladies’ cabin. On arriving there, she took off her bonnet, and, ripping open the lining, pulled out some fifty letters, saying, “I suppose I may as well deliver up my contrabands, which is what you are after.” The detective was not satisfied, and, sending had her thoroughly searched. The result was that in her shoes and every possible place about her clothing letters were found concealed, while in her corset was a commission from “President” Davis to Dr. Brown, of Baltimore with passes for entering the Confederacy. She was brought to Washington and kept in custody at Mrs. Greenhow’s house, where several other ladies were well guarded. During the cold snap in January, 1852, when the sleighing was excellent, Baron de Bodisco, the Russian minister, rigged out his sledge, and his driver and tiger and furs, caps, etc., all looking like bears and wolves. So extraordinary a spectacle attracted the attention of the boys, negroes, etc., on "Pennsylvania avenue, and, as Kossuth was known to be in town, covered all over with mustaches, with a retinue all rigged°out in style extraordinary, the boys and blacks set up over Bodisco the cry of “Kossuth,” “there’s Kossuth,” “hurrah for Kossuth.” Th : s was more than human nature could endure, and Mr. Bodisco fled in a rage. / Gen. Bn tier’s oratory, which consisted of a torrent of words poured forth as if he loved talking for the sake of talk, reminded those who had been abroad of Lord Brougham, who with the rapidity of a hawk, would lay violent and resistless claws upon a bewildered opponent. Yet, with all his eccentricity of manner, there was about all he said evidence of brains—suen a solidity of information on the most heterogenous and Out-of-the-way subjects perpetually peeping forth, and such endless play of fancy, that he extorted admiration when he failed to win respect. Flattered, feared, and spoiled, he hurried along, goaded by some inexorab'O demon, who forbade all quiet to his victim, and impelled him to incessant occupation of tongue, hand and brain, from morning to night, and frequently all night long.

The Tell-Tale.

With the aid of a pair of compassos or pencil and a bit of string, carefully draw two concentric half-circles, —that is, from the same center, and one about half an inch within the other. The size of tho design makes but little difference bat the result is more easily seen if the <} agrain is as large as convenient. Divi-.e this doftble half-circle into a number of compartments, and in each place a letter of the alphabet, p numeral, or a name, as the fancy may dictate; the object being that there shall be no possible mistaking of one compartment for another. Rule straight lines from each compartment to the common center. Now take a small button —a shoebutton is as good as- any—and fas tenth

bit of fine silk thread about eight inches long to it, leaking a knot in each end of the thread. Now let one of the party take the thread, by the end, and hold it so far above the figure that the button shall hang abont an inch and a half above the paper. Let him fix his mind firmly upon one of the compartments, and then close his eyes. Very soon the button will develop a pendulum-like motion, and before long, generally in about three minutes, it will begin to move toward the compartment of which the holder is thinking. It really seems, at tho first glance, that the button itself is influenced by the unconscious exertion of will on the part of the experimenter. But close investigation will reveal the fact that the hand moves with a slight.tremulous motion, which, being transmitted through the fine thread, moves the button. Mueh amusement can be bad by putting the uames Of the people in the compartments, and then seeing of which one the experimenter is thinking. —Allan Forman, in SL Nicholas.

Editing a Funny Column.

In an ungaurded moment I applied for a position ou a rural paper to open a column of wit, fun, and frolic. The editor wrote me a long letter on the subject of wit, and gave me liis candid opinion of the aforesaid bird of varied hue. He said' that Ris readers were staid, homely, plain people, who always looked into the death and marriage items first. He also said that he had produced several funny items that had gone the rounds of the press, until they were bald-headed, toothless, and wrinkled. At the close he offered me the column, and added the dry fact that I’d have a hard row to hoe if I hoped to get up a seven-story reputation for bubling mirth in his paper. I Avas eager; I was champing the bit of wit, and longed to open the safetyvalve and submerge the entire press fraternity with the stupendous quality of my humor. The first week I gave the editor of the paper one entire column of fat, fresh an'd frisky fun. I read the mirth-oozing items over to my wife and she cried with joy. I gave my mother-in-law a whack at the funny business, and she knocked over the center-table and kicked the coal-scuttle galley west in her contortions of laughter. I knew I was cut out for a Bob Burdetti, or a Bill Nye. I got a lovely Tetter full of taffy from; the editor after my initial column had been issued. He said that it took two fanners from the cheese market to hold the compositor up to the case while he was setting up my matter. He also added that his wife’s sister, who read pi-oof, had gone and given her flame the chilly go by, trusting to the fates that the writer ot .the immense brain-matter svas single and pining for female condolence. I was puffed up to the seventh story of conceit. I knew I had struck my forte ,at last. I was cut out, basted and dried ftor a funny man of the great press. I rushed to my den and began another series of button-bursting, si le-splittiug mirth. I nibbled the pen-holder; P looked into the ink-bottle; I pulled down the curtain and lighted the lamp; I paced to and fro across the floor, and —finally I got a pun. I dallied with that pun as a school-boy toys with a green apple. I rolled that pun under my tongue like the sweet morsel we read of. I tossed it to and the confines of my mind. It was the best pun oi my life, I thought. I used up my column with that pun. It was the windiest pun you ever saw, -and long drawn out. The editor sent mv offering back with a printed slip cut from a famous leading funny publication. It was my pun; but got up far better than my funny brain could hope to ossav. It was a grounder, and, it floored me. JL cremated that pun. I sat down again and crury-eombed Pr gasus. I put in r an occasional slip from a funny sheet, and added the usual witty respome. "When I got through with my work, my manuscript looked like a map of the Franco-China seat of war. The editor sent it back with regrets. He offered me the agricultural department. I took it. I’ve learned that I know a sight more about cows, plows, patentreapers, and farm truck than I do about fun.— H. S. Keller, in Jingo.

Saddles Nowadays.

“Saddles are not wliat they were,” an expert rider remarked in the course of a talk on the benefits and pleasure of excercise on horseback. “Enthusiasts have suggested valuable improvements. CoL Amasa J. Parker, Jr., of Albany, and some other riders have had the theory that they should be brought so close to the horses as to make them sensible of every movement. Saddle, for ladies as well as gentlemen, on plans worked out by them, are low in front and rear, and are very light and graceful. When made of selected .pig-skin, with silver-plated trimmings, 'steel spring bar, silver-plated rubberfooted stirrups, and other appendages of extra quality, the cost is $75. Plain skirt saddles, without knee pnffs or thigh puffs, of the ordinary patern, in imitation of hog-skin, russet leather, or blackleather, can be boug ;t for from sl2 to $27. Park saddle in regular style in the trade run from $lB to S7O. “I saw two saddles the other day for use on the plains and in the mountains of the far west One was a vaquero saddle for ranch use, and the pther was for travelers, physicians, miners, and others. Tho tirst weighed, with its fixtures, about forty-five pounds. With its heavy straps, t live ed leather, big ringa, silver plating, and buckskin thongs it was an aJtair likely to touch the heart of the ambitious cowboy having SOS in his pocket. “The styles bf the saddle for thg weste'nand southern trade fill page alter page of an illustrated catalogue \of one saddler down tbwn. and I could not begin to describe them. They range from those with almo-t do seat for nbont $4 to those with seats, swi at eathers, leg guards, straps, and hooded stirrups,„ elaborately decorated with raised stamp work, and w ith long bn kskin tho* gs hanging from many points, all for-about sso. The varieiies of patte: ns were bewildering. r —New York Sun. ' ... | Iris stated that 90,000 accordeons were sold in the .South last year, and yet the,South wonders why the tide of emigration does not tarn that way.

A Noted Agriculturist.

Sir John Sinclair, of Scotland—the friend of Washington should be known and respected by every cultivator of the soil oa both sides of. the Altantic Ocean. He saw the agriculture of his country, tho great source of human subsistence and human effort, in a wretched condition. Ho saw that from the little intercourse the farmers had with other countries and other districts from which thev could draw instruction, little improvement was to 'be - expected, except through the united exertions of influential individuals, aided by the liberal patronage of the government. Impressed with these convictions, ho printed and circulated, in 1793, his plan for establishing a board of agricu tnre; and in a few days afterwards he moved, in his place at Parliament, an address to the Crown in favor of the proposed establishment, which Avas carried, 101 to twenty-six, the board organized and he made president. In a speech which he made Avhile the subject was under discussion in Parliament, he pointed out the obvious advantages which would result from the establishment. In the first placed, according to his biographer, he regarded it as a general magazine of agricultural knowledge and a society of reference, to which any question might be sent connected Avith the improvement of tho country. In the second place he showed that, by agricultural surveys carried on under the auspices of such a board, every fact or observation known in that, country, connected Avitli the improvement of the soil or the stock it maintained, would be collected. In the third place, that by establishing an extensive foreign correspondence, the discoveries and improvements appertaining to other lands would be much sooner and more widely rendered available than if dependent wholly on private exertions. In the fourth place, that it was only through the means of such a board that any general improvement of stock could be looked for; and that, in the last place, it might be the instrument of-obtaining a statistical account of England. Five thousand pounds, $25,000, Avas the annual grant, and, the priviige of franking was given to the board. ~ The two great primary objects of tbo board Avere to ascertain flic general agricultural state of the country, and the means ol improving that State. As the most effectual way of accomplis ing these objects, agricultural surveys were made, and “in the course of a little more than a year,” a 3 stated by a distinguished writer on husbandry, “the board of agriculture had printed a body of authentic facts respecting the agricultural and internal economy of the country greater than was ever obtained by any other nation since the beginning of time.” But these works, amounting to about eighty vo umes, were too voluminous for general use, and the next object of the Avortliy president was to condense, and bring witiiin the compass of a volume, all the most material facts thus collected, in order to render them available to the practical farmer arid more conductive to general improvement. Ho laid it down as a maxim in literature, that “knowledge, previous to its being brought into a condensed state, may be compared to a small portion of gold dispersed through a great quantity of oar. In that rude condition the strongest man cannot sustain its weight, nor convey it tp a distance, but when the pure metal is separated from The dross, a child may carry it without difficulty.” He published a “Code of Agriculture,” which raised the cultivation of the soil to the dignity of a science, and embodies a vast amount of useful information. He was also instrumental in promulgating the knowledge of Elkinson’s system of draining, and its being extensively adopted; in inducing Davy to undertake his valuable work upon agricultural chemistry; in instituting and giving efficacy to tho Highland Agricultural Society, and in introducing to public notice MoAdam’s improved system of road making. Ho also published, after his "Code of Agriculture” had passed through ttie press, a “Code of Statistical Philosophy,” a “Code of Finance,” and had nearly prepared for publication a “Code or Digest of Religion.” "What a pity it is that we could not have a few such men in this country, who would turn their backs on politics and politicians, and would seek, as Sir John Sinclair did, to improve the cultivation of the soil. —American Cultivator.

Wide Streets.

When George Augustus Sala visited Omaha he was astonished that the town should have devoted bo much space to streets. He wrote of the folly and cost of such a plan, yHo would have written the same way about Glxicago had he seen the town in 1850. But now, with streets from sixty-six to 100 feet wide, there are certain portions of that city where the thoroughfares seem rather narrow, and unquestionably dark on a dull day. The men of America had “empires in their brains." y The first generation in any American City as well situated as is Omaha must bear the burden of wide pavements or relinquish the hopes upon which the town is usually founded.— Tin Current.

Time Brings Wondrous Changes.

“I should never have known that ftie painting represented yon. Why, this picture shows a face free front care and jolly as the day is long, while you are as sober and thoughtful a man as I ever met.” “Nevertheless, the picture represents me, and at the time it was painteu it was a splendid likeness.” “How long ago was it painte l ?” “Let me see -it was in June, I think —and I was married in De -ember. Yes.it was painted just six mouths before I was married.” —New ' York Sun. Quinine is said to be good for png dogs that suffer from nervousness, ’that is almost a homoepathic treatment, qu uin9 for canine. An exchange sngites sstrvchnine as an unfailing eyre for all the diseases to which, dog tlish is heir. ' , y In Washington Territory, owl stuffed with sauerkraut is a favorite article of diet.