The Beaufort Tribune and Port Royal Commercial, 1877-03-15

twi U1 icrtiu, UliLO aoavu ? wu..uw lady what; in her estiipation, constituted ^ a good conversationalist, and* the old lady'snappishly answered that, in he* opinion, a good conversationalist was aT 1 ? person who could talk without betraying? w 1 her dentist .. ... The ewes of San Joaquin valley, CaL,. , are refusing to suckle tneir lambs, large numbers of which, the Siacramento Bee says, are dying. Herdets and fanners think tins portends a severe drouth, and' thut the beasts have an instinctive ' know ledge that there is to be a short crop .. : of food, and thus save themselves the trouble of fruitlessly rearing their young only to die of starvation. " How much will you give me for this ** horse?" said the jockey, riding the animal up in front'of the country tavern to be inspected by the crowd. " How nucli will you take ?" asked one of the bystanders. " One hundred and twenty-live ; dollars," said the owner. "I will give . you twenty-five dollars,"said the bidder. } < "Take lnm," said the jockey, as. te jumped to the ground, "I never let a 1 hundred dollars spoil a boss trade.n The story of Salvini's marriage is very * interesting. She was a poor sewing girl, * V. working in London for her daily bread, r\, when Salvini found her, having been , commissioned by a lady in Florence to . deliver her a package. He straightway fell in love with her, and soon married ? her, and now, in the magnificent house to which he has transferred her, ho treats her with the distinction accorded to a ,.?i princess, with the tenderness of a vox- >f shipping husband. ?' r"' "*** The New Boarder. ': JW 1 Jv . J At a private boarding house the new boarder is an object of special interest He walks into the house awkwardly, ?1 hangs his hat carefully on the rack, casts j* I a hasty look over his person to see if his 7 vest is pulled down, arranges his collar ' and cravat, runs his bauds over his head ' to mash down some unruly tnft of hair,and then walks into the parlor as a bash- -*?1 ful lover would ou his first visit to his sweetheart. Then follows an introduction to the other boarders and the ladies, r aud among the multiplicity of names you catch only one or two. He has now ** crossed the Rubicon, but there are sev sevend - end sevend other tilings to transpire before he,. x! * is fairly landed. , r He sits in liis chair with all the grace at command while he is being measnred by the ladies. Thev either think him #..11 w

It was ascertained tuac sue was iusi | een alive going to tiro tank witli her (itcher to draw wutor, and that Rlie had ! [ever been seen since. On this it was iecided to have the tauk dragged, which vas accordingly done. The first time i hey found nothing ; however, they tried : gain. On this occassion they felt some- >. hing very heavy.in the net; presently hey saw the huge head of an alligator ml soon after heard a tremendous splash rhieh broke the net aud allowed the ani aninil - nil aninil to escape. They immediately comaenccd making another net of extra ! trength, and one not likely to be broken ' >y the alligator. When it was finished 1 hey dragged the tank, and this this time , lid so most thoroughly, but to their mazement nothing of the alligator was een. " Where eato it be?" they exclaimed ; ' surely we were not deceived, for we all aw it ; and yet, if it was in that tank, ' re must have caught it." Some one proposed that they should Tag the tank from the opposite side, j 'his they did, aud their efforts were | rowned with success, for they captured j lie alligator and brought him safe to ind. He was of monstrous size, and a lost ferocious monster. Inside of him i hey found no end of gold and silver angles aud native ornaments ; some of ; hem were recognized by the bereaved itlier as belonging to his poor daughter, ; or they were the same she wore on the t vening she was seen walking toward the ink. The grief of her friends on this terrible iscpvery can be better imagined than escribed. She must have put down her itcher into the water, quite unsuspicious f. danger, when - she wn*; seized by the lodster, and in a moment dragged down, 'lite accounts for it's not" being captured j rhen the tank was dragged 011 so many jCiVsioHs. How it got into the tank, and rhere.it came from, are questions f< r aturaiists alone to answer. We have heard, but cannot vouch for I lie trnth, that alligators * have been mown to travel great distances at night, rhis animal must have walked straight hrough the populous city of Calcutta o the tank unobserved. Soldiers Afraid of Mice. I The correspondent of the London Yew# writes : Our eonqianv is made up f Servians, Russians, a frenchman, a bviss, a Prussian, an Austrian and a 'roat, so that we are rather a polyglot rew. The thatch of the barrack swarms villi mice, which have a festive habit >f dropping down on the sleeper's face,

SUtJll illJll iUl'miBCU iJJ l-llvinanvu, .n his time tlie militia above referred to, lumbering about 25,000 men, was one i rast Fenian camp. #Iu addition to this, j ome regiments of the line were " fixed." i 31 ubs or circles were forme d all through he country, and were in constant comnunication with the military. In Dubin the Royal Barracks, Porto Bello and he Pigeon House fort were occupied by ohliers ready on the instant to mutiny, lid \t is averred that the soldiers in j ther towns were similarly inclined. At last the government awoke from its eal or feigned torpor. The militia, ehich was the mainstay of Fenianism, erved only a few months every year, md after having been disbanded in 18G4, ; t was not called out again in 1865?the ' ear appointed by Stevens for the rising -and at the same time the Fenian regi- i nents of the line were hurried off to In- ; Lia, jind English regiments were ordered t once to take their places in Ireland. Chus the proposed nucleus of the Fenian .rmy was destroyed without a single hot, and nothing was left but an un- j rmed organization. This was the real . a'use of the collapse of tlie movement. John O'Mahoney died without a struggle. Among the friends at his bedside ras the Hon. Riohard O'Gorman. i An Alligator Story. There lived in Calcutta a lovely girl of eventeen, who was engaged to a man j he was much attached to; her father, ; lowever, did not approve of the match, | ,nd was anxious that she should marry j nother man, who had proposed to her ome time before. This second lover, lacked up by the father, was most per- i istent in his attentions, and ultimately ' loped to win the girl, who, on her part, : Lisliked him intensely, and declared she , Fould only marry the man she was en- j ;aged to, and no one else. All of a sudden the girl disappeared ; j nd, though even- search was made, no ! utelligeuce could be gained of her, nor ras there any apparent reason for her ! Hystericus absence. Suspicion fell on i >oth her lovers, especially on the one 1 rhose suit she had rejected, for it was 1 Fell known he was highly incensed , gainst her for her indifference toward ; lim. They were both arrested and imirisoned, albeit they declared their inlocence, and also their sorrow and astonshment at her disappearance. ? ' * 1 1 1 _ _i. .

other, the ends passing tlirougn tne heads and rivited on the outside to render the* boiler watertight.' The smoke and fi&ue from the lire pass, through the tubes and heat the water in tlfc boiler in a short time. The steam is driven out through a small pipe in the upper cylinder head, and is conducted through gas pipe to the steam box in which cat fodder and meal are placed preparatory to beiug steamed. Such a boiler could be placed on a cheap atove in the kitchen or in the cedar and steam sent in pipes two hundred feet distaut to the barn or piggery to cook food. By. this arrangement all danger incident to having fire about out buildings would bo avoided. When one has such a cheap and convenient apparatus the gain by way of cooking feed will far exceed the cost over ana above the small expense of feeding rough and uncooked feed. DomeHtlc IteripcM. To Prepare Mutton Chops.?Tuke eight or more fat covered mutton chops, pare well, season with salt, pepper and grated nutmeg ; put them in a saucepan with four ounces of hot- clarified butter; cook rare, drain in a dish, especially of the butter; pour a pint of Espaguole sauce over the chops; let cool; m^anwhdo have as many sheets of large, thick note paper as there are chops, cut them in heart shape and oil them, spread theul on the table, put two very thin slices M. cooked ham or beef tongue* on each paper, one on Ach side, then place the chop with its sauce on the right side, hold the paper over, and with the fore finger and thumb of the right band twist the edges of the paper over in very close, tight folds ; repeat the same operation for every chop ; fifteen minutes before serving put the whole in a large fiat baking pan, and bake a light brown color in a moderately hot oven ; dish them in a circle and send a bowl of brown Italian sauce along with them. To Make Meringued Apples.? Peel and skin a dozen apples and take out the cores; cook them in a "fancepau with butter, sugar and the, rind of a lemon chopped tine; reduce to a thick consistency ; dish up in a pyramid in the

frosty and forty. men, poor ieiiuw, ! Saturday night is nothing to yon, jnst as yon are nothing to anybody. Get a wife, blue eyed or black eyed, but, above all, true eyed. Get a little home, no matter how little; a sofa, just two or two and a half, and then get two or two and a half in it of a Saturday night, and then read this paragraph by the light of your I ' wife's eyes, and thank God, and take j courage. i % 1 ' i * Gold in England. Notwithstanding the large exports of gold'from London during the past few . months, not only to the United States but to Germany, the north of Europe, ! and Paris, the balance of gold coin and bullion in favor of England for the calendar year just closed was greater than duriufpiny year since 1871. The im-1 pofts of gold into England in 187G, aci cording to the statement of Pixlev and ' Abell, amoimted to $116,222,350, and ! the exports to $81,097,850, leaving a balance of $35,124,500. The imports of i gold were about $5,000,000 greater in j 1876 than in 1875, notwithstanding the fact that the United States sent to Eugland i $18,925,425 and Australia $8,347,050 less last year than the year before. The balance was made up by increased imports , from Russia anfl India. Almost the entire balance of gold coin and bullion i gained by England on its commerce of < 1876 is of course found in the vaults of j | the Bank of England, which had in increased - creased increased its stock of gold January 3, ' 1877, when compared with that held January 5, 1876, by $34,992,020. ? The Washington Monument, The board of engineers appointed to : examine into the stability of the foundation of the Washington monument has decided, it is understood, to suggest to i Congress .the advisability of tearing down i the present neglected structure, and tiie ^ 1 ^ i.1- ^ rtrt 4 /\ A A1 * /-?! O of I

nuum million > 9 niri^y cizivi ai is national decay is of individual idle- f net*. selfishness and vice. 4 The happinees of life is made up of ' minute fractions?the little, soon forgot- t ten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind t look, a heartfelt compliment in the dis- y juise of a playful railery and the count- v less other infinitesimals of pleasant f thought and feeling. . . i a ! j Red Tape in the British Army. "When a soldier in the British army e wants a new pair of shoes he communi- E eate3 the fact of his indigent condition ^ to his sergeant. This sergeant iuvesii- c] ^ates and makes a written report of the t fact, forwarding it, with the soldier's ap- a plication, to the lieutenant. The lieuten- t ant refers the matter back to the ser- ^ sreant, with instructions to ascertain how j near the soldier's term of service is out, p [hot he may not go trudging off home iu j a pair of shoes ahead of the government. v The sergeant ascertaining that the sol- e .lier has to servo long enough to wear out I r a whole case of shoes, indorses the in- : i 3tructions to that effect; and they are for- j s warded by the lieutenant to the captain. I e The captain indorses the application with jj the recommendation that >1 be granted, v and forward it to the adjutant, who re- ]] fers it to the major. The major refers it ; }] lo the surgeon with the necessary in- j structions, in obedience to which the ^ surgeon refers it back to the sergeant to v ascertain if the man is troubled with \ 0 corns, bunions, ingrowing nails, or any j pedal affections or deformities that would i 8 uecessitate the use-of a special last. The ' application then reaches the colonel ^ through the regular channels, and is by ' t

ogicai research anil accuracy, oome 01 j he German Celtic scholars also speak oi lim in the highest terms. r John O'Mhlioney's private life, at least ' c n this country and ki France, says the a S'ew York Sun, was one of seclusion rJ ind poverty. Few of his most intimate a riends knew where he lived. There was s dways a romantic mystery about the a nan; and yet since the days of O'Con- c lell there never was an Irishman more jopular with his countrymen than John ? )'Mahoney, or one more highly esteem- ' \ >d by the republicans of other nationali- ? ies who were acquainted with him. He * md friends who were willing to sacrifice I inything for him; yet he was often sadly j n need of a dollar, and when his pov- g srty was discovered he declined to re- g eive assistance in any shape or form, j )ne way or another he always managed i o earn his own living. He seemed, ; _ lowever, to care nothing for success in 1 ife, liis whole mind being absorbed with ^ me -idea?rebellion in Ireland. A ten ' lollar greenback over and above his im- j aediate wants was a fortune to him, but 1 J me that he held a loose hold of; for any v oafer who approached him with a woe- ! ill story was sure to get it out of him. j ? ' When a man tells you," he would say. j 'that he is in want, and you suspect j hat he is a liar, but doubt it, give him v he benefit of the doubt, aud help him if ! v ou can." It is said that at one time he j j, ras insane, and here is the foundation j Y of the story: \y One cold winter's evening, many yeai*s : a go, John Mitchel was trudging through j Iroadwav on his way to his home "in ' Brooklyn. He was overtaken and pass- I *

reason that live stock -will extract all the nourishment there is in the succulent leaves and stems without having been steamed. But when, hay is made of dead ripe grass the leaves and stems are often so hard that the nourishment is not available after- it has l>een eaten. Many of the sheaths, leaves and the husks of the stalks of Indian corn are so hard and rough that live stock cannot avail themselves of the nutriment such fodder will yield unless it is cut aud steamed. Clean anc^ bright straw contains a large percentage of gum, starch aud oil which will make milk and fatten neat cattle or sheep, provided the roughness, the coarseness and the solidity of the leaves and stems can be broken down, so that when the animals eat the mass their digestive powers may obtain the nourishment that exists in the rough material. When whole grain is fed to neat cattle a large percentage of what is eaten will pass undigested. This farmer has tried the experiment so often of feeding whole gram against the practice of feeding cooked food that he is satisfied there is a saving of fully one-third of all sorts of grain by fii^W^frinding and steaming the mass before it is fail cut. In preparing for steaming food care must be taken not to expend too much for the steaming apparatus. TEfc Speaker made a cheap steam boiler, which, placed on a kitchen stove, is sufficient with one scuttlo of stove coal to cook the breakfast for the family and to steam five hundred swine. Thi? little boiler consists of . two cast iron cylinder heads about sixteen inches in diameter, and the circumference is galvanized bpiler iron, extending from one head to the other. Twenty-one inch-and-c-balf iron tubes extend from one head to the