Whitewater Register (Newspaper) - February 19, 1859, Whitewater, Wisconsin PUBLISHED SATURDAY BY DST Editor and Proprietor Office Xo 8 Commonwealth Third Story WHITEWATER CO WIS OF SUBSCRIPTION THE be famished to Office and Mail Subscriber at 50 and to those who receive their by the Carrier at 00 all call's to bo made in advance To Clergymen and SI 00 per annum paper continued expiration of the paid for OF ADVERTISING Twelve lines or less make a Square 3w 3m SI 00 ly YoO 12 00 2 50 300 4 JO C 00 10 00 16 3 3 4 00 0 00 8 00 12 00 20 00 column 5 00 6 B 00 12 00 15 00 25 00 H column 1 8 00 13 00 00 15 00 20 00 40 00 under contract muit be marked the length of time desired or will be continued and charged for until ordered out Displayed of Exhibitions 50 cent Deaths but Obituary and Marriage ticet charged full rates Charitable and Notices half rates Transient Advertisements to be paid for invariably in advance discontinuing their advertisements before the expiration of their contracts will lie charged full rates as above Extra charge will be made for and other not connected their business Cards not exceeding six lines J5 per year Bach additional line SI Communications should be addressed to II L worth Co Win REGISTER JOB OFFICE The of the REGISTER having with a large assortment of the and most styles of Type Cuf y now prepared to do all kinds of Book and Fancy Printing in manner and At rates as low as can be ed in AH and descriptions of Posters Visiting Cards Pamphlets Law Blanks Checks Circulars Notes Ball Tickets Business Cards every kind of done with and despatch IN CO LOUS clone at well as at iny in this section He respectfully asks all want of Job ing to call and his specimens and of H L RANN BUSINESS DIRECTORY Attorneys at Lair J in all kinds of Grain on Street of highest price paid for Corn trley W COLE Jt CO and Retail iix Dry Clothing and I fats and Caps are Block Main street Whitewater 92 Attorney and Counsellor at Whitewater IT second story west corner of Main and BRANCH Sc PRATT in and Foreign aud Fruits Country fee Store in Hall's It lock First Street watur WU GooAs delivered anywhere in he village free of charge M II Grocer and General Provision and Produce on Street at the hoad ol the Market a of at nil times oil h nd a of the public patronage Is 14 J of and in worfe promptly torm ami lino of Center and STEWART Whol nnd Foreign and Domestic Dry and Hardware of every description in all of country Produce J It J D W r K STEWART rfc Wholesale and Dealers in Medicines Stationery Wet and Dry Groceries ami Store No 3 Central Slain Whitewater FRANCIS CO and in Dry Goods ind Shoet Caps Store No 2 tral Main Street Whitewater t A TANKER 1 and 2 Commonwealth Whitewater antl Dealer in in Dry Goods Crockery Hardware Tin Ware and 47 and Retail Dealer in Fancy and Staple Dry Groceries Ready-Made Clothing and i and Paints and Crockery and Ware done both and Merchant work Flour Meal and iard for talc Cash paid for wheat 5 tore and office Xo 1 Central Block T DASSETT Wholesale and Dealer in Groceries imd Garden Stone Ware and Shoes on Main Street just above White-water Hotel H S Dentist attends to business in his line nnd work to satisfaction Artificial teeth teeth filled and cleansed Office in Block Center street Foundry and Machine Shop hand All of made to Repaired Shop on Railroad Street a north of N S at Law Solicitor in Chancery General Con- Office in Metropolitan Rlock Center street 1C COPLAND Civil Engineer and Land Surrey or will ly to all entrusted to him in Rock and Counties Also to the location of in Wisconsin Iowa or Office in building Street Ad- 113 P O White-water it Law Second street n few doors north or the Watertown sin will attend promptly to rill entrusted to their care MYRON B WILLIAMS IRA E LEONARD WHITEWATER EXCHANGE A Knight Proprietor Main Street This House thoroughly and refurnished and will be kept with a strict recart to the wants and comfort of and the carry to from the Cars free of Charge and all the Stages Sto Regularly ftt WHITEWATER REGISTER VOL 2 WHITEWATER WIS SATURDAY FEBRUARY 19 1859 NO 100 Merchants WHITE WA TER Mechanics Banki A 11 President KonERT SHIELLS Cashier YOUNG AMERICA Billiard Saloon and Restaurant CENTER WHITEWATER WIS 3 VASCOTT Proprietor N M CO WHITEWATER B F MABBETT CO in all kinds of Tine lumbor Timber Posts A large stock of thoroughly Lumber now on The quality of our dumber or our prises cannot be in tins part of the State By honorable dealing vre to all JKhitewatfr 20 Paper RESPECTFULLY AN JL to the citizens of ing ie Iras made arrangements with Congar ifc Day of Whitewater lie will after keep at tlieir store all Descriptions of Paper Print Orders from abroad for any size Print Paper promptly to MYRON WILLIAMS Whitewater June fj ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN Oil Clapp has located in the of and informs the of this and vicinity that he will attend to ull calis in the healing art so desired and Residence corner of Janesville and Whitewater 24 49 The Three BY REVEREND Fashionable Boot Shoe Maker On Main Store Third Story WOULD TAKE tins opportunity of returning to thy of Three Fishers rent sailing out into the Out into the n the ann down Each thought of the noman him the best And the children stood watching them out of the town For men work and must weep And there's little to earn and many to keep Though the harbor bar be moaning Three wives sat up m the tower And the Umps as the sun went down They at the and at the shower As the came rolling np ragged and brown But men must and women must weep Tho storms be sudden find deep And the harbor bar be moaning Three corpses lay out on tUe shining In the morning the tide went down And the women aie watching and wringing their hands For those who will never come back to the For men must work and women must weep And the sooner it's o er the sooner to sleep And good-bye to the bar and moaning the London Three went riding out into the West On the top of the bus aK me tun went down Each and how richly she drest And tho circumference of her new gown For wives and must And there's to pet and little to the is running Three wues sat np m Jane for ho And told her to every article down They ordered tho Allies and ordered the fl And the jt kept rolling gown upon For wit es and wiL pav Though will be in a terrible dunned for that is bankrupts were figuring in the gazette On a I night ulien Min went down And the comers uere quite n a pet For the never vill to the tuwn For wives drept though husbands can't pnv And bankruptcy's surely the way To get rid and the dunning Whitewater and vicinity for the of he lias received his in this place of tlie anil would beg to say no effort on purt bu Left in the future to rx pood fit with the and workmanship to all o who him with a call as with and 4 Millinery and Dress Making MAYNAKD IS OPENING AT IfER in the Commonwealth Building somo erv Spring to she calls the attention of the She on hand a few elegant riding will he low for The newest of trimmed and constantly on hand Also Prow Basque anil Cloak Patterns Intending to Keep thing 111 the line and to fiord her goods at reasonable prices she respectfully tho patronage of tbo Indies of id vicinity MRS A MAYWARD April 2 UNITED STATES Wholesale Dealer in Drugs Medicines Chemicals Store on of tho Mortar Whitewater HOMEOPATHIC -I B- at fo the practice of his profession would of the of nn country Office corner of Mam aud Boards at the Exchange JAMES Draughtsman and Engraver on Wood DAWE CO WIS View of Machinery furnished to order warranted to give satis SS Nails RECEIVED A FULI Mills SI EGOS POTATOES received in WANT OR CAP FASH i and cheap go to the best GROCERIES EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT BIRGE lj Groceries cheaper any one in town don't fail to and pep hU new stock 81 F A Lively Town to Live In An American sojourning at in Western Mexico gives the following ic account of the gentle manners of the ple indigenous to In my last letter to you I stated that our city was declared in a state of siege though the enemy or opposition party a long way off Things remained in that condition until about eight ago when I was in- The Homestead The following is an exact copy of Grow's Homestead which passed the House of Representatives February A to secure Homesteads to actual on the public domain Sc it by the Senate nnd of Representatives of the United States of ca in Congress assembled That any person who is the head of a family or who has ar- rived at the age of 21 years and is a citizen of the United States or who shall have Sled his intention to become such as by the naturalization laws of the United States shall from and after passage of this act be entitled to enter free of cost one quarter section of vacant and unappropriated public lands is m per acre or a quantity equal thereto be ted in a body in conformity with the legal subdivisions of the public lands and after the s which may at the time the application ade be to private entry at same shall have been surveyed SEC 2 And be it further enacted That tho person applying for the benefit of this act shall upon application to the Register of the land office in which he or she is about to make such entry make affidavit before the said that lie or sue is the head of a family or is 21 or more of age and that such application is for his or her exclusive and those especially in thU act and not directly or for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever and upon making the affidavit as above required and filing the affidavit with the he or shall thereupon be permitted to enter the quantity of land already specified Prodded That no certificate shall be given or patent therefor until the expiration of five years from the date of such entry and it at the expiration of such time or at any time thereafter the person making such entry or if he be dead his widow or in case of her death his heirs or devisee or in case of a making such her heirs or devisee in case of her death shall prove by two credible witnesses that he she or they have continued to reside upon and cultivate said land and still reside upon the same and have not alienated the same or any part thereof then in such case he she if that time a citizen of the Uni- ted States shall on payment of ten dollars bo entitled to a patent as in other cases vided for by further In case of the death of both father and mother leaving an infant child or children the sed by the There i formed privately about eight o'clock in the I years of nae the right and the evening that tho enemy or Liberal ty had arrived within about two leagues of the town and intended to attack the barracks and the of the Governor that night and as there would probably be a sack or wholesale robbery at the time I gave my friend all my most valuable watches and jewelry to take care of his homo not being so liable to attack as own I fastened my doors and bed as usual hoping it might be a false report But I awoke about twelve o'clock and in a minutes after a booming of cannon and a rattling of small arms commenced bed you muy be sure I was not long in y which were Is Riven to all persons N who hold of it tlie that they can obtain their hy to the subscriber at and their Certificates E and George IV Peck are to reten e Duplicates and return Patents for II H Office under the Vf 7 New Livery WINTERMUTE FULLER IN WITH TIIE A First Livery and the They have largely increased tlieir Stoch and re confident they can give satisfaction to all who may them petting off the cars at his place can at any time get to any art of the country upon reasonable terms ave very Saddle and equipments or Ruling Parties and in ict that lly kept in a- first of Kind N Particular attention paid to a and Carriages for Funerals LIVERY ESTABLISHMENT Corner 1st and Centre Streets site the Post Whitewater Wisconsin CONSTANTLY ON HAND IV and to let any number of horses and nil description of vehicles TERMS MODERATE He has also for the accommodation of parties ome very fine HORSES rith superb and in prime order HORSES STABLED ml at reasonable prices and the best of always in readiness were placed so that I could fire through the door if the enemy at- tempted to break in best customer watches fee shall inure to the benefit of said infant child or children aud the executor trator or guardian may at any time within two years after the death of tno surviving parent and in accordance with tho of the State in which such children for the time being having their domicile sell snid land for the benefit of said infants but for no other purpose and the purchaser shall quire the absolute title by tho purchase and be entitled to 1 patent from the United States SEC 3 be it further enacted That the of the Land Office shall note all such applications on the and plats of bis office and keep a register of nil European Revolution From the London Tunes of 19th We may now venture to that danger of an European war for the present passed away It would be well it we could say that utter the blowing over of this storm cloud the world might indulge in visions of permanent culm and sunshine hut forces which threaten the disturbance of European quiet still exist and are only for a time weight of universal opinion however satisfaction to he mingled with the regret with which mankind must sou the enthronement of an armed and restless in Europe It will appear to any one who has watched the course of these events that all there is moral power not wholly unable to cope with Emperors and Kings Tho deci- ded and unwavering conservatism of the English government and hns it is ad- mitted on all hands been chiefly tal in chocking the madness of the Bonaparte clique Austria has received a support on which she hardly coin ted and France has been met with resolution which her rulers deemed wholly impossible We sincerely trust that the former of these powers v ill appreciate the behavior of a tion which beats no goud will to absolutism that Francis Joseph will recognize that after all a free people may bo a beFter ally than any dear brother of rial class and that he will endeavor to re- store in bin dominions the kindly authority tho old German empire in place of that military oppression which his family have learned from tho Roman eers As for the people we congratulate them on the with which they have seen that their advantages in this case with tho claims of justice have not wanted organs to assure them that England was tno much exhausted liar Indian to of contravening tho schemes of Franco that even if the Queen's government desired to the English liberals would check any Italian policy They have now been undeceived and for tho sake of all the parties to this dis- pute for the sake of France and Italy most of all we rejoice that the common sense of mankind has won the day Tbe war scarcely invoked would probably in six months have made ft against France as formidable as that of in any case could gain a change of and substitute the King stork of a French viceroy for King log of an ordinary Austrian Kow we arc happy to believe there is no danger but from the tolly of the Sardinians who having long kept up an army entirely disproportionate to the ex- tent and wealth of their have looked to war as an escape from which otherwise threaten to over- take them Unless these however in desperation break peace we have no doubt that the danger is for the present over Extent of the Firmament such entries and make returns thereof to i General Land Office together with the and placing all the proof they have been founded and fifty dollars SEC 4 be it money in my and eighteen iand acquired under the provisions of this doubloons in my pocket I prepared for aot in no event liable to the a run out oi and over the top satisfaction of nny debt or contracted prior to the issuing the patent therefor SEC 5 Ami be it further enacted That if at any time after filing the affidavit as re- quired in the second section of this act and before the expiration of the five year said it shall be proven after due notice to of my neighbor's kitchen Thus ready for lighting and running I remained for more titan two hours listening to the terrific roar and rattle of these midnight guns During the night some of the robbers went by ling like devils nnd I heard others breaking in the doors of stores in Main street but I know nothing certain until morning when a countryman told me that as soon as the at- tack was made by the Liberals on tho racks the criminals seventy in number in the calaboose were released by a party out- side and being joined by other villains from our population commenced breaking nnd robbing the stores on Main street open One guarantied Whitewater June 5 1857 PARTICULAR NOTICE F X Bly disposed of his stock of Goods is now desirous of effecting a settlement with all persons to him either by note or book account His business must be closed up delay Rnu or this purpose lie bas left his books at the office ol Kilson Kellogg Msq where nil those indebted to him nre to call without if they wish to HYP cost E N tLl Whitewater 1858 T SUTHERLAND to citizens of J that bavin enlarged his Bindery and in- creased his forces lie is prepared to execute in ft very all prep superior and at prices suited to the times kinds of in tho line of Ac anil respectfully culls the attention of Bank County Officers nnd Contractors to the that be ll execute any Blank work required in as good style the settler to the satisfaction of the of the Land office that the filed sueli affidavit shall person having have actually store was gutted the losa being other stores were robbed to the amount of or each Arms and tion were first seized and then other goods and even women and children were seen off bundles of goods Only one man and one woman among the robbers were killed and some dozen or more Of the storekeepers who were unprepared for the some were killed Among the other criminals who escaped was the cal who tried to murder me about a year ago ho had been sentenced to ten years at hard labor The Liberals failed to take the barracks nnd to their camp before daj break without losing a man In the barracks one was killed and four wounded There was enough firing of cannon and ketry to have produced fit least one hundred i and five hundred wounded The stores that were robbed all belonged to for- Germans and Italians There are no American stores here except the drug store at which the robbers gave a few blows but soon left for more at- tractive plunder As the Liberals are only waiting for a from Sonora to an attack on a larger scale tbe foreign merchants and storekeepers have closed their places and have been removing their goods to their respective Consulates for protection night they mount guard over their goods armed to tho teeth The French are the most numerous and have mounted two or throe small cannon on the parapet of their Consul's house The English Consul sent word to me the day after tho fight that I could send my things to his house if I wished 31 v with customer watches and silver money I deposited in bis safe and sent my materials etc to store over which a few Americans have changed his or her residence or abandoned the said entry for more than sis months at any time then and in that event the land so entered shall revert back to the ment and he disposed of as other public lands are row by law subject to an appeal to the General Land Office SEC C And be it further enacted That no individual be permitted to make more than one entry under the provisions of this and that tho Commissioner of the eral Land is hereby required to Various estimates have been on the number of stars throughout tho heavens visible to us by the aid of a first class cope M Struve assumes for twenty-foot reflector that a magnifying power of 180 would give for the number of lying within tho zones ex- tending thirty degrees on either side of the equator and for the whole The number of telescopic stars in the Milky Way uninterrupted by any is mated at To compare this ber with something analogous calls attention to the fact there are not in the whole heavens more about stars between the first aud sixth magnitude visible to tho naked eye Thus the barren astonishment excited by numbers and sions in space when not considered with reference to applications engaging the mental and perspective powers of man is awakened both of the the Pike's News Dr said to be thoroughly ble writes the following letter from the gold mines to S llale Esq of Kenosha thinks its statements may be depended on 1C December 10 1850 SAMUEL HAM Sir able to my promise I shall write yon a few lines concerning the gold country and in doing so I shall not be able to give you as definite information as I could wish as it was about the first of November when we arrived here since when there has been tle digging done and in fact little before as there were but few here during tho ing season nnd those who were here devoted their time mostly to prospecting The stories that are circulated cast are usually At any rate they east before they get to us As near as I can ascertain from good gold is found on all the streams which issue from the mountains from the head waters of the Arkansas to those of In what quantities I cannot say positively The most digging has been done on Cherry Creek a branch of the South Platte and on the itself The nest claims will turn out about twenty-five cents to a pan of dirt Such diggings will pay largely if sluices be constructed and oven rockers could a nice thing if water is convenient The gold dirt on any of these streams which come from the mountains will ago from one to ten cents to tho pan There has been but little prospecting done in the mountains us yet There one party who have gone on to the mountains ten or fifteen and found shot gold This is a coarser quality than is found in the open country and the grains of which arc about the size of mustard seeds They say they linve found a good thing and have commenced building their cabins there but as to what amount of gold they got they as yet refuse to disclose I cannot help but think from the amount of gold which is distributed over the try here there must be some rich deposits and those will probably be found in the mountains When the mining season opens again and there are hundreds prospecting the country over where there has been one heretofore we will know something definite about the gold and not before There is one thing which speaks favorably for the country nnd that is those who have been hero some time nnd the recent emigration seem perfectly willing to remain and try their hand during the coming season There is nothing here to make an tural region There is but little land here that will anything and besides ber is scarce and next to no hard timber at all There is a good deal of pine in the mountains mostly yellow pine which makes very good lumber Game is abundant Death of John A Brown From the Madison Avgas It is with no ordinary degree of sorrow that we announce the death of John A Brown Ee died at the residence of Beriah Brown in this city at 3 o'clock this Thursday morning Gen Brown was born in Canandaigua Y- 10th 1812 At the age of 19 be assumed the editorship of tho Hartford Ct In ho removed to tbo State of with his brother Beriah Brown ho was engaged in publishing newspapers in various parts of tho From there ho removed to He also for some time connected with the editorship of the Chicago Democrat with John Wentworth In 1843 he became a resident of Wisconsin and commenced the publication of the Courier which ho continued till 1846 whan he establishment to Cramer Curtis They changed the name of the paper to the consin Gen Brown next ville where he published the Badyer State For the pasi few years ho had lived in in DC u ernes 01 tno in tae Ule of Post Master bodies as to the minutest Ead j i a ivo for according to a cubic inch ol to tho Bilin of the shells of The assumption that the extent of the starry firmament is literally infinite has been made bv Dr Olbers of a conclusion pare and issue such rules and regulations tnat celestial spaces are in some slight de- groe deficient in transparency so that bo- consistent with this act as shall be necessary and proper to carry its provisions in to effect and that the Register and of the several Land Offices shall be entitled to re- the compensation for any lands entered under the provisions of this act that they are now entitled to receive when the same quantity of land is entered with money one- half to be paid by the person making the plication at the time of so doing and the other half on the issue of the certificate by the person to whom it may be issued vided That nothing in this act shall be con- strued as to impair or interfere in any ner whatever with existing preemption work constantly on hand Magazines and Books of all bound on short notice and in tiie Tbe back missing numbers of any of tho of the day will be procured hy him without any extra charge The book and stationery business in alt its es carried on as heretofore and retail i 3 Dec 11 1857 Tho will act as agents for the above and attend to business entrusted to their care with An analysis of tho vote on tbe final sage of the which passed by 120 to 70 shows that there voted for the licans 82 Democrats 38 Against Democrats 60 Americans 15 1 Mr Nichols Tbo Democrats who voted against it were English Hughes Marshall Shaw 111 and Leidy About 20 Northern Democrats dodged From the complexion of the vote in the House we are led to fear that this will not pass the Senate but we shall at least have the satisfaction of knowing who are re- sponsible for its defeat yond a certain distance is and must forever remain unseen tho geometrical progression of tho extinction of light far outrunning the effect of any conceivable increase in the power of our telescopes it not so it is argued that every part of the celestial concave ought to shine with the brightness of the solar disc since no visual ray could be so directed as not in some point or other of its length to encounter such a disc The Dead Sea promptness IT L fc L II RANN WHAT WE HAVE NOT GOT AND WHAT WE HAVE GOT bare not pot seventeen hogsheads sugar on hand But we have fiot the best assortment of nt a small advance from BRANCH PRATT S Leather nml Upper tanned at prices loss than at him aboard a German vessel anchored two miles from tho town shop is of course closed like the rest and our town looks like a city with the plague For have been this way and inline meantime all kinds of rumors are current At the last reliable accounts the I enemy were sixty miles from here and are overwhelming in numbers so that I hope our stupid Governor will surrender at the first summons and thus avoid a fight and its consequences or that tbe people and the here will pronounce in favor of and put art end to the war in these parts Three-fourths of the population foreign as well as native are and always have been in favor of the liberals and this party has been augmented by the tyranny of the Governor and his friends m making forced loans from both Mexicans and for eigners He demands a amount of money of the persons whom he thinks nave it and if they do not pay they are taken to with One the barracks and confined in a room nothing to eat until they fork over miserly old woman has been confined days though her friends without contrive to supply her with a little bread keeps body and soul together The demand upon her is how it will end God only How THE FIRST FAMILIES TA HAKE THEIR writer from Virginia gives some idea of the profits of the negro One man engaged in the business told the correspondent of a woman he owns av the Fanny She was just sixteen When he bought had a child soon after She hired out at 36 per Her first child is now five years old and in fifteen years will be worth to The owner goes on with his I am thus paid for the trouble of raising dim about a year and I have no either for the mother takes care of him until he is old enough to hire and then be will begin io bring me in wages She has had a child spring since and now she sends me word not to hire her for Slay for she expects to have another That will be five in a little over five years and in twenty-five years from this time if they all live which they are very likely to do youngest will be twenty years old and if a man at least There are now two boys and two girls and they will be worth at least in the aggregate at that time to say nothing of the one that's coming And the mother will not stop there she will have a good many Tf she keeps on as she has done and has as hoys and girls she will bring me worth of niggers before she A man who chews fourteen dollars worth of tobacco annually and slops his because he is poor Probably nature does not afford a more desolate scene than that of the Dead It lies in a vast basin thousand feet be- low the It is bounded on the north by tbe plain of Jericho on the east its waves wash the base of the calcined hills of on the west the barren tains of the Desert of Judea rise above its shore while its southern extremity touches the regions of Arabia Petrea The eye looks in vain for any sign or vestige of human life Xo living creature inhabits its shore no fish swim in it no birds dip in its waters One endless reach of endless range of ren hills meet you on every side There is no refuge from the desolation that yon This sea which receives the living Jordan has no outlet It remains a enigma to science Numerous to explain it have been made many adventurous travelers have lost their lives in the attempt and Mr Lynch whose survey is so imperfect lost his first assistant Even tbe wild Bedouin whose home is the desert shuns it in his wide wanderings Its origin involves a wild and fearful history The shores it laves once teemed with life Its waves roll on the sites of the Cities of the Deep down in its accursed depths lies and damned Gomorrah And dom and the cities that sinned with her are rotting there too Seven young men in Auburn whose parents are all wealthy have been ar- rested on fi charge of to It is a remarkable fact that in the teachings of Christ there is no elaborate ar- gument no formal exposition of doctrine no display of brilliancy talent or learning but instructive dialogue or parable drawn from some passing incident simple story narrative pathetic strance or touching delineation of future weal or spake as never man and his words went with the power of omnipotence to the hearts of those who listened to his simple yet solemn and im- pressive discourses when that at was lie came to this city last and here attacked with paralysis The first shock was not of unusual severity but was followed by two others the last proving fatal John A Brown was one of tho noblest of men A fine intellect a generous heart and tho most sterling honesty of character at- to him troops of friends who were among the best men in the State His death will be deeply loss uni- felt He was forty-six years and three months old His remains will be conveyed to tago City for interment Ho leaves a wife and child on whom the blow comes with sad and fearful force In the community where he was a favorite and au example of social virtue in the profession of which he was an ornament and the party of which he pillar he will have many mourners who will hold him in lasting and grateful brance How they make Coffee in Prance 1 A cup of French seems to have the to put Americans in yet few of them are thoughtful enough to obtain from their French brethren the process by which the delicious beverage is decocted Of this few is a Buckeye writing from Paris un- der date of November who supplies the desired information He at Mr in his lady very kindly initiated me into the art of coffee making In tho first place it is scorched in a hollow cylinder is kept constantly revolving over a slow fire and not a grain of it allowed to burn Secondly it is ground very fine and thirdly when it is to be used a of this placed in a finely pan or cup which exactly fits into the top of the boiler coffee or vessel you wish to use Boiling hot water is then poured on and it through carrying with all the principles of As soon as percolation is completed the pan is removed containing all the grounds and hot milk is added to the infusion and your coffee is made It is brought on tho table in bowls wit a knife and spoon and a little willow basket of bread The servant then places by your plates a tea dish on are two or three lumps of white sugar always of a certain size and you sweeten to your liking In no instance is your coffee boiled is one reason why the cafe au lait and noir arc so much by all who take them If you will try this am sure in a few getting it right and possess yourself of a luxury which will add very much to a break fast on a cold it LITE British medical journal says the Life rance Companies of Great Britain ask of tbe question Do you ever take spirits between and adds If an- swered in tho affirmative it should lead to tbe rejection of the applicant for insurance The Methodist Church north numbers south 719 Siamese Women and Children From Dickens Household Words Up to of ten years Siamese ren of either sex are not troubled with of clothing and it is seldom bat a child is seen wearing the f a garment except on days of festival ewels sometimes of very great value are jut on young children Among the higher lasses girls and boys up to the age of wear a number of gold chains imes four six or seven at a time all cnt and each having some amulet or nent attached The hair is allowed to grow ong on the front part of the head but tho est is kept leaving tins circular latch to be twisted into a knot which is kept n its place hy a long ornamental pin Often wreath of tne jessamine is twined to t closely about this knot and the effect is Both boys and girls are dressed if measure of clothing may be called vess exactly alike so that it is not easy to them At the age of twelve tbe ock of huir is cut off leaving a patch which a strong resemblance to a small black This in the man is combed tack nnd allowed to grow a degree longer dan in the woman not so much so r as to suggest any marked difference to tranger The women keep their lock ully oiled combed and gummed to stand and they take infinite pains to keep liu top of this as smooth as velvet A lady's hair is held to be in perfect when she can plunge into the river ami tick her head many times under water u t disturbing the and ess of her national The mony of cutting off the lock of hair is kept vith entertainments and rejoicings It is iie great event in young Siamese life and the coming out amongst young other countries for in Siam ren are supposed to reach years of ion rather early After a girl marries she gives Up vearing of ornaments nnd trinkets These re set aside and reserved for her children turn Boys as I have mentioned be- ore have an opportunity of learning to ead by entering themselves us neophyte r attendants on the priests Whether ave schools or persons authorized to teach bem I do not know but it is not lon in Siam to Gnd women able both to nd write I met with three or four myself ml these were persons of the lower ranks occupations of the females are various nd far less circumscribed than in many r parts of tbe cast In fact the iam occupy a moral position many to that of their sisters in tis countries The wife of a Siamese has voice in the domestic of the family Slic is and eems to possess the right to claim all her earnings The women as a race re very intelligent and observant those be- to the higher classes seem to have leasing and modest manners The head ife of the prime minister is a very ng woman she is not bat is by no wanting in personal attractions as no but that does not seem her husband's affection or her nce over him Sbo came with nts by invitation to with vis and lough our talk was limited for of she could contrive to make herself It was the first time that a se lady of rank bad ever visited on equal erms a foreign family but it would have een difficult to guess this by her perfectly nsy and demeanor She sat at table with the gentlemen and I though she had probably never used knife and fork or any of the appliances of n English table she acquitted herself with propriety and good breeding even to lie overwhelming act of taking wine with er host Her tbe Siamese al accompanied her and she was attended y about thirty maidens two of whom were icr younger sisters very pretty girls tho est were slaves Tbe whole party of at- remained sprawling on tbe ground uring her visit An absurd little incident pill serve to show how diligently these le observe the custom of prostration Tho ady requested permission to visit the ng apartments in order to see how English eople arrange rooms she was accordingly aken up stairs followed by tbe entire f maidens and her who did not at II see why should not have the benefit of peep as well She expressed her ion at all the arrangements and especially er delight at a small iron to my child seemed to strike them all as a device of luxury and refinement not to be Finally everything in the oom had been handled and examined she in a perplexed manner where cept our money as she could not see a strong of any kind It should be mentioned hat on a to her own house I ad been shown over her private apartments nd in the saw four large iron afes which she out as seeming to idd much to the honor of the family happened to be a box of mine in a corner covered over with the usual ar- of cushions and frills this being bown her she scorned greatly relieved to ind judging from the size of the box was empty at the that wo lad or appeared to have some worldly and delighted at such a charming way of covering it up As she was about to descend he a commotion disturbed the whole of damsels to whom it appeared denly to occur that by going down first heir mistress would place herself beneath hem a thing not to be tolerated for a nent Accordingly with a he young ladies passed her on their ind knees just as she was about to descend and the whole party scrambled lead with a hurrying ng ft laughing giggling that aa amusing as it was surprising The Siamese women as Well as men arc by the effects of constant and excessive betel chewing It is carried to a disgusting extent amongst people of all ranks and ages Even little children may seen with their lips dyed red and the crimson juice running out at each side Their mouths are never by any empty as soon as one quid is disposed of another takes its place so that a Siamese always speaks as with a pebble in his and that no small one The effect of tho incessant chewing of large quids is to en- large the lips considerably to dye them a sort of black red and entirely to alter the shape of the lower part of the face The Siamese say that the chewing of betel acts as a continual stimulant and that they could not It is highly to the teeth but I think docs not destroy any great extent Smoking is an- other habit carried to an extreme in- Siam men women and children seem to live upon cigarettes and tobacco rolled apin I'TV-IS told as a fact by a lady that she bad seen a nursing child of two years old taking whiffs of its mother's with its own more natural nourishment For this will frequently watched a pretty little girl of five years smoking a cigarette while she made Most of these rate smokers reserve cigar stuck be- hind each clerks carry postmaster at Louisville trouble A letter has been addressed to hi to the handsomest in Kentucky All the wan it he don't know which of them is enti it Phillips n trust from single individual to be used principal interest for the Woman's BUT A of six of this who sister juat beginning toddle about the house very innocently stepped to her and is not made of dirt made nut and upon being she thought The could that her iU tor so interesting could be made from the earth which many disagreeable odors and unsightly 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