4 J. I!. GROVE & 4. B. ODER, An Independent Paper—Devoted to Literature, Mining. Commercial, Agricultural, General and Local News. Editors and Proprietors. VOLUME I. FROS'l'BIRG, ALLEGANY COUNTY. MARYLAND, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30,1871. NUMBER 14. Tim e hi-scs of Farewell. l'lircc, only three, my darling, Separate, volenti), slow ; Not 'ike tin -wifi and joyous ones We u'ed to know When we ki -eel l,< muse we loved eaelt other Sirtiplv to taste love's sweet. And lavished our kisses as the summer Lavishes heat,— lint as they kiss whose hearts are wrung, When hope and fear are spent, And nothing i- lift to give, except A sacra inert! First of the three, my darling, Is sacred unto pain : We have hurt each other often ; We shall again. Win n we pine because we mis?each other, And do not understand How the written words are so much colder Than eye and hand. T ki.-s thee, dear, for all such pain Which we may give or take; Buried, forgiven before it comes For our love's sake ! The second kiss, my thirling, Is full of joy's eel thrill; We have blessed each other always; We always will. We shall reach until we feel each other, Fast all of time .mil space; We shall listen till we hear each other In every place; The earth is full of messengers, Vt hich love sends to ami fro : I kiss thee, darling, for all joy Which we shall know. The last kiss, oh, my darling, My love--1 cannot see Through my tears, as I remember What it nitty be. We may die and never see each other, Die, witli no time to give Any signs that our hearts are faithful To die, as live. Token of what they will not sco Wire see our parting breath. This ei-,e last kiss, my dnrling, seals The. seal of death! THE ROSEBUD AM) GOSSAMER. A FAIRY TALE. As tin honest woodman was sitting one evening, alter li is work was done, talk­ ing with his wife, he said, “ I hope the children will not run into that grove by the side of the river; it looks more gloomy than ever ; the old oak tree is sadly blasted anti torn : anil Fome odd folks, I am sure, are lurking about there, hut who they are, nobody knows.” The woodman, however, could not say that I hey brought ill-luck, whatever they were ; for every one said that the village Had thriven more than ever of late; that the fields looked gayer and greener; that even the sky was of a deeper blue, and that the moon and stars shed a brighter light. So, not knowing what to think, the good people very wisely • el the new comers alone, ami, in truth, seldom said or thought anything at all about them. That very evening, the woodman’s daughter Rosebud, and her playfellow Martin, ran out to have a game of hide- and-seek in the valley. “AVhere can he he hidden ?’’ said she ; “ he must have gone toward the grove; perhaps he is behind the old oak tree;” and down she ran to look, dust then she spied a little dog that jumped and frisked round her, and wagged his tail, and led her on toward the grove. Then he ran into it, ami she soon jumped up the hank by the side of the old oak tree to look for-him : but was overjoyed to see a beautiful meadow, where flowers and shrubs of every kind grew upon turf of I he softest green; gay butterflies flew oout; the birds sang sweetly; ami, what was strangest, the prettiest little children sported about like fairies on all •ides; some twining the flowers, and ethers dancirtgin ringsupon the smooth urf beneath the trees; Inthemidstof i lie grove, instead of the hovels of which Rosebud had heard, she could see a pal- zce. that dazzled her eyes with its bright­ ness. For a while she gazed on the fairy scene, till at last one of the little dancers ran up toiler, and said, “And so pretty Rosebud, you are come at last to see us? We have often seen you play about, and wished to have you with us.” Then she plucked some of the Iruit that grew near, and Rosebud at the first taste forgot her home, and wished only to see and know more of her fairy friends. So she jumped down the bank and joined the merry dance. Tlnoi they led her about with them, and showed her till their sports. One while they danced by moonlight on the primrose banks, at another time they skipped from bough to bough, among the trees that hung over the cooling sfreams, for they moved as lightly and easily through the air as on the ground ; ami Rosebud went with them every­ where, tor they bore her in their arms wherever they wished to go. Some­ times they would throw seeds on the turf, and little trees would spring up; ami then they would settheir feet upon the branches, and rise as the trees grew under them, till they danced upon the houghs in the air, wherever the breezes carried them, singing merry songs. At other times they would go and visit the palace of their queen; and there the richest food was spread before them, and the softest music was heard; and all around gr *w flowers, which were al­ ways cluing their hues, from scarlet to purple, and yellow, and emerald. Some- : imes they went to look at the heaps of t rettsure which were piled up in the royal ires ; for little dwarfs were always era P oyed in searching the earth for gold. •• tall tis this fairy land looked from without, it seemed within to have no end; a mist hung around it to shield it I tom the eyes of men ; and some of the it tie elves sat perched upon the outer­ most trees, to keep watch lest the Rtep t man should break in and spoil the charm. known before. “ How frightened my father and mother will he!” thought she, as she looked at the sun, which had risen some time. “They will wonder where I have been all night, and yet I must not tell them what 1 have seen.' Then she hastened homeward, won­ dering, however, as she went, to see that the leaves, which were yesterday so fresh anti green, were now falling dry and yellow around her. The cottage, too, seemed changed: and when she went in, there sat her father, looking some years older than when she saw him last, anil her mother, whom she hardly knew, was by his side. Close by was a young man. " Father,” said Rosebud, “ who is this?” “ Who are you that calls me father?" sail) he; "are you—no, you cannot, be—our long- lost Rosebud?” But they soon saw that it was their Rosebud: and the young man, who was het old friend ami playfellow Martin, said, “No wonder you had for­ gotten me in seven years ; do you not remember how we parted, seven years ago, while playing in the field? Wr thought you were quite lost; hut 1 am glad to see that some one has taken care of you and brought you home at last." Rosebud said nothing, for she could not tell all; hut she wondered at the strange tale, and felt gloomy nt the change from fairy land to her father's cottage. Little by little she came to herself, thought of her story as a mere dream, ami soon became Martin's bride. Ev­ erything seemed to thrive around them, and Rosebud thought of her friends, and so called lie • first little girl Eliie. The little thing was loved by every one. It was pretty and very good-tempered. Rosebud thought that it was very like a little elf: and, all without knowing why, called it the fairy-child. One day. while Rosebud was dressing her little Elfie, she found apiece of gold hanging around her neck by a silken thread ; and knew it to be of the same sort as she had seen in the hands of the fairy dwarfs. Elsie seemed sorry at its being seen, and said that she had found it in the garden. But Rosebud watched her, and soon found thatshe went every afternoon to sit by herself in a shady place behind the house. So one day she hid herself to see what the child did there, and to her great wonder Gossa­ mer was sitting by her side. “ Dear Elfie,” she was saying, “ your mother and I used to sit thus when she was young and lived among us. Oh, if you could hut come and do so too. But since our queen came to us it cannot he: yet 1 will come and see you and talk to you whilst you are a child; when you grow up we must part for­ ever." Then she plucked one of the roses that grew’ around them, and breathed gently upon it, and said, “ Take this for my Rake; it will now keep fresh for a whole year.” Then Rosebud loved her little Elfie more than ever ; and when she found that she spent some hours of almost every day with the elf, she used to hide herself ami watch them without being seen: till one day, when Gossamer was bearing her little friend through the air from tree to tree, her mother was so frightened lest her child should fall, that she could not help screaming out; and Gossamer set her gently on the ground, and seemed angry, and flew away. But still she used sometimes to come and play with her little friend ; and would soon, perhaps, have done so the same as before, had not Rosebud one day told her husband tho whole story ; for she could not hear to hear him always wondering and laughing at their little child’s odd ways, and saying he was sure there was something in the grove that brought them no good. So, to show him that all she said was true, she took him to see Elfie and the fairy ; hut no sooner did Gossamer know that he was there (which she did in an in­ stant), than she changed herself into a raven and flew oil' into the grove. Rosebud burst into tears, and so did Elfie, for she knew that she should see her dear friend no more; hut Martin was restless and bent upon following up his search after the fairies, so when stole away toward the Standing Com mi (tees of the Senate. The following is a list of the Standing Committees of the Senate for the pres­ ent session of Con Tess : Privileges and 77/ech'on.?—Sittnner, Chair­ man: Morton, Iticc, Carpenter, Logan, Hill amt Thurman. Foreign Relations—Cameron, Chairman; Itartan, Morton, Patterson, Schurz, Hamlin atnl Casserly. /Yaance—Sherman, Chairman; Morrill of Vermont, Fenton, t-cott, Ames, Wright ami Bayard. Appropriations—Cole,Chairman; Sprague, Sawyer, Edmunds, Windom, West and Ste­ venson. Commerce—Chandler, Chairman; Corbett, Kellogg, Spencer, Buckingham, Conkling and Vickers. Manufactures— Hamlin, Chairman; Rob­ ertson, Sprague, Gilbert and Johnson. Agriculture.—Moi ton, Chairman; Ereling- liuysen, Robertson, Lewis, and Davis of West Virginia. Military Affairs—Wilson, Chairman ; Cameron, Morton, Ames, Logan, West and Blair. Naval Affairs—Cragin, Chairman; An­ thony, Xye,Osborne, Ferry of Michigan,and Alcorn of Mississippi. Judiciarg—Trumbull, Chairman; Ed­ munds,Conkling,Carpenter, F 'elinghuysen, Pool and Thurman. Post Offices and Post Roads—Ramsey, Chairman: Pomeroy, Gilbert, Cole, Hamlin, Ferry of Michigan, Kelley. Public Lands—Pomeroy, Chairman; Tip- ton, Osborne, Sprague, Windom, Logan and Casserly. Private Land Claims—Davis of Kentucky, Chairman; Perry of Connecticut, Caldwell, Bayard, Blair. Indian Affairs—Harlan, Chairman; Cor- bott, Buckingham, Frelinghuyseu, Wilson, Caldwell, Davis of Kentucky. Pension.?—Edmunds, Chairman; Tipton, Pratt, Brownlow, Hamilton of Texas, Logan, Saulsbury. Revolutionary Claims—Poole, Chairman; Brownlow, Corbett, Hill, Davis of West Virginia. Claims—Howe, Chairman; Scott, Pratt, Stewart, Borcman, Davis of West Virginia. District of Columbia—Patterson, Chair­ man ; Sumner, Lewis, Spencer, Sawyer, Hitchcock, Vickers. Patents—Ferry, of Conn., Chairman ; Car­ penter, Morrill, of Maine; Windom, Hamil­ ton, of Maryland. Public Ruildings and Grounds—Morrill, of Vermont, Chairman ; Trumbull, Cole, Sum- tier. Stockton. Territories—Hyo, Chairman ; Cragin, Schurz, Borenian, Hitchcock, Clayton, and Cooper. Pacific Railroads—Stewart, Chairman; RaiuBey, Harlan, Rice, Fenton, Soott, Kel­ logg, Hitchcock, Cooper, Ferry, of Michi­ gan ; and Kelly. Mines and Mining—Rico, Chairman; Chandler, Flanagan, Tipton, Caldwell, Al­ corn, Saulsbury. Revision of the Laws of the United States— Conkling, Chairman; Carpenter, Stewart, Wright, and Hamilton, of Maryland. Education and Labor—Sawyer, Chairman ; Morrill, of Vermont; Flanagan, Patterson, and Johnson. 7'o Audit and Control Contingent Expenses of the Senate— Fenton, Chairman ; Windom and Saulsbury. Printing—Anthony, Chairman ; Ilowoand Casserly. Library-~Morrill, of Maine, Chairman ; Howe and Sherman. Engrossed Rills—Buckingham, Chairman ; Clayton and Davis, of West Virginia. Enrolled Pi'/is—Carpenter, Chairman; Lewis and Kelly. Select Committee on Revision of Rules— Pomeroy, Chairman; Edmumds and Bay­ ard. Removal of Political Disabilities—Robert­ son, Chairman ; Borenian, Ames, Hamilton, of Texas; Vickers, Clayton, and Stevenson. On Levees of the Mississippi—Kellogg, Chairman; Trumbull, Schurz, Alcorn, and Blair. Alleged Outrages in the Southern States— Scott, Chairman; Chandler, Rice, Pool, Pratt, Bayard, and Blair. RELICS OF THE CHICAGO I IRE. Their Jlumifiieliire—A Museum fur their Preserviiliuii—Some Articles which mi«lit he Ciiiilriliiileil us ('hnriieicrisiie Tokens. From Hit' Chicago Times of Dec. lit. The Chicago fire relies are just now the most numerous iti the world, infi­ nitely more so than pieces of the cruci­ fix on which our Savior died, which are encountered in Italy. In point of num­ ber, they surpass the Roman coins in the British Museum, or the tablets, statues, ami mosaics that Pompeii and Herculaneum have resurrected. They are more interesting in this numerous feature than they are in any intrinsic merit of their own. This fact has been duly appreciated in Milwaukee, where they have already established a manu­ factory of Chicago relics that is doing a larger business than Milwaukee ever hoped to obtain. Milwaukee may do a smashing trade in a certain line of Chicago relies. They can probably manufacture paper weights by fusing papers of tacks together, or can melt beads into a heterogeneous mass; they can spoil old crockery by a blow pipe combination, imitate the articles of “ tue” which are supposed is left of Chicago as it was. There are other relics of Chicago, however, which Milwaukee can never hope to achieve. There are relics of Chicago trade and Chicago energy that Milwaukee will never he able to imitate. Among the rarest relics are greenbacks. For a few days subsequent to the lire, and before the hanks opened, a $10 government hill looked as big as a bed blanket. After the hanks opened there were greenbacks enough, but their p\ as and otherwise bigotry and vir- to he all that A tiied relics was taken by checks, ind certified check was so rarely seen that it promised to become as much of curiosity as Mahlon Ogden’s house or Mr. McCagg’s conservatory, on the North Side. Charred currency was one the most deceptive of all the relies : fire turned out. The more you had th And who are you ?” said Rosebud one day. “ We are what are called elves in your world,” said one whose name was Gossamer, and who had become her deal est friend ; “ we are told you talk a great deal about us. Some of our tribes like to work you mischief, hut we who live here seek only to he happy ; we meddle little with mankind, and when we do come among them it is only to do them good.” “ And where is your queen?” said-Rosebud. “Hush! hush! you cannot see or know her ; you must leave us before she comes back, which will he now very soon, for mortal step cannot come where she is. But you will know that she is here when you see the meadows gayer, the rivers more spark- l.’ig, and the sun brighter.” Soon atterward Gossamer told Rose­ bud the time was come to hid her fare well; and she gave her a ring in token of her friendship, anti led her to the c Igo of the grove. “ Think of me,” ■.aid she; “hut beware how you tell what you have seen, or try to visit us again: for if you do, we shall quit this grove and come back no more.” Turn ing hack, Rosebud saw nothing hut the old oak and the gloomy grove 6he had night came he grove. When he came to it nothing was to he seen hut the old oak, and the gloomy grove, and the hovels; and the thunder rolled, and the wind whistled. It seemed that all about him waR angry. So ho turned homeward, frightened at what he had done. In the morning all the neighbors Hocked around, asking one another what the noise and hustle of the last night could mean; and when they looked about them their trees seemed blighted and the meadows parched; the streams were dried up, and everything seemed troubled and sorrowful. But yet they all thought that, some­ how or other, the grove bail not near so forbidding a look as it used to have. Strange stories were told : how one had heard Hutterings in the air,another had seen the grove alive, as it were, with little beings, that flew away from it. Each neighbor told his tale, and all wondered what could have happened. But Rosebud and her husband knew what was the matter, and bewailed their folly ; for they foresaw that their kind neighbors, to whom they owed all their luck, were gone forever. Among the bystanders none told a wilder story than the old ferryman,who plied across the river at tho foot of the grove. He told how at midnight his boat was carried away, and how hun­ dreds of little beings seemed to load it with treasures ; how a strange piece of gold was left for him in the boat as his tare ; how the air seemed full of fairy form fluttering around ; how at last a great train passed over, that seemed to he guarding their leader to the meadows ou the other side; and how he heard soft music floating overhead; and sweet voices that sang mournfully a sad song of farewell. Poor Elfie mourned their loss the most, and would spend whole hours in looking upon the rose that her play­ fellow had given her, and singing over it the pretty air that she had taught her; till at length, when the year’s charm had passed away, and it began to fade, she planted tho stalk in her garden, and there it grew, till she could sit under the shade of it, and think of her friend Gossamer.—Lady's Journal. Hr. Sumner Prescribes. Senator Sumner has introduced a new bill to facilitate a return to specie payments. His plan is to issue every month ten millions of interest-bearing legal tender notes, similar to those that were issued in 1863 and 1864, and to cancel a like amount of greenbacks, the process to go on till all the greenbacks have been thus replaced. The new notes, he proposes, shall hear a 5 per cent, interest, and shall be paid in coin at the end of three years, or converted into 5 per cent, bonds at the option of the Government. By this means, Mr. Sumner thinks, resumption could be reached without shock to business, or serious disturbance of prices. The new notes would follow the course of the similar notes issued during the war. They would first pass for currency for two or three months, until a sufficient amount of interest had accumulated on them to make it an object for people to hoard them. They would then disap­ pear from circulation. The constant retirement of the interest notes would steadily lessen the volume of currency remaining in circulation, and bring it nearer to gold value, until it would finally reach par. Resumption would then take place, and all the hoards of gold and silver in the country would become a part of the circulating me dium, preventing any injurious contrac­ tion resulting from the completion of tho process of withdrawing the green hacks, which, in about three years, would all he converted into interest notes and bonds. Mr. Sumner’s plan hits the approval financiers, hankers, in New England. The wife is the sun of the social sys­ tem. Unless she attracts there is noth­ ing to keep heavy bodies like husbands from flying ott'into space. scum of “ Chicago as it Was” could be made up that would he more of a curiosity than any monument of old safes. Current Items. Mrs. Sarah .1. Hale, editress of Godey's Lady's Book, is 84—and still she’s Hale. Mrs, O'Leary's cow, that either did, or didn’t, set Chicago on fire, has been bought on speculation by two Louisville (Ivy.) hoys. A Boston firm shipped a hook-and- ladder carriage last week to Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, by way of the Pacific railroad to San Francisco. Mrs. Stanton, widow of the late Edwin M. Stanton, resides in a fine mansion at Germantown, Philadelphia. She has a yearly income from the “Stanton fund” of $7,000. The United States survey steamer Hassler, with its distinguished party of scientific explorers, sailed from Boston on the 4th upon its voyage along the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North and South America. -1 ahes McCcxn, while walking on the Long Island railroad track near Dutch Kills, was struck by a locomotive and lalally injured Tuesday evening. His wife was killed a year ago by a train on the Flushing road. Washington Territory has more than doubled its population during the last ten years, has $11,500,000 worth of tax­ able property, and the annual exports tire valued at $4(10,000. Its saw-mills get out 130,000,000 feet of lumber an­ nually. .‘The Peabody (Mass.) Tress says: “ Many persons who have had occasion to visit the Essex depot in this town, have for some time past noticed a large dun-colored dog, who anxiously watches the passengers as they alight, as though seeking for some particular person. This dog belonged to Mr. Ernest S. Merrill, one of the victims of the Revere disaster. When young Merrill left Prosotly. Household Recipes. Molasses Drop Cake—Ono. cup of mo­ lasses, half a cup of butter or lard, half a cup of water, three cups of Hour, two teaspoonstuls of ginger, one teaspoonful of soda. Beat well together, and drop with a spoon on a buttered pan, or in muffin rings. Bake quickly. Mince Meat—One pound of finely chopped roast beef, half a pound of chopped suet, quarter of a peck of chopped tipples, one pound of raisins, quarter of a pound of currants, same quantity of citron, one nutmeg, two ta­ ble spoonfuls of cinnamon, juice of two lemons, one pound of sugar, and cider ami brandy to moisten it Buckwheat Cakes—A griddle for baking should never he greased, as this destroys the delicate flavor of the cakes. Scour well with a cloth and sand, and wash with hot suds, wipe dry, anti just before taking rub witli a coarse cloth and salt, t is not necessary to wash and scour it every time it is wanted; only once to get all the grease out; hut use the cloth and salt every time you put on fresh cakes, just as grease would he used. To Cook an Old Fowl—Dress and stuff' as for roasting ; then boil three hours in a covered pot with one quart of wa­ ter, to which add two tablespoon fills of vinegar ; then take it from the water, ul> over with a little butter, sprinkle on some Hour, and put the fowl into a hake-pan, anti hake it in a hot oven ono 'lour. Use the liquor in the pot for gravy and to haste with. The vinegar makes it very tender, hut does not taste at all. Connecticut Raised Doughnuts—Heat a pint of milk just lukewarm and stir into it a small cup of melted lard, and sift in Hour until il is a thick hatter; add a small cup of domestic yeast, and keep it warm until the hatter is light, then work into it four beaten eggs, two cups of sugar rolled free from lumps, a tea­ spoonful of salt and two of cinnamon. When the whole is well mixed, knead in Hour until about as stiff as buscuit lough. Set it where it will keep warm till of a spongy lightness, then roll the dough out half an inch thick ami cut it into cakes. Let them remain till light, then fry them in hot lard. Lemon Cake—Two cups of Hour, two of sugar, six eggs, six tablespoon fills of butter, four of milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar sifted with the Hour, and one teaspoofnl of soda. Beat all well together, and hake in two loaves. For the jelly to use with it, take tlireo- burths of a pound of sugar, one-fourth of a pound of butter, six eggs, the rind of three lemons grated, and the juice, teat the sugar, butter and eggs thor­ oughly together, and set in a dish of hot water until heated, then add the grated emon and juice; stir until thick enough and quite smooth, then split the cake md put this jelly in while warm. It is very delicious. Taking up Roots.—Much extra labor may he avoided by managing the root larvest with judgment. There is a great deal of handling of this crop, and many a back-ache is necessarily incident to it at tho best. A serviceable and useful tool to pick up roots, either tur­ nips or potatoes, may be made by taking piece of three-eighth round iron rod three feet long, bending it in the shape of a scoop, bringing the ends together, and inserting them into a long fork- landle. Then with one-eighth inch iron wire weave a basket, shaped like a deep spoon or ladle, on this frame of rod, with interstices two inches square. The effect is to make a tool with which roots may be scooped up rapidly with­ out stooping, and pitched into a cart or wagon, or thrown into a heap for pit­ ting. Small potatoes, stones, and loose earth will escape through the spaces. We have used such a contrivance many seasons with great increase of comfort and expedition in harvesting our root crops. Varied Diet for Poultry.—Corn is the cheapest and best food for fowls, if we are to name one article. They like it better than any other grain, and it probably must always be the main de­ pendence in this country in keeping K iultry. But there must he a variety. ens are as omnivorous, perhaps, as any animal in the world, man excepted. They even exceed swine in this respect. We all know how distasteful a uniform diet is to ourselves. The appetite, both in men and brutes, is determined by the varying state of the system, and a kind of food that is craved at one time will be rejected at another. Wheat- bran is excellent. Hens soon tire of cooked grain, but it should be fed part of the time. Every day in the year, when fowls do not have access to grass, fresh vegetable food should he allowed, and a small quantity of meat if there is not insect forage. Corn should pre­ ponderate for growing chickens, be­ cause the cheapest, and for fattening fowls; hut for layers wheat should occu­ py a prominent place. Foreign Agricultural Items.— In France, one consequence of the war has been to seriously reduce the number of grazing cattle. Fat beeves are exceedingly scarce, and cattle men are devoting their energies to raising young stock as the basis of a future supply.-----In Western Russia there are vast natural prairies hitherto unused. It is now proposed to utilize these by means ot it company, headed by a Russian prince, who propose to stock them with cattle, and, after fattening them, to prepare the beef in a portable shape for ship­ ment to the markets of Western Eu­ rope.----- English papers wonder at the fact that sixty-two agricultural fairs have been held during September am October in four New England States only,-----Two agricultural colonies from France are about to settle on the Santa Cruz river in Patagonia.-----The director of the San Jose Colony, which left France to settle in the Argentine Re public, regrets that he did not choose the Mississippi Valley as the location o his enterprise.-----An agricultural asso­ ciation for improvement in farm opera­ tions and the education ot the farmers by the establishment of agricultura journals, has been inaugurated in Bel gium. __ ________ .____ On Monday of last week, four men The following rhymed robuke of oommon orrnrs in pronunciation conveys some useful hints: I ' Tticru was a Girl, and sho was fair to see. Whoso classic ’nomcn was Kurydice ; As lull of mischief, tike to most young ladios, Sometimes raising Cain, and sometimes Hades. This smiling beauty, though she gained eclat. To use hyperbole, eonccnled a claw. A flirt she was—and thought no sin to bo— Though driving levers into syncope. She flattered some, though always “sino die," Until they were all crowned with misery. Sho danced and waltzed, until quito sick was she. tiler Goddess was Terpsichore); Rut soon got well and cat her hominy. With all the tragic airs of great Melpomene. Iter mind sometimes on Jupiter and Io. Would dwell—mixed up with Virgo and with Leo; Her favorite book was Don Quixote, Although prone to think him rough and haughty. Still from ner lips, to hear a diatribe. Was worth the world, and all the rest beside. A maid she had ; fat, fair and fancy free. Rejoicing in the name, Euphrosyne: This demoiselle thought herself a Throne, Though her mistress called her “ stupid ninny," Her favorite author was Dumas Fils— (Each well-thumbed work was spotted o’er with grouse). Amt thou sho owned a small epitome Of ancient Rome, which was a sight to see. Stic knew but little of Professor Blot, Her cooking was indifferently slow Bui her chief care was on the household Lares, Round which she Itustled like a hundred fairies. In short, take her all in all. it was plain to seo She favored Juno more than Niobe. Kurydice, at length, was, strango to say, Enchanted with a man, and brought to bay; Henceforth her constant study was to bo, llow best to imitate Calliope. Whilo her fair maid, we scarco need indieate, Brought her Penates to the Syndicate ; Ind helped, their Epithalamiuin to sing, _ Though not the least connected with " tho ring. Euryuice, farewell I and you too, fair Euphro- syne 1 Forgive us thut wo uso your names to air our prosody. Chips from Other Blockheads. Love, a cough, and money, cannot long be hid. A stamp you can’t buy—Tho stamp of a gentleman. It costs more to avenge wrongs than to bear them. Tiie great unknown—peoplo who never advertise. Old sailors are never so much at sea as when they are on shore. It is a mistake to suppose that Alexis lives on Czar-dines. We very frequently hear of Generals capturing pieces of artillery. “ What's the use ot capturing pieces?” says Mrs. Partington ; “ why not capture whole ones ?” A Dutch .Justice gives the following oath to witnesses: “You do awfully swore you will toll tho truth, tho whole truth, and nothing but the truth, tho best what you can’t.” Let every man be himself; let him cultivate first, self-retipect; and then respect for others. Belf-respect gives self-possession, and self-possession is ono the crowning graces of society. “ Mv dear,” said a young lady to her country cousin, “when you’ve been a littlo longer in London you won’t be so green.” “ Better green than withered? ” was the retort. The New York World accounts for the inequality of the sexes by saying that in early life the boy masters his oppor­ tunities, while the girl commonly misses hers. The following notice is sfuck up on a bridge at Denver, in Colorado: “ No vehicle drawn by more than ono animal is allowed to cross this bridge in oppo­ site directions at the same time." They are fond of titles in the East. Among his other high sounding titles the King of Ava lias that of “ Lord of Twenty-four Umbrellas.” This lookH as though he was prepared for a long reign “Do you observe what a fine head my boy has?” said an admiring father to a circle of friends. “Come here my son. You’re a chip of the old block, aren’t you?" “Yes, pa. The teacher toltl me yesterday that I was a regular blockhead.” A County Clerk in Iowa recently re­ ceived a note reading as follows : Mis­ ter Klurc—Sur—Tssoo marrig lisens to wunst for Mister----- and Mis----- for sucumstances requir ’em to marry rite oil'. 'They is old enuff’,----------- , step mother and ant. Soliciting relief of an English lady, a Frenchman gravely said: “ Madame, I nevaire beg, but dat 1 have von vife vid several small family dat is growing very arge, and nosing to make dere bread out of but de perspiration of my own eyebrow.” of it the less it was worth. If you sent thousand dollars’ worth of it to Wash­ ington, you would he pretty sure to get ark about Reven dollars and a half— the remainder being national bank currency which the government knows too much to redeem. About as uncomfortable a relic as the tire left was a safe. Unlike Mrs. foodies’ door-plate, with the name of Thompson, and her coffin, it is not a taiidy thing to have in the house. The uggestion for a monument of safes was, therefore, greedily accepted try all men who were so unfortunate as to he the own- re of these iron instances of incon­ stancy. The only objection to this scheme for a monument of safes is that, it another great lire should come, it would probably he among the first things to he destroyed. If it is desira hie to have a monument of the great conflagration, which shall he tire-proof, it would probably be surer to build it of papier mache. A good relic of the fire is an insur­ ance policy, ft is worth more as a relic than it is as a policy. There will also io no difficulty in keeping it. It would be the la-st thing on earth that anybody would ever steal. An insurance policy in a Chicago company would he a good thing to throw in among your papers of alue. It would be burglar-proof. If a thief should ever come across it he would drop the whole mass as valueless. T a Chicago insurance policy is bettor or one thing than it is for another, it is better as a relic than it is for kindling lire; as a rule, it is too hard ami tough to serve for the latter purpose. Among the most dilapidated relies of the conflagration was that numerous anatomical specimen, usually preserved in spit its, that is sometimes known as hummer ” and sometimes as “ scala wag." The fire cleaned out this class of individuals so completely that one of them will henceforth lie regarded as the greatest curiosity of this community. It might he an interesting, ami cer­ tainly a highly patriotic proceeding to gather together into a museum ol the fire a relic from each of the most prom­ inent institutions and buildings of the city. A few suggestions may contribute to give this movement some practical shape. From the, Tribune building might be taken that historic cockroach which seemed to be about the only live thing about the establishment. If something more characteristic were desired, and the museum building should prove to sufficiently strong to bear up under the weight, one of the editorials of that paper—select any one for the past four years—would indicate something of the ponderosity of the institution. From the Times establishment there would he so many good things to select that it would he difficult to hunt its representative. It would he most char­ acteristic, perhaps, to select one of the religious articles of the Sunday edition criticizing the worldly and profane course of the daily editions, or a chapter on the horrible crime of abortion, as practiced in this city before tho lire. In the matter of the Mail, Republican, Post, and Journal, their entire edition for one day might be gathered in without taking up any room to speak of. The theatres would furnish some in­ teresting relics. Crosby’s Opera-House might possibly contribute some blonde wigs, a good many short skirts, a few pads for the limbs, and one or two Theodore Thomas tickets. McVicker could spare some of the brass horns he used to have in his orchestra, and a mo del for the most cosy auditorium in the country. From Wood's Museum might be bottled one of those ancient and fish like smells that used to come up from the regions below, and a lady’s hand kerchief to he used alternately in pro tecting the nose from this onslaught and in “smashing” the young men in the parquet. From Hooley’s might he transmitted Frank Aiken’s “ Ticket-of- Leave." The Dearborn theatre couh deposit for safe-keeping that wonderfu baby which created such a rumpus in its internal arrangements. The hotels of Chicago could club to gether and, in this way peril. | \ et u one goed square meal. The hank could make a liberal donation of dis counted paper, on transactions that took place just before the fire without collateral, 1 lie churches might present a contribution-box as one of the things most essential to the welfare in the fu ture as in the past. 1° complete the collection, each in Come to the dividual and each business could proba­ bly suggest and contribute, until $ mu- of many eminent and business men Lucifer Matches. The invention of the lucifer match was recently claimed by an English chemist, Mr. Isaac Holden, in his evi dence before the Patent Committee of Parliament. The production of thi most useful and at the same time ! most dangerous fire-work, it is said, was due to a happy thought which flashet through the brain of Mr. Holden. This gentleman was obliged to rise very early in the morning to pursue his chemica studies, and experienced great annoy ance from his tedious elicits to strike light by means of Hint and steel. lie was giving lectures at the time to a very large academy. Mr. Holden says that he knew the ordinary explosive materia necessary to produce instantaneous light hut that it was very difficult to obtain t flame on wood by that explosive mate rial. The idea then occurred to him to place sulphur under the explosive sub­ stance, and the expedient proved en­ tirely successful. The experiment was exhibited in Mr. Holden’s lecture-room, and a young man present immediately wrote to his father, a chemist in Lon­ don, in referenco to the discovery, and shortly afterwards, it is stated, lucifer matches were manufactured and offered for sale. Motto for a ptd show— •cratch.” ome for the last time his dog left him it the depot. The faithful dog still watches for his master, who will never ome hack.” Gen. Gorloff, the Russian represen­ tative pro tem at Washington, is a soldier and a scholar, lie is the author of sev- ral works on military tactics. For some time past he has been superin­ tending the manufacture of arms for his Government, at Hartford, the Czar living entered into a large contract for capons with a large firm in the latter city. Lika all of his countrymen, Gen. Gorloff gained the good will of all Americans with whom he came in con- tet, and was probably one of the most lopular men in Hartford. Miss Creak .(pronounced Cra-ak), the atly to whom Gen. D. E. Sickles is mar- ied, is but twenty-two. She was born in Spain, speaks English imperfectly, and is represented as beautiful and ac­ complished, hut not wealthy. Her father is Assistant Treasurer of the Province of Andalusia. The family is of Irish descent, has long been settled in Spain, and occupies an enviable social position. Miss Creak was an in- imate friend of Gen. Sickles’ daughter, an