• THE BUBBLE~ ' t NO, 5, Single Copies, 5 Cts, LANSING, AUGUST 29, laes, Hezekiah Z, Solemnstyle, Editor, Til E nUBBLE Is 1mbllshed by tho STOICAL PE~ YA:SKERS' SOCIETY, nt t.h o AORRICUL' '.rUHAL COLI,EOE. - Issued ou Saturday, Jnl10 2OLh; ngul11 o n Saturday. July l8tll, t\l\d at. intervals o f throo wceks thereafter, uutll, in all, seven" uumbers havo beon pul)lIshcd. SUbSCllp. tlou prIce for tho five lnst numbers, 2.3 cents . Correspondence soHoHed. All Communications must b o addressed to th o S£CltET,\RY OF TIU; 8 . P. Y. S ., MICH. STATE Aon'L COLLEGE. EDITORIAL, 'fo the world, which it iR our duty to instruct, to correct, to reform, give 'Va never for n we again greeting. moment forget our charge, or cease to exercise anxious thought for the welfare of men. 'Ve now send out our little messenger fur the fifth time, and it is with renewed hope, for we gain every day fresh assurances thnt the efforts we have put forth and are still putting forth, will be crowned 11ltimntely, with glorious success! We feel we are becoming a power in the land, Our early opposers, if not convinced and· converted, are at least Silenced, for indeed they cannot but know how useless it were to throw their puny weight in the way of TRUTH, marching forth in he-r maje-s ty! Our friends Rre uume\'ous and constantly increasing in number; and people have long since ceased to do so absurd a thing as to offer 'Us their advice. It does our heart good when we walk forth, to respond to the pleasant greetings with which we are met all aU hands by our patrons ; they aU address us as "Dear Uncle Ifez.," and it is exceedingly gratifying to witness with what appearance of con fidence, people ask our ndvice upon nIl subj ects. 'Ve .cannot stnte as to whether our advice is always follow ed , but we presume it is, if not, we look forward hoperuUy to the time whon such will be the case, We have noticed with much pleasure that it is considered a good thing in all circled to quote from our columns, and we believe that the Bubble is generally considered higl1 authority in all mat ters of ,vhich it may treat. 'Ve con clnde from the amount wo have heard quoted in a single evening at n. social party, that our readers are very at tentive ones at lea. t, One only suggestion has been made to us lntely, as to what it were best for us to do. It wus thought that we ought to hoist the political flag and come out boldly for some party. Perhaps we should not have noticed this in an editorial, were it not · that we have received severnl com munications of a partisan character which we cannot publish, nud we wish to warn persons "against sending us such in the tuture. "Vo once though t of doing- something in the way of pOlitics, believing as we did, that we might do much good ill that way. But we have since changed our mind, The man we most wished to see th e next Presidont, failed to get the nomination, (see correspon dence, Bubble, No.1,) hence we havo resolved to abstain entirely from meddling with party questions. Graver matters than politics de mand our energies. The intellectual and mornl welbeing of man has to be attended to, and who but us will attend to it? We are still resolveel to continue our work until ignorance and prejudice are driven hence, and enlightenment has become general thoughout all our broad fielel of labor! EDITOR. A FRAGMENT, A BALL ROOM! swHtly moving Corms n11 ga~', Are Circling thoro in mazes oC t.ho danco: And milid go t.ho feet.; Bweetmus loswells; All oyes nro brIght.ly flashIng : Ups el0 s mlle, And h nud clasps hand with pressuro soft and warm; Thero benut.y leans olllnnnly arm; eye m eets Eye; bosoms the re do heave, Ins tinct with liCe, And love, , nnel 11e3oco, and Joy, and hope! AUES! -Tho onrtntnrises-yenl"s ha.ve flown awny Behold we now that. ball-room onco again; And forms of youth and beauty , too,are there, Bllt not. those we boheld In dnys gono by: . And should you asI;: wher e those we saw h ayo fie el , You would bo told t h at they hrwc gOll e before, Arc in the silent grave and sleep ill dust! Fond lovor,1xtusc ! tha t Jewelled hand you hold Anon, nlonthsolUe thing uccays in cll.l"th, A food fol' worms, a h onhl, h ideous thIng ! '£hat beauteous face YOll v iew so ardent 110W, Within the tomb 8hn1110se its COllll111ess; And that fnlr [ol'm, so porfect.nll, shall BOOll Disolvo and decompose, with common clay Shnllmlxnnd unught 01 her you 10vo remaIn. '1'ho great, tho wise, tho proud , tho bnwe ; Tho good, Tho bnd; tho hlgb, tho lOW, must nll s uccumb , Thell' bodies nH, pnrtslnks to dust., nncll)art To nIl' rctnrns,-ns gas, rCll1rnB,-Unwhole- som e, foul! Absurd nne1 fooUsh they ! who m nlte t hls clo(\ Th' Immortal part, nlld saved nt that GnEAT D.\Y; For seest thon not. t11nt all these clem ents In mnl1Y bodies do pnrtlcipate ? And dissolution rnpldly goe::! on, And I)odles n ew nre formed frO:.J.l t hose de- cnycd. But yot not all decays; base skept·iCS Ue, Am1 glory In their lies ! 0, wretched cheat! Anlhllntlon Is n. thing abhorred, By mnn, by GOD! the SOUL trlumphnnt s tUll 0'01' flesh nlle\ d enth , the z,usnimmol·taillvesl MY INTRODUCTION, 1l1y father was a ,venlt hy farmer in one of the eastern States, and I wa ~ his only daughter. ]'Iy age was eighteen, and as all know, ,Young men there are very scarce, while young ladies are very num erOl1S j hence it waS that my father wns anx ious lest I shoule\ be numbereel in the list of old mnids, anel be left in the cold world alone, to elbow my way through life, He bad a great horror of old maids' elbows. Acting undel' sucb motives, he used often to invite young men to our house from the neighboring city, ho ping that some one of them would take a foncy to poor me. One day, as he was about starting to the City, he carne to me and said that be was going to invite a young gentleman home with him, on whom he was very desirous I should make a favor I promised to do able impression. my best, and my paternal departed, his mind occupied, alternately, with the prospects of his daughter, ' and tbe probable profits on certain fat cattle in his possession, As the time drew neal' for him to return, I began to be in a great fiut Jer, and AS is generally the case :with girls, was very desirous of seeing and looks, dress, and scrutini zing the manners of the visitor who was to return with hiIll, before he should I knew that on my fll-th er 's see me. return, he would drive at 011ce to th e barn, and as a matter of course, would have to show his fat cattle, before coming to th e house. " That a good opportunity? I would go to the barn and post myself over the stable, and through some hole 01' crack, mnke observations. Acting on this happy thought, I went to tho barn, climbed to the loft and found a fnvorable point from which to observe all that might hap- , pen below. At last they came, and, as I expected, the cattle must under go inspection. Ox after ox WAS com mented upon, unUral last they came to the one beneath me. I leaned for ward to get a better view of the young man's features, when, oh dear I the board gave way, and through I went, onto the back of the very ox rl'h~ poor I they w ere inspect.ing. "frightened nuimal commenced to jump and kick, which jumping and kicking, resulted in landing me at the feet of the astonished visilor and my worthy p·aternal. I would have jumped and run as I was unhurt, but before I could do so, t he young maD W tlS assisting me to arise, an d my fn ,th er mumbled something about his daughter's gathering eggs, &c. After such a l'omnnticintroductir)ll, it is needless to sny that there was a tragic termination. W e were soon married', )fIts. TIMOTHY PESTRIC. UGLINESS. There are more ugly things in the world than fife comprehended, under the various c1n sse~ of snakeR, bugs, spiders, and toads. Neither are tbey confined to the lower animals, or to l animals nt u11 j for mankind, both in them.elves and the thinge belonging to them, contribute largely to the ug- . ly things which do appear on this mundane sphere. Taking first mankind ,- Men are not generally handsome. There are 1\ goodly number whom we style pretty good looking, lacking an ugly nose or chin, bad eyes or teeth, an ugly forehead, horrid hair, or at least some 1.lgline88 somewhere. To nIl this men generally add an ugly mus tache. Not yet satisfied they add ug ly habitB - they chew, snuff, and smoke tobacco, mnking their breath as odorous as a burniug peat bog, and mouth as pleasant to look upon as the miasmatic ewnmps of Florida. ~our beer, dilu ted whiskey, an d worse wino are also swallowed ill abundance, until the"orinkers become walking distilleries, perambulating grog shops, or bipedal whislwy bar l·els. Now aU this 'is t'UlV-it is ugliness aggravated - aggravated and con· glomerated. This ought not so to be. A man was not intended to be a mon' ster in ugliness. Man ]18S enou gh natural uglin ess without deliberatoly making himself ten-fold more ugly. BESS.C--. W E HAVE NO'l'IOED that our ffiend Mr. Dawson drives out a great deal lately,-doubtles., to "how off his new lIrig." LANSING. I've beel) through LanSing. 'Tis a "biE thing," taken all in all, 'but poo~Jy filled out. ~. ;', The town is ' situate on one of t.he curves of Qeauty of t,he Ram's-.Horn R. R., and is three 01' fonr miles, more 01' less, westward frqm. Hie Ag. ricultural College. Derive ... ·i'nuch of, . its importnnce from itspropinq"tlity to th e above named establishment. It is bounded 011 the north and west by the "Big :1\1a1'sh," Oll t,he east by illimit able MU(!, and on the south by infi nite Swamp. It is also on th e Grand Ri\'erj Grand River is noted for poly wogs and c ranes, and mostly naviga ted by this sort of cra ft. The h ouses are !::iown broadcnst~ among the shrubs, and g rubs, and holes, and knolls of an Oak Opening. Big lots in LanSing, equal t.o those famous ones of Great S"lt Lake City. L ot.s about twenty-five r ods square. Every man apparently re~ign e d to his lot, in LanSing, as not many arc seeu on the street j but with women it is far otherwise. Lansing is noted for beautiful women, ugly men and -the" Big Hote1." It also has ma-: ny SodA. Fountains, Saloons, and such .J \ multitude of Churches, that every house you come to that is not a barn or a. dwelling house, or a saloon, or the" Big Hotel," or something else~ is a meeting house. Every possible, and impossible, religious denomina .. tion has n church . . Dutch Retormed, and Dutch UnrOformed; Baptist, Soft.helled, as weli as Hardshelied; Methodists and Universnlists and Mu .. tilationists, aU have thei r Churches. The Lansingites think L ansing is a. , l\1iddle capital place for a Capitol. (Serious doubts !) LanSing is divided into Lower Town, 'fown and Mackerel Point, th e last named divis· ion lying at the junction of the Graud River with the. classic Red Cedar, (made classic by running through the grounds of the AGRICULTURAL FARM, popularly so called.) The standard of morals in Lansing is not so high as it might be, and i t is made decidedly 1)0 better by the association of t.he people with bien .. llinl Legislators nnd occasional Con stitutional Conventionists. There is, however, an oasis-iu the vast desert of Lan~ in g; it is the Female College. A healthful, moml atmosphere .per- ·. vades this place, (they take ·the Buh ble), and I wili ever deCen,! it with nil the vi gor of my immodal pen. ~rheSt.ate buildings are splencUa; and th e g rounds En.lrl'ounding the:J!!. are finely nnd artistically ·laid out;. par ticularl y the Croquet g roU11ds.' _ '. Lansing possesses mnny fine th in g~. A new State House of sandstone j cost $80.0,000 (in prospect). A system of street cars running in ali diree tions ; cost $100,000 (in prospect) . . A population consbting mostly of hon .. est men and modes t women (in far prospect). . Lansing is S\ "Big 'Place." TELEMECHUS TOOTHDOX. 'l'HE DEGENERACY OF · 'l'HE 'l'IMES. BY O. XEltXES. Paper Pto. 2. Again we' inquire how a happier state of affa irs may be brought about , Rnd reason r€'~'3 tored to a distracted world. Cnn the clergy bring th e mind of man to a. peaceful develop ment of afi'tlirs, and n qui et submis sion to th e immutable laws of tho In· ''''hile constantly engaged finUe, th emselves in a t heological warfare? Again, will politicians sec ure a peaceable an~ permanent adjustment between all controversies nnd conten ding factions, wlio are th emselves the blind votaries of unworthy ambition? I answer most emphatically, No. How then, may it be asked, is this great revolution t.hllt is to change so materially the morals and charncter of the nation (and perhaps the world) be accomplished? But lIsten, ab, be subscribers and patronizers 01 the Bubble and the ar cnnum shall be revealed, the incom .. prehensible and intangible shall be made plain, and though clergy hurl their missiles of theological warfare, anll politicians shake their learned heads in political rivalry, yet verily, verily, we say unto you, that neither these, the price of gold, or the next Presidential election, will change one iota the inflexible purposes of the PenYankers or the sentiments uf the Bu.bble. Thither t hen the world seelns to t urtl it,':) anxious gaze, and thither with a voice of inspiration we rfspond . '£0 lock forever in the archi ves of your State the disorgan izing and revolutionary ~l ell1on of party spirit and political hate, to be come'the universal fdends and pat ronizers of ·the B ubble; for th e youth .. ful mind we willlleither delude with the wild fancies of fictioD, or drug ,yith the sediments of political ambi tion. When these results ha:'e taken ef fect yo u may expect to see the reign of Pericles and th ~ age of heavy literature. . The Boai'd of Agriculture held " regular m eeting here on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of t he pre sent week. IRISH COURTSHIP. l. Twas Sunday eve, nnd Pnt MckRY Was conrUu' Bid Mcknrty; Pat was an Irish lad so gay, B1d w~ on Irish damsel, hearty, 2. Bid WIlB ensconced upon a stool, The house cnt leaned agnlnst her, And Pat, fiS alwnys is the rnle, 'Vns 10 the cornel' Just fer:uinst her. , . 3. 'l'he wind wns oarin' wild without, 'VJthlll n firc was }'on.l'lu', The old fo]J;;:s , tho ug h awa ke, no donl)t, \'\'e"o off to bed nnd kindly snor~n ' . 'J. " Now Is m e thue," solo, quol.h Pat, "An' I'll Jist pop the question, .A1HI a lse me mind, m rml tlrc, of thnt Which has so t roubled m e d igestion 1" •• So, H chlns up It llttl c nigher, Wi th great determination, And gaz!Il' f.;tralght In to the fire, Began P a l,. with some t.repldatlon: O. "Dednd, Miss Biddy," Pat be said, "'Vhnt do ya think of me now?" "Och! Pat," saldB!ddy, blush in' red, , "I hate yet nn' its alsy seen now," 7. "Ye hate me, do ye?" Pat cried out, Not dreamin' Did was spartin', "It's lyin', thIn, ye've been about, SInce h~l'stI come up here (VocOl1rtin' 1" 8. ",A-COltrUn'/ do ye caHtt, Pat?" Cried Bid, fOr tun was In her, ' .. I never a'posed ye called 1 t that, Me Paddy, {hal', as I'm a sinner. •• "No",whln, young Tom O'Neil comes here, To court me,-he'sJlst Jolly,- He hugs Bnd kisses, calls me deal', An' dOcsn't } OOk 60 melancholly." JO. "The spalpecD I Tom O'Neill does be Dare come·up here a-courLln' '1 I'll brcak his head I" "Nay, Pat," said she, He'd t..'l.r and feather Y 0lt for aportin' _' ~ n. "I'll murt her him! but, Bid, good-bye, I 'm off to see Kate Ray, Sllrc ; - KaLe is t ho gal what fill s m e eye; To spod wIt.h yOI' was, nll me plcasure," 12. "Nay, P(t t, me dear ! m e only deal' 1" Cried BId, In haste," don' t grave lne, Young Tom O'NeIl has ne'er beeu h ere, 1 was but fO?lIh ' now, b eln:ve m e, 13. "No ono courts m e but YOll, d eal' Pat, Au', sl\re I love no othQr, So, Pat, don' t go, ' tis trut h I'm a t, An' Jfye doubt It, (tSl( my m Othel' ." 1-1, "llegorm I BIddy, 181t so 1 !rhln Pat's the b 'y to thanI!: yo I" "An' Pat" me darHn' , ye won' t go 'l'o lave yOlll' Dl