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Capt. Crapo's Cruise

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Day
3
Month
August
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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[Fi-om tlie Boston Globe.] Tbe arrival of Capt. Crapo and wife in the whaleboat New Bedford at Penzanoe, after an Atlantic voyage of forty days, has already been chronioled. The boat is a little more than nineteen feet and a half long and six feet and a half wide, built generalij after the whaleboat model, but with more " sheer " and broader and deeper than most boats of her class. Her foremast is eighteen feet from the deck, and her mainmast seventcen feet high. She has a foresail, mainsail, and a square-sail and staysail to take advantage of light winds. Of course the little vessel -was made in the most substantial manner, so as to ride out the rough seas. Thcre are no bulwarks, and only lifelines were rigged, and in the Atlantic voyage the water often came over the deck. Capt. Crapo steered sittingin the after-hatclnvay, and was protected by a canvas boot in rough weather. Of course, when the sea was very high tlie bout was allowed to He to, with a drag. Tlii-oo heavy gales were experiencedduring the passage, and for fifteen days the two passeugers were compelled to wait for the violence of the storm to subside. A good deal of their clothing was washed overboard, and much discomfort was endured; but the little craft rode out the storrns nobly. Several times the ventureBomo Captain and his wife were poken, and there was an agreeable addition to the provisions of the New Bedford at all such meetings. Capt. Crapo kept his longitude regularly by dea-i reckoning, and did not go far out of the regular course of the traneatlantic steamers. His wife was as enthusiastic as himself in carrying out the project, and in the latter part of the voyage did much to help the Captain, whose left hand had become almost uscloss by constant steering. At 11 o'clock Saturday night the coast of Cornwall was s?en by the weary voyagers, and the adventurous Captain and hia equally daring wife lauded at Penzanco íáunday morí ing. Wind and weather favoring, they prpposed to proceed to London yesterday, and doubtless "the merry mariners of England " will give them a hearty welcome to the great metropolis. lío Agreement Possible. The Detroit Tribune tells this story : " An interesting scène oceurred in the Detroit and Milwaukee depot yesterday, bef ore a small audience of sympathetic and saddened spectators, resulting in the separation of a man named Decosta and his spouse, even while on their travels. Policeman Kinney endeavored to prevail upon tbem to reconcile their dinerences and keep on together, and Policeman O'Connor reinforced him with persuasivo efíorts to sof ten the aeperity of the situation. But they both assured the policemen that it was no use, and both agreed on this brief oubline of their marital history : " Decosta makes wagons, a few miles out from Milwaukee. Two years ago he wooed and won and married Maggie Baldwin, a pretty and pouty maid of 15 surnmers, and she doesn't look older than that now. He is 24. Last fall he gave way to jealousy, and she gave way to wrath, and she went to Syracuse, N. Y., to live with hermother again. Becently he wrote that life was dark to him without her, and he would forget the past and come to lier. Her rnother said : 'Yes, my daughter, by all nieans.' So he went to esyracuse, and they started together for Milwaukee. Coming through Canada yesterday, a gentleman on the seat behind her offered her a pictorial to look at. She smiled, and took it. She gazed around on him and sidd, ' How varm it is ;' and he allowed it was very warm. Then he stepijèd around and raised the window of the seat in front of her, and expressed ltls solicitude as to the proper amountof atmospheric contact with her fair cheeks, and resumed his seat behind her. All this time Mr. Decosta remained silent and motionless beside lier. She again gazed languidly around, smiled, and remarked to the stranger that this was Canada, and he even went so far as to admit that it was Canada. They saw him no more after arriving at Windsor ; but the spirit of jealousy swelled supreme in Decoata's bosom till, on entering the' depot on this side, it barst from its pent-up i'-goay, and ho wailed aloud, ' Frailty thy name is woman !' Slie told liiin lic Bed ; that it wasn't her name, and lic knew it. The dialogue waxed hot, till she strode aronnd and bertded off a man who was just about to luiy ft ticket to Milwaukee, sold him hei coupon, and started straight baok for Syracuse, whilo Mr. Decosta pitrsued .bis loncly way to Mihvaukee, proarising, as tiiey parted agaiu, to send on her fenther In-d béfore the nights grew eool. So she went east and he went west, leaying Kinney and O'Oonnor disrnayed, shocked, and saddened at the failure of tíieir missionary labora." Smnuier Diet. Dr. W. H. Vail publishes au article on summer diet, and starts with the following argument: "God, in His provi.dUH!, lias stoeked the polar región with the seal, the Avbale and the bear; all ttie milication of fat and oil - whilevege is comparatively unknown. On the other hand, as you approaeh the tropics, oranges, bananas, lemons, and all our lusoious fruits greet you on every hand, and vegetation runs wild. This disposition of providence teaches us - what our appetites conflrm - that ín cold weather our diet should consist mainly of oily substances, or c-uoh food as is converted into iat by the process of digestión; while in the summer we should select such articles of diet as are not convertible into fat." Dr. Vail adds that vegetables, the edible parts of whioh ripen underground, tuch as potatoes, carrots and parsnips, aieheat-producing, while those that ripen above ground are cooliug. The latter, including especially asxaragus, ltttuce, peas, beans, tomat es, corn, am'i all fruits, should be freeJy Baiien. Meat should not be èatén ofteuor than twioe a day, and lean is preferible. He particularly recommends tomatoes. Coinposition m the Kafol)it. EabbitK is gnuerally about the size of a cat. ïhoy ain't so useiul to catch rats as a cat, but they will pull the bark oiï a grape vine awful quick. I had a i-abbit once, and he gnawed the bark off my grandfather's pear tree, and he got maft and kicked the stuiliu' out of hiui and ï skun him. Rabbits' ears is long, 1 so you can piek 'em up easy. A rabbit oiten has red eyelt, but if a girl had red eyes she'd look bad, you bet. Me and aiiother boy done up some hoss-radish in a oabbage leaf and give it to Mr. Haekett's rabbit to eat, and lie jumped i (,vr a cluLiii s-lini' and run into the ■ tíitchen and upset a buoket of syrup all - over his hair, and he was a sick-lookin' ' rabbit, and don't you forget ït, I'i nit]'")' b:' a dog than a rabbit.

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