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Effect Of Railroads

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
August
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The effect of rail roads upon farms and villages is not nppreciated by people living in the western country, far awnv from tlieir existence. To prosper, the farmer needs iwo things - firstly, productiva land - secondly, a mnrket near home for what it produces. I say near home, for every milo ihe farmT's produce has to be transponed isdeducted frm the piice p:iid, a:id ihe Ijss falW upan him. Pioductive land, the wesiern farmers have in abundance. Rail roads, by opening ensy comrnunication from llie interior 10 thf spa-bonrd towns, are the means "f building up manufacto ies iu the interior, each one of which mnkesa market, a lióme market f r the farmer. Thut. you will see all along the lina of these roads in Connecticut, Massnchusetb, and New York, manufacloties nre in operation. Those who work in them, tlie farmer feeds, and lhey make a market at his own door for what he raires. But rnil roads not only thus fumish a home market, but tliey actuaüy, by means of the che.apness and the speed with which tliey transport produce to mnrket, créate a rnnrket for mnny tliings which before the farmer could not sel}, or sold at very low pnces. Thns, a hen lays her egfts nu a farm near BufTalo, and in thirty-two hours it is brought boiling hot upon n table in New York. So.hutlerand milk, thnt formerly would spoil befire il ronlri rench a market, is now transferred wi:h more thun the speed of the wind to the phce of consumición. Beside manv things which wnuld not henr tr&Bftportation at all are now nrofitahle to raie. - Indeed, it may be said with irulh, thut whorever these roads are now made, t'ie farmer has a cash market for pvery ïhing ofvalue he can produce. - True Dem. The Swimmino Schools of Pa ris have opened for the senson, nnd the ladies are amorig the constant ntlendnnts. A Paris letter thns describes them: " Nothing, it would seem, can equn] the ntr 'piditv of the fair sex. wheneve: nn opportunity is aftirded of rngnsingin a new pleasure, partioulariy if it partakeo of thecharacler of a masouline exercis-e. Whüe the men were vet hesimting abotit entering the water oftlie river, 1 1 ie iadies have gine in resoltitely. These swimrning schools are becomming more numerous and each suramer wiinessPs th ?stnblishment of new onps. Indeed the Seine is beooming so crowded wilh them, thal there is scarcely room fïr the hoats to circuíate and there remains hardly the room necessary for thoss Amateurs who lake a fincy to preciii;a'e them-:elves from the top of a bridge fjr the purpose of lerminaling their existenc. Luckily, however, there is a principie of natural right which declares the w.-uer to flow alike for all the world, and not alone for bathers - of either sex. " There ire many swimming s:l o ; for ladies solely, and tliis is the cs whifh hnve increased the most. Thesf are crowded from morning to night by the dramatic lionnerie, and by the amazonsofthe Quartier Rreda nnd of Boule Rovge. All these young ladirs are pasionateljr fond of swimming, and the pnss at the cold bath every moment of 'ime they can gain from their more serious pnrfiiits. In the nfleinoon,pnrticu!■ iriv, tha equipngesof tiie more opulent 'ict:essps ure crowded around the doors of these esinblishmen's. '■In this aylum, interdiroted to the profine, and where no man is allouel to penétrate - unles the waiters of ilie bath, the professors of swimming, and the sr'vants - the fuir bathers unfuld ill the elcgnnce of their dress and person, impri.-on their beautiful hair in a cap, and, envelope'l in robis of lichly emb'o'dered '.imbrio, they promenade nnd smoke their Spsnivh cignrettes - defying each otlier as 10 who tnkea the most benutiful steps, or who shall remain ihe longest under the water, into which ihpy plunge thcniselve', (loating like so many sirens. - On leavin the bath n glnss of Maderln or Jamaica rum reinvigorates them, and they renew agrmi the;rspors until the liour ofdpparlure arrivés."

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