JL JL il II A c Scuotcb to ?alittC0, itcraturc,5mgm Sncncc, iilovaliti), anb (Scucral SutcUigcufC. VOL. 30. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., MAY 8, 1873. NO. 52. Published by Theodore Schoch. TER'TS T-.vo dollars yearin advance and if not ti 1 before the end of the year, two dollars and fifty cent will bo charged. Nn piper liyctiliiuiel until all arrearages are paid, except a! the option ot the Editor. .. ICrAlreriisements of one square of (eight Itnee) or Bss.onc or three insertions $1 50. Each additional hveriion, 5i cents. Longer ones in proportion. j on miiiSTiNG OF ALL KINDS, Executed in the highest style of the Art, and on the most reasonable terms. WILLIAM S. REES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and Real Estate Agent, farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. OfSi next rltwr above S. Rees news Depot nnd '2l door lielow the Corner .Store, 31 arch 0, lS73-tf. DR.J.LANTZ, Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist, Still h.ts his office n M.un Street, in the second ry f Of. S. Walton's brick building, neatly oppo site t!ic ;riiid--!n;i House, and lie fl.iUer luuitcif tint hy eisMt-eii years constant prai-Ure and Die uiot-l earne.-t aiM cm-Oil attention to all mailers pertaining to Ins pi(.f.'on, that lie is fully able to 4-1 form operalio.!.- in the dental line in lUe inoct careful, t.i.le lul and skiCOtl manner. Special alieiit.iiin siven to saving the N.ituial Teeth ; ilo, to tlie iiisiMliiiii of Arlilii ial rcvlli on Itubbcr, Gm!J, Sliver or :o!iUuuous Gums, and pel lect f.ts In xll cm.-c insured. M ..t per.s.n kno-.v the great folly and danger of en ir:ili:i2 their woik to tht inexperienced, orlo llne (iving at a iUtauce. April 13, lBtl. ly GEO. XV. JACfiSOX PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER. hi the old o-Iu-e ;f Dr. A. Peeves Jackson, re.-ideiae in Wvckrtt's building. STROUDSBURG, PA. Atijuft 8, ie?2-tt: jyA . j. iM'rrLKsfo.v, OPOATLNG AND jIEfilAMfAL DEMIST, Having located in East Stroudsburg, Pa., an nounces that ho is now prepared to insert arti ficial teeth in the most beautiful and life-like manner. Also, great attention given to filling and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex tracted without pain by we of Nitrous Oxide Iras. Ail other work incident to the profession ' done in the most skillful and approved style. ' All work attended to promptly and warranted, i Charge- reasonable. Patronage of the public I tsuuciieu. Office in A. W. Loder's new building, op- Sosite Aualoiniak House, East Stroudsburg, 'a. Jul? 11, 1872 ly. " DR. N. L. PECK, Sargeon Dentist, Announces tint having just returned from Dentil Co! legs, he is fully prepared to make artificial teeth in the most beautiful and life like manner, and to fili decayed teeth ac cording to tlie most i-nprcved method. Teeth extracted without pain, when de sired, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas, which is entirely harmless. Repairing of all ki ids neatly done. All work warranted. Chirac reasonable. O.Tice in J. G. Keller's new Brick build ing, Main S'reet, Stroudsburg, Pa. a-uir 3l-tf JAMES II. WALTO., Attorney at Law, OrnVfi in the building formerly occupied by L. M. Burson, and opposite the Strouds burg Bank. Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa. jan 13-tf 33i:1ma:v hotel. "The subscriber wonld inform the public that he has leased thri house formally kept by Jacob Knecht, in the Porongh of Stroudsburg, Ta and having repainted and refurnished the same, is prepared to entertain all who may patronize him. It is the aim of the proprietor, to furn ish sujerior accommodations at moderate rates and will spare no pains to promote the com fort of the guests. A liberal share of public iiatron.nge solicited. April 17, '72-tQ D. L. PISLK. : HOUSE, HONESDALE, PA. Mo;-t central location ot any Hotel in town. 11. W. KIPLE & SOX, J r,0 Main .street. . Proprietors. January 'J, 1873. 13. T ACKAWA.WA IIOLSi:. XJ Oi'POSiTE THE DKI'OT, Kat Stroudsburg, Pa. 13. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor. The tsak contains the choiest Liquors and the table is supplied with the best the market affords. Charges moderate. may.3 1872-tf. 7TT ATS OX'S tV Mount Vernon House, 117 and 119 Worth Second St. ABOVE AliCH, PHILADELPHIA. May 30, 1872-ly. REV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S(of Wil hamsburgb, N. Y.) Kecipe for CON SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com pounded at HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. (5" Medicines Fresh and Pure. JSov. 21. 1867.1 W. HOLLINSHEAD. BLANK LEASES For Sale, at this Office. THE STRENGTH OF TIMBER. Mr. John Anderson contribute! a valu able article on the above subject to the 'Scientific American" in which he says : "The strength of a piece of timber de pends upon the part of the tree from which it is taken. Up to a certain age the heart of the tree is the best ; after that period it begins to fail gradually. The worst part oi a tree is the sap wood, which is next the bark. It is softer than the other parts of the wood, and is liable to premature decay. The deleterious component of the sap wood is absorbed if the tree is allowed to grow for a longer period and in time the old sap wood be comes proper timber fibre similar to heart wood Hence, the -loudness of a tree, for timber purposes, depends upon the age ... .u t ...i j... rt at luiivii me tree was cut uunu. ti ncu young, the heart wood U best: at rua- turuy, witu tne exception ot the sap wood, the tree is equally good through cut ; and when the tree is allowed to grow too long the heart wood is the first to show symptoms of weakness, and dete riorates gradually. 'i lie best timber is secured by felling the tree at the age of maturity, which de pends on its uature as well as on the soil and climate. The ash, beech, elm and fir arc generally considered at their best when of seventy or eighty years' growth, and the oak is seldom at its best in less time than one hundred years ; but much depends on the surrounding circum stances. Asa lule trees should not be cut down before arriving at maturity be cause there is then too much sap wood, and the durability of the timber is much inferior to that of trees felled after they have arrived at their full development. The strength of many woods is doubled by the process of seasoning, hence it is very thriftless to use timber in a green state, as it is not only weak, but it is ex posed to ciMitinur.l change of bulk, form and stability. After limber is cut, and before it is properly seasoned, the out side is fuuud to crock and to spilt more than the iosidc of the mass, because it is more exposed to the desiccating effect of the surrounding atmosphere ; but, as the outside drys tlie air gradually finds its way to the interior. If timber is cut by the saw when green, and allowed to sea son in a jrradual manner, it is found to be the most durable In the arts, how ever, artificial drying is often resorted to. as in the case of gun stocks. These are put iuto a dedicating chamber, where a current of air at 90 or 100 degrees is passed over them, at such a rate a3 to change the whole volume of air in the chamber every three minutes, and it is found that a year of scasouing may thus be saved. The walnut wood is as good, after this pracess, as if the seasoning had been accomplished by time and exposure, and works more smoothly under the cut ting instruments of the stock machinery. Wood will always warp after a fresh surface has been exposed, and will like wise change its form by the presence of any moisture, either from that contained in the atmosphere, or from wetting the suface. The effect of moisture on dry wood is to cause the fibres to swell ; hence it is that if a hoard or plank is wetted up on one side, the fibres there will be dis tended, and the plank in consequence, oust bend. The amount of shrinkage of timber in length, when seasoning, is so inconsider able that it may in practice be disregard ed. But the shrinkage in transverse di rections is much greater, and presents some peculiarities which can only be ex plained by examining the structure of the wood as resulting from its mode of growth. Mahogany is a beautiful close grained wood, but is used not so much on account of its strength, but more frequently be cause of its non liability to shrink, warp or twist, and from the peculiar property of taking a firm hold of glue. In the last respect it is superior to any other wood. Mahogany diflcrs greatly in re gard to its closeness, harduess, strength and beauty. That from Honduras, call ed "bay wood," is much inferior to that called "Spanish" mahogany, which comes from the West Indies ; the former is much used in the construction of light textile machinery, but chicGy on account of its cheapness ; the latter is used for furniture or for otLtr ornamental purposes. As re gards strength this wood is inferior to oak in all respects, and its great charac tcristic defect is uosuitability for exposure to the weather, or indeed, for any pur pose where it is made alternately wet and dry. When so subjected, it rapidly de cays and loses all its good qualities. Oak, taken as a whole, is one of the strongest aud most durable of woods, aud is especially adapted for exposure to the weather of a damp climate, and is indeed suitable for almost every purposo where the properties of strength, stiffness, and toughness, combined with . eudurance arc required. Its value for ship building is proverbial, and in its employment for the staves of casks, for treenails, for carriage wheels, and for all such purposes requir- in" uhtuess and strength in combination it is equally useful. From time immemorial it was esteemed the best timber for heavy roofs and the condition in which some of these grand old roofs have reached our era fully attests the wisdom of the selec tion." You do not need to black your boots in Pittsbursr. You hanrr them out of the - - - f - 1 wiudow at night, and they arc black enough in the morning. A Touching; Instance of Gratitude. We are what is called a comfortable couple me and my good lady. 1 have money in the funds, some house property, and a coal agency A portion of the day I occupy in calling for the rents and iu looking out for the postman, who may or may not (probably not, as a rule) bring orders for coal. My good lady sees after the house, wheu she is not having a nap, or looking out of the window, and blows up the servant girl. - We have several meals during the day. We like a little and often, and our scrveut girl get rather ovefed. and saucy after a time, if they don't go away ill. My good lady, in the latter case, "is generally very kind to them. Our last girl was taken ill, and we save her a week s holidr y, some soup, wine and oranges, and her wages as usual ; This conduct on our par affectod our servant girl deeply, and she insitcd on sending her si3ter a3 a substitute while she was away. Her sister came very early ' My good lady got up and let her in. She was courtseying on the doorstep. "If you please,. ma'am, I'm Jemima's sister," she said. . 'Take care," said my good lady"; "you've upset the milk can with your crinoline." She came in and began to clear away tl-o supper things, and dropped a plate. My good lady told her where to find the breakfast things, and she brought up a cup without a handle; it had slipped through her fingers somehow. "The girl's willing, but she's nervous," said my good lady. ' ' We have some nice china ornaments on the parlor, niantlepicce. While we were at breakfast, she dusted off a couple shepherdesses. Between that and dinner time, though, she only got through a tumble and cjii cup, and I was bein- uins to think she was gettiug steadier. 'My good lady went down stair3 to see how dinner was getting on. She came up, looking very vexed, indeed. She said : "You know the best soup tourccn ?" "1 do," I said. "It's eouc," she said. "How r. 1 asked. "To pieces!" She went down after this, and presently I heard a smash My good lady shortly afterward appeared. ''Those two cut decanters !" she said. "This is really becoming serious," I said. "Hadn't we better send her about her business ?" "How unreasonable you do talk," re . plied my good lady. "Her sister sent her out of kindness to us. It will hurt her feelings dreadfuully if we don't keep her." How about our feelings ?" I said. There was an awful smash down stairs just at that moment. We set still and waited. J emima's sister presently made appearance weeping bitterly. "Oh ! ma'am, oh ! sir," she cried, "I'm the unluckiest girl that ever was. I've fell down with the dinner tray I" "Will you be kind enough to return home 1" said I. "We are uot cross at you, and here's a shilling; only," ray good girl, depart while there ,is yet a whole piece of crockery left in the house."' She waved her arms wildly, aud knock ed a few things off a sideboard. "How can L ever repay you ?" she cried, . v ' "Your presence here, my good girl, is costing us, on an average, about a shilling a minute," I said. "If you would only go away and take another situation say, for instauce, in the china shop at the corner we might, with' a few years of peuury aud privation, gradually recover our losses." She saw it in the same light, and went. My good lady then descended to the kitchen to look after the dinner. Jemima's sister had left a jug on the stairs, over which my good lady tumbled and put her ankle out, alio breakiug the Ju?- . . . . . ... Jemima s sister has called on us twice since and said how sorry she was. We have on those occasions put the china up before speaking to her. We think it advisable that she should not come inside the house any more. . -- Yf ashing Compund. The use of soda for washing linen is very injurious to the tissue, and imparts to it a yellowish color. In Germany and Uelgium, the following mixture is now extensively used : Two pounds of soap are dissolved in about five gallons of wa ter as hot as the hand can bear it; then next is added to this fluid three , large sized tablespoonfula of liquid ammonia and one spoonful of best oil of terpentine. These fluids are ' iocorported rapidly by means of beating them together with a small birch broom. The- linen is then soaked in thin liquid for three hours, care being taken to cover the washing-tub by a closely fittiug woodeu cover. ly this means the linen is thoroughly cleaned saving much rubbing, time and fuel. Ammonia"does not affect linen or woolen goods, and is largely used as a washing liquid byth in England sod America. The dogs in Detroit do not have many chances to bark and bite, as their nature dictates, because the playful young Dctroiters throw snuff in their eye, and they can't sec where to get a huld. An Act Regulating the Election of State Treasurer. SECTION .1 Be it enacted by the Sen ate and House oj Reprcntaticcs in Gen eral Assembly met, and it is hereby en acted by the uuthorify of the same, That the qualified voters of this Commonwealth shall choose by ballot, on the second Tues day of October, 1873, and on the day of the general election every second year thereafter one person to fill the office of State Treasurer, and until such officer is elected and assumes the duties of his of fice according to the provisions of this act, the present incumbent, upon his renew ing his official bond, to be approved by the Governor not later than the first Mon day of May next, shall have all the pow ers and perform all the duties of State Treasurer. Sec. 2. Any person elected State Trcs urer in pursuance of the provisions of this act shall be commissioned by the Governor of this Commonwealth, and as sume the duties of the office on the first Monday of May next, succeeding his elec tion, and shall have and possess all the pow'crs granted, perform all the duties and be subject to all the penalties impos ed by existing laws of the Commonwealth relating to State Treasurer, and the man agement of the State Treasury. Sec. 3. The term of the office of State Treasurer shall bo two years, from the first Monday of May next, succeeding his election. His salary shall bo five thous and dollars per annum, payable quarter ly, and no person shall be twice chosen in four years. Sec. 4. The election laws now in force for the choice of Governor of this Com monwealth shall regulate the election of State Treasurer, and in case of any vacan cy occuriog in said office from death, re signation, failure to qualify and assume the duties after election or otherwise, the Governor shall appoint some proper per son to fill such vacancy until the first Monday of May following the next gen eral election ; and the qualified electors shall, at the first general election, which shall happen more than sixty days after such vacancy shall occur, elect in the manner herein provided a suitable person to fill said office for the full term author ized by the provisions of this act. Sec. 5. That the election of any per son appearing to be elected Treasurer un der the provisions of this act may be con tested on the petition of the qualified electors of this Commonwealth, by the same tribunal and in the same manner and under the same resolutions and re strictions prescribed under the act of July 2d, 1839, for contesting ths election of any person as Governor of the Com monwealth. Sec. G. Before he enters upon the duties of his office, the State Treasurer shall take the oath of office or affirmation of office agreeably to the directions of the Constitution of the United States and this Commonwealth, and shall become bound in an obligation with five or more sureties to be approved by the Governor, in the sum of one million of dollars, lawful money of the United States, conditioned for the true and faithful performance of the trusts and duties enjoined and requir ed by law to be performed by such Treas urer ; and the execution thereof being duly proved, the same shall be entered of record in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Copies of such obu ligation, duly authenticated under the seal of said office shall be received as legal evidence in any court of this Common wealth. Approved the 28th day of April, 1873. J. F. IIartranfx FREDERICK THE GREAT. One day the king rang his bell several times aud nobody came. He opened the door, and found his page fast asleep iu au arm-chair. Advancing to awake him, he perceived the corner of a note peeping out of his pocket. Curious to knowu what it was, he took it, and read it. It was u letter from the mother of the youth, thank ing him for sending her part of his wa ges, to relieve her poverty. She conclud ed by telling him that God would bless him lor his good conduct. The king, af ter having read it, went softly into .his room, took a purse of ducats, and slipped it with the letter into the pocket of the page. He returned, and rang his boll so loud that the page awoke, and went x. "Thou hast slept well," said the king. The page wished to excuse himself, and in his confusion put his hand by chance iuto his pocket, and felt tho purse with astonishment. He drew it out, turned pale, and looking at the king, burst into tears, without being able to utter a word. "What is the matter ?" said tho king,' "what hast thou?" "Ah, sire," replied the youth, falling on his knees, "they wish to ruin mc ; I do not kuown how this money came into my pocket." "My frieud," said Frederick, "God often sends us blessings while we are asleep. Send that to thy mother, Falute her from me, and say that I will take care of her and thee." ' A colored deacon was praying for the recovery 01 a sick sister, aud ended in this way: "Oh I Lord help her 1 Oh! Lord make her well ! Oh 1 Lord if you cannot make her well, then Oh ! Lord, help her to grin and bear it !" , : They tell us of u railway in Kentucky whereon the locomotives are assisted up steep grades by a yoke of oxe;i. Pacific Islands. . These delicious tropical islands do not seem to be , very attractive places of so journ; notwithstanding the fruits with which they abound and their lovely clr mate. The English steamship Blanche, from Sydney, last .year made a cruise touching at twenty five islands aud pass ing near thirty more, in the course of a sail of 13,000 miles. Some of Jhe infor mation collected by the captain is not without interest." The chief products of these islands are cocoanut oil, beche de-mer, pearls, pearl shells and tortoise shells, and these they barter for tomahawks, beads, knives, pipes and tobacco. One of the rather common preliminaries of a trade is so peculaiar that it deserves mention. It is called skull hunting. A vessel arrives at an is land, and the king is informed that the master wants to trade. The king replies that he has so much coconut oil, Sec, which he is willing to barter provided the master will give some of his warriors passage to another island with which he is at war. The warriors arc taken to the island, the inhabitants arc decoyed on board the ship on promise to trade, and when there the so called warriors attack and kill them, and take their heads to hang up in their taboo house as trophies. Then the vessel takes them back, and the barter is made with the king. Another flourishing business of these white sailors is to kidnap the uatives and transport them to the sugar plantations tf Q tcens land aud Fiji. The natives of the Solomon Islands have the refutation of beioi: the most blood thir&fy of savages, but they are very cowarly, and are inveterate cannibals, their chief anaxiety seeming to be to get each other's heads, and this pastime may explain why they built their houses in the tops of the trees. In Isabel Island a tree village was found built on the top of a rocky, steep mountain, 800 feet above the sea, and only to be reached by a slippery path which could not be followed with out a guide. The summit was a mass of large rocks in the midst of which grew gigantic trees in the branches of which the houses of the natives are buiit. The trunks of the trees are perfectly smooth, without a branch for from 50 to 120 feet. One house visited was over 70 feet from the ground, the ascent to which was made by a ladder made of a strong creeper ; this ladder is tied to a post in the house, and can be drawn up. The houses are firmly built and capable of accommodat ing a dozen people. When a family therefore has the body of a neighbor it wishes to cat undisturbed, or when it wants to feel safe overnight from an at tack, it pulis up the ladder. It also pro vides itself with stones to drop on the head of anybody who attemp3 to shin up the tree. This is an ideal home, for a quiet man. Ou the shore of this same island were seen twenty five heads nailed upon the chief's house, fresh and ghastly; the bodies had been recently eaten. In the Lugunor Island, Caroline group, they found no traffic, and the men wore their hair in European fashion, chignons being common. On the islands of this group aud of the Solomon the natives are all naked, except for a little paint. w . The Sewing Machine Man. , lie has been to our house the sewing machiue man. There is nothing that my dog likes so well as a man for supper, unless it's two meu for supper ; but the dog smiled like a sucking dove when the sewing machine mau came. I learn that the man has been hanging around the house pleasnt afternoons for a week, get ting acquainted with the dog. I shall be obliged to kill the dog, because all that was wanted of him was to keed agents away from the house, especially sewiug machine agents. Sewing machine men will . not steal at least they never stole anything from our folks but if a man had nineteen . sewiug machines and one dollar iu money aud was starving, a sew ing machine man would sell that chap auothcr machine and take the dollar as a first installment, with mortage on the other machines as security for tha rest of the pnymcnt. Isold machines myself for a while, so I know something about it. The machine came yctterday. Maria met me at the door, when I went to sup per, and rhe said : "Joshua, my dear. (that was nice new sarcasm) I have got such a sewui'' machine. lhc man brought it to day. It cost ninety dollars and it is all paid for." Now, to ouq acquainted with the finauccs of the house at noon, that statement was rather astonishing. I commenced a few in quiries.' The machine was not absolute ly paid for,' of course not, but the sewiug machine man, by his glittering sophistry, his unanswerable logic, his silvery clo quencc, and his limitless blarney, had impressed upon the mind of my guileless Mmia Ann, an idea that when he came to sec how wc liked the machine he would bring ' us the money to pay for it with, provided of course wo liked the machine. He felt sure ne would like, the machiue, "and he was such a gentleman, not at all like some obtrusive agcnt3 who insist 00 leaving a machine whether you want it or not." I am afraid the man will get into house agaiu, and then of course I shell take the machine. I am starving the dog, ou one meal of raw beef and whisky in two days, to make him savage, but 1 have no more confidence in him. The baby gets into the wheel and makes an accident of her self every few minutes ; the canary won't siDg unless the machine in running, and the pie is left to burn while a long seatu is finished. The man will come back, nnd we shall sell the kitchen stove or the parlor carpet, anb buy the machine. That is the way it 'will turnout. Wo shall probably sell the parlor carpet because it is not paid fur yet. and then the stove is not worth more than fifteen dollars. When we can enforce the ordinance against vagrant cattle, wc must have au ordinance against sewing machine men. If another one gets into the house, I shall go into baukruptey. Perfect Butter. There have been ia the Providence market this winter a few hundred paita of butter which have a history. They came from a single dairy in Illinois, and are uniform in quality, hardly distinguish able, indeed, one from another, although made in summer, autumn and winter. -They are sweeter, and 'have farcsh er and mora delicate aroma than any ball butter we wero able to find last summer iu Rhode Island. They con tain little salt and no buttermilk. This perfect butter is churned daily from fresh milk. Here lies the secret. Milk one hour butter the next. No setting of milk-pans and skimming aud storing up of cream. No subjection of milk and cream to atmospheric, electric aud ther mal changes. No expensive cellars with running water to secure fresh air aud equal temperature, or, in default, a per petually fluctuating product of butter. In place of the inefficient hand working of the butter, jaws worked by power, squeez ing out the buttermilk, just as the melted' slag is squeezed oat of the softenell iron-' in puddling. The dairy farm at which this butter is made has, we believe, a hundred or more cows, in addition to which milk is purchased from the neigh boring farms. It is, in other words, a factory, producing butter on a large scale, of uniform, excellent quality. Our theory of butter.making has always been to carry the milk from the cows directly to tho churn, and only to delay churning long enough for the milk to cool to the proper temperature. There would then be twa churnings each day, and the quautity should be sufHcient to make one or more complete packages for the market otcach churning. Theoretically, also, the caseice should be immediately separated from the residual milk and buttermilk, and the ultimate products, butter and cheese, be the only substances remaining to be cared for from day to day. In such a factory, power and geed machinery would sub stitute hand labor, and a uniformly good product of butter should result. The cheese would be of secondary, though, considerable importance. At the present time large quanties of French butter, of uniform quality, arc sold in the English market, at a good price. Meanwhile, American butter, in England, brings much less than its value, from the fact that no two packages arc alike, even from the same dairy. This holds good of Rhode Island butter, iu our own market. The butter from the same dairy, in suc cessive weeks, ia summer, has hardly a recognizable resemblance. A principal cause of this diversity aud inferiority of product, is the difficulty or impossibility of keeping milk and cream, iu our varia ble climate, and in any but the best ap pointed dairy rooms or cellars. The re medy for this is in churning fresh milk instead of stale cream. Providence Jour nal. American Diet We are greasy peoplo ; from the poik fat of New England to the hum fxt, of the South, wc wallow ia greasy food. This becomes rancid on the stoiLach, and su perinduces what Dr. Urquhart pronounces the sum of ail diseases dyspepsia. Wc drink tea that would f'righieu a chinaman, and coffee that would serve as an antidote to opium. We pour down deso3 cf alco holic fluids which cat into tho coatings of our intestines and destroy the gastric fluids juices. We go to bed overtasked, body and mind, sleep with sluggish blood in a state of stagnation, and get up only when the broad 6un in staring in angrily at us through our bedroom windows. Wc are reckless in our pursuit or pleas ure ; we strain our meutal powers to their utmost tension ; -aud cud, old men aud wo men before our tiite, or die, or li!l a cell in au insane asylum. A medical correspondent of an Eug'iih journal says that tho advantages ofspara gua are not sufficiently appreciated by those who suffer with rheumatism and gout. Slight cases of rheumatism aro cured in a few days by feeding 00 this delicious esculent ; and more chrouio cases are much relieved, especially il the patient avoids all acids, whether in food or beverago. The Jerusalem artichoke has also a similar effect iu relieving rheumatism. The heads-may b? csteu in the uuual way, but tea made from the leaves of the ftalk, and diauk three or four times a day, is a ceruiu remedy, though not equally agreeable. An exchange snys : The-rotund maiden of the period, dressed in the fasbi;uable low-necked party dres, looks likb an oyster on the half shell pa!?, pulpy aud. peaceful. ' ' : Every soul in this country aveng a ihite bushels ot potatoes a year.
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