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NO. 50. , TIONESTA, PA., TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1871. $2 PER ANNUM. business in the limits of the circulation nt tne paper to advertise liberally. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. TIONKSTA LODOK, NO. 477, I. O. Gk T. Meets every Wednesday renin, at I o'clock. W. R. DUNN, W. C. T. M. W. TATE, W. 8. e, wtok rami. milk w. tats. PKTTIJ TATE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Mtm StriH, TIOJTSSTA, FA. Isaac Ash, ATTORN KT AT LAW, (Ml Cltr, Pa. Will prartloe hi the various Court of Forest Cnnnt.r. All business entranted to Mi rare will receive prompt attention. KIT W. K. Latter, ATTORNKT AT I.A W AND SOLICI TOR IN BANKRTPTCY. Tlonesta, Koreat Co., Pa., will practice in Clarion, Venango and VVarren Counties. Office on Elm Htront, two door a bore La wren-e s grocery store, tf. W. W. Mason, TTORNET AT LAW. Office on Elm L Street, above Walnut, Tlonesta, Pa. C. W. Gilflllan, ATTORNEY AT LAW, TrankUn, Ve aango Co., fa. tf. N. B. Smiley, ATTORNEY kT LAW, Petroleum Cen tre, Pa. Will practice in the aeveral Courts of Forest County. S5-ly ' Holmes House, HMONESTA, PAj opposite the Depot. 1 C. D. Mable, Proprietor. Good Kta- tiling connected with the bouse. tf. Jos. Y. Saul, PRACTICAL Harneea Maker and Sad dler. Three doors north of Holmes Mouse, Tionostt, Pa, All work la war. ranta.1. tf. Syracuse House, T1DIOUTP", Pa., J. A D Maokb, Propie tors. The house baa been thoroughly refitted and ia now in the nrst-cless order, with the best of aoeomraodationa. Any nformation concerning Oil Territory at this paint will be oheorKilly furnished, ly J. AD. MAUEB, ' Exchange Hotel, LOWER TIDIOUTE, Pa., D. 8. Rams naat. A Ho Prop's. This house having been rented is now the most desirable stop ping plane in Tidioute. A good Billiard Jloo.n. attached. -ly National Hotel, TRVINETON, PA. W. A. Hallenback, Proprietor. Thla hotel ia Naw, and la Ow open as a first elsss honse, situate at reJnnctlon of the Oil Creek A Allegheny stiver and Philadelphia A Erie Railroads, ppoaite the Depot. Parties having to lay ver trains will And this the most oonven nt hotel in town, with first-class accom modation and reasonable "hararea. tf. TiCtt Sons A Co.'s NEW ENGINES. The undersigned have for sale and will receive orders for the above Engine. Messrs. Tifll Hons A Co. are now sending to this-market thnir 12 Ilorsa Power Engine with 14-IIorse Power Hoiler peculiarly adapted to deep wells. OrricKs st Duncan A Chalfant'a, dealers In Well Fixtures, Hardware, c, Main St. next door to Chase House, Pleasanlville, and at Mansion House, Titusville. tf. K. BRETT 4 SO1 A gents. . jonn nauot ATTORNEY AT LAW and Solicitor of Jl Patnta,No. 66ft French strootloppoalte Reed House) Erie, Pa. Will practice in the several State Courts and the United MtaU-s Courts. Mpeoial attention given to soliciting patents for Inventors ; infringe went, re-issue and extension of patents 0refu)ly attended to References: Hon. Jame Campbell, Clarion; Hon. John H. McCalmont. Franklin; H. L. A A. H. RichmondMeaavUlo; W. E. Lathy. Ti ouestav. , a 7 Dr. J. I Acorrb, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, who has had fifteen years' experience in a large and auoceesfuf practice, will attend all Professional Calls. Ofllee in his Drug and Orooery (Store, located in Tidioute, near Tidioute House. IN HIS STORE WILL BE FOUND A full assortment of Medicines, Liquors Tobacco, Cigars, Stationery, Glass, Paints, Oils. Cutlery, and fine Groceries, all of the beat equality, and will be sold at reasonable rates. U. R. BURGESS, an experienced Drug It 1st from New York, has charge of the -J tore. All prescription put up accurately. W, P. Mercilllott, Attorney at Law. HEAL ESTATE AG EXT. TI 0 NEST A, PA. 17-1 MHN 4. DALI. PRUT. OMNA. PSOPIR, VICIFRCST. A. H.tTIILt, CASH a, TIOlsTEST-A. 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Agents wanted everywhere, male or fe male, to sell this great work, is better than Mark Twain, and no trouble to sell, liig Proht. Send for terms and illustrated Vi page circular, Evans, Stoddurt A Co., Pub lishers, No. 740 Sausoui St., Philadelphia. SO- THE CHUMS. Tom Baker and I were better friends than most twin brothers are, yet we were nut it kin to each other any more than you or 1, c j V Ve hunledJ togelUr, fished tociether, wo roomed together, ws W8 Pt together, we aU togethei, and wheiher lie ,aw ier r 00t. I itod it I am ashamed to say that once in a just as long as I could ; and finally I whi ewe drank together a bottle of B,cpped 0er t0 Mrg. Malone'r, one port or sherry. , evt.ing anri managed to get an intro fom and I were loafers, yes, regular duclioI t0 Migg Victorine Saunders bu.lt loafers Ve had nothing to do the you ,nd na tt and didn t like to do that any ofiener naroe too v 1 than we could help it. Some folks r ,i',.. W-r, :, ul don't like loafers, WeM I never liked as Tom Baker. I but one and that was loved him. lis was my partner in every- thing, my other self, my shadow. You Know lux not much account lor any thing; wen, neither was lorn. We had beou to California together and got enough gold to live off the interest, and that s how it huppened that we always had good duds on and Jiept ourselves spruce like. I own up that lom played poker Tom and I was just of an age to the day just of one size, and somewhat alike in the face. Don't know but Tom was rather the best looking of the two ; likely he was. Many's th time we've been in dan ger together, Tom and I, and it so happened that he saved my life twice '. or three times. U. well, we are a J 1 .7 T. J 7 wrapped up in each other bound to-1 getherbycordsof t bit k.nd of affection that breaks but with breaking hearts. Strange how two great rough men should love one auother as Tom and I We had our bachelor quarters over Beckman Bank, just opposite Mrs. Malone's boarding-house. Our win dows were a little higher from the greund than those of the boarding house, and it so happened that we oft. en sat Smoking, with our feet elevated, looking over at the lady boarders and making remarks about them. I re member that one of them was a slim old maid, of whom Tom never tried talking about, in his dry old way, oft en reminding me that she looked like a yard of calico wrapped around a bundle of fishing rods. But this dosen't belong to my story ; I'm always get teug off the subject. One day Tom sat at one window and I at the other. I recollect that we had got a fresh box of cigars that day, good ones as ever I set teeth ou. Tom was gazing dreamily through his smoke out across the street, and I was gazing just as dreamily at Tom. It was an August morning, hot as fire, and not a breath of air that would stir a feather. We hud off our coats and vests, our shirt sleeves rolled up and our collars thrown open. All was still dowu in the street. O, it was red hot out of doors, and still a heating. Suddenly Tom started a little. I thought he had burned his finger, for he was knocking tha ashes from his cigar, but slow.y a look or wonder spread over his big.good-humored fuce. Ilia eyes dilated pleasantly, he stroked ! hw beard and smiled, gazing steadily j across the little sea of emoke rolling ofi" before him. "Look, Ned, look !" said he in a hall whisper, motioning with his hand very highly in the direction he was looking. I turned and saw, over in one of Mrs. Malone's windows, the loveliest girl that ever did live. Yes, sir, I stick to it, she was sweeter and more beautiful than anybody's angel ; twice as pretty an two angels, Tom used to say ; but Tom would joke, you know ' "A new boarder, I reckon," said I, feeling a curious shiver of admiration go over me from toe to crown. "S pose so," added Tom. "Isn't she a neat oue, though. I theutrht she was, and so said to a good deal in California, and as for j Bhe was a chaW ,itle thi Uh lhe me I took a game or two of seven-up mogt exprcsilive'face in thetvrld, but But that s been a long time ago, and . .,, lhiM mj ,ife Why, ,ir her needn t be mentioned at all. j 1 ! u t 'j ' Tom. But the girl happened to let : it jut t as I ought to. Tom and I play her great hatel eyes wander over to ed a funny game. It was laughable, our windows, and seeing us, she disap- j Wheneyer my back was turned Tom peared like a jack-o'-lantern. was over at Mrs. Malone's. When- Crack ee-ce 1 cried lom. "What , a bird she is! Must ha' got away from some menagerie, Ned." "Come straight from heaven, more like," said I. "Bah ! get out your banjo, and sing me a solo. None of yoursentimeutats to me:" and Tom lit a fresh fioaro. I saug "Kiss me Trough the Garden t ::j I.: i i : j cute, lum joiiicu ma pjmcuuiu unn- tone to the chorus. Just as wo were ending the song and the accompani ment was swelling, rich and loud, on the final 'D' chord, I saw the girl again stand close to the window, us if listen ing to our music. "There she is again, the little witch 1" I half whispered to Tom. "Well, she's not going to hurt any body," he answered, "let's siug 'Little Nell," for her benefit." So we sung the song and several others. Finally, our little beauty dis appeared entirely, uud e saw her no more that evening. I'm afraid you can't fully under stand just how matters stood betwixt Tom and me. We'd ha' died for each other; that's it, and no doubt of it. Tom would joke. He was better on a juke than I was; though, for that mat tcr, I wasn't slow. I have novcr seen i Tom's equal for friendship. He'd ha' cut his head oIF to do me a favor, so he would. Well, after that we saw our girl at the window mot every day. I own flint T ura tsiKaail fill tiaa nAnnianrtsf Asa ,.or Tom ,,e whitued ,,, grunted and ..1(o,i mnA ,a . ;r :aA.j-, try to de8cribe , feeiing, when for the firat lime X tM) a SeRl face to face with that wee fHi of . , M fc ; :,,, panone(1 a5 ' , " : 'bnmat Once it got into ray throat and staid there some time just a rolling over and over, I think my fuce must have changed eoler fifty times a minute. Can't remember what I said nor what she said, but I had a pleasant sort of a time the hour I staid. Miss Saunders was a niece of Mrs. Malone. O ' . -j p eyes just danced in her head "Call again, Mr. Duncan," she said, as she rose to bid me good evening. I left that house feeling lighter than cork and sweeter than sugar. Music hummed in my ears joy leaped through my veins. On the steps that led to our rooms, I met Tom. 1 looked ! right straight into his eyes and tlx there 1 1 saw just a nine on oi a ciouu, jus , faintJ ,eam f di8piea8Ure. We ra gtu i(Ie b Bl,f ourfeet8pattill I , the Wh , just ran 2 sharply on the steps. When we reach ed our room Tom eat down and hauled out a newspaper to which for hulf an hour he paid strict attention. I got out my banjo and sang 'Kiss me Quick.' Presently Tom leaned back in his chair and laughed loud and long, then he read aloud the auecdote that had so tickled him. For my part I didn't think it very funny at all. Next morning I proposed a fishing. Tom said ho had a big headache, so I went alone, leaving him smelling vig orously of a camphor bottle. In all fmy Ufavlhad never before known him to nave tne oeaupe. Pshaw such a fistthigasl had. Not a nibble did I get. Thbrook bubbled lazily, and the wind hummed sleepily away up in the white yMtwore trees. A little bit of a bird with yellow wings and a red throat sat on a swingiug branch and sang, 'Chip-a-ree, Victor ine' all the time, and a tiny nest was hard by, just chuck full ot young ones. I stayed by the brook an hour, thinking how happy it would be to have a nest like that little bird, with some one to sing around like a bee around a flower. Then I wound up my line and walked toward town, while fainter and fainter grew the voice of the red throat, 'Cliip-a-rce, V ictorine ! When I reached the foot of the stairway to our attie, I glanced over to ward Mrs. Malone's. ISoine one came out of the door. It was Tom. I saw by the smile on his face that his heudache was not so severe as it had been. filing rod, and was singing 'Bury me under a pile of straw,' when Tom came jn- j d;d not i00Ik up, but just picked ftway at ti,oge strings with might' and 1 ran up to my room, put away ray might aud main, the banjo fairly talk- ing. "Umph 1" said Tom, taking a cigar and ruling a match on the wall. "Catch any fish ?" "No." said I, "did you?" Tom sucked away at his cigar as if he did not hear roe. "How's your headache?" I added. He looked at me sharply for a sec ond. Then wagging his head dolor ously, he replied ; "Did ache awfully. Like to a bust ed." Well, time ran on slowly and de- liciously ; but somehow I didn't enjoy lom s back was turned I was there. Now, then, I loved Turn. I'd a died for him. Good old Tom, I'll never have auother such a friend. No, his like' not to he found at. all.. Well, day by day Tom went over to talk to her. Day after day she grew sweeter and prettier, day after day Tom's fuce grew sullower, and day .i ... r... . .i.: alter uuy my iu':e grew wnutier. Dowu in my heart I pitied Tom, and just as deeply I pitied myself. Sometimes the good spirit in my heart dead with me to give way and let Tom mve Victorine, but how could I? He , had saved my life more than once, but what wus life before I saw her. . Filled with conflicting emotions, I sat one evening alone in our room. Tom, I knew, was over at Mrs. Ma 1 Ion's. Stronger than ever my good spirit was arguing with me. I was thinking how happy Tom and I had been together since our boyhood. Must I make him wretched now? While I wus thinking Tom came in. His t'uco wus yellow as sufl'rou. "Ned," ;aid he, taking my hand in both his, "I have been talking with Victorine, and I havo told her that sho must not think of mo auy more. For ymtr sake, Ned, I havo done, this, Go to her, Ned, and may you and she be happy ?" Tom s voice was hollow and strange like. My heart leaped into my mouth. I couldn't say a word. I just wrung Tom's hand like fury. I loved him more than ever noble, generous Tom 1 I hardly knew anything till I was knocking at Mrs. Malone door. Vic torine opened it herself, and it was her own sweet voice that said "come in." As I followed that little fairy into the parlor, something said to me, "Tom Tom ; poor Tom I" Suddenly a resolve entered my breast, I would be generous. I would plrad for him. I own that my voice shook as I be gan. "Miss Victorine," said I, "you have just had a conversation with my part ner, my friend." "Yes, sir." "Will you let me plead for him ?" I faltered. "It's useless," she replied rather coldly. "Then," said I, passionately, catch ing up her pretty little white hand, "let me plead for myself I" - She snatched away her hand, and stood bolt upright on the floor. "Sir," said she, "You and your friend must be crazy I I have treated you civily, nothing more. I love neith er of you, and have given you no rea son to think I do. I told your friend this, and asked him to tell you so. Good evening." So saying she sailed out of the room like a rose leaf in the wind. I stood up in the middle of the floor awhile; then I bolted out and went over to our room, thinking a good deal as I went. "Tom 1 Tom'" said I rushing into the room. ' I was answered by as hateful a snore as ever I heard. There lay . Tom on the bed fast asleep with bis boots on, and his mouth open. Near him sat a chair, and ou the chair sat a bottle, and on the bottle were the words: "Ho. for Pike's Peak!" That bottle had the smell of brandy. Strange, there Wasn't a drop left for me. An Editor' Shirt. Editor's have A first-rate time in Texas. The ladies of a town out there have given to the editor of the paper, an embroidered shirt which contains a pictorial history of Texas, including the war with Mexico, and the meeting of the first Legislature, and also pic tures of the State, all worked in red worstexl. The editor never wore a shirt in his life, and he thought this was a flag for temperance procession which was to come uflf the next week. So he made a little speech of thanks, in which he said he would fVng it out forever to the breezes of heaven, that they might kiss its folds, and thut un til his hands palsied it should never be trailed in the dust never. The ladies didn't understan J him,aud when he talked about its trailing, they blush ed and said they were sorry they made it too long. But a committeeman took the editor aside and explained. The next day he appeared in the office with that shirt mounted over his coat, and wrote four columns of explanation for his paper. The shirt is much admired by the boys of all ages of the town, and whenever the editor goes out for a walk, they follow him in regiments, studying the history of Texas aud the fine arts ou the back of it. When we acknowledge that drunk ; tin ess is a disease, let us not forget that it is also a sin. No man is forced to become a drunkard ; he drinks to excess with his eyes open, with his hands free, with his conscience upbraid ing him, until he drowns it in the bowl. He voluntary surrenders his reason, his taste, his judgment, his health, his character ami his con science on the altar of appetite; and is not that a sin ? He knows that his habits of indulgence will disqualify him for the performance of the duties of child, husband, parent and citizen, and while they deaden the faculties which should elevate him above the dumb beast, they intensify and quicken all the animal and brutal instincts of degraded humanity; and is nut that a siu ? The Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin tells a pathetic little story about a pigeon which became fastened by a long string hanging from its leg to a telegraph wire on Main street, in that city. Two or three cruel boys wanted to throw stones at it, but a kind gentleman' tell ing them not to hurt the poor bird, got a ludder and carefully unwound the string and put the frightened, flutter ing little creature tenderly into his bosom while he descended. The next evening he remarked thut it had made a much nicer pie thau he expected. Miss Laura Roam overhears such remarks as these at a Chicago social gatherings: "Look how elegantly Mrs. T. is dressed. It is the first time she has been out sinccher divorce. There is Mrs. L., too, and tho case iu the papers so lately. Would you have believed il?" Sleep, Fainting, Apoplexy. When a man is asleep, his pulse beats and his lungs play, but he is without sense, and you can easily wake him up. If a person faints, he ton, is without sense, hut he has no pulse and does not breathe. Apoplexy is between the two: the heart beats, the lungs play as in sleep, and there is no sense, as in fainting, but you cannot shake the man back to lite. In sleeD. the face ia natural in fainting fit, it has the pallor of death ; iu sppoplexy, it is swollen, turgid,and luiriy uvea. If a man is asleep let him alone nature will awake him up as soon as he has got sleep enough. When a person fainU, all that is needed is to lay him down flat on the floor and he will "come to" in double quick time. He fainted because the heart missed a beat, failed for an in stant, failed for only once to send the proper amount of blood to the brain. If you place the patient in a horizon tal position, lay him .n his back, it. does not require much force of the heart to send the blood on a level to the head ; but if you set a man up, the blood has to be snot upwards to the head, and this requires much more force ; yet in nine cases out of ten, if a person lamts and falls to the floor, the first thing done is to run to him and set him up, or place him on a chair. In apoplexy, as there is too much blood iu the head, every one can see that the best position is to set a man up, and the blood naturally tends downward, much so as water will come out of a bottle when turned upside down, if the cork is out. If, then, a man is merely asleep, let him alone, for the face is natural ; if a man has fainted, lay him flat on his back, for his face is deadly pale; if a man is apoplectic, set him in a chair, because the face is turgid, swollen, liv id, with its excess nf blood. The Bachelor Juror. A gentleman who rather given to story telling relates the following: When I was a young man I spent several years in the South, residing for a while at Port Hudson on the Missis sippi river. A irreat deal of liberation was going on there about that time, and it was not always an easy matter to obtain a jury. One day I was sum moned to act iu that capacity, and re paired to court to get excused. On my name being called I inform ed his honor, the judge, that I was not a tree holder, and thrciore not qualm ed to serve. "I am stopping for the time being at rort Hudson. "You board at the hotel' I pre sume ?" ' "I take my meals, but I have rooms in auother part ot the town, where lodge." "So you keep bachelor's hall." "Yes. sir." "How long haye you lived in that manner 7 "About six months." "I think vou are Qualified, pravelv remarked the judge; "fori have nev er known a man to keep bachelor's hall the length of tiran you name, who had not dirt enough in his room to make him a free-holder! The court does not excuse you." Water Telescopes. The people of Norway carry in their fishing boat a water telescope, or tube three or four feet in length, they immerse one end in the water, and then looking intently through the glass, they are able to perceive objects ten or fifteen fathoms deep, as distinct ly as if they were within a few feet of the surface. So when they discover plenty of fish, in a good locality they surround them with their large draught nets, and often catch them in hundreds at a haul, which, were it not for those telescopes, would fre quently prove aprecarieus aud unprof itable fishing. This instrument is not only used by fishermen, hut is also found in the navy and coasting vessels. "Charley ! what is osculation ?" "Osculation, Jenny, dear, It ia a learued expression queer, For a nice sensation. I put my arm, thus round your waist ; Your head sinks to its resting place; ThU is approximation, You need not feur There's no one here Your lips quite near I then" "Oh, dear" "Jenny, that's osculation." A young man in Oswego, who started to attend a masquerade party the other evening, hideously attired and accoutred as he supposed Sutan usually is, uuhappily entered the wrong house, to the consternation of the inmates. The old geutlemau, father of the family especially, wus generally alarmed, aud, with a wild shriek, "Maria, save the children 1" ho made his exit thro' the rear door, closely followed by Maria and all tbeir littleenc. ' Not Much of a Sportsman. The gentleman mentioned iu the following anecitoVd might have served as an original for Dickens' Mr. Win kle: Once, when Mr. Buxton was staying with Mr. Coke, at Holkham, a weil-kuown professor was also one of the visitors. The venerable historian had never had a gun in his hand, but on this occasion Mr. Coke persuaded him to accompany the shooting party; care, however, was taken to place him at the corner of the covert, where it was thought the other sportrmcn would be out of his reach. When the rest of the company came up to the spot where he was standing, Mr. Coke said to him : "Well, what sport? you have been firing pretty often." "Hush," said the profesor,"lhcre it goes again;" and he was iust raising the gun to hit shoulder, when a mau walked very quietly from the bushes about seventy yards in front of him. It was one of the beaters who had been sent to stop the pheasants, and his leather gaitcrt, dimly seen through the bushes, .had been mistaken for a hare by the prt fessor, who, much surprised at its ten acity for life, had been firing at it whenever he saw it move. "But," said Mr. Buxton, "the man had never dis covered that the professor was shooting' at him." A New Orleans paper tells of a printer who, when his fellow workman went out, to drink beer, during the working hours, put in' the bank the exact amount which he would have' spent if he had gone out to drink. He kept to this resolution for five yeara. He then examined his bank account and found that he had on deposit 8521.8G. In the five years he had lost a day from ill health. Three out of five of his fellow workmen had in the meantime, become drunkards, were worthless as workmen, and we.e discharged. The water drinker theu bought out the printing office, went on enlarging his business, in twenty years from the time he began to put -by his money was worth $100,000. . The story, whether new or old, teaches a lesson which ever boy . and young man should lay to heart. A diabolical outrage was'perpetrat ed on the convicts of the Michigan State Prison the other day, by an. in human warden, 'who introduced an organ-grinder.; within the walls, and set him at work with his infernal machine to torture the inmates while they were at dinner. The guesU of that estab lishment vow that they will not pat ronize it again if they can help it and, indeed, many were heard to say that they would leave immediately,did circumstances permit. ' Mr. Snooks was asked the other day how he could account for na ture's forming him so ugly. "Nature was not to blame ." said he. "When I was two months old I was considered the handsomest child in the neigh be r hood, but my nurse swapped me away for another boy, just to please a friend of hers, whose child was rather homely looking." A country editor, in New xlamp-' shire, has had presented to him,' for allowance in a lawsuit, a bill which ' reads: "To doing your chores, such as d. awing water chopping wood, and and feeding cattle tho weeks you lay drunk, ?21." A lady teacher in one of the pub lic schools of a town in Wisconsin has laid aside her ferule and adopted the method of kissing her pupils into obedience. The lurger boys, it is said, are particularly unruly, and require daily correction. Great compluint comes from the West about Anna Dickinson. One report fays that she was so engrossed with youuk- lawyer in Bay City, Michigan a few nights since that next morning she overslept herself, missed the train and her lecture at a neighboring city. A Youngstown couple were divorc ed at the lust terra of the Mahouing county, Ohio, court, after having lived together twenty-eight years, iast week they mutually agreed that siugle life was not "very bletsed," and were accordingly remarried. A New Hamphire man when asked to give his consent to the marriage of his daughter, turned with a beaming countenance to the applicant and answered frankly: "Yes, ves; and don't you krw some likely young man who will take tho other ? ' A dutiful son in Detroit has killed 67 of his ueighbors' cats to get money to buy his mother a set of false teeh. He has make a quiet neighborhood where was a howling wilderness, and the old woman can eat heartily. , A St. Louis paper published an ao- ' count of a suicide of a steamer cap tain, including hisiasUHords, which' the captain says are incorrect. A roasted onion bound upon the pulse ou the wrist will stop the most iuveterate toothache in a few minutes. Ex. We are told there is nothing made iu vain. Uut how about a pretty youDggirlr wnt ehe maiden vain?
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers