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Constantly on band to accomodate those who want to purchase living reading mattter Only a part of the vast number of articles per taining to the Book and Stationery business, which we are prepared to sell cheaper than the cheapest, are above enumerated. Give us a call We buy and sell for CASH, and by this arrangt meut we expect to sell as cheap as goods of this class are sold anywhere. jan29, yl I Tji L E c T u i c TELEGRAPH IN CHINA. THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S OFFICE. Nos. 23 A 25 Nassau Street, NEW YORK. Organized under special charter from the State of New York. CAPITAL f5,000,000 50.000 SHARES, SIOO EACH. DIRECTOR S. HON. ANDREW Q. CURTIN, Philadelphia. PAULS. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China. FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield & C New York. ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen tral Railroad, Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American Express Company, New York Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syramse, N. Y. O. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele graph Company, New York. FLETCHER WESTRAY. of Westray, Gibbs A Hardcastle, New York. NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York. OFFICERS. A. G. CURTIN, President. N. MICKLES, Vice President. GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com monwealth,) Treasurer. HON. A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor. The Chinese Government having (through the Hon. Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com pany the privilege of connecting the great sea ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele graph cable, we propose commencing operations in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred miles at once, between the following ports, viz : Population. Canton 1,000,000 Macoa 60,000 Hong-Kong 250,000 Swatow 200,000 Amoy 250,000 Foo-Chow 1,250,006 Wan-Chu 800,000 Ningpo 400,000 Hang Chean 1,200,000 Shanghai 1,000,000 Total 5,910,000 These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,- 000.000. and an enormous domestic trade, besides which we have the immense internal commerce of the Empire, radiating from these points, through its canals and navigable rivers. The cable being laid, this company proposes erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and trustworthy means of communication, which must command there, as everywhere else, the commu nications of the Government, of business, and of social life especially in China. She has no postal system, and her only means now ofoommuuicating information is by couriers on land, and by steam ers on water. The Western World knows that China is a very large country, in the main densely peopled : but few yet realize that she contains more than a third of the human race. The latest returns made to her central authorities for taxing purposes by the local magistrate make her population Four hun dred and Fourteen millions, and this is more likely to be under than over the actual aggregate Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old, not only can but do read and write. Her civili xation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten sive as that of Eurepe. China is a land of teach ers and traders ; and the latter are exceedingly quick to avail themselves of every proffered facili ty for procuring early information. It is observed in California that the Chinese make great use of the telegraph, though it there transmits messages in English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet steamers are owDed by Chinese merchants, and used by them exclusively for the transmission of early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose connecting all their great se*port3, were now in existence, it is believed that its business would pay the cost within the first two years of its suc cessful operation, and would steadily increase thereafter No enterprise commends itself as in a greater degree remunerative to capitalists, and to our whole people It is of vast national importance commercially, politically and evangelically. stock of this Company has been un qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi ness men, as a desirable investment by editorial articles in the New York Herald, Tribune, World, Times, Post, Express, Independent, and in the Philadelphia North American, Press, Lodger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph. Shares of this company, to a limited number, may be obtained at SSO each, $lO payable down, sls on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing December 1, 1868, on application to DREXEL & CO., 34 South Third Street, PHILADELPHIA Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica tion to Reed A Schell, Bankers, who are author ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne cessary information on the subject. sept2syl E combine style with neatness of fit. And moderate prices icith the best tcorimanship JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE 604 MARKET STREET, GEO IF. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA. [sepll,'6S,yl | SAVE YOUR TIME and MONEY by going to Q. R. Oster <fc Co. fur cheap stocking*, and bo convinced that the assertion of one man selling 100 per cent, cheaper than an other is simply nonsense. Ladies' cotton hose at 10,12, 15, 20 cts. and upwards. jun2sml lb? f fot4 DEMOCBATIC PI.ATFOK*. 1. That the federal government is limited in power to the grants contain ed In the Federal Constitution; that the exercise of doubtful constitutional powers is dangerous to the stability of the government and the safety of the people, and the democratic party will never consent that the State of Penn sylvania shall surrender her great right of local self-government. 2. That the attempted ratification of the proposed fifteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution by the radi cal members of the last legislature, and their refusal to submit the same to a vote of the people, was a deliberate breach of their official duty and an outrage upon every citizen of the State, and the resolution making such ratifi cation should be promptly repealed and the amendment submitted to the people at the polls for acceptance or re jection. 3. That the Democratic party of Pennsylvania is opposed to conferring upon the negro the right to vote, and we do emphatically deny that there is any right or power in Congress or elsewhere to impose negro suffrage up on the people of this State in opposi tion to their will. 4. That reform in the administration of the federal and State governments, and in the management of their finan cial affairs is imperatively demanded. 5. That the movements now being made for the amelioration of the con dition of the laboring man has our most cordial co-operation. 0. That the legislation of the late re publican Congress "outside of the Con stitution," the disregard of the major ity therein of the will of the people and sanctity of the ballot box, in the exclu sion from their seats in Congress of representatives clearly elected, the establishment of military governments in States in the Union and the o verthrow of all civil governments therein, are acts of tyranny and usur pation that tend directly to the de struction of all republican government and the creation of the worst forms of despotism. 7. That our soldiers and sailors, who carried the Hag of our country to victo ry must be gratefully remembered, and all the guaranties given in their favoi must be faithfully carried into execution. 8. Equal rights and protection for naturalized and native-born citizens at home and abroad ; the assertion of American nationality which shall command the respect of foreign pow ers and furnish an example an encour agement to people struggling for na tional integrity, constitutional liberty and individual rights. 9. That the present internal revenue and taxing system of the general gov ernment is grossly unjust, and means ought at once to be adopted to cause a modification thereof. The report was acccepted and unani mously adopted. HOST. ASA PACKER. The following extended sketch of the Democratic candidate for Gover nor, will no doubt be read with inter est at this time: Asa Packer, the standard-bearer of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, in the present State canvass, was born in the townsip of Groton, New London coun ty. Connecticut, in the beginning of the year 1569. His grandfather, Elisha Packer, was the most promi nent and successful business man of his native town. He was a farmer, tanner and shoe manufacturer, diligent in his business, a staunch member ofthe Baptist denomination, and worshiped in the church erected on the site of the Pequot Fort, still in existence, and known as the Fort Hill Church. His father, Elisha Packer, Jr., was a man of strong sense, industrious, economi cal, and of independent character, but never very successful in business. As soon as the son was of the age to do something for himsolf he was employ ed in the tannery of Mr. Elias Smith, of North Stonington. Despite his youth, he came to be regarded by the tanner as a confidential friend and ad viser, and, if death had not interposed and broken the connection, Asa Pack er would probably have become a part ner in the establishment, and end ed his life as a tanner. After Mr. Smith's death, Mr. Packer engaged himself to an old farmer by the name of John Brown, a hard-handed and hard-headed old Democrat, of the school of Thomas Jefferson. From him Asa Packer imbibed his Democ racy. When he had reached the age of sev enteen years he pulled up stakes and struck out for Pennsylvania, then a wild, sparsely settled country. He entered Susquehanna County on foot in the year 1822 with a knapsack which contained his whole wardrobe and a few dollars in his purse. Arriv ed at the town of Brooklyn, he ap prenticed himself to a carpenter and joiner. After serving his time as an apprentice, and liecoming the master of his business, he contined to work at it assiduously for several years, when he invested his savings in a lot of wild land on the upper waters of the Susquehanna, and entered upon the hard but free and adventurous life of the pioneer. He made a clearing, and reared with his own hands the cabin to which he soon afet rbrought a wife, a daughter of Zopher Blakslee, Esq., one of the pioneers of Northern Penn sylvania. Here lived Asa Packer elev en years, when circumstances led him to change his residence to Lehigh Val ley. In that locality Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, representatives of associated capital of- Philadelphia, had projected and executed improve ments which inade the wonderful BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNINO, JULY 30, 1869. richos of this section—its_ coal, iron, timber, lime, cement, and slate—par tially available. Hither came Asa Packer, a poor artisan, to labor with his hands, to mix with a crowd of men similarly employed and undistinguish ed. What has raised Asa Packer so for above the throng of which he then was but a unit? Observing the char acter of the country, the almost im measurable extent of the coal deposits, and the diversity of the rich produc tions of the Lehigh Valley, he foresaw the establishment of these extensive colleries of lines of transportation, and all the immense traffic whichjtime developed. Here was a field for the highest intelligence and the most un tiring energy. Accordingly, in the spring of 1833, when he was twenty seven years of age, Asa Packer left his farm in Susquehanna County and per manently settled himself in the Lehigh Valley, Hisadvent into a region in which he was destined to accomplish so much made no stir. He brought to the new field but a few hundred dollars. His capital lay in his active mind, stout heart, and strong arms, aud in indus trious and thrifty habits. His first and second summers were employed in boating coal from Mauch Chunk to Philadelphia, in which he acted as master af his own boat. The energy which he displayed in this occupation brought him to the notice of the Le high Coal and Navigation Company, and he formed a connection with the company, which was maintained for many years, greatly to his advantage. He induced his brother, Robert Pack er to join him, and assisted by some capital from his uncle, Daniel Packer, they engaged in general merchandise in Mauch Chunk, under the firm name of A. &R. W. Packer, with a capital 0f55,000. The most of this money had been saved by Asa Packer from the hard earnings of former years.— The new house entered, from the mo ment of opening, upon an extended and profitable business. It soon be came known by its large tranaetions both on the Lehigh and Schuylkill rivers. Its operations on the Lehigh during the fifteen years between 1835 and 1850 embraced a large mercantile business at Mauch Chunk: contracts with the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, which involved the build ing of dams and locks on the upper navigation ; working coal mines leased from the company, and afterward Mr. Packer's own mines near Hazleton, aud shipping coal to Philadelphia aud New York. A similar shipping busi ness was also done by them on the Schuylkill. They were the first through transporters of coal to the New York market, and it is a fitting return that the business should still continue to be the largest item in the income of Asa Packer, its projector.— Through his coal mining operations he was brought into close relations with the late Commodore Stockton, and between them there sprung up a warm friendship—a friendship which proved of great value to Mr. Packer at a trying moment when pushing for ward to completion the great enter prise of his life, the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Up to the year 1860 the transporta ; tion of the coal of the Lehigh valley to market had been altogether by water, but the business had now reached such a magnitude, as in Mr. Packer's judgment to justify the building of a railroad along the banks of the Le high River. Accordingly, he urged upon the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company the policy of building a rail road as a part of their system of trans portation. But the project was not favorably received by the Company. Experience, it was answered, had proved that coal aud iron would only pay water freight. The Reading Rail road, which enjoys unusual facilities in grades and water connections, was in stanced to clinch the argument. Asa Packer's opinion,however was notatfec ted by this adverse criticism of his pro position, and he determined to take the matter personally in hand. The ground for a railroad in the Lehigh Valley was embraced in a charter for a road of much greater extent, protected by that great Pennsylvania financier, Edward R. Biddle. It was embraced in the charter of the Delaware, Le high, Schuylkilland Susqueh annah Railroad Company, incorporated A pril 21, 1846. The first survey was made in the fall of 1850. Not until the 4th of April, 1851, seventeen days before the enarter would have expired by its own limitation, did Asa Packer take his place in the board of mana gers. On the same day the board sanctioned the grading of a mile of railroad near Allentown, and thereby the limitation was avoided. On the ; 30th of October, 1851, Mr. Packer be came owner of a controlling portion of the stock, and subsequently submitted a proposition to build the road from Mauch Chunk to Easton, a distance ot forty-six miles, for a consideration to be paid in the stock and bonds of the company, the name of which was now changed to the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, to suit its extent and true field of work. Mr. Packer's proposition was accepted, and he com menced work in November, 1851. Un der his personal supervision it was push ed with great vigor. As he re ceived only stocks and bonds in pay ment, he hazarded his whole fortune in the enterprise. In its early com pletion and profitable working he saw every dollar of his investment quadrupled, and every acre of land in Lehigh Valley enchanct-d in value. But it was a heavy load, and many times did it embarrass Mr. Packer to carry it; but his high character and his reputation as a business man enabled him to command resources which other. Commodore Stock ton, the New would have been at the service of no Jersey Central Railroad Company, and other rich corporations to whose bu siness the Lehigh road would contri bute, also came to Mr. Packer's assis tance, and made large advances on its stock and bonds. The Lehigh Valley railroad was fin ished and delivered to the company on the 2ith of September, 1855, and was put immediately in operation. Its coal freights, which in 1857 amounted to 500,000 tons, in the year 1860 exceed ed 2,000,000 tons 635,000 of which were delivered alow its route from Mauch Chunk to Easton to works which the railroad itself had called into existence. The addition which it brought to Asa Packer's fortune can only be stated by millions. Within three years after the opening of the railroad from Mauch Chunk to Easton, with connec tions which made a railroad route from the valley to Philadelphia as well as New York, Mr. Packer suggested the extension of a line of railroad into the valley of the Susquehanna, and up that valley to the great table-lands of the State of New York, there to con nect with the New York and Erie Railroad. This would bring the An thracite coal region within the system of roads leading north and west to Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and also afford a direct route by connection with the Catawissa and Erie roads to the Great West. Asa Packer has lived to see the whole of this stupen dous conception realized. It is not possible to calculate the benefit which it is destined to confer upon the whole country. It will set the wheels of ma chinery in motion thousands of miles in the interior as well as at the tide wa ; ter, and bring about in a great section of ; country that diversity of employments ; essential to the highest development i of the people. On his return from a trip to Europe in 18(55, Mr. Packer announced it his in tention to found in Lehigh Valleyan e ducational institution which shouldsup ply to its young men the means of ob taining that knowledge of which he had in early life felt such a profound need. The branches of education to which it ; was Mr. Packer's design that the insti ! tution should be especially devoted | were civil, mechanical, and miningen | gineering; general and analytical ' chemistry; mineralogy and metal lurgy; analysis of soils and agriculture; architecture and construction; all branches of knowledge of exception al value in the Lehigh Valley. In carrying into effect his purpose, Mr. Packer gave a woodland park sixty a cres in extent, situated on the borders of South Bethlehem, and $500,000 in money. This institution known as the Lehigh University, was formally opened Sebtember 1, 18G6, and its suc cess has realized the intelligent and beneficent purpose of its founder. By its character it is made a self-sustain ing institution ; intended to reach both rich ancl poor with its advantages; its free scholarships being offered as prizes to be competed for by all the students. No sectarian bigotry limits its benefi cent influence to a single religious de nomination, but those of every creed find a welcome to its halls. On the 2:! d day of November, 1865, at a dinner given to Mr. Packer at Bethlehem, a as public acknowledgment of his prince ly gift, at which many prominent men of the State were present, John W. For ney paid the following tribute to the guest of the day. "Here is a char acter and coreer for youth and man hood to study. Here is a lesson to the one to move on in the path of improve ment, and a stimulent to the other never to despair in the darkest hour of disaster and misfortune. We pick out Asa Packer as the min er picks out a piece of coa to show the value of the precious de posit from which it is taken; we pick him out to show what can be won by personal honesty, industry, and kind ness to men , by courage in the midst of bad luck; by confidence in the midst of gloomy prophecy; by modes ty in prosperity; and by princely gen erosity when fortune comes with both hands full to realize a just ambition." Among his immediate friends and associates, Mr. W. 11. Gatzmer, the President of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, bore high testimony to the enorgy and ability with which Mr. Packer had carried out his great min ing and railroad enterprises, and ac knowledged that although Pennsylva nia is only his adopted State, few of her sons have done more to develop her mineral resources. Mr. Packer en joys to the fullest extent the confi dence of the community in which he lives. This it has shown by electing him to public office whenever he could be induced to accept it. He served his neighbors several years in the General Assembly of the State, his services there ended with the year 1843. lie was then elected Judge of the County Court, which position he held five years, and hence he is famil iarly known as Judge Packer. More recently he has represented his dis trict for two successive terms in the Congress of the United States, and his friends insisted on presenting his name to the late National Convention of the Democratic party, as a candidate for thetirSt office in the gift of the Ameri can people. Mr. Packer's whole career exempli fies the truth that in the United States there is no distinction to which any young man may not aspire, and with energy, diligence, intelligence and vir tue, attain. When he set out from Mystic, Conneticut, to make the jour ney to Pennsylvania on foot, it is not probable that his entire worldly pos sessionsamounted to S2O. These pos sessions now are estimated at twenty millions, all of which has been accu mulated, so far as known, without wronging a single individual. On the i contrary, the wealth which lie has ( gathered is but one tithe of that 1 which lie has been the means of erea- 1 tingin the Lehigh Valley. J IIOKIUIKS OF I.KFKOSY, A correspondent writing from the Sandwich Islands gives the following description of a visit to a leper hospi tal at llalaia : "We enter the room. Mats spread on all sides are covered by about a dozen or titfeen recumbent fig ures, among the worst of the bad eases. A fetid order, faint but perceptible, pervades the apartment. We hear hard, hoarse breathing, harsh whisp ers and deep sighs from those who can never again speak with their old voi ces. The decay of the vocal organs is almost the last stage of the plague, and seems the most terrible of all. The pa tient is unusually by this time one mass of corruption. What faces are turned to us as we grope among the half conscious sufferers—faces that look as though they had been hacked twenty times across with the broad-ax, and each gash healing had left a horrible seam. Ears swollen to twice their natural size, raw looking and bloody, while the enormous lobes, hanging nearly to theshoulder, ooze with asick ening pus. There are those with nos trils slowly witheriug away, some with no nasal at all, only an ulcerous cavity remains, too abominable to be thought of for a moment. Fingers grow sharp at the ends, sloughing the skin, shedding the joints one by one. They are but half alive, these lepers, and carry their own infectious corpse about with them. One old man, sit ting in a gate, a narrow strip of cloth about the lions, is covered from head to foot with large, hard swellings.— There is not vacancy enough between his thousand and one lleshy hillocks to lay the tip of your finger. Yet he is unconscious of any pain whatever. He turns a ghastly grin—supposed to be a smile upon us, and exhibits a new inound just making its appearance on one side of him, which is likely to crowd out a few older ones. The poor wretch looks more like a horned toad, polished down a little, than a man and brother. NAVINO FOR Old) AWE. No one deuies that it is wise to make provision for old age, but we are not all agreed as to the kind of pro vision it is best to lay in. Certainly we shall want a little money, for a des titute old man is indeed a sorry sight. Yes, save money by all means. But an old man needs just that particular kin I of strength which young men are most apt to waste. Many foolish young fellows will ihrowa way ona holi day a nervous energy which he will nev er feel the want until he is seventy; and then how much will he want it! It is curious, but true, that a bottle of champagne at twenty will intensify the rheumatism at threescore. It is a fact that overtasking the eyes at four teen may necessitate the aid of spectacles at forty, instead of eighty. We advise our young readers to be saving of health for their old age, for the maxim holds good in regard to health as to money. 'Waste not, want not.' It is thegreat e. *■ mistake to suppose that violation of the laws of health can escape its penally. Nature forgives no sin, no error. She lets off the offender fifty years sometimes, but she catches him at last and inflicts the punishment just when, just where, and just how he feels it most. Save up for old age, but save knowledge, save the recollection of geod and noble deeds and innocent pleasures ; pure thoughts, save friends, save love. Save rich stores of that kind of wealth which time cannot di minish, nor death takeaway. The Milwankee \l r isc)isin relates the following additional illustration of the sagacity of the elephant: The elephant Romeo, who had won quite a reputation for cutting up, star ted a sensation yesterday, which for some time bid fair to be quite lively. It seems that when the train was com ing into the city on Friday morning, some thoughtless.boy threw a stone at the baby elephant, hurting it. Romeo was full of wrath and started for the crowd of boys with the evident determination of stirring them up. The keeper saw what was up and for nateately succeeded in quieting the monster. Yesterday morning the boy who threw the stone was on the circus grounds, and Romeo by some means discovered him. The huge fellow was full of wrath, and stared about wildly. He upset stands, threw his trunk a bout him and bellowed very much like a young tornado. It was evident that he meant mis chief, and as soon as he was in earnest, would manage to get loose, and then the dickens would he to pay. A ri der was sent down town to hunt up Romeo's keeper, and that worthy just arrived as the monster was in a fair way to get loose. The keeper mai - aged by blows and threats to quiet af fairs. Meanwhile the boy who had made the trouble was getting towards town as fast as his young legs could carry him. A very fat man being measured for a pair of pantaloons, gave directions that they should be large and full as he liked them loose. When he came to try them on they stuck tight to his legs, whereat lie remonstrated: "I told you to make those pants full." After some objugary expressions of a profane nature, the tailor ended the controversy by declaring, "I dink dts pants if full enough, if dey was any fuller they would split." "When 1 was quite a boy," says Smith, "my father ordered a coat for me from an Israelite, and when the garment came home it was very mu< h too large. The perplexed Jew, after vainly trying to gather up the fullness in the back with his hand, so that the front might set tight, declared at length that the 'coat was goot; it wi s j no fault of te coat; te coat fit Jgoot i- ! neugh, but tepoy was too slim !' " J VOL 64.—WHOLE No. 5,500. The Lebanon (Kentucky) Clarion says; "A most daring and determined attempt to commit a rape was made in Adair county, about four miles from Columbia, last Monday night. Two young ladies, daughters of a re spectable farmer, were steeping in the upper room of their father's dwelling, which is a log house. A black scoun drel made his way into their chamber by ciiming up at the side of the chim ney to the window. The young ladies were awakened by the touch of his hands, plated upon the head of one and *he feet of the other, and screamed out in extreme terror for assistance. Their father rushed up stairs promptly with a pistol and fired several shots at the retreating form of the villain, who by this time was out of the house.— None of the shots took effect." A ne gro named Ilendricksou has been arrast ed and charged with the crime, and is now in jail at Lebanon, in default of bail, intense excitement prevails in the community and threats of sum mary justice have been maee. The mostsiugular case is said to have occurred in the Third district a few days ago. A little girl, about three years old, named Emily Walhauer, residing with her parents at the corner of Spain and Greatmen streets, had been camplaining for some time of pain and nausea in the stomach, while at the same time her appetite became extraordinary. The parents, suppos ing that the child was troubled with worms, gave the usual medicine.— These operating severely made the little girl very sick at thestomaeh, and after, she threw up a live mouse of medium size. The mouse was taken to the drug store of Mr. Weilbaeher, near by, and was visited by a large number of persons, the mouse being still alive.— Sew Orleans Bulletin. The remarkable intelligence of the colored officials in the South must be gratifying to their Northern Radical patrons. Ben Marks, an ebony gentle man of Mougomery, Ala., had to go to jail, and Joe Williams, another col ored brother, was made an officer for the time being by a justice of the peace and deputized to take hiin there. On the way to jail, the prisoner got the offi cer drunk, and taking the commitment out of his pocket, presented it to the jail er and had the officer locked up. When Constable Joe awoke from his drunk en slumber he found himself a prison er, and Ben was far away. He stout ly denied taking anything to drink, and said: "Something'swrong, somehow or other, kase I know de squire meant to write me down officer, an' Ben for jail." A FRANK CONFESSION.— Frank was in the habit of falling out of bed du ring the night, and his father to bieak him of the habit, would remind him | of it the next moruiug. Yesterday, as usual, his father said to him, "Here, Frank, you fell out of bed ! again." "Oh, no, father," said F., "I didn't; it was the pillow ; for I went up to see, I and the pillow was on the floor beside i the bed." "What made you cry then ?" said his i father. "Well, you see," said Frank in the most sober manner, "it was dark, and I could not tell whether it was me or | the pillow." A lot of minstrels of a Western city j started out on a "tower" recently.— They went to a town not for away and | advertised to give a performance for "the benefit ot the poor, tickets reduc ed to 25 cents." The hall was crani- J ined full. The next morning a com j raittee for the poor called upon the : treasurer of the concern for the amount said benefit had netted. The treasurer expressed astonishment at the demand. "I thought," said the chairman of the committee, "you advertised this con cert for the benefit of the poor!" Re plied the treasurer, "Didn't we put the tickets down to 25 cents, so that the poor could all come?" The com mittee vanished. A guest at a Cleveland hotel was discovered by the ptoprieter the other evening, rather tenderly embracing one of the chambermaids. The landlord rebuked him somewhat angrily, and wanted to know the reason of such eon duct. "Simply observing the rulesof the house," said the guest, pointing to card tacked to the room door. "Don't it read, 'Any neglect of servants should be reported at the office?' I don't want to be reported at the office for neglect of servants, do I?" A GERMAN, named Carl Schell married a girl just from the Fader land, at Omaha, some three weeks a go, in a most peculiar manner. He purchased a pair of ear-bobs, put them iu her ears, and informed the young lady that "this little ceremony consti tutes a marriage in America." After a week had passed he took them out, and informed her of another piece of news, viz., "This little ceremony constitutes a divorce in America." He is now in jail for stealing a trunk. A young gentleman, not distin guished either for good looks, riches or wit, having met a severe rebuff from one of our prettiest and most distinguished actresses, and wishing to punish her for her disdain, consulted a friend as to the best means for his pur pose. "Do you wish to be very severe upon her?" "Very." "Then go and see her." While ten men watch for chances, one man makes chances; while ten men wait for something to turn up, one turns up; so while ten faii, one succeeds and is called a man of luck, the fovorite of fortune. There is no luck like pluck, and fortune most fa vors those who are most indifferent to fortune.
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