! I'BSCRI I'T IONTKIIM S.Si H The f*c< i ;KR 3 erv ! R:PAV uwrn :r .T be lo! - wii iT r*te.- : <;VK *YCAR, ' [in 7 , GO " (it n<>t p*tf t'.e X w pii.cr laws : 1. A Postmaster is required t - give notice '>// r tfer, (retnriitjxg a $ j cr de.- n< t a swerthe la*v • v, iif.ii a subscriber a-e not take his \ aper out tl. office, nod s-rtt.' tbe reasons for it? r * i eilig j ts , n; snd a tc do .-* nuke* rue ttr sp*on*ibU t'th publisher* for the payi'ient. ?, Aay person who take- ; oper Yom nc >st of ' e, wic ther directed to his i. iuc >r ADoifcer, ; . w iber he has subscribed or not : a r... i•n. .1 :■ j for ike py. 3. If a per- n orders his paper d! rf e.:|i*>:iae*l, he ! u. t pay ail or tie |>Ui>Uer n.;> > 0 a: iaue to a ;• i it :.r?i! payment .s u;u-.e, aoi ; i -ct the wb-Je aui" int. i c*>etktr it hr tukri :'r- A. .jfirt or nut. '£ . ore v - iu be no Ictjai d:.* -< atio - I: the üb> orders bis paper to be opjrtrd at a certain lite*. and tie pttb'buer con a'io- to sea l, the *ah.-o-: ih*r is bari-.i ?* pay for >'hc f il out of the r>*t Of/7 e. The iuw ■tela upon the ground that a man must psy | ♦ r wnt.fc* uses. I :;e cour decbic I tba* refusing to f.Ue i r. -,-paper.r and periodical* ir in the lf -st office, ! iii. vi::g a:.d baring tbeiu uncalie i ft>;, i> \ 1 j - in r'ocia t'i the ruhlit . oTwi-h J. W. Lingcnfelter. I !*, on Publ : luatc nt • l.urhoraa Church. c ";c*tprjmptlr rua ie. ' >f. AT;SIP, ; j ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bknroßr*, PA., V/ill faithfnll y and promptly attend te all busi- | ;•= entru "e l to his eare in P.edford and adjoin- j counties. Military clai uPensions, hack ■ *f, Bounty. Ac. speedily eo|leeted. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana .nireet. 2 doors south ; f the Mengel llou.-e. ipll, 1884.—tf. I P., DUHItOUROW. J . ATTORNEY \f I.AW, BrBFORn, PA.. ; Will attend promptly to ail business intrusted to i- rare. Collections on the shortest no- i lie .MsO, a regularly licensed Claim Agent | idwl give peci.d attent.iin U- -lie prosecution 'in s againpt the (roreromrnt f ->r Pensions, j I AT, Bounty, Bounty f.ands. if. rice on Juliana street, one door S .th of the | Sj. h. RDBKKLL H• l-ONG! • KCK KR I i > USSELL A LOXG i:N E0 K E li. I V ATTORTETS A < H >SELL&RS AT L.W, | Bedford. I'a . '' ill attend promptly and faithfully to all hu-i- | ei 'msted to iheir < oe. Spe-al attention j . veu to collections and the j.r -c. ution of , for Bafk J'ay, Boun'.y, Pens;< us. a .jpgr-!ffice on Juli.ioa strc-t. south of the Court ! House. Apri'idyr. | . M*D. SHIPPE '• f *K p -R i Ct HARPS A KERR. o A ri'OHSK YS- Ar- LA IV. j Will practice in the Courts of Bt.dfor i and ad ::>insc eountie*.. Ml business er tru•t tl to their Mre vrill receive cereful and prompt attention. P-nsion, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col- j let ted from the Gorernment. Office on Julians street, opposite The hanking . bi use of Heed L ScdwlL Bedford. Pa- Wo&itt P H Y SICI A N S . Y ITM.l T M. \V. JAMISON, M. D., vv IJf-OOX>y Rvs, t' a., Respectfully tenders his professional services to" the people of that place and vicinity. [dec3:lyr | \ R. B. F. HARRY, Refpectfully lenders his professional ser vices to the citizens of Bedford and vkiaity. OfSee an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofi'ii. [Ap'l 1,64. MISCELLANEOUS. OE. SHANNON, BANKER, . BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collection* made for the East, West, North and So ttb, and the general bui*iue?e of Exchange j Note* and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and told. feb22 f \ ANIEL BOHI>EK, \ j PITT .STHEF. t , TWO doors WF.ST OF THI SSD P( RD HOTEL, P.4. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL- i RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of one Gold and Stl- j v*r Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble olasses. Gold ; Watch Chain*. Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best I quality of Gold Pns. He will supply to krder | any thing in hi# line not n hand. [-pr.2B/65. j Q P. 11 AII B AUGH & SO N , TraTelling Deaera in N O T I O N S . In the eouaty once every two month*. S B L L GOODS AT CITY PRICES.; Agents for the Charabersburg Woolen Manufac- i taring Company. Apl l:ly T \ W. CROl; SE , \~J • prU KR ts CIGARS, TOBACCO, PICKS, AC., f)n Pitt street one d > r east o. Geo. 1%. Ost* r A Co.'s Store. Bedford, Pa., is now prepared to tell by whole-ale *1! -tin.ls of CIGARS. All orde r promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in hi* line will d . well to give him * cull. Bedford Oct 20. 65., tVf ASHINGTt>N HOT! I. This lurge and commodious bou>e. having been re taken by the subscriber, is m w open for the re ception of visitors and boarder*. The rooms are large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. 1 The table will always be supplied with the best the n arket can afford. The Bar is stocked with the choicest liquors. In shrt. it is my purpose to keep a FIRST CLASS HOTEL. Thanking the public for past favors. I rcspoetfully solicit a renewal of their patronage. N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the Hotel and the Springs. mayl7/67:iy WM. DIBERT, Prop r. BLOODY run MA R BLE WORKS. R. H. Si PES having established a manufactory of Monument*, Tomb-atoßet, T*b!c-Tops, Coun ter-slabs, Ac., at Bloody Run. Bedford co., Pa. and having on hand a well selected stork of for eign and American Marble, is prepared to fill ah orders prempily and do work in a neat an, And down the warm wavis :: 'ivir length 1 drop My empty arms, to tiud my batvester. In all his spn ch there was no woid to mend; \Yt .ie'er he said, r right or wrong, was best, Until at last an arroic pierced my breast, 1 i; t with a lalal oomt,— he calied me friend! Still next my heart the fading rose I wore, 1 i ;t ail So sad; full Well I knew, (rod Wot, i hat 1 had been in h.ve and he bad not, And in the barley-field I gleaned no more. —Atlantic Monthly. §1 teffUmuw. H01..11 KN AND LOWELL. A r- een; number of Casst ll's Ma-az tu coar a'-us a fine article on "Atucii-.in Ha ttiOi'.s's at d Sitirist.-," front which we >e -1 ef n lew jias-asn - on Holmes and L >wcil. w 1 ich shows tin i'pptn i .lion of the genius of tlic.-c !i adit g hutttori: ts of America : "In many re.-pceti- very cilferent men. Holmes and 1. well tc-euihle - rch other in ti c i mi! ors'iee end the refinement of theii hue,or. Rotli nre men of the highest rcli la-tic cuUoie; both have that in vnluaLle ci I—a keen npptcc'atii it of' char actor, especially it- humorous side, and a maTTfliotis ab'Uiy in portraying it: both arc pbilusOi hers, s- well as pee-a and hum-) - i t-; itath shine iu coßversatioa, and, un -:k>: Go d-utirh arc s- s; a kling ai l b illiant at tald".-r in the tnci*} ci vic, a- in the pagi - of the Atlantic; loth arc in the very prime -,-f .it'.-, in the full v:_- r alike of hod;, and intellect, when th harvest of the mind is rich st and most plentiful. " Toe publication of the Autocrat of the !>:c;.kf.t-T -bit was an event in Auicricai. '.i' ratuu*. No work, pe-baps since Ir v Sketch Book had so tleurly proved the it iiucnii-iit and maturity in literatme of whi- h Amciiea wa eat able. . . . The author's iujpf.taou- humor fairly gallop-, dev-!t.; iug mote arid more in uccft-ding parages, until tin richness and quaintne.-- a'most cxhamt the reader. Its plan and style arc just the, vehicle., to convey Holmes's fun iar ten. H>- is one of tho c wiif-rs win) seemingly wsi:e with perfect ea- . whose thought* serut to well up as fa.-t as he can gather them, and to pour theni-elvPr, almost sttontaneously, and with the happiest garb of wools, U( on the page-, before him. "One bcau'y of the Auio.'rat counts in its entire irii'ej endet e of method and con tinuity. Tic writer rambles hither and thither, with no apparent connection be tween his th lues, discoursing now gravely, now gayly, ii '.v funnily, now naively, now teaching great ti.oral or physical truths, anon lashing, wiih good humored vigor the short comti ts of society, then bursting iuto beautiful verses, now painting a gorgeous descriptive picture—passing, in deed, from one subject to another with the same ease and not nnna'tiral abruptness wliich c!.a ' eter i.M bre •kfast-table con versation. Throughout there runs a genial, ! gentle current, which iiresistaWy attracts one to the author's identity. His wit is never bar-h or cynical. Then is- a pleasant vanity which, far front repelling, draw- out 1 front the reader a yet more distinct sym pathy; while on every page, there is ample evidence h'ow full of sentiment, tenderness, and imaLrination —warm, Lr :d, and | ro lific —the writer is. There are exquisite little glimpses of character peeping out suddenly now and then, of the hoarder.-- aliout the breakfast table; and ti ere is enough sentiment to draw the inattentive reader unconsciously on into the more sober parts wherein, before he knows i. he t> wrapt in superb description, or receiving rules for guidance in every-day life. . . ' Ho in sat the age of lit' l y nine, is a little aetive man, with large, bright eye , a perpetual, smile upon hi- rounu, j> \ iai face, 1 a \uukce briskness in evciy movement, a cheerful word always on bis hps, a witty sally ready for all occasion*—it w uhl be haid to find a more attractive companion or warmer fiietid. Above the snobbi.-hneaa ! aud singularity of pretem ions gerdus, he is quite accessible, and receives the curious and admiring stranger with the saute bright affability which he displays everywhere and always. . . . "To James Bussell Lowell, however, be longs the rank of the prince if American, humorists. It is sufficient to prove his right to that title to say that to him litera ture owe* the Biglow Papers. If you would bate a portrayal of the rustic Yankee char acter —the genuine Jonathan from the country, young and old; the typical c. untrv and prosperous, newspaper reading, politics d: co-sing, iwtic-phUos- phiou n.er, in ad the ec vr.tiicify, dry wit. quaint thoughts aim > • or sion . s ron r rtstlve shrewdness, <' ; ■ it ■ • :.i. '< < f looking at a - ' .■ .. i,-, .1 1 heartily .0 lb tatUsh it-- of the iltitll utai Big : >a. \JU fvl vui wlj a i-acting this thoroughly \:p conn try' vernacular, that it IS, lie . t rtjjcics.-, tin production oi a scholar, a philosopher, and a humorist of the high est refi. emeiit. C'oar.-erits* arid gross ex ate wlii.fy wwtirg. . . . BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 19- IBG9. Under the homely, humorous garb of ruatic expression—in it si-If marYellously true to nature and illustrative of Yankee character —politics and philosophy are di-cua.t d, arid opinions forcibly snstainrrd or bitterly satirized. . . . "A•• Professor of Literature in Harvard Ui.lv triiy. Low< 1! is renowned for the richness of language and humor of the lectures which i. is I n ta-k to de!ivtr to the senior class. All ;he characteristics of the e ley ant scholar and the keen satin-' ap pvai in these discourses. . . . He is a k t-u lover of lotti r.-, and has for them a pure ii.ti llfctuai affet tion. He. is espetiaily familiar with English literature, at d with the gfi at French, Gentian, and Dalian authors. Ha is a master of correct, ele gant. ana forcible English, an-1 seeois to be equally at. home in prose snd verse. . . "L ke Dr. Holmes, Professor looweil is tn the piimo of vigorous and active manhood, and lias preserved the buoyancy and en thu- a-m of hi.- youth, alike in his person n f in his nrcntal energies." I Hi; XIHOSE IN MAINE. We fiiiJ the following accouut of the moose ffotii that excellent agricultural and farmitig journal, the Maine Fanner, pub li-hed at Augusta, which we ate sure will be read w.th interest: TLie noble auiuial is an inhabitant of this Siute, but its native location is much more extensive than is generally supposed. North ot 4'J degrees they arc found across the en tire continent, L ing very numerous in the Northern R icky Mountains. Maine, New- B unswiek ami Lower Canada are among its favorite places ot abode. Tltey are the lar gest of the doer tribe. Few persons in Maine realize what a noble animal ranges our forests, some of which vie almost w th the horse iu siz--. Like all the deer family they are lutuiuating animals, and in summer wh> n their hair is short and glosay, th >• appear very handsome; though their head ha- a heavy lo k which is disfigured by a clumsy up; er lip, approaching in appearance that of the horse. They are exceedingly finid. We saw one partially tamed several years since, and though he had been kept for months in a stable with a horse, yet when taken into the street he seemed ter ritdy frightened as he saw a walking through the streets —Hence die nioosc hunter finds it necessary to approach them igairist the wind. The breaking of a twig will arouse them. In winter the hair is long and coar-c, within which is a fine, thick coat of wool. An old moose has a long, u.-hy tuft undi r the jaw-. The moat remarkable object of attention in the moose is bis huge anilet-. which stem t>beapi -it inisinv-f niems" to the progre s of the an teal among trees, but he turns theiu buck upon bis shoulders End trots a'ong wi-h stately gait and with great -j.eed amoug the trei-s. They never gallop nor leap, but practice a long trot. Hunt -is think much of moose meat. Tie -vak i> ttsuady coaiw though when in good i • once iuicv. The nose and One lie are considered great d. lie scics. The Indians who lived in the vicinity of the ; w; ire- considered it a uio-t de.-iiable pies- j ent to their white u-ighbors wlo-n they | c old bring in a nose and tongue of a moose. Th- age of the moose is generally re kon- ! ed by the numh'-r of points on hk horns, j -ome of which have as many as twenty three, which indicate their age in years. Tneir antl-rs weigh, sometimes as high as -eventy-pound ■. They hed these every year, usually commencing in D -c-'inber- It . is a.-tonishing with what rapidity these ant- ! lers will grow. In the winter season they retire to the in >rc mountainous region, w;i re they are •aid to "yard." An abundance of hard wood trees furnish them with food, and they do not It ave tin ir yard unless di-turbed, ro long as food is abundant. Mi os hunting when the snow is deep and covered with eru.-t is very exciting. When started from their yard, the male goes first, an 1 the others follow in his tracks so exactly that a stranger would auppose • here wil only one moose. It is said that ihey sometimes in their flight go through other yards, when they all fall in and travel in single file. Itssprod is so great that an Indian has putsued one three hundred uiilet before overtaking hint. Generally if hotly pursued and not overtaken the first day, they lay d iwn alter running a short distance and are so stiff the in xt day that they ate -asily brought to hay by small dog". Various attempts have been made to do me-ticate them. They have been harnesseif into a sleigh and drivi n with great speed, but there are times when they are perfectly unmanageable.—Their timid nature forbids tit ir general use. The d-strucliou of moose and deer in this State ha- bei n most wanton within a few years. A law is needed forbidding their s aughter lor ten or fifteen jeats, whin they would again rapidlv increase. HAN ANAS. Any one who recollects the importance a - go d by the late Mr. Ruckle to bananas, as an element of the focal of many will read with interest the following extract we clip from a letter to the Philadelphia Ledger, front Brazil : The mo.-t wonder.'ul production of this nd ail tropical countries, in uiv estimation, is the banana and i's synonym, the plantain. We have half a dozen varieties, each with peculiar tlav.tr and qualities. Some grow only eight or ten feet high, others twenty. The stalks are front six to twelve inches thick, hut almost as soft and succulent as celery. Each of them bears a bunch of bananas, and only one, when it is cut down with a stroke of the spade to secure the fruit and give place to other stalks; and so they grow and ripen perpetually all the year round. A gr-at traveler has calculated that the phiiutain on one acre of ground, will pro duce as much food as one huodtcd and thirty three acres of wheat, or forty four of p titoes. i'hts fo.ti the principal reliance of the poor an J a luxury for all. It is good raw. roasted, baked ami indeed in every form: and is equally relished by all domesti cated fowls and animals wh : ch devour fruit, leaves, stalks and all with gicat avidity. It requires but a single planting for a lifetime; putting in the ground a single sprout from the banana patches at a distance of twenty or thitty feet from each oiher, and on g.oiiud that is aiwijs calculated to spare lor toe purpose, leca tse it is impossible to ex tirpate tbe root. Th.'one it ek gives more —spring u g out fioiii tbe rides in the ground perpetually, and in a few years covering the interveu.og spaces, tiil the whole surface becomes a fan st of fruit and foliage; will scarcely room to pass through the cool over bang tog arches. A banana or a banana patch is a beautiful sight, with the stalks and their produce in all stoges ot perfection the broad leaves waving in the hrc ze and fanning in lazy rep- se, while the bodies of the trees bend und<-r th- ir luscious burdens an iwi :l i.fren bis uk down th iL- weigh' cxce( t ftom :he r.eighl-jrirg support. Theie re a bun I-. -1 or iwo of lw,, ,ri.i -or u I t:ti.rh like grapes-, and the bt.nch s are generally as much as a siout man can carry. Titty should always bs cut as soon a- the fruit is matured—but while the skin is yet green— and hung up in the shade to turn yellow, which improves the flavor. It takes about a year for ataika and fruit, to mature from the first planting, but then there is never any more trouble with the crop—scarcely any hoeing or working; no culture—only slay snd eat. Certainly it i, thegreatest boon ever bestowed c.n the indolent tiopics. A native swinging in his hummock, with a bunch of ripe bananas hanging in reach on the one side and a smouldering fiic on the other, by which he may light his little cigar without getting up, is a most perfect picture of contentment. SAVED BY A COMPASS AND A FIREFLY. In Mr. Barton's very iiii.eretiug account of the "Invention of the Compass," iu Our Young Fol/.s for February, is the following curious story told him by a Lake Cham plain boatman : "He said he had been a prisoner for elev en months in Andersonvil'.e during the late war, and when he heard that General Sher man was at Atlanta, about two hundred and forty miles distant, he and his comrades de termined to try and escape, and make their way thither. One of them had an old fash ioned watch with a compass in the back of it; and by this they expected to direct their course, which was ccarly northwest. Rut. as they expected to travel only by night, they resolved not to start until they could get a box of matches, so as to he able to atrike a light now and then, to lock at their compass. They delayed their d< parture for six weeks, trying to get a box of matches, for the purchase of which they gave one ot •heir negro friend* their la-t five dollar hil: He could not buy a box of matches fir five dollars, nor for any other number of dollars, and so -at last th.-y made up theii minds to start without then). "Assisted by their black friend, they go away one afternoon, and lay hidden unti late in the evening, when they started a' grrat pace through the woods, and canit about midnight to a road which seemed t. go, as nearly u-they could guess, exactly northwest. Seemed, I say; hut it uii-ht not, and, if it did not, it would lead ttuui to captuic and death. The night vv--, noi very dark, but the star- w. re i idden by clouds; else the friendly North Star would have guided them upon their way. A x ion.- a- they were to get on, tiny stoe-i fin several minute-comparing recollection-, arm dt'iMKl€(l the pk.'.N4l fiawti' *! wu Tni lives depended. Rut, the more they talked it over, the more uncertain they Ic -ime; ari l now they hit erly regictti d tin ir iuij a tienee in coming away without matches. ' Th-re were a grr at number of fire fiie.- flying about. A lucky thought occurred to one of them, —the boatman who told us the stoiy. He caught a firefly, and taking it between his thumb and fitiatr, held it evt bis compass. Imagine their joy to find il a the insect gave th.eni plenty of light for theii purpose; and imagine their 'till great r joy to discover that the read led straight to thi Union army. Eight nights of ttavr! brought them safely to it." Adtniiahle invention! I ofiou wondei that a thing to valuable can be so small, situ pie, and cheap. It is nothing fut a nsed'c, a pivot, and a card, which you can buy fot half a dollar, and carry in your pocket, o> dangle at the end of a watch chain. Yet. small and trifling as it is, a ship's company that should find themselve in the middle ol the Ocean without a compass would consid er it a great favor to be allowed to buy one lor many thousand dollar.-. "NO KUOM FDR LOAFERS." These words recently met our eyes as we passed a workshop. "No room for loaf er?." Sure enough, there is no room for 1-alers anywhere in this working world. They are not .vanted in the busy workshop, nor in the editor's sanctum ; they arc a nuisance in the country store, spitting and spewing about the stove, and at the post office and street corners, are in everybody's way. They are forever out of place—except when in the almshouse or jail. A dead weight upon society, they are a hindrance and a bore. They form no part of nature's plan ; it abhors them, as it does a vacuum. While all the world is going forward, they are standing still, or rather gliding imper eeptiblv backward into seedy vagabondism, A loafer soon grows rusty. It is only use which keeps our faculties bright, and the idle man gets dull, stupid, stolid arid muddy headed. Yet some ol these fellows st-em to think very well of themselves. You will see th. tu strutting alonir the sunny side of the Street, lounging at the corners, or hanging aluut the doors of the hotels, with fine cloihet upon their hacks, and a well sati>fi<*d smirk upon their vacant countenances. Ihe poor creatures look upon a poor working man as a iteing of an inferi r ord- . ! No doubt the drones affect to des; i e the busy bee, until thev are driven Ir in the hive to starve, while the workers 1 :-t i ; ti the honey. A loafer setting him-el! a' nve the man who labors with his Italic s! M by, he is as far beneath him as, in the order ot creation, the sloth is beneath the common hor.-e. A young mechanic, in his working dress, and with his tools in his hands, is every way a more agreesble object than the best dressed loafer in exitance. There is always room for him. He is never out of place, for he is keeping step with the movement of the uni verse. He has an aim, a porj o-c, and he stands for something. His faculties are trained to use, and he is of caluc to the world for what he can do. The skilled workman is to the idle man what the manu factured article is to to the raw material. He has an additional value above that of mere manhood. A NEW Orleans jury declared a man to nave come to his death by ' an unknown cart." About on a par with this is the Philadelphia verdict respecting a man who had been crushed todtaih in a mill, when the jury remarked. "No blame call be at tached to the machinery." Mono lake-ax unihppled sua. Mono Lake lies ten miles southwest of the dividing line between California u d N' Vuda, and is about fouUeon miles long and nine wide. It has c vcr b> n sounded, j hut a trial s-ajd to have bt'eu made wiih a line of three hundrvd feet failed to reach | bottom. By chemical analysis a gallon of! the water, weighing eight pounds. wj ! found to eunfain 1,200 grains of suli! ma' ter, consi-ting principally of Huori bo! o dium, carbonate of soda, sulphate g: .-• Js, borax and silica. The-e substances ren for w: - e ■ j acid and nauseating that n is i.rfit for drinking or even bathing. L-aiher im mersed in it is soon dt.stio.ved by i's co.to- 1 -ive properties, and no animal, not even a li-h or frog, can exist in the water for more than a short time. The only thing able to five within or u|njri the waters of this lake is a species of fly, which, springing from larvas bred in its bosom after an ephemeral life, dies, and. collecting on (he surf toe, ts ; drifted to the slioie, where the remains col i lcet in vast quantities, and art fed upon bv 1 the ducks or gathered by tlie Indians, with whom tht y are a staple article of food. Nestling under the eastern water-shed of the Sierra, Mono lake receives several con siderable tributaries; and although destitute of any out : et. such is the aridity of the at j tnosphere that it is always kept at nearly a uniform level by the process of evaporation, j So dense and sluggish is the water rendered j through supcrsaturation with various salts and other foreign matter that only the strongest winds raise a ripple on its sur face. As the Sierra in this neighborhood reaches nearly its greatest altitude, the scenery alout Mono Lake is varied at-d majestic, some parts of it beintr at the same 'ime marked by a most cherries- and deso late aspect. The bitter and fatal waters of this lako tcnder it literallv a dead sea, and a'! its surroundings—wild, gloomy and forbidding —are suggestive of sterility and death. The decomposing action of the water i -hown by its effect upon the bodies of a com pany of Indians, twenty or thirty in nuui her, w'to, while seeking to escape from pursuers, took refuge in the lake, where they were shot by their enemies, who left them in the water. In the course of a few wt-i ks not a vestige of their bodies was to b seen, even the bone 3 having been dec m posed by this powerful solvent. Mineral urio-iiies abound in the neighborhood o Mono Lake, an ting which are numbcrles- L positions in the shape of tiny pir.e trefs. FNt;I.INIJ WOMEN AT HOME. A writer iu the last number of Harpei '.- Mmi thiy gives a picture of I ome life among he Eng'ish working people that is nm grateful to Au.eriean notions of women's work : ' The inferior position ■ 1' English women i- first apparent to a foreigner in a variety of little details. Returning front 3D eaih morning ride, he nonces the cottages of th _ .M-,. ~1. L„ ROO.LDM TI;P *O mm are up and about, making fires, cnrr> •ng the coal--, opening the house, while tin men are still snoring soundly. 1 should !ik> ro see an American husband wait for his wife, or an American son for his mother, t pet form these matutinal function?. If h w-re net speedily Ixwiggtd by his own -letter half, a more ,-erious punishment wou'd be adjudged him by a vigilance com mittec of neighboring houst-wives. Oi breakfast i being prepan d, ami jou notic the women buttering the br ad so as to save thr-tr lords and masters the slightest unnec e sary exertion. An American husband micht eat dry bread forever if he were un willing to butter it himstlf. Then yon catch -ight of a woman on her knees kc-tif. or unlacing a man's tools. Fo n enil a er vice would reandalize llic lest Ameiiian wives. If'an Englishman wants apije. il i.- the womaa who fills it and hands hint a light; if his pot need replenishing, it is the woman who procures and pours out the ale: if there be an errata to be di ne, it is the woman who trots off while the man loafs oi rests at home. In short, English women belonging to what are called the lower class es are evidently the servants of the men, while in America the men are a- evidently rite servants of the woman, oi.lr the latter -crvic", being that of the strirg.-rto th<- weaker, never seems like terviis.de. even in j ihe humblest families; hut take* the nob.'et ! form of politeness, solicitude and duty. ASSASSINATION BY AIR-GENS-. The numerous instances of finding u:cn prone upon the most | uhlic streets of the Eastern cities, injured, as by a bullet, al though neither the vke : rj to r any other person had heard th-; discharge of any firearm, so far as could he ascertained, ha eaused the suggestion to be made that air guns have been brought into requisition. According to the authorities, this is a weapon "resembling a uruskef, for the pur pose of discharging missiles by means of compressed air. It consi-ts of lock stock, barrel and ramrod. The stock i.- made hol low, and provided with proper cocks for filling it with compressed air by means of a force pump.. Mac!) lock is nothing but a valve which lets in the barrel a porti- n of the air compressed irt the stock, when the trigger is pulled. The gun is loaded with< wadding and ball, in the ordinary way, and the air suddenly introduced from the stock propels it with a velocity proportional to the square root of the degree of the com pression of the air." By this weapon a person may be killed at a distance of sixty or eighty yards. Later improvements give it a propelling force almost equal to the old fashioned musket. Its chief advantage to criminals is its noise less discharge. The victim may be singled out in a crowd by a fcr-on standing con cealed in an upper window, and if the aim is accurate, perforated by a bullet, without any chances of detection, excepting those indicated by t.n;;les and direction. Indeed, the body might fall in ,-uch a manner as to indicate conditions entirely different from tho-e which are re*'. Whether or not this theory is correct, it is evident that the in genuity of crime keeps pace with :he most approved detective methods. A REPORTER recently lost a first class iteui by want of forethought, according to a Boston paper. A young man attempted to jump from a train of cars which was ap proaching that city, and the Kuight of the Pencil, with an eye to business, imprudcut iy requested his nauic, age, occupation and tcsidence, lor an obituary item. The young man concluded not to jump. VOL. 42: NO. II Do HOT SWALLOWGRAPE SEED.—GTAPE seeds, cherry pit.- ami the iik . are in-.,!u1/e in ntiy and all the juices u*rd in tbe pr cess of digestion; they uio-t therefore pass from the body in il.e same slate in which they are swallowed. In their passage along the ali mentary cant! they cannot but in Joe mora or l-*- irritation, and if the dig' stive organ- aye stall week they must of nce-sty cause great t i*t uibancc; being hard. almost iike iitiii stores, they scrape along otcr the wvli'-at ttU< OBH lneiubranc wLich line th s'oDtfi h ami bowleg, and frequently lodge in he . Miller. EDUCATE YOURSELF.—' The New York Sun i- nrginc wm kinsmen to cultivate the intellect, and become as intelligent and well informed as any other me rubers of society. "It is surprising (savs the editor) how much may be obtained by devoting a few hours cell day to study, during a -cries ot years. Gibbon produced hi* groat work rather b the regularity than the protracted nature of his daily studies. Franklin be came the wisest and one ot the best read of hi* cote in) or arte* in the mid-t of incessant labor. And if the workman, with hi.* healthful mind so well prepared for the re ception o! knowledge, will give two hour each day to careful study, he may, in a few years, eurpa.*.- ;n general information th great majority of college graduates, who o of'en obtain a diploma without deserving ir, or who have laid a-ide their learning the moment they left their preceptors. He may elevate his own intellect by coming into com munion with the eminent intellects of tbe past." To CURE A COLD. —The folh wing i*from Halls Journal ol Health: "The moment a man is sa:i*fied that he has taken cold, Jot him do three things: First, eat nothing; second, go to bed, cover up, in a warm room: third, drink as much cold water a he can. or a* he want-, or a much herb tea a* he can, anJ in three cases out of' four he will b well in thirty-six hour*. To neglect •i cold for forty-eight hour* after the cough commences is to place himself beyond cure, until the cough has run its course of abuut fortnight. Warmth and abstinence an -afe, certain cure*, when applied early. Warmth keeps th" pores of the -kin open srid relives it of tbe siirplu- which opprt-a.*- cd it, while a'"tinence cuts off the supply of material for phlegm, which would otLcr wi c la? coughed up. THE wicked *t woman in Ka:.kakc, Id., became -uch a nui-ar.ee that the Common Council VI.T !T. . * UVW J. .-. •<> -..4 I. . fare, if she w u'd marry and emigrate. She .greed, and this was the ceremony, a- | er ornri : by a police Justice: —"Jim, you do agree to take Molly, and live with her, an l go to (.'hey tune w.th her, and stay with her. egardk - of law and tn.*< quences? " Vis." "Molly, y-.n do agree to take Jim. and live with hint, and go to Cheyenne will hint, and stay with him regaidle** of law and consequences?" "Yes." "Then I give you thc.-e two railroad tickets, and or dcr you to stay there until tbe Yigilanc- G oumittee doth hang you both. Amen.' THE amount of blood in an adult is ncaily 30 pounds, or fu'l one fifth of the entire weight. The heart is-ix inches in lengih •and four inches in diameter, and Li ats 70 • uies per miuute, 4200 times per hour, 100,- 8 KJ times per day, 36,772,000 times per year 2 565,440,G00 in threescore and ten, and ai < avh beat two and a half ounces of bloo 1 are thrown out of it, one hundred and seventy five ounces per minute, six hundred and fifty six pounds jer hour, seven and three fourths ton* per day. All the blood in the body pas.es through the heart every three minutes. A NEWLY inducted policeman spotted a richly dr< -sed lady in a dry poods tore, on suspicion of rhop-lifting. "You arc my prisoner,'he said, laying hi* hard on hei shoulder. "What do you nit an? ' deman ded the insulted lady. "What's tLat you've got on your back —sto'en goods? """Heaven! I n ver was eo insulted. No, air, it is not stolen goods." "I mean no offense, madam but toy duty compels me to examine it." "T-ir—i.lain —that'.- my —uiv Gicciaa bend 1" tiilonT dre.->ca are good tilings for the shoemakers and bad for the doctors. The ladies buy and w. r better shoes, and the doctors re pott a tiotieeable decline in disease* among women coming fiont cold, damp feet. When long garments trevailtd. women were veiy careless in this respect, often wearing thin aud broken shoes, at d this, together with the dampness always clinging to their long skirts brought on illness, which not unfrcijuently terminated fatally. SELF help is the tiest help in the world ; when once a man apt lies to it lie wiii not readily apply to any other help. A work msn if ho devotes himself to the special duty of making his home happy, and of improv ing hi* coudition. will soon rai-e bimseli above what demagogues call the oppressed classes. WHEN a man says he received a blessing under a lermon, 1 begin to inquire who this man is who speaka of the help he has re ceivcd. Tbe Roman people proved the effect they received under a sermon of An tony when they flew to avenge the death of Cm T. HidhrrforJ. HE SEES, AND I SEE.—A boy fills his t ire, and be sees only the tobacco; but I see going into that pipe brains, books, time, health, money, prospects. The pipe is filled at last, and a light is struck; and things which arc priceless are carelessly puffed away in smoke. THE latest case ofab-ence of mind is that of a gentleman whom an acquaintance found marking his paper collars with indelible ink. The visitor made no remark until the job when he inquired in a sepul cbra *oiee. "But will they wash?" This woke up the dreamer to wttrldly things. RATES OF ADVERTISING. AH adverti -emeota for lei* than J month ■ It centa per tins for narh insertion. Spci !notice one-half additional. Ail rttaolntiana of Aaaocia liona, communications of a limited or iadiridai interest and notice of marriages and deaths, el ect ling five lines, 10 eta. per line. All legal noti ces of every kind, and ail Orphans' Coort and .■ther Judicial aales, are required bv law to be pub- I i :tci in b'b papers. Editorial Notice® 15 cents per line. AH Advertising d-i* afterfirst insertion. A liberal discount made to jearly advertisers. 3 monts. 8 months. 1 jear One square $ t.M 98 On 910.08 Twe squares 8.00 9.00 18.08 Tbree sqaaros 8.00 12.00 10.08 line-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.08 II tlf column 18.00 25.00 45.08 tine c01umn........ 30.00 45.00 80.00 ITEMS. THE 3ir. idea of lb - maeniiud - of the Amer ican Cattle Trade may be derived from the '••llowing facs, gleaned from the R port of the Department of Agriculture for Jatiuary: ]> eves ret- ived in New York. 1193.101. B-evcs received in Chicago, 108.537. ]' eves r>'c -ived in St. Louis, 40,000. 11- eves rtccivid in Boston, 118,000. Total consumption iri four cities, 559,- 038 # . THE net pubic debt was reduced nearly ' ven million* last mon'h. Deducting the - lilway bonds, the to'al was $2,491,399,- ■>>4.3B. Making the same deduction from the preceding report, the net reduction, j including those bond* from both months, i w-.- nearly thirteen milliona of dollars, or ••it two millions in excess of tbe month's --t: ■ • {'bonds to those corporations. THE annual report of the Pennsylvania Slate Lunaric Hospital conveys some inter e-ting information. The statistics show that of 1,4 V; in- ine male.-, 471 are farmers, 401 laborer*, 23 blacksmith*, 35 carpenters, 43 merchant*, 10 physicians, and 7 printers. Ol women, 535 were housewives, 54 daugh ter* of farmers, 90 domestics and 254 no oc cupation, the whole number being 1,073. THE sprouts of the potato contain as alka loid termed by chemists solanine, which is very ; oisonous it taken in'o the syßtetn. This does not exist in the tubers, unless they are exposed to the light and air, which -ometimes occurs from the accidental re moval of the earth in cultivation. A potato that shi w* a blackish-green tint on one aide should never be cooked for the table or fed to stcek. THE counterfeit swindlers are now located in Illinois. They send a note to tbeir vic tim, inclosing a genuine twenty-five cent piece of postal currency as a "sample ' and offer to sell the same at counterfeiter's prices. The victim tries it at a bank, and find* it a sure thing and safe. He sends on £lO to S3O for four times tbe amount in counterfeits. That is the !a*t he hears of the matter. LUXEMBOURG, it was decided by the Lon don Conference of 1 **o7, should belong neith er to Fiance, nor Prussia, but no provision u- made to enforce the decree. The fortifi cations al-o were to be demolished by the in habitants, but the rate of progress of the work was not prescribed. The inhabitants, however, it is staled, have appropriated the -am of $7.50 per week to cariy on the de ui( 1 tion of the fortresses, and it is cakula 'idthat it will take about two thousand years to complete the leveling of the walls. TANNING. —It ha* liven discovered rrcent l„. r. .L . l- ~A w alnuui "*JI adapted for the tanning of hide* as the bark, and that almost any kind will answer the purpose. The principal point to be attend ed to is to make use of wood cut when it is full of sap, as thereby the greatest amount of tannin is scouted. The wood may be used without the baik, or wood and bark may be giound up together and applied in ihe u-ual method. WOLFE, Ophthalmic Surgeon for the royal infirtuatory, Scotland, reports curing several ca-e of cancer by applying caustic arrows. which he inserted in deep, broad punctures into the diseased part. As many a* five arrow* ware used at one time. This iicid destroyed the vitality of the morbid growth in three days, when it came away. The wound should be treated hy water dressings. lie reports that this treatment gave no pain, which, if true is a most re maikable circumstance. THE jopulation of Boston is estimated at two hundred and forty thousand. Of this number one third are Catholics, who have ample church accommodations. There are one bundled and twenty places of religious worship for the non-Catholics, who number Hue hundred and sixty thousand. Of these thirty-two are free churches, scattered throughout the city and dividtd among the leading denominations. Ot the eighty-eight other Boston churches, not more than one in ten is ever crowded at the regular servi ces, INDIANA. —It is reported that crime pre vails to an extraordinary extent in Indiana, in con*cquence cf the failure of the authori ties to enforce the laws. Twenty-one mur ders in ten Jays in a State with a population of s million and a half is a-serted to be some thing frightful, and the condition of affairs • xceeds that of any of the Southern States —even Texas itself. In ten of these cases only were the murderers arrested; io five others they were known to the authorities, but escaped, and in six cases the assassins arc not known. A SINGULAR instance of the absurdities of charitable bequests is furnished in Lon don, where some hundred years ago some g<-< d old soul left a house and garden in the city as a perpetul maintenance for three poor women and a cat. The property is now worth £40,000 a year. Three poor women and their cat —friends of the trustees —are maintained; and the rest of the income, £39,650 per annum, is expended in salaries on uncles, aunts, cousins, appointed as secretaries, treasurers, chaplains, visitors, etc. , who see to the proper di-trihution of alms, catechise the old women and stroke the cat. PETROLEUM is now used in Loudon in vulcanizing India rubCer, as it is capable oi dissolving chloride of sulphur as readily as bi sulphide of carbon. Ordinary petroleum must, however, be completely deprived of its water, by means of the addition of ten per cent, of concentrated sulphuric acid, and the two shaken rapidly together. The acid then settles and the petroleum is to be poured off into a very dry receiver, and caustic lime added to the petroleum, as well as some oxide of maganese, and distilled. The India Rubber so prepared is, on the one hand, cheaper, and on the other, much less injurious to the health of the workmen than the bi sulphide of carboD. SOMEBODY compares a rich Christian, who waits till he makes bis will before he does anything for God and the poor, to a Christmas-box. which receives many gifts, but has to be broken to pieces before any thing can be gotten out of it.