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ihets. Show Cards. Bill and Letter
u Is, lUndbills. Circulars, Sec, in the best
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: as the lest and as cheap as the
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lENSBURC FOUNDRY
Vt.UV 1 1 1 I I. IJLAST!
f.VFO, NEW BUILDINGS, dtc.
f AVJNG run Imped the well known EB-
E.NsilL'KG FOl NDRY from Mr. Edw.
', slJ leijtiiit and eularpel it almost en
. vsups rtHt".Uig it with new machinery,
crib3 :tVow TreprcJ to furnish
IPAhLUR 4- JIEATIXO S7V VES,
( 1'iet and most approved patterns
:;i:iNG 11 A Oil NFS. MILL GEAR-
IX'iE arid W ATEJt WH EELS of everv
-ion. IRON FENCING. PLOITRTfS
rlCUGH CASTINGS, and in fact all
e ct article manufactured iu u first class
'rt. Jub Work of all kind atteiided to
!'y t::J done cheaply.
spe"ul aiteution of Farmers i invited
k1t patented PLOUGHS which we
mc si.e right to manufacture and sell
: county, auc which are admitted to be
W everiLtroduceJ to the public.
w?e!ies capable of performing
'' iu o-jr lire in the most satislaetory
M.d kiiown that we can do work at
tl PIT tV I I . . .
. turn uate ucen cnarpea in tins
v M-titerttofore weconfi.lentlv hope that
flV r , oucl worthy ol liberal r'atronape.
w:iors made to wholesale dealers.
""fiRtpiices paid in cash for old
M, Or ca-inips given in exchan-e.
r.. ?Y,v,"ilc" CAfi" ,,a COUNTST
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w- ; - t v. UU.
-mmtmJ LJ-k l, f I it. .t'.'Jr.l ln
rent!y enlarged our stock
e are cow nrn..i
tV tr r f T' n aia p-reai
jf I. X m?T Prices- "ot-k con-
SLX'T, f; ,ciM9' Perfumery, Fancy
' I1" AHen'sIlair Kestor-
-"""'ems. rasters. Liniments,
""iW Fir"te Ess Jamaica
s'.n cli,v,r,r,nJ.' Extracts, E-gences,
Soothiuj: S
vrup. Spiced Sjrup,
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r"1-, CUC. :
C'i' yM-'8nd Bonds; Cap.
,,-c aland all kind of Note Paper!
i ens, 1 pnnila 4 nr:.- .
iJ ar-L- j t7 aiiiuiu i ruing
M,4-, ri'k, Pocket and Pass
:.U' i7ef.,.:s Papers, Novels, His
- "'- i'i"t?s.l'rayeraud Toy Books,
V v.
iJtVK'Ttv,,Jed tO0ur 6tock
"i..u orVi i'Tt01wh'th we woi
OTo. rl' i! ladies.
!'foiw L'M.S at lower prices
I -J Lipurs sold either whnlU r.
J
" oireei, .oenanurg.
J MtJ
' a By' Wear.
tWFiwnA . r" B1or (jualitv. from
'&trl.l .m boot9 to the coarsest
'StU. a! modeiate tiricts an lik
lhVh.r 'ne,J ""'where.
f' tbHshmr,rn 1?ot3 and Shoes made
irQuam' fneeJ no trance as to
1
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it i
W,,r ,u yr ork- ,her8 can
J?, at'd be convinced.
illhl r 1Q a Workmai.liUo
lrk Prices a-" 1 eel confident that
con
e-seeoftlie same.
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ti f acd boarder T? Tlsitf,r8 accm-
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Hay Fork and Knife Manufactured.
EVERY FORK "WARRANTED,
As only a limited number can be supplied for
this count v, orders for tHs celebrated
Hay Fork and Kuife should
be sent iu early to
Tmnn m
Sule Agent for Cambria County,
Who can also supply WOODEN PULLEYS,
which are far superior to Iron Pullevs. Also,
STEEL GRAPPLES for fasteDir.if.g Pulleys
to Beams or R-tfters the most convenient fas
tenirgs yet introduced, as they can be put up
or taken down without the use of ladders.
Ebensburg, Dec. 9, 16C9. Cm.
GEO. C.K. ZAIIM.
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their
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R0OG SLATE !
From their own Quarries, located in Northamp
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Samples may be seen, and communications
addressed to
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J. X. SIIALLEXBERUEB, PreVI.
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MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES, &c.
The subscriber still continues to manufacture
of the best material and in the most
workmanlike manner, at the
Loretto Marble Works,
all kind of MONUMENTS AND TOMB
STONES, as well as TABLE and BUREAU
TOPS, and all other work in his line. None
but the best American and Italian Marble
used, and perfect satisfaction guaranteed to
all cases at prices as low as like work can
be obtained in the cities or elsewhere. Call
and see specimei.e and judge for yourselves
as to tbe merits cheapness of my work.
. JAMES WILKINSON.
Loretto, March 12, 1868. ly.
FOR.
Gumming a:ws
IS TIIE
BEST SAW GUMHER !
IX TIIE WORLD!
FOR SALE BY
GEORGE HUNTLEY,
Ebensburgr, Pa.
1 " I J w m-r t-w T-n r"
FARMERS AND umitcs
SHOULD NOT 'FAIL TO GET
ONE OF THE JUSTLY CELEBRATED
Lima Double-Geared
WOOD-SAWING MACHINES,
FOB WHICH
GEOEGE HUNTLEY,
EDDXSBURG, PA.,
Is Sole AgeiriyojCamtoCojB2ty
14 RANK D. STORM, Practical Sur
? vetok, Eebsbitro. Pa. Othce on Cen
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T1IK TAMTi:
EBENSBURG,
jjt part's gtpnrlmtnt.
THE GOLDEX SIDE.
There is many a rose in the road of life.
If we would but stop to Uke it,
And many a tone from the better land,
If the querulous heart would make it ;
To the euuuy soul that is full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust r.e:er faileth.
The grass is gre.-n and the flowers are bright,
Though the winter storm prevaileth.
Bet'ter to hope, though clouds hang low,
And keep the eyes still lifted,
For the sweet blue sky will etill peep through
When the ominous clouds are rifted.
There was never a night without a day,
Or an evening without a morning,
And the darkest hour, so the proverb g6cs.
Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many a gem in the path of life,
Which we pass in rur idle pleasure.
Which is richer far than the jeweled crown
Or the miser's hoarded treasure ;
It may be the love of a little child
Or a mother's prayer to he-iven,
Or only a beggar's grateful thanks
For a cup of water given.
Better to weave in the web of life
A bright and golden filling,
And do God's work with a ready heart
And hacd3 that are prompt and willing,
Than to snap the delicate minute threads
Lnd then blame heaven for the tangled
And sit and grieve and wonder.
ui our curious lives asunder,
endi,
alts, Shtfcjjts, lucbofts, c.
AT A C II Alt IT Y FAIR.
Tribulations of a Mxlest Murrletl Jlan.
The ladies of our church held a fair
last week to raise funds to send mission
aries and schoolmasters to the savages in
England, and as I had never attended one
before, I had my wife darn a rent in the
back of my vest, and polish all the brass
buttons that were left on the coat I wore
at our marriage, and borrowing w hat little
change he had, I went. I paid a dime
at the door, and thought the fair was very
cheap. I went in, and found the room
was very full and noisy, and was quite
taken aback by the extraordinary civility
with which two young ladies welcomed
me at the door; but thinking that they
could tell genius on fight, I lelt quite llut
tered, when one of them usked me if 1
wouldn't take a chance in a raffle for a
tooth-pick. I asked her what the tooth
pick was valued at ; she said twenty-five
cents. I told her to put my name down
for one ; she did so, and said the chances
were fifty cents each. I paid it, and
thought, eomehow, that in running a
chance to get a tooth-pick, I had got my
pocket picked, and just as I turned round
I was grabbed by a poor young woman
who hadn't clothes enough to cover her
shoulders, and who wanted me to take a
chance at a sett of toilet-service. I tried
to beg oil, but she held on, and a good
many people were looking at me at the
time, 1 wa3 compelled to take a chance,
and pay one dollar. I afterward learned
the toilet-piece was a piece of soap. Then
I thought if 1 could get in the thickest
part of the crowd, I would be free for a
while. 1 got in the jam, and had seven
teen females poke their books and pencils
in my face at once ; and then as I stood
a fair chance of being killed, I thought I
would take their chances, which were not
so 6ure, and subscribed my name on each
book. But, as I didn't draw anything,
I never knew what I put my name down
for. In fact, I found out afterward, that
about the only article I had drawn was
my pocket-book, and that a good many
times.
I noticed one fellow who made it a
pi act ice to tell each fair in-sister that he
liad been putting his name down to all of
them and he thereby managed to get off ;
but I had watched him from the moment
he entered, and heard him. tell the same
thing to the first lady who petitioned him,
and regretted that I had not commenced
with a similar policy. Still, I admit the
ladies have a great influence over me ; ray
wife's a woman, and that influence began
at home. I was prevailed on to take a
chance at a set of bedroom furniture, and
drew a blank or a blanket, I don't koqw
which, as I never got either.
I paid a dollar toward a watch, which
was to be presented to the most respected
man on the floor, and then took a chance
on a chain, thinking the watch would do
me no good without that ; but there was
a fearful oversight somewhere, for I got
neither watch or chain. I was asked to
take a-chance at a sack of flour by a
very homely old maid. In pity for her
I paid for a ticket, and, strange to say, got
the flour, which I put on my shoulder to
carry out, and find some way to send it
borne ; but the fellow who helped it on
my shoulder the rascal ! punched a hole
in the sack, and every step I took that in
fernal flour puffed out all over the back of
my coat, and created a great uproar,
which I joined in myself, knowing nothing
about it. My wife took pretty much all
that flour out of my coat, when I got home
that night, with the reverse end of the
broom. At the postoffice, in another part
of the hall, I paid a dime, and asked if
there was a letter for me. The la9s who
ran that letter shop smiled as she handed
me a dainty envelope, which I took over
in one corner by myself and opened.
Here is the letter :
"Dear sweetneps. oh you essence of peaches
and cream double refined extract of maple
molasses and buckwheat cakes 1 Your noble
voice is like honev in my ears, and your fond
kiss would be like the aforesaid uiolasses all
ovor my &ce. Your eyes are 4s bright as
PA., THURSDAY
liquid gum drops, and your nose is like straw
berries without the cream. I love you like a
paper ol candy. Oh hasten to
Yours, candiedly, . Etta Lozexgeb."
This to me, and I a married man I I
never saw bo much sweetness in any of my
wife's letters. "And that poor girl," I
thought, "knowing not roy connubial situ
uation has seen me and fallen in lore with'
me at once !" I put the letter in toy
pocket, and went round inquiring for Etta
Lozenger, hoping to find her and apologize;
but I didn't discover her ; and as my "bad
luck would have it, my wife found the
letter the next morning, in my pocket, be
fore I got up and then began a scene which
I took a prominent part in, but which I
can't describe. I couldn't get her to believe
the real facts of the letter, though 'I ex
plained them with all the eloquence of de
spair. I pleaded my entire innocence, as I
shrunk under the bed-clothes with the loss
of some of my hair and with some added
lines of latitude acruss my face, where the
skin was missing. I didn't get up till the
next day. While sleeping, I dreamed I
was at the fair, and had. a lottery of my
own, with Mrs. Wbitehorn for the capital
prize, and the tickets ten cents each ; these
were all sold but one, and when the lot
tery went off, I was the lucky one, for I
drew her.
Then I woke up to the conclusion that
ladies' fairs are all fleeting shows for man's
confusion given, designed to make money,
and they succeed in their designation. I
confess that I have been drawn in, but
can't laugh at the joke.
Tltfe "Fat Confributer" In tbe
Gymnasium.
I have got gymnastics very bad now.
The gentleman in attendance says it is
the worst case of gymnastics he has ever
known. I work hard every afternoon
and try my best to follow the directions.
I read somewhere that when weaiy with
one kind of exercise a person should
change it for another. Climbing the bid
der the other day I got tired when near
the top and let go so as to try something
else. Falling thirty-two feet or so and
striking the floor in a sitting posture tired
it rather severely.
I am progressing finely in the art cf
jumping. I would nevpr set up a claim
as champion jumpist, however, for fear
some one would come along and "jump"
my claim I attempted to throw a som
ersault. Succeeded in throwing half of
it and then stuck fast, when a friend
kindly stepped forward and threw the
other half for me. It is hard on the back
where you only throw half a somersault,
and it was well for me there was some
one by to take the job off my hands, or
I might never got over it.
The gymnasts in the circus who per
form on the horizontal bar have always
challenged my admiration, and I have
greatly envied them their triumphs of
mingled strength and agility. Whether
thy hung by their toes, swung themselves
up by their eyebrows and held themselves
straight out in the air by the little finger,
or revolved round the bar like a grind
stone handle in hay time, the man or the
bar has never failed to excite my warm
est enthusiasm. I secretly determined
when I joined the gymnasts, to add the
horizontal bar to my acpiirements at the
earliest possible moment. Tvre was a
bar to get credit at I So I hurried through
the minor apparatus to get at the bar. I
partook sparingly of the dumb-bells, dined
lightly on the clubs, and merely tasted of
the weights and pullies, so great was my
impatience to get at the practice. One
day I found myself sole occupant of the
gymnasium. I didn't want any one to
witness my first efforts on the bar, and
this was the moment I had been looking
for. !
First I thought I would try revolving
around the bar, with a grand finale in
which I would stand on my head on the
bar and then throw a double back sum
mersault to the floor. Rejected that as
too difficult for a firet attempt, and con
cluded to undertake the simple feat of
hanging by the legs to begin with. Found
it the easiest thing in the world to hang
by the legs. Wondered people didn't try
it oftener instead of hanging by the neck,
it is so much plcasanter. Regretted that
so much of my life had been spent with
out learning to hang by the legs. Hung
there long enough to get the hang of it,
as you might say, and then essayed to
get back again. No go. I had seen how
gymnasts hung to the bar, head down,
but I had neglected1 to observe how they
regained their "as you were,"' as we say
in military. I tried to wriggle around so
as to get hold of tbe bar with my band,
but found I couldn't wriggle to any effect
whatever. I had a faint idea that the
circus fellows let go with their legs and
came down on their feet in some way,
but felt morally certain if I let go I would
come down on my head and go about all
the rest of my life with my neck in two
pieces.
The blood was running down into my
head, and the whole room was swimming.
Dumb-bells were waltzing madly with
clubs, and inverted apparatus of all de
scriptions went whirling around in the
most bewildered manner. Then I felt the
strength giving way in my legs, and I
was satisfied I could not depend on them
much longer. I realized how foolish I
was to attempt gymnastic novelties when
no one is by. I tried to cry aloud fur
help, in violation of the rule against loud
talking, but I Coulda't get the voice out
JUNE 16, 1870.
of my throat it stuck fast. Fact is, not
anticipating such a dilem ma, I hadn't
practiced hollering with my head down.
How I repented ever wanting to go and
be a gymnast at my time of life. A shoit
time before, watching for an opportunity
when no one was in, .how fervently I now
prayed thr.t somebody would come It
was a ridiculous position to be found in, to
be sure, but no matter for that, if they
found me before I was done for.
I felt my legs gradually relaxing and
slipping off the bar; objects grew more
and more indistinct, and then my over
strained muscles gave way, and I fainted
quite away, which I advise my readers to
do when they can't get away in any other
manner. When I recovered I was stretch
ed on a spring board and two veteran
members, of forty-six years' standing,
were fanning'rae with a glass of brandy !
and water. I bey haa happened in just
at the critical moment and saved me from
further gymnastics. "C?m" in Cin.
Times.
Tlic Landlord's Mistake.
A fat, burly English landlord was sit
ting one afternoon at the door of his inn,
in a provincial town not a hundred miles
from London, when a person entered the
house, and after complimenting its clean
liness and snug appearance, ordered a
good dinner and a bottle of wine. The
dinner, when ready, was laid in an upper
apartment looking out upon the pleasant
garden ; and after it had been thoroughly
discussed, and the wine sipped luxuriously
to the bottom of the bottle, the satisfied
guest sent for his host, and when he en
tered tbe room, thus addressed him :
"You have a very fine inn here, landlord,
everything is particularly nice in fact
what I call comfortable." The landlord
expressed his gratification. "I shall have
great pleasure," continued the guest, "in
recommending your house to my friends
in town. There remains only one more
thing to "mention, and as the subject is
one which I have reason to think will be
as unpleasant to you as to myself, I will
express it in a few words. I have not at
present any money ; but I will be here
again in--" "A"o mony ?' exclaimed
the landlord, in a voice husky with anger.
"No money 1 then why did you come to
the 'Hen and Chickens' to run up a bill
that you can't pay ? Get out of my
house this instant ! Gol Walk!" "I
expected this," said the guest rising ; "I
anticipated this treatment, nor can I
blame you much, landlord, to tell you the
truth, for you don't know me. Because
3-ou sometimes meet with deception, you
think I am deceiving you : but I pledge
you my honor, that a fortnight from this
day I will be with you again, and you
will confess yourself to be ashamed of
your suspicions." -"Bali! you are a
swindler!'- ejaculated Boniface; "this
will be the last of you ; take that !" and
with a vigorous coup Je pied, was "sped
the parting guest." "You will live to re
gret this, landlord, I am sure; but I do
not blame you, for you are ignorant of
my character," was the meek reply l
this gross indignity. Just two weeks
from that day, the same ill used gentle
man (with a traveling friend) was, with
many apologies and protestations, shown
into the best room of the celebrated 'lien
and Chickens' inn. The landlord's profile
apologies were accepted, he was forgiven ;
and even invited to dine with the two
friends upon the best dinner,, fl inked by
the very choicest wines his house alfjrded.
When all was finished, and while the
landlord, who had become exceedingly
mellow, , was protesting that he should
never be so suspicious of a "real gentle
man" again, he was interrupted by his
first guest with "But, landlord, there
is one thing which I do not happen to
have, at this moment, a single penny ;
and I grieve to say, that my companion
who is a good man, but in a worldly
point of view, very poor, i not a whit
better off. Under these unpleasant cir
cumstances, it becomes, as it were, a ne
cessity, to bid you a cood evening !"
"Done, twice! the 'Ilen-and-Chickens'
'done twice ! and both times exactly
alike !" said the landlord, as he went
down to set the swindle to the account of
"Profit and Loss."
Good Rdles to Follow. First, be
honest and truthful. All depend upon this.
If you have work to do, do it cheerfully.
If you go out on business, attend to the
matter promptly, and then as promptly
go about your own business. Don't stop
to tell 6tories.
If you have a place of business be
there during business hours. No one can
get rich by sitting around stores and sa
loons.
If you have to labor for a living, re
member that one hour in the morning is
better than two at night.
Do not meddle with any business you
know nothing about.
A good business habit and reputation
is always money.
Be valiant.
Keep ahead rather than behind time,
for it is easier to keep ahead than to
catch up.
Help yuorself, and others will help you.
Be obliging.
Do not be in too great baste to get rich.
Do not spend time in idleness.
Be kind.
Iarn to think and act for yourself.
Help others when you Can.
DESCRIPITOX OF FLORIDA.
a sentknck kigiit hun deed words roso.
Last week we informed our readers j the age of thirteen and seventeen. One
that an article in L'ppmeotCs Magaeitte i who does not know an "cm quad" from
contained one of the loi.gcst sentences on ! a "shooting stick? preferred. Willing
record, consisting of over eight hundred j ness to play second fiddle to the foreman,
words. The sentence in question is found as well as to ourselves, for a few years,
in a well written article on Florida, we an indispensible qualification. He is not
append it: to have more than threo sweethearts, nor
"I propose, thon, to give my readers ! more than ten corner lounging associates,
some description of this old yet still strange j No objections to his useing tobacco, cigars
and wild country, that has been settled i or P'Pe provided the "old soldiers" and
for three hundred years, and is not jet
inhabited a land of shifting sand and
of deep mud a land of noble rivers, that
rise in swamps, and consist merely of
cuains or shallow lakes, some of them
twenly miles across and only twelve feet
deep of wido, sandy plains, covered with
solemn sounding pines of spots so barren
that nothing can be made to grow upon
them, and yet with a soil so feitile that
if you "tickle it with a hoe, it will laugh
with an abundant harvest" of sugar, cot
ton, rice and fruit a land cf oranges,
lemons, pomegranates, pineapples, fis,
and bananas, whose rivers teem with fish,
its forests with game, and its very air
with fowl ; where everything will "grow
except wheat and apples ; where every
thing can be found except ice ; vet where
the people, with a productive hoil, a mild j
climate, and bountiful natute affording
every table luxury, live on corn prist
sweet potatoes, and molasses, where many
men possessing torty thousand head of
cattle never saw a glass of milk in their
lives, using only the impr.rtcd article when
used at all, and then calling it consecrated
milk ; where the very effort to milk a cow
would probably scare her to death, as
well as frighten a whole neighborhood by
the unheard of phenomenon ; w here cab
bages grow on the tops of trees, and you
may dig bread out of the ground ; w here
below the frost-line the caster-oil plant
becomes a large tree of several years'
growth, and a pumpkin or bean vine will
take root from its trailing branches, and
thus spread and live year after year;
where cattle do not know what hay is,
and refuse it when cifered, so that the
purchase of a yoke of oxen is not consid
ered valid if tne animals will not eat in a
stable; and where in the mild winter,
when the land grass is dried up horses
and cattle may be seen wading and swim
ming in the ponds and streams, plunging
their heads deep under the surface to bite
the water grasses and moss ; where many
lakes have holes in the bottom an 1 under
ground communication, so that they will
sometimes shrink away to a mere cupful,
leaving man' square miles of surface un
covered, and then again fill up fiom below
and spread out over their former area ;
where some of them have outlets in the
ocean far from shore, and bursting up a
perpetual spring of fresh water in the
very midst of the briny saltness of the sea;
where in times of low water, during a
long exhaustive, -dry seasons, men have
gone under ground in one of these sub
terranean rivers, from lake to lake, a dis
tance of eiht miles ; where the ground
will sometimes sink and the cavity
fill with water, until tall trees, that had
stood anil sunk upright, will have their
topmost branches deeply covered ; where
rivers will disappear in the earlh and rise
again, thus forming natural bridges, some
of them a mile in breadth ; where, instead
of spring, summer, autumn and winter,
there are two seasons only eight months
summer, and four months warm weather;
where the winter is the dry season, and
the summer almost a daily raiti ; where
in order to take a walk, you first wade
through a light sand ankle deep, and then
get into a mud puddle, and some of these
mud puddles cover a whole "country ;
where no clav is found fit for brick mak-
ing, and people build houses without
chimneys; where to make a living is so
easy a task, that every one possesses the
laziness of ten ordinary men, and every
one you wish to employ in labor says that
he is tired, and would seem to have been
born so ; where agues would prevail if the
people would take the trouble to shake ;
where a large orange-tree will bear seven
thousand oranges leaves, buds, blossoms,
half-grown, full grown fruit, all at once
and every twenty-five feet square of sand
will sustain such a tree ; where, in many
parts, cold weather is an impossibility and
perpetual verdure reigns ; where t-he Ever
glades are found, covering many large
counties with water from one to six feet
deep, with a bottom mudcovered, 3-et
underneath solid and firm, from which
grasses grow opto the surface a sea of
green, and with islands large and small
scattered over the surface, covered with
live oaks and dense vegetation ; where
alligators, or 'gators, as they are called
in Florida parlance, possess undoubted ab
original rights of citizenship ; and mos
quitoes pay constant visits, and are in
trusive and even penetrating in their
attentions to strangers."
There must be accorded to the writer
of this passage considerable skill in the
phraseology; as in no instance is the sensj
rendered ambiguous by the prolongation
of the sentence. The phrases are short,
apt, and disentangled, New York Meth
odist. A Sunday School teacher asked a little
fellow if he had learned anything during
the week "Yes.'' said he "What is
i; you have lewmed !" "Never to truop
your partner's ace."
NUMBER 21
AFFItEXTICE VTAX1LU.
We want a young man to learn the
nrJnlinrr lniiiif.. mii.t h lpfwppn
ashes are kept off our table and out of the
cases. If consistent with his finer feel
ings, wo would respectfully venture the
suggestion that be leaves us at least one
third of our exchanges, that we may look
j over them when at leisure. Must not
j ute more than one quire of letter paper or
I a package of envelopes weekly in corres-
I Pending with his friends and acquaintance.
Will be reqiired to furnish his own post
age stamps. We furnish water, soap and
towels. Will be expected to be at the
otfice in time to get hungry before dinner.
To return and be ditto before supper.
If we entrust him with a key to the olnca
door, it is hoped he will spare our feelings'
and those of the tenants who occupy the
room beneath us, by bringing only a dozen
of his associates into the composing room
at any one time after niht. Some re-
?aiJ should be also paid to the number of
gs jets which are lighted on such occa-
! s'ons- admit that the R-publicum
ollice presents an attractive appearance
when under a a full head of light, and at
the same time we are painfully aware of
the fact that the indices of the meter at
tract the attention of the gas company
even to a greater extent than the. light
attracts custom. Loafing in the office on
the Sabbath is positively prohibited, lf
ten hours a day lor six days in a week is
not sufficient length of time fur our new
comer to remain iu the office, we will
accomodate him with a few hours extra
work at night. Printers' ink is not poi
sonous when applied outwardly j there
fore, the candidate for typographical
honors need not feel the least uneasiness
should he, during a brief stay, soil his
h:mds with it. Emery paper, cotton
waste and oil are excellent for cleaning
the-pohhed parts of a printing press, as
we shall show our apprentice at brief in
tervals. A sponge saturated with benzine
is capital for removing ink from the roll
ers, as will be discovered from time to
time A broom is used in our olrice at
half-past five o'clock each afternoon.
Type dropped on the rl jot must be picked
up at oncp. Twenty stoops frequently
saves twenty cents. We have in our em
ploy an experienced job printer, who will
attend to all orders in that line. It will
be entirely unnecessary, therefore, for our
novice to undertake that branch at first
and more particularly the printing of his
own name and that of his trio of sweet
hearts, for which pun-pose the ornamental
type and gold bronze are generally made
to surfer. If there is a young man any
where in the city or out of it either
who is willing to conform to these rules,
can read manuscript and write a fair
hand, and who is reslly desirous of acqui
ring a first-class trade one at which he
can secure employment in every city and
nearly every town on the continent wa
shall be much pleased to confer with him.
Maysville (Ky) Republican.
The following has a smack ' of Mark
Twain about it. We find it drifting un
known through the. exchanges: "A
friend of ours, who took a trip to Califor
nia, said that he was not afraid of Indi
ans, because he belonged to the benevo
lent Order of Red Men, and knew all the
pass words and winks, and the figurative
language and things, and no savage was
going to touch him, inuiated and fixed up
as be was in regalia. He hadn't gone
more than a hundred miles from Omaha
before a band of Indians came at him and
scooped him up. He took the chnf asida
and whispered the password in his ear,
and gave him the grip twenty-six times
on both hands, and made some observas
tions about fifth moons' and 'happy
hunting grounds." The chief replied in a
friendly manner by tomahawking him and
jabbing his butcher knife into his vitals.
Our friend remarked that these cercmoniea
were not observed in his lodge ; but " the
chief wanted to show him all the peculi
arities of the estern system, so he scalp
ed him and chopped off his nose, and was
about to build a bondlire on his stomach,
when some soldiers arrived and rescued
him. lie is now the bald-hcadedest Red
Man this side of the Pacific Ocean, and
vou never saw a person more disgusted
with secret societies and Indian poetry.
He is going to sue his lodge for passing a
counterfeit grip on him, and for damago
done by loss of his hair."
Sestimkntal. The bull dog barks on
the top of the hill, and the iambs are
skipping in glee ; but I'm sad as the dick
ens I am, my gal gave the mitten to me.
Ah, where will I go, and what will I do ?
I feel like a crazy burulebbee; by thunder,
I'll fight! I'll kick any boy that says tha
word mitten to me I I'm really mad be
dogged if I ain't ! I swear I w ill kill any
she ; I'll slander and slash I'll murder;
that gal by thunder she shan't mitten
ni
! No I won't do il;t I'll -pile her
1 a li ! 1M b n m - It l-ic irei y
and Ihe.i she Will ory it Uso it) ro
morse for giving the umteu to UJ9. -
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