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oyer's Cathartic Pills,
For the relief and
cure of all derange
meats In the stom
ach, liver, and bow
els. They are a mild
aperient, and an
excellent purgative.
Ileing purely vege.
' table, they contain
no mercury or mine
ral whatever. Much
serious sickness and
Buffering is prevent
ed bv their timelv
- ai everr family should have them on hand
Zt orotection and relief, when required.
.i-rion.e has proved them to be tho saf
ami beat of all the Pills with which
Tirk. t slKJtinds. By their occasional use,
huci i purified, the corruptions of the sys
obstructions removed, and the
marhinery of life restored to its healthy
JvTt Internal organs which become clogged
lil'lii-zi5!! re cleansed by Aycr's Villa, and
nt" action. Thus incipient disease
'"JLg&X " alUi, the value of which change,
m k'itiP'l on the vast multitudes who enjoy
"i, lunUv be computed. Their sugar coating
V tliem pleasant to take, and preserves their
s unimpaired for any length of time, so
i'mer are ever fresh, and perfectly reliable,
aoa h searching, they are mild, and operate
iut di.-tui banco to the constitution, or diet, or
jirertiotn are given on the wrapper to
ViJboT hnvr M use them ns a Family Physio,
' for 't. following complaints, which these
ji rtiiillv euro:
iirnfM,l,'i or InAIrrtlon. K,latlaa
Lt, lUnifitor ami Lou of A piaettte, they
-r' bt taUen nunle lately to stimulate the etoiu
t"ri tvtre it healthy tone and action.
'i"r Liter ( omplaiat and its various symn
J4, Biliwn Headache, Hick IIral
tlf jAum'.ic or Urerd HIcbneM, Hil
.ColiC a:i'l Itilioua letert, they should
. -..'jcinu-lv taken for each case, to correct the
j'-tioa or remove the obstructions which
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Tr ientery or Diarrhoea, but one
' I'-o'h general! v required,
ir Hhruniatiti. uoiil, Oravel, Pal.
Utnn of It" Hrarl, In the
Wr.Bjck and Lninii, they shoull be contin--.'i
f.Si'n, as required, to change the diseased
criioftlie system. With euch change those
t.lwiM 'li;tpiear.
r Dropav and Droplcal Awelllaira,
r-inul'i he taken in large and frequent doses
; rtu-e the effect of a drastio purge.
, ;:; napprrxMion, a large dose should be
'as produces the desired effect by eym
c :' tixWnner Pill, take one or two Villa to
5 rr. li-'e.tion and relieve the stomach,
i iin-ional dose stimulates the stomach and
i .re-tores the appetite, and invigorates the
iia Hence it is often advantageous where
t r'us lieraneement exists. One who feels
in..!v well. MVn finds that a dose of these
Jixake him feel decidedly better, from their
z.-zt and renovating effect on the di&eslire
iitus.
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'ISTUATION NOTICE.
f John Misel, dereaswl.
minisi ration on the estate of John
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. ,.-J- K. H ITE. Prolhonotary.
wni.-e, Ebensburir. Sunt. 9. 1874.3t.
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"tpu'ii nhn"town' Pa- Omce in the old
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THE EVEN OF AN IRISH VIRL.
You may talk of black eyes and blue
About brown eyes, and hazel, and gray;
You may praise asyouplease every hoe
Known on earth since its earliest day;
But no other eyes under the sun
Can set poor human heart in a whirl,
"With their pathos and mischief and fun,
Like the eyes of a bright Irish girl.
They are soft as the down on a dove.
They are mild as a midsummer dawn,
They are warm as the red heart of lore,
They are coy as the glance of a fawn.
Tender, pensive, and dreamy as night,
Bright and pure as the daintiest pearl,
Yet as merrily mad as a sprite
Are the eyes of a young Irish girl.
They can soothe and delight with a beam,
They can rouse and infpire with a glance,
They can chill and reprove with a gleam,
That is keen as the flash of a lance.
To bring peace or the pangs of despair
To one's breast, be he noble or churl,
There is nothing on earth to compare
"With the eyes of a true Irish girl.
Yoa may search cabin, cottage aud hall,
Thro' the loveliest lands that are known;
But the loveliest land of them all
Has no eyes like the eyes of our own.
There are faces, no doubt, quite as sweet,
And as fair, under ring'et and curl,
But no light like the splendors that meet
In the eyes of a glad Irish girl.
Ah! Dame Nature was cruelly kind
When she took from her tendcreat skies
The most exquisite tints she could find
And bestowed them on soft Irish eyes.
For no other eyes nnder the sun
Can set human heart in a whirl
With their pathos and miscchief and fun,
Like the eyes of a bright Irish girl.
From Itallou's Monthly for October.!
lKKLAyU AXD T11E IRISH.
Much has been said and written about
the ''Emerald Isle" and its inhabitants,
and yet there is always about the subject
a hint of fresh possibilities aud new char
acteristics. Poets have sung in most ele
gant music the charms of their beloved
"Green Isle of the Ocean," and the ferveut
rhetoric of Irish oratory strikes hjir.e, not
only to the hearts of Irishmen, tut to the
sympathies of the just and gen-jrous-of i.li
nations. Th& melodies of Monro and the
eloqucuce of a Grattau atid an O'Connor
still ring iu our ears, aud as we think upon
the woes of Ireland, we Hod ourselves in
voluntarily repeating tho well-known lines:
'There came to th beach a poor exile of Erin,
Tin- dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill;
For his country he sighed, when at twilight re
pairing . . . . ..,
To wand. r alone bv tho wlod-benten hill :
But tho day-star attracted his eye's sad devo
tion. . , , -
For It roe o'er his own native isloor the ocean.
Where once, in the nreof his youthful emotion.
He sang the bold anthem of Erin go brugu.
"? id Is my rate! said tho heart-broken stranger;
The wild d er and wolf to a overt can tiee,
nut I have no refuge from famine und danger,
A home and a country rem-iiii not to ine.
Never again in the green, shady bowers,
Where my forefathers lived, bball 1 spend the
sweet hours,
Or cover mv harp with the wild-woven flowers.
And strike to the anthem of Erin go bragb.
Tel. all Us sad recollections suppressing.
One dying wish my lone bosom can draw :
Erin ! an exile bequeaths thee bis blessings I
. i 1 . . j 1 L'.-ln trn hriiirn I
Buried and cold when my heart stills her mo-
Greenbe1 thy fields. isle of he cr" !
And thy barp-airlnging bards eimj aloud, with
uevouon.
Eriu mavoui nceu-Erin go bragb I
But notwithstanding the disadvantages
under which Ireland has labored in the
past, and which she feels in the present,
her sons are coneraUT as careless, happy
and contented a set as one will often meet.
Fortunately for them, nature Las blest
them with some qualities of mind or dispo
sition that frequently soften the hard real
iii of Ibtir condition, and wuable them
to look, proverbially, on the bright side, if
there is one. , ,
The four ifi-eat provinces oi ireiuu aic.
Tinnr. ou the east; Monster, on the
south ; Ulster, on the north ; and Con-
naught, on the west ; and these are suo
divided into counties, baronies and parish
oa Thn scenerv of each of these provinces
IKjesesscs a beauty peculiar to itself, but
similar in one respect mere are ic
i,.r ibe viaw is not terminate! uy lony
l.Illd or mountain grandeur. The highest
r thn northern mountains is the Slicve
Donard, which terminates the Mourna
-,. in thecountvof Down, ana wuicu
rises two thousand eight hundred and nine
feet above the level of the sea. In the
Slieie Bloom range, situated in the centi
r k. uiaiwl. and sometimes called the
Ard na Ein, or Heigbta of Ireland, the
river Nore, Barron aud Suir iae u.
, l mlion annlied
rise. iTM insn wum , L
to a mountain, signifies that it Deiongs w
range.) But the honor oi oeiog
est mountain in Ireland belongs to Crran
Tual, at Killarney, which is three tnousauu
four hundred and ten feet above sea level.
Iu some places the sceuery of Ireland is
rendered less pleasing by the extensive
bogs and morasses that encroach upon the
fertile lands. The chief of these is the
Bog of Allen, in which tie beautiful nver
Boyne takes its rise, flowing thence to the
sea at Droghcda. Fortunately for the
people who live near these bogs, no mias
ma injurious to health rise from them, ow
ing to tho large proportion of tannin which
they contain, and which possesses sueh a
ulrong preservative quality that bodies
plunged in a deep bog remain undecayed,
the flesh becoming like that of an Egyp
tian mummy.
It sometimes happen that ft bog, over
charged with water during the rainy sea
pen, bursts through the bounds of the more
EUENSBURG,
solid and reclaimed parts, and overflows j
large tracts of good land. A notable in
Etanco occurred in the county of West
meath, where the bog of Clara suddenly
burst into the valley of the river Brusna,
and entirely ruined many hundred acres of
excellent land ; and this was afterwards re
peated in the county of Antrim.
All the descriptions of Ireland in earlier
times agree in representing it as a thickly
wooded country, and Spenser, in his "Fai
rv Oneen ." has immortalized the scenery
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along the river.Bandou, which he mentions
as the "pleasant Baudon, woody-crowned,"
as it is to this day. But wherever the
army of Cromwell passed, the forests were
foiled and the country laid bare, as the
bogs amply testify, some of them supply
ing large quantities of nr, wuicn uurns
with a pleasant aromatic smell, and' has
used in ulace of candles. Other bogs
have yielded only oak, and sometimes sal
loti, and yew of great size, which is sus
ceptible of a tine polish, and is used for
cabinet-work.
The rivers of Ireland are numerous and
verv fine, some of them forming lakes at
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certain poiuts in their course, and falling
into the sea at the Head oi spacious uays.
The counlrv is rich in minerals, and its
quarries produce a vaiiety of beautiful
marbles, as the black marbles of Kilkeuuy,
the green of Galway, and the many-colored
of Fermanagh ; nor should its excellent
slates and wonderfully fine granite be pass
ed without notice.
Scarcely any part f Ireland is more than
fifty miles from the sea, and owing to this
fact, it is blest with a climate famed for its
mildness, evenness and moisture. Deli
cate plants thrive in the county of Donegal,
close upon the Noithern Ocean ; arbutus
and laurestinus there grow finely, aud
myrtles so luxuriantly as to cover the walls
of houses np to the second story. On the
shore of Lough Swilley, near Ramelton,
the agapanthus and the fuschia live in
winter in the open ground, and flower ex
tremely well in summer. The southern
portion of the island is considerably warm
er than Ulster. The snow rarely lies for
any length of time, tho spring is earlier,
fruit ripeDS quicker, and tho harvest is
ready for the sickle a month before tbat of
the nortli'Ji i, and two weeks before the
tuidTand districts. In the counties of Cork
and Kerry tender shrubs, such as bay, ver
bena, fuschia, etc., grow with wonderful
luxuriance, and the native arbutus eu
riches the wild scenery of Killarney and
Glengarifle. The greatest defect of the
climate is its moisture; but this varies
greatly in different localities. The air on
the western side of Ireland is iuuoh more
humid than that of t lie eastern, because it
is exposed to the influence of the moist
vapors of the Atlantic, which, attracted by
tho mountains, rest upon their heads and
pour down rain iuto the valleys. The
county of Dublin is wetter than that of
Wicklow because the clouds charged with
rain pass over Dublin toward tho chan
nel, free from every obstacle, while those
which cross Wicklow, striking io the
mountain- aud hills, deposit t heir moisture
upon their western slopes, leaving the east
ern sides of the country between them and
the sea dry aud in sunshine.
The laboring Irish and the larger portion
of the middle classes have one common
Celtic origin, and possess their own iecu
liar traits, by which they may be known
the world over. They have much quick
ness of apprehensions and ingenuity, a
good deal of natural eloquence and wit,
and much warmer affections than charac
terize most European nations, but are lia
ble to a peculiar quickness ot temper w uiou
is often the attendant of a lively and gen
erally amiable character. The upper, and
many of the middlo class, being of Saxon
descent, do iot vary much from the same
classes iu Great Britan, but if any differ
ence exists it is owing to the admixture of
the genuine Irish or Celtic nature; and
this it is, perhaps, that gives to the edu
cated Ii ish so much artistic talent, either
in literature or the arts.
V all know something of the social
state of Ireland how the native owners
let their possessions to middlemen, and
these let them again to cottier, who con
situte a great body of farmiug poor, who
suffer from low wages, high rents and un
steady employment. All these t hings might
be remedied, and it is to be hoped that it
will be by wise legislation.
Tho Irish peasantry, with all their faults,
are maiked by mauy noble traits. Their
bravery is undoubted, their hospitality a
proverb ; they are affect iouate to their pa
rents and to the aged, charitable to the
beggar, and show, even wheu it great dis
tress, a dislike for soliciting charity.
Surely, a people possessing all these good
qualities are capable of attaining to a high
er place than they have ever yet woo.
Progression is the universal law of nature,
andVe venture to say t hat in the future of
nalions there is hope for Ireland.
The last class, but not the most miser
able one in Ireland, which we would meu
t ion, is hat of the common vagrant. Some
of these are professional beggars, some are
obliged ly loss of work to become what
are called walkers, and others beg only
.u:i i,ir husbands are away at work in
i England. Aud Ireland is a happy countiy
for the beggar, though so poor ior vU
peasantry treat him witn a kiuuhCS
..mI armrded elsewhere.
Among the portion, of Ireland famed for
PA., FlUDAT, SEPTEMBER 25, 1S7 !.
their beauty, the lake district at Killarney
stands unequalled. The lakes of Killarney
are situated in the bosom of the mountain
ous county of Kerry, and are yearly visited
by hosts of tourists. They are three in ,
number, of unequal size, and are surround-
ed by varied, though generally mouutain
ous scenery. Lough Lane, or the Lower
Lake, is by far the largest, and is bordered
on one side by the level cultivated countiy
around the village of Killarney ; on the j
other side rise the Glena and Tomies .
Mountaius. In this lake there are a num-
ber of wooded islands, one of which con.
tains the rains of an abbey, and anoiher (
the ruins of an ancient caslle. On the j
shore, toward the east, is the beautiful
ruin of Muckross Abbey. Divided from
the Lower Lake by the fine wooded pro
montory of Muckioss, but accessible by
two channels of level water, is the Middle
Lake, also called Turk Lake, from the
name of the mountain at whose foot it re-
poses. Aside Trom tne isianas wuicu biuu
the surface, the beauty of these two sheets
of water may be said to consist in the ir
regular promontories and slopes, gcneially
wooded, by which they are surrounded,
.,j nivno u.-b;b ! mountains tower in
AI1U txuws.
sterile giandeur. In many nooks of the j
scenery elegant mansions look out upon j
the lakes ; in others the mountain streams j
are seen descending in glittering cascades, j
The Upper Lake, the Ihiid or the series, is :
three miles from the middle oue, on a
higher level, aud entirely embosomed in j
the hills. A stream descending from one J
to l he ol her can be passed in a boat, aud j
one place in the passage is famed lor tue
echoes which t he notes of 1 he bugle awake
among the hills. In connection with the
lakes is a narrow rugged vale caueu uun- j
loe, which is usually visited by those so j
fortunate as to view this fiue scenery, 1hat
more than merits all the praise and admir- j
ationithas received both by tongue aud ,
pen.
Rftsting thk Evil One. At a camp
meetiug, not long ago, a man clad in a thin
linen suit, seated himself on one of the
ricketty benches beside a fat man, who oc
cupied full one-t hiid of the concern. When
the services were ended the fat man arose,
and the gentleman in thin linen suddenly
began twisting about in a surprising mau
ner, while his countenance was significaut
of mortal anguish.
His actions attiacted the attention of
some of the brethren, and one of them, a
solenm-visaged individual, who looked as
though ho had just swallowed a pill, ap
proached the writhing body, and laid his
hand on the man's shoulder and said:
"Brother, if you are resisting the cruel
promptings of the Evil One, strive manful
ly, and you will triumph at last. Remem
ber Jacob wrestled with the angel, and"
"I dunno but he did," interupted tho
agonized man, "but if Jacob had the seat
of his trousers and a little of his hide caught
in a consarncd crack, he wouldn't feell'k
rasliu' with an angel or ny other critter!"
A Mechanical Wonder. A German
jeweler of Amsterdam, New York, named
Schrceder, has completed a piece of me
chanism which he claims sui passes any
thing, of the kind in the world. It is a min
iature mechanical city, being twenty feet
long by fifteen feet wide. Tbere are
houses, castles, churches and stores in it,
just as they appear in almost any Europe
an city. Teople walk and nue aoeuc.
Horses and wagons and tail way cars pass
through the streets. Boats pass up aud
down the 1 iver, while some are loadiug and
otheis unloading at the docks. Juws are
in motion. A fonnlain plays iu a public
park, aud a band of musicians fill the air
with melody. There are also forts with
soldiers parading about them, blacksmith
shops with artisaus at woik in them, and
pleasure gardens witn people aancuiS
them. m .
Dos'T Do It. Don't invest all your
money in lottery tickets. Give some other
man a chance to draw a prize.
Don't tell an editor how to run a news
paper. Let the poor devil find out for him
self. Don't loaf about the streets and expect
the Lord to furnish you with your "daily
bread." He isn't running a bakery.
Don't discuss scientific questions wiih a
lightning lod man. His arguments are
generally solid, aud always pointed.
Don't spend all your lime in watching
your neigfabors. Every one should be sel
fish enough to devote a few hours to his
own business.
Don't imagine that the Lord will call a
first-class preacher to a church paying a
second-class salary. He doesn't treat his
children so shabbily.
A foiors Fact. Tn addition to the
fact that ice is lighter than water there is j
anoiher curious thing abont it which many
persons do not perhaps know namely, its
purity. A lump of ice melted will become j
distilled water. Water in freezing turrs I
out of it all that is not water, salt, air. col
oring matter and all impurities. Frozen ,
sea water makes fresh water ice. If you j
freeze a basin of iudigo water, it will make ,
ice as clear and as white as that made of j
pure rain water. When the cold is very (
.B all these foreign matters have not
time to escape, either by rising or sinking,'
and are thus entangled witn tne ce, oui
do not make any rait of it.
Saved by a Dear.
For several morning, just after day-break,
two hunters, who had located their cabin
on the banks of Stewart's creek, in the
heart of the Kentucky wilderness, were
aroused by the shrill scream of a panther,
seemiugly close by. It was at length deter
mined to hunt the animal, though one of
the men declared his belief that it was an
Indian nise, by which they were to be drawn
into an ambush. However, the fourth
morning they quietly arose, seized their ri
fles, and taking separate paths, so as to ap
proach from different directions, started to
"stalk" the catamount.
Unfortunately it proved to be as the hunt
er had feared. It was an ambush, laid by
four warriors, and the pioneer who first ar
rived in reach of the concealed rifles fell
with a bullet through his heart. The other
wa, for the moment, more fortunate.
Hearing the sound of firing, and realizing
w hat the odds against him were, he turned
and dashed away through the undergrowth,
taking a course directly away 1'rom the
cabin, iu hopes of saving it from destruc
tion. But two of the Inlian-t, however,
followed hi in, while the other two after se
curing the scalp of the unfortunate hunter
who had fallen, made at once for the cabin,
to which, after plundering it of all that was
valuable, thc3" applied the torch, and it was
soon cousmned. In the meanwhile Hum
phries such was the hunter's name suc
ceeded for two or three mile in maintaining
his lead, and would probably have shaken
theui off entirely but for an untoward acci
dent. In attempting to leap across a small
stream, the banks ot which were steep and
hih, he missed his footing, and only by a
powerful effort prevented himself from be
ing hurled Ui the bottom.
As it was, he found that he had strained
his knee to such an extent as to render it
almost a matter impossible to further con
tinue his flight. But life is a great stake to
struggle for, and although suffering the
greatest nyony, yet ILnnphrios continued to
keep slightly ahead of his pursuers. At
length, after descending quite a lii'.I, he en
tered upon a level bottom, at the other side
oT which ran a stream, the batiks of which
were thickly lined ly a heavy canebrake.
Toward this he ran witli what little strength
there was left in him, and reached the edge
of the brake only to find that it was so dense
that he could not, at any point near by, find
a place of entranre. Turning off to his
rijjht he found where a large poplar tree
had been blown down, falling directly into
the cane, and reaching enlirely across the
bed of the creek. Upon this he lenped, ran
alon the body of the tr ink. and then see
ing a chance for a Moment's hiding, he
leaped down iuto the water beneath, and
drew up under the bank, where the bushes
were heaviest.
Hardly had he succeeded in this when he
heard the Indian spring upon the log, run
rapidly forward a lew pace, and then utter
a shrill whoop of surprise or exultttion.
The keen-eyed red-skin had seen him as he
crouched amid the Bags and young cane.
Another instant and his enemy would have
been upon him, tomahawk in hand, when
suddenly a new actor appeared upon the
scene. A deep, angry roar, rather , than a
growl, broke upon the silence, and with
open mouth and eyes flashing with rage, an
old she bear, closely followed by her "two
cubs, dashed across the log and fastened
herself upon the now frightened Indian.
The fight upon the log was of short dura
tion, and after a few fierce struggle the two
combatants pitched over and fell, locked iu
a deadly embrace, into the water below.
What had become of the other Indian
Humphries knew not, but finding that he
did not appear, he crawled out upon the op
posite liiink, and leaving the redskin and
his shaggy opponent engaged in a struggle
for life or death, he made all possible haste
to reach the block-house, some three miles
distant. This he succeeded in doing, and,
the next morning, returned to the scene of
action at the creek. Neither bear nor In
dian was to be seen, though the torn and
bloody condition of the bushes on the hank
told how fearful the combat must have
been. Humphries was, on the whole, well
j-atisfied, and for many years boasted that
he was probably the only man in the wilder
ness whose life had been saved by a bear.
The English Language,
Morse's system of telegraphy is a power
ful means of spreading the English lan
guage throughout the world. It is found
that more matter can be sent in the English
than in any other language. Its simplicity,
conciseness, and strength, put it into the
very fore front of the battle between West
ern civilization and the sleepy empire of the
East. English capital invested in railroads,
steamships, and lines of telegraphy, as
though so many mighty arteries, Ls pouring
the resistless power and uniting energy of
all the English-speaking nations through
the barriers of heathenism. Wherever
English capital goes, there goes With it the
English language f)rogTcssive, aggressive,
dominant, and unyielding. Japan is about
to adopt it as a national language; it is
rapidly spreading throughout India ; it is
calling pretty loudly at the closed doors of
China ; it is sinking along the shores, and
around the ilands of Polynesia. Austra
lia is - now connected with Earopa by an
English-speaking wire, and the Minds of
the East Indies are feeling the influence of
this resistless tide. And so will this va-4
current keep flowing on and on till it pene
trates to the four quarters of the earth.
A good amz will outlat all riches.
The Troubles of John Smith.
Why will the Smiths, man and wife, go
on naming the majority of their off-pring
"John?" It is exceedingly tttpid, and it
is about time to put a stop to the practice.
For Mr. and Mrs. Smith to name their ?on
John is to send him forth nameless into the
world. He is a digitless cipher. We yes
terday morning had in our Police Court to
report the following item :
John Smith, arrested by officers Lloyd
and Iby, on a charge of ietty larceny;
dismissed.
Then came pouring forth scores of notes
from distressed and outraged John Smiths.
The poor fellows are obliged to parade be
fore the public not only their trades and
troubles, but also their infirmities, in order
that the public 11 my not mistake them for
thieves. The following are only a few of
the notes we have received, and are taken
at random from the avalanche that covers
our table :
Editor Enterprise : Please state that
the John Smith mentioned in your Police
Court report this morning the petty-larceny
fellow was not John Smith who docs
night work, aud oblige Yours truly,
John Sjsito.
Editor Entkhtrisk : tVill you be kind
enough to state that the John Smith arrest
ed yesterday for petty larceny was not John
Smith who drives the swill cart.
Yours, John Surra.
Reporter Enterprise: riease say that
the John Smith arrested for stealing was
not red-headed John Smith, the tinker.
Respectfully, John Smith.
Mr. Local : You w ill oblige me by say
ing that one-legged John Smith ls not the
petty-larceny cuss who was in the Police
Court yesterday. Your obedient,
Joux Smith".
Mr. Items : Be kind enongh to say that
the John Smith up yesterday for theft was
not the Smith ciunmoidy known as "Lying
Jack Smith, from Poker Flat." I re
main, etc.,
Jonx Smith.
I.ocaiItems : Please correct your police
report of yeteiday morning by saying t'lat
the J')hn Smith up lie fore Jude Marple
yesterday for petty larceny was not the
John Smith hitcly divorced from his wife,
and commonly know 11 us "Cock-eyed Smith,"
and you will oblige.
Respectfully, John Smith.
Mr. ExTERrit'SE : I am no infernal thief!
I wish you to state in your paper thnt the
John Smith palled yesterday for petty lar
cenj' was not John Smith from Idaho, com
monly called "Sore-legged Jack."
Yours, etc., Jonx Smith.
As may lc seen by the above struggles of
the John Smiths to make themselves known,
John Smith is no name nt all. Indeed, it is
worse than no name. Let Mr. and Mrs.
Smith name their boy Ebrnezer, Hippato
dorus, Gabriel, Iicedacmonicus, Jedediah,
or Epaphroditus, but let us have no more
John Smiths at least not for a generation
or two, when there shall appear to be a de
mand for them.
For the comfort of the John Smiths who
have asked us to set them right, we will
state that the John Smith arrested on a
charge of petty larceny is better known as
"Suck-egg Smith." Virginia City EiUvr
vrise. A Pleasant Place.
A good story is told at the expense of a
somewhat inexperienced housekeeper in this
city who found herself one morning w ithout
a servant to cook or wash. A few hours
trial convinced her that she must have help,
and ske stArted out in search of a girl.
After calling at several places without suc
cess, the was passing one of the best resi
dences in the -city, and observed a tidy-looking
woman cleaning the yard. Halting,
she inquired of the woman whether she
knew of a girl that could be hired. The
answer w-as iu the negative. The lady
had bj' this time become desperate, and re
solved to hire the woman before her, al
though she knew it was wrong to covet hr
neighbor's servant. In a low tone of voice
she began to relate her troubles, and wouud
up by urging the woman to leave Mrs.
and come with her, offering her a dollar
more a week than she was then receiving.
The woman answered that she liked l.er
place, and could not be induced to give it
np. And she added :
"Jlesides, I generally sleep with Mr. ,
and 1 don't think he would allow me to go
away."
Tlie lady departed, utterly astonished at
what she had heard. Her feelings may be
imagined when she afterward learned tliat
she had been talking with the mistress of
the mansion, and the wife of one of our
most esteemed citizens.
Mrs. Partington's Mistake.
"My dear, wlTere is my Morning and
Evening Devotion ?" asked Mr. Paul Par
tington meaning a small book with that
title, in which he sometimes read.
"Here it is," said Mrs. Partington, pro
ducing from the cl.iset a dark bottle, aad
setting it on. the tablewnha clean glass.
"Here it is, Paul."
He looked inU.ntly.into her face to see if
malice were actuating her, but he found all
there calmly sereue. He would not destroy
the pleasure of her satisfaction in having
thus obliged him, so he refrained from ex
planation, and partook. '
Benzise and common clay will clean
marble.
NUMBER 35.
A Chinese Dentist.
In priority of time the Chinese are aheal
of ns in some of the arts of civilization but
in most of the finer and higher kinds of art,
ns rurirerv. etc.. their proficiency is little re
moved fn.ro half-savage bungling. A cor
respondent of the Cincinnati "Commercial"
describes Chinese dentistry, and gives as an
idea of what the Shanghai tooth carpenters
amount to as professionals :
The native dentists are the merest char
latins. and practice as magicians and cure
nils. They insert artificial teeth of the sea
horse, which are kept in place by copper
wire wrappings or fastenings to the adjacent
natural teeth, and charge about three cents
prr tooth for the operation. Teeth are ex
tracted by a hocus-pocus process which the
dental impostor calls "coughing up." The
method of extraction 13 this : The dentist
applies a white powder represented to be
the salt extracted from the sweat of the
horse. Dr. Eatlake found this white pow
der to be nothing wore or less than arsenio.
which causes the gum to fclough, when the
tooth is easily removed by the operator's
fingers.
But the Chinese method of curing the
toothache was hat puzzled him most, and
longest defied detection. The operations, it
should have been stated, are all performed
in a temple or in the space in front, under a
large uml.rella, the idea being that religious
ceremony s in some way connected with
them.
Toothache is caused by a maggot which
gets into the tooth somehow or other while
the patient is asleep, or while lie is laughing
immoderately. It must be removed alive,
or the patient will go mad. lie is, therefore,
placed on a seat and his head thrown back.
The dentist inserts a long pair of forceps,
and, after fumbling around fur a few sec
onds, produces between the nippers a little
wriggling black maggot the cause of the
whole trouble.
Dr. Eastlake witnessed this operation re
peatedly, but it was only after obtaining
surreptitious possession of the forceps that
he discovered the trick. Hi fliund that ono
arm of the forceps only was of iron ; the
other was of ba:ii'xo, painted to resemble
the other. In the ho'.i jw of the haniboO
were found a numVrof little black mag
got, pru'aMy ub;a:ncd from decayed vege
tables or decoinjxising matter. When uec
esary to do service, the ojcrator simply
squeezed the bamboo above, and the maggot
was ejected from the small end tf the in
strument to the mouth, and then adroitly
taken between the nippers nnd held up
triumphantly before the gaze of the as
tonished and grateful patient relieved. The
operations lie witnessed were dispatched
with astonishing rapidity, and the patients
hurried away, as that part of the per
formance was essential to the success of the
ojerati'jn.
Horrors of a Coolie Ship.
Everybody Is acquainted with the marjj
tales of horror which have made famous the
coolie trade, but it id too generally thought
that those horrors are no longer enacted.
Still, the coolie ships, which are nearly as
bad as the former slave traders, continue to
ply or the Pacific ocean, as has been diplo
matically divulged to the world in the recent
celebrated case of the ship Marie Louise.
This coolie trade Ls conducted especially be
tween Macao, in Cli'ma, and Callao, Peru,
where the unfoitunate and decoyed Chinese
are used to extract the little guano yet re
maining on the Chincha Islands, or to work
on the new beds discovered at Macabi, La
Independence, and other bays along the Pe
ruvian coast. The ships engaged in the
coolie traffic are almost exclusively Italian
or Spanish. The last tragedy that occurred
in connecrion with that trade, happened on
the 8th of June last, on board the Italian
vessel Sajtolrone Camarcro, which sailed
from Macao, with a crew of 40 men, CC3
coolies for Callao, and 8,000 packets of fire
works. After a lapse of two days the in
terpreter discovered a plot among the
emigrants to seize the ship. The captain
immediately ordered one half of them to be
confined in the hold, but the next day those
who remained on deck armed themselves
with knives, belaying pins, pieces of wood,
in short, an-tlinig they could lay their
hands on, aud attacked the crew, who de
fended themselves with muskets aud revolv
ers. The coolies then massed themselves on
the forecastle aud set fire to the vessel, liep
ing that the crew would set to work at the
pumps to extinguish the flames. During
that time they had also freed their comrades
and murdered the few sailors they could get
hold of. The captain, seeing what they
were doing, ordered the boats to be lowered,
aud left the ship with the remainder of his
men. Some sailors who remained on board,
with the diKtor, the migazine man, and the
interpreter, were unable to present the
flames from reaching the fireworks, and the
ship blew np, scattering the fragments of
the mutineers in every direction under the
very eyes of the escaped crew.
Two Gals and a Jttarc
Two of Illinois's beautiful daughters,
driving out on the plank-road near Chicago,
were stopped at the toll-gate and asked for
toll.
"How much is it?"
"For a man and horse," replied the gate
keeper, "the charge is fifteen cents."
"Well, then, git oat of way, for we are
two gals and a mare, tiit np, Jenny !"
And those two cheery young femalei
dashed by the man of toll without disburv
ing the paltry sum which it was Liodotj
W fculieit.