FLOWERS IN WINTER. Throughout these wintry hours! Tho’ ne er by amorous breezes wooed Nor kissed by quickening show rs So subtle is your rare perfume So brilliant ve appear, I half forgot amid your bloom That winter-time is here. Co.npanions of my solitude | | } Ye well repay the tender care With which I housed ye warn, E're frost had made my garden bare, Or came the driving storm. For be the wintry day without As cheerless as it may. Your sweet looks put all gloom to rout | And gladden all the duy | i | But few, sweet friends of mine, may ¢laim The love 1 bear for thee In shine or shade thou rt true the sme, As eer true love may be And surely none the less hat love, Now unkind winds do blow, And pile the fields and all the grove With drifts of deadly snow Thou rt symbols of that friendship, tou, | The world but seldom shares, i That thro life's ups and downs proves true And half our burden bears That in life's cheerless winter When golden youth is past Flings beauty o'er our r rugged WAYS, Long » thant 114 ay at 81 days, etl Ap - The Dispensary. CoLDp IN THE HEAD.— When one | a bad cold and the nose is closed up so | that he cannot breathe through it, re- | instantly by putting has lief may be found WALKING FOR WOMEN. Bertha Von Hiller, the female pedestrian, says that with & year’s training she could bring ninety out of one hudred delicate women into healthy condition. says under fifty ought to be a without American who a and vigorous | she every woman ble fatigue, compares ladies with their English think of tramping eight or ten miles a day for a | to walk two | miles excessive and sisters nothing “Constitutional.” DANGER OF H BREATHING. Dr. Carl Seller recently the Philadelphia Pharmaceutical Association | at the College of Phe of “Mouth Breathing.’ many ills that reality due to Nature 4 ‘ innain MOU addressed wrmacy on the subject He be «1 said that ot iF, the effect are ascri sed Causes are in sof this tO be habit NOSE used for alimnosph tted it membrane and purpose, mucous mtains what termed sel moisture ! it is warmed and purit to re through the nd Whi the mouth in ti is apt by while pass , directly through the moisture, of | tem ah reason of its lack lnpurity or or imprope: three, to the lax tir cells of the lungs. perature, all act as an irritant, especially in and in | the Ynx ARSENTI COMPLEXION, IS Necessary AND THE It against raise 4 Warning cry hie In 1 harm, small doses It risks women will ¢ Ww & most misc vous statement irculated, and to the effect for It to! incur to | laoks, recoms- which has recently already ‘arsenic in has done that the complexion.” the of is good is not difficu imagine their good for upon authors of this “arsenic. for preserve No mending that which baneful prescription of complexion’ have adopted. Suffice it to the fact that for many vears | past chemists and sanitarians have been | laboring to discover means of elimina- | ting the arsenical salts from the coloring | matter of wall papers and certain dyes | once largely used for certain articles of clothing. It is most unfortunate that this hope- | lessly antagonistic recommendation of | arsenic to improve the complexion should have found its way into print. Those who employ the drug as advised | and there are many either already | using it or contemplating the rash act— | will do so at their peril. So far as they are able, however, it will be the duty of medical men to warn the public | against this pernicious practice, which is only too likely to be caried on se- | cretly. It is not we speak thus pointedly and urge prac- titioners to be on the gui vive in anomal- ous or obscure cases, unprove nore mgenious dey ice a drug can be hit than most the | the recall without reason that ! Mr. Okeburg's Freak. Found Dying of Asphyxia and Saved by the Transfusion of Blood. The New York Sunday World says : as John H. Beatty, the night clerk of the Hotel St. Andre, at No. 11 East Eleventh street, was passing the main stairs of the building he noticed a strong smell of gas, which he finally traced to a room on the, first floor, having windows overlooking Eleventh street. The clerk gained ac- cess to the room by means of the iron balcony which fronts the building. | In the room was found a young man lying in bed, unconscious. He was tightly wrapped in the bed-clothing and had a handkerchief tied over the lower part of his face. which was escaping from a large chan- delier of four burners and called Mr, A, E. Shryrer, the proprietor of the hotel. He summoned Dr. Anderson, of Uni- versity Place, and Dr. Ferdinand C, Valentine, of No. 28 West Eleventh street. The physicians applied the usual remedy for asphyxia, but could not re- ~tore vhie man After every ordinary reinedy had been tried it was finally decided to attempt to him by means of the Blundell Edward | 21 years old, | in healthy condition, offered himself the physicians, who opened a vein in his arm, in a and from that transfused into-an opened WO CONBGIOUSTIOSS, restore The blood was received | Han The vein in the arm of the dying re- sult wis successful, and the suicide soon regained his senses, he was able (0 talk, however, he refused to give his name, Reference to the Mn £P. Hanson, city.” to room No. 6, hotel books had He second was assigned floor, and about 8 on the leaving the o'clock. He returned about 11 o'clock. The night clerk says that he per- fectly sober and did not act if he were From letters found in an Was seen hotel Wis as insane. inner pocket of his waistcoat it was as- certained that the young man’s name is F. de V. Okeburg, a copying clerk the office of Vice-President Van Hom, in the Western union building, He is about thirty vears old and resides with his wife and child in Brooklyn. He was born in Sweden and has always been a temperate, hard-working man. Word was at once dispatched to Mrs. Okeburg, but upon her arrival! her hus- band refused to speak to that he did not know her. He his child, but whose her, asserting also re- fused to speak to when i Banks, man, brought him back to entered Okeburg immediately addressed him as ** dear brother,’ He added that brother and I do woman.” The physicians for Okeburg’s they think that antipathy to hi blood the the colored life, Foon not janks is my this k the ig of 3 PASS away. family will Okeburg will be removed to his residence in Brooklvn. The chief of the department in which is employed said vesterdayv that the financially led He receives a work young man seemed to be and that that probably attempted suicide, 21600 yearly. » Was at iday as usual, and did not seem to all Fashion Notes. Chrysanthemum bord broad vine : patterns ; teens are] satteens Witii a Er Seoteh ginghams are largely as large in plaids an with both Me i]t much worn evening toil i over the ettes mint dresses in Louis stvie, with trains that Arried arm have wen for § thle Young wane n when dancing (B87 LAT YE Hioman Hs edges cut mn sharp irregular points called COXCOmDS, peel Ton io nent 5 lower 3 lish whi sported dresses Lom blue is one o ules for the wool dresses in from Paris loth brocaded is Seen in dark rough © peli Worn over ottoman skirts, with t red guipure designs, in the dark velvet bonnets, and brighten them A French fashion of having chemisettes of silk muslin gath- gronixds strewn with Gold ¥F with eolored silk woven 113 He carnations, lace in Flemish flowers and leaves are { throated dresses, Printed India pongees will be fash- erly sought after. These combination patterns, which at all attractive, and plain dresses of last season can be advanta- geously combined or utilized with the great variety of designs come In we times so printed on Shirred basques with shirred sleeves will con- while skirts over the hips in large puffs, or else in a closed apron front, while the back das pery falls in soft folds, yet is very full and bouffant, are liked. Polonaise are very full on the hips and tournure, yet ave dawn back plain on the sides and will be made of the figured goods, What is called a cotton season is annot need for and already importations of cotton HSU Bs Pennsylvania produced 850,908 tons ; Illinois, 362,250 tons ; Ohio, 118,- 806 tons; New York, 155021 tons and Missouri, 85,528 tons. These order of production of railroad ‘rails, steel and iron. a A drunken Denver burglar, blunder- ing into his own house, robbed himself of a watch and $70. His wife didn't recognize him at first and was therefore , but when she got a smell of his breath. she took the broom and soon had him: ‘under control. | Lady Beauty's 8 Rules. i ! Rule 1. A woman's power in the world measured by her to please, { Whatever she may wish to accomplish she will best manage it by pleasing, A | woman's grand social aim should be to please. | Rule 2. in power Modesty is the ground { which all 4 woman's charms appear to i the best advantage, on Ln manners, dress, { conversation—remember always that modesty must never be forgotten, Rule 13. please and modesty is the Gist principle in the art of pleasing. Rule 4. or a little be the | the oldest, 1 Ruled, { admire in i men admire Rule 6, t men’s beauties, { Rule? { ness is the happiest manner in society. So the woman's aim Always dress up to your age bavond it, Let youngest thing about i rson not Yous you, Remember that what women themselves seldom what in them is Women's beauties Crayely teinpered by serious- Rule 8, Always speak low, says Shakespeare, tule 9. A plain woman can never be pretty. She can always be if she takes pains, Rule 10. Every the more pains she shou a woman lives Id take with her Yel dress, In all let a will please woman of please things thie will ask what men Sense { before she asks what the men of fashion. eh Culinary Conceits, score Porrep Me. AT.— Boil cheek them All OX- and two calves’ fee slowly till then nop | inne, ¥ 4 TT) “te fir . EW ike the nat comes off DONes, MEARE pepper and salt, put int Eat with a fresh if Kew P and Oo molds lemon and mustard. well boiled and { arefully made it will a week, i ’ { Pruxe WHip, three-cuarters Sweeten tot Siew af of prunes ; when perfect] whites f of x¥iel Ail all | cold serve well with good crea CreaM COOKIES of butter, are m upiug HW eed ful He ( if sugar, hires cream teaspoonful a teaspoo DARImMOn or nutmeg, del 1 lemon or PUrrs, nr, four eggs, have them vers extract of rose wile (GINGER Take half ne feaspoont ounce of glass of wh and ogether i the nutmeg to wilh and mixture i nag A Bueagrasr Dis { dish can be Prepar f vesterday or, providing nsisted roast mutton in a cup of REaYS Catto table. meat heat and time, the season with pepper and salt stirring all the spoanful of flour: gradually, and, when * the pan on the back part of the stove, and poach some eggs to serve with the meat. When the eggs are done put the eat on a platter, and lay the eggs around the edge. With fried potatoes, muffins and good coffee a wholesome breakfast may be provided at small ex- pense, ONE Goob way to utilize bits of cold venison is to chop them fine, then heat with some of the gravy left from dimmer, or, if vou have none, with a little water, in which you put a gener- ous lump of butter; season with pepper and salt ; then fill some patty-pans with the venison and cover the top with crust. Bake until the crust is “done brown,’ over it. a let ‘boiling hot,’ ast ns ss A HR ————————— A Fortunate Adventurer. The recent dispate h aunouncing the discovery of gold on the Yukon river in Alaska recalls one of the romantic experiences of Western mining life, The Alaska discoverer, whose name should have been given as Seheiffelin, instead of Schuffeli-—as was telegraphed ~4is the man who located the rich mines at Tombstone, Arizona, and founded and pamed the town. The story of the *'find’ is a remarkable one. “Ed Scheiffelin, with his brothers and one or two companions, was prospecting in Seuthern Arizona some four or five years ago, when the country contained comparatively few white men and was overrun by hostile Apaches, The party, in Western parlance, were ‘down on their luck." They had made no strikes, and their supplies were running low, It was a condition of affairs which Scheiffelin was inured to, for he had been so reduced as to live on meal and beans given him in camp as an act of charity. Finally they resolved, in des peration, (to start across into what is | now known as the Other prospectors had kept away from fear of the Indians, dey and desolate, little The never returned, When nounced generally eet starvation. vour The country was but had and contained gittne, few intruders Hite determination that they bullets Seheiflelin's thei Party ane it was predicted would death hy Apache All you tombstone.” wis or In will find will be the farewell of & miner as the adventurous band started into the barren hills, They journeved cacti and mesquite, sarcastic through crossed arrovas and climbed hills, tinizing every rock for signs of pay ore ; that might lead to the discovery of vei. i outlook in hand, while kept throughout i found nothing. for Apaches, They slept rifles faithful watch the night, i Was Footsore, weary and discouraged they camped on thé site of the present town of Their | nearly exhausted. It for them to find food at once or give up | their attempt and turn backward, One of the party, taking went out ' to ‘hunt a deer, ' others a Tombstone, provisions were was imperative his rifle for In his absence the Imost hopelessly began examin- ig the rocky ground near the at last Fortune proved kind, hunter camp, When learned that he | and ! the cand his They had found that hinted at feet They and ofter a returned he comrades were millionaires, a rich out-cropping of i Ore ! their : 2 claims, the 1 beneath loaded of wealt] their period waiting | partially developed them, In May ‘Ed. Land their milli Now 1 284) his brothers sold for a round $i A BVI | these Phil of ground Hines ydelphi; ate a town HN) Al Lands on Lhe inhabit where the When SOLE ail rifle ~ the camped HWR Condensed Wisdom abou! Oysters. Half the t= like it's nice of man orders the Th y dish order living Now, a dozen of the ople only font § ERE) 14 EER Case in ground when i lf it certainly can’t smacks a Inrgest because he oysters Iw likes the flavor, has not the choice flavor that epicures pretend to like. Big oysters ought only to be cooked, and small for raws : but if you Serve a dozen small think you are do I consider the Shrewsbury, as a big ovster reserved venture to oysters on the shell, people cheating them. What oysters ? Well, They have a different and a sweet, delicate taste that seems to me better than that of any other, But there isn't one man ind00 that can tell the difference between Shrewsbury, Long Island, Mill Ponds, East Rivers, Provi- dence Rivers, ete, They think they can, so it's all right. At a good many eating houses you can get any kind of an oys- ter, in season or out, but they all come from some scrub bed. The largest are labeled Saddle Rocks, another size and ueshape Blue Points, and so on. Bl Points are perhaps the most in demand now ; they cost from $4.50 to $6.50 per barrel. East Rivers are estimated the best by a good many, as they are only placed in the market late. They range in price from $4 to $0 a thousand, ac- Ones the best color, The consumers don't feel the rise and fall, It is felt only by the wholesalers, Some of the largest ovsters come from Old Point, Fortress Monroe. From there they reach Baltimore, and “wo travel north. Baltimore is the big oyster depot, and they put up immense quantities in cans. It's a great sight to see 50 or 100 darkies shucking oysters as fast as the smacks unload them. A smart man ought to open from 4000 to 9,000 a day. 1 understand a team of four men have shucked 25000 oysters in a day. That would give them about $23, Baltimore prices, Oysters are eaten here, of course, all summer, but summer is their breeding time, and they ought to be let alone, They're not up to the mark until the waterjgets col \, “- Selected Humor, “1 am sorry to hear of vou having drowned himself at i Gilhooly. uncle said Austin, who wore u sad look and erape “Yeu i hive on his hat, “Pid he “How the grotnds was very sad.” grounds for it?" mischief could he have any it sen, where the water is a mile and a half deep, *’ When failed enteh the young lady who slapped his hands at Fogg remarked that it was disaster, “A wr exclaimed, any fog out at Brown to Copenhagen, quite a marine smack lost, you know," to the interrogating glances lev elled at him from all in an- swer sides, Jones, through the lather : “ Strange. and vet feet had Hair-dresser : grandfather one long.” for it, unless grandmother.” “No,” exclaimed “No, madam, Once and for all 1 say it not foreign ‘And pray 7’ with three “Can't account sir you take after your Mr. Peanecker, I object most decidedly, the languages,’ Mrs. P., “Because, girls shall be taught why not. withering Mr. PP. “because, suid SATCAasn, with more Ms. P.. woman ! said withering sar- Cassin, one tongue is for any “Annie, that not.” enough 18 It proper to say this ‘ere, ere?! “Why Kate, of “Well, I don’t know whether it is proper or not, but 1 feel cold Course lon in this ear from that alr “What on earth that Didn't here makes teeth You announce you extract without pain? I hear every patient you had vell 7 Prep peripatetic hose shrieks addy taking tea at ¢ VETY i ov sia anot her Matilda } y her face and Nas Deen pay lowed wid my tuken fur / Sten ter &'pr him | i 3 “y i wid ring gel ut th ui ai alnarement., Matilda rad 24 y 3 on pasa de Sotographic man two bits fur | dat ar picture.’ A gentleman having a little toddler with him the other day. Stopped at a and He confectioner’ n, of popcorn. one hall t child, and the confectioner placed other in a paper sack. Then the wended their way homeward, meeting as they proceeded two ragged urchins, whom the man stopped and made a divy of the remaining popcorn ball. *“Ain’t he a good man I” was the exclamation that greeted him as he walked away, The little toddler tlien broke “Papa, don’t you know what they said that for ?*° “No; why ?’ * ‘Cause they don’t know you." "The silence was only broken by the munching of the corn. gave iWo forth © As an Eastern train was nearing Cheyenne a drummer made an insulting remark to a lady whose acquaintance he had made. The lady rose to her feet and called out, “Has any man in this car a iv. verabout him? If there isl wish be would lend it to me and I'll put an ead to this scoundrel’s insults!” The drummer rushed to the endjof the car and jumped off, going into Cheyenne y the back door. so os sbi, All Alone. by Itself. When the house is alone by itself ine experienced persons may believe that it behaves exactly as it does when there are people in it: but this is a delusion alone in it at midnight sitting ap for the rest of the family: at this hour its true disposition will reveal itself, To catch it at its best pretend to re- tire, put out the gas or lamp and go up stairs, Afterward come down softly, light no more than one lamp, go into the empty room and seat yourself at a table with something to read. No sooner that you have done so than you will hear a little chip, chip, chip, chip along the top of the rooms—a small — after some tribaidtion, that if it does come pX you eat Lelp it, and go on with your book, As you sit with vour cide, book in your some one is coming down stairs, Rqueak, What folly! There is nobody up there to come down ; but there—no, it is on the kitehen stairs, Somebody is coming up Bqueak, snap! Well, if it is a robber you might as well face him. You get the poker and stand with your back against the wall, Nobody comes up. Finally vou decide that you are a goose, pot the poker down, get a magazine and squeak, squeak ! Can trv to read. that 5 turn. » door, heard the You They are coming home, There, the lock Yon run to the back door, unbolt it. and Nobody is there, but as yon linger the door gives click that makes you jump, By daylight, neither lock make any of these noises unless they unlock and peep out, a nor stairs are touched or trodden on. You go back to the parlor in a hurry, with a feeling that the next thing vou know 8 mething may back hair and try to remember left off, cateh you by the whery Now cracks it is the table that and as if the spiritualist knocks were You this and you take th the suaps hidden in its mahogany. on it heavily without but it fidgets you, chair Your page, do not lean resnit An easy book on vour knee and put eves wander and down up and you grow dreamy, when. ap- parently, the fires off ; At least the bookcase pst ol Brack of loud, fierce of th ial piece “@ CONES heart furni- from ture. 80 loud, so fierce, that vou ump to vour feet trembling. Y on mare, No SEIS 10 vou cannot stand the You go da up stairs, than walking KOONET you get there that somebody is the house is a deta ing impossible t all the more mys wer moaned something tap dripping, + #3 4 ay Lae Lime And it is evident tat there is son thing up the chimneyv--vyou would . to ask what. have gas it bobs and do + Al on up a ph om If you has lamp it goes out in a blue explosion a shroud plainly toward vi vou have a candle J ti k wra Lil The bi i them, wick and falls Es I inds shake as if a hand and finally a doleful cat | the You do and this finishes vou moan in cellar, Keep a cat, no longer, and You pretend to read tting with a towel over your head and face, and hearing something below Shew, like ghost go shew, she a little saw, w.? 1 be in the old Ten ITIE1 oe i } Pen minutes afterward the iwye stories the belated one comes home ; 2 mn perhaps somethin Peo been, are lit and ie if i Wi are ou nit Lo eal, je Lain wre and ask vou e- One And heard door. No six p lick in the front book «cass stair creaks, roof ; Neither nor The house has on its company manners—only vou have found out how it behaves when it is not a on the no « table cracks, alone Fanatics. The visitor to Jerusalemn may see the young Rabbi, who believes himself to be the true Jewish Messiah, walking un- hurt in the streets, although he has not vet succeeded in gathering diseiples of his own. Some years since he might watch the poor sailor {once lightning- struck) who, dressed in white, and stag- gering beneath a wooden cross some fif- teen feet high, announced himself as Jesusof Nazareth, and inscribed men’s name's in his book of life: but that troubled brain now lies at peace in the English graveyard, while at the grave. head the cross he carried has been fixed with touching propriety, and is surround- ed with that crown of thorns which he at one time actually wore, An Ameri- can prophet driving & wagon. and mar. ried to an Arab wife to the disgust of his lawful spouse, who has appeared un- expectedly to claim him, has taken the place of the Englishman, and is equally tolerated by the Moslem population. Within the city itself, close. to the moslem quarter, fifteen American de- votees await the appearance of the Messiah on Olivet, and pass their time in prayer and song. . Yet these people are suffered to live unmolested, and can walk the streets without fear of being stoned. — Blackwood’s Magazine, AAI bos Ast A shipment of 300 bushels of red-oak acorns has been made to Germany for planting on untillable hillsides. This tree is found to do well in Burope and its wood is valuable. The acorns were Onur] 4% ui avast Gout sound, but persistent. It is evidently MH of $1 per bushel, Sup My also shipped 150 ish of, ua ilar purposes,
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