a The Recovder. CENTRE HALL, - - PA The Chinese employ foreigners ale most exclusively as customs agents in their thirty treaty ports, fearing to trust Chinamen. It is estimated that at least fifty mil- lion dollars of the Government's paper money supposed to be in circulation has been lost or destroyed. There are now twenty-one law firms in the United of husbands and wives, and there about 200 American ladies who practice law States composed in the courts or manage legai publica- tions. The Government of Victoria, South Australia, is going to prevent the de- struction of the wild turkey, which is considered the best destroyer of locusts and other insect that fouud. pests can be The latest estimate places the num- ber of American bison at 1096, distrib- uted as follows: American zoological parks: 200 wild ones in Yellowstone Park, protected by the Government; 85 wild ones other parts of the United States; and seven in parks in foreign countries. 254 in captivity in in A good move in the reform of con- victs lias been made at St. Petersburg, Russia, the Chronicle. Several have begun subscriptions Zor the e.- tablishinent of workshops for criminals who hava served their terms in prison, When such they will be trained so that they may earn their living. This reform will save many who would otherwise drift learns San Fraucisco philanthropists men do not have trades back into crime. —————— The Medical Record publishes an article by an American physician who recently made a voyage from Eupope to this country in an emigrant ship. He says that out of 153 of the steerage passengers not one half were found to Le physically sound, though the were not afflicted with a8 would prevent them from landing at any of our ports. load 1s a fair sample,” whom he examinel, unsound passengers such diseases s«1f this ship- he savs, “the amount of disease imported annually into this country must be appalling.” In 1881, after consi:lerable agitation on the part of the Scotch-Gaelic so- cieties, a column schedule of that year's for “habitual” speakers The number of was found to be 251,504, cent. speak Gaelic did not habitually” do #0, the inquiry at was simply-—could they speak Gaelic. The total fourd to be wt AR only 231,602, or 5.72 per cent, of the present population of 4,033,000 this is one in seventeen of the population. was added to the British census of Gaelic ‘‘habitual”’ speakers 1 iJ per But as many persons who could or 6 the recent census number was Says the New York Press: naval warfare of deliberate; accurate marksmanship for which the American navy has always been famous would be of the highest moment. In the all important matter of battery eqnipment the ernisers and srmorclads of our new navy will sur pass foreign of tonnage. Aside from their ample ar- mament of the best mo lern steel rifles “In the the near future the vessels the same inch caliber, our new warships are all sbundantiy supplied with six, three and one pound rapid fire guns, Hotch- kiss revolving cannon and Gatling guns. Our battleships and cruisers pow building, as well as our cruisers already constructed, are fully qualified to hold their own in a modern sea of their respective ciasses afloat.” A —————————— electricity are numberless, but an obs Limoges found that the development of their bu<iness was being seriously impeded from the want of telephonic communication and they accordingly petitioned the chamber of coramerce it. That body after n long discussion refused to take part in the establish. ment of a telephone line connecting Limoges with Paris. Theso wiseac es gave ns their reason for the decision that the telephone ‘would injure the smaller traders in the town by enab. ling tho inhabitants to correspond too easily with the large shops in Paris.” Basal bid Ma Sos fui | ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EYERY.-DAY LIFE. { Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven. tures Which Show that Truth Is Stranger than Fietion. Port Jerrersos, Li. L., has what is said { to be a case of hereditary ossification re. { sulting from rhoumatism. The subject | jis Edward Emmons, thirty-cight years | old, who, like his father. followed the sea | for a livelihood, During a voyage in the | | spring of 1876, Emmons was attacked by | | rhoumatism in the leg and arms, joints of which were so mach affected that | when the schooner reached Port Jeffer- | son he was unable to walk and had to be | carried ashore and to his home. All | remedies applied proved of no avail and a gradual ossification of the integuments the | teen yaars has rendered him almost entire- ly helpless his left arm being the only limb which he can use at all. His jaws have become locked and the only food he cau inserted whe e two teeth have been re- moved. He is able to speak clearly | enough to make those around him under- stand what he says. He does not com- plain of any pain and the action of his | heart is said to be almost normal. His greatest pleasure ig roading, in which he | passes many hours of the day. He is also very fond of music, which hus friends provide for him as often as practicable, The beginning of Emmons’ father’s afflic- tion was almost identical with that of the son.but much laterin life, and the strange disease had not progressed so far when death claimed him, ducks near San Diegs. He partly con. cealed himself behind a battery, A young man, J. L. Henshilwood, who was rowing in the vicinity, saw a portion of Francis’ body, and mistaking it for a peli- can, firod his revolver at it and killed Francis. ‘The post-mortein examination showed that the bullet passed directly through the centre of Francis’ heart, but the evidence of persons in the boat with Henshilwood, and of others in the vieini- ty, was that after he had been shot, Franois raised himself in his boat and fired two shots at Henshilwood, evidently believing that an atteck was being made on him. News eame in from Elk river last woek standing in the door of his house when he saw a large flock of duck flying in a direction which would lead them near him. Visions of fine fat birds for dinner indoors and blunderbuss, ploded it, Three of the largest fell at onee at his feet, and it so happened that and the gun, in which tree was a beauti. ful gray squirrel, which John had uot iow is said that It himself over the result. Ax interesting historical just been brought into Scotland by changing hands. It is the handouffs sir William Wallace wore when boing conveyed to London ution. Attached thereto is this “ Part of the fetters in which Sir William Wallace was sent to London 1305." relic has prominence in which for exe legend: K« Sent gf an insult by “GirrMaxy is oa man's country,” said a titled German lady. “Men will die for their sweethearts, but their wives must live for them. If vou marry a poor man he expects vou to blacken his boots, If you wed a rich man he expects you to Lrerinan books, needloy sho settles is well educated in and housekeeping. enough until she ‘hausmutter,” with kitchen and n conversation exces servants the neighbors. Ther sult are inferi gumentatiy 3 sfems DY down into no few ideas be 1 and voud her raery, no topic « of pt the iniquity of hes Lier women extravagance of is that the and the n egotistical, the Kaiser created simply to and brinz more other women down, women to their fancie world i Or wait upon. hur than our actresses, our ie cater men into the fo actors are alwavs better barits outshine 2 il outraitos tenors ang Hies even our Fis Tt 4 na in the great hilosophers no + fewer women of pot : educational rary standing tha any of the o Hzed countries, A Lewisrox, Mai m wrkable © that city one nigl cause he wore a } he: “My wife bh starts d dows TO cure it. drug store toothache to 1 never had oceasion to in before didn’t think it made any difference wi went. At 745 p.m. | went i well-lighted store with my coat that the badge was visible, ° and get somethin Lewiston SAW me jumped counter his hand behind ¢ HOT : A Inrm upon th Al alarm loudly in the nextroom, 8 heavy shut with a was nu of bel there bottles, and in another bang, plac ] + i vans hlled wi his hat leaving the room I asked if he b thing for We dont keep drop, and you can’t find any either, replied, as he scudded out of the door 3 : ROE 6 Cow put on toothache. want out, too, walk began asking me if I had mode haul. 1 was completely bewildered. b soon found that the Y. M. C badge on my vest was the cause of the trouble. I had been liquor constable ! on the side. in ound mistaken f G. K. Groner and Marcus Baker, the former geologist of the 1nited States Geo'ogical Rarvey, with a force of men, have returned to Flagstaff, Ari. zona, from Canvon Diablo, where they were sent by the Government to take ob. servations and make a map of the region where so much meteoric fron has recently been found. ‘They spent sixteen days investigating the mammoth hele in the ground supposed to have been made by a meteor. This hole is 665 feet deep | and two and one-eighth miles in circum. | ference. The theory is that from the | appearance of the walls and the fact that they have found many pieces of meteoric iron around the hole, the meteor penttrated the earth to a dopth of 700 or 800 feet before it exploded, and this ae. | counts for the strange phenomenon. Three pieces of the meteor weighing 300, 600 and #00 pounds respectively were found on the mesa within two miles of the crater and are now in the Hmith. | gonian Institute. Besides these they found many pieces weighing from two chief Uspovsreory, says the New York Ad. | vertiser, the most horrible thing that can | happen to a human being is to be buried alive. And, happily, it rarely happens ~-much oftener in romance than in reality. Vietor Hugo makes the most dramatic use possible of it in the volun. tary burial of Jean Valjean, and the fail. ure to bring him to the surface again so soon as seemed desirable—at least fo Joan. But now comes from St. Peters. burg one of those rarely told tales, and this one apparently authentic. The event voourred in a village in Russian Poland. The vietim was a physician, who apparently died and actonlly was buried. Some of the details, such as the “unearthly shrieks” heard through the ground of what is desoribed as the newly “filled” grave, are improbable. But, nt all events, there was evidence that the hastily disinterred man dead enough then-—waos alive when buried. Ax interesting point as to what may cause and what in Jrprulurty supposed to cause instant death, is brought up by a case in Ban Diego, Cal. W. F. Frandis, Wallace, who lived at Benaly, and dying, caused it to be buried on a hilltop there, where it was dug up July 9, 1535, ex- actly 530 vears after. A trip was lately ex perienced by John Coffman and Minnie Worthington, of Casey County, Ky cool bridal Sho had decided to clone, his brother, Coffman stole lantern light, night | but | fir a with cold, / i Kee i When they urri sonville, ud. , they were « ont, and the ETOOM Was so be forgot the name of Kiger ¥ ft TY or ‘ BERIUE JOT 8 marnage iicense, ¢ hasmis wnt: 1 LNG DUSIDCOES nt } SISTOTS WHO Bre nd blood his strange His fath Kile fnughter died Hi was thie resa Ff the If sister to the son daughters is, ¢ . although there lood relation between the two 1erne Reax, anaged banker of Paris, dream a few would ce, had a prophetic mt he He aream Hrs ago which told him War »o was iment erected 15x, ia tan UaN It is said that Mercedes Lopez, a Mex. st whe liteson the Rio Grande, is per the longest lu thie height, Rhee is some fis Rife woman in haps : . in hair trails inches, world when she stands erect he un the ground four feet Her hair is so thick that she can draw it around her so as to completely hide her. self. Her present suit of hair is only vers old, : Ax how incident, a Con related | interesting show ng at can ¥ Lieutenant ¥1 the third Perry Arctic expedi gre be carried on, af on distanci ersation is Foster, of tion, in which he savs he 8 man across the harbor o and a qoarter away, asserted on snd it good authority that at Gibraltar the voice has been distinctly heard at a distance of jen miles, A wisi w bo has a mile fifo bre in human sany on the Middle Zambesi, traveled all that reg on, says the best maps of the country are very inaccurate; that rivers are laid down where they do not exist and that numerous villages appear where there is not a trace of a human habitation. He says the maps are simply an aggravation to travelers, who are often put to incon: venience by relying on information which they find later to be inaccurate. ayer Two colored delinquents in Raleigh, ping at 20 cents a head. The gate re ceipts went to the prisoners, as « salve for their wounds probably. Moose are so very plenty in Northern kill but one in a scason, it is something of a disappointment to throw away the only chance on an undersized or lean animal, or one with poor antlers, Tur principal street in Rio Janeiro is I i and no carriages are ever permitted to enter it, The Scales of Fishes. The feathers of birds are simply modi. fied hairs. Scales of fishes overlie one another, tile-fashion, like birds’ feathers, and for the same purpose, namely, to shed the water. 11 a fish's scales wero sot with their edges toward his nose his progress through his native eloment would be impeded. The scales of fishes are very beautiful things to examine microscopically, Take those of a gold fish for example. The brilliant golden or silvery hues of these fishes are pro. duced by a soft layer of pigment spread over their inner surface aud seen through the translucent substance of the seales, On carefully detaching a scalo one sees on the under siden layer of gleaming substance corily removed, silvery or siden, according to the hue of the fish. fea small portion of this substance is an engineer in the em of the Pacifio arama ion Bal huntine taken up on the end of a fine needle and k2ope it is seen to consist of two distine naterinds, one giving the color and the j other the metallic luster, When thus loose cells, of an orenge color in the gold {nnd whitish in the silver fishes. i : Ob % * * { tion gently agitated with the needle point the mass is seen to be full of an infinite | with angular ends. By reflected light {they flash like plates of polished steel { But what appears most singular is that {due to a slight motion of the water in { which they float, urily brightening or waning, flashing out | or retiring into darkness, thus producing a positively magical offect. To this pro perty, presumably, is to be attributed | the pearly play of light which marks the { living fishes. —{ Washington Star. Japanese Myths. No people in the world, eivilizeu or savage, believe in the existence of so many mythical, half-supernatural crea. tures as do the Japanese, For instance, they think there is a wondrous tiger, of more then lalf-human intelligence, that lives to be 1000 vears old and turns as white as a polarbear. They also believe in a species of fox which, if itlives to be fifty without having been chased by a dog, transforms himself into if he ange of 100 vears, gains some among which that of becoming a wonderful When he reaches the age of 1000 years, ho becomes a celestial fox with nine golden. years old n beatifull women. This same fox, lives to the HOW DOWers, i is wizard. going They animals colored tails, and has the power of fa iT ny believe in a chooses ‘ Of whenever hie multitude en also distinguished tl { Among these are BOTH fife NN) size, or by multiplication of their meml feet ors long and large enough to swallow an elephant, foxes with eight legs, monkeys fishies with ten heads at. the flesh of whichis a with four ears tached to one body cure for they also believe in the which, it hos ¢ age of G0 vears, has no existence rand after reached th need Fheit has the head of a camel the horns of a deer, the eves of bo £ pance except water, Of BnyY = t int mythical a agen a quemon the ears of an ox, the In the scales of a fish a Learning a Trade. writes Foster Coates, very boy shionid isarn th it should be so now. a trade vhs £10 olen Limes, ] Fhe man who better fines who thousand the man very boy select a trade ability, est honors and hus mastered or it is not pro tad E hin none that beast and promises the high. remuneration When he if Le dislikes it, he ean begin to Or enter 1 he § i master of its his his trade, fable ue on 8 Oon i in tw a profe #8100 1 ¢ i PERE 3 a good trade should sth one enn take from hin IT nCIes may BYI® is masier of a good trade, He profitable ne fn mill § fing the against a anniTy world, [do 1 onal that é : spot cession twt say one word irofens career th m But 1 do » iY © nphati all n who has a trade as well, need have no fear of the futy The boy who wants to can master a fre between the years of 16 and 20, it, he still has the ar any professions But if he may not tunity or feel inclined to} Ladie 8 Home Journal. td ag he dislikes time to other i i» medicine, law earned «1, Or over, aN Oph an oppo Co-operate for Water, To hare running water at house and barn, on tap at all times for all purposes, is worth £100 a vear to many farmers, { Often by surveying the antural ads anta. ges of the ground some system can be to accommodate a group The of farmers often in close proximity, and on the same level. Such can be served by one plant of waterworks, | for each farm is thus materially light. ened. In some places a deep well and a devised ol farmers, homes are about | ronervolr will be the best plan. ! places su living stream can be utilized by and laying pipe. water looks formidable to iers: for five to bear the cost is much | easier. investment for most farms. When one | every farm for original outlay and wear und tear in the wav of ordinary wells, cis- | weathe:s, it is a wonder that more pipe is i not laid and more water laid ander daily tribute on farms, i great many farmers, uno The Story of a Coffin, A writer in “the Anglican Church Magazine’ once found in u collier's cot. tage in Staffordshire, England, a coffin used as an bread and cheese cupboard. Notwithstanding his wife's re monstrance he told the story of the coffin as follows: “Eighteen years ago.” he said, 1 ordered that coffin. The wife and me used to have a good many words. Une day she said: ‘I'll niver be content till | ree thee in thy coffin ‘Well, Ins,’ 1 said, ‘if that'll content thee it'll soon be done.’ Next day | gave directions to have the thing made. In a fow days it camo honte, to the wife's horvor. 1 got into it and said: ‘Now, lass, art thee content.” She begun to cry and wanted the ‘horrid thing’ taken away, But that | wouldn't allow, In the end she got accustomed to sevin’ it, and, an woe wanted to tam it to some use, we hind some shelves put in and made it into a bread and cheese cup: board. We hove niver quarreilel since it came.” NOTES AND COMMENTS, — Arn List nine States out of the forty. nine in the United States now make scien. tific temperance education compulsory in 12,000,000 and 13,000,000 children in America to whom it is required that this instruction be given, Tue Duke of Mariborough, “The American woman has a natural quickness for ap- preciating the characters of the men around her. She takes infinitely more trouble and in some respects greater interest all round than English women display. The bright, cheery girl remains a gay and carefully dressed married woman, who is always trying to show herself off quietly, but to the best advantage (and she understands the art wriectly) among all classes of people. I'he tendency to pazging and gossip, mongering of an ill-nutured character, is rarer in that country than in England.” A weLi-kxows ichthyophagist, O. A, Grimm, of Moscow, proposed some time ago in an article of tood for the fumished peasants the bamza, a nutritious sort of anchovy which abounds in the Black Nea. At present the hamza is utilized ports it to Constantinople at a great irofit. the Hed Cross hy appointed a commission to inquire into the methods of fishing and drying the hamza. If the commission finds that the preparation of the fish for shipment and healthy food can had at a low forthwith be taken Cost, to follow the suggestion of M. Grimm. Fhe Society of be measures will Nowy interesting and rather surprising statistics on the use of the telephone in Faropean countries have been collected Iu London, the gratest commercial city of the world, only 1.0 persons in 1,000 telephone. | id Fho telephone is the vio is owned or controlled by the State al in countries where sOT- In Germany, Switzerland, o 4K) persons in every ity Norway and Sweden from 100 ¢ y 100,000 of the population are subscribers, In Great Britain only os persons in 1X), the telephone in ii, Paris 4.2 out of every 1.000 in- habitants use the telephome. TIIRTT jerlin and in Tur purchase of Alusks has already pretty goods being exported from that country pro ed to ben good speculation inst vear to the value of over 81,000,000 i vid to Russia for af the known in excess to the price the territory, and the rosonroes seem to be int, I oma Alnskn, sa usiness in far from £« Hass just re. irom ICARE COUN he tol practice, of wi which in ich he is ji youth he was exp Friedri lake, pe rhaps a hundred yards in diame- ter, and the Iron Chancellor's hand is still steady enough for him to bark a A recent visita that the fa range at shisrhih i® across a small squirrel occasionally. to Friedrichsrub Minister, contrary to popular belief : AVE en , is a He and when they de- man of great persona fascinates his guests narnetism part, it is as it spell : they were under the : life The Prince's home 3 his Count danghter, Countess ®on Herbert, and Rantzan, are present, the family gather his 3 y % » TY ig is most genial, ts gacity the rapid progress made i i¥ E np TOY of Javan, Wiss 84 by the of the Rising Sun is largely due, Land 2 in thirty nine years 1852, Matsa Hito susceeded his father in 1867, and crowned in vear later he married the PYincess Ham ko. I'he Emperor is the 121st of his race who has ruled the country. He isa great believer in Western civilization, and in IRSO, he freely granted a tution the Pex ple, whose represd nistives met for the first time in the aniamn of last vear, of age Born in £ was INR: a CoTint i. Both the Mikado and his con- sort are popalar, and Earopean travelers to Japan invariably speak in the highest terms of them. A wise manager in Nevada claims to have invented a gun of remarkably rapid firing capacity, the implement having a Winchester barrel and stock. with a 15. repeating magazine in the stock. Itis a trifle heavier than the ordinary Winches. ter, but its great foatare, as claimed, is that the whole fifteen shots may be fired in one second, a statement which has been fully realized in practice. The shells are thrown out, and at the end of the firing the gun is as clean as though ded. It is stated that an instantaneous photograph was taken of the gun in ac. tion, and, while the exposure was made, five shells were in the air tossed out by As described, the weapon is one of extreme simplicity. Al that the man who does’ the shooting has to do is to fill the chambers with cartridges, cock the gun and pull the trigger as many times The gun is acon. rate at short or long range. Srarvisrice of fruit shipments the past more valuable crop of fruits and vege- Of oranges, no less than 50.000.000 pounds of other green fruits amounted to 78.000, 000 pounds. Dried fruit shipmonts reached the enormous figures of 72,000. 00) 000 against 87,000,000 Inst year, Of canned goods, this year's shipments wore (8.000000 pounds, against, 49. 000,000 Inst year. In everything except wine and salmon there has been great in. crease in shi #, showing that the ear is one of the most saceessful over nown for farmer and fruitgrower. Stock is being rapidly taken in the Cape Horn Steamship Line, started bY det. ennuts in order to secure lower § ign rates from the East. It is ex that the first steamer will be y by next Neptomber, Most of the vessels will be built in New York. Esperts have esti. mated that the traffic betwoon San Fran. cisco and South American ports will pay all expenses, thus enabling the to give low through rates bet ween New York and this city, : hn SC — PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, VARIOUS PARTS OF THE STATE. POLICEMEN raided a gang of tramps pear Five men were ecaplured The tramps are accused of commitling numerous robberies in the Schuylkill Valley, Anovrt £5,100 in essh, bank notes snd silver were found by the appraisers of P. U. Royer's desk. Mr. Royer lived near Lebanon and, distrusting banks, kept his money at home. Tie State Board Harrisburg. of Agriculture met at They elected officers and heard exsays nud specchies wpics of interest to farmers, on BEXATOR QUAY introduced bills for un $100,. B00 publie MeKeesport, and s 00,000 building at Washington. Mes. Ropinr Powells, of Ashley, died of 8 peculiar disesse, building at Doctors wanted 1o pur- chase the body but their offers were refused. Mrs. Powell's brother afterward discovered that the grave had been tampered with, BrinGer Duss, aged seventy years, wes burned fo a crisp at Norristown. Her dress eaught fire from the stove. She was roffering from softening of the brain and her son had gone for the doctor when the secident oc. curred, Bosrd of Trude the partiality shown in the assessment was dis cussed. It was said thai the property of some influential citizens was sssessed at one-tenth of its value while workingmen’s houses were AT a meeting tof the Scranton of taxes by the officials in that city assessed for nearly their full value, Wittian H. Reese, a Philadelphia & Reading brakeman, stole sa cask of rum from a freight ear and hid it in a pile of lumber at the Heading station. He wus arrested and conlessed his guilt. A FIERCE fight took place in a Pottsville saloon between sirikers snd non-union Jron men and striker, was employed by the Po taville Bteel John Fagan, a Ber jously injured, and a number of men, includ- LB mpany. ing the bartender, were hurt. MINE oprrators at Scranton and Wilkes Barre denied that contract labor was employed in those regions Foreigners were employed, but they did work which Americans did not care lor. The operators denied that there was discrimination in wages . betwes n Americans aud foreigners. Operators st Pottsville said that foreigners were employed to a large ex- but there no At Hazleton the apers. tent in many invMances, was vicistion of the law opinion Foreigners tors refused fo talk. The general there is that the law is evaded, are largely employed in the mines. A SEW culm separator and washer was put i in operation on the immense culm dumps of 1 id Washington Col near i 1 the tons of con! will Arent HAWKIXS, hotel father-in-law’'s name for $2000, Ivymouth, ilious of fhe wry experiment is soecessful, mi be marketable, a clerk in a Pittsburg forging his He was taken was arrested charged with to Minnesots. Mantis Exxes is said to have been killed en the railroad near Pittsburg, She was so. companied by her betrothed, Michael Pryle. Foul play is suspected, sad Pryle was ar- rested, AT a hearing tefore United States Commis sioner Bentley, at Williamsport, De La Green, nal wide the sccused ex-cashier of the Money Nati Bank, was dismissed, the commissioner ing that there was no evidence submitted Mr the President Bowman, mitted that } i plicsting Green In bank's f lure. ad- mueelf had overdrawn his ac. of the defunet bank, counts. The missing Government bonds, to the amount of $5000, were returned rece: to the vault of the institution by Mr man’s brother at the request of the pres of the A MEETING of the « Poor A new bill for a poor law was smmiliee Aseorintion of Directors was Harrishurg. irafied. i i oil abandoned Paintertown well in BRICATING was discovered in the West more. Innd county, causing considerable exeitement in thet neighborhood. JOUN RoGgERs injured in a foot ball game at the young m*n ¥ho was Bethlehem last November, died. He was completely paraiyoed by the accident. Tuw City, was destroved by fire. house of A. A. Heineman, Oil Mrs. Heineman near and her infant perished. Wire Tilghman Yehl hoisting rubbish out of a quarry si Siat the box sceidentally struck him and he was engared in ngton, was thrown into the quarry below, a distance of about 100 feet, and instantly Killed. Tne total deposits under the school savings system in Pottstown, for the first half of this year’s school term, amounts to £3 561.65, Pottstown was the first place in Pennsyivania to establish this system of school savings and it has proved a success, ci ns Excellent Fresoript one Though no doctor, 1 have hy me some excellent prescriptions, and as | charge you nothing for them, you can- not grumble at the price. We are most of us subject to fits, and 1 am visited with them myself. Now, then, for my prescriptions, For a fit of passion, walk out into the open air. You may speak your mind to the wind without hurting any one, or proclaiming yourscif to be a simpleton. For a Mm tickings of a clock. of idleness, count the Do this for one your coat the next day and work like a negro. For a fit of extravagance or folly, the ragged and wretched inmates of a jail, and you will be convinoed “Who maketh his bed must lie in (t.” Fora tit of ambition, go into the church-yard and read the gravestones, Tuy will tell you the end of ambi- tion. For a fit of repining, look about for the halt and blind, and visit the bed. ridden and afflicted, and they will make you ashamed of complaining of your lighter afilictions. * For a fit of despondency, lonk on the good things which have been given to you in ths world, He who goes into his garden to look for cobs webs and % will find them, while he who looks for a flower may r into the house lo his hutton-hole.
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