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.