M t »t ttj> I j 11> A WEEKLY PAPER: PUBLISHED IN CLEARFIELD, BY Djlw. MOORE AND CLARK'WILSO six months, fh 75, il paid within nine months, and if not paid until the eAtinn nf ,h„ M VOLUME 5. STEWART HOLLAND. “He had been deputed by the Captain to fire the signal gun, (when all thq. others hud Hod,) and amid the melancholy wail ho pursued his duty.— "When all hope had fled, and tho vessel nearly leveT* with the bob, Holland w&&.afifin busy with his gun; His last'shot boomed out as tho'Arotic sunk, and. he went down with hor—persevering in the strict performance of his duty.” Upon tho Arctic’s deck wo a seen A noble form, and fairj Firm, resolute amid tho gloom And scenes of dark despair. His ear was pained by shriek, and wqiJ, * And melancholy strain, 1 Of struggling viotims all around, Who sought for help in vain 1 Doubtless in that depressing hour Of dismay and pain, He tho’t of home, and loved ones fair, He’d never see again ! How’er ho did not flee tho wreck To trust the trocherous wavo, Which bore some to suocoring hand But others to the grave ! His post was at the signal gun, “When ail tho rest had llod," Nor from his duty turned aside, To dying or the dojid ! Ah ! no response, no cheer was heard, And hope had well nigh flown ; But rumbled still o’er mountain learn * The siguaTs doleful tone ! Tho noblo youth withdraw exposed. Throughout undaunted stood, Tho* gathering waters lashed his form To whelm it in the flood. And calmly with tho Arctic sunk 1 , Whil© yet tho cannon's breath, Wont moaning o’er tho sea's expanse, The sigual of his death ! Washington, Oct. 14, 1854. JUST CHARGE IT. ■ A Sketch for new Beginners in Life ‘Charles what did this peach preserve cost ?’ . ‘l’m sure I don’t know Hannah.’ ‘-“But you bought it this morning didn’t you V ‘I know I did, but I didn’t ask the price of it?’ ‘Did you not pay for it ?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why not ?’ •O, because I don’t stop to make change. 1 have opened an account with Mr. Wal dron, and shall hereafter settle once in three months. ; This conversation was going on at team- j ble, between Charles Mathews and his wife. Mathews was a young mechanic, who had just commenced house keeping!' and ns he was making excellent wages, he ( could afford to live pretty well. Alter he i had made known his determination lo his j wife, she remained some time in. silent , thought. - -- - ( ‘Charles,’ nt length she said, in a very , mild persuasive tone. ‘I think it would be better to pay for things as you take them. You know you receive your pay for labor every Saturday night, and you could pay as you go very easily.’ | ‘I know J could,’ returned Mr. Mathews ; with the air of a man who has unanswor- j able arguments at his command ‘hut then it would not bo near so handy. You see j if 1 pay my store bill but onco a quarter I. shall save aH the troubleof making change; j pnd shall not only save some lime, but ulso j avoid mistakes.’ .. ‘Mistakes!’ repeated Hannuh. ‘How cam ,mistakes occur when you pay fur things as you get them. 1 '‘l will tell you. Sometimes it may not; ho convenient to pay for a thing when Ij get it —I may forget my money or 1 may only take it on trial—then I pay for part and not for all, some things may get char ged which I pay for. No, Hannuh, a set tlement once a quarter wilLhe.the best and most convenient all around. lam satis fied with it,’ “%ll perhapsit may*' said the wile, with an earnest tone and look, yet with a smile, ‘but 1 cannot think so.’ ‘But why not.’ j ‘Why on all accounts. In the first place you will buy more than you would il you paid cash. Now you needn’t shuke your head for I know it. There are so many little luxuries, jittle extras, which we do not need, blit which you will be apt to buy df you do n6t have lo pay cash down. 1 know something about this credit busi ness, and it is not a fair thing. In second place, if you pay cash lor every thing, you will get your goods cheaper. — A trader will sell cheaper when he can have the money in his hand than when he has to carry out the amount to his ledger.’ ‘But let me tell you, Hannah, that Mr. Wuldrpn will not cheat. He is not the man Vo take advantage that way.’ ‘You misunderstood me, Charles. Do you not know that ail traders can afford to sell ‘cheaper for cash than for credit ?—- Mr. Waldron, for a five dollajr bill, will let you have more sugar than lie would for the same amount entered at different times on Ins ledger. ,He can afford to do v sbi ' Traders like to secure cashcuStoni- Ltersi l think' you will fjnd itto ouradvan liajno. to ‘ try thU cash aystenj. Now |do [jttbt believe , you would have bought this iiietich' preserve if you had to pay the cash ■for it? V... ~Vv:. Ir ‘TBut I, bought that juat to please, you; BHaiinah, and 1 thought you wduffehcept R'&'ibtefulty,* 'returned;the young- hu,a* ;h a tone which showed that his feel* Rgs'weVe touched. , ■ ,*( know ypfi did,’ said the wife, .laying M|tsinid afieigibhately upqn his shoulder, ‘and I was grateful, for I know ypu would do anything to please roe ; but for the helping you I Would forego all these things. Perhaps,L. and the wilb spoke very low—‘you might be able to buy a little cottage of your own one of these days.’ For several days Charles sent only such things up from the store as were ac tually needed. At lengthens he went into thestoreone day on his way to work, he saw some splendid locking pickles in fancy jars. He had ordered the Articles he need l ed and was’about to leavojwhen Mr. Wal dron spoke": ‘Mr. Mathews, don’t you want a jar of those pickles ? I carried my wife in a jar last evening and she thinks them superior to- anything she ever saw before;’ Now Charles know that his wifo had plenty of plain pickled cucumbers, some that her mother had put down lor her, but Mr. Waldron’s wife has h«d some of those fancy ones and why shoulan’t Hannah? ' ‘Shall I send you up ajar ? ‘How much aro they ?' ‘Only a dollar.’ ..‘Yes, you may send up one, and just charge it il you please.’ ‘O, certuinU ; anything you want-vou may order at any time, and you may ho assured we shall he haApy to accommo date you.’ Now this was flntteriag’ to young Malle cws feelings, to think.tlfat the trader had so much confidence injiirn, and he went away with an exceeding good opinion of himself and iiis credit,.and of the. store keeper in particular. ‘Only a dollar !’ Yq| only a dollar on the traders books, —ilrit is nothing. But. a cfßliar right out of ole’s pocket, that is different? Charles Mithews would not have bought those piclje's if the cash had been required for«theini ‘Ah, Malhews, loot hero ; I’ve got something lo show yo«j.’ This was said by the trailer to the yjung man on the very next morning afir the purchased! the pickles. ’ I And so Mr. Waldrop led our hero out to the back side ofthekture and opened a hex. i ‘There Mathews, tjn’t those nice or anges V : r ‘Theyrire nice,’relied Charles. And so tJiev rtrtllv Avert 1 . * ‘I knqw your wife urould litre somo of these, l earned some-la my wife, and she wanted |ue to save hcrjfour or live dozen.’ ‘Theje are nice. How do they come ? ‘Lefs see ; I can send you three dozen ip for a dollar; I got those very chntfp. : You know they are retailing at five an| six cents apiece.’ ‘Yes| Well you may send me up three dozen. : Just charge tfiem if you please.’ ‘Certainly! anvthitg else this morning?’ ‘I believe not.’ Arnfso Mathews vent on. This morn ing dullnr—to-morrow ' perhaps fifty c|nts. It didn’fecem very much.— The yiung man keptjust as much money in his pocket ns he hadn’t bought' them. ‘Only a dollif,’ ho would say to himseT, that is not fiuch out of twelve dollniva week.’ At(l so.it might not be; but the trouble the next dollar was ‘«nly a dollar.’ iHe forgot to add this dollar!with the forrmjr and call it two dol lars, q'nd with the jext call it three and so on) J t Ore evening Chnjes came home with a goli chain nttachtp to his watch. ‘VVnere did yotfget that asked his wife. 1 ‘Ah,’ returned lla-husband with an ex press vo shakeor th'l head, ‘I made a bar gain n this chain.. Now guess what l paid or it.’ j ‘II ne sure I can’ljguess.’ "‘0 but try —gucis somelhifig.’ ‘Well p.erhaps tm dollars.’ ‘Ten dollars !’ (choed Charles, with a sort jo f disappointed look. ‘Why, what are yob thinkingpf? Jack Cummings bou| ht this chain,two months ago, and paid twenty dollara for it—why just heft it <nd see how seavy i' % is. Eighteen cart :s (jne. JnckVns hard up for money, and let me have a for twelve dollars.’ ‘ t ischerfp, tpj>osure,’ returned Han nal, bi|t yet not with so much pleasurea ble surprise as husband had anticipa ted ‘But,’ bhe idded, ‘you will feol the losi of [the money.’ I ’ool I I havft rtioney enoOgh. You kniwllhave speit but very little lately. I hive keen prettf saving.’ 1 f’orga one thing, Charles.— Tlit mtjnuy whies you have in your hand is lot jburs.’ 1 Notjmine?’ J No, jit belong to the store-keeper and he jutcher trod to our landlord, you >W (ley must be paid.’ lionlt you fiil about them. I know it i’t c<kt me.4iiywhere near twelve dol j a tq live, lor I have made an mtrte,\ There is Wilkins who works lit sitje of,iie,in the shop, he has four idren, and i nly gets the same wages t f do, and! ff* 'b* l®ys U P some tßree four dollars sjery week besides paying i rent.’, ‘Yes/ said /aaintpeei was telUi do loj el innab- I know he does. S wife (he other day, and me how well they were CLEARFIELD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1854. getting along. Mr. Wilkins takes his has ket every Saturday night and goes over to the market and buys his weeks'quan tity of meat and vegetables, and trades for cash so that he gets everything at the best advantage. So he does at the store. He Ipys in a quantity of nil these articles which will keep, and buys them as cheap as he can. Butter, eggs, cheese, apples, and such, he buys when the market is full, and when they are cheap, and he always buys enough to last his family over tho season of scarcity, when such things are high. Ilis butter for instance, he bought 1 for eighteen cents a pound—a large firkin of-il and it is much sweeter than that for ! which you pay twenty-eight cfcnts.’ | ‘TU’eniy.eight cenls !’ repeated ilia young man in surprise. ‘A es. I asked Mr. Waldron’s man who brought it up, and he said it had risen to twenty-eight cents. Air. Wilkins-got fifty dozen eggs some tinto ago for twelve cents a dozen, and his wife packed them down, and‘they kept well. You will have to pay Mr. Waldron thirty-three for those you sent up yesterdny.’ 1 Charles Mathews was somewhat aston- I ished at this view of the case, but it could not be helped now; and tho subject was | dropped. Ilis gold chain had lost its charm. Tt did not look so well ; even in ! his own eyes, as hud the simple black ’cord which ho had worn before. At length the end of the quarter came round. The first bill paid was the rent which amounted to thirty.one dollars.—- Tho next hill, the butcher’s was s3o. Charles was astonished to see how tho meat hill footed up. But when ho saw how many steaks he had at seventeen cents per pound, the cause" of wonder was at an end. Next lie puid the baker’s bill which was thirteen dollars. When he had como home m the evening he.had paid all his hills except his grocery bill.’ ‘Mr. Waldron sent in his hill to day,’ said his wife after supper. ‘Ah, did he ? let me see it.’ . Hannah brought it and Charles looked at it. He was astonished at its length, and when he came to the bottom of tho col umn his lace turned a shade paler. It rooted up just sixty-five dolllars—an av erage of five dollars a week. ‘This is impossible!’ he uttered as fie gazed upon it. But he examined the tjifi le re n t articles, and he could remember when he ordered them. Those things which cost only a dollar, looked very in nocent when viewed alone, but in the ng. gregate they had a different appearence. ‘How much shall you lay up this quar ter, Charles ?’ kindly asked the wife, as she came and leaned over her husband’s shoulder, and parting tho hair on his fore head and smoothed it back. ‘How much shall 1 lay up?’ he repent ed. ‘Not much, Gef the slate and let us reckon np. Charles was resolved to be frank aljout tho matter and let his, wife know all. The slate was brought. First Hannah put down one hundred and fifty-six dol lurs as tlie quarter’s wages. .Then came the rent, and the butcher, and the baker. ‘Now you may put down twelve dollars for this chain —and twelve dollars for sun dries—that means cigars, tobacco, nuts, beer, sodo, theater tickets, and such things. Now take all that from my quarter’s wa ges and see how much remains.’ Hannah performed the sum and gave fifty-two dollars as the result. ‘Fifty-two dollars,’ uttered Charles, sinking back into his chair, 'and wo have not bought .one article of clothing or furni ture. Fifty-two dollars with which to pay sixty-five. There is thirteen dollars short this quarter, and I had to save thirty at least.’ ‘Well it’s no use to mourn over it,’ said the wife in a cheerful tone, for she saw that her husband felt badly. Let’s commence again, there’s nothing like try ing you know.’ * For some moments Charles remained silent. He gazed first upon the bill he had in his hand, then upon the figures on the slate and then upon the floor. At last he spoke ; there was a peculiar light, in his eye and a flush upon his countenance. ‘Hannah I see where the trouble is, and I must freely admit that I have been wrong ; if I had paid for everything ns I bought it, I should not have been where I am now in pecuniary matters. You are right, I see it all now, I have not estima ted the value of money as 1 ought. Let me once get up again to whore 1 began, and I yill, do differently. I must step down to the store this evening and pay Mf. .Waldron what I have, and'the rest I will pay him when I am able. *That;ma!ter can bo easily settled,’ said Hanrmh, with a bright, happy look, 'I hav.e more than enough to' make up the amount of that bill.-. It is money I had when we were married. Wnita moment.’ Charles protested njost earnestly against taking his wife’s money, but she would listen to no argument on the subject. . It was her will and he must submit. So he went down and paid the grocery bill and on bis way home tie sold his gold chain for fourteen dollars, He feit happier when he got the old black cord once more about ’ DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MORALITY, AND FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INT] his neck, and the money now to commence the quarter with.” On the next Monday morning the young man went into the meat store to send* home a pieco of meat for dinner. - ‘How much will you have ?’ asked tho butcher. - Charles got thus far, and then he stop ped. He had always been in the habit of ordering an indefinite quantity, and leav ing the butchor to cut it off at the highest figure, and charge the highest prices; and then he remembered how much was usu ally wasted. ‘L*t me have two pounds*’ he said.— He stopped and saw it weighed and then paid .for it. When he went home at noon ha found that his two pounds of beef had made enough and there .was none to waste.— The next morning he went to the store. — Mr. -Wuldton had some nice figs just come which he showed. Fora moment Charles hesitated, but then he remembered that lie had to pay for all he bought,'he conclu ded not to take them, lie found that things were not qmic so enticing when it required cash to get them as when the pay ment could be poslponed. lie paid for what he bought and went his way, and thus filings went on through the week.— When it came Saturday night lie knew that all the money in his pocket wus his own, after deducting the rent. That eve ning he went over to the. market with Wil kins, and bought as much meat and vege tables as he thought would, last him thro’ tho week. He found that he made a sa ving of at least 20 per cent by tljis opera tion, and when . opportunity offered he made the same saving in other matters. At the end of that quarter Charles Mat hews did not have to get any slate. He puid his house lent, and then he found he had thirty five dollars left in his pocket. That was ull his—he did not owe a penny ofit. ’ r ‘Ah, Hannah,’ he said ns ho held tho money in his hand and looked at it, ‘now 1 see'how easy it is for u man lo be wrong and his wife right. This money all comes of paying as I go along. , It is very sim pler and easy to say : ‘Just churge it !’ and a man tnay easily buy things under such -circumsianeos,- but when-the day-of reckoning comes theso three simple words that sound so innocent when spoken, are found to be costly things. ’ I would not have believed it had 1 not tried it. 1 could not have believed that a man would pur chase so many useless articles simply be cause ho conld have them charged; But 1 see it now and ifl refused to follow your advice at first, I have gained experience enough to lead me to follow it the more explicitly now. Charles Mathews never again allowed himself to be led away by the credit sys tem, but he followed the cash rule punc tually, and the consequence has been that he cannot only now buy any quantity of produce, wood coal, &0., at cheap cash prices, but he has cut off the expense of house-rent, for he owns a snug little cot tage in the suburbs, and it is all paid for. Probably few great philosophic states men—few men, that is, who acted inti-. mately in public afluirt as well an contem- 1 plated them from the closet—ever quilted the stage without a feolinjjof profound dis-1 appointment. Whether successful or un successful, as the world would deem them, a sense of sadness and disappointment seems to prevail over every seutiment.— They have attained so few of their objects; -they have seen so much more than ordi- j nary men of the dangers and difficulties of the nations, and of vice and meanness of public men.. Not many Englishmen governed so long or so successfully asSir Robert Peel, or set in such ha|o of bless-1 ings and esteem; yet shortly before his death he confessed that what he had seen and heard in public life had left upon his mind a prevalent impression of gloom and grief? Who ever succeeded so splendidly as Washington? Who ever enjoyed to such a degree, and to the end the confi dence and gratitude of his country ? ‘Yet,’ says Giiizott, towards the close ol his life, in the sweet and dignified retirement of Mount Vernon, something of his lassitude 1 and sadness hung about the mind of a man' so serenely great —a feeling, indeed, most natural at the termination of long life spent in men’s concerns.’ Power is n heavy burden, and mankind a hard task-master, to him who is struggling virtuously against their passions and errors. Success itself cannot wipe out the sorrowful impressions which originate in the conflict, and the weariness .contracted,o.n r th e -scqqe.of aq lion is prolonged even in the bosom of re pose. o£r Alfred Artis,ofShelby county, Ohio, wris tried last weelt and convicted pf mur der ’in the first degree, The cb»fge against him was, that aboiifa yeprfg*. h® cabsed., the,, death of bis ow» I daughter, quite a young girl, murdarfhg ber by the slow process or starvation, exposure, ops the most disgusting dud fiendish cruelties. Another daughter, older than the deceas ed, was witness against him. ‘O, three or four’— MISERY OF STATESMEN. THE PAGE OF CARDS- A nobleman in London, who kept a great number of servants, reposed con siderable confidence in one of them, which excited a jealousy in the others, who, in order to prejudice their master against him,, accused him of being a notorious gamester. Jack was called up and close ly interrogated; bur he denied the fact, at the same time declared he never played a card in his life. To bg,more fully con vinced, the gentleman ordered him to be searched, when behold a pack of cards was lound in his pocket. Highly incens ed at Jnck’s want of veracity,' the noble man demanded, iri a rage, how he dared to persist in an untruth. . ' ~ “My lord,” replied he, “I certuinly do not know the name of a card ; the bundle in my pocket is my Almanac.’’ . “Your Almanac, indeed ! then I desire that you will prove it.” “Well, sir, I will begin. There are four suits in the pack, that intimates the lour quarters in the yean.; as there are thirteen weeks in a quarter; thereavo the same number of lunations ; the twelve signs ol the zodiuc, through which the sun steers his diurnal course in one year; there are fifty two cards in a pack, that direct ly answers for the. number of weeks in a year; examine them more minutely, you will find three hundred and sixty five spots, as many us there aro days in the year ; these multiply by twenty four and sixty and you have the exact number qf hours and minutes in a year. Thus sir, I hope 1 have convinced you it is my Almanac ) and by your lordship’s permission, I will prove it mv prayer-book also* I “I look upon the four suits as-repre senting the lour prevailing religions: Chris tianity, Judaism, Mahomeluffism, and Pa ganism ; the twelve court cards remind | me of the twelve Patriarchs,- from whom ; sprang the twelve tribes of Israel, the 'twelve Apostles, the twelve articles of ! Christian faith. The king reminds me iof the nllegianco due to his majesty. The I queen, of the same to her majesty. The ten brings to my recollection the ten cit ies in the plains of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroyed by fire and brimstone from the'.pn plngues of Egypt ; the ten command ments ; the ten tribes cut off for their vice. -The nine reminds rue -of -the muses ; the nine noble orders among men. The eight reminds mu of the eight beatitudes ; the eight persons saved in Noah’s ark ; the eight "persons mentioned • in Saripture to be released from death to Life. The se ven reminds me of the seven administering spirits, that stands before de throne of] God ; the seven seals wherein the book of! life is sealed; the seven liberal arts and sciences given i>y God for the instruction of man ; the seven wonders of the world.! The six reminds me of the six petitions in tho Lord’s prayer. The five reminds me of the senses giveji by God to man, hear ing, seeing, feeling, tasting and smelling. The four puts me in mind of the four Evangelists, the four seasons of the year. The three reminds me of the Trinity pthe three hours our Saviour was on the cross :• tho three days he lay in the tomb. Thej two reminds me of the two testaments; the two contrary principles struggling inf man, virtue and vice. The ace reminds me of the only true God to adore, wor-| ship and serve ; one truth to practice, and one good master to serve and obey.” “ So far is very well,” said the noble man, but I believe you have omitted one card, the knave.” “True, my lord, ihe knave reminds me of your lordships informer.” The nobleman became more pleased .with Jaclc than before, freely forgave,-him, raised his wages, and discharged the infor mer. '• Nature the best Doctor. —The latest discovery which the old school of medi cine has made, is the fuel, that nature un assisted, will cure disease oven of a violent character. Experiments havealready been made in several diseases and with results highly satisfactory toall lovers of progress. Dr. Died, the physician of an hospital in Vienna, gives eighty-five cases ol pheumo nia, treated by blood letting, of which 16 died, or 20.4 per cent. One hundred and six coses treated by tart, emetic, of which 22 died, or 20.7 per cent. Ono hundred and eighty-nine cases he left to follow the natural course of the disease, only requir ing a low diet and rest; the result showed only 14 deaths, or 7.4 percent., revealing the fact so astonishing to himself, that*"*® plan which has been universally/' <r3U 'j t in the old school, and which ,j U H?| as the very best means to W employed in ti?is disease, is about times morefahd than when, left & die hands of nature alone: “an m-° snt 5 nt of success say#Prof. Henderscu’F , ‘ unn PP roache d in the P“ bll3h ed experience of any otherallopathiophy sim'an of the country.’.’ , ~ ■'*' will not strike, t4eo l: .b4dvman > ” said a Quaker day, “but twijj let this billet oT wood fa'll ‘on thee,” and t>.» tb«t precise moment the “bad .man” wasfjoor- Jed by the. weight of a'walking stick that the Quakerbqd beeoknown to-carry,- OirVVon’t go off—Girls after they are i thirty year# of age. ; - 1 NUMBER DR. BEALE’S CASE AGAIN. - The New York Evening Mirror of cember 4th, contains a very interestjWMt? letter from a New Hampshire physician on' the Beale case.. The fetter-writjer says : f have had some experience with the different anesthetic agents which have bden employed for the past eight or nine years, and mv own ob servation and that of others with whom I have been in comrntmitnfrion, has TeeiT such that I’ deefn it hazardous for any mail to administer them to females without the presence of third parties, or under such circumstances as would render it e’a sy to disprove any unfavorable charges ■that might be preferred by the subject.” Efher is described by the letter writer as nearly or quite dethroning reason, sometimes for hours, and frequently hur rying the imagination and feelings through indescribable scenes and visions of the wildest tumult. i The writer then furnishes a number, of i instances in elucidation of bis theory, from : which we take the fallowing : . . “For instance, a married lady, residing in Roxbury, Mass., went to the office of ■ her dentist in Boston, and inhaled ether for the purpose of having a tooth extract, ed. VY'hen consciousness returned", she opened her eyes for a moment, then cov ering her face with her hunds, burst into, tears, saying, as soon us-she could speak,, ‘,‘l thought it was George,” her husband’s Christian name. She had imagined she was in her own house kissing and caressing her husband, and .though she saw that that partof herdrenm must be false—she neither being at tjome, nor in company with her husband-—yet the dentist stood over her, which render ed it sensible for the kissing caressing to be real, by supposing that she had mista ken him for her husband. She at once adopted this version of the case, and it re quired the strongest assurance on the part of the dentist, many times repeated, to quiet her ; and, though her judgment was at length convinced, she having confidence, in ijie gentleman’s integrity, yet an im pression was left upon her mind which wak not effaced for vyeeks afier; but noth ing bnt her continued confidence ih the dentist, upon hii re-assurance, prevented a very unpleasant affair. Not fur from thesame time,the same den list hatj the following case., lie adminis tered ether or chloroform to a Miss some fourteen years old, in the presence of her mother," who stood over her .until the efi feet passed eff, when the girl declared that I the dentsit bad-been kissing her, and her ! mother found it very difficult to persuade | her out of, that conviction. This same young lad)'came in ugain some time after j ulone, and had a tooth extracted under the influence of some one of ihese agents, and insisted in Faying the office before . she had fully recovered her strength, ulihough she talked quite rationally. The dentist tried to persuade her to allow him to call a carriage, or to accompany her home, but shdAvould not submit to either arrange-' i mem,-and left the office alone. Her home wns but u few blocks distant, and after reaching it, she becumo delirious, and de clared to her-friends that the dentist had treated her with great severity after she recovered from the efiects of the ether," and nearly drove her into the street, that she begged of hihi to call u carriage for her, but he would not do it. Her frieflds, on inquiry became perfectly satisfied, tiipt it was all n delusion on the part of the young lady, but they could never affect her mind or feelings toward the dentist. Several years have passed s'inco, and tho’ her family Have still been under the advice and practice pf this dentist, ns before, she has never yielded, and will have no inters course with him. How Guns are Spiked.—A correspond dent of the London Herald describes how the Russians spike the guns—“ The spikes are about four inches long, and of the di r mensions ofa tobacco-pipe; the head flatj a barb on the point acts as a spring, whic* is naturally-pressed to the shall be ing forced Into the touch,-holev Upon reaching the chamber, of thy gun, it re sumea its position wnd u k* impossible to withdraw it. 1 .; It can only be got out by drillin’' —no eas.vtask, as they are made of slee h ao d being also loose in the tp** sn 'holo, there is much difficulty in rowing a drill bite as effectually aq i$ ?k ould do. Its application is the work of a moment—a single lap on the flat head with the palm of the band sufficing. ’ 1 ” ■' 1 ■* , i, I » ; Singular Accident. — George . of Fox township, Elk cpunty, a.few dpyjp ago j jwns driving a yoke of sfee'rs, wherj one brthe?b»l>ep»me stubborn, and made a. lunge ut hfm, and booked out ond ofhia , eyes and oiljenyisp injured ,him. ~ • Boston Bee toys: “A mancap get along without advertising; so icon wa<*on withdut greasTng, but it gpee rather bard.” ' V'";' ftSCTho river Amazon in South Abiarv ica,; drpins a district of country twice- as. lairge'as the whole Mississippi Vajley.' ' ‘CirP o ' B * oo *. pfddy. girls, eggs, ‘ ric& printers, big continue to be .;
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