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Clearfield, Pa,
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Clearfield. Pa.
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'XTTCJ BSET-AT - LAW,
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"Law and Collection Office,
Pdll.HS CLEARFIBLD, PA.
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ORVIS A ALEXANDER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
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nllfnnta. Pa
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Market ttroot, (north tide) Clearleld, Pa.
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Jae. 19, "71.
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jrHYSICIAW AND SDRQEON,
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. AND STATIONERS,
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tn.Ptser Floar Baekt and Ban. Fooleeea.
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OSCEOLA, Clearleld Co., Pa.
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E. A. A W. D. IRVIN,
UlALIM II
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1'7J . Curwenirllle, Pa.
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W. ALBERT 4v BROS.,
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Sawed Lumber, Square Timber, 6Vc,
WOODLAND, PENN'A.
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l MERCHANT,
" FreuchTllle, Clearfield County, Pa.
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uiually kept la a retell atom, wkiek will be told,
lor eatb, at cheap at eltewnore in uo oeuniy.
Freachvillo, June 17, 1807-ljr.
THOMAS H. FORCEE,
. - . DBAtaa in ,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE, I
CRAHAMTOX, Pa.
Alto, oxteatlee monufaeturor and dealer In Square
Timber ana bawea i.nmoeroi en aioua.
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CHARLES SCHAFER,
LAGER BEER RREWER,
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TTAVINO rented Mr. Bntrai' Brewery be
DOMt DT .ri0J BtewDIIUH aw viatuwx
lllw lalUUeNlUI vi aw mwepw.. . - -
to reeeiT the patronar o of all the old And mnj
a r ll'.Anar71
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J. K. BOTTORF'S
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
Market Street. Clearleld, Pa.
jrey-CROHOS MADE A SPECIALTY.";
NEGATIVES made la eloady at well at In
tlear weather. Contlantly on band a good
aeeortment of FRAMES, STEREOSCOPES and
8TERKOBC0PI0 VIEWS. Frauet, from any
itylt of moulding, made to order. aprzo-u
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BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER,
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nnTl'71 CloarloU), Pa.
JAMES CLEARY,
BARBER & HAIR DRESSER,
SECOND STREET,
Jy3 CLEABFIELD, PA. U
REUBEN HACKMAN,
House and Sign Painter and Paper
Hanger,
Clearfield, Penn'a.
Will txeeuto Jobt la kit lint promptly and
In a workmanlike manner. apr4,07
. G. H. HALL,
PRACTICAL PUMP MAKER,
NEAR. CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
jrej-Pumpt alwayt oa hand and made to order
On taort OOIiee. ripo. Dru on mwniDi. '
All work warranted to render letiifacrlon, and
dellrerod If detired. mylirlypd
E. A. 6IGLER & CO.,
Dun A LB HI IN
SQUARE TIMBER,
aad Manufacturer, of
ALL KINDS OP RAWED LUMBER,
i.J'Ji CLEARFIELD, PBlTIfA.
H. F NAUGLE,
WATCH KAKEH & JEWELER,
and dealer Id
Watches, Clocks, JeweJry, Silver
and Plated Avarc, &c.,
)e19'71 CLEARFIELD, PA.,
M
eCAUCHEYdt CO.'
RESTAURANT,
Sooond Street,
CLEARFIELD, PENN'A.
Alwayt on bead, Froth Oyttert, loo Cream,
Candien, NoU, Craekert, Cakei, Clgart, Tubaeeo,
Canned Frultt, Oranget, Lomont, and all klndt
of fruit in loaeon.
tryrlULLIAKD ROOM on teeond floor.
am D. MeQAUUUEY A CO.
TUIID THOBTMAH,
Dealer In all htndt of
FURNITURE,
Mtrket Street,
One door out Pott Offloo,
augll71 CLEARl'IELD, PA.
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LI HARNAN,
PRACTICAL MILLWRIGHT,
LUT1IUUSDURH, PA.
Agent for the Astrlean Doable Turbine Water
Wheal and Andrew! A Kalbeoh Wheel. Can fur
bish Portable 6 till Millt oa tkort Botjfo. JyH'71
9USB ANP LOT FOR SALE!
the Heme and Lot on tbo oornerof Mar
ket ead Firth itrooti, Clearleld, Fa., It for talt.
Tht lot loatatai nearly aa aero of ground. The
kouit It a large double frame, containing nine
ronmt. For termi and other Information apply
to tbo tubteriber, at the Pott Offlce.
e? f, A.0AULI5.
THE REPUBLICAN.
. CLEARFIELD, Pa. ,.,
WEDNESDAY MORNINQ. AUQUBT 13, 1871.
' Earthquakes and Volcanoes. .
Since the davs of Werner and Hut-
ton, oartbqaakes. and tboir commonly
oorresDondine phenomena. volcnoo,
bavo rormod the debatable land where
on ffoologinti of every ecbool bavo
triod their skill and proweaa. Wheth
er tbey Indicated a continued activity
in the intorior of our planet, and, if
bu, wuuk was inuir relation to mat ac-
nviiy, nave noon lavotiie topics ol de
bate. 3,'ho obomiont theory atari
by Sir Ilumphrey Davy, that these
Sbenomona were produced by tbo sud
on access of water to uocombined al-
kalino metals, was tor a long time a
favorite from its very ingenuity and
boldness: and, though facts to sustain
it wore difficult to obtain, it was al
most equally difficult to bring forward
well-founded arguments on the othor
sido.
The moon has long been with pools
tho emblem of fickleness and incon
stancy; bor pale, silont gaco was to
their minds suggestive of lovers' vows,
made only to be broken ; yet modorn
research gives us a very JilTorent ao
oount of our pole faoed uatelito. Nev
er, in fact, wero the poets more at
fault than when they mnde the orb
which ever turns toward her lord and
master the same mild and doalh-like
Rfieo, tho emblem of inconstancy and
changoitblcnces. Without water or
air, passing from eztremoa of heat to
extremos of cold, tho cold, quiet moon
bears no life in her bosom. No chang
ing clouds flit across her black skies,
no streams murmur down her valley,
no sens broak on her cold, grey stones.
Yot from the moon, all unlike as sho
iB to our over-changing earth, wo may
draw A lesson as to what our earth is
probably hastening to.
Goology, all unwearied from hor re
searches on the fuco of tho oartb, flies
boldly across space-, and seeks to cor
relate the action of matter in all the
worlds. To the spootroscope wo owe
the knowledgo that other worlds aro
composed much as our own, that tbe
common olomonls aro with us to a
great extent tho ordinary elements
with thorn and, as liko ordinarily
produces like, so wo are juetifiod in
the surmise that tho succession of phe
nomena on tboso of the bcavonly bod
ies with which wo are more intiraato
ly connected, is not unlike what takes
place-on our own globo. Astronomors
detectod long ago on the face of the
utuon tlio i evvll-kuuwu uuuvu vC ul-
canio action ; but though tbe marks
woro tbero of erutors and lava stroams,
though boights could bo monsured
and valleys depictod, tho strango fuel
remained that mortal eye bad nevor,
so far as our astronomical records ex
tond, bobold on tho satolite an out
burst of sublunar energy.
Outbursts, liko that of Skaplur
Joka, of Sumbawa, or Chimborazo,
did not require any powerful Instru
ment for their observation ; they
would bavo boon visible to tbo unas
sisted eye. Liltlo by little, tbe idea
forced itself on tho scientific world
that the enorgy which had once spent
itself in volcanio activity had finally
loft the moon, and that nor gazo was
ono of (jternal death. Volcanio phe
nomena on tho earth aro intimately
connoctcd with the presence of water,
gases of various sorts are their neces
sary product; yot, of water and gase
ous bodies, the moon exhibited no sign.
Our own globo told us something
which we might assimilate with (he
news arrived from the moon. Sink
whore we would on the face of the
earth, after the first few foot of crust
wero piorced, we found ourselves in
presonoe of an increasing heat. Did
tho beat lnaroaso in tho same ratio,
through tho mas of the earth, that
It did near its nnriaco, a tow thousands
of yards would bavo brought us to a
temperature sufficient to molt tbe
most refractory bodios.
Another school, apart from tho
chemical, percoivod In this tho plain
caaso of earthquakes and volcanoes.
Astronomers, however, set themsolves
to calculate tbe effects of such a state
of matters. - A fluid nuclous, oven
when covered with such a crust as
proposed, must be effected by lunar
tides, and in turn affect tho moon her
self. No such tides, bowevor, could
bo dotoctod by the most dolicute
observations. Whatever, tbcreforo,
might have been tho original state of
the world, tnoro was little dangor of
its roturning to stale of igneoue fu.
sion. Earthquakes might shako us,
and volcanoes dolugo portions of the
surfaco with firo, but their reservoirs
of beat wero not drawn from nnysucb
internal nuclous of Areas was required
by tbe first supporters of he doctrine
of internal heat. So for many years
the matter rested,
r.nrtial seas of firo, and partial dis
turbances of tho alalo of internal
oqnilibrium hid to bo accounted for,
and many woro tho theories brooohod.
Chemical action aizaln camo into fa
vor, notwithstanding tho weight of
evidonco against its acceptance, espe
cially as it remained clear that come
abstruso connection did exist botwten
the sites of volcanio action and the
presonoe of largo bodies of wator.
Few men have dovotod so much
thought to igneous and soismio phe
nomena as Mr. R. Mallot; it is, there
fore, not surprising that the latost
thoory broached should have proceed
ed from one so well known for bis de
votion to this branch of scionco. Our
globe, be points out, is still radiating
heat into space j for overy dogreo so
radiated some contraction of the mass
must take plnco. Its surface scorns to
have long ago arrived at an equilibri
um of tcmperaturo, bonbe 'Jhe con
traction mut take place internally,
tending continually to loavo round
the shrinking internal core loose
and unattached ekln. Tbe force of
gravity oonllhuaHy acting on this
rind draws it closer and olosor to the
centre, and it, not being able to con-
iraoi, II in row n into nugoa aim uui
lowi( exactly as tbo akin of a dried
PRINCIPLE81
CLEARFIELD, PA!, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1873.
applo wrinklos and cracks over its
soman inside. . - t.
An eartbquako is the creep pro
duced by this (hrinkago, and the con
sequent crumpling and crushing to
gether of tbe superficial strata i and
as this forciblo crushing togolbor of
toe mailer oi wmcn tue surlace oi tbe
earth is composed must produce enor
mous devolopmont of local beat, we
have at once the two phenomena cor
related. We can. at least, lmairina
time arriving when tbe main body of
me oarin nas cooiea down so far and
set so solidly that it refuses to con
tract any furtbor under tho influonce
of internal gravity. . It has sot liko a
plaster cast round our imaginary ap
ple. Into the void there to be loft,
the water and air whlnh now enliven
tho surface may find an entrance.
This we may presume to have hap
pened to our satclito, end we may Im
agine, and perhaps eventually calcu
late, the timo when it muBt oocnr to
ourselves. Thus strangely does one
science help another. Goology might
at first sight seora tho basest of sci
ences, concerning herself with rocks
and mud j yot the calls to bor aid tbe
most ethereal of nil, and in return
throws a light on celestial phenomena
otborwise beyond our finilo compre
hension. From the silont moon we are able
to extract more and stranger informa
tion than did ever Sibyl, l'ytboness,
"Astrologer or Seer of old. ' North
China herald.
Burying Alive.
On no subject are toughor stories
told than tho burying of persons while
they are alive. . A St. Louis paper
tolls ono in which a voice was hoard
from the bottom of a grave orying
"open, opon." Tbe grave was opened,
the coffin lid unscrewed, and outstep
ped n young woman I But the Im
possibility of finding tho young wom
an to learn tho particulars, suggested
even to the credulous mind of the re
porter, strong doubts of tho story.
Much hotter authenticated was ono in
tho Preu, of this city, about a mate
of a vessel who was drowned in Del
aware bay, tbe body rooovored and
ut in a coffin, and sont by Adams
ixpross, to New York, where tbo
man camo to lifo again. Here Inter
ment in a gravo was avoided, the body
was kopt above ground j yet, notwith
standing these advnetages, the story
proved inaccurate in tho main point
the muu did not como to liie auin.
We boliove most such stories noed just
that correction. If any gontlcman in
full health wishes to tost the question,
lot him have himsolt screwed up in a
light box or coffin, then be dopositod
in a holo, say six foot deep, and the
uann nneu in. We venture to say
that friends who may diuinter him af
ter tbe lapso of an hour will find bira
as dead as the mummy who bas boon
buriod for threo thousand years in the
tomb of tho rbaraohs. These reflec
tions may dispel the morbid appre
hensions that many people have of
being buried alivo. It is possible that
a person may bavo boon too hastily
treuted as dead, while thore was a
ohanoe of resuscitation ; but that will
nover take nlace nflcr he has been
boxed np and buried beneath a ton of
earth. The slorios of people recover
ing sonse and fooling in that condition
aro not only improbable, but impossi
ble. The contortions of tbe Dody
which have somolimos boon foind In
disinterred corpses are fully account
ed for by tho procoss of decomposi
tion. All the horrors that buvo been
ascribed to the condition of a man
buried alive are purely fanciful.
Tlicro is no surer mode of killing a
man in full lifo, than by burying in
the common manner. A person so
buried in an interval of consciousws,
would nevor rocovcr it. Of conrso,in
oountrios whoro the dead are not con
signed to the earth, but placed in spa
cious vaults upon an opon blor, lifo, if
not extinct, might roturn. Dot or
that, iu our Amorioio fashion of bur
ial, thore is not the slightest chance
possibility. The notion is a vulgar
error. l'hilatlelphia Age.
A Terrible Punishment. ,.
Mr. Jamos Greonwood has published
a frightful aooount of the pnvato sys
tem which is in oporation at tbo JIol
loway model prison in London. It is
an oflonce for a prisonor to speak one
word, and ho is nover addressed ex
cept in whispers, so that be may bo
in prison two yoars without hearing a
human voico. The effect is so terrible
on tho mind that prisonors will spoak
out in desperation, at the risk of any
punishmont, ralhor than onduro that
horrible nilnnon The pnitnen, nev
or soo one anothor, hut romain in per
potunl solitude. One poor wretch,
drivon to desperation by nino months'
silence and solitudo, recklessly broke
out in Mr. Grconwood's presence :
''For God's sako, Govornor, put me in
another cell. Tut mo somowhoro else.
I have counted tho bricks in the cell I
am in until my eyos ache." Tbe re
quost of tho tortured wrolch was re
fused. There is a fino bole In enoh
coll ; and as the prisonor woars shoes
of India rubber solos, tho prisoner can
novor be suro of boing alono. Those
condemnod to tho treadmill havo to
ascend 1,2000 stops every altornate
twenty minutes for six hours. And
this Is a place so bot and closo Hint
priboncrs oflon lose in pcrpirntion
three stone in as many months. Every
day the prisoners nro lakon to a chap
el so arranged that they can ico no
one savo tbe chaplain, and him only
through an Iron grating. Ann mis is
the order of dovolion observed. War
dens are constantly on tbo watch, loot
for a slight instant thoy, through the
wholo of tho servico, depart from the
rigid rulo ofoyes right." They must
look etoadiaally allhoprcaohor; must
raise and lowor tbe prayor book with
the elbows squarod, and all at pnoo,
like soldiers at drill. ' Tbey may not
scrapo thoir foot without having af-
lerwaru w oxiiiam w u.irvuiuyub.
Tboy scarcoly wihlc an oyo or'iigh
without dangor of rcbu'kp or punish
mont G Cd help them, poor wrelobos.
"Lons and successful raln'Srtb
dolugo.
NOT MEN.
Training Wild Animals. ' 1
i ' i. ' i . . - - . - -
The New York Sun sayst An an
onymous writer in the Gentleman's
Magazine, who professes to bavo been
an intimato friond of Van Amburgh
wbilo tbo latter was in Paris, tolls a
eorlous story about discovering the
secret through which tbe great lion
tamer maintained his ascendancy over
tbe beasts in bis menagerie Tbis wri
ter says that Van Amburgh, having
been terribly injured by one of his ani
mals, was obliged to discontinue his
performances; and wbilo he was un
der tbe doctor's bands ho pormiltod
this friend, who was somothing of an
artist, to visit the building where bis
pets wore kopt for tho purpose of
mauinc studios trom I He. Ueiiiir loll
oloiia with the animals, be made the
astooisning discovery that tbey bad
all bad tboir olaws drawn, and were,
therefore, harmless. , Uo subsequently
learned that thoy were always fed on
sugar plums and cooked moat, and
were never allowed to eitbor tasto or
smoll blood. And here, bo says, is the
whole secret of the extraordinary
power which Van Amburgh exoroisod
over tho most ferocious species of the
brute croation. lie further says that
Van Amburgh, on being informed of
the discovery be had made, manifested
tbe greatest excitement, and mado
him promise never to expose tbesocret
so long as tbo lion-tamer oontinued to
subdue wild animals as a profession.
This rubbish bos boon made tbe text
for extonded articles on animuls and
animal tamers, and bas also boen
widely copied by tho English and
American prose, although tho absurd
ity of the story is ovidonton thofaoo
of it According to this veracious
chroniclor, al the timo he mado bis
wonderful discovery Van Amburcb
bad iusl beon nearly killod by one of
ido Harmless creatures, wniua naa
been cruelly disarmed by drawing its
claws; aad to make tho story plausi
ble, the narrator should have extract
ed the tooth as well as the claws from
tho animuls bo oxaminod. . .
Wbon Van Amburgh mado his np
pcaranco in Europo his performances
were now, and occasioned great won
der. A show of socrocy was affected
in regard to tbe means ho employed
to control his animals. Many believed
that his power wag dorivod from a
peculiarity in his eyos. Van Am
burgh was not crosseyed ; bat bis
eyes appeared to turn outward, or
rather to move iodepondontly of each
othor, producing a vory singular effect,
and this was ollen supposed to bo tho
secret of hissuoooss in taming animals.
Now, howover, wbon evory traveling
mcnagerio, almost, in this country and
Europe bus its lion tamer, all mystery
about tho businoss has vanished, and
mo iruins or nun laming is as well
understood among all menagorio mon
as tho art of horso taming bas boon
among horsemen since tbe exploits of
Rarey first attracted attontion. And
tho process is as simple in tho ono
case as in tho other.
There is probably no animal whiob,
if properly managod, cannot bo mnde
to acknowledge tbe mastery of man ;
and the more intelligent tbo boast tho
moro complete will bo its subioclion
to the winhes of its master. Itarey's
system of taming horses consisted,
first, in tooohing the animal that man
was bis superior by using a strap,
which rontleraui the horse helpless; and,
secondly, in winning its confidence by
kind and judicious treatment. The
samo principlo is applied in tbo treat
ment of a lion. The animal is first made
accustomed to tbo preaonce, outside
of its cago, of the man who undertakes
to train it. Tbon tho lion is strappod
down to the floor of its don so that it
cannot move, and tho trainer enters
with a broom and proccods to swoop
out tbe cage without taking any spe
cial notice of the aniuiul unless it shows
fight, whon a club or whip is uaod.tbe
creature being poworless to rosist.
Alter a lime the lion becomes accus
tomed to tbe company f tbe trainer,
and accepts all manner of familiarities
without objoction, after which a strap
is no longer nocossary. In case an
animal ono fairly trained should ex
hibit a disposition to rebel, a sharp
chastisement with whip or club will
In most cases vory quickly reduoe bim
to submission. There is nothing more
wonderful in Ibis than tbore is in the
fact that a ferocious dog will roadily
obey its master, while it will fly al
any stranger who may come in Its
way. It is a far moro dillloult task
to tamo a savage elephant than to
train a lion or a tiger; but the ele
phant onoo tamed, from its superior
intolligonco, will be more obedient to
tbo wishes of its mastor than almost
any other animal.
The atnry of I be mn
line about Van Amburgh footling hi
animala on cookod moet is as absurd
as that of exlraoting thoir claws. All
the foline animals in menageries, those
which are trained, as wolf as the oth
ers, aro fed on raw beof, and the more
blood tboro is in it the bolter tbe me
nagerie mon aro suitod. Several fa
mous tamers have boon aooustomed to
feed thoir animals whilo insido tbo
eages in presenco of the audience.
And tho moro raw beef tbey eat tbo
loss savage tho animals are. A well
fed lion is ono of tho most docilo ani
mals, unless an unusually fut and
chunky little hoy should happen to
pass in front of his cago. Tbore is
noilung vory wonaoriui in suuiiigut
ing any doHbription of beasts, for it
is a natural Instinct In the brute cre
ation to acknowledge the supromory
of man, and to form friendships with
individuals ol iho human raco.
The latost valuable niece of infor
mation ia that nostnl cards cannot be
sent at (ho ordinary rato whon writ
inn nrsr thn nido inlendod onlv fur
tbo address. Von may writo your
letter and crowd as mucn as poasiuie
in a mioriwnnin hand nuon the blank
side, but let no word trnngress tbo
.. e .t AT.!! Iw . ..a
opposite laco, else we iuu louor oi
mrn mut ha furthcominc to save your
loiter from confiscation. A case of
this kind was brought to tne A'psi
masler General, who decided "that
n arlilitinnal mailer othor than the
address on the face of a poetul card
rondors it unmailalle exoopl a loiter
rate? ol pos,,oge.' ' '
NEW
A Look into the Bank of England.
Special arrangements were made at
the uanic ol jongiand in anticipation
of a visit from tho Shah, but bo wits
too tired out on tho appointed day to
go there. Had he gone, says the Lon
don New, be would have found all the
Bank officials at their daily duties,
very man sitting, so to speak, at the
receipt of custom ; and the iron rulo
by which doors aro kopt day and night
well barrod would bavo beon in force.
At a ring of the boll, howover, tbo
doors ot the bank note printing offices
would have flown open, and six ma
chinos would bavo boon seen in full
work. Each machine, with a good
deal of necessary clatter, turns out 2,
800 notos an hour, a clover soll-regis-terlng
apparatus prevents any chance
of - a stray note fulling lot us say,
through the machinory, or blowing
accidentally up a chimney. English
notes, wero, as we pased through half
an hour before the Shah'a ex poo tod
vise, being thrown off as if thoy wero
moro playbills, and also a number of
India currency or rupoe notes. ' In
anothor cbambor tbero were pile upon
pilo of crisp,deliclous bank notos or all
varieiios to bo seen, and even handled,
but not carriod away. Ton macbinos
were in operation, and a sudden en
trance into the cashier's room adjoin
ing somewhat resomblod, to the ear,
tho difference betweon a smithy and a
cloister. The polite, well dressed
gontlomon who occupied the room
wore forming bundles of 500 notes eaoh
and neatly tying thom up with groon
ribbon, each bundle worth 2,600.
Through their bands tboro passes an
avorago of 60,000 notos a day fifties,
twenties, tons and fivos wilh the ex
ception of the last day of the week
tho early closing movemont reduces
tho numbor to 86,000. .
Roturning down tbo stairs, tbo Shab
and tbe few persons who woro to
havo accompanied him, would bavo
next visited tbe gold-woighing room,
all musical with the chink, chink, of
never-ending sovereigns. ,
Tbe work of the machines by which
tbo eoveroigns aro weighed, twolvo in
number, aro dolicato as a lady's watch;
should a coin bo tbo 100th, part of a
grain below the standard, the machine
tips it ovor into a receptacle different
from that in which the true gold is
shot. Twenty-oightsovoroignsa min
ute are disposed oi by each muchino, or
100,000 a day. It sec mod so nicoly
adjuslod was this wondorful machino,
as if It paused a momont to think, and
trombled as it rejected tho unworthy
coin from its honostor fellows. This
mass of treasure, callod indifferently
"dross" or "filthy lucro," was to bo
soen by scuttlesful, shovelled about as
tho (armor's man shovels horse-beans.
a iK.i, iKiuiing, lumpiiug neap u(
70,000 sovereigns lay on tbo carcfully
caged tablo, and wo woro, of conrso,
not surprised to bo informed that with
in out roach tlicro wero nonrly 400,
000 of theso bits of shining gold, so
bard to cam, so easy to spend. - A
bushel or so of half sovereigns wore,
aftor what had gono boforo, quite bo
neath notico, but they lookod protty,
and winked appcalingly, as we gave
them a casual glanco. Somotimes as
many as 20,000 light coins wero de
tected in a day. Tho pay-hnll is a
publio room, bot loading out of it is a
chamber particularly pnvate,and bear
ing the name of tho Treasury. It is
dark and cool too rich, in fact, to
havo its reposo rufflod by common
storms or vulgar passions. There are
in it 135 ranssivo safes crammed with
wenlth; the treasury Is in fact, a gi
gantic reservoir, at presont contain
ing thirly-fivo millions of money. Ono
safe holds "garbled sixpences;" an.
othor is lull of threepenny bits ; ono
is sacred to old sovereigns ; its neigh
bor takes care of tho now. Tbe su
perintendent of this dopartmont show
ed us two parcels of notos which a
child might toss into the air; thoy
reprosontod 1,000,000 in thousand
pound notes. Tho doors of another
safo wero opened, and ws stood silont
before seventy bags of 1,000 each,
each weighing 211b. It was merciful
ly arranged that after this tho Shah
sliopld be taken into the opon air, tho
route next lying through the gardens,
once a city churchyard, into tho gov
ernment debt offiaos and across the
bullion yard to tbe bullion room
Around the ejdos of this prison-like
vault stood tracks laden with gold
bars worth 1 ,00 each, one truck load
boing to bo purchased by not a farth
ing loss than 80,000. Bo'sidcs theso
thore wore trifling bags of gold coin,
running up the total amount to 3,-
000,000, to say nothing of a row of
bags put like naughty children into a
oorncr, becauso thoy bold 4,000 of
gold sovoroigns
o-n'i e. i
Tbero axe porooas now living in
llonnington who remember old, Billy
B , of whom it might be said, ho
furnished an example of tho "ruling
passion strong in (oath."
When very ill and ftionds wore ex
pecting an early doiniso, bis nophow
and a man hirod for tho occasion had
butchered a stoer which had boen faU
toned j and wbon the job was com
pleted tho nephew ontsrod tho nick,
room whore a low friends were assem
bled, when, to tho astonishment of all
the old man otiened bis eyos, and turn
ing his hoaj ajjrjhlly, said, in a full
voico, drawing out the words. ,
"What havo you boon doing f"
"Killing stoor," wits tho reply.
What did you do wilh the hide 1"
"Left it in the barn ; going to soil it
by-nnd-by."
"Lot tho boys drag jt around tho
yard a conplo of limes; it will mako
it woigh heavier."
And the good old man was gathered
unto bis fathers.
a
It Is said that a Novadu lawyer bad
as a client a man acciisod of murdor,
and that tho principal witness in his
favor being bis wilo, who was inca
pacitated from giving tostimony by
reason of her relation to bim, be got
the murdor trial postponed, brought
suit for divorce in her behalf and se
cured it, and then triumphaully placed
her on tho stand to secure tho aoqnit
tal of bor husband.
A woman's pridfl" and sailor's guide
t,be nced'.q. ' 1 .":
TERMS-$2 per annum in Advanoe.
SERIES - V0L. 14, NO. 82.
. , , . Joe Cloud, the Rower. ,..
On the 21st day of July, ultimo, Mr.
Joo Cloud entored npon tbo task of
rowing Irom rrtiiadoipbia to New Ur
leans, In a small boat, insido ono hun
dred nnd forty-fivo days. Tbo dis
tance botweon tho two points Is 8,000
milos, and tho wagorls for $5,000. ' Wo
have irom day to day notod the pro
gress made ty the rowor, our last bul
letin containing tho announcomont of
his arrival at Ilurrisburg on Suturduy,
116 remained In that city ovor Sunday
and till & o'clock last evoning, whon
he took the Fast Line wost, urriving
bore at 0.20 P. M.
Mr. Cloud's original intention was
to row from Ilnrrisburg by way of
tho canal to llollidayHburg, hnd at
that point take the oars to-Pittsburg.
This feature of tboschedulo, which was
part nnd parcel of tho bot, was nulli
fied at Ilurrisburg by mutual consont
of all parties cunccrnod, on account
of tbe fact that not onongh water re
mained iu the cbannol of tbe canal to
float Mr. Cloud's boat; with tho pro
viso attached, namoly, that this unfor
tunato act should militate against Mr.
C. in tho event of his success to the
amount of (1,000, unless Mr. C. should
be ablo to make ono hundred miles
insido twouly-four cousocutivo hours
botwocn Pittsburgh nnd New Orloaos.
A representative of tho Tribune visi
ted Mr. Cloud upon his arrival at the
depot, and hnd a long conversation
with him. Ho said that he was slight
ly behind the schedule time, but at
tributed this to systematic atlompts
made in tbo eastern wators to rotard
bis progross. As though by precon
certed action, be said, sloops on tho
river and boats on tbo canal would
uniformly tako his water and crowd
bim ashoro, and an attompt mado by
him to row around them was scarcoly
over successful. Owing to this fuct,
and to tbo olbor fact that locks and
shallow places on the route were more
numerous than ho anticipated, be failed
by several hours to make good his
timo tablo estimate. But ho is san
guine that ho can easily mako np for
lost time after ho shall have struck
the wators which rua down to tbo
Gulf of Mexico. His last day spont
will bo his big card. It will bo tho
rowing from Ivyville to New Orloana
one hundred miles in twenty-four
hours.
Mr. Cloud is48yearsold,and weighs
200 pounds. Tbe muaclo of his arm
moasures sixteen inches. Uo woars a
sailor's suit of bluo, surmounted by a
broad brim straw hat. In conversa
tion, be is fluent and natural, and the
accent of his words unmistakably be
trays his Yankeo origin. Ho is a the
atrical man by profuesion, and it is said
of bira that bo fans appeared as "Simon
Kegroe ' in "Undo loin's Cabin," ono
hundred and sovenly-six cousocutivo
nights.
His boat is fiftcon foot long, throe
foot wldo, and woighs sixty pounds.
A provision of the wagor is that be is
to sleep and eat in or on tho boat.
His supper boro consisted of a platff
of turtle soup, eaten on bis boat in the
baggage car, but ho says his usual diet
is bread without butter, bcafstcak.and
water. Two mon travel wilh him to
attend to his temporal wants, and
sovoral persons who go incog, watch
bis evory move in the interest of the
parties who have bot against his
ability to perform tho feat which he
bas undortaken. His average run
ning thus far has boen twenty-eight
milos por day, but bo expects to ma
terially increase this distance aftor he
strikes the Ohio, no will bogin his
journoy from l'itlsburgb. down tho
nvor to-day. Altoona irwuiie,Auj. o.
Nothing Like Straw.
Of tho eight pounds which a man
oats and drinks in a day, it is thought
that not less Iban fivo pounds leave
his body thiongh tho skin. And of
thoso nro pounds, a oonsidorablo por
eoutago escapes during tho night while
ho is in bed. Tho Inrgor part of this
is wator, but in addition there is much
effete and poisonous matter. This,
being in grout part gaseous in form,
ponotralos evory part of tbo bod.
Thus all parts of tbe bod mattress,
blankets, as well as sheets soon bo
come foul, and need purification.
Tbe mattress needs ibis ronovation
quite aa much as the shoots.
To allow tho sheets to bo usod with
out washing or changing threo or six
months, would bo regarded as bad
houdekooping, but I insist, if a thin
sheot can absorb poisonous excretions
of the body to make it unfit for use in
a few days, a thick mattress, which
can absorb and retain a thousand limes
as much of thoso poisonous secretions,
noodo to be purlflod ns oftan certainly
as onoo in throe months. A shoot can
bo washed. A tnaltrass cannot be ro
novated in this way. Indeed, there
is no othor way of cleaning a matlrons
but by steaming it, or picking it to
pieces, and thus in fragmonts expos
ing it to the direct rays of the sun.
As thoso procossos oio certainly prac
ticable with any of the ordinary mat
tresses. I am decidedly of the opinion
that the good, old fushionod straw
bod, which can overy three months he
exchanged for frosb straw, and the
tick wnshod, is tbo swootosl and boallh
iest of beds.
If in tbo winter season tho porous
ness Of tho straw bed makes it a littlo
uncomfortable, spread ovor it a com
lorlcr or tO ol woolen blunkots,
which should ho washed often as overy
two weoks. Wilh this arrangomont,
if you wash all tho bed-covering
nfton as once in two wooks, you will
havo a delightful,' healthy bod.
Now, if you have tho bod to air,
with open windows during the day,
and not mako it up for tbe night before
evoning, you will Jinvo added grontly
to tbe swootnoss of your rcst,vn con
eoquonco, to tbe tono of your health.
1 heartily wish this good change
could bo evorywhere introduced.
Only thoso who have thus attended to
Ibis Important matter can judge of its
itifluonoe on tbe general boallh and
spirits. "
A young husband calls his wifo
"rtinlie," because, he says sho Is al
ways associated iu bis mind with a
bill. ... . .... .
Giving and. Stealing, j"1
Tho humors of Iho contribution box:
ofton creep out in the midst of tho'
gravity of tho ocoaslon of its passing
around, however solemn or urgont it
may bo. All bavo heard of the pru
dent contributor wbo pat in bis dollar'
noto and mr-do his change out of the'
amount already deposited by taking
back fifty cents. This, it is noedloss
to say, was an extraordinary proceed
ing; but it did not como up quite to'
what happened in a Boston church on
Easter Sunday. A collection was in1
progross for a worthy charity, and'
tho collectors woro moving slowly
down tho aisle, with tbo prospect that
fivo or ton minutos would elapso bo
foro thoy reached the lowor end, wboro
sat a portly saint with his large and
woll-utlod wallot opon before him, and
bohind him a nervous gentleman im
patiently folding and unfolding a dol
lar noto botwoen bis finger. Our"
norvous friond was in hasto to leavo,
but was loth to go. without contribu
ting his mite to tho bonovolont object,
ioarful of creating a false impression
by departing at an unseasonable mo
mont, and of the damage bo might do '
to his own conscionco by noglociinga -goldon
opportunity to do good. Sum
moning his resolution to his aid, how
ever, iu despair of tho collector's ap-
Eonring in soason abreast of his scat,
o mouoslly arose and pnssod his dol
lur to tho portly gontlcman, with tbo
request that when tbo) box arrived bo
would deposit tho money for him.
"Corlainly, sir," ropliod tbo man wlile
the opon wallot, and tho nervous per
son departed. ' A gratified expression
stolo over tho foalurcs of tho custodi
an of the dollar, and he slowly folded
his pocket-book without taking one
the amount ho had beforo foil com
pelled to offer. Tbo box soon appear
ing under his noso, ho ostentatiously
put the dollar over the sido and sank
back on his cushion with a long-drawn
sigh of relief, to tho great amusement
oi quito a number of the occupants of
adjoining pews, whoso intornal convul
sions threatened explosions of laugh
ter that would bavo beon entirely our,
of plnco under Ibo circumstances.
Tho quoslion is, which conscience is
tbe most serene to-day that, of tno
genorous giver, or tuul or tno man
wbo so adroitly stolo his .neighbor's
offering by creating tho impression
that it was his own r
Apache Courtship.
Even those copper-colored cut-throats
the Apache Indians, have a touch of
delicacy and romance in them. ' From
a lecturo dulivored in San Francisco
by Colonel Jobn O. Carmany, wo tako
tbe following account of their courting
customs : Every young girl is at lib
erty to rcfuso a suitor for her band.
Tho lather, mother and brother aro .
prohibited from interfering in bor
choico. Her person is at hor own dis
posal. After a brief courtship the
lovor mukos a formal proposal by of- -
luring io many norscs. iiorses uru a
standard of vuluo among Indians. As
tho squaw duos all tho work, horses
aro accepted as nn equivalent lor hor
labor." When a young warrior be
comes enamorod ho fastens the horso '
near tho wigwam of tho squaw whoso
hand bo souks, whoro he is loft for "
four days. If sho fails to feed and'
. . . t . i .. . .1. .1
water ino norso uuring mill nine iuu
mastor is rojocted, hut if sho accepts -
his oner, she grooms and kindly cures'
for the borso, nnd then tios him to tho
wigwam ot her lovor, as much as to
say, "I am willing to bo your slavo
ana ao your work." At mo marriage
the sagos and sachems meet together,
and the brido id not unfroquontly load
od with forty to fifty pounds of silver
and copper trinkets.
- How GREENBACK FaFKB IS MADS
All tbo paper fur tho money issued by
tho Govornmont is manufactured on
a 02 inch Fourdrainior machino, at
iho Glen Mills, nenr West Chestor,
Pennsylvania. Short niocos of red
silk aro mixod wilh the. pulp in tbo
ongino, tho finished elutl is conducted
to tho wiro without passing through
any screens, which might rotnin tno
silk threads. By au arrangement
above the wire cloth, a sower of fino
bluo silk tbroads is droppod in streaks
upon tho paper whilo it is fulling.
Tho uppor sido, on which tho blue silk'
is droppod, is the ono usod for Iho fuco -of
tho noto, and from tho manner in
which tho tbrouds are applied, must
show thom more -distinctly thnn tbo
lowor or rovorscd sido, although thoy
aro imboddod docply enough to ro
main fixed. The mill is guarded by
olllcers night and day, to prevent the
abstraction of any papor.
A Nuisance. Ono of tho wostorn'
papers utters a vigorous remonstrance
against what it terms "an intolerable
nuisanco," which has gradually crept
into tho pulpit. The nuisance con-'
sista it. Iho practice of giving out
"notices" in the midst of tho Sunday
services. Lectures, conocrls, charita
ble fairs, straw borry fostivals, and no'
end of othor advertisements, scorn to
bo habitually announcod from tho sa
cred desk in somo of the wostorn cit
ies, and tho religious emotions inspirod .
by tho surroundings of tho placo-of
publio worship aro ihoroby rudely
quonehed. It would bo ungracious to
hint that tho same gonoral system of
gratuitous puffing prevails anywhero
oast of tho AllcgnnnlaiiB ; but sup
posing1 it Bhotild bo trim, would'nt tno
protest from tho west apply with equal'
lores in such cases t Are not the col
umns of tho publlo nowspnpers opon
for "announcements."
Pittsburgh nowuboys gonorally, nro
in tho habit of walking along thf
stroots wilh their heads down, looking
for cigar stumps. Every now and'
thon ono is found, eagerly soiled,
match appliod, and smoked by tho
crowd, each getting a pull at the old
soak. This part oi it is fun. Aftor
a littlo whilo, ono l.y one of tho gam
ins roliro around tho cornor, to com
muno with nature. Boon tho stomach
goes into lliogymnaslio business, turn
ing somoisaults, etc, an expression of
"O, Skinny, but I'm sick I" is heard,
tho jaws spring apusmodicnlly njan
thore is an upheaval of poaouts, tioii
all is serene, and tho soarcb tor Cl;nr
stumps is energetically rosumod.
Old Folgor, of Dolrolt, Michigan,
has invonlcd a flying machino which
is siiceessfut In ovory particular,' ox"-'
copl Hint It falls to the ground too
soon. His first exporienco witti it',
from tbo top of a barn, deprived him
of consciousness 'for lifloon niinUlo
only.
Tbo book to which reference is met
mado, during Iho holidays, is the pock-1-liOOk."
' ' ' ' ''
Our own compnny tTe ran uot avoid,
we should make it as gojd as possible