Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, December 15, 1881, Image 7

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    SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
At the top of Monnt Blano the boil
ing point of water ia 185 degrees Fah
renheit
When the bod; of a starving man or
animal loses two-fifths of its substance
it loses life.
Jnpiter completes the entire circuit
of the star vault in about eleven years
and 315 days.
The pause following the beat of the
heart is the rest of that organ, the time
amounting to eight hours in the twenty
four.
The mineral selenito is the crystal
line form of sulphate of lime, and is
often found as the remains of fossil
shells.
Water is 771 times heavier than air
at the ordinary pressure of thirty inches,
while the temperature of both is thirty
two degrees Fahrenheit.
Neither cold nor boiling water, alco
hol, ether nor ammonia reduoe sponge
fiber to a soluble consistence ; oven the
strongest acids and alkalies act u|>on it
but slowly.
The average velocity with which tho
particles of hydrogen gas are moving
under the ordinary pressnre, and at a
temperature of thirty-two degrees
Fahrenheit, is 1 1-4 miles per second.
It seems that there is a poison in
lupins which produces in sheep a disease
closely resembling janndice. This
virns can be centralized, on the author
ity of Doctor G. Liobacher and Profes
sor Kulin, by resorting to steaming.
MaFlcishen has made a comparison
t>etween the bark of young oaks grown
respectively npon sandy loams, upon
peaty soil that bad been once bnrned,
and upon a similar soil that had been
thrice bnrned, and fonnd the propor
tion of tannin highest in the product of
peaty soil.
Kegging of Mrs. (varfleld-
A letter from Cleveland, Ohio, says :
Since the death of her husband Mrs
Garfield has received more than 1,200
letters, from strangers in all parts of
the country, begging for some part of
the fund which was sul>scribed through
out the United States for her benoflt.
Most of these letters have been delivered
directly to Mrs Garfield, and many of
them have been sent to her cousin, Mrs.
Mason, with whom she stayed during
the funeral week, and next door to
whom sho is now living for the winter.
Mother Garfield has also had a great
many similar letters, and in one in
■tsnco at least Miss Moliie was appealed
to by a correspondent who desired to
become her stepfather. Mrs. Garfield
has read all of theso letters and then
bnrned them.
Soon after Mrs. Garfield came here
from Mentor to reside she received a
letter from a woman asking her for sc v
eral thousand dollars to pay ofT hor hus
band's debts. She inclosed a photo
graph of her insolvent husband, and
asked further that Mrs. Garfield solicit
President Arthur to give him a clerk
ship of some sort under the govern
ment. Mrs. Garfield destroyed both the
letter and picture. Six weeks later this
same woman wrote to say that she and
her hnsband had enjoyed a vacation
journey of nearly fivo thousand miles,
the delights of which had been im
paired only by the ever present recol
lection of her husbsnd's debts and Mrs.
Garfield's bereavement. While by this
time the public had for the most part
forgotten Mm. Oar fie Id'a sorrow, this
disinterested but interesting correspond
ent begged to aaanre her that she atfli
bore it in mind and shared with the
nation's widow the grief of the nation's
bereavement. She also inclosed s post
age stamp for the return of her former
letter and her hnsbaud's picture, in
case Mrs. Garftold was not disposed to
grant her requests.
Several letters were received from
church societie* asking for help with
Iheir debts. One woman wrote for
money to buy a mourning dress tor her
self, snd a tombstone for her son, lately
dead. Another, who had lost one hus
band in the war, had married another
husband who was a worth lees and un
doeirabb; companion. She wanted money
to enable her to leave him. A yonng
girl wrote for money for her wedding
A Polite People.
Tho city of Luckoow, India, ia re
nowned tor the politeness of its people,
exceeding, it wonld seem, that of the
French, who are generally - regarded as
the politest people in the world. A
correspondent, writing from the spot,
gives a ludicroua illustration of the
extent to which the natives carry their
ideas of courtesy. Two native gentle
men, on their way to the railway
station, accidentally fell into a ditch.
One would suppose that both would
have been on their feet in a twinkling;
but no, the Ww of politeness interfered,
snd one said to the other; " When your
honorrisesthonlmaygotup." "No,your
honor should get up first," replied the
other. "Never; how oould { take prece
dence of your honor?" and thus the
contest went on for an hour, it Is said,
beoause neither gentleman would con
sent to \iolatf the laws of good breed
ing-
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The United Htatas army retired liet
is limited to 400. There are at present
only seven vacancies, while fifty officers
are eligible to retirement.
Within (he past seven or oight years
there have been twelve defalcations in
tho United States, from whioh the ag
gregate loss has been $8,320,000.
The opinion of a recent biographer is
that a country village may, in a few
years, produco as many of tho men who
make a oountry great as London, with
all her intelligence and wealth.
Mr. Walter, proprietor of the London
Tirnns, who baa recently been in this
conntry, says that before the close cf
tho next century the United States will
have a population of 200,000,000.
The escape with life of fivo miners,
who by an explosion of a sand blast
noar New Chicago, Montana Territory,
were thrown two hundred and fifty foot
high ami fell into a vein, was almost
miraculous. Three hundred cubic yards
of rock on which they stood went up
with them. This going up with over a
thousand tons of rock and not being
killed coming down, boats anything in
tho lino of modern escapes.
A co operative society in Philadel
phia has six stores open. This repre
sents a steady growth from a very small
beginning eight years ago. Tho three
groceries and cne meat market yield a
handsome profit, besides providing
goods for the 980 members at a discount
from regular rates ; but the dry goods
and tho shoe stores have barely paid ex
penses. On tho whole, however, tho
enterprise is a sound success.
The teathetie craze, which is chiefly s
mania for the antique—and therefore a
confession, to a certain extent, of the
barrenness of modern civilization—has
extended from the head to the stomach,
and we aro to witness, it seems, a revi
val of the cooking recipes, bills of
faro, etc., of tho fifteenth ceatnry. The
idea originated with some English ma
niac. What we arc coming to may be
imagined when it is callod to mind that
two centuries befo re Qneen Anne they
hal wooden bowls and pewter platters,
and nsed their fingers at table, having
no forks.
Telegrnphing in Japan and China is
no easy job. There are 44,000 charac
ters or hieroglyphic* in the language,
and no telegraphic alphabet is equal to
the task of representing them. A sys
tem has been devised by which only
6,900 characters, divided into 214
classes, need be used, and by the aid of
numbers they can be transmitted by
wire. But imagine a lightning operator
in America trying to send several thou
sand words of a newspaper "special" by
such a method as that. The operator,
the massage and- the telegraph editor
wonld all probably be badly " broken
up" in the operation.
The holy league in Russia was started
about three mouths ago to detect Nihi
lists snd persons sympathizing with the
cause in the ranka of Russian society.
The members of the league belong to
all classes of society, from thst nearest
the throno to the petty shopkeeper. The
association is a secret one, and it ia only
by certain signs thst members recognise
each other. On joining the league a
solemn jM>drtaking is demanded from
the person desirous of playing the part
of a spy in the circle of his intimate
friends and acquaintances The salaries
of tho agents vary according to the
value of their services and the zeal
they display in the work of denuncia
tion. Among a numerous body of
Russian intelligent men this mesne of
extirpeting Nihilism is ridlmled sod
condemned.
The late*t gold dUcorerien have been
made along the Deloire river, a tribu
tary of the (ireat Mackensie river of
the North. The Deloire ia Raid to be
navigable for a diatanee of 500 milee,
bnt it is fall of dangeroaa oanons,
rooks, sharp hcnde nod whirlpools, in
which timber of large diameter and
fifty feet in length has been seen to dis
appear end foremost. Chinamen have
made their way there in large nnmbers.
They can get along where white men
fail, and there are fow places where
they make leas than 810 to $2O a day
per man out of their rockets. They
plant potatoes and eabbages on the
banks of the river, and in othor useful
ways spend time that white miners
would be more likely to spend in drink
ing whisky. Trappers say that it gets
so cold in in this region that
qnioksilver freeze* hard enough to be
made into bullets, bnt they experience
no ill effects horn the intensity of the
oold.
To show wboro the products of our
forests go we will enumerate a few
items: To make shoe pegs enough for
American nse consumes annually 100,-
000 cords of timber, and to make onr
Inciter matches 800,000 cnbio feet of
the best pine ere required every year.
Lasts and boot trees teke 600,000 cord*
. HWjista. *
of birch, beoch and maple, and the han
dles of tools 600,000 more. The
baking of our bricks consumes
2,000,000 cords of wood, or what would
oover with forests about 60,000 acres of
land. Telegraph poles already up rep
resent 800,000 trees, and their annual
repair consumes about 800,000 more.
The ties of our railroads consume an
nually thirty years' growth of 76,000
acres, and to fence all our rail road u
would cost 846,000,000, with a yearly
expenditure of $15,000,000 for repairs.
Those arc some of the ways in which
American forests arc going. There are
others. Our packing boxes, for
instance, cost in 1874 812,000,000, while
the timber used each year in making
wagons and agricultural implements is
valuod at more than 8100,000,000.
The French society for the preven
tion of cruelty to animals does not ap
pear yet to have extended its opera
tions so far south as tho ancient city of
Aries and other plaoes in Provenoe, for
the prefects of the departments which
now constitute the former province on
the shores of the Mediterranean have
been obligod to send a communication
to tho mayors of overy town and vil
lage, enjoining them to put down a
brutal pastime known as "13<nuf a la
Bonrglne. It has l>een the custom,
Sunday afternoons, to fasten two heavy
ro|>es to the horns of an ox and drag
him through tho streets, wbilo a mob
of men and women belabor him with
sticks. The animal is never allowed
to escape with his life; and the Jour
nal <i** Ihfxtl* states that the excitement
sometimes reaches such a pitch that the
crowd drag him into a bonfire and burn
him alive. What may hare been tho
origin of this custom it is not easy to
say; but it is surprising that so barbar
ous a practice should have been allowed
to survive to the present day; and offi
cial circulars so often fail of their effect
that this one may likely enough share
their common fate.
Curiesitles of Pain.
Most people are familiar with the
fact that a person who has lost his arm
or his leg may haro excruciating pain*
seemingly in the lost hand or foot
pains, perhaps, that may appear to dart
from finger to finger, or from toe to toe,
just as fiercely as he could have felt
them if the member had not been out
off. He may find himself scratching
his wooden foot to relievo the itching.
Different from this is the occurrence of
psin in s part of the body at a distance
from tho seat of the disturbance--in
the bead, for instanoe, when the eoat of
it is in tho lower part of tho spinal
c:inmn; or in the foot, the seat of it
being in the hip—both patient and
physician being often misled in the
case.
Unlike both of those esses, is an
effect produced on onesidoof the body
by an irritation applied to tho other.
, In the case of paralysis affecting one
| half tho body, a mnstard plaster applied
' to the sound side will cften restore sen
sibility to the paralyzed side. The res
toration, however, is not permanent,
though it will last several days.
In the case of a similar loss of feel
ing often affecting hysterical patients,
it has been fully restored by a plaster
applied to the sound side; wbilr, in
other cases, a real transfer takes place
the sound side losing what the affected
s ide gains.
In the case of a healthy person, bow
ever, while sensibility to touch and
pain is increased on the side irritated
by the plaster, it is diminished in the
same ratio at the corresponding point
on the other.
We are in the main double, with two
brains, two seta of nerve centers, and
two acts of nerves going to the two
sides of the body. The irritation on
one side extends np to the common cen
ter of both sides, and thence down to
the other side.
Yards la a Mile.
Mile in England or America, 1,760
yards.
Mile in Russia, 1.100 yards.
Mile in Italy 2,407 yarda.
Mile in Scotland aad Ireland, 2,200
yards.
Mile in Poland, 4,100 yards.
Mile in Spain, 6,028 yards.
Mile in Germany, 6,866 yarda.
Miie in Sweden and Denmark, 7,238
yarda.
Mile in Hungary, 8,800 yards.
A leagne in England and America,
6,289 yarda
Italy, at the commencement of the
present year, poeeessod 1,464 news
papers and periodicals, of which 140
were dailies. Milan beaded the list
with 210 journals; then came ltome
with 147; Naples, 114; Florence, 101;
Turin, 87; Palermo, 69; Genoa, M;
Bologna, 81; Alessandria, 39, and Ven
ice, 32. Of the daily papers 18 appear
at Rome, 10 at Naples, 13 at Palermo,
12 at Milan, 9 at Florw.ce, 0 at Turin,
and 6at Venice. On an average there
is one journal to 19,281 of tho popula
tion, and 8,000 readers to each journal.
The oldest Italian journal dates from
1797. In 1836 there w. rc only 185 peri
odicals in liety, of which 110 were pub
lished in Rom-;.
PE AKLN OP THOUtiHT.
Belief is not in oui power, bnt truth
fulness is.
Without the rich heart we Ith is sn
ugly beggar.
Impatience dries the blood sooner
than age or sorrow.
Borrowing money is a bad habit; and
borrowing trouble is no better.
As fire is discovered by its owa light,
so is virtue by its own exoellenoe.
The only sin which we never forgive
in each other is difference of opinion.
The virtue of prosperity is temper
anoe; the virtue of adversity is forti
tude.
To correct an evil which already ex
ists is not so wise as to foresee and pre.
vent it.
We understand death for the first
time when he puts his hand upon one
we love.
If you would not have affliction visit
you twice, listen at once to what it
teaches.
No man can be brave who considers
pain to be the greatest evil of life, nor
template who considers pleasure to be
the highest good.
The Profession of Journalism.
At the last Tufts college commence
ment dinner Mr. Z. L. White, editor of
the Providence (It. L) Fret*, was called
u jkiu to sjeak for the profession of jour
nalism. He said, in snlmtanoe: I
havo boon asked to say a word for a pro
fession which does not need speaking
for; tin- press, liko the poor, you have
always with you, and it needs no word
from me to introduoe it. The profes
sion of journalism has grown up al
most within the memory of those pres
ent. It is only a few years ago that
newspapers were not the power that
i they arc to-day. Among the influence*
tending to change the character of jour
: naliam and to elevate it to its present
I high standard, thai of the colleges of
the " ountry and its institutions of learn
ing is one of the strongest,
j The importance of the influence of
, the profession of journalism lead* to
| the consideration of the responsibility
jof the journalist. There is no other
class of professional men on whom ao
I great a responsibility rests. The duty
1 of tho journalist to-day is not only to
| present to the worlds mirror of events,
to bold np a record of contemporane
ous history, but also to present this
record in such away that the proper
lesson may be draan from it. After
midnight, within an hour or two of the
time when the paper goes to press, the
editor hears for the first time of some
event of great national importance; on
the spur of the moment, without time
! for reflection, he must present it to the
< world in his editorial in such away as
| will lead his readers to look noon it in
the right and proper light. When we
! consider these things we cannot over
j estimate the responsibility which rests
] upon him.
The great newspapor to-day is not
the mouthpiece of politicians, or in
tended to promote the ambitions of
single men who control them. As a
class, the newspapers of to-day are in
dependent, ownod and controlled by
men who have no special ambition of
their own, and who arc hence able bet
ter to judge events. The public service
of this country is improving daily, and
this fact is due, to a great extent, to
the existence of a free and independent
press.
I would say to-day to those young
men who propose to enter journalism,
you cannot place too high an estimate
upon the celling you have chosen.
Enter it with the idea of work. Jour
nalism of to-day demands a devotion
snob as no other profession requires. Of
those who enter it not morn than one
fourth continue to the aid. The drudg.
cry, the long hours, the incessant de
mands of j jurnalism are too great for
many to bear. Bnt to him who enters
it able and prepared to undergo the
necessary strain and toil the possibili
ties of reward arc great.
la Lark.
Ho sat on a window-sill In the post
office and jingled forty cents in change,
and when another boy asked him if he
was going out to look for Christmas
presents he replied:
" No, 1 hain't. I'm in look this year.''
How t"
" Well, my sister is down with the
measles, and she can't expect anything
but medicine. Ben ran away two weeks
ago, and I won't have to get lim any
thing. Mam polled my hair yeaterday
and she knows she's gone up for any
Obrirtmax present. "
" Bnt there's your father T "
" Oh, yes. I expected I was stuck
on the old msn, and was kinder looking
around for a nice pipe, but this morning
he gave me one on the ear, and that
settled his Christmas goose in a second.
These 'ere forty cents are going to be
used to buy a good boy a heap of pea
nuts, taffy, chestnuts and candy, and
the good boy la jurt my six* and age."—
Ihtroii Press.
Falling drop, wmt rewta.
MARRIAtiE BENEFIT H< HEMES.
Mribsd* ml Compaulra Orniluil I* luara
Pmrmmmm C*at*atlall>a Mairlaunr.
The Indianapolis (Ind.) lltmme of a
late date say* : On Thursday afternoon
the tirvimtmr called at the offioe of the
secretary of state, and looking over the
articles of association, found the mar
riage benefit business fairly booming.
The first one of these associations that
filed articles of incorporation was the
Royal Marriage Benefit association of
Union City, which opened the connu
bial prize-package business early in
October, and they are now flocking in
at the rate of eight or ten a day. The
following is a list of the companies or
ganized up to Thursday afternoon :
[Here follows a list of seventy-one com
panies organised in Indiana.]
Following this marriage benefit busi
ness, which bids fair to have at least half
a dozen associations in each county,
comes a new scheme, the first of the
scries being the Mutual Benefit Birth
association of Logans port. The para
graph describing the purposes of this
manner of association reads thns:
"The object of this association shall
bo to provide a fund from which each
member may draw benefits at the time
of the birth of a child to her upon
whom the oertifioate is issued or upon
the maturity of claims against the asso
ciation.'*
The following advertisement is clipped
from a daily paper of this city:
WANTED - 110 TO 115 WITHOUT IN
veaiing money or tune. The above
amount will be paid to male* or female* who
will inform as of the date of their approaching
marriage. Ihoae engaged to be married will
find it to their interest to call an or eddreea the
Matrimonial Brokerage agency. It Virginia
avenue (Vance block). M. H. Daniels, Manager.
Alt information strictly oonfldeobal.
The scheme of this broker is to in
d uoe people contemplating marriage to
call on him and inform him when tbe
wedding is to take place, and for this
j information (as strictly confidential as
female pills) be pays " from |lO to $5O"
for tbe privilege of taking out certifi
cates on the candidate for matrimony
,in his (the broker's) own right. The
broker psys for the certificate and all
tbe asscssmente, and reaps his profit
when the marriage takea place. The
amount paid for each " certificate "is
$3, and the broker can get as many
certificate* as he chooses to pay for,
sometimes in different companies, plao
j iug as many as a hundred certificates
on one candidate. The companies
| promise to pay at,the rate of aixty
cent* a day on each share or cer
tificate, from tbe time the insurance is
taken until oonjugalixation takes place.
Bay that a candidate takes out a hun
dred certi 9cm lea, and marries in ninety
days For these hundred certificate.*
he (or she) pays $?00, which goes into
I the breeches of tbe five or seven incor
porators who run the benefit; ("benefit"
baa the same number of letters in it
tbst " policy" has, and though played
differently, is not altogether a dissimi
lar game,) and, for this investment, is
to receive, when married, at the end of
ninety days, at the rate of sixty oenta a
* day on each oerti fiesta, a total of $5,400.
Now that looks pretty on paper. It is
mora glowing when exhaled by a silver
tongued marriage benefits*.
The bottom is sure to tumble out of
' every oae of these institutions, and it
; is safe to predict that there isn't one of
i those now organised that will be alive
: six months hence. Tbe certificate buy -
j era who go into this marriage benefit
| scheme go in to win. They will marry
jin from thirty to ninety days. These
1 companies are yonng now. Wait until
] the mjrrying gets lively. Say that
j there are, ninety days henoe, twenty
; five members in one of thaae com
panies, and twenty-four hundred of
than marry within that time. As the
assessment* on each certificate are
one dollar it ia easy to see that some
thing will happen when these oon
jugal atoms coalesce. But tbe
proprietors of th* companies won't
lose s nickel. They give security for
nothing. They knock down the three
dollars on each certificate and get
twenty oenta on each one dollar as
sessment. Some of the companies are
now making money hand over fist. One
of the Union Oity associations is said
to be $30,000 (ahead. The five incor
porators of another oompany are di
viding weekly dividends of $1,600, s3oq
a head.
This system of insurance can but
have a most pernicious outcome. It
will lead to a great number of unsatis
factory marriages. People will marry
in haste to repent at leisure, and the
divoro* business will b* big enough to
make Indiana a byword and a reproach
all ova the world. It is about as neat
a scheme and will flourish about as long
as the woman's deposit swindle of Bos
ton.
The extent of paper making on this
side of th* Atlantic ssems satisfactory-
According to rooeat statistic* the num
ber of paper mills ia the United States
ia set down as 060; in the Unit vl King
dom, 650; ia Qsrmaay, $l3; in France,
0,39; in Italy, 006; ia Austria. 160; in
Spain, 68; in P,>rtu;*l, 16; in B igmru,
20} ia Holland, 10: la Denmark, 10; in
Mwituriaud, IS; ia Japan, 6; 11 CJreoo -
1; in Kjamsaia, I; ia CuU, I.
Ntory of • Poor Artist.
In an article on the struggle for x
-istonoe maintained by impecunious art
ista in Now York, the TVwfA of that
city tolls this story: But the hardships
of this calling were probably never bet
ter illustrated than in the case of •
yonrsg Englishman who had oome to
this country thinking, as many another
European baa thought, that he would
find America an El Dorado. He was
of the lightning artist school, and im
mediately upon his arrival in New York
made application to several illustrated
papers for work. In every instance he
found no opening, and encountered
only refusals.
Day after day be trudged about to
the different offices of the dailie% week
lies, monthlies—everything and any
thing—his portfolio under his ana,
liegging that his work might only bo
inspected. But the refusals were as
persistent as his coming, and he finally
liecame such a nuisance that he was
almost literally kicked out of the dlf
' fevent offices.
Finally he sold one sketch to the ed
itor of a weekly paper. The price was
one dollar, and he was told to come the
next day and get his money. He went
home to his yonng wife, who hed come
, all the way from England with him, mi
they both rejoiced over his good for
tune. The sky looked much brighter
the next day when he went for his dot.
lar, bnt when he was told to oome again
the sunshine lost some of its warmth,
j nd be went home to his expectant wife
and bread and tea, feeling that somehow
I or other fortnne had tricked him.
He went again and again for that dol
lar, but was put off each time until he
Ix-gan to think that work sold was even
worse than work to be sold. Finally
the editor paid him the paltry sum, and
as he took it with a lump swelling np
into his th7oai and the tears almost in
his eyes, he said:
" I—l had to pay forty cents car-fan
! to oollect that dollar, sir I"
"Well, what of that; are yon not
still sixty cents in V was the philanthro
pic answer of this most Samaritan-like
| editor.
Bnt ill luck was not always in store for
' this plucky young fellow, and one day
when he had gone down to Harper's,
expecting to be turned awy as usual,
: be was surprised that the man to whom
he had applied took two of his sketches
■ into an inner room, and after remaining
| some time, returned and stated that the
work bad been accepted and at onee
' gave the surprised artist an order on
the cashier. Almost blinded with the
j tears of joy that welled up from hia
1 swelling heart, he presented the order
snd received the money withont count
ing. When he had gotten into the
itreet he counted it aud found 116. He
could not credit his fortune, and going
lock to the cashier, said:
"I think there is some mistake,
air P
The cashier counted the money and
showed him the order for the amount
paid. He con Id scarcely get home fast
j enough, and when he did arrive he
ordered his wife to hold out her apron
ind slowly counted the bills into it.
11 r eyes were distended to their utmost
as she asked incredulously:
"Is it all yours r
"I suppose there was mack congrat
ulation after thatf odd Truth, to whom
the artist had related this story.
"No, sir," was the quick reply,
"steak I"
In all the Bohemian clsaacs of New
York there is probably no other which
affords so rich or interesting a theme
for study as that of the poor artists,
men and women, whose personal quali
ties certainly merit a better fate than
the starving condition ia which most of
them suffer.
How aa Eating-Hease was Kaleed.
There is a wail-known story of the
ruin of a London luncheon shop by a
spiteful and envious rival The latter
hired a boy to enter the suoeeeaful shop
j exactly at the time when it was most
j crowded, snd to lay on the oouater,
before the eyes of all the wondering
■ind horrified guests, a dead oak "That
makes nine, ma'am," said the brazen
faced urchin, as he deposited his bur
den and left the shop. What avail were
protestations of innocence from the In
dignant president of the oouater? The
plot had been carefully laid, and it to
talled, as was expected, hi a stampede
of the diners, to return no more.—'
TrmpU Bar.
Two young ladies have dese all the
work on the Guadalupe (Oak) TViyrapk.
They have been writing the editorial
articles and the local reports, preparing
the general news mad miscellaneous
reading matter, setting the type, making
np the forma, lifting them from the
■time to the press, doing the prow*work
on a No. 7 Washington hand press, and
mailing and distributing the papers.
This work usually required on the urn
paper a force of three mea The young
ladies are esid, moreover, ant to rspre
sent the muscular type of their an, but
to be gratis aud fair to leek open.
Those girls should have a pratsnsß, at
least, aud ws can put them oa the track
of on* willing io be eaatoaT 13
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