®HT CENTRE DEMOCRAT. BELLEFONTE, PA. The Lai-gnat, Cheapest and Best Paper rUBLIHIIKD IN CKNTHI COUNTY. GUITEAU'S WTATI'E. WHAT A SCCI.ITOR HAYS Of TIIK ASSASSIN —A HUMAN BATTI.ISNAKE. Wuhlngtun Cor. Chicago Tlme-a. Upou tho fifth floor of the Corcoran building, on Fifteenth street, across from the Treasury Department, a curi ous group were gathered about a figure posed in tho attitude of Guiteau, the assassin, just before he fired the fatal shot at President Garfield. A photog rapher pointed his camera at this threatening figure, while a tall man in his shirt sleeves, a tall silk hat pushed back upon bis irou-grav hair, danced about, three-quarters hidden in a huge blue checked apron, as he cast loving glances upou the figure, betraying the artist in his looks of approval. The thermometer stood at 85 degrees. The warm air from the south and the hud ding shoots ou the trees outside de monstrated to the sharp, active-looking youug man in the back-ground that the tenting season was at hand, and that it was high time that all his circus curiosities were ready and upon the road. To-morrow night an exact reproduc tion of Charles Guiteau, the assassin, dressed in the clothes worn bv him when he made the attack at the Sixth street depot, will be shipped to New- York. The figure was modeled by McDonald, the sculptor, who designed the statue of General Custer at West Point. McDonald has spent three weeks at the jail-studying the assassin, aided by Clark Mills, and his cost of the prisoner Guiteau will be on a star ring tour with a circus within a week or so. Great diplomatic schemes have been carried on at the jail to procure Guiteau's clothes worn at the time of the assassination. Rival shows have struggled for the possession of these rag*. „ . The successful agent gave Guiteau a cheek for 8-' SO for the suit worn at the time of the assassination and the one worn during the trial. Guiteau intended to pocket the money himself, hut Charley Reed forced him to give 8150 to Scoville for his services. The rest of the check contained Reed's fee and pocket money for the prisoner. Just how it was divided is not known. McDonald, the sculptor, is a curi ous roan. His high cheek bones, blue gray eyes, sharp nose, his blue-black, close cropped side whiskers, and a tall, angular figure stood out as typical features in the man who looks like a professor in some country university. He is many sided and full of theories. To use his own language, he has been making "an anatomical, psychological and meutal study" of the assassin. To the Time* correspondent the elderly sculptor talked easily aud fluently. "How did you find Guiteau's figu re?" was asked. "He has the figure of an athlete. You know I strip|>ed him and meas ured him carefully at all |M>ints. He has a very thick, stout neck ; his chest is splendid, deep and full; his arms are very long for his body and very sinewy. Under favorable conditions he might have la-en a great athlete. As it is, he is a very powerful man." "Do you think him sane?" "Certainly, hut he is a human ani mal iu bis appetites and his passions. In order to learn the habits and pecu liarities of an animal confined, you must go to his keepers. I have been with his keepers for three weeks, and I now understand all about him. He is a human rattlesnake." "A rattlesnake?" "Yes, sir, there are men in that prison who have grown gray in watch ing prisoners made up from all classes of criminals. In the entire history of all these men they have never had a prisoner like this. Never has there been a criminal under their rare be fore who has not had some friend or some attractive trait to win sympathy from some one about him. This man has not a single friend, lie knows no gratitude, ami there is in the prison who can conjure up one small kind thing to say of the least incident of his life in the prison." "I have," added the Professor, "ex amined his head from a phrenological standpoint. He has absolutely no love, no gratitude, no sense of decency, no courage, while self-esteem is en larged abnormally. He is cruel, ab solutely having no heart. In short, he ia a human rattlesnake." "Was he patient under your exami nation V Oh, yes, just because it gratified bis vanity, lie thinks that the American people are anxious to see him, and be waa proud to get out on exhibition, if it waa only in effigy. He expects to be out aooo himself, and this will pave the way for bis lecture tour." Do you think I am a fool?" a vio lent man onoe asked ot the Rev. Dr. Betbune. "Really," replied the Doc tor,"! would not venture the assertion, but now that you ask my opinion, I must aay that I am' not prepared to deny it. I—i ♦ <—■ ■■ WHEW a couple make up their minds to get married it may be called a tie vote. > A FALSE charge of stealing twenty five cents drove an Illinois girl insane. "Ilurp ofu Thousand String." Ontury for April. About thirty years ago there appear ed in the New Orleaiw Picayune a ser mou which attracted immediate atten tion and secured wido currency, it was at once recoguized aa a genuine transcription. It purported to have been delivered by a volunteer preach er, who, making his livelihood as cap tain ol" a tint-boat, happened to "lay up" over Sunday by a Mississippi landing. An idle crowd being collect ed he organized an impromptu con gregation, and produced a discourse which has obtained a standard place in our comic literuture. He begun : "I may say to you, my brethering, that I am not an edicated man, an' 1 am not one o* them as believes uu edi eation is necessary in a minister ol the Gosple; for I believe the Lord cdi cutes his preachers jest as he wants 'era to be edicated; and although 1 says it as ought not to say it, in the Stute of Alabamy, where I live, there's no man what gits bigger congrega shuns nor what I gits. "There may be some here to-day, my brethering, as don't know what persuasion I am uv. \\ ell, I must say to you that I am a Hard-shell llaptist, Thar is some folks as don t like the Hard-shell Baptists, but, as fur as I sees, it's letter to have a hard shell than no shell at all. ou see me here to-day, my brethering, dreaw d up in fine clothes; you mout think 1 ro proud. But I am not proud, my blethering. For, although I've been a preacher of nighly twenty year, an' am capting of that flat-boat at your landing, I am not proud, my brethering. "1 am not a-gwiue to tell you ad zaetly whar my tex is to be found ; suffice it to say it's in the leds of the Bible, and you'll find it somewhere be twecu the first chapter of the book of Generations and the last chupter of the book of Revolution ; and ef you'll go an' search the scripters, you 11 find not only my tex thar but a good many other texes as will do you g'ssl to read, and when you shall find my tex you shall find it to read thus : •"An be played upon a harp of a thousand strings —sjierritaof just men made perfick.' "My tex, my brethering, leads me, in the'lust place, to sje-ak of sperrits. Thar is a great many kinds of sjM-rrits in the world. In the fust place, thar s sperrits as some folks rails ghosts and thar's sperrits of turpentine, and thar's I sperrits as some tolks calls li<pior, an I've got as good a article of them kind o' sperriis on my flat-boat a* was ever fetched down the Mississippi Biver but thar's a good many other kin' o' spirrits, for the tex says 'he play ed upon a harp of a thousand strings sjierrits of just men made perfick.'^ "But, 111 tell you what kind of sperrits as are ment in the tex, my brethering. It's FIBB. That's the kind of sperrits as is meant in the tex, my breathering. Now, of course thar is a great many kinds of tire in the world. In the fust place, there's the common sort of tire you light your pipe with, and there's fox fire and camphire, fire afore you're ready and fire-aii'-fall-hack.aiid many other kinds of fire; for the text says 'he played upon a harp of a thousand strings — sperrits of just men made perfick. "But I'll tell you the kind of fire a* is meant in the tex, my brethering. It is Hell-fire ! An'that's the kind of fire a ginid many of you are coming to ef you don't do better nor what you have been doiu' 'he played upon a harp of n thousand strings —sja-rrilsof just men made perfick.' "Now, the different sort o' fire in the world may IK- likened to the dif ferent persuasion of Christians in the world. In the fust place, we have the 'Piscnpalian*. And they are a high sailiu' an' a hifalutin set, and may lie likened onto a turkey-buzzard a flying up in the air, an' he goes up, an' up, ontil lie looks no bigger'n your finger-nail' an' the fust thing you know he comes down and dowu, and is a-fillin' hisnelf on the carcass of a dead boss by the side of the road, for the tex says 'he played upon a harp of a thousand strings —spirreU of just men made perfick.' "Then thar is the Methodist and they may be likened unto a squirrel a climbin' up into a tree, for the Meth odist believes in gwine on from grace to grace till they gits to perfection ; an' so the squirrel goes up an' jumps from liinb to limb and from branch to branch, and the fust thing you know he falls, an' down he comes, kerflumix, for they is always fallin' from grace ; for the tex says'he played upon a harp of a thousand strings—sperrits of just men made perfick.' "An* then, my brethering, thar's the Baptists, ah. An' they have been likened to a 'possumon a simmon-tree; and thunders may roll and (he yearth may quake; but that 'poasom clings thar still, ah ; and you may shake one foot loose, an' the other's thar, ahj and you map shake all feet lose, an be wraps his tail around the limb, an' clings, an' clings forever, for 'be play ed upon a harp of a thousand strings —sperrits of just men made perfick.' Irreligious as this may seem, grotes que and preposterous, It is not over stated. In the old time, and on the borders of civilization, such sermons were by no means uncommon. Tbey are still to be heard in the "back set tlements,'* as tbey are called; and, while those who make them pass for what they are worth as preachers, tkeir sincerity goes unchallenged and un questioned. Electricity vs. Steam. ELECTRIC RAILROAD* LIKELY SOON TO ILE AN ACCOMPLISH*!) FACT. To all intelligent peraonn it becomes every day more clearly evident that electricity is to be in the future the great controlling force of the world— the source of light, of heat, of power, of motion. In different parts of the world scientist# are at work upon the vast and complicated problems in volved,and by degree# slow, but steady, important progress i# being made. Some time ago the Scientific Times made some observation# upon the ex periment# looking to the divisibility of the electric light that were being made by Mr. Hathaway, of the corner of Grove and Tenth streets, Jersey City. Those experiment# are not yet concluded, but tiii# paper lm# now the pleasure of announcing that the same geutlemau ha# devised an even more important system still, whereby elec tricity can be made to take the place of steam on surface and elevated rail roads. This system i# possessed of capabilities that will result in revolu tionizing the railroad system of the world, and Mr. Hathaway'# name is destined to go down to posterity cm blazoned with fame such as now be longs to Isaac Watts, Franklin and Stephenson. Hi# method of trunsit is governed by electricity in every parti cular. The electric power is contained in the locomotive that draw# the ears, and the latter are to be lighted and heated by electricity. The electricity will not be stored, a* proposed by some experimenters, but will lie generated as required. It is calculated that with a train of sixteen loaded passenger cars a speed of from sixty to eighty miles an hour will IK: attained. At the same time the mechanical appli ance# will IK* SO perfectly under con trol that collisions will lie wholly out of the question. The saving of cost, it is estimated, will be largely reduced it# compared with steaiu. \ ariou# sources of annoyance and danger will also be wholly done away with, in cluding the hi-ing and puffing of steam, the danger of tire from sparks, ami so on. Mr. Hathaway ha# de voted a gn at amount of study and experiment to the solution of the pro blem involved and be ha# scientifically demonstrated the feasibility of his sys tem. It is probable that a company will lie formed to introduce it into practical u<", and fortunate indeed will be those capitalist# who first per ceive the tremendous money-making possibilities that are involved in the solution of the problem of electric rail road#. — S. Y. Scientific Times. Success. IIY 11. W. LOS(iPIXU)'. Every man must [Mitiently bide hi* time. lie must wait. More par ticularly in laud*, like my native laud, where (lie pulse ot life l-al* with such feverish and impaticut llirutm, is the lesson needful. Our national charac ter wants the dignity of re|x>sc. We seem to live in the midst of a battle— there is such a din —such a hurrying to ami fro. In the streets of a crowded city it is difficult to walk slowly. Yon feel the rushing of the crowd, and rush with it onward. In the press of our life it is difficult to le calm. In this stress of wind and tide, all professions seem to drag their anchors, and are swept out into the main. The voire* of the I'resent say, (..Yunc ! Hut the voice* of the I'ast say, Wait! With calm and solemn footstep* the rising tide Ix-ar* against the rushing torrent lip stream, and pushes back the hurry ing waters. \\ ith no less caliu and solemn footsteps, nor less certainly, does a great mind bear up against pub lic opinion, and push back it* hurry ing stream. Therefore should every man wait —should bide his time. Not in listless idleness —not in useless pastime —not in querulous dejection; but in constant, steady, cheerful en deavors, always willing, and fulfilling, and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion conies, he may lie equal to the occasion. And'if it never comes, what matters it ? What matters it to the world whether I, or you, or an other man did such a deed, or wrote such a liook, so be it the deed and book were well done ? It is the part of an indiscreet aud troublesome am bition, to care 100 much about fame— about what the world says of us. To lie always looking into the faces of others for approval; to be always auxious for the effect of what we do and say ; to be always shouting to hear the echo of our own voices ! Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well what you do —without a thought of fame. If it come at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. And, moreover, there will be no mis- E'vings— uodisappoinlment—' "no nasty, verish, exhausting excitement" — Hyperion. Registered Letters. The question is ofleu asked, "What is the difference between a registered letter and any other V The difference is that a registered letter does not go in the mail proper. It passea from hand to hand outside the mail-pouches every person through whom hands it paasm wing required to sign a receipt for it on passing it over to the next transit. The person holding the last receipt is thus always liable to show who is accountable for its loas The responsibility rests on the man who has signed a receipt for the registered package, and who is not able to pro duce the package or a receipt from somebody else for it. The safest way to send money is by money order. Where it does not go to a money order office, it #hoiild always be sent in a regisleredjpackage. Money ought not to be sent iu an ordinary letter under any cireuinstances. There is no J>OH sible way of tracking such a letter. JOHN I'E.NVH limits. VALCAUi.e i-Korztcrr AWAITINU TIIEIK CLAIM IN EASTON. A sensation was caused at Eantou on Saturday by the discovery of a very ancient deed, the terms of which re veal the fact that "The Circle" which, with its fountain and shade trees, adorns Centre square, i# really the pro perty of the heir# of John Perm. From the spot where "The Circle" now is, twenty yenrs ago the county commis sioner# removed the court house build ings, nnd in doing so they made a breach in the condition of the grant and caused a reverter of the eslatewto the heirs of John Peon. The <Jee<T i dated September 2*. 17fi4 —the fourth year of the reign of King George 111, —and i# under the hand and seal of John Perm, Lieutenant Governor of the Province. The property is de scribed as part of the manor of Fermor, in the then newly erected county of I Northampton, ami is granted to John i Jones, Thomas Armstrong, James Martin, .John Kinker and Henry Alls | house,and their heirs,"in trust, never : thclcss, to and for the erecting thereon l of u court house for the public use and service of the #aid county, and for no other use, intent or purpose what soever." It was to be held iu free nnd common usage by fealty only in lieu of ull other services, "yielding and paying yearly unto u#, our heirs and successors," upon the first day of March in every year "one red rose." : The law is well settled that such a deed conveys a base or determinable j fee —determinable in the non-perfor mance of the u*e. And ii vested in the heirs of John Penn a reversionary interest in the whole fee simple, which In-caiiie the absolute fee wheu the court house wa# removed. The Circle in ; the public square in the Imrough of Has ton, Northampton county, evident ly belong# to the heir# of John Penn. some of whom nrc living iu the city of Philadelphia, the descendautl of the Livingstones, who intermarried with the Penn family. These Philadelphia heirs lately averted their rights a# re versioner# in the ea*e of a property in the city of Alleutowii, granted by Wiliiam Peon for the purpose of erec ting and maintaining thereon a county jail. The jail wa# removed ami the property reverted. It wa* necessary to clear the title that tlie Penn heir# should sign a release. It is quite like ly that they will a*ert their rights as reversioners with regard to "The Cir cle," which with it# fountain and shade trees,ornament Eaton's public square. TACT. History, it is said, repeat# itself—so do stories. "Pshaw!" exclaims sonic h arm d man, a# he sees in the morn ing paper a fresh anecdote, "I read that fifty years ago, and it was then ancient." Perhaps ho did, and yet the anecdote may IM true a# told, though not singular. The critic should remember the rule, a# true of men as of mechanics, that like causes under similar circumstances always produce the same effects. Some years ago a story went the rounds, which told how one of the keepers of the Hartford Insane Asy lum saver! his life by his ready wit. The keeper had taken a patient, sup posed to have lie en cured, to the roof of the Asylum. While they were en joying the magnificent prospect, the patient, who was a large man, seized the keeper's arm. "I#t us jump down and surprise the folk# below !" he said. The keeper, seeing that the man had suffered a relapse, coolly replied : "Nonsense! any fool can jump down. Let's descend and jump up. That'll astonish them." "Won't that he jolly! Come along," answered the patient, thrown off his guard. Ik-fore he could try the feat, he was securely confined. Now, a similar story, with different details, however, is told of Sir Thomas More, the good Lord Chancellor whose head Henry VIII took off. He was seated one day on the roof of his house, when a madman suddenly ap peared at his side. "I/eap, Tom, leap!" be shouted, seizing More by the shoulder. Looking hiiu calmly in the eye, the Lord Chancellor said, "Let us first throw my little dog down, and see what sport that will he." In a moment tbo dog was tumbled over the parapet, "Good!" said More, with feigned delight, "now run down, fetch the dog, and we'll throw him off again." The maniac ran down, and More summoned his servants to secure him. KALAMAZOO, according to Eli Per kins, appears to have peculiar clergy men to any the least. One is said to have announced that "services will he beld in this church next Sabbath, Providence permitting, and it isn't good fishing in the river;" while an other gave out a notice as follows: "The Lord willing, and there being on minstrel troupe in town, there will be a prayer meeting in this church next I Thursday evening." lien. Albert Pike. Albert Pike is a wonderful old man, being now fur advanced iu life and of a most striking and venerable appear ance, with Itis long, snow-white hair and beard, and his tall, erect and state ly figure. A great lawyer, "the great est Free Mason in the world," a poet, journalist, historian and soldier—hav ing commanded a brigade of Indians iu the Confederate army during the first year of the war—his life has lieen so checkered and eventful, so full of incident, adventure and versatile achievement, that his biography, when properly written, will read more like some Oriental romance, some "wond rous tale of Araby," or story of the "Admirable Chrichto," grown old in wonderful successes, than the actual biography of an American backwoods man—"a fine old Arkansas gentleman, all of the modern time," to parody the title of one of his celebrated convivial songs. Among his many titles to fame was that of a Niturod—a mighty hunter of the Southwest —and it was hereby that he became a great hero among the In dians west of Arkansas, who voted hint the freedom of their splendid hunting grounds, always giving him ! a rousing tribal or national welcome on his annual visits, and finally mak ing him "great chief" over them. Tln-y called him "Big Thunder," or something of that s >rt, because in his hunting ex (seditions be always carried along a four or six-pound howit zer, regularly mounted, with which he : mowed the gregarious prairie game of all kinds by the hundred* and thous ands. Although a native of I'uriLau | New England, Gen. I'ike lias always been like Sergeant Prentiss and other Northern men who came South before , the war, more of a "Southerner," ap parent!)', iu feeling, tastes, habits and J opinions than .!< If i)avis or Aleck | "*lepheu—as much MI, IU fact, a that royal roystcrer, that miraculous para dox, Bob looms, himself. — liichmond | Stale. I/ord Itearoufield's Social ({ualitle*. Of loyalty to his political friends he was a model, and nothing did more to -• cure his command of the parly than it* sense that his professional honor, MI ! to sjieak. could be implicitly relied | upon. Toward his wife, a warm hear ! led women older than himself, and in terior to him both in birth and cduca j tion, he was uniformly kind and in • deed devoted. The first use he made j of his jMjw.-r as Prime Minister was to ; procure for her the title of viscountess. A story Used to be told how, long ago, ; when his political position was still tar Irom as-ured, he and hi* wife hap [-ned to be with the chief of the party and that chief MI far forgot good man ners as to quiz Mrs. Disraeli at the dinner table —not malignantly, but with n spice of satire. Next morning Mr. Disraeli, whose visit was to have la*ted for some day* longer, anuoun : red that he must leave immediately. The host besought him to stay, and mad- all possible apologies. But Dis raeli wa- inexorable, and carried his wife otr forthwith. To literary men, whatever their opinions, hewasalway* i ready to give a helping hand, repre | *eniing himself a* one of their profes ; sion. Success did not turn his head, | nor make him assume the airs of a grand eeigneur. In paying compli ments he wa* singularly expert, and marie good use of his skill to win friends and disarm enemies. He knew how to please Englishmen, and especi ally the young, by entering into their taste* and pleasure*, and, without be ing what would be genial, wa* never wanting in bonhommie. In society he was a perfect man of the world —told his anecdotes apropos, wound up a discussion by some happy epigram, talker] to the guest next him as he would to an old friend. In short, he was excellent company. But he had few intimates; nor did his apparent frankness unveil anything more than he chose to reveal. — JAMES IIRYCE, M. I'., in The Centvry for March. ferry Belmont In Congress. The greatest surprise in Congress is Ferry flelmont, of Long Island. His father is August Belmont, the rich banker and agent of the Itolh child*. It wa*sup|t*ed that the money of Bel mont here secured his election, and that the young man was as big an ass, a* namby-pamby as the sons of rich men usually are. People who believ ed this expected nothing from him beyond lolling in his seat and owling the pretty girls in the gallery. Well, he isn't any such a roan. He is a young fellow, about thirty years of age medium hoight, slender in figure, dark complexion, and rather distingue in appearance. He is as modest as a girl and as studious as a bookworm. This will doubtless surprise people who have known him only as a society man. lis is a fair lawyer and a hard worker. He speaks several languages fluently, and is just the kind of aiau to be trained in diplomatic circles. He is not hide-bound in politics, though a Democrat. My word for it, Belmont will make his mirk here, not because he has money, but by virtue of dose application and good common sense. TitKgnost popular religion is that which teaches us to walk quietly along, what the negro called " the broad road and narrer paf of life." Is you must dabble in sharea, try plowshare. Now other kind pays so regular dividends. An Agnostic Prayer. I lie liev. George C. Miln, of the Unity Church, Chicago, ojiened his service last Sunday with the follow ing prayer: g "We turned our feet froru the com-1 mon path of life into the seclusion of this sacred hour, made sacred to us hy our own intentions. At hast for a little while we hid farewell to the fret and worry of our daily life, to the i burdens which we in silence earrv, und j to the trivial pleasures which do so much to dissipate our fine energies and purposes. We came here to find rest,# to fiud light, to gain strength for the duties which are before us. We come here that hy the planting of holy pur poses we may grow stronger and no bler iu all the ways of life. May the stillness of this moment breathe a sweet serenity into every heart. look ing backward, we may learn to regret with scorn all that has been unworthy of us all pettiness, all littleness, all counselling with the ignoble and time serving motives. Cooking "forward, may our aspirations reach after the highest ideals for ourselves and for our follows. May we be above hopeles-ncsa, above despair. May we look into the future with calmness and determination, prepared for its duties and for whatever conflict may await us. And may our inter communication lilt us into a realm where we shall be emancipated frotn suspicion and misinterpretation of each other. W'e do not forget the poor. 1 hey are ALWAYS with us. Mav men help the [xior, the blind, the sick, and they who are beaten down by the trampling of many feet in all the ways of life. O, that our Inarts may at least be full of sympathy and our hands always full "of help for such! And may we look with yearning eyes for the coming of that day in which there shall In- no pain, nor crying, nor weariuess of heart! Amen." A Sympathizing Caller. | How the President enjoys his office i- told in a story just out,of a Mis-mri politic ian and lawyer w ho, in company with a Senator from this Stale, called on the President a day or two ago. The western politician, after he had been introduced to the Presideut, said : "Mr. President, I am very glad to meet you. It is the first time I ever had the pleasure of siting you; in fact, you are the fir-t President I ever saw. You look fatigued." "Yes," the President replied, "I am annoyed very much, hut the rush will be over pretty soon, I hope." The western statesman then resum ed : "I have often heard of vou, Mr. President a- being a very fine ward politician. 1 presume you had raiher lie out whooping the boys up than here, being a you are annoyed beyond measure for office?" The President laughed and said "Yes." A LAND WHERE MEN WERE THE W KAKI.K \ ESSTIA —The London Time* in summing up the condition of men under the civilization of ancient Kgvpt. remarks: J'This is a picture to which no pendant can be found in the history ol any other highlv-civil iied race, whether ancient or modern. In it we behold a world in which the balance of domestic power is reversed. The woman owns ail and rules all; the man is a helpless dependent, and both are the property of the priest. A more insignificant and pitiable ob- • ject than the Egyptian paterfamilias ( can hardly be conceived. As a child he was the property of his mother ; as a married mau he was the pensioner of his wife; a* a corpse he belonged to his Choachyte ( priest,i who could sell him, mortgage him, or will him away at pleasure. Horn or unborn, married or single, living or dead, he was never bis own property or his own master. To speak of him as a man and a citizen would be a figurative ex pression. He was a marketable in vestment, like a bouse, or a piece of laud, or a Government annuity." "AwTTUt.No taken place, to day V asked Mr. Freliughuyseu, as be walk ed in and elevated his boots to the top of the cabinet table. "Nothing," re plied Mr. Arthur, without looking up from the tantalizing pages of the pat ent office report. "There were lots of fellows here who wanted to take it however." Thus doth the oasis of in nocent mirth lighten up the barreu waste of official life.— Button Iran ecript. "W ELE, said a child, "if the hairs of our heads are ail numbered, the num. Iters must get awfully mixed up, for lota of womeu wear hair that grew ou same one else's head." DR.STROTHKR, a KentucW lecturer, J holds that the Garden of Edeu was the Mississippi Valley, and that Ndeh'tfl ark started from Mau hat ton island. ' UP in Wisconsin it costs $240 TO' sell a cow as "gentle," and then have her kick the dairy maid clean the window of the barn. "WHY do you bide, Johnny F said 9 one boy to anothe. "I hide to aaWfl my hide," replied the other, as he hied away to a secret spot "MAMMA, do you know what the largest species of anu are? You shake your head. Well, I'll tell you. They are elephants." NEVER judge a man by bia clothes. His uilor may probably have a suit against him.
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