w————— HOW SOME OF OUR MEN OF NOTE WOOED AND WON. Dante! Webster's Firat Proposal—His Sec- Wie Where Wise Popped the Question — Houston's Wao ey rockett’s Courtship. BE ond Henry A. "~ Mo to 1% esi feos rk Mall and Express.) statesmen, have pure do- iid the marriages of many of het nav cen marriages of love. Old retior eon was devoted to his wife au. Le woul tever attend any place of festivity or winusement after her death. The wile of uatof Allen, better known as “Fesuo un” allen, died here at Wash mgton duties the winter of 1847, before the devs of rad roads, and the old senator carried her s¢ home to Ohio over the mou wins, hing beside it on horseback dua he « and watching it at night thiou hh ut [ ha wt beside her father, Gov: esnor Arthur ia € hintcothn Femel Voebster both warrin. es of ht CLI s two marriages were love. His first wife wus Giraee clehiery, the daughter of a New Hum ¢ clergyman, Webster maar ied wen he was 26 years of age andi wile be vous yet a poor lawyer. His po, lug the « uestion was most delicately done. Miss nce had sheia of yar. while be had held it for her lis om ms The “skein had be i | during its untwisting ¢ two lovers had come very As the r said het “Ae have suc we, in untying this knot; | + another which . 4 ( [l 148 ill re \ race ss. it is said, scaled the o lived happily for eigh irs Webster died in rway to Washington | was a member of three weeks, during | watched at her bed ¢ ! ‘8 TTR iL ssecond New York Ar wife was ly, tall, ~rocan con Jre 405 r of Wien mi at the 1 mia Tenn « prey o the wil lo and ! { his or be found nu Ate JON anothe she L we r and that el ‘by “her parents to SCTHOD, Wi ca lribe of Cl dian lere Le married a India 1 He was drin dogs, when one troubles io lama WAS shraiys lit i Li again, and wen forth to Dis dwtiv guished carver ine Texas I am told, got her divoree, but she married her lover 1 know not Davy Crockett, another frontier states man, fell in love with a relative of his schoolmaster while he was sparking her a richer suitor carried her away under his eyes. He next met a besuty at a ball, fell in love at ir gaged at the cl cay was fixed him to announce engagement to her parents. He sta io go to them, fell In with some boon companions on (Lc way and made, as they say, a night of it. He arrived a day too Iste and found his lady love was to Ix married that night to another. Crockett made the best of a bad bargain mughed off Lis disanpointment and danced all might at the close of the wedding at the party given ia its houor lie soon t sight and became en 5 the fifth dance. The the fell in love again and this time he became | married, Fr A Remarkable Story. , Ja made Hogg form : simalcules . T - fers have many curious qualities which is that of suspending a for an indefinite lve Colonies of sie sted. ™ and Men bave time Mr the strangest ealled * wheel ou Gazette | Jabez keeps some of of the It roti Mnong imation rotifers may be “de endered apparently life less; and in this condition they may be kept for months and years, and possibly eeaturien. A single drop of water will restore Lhem to lite. and the whee! bearers will lustantly resume their functional a tivity * precisely at the point where it was w rudely broken ofl This reminds us of a story, often re peated, though possibly not capable of standing the strictest investigation. A Feritish sailor at the battle of the Nile, at the moment when the officer of the watch mid to him: “Do you make out the flag ship on the port or starboard bow, Bill? was struck Ly a bullet in the head. For fifteen months t at sailor remained insen- sible, but not dead, with a ball in the skall which cou'd not be extracted In the fulness of time he was taken to Green wich hospital nud trepaned, when the for eign body was removed from the neigh Barhood of his brain. Then he rubbed his eyes and sald instantly: “Just off the starboard bow, sir." Under the Base Vik Cncinnat! Times Star, | A member of Eureka cornet band, started last night to the band room for renitation, carrying a base voll, His heels flew up and the big instrument fell on top of him. A little girl standing in the doorway pear by cried to her father, “come here, quick pe! here is a man fell down sud a big log has fell on him. ” The Good Old Times. Funday School Record Will those persons who mourn over the good old times which ware as to fix the date of we can look at the evidence, Mexionn Stage Drivers, The Mexican stage coach always has two urivers, one to bold the reins and the other to do the whipping The latter enrries & bug of stones to throw at the lenders, The Right Kind of a Cat gone 1 so those times? record for the At ant Constitut Jd in this ‘i po y What Is need office cat that niry is an vd, dreary journey until | the beautiful cemetery at | been winding a | knot Lécame une | ted | He | ( ka R strange pets in their fusori ! period without ceasing to | AN OCULIST'S IDEA. What Might Result from the Possible Discovery of a Fature Savant, [Louisville Courder-Journal.} The other day I happened In the office of a well-known fos ry and during the conversation chanced to pick up an op thulmoscope that was lying on the table, Noticing wy action, immediately began Beacanting upon the qualities of this wonderful Instrument, “Ht will not quite enable us to tell of what a man is thinking when we look into his eye, " said he, “but it will do almost everything else. ” In the rundom conversation which fol. lowed he mentioned the curious theory some one has advanced as to the reteation | in sudden ‘death of an image upon the retinae. The scientific theorist bas urgued that this might be a means of detecting u murderer who suddenly encounters and | slays his victim. If the eye be immedi | ately closed, it 18 said the mage will re | main distinct for hours. The murderer may thus be photographed In the dyin agonies of his vietim, if the death be swift and sudden, The iden i8 a“ quaint one A more oectical instance of retribution can not w imagined, and it leads to a curious variety of speculation but in view of the constant wonderful advancement in solence it stops far short | : | mess for Bogs, and yet men of millions (in { hand or ex puectant of the impossible rome one has beauti fully said that the circles made by casting a pebble in the ocean will go on extend. ing indefinitely wntil it vanishes into the infinity of eteridty. The waves of sound, by an seslogous reasoning, will never cease vibrating, although scusitive | tympanums may uo longer be able to | detect them, In one of the pote books which Hawthorne left them f meutioned a list of subjects which bie proposed some day the foundations for storfesa One of these wis a mal retain all the impressions that were cted from its enchanted surface to muke ever An roti eve with the same wonderful properties |! can easily be imagined. Suppose that some savant should discover a su litle prop erty {in adrug, the application would bring back all the ever been mirrored upon a man's vision. It would reveal the secrets of a lifetime; the gladness, joys, loves } SOITOWS, shames, pair—the old, old story fraught with a thousand happinesses and ten million woes The one had the dear ones ho had loved, the s he had hated, would sli be mirrored back to life The objects of flat ry the | of reviling, of transient fit und of lasting injury would be there, too I'he but a machine, and to read it aright would require & discerning sera tiny of the subject's heart, and then what a revelation would be thé restoration of is unages! science has limits fleed, | eyond which The unkoown is a blessing scenes of IRLeS, le of existence friends cherished retina 1s it can not go. alter all Flashing Fire from His Searf- Plo. (New York Tribune A lively young man with a red mus entered a Nassau street eating snd took aseat. He wore a biack neck scarf, in which was thrust an odd looking pin A pretty waiter girl came wad while br ISLIDE AWAY the crumbs m behind the guest asked for his order “You may bring me | baked—" ache 11 4 Hou up, fer oung woman did not lusion of the sentence, for a brilliant light flashed from the odd scarf pin, and frightened her so much that she nearly fainted The young man glanced up with a look of mild surprise, and said “Are you {aint The waitress hurried off to the kitchen The head of the house, a man whese scanty gray hair and full beard are well wn to those who attend the uptown temperance meetings on Sunday after noous, then next approached. He put the pepper bottle back in the castor, picked up a doughnut from the floor and was about to make an observation upon wen the superiority of his squash ples, w kn in, “ What—wha—what is the matter with your necktie?” he stuttered, looking A the young man in a startled manger. “It was on fire just now, ” “0, | guess that's all right, ® murmured the latter, with asmile “Any with it now?" “No, I can’t see that there is, but—* The fire again became luminous and with a brilMancy never equaled by diamond. “It's an electric light on Il sald the young than. “1 ave a little battery In my pocket By pressing a button a current of electricity is conducted to the pin, which contains a small piece of carbonized bamboo, and the light Is produced. Big thing, isa't jt?" scarf 0» | scale, Mra. Gaines’ 200 PFounds of Manuseript, Cor Indianapolis Journal “The death of Myra Clark Gaines leaves sore of her heirs with that ple e of prop sald one of the clerks the United States supreme court pointing to an enormous book which lay on the floor. “That Is the transcript in the case of “The City of New Appellant, sagt. Mym Clark Gaines, Appellee The book 10,000 pages of manuscript each page considerably larger than a sheet of legal cap, and the whole mass is so bulky that no one man can handle it © “What does it weigh?” “Something over 200 pounds. You see it stands more than two feet from the floor, and as the sheets are connected only by the binding in the back, it is almost an impossibility to get ‘a hold’ on it.” “Have there been many toils” “When It was first brought here there were several Some of the lawyers have a standing offer of $5 and a Dottie of wine to the man that will shoulder the book without tying it together. One colored messenger made the attempt and had half succeeded when the slipping per slid away and he sprawled on the floor, No one Lins yet claimed the prize. ” “What are you going to do with the papers!” Washington erty, ” Orleans, one seems aaxious to advance the funds, and there they le * Strack hy an Idea. [Arknnsaw Traveler | “A man never knows ™ says a Hoston writer, “when an dea is going to strike him. Of its arrival he has no foteloctun) premonition ® That's a fact, and the ma writy of men never know that an idea has struck them, Probably it is because they are so unaccustomed 10 the habits of an led that they don't know when it has wr rived An Appreciative Anditor, Chicago Herald) It Is like a story of "45 to read that wn recent performance at the Standard thes tre, Ban Francisco, an appreciative man became so enthusiastic over the intro ductory portion of the performance that he began tirowing money ou the stage. It is only a theory, | ic mirror which should | of which | scenes that had | | regard Ww | these times ravenou angush, | some Boston | hear the | never wrote | Emperor | man, and in his youthful d fire asain flashed from the young man's | ly . 8 | He scorned the common people, and had | the most cxalted idea of the divinity of trouble | | jumped up and down screeching Almighty | Charlotta adopted | live quietly and elegantly, | mother | prince returns to the land of his fathers of | hie will oc upy an eminent position, contains | | on The London Telegram | he said, “and get a bit of bread and some | colleen | Telegraph | ments, paste them on a slip of paper, and “They were to have been printed, but | as that will cost upward of $10,000, no | somethin | white, i DA J Free Yaneh for Milllonatres. “Metropol” lu Ploneer Press. | There is one lonated human quality which no amount of wealth suffices to climinawe, © The, barwoown of the Wall street region In which the highest prices ure charged for drinks, and where nobody with a short purse has any business to bibble, there is set forth a free lunch, “If you wish to see how powerful the ap peal of gratis grub is, even (ov million aires, ” suid 8 croker friend, “go into that ince and wate the grabbers. ” 1 obeyed. he sidebourd had a crowding mob at its frout, and if u roll of these strugglers for # handful of bread cubes, as plate of bean soup, or n minjuture sandwich, wes to be made sub, many a anme would be recog nized ns good at the bottom of u check for hundreds of thousands of dollars, The negro who ladled the soup worth somewhere about 5 cent a quart wus ax important as the speaker of the hous of representatives during an aermio nious debate, whew every membor is clamoring for recognition. The rest of the vinnds were Of the help-yourself kinds, and the eager use of forks and spoons, which got no washings between mouths would have sickened | anyDody ut « boughten weal. Lut the greatest victory of the goarmand over bis greed was o dish of cold Tried wherein fingers were by common consent allowed to pick up little chunks of shellfish. It scallops, BOCTIIS A elbowed and pushed their way to it An American vulgarism? Oh, no. | am old that there 8 no circle of London aristoctusy so refined that it is pot thrown into scrambling confusion at the sight of a free table It certainly is so, astonish ingly, in tho#b New York gatherings | which are mo<t pretentious in thelr imita tion of English manners. Deo any of im) readers recall the scenes when, at a rural donation party, the doors of the supper Toon are opend d and the hands of a good « matured but not the bess desperate mob grab for the choleest enkes ou the bourd? You hever saw on such an occasion a brisker struggle tl iriabiy, occurs al the balls gnd receptions in the mansions on Fifth avenue ~Hmux and belles who would eat placidly and in inv without restaurant ix as wolves something about it hard Lhe leas ne at There is ) understand Cost al a Edgar A. Poe's Mistake. York Cor neer Pre s “0, yes, 1 knew Ndgar A. Poe," sald tichard H. MStoddard me the other evening at a reception fact, 1 had a little busir with kim once. ” I daked Lim how it was “lwas nan v fy n [New 15 to “ll, in O88 he sald dabble | erse 4 litle wt wrote an ‘Ode to a Grecian Flute,” sand sent it 1 The Broad way Journal, which Poe was then editing After waiting awhile called around to see abou iL not there, they sald be was ill at I got the cidress, and found { street--him cousin wife and told m would app Finally, in office. Pos chair. | waited a wh quictly awoke him, and said house was asies Pp efor him He glared and then at 1ae, i Ta lely “Who are you?” “My name is Sto I said, “I wrole the ‘Ode to a Grecian Flute “You are a liar'™ he shouted; “you jt' Get out bere or 11 kick you down stairs!” I was too much astonished to protest Igotout Afterward | found that he thought he recognized it as a European production, and fancied 1 was try to palm off a fraud on him. " 1dard - a v of ing ag Price Yturbide's Quiet Life onstitution ) The young Mexican prince, Augustine Yiurbide, who now resides with his mother in Washington, is very much esteemed and honored, His father, the son of the Y turbide, was a very different AYS Wasa dis turbing element fn Washington soclety Atlanta ( princes One night at a ball he treated Peter Wilson, of Virginia with such contemp! | that the high spirited Virginian threw his This excited contro!, and he God Has it come to this? That I, should be love in the prince's face ‘turbide beyond all one of heaven's asnolnted, | slapped in the face by a Peter Wilson!" | The present | sense ever to place ‘turbide has too much good himself in that posi tion. His mother was a Miss Green, of Georgetown, and she has had him very carefully educated Maximilian snd the youngster as their heir, and Madame Yturbide re ceived $100,000 from the crown and a res fidence in the city uf Mexica The two and the fond believes that when tk firmly George A ngustus Sala at Home. Philadelphia Press | George Augustus Sala told a reporter how he spent his time at home working “Iriscats® Then 1 go over the papers of Paris and America, and clip articles on which I think a or should be made for The These | mark, with com London, from them leader coula the office may select takes them to as the chief are marked, and my wife ULrings them back to me. At that time, also, I cull out subjects for my weekly “Current Topics” in The Nlustrated News. | have a litle lunch snd go 0 work on my se lected lender. By 5 it is finished, and | have acup of tea Todo the work | have indicated 1 may have to hunt over my library of 4,000 volumes 1 dine at 8 o'clock, and never work st night. 1 get in six leaders of a column and a quarter each week. Now | am baving a sort of holliday, though | intend to send back hope to write something on Philadelphia if 1 can my wile here such Prairie Chickens in Minnesota, [Charles HH. Stewart | Twelve years ago, while shooting prairie chickens in northern Minnesota, | purchased a farm of 1,600 acres. There was not a house in the neighborhood for miles at that time; now the country is well filled with attractive farm houses, | have a dozen bulldings on my tract, and the crops yield me a handsome return Nine months a year [| devote to my pro. fession in the city, but on the 1st of June, threo days after leaving New York, 1 eat supper on my own farm, and no | schoolboy enjoys his vacation more hort: ily Prairie chickens wwe even more abundant there now than formerly, but the race has changed; thelr lo are feathered and thelr meat, from feeding in the wheat fields, has become & delicate Railroads, ALD EAGLE VALLEY R Time Tuble in effect Muy, 12, WESTWARD, I Leave Lock Haven, Flemington... Mill Hull Beech Creek Eagleville... Howard b 18 4 86 Mount Engle. 45 Curtin Milesburg.coiiiverisinnss Bellefonte, iiiiiiinsiins Milesburg Snow Bhoe Int... Unionville Julian (14 07 “1 26 Port Matilda Hannab Fowler Bald Engle . Nl carssvensririssaiinniion Arrive st Tyrone EASTWARD Leave Tyrone Enst TY rone,.. CIR K 20 Build Eagle. ...cocuo.tuis bh B26 2h BK 3b Hunnoahb........ . K 40 Port Mxtilds, an B Ob B80 Murths 14) Julian. .... 9 12 Unionville 9 24 Bpow Shoe It G4 a2 Milesbury @ 25 Bellefonw 6b 9 45 Milesburg...... al 10 O% Mount Kagle... sesssnvesns & Howard Eaji vi Bewct res Mill Hall Flemia Arrive st Lox »ELLEFONTE & SNOW SHOE K B R.—Time Table in effect May 14 Leaves Snow Shoe 4:18 a. m., arrivesia Bellefoate § Leaves Bellefonte ] Snow Shoe at 10:64 5. m Leaves Snow Shoe b Bellef pill EWISBURG & TYRONE RB Ls Time Table in effect Msy 12 WESTWAKD Leave Seotia...... . Fairbrook Penn's Furng Hostler...... cou Mareng Loveviile I... Furnace Rosade.oeo.. Warriors Mark ¥ Pentiington co. coovus Waston Mill f IL. & T. Jusetion... Tyrone. EASTWARD Pennington ‘ Warriors Mark 10 26 10 10 2 10 10 . 60611 « 6 Fairbrook.. Scotia... 26 11 PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. — (Phila. & Erie Dirvision.)-0On and sfter May 11, 1684 WESTWARD. ERIE MAIL Leaves Philadeiphis... Harrisburg. ooo. Williamsport... Jersey Shore Lock Haven Renovo.ceeeese. *Arrives at Erie.............. NIAGARA EXPRESS Leaves Philadelphia... Harrisburg... Arr. st Williamsport Lock Haven. Renovo . Kane. Passengers by this train arrive in Bellefonne ate. FAST LINE Leaves Philadelphia Harrisburg ... Williamsport Arr at Lock Haven EASTWARD. LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Leaves Lock Haven...... Williamsport arr at Harrisburg... Philadelphis DAY EXPRESS Leaves Kane ....ocoovinnns Renovo Lock Haven.. Williamsport... arr at Harrisburg. Philadelphia ERIE MAIL Lock Haven...... Willinmesport..... arr al Harrisburgeae.. Philadelphin Erie Mall East and West connect st Erie with trains on L. 8. & M. 8. RR; at Corry with B, P. & W.RR,; at Emporium with B.,, N. Y.& P. RR, and st Drift. wood with A. V. RR. R. NEILSON, Gen'l Bap’. CANCER CURED. No diseases have so thoroughly baffled the skill of ihe medical profession as snoerous affections and as they have al- ways been considered inosrable, it has been thought disreputable to adopt toeir treatment as & speciality ; and benoe physi- clans have neglected their proper study. But of Jate yearsnew and important dis. coverios have brought forth a course that now proves successful in any of is forma, with certainty, without the use of the knife or caustic plasters, Wo have a treatment that is comparatively mild, It is not poisonous, doos not interferes with tho henithy flesh, oan ba applied to any part of the body, even Lhe tongue. take nothing fir our services until the cancer is cured, Address D. J. HULBERT, Eaglovills, Centre Co, Pa. «Wedding cards snd sll kinds of print ng at the OxxrrEce gor MOCRAY (on 10 00 , We! SECHLERS: CO. - » Groceries, Provisions, FOREIGN FRUITS and CONFECTIONERY. MEAT MARKET in Connection’ SUGARS grades at -. Granulated Sugar be a pound ETON EWARE «nu wll sizes of pl! (he dasival ie shag wel ality of Aky Thin ba the eet lpr Fimuat prices ware BYRUPSK Good bargains In sll gra sho din dhe ar het FRUITS Rise 1 a PORKIGN of i thie towlivet wrt m0 Letter sit) ranges snd kk seour had We buy the than we outs Bod They that the very bow MOLASKES Py #4 amt New Orleans » y ; are OFFERS jr bend goods FRUITY ass JARS We have 1) Mueon's ¢ . be pew lightning fruit § sled aed glass § wre. 18 Ting Jar in fur shend " vet k - i CIG ARR Wetry 4 Lown ] be lig Brae ful ' i Hird het \ Bpecind atte " fe high toprice than the Mae 0 Jur, bat tie worth more thay Lhe Heron: in pr ew boy LE Jar and u wi t reget it > well VA inte, quntte sid bat! gation Hpwme, Fhe Naked up : r wi wos nt wired J Hyson at 46 KM AT MARK ET We have fifty fue rout warket 4 atited WW, CH LESE —Fis t wll fines HLER & CO he An VINEGAR are or Vise v fren , din y bet . ARs ab AL BE Iwo gn te Dr. Ryman’s Indian Vegetable Balsam 'R THE LUNGS 2 y lor o { AND THROAT nition, ( SING — -B} | Rymans Pure Vegetable Remedy” RYMAN’S Columbian or Liver Pills, —— These Pills have beer repar- d wi reference t General Family Medicine, For Purifying the Blood, Curing Liver Complai : 4 | ot, Dyspepsia, Sick Head. Ache, Jiliovs Complaint, and for the removal of Diseases to which Females are particularly lixble, in all of which cases they have become be- come deservedly popular, led by skillful physicians to be best known, Acting on all the Glands of the” Body, And Especially the Liver, As a medical agent it is ¢ mong the This Pill is not a drastic purgative, but an Alterative Cathaatic, Toning aii Strengthening the various organs of the body, removing effete —_ worn-out particles of matter from the blood, thereby Cleansing and Renovating the entire system. \ RYMAN'S CARMINATIVE, For Dysentery, Diarrhoea and Cholera Morbus, This Carminitive, founded on just medical principles, is the most positive remedy offered to the p iblic: hundreds have been cared by it when other remedies have failed. A fair trial will prove its eflicacy. FOR CHILDREN TEETHING It is the most pleasants reliable and safe re medy for children in cases Griping, Pains, Colic, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, dc., now before the public. A trial will prove the truth of this assertion. : No mother should be without it. FOR DYSENTERY. The most violent cases of Dysentery have speedily yielded to the magic power of this carminative- If taken according to directions suc- Oess I= cerlain. Ryman’s Worm Syrup, + For the removal of worms no medicine was ever more deservedly popular than this. Handreds of cases of the most distressing character have been cured, and the lives of many children saved, and some of them after other remedies had been ®tried in vain, and almost every hope had fled. Dr. Ryman’s Catarrh Snuff. This is one of the most reliuble and pleasant remedies for Catarrh and Cold in the bead ever discovered. Under the inflacnce of its mild, healing and curative properties the disease soon yields. Try it, and we believe your verdict will be, not one of the best, but the best. , RYMAN’'S PAIN CURE. This general remedy, for both internal and external use, is not surpassed, by any like remedy before the public, for Colic, Pain in the Breast, Side or Back, Pain in the Bowels, Headache, Colds, Sick Stomach, Dyspepsia, &c. The steadily increas ing demand for it is unmistakable evi dence of its popular favor, Ryman’s Nepenthe or Magic Linimegt A Sovereign Remedy for the cure of Rheumatism, Sprains, Bruises Sore Throat, Mumps, Croup, Quinsy, Neoralgia, Burns or Sealds, de. FOR HORSES AND CATTLE. For Sweeny, Sprains, Sore Shoulders, Sore Back, Cuts and Sores, it is the most reliable remedy before the public. For sale by Druggids and Country merchants, P H. A. MOORE & C0. Propricters, HOWARD, Pa, A of » vol T-8-1y, “
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