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S.;EY to ntiy part of F:..t4,1 Engidnd. ,Irthool., Scotland, or 1 , 1• *3lOl ies and I t;wns.. * q Europe. can here • draft, for that pirp, ,, 0.1 P A : :: ^S A 13E 1 TICIK ETS. I • .; Ow 11 , 4 1 fh l. ln•>f`:deatu I , l* :Ott .Iy , on 11,y4,' " F ort.dET t•Vt.r, • rai4 fitr • • I, 1 ,1 1 -; 1 11% 1.11 t!, I, l 1.1.0., in .f.ow:i.n 11.1G4R*`• •T ;.,t 1, Tr tate9„l BLOCH. pipoitt" 1G TIT I. -ilk:pi A N MEE =I VOLUME \XXV JL I. Into the tinknown spirit land, ttver tin• river by no bridge spanned, Cro ,, lng alone the misty strand, 4 . • : , Iter,innlng the end I was spending,• some days, not many years ago; in a beautiful little country' village, and in a family that had more than common attract4ons to one !who loves domestic life as well as myself. The little circle had in it more '9f real interest than I have often seen developed in the same number: : of persons. The father of - the family—almost too young to feel that he was enti tled to Ithat honorable appellation— was a tine, frank-hearted. young me chanic. :with a\ wide world of life bounding in his veins; an energy that when fully. aroused, drove eve rything violently before him ; and a wanfith of disposition that won him more•friendship titan it had then v-, en him of the goods of this world. lits wife, to whom he had been married for four years, was singularly beautiful. They had ,two children— the one,`a laughing, brown-eyed and broWn-haired little fairy of three years; her romantic name was Blos som. The secoml :was a crowing, blue-eYtkl, plump little beauty of less than a year, promising to have all the charms of the elder at . her age. I was sitting one Afternoon in a gni et little roitm, with my feet on two chairs, reading a pleasant little book, in a state between -asleep and. awake —my host:away at his shop. a nun- . dred yards oat, and my pretty little hostess elm)a!red in her household du - tics—when I was thrown out of my indolence' by a :scream that brought me to 14 feet like an 'electric Shock. It was a 'woman's voice, and had in it an excess of av - ony that-cannot he ludic:ll'6i by words; so loud, that it ran! ,- . ovtir that qt.„uic little village,. and bythight <;6l - yone forth to :ISCer: taro thv , AT r..t w; - BLOCK Vow t. PA. . . LA X W LL , Pa: Nr. 31A XW ELL. ATToitx EY AND I'n, - :11111a Pa. EOM "ma} 1. DENTIST. ;.•,,ted into 11-3, '•ut , umr. 41i gi l • Al iiITM :1,11, E.. (I)I'N'I'N to i sprtai: , to the - door - that separated tliesiting-rootu from the dining apt rt molts. and saw the whole at j glance. The young mother stood at the i1()01% with her tirst-born—olrdarlitorlllos soni-L-th her :ATMs, dying brief and hurried word from the servant told the 'sad story. The little girl accoMpanied a child-tmen! , stairs. and While the attention 01 the Older (glad was for a thoinjut turned away-, she seized.,l l a 1 hittle of e,u•rosiKe sublimate'lli - alcohol, and had drank ',enough tol.have taken away twenty ' ! Itch I J nw•little thing had. tot tork,l. ,tail's, null the mother had met hi.r at .the landing with the empty bottle in her hand,_ and the poison ocr/im:* fn rlah — t he ehild all unconscious of the fearful thing she, had done. :Was it any won der' that -a ter . rible shriek rang out over the iiniet villa,(r'. and that al ready the rwenpants . of eiVery house near w..re: rushing toward the spot where the 'Mother stood :' • , '4)N. P I:t:iithir.l. E.fl; 1N". A•rctits roi Lir!: is,t-RA;i4 1:11 , 1v St: I= I , lx 3tay Im .m !f 7I ' BEE TT011• DA. l'A.• Having' en frr tlo.tr al atteltliou given to 1: .. ... m t.:. • •n N. F F. AT -LA TOW 3. N I , W,T,v/.lth of The. Fir,t ‘-; 3. N. cALIFF lint a few moments, could 'possibly have elapseil.Sillee the 5011 was tzdien,iittid yet the etfeet was already fearful.. After the first shriek of ter ror the Hy tt her had quieted to a calm despair for the- moment, and stood with the child in her arms. making no t•trort 'for its i'ellert illdeed, for alreiviy the sub tle poison ! seemed diffused through the franie The brown eyes hatl lost their lustr4 . ; the face .was" blackened a 4. if a fterjleath. and the teeth were ti , rht FAAin a convolsire spasm that , • e ‘iu r ntly lvott „ ai not pass away. , I examin , . , l On• little' 10-4 darling fora Moment : , aw that it Was hopele-::. ati , l,l hen turned away unable to bear a mother's :agony. The little (foor Was -Arendt . half tilled with villagers. and soli,: and inoans, and lamenta tkm-; ()ver thefate of the dying child, w o s heard in every direetion 7 , :led wit II 4.finef and hurried question; as to the - manner of its occurrence. and vain attempts at answering which - added an oppressing confusion to the adness of the scene.• 1(i EN(' 1" "noW.VNI;A. l'A OEM M1119,N4:..1:. ' "ED. ltin.rn u :ming !•••r• htilbrinz, pri , ..• rra ar rc.i...•tit•.• N, •V, ol I. T1M.104.... 1.0 t l'A 1 , 1; S. 7-1.,‘ I 1 . 1•11 . :?111. ffil 1 f; E Nr =I EN •The littfe playfellow's uncle, who had been ill-Stairs with the child, hail 1.1111 instantly to call the father. and lint a few mOinents elaped before he spr:w iutii the middle,Of the group. He had lsllii told all and asked no questions. ; had. tune to remark that. his e'c l e was very stern, and that his lips were very firmly compressed. Others.too,!reinarked it ; and I knew afterward that - a murmur rail around the virile or how strange it was that he.berayed:tio feeling: lie reached out his hands and took the child froth its mother. Its eve. were now closed, and, a white ooz coming front between the blackened lips. Was ever death more assured I saw him open the eyelid's and give a sigh of relief. Ile told me after ward that the eye was not sunken. and that death had . not Leann. Ile then attempted to open the mouth, but the teeth were tight set, and they resisted his :efrurt ; but with a force that secinettalmost brutal, he wrench= ed the teeth apart' and opened the mouth. : " Slthme.'l cried one of the by stande'rs: The lathe''' . -did not heed them, but motioned to a neighbor to take the child in his arms.. Be did 1,0. IMI[iIIMI ‘NTz•-- , I: I:K 1I BiNK 1 25 .() ECM 111 - SINES =I V. Bowl it. • Bring Me the egg baSket." 'he spoke very sternly, almost witlnnit openino his:teeth, to the servant. "What do you want of it?" " What;ean . yotrdo with it ?" "Ik's crazy. - and: many - such %remarks fol lowed. but the basket was there in a moment. N. DETT. .01,11 r .I) ; Titt, N 3 bily Ile seized One of the efiy , , broke it, inserted his fingers again between the teeth, and wrenched . , theiu, open by force, though they shut with so convulsive motion as to tear the flesh BA CCO TUI:T lIOC`E Qt'ATV =I S. W. ALVORD, Publisher. c :.,,ekrkd Rarity. , ' THE END After the treat of the noontide ray— After the Fares of the mare clay— F hashed the dottel and tolls of the day-- Content the end. wnly a flatter and gasp for brvath. (poly a rm. nod My wreath, . 41111 y a o-lt•ep the daisies beneatl•, Not yet the end (Ilea , tug . the sky with wings or a dove. A crown ot light in the realms above, A 1/wol*, forever - where Gtsl Is Low, Thls he the blissful end ISCCjl~lltCpltS. FIGHT =WITH POISON. e _ ~~ ~ I ~ ~. ~~ ~ ENE froiyi his fingers, and potired the lalbu men into the throat. There was a slight struggle, nothing more, an'Fl the spectators were horrified at the action. Don't, the child is dying," said our. . , " Please don't hurt the little . —it can't live" the mother voice to say, laying her hand his arm "Mary,-. be still,"' he aus sternly, while his teeth were lazing from their clenching, am face as hard as if he were enteri battle; - "and don't any of you in with me.; keep off." ~ The bystanders involuntarily eel, with many harsh 'remarks. his cruelty, but he did not heed 1, and Went on. Another and an ther egg was broken, and still there was no sign of life. Then the whole -lody of bystanders broke out into a , oud murmur, and cries of - " The bru e!" " Let the child die in peace!" 'He is crazy—take the child away rom him ! " were heard around him. He desisted for a moment frot his efforts, and turned With a fierceness which had before been foreign t nature, tint no one who saw hit terward forgot it. " Fools," lie hi. " mind your own business and 1 =r==l yon ? Try it!" awl he wen einptyino• egg niter egg down ill y r. pnyenillifeless throat - The mother could stand this longer. Her first-horn was" being tured to death before herigyes, she imploringly flung herself on knees before her husband's fat ',who had that moment arrived " Oh, father, do .stop him!" zasped; " he will obey you: do him., Ile is torturing that poor dy child." The "1"111411 'Ither 4tarted furwa step to interfere, foil he, too, thoti the proceeding an ,outrageous but he stopped and :ktia: " Alary, lef,hitil atone. The el ild will die if he does not go on. It not do more if he does. I would itot say a word to'him for the world. The child is his—let him use it at tis Measure." • There was a silence then. In a Lilo ment more there was a quiver of the eyelids, a conv = ulsive movementof the chest, and the teeth lost th it L tension.' The father seized:this child, turned her face downward, and the poison began to flow from her moo h. Again and again as the retchi ig ceased, he repeated , the e.xperhu nt —the life returning still more, and the face losing its black color every instant. More ithair '-twenty times albumen had been administered, acid more than half those times f0110w,41 by the expulsion of the poi Sim; whin the eyes opened the father desisted, the little sufferer.lay - just alive in his arms. its little life terrihtX shattered. but sli,rol ! . . Then, when the:. necessity for yx4- tifini anl determination - was over whil the physician had been su molted, and they knew that darlig it little 'Blossom mightlive, aftermatuy weeks of struggle between, life and death—when het relieved friends h.d acknowledged that they had wrong d him at first; when the beautiful fuo sorrowful wile had blessed him tlirp' her kis , :es and tears, and all knew that. tinder thd, (Ay such. an almoiit tierce determination could have savkid the child—then the father silt dow 1, unnerved. and wept like a child. , Blossom is alive to-day, and 11(4 br , 'WU eyes. are opening upon WO manhood. But there is no hour in my life that brings so thrilling 'a re ollection as thatof the young father, struggle for the life of his child , 1 that Fight with Poison which I. haN' only faintly indicated. because bi yowl description. From Sumo ? ? Lristire Misoellany. A BATH IN THE DEAD SEA. Mr C. A. Kingsbury write as ful lows, iiil"#re.l and Sfream , of a bat in the Dead Sea: 'Reaching at lag th m _ is ost remarkable /fall sca and lake's an our glObe, we prepare to take bath—and 'such a bath caul hardly expect ever'to take alai I . I had previously bathed in nutnerous seas. lakeS and rivers, but never did I enjoy such 4 Intl' as this. tit l e .pecitie ~ , ZraVity ' of tlfe water is sue i from its holding in soultion so larg a proportion of salt 'at (2:0; per cent) that one floats - upon its surfficc like a York. At the time there was only t gentle ripple upon the sea, and being a swimmer I at once struck out into deep water. I soon fo - und that I could not only swim and Ifs at with wondel'.- !Id ease: but- I could actually walk in the Irater, sinking only to the arm-pits. Discovering this, .fac,t, .1 made for shore, taking Dr. - C. one of our party, who could not swim, by the hand, led him into the sea where the water was many Illfhoms deep r At first he, was quite reluctant to follow me. but he soon gained court; deuce on finding there wasno danger t 4of sinking, he enjoyed the novel bath as much as if he had been an expert swimmer. Should! the bather all4)w (lie , water hi get into his eyes or .mouth lie would suffer eusiderabk, me abatent 2 in his enjoyment, on ae,. count of its extremely salt bitter and irritating nature. No fish can live in ibis sea; but various kinds. of ducks abound here at certain seasons of the year. The water was as cleari :is -ordinary ' sea water, its temper-1 at tie was agreeable. and it has an oily feeling, and altogether its action on; the surface of the body sit* such as to develop those pleasurable. sensa-1 1 tions pertaining to the sense of touch{ accompanied by the most• delightfu 1 exhilaration. Of all the baths in they world, give me a bath in the Dead; Sea."- TruNK.--Do your own thinking Yes, that is the idea. Think for your self. It is well to listen to the ex - -f preened thoughts of other:;, and it 1 . 1 agreeableair pastime to give expresi sion to your thoughts ; but when alone, weigh what you have said. li is well to do_ this, for it will assist iri curing you . of false notions, and i: eradicating , unprofitable ideas. ant 1 in time ,making you bettermen'am women. • What 7 you thus.gain from surroundings, you will tmwittingbi transmit to the rising generation, and the result will lie, that you wil! do your share iu the glorious work of elevating the human family. Do your own thinking. ME TOIVANDA,IBODFOR i COUNTY, II I, HO7 STEEL PEE ABS MADE. llt takes ten, men to make a was once a saying much in :vogue to show that a great deal of labor is often 4quire4 to .produce the little things of 'every day use. Since niachinery his been put to so many U ses pins are probably made by fewer preesses and less handling, but with ithe help of ingenious and almost automatic niachinery, a,steel pen goeslthrough •fp:im fifteen to twenty-five ;klifferent pitirs of hands in its progress from the long strip., of steel to the paper Nix in Which it leaves the ;factory. Some o the processes.are extremely dt , licate t requiring quicknesS of eye aUd great dexterity of hand. !Until;,within a comparatively re cent period, all the steel pens used in this country came from England. Now the home manufacture is so will established that it supplies at lehst fonr-fifths of the demand. As a ink AmeriCan pens are better than the English,:and they are in4ariably b4tter than' the cheap Freneh and .Gt,rnian pens recently' introduced. For some time after the sueeessful es,ablishinent of American factories, th:i popular prejudice in favor of fbr elem, articles was so great that the Shapes and ;trade marks lon the befit knoWn English pens we're gen erally iniitited. That 'bad Custom prevails less endless from year to yeii.r. There are perhaps half ; a floz etV,lnakets in this country who have a trade built up wholly upon the ex cellence ;if their own pens, bearing thiir 'pwii marks. Another custom Ming and Ipon erect mre- • his or a ley pon tem tor nod her ler, . that still 'rids its ground is to stamp Veils Wit i the names of stationers who order large lots. ' PerhaPs the most extensiVe.„steel pen factory, in this country is that of 11.1Esterbrook & CO., of Camden, N; J.;a firm of .English QuakerS, who bquight to this country a fult-knowl edge oftle art as practiced in fir miiigha and from insignificant -be ! ginnings built up a business that em phlys over 200 'hands. They -make 150 different styles of pens. Proba: bl3 t a dozen Or twenty styles at most all rd . all . 'lthe different qualities that l eat be given a pen, the rest being Va . rie ies of form and color designed to pldase the taste and fancy. New de vices are constantly produced, like new fashions in dress, the rivalry, of manufactnrers making it necessary to !attract the notice of buyers by notelties whieh are merely new shapes wilt old qualities. TIM steel uslil is of the finest quality-.and comes from Sheffield. It is first ea in trips and softened by heating in iron pots Sealed in clay in a "Millie," or (lose ftirnace. Next the striPs go into an id bath. to be eleamied of dirt and scales, owl they are then' passed, wl en entirely cold, through trains of rolls, which bring them down to t le thickness—or thinness, rathcr—r quired. From these thin shuts the flat forms of the pens are pttitched - ly lever machines Worked by i!ttul. An expert operator will punch ab ut 400 gross a day. !W hat rentainii o the sheet'is a pretty piece or pteel Ice-work—valuable enough, however, celibate as it is, to be ship ped back to England for reworking into bars. The ,"blank," as the pens .a in . their irst forms are. called, go thrkigh two processes to haVe the openingslut in their backs arid the slittiin their sides. Next they are shoveled 1y the bushel into iron box es, laud go' back to the furnace'to be amfealed-H-a delicate proCess requir in4just the .right degree and' dura tion of heat.: 'Hp stairs again to the maiking process they go when cool, and have the !tames stamped j upon Uteri]: The next process is called 'iriwiiiig," and eonsiSts in pressing each pen separately in -it die to bring it into Shape. Another heating ope ratiOn follows., the pens being put in long sheet iron '6ylinders, which are turned by hand Over a slow fire.: This is the most important progiss of tentliering, and is rather more, criti cal than annealing. A bath Of oil mils, the pens gradually. They are then put in galvanized iron drums —partly filled with saw-dust-:-.:-rota ted !rapidly upon shafts. Ty contact with the sawdust and with each oth er they receiVe a bright polish. More pro'osses requiring separate maniptt lathiir follow. 'each pen ire, held against a small emery- wheel anti . ground, first lengthwise and: then crosswise. One process accelerates and the other retards the flow of ink, so that the two establish a proper equlilwium. Another effeet of the grinding is to give an additonal elitS fic4 to the metal. 1:43 to l i this ',Point the pens are useless for writing, the essential operation 'of slitting the points remaining to be gone thrOugh. Each is held under a stamping ma chit+ which makes the . slit. , All theft go . into the examining room, where quick eyes and nimble fingers (1041, and - separate the imperfect. nitiikent colors :are next j given by anotier heating procesexpesure for : short time to the fire producing/ fawn color, a little longer bronze,and still i longer blue and purple. 1 The brigjit steel colored pens do not go through this process. A ; bath in a ketqe of . variiish'; and a drying-off overta slow fire completes' the pen add It is ready for packing: ' Just howimuch a gross of each kind will weigh has been i ascertained, so that instdad of being counted the ' pens are thrown into a pair . of scales from a 'Rile brass scoop until the leant turnS. The gross thus ascertained by tleight is never a pen short 4:)r in excer. . ' .--- • , The improvement made in the ' manufacture of steel pens is:striking ly_ A hown by the fact that it Costs ' fewei cents to buY a gross no* than it did dollars when ;they were 'first matbi in Birmingham, England,. by J 6411 Gillott, 50 years ago. L ! ' . 'she . a top l. tno• is •lit !lc, A little three-year-old, warned by her motbgr- not to put her fingers • into the chopi!ing-tray, lest the knife should cut them! off, said, "God can make some more for me when I get to• heaven." Iler mother !replied, "You will not need them ;there." ,"Yes," said.the child, "I shaThielse how can I . play on my harp?" 1 " 11in.iz a nuisance l" exclaimed a gen . . tleura rat a concert, as a fop in frOnt of him kept talking in a loud voice to a lady "Did you refer to me, :sir?' threateningly demanded the fop. no, I nican the,mnsicians therc, , who keep up such a noise with their instruments that .t can't hear your conversation I" was the stinging reply. • EGARDLESe OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER . b.— THE IMBIEY A story which appears to be well anthenticated, . connected with the opening of the war on the whisky ring IT, Secretary Bristow, throws light on - Some of the earlier incidents of the movement which have not-be fare reached the public, and we doubt not will prove very interesting read ing now. The statement which fol lows is given upon very high author ity as coming from the inner 'circle of the National Administration. , ' jSome time ago; before the " light ntng struck" the ring, Commissioner Douglass was summoned to the pres ence of Secretary Briitow, who want edc to know why certain things had net been done. In fact,,he insinuated that the Commissioner was derelict iit i f i tity in ' not enforcing-the law with st cient vigor. Whit followed will 4 only reveal how an Internal Rev enue Commissioner lost his Official head, but also ' show the attitude of President Grant touching the prose cution of the war against the ring. Being so: sparply challenged, Mr. Commissioner Douglais proceeded to say, as the story goes,rthat one rea so: 1 why so much .laxity,prevalled in th enforcement of the law was the la ge number of the President's per- Sonal friends who held office in ' St. Louis. - While these. remained in po sit on it was impossible to enforce tli law. Bristow treasured up these ,tv rds ; in fact, they :made a very de .p impression upon. him. Availing himself of an early opportunity, he waited upon' , the PreSident and re peated the alleg ations Made by Com'. [niisioner Dougass. The President reported to have exhibited . consid- , ible annoyance at these statements, ft immediately dispatched a' Mes )(Ter to summon the Commissioner t-, the executive otlice.l When Doug . • arrived the President demanded him a more explicit statement. of reasons:of his failure to have • the s obeyed. The Commissioner in referred to the personal friends flit! President who held official itions in St. Louis, who lie claim '' i ' ere obstructing the due exeeu- ! ;of the revenue laws. The Pies t did not relish this direct list, and proceeded Ito unburden mind in a very emphatic-way. So as his personal friends were con- ned,lhe did not haver any whom he ended to uphold if they engaged the business of defrauding the Vermont. Re kfieve hoW- to dis je of them, and it was, to say the st of it, a piece of i,ritpertinence the part of the Conimissioner, to n suppose for a moment that he $ ('resident) would sustain any of. al Who resorted to corrupt prac is. lie then concluded by inform -IDnuglass that, as he had to make 4.Tinning, lie was ready at once - to dive the resigimtion of the •Cora ,sionmof Internal Revenue. the uner of the President-was - so em 4ie that no other course was left ,n to DouglaSs but to hand in the le document which i retired him ca official life. . lentlemeii who have means of 'wing the feelings of the President cluing the whisky frauds assert lie is in cordial sympathy with sto* 7 and, indeed, that he goes 1 p further than the Senator in ts 'to break up and utterly de y the. ring. He is , reported to e declared his desire' that the in igation' go on, that , nothing be' undone in uncovering the ;hole' uity, no matter who may be hi ved by the exposition to be made the enormous frauds that have committed. 1 en • on ee (th' !lei, A POTENT OUBSE. e Boston Transcript says a Ige• story comes from Hamilton, s, alotatt the Bleeders," ns they called, of that to a family' ,;-e members almost invariably die leeding: The legend connected it is that in Salem witchcraft s a sea captain brought his wife little girl to town, leaving them a _Spanish nurse, . was a k-tempered woman, and being an ed by the peevishneSs of the child aerately bled .her to death by i lug a vein in her arm at intervals, •(' ttenino - her wean,whilc with in- Lt death if she toltLi 4 The 'wither • the death attic child; found out cause, and fell into •a decline, :ng,•' - with her late 4 breath, her ` Vsmurderer, and predicting the death to all her mare descend- An elderly wonillfirwhO lives e town is quoted as', saying that, r knowledge, five saris have wet deaths by bleeding 7; inie by bleed t the nose, and others by wounds ih appeared slight, but which no Its of the phsicians could close. FASHIONS FOR BLEEPING. Oriental countries the domestic is that were' in -Practice two isand‘ years ago are , with little ge, in vogue to-day.; Each race !nation perpetuates its customs, ing them down froln father to h_ rough generation after genera- In the fa.shiou of doing to lied, 1 nstance, there is the same lack of mony and of" privacy among the tals of UT, nineteenth - "century, - mono . these who dwelt in the in. the ages preVious to, the Man era. The poorer classes in i own, and the wandering tribes steppes and the ,' , deserts, are nt bed-time to stretch them , is dn.the floor of their hut, or on are ground, and without blanket sleep9,until morning. the best houses in Damascus other Mohanunedan cities, the g-room 4 are built with niches in -ails of sufficient length and dept i to hold ' the family bedding. When the hour for "retiring"—as we should say—has come, the n,iches yiel • up their contents, which are -. spre d upon the floor. Each indiVid ual i provided with a thin mattress abo two feet wide, a I blanket, or silk uilt, and a pillow, and without dive tinge, himself of any portion of his 1 1 ress, lies down to his slumbers. In w atever room af person happens 1. to found, , when bedtime has ar rive( , there he camps down' for the nigh . I -.. • ' T 9 e same oriental habit still lingers iii It ssia. In the mansions and pal aceslof St. Petersburg there are few ; or .!'o - bed-rooms; -. but' sofas ' and' MEM • r 1 4 - ' iN I -._ '- ( THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 1871 FRAUDS. CM MEI camp-beds, shutoff from parlors and saloons by marble screens, serve eve ry needed purpose. On these couches the inmates of a house dispose them selves whenever a tendencY -for sleep overpowers them! The only prepara tion necessary is to wrap themselves up in the folds oil their pelisses. Bed ding of -any sort,' there is more often none. The ancient Egyptians .had bed steads and mattresses, or spring beds_ woven of bamboo or palni-branehes.. " The Egyptian " bedstetid,r says ` a learned writer : although there seems to have been considerable diversity in the shape of' the canopy and the Means by which it was. decked with hangings, and although it sometimes resembles a four-poster, was general ly similar in form .to our couch. It manifested a considerable amount of taste. One end Was raised and re ceded in a graceful curve; the legs were sometimes Straight,,!sometimes curved, and the feet - are often fash ioned to resettiblei the . claws of ani mals. The fittings for the day seem to have been different fiom those used at night. In the daytime there were spread over them coverings, on the gorgeous deetirations of which those who were able, were lavish in their expenditure;; they then answer ed much the same purpose as our so fa: Thus we are told that, when the Murderers, bent on their deadly work, Went to Ishbosheth,.son of Saul, they found him lying on his bed. When; too, the depptation waited on David, to thank him for conferring his crown on Solomon; he Must have been re clining oh his bed, for it is said that, in token of his pleasure, he raised himself thereon. It is also related of Jacob that he raised himself on the head of his .bed. mmaxa Erns MEET. Iry F. L. r raid Jeilkin4 to h 4 Wife One (lay. "We're scarcely anything to eat; And It 5e don't doisernethlng We shan't make both ends meet.•• Ills wife replied hi accents mild, "1 think it's very well we•re - fed, If we can make but one end meat, And make the other bread." —Commercial ddrerliser HOW KID GLOVES ABE MADE. In certain parts of Europe the rearing of kids for the sale of their skins is an important busineaas, those which command the highest prices, and are regarded as 'superior to all others, being the French; called in the market peauxr nationalqx. By some the fine quality of thope skins is.attributed to peculiar virtue in the wild vines upon which the young ones feed in the pasturage which they frequent; this, however, being a popular error, as their value is sim ply the result of the care with which the little animals are reared during their life of four or five weeks. They. arc not allowed to roam at large,-,as such a license would imperil the evenness of their skins, which would beconie scratched by rubbing against stones, or passing- 'through hedges.' They, are, besides,' deprived of all food except milk, as eating grass would tend to make their skins coarse. Consequently they arc kept under a wicker coop, from which at regular hours, they are led suckle the another, and thiS continues until thev are killed, at the end of four or five weeks. The younger they are killed the thinner the skin, but, ca,f coarse, the smaller they are the leSs valuable, too,: especially when. they are only large enough to allow of single. buttoned glo*es,. while the. de mand*is all for -two, three and four 'buttoned gloves. ;By' rearing the kids in the manner, just described, larger skins are obtained, which are as fine and delicate as those of _ft:lmager ones .of other • countries where they roam at liberty. 'A's France produces the best skins, so' Paris exeels all places in Fmaice where gloves are manufactnred, and an adept in the trade can select .a Paris-made ;glove from among hun dreds made elsewhere. Tit E Philadelphia_n/egraiArelates thefollowing touching story: "A mong the passengers on board the steam ship .Indiana, which sailed for'Liver pool on Thursday, the Bth inst., were a bridg and groom whom a New York friend , or the parties desired to.honor at the very moment of their departure by the presentation: of a handsome floral remembrance. Telegraphing to 'a Philadelphia friend, he arranged for the consummation' of his idea. The friend received the offering, which wasin the shape of a handsome basket of flowers, blit supposing that the 'vessel did not sail until 11 o'clock of that day, he delayed going' to the wharf until.nearly that hour, when he was horrified to leirn that the Indiana had,left at 10 o'clock. Feel-• ing that he was bound in honor to fulfill hisicommissioh, he hastened to Broad and Prime, Where he engaged a - special troin to take him to Noy Castle. Through Chester lie passed at s speed that caused observers to stake with wonder, and at Wanting ton ho was ahead of the steam-ship. At New Castle he jumped into a boat and was rowed to the approaching vessel. bid no-one thereon took no tice of his signals, the. vessel did not stop, and he could only, sit down in despair,and groan at his failure." A FOOT LAMP. (inc. of the most interesting things in the Holy land is the fact that one meets everywhere in daily life, the things that illustrate the word of the Lord: The streets of Jerusa letn are very narrow, and .no one is ,allimed to go out at night without a' light. Throw -open', your lattice in the, evening and loOk out, yoU will . see what seem to be little stars twink ling on the pavement. You will hear the clatter of : sandals, as the late Ara,vler rattles ; along. As the party approaches, you. will'see that he has a little lamp fastened to his foot, to make his step a safe one. In au in stant there ewaes, to your memory, written in that,'-game' city three thous and years ago--" Thy word 1s ;a lamp tg my feet, and,a light to my „Path." A correspondent of a western paper having - described the ' Ohio as a "sickly stream." the editor appendidthe remark, 'Tat's so -•it is eoufined to Its bed." NO . DON'T KlB9 THE BABY. sing The promiscuous ki of Oild:'.., ren Is a pestilent practice . IN'T - ,.. use; the word advisedly, and it 'is 'mild' for the Occasion. Murder-woLld be the proper word, did the kiSsers knowj the mischief they do. Yei, mildam, murderous, and we are speaking 'to you. Do you remember calling on, y l c)ur dear-,friend Mrs. -Brown', • the other day, with a strip ,of thinner, round your neck? And:when 'little Flora came"dancing' into the room,' didn't yon' ipounce upon her demon- , stratively,,eall her a precious ;little: pet, and kis's her ? Then you sene ly proceeded to describe the dread- 1 ful sore throat 'that kept you from 1 prayer meeting the night be,fore. ton had no .designs on the idear child's life we know, nevertheless you killed her, killed her as surely as if you had fed her with' strychnine or arsenic.' tour caresses*ere fatal. Two or 'three days after; the -little ' fitt began to complain of a ;sore throat - too: The symptoms , grew rapidly : alumina and when, the jjdOc.- tcir came the single word, "diptheria, sufficed to eiplamiilL . To-day it lit tle mound in Greenwood is ' the "isOle motnento ;Of your visit. Of coarse the .inothe'r does not suspect, jend would not dare to suspect you of instrumentality in her bereavnieut She'eliatgcs; it to a mysteriOus Pry idenee. Tie doctor says nothing to' diiturb the delusion . 1 that Would .be impolite, if, not .cruel; but to atil' i otit 7 skier he is free to shy that the chdd's death was due directly to your infer nal stupidity.. Those arc ,precisely hi's words i more forcible !thanll cle l - ; gant it is ji i rue ; but who shall j !say, under the , iscumstances, that bey are not juS ifiable ? Remember : 1 - Evil is; wrought-bywaut oil hiJoglit 1 " , %s well sa by want of limn." , 1 1 ' ItHV,OIII4 bt hard to t l ell how uch of the prevalent. sickness duo - inor trilityfroqdiptheria is diiej to ineli want of thought; As a rule, adults have the disease in - so ,mild a . form that they Mistake it . for'a'siinPle iild and as a Old it is not contagious; they . ' think nothing of expoSing.lbtli cr4- to theirj breath or to the 'greater danger ofj liable contactH Taking; into consideration the well es.tabliShed fact that sliptheria is, usually, if not always, communicated by the direct transpanting of the malice ant vege-• tation whtth causes the I 'ZliSease,'l the faCt that th re can be no more certain , Means of bringing the contagion 'to its; favorite; soil than the act or- hiss-, inci.,`• and the further fact that the custont-ofklssing children on all; oe- caSions is 1 all but universal; it is,not surprising!that, when the diseasr is once imported into a communitk it is Very likely to, become epidemi,l;.— It would' be 'absurd to charge 1 the spread of iliptheria entirely to i the practice of child kissing. There arc other modes of probagation; thOitgh' it it hard to conceive of any, more di rec ly suited to the spread :of thei in fection or more general in its °Ora-. tion, It stands to diptheria in about the same , relation that promiscuous ha d shaking. dOes to the itch. 1 It j: wee better to avoid the practice.-,- The children will-not sutter if they . 1u • go nkissed ; andtheir friends ought, for 'their sake, to foreao -the lii*iiry for a.seasok. A ,forego kiss has ten r. known to infect a family ;''and t he 1 mot carefid may be -in a condition 1 eonimunicate : disease : yitlibut ,win d it.' I Beware, then, o f plaYing las, and fi let the, babies alone.— atifr• .l'rteri!•ali. .1 j • kno Jua n Sri THE STORY OF AR ARAB. story / of a Cincinnati newsin found ,a-pocketbook, containing and returned it to the owner T, who' sloi with contents intact, reached Phila., dellihia in gOod season s and was ductive of considerable of a sensation among the street Arabs. One. small boy was scr' affected by it ; that straightwaY,determined to See that Cineinnati boy, and go him seventeen or eighteen better. lie tdok.tinother . small boy into his - confidence, the test of iirobity of . character :is carried into ;effect. • d;oy. No: 2. - dr p pal 4 well padded'pocketbook, which lloyi No. I, ;following close behiftd,i picked up. ; ' Then with a look .on liis face that . would have 'done honor to Ilenjairi Franklin, the honest little l'ell'pW walked .tip to an old gentleman Wiho was passing ' by,extended-the pocket book, and with trembling voice iix elaithed, '" Take it sir. It is yours; Your dropped it just now. My mO9i er and: seven little children arc starv; lag, 13tr . t I cannot keep iti - sir, for, it' don't belong to toe." The Old - gm tleman looked at the boy, their pal l ed out, his spectacles and adjusted them for a bettei sight.- He could riot !:. . • riot sufficiently admire the wan visagel of that littlestreet wanderer, illuminated as iewas -wiit -ti glow of goodness and hoaesty. t r • , lie patted the boy on the! head; and galling t live dollar bill frombis vest pocket, handed it to him; sayincr, Boy, you: will .grow to . be a great man. Take j this money fOr your starving family, and altays. ' remem= her that ' honesty is the best° Poliey•'7 Then the Old gentleman ; skurried into 1 the nearest lager beer', salooni, and Opened his poaet-botik Their he tiecran to . lance 'around and cialt , q heaven and earth to witness I thatl i r if ever. hie enconntered that boy again' he would thiy him idive. And .he n eontiinted tolorate until a- polieenian was balled it' to arrest him as a larva= tie ' and the I onlY excuse he could offer for his c•onduct was that a small boy , had. robbed him of five d'ollarsby givinglinia pocket-book Stuffed with old paper: i AN I Italian Paper wants to know- "what .. security visitu - s to the Centennial Exhi-, bition will have against the Indian raids thlit Ores° frequent in the United States." Tit tßroogyn 'Eagle says the elegiac bard Of the Philadelphia Ledger has'-es- - lablished a school of poettty in this cowl !try which is doing much to assuage the .I . pangti of final - parting. The last tribute is in memory of thelate lainented Thornp ! : 1 Beath came at half -I a:4 hhcc o'clink, r Hurt put. 014 Thtnnvsen'a 4 Thank Leaven, thatigtvei blot rent at 1a.41 Front thin here Beecher scandal," .. IIEVEREND gentleman, during a journ: among the hills "of New Ilampiltire, stopping at a - cottage,:itiquired of theAte r cupatit if there were. any Episcopalian* in the,.neighborbood. "I don't exactly knOwi r ' replied the dame,"but I believe JoWehot one in the rden last weck;'• but be thought it was arehipmunk." ME per Ann il " VASIIINGTON FIT OF CoLuitnr.k.", 1792, the Comuti Buildings, adverti p l remiuni of a lot hundred dollars,' as may bepreferre ed plan for a Cap Washington; and dollars, or'a medal Plan next in merit. 9 brick, with- apa roomnference room a l i• entatives, kutlie i - t ree bun4red. perii, e evathin. A . Lobb tl e Litter. Senate f et in area, with: l'i of 600 square . feet 1, r ms and Clerk s ' 41 Also, five hundre lo o that vah .for tli ine,.for, most apprOved plan fOr a. President's souse, "The size of ! the building, if the artist will attend to it, will of course bUluence the 'aspect and outline of . his plan; and" its - destination vyill point out to h 'm the number, size ald distribution o the apartments," With a view to eeo . my, characteristic of those,times, but Uli cli is out. of date in th T e -, present; the c nunissioner further suggest that "it 'll be a' recommenda tion of any plan, - if : ie central part of the edifice may be - (feta' hell and erected for the - present, with e appearance of a +pieta whole, and lie capable of-admit ting- -1 the additional arts in fnturT, if they should .be wanting.l': - `f; - iu - ler date of .111' re ) orted as follows I" A Southern pap lattlk of the .material ius of the Federal tracted for, and .are the walls of the; fl Cdngress House, a HOuse will certalnlY l present summer and! Ir c may safely,ico ~ ism); if practicable, longress House," ell tion, and ; the 1 grandest and most ergeted for that I prt wentld Present a ino: 4134 contrast: Nina mire, on the other I 4 A Hwere we '.40 eaten •; , ithe general mental • thOse who once occ, who now occupy the Halls? = I. -1 In these (Flys ' 1 T ' '" 7 `- onw in the vicinity Inti through the e l titi . of the National dOim I - i eSt I tig' i t. ) glance for . th(' advertised' nnsle 'ancle between Fltilad, boA n g - to wit's and ' cit 1 , ag(i., I -1 Tan Nicol:ins. in thiti opportunity of i that he has erc‘ted a.' Eaton to Phihidelph Monday morning at' Inni of Mr: John Ada o f ale Horse, and, arr I evening at the hotise i • ger;l the Sign of G I"i4 street. Heturn lay,inorning at ' o . cli Philadelphia to . Mr. .1 kinft Town;• from', th. Pothrocles, and t i tter Geoi-f_ife Vogers at Easton, and return ThOugh passa. - " n! e l t ~ ) penee a mile, and till letter." Ahother advertisei infoimation that ‘il .rectecl'a light stag( 1 nui,between the city 1 ~• • I the - 13oro' of Ilarrisbul .1 • q i l i ng 4nd Lebanon, wh,, Friday moming :it -- -aiiibow taveni in the Same hour anti 6 . Ir. pamuel Graham,l tirrNes at each plaCe ring in Beading t_iill ut both waii at 4 0 , ing. I Letters or newS, titao wagon, 3 pence 1 . Fire da yx _were tin f on the route:from Ph' , i • ..burg„ including the d ing; Ittul from the n lette ; ts, etc., we may 40 phblic mails e l sta, to Easton and Barris, The public are also : t tat L a line of Packet idet i l l • with provision . variety of liiivors it d Billet Wharf thrie; . . ~ ~. • I , tore. Arriving at, 1 OoaCihee, with four' , li'o river, .will transer;l ourt-house, where 1 their arrival. Thewl' i (k i 1 , , ,, adtlphia to Baltimore' e l d in less than two l ili, Tlie attention of, tl 'keiY York is attrtct 1 I Philadelphia ,nu lirlytty of Burliugtoi the ,j•tirney frequentl than' one day and l l leaying the twice a week, proe, where a good sta-ge. wagOn, will proceed -ecloek for South 'Aml. gootbstage boat W4I passengers and go immediately to mefitfier perinittiAy— • ' These were withon, od, the. most popul,: i mode's of public eon, portant routes nairi,el shat were then da holt r f i .of travel; While . in a passage from i • tb our State to its. C,apt r • stitliee fora trip acro nent, , involving, too, - ditions, a far less a l ma Wti turn to another the Pages of Clay)wo, connected with.the ea, noW Bradford "cOun On the summit of lOoking the Chennin , thanh , mile north. of .1 . ens, stands., .(or not small; farm-house, `,lvll , . periokl the homestee Daniel . 7as from the North tied itt Tioga Point al • . ■ In Advance. NUMBER 10. . . (For the lIETORTER.3 13.—N0. EEL OLD. )ITY, TIIE. TENRITO- - . ender date of )4reh, t, 'ioners' of the Federal • ; 1. in Fenno' a , Gazette a Phi vlelphin and five a medal of that for the most approv tol, to be erected in' wo hundred; and fifty, of that ;value, for the -" The building to be ments as follows,: a d a room for; the cut to accommodate ns each and of full or Ante-chamber to %amber, 1200 square bby. 11, rooms each, for COmmittee ffices." dollars', or; a medal le, 1110* i I njogress is • , i i l - • r informs wil that the for the Pulteilluild .i ty , have been con-, preparing• ' and that • t story of loth the d • the President's' be completed in the ensuing fall.!' • elude that acompar e tween the ; ori”inal I ~ s it stood at its resent Capitol, the . extensive bGilding pose in tin; world, i curious and amaz ing---and something land, might it not be itr eomNirison to nd moral calibre of pied, and of those x - ation's 'Legislative' rapid tra4it, ,u6t if our great cities, length and breadth in, it may lie inter-; moment r oute of of pitigic ronvey iphia and the neigh s,.four ;code years. 1 June, 1701, '`takes ifiNi!iing the public Stage Wagg? from setting oil' every 1 3 o'clock from the n Just, at the sign 'sing every Tuesday of Mr. JacoblMitin n. Washington, in again every Thurs CCck. It go 4. from Oolin Moor's, in Jen nce to Mr. f l korge ce proceeds to Mr. he ie Niccamirn to the sane 1 road. ,vo dollars -4: three tree pence foi l each !merit R ... ' ' - j tea sets fit' the illiaut Colcin n has upon sprhi s,. to of Philadelphia and rg, by wayof;Read ch - will set on . every It o'clock troni the Etc° street; as also at , from the house of in flarrisinirF, and very.Tuesdayi Ar aturday, it ¶lll set lock Monday mo rn . ape rs . sent by this I ach:„" • 1 it ocittplet adelpbia to 1 :yr of rest at Lice of . char, ufer that the 4 lished at that urg, elsewhere ing goats, " alwaN, g, coffee, tea l , , 1111 leave the a Week for NeWeastle; 1 new orses and a careful passengers to Cecil ether packetslawait le route from Phil . ge need Tit/ pei•forni lIC .traveler .tOwards Sll by tlie notice of New 'York stages i and South,AMboy; ) performed in less half." A " i Ntage-. ooked Billet iVharf e.ds M Thirliiigtou, kaeli, and .a good 11ext mm-nino" at 3 or: where (aither) - ready to receive , and will pOceed York, trim «iol , doubt at that pai r • and expeditious eyanee on, the int ; but we se , that a, are now merely the time occupied • Centennial City of ii, Will now nearly •s the entire Fonti . uderlfavorahle con tint of fatiguel topic suggested by . e s Adeertieet^ ? and ,itly history ofl what r--then Luzepe. gentle ridge riVer, littlelmore , e lthrough othtth ong since stoixl), ,a 'eli was for a long Idoft the McPu.ffie uffi ' i _e, .the anees or. oU liebnd, .and set thut lift Tle gen- eraljy Peac!tul cliaract* V . lgley Waii * U1419E033711 1101614 1114* satci4bitho4calousies and disagrrmenfs, so Conimod in neirly settled districts be , , 1 turcen settlers and proprietors. T#ese hd ,i i fsoMetimes ciihnivated in4persiMal o t•-' rages; but it was in 1701) at the iloeali y above referred to, that a-tragedy Occurred which stria the commuitity ilrith horror; and its memory is 'still Preserved' in 9e , ~; . , , . T traditiOns of that •vicirdly. Ar th ur.,-3lr Ei4lti, of Backs County, was of .1 family ~, wh9 were somewhat e ive proprietors undtir the Connectlent title, of hinds in - i i the iicinity.i !i It was of summer. ever 4- i ing,lthat h iival,tieateo, near - an ope windinv in ho house •ofi Mr. .314Dafil4- playing, as tradition relates, upon the. Gerr4p flute. Several oth er persons were preseni, and they seem t o' lave been pass i . ing asocial lieu!. together' when stiddentr r ! ' thqreport of la gun was heard, - and 31r f Erivin fell dead from thi fatal shot of : , -.. '. , son unknown as sassin without. lUnder u - . - ' date 9f .June gp, 1791, Clttypoole's tiideer T zer(iier publishes the following Okla . inatinn:.:ll ! ! .1 • ..,.: • 1 1 1 . i . ‘f the Tuo3tAs MiFFLI-I,i GOVEILNOIIO , vut ConnoswEAvra OF litivssYti'msia: —Whereas, information has been!, given to me under 1 oath, that about an. hour after night, on Thursday, the ninth day, of thiii instant, June, Aninett Enwr.%-, late of.the county, of Bucks, in4this Common wealth, , esquire, while peaceably sitting, l with Sundry other persons :In - the',house of ..Danicl McDullie, in the,' county Of Lu zerne; received! a Wound ;with a:ballet, which was discharged frottilti:kun into said house by, Some person unknown, and of which :wound the said Arthur Erwin then ;'and there instantly ,!. died. ? IND WitEnass, there is' great !reason -to_ lire mune that the: said wound ! was, wilfully ! and! inaliciously given with intent to kill the - said Arthur Erwin as aforesaid; and! the, jOstice e energy, and dignity of the: Gcrvertunenti-r.equire that the most effect- . ual 'Measures lm pursured for disco vering, securing and punishing the perpetrator: of so heinous, a murder, . his aideril' and; abettors. TIIEREFOF.F., I have thought i,. propei and necessary, to issue this Procla mation, hereby offering a reward of Two Ilundred Dollars to any per Son or persons' who shall discover, aPprehtind and secure the perpetrator. of the ; said, murde i , his' alders:And abettors, to be - Paid' upon the! conviction of them or any of them. lAND,' besideS the Reward aforesaid . , I do further offer and pro Ise. to' any Opp of the per sonS who may have' beenleencented in' contriving an committing the said!mur-: der ' ; (the actual and immediate perpetra-- "tor thereof excepted) a full :and - free par--' don for the sam e, upon condition that he shall and doe disclose the name or names of his adcomp iee, or, accomplices, sq that such accomprge or : accomplices may b e ! apprehended, tried and convicted. 1 Anil ! i i all Judges, J stices, Sheriffs, Coroners, Con Stables, and other coificera of this Com- moswealth, Tording to the duties or their respecti .0 stations, are hereby re-! (inked and enjoined to employ all lawful IneaUs. for discovering, apprehending, se- curingi trying And hi-inning:to justice, as, well :the. perpetrator ' of"t.he said murder, as all other persons 'aiding 'and assisting' therein. GivT.N under my Rand and the Great lieal of the State, at - 7PhiladelPhia, the :20th day of June; A. D., "1.791, and of the Ccemmonwealth the Fifteenth. '' 1 ' 1- , !. ! TricoiA 3listtls. By the Goy 'nor : ! I I . - i A. .L D.t.kt..ts, Sec'y '?f the Commonvieltli. , •., INAddition to the above reward, we, .the subscribers, promise and engage to ' , .pay Five Ilunilred Dollars tit) the person, br-porgons, who shall discover, apprehend and iceure th!assassin who,:.! on the night of the ?ill inst., murdered A rthur Erwin, , Esquire, of Et eks county, at',',Tioga, Point, in the county f Luzerne, on.convictiOn of po the ipetrato ~ and' his execution for the 1 c:. , salve;, i . (Sign dl : "",— ,s.ll :J y,‘l o titi i ti r r;. N Liiri.El 3 lELEi t i 4 ;::ll: ; ;l:l . :. t i L l:i.N 7 .l s ; ~ 1 t i L 1 . ' 1 . 'y, in the nut ' s column of. •Tulic:;llr 1; titil~~e~liieutl the A.li.ertiqo (July , 6), apPears thd fol -1 ) 1 • °intuitted to Easton jail on ?ug the murderer of :.lithur e, as' mentioneitin the ?o,- , cation. Very s istrong, ipre : Mice has he brought Mice p.'ily stthieient!to show that pctratOr of the desperate' 1 , ss, it does not, appear that ever eo6cted,sr perhaps toAlia for '-*: Erwin's id or - Mystery, faintly I. ill i ain 7 ertain glimmer of emjee 7 u,all probability will ever, Aive a well as the mover ced of, :i i darkness. ;Though . ~ ? ! _ lov, in,: (. 1 stispiemin of be Erwhi, stupptie evic against him, he was the lie : li . rtheli any person wa: even biought mnitl: a eloi fined b the nn tnre,,Ti4k and enveloi;"ilie moi ui tliis early d evading liuniq retribution of trklainal; to Leh since passed al justice, nut illess ku l the that nueving -and highiir eh he, clOubtless long C. C. P. , D*OVERE I M ERIT. "--1.1. wea tny gentleinan, W ile Passing Ithrough an . obscure stre t in a lairretitV l sate a ~ • i fine bit very dilapidated ipietaire it, a broker's slop. He purchased in . and. inquired to painter'S name,ll.4 was unable to discover more thaiilthe' initial's: Confident that the picture b . 1: --a seaside view with a t:ocky shore. —was rnoderp, ' he: was 7,Anxiou4, to disc Over the painter. In vain he tried all the .: picture dealers. ' They ktew the style and the initials, ;but Were. unacquaintedl with the span. They were eOnfident the painter-was' alive, but - they knew nothing of his hisme T or- haunts. he g;entlenian. piqued at being so balked, determined to tindthe painter, and at last, in isle spair,yapplied to a slalled detective. The latter line* nothing about ait or artist,,' but he undertool4to finaltite man. i And find him lie, did,. after t 1 - 1 some rouble .in ;the midst of !the dires poverty, living in 4 dirty little' court. Tie discovery - of the . artist MEM larris- OE 31111 ere IE2I MS nil and was the' t ,oit inuxningpn hi fortuness gentleman ,, . The e 'became his partner, and hel finally rose to wealth and .sta tion. ,:, ;ITuinble W.orker, take courage .friiin, this incident and persevere: r, " 1[ ("i• 1 it:swallow does, not mikek a spriug,`.' but a dOzen! s‘Tallo., , ..'s • sometimes make a fall. ! - .11 ~. .:.•1-12ik)ttO at a .reeutit ialltter's met ing was, "37ione but live !Stock should' bel.wa .; wa tered." ,'. 1 ~, . 1 17 , ' .. V ',' - Avv.i.y , down ! in the: - corner of every Christian woman's heart ..lurki this senti ment: .!"No bonnet, no church." -- s ' Joshllama:sits s.ayst c 1 never lilla a Man yet who lived b' his wits, Litt what sPent his oldilicre at somebody elsel; expense. 1 '' I • ' • .1 31"Antos ItAur...!ust .l rs new book is to be entitlea!!ißreaicfasi, Lunch and Suppr?" Illustrated with "plates," It will ..he •a handy 'thino to have on the table. . 1 4! . i , t , .- AN Illinois 'Woman' who Wanted tago to,a - masquerade party as Mary,. Queen of Scotts,!::l4Mked through the Bible to ii4oer ain how! ! the chcter was dressed. I 1' 41 Vi i . !I ' A Attlllent wvisitng• al young lady, and Iti little whild after she shivered ',And': remarked that she ought to have SOme thing around her. He never got home ~ - ! • until fent. o'clock; ' -. , I . . Wur.,:i a boy ails l and peels tlie Skin off his pose, the - first thing tie' does is to get up'!'and yell.. ! When a girl tumbles and !flirts. herself badly, the first thing she doe is to !get [ up, and look nth her dress.: E l ! 11 - !`i .• 4 • 7 '7 , 1 : A judge at 3 oritgomery, Ala., recently' interrupted a flowery young Orator with—. "Hold inn, held On, my dear sir I • Don't you golany higher ! "'Yon at+'alreadi, out of the jrisdiction!of !this'ectirt."! i When • 11 7 I a l inother cuts her son's hair With such a nice precision and artistic neatness that the son is! , ,ishauted to' , take off his hat whenhe goes to , bed, it Is about time our domestic institutions were overhauled and, remodeled Al; editor having asked an Illinois fir mer for arop news reiccivol 'this answer: " And 'iialw 'the reaper reapOl , themow er, movintb, and the httle Intruble-beeget teth up the busy granger's '!'trOuser's leg and bitrubletlol'• H ;-i. - • i 4 Balti- 01 els jr of tio3 Tiogs ay. • U