CO 'XT l N'-JS N.T A L 1.. Ji.,.y r- -..; Life Insurance Company, OP NEW YORK, STRICTLY M VTUAIt I A ' : ' . . - TBSUKB all the new form of 1'ollclf j, and pre 1 sents m favorable terms an any compauy In the United States.; - . , , .. The Company will make temporary loans on Its Policies. Thirty davs' grace allowed on each payment, and the policy held good during that time. Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeiture. No extra charges are made for traveling permits. Policy-holders share In the annual profits of the Company, and have a voice In the elections and management of the Company. No policy or medical fee charged. Justus IjAwrkwjb, Fros't. M. B. Wxnkoop, Vice I'res't. J. P.Rooers, Sec'y. J. K. EATON. General Agent, No. 0 North Third Street. 4.20 ylj College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa. Incorporated by the Qmrt of Common Pleas, in 180tf; by the Utgidulure, in Mil. The Pennsylvania Central Insurance, Company, OF POTTSVILLE, PA. Capital and Assets, $156,000. ' Premium Notes, 9100,000 00 Promissory Notes, 50,000 00 Cash premiums due or col lected for the year 1871, $3,028 00 Cash premiums due or col lected for the first three months of 1872 1,800 00 Cash from other sources and agents, 1,200 00 Judgment Bonds in Com pany's office, 1,100 00 Total Cash,.. f 6,128 00 'Total cash and note assets, April 1st, 1872, $156,128 00 -JAMES H. GRIER, JOHN D. HADESTY, Secretary. President. ! DIRECTORS i John D. Hadesty, A. P. Helms, Benjamin Teter, A. Butermeister, James II. Grier, E. F. Jungkurt, Ellas Miller. AGENTS i II. H. mil, Edward F.ox, John A. Kable, Ed ward Wesley, Charles F. Delbert, Wm. K. lriftlth. E. F. Jungkurt, General Agent. Arrangements have boon made with other first-elass companses to re-Insure risks taken on the cash plan In such amounts as desired. Liberal commission allowed agents, and ex clusive territory, if desired. This Company confines Itself to tire insurance exclusively. OFTICEi No. 191 CENTRE ST., POTTSVILLE, PA. NOTICK. The Home Reserve force of The Penn sylvania Central Insurance Company of Pottsville, Pa., will be in Perry county in considerable force, and act as the Com pany's Agents until a full line of Local Agents can be appointed when the reserve force will be recalled. . ' james ii. grier; C Bec'y of Pa. Central I us. Co. InHurnnoe Notice. Oa and after the' tenth day of April, 1872, The Home Reserve force of Insur ance Agents belonging to "The Pennsylva nia Central Insurance Compauy" will leave Pottsville in heavy force, and occupy ten different countieB of the State, where they will continue to act as tho Company's Agents until a full line of Local Agents can be appointed, when they will be recalled. As a body of men, I-believe they are supe rior Insurance Agents, and most of them peak the English, French, Welsh and Ger man Languages. The City Insurance Journals, with all their sneers at Mutual Companies, and continual cry of Fraud I Fraud 1 1 dw.t cannot muster any better In surance material 1 Why don't the City In surance pair's tell the publio that no Mu tual Company broke or failed during the last ten years? Why don't they tell the publio that more than half the Stock Com panies started within the last ten years Jiave? It Is a well-known fact that Mutual Companies cannot fail. JAMES II, GRIER, Secretary of Pennsylvania Central Insur a nee Company. ' ' ' ' " 6 10 New Carriage Manufactory, 'On High Stuket, East or Carlisle St., ; ' New BloomOcld, Penn'A. . , ' . x , lit. -i - rrviKaiihuHiber has built a large and comuiodl L ous Hhop on High Ht., East of Carlisle btreet, Tw BloomllelU, i's., wnere u is prepareu w man ufacture to order r v r , . Of every desorlptlod, out of the best material.' I Sleighs of every Style, ibullt to order, and finished In the most artistic and -durable manner. . . Having superior workmen, he Is prepared to lurnlnh work iliat will compare favorably with the bent City Work, and much more durable, and at much more reasonable rat. -BlIAlKINQ of all kinds neatly sad prompt yone. A sail Is solicited. ' r. ' SAMUEL BMITI1. tut 1 KXIOMA 1IKPABTMEKT. -.-.w.-,. ,. - . JKf All contributions to this deoartment must be aoeoinpauled by the correct answer. ; , Enigma No. 1. Iam composed of seventeen letters : ' 1 My 4, 15 and S is a specified quantity. My 7, 8, 14 and 18 Is a tropical fruit. My 1, 8, 16 and 6 Is a source of wealth. ' My 9, 18, 8 and 13 Is a town In this State. My 5, 13, and 8 has a powerful Influence. ' My 17, 10, 8 and 6 Is nscd as nautical term. My 11,3, 14, 6 and 13 Is the name of a peculiar shaped bone. My whole is the name of a town and the State In which it Is situated. Cross-Word Enigma No. S. My first is In black but not in gray, My second Is in loiter but not in stay. My third is In good but not In bad, My fourth is In sorrow but not In sad. My fifth Is In man but not In boy, My sixth Is in grief but not In joy. My seventh is In girl but not In beau, ' My eighth Is In hem but not In tew. My ninth Is In oil but not In fat, My tenth Is In bird but not In cat. My whole Is the name of a town In this State. tSJ Answer to Enigmas in last week's Times: Enigma No. 1 Delaware. Enigma No. 3 St. Petersburg. Enigma No. 8 Washington. ARTESIAN WELLS. ARTESIAN wells tako their name from a province anciently called Artesium, more recently Artois, in the Northern part of France, where they have been long used. But those deep borings were by no means first introduced there. They were long before made in Italy, and there is at least probable evidence that many centuries earlier still they were in use in Egypt. Yet earlier, there is hardly a doubt, they were known in China, where, to this day, they are more numerous and deeper than any- whero else in the world. A missionary speaks of one small province where " they may be counted by the tens of thousands, many of them sunk in remote ages." . The principle depended on for their suc cess is simple. Probably two-thirds of the earth rests on "stratified rocks," which are every where arranged in the same order. The convulsions of other ages have, in certain places, lifted these up, and broken through them in the mountain ranges; as if pressure from beneath should break through sovoral sheets of paper, and leave the folds tilted up at various inclinations. Some of these strata are nearly impervious to water, while others allow it to pass quite freely through them. The consequence is, that much of the rain which falls upon the hills and mountains instead of running off in tho surfaco streams, passes between these different strata, and followes them down into the distant valleys. Often it will thus happen that some of these sub terranean streams, when at the lower points of the far off basin, are several thousand foet below the surface, while others, which bad run between different strata on the mountains, are found at a loss dopth below the surfaco when arrived in the valley. A little reflection upon the upheaval of tho mountains will show how those strata found out-cropping near its top should be lowest beneath the surface at the bottom; consequently, the water con fined by them would have the greatest pres sure, and arise highest if the stream were tapped. On this account it is that in boring artesian wells, if the first water found docs not rise to the top of the well, the boring is continued; and often it has to be carried down past several streams, or subterranean lakes, until one is found upon which there is sufficient pressure to bring the water to the surface. ' A good illustra tion of this diffusion of water between the different layers of rock was found in one locality in tho North of France, where in digging in search of coal, leven distinct sheets of water were passed; the first at seventy-six feet below the surface, the second at three hundred and seven; tho third at five hundred and thirty-seven; the fourth at six hundred and forty-five; the fifth at seven hundred and sixty-eight; the sixth at eight hundred and eighty, and the seventh at one thousand and thirty. . ' In boring artesian wells, It is necessary to keep out water from reservoirs, which, for any reason, are not satisfactory. This is done by driving down a tubo, as the boring proceeds, that fits tightly into the perforation. If tho well wore twelve inches in diameter, for example, as far as the first water, which would rise to the top, (but which, from inadequate supply, or any other cause, was not satisfactory), and then were reduced to nine inches from thenoe to the second supply reached, it is easy to see that tubes might be arranged, one within the other, which would, bring up the product of the two reservoir separately. A farther reduction of the bore' might carry the well down- to a third reservoir ; and another to a fourth, and so on. Then by fitting tubes from : each to' the top, we might have several distinct streams pour ing out of the same well, hq central tone being under the greatest pressure, and the water rising higher than the others. ' This is in fact done, the water from the different spouts differing sometimes not a little in character. One point of difference Is always expected. , The deeper we doscend the warmer the water becomes, though the rate of Increase in temperature varies in different places. ", , . ' .'",'" " Water from the famous well at Orenelle, near Paris, is the uniform temperature of 83 degrees, while the mean temperature of the place is but 51 degrees. One use to which the ' water is put, Is warming tho hospitals located there.. In Wurtemburgh large manufactories are warmed in a simi lar way, the wator being carried through the building in metallo pipes. A constant tem perature of 47 degrees is said to be thus mantnined while the temperature without is at zero. Another incidental use of water from tho artesian wells is as a motor, the water often coming out with a force suffic ient to drive engines of many horse power. In regard to the comparative depth to which these wells are carried, it is conced ed the Chinese take the palm. Some of their wells are said to be three thousand feet deep. The deepest in Europe a few years ago (and we believe still), was one in Silosia, 2,300 feet. One in Columbus, Ohio, is 3,500 feet.' A well, which has become somewhat famous, dug in St. Louis by a private firm to supply a sugar refinery, Is two thousand one hundred and ninety-nine feet deep. The famous one in Orenelle Is ono thousand seven hundred and ninety two, and was about eight years in digging. The discouragements here were so great that it would have been abandoned after it had reached fifteen hundred feet, had it not been for the earnest appeals of Arago. Ffteen hundred feet was about the depth to which scientific men had predicted it must go. One most important use of artesian wells is for purposes of irrigation in desert regions. The French Government have bored a large nuhiber of them In Algiers within a few years, and the native Sheiks, though at first very skeptical, have more recently been following its example. The work is not difficult there, supplies of water being found at a small dopth as one to two hundred feet. Though not altogether pal atable it answers well for irrigation and is not unwholesome. A traveler in the region says " every well becomes the nucleus of a settlement proportionate to the supply of water, and several nomade tribes have abandoned their wandering life, established themselves around the wells, and planted many thousands of palm trees, besides other perenial vegetables. If the supply of water shall prove adequate for the indefinite extension of tho system, it is probably destined to produce a greater geo graphical transformation than has ever been effected by any scheme of human im provement." N. T. Mercantile Journal. Coring a Thief. Would you like to know how your grand father cured a follow of stealing ? Well I'll toll you. Poor Eli, your grandfather's hostler, was a natural-born thief. He priz ed no things so well as those he had stolen Even loaf-sugar, though I would give him n lump as big as his fist, was not half so sweet as the ounce or two which he would be half a day trying to abstract from the pantry. Your grandfather, like nil " old time" doctors, kept a small drug store in his office. : A part of Eli's duty wad to dust the bottles and shelves. "What dose white pipe-stems doin' in this watah, Massa Jim ?" he asked one day of a young office student, when brushing off a bottlo containing sticks of phosphate of lime. That's pepper candy. Don't touch it, Eli, for it burns like the tooth-ache,,' said Mr. Jim. "I ain't 'fraid no tooth-ache," said Eli to himself, as he decided to havo a stick of that peppered candy before night. His fa vorite dress-coat was an old cloth ono, with narrow swallow tails that touched bis heels when ho walked. Supper over, and tho horses stabled for the night, Ell asked leave to go to a neighbor's corn-husking for an hour or so. . The eoat was put on, his wooly hair unplaitcd, and true to his intention, a piece of the phosphorous slyly slipped from the jar and lodged In the eud of his coat-tail, pocket before he left the house. Ho started off on a run, but It was not many minutes before he smelt smoke, nor many more ere he came running into the house with those cherished coat-tails ablaze to the waist, his shins badly scorch ed, and his big eyes rolling with terror and pain. ' Weeks afterwards when slowly getting well of his burns ; he said to mo to humbly: "'Deed, Mistis, I'se done stealin' now, for ebber and ebber, amen. Do ' dobbll hisself was in dat pepper candy, for I smelt fire and brimstone and matches 'fore I seed the flames ; but when dey bust out of my coat-tails, den I know for sartain it was monBus wrong to be thief V now Vet don'." . -v . : .; , t3T A drunken lawyer going to church one sabbath, was observed by the minister, who addressed him thus: ' "I will bear witness against the, thou great sinner, in the day of judgement." The lawyer shak ing his head, replied with gravity : " Just so, I have practloed twenty years at. the Bar, and have always found that the greatest rascal is tho first to turn Stats' evidence." " ''' - Street Conversations in Scraps. One day as I passed out of church I walked very leisurely, and as the crowd hurried by , me, I caught the following scraps of conversation : , " It is most too hot to come to church I hate long sermons" " Her trail was too long and not a pretty shape" "And what fine eyes he has, but I do believe that moustache Is dyed, for it " "Don't you think she Is pretty? Well, just middling, perhaps" "If he did not drink he would be one of our finest " " Did you notice her new bustle ? Wasn't It splendid. lea,, but " "Oh, fiddle! I would not speak to her, she is so stuck up and " " Yes she will do more work than any ani mal I ever had, besides she eats so little" " She looks as though she'd blow away, I wonder she don't pad " " But then you can't get that breed of pups very often, there was only three in the" "Avery pretty family, but I don't see how thoy can afford to dress them In " "That fly-net ought to have abetter head-piece" " Did you say she had worn it two years and had it made over twice and" "I'll bet he has corns, for he walks as though his boots were two sizes " "And they say she paints and powders, and I guess that " " Oh yes, we start next week, Papa has bought me three trunks for" "Thirty dollars for that pipe, why the boy's a fool to" " Do you think so ? I know it, for I helped measure tne wen, tney say it is a fact, and I have noticed they don't dress as well as " " Four dollars a yard, why I bought as good as that for " "Two drinks before breakfast I I never would have thought he would come to" "Oh yes I I will be there In time. Good-by old follow" Just then I turned into a bye-street. wondering what good hod boon done by the sermon. Number of Nails to the Pound. The following list will be found very handy for reference, giving as it does, the length and number to the pound of each, size of nails in general use. Different works somewhat vary the thickness of their nails but this calculation is made from the Duncannon make of nails, which are about an average weight 3 Penny 1 Indies long 418 nails to the pound. 4d U do 300 do do 5d . , 1J do 210 do do Cd 2 do 188 do do 7d 2j do 113 do do 8d 2 do 100 do do 9d . 2 J do 74 do do lOd 8 do 63 do do 12d 8j do 45 do do 20d .4 do ' 28 do do 40d 4J do 17 do do OOd 0 do (U do do Od finish 2 do 213 do do 8d do 2J do 116 do do Od fence 2 ' do 85 do do 8d do 2J do 45 do do The manner In which nails received their peouliar designation is supposed to be from the old English method of selling nails at so much per hundred, the size now called lOd being sold for 10 pence per hundred 8d for 8 pence per hundred, and so on. A Font of Type. It may be Interesting to some of our readers to know how the letters in use in an ordinary font of type vary in number. To a font containing 1500 of the lotter e, there will be t, 900; a, 850; n, o, s, i, 800; h, 640; r, 620; d, 440; 1, 400; u, 340; o, m, 800 ; f, 230; w, y, 200; g, p, 170; b, 100 ; v, 120; k, 80 ; q, 53 ; j, x, 40; z, 20. Besides, there are the combined letters, ft, 50; ff, 40; tl, 20; 111, 15; fli, 10; m, 10; oe, 5. The proportion of capitals vary, I com ing first, then E, then A, then T, then S, and many of the remainder being about equal in number. If On the Littlo Miami railroad is a station called Morrow. A new brnkeman on the road, who did not know the names of the stations, was approached by a stran ger the other day, while standing by his train at the depot, who inquired : "Does this train go to Morrow to-day ?" "No," said the brakemau, who had an idea the stranger was making game of him, " it goes to-day, yesterday, week after next." "You don't understand," persisted the stranger, " I want to go to Morrow." " Well, why in thunder don't you wait until to-morrow then, and not be bother ing to-day. You can go to-morrow or any othor day you please." " Won't you answer a civil question civ illy? Will this train go to-day to Mor row?" . , " Not exactly. It will go to-day and oome to-morrow." . As the stranger who wanted to go to Morrow was about to loave In disgust, an other employee, who knew the station al luded to, gave him tho desired information. t3f " What a nuisance !" exclaimed a gentleman at a concert, as a young fop in front of bim kept talking in a loud voice to a lady at his side. " Did you refer to me, sir?" threatening ly domanded the fop. ' " O no ; I meant the musicians there, who keep up such a noise with their instruments that I caq't hear your Conversation," was the (tinging reply. , Placard for a smoking-car---" If pas sengers expect-to-rate as ' gentlemen,' they must not expectorate upon the floor." ' ' , , . , A Wood Smuggling Story. f j A Paris correspondent of the London Times gives the following : On the Belgi an frontier the French smugglers are doing a prosperous business. A few days ago Information was given to 'the Custom House authorites that at a certain hour a wagon-load of straw would pass in a certain direction, amongst which a quan tity of tobacco would be concealed. The wagon arrived at the time and place indi cated and was stopped by tho Custom House officers. In reply to their questions, the wagoner answered in an unsatisfactory manner, which created suspioion, and a strict examination was commenced. . It was ascertained that the wood was solid, and that their was no double bottom to the wagon, and therefore the tobacco must be in the bundles of straw, which the officers commenced probing with their long skew ers without coming In contact with any thing which felt like a bale of tobacco ; they therefore decided upon unloading the wagon and examining the straw bundle by bundle. When they were in he midst of the operation a funeral came up, proceeded by little boys carrying Incense and tapers, the cross, and tho priest, chanting psalms, accompanied by the sound of the terpen t. The employees hastened to make room for the funeral to pass, and remained uncover ed until it did so, when they set to work again, undoing the bundles of straw, and examining them one by one. While this was going on the hearse and funeral cortege was continuing its route, and bad been long out of sight before the wagon had been thoroughly searched and the bundles of straw tied up and reloaded, and to the disappointment of the Custom House officers not an ounce of tobacco found. The wagon was allowed to con tinue its route, but was followed at a dis tance, in order to discover the secret which appeared to be concealed from them. But there being nothing to conceal, they dis covered nothing until the following day, when all the tobacco had safely been dis posed of, and the smugglers were out of reach. The funeral cortege was composed entirely of smugglers the priest, the player on the serpent, the incense boys, and all the cortege was a baud of smugglers, and were laden with tobacco, as well as hoarse and coffin. The value of the tobacco thus entered is stated at 8,000, but this is probably greatly exaggerated. . . A Dog Story. A ranchman in Colorado has a sagacious dog which the owner firmly believes can count. He has seven yoke, or fourteen working oxen, and when not in use these are turned loose with a large herd of cattle. Whonever they are required, he speaks to his dog the same as he would to a boy, and tells him to go and drive in his oxen. The dog immediately starts off and does the job as well as anybody. Qn one occasion during the last season when the dog had the cattlo nearly In, he was noticed to sud denly leave them and run back to the herd as fast as he could go, which was three quarters of a mile away. This excited some surprise, but it was soon discovered he bad driven in but thirteen, and had gone back to correct his carelessness by bringing in the fourteenth. An instance of rare honesty, and show ing how a dog may desire to pay his board bill, recently occurred iu Fitchburg, Mass. A lady saw a dog frequently about her l)Ouse picking up odd bitts which bad been thrown out and one day she callod him iu and fed him. The next day he came back, and as she opened the door he walked in and laid an egg on the floor, when he was again fed. The following day he brought his egg to pay for his dinner, and on the fourth day, he brought the old hen herself, who it seems had failed to furnish the re- -quired egg 1 " tW Tho Rev. Dr. Channiug had a broth er, a physician, and at one time they both lived in Boston. A countryman in search of a divine knocked at the doctor's door. The following dialogue eusued : "Does Mr. Channiug live hero'.'" " Yes, sir." "Can I see him?" "I am he." "Who? You ?" "Yes, sir." . "You must have altered considerably sinco I heard you preach." . " Hoard me preach ?" "Certainly. You are the Doctor Chan niug that preaches ain't you ?" " Oli, I see your mistake now. It is my brother who preaches, I am the Doctor who practices." tySlnco 1824 sovoral Americans have patented machines for making pins, but the most successful lnvontion was the work of Mr. Fowler. But the entire process 1b a mystery to tho uninitiated, and the secret is carefully kept hidden from curious eyes. Most of the best American . pins are made In Connecticut, after Fowler's process. In one establishment are eighty-five machines, which consume annually many tons of bras or Iron wire, and turn out millions of pins. Brass pins are whitened by long ''boiling in eopper vessels containing hlock'tiu.- The process of making white iron pins is still a secret. There are eight pin factories lit the United States, with au annual produc tion of about 7,000,000,000 plnsi ' ''
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