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BABBITT'S Pare Concentrated Potash, or lye, , Of double the strength of any other ; Hponliylngr; Hulmtuiieo. 1 ve recently perfected a new method of acklugmy Potash, or Lye, and am now park ,m It onlv In Bails, the coat I li u of which wlH si.im- 11 y, ano uoes nui injure ma miau. ii in pacKeu :a boxes coiitalning 2tf and 4s one 111. Halls, and in no other way. Directions In Kngltsh and German for making hard and soft soap witL this Potash accotapauy th package. B. T. BABBITT, liOnih.' 64 to M WASHINGTON HI., J',Y Notice. The Interest of Wn. 1C. Miller, of Carlisle, In the Perry County Hank, of rlponsler, Juukin 4k ;o., has lwen purchaned by W. A. Hponsler 6tfi. V. Junkiu. and from this date April n Ii . 174. said Miller Is no longer a member of said firm, but the Arm consists i W. A, Hoousler b 1). K. .Junk In. Itanklng as Hponsler Juiiklii Co., who will con. Onus to do business in the same mode and maa uer as has bee n done hitherto, with the full aiutur a line that our course has met the approbation and thus gained the veuudence of the P"lle. , , , . W. A. flrONKl.KK, April SO, 1174. Sixty Feet Under the Snow. Coast Life in Labrador. IN one of the Interesting scricB of papers on Terra Nova, or Coast Life in New foundland, by " Harry BoHngbroke," which nppoars in tho ' Riverside Magazino, "Skipper ' Nat'' thus tolls how he was snowed up in Labrador : In the fall of '87 I volunteered to remain on the Labrador coast all the winter, bo cause thoro was a good deal of stud" of one kind and another, that our vessels could could not take away. As there was a small settlement further down the coast, I thought I shouldn't want for company, although indeed it was a dreary prospect I had beforo mo, and not without considera ble danger. However, wlion tho schooner put to sua and I found mysolf all alono, I contrived to make the best of it, and went about preparing for winter. My tilt was built under the brow of a steep hill, not far from the shore ; and with a little fixing up such as covering the roof with sods and stopping the seams with moss I contrived to make it a snug littlo nest. Then I had a good stock of wood, plenty of ammunition, a Bible, and some other books, with a largo supply of pro visions. I soon began to like my Crusoe lifof and enjoyed myself more than ouo could suppose. Sometimes just about tea time mostly a fit of lonoliness would como over me ; but it gradunlly woroaway, until It seemed like a dream that I ever had mingled with my fellow-creatures in a civilized land. It took mo some weeks to get my hut in order, my wood cut, my provisions stowed away, and every thing put shipshape in comfortable trim against the dreary days ahead. It was well I didn't dally in my labor ; for no sooner was I in a condition to faco tho winter thau he began to face me, aud almost every day he assailed my fort with wind frost and snow ; hail, sloot and rain. About the first week in December it be gan to come down in real earnest, and the wind being low, there was in two days nn even fall of some sis or eight foot, which, indeed, was almost level with tho eaves of my house. By hard shovelling I kept an open path to my well, that gushed up at the foot of a rock, and, being a spring, never was much frozen. . , I thought it a wise thing, however, to set up a polo, with the romnautof an old sail, near by, so that in case tho well were covered up, I should know just whero to scatch for it. On tho third night of the storm the snow came down thicker and faster thau ever, the wind increasing from the nortb-castr-a perfect hurricane. I got in a good sup ply of wator,. piled tip a roaring fire, and sat down to listen to the howling wind, to read my books, smoke my pipe, mend my toggs, and cook my meal such being my indoor employments. Somehow, I did feel low-spirited that night. I couldn't help thinking of those who were so far away from mo. I felt my utter lonoliness weigh upon me, till I actually began to pity my self, as if I some poor, forlorn creature, cast adrift from tho world, aud all ita cares and comforts. Tears came into' my eyes ; and I almost repented that I had undertaken to remain at all. However, when I began to consider that the same God who was watch ing my loved ones at home,' was alBO pres ent in my humble abode, and controlled the storm and snows aud night ; I say, when I thought of this, I gained comfort, and wrapping myself up in my blankets, lay down to rest like a child that goes to sleep holding its mother's finger in its fists,, But O I how the wind roared and bowled and whistled. Sometimes a great gust would come, carrying a shower of bright sparks up my chimney, and then bowl down as if it was some demon that wanted to get into my house. Then ogain the gale would moan and whine like some one in pain ; or pant and shriek, as though some poor crea ture were perishing in the drifts ; then would come a roar like a furious wild beast. At length the sounds grew gradually fainter and fainter ; the wind seemed to be dylug away, until at' last all was still and silent as the grave, except, it may be, a low mufiled growl, very, very far off. .... I dropped to sleep. How long I slept I knew not ; but when I awoke all was dark and my fire was nearly put. I jumped up, laid Some splits on the ashes, but there was not draught enough to kindle them, and the room was full of smoke. When I open ed the door, I found one solid wall of snow filling up the entire doorway. This how ever, was do more than I expeolod. Goiiig back to my fireplace, I looked up the fine, and the snow seemed to form an arch over it.: Can it be possible, thought I, that I am burled alive beneath the snow, ' ' 1 Taking my shovel, I dug Into the white mass that blocked ray door ; but after ex cavating some five or six feet,' no daylight appeared. It was evident that the tilt was many, many feet beneath the surface ; being situated at the foot of the hill, which' rose some sixty or seventy feet In the rear, I came to the conclusion that from the brow of the bill out to perhaps the well,1 or eves beyond, was all one solid . block of snow, which I could not expect to see re moved for three or four mouths. To dig my way out would be difficult, if 'not im possible, aud certainly somewhat danger ous, for, should the tunnel cave in, Whero was I ? Smothered I To remain idle would nevor answer, on the othor hand j for my fire would not burn, but only smouldor, and fill the premises with smoke, bad enough to blind one ; and then my stock of wator would soon be exhausted. ' ' After pondering the matter over for a long, long time, I resolved at last to risk a tunnol, at any J-ato. I thought, as I had no difficulty in breathing, and as my lamp burnt pretty well,' that air must come In from some holo or corner, and porhaps the drift might toot be so high after all. So, tying a string around my waist, and fasten ing the other end to the staple of tho door lock, I commenced to work my way along. It was dreadful hard work and no mistake that it was; for as I could not remove the snow, I had to trample It down and press it each sido, and melt it, and so make away with it as best I could. Thou the air was so close and hot, that I was in a bath of perspiration all the while. One night I woke up with the cold shivers ; and the next day if I may call it day I was proper sick a violent cold. The way I cured myself was to get up and dig for dear life at the snow tunnel, until I was dripping wet, and as hot as a plum pudding just out of the pot In a day or two I began to hear a faint roaring sound of wind, and then the light grew stronger and stronger, which gave me hopes that I must be coming out. This caused me to renew my laboi'B with fresh vigor. At everv shovelful almost, the noise of the wind and tho glimmer of light in creased, until, at last, all at once, tho top of the tunnel caved in ; and after consider able struggling and puffing, I came out once more to the blessed light of the day. Shaking tho .snow from mysolf, I found it was as I supposed. There was a snow drift of sixty feet piled over my house, from the brow of the hill to within a few feet of the wall. I had occasion to rejoice that I had mysolf tied to the door-post, otherwise I should not have (bund my way back, or, at least, not for a long time. As I said be fore, there was a settlement down tho coast ; as soon as I could, I set oil aud got some men to come and help me to dig out the house. But I can tell you that the next year when we came back to tho Lab rador, thoro was a good heap of that drift in the valley still ; and, for that matter, it remaiucd all the summer. : The Arctic Regions. ANOTHER link has been formed in the chain of discovery which is eventually to unite the now unknown regions of the Arctio Ocean to the civilized world, and this timo the fingers are of the Austrian nation. The discovery which they havo made will render their names famous in the now but partially unrolled rooord of Arctio discov ery. ; , ,- , Circumstances which they could not con trol guided these men to the discovery of what may prove to be the long-sought Arctio continent. It is certain that . they have discovered a new land and one of great extent. After Count Wilczeo's de parture the steamer was headed northeast, according to the original plan of the expe dition. But the ice was forming fast, and they soon found themselves completely en folded in its drifts. To navigate was an impossibility. Four teen long months this steamer aud these men wore imprisoned in the mighty floes and carried with them in their never-ceasing motion. Thon in Decembor, 1873, land hove in sight The ice with which they were floating was brought to a stuud-still by the land. , The party disembarked, and with dogs and sledges jourueyod inland. The land was composed of mountains of dolomite formation, separated by huge glaciers. . The dolomite appeared in some places as a compact limestone,and in other in huge crystalline granulated rocks of a oloudy color.' i . . 1 , But little vegetation of any kind was no ticed, and with the exception of a few Arc tio birds, no animal life was observed. The party traveled northward to latitude 82, and then returned to their ship. . From the point gained, the land extended to the north and west as far as the eye could reach. The discoverers named the land " Francis Joseph Land.". .!.; .. i, : . ,,,, i , The great question now to be settled is, what is this Franols Joseph - Land wbioh Captain Payer has discovered? Out geo grapbers here are undecided, some holding that it is a continent by itself, aud others that is a part of Eastern Greenland. , This latter theory is stoutly maintained by the followers of Petermann, who have always maiutained that the abrupt and mountain ous coast of East Greenland tends away to the northeast slightly , beyond Booresby's furthest poiut north of Bpitzborgen, ,, The absence of animal life in important in settling this question, for Ilsye tells me that the whole region around the shores of Smith's Bound , "teems with . animal life, and one good hunter could feed twenty mouths." The sea abounds lu walrus,eal, narwhale, , and white whale, the land in reindeer, foxes, eider ducks, wild geese, suipo, and gull of various descriptions, and the ioe Is the roaming grounds of' bears." ' ' Francis Joseph Land seems to have none of these ; but this fact may be explained by the presence of oolder current than in Smith's Bound, and the failure of the ex plorers to find animal lifo In their brief journey is not conclusive evidonce of its non-existence. No limit has as yet been discovered to the existence of animal ' life within tho Arctio Circle, and a failure to discover it immediately In this new region should not bo regarded as absolute proof of its absence. The Hlnhop and the (Juakor. Bishop Doane, formerly Bishop of New Jorsoy, notwithstanding a manner and ex terior somewhat pompous, and which some pcoplo mistook for arrogance (as resulting from his eceloMastical position) was, never theless, most highly esteemed by those who know him best, nnd who know that his stately demeanor wns anything but the re sult of a groveling pride or ambition.' The story goes that, on a certain nernMon, the Bishop and nn honest Old Ojinkn- found themselves traveling on tlio wimp steam boat. The Bishop, it seems, h,nl found himself snugly ensconced from the begin ning in an easy chair, which a cabin func tionary had most likely placed for him. Tho Quaker entering the cabin later found every seat occupied. It so chanced, how ever, that the Bishop vacated his seat and left the cabin. The Quaker at once ap propriated the Bishop's seat, when, the latter returning to tho cabin, nnd to his chair, found Mr. Broadbrim In the full en joyment of it. Tho Bishop somewhat peremptorily (it is related) said to the Quaker : "That is my chair." " It was thine," roplied tho Quaker, 4 but it is mine now." " Do you know me ?" asked the Bishop. "I do not," remarked the Quaker. "My name is Doane Bishop Doane." " Well," said the Quaker, " I've often heard of thee, but, I never saw thee before, and I think less of thee now than I ever did." k Robbed Robber. A very comical conclusion to very ordi nary theft took place in Paris recently. A sneak-thief entered a gentleman's apart ment one afternoon by means of false keys and proceeded to ransack drawers and clos ets in search of valuables. To bis disgust he found neither jewels, money nor. any portable valuables, so he finally concluding to treat himself to a new suit of olothes, including shirts, stockings and underwear, laid them out on the bod, and proceeded to remove his own garments. Just as he had got to the critical point when bis old clothes were off and the new ones were not on, he heard some ono open the outer door of the apartment. He scrambled under the bed in all haste, and while lying perdu there he heard the new-comer prowling round the room, opening drawers, Ac, and finally heard him depart. He then crept out ; but what was bis horror to find that the secoud individual had been a brother-thief, and that not only the clothes he bad been about to put on were gone, but his own suit as well. . Whilst ho was in the midst of a search for some other garment, be was again disturbed by tho opening of a door and this time he popped into a closot. This last arrival proved to be the owner of the apartment, who, finding his furniture in disorder and his wearing apparel go no, proceeded to search fur tbo malefactor, and soon discovered tho poor, shivering crimi nal in the closot. He summoned the police aud gave him into oustody. and the unfor tunate fellow was conveyed to the station house, wrapped In a blanket, and piteously declaring that he' had stolen nothing that on the oontrary he had boen robbed, basoly robbed, of all bis clothing, i tlT Now it hi thought that after all, the advice not U), give children sugar and sweet was not as wise as it is generally considered. There is no doubt from re cent rosearohos of the healthiness of sugar at least. Excess is, 6f course, hurtful. Bo is excess in anything else., In the case of children ' in 'whom ' the requirement of growth call for. a rapid and efficient trans formation of - food into ' tissue, there is no doubt that ' nature' demand for sweets is very Imperious, and parents should, there fore, understand that, they, increase the amount of nutrition extraoted from beef and mutton. By both sugar and honey the gastrio juices are increased, and meat more nearly assimilated. ' In regard to the teoth all our old theories are overturned. In re gard to the effect of sugar on the teeth, the correctness of the popular belief is met and refuted by the fact 1 that the teeth ' of the West Indian negroes a community ' re markable for the amount of sugar con sumed among thornare of a bright white. The teasoulng of . medical science is that phosphate of lime being the chief consti tuent of the bones and teeth, but not be fore adult age an increase of the phosphate of lime is the essential characteristic of the development of the bone in children, and aslactto acid dissolves the phosphate of lime of the food, sugar indirectly support this solution, and facilitates the conveyance of lime to the teeth. ' The antiseptic prop erties of sugar and all saccharine substan ces ' is another point in their favor. They aud salt are the great' preservative agents, and even in the living body many beuefielal effects of this kind survive. ' " -' Anecdote of Judgo Whitman. rMHE old man told the following bit of JL his experience in my hearing, and he laughed heartily in tho remembrance. In the other years, whon Maine was a District of Massachusetts, Ezekicl Whit mau was among those chosen to represont the District in the Massachusetts Legis lature. He was an ccoentrio man and one of the best lawyers of his time. In those days Whitman .owned a farm, nnd did much work upon his land ; and it so hap pened that when the time oamo for him to set out for Boston his bost clothes were a suit of homespun. His wife objected to his going in that garb, but be did not care. " I will get a nice, fashionable suit made as soon as I reach Boston," ho said. Reaching his destination, Whitman sought rest at Doolittlo's City Tavern. Let it be understood that he was a grad uate of Harvard, and that at this tavern he was at home. As he entered the parlor of tho house, ho found several ladies and two or three gmitlemcn there assembled, and he heard a remark from ono of tho former, "Ah, here conies a country mail of the real homespun genus. There's fun." Whitman stared at the company, and then sat down. "Say, my frio'nd you are from the country ?" remarked one of the gentle men. " Ya-as," answered Ezekiel, with a ludi crous twist of his face. The ladies tittered. " Aud what do think of our city ?" "It's a pooty thick-settled place, any how. It's got a swanipiu' sight o' houses in it." " And a good many people, too." " Ya-as, I should reckon so." "Mauy people where you came from?" Wal " Plenty of ladies, I suppose?" "JYa-as, a fair sprinklin." "And I don't doubt that you are quite a beau among them?" "Ya-as, I beaus 'em some tow meet in', an' singin'-schewl." '.' Perhaps the gentleman from the coun try will take a glass of wine ?" "Thank'e. Don't keer if I do." Tho wine was brought from the side board. "Yon must drink a toast." " O, git eout t I easts toast, never heerd of such a thing as drinkin' it. But I ken give ye a sentiment." The ladies clapped their hands ; but what was their surprise when the stranger, rising, spoke calmly and clearly, and in tones ornate and dignified, as follows : " Ladies and gentlemen, permit mo to tviufl V.,11 llAoltK II .1 .1 ltonnlitno ... i 1 1, a..aww ' .. .u.. jwu uw..,u.. II in. XI , 1,11 J llj other blessing earth can afford ; and may you grow better and wiser with advancing years, bearing ever in mind that outward ' appearances are often deceitful. You mis took me, from my dress, to bo a country booby, while I, from this superficial cause, thought you to bo gentlemeu. The mis take has been mutual." He had just spoken when Caleb Strong the Governor of the State, entered aud in quired for Mr. Whitman. " Ah 1 here I am, Governor. Glad to see you." Then turning to the dumb founded company, ' " I wish you a very good-evoning." And he loft them feeling about as small and cheap as it is possible for full-grown people to fell. ' '- ' How Many Apples did Adam and Ere Eat. This question is exciting quite a lively discussion. Properly this is a subject which should be settled by the Grange, but it will not be amiss to give what is going the rounds : OJdrwn.--Eve 8, and Adam 2. To-' tal, 10. Botton Journal. Eve 8, and Adam 8, also. TotallO. Qloueetttr Adtertiter.We think the above figures entirely wrong. If Eve 8 and Adam 8 3, certainly the total will be 00. mit we reason sometning like tins : f-ve 8 1 and Adam 8 3. Total, 103. Lawrence American. It Eve 81 and Adam 813, the total is 893. - Botton Journal: If - Eve 8 1 1st, and Adam 8 1 8, would not the total be 1,623? We think this all wrong. If Eve 8 1 4 S know how it tasted and Adam 8 1 3, 4 3 40 fy her opinion of the apples, the total would be 8,132,889. i Hlngular Freak of a Prisoner, i A most remarkable attempt to get a re lease from prison has just been discovered at Charlestown, Mas. Michael Murphy, of Boston, who was sentenced to 13 veara' imprisonment in January, 1868, having complained to a member of the Legislature two years and a half ago, that be was too sick to be confined, and haviug received the assurance that he would be released if If he continued ill for a year, at once took to bis bed, and there has lain ever since till recently' pretending that his legs were paralyzed. " It being suspected that he was playing possum, he was etherised on Friday, where upon he got out of bed and hopped around as lively a a orioket. When he recovered control of himself he crawled back into bed aud ' the ofHoers propose to let him stay there, if he choose. - t
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