. . . c HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.- VOL. VII. : EIDGAVAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1878. NO. 52. - " . - 7 : " 7 I Miss Edith's Modest Reqnets. My Papa knows yon, and he Bays you're a man who makes reading for books t Bat I never read nothing yon wrote, nor did Papa I know by hie looks. 8o I gttefls yon're like me when I talk, and I talk, and I talk aU the day, And they only say : " Do stop that child !'' or " Knrset take Miss Edith away." Bat Papa said if I was good I conld auk yon alone by myself If you wouldn't write me a book like this llttlo one np on the she'f. I don't mean the pictures, of course, for to make them yon're got to ba smart ; But the reading that inns all aronnd them, yon know jnBt the easiest part. ton needn't mind what it's about, for no one will see it but me And Jane that's my nurse and John he's the coachman just only ns three Yon're to write of a bad liKle girl, that was wicked and bold and all that t And then yon are to write, if you pleat e, some thing good very good of a cat 1 This cat shf was viituons and meek, and kind to he r parents, and mild, And careful and neat in her ways, though l.cr mistress was sueh a bad child ; And hours she would sit and would gaze when her mistress that's me was so bad, And blink, nst as if Bhe would say : " Oh, Edith, yon make my heart cad." And yet, yon would scarcely believe it, that beantifu', ange'ic cat Was blamed by the servants for stealing what ever, they said, she'd get at. And when John drank my mi k ?on't yon tc'l me! I know just the wav it was done They said 'twas the eat and she a tting and washing ber face in the tun 1 And then there was Dick, my cauary. When. I left its cage open one day, Tboy all made be icve thit ebe ate it, though I know that the bird flow away. And why? Just because she was p'aying with a feather she found on the flocr. As if cats couldn't play with a fea'her without people thinking 'twas more. Why, once we were romping together, when I knocked down a vase from the she'f. That cat was as grieved and distressed 8 if she had done it herself ; And she walked away sadly and Lid herself, i n 1 never came out till tea So they say, for they sent nie to bed, and sat never came even to mo. No matter whatever happened, it was laid at the door of that cat, Why, once when I tore my apron the wat wrapped in it, and I called "Rat ! ' Why, they blamed that on her. I shall nevei no, not to my dying day Forget the pained look that she gave mi when . they slapped me and took mo away. Of course, you know juBt what comes next when a child is as lovely as that. She waiuted quite loiy away it was good ness was killing the cat. I know it was nothing she ato, for her tas'e w as f xoeedingly nice ; But they said she stole Bobby's ica cream, and caught a bad cold from the ice. And you'll promise to make me a book like that little one up on the shelf, An 1 you'll call her "Naomi," because it's a name that she just gave herself ; For the d scratch at my door in the morning, and whenever I'd call out : ' Who's there?" Bhe would answer "Naomi! Naomi!" like a Christian, I vow and declare. And you'll put mo aud her in a book. And, mind, you're to say I was bad ; And I might have been badder than that but for the example I had j And you'll say that she was a Maltese, and what's that yoa ask ? " Is the dead ?" Why, plca-esir, there ain't no cat f You're to make ono np out of your head 1 Bret Uarte in the Independent. A NOVEL GIFT. 1 w " So you won't bare me, Nellie ? You are euro you won't marry me ?" Pretty little Mru. Nellie Willard look ed meditatively out of the window into the quiet village street, as if among the leafless trees on the frost-bound land scape she could find the answer to Harry Levison's questions. Then, after a moment, she turned her face toward bira a face as fresh and fair in its peachy bloom as many a young girl ten years her junior. " I I am afraid I can't, Mr. Levi son." Mr. Levison looked ber straight in her bright bine eyeB such lovely blue eyes, soft ns velvet, and the color of a violet that had bloomed in the shade. "You are 'afraid' you can't, Mrs. Willard ? Answer me another question yes or no do you love me ?" She blushed and smiled, and looked bewitchingly. "Why, Mr. Levison, I mean Harry, of course I lo like you I I always did, ever since I first knew you, years and years ago." " When Will Willard won the prize all we fellows were striving for I So you liked me then, Nellie, and yon . like me now ? Then why don't you marry me ? You've been a widow for three years now. Isn't that long enough to mourn the virtues of the departed ?" " You wicked man ! As if 800 years could ever teach me to forget poor, dear Wilson." Her bright eyes reproved him sharply, and he accepted with good grace. "Granting the tiuth, Nellie, that your deceased husband was a good fel low and a loving partner, I still cannot see! why you refuse me. That is the subject under consideration at present, Nellie 1 Why don't you marry me ?" Then Mrs. Willard's face grew a lit tle paler, and her plump, lair bauds trembled. " Because, Harry, because Wilson Willard made me promise never to mar ry again." " Stuff and nonsense ! What if he did. A bad promise is better broken than kept." Mrs. Willard twisted her riug uneas ily, and looked at the illuminated shield of the stone. "I know it is," she said, slowly, "but" Mr. Levison looked earnestly at hur. leih-'baf what, NelJi t U oil reJ epectl say it poor Will is dead and gone; and you've been true to his mem ory all these long years, and what has he to do with you now ?" "I know," she sail meditatively, "but but, Harry, he modo me solemnly promise never to marry again under penalty of his everlasting dis pleasure. And don't be angry with me, Harry, will yon f But I almost know he would appear to me I" The lovely blue eyes were lifted in such piteous appeal to his, and the pretty little widow made such a ner vous little move nearer to him, that it was the most human thing in the world for Mr. Levison to put his arm protect ingly around her and assure her he was not angry with her. " So you believe he would haunt you, Nellie, if you broke your promise r A sensible little woman like you to verita bly believe in such superstitions fol derol 1 And, after having waited for you ten years of your married-life, and three years of your widowhood, you con demn me to hopelessness for the sake of such a chimera for the sake of such a shadow as your husband's ghoet !" And Nellie looked imploringly at him again, and her lips quivered, and the tears stood in great crystals on her long lashes. "Oh, Harry, how cruel you are 1 Yon know I love' yon better than alj the world, only I dare not marry again 1 Don't be angry please don't be angry with me I" And Mr. Levison looked down at her lovely face, and assured her he never could be angry with her, and then went away heaping maledictions on the head of the defunct husband who had been tyrant enougb'to burden his young wife with such a promise. The last sunset rays were flinging their golden aud scarlet pennons on the pale, blue-gray sky, when Mr. Levison opened the door of his cozy sitting-room nt home, to be met by the laughing face and gay welcome of a young gentleman, who had evidently been making himself ut home while he waited. . "Heigho, Levison I Surprised to see me ? How ore you old fellow how are you ?" Mr. Levison stared a second, then greeted him warmly. " Fred Willard 1 Where in Rename of goodness did you spring from? Why, I thought you "were not to sail from Engloud for a long six months yet. Old boy, bless yon, I'm glad so see yon, al though for the instant I confess I was startled you are the living image of your brother Wilson. We've been dis cussing ghosts, yon kuow " Young Willard's eyes gleamed mis chievously, as he interrupted irrever ently: "'We' is good, Lev. You mean my pretty little sister-in-law. I know she religiously believes in 'em. I know I am impi tient to see her for the first time since Will's funeral." Mr. Levison had been looking thought fully at the embers glowing, like melted rubies, behind the silver bars of the grate; now he turned suddenly to Fred, and hud his hand persuasively on his shoulder. "See here, Fred; you are a friend of mine; and I am about to put your f riend ship to the test. 1 want you to do me a very great favor; will you?" Fred laughed. "Willi? Of course I will. What's up ?" And Mr. Levison turned the keys of the doors, and the consultation lasted until the housekeeper rang the dinner bell. Five hours later the moon was just creeping over the tops of the trees, making a perfect flood of silver-gold glory on the quiet scene, and Mrs. Wil lard, with fleecy-white zephyr shawl and her crepe brown hair, was standing at the kitchen door, on her return from a tour of inspection to the snug little born and carriage house, which she had per sonally seen was secure for the night, ever since her husband's death. Her cheeks were flushed to the tint of an oleander flower by the keen kiss of the frosty air, and her eyes wero glowing like blue fires as she stood there one moment in the broad band of white moonlight that lay athwart the floor like a silent blessing. Then, with a little involntary exclamation at the per fect beauty of the night, she went in, locked the door after her, for her three servants were all retired for the night, and then gave a little shriek, for stand ing in the self-same accustomed place he was wont to occupy, and looking as natural as if it were himself in the flesh, was her husband. She stifled her shriek, and tried bravely to feel brave, but her heart was tearing around very un disciplinedly as she realized that she was looking upon a bona-Jide ghost a veritable inhabitant of the land of eternal shadows. "Will," she said, faintly, with her hand tight on the handle of the door. " Will, is it you ?" His voice was precisely as it had been in the old days mellow, musical, a little domineering Will's undeniably, unmis takably. "Who should it be but I, Nellie, aud come on purpose to communicate with you." "Yes?" she gasped, "but what for? I have tried I have done everything that I thought you oould wish. There is nothing wrong, Will !" -The pale, moon-lighted face, the speckless black suit, the spotless linen, the very same in which he had been buried, the low, familiar voice it almost paralyzed Nellie, and yet, aided by the very material contact of the doorknob, ebe stood her ground and listened. "Nothing wrong with you, Nellie, but with me. I come to bring you a present." Nellie was startled, and looked at him curiously, wondering what he had brought from the other world. " I present you," he said, " with your liberty, for I can't rest in mv crave knowing the wrong I unintentionally committed in binding you to perpetual widowhood for my sake. I oome to re voke my decision to give you my full permission to marry again, and my ad vice WJ marry uuruue iievison. .promise me you'll do it, and I will rest peacefully forever." " Oh, Will I if you will say so if you think it best yes ! yes, I will 1" . tier lace was paie enough now to have patted, for ghoul hersolj, " Go look at the big clock in the din ing-room, Nellie, and see if it is near the stroke of twelve." She. went dumbly, mechanically, at his behest ; and, when sho came back, he was gone, and the moonlight streamed in on an empty room. Then the reaction followed, and Nel lie flew up to her bed room, and locked the door, and covered her head with a shawl, and sobbed and cried hysteri cally, until her over-wrought nerves found relief in sleep. The next day Mr. Levison sent a little note over, apologizing for his seeming discourtesy in not coming to bid her good-by on his sudden departure for an indefinite time, and telling her that her cruel decision never to marry again had been the cause of it, and that they might never meet again, etc., eto. To which Nellie, all pale, alarmed and crimson with confusion, penciled an answer, assuring him she had changed her mind, and begging him to come over to lunch, to see her, and meet her brother-in-law, who had only jnstarrived from abroad. Of course Mr. Levison came, and it didn't take two minutes to settle it, nor did he laugh at her when she solemnly related her experience of the night be fore. "For it was his ghost, Harry, just as true as I am alive and speaking to yon 1" "A jolly old I mean a thoughtful, pains-taking spirit, Nellie! Bless his ghostship. we'll hold him in eternal re membrance." Nor did his countenance change a fea ture, even when he and Nellie and Fred Willard discussed the marvelously obliging kindness of the departed. Nor did pretty, blooming, blushing Mrs. Nellie ever for a moment dream that her visitant was Fred himself, as sisted by a wig and false whisker nor was there any need she should know, for her lioppiness was secured, her con science at ease. An Indian War Dance. The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times thus describes a general war dance, exe cuted in Chief Joseph's camp above Fort Leavenworth : Chief Joseph and his brethren were decorated in the most gorgeous style, their dresses being something new and iu the most varied colore. The dance was given as a token of respect to the memory of one of the most valued chiefs of the tribe, who was killed at the battle of Bear Paw Moun tain. Tho chief was a leading brave, and was one of high position in the tribe. Joseph made the occasion of great importance at the camp, and was himself arrayed in magnificent style. Several fine horses, borrowed frem the officers of the garrison, were used on the occasion by the warriors, and each animal was decked in all that can be imagined in the way of Indian notions of beanty. Some were almost covered with skins of various animals, while around their necks were long strings of bells and bead work, which would have Ent a circus to shame. The tails of the orses were artistically decorated with eagle feathers. Among the horses used was a handsome black steed owned by Captain C. S. Ilsley, which was made attractive by being caparisoned in elegant style, and rode by a grandson of the late survivor of tho original tribe. The latter left bis "tepee "with quiet dignity, aud, after mounting his horse, joined the procession which circled about the same in concert witn the loud cries and wails of the women within. The ceremony was kept up for a long time, and each one of the warriors seemed in earnest. During the cere mony Chief Joseph told Captain Ilsley, who was present, through the inter preter, Mr. Chapman, that the feeling of the tribe had always been favorable towards the white men, and that their good will had always been looked for, and that if his heart was taken out it would show the truth of the assertion ; that the tribe had the same feeling now they always had, and that he hoped when, if he should ever return to his own country, he would be able to show he had told the truth. He then, on behalf of the tribe, presented Captain Ilsley with a handsome buffalo robe as a token of good faith. The ceremonies of the dance were then begun and lasted until a late hour iu the evening. Shakespeare and the Bible. Bead the following curious parallels between Shakespeare and the" Bible. They will be found interesting : Bible "But though I be rude in speech." 2 Cor. xi. 6. Othello " Rude am I iu speech." Bible " Consume thine eyes aud to grieve thine heart." Samuel ii. 35. Macbeth " Show his eyes and grieve his heart." Bible "Thou hast brought me into the dust of death." Psalms. Macbeth "Lighted fools the way to dusty death." Bible "Look not upon me, because I am block, because the sun hath looked upon me." Solomon Song i. 6. Merchant of Venice " Mistake me not for my complexion ; the shadowy livery of the burning sun." Bible "What is mau that thou art mindful of him ! For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands." Psalms viii. i, 5. 6. Hamlet "What a piece of work is man I How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties t In form and moving how express and admirable I In action, how like an angel ! In apprehension, how like a God I The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals." A Paste fob Family Use. The Drug gists' Circular gives the following re ceipt for making a paste similar to that used on postage stamps and gummed labels: Dextrine, two ounces; acetio acid, four drachms; alcohol four drachms; water, two and a half ounces. Mix the dextrine, acetio acid and water, stirring until thoroughly uixed; then add alco hol. For attaching labels to tin, first rub the surface with a mixture of muria tio acid and alcohol; then apply the labels with a very thin coating of the paste, and it will adhere almost p well MOQ glMS. ' FAlOf, G Alt DEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Batter Making. The American Farmer thus sums up the various modes of making butter in different parts of Europe : " Denmark and Sweden, along with France, are the countries which supply England, Brazil and the east with butter. The prepara tion of butter in the first two countries is altogether the opposite of what takes place in Franoe ; yet the products of France appear, from market notes, to realize the higher prices. In Denmark and Sweden the butter is prepared from cream skimmed from milk cooled in ice the moment after the cows are milked; it is churned at a similar low tempera ture, well-worked to expel the milk ; never washed, and salted at the rate of four to six per cent. The French admit this plan enables the butter to resist rancidity and a hot climate, but at a loss of its consistency, flavor and aroma. It is the opinion of excellent judges, that by adopting the Swartz process of but ter making, viz. : cooling the milk by means of ice or well-water, aud churn ing the cream before it becomes at all acid, bIbo at a low temperature, then washing the bntter with water, salting it once and for good, working it slightly and rapidly, the most perfect butter for exportation could be obtained. In France butter is sent nnsalted to the market, and hence its aroma and flavor can be fully tested; the wholesale buy ers then salt and barrel it np immediate ly for exportation to Brazil, the most important market after England. In the case of the extreme east, Denmark, however, beats Franco iu the market ; but France is the first in the preparation of fresh butter. It is admitted that when a dairy is suitably fitted np, it is advontageons to place the milk, immedi ately on being drawn from the cow, in pans cooled by ice or well-water ; this secures a better throwing np of the cream, and a more profitable yield of butter. It is still a curious fact that experiments made by M. MnisoDhante, according to the Swartz process, foiled to secure aroma and flavor in the but ter, while in perfumery manufactories it is by tho agency of cold that the volatile and essential oils are fixed iu fatty sub stances." Sweden seems to have orig inated the plan of using deep cans, which are set to the rim in water made as cold as possible by the use of ice. For the taste of many, the Swedish but ter salted at the rate given above (from a half to an onuce of salt per pound) would be too salty. Our best dairymen URe about one ounco to three pounds. As a sequel to the above we clip the fol lowing from the London Fanner: "A Copenhagen paper states that importa tion of American butter into Denmark, which commenced some months ago, has now attained considerable proportions, many huudred packages being frequent ly delivered in the same week. The majority of it appears to come from Canada, via Scotland, and, as at present delivered, cannot for a moment compete with the better class of Danish butters, though it may do fairly well for pastry -making and for cooking purposes gener ally, and so prove a formidable rival to the home-made butters of iuferior qual ity. It is sold' retail at 5d. to 7?d. per pound. The original quality of the outter appears to be superior to that of the Galncian butter formerly used in Denmark, Its general get up,' too, is good, audit is well packed; but the long journey aud the tedious delay in Scotland have a very injurious effect upon it. In the colder season of the year it may, perhaps, arrive in better condition, more especially tinder better arranged and accelerated service, in which case a very keen competition with home production must ensue." .Medical Hints. Acidity op the Stomach. This nu be corrected by using alkalies. Borax is good, if used properly. Take a small pinch every day; too muoh might cause nausea. For Dyspepsia. Burn alum until the moisture in it is evaporated; then take as much as you can put on a dime, about half au hour before eating. Three or four days probably will answer; but take it until cured. Sprains. Cold fomentations ore use ful in sprains, but not until the active inflammation has subsided, and it is re quired to give tone and strength to tho part. The best way of applying them is to put a thick bandage upon the part and keep pouring cold water over it. Cold in the Head. This can be cured f,t once if taken in time. Dissolve a ublespoonful of pulverized borax iu a pint of hot water; when tepid, snuff some up the nostrils two or three times a day, or nse the dry powdered borax like snuff, taking a pinch as often as re quired. Baking. Baking is a more economi cal mode of cooking than roasting, es pecially iu small families where econ omical stoves, or ranges with side ovens are used. In baking there is less loss of weight than in roasting, as the first is much less dried; then again, it roquires far less attention m the process. Great Muscular Power. Mr. Gosse relates the following anec dote in The World of Wonders, of a three-homed beetle, which is not larger than an ordinary English stag-beetle : "(This inseot has just astonished Jrae by a proof of its vast strength of body. When it was first brought to me, having no box immediately at hand, I was nt a loss where to put it until I could kill it; but a quart bottle full of milk being on the table, I clapped the beetle for the C resent under that, the hollow at the ottoin allowing him room to stand up right. Presently, to my surprise, the bottle began to move slowly, and glide along the smooth table, propelled by the muscular power of the imprisoned insect, and continued for some time to peram bulate the surface, to the astonishment of all who witnessed it. " The weight of the bottle and its con tents could not have been less than three pounds and a half, while that of the beetle was about half an ounce ; so that it readily moved a weight 112 times ex ceeding its own. A better notion than figures con convey will be obtained of this feat by uupposing a lad of fifteen to be imprisoned under the great bell of St Paul's, which weight 12,000 pounds, and to move it to and fro on a smooth, pave. nt by pubing within." r Juvenile Jack Sheppnrds. At Hawick, England, recently, Wil liam Laidlaw Emers Hemsley, aged six teen years, and John Turnbnll, aged fourteen years, had been detected in the act of shoplifting, aud were appre hended. After their apprehension, Superintendent Morrison searched the house in Tiviot orescent, where Hems ley lives with his fnther. In the closet in the house he found a large quantity of various articles, supposed to have been stolen. Two M8S. were found, in which the young culprits had made most business-like records of their transac tions. One of the books is a sort cf journal. It haj been only a few days iu use, and on the title page is written, in a clear, bold hand, " W. L. Emers and John Turn bull's secret and memorandum book, Tuesday, Jan. 1. 1878. United Order of Outlaws." It is understood that the entries are all in Hemsley's handwriting. The first page is headed. "What I have stolen in money." The first theft recorded is one of one penny "from mether." There are trifling sums entered as taken from neighbors, obtained by altering the figures in a shopkeeper s pans-book, and abstracted from the till -of an office where he was formerly employed. Ahother pnge has the heading "How many loeks I have stolen," and then follows a list of the places where they were taken from, such as stables, garden and field gates, with the owners' names when they were known, and in other cases the locality where the theft was committed is min utely described. Next comes, " What I have stolen out of shops," which list in cludes, besides many of the articles re covered, tins of beef, jars of jam, shop weights, twenty-eight keys from one ironmonger's shop, etc., etc. Under the heading " What I have stolen from persons and places," there is a list of a number of places, including factories, schools, and the theatre, whera thefts had been committed. The booty in cludes half a barrel of ale from a hotel door. The MSS. volume also contains sketches of plans and operations for the future. Lists of "What I have to steal," " What I have to bny and make," including a variety of articles, useful and ornamental, from a steam engine aud boiler to a musical-box. And then there is a memorandum of "What I have to write for." This includes, singularly enough for such apparently cool hands, " A cure for the nerves," besides several medicines and cosmetics, aud a volume of poetry. Further on in the book is an inventory of their ill-goton possessions, aud another of " Tools for housebreak ing," nniong which are enumerated seventy-seven skeleton keys. The other headings, " What I got by housebreak ing," and " What Tnrnbull has got by housebreaking," have no entries ap pended, tho interference of the police having suspended the bookkeeping as well as other contemplated operations. Fashion Note. Everything is to be beaded iu the spring. Bronze-browu and bronze-green are two leading colors. A handsome feather for a dress hat 's made of India game-cock's tails and lophomore tail feathers combined. Skirts are worn short in front and grow longer aud longer in the back. Russia leather fans, mounted with silk or satin, in all the new dark, rich colors, are very popular. The latest novelty in scarfs are of Iudin crepe, embroidered with silk in all the Oriental shades. The latest fashion for handkerchiefs is to have them made to match exactly the collars and cuffs worn. Feathers arranged in bands form a beautiful trimming. A fringe of Mura ocut tips is exquisite on an evening silk. Clasps, such as are worn to fasten wraps, are now used in holding drapery. Insects are also worn in the hair. They seem almost to flutter on their velvety couches. Gilt and enameled emblems of birds have been introduced ou velvet head gear, some pinnioned down by minute arrows, somewhat bent, to show that the missile was light and the prey heavy hearted. The very latest in hosiery is black silk stockings elaborately embioidered with clair-de-lune beads, presenting quite a sparkling appearance. Many ladies, however, object to these beads, because they hurt the foot, and the pattern gets tntooed ou it; for these there are inser tions of black lace insteps. A pretty model of a capote bonnet is quite seasonable in appearance. It is of bronze felt, trimmed with a wreath of thistles, and diminutive fircones, grasses and moss of every conceivable shade of green, a few loops of satin ribbon at the back, and a double ruche of tilleul silk under the border. Lace will, if possible, be used eveu more than ever. While it is always de sirable to have it real, there is not an absolute necessity for it. Those who can afford them still oling to real thread and guipure, but for those to whom the real is unattainable, the Rench is pretty and within reach, aud allowable by fashion The luce used for undergarments is all of one kind, although it is distinguished with a number of names, a few of which ore Clevis, Mirecourt and Torchan. (a unities of Land Travel. M. Gartiaux has published some curi ous statistics on the dangers of traveling by laud. He says that in the old dili gence days a man had one chance of be ing killed in 800,000 trips, and one chance of being injured in 30,000. On the railway, between 1835 and 1855, theie was one chance of being killed in 2,000,000 journeys, and one chance of being injured in 600,000. From 1855 to 1875 one chance of being killed in mak ing 6,000,000 journeys, aud one chance of being injured in 600,000. Now the chances of being killed are as one to 45,000,000, and of being injured one to 1,000,000. Consequently, a person traveling ten hours a day at the rate of forty miles an hour would, in the firtt period, have had a chance of escaping destruction dining 821 years; during the second period during 1,014 years, and between 1872 and 1870 during 7,43i) year. " 4." ' THE UNITED STATES MINT. Item of Interest to Hnslnpss Men n ml the iPeople Uencrnlly. The two cent pieces were abolished five years ago. There are five times as many one cent pieces used as threes. Less than $10,000 of one cent pieces were coined last year. No fives or threes (nickel) were coined last year for circulation. The old-fashioned silver dollar has not been made for five year. The shipping of silver coins from the mint began about a year ago. Silver is purchased at the mint to a limited extent. It is paid for in gold. Nickle and bronze coins are only mode in the United States mint in this city. The Eastern, Middle, and Western States take most of the nickle and bronze coins. Double eagles are being made for the depositories because they are more sala ble. No silver is coined in subsidiary coin for depositors. The government coins for itself alone. In the South the people are now us ing one cent pieces and threes and fives very extensively. Five times as many five cent pieces as ones are sent away, and five times as many ones as threes. There is no coinage charged in gold. The only charge is for parting, refin ing, audtoughening. No silver is exchanged for notes at the mint. This is done by transfers which come through Washington. Two weeks ngo nearly $300,000 in gold dollars were made for the sub treasury department of New York. There are lying in the depositories and vaults of the sub-treasury in this city nearly $300,000 in five cent nickel pieces. Five cent pieces are circulated con siderably in New Orleans. Pennies were recently sent to that city, which were the first ever called for. The largest number of early orders for small coins came from the southeast. Kecent orders are chiefly from this sec tion of the country. A largo amount of the $38,000,000 in small coins circulated within the year were manufactured during the same period, and consequently the coins are new. The government has issued over $38, 000,000 of small silver coins since the redemption of fractional currency began, and the market is fairly glutted with them. The demand for one ceut pieces has increased within tho last three or four months, and the demand for fives has decreased. This is due to the issue of so mny dimes. Iu brisk times the mint pays out from three to five thousand dollars a ilay for the accommodation of people making change and for shipment through the country. No trade dollars have been made this year. Several millions wero coined iu 1877. Their coinage was suspended in Dect-mber. They were only coined to a limited extent for circulation. Nickel and bronze are kept at par by redeeming them in greenbacks. They are deposited in the mint in sums of not less than twenty dollars, receipted for, and checks sent to the depositor. No silver five cent pieces have been made for five years. In fact, they have been abolished as well as the silver three cant piece. The nickel threes Bre still issued, 'although but few are used. From five to ten thouaand dollars of eagles, half eagles, and three dollar pieces are made every year in order to keep up the history of the coin. About $2,000 of ones are n. ade for the same purpose. The mint shipped over the country in 1876 about $500,000 in small coins, consisting of one, three, and five cent pieces. They went chiefly West and East. In 1877. only about &38G.000 jn these small coins were Bhipped. The authorities at tho mint can foel the pulse of business by the amount of coin sent in for redemption. If busi ness is falling off the redemption is larger. When it is steady tho redemp tion moves along at the rate of about $500 a day. The greatest demand for silver coins is for the half dollar. The quarter dol lar is the second favorite and tho dime is the third and last in the list. The de mand for half dollars is twice as great as for quarters, and live times mere halves are required than climes. When business is brisk iu the city about seven or eight hundred dollars a clay in change is required for nickel and wonze. The railroad companies are de manding more than usual on account of the six-cent faros. This demand, how ever, has ftdlen off somewhat within the past few days. More trade dollars were coined from April, 1873, to December, 1S77, than there were coined of the dollar of the fathers for the eighty-one years preced ing. Tka trade aollar was intended for the China trade, and nearly all that have been coined have gone to China, Japan, and India. Philadelphia North American. A Mayor's Fif ecu Ceut Dinner. Miss Juliet Corson, of the New York cooking school, recently gave a test dinner at No. 8 St. Mark's place to his honor Mayor Ely and a select company of invited guests, the object being to show what could be done for fifteen cents for each person. The following bill of fare was figured up accurately, aud was found to have fallen within the financial limit by two cents : Puree of Pens, with Croutons. OHve3. Celery. Chow-chow. Perch, with Fine Herbs. I3ass a la Chambord. Maitre d'Hotel Potatoes. Salmi of Duck, with Olives. J lentils Saute. Maocaroni a la Milanaiue. Roast Tenderloins. Lettuce and Water Cresses. Salad. Celery Fritters. Brouchees, with Preserves. Mexican Chocolate. Apples. Nuts. Roquefort Cheese. Coffee. The table wag set for twelve ueorjle. and eleven were present. The mayor expressed doui his wooder and cratiflca- Items of Interest. If money is tight, avoid it it ought to know better. "Man wants but little here below," and ho generally gets it, too. Riches will never take wings and fly away, if you sprinkle a little economy on its tail. A man recently knocked down an ele phant, a lion and a rhinoceros. He was an auctioneer, Horace Greeley's estate, which was inventoried at $206,000 shortly after his death, yields little more than $20,000 on the final settlement. "Do they miss you at home?" he asked, as she folded and put away a let ter she had just received from her mother. " Never," she answered; "they always call me sis." " My dear," asked Mrs. J of her husbunil, ou coming home from church -the other day, "what was the sweetest thing yon saw in bonnets ?" " The ladies' faces," was the bland reply. "This is meat and drink," said the sailor, who sat on the gunwhale sipping his grog following his remark by tumb ling backward into the water. " Aye, and there's washing and lodging," said his messmate, YouugGreen: "Hot, isn't it?" Young lady (tired of the subject): " So yon said just now." Y. G. (nervously): " Yes, but don't you think it has got hotter ?" Young lady gives young Green up as a bad job. A family of four persons ho been poisoned at New Orleans, and Mrs. Lambert, one of its members, aged sixty-two years, fatally, by eating oys ters fried in corn meal with which arsenic had been mixed by Mrs. Lam bert's son-in-law to kill rats. Coming back from a little trip to Havre a Parisian bewails his misfortune to his railway companion. " One thing is certain; you won't catch me on any more of these pleasure excursions. I lost my wife and my cane." And then he adds with tears in his voice, " A new cane, too." A steer in Piermont, N. H., lost its life in a singular way a few days ago. Its owner had chopped a hole through the ice in his trough to allow the cattle to drink, and os the water was low the steer had to force its nose to the bottom. Iu so doing it caught its horns under the ice, aud after it had drunk its fill the water ran in ond drowned it. A funny incident receutly happened at a sumptuous dinner giving bya Welsh society in liverpool. An old stonemason of eighty years was called upon to enter tain the company with a song, for which he waR noted, but instead of giving tho one desired, he launched forth into a dismal, wailing measure, composed some sixty years before upon tho occasion of a street murder. This refreshing pro duction contained no less than eighty verse, uud the droning bum-bum of the melody went on for over half an hour bofore the end was reached. The late Commodore Hollius was once sailing with an American commodore, who. used ofteu to insult his inferior officers and apologize to them afterward. After such au insult had been offered to him Hollins was called to the cabin of the commodore, who said: "I am a mau of a ery passionate nature and have treated you as I should not have done, and now I wish to apologize." Hollius replied: "I too, am a passion ate man, but I notice, Commodore, that I never get into a passion with my su- . perior officers, always with those beneath me." BEAUTIES OP OIVrnOGRAPHY. A pretty deer is dear to me, A hare with downy hair, A hart I love with all my heart, But hardly love a hear. 'Tin plain that not one take a plane To have a pair of peare, Although a rake may take a rake To tear away the tares. Hoi's lws raido thyme, time razes all, And through the whole hole wears. A irribe in writing rbsht may write To Wright and still be wrong For write and rite are neither right, And don't to right belong, fleer often brings a tier to man, (' jiighin a collin liingx, And :oo mm h ale will make ns ail. As well an other things. The person lies who say he lies When he in not reclinug j And when consumptive folks decline, They a'l decline declining. Quail do not quail before a storm, A bow will not bow before it ; We cannot roin the rain at all, No earthly power re'gus o'er it. The dyer dyes awhile, then dies To dye he's always trying ; Until upon his dying bed He thinks no more of dyeing. A sou of Mars mars many a sou , All Deys must have their days ; Aud overy knight should pray each night To Hint who weighs bis ways 'lis meet that man should mete out meat To feed one's fortuue's sun ; The fair thould fare on love alone, Else one cannot be won. A lass, alas, is sometimes false ; Of faults a maid is made ; Her waist is but a barrea waste Though stayed she is not staid. The springs shoot forth each spring, and shoots, Shoot forward one and all ; " Though summer kills the Sowers, it leaves The leaves to fall in fal. I would a story here commence, Bat you migkt find it stole : oo we 11 suppose that wa have reached The tail-end of onr tale. Tit for Tut. Would-be wita are upt to have the tables turned on them. At a dinner iu honur of Nick Denton, one of the stiff ot the Illinois Central railway, his friend Jack Wallace, intrusted with the toast of the evening, proposed it in this wise : "The two nicks Old Nick and Nick D nton 1" Denton rose to respond, say ing he appreciated the honor conferred upon hiui by connecting him' with Mr. Wallace's most intimate friend, and scarcely knew how to reeiuite the com pliment, but us one good turn deserves another, he would give "Tb two Jaekq Jack WaJlwe I$ Jaokaeg " J
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