ER
littdeggtititttt.
SONG OF THE SKATER.
AFzss SEM (MAFIFLN OF I'ENFiI EON
With many a Curve the tee I fret,
With =may a clean-cut figure;
k. en nortbeabter 1 forget,
A od laver at winter's rigor.
I tern, / I wheel about,
The "outside edge" I dont on
I Th rush en with a my show,
ea like a swall ownt on.
I &atter, clatter. as I skate.
My heel of steel lud ringing:
The lake I circumn o avigate ,
haste wintry carol singing. •
3. fold my arms, throw hack my htad,
( An•o`er tue ice I'm flying;
117 pulses three my cheeks are red,
I seem old Time defying.
slip, I slide, I rush.
, 1. glide.
I dash along like 11 Moine:
1 see—and that bat V.eds my pride—
`some timid ones I'm frisht'ning.
But on. and en, till in a glow •
I think it,wonid tire me never.
That men might come and men might fro,
But I would skate on forever '
KPREMERI.S.
7 -Vormont is badly off for hay.
---- \ prince Napoleon has become slender.
—victor Emanuel is now a grand
fath6r.
—The City Hospital, in Boston, is ad
-The
"to let."
- —Thunder storms are becoming com
mon in New York.
—De Cordova is delivering weekly lec
tures in Philadelphia.
—Two of the hotels at Atlantic City are
in the sheriff's hands.
4 —A Texan preacher is writing a biog
raphy of Sam. Houston.
—A sewing machine driven by elec
trie4 is a Parisian novelty. •
—Oysters soaked in a solution of soda
swell up and look like saddle-rocks.
—The ;Boston Post thinks the initugur
*ton dance is evidently a breakdown.
I—Wisconsin is said to be the. only
- western State in which dissection is legal.
A student was expelled by the fac
ulty from Cornell 'University for men
dacity.
—A. bill to abolish capital punishment
vas recently defeated in the Kansas Leg
islature. •
—New York has given birth to a new
woman's :rights paper published in
German.
—There are about 150 millionaires,
exclusive of the Rothschilds, - in Paris,
who are Jews.
—Mr. Seward is the only Secretary of
13tate who has served through two Presi
dential terms this century.
—The Prince of Wales has decided not
t• go to Greece, on • account of the dis
turbed state of-affairs there.
—Fashion 'Supers in New, York report
- the initials and describe the costumes of
ladies at the fashionable churches.
—Many papers axe fighting Mrs. Bids
-helm now, but she, we suppose must be
- used to that sort of thing before this.
—A. negro woman in Georgia has
starved to death from laziness. She said
she was free and intended to stay so.
--Boston thinks General Grant could
-- not do better k "than to select Bostonians to
- fill the various offices in his Cabinet
—Miss Susan , Gallon, with her Eng
lish comic opera troupe, is - running the
Chestnut street theatre in Philadelphia.
—One caper speaks of "Dr. Hays on
the North Pole." The Doctor would like
to be there but has never gotten there yet.
—A Californian has built a locomotive
- which drives thirty-nine ploughs at once.
He might have made it forty while he was
st it.
The tunnel under_ the Chicago• river'
has sprung a leak, and passengers through
it receive a fine shower bath free of ex
pense.
is going to pay $B,OOO `for
statue of Voltaire, and Vinnie Ream has a
bust of Rousseau on exhibition in New
Orleans. .'
—Mrs. Stanton says' Vinnie Ream is as
sweet ax d beautiful as ever. How sweet
and beautiful is that ? is the question
which arises. • [
—An old mill, built one hundred and
- _twenty-eight years 'ago, on the bank of
the Lehigh river, was destroyed by fire=
the other day.
—The cars of the Hudson'ltiver Rail
road are said to be filled with thieves,
- who are allowed to practice their profes
sion unmolested.
M. Chevalier, the aeronaut, thinks, or
says he thinks, that when he gets 10,00)
teat up he will find a steady current 'to
i take him toEurope.
young camel has recently been
-born in Cincinnati. This is the first one
born in this country, bat the unfortunate
creature is huipbacked.
--One of the latest fish stories that a
six pound cannon ball found in the
stomach of a cat-fish which was caught
recently in the Mississippi.
—A. fez made of,,A strachan with a gre
cissi borderfand an eagle's head in front,
is the latest style of hat in Paris. It is
called the "Conference hat."
I —The New ;York Express says, "A
young gentleman, who formerly was head
porter at a,,Boston hotel led the German
at Miss ---, the other evening."
—Jonathan Eddy,. a Vermont farmer,
has nineteen children; six of Ids neigh-
bors have eighty-three children, or an
average of more than thirteen apiece.
r --The Ame.rican l Minister at Brussels
recently gave a national dinner; At which
• every dish had been imported from Amer
' ilea, while only the disheawere foreign.
—.A lady in New York offers to invest
$lO,OOO as the nucleus of a fund fcir pro;
Nidirg for the illegitimate innocents who
are now generally murdered in that - city.
.-The niece of Ferdinand de Lesseps, a
cauntess in the fashionable world of Pari , t
kas died Of a fiy-bite on her nose, not
withstanding Nelaton amputated that 0r-
Ban
-Sothern him been very successful in
his new play by Robertson, called
"Home." Many actors would delight
large audiences if they would play only
at home.
—A man has been found guilty of &Ag
ing faro in Kentucky, and fined $6OO.
In default of the payment he was sent to
the workhouse to work but the fine at 50
cents per day.
—The Cminter in the Red River settle
ment hag been very mild, and large quan
tities of provisions have been received, so
that the anticipated famine arid suffering
have been averted.
—A man in Tennessee has a neat little
ail well in his cellar. We can't think we
should relish dwelling over an oil well;
shouldn't feel secure, as we might be
turned out any day.
—Railroads are being built new with
much vigor in Russia, and it is thought
that in a short time there-will be direct
railway communication between St. Pe
tersburg and Odessa.
—A writer says huhas lived through the
piano war, the sewing machine war, and
the dictionary war, which have all died
out, and now he should like to know
what is coming next.
—lt is announced that "Newark has
had an elopement in highly respectable
circles." This is a strange way to elope.
most persons if they were eloping( would
do r it in a straight
—lt is Said that during the past year in
England 2,200 persons have abandoned
the Established Church and joined that
of Rome. Nineteen clergymen and two
peers were among - the number.
—A Louisville doctor says liquor was
much better in former times, for when he
was young men got drunk without doing
muhh damage, but now they , inevitably
. get crazy and demolish portable property.
—The Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad Company have
erected a close board fence on the upper
side of their road, between Ridley and
Cram Creeks, below Chester, to prevent
the drifting snow from obstructing the
track. -
—The wealthy colored people of Phil
adelphia are to have a splendid ball at
'Horticultural Hall on Tuesday night.
The costumes, it is said; will be elegant,
and the colored caterers will try and have
their table outshine anything of the kind
!gm
before.
—Pleasant Andrew Garvin, of Won
caster, Massachusetts, went for his wife
with a hammer, the other day,and pound
ed her severely. no lady's nails may
have required driving, but the hammer
ing nearly cost her her life. '
—An old man employed to hunt rabbits
on the Duke of Portand's estate in Eng
land, was recently found dead in a rabbit
hole, into which he had crawled and from
which he could not get out He was
drawn out by his heels, grasping a rabbit
and a ferret in his hands.
—New York has a paper mile,' the Ve
locipedist, devoted to the interest of per
sons and things connected with the new
two wheeled vehicles. As there are also
severer papers devoted to horsey matters
we may consider that New York is at
tending to the wheel and the wo of her
citizens.
—Mr. C. C. Donohue, of . Titusville,
Pa., was fearfully injureAby the railroad
accident at Port Jarvis, nearly a year ago,
and has commenced suit against the New
York and Erie Railroad Company, lay
ing his damages at ;100,000. He has
been tendered $3,000.by the company for
settlement -
—A Chicago paper gets off,the follow
ing: "The gentle Sorosis advocates cush
ions for the seats in our public school
buildings, liberal padding for the
trowsers of the little boys would cover
the same end, and iqercifslly temper the
blows from the hand of firm though affec
donate instructors."
—Timid people would do well to lay in
a stock of glass eyes, for it seems they
are sometimes excellent protectors. If
you have two glass eyes in the place of
natural tones you can never be blinded,
and then a Neiv Orleans burglar was
frightened out of a sleeping apartment by
the supernatural gleam from a glass eye
i which had been discarded by the sleeping
I wearer and left on the table.
—Somebody, who has an eye upon
Congressional jobbery, . , has petitioned
Congress to prohibit the sale of milk by
individuals, on the ground that ezhorbi
taut prices have been charged and un
wholesome milk sold. He proposes to
have - the government seize the cows, re
munerate the owners and sell the milk at
postoflices, any cream that can be obtain
ed to be the postmaster's perquisite.
—Some sharper goes ahead of Weston
and accepts the receptions and flowers
which are offered by , the foolish people
who mistake him fur Weston; " and this
reminds ns that we have long wanted to
know why flowers and receptions should
be offered to Weston, a man distinguish
ed only as the champion faller, and Who,
if he had succeeded, would have done
nothing worthy of praise or. emulation.
—From Connectieut' we hear that a
tramp, giving his name as Sanders, while
traveling_from Bridgeport to Stratford,on
Sunday, accompanied by his wife, was
attacked by a mulatto man who cut e him
several times with a knife, inflicting a
dangerous wound in the abdomen. The
mulatto then ran away. Sanders died
on Tuesday morning, at a lodging house
in Stratford. The name of the mulatto
who committed. the crime is said t 9, be
Matt. H. Blake, and as yet he has not
been arrested. •
PVISIZII6II GAZETTE': motpo, IT33III7ARY 5 1889.
The 'Ladles of the :Wbite . nom&
We append a picture. faithfully drawn
by a feminine hand, which will COllTilleo
our readers that the domestic 'virtues are
not yet a myth, even at the Capital
If there will be a diversity of opinion
upon the merits of our departing presi
dent, there can be nothing but the purest
respect, as well as honest admiration. for
his household. Mrs. Johnson, aconfirns
ed invalid, has never appeared in society
in Washington. Her very existence is al
myth to almost every one. Stie was :list'
seen at a party given to ,her grand chil
dren. She was seated in one of the Re
publican Court chairs, a dainty affair of
satin and ebony. She did not rise when
the children, or older , guests, were pre
sented to her, she simply said: "My dears,
lan an invalid;" and her sad, pale face
and sunken eyes, fully proved the expres
sion. Mrs. Johnson looks much older
than the President, and her age does ex
ceed histby a few swings of the scythe
of time. She was never beautiful, but
an observer would say, contemplating
her—"a nays woman—Giod's first, best
gilt to man," Perhaps it is well to call
to mind at this time that it was this wo
man who taught the President to reacii
after she became his wife; and that in sit
their earlier years she was his counsellor,
assistant and guide. None but a wise and
good mother could have reared such
daughters as Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. SW-,
ver, When Mrs. Senator Patterson found
herself the "first lady in the land,"
she Made this remark, which, has
been the key-note of the feminine
department of the White House from
that eventful day to the present time :
"We are plain people, from the moun
tains of Tennessee, called here for a short
time by a National calamity. I trust too
much will not be expected of us." Isn't
this the ring of the true metal? and have
we not all lived to see it carried out to the
end ? When Anna Surratt threw herself
prostrate upon the floor of one of the
ante-rooms of the White House, begging
piteously to see Mrs. Patterson, she said :
"Tell the girl she has my sympathy, my(
tears,
but I have no more right to speak
than the servants of the White House."
When the "pardon brokers" trailed their
slimy lengths everywhere-about the man
sion, they never dared to cross a certain
enchanted pathway, and the race of any
lobbyist set in this direction has always
brought up in the end against a stone
wall. It is true, the fashionable world
hits smiled at those two women for their
plain dress; for their shy, diffident man—
ners; for their filling so small a space in
the public eye. These fashionable people
have also refused to compare these women
to some of the first queens of the country;
who either used the "East Room" for
drying the Executive clothes, and who
spent their spare time knitting the Presi
dent's stockings; but is it not wisdom for
the country to believe that the Creator
never makes anything in nature so for
saken but that it has some redeeming
oSsi
quality ? And it may be pbie that
these noble women are set in Andrew
'Johnson's, administration just as the palm
crowned island is flung upon.the watery
'waste of the sea. - °um.
r Mustapha Guns.
The methods of the celebrated Persian
gun manufacturer, Mustapha, are still I
pursued by his successors. The muskets
of that famous armorer, are worth at
present, It is said, from $4OO to $5OO each,
though the modern rifles, made on his
system, can be bought for $4O to $BO,
and pistols from $lB to $4O. These wea
pons are generally `provided with locks,
but sometimes, even at the present day,
fired with a fuse. The infantry of South
ern Persists armed with them. They are
chiefly manufactured at Laar. When
used, they are partly supported by a kind
of fork, fastened on the extremity of the
barrel. The percussion guns used in
Persia are of European manufacture, and
the most expensive of them, which are
bought by the nobility only, come from
England. Cheaper ones, for the common
people, come from Belgium. The Per
sians are good shots, but not sportsmen in
the English Sense. They do not shoot
well on the wing.
"The superiority of the native' guns,
which we may call the Mustapha guns,
reside; of course, wholly in their barrel,
since, as we have said, they have not ad
vanced in other respects beyond the flint
lock. The process of which
was not unlike that employedMustaph by a,
English
and American armorers in the production
of "stub•and-twist" barrels, may s be de
scribed as follows: For the making of a
gun;'two old horse shoes are' taken, to
gether with small pieces of old iron, the
whole weighing not quite two pounds.
In the heating the small pletes are ar
ranged in such a manner' that the horse
shoes form the outer rim. When , prop
er degree of softness has been attained,
they are welded on an anvil. .
This process is repeated for several
Utiles, until the iron obtains a length of
two feet and a quarter. When twelve
such bars are - obtained, they are bound
together and then welded; the bar ob
tained is cut in pieces of such a size that
four or six will form the desired weapon.
These bars are then welded, and twisted
together, the resulting piece is afterwards
bent and again weldedlto one bar, which
finally is turned and bored. If the bar
rel proves satisfactory, it is polished in
order that the various twist marks may
appear which are produced by the dif
ferent qualities of iron. It is afterwards
Coated with a paste of two parts of sub
limed sulphur and , one part of sea salt,
and left for twenty-four hours in a •warm
room, and being then cleansed is ready
for sale.—[Maratefaefurer and Baader.
Tint Portland Argus says: Judge God
dard purchased a ticket to Danville June-,
tion and started to visit his family, then
residing in 'Auburn. The afternoon
train was very long and, U usual, one
Jackson was detailed to ; take the tickets
of passengers leaving the train be
fore the , regular , conductor came
through. Judge Goddard, having some
business at Falmouth, stepped out, and
upon the request• of Jackson, handed
him his ticket. Upon his return Jackson
again approache4 where he was sitting
and demanded his ticket, and, upon Judge
Goddard's replying that he bad gave it to
him when he left the car, told :be Judge
that he lied, and falling into an ungov
ernable, passion, committed an assault
open him, shaking hie list, threatening to
beat his brains out and using the most
profane language. Ile continued this
for some twenty minutes, when the train
approached Cumberland and he desisted.
The company still retain the man In their
employ, and indeed have recently pro
moted him. For this outragd Judge God
dard sued the Grand Trunk Railway
Company and on ;Monday recovered a
I verdict of four thousand eight -hundred
snd fifty dollars.
TEETII EXTRACTED
•
• .
WITECOICrE PAIN
NCI -
CHARGE MADE WHX3I . LIVEMEM
TEETH ABE OBDENNI).
A PULL BET von $5. •(
AT DR..SOOT'I"i3
Inv parrs STREET, SD D(X)B ABOVE HAND.
ALL WORE WARRANTED. CALL AND EX
AMINE SPECIMENS OF GERM= 'VULCAN
ITE. mmder
GAS FIXTII
WELDON & KELLY, •
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers In
Lamps, Lanterns, . (Chandeliers,
AND LAMP COODS.
Also, CARBON AND LIIBNICATINGDILS.
73EZT ZiDrE, &o.
N0.1.47' Wood Street.
Boum Between 6tt and 6th Avenues.
FRUIT CAN TOPS.
We are now prepared to apply
TINNERSand the Trade with our Patent
SELF-LABELIN
FRUIT CAN TOP.
It is PERFECT, SIMPLE and CHEAP.
Having the names of the caricus fruits
stermyrld upon the amen radiating irom
the center, and an Index or pointer
stamped upon the Top of the can. It is
clearly, distinctlyy and PERMANENT
LY LABELED by merely placing tha
Doamnee
et h th
pont i er h an i ane a c l o i n n t g a inins Mr
the
customary manner.
No preserver of fruit or good
HOUSEKEEPER will use any other after
once seeing it.
• Bend 45 cents for sample.
COLLINS it WRIGHT,
139 Second avenue, PittsbUrgb.
PIANOS. ORGANS, &O.
t3chomaelier's Gold Medal Piano,
AND ESTEY'S COTTAGE ORGAN.
The SCHOMACEER PIANO °cabinet all the
latest valuable improvements known in the con
struction of a inn class instrument. and has al
ways been awarded the hiR heat premium ex
hibited. Its tone to MI, sonorous and sweet. The
workmanehlo , for durability and beauty, =masa
all otters. Prices from $5O to $l5O. (lmoaing
to style and Mash.) cheaper than all other ao
called Seat class Piano.
&STET'S etYTTAOS ORGAN
Stands at the head of all reed Instruments. in
producing the most perfect pipegnallty of tone
of any similar instrument In the United States.
It is simple sad compact In constrnetion, and
not Mule to ret out al order.
GARPENTSE`n PATS= *. VOX HUMANA
TREMOLQ" is only to be found in this
Price trim $lOO he 4550. All gnarnallsod Wry;
ye BARB, SNAKE &BUI'TTL14111 1 :_
No. IS ST. CLAW STREIT.
PIANOS AND DIMANS--An
en
tire see stack of
KNAB3.BI73RITALLAD PIAZO43I
HAINES 3308.. MANGO:
PHIN Oil& CO`ti OBBANS AND MZLODZ
ORB sad TRZAT,„ LINEILBY i 0011043/0 13
13DICICLODEONS.
QUARIArTra =Mt
4331ftb avenue. Bois &teat.
IibETR-0-HACNT TAILOR
47, ILIMIRTERS 41.
POE
BOYS' CLOTHING.
Gray & Logan;
N 0.47 ST. CLUB STREET.
BTIEGEL,,
Make Cutter with W. Hespohelde.)
.. •a ; : TAILaIDIta
No. 33 Smithfield Stre 4 M,Pittebeirgh.
sees:Th
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FALL GOODS.
A splendid new stoet of
CLOTHS, CASSIMEBES,
Jist received by HERBY
seH: Merchant Tenor. 'l3 tinitthneld street.
(}LASS. CHINA. CUTLERY.
- 1.00 WOOD STREET.
6 1101 1 311AY GIFTS.
FINE VASES,
BOIMPAIi AND
^ NEW STYLES,
104 DINNER SETS,
TEA SETS,
GIFT CUPS,
9 SMOKING SETS,
Fl 4 A large stock of
g SILVER PLATED GOODS
of all descriptions,
eel eaglsEed no one need fart:;b:VitaT.
E BREED & CO,
fat - ) WIMO STREET.
WALL PAPERS,
WALL PAPER REMOVAL.
TEE OLD PAPER STORE 11 A REW PLACE,
W. P. BOLBSILAILL
•
Has
ressave 4 from ST WOOD STREET t.
NO. 191 LIBERTY SiKEl42',
sieve doors OM ST. CLAIR.
101 r EY4TERPUISE
FOUNDAY,
*. arourrsoN.
Manufactarer of 000KINO WrOYEB, Arches.
Grates, Fenders, flub Weights, and all kinds
°I Hollow Ware, Car :Wheels and - all kinds of
Machluert Ossting_k_OOß. 'WATISON SHIN
• 0188 BTB.. PI7"TBMURGH. PA: aufl6;v27w&B
GOOD NEWS.
OKEA2 BREAD 3 DELI Tina
Enquire for WA i rtarS Bread.
T 1 e lowest and best. The faith& 'IL W." on
even' loaf. Take none else. ,
ETSA,ND OIL CLOTHS
lili:1111101
Fifth Avenue,
CARPETS,
CA.BPIETS,
CARPETS.
WCALLUM BROTHERS,
WCALLIIN BROTHERS,
WCALLUX BROTHERS,
51 Fifth Avenue,
ABOVE. WOOD STREET.
PRIMA INNUNCEMENT.
TO MEET THE GENERAL DESIRE OT
THOSE who have ben deferred from purchasing
until after the first f the year,we have concluded
to continue our
GREAT }EDUCTION SALE
FOR A FEW WEEKS LONGE. This
is
posl
tively the last opportunity to sec ß ure bargains in
scA.]R]p]ors,
Oil Cloths, ' Matting's, &c.
Good Carpets for 25 cents a Yard
'LIVER
M'CLINTOCK
AND COMPANY
No. WI Fifth Street.
lualoucrricors -
CREPES,
OIL CLOTHS,
diced 000.
We offer our stock at reduced
prices for a MORT TIME' be
fore commencing to take stock.
Now is the time to buy.
BOVARD,ROSE &CO.,
21 FIFTH AVENUE.
lei:d&wl
I 'ANUARY, 1.869:
CARPETS
WFARLANDS. ,. COLLINS,
Will Continue their
ANNEAL CLEARING SALE
TWO WEEKS LONGER
Greater Bargains than
Ever will be offered to
close out Special Lines
of Goods, at •
71 * AND I 73 FIFTH AVENUE,
us SECOND FLOOR.
ED
I* : lal lit +lc C:Y ii 1977 N
HOLaIEB~ HELL 1 ! , CO* ,
ANCHOR COTTON MILLS.
PFX•TIEUBMWEIL.
Kant ftavmri of aEAVY JaDMII and LIFIEIT
ANCHOR AND ILkONOLIIL
SPVICTINGS AND BATTING.
KITTANNING I
EXTRA. HEAVY
BARRED FLANNEL,
A VERY LARGE 3TOOIC,
'NOW OFFERED,
IS GOOD STYLES.
NELROY,
DICgSON
& CO.,
WHOLESALE
DRY GOODS,
WOOD STREET.
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DRY GOODS
A.T COST,
FOR THIRTY DAYS ONLY.
TO CIA EM ErrOCIK.
THEODORE F. PRILLITS7
87 MAICKBT STREET.
den
CARFAhIiMPLEssetFAI" •
WHOLESAIa n. D C =B B
Foreign and Domestic 'Dry Gods,
94 WOOD 14133.11%
Ttdril door above Diamond LUCY.
PITTI3BUR9H.
OEKENT, SOAP STONE, &c.
'HARTMAN Sr, LADE, No. 124
Smithfield street, Sole Manufacturers oit
Nraren , a reit Cement sad Gravel Roofing. lifa,
terial for sale. ias:Bo
MAU CERN DRAIN PIN.
Oheinest and best Wye in the market. Also.
BOBENDAI.II IIYDEAXILIO thabLISINT for tale.
B. R. et C. A. initAXTEXTT & CtO r
Mee and Idszasetory-240 BIISEOOI
Allegheny. sir Orders by sosal nronintly
de a to.
GUTS AND MEASURE 3.
perBOLYON,
..r of Weigh awl iltaiunno,
No. i POUSFR Sp3lll:6l`,
(Between Liberty sad Perry stteets.
virmnitiv attan AAA tn. a;
HAIR;AND PIMMIkRY.
TORN PECK, • ORNAMENTAL
HAIR womora AND PERPUMZE. No.
Third street, near Smithltedd, Pittsburgh.
Alwsr hana, a jueneral assortment oi Le
die., GS, BANDS, MUM: eratlemen's
WlOB. PEES. SCALPS, GUARD 011Aniii.
BRACELETS, an. ira. A good Price In cut
will be given tor RAW HAIR.
Ladles* and Gentlemen's Hair Outline done
In the neliteat ießnner. vOilms
WINES. LIQUORS, &o.
JOSEPH S. FINCH &CO.,'
Nos. 185,187,189,191,193 and 195, 1
NEST STREET, PITTSBURGH,
IItANCIPAOTTSIUMB OP
Cep Dballied Pure Rye Witham
Also. &gels In POSED:UN WINES and Li.
QUOIIIS, HOPS. a<l. 151103.118
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