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VOL. 27.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., APRIL 1, 1869.
NO. 52.
Published by Theodore Sciioch.
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JOSS PRINTING,
OF ALL KINDS,
executed in the liisliest style of the Art, and on the
iiiom leusouuble terms.
Surgeon Dentist,
Office on Main Street, opposite Judge
Stokes' residence, Stroudsburg, Pa.
Qr Teeth extracted without pain.Q
August 1, 18G7.
Drs. JACKSON & BIDLACK,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
DRS. JACKSON & BID LACK, are
prepared to attend promptly to all calls
of & Professional character. Office Op
posite the Stroudsburg Bank.
April 23, lSG7.-tf.
C VV. SESP, D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
STJiOUDSUUKG, PA.
Oinco at his residence, on Main Street,
nearly opposite March's Hotel.
All calls promptly atteuJed to. Charges
reasonable.
Stroudsburg, April 11, lSG7.-tf.
J. B. COOPER. E. L. ROGERS.
COOPER & R0GS8S,
GENERAL COMMISSION MER
CHANTS for the sale of Flour, Grain,
Teed, Seeds, &c; 217 North Water Street,
and 220 North Delaware Avenue, Philadel
phia, Pa.
0OParticular attention paid to BUCK
WHEAT FLOUR. Oct. 1 '6SmG.
.A. Card.
Dr. A. HE EYES JACKSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
BEGS TO ANNOUNCE THAT IIAV
ing returned from Europe, he is now
prepared to resume the active duties of his
profession. In order to prevent disappoint
ment to persons living at a distance who
may wish to consult him, ho will be found
at his office every THURSDAY and SAT
URDAY for consultation and the perform
ance of Surgical operations.
Dec. 12, 1G7.-1 yr.
NEW GROCERY STOKE.
rpiIE PUBLIC ARE INVITED to call at
JL the New Grocery Store of the subscri
ber, on Main street, one door below the
JeOVrsonian" office, Stroudsburg, Pa., and
examiue of the best stock of
GROCERIES,
PROVISIONS,
FLOUR ijc,
ever bought to the place. Everything in
the Grocery line will be found on sale in
great abundance, and at prices at wbich all
can purchase and live. Purchasers will
eave money by heeding this no'ice.
GEORGE F. HELLER.
October 22, 1SG3. tf.
Sip and Ornamental Painter,
SHOP ON MAIN STREET,
Opposite Woolen Mills,
STIIOEJDSKURG, PA.,
Respectfully announces to the citizens of
Stroudsburg and vicinity that he is prepared
to attend to all who may favor hitn with
their patronage, in a prompt and workman
like manner.
CHAIRS, FURNITURE, tfcc, painted
and repaired.
PICTURE FRAMES of all kindt con
atantly on hand cr supplied to order.
June II, 1569. ly.
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IRON AND PURE DHAWDY,
BY DR. IIARTMAN,
Regular Graduate cf the University of Penn
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Ithas been the mean of RESTORING
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The cure of Consumption was hret effect
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in Russia, afterwards in France, in which
countries I have travelled for years.
I hive used it with perfect success ia my
own family. In presenting this preparation
to the public I feel confident that every af
flicted one who reads this (even the most
skeptical) may become convinced, by a sin
gle trial that it is truly a most valuable med
icine. Circulars and medicines 6ent to any ad
dress. Price 81 per bottle six for 85.
Laboratory 512 &3uth Fifteenth Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Wholesale Agents. French, Richards &
Co.
'IV nth and Market ct reels; Johnson,
Holloway & Cowden, bU'Z Arch street; it.
Shoemaker & Co., Fourth and Race streets,
Philadelph ia.
So!d by Druggists Everywhere.
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M
TS TP. ANNETTE JACKSON will
A receive a limited number of pupil for
instruction on the Piano Forte and in Sing-
icrm, x mcen tioiiare per itcov"o.
Stroudsburg, Nov. 20, '68 tf.
Tha Earth Closet and Treatment
Wounds.
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To the Editors of the Evening Post
As you were foremost in calling the at
tention of the American public to the
Earth Closet system the use of sifted
dry earth for the deodorization and disin
fection of human faces and thus became
the pioneers of a reform that promises
not unspeakable relief from the gravest
annoyance of our lives, but the preven
tion of the greatest waste of the fertility
of the earth, it is just that you should be
communicated an outgrowth of this sys
tem that offers if possible a still greater
benefit to suffering humanity.
One of the experimental commodes
sent out by the Earth Closet Company
was placed at the disposal of Dr. Addinell
Hewson, of the Pennsylvania Hospital (in
Philadelphia). Its introduction into
the surgical ward, where it has been for
two weeks in constant use by about twen
ty patients, and has been subjected to the
severest test possible, has been bo entirely
satisfactory that it is proposed to substi
tute earth closets for water closets wher
ever these exist ia that institution.
At the time of its introduction there
was lying in the ward a patient suffering
from a very severe compound fracture ot jonce fordade this inhuman rite, should
the lower leg. Tuc wound was in an un-anow tne priests to again inflict it upon
healthy condition, and its exudation, j the peopie. We copy his account as giv
amouating to a piut in twenty-four hours, I eu jQ the Missionary Ilearld :
were so
ouensive
as to cause a sickening
and een dangerous stench, that the ex
ceilcnt ventilation of the ward and the
use of the usual disinfectants were hard
ly able even to mitigate. It occured to
Dr. Hewson to test the power of dry
earth to absorb this odor, as it had that
of excrement. The effect was magical.
Not only was the offensiveness entirely
overcome, but the effect on the character
of the wound itself was such as no pre
vious treatment had been able to compass.
The suppuration was, within a few days,
so reduced that the daily dressing of a
single half pint of earth was not even sa
turated ; the edges of the flesh wound
lost their inflamed character; the intense
pain of the sore was" entirely relieved, and
a healthy granulation has ensued.
Such an indication of a newly-found
healing agent was not disregarded.
On Monday last, being in Philadr!phia,
I was invited to attend the morning dress
ing of the earth-treated wounds. This
is what I saw :
First two patients suffering from ser
ious varicose ulcers, after prolonged suf
fering, and with little relief from the
usual treatment, have ceased to be offen
sive to their wardmates ; they find their
sores growing daily smaller ; all pain and
inflammation have left them, and they
feel the certainty of an early cure.
Second A railroad brakesman whose
hand was a year and a half ago crush
ed between the coupling heads of two
cars, and who has never been free from
pain, and seldom from intense pain ;
whose hand from the wrist to the knuck
les was a festering mas3 of carious bones
and ioflamed flesh, and whose system had
been so reduced that he could not have
survived the amputation which alone can
entirely relieve him, is now happy in free
dom from pain. His flesh wound has
taken on a healthy character, and his
strength is fa3t
returnining.
He even
hopes to save his hand, but the long-continued
decay of the bone makes this im
possible. Third Another braekman suffering
from a precicsely similar injury, in no re
spect less serious, but received within a
few days, was immediately treated with
dry earth. Its constant application ha3
entirely prevented inflammation, and a
healthy healing of the flesh and knitting
of the bone will soon return him to his
duties with two useful hands.
Fourth A farm laborer, on Friday
last, had three of his fingers nearly cut
off and his hand fearfully torn by a horse
power hay cutter. Since the first appli
cation of the dry earth (a few hours after
the accident) he has been free from pain
and he will save his hand.
Fifth. On Saturday last a laborer, en
gaged in breaking up condemned shells,
exploded one that was charged. The pow
der burned his face and arms, and (ser
iously) one of his knees, which was struck
by a fragment of the iron that completely
shattered the knee pan. His burns and
the fracture were immediately dressed
with dry earth, and freedom from pain
and the absence of inflammation have
been as marked in his case as in the oth
ers. Without this dressing the knee
joint must inevitably have become involv
ed, and the leg must have been lost.
! Now? the wound is evidently healing, and
(although it U too early to speak positi
vely) there is every reason to nope mat,
the only result of the injury will be a still
knee.
Sixth Within a few nays a woman
was brought to the hospital with her neck
and a large part of her body very severely
and dangerously burned. That she could
escape long weeks of agony was beyond
hope. Yet on Monday her eye wa3 clear
and calm and her voice was when the doc
tor asked her how she felt, she said she
was a great deal better, and that she had
no pain. ' .
Senventh Last Wednesday an entire
breast wa3 removed for cancer, and the
wound was dressed with dry earth. It
is now healing rapidly. There has been
no inflammation and no suppuration, and
this woman too calm and happy-looking,
with a
lionltViv rnlor and a stead v voice
spoke far more than her cheerful words
ia thankfulness for her relief.
Surely, with our gratitude to the Vicar
of Fordington, who has conferred the
greater benefit on thejhuman race that it
has ever been given to one man to ac
complish, we must unite our thanks to the
senior surgeon of the Pennsylvania Hos
pital for thus applying the principles of
his invention to the saving of life and
limb, and to the alleviation of unspeak
able suffering.
And the end, I trust, is not yet. It
seems inevitable that the pustules ofsmall
pox must give up their painand their
offensiveness at this magic touch of moth
er earth, and if it is true that its con
tagion spreads from its exudations, may
we not hope that Dr. Hewson has bound
its feet as Mr. Moule has those of cholera?
Respectfully, .
GEO. E. WARING, JR.
New York, February 24, 1869.
Hook-swinging in India.
Rev. Mr. Noyes, a missionary of the
American Board, stationed at Kambarn,
;.n Southern India, writes that the bar
barous practic of hook-swinging has been
revived in that section of India, and he
describes an occasion of this sort which
he witnessed last summer. It is surpris
ing that thn lritisli omvernmpnt. which
Recently, while laboring in the itine
racy, I witnessed the "hook-swinging
festival." At the beginning of this fes
tival the priest of the pagoda sends the
sacred ashes and other things to a per
son whom he selects a3 a victim to be
suspended. On the reception of these
gifts the man commences a fast, denying
himself all bodily indulgence. On the
day fixed for the celebration of the feast
he enters the temple with pomp and cer
emony, and appears before the idol. The
priest performs a ceremony over him, ut
tering munthrani3 or heathen Iorm3 ot
prayer, and he pretends to be under the
influence of devils, and acts like a mad
man. While in this state some person
standing by give3 him a severe blow on
the back, which produces a slight swell
ing. The muscle is here pierced in two
places, and openings are made sufficient
for the insertion of the iron hooks, which
are immediately introduced, and then
pressure is applied on every side of the
wounded to prevent the issue of blood,
greatly increasing the man's sufferings.
The fact that no blood flows is regarded
by the people as a miraculous interposi
tion. After these prelimioarcs the man
is taken to the machine upon which he is
about to be suspended and swung about.
This consists of a four-wheeled platform
car, in the centre of which is an upright
post, twenty or thirty feet high, and upon
the top of it a transverse beam, forty feet
long, fitted to work like a well sweep, and
also to be swung around in a circle.
Upon one end of this beam the hooks
already inserted in the man's back are
fastened by 6trong ropes. Long ropes
are also attached to the other end, by
means of which several men manage its
motions.
The victim is first swung around in a
circle and then raised high in the air,
while the multitudes below fill the air
with their shouting. In going up he
favors himself by catching hold of the
rope with his hands, but pretty soon lets
go, and is suspended by the hooks, being
bent almost double, his head and feet
hanging, and the muscles of his back be
ing pulled out to the utmost tension.
While he is hanging in tlii3 position, the
car is drawn by hundreds of men over the
rough ground around the temple, the
man being shaken and tossed from side
to side by the motion of the car. It was
a full hour, by my watch, that I saw the
man thus suspended. His countenance
was a picture of distress, and when taken
down he seemed much exhausted.
He is next presented to the people to
receive their offering, and receives large
presents of money and lands property
such as he could not have accumulated
by the labor of years. lie is now taken
to his house, the hooks are removed, and
and his wounds arc treated by the appli
cation of small cakes of mud, made so
hot as to burn the skin. Three of these
plasters are placed on each wound and
kept there for seven days, when they are
taken off and other medicines are applied.
This is severe treatment, but the wounds
are said to be effectually healed by it in
twenty days, if the man survives it. On
the first day he suffers but little, because
he ia inde insensible by intoxicating
drugs and potions. On che second, and
several succeeding days, his sufferings arc
so great that ho will often attempt to
commit suicide.
Profits on Pianos.
A correspondent of the New York Sun
says : I have been foreman of one of our
first-class manufactories for fifteen years,
and I know the cost of every one piano
made. Instruments sold for six hundred
and fifty dollars cost but two hundred and
ten dollars, and those sold for one thous
and six hundred dollars, which arc hand
somely carved grands, cost but four hun
dred and seventy-five dollars. You see
what enormous profits are made on them.
Pianos range from five hundred to two
thousand dollars, and some styles with an
! extra moulding, winch costs but nvo
dollars, they ask fifty dollars more for.
They argue that it looks one hundred dol-
lars better. Suppose it does, that is no
reason why they should ask fifty dollars
Uore for the instrument.
A Pacific Railroad Town.
CURIOUS SCENES AT BRYAN, EIGHT HUN
DRED MIES WEST OF OMAHA.
"Carlcton" writes to the Rostom Jour
nal the following account of the present- j De"cr- At 3 l us. aa eDur .
terminus of the Union Pacific Railway- ll as J text. It give us a better know
tha town of IWn. 800 mi!M WPStnf , ledge of the character of the young man,
Omaha :
The United Stetes at the present time
can exhibit one thing not to be found in
any other country a Pacific Railroad
town. By that we do not mean a town
like Omaha, which is an old established
city, but one of the mushroom places
which grow up in a night, last a weejf or
two, and then are torn down and moved
on to another locality. I he railrord is
pushed forward so fast, and the terminus
changed so often, that a town only gets
ander way before it is pulled down and
sent forward to a new place. You can
find houses at the present terminus, Bry
an, eight hundred miles west of Omaha,
whioh have been put upand taken down fif
teen or twenty times. The people who
live in them are American Arabs. They
are not only nomads, ever on the move, I
u..4 4k 4i ri-.i!
but they can steal and plunder as adroitly
and with as little compunction of con
science as their brethren the Bedouins.
Civilization and Christianity have not re
fined or softened their inhuman nature.
Let me not be understood to say that
every man in one of these railroad towns
is a villain, or a blackleg ; on the coun-
trary, honest men are to be Sound who,
ra. u,v;n ,t;0ntiw wh r..(T,,nQ uniweauu, dui sureiy, wunout
patience, ceases to be a virtue, and there
u U,arJ
being no law or order, or organized so
ciety, take matters into their own hands
and become a terror to evil-doers. When
some flagrant crime has been committed
murder or assassination these law
abiding men purify the place by hanging
the murderers to the nearest tree, or if no
tree is near, they extemporize a gallows
by tiliting up the tongue of a wagon, and
sending the ruffian into eternity before
the body of his victim is cold. Such sud.
den punishment is like lihtning on a sul
try day purifying and invigorating.
It was late in the evening when we en
tered the new town of Br-an, then about
two weeks old. We rode up a wide street,
bright with lights flaming in the windows
of the restaurants and saloons, each shop
man and barkeeper trying by arrange
ment of kerosene lamps and colored glass
es to outshine his neighbor in his endea
vors to attract a crowd.
"There was a sound of revelry," and
Bryan had gathered the largest part of
her population for a high time. There
was such dancing and fiddling, such drink
ing of healths, shuffling of cards and rat
tling of dice, as we never saw before.
From the dance saloons came the sound of
hurdy-gurdies, violins and banjoes, the
rattle and clatter cf the double shufile
and plantation breakdown, mingled with
shouts and oaths, the jingling of glasses,
as the rudemen, wild with whiskey, and
ruder women, decked, in silks, satins,
flounced and ruffled, and glittering with
trumpery jewelry, went whisking in each
other's aams round the room.
The railroad company have laid out
the town and are selling lots at high
prices. Of course, these lots will have
very little value after the road is opened,
but the town is built as if thero was a
limited amount of land available for a city,
the shops and houses are all crowded to
gether, and if a fire were to break out on
the windward side all would go.
Here is a town two weeks old, with a
population ot live thousand : Ua every
side we hear the sound of saws and ham
mers. Here is a man putting up his shop,
which he has brought from the late ter
minus at Green River. The boards are
all numbered like those of a window shut
ter. He will have it completed in an
hour or two, his goods in and ready for
trade.
Here is a German and his wife unpack
ing the chests which contain mugs and
glasses. In a few minutes he will have a
lager-beer saloon in operation.
Yonder a Yankee has establtshed a
bakery, building his oven of bricks made
on the spot, lie is selling hot ginger
bread and seed cakes, and has a large
pile of bread in one corner and pumpkin
pics on his shelves.
The saloons during tho day arc not
much patronized, but arc thronged at
night. It is a lively town. The whole
population live on a small territory and
are dependent wholly upon the railroad
for supplies. Were the cars to storun-
ning the community would be brouiilitto
the verzo of starvation in a week ; but
that contingency is not thought of. and
this crowd of railroad followers are here
to gather up the spoils which pass from
the treasury of the company through the
workmen into their hands.
The French chemist, Tardieu, extract
ed the coloring matter from some import
ed English red stockings, and introduced
a jquanity thereof beneath the skins of a
dog. The animal died within twelve
hours. A rabbit similarly treated died
in eight hours, and a frog in four. M.
Tardieu advises the absolute prohibition
of the importation of red stockings.
Tho sales of the great dry goods house,
Field, Leithcr & Co., for 1863, were $10,
419,200 exceeding that of any other
house in Chicago about 3,000,000 a
forcible illustration of what fair dealing
based upon a cash system can accomplish.
To take stainsout .of ivory-handled
kuives, rub them with a littlo moistened
salt.
4I Always Konw Where to Find Him."
This was said, in our
hearing, of a
young man by his employer.
He could
have said nothing more to the point, or
and a better key to his future, than Mr.
Wells could have furnished on paper
after ever so careful a craniologican
examination.
I said this: That young man is reliable,
conscientious, faithful, truthful, intel
ligent, competent, and essential to my
business. I would as soon think of set
ting a watch upon my own actions as on
his. His statements bear upon their face
the seal of truth. Ilis memory i3 so
thoroughly methodical and cautions in
all he docs and he seldom, if ever, makes
a mistake. He is as much interested in
my business as I myself am. A hint to
him is equal to a command. If he knows
a thing should be done he docs not wait
to be told, but goes at it at once ; and
when he puts his head to a task you can
ii i. 4 : til v.-
, ,
finished belore he leaves it.
All this and more was included in that
brief, pithy commendation ; and we felt
sure then, as we do now, that we can fore
cast that young man's future. He will
be not simply an honest man and a "use
ful member of society," but a jwsitive
man a man of independent character
and assured position possibly a man of
i.ii. i -.i .
misfortune,
blessed with competence. His wife, should
he marrv. and his children, should he
m
have any, will find in him not a protector
only but a companion and friend. They,
like his present employer, will know just
"where to find him." Ilis neighbors,
too, will have decided opinions as to his
whereabouts. They will rarely guess
wrong as to what he will say or do in any
matter of public importance or pivatc in
terests. The worthy poor whom he may
know will learn to discount his pbilantro
phy at ratable figures, and the worthless
vagabonds who may cross his path will
fix as positive an estimate upon his
credulity. He will never sit astride any
poitical fence, but, on one side or the
other, will be found earnestly at work.
If a professing Christian, the fact will be
known outside his church pew, net through
a blatant self-assertion, but in those many
quiet ways which speak more loudly than
words. He will forget, while young, to
"sow his wild oats," and so, when old, he
will reap only the nature and plump
kernel, which is the fullness of joy and
peace. Packard's Monthly.
On Catching Cold.
Catching cold is a common phrase
for
an attack of catarrh, but it is a very in
nocent one. One year I suffered so very
severely from a scrie3 of "cold" that my
attention was drawn specially to them.
I was then lecturing on medicine, and
nearly every night, from five o'clock to
six during the winter months had to turn
out from a warm room to go through all
weathers, lecture for an hour in a theater
heated by a stove and lightend by gas,
and then return again to my snuggery at
home. When I felt a fresh cold begin
ning, I tried in vain to account for it,
until I saw in Copland's dictionary that
the most fertile cause of a cold was com
ing from a moist, cold air to a hot and
dry room. This at once explained to me
the reason of my frequent suffering, fori
had invarably gone into my hot room
straight from the cold. I of course, soon
changed my habits ; I dwadled in the hall
while taking off my great coat, prcam
bulatcd the rooms which had no fire in
then I went up and down stairs, and the
like, ere I went into my study whose
temperature was also reduced. Since
them, agree with a friend who says, "that
a cold comes from catching heat and I
am disposed to thiuk that there is a strong
analogy between a chilblain on a child's
toes and a cold in a person's nose, throat,
and longs. Dr. Thos. Inman.
A Curious Law Suit
A "cat case" has just terminated in
the Baltimore courts. The plantiff was
the owner of a valuable cat of the Maltose
breed, which had been missing for about
four months. The cat was discovered in
the possession of the dofendant, and the
plaintiff, in order to recover it, was
obliged to sue out a writ of replevin, the
cat and its collar being valued at $25.
At the trial of the casein which both
sides were represented by counsel, the
defendant produced an account against
the plaintiff ot 1,20 for boarding tho
cat lo2 days at ten cents per day. After
hearing the evidence and argument, in,
which tho defendant's counsel claimed
there was no property in cats, the Justico
gave judgement for plaiutiff for possession
of the cat, and ono cent damages and
cost3 to bo paid by defendant. The bill
of defendant for boarding tho cat was not
allowed.
,
Farmers and dealers in vegetables will
be gratified to learn that a Michigan cul
tivator has a potato that conies to maturity
fifteen minutes earlier than the famous
Early Rose potato! And cultivators of
moderate means will be rejoiced to know,
that they can purchase it at the moderate
rate of 25 per pound.
A correspondent says ho has a friend
who is trowing weaker and weaker every
day, and that he has already arrived at
that point where it is with the greater
difficulty he can arise fivo dollars.
A Useful Table.
To aid farmers in arriving at accuracy
in estimating tho amount of land in dif
ferent fields under cultivation, the follow-
in rr
table is given :
5 yards wide by 003 yards long, con
tains 1 acre.
10 yards wide by 484 yards long con
tains 1 acre.
20 yards wide by 212 yard3 long,
con-
tains 1 acre.
40 yards wide by 121 yards long,
tains 1 acre.
con-
70 yards wide by 09 J yards long,
coa-
tains 1 acre.
80 yards wido by COJ yards long, con
tains 1 acre.
220 feet wide by 19S feet long, contains
1 acre.
410 feet wide by 19S feet long, contains
1 acre.
110 feet wide by SCO feet long, contains
1 acre.
60 feet wide by 720 feet long, contains
1 acre.
120 feet wide by 303 feet long, contains
1 acre.
240 feet wide by 1S1 J feet long, contains
1 acre.
OLD BREAD.
A curious discovery was just made at
Pompeii. In a house in course of excava
tion an oven was found, closed with an
iron door, on opening which a batch of
eighty-one loaves, put in nearly eighteen
hundred years ago, and now somewhat
over done was discovered ; and even the
large iron shovel with which they had
been meatly laid in rows. The loaves
were but slightly over baked by the lava
heat, having been protected by a quanti
ty of ashes covering the door. There is
no baker's mark on the loaves ; they are
circular about nine inches in diamter,
rather flat, and indented (evidently with
the baker's elbow) in the centre, and are
slightly raised at the side3, and divided
by deep lines radiating froa the center
into eight segments. They are now of a
deep brown color, and hard, but very
light. In the same shop were found 501
bronze and 52 silver coins. A mill, with
a great quantity of corn in excellent pre
servation, has also been discovered.
Good Will. Prentice, of the Louis
ville Journal saya many good things, and
now he intimates what his will would bo
if he was rich. What an idea, to supposa
an editor could be rich ! He says:
If I possessed the most valuable things
in the world, and was about to will thera
away, the following would be my plan of
distribution :
. I would give the world truth and
friendship, which are so very scarce.
To physicians, skill and learning.
I would give to printers their pay.
To gossipping women, good sense, mod
esty, large waists, and natural teeth.
To young sports, and dandies, common
sense,
littl
cash, and hard labor.
To old maids, good tampers, smooth
faces, little talk and good husbands.
To old bachelors, love of virtue, child-
ren and wives.
Curo for Drunkness.
Recipes to cure one of an appetite for
liquor, are constantly going the rounds of
the paper. A friend who has tried
it gave us the following receipt : Ilavo
steady employment, and give a strict at
tention ten hours each day, except Sun
days, and then attend church service
regulary. v hen your day s work is com
pleted, go home to spend your leisure
hours. If your home 13 not pleasant, set
yourself about the agreeable task of mak
ing it so. When yoa go out to public
amusements take some person of puro
mind and steady habits with you. Under
this pleasant treatment, the sight and
smell of liquor becomes loatbsomo.
Judgment Notes.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has recently decided that a judgment
note should be stamped at the usual rate
of promissory notes, being five cents for
every 8100, or fractional part thereof,
with five cents additional, on account of
the clause "without defalcation' The
decision is made under the clauses of the
Internal RcTenue law, which provide that
no stamp duty shall bo charged upon any
warrant of attorney aocompanying a bond
or note duly stamped.
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The Memorial Methodist church at
Washington cost 250,000, and will seat
2,000 people.
A lady in Connecticut wears oa her
hat a stuffed bird so exceedingly natural
and life like to appearances that a cat
sprang at it and damaged it recently.
A $5,000 monument is to bo erected
over the grave of Sam Houston in Texas
Six hundred men are working at Provi
dence, R. I., ou locomotives for the Paci
fic R. R.
A Vermont paper says that the annual
product of maplo sugar in the United
States is 7,000,000 pounds.
Most kinds of roots and barks are now
used an medicines, except the cube root
and the bark of a dog.
To Cure Corns.
Hold your feet uear a hot Gro till the
corns pop. This is said to be a sure cure,
but a very painful one.
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