Y N
1
iSOMTAW.
H
A
Bcvoltb to politico, itcrature, agricnlturc, Science, iWoralitn, tutu cncral Snlelligcticc.
VOL. 29.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 23, 1871.
NO. 31.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
TCRVTS Two dollars a yearin advance and if not
paid brrre the nd of the year, two dollars and fifty
jfni$ will be charged.
o piper Jiconlinued until all arrearages are paid,
xcpt at the option ol the Editor.
r7A Jverii5ements of one square of (eight lines) or
rti. nne or tnrec menions 91 on. fcacti additional
atertisn. 50 cent. Longer ones in proportion.
JOB PRINTING,
or ILL KINDS,
Xirruied in the highest style of the Art, and on the
most reasonable terms.
DR. J.LANTZ,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
Still has hi office on Main Street, in the second
siory of Dr. S. Walton's brick building, nearly op po
int the StrouJshurg House, and be flatters himself
tkat y eighteen yeais constant practice and the mot
jrnrt and careful attention to all matters pertaining
I. his profr'Mon, that he is fully able to perform all
Mr.tions in the dental line in the most careful, taste
III ai skillf'il manner.
special attention given to savins the Natural Teeth ;
al, to the msertioa of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
ld. Silvr or Continuous Gums, and parted its la
ail e insured.
Most persons know the great folly and danger of en
trusting their vtork to the inexperienced, or to those
litmg at a UisUoce. April 13, ISTI. Jy
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Announces tint having just returned from
Dental Col legs, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teeth in the most beautiful and life
like manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac
cording to the most improved method.
Teeih extracted without pain, when de
sired, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing of
all kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Cbr?es reasonable.
Office in J. G. Keller's new Brick build
ing, Main Street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
auj 31-tf
jQU. GEO. W. JACKSON
Physician, Surgeon & ccoucher.
Office, next to Smith's store, residence
Krergey'n Hotel.
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa.
June 8, 1S70. tf.
DU. C. O. IIOFFMAX, M. X.
Would respectfully announce to the
public tint he hag removed his office from
O Aland to Canadensis. Monroe County, Pa.
Trusting that many years of consecutive
practice of Medicine and Surgery will be a
ssifficient guarantee for the public confidence.
Februarys, 1870. tf.
JAMES II. WALTOX,
At Ionic j" at I..av,
Office in the building formerly occupied
by L. M. Burson, and opjosite the Strouds
burg Bank, Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
jan 13-tf
s.
HOLMES. Jn.
Attorney at Law,
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Office, on Main Street, 5 doors above the
8iroudburg House, and opposite Raster's
lathing store.
ft-Business of all kinds attended to with
promptness and fidelity.
)Jiy 6, 18G9. tf.
PLASTEE !
r"re6h ground Nova Scotia PLASTER,
at Stokes' Mills. HEMLOCK BOARDS,
FENCING, SHINGLES, LATH, PA
LING, and POSTS, cheap.
FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand.
Wid exchange Lumber and Plaster for
Grain or pay the highest market price.
BLACKSMITH SHOP just opened by
C. Stone, an experienced workman.
Public trade solicited.
N. S. WVCKOFF.
StVe' Mills, Pj., April 20, 1871.
ROCKAFELLOW,
DEALER. IK
Readj-Made Uolliing, Gents Fur
nishing Goods, Hats & Caps,
Boots & Shoes, &c.
EAST STROUDSBURG, PA.
(Near the Depot.)
The public are invited to call and exam
ine joods. Prices moderate.
May G, 18(39. tf.
A FULL ASSORTMENT
L OF
HOME MADE CHAIRS
Always on hand at
SAMUEL S. LEE'S
New Cabinet Shop,
Franklin Street Stroudsburg, Penn'a
In rear of Stroudsburg Bank.
April 6,7). ly.
REV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil
liamburgh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com
pounded at
HOLLTNSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Wot. 21. 18(57. W. HOLLINSHEAD.
DOH'T FOOL YOUR HOHI2Y
away for worthless articles of Furni
ture, but go to McCarty', and you will get
we'l paid for it. ' Sept. 26, 'rtf.
Music in the Night
When stars pursue their Boletnn flight,
Oft in the middle of the night,
A strain of music visits me.
Hushed in a moment silvcrly
Such rich and rapturous strains as make
The very soul of silence ache
With longing for the melody.
Our lovers in the distant dusk
Of summer gardens, sweet as musk.
Pouring the blissful burden out,
The breaking joy, the dying doubt ;
Or revelers all flown with wine,
And in a madness half divine,
Beating the broken tune about.
Or else the rude and rolling notes
That leave some strolling sailors' throats
Hoarse with the salt sprays, it may be,
Of many a mile of rushing sea :
Or some high minded dreamer stays
Late through the solitary ways,
Nor heeds the listening night or me.
Or how or whence those be heard,
Hearing, the slumbering soul is stirred,
As when a swiftly passing light
Starles the shadows into flight,
While one rememberance suddenly
Thrills through the melting melody
A strain of music in the night.
Out of the darkness bursts the song,
Into the darkness move along ;
Only a chord of memory jars,
Only an old wound burns its scars,
Smites the heart with passionate pain,
And vanishes among the stars.
Harper's Magazine.
TO SMOKERS.
The Great Tobacco Controversy con
tinues to agitate Great Britain. The
BuLlin University Mayazine for Septem
ber takes up the subject, saying, by way
of apology, " Our desk is littered with
books relating to tobacco." One thing
seems to sufficiently evident: Few hab
its arc more expensive than the habit of
smoking. Tobacco is shown by official
figures to cost more than bread in Ger
many, Holland, the United States, and
England. The total expenditure in the
last-named country in 1868 for tobacco
and snuff was 11,433,299. These figures
are important, but two things should be
remembered- The first is, that all aggre
gates of expenditure by a nation are start
Hog. It would be the same with the cost
of a country's buttons or pins, or friction
matches. The cost of tobacco is not large
if its use be in any way serviceable. Is
it? Our writer says that it is not. It is
a poison. "It may call hen-"bane," he
says, "cousin, and claim kinship with
belladonna." But even this fact is not
conclusive, because there is poison in
bread or in most other articles of food.
It is undeoiable that there is poison in
tobacco, but it is not a poison which acts
rapidly and fatally, and it is only in in
dividual cases that its acts perceptibly at
all. However, if the use of tobacco does
produce morbid affections of the body, it
it well that everybody should know it
even the ladies, since this Dublin writer
affirm of Lis own knowledge, that many
ladies are in the habit of smoking private-
Now let it be distioctly understood that
the use of tobacco produces locomotorotaxy
If we may judge by its impressive name,
this must be a frightful disease to have.
It may be explained that "locomotoro
taxy" means no more and no less than a
general paralysis of the nerves supplying
the muscles. Therefore, good Sir, if you
will puff your meerschaum filled with
"Lone Jaek" or "Caporal" in a state of
ignition, understand that you may be
seized with locomotorotaxy at any mo
ment, and rendered forever incapable of
figuring in base ball matches and other
games implying the possession of a healthy
biceps. But this is not all. If you will
smoke you must just make up your mind
to submit to one or all of the following
diseases: Giddiness, sickness of the
stomach, dyspepsia, diarrheca, angina liver
complaint, heart-complaint, pancrease-com-plaiut,
nervousness, amaurosis, paralysis,
apoplexy, atrophy, deafness, nausea, ul
ceration of the gums, cheeks, and mucous
membraoe, of the throat, Hysteria, hypo
chondriasis ! There, reader, only read that
and go on blowing your cloud, if you can !
You will? Of course, you will. We
might fling a whole medical dictionary of
the largest size at your head, and it would
not reform you. We have noticed the
fact that men,as a mass.are not to be seared
out of their little indulgences by scienti
fic terms. "It's the excess, you know
and what is peculiar is that nobody ever
has the excess. Smoke away ; but we
tell jou frankly that, according to the
writer we have quoted, you will hare
"shocks at the epigastrium."
Lost! A small lady's watch with a
white face; also, two ivory young ladies'
work boxes. A mahogany gentleman's
dressing case and a small pony, belonging
to a young lady with a silver mane and
tail.
A music dealer on Broadway has in his
window a sentimental song thus marked :
"Thou hast loved me and left me, for 25
cents.
There is a man out West who is so lazy
that he has applied for a position as a rail
road sleeper.
Lap-dogs are to be dyed to match the
ladies' dresses this winter.
What I Know About Farming.
I have read Greeley's "What I Know
About Farming"through nine times.twice
backwards, and once standing on my head!
Have mastered it at last, and condensed
in milder shape what I know about run
ning the thing into ground.
Young man, be a farmer. Young wo
man, be a farmer. Buy a billiard table,
dust your clothes on the top of it, sprin
kle on a little dandruff, and go to work.
Never think of beginning with less than
a field of green 6x10. Spread on your
earth all over the billiard table evenly, to
the depth of one-sixth of an inch, irrigate
with a sponge and sub-soil to the depth
of ten feet. If you have no billiard table,
buy a piece of land if you can't get a
whole one, and go to work.
The best way is to stay about in the
shade, or hire out to hold a chair down
in a saloon, while the old man does the
work.
If your farm is stony, pick out the
stones before they are ripe, and throw
them into the' road. This will cause
others to McAdamize your streets.
Never think of plowing less than nine
feet if your mule will pull it. If you
have no team, wait until winter; then
drill and blast. This will pulverize the
earth, elevate your land, warm it, and
you will be able to report before your
siow neignDors.
Ilun your creeks up hill, and wash
sheep only in warm weather.
Pick geese on Sunday, and set the
eggs on fence-posts, out of the way of
garter snakes.
When turning grindstones to educate
scythes, never turn the handle backward,
or the early grass will wilt before the
color comes to it.
In breaking colts, use a club it is bet
ter thai a crowbar. A sled-stake will
answer.
Feed all hogs with cup custard, except
politicians.
Drive fence-posts with the butt end
down, so the boys won't sit on the top of
them when arguing so long without com
ing to the point.
strawberries should be thrashed in
May, and straw saved for the bees.
Butterflies should never be milked or
churned the day they are slopped, lest the
young milk be spoiled. None but ice
cream cows should wear skates the heel-
corks scratch the calves so.
Hydraulic rams should be butchered
before sunshine, and the pelt saved for
company.
Put a swivel on your scythe, so it will
cut both ways.
Canry seed should be sown in drills, so
that the young bids will browse early.
In planting string beans, never use
yarn, when once in the throat it is so hard
to come up. The same with artichokes
and pips in chickens.
Pitchforks should be sorted and packed
in sugar, the juice boiled and skimmed
before running in the cokes.
Pumpkins should hang on trees till
frost comes, then should be picked, not
shook off and packed in sweet oil.
In stuffing your sausages, do not stuff
too much into your stomach, or you'll
have a feline in your category, and feel
that you have incurred something you
hate to meat.
Dandelions should be worked in pink
rather than in blue worsted they will
wash better.
Ordinary shoes will do for oxen when
at farm work. Use slippers on them only
when going to church.
For succotash the young corn and pota
toes should be sliced and planted in the
same hills the year before. Then take
care not to injure the pods when the fruit
is ready to tassel out.
Old rags are better than glass to stop
holes in windows the neighbors cannot
see in so well.
Beechnuts should never be eaten with
the skins on they change the complexion
so.
Young bed quilts should never be
taken out of the ground in the salt till
the beds have been well spaded for the
next crop.
In hatching suspenders, care must be
taken that the old hen does not have her
nest near the gallows, or the young birds
will be hard to catch.
Look out for protection ! Let the big
hogs cat the little ones then there will
be more room in the pen, and less expense
for barrels. But in salting the pork
never use rock salt on a stony farm, but
feed them with fine salt from a spoon, if
Butler is not in that vicinity. Use
Epsom salt exclusively for horses.
Never put spots on pigs backwards, ex
cept for army use.
Sweet corn is the best to eorn beef,
though old cows used to the business will
eat the common red glaize if the hired
man does not yellow at them before they
get into the garden.
: i. .
A St. Louis girl broke her neck while
attempting to prevent a young man from
kissing her. Since then it has been an
easy task to kiss St. Louis girls they are
as gentle and quiet as lambs. If any
young man don't believe it, they can go
try'ein.
.
You will notice one thing the devil
seldom offers to go into partnership with
a busy man, but you will often see him
pffer to join the lazy man and furnish all
the capital.
'
An item in a lawyer's bill to his client
ran thus ; "To lying awake at night think-
J ing oyer your case, forty. five dollars..
In the Jaws of a Swamp.
A TIHULLISa NARRATIVE.
A late number of the Detroit Free
rrcss contains the following, which will
remind our readers of Victor Hugo's
story of the traveller who perished in the
quicksands off the coast of Bretagne :
A German about twenty five years old,
named Henry Osster, employed on a farm
in Nankin township, set out to hunt after
a cow the other day. He took his rifle
and expected to return home at dark,
whether successful or not. About five
o'clock in the afternoon, when within a
mile or two of Perrinsville, he came down
from a bank in a piece of woods to the
edge of a small creek. Across the creek
was a piece of marshy ground, not over
four yards wide, covered with long grass
and plants. The same sort of ground ex
tending a distance either way, Osster de
termined to cross it, after getting over
the creek. Taking half a dozen steps,
he found the ground giving, way, and
made a jump for what he took to be solid
ground. He landed up to his knees in
mire, and found his feet firmly gripped
as if in a vice. He tried to word his feet
out, but every trial sunk them deeper,
and in less then five minutes his knees
were out of sight. When he landed, his
gun struck the marsh five or six feet
away, alighting on a piece of old log
which held it up.
When ' he- found that he was mired,
Osster began to shout for help, shouting
himself hoarse before recollecting that he
was three quarters of a mile from auy
house, and half a mile from the travelled
road. As it grew dark, and he felt him
self slowly sinking, he took a careful
survey of the situation, to discover his
chances of escape from death. . His first
act was to empty his pockets, and remove
his coat and vest, that the extra weight
might not sink him. To his right, about
ten feet away, was a knoll of solid ground,
on which grew a thorn-apple tree one of
the limbs of which extended almost over
the man's head, and about four feet be
yond his reach. Thinking that if he
could get possession of his gun he might
secure the limb, Osster took off his
suspenders, tied them together, made a
noose, and after careful and tedious work
lassoed the rifle and dragged it to him.
This was after he had been in the mire
nearly two hours, and quite a while after
dark. He thought he had not sunk any
for the last half hour, but the extra
weight of the gun, as he held it up, sunk
him nearly to his hips, and he quickly
laid it down.
The man's position, to say nothing of
the danger, was so painful that he could
not help but cry out. His legs were
pressed together, and the mire was cold
enough to benumb him. Little tufts of
grass growing up from spots of solid
ground not much larger than his head,
were all around him, but the moment he
took hold of any of them it would pull
away, having no real support. Osster
bad a pipe with him. He got this from
his coat, and twisted off the German sil
ver ring around the stem. The ring he
broke between his teeth, bent it up like
a hook, and then fastened it to his sus
penders, determined to make an effort to
reach the limb. Time after time he made
the throw, but the hook failed to catch,
or slipped off or bent out straight, and at
ten o'clock at night the victim was up to
his hips and slowly settling. Placing
bis coat and vest on either side, he push
ed them down with his hands, and in this
way kept his body from settling as fast
as it otherwise would. He ceased trying
to shout, knowing that he could not ex
pect help before another day.
As Osster did not return at dark, the
man for whom he worked walked a mile
or so in the direction from which he was
expected, bat stopped within half a mile
of the place where he was sinking down
to death. Returning home, he agreed to.
make a further search in the morning,
and when the time came he got a neigh
bor to go with him. They took a direc
tioo quite different from that in which
Osster was to be found, and searched the
woods until nearly noon. They then de
termined to go the other way. In com
ing out of the woods they passed within
forty rods of Osster, and were nearly half
a mile away, when one of them fired at a
6quirrel. All night long Osster was
slowly sinking, and when the sun marked
noon be was up to his shoulders in th?
mire. Hearing the shot, he put forth his
strength into a shout, followed by another,
and his voice was heard and recognized.
Even after his friends were within fifty
feet of him, he had to 6hout to guide
them, as his head was below the grass.
They instantly set about rescuing him.
Logs and brush were piled into the swamp
until they could reach him. Finding
that they could not pull him out by the
arms, the mire was scooped away from
his body and he was litetally pried out.
He has been sick with a fever since.
A white bov asked a young nesro what
he had such a short nose for 1 "I specks
so it won't poke itself iutu other people's
business.'
An early spring jumping out of bed
at five o'clock in the morning..
: The most dangerous kind of a bat, that
sometimes flies at night, is a brick bat.
,
The burped Chicago buildings, if plac
ed side by side, would reach one hundred
miles,.
Do Not Live Beyond Your Means.
"This is pleasant !" exclaimed a young
husband, taking his seat in the rocking,
chair as the supper things were removed.
The fire glowing, in the grate, revealed a
pretty and neatly furnished sitting-room,
with all the appliances of comfort. The
fatiguing business of the day was over,
and he sat enjoying what he had all day
been anticpating, the delights of his own
fireside. His pretty wife, Esther, took
her work and sat down by the table.
"It is pleasant to have a home of one's
own," he again said, taking a satisfactory
survey of his little quarters. The cold
rain beat against the windows, and he
thought he felt really grateful for all his
present comforts. .
"Now, if we only had a piano," exclaim
ed the wife.
"Give me the music of your own sweet
voice before all the pianos in creation,"
he observed complimentary ; but he felt
a certain secret disappointment that his
wife's thankfulness did ' happily chime
with hi3 own.
"Well, but we want one for our friends,"
said Esther.
"Let our friends come to see us, and
to hear a piano," exclaimed the husband.
, "But, George, everybody has a piano,
now-a-days we don't go anywhere with
out seeing a piano," persisted the wife.
"And yet, I don't know what we want
one for you hive no time to play, on
one, and I dont want to hear it."
"Why, they are so fashionable I think
our room looks nearly naked without one."
"I think it looks just right."
"I think it looks very naked wc want
a piano shockingly," protested Esther
emphatically.
The husband rocked violently.
"Your lamp smokes, my dear," said he
after a long pause.
"When are you going to get a chande
lier ! I have told you a dozen times how
much we needed one," said Esther pet
tishly. "These are pretty lamps we don't
need a chandelier," said her husband.
"These lamps are the prettiest of the
kind I ever saw."
"But, George, I do not think our room
is complete without a chandelier," said
Esther, sharply. "They are so fashion
able ! Why, the Morgans and Millers,
and many others I might mention, all
have them ; I am sure we ought to."
"We ought to if we take pattern by
other people's expenses, and don't'see any
reason in that."
The husband moved uneasily in his
chair.
"We want to live as well as others,"
said Esther.
"We want to live within our means,Es
ther," exclaimed George.
"I am sure we can afford it as well as
the Morgans, and Millers, and Toms j we
do not wish to appear mean."
George's check crimsoned.
"Mean ! I am not mean !" he cried
angrily.
"Then we do not wish to appear, so,"
said the wife. "To complete this room,
and make it look like other people's we
want a piano and a chandelier."
"We want we want!" muttered the
husband, "there's no satisfying woman's
wants, do what you may," and he abrupt
ly left the room.
How many husbands arc in a similar
dilema ! How many houses and husband's
are rendered uncomfortable by tho con
stant distisfaction of a wife present com
forts and present provisions. How many
bright prospects for business have ended
in bankruptcy and ruin, in order to satis
fy this secret hankering after fashionable
necessaries 1 Could the real cause of so
maoy failures be known, it would be
found to result from useless expenditures
at home expenses to answer the demands
of fashion and "what will people think 7"
''My wife has made my fortune," said
a gentleman of great possessions," "by
her thrift, and prudence, and cheerful
ness, when I was just beginning."
"And mino has lost mine," answered
his compnniou, "by useless extravagance
and repining when I was doing well."
What a world dose this open to the in
flaence which a wife possesses over the
future prosperity of her family ! Let tho
wife known her influence, and try to use
it wisely and well.
A Word to Girls.
The woman who is indifferent to her
looks is no true woman. God meant wo
man to be attractive to look well, to please,
and it is one of her duties to carry out
this intention of her Maker. But that
dress is to do it all, and to suffice, is more
than we brought to believe. Just because
we do love to see girls look well, as well
as to live to some purpose, we would urge
upon them such a course of reading and
study as will confer such charms as no
'modiste' can supply. A well known au
thor onco wrote a very pretty essay on the
power of education to beautify. That it
absolutely chiseled the features; that he
bad seen aany a clumsy coso and thick
pair of Hps so modified by thought, awak
ened and active seutimeut, as to be unre
conguizaLle. And he put it on the ground
that we so often see people, homely and
unattractive in youth, bloom in middle
life into a softened Indian summer of good
loika iiod mellow loue.
Women in England.
A lady in a recent letter from Liver
pool says :
"Here, as in every other hotel in Eog
land, I found ladies at the bar, keeping
the register of arrivals, and assigning
rooms to guests, receiving payment of
bills, &c. So in the telegraph offices, and
in all the stores and shops, young and
well-dressed ladies form a large portion of
the attendants. I was greatly struck with
it,and believe it would be well for ourpeople
to adopt the custom of thus furnishing
employment to a large and most depend
ent class of our people. Wherever there
is light and tumble work to be done, we
found universally ladies employed. In
the extensive draper establishment of Lea,
in Liverpool, frequented and patronized
by the nobility and wealthy of the land,
the long lines of counters were attended
by scores of beautiful young girls,, taste
fully dressed, and who were waiting up
on the crowds of ladies and gentlemen
purchasing supplies."
A' Propensity for Twins.
About one mile from Jamestown, Rusr
sel county, there lives one of the most re
markable families in all this common
wealth, and probably in the United States.
Mr. James Jeffries, who is now in this
city serving upon the petit jury of the
United States court, tells his own story,
and says that he was married before Le
was seventeen years old, his wife only
five days younger than himself. They,
lived together seven years without child
ren, when his wife gave birth to twins, a
boy and a girl. In the fifteen years which
followed, nineteen children were born,
to the happy couple, each of the first
three births being twins and each subse
quent birth alternating between twins and
single births, until the fifteen years were
accomplished, and nineteen children conv'
posed the family circle, seven pair of'
twins being born during the time. Mr.
Jeffries is only forty-five years old, and is
still youthful in appearance and very
stout. His wife never had better health
in all her life than at present, though she
will not weigh a hundred pounds. Her
greatest weight at any time was 110
pounds. The boys of the first twins now
weighs 1G5 pounds, the girl 125 pounds.
All the boy who are grown have made,
large men ; the girls are of good size and
all the children healthy. But five out of
the nineteen have died. Mr. Jeffries has
ten brothers, all of whom are large men,
and within the families of these eleven
brothers there are thirty seven pairs of
twins, making seventy four twin children,
to say nothing of the hosts of single births.
Five of Mr. Jeffries' children are married,
and added to all, these singular facts, not
withstanding thie absence of silvery locks
on his head, he is the grandfather of five
children. Louisville Courier Journal.
That one Thing.
Uncle Peter, who flourishes in the
mountains of Vermont as a horse dealer,
was called upon the other day by an ama
teur of "equine," who was in searth o
something fast. The result is told as fol
lowing: "There," said Uncle Peter,, pointing to
an animal in the meadow below the house,
'there, sir, is a mare who would trot her
mile in two minutes and seventeen se
conds were it not for one thing."
"Indeed !" cried his companion.
"Yes," continued Uncle Peter, "she
is four years old this spring ; is in good
condition ; looks well ; is a first-rate mare;
and she could go a mile in two seventeen,
were it not for one thing."
"Well, what is that V
"That mare," resumed the jockey, "is
in every way a good piece of property.
She has a heavy mane, a switch tail, trots
fair, and yet there is one thing only why
she can't go a mile in two seventeen."
"What in the Old Harry is it then V
cried the amateur, impatiently.
"The distance is too great for the time,''
was the old wag's reply.
A deformed chicken of common breed,
the deformity resulting from a broken
back, wai entered at the Muskiugum
County (Ohio) Fair as a Hungarian cock
of the "Sclavi Magyar breed," just im
ported, and the sapient judges, after
gravely Inspecting it, awarded it the first
premium over one of the finest poultry
shows ever seen in the county.
The latest thing in funerals is related
of Birmingham, Va , where a gentleman
who was being carried to the cemetary by
his relatives, kicked at his coSn-lid and
demanded to be let out. If this thing
should become epidemic, it will be very
awkward.
The constancy of love is beautifully il
lustrated in the case of an aged couple in
Wisconsin, who have been engaged to be
married thirty years, and duriug that time
have never beeu out of jail together long
enough to have the ceremony solemnized.'
A correspondent describes Vinnie
Ream in her studio "with arms bare to.
the shoulders and her ankles likewise ;"
which is certainly an airy costume for
this weather.
'
Fifty youpg widows reside iu the small
towu of Ccotreville, Ind., and it is unsafe
for ap unprotected mau to, pass through
there.
. It is hardly credibly that but little over
twenty years ago Sao Francisco was a bar
ren wabte.aud to day has 170,000 iiih ibt
taots, yet both arc facts.