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Scuotcb to politics, itcratuvc, Agriculture, Science, iiloralitn, anb cncral '3faidligciuc.
VOL. 29.
rnMis'ied by Theodore Schocli.
Tots To i!oH: r a yearin advance and if not
(1',j,.f no ttie on. I "I the ye;ir, two dollars and fifty
Int u lil b cliii' pe.I.
-i i or .ti-i:i'H imio I until all arrearages are paid,
, rot .it t ho , ti'M ! the Editor.
C i": r V Ki'i-iistviients "f e s)ii;ire orcight linos) or
',,, or tliroo insertions $1 50. Each additional
Tin: '.i. 5' t'Cius. Longer ones in proportion.
JOIS EMIIXTIXG,
OF ALL KINDS,
-tertiieil in hishest Myle of the Art, and on the
most i easonablc terms.
"Tr. J LAN TZ,
Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist,
Still !i i Ins ofTn-o on M;iin Street, in the second
s,'v ,,i' l)r. S. W.tiloii's brick, building, neatly oppn
Hf't!ip s:r-ii.l!mi? House, and be n:iitershim.clf
ill i! fv ei,j''toFii vears constant practice and the iini
t. iie-t aii I catrfn! attenil.-n to all matters pci li-.initig
to Ins ;n-i!f.'i"ti, that ho is fully able to perform ail
Jnorai'ions in the dental line in the itiost careful, lastc
i.'il .lii I skilll'll manner.
S u-.nl attontion siven to savins the Natural Teclh ;
N,'i. to tlic insertion of Art lhciat Teeth on Kubbcr,
'('; il 1. Siivfr or rositmuous Gums, and perfect fits in
il r.i-t's insured.
M .st persons know the ereal folly and dancer el en-iri'i-iuii
their work to the inexpLvienced, or to lhose
lnuijat a itislaiice. April 13, lsTl.-ly
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Announces l li it ha vinir just returned from
Peu'a! Co! legs, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teeth in the 11101 beautiful and life
like, manner, and lo fili decayed teeth ac
cording to tlie most improved method.
Teeth extracted without pain, wlien de
eircl lv the nse of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing of
a:l kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Cliarjcs reasonable.
05ce in J. G. Keller's new Brick build
ing
Main S'reet, Stroadsburg, Pa.
ausr 31-tf
Dll. C. O. IIOFFJi.lX, 33. I.
Wmilil respectfully ;i;m.iuun! to the
paMic tli.tt lie has removed his cilice from
Oakland to Canadensis, Monroe County. Pa.
Tnitiiiir that many v;irs f omseeutive
practice of Medicim? aii'l Sur.irery will be a
K,i.'ii. ic;:t irnarantee lir the public confidence.
Fi '.rnai v J"). 1 S7. if.
Tl."Ji:S 5 J. IV
fj At tor
tit lAXW
Oou-1 in the building formerly occupied
hy L. 31. llnrson, and opposite the Strouds
bunr Bank, -Main street, Stroudsburg, l'a.
jaii l:5-tf
s.
n IIII .A KS. Jr.
Attorney
at Iaiv,
STROUD SBURG-, ?A.
Office, on Main Slreet, 5 doors above the
JstrouJsburir House, and opposite
Ruster's t
cluihinnf store.
07-Cusiness of all kinds attended to with
promptness a r..l fidelity.
May G, 109 if.
"PLASTEE !
Fresh around Nova Scotia PLASTER,
r,t Stokes' Mills. HEMLOCK BOARDS.
FENTIXG, SHINGLES, LATH, l'A
L1NG. and POSTS, cheap.
FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand.
Wi 1 exchange Lumber and Plaster for
Grain or piy the highest market price.
15LACKSMITI1 SHOP just opened by
C. St.x.ie, an experienced workman.
Public trade solicited.
N. S. wyCKOFF.
.Stokci' Mills, Pa., April 20, 1871.
A.
DEALER IN
Ready-3Iade CIolh!:i, Gents Fur
uisliing (ioods, Ik(s & Caps,
Boots & Shoes, &c.
LAST STROUD SllURG, PA.
(Near the Depot.)
The public are invited to call and exam
ine, jjooild. Prices moderate.
May G, 16G'J. tf.
REV. E D V A R I ) A . W I LSON'S (of W i 1
liamliurh, N. V.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION aud ASTHMA carefully com
pounded at
HOLLINS HEAD'S DRUG STORE.
Medicines Fresh and Pure.
"ov. 21. 1507.1 W. HOLLINSHEAD.
A
FULL ASSORTMENT
OF
HOME MADE CHAIRS
Always on hand at
GAM U EL S. LEE'S
New Cabinet Shop,
Franklin Street Stroudsburg, Penn'a
In rear of Slrojdsburg Bank.
April C, '71. ly.
D
O.VT
FOStGKT that when
vou watit anv thinir in the Furniture
r Ornamental line that McCartv. tnc
Odd-I-'cllowa' Hall, Main Strect.'Sirouds
burjj, pa is the place to gel it. Sept. 20
DO.VT FOOL YOIK MIOXKY
away for worthless articles of Furni
ture, but go to McCarty's, and you will fret
well paid for it. Sept. 20, '67.
DOST you Know fiiul J. II.
McCarty is the only Undertaker in
StroudiLurir who understands his business?
If not, attend a Funeral managed by any
other Undertaker in town, and you will sec
the proof of the fact. Sept. G,'G7.
TVWJ!MUW-tJWk.A.JIJJUJtl .UIJJ
ALEXIS' GRAND HUNT.
Camp Ai.f.xis. Red Willow Creek,
Neb., Jan. 15 When the special courier
started off with my dispatch this morning
the Grand Ducal huntiug party were just
jumping into their saddles for a long ride
with Sheridan and a chase after the wild
buffalo. After a day's exciting sport we
have returned to our comfortable camp
on the banks of the lied Willow, well re
warded with game and flushed with vic
tory. Wh.en the parry were mounted
th is morning, and the grand cavalcade
was ready to more forward, an enterpris
ing photographer, who had arrived in
camp, took a picture of it ns it stood, with
the Grand Duke, General Sheridan and
General Custer at the head, followed by
the remainder of the imperial suite, the
officers and soldiers, and the great Indian
chief, Spotted Tail, and his band of esr
perienced warriors. There had been a
heavy frost during the night, so that the
ground was well frozen, but the weather
overhead was fair and the day wa3 beau
tiful. Nearly ell the members of the Grand
Duke's suite joined in the hunt to day ;
but, much to his regret, Admiral Poisset
was detained in camp to answer dispaches
he had received from the Lmperor. W c
started off in a southeasterly direction,
over rougher ground aud deeper snow
than we had traveled over yesterday.
Hardly a halt was made for fiiftcen
miles, when, as we were passing through
one of the ruirired canons, General Custer,
! who was then in advance, discovered a
herd of buffalo. He gave no alarm, but
rode back to the Grand Duke and Sheri
dan, and gave the Iudian sign that game
was near, by riding in a circle. The
Graud Duke and Sheridan advanced and
dismounted a proceeding that was fol
lowed by all the other members of the
party.
The horses' girths were tightened,
curbs and bits examined, firearms loaded,
and all immediately moved forward.
Sheridan gave orders that only the Graud
Duke and Custer should ride in advaice
of himself, stating that he would ride at
the head of the column until the Grand
Duke should have selected his first bu
ffalo. The formation of the ground was
such aud so stealthy was our approach that
we were enabled to get within a short dis
tance of the buffalo before they noticed
us. The canon was a lonr? aud widening
ouo, with broken sides and high hills on
either side, and formed a magnificent
arena. The Graud Duke and Custer start
ed off, and as they went, Custer pulled
out his revolver and said, "Are you ready,
Duke V Alexis drew off his glove, grasp
ed his pistol, and, with a wave of his im
perial baud replied, "All ready now, Gen-
i "
erol.
Turning a corner in the canon, the
herd wa3 now in sight, and clapping
spurs to their horses they dashed into
their midst before the astonished animals
knew that any enemies were near them.
As on yesterday, Daffalo Dill had been
selected in older to show the Graud Duke
how they would stand at bay when sud
denly attacked.
A cow was singled out to show him how
fleet of foot the females are aud the speed
and skill essential to overtake and kill
them. The animal chosen out from among
the rest was a full grown one, in splendid
condition and wearing a beatiful winter
coat. As soou as she espied them she
started off at full speed, the Duke aud
Custer after her. Finking herself hard
pursued, she ran up a steep declivity on
i. -t . . . .1 :
the riht tideo f the canon, and gaining a
footing on the tdope, kept along the
narrow ledge, while the Duke aud Custer
followed iu a line along the bottom of the
canon.
Seeing the configuration of tbc canon
and the imminent danger involved in the
pursuit, Count Olzonfleff called to the
Duke in tones of caution ; but the game
had been chosen, the imperial blood was
up and Alexis heeded not, if he heard,
the well-known words of warning The
chase was most exciting, and the Grand
Duke, exhibiting an enthusiasm and dar
ing which the most experienced Western
hunser could not have surpassed, pursued
his chosen game until she turned upon
him. Describing a semi circle with his
horse, he dashed to the other side of her,
and, taking a deliberate aim, discharged
the contents of his revolver into her fore
shoulder as quickly as a flash of lightn
ing. No halt was made, however, for her
calf kent runuing along on the other side
of the gully, running parallel with the
canon. For fully a mile this young bull
calf kept on his course along the rough
and dangerous ground, followed by the
Duke aud Custer and the Herald corres
pondent, who was was permitted to hunt
with his Imperial Highness and General
Sheridan. At length the neaJ ct Uu
canon came in view and escape was iin
possible.
Coming wiihin pistol shot, Alexis fired
and woended the brave little bull ; but
though the blood was streaming from the
wound, he did Dot fall. Here a snow
drift intervened, and jumping it and get
ting on the ledge beyond, whence there
was no more room to run, the wounded
animal cime to bay. The Grand Duke
fired one more shot and down fell the
animal, dead, into the scow. Those of
the vuitv who had followed on behind
.soon eauie up and congratulated His im-
pcrial Highness upon the spjendtJ sue
cess he had acquired so early in - the day
Alter killiDg the calf the Grand Duke
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., FEBRUARY
UWAM IfcJMX,-lJW
re urued down the canon, pausing to
glance at the cow which he had killed.
She had a magnificent head and handsome
horns. The Grand Duke expreessed his
admiration of them, and said he would
take them back to Russia with him as a
trophy of this morning's sport. Accord
ingly the tail and head of the cow were
afterwards secured and taken into camp.
The calf was carried in entire, and we are
to have some of the beef for breakfast in
the morning before we leave the Red Wil
low to return to the North Platte.
The party paused and formed into a
group, while the Indians were sent off to
hunt and charge the herd down the brok
en sides of the bluff on which he we
stood. On dashes Spotted Tail aud his
braves. For many minntcs they' were
lost to sight; but presently the herd was
seen emerging from the head of the can
on up the slope on the other side, with
the Indians iu hot and close pursuit
Reaching the summit of the steep ascent
Spotted Tail and his chosen Sioux, with
a wild whoop, charged into the midst of
the fleeing herd, and with unerring aim
let fly the feathered arrows from their
bows. It was then that the imperial par
ty were favored with a splendid view of
a seene that few white men, who have
lived many years upon the Plains, have
ever witnessed. It was difficult to de
cide which to admire the more the skill
of the Indian in managing his horse, or
the rapididity and accuracy with which
he let fly his feathered darts into the side
of the doomed buffalo. Iu some repects
the scene resembled a charge of cavalry
upon troops already routed and fleeing in
disorder; and the Duke was forcibly re
minded of the riding of the Cossacks in
his native country. The party remained
wrapt in admiration at the scene until it
graduately faded from our view. New
iuterest, however, was awakened by the
sudden appearance uf a portion of the
herd which had been turned by the In
dians in the charge, and coming towards
us, rushed down the slope of the canou
on the other side. We started down to
meet them, but as we advanced we came
successively to obstacles which retarded
our progress aud were all but insur
mountable. This gave an opportunity to
the buffalo to escape. Finally we suc
ceeded i3 making the descent and crossed
the canuon, but still more difficult and
dangerous obstacles met us on the other
slope. The most fearless horsemen in
the party, surveying the steep and slip
pery sides, were forced reluctantly to dis
mount and make the ascent on foot. Ar.
y. Herald.
A DESPERATE FIGHT IN NEVADA.
Deadly Conflict Between an Escaped Con
vict and His Pursuer-Thirty Paces
with Rifies-Both Men Riddled
with Bullets.
The latest advices from the head
waters of Kern River, in Nevada, where
the fight between Charles Jones, the es
caped convict from the Nevada States
Prison, and I raucis b. Armistead, who
was pursuing him, occured, confirm all
particulars at first received. Armistead
was one of the foremost in the capture
of Robert Morton and Black. He found
the track of Charley Jones about fifty
miles from Long alley, on the ban
Joanuiu River, and trailed him to
b'lawson s sheep camp in idalia, where
he wii3 stopping. Armistead told Jones
that he wanted to engage him. to drive
horses to Arizona. Jones hired to him
for the trip, and there matters rested till
morning.
In the morning Armistead told Slawson
what he was after, and said he expected
to have trouble with hi3 prisoner. it
seems that Jones had a suspicion of what
wa3 coini: on, for while the two men were
talking he went to the house, took Slaw
sou's Henry rifle aud when he came out
said :
"Here, I know your business. You
want to take me back to Nevada, but I
will die first."
With these words he. drew up and
fired at Armistead. The fire was instantly
returned, the shot taking effect in Jones
breast. The fight now began in dead
earnest, and both men being armed with
Henry rifles, it was fearful. There was
almost a constant stream of fire, and it
seemed that nearly every fchot took effect.
The uieu were about thirty steps apart.
Jones kept giving away, aud Armistead
followed him up till he fell from Joss of
blood. Jones then rushed upon him but
Armistead raised his gun again and fired,
shooting Jones through the head and
killing him instantly.
Armistead had fired fifteen shots, hit
ting his mark twelve times: while Jones
had fired eleven shots, nine of which took
effect in the body of Arrrstcad, and either
cf the wounds would probably have prov
ed fatal.
a rnihtead lived about two hours after
the fuht. He was perfectly cool, and
said That if he had killed Jones he was
willic to die. He requested olawson to
u-nir. -n Mfpount of the fi;ht. When h6
first fell he snoke of Aunt Sallie and
PUri;n. Hi Inst words were : "Tell her
T irtn " The finht is considered
the most desperate on record.
ftcoroe Botts was executed in the hall
of the Essex couuty jail at Newark, N. J.
on Fiiday last, for having murdered Gen
cral Oliver P. llalstcad ou the morning
of the 2d of last July.
VACCINATION.
ABSTRACT OF DR. JOHN S. PARKY S LEC
TURE ON VACCINATION 1JEIORE THE
SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION IN
PHILADELPHIA, JAN. 18, 1S72.
In the middle of September, 1871, it
first began to be apparent that small pox
was on the increase in thi3 city, and that
the grave suspicious which physicians
had for some time entertained, that it
would become an epidemic, would soon
bo realized. As has been usual with
other epidemic diseases, this one found
our health authorities totally uuprepared
for its reception, and to night we can look
back over a long array of broken home
circles aud sum up our bitter experience
an experincc which is the more distress
ing because a large number of the lives
lost were sacrificed on the altars of mis
mangement; prejudice, and ignorance
Before the introduction of vaccination
about 35 per cent of all those who were
stricken with small-pox perished. The
Board of Health assert that the mortality
of the present epidemic is 1G per cent.
This is too high by at least 10 per cent,
for small pox is now an affection which is
almost under humau control, aud a ma
jority of the lives lost by it arc wanton
sacrifices, for which the public authorities
should be held respousible. The fact
that between Sept. 1, 1871, aud Jan. 18,
1872, about 2,000 persons died of a
strictly preventible disease in this en
lightened city, and that this was nothing
remarkable according to the sanitary
gospel of certain commercial authorities,
is something which scientific men cannot
appreciate. Truly the estimated value of
human life is very low when it can be
summed up in dollars aud cents by
miserly money changers.
Shortly after the epidemic appeared
here three kinds of viru3 could be ob
tained. One was a foreign article, and
was uttcrtv worthless ; the others were j
from Boston and New-York. The speaker
was successful with the virus from Boston,
but failed with that from New-York. ;
The bovine lymph, when it is successfully
introduced, is very severe in its action,
and this is serious objection to its geuoral
adoption. After bovine virus has been
transmitted through the sytcms of several
members of the human family it becomes
much milder in tis effects and much
more certain in its results without having
lost any of its specific qualities. The
authorities agree that with good human
virus and excrcisiug all due degree of
care, vaccination should not be unsuc
cessful in more than one in every 150
insertions. The amount of igorance in
regard to vaccination is truly surprisiug.
The result is, that the operation is often
imperfectly performed, aud only partial
protection is afforded. The degree of
protection afforded by vaccination varies
much with the manner in which the
opcratiou is performed. If properly done
it is almost absoluatc. No child should
be vaccinated ia less thau four places,
and in the performance of this operation
no physician should allow himself to be
influenced by maternal sympathy. Of
0,000 post vaccinal cases of small pox
tabulated by Mr. Simon, 21 per cent
died amoug those who were said to have
been vaccinated but could show no
cicatrix, 7i per cent of those who had
one cicatrix, 4J per cent of those having
two, 1 i per cent ot those having three,
and only if per cent of those having four
well marked cie-ttriccs, while ooj- per
ceut of those who never had been vac
cinated died of unmodified small pox.
Most persons will have a sore arm from
vaccination twice iu their lives once
during infancy and a second time im
mediately after the 14th or loih year.
The popular idea that influence wears
out and has to be renewed every seven
years is unsupported by any facts what-
ever, lie vaccination is important, ana
should never be omitted alter the loth
year of life. Vaccination has not mcreas
ed the mortality Irom other diseases, such
as scrofula aud consumption ; on the
contrary, many persons are protected from
these dtsasesc, which might be developed
in them if they were attacked by small
nox. No nroof can be furnished that
scrofula is ever transmitted with vaccine
i ...
virus. After an experience of three
quarters of a century in all parts of the
civilized world, physicians arc certainly
qualified to speak with some exactness iu
regard to me uanger oi contracting
syphilis by vaccination, and most of them
are disposed to consider this danger but
trifling, and always due to carelossucss
With properly selected virus there is no
danger at all.
Unless something is speedily done to
arrest the progress of the epidemic, it
may be prolonged as in London for more
than a year. Three measures are im
portant : 1. Complete and thorough
isolation of persons affected by the disease.
2. Perfect disinfection of the hor.iC3 and
effects of those who are ill with it. 3.
Systematic vaccination and re-vaccination,
which should be made compulsory.
This is a plain statement of the variola
epidemic in Philadelphia in 1871 ; nn
epidemic, about which, according to the
public papers aud our commercial authori
ties, nothing must be said or done for
fear of creatiog a panic and driving busi
ness from the city. For this morbid publie
confidence we have truly paid a fearful
price in the sacrifidence of some 2,000
human lives.
. . -
The Uuion Pacific Railroad is again
blocked with snow.
1, 1872.
t I i null' HM lim tHti"
A BIG HEARTED BLACKSMITH.
The general feeling of uneasiness ex
cited by the number of Enoch Ardcus
who have recently turned up will not be
lessened by an event which has just hap
pened iu Missouri, and is thus related by
the Cincinnati Enquirier. A oue armed
horseman, lately travelling through Mis
souri, stopped at a blacksmith's shop in
Cedar City, to have his horse shod. The
smith noticed his empty sleeve, and asked
him if he had lest his arm in the war.
He replied with a sigh that he had, and
added, with much emotion, that on going
back to his home at the close of the war
he found that his wife, who thought he
was dead, had moved away, and he had
since been unable to obtain a trace of her.
"What is your name ?" asked the black
smith. "J. M. Waldrup," was the reply.
The smith suddenly released the hoof of
the horse over which he had been bend
ing, and, without lookiug at the ex sold
ier, cried, "Follow me into the house,"
and hurriedly led the way.
Waldrup mechanically obeyed the un
expected bidding, and was ushered into
the presence of a comely matron, about
whose sewing chair three happy children
were playing. She was the blacksmith's
wife, the mother of his little ones, and
rose to greet the stranger cn his appear
ance with her husband at the door. No
sooner, however, did she catch sight of
his face than she uttered a heart rcuding
shriek and faiuted. In Waldrup she re
cognized her husband. In the firm be
lief that he had been killed in the war
she had married the blacksmith of Cedar
City, and was already the mother of three
fine children. After the first agitation
of the a.ssmblcd group had subsided
Walrup and the smith retired to the
smithy to talk the matter over.
Devotedly as the smith loved his wife,
he fully admitted Waldrup's superior
claims, and it was in the end decided that
she herself should decide between them.
They accordingly returned to the sitting
room, where, after a torrent of tears aud
self reproaches, the wife came to the con
clusion that she ought to return to her
first husband. Suddenly, dropping her
head, however, ou the blacksmith's should
er, sue ucciareu wun uiuer lamentaia
tion3 that she cold not leave her children.
The smith "eyed her wistfully" for a mo
tr.cnt, and then said ia a huskey voice.
"You shall take them, my dear." Some
hours later, when the steamboat St.
Luhc stopped at the landing, Waldrup
went on board with his "thickly velied
and still weeping wife," and the black
smith followed leading the children.
The boat's bell rang for the startiug. The
dread moment of separation was at hand.
The captain, the crew and the passengers
were affected to tears at the touching
scene. "With great drops rolling down
his tawny cheeks," the smith kissed the
children oue after the other, and bade
the mother an eternal good bj He then
shook hanks long and earnestly with
Waldrup, and walked quietly to the shore.
He never turned his luce toward the boat,
which soon passed out of sight, but strode
on with head bowed down to the home
where the voice of his wife aud children
would welcome him no more,
hope that his grief was sincere.
Let us
Boys and Pumpkin Pies.
What John said was, that he didn't
care much for pumpkin pic ; but that was
after he had eaten a whole one. It seem
ed to him that mince would be better.
The feeling of a boy toward pumpkin pie
has never been properly considered
There is an air of" festivity about its ap
proach in the fall. The boy is willing to
help pare and cut up the pumpkin, and
he watches with greatest interest the stir
riug up process and the pouring into the
the scalloped crust. When the sweet
savor of the baking reaches his nos
trils, he is filled with the most delightful
anticipations. Why should he not be '
He knows that for months to come the
buttery will contain golden treasures, and
that it will require only a slight ingenuity
to get at them. The fact is, the boy is
as good iu the buttery as in any part of
farming. His elders say that the boy is
always hungry ; but that is a very coarse
way to put it. He has only recently
come into a world that is full of good
things to cat, and there is on the whole,
a veiy short time in which to eat them ;
at least, he is told, among the first iufor
inations he receives, that life is short.
Life being brief, and pie and the like
fleeting, ho very soon decides upon an
active campaign. It may be an old story
to people who have been eating for forty
or fifty years, but it is different with a
begiuuer. He takes the thick aud thiu
as it comes, as in pie, for instance. Some
people do make thera very thin. I knew
a place where they were no thicker than
the poor man's plaster ; they were spread
so thin on the crust that they were bet
ter fitted to draw out hunger than:to satis
fy it. They used to be made : up by the
great oven full, and kept in the dry cel
lar, where they are hardened and dried
to a toughness you would hardly believe.
This was alonir time ago, and they make
the nnmkin r,ie in the country better
now. or the race of boys would have teen
so discouraged that I think they would
have stopped coming into the world. V.
I). Warner.
The Brownsville' Clipper says : A boy
ia Wharton' township, layette county,
recently caught a rabbit with five leg3,
the foot of the odd leg rescmbliug the
hoof of a ho too.
NO. 40.
II III II III 1 I I I I I
Something about Glycerine.
1. How is glycerine made 7 2. How,
or in what niauner, is it ignited. 3. -What
is the meaning of the name Aglaia,
and where and how did it originate 7
Am. 1. Glycerine is the sweet principle
of oils and fats. It i3 made by boiling
olive oil with litharge and water until the
acids of the oil are converted into leadsalts,
which are insoluble, while the glycerine
remains in solution. 2. As yon speak
of ignition, you probably meant to ask
about the preparation cf the very explosive
mixture called nitro glycerine, used for
blasting purposes. Nitro glycernie is
prepared by dissolving glycerine ia a
mixture of equal measures of the stron
gest nitric and sulphuric acids, previously
cooled, and pouring the solution in a thiu
stream into a large volume of water. Tb
nitro gljcerine is then precipitated as a
colorless heavy oil.. If a drop of nitro
glycerine be placed on an anvil and struck
sharply, it explodes with a very loud re
port ; and if a piece of paper, moistened
with a drop of it be struck, it is blown
into small fragments. On the application
of a flame or of red-hot iron to nitro gly
cerine, it burns quietly, and when heated
over a lemp in the open air, it explodes
but feebly. In a closed vessel, however,
it explodes at about 3G0 degrees Fahren
heit with great violence. It is often
ignited, like gunpowder, under water, by
means of a wire and galvanic battery. 3.
Aglaia was the youngest of the three
graces in mythology. It is also the name
of one of the group of small planets revolv
ing between Jupiter and Mars. It is also
the name of a genus of flowers. Tha
flowers of Aglaia odorata are used for
perfuming certain varieties of tea.
A Chinese Funeral.
A Chinese funeral took place in Belle
ville, N. J., recently, the deceased having
been employed in a laundry there. The
deceased was dressed ia Sunday attire,
consisting of a and new cankeen suit, and!
placed in an elegant walnut cofHn, which
was immediately sealed. The coffin was
placed ia a wagon, aud followed by a
procession of oue hundred and fifty China
men, walking in silence, two by two.
Arriving at the cemetery the mourners
formed a circle around the graves, for in
accordance with Chinese custom, two
cavities, one large and one small, had
been made. After a prayer by a Metho
dist clergyman, the coffin was lowered
into the lager grave, and at once covered
with earth. Iu the smaller grave, which
was about two feet in diameter, were
placed a tea pot, a rice pan, chop-sticks
and clothing of the deceased On top
was placed a large earthen vessel, contain
ing a cooked chicken, rice and salted fish.
Earth was then filled in over all. The
next ceremony was the burning over the
grave the clothes the deceased had worn
the day of his death. A number of
firecrackers were then exploded over the
grave, after which each mourner in turn
approached the resting place of his com
rade, placed his hands on his forehead
with the palms outward, and threw them
forward three times, accompnying each:
movement with a low bow. This com
pleted the ceremony, after which each
mourner was presented with a small bo
quct of flowers. All tha ceremonies were
conducted with the utmost solemnity, aud
in strict silence.
Fisk's First IJistake.
Fisk used to often tell about his first
mistake ia life.
Said the Colonel, "When I was a lit
tle boy on the Vermont farm, my father
took me up to the stable one day, where
a row of cows stood in the stable."
Said he, "James, the stable window is
pretty high for a boy, but do you think
you could take this shovel and clean out
the stable
"I dou't know ; 'Pop,' said James "I
never have done it."
"Well, my boy, if you will do it this
morning, I'll give you this bright silver
dollar,' said his father, patting him oa
his head, while he held the silver dollar
before his eyes.
"Good," says Jamc3, '111 try" and
away he went to work, lie tugged and
pulled an 1 lifted and puffed, and, finally,
it was done, and his father gave him tha
bright silver dollar, saying
"That's right, James ; you did it splen
didly, aud now I find you can do it so
nicely, I shall have you do it every morn-
inj all ic inter
t
Paper Comfortables.
The mode of making comfortables war
mer, by lining them with newspapers, is
cood as lonir as they last, which cannot
5 long, especially after washing a few
i 1 ? 1
times. 1 have trieu a similar way oi at
taining the same object on cold nights,
when I have not had sufficient5 bedding
over me, especially at hotels, where we
cannot always get just what wo want
Throw off one or two the top covers from
the bed, then pull from the pocket or
satchel two or three large newspapers-
one very large one will do ; spread them
on the bed und replace the cover, and
you will have a warm and comfortablo
oight, without any perceptible increase
in the weight of the bedding. Again,
wheu ynii have a bard, col l ride in a cut
ter, or ten or twenty miles against tho
wind, place a spread newspaper ovro your
chest before you button up your over
coat, and you will uot become chillt-d
through. Nothing can he cheaper, aud
as far ar it
uothiui' more cllicieut.